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After some more words upon the same subject , the writer thus speaks : — "Oh ! my lord , what a glorious scene opens to my view ! Shall the Cross once more be erected in Britain ? Shall our altars be again exalted ? Shall our churches be restored to us ? Shall our abbey-lands revert to their right owners ? Shall the clergy have their due honours and weight % Shall we rush like a torrent upon the laity , and make ' em know they are our people , and the sheep of our pasture V
The following lets one behind the scenes , and the publication can have done but little good to the Jesuits :
" You will see by the extracts I herein send you , that our declarations , proclamations , manifestos , & c . ( fori send you quite the marrow of them ) are drawn with great caution , and as little latitude as possible ; and when we offer most , if you examine , you will find the words are subject to two meanings , and sometimes more . For this we are obliged to the pen of Father Iwrvys , of the Society of Jesus : who is an excellent writer , and has , upon all occasions , been very serviceable to our cause .
" My good lord , the die is now cast—our all is at stake—it is our dernier effort—we are to meet in triumph or confusion—our Smithfield fires shall again blaze , or our enemies are to tread upon our necks . " As an example of what was considered justice in those days , we quote the following : — j
" One thing more I am commanded to acquaint your lordship with , which you are desired also to communicate to all sincere friends : the vast and oppressive load of debt , which his majesty ' s subjects have long laboured under , has always affected him very much ( for rebels as they have been , he has always felt a paternal concern for the undutiful children ) : he has thought of many ways of easing them :
but , upon the most mature consideration , finds none so proper as an absolute sponge , that will certainly at once take off the load , and yet not lessen the credit : for as the debt was contracted by those who had no power to contract it , it ought
not , it should not , it cannot impugn , or shake the credit of the true owner . " These are extracts from this intercepted letter , written naturally enough by the young Pretender ' s confessor to Henry Benedict , the Pretender ' s brother , who was translated from the office of titular Bishop of Bath to that of Cardinal of York . Father Benedict , the last of the Stuart family , died at Eome , and a splendid tomb of white marble in St . Peter ' s cover his remains .
There was an age when every thing was comic—comedy flourished in the theatre r and comic verse disgraced the tombstone . The titles of books , printed by merry rogues who presided over flying presses , came in for their share of humorous inscription , and some were particularly ludicrous . A writer gives the titles of some remarkable imprints , from which we extract the following : A Letter
from Nobody in the City to Nobody in the Country is printed by Somebody , 1679 . Somebody " s Anstveris " Printed for Anybody . " The new Dialogues of tie Dead are printed for D . Y ., at the foot of Parnassus Hill , 1684 . Vox Coelis ; or , Newes from Heaven ; being imaginary Conversations there bekueen Henry VIII (!) , Edward V I , Prince llcnrie , and others . " Printed in Elysium" 1624 . And " Printed merrily and may be read unhappily betwixt Hawke and
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After some more words upon the same subject , the writer thus speaks : — "Oh ! my lord , what a glorious scene opens to my view ! Shall the Cross once more be erected in Britain ? Shall our altars be again exalted ? Shall our churches be restored to us ? Shall our abbey-lands revert to their right owners ? Shall the clergy have their due honours and weight % Shall we rush like a torrent upon the laity , and make ' em know they are our people , and the sheep of our pasture V
The following lets one behind the scenes , and the publication can have done but little good to the Jesuits :
" You will see by the extracts I herein send you , that our declarations , proclamations , manifestos , & c . ( fori send you quite the marrow of them ) are drawn with great caution , and as little latitude as possible ; and when we offer most , if you examine , you will find the words are subject to two meanings , and sometimes more . For this we are obliged to the pen of Father Iwrvys , of the Society of Jesus : who is an excellent writer , and has , upon all occasions , been very serviceable to our cause .
" My good lord , the die is now cast—our all is at stake—it is our dernier effort—we are to meet in triumph or confusion—our Smithfield fires shall again blaze , or our enemies are to tread upon our necks . " As an example of what was considered justice in those days , we quote the following : — j
" One thing more I am commanded to acquaint your lordship with , which you are desired also to communicate to all sincere friends : the vast and oppressive load of debt , which his majesty ' s subjects have long laboured under , has always affected him very much ( for rebels as they have been , he has always felt a paternal concern for the undutiful children ) : he has thought of many ways of easing them :
but , upon the most mature consideration , finds none so proper as an absolute sponge , that will certainly at once take off the load , and yet not lessen the credit : for as the debt was contracted by those who had no power to contract it , it ought
not , it should not , it cannot impugn , or shake the credit of the true owner . " These are extracts from this intercepted letter , written naturally enough by the young Pretender ' s confessor to Henry Benedict , the Pretender ' s brother , who was translated from the office of titular Bishop of Bath to that of Cardinal of York . Father Benedict , the last of the Stuart family , died at Eome , and a splendid tomb of white marble in St . Peter ' s cover his remains .
There was an age when every thing was comic—comedy flourished in the theatre r and comic verse disgraced the tombstone . The titles of books , printed by merry rogues who presided over flying presses , came in for their share of humorous inscription , and some were particularly ludicrous . A writer gives the titles of some remarkable imprints , from which we extract the following : A Letter
from Nobody in the City to Nobody in the Country is printed by Somebody , 1679 . Somebody " s Anstveris " Printed for Anybody . " The new Dialogues of tie Dead are printed for D . Y ., at the foot of Parnassus Hill , 1684 . Vox Coelis ; or , Newes from Heaven ; being imaginary Conversations there bekueen Henry VIII (!) , Edward V I , Prince llcnrie , and others . " Printed in Elysium" 1624 . And " Printed merrily and may be read unhappily betwixt Hawke and