It will be said that he had not Religion enough to have _Conviction_; that is a vulgar Error. Conviction indeed is not a proper word but where a Man is convinced by Reason; but in the common acceptation, it is applied to those who cannot tell why they are so: If Men can be at least as positive in a Mistake as when they are in the right; they may be as clearly convinced when they do not know why, as when they do. I must presume that no Man of the King's Age, and his Methods of Life, could possibly give a good reason for changing the Religion in which he was born, let it be what it will. But our Passions are much oftener convinced than our Reason. He had but little Reading, and that tending to his Pleasures more than to his Instruction. In the Library of a young Prince, the solemn Folios are not much rumpled, Books of a lighter Digestion have the Dog's Ears. Some pretend to be very precise in the time of his Reconciling; The Cardinal _de Retz_, _&c._ I will not enter into it minutely, but whenever it was, it is observable that the Government of _France_ did not think it adviseable to discover it openly; upon which such obvious Reflections may be made, that I will not mention them. Such a Secret can never be put into a place which is so closely stopt, that there shall be no Chinks. Whispers went about, particular Men had Intimations: _Cromwell_ had his Advertisements in other things, and this was as well worth his paying for. There was enough said of it to startle a great many, though not universally diffused; So much, that if the Government here, had not crumbled of itself, his Right alone, with that and other clogs upon it, would hardly have thrown it down. I conclude that when he came into _England_ he was as certainly a _Roman Catholick_, as that he was a Man of Pleasure; both very consistent by visible Experience.