Bishop _Burnet_ celebrates, with the greatest Justness, our Taste, and indeed the Taste of the World in this Respect, when he relates how _Popery_ was then used among us; and he recites some of the _Jests_ which passed and were received with universal Applause. He tells us[85], "The Court was now (that is, in 1686,) much set on making Converts, which fail'd in most Instances, and produc'd _Repartees_; that whether true or false, were much repeated, and were heard with great Satisfaction. The Earl of _Mulgrave_ (since Duke of _Buckinghamshire_) was Lord Chamberlain; he was apt to comply in every thing that he thought might be acceptable, for he went with the King to Mass, and kneeled at it; and being look'd on as indifferent to all Religions, the Priests made an Attack upon him: He heard them _gravely_ arguing for _Transubstantiation_. He told them he was willing to receive Instruction; he had taken much Pains to bring himself to believe in God, who made the World and all Men in it: But it must not be an ordinary Force of Argument that could make him believe that Man was quits with God, and made God again. The Earl of _Middleton_ had marry'd into a Popish Family, and was a Man of great Parts and a generous Temper, but of loose Principles in Religion; so a Priest was sent to instruct him. He began with _Transubstantiation_, of which he said he would convince him immediately: And began thus, You believe the _Trinity_. _Middleton_ stop'd him, and said, who told you so? At which he seem'd amazed. So the Earl said, he expected he should convince him of his Belief, but not question him of his own: With this the Priest was so disorder'd, that he could proceed no farther. One Day the King gave the Duke of _Norfolk_ the Sword of State to carry before him to the Chappel, and he stood at the Door. Upon which the King said to him, My Lord, your Father would have gone farther. To which the Duke answer'd, Your Majesty's Father was the better Man, and he would not have gone so far. _Kirk_ was also spoken to, to change his Religion, and he reply'd briskly, that he was already pre-engag'd, for _he had promised the King of_ Morocco, _that if ever he chang'd his Religion he would turn_ Mahometan." When K. _James_ sent an _Irish_ Priest to convert the D. of _Bucks_ [_Villers_] the said Duke entertain'd the Priest with a Bottle, and engag'd him in a _Dialogue_, which the Duke afterwards caus'd to be printed, to the no small Mortification of all Papists, who were therein exceedingly ridicul'd, and to the Triumph of all good Churchmen, who are never better pleas'd, than when they have the _Laugh_ on their side. At this time also were publish'd two merry Books, by a couple of our Divines, with express View to make Protestants laugh at _Popery_, as at a _Farce_; and they were, _The School of the Eucharist_, wherein is a Collection of ridiculous _Miracles_, pretended to be wrought to support the Truth of _Transubstantiation_, and _Purgatory prov'd by Miracles_.