For my own part, I will confess, I have been a great Reader of all Sir _W. T_'s Writings, and perhaps may have doated on some of them, especially, _That Immortal Essay on Heroick Virtue_, as one Writer since has deservedly called it; and that other upon _Poetry_, and even on this of the _Memoirs_. And finding Common Fame, wherever I had met it, agrees so well with the Picture these Pieces had given me of him, I will own to have had a very great Honour for the Author, as well as for his Books, and could not but esteem both a great deal the more for this Letter of _de Cros_, when I found that the triple-corded Malice of the _Writer_, the _Translator_, and the _Advertiser_, had not given one lash either to the Honour of the Person, or the truth of his Books. And all this put together, has in very truth given me so much Spight and Indignation, that I could not refrain entring on the _Pamphletiers_ Trade, which I never did before, nor ever thought I should have done at all: And but for this Provocation, could have been very well satisfied to have lived on without the itch of seeing how I look in Print; so that I may truly say for this, as the Poet does for his Verses, _----Facit Indignatio Versus._ Before I enter upon observing what _de Cros_ says concerning Sir _W. T._ which takes up the greatest part of his Letter, and leaves him either no Room, or no Memory for the _Memoirs_ he pretends to Answer; I shall first examine what he speaks of himself, and in his own defence, against what he takes himself to be charged with. He begins, p. 10. _There arrived_ (says he, quoting the _Memoirs_) _at that time from _England_, one whose Name was _de Cros__. Upon this he falls immediately into a Scurrilous Chafe. Now, one would wonder what should make the Man so offended to be called by his own Name, or what would have become of Sir _W. T._ if he had call'd him out of his Name, which is indeed commonly thought an injury, but not the other, as ever I heard of before; yet he reckons it a terrible one to himself and his Family, which he tells us is _a good one_; I know not whether he means the _de Cros_'s, or the _Monks_. The first I must confess, I never heard of in _France_, but the other is indeed a great one abroad, and a good one at home. But whatever he would have us think of the Goodness of his Family, I will never believe, by what little understanding I have of Heraldry, that any _Gentleman_ would either write such a Letter, or _Translate_ it, tho it were only out of the common Respect that is due to the Memory of a Great King, whose Person Sir _W. T._ has so often represented, and in so high a Character.