2. It is the work of some expelled Jesuit, and may be more or less true, according to his knowledge of what he tried to reveal, or his integrity in telling truly what he knew. 3. It is the work of an enemy, who never was a Jesuit, but who has pretended to put into the mouth of the chief authorities of that order, what he believed they would say, if they uttered their real sentiments on the points here treated of. III. Let us then briefly examine each of these suppositions in turn. And _first, is this work authentic?_ I reply there is scarcely a particle of reason to doubt it. 1. In the British Museum there is a work printed at Venice in 1596, with this title “_Hæ Formulæ diversarum Provisionum a Gaspare Passarello summo studio in unum collectæ et per ordinem in suis locis annotatæ_.” At the end of that (and where more likely?) the SECRETA MONITA, in Latin is copied in Manuscript, apparently by a Jesuit, for his own private use;—with solemn cautions at the end, similar to those found in the printed preface to the work itself, that the utmost care was to be taken that few, and these most trusty, should know them; and that if ever imputed to the society, they must be denied. 2. In the year 1658, there was a translation of the work from Latin into English, published in England. This edition is frequently to be met with. In the preface to it, it is related that Duke Christian of Brunswick took possession of the Jesuit College at Paderborn, in Westphalia, when he entered that place, and gave the Library and Manuscripts to the Capuchins, who found the SECRETA MONITA amongst the archives of the Rector. It is also asserted that other copies were found at _Prague_ and elsewhere. 3. Dr. Compton, the celebrated Bishop of London published another English version of the SECRETA MONITA in the year 1669; having satisfied himself, after full examination, of the genuineness of the work. 4. In the year 1717, there was published at Amsterdam, a Latin edition of the SECRETA MONITA, under the title of “_Machiavelli Mus Jesuiticus_,” inscribed to _John Krausius_, a Jesuit. A copy of this edition is in the British Museum. 5. There are also in the British Museum several German editions of the SECRETA MONITA. 6. In the year 1722, another edition of this work was published in London, dedicated to _Sir Robert Walpole_, prime Minister of England. 7. Another Edition, and which is supposed to have been the last that appeared in England, was published in 1746. This, as well as the last preceding Edition, has the Latin, and English, on opposite pages; and are both preserved in the British Museum. 8. In the year 1727, a French edition of the SECRETA MONITA was published at _Cologne_ under the title _Les Mysteries les plus secret des Jesuites contenus en diverses Pieces originales_.