of this, which, if complete, and as such I offer it to the public, must comprise them all. Besides, I have given a summary account of the many Heresies that have sprung up in the Church; of the Councils that have been held; of the religious and military Orders; of their Founders, institutions, fundamental laws, _&c._; subjects all, in some degree, connected with the History of the Popes. I do not doubt, but this Work will meet with a favourable Reception from _Protestants_ of all denominations; such a Reception, I mean, as is due to Truth. It will, I flatter myself, retard, at least, the daily increase of the Papal interest in these happy Kingdoms. As for the _Roman Catholics_ here, would they but lay aside their prejudices, so far as to peruse it with the least degree of candor and attention, I am confident Truth would exert its power no less efficaciously upon some of them, than it has done upon me. They cannot surely be more biassed in favour of the errors they had been brought up in, than I was. In them Truth has but one enemy to contend with, Education; in me it had two, Education and Interest; and the latter is but too often the more powerful of the two. What I forfeited by adhering to Truth, most of the _Roman Catholics_ in _England_ well know; and I am very confident none of them can say, that I have ever yet reaped, or sought to reap, the least temporal benefit from it. If therefore the Power of Truth, when duly displayed, is so great, as to triumph thus over the combined force of Education and Interest, we may well hope, that it will, at least in some, triumph over Education alone: I most heartily wish it may in all. ----- Footnote 1: Bellar. Præf. de Sum. Pont. Footnote 2: The authors he thus copied were _Anastasius Bibliothecarius_, from St. _Peter_, or rather _Linus_, to _Nicolas_ I. _Gulielmus_, likewise _Bibliothecarius_, from _Nicolas_ I. to _Alexander_ II. _Pandulphus Pisanus_, from _Alexander_ II. to _Honorius_ II. _Martinus Polonus_, from _Honorius_ II. to _Honorius_ IV. _Theodorus_ of _Niem_, from _Honorius_ IV. to _Urban_ VI. and from _Urban_ VI. to _Martin_ V. who died in 1431, other writers, whose works are extant, but their names unknown. He likewise borrowed a great deal of _Ptolemæus Lucensis_, a _Dominican_ Frier, who flourished, and compiled the Lives of the Popes, in the time of _Boniface_ VIII. chosen in the year 1294. Footnote 3: _Gregory_ IX. _Innocent_ IV. _Alexander_ IV. _Nicolas_ III. _Martin_ IV. _Nicolas_ IV. _Clement_ V. Footnote 4: That the _Franciscan_ Friers had no property, in common or in private; a question, if any ever was, _de lana caprina_. What was it to mankind? what to the Christian Religion, whether a few Friers had, or had not any property? No man was the better for believing they had, no man the worse for believing they had not. And yet to read the bulls of the Popes one would think, that the whole of Christianity had been at stake.