Dens, _Theologia Moralis et Dogmatica, Tract. de Sacramentis in Genere_, §45: “De iis, qui quandoque habuerunt usum rationis, sed jam eo carent, judicanda est dispositio secundum voluntatem et dispositionem quam habuerunt sanæ mentis existentes. Observandum tamen, quod, si aliquando habeant lucida intervalla, tunc Sacramentum eis non sit ministrandum extra necessitatem, nisi dum mentis compotes sunt.” Footnote 48: I have omitted from this edition some controversial matter that has ceased to be of interest. Footnote 49: In this letter occurs the expression: “Since I did engage myself by my word, which I value above all worldly wealth, and will not breake it for an empire”. Footnote 50: In this letter occurs the expression: “Let me hear a Saturday night whither the picture came home safe, and did scape the wett”. This seems to refer to his portrait of same date, now in possession of Rev. W. Waddon Martyn. Footnote 51: This letter ends with the following sentences: “‘To fear God, and honour the King,’ were injunctions so closely tack’d together that they seem to make but one and the same command; a man may as well pretend to be a good Christian without fearing God as a good subject without honouring the King”. “‘Deo, Patriæ, et Amicis,’ was your great-grandfather, Sir Bevil’s motto—in three (? these) words he has added to his example a rule, which in following you can never err in any duty of life. The brightest courage and the gentlest disposition is part of Lord Clarendon’s character of him; so much of him you have begun to show us already; and the best wish I can make for you is to resemble him as much in all but his untimely fate.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s note: ○ The inconsistent spelling of the Grenvile or Grenville surname and the Bevill and Beville forename has not been changed. ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. ○ two unpaired quotation marks were left as printed. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.