a blessing than a loss at that time to them all. Her father, when he heard of her shaking in her religion, was more troubled at it, than at all his own misfortunes. He writ her a very grave and long letter upon it, enclosed in one to the duke. But she was dead before it came into England.”—_Burnet’s History of his own Times_, Book II. [79] History of Henry VIII. p. 402, according to Dryden. I cannot find the passage alluded to. [80] Clement the Tenth. [81] The church of England Divines made a common cause at this important crisis. Those who directed the warfare, were Tillotson, Stillingfleet, Tennison, and Patrick; and under their banners, Burnet numbers Sherlock, Williams, Claget, Gee, Aldrich, Atterbury, Whitby, Hooper, and Wake. It is probable, that when a piece of such consequence as the Answer to the Royal Papers was to be brought forward, more than one of these would be employed in revising, at least, and correcting it. [82] The Duke of York, who commanded the fleet in the Dutch wars. [83] Robert Wisdom was a fugitive in the reign of Queen Mary; in that of Elizabeth, he became rector of Stysted in Essex, and of Settrington in Yorkshire, and died in 1568. He was a zealous puritan, and the author of a hymn, printed at the end of Sternhold’s psalms, which begins with the passage referred to in the text: Preserve us, Lord, by thy dear word; From Turk and Pope defend us, Lord. The witty Bishop Corbet thus addresses the ghost of Robert Wisdom: Thou, once a body, now but aire, Arch-botcher of a psalme or prayer, From Carfax come; And patch me up a zealous lay, With an old _ever and for aye_, Or _all and some_. Or such a spirit lend mee, As may a hymne down send mee, To purge my braine. So, Robert, look behind thee, Least _Turk or Pope_ do find thee, And goe to bed againe. [84] This assertion Stillingfleet denied. See the conclusion of his Answer to the Defence, where he affirms “such a book had been lately published in London.” To this Dryden replied, that “the magnified piece of Duncombe on this subject, which his opponent must have meant, was stolen, or translated, without acknowledgment, from the Spanish of Rodriguez;” meaning, probably, the Jesuit Alonso Rodriguez, who wrote “_Exercio de perfecion y Virtudes Christianas, Sevilla, 1609_.” But while Dryden claimed for the Catholic church the merit of this work, he seems to have mistaken the name of the translator; for in the preface to the “Town and Country Mouse,” Prior, or Montague, upbraid him with having confounded _Allen_ with _Duncombe_; names which did not so much as rhyme. In a list of books subjoined to “The Practice of a Holy Life, by Thomas Allen, rector of Kettering, in Northamptonshire,” I find “The Virtue of Humility, recommended to be printed by the late Reverend and Learned Dr Henry Hammond,” which may be the book alluded to by Stillingfleet. See Vol. X. pages 114. 249.