But for the mistake of the Translator, it is very obvious from whence that arose. I doubt not but it was from mistake of the sense of the English Phrase _Shaken hands_, which he hath rendered by these words, _Memet adjungo_, wherein he hath too much play'd the Scholar, and show'd himself to be more skilful in forraign and antient customs, then in the vernacular practise and usage of the language of his own Country; for although amongst the Latines protension of the Hand were a Symbole and sign of Peace and Concord (as _Alex. ab Alexandro_; _Manum verò protendere, pacem peti significabunt_ (saith he) _Gen. Dier. lib. 4. cap. ult._ which also is confirmed by _Cicero pro Dejotaro_; and _Cæsar. l. 2. de Bellico Gallico_) and was used in their first meetings, as appears by the Phrase, _Jungere hospitio Dextras_; and by that of _Virgil_, _Oremus pacem, et Dextras tendamus inermes_, And many like passages that occur in the Poets, to which I believe the Translator had respect; yet in modern practise, especially with us in _England_, that ceremony is used as much in our _Adieu's_ as in the _first Congress_; and so the Author meant in this place, by saying he had not _shaken hands_; that is, that he had not so deserted, or bid farewel to the _Romanists_, as to stand at swords point with them: and then he gives his reasons at those words, _For omitting those improperations_, etc. So that instead of _memet adjungo_, the Translator should have used some word or Phrase of a clean contrary signification; and instead of _ex diametro repugnent_, it should be _repugnem_. _Sect. 5. Pag. 11._ _Henry_ the Eighth, who, though he rejected the Pope, refused not the faith of _Rome_.] So much _Buchanan_ in his own life written by himself testifieth, who speaking of his coming into _England_ about the latter end of that King's time, saith, _Sed ibi tum omnia adeo erant incerta, ut eodem die, ac eodem igne_ (very strange!) _utriusque factionis homines cremarentur, Henrico 8, jam seniore suæ magnis securitati quam Religionis puritati intento_. And for the confirmation of this assertion of the Author, _vide Stat. 31. H. 8, cap. 14_. _And was conceived the state of_ Venice _would have attempted in our dayes._] This expectation was in the time of Pope _Paul_ the Fifth, who by excommunicating that Republique, gave occasion to the Senate to banish all such of the Clergy as would not by reason of the Popes command administer the Sacraments; and upon that account the _Jesuits_ were cast out, and never since receiv'd into that State. _Sect. 6. Pag. 12._