The declaration of Francis Briber Gent. which he publickly made before the Lord Bishop of Waterford, in the Cathedral Church of Waterford, in the kingdom of Ireland, June 17th, 1688, containing the reasons for his renouncing the Roman Catholic and embracing the Protestant religion; together with what the Lord Bishop of Waterford returned upon that occasion. Half sheet, 4to Lond. 1688 Exomologesis; or, a faithful Narrative of the Occasion and Cressy was a native of Yorkshire, but became Dean of Leighlin in Ireland. See Cotton's Fasti Eccl. Hibrn. (Prov. of Dubl.) pp. 77, 174, 390. He afterwards joined the Benedictines in the English College of Douay, and took the name of Serenus (in religion). See Ware's Writers of Ireland by Harris, p. 356. J. H. T. "This Exomologesis was the golden calf which the English papists fell down and worshipped. They brag'd that book to be unanswerable, and to have given a total overthrow to the Chillingworthians, and book and tenets of Lucius Lord Falkland."-Wood's Athenæ, ed. Bliss. vol. iii. col. 1014. The book and tenets of Lord Falkland will be found in the first volume of Dr. Hammond's works, fol. 1674. Compare Des Maiseaux's Life of Chillingworth. The noble historian of the Revolution, in his Animadversions upon a book, entitled Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Catholick Church by Dr. Stillingfleet, and the imputation refuted, by S.[erenus] C.[ressy), 8vo Lond. 1674, answers the arguments which are there adduced from the Catholic Unity of the Church, and charges the author with very different motives from those assigned in the Exomologesis for his conversion. In his dedication to Dr. Stillingfleet he speaks of Cressy as "a person whom he had long known and familiarly conversed with before he was perverted in his Religion, and had often seen since;" and (in p. 86) he asserts that "he never thought of entering the Religion he now professes. . . . . till the same rebellious power that drove the King out of the kingdom, drove him likewise from the good preferments which he enjoyed in the Church, and then the necessity and distraction of his fortune, together with the melan cholick and irresolution in his nature, prevailed with him to bid farewel to his own reason and understanding, and to resign himself to the conduct of those who had a much worse than his." His life may be seen in the third volume of Dodd. Cf. Dr. Oliver's Biography, p. 43. Memoirs of Mr. James Wadsworth, a Jesuit that recanted, discovering a dreadful prospect of impiety in the blasphemous doctrines or Gospel of the Jesuits, with their Atheistical Lives and conversations. 4to 1679 C. L. The Copies of Certain Letters which have passed between Spain and England in matter of Religion, concerning the general motives to Roman Obedience, between Mr. James Waddesworth, a late Pensioner of the holy Inquisition in Sevill, and W. Bedell, a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Suffolk. Appended to The Life of William Bedell, D.D., Lord Bishop of Killmore in Ireland. Written by Gilbert Burnet, D.D. Lond. 1685-92 Besides the English Spanish Pilgrime (see p. 63 supra) Wadsworth was the author of other works, e.g. a translation of Sandoval's Life of Charles the Fifth, a documentary work of authority much relied on by Robertson. Farewell to Popery, in a letter to Dr. Nicholas, by W. H., shewing the true motives that withdrew him to the Romish Religion, and the reason of his return to the Church of England. 4to 1679 The Proselyte of Rome called back to the communion of the Church of England, in a private letter thought very fit and seasonable to be made public. 4to 1679 Conversion and persecution of Eva Cohan, now called Elizabeth 4to 1680 A Relation of the Fearful Estate of Francis Spira after he turn'd C. L. Apostate from the Protestant Church to Popery. To which are now added sundry the like dreadful examples of God's Judgments, on persons of all degrees, that have for fear of worldly interest forsaken the true Religion which once they professed. Together with that incomparable Lamentation of the Great Origen, for his Fall, when he was again received into the Church. By Nath. Bacon, Esq. pp. 81, preface and to the reader pp. 16, 18mo Lond. 1683 CHAP. XII. Of the discourses written by the country Parson and 136. The Country Parson's admonition to his Parishioners. Malachi ii. 7: "The Priest's lips," &c. Heb. xiii. 17: "Obey them that have rule," &c. Single sheet, pp. 14, 8vo Lond. 1686 Cat. No. 112. Contin. p. 29. Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1026. William Assheton, D.D., Prebendary of York Cathedral and Rector of Beckenham in Kent, the son of the Rev. William Assheton, Rector of Middleton, Lancashire, was born in the year 1641, died in 1711. He was the first projector of a scheme for providing a maintenance for clergymen's widows and others. See Baines's History of Lancashire, vol. ii. p. 606-10. [I have given the title above as I find it in my copy. But Peck (who had also a copy of the book) seems to describe a different edition. He gives the title thus: : "The country parson's admonition to his parishioners, with directions how to behave themseives when any one designs to seduce them from the Church of England. By William Ashton, D.D., Rector of in Surrey." 12mo Lond. 1686. And this is also the title given by Gee and Wake. Ant. Wood (loc. cit.) gives a title differing from both, in these words: "The Country Parson's admonition to his Parishioners, in two parts, persuading them to continue in the Protestant religion, with directions how to behave themselves when any one comes to seduce them." 24mo Lond. 1639. In the Library of Trin. Coll. Dublin, there is no printed copy of this book, but there is a MS. copy in the hand-writing of Dr. Claud. Gilbert, transcribed from a printed book, and evidently most accurately copied by him, for the purpose of completing his set of this class of works. In this MS. the title is given thus: "The Country Parson's Admonition to his Parishioners, persuading them to continue in the Protestant religion, with directions how to behave themselves when any one designs to seduce them from the Church of England. By Dr. Asheton, Minister of Beckenham in Kent. Lond. Printed for R. Wilde." On the whole it seems probable that there were several editions of this tract, which varied in the title page, but otherwise agreed in substance. It was necessary to give this explanation, lest it should be inferred from the foregoing great discrepancies that there had been published different books, agreeing nearly in the title. The "two parts," mentioned in Wood's title, evidently include the next tract (No. 137) as part ii. J. H. T.] 137. The plain man's reply to the catholic Missionaries. pp. 38, and "Books by the same author, pp. 2-12." 12mo Lond. 1688 "It is agreed by Catholicks that the church is an infallible witness and guide. And Protestants profess, that if this could be made evidently appear they would hold out in no controversy at all. This, therefore is to be made evident unto Protestants. This is the task of Catholicks, especially of Catholic Missionaries."- Cressy's Append. to Exomol. Cap. 4, ff. 6. See Cat. No. 113 (State; p. 34.) Contin. p. 29. A copy of this book, London 1686, 12mo, is in the Library of Trin. Coll. Dublin. J. H. T. 138. The plain man's answer to his country parson's admonition; together with the missionaries answer to the plain man's reply. (Anon.) Lond. 1686 See Contin. p. 30. A copy of this tract in MS., in the handwriting of Dr. Claud. Gilbert, is in the Library of Trin. Coll. Dublin. J. H. T. 139. A Defence of the plain man's reply to the Catholick Missionaries. Being a further examination of the pretended Infallibility of the Church of Rome. Imprimatur, Guil. Needham, Y |