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" Smirke ; or the divine in mode ; being certain 

 " annotations upon the animadversions on the 

 " Naked Truth " which appeared in 1676 5 " A 

 " short Historical Essay touching general Coun- 

 " cils, Creeds, and Impositions in Religion," pub- 

 lished about the same time, and being in fact 

 a continuation of the Defence of the Naked 

 Truth ; and his " Account of the growth of Po- 

 " pery and arbitrary government in England/' 

 published at Amsterdam, in 1677 : this was 

 our author's last prose work : his poems are 

 numerous and on various subjects. There is 

 some reason to believe that this celebrated 

 individual died by poison ; and the circumstance 

 is thus alluded to, in the character drawn of him, 

 it is supposed, by his contemporary the Duke of 

 Buckingham ; 



" But whether fate or art untwin'd his thread/ 

 " Remains in doubt." 



He closed his mortal career on the 1 6th of August, 

 1678, in the 58th year of his age. 



ROBERT WITHE, Esq. M.D., a friend of the 

 patriot, and also of the Rev. John Shawe, presents 

 himself next to our notice : he practised Physic 

 at Hull, for a period of 18 years,* during which 

 time he published some of his numerous works. 

 He translated from the Latin of James Prim- 



" Scarborough Spaw,'' p. 7. 



