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aside in the Lower House. And my Lord Trea- 

 surer, on May the 9th, spoke to him about the 

 Queens writing a lettet\ to stop the disturbances 

 raised by lay ba'ptism. But he does not seem to 

 have given any encouragement to that motion. 

 He had, however, a great deal of talk with Mr. 

 Lawrence upon that subject, when he came the 

 day following, May 10, to present him with his 

 answer to the Bishop of St. Asaph's treatise 

 upon that argument. 



With the same caution that he used in this 

 case, he acted in another, which is not foreign 

 to the present subject, especially as it was 

 grounded upon some words that he spoke in 

 the debates concerning occasional conformity. 

 He had said, it seems, on that occasion, that if 

 he were abroad, he would willingly communicate with 

 the Protestant Churches, where he should happen to 

 he. Monsieur de la Mothe, a French minister 

 at London, who was collecting passages from 

 the several sermons preached in London on the 

 day when the Orange brief was read, with a 

 design to print them, in order to shew what a 

 fraternal tenderness was on that occasion ex- 

 pressed by the ministers of the Church of Eng- 

 land towards those poor Protestant sufferers, 

 and by that means to lessen the prejudice which 

 foreign Churches may be under in relation to 

 our opinion of them and concern for them ; 



