380 LIFE OF AUCHBISHOP SHARP. 



much is plain, that that passage is either a 

 mere fiction, or a gross misrepresentation. It 

 stands in the 294th page of the Amsterdam 

 edition, in these words: — " Avec quelle inso- 

 lence les principaux d'entre eux ne parlerent ils 

 pas contre My Lord Archveque d'York, quand 

 ce digne prelat en opinant dans la chambre 

 haute sur la maniere dont nous en devious user 

 avec nos Catholiques, eut represent6 vivement, 

 que le government d'Angleterre etoit oblige a 

 deplus grands egards envers leurs sujets Catho- 

 liques, que ceux qui doivent avoir les souve- 

 raigns Catholiques envers leurs sujets Protes- 

 tants ? Puisque nos Catholiques sont ceux de 

 nos compatriotes qui n'ont point voulu quitter 

 I'ancienne religion etablire dans le Pays, au lieu 

 que les Protestants des etats Catholiques y en 

 ont introduit une nouvelle*. 



To understand this passage, the reader should 



* " With what insolence (says he) did the leading men 

 among them exclaim against the Archbishop of York, when 

 that worthy prelate, in giving his opinion in the House of Peers 

 about the manner in which we ought to treat our Catholics, had 

 clearly shewn, that the English government was under an obli- 

 gation to pay more regard to its Catholic subjects, than 

 Catholic kings abroad are to their Protestant subjects ? Since 

 our Catholics are such of our natives as would never renounce 

 the ancient religion that was established in the country, whereas 

 the Protestants in the Roman Catholic dominions have intro- 

 duced a new religion there." 



