48 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SAXCROFT. 



'* I hear that Mr. Hody hath published a 

 large answer to Mr. Dodwell, and the rest that 

 have written against him ; and that Bishop 

 Parker's Latin History of Fanaticism is also 

 printed ; but before I be at the expense of 

 either, I would gladly know what the world 

 thinks of them, and whether it be worth the 

 while to purchase them. — A Dio, amico mio.'' 



The following letter, written at the end of 

 June, 1693, about five months before his death, 

 presents him to us still in the same calm con- 

 tented frame of his mind in which we have be- 

 fore seen him. 



" Fresingfield, June 28tli, 1693. 



*' My dear and constant Friend, 



'' I pray, will you give my hearty 

 thanks to Mr. Lownds for the noble present I 

 received lately from him through your hands. 

 It is one of the goodliest volumes I have now 

 in my study. I shall never be able to make 

 him amends for this kindness, and yet he may 

 double the obligation, if he pleases, by sending 

 me a particular of all that was omitted or added 

 or altered in the MS. original, for which I will 

 readily gratify them that take this trouble for 

 me. But, my good friend, I expected that you, 

 having, it seems, read it over, should have given 



