PROLEGOMENA. XCV. 



Our Lady's Smock, into Cardimine — Solomori'g 

 Seal, into Convallaria — Our Ladifs Hair, into 

 Trichomanes — Balm, into Melissa — Marjorum,, 

 into Origanum — Crowfoot, Ranunculus — Herb 

 Trinity, into Heartsease- — Avens, into Cary- 

 opliyllata — Coltsfoot, into Tussilag-o — Knee 

 Holy y'mto Rascus — Wormwood, into Absinthium 

 — Rosemary, into Rosmarinus — Maryyold, into 

 Calundiila, and so on. Thus the antient names 

 were not only chanj^ed, but in this change all 

 the references to religious subjects, which would 

 have led people to a knowledge of their culture 

 among the monastic orders, were carefully left 

 out. Mark well this circumstance, for trifling 

 as it may appear, it will gain importance with 

 reference to my argument, when I show that 

 similar attempts have also been made in other 

 sciences to obliterate the traces of Catholic 

 science, utility, and humanity. 



Moreover we shall find that in cases almost 

 too trivial to notice, the same trick has been 

 played, in order, as it would seem, to fix the 

 asra of science and the revival of knowledge at no 

 earlier period than the pretended " Reformation." 



And here it may be observed, that it was 

 this same disposition to convert every thing into 

 a religious memorial, if I may so express it, 

 which, on a larger scale and with still sublimer 

 views, painted the storied windows of a cathedral 



