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styl'd Belluiu Episectpalej to the contradiction of his former 

 Book, the pretensions of the Bishops.'* Him Mr. Milton by 

 the order of his ^Masters answered in" Defensio pro populo 

 AngUcano \'^ both in more correct Latin, to the shame of the 

 others Grammership, and by much better reasoning. For 

 Salmasins beeing a Forrainer, & grossly ignorant of our Laws 

 k Constitution (which in all Nations are the respective dis- 

 tinguishing Principles of Government) either brought no 

 arguments from thence, or such oneh' (and by him not sel- 

 dom mistaken or misapply 'd) as were partially suggested to 

 him by those whose cause he had undertaken; and which, 

 having^' during the many yeers of oiTr divisions been often 

 ventilated, received an easy solution. Xor had hee given 

 proof of deeper learning in that which is properly call'd 

 Politics, while hee made use of trite Instances, as that of the 

 Government of Bees, & such like to prove the preeminency 

 of Monarchy: and all along so confounded it with Tyranny 

 (as also hee did the Episcopal with the Papal Government) 

 that hee might better have pass 'd for a Defender of the grand 

 Signor, and the Council of Trent, then of a lawful King and 

 a Eeformed Church. For this and reneging his former Prin- 

 ciples hee was by M"" Milton facetiously expos 'd: Nor did 

 he ever reply, though hee liv'd three years after. '^ 



But what he wisely deelin'd, the further provoking such 

 an Adversary, or persisting to defend a Cause hee so ill under- 

 stood, was attempted in Clamor Regij Sanguinis &c: in which 



"* Wood tones down this passage, omitting some of the matter 

 derogatory to Salmasins, and finishing with 'wherein (in the Defensio) 

 he justified several matters, as Milton conceived, to the contradiction 

 of his former book.' 



" Substituted for ' by.' 



'* The manuscript usually gives the words of Latin titles in the 

 English order. 



" ' been Ven,' crossed out. 



" A posthumous reply by Salmasins appeared in 1660, seven years 

 after his death. Wood omits almost all of this paragraph after the 

 name of Milton's book (the Defensio), and inserts a passage giving 

 facts about the burning of the pamphlet at Toulouse, its seizure at the 

 Restoration, and tlie attacks upon Salmasins in the Merciii-ius PoUticus. 



