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iTcafon why we did not then change , remains ftill good 
why w e fliould not make that change , nt Jl. 
if this Point had been ftarted in our late King Jameses 
time 5 I defirc your Lordihip to confider , with what 
Face it would have looked. And^ if the Mask be taken 
off, the Face is ftill the fame. 
I findi it was ftarted in the time of our Civil Wars 
f about the year 1644) by thofe about the King, when 
Ox^r^ wasthcKing^s Head-Qiarters 5 but the proje^ 
did not then fucceed j by realon that the King's Party 
( in that conteft ^ were not prevalent. And your Lord- 
Aip knows very well 5 how much it was to the pr' jii- 
dice of the King's Caufe, that thofc on the other fide 
would fuppofe him to be too much influenced byPopifh 
Councils; of which this was a great Inftance, 
And no doubt they will be as ready to puft) it forward, 
Cupon any the Icaft pretence) whenever they find us 
foft enough to receive the impreffion. Not perhaps 
iindcr the names oi Julian and GregorUn^ ( for the word 
Wregerian fpeaks too plaina ) but ( under the fofter 
terms ) of Old and Nfw Stile ^ 
Othcrwife , fo much weight would not be laid upon 
fo flight a pretence. For the Addition of old stilt or 
Nem Stile will certainly determine the difference of 
Eleven Daysin the next Century, is of Ten in this, if 
nothing elfe were in the wind. We have been too often 
caught in fuch Snares. 
1 forbear to fay more though more might be faid J 
that I may not too much prefume on your Lordlhip's 
leifure. But am,. 
My, Lord',/ - 
'Bsir- Lordfyifs very humble- 
John Walliso. 
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