220 2he. L IFE ofthe LIB.I, to do it, in whom fhe put the greaten.Confidence, and defired her to take the ableft the could get among all the Jefuits or Priefts of the Queen or the Queen- Mother, with whom I knew the was not unacquainted. But fhe would not un- dertake for any ; whereupon I was forced to urge her with Provocations, and tell This was her, that feting file was forced to refolve all her Faith into the Word of particular in the end Priefts;by which only file knew the Senfe of the Church,and all that Hiftorywhich of Nov. induced her tobelieve that Remewas the true Church, fhe feemed very little to re- xf6o. gard her Soul, who would fo far ventureit upon the Wordsof Men that would not be provoked to an equal Conference in her hearing. The next day I came, I ur, ged her again to procure a Conference : She told me that the Gentleman.would. not confent : , And when I urged her to tell me his Reafon, fhe told me that he knew me very well, and that he had very high Thoughts of me, and that it was not now through any fear of Danger, for he durft venture his Life in my Hands ; but fince he knew it was me that he was to meet with he would not come ; but would not tell her why. And though fäll I toldher that there were more enough if he refufed, I couldnot procure her to bring any of them to a Dìfpute. But at laft, when I purpofely continued to provoke them, file told me that he would yield to Difpute, fo it might bedone only in Writing, and not a Word fpoken, nor any thing writtenbut Syllogifticallyand accordingto the ftrideft Rules of Di1 putation. I told her, I. That I fuppofed that the understood not when an Argu- ment was inMood and Figure; nor what a Fallacy was, and therefore that this was not defigned to her Edification. z. That I fuppofed that the had not read one of manyof all thofe Books already written againft them which are unanfwered : And if Writing will ferve turn, a printed Argument is as good as a 'written one : Nor had fhe read the late Difputationbetween Mr. yobnfon and me : nor were any one of myBooks againft them yet anfwered, and why then should I writemore till thofe were anfwered. ;. I told her that Mr. 7ohnfon's Writing and mine heldus abovea Twelvemonth, and yet was not driven to the Head : And I asked her whe- ther the would be willing to wait a Year or two, and fufpendher Refolution inRe ligion, till file law the Iffue of our Difputation in Writing. 4 I told her that it was like that he that offered this, understood thatby his Majefty's Pleafure, I was then newly engaged in another Work, which occafioned him to make this Offer. S. But yet that her Deceiver might have noExcufe, I offered her that I would doall that he defired, and manage it in Writing, fo be it he would HI but fpend two Homs in verbal Difputation in the way I hadpropoléd, viz. That he Ihould fpend one Hour in giving his Reafons for her Change, and I might anfwer them; and the other Hour I would give my Reafons againft it, and he fhould anfwer, me: And after that we would go toit by Writing. But a Day or two after, when I came for Anfwer to this Propofal, the Lady was gone, being fecretly ftolen from herMother in a Coach, and fo I understood the meaning of this Offer, and never could fee the Face of any ,of her Priefts. § 8;. At laft it was ditcovered that the Man that (educed her and refufedDifpu- fañon, was this Mr. Jobnfon (or Terra ) the fame Man that I had before confer- red and wrote with : And yet when I asked her whether it were he, file plainly and.pofitively faid it was not ; and when a Servant went after her Coach and overtook her in Lincoln,-Inn-Fields, file pofitively promifed to come again, and faid, file went but to fee a Friend. Alfo file complained to the Queen.Mother, of her Mother, as if the ufed her hardly for Religion, which was falfe: in a Word, her Mother told me, that before file turned Papift, file (carte ever heard a Lye from her ; and Mice then file could believe nothing that the faid. Thiswas the Darling of thatexcellent, wife, religious Lady ( the Widow of anexcellent Lord) ; which made the Affliction great, and taught her tomoderate her Affedions to all Crea- tures. This Perverfion hadbeen a long time fecretlyworking before fhe knewof . it ; all which time the young Ladywould join in Prayer withherMother, and jeer at Popery till fire was detected, and then file faid the might join with them no more. 1 86. They that stole her away, conveyed her toFrance, and there put her into a Nunnery, where file is finedead. Not long after her departure, lice fent a Let - ter fuperfcnbed to her Lady Mother, arc. and fubfcribed , Sifler Anna Maria, Sic. It contained the Reafons of her Perverfion : And though I knew they were not like to fuffer her to read it, I wrote an Anfwer to it, at her Mother's deliire, which was fent to her byher Mother. The Letter which I fent her the day before file was hold away, 'and the Anfwer to that her Letter from the Nunnery , I thought meet here to infert, which are as followeth. The
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