896 A P P E N D I X . ties in an ádverfary. Menfo derent as Mr. Collyer, Rapin, Fuller, and b op Burnet, agree in giving him agood charabler -- but the billeryof the puritans would not imitatefuch an example, nor fuffèr the cardinal's known merit topats, though no authority is quoted, nor any reafon given. Un. lucky Mr. N. who can never pleafe this writer! one while he is chaftifed Strype's for commending a fpeech of a popifh archbifhop [Heath], a man of Ann. V. I. good temper, and in fuch efteem with queen EL IzABETH, that the P' 043' vilited him in his retirement. Now he is reproached in a very ungene- rous manner, for being too fevere upon the memory of cardinal POLE, though he had admitted [p, 78.] be was a clergyman of too much temper for the times he lived in. But it feems, he has fpoilt all, by admitting it was doubtful ; doubtful ! (fays our critick) with none butfuch as are un- willing to allow any good qualities in an adverfary. This it teems is the hiftorian's charaêier ! but fince Mr. N. cannot allow himfelf the liberty of returning fuch language, he mutt beg leave to take force company with him, and Pet before the reader the grounds of his doubts, in the Cran. Mem. very words of Mr. Strype ; in thefe inftruéiions (fays he) [given to P. 347' " the clergy] there are several ftriftures that make it appear, POLE was not fo gentle towards the hereticks as was reported, but rather the " ° contrary, and that he went hand in hand with the bloody bithops " of thefe days ; for it is plain, that he put the bithops upon proceeding " ° with them [the proteftants] according to the fanguinary laws lately " revived, and put in full force and virtue. What an invention was " that of his, a kind of inquifition by him Pet up, wherein the names of " all fuch were to be written that were not well affetted to popery-- " And indeed after Pole's crafty and zealous management of this recon- " citation, [with Rome] all that good opinion that men had before of " him vanifhed, and they found themfelves much miftaken in him, in- " fomuch that people (poke againft him as bad as of the pope himfelf, or the worft of his cardinals ---. Indeed hehad frequent conferences " with the proteftants about jrß(cation by faith alone, &c. and would " oftenwith the true dottrine might prevail; but now the mark was " taken off, and he (hewed himfelf what he was." More of this pre- lates knownmerit, andgentlemethods of infirullion, may be fees in Strype's L. Wititgift, life of Whitgifi, who lays, " he was wholly italianized, and returned into ß' 6' `° England endued with a natureforeign and fierce, and. was THE VERY as BUTCHER AND SCOURGE OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH." Mr. N. hopes this is fufficient to warrant his doubting of the charaéìer of this politic cardinal. Mr.
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