Page xxxvi.  “If tithes and first-fruits are paid to spiritual persons as such, the king or queen is the most spiritual person, &c.”  As if the first-fruits, &c. were paid to the king, as tithes to a spiritual person.

Page xliii.  “King Charles II. thought fit that the bishops in Scotland should hold their bishoprics during will and pleasure; I do not find that the High Church complained of this as an encroachment, &c.”  No; but as a pernicious counsel of Lord Loch.[14]

[Footnote 14:  Scott thinks this refers to Lord Lauderdale. [T.S.]]

Page xliv.  “The common law judges have a power to determine, whether a man has a legal right to the sacrament.”  They pretend it, but what we complain of as most abominable hardship, &c.

Page xlv.  “Giving men thus blindly to the devil, is an extraordinary piece of complaisance to a lay chancellor.”  He is something in the right; and therefore it is a pity there are any; and I hope the Church will provide against it.  But if the sentence be just, it is not the person, but the contempt.  And, if the author attacketh a man on the highway, and taketh but twopence, he shall be sent to the gallows, more terrible to him than the devil, for his contempt of the law, &c.  Therefore he need not complain of being sent to hell.

Page xliv.  Mr. Leslie may carry things too far, as it is natural, because the other extreme is so great.  But what he says of the king’s losses, since the Church lands were given away, is too great a truth, &c.

Page lxxvi.  “To which I have nothing to plead, except the zeal I have for the Church of England.”  You will see some pages further, what he meaneth by the Church; but it is not fair not to begin with telling us what is contained in the idea of a Church, &c.

Page lxxxiii.  “They will not be angry with me for thinking better of the Church than they do, &c.”  No, but they will differ from you; because the worse the Queen is pleased, you think her better.  I believe the Church will not concern themselves much about your opinion of them, &c.

Page lxxxiv.  “But the Popish, Eastern, Presbyterian and Jacobite clergy, &c.”  This is like a general pardon, with such exceptions as make it useless, if we compute it, &c.

Page lxxxvii.  “Misapplying of the word church, &c.”  This is cavilling.  No doubt his project is for exempting the people:  But that is not what in common speech we usually mean by the Church.  Besides, who doth not know that distinction?

Ibid.  “Constantly apply the same ideas to them.”  This is, in old English, meaning the same thing.

Page lxxxix.  “Demonstrates I could have no design but the promoting of truth, &c.”  Yes, several designs, as money, spleen, atheism, &c.  What? will any man think truth was his design, and not money and malice?  Doth he expect the House will go into a committee for a bill to bring things to his scheme, to confound everything, &c.