which goes through but two Letters of the Alphabet, that he forecasted to make that Work three times as large as it is, cou’d he have waited for the Printer’s Money so long as was requisite to the finishing it according to his first Design.  Thus much I thought fit to say, in order to abate the Edge of what he seems to speak hardly of the Francogallia; tho’ in several other Places he makes my Author amends:  And one may without scruple believe him, when he commends a Man, whose Opinion he condemns.  For this is the Character he gives of this Work:  "C’est au fond un bel Ouvrage, bien ecrit, & bien rempli d’erudition:  Et d’autant plus incommode au partie contraire que l’Auteur se contente de citer des faits." Can any thing in the World be a greater Commendation of a Work of this Nature, than to say it contains only pure Matter of Fact?  Now if this be so, Monsieur Bayle wou’d do well to tell us what he means by those Words, Tres indigne d’un jurisconsulte Francois.  Whether a French Civilian be debarr’d telling of Truth (when that Truth exposes Tyranny) more than a Civilian of any other Nation?  This agrees, in some measure, with Monsieur Teissier’s Judgment of the Francogallia, and shews, that Monsieur Bayle, and Monsieur Teissier and Bongars, were Bons Francois in one and the same Sense. “Son Livre intitule, Francogallia, luy attira AVEC RAISON (and this he puts in great Letters) les blame des bons Francois.  For (says he) therein he endeavours to prove, That France, the most flourishing Kingdom in Christendom, is not successive, like the Estates of particular Persons; but that anciently the Kings came to the Crown by the Choice and Suffrages of the Nobility and People; insomuch, that as in former Times the Power and Authority of Electing their Kings belonged to the Estates of the Kingdom, so likewise did the Right of Deposing their Princes from their Government.  And hereupon he quotes the Examples of Philip de Valois, of King John, Charles the Fifth, and Charles the Sixth, and Lewis the Eleventh:  But what he principally insists on, is to show, That as from Times Immemorial, the French judg’d Women incapable of Governing; So likewise ought they to be debarr’d from all Administration of the Publick Affairs.”

This is Mr. Boyle’s Quotation of Teissier, by which it appears how far Hotoman ought to be blamed by all true Frenchmen, AVEC RAISON.  But provided that Hotoman proves irrefragably all that he says (as not only Monsieur Bayle himself, but every body else that writes of him allows) I think it will be a hard matter to persuade a disinteress’d Person, or any other but a bon Francois, (which, in good English, is a Lover of his Chains) that here is any just Reason shewn why Hotoman shou’d be blam’d.