obtained by producing forged certificates of his learning and moral character.  Long before the Revolution he held curacies in various parts of Ireland; but he did not remain many days in any spot.  He was driven from one place by the scandal which was the effect of his lawless amours.  He rode away from another place on a borrowed horse, which he never returned.  He settled in a third parish, and was taken up for bigamy.  Some letters which he wrote on this occasion from the gaol of Cavan have been preserved.  He assured each of his wives, with the most frightful imprecations, that she alone was the object of his love; and he thus succeeded in inducing one of them to support him in prison, and the other to save his life by forswearing herself at the assizes.  The only specimens which remain to us of his method of imparting religious instruction are to be found in these epistles.  He compares himself to David, the man after God’s own heart, who had been guilty both of adultery and murder.  He declares that he repents; he prays for the forgiveness of the Almighty, and then intreats his dear honey, for Christ’s sake, to perjure herself.  Having narrowly escaped the gallows, he wandered during several years about Ireland and England, begging, stealing, cheating, personating, forging, and lay in many prisons under many names.  In 1684 he was convicted at Bury of having fraudulently counterfeited Sancroft’s signature, and was sentenced to the pillory and to imprisonment.  From his dungeon he wrote to implore the Primate’s mercy.  The letter may still be read with all the original bad grammar and bad spelling.279 The writer acknowledged his guilt, wished that his eyes were a fountain of water, declared that he should never know peace till he had received episcopal absolution, and professed a mortal hatred of Dissenters.  As all this contrition and all this orthodoxy produced no effect, the penitent, after swearing bitterly to be revenged on Sancroft, betook himself to another device.  The Western Insurrection had just broken out.  The magistrates all over the country were but too ready to listen to any accusation that might be brought against Whigs and Nonconformists.  Young declared on oath that, to his knowledge, a design had been formed in Suffolk against the life of King James, and named a peer, several gentlemen, and ten Presbyterian ministers, as parties to the plot.  Some of the accused were brought to trial; and Young appeared in the witness box; but the story which he told was proved by overwhelming evidence to be false.  Soon after the Revolution he was again convicted of forgery, pilloried for the fourth or fifth time, and sent to Newgate.  While he lay there, he determined to try whether he should be more fortunate as an accuser of Jacobites than he had been as an accuser of Puritans.  He first addressed himself to Tillotson.  There was a horrible plot against their Majesties, a plot as deep as hell; and some of the first men in England were concerned in it.  Tillotson, though he placed