THE WORKS OF THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, WILLIAM LAUD, D.D. SOMETIME LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. VOL. VI.-PART II. · LETTERS.-NOTES ON BELLARMINE. OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER. M DCCC LVII. Ков LETTER LV. TO MONS. DE VIC. [MS. Harl. 7000, last letter in vol.] S. in Christo. WORTHY SIR,-I received lately letters from you out of France, and with them others enclosed from Peter Moulin", for conveyance whereof I heartily thank you. I likewise received three sheets of the new Bible, which is now there under the press. I have heard heretofore very much of that work, but never saw anything of it till you sent me these sheets. That nation may brag of the work in many respects, for so many various and difficult characters of the Eastern languages did I never see together before; and it is a great and very chargeable work for an advocate or a greater man to undertake single. It is great pity that they are enforced to make use of a Jew for the correction of the Hebrew, for howsoever he be converted, (and I pray God he be heartily,) yet so few of the late converts have been hearty, that he must needs be himself, and expose the work also, liable to suspicion. I thank you heartily for this advertisement, and so wishing your employment there happy both to the state and yourself, I leave you to the grace of God, and rest Your very loving Friend, Lambeth, Decemb. 9, st. vet. 1633. To my much honoured Friend, Mr. de Vic, his Majesty's Agent in France, at Paris. W. CANT. LETTER LVI. TO JOHN WILLIAMS, BISHOP OF LINCOLN. S. in Christo. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP,-Mr. Secretary delivered your Lordship's letters to me, and in them a petition to his u [Professor of Divinity at Sedan, and a celebrated controversialist. King James gave him a stall in Canterbury Cathedral. See his Life in LAUD.-VOL. VI. 'Batesii Vitæ.'] [This was the Parisian Polyglott, edited by Le Jay, who was ruined by the expense.] Z |