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[CLARENDON, HENRY HYDE.] Animadversions upon a book, intitled Fanaticism Fanatically Imputed to the Catholic Church, by Dr. Stillingfleet. And the imputation refuted and retorted by S. C. By a person of honour.
London, R. Royston, 1673. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 262, [1] ads; contemporary full black goatskin, double gilt rules on covers enclosing a central panel with decorative borders and fleurons in the corners, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1, a.e.g.; spine a little discolored, else generally fine throughout. Early armorial bookplate of John Dolben, Bart. of Finedon, Northhamptonshire, a prominent divine and a close friend of Bishop Atterbury (see DNB). A substantial work by the great Restoration statesman now best remembered for his History of the Rebellion, the best contemporary account of the Civil War. Clarendon here replies to a book by Hugh Paulinus (or Serenus) Cressy, a graduate of Oxford who converted to Roman Catholicism, studied at Paris, and became a Benedictine monk. The work in question was published on the continent, probably at Douai, in 1672. Clarendon had known Cressy quite well many years earlier and was distressed at his friend's apostasy. In 1647 he wrote to an acquaintance: "It is a great loss to the church, but greater to his friends, dead and alive; for the dead suffer when their memory and reputation is subjected to question and reproach … If we cannot keep him a minister of our church, I wish he would continue a layman in theirs, which would somewhat lessen the defection and, it may be, preserve a greater proportion of his innocence." Wing C4414; CBEL II, 1679.
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