Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Six Letters From A-D B-R to Father Sheldon, Provincial of the Jesuits in England: Illustrated With Several Remarkable Facts, Tending to Ascertain the Authenticity of the Said Letters, and the True Character of the Writer
Numbers of unexceptionable witneltes, many of them perfons of high rank, at London, at Both, in the North of England, and in feveral parts of Scotland, have heardthis remarkable tale from mr.b r's own mouth; and it made fo deep an imprefiion upon fome, that they committed to writing a fiery, which, however extraordinary, they believed on the anficpportecl evidence of the relater, and which, therefore, they thought ought not to be forgot. By this means, few of the good proteftants of Great Britain, have ever heard any thing of the Hi/torian of the Popes, or per ufed his hifiory, without alfo knowing fomething of his hazardous efcape from Italy; and the ms. Ac counts of it being handed about, and tranfcribed, it was no wonder, that one of them fhould at laft, b conveyed to the preis (h), the fubf'tance of which I {hall here prefent to the reader.
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