to a Dissenter, by H C. (Henry Care), 1687.]

[Footnote 244: Lestrange's Answer to a Letter to a Dissenter; Care's
Animadversions on A letter to a Dissenter; Dialogue between Harry and
Roger; that is to say, Harry Care and Roger Lestrange.]

[Footnote 245: The letter was signed T. W. Care says, in his
Animadversions, "This Sir Politic T. W., or W. T. for some critics think
that the truer reading."]

[Footnote 246: Ellis Correspondence, March 15. July 27. 1686 Barillon,
Feb 28/Mar 10; March 3/13. March 6/16. 1687 Ronquillo, March 9/19. 1687,
in the Mackintosh Collection.]

[Footnote 247: Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Observator; Heraclitus Ridens,
passim. But Care's own writings furnish the best materials for an
estimate of his character.]

[Footnote 248: Calamy's Account of the Ministers ejected or silenced
after the Restoration, Northamptonshire; Wood's Athenae Oxonienses;
Biographia Britannica.]

[Footnote 249: State Trials; Samuel Rosewell's Life of Thomas Rosewell,
1718; Calamy's Account.]

[Footnote 250: London Gazette, March 15 1685/6; Nichols's Defence of the
Church of England; Pierce's Vindication of the Dissenters.]

[Footnote 251: The Addresses will be found in the London Gazettes.]

[Footnote 252: Calamy's Life of Baxter.]

[Footnote 253: Calamy's Life of Howe. The share which the Hampden family
had in the matter I learned from a letter of Johnstone of Waristoun,
dated June 13 1688.]

[Footnote 254: Bunyan's Grace Abounding.]

[Footnote 255: Young classes Bunyan's prose with Durfey's poetry. The
people of fashion in the Spiritual Quixote rank the Pilgrim's Progress
with Jack the Giantkiller. Late in the eighteenth century Cowper did not
venture to do more than allude to the great allegorist

"I name thee not, lest so despis'd a name
Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame."]

[Footnote 256: The continuation of Bunyan's life appended to his Grace
Abounding.]

[Footnote 257: Kiffin's Memoirs; Luson's Letter to Brooke, May 11. 1773,
in the Hughes Correspondence.]

[Footnote 258: See, among other contemporary pamphlets, one entitled a
Representation of the threatening Dangers impending over Protestants.]

[Footnote 259: Burnet, i. 694.]

[Footnote 260: "Le Prince d'Orange, qui avoit elude jusqu'alors de faire
une reponse positive, dit qu'il ne consentira jamais a la suppression
du ces loix qui avoient ete etablies pour le maintien et la surete de
la religion Protestante, et que sa c