forward altered the Form of their Government;
that Marriage was honourable in all, and the Bed
undefiled; but that Whoremongers and Adulterers
God would judge; that his Lordship was at Liberty
to marry a fecond Time, if he found it proper,
and was therefore under no Temptation to fuch
loose Practices; that he ought to fend the Girl to
her Parents, and to make what Amends he could
to them, for stealing away and ruining their Daugh-
ter; that there was Advice taking to lay this Mat-
ter before the Lord Chief Juftice, or bring it into
Westminster-Hall; that alfo it ought to be laid be-
fore the Prince and Princess of Wales, in order to
their discarding a Perfon of fuch a wicked and lewd
Character from their Service; and that as I myself
could, I believed, have Access to their Royal
Highneffes, it was probable I should think fit, to lay
it before them with that Defign; of which I gave
his Lordship Notice beforehand. To which his
Lordship reply'd, without any Paffion at all, That
he was utterly against fecond Marriages, and there-
fore must have a Miftrefs; that he did not keep
the Girl by Force, but that if fhe would'
go Home
fhe might; his Affection for her (however) proba-
bly, would not laft above three Months; and that
The was not now in the Cafe of Lucretia; that how-
ever, her Brother had beft have a Care of attempt-
ing to feize her, left he came to fomé Mischief
himself; that for the Lord Chief Juftice, and West-
minfer-Hall, he did not much care, fince he could
appeal from thence to the House of Lords, which,
he believed, would not hurt him; and that for the

Prince and Princefs, they were Perfons of too good Senfe, to be concern'd at what he had done: With the like impudent Expreffions, in Way of Juftification, and Refolution to go on in his Wickedness. This Behaviour gave me fo great an Indignation, that I could bear the Converfation no longer; and fo I took my Leave very abruptly, in thefe or the like true, but severe Words," My Lord, you

are the most abandon'd Perfon that I ever con"vers'd with in my whole Life." That if he perfifted in fuch his Lewdness, I fhould be a Witnefs against him at the great Day, when both his Lordship and myself should stand before Chrift's Judgment Seat. After all which, I am inform'd his Lordship has fent this his Strumpet in a Coach, well guarded, to London; where I suppose he keeps her at this Day. This, may it please your Royal Highneffes, is a faithful Account of one of the most avow'd and publick Instances of wicked Lewdness that I have ever met with, in all my Knowledge of Mankind. And I verily believe that

if

you would please to dismiss the Earl from your Service, on this Account, you would thereby do a Thing greatly acceptable to God, and to all good Men, as well as to the real Benefit and Advantage to the Earl, who will otherwife foon bring himself to the Grave, by his prefent Lewdness. It would alfo greatly tend to your own Honour and Reputation, and Intereft, in this Kingdom: And if you take due Care of the better Character of him, who fhall fucceed, you would thereby give an eminent Specimen of the Discouragement of

Vice and Immorality, and Incouragement to Virtue and Goodness in those about your Royal Highneffes Perfons, which the King himfelf has been pleas'd to promife, as to those about his own Royal Perfon. All which is most humbly, and out of the moft fincere good Will to your Royal Highness, and to the Earl himself, fubmitted to your Royal Highneffes ferious Confideration, by

Your most obliged bumble Servant,

WILL. WHISTON.

In the Year 1725, I published A Supplement to the Literal Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies. Containing Obfervations on Dr. Clarke's, and Bifhop Chandler's Difcourfes of the Prophecies of the Old Testament: With four Differtations;

I. Upon Ifaiah's Prophecy, concerning a Son, to be born of a Virgin.

II. Upon Daniel's LXX Weeks.

III. Upon the fourth Eclogue of Virgil, as compar'd with the Sibylline Oracles.

IV. Upon the Curfe denounced against Cain and Lamech, before the Flood: Proving that the Africans and Indians are their Pofterity. 8vo.

Price 2 s.

It was about the fame Year, or rather long be fore it, as I have learned lately, that Dr. Calamy, a leading Teacher among the Diffenters, travelling for his Health into Scotland, came to Edinburgh,

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when the General Affembly was fitting, and there heard fuch a very nice and particular Scrutiny made into the Opinions and Conduct of a Clergyman that came before them by Appeal, from fome lower Judicature, as fhewed too great an Inclination to fet him afide, and provoked Dr. Calamy fo much, that he whispered to one that was near him, that he never knew there was an Inquifition in Scotland before; which was overheard by fome, who handed it about till it came to the Prolocutor himself: Where this Freedom of cenfuring the Acts of the General Affembly was very ill taken. This I had from the Doctor's Son's own Mouth, and from another Perfon then present. And it puts me in Mind of the very learned Mr. Simpson's Cafe, who was deprived of his Profef forship in Scotland, for being only an Athanafian somewhat milder than ordinary. For after that Time, I was once at Hamlin's Coffee-houfe, by the Royal Exchange, and was fhewed this Mr. Simpson, a Brother Sufferer, at fome Distance in the Coffee-house. But I, by Choice, avoided to go, or to fpeak to him there; left fo fmall a Conversation should be a Foundation of a farther Accufation againft him in his own Country.

In the next Year 1726, I publifhed a Pamphlet Of the Thundering Legion: Or, Of the miraculous Deliverance of Marcus Antoninus and his Army, on the Prayers of the Chriftians. As alfo, Of Alexander the Great's meeting the High Priest of the Jews at Jerufalem. Occafioned by Mr. Moyle's Works then lately published, 8vo. Price 6 d.

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In the next Year 1727. I published Mr. Henley's Letters and Advertisements which concerned myself, with a few Notes, 8vo. Price 6 d. See more hereafter.

In the fame Year 1727, I published A Collection of Authentick Records, belonging to the Old and New Teftament. Tranflated into English, in two Parts and Volumes. Containing,

PART I.

I. A Differtation on the Book of Baruch: To prove that it is a Canonical Book of the Old Teftament.

II. The Epistle of Baruch to the nine Tribes
and an half; with its Postscript.

III. Obfervations to prove them genuine.
IV. The Septuagint Verfion of the Description
of Ezekiel's Temple, according to the Alexan-
drian Copy.

V. A large Differtation on the IVth Book of
Efdras, to prove it genuine.

VI. A particular Explication of the XIth and
XIIth Chapters.

VII. Eighteen Pfalms of Solomon Id.
VIII. A Differtation to prove them genuine.
IX. The third Book of the Maccabees.

X. Some Account of the fourth Book now loft.
XI. The Epistle of the Jews of Jerusalem to the
Jews of Egypt. 2 Macc. i. and ii.

XII. A Differtation to prove it genuine.
XIII, The true Origin of the antient Sect of the

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