Sturmio eum adduxit. Bernam præteriens, tantùm vidit, nec tamen fine confulis Stegeri honorifica liberalitate, atque Halleri, Aretii, alîorúmque doctiffimorum hominum amica gratulatione difceffit. Tiguri, Henricus Bullingerus fimu“ · latque in urbem ingreffus eft Ramus, gratulator prīmus affuit, cœnámque ei apparavit, eruditiflimis convivarum, Jofiæ Simleri, Rodolphi Gualteri, Lodovici Lavalteri fermonibus longè gratiflimam. Poftridie cum ab eodem Bullingero in aulam publicam deduceretur, miratus quid fibi vellet in eum locum frequentiffimus civium cujufque ordinis conventus, quæfivit ex eo, ecquæ illic etiam, ut Argentinæ, nobiles nuptiæ celebrarentur. Cui Bullingerus, tibi, inquit, noftra civitas nuptias illas celebrat. Præbuit ei Heidelberga amicum Urfinum, Olevitanum,hospitem etiam Immanuelem Tremellium, fautorem denique ipfum Electorem Palatinum, qui difcedentem Ramum, aurea imagine fua donavit. Inde Francofurtum pergens, à primariis aliquot civibus honorificè eft acceptus: deinde Noribergam ad præftantiffimos opifices et mechanicos aliófque viros doctos et præfertim Joachimum Camerarium, profectus eft: hic jurifconfultorum collegio mandatum à fenatu est, ut P. Ramo convivium publico urbis nomine inftruerent. Inde Auguftam perexit ubi urbis conful primarius eum liberaliffimè tractavit, adhibitis in convivium eruditis variæ doctrinæ convivis, fed imprimis Hieronimo Wolfio, et Tichone Bracheo, cum quo poft prandium in fuburbanum confulis deductus, varios fermones de ftudiis mathematicis habuit. Rumore tandem reftitutæ pacis revocatus, Laufannam contendit: hic a viris doctis exoratus, logicam dxodxon dies aliquot maximo concurfu exhibuit. Geneva cum doctiffimis hominibus tum de cæteris liberalibus ftudiis, tum de logicis collocutio illi affidua fuit, maximè cum Francifco de Cretenfi et Andrea Melvino, Scoto. Cum aliis multiseruditiffimis viris, in Italia Commandino et Papio, in Anglia Dio et Acontio, in Germania Chytreo, aliifque. permultis amicitiam per literas jaxantè coluerat. Nobiles et inclytæ civitates eum magnis et honorificis muneribus, et fexcentorum coronatorum oblato ftipendio appetiverunt. Joannes electus rex Pannoni ampliffimo ftipendio Albæ Juliæ regendam academiam illi obtulit. Cracoviam liberaliffimè, immo in Italiam mille ducatorum ftipendio Bono A a 4 niam niam invitatus, patriam tamen deferere noluit: itaque Carolus ix, petitum undique calumniis domi, invidorùmque morfibus, non folùm præfenti ope fublevavit, fed honore auxit et amplificavit, eíque vacationem à laboribus conceffit. Tandem, anno 1572, in illa Parifienfi Chriftianorum ac civium internecione, indigniffime periit. Necis caufam funt qui in æmulos ejus conferant : plerique eandem quæ ceteris ea nocte trucidatis fuiffe exiftimant. Legatum annuum mathematico profeffori in Parifienfi academia luculentum teftamento reliquit. THE THE SECOND DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, AGAINST AN ANONYMOUS LIBEL ENTITLED THE ROYAL BLOOD CRYING TO HEAVEN FOR VEN- TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, BY ROBERT FELLOWES, A. M. OXON. A GRATEFUL recollection of the divine goodness, is the first of human obligations; and extraordinary favours demand more folemn and devout acknowledgments; with fuch acknowledgments I feel it my duty to begin this work. First, because I was born at a time, when the virtue of my fellow-citizens, far exceeding that of their progenitors in greatnefs of foul and vigour of enterprize, having invoked heaven to witness the juftice of their caufe, and been clearly governed by its directions, has fucceeded in delivering the commonwealth from the most grievous tyranny, and religion from the most ignominious degradation. And next, because when there fuddenly arofe many who, as is ufual with the vulgar, bafely calumniated the most illuftrious atchievements, and when one eminent above the reft, inflated with literary pride, and the zealous applaufes of his partizans, had in a fcandalous publication, which was particularly levelled against against me, nefariously undertaken to plead the caufe of defpotifm, I who was neither deemed unequal to fo renowned an adverfary, nor to fo great a subject, was particularly felected by the deliverers of our country, and by the general fuffrage of the public, openly to vindicate the rights of the English nation, and confequently of liberty itself. Laftly, because in a matter of fo much moment, and which excited fuch ardent expectations, I did not difappoint the hopes nor the opinions of my fellowcitizens; while men of learning and eminence abroad, honoured me with unmingled approbation; while I obtained fuch a victory over my opponent, that notwith. ftanding his unparalleled affurance, he was obliged to quit the field with his courage broken and his reputation loft; and for the three years which he lived afterwards, much as he menaced and furiously as he raved, he gave me no farther trouble, except that he procured the paltry aid of fome despicable hirelings, and fuborned fome of his filly and extravagant admirers to fupport him under the weight of the unexpected and recent difgrace, which he had experienced. This will immediately appear, Such are the fignal favours which I afcribe to the divine beneficence, and which I thought it right devoutly to commemorate, not only that I might difcharge a debt of gratitude, but particularly because they feem aufpicious to the fuccefs of my prefent undertaking. For who is there, who does not identify the honour of his country with his own? And what can conduce more to the beauty or glory of ones country, than the recovery, not only of its civil but its religious liberty? And what nation or ftate ever obtained both, by more fuccefsful or more valorous exertion? For fortitude is feen refplendent, not only in the field of battle and amid the clafh of arms, but difplays its energy under every difficulty and against every affailant. Thofe Greeks and Romans, who are the objects of our admiration, employed hardly any other virtue in the extirpation of tyrants, than that love of liberty which made them prompt in feizing the fword and gave them ftrength to use it. With facility they accomplished the undertaking, amid the general fhout of praise and joy; nor did they engage in the attempt fo much, as as an enterprize of perilous and doubtful iffue, as in a conteft the most glorious, in which virtue could be fignalized; which infallibly led to prefent recompence; which bound their brows with wreaths of laurel, and configned their memories to immortal fame. For as yet, tyrants were not beheld with a fuperftitious reverence; as yet they were not regarded with tenderness and complacency, as the vicegerents or deputies of Chrift, as they have fuddenly profeffed to be; as yet the vulgar, ftupified by the fubtle cafuiftry of the priest, had not degenerated into a state of barbarifm, more grofs than that which difgraces the most fenfelefs natives of Hindostan. For these make mifchievous demons, whofe malice they cannot refift, the objects of their religious adoration; while thofe elevate impotent tyrants, in order to fhield them' from deftruction, into the rank of Gods; and to their own coft, confecrate the pefts of the human race. But against this dark array of long received opinions, fuperftitions, obloquy, and fears, which fome dread even more than the enemy himself the English, had to contend; and all this, under the light of better information, and favour. ed by an impulfe from above, they overcame with fuch fingular enthusiasm and bravery, that, great as were the numbers engaged in the conteft, the grandeur of conception, and loftinefs of spirit which were univerfally dif played, merited for each individual more than a mediocrity of fame; and Britain, which was formerly styled the hot-bed of tyranny, will hereafter deferve to be cele brated for endless ages, as a foil moft genial to the growth of liberty. During the mighty ftruggle, no anarchy, no licentioufnefs was feen; no illufions of glory, no extravagant emulation of the antients inflamed them with a thirst for ideal liberty; but the rectitude of their lives, and the fobriety of their habits, taught them the only true and fafe road to real liberty; and they took up arms only to defend the fanctity of the laws, and the rights of confcience. Relying on the divine affiftance, they used every honourable exertion to break the yoke of flavery; of the praife of which though I claim no fhare to myfelf, yet I can easily repel any charge which may be adduced against me, either of want of courage, or want of |