B.H.C.

_Discursus Modestus_ (Vol. i., pp. 142. 205.).--Such of your readers as
have been making inquiries and suggestions respecting _Discursus
Modestus_ will {159} be glad to hear that a copy exists in the British
Museum. Its title is as follows:

"A Sparing Discoverie of ovr English Iesuits, and of Fa.
Parson's proceedings vnder pretence of promoting the Catholick
Faith in England: for a caueat to all true Catholicks, ovr very
louing brethren and friends, how they embrace such very
uncatholike, though Iesuiticall deseignments. Eccles. 4. _Vidi
calumnias quæ sub sole geruntur, et lachrymas innocentium, et
neminem consolatorem_.--Newly imprinted, 1601."

At the end of the Preface are the initials W.W., making it clear that
Watson, the author of _Important Considerations_ and the _Quodlibets_,
was the writer, and accounting for the connection which seemed to exist
between the _Discursus_ and the _Quodlibets_.

The two passages quoted by Bishop Andrewes (_Resp. ad Apol._ pp. 7.
117.) are to be found in p. 13. But the question now arises, from what
earlier book the quotations are taken, as they both appear in the
_Sparing Discovery_ in Latin, and not in English? Did the Jesuits
publish a work containing such statements? or are we to accept them as
their opinions only on the authority of so bitter an opponent as Watson?

James Bliss.

"_Rapido contrarius orbi_" (Vol. ii., p. 120.) is in one of the finest