The Reflections of that Author, upon the Bleffed Martyr
King CHARLES the Firft, are proved to be groundless:
His Mifrepresentation of the Conduct of the Prelates of
thofe Times fully detected, and his numerous Miftakes in
History, and unfair way of quoting, exposed to publick View.

By ZACHARY GR E Y, LL. D. Rector
of Houghton Conqueft, in Bedfordshire.

With a large Appendix of Letters and Papers, copied from the
original Manufcripts of the late Rev. JOHN NALSON, LLD.
now in the Cuftody of the Rev. PHILIP WILLIAM S,
D. D. Prefident of St. John's College in Cambridge.

Hiftoria vero teftis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriæ, magiftra vitæ, nuntia
vetuftatis.-
Cic. de Oratore. Lib. 2. Sect. 20. p. 158. Edit. Ro. Stephan;
Qui-ut crimina in filentium mitterent fua, vitam infamare conati funt alienam.
Et cum poffent ipfi ab innocentibus argui; innocentes arguere ftuduerunt, mit
tentes ubique litteras livore dictante confcriptas.

Optat. Adverf. Parmenian. Donatift. Lib. I. p. 22. Edit. Gabr.
Albafpinai. Parifijs, 1679.

LONDON:

Printed by J. BETTENHAM :

And Sold by A. BETTESWORTH and C. HITCH, at the Red-Ling
in Pater-nofter Row. MDCCXXXVII.

Impartial Examination

OF THE

Third Volume of Mr. DANIEL NEAL's Hiftory of the Puritans.

I

Was in hopes (as I obferved in my Examination. of his fecond Volume) that when Mr. Neal had carefully perused the excellent Answer to his firft Volume of the Hiftory of the Puritans, by the prefent Right Rev. Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, That Impartiality, of which he makes fuch frequent Profeffions, would either have prevented him from pursuing his Defign, or at least induced him to have examined his Authorities with more Care and Candour, than I can find he has hitherto done; or to have retracted many of his egregious Miftakes, fcarce confiftent with the Exactness of an Hiftorian. But instead of this, he has replied to the Bishop's Examination, and has indeed corrected fome few trifling Miftakes, which were obvious enough to almoft every common Reader, yet at the fame time has perfifted in the Defence of fome of the moft material ones, which every one, who is converfant with the Hiftory of thofe Times, upon the flightest Obfervation will be able to discover.

Nay, he is fo far from being difcouraged, that he has purfued his Work through the latter part of King Charles's Reign, and has fpun out the laft fix or feven Years of it, to the uncommon Size of above fix hundred Pages, and how well he has fucceeded in this his laft Attempt, I come now to examine.

He complains indeed in his Preface (p. 1.) of the Difficulty of discovering the Motives of Action on either fide, and yet he feems to think himself capable of accounting for them in a variety of Places in this Book:

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