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REPLY1850

Discurs Modest

By N.

Your correspondent "A.T." (No.9. p.142) may be informed that there can be no reasonable doubt, that the original authority, for *Rem transubstantiationis patres ne attigisse quidem*, is William Watson in his *Quodlibet*, ii. 4. p.31.; that the Discurs. Modest. de Jesuitis borrowed it from him; that Andrews most probably derived it from the borrower; and that the date of the Discurs. &c. must, therefore, be between 1602 and 1610. Probably there may be a copy in the Lambeth Library; there is none in the Bodleian, British Museum, or Sion College, and Placcius affords no reference. The *author* ma…

Topics: Transubstantiation, Jesuits, Historical Texts

Locations: Lambeth Library, Bodleian, British Museum, Sion College