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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 7 of 8: Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation in the World, Particularly the British and Irish, From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period
Le?ie continued, after the Revolution, in allegiance to king James. In confequence, refufing to take the new oaths appointed upon 'that change, he loft all his preferments and, in 1689, when the troubles began to arife in Ireland, withdrew, with his family, into England. Here he fet about writing political pieces, in fupport of the caufe he had embraced; and, being a perfon of extraordinary wit and learning, was efieemed a Chieftain among the Nonjurors. Neither did his fufferings make him forget his duty to the church of England; in defence of which he fhewed himfelf a flrenuous champion againfl the Quakers, many of whom were con verted by him. He likewife employed his pen in the general caufe Of the Chriflian religion. Againfi Jews and Deifts, and againf't the errors of Socinians and Papilis. Meanwhile, his writings, and frequent vifits to the courts of St. Germains and bar-le-duc, ren dered him obnoxious to the government but he became more fo upon the publication of the Hereditary Right Of the Crown of England alferted of which he was the reputed author. Finding himfelf, on this account, under a neceflity of leaving the kingdom, he repaired to the Pretender at bar-le-duc where he was allowed to otliciate in a private chapel, after the rites of the church of Eng land and he took much pains to convert the Pretender to the Pro teftant religion, but in vain. However, to promote the faid Pre tender's interell, when a great flir was made about him in England, he wrote a letter from bar-le-duc, dated April 23, 1714, which was printed and difperfed among his adherents, replete with the molt fordid ?attery: wherein, he concluded With a propofal, on condition of his being reflored to his crown. That, for the fecurity of the church of England as by law eflablifhed, he would fo far wave his prerogative, in the nomination of bilhops, deans, and all other ecclefiaflical preferments in the gift of the crown, that five blillops fhould be appointed; of which the archbifhop of Canter bury for the time being always to be one, who, tipon any vacancy.
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