As the Writer's time of life admonishes him, that this may be the last occasion, on which any production of his pen will solicit the attention of the public, he avails himself of it to mention THE TITLES OF ALL HIS WORKS, and to state succinctly some circumstances and observations, which the present publication brings to his REMINISCENCE. works having been imputed to him, in which he has had no concern, and which he knows only by their titles, he takes this opportunity of disclaiming ALL, which he shall not acknowledge in the present publication.
M. Pellisson, in his account of M. Huét the celebrated bishop of Avranches, observes of him, that," from his tenderest years, he gave himself to study; that, at his rising, his going to bed, and
during his meals, he was reading, or had others to "read to him; that neither the fire of youth, the
* These reminiscences, in a contracted form, were prefixed to the writer's HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THE ENGLISH, IRISH AND SCOTTISH CATHOLICS, the publication referred to in the