Morus having produced some of these testimonials to disprove Milton's assertion that he had been ejected by the Middleburg church, Milton explains that he had not said _ejected_, but only _turned adrift_, and that this was substantially the fact.

Now, however, if Durie's report is correct, not only would the single Middleburg church, but nearly the whole Walloon Synod also, willingly _eject_ him .-- Milton's greatest difficulty is with the three Amsterdam testimonials of July 1654.

He has to admit that they prove him to have been misinformed when he said that the Amsterdam authorities had interdicted Morus from the pulpit, just as he had been wrong in calling Morus's Amsterdam professorship that of Greek.

That admission made (and it was hard for Milton ever to admit he was wrong, even in a trifle), he contents himself with quoting sentences from the Amsterdam testimonials to show how merely formal they were, how little hearty, and with this characteristic observation about the Amsterdam dignitaries, tossing their testimony aside in any case: "_Et id nescio_, [Greek: aristinden] _an_ [Greek: ploutinden], _virtute an censu, magistratum ilium in civitate sua obtineant_: And I know not, moreover, whether it is by merit or by wealth that the gentlemen hold that magistracy in their city." This is, doubtless, Milton's return for the slighting mention of himself in the Amsterdam testimonials.[1] [Footnote 1: A Hague correspondent of Thurloe, commenting on the appearance of the first part of Morus's _Fides Publica_ and its abrupt ending had written, Nov.

3, 1654, thus: "The truth is Morus durst not add the sentence [text of the judicial finding] against Pontia; for the charges are recompensed [costs allowed her], and where there is payment of charges that is to say that the action of Pontia is good, but that the proofs fail....