Those numberless productions with which the press then abounded; the cant of the pulpit, the declamations of party, the subtilties of theology, all these have long ago sunk in silence and oblivion.

Even a writer such as Selden, whose learning was his chief excellency, or Chillingworth, an acute disputant against the Papists, will scarcely be ranked among the classics of our language or country.
NOTES [Footnote 1: NOTE A, p.15.By a speech of Sir Simon D'Ewes, in the first year of the long parliament, it clearly appears, that the nation never had, even to that time, been rightly informed concerning the transactions of the Spanish negotiation, and still believed the court of Madrid to have been altogether insincere in their professions.

What reason, upon that supposition, had they to blame either the prince or Buckingham for their conduct, or for the narrative delivered to the parliament?
This is a capital fact, and ought to be well attended to.
D'Ewes's speech is in Nalson, vol.ii.p.

368.

No author or historian of that age mentions the discovery of Buckingham's impostures as a cause of disgust in the parliament.