Pretended to be written by the Author
of the Memoirs.
By a Lover of Truth.
LONDON:
Printed for Richard Baldwin, near the
Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane. 1693.
Reflections upon an Answer
to the Letter from Monsieur De Cros.
Pretended to be written by the Author of
the Memoirs, &c.
When the foregoing Papers were finished, and just ready for the Press, I was surprized to hear that Sir W. T. himself had thought fit (contrary to what I had conjectured in the first pages of those) to take publick notice of Mons De Cros’s Letter; That it was now just come out, and crying about the Streets: Tho I had then several surmises that it might be some Imposture, yet one could not well be more amazed than I was, at a piece of News I had so little expected, and the contrary of which I thought I had so well convinced both the world, and my self. Whatever I expected from it, I was eager enough to get it, and to read it over: My suspicion increased sufficiently, when I had not gone above ten Lines; and when I had perused it, I found my self as much disappointed, as I was by De Cros’s Letter; being throughly convinced it was a Counterfeit, (tho a witty one, and perhaps an innocent one too.) For this I found several undeniable Reasons, which I suppose any thinking Reader could not but observe as well as I.