A letter to the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Harley, by Dr. Browne : occasion'd by his late commitment to New-Gate. Together with his interpretation of that paper, called, the country parson's advice to my Lord keeper, laid to his charge. Answer'd paragraph by paragraph.

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Credit: A letter to the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Harley, by Dr. Browne : occasion'd by his late commitment to New-Gate. Together with his interpretation of that paper, called, the country parson's advice to my Lord keeper, laid to his charge. Answer'd paragraph by paragraph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And tho’you drained the natural and genuine Senfe of the Words, having when a School-boy learned Rhetorick j yet your Senfe and Meaning nei¬ ther, is, nor can be hid from the abovelaid, but may be known by the illi¬ terate, andthofe of a dull Apprehend on. The Printer upon Oath informs you, hehad fuch a Paper from my Hands, but never faid I was the Author, or defired the Publication *, but inftead of that, I told your under Secretary, that I was not *, fo that I was dou¬ bly furpriz’d when I had before feen the Printer’s Depo- fition, to find the quite contrary Words in your Com mitment Warrant: Which runs thus, Robert Harley, Efq^ one of her Majefty’s moft Honou* rable Privy Council, and Principal Secretary of State. THefe are in her Majeftfs Name to Authorise and Re¬ quire you ^ to receive into your Cuflody the Body of Dr. Jofepil Brown herewith fentyoUy he being charged upon Oath to be the Author of a Scandalous and Seditious Libef Intitledy The Country Parfon’s Honeft Advice to that Judicious Lawyer and W orthy Minifter of State, My Lord Keep¬ er $ and you are to keep him in fafe Cuflody until he Jhall be delivered by due Courfe &f Law: And for fo doings this Jhall he your Warrant. Given at the Court at White-Hall, the Fir(l Day of February, 17O). R.o. Harley. To the Keeper of Newgate, or his Deputy. Anjw. If the Printer fwore that he had the Payer or Pamphlet from Dr. Brown's Hands, in order as it feems not osly to Read, but Print it; then Dr, Brown has not fo much Reafen as to be fingly (when as he fays that he is doubly/ fupprized at his Commitment to Newgate by Mr. Secretary’s Warrant, for by the little knowledge of the Law that I have, in taking the Words in their literal Senfe, that whofoever brings any Pa¬ per or Pamphlet to the Printer : in order to be Printed, the Law charges him to be the Author of it, till he can by fufficient Evidence, or another’s Confeffion, prove another to be the Author. Tbu3 then without much confulting of Depofttions, anyone may in Confcience be fatish- «le that Mr. Secretary did nothing but what was Law, andjuftice. 1