these Authors say then, that the Jesuit had not set down in this Writing, but that which was permitted him by the Ca∣nons to demand of a Doemon, is altogether a pure invention to Disguise the Truth. There are also great variety of Co∣pies of it, which appear'd in Publick. 'Tis true, the Jesuits themselves might sow among the people Memoirs made at pleasure, to perswade those that will not ascend back again to the very source, that it was a piece of Malice that was inten∣ded against their Society; that every one mingling therein what came into his mind, thereupon arose this multitude of Writ∣ings differing from one another. But it was impossible, that the President de Thou, and the Counsellor Gillot, Roni, and the King himself, who had seen the Original Piece, before the thing became Publick, should suffer themselves to be Cheated by this Artifice.
The Verification of the Writing which the Jesuit caus'd to be made by these who were most immediately at his Devoti∣on, without Form of Justice, without having any party that took Notice of it, and upon such a Writing, that he pleas'd to produce to 'em, because the Original could no be found, by what his Historian says, is a Trick that ought not to prevail against the Testimony of those Magistrates, who had had the Original in their Hands, ond who before they spoke of it were assur'd by their Eyes, that it was the Jesuits Writing. It is Remarkable, that the last Author of his Life, forgetting the Apology which he had made for the Conduct of his Heroe up∣on this occasion, relates, in the Order of his History, the An∣swers which the Woman possess'd had made him, upon some Questions contain'd in the Memoir. This accident belongs to the year 1605. But I have plac'd it here, as serving to make known the Character of Cotton the Jesuit, and upon what Qualities his Favour was founded. I return now to the Order that I had quitted.
The Duchess of Bar dy'd the beginning of this year, of a Distemper which she thought proceeded from being with Child, and which her Physicians understood not. She was Perse∣cuted with Conferences to her Death. Du Perron had ac∣quir'd