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LETTER LVI. (Book 56)
St. Germain endeavouring to reclaim one Lusancy to the Church of Rome, whose Communion he had forsaken, used King Charles II's Turning Papist as an Argument; which the other disco∣vering, forced St. Germain to flee in∣to France, where he was punished for his Indiscretion for a Time.
My LORD,
IT was not without some Difficulty that I have been able to perform the Promi∣sory Clause of my last Letter, in reference to Father St. Germain's unseasonable Words concerning the King's Perversion to the Romish Church; who, among others, more particularly repeated the said Brags to a young Friar, then lately turned Protestant, in the Savoy, (as I learnt afterward;) and whom, for what peculiar Reasons I could never come to know, he laboured with more than ordinary Application to reclaim back again from his pretended Heresie, and at any rate to dispatch him back into France. That same young Friar went by the Name of Lusancy; but St. Germain said, his true Name was Beau-Chateau; and, it seems, had been St. Germain's Scholar formerly, when Regent in the College of Clermont,