Genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie

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it did not hinder malicious tongues from
saying he was one, as some, perhaps igno-
rantly, as well as falsely, do to this day, for
no other reason, but because he had a part
of his education among them, as many others
have had, without any such imputation :
such an assertion being the more impudent,
that his whole life, as well as his writings,
were diametrically opposite to Popery. Yet
such is the force of ranting enthusiasm, that
I know a R. R d (who for the personal
regard I bear him shall be nameless) who
sets up for a greater share of learning and
knowledge than his brethren, declared to
me, not many years ago, that he believed he
lived and died a Papist ; a man so far gone
in a distemper is commonly out of reach of
physic, yet I found, that his refusing his
Uncle's friendship and estate, rather than
be a Papist, far less a Jesuit, when he left a
wife and seven children, stunned and shook
this wise father's credulity to that degree,
that ere we parted, he confessed he knew
not what to say.
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