_Discurs. Modest._--At p. 205. No. 13., your correspondent N.
replies to A.T.'s query, that "there can be no reasonable doubt,
that the _original_ authority for _Rem transubstantiationis
patres ne altigisse quidem_, is William Watson in his _Quodlibet_,
ii. 4. p. 31."
By a note of mine, I find that this secular priest, W. Watson, lays
the expression in question to the charge of the Jesuits as "an
heretical and most dangerous assertion of theirs." Admitting,
therefore, the _Discurs. Modest_. to have been published after
Watson's _Decacordon_, i.e. later than 1602 (which can hardly
be doubted), still the further question remains to be asked: "In
what writings of the Jesuits, prior to 1602, had W. Watson himself
found these words, with which he charges them?" Should you think
this further query of importance enough to find a place in your
paper, perhaps some one of your readers might throw yet another ray
of light upon this subject.