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A satire on the Jesuits and Puritans.

Parts I and II were first published in 1605 and 1607 respectively; part III, with title "Apologia Euphormionis pro se", was published in 1610; part IV, with title "Icon animorum", appeared in 1614: part V, by C.B. Morisot, was first published separately in 1624 with title "Alitophili Veritatis lacrymae" but is frequently included in collected editions of Barclay's work. This edition adds a part 6, "Alethophilus castigatus", authorship of which is uncertain though it has been ascribed to L.G. Bugnot; the notes in this edition are also ascribed to Bugnot.

Pt. [VII], running title "Conspiratio Anglicana" (p. 716-720), deals with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 with added title p. [714]: Series patefacti divinitus parricidii in ter maximum regem ...