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abbey in commendam. Du Bellay was the first in tenure; Cardinals Lavalette and Mazarin were in possession in the century following. When after the death of Philip of Vendome, in 1727, the monks promised the bishop of Grasse a pension of 4,000 livres if he would effect, with Cardinal de Fleury, the restoration of free abbatical election, the latter prelate preferred rather to appropriate the monastery outright; and in 1732 he procured a royal brief, by the terms of which, on condition of the bishop's obtaining confirmation thereof by the pope, the monastery was to be conveyed in perpetuity to him and his successors. In 1788 the monastery was secularized, and in 1791 the island of Saint-Honorat was sold at auction for 37,000 livres. In 1853 the bishop of Frejus bought back the island; and in 1859 the church was restored to divine service and monks from Saint- Pierre de Marseille were stationed on the premises.
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Bibliography: Hilary of Aries' Sermo de vita S. Honorati is in ASB, Jan., ii. 17-24, and in MPL, 1. 1249 sqq. Consult: L. Pierrugues, Vie de S. Honorat, Paris, 1875; Silfersberg, Historia monasterii Lerinensis, Copenhagen, 1834; Berengier, in Revue de Vart chretien, 1870, pp. 176 sqq. ; F. Arnold, Casarius von Arelate und die Kirche
seiner Zeit, pp. 94 sqq., Leipsic, 1894; A. Malnorg, St. Cesaire, pp. 5 sqq., Paris, 1894; Ceillier, Auteurs sacres, viii. 433, 439-442, 452, x. 377; DCB, iii. 138; Helyot, Ordres monastiques, v. 116 sqq.; Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen, i. passim.
LESLIE, CHARLES: Nonjuror and controversialist; b. at Dublin, Ireland, July 17, 1650; d. at Glasslough (70 m. n.n.w. of Dublin), County Monaghan, Apr. 13, 1722. He studied at the Enniskillen school and at Trinity College, Dublin (M.A., 1673), and began the study of law at the Temple, but took holy orders in 1680. He was preferred to the chancellorship of Connor July 13, 1686. Though a zealous Protestant he was a stanch supporter of the Stuart dynasty, and for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary was deprived of his benifice in 1689. He then removed to London and entered upon a period of controversial writing that extended over some twenty years. He attacked the king, Whig divines, Jews, Quakers, Papists, Dissenters, and especially the Deists. In 1693 he visited St. Germains and obtained from the pretender the conge d'elire for the consecration of the nonjuring bishops. When in 1710 his Jacobite zeal had led to the issuing of a warrant for his arrest, he secluded himself at White Waltham, Berkshire, and in Apr., 1711, fled to St. Germains. Later he returned to England and passed under the alias of Mr. White, but in Aug., 1713, he repaired to Bar-le-Duc and took up his residence in the household of the pretender. After the failure of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 he accompanied the pretender to Rome. In 1721 he returned to Ireland. He is now remembered principally for one book, A Short and Easy Method with the Deists (London, 1698, and often). Other works are: Gallienus redivivus (Edinburgh, 1695), an attack on William III.; The Snake in the Grass (London, 1696), an attack on the Quakers; A Short and Easy Method with the Jews (1698); The Case of the Regale and of the Pontificate (1700; new
ed., 1838); and The Truth of Christianity Demonstrated (1711). He expounded his political philosophy in a periodical founded by him called The Rehearsal (1705-09; reprinted, 4 vols., 1708-09; also 6 vols., 1750). Before his death he collected his Theological Works (2 vols., 1721; reprinted, 7 vols., Oxford, 1832).
Bibliography: R. J. Leslie, Life and Writings of Charles Leslie, London, 1885; the Life, prefixed to the Oxford ed. of his Theological Works, ut sup.; L. Stephen, English Thought in the 18th Century, i. 196-201, 241, New York, 1881; DNB, xxxiii. 77-83 (contains a good list of authorities). Consult also T. Lathbury, History of the Nonjurors, London, 1862.
LESLIE (LESLEY), JOHN: Scottish Roman Catholic historian and statesman; b. in Scotland 1527; d. at Gurtenburg, near Brussels, May 30, 1596. He studied in Aberdeen, Paris, and Poitiers, was appointed canon of the cathedral church at Aberdeen, 1547, canonist in King's College, Aberdeen, 1553, official of the diocese of Aberdeen 1558, and in 1559 was inducted into the parsonage, canonry, and prebend of Oyne. At the Reformation he became a champion of the Roman faith. He was one of Knox's opponents at the disputation in Edinburgh in 1561 and also one of the commissioners sent to France that year to bring over Mary Queen of Scots. He returned in Mary's train and became her principal ecclesiastical adviser. He was named professor of canon law at King's College and University of Aberdeen in 1562, and in 1565 he was made privy councilor, judge of the court of session, and bishop of Ross. He was Mary's chief commissioner at the conference at York in 1568, and later he was her ambassador at the court of Elizabeth. He was the chief means of communication between Mary and her supporters, and was the prime mover in numerous intrigues in her behalf. It was he who originated the scheme of a marriage between Mary and the duke of Norfolk, which ended with Norfolk's execution. For his part in the Norfolk conspiracy he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Afterward he was transferred to Farnham Castle, and at the close of 1573 he was set at liberty, on condition that he leave the country. On the continent he continued his efforts for Mary and, after a year's sojourn in Paris, went to Rome to represent her interests at the napal court. He was sent by the pope on various missions in Mary's behalf. In 1579 he was made suffragan and vicargeneral of the diocese of Rouen, and in 1593 he was appointed bishop of Coutances in Normandy. Unable to obtain possession of his see, owing to the unsettled condition of the country, he retired to a monastery of Augustinian monks at Gurtenburg. His literary fame rests upon his De origine, moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum (Rome, 1578), which extends from the earliest times to the year 1562. An earlier Scottish version, written by Leslie in 1568-70 and presented to Queen Mary in 1571, was edited for the Bannatyne Club by T. Thomson under the title, The History of Scotland from the Death of James I. in the Year 11,36 to the Year 1561 (Edinburgh, 1830). Leslie wrote much in defense of Mary, and composed for her Pice afflicti animi consolationes animi tranquilli munimentum et
conservatio (Paris, 1574).
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