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¹ Stephen A. McKnight, The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006).

² See The Works of Francis Bacon, edited by J. Spedding, R.L. Ellis and D.D. Heath, 14 vols. (London, 1857–74), vol. 11, 141: ‘mark unto me whatsoever shall seem unto you not current in style, or harsh to credit and opinion, or inconvenient to the person of the writer.’

³ See now, on precisely this point, J.‐L. Quantin, The Church of England and Christian Antiquity, Oxford–Warburg Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 58, fn. 190.

⁴ Gianni Paganini, Scepsi moderna: interpretazione dello scetticismo da Charron a Hume (Cosenza: Busento, 1991).

⁵ See R. Descartes, The Philosophical Writings, translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch, 3 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985–91), vol. 2, 374.

⁶ A notable exception is Rudolf Schicker in a chapter in Le scepticisme au XVI^e et au XVII^e siècle, edited by P.‐F. Moreau (Paris: Albin Michel, 2001), 188–201.

⁷ See R. Popkin, The History of Scepticism. From Savonarola to Bayle, revised edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 128–42.

⁸ R. Descartes, Oeuvres de Descartes, edited by C. Adam and P. Tannery, 11 vols. (Paris: J. Vrin, 1974–86), vol. 7, 130.

⁹ Popkin, The History of Scepticism (2003), 50.

¹⁰ He makes particular mention of Goldsmith, McNeilly, Gauthier and Kersting, 214.