Manuscript item bound in a volume of printed pamphlets.
Variant Title = To the first challenge [Reply] to the first challenge. First line of text reads: '1.The first part of the vindication has shown the uncertainty of this Topick of Reasoning from instances'; the text ends: '... from that of the Catholick church (as the Latitudinarian Doctrine is generally) that he cannot expect nor should much regard him'.
In pencil next to the title in the hand of Thomas Bowdler: 'This is Mr. Dodwell's own handwriting'.
Listed in the Bowdler Manuscript Catalogue: Bundle 158 [headed 'Depriv'd Bishops] Item 26, where it is indexed as:'26. A MS answer to Hody's Challenges &c. Mr. Dodwell's'.