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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK II
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[S.]] P.425._Burnet_.

[Titus Oates] got to be a chaplain in one of the king's ships, from which he was dismissed upon complaint of some unnatural practices, not to be named .-- _Swift_.

Only sodomy.
P.434._Burnet_.

He [Staley] was cast .-- _Swift.

Anglice_, found guilty.
P.441._Burnet_, on the impeachment of Lord Danby:--Maynard, an ancient and eminent lawyer, explained the words of the statute of 25 Edward III.
that the courts of law could not proceed but upon one of the crimes there enumerated: But the Parliament had still a power, by the clause in that Act, to declare what they thought was treason .-- _Swift_.


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