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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D.

CHAPTER XLIX
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132, 133.

We know certainly, from the statutes and journals, that no such impositions were granted by parliament.] [Footnote 2: NOTE B, p.20.Knox, p.127.We shall suggest afterwards some reasons to suspect, that perhaps no express promise was ever given.
Calumnies easily arise during times of faction, especially those of the religious kind, when men think every art lawful for promoting their purpose.

The congregation, in their manifesto, in which they enumerate all the articles of the regent's mal-administration, do not reproach her with this breach of promise.

It was probably nothing but a rumor spread abroad to catch the populace.

If the Papists have sometimes maintained that no faith was to be kept with heretics, their adversaries seem also to have thought, that no truth ought to be told of idolaters.] [Footnote 3: NOTE C.p.23.


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