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report.orthe Committee for the past year.
Mr. Cnisr then read the report, of which the following is

REPORT.
The committee of the Liverpool Protestant Association, in
coming again before their friends and constituents, rejoice to'

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acknowledge renewed claims upon them for increased thank-
fulness, and continued trust in the God and Giver of all

blessing

The past year has been signalized by many events, which
your committee cannot but regard as highly encouraging to

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the progress and prospects of Protestant principles and _Scrip-
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tural trit

the auspicious change, which has recently been effected in
the councils of our beloved Sovereign. But, while they are

ready to hail with gratitude the advancement to powe

men who who hang not on the smile of Itomish favour,—whose
period of official existence depends not on the continuance of
llomish support, your committee feel especially called upon
in the present Crisis to remind their supporters and friends,
that as Protestant Associations were. called into being origi-
nally without reference to objects merely political, so their
proceedings have been conducted, and must be continued, on
principles, wholly; irrespective of the ascendancy of this or

that party in the state; :•• •
It is necessary to return thus to the first principles of our
association, the rather, that some are inclined to imagine,
that by the removal from power of a government, that lived
only by dealing " heaver blows and great disconragetnents to
Protestantisin"—the,necessity for our associations, if not al-

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together superseded, is it leasicorigiderably diminished. An
impression of this kind must be met at once, and not allowed
either to extend itself or to take root. In order to which
your committee feel it a duty to recall attention to the first
circular of the Liverpool Protestant Association, (issued on
the 29th October, 1835;) wherein the motives that led to its
formation, and the principles on which it rests, the objects
aimed at, together with the means (under God) of accom-
plishing them are clearly and briefly set forth. . .

The circular declares that " The association was called into
existence and activity by imperative self-defence. It funda-
mental principle is this—that the will of the one living and
true God, the maker of heaven and earth, as revealed in Jesus
Christ, by the Bible, is the only sure and safe standard of
right and wrong, whether public or private, and therefore con-
stitutes the only sure and safe basis for Christian legislation,

as well as Christian conduct." In the same circular, the
objects of the association are 'stated and classed under the
two following heads
" First,—To combine in one Christian brotherhood of self-
defence all who truly love true religion and genuine liberty ;
all who sincerely advocate the free circulation of immutulated
and unadulterated word of God ; all who assert and defend
the right of private judgment ; all who venerate the inviola-
ble sanctity of an oath ; all real loyalists who ►naintain the

system

unrivalled and universal suprerimey'of the King or Queen of
England within these realms, and renounce, abjure, and de-
tect any allegiance whatever to any foreign power or potentate,
ecclesiastical or civil. This is the direct object of our Pro-

testant Association considered in its Scriptural foundation,
and in its national exercise. Our second object is, to address
ourselves with earnest affection to those of our fellow-coun-
trymen who have the misfortune still to labour under anti-
scriptural and anti-national prejudices; who are denied the
free circulation of the pure word of God, and the right of
private judginent ; who are taught that oaths, under certain
circumstances, may and ought to be violated; and who are
commanded to yield their first and highest allegiance -to a

foreign ecclesiastical authority_
Upon this your Committee would beg to remark, that the
principles here enunciated are everlasting as the inspired re-
cord f,om whence they are derived, " the word of our God,
which shall stand for ever," and unchangeable as the Author
him of that mini. "I am the Lord,' I change not"—
and ti.ssefore cannot be affected by any change (even for the
better) in the unstable councils of men. Moreover, the
objects aimed at are of enduring interest, the pursuit-of
which may not be given up until it is no longer necessary to
" contend for the faith once delivered to the saints " ; while
the duties involved are of such a constraining character, that
so lone, as a dear brother or sister is bound in the chains of
Romish darkness, " we cannot but speak to them the things
we have seen and heard " and felt of the saving, sanctifying,
emancipating power of " the truth as it is in Jesus."
" Your committee does- not affect to conceal the strong
confidence it entertains, that, by a firm and impartial admi-
nistration of the existing law, en the part of her Majesty's
present government, much of that evil will be mitigated by
which we have been of late afflicted. The Romish organs
and demagogues, strenuous as ever in the pursuit of their
favourite project of " Repeal of the Union," (which is but
another name for the downfal of the Irish church, and the
dismemberment of the British empire,) have even already
adopted and recommended a " lower tone " in their language
and their bearing. Nevertheless, your committee is bold to
declare, in the presence of their friends and constituents,
that so far from discontinuing now the operations of our
Protestant Association, there never was a period, more than
the present, which required discreet and prudent, but withal
strenuous and united exertion. The policy of Rornanism,
under the sunshine of court favour, especially in Ireland,
has developed itself fully during the last twelve years. It
has exhibited neither an improved theology, nor a mitigated
intolerance. it does not even profess (and we know the
hollowness of Romish professions) any increased attachment
to the established institutions of our country, nor any abated
desire of supremacy, civil or ecclesiastical, for itself ; so that,
building our expectations of the future upon the experience
of the past, we can only conclude that Romanism lacks but
the power to rekindle in England the fires of Smithfield,
and to re-enact in Ireland the murderous and perfidious
scenes of 1641 and 1798.
Your committee likewise does not hesitate to add, that it
is owing mainly (under Divine superintendence) to the in-
strumentality/of Protestant Associations, that public atten-
tion has been directed, and the public mind enlightened more
or less as to the principles and the working, the objects and
the instruments of Popery within this empire, by the pro-
duction of well-authenticated documents and,facts. The
establishment of these facts as to the pressure of Popery on
its helpless victims, together with the discovery of the uu-
scriptural and otherwise dangerous principles contained in
these documents, involve in our minds imperative obliga-
tions—first to defend the privileges we enjoy, and which are
so- deservedly dear to ourselves; and then " the love of
Christ constrained' us" to go forth amongst our oppressed
brethren, to invite them to come and see, and share the
great things the Lord hath done for us. Such is the object
aimed at, and the course pursued, by our Protestant Associ-
ation—to acquaint our itoinish lellow-countrymen with their
noblest birthright, as men. as Britons,, and as Christians,
and to secure them in the exercise of it—in the study of the
Bible, given by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, the record
of his Father's love, " which maketh wise unto salvation,
through faith that is in Christ Jesus."
In furtherance of all which objects (and this leads to the
proceedings of the year that is past) your committee are able
to state, that very many useful tracts and handbills have been
circulated, that a petition to parliament has been prepared,
for enquiry into the laws affecting the Romish College of
Maynooth, with upwards of 20,000 signatures attached.
That the Protestant Sentinel, after having been conducted
for twelve months by your association, has recently, with a
view to its increased efficiency, been placed in the hands of
Mr. Perris, bookseller, and your committee would beg to
recommend it to public support, as a means of much good.
There are other indirect ways in which your committee feels:
the association to have been serviceable, even though they
cannot particularize. Such as promoting and facilitating the
formation of associations in other places, and lending aid (es-
pecially through the indefatigable and well-directed exertions
of your zealous agent, Mr. Crisp) in various ways to every
effort for the advancement of Protestant truth, the main-
tenance of Protestant principle, or the furtherance of every
movement in support of our Protestant institutions civil and
religious. The useful operations of your association, are at
this moment only limited by the want of sufficient funds to
justify the enlargement of them.
On these grounds your committee is confident, in renewing
its appeal to the Protestant feeling and Christian love of their
well-tried_ friends and staunch supporters, nay mere, they
even venture to suggest the necessity for increased contribu-
tion, inasmuch as the occasion demands increased exertion.
What the association has hitherto been able to accomplish,
is proof that " our labour is not in vain in the Lord," while
the vast amount of what yet remains undone loudly calls for
continued and augmented efforts, reminding us at once of
the command and the promise, " Let us not be weary in
well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."
The Rev. Fr.EnEaiCK PARRY, of St. Clement's, Wind-
sor, then rose to move that the report be adopted, and
printed, and circulated under the direction of the committee,
and to propose the committee for the ensuing year. He
said,—Mr. Chairman and fellow-christians, if, in proposing
this resolution, I adopt a very common but a very natural
exordium to addresses on occasions of this kind—if I say
that I have peculiar pleasure in moving this resolution ; I can
say so with perfect sincerity and truth. But I should be
travelling beyond the boundary of truth were I to say that
that pleasure is without alloy. Unalloyed pleasure is per-
haps rarely the portion of man in his present imperfect exist-
ence. It is enough for the Christian to know, that hereafter
his joy shall be as perfect as pure—that pain shall be remem-
bered only as that which is passed away forever, and remem-
bered to enhance and heighten the present bliss, and that his
pleasure shall be as the full rich sunshine, over which no pas-
sing cloud shall ever cast the gloom of its shadow for a single
moment. If I cannot say that my pleasure on this occasion
is unalloyed—if I say that I feel pain as well as pleasure
in proposing that this resolution be adopted, I de-
sire that it may be distinctly understood that this does
not arise from any doubt on my mind with regard to the
scriptural principles on which this association is based, the
justice of the cause on which it is embarked, or the imoera-
tive necessity which called it into existence. (Hear.) It is
the conviction I cordially entertain upon these points that
forms the source of the gratification 1 feel in taking a part
in your proceedings this day. Yet here I am bound to say,
my pleasure is not unattended by the alloy. When I reflect
on the importance of the cause which I advocate, when I
consider the magnitude of the interests at stake, 1 cannot
but feel a repressing, a painful,sense of my own incompetence
to do justice to the task assigned Me.- But there is a pleasure
—a pleasure which I trust may be indulged without any tinc-
ture of legality, and Pharisaic leaven, in an honest attempt
to discharge, however imperfectly, what we feel to be a plain
and palpable duty, and in reference -to which we are bat
yielding a reverential homage, a true obedience, to the
voice of conscience. (Cries of " hear, hear.") St. Paul
himself, who held in abhorrence any feeling of a legal
character, who repudiated with fervent and indignant zeal
every self-righteous principle, rejoiced in the testimony of
his conscience. " Our rejoicing," he says, "is this, the
testimony of our conscience." And it is well remarked by
an old Divine, that " there is no music like that of the bird
in the bosom -when it sings sweetly." I should have done
violence to my conscience, I should have been actuated by an
utter disregard of its suggestions, and in complete defiance
of its dictates, had I permitted my own felt inferiority to the
other advocates of this great cause, had I permitted any
feeling or consideration whatever to deter me, when requested
to move this resolution, from meeting that request with a
prompt and unhesitating acquiescence. (Cheers.) I dared
not shrink from the opportunity thus afforded me of early
and plainly, on coming to reside among you, taking my place
beneath the banner of this association, enlisting in the same
glorious cause, embarking, in the same gallant vessel, enrol-
ling myself among those who through evil report and good
report are discharging a plain scriptural duty in contending
for the faith once delivered to the saints. (Cheers.) The
truth and the principles implied and involved in that com-
mon but frequent expression the " faith," I find in my
Bible. I find them also in the articles of that beloved
and venerated church which I have ex animo subscribed.
I find them again in your Association, formed for the defence
of those identical truths and principles; and, therefore, of
your association I ex anitno subscribe myself a member.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) My feelings, as 1 have said, are
of a mingled character in proposing this resolution. If I
have pleasure for the reasons I have stated, how can I but
feel pain when I consider the nature of one of its announce-
ments? How can I but feel pain, how can you but sympathise
with me in the feeling, when we learn that the support given
to the Protestant Association of Liverpool by the Protestant
public of .Liverpool is so inadequate to its wants, and so far
from commensurate to its objects? Surely that object has
not been fully appreciated ! (Hear, hear.) Surely it has
not been fairly considered by the Protestant public of Liver-
pool at large ! It is an object calculated, one might imagine,
to thaw the ice of indifference itself, and to kindle even apathy
itself into a glow of energetic ardour. (Cheers.) If
" the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare"—
if in proportion to the strength of the enemy we have to
grapple with should be our ardour and energy, the intensity
of our interest and the vigour of our exertion, then is the cir-
sumstance in every peint of view deeply to be deplored, that
in a town in which there is no deficiency of energy, of spirit,
of effort, of liberality for:the prosecution of other objects, au
association with such objects as this should be crippled in its

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Awn and wealth, is somewhat akin to the encourage,
oent given to literature by a certain wealthy individual,
vho, on being remonstrated with, and told that a person
if his ample means ought to give- something for 'the
iteouragement of literature, said, " I do; I join a friend of
nine in taking every week the Penny Magazine." (Cheers
ind laughter.) But while feeling pain at this announce-
there is another circumstance operating on nay mind,
,vith still greater weight than even the deficiency of our
rands, and that is, that there should exist a nei:essity, a great,
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in urgent necessity for such an association at an. is mu.
Have .more than three centuries elapsed since,.by the provi-
lence of God, the light of the blessed reformation visited our
land, and is our national estimate of the blessings of the re-
rormation so low, are our national principles so loose, is our
sense of the mercy of God in the reformation so slight, are
oar steps taking so retrograde a direction,-when, after the
experience of three centuries, our path ought to be as the
shining light, that shineth inure and more into the perfect
day, that it is become necessary to organise and establish
Protestant associations ? Is this the boasted march of
mind? (Great applause.) But we find this necessity
denied. I will cite a witness for its existence, one who holds
a very high rank among the master minds, and who stands
still higher among the men of God in the present day—the
Rev. Henry Melville : " I cannot," he says, " put away
the persuasion that there has been amongst Protestants a
growing ignorance and indifference with regard to points in
dispute between the Reformed church and the Papal, and a
strengthening opinion that the two, after all.-difter in little
that is vital. And their degeneracy -of Protestantism has
given encouragement to Popery ; so that the false system
against which our fathers rose manfully up, and in expelling
which they perilled substance and life, is putting forth tokens
of strength and expansion." I believe this witness is true. -
And if the fact be so,—and I believe it would be much easi,er
to deny than to disprove it,—then you have a demonstration
of the necessity that has called Protestant associations into
existence. Why, if it be a mere fancy and delusion of Mr.
Melville and others. that there has been this degeneracy, in
the first place, of Protestantism, how are we to account for the
mitigated language and the moderated tone now so common in
reference to that system against which our forefathers protest-
ed, and signed the protest with their blood, and in reference to
nine of the most bigoted and sanguinary adherents of the
(Hear.) I will not occupy your time by bringing
forward a multiplicity of proofs. 1 will advert to a single
and very simple one. It is becoming the fashion to designate
Queen Mary as " the calumniated Mary." Two instances
have very recently come under my observation. In one.
neither the author nor his book possess sufficient moral
weight to justify much importance being attached to it. The
other occurs in a sermon preached at Oxford, by one over
whose hallucination it is impossible for those who bear in re-
collection his earlier and better days, not to sigh with pecu-
liar sorrow. The calumniated Mary ! After all, then, his-
tory has proved what it has been asserted to be, an old al-
manac, and about as veracious in its records as some modern
almanacs are in their predictions. (A laugh.) Even Hume
himself, no very staunch friend to Protestantism—witness
his proneness to sneer at Luther and the Reformation—even
the infidel Hume grossly calumniates Mary when he asserts
that Cranmer, and Latimer, and Ridley. and Hooker,
..and
others,—(hear, hear, and cheers.)—died at the stake
for their Protestant principles. (Hear.) It must be, that
instead of dying for the truth. they died calmly in their beds.
or in sonic other way than that said to have been ordered by
Mary. Or if they died as described in the reign of Mary,
Mary had nothing at all to do with their deaths. Oh, Mary
did not sign the death warrants. She in no way sanctioned
the persecution that bound the faggots and kindled the tire,
and numbered the men of GA among the dead. In what
profound ignorance must Mary have been of what was pass-
ing in her dominions ! (Hear.) In what profound indiffer-
ence to the condition•of her subjects must the calumniated
Mary, have been reposing ! (Hear.) Still we have the awk-
ward statements of history exhibiting her very much in the
light in which the Word of God represents the church of
which she was so warm a partisan—" Drunk with the blood
of the saints". (Loud applause.) It is incumbent on those
who speak of her in these softened terms to refute the plain
statements of history, and to give us themselves the round,
unvarnished tale of Mary'S reign. (1-fear, hear.) There is
another point to which we are led by Mr. Melville, and that
is, the tokens of expansion and strength which he represents
Popery as putting forth. We are assured by many that,
even if the fact be so, there is no necessity for protesting
whatever—that the spirit and isharacter of Popery are quite
different from what they were in the dark ages—that it largely
partakes of the benign influence of the enlightened days in
which we live—that it is as gentle as the dove, and as harm-
less as the lamb. (Hear, and cheers.) We have no confi-
dence in the justice of these conclusions, because we have no
faith in the truth of the premises. But, waiving for a mo-
ment the altered character and spirit of Popery, and confining
ourselves to the strength and expansion it is putting forth,
we find the fact peremptorily denied. If there be any truth
in the old, well-known adage, that " none are so deaf as
those who wont hear," is it not equally true that none are so
blind as those who are determined not to see ? (A laugh.)
And if they cannot see that Popery, from whatever cause,
has of late years acquired fresh spirit, fresh life; fresh vigour,
and new strength, 1 can only say that they must be as igno- •
rant of of what is passing around them as the calumniated
Mary herself was. (Laughter.) But what confidence can
we have in those who have already established their
reputation as false prophets—who formerly spoke " peace,
peace!" and 10, in the event there was no peace ? They told
us most confidently, before the passing of that measure
which has given that fresh spirit and life to Popery, which
has infused that new vigour into it, that the fears we ex-
pressed
.with regard to the effects of that measure were per-
fectly groundless ; that they would be of the most beneficial
character; that it would be a measure that would tranquilse
Ireland, neutralise Popery, and instead of imparting to it
new strength, would render it completely innocuous. (Hear.)
I remember being in company with one who always delivered
his opinion ex cathedra, who pronounced it with oracular
emphasis and more than oracular perspicuity, and with as
much of truth and infallibility as oracular sounds sometimes
embody. All the apprehensions which I and others ex-
pressed, he said, which prove to be absurd and visionary in
the extreme. " You will see by the event," he added, " and
you will all he ashamed of yourselves." Mr. Marsh, of
Birmingham, replied, in his plain, good-humoured way, " At
present, sir. we are ashamed of you." (Cheers, and great
laughter.) Who proved the true prophets ? The evens
has too plainly decided the point. Would that oar
predictions had not been verified ! We could well afford
the laugh which those who took the opposite view would have
enjoyed at our expense. We should have been most thank-
ful for their triumph. To know that our predictions have
been verified—that our tears and forebodings have been re-
alised—is a poor consolation. It cannot even minister to our
self-complacency. It required no remarkable acuteness of
discernment, no signal depth of sagacity, to foresee and fore-
tell ail that our fears expressed, and all that the event has
unhappily realised. (Cheers.) We assert,. then, the necessity
—the imperative necessity —of Protestant Associations.
When all that is vital in ProtestantisM is. assailed—when all
that is worthy in Protestantism is disparaged—when all that
is noble in Protestantism is vituperated—when Protestantism
is wounded. in the house of her friends—(hear and cheers)—
when those who profess and call themselves her admirers and
adherents stand prepared to throw open every gate of the
citadel to her avowed and inveterate enemies—it is high time
for those who so glory in the name of Protestantism—who
prize her principles, and love her truth—should rally round
her standard, and unite in her defence. (Much applause.)
It has been justly stated in the report that these associations
are of a defensive character. They have, as you are aware,
been frequently represented and reviled as of an aggressive
character. Suppose they had been, what would have been
the nature of their aggressiveness ? However misrepresented
and maligned, we contend that it would have been the ag-
gressiveness of genuine benevolence and true philanthropy'
impelled by scriptural principles, and flowing in scriptural
channels,—the aggressiveness of tender compassion for our
Roman Catholic brethren, affectionate zeal for their best
interests, and fervent love for their immortal souls. (Cheers.)
And if taunted with our aggressiveness, we say, as well aim
the shafts of our invective, and ridicule against the founders
and supporters of infirmaries for their aggressiveness in rela-
tion to the sick and needy. With as much justice and pro-
priety the Samaritan might have been reproached- for hey
aggressiveness in regard to the poor man who was wounded
on his way from Jerusalem to Jericho, by carrying to him
his oil and wine, and binding up his wounds. Had Protes!.
cant associations been thus aggressive, we should have had no
reason to blush. We have rather reason to blush that tneY
have not been more aggressive—that they were unknown till
the necessity—the urgent necessity—was apparent for erect-
ing them as bulwarks in defence of those principles to which,
under God, we owe our civil privileges and liberties, to which
we are indebted for our emancipation from that yoke of bon-
dage under which our forefathers, in common with all
Christendom, so long groaned, from which we derive all our
consolation and peace in life, and to which we look for all our
hope and quiet in death. (Cheers.) For the final issue of
the conflict between light and darkness we have no fears.
Great is the truth, and it will prevail. Not that our confi-
dence rests even in the greatness of the truth itself. but on
the sure word of God, and the Almighty arm of his power.
Here, then, we cast anchor. But at the same time it be-
hoves us to remember, while we repose in exclusive and un-
limited confidence on the word and working of the Lord of
all power and might, it would be-the pride of presumption,
not the province of faith, to sit inactive and supine while
our good Protestant principles are assailed on the
tight hand and on the left. (Applause.) Those principles,
I will observe in conclusion, have lost nothing of their im-
portance—nothing of their value, since our Cranmers, and
Latimers, and Ridleys, and the noble army of martyrs,
jeopardied their lives unto the death in their defence ; and
if, adopting the liberal sentiments so current in the present
day, we think Protestant Associations unnecessary, or even
worse than useless—imprudent and improper, we may dis-
cover, when too late, that we have nothing left to defend
that is worth defending. (Much applause.)
The Rev. HuGst STOWELL rose to second the resolution.
and was greeted with protracted applause. He said,—I
thank you, my Christian friends, for the fervent and flatter-
ing reception you have given me. I met with a welcome
from several of my reverend friends, on the score of my un-
expected appearance among them, because rumour would
have it that I was more fit for a sick chamber than for a pub-
lic assembly. I scarcely know how such a report obtained,
currency, except that the wish was father to the thought, and
that some of my Roman Catholic opponents deem my efforts
sufficiently important to wish that I was fairly and quietlY
out of the way. (A laugh.) No : I thank God I call ecb°
the words of the noble reformer of other times, who, when
he was supposed to be in the act of dying, was surrounded by
base Jesuits, who whispered he was gone. He suddenlY
sprang up and exclaimed, " I shall not die but live, and de-
clare the evil doings of the Jesuits." (Loud cheers.)
thank God I have a sufficient measure of strength and energy
left, and I trust I shall always consecrate, as long as theY
need, a large portion of it to the hallowed cause for which
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our Protestant Associations are founded. (Applause.) And
if even there were a period in their annals when it became
them not to retire from their posts, or to be wanting to their
God, their country, and their church, assuredly that
period is the present. There is much at the present
epoch to call for thanksgiving to God, and congratulations ut
each other, and of our beloved Protestant land. I need not
remind you, for you have it daily in your minds and memo-
ries, that we live again under a Protestant governme,nti
(Great cheering.) And I feel my Christian friends as 1,
breathed more freely, and addressed you as an unfetterea
Englishmen, when we are no longer ruled by a set of ci
Pu,P
pets, the moving strings of which were held by a Routh'
company. (Cheers.) There are not wanting, in the acces-
sion of a Conservative administration, hopeful and cheeriq
features. For when we find that our prime minister, as vie
very first act on assuming office, throws down the gauntle
of defiance to that unprincipled agitator who long held rh-e
rod of terror over the trembling backs of the late adinini':
tration—(loud cheers)—whene find that he treats Oa'
agitator with the disdain and contempt his character and eon:
duct have so richly earned, and which he would have nae'
with years ago, if England had been actuated by the
toned honourable feeling and moral spirit which once dia,,Pea9"
guished her among the nations of the earth—with that thi
dain with which a man of honour and honesty ought to tr
the man who has prostituted his character and violated e very
tie that should hind a man as a member of civil and 103,11
society. (Cheers.) There is another. feature which ulaY/%12,
animate our Protestant hearts. There is not, so far asloud
aware, a single papist in the cabinet. (Hear, hear. en; he
cheers.) Not one in the p brivy council, utterly unfitted
must be, to be the counsellor of a Protestant Queen, er
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is bound by an oath of allegi o
ence to the Italian usurper
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our petty state. We cannot but bail it with a burst f up"
feigned. joy, moreover, that in the • domestic
Queen there is remark Drs Tat.
trade not a single Romanist. [A Tat.
made by the chairman.] I Stand corrected. ur
circle of oure