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12 succession, concluded that there would be no way to save this nation from great trouble but for the Duke to resign, which we thought he would hardly do, being governed so much by his priests. My Lord Feversham told me that he had sent the Duke word that none of his friends would help him but himself, meaning the changing his religion, which, if he did it thoroughly, would dash all his enemies.