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 poorly tocked with aints and martyrs, which is forced to adopt uch enormous inners into her calendar, in order to well the number.

to unravel this mytery of (nonene as well as of) iniquity, which has already worked for a long time amongt us; or, at leat, to give the mot probable olution of it; it is to be remembered, that king Charles, this burleque upon ainthip and martyrdom, though o great an oppreor, was a true friend to the Church; o true a friend to her, that he was very well affected towards the Roman Catholics; and would, probably, have been very willing to unite Lambeth and Rome. This appears by his marrying a true daughter of that true mother of harlots; which he did with a dipenation from the Pope, that upreme BISHOP; to whom when he wrote he gave the title of MOST HOLY FATHER. His queen was extremely bigoted to all the follies and upertitions, and to the hierarchy, of Rome; and had a prodigious acendancy over him all his life. It was, in part, owing to this, that he (probably) abetted the maacre of the protetants in Ireland; that he aited in extirpating the French protetants at Rochelle; that he all along encouraged papit, and popihly effected clergymen, in preference to all other perons, and that he upheld that monter of wickednes, ARCH-BISHOP LAUD, and the bihops of his tamp; in all their church-tyranny and diabolical cruelties. In return to his kindnes and indulgence in which repects, they caued many of the