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 602 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. . [CH. 67 Powers had looked on in indifference, and every one of themselves who had dared to move in the cause was either dead, in exile, or in the Tower. The rack and the quartering knife were terrible ; but more terrible, more crushing, more wearing to heart and spirit, was the perpetual disappointment of their hopes. They sunk under a fatality which they called the will of God, and concluded that for some inscrutable cause it was his pleasure that heresy should prevail. ND OF VOL. XI. RICHARD CLAV <fe SONS, LIMITED, LONDON & BUNGAY.