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396 watched the storm with anxious agitation; on the King's return to London, Te Deums were offered in the churches, as if for his deliverance from some extreme and imminent peril. The Nun of Kent on this great occasion was admitted to conferences with angels. She denounced the meeting, under celestial instruction, as a conspiracy against Heaven. The King, she said, but for her interposition, would have proceeded, while at Calais, to his impious marriage; and God was so angry with him, that he was not permitted to profane with his unholy eyes the blessed sacrament. 'It was written in her revelations,' says the statute of her attainder, 'that