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      when you came to the Crown?

Anſw. I began to exert my Native, of Pride, Avarice, and ; and took care to remove all to my riſing Glory; I firſt  my Faith to the Hugonots, and rewarded their Fidelity with a  Perſecution.

Queſt. Which are your Majeſty's Virtues?

Anſ: To oppreſs my own Subjects, threaten all my Neighbours, to  all Europe with my unjuſt Wars,  increaſe my Dominions by a Deigning Peace, to cover Univerſal Monarchy, as much as I did the  Natherlands; to keep no Oath  than my own intereſt, and to  wholly Govern'd by the ſecret Councils of Madam Maintenon.

Q How does your Majeſty raiſe your Taxes.

A. By the Virtue and Force of Arbitrary Power, in which I have ſeveral Methods, to Recoin my Money, and take a Crown out of every Pound; to erect new Courts and Offices, and put