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62 every artifice to draw into their own pures monies from all parts of Europe. The weak Ina, one of the tyrants of the Saxon Heptarchy in England, was the firt Monarch that ubmitted, in his pilgrimage to Rome, to pay St. Peter's penny (equivalent very near to a French crown) for every houe in his dominions. The whole Iland oon follow'd his example; England became inenibly one of the Pope's provinces, and the holy Father us'd to end from time to time his Legates thither to levy exorbitant taxes. At lat King John deliver'd up by a public intrument, the Kingdom of England to the Pope, who had excommunicated him; but the Barons not finding their account in this reignation, dethron'd the wretched King John and eated Lewis, father to St. Lewis King of France in his place. However they were oon weary of their new Monarch, and accordingly oblig'd him to return back to France. that the Barons, the Bihops, and the Popes, all laid wate England, where all were for ruling; the mot merous