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Rh those lands on your courtiers, on your nobles, and your great officers in your army; and then you will be secure of the people." This advice was exactly followed. And, in the protestant monarchies abroad, little more than the shadow of episcopacy is left: but, in the republicks, is wholly extinct.

In England, the reformation was brought in after a somewhat different manner, but upon the same principle of robbing the church. However, Henry VIII, with great dexterity, discovered an invention to gratify his insatiable thirst for blood, on both religions, * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

SIR,

OU must give me leave to complain of a pestilent fellow in my neighbourhood, who is always beating mortar, yet I cannot find he ever builds. In talking he useth such hard words, that I want a druggerman to interpret them. But all is not gold that glisters. A pot he carries to most houses where he visits. He makes his prentice his galley-slave. I wish our lane were purged of him. Yet he pretends to be a cordial man. Every spring his shop is crowded with country-folks; who, by their leaves, in my opinion, help him to do a great deal of  Rh