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 her son, or no.—Whereunto not only the temporal lawyers—but the church-lawyers—the juris-consulti—the juris-prudentes—the civilians—the advocates—the commissaries—the judges of the consistory and prerogative courts of Canterbury and York, with the master of the faculties, were all unanimously of opinion, That the mother was not of kin to her child—

And what said the Duchess of Suffolk to it? said my uncle Toby.

The unexpectedness of my uncle Tobys question, confounded Kysarcius more than the ablest advocate—He stopp'd a full minute, looking in my uncle Tobys face without replying