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84 contrives to keep out of sights and throws out the other Court to amuse and bewilder the reader. Bat of the Book. In case there was the least real ground-work for this vile book^ which I cannot find there was/ — it possible to believe such ignorance sincere ? even the Protestant prefctces would satisfy any ra^ tional nuiii^^^ the money paid into the papal Chancery could be nothing else but the feee of office, on restoring certain culprits to the civil priDileges which they had forfeited by theit crimes.*' If Dr. Milner were reaUy ignorant, to write in this dogmatic way would be dis«> honest ; because he must be sensible of his in* competence to decide: and if he knew the truths his delinquency was still greater. But who^ that^ for a moment^ glances upon the ca- talogue set before him in this pubhcation, tm. persuade himself, that the articles express nothing but innocent fees of office? Why not then fairly published? Why, as is af- firmed, condemned ? Why was C. d'Espense, poor scrupulous ignoramus I so shocked and indignant ? It is in vain, then, to conceal the dilemma into which th^ champions of Rome are brought on the subject of this iniquity of their churcb»