The Puritans Or the Church Court And Parliament of England During the Reigns
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P. 95. Camden, 148. Butler, I. 349. Ch. XIII. ] THE PAPALINS. OG5 The queen " counted the hull but parchment, or a water-bubble, " — "as a vain crack of words that made a noise only " ; and took pains to counteract it by laws, only so far as she saw, or thought she saw, that it instigated and emboldened her "bad subjects to work mischief"^ Early in the morning of the 15th of May, a copy of the bull was discovered, " hung like a squib " upon the palace-gate of the Bishop of London, near the cath...edral church of St. Paul. " The rack " was soon put in play, and a confession extorted, that John Felton, "a gentleman of large property and considerable acquirements, but of an ungovernable temper, " was privy to the act. Tliis " lewd person " was -immediately arrested; boldly confessed that he had set up the bull, and in August was hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason.^ Though the majority of the English Catholics denied the validity of the Papal act against the authority of their queen, they still regarded with reverence its spiritual censures.
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