14/29 13 .-- G.] [Footnote 153: Many ages afterwards, Edward J.practised, with great success, the same mode of persecution against the clergy of England. See Hume's History of England, vol.ii.p. 300, last 4to edition.] This edict was scarcely exhibited to the public view, in the most conspicuous place of Nicomedia, before it was torn down by the hands of a Christian, who expressed at the same time, by the bitterest invectives, his contempt as well as abhorrence for such impious and tyrannical governors. His offence, according to the mildest laws, amounted to treason, and deserved death. |