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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER VI
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Those which may still be found in our great libraries make up a mass of near twenty thousand pages.

[118] The Roman Catholics did not yield the victory without a struggle.

One of them, named Henry Hills, had been appointed printer to the royal household and chapel, and had been placed by the King at the head of a great office in London from which theological tracts came forth by hundreds.

Obadiah Walker's press was not less active at Oxford.

But, with the exception of some bad translations of Bossuet's admirable works, these establishments put forth nothing of the smallest value.


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