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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER VIII
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[297] On the day after his arrival, the Fellows of Magdalene College were ordered to attend him.

When they appeared before him he treated them with an insolence such as had never been shown to their predecessors by the Puritan visitors.

"You have not dealt with me like gentlemen," he exclaimed.

"You have been unmannerly as well as undutiful." They fell on their knees and tendered a petition.

He would not look at it.


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