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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER X
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He calls the quarrel with the Parliament a "gran disgrazia." He repeatedly hints that the King might, by a constitutional policy, have obtained much for the Roman Catholics, and that the attempt to relieve them illegally is likely to bring great calamities on them.] [Footnote 56: Fra Paulo, tib.

vii.; Pallavicino, lib.xviii.cap.

15.] [Footnote 57: This was the practice of his daughter Anne; and Marlborough said that she had learned it from her father--Vindication of the Duchess of Marlborough.] [Footnote 58: Down to the time of the trial of the Bishops, James went on telling Adda that all the calamities of Charles the First were "per la troppa indulgenza."-- Despatch of 1688.] [Footnote 59: Barillon, Nov.

16/26.

1685; Lewis to Barillon, Nov.
28/Dec.


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