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_ Solicitor-general Finch ... was presently after turned out. And Powis succeeded him, who was a compliant young aspiring lawyer, though in himself he was no ill natured man.--_Swift._ Sir Thomas Powis, a good dull lawyer. P. 670. _Burnet,_ speaking of the power claimed for the King to dispense with the sacramental test, says:--It was an overturning the whole government, ... to say that laws, ... where one of the penalties was an incapacity, which by a maxim of law cannot be taken away even by a pardon, should at the pleasure of the prince be dispensed with: A fine was also set by the Act on offenders, but not given to the King, but to the informer, which thereby became his. So that the King could no more pardon that, than he could discharge the debts of the subjects, and take away property.--_Swift._ Wrong reasoning. P. 672. _Burnet._ Intimations were everywhere given, that the King would not have them [Dissenters], or their meetings, to be disturbed. Some of them began to grow insolent upon this shew of favour.--_Swift._ The whole body of them grew insolent, and complying to the King. P. 675. _Burnet._ Sancroft lay silent at Lambeth. He seemed zealous against Popery in private discourse: But he was of such a timorous temper, and _so set on the enriching his nephew,_ that he shewed no sort of courage.--_Swift._ False as hell. P. 681. _Burnet,_ referring to the revived national zeal against Popery, says:--The Episcopal clergy were in many places so sunk into sloth and ignorance, that they were not capable of conducting this zeal: ... But the Presbyterians, though they were now freed from the great severities they had long smarted under, yet expressed on all occasions their unconquerable aversion to Popery.--_Swift._ Partial dog! P. 682. _Burnet._ He made the Earl of Tyrconnell Lord Lieutenant.--_Swift._ Lord deputy. P. 688. _Burnet._ Nor were the clergy more diligent in their labours among their people, in which respect it must be confessed that the English clergy are the most remiss of any.--_Swift._ Civil that. P. 690. _Burnet,_ speaking of King William's character, says:--he had no vice, but of one sort, in which he was very _cautious_ and _secret_.--_Swift._ It was of two sorts--_male_ and _female_--in the _former_ he was neither cautious nor secret. P. 691. _Burnet,_ in a conversation with the Prince of Orange at The Hague, (1686):--When he found I was in my opinion for toleration, he said, that wa
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