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    fd errcl i ! n the sphrit . tie sotifc ftHinfl tbttt ffre pbwev o ¥ Irfc-Ch ^ plains to worry a heretic ^ tv # s line * ^ fr # l to t-ite httw rapidly advancing

    ttiiscbief . As ' a pe'rsectitol ' , be € tete ¥ rrm * e& to " go on unfto pertectidn , '* and , like * & eivfl tyrant , began to cry ' "havoc , and kit slip ( foe dogs of tvar . *'

    Gurnet ( ii . 105 . ) says , that u on l-fre T 2 £ h of April , 1549 , thefe was & -cotlJpl&iiU'brolTghi to the council dbtet , With ihe ^ tt&tigets that were fc&ttje into England , 'some rf the

    A ft&ba £ ti £ t ^ fstiastoft come bver , salid ^ ve < re < f ^ etriirmtmg their errors ^ ahd % nakfag' prosely t ^ s . So ^ totoiriis ^ on wris Ordered toexai rriirie aitd ^ ettrdbfeifter ^ H Anab « plists , heretics , © r-e ^ hteinrters of the Con » mbn Prayer , " sa ^ ffffeitfg /' as Ifeobert Kdbinson remarks , rLett .

    J > . 5 . ) the rights of all the nation to a fancied prerogiative di

    a boy . " Stryjpe ( Mem . ii . 214 ) says , thfat" Arianism now shewed itself so openly mid was in such da&gerbTspreading farther , that rt W&s ' thought 'neCe ^ a ry to suppress it by ti ^ rrlgmere ' tigift tne ^ thodsthan

    seemed agreeable to the mferciful pHntifiles ^ f the professors of the g& ^ speli 99 ^ JTrt- Neither 8 trype nor Bertiet ventured to place this cbtttonssion ^ m ong thei r large collection of records , though the ; cotll ' d not reaih the meanly

    indepHehdetice , bedomitig impartial historians , of protesting against ife inqtrisitof i ^ l ind l ^ afnguinary clauses . Itfs preservefd , to the original latifi j in that great collection of stefte papers , ^ llyttier ' s Fccdera

    (^ V . 181 , ) fn > m whence I Aball gJVe some ^ ctount of it , as the ffrSt Eiigjf&h PXotest ^ nt manifesto a ? ^ % ikti * eKgtotis liberty . f eom ^ idsi on is dated April rs ¦ 1549 , an& aireet ^ d Ho C r ^ n -

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    mfcrthe ar <* hbishbp , seven fci ^ hopSj ( among whom was 'Ridley , *) Brs , Lrhtynrer ahd Rowland Taylor , Sir Thomas Smith , a ^ nd others , ^* Vines ^ ind laymen , ^ mountinrg th the WhoJe to ^ 5 , threeto eormittttfc

    ia quorum . Thfe title ^ expresses th ^ e grafnt of authority to inquire concerning heretical delinquency , l *) t potestdtibus ad inquirertdutti super hceretica , praxtitiitt . The roydl ! boy , ndt ^ he ^ h 12 years of age , is made to de-drare ^ the- duty

    of ttli Chrisrtmn khigs ^ to maintain the Christian fatth ^ j tire 4 LtiQ ^ ntiffc ^ a ^ dnrg Jtheir srubjefcts , but riiotc fcfcpeckilly df bfeis ^ lf , u &&findcr * &f the faith * A ft ^ enl arging on the idea of ptesetmrmg ^ ttiat field < rf the Ghurc * eonrmiitted to firs care

    frona the pernicious seeds of tfatefe ddctrine , tie coniplains of those who are reviving afad instilling into the minds df the ttfde vulgar tlie impious errors df the Anabaptiste and other heretics .

    AH such tbe commissioners at » e directed to search < out , to call for papers in evidence , 'and swear and examine witnesses . Then , should these usual methods not reach -thte

    -urgency of the case , they ftrcem * powered to set tip ^ Protestartt inquisition ; for I fcnow not what to make less of the tfireetioti omnkbus altis viis trt&ctis tt formis quibus meltus et eflicctciUs poteritis ,

    de * &cri # atc * prtmissorum etiam summarid et de plano ^ ac sine strepitu et jigurajudicii , c ognoscendum inquirendum et inx > e $ tigandurn * The recommendatioivespecially to proceed without noise or the forms of

    a court of justice , sine Strcpitu et jigurajudiciiy carries our ihtitt ^ hts to the secret chamber bfanlnqui-Sitor-General , surrdtmtled b y hte familiars . The commissioners * re next di .

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    Skett&tf E « & 8 & fenHe&mt Pm < * cu * i&ii . *~ Ij ? tter IT . « ftS

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/15/