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    reverend prebendary from all his difficulties by rewarding his exertions with a gcriden prebend , or a richer deanery , it would occasion na surprise if , in that event , the worthy ecclesiastic should , like his father before him , leave the

    orthodox Hebrew church at iElia , together with our holy brethren the primitive saints of Jerusalem , who so nobly bartered the rights of their ancestors for the privileges of the Roman colony , to shift for themselves , till some

    other champion , from motives either of generosity or prudence , shall again undertake the cause . 1 am , Sir , Your obedient servant , T . BELSHAM .

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    Sketch of English Protestant Persecution . —Letter VIII . Sir , Oct . 18 , 1813 . My last letter was concluded ( p . 313 } with Holli rigs head ' s

    description of Queen Elizabeth as " a governor that promoted liberty of conscience , " I then expected much sooner to have inquired into the exactness of the old historians

    character of the queen . This phrase liberty of conscience , has had * at different times , various significations , not unlike the liberty of the press which at some periods comprehended a right to censure , and at others was limited

    strictly to the expression of panegjfric * Thus- libek- ty of conscience tfro often designed only the liberty to Worship according to the con-Jcierice , teal or pretended , of the prfoiCte or power in possession * That such tvcis the case in the reigtt of Elisabeth we knov / on tfafc authority of her fitecrefca *^

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    Walsingh&m , in his letter to Moa * sieur Crotoy * a Frenchman . "Hq indeed describes it as a principle of the queen ' s government thai Cc consciences are not to be forced , but to be won and reduced , by the fotce of truth , with the aid

    of time , and use of all good means of instruction * " and represents " her majesty " as " utterly disliking the tyranny of Rome , which had used by terror and rigour to settle commandments of men ' s

    faith and consciences . " Yet he applauds the queen , because " a& a princess of great wisdom and magnanimity she suffered but the exercise of one religion . "

    I quote these passages from Walsinghara ' s letter , given at length by Burnet ( ii . 38 S ) as translated from the French . Th ^ bishop did not perceive or perhaps declined to expose the absurdity

    into which this ' * great and wise secretary ' had fallen , by praising the queen ' s tenderness for the consciences of her subjects , which ended in pe / jaiitting but the ewer * cise of one religion .

    Burnet was a free and manly historian of his own times , yet too often appeared as a partisan in his < 4 History of the Reformation of the Church of England . " Almost , if not altogether , silent re * specting the severities by which that reformation was established

    under Elizabeth ^ he describes " the queen * as * ' of her own Bar lure merciful , ! because Bfonher was permitted to live , and the rest of the deprived bishops wefre oriljr

    spoiled of their revenues , debarred the free exercise of their Teligkto , 44 in prison fot a little while * ' * and then subjected for the remairiw tier of their Jives Id ^ more . easy

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    Sketch of English Protestant Persecution * —* &etter Vlll . 731

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 731, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/39/