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    Essays on the Balance of P&tfr&r , &c . 8 vo . 1701 . The last piece consists of Secret Articles agreed upon between Cromwejl and Cardinal Mazarin , " in

    addition to their **' Public Treaty /' which «• bears date the 3 d of November , 1655 . " The following are the concluding articles .

    ART . VI . < c Qn ' en toutes les villes et bourgs de « e royaume , ou il y aura des havres , et ties ports , la nation AngJoise y aura commerce , et y pourra faire ba ^ tir des temples pour 1 ' exereise de la religion , et sera perniis aux Francois de la

    religion , qui y seront aux environs , d ' y faire prescher en Francois . " That , in all tne cities and towns of the kingdom where there are harbours and ports , the English nation shall

    carry on their commerce , and may erect temples for the exercise of the [ Pro 4 testant ) religion , and that the French of the religion residing in the neighbourhood may have preaching there in French . >

    ! ART . VII . ¦ - > f * Qtte Jes edits de Janvier et de Nantes seront executez selon leurs formes et ^ teneurs et totate la nation Angioise d&tnexxrerk caution pour Texecution * les . dfte * % iits . " - '

    That kthe edicts of January and of Nantes . shall b £ executed according to thei * full import , and that the whole English natrou---i » Wftl 4- be a perpetual guarantee ' ifQXv ^ e execution of those

    edicts . •'• ; . » . } ? : > . " « ; ' ¦ , ( - ' ¦ > A j am at a lo $ s to know what was trie edict of Janu&nj , That description is not singular , for Sully ( I . < J 0 ) narnea thjp edict in 1585 , in favour of the t ^ jp edict in 1585 , jn ravour oMae

    jypague ,, " the famous , edict of July . " 'j lie cdictof January mi g ht be the same as " the ecjict . of 63 Articles * in 1576 , fe y which , aqcor ^ ing to a note in Sully % ( f . 49 ) ^ jh ^ mb ers of justice , composed equally of Protestants and Catholics , were granted in the principal parliaments . '* ' The edict of Nantes was finally verified in 15 ' < & .

    v iThc memory of Cromwell has been treated w ^ ith no small injustice respecting that transaction of the Protectorate , efvwhich ^ theserqaoted articles farm a pdrt , Hwtarian ^> and f biographers , so ^ kr as 1 hav ^ tb ^ e ^ al ) le / to ^ O 8 erve ^ have teen * content to ; ibijmv , i > n > w train , Conajuuog tlie ^ Hro ^ cttMrUor ^ a ynpposed sacrifice of the permanent . Uiietegts-jof Ko ^ M ^^^ J ^ ^^ rhe xc ^ Mptiriry

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    with France rather than with Spain ' Had these censurers read the public * treaty , as it i ^ given in A General Col lectern , 1732 , ( III 149 ) tran slated , probably , from Milton ' s Latin , they must , I think , have at least described t

    » asf displaying a manly style , neither haughty nor submissive , providing for the fair reciprocations of commerce and , if not preventing war , designing to shelter the . people on both sides from being immediately overwhelmed by its lvorrors- * And if such historians

    and biographers had sought till they found these Secret Articles , which ; I apprehend , because secret , were allowed to be originally , in French , they could scarcel y have denied their commendation to the Protector

    Nor is the praise inconsiderable of having placed his nation singularl y eminent on the page of history , among those whose power has been Exerted t

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    Sir , Hackney , July 6 , 1816 . IT has often been ignorantly stated and as ignoTantly believed , that the governments > of the < Peninsula have always made it a ^ p art of their po licy td

    prevent the circulation of the Scriptures ; The assertion has been repeated in a singular letter from one of your ebrits * ^ p oDdents , ( p . 336 ) who * is marvellously fond of expatiating . I beg leare tq state a few' facts connected with » th »

    subject , merel y premising that general error prevails as to the biblical literature of Spain and Portugal . > Before the earl y part of the I 3 tfo centciry , many copies of the Scriptiir ^ must have existed in the vulgar tongae } for we find King Jayme of Arragon ; in 1033 , prohibiting their circulation ; - ;¦;

    In l ^ CfO , Alfonso the Wise otU&ed * translation of the Bible to be mad ^ 'irito ^ Castilian ( Spanish ) and theorigiflatMS . vet exists in the £ scurial ;——and ffbOuli the same period King I > enir , of Pop * tugal , caused the sacred books to be ren ^ dered into Portugueze , of tvhich work , too , ; a copy is still preserved . In the following century John I . engaged the most learned men of his time ) to tran ^

    late the Gospels , the Acts of The Aposties ; feitid the JEpiattoa ^ f Paialv ahd him ^ self translated the Pkilms into > iN l « n * guage of his a&ud&fyi h $ i < g 2 i& thb&tiw 6 two crtbdr sferiiaiis of tbeOW ^ es tatnenr wjbrcoitadfl ^ bdJiidG ^ tfd tidlatrfe ^ W oit j ^ Act 9 ,- £ p » tte 6 vimitd Apocalj pto »»*

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    ^ 6 " Editions df ' the Bible , in Spain and" Portugal .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/24/