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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 42, cont. (p.129) |
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Gendarmery, there was no other trial then I told you; & for their bravery, no true stuffe. You must of necessity have heard often of a Book written against the Popes juris- diction, about three moneths since, by one Richer, a Dr and Syndique of the Sorbonists, which Book hath now been censured by an assembly of the Clergie of this Archbi- shoprick, promoved with so much dili- gence by the Cardinall Peroun, that for this businesse he hath intermitted his replie to the Kings answer, which now he retires to intend seriously: I have not yet had the ho- nour to kisse his Graces hand, though I have received some half-invitations to do it. Richer was first accused to the Parlia- ment, but when it was there required of his delators to insist upon some propositi- ons in his Book, which were either against Scripture, or the Gallican Church, they de- sisted in that pursuit. But in the censure which the Clergie hath made, though it be full of modifications and reservations of the rights of the King, and the Gallican [CW: Chur-] |
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