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pp. 94, 95, where the reader will find directions given for searching after offensive books, wherever they existed, committing them to the flames, and appointing severe order and punishment for such as shall conceal writings of that description. This was part of the scheme to restore in full authority all the old laws of Papal England. I consider myself happy in having an early MS. copy of Parsons's work, of the genuineness of which I believe no doubt can be entertained. The preceding statement may be seen more at length in the Preface to the Literary Policy, pp. xviii.-xxii.
Drs. Douglass, Milner, and others, shewed some good inclination to apply the wholesome severities of the Index to the Reverends, Geddes, Berington, O'Conor, and more, if they had felt less of Protestant awe. See the caustic Letter to the Bishop of Centuriæ; the Preface to Berington's Memoirs of Panzani; the Letters of Columbanus, Morissy, O'croly, &c. We may here subjoin an earlier proof than has already been given of the deference which true subjects of the Church of Rome are expected to pay to her authorised biblical proscriptions. Roger Widdrington, whose. real name was Thomas Preston, was fairly persecuted by his
