Note 47 — FOOTNOTES:
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I am speaking here on what I heard, in clerical days, from men who were intimate with Manning. Purcell's Life is misleading. The author intended to be candid, but the Jesuits and others made such threats, when it became known what disclosures the book would contain, that he was compelled to omit much. The suppression of truth has greatly injured its historical value.