Note 304 — Chapter XI
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Tallard, the French Ambassador, writing home, says the Catholic religion “is here tolerated more openly than it was even in the time of King Charles II., and it seems evident that the King of England has determined to leave it in peace, in order to secure his own.”
“I hear from Calais of priests coming over every day, and here they get into the herd, so that it is hard to distinguish them.”—Vernon Cor., ii. 193.