Note 346 — Chapter XLI
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"As if they had been desirous of provoking the Portuguese to some act of violence which might serve as a pretext for carrying into effect the threats which Junot had denounced, they burnt or mutilated the images in the churches, and threw the wafer to be trodden under foot."—Neves, Historia de la Guerra contra Nap., tom. i., p. 196.