Note 843 — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 4)
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The oaths being dispensed with seems to imply that some of them were catholics, or that way inclined. Their places and new honours, however, they did not long retain; for about a fortnight before the arrival of the prince of Orange they were all in their turn displaced, and the old ones were restored: only Mr. Cyprian Anderson was readmitted and chosen mayor. Of this event one of our old MS. histories gives the following account—