Note 101 — LETTER L.
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The Name of this Prelate was Barkman Wuytiers. He died in 1733, at no very great Age, with the Character of a Man of the strictest Virtue. The Court of Rome, and the Jesuits, conceiv’d great Hopes after his Death. The latter, after having been banished out of the United Provinces by very severe Laws; employed the Mediation of a certain Court to succeed in their Design of getting an Apostolical Vicar accepted in the Place of the Archbishop of Utrecht; but this Design, which was look’d upon as dangerous to the Liberty of the Republic, miscarry’d, and the Deceased was succeeded by Theodore van der Kroon.