Note 224 — PART II TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.
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A common device in religious and political conflicts. See Strype, in support of this instance.—W. W. 1822.
Probably the reference is to the case of Cussin, a Dominican Friar. He pretended to be a Puritan minister; and, in his devotions, assumed the airs of madness. See in Strype's The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, vol. i. chaps, xiii. and xvi.—Ed.