Note 177 — PART II TO THE CLOSE OF THE TROUBLES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.
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"To the second part of the same series" (the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets") "I have added two, in order to do more justice to the Papal Church for the services which she did actually render to Christianity and Humanity in the Middle Ages."—W. W. (in a letter to Professor Reed, Sept. 4, 1842).—Ed.