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should - by legal right and
common sense - come to Isabella
the Infanta of Spain (a Norman
Catholic princess), rather than to
James of Scotland (a Protestant prince).

We we call to mind that
the period is but five years after the
attempted invasion by the Armada - that
Phillip (its author) still expresses his
design of attaching England to his
domains & to the see of Rome -
that, although the government is
protestant the mass of the people
naturally lean - (or are believed to lean)
towards their old faith - that they at least have not
been converted by act of parliament -
- - it is - when we remember these
then common facts, that we can
understand the books politically
disturbing influence, and realize
why the Court did not welcome

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