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... ( From the original of Zucchero , in the collection of the Marquis of Salisbury ) KING JAMES THE FIRST ( From a print dated 1621 ) TO FACE PAGE • 154 • 187 • • 193 284 A HISTORY OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT T CHAPTER I HOW 14 List of Illustrations.
... ( From the original of Zucchero , in the collection of the Marquis of Salisbury ) KING JAMES THE FIRST ( From a print dated 1621 ) TO FACE PAGE • 154 • 187 • • 193 284 A HISTORY OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT T CHAPTER I HOW 14 List of Illustrations.
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... King of Scots . Over and over again , exasperated beyond measure by the fines and restrictions to which they were subjected under Walsingham and Burghley , they congratulated themselves that the ' Virgin Queen ' could not live for ever ...
... King of Scots . Over and over again , exasperated beyond measure by the fines and restrictions to which they were subjected under Walsingham and Burghley , they congratulated themselves that the ' Virgin Queen ' could not live for ever ...
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... King's Protestant advisers , who cleverly made the methods of the Jesuits an excuse for tarring the whole Roman Catholic body with the same brush , and for bringing all its members into disfavour with the Protestant public ...
... King's Protestant advisers , who cleverly made the methods of the Jesuits an excuse for tarring the whole Roman Catholic body with the same brush , and for bringing all its members into disfavour with the Protestant public ...
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... King and the State . ' It is extraordinary , therefore , that men , who must have well known with what dire suspicion they were regarded by the British Government , should have ventured to concoct one of the most audacious conspiracies ...
... King and the State . ' It is extraordinary , therefore , that men , who must have well known with what dire suspicion they were regarded by the British Government , should have ventured to concoct one of the most audacious conspiracies ...
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... King James himself had incurred personally the hatred of the conspirators is an important factor . They accused him of treachery , of having promised , in Scotland , to grant a measure of relief to the Romanists , and of having ...
... King James himself had incurred personally the hatred of the conspirators is an important factor . They accused him of treachery , of having promised , in Scotland , to grant a measure of relief to the Romanists , and of having ...
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