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Excerpt from Fitz of Fitz-Ford, Vol. 3 of 3: A Legend of Devon
The measures adopted by the ministry of Elizabeth to subvert their designs, however they may be palliated by the state of the times, were by no means honourable, nor worthy either the princess they were intended to protect, nor the religion they were to uphold. If we turn but to the brief chronicles of her reign, as they are simply stated by Stow, we shall view a continued record of severities for the sake of religion that might have been spared but these were not the days of toleration. It would here be tedious to repeat the names of those who were hanged, drawn and quar tered, for, comparatively speaking, but slight causes of offence some for denying the Queen's supremacy, others for treasonable words. Many, as seminary priests, or even but as the suspected agents of Rome, suffered capitally.
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