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of England in general, which probably was a principal motive for his doing it,since otherwise why should a Man who wasof no Religion himself be at so muchtrouble to abolish one which had for Agesbeen established in the Kingdom. His Magjesty's1 45th Wife was the Duke of Norfolk's Neicewho, tho'though universally acquitted of the crimes for which she was beheaded, has been by many people supposed to have ledan abandoned Life before her Marriage Of this however I have many doubts,since she was a relation of that noble Duke of Norfolk who was so warm in the Queen of Scotland's cause, & who at last fell a victim to it. The king's last

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