Maddox - BX9329 M3 1740

IS a ble than Carl/.fie. The Oppofition from the Popifh Clergy appear'd very foon. Ann. T/4..1* In Convocation, as Mr. Strype fays, they P' 44 & 56' did notably beflir themfelves, nor were they lefs alive in other Places. " The " Popith Priefts and other Zealots took cc frequent Occafion, notonlytopreach, cc but to Jpeale very untoward Words cc againfi the Queen, refleóting, as it " feems, upon Queen Anne sollen her `` Mother, and her own Legitimacy " and Title to the Succeflion, and in " favour of theQueen of Scots." This was another Embarafsment upon Queen Elizabeth ; her Title to the Crown was difpu-ted, and liable to Objections upon the Article of Illegitimacy. Her pow- erful Rival, Mary Queen of Scots, was in actual .`F ffefon of one Part of the Hand, was of the fame Religion with Elizabeth's Suvjets, and to the Power of Scotland join'd that of France, where the had married the Heir of theCrown ; fo great was her Intereft in England, that, as Melvill, who was not igno- rant of thefe Matters , informs us, Memoirs " Queen Elizabethwas in great Sufpi- p. C8' " cion of her Eftate, finding fo many of her Subjects Favozlrers of the " Queen of Scots." And fo fanguine was Queen Mary, her Friends fo many and powerful, that the armed the ilrms

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