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Excerpt from Persecutions of Popery, Vol. 1 of 2: Historical Narratives of the Most Remarkable Persecutions Occasioned by the Intolerance of the Church of Rome Neither is it surprising that, under the rule Of such heads Of the Church, Popery should gradually de generate into a tissue of fables, legends, and mum meries too extravagant and too absurd to be adopted by any but the mailed warriors and the peasant slaves Of the darkest ages. As Southey justly remarks, the priests and monks themselves must Often have been utterly astonished at the success of the gross dec'eptions were continually practising on the public credulity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.