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Excerpt from The Privilege of Religious Confessions in English Courts of Justice Considered, in a Letter to a Friend In dealing then with this subject, I propose, in the first place, to ascertain what was the rule of the Common Law, prior to that series of events which is commonly called the Reformation; next, to see whether that rule was abrogated or altered, at or after that period; and, lastly, to examine the doc trine laid down by the English writers on evidence, and the authorities upon which they rely. 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.