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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!GEC-EPL.CO.UK!DUNSTAN
  3. Message-ID: <9212210934.AA10823@cuthbert.bashstreet>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
  5. Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:34:57 GMT
  6. Sender:       Forum for the Discussion of Politics <POLITICS@UCF1VM.BITNET>
  7. From:         Dunstan_Vavasour <dunstan@GEC-EPL.CO.UK>
  8. Subject:      Popishness (was Re: Words)
  9. Comments: To: politics@ohstvma.acs.ohio-state.edu
  10. Lines: 17
  11.  
  12. Jamie's quotations:
  13. >I think I will now post some fun quotations.
  14. >
  15. >Latimer, 1549, "He wyl kepe his possession quyetly as he dyed in
  16. >the popyshe dayes."
  17. >
  18. >Blackstone, 1769, "A short summary of the laws against the
  19. >papists, under their three several classes, of persons professing
  20. >the popish religion, popish recusants, convict, and popish
  21. >priests." (I don't understand it, and I don't know why
  22. >"convict" isn't plural, but that's the quotation.)
  23.  
  24. Interesting you should bring this up. The Vavasour family were "popish
  25. recusants", and had to pay all manner of fines because they wouldn't
  26. tow the line.
  27.  
  28. Dunstan.
  29.