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Show A PROTESTANT, ON " THE ENGLISH REFORMATION Writes Dr. James Galrdner: "It may .be disagreeable to trace the Refromation to such a very ignoble origin; but facts, as the Scottish poet says, are fellows that you can't coefce (I translate from a dialect still rather Imperfectly known in this latitude), and that won't bear to be disputed. ... Talk of the intolerable tyranny of the ; See of Rome! Who felt it, I wonder? Not Henry VIII himself till he felt himself disappointed in the. expecta-i expecta-i tion, which he had ardently cherished tor a while, that he could manage by hook or by crook, to obtain from the See of Rome something like an eccle-siastical eccle-siastical license for bigamy. The See of Rome refused this, and, when Henry at length took the matter luto his owa hands by marrying Anne Boleyn, pronounced pro-nounced quite a righteous sentence that the former marriage was valid. All that the pope could be reproached with was far too great deference to an unprincipled sovereign, and very mischievous mis-chievous temporizing in the vain hope that he would lay aside self-will was the strongest motive of Henry VIII j even stronger than his f ' j j Anne Boleyn. which, wh.'?'. ' r I ' very won began to .-!j-, . lot. 1 ,;- j'.- ' y |