Excerpt from Watson's "Important Consideration", Or a Vindication of Queen Elizabeth From the Charge of Unjust Severity Towards Her Roman Catholic Subjects, by Roman Catholics Themselves: Being Important Considerations, in the Name of Certain Secular Priests
AS the present republication exhibits illustrious Ancestor of your Majesty, to Whom the British nation owes its completed Emanci patiou from Papal Despotism both temporal and spiritual, vindicated from the calumnies of R0 manists by Romanists of less prostrate intellect and conscience themselves - and as your Ma jesty inherits, not only the throne, but the honoured name likewise, of another Royal Predecessor, William Henry the Third, a Prince, upon whom the Supreme Sovereign conferred the singular privilege of rescuing the nation from the re-imposition by the infatuated James the Second, of the enslaving yoke which she had shaken from her neck and trodden under her feet; and, of founding, in the memo rable year of our Lord, One Thousand six hun dred and eighty eight, a Constitution, which, to the lamented year of its infraction, One.
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