The Episcopalian clergy had no reason to love triumphant Presbyterianism, and actively, or in sympathy, were favourers of the exiled dynasty.
The favourers of this system are not very prudent in bringing this forward.
Riccioli has enumerated several of the opinions which in turn had their favourers and supporters.
To this effect often advices have been(543) sent into all Princes' Courts by letters, which their friends and favourers there should publish and procure to be believed.
To be rich was a crime equal to heresy; therefore many who had money were accused of heresy, or of beingfavourers of heretics, that they might be obliged to pay for their opinions.
If any Roman catholic, of more conscience than the rest, blamed these fellows for their atrocious crimes, they themselves were in danger of being informed against and punished as favourers of heretics.
This, however, was not by the goodwill of the freemen, but in opposition of their wishes, the citizens being favourers of the Duke of Gloucester, and disliking Brember as one of the evil counsellors of the king.
Thus runs the commonly accredited story; but summing up later and equally reliable records, the favourers of the idea that it was really the Elector himself who reappeared put the case thus.
To which end they traduce all worthy men for fanatics, schismatics, or favourers of them.
There were so many favourers of the old system, together with the general influence of the Catholic clergy, that it seemed not unlikely this insurrection might spread fast and far.
Schismatics and Favourers of Heresy--Progress of the Inquisition under the last of these Princes--Consequences of the particular Favour which he shewed towards it 179 CHAP.
It authorized Ferdinand and Isabella to name the priests who were to be commissioned to discover in their states all heretics, apostates, and favourersof these crimes.
The adherents of Monmouth, and the favourers of republican tenets, are represented as disputing with each other, until the latter, by the flight of Shaftesbury, obtains a final ascendancy.
We must not, however, be extravagantly astonished, that a project which we now know was in its nature so wild and dangerous, should have found favourers and advocates.
Unanimously guilty of being one of the favourers and accomplices of the conspiracy carried on by the English against the life of the First Consul; and intending, in the event of such conspiracy, to enter France.
And therefore I can't help concluding, that this Opinion engages its Favourers in some Absurdity, without Necessity and without Proof.
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