The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . ~ 3 — 3 2 ;i: ?S to z o. V 21 v HISTORY Ol ENGLAND chm-. xvui to luxui\-, renown, and power. He had iMice eked out the small tithesof a miserable vicarage h\ stealing the pigs and fowls of hisparishioners. lie was now lodged in a palace: he was followed byatimiriiiLr crowds : he had at his merc\- the estates and lives of Howardsand Herberts. A crowd of imitators instantly appeared. It seemedthat much more might be got, and that much less was risked, by testifyingto an imaginarv conspirac)- than by robbing on the highway or c
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . ~ 3 — 3 2 ;i: ?S to z o. V 21 v HISTORY Ol ENGLAND chm-. xvui to luxui\-, renown, and power. He had iMice eked out the small tithesof a miserable vicarage h\ stealing the pigs and fowls of hisparishioners. lie was now lodged in a palace: he was followed byatimiriiiLr crowds : he had at his merc\- the estates and lives of Howardsand Herberts. A crowd of imitators instantly appeared. It seemedthat much more might be got, and that much less was risked, by testifyingto an imaginarv conspirac)- than by robbing on the highway or clipping thecoin. Accordingly the Bedloes, , Dugdales, Turberviles, madehaste to transfer their industr\ to an employment at once more profit-able and less perilous than any to which they were accustomed. Till thedissolution of the Oxford Parliament, Popish plots were the chief manu-facture. Then, during seven years, Whig plots were the only plots whichpaid. After the Revolution, Jacobite plots came in : but the public hadbecome cautious ; and, though the new false witness
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