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BY

I. D'ISRAELI, ESQ. D.C.L. F.S.A.

NINTH EDITION, REVISED.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.

MDCCCXXXIV.

Bradbury and Evans (late T. Davison), Whitefriars

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CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.

CHARLES THE FIRST.

Or his romantic excursion into Spain for the Infanta, many curious particulars are scattered amongst foreign writers, which display the superstitious prejudices which prevailed on this occasion, and, perhaps, develop the mysterious politics of the courts of Spain

and Rome.

Cardinal Gaetano, who had long been nuncio in Spain, observes, that the people, accustomed to revere the inquisition as the oracle of divinity, abhorred the proposal of the marriage of the Infanta with an heretical prince; but that the king's council, and all wise politicians, were desirous of its accomplishment. Gregory XV. held a consultation of cardinals, where it was agreed that the just apprehension which the English catholics entertained of being more cruelly persecuted, if this marriage failed, was a sufficient reason to justify the pope. The dispensation was therefore immediately granted, and

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