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By this means the monuments of the dead, which elsewhere they brake up and violated, stood untouch'd; escocheons and arms of the nobility and gentry remained undefaced; the seats and stalls of the quire escaped breaking down; only those things which were wont to stuff up parliamentary petitions, and were branded by the leaders of the faction for popery and innovations; in these they took liberty to let loose their wild zeal: they brake down the rails about the Lord's table or altar; they seized upon the velvet of the holy table; and, in contempt of those holy misteries which were celebrated on the table, removed the table itself into a lower part of the church.
"But hast thou fully understood that she is of Jewish descent, which many Christian knights would count a blot on their escocheons?" "Being a Christian, that makes no difference to me." "Well! She shall decide for herself; but I fancy I know what she will say. It will be hard to part with her." "Why should you, Father? Will she not still want a confessor? and could she have a better than you?"
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