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Robert Persons (or Parsons) : [unknown]

'But the Mother ... coming one Morning early into her Chamber, she found her Reading in a Book in Bed, at which the Daughter being surprized, let it fall into the Bed, and denied that she was Reading, or had any Book, but upon search, it was found to be a Book wrote by Parsons the Jesuit; which so startled the Mother, that upon Searching the Daughter's Closet afterwards, she found other Popish Books ...

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Ann Ketelbey      Print: Book

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