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Section 86:
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Section 87:
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Section 88:
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Section 89:
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SOME NOTES FOR SECTION 88
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
First published in 1563, this book "includes a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church, with particular emphasis on England and Scotland." (Wikipedia)
Flos Sanctorum
A book written in Spanish (presumably by a Catholic) recounting the lives of the saints, first published in 1605.
The Edict of Nantes
This document was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV (of France) and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was predominantly Catholic.
In October 1685, Louis XIV, the grandson of Henry IV, renounced the Edict and declared Protestantism illegal. Intense persecution of Protestants took place as a result.
The massacre of the Albigenses
At the behest of Pope Innocent III, a crusade was undertaken around 1210 to 1230 to eliminate a religious sect in southern France who saw themselves as rebelling against the scandalous and dissolute lifestyles of the Catholic clergy. Many thousands were slaughtered, hanged or burned at the stake.
The Vaudois
Troops from Savoy, in northern Italy, massacred 4000 to 6000 Vaudois (also known as the Waldenses) in 1655. The Vaudois were an ascetic relgious group whom the Catholic church had declared heretical.
Orangeman
A member of a secret society organized in the north of Ireland in 1795 to defend the British sovereign and to support the Protestant religion.
The man in black who drinks gin and water
Earlier in the book we met Francis Ardry, who was born in Ireland of a Roman Catholic family. At the end of Chapter 43, speaking of a movement afoot in Ireland (then under English rule) to emancipate the Catholics, Ardry told our narrator "The priests are the originators, and what country was ever benefited by a movement which owed its origin to them?’ so says Voltaire, a page of whom I occasionally read. By the present move they hope to increase their influence, and to further certain designs which they entertain both with regard to this country and Ireland. I do not speak rashly or unadvisedly. A strange fellow—a half-Italian, half-English priest,—who was recommended to me by my guardians, partly as a spiritual, partly as a temporal guide, has let me into a secret or two; he is fond of a glass of gin and water—and over a glass of gin and water cold, with a lump of sugar in it, he has been more communicative, perhaps, than was altogether prudent. Were I my own master, I would kick him, politics, and religious movements, to a considerable distance."
In short, the existence of this man in black has already been foreshadowed.
