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A Martyr of
Old York.

Being a Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of the
Venerable Margaret Clitheroe.

BY J. B. MILBURN.

With Thirteen Illustrations.

London:

BURNS & OATES, LIMITED.

NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO: BENZIGER BROTHERS.

1900.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

41*303

BURNS AND OATES, LIMITED, PRINTERS, LONDON, W.

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A MARTYR OF OLD YORK.

CHAPTER I.

HER GIRLHOOD. THE CONDITION OF CATHOLICS IN THE NORTH. THE REVOLT OF THE EARLS.

THE doing of brave deeds has ever laid strong claims upon the memory of posterity. Every land has a roll of glorious names which it holds in undying honour. The founders and architects of a nation's greatness, its defenders against foreign foes, its saviours from internal disorders, the dauntless champions of its menaced rights-all these are numbered for remembrance as patriots who loved the common weal more than life itself.

The Church, too, the Kingdom of God upon earth, has her glories—the rearers under God of her commanding fabric, the bearers of her name over deserts and across seas to the depths of the primeval forests, the wilds of the mountains, and the vast wind-swept prairies—her champions with sword and pen-men and women who have kept themselves unspotted from the contaminations of the world, and poured out the sweetness of their souls upon the sin-stained and the sorrowful; and finally, though this by no means exhausts the list, those unflinching witnesses to the truth of her divine message, who braved the fury of tyrants and endured the pangs of death rather than abate one jot or tittle of the integrity of the truth.

Such strength and fortitude command admiration

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