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stantiated in the most objectionable form and
degree^ from whence came it 9 from whom did
the church of England receive it ? At any rate,
the solution of Fees of OJlce, which, we shall
see, is the sheet anchor of the Roman apolo-
gists, is, by this supposition of identity, per-
fectly destroyed ; for in the foregoing instances
it is plain mulct or commutation. But will any
person who has any knowledge of the two things
attempted to be identified, take upon himself
to afllrm, or, what is better^ prove^ that the
Church of England has, either in prints or in
office copies^ regular catalogues of crimes, for
absolution from which certain varying sums of
money are to be paid, or that any thing in that
church exists, or is allowed, identical, or even
in the remotest degree similar, to the tables
described, and the one exhibited^ in this work i
But we have yet to encounter another man,
armed with " Fees of Office,* Dr. Milner, late
Vicar apostolic of the Midland district in this
country. In his iro7iicaLly entitled End of
Caniroveretf, ed« 1824, Letter xti. Note 1, he
writes of what he calls a " curious account,'*
and affirms it to be borrowed £rom the Taxa
Cancellaritse Romance, a book which has been
frequently published, though with great variai^
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