John Morley: “It is not in the power or the will of your Majesty’s advisers to…”

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It is not in the power or the will of your Majesty’s advisers to purchase Irish support by subserviency to the Roman bishops.

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Morley asserts that the government cannot gain Irish support through appeasing the Roman bishops.

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