As for his further assertion about his never doubting that this was the determining cause of the dissolution, I can only say that in the mass of papers connected with the Greenwich seat and the dissolution, there is no single word in one of them associating in any way either topic with the other.
Morley critiques an assertion about the cause of a dissolution, highlighting a lack of supporting evidence.
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