Note 031
From Chapter 70 of the Decline & Fall

The advocate who pleaded against Jane could add nothing to the logical force and brevity of his master's epistle.

Johanna! inordinata vita praecedens, retentio potestatis in regno, neglecta vindicta, vir alter susceptus, et excusatio subsequens, necis viri tui te probant fuisse participem et consortem.

Jane of Naples, and Mary of Scotland, have a singular conformity.

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