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During the dominion of the parliamentary party, a fifth of each living had been left to the ejected clergyman; but this indulgence, though at first insisted on by the house of peers, was now refused to the Presbyterians.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. David Hume 1743
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