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d adoration, because he had banished allcreated things from his heart, and all his affections were placed inGod. He calls himself both a Briton and aRoman, or of a mixed extraction, and says his father was of a goodfamily, nam Francis, called the Penitents; and, three years after, that of themitigated Clares or Urbanists, with the view of reforming that order,and reducing it to its primitive austerity. was the same insubstance with that received in other British, Scottish; and Irishmonasteries, was chiefly

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