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Volume 21 · 190 words · 1842 Edition

a river of South Wales, which, issuing out of Pillymon Hill, very near the source of the Severn, crosses the north-east corner of Radnorshire, giving name to the town of Rhyadergowy (Fall of the Wye), where it is precipitated in a cataract; then flowing between this county and Brecknockshire, it crosses Herefordshire, and dividing the counties of Gloucester and Monmouth, falls into the mouth

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1 Lenfant, Hist. du Concile de Constance, tom. i. p. 110. Gilpin, who is not very critical in his enquiries, has stated that "he translated many of them into his native language, having with great pains made himself master of the English." (Lives of John Wickliff, and of the most eminent of his Disciples, Lord Cobham, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Zisca. Lond. 1765, 8vo.)

2 If the reader has any inclination to see how perfidy and cruelty can be justified by a true Jesuit, we beg leave to refer him to the elaborate publication of Hieronymus Rosweyden, "De Fide Haereticis servanda ex decreto Concilii Constantiensis Dissertatio cum Daniele Plancio, Scholae Delphensis Moderatore; in qua, qua de Husso Historia est excitatur." Antverpiae, 1610, 8vo.