Excerpt from The History of the Mitre and Purse: In Which the First and Second Parts of the Secret History of the White Staff Are Fully Considered, and the Hypocrisy and Villanies of the Staff Himself Are Laid Open and Detected Belt appear by having Remml'eto Matters of Faft; Wth cannot be more fairly done, than by reciting, as far as pail Occurrences will Enable us, the Preps they have feverally taken from their Firl't Entrance upon the Stage of Action tillstheir going off from it. Which mull of Courfe dill cover who have contributed'mof't to the Prefervation of but Laws and Ini munities, the Stajf, whofe Shoulders are there faid to be only fitto fupport the Weight of Government or the ML tre and Parfi: whom we no ways lifc'ar have their known Dignity and {id ferr, by being brought in Competition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.