[43]. It must appear remarkable that such an idea could become prevalent since it is provided in the law of God to ancient Israel that the brother should marry the deceased brother's widow.—Deut. xxv:5, 6, 9, 10.
[44]. Hume's Hist. of England vol. iii, ch. xxx.
[45]. On one occasion he declared the pope to be "The proud, worldly priest, Rome, the most cursed of clippers and purse-kervers (cut-purses)."
[46]. Knox was born in the year 1505, near Haddington, Scotland. Died at Edinburgh, 1572.
[47]. Daughter of Henry VIII, and Catherine of Aragon. She was a bigoted Catholic; married Philip of Spain, also a Catholic.
[48]. Hallam's Const. Hist. England, p. 812.
[49]. Ibid.
[50]. Page 253.
[51]. Precedents for such an immunity it would not have been difficult to find; but they must have been sought in the archives of the enemy. It was rather early for the new republic to emulate the despotism she had overthrown.—Hallam, Hist. of England.
[52]. Book of Mormon, Ether, ch. 11:7-13.