[235] The clergy of the church of England, and those of London in particular. See [Note XXIV.]
[236] The Catholic clergy, maintained by King James.
[237] The cock is made an emblem of the regular clergy of Rome, on account of their nocturnal devotions and mattins.
[238] The Nuns.
[240] The worship of images, charged upon the Romish church by Protestants as idolatrous.
[242] The Doves.
[243] The laws imposing the penalty of high treason on priests saying mass in England.
[244] The Roman Catholic nobility, excluded from the House of Peers by the imposition of the test.