Not he."

Then Satan."

My dear lord," concluded Lewis de Duras, "Adam only lent his name. Poor

dupe! He endorsed the human race. Man was begotten on the woman by the

devil."

Hugh Cholmondeley, Earl of Cholmondeley, strong in points of law, was

asked from the bishops' benches by Nathaniel Crew, who was doubly a

peer, being a temporal peer, as Baron Crew, and a spiritual peer, as

Bishop of Durham.

Is it possible?" said Crew.

Is it regular?" said Cholmondeley.

The investiture of this peer was made outside the House," replied the

bishop; "but it is stated that there are precedents for it."

"Yes. Lord Beauchamp, under Richard II.; Lord Chenay, under Elizabeth:

and Lord Broghill, under Cromwell."

Cromwell goes for nothing."

What do you think of it all?"

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