Excerpt from The Condition of English Catholics Under Charles II<br><br>At times, an interval of comparative calm, often due to political reasons, held in suspense the sword always unsheathed in readiness to strike the Papists.<br><br>At other times a plot, real or pretended, served as a pretext for measures of the utmost severity and sent many innocent men to execution.<br><br>Such was the dark drama which disgraced the reign of Charles II and of which the history is here related.<br><br>Never perhaps was more clearly shown to what excesses of injustice and cruelty a nation may be driven by religious bigotry.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.