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It elicited the following epigram from Walpole : When Henry VIII left the Pope in the lurch , The people of England made him head of the Church , But George's good subjects - the Bloomsbury people- Instead of the Church , made him head ...
It elicited the following epigram from Walpole : When Henry VIII left the Pope in the lurch , The people of England made him head of the Church , But George's good subjects - the Bloomsbury people- Instead of the Church , made him head ...
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