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"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset…

"I think it good to begin with St Patrick his Purgatory, partly because it is most notoriously known and partly the more that some writers as the author of Polychronicon and other, that were miscarried by him, seem to make a great doubt where they…

"When we were within half a bow-shot of the said island of the Purgatory I saw a bird blacker than coal take flight ; it had not a single plume or feather on its back..."

Knox reasons that the boatmen would prefer that the monster eat the heretic reverend rather than them

Knox asks questions about the monster, which appears to devour sinners but largely emerges just above the water
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