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Show 95 to hoist him upward. "Thank you!" Looking above the heads, Samuel could see clearly into the courtroom. The King's Advocate was addressing Dod. He wanted to know if Dod attended his parish church. Dod answered affirmatively that he did, but he added that he also desired to hear the "most powerful ministry." "And therefore you hear Mr. Lathrop!" the voice of William Laud now thundered in the chamber. "Reverend Lathrop is my father!" said Samuel proudly to the stranger. "What ordination hath he?" Laud glowered at Dod. "He is a minister," smiled Dod. A loud murmuring spued forth from the Bishops at Dod's admission. "What's happening?" Jane called to Samuel, impatient to know the happenings. "I think the Bishops are mad because Henry Dod said that father is the most powerful minister." Hannah smiled, but the furrow of worry didn't leave her brow. Because the closeness of the crowd was beginning to wear on Hannah, Jane locked arms with her mother and walked her outside into the fresh air. But Hannah's anxiousness over-ruled her infirmities and brought her almost immediately back inside. "You didn't miss anything," said Samuel. "Archbishop Abbot gave everyone a long lecture about making up a religion out of their own heads. He says |