held for true Martyrs, all those that dyed for denying
thereof, for that they would not doe an Act against
their Consciences.LXI. Well then, to draw to an end of this se∣cond
paragraph about the two Breues of Paulus
Quintus, two things more writeth this Apologer,
whereunto I must in like manner say somewhat.
The first is, That Pope Clemens Octauus sent into
England, two Breues immediatly before the late
Queenes death, for debarring of his Maiestie, our
now Soueraigne, of the Crowne, or any other, that
eyther would professe, or any way tolerate the pro∣fessours
of our Religion, contrary (saieth he) to
his manifold vowes, and protestations, simul & eodem
tempore, and, as it were, deliuered, vno & eodem Spi∣ritu,
to diuers of his Maiestyes Ministers abroade,
professing all kyndenes, and shewing all forwardnes to aduance him to this Crowne, &c. Wherein still
I fynde the same veyne of exaggeration, and calum∣niation
continued by the Apologer. For hauing
procured some knowledge of those two Breues,Touching the two Breues of Clemens octauus. Anno Do∣mini 1600. & 1603.
I fynde them not sent into England togeather, nor
immediatly before the late Queenes death, but the one di∣uers
yeares before shee dyed, and the other after her
death, and this to different effects. For in the first, the
Pope being consulted, what Catholicks were bound
to doe in conscience, for admitting a new Prince
after the Queene should be dead, for so much
as some of different Religions, were, or might be,
pretenders; he determined that a Catholicke was
to be preferred, not thinking (as may be presu∣med)
to preiudice therein his Maiesty that now
is, of whome, vpon the relations, and earnest asse∣uerations
of those his Maiestyes Ministers abroad,
who heere are mentioned, he had conceaued firme
hope, that his Highnes was not farre from being a
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