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6 attiOTics > some regarded the decease oV Mary and the accession of ^ rizabetK as a death-blow to ttiSr religion , adds tnat others did riot regret to see an end of those tarbaroUs punishments by which it 6 ad Beeni dishonoured , n ' itozent
pas f&chez de voir ccsser ces sup - fitices barbdres qui la deshonofoient . It appears that during the twelve first years of Elizabeth ' s reign the
Catholics enjoyed the private exercise of their religion , by connivance , while on the part of the queen there was an evident desire to assimilate the Church of Eng *
land , in doctrine and ceremonial , af $ nearly as possible to the Church of Rome . Duriug this perioh too his holiness the Pope held with Elizabeth a correspondence conciliating and even Complimentary . It appears however , from Camden , An . I 568 t that the patience
of Pius Quintus being now exhausted , he employed a Florentine who had lived long as a factor in London , to excite the Papists in England secretly against the queen . Two years after having , as Fuller
says , ( C . H . 92 ) " . long patiently expected the amendment of Eliza * bethj and weary with waiting in vain , " the pope < c resolved at last ( if not wisely , valiantly ) that seeing desperate diseases must hav&
desperate cures , he would thunder his excommunication against her / ' In this bull he absolved her subjects from their allegiance * and even commanded them tor dmbbey her , tttvder the peoaky of being
excpmmjMiicated themselves . Yet Pr- Milner ^ of Winchester , in | jis Ifetter ^ to a Prebendary ( 4 eEd . 3 fi ? N . ^ woqld V h , ave it bejiewecj V that ^ ius , ^ id not require the ^ Pg ^ iah' Cathol ics to receive j ? r
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observe bis bull / because "in fact he never published it , or signified it to them . " It will he more to my purpose to observe what sentiments and conduct Camden attributes to the Catholics on
this occasion , and how far he agrees on that point with their just . mentioned acute and zealous advocate . The learned Annalist of Elizabeth had recorded , An . l 5 (> 9 ,
during * the rebellion in th& North , " that the insurgents " sent letters to the Papists round about throughout the whole kingdom , exhorting them to join their forces with their ' s . But so far were they from associating themselves wita
them ,, that most of them sent the letters which they received , together with the bearers , to the ? Queen , and everyone strived whi should be forwardesr , from all parts of the land , to offer his
person and his purse against them . * Haviug mentioned the daring act of Jtihn Felt oil ) who hung the Pope s bull on the Bishop of London ' s palace gates . An . 157 X > , Camden adds , The most part of
the moderate / sort of Papists secretly misliked this bull , because there had no admonition preceded according to law , and foreseeing also that hereby a great heap of mischief hung over their heads ^ who before had private exercise of their religion within their own
houses quietly enough , or else refused not to go to the service of God received in thV English , church , without scruple of con . fro thattim
science * And rp ^ e manf of' theiri continued nriii ia their , obedience . " . Cam den thus apneairs- to coun tenance the general representation oTtlfis ' wlye ^ i ^^ B ^ J 3 TP
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 733, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/41/
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