has deprived the Holy See at Rome of a very perceptible support;
therefore we must bring the faithless king back to the holy Church,
for she needs him. And this, my daughter, is the work that God and
the will of His holy representative have placed in your hands. A
noble, glorious, and at the same time profitable work, for it makes
you a queen! But I repeat, be cautious, never irritate the king by
contradiction. Without their knowing it, we must lead the wavering
where salvation awaits them. For, as we have said, he is a waverer;
and in the haughty pride of his royalty, he has the presumption to
wish to stand above all parties, and to be himself able to found a
new Church, a Church which is neither Catholic nor Protestant, but
Ms Church; to which, in the six articles, the so-called 'Bloody
Statute' he has given its laws.

"He will not be Protestant nor Catholic, and, in order to show his
impartiality, he is an equally terrible persecutor of both parties.
So that it has come to pass that we must say, 'In England, Catholics
are hanged, and those not stich are burned.' [Footnote: Leti, vol.
I, p. 144. f Tytler, p. 38.] It gives the king pleasure to hold with
steady and cruel hand the balance between the two parties, and on
the same day that he has a papist incarcerated, because he has
disputed the king's supremacy, he has one of the reformed put upon
the rack, because he has denied the real transubstantiation of the
wine, or perhaps has dispiited concerning the necessity of auricular
confession. Indeed, during the last session of Parliament, five men
were hanged because they disputed the supremacy, and five others
burned because they professed the reformed views! And this evening,
Jane--this, the king's wedding-night--by the special order of the
king, who wanted to show his impartiality as head of the church,
Catholics and Protestants have been coupled together like dogs, and