r 66 J ' nud not ch.tnge 'your Name nor your J2.!!_ality, for : he_re you {hall recei1Je nothing but Honour, and efpecMfly , from the Kinf!, my Mafter ~ who bath a moff 'high Efteem of you.] Indeed the King of England 'ufed him moft Kindly, and granted him many · ' Favours on behalf of the Catholicks, and ·even ' permitted hitri in die French Embaifador's 'Lodgings where was a great Affembly to admi– ' nifier the Sacrttment of Confirmation to the ' Catholicks, the Doors being open, There were · ' n~ar Eighteen thoufand Perfons who received ' that Sacrament, and yet no man faid any thing ' to them as they went in at the Gate, nor no 'where elfe. Although tpere were many -of the ' Englifl1 always ftanding in the Street beholding 'the Ceremony. Duriqg his abode, he had many ' Conferences with that King, who having come 'to agreement in all the controverted Points, he 'wrote a·long Letter .to the Pc.pe by a Catholick ' -Gentleman, his Subject, w~om he fent fecretly 'of purpofe, by ·which Letter he acknowlt:!dged 'him to be the Vicar General of Jefus Chrifi, on ' Earth, the Univerfal Father of Chriftians , and 'the Head of all the .Catholicks; affuring him "' ~hat after he had made fufficient proviflon with 11 refpetl: to the things agreed on, he would open· ' ly declare himfelf: In the. mean time, he pro– ' rnifed him not to fuffer any more to make 'fearch in his Kingdom for the Priefis which ' were fenr over by his Holinefs, and ibe moll: 'Chrifiian King, provided they were no Je[uites, tt whom he faid he could not truft for many Rea– ' fons, cbiefl.y becaufe he counted them to have 'been the Authors of the Powder Plot, by ~ which they hau defigned to L1ave blown him ~P 'lll . \
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