AA Volume of the HAry of the Puritans. hiftory, [p. 337.] " Though the papi/ts were the queen's moll dangerous enemies, HER MAJESTY HAD A PECULIAR TENDERNESS FOR THEM." Howgroundlefs this ácculation is (fays he), will faon appear to her ho- nour ; and if' it be to the fhame of her accufers they mull thank themfelves. But let him firft refute the authorities in the margin ; with thofe which Mr. N. will now beg leave to add in confirmation of the fact. L. Parke " The queen was ftrangely. fecure of her wort} enemies, the papifts, r, P r, " (fays Mr. Strype, under the year 1572) and /hewed them muchfavour, 354 " having many friends at court; the government neutral the queen's " belt proteftant fubjeéts but little regarded. " Archbifhop PARKER in his letter . to the treafurer Burleigh, calls the queen's government a machiavel goverment; and adds, that " the paps were asfoonfavoured " as the true protejlants ;. that the true fubjelt was not regarded but .. overthwarted ; whereas the rebel [meaning the papift], was borne " with. When the faithful fubje& and officer (faith he) has fpent his " wits to fearch, to find, to indite, to arraign and condemn, yet mull: " they be kept fill for a fairday to cut our own throats ? Is this the " way to rule Engli/h people ? But it deferves to be counted clemency! oh " cruelty (fays he), to fpare a profeft enemy, and to drive to the flaugh- " ter herfelf and her heft friends." --" How many papifts (fays Whit-L, Parker, " tingham dean of Durham) enjoy liberty and livings, which neitherAppendix, " have fworn obedience to the queen's majefty, nor do any part of P. 47. " duty towards their miferable flocks ; thefe miters laugh to fee us [puritans] frs dealt with, and hope to fee other alterations." " That s°rype's " nowithftanding their [the papifts] bold and exorbitant practices, they P 622V. L " received a notable piece of favour at this time [1578] to gain them, P. if poffible, to be better minded, and to behave themfelves quietly, " and that was, that the queen would not have any of their confciences " rifted, to knowwhat afebtion they had to the old religion." Surely this was peculiar tendernefs. The next paffage which our author produces, is [p. 255.1 where Mr. N. fays, ". One would have thought thefe formidable confpiracies of " the roman catholics, fhould havealienated the queen's heart from them." This writer often complains of Mr. N's impeded quotations, and is pleafed fometimes to dictate in a very fovereign manner, what he Ihould have added, or omitted: Mr. N. might here, and in many other places, return him his compliment. The cafe before us is this ; having mentioned a general confederacy of all the popifh powers ofEurope to extirpate the .proteftant religion ; and the infolence of the Engle pa- pills, that were in arms in the north, at the inftigation of the pope, who had excommunicated the queen and the whole kingdom, abfolved her fubjecìs 849
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