850 A Review of the principal fass ohjeci,ed to the fubjeéts from their allegiance, and called her majefly an ufurper, and vaf/ál f iniquity ; I add, one would have thought thefe formidable confpi_ racies of the roman catholicks fhould have alienated the queen's heart from them. Here our author flops ; but it follows, and prevailed with her, toyield f methingfor thefake of afirmer union among prote/iants ; but in_ fiead of this, the edge of the laws that were made againfl popiJb reculnts was turned againfl protofiant nonconformi/is. Can any reader coiled the fence of this paf3''age from this writer's im- perfeét quotation, or reafonably conclude from the true meaning of it, that her maje/ly's heart was entirelypop ? However, fince the fads are undeniable, Mr. N. will leave the juflnefs of the remark to the reader, L. Parker, with this additional obfervation fromMr. Strype, that " the great la- p. 353, 354. " bour at court about this time, was to open the queen's eyes, and to " make her apprehend her danger from the papifts, and that the might " command the laws againft them to be put in execution ; for the pa- " pills had fecret fautors within the palace walls- --..but her majelly was " void of allfear ofany harmfrom papi /ls." The lait proof of the charge againft Mr. N. is taking from her ma jelly's charalter, p. 6o r. where it is faid, that ar to her religion, the efec- te.da middle way between popery and puritanifm, though her majey was more inclinable to the firmer ; /he diked the fecular pretenfaons of the court of Rome overforeignRates, but was in love with thepompandfplen- dor of their worfbip. Here again our author flops ; but it follows in the very next words, On the other hand, SHE APPROVED OF THE DOCTRINES OF THE FOREIGN REFORMED CHURCHES. Should this gentleman let up for a pattern of exalt, and impartial quotations? Or is it poflible to conclude, that becaufe the queen was more inclined to the papifts than the puritans, therefore her heart Was ENTIRELY POPISH, while at the fame time, the approved of the proteflant doc- trines ? And yet this is all the proof we have of this heavy charge. Mr. N. is unwilling to enter any further into the religious charalter of this great princefs, whole name Elands fo very high in the engliJh annals for political wifdom; but, as the late queen MARY the Iid. of GLORIOUS MEMORY, obferved to bifhop Burnet, when reflelions were made in her prefence upon the fharpnefs of fotne hiftorians, who had left heavy imputations upon the memory of princes, her majefty Eliay on replied, " that if thofe princes were truly filch as the hiflorians re- Mem. of " prefented them, they had well delerved that treatment, and others Q P. Mary, «who tread their in flees, muff look for the fame; for truth wouldbe 24. I` told at laft, and that with the more acrimony of flile, for being fo " long
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