Justitia Britannica

not by the kind of impudence that these the rebels have used, to invade the stronghold of this cause, lest he perhaps appear to other Christian princes as a corrupter of public discipline, which could not be done under the Pontifical authority without supreme disgrace. Instead, sliding craftily elsewhere, as he seemed to himself, he knotted the tie in a manner a little more shameful and in a place entirely unworthy of the one he assumes for himself. For he blows his trumpet without disguise; he excites not only lost citizens but also animates the innocent and simple, so that they may run the path of this disgraceful institute as soon as possible—that is, that they may immediately take up arms and weapons, that they may make an assault upon the most august Princess and the most holy fatherland with transmarine cohorts, and simultaneously, without delay, that they may lay waste to all things with iron and fire. And so that these things might be hastened more maturely toward their ends, he had sent diplomas and

Pontifical Bull against the most august Queen of England.

Bulls into all parts of these kingdoms some years before, the customary lightnings and thunders of his jurisdiction, by which he most injuriously publishes and declares that our most august Princess—the same being anointed and consecrated by the beneficence of the omnipotent God—is not the Queen of this kingdom and of her ancestral inheritance, although for many years, as the legitimate heir of this royal throne, she had sat upon it.