If his errand had been merely to preach what he regarded as Catholic truth, she would have let him go, as she checked the persecuting tendencies of her Bishops over and over again.

But it was as much her duty to defend England from the invasion of the Jesuits as to defend her from the invasion of the Spanish Armada.

Both indeed were parts of one and the same enterprise, the forcible reduction of England to dependence upon the Catholic powers.

Although in God's good providence it was foiled, it very nearly succeeded; and if Elizabeth had not removed Campian, Campian might, as Babington certainly would, have remove her.
The Pope had been directly concerned in the massacre of St.
Bartholomew, and his great ally, Philip II., is said to have laughed for the first time when he heard of it.

More than a hundred years afterwards the pious Bossuet thanked God for the frightful slaughter of the Huguenots which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.