His confessor, Father Mansuete, a Franciscan, whose mild temper and irreproachable life commanded general respect, but who had long been hated by Tyrconnel and Petre, had been discarded.

The vacant place had been filled by an Englishman named Warner, who had apostatized from the religion of his country and had turned Jesuit.

To the moderate Roman Catholics and to the Nuncio this change was far from agreeable.

By every Protestant it was regarded as a proof that the dominion of the Jesuits over the royal mind was absolute.

[246] Whatever praises those fathers might justly claim, flattery itself could not ascribe to them either wide liberality or strict veracity.