The Roman Catholic princes, on the other hand, were pleased by the mild and temperate style in which his resolution was expressed, and by the hope which he held out that, under his administration, no member of their Church would be molested on account of religion.
It is probable that the Pope himself was among those who read this celebrated letter with pleasure.

He had some months before dismissed Castelmaine in a manner which showed little regard for the feelings of Castelmaine's master.

Innocent thoroughly disliked the whole domestic and foreign policy of the English government.

He saw that the unjust and impolitic measures of the Jesuitical cabal were far more likely to make the penal laws perpetual than to bring about an abolition of the test.
His quarrel with the court of Versailles was every day becoming more and more serious; nor could he, either in his character of temporal prince or in his character of Sovereign Pontiff, feel cordial friendship for a vassal of that court.

Castelmaine was ill qualified to remove these disgusts.