30 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, care for religion against the dangerous Romanists and their 



emissaries, who were very active in these days by all ways 



Discovers an( j mea ns to reestablish themselves, and to overthrow the 

 Popish * present constitution, and the Queen, who had taken upon 

 printer. j^ to k e t k e SU p rem e guardian of it. One Carter a printer 

 had divers times been put in prison for printing of lewd 

 pamphlets, Popish and others, against the government. 

 The Bishop by his diligence had found his press in the 

 year 1579 ; and some appointed by him to search his house, 

 among other Papistical books, found one written in French, 

 entitled, The Innocency of the Scotch Queen; who then 

 was a prisoner for laying claim to the crown of England, 

 and endeavouring to raise a rebellion. A very dangerous 

 book this was : the author called her the heir apparent of 

 this crown: inveighed against the late execution of the 

 Duke of Norfolk, though he were executed for high trea 

 son : defended the rebellion in the north anno 1569 : and 

 made very base and false reflections upon two of the Queen s 

 chiefest ministers of state, viz. the Lord Treasurer, and the 

 late Lord Keeper, Bacon. The Bishop had committed this 

 fellow to the Gate-house ; but he desired the Lord Trea 

 sure at his leisure to call him before him, and examine him, 

 having denied to answer upon oath to the Bishop: and 

 promised that he would also send to him the Warden of the 

 Company of Stationers, who would inform him of another 

 book which was abroad, wherein her Majesty was touched ; 

 and of certain other new forms of letters which Carter had 

 made, but would not confess them. 



Removes Another Popish gentleman there was about these times, 



p J n t t hls named Thomas Pond, sometime a courtier, that had lain in 



Stortford. prison (that of the Marshalsea I suppose) for some years : 



him the Bishop thought convenient now to remove from 



London unto another prison more remote, namely, his castle 



at Bishop^s Stortford, to prevent his infecting others by his 



talk; for some such information, and what a dangerous 



person he was, was brought to the Bishop by Trip and 



Crowley, two Ministers who went to confer with him. He 



talked notably with them; and observing them to insist 



