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permitteth no other. And a punishment surely it 

 is, though of great terror, yet by reason of the 

 quick dispatching, of less torment far than either 

 the wheel or forcipation, yea than simple burning. 



Page 48, he saith, England is confederate with 

 the great Turk : wherein if he mean it because the 

 merchants have an agent in Constantinople, how 

 will he answer for all the kings of France since 

 Francis the first, which were good catholics ? For 

 the Emperor? For the king of Spain himself? For 

 the senate of Venice, and other states, that have had 

 long time ambassadors liegers in that court ? If he 

 mean it because the Turk hath done some special 

 honour to our ambassador, if he be so to be termed, 

 we are beholden to the king of Spain for that : for 

 that the honour, we have won upon him by oppo 

 sition, hath given us reputation through the world : 

 if he mean it because the Turk seemeth to affect us 

 for the abolishing of images ; let him consider then 

 what a scandal the matter of images hath been in 

 the church, as having been one of the principal 

 branches whereby Mahometism entered. 



Page 65, he saith, Cardinal Allen was of late 

 very near to have been elected pope. Whereby he 

 would put the catholics here in some hope, that once 

 within five or six years, for a pope commonly sitteth 

 no longer, he may obtain that which he missed nar 

 rowly. This is a direct abuse, for it is certain in all 

 the conclaves since Sixtus Quintus, who gave him his 

 hat, he was never in possibility ; nay, the king of 

 Spain, that hath patronized the church of Rome so 



