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long, as he is become a right patron of it, in that he 

 seeketh to present to that see whom he liketh, yet 

 never durst strain his credit to so desperate a point 

 as once to make a canvass for him : no, he never no 

 minated him in his inclusive narration. And those 

 that know any thing of the respects of conclaves, 

 know that he is not papable : first, because he is an 

 ultramontane, of which sort there hath been none 

 these fifty years. Next, because he is a cardinal of 

 alms of Spain, and wholly at the devotion of that 

 king. Thirdly, because he is like to employ the 

 treasure and favours of the popedom upon the cn- 

 terprizes of England, and the relief and advance 

 ment of English fugitives, his necessitous country 

 men. So as he presumed much upon the simplicity 

 of the reader in this point, as in many more. 



Page 55. and again p. 70, he saith, his lordship, 

 meaning the lord Burleigh, intendeth to match his 

 grandchild Mr. William Cecil with the lady Ara 

 bella. Which being a mere imagination, without 

 any circumstance at all to induce it, more than that 

 they are both unmarried, and that their years agree 

 well, needeth no answer. It is true that his lord 

 ship, being no stoical unnatural man, but loving to 

 wards his children, for &quot; charitas reipublicae incipit 

 a familia,&quot; hath been glad to match them into 

 honourable and good blood : and yet not so, but that 

 a private gentleman of Northamptonshire, that lived 

 altogether in the country, was able to bestow his 

 daughters higher than his lordship hath done. But 

 yet it is not seen by any thing past, that his lord- 

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