A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures

Letters, written from the Pope, containing matter of new comfort and encouragement to the Duke of Norfolk, the close-designed head of that rebellion, by his intended marriage with the Scottish Queen. Forces were promised to be sent over with all speed from beyond the seas to the aid of the said Duke, under the leading of Vitelli, appointed to that office by name from the King of Spain. The coming of which forces the Duke himself did stay, by losing his head. 1572. And lest the King of Spain should quail in his princely designs against this kingdom in regard of his unfortunate success, Saunders (the Pope's darling) eggs him on with a fresh assault to keep the Spanish engines in work, alleging this as his main battery to cause the King to be doing: that the whole state of Christendom stood upon the hot assailing of England. 1577.

Neither was it long ere this vigilant champion had gained time again by obtaining of his Holiness men, money, and munition, with which he came with open arms into Ireland, like a Fury from Hell; and in his vain hopes had devoured that kingdom for the use of his holy Father the Pope, forsooth, and for his young master, the Pope’s nephew. Where he, breathing out his furious ghost as a pledge of his wicked attempt, 1579. Parsons, the Pope’s minion, entertains the time with a new-coined plot, coming into England upon no meaner errand than to continue the deposing of her Majesty and the setting up of another prince. 1580.

The wise espying and circumspect implying of the advantage of these times: you see from what heads and fountains of holiness they came; yet none of these is the time that does consort with our "casting out of devils" we have now in hand. Ours is the time when his Holiness, the King of Spain, and Parsons, their Entelechie Greek: "actualization" or "driving force", were plotting beyond the seas for the delivery out of prison of the Queen of Scots by forcible attempt. Which action,