Response à un ligueur, masqué du nom de catholique Anglois

heretics, and others who, through fear, have recatholicized. These people are eyewitnesses to several things of which you speak vaguely, not giving yourself much trouble to regulate your remarks, provided that, rightly or wrongly, they serve to slander those whom you target. These people say that if you have seen the things you speak of, you are a great liar for reciting them so falsely and against your conscience, and that if you only know them by hearsay, you are a fool for asserting them as truths. This brings prejudice against what true Catholics will say and write hereafter, as one will believe nothing of it, estimating that the whole will be from the same shop as your fine discourse. This makes us wish that you had never put hand to pen to advance such tales.

Firstly, you say that the Kingdoms of France and England, under the Catholic and Roman Church, have arrived at a health such as one might desire for Kingdoms of longer life, but that today they are so sick that one has, as it were, no more life, and the other is with a rather light hope of salvation. To which it is answered to us, when we cite your writing, that your Kingdom of England was quite low when it was ravaged by the Danes, conquered by