WHEN Queen Mary died, Paul the Fourth was Pope, to whom Queen Elizabeth sent an account of her coming to the Crown, which was delivered by Sir Edward Karn her Sisters Resident at Rome; to which the angry Gentleman replied,1 That England was held in Fee of the Apostolic See, that she could not succeed being illegitimate; nor could he contradict the Declarations made in that matter by his Predecessors Clement the Seventh, and Paul the Third: he said it was a great boldness in her, to assume the Crown without his Consent; for which in reason she deserved no favour at his hands; yet if she would renounce her Pretensions, and refer her self wholly to him, he would show a fatherly affection to her, and do every thing for her that could consist with the dignity of the Apostolic See. Which answer being hastily and passionately made, was as little regarded by the Queen. But he dying soon after, Pius the Fourth an abler man succeeded; and he was for gaining the Queen by Arts and Kindness; to which end he sent Vincent Parapalia Abbot of St. Saviours with courteous Letters to her, dated May the fifth 1560. with order to make large proffers to her under hand; but the Queen had rejected the Popes Authority by Act of Parliament, and would have nothing to do with Parapalia, nor would she suffer him to come into England. In the interim the Pope had resolved to renew the Council at ⟨p. 30⟩Trent, and in the next year sent Abbot Martiningo his Nuncio to the Queen, to invite her and her Bishops to the Council, and he accordingly came to Brussels, and from thence sent over for leave to come into England: but tho France and Spain interceded for his Admission, yet the Queen stood firm, and at the same time rejected a motion from the Emperor Ferdinando, to return to the old Religion as he called it. Yet after all these denials given to so many and such potent Princes, one Scipio a Gentleman of Venice, who formerly had had some acquaintance with Bishop Jewel when he was a Student in Padua, and had heard of Martiningo's ill success in this Negotiation, would needs spend some Eloquence in labouring to obtain that Point by his private Letters, which the Nuncio could not gain as a public Minister; and to that end he writes his Letters of Expostulation to Bishop Jewel his old Friend, preferred not long before to the See of Salisbury. Which Letter did not long remain unanswered;
WHEN Queen Mary died, Paul the Fourth was Pope, to whom Queen Elizabeth sent an account of her coming to the Crown, which was delivered by Sir Edward Karn her Sisters Resident at Rome; to which the angry Gentleman replied,1 That England was held in Fee of the Apostolick See, that she could not succeed being illegitimate; nor could he contradict the Declarations made in that matter by his Predecessors Clement the Seventh, and Paul the Third: he said it was a great boldness in her, to assume the Crown without his Consent; for which in reason she deserved no favour at his hands; yet if she would renounce her Pretensions, and refer her self wholly to him, he would shew a fatherly affection to her, and do every thing for her that could consist with the dignity of the Apostolick See. Which answer being hastily and passionately made, was as little regarded by the Queen. But he dying soon after, Pius the Fourth an abler man succeeded; and he was for gaining the Queen by Arts and Kindness; to which end he sent Vincent Parapalia Abbot of St. Saviours with courteous Letters to her, dated May the fifth 1560. with order to make large proffers to her under hand; but the Queen had rejected the Popes Authority by Act of Parliament, and would have nothing to do with Parapalia, nor would she suffer him to come into England. In the interim the Pope had resolved to renew the Council at ⟨p. 30⟩Trent, and in the next year sent Abbot Martiningo his Nuncio to the Queen, to invite her and her Bishops to the Council, and he accordingly came to Bruxells, and from thence sent over for leave to come into England: but tho France and Spain interceded for his Admission, yet the Queen stood firm, and at the same time rejected a motion from the Emperor Ferdinando, to return to the old Religion as he called it. Yet after all these denials given to so many and such potent Princes, one Scipio a Gentleman of Venice, who formerly had had some acquaintance with Bishop Jewel when he was a Student in Padua, and had heard of Martiningo's ill success in this Negotiation, would needs spend some Eloquence in labouring to obtain that Point by his private Letters, which the Nuncio could not gain as a publick Minister; and to that end he writes his Letters of Expostulation to Bishop Jewel his old Friend, preferred not long before to the See of Sarisbury. Which Letter did not long remain unanswered;
- 1Dr. Burnett's History of the Reformation. Tom. 2.
