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122 Vatican Assassins“It is impossible to read Elizabethan history except in the context of anarmy of Jesuits, masters of deceit, treachery, treason, infiltration,subversion, assassination, insurrection, civil war and coercion, plottingfor the good of the papacy, and the defeat of all the Pope’s foesanywhere in the world.” {12} J. E. C. Shepherd, 1987Canadian HistorianThe Babington PlotThe Jesuits at every turn sought to discredit Queen Elizabeth in the eyes ofher English subjects. They claimed “that guilty woman of England” had neither rightnor title to the throne because she was the daughter of Roman Catholic King HenryVIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. Claiming that Henry’s second marriage wasadultery, Elizabeth was called “the bastard Queen” by the Jesuits. To add insult toinjury, the Jesuits then moved Pope Pius V to excommunicate her with his mostinfamous Papal Bull, Regnans in Excelsis (February 25, 1570). Formally condemnedby the Devil’s dynastic “Vicar of Christ,” certain Roman Catholic English lords couldbe convinced that killing Elizabeth would not be murder but a virtuous act.Therefore, the Jesuits plotted Elizabeth’s overthrow — many times. Theyattempted to make Mary, Queen of Scots, the Queen of England. But the conspiracyfailed and the treacherous Mary lost her life. The conspiracy to put a Jesuit-controlled,Roman Catholic Monarch on England’s throne was thwarted — this time. She wastried and beheaded on the 8 th of February 1587, by order of the Parliament.Others would attempt the life of the Queen. William Parry, AnthonyBabington, Roberto Ridolfi, as well as Jesuits Edmund Campion and RobertParsons were a few of the many would-be assassins. They too all failed and paid withtheir lives. The risen Son of God was protecting Elizabeth not because of her personalpurity but because of the prayers of her subjects and her benevolent policy towardsthe English Reformers.History would prove that the reign of Elizabeth was the birth of religiousliberty, the Middle Class, and thus the mighty Protestant British Empire. Of herkingdom’s great prosperity an ex-Jesuit writes:“The results of Protestantism were gloriously promoted and expandedby Elizabeth – in the vast improvement of agriculture – internal trade –and foreign commerce. Philip’s tyranny ruined the Netherlands:Elizabeth received and tolerated the fugitives. New manufacturers, ofvarious kinds, energetically advanced the nation’s onward march toThe Jesuits – 1588