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Chapter 4 123supremacy amongst the most industrious, the wealthiest of earth. TheRoyal Exchange of London – built by one of her subjects – became thecenter of commerce extending over Europe, and to Barbary, Morocco,Guinea, and Turkey. Her sailor, Willoughby, actually discoveredArchangel — and a Russian trading company was established. Frobisher,Davis, Raleigh, Drake, and Cavendish, are names of high renown: –these men were Elizabeth’s discoverers of the world, which theycircumnavigated at no expense to the nation, because they had to fighttheir way on the papal seas of the Spanish despot – and brought homesolid equivalents as well as contributions to ‘the diffusion ofknowledge.’ Some call them pirates – but, if they were, they robbedfrom a thief – the King of Spain [Philip II] – that wholesale pirateamong the Indians.” {13}Elizabeth’s successor, King James I – the son of Scotland’s beheaded MaryQueen of Scots – banished the Jesuits, rightly blamed the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 on“Jesuits and papists,” and became the founder of the Protestant British Empire. Hewould also authorize the translation of the Protestant English Bible (for which hisgood name would be continually maligned, vilified and slandered), destined to betaken to the ends of the earth in creating Western Civilization, while furthering TheGreat Commission given by Jesus the Messiah,“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is givenunto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach allnations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all thingswhatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway,even unto the end of the world. Amen.”– Matthew 28:18-20One of the most important plots in attempting to assassinate Queen Elizabethmiserably failed, having been exposed by England’s Lord Great Chamberlain,Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. In his revealing of the JesuitGeneral’s Campion-Parsons Plot we read:“During the latter 1570’s, the whole-souled Oxford had remainedunsuspicious as his intimacy with his Catholic cousins and their circleof intellectual friends increased. Finally . . . they recklessly confided tohim, in December, 1580, their plans to overthrow Elizabeth and placeMary Queen of Scots on the throne of England. To their horror, Oxfordwent at once to the Queen — the sovereign to whom, as a feudal knight,he had sworn undying fealty.” {14}The Jesuits – 1588