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Chapter 4 127Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603 #29 Protestant Queen of England, 1558 –1603 A woman with the intellect of one hundred ordinary kings, speakingseven languages and encouraging the Protestant Reformation, Elizabethboldly expelled the Society of Jesus from England in 1579, 1581, 1586, andin 1602, the year before her death. Aware of the Order’s plots and agitationsamong Catholics, the Queen ordered the immediate execution of any Jesuitfound within her borders. Decreed a “heretic” and excommunicated byPope Pius V, the Jesuits sought to assassinate her many times. But the risenSon of God spared her life using her faithful courtiers, the greatest beingEdward de Vere, her beloved Earl and Lord Great Chamberlain.Miraculously, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years with the aid of her Puritanadvisor, Francis Walsingham, and laid the foundation for the Lord’sProtestant English Bible and the Protestant British Empire. This Star ofEngland, Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn, (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1952).The Jesuits – 1588