Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

Jesuit conspirators who made their escape to Rome
were rewarded; one being made penitentiary to the
Pope, and the other a confessor in St. Peter's.
Garnet, who was executed as a traitor, is styled by
Bellarmin a martyr; and Misson tells us that he saw
his portrait among the martyrs in the hall of the
Jesuit College at Rome, and by his side an angel
who shows him the open gates of heaven.[5]
That the Romanists should thus plot against the
religion and liberties of England was only what
might be expected, but James himself became a
plotter towards the same end. Instead of being
warned off from so dangerous neighbors, he began
industriously to court alliances with the Popish
Powers. In these proceedings he laid the foundation
of all the miseries which afterwards overtook his
house and his kingdom. His first step was to send
the Earl of Bristol to Spain, to negotiate a marriage
with the Infanta for his son Prince Charles. He
afterwards dispatched Buckingham with the prince
himself on the same errand to the Spanish Court --
a proceeding that surprised everybody, and which
no one but the "English Solomon" could have been
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