Vatican Assassins

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Henry Garnett, 1606 #33
Jesuit Provincial for the English Province
This infamous English traitor and murderer plotted many times to
assassinate Queen Elizabeth I in obedience to his Jesuit Oath. One of the
attempts was exposed by the Protestant Edward de Vere, alias “William
Shakespeare,” for which he lost his eighty-six landed estates to the Jesuits’
William Cecil. Justice Lord Coke presiding, Garnett was executed in 1606
for his part in the Gunpowder Plot along with seven other Jesuits. His last
words were, “Oh God! Destroy this perfidious nation, extirpate from the
earth those who live in it, to the end that we may joyfully render to Jesus
Christ [the Pope] the praises that are due unto him [the Pope].”
The History of the Jesuits in England 1580 - 1773, Ethelred L. Taunton, (London:
Methuen & Co., 1901) pp. 374, 375.
The Engineer Corps of Hell: Or Rome’s Sappers and Miners, Compiled and
translated by Edwin A. Sherman, (San Francisco, California: Private Subscription,
1883) p. 83.
The Jesuits – 1605