Vatican Assassins

162
Vatican Assassins
Cromwell was regarded as invincible and enjoyed the confidence and love of his
soldiers. Cromwell went on to triumph over the Jesuits with their tools, Charles I and
the Royalists. The battles of Nasby, Marston Moor, Dunbar, Worcester and charging
the breach of Drogheda were all crowned with success, as Cromwell was fighting for
freedom of conscience – so hated by the Jesuits and their Council of Trent – while
Charles I was fighting for absolute monarchy and Papal supremacy. With the
Parliament executing the king for high treason, Cromwell went on to be “the Lord
Protector of the British Commonwealth and Defender of the Protestant Faith.” He
later dissolved the self-serving Parliament and banished the Jesuits from the kingdom
resulting in many conspiracies against his life. In 1654 a plot was discovered and the
Jesuits’ would be assassins, Gerard and Vowel, were promptly executed.
Therefore:
“A hundred and sixty brave fellows selected from his different
regiments of cavalry, divided into eight companies, became his
bodyguard; ten of whom were always on duty about his person. On
these he could rely; and unflinching and bold must be the man, and
quick the assassin’s knife, that could reach him then.” {4}
Clearly, Cromwell would not be another Admiral Coligny, William I of
Orange or Henry IV. Although the Jesuits failed in their many attempts to
assassinate The Defender, they managed to cruelly poison his beloved daughter,
Elizabeth. We read of her painful suffering and of her father’s despairing heart:
“ . . . the Lady Claypole [Elizabeth Cromwell], his favorite daughter,
was taken sick with a fatal and most painful disease. The Protector was
forgotten in the father; and hurrying to Hampton Court, he took his
place by her bed-side, overwhelmed with sorrow. Her convulsions, and
cries of distress, tore his heart-strings asunder, and shook that strong
and affectionate nature to its foundations. His kingdom, his power, the
Commonwealth, were all forgotten; and for fourteen days he bent over
his beloved child . . . ” {5} [Emphasis added]
The Protector went on to lay the foundation of the British possessions in the
West Indies and caused the flourishing of the preaching of the gospel while defending
freedom of conscience condemned by the Jesuits’ Council of Trent.
“So far did his thoughts reach beyond his age, that he desired and
earnestly attempted [but failed] to extend the rights of citizenship to the
outcast and persecuted Jews. [Cromwell, the Protector of England and
the Defender of the Protestant faith, did however readmit the Jews into
England in 1655 upon the formal request of Manasseh ben Israel].” {6}
The Jesuits – 1642 - 1658