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Excerpt from The Archpriest Controversy, Vol. 2: Documents Relating to the Dissensions of the Roman Catholic Clergy, 1597-1602; Edited for the Royal Historical Society From the Petyt Mss. Of the Inner Temple The motives of the Protestant Queen in setting free four priests whose lives were forfeited or in jeopardy for their allegiance to Rome, and providing them with passports that they might the more easily proceed to lay their clerical grievances at the feet of the Pope, Clement in deed as well as in name, may be variously interpreted. It cannot be assumed, however, that she was actuated solely by the design of sowing the seeds of fresh discord between the missionaries. She and her council were apparently in search of some trustworthy test to distinguish loyal and disloyal priests, and she probably hoped, as James I. At one time after her hoped, that the Pope might be induced to prohibit under censures any attempts at insurrection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.