_The most Serene King his Master has done all in him lies to deserve the name of the Eldest Son of the Church. And by breaking into pieces that ~Hydra~ of Heresie, which had in his own Kingdom for above an Age, trampled upon all that was Sacred, he might have justly expected better Returns of his Zeal for the Catholick Religion, than he did meet with from the then Head of the Church. It was not only in his own Kingdom, that his most Serene Master did use his utmost Power and Interest to root out Heresie, and to establish the true Ancient, Catholick, and Apostolick Religion; but his Aims and Influence went farther; and unless the late Pope ~Innocent II.~ had wilfully obstructed his Designs by an untimous and needless Breach betwixt him and the Crown of ~France~, the state of Christendom, and of the Catholick Church, had been far better than it is at this day. All this his Excellency does not represent to his Holiness out of any design to cast Dust on the Ashes of his Predecessor; for as the most Christian King his Master suffered as much as ever Prince in his Circumstances and Quality did, from the late Pope, and that without doing any action unbecoming a true Eldest Son of the Church towards the common Father and Head thereof; so he resolves for ever to banish from himself, and bury in oblivion the remembrance of these things._ Here the _French_ Ambassadour does very fairly confess as a great Honour to his Master, _That it was not in his own Kingdom only, that he us’d his Interest to root out Heresie; but that his Aims and Influence went further; and if the late Pope’s breach with him had not hindered, The state of the Catholick Church had been far better than it is now at this day_. What can be more plain than this? And where could the _French Designs and Influence to root out Heresie_, be more effectual and more probable to lie, than in _England_, at that time under the Reign of a Prince as zealous a _Romanist_ as himself, and in the nearest conjunction with him in all ties of _Friendship and Alliance_. The rest of the _Memorial_ contains a great many other particulars relating to the Pretensions of the _French_ King, and Disputes between him and the late Court of _Rome_: And therefore it’s needless here to mention them. Only in the end He has this other Article relating to the Affairs of _England_, which runs thus.