of money under divers pretences, to the value of a million;" "by affirming that none might yield to live under an heretic (as they continually termed his majesty);" "and by open speech that the king and all his royal issue must be cut off and put to death." In making these bitter and, for the most part, untrue accusations against the Jesuits, he complained that he was "accounted for no better than an infidel, apostate, or atheist, by the jesuitical faction," and that he was never likely "to receive any favour" from his majesty "so long as any Jesuit or Spaniard" remained "alive within this land." [63] Dodds' _Church History of England_, Appendix i. p. xxxv. Undoubtedly, during the cruel persecutions of Elizabeth, Jesuits, as well as secular priests, and Catholic laymen too, for that matter, had hoped that her successor on the English throne might be of their own religion; they had good cause for doing so; the Pope himself had urged the enthronement of a Catholic monarch for their country, and in fairness, it must be admitted that not a few Englishmen, who considered themselves royalist above all others, had at one time refused to regard Elizabeth herself as the legitimate possessor of the British crown; but, when James had been established upon the throne, with the exception of a few discontents, such as the conspirators in the "Bye" plot and the diminutive Spanish party, the English Catholics, both lay and clerical, acknowledged him as their rightful king. Pope Clement VIII.[64] "commanded the missionaries" in England "to confine themselves to their spiritual duties, and to discourage, by all means in their power, every attempt to disturb the tranquillity of the realm;" he also ordered "the nuncio at Paris to assure James of the abhorrence with which he viewed all acts of disloyalty," and he despatched "a secret messenger to the English Court with an offer to withdraw from the kingdom any missionary who might be an object of suspicion to the Council." [64] Lingard, Vol. vii. chap. i.