[107] _E.g._, in the _Advocate of Conscience Liberty_ (1673), p. 225. [108] _History of Mary Queen of Scots and James I._, p. 334. Bishop Kennet, in his Fifth of November Sermon, 1715, boldly declares that Sanderson speaks not of Cecil the statesman, but of Cecil "a busy Romish priest" (and, he might have added, a paid government spy). The assertion is utterly and obviously false. [109] _Memoirs_, p. 22. [110] _History of England, Royal House of Stuart_, p. 27. [111] _General History of England_, iii. 757. [112] _History of His Own Times_, i. 11. [113] _Church History_, Book X. § 39. [114] _Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie, to the regall Monarchie and Civill Unity_, p. 151. [115] _A Short View of the English History_, p. 296. [116] Note to _Fuller's Church History_, x. § 39, and to the _Student's Hume_. [117] _Illustrations_, iii. 172. [118] Parker and Co. This author says of Cecil and his rival Raleigh, "Both were unprincipled men, but Cecil was probably the worst. He is suspected not only of having contrived the strange plot in which Raleigh was involved, but of being privy to the proceedings of Catesby and his associates, though he suffered them to remain unmolested, in order to secure the forfeiture of their estates" (p. 338). [119] _Criminal Trials_, ii. 68. [120] _History of England_, i. 254, note. [121] _Catholique Apology_, p. 412. [122] _Hist. Prov. Angl. S.J._, p. 310. [123] _Condition of Catholics under James I._, p. 100. [124] R.O. _Dom. James I._, lxxxi. 70, August 29th, 1615. [125] _A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith_, Rouen, 1721, p. 197. [126] _Certamen utriusque Ecclesiæ_, James I. [127] The author of the _English Protestants' Plea_ (1621) says: "Old stratagems and tragedies of Queene Elizabeth's time must needs be renewed and playde againe, to bring not only the Catholikes of England, but their holy religion into obloquy" (p. 56). Peter Talbot, Bishop of Dublin, in the _Polititian's Catechisme_ (1658) writes: "That Cecil was the contriver, or at least the fomenter of [the Plot,] was testified by one of his own domestick Gentlemen, who advertised a certain Catholike, by name Master Buck, two months before, of a wicked designe his Master had against Catholikes" (p. 94). [128] A writer, signing himself "Architect," in an article describing the old palace of Westminster (_Gentleman's Magazine_, July, 1800, p. 627), having occasion to mention the Gunpowder Plot, observes: "This Plot is now pretty well understood not to have been hatched by the Papists, but by an inveterate foe of the Catholicks of that day, the famous minister of James.... All well-informed persons at present laugh at the whole of this business." CHAPTER IV. THE TRADITIONAL STORY.