n by King Henry VIII., a revolter therefrom, and
following and embracing the errors of _heretics_, she hath
removed the royal council, consisting of the English nobility,
and filled it with obscure men, being heretics; hath oppressed
the embracers of the Roman faith, hath placed impious
preachers, ministers of iniquity, and abolished the sacrifice
of the mass, prayers, fastings, distinction of meats, a single
life, and the rites and ceremonies; hath commanded books to be
read in the whole realm, containing manifest heresy, etc. She
hath not only contemned the godly requests and admonitions of
princes concerning her healing and conversion, but also bath
not so much as permitted the Nuncios of the See to cross the
seas into England, etc. We do, therefore, out of the fulness of
our apostolic power, declare the aforesaid Elizabeth, being
heretic, and a favorer of heretics, and her adherents in the
matter aforesaid, to have incurred the sentence of anathema,
and to be cut off from the unity of the body of Christ. And,
moreover, we do declare her to be deprived of her pretended
title to the kingdom aforesaid, and of all dominion, dignity,
and privilege whatsoever; and also the nobility, subjects, and
people of the said kingdom, and all others which have in any
sort sworn unto her, to be for ever absolved from any such
oath, and all manner of duty or dominion, allegiance and
obedience; as we also do, by the authority of these presents,
absolve them, and do deprive the same Elizabeth of her
pretended title to the kingdom, and all other things aforesaid.
And we do command and interdict all and every one of the
noblemen, subjects, people, and others aforesaid, that they
presume not to obey her, or her admonitions, mandates, and
laws; and those who shall do the contrary, we do innodate with
the like sentence of ANATHEMA.

"Given at St. Peter's at Rome, in the year 1569, and the fifth
of our pontificate."--_Dowling's History of Romanism_, p. 564.

One more: Sixtus V. thunders his bull of excommunication at this same
Queen of England--incites Philip of Catholic Spain to make war against
her country--and graciously _gives_ the British Isles to Philip! Here is
the bull of Pope Sixtus:

"We, Sixtus the Fifth, the universal shepherd of the flock of
Christ, the supre