Show dads letter by JAMES 11 WALUS WALLIS from the moment of 0 marys entering england after her flight from scotland she began to be the center or of plots and miseries one of these was a by the popo pope and some of the catholic sovereigns of liu eusope tope to depose queen elizabeth place mary on the throne and restore the catholic religion undoubtedly mary know and approved appi oved this this the rope openly proclaimed elizabeth the pretended queen of england excommunicated her and excommunicated munica ted all her subjects who continue con tinne to obey her the people having thrown oft off the pope as a result of the reformation did not care much for the popo popes throwing off 0 them proposals made to mary marv by elizabeth for her release required an admission ot of her guilt but phe was very careful to do nothing that would admit it and therefore came to nothing moreover both aorien wo nen being artful at and treacherous and neither ever trusting the other it was not likely that they could ever make an agreement 1 parliament arli ament a aggravated grav atod by what the pope had done made no new NN and strong laws against the Dreiding of the catholic religion in england and declared it treason in any one to say bay that the queen and her successors not the lawful sovereigns of england since the reformation there hid had come to be three great le IP egions or ol sects that is to say those who belonged to the reformed or protestant church those who belonged to the vine unie famed or catholic church inc those who were called the puritans be because carise they said that tile they wanted to have hare everything very and plain in all the church services these latter w were ere very powerful and were the determined enemies of the queen of scots the protestant Pio teella teel ln in england was further strengthened by the tremendous nuel ties in which P protestants rote stants were treated in holland ands and france scores of thousands of them were put to deal deahl I 1 I 1 in those countries with avei cruelty that can be imagined until I 1 it at lost in the lie fall of the beir 1572 one of the greatest barbarities bari barit ties les over ever committed in the world took place in paris it is called in history the massacre ot of st the lay day tell fell on saturday the twenty i of august on that day a all the I 1 areat leaders or of the protestants who vere called huguenots Huguen were assembled together for the purpose po e as was to them i of doing honor boner to the marriage of their chief the youns young king u aft with the sister of charles the ninth a mi miserably e youns young king who occupied the throne of F anre ance this lull cea ture was made to believe by his mother and other fierce catholics about him that the hugenott Hu genots meant to take his life and he was persuaded to rive give secret or drs that on the tolling tol linT of a great bell they should be ballen tallen upon by in an overpowering force of armed men and slaughtered whet wherever they could be found when tile the appointed hour was close at hand this youn weak monarch trembling inc from head to lo foot was taken into a balcony I 1 by his mother to see the atio clous work began bean the moment the bell I 1 tolled tile tho murderers broke foran durin during all that night and the I 1 next two days these assassins broke into the houses and set tire fire to han ariot and alia protestants men women and children all and flung filing their bodies into the streets ahey they were shot it at in 11 the a as they passed along and their b blood 1 flowed down the gutters upwards of ton ten thousand protestants were killed in paris alono alone and in all france live times that number to return thanks to heaven for these diabolical murders the pope and his train actually went in public procession at rome and as it if this were not shame enough for them they had made and dis til buted medals to commemorate tile the event however comfortable these wholesale murders were to these high they had bad not that soothing effect upon tile the loll doll kanj lie never knew i a moments peace afterwards he was continually crying out that he saw the hugenott Hu Ilu genots covered with blood and wounds falling dead before him he died within wiehl n a year shrieking and yelling and raving when the terrible news or of the me massacre arrived in england it made a powerful impression indeed upon the people while the memory of this massacre was still fresh in their minds a geat protestant dutch hero the prince of orange was shot by an assassin wio who confessed lie he had been kept arid and trained tor for the purpose in a college of jesuits the dutch in this surprise and distress offered to make queen elizabeth their sovereign to rule over thel the netherlands she declined the lionor honor and sent them a small almy instead under the command ol oi the earl eari of leicester her lover although a capital court fa favorite be was not much of a general ile he did so little in ili holland that his campaign there would have been forgotten but for its occasion ipg tile the death of one of the best beat writers the best knights knight and ahe best historians of that age this thia was sir phillip sydney who as wounded ly by a musket ball in ili the thigh is as lie he mounted I a fresh horse after having had his own killed under him ile he had to ride bark back wounded a long distance and was very faint with fatigue faiga and loss of blood when some water tor for which lie ho had ad eagerly ask I 1 ed was handed to hini but he be was so BO good and gentle even then that seeing a badly wounded common soldier lying on an the ground looking at the water with longing eyes lie he said thy necessity is grenter greiter than mine and gave ave it up to him this touching action of a noble heart is perhaps as well known is a any ny incident in history EO le ie freshing Is an all act of true humanity and so glad are mankind to 0 remember it |