Indeed,  they  contrived  to  bring  it  about  that  the  religious  liberty
of  the  Hungarians  was  taken  away  from  them  by  force,  and
although  that  people  broke  out  in  revolt,  they,  at  last,  attained
their  end  by  getting  rid  of  their  illustrious  patron  out  of  the
world  by  means  of  poison.  They  also  maintained  their  well-
nigh  all-powerful  influence  over  the  said  Emperor  during  the
remainder  of  his  reign,  and  even  later  it  was  not  otherwise,  during
the  sovereignty  of  his  successors.  Although  immediately  after
his  death,  under  his  first-bom  the  Emperor  Joseph  I.,  from
1705  to  1711,  there  elapsed  a  short  period  during  which  the
Holy  Fathers  had  to  draw  in  their  horns  in  a  small  degree,  they
were  gainers  under  his  brother  and  successor,  the  Emperor
Charles  VI.,  an  exceedingly  great  patron  of  theirs;  and  that
Charles's  daughter  and  heiress,  the  Empress  Maria  Theresa,
a  lady  than  whom  few  were  more  devout,  allowed  herself
to  be  almost  completely  led  by  them,  is  an  only  too  well-known
fact  of  history.  After  this  the  sons  of  Loyola  had  no  occasion
to  bring  their  fiendish  doctrine  of  regicide  often  into  operation
•  in  Germany,  and  I  pass  over,  therefore,  to  their  behaviour  in
other  countries,  above  all  in  England.
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CHAPTER   II.
THE   GUNPOWDER   PLOT   IN   ENGLAND,   AND    THE   POLITICAL
INTRIGUES   OF   THE   JESUITS   IN   THAT   COUNTRY.
As  I  have  already  mentioned  in  the  Second  Book,  Catholicism
had  been  forbidden  in  England  by  Henry  VIII.,  but  not,  how-
ever, altogether  suppressed.  Under  his  eldest  daughter  and
successor  Mary,  rightly  named  "  Bloody,"  it  again  boldly  raised
its  head,  and  thousands  of  Protestants  perished  on  the  scaffold.
