Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 255 Ince the appearance of our last issue, the nation has lost its King. And it is fitting that Catholics should take their full share in the national mourning. English Catholics have ever prided themselves on their loyalty to the Crown, even in days when loyalty was hard - during the long persecution which accompanied the Reformation. The bulk of them always deeply resented the efforts of the party, popularly associated with Father Parsons, to lead them into treasonable intrigues. Edmund Campion, the Jesuit, was not the only Martyr who proclaimed his loyalty to Elizabeth herself on the eve of his death. Catholic soldiers and sailors fought for England against a Spanish Armada, which claimed to have the blessing of the Holy See on its enterprise. Indeed, in the famous Letter to Mendoza, the Queen's ministers declared that the English Catholics were as keenly Opposed to the Spaniard as the Protestants themselves. Elizabeth, who assed away at the end of the 16th century, to the end 1l'ziad among Catholics her most loyal subjects, ready to obey her in all that conscience allowed. If Catholics lost in her a declared enemy, they never forgot that she was their Queen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.