way to destroy whomsoever the inquisitors wish. The prisoners are not confronted with the accuser or informer. Nor is there any informer or witness who is not listened to. A public convict, a notorious malefactor, an infamous person, a common prostitute, a child, are, in the holy office, though no where else, credible accusers and witnesses. Even the son may depone against his father, and the wife against her husband.

This procedure, unheard of till the institution of this court, makes the whole kingdom tremble. Suspicion reigns in every breast. Friendship and quietness are at an end. The brother dreads his brother, the father his son."

This is the tribunal of the Inquisition!—a tribunal more blasphemous, and dishonoring to the God of Mercy, and our Saviour Jesus Christ, and more awfully degrading to mankind, than any other institution that ever has existed upon earth.Everlasting infamy will rest upon its name; and the execrations of the wise and the good in all ages, will light upon the unhallowed system that gave it birth.

Damnation and Excommunication of Elizabeth, Queen of England, and her adherents.

PIUS, FOR A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF THE MATTER. I. He that reigneth on high, to whom is given all power in Heaven and on Earth, committed one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church out of which there is no salvation, to one alone upon earth, to Peter the Prince of the Apostles, and to Peter's successor the Bishop of Rome, to be governed in fulness of power. Him alone he made prince over all people, and all kingdoms, to pluck up, destroy, scatter, consume, plant, and build, that he may retain the faithful, that are knit together with the band of charity, in the unity of the Spirit, and present them spotless and unblamable to their Saviour. In discharge of which function, we who are, by God's goodness, called to the government of the aforesaid church, spare no pains, laboring with all earnestness, that unity and the religion, which the author thereof hath for the trial of his children's faith, and for our amendment, suffered to be exercised with so great afflictions, might be preserved uncorrupted.

II. But the number of the ungodly hath gotten such power, that there is now no place left in the whole world, which they have not essayed to corrupt with their most wicked doctrines. Amongst others, Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England,

a slave of wickedness, lending thereunto her helping-hand, with whom, as in a sanctuary, the most pernicious of all men have found a refuge, this very woman having seized on the kingdom, ana monstrously usurping the place of the Supreme Head of the church in all England, and the chief authority and jurisdiction thereof, hath again brought back the same kingdom into miserable destruction, which was then newly reduced to the faith, and to good order. For having by strong hand, inhibited the exercise of the true religion, which Mary the lawful Queen, of famous memory, had, by the help of this See, restored, after it had been formerly overthrown 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, and impious mysteries and institutions, by herself entertained and observed, according to the precept of Calvin, to be likewise observed by her subjects; hath presumed to throw bishops, parsons of churches, and other priests, out of their churches and benefices, and to bestow them and other church-livings upon heretics, and to determine of church causes; hath prohibited the prelates, clergy, and people, to acknowledge the church of Rome, or obey the precepts and canonical sanctions thereof; hath compelled most of them to condescend to her wicked laws; and to abjure the authority and obedience of the bishop of Rome, and to acknowledge her to be sole lady, in temporal and spiritual matters, and this by oath; hath imposed penalties and punishments on those who obeyed not, and exacted them of those who persevered in the unity of the faith, and their obedience aforesaid; and hath cast the Roman prelates and rectors of churches into prison, where many of them, being spent with long languishing and sorrow, have miserably ended their lives.

III. All which things, seeing they are manifest and notorious to all nations, and by the greatest testimony of very many so substantially proved, that there is no place at all left for excuse, defence, or evasion; we, seeing that impurities and wicked actions are multiplied one upon another; and, moreover, that the persecution of the faithful, and affliction for religion groweth every day heavier and heavier, through the indigna

tion and means of the said Elizabeth: because we understand. her mind to be so hardened and indurate, that she hath not only contemned the godly requests and admonitions of princes, concerning her healing, and conversion, but also hath not so much as permitted the Nuncios of this See to cross the seas in to England, are forced of necessity to betake to the weapons of justice against her, and not being able to mitigate our sorrow, that we are constrained to take punishment upon one, to whose ancestors the whole state of Christendom hath been so much bounden.

IV. Being therefore supported with his authority, whose pleasure it was to place us, though unequal to so great a bur den in this supreme throne of justice, we do, out of the fulness of our Apostolic power, declare the aforesaid Elizabeth, being a heretic, and a favorer of heretics, and her adherence 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 forever absolved from any such oath, and all manner of duty, of 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 Rome, in the year 1570.

Excommunication pronounced by Philip Dunn, against Francis Freeman, who embraced the Protestant faith in 1765, found among that Prelate's papers in his house, Wicklow. By the authority of God the Father Almighty, and the bles sed Virgin Mary, and of Peter, and Paul, and all the Holy Saints, we excommunicate Francis Freeman, late of the county of Dublin, but now of Juckmill, in the county of Wicklow, that, in spite of God, and Peter, and in spite of all the Holy Saints, and in spite of our most Holy Father the Pope, God's

vicar on earth, and in spite of Philip Dunn, our diocesan and worshipful Canons, who serve God daily, hath apostatized to a most damnable religion, full of heresy, and blasphemy; excommunicated let him be, and delivered over to the devil, as a perpetual malefactor and schismatic; accursed let him be in all cities, and all towns, in fields, in ways, in yards, in houses, and in all other places, whether lying or rising, walking or running, leaning or standing, waking or sleeping, eating or drinking, or whatsoever thing he does besides: we separate him from the threshold and all good prayers of the Church; from the participation of the Holy Jesus; from all sacraments, chapels and altars; from the holy bread and holy water; from all the merit of God's holy priests and religious men; and from their cloisters, and all pardons, privileges, grants, and immunities which all the Holy Popes have granted them; and we give him over, utterly to the fiend; and let him quench his soul when dead in the pains of Hell fire, as this candle is quenched and put out; and let us pray to God, our Lady, Peter and Paul, that all the senses of his body may fail, as now the light of this candle is gone, except he come, on sight hereof, and openly confess his damnable heresy and blasphemy, and by repentance make amends, as much as in him lies, to God, our Lady, Peter, and the worshipful company of this Church; and as the staff of this holy cross now falls down, so may he, except he re cants and repents. PHILIP DUNN.

Dreadful form of excommunication denounced against the Pope's alum-maker, who, having abandoned his holiness, in troduced the secrets of his trade into England.

"By the authority of God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the holy Canons, and of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, the Mother and Patroness of our Saviour; and all the celestial virtues, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubims, and seraphims; and of all the holy patriarchs and prophets; and of all the apostles, and evangelists; and of all the holy innocents, who, in the sight of the Lamb, are found worthy to sing the new song; of the holy martyrs and holy confessors; and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, and together with all the holy and elect of God, we excommunicate and anathematize this thief or this malefactor N: And from the thresholds of the holy Church of God Almighty, we sequester him, that he may be tormented, disposed and deliv

ered over with Dathan and Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. And as fire is quenched with water, so let the light of him be put for evermore, unless it shall repent him, and he make satisfaction. Amen.

May God the Father, who created man, curse him. May the Son, who suffered for us, curse him. May the Holy Ghost, who was given for us in baptism, curse him. May the Holy Cross, which Christ, for our salvation, triumphing ascended, curse him. May the holy and Eternal Virgin Mary curse him. May Michael, the advocate of holy souls, curse him. May John, the chief forerunner and baptist of Christ, curse him. May the holy and wonderful company of Martyrs, curse him. May Peter, Paul, Andrew, and all other Christ's Apostles, together with the rest of his disciples, and four evangelists, curse him. May the holy choir of the holy Virgins, who, for the honor of Christ, have despised the things of the world, curse him. May all the Saints, who from the beginning of the world, to everlasting ages, are found to be the beloved of God, curse him. May the heaven and earth, and all the holy things therein remaining, curse him. May he be cursed wherever he be, whether in the house or in the field, or in the high way, or in the path, or in the wood, or in the water, or in the church. May he be cursed in living, in dying, in eating, in drinking, in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in slumbering, in lying, in working, in resting,and in blood-letting. May he be cursed in all the powers of his body. May he be cursed within and without. May he be cursed in the hair of his head. May he be cursed in his brain. May he be cursed in the crown of his head; in his temples; in his forehead; in his ears; in his eye-brows; in his cheeks; in his jaw-bones; in his nostrils; in his fore-teeth and grinders; in his lips; in his throat; in his shoulders; in his wrists; in his arms; in his hands; in his fingers; in his breast; in his heart; and in all the interior parts to the very stomach; in his veins; in his reins; in his groins; in his thighs;; in his lips; in his knees; in his legs, in his feet; in his joints; and in his nails. May he be cursed in the whole structure of his members. From the crown of his head to the sole of the foot. May there be no soundness in him. May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his majesty, curse him; and may heaven and all the powers that move therein rise against him, to damn him; unless he shall repent and make full satisfaction Amen, amen, so be it."