"Her Majesty at her coming to the crown, utterly disliking of the tyranny of the Church of Rome, which had used by terror and rigour to seek commandment of men's faiths and consciences, although as a prince of great wisdom and magnanimity she suffered but the exercise of one religion, yet her proceeding towards the Papists was with great lenity, expecting the good effects which time might work in them. And therefore her Majesty revived not the laws made in 28° and 35° of her father's reign, whereby the oath of supremacy might have been offered at the king's pleasure to any subject, though he kept his conscience never so modestly to himself, and the refusal to take the same oath without further circumstance was made treason. But contrariwise her Majesty (not liking to make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts, except the abundance of them did overflow into overt and express acts and affirmations,) tempered her law so, as it restraineth only manifest disobedience in impugning and impeaching advisedly and maliciously her Majesty's supreme power, and maintaining and extolling a foreign jurisdiction."
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Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592. Entitled, A Declaration of the true Causes of the great Troubles, presupposed to be intended against the Realm of England, quoted in The Works of Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Vol. VIII. The Letters and the Life, Vol. I, eds. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis and Douglas Denon Heath (1862), p. 178
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