This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1746 edition. Excerpt: ...Partugal was one of the Priests (p) who officiated in her Family. His busy Nature did not suffer him to continue long in that Post. He was always whispering to the Queen some Story or other, and the Uneafiness which her Majesty suffered in Octoher 1662, upon Lady Casl tlenxain's being put about her, was imputed to his Insinuations. He had unhappily, in talking of Lady Castlemain, made Use Ofa Word to the Queen, which in Spanish is used by Lovers to their Mistresses, and which sometimes signifies an Enchantress. The O_ueen, not having been used to the Language of Lovers, imagined the Conntest was a real Sorceress, and cautioned the King against her. Upon the IGngs Inquiry how the Queen came to entertain such a Notion, the Fact was fixed upon Talbot, who being involved with the Duke of Buckingham in the Mischiefs which then distracted the Court, he was ordered to depart the Kin dom. The Jesuits thought him too busy and factious a Person to be suffered) even in their Society-, and therefore it_was thought, that by their Interest Pope Clement the lXth was prevailed on to dispense with his Vows, and to advance him to the titular Archbishoprick of Dublin, to which he was consccrated at Ghent or Antwerp on the 2d of May 1669.-Peter Walffi (q) affirms, that he was in the Year 1659 formally ejected out of the Society of the Jesuits, but names not for what Cause, though he says he knew it, and the great Person who procured his Ejection. Returning to his native Country, he did not lie idle; but was always forming Designs, and contriving Schemes for advancing the Popish lnterest in Ireland. lt was he that promoted the Persecution of those Regulars and Seculars, who had signed a Remonstrance of their Loyalty to the King, and donounced them...

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