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He seemed jealous of Bouillon, and disposed to show the sovereign to whom he had so recently given his allegiance that an ancient Leaguer and Papist was a better soldier for his purpose than the most grizzled Huguenot in his army. On the other hand the friends of Villars accused the duke of faintheartedness, or at least of an excessive desire to save himself and his own command.
But the city was declared by the Regent in a state of siege; and a body of troops under the fierce Papist Noircarmes was sent to invest it. Sad news shortly afterwards reached us, that most of the Protestant bands had been cut to pieces by Noircarmes and his troops.
I mean, you said, 'I can't believe this or that; now you ought to have said, 'I can't believe the Pope has power to decide this or that. If he had, you ought to believe it, whatever it is, and not to say, 'I can't believe." Sheffield looked hard at him: "We shall have you a papist some of these fine days," said he. "Nonsense," answered Charles; "you shouldn't say such things, even in jest."
What are we all doing from morning to night, but setting up our own fancies as the measure of all heaven and earth, and saying, each in his own dialect, Whig, Radical, or Tory, Papist or Protestant, 'When it pleases Heaven to open your eyes you will see as I do'? 'It is a great pity, went on Mrs. Lavington, meditatively, 'to see a young man so benighted and thrown away.
Perth, still Chancellor and a Papist, was told to do nothing without consulting Balcarres and Tarbat.
That cunning old Drake! how he has contrived to line his own pockets, even though he had to keep the whole fleet waiting for him." "He has given the lord high admiral the dor, at all events." "Lord Howard is too high-hearted to stop and plunder, Papist though he is, Amyas." Amyas answered by a growl, for he worshipped Drake, and was not too just to Papists.
Your Conventicling Miracles out-do All that the Whore of Babylon e'er knew: By wondrous art you make Rogues honest Men, And when you please transform 'em Rogues again. To day a Saint, if he but hang a Papist, Peach a true Protestant, your Saint's turn'd Atheist: And dying Sacraments do less prevail, Than living ones, though took in Lamb's-Wool-Ale.
A good papist, well-inclined and docile, he was strongly recommended for the post of admiral, not because he had naval acquirements, but because he had a great many children. The Marquis of Havre, uncle to the Duke of Arschot, had played in his time many prominent parts in the long Netherland tragedy.
At dinner to-night she suddenly told me that she wished she had been born a Roman Catholic, and I could not think why until I remembered that a Princess had just become a Papist. She could never have liked the Inquisition, but she thought the Pope had such a dear, kind face.
A Papist was disabled from purchasing freehold lands, and even from holding long leases; and any person might take his Catholic neighbour's house by paying 5 pounds for it. If the child of a Catholic father turned Protestant he was taken away from his father and put into the hands of a Protestant relation.
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