Most reverend & deere sonne whose holines I reverence, whose person I adore, whose policie I wonder at, I can= not but applaud extoll & commende thee my deere sonne for the thy extraordinary greate meanes, costes & charges in the preparation of so great forces against the Rebellious heretikes from the Roman Catholike religion, I meane the British Danish Irish Danish & Flemish heretikes, the particulers of which Course I haue in writing, & I heare say likewise that they are published to the whole world Therefore followe it nowe with all cele= ritie & expedition. Now be the dayes to conquer, nowe is the time to strike/ God hath forsaken them, theire land is impoverished, theire ships tattered, theire state is weakened, theire Parliament is ended & nothing amended, the Nobles disquieted, theire Gentry discouraged, the Com= mons discontented & the whole kingdome divided And the Roman Chatholikes in England gasping & gaping for the arrivall your arrivall Therefore strike nowe or else for ever here= after hold thine hand. By this meanes thou mai'ste roote out & extirpate all malitious turbulent & evill affected spirits against the sea of Rome. There are but 5 Nations thou needest to feare in the world. The king of greate Brit= taine, the king of Denmarke /the king of Sweden/ the Palsgraue else there is not five. falsly vsurping the title of king of Bohemia, & the Rebellious Hollanders. But what are those against thee, but so many molehilles to mountaines? & no more in our handes then a lambe in the pawes of a lyon? Yet it were not amisse to practise some deadly stratagem by poulder or poyson, by my servants the seminaries & Iesuites, especially vpon the king of greate Brittaine & the Palsgraves children (king Henry 5s faces & Queene Elisabeths hearty apes) for if these be not cut of in the blossomes but continue to be ripe fruite, it is to be feared, they will doe much harme. And I heare say that my servant Spinola hath receiued my Sa= craments & sworne to St Iames by his Agnus dei that he would spend his best bloud in England against the Revolters from the Romish church, which I, Cruell Fortune, & Fate con= spire so to effecte. It is my desire that his hearte may be baked in a pastie & sent to the Nunnes at St Lucas, his bones may be buried in the Cathedrall chu Church of Civill & his stones to be conveyed to my handmaide the Archdutches for a token of his loue. And so my deere sonne I bidde the farewell.