To Us They Shewed Great Friendship,
And For Our Sakes The Archbishop Favoured Them Much, And Gave Them Good
Countenance, Which They Well Knew How To Increase By Offering Him Many
Presents, Although He Would Not Receive Them, As He Never Accepted Gift
Or Present From Any Person.
They behaved themselves in all things so
discreetly, that no one carried an evil eye or evil thought towards
them.
This did not please the Jesuits, as it hindered what they still
wished and hoped for; so that they still ceased not to intimidate them
by means of the Dutch Jesuit, intimating that they would be sent
prisoners to Portugal, and counselling them to become Jesuits in the
cloister of St Paul, when they would be securely defended from all
troubles. The Dutchman pretended to give them this advice as a friend,
and one who knew certainly that it was so determined in the viceroy's
council, and that he only waited till the ship sailed for Portugal;
using this and other devices to put them in fear, and so to effect their
purpose.
The Englishmen durst not say any thing to the contrary, but answered
that they would remain as they were yet a little while and consider
their proposal, thus putting the Jesuits in hopes of their compliance.
The principal of these Englishmen, John Newbery, often complained to me,
saying that he knew not what to think or say of these things, or how
they might get rid of these troubles.
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