Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale

82 GENEALOGIE OF THE
the King had of destroying of the Protestant religion ; for, could a man
of sense be alarmed with the Embassy to Rome, when he knew the Em-
bassador, who fell by the ears with Cardinal Howard, the only man able
to instruct him in what might conduce to his purpose, as soon as he
came to Rome. Nuncio Dada, who could scarce defend his religion
against a man of ordinarie learning, and did no other thing but cry
out against the French as hereticks, to the scandale and sometimes
laughter of the company, was he a man to endanger the Reformation ?
Now, those being the only hands through which pass'd all the traffick
betwixt England and Rome, wherof the one brought as bad relations
from Rome as the other sent from England, could we conclude, that
though the Union of both Churches had been possible, it could have been
finished by the politicks of the Embassador, or learning of the Nuncio ?
As for the other Priests, such as Davidson, Dumbar, Abercromby, and
severall other blockheads that were sent amongst us, they were not fit
instruments for that worke. Now, as for what was said of the dispens-
ing of the test, and his employing and advanceing Papists in considerable
places, and in his armie. — it's certain, that if he had taken right mea-
sures for sutch a purpose, he had not been so shamefully betrayVl. But
what was that in comparison of what the Prince of Orange has done, in
bringing in a number of fanaticall persons to complete the Estate, who
are excluded by the laws of both nations, and abolishing in Scotland,
Episcopacy, by a fanaticall spirit. Now, the Kingdom e acknowledging
no other law but what is made by lawfull authority, that is, by the
King and Parliament, and no other authority but the King's alone being
able to call the Peers and Commons together, how could the Scots
conveen in a convention, sieing they had no authority themselves, and
consequently could give none to the Prince of Orange, who is neither
capable to receave it, nor exercise it, haveing forfeited all his rights,
honours, and prerogatives, if any he had, in entering the Kingdom in
armes, and declaring himself against the King ? Moreover, if a lawfull