^{Page 62 note a} See note, vol. i. p. 122. Among other absurdities Squiers in his examination before the law officers in London (Cal. Dom. Eliz. Oct. 19, 1598), with unconscious irony makes Father Walpole say “he would write to Dr. Bagshaw at Wisbeach Castle as he knew all the courses of the Jesuits.” The indignant Doctor found no difficulty in establishing his own innocence, but he does not seem to have suspected the possible innocence of Walpole.

^{Page 62 note b} I do not know of any such papal prohibition forbidding the missionaries to meddle with political affairs. The Jesuits, however, on their joining the mission in 1580 received from the superiors of their order the strictest injunctions to that effect.