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 1581.] THE JESUIT INVASION. 93 learned were divided. He would pay her Majesty what was hers, but he must pay to God Avhat was God's. He was returned to the Tower with directions that he should be kindly treated ; but Burghley's determination prevailed over Elizabeth's good-nature. Morton had just been executed. A spy at Rheims procured and sent over a copy of a letter from Allen to Father Al- gazzari, boasting of Campian's successes, of the multi- tude of priests who were at work in England, of the ease with which they baffled the searchers at Dover, and of the unnumbered converts whom they were re- conciling to the faith. Two expressions in the letter, underlined either by Burghley or Walsingham, justified the worst interpretation of the Jesuit's objects. Allen spoke of a young Catholic of good family as having come over to him ut se sermret ad illud tempits, that he might keep himself safe till that time the time of the^ insurrection and invasion. Another piece of information was that Parsons was in continual conference with several noblemen, and even with certain members of the privy council. 1 Everard Harte, a seminary priest, perhaps the traitor's brother, who had defied the Go- vernment, and declared himself the Pope's subject, was hanged and quartered under the late Act at Tyburn, on the 3 ist of July. 'He died,' says Mendoza, 'with in- 1 ' Grntimw intcrpellatur a nobili- bus etiam et a quibusdam consilianis propter necessaria consilia.' Allen to Alg'azzari, June 23 : MSS. Do- mestic. Opposite to the words in italics either Burghley, "Walsingham, or Elizabeth for no one else saw these papers has drawn a finger