England_, vol. ii., page 71.

Will it be said that this was not interfering with _temporal_ matters?
Will it be said that the right of trial by jury was a _spiritual_
matter? Will it be said that the tyranny of King John, and his
oppressions, of which the barons justly complained, were _spiritual_
matters? No sensible advocate of Romanism will say this!

The next instance of an interference by the Pope in temporal affairs, to
which I shall call your attention, Governor, is his excommunication of
Elizabeth, Queen of England. She was immediately preceded on that throne
by her sister Mary, who was a Catholic. For no other reason than that
Elizabeth was a _Protestant_, and would not submit her rights and
kingdom to the control of the Pope, Pius V. thundered forth at her
devoted head the following anathema, from his throne at the Vatican,
situated at the foot of one of the seven hills upon which Rome is built:

EXCOMMUNICATION AND DEPOSITION Of QUEEN ELIZABETH OF ENGLAND.

"Pius, etc., for a future memorial of the matter. He that
reigneth on high, to whom is given all power in heaven and on
earth, committed one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, _out
of which there is no salvation_, to one alone upon the earth,
Peter the Prince of the Apostles, and to Peter's successor, the
Bishop of Rome, to be governed in _fulness of power_. Him alone
he made prince over all people, and all kingdoms, to pluck up,
destroy, scatter, consume, plant and build, etc. But the number
of the ungodly hath gotten such power, that there is now no
place left in the whole world which they have not essayed to
corrupt with their most wicked doctrines. Amongst others,
Elizabeth, _the pretended Queen of England, a slave of
wickedness_, lending thereunto her helping hand, with whom, as
in a sanctuary, the most pernicious of all men have found a
refuge; this very woman having seized upon the kingdom, and
monstrously usurping the place of the supreme Head of the
Church in all England, and the chief authority and jurisdiction
thereof, hath again brought back the same kingdom to miserable
destruction, which was then newly reduced to the faith, and to
good order. For having by strong hand inhibited the true
religion, which Mary, the lawful queen, of famous memory, had,
by the help of this See, restored, after it had been formerly
overthrow