An Excerp Of A Letter Of My 12th Great Uncle To Philip II Of Spain

William Cardinal Allen, My 12th Great Uncle

12th of December, 1592 To The Catholics Of England

"Doubt ye not, my most sweet and faithful coadjutors and true confessors, that our adversaries iniquities are now in God's sight near accomplished and at the height : on the contrary side the numbers of our brethren that are to suffer for His truth are near made up, and shortly to receive not only in the next, but in this world, the worthy fruits of their happy labours.  God all mighty and all merciful will not suffer long the rod of the wicked to lay so heavy upon the lot of the just, neither let us be tempted more than by His grace we shall be able to bear, but will shorten those days of affliction for the elect's sake."

To Philip II Of Spain:

"Again upon his deathbed he asked the Duke of Sesa to entreat Philip II, not to abandon the good Catholics of England, for that he was dying in full confidence that through the crown of his majesty the realm would one day be restored to the obedience of the Holy See." Page xxii of the Historical Introduction of The Letters and Memorials of William Cardinal Allen.

I hope, if God wills it and calls me or one of my many Catholic family members to restore the Realm of the Isle of Britain back to the Obedience of the Holy See through my Noble and Royal Ancestry of the Entire United Kingdom.

Andrew