A copy OF A LETTER written from his holiness Court at Rome, to his Grace of Canterbury's Palace now in the Tower.  
Deploring his Sequestration from his Liberty, but commending him for his late care in performing his holiness desires.  
LONDON, Printed 1642.   

Renowned, yet despicable son,  
TO you, as the only accomplisher of our Catholic designs, do we send this paper greeting, whose desolations are almost the only object of our present Lamentations, It cannot but extremely grieve us to hear with what good success that heretical Synod is attended, and what daily oppositions our episcopal government receives from them; never were we more cast down under the sad sususpition of the not attaining our ends, than now; formerly when your Grace was in your prosperity, than we lived not without a beneficial expectation of accomplishing our desires, and had not those Puritans, and the rabble, of the multitude been so clamorous, the voice of our mellifluous doctrines had been heard in your streets, but no sooner did you begin to hoist up our Altars metaphorical, but the ignorant vulgar supposed them the Romish and Antichhristian Mountains; and which is our grief, one of our sons turning Puritan, 
Lincoln.  being then in Quierpo, vented his distillations against them; only we must needs congratulate our hopeful son Heylin, who as much as in him lay gave the same a responsal warranted by your grace and favour; at this time were our hopes cherished, and when all things being so fairly carried, and almost finished, behold a heretical Synod assembleth, and mars all our holy enterprises, and as if this were not sufficient, the miszealous and heretical Scot must needs publish his Northern fumes to render us and ours odious to posterity. 
The Canterburian Self-conviction.   
But O 'tis our superlative grief, to hear that you are sequestered from present liberty, and that the Fates have conspired your woe. Cheer my son, cheer yourself with hopes, either of freedom from these afflictions, or else of eternal felicities for suffering in the cause of Christ, and his chief Vicar here on earth; Let not these momentary Castigations chase from your valorous spirit thoughts of happiness; For notwithstanding the success of your endeavours hath not produced the good you longed for within your Metrapolitanship, yet in Ireland we hope our dear children will perpetrate all the good they can devise (It yet holds well) and we hope will do so, until we have a full possession of the same, only the heretical city is in hopes of relief and sustentation, 
Dublin.  which we desire may be procrastinated, to our great satisfaction.  
Such being the condition of that kingdom, that the Inhabitants being for the most part members of our holy See, we were the better encouraged to lay designs on foot, for the actuating some advantageous business to ourself; We resolved, seeing we could not secretly undermine them, by a professed and open hostility to oppose them, where in a short time they have as yet had good success, and unless the heretics of the other kingdoms contribute their assistancee, we live in hopes it shall be our own.  
Notwithstanding the heretics insolency is such as doth much trouble us, yet in time we hope, and long to see the hour of redemption, when your Grace shall be either freed from your present troubles, or else leave the world like a meek Martyr, and be so cavonized at our Court of Rome, after the holy Order archiepiscopal.  
FINIS.