Note 19a — Chapter II · PLAN OF ACTION.

Neal gives the following curious extract from a letter from an English Jesuit to the Rector of the College at Brussels:—“I cannot choose but laugh to see how some of our own coat have accoutred themselves; and it is admirable how in speech and gesture they act the Puritans. The Cambridge scholars, to their woful experience, shall see we can act the Puritans a little better than they have done the Jesuits. They have abused our sacred patron in jest, but we will make them smart for it in earnest.”—Neal’s “Puritans,” vol. i., p. 515.