Quote#God & Faith
I thank God that you beware so soon of Jesuits that have been the…
Quote byElizabeth I of England · 1533–1603
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to King James VI of Scotland (15 October 1586), quoted in Leah Marcus, Janel Mueller and Mary Rose (eds.), Elizabeth I: Collected Works (2002), p. 290.
English (original)
I thank God that you beware so soon of Jesuits that have been the source of all these treacheries in this realm and will spread like an evil weed if at the first they be not weeded out... What religion is this that they pay—the way to salvation is to kill the prince for a merit meritorious?
— Elizabeth I of England
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