Finding him to be a very earnest Protestant of good religion and living
"... Elizabeth’s first ambassador to Morocco, Hogan set sail from Portsmouth on 6 May 1577... But what really caught Hogan’s attention was al- Malik’s appar- ent antipathy towards Spain and his support of England. He reported al-Malik as saying, ‘I make more account of you coming from the queen of England than of any from Spain,’ because, as Hogan observed, Philip II ‘cannot govern his own country, but is governed by the Pope and the Inquisition. Which religion [Catholicism] he doth wholly mislike of, finding him to be a very earnest Protestant of good religion and living, and well experimented as well in the Old Testament as New, bearing great affection to God’s true religion used in your Highness’s realm.’"
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That is confusing. It looks like "he" switches between Philip and al-Malik with no warning, and "your" seems to refer to an absent Elizabeth. The way I read it, it is al-Malik who dislikes Catholicism, and it is Philip who is governed by the Pope.
- That is confusing.
- It looks like "he" switches between Philip and al-Malik with no warning, and "your" seems to refer to an absent Elizabeth.
- The way I read it, it is al-Malik who dislikes Catholicism, and it is Philip who is governed by the Pope.
- We switch back to al-Malik, whom, we are told, Hogan finds to be a good Protestant at heart and who loves Elizabeth's religion.
- Some extra punctuation, at least, would have been welcome.
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That is confusing. It looks like "he" switches between Philip and al-Malik with no warning, and "your" seems to refer to an absent Elizabeth. The way I read it, it is al-Malik who dislikes Catholicism, and it is Philip who is governed by the Pope. We switch back to al-Malik, whom, we are told, Hogan finds to be a good Protestant at heart and who loves Elizabeth's religion. Some extra punctuati
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