Amongst other things which this Humphrey Ely tells me, one is a great secret in the name of some Island (English) nobleman and of the “Jesuit Fathers themselves.” It was that the said nobles are determined to try to kill the Queen with their own hands if they are assured, at least verbally, by His Holiness that in so doing they would not fall into sin. Because of the dangerous nature of the enterprise they would risk instant death.