Pope Paul V slowly opened the seal on a letter from an ambitious man and read its contents line by line.
As he approached seventy years of age, he struggled to read the tiny script mixed with crude ciphers. Only after a considerable time...
'Among the hateful bloodlines of the House of Stuart, there are those who are Catholic, or sympathetic to Catholicism. The Lord has not yet abandoned this land...'
'If we carefully select and place someone among them who has not forgotten the Lord's teachings, it will not be long before we rebuild the Holy Church in this cursed land. Also...'
'I trust that Your Holiness will keep this in mind and make an excellent decision as the father of the Church (Papa). Thereby...'
'...With that, I, Guido (the Italian form of the name Guy), a faithful servant of the Lord, send this letter.'
The Pope could grasp the general content of the letter.
This letter, transmitted through Spain back to Rome, clearly contained important information.
