[1] Feyjoo, in the supplement to his Teatro Critico, says, the relation
of the Earl of Leicester’s being guilty of the horrid crime of
murdering his wife in order to remove all impediments to his marrying
Queen Elizabeth, which he had entertained hopes of doing, was taken
from Nicholas Sanders, and another person whose name he has forgot;
he says further, he has since found reason to doubt the truth of that
accusation, and condemns the mistaken zeal of Sanders, who he owns was
much addicted to give credit to any thing he heard against the enemies
of the Catholic Religion. He declares that Protestants have the same
right to natural justice as Catholics, and that they should not be
positively and unjustly charged with crimes, upon false rumours, or
dubious reports.
[2] The son of Pope Alexander the sixth.