In 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth from the Roman Catholic Church and absolved her subjects of allegiance to her as queen. This translation of the Papal Bull was printed in 1681 to stir up anti-Catholic sentiment during the time of the so-called "Popish Plot."

Pius denounced "that servant of all iniquity, Elizabeth, pretended Queen of England, with whom, as in a most secure place, all the worst kind of men find a refuge." He declared that "the aforesaid Elizabeth is a heretic and a favourer of heretics. . . and that she is wholly deprived of her pretended right to the aforesaid kingdom."

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