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A40038 The history of Romish treasons & usurpations together with a particular account of many gross corruptions and impostures in the Church of Rome, highly dishonourable and injurious to Christian religion : to which is prefixt a large preface to the Romanists / carefully collected out of a great number of their own approved authors by Henry Foulis. Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669. 1671 (1671) Wing F1640A; ESTC R43173 844,035 820

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disobedience to these Acts and the other Laws of the Realm And the several designes and plots against her to take away both her Kingdoms and Life might not onely oblige her to look to her self but also move her to a greater severity then she was naturally addicted to Yet hitherto it was not death for Priests or Jesuits to be in England if they did nothing else But some XIV years after this the Queen and Parliament supposed they had Reason to b 27 Eliz. cap. 2. Enact it Treason and Death onely for being found here yet they were so far from catching any one in a Trap or without warning that by the said Act they all had time given to transport themselves freely without any Attachment with liberty to take Ship at what Port they pleas'd the time allotted them being forty days after the ending of that present Session of Parliament Nay farther that if any were sick then upon security they might remain in the Kingdom six Months longer and then to depart And all this was more favourable then the Protestants received from Queen Mary Let us also add that those whom she had in prison she sent over upon her own charges and with kinde usage so far was she from thirsting after bloud as some would have her for confirmation thereof take one Certificate of twenty Jesuits and Priests and one Gentleman sent from the Tower of London Marshalsee and Kings-bench TO all Magistrates Officers and Ministers within the Realm of England or elsewhere to whom it may any wise appertain This may be to give certification that we whose names are here under-written who were imbarked at the Tower-wharfe of London the 21 of January 1584 and there received into the charge of Mr. a a One of the Yeomen Ushers to the Queens Chamber William Bolles and Mr. b b A Skinner of London Antony Hall by Commission from their Lordships and other her Majesties most honourable Privy-Council Have been by them the said William Bolles and Antony Hall very friendly and honestly intreated and with careful diligence safely conducted transported and conveyed to the Province of Normandy and by them left this third day of February according to the English Computation in the year of Christ 1584. Which said Bolles and Hall have in Our presence paid the c c Matthew S●●u●t Master of the d d Call'd the Mary Ma●tin of C●lch●ster Bark which Transported us for the whole Fraught and Victuals in the Ship for the time of our remaining aboard And generally so well us'd us in all respects that we cannot but acknowledge our selves much beholden to them and fully satisfied in having been committed to the charge of so courteous Officers sith the case standeth so with us that we are banished our Country contrary to our desires wherein we take no little grief of minde For Testimony whereof we have hereto set our several hands this present third of February 1584. a a The first Jesuite that came into England he was son to the Epig●ammatist Jasper Heiwood b b Disputed with Dr. Jo. Rainolds John Hart William Tedder Arthur Pits Richard Slake Richard Norris c c Return'd into England call'd Bishop of Calcedon and wrote William Bishop d d A Jesuit return'd into England and wrote some Books Thomas Stephanson Christopher Tomson John Barnes e e Continued Sanders de Schismate ungrateful to the Queen Edward Rishton James Bosgrave Samuel Coniers f f Return'd into England wrote for the Oath of Allegiance William Warmington William Hartlie g g Return'd and executed at Mile-end Green 1588. William Dean h h Return'd executed at Lancaster 1560. Robert Nutter i i Return'd wrote in behalf of the Secular-Priests John Colleton k k Return'd wrote several Books was the chief man in putting out the Doway Notes on the Old Test Thomas Worthington William Smith Henry Orton Gentleman The next year also the Queen sent over XXXII more Priests and Jesuits and with what civility and kinde usage they were Transported I shall refer you to l Chron. fol. ●10 col 1. Stow or Howe 's for their own Certificate But to proceed we might shew at large even by the Confession of Romanists themselves that the Queen did nothing against the said Romanists but even what she was necessitated to do for the preservation of her self and Kingdom of which two or three instances will not be amiss William Watson a zealous Roman Priest and one who afterwards suffer'd for Treason confesseth how the a Quodlibets pag. 265. Pope plotted her destruction and that as he hinteth by the Instig●●on of some English before which Her Majestie used us kindely for the space of the first ten years of her Highness Raign the State of the Catholicks in England that while was tolerable and after a sort in some good quiet Such as for their conscience were imprisoned or in durance were very mercifully dealt withal the state and change of things then considered some being appointed to remain with such their friends as they themselves made choice of others were placed with Bishops and others with Deans and had their Dyets at their Tables with such convenient Walks and Lodgings as did well content them They that were in ordinary Prisons had all such liberty and commodities as the place and their Estate could afford them Yea even thus much and more doth Parsons confess in his Philopater as also Father Creswell in his Scribe to the like effect b Id. pag. 266. How great quiet the State and Court was in for twelve years space no talk of Treasons or Conspiracies no Jealousies nor Suspicions no Envie nor Supplications no fear of Murtherings nor Massacrings no question of Conscience nor Religigion all lived in quiet content and right good fellowship was amongst them c. and then he confesseth that the Jesuits were the cause of the Laws against them Agnus Dei Medals Holy-grains c. He goeth on thus c Pag. 267. 268. I held directly that both her Majesties Laws and Proceedings against all sorts of Catholicks have been milde and merciful the opinion and judgement of her Highness in Religion one way and their foresaid practices against her another way duly consider'd The same Romanist having almost above measure commended the Queens d Id. pag. 274 276. Wisdom and Government seems to wonder why the Priests should be molested and though he saith their Afflictions have been extraordinary yet he also acknowledgeth so also hath the cause thereof been extraordinary and so far beyond the accustomed occasions of persecution given to any Prince in Christendom or Monarchie that is or ever was in the world to this hour unless the PURITANS of Scotland which P. 277. may in some sort equal the offence here to be set down as rather it is to be wondred at all things duly considered that any one Catholick is left on life in
conducting to Paris which was so far believed that many Ladies hired Windows in S. Denis street to see him pass by but they were convinced of the error when a little after they saw the said King take their very * 1 Novem. 1589. Suburbs of Paris So after the aforesaid battel of Yory the Leaguing Chieftains fearing lest the Parisians would mutiny at the sad news of it gave out many lies concerning it and at last perceiving all could not conceal the story to make the best of a bad market the Legat the Spanish Embassadour and the Archbishop of Lyons got the Priests to use their cunning in the Pulpits to deceive the people who as yet were not certain of the Defeat Amongst the rest Father Christino de Nizza from these words Those whom I love I rebuke and chasten seem'd to foretell them that God would prove the Faith and Constancy of the Parisians as he was wont to try the courage of his children for which he clapt together a great store of Examples out of Scripture and then making a shew as if Letters were just then delivered to him he shewed them to the people saying that he was very sorry that he had done the office of a Prophet and that God had been pleased by his mouth to advertise the People of Paris of that Temptation which was to fall upon them as now it troubled him to relate it and so told them that the Catholick Army had lately come off with the worst To all which he added such effectual prayers and exhortations that the people seem'd rathor heartned then di●couraged The same trick was used by Guilliaume Rose Bishop of Senlis Jean Boucher Prevost Feu-ardent Peletier with the other Preachers amongst the rest was Francisco Panigarola Bishop of Asti who came along with the Legat who though he preach'd in the Italian Tongue was continually follow'd by abundance of people being famous for his great eloquence And to these stories may be added the former zelous Widow Montpensier who said that truly the Duke had lost the battel but that the Bearnois was dead which by many was believed for some days which satisfied to restrain their first fears and so to gain some time to give orders and to send to raise new succours The Parlement at Rouen proceed desperately putting to death some prisoners they had because they were Servants to the King and then make an Act that all should be guilty of High Treason who joyned with the King of Navarre and did not side with their King Charles X. 10 April as they termed him However King Henry goeth on prosperously and with his Victorious Army layeth close siege to Paris it self which so cool'd the fury of those people that many of them began to stagger in their resolutions to prevent which the chief of the Citizens and Leaguers drew up these three following Quaeres I. If it should happen which God forbid that the most Christian King Charles X. should die or if whilest he is unjustly kept in prison he should yield up his right of the Kingdom to Henry de Bourbon Whether then the French be bound to or may with a safe conscience receive for their King the said Henry or any other Prince who favours Heresie although it were supposed that he were absolved from his crimes and censures considering the evident danger of his falshood of the destruction of Religion and the Kingdom II. Whether he may be said to be suspected of Heresie or a Favourer of it who procureth or permitteth a peace to be made with the said Henry when the said Party may hinder it III. Whether these things be of Divine Right and may be neglected by Catholicks without mortal sin and pain of damnation And on the contrary Whether it be meritorious to oppose with all ones endeavorus the said Henry And if the said Opposer be kill'd in this cause Whether he may not be call'd a Martyr With these Proposals they wait upon their Assembly of Divines at the Sorbone desiring their Resolutions and Determinations of them which take in their own words as followeth Anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo ineunte 7 May. mense Maio c. Super quarum dubitationum determinatione Sacra Facultus per juramentum convocata soepiusque cum publice in Collegio Sorbonae post Missam de Spiritu Sancto tum privatim vocato selectorum Magistrorum coetu congregata matura deliberatione praehabita cunctisque capitibus serio sigillatim ac diligenter quoad fieri potuit examinatis discussis in hunc tandem modum censuit Jure Divino prohibentur Catholici Haereticum hominem aut fautorem Haeresios hostem Ecclesiae notorium multoque magis relapsum à sancta sede nominatim excommunicatum ad Regnum admittere Quod si ejusmodi quispiam absolutionem à criminibus censuris in foro exteriore impetraveri tamen subsit manifestum simulationis perfidiae eversionis Religionis Catholicae periculum is nihilominus eodem jure excludi debet Quicunque autem satagat ut is ad Regnum perveneat aut ei studet ac favet aut etiam ad Regnum promoveri permittit cum impedire possit ex officio debeat sacris Canonibus est injurius de Haeresi merito suspectus Religioni atque Ecclesiae perniciosus contra quem eo nomine agi potest debet cujuscunque gradus eminentiae sit Cum igitur Henricus Borbonius Haereticus fautor Haeresios hostes Ecclesiae notorius relapsus nominatim excommunicatus sit si forte absolutionem in foro exteriore impetraret manifestum appareat simulationis ac perfidiae eversionis Religionis periculum eum Christianissimi Regni aditu etiam absolutione obtenta quovis alio legitimo Haerede mortuo vel cedente Franci prohibere à pace cum eo facienda abhorrere tenentur qui ei favent Canonibus injurii de Haeresi suspecti Ecclesiae perniciosi ac ut tales ●erio seduloque coercendi ac puniendi sunt Ut autem qui dicto Henrico ad Regnum aspiranti favere suppetiasve quovis modo ferunt Religionis desertores sunt in continuo peccato mortali manent sic qui se illi quocunque possunt modo zelo Religionis opponunt plurimum apud Deum homines merentur ut illos Satanae regno stabiliendo pertinaces aeterna poena damnandos sic hos si ad sanguiuem usque resistant aeternum in proemium ut fidei propugnatores Martyrii palmam consecuturos judicare par est Conclusum nemine repugnante in tertia congregatione generali super ea re facta in majore Aula Collegii Sorbonae omnibus singulis magistris per juramentum vocatis septima die Maii MDXC In the year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred and ninety in May c. Upon the determination of which doubts the Sacred Faculty being called together by oath and many times