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B21181 The Jesuites policy to suppress monarchy proving out of their own writings that the Protestant religion is a sure foundation and principle of a true Christian / written by a person of honor. Derby, Charles Stanley, Earl of, 1628-1672. 1678 (1678) Wing D1088 39,304 36

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Spices with divers and many other pretious things of sundry kinds and qualities Therefore all things diligently considered especially the amplifying and enlarging the Catholick Faith as it behoveth Catholick Princes following the Example of your Noble Progenitors of Famous Memory you have determined by the favour of Almighty God to subject unto you the firm Lands and Islands aforesaid and the Dwellers and Inhabitants thereof and to bring them to the Catholick Faith We greatly commending this your Godly and laudable purpose in our Lord and desirous to have the same brought to a due end and the Name of our Saviour to be known in those parts do exhort you in our Lord and by the receiving of your Holy Baptism whereby you are bound to Apostolical Obedience and earnestly require you by the bowels of Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that when you intend for the Zeal of the Catholick Faith to prosecute the said Expedition to reduce the People of the foresaid Lands and Islands to the Christian Religion you shall spare no Labors at any time or be deterred with any perils conceiving firm Hope and Confidence that the Omnipotent God will give good success to your Godly Attempts and that being Authorized by the Priviledge of the Apostolical Grace you may the more freely and boldly take upon you the Enterprize of so great a matter We of our own motion and not either at your request or at the instant Petition of any other person but of out own meer Liberality and certain Science and by the fulness of Apostolical Power do Give Grant and Assign to you your Heirs and Successors all the firm Lands and Islands found or to be found discoverd or to be discovered towards the West and South drawing a Line from the Pole-Arctick to the Pole Antarctick that is from the North to the South containing in this Donation whatever firm Lands or Islands are sound or to be found toward India or toward any other part whatsoever it be being distant from or without the foresaid Line drawn a Hundred Leagues towards the West and South from any of the Islands which are commonly called De Loz Azores and Capo Verd All the Islands therefore and firm Lands found and to be found discovered and to be discovered from the said Line towards the West and South such as have not actually been heretofore possessed by any other Christian King or Prince until the day of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ last past from the which beginneth this present Year being the Year of our Lord 1493. Whensoever any such shall be found by your Messengers and Captains We by the Authority of Almighty God granted unto us in St. Peter and by the Vicarship of Jesus Christ Whoth we bear on the Earth do for ever by the tenor of these presents Give Grant Assign unto you and your Heirs and successors the Kings of Castile and Legion all those Lands and Islands with their Dominions Territories and Cities Castles Towers Places and villages with all the Rights and Jurisdictions thereunto pertaining Constituting Assigning and Deputing you and your Heirs and Successors the Lords thereof with full and free Power Authority and Jurisdiction Decreeing nevertheless by this our Donation Grant and Assignation that from no Christian Prince which actually hath possessed the foresaid Islands and firm Lands unto the day of the Nativity of our Lord aforesaid their Right obtained to be understood hereby to be taken away or that it ought to be taken away Furthermore we Command you in the virtue of Holy Obedience as You have promised and as we doubt not you will do upon meer Devotion and Princely Magnanimity to send to the said firm Lands and Islands Honest Virtuous and Learned Men such as fear God and are able to instruct the Inhabitants in the Catholick Faith and good Manners applying all their possible diligence in the Premisses We furthermore straightly Inhibit all manner of persons of what State Decree Orders or Condition soever they be although of Imperial Dignity under the pain of the Sentence of Excommunication which they shall m●ur if they do the coutrary that they in no case presume without special Licence of you your Heirs and Successors to Travel for Merchandizes or for any other cause to the said Lands or Islands found or to be found discoversd or to be discovered towards the West and South drawing a Line from the Pole-Arctick to the Pole-Antarctick whether the firm Lands or Islands found or to be found be scituate towards India or towards any other part being distant from the Line drawn a Hundred Leagues towards the West from any of the Islands commonly called De Loz Azores and Capo Verd Notwithstanding Constitutions Decrees and Apostolical Ordinances whatsoever they are to the Contrary in Him from whom Empires Dominions and all good things do proceed trusting that Almighty God directing your Enterprizes If you follow your Godly and Laudable Attempts your Labor and Travels herein shall in short time obtain a happy end with Felicity and Glory of all Christian People But forasmuch as it should be a thing of great difficulty these Letters to be carried to all such places as should be expedient We will and of like Motion and Knowledge do Decree that whithersoever the same shall be sent or wheresoever they shall be received with the Subscription of a common Notary thereunto required with the Seal of any person Constitute in Ecclesiastical Dignity or such as are Authorized by the Ecclesiastical Court the same Faith and Credit to be given thereunto in Judgment or elsewhere as should be exhibited to these presents Let no Man therefore whatsoever Infringe or dare rashly to contrary this Letter of our Commendation Exhortation Request Donation Grant Assignation Constitution Deputation Decree Commandment Inhibition and Determination and if any shall presume to attempt the same let him know that he shall thereby incur the Indignation of Almighty God and his Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Given at Rome at St. Peters in the Year of the Incarnation of our Lord 1493. The Fourth Day of the Nones of May the first Year of our Popedome Caco This Arch-Bishop of Spalato did leave the Church of Rome and came over to us but upon great promises of Worldly preferments returned back to his former errors like a Dog to his vomit or like a Sow that is washed to her wallowing in the mire yet notwithstanding all this and fair promise of fair usage he was burnt by them for an Heretick You have made me more than half a Christian for now I perceive that they I mean the Papists yield in some things to us till they get us in their clutches and then with them not to believe at all even all their Fopperies is to believe nothing at all so that in such a case with the Arch-Bishop of Spalato they will persecute one with Fire and Sword if in the least they seem to retract if therefore you have any