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authority_n	king_n	pope_n	power_n	9,357	5	5.4045	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90854	The Popes nuntioes or, The negotiation of Seignior Panzani, Seignior Con, &c. resident here in England with the Queen, and treating about the alteration of religion with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and his adherents, in the yeares of our Lord, 1634, 1635, 1636, &c. Together with a letter to a nobleman of this kingdome, concerning the same.	D. T.	1643 (1643)	Wing P2937; Thomason E97_4	6,871	20

Protestants is composed of the King almost all the Bishops and Nobilitie and besides of both the Vniversities The Catholicks are the least in number yet make up a partie in that State sufficiently considerable because the body of them is composed of such of the Nobilitie as are most rich powerfull and strong in alliance and of no small number amongst the inferiour sort Now these three Factions in Religion though they all oppose one another yet the hatred of Protestants against Puritanes is greater then against Catholicks and that of Catholicks is greater against Puritanes then Protestants and that of Puritanes is greater against Catholicks then Protestants And thus both Catholicks and Protestants do very easily combine together for the ruine and rooting out of Puritanes and were it not for the interests of some great ones at Court who serve themselves by pretext of Religion to attain to their own ends and thereupon to win their attendance have received them into protection it would be no hard matter to suppresse and quell the Puritanes The Realm being in this condition there is happened a discord amongst Catholicks which has distracted them also into Factions the occasion whereof was the pretended jurisdiction of Dr. Smith an Englishman Bishop of Chalcedon contesting for the power of Ordinary over all England in which he was abetted with the favour of al the secular Clergy and all Catholicks adhering to them The Regulars hereupon and more especially the Iesuites opposed themselves wrote divers books both scandalous and prejudiciall to the power of Bishops all which have been censured and condemned by the Vniversity of Paris and Peter Aurelius a Doctor there has written very learnedly in confutation of the said books But this did little avail to the appeasing of the difference it did exasperate rather the Regulars so that they raised such persecution against the said Bishop that he was faine to flye out of England into France and there he is still residing And since his retreat the dissention is grown more fierce insomuch as the Pope taking notice thereof and desiring to apply some convenient remedie and yet not cleerly discerning the truth of those affairs so as they were disguised by the cunning and subtilty of each party He then resolved to send over some person by whose presence upon the place he might be best informed of the truth for the applying of some expedient to those broyls Thus in the year 1634. his Holinesse did dispatch into England Signior Gregory Panzani a Doctor in Law and Romish Priest and by his papal Brief dated the 10 of October of the same yeer directed to the English Clergy and Catholicks he required and commanded credence to be given him in whatsoever Signiour Panzani on his part should expose to them Cardinall Fran Barbarini also to accompany his Holines Brief sent a Letter of his own to the said Catholicks and their Clergy with which and his Instructions Signior Panzani arrived at London the 25. Decemb. 1634 where he saluted the Queen and afterwards the King also who received and treated him with much kindnesse telling him that He was very welcome yea His Majesty remained uncovered during all the discourse entertainment He did also desire conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury but was put off and procrastinated therein from day to day so that at last He departed the Kingdom without any speech had with him From his arrivall at the time of his abode in England He much applyed himself to Secretary Windebank and the Lord Cottington presuming by the meanes of the one to maintaine himself in the favour of the Archbishop and his party and by the other to avoid the hatred of the contrary side By meanes of a Friend of his He indeavoured to sound some of the English Doctors of the Archbishops Adherents whether or no the King would permit the residing of a Catholick Bishop of the English Nation to be nominated by His Majesty and not to exercise his function but as His Majesty should limit This Proposition was not very pleasing yet after better advisement they answered that Seigniour Panzani should first declare whether the Pope would allow of such a Bishop to be designed as did hold the Oath of Allegiance lawfull or at least would tolerate the taking thereof by the Catholicks In this Seignior Panz would not declare himself excusing it for want of Commission and so that Treatie was interrupted Neverthelesse to his intimate friend on the second of Octob. 1635. he declared privately that the Pope would never admit any man to govern as Bishop that should favour the Oath of Allegiance or fidelitie yet as to the said Oath some Divines of the Archbishops party told the forenamed friend of Panzani that forasmuch as Catholicks formerly would not take the said Oath of fidelity because they beleeved it preiudiciall to the Popes authority and that the Pope might not complain that the taking of the said Oath was contrary to two of his Briefs prohibiting the same The King did declare that he did intend no prejudice to the Popes Spirituall Authoritie by the said Oath nor require therein any other fidelity from his Subjects then such as God and Nature obliged them to And this will and intention of the King should be published to all Catholickes at such time as the Oath should be presented The Court of England and the Prelates with much zeale and passion sought to procure a toleration of the said Oath from the Pope alleadging That if it were in the Kings power to change it He would retrench all such words as seemed opposite to his Holinesse Authority But the same being conceived and enacted solemnly in Parliament to change it was beyond the Kings power yet the explication appertained to His Majesty what the intendment thereof should be and so by a Declaration His Majesty would cleere That He intended no prejudice to the Pope On the contrary Panzani replyed That the Oath containing some formall Termes contrary to the Authority due to his Holinesse and the intention of the Parliament being to oblige Subjects to such fidelity as was due to Princes only the King ought to change the said Oath and put in such termes as He pleased so long as He altered not the Parliaments intention Whereupon We are to consider deliberately the different intentions of these two Courts That of Rome in perpetuall pursuance of its old pretences is more solicitous and laborious to reverse and destroy the said Oath because the same seemes contrary to its temporall Grandour than to extirpate such heresies as that Real●●e is infected with But the aime of the English Court is to procure either an approbation or toleration of the Oath from Rome out of hope to effect thereby a reconciliation betweene both Courts yet not intending to effect the same without verie great advantage and that in things contrarie to the maximes of Rome to which that will never accord As for example to get permission that