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A08697	A letter of a Catholike man beyond the seas, written to his friend in England including another of Peter Coton priest, of the Society of Iesus, to the Queene Regent of France / translated out of French into English ; touching the imputation of the death of Henry the IIII, late K. of France, to priests, Iesuites, or Catholicke doctrine.	Owen, Thomas, 1557-1618.; Coton, Pierre, 1564-1626.	1610 (1610)	STC 19000; ESTC S1326	18,060	49

A LETTER OF A CATHOLIKE MAN Beyond the seas written to his friend in England INCLVDING Another of Peter Coton Priest of the Society of Iesus to the Queene Regent of France Translated out of French into English TOVCHING The imputation of the death of Henry the IIII late K. of France to Priests Iesuites or Catholicke doctrine Cypr. Epist 55. ad Cornel. Haec est vera dementia non cogitare scire quòd mendacia non diu fallant This indeed is madnes not to thinke and know that lyes do not long deceaue Permissu Superiorum M. DC X. DEARE Syr hauing vnderstood by one of yours that both you other of our friendes there haue byn much astonished of late with the suddaine newes of the execrable slaughter of the Great and Potent Monarch Henry the IIII. King of France I nothing meruailed the same astonishment being common to vs heere and I thinke to all the Christiā world But hauing further vnderstood by the reading of yours that there with you the same so detestable a parricide was imputed commōly to Priests or Iesuites and by some to the Pope himself but by the most part to Catholick Doctrine for answere of yours I sent you first the Copy of a letter of a principall man no lesse then a Counseller of France namely Monsieur du Wick the Gouernour of Cales his brother writtē by his own hand to a friend of his in Italy which I my selfe turned into English word for word as it was set downe by him in French where he writeth that the miserable wretch that killed the sayd King affirmed that neuer any man perswaded him to that enterprize of his the which sayth he we all belieued because in all his examinations interrogations euen vntill he was put to death he perscuered still cōstant in the same assertion Besides I certified you of a certayne Booke which was written heere in Italy in answer of our Kings Booke about the Oath which being presented to his Holines as it is sayd was not permitted to be printed because of a rash assertion therin contayned about the question of killing of Kings For which cause the Authour therof seeking to print his sayd booke in Germany was through the prudency as I vnderstād chiefly of an English Gentlemā remaining in those parts forbidden likewise there to print it But things which since haue hapned haue made me lesse to meruaile that there with you such things were spread when as in Frāce yea in Paris it selfe in the middest of so Noble and Catholike a Citty in the eyes eares of thē that knew the contrary and in the cleare shining light of the truth it selfe the cōmon enemy of truth hath had so much power as to find some impudent instrumēts to affirme publickly to preach the same calumnie But truly was it sayd Fortior est omniū Veritas vincit Truth is strongest of all things and will ouercome at length although for a while by some violence it may remaine oppressed or disguised For so euen now in France in the sayd Citty of Paris it is come to passe that Iesuites which were in part although far of calūniated about that matter being afterwards heard and the truth knowne not only haue byn iustified deliuered frō such a false iniurious slaūder but also honoured esteemed more thē before as most louing loyall subiects to that Noble Monarch which had beene in his life time alwaies so louing affectionat towards thē as all the world knoweth And who at the very instāt of so vnworthy a calumniation imployed thēselues to honour the same King as their most deare Father in trāsporting with great solēnity his own hart bequeathed to thē by himself in his life time deliuered thē after his death by cōmandmēt of the Q. Mother Regent of Frāce to the Noble Vniuersity de la Flesche built for thēselues of late years by the said King of glorious Memory And because I haue by good hap gottē the fight of a little Treatise writen in the Frēch tongue expresly in Cōfutatiō of the falsity begō to be spread in Paris against the Iesuits the w ch also doth fully answere to the like calūnious oppositiōs false obiectiōs spread abroad by the treachery of the common enemy of truth there in your parts I thought it necessary to turne it into the English tōgue that so the truth may there also be known to the honor glory of the author of all truth cōfort not only of the īnocēt but also of al thē that with true charity desire to know the truth maintaine the same A LETTER DECLARATORY OF THE COMMON Doctrine of the Fathers of the Society of Iesus conforme to the Decrees of the Coūcell of Constance VVritten to the Queene Mother of the King Regent in France By Father Peter Coton of the same Society his Maiesties ordinary Preacher at Paris 1610. MADAME GOD ordained in the old Testament that the kidd should not be boiled in the milke of his damme to signify as Philo the Iew doth expound it that one which is already afflicted is no more to be oppressed with new affliction According to the which rule deriued from nature it selfe those of our Society did hope that with this dolefull accident the terrour wherof hath shaken the two poles of the Christian world they might haue had at least their breath free to sigh after their incōparable losse A losse which is as particuler to them as generall and cōmon to all But it hath happened to them as to men which find themselues vnder the ruine of a house where one stone doth not expect the other to couer and ouerwhelme them vpon whome it falleth We were both in mind body occupied about the transporting of that precious gage and remarkable pledge which it hath pleased your Maiestie by the hands of the Prince of Conty to giue consigned vnto vs and to the which the Chiefe Lords of France rendred the last honours when some no welwillers of the Catholike Religion and of thē of our profession to purchase vs in famy and to make their gaine of our absence spread abroad certaine rumors so farre from all likelihood and probability that a man would neuer haue thought that such ca-Iumnies could euer euen in any mad mood enter into the thought of a resonable soule All this began by the occasion of a naughty booke the doctrine wherof hath byn rightfully condemned by the Court of Parliament some maintayning that the doctrine of the Booke was the common doctrine of all Iesuits others that the doctrine was so proper to his Author that many of the same Society had written the contrary and altogeather had condemned it some yeares agoe in the body of a Prouinciall Congregation the which controuersy men without passion did straight determine cōcluding that this would be knowne by disauowing therof and therefore that it was to be expected what we would say

the whole world the iniquity of all those that now a dayes are so desirous to find some kind of fault or suspicion thereof in some one Iesuite or freind of theirs therby to traduce calumniate the body of the whole Order although otherwise innocent and wholy detesting the same as if the will of the whole Order were represented in the person of each one of them no lesse then in the person of Adam only was represented all mākind The absurdity whereof is so manifest that it requireth not any further explication for so scarce any community linage or ancient familie should now be found in England or France or any Countrey whatsoeuer which hath not often beene ruined by one crime or other of true or false imputation to some one of their body contrary to that indgement of God Filius non portabit iniquitatem patris anima quae peccauerit ipsamorietur This only was sufficient in that Catholike Countrey not only to discouer the malignity and iniustice of such far-fetcht accusations but also to obtayne for satisfaction of so publike an iniurie publike fauour of the Prince and loue of the people with whose great applause the sayd Iesuits are now by especial grace incorporated into the body of the Vniuersitie of Paris and begin to open their Schooles which may be accoūted a very iust remuneration seeing their first leauing of teaching came by a like fact of one mā imputed to their whole Order although the same man was not so much as of their Order nor then any of their schollers but one that before in his life time had only frequented their schooles chiefly because that it was found that not only they deserued not any such imputation for any fact or fault of theirs but contrariwise for their great affectiō and seruice which alwayes they shewed towards their King and Countrey deserued all contrary commendations and fauour for that also besides their house wherein they dwelt before besides the Colledg in which they began againe to teach they haue begun to build the third house for their Nouitiate and that not only by the Princes graunt permitting the same but also with his owne liberality allowing for the charges therof This is the nature of vertue the more to increase flourish the more it is resisted and kept downe Wherin it is to be obserued that although for defence of the Iesuites in Paris it sufficed as by the fore said letter only it appeareth that the opinion of Mariana was not the opinion of the Society which as by the place there quoted and by experience through the whole world is euident is as much as any Order or Congregatiō may be addicted to all due obedience towards Magistrates Princes and Kings do instruct their schollers and hearers and all that any wayes depend on them in the same obedience subiection and reuerence towards all sortes of Superiours and especially towards their Soueraignes Yet that which either for modesties sake in defending thēselues or els for breuity in such a letter semed best to thē to omit as not so much needfull at that time they hauing all the reason on their side I thought good not to neglect seeing it maketh not a little more for the full answere to yours about Iesuites and Catholicke Doctrine and this is That Mariana himselfe who by the aduersaries was chosen amōgst al the Iesuits as only guilty of that great trespasse of killing of Kings saith nothing but by manner of probleme examining the question pro contra bringing the proofes of both parts which being done as he inclineth more to the one side then to the other so doth he not precisely determine any thing on either as absolutely true certayne but as seeming to him more probable therfor perswadeth not any man to follow one or the other opinion but contrariwise submitteth offereth himselfe ready to follow other mens better iudgement to thanke them for it his words being these which euery mā may read in the Author himself Haec nostra sentētia est sincero animo certe profecta in qua falli possum vt humanus si quis meliora attulerit gratias hab●am And this opinion that there Mariana doth propose as indifferent to be proued or disproued by other men what opinion is it Is it of killing of Kinges wherof now the question is Nothing lesse he handleth no such question there is no such doctrine in the Catholicke Church Wherof then speaketh he in that place Of killing of Tyrants for the which question the King of Spayne to whome the booke was dedicated and by whome it is both praised and priuiledged was neuer offended with the Author nor yet Henry the IIII. late King of France as if such thinges had beene written against them they most worthily thinking themselues farre from any suspicion of Tyranny for the which cause also the Emperor Charles the fifth was neuer angry with Soto his Confessarius nor any other Kinges haue beene offended with other Authors who heretofore haue written an hundred times more and more resolutely then Mariana in defence of the same opinion Neyther are they indeed to be esteemed eyther true subiects or wise men that find any fault with such mens writings as written against their Kinges thereby esteeming their owne Kinges Tyrants or such as worthily may feare to be taken for such Finally wheras Mariana about this matter affirming the least of all men is yet most of all yea only amongst all accused and his writinges therefore condemned and burnt with such seuerity rigour it is manifest they could not be cōdemned for the doctrine they did cōtayne but for the Authors sake that wrote them nor the Author himself so iniuriously vsed for his owne sake but for the coate he weares for the badge of the name of Iesus which both he and his booke doth carrie They are enemies of that holy name that condemned Mariana for any such Doctrine They are only the enemies of Iesuites that so calumniously deriued the crime from one Mariana to all Iesuites They are enemyes to Catholike Religion that accuse the Catholicke Church of any such doctrine And hereby we may easily come to find the first ofspring of all these calumnies the first only author and teacher of all calumniators is Satan the head calumniator himselfe Who knoweth not this ancient fraud accustomed fetch of that cōmon enemy both of God all mankind who hath no more potent meanes to resist the honour of God to oppresse his seruants and hinder the progresse of true vertue and religion then to bring all good men as opposite to him and his endeauours into suspicion with Kings and Emperors calling them in question for matters of State So did he vse Aman in the old Testament as an instrument to bring into disgrace with King Assuerus the people of God dispersed throughout his Prouinces slaundering them for seditious and contrary

to the lawes of his Realme So Daniel was cast into the Lions den because he had done against the lawes of the Medes and Persians forsooth he serued and adored God almighty whome they acknowledged not for God Likewise Antiochus held all for traytors and violators of his Law whosoeuer vnder his Dominions kept obserued the law of God Samuel therfore had good cause when he was sent of God to annoint for King Dauid the sonne of Iesse to be afraid that Saul would kill him as guilty of treason against his Crowne who already had the possession therof and who afterward being possessed with a Diuell sought continually to make away Dauid although a true seruant of God and him only vnder pretence of state And in the new Testament what other meanes had the Diuell to batter the Ghospell and oppugne our Sauiour him selfe then by the Iewes as his instrumēts to accuse him before Pontius Pilate to call him in question of state as seditious and forbidding to pay tribute to Cesar and calling himselfe King the which bare accusation without any proofe is of such nature so potent and soe odious amongst worldly men that be the fact neuer so false wherof a man is so accused it sufficeth to discredit and opresse him be he neuer so innocent as may appeare by that example of Christ our Sauiour who was the most innocent of all men yea innocency it selfe For although Pilate seeing him guiltlesse endeauoured to deliuer him yet the malicious redoubling that accusation therwith threatning Pilate himselfe saying if thou let him go thou art not a friend to Cesar they so terrified him with the only name of Cesar that straight he let himselfe be carried away to the greatest act of iniustice that was committed since the world began Wherin the Diuell hauing had so good successe as to haue condemned Christ and put to death the Author of life but yet so that in fine all fell vpon his owne head our Sauiour therby being exalted in glory and all mankind deliuered from the Diuells tyranny hath still continued by the same way as most assured effectuall to persecute all Gods seruants and true followers of Christ And therfore the Apostles following straight after were forced also against such calumnies opēly to teach and commād Christians to obey their Soueraigns and magistrates to pray for them to render them tribute to whom tribute appertaineth and honour to whome honour After the Apostles the ancient Doctors of the Church were also forced often to imploy their pennes and shew that true Christians were not enemies of Emperours but did offer sacrifices for their state and prosperitie and yet because those Emperours as worldly and wicked men preferred the least thought of their owne estate before the greatest reasons that might be alleaged for the defence of innocency alwayes such calumnies haue preuailed as first against the head himselfe so after against his members and followers Although at length by the almighty power of God truth hath alwayes had the victory the Diuell togeather with his instruments haue byn confounded As is notorious first in the old Testamēt by Aman by the enemies of Daniel by Saul and Antiochus their deathes and in the new by Pilate who died in banishment and by the whole nation of the Iewes who were first so miserably destroyed by Titus and Vespasians armie haue alwayes since remayned as vagabonds vpon the face of the earth Afterward what miserable deathes haue befallen all those Emperours that by such vniust wayes haue persecuted the Church of God vnder colour of state it were too lōg here to rehearse it will shortly come to your view fully set down in the secōd part of a learned Treatise cōcerning Policy and Religion So that allwaies they haue byn inexcusable before God mā who haue concurred by power of Princes to the oppressing of good men vnder the calumnious pretext of dealing in State matters But most inexcusable in this our dayes is this calumniation obiected by Heretickes to the Catholicks and Catholicke doctrine it being on the contrary side proper to Hereticks to impugne their Princes and to Hereticall doctrine to maintaine it as lawfull yea the only meanes wherby heresies haue sprong vp Hereticks first entred into the world haue beene their rebellions against their Magistrates their lawfull Kings and Princes The reason wherof is manifest Heresie being of her owne nature a separation and diuision from the body of the Catholicke Religion and therfore must needes begin with rebelling against the Catholicke Church and consequently against their Catholicke Kings and Soueraigne Princes But the experience hereof is much more manifest for as Luthers Zuinglius Caluins and all other hereticks beginning of innouation came by teaching all their followers that Princes may be restrayned by force pursued iudged punished by the people excommunicated depriued deposed and cast into hell by the Ministers condemned and put to death by inferiour Magistrates whensoeuer in their opinion they become Tyrants and opposite to the Ghospell as writeth the Author of the booke of Dangerous positiōs in his fourth and fifth chapter and the Author of the Suruey of pretended discipline Their practice of the foresaid doctrine hath byn too too well knowne through the whole world For first in Germany Luthers followers incited by such doctrine of his tooke armes and rebelled with such violent headines throughout all that Countrey against their owne Prince that as Sl●ydan a Protestant Author affirmeth at that only time besides the euersion of infinite numbers of fortresses and Castles aboue an hundred and thirty thousand people were slaine And afterwards the followers of Luther deuiding themselues into different sects of Luther anisme Zuinglianisme Caluinianisme Anabaptisme new Arianisme and the like with ech of them followed euery where new rebellions against their Princes as you may see which way soeuer you looke either towardes the North where you shall find fresh memory of their rebellions in Saxony Denmarke Sueueland Polonia and Transiluania or towardes the South in Zwitzerland Grisons Sauoy and their Confines where Zuinglius himselfe in the Cantons of Switzerland his owne countrey was the chiefe stirrer of rebellion and was slayne himselfe in the field And at Geneua Caluin Beza and other Ministers incited the Subiects against the Duke of Sauoy and other their naturall Princes Towardes the East the Heretikes ioyned their forces with the Turke himselfe against the Emperour their Soueraigne and so Boscaine that famous Caluinian Rebell forced the said Emperour to leaue him for his life tyme the Princedome of Transiluania Towards the west to wit in France through the which I haue trauailed some time and there haue spent some yeares of my age I haue seene in all places where I haue beene such pittifull ruines of Townes and Fortresses and haue heard recounted such Barbarous yea rather Beast-like cruelties committed in their rebellions that the only memory therof sufficeth euery

conformably to the Sorbones and to the Decree of the Councell of Constance These then being the opinions and the determinations of these doctors graue and principall men of our Society what preiudice can the particuler opinion of one Mariana bring to the reputation of a whole Order the which being according to the Institute most carefull to maintaine all holy ordinances of the Church and bearing respect to the power and authority of Kings who for the temporal depend on God only hath long time since disauowed the lightnesse of this rouing pen and namely in the Prouincial Congregation of France held in the Citty of Paris the yeare 1606. where more then this the Reuerend Father Claudius Aquauiua General of our Society was requested that those who had written in preiudice of the Crowne of France should be repressed and their bookes suppressed Which the sayd Reuerend Father did afterward very earnestly and exactly being most sory that by ouer-sight he being absent and knowing nothing nor hauing seene the workes one should vse therin his consent the words which he vseth in his answere are these VVe haue approued your Congregations iudgment and carefulnes and haue byn very sory that no body perceaued the fault vntill the bookes were printed the which notwithstanding we haue presently commanded to be corrected will vse great care herafter that such things happen no more And so it is that now you should scarce haue found so much as one copy of Mariana if it had not beene for the pernicious liberality of the heyres of VVechell who are knowne to be of the pretended reformed Religion and haue printed the same booke at their owne costes and charges moued not so much as it is to be presumed with desire to serue the publique as to hurt in particuler our Society Some haue thought that they haue added somewhat of their owne others haue iudged that the bookes of the first impression were yet worse but this controuersy serues to no purpose for although it were so and that no body had holpen the first so imprudent pen yet is there no cause why that one mans pen should more hurt the body of our Society then the writings of Iohn Petite and others his like should hurt the Vniuersities and Orders of which they were Schollers Bachelers Maisters and Doctors But Madame seeing that I haue heere aboue promised to expound clearly and distinctly what is our opinion touching the question we haue proposed now I come to it which shal be the second part or this discourse 1. All the Iesuites generally and particulerly will confirme euen with their own bloud that they haue not in this matter or any other any beliefe doctrine or opinion then that of the Catholike Church 2. That amongst all sorts of gouernement and publicke administration the Monarchie is the best 3. That such is the spirituall gouernmēt of the Church which is vnder the Vicar of Iesus Christ successor of S. Peter such is the temporall gouernment of the State and Realme of France which dependeth of the person of the King our Soueraigne Lord and Maister 4. That the Kinges are as Homer calleth them the children and fosters of God or rather his own liuely Images as sayd Menander 5. That they are annointed and therfore called the Christs of our Lord to the end as sayth Simeon the Archbishop of Thessalonica that euery one may vnderstand that they be inuiolable and should be respected as holy and sacred things 6. That it is a damnable heresy as holy Irenaeus noteth 1400. yeares agoe to thinke that Kings are giuen to men casually seeing that all power comes of God and therfore sayth S. Isidore of Damieta in the most ancient pictures we see a hand put out of heauen which setteth the Crowne vpō the head of Kings 7. That he which resisteth kinges or rebelleth against them purchaseth to him selfe his owne damnation according to the doctrine of the Apostle 8. That obedience is due vnto them not for that they are vertuous wise potēt or indued with any other laudable qualitie but because they are Kings established by God himselfe 9. That our Kings of France are the eldest children of the Church enioying rare and singular priuiledges aboue the common of other Kinges of the world 10. That it is not lawfull to denie to thē obedience much lesse to reuolt against them although they were vicious froward hard to suport as the same Apostle speaketh 11. That being such we ought to pray for them as the Prophet would haue to be done for the prosperity of Nabuchodonosor and his sonne Baltazar that the afflictions losse of goodes persecutions and other in commodities which are endured patiently not rebelling therefore against their Superiours are things very acceptable to God conforme to the praise which in like case S. Paul giueth to the Hebrews and to that ordināce w ch he hath published in the Church saying Euery soule be subiect to the Superiour powers 12. And therfore that not onely it is not lawfull to lay hands vpon their Persons but that it is an execrable parricide a prodigious trespasse and a detestable sacriledge 13. That the decree of the Councell of Constance in the 15. Session ought to be receaued of all and maintayned inuiolably 14. That the declaration of the Sorbon of the year 1413. that also of the 4. of Iune of this presēt yeare is good wholsome holy 15. That euery one should stand vpon his guard and take heed of diuers bookes that are spread abroad contrary to the Lawes the reading of the which is not onely in this matter very dangerous but so much the more to be feared by how much the Authors of them being to our great griefe separated from the Catholike Church make no accompt neyther of the Councell of Constance nor of the Catholike Censures and Doctors aboue mentioned yea rather which is to be lamented they are the more obstinate in their opinions by opposing themselues and thereby they thinke to get the greater praise and admiration from others I would cite bookes quote the places and alleadge the words were it not that it is farre better that such thinges remaine swallowed in the bottomlesse pit of forgetfulnes and that it is more to the purpose to make knowne that innocency is far stronger then recrimination And for the same cause also I would haue abstained altogeather from this aduertisment had it not beene to shew thereby that the body of our Society cannot be infected by the opinion of one only person the which hath beene so authentically disauowed by the same no more then those of the pretended reformed Religion doe not hould themselues any whit interessed by the erroneous Doctrine of some of theirs whome they reiect difauow and condemne being willing to liue with vs vnder the Lawes of our Realme and with the obedience and voluntary submission which we do render to the Scepter of our Kinges