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A02994	A discourse to the lords of the Parliament As touching the murther committed vppon the person of Henrie the Great, King of Fraunce. Manifestlie prooving the Iesuites to be the plotters and principall deuisers of that horrible act. Translated out of French, and published by authority.; Remonstrance à messieurs de la Cour de Parlement sur le parricide commis en la personne du roy Henry le Grand. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1611 (1611)	STC 13134; ESTC S103959	20,195	50

their inchaunting songs For before they can drawe to an end all kind of deceit both in woord and worke is permitted vnto them fraude is the best part of their Religion and of their Rules It is not good to buye and sell not conuenient to traffique at all with Marchants of this mould and mettall And yet are wee so mightily blinde that we make no conscience voluntarily to thrust our selues into their hands to bee bought and solde by them Let vs a while heare this Cardinall Cardinall Toledo in his Sacerdotall institution bo 4 chap. 21. Toledo the first man that Peter Cotten doth produce vnto vs in his Sacerdotall Institution Marke how hee instructeth his Priests beeing saith he after an oath taken demanded his superior to answere to any questions he may lawfully vse equiuocation and is not bound to answere according to the will of the Iudge but after his own mind and discretion yea if it bee in an offence knowne vnto him or else committed by him he may thus shift it off I know not or I did it not meaning what I may say or do hereafter In like manner Siluanus It is lawfull to vse equiuocations and doubtfull woordes to deceaue Si●uanus in his Phillipik p. 5. the hearers when he that demandeth the questiō is not your own Superior or Iudge And of late they haue set it down for a sure groundwoorke and foundation that no Clarke is or neede be subiect to any secular person no not to his owne naturall Prince What confidence what truth or trust may a man then repose vpon their oathes vpon the deposition of this good Father so much commended Gregorie of Valence vseth the like speaches Tome 3. disputa 5. quest 13. commended by that faction for a man of excellent learning well knowne in Spame Italie Germanie he writing vpon a booke called the Sonne nameth this science of Equiuocation A prudent defence practized by Garnet Prouincial in England with a brasen face and a most irreligious heart and reduced into an Art by Doctor Martin Navarre Ciuilian in a booke composed for that purpose in fauour for those bee his woordes of the most excellent societie of the Iesuites But will you heare the bewitching songs of these lewde Syrens before wee part from this Narration Our Kings saith he in Fraunce be the eldest Children of the Church would you not thinke he had flattered the Queene well and giuen her good words And yet the Equiuocation that bewrayeth the villanie is apparant in that that he sayth our Kings in Fraunce and not of Fraunce If he should haue said of France he feared the King of Spaine least he should take exceptions at him for his comparison wherein he seemeth to preferre the King of France before all the kings of Christendome But in that he saith in France he excludeth the comparison and doth restraine their prerogatiue within the bounds and Lymits of their own Realme And by this drift in the middle of his owne natiue Fraunce hee lodgeth the heart of Spaine Thus woont to speake to our late dread king in recommendation of their founder Loyola that hee was his subiect which caused the King to thinke he had beene a French man And being taken with the manner in his equiuocation hee put it off thus that hee was of Navarre as being neuer without a hole to creepe out at But he was warie enough for telling him that he was Traitor both to the King and the Country that he defended Pampelune against the king his Grandfather where hee was hurt and in a madnesse made himselfe a Monke and now at last a Father among vs and very well woorthy for he is the father of many periuries and murthers The question is asked what shall we then do And doe you doubt all this considered what is to be done Truely my Lords if my councell might preuaile you should vse them like Scorpions kill them and laye them to their sting and our wounds but let vs deale a little more mildely What lesse can bee done then to execute your decree with speed and seueritie doe you thinke that to condemne them is to condemne you that to shew them iustice is to challenge you of iniustice Or would you haue it sayd which God defend that these Monsters increase both in offence and impudency and you that are Guardians of this Estate as though you had lost your wits should faile in vertue and faint in iustice All Christian Estates haue taken their patterne from you euen to the bounds and borders of all Europe the Almaines Hungarians Venetians haue banished them their Lands and Territories as ignoble vnwoorthy to liue vnder any honest Laws vnder any Ciuill gouernment by expresse decree in these prudēt seignories they haue determined not to recall them whatsoeuer reasons Rome can alledge whatsoeuer instance it bringeth And yet Rome is very neere Italy and therefore the sooner likely to bee afraid And this they haue doone by a diuine prouidence by a liuely apprehension of what may happen Is there any mischiefe of greater moment than what they haue already committed Can there bee any thing more monstrous then what they haue already practised Is it possible to giue a more vilde name to a villanous practize then a generall murther an vniversall slaughter And would it not on the other side bee thought very strange that you should beare so vneauen a ballance weigh things with such inequality that your example should make Lawes vnto other and not be obserued of your selues Your lawes stand in stead of wholesome precautions and preuentions to your neighbours to those that dwell a farre off to those that are not so sicke not so diseased as you are and will you make no vse of them in so present and pressing a businesse Belieue it and looke for no other that if wee doe dallie and delay to cure or cut off this dangerons sore that now breedeth among vs greater and more grieuous paines will followe a fresh Would one sore thinke you bee incarnate would it be closed seemeth it readye to ciccatrize It is a strange case in euery Country and in euery body sauing in Spaine they haue putrified our humor they haue corrupted our bloud whereof springeth Aposthumation inflamation feuers rupture of the flesh which the longer it doth last the harder it will be to heale but on the other side purge it once well cleare the vlcer flesh and bloud that wee are one of another the lippes will growe together againe and the hurt will heale alone Yea marrie you saye well but to bannish so great a society for the offence of one onelie were not strange You saye somewhat yet I must tell you the conclusion of your argument hardly agreeth with his promises It is this society that strooke that lucklesse stroake not hee that held the knife it was their Councell their doctrine their coniuration It is already known and convinced in the arrainment and examination of Chastell

giue it reading as a Testimonie of the love and speciall respect my heart doth owe you who as I will ever pray that you may still honour GOD and your selues by zeale against Poperye and constancye in the Truth So shall I reioyce by anye service I can perfourme to bee an instrument of your Confirmation in the same Till when giue mee leaue to bee one of those who will euer honour your Noble and Religious vertues and who in all Christian and heartie affection doth vowe to remaine Your Honours servant in Christ WILLIAM CRASHAVV● A RELATION TO the Lordes of the Parliament concerning the death of their KING SHall wee then loose our King the most mightie and puissant King that ever France fostered that ever Europe contayned for the space of 500. yeares The heart that gaue life to the bodie of this State even vnto the least Arterie The naturall heat the force vigour of so many soules is pierced is slaine with the accursed knife of a damned Caytife shall he for so strange and inhumane a fact receiue no greater torture or torment than this base and ordinary punishment Shall this bee iudged a sacrifice sufficient for so hainous a trespasse Shall this be delivered vnto posterity for our shame and suffered of vs in these our dayes to our vtter ruine and confusion And you my Lordes of this Parliament that owe to him Iustice and ought to doe your selues right are you at a stand rest you now amazed you that through the height of your wisedomes are able to vnfolde the most difficult pointes of darkest causes are you now at a stand and besides your selues in a matter so cleare and evident You busily enquire after the Authors of this prodigious bloody blow and yet you perfectly vnderstand that the knife was but the instrumēt of Ravailac of Ravailac set on induced and instructed by other It was others that put the knife into his hand and planted the murther in his heart And is it then such a matter for you that are men of such wisedome gravity and experience to devine coniecture nay absolutely to convince who those Abettors are Seeing that all Christendome by general consent concluded that since the creation of the world there hath not any sect or societie beene found more capable or more culpable in such villanies than the Iesuits and their confederates and doe you make a doubt thereof Haue not Murtherers risen again in our dayes of Christian kings the remnants of Sarazin progenie and race of the Mores who haue written books erected schooles wherin they teach the Methode ther and manner of murthering Kings Haue they not reduced this monstrous and mischieuous practife into an Art into a Caball haue they not these many yeres framed and fashioned mens minds by their misteries and meditations by their consecrations and execrations to this end purpose are they honoured for any other exploytes or magnified for any other miracles Your owne lawes tell and teach vs that hee that hath once beene conuinced of villanie is euer after presumed to bee a bird of the same feather Sithence then their Emanuell in the institution of Confessors decreeth that it is lawfull to kill their King that euery Clarke may without offence exempt himselfe from the subiection of his naturall Prince and further averreth and auoucheth that hee cannot bee iustly termed a rebell whatsoeuer he doth or in what matter soeuer hee medleth what shall wee thinke Iohn Mariana is yet more bolde and broad in Iohn Mariana de institutione Regio l. 1. c. 6. 7. these businesses he is more particuler and more methodicall in these affaires he strideth a step beyond all the rest of his crewand company He maintaineth flatly and plainly that whosoeuer hath a charge committed vnto him by the society of Iesuites or from the hand of their Visitor or vnder the commaund of a fewe graue and learned persons of that rancke nay without feare or daunger attempt and assaile the person of his Prince or King by pollicie treason or poyson nay he spareth not to repeate the diuers sorts and kinds of poyson as swift or slow in working giuen in drinke or in meates by touching of his sacred and annoynted body vnder a friendly pretēce of offring him some excellent present or saith he after the manner of the kings of the Moores by rubbing his garments his Chayre his Linnen his Armour his Saddle Stirrops or Bootes And further he warranteth that whosoeuer shall loose his life in such an attempt shall doe a thing acceptable with God and praise-worthy among men hee shall bee forsooth a sweet smelling sacrifice in the nosthrils of the Lord of hoastes These Bookes passed not their Authors with a streight hand nor were they composed or compiled by nouices for the Emanuell as he saith in his preface was a worke of 40. yeares forging The ordinarie Manuell of the Father Confessors The Author therof was among thē a man of such fanctimony as for his pretended Petrus Ribadeneira in his Catalogue p. 14 holynesse the Virgin Marie say they and their good Father Ignatius appeared vnto him at his death That of Iohn Martana mencioned in the Catalogue of the bookes Idem pa. 3. L. 141. of their society published by Father Peter Ribadeneira in the yeare 1608. with singuler commendation of the Author and his woorkes as quallified with an excellent iudgement with admirable learning with profound Diuinity that he taught in Rome in Sicile and in Paris it selfe Both of them imprinted with Anthenticke priuiledges approbations and solemnities of their superiors the first at Antwerpe the other at Toledo and Maience But the latter which should strike the greater stroake was mostcuriously and cunningly framed to carry the greater authority besides it bore in the forefront greater recommendation as the censure and approbation in Spaine by Frier Peter of Onna Prouinciall The sufferance to be imprinted giuen by Stephen Hoieda visitor of the society of Iesus in the prouince of Toledo And consequently the full power and authority of passing current was giuen and graunted to this Booke by the Father Generall of their society so highly commended by them Claudius Aquauina after approbation these are his wordes By graue and learned personages of our order Can you any longer doubt my good Lords when you so euidently see out of what forge of what temper this mettall is Especially when it is too well knowen to you all what attempts within these 30. yeares this sect or society haue made vpon the sacred persons and lyues of many Kings Princes of Christendome pre●ailed ouer some When that diuellish and damnable gunpowder deuise of England resteth so fresh in your memories so bleeding new wherin it was purposed that the King Queen Prince the whole Nobilitie of the Land the whole Clergie Archbishops Bishops and others the chiefe and choice of the Commons infinite numbers of all sorts and qualities in briefe the best of the lands estate

weake so witlesse They were so choaked with the ioye of his death so ouer ioyed with the glorie of his murther as that they had quite cleane forgotten the sorow due to our common griefe and the praises due to his worthy life Wretched thing that it is to haue procured to them such honour nay such pleasure and vnto France such a perpetual reproach so immortall shame shall I euer forget that thou hast a hand in this vnhappinesse When they chose thee in their affaires and businesses as Protector and Procurer diddest thou not perceaue these Hippocrites the shadowes of sanctimonie how they curtesied and courted thee how they sought and solicited thee at thine vprising at thy downe-lying to the end that by thy credite against the decree of a most soueraigne Court a decree pronounced by the bleeding mouth of thy distressed Master they might be recalled into France againe Thinkest thou that if the Court had giuen thee neuer so little incouragement it had been fot good or for euill for their praise or for their dispraise had it been conuenient that they should so strumpet-like vildely and villanously prostitute their shamefastnes to thy shame They whose pride is well knowne to haue no other purpose but to broke and buye our ruine thongh it be valued at the rate of their highest shame are they not worthy to bee shunned And among the rest thou thy selfe sith thou art not borne to die for griefe were it not fit that thou shouldest come to the Court with an halter about thy necke creeping on thy belly clad in sacke-cloth and ashes to craue of him pardon and Iustice pardon for thy brutishnesse that art so neare in fault to a fault so monstrous in that thou hast presumed vppon a fauour most vnworthily giuen thee in causes belonging to kings to doe against the lawes ignorant and infamous person that thou art Iustice against those haue blindfolded thee bewitched thee made thee the instrument of thy Maysters murther and of such a Maister as from the dunghill hath raised and enritched thee without any desart of thine as against all reason so beyond measure and nature But my Lords it may be Peter Cottons declaratiō hath satisfied you blot out his suspitions Put him ouer to be examined by our Abbot by our Clergie men that can better handle this matter than you yet it were good to haue an eye to the maine in as much as the case stood otherwise before my L. Chancellor according to his grauity and wisedome corrected it They are reproached with that famous booke of D. Iohn Mariana which breatheth out nothing else but poison and slaughter They make vs belieue it is a very badde booke In our Iesuites Calapine might not a man thinke you picke out some one word or other that may bring this booke into detestation whē his owne mouth speaketh so maydenly of his owne worke what doth he leaue vs to coniecture of his heart Thus himselfe speaketh of himselfe This booke of mine saith he is but the slight passage of an euill cut pen Is he to be acquitted to be cleared for these gallant Metaphors for these glozing far-fetcht borrowed phrases whereas this execrable doctrine of his that hath passed currant without contradiction these seauenteene yeres sauoureth of nothing else but mischiefe and murther and that not against meane men but the mightiest it aymeth at nothing but Kings and Princes But saith he what charity what iustice were this that for one Mariana the whole society should suffer And why not for it is the whole society that speaketh and offendeth in Mariana for it appeareth by his owne mouth by his own assertions and attestations that the grauest and most learned of that sect and sort haue taken a view thereof the Prouinciall and Visitor haue allowed of it the Generall taken order that it should be imprinted to haue it acknowledged for a most Autenticke woorke of that society what greater ceremonie would they haue then this what other forme of confirmation But let vs farther saye it is not one Mariana alone that hath written of this matter of this subiect The Iesuites of all Nations of all Climates haue practized this Apostleshippe haue published this Gospell Emanuell Sa the Portugall Gabriell Vasques and Peter Ribadineira Spaniards Martin Becanus and Nicholas Bonarsius base Almains Iohn Guignard and the Authors of the Apologie of Chastell Frenchman Robert Bellarmine Italian Ioseph Creswell Englishman and many others haue executed the selfe same practise with ioynt consent vpon the persons of Kings and Princes in Fraunce in England in the lowe Countries and of late memotie in Transiluania where there was but one onely so contagious and corrosiue is this poison whersoeuer it catcheth hold wheresoeuer it seazeth Our dolefull mischiefe was knowne at Prage at Madrill at Brucells before it came vnto vs as the Ambassors euer truely iustified and all this done by the most accursed correspondence of that company To conclude let vs all iumpe in this which is a thing more then certaine that whether it bee their best Diuines their most authorized Doctors Prouincialls Generalls Cardinalls pretended Martires or whosoeuer else of that rascally rabble they haue all conspired and knotted themselues together to no better intent than is already alleadged For as touching any thing that they can saye for themselues to cleare their accursed cause it is so weake so withered so darke so double so spoken in the teeth so tumbled out that there is no one so simple or so sencelesse but that he may with ease iudge that it is the doctrine of Equiuocants the doctrine of D. Navarre that is spoken But we saye they in our congregation Provinciall held at Paris requested of the Generall of our company that whosoeuer had written to the preiudice of the crowne of France he should be punished and his booke suppressed Now note my good Lords what hath happened fifteene yeres after when this poyson had leisure to runne throughout all the vaines and let them preduce but any one if they can what hath beene excommunicate or otherwise censured for this booke or for any the like Or let vs our selues remember what Curate wee haue knowne solemnly in the Church to haue but threatned Hell to such a Diuell as these Iesuites are yea saye you but there was one censured true but why I pray you forsooth for telling tales out of the schoole for too openly and too seuerely publishing their secrets abroad And to what end I pray you was this great peece of seruice done surely to as great purpose as that that Rauailac did to let fall the knife after hee had strooke the fatall blowe burne the booke after they had fired their hearts by the meanes of all these hell hound spirits of Europe But made he not as good a confession of his faith to the Queene It is to bee seene saith he in the Councell of Constance c. What better thing could he haue spoken Here beginneth