or restrain Apostata Princes The foresaid Coquaeus saith that otherwise Christ had not sufficiently provided for the safety either of the Common-wealth or of our Souls And Petrus Bertrandus positively declareth for the former Principle that if such a deposing Authority had not been that then Christ Jesus had not shewn himself wise or discreet or as Father Parsons saith Gods providence had been defectuous And when Johannes Mariana the so noted Spanish Jesuit had in one of his Books so expresly maintain'd the lawfulness of killing bad Kings upon which the said Book was censured I meet with an English Romanist thus to vindicate or justifie the said Book They are enemies to that holy Name i. e. of Jesus that condemn'd Mariana for any such Doctrine Nay so zealous are some for this King-deposing Doctrine that with a De Politia Immunitat Eccles part 4. cap. 50. Laurentius Ortiz de Iberrola they will assure it the onely safety and preservation for Princes But King James who thought himself not a little concern'd and therefore thus deliver'd his opinion to his Parliament b Speech in Parliament 1605. Vid. his works pag. 504. As on the one part many honest men seduced with some errors of Popery may yet remain good and faithful Subjects so on the other part none of those that truely know and believe the whole grounds and School-conclusions of their Doctrines can either prove good Christians or good Subjects And yet if for all these grand Testimonies they should plead their Allegiance and their respect to Princes I could ask why all Books writ against this King-deposing Doctrine are censured and prohibited by their Indices Expurgatorii whilst on the contrary those who affirm it are publish'd with honour as true and authentick and if Agapetus above a thousand years ago speak honourably of the Imperial Authority the c V. Bibliotheca Patrum Expurgatorian Index must stifle it with some worshipful gloss or other And if any should deny this to be the Doctrine of the Roman Church I should gladly know where is the judge whether the Popes themselves the Cardinals their greatest and most famous Writers as Bellarmine Baronius ' Perron c. do not understand what are the Tenents and the meaning of the Roman Church as well as some private Englishman here and whether we are not to believe the Popes Cardinals and their learned Doctors before the said private person Thus are the Romanists as stout and zealous for this King-deposing Doctrine as the d Mart. Martin de bello Tartar pag. 45 107 121 157. Chineses were for their Beards and do adore and worship this destructive Tenet as the old Cainites did Cain because he was the first man-killer or the Ophitae who worshipt the Serpent because he was the first deceiver and as they say the Author of good and evil Thus the Romanist may perceive what danger he runneth himself into if he dare but offer to oppose this Treasonable Principle seeing to deny it is madness flat Heresie nay Paganism contrary to the judgements of Popes Councils and the whole Church nay the Gospel of Christ a more intolerable Heresie then to erre concerning some of the Sacraments nay so gross an one that it doth destroy the very Church and Gospel it self wherefore they perswade us that all good and sound Catholicks must believe that Kings may be deposed seeing all who are truely Romanists and Sons of that Church do and must believe so Thus these men are like Polychronius who would rather erre with Macarius then be in the right with others and this Doctrine must be the Shibboleth to distinguish them from other Christians There is a Sect in Spain call'd a Anton. de Torquâ—meaa Diaâ—og 3 Saludadores who are known by a knack of curing many Diseases as a gift peculiarly belonging to them those of the House of b Luis Du-May Estate of the Empire p. 73. Austria are known by their long chins and thick lips and as they say are particularly blest with other Graces as to cure Wens by giving onely a Glass of Water and to unloose the Tongue of him that cannot speak plain onely by kissing Thus the Monarchs of England do the Kings-Evil and in Brecknockshire within two Miles of Brecknock there is a Lake call'd Lhyn Savathan or Linsavethan or Brecknock mere of which c Itiner Cambr. lib. 1. cap. 2. Giraldus Cambrensis tells us that the birds there will sing at the desire of the Prince of Wales but no man else so that it is the best Rule to know the true Prince of which matter d Polychron lib. 1. Ranulph Higden Monk of Chester thus Poetizeth Si Terrae Princeps venerit Aves cantare jusserit Statim deproment modulos Nil concinunt ad caeteros Which I finde thus translated to my hand by John Trevisa the old Vicar of Barkley almost three hundred years ago Yf the Prynce of the Londe hoote Briddes singe well mery noot As merily as they can And singe for none other man And so this King-deposing Principle they will have to be the Characteristical note whereby a through-paced or true Romanist maâ— be known who must answer to none but their Prince at Rome and whose commands they must not disobey And should any one now begin to teach them Allegiance and the pernicious consequences of this Doctrine which by length of time hath had such a sway with them probably it might be as great a novelty and strange to them as the e people who after a long Interdiction d Sextus de Seâ—tent Excotâ—â—c Alma Mater Gloss v. Insurgunt were so unused to Devotion that they laugh'd at the Priests when they came again to say Mass and pray with them for some will not leave an old Mumpsimus for a new though better Sumpsimus As for the Romanist's distinctions the better to maintain these Treasonable Assertions of Directe Indirecte Propriè Improprie simpliciter secundum Quid Absolute in Ordine ad Spiritualia and suchlike whimsical Save-alls they have not onely been derided by those of the a Pet. Molin de Monarch Temporal Pont. pag. 87. Jo. Buckeridge Episc Roffens lib. 2. cap. 5. Reformed Church but also by several Romanists themselves especially of the b Caron Remonst Hybern p. 236 237. latter stamp and of such cheats as these thus saith Father c More ample accompt pag. 28. Welsh In Ordine ad Spiritualia and the cheat of a verbal distinction the trick of abusing two other words Direct and Indirect and these two very new altogether unheard-of in this matter till some Caprichious heads brought them unfortunately to the Schools of meer designe to make people loose themselves in words by confounding right and wrong together and the fignification of both And so nothing need be said against such childish inventions being nothing to the true and real designe of the positive Doctrine of King-deposing which is the thing we treat of without any
Countries And to have this done he thinks this the best way he would have the Pope to work about by the people or the Parliaments but if these will not fadge either because they cannot or will not then his Holiness may do it himself by giving that Kingdom to another Prince or let them have it that can get it It may be it was for these pretty Doctrines that Clement the Eighth was so taken with this mans Writings that he would have his Books read to him whilst he was at Victuals and besides other large liberalities had once a minde to make him Cardinal We have formerly seen the Opinion of Thomas and now let us see what his Brother Franciscus Bozzius saith and we shall presently perceive them to be Birds of a Feather this fobbing up the same Pope Clement the Eighth with the same Language that the other had telling him that though a Justis de causis posse deponi Imperatores transferri Imperia Fr. Boz de Temporal Eccles Monarch lib 3. cap. 16. pag. 553. Possunt ab Ecclesia leges temporales condi novi creati Reges justis de causis au ferre Regna quod saepe actum esse constat à summis Pontificibus Id. lib. 5. cap. ult pag. 823. he should not take away lawful Rule yet upon just grounds he might depose Emperours and this he saith hath been several times done by Popes as in another b Id. lib. 1. cap. 21. pag. 225. c. place he endeavours to shew by several Examples And to this purpose was Gregory the Fourteenth claw'd by his Protonotary Anastasius Germonius by affirming what great power he had over the world he could c Imperatores enim Reges aliosque magnos Principes Principatu Regno atque imperio privat necnon alios cum libet in eorum locum sufficit subrogat nemo sanae mentis dubitare debet quin facere valeat faceatque cum opus sit An stas Germon de Sacrorum immunitat lib. 3. cap. 3. Sect. 38 39. Hujus est Imperium ex uno in alium locum transferre electionem aut admittere aut rejicere electum ac confirmatum ex justis de causis deponere subditos à fidelitatis juramento absolvere alia id genus facere Id. lib. 3. proem Sect. 9 10. throw down Emperours and Kings and put others in their places and if any man doubt of this Authority in the Pope he plainly calls him a Madman and that he can alter the place of Election allow or throw by him that is elected quit Subjects from their Oath of Allegiance and several suchlike tricks as these can he do And as for d De Pontif. potestate Sect. 19. Petrus Albinianus Tretius do but compare the Contents with the Text of the next Section and you will see him fairly grant the Pope to have power e Papa potest deponeâ—e Imperatorem sine concensu Cardinalium Id. Sect. 20. without the consent of his Cardinals to depose the Emperor And another Italian Lawyer f Solus Papa etiam sine Concilio potest deponere Imperatorem Lud. Bolo addit ad Cataldinum de Boncompagnis de translatione Concilii Basil Sect. 5. Ludovicus Bologninus from the Canon-Law tells the world that he may do it clearly of himself And I think that g Quaest Mercuriales Q. 25. Sect. 3. Johannes Andraeas doth not much vary from him when from the same Authority he saith That he can take away any mans Right and give it to another But Julius Caesar Madius doth not mutter in his Teeth but speaks boldly out that upon some Reasons the Pope hath Authority h Eos à Regnis Principatibus eorum deponere posse Mad. de Sacris Ordinibus cap. 9. Sect. 17. to turn the best of them out of their Kingdoms and Soveraignty And the same doth another Italian Antonius Sanctarellus one that hath made some noise in the World not onely by his confident Assertion of the Popes Power in i Potest non solum eos excommunicare sed etiam Regno privare eorumque subditos ab illorum obedientâ—a liberare Sanctarel de Haeresi c. 30. p. 293. deposing Kings and quitting their Subjects from their Obedience but by the story which hapned at Paris upon its being censured there For the Court of Parliament perceiving the Book to be printed at Rome by permission of the Superiors and approbation of Vitelescus General of the Jesuits the Fathers of that Order in Paris were sent for by the Court and demanded Whether they believed as their General did concerning this Book They answered That their General living in Rome could not but approve that which was agreeable to the Court of Rome But being demanded then what they believed Answered That they believed the clean contrary Being again askt And what would you do if you were at Rome Answered As they do at Rome Which made some of the Court say Have these men one Conscience at Rome and another at Paris God keep us from such Confessors Johan Baptista Vivianus agreeth very well with the former and their Canon-Law and Court of Rome by maintaining their Article that the a Papa Imperatorem deponere potest ex causis legitimis Jo. B. Vivian Rationale l. 2. p. 283. Pope for some Reasons may depose the Emperour his Imperial Majesty and all others being subject to him and to be punish'd by him according to their faults And to him we may joyn a great Cardinal Johannes Hieronymus of Alba who tell us b Lucubrat in Barthol Tom. 1. fol. 83 84 that the Pope being Judge of all things nothing in the world can quit themselves from his jurisdiction and that Dante that famous Italian Poet was in a manner condemn'd as an Heretick because he did not think that the Empire held its being from the Church and in another of his c De potestate Papae part 1. Sect. 67. Books gives us the names of some Kings depos'd by the Pope Petrus Hurtadus de Mendoza might by the rudeness and incivility of his Country Biscay suck in with his Milk some Principles of Rebellion that Country having an Antipathy against Bishops and good Government But these might somewhat be corrected by his severer Studies were it not a Principle amongst them that * Merito quidem Haeretici Regno privantur Hurt de Mendoz. Scholiasticae disp 21. Sect. â—04 Heretical Kings against their Church are deservedly deposed and others put in their places Yet methinks 't was somewhat of boldness of him to present this Doctrine to his Soveraign the Present King of Spain Philip the Fourth yet this wonder will scarce last nine days when we see d Decisiones qâ—aest 58â— Guido and e De jure publico lib. 3. Tit. 13. Sect. â— Leander Galganettus those famous Lawyers affirm the same by their own Canons and the latter to dedicate this falsity to no less than to God himself and the Virgin Mary And Bartholomaeus
ei de Obedientia tanquam Principi legitimo praestitissent posteque debere si vires habeant istius modi hominem tanquam Apostatam Haereticum ac Christi Domini desertorem Reipublicae suae inimicum hostemque ex hominum Christianorum dominatu ejicere Andraeas Philopater Responsio ad Edictum Reginae Angliae § 157. pag. 106 107. and Lawyers that if any Christian Prince fall from the Catholick Faith and would have others to follow him he himself thereby doth forthwith both by Divine and Humane Law though the Pope do no way censure him fall from all his Authority and Dignity and his Subjects are freed from all their Oaths of Allegiance which they sware to him as a lawful Prince and so they may nay and ought if they have force enough to overcome pull him down from the Throne as an Apostate Heretick a forsaker of Christ and an enemy to the Common-wealth This is excellent stuff fit for Rome and Spain who then had a Months minde to England and had many Irons in the Fire for that purpose which he did not question but to bring about having such good Instruments to work withal hoping in time to perswade the English to be brave Rebels and to believe this their Doctrine And the better to bring them about to this lure Philopater is at them again and again several times earnestly perswading them that this Proposition about the subjects thus deposing of Kings is c Atque haec certa definita indubitata virorum doctissimorum sententia doctrinae Apostolicae conformis plane consona est Ib. § 158. Id. § 160. Est igitur certissima indubitata haec communis Doctorum Catholicorum sententia de subditorum obligatione ad Principes haeretices repellâ—ndos Id. § 221. Certe opinat illa capita sunt doctrinae Catholicae quae omni Theologorum scholatot retro saeculis jarn docuit Christianorum omnium â—nanimis consensu c. the certain determin'd and undoubted opinion of all learned men and plainly agreeable and consonant to the Apostolical Doctrine Nay that it is not onely lawful but that they are a Certe non tantum licet ut jam dixi sed summa etiam juris divini necessitate ac praecepto imo Conscientiae vinculo arctissimo extremo animarum periculo ac discriâ—â—ne Châ—istianis omnibus hoc ipsum incumbit si praestare rem possunt Id. § 162. obliged to do so upon their Conscience and pain of their souls And as if with one stroke he would subdue two of the most potent Kingdoms of Europe by necessitating of them to submit to their then Enemie the Spaniard for then he endeavoured to make himself Master over them both he puts it down for a Rule that he who is not of the Roman Catholick Religion and not yet obtain'd the Crown Id. § 161. must not by any means be permitted to be King though his Title be good In this case he expresly nominates his design against France by perswading of them upon this reason never to admit of the King of Navarre for their Soveraign So that if that Nation have had any benefit from that Noble House of the Bourbons as they cannot deny but their obligations to be many they are no way beholden to this English Counsellor under the Spanish Habit. And for our selves we as little for the same Engine aims also against our Family of the Stuarts upon the same account of Religion and this is also used as an Argument upon the same account by his Friend and fellow-Rebel Father Parsons in his Book about the succession of the Crown under the counterfeit name of R. Doleman Petrus de Ledesma is willing in all things to harp upon the Authority of the Pope and therefore he would have the people before they warr'd against their King to have some recourse to the Pope or the Emperour so that here Kings have got another Temporal Ruler over them but if this be not so easie and convenient to be done what then b Poterit conventum agere talem Regem Regno pellere si opus sit vita spoliare Theol. Moral Tract 8. cap. 18. pag. 512. They may then he saith call a Parliament and depose their King nay and kill him too saith this good Spaniard And c De justitia Tom. 1. Tract 2. disp 29. col 213 214. Ludovicus Molina another Spaniard goeth much about the same way to consult his deposing And now let us see what a Portugal saith to this point and this shall be no less than Emanuel Sa one of a great name amongst the Jesuits he saith expresly in one place that if d Potest per rempublicam privari ob Tyrannidem si non faciat Officium suum cum est causa aliqua justa eligi alius à majore parte populi Em. Sa. Aphorism v. Princeps § 2. the King tyrannize and do not execute his Office and when there is any other just reason for so doing then the people may dethrone him and elect another and this he confirms again in e Tyrannicem gubernans juste acquisitum dominium non potest spoliari sine publico judicio lata vero sententia potest quisque fieri Executor potest autem deponi à populo etiam qui juravit ei Obedientiam perpetuam si monitus non vult corrigi Id. V. Tyrannus § 2. another place And you may suppose that he was very careful to finde out the truth and in this case what was the real meaning of the Roman Church from which you must think he would not swerve a jot I say you must take him here to be very exact since he tells us that he was about forty years in compiling this little Book Yet I durst fancy that his Mother would never have perswaded him with that earnestness to be a Disciple to the Jesuits had she thought that the Enemy of her Country Portugal would make use of such Principles as these to enlarge his own Territories and so to have made the Lusitanian Dragon a prey to the greedy-minded Lyon of Castile We had formerly Leonardus Lessius making the Pope swagger over Kings under the false name of Guilielmus Singletonus but here we shall see him without that Visard boldly shewing himself in his true colours but upon as bad a design as the former a Si tantum excreâ—caâ— Tyâ—â—â—nus he means one of true tâ—tle possession ut nâ—n videatur amplius tolerabilis nec ullum aliud Remedium supersit primum à Repub. vel commitiis Regni vel alio habente authoritatem esse deponendum hostem declarandum ut in ipsius personam quidquam attentare Tum enim desinit esse Princeps Leon. Less de justiâ—ia jure lib. 2. cap. 9. disp 4. § 12. If saith he the Prince grow so much a Tyrant that he seems intolerable and no other remedy appearing the People or Parliament or any other in authority may
And Mr. a Scetâ—◠§ Murray Cambden tells us the place was Kinloss and that the body was found there at which time and place Flowers did miraculously spring up whence at first it was call'd b I. e. The Kirk or Church of Flowers Kill-flos but by corruption Kinloss or Killoss where was formerly a famous Monastery belonging to the Cistercians founded by St. David King of Scotland As for Donald to prevent suspition about the time of the Murther he went amongst those who kept the watch as he had been careful of the Kings preservation and there he continued till morning but when noise was raised that the King was murder'd and his body not to be found for they had taken special care that no bloud should be seen out of the Chamber but his bed was all bloudy he as if amazed and ignorant of such a thing ran suddenly to the Chamber where finding the Chamberlains he slew them as guilty of that heinous murther and running up and down every place as if to discover finding the Postern-gate open he threw the fault upon the Chamberlains whom before he had slain affirming them to have had the Keys of the Gates committed to their keeping all that night And the truth is he made himself so strangely busie in the discovery that several began to mistrust him though at that time they durst not speak of it At this horrid murther their Authors tell us that for six Moneths after neither Sun nor Moon appear'd in that Kingdom but they had enough of strange tempests and thunders which put the people out of their little Wits After this horrid Murther Culene was King who made it his business to finde out and punish the Murderers of King Duffe which within half a year he accomplished found and took up the body of the King which they say was no sooner done but the Air cleared and the Sun appeared gloriously again The body was by order buryed in the little c Amongst the Hebrides Western Island of Scotland call'd Colmekill or Columbkill from the d The Irish say he was their Countryman Scotch Apostle St. Columba who sometimes lived there some think it the same with the Island Iona. In which Island was a famous Abbey or Monastery built by King Fergus the Second which for many years was the burying place of the Kings of Scotland As for King Culene he gave himself wholly over to sensuality and negligence which made the Nobles resolve to depose him to which purpose they summoned a Parliament at Scone the place where the Scottish Kings were Crown'd Culene informed of this and knowing himself not strong enough to oppose resolves to go thither also but being on his journey he was a An. 971. murder'd at Meffen-Castle by one Radard or Cadhard Lord or Governour thereof whose Daughter the King had ravished Upon this Murther Kenneth the Third is King at Scone one hugely commended for all manner of Kingly vertues nor had he any thing to blemish that great Reputation he had justly deserved and got but one wicked crime viz. the poysoning of his Cousin Malcolme Governour of Cumberland which heinous fault though no man suspected him yet his own Conscience accusing him he confest it himself and did really repent of that crime But leaving this let us see the manner of his end Cruthnet Son to Fenella of whom hereafter the Chief Governour of Merres having been the occasion of great troubles fewds and murders was at last with his Companions taken whom with the other chief Actors were executed by the Kings command the poorer sort as a people ignorant and misled were pardoned and let go to their respective habitations which Justice and Mercy was much commended in his Majesty It chanced that the King having been at Fordon a Town in Mernes to visit the Reliques of St. Palladius a holy Grecian who came into Scotland about the year 431 which they say lay here in a little Church to this day corruptly call'd from him Padiâ—kirk went for curiosity to see the Castle of Fettercarne then pleasantly seated in a Forrest well stored with wilde Beasts though now no such pleasantness about it The Lady of this Castle was the forenamed Fenalla or Finabella as some call her who received the King with a great deal of seeming kindness and nobleness Yet she resolved upon his Murther being incensed against the King for executing her Son Cruthnet and what she intended she brought to pass but by what means I cannot positively conclude Some there are that tell a pretty story of rare inventions and contrivances to intice the King to his own ruine as that she knowing the King to delight much in buildings and rare curiosities had provided a place in the Castle richly hung with Tapestry and rich Arras and in it a noble brasen Image holding in one of his hands a fair golden Apple set full of precious Stones all which was framed with that Art and Cunning that if any one took the Apple out of its hand several Arrows from artificial Cross-bows placed so cunningly would fly out and kill him The King after dinner was led into this Chamber by Fenella Kenneth was presently delighted with the glorious Furniture but above all with the Image and asking the meaning of it was answer'd by the Lady that that rich Apple was placed there as a poor gift for himself At length after some looking and admiration he went to remove the Apple and presently the Cross-bows discharged their Darts by which the King was b An. 994. kill'd This story though related by several old Chronicles George Buchanan doth not think worthy of belief nor indeed is it probable that such great riches as their stories here speak of such Art and such Workmanship should meet together under the power of such a Lady in such a part of the World so long ago and in such a little while Whereupon he rather agrees with some other Writers that he was murther'd by four Horse-men laid purposely for that wickedness in ambush by the said Finabella and his body was afterwards buryed at Colmkill I shall not here question by what Right or Title a An. 987. Hugh Capet came to be King of France because the present powers of that Kingdom may think themselves concerned in that dispute onely 't is confest of all hands that Charles of Lorraine was the true Heir and b Pag. 495. Jean de Bussieres could even the other day and that by publick Authority call Capet an Invadour And this was the beginning of the Capevingien Family which yet continues and the end of the Carlovingiens in France that Imperial Line having before this ended in Germany The end of the third Book A CONTINUATION year 1000 OF THE REBELLIONS AND Treasonable Practises Of the ROMANISTS In Deposing and Murthering of their Emperours and Kings From the Year M to the Year MCC BOOK IV. CHAP. I. 1. The Murther of Edmund Ironside King of
Guiccard lib. 1. Ibero Hoc tulit invisum jure Navarra jugum Barbarus insulsum sed Rex f Lop. Gomar cap. 113. Atabaliba Papam Risit Insanit Papa superbus ait Regna datignotis qui sic aliena Dynastis Excidit Imperio sed tamen ille suo Heu quantas peperit Papa Donatio strages Millia g Joseph Acosta lib. 4. cap. 3. Bar. de Casao Epise This last viz Barthomaeus Casaus a Godly Spaniard and a Dominican and Confessor to the Emperor Charles V went into the West-Indies to preach the Christian Religion amongst those people And did write anno 1542 a particular Treatise to shew the barbarous cruelty and abominable Inhumanity of his Countrymen against those poor naked and simple Americans The which bloudy Butcheriâ—s are scarce to be parallel'd in all Histories nudorum quot cecidere virum Exuit humanum crudeli ex pectore mentem Qui legit salsis temporat à lachrimis Qualiter innocuos affixit Celtiber Indos Sed penes Historicos sint ea Lecta suos Thus we see that by the foresaid Articles neither our Kings nor the Church never intended any Spiritual Power and yet I know no reason but that a King or Queen may enjoy as much as some Female Romanists viz. their Lady Abbesses but onely a Civil jurisdiction and a coercive Power for the better Regulating their Dominions against home-bred Traytors and Forraign Enemies as you have seen it here interpretated and not onely our a His Notes upon the 37 Article Thomas Rogers and b Certamen Religiosum p. 159. Chr. Cartwright will inform you farther of it but also some Romanists themselves as one lately in his c Cap 6. pag. 25 26 27 28 c. Reflections upon the Oaths of Supremcie and Allegiance Another more ancient designedly written in Latine against the Book call'd God and the King the Romanist book is also call'd d Edit Colon. 1619. pag. 48 49. Deus Rex And Father Caron a true son to the Papal Chair is unwilling to boggle at this e Nâ—s enim Regem solum nostrum Ecclesiae Britanniae Hâ—berniae caput esse Civile Supremumque Gubernatorem agnoscimus nec aliud Rex ipse praetendlâ— aut Protestantes reipsa volunt Redmund Caron Remonstrantia Hibernorum part V. pag. 64. § 4. Supreme â—itle as people have formerly done And it is not the Sex that spoils the business f 1 Mar. 2 Parl. Queens being capable of and do enjoy all jurisdictions and Qâ—alifications that Kings do But enough concerning this Oath of Supremacie which was one of the main things that vext the Pope supposing by this his own Authority and gain struck at and indeed the g Post Divortiom nisi quod Pontificiam Poâ—estatem execratos se Caput Ecclesiae constituit nihil in Religione mutavit Jac. Aug Thuan Hist lib 3. In which Religion i. e. the Roman the King dyed Tho. Baily ' s life of John Fisher Bishâ—p of Roâ—hester cap. 21. pag. 164. Haereses paeuè omnes praeter illam quae Romani Pontificis Primaâ—um Monâ—sticas Religiones oppugnabat cohibuit repressit Nic. Sander de Schism Angl. lib. 2. pag 228. Parsons conversions of Engl. part 1. p. 170 235 238 241 242 244 246. part 2. p. 541 part 3. vol. 2. p. 408. Romanists confess that Henry VIII retain'd all the Articles of the Roman Church but this one and dyed in their Religion But let the King think as well as he pleaseth of his own Authority the Pope will have as good opinion of his own and to let King Henry see how far his jurisdiction reacheth Paul III h 30 Aug. 1535. draws up a thundering Bull against his Majesty in which he deprives him of his Dominions this for some time he keeps by him but at last sent it roaring i It was publish'd Decemb. 17. 1538. abroad and what a notable thing it was Father Paul one of the most judicious Fryars that ever set Pen to Paper shall tell you k Hist Coâ—cil of Trent lib. 1. pag. 86. A terrible thundering Bull such as never was used by his Predecessors nor imitated by his Successors The thing it self being very long and as tedious as idle I shall refer you for it to their Bullaria but the substance of it take as followeth IT begins with a Canting or Quaking Preface as most other Bulls do odly misapplying of the Holy Scripture to fob up the Papal power Rants dapperly against the King and his Subjects that obey him Interdicts all Cities Churches Places which favour or adhere to him Declares Him his Friends and their Children deprived of all benefiâ—s and priviledges and uncapable to obtain any Absolves all his Subjects from their Oaths of Obedience or Allegiance to him their King Pronounceth that he and his adherents shall be held as infamous their Wills Testimonies Credits and Authorities not to be of any validity Prohibits under Papal punishment to Deal Trade or have any medling with such wicked people Injoynes all Ecclesiasticks forthwith to avoid the Kings Dominions nor to return thither but by a Papal License upon sure Certificate of the said Kings repentance and submission Commands the Nobility Gentry and others to make it their care and business to expel and depose the said Henry from his Dominions Declares all Leagues Treaties or Agreements made by the said King with other Christian Princes to be null which if the said Kings and Potentates do not forthwith submit to as void and of none effect that then their respective Territories to lye under Interdiction and so to remain till the said Princes shall renounce all Amity and Alliance with the said Henry Exhorts and commands all the said Princes and others by vertue of their obedience to invade spoil take Arms and fight against the said King and all those who are subject to him And as for the Goods Ships and whatsoever else they take from the said English He by his Infallible and Papal Authority giveth to the said takers all right and propriety Willeth all Patriarchs Archbishops Bishops and all other Ecclesiasticks under pain of the severest Censures publickly to declare by Bell Book and Candle the said Henry and all his Adherents Excommunicated Requireth that none under the guilt of the same Censures any way hinder the publication of this Bull against the King And if any do withstand contradict or gainsay by any means signes or tokens whatever this Bull that then he or they so opposing shall incur the wrath of Almighty God and the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul Dated at Rome at St. Marks anno 1535. III d Kal. Septemb. In the first year of our Popedom And that neither King Henry nor any else should plead ignorance of these things it was therein provided and commanded that the said Bull should be affixed to the doors of the Neighbouring to England or the Kings Dominions and should be publickly read in the said Churches especicially
8 And though he thus denyed his Allegiance and obedience renounced his Soveraign and her Authority and by this action as much as in him lay deprived her of Title Rights and Dominions yet we shall finde no man more commended by the Romanists for this deed then this Felton If the Learned c Lib. 44. Ingenti five audacia five timeritate Thuanus say that it was a very bold or a rash action the Index Expurgatorius will not have those words to stand as if they derogated from the glory of the action and so orders them to be blotted out of his History Father d Respons ad Edict Reginae § 352. Parsons will assure us that he was a glorious Martyr of which Title e De visib Mon. pag. 734. Concertat Eccles Cathol in Anglia part 2. fol 42. Sanders and others declare him abundantly worthy And in this opinion joyns with them no less man then f Anno 1570. § 4. Spondanus Bishop of Pamiers who shews his partiality by his willingness to trust too much to lying Sanders But above all well fare Hilarion de Coste a zealous Fryar as you may suppose for he will have him to out-do all the Worthies and Heroes in the world calls him g Ce Valeureux Soldat brave Champion de Jesus Christ avec une force d'Esprit invincible l'Ardeur de la foy qui le poussoit eut bien le courage l'asseurance d'attacher en plein ville de Londres Certainement cette action fut merveilleusement genereuse Heroique Aussi l'Eglise d' Angleterre met son Martyre parmy les plus glorieux Trophees au range de ses Victoires plus signalees comme celuy par lequel ainsi que j'ay desie dit elle semble avoir triumphé plus glorieusement de l'Heresie avssi ce coup genereux sait par ce brave Gentilhomme Anglois est chanté rechanté par tons les Escrivains qui ont traitté de Schism de la persecution d' Angleterre lequels universellement le lâ—üent extollent comme un acte courageux comparable à ces miracles de valeur ces Prouesses que fiâ—ent jadis un Mutius un Horace one Clodiá vierge Romaine qui mirent leur vie au hazard pour salut de la Patâ—ie de la Republique qui pour cela sont seroâ—t eternellement renommez dans l'Histoire Hil. de Coste Histoire Catholique l. 3 pag. 560. The valiant Souldier and brave Champion of Jesus Christ commends his invincible courage and zeal for the Faith which was sowonderful Noble and Heroick that England doth place his Martyrdom amongst her most glorious Trophees and most signal Victories having thus bravely triumph'd over Heresie whereby his fame is renoun'd in all Writers who for his valour and courage do praise and equal him with Mutius Horatius and Clodis who ventured their lives for the safety of their Country Thus much for the honour of Felton yet when the same Pen cometh to tell us of Elizabeth it will allow her no other commendation then a Cette impie maudite Reine Elizabeth vraye Izabel de nostre temps ib. The impious and wicked Queen the true Jezabel of our Days Thus our late Puritans or Presbyterians and this man seem to have the same School-master who can commend an Oliver and suchlike Rebels but throw all the filth and slanders imaginable upon their Soveraign King Charles the Martyr Another remark there is concerning this Bull the determination whereof shall be left to the judgement of the Reader and for his greater light let him take this following Narrative One John Nichols born in Wales thence went to Oxford staying one year in White-hall since call'd Jesus Colledge then removed to Brazennose Colledge so to his own Country where he taught a Gentlemans Children is Ordain'd turns Curate in Sommersetshire at last gets to London whence he ships himself for Antwerp goeth to Rheimes and at length to Rome where he is admitted year 1579 into the English Colledge Here he staid about a year returns again into England is seiz'd on at Islington and sent to the year 1581 Tower of London where he makes a publick Recantation and in a little time publisheth these following Books for no more are come to my knowledge His Pligrimage A declaration of his Recantation His Oration and Sermon made at Rome with his Answer to an infamous Libel In one of his b Declaration of the Recantation K. VIII Books he hath these words About c 1580. Midsomer 〈…〉 was twelvemonth they renewed these Bulls of Excommunication granted by this Pope d Gregory XIII Gregory under the colour and name of Pius Quintus published There were five hundred Copies printed at Rome as two of you my Brethren can verifie the same and how they were publish'd as I heard at Rome in the English Seminary at Rhâ—ims and were put fast to Pillars in the City Those Bulls of Excommunication were scatter'd throughout all Italy Spain and part of Germany Then a little after he proceedeth thus One of your Readers in Divinity-positive I am certain before two hundred Scholars and not so few as one of you may testifie the same most impudently and devilishly spake that it was lawful for any man of Worship in England to give Authority to the vilest wretch that is to seek the death of our Soveraign Queen But this Nichols stayeth not long in England but slips again year 1582 beyond Seas upon what account I know not though I am not apt to think upon any designe of turning Mahumetan as e Sanders de Schism lib. 3. pag. 415 416. one would hint to us however it was being got as far as Rouen he is seiz'd on clapt up in prison and like to pay for his old Tales he had vented against the Romanists In this perplexity and restraint they tell us how he f De Schism pag. 415 416 4â—7 418 419 c. Card. Allens Answ to the English Justice p. 30 31. recanted all he had formerly utter'd against them protesting that what he had formerly divulged was either through vain-glory envy fear or hopes of Reward That he did recant we onely have from themselves and I can trace him no farther then his imprisonment at Rouen for what they did with him or what became of him afterwards I know not this I am certain that after they say he went out of England that Dudley Fenner an old Puritan publish'd a a Call'd An Answer to the Confutation of John Nichols his Recantion London 1583. In quarto Book in his behalf and it is as true that Nichols himself doth several times protest and call God to witness that he hath publish'd nothing but truth to which purpose he himself did in print answer the objections and imputations laid against him by Father Parsons But however it be I think no great stress is to be laid upon it
have a strict care to the good government of the Youth and not only for a fit but all the time of his year that he was to continue in Office Some of the Commoners knew all this Pageant and laught the more sweetly and Parsons in the end spying how he was scorned and nothing concealed nay understanding all his Knell which was rung out for him for very shame got him away to London and there not knowing what course at first to take at length resolved to try his fortune beyond Sea purposing as it should seem at his departure to study Physick but afterward when he came into Italy resolving rather to study the Civil Law which he did for a time at Bononia as himself in that place told Mr. Davers Brother to the late Sir John Davers as the said Mr. Davers hath himself told me but afterwards be-like wanting means of Continuance he turn'd to be a Jesuit Presently upon his departure out of England he sent a Letter or rather a notable Libel to Dr. Squire and he had so ordered the matter that many Copies of the Letter were taken and abroad in the hands of others before the Letter came to the Doctor which was the true cause that many very lewd things were falsly reported of Dr. Squire although in truth he was such a man as wanted no faults c. February 1. 1601 At Vniversity-Colledg Your very loving Friend GEORGE ABBOT The inclosed Resignation mentioned in the Letter runs thus Ego Robertus Parsons Socius Collegii de Balliolo Resigno omne meum jus clameum quem habeo vel habere potero Societatis meae in dicto Collegio quod quidem facio sponte * * * Here is dash'd out and non written over it noâ— coactus die decimo tertio mensis Februarii Anno Dom. 1573. Per me Rob. Parsons The inclosed Decree mentioned in the Letter take thus Eodem tempore Decretum est unanimi consensu M ri Reliquorum Sociâ—rum ut Magister Robertus Parsons nuperrime Socius retineat sibi sua Cubicula Scholares quosque voluerit Communia sua de Collegio habeat usque ad Festum Paschatis immediate sequentis But this last Decree was presently after cancell'd or cross'd and so remains in their Register-Book Being in Italy he went to Rome and there turned Jesuit thence came again into England with Campian but made what haste he could out again sometimes living in Spain instigating that King to invade England other times living at Rome where he was Rector of the English Colledg was as they say in some probability of a Cardinal's Cap. We have formerly told you of his pernicious Principles taken out of his own Writings maintaining That the * See backward l. 2. c. 1. p. 76 77. Pope hath power and authority to depose Kings That * L. 2. c. 3. p. 93 Subjects of themselves may depose their Kings Nor will he deny but that Kings may lawfully be * L. 2. c. 4. p. 101. kill'd by their people and such like And now the better to understand the man take a few Instances of his behaviour towards his Queen and Countrey as they are delivered to us by the Romanists themselves and here I shall only set down that which carrieth the greatest probability William Clark the Priest saith thus of him As touching the Colledges and Pensions that are maintain'd and given by the Spaniard which he so often inculcateth we no whit thank him for them as things are handled and occasions thereby ministred of our greater persecution at home by reason of Fa. Parsons treacherous practises thereby to promote the Spanish Title to our Countrey and his hateful Stratagems with such Scholars as are there brought up enforcing them to subscribe to Blanks and by publick Orations to fortifie the said wrested Title of the Infanta meaning Isabella Clara Eugenia Daughter to Philip II. of Spain whose Right to the English Crown was maintain'd in a Book by this Parsons made but published by him under the false Name of Dolman 'T was call'd A Conference about the next Succession of the Crown of England Of this Book thus saith the former Priest Concerning his proposing the Book of Titles to be read in Id fol. 69. the Refectory in Rome instead of a Spiritual Lecture used to be read at such times There be divets yet that will depose the same against him and Mr. Lawbery now a Reverend Priest was the man should have read the same but he rejected it Another tells us thus of Father Parsons It is well known that Fa. Parsons in Spain caused many as well A. P. Reply to a Libel pag. 81 82. others as Priests to subscribe as Priests to the Title of the Infanta now Duchess of Burgundy Fa. Fancard also hath made many to set their hands to three Blanks although some refused to do it as they have themselves reported at their coming into England I have moreover understood that Fa. Parsons was a chief dealer in sending of those Armado's which the Spaniards have set out for the Invasion of our Countrey and them of England with whom he dealt most earnestly to go into the Navy which was set out in the year 1596 who refusing to be employed in any action against their Countrey were for that cause sent away from the Colledg and told that it was not convenient that they should stay in the Colledg where they had given example of such repugnance There is moreover sufficient proof that after the evil success of the Spanish attempts Fa. Parsons carried a Youth to the King of Spain who pronounced a certain Speech for the purpose which being ended Fa. Parsons began to urge the King to give one attempt more affirming that he would write his Letters into England and nothing doubted to effect what should be the great furtherance of such a journey c. Certain other Letters also have been seen of Fa. Parsons to his fellow-Jesuits in England wherein he hath wished that the Catholicks would unite themselves together and set up a King of England And in his Letters of the xxiv of January 1600 to the Earl of Angusse he confesseth that he dealt in such matters for eight or ten years Watson the Priest tells us thus Did he not earnestly move our W. W. a Dialogue p. 92. young Students in Spain to set their hands to a Schedule That they would accept the Lady Infanta for Queen of England after the decease of her * Q. Eliâ— Majesty that now is yea and finding them altogether unwilling to intermeddle with these State-Affairs belonging nothing unto them and most hurtful to both their Cause and Persons used he not this cunning shift to draw on the innocent and simple youths to pretend forsooth to them of Valladolid that the Students in Sevil had done it already no remedy then but they must follow And having thus craftily gotten their Names he shew'd them to the Students
some accusing Dr. James his Jesuits downfall him of Forgery Cheating Cozenage Corrupting of Registers and Records Robbing of Libraries and many other such like Crimes which may be found in the Writings of the Romish Priests themselves Besides those Books mentioned by Pits Ribadeneira or Alegambae he hath writ several others as Leicester's Commonwealth which was then by some jeeringly call'd Green-Coat because it was then commonly spread abroad in Green Covers It was a Book full of railing yet the Earl was bad enough A Memorial for Reformation or a Memorial or Remembrance for them that shall live when Catholique Religion shall be restored into England And this is its true Title though some do commonly call it The High Council of Reformation for England c. It is a Book that Parsons Manifestation of folly cap. 5. saith he was almost twenty years in compiling It was never printed Parsons being very cautious of having of it seen the design of it was to find fault with former Laws and Governments all which he undertook to alter and mend Some Romanists have found fault with him as if in it he designed to run down all other Orders and to advance the Jesuits But Parsons undertakes to vindicate himself In short somewhat to understand the Design take the Division of the Book thus This Book had Three Parts 1. The whole Body of the Realm jointly which consisteth of Ten Chapters 2. The Clergy containing The Clergy in general Then Bishops Priests Religious men Churches Schools and Universities particularly having Seven Chapters 3. The Temporality or Laity containing Prince with his Council Nobility and Gentry Commons all of inferior rank as Husbandmen Servants c. Inns of Court Law containing Five Chapters He wrote it in the * Lor di Banco Bizzarrie Politiche pag. 27. 28. English Tongue as one saith and if any where to be seen probably in the English Colledg at Rome And I suppose it is the same which * Parson 's Three Conversions of Eugl. Part â— Vol. 2. pag. 396. himself once quoteth with his Latin Title De Reformatione Ecclesiae Anglicanae per aliquot Capita He * Id. Part. 3. Vol. 1. pag. 321 351 369 several times mentions his Writings in Certamen Ecclesiae Anglicanae by which Book is meant Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia in which he concludes the First Part The Second Part was for the most part writ by Gibbons and Fenn which was gathered together and published by John Bridgman a Jesuit There is in Baliol Colledg-Library a thick Quarto Manuscript call'd Controversiae nostri Temporis in Epitomen reductae It was given to that Colledg by John Bayly Doctor in Divinity formerly Fellow of Exeter Colledg There was also one John Bayly who succeeded Christopher Bagshaw in his Fellowship of Baliol Colledg 1582 but whether related to the former Bayly I know not This Dr. Bayly was eldest Son to Lewis Bayly Lord Bishop of Bangor the Book as much as I can gather by comparing is all writ with Parons his own hand and the Learned * Censura lib. Apocryp Praelect 2 Coll. 22. Dr. John Reynolds saith Parsons was the Author of it I have heard it also said that he wrote a little Book De Sacra Scriptura and that it was in the foresaid Library but upon search I find no such thing there and may suppose it a mistake the former Manuscript at the beginning treating of that Subject He scarce put his Name to any of his Books but for the most part insignificant and impertinent Letters sometimes false Names as John Howlet * W. C. Reply fol. 73. a. Perneus Doleman and such like And thus much for Parsons whom as good * Rob. Abbâ—t Antilog fol. 14. â— Authority tells us Pope Clement VIII call'd Knave the Jesuit Fitzherbert looked upon as an Exact Hypocrite the Secular Priests as the worst of Villains and whose Doctrine and Actions against his own Soveraign and Countrey were notoriously bad In short He was born 1546 or 1547 Admitted Fellow of Baliol Colledg 1568 Was Master of Arts 1573 Left the Colledg 1571 4 Studied Law and Physick in Italy 1574 Admitted Jesuit at Rome 1575 Return'd into England with Campion but made haste out again 1580 Made Rector of the English Colledg at Rome 1587 Return'd from Spain to Rome some say in hopes of a Cardinal's Cap 1597 Dyed at Rome and is honour'd in the Cell with a long and noble Epitaph 1610 CHAP. II. I. The Gunpowder-Treason II. The Life of Father Garnet with the story of his Straw THE Narrative of this Conspiracy commonly call'd the Gunpowder-Treason being generally known and related at large as well by Forreigners as Natives I shall be the shorter in it year 1605 The sum of it take thus A Club of Romanists vext that a Toleration was not granted resolved to resettle their Religion by the ruin of the King and Kingdom To this end many Plots had been contrived against Queen Elizabeth and King James But they failing a more desperate is pitch'd on and this was With one Blow to destroy King Queen Princes Bishops Nobles and Commons who were not of their Perswasion This is concluded feasible by blowing up the Parliament-House where they or their Representees meet To this purpose Piercy hireth an House adjoining intending by that means to undermine it which Mine being stuft with Gunpowder and other Materials would not fail of Execution But first they take an Oath of Secrecy in an House behind St. Clements Church without Temple-Barr The OATH You shall swear by the Blessed Trinity and by the Sacrament you now purpose to receive Never to disclose directly or indirectly by word or circumstance the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret nor desist from the Execution thereof until the rest shall give you leave This done they went into a more private Chamber heard Mass and received the Sacrament from one William Gerard. In short To work they fall and in some time had wrought under a little Entry to the Wall of the Parliament-House under-propping it with Wood as they proceeded But at last occasion offering it self they hired a Convenient Cellar just under the House into which they conveyed Thirty six Barrels of Powder over which they laid a Thousand Billets and Five hundred Fagots with some Stones and Iron Barrs Things thus fitted they expect the day of the Parliaments sitting which from time to time had been put off till the Fifth of November In the mean time they consult how to seise on the Prince Henry if he should not be at the House As for Charles Duke of York after King Charles the Martyr Piercy undertook to surprise him whom with his Brother Henry they resolve to dispatch out of the World yet the better to bring their Ends about they thought good to center their hopes in one of the Royal Blood and this must be the Lady Elizabeth afterwards married to the Palsgrave whom they
229 His body denyed burial 229 230 Henrician Heresie what 230 Henry V Emperour kisseth the Popes Toe ibid. Henry VI Emperour how Crown'd 262 Henry VII Emperour his death 301 302 Henry Son to John d'Albret King of Navar Excommunicated and declared Deprived by Pope Leo X 346 Henry King of Navar protests against the Declaration and Excommunication of Pope Sixtus V 512 513 Hen. VIII King of England Supreme Head of the Church declar'd deprived of his Dominions 399 400 401 402 c. Paul III ' s Bull against him 404 405 Rebellions in the North against him 406 His Apology undertook by William Thomas 407 Hen. III K. of France his troubles from the Leaguers Book the 8th He steals privately out of Paris 524 Submits to the D. of Guise 525 Closes in with the King of Navar 540 His Name dash'd out of all Prayer books ibid. A Monitory Bull sent out against him by Sixtus V 540 541 542 543 Is murdred by Fryar Clem. 547 The Action rejoyced at and vindicated by the Covenanters 548 and the Chieftains of Rome 549 550 551 c. Henry IV King of France his troubles lib. 8. cap. 7. Declared Heretick and deprived of his Dominions by Gregory XIV 577 Murdred by Ravaillac 640 to 648 Hildebrand vid. Gregory VII Hugonots the Grandees of them massacred in one day 416 The action commended and applauded publickly 416 417 Hungary bloudy actions there 308 Ors Hypato Duke of Venice slain 183 I JAmes VI K of Scotland plots against him by the Romanists 366 367 368 369 370 c. Designes against his taking the Crown of England 676 677 678 Imposes the Oath of Allegiance defends it 709 710 711 c. Jesuits foolish stories of their Founder and Order 5 6 They have two Consciences 45 Jesus Christ childish stories of him 16 c. 29 Marryed to several 16 22 Not so much worship'd as were others 17 Ignatius Loyola his lying stories 5 6 Images troubles about them 163 164 Ingratitude 229 The Spanish Invasion 451 to 459 The Spanish Royal Standard blest 453 454 Joane Pope 180 John King of England his troubles 274 Joh. K. of Navar deprived 343 344 Ireland troubles there against Q. Elizabeth 384 385 386 387 to 397 Articles between Francis I K. of France the Earl of Desmond for the conquering it 385 386 A Rebellion raised there by Tir-Oen 648 649 The Irish send a slanderous Letter to the Pope against Queen Elizabeth 649 They are thanked for their Rebellion by the Pope 651 Defended by the Divines of Salamanca and Valladolid 667 668 c. Irene murthers her son Constantine 169 Donna Isabella Sister to Hen. IV K. of Castile invited to accept the Government refuses declared Princess of the Asturias and lawful Heir to the Kingdom of Castile and Leon 341 Succeeds in the Kingdom 342 Julio II Pope deprives John d'Albret K. of Navar and gives his Kingdom and Dominions to Ferdinand II K. of Arragon 344 Of a Warlike disposition 347 348 Interdicts Lewis XII absolves his Subjects gives his Kingdom to any that will take it takes away the Title of MOST CHRISTIAN from the French and confers it on the King of England ibid. the first Pope that wore a long beard 350 Holy Junta of Spain against Charles V 357 358 361 c. Justinian II Emperor of Constantinople his troubles 161 162 His Nose 162 K Kennith III King of Scotland murder'd 211 Kings are but Asses 38 Must kiss the Popes Feet ibid. Lead the Popes Horse ibid. Hold his Stirrop ibid. Carry up water for the Popes hands ibid. Carry up his meat ibid. Carry the Pope on their shoulders ibid. May be deposed by the Pope 41 42 c. May be deposed by Bishops though poor 53 Compar'd to Asses 38 to Dogs 43 May be deposed by their Subjects 86 87 c. May be kill'd by their Subjects 95 96 c. For how many Causes Kings may be depos'd 107 108 c. Their murder defended by a B. D. of the Sorbonne 503 L Lambert Emperour slain 190 Holy League and Covenant in France the introduction to it 483 484 485 486 to 494 The Articles of the Holy League 494 495 496 497 The Leaguers sollicite their cause at Rome with Pope Gregory XIII 506 Their Declaration drawn up in the name of Cardinal Bourbon whom they call first Prince of the Bloud 507 508 Their Council of Sixteen at Paris vid. Paris Some Preachers set on work by them to bespatter the King and his actions 518 519 Their insolences against King Henry III after the death of the Guises 529 534 Their Holy Vnion 535 They send Messengers to the Pope with private instructions to act 536 Card. Bourbon declared King by the Leaguers 562 563 c. Leo III Emperour troubled about images 163 264 L. Lessius bad Principles 74 75 Lewis le Debonnaire Emperour depos'd 170 171 c. 177 Lewis IV his eyespull'd out 189 Lewis VII of France Interdicted 254 Lewis IV Emperour his troubles 303 304 Lewis XII of France Interdicted 347 Calls a Council at Pisa to depose Pope Julio 349 Roderigo Lopez his treasons against Queen Elizabeth 461 462 463 Designes to poyson her ibid. Loretto's Chappel and flying story 23 Luidolph his humble submission 194 Those of Lyons joyn with the Leaguers 537 Their Declaration ibid. The form of their Oath 533 M THe Office of Majordom Maire du Palais first set up by Clotaire the I 165 One Landregesile first chosen to that Office ibid. Ebroin the first that advanc'd that Office ibid. Malcolme King of Scotland murdred 208 Malcolme II King of Scotland murdred 214 Gregory Martin's Pamphlet against Queen Elizabeth 437 Virgin Mary abused with lying stories 4 5 7 8 c. 21 29 Her kissing and marrying 8 9 Her kindness to whores 9 Equal to Christ himself 11 12 Her bloud better then Christs bloud 13 How hurried into Heaven 14 We must bow at the Name of the Virgin Mary 40 Queen Mary of England in her 5 years Raign put above 260 to death for Religion 418 Mauritius Emp. murther'd 153 c. The D. of Mayenne goes to Paris is made Head of the Leaguers 538 539 Refuses peace is proclaimed Traitor all his adherents 539 Medici the wicked designs of the Pope upon that Family 331 Giuliano murdred by Bandini de Pazzi 332 Lorenzo wounded but escapes ibid. Michael Emperour of Constantinople murdred 182 Miracles lying and forged 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. 21 22 23 24 25 c. 134 135 184 199 207 247 266 Monegario Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Cardinal Montalto his Letter to the General Council of the holy Vnion about the murther of Hen. III 549 550 551 c. N NAples its troubles 330 John Nichols an account of him 434 O OAths of Allegiance 60 Endeavour'd to be in France 57 58 59 Opposed in England 73 74 75 76 77 First framed 709 710 The Pope sends out two Breves against the taking
be bankrupt for rather then fail she will pardon them for ever and ever as may appear in what followeth In the Church of St. John the Lateran is a Chappel call'd Sancta Sanctorum in which there is every day pardon and remission for all sins both from the punishment and the sin also In St. Peters Church in the Vatican by the Font is every day remission of all sins to be had Also in the same Church upon St. Martins day there is to be had full remission of all sins In St. Pauls Church in the Vatican upon the XXIX of January being the day when the Church was consecrated there is then to be had remission of all sins In the Church of St. Croce is a Chappel call'd Hierusalem where is to be granted full remission of all sins both à poena à culpa In the Church St. Maria Maggiore upon All-Saints day there is granted full remission of all sins In the Church St. Maria Rotonda upon the third of May and All-Saints day are pardons for all sins to be had In the Church St. Maria del Popolo on the day of Assumption of the Virgin Mary are granted remission of all sins In the Church of St. Peters ad Vincula are remission of all sins to be had In the Church call'd Ara Coeli or St. Maria Ara Coeli where they say is the first Altar that ever was made in the world at which Altar there is every Sunday and upon the Assumption of the B. Virgin granted full pardon and Remission of all sins These and such other like Indulgences were formerly a Fiscus Papalis sive Caralog is Indulgentiarum c. publish'd in England by Mr. Crashaw from an old Manuscript which he had and I have also seen an old b MS. 196. K Digby in Bibl. Bodl. â—xon Mâ—nuscript to the same purpose But what need we trouble our selves with Manuscripts seeing the same things may be seen in feveral c Indulgentiae Ecclâ—siarum urbis Romane Impressum Romae 1509. Le Cose maravigliose dell ' Alma citta di Roma 1625. Onuphrius de urbis Romae Ecclesiis Le Steâ—r de Villamont ses voyages Vid. Weaveâ—s Funeral-Monuments pag. 160 161 162 c. Books made printed by them and publish'd by their Authority to procure the greater credit and belief for suchlike pardons as these This occasion'd so many Pilgrimages to Rome to the great inriching of that City and the wonder of Johannes or Janus Pannonius the Hungarian Poet and Bishop of Funfkirken or Eutegyhazae in Latine Quinque Ecclesiae who though of the Roman Religion yet could thus jest at the gadding of People from other Countries to Rome for Pardons at their Jubilees Hispani Galli Solavi Teutones Hunni Delit. Poet. Hungar. p. 274. Clavigeri petitis limina Sancta Petri Quo ruitis stulti Latios ditare penates Salvari in patria siccine nemo potest The Spaniard French Pole German and the Hun Vnto St. Peters Chair for Heaven doth run Whither O fools to inrich the Popes do you gad As if salvation can't at home be had Yet Indulgences were also granted to particular places in other Countries amongst the rest England being then free-handed to Rome did not want such pretty Indearments whereby the people were made as free from sin as d Jo. Fox vol. 3. pag 223. Nightingal the Priest in Queen Mary's days and of them might be said as was thus in an old e Thâ— Becon's Relicks of Rome fol. 193. b. printed Pardon John or Joan as free I make thee As heart may think or eye may see And their Power and Prerogative is so great forsooth that they cannot onely pardon past sins but sins to come or what you will commit afterwards of which King f Meditation on the Lords Prayer p. 58. James doth protest that he hath seen two Authentical Bulls with his own eyes And of this the g Gravam Germ. § 3. Princes of Germany at Nurnberg 1523 did publickly complain and that your friends soul should skip out of Purgatory when the cash ratled in the Bason And how liberal they used to be with their Pardons h De Schism lib. 1. cap. 68. Theodorick à Niem who was Secretary to three Popes hath of old hinted and Dr. i Manuduction to Divinity pag. 64 65 c. Thomas James will refer you to some more abuses And though they are willing to be no loosers by these favours yet their prices are cheap enough which probably may the sooner ingage or oblige some trusty son to act any Villany the rates of their Absolutions being so cheap of which take this following Taste as I finde them set down in their Taxa S. Cancellariae Apostolicae Sect. III. Tit. 2. ABsolution for him who lyeth with a Woman in the Church and committed other crimes is rated at 6 a The common value of a grosso is about 4 penny sarthing of English money but some in this occasion will make it about 1 s. 6 d. grossos He that keeps a Concubine if a Priest must pay for his Absolution 7 gros If he be a Lay-man he must pay 8 gros If a Lay-man commit Sacriledge by taking holy things out of holy places he is well used seeing he payeth no more for his Absolution then 7 gros If a man carnally lye with his Mother Sister or other Kinswoman or God-mother he shall have his Absolution paying 5 gros Absolution for him that deflowers a Virgin is dog-cheap at 6 gros If a Priest commit Simony he shall have his Absolution for paying 7 gros Absolution for Perjury is but 6 gros Ib. Tit. 6. If a Lay-man kill an Abbot a Monk a Clerk or other Priest less then a Bishop he shall onely pay for his Absolution according to the Quality 7 8 or 9 gros But if a Lay-man onely kill a Lay-man he shall then onely pay 5 gros If a Woman be with Childe and she willingly and on purpose destroy the said Infant within her she shall have an Absolution for 5 gros And if one kill his Father Mother Brother or Wife he must pay for his Absolution 1 Ducat and 5 b This is sometimes valued at the same with a Grosso Carlins This Book was publish'd by their own Authority it may be the better to let the Romanists see what a kinde loving and indulgent Mother they have But how oft it hath been publish'd I cannot tell It was c W. Crafâ—â—aw's Mittimâ—s to the Jubilee of Rome Epist to the Reader first made and printed at Rome in the time of Pope Leo X and was after printed at Paris 1522 the d Pet. Molin de Monarch Temp. Pont. pag. 355. Kings Priviledge and the Popes Bull being joyned to it 'T was the next year 1523 printed at e Laur. Banck Taxa Epist Colen and afterwards in that Noble Collection call'd Tractatus Illustrium virorum printed by the King of France his Priviledge
and that cry for all the Abominations c. That he had the z Id. pag. 35. wounds according to this saying of Christ a Joh 8. 56. Abraham saw my days and was glad and is not this an excellent Catholick Exposition That in the Preacher 't is said of b Id. lib. 1. p. 11. and 160. him though the Text nameth Abraham c Eccles. 44. 19 20. In glory there was none like unto him who kept the Law of the most High That d Gen. 1. 26. Let us make man after our likeness was meant e Id. pag. 12 13. St. Francis in which place Pisanus hath many other fooleries To proceed they f Id. l. 1. p. 203. tell us that as by Adams fall all Creatures rebeld so to St. Francis are they subject because he kept and fulfild the Laws of God so that it pleased God that all things should obey this Fryar hence they affirm that he might deservedly say All things are given to me of my Father Farther that this Saint was g Lib. 1. p. 22 23 24 25 26 c. figured out to us by Joseph Isaias Jonas Isaac Samuel Job Abraham Salomon Moses David c. the Cherubins Angels Arch-angels Powers Dominions c. all the Apostles c. That Christ himself Prophesied of his h L'Alc l. 2. pag. 43. Order when he said i Luk. 12. 32. Fear not little Flock for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a Kingdom And that he also meant these Minorite Fryars when he said k Matt. 25. 40. In as much as you have done it to one of the least of these you have done it unto me A ridiculous allusion from the Latine word Minores 'T is said of l Gab. Prateol Elench Haeres l. 5. Sect. 19. pag. 168. Eunomius that he taught that all who believed his Eunomian Tenets should be saved though they committed never so many sins I will not say that the Franciscans do positively teach the same of their Order though they offer very fair for it when they assure us that Francis m Gonon Chron. S. Deiparae p. 217 218. L' Alcoran pag. 205 206. desired that all the sins which were confest might be pardon'd and that Christ admitted of the Request but bid him go to his Vicar the Pope for farther Authority and that n L' Alcoran lib. 1. p. 313. 195 196. whosoever affected the Franciscan Order though he were never so great a sinner should have mercy and lastly that no man who dyed in one of their o Nullus qui moreretur in habitu est damnatus Barth a Pisis lib. conform lib. â— Fruch 9. fol. 130. col 4. Frocks or Habits should be damned Upon which pretty fidelity many from the Highest to the Lowest have industriously procured their departing bodies to be wrapt in a Franciscan garb If all this be true I shall not so easily question what they tell us viz. that all the r L' Alc. l. 1. p. 17. vertues that all the Saints as well of the Old as New Testament ever had were met together in St. Francis that he was better then all the Å¿ Ib. pag. 45. Apostles of which they give us a doughty reason viz. they left but a Ship and some such things but Francis left all nay threw off his Cloaths and went naked for Christs sake a good sign that he was of the Ranters Religion As for St. John the Baptist he must not by any means come in Competition with their Francis for which one of their Reasons is this because t Joan. verbum de poenitentia accepit à Domino Fran. à domino à Papa quod plus est Id. p. 36. he received the word of Repentance onely from the Lord but St. Francis received it both from the Lord and from the Pope which is a great deal more Wherefore methinks it might savour of presumption in St. Peter and St. Paul to come down from Heaven to meet Francis at Rome and to presume to u Ib. p. 19. kiss and embrace him as if he had been but their equal and familiar But well might Fryar Giles say that men should never name the word St. Francis but they should lick their w Ib. pag. 75. lips after it and well might such a Crowd of x Ib. p. 250. Angels guard and incompass him when dead that the Devils though greatly indeavoured could not come for the throng within ten miles of his Corps and in Heaven he sits in the y Pag. 44. 293. same Chair whence Lucifer was thrown down and why not since they tell us that God obeyed z Ib. p. 203. Francis in all things whilst he was upon Earth Many other Sottish and Impious Extravagancies concerning this Saint might be mustred up but I shall leave him to the consideration of the judicious and the Hyperbolies of his followers Nor is it this Francis alone but the People of his Order have also been pretty Fellows Fryar a 〈◊〉 Alc. p. 96. Rinaldus they say was carried in a cloud to Paradise where Enoch and Elias being informed that he was a Cordelier skipt and danced for joy and went about with him and shewed him all the Rarities there The same blade longing to see Daniels Tomb in Babylon which they say was kept by Dragons an huge Dragon which they suppose to be an Angel of God sweept him up in his Tail carried him thither where for manners sake he onely took a finger from the Prophet and so was brought home safe and sound again as he was carried and his heart never at his mouth all the while Fryar b Id. pag. 125. Suffian when sick would take no Physick but from the Virgin Mary who thrust into his mouth a whole box full of heavenly Syrrops by spoonfuls and then giving him a little out of another box the greedy-gut having eaten all the former he was so enlightned that he perfectly saw in the book of Life the names of all those who should be saved What need I tell you of Fryar c Id. p. 146. Benet who they would make you believe was Butler to the Virgin Mary but they never tell us where the Cellar was and suchlike fopperies since 't will be easily judged that I do it but in Drollery and then will they judge me never to be capable of those blessings which they attribute to the lovers of this Order but rather condemn me to the punishment of the poor d Id. pag. 174. Florentine who they say having no affection for the Franciscans was decreed to have two Hammers continually knocking him on the head and this punishment they assure us is to continue to him till the day of judgement These and many other such like stories may be read in e Lâ—ber Conformitatum S. Francisci câ—m 〈◊〉 Bartholomeus Pisanus a Book approved of by the general Chapter of the Franciscans at Assist
may give you an hint what little credit may justly be given to such Tales and when men have trapt any as Impostures so oft in lying and cheating they have small reason to believe them in their other Stories or Actions And besides these Forgeries when we consider what compact jugling and delusions there may be and that the Devil also may have a hand in the imployment as also some may have their Natural causes we should not so easily believe all to be gold that glistereth nor every thing we see or hear to be a Miracle wrought by God since b 2 Thessal 2. â— Antichrist himself must deceive by signs and lying Wonders Though as I have no power to hinder Almighty God from working Wonders so have I no Authority to deny that he doth do any by his faithful Instruments and I am apt to believe upon good Reason that the Church of Great Britain since the Reformation may glory and triumph in this blessing as well as their fellow-Christians beyond Sea CHAP. IV. Their Idle Extravagant and Prophane Titles and Prerogatives appropriated to the Pope HAving hitherto seen how lavish they are in the commendations of their inferiour Christians those but as it were fellow-Subjects or of the same rank in obedience with themselves what lofty strains and towring Encomiums may we expect when they advance to magnifie their Lord and Master their Infallible Judge and what not If in any thing they observe Sir Philip Sidneys Rule If the man such praises have What must he that keeps the knave And if when several of their Wits have strain'd themselves to compare the great Cardinal a Many of which you may finde collected together in a Quartâ— Book call'd Scriptorum Galliae Maledicentiae Adulationes Impiae Anno 1635. Richelieu to God Almighty for Power and Wisdom though he hath not hitherto been held one of the greatest Saints we may not hope for less Blasphemies to be produced to the honour of their Roman Bishop whom they fancy to command Heaven and Hell and so at his pleasure to dispose of their souls to either of those places But that good Emperour b Volaterran lib. 23. fol. 266. Alexander Severus rejected all such cogging Claw-backs As c Ant. Panormita de rebus gestis Alphonsi Alonso that wise King of Aragon did not onely hate but several times punish his flattering creenging Courtiers whom he justly call'd the Plague of Princes it being a truth not easily denyed that next to such a Treason as Presbytery the dissembling fawning Favorite is the discredit of his King and the ruine of his Country What the Popes have done by way of command to others to proclaim to the World the Commendations Strength Power Vertue and Authority of his Holy-Chair would be a task too tedious and difficult to search exactly and throughly into Yet that such endeavours have been somewhat Ancient appears by Augustinus de Ancona now better known by the name of Triumphus who above three hundred years ago was commanded by Pope John XXI or XXII to write a Treatise to this purpose which he did where he boldly maintains that no d De Potestate Ecclesiasticâ— Quest 44. Art 1. law can be made to binde Christians but by the Popes Authority as of old the Israelites received none but by the Intercession of Moses Nor is this all but he makes all the world to be so much the Popes Right and Inheritance that he expresly gives us this Caution of Interpretation of some Facts in History viz. That if we meet with any Emperours to have given any e Id. Part. 1. Quest 1. Art 1. Temporal Priviledges or Lands to any Popes as they say Constantine did to Sylvester we must here understand that they did not at all give that which was their own to give but onely forsooth restore that which had formerly been taken away from them by Tyranny and Injustice Or if on the contrary we read of any Popes to have given off any such Temporal Benefit we must then suppose that it was done more for peace-sake then really to give to others a true Title to them Fine Rules if they were true to keep all Jurisdiction and Territories in their own clutches But alas they are too simple and childish to be imbraced by any but fools and suchlike Papal Scriblers Not long after him we have a trusty Spaniard Alvarus Pelagius Confessor to Balthassor Cossa call'd John XXII or XXIII who writ a large Book in part to vindicate his Master by many then held an Antipope This Alvarus amongst other things affirms that no Emperour must be held to rule a De planctu Ecclesiae lib. 1. cap. 13. justly who received not his Power and Authority from the Roman Church especially after Christ had granted all Rule and Government to St. Peter which seems a pretty Paradox as if the Church at Rome by right ruled all the world before ever St. Peter was ever there or held as Supream there or for ought that I know before any other Christian in that City had any abode Nor will that which followeth any whit mend the matter viz. that every Pope hath all the same or as much power upon Earth as Jesus Christ himself had and that the Pope is as a God to the Emperour Some years before this Vrban the Sixth and Clement the Seventh bandying for the Popedom the Christians not agreeing which of them was the true one insomuch that the Kings themselves were also divided from which troubles it may be he might expect some disadvantage However it was he had one Johannes de Therano his Chamberlain who upon his command writ a Book to lessen all Temporal Authority in Princes in which he very finely evades these words Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods by affirming that these words of Christ have place onely for a time viz. until his Ascention and that after his Ascention they are of no force or value proving it from this Verse b Joh 12. 32. When I shall be lifted up from the Earth I will draw all men unto me which he interprets by all Kings and Kingdoms to be under the Popes jurisdiction a bundle of such strange Assertions that c Tom. 2. pag. 232. Coquaeus himself seems almost ashamed of them But to go on long before any of these above five hundred years d Anno 1131. ago in a Council at Rheimes some one or other for his certain name I finde not made a learned and wise Sermon as he thought in commendation of the Pope telling his Auditors that he was greater than Moses greater than any Angel greater than Solomon nay except God there is none like unto him either in Heaven or Earth And that this might carry the more credit with it they have foisted this into the Works of e Sermo ad Synod Rhemens beginning Grave est quod mihi injungitur St.
Bernard though f Anno 1131. Sect. 4. Baronius himself cannot believe that he was the Author of it Yet good Bernard knew not all things nor in some things could he see any farther than that blinde Age in which he lived would allow him nor will I take upon me to censure him of flattery for his thus complementing with his Holiness g Beâ—nard de Considerat ad Eugenium sib 2. cap. 8. Thou art the Prime of all Bishops the Heir of the Apostles an Abel for Primacy a Noah for Government an Abraham by Patriarchship a Melchisedech by Order Aaron by Dignity Moses by Authority Samuel by Judicature Peter by Power Christ by Vnction c. And this piece of canting Courtship was taken up by the Arch-bishop h Vid Abrah Bzov. Rom. Pent. c. 6. p. 56. Stephanus Tigliatius and bestowed upon Innocent the Eighth with some Additions But we might go higher yet and see what goodly Priviledges Gregory the Seventh got an Assembly at Rome to bestow upon him as that i Bâ—oâ— Anno 1076. Sect 31 3â— 33. onely the Pope of Rome can depose Bishops That he onely according to the Times may make Laws That he onely may use the Imperial Ensigns That all the Princes are to kiss his feet That he can depose Emperours and Translate Bishops That no Synod can be held without his command nor any Book is Canonical without his Authority That he is undoubtedly made k Vid. Dist 40. â— Noa nos Holy by the Merits of St. Peter That there is but one name in the World i. e. the Pope Nor can such Extravagances as these seem strange to any who is acquainted with their writings and stories the Popes themselves not a little delighting in these Flatteries and accordingly they never want such complying Pick-thanks Thus Fernando de Velasco in behalf of his Master John the Second King of Vid. Bzov. de Rom. Pont. c. 6. p. 56 57 58 66. Portugal applyed that to Innocent the Eighth which the Apostle speaks of Christ viz. That he is a Ephes 1. 21. far above all Principality and Power and every name that is named not onely in this world but also in that which is to come and that he is the Sun and Light of the World Thus Scala the Florentine Ambassador told the same Pope That his Dignity was so great that a more Excellent could not be invented or fancyed on Earth Nay that to dispute or doubt of his Power is no less than Sacriledge as Cheurer flattered him from the Duke of Savoy Julius the Second was told by Diego Pacettus Envoy from Emanuel King of Portugal That he was the Door-keeper of Heaven and held the Keys of eternal Life And Bernardus Justinianus Agent from the Venetians assured Pope Paul the Second that b Cui claudere Coelos aperire detrudere ad Inferos eruere quoscunque velit concessum he could damn and save whom he pleased Which was also affirm'd to Julius the Second by Michael Risius from Lewis the Twelfth of France with this Addition that the Necks of all Kings and Princes must submit to him Narius Bandinaeus Ambassador from Sienna fob'd up Pope Paul the Third with the Epithites of The Father of Godliness Day-star of Justice Prince of Faith Chiestain of Religion Arbitrator of all things Saviour of Christians and Image of Divinity And as if the Princes of Italy strove in the magnifying of his Holiness the Ambassadors of Genoa Sienna Lucca Venice Florence Parma Milan and Ferrara humbly told Leo the Tenth That he excell'd all Kings as much as the Sun doth the Moon And well might these petit Potentates thus tumble themselves before their Infallible Chair when the great French Monarch Francis the Second by his Deputy Johannes Babo à Burdaesia did creenge to Pius the Fourth in the acknowledgement that all Laws depended upon his pleasure that Kings threw themselves down at his feet and Heaven opens at his will and that his pleasure did stand for a Law as his voice for an Oracle Pope Pius the Fifth was once told that the whole world lay at his Feet And Sixtus the Fifth that Princes Kings and Emperours were so much subject to him that they should not onely attend upon him but worship and adore him Which if true then Aquinas was not amiss when as they say he told the world That * Vid. Bzov. pag. 53 55. our Kings ought to be as much subject to him as to Christ himself Nor those others who with the German have declared that all must be obedient to him upon pain of Salvation according to the Decree of d Extra Com. de Major Obed. c. Uâ—am sanctam Boniface the Eighth Their Canon-Law tells us that Christ received St. Peter into the e Sext. de Electione cap. Fundamenta Fellowship of his undivided Vnity Informs us that as f Dist 12. c. Non decet Christ did the Will of his Father so we should do the will of the Church of Rome That g Dist 19. c. Sic omnes all the Orders of that Church ought to be held as if St. Peter himself had proposed them to us And therefore are h Ib. c. Enimvero perpetually and inviolably to be observed And so are the Papal decretal Letters which they say are to be i Ib. c. In Canonicis numbred amongst the Canonical Scriptures Nor is any man k Caus 17. Q. 4. Dist 81. c. Si qui sunt c. Nemini est to judge or revoke the Popes sentence For the l Paul Lancelottus Institut juris Can. l. 1. Tit. 3. c. Decreta Decrees of the Popes are of equal force and authority with the Canons of Councils And good Reason since they Decree that every one is to be m Extra Com. de Major Obed. c. Unam sanctam obedient to the Pope upon pain of damnation and so must we believe that n Extra Com. Tit. 1. c. Super Gentes all Nations and Kingdoms are under the Popes jurisdiction And that o Extra Joh. XXII Tit. 5. Dist 22. c. Omnes Gloss God hath delivered over to him the Power and Rule of Heaven and Earth And well may he thus triumph over Principalities Powers since the Glossaries have the confidence to assure us that he a Naturam rerum immutat substantialia unius rei applicando aliis de nihilo aliquid facere potâ—st sententiam quae nulla est facit aliquam In his quae vult ei est pro ratione voluntas Nec est qui ei dicat Cur ita facis Ipse enim potest supra jus dispensare de injustitia potest facerc justitiam corrigendo jura mutando Decret Greg. lib. 1. Tit. 7. c. Quanto perjonam Gloss Sect. Veri Dei vicâ—m can change the Nature of Things make or rather create something out of nothing since his will must stand for a Law nor must any man
Nardius saith We have no reason to look upon this Authority as a strange thing since f Constituit namque dominus vicarium suum super gentes Regna potestatenque ei dedit amplâ—ssimam ut evellat distâ—uat desâ—eâ—â—at aed ficet plantet B. Nard Expunctiones cap. 4. pag. 172 173. God set the Pope over the whole World not onely to establish and plaint but also to abolish and destroy And no less man than Johannes de Capistrano tell us that of this power we need not doubt it being now as g Clarum est hodie quod ex justa causa Papa potest Imperatorem deponere privare Jo. à Caâ—ist de Papae sive Ecclesiae â—â—torit fol. 61. â— clear as the Noon-day that the Pope may sometimes depose the Emperour And at this positive Doctrine none must so much as smile or seem offended for of this Book thus sings his Country-man Antonius Amicius Quis te Docte liber vel subsannare cachinno Audeat aut saevo rodere dente queat Cum graviter reseres decus sublimia sceptra Pontificis summi Conciliique simul And a great deal of ado and some money hath been spent by the Franciscans and others to get this man Sainted but how it thrives I know not As h Qâ—aest Criminale p. 173. Sect 9. Didacus Cantera from the Canon-Law so i De Beneâ—â—â—â—is lib â— cap. 4. Franciscus Duarenus by few Examples and as little Reason assert the Popes Authority in deposing Kings And I think k 〈◊〉 sâ—lâ—ct lib. 1. cap. â— paâ— 17. Antonius Possevinus will not be displeased with the Prerogative since he tells us that the Scepters of Kings humble themselves to the Popes feet and that Christian Kings are not so positively of Gods apppointment but they must have his Holiness to confirm their Crowns And l In 2. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aâ—â—◠〈◊〉 â—1 Sect. â—d â—â—â—â—â—m Franciscus Sylvius Doctor and Professor at Doway though he will not allow the Pope to depose Kings upon every toy yet he denyeth not but that there may be Reason sometimes for thus pulling down of Kings And if we consult m Loca ple 〈…〉 67. pag. â—â—6 31â— 3â—◠〈◊〉 Gregorius Polydorius we shall finde him rather to outstrip than come short of the former And this he thought would not be unpleasing to Vrban the Eighth And to this Italian we may add Antonius Cordubensis who in this cause speaks out freely that the n 〈…〉 pâ—â—â—ciâ—â—◠〈…〉 alios tollere 〈…〉 Qâ—â—st Thâ—â—lâ—g 〈…〉 Pope cannot onely do every thing that secular Princes can but also make New Princes and pull down the Old And to this Spaniard may be joyned a Theolog. Moral Tom. 2. v. Papa Sect 10. Franciscus Ghetius of Corno being of the same Opinion moved thereto by pretty Reasons viz. Example as if Emperours had not formerly done the same to Popes and because as the soul rules the body so may the Spiritual Popes triumph over Temporal Monarchs If these Arguments of this Milanois do not sufficiently convince you Rutilius Benzonius a trusty Roman will think to do it with his thrid-bare Allusion of Heretical Kings to Wolves and so they may be b Jus deponeâ—di abdicandi è solio Reges ac Principes non solum Ecclesiae sed interdum populis competere ratione exemplis osâ—â—enditâ—r Potest i. e. the Pope ipso Principes ac Reges si ex ove aut ariete evadant lupi i. e. ex Christiani fiant Haeretici privare dominio c. Rut. Benzon Com. in Canticum Magnificat lib. 3. cap. 27. dub 6. p. 134. turned from their Kingdoms not onely by the Pope but also by the people forsooth yet he would have them to take advice of his Holiness before they began their Rebellion and then I warrant you they are as surely free from that Crime we call Treason as the Chappel of Loretto of which this Author was Bishop was dapperly carryed by Angels through the Air. And in the Popes great Power in Temporals in another of his c Disput de Immunitate Eccles contra Venetos pag. 68. Books he gives us some hint And yet if after all these thwacking Arguments you do not finde your self convinced and will not believe the truth and honesty of this King-deposing Article you may assure your self to be no less than an Heretick for Johannes de Solarzano tells us plainly that not to believe that the Pope can depose Kings is and that deservedly Haec opinio merito ut Haeretica jampâ—idem damnata est Jo. de Solarz de Indiarum jure lib. 2. cap. 22. Sect. 4. too declared and damn'd for an Heresie This may be good Doctrine to preach amongst the Indians the Spaniard pleading most of his Right from the Popes Gift And so whether the Author by his Office relating to those places might be encouraged to propagate such Principles let others conclude yet probably he might have spared his dedicating of them to the present King of Spain who two to one if the State came in Question would scarce consent to the Canon let the Heresie lye where it would From the same Root doth his Country-man d In 2. 2. Tho. pag. 224. Petrus de Aragon draw his Authority that Princes may sometimes lawfully loose their Rule over their Subjects and so doth the great Portugal Lawyer e Pastoral Sollicitud part 1. p. 250. Sect. 90 91. Augustinus Barboza that the Pope can depose the Emperour f Disputat l. 3. c. 5. p. 371. Marius Alterius runs upon the same account and so doth Bishop Johan Maria Bellettus but that he thrusts up the Authority a little higher than the former affirming that this deposing of the King may not g Et non solum propter Haeresim aut Schisma sed etiam propter aliud crimen intolerabile ac etiam propter insufficientiam Jo. Mar. Bellet Disquisitio Clericalis part 1. pag. 282. Sect. 109 100. onely be for his Heresie or Schism but for any other intolerable Crime or if he be not sufficient and not fit to Rule To which there needs no Reply but what if the Lyon do judge the Fox's Ears to be Horns With all this doth agree Raymundus de Pennafuerte telling us that if he be h Non solum propter Haeresim sed etiam propter negligentiam contra Haeresim extirpandam potest non solum excommunicari ab Ecclesia sed etiam deponi suerit inutilis dissolutus negligens circa Regimen justitiam observandam S. Raym. Summa lib 1. Tit. de Haereticis Sect. 7. pag. 41. negligent to extripate Heresie to do Justice in his Government unprofitable or loose the Pope may then take his Kingdom from him Whether this Doctrine was any motive not long ago to Clement the Eighth for Canonizing this man for a Saint or those vast sums of money gather'd in Catalonia where this Raymond was born for the
been supposed o â—losculus de Clericorum excellâ—â—â—â—â— Part. 2. Numb 77. Donysius Paulus Lopiz with the Canon-law affirms this power in the Pope and as if perswaded by the same authority and practice a La Politica lib. 2. cap. 17. Numb 5. Abad y otros dizen que en los graves y arduos negocios y en las muy grandes dificultades que causan Ycandalo en la Christiandad podra el Papa usar contra legos de la potestad temporal que tiene de Deos y no de otra manera y muder el solo Imperio y los Regnos con justa causa de Oriente à Occidente y de una unotra Gente y el Papa Zacharias privo à Chulderino del Regno de Francia Castillo de Bovadillo steers the same course though with as much truth and right as when at the same time he joyns to our Queen Elizabeth the name of Stuart And to him we shall put a Catalonian Lawyer b Speculum Visitationis cap. 22. Numb 46. Gabriel Berart one I warrant you of no small esteem Ludovicus de Cassanate looking upon him as the honour of his Country Franciscus de los Herreros tells us that if we have a minde to know in a manner all things we must get his Books in which he assures us there is not one fault though I cannot say so of his Verse Accipiat ' Speculum quod dat sine mendo Berardus and to make up the Distick we will allow you the Pentameter of Antonius de loredo Coronos who thus rants it out in the Authors praise Berart suus liber sapiens leo est yet for all this you may acknowledge the Authors Doctrine to be as false as his friends Verses are Another Spanish Doctor Johannes Blasius at large assures us of the Popes authority not onely in c Reges ac temporalis Principes Regnis spoliate illorumque subditos à fidelitatis sacramento quo suis Principibus erant astricti absolvere Jo. Blas de sacro Eccles Principatu lib. 2. c. 12. fol. 63. depriving Bishops but also Kings and absolving their Subjects from the Obedience due to them Another of the same Nation but of greater repute than the former viz. Rodericus de Arriaga a learned Jesuit and no less man than Chancellor of the University of Prague exactly followeth in this Unde necessum fuit ut Ecclesia posset eos excessus fremare si non posset rationibus monitionibus saltem Censuris si vero neque his privando illos sua potestate dandoque aliis saecularibus licentiam ut possint etiam vi eos privare jurisdictione Regno Rod. de Arriag disput Theolog. in 1. 2. S. Tho. Tom. 2. disp 18. Numb 74. case those who went before him teaching how Kings may be deposed and their Kingdoms given to others And to these I think I may add another of their Country and of a greater sway than either of them d Index nover librorum Probibit 849. Antonio Zapata Cardinal Protector and Inquisitor-General of Spain because amongst other instances in his late Index of prohibited Books he is so expresly earnest against that which supposeth the Pope to have no such Authority over Princes witten by Roger Widrington though his true name was Preston a Benedict an Monck And now that we have entred into Spain before we leave it let 's consult a noted Scholar of Toledo Alphonsus Salmeron the fifth Jesuit in the world in some places he tells us That the e Potest eos imperio Regno privare vel eorum ditiones alteri Principi tradere Alph. Salm. Tom. 4. Part. 3. Tract 4. Numb Tertiam potestatem P. 410. Tom 13. in Epist ad Rom. lib. 4. disp 4. Numb ad objecta vero P. 679. in Epist B. Pauli lib. 1. Part. 3. disp 12. Numb jam de postre mo Pag. 251. Pope hath power to punish Kings by deposing them and giving their Kingdoms to others and not onely that this Authority lyeth in the Pope but that other f Ergo per Episcoporum sententiam possunt deponi debent etiamsi Pauperes Piscopi inermes Id. Tom. 13. Pag. 251. Bishops though never so poor and weak may throw down Kings Though in some places he is a good Expositor yet here I fear he uttereth Doctrine that St. Paul was never used to And if at Ingolstad in his Sermons upon these Epistles he taught his Auditors these Principles the Duke of Bavaria was too liberal of his Reward who instead of punishment built a famous Colledge for him and his Brethren Johannes Paulus Windeck though he speak nothing of our inferior Bishops yet he declares that he of a Hinc firmiter deducimus Papam posse Principes deponere alios instituere P. Wind. de Theolog. juresconsultoâ—um Pag. 23. Rome hath power to kick down Kings and put others in their Thrones And of the same Opinion is that voluminous Lawyer of Pavia b Jure potest summus Pont. Regno privare non modo Regem ipsum haereticum sed etiam ejus discendentes Menoch Concil 808. Numb 76. Jacobus Menochius and this he saith can not onely be done to the King but also to all of his Line or Race And a Country-man of ours a Doctor in Divinity but of what certain name I know not lurking under the Visard of L. C. in a Letter of his against the foresaid Roger Widdrington or Preston is so furious for this King-deposing Authority to rely in the Pope that he saith to think otherways is not onely c Fidei Catholicae veritati aperte repugnare expresly against the Catholick Faith but doth also savour of d Ethnicismum mihi videntur sapere Numb 4. See the letter it self in Respons Apologetica Rog. Widdringtoni Pag. 153. Heathenism Though another of our Country-men viz. e Cas Conscient lib. 5. cap. 10. Numb 14. p. 442. Gregorius Sayes of the same Order with Preston be not so furious as his enemy L. C. yet he seems to comply with this Papal jurisdiction over Kings and Kingdoms And I believe I shall not any way displease a learned Roman Doctor f Comment in D. Thom. in 2. 2. quaest 10. art 10 disp 1. quaest 11. art 4. disp 1. Alexander Pesantius if I bring him in amongst the Champions against absolute Monarchy for besides that he makes it his business to prove that the Pope can deprive Infidels of their Rule over Christians and by the interpretation of his Margin assures us that Pope Zacharias turn'd out the King of France in the next Question he takes a step farther and affirms that for heresie a man doth not onely loose as a Father the Rule over his Children as an Husband the same over his Wife and so she not obliged in any thing to be obedient to him and the same as a Master over his Servants but also though a Prince and Ruler yet by this
of Constantine is a foolish and absurd forgery to be disposed and hist at by all men being onely maintain'd by a company of ignorant people And i De Script Eccles Tom. 1. pag. 237. Philippe â—abâ—e another French Jesuite well versed in these things confesseth that Baronius Morinus and others may very well doubt it XIII They write that this Baptism and supposed Donation of Constantine was in the CCCXXIV and yet the Decree it self of such a Donation with the story of his Baptism is dated Constantine and Gallicanus being Consuls And yet according to the Fasti of the Consuls Crispus and Constantinus were then Consuls and not Gallicanus who was Consul with Bassus some VII years before this and was again V years after the Nicen Council and this false dating is another sign of the cheat XIV If Constantine gave all this to the Church of Rome in Pope Sylvesters time how cometh k 12. Q. 1. c. Futuram Melchiades who was Pope before this Sylvester to take notice of Constantine's being a Christian and expresly to relate his building of Churches his giving great things to Rome and his leaving of that City to the Popes The truth is they are both cheats to the shame of the Collectors of their Canon-law who would thus fob such forgeries upon us And Gregory XIII his amendments were to small purpose leaving such gross lyes as these in their Canon to deceive the more ignorant More might be said against the pretended Donation of Constantine but this is enough to satisfie any man of its forgeries and that there was never any such thing However because they pretend to give some reasons for it take some for example sake I. First they say that Eusebius in his book call'd Enneadoes writes the storie of the Leprosie Baptism and Donation of Constantine and so why not true Answer This is a spurious and counterfeit Book never made by Eusebius as a An. 1191. § 51. Baronius and b Var. Resol l. 4. c. 16. § 8. Covarruvias confess and the true Eusebius writes no such thing but quite contrary as aforesaid II. Again they say that S. Hierome in one of his c Beginning Saepissime rogatus Epistles to Eustichius affirmeth Constantine to have been baptized by Sylvester and so not at Nicomedia as Eusebius saith Answer This is also a forged Epistle never writ by S. Hierome but by some cheat or other and father'd upon him as many other writings are as is confess'd by d Not. in Martyr Rom. Aug. 1. Baronius and e Apparat. in Hier. pag. 752. Possevine with f Tom. 4. pag. 202. Annot. ante Epist Praef. ante Tom. 4. Hieroâ— Erasmus and several g See Jo. Hen. Hottinger Elench Scriptor suppositiorum page 83. others III. Again they say that h Dist 96. c. 14. Constantinus Gratian having collected the storie of it into his Decrees and so become a part of the Canon-law we need not suspect the Antiquity of it no question but they had good reason and true for putting of it there Answer I hope you will not take all to be Gospel in these Decrees for if so i Dist 34. c. 4. 5. with the contents Edict Ludg. 15 44. 1572. Edict Paris 1561. Concubines will thank you for allowing them so fair a plea. But to the purpose 't is confest by k Hist part 1. Tit. 8. c. 2. § 8. Antonius Bishop of Florence by l Antropol l. 23. fol. 270. a. Volateran by m De concord Cathol l. 3. c. 2. Cusanus and others that this was not inserted by Gratian nor is it in the Ancient Copies and the Palea or Chaff prefixt to its Title tell you what stamp and authority 't is of However to prove this donation though not inserted by Gratian yet to be set in these Decrees in his time n De jurisdict part 1. c. 30. § 35 36. Dr. Marta tells us a storie of a plagiary Cardinal why such Chapters were so call'd But another Italian Lawyer o De juris peritis Catellianus Cotta saith that Palea was one who was Schollar to Gratian and probably one is as true as the other Several other suchlike spurious Authorities as these are alledged in behalf of this Donation to which I need not trouble the Reader with an Answer but refer him to Dr. Crakinthorp And in truth Dâ— Barwâ—ck's lite of Bishop Morton some of them are impudent to a miracle in this way of forgery witness their yet confident storie of the Nags-head Ordination as notorious a lye as ever was spread abroad witness their affirming that the Reverend Bishop Mâ—rton confest the truth of the storie in a Speech in Parliament as true as the other But had the storie been true might not we say we took the Example from Pope John XII who a Baron anno 963. § 17. Binius Concil ordain'd a Deacon in a Stable Here basely the Fathers and others have been abused and corrupted in their Additions I shall not at this time undertake to declare but refer you to b Corruption of Father See also Blondel Psâ—udo-Isidor W Crashaw's Romish forgeries and falfications Dr. Tho James and Archbishop Vsher left a large Manuscript behind him much to the same purpose The aforesaid c Appendix to the Reader Dr. James an industrious Toyler amongst all sorts of Books and Writings tells that in the Vatican Library there are certain men maintain'd onely to write out the Acts of the Councils or Copies of the Fathers works who are brought up to imitate the ancient Letters and writings of some of them which Possevine the Jesuit confessing that Manuscripts themselves need a Purgation To prevent the thrusting of these Abuses upon us the Noble Prince Henry had some thoughts to erect a Royal Library with all sorts of Books and Editions as I think betwixt St. James and the Muze And in the Proposition presented to the aforesaid Prince both to forward and to shew the means to carry on such a glorious design I finde these following words according to my Manuscript confirming the former observation of Dr. d It would be well if several of his Books were reâ—â—inted to shew the abuse of some Editions of Fathers James The Pope gathereth up all the Manuscripts he can into his Library the Vatican and there useth them at his pleasure One of their tricks is Notorious they have men that can counterfeit any hand and write the old hands that were written 500 and 1000 years ago then they have an artificial Ink which within three days after the writing looks as it had been written 500 years afore Thus having altered and taken out all that made for us they suppress the old true Copies and produce these new ones they written by themselves as afore as the Authentical Books In this was also designed a noble maintenance for the Library-Keepers and other Officers thereunto belonging to
power of nominating Bishops in his own Territories whom he left to be Consecrated by others Now on the contrary the Pope would take all power into his own hands allowing no man to be Bishop of what Country soever but whom he pleas'd by which means he would wrest all favours from the Temporal jurisdiction to himself And whereas formerly Clergy-men were commonly marryed and their b Dist 28. c. si quâ—s docuerit c. si quis discernit dist 31. c. Omâ—no confitemur c. Quoniam Romani c. Aliter se Orient Canon-law it self grants them some favour in this case Now the Pope proceeds severely against the married Clergy by Excommunication and so in a manner deprived them of their Beings which was the cause of great troubles in Germany Nor was this all but also Gregory the Seventh thrust himself up above all Dominions and Authorities in the world by the assistance of a puny Synod at Rome thus declaring his Prerogative viz. That onely the Pope of Rome can depose Bishops Baron an 1076. § 31 32 33. That his Legat must take place of all other Bishops in a Council which Legat hath power to depose other Bishops That the Pope can depose those who are absent That it is lawful for the Pope onely according to the necessity of them Time to make new Laws c. That the Pope onely may use the Imperial Ensigns That all Princes are to kiss the feet of the Pope onely That his name is onely to be recited or mentioned in Churches That he hath Authority to depose Emperours That he onely can translate Bishops That no General Synod ought to be call'd without his command That no Book is Canonical without his Authority That his sentence ought not to be revoked by any body That no man ought to be Censured for Appealing to Rome That all Causes of great Importance of what Church soever must be referred to him That the Roman Church neither ever did or can err That there is but one onely name in the World i. e. the Pope That the Pope of Rome if he be Canonically Ordain'd is undoubtedly made Holy by the merits of St. Peter And some other such-like Priviledges as these were also then concluded upon Thus by little and little did the Roman Bishops dwindle the Temporal Authority to nothing by making themselves so great and powerful Alexander the Second had null'd all Lay-Patronage by making it unlawful to receive any Benefice from a secular Authority which then they call'd Simony though gave a Coquaeus p. 513. nothing for it as b Pag. 874 875. Id. pag. 868. Genebrard saith And a little before this Leo the Ninth seemed to ease the Papal See from the Imperial jurisdiction but to no purpose that Chair falling after into the Imperial Nomination as it did also in him But Gregory the Seventh by a particular c 26. Q. 7. Quoniam Investituras Baron an 1078. § 26. Canon null'd and voided all Investitures that should be made to Bishops c. by the Emperour or the secular Prince Though we are told that his Master d S. Hen. Spelman Gloss v. Investur Gregory the Sixth mainly commended this way of nominating or designing Bishops by a Pastoral Staff and Ring by the Temporal Prince whereby the other Bishops might with more Authority and less prejudice Consecrate him and that this had also e G. Carleton's jurisdiction pag. 137 138 139 c. formerly been the practice cannot be denyed and the power of Nomination is yet used by all Christian Princes within their respective Dominions Suchlike actions as these procured some heart-burnings betwixt the Emperour and Popes which at last fell to open divisions and animosity to which the troublesome Saxons were not the least Authors who had for some time born a spite against the Emperour from whose Authority and Protection they had several thoughts and consultations of withdrawing themselves To prevent this Henry had built several strong Castles and Forts amongst them which incensed them more insomuch that they did not onely fortifie and defend themselves but sent to Rome complaints against the Emperour of Oppression and Simony which Vrspergensis saith were f Accusationes blasphemas inauditas false accusations Alexander the Second then Pope upon this took the confidence to send to Henry commanding him to appear at Rome to answer before him such complaints as were laid to his charge but the Pope g An. 1072. dying presently after this Tryal fell to the ground for a time After him was Pope Gregory the Seventh who was first call'd Hildebrand and under that name commonly met withal in History but the Germans who above all things hated him for jestsake used to call him Hellebrand i. e. a Firebrand from Hell they looking upon him to be the cause of all their misfortunes whilst some others magnifie him no less than a Saint Gregory had not been above a year Pope but he sent his Legats into Germany who though they behaved themselves stoutly to the Emperour yet could not procure the Priviledge of having a Synod held there by them the native Bishops not being willing to submit to such Masters the chief of the Opposers being Liemarus Archbishop of Breme whom they undertook to suspend and the Pope afterwards thought he had completed it and at last a An. 1075. excommunicated several Bishops who adher'd to the Emperour And not long after sent an express summons to Henry himself to appear before him at Rome and that if he were not there by such a day he should be forthwith excommunicated The strangeness and boldness of this Papal summons moved the Emperour so much that he not onely sent away the Legats with scorn but sent forth Orders to all Bishops and Abbots to meet him at Worms there to hold a Council who accordingly appear'd in a very great b Amâ—lâ—ssimo numero â—am Schafâ—ab anno 1076. number where having drawn up many Accusations and Crimes against Gregory they adjudge him not fit to be Pope declare his Election void whatever he shall do as Pope after that day to be null and of no effect and so deprive him from the Popedom And to this having subscribed they sent Rowland of Parma to declare the same at Rome In the mean time Gregory had call'd a Synod at Rome which being met Rowland appears amongst them and there boldly declares to the Popes face how the Emperour and the Bishops of Italy Germany and France in a Council had deprived the said Pope But Gregory to requite this kindness the next day excommunicates and deprives the chief of the Bishops who were at Worms and for the rest he appoints a set time for them to repent and submit to him which if they did not obey then were they also partakers of the same sauce Nor doth he forget the Emperour but very dapperly excommunicates and deprives him of his Dominions and Authority The chief part of which Deposition
and all these as a security of Albrets good behaviour to him and to be restored again when Ferdinando thought good King John thought these demands unreasonable justly suspecting a difficulty of ever outing the Castilians if they were once so strongly setled in his Dominions especially at this time when the Factions of the two Families Gramont and Beaumont had made some disturbance with him at home and the last of them wishing too well to Fernando Add to this there was no necessity of such demands for passage seeing they might march several ways into France without troubling Navar. Thus Albret fearing the worst by smelling out the designe thought to strengthen himself by joyning interests with the French King The backwardness of Navar being known Pope Julio falls a Bulling with the consent of his Cardinals declaring John d'Albret and Catherine his Wife with their Posterity for Hereticks and Schismaticks so deprived of all Royal Dignity and Honour freely giving their Kingdom and Dominions to Ferdinand or any that will take the pains to have them Ferdinand now thinking that the Popes blessing and cursing gave him right and title good enough to the Kingdom And having his Army ready in Alava a little Province between Biscay and Navar made it march on a sudden under the command of Don Fadrique de Toledo Duke of Alva Grand-father to Don Fernando d'Alvarez de Toledo Duke of Alva so noted in the Netherlandish Histories and who after that in a little time conquer'd Portugal to the obedience of his Master Philip II. For the Narrative of which I shall refer those that desire to read it to Jeronimo Conestaggio of Genuoa But the Portugais 1640 make quicker work in regaining of it from Philip IV. And so they might without a wonder if they surpass the Castilians so much in courage as b Antonio de Sousa de Macedo relates it a Lusitania liber l. 3. c. 9. But to return the Castilians made such haste that they entred Navar before Albret expected them which so amazed his unprovided Court that he presently b July 22. 1512. fled for it into France leaving his Queen Children and People to shift for themselves All hopes thus lost the Queen with her son Prince Henry and three Daughters two days after quits Pamplona to follow her husband whom having overtaken she thus amongst other speeches tartly upbraids c O Roy vous demeuâ—erez Jean d'Albret ne pensez plus au Royaume de Navatre d'Autant que pour avoir esté superfluement boâ— vous en avez esté moins estimé des vostres vous estes pardu vous vostre Royaume L. de Mayerne l. 25. pag. 1191. O Roy vous demeurez Jean d'Albret ne penses plus au Royaume de Navarre que vous avez perdu par vostre nonchalance Olhagaray p. 455. O King King thou shalt remain John d'Albret and never think more of the Kingdom of Navar for that having been superfiuously good you have been the less esteem'd of your subjects and have undone your self and your Realm Thus the Kingdom of Navar became an easie prey to Ferdinando from which time it hath continued an Appendix to the Crown of Spain whilst the French are forced to be content with its empty title As for Albret though he was a lover of splendour and learning himself being well skill'd in Heraldry and a great Collector of Books for his Libraries yet he made himself cheap by being two good-natur'd and too familiar even with the meanest of his Subjects so that when it came to a stress his former freedom rendred his name of Majesty contemptible Nor gain'd he a little Ill-will by his wholly affecting the French modes and humours too light and Airy for a Mountanous rough-hewn people especially such who breath nothing but the Spanish air but which was most his preferring many Strangers or Forreigners not onely by giving them good Estates but by intrusting them with the greatest Offices and Places in his Kingdom whereby the Natives grumbled to see themselves so neglected and sleighted To these we might add the Factions amongst the Nobility but that which was the fountain of all was his giving of himself up so much to his a Vid. Michel Baudier Hist du Cardinal Ximenes pag. 106 107. pleasures that he wholly neglected the Government not troubling himself with the management of any thing in it nor caring how things went right or wrong so they would but let him alone to his own fancie so thus like some other Kings he had the Title others the sway and Authority so that he himself lost nothing by the want of these his Dominions seeing he carryed the name of King along with him whilst the Spaniard took the trouble and care of Government upon him And all such are but pictures of Kings Francis I. King of France who succeeded Lewis XII to whom our Albret fled who for his great love and care to the Church Learning and his people is so renown'd by all Historians upon his death-bed with his blessing gave his son Henry II. these two Rules First fear God Then be careful for the good of your subjects Upon which excellent advice the famous French Antiquary Lawyer and Poet Steven Pasquier by the folly of Latinizing names call'd Paschasius compos'd this following Epigram Nato haec Franciscus dixisse novissima verba St. Paschas Epigram lib. 5. vid. Delit. Poet. Gal. vol. 2. pag. 971. Fertur in gemitus prosiluisse pios Imprimis venerare Deum Charissime Fili Mox tibi sit Populi cura suprema tui Dixit occubuit Duo ne Praecepta putato In duo peccat qui peccat in alterutrum Nam cui nulla Dei cuâ—a est nec cura suorum est Et cui non populi est cura nec ulla Dei est Frances whilst death was closing his heavenward eyes Bequeath'd unto his Heir thus his advice First worship God dear son Then see you bend Your ways as most to your subjects good may tend This said he dyed Nor think these Rules but two For who breaks one must break the other too Since who loves not God loves not his own affair And who slights his peoples good for God can't care Thus was Albret the loss of himself and Kingdom it being a certain Rule that subjects take their influence from the actions of their Princes an active vigorous and valiant King infusing courage into his meanest vassal whilst the negligent and effeminate and all such are observed to be too good natur'd and so negligent which in a King is worse then tyranny renders the people unactive and though jealous yet careless which stupidity makes them more stubborn because they see themselves tyrannized over and abused by such base-spirited cringing favourites as usually domineer under the Protection of such breathing Statues of Kingship But to return And yet who can be but troubled at the sad fortune of poor Albret who dyed of grief
Abbots Priors and Lady Abbesses and the whole number of these Roman-Nonconformists would not amount to 200. But waving her Religion I finde the greatest crime objected to her is her cruelty against others for their opinions in Religion and with this her Adversaries have made no little noise in the world To this I shall return some satisfaction with as much brevity as can be all this being but a digression and by the by As for several years of her Reign not one Priest had suffered death so when they did as afterwards I fear many of them are yet held for blessed Martyrs who justly dyed as wicked Traytors And in this I would have the unbyass'd Romanists but to consider That even long before the Reformation a 25 Edw. 3. cap. 2. IT was Treason to compass or imagine the death of the King the Queen or their eldest Son and Heir b Ib. It was â—reason to Leavie war against the King or to adhere to the Kings enemies or to give to the said Enemies aid or comfort c Cokes Institut part 3. chap. 36. 13 Rich. 2. Stat. 2. cap. 2. It was Felony to bring or send into the Kingdom any Summons Sentence or Excommunication against any person of what condition soever d 16 Rich. 2. cap. 5. He incur'd a Praemunire that got such Bulls or Excommunications from the Pope e Coke part 3. chap. 84. None was to go out of the Realm or beyond seas without the Kings leave or license f Of these things see more at large in Coke's Institut part 3. cap 36. and his Reports part 5. fol. 12 15 17 21 22 23 27 28. and Bishop Bramhals just vindication of the Church of England from Schism cap. 4. It was of old expresly against the Law of the Land to procure or bring in any Bull of Excommunication against any subject much more in all reason against the Soveraign in respect it gave way to Forreign Authority the Popes Excommunications according to our old Laws being of no force in England g Coke Institut part 3. cap. 67. It was not lawful for any Subject of England to take a Pension c. of any forreign King Prince or State without the Kings license although the said Princes or States be in Peace or League with England Let the honest Romanist farther consider that before any Priest did suffer death it was Enacted that a 28 Hen 8. cap. 10. and 5 Eliz. c. 1. THey should incur a Praemunire who did any ways assert or teach the Pope to have jurisdiction over or in this Kingdom b 26 Hen. 8. c. 13. It was Treason for any to write or affirm the King to be an Heretick Infidel Schismatick Tyrant or Vsurper c 13 Eliz. c. 2. It was Treason to bring procure or publish any Bull from Rome d 13 Eliz. c. 2. It was a Praemunire so to acknowledge the Popes jurisdiction as to bring or procure from him any Agnus Dei Crosses Beads or Pardons being trinkets and trifles of themselves not worth a Rush but as they are held privy Tokens of Papal Obedience or Allegiance Here we see a fair way of Caution and he is a madman and no Martyr who will needs hasten his own death when neither God nor man requires any such indiscreet Zeal at his hands Christianity and Salvation being not destroy'd by these Laws the substance of them being in force when the Romanists themselves confess England was of their side and the Law-givers declare as appears by the Prefaces to the Acts that these Regalities and Laws tended for the better Government Constitution Peace and happiness of the Kingdom of which we are to suppose them to be best Judges seeing no Article of Faith confirm'd either by the Holy Scriptures or the Primitive Church were null'd or made void by these Statutes Yet the better to expose the Queen and render her actions odious all the world over they were very careful to publish what lyes they could of her pretended cruelties amongst whom we may account John Gibbins Robert Parsons Jesuits and John Fen Priest who were the chief Authors of that Pamphlet call'd Concertatio Ecclesiae in Anglia Add to them the Book call'd Ecclesiâ—e Anglicanae Trophaea drawn in Pictures in the English Collâ—â—ge at Rome by Nicholao Circini ingraven by Jo. Bapt. de Cavalleriis and publish'd by Gregory XIII his Approbation anno 1584. where people are said to be worryed in Bears skins c. and printed by Bartolomeo Grasso To vindicate the English-Romanists from the false Aspersions and falsities against their Soveraign and Country mention'd in this Book I finde a e Over throw of the Protestants Pulpit-â—abels against Mr. â—â—â—shaâ— pag. 10. Romanist I. R. whether May the Priest I know not though I am f Tho. James corrupt â—â— Fathers in the Appendix to the Reader told that such an one wrote against Mr. Crashaw as this also diâ— to offer something by affirming that there was never any such Book printed in the English Colledge at Rome But nothing is got by this since it cannot be deny'd but that the foresaid Book was printed at Rome and publish'd by the Popes express Authority as appears by his Breve prefixt And farther the foresaid supposed cruelties were painted upon the Colledge-Walls by Nich. Circini by order and appointment of the English there Nor need we trouble our selves to shew the disaffection of the English of that Colledge to their Queen and Country seeing Histories do testifie their Actions and a A. Mundy the English Roman liâ—e Travelers their railing and bitter words To these we may add Richard Verstegan who put forth a Book call'd Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum Nostri Temporis where in his Pictures he offers to view the former lying Bear-skin Tales Of this man because he afterwards afforded some light to Antiquities and our Historians are silent of his life and extraction a word or two by the by His Grand-father was call'd Theodore Rowland Verstegan born in Gelder-landt came into England about the latter end of King Henry VII marryed here and presently after dyed leaving a Son nine months old who afterwards to get a livelihood took upon him the profession of a Cooper in London Nor is this any discredit Wolfangus Musculus his Father being of that Trade This Cooper was Father to our Richard Verstegan which Richard was born in the Parish of St. Catherines in London he gave himself to the study of good Letters and imployed himself in Painting which makes me think that he engraved the Cuts in his own Books as the Learned Hevelius doth now Being a Zealous Romanist he left England went into the Spanish Netherlands where he compos'd the foresaid Theatrum Crudelitatum the Verses were made by b Vid. Delic Poet. Belg. vol 1. pag. 760 761 762 c. Johannes Bochius born at Bruxels but if I mistake not Register to Antwerp Afterwards the Rebellious League
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 Sâ—â—uâ—t Master of the d d Call'd the Mary Maâ—tin of Câ—lchâ—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 Epigâ—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. â—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 Instigâ—â—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
which Nevil Parry offer'd to call cozen in him he endeavours to foment a discontent and having as he thought fully brought over discourseth more openly with him At last he opens to him about killing the Queen which he call'd An Act honourable and meritorious to God and the world At several times they consult about it either of killing of her in White-hall Garden and so to escape by water or by St. James's on horse-back But at all this Nevil seem'd staggering Parry to take away all doubts from him lent him a b It was call'd A Defence of English Catholicks against the Book call'd The Execuâ—ion of Justice which Book was made by the Lord Burleigh Book made by Dr. Allen afterwards for his Treasons made Cardinal which had been sent him out of France And now this Book wrought with Parry himself you shall see by his own confession thus It redoubled my former Conceits every word in it was a warrant to a prepared minde it taught that Kings may be Excommunicated Deprived and violently handled It proveth that all Wars Civil or Forregn undertaken for Religion is honourable Nevil also declares himself convinced of the lawfulness and braveness of the action and so they both swear in Parry's lodging secrecie and to kill her of which thus Parry in his Confession He came to me the next morning to my lodging in London offer'd to joyn with me and took his Oath upon a Bible â—o conceal and constantly to pursue the enterprise for the advancement of Religion which I also did and meant to perform THE KILLING OF THE QVEEN WAS THE MATTER The manner and place to be on Horse-back with eight or ten Horses when she should ride abroad about S. James or some other like place All this while Parry carryed himself pretty fair with the Queen several times conferring with her telling her of Cardinal Como's Letter by which discoveries though he did it onely the better to gain opportunity and credit he obtained so much favour of the Queen that she not onely thought him a trusty loyal Subject but intended him a liberal Pension or Allowance Whilst he thus gets esteem with the Queen and at the same time contrives her death Nevil resolves to discover all doth so and is examined by Leycester and Sir Christopher Hatton The Queen wonders at the juggle and contrivance but had it kept secret and the better to finde out the Plot Parry is sent for by the a Sir Fran. Walsingbam Secretary to his house there to see according as the Plot was laid if he would any way confess this who had shew'd himself so ready on his own head to discover the Forraign designes against her Majesty The Secretary entertains him kindely telling him that the Queen had appointed him to deal with him in a matter that highly concerned her Majesty knowing him to be one who bare an extraordinary Devotion to her Having thus begun the Secretary told him that the Queen had been advertiz'd that there was some plot in hand against her own person wherewith she thought he could not but be made acquainted considering the great trust that some of her greatest Enemies reposed in him Of this she desired to understand his knowledge and whether he himself might not some time have let slip some suspitious words not with any real designe against her but to discover the intention of others Parry strongly confiding in Nevil earnestly denyed it again and again with several protestations that he was neither party nor privy to any such motion or enterprise Walsingham dealt fairly with him telling him that there was a Gentleman and his friend who would prove the contrary to his face Yet Parry denyeth all though probably had he confest and these were hints enough and accused Nevil at this first asking he might have saved himself and in this his great cunning was overseen Parry thus obstinate in denyals is not permitted to go home but lodged that night at Mr. Secretaries house within London This puts him in a peck of troubles fills his head full of suspitions and having consulted with his pillow the next morning he desired to speak with the Secretary which granted he confesseth that now he had call'd to remembrance that he once had speech with one Nevil concerning a point of Doctrine contain'd in one of Dr. Allens books where it was maintain'd that it was lawful to take away the life of a Prince to benefit the Roman Religion but protested that he talked nothing of the Queen That night he was examin'd at Leycester-house before several but still he denyed all whereupon Nevil was brought before him who punctually justified every circumstance before his face yet the other as formerly denyed all However he is sent to the Tower where perceiving the exactness of the proof against him he freely and of his own head confess'd all and sent his humble Letter to the Queen which take as followeth YOur Majesty may see by my voluntary confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented minde and how constantly I pursued my first conceived purpose in Venice for the relief of the afflicted Catholicks continued it in Lyons and resolved in Paris to put it in adventure for the restitution of England to the ancient obedience of the Sea Apostolick You may see withal how it is commended allowed and warranted in Conscience Divinity and Policie by the POPE and some great Divines though it be true or likely that most of our English Divines less practised in matters of this weight do utterly mislike and condemn it The enterprise is prevented and conspiracie discover'd by an honourable Gentleman my kinsman and late familiar friend Mr. Edmond Nevil privy and by solemn Oath taken upon the Bible party to the matter whereof I am hardly glad but more sorry in my very soul that ever I conceived or intended it how commendable or meritorious soever I thought it God thank him and forgive me who would not now before God attempt it if I had liberty and opportunity to do it to gain your Kingdom I beseech Christ that my death and example may as well satisfie your Majesty and the world as it shall glad and content me The Queen of Scotland is your prisoner let her be honourably intreated but yet surely guarded The French King is French you know it well enough you will finde him occupied when he should do you good he will not lose a Pilgrimage to save you a Crown I have no more to say at this time but that with my heart and soul I do now honour and love you am inwardly sorry for mine offence and ready to make you amends by my death and patience Discharge me a Culpa but not a Poena good Lady And so fare well most gracious and the best natured and qualified Queen that ever lived in England â—rom the Tower the 14 of February 1584. W. Parry In short Parry is Arraigned and Tryed at Westminster where at first he confesseth
Royal Dignity Titles Rights and Pretences to England and Ireland declares her Illegitimate and an Vsurper of the Kingdoms and absolves all her Subjects from their Obedience and Oaths of Allegiance due to her So he expresly commandeth all under pain and penaltie of Gods wrath to yeild her no Obedience Aid or Favour whatsoever but to imploy all their power against her and to joyn themselves with the Spanish Forces who will not hurt the Nation nor alter their Laws or Priviledges onely punish the wicked Hereticks Therefore by these presents We Declare that it is not onely lawful but commendable to lay hands on the said Usurper and other her adherents and for so doing they shall be well Rewarded And lastly to all these Roman assistants is liberally granted a Plenary Indulgence and remission of all their sins Here we have the sum of this Treasonable Libel with which Allen thought to do great matters against his Queen and Country and these were prepared to be spread abroad the Kingdom upon the Spaniards landing yet no sooner is the news known of their defeat but Allen calls in the Impression burning all he could lay his hands on onely some few escaped his Fingers both he and the Printer having before given some Copies to their Friends The Romanists for the most part priz'd it dearly though some more sober disliked it as too severe yet some others we need not Question might be of the Jesuit Currey's opinion viz. That it was a work of thaâ— worth as it would yet bite in time to Quodlibets pag. 240. come This Invasion was very much assisted by the English Romanists though not by all for the Lord Montague and some others were against it In Flanders lay Charles Nevil Earl of Westmerland the Lord Pagit Sir William Stanley with about seven hundred more English ingaged and ready to joyn with the Prince of Parma against their own Country What Company in England would have taken their parts I know not This is certain that Philip Earl of Arundel the unfortunate Eldest Son of Norfolk was unhappily too much Priest ridden which procured his imprisonment and a tryal the cause of all which might be laid to Allen who had such a sway and power over the said Earl that he could make him do any thing And the Earl was over-perswaded to set his affection on the Spanish Fleet rejoycing at its coming praying heartily for its success and grieved beyond measure at its overthrow But he is not the first Nobleman who confided too much in bad counsel and whose Zeal for Religion hurryed him on to inconveniences As for Cardinal Allen he was born in Lancashire of good Parentage was bred up at Oxford in Orial-Colledge where he was Proctor was preferr'd to a Canonship in York in Queen Elizabeth's days quits England becometh Pensioner to the Spaniard to carry on whose designes against his Queen and County he was very industrious for which service Sixtus V. created him a Cardinal 1587. August 7 and he dyed at Rome 1594. October 16. We have formerly shown his seditious and King deposing Principles of which his foresaid Admonition will give a farther Quodlibets pag 240 241 247. proof and who were the Promoters of this Invasion his own words will best tell you The King of Spain at length as well by his Holiness Authoritie and Exhortation as by his own unspeakable Zeal and Piety moved also not a little by My humble and continual suit together with the afflicted and banished Catholicks of our Nation of all and every Degree who have been by his special compassion and Regal Munificencie principallie supported in this our long Exile hath condescended at last to take upon him this so Holy and Glorious an Act c. And then proceeds to incourage nay and threaten too the English to take up Arms against their Queen and to joyn with the Spaniards and the other Invaders If you will avoid the Popes the Kings and other Princes high indignation let no man of what degree soever Obey Abet Aid Defend or Acknowledge her c. Adding That otherwise they should incur the Angels Curse and Malediction and be as deeply Excommunicated as any because that in taking her part they should fight against God against their a How cometh Philip to be lawful King of England Vid. Tho. Bels Anatomy pag. 98 124. lawful King against their Country and notwithstanding all they should do they should but defend her bootless to their own present destruction and eternal shame As for the Secular Priests you shall hear Watson and Bluet the chief of them thus Confess We had some of us greatly approved the said Rebellion highly extol'd the Rebels and pitifully bewail'd their ruine and overthrow Many of our affections were knit to the Spaniards and for our obedience to the Pope we all do profess it The attempt both of Pope and Spaniard failing in England his Holiness as a Temporal Prince displayed his Banner in Ireland the Plot was to deprive her Highness first from that Kingdom if they could and then by degrees to depose her from this In all these Plots none more forward then many of us that were Priests These are the words set down in the Book call'd b Pag. 15. Important Considerations composed by Bluet and Watson two Priests As for the Jesuits but of Parsons I shall treat more particularly hereafter you shall hear what c C. W. A Reply to Father Paâ—sons Libel fol. 64 65. Clark the Priest saith who with Watson suffer'd afterwards for Treason against King James First it is most certain that all the world had very admirable expectance of that Army and the Jesuits more then any Secondly it is plain by the Cardinals Book d They would hint to us as if Parsons were the Compiler of the Admonition but 't is certain that Allen was the Author of it his name being to it and Pitseus with the other Romanists confessing Allen to be the Author if it were his written as a preparative to that action that he was made Cardinal of purpose for that Exploit and to have been sent hither presently upon the Spaniards Conquest But Father Parsons saith that he labour'd to set forward at that time the Cardinals preferment if you will believe him which maketh it evident a primo ad ultimum that Father Parsons was a dealer in that action Thirdly it is certain that the Jesuits in Rome were great with the Spanish Ambassador-Leger there and had great recourse unto him when the matter was on foot doth not this then argue them to be concurrers thereunto Fourthly it is likewise most true that the English Jesuits in Rome appropriated certain Palaces in London to themselves to fall unto their lots when this matter was in handling to wit Burghley-house Bridewel and another which I have forgot making themselves cock-sure of their already-devoured Prey This all the Students that lived in the e Viz. The English Colledge at Rome
or that Crown * 15 Jan. Affirming that to think that the Priviledges of the Gallican Church extendeth so far as to admit of an Heretical King is the dream of a Madman and an Heretical Contagion That those who had acknowledg'd Navarre had forgot the Piety of their Ancestors the Reputation of their Countrey and the safety of their souls their salvation being desperate That Navarre had violated all Laws both divine and humane And that the Parliament of Paris is a true and lawful one and so perswadeth them to proceed to an Election To these the King returning Answers endeavoring to clear himself from their Accusations not forgetting also to shew what a favour he had for the Roman Religion And though the death of the Duke of Parma had been no small Hindrance to the Spanish designs yet now Lorenzo Suarez de Figuerâ— Duke of Feria cometh Embassador to manage the Interest of that Crown at the meeting of the States several at this time aiming at the Throne and every one not despairing of their Cause or Interest The Spanish daughter Izabella Clara Eugenia the Dukes of Guise Lorain Nemours and Mayenne having all hopes In short the States-General meet at Paris in the Great Hall of the 26 Jan. Louvre amongst the rest of the Drolleries of these times nothing took more then a Book call'd Satyre Menippee or le Catholicon d'Espagne Composed in abuse of this Convention * Debit Pret. Belg. Tom. 3. p. 339. Justus Lipsius will have a fling at this Book but the greatest honour it received was from Rome where their Wisdomes there as if they had nothing else to do did many years after very gravely call it to remembrance and at last thought it fit to pass under their * 16 Mar. 1621. vid. Ind. Expurgat Alexandri VIII p. 218. Censure of Reprobation The prose of it was made by the Almoner to Cardinal de Bourbon the Verses were composed by Nicholas Rapin commended by * Poet Gall. vol. 3. p. 165. Johannes Passeratius * Ib. p. 420 421. Scavâ—la Sammorthanus with others and Rapin himself hath some * Ib. p. 204 c. 28 Jan. Poems out in Latin The States being met as aforesaid Mayenne King-like sitteth under the Cloth of State desiring them to choose a Catholick King an Enemie to Heresie which was seconded by others The next day at a private meeting the Legat moved that at the next Sessions of the States all should take a solemn Oath never to acknowledge Navarre for their King though he should turn Romanist but this was quashr at the Proposal as to swear against the Popes Authority suppose he should turn and his Holiness command him to be received The next day the Romanists with the King with his consent send Propositions to the States for a Treaty with them at which the Legat stormeth affirming the Proposal to be Heretical and so not fit to be Answer'd Cardinal Pelleve and Diego d'Ivarra one of the Spanish Agents agreâ—ing with him but this was opposed and because the Paper was directed to all the States 't was judged fit to be communicated to them which so netled the Legat that he got the Colledge of Sorbonne to declare it Heretical as intimating a declared Heretick might be King and ought to be obeyed Yet the Proposal is shewn to the States a Conference with the Royal Romanists is consented to but in their Answer they had this odd Conclusion That to oppose an Heretical King is not Treason The place agreed on is Surenne between Paris and St. Denys and Persons are nominated on both sides In the States the Spaniards carried high for the Infanta many seeming willing to it for interest-sake but when they named Ernest Arch-Duke of Austria the Emperors Brother for her husband it was rejected as not fitting to give the Kingdom to a stranger The Spaniards smelling the design offered to admit of a French Prince to be married to Philips daughter which took pretty well Guise Nemours Lorain and Mayenne his sons each of them hoping to be the Man and King Nay some who seem'd to be the Kings Friends and Allies as Cardinal Bourbon Count de Soissons the Prince of Conti with some others began to hearken to this Proposal every one fancying to make the Crown his upon which conceits they were not so earnest in the Kings Cause and Interest as they seem'd to be The King perceiving that the Authority of the Pope was one of his greatest Enemies or Pretences had a great minde to have him pacified to which purpose he formerly had the Republick of Venice and Ferdinando de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany to use their interests in his behalf at Rome and to further it had also been sent Cardinal Pietros de Gondy Bishop of Paris and the Marquess de Pisani in the name of the Romanist with the King upon the same Errand But the Pope commanded them not to enter into the Ecclesiastical Territories as being Favourers of Hereticks well-Wishers to Navarre with whom they had presumed to speak and treat to which some Reasons and Excuses being returned the Pope at last permits them to enter Rome And at last the King himself gave fair Signes and Proffers to the Conference at Surenne not only of his being willing to be instructed in the Roman Religion but as it were ready to be of it This amazeth the Covenanters to the purpose the Legat protesteth against the Conference as dangerous that they could neither treat with nor admit of a peace with Navarre being a declared Heretick and that if they did either he for his part would quit the Kingdom and this he publish'd in Print that every one might take notice of it Nor were the Spaniard less concerned who fearing the Kings Conversion would make haste and be excepted of thinking to spoil it Nominates the Duke of Guise for Husband to the Infanta shewing it was so in his Instructions At this Mayenne is stung to the heart nor could he so much dissemble but his thoughts were perceived however he thanks them for their kindness to his Nephew and desires time till things were better prepared But this Nomination being known the Embassadors Nobles Citizens and every one flock to pay their service to Guise and give him joy his Palace is fill'd himself cried up and now they vapour of a new Kingling * Charles de Guisâ— Charles XI At all this the Dutchess of Mayenne is mad she frets storms and weeps three days and not able any longer to endure she falleth upon her troubled husband with Sighs Exclamations Threatnings and Railings jearing him as one that hath lost all his labour and pains if he who had hitherto borne the brunt must at last only thus truckle to his young Nephew The Duke also thus perplext to see himself as it were laid aside puts many into young Guise his head demands strange and exorbitant Conditions of the Spaniard for performance yet thinking
for the University thither was he sent and entred into Baliol Colledg in Oxford but in what year I cannot tell In 1564 I meet * Lihb Matriâ— Antiq. Oxon. with three Parsons in that Colledg two of them Batchelors of Arts and one an Vndergraduat who comparing the time with the Customs of that Colledg must be this same Parsons In the year 1568 he was admitted Socius Sacerdos commonly call'd Chaplain-Fellow and so went into Holy Orders though but Batchelor of Arts. In the year 1573 he took his Degree of Master of Arts and in the next year viz. the 13 of February 1573 4 he resigned or quitted the Colledg But the manner how he left that place hath not hitherto been agreed to on all hands * A brief Apology fol. 193 194 c. himself to keep up his credit will tell a fair Tale and endeavour to lay some blots upon Dr. Bagshaw on the other side the * Answer to the brief Apol. p. 32 33 c. Doctor though a great Romanist undertakes to clear himself to confute Parsons his story and to render him faulty enough Seeing these were both then Fellows of that Colledg and both afterwards turn'd zealous Romanists yet Enemies and could understand this story best yet finding them in different Tales and so not willing more to believe than to dis-believe either I shall take the story from a third hand who was also Fellow of this Colledg and afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury but when he wrote this following Letter which I transcrib'd from the Original was Master or Head of University Colledg To my worshipful loving Friend Mr. Dr. Hussye at Mr. Haiden's House who dwelleth at the Sign of the Tunn in Watling-Street Give these YOV write unto me to know what is in record any way against Mr. Parsons and I return you here inclosed word for word so much as is in the Register of Baliol Colledg In the Resignation as you may see he had written Sponte coactus but now it is Sponte non coactus being blotted out and non being set * * Thus non et over Which I am deceived if it be be not alter'd by some body else of late in as much as I am verily perswaded that since my coming to the Colledg I have seen it Sponte coactus which although it carry a contradiction yet intimateth that he resigned against his will The particular reasons whereof no man can tell better than Dr. Turner now dwelling in Fetter-lane or Dr. * * In the Proctor's Book I find one Tho. Hyde proceeded Master of Arts the same year with Rob. Parsons viz. 1573. Hide of Sarum for as I take it they were both present at his Removing The causes and manner of his giving over as far as I could ever comprehend were these * * Christopher Bagshaw admitted Fellow 1572 let the Colledg 1582 was made Priest in France lived a while in the English Colledg at Rome proceeded Doctor some say at Padoa A. P. Reply p. 1â—6 others at Paris and was one of the Faculty at Sorboune He was active against the Arch. Priest in the stirrs at Wishich He lived to be very old Bagshaw being a smart young man and one who thought his penny good Silver after that he had his Grace to be Batchelor of Arts was with some despight swindged by Parsons being Dean of the Colledg Hoc manet altâ— mente repostum And Bagshaw afterward coming to be Fellow was most hot in prosecution against Parsons It was the more forwarded by Dr. Squire 's displeasure who was then Master of Baliol Colledg and thought himself to have been much bitten by vile Libels the Author whereof he conceived Parsons to be who in truth was a man at that time wonderfully given to scoffing and that with bitterness which also was the cause that none of the Company loved him Now Dr. Squire and Bagshaw being desirous of some occasion to trim him this fell out In the year 1572. Parsons had been Bourser and being joyn'd in Office with one Stanclit a very simple Fellow he took the advantage of the weakness of his Colleague and falsified the Reckonings much to the damage of the Colledg as also deeply polling the Commoners Names whereof there was store in the Colledg and withall not sparing his own Scholars By all which means it was thought that he had purloin'd One hundred Marks His Office expiring at St. Luke ' s Tide there were some that between that and February 1573. scanned over the Books being moved thereto by the secret Complaints of some of the Commoners their Scholars and finding it apparent as also being now certified that he was a Bastard whereas it is the first quality there required by Statute That every Fellow should be Legitimo Thoro natus they proceeded to have his Expulsion solemnly Where by the way you may add that Parsons was not of the best fame concerning * * Dr. Sutclyf's Blessings on Mount Gerizzim pag. 288. Incontinency as I have heard some say who lived in Oxon at that time but whether that were then objected against him I have not heard Parsons being put to this push in the Colledg Chappel and ways sufficient concurring to expel him and in truth no man standing for him maketh humble request That he might be suffered to resign which with some a-do was yeelded to him and then he wrote as you have here inclosed Afterwards before the Assembly broke up he entreated that his giving over might he conceal'd by reason that it would be disgraceful unto him with all men but especially with his Scholars and their Friends and for these causes humbly prayed That he might keep his Scholars Chamber c. and be reputed as a Fellow in the House the matter being concealed from all the Boys and the younger sort in the House which then in words was yeelded unto and that other Decree which now you see razed was enacted for the time but afterward was soon crossed as you may behold And soon after their coming out of the Chappel by Bagshaw's means a Peal of Bells was rung at Magdalen Parish-Church being the Parish wherein Balliol Colledg standeth the reason of which ringing as it was imparted to some few to be to ring out Mr. Parsons so generally it was not known to the world or in the Colledg which gave occasion to this farther jest When Parsons was expell'd he was one of the Deans of the Colledg and so by his Place was to keep Corrections in the Hall on the Saturdays The next time therefore of Corrections which was the day of Parsons his Expulsion or soon after Dr. Squire causeth Parsons to go into the Hall as Dean and to call the Book and Roll c. and then cometh Dr. Squire himself in and as if it had been in kindness to countenance him but in truth more profoundly to deride him he calleth him at every word Mr. Dean and desireth him often to
of their Order I think Alegambe commendeth all his Bead-Roll but Interest hath made it a duty for such Catalogue-Makers to flatter and applaud the most wicked but be as bad as they will they tell us that it is impossible for a * Jungantur in unum dies cum nocte tenebrae cum Luce calidum cum frigido sanitas cum morbo vita cum morte erit tum spes aliqua posse in caput Jesuitae Haeresin cadere Vid. Epist Is Casaubon viz. Epist 624. ad Front Duc. Jesuit to be an Heretick Amongst the rest of the Learned Pen-men who undertook to testifie to the world the Treasons of Garnet and his Accomplices was the famed French-man Isaac Casaubon more especially in an * Epist 624. Epistle or rather Book to Fronton Le Duc a Jesuit and his old Friend for the better accomplishing his Design he had delivered to him all the * Epist 620. Original Writing Tryals and Letters of Garnet This action of Casaubon so netled that Order that they drew their whole force of Invention and Malice against him endeavouring by their lyes and slanders not only to render him odious to the whole world but his Father and whole Family we may except his Son John because he turn'd a Capuchin nay so zealously indiscreet were some against him that they * Epist 64â— 679. declared him to be no Scholar a Fellow of no Judgment that he could not write Latin or scarce understand it which was enough to testifie the truth of all the rest yet with such Indignities Isaac would sometimes be forced to a passion Those who have undertaken the justification of this Garnet have thought to arm themselves and secure him with the power and virtue of these following Arguments 1. His Denials 2. The Honesty of Aequivocation 3. The Bond of Auricular Confession 4. His Sanctity or Saintship which is confirm'd by 5. His Miracle of the Straw As for his Denials they are so far from quitting him from the crime that they rather render him the greater Malefactor if profest Lyes and Perjury can advance a man's guilt 'T is true he was bold to a wonder in protesting and calling Heaven and Earth to witness his Innocency but at last when he saw such exact Proof and Testimony against him he confest his Dissimulation pleading That he thought they could not have produced such clear proofs against him The Jesuits being not a little offended that he should any way confess himself guilty which with some might be a blot both to himself and their Order Garnet to vindicate himself to them and to shew the folly of denying any longer thus writes to them What should I do First all the rest of the Confederates have accused me Secondly Catesby always made use of my Authority amongst them whereby most of them were perswaded to have a good opinion of the Interprise so that all knew I was in it Thirdly Two set on purpose heard me discourse the whole business with Oldcorn and to tell him how I thought to answer to all Objections Fourthly My Letters writ with the Juyce of Oranges to * Anne Vaux Mrs. Ann are I know not how faln into their hands whereby I plainly enough discovered my knowledg of it For all his strong denials at first this is enough to prove him guilty Tort. Torti pag. 286. And besides if he were not so Why did he himself confess That he had often vowed both by words and writing to the Lay-Conspirators That he would never discover or betray any of them To this might be added how he did acknowledg his offence wishing it were in his power to undo that which was done and that if the whole world were his he would willingly give it to quit himself from the guilt of Treason which now troubled his Conscience He also writ to his Favourite Mrs. Vaux his sorrow that he could not dye for Religion but for Treason And many more Instances might be collected out of his Tryal but this is enough to satisfie an honest man Yet he was very willing and earnest to vindicate and clear himself from this Treason in which he made a great deal of work with the Trick of Equivocation of which he was a cunning and exquisite Master and as confident as ever man was for this one instance or two may serve Being asked Whether he had any discourse with the Jesuit Oldcorn since his Imprisonment Garnet swearing upon his Salvation with Epist Is Casaub ad Front Duc. many other horrid Imprecations denied again and again that he had any discourse Which being presently proved against him he confest it begg'd pardon affirming that his former Denial was by virtue of Equivocation Another time being asked Whether he did well to swear upon the Holy Evangelist That he had neither writ or sent to the Jesuit Tesmond which he knew to be false He replied That he sware so lawfully enough because then he did not think that his Letters were intercepted and so they could not have disproved him A little before the Queen's death when they were busie in their Plots to keep out King James in vindication of this Jugling Faculty there was composed a little Book entituled A TREATISE of EQVIVOCATION But this Title it seems not pleasing Father Garnet he with his own MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon. hand had dash'd it out and bestowed upon it this Name writ also with his own hand A Treatise against Lying and Fraudulent Dissimulation Yet for all this goodly and specious shew of honesty it alloweth all manner of Dissimulation and to swear positive untruths by their Law of Directing the Intention As for example In time of Plague a man cometh to Coventry at the Gates by the Officers is examined upon his Cap. 8. pag. 43 44. â— Oath Whether he came from London or no The Traveller though he did directly come from London yet may swear positively That he did not come from London His reason is Because he knoweth himself not infected to endanger Coventry by his entrance which he supposed answer'd to the final intent of the Demand although their immediate Intention were to know from him upon his Oath only whether he came from London or no. And this man saith the Book the very Light of Nature would clear from Perjury And he tells us of one Pag. 39. Mr. Southwell who taught a young Gentlewoman that if she were examin'd If the said Southwell were at her Father's House She might swear No with this intention to her self That he was not there so that she was bound to tell them At the end of this Book I find Blackwell their Arch-Priest of England thus commend and allow it under his own hand Tractatus iste valde Doctus vere Pius Catholicus est Certe Sa Scripturarum Patrum Doctorum Scholasticorum Canonistarum Optimarum Rationum praesidiis plenissime firmat aequitatem Equivocationis Ideoque dignissimus est qui typis
at Lyons 1549. This Taxa was also then publish'd f Tract Illust Tom. 16. amongst them And though Claudius Espencaeus the famous Sorbonne-Doctor was so ashamed of this Book to be thus by Authority so publickly printed and sold that he solemnly a Liber palam ac publicè hic Impressus hodieque ut olim venalis Cl. Espenc Com. in Titum cap. 1. Digres 2. complaineth against it yet he gain'd nothing by it but the ill-will of the Grandees of the Roman Religion those his Comments upon Titus being call'd to an account by their Index Expurgatorius and this passage against their Taxa commanded to be dasht out lest it may be it should discredit their ware and so spoil their Trade and Market And afterwards when these foresaid Tractatus Illustrium were by the command of Pope Gregory XIII augmented and by the care of Franciscus Zilettus publish'd at Venice 1584 this Taxa was also b Tom. 15. part 1. fol 368 c. reprinted and with the rest dedicated and presented to the said Pope These several Editions and probably some others of this Taxa publish'd by Authority of the Romanists themselves take off all Replies as if it might be a cheat and to this may be added that the Learned c De Tyran Papae p. 544 545 546 547. Laurentius Banck who also of late reprinted this Taxa with his Notes upon it doth assure us that to his knowledge and eye-sight the same pardons and abuses are at this day publickly practised at Rome And it is not unworth the observation that though of late Pope Alexander VII hath in his Index Expurgatorius placed the Taxa yet he excepts nothing against the foresaid Editions or those printed by the Romanists but onely against that lately put forth with Bancks his d V. Taxa Notes or Annotations or which have been corrupted by e V. Praxis Hereticks though I think it would puzzle him to prove any such corruptions Thus you see you may name your sin and pardon is to be had at a small rate nay they have been so kinde that rather then want your custom they have sold Pardons for Sixpence a Groat or Twopence a game at Tennis a Cup of Ale and with some kinde-natured Women they have made more pleasant bargains And here for the honour of these Money pardons a merry story or two should not be taken amiss In the time of Leo X Mart. Chemnit 〈◊〉 Concil Tâ—dent part 4 de Indulg Oâ—hâ— Miland Jocâ—-seti◠§ 44. Tetzelius was sent into Germany with multitude of Pardons to advance money for the Pope which were then first opposed by Luther 'T is said that this Tetzelius affirm'd that he could also pardon sins to come whereupon a German Gentleman bought such an one of him and afterwards rob'd the Dominican Pardoner Tetzelius threatning him the Gentleman pleads he had bought his Pardon for it declaring that was the sin he determin'd to commit to which Tetzelius could not reply About the same time a Shooe-makers Wife buyeth a Pardon in which was expresly indulged her that her soul should fly to Heaven as soon as she was dead At last the woman dyeth and is buryed but her Husband giveth nothing to the Priest to pray Wulph Muscul loci communes pag. 394. her soul out of Purgatory Whereupon the Shooe-maker is accused to the Magistrate who chides him for having no care of his Wives soul the fellow pleads that there is no need for any Mass for it seeing her soul was in Heaven before she was buryed for proof of which he sheweth the Popes Pardon a Testimony so Authentick that they durst neither deny it or the Pontifick Authority whereby the Cobler came off clear But another story I meet with where the Judge being a party he was not so honest in his determination in short thus A German Mat. Flav. Iâ—leric de Sâ—ctis Pap. pag. 220. Gentleman according to his Fathers will paid yearly such a sâ—m to a Neighbouring Monastery that the Monks therein should pray for the deliverance of his Fathers soul out of Purgatory At last the Gentleman understanding that they brag'd that they had Pardons which could deliver any soul he buys one of them for his Fathers soul which for more certainty was confirm'd by their Monasteries Seal and subscrib'd by their General and themselves Thus being cock-sure of the happiness of his Fathers soul he refused afterwards to pay them the Annual Stipend he used formerly to do whereupon the Monks appeal to the Bishop who gravely Decreeth that the Gentleman must continue the payment though his Fathers soul were quit from Purgatory by the former Pardon But because some may be unwilling to trudge as far as Rome for Pardons or to go any whither else upon suchlike Pilgrimages and others either through poverty or covetousness may grudge to give any thing for their Absolutions which they suppose should be given them freely therefore the Popes good souls not willing to give the least discontent to any of their Children have out of their good nature and fulness of Authority afforded them Pardon and Heaven at as easie and lazie a rate as heart could wish and they need not question the Authority of their Popes seeing 't is a sure Rule that when his Holyness giveth Plenary Absolution a Quando Papa concedit plenariam Absolutionem intelligitur quod absolvit tam à culpa quam à poena quoad omnia peccata quantumque enormissima Vid. Domin Card. Tusch Practicarum Conclusionum juris Tom. 4. v. Indulgent § 6. It is to be understood that he absolveth as well from the Punishment as the sin be the sin never so great or abominable And as for these so frankly and freely bestowed Indulgences for the honour and comfort of the English-Romanist I shall go no farther for them then the Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae And this according as it was used at Salisbury and in this I shall onely follow the Edition of Paris 1527 because the greatest cost and care hath been taken in that Impression both for Pictures and Ornaments of any I have yet seen And now bless your eyes and behold the Popes Treasure open'd Pardon for days Vid. Fol. 165. a. Pope John XXII hath granted to them that shall say this Prayer Ave Fol. 73. a. caro Christi caro c. at the Elevation pardon for 100 days Pope Celestine hath granted to them that shall say in honour of Fol. 58. a. the B. Virgin this Prayer Ave mundi spes Maria c. pardon for 300 days Pope John XXII hath granted them that shall say this Prayer Fol. 61. b. Stabat Mater dolorosa c. pardon for 300 days Pope Anastasius hath granted to them that say this prayer Domine Fol. 84. a. Jesu Christe c. pardon for 500 days Pope John XXII hath granted them that say this prayer Anima Fol. 72. b. Christi Sanctifica me