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A19434	Anti-Coton, or, A Refutation of Cottons letter declaratorie lately directed to the Queene Regent, for the apologizing of the Iesuites doctrine, touching the killing of kings : a booke, in which it is proued that the Iesuites are guiltie, and were the authors of the late execrable parricide, committed vpon the person of the French King, Henry the Fourth, of happie memorie : to which is added, a Supplication of the Vniuersitie of Paris, for the preuenting of the Iesuites opening their schooles among them, in which their king-killing doctrine is also notably discouered, and confuted / both translated out of the French, by G.H. ; together with the translators animaduersions vpon Cottons letter.	Plaix, César de, d. 1641.; Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Du Coignet, Pierre.; Du Bois-Olivier, Jean, d. 1626.; Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1611 (1611)	STC 5861.2; ESTC S1683	49,353	94

Regall power degenerates into tyrannie Peter Ribadenera a Spanish Iesuite venteth this doctrine in a booke which he hath written of Religion and the vertues of a Prince speaking thus of the parricide of Iames Clement For as much as the resolution which Henry the third tooke vpon him was the aduise of a Politician and a machia●elist not conformable to the rules of our Sauiour behold the reason that by the iust iudgement of God the said Henry was made away by the hand of a simple young Monke and dyed by the stroke of a knife Carolus Scribanius a Flemish Iesuite who by an anagrammatisticall inuersion of Letters cals himselfe Clarus Bonars●ius hath written a Booke which he entitules Amphitheatrum honoris in which hee stoutly maintaines the same murthering position Lib. 1. Cap. 12. where he thus speakes if it so fall out that a Denis or a Machanidas or an Aristotimus monsters of their ages oppresse Fraunce shall not the Pope haue power confidently to encourage against them some Dion or Timoleon or Philopoemen that is to say tamers and quellers of tyrants and a little after speaking of a tyrant wasting Fraunce What will no man take armes against that beast will no Pope set free that noble Kingdome from the stroke of the Axe where obserue that he speakes not in that passage of an vsurper but of a lawfull King who vnlawfully vseth his power Bellarmine in his second Booke against the King of England condemneth treason and conspiracie against Princes but in such captious and ambiguous termes that vpon the matter he seemes to approue it and incite men vnto it by commending the Iesuite Garnet that being acquainted with the conspiracie against the King of England by the confessions of the Traytors he would not disclose it his words are these Wherefore was Henry Garnet a man vnmatchable in all kindes of learning and holinesse of life so punished in the highest degree but onely because hee would not detect that which with a safe conscience hee could not See then here the doctrine of the Iesuites which is this that if a man disclose vnto them his purpose to kill the King he ought to conceale it and rather suffer the King to be killed and the kingdome to be ruined then to breake vp the seale of confession an opinion which the Sorbon holds not it being of the Law of God to be loyall to our Soueraigne and of the Law of Nations to hold the receiuer of stolne goods as guiltie as the theefe and in the case of treason equally to punish the vndertaker and the concealer as being both principall an offence of that nature admitting no accessorie The same Iesuite Bellarmine and together with him the whole troupe of that societie generally defend that the Pope hath power to dispose of kingdomes to bestow them as he shall see fit on whom it shall please him and to stir vp the Subiects to rebell against their Prince by vnloosing them from their sacred bond of allegiance his words are these in his sixt Chapter and fift Booke De Pontifice Romano The Pope may dispose of Kingdomes taking them from one and giuing them to another as being the Supreame Prince Ecclesiasticall and the Iesuite Gretzer in his Booke entituled Vespertilio haeretico-politicus pag. 159. We are not such dastards that we feare openly to affirme that the Pope of Rome may if necessitie so require free his Catholike Subiects from their oath of fidelitie if their Soueraigne handle them tyrannically Nay the same man addes in the same place that if the Pope doe it discreetly and warily it is a meritorious worke Consider here this new and vnknowne kinde of merit by raising sedition and commanding disloyaltie from whence must necessarily issue attempting vpon the person of the Prince for in such a rebellion it is to be presumed that the Prince will take armes to safeguard himselfe and oppose force to force which cannot possibly be done without manifest hazard of his life Tolet in his first Booke of the instructions of Priests and 13. Chapter affirmes that Subiects are not bound to keepe vnuiolate their oath of allegiance to an excommunicate person and againe An excommunicate person cannot exercise the act of Iurisdiction which rule if we admit as true we must consequently hold that Henry the third was no King and he which killed him killed no King Mariana another Spanish Iesuite hath set forth a Booke De Rege Regis institutione first printed at Toledo by Peter Roderigo in the yeare 1599. and and since againe at Mentz by Balthasar Lippius in the yeare 1605. in the sixt Chapter of this Booke after hauing commended Iames Clement hee addes that he had beene instructed by Diuines with whom he consulted in that point that it was lawfull to kill a Tyrant and thereupon describing how the young Frier gaue the deadly blow hee cries out Insignem animi confidentiam facinus ●●emorabile O excellent confidence of Spirit O memorable fact And a little after speaking of the same murtherer amidst the blowes and the wounds which he receiued he continued full of comfort as hauing redeemed with his bloud the liberty of his Country and hauing ●lai●e the King he purchased himselfe great renowne in expiating the death of the Duke of Guise treacherously made away by shedding the bloud Royall Thus dyed Clement being about twenty foure yeares of age a young man of nature gentle not tough of body but that a higher power actuated his vigor and courage Thus speakes this Iesuite and in the same Chapter speaking of a lawfull King to whom the Subiects haue passed their oath of allegiance hee sayes If he peruert the Religion of the Land or if he draw the common enemie into his Country he that labouring to satisfie the publike desire shall assay to kill him shall in my iudgement not doe vniustly In the Chapter following hee steppes yet one degree farther in which hee allowes the poysoning of a Tyrant as iust and lawfull notwithstanding it is worth the while to marke the nicenesse of the man and how precisely those of his hayre obserue their cases of conscience for fearing least by poysoning the Tyrants meate or drinke hee should by that meanes be enforced to make himselfe away Mariana brings this remedie For mine owne part saith hee I would vse this moderation not to constraine him whom I purpose to doe away to take the poyson himselfe which might presently disperse it selfe through his inwards and so kill him but that some other lay the poyson so that hee who is to dye no way concurre in the taking of it which may be done when the poyson is so strong that a chaire or a garment being annoynted with it may worke vpon the body which sits on the one or weares the other which is a cunning I finde the Kings of the Moores haue often vsed Such is the pietie of

the Iesuite who makes vs Disciples to the Moores This Booke of Marianaes is commended by Gretzer the Iesuite in his Vespertilio alleadged once already where hee affirmes Pag. 160. that Mariana is traduced as hauing written that it was lawfull to kill any Prince who disobeyes the Pope sithence hee maintaines that a lawfull Prince who disobeyes the Pope notwithstanding ought not to be made away by any priuate man if sentence be not pronounced against him or that it be not demanded by the voyce of the people or that the consent of learned men runne not that way but note this by the way that by the definitiue sentence he vnderstands the iudgement of the Pope and by the approbation of learned men the aduise of Iesuites and touching poyson laid vpon a garment or chaire the Iesuite Gretz●r pag. 162. approues simply Marianaes position and complaines that Mariana is vniustly accused for hauing affirmed that a tyrant ought to be poysoned seeing he maintaines the contrarie Affirming that a tyrant cannot lawfully be made away by poyson if himselfe take it and apply it to himselfe which cannot be auoyded when his meate or drinke is poysoned so that labouring to blanch Marianaes opinion in the end he fals vpon the same himselfe Clarus Bonars●ius in the 13. chapter of his Amphitheater likewise commends this Mariana both for the stile and the matter and wisheth that all ages should reuerence him what saith he what age shall not reuerence those graue and learned writings of Mariana his piercing phrase the neatnesse and loftinesse of his narrations the plentifulnesse of his wit together with stuffe commendable alike And to the end that it may be knowne that this position of Mariana is not the opinion of a few Iesuites on the fore-head of the Booke you shall finde an approbation permission from their generall Aquauiua and Stephanus Hoyeda Visitour of their Societie in the Prouince of Toledo for the Printing of it in which grant these words may farther be obserued These Bookes of Mariana haue beene approued by graue and learned men of the order of Iesuites Whence it appeares that howbeit the generall of their Order were ouertaken as Father Cotton would make vs beleeue forging Letters as from the said Aquauiua out of his owne braine yet so it is that their Visitour and Doctors who had the examining and censuring of the whole worke before it went to the Presse could not possibly be ouer-seene What should wee presse this point any farther some foure Moneths before that execrable Parricide committed vpon the person of the good King deceased the very same Consistoricall act by which the arrest against Iohn Chastel and Mounsieur Thuanus his Historie were censured at Rome suspended also another Book of Marianaes which treates of ●oynes not medling at all with this booke which approues the murdering of Kings which makes mee thinke that his holinesse being busied about other affaires was circumuented by the cunning of the Iesuites who dominiere at Rome for otherwise hee would surely as I thinke rather haue censured this Booke which plainely teacheth murther and parricide This booke of Mariana being first printed at Toledo was brought into Fraunce about eight yeares since and shewed the most seditious passages being marked out to his Maiestie who calling Father Cotton to him asked him if hee approued that Doctrine or no the Iesuite who bends with all occasions and knowes well enough how to fashion himselfe to the times replied that he approued it not wherevpon his Maiestie by the aduise of Mounsieur Seruin his aduocate generall vrged Cotton to write agains● it but he found meanes to excuse himselfe and auoid the taske as well perceiuing that he could not oppose himselfe against it but withall hee must of necessitie oppugne the Generall of their Order the Prouinciall of Toledo and a many of their societie who had their fingers in approuing of it but now when he sees that through the death of the King the Iesuites are growne into a generall distaste and perceiues himselfe to be pinched by the Court of Parliament and the Sorbon he hath published an Epistle Dedicatorie in which he would seeme forsooth to condemne Mariana which hee performes indeede but in such mincing gentle termes that a man may without spectacles perceiue he feares to launce too deepe onely affirming that it was the lightnesse of a soaring quill in stead of accusing the person of Heresie and perfidious barbarous treason and the doctrine of impietie and enmitie against God and man but howbiet hee had reached home in reprouing Mariana yet now as the Abbot of Boys hath well obserued the medicine comes after the Patient is deceased for had he done as he ought hee should then haue put pen to paper when the King pressed him to it and not suffered such an opinion to roote it selfe in the mindes of the people which for want of weeding out at the first at length growing vp cost the King his life within a fewe yeares after but let vs passe to some other examples There are yet at this day left aliue in Paris aboue two thousand witnesses who vpon their credit will testifie that Iames Clement ordinarily frequented the Iesuites and that some of them accompanied him euen to the towne ditch when he departed out of Paris to strike the blow and some three moneths after was published at Paris a Speach of Pope Sixtus made in full Consistorie the 11. of September 1589. in which the assassinate of Iames Clement is paraleld with the mysteries of the Incarnation and Resurrection and the exploits of Eleazer and Iudith and after hauing set on the tenter-hooks the vices of the slaine King he addes for these a●d the like manifest tokens of impenitencie we decree that his exequies shall not be solemnized Concluding with a prayer to God that it would please him graciously to accomplish that which mercifully he had begun this speach was imprinted at Paris by Nicholas Neuil and Rollin Thierry Printer to the holy Vnion together with the approbation of three Doctors Boucher Decreil Ancelin not that I can beleeue that such impious speaches could drop from the lips of our holy Father but rather take it to be a meere imposture the Iesuites and other Doctors of the same feather hauing forged it there by to make the murther allowable and to incite some other to the dispatching of the succeeding King At the same time Iohn Guignard a Iesuited Priest residing in Paris at the Colledge of Cleremont wrote a Treatise in the praise of Iames Clement together with diuers motiues for the making away of the succeeding King who last dyed which since too manifestly appeared at the arraignment of the said Guignard for behold how God wrought as the commissioners were busied at the arraignment of Iohn Castel some of them deputed to that purpose with-drawing themselues to the Colledge of Cleremont seased vpon many papers among which was found a Booke written by the hand of the said Guignard containing many arguments and reasons to

proue that the murther of the King was iust and lawfull together with diuers inductions and incitements for the making away of his Successour some of which I will here set downe being copied out of the original which is yet to be seene among the Records of the Court First that the ●ruell Nero was slaine by Clement and the counterfaite Monke dispatched by the hand of a true Monke Secondly that the heroycall act of Iames Clement tearmed by Diuines a gift of the holy Ghost was iustly commended by Burgoin Prior of the Iacobins Confessour and Martyr and that by many reasons as well at Paris when he read there vpon Iudith as also before the worthy Parliament of Tours Thirdly that the Biarnois howbeit conuerted to the Catholike faith should be handled more gently then he deserued if he had set on his head a Monasticall Crowne that if hee could not be deposed without warre that it should be vndertaken against him and if that might not be he must be made away priuately The Court hauing perused these papers and Guignard being put to his answere freely confessed that they were written by his owne hands whereupon the Court by an arrest executed the 7. of Ianuarie 1595. declared the said Guignard attainted and conuinced of high Treason condemned him to make honourable amends naked to his shirt the halter about his necke before the chiefe doore of our Ladies Church in Paris and after this to be hung in the Greue and his body burnt May it please the Reader to make inquirie if euer as yet any Iesui●e were heard of who condemned this Guignard of treason and disloyaltie but on the other side Rich●ome in his Apologie excuseth him as farre as he dare affirming that Guignard discussed the forementioned propositions onely by way and in forme of Scholasticall dispute and in this wee agree for I haue alwaies held it that to kill a King is the vndoubted conclusion of the Iesuits diuinitie which position if any Iesuite eyther driuen to it by force of argument or drawne to it by shame any where condemne it ariseth eyther from want of discretion or learning or some such ground The which may from thence be made to appear in that the Iesuites haue ranged Guignard in the catalogue of their martyrs which they haue caused to be Printed at Rome in two formes in the one of which Guignard is in the other he is left out to the end that some copies at le●t might be passable in France without danger besides this the Iesuite Bonarscius Chap. 8. of his Amphitheater extols this Guignard to the skies howbeit without naming him for feare belike of offending the King yet openly enough to decipher him the words are these I will passe thee ouer in silence O bright Star cleerly shining both in heauen and on earth the last expiation of an house no more capable of sorrow no day will euer be able to blot out the tincture of thy blood and then presently addes All Fraunce will concurre with me in these my vowes which words are not applyable to any but Guignard who was a French Iesuite and the last that suffered in France Out of the same forge was shaped that detestable Book De iusta abdicatione Henrici 3. of the iust degradation of Henry the third A Booke whereof the Authour is not certainely knowne but onely that it was printed at Lions and beares in it forefront the stampe of the Iesuites Franciscus Verona Constantinus hath written an Apologie for Iohn Chastel which out-strips Mariana in villany for in his 2. Chap. 2. Part he plainly affirmes that notwithstanding the decree of the Councell of Constance it is lawfull for any priu●te man to murther Kings and Princes condemned of haeresie and tyrannie Now we see by the example of our two last Kings that at their pleasure they would make Princes beleeue whom they purpose to make away that they are Heretiques or fauourers of them if they set not their kingdomes in combustion by ciuil warres thereby to giue aduantage to the inuasion of the Spaniard or send ayde to their neighbour princes for feare of being vndermined by the house of Austria Thus dealt the Cyclope in Homer who finding no reason to misuse Vlysses and his associates and yet desirous to feede vpon them would needes perswade them that they were pyrates In the same Apologie hee commends the fact of Iames Clement as being against a publike enemie iuridically condemned The same Author in his third Chapter defends also the fact of Iohn Ch●stel in this manner that in striking at Henry of Bourbon his intention was not to kill the King howbeit he called himselfe King sithens hee had nothing left but the appearance of a King as being of the blood Royall adding thereunto that Henry of Bourbon could not be called King no not since his reconcilement to the Catholike Church Emanuel Sa in his Aphorismes of Confessions at the word Clericus affirmes that the rebellion of a Clarke against the King is no treason in as much as he is not subiect to him Bellarmine in his 28. Chapter De Clericis speaks in a maner the same the Pope of Rome hath exempted clarks from subiection to Princes Kings are now no more Superiours of Clarkes Consider here a little their cunning if you demand whether it be lawfull for a subiect to kil his king or to rebel against him vnder pretence of being a tyrant vpon this demand the Iesuites fearing to speake too roughly and thereby become odious in affirming that a Clark may kil the King they affirme that Clarks are not subiect to Princes and from thence draw this conclusion that being so they cannot be held guilty of treason since that he against whom they conspire is not their Master or Lord. Garnet the Iesuite with Hall his companion otherwise known by the name of Oldcorne were executed in England for tampring in the pouder treason Garnet being apprehended vpon the deposition of one of the Conspirators constantly and with oathes affirmed that hee knew nothing of the plot whereupon the Commissioners perceiuing that they gained nothing by threats bethought themselues of another course which was this they lodged Hall in a chamber next adioyning to Garnet and wished the Iaylor to tender to Garnet all courteous offices and withall to giue him notice that his companion Hall was placed in the next roome and that there was a little hole in the middle wall by meanes of which they might if they thought good enterchange conference which they daily did in the meane time the Iaylor sets some in a close corner not farre off to listen what their talke was who ouer-hearing them by that meanes brought their secrets to light which they discouered in this conference betweene themselues but had before denied to the Iudges hereupon Garnet being againe conuented before the Court and

finding himselfe discouered confessed indeed that he vnderstood of the enterprise but it was opened to him in confession which he could by no meanes vnseale there were also produced witnesses who deposed that in a sermon which he made to the Catholiques he exhorted them to pray God that an important and dangerous businesse which was then in hand might haue an happy successe for the Catholique Church Being then demanded wherefore hee had so constantly forsworne that which now proued to be true he made answere that being demanded if hee were acquainted with the plot he told them indeed that he knew nothing of it but that hee vnderstood in his minde this restriction I knew it not to tell you and thereupon was brought to confesse that he had published a Booke of Equiuocations prescribing therein the meanes to cosen the Iudges by doubtfull answers and by ambiguities to auoide the intent of their Interrogatories In behalfe of this venerable Father Garnet a Iesuite named Iohn l' Heureux but disguising his name in an Hyrogliphicall forme cals himselfe Andreas Eudaemon-Iohannes Cydonius hath very lately written an Apologie Printed at Colen by Iohn Kinke Anno. 1610. together with the approbation of the Generall of their Order Aquauiua and three other of their Doctors where he maintaines it tooth and naile that it is lawfull to deceiue the Iudges by Equiuocations and also that a priest for any cause whatsoeuer though the life of the King and the safetie of the state stand to the stake for it ought not to reueale any confession Vpon the first point behold his words pag. 38. When any man is drawne into question vnder an vniust tryall no man standing bound to informe against himselfe as the law of Nature teacheth vs plainely he may peremptorily and freely denie that for which he is called into question without any tergiuersation because he alwaies vnderstands this clause vt tenear dicere Here note by the way that he stiles the iustice of the Kings of England exercised vpon the Iesuites an vniust iurisdiction as if they stood not obliged to appeare at their command Martinus Nauarus Aspilcueta a Spaniard by birth and trained vp in the ●ame schoole hath written a Booke purposely of Equiuocations in which pag. 352. he deliuers this doctrine that it is lawfull for a man to dissemble his being a Catholike and in another place allowes the answere of him as good who being demanded by the Seriants if a murtherer whom they pursued were not passed that way thrusting his hand into his s●eeue protested that he passed not that way And in the end addeth that the doctrine of Equiuocations is founded vpon the memorable example of S. Francis which is without all doubt a grosse iniurie offered to the vertue and piety of that holy Father by fathering vpon him the coyning of such kinds of abhominable lying and cousening The fore-named Andreas Eudemon-Iohannes Cydonius in his 40. pag. targets himselfe with the authoritie of Siluester in the 5. accusation 13. question where he thus writes When the Iudge doth not proceede iuridically the arraigned being not simply subiect to him either in this case or for some other reason vpon such termes howbeit lying be vnlawfull yet it is not a mortall sin it being not against that which wee owe to Iustice and true iudgement but only against that which is vsurped nay we hold it not a veniall sin if in answering warily or as they terme it sophistically he vtter somwhat which is false according to the apprehension of the Iudge but not in his owne meaning for that in this case sithence he is not his subiect he is not bound to speake the truth according to his vnderstanding Here wee must remember that by iudgemēt which is not rightful but vsurped vpō those who are not subiects he means the passing of the iudgmēt of the ciuil Magistrate vpō Ecclesiastical persons chiefly Iesuites who are no way subiect to Bishops The Iesuite Tolet in his fourth Booke of the instructions of Priests Chap. 91. speakes thus If the offence be secret vpon which thou art demanded thou maist then vse Equiuocation answering I know it not with this reseruation to the selfe to tell it you or thou maist answere I did it not vnderstanding at this present The ancient Ari●n Heretiques chalked out this way long since to the Iesuites For Nicephorus in the eight Booke of his Historie Chap. 51. saith that Arrius hauing subscribed to the Confession of the Nicene Councell had another Confession hid in his bosome which himselfe had written and therevpon confidently swore to the Emperour that hee did beleeue as hee had written vnderstanding thereby the writing which hee had wrapt vp in his bosome By the vertue of this Doctrine a man may denie his Religion his Faith his God and all telling the Iudge that he beleeues not in Iesus Christ but with this mentall reseruation to tell you and Saint Peter denying Iesus Christ to the Maide might well haue shifted himselfe by the helpe of this Sophistrie saying I know him not but softly to himselfe to tell you By this subtiltie the Iesuites haue found a tricke how to stirre vp Instruments to assault the sacred persons of Princes and withall to instruct them in the meanes not to disclose their Complices perswading them that they may keepe their conscience safe by such and such Equiuocations as to denie that they neuer saw it or heard of it alwayes prouided that they keepe to themselues some secret limitation or condition by which they may free themselues from the imputation of a lye and not offend their conscience This is it which makes the parricides of Kings so confidently to forsweare themselues in the face of the Court being taught by their spirituall Guides that in so doing if they reserue some other meaning in their owne mindes it offends not God at all And from hence it ensues that a man cannot fixe any certain beliefe vpon Father Cottons protestation in disauowing Mariana for who knowes whether hee haue not some reseruation locked vp in his owne breast or who can tell whether in saying I condemne Marianaes bookes he vnderstands not for not hauing said enough or thus A priuate man cannot lawfully attempt vpon the life of the Prince speaking thus to himselfe except the Pope giue way to it or the King be excommunicated or be no true King but such or such is no true King because he doth this or that c. But to conclude this point as in contracts heretofore among the ancient Romaines their women were compelled to renounce the Villeian decree and the authentique Si qua mulier In like maner Father Cotton if he would haue vs giue credit to his declaration he ought first to haue renounced his priuiledge of lying and vsing Equiuocation and yet I feare that in this very abrenuntiation hee would haue vsed some other ambiguitie and craft The other point maintained by Iohn l' Heureux

the Church neither ought wee to obey him nor hold him for our King vntill hee had receiued approbation from the Pope During the foresaid proceedings certaine of the Lords of the Court came to the Colledge of Cleremont where the Iesuites were and there seazed on the papers of Iohn Guignard amongst which there was found a Booke composed in the praise of Iames Clement who murthered Henry the third with exhortation to doe the like vnto hi● Successour out of which Booke diuers clauses haue beene produced in the first Chapter The Court vpon the sight of these Writings sent for Guignard the Author who when his Writings were shewed him and himselfe examined thereupon confessed that himselfe had composed them and written them with his owne hand And hereupon Guignard by sentence of the Court was condemned and executed the 7. of the Ianuary 1595. By another sentence was Peter Gueret Iesuite the Maister of Iohn Chastell condemned to perpetuall banishment and all his goods seazed on and confiscated vnto the King with commandement for the erection of a Pyramis before the great gate of the palace with an inscription containing the causes why the Iesuites were banished In which inscription they are tearmed Heretiques troublers of the State and corrupters of Youth Which Pyramis while it stood if any did aske why it was set vp many more now a dayes are ready to aske why it was puld down A case like vnto this fell out at Melun the last of Aprill 1593. what time the processe criminall was made against Peter Barriere who being apprehended vpon the intelligence of a Fryer an honest man and faithfull vnto the King confessed that he came purposely vnto the Court to make away the King and that he had been incited hereunto by one Varad● by name a Iesuite whose daily practise was to defame the King with vile speeches By the perswasion of this Iesuite the fore-said Barriere had prepared a knife to doe the fear About this he first of all asked the aduise of A●bry Curate of S. Andrew des arts to whom he made his purpose knowne and afterwards betooke himselfe vnto Varade Rectour of the Colledge of Iesuites vpon the fore-said Aubry his aduise That the said Varade confirmed him in his resolution to kill the King and that by assuring him that in case hee were apprehended and put to death hee should obtaine in heauen a Crowne of Martyrdome That the said Varade adiured him vnto this action vpon the Sacrament of Confession and of Communion of the body of our Lord. It was also obserued that when the late King was striken their Colledges being enuironed with a Guard certaine Iesuits cried out at the doores of their Chambers Surge frater agitur de Religione Vp brother vp our Religion is in danger Besides this in the Colledge of the said Iesuites there were found diuers theames giuen by the Maisters of formes the argument of all which was an exhortation to set vpon Tyrants and to suffer death constantly It was also certified to betrue that after Paris was reduced vnder the Kings obedience the Maisters of the Colledge of Iesuites forbad their Schollers to pray for the King Else-where informations haue beene made against Alexander Hayes Iesuite borne in Scotland who taught openly that it was good to dissemble and for a while to performe obedience vnto the King in shew He was wont to say Iesuita est omnis homo This Iesuite was further charged to haue said and that often that he wished if the King came along by their Colledge he might fall out of the window vpon him and breake his neck For which cause by the sentence of the Court giuen the 10. of Ianuarie 1595. the saide Hayes was condemned to perpetuall banishment and withall hee was wished to keepe himselfe out of the Country vpon paine of being hanged without any other forme of arraignement Moreouer the said Fathers haue beene often conuicted for corrupting children that so they might sende them into strange Countries against the will of their Fathers As for instance in the yeare 1595. the 10. of Aprill a Iesuite by name Iohn the Fayre of the Colledge of Cleremont did honourable pennance in the great Chamber during the Audience bare-head and bare-foote in a white sheete holding in his hand a burning Torch of two pound weight of waxe and sentenced to professe and declare vpon his knees that rashly and vnaduisedly hee practised to seduce Francis Veron Clarke Student in the Vniuersitie of Poictiers to send him fo●th of the kingdome And further that he had indiscreetly reserued and kept with him Lectures and Treatises made by some of the said Societie which hee receiued and wrote out with his owne hand in the said Colledge of Cleremont containing many damnable instructions to attempt against Princes and withall approbation and commendation of that detestable parricide committed vpon the person of our King of most blessed memorie Henry the third These are things so common and so well knowne that who so should faine ought or adde vnto it cannot haue any hope to belieued and he must needes be accounted impudent that should denie them the whole bodie of the Court being witnesses of the truth of them Besides all this there is no man that hath not by experience found that the Iesuites were neuer other then sworne enemies vnto our Kings For during these last troubles which endeuoured to transport France into Spaine there were many of the Religious persons found and that of all Orders to ha●e taken the Kings part but there was no one Iesuite found to be for him vntil such time as for their crimes they were driuen out of the kingdome In a word the late King our Prince who neuer was afraide in warre yet was afraide of these men in peace My Lord the Duke of Sully can testifie this who perswading the King not to recall the Iesuites was answered by him Giue mee then securitie for my life And if we step forth of the kingdome of France we shall finde many examples of the like In all the conspiracies against Elizabeth the late Queene of England it was alwayes found that some Iesuites or other had the tempering of them and yet for all this they cease not to martyr her with wrongfull speeches after her death prouoked hereunto by this that shee suffered them not to murther her Bonars●ius the Iesuite in the first Booke of his Amphitheater and fourth Chapter cals her Lupam Anglican●m The English Wolfe And the Iesuite Eudaemon-Iohannes in the 116. Page of his Apologie for Garnet cals her Sororis filiam Patris neptem Her Sisters daughter and her Fathers Niece Of late Henry Garnet Hall surnamed Oldcorne Hamond Iohn Gerard and G●inuelle were found to be complices in that powder-mine which was made vnder the house where the King with the States of the Country were to assemble together And for these the Iesuite Iohn the H●ppy hath writ an Apologie wherein hee confesseth that indeede they knew the

that the Kings of Fraunce can leuie any mony vpon the persons nor vpon the lands of Italy which are of the Patrimonie of S. Peter For it is not credible that Father Cotton will oppose himselfe against Cardinal Bellarmine the Iesuite all the Iesuites now adayes being his Disciples and Schollers who in his fift Booke De Pontifice Romano and sixt Chapter writes thus The Pope may change kingdomes take them from one and bestow them on another as the supreme Prince spirituall and when he shall finde it necessarie for the saluation of soules Of whom also we haue formerly learned that Kings are not aboue Clarks The same Authour in the second Chapter of his Booke Of the exemption of the Clergie cals all Kings and Princes ingenerall Prophane men And he holds in diuers places that the power of secular Princes is but an humane institution and is onely the worke of men Albeit the Apostle in the thirteenth to the Romanes saith That there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordained of God And therefore it is no part of the Iesuites beliefe to account Kings to be Kings in such sort as the Pope is the head of the Church seeing they are not Kings but by humane institution but the Pope is head of the Vniuersall Church by the institution of God In a word Cotton speakes but with halfe a mouth and by that which hee saith it is impossible to apprehend what he beleeueth And the same may be said of his other Articles The last Article is a recrimination of those of the pretended reformed Religion sundry of whose Books he saith are infected with this opinion that it is lawfull for a Subiect to make away his King After this he addes I could note and specifie the places alledge their words were it not much better that they should remaine swallowed vp of the gulfe of forgetfulnesse Oh what matter of triumph here doth he giue vnto our aduersaries whose saying will be that if Father Cotton had knowne those places hee would not haue failed to bring them to light and it had beene good to name the bookes that they might be suppressed and the Authors punished if they were liuing Now hereupon I haue been moued in the humor of curiosity to cleare my selfe and enquiring of some of the contrary Religion men not vnlearned they haue answered mee that indeede the Councell of Constance in the eight Session makes an enumeration of Wickliffes Heresies and amongst other things accuseth him for being of opinion that no m●n is a Maister or Lord in ciuill things during his continuance in mortall sinne Againe that people may at their pleasure correct Princes that are faulty And that Buchanan an Historian and Scottish Poet in his Booke De iure Regni apud Scotes speaketh indeed of handling Kings roughly and driuing them out when they become Tyrants But the Councell of Constance slandereth Wickliffe not onely in this point but also in diuers others that this is no where to bee found throughout his writings and that he was not present to answere for himselfe that after the same slanderous maner the same Councell chargeth him to haue said that God must● obey the Diuell that Buchanan was no Diuine that amongst their Doctors there are indeed found some free speeches against Kings that persecute their Churches so farre as to say that notwithstanding their wicked wils they will not giue ouer to aduance the worke of God and such like But not so much as any one word is to be found of aduise to kill Kings nor so much as any one precept of rebellion That Luther writ indeed against King Henry the eight of England in most contemptuous sort and indiscreet termes but that Luther was none of his Subiect and that he neuer spake of killing Kings nor of rebelling against their Soueraigne and therefore that these examples are not to purpose This I say not that I rest satisfied with these iustifications I leaue them as they are but to stirre vp Father Cotton to speake more plainly vnto this point for feare least our aduersaries should say that they are accused without proofe and without shewing wherefore That which remaines of Father Cottons declaratorie Letter is onely a declamatorie discourse wherein he talkes of Otacoustes Prosagogides and Quadruplators words that had giuen vs the stop had they been put in the entrance of his discourse For these are words too hard for vs that know no other Latine then that of Ac●ursius and that busie our selues to proue as good French-men as the Iesuites are good Spaniards CHAP. V. Whether it be for the good of the State that Father Cotton should be neere about the person of the King or of the Queene Regent and whether the lesuites are to be suff●red IF all the world wonders to see after the blow that Iohn Chastel gaue with a knife after the condemning of the Iesuites after the erection of the Pyramis for a memoriall yet neuerthelesse a little after all this these Fathers to be established againe and to possesse the heart of the King whose mouth they had slit So is it a thing as much to be wondred at to see at this day after so horrible a death those who haue set abroach the doctrine of murthering Princes and who are knowne to haue a ●inger in the action to continue still and to be neare about the person of the King I will beleeue that the person of Father Cotton is free from this crime and that Father Gontier and Aubigny had no communication with him and that he had no intelligence with the Iesuites of Bruxelles yet such are his maners and his profession that it is no way fit nor for the credit of the Court for him to come neere about the person of his Maiestie First of all I affirme that Cotton who cals himselfe a religious person yea of such a Company who take vnto them the name of Iesus is a scandall to the whole Church being euery day a follower of the Court for this is a thing contrary not onely to the Institution of all Monkes but particularly to the rules of the Iesuites as Father Richeome assureth vs in his Apologeticall complaint and Cardinall Tolet the Iesuite in his Booke Of the Institution of Priests 1. Booke and 40. Chapter holds it for a generall truth that a religious person who betakes himselfe vnto the Courts of Princes is an excommunicate person albeit he hath leaue of his Superiour Secondly for the imprinting of vertue in the heart of a Prince it is fit to set about his person men that are enemies vnto vices and such as will not flatter him in his imperfections This was one of the great faults of Father Cotton euen his conniuence at the pleasures of the late King in stead of with-drawing him from them And such a Prince was hee that if a man an enemie vnto vice had helde his place about him it had beene an easie

binding Christians to the obseruance of it in a straiter maner th●n were the Pagans led by the sole light of Nature and Priests more strictly then Laickes to whom they are to preach sound doct●ine as wel by words as example and Bishops rather then ordinarie Priests and lastly aboue all the chief● Bishop of all because his example in this case would more preuaile then any other nay all the other beside This was the true cause why the King of great Britaine to safeguard himselfe from these King-killers was constrained to exact of his subiects an oath of allegiance for their ciuill and temporall obedience and the surety of his life notwithstanding the Popes Buls An oath which the frequent doctrine and practise of assassines now a dayes makes in a maner necessarie through Christendome to secure the estates and liues of Gods annointed and withall to free the Catholike Apostolike Romaine Religion toward the Kings and Princes of the earth from that blame hatred which this wicked doctrine drawes with it and to make it more gracious in the eyes of those who maintaine a different religion Yet is this wholsome doctrine more needfull in France then any where beside because the effects of the contrarie fall especially vpon the life and crowne of the King and rather now in the minoritie of our King then in his full age this erroneous doctrine ought to beresuted and the venters thereof punished because the practise of the ages past hath euer taught vs that when they would draw out their censures against the temporalties of Kings that commonly set vpon the weakest For these reasons the Vniuersitie of Paris daughter of the Kings of Fraunce most humbly beseecheth your Maiestie the Princes of the blood and the Lords of the Councell not to giue way to the Iesuites sithence they defend an opinion touching the popes omnipotencie and the suretie of the estates and liues of Kings quite contrarie to that which this Vniuersitie hath alwayes taught and maintained to the opening of their Schooles here in Paris much lesse to their incorporating into the Vniuersitie least they make the learning and manner thereof as repugnant to the estate of Kings as is their owne Sect as may appeare by those writings which Father Cotton dedicates to you and puts into your hands daily and by that experience which wee haue found of them and yet daily find in many quarters of Christendome and th● Vniuersitie shall euer be bound to pray for the establishment and happinesse of the King your Maiestie the Princes of the bloud and the Lords of the Councell FINIS THE TRANSLATOR TO THE READER Reader THat thou be not ignorant of the occasion of Anti-coton bepleased to be informed that since the last execrable parricide in France th● Doctors of the Sorbon met together in solemne Conuocation condemned a booke written by Iohn Mariana a Spanish Iesuite maintaining the murthering of Kings and before that was it adiudged by the presidents of the Parliament of Paris that the said booke should publikely be burnt by the common executioner before the great gate of the Pallace and withall as well the buying as selling of it was by them straitly forbidden hereupon a rumour spread it selfe that the Iesuites generally maintained the same opinion and consequently their writings to that purpose were as lyable to censure and fire as that of Mariana Whereupon Cotton newly returned from the Fu●erals of the Kings heart at la Flesche and seeming to be much appaled with this unexpected noyse was in a manner co●strained for the making up of this sodaine breach presently to put pen to paper to disclaime what Mariana had affirmed to produce the testimonies of his associates who seemed to defend the contrarie and lastly to set downe those articles in this point which his societie as he pretended would stand vnto upon this Declaratorie Letter of Cottons as himselfe termes it dedicated to the Queene Regent comes forth within a very short space this Anti-Coton written a● it seemes by one of the same Religion and therefore cannot but carrie the greater shew of truth which labours to proue against Cotton that the doctrine and practise of the Iesuites made a ready way vnto if not acted the late horrible blow in Fraunce which booke as I am credibly informed by a friend of good intelligence and credit being greedily deuoured of all sorts of the French So ●●ung Cotton that it wrung teares from him for very griefe and indignation and personall imputations as you know the truer they are the deeper impressions they usually worke Now because I suppose some may be desirous more particularly to understand of the quality of this Cotton who is so often named thorow this worke for the further content of such I can assure them th●t 〈◊〉 France he carries the name rather of a good Orator then a deepe Clark as 〈◊〉 better what belongs to points of Courtiership then Schollership notwithstanding a man he is much magnified by his owne Societie for hauing so thorowly understood and fully possessed the affections of the last King as if he had inchanted him to whom hee was both Confessor and Preacher and was besides that both at meales and at Masse continually in his eare no man more insomuch that in Fraunce it grew to a common iest upon any repulse from the King or deniall of acc●sse 〈◊〉 him Les oreills du Roy sont buschees de Cotton The Kings eares are stopt with Cotton Whereupon about three yeares since this Pasquill flew abroad in Paris Le Roy ne scauroit faire vn pas Que le Pere Cotton l'accompagne Mais le bon Sire ne scait pas Que le fin Cotton vient d'Espagne The King no where can step a foote But Father Cotton findes him out But the good King is not aware That fine Cotton is Spanish ware But I leaue his person and returne againe to his Letter in the scanning of which I have somewhat to say to him which the Author of Anti-Coton passeth by which is this that whereas he vndertakes to proue that the other Iesuites accord not with Mariana in the doctrine of making away Princes and to that end produceth the testimonie of Becanus one of their chiefe pillars turning to the passage he quotes I finde that Becanus in that very place approues 〈…〉 in expresse termes and withall holds 〈…〉 common tenent of the Iesuites his words are these In respons ad Aphorism 9. Atque haecest expressa sententia Iohannis Marianae loco citato aliorum Iesuitarum qui ha● de re scripserunt in qua non video quid Caluinistae possint meritò reprehendere And this is expresly the opinion of Iohn Mariana in the place alledged as also of the other Iesuites who haue written touching this subiect in which I see not what it is which the Caluinists ca●● iustly disproue That which I now affirme is a matter of fact and therefore needes no more adoe then the