in this the Pope published a Jubilee granting Indulgence to all but those of Interdicted places this he expected would make the People murmur but he was deceived in that point too so that he declared in a full Consistory that he would have War with the State of Venice and called the Spaniards to his aid but finding the Senate resolute in Defence of their Rights he was glad to recall his Bull and make a Peace with them and though he earnestly pressed for the Restauration of the Jesuites yet he could not obtain it About this time the Oath of Allegiance being established by Law the Romanists sent to Rome to know what they should doe in this Case where it was consulted by seven or eight of their learnedest Divines who all agreed that the Pope's Power of chastizing Princes is a Point of Faith and consequently cannot be denied without denying of the Faith and the Pope told Father Parsons and Fitzherbert he could not hold those for Catholicks who took the Oath which he soon after declared by his Breve addressed to the Romanists of England Septemb 22. 1606. wherein he affirms That they cannot without most evident and grievous wronging of God's Honour bind themselves by the Oath seeing it contains many things contrary to Faith and Salvation But when some Romanists who had taken it began to question the Breve willing to think it was obtained from his Holiness by surreption he sent †another to undeceive them wherein he blames them for entertaining such thoughts and assures them That it was written upon mature deliberation and therefore they are bound fully to observe it rejecting all interpretation to the contrary upon which several who were willing before refused it some of whom were imprisoned It is an hard thing for men accustomed to doe evil to learn to doe well which Truth Tyr-Oen is a great Example of for notwithstanding after his frequent Rebellions he was pardoned by King James and received into favour yet returning into Ireland he began new Contrivances and fearing he was discovered fled this year into Flanders which caused the King to publish a severe Proclamation against him from thence he went to Rome where he was maintained at the Pope's charge till his death This same Year Parsons published his Treatise tending to Mitigation wherein he labours to take off the imputation of rebellious Principles from the Romanists and yet he tells us in the same Book That this is Catholick Doctrine that in publick Perils of the Church and Common-Wealth Christ our Saviour hath not left us wholly remediless but besides the natural Right which each Kingdom hath to defend themselves in certain cases he left also supreme Power in his High Priest and immediate Substitute to direct and moderate that Power and to add also of his own when extraordinary Need requireth though with great deliberation Where we have a plain justification of the Pope and People's Power to depose and resist their Princes a most excellent Argument to clear the Papists of Disloyalty Though we find no Plots discovered this year in England yet in Transilvania the Jesuites were employed in poisoning Stephen Potscay the Prince And in France Father Cotton recommended a Spaniard to the King who had not been in the Court many hours when the King had Intelligence of his coming from Barcellona purposely to poison him upon this he sent for Father Coton who desired his Majesty not to give any Credit to the advice and when the King ordered him to produce the Spaniard he pretended to seek him but at his return told his Majesty that he was escaped and he could not find him This year the Pope sent another Breve into England directed to the Arch-Priest forbidding him to take the Oath and commanding him to deprive all Priests of their Faculties who took it except they immediately renounc'd it prohibiting likewise the resort of any to the Protestant Churches At the same time Divines of Italy Germany and France wrote against it all grounding their Exceptions upon this that it takes away the Pope's Power of Deposing Kings So rebellious had the Writings and Practices of the Jesuites been that the Bohemians petition'd the Emperour against them and the Valesian Magistrates refused to admit them because wherever they came they distrurbed the publick Peace and were under such a tie of blind Obedience that if their Superiour enjoin'd them a treasonable Attempt they must obey They had made it their Business for some time to endeavour to get footing in Transilvania but when all their Importunity could not prevail they engaged several of the Nobility in a Design against the Prince's Life which proceeded so far that one of the Conspiratours attempted to run him through but was prevented and several of his Companions taken the rest escaped And now King Henry the Great of France having amassed a very considerable Treasure prepared for some great Design which the Romanists grew so jealous of that they secretly caused several to subscribe their Obedience to the Pope in a Book which was kept on purpose it was half written through and some names subscribed in bloud several Designs were formed against his Life four Piedmontiers a Lorrainer and three others conspired his Death advice was given of several other Plots from many other places and Reports were spread in foreign parts that he was killed Father Hardy in his Sermon at St. Severius in Paris reflecting upon the King's Treasure said That Kings heaped up Treasures to make themselves feared but there needed but a blow to kill a King. All these were but Fore-runners of that horrid Murther which was committed in a few Weeks after by Ravilliac once a Monk who stabbed him to the Heart with a poisoned Knife as he was going to the Arsenal in his Coach so that he expired in an instant upon his Examination he confesâ—ed that he resolved to murther the King who he supposed had a Design to make War upon the Pope because making War against his Holiness is the same as to make War against God seeing the Pope was God and God was the Pope and that he had revealed his Design to the Jesuite d' Aubigny in Confession and shewed him the Knife and that he had heard several of that Order maintain the Lawfulness of it in their Sermons No sooner was the King dead but the Jesuites desired leave to teach Schools in their Colleges which acquest the Parliament took into consideration and required that they should first declare That it is unlawfull for any Person to conspire the death of the King that no Ecclesiastick hath any Power over the Temporal Rights of Princes and that all are to render the same Obedience to their Governours which Christ gave to Caesar. These Positions were proposed to them to subscribe but they refused to doe it without
A DEFENCE OF THE Missionaries Arts WHEREIN The Charge of Disloyalty Rebellions Plots and Treasons asserted Page 76 of that Book are fully proved against the Members of the Church of Rome in a brief Account of the several Plots contrived and Rebellions raised by the Papists against the Lives and Dignities of Sovereign Princes since the Reformation By the Authour of the Missionaries Arts. LONDON Printed for Richard Wilde at the Map of the World in St. Paul's Church-yard 1689. TO THE READER IT is strange that of all men Papists should calumniate Protestants with Treason and Rebellions were Modesty an Essential in the Complexion of a Jesuite surely they would forbear or Charity they so much talk of and so little practise to be found among them Are horrid Massacres villanous Assassinations or Poisonings the Effect of Charity Or Is Malice inveterate Traducing or Lying the Fruit thereof Yet nothing is more obvious in the whole course of History than those diabolical Machinations and hellish Conspiracies of Priests and Jesuites especially within this last hundred and fifty years and generally speaking Princes and crowned Heads have been most the objects of their Fury and lest the palliation of Villany should pass on the weaker sort and this Objection any way obtain That forsooth most of these Contrivances were against Heretical Princes excommunicated by the Pope and Church and by consequence delivered over to Satan and that the killing of them really was no Murther no more than of Wolves or Bears To this I answer That Princes of the same Communion as Henry the Third of France could not escape their fatal Stab who never made profession of any other and though Henry the Fourth was first a Protestant and by them constrained to change nay and highly indulging them in his latter years and as Mathieus says in his Life to all appearance was devout I mean in their way yet from Ravilliac's Hand all this could not defend him We need not long here fix but look on former times where for five or six hundred years nothing hath been more common or more lamentable than the story of several Princes struck with the Lightening of the Court of Rome and others wholly ruined by the Vatican Thunder the consequences being either their own Tragical Ends or at the most favourable strong and lasting Rebellions which all conversant in History may plainly see and so dextrous were they in translating to the other World that in the very Host it self was Poison given to one of the â—erman Emperours so that Silence to none is a more necessary Virtue especially in this Case than to regular Monks and Friars who for several Ages have been the very Pest and Bane of Secular Princes acting not only their Villanies in the Time of the Holy War but in the time of their Antipopes also But to return to our own Nation What Barbarities have they not committed What Impieties have they not been guilty of What Cruelties have they left unattempted and yet with a brazen Front daily bespatter Protestants accusing them of what themselves were Authours of imitating herein the very Skum of Mankind for none shall sooner call another Rogue than he that really is one In whose mouth is Whore and Bitch more frequent than hers that is a common Prostitute And to proceed What Disorder did they not cause to plague and pester Harry the Eighth What Commotions did they not raise all the Reign of Queen Elizabeth besides the Attempts upon her Person What Divisions did they not nourish all the time of Edward the Sixth and in his death had no small share How horridly desperate they were in King James's time appears by their inhumane Powder-Treason how intriguing they were in his Cabinet Councils is but too sad a Truth to relate fomenting his humour in the Spanish Match a blemish inglorious to his Memory leaving the Pallsgrave though his Son in Law a Victim to the House of Austria and after by the Match with France how did he embroil his Son they managing underhand the Queen and she by her powerfull Influence did the King so that all the mischievous Evils of Charles the First they like a Mole wrought under ground spotting his Life with that business of Rochell and the Attempt of the Isle of Rhee from whence the Protestants generally date the ruine of their Church in France and by the rising of the French Monarchs since that time has endangered the ruine of the whole Protestant Interest all over Europe as of late years has been manifestly evident and lastly they drew a Civil War upon him though the Effects proved fatal as well to themselves as others Priests generally being no reaching Politicians the consequence of which all men here do know But that which most surprizes is their Villany in conclusion for when his farther Life could yield them no advantage they then conspired his Death and to that end was a Correspondence kept with Ireton and some others not doubting he being gone to have the bringing up of the Children the Queen being wholly theirs and managed to their Devotion and how fatal this has been I need not farther speak and if any are desirous of farther satisfaction let them read Dr. Moulin's Answer to Philaâ—aâ— Anglicus written by an Apostate Protestant who found not his Account by turning Papist as indeed few of them have done a man I must needs say of very good natural parts though in several things but ill applied them and his Conversation spoke him a Gentleman but withall of a violent and impetuous Temper to whatever he took and unfortunate in most things he projected I am the longer on this Character because most of our whiffling Priests and noisie Jesuites have raked for their Clamours against Protestants about the business of Rebellion for many years last past out of the Dunghill of that Book written not long after the King 's coming in so that 't is plain that by their legerdemain Tricks in the Parliament Army they made them mutinous against their Lords and Masters and in the time of the Agitatour's being rampant meeting as they say in Putney Church they were very brisk in Masquerade among them several Priests some as Troupers others private Soldiers then listed and though these Agitatours were first set up by Ireton yet in process of time they became so unruly and so beyond measure insolent that they were by force necessitated to suppress them and they were the occasion of breaking up that separate Party of Cromwell and Ireton in the name of the Army which they had entred into with the King and by reason 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Henry though he did not publish it till 1538. wherein he asserts his Authority over Kings to plant and destroy as he sees good and then proceeds with the Advice of his Cardinals to summon the King and all his Adherents to appear before him at Rome on a day appointed threatening them with the greater Excommunication in case of Non-appearance and declaring Him and his Posterity incapable of any Honours Possessions or even of being Witnesses absolves all his Subjects from their Oaths of Fidelity and commands them upon pain of Excommunication not to obey him or his Officers enjoyning all Christians to have no Commerce with him all Ecclesiasticks to leave the Land and all Dukes Marquesses c. under the same penalty to drive him out of his
Therefore saith he let no man marvel that in case of Heresie the Sovereign loseth his Superiority and Right over his People and Kingdom And now we are come to the Year Eighty eight wherein as the Conspirators acted more publickly having prepared all things ready for their designed Subversion of the Government and being aided by that Armado of the Spaniards which they vainly thought invincible so the Divine Providence as openly declared against them notwithstanding their Navy was blessed by the famous Nun of Lisbon and the Assistance given by the fiery Pope who published his Crusado as against the Turks and promised to contribute a Million of Gold to which he added the Apostolical Benediction covenanting that the Crown of England should be held as feudatary to the See of Rome and for encouragement to those who should assist his Cause he gave plenary Indulgences to them all neither did he stop here but having provided for the Invaders by securing them of Money and Heaven he thundred out his Bull against the Queen whereby he deprived her again of her Dominions confirming the Censures of Pope Pius and Gregory his Predecessours commanding all under penalty of God's Wrath to render her no obedience or assistance and enjoining them to aid the Spaniards against her concluding all with declaring it both lawful and commendable to lay hands on her and granting a full Pardon to all Undertakers To second which Bull Cardinal Allen advanced to that Dignity the year before published a Book at Antwerp wherein he enlarges upon the Bull and tells the World that it was at the vehement desire of some English men that the Pope engaged the Spaniard and appeared in the Cause himself This Book is said to be written by one Parsons though it was owned by the Cardinal and therein it is affirmed That the Roman Catholicks in England were destitute of Courage and erroneous in Conscience or else they had never suffered Her Majesty to reign so long over them The way thus prepared the Spanish Armado put to Sea while the Prince of Parma was preparing a great Army in Flanders where the Earl of Westmorland and the Lord Pagit and Sir William Stanley lay with seven hundred English ready to be transported and the hopes of the Romanists came nothing short of what was to be expected in men elevated by such great Preparations insomuch that the Jesuites at Rome had appropriated several Palaces in London to themselves and were so sure of Success that they would have had Te Deum sung in the College Church for joy upon the news of the Spaniards being arrived in the narrow Seas and the secular Priests acknowledge the like Disposition in the Party here We had some of us greatly approved the said Rebellion many of our Affections were knit to the Spaniard In all these Plots none were more forward than many of us that were Priests With the same zeal towards the Action were the foreign Clergy actuated among whom Johannes Osorius the Jesuite preached two Sermons in Defence of the Attempt and in Commendation of the Spaniards for thus fighting against Hereticks in one of which his Confidence of the Success transported him so far as to give Thanks for the Victory but he and his Party trusted too much in the Arme of Flesh they thought themselves so powerfull that they forgot one that was above them who made that terrible Fleet the scorn of the world and so protected the just Cause of the Queen and assisted her Navy that most of that Armado perished in the Sea or were taken or burnt so vain a thing it is to forget and fight against the Almighty who blessed where the Pope cursed and turned the Harangues of the Thanksgiving-Jesuite into three Sermons of Humiliation for so great a Disappointment of the Papal Designs and the entire Destruction of its strongest Forces In the beginning of the year several Missionaries were sent into Scotland to get the Assistance of the Papists there The Lord Maxwell actually took the Field with a small Party who were defeated The Lord Bothwell secretly listed Soldiers and Collonel Sempill arriving at Leith in order to the Design was seized but soon rescued by the Earl of Huntley Yet could not these wonderfull Disappointments work any remorse in the Papists who still laboured by means of the Jesuite Holt and others to persuade the King of Spain to another Invasion which Parma comforted the Romanists in Scotland with promises of effecting and sent them ten thousand Crowns to prepare matters against the next Spring As busie were the Leaguers in France prosecuting their intended Rebellion with all diligence the Duke of Guise and his Council resolved to put the King in a Monastery in order to which when he went his usual Processions in the time of Lent they designed to seize him but being prevented by a Discovery another Resolution was agreed on to secure his Person at his return from Bois de Vincennes slenderly accompanied but failing in this also the Duke of Guise came to Paris contrary to the King 's express Order where he was received with great joy and soon after his Party being numbred and found considerable he openly rebelled barricadoing the Streets and forcing the King to flie who made his Escape with very few Attendants Soon after the King of Spain sent six hundred thousand Crowns to the Rebels and the Pope by solemn Letters applauded the Duke's Zeal compared him to the Maccabean Heroes and exhorted him to go on as he had begun but here the insignificancy of the Pope's Blessing again appeared the Duke of Guise being soon after slain at Blois and so receiving the just Reward of his continued Rebellions Thus were the Designs of wicked men who prostituted the holy Name of Religion to serve their Lusts baffled and defeated both in their Attempts against the incomparable Queen Elizabeth and the French King as also in a Plot against the K. of Navarre which by the same Divine Providence was this year discovered But the Scotch Papists were so possessed with Spanish Promises and influenced by their Gold and the persuasions of Holt Creighton and other Jesuites that several Noblemen conspired to seize the King afterwards King James the First of England at his Palace in Edinburg where Huntley coming before the others was upon Suspicion apprehended which terrified the rest but being set at liberty joined himself to the Earl of Crawford and others in open Rebellion entred Aberdeen but were so terrified by the approach of the Royal Army that they retreated were taken and after Tryall imprisoned And here I find such an Account of the Conversions made by the Jesuites in Scotland as fully confirms the Observation made before of their Design in their diligent Endeavours to make Proselytes For Mr. Bruce the chief Agent for the Spaniards in his Letter to the D. of Parma
him he would merit Heaven and Glory by the Act and recommended him to Varade Rectour of the Jesuites College who affirmed that the Enterprise was most holy exhorting him with good constancy and courage to confess himself and receive the B. Sacrament and then leading him to his Chamber gave him his Blessing He mentioned also another Preacher of Paris who counted it meritorious Thus encouraged he bought a knife seven Inches long and went to St. Denis where the King then was but being discovered was executed affirming at his death that there were two black Friars that went from Lyons upon the same Account It is probable the Preacher at Paris mentioned in his Confessions was Father Commolet the Jesuite who two days before this Barriere's Execution at St. Denis in a Sermon at Paris which yet continued obstinate against the King exhorted his Auditours to have Patience for they should see in a few days a wonderfull Miracle of God. But the next Year Paris was reduced to its obedience soon after which the University endeavoured the Expulsion of the Jesuites accusing them of all manner of Injustice of the ruine of Families and many other Crimes but insisting particularly on their Treasons charging them with being abettors to the Spaniard Fomenters of Civil Wars and always ready to assassinate the French King whom they omitted to pray for while they extolled the Spaniard that they taught and asserted the Pope's deposing Power that they refused to give Absolution to several Persons of Quality because they would not renounce the King that they had been the cause of the Death of Twenty-eight Barons Fifty Noble-men of France and above Five hundred Monks and Friars in the Tercera Islands and had refused to renounce the League Which Spirit of Rebellion was so strong amongst the Leaguers that a little before the Seduction of Paris the Pope's Legate published a Declaration exhorting all Catholicks to oppose the King assuring them that the Pope would never grant him Absolution and upon the Rendition of Aix to his Majesty the famous Genebrard was so vext at the Loyalty of the Place that he left it resolving not to live among the Royalists nay when the King entered Paris the Cardinal Pellivee lying upon his Death-bed very angrily told those about him That he hoped the Arms of the Spaniards and good Catholicks would yet drive the Huguonots out of Paris And Hay a Scotch Jesuite affirmed That if the King passed by their College he would leap from the top of it upon him and did not doubt to go directly to Heaven But to return to the Jesuites who finding their Banishment out of the Kingdom thus zealously endeavoured and fearing lest the King to whom they had been such bitter Enemies should consent to it resolved to dispatch him * Francis Jacob one of their Scholars at Bourges had boasted that he would doe it but John Chastel who was bred under them at Paris went farther and with a knife struck the King in the Mouth and beat out one of his Teeth he was immediately apprehended and on Examination confessed That he esteemed it an Act highly conducing to promote Religion and that Father Gueret his Master in the Jesuites School had taught him those Doctrines upon which Sentence of Death was pass'd upon him by which also so the Jesuites were banished as Corrupters of Youth Disturbers of the publick Peace Enemies to the King and Kingdom and enjoined to depart the Realm within fifteen days and all their Goods confiscated to be disposed of as the Court should see sit This Sentence was published after the search made in the Jesuites College wherein was found a Book of T. Guignard's which he confessed to be his own writing lamenting that the King was spared in the Parisian Massacre applauding the Murther of King Henry the Third affirming that if the King were shut up in a Monastery he would be treated more gently than he deserved and concluding that if he could not be deposed without force of Arms they ought to be taken up against him for which and his other Treasons he was executed but Gueret Chastell's Master of the same Order was only banished with the rest in memory of which Fact and to the perpetual Ignominy of that Order Chastell's House was demolished and a Pillar erected in the place on one side of which was engraven the Decree of the Court on another a Copy of Verses expressing the Crime and discovering to the World that it was attempted by the Persuasions of the Jesuites on the third another Inscription to the same purpose and on the fourth a summary Account of their banishment and the reasons of it wherein the Jesuites are termed A mischievous and novell sort of superstitious Men and Disturbers of the Nation by whom that young man was encouraged and persuaded to that horrid Fact. This Pillar as appears by the date of the Inscriptions was not erected till the following year however having such a relation to their banishment which was decreed the 29th of December 1594. I thought it most proper to give an account of it in this place One would think that if any Fact would render men ashamed this murtherous Attempt was so horrid as to make those concerned in it blush but so far were they from that that Francis Veron a Jesuite wrote an Apology for the Murtherer calling the Enterprise a most holy most humane most laudable and worthy Act that it is acceptable to God and conformable to all Laws and Decrees of the Church and in the same Book he extolls Clement that stabbed the former King. Thus Fruitfull were the French Romanists in their Contrivances of Rebellion and Murther and as willing were their Brethren in these Nations to promote Enterprises of the same nature for Tir-Oen in Ireland continued in the Rebellion which he began the year before but distrusting his own power submitted himself to the Lord Deputy yet the very same Month he rebelled again several Provinces revolting to him by which accession of Forces he grew very powerfull And in Scotland the Noblemen who were imprisoned and condemned for their Insurrection the last year having been pardoned by the King took Arms again being assisted with Money from the Spaniards and defeated the King's Forces under the Earl of Argyle though much superiour in number to them but were at length reduced so low that they begged leave to depart the Land which was granted them so promising to enterprise no more against the King they left the Kingdom Bothwell the chief of them went to Naples where he lived miserably the rest about three years after got their Pardons and returned home Yet were not these all the Popish Enterprises upon the Estates and Persons of Princes which were discovered this year for I find that about this time they employed Le Four and others to murther Prince Maurice of
leave from their General upon which they were prohibited by a Decree of Parliament to teach and threatened with a farther Deprivation if they would not obey The Romanists had tried all manner of ways to deprive King James of his Life or Crown but finding none successfull they had the Impudence to publish a Book this year affirming that His Majejesty was a counterfeit and not the Son of Queen Mary of Scotland The Year following Cardinal Perron who had been one of the young Cardinal of Bourbon's Party against King Henry the Fourth in the Assembly of Estates in France asserted not only that Subjects may be absolved from their Allegiance and Princes deposed in case of Heresie but that they who hold the contrary are Schismaticks and Hereticks This Speech was made to divert the Estates from imposing an Oath like our Oath of Allegiance which Design so disturbed the Pope that he affirmed the Voters of it were Enemies to the common Good and mortal Adversaries to the Chair of Rome And about the same time Suarez printed his Book at Colen wherein he teaches that Kings may be put to Death by their own Subjects which Treatise came into the World with the Approbation of the Bishop of Conimbria of Silvis and Lamego and the University of Alcalum with several others In Scotland one Father Ogelby a Jesuite was taken who being asked whether the Pope be Judge in Spirituals over His Majesty refused to answer except the question were put to him by the Pope's Authority but affirmed that the Pope might excommunicate the King at his Trial he protested against the Judges that he could not own them for the K. had no Authority but what was derivative from his Predecessours who acknowledged the Pope's jurisdiction adding If the King will be to me as they were to mine he shall be my King otherwise I value him not And as for that Question Whether the K. deposed by the Pope may be lawfully killed Doctours of the Church hold the affirmative not improbably and I will not say it is unlawfull to save my Life In France several of the Princes raised Commotions which were appeased with conferring places of Trust and Honour upon the chief among them who were headed by the Prince of Conde Fruits as the Historian observes accustomed to be reaped in France from that which in other places is punished by the Executioner Not satisfied with their Honours they took arms again under the same Leader and passed the Loire but the Prince of Conde falling sick Matters were composed by the Endeavours of the English Ambassadour and some others In Savoy Conspiracies were formed against that Duke's Life and to deliver up the Prince his Son to the Spaniards but timely discovery prevented them and preserved the Duke from another Design of some who undertook to poison him The next Year the Jesuites were banished Bohemia and Moravia for coining Money and sowing Dissentions between the Magistrates and People and a Plot was discovered at Venice against the Senatours whom the Conspiratours designed to murther by a sudden Insurrection assisted by the Marquess of Bedmar Ambassadour from Spain and the Duke of Ossuna Viceroy of Naples and make an utter subversion of the State this was carried on in conjunction with the Spaniards by those Citizens and others who were the Pope's Partisans and a number of Factious Persons discontented with the Actions of the Senate who longed for a change and would stick at nothing to effect it And in France the Queen Mother being imprisoned the Duke D'Espernon with a strong Party rebelled in her Defence but before the King's Army was come up against him he procured his Pardon and the Liberty of the Queen Soon after this the Jesuites were driven out of Hungary and Silesia for their seditious Practices and another Rebellion broke out in France which the King marched in Person to suppress In the Valteline the Revolt was universal the Governours of Provinces and the Heads of Families were all murthered and under pretence of defending the Roman Catholick Religion all manner of outrages were committed and a new form of Government erected these Broils continued some time and the bitterness of the Papists was such that they would make no accommodation if the Protestants were tolerated there so that if a Protestant Bailiff be sent among them he cannot publickly exercise his Religion At this time the Match between Prince Charles and the Infanta was prosecuted at least with a seeming willingness on both sides and being to have some Romish Priests of her Houshold the Pope urged very earnestly that they might be exempt from His Majesty's jurisdiction so very diligent he was in catching at any shadow which might seem to favour the Exemption of the Clergy Three Years after this Sanctarellus his Book was printed at Rome wherein the Deposing Power was asserted in its utmost latitude and though Father Coto and two other Jesuites were required to answer it yet no reply appeared the former affirming before the Parliament that though he disapproved the Doctrine in France yet he would assent to it if he were at Rome The Oath of Allegiance being vigorously press'd in England the Pope sent a Bull to the Romanists exhorting them to continue firm and let their Tongue rather cleave to the Roof of their Mouth then permit the Authority of St. Peter to be diminished by that Oath and commanding them strictly to observe the Breves of Pope Paul the Fifth and Father Fisher justified Suarez and the Doctrine of his Book asking what could be found prejudicial in it to Princely Authority and affirming that if it contained any such thing it would not be permitted in Catholick Kingdoms We have mention'd that the exemption of the Clergy was desired by the Pope in the Treaty for the Spanish Match and now his Emissaries in this Nation affirmed that the King could have nothing to doe with her Majesties Chaplains because he was an Heretick and his Holiness threatned to declare those to be Apostates who should seek their Establishment in the Queens Family from the King. But though these were plain Indications of what they desired yet they kept their Designs so secret that they were not discovered till some time after but there was a Conspiracy detected at Genoa which if it had not been prevented would have ended in the Murther of the Nobility and Alteration of the Government And the next Year a Plot was detected in Mantua against the Life of the Prince and some Officers apprehended who would have betray'd Viadana to the Governour of Millan In Ireland the Papists assaulted the Archbishop of Dublin wounded several of his Followers and forced him to fly for his Life following him in a tumultuous manner along the streets and that they had several
guilty Consciences of those Gentlemen that the World hath not been long since more fully satisfied as to every particular for Dr. Du Moulin in the first Edition of his Book Ann. 1662. had challenged them to call him to an Account for affirming that the Rebellion was raised and promoted and the King murthered by the Arts of the Court of Rome the Book came to a fourth Edition in all which he renewed the Challenge and in the last in these words I have defied them now seventeen years to call me in question before our Judges and so I do still affirming that certain Evidence of what he asserted should be produced whenever Authority shall require it I remember once a Jesuite attempted to prove the truth of the Nag's-Head Ordination because that Charge had been laid to our Church some years before any offered to confute it or to produce the Lambeth Record which he affirmed was an evident sign that the thing was true or else having such means to confute it they would not have been so long silent what then may we think of those Gentlemen who had so heavy a crime charged on them and yet for near twenty years together never called the Accuser to account The Doctour always refused to produce his Evidences till required by Authority only he gives us this Account That the Papers of Resolution in favour of the Murther when it was found to be generally detested were by the Pope's Order gathered up and burnt but a Roman Catholick in Paris refused to deliver one in his possession but shewed it to a Protestant Friend and related to him the whole carriage of the Negotiation And I am sure if the Protestants had been under such an Imputation the Papists would make good use of their silence to prove their Guilt But farther to shew their aversion to the Royal party no sooner had the Rebels of Ireland in consideration of the straits they were in made a cessation for some time with the Lord Inchequin but the Nuncio excommunicated all who observed it and upon the conclusion of a second Peace with the Duke of Ormond His Majesty's Lieutenant the Assembly of the Bishops and Clergy at James-Town renounced it and as much as in them lay restored the former confederacy anew but of this we shall have a farther account in its due place In the mean while Reilly Vicar General to the A. B. of Dublin betrayed the Royal Camp of Rathmines to Coll. Jones Governour of Dublin for the Parliament which service he afterwards pleaded for himself to the safety of his Life which was in danger for his cruel Actions in the Rebellion and he well deserved more than bare safety from those men that defeat being the total ruine of His Majesty's Affairs in Ireland At the same time the Rebels in France encreased both in Insolence and Power daily the Coadjutour of Paris going to St. Germains in obedience to the Queens Commands was tumultuously stopt by the People who hindered the Nobility from following the King and broke their Coaches the Parliament forbad all places to receive any Garisons from the King listed men and resolved upon a War the Duke D'Elbease Duke of Lonqueirlle Prince Marsil liack afterwards D. of Rochfecault the Prince of Conty and many other persons of the greatest Quality joining with them Soon after Normandy and Poictou declared for the Parisians who sent Deputies to call in the Spaniards to assist them but these Troubles being in a little time appeased new ones began in Provence and Guienne the Parliaments of those Provinces prosecuting the War with great fury declared they would have no pardon from the King and one Gage a Priest endeavoured to persuade them to take the Sovereign Power on themselves which they declined but to maintain the War they treated with the Spaniards for Assistance both of Men and Moneys This Year the Prince of Conde joined himself to the Troudeurs which was the usual Nickname of the discontented Party but finding that they intended the advancement of Chasteau Neuf his mortal Enemy he left them in disgust however the Parisians made several Insurrections and upon the Imprisonment of that Prince an open Rebellion broke out in Berry whose Example was followed by Normandy and Burgundy to support which the Spaniards agreed to contribute 2000 Foot and 3000 Horse besides great Summes of Money and soon after the Parliament of Bourdeaux declared for the Rebells During these Transactions the Popish Bishops of Ireland met at James-Town published a Declaration against all that should adhere to the D. of Ormond His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant in that Kingdom upon which my Authour makes this remark that if the Archbishops c. in Ireland will take upon them to declare against the King's Authority where His Majesty hath placed it they assume an Authority to themselves that no other Clergy ever pretended to and declare sufficiently to the King how far they are from being Subjects or intend to pay him any Obedience longer than they are governed in such manner and by such Persons as they think fit to be pleased with But not satisfied with refusing Obedience to the King's Commissioner the Confederates agreed that if compounding with the Parliament should be best for the People they should doe it And presently after the Marquess of Clauricard had at their request taken the Government upon him in his Majesty's Name it was proposed in their Assembly that they might send to the Enemy to treat with them upon surrendring all that was left into their hands Thus did they chuse rather to submit to the Parliament than obey the King for they were not forced to that Submission the army of the Enemy having made no progress at that time neither had it been flusht with any new Success As forward was Father Bret to persuade the Gentlemen who had defended the Castle of Jersey for the King to renounce the Royal Family and Kingly Government by taking the Engagement affirming that they were not to acknowledge any Supreme but the prevailing Power All this while the Rebellion in France increased the Parisians took Arms designing to seize the King and the Prince of Conde fortified several places and confederated with the Spaniards whom under the Conduct of the Duke of Nemours he called into France to his Assistance with which he maintained the War all this Year to whom the Duke of Orleance joined himself and with all his Interest increased the Party The next year Mr. Tho. White published his Book of the Grounds of Obedience and Government wherein he asserts That if a Prince governs ill he becomes a Robber and the People may expell him in which case they are not bound by any Promise made to him and that they have no Obligation to endeavour the Restauration of a Prince so dispossessed of his Dominions but rather to hinder it nay though he were wrongfully
amplitudinem aliorum terrorem colligant at rustliculum unum ad Regem supprimendum sufficere Histor. Jesuit p. 260 261. Fowlis's Hist. p. 471 472. 1611. Histor. Jesuit p. 219 c. 1613. Fowl. p. 348. 1614. See his Speech at large in his Diverses Oâ—â—vres Paris 1633. fol. ‖ Fow. p 52. His Defens Fidei Catholicae See Brutum Fulmen p. 205. c. Frankl Annal. p. 6 7. Nani's History of Venice p. 33 34. 1615. Ib. p. 58 59. Anno 1616. 1617. Nani's History of Venice p. 65 99. 1618. Hist. Jesuit p. 297 299. * Nani p. 121 122. * Consp of the Span. agt. the State of Venice p 15 16. Lon. 1675. 8vo †Nani p. 124. ‖ Hist. Jesuit p 300 301. 1619. * Nani p. 151. 1620. †Id. p. 159. * Burneâ—'s Trav. p. 81. 1622. Wilson's Hist. of Great Brit. p. 203. 1625. Fowlis p. 476. Mister Pret. 60 61. Sen. Quid si essetis Romae P. Coto Mutâ—retur nobiscum coelo animus sentiremus ut Romae 1626. * See Baiting of the Pope's Bull in init ad haereat lingua vestra faucibus vestris priusquam authoritatem B. Petri eâ jurisjurandi formulâ imminutam detis †Jesuits Reasons unreasonable p. 116. 1627. Rushworth's Collect. part 1. p. 427. 1628. Nani's History of Venice p. 283. 1629. Idem p. 3â—2 Foxes Firebrands pt 2. p. 72 73. 1620. †Hunting of the Rom. Fox p. 216 217. 1632. Nani's History of Venice p. 310 c. Anno 1633. Bp. Bedell Long 's History of Plots p. 100. 1640. See whole Account published under this Title The Designs of the Papists Lond. 1678. 4to See it in Frankland's Annals p. 865 866. Non diffidimus quia sicut occasione unius Foeminae Authoritas Sedis Apostolicae in Regno Augliae suppressa fuit sic nunc per tot Heroicas Foeminas brevi modò restituenda sit 1641. See the History of the Irish Rebellion fol. Nani's Hist. p. 493. Nani's Hist. p. 495 c. 1642. Id. p. 535. †Long 's Hist. of Plots p. 64. * Nos divlnam Clementiam indesinenter orantes ut adversariorum conatus in nihilum redigat c. See it at large in the Append to the Hist. of the Irish Rebel p. 59. †Nani's Hist. p. 515. 1643. Hist of the Irish Remon Pres. p. 1644. †Disputatio Apolog. de jure Reg. Hibern pro Cath. Hibern advers Heret Anglos p. 65. cited by Walsh in the History of the Irish Remonstrance p. 736 737. in these words Ordines Regni optimo jure poterant ac debebant omni dominio Hiberniae privaâ—e tales Reges postquam facti sunt Haeretici atque Tyranni Hoc enim jus potestas in omni Regno Republica est Jam si consensui Regui in hac re accederet Authorâ—tas Apostolica quis nisi Hareticus vel Stultus au lebit negare quod hic affirmamus Doctores Theologi Juris utriusque periti passim docent rationes probant exempla suadent 1645. Anno 1607. â—d Clarendon against Cressy p 246. * Bp. Bramhali's Letters to A. P. Vsher ap Vsher's Life Letters p. 611. 1609. Id. p. 612. Anno 1647. * Vindic. of the sincerity of the Prot. Relig. p. 59. * Mutatus Polemo p. 4 5. Iâ— p. 6. 18. 26. 32. Vindic. of the sincer of the Prot. Relig. p. 65. Cressey 's Exomolog p. 72. Paris 1647. 8vo Ld. Clarendon against Cressey p. 76 77. 1648. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 11 c. Lond. 1676. fol. * Declaratio SS Dom. nostri Innoc. divinâ Providentiâ Papae 10. nullitatis articulorum nuperae paciâ— Germaniae Religioni Gatholicae Sedi Apostolicae quomodo libet praejudicialium See it in Hoornbeck Disputat ad Bull. Inn. 10. †Numerus septem Electorum Imperii Apostolicâ Authoritate praefinitus Hist of the Irish Remon p. 523 524. * Vindic. of the Sincer. of the Prot. Relig. p. 66 67. Foxes Firebrands part 2. p. 86. Vindication of the Prot. Rel. p. 65. Id. p. â—8 66. In his Letter to Dr. du Moulin Aug. 9. 1673. Idem p. 64. Ib. p. 61 c. Id. p. 60. See the Excommunication in the Appendix to the Hist. of the Irish Rem p. 34. Walsâ—'s Letters in the Pref. 1649. Hist of the Irish Remon p. 609. Prioratâ—'s Hist. of France p. 49 c. 1650. Id. p. 117 c. See it at large aâ—d the Duke's Answer to it Hist. of the Irish Remonst Ap. p. 65. †Hist. of the Irish Rebell p. 261. Id. p. 276. 1651. Vindic. of the Prot. Relig. p. 69. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 245 285 308 333. 1652. Lonâ—'s Hist. of Plots p. 15 16. Vindic. of the Prot. Relig. p. 67 c. Jesuites Reasons unreasonable p. 103 104. Hist. of Irish Rebellion p. 241. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 358 c. 1654. St. Amour's Annals p. 448. 1655. Baily's Life of Fiâ—her p. 260 261. London 1655. 8vo 1658. Hist. of the Irish Remonst p. 740. * The same who had betrayed Ratâ—mines to Jones 1659. Hist. of the Irish Remon p. 610. †Long 's Hist. of Plots p. 87 88. 1662. Jesuites Reasons unreasonable p. 112 c Id. p. 127. Hist of the Irish Remon p. 16 17 18. Where see the Letters and p. 513 514. †Id. p. 43. * p. 52. †p. 54. ‖ p. 49. * p. 60. †p. 91. ‖ p. 102. ‖ p. 84. †p. 116. 1664. 1665. ‖ p. 531. * p. 617 c. ‖ p. 620 629. Anno †p. 624 c. 1666. * p. 633. †p. 634. * Ld. Clarend against Crâ—ssâ—y p. 247 248. Hist. of the Irish Remonst p. 647 c. †p. 657. * p 666. * Id. Pref. p. 3 4. Idem p. 763. * p. 675. p. 746. 1674. Walsh's Letters p. 54. Anno 1679. 1682. News from France p. 37. Lond. 1682. 4to Walsh's Letters in the Pref. 1687. 1686. Popery Anat. p. 14. Lond. 1636. 4to Advertisement of two other Books writ by the Authour of this Book 1. THE Missionaries Arts discovered or an Account of their Ways of Insiruation their Artifices and several Methods of which they serve themselves in making Convert to the Church of Rome With a Letter to A 〈◊〉 2. A Plain Defence of the Protestant Religion fitted to the meanest Capacity being a full Answer to the Popish Net for the Fishers of Mâ—n that was writ by two Converts wherein is evidently made appear that their Departure frâ—m the Protestant Religion was without Cause or Reason Fit to be read by all Protestants