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The life and reign of Innocent XI, late Pope of Rome
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to stand ipso facto Excommunicated and therefore the Marquiss de Lavardin and the principal persons of his Retinue on Christmass-Eve following being admitted to midnight-Mass as other French Ambassadors used to be at the Church of St. Lewis about two days after there was found affixed on that Church the following Sentence of Interdict By the Apostolical Authority and the special Command of our holy Lord the Pope the Parish Church of St. Lewis is declared to be under an Ecclesiastical Interdict for that the Rector Officials and Members of the said Church have rashly presumed on the Eve of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ to admit to Divine Service and the Participation of the Sacrament Henry de Beaumonoir Marquis of Lavardin who is notoriously Excommunicated Given at Rome this 26th day of December 1687. Jaspar Cardinal-Vicar Let none dare to take this down upon pain of the greater Excommunication to be incurr'd by a Sentence reserved to our holy Lord. On the morrow after the affixing the aforesaid Interdict the Ambassador published the following Protest Henry Charles Sire de Beaumonoir Marquiss of Lavardin Ambassador Extraordinary from the Most Christian King to Pope Innocent the Eleventh cannot believe that a Printed Placard that is spread abroad vended and affixed in Rome supposing Notorious Excommunication against him by virtue of a certain pretended Bull unknown to him and not published in France can have proceeded from his Holiness himself and there are few Rational People in all Christendom exempt from passion and animosity against France that can imagine that at a time when his Majesty does with so much success employ all his Care and Authority to reduce his Subjects into the Bosom of the Church and to cause God to be served and adored in all places where his Dominion reaches in the purity of the Catholick Apostolical and Roman Religion a Pope whose advancement he desired through the esteem he had of his Virtue should of his own proper Motion refuse all Audience to the Ambassador of so great a King the eldest Son of the Church who hath deserved as much and more of it than his August Ancestors to whom it is indebted for the most considerable part of its Temporal Greatness and who even in this conjuncture of continual Occasions of Discontent given him by the Popes Ministers has recommended nothing more expresly to the said Ambassador than to make manifest to his Holiness the Filial Respect he shall ever have for him and use his utmost care to restore a perfect understanding between the Pope and himself It seems much farther from all probability that his Holiness should without any Form Cause Reason and without having allow'd him a Hearing Interdict the Church of St. Lewis and term him notoriously Excommunicated before that he had done any thing that might incur the least Censure nay and without their being able to know what his Orders are with which he is encharged which coming from the Wisdom and Piety of a most Christian King can never expose him to the penalty of Excommunication from which also his Character representing the Sacred Person of so great a Monarch ought ever to Skreen him God forbid also that the said Sieur de Lavardin should suspect his Holiness of so unmaintainable and so extraordinary a Procedure He plainly perceives that he hath only occasion to complain of the Insolence and Temerity of those that abusing the Confidence which the Infirmities of so great an Age as is that of his Holiness obliges him to put in persons about him and whom he makes use of to be eased of part of his care and make advantage of his relianceon them to make him enter into Engagements directly contrary to the sentiment of Paternal Affection which the most holy Popes have ever had for the Kings of France and giving false Colours to all that passes through their Hands impose upon his Holinesse's Judgment and make it their Business to let him see nothing but what must exasperate him against France This has made them redouble all their Efforts to hinder his Holiness from being undeceived by all that the Marquess de Lavardin is to represent to him in his Majesties Name and it would be easie for him to make it appear to his Holiness that the pretexts they make use of are without any ground for not only the said Ambassador is not come to disturb his Holiness's Temporal Jurisdiction but on the contrary he can with Truth protest on the behalf of the King his Master that if the Pope were attack'd by any one whatsoever his Majesty would employ the Forces and Power that God hath put into his hands to maintain the Holy See after the Example of the Kings his Predecessors in its Prerogatives and Possessions to whose Augmentation they have ever contributed This is also what ought to oblige his Holiness to hinder as a Sovreign Prince that in his Territories there should not be any Diminution made in the Respect which hath ever been observ'd towards the Ambassadors of France And as the Marquis de Lavardin does not pretend to extend it beyond the Immemorial possession which the said Ambassadors have ever had and which the Duke de Crequi de Chaulnes and D'Estrees have retain'd as his Holiness himself hath seen and known not only by Vertue of that ancient Prerogative of the Crown of France in the common Country of all Christendom of which it hath ever been the firmest support but also in Consequence of the Treaty of Pisa for whose performance the Pope is no less bound than he that contracted it There is not a person of good sence that can presume that this pretended Excommunication can regard the said Ambassador and without entring into all the reasons that have been so often said upon the Bull in Coena Domini against which the whole Gallican Church assembled at Tours in 1510. has reclaimed as being unmaintainable in regard of France and publish'd by a Pope who had declared himself its Capital Enemy nor in all that can be said against the other Bulls which serve for a Foundation to that which is pretended to be from his Holiness which can never be publish'd nor receiv'd in the Realm It is sufficient to say that the Marquis de Lavardin is his most Christian Majesties Ambassador and by Consequence exempt from all Ecclesiastical Censures as long as he shall be invested with that Character and shall Execute the Orders of the King his Master Therefore he doth not think it necessary to appeal from his pretended Excommunication of the Pope ill inform'd to his Holiness himself when he shall be undeceived in the Audience he shall grant him of the false Impressions which turbulent Spirits and such as are Enemies of France who make it thelr whole business to break the good understanding that ought to be between the Holy-See and his Majesty have made upon him He also reckons it to be useless to appeal to a future Council lawfully