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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

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

other honest religious persons who were not touched in conscience they feared not lest any should accuse them But whence was it that at Bruxelles and at Prage where the Iesuites dominiere the Kings death was spoken of some twelue or fifteene dayes before it came to passe At Roan diuers receiued letters from their friends at Bruxelles desiring to be informed whether the report that went of the Kings death were true albeit at that time it was not so Mounsieur Argentier at Troyes receiued letters from the ●utor of his children at Prage wherein hee was aduertised that a Iesuite had giuen it forth that the King was dead before it fell out to be so and withall had tolde them that after his decease Monsieur the Dolphin should not be King but the King of Spaine and that for the same reasons which Father Gontier gaue in his sermons at Aduent and Lent last I may not omit the prediction of the prouost of Petiuiers who was found strangled in prison who being at Petiuiers two days iourney from Paris and playing at nine pinnes amongst sundry of his friends told them saying This day the King is either slaine or hath a blow This prouost was in faction a Iesuite and had committed a sonne of his vnto them who at this day is a Iesuite Diuers haue obserued with what disdaine and generall indignation it was taken of euery one to see the Iesuites at the Louure the very morning after this abhominable assassinacie looking with a smiling and pre●umptuous countenance as who should say all things went well for them and to be presented vnto the Queene by Mounsieur de la Varenne their Benefactor and restorer and to haue that boldnesse in this common heauinesse and sorrow so speedily to demand the ha●t of the poore deceased King which they carryed away in a kinde of conquest wherewithall they had done well to haue buryed also the tooth which Iohn Chastel a disciple of theirs strooke out some yeares since But who did not wonder to see all the Orders of religious persons assist the funerals of the King and pertake of the common sorrow sauing the Iesuites who alone hauing receiued more good turnes of this good King then all other Ecclesiasticall persons put together euen they alone vouchsafed not to accompany his body vnto the graue Which being obserued by diuers of the Spectators some said the reason of their absence was because they disdained all other Orders but the most iudicious their opinion was that it was no small part of their wisedome and that Tiberius and Iulia hauing procured the empoysoning of Germanicus in the publike mourning that was at Rome would not appeare openly for feare least the people should discouer their sorrow to be but false and counterfai●e After the Kings death they did what they could to keepe his purpose from taking effect and to thwart such courses as he iudged to be for the good of the State Hee had resolued to send companies vnto Cleues for aide to the princes of Germanie Since that Mounsieur the Marshall of Castres Generall of these forces prepared himselfe for the iourney when behold two Iesuites who came to seeke him out tolde him that he could not goe this voyage not bring succour vnto Heretiques with a good conscience and fought to affright his conscience with threats as that if he did this hee could not be saued But the said Marshall giuing no credit vnto their words within a while after they come vnto him to change their language and to appease him CHAP. IIII. An Examination of the declaratory Letter of Peter Cotton FIrst of all I say that this Letter being extorted as it is by necessitie comes out of season and doth not preuent the euill but comes after it for it should haue beene written against Mariana when hee first peeped forth and when the late King intreated Father Cotton to write against it I say further it is vtterly vnknowne to vs whether he speakes in earnest in his Letter or whether according to the doctrine of his Order he vseth Equiuocation and suppresseth the one halfe of his meaning or if he speakes in good earnest who seeth not that his companions are not of his opinion sith none of them hath subscribed his Booke nor approued it which yet had been most requisite in a matter so publike and of such importance Againe the authoritie of so many Iesuites condemning the murthering of Kings is alledged by him in vaine for all such passages of the Iesuites are vnderstood of Kings whom the Pope and Iesuites acknowledge for Kings But wee haue made it cleere in the former Chapters by the authoritie of a great many Iesuites and by their actions that when the Iesuites do attempt vpon the life of any King they make good their action by this that such a one they doe not reckon to be a King albeit he beares the name in as much as he is excommunicated or because hee is an enemie vnto the Church and in very deed this wretched Rauillac alledged this for the cause of his attempt to wit because the King would make war against the Popr and that the Pope was God and by consequence that the King would make warre against God And therefore the reuerend Abbot of Boyse hath well obserued in his answere to Father Cotton that whereas Gregorie of Valence Iesuite saith It is no way permitted for a man to attempt vpon the life of his Prince albeit he abuse his authority yet he addes If it be not done by publique iudgement Now all the Iesuites maintaine that the iudgement of the Generall of their Order is a publique iudgement and whereon they must rest themselues as on the voyce of Christ as wee haue shewed before wee hold also the iudgement of the Pope to be a publike iudgement Againe we haue formerly obserued that the Apologie of Eudemon-Iohannes the Iesuite approued by their Generall Aquauiua and of three Doctors● of the Iesuites affirmes that Iesuites doe no way approue the murthering of Kings notwithstanding they loue the euent so that it serues to no purpose for Father Cotton to condemne him that murthered the King if neuerthelesse he be glad for the euent that is to say for the death of the King And in very deede it is a fraudulent protestation that hee makes of approuing the decree of the Councell of Constance where they condemne the proposition of Iohn Petit and declare that it is not lawfull for a subiect to kill a Tyrant for the Iesuites haue their euasion ready and which is a truth namely that the Councell of Constance speaketh of such Tyrants as are lawfull Kings and that they speake not of Tyrants deposed by publike iudgement and whose Subiects are discharged and absolued of their oath of allegiance by the Pope nor of Kings who are iudged enemies vnto the Church For if the Iesuites shall vndertake to make away a King they will easily finde out some reason or other