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A29610	Francis Broccard (secretary to Pope Clement the Eighth) his alarm to all Protestant princes with a discovery of popish plots and conspiracies, after his co[n]version from popery to the Protestant religion / translated out of the Latin copy printed in Holland.; De foedere contra Protestantes. English	Brocardo, Francisco.	1679 (1679)	Wing B4833; ESTC R21110	17,576	28

know very well that the Protestant Cause is a good Cause and that God will be assistant to them to defeat the assaults which Satan and Antichrist make upon them yet ought not these things to be despised nor they to sleep securely on such perswasions but ought to believe that it is a providence of God that stirs up any to make discovery thereof to those whose life and safety is in hazard that they may the better secure themselves from those enemies who thus assault them To the end therefore that all Protestant Princes and all Professors of the true Religion may have warning to avoid these Conspiracies of the Pope of Rome and all Popish Princes I will through the help of God clearly and undauntedly declare and make known the most wicked Confederacies and devilish Arts and Machinations of the Popish Confederates against the Protestant Religion And what I shall relate are not slight and trivial stories picked up from the discourse of ordinary persons or idle Monkish dreams but what I have heard my self from the Pope's own mouth and from the Cardinals themselves and which have come to my knowledge from the authentick Writings of Popish Princes under their own hands and seals Nor am I frighted with the wrath and indignation which I am like to sustain from Kings and Potent Princes incensed by this discovery For I ought to be more afraid of God who is able to destroy both body and soul than of those who have power only to kill or torment a frail and mortal body Be they inraged and full of indignation and if God so permit fall fierce upon me I am sensible I do acknowledge that it is from God that I am hereunto moved and incited and shall notwithstanding their rage undauntedly make known their treacherous Conspiracies Hear therefore all ye that bear a good will to the Protestant Cause and take good heed to what you hear Pope CLEMENT the Eighth who is at this time Pope of Rome having by strange Artifice obliged to himself well-nigh all the Princes in Europe not willing to neglect so fair an opportunity to establish his tyrannical Power doth endeavour with might and main to carry on and establish the holy League as they call it of all Popish Kings and Princes against the Protestant Interest and which as to the greatest part is already concluded 1. For the Emperour the King of Spain the Archdukes of Austria Albert and Ferdinand the Dukes of Bavaria Lorrain and Savoy and almost all the rest of the Popish Princes except the French King and the great Duke of Tuscany have already consented and subscribed the League and the Pope moves every stone to engage the rest to concur with them and is in hope to effect it 2. This League consists of divers heads The way of proceeding the Time the Preparation the Proportion which each of them is to contribute to this holy War they are plotting and contriving against the Protestants And on this they are in all points agreed that all these Confederates shall with joynt force endeavour the extirpation of Protestant Religion by all the means they can 3. The Emperour about a year ago was earnest with the Pope for money and Aid against the Turk whereby he might be able either to repress his insolence or at last bring him to honourable terms of Peace or some lasting Truce promising that so soon as he shall have dispatched his business with the Turk he will employ all his strength and forces for the Pope against the Protestants or as they call them the Hereticks 4. The Pope is very much inclined to a Peace with the Turk and for this reason would not last year give ear to the Embassadors of the Persian King who pressed him to a general Confederacy against the Turk For the Pope reckons that the Protestants are a greater hinderance to his affected Tyranny than is the Turk And doth oft complain that a long War hath now been managed for forty years together against the Turk to no advantage whereas in the same time with far less expence the Church of Rome might have recovered her Authority in Europe And he doth therefore endeavour to perswade the Turk to seek a Peace and perswades the Emperour to let him have it on reasonable terms 5. In the year 1601. Cardinal Dietrichstein Bishop of Clomute came in great haste from Prague to Rome and brought Letters to the Pope from the Emperour promising the Pope to put in execution by force of Arms the sentence which the Emperour had given in behalf of the Pope against the Protestants in the Cause concerning goods Ecclesiastick which he commanded to be in all places restored to the use of the Church of Rome And from thence the Pope conceived hopes of some occasion to be offered of beginning some broils and commotions in Germany and it was agreed between them that the greatest part of those goods should be distributed amongst those who should be most active in that War 6. The same Cardinal did at the same time promise as he said in the Emperours name that in the mean time while things were getting in readiness for an open War the Emperour and the Princes of Austria would wholly turn out all Protestants within their hereditary Dominions as in Austria Tyrole Croatia Carinthia Stiria and the like places and that they would in like manner fall upon them in Moravia Silesia and Bohemia first without noise if it may be and then by force of Arms especially of those souldiers which come back from the War of Hungary For in such cases they do not think fit to trust the German souldiers and that he had already granted to them the spoiling and pillaging those people in case they return not to the Church of Rome 7. The Popes Legate now resident at Prague did write some months ago that all these things are in great part already dispatched that the Protestants were cast out of those Provinces and the Jesuites by the Emperors permission possess'd of most of the Protestant Churches and places not only in Austria and Carinthia but likewise in Silesia and Moravia And that the French souldiers under the command of one Count Benegrave had already burnt some Villages in the borders of Bohemia and that they intended this year to make more progress therein especially by the assistance of the Italians which the Pope sends into Hungary chiefly for this end to spoil and destroy the Protestants 8. The Emperour hath also promised that he will not henceforth confer any chief Offices whether in Civil or Military Affairs on any that are Hereticks or do in any wise favour them And moreover that all lesser Offices now enjoyed by Protestants shall be taken from them unless within a time limited they return to the Church of Rome And by this means the Popes Legate informed that daily many of the Nobility in Germany do renounce the Lutheran and turn to the Romish Religion and that on such

are frequently bestowed good places and Offices that others may be thereby incouraged to make the like revolt For they are perswaded from the experience of all times that by ambition and covetousness of riches and honours many have been seduc'd who 't is thought would otherwise have been very constant 9. By this promise the Pope having conceived great hopes hath taken the confidence to press the Emperour to depose and put out some of the Protestant Nobility by him named from publick Offices and places Civil and Military which then they enjoyed And among these by name Count Colinick Henry Matthew a Turre a Bohemian the Lord of Offer-Kirchen the Barons of Pothan of Oglisto of Dermenstorf and the like and desir'd that he would put in their places some of the Popish Nobility and such as had revolted affirming that things would never succed well against the Turks if the War were managed by Protestants And that he would never endure nor was it for the dignity of a Catholick Emperour that in a Christian Army against Infidels they should be suffered to have Lutheran Sermons which he therefore requir'd to be wholly supprest threatning that otherwise he would never endure that they should henceforth have any leavies of souldiers in Italy or Spain to be sent thither lest these Provinces which are yet free should become infected with Heresie 10. The Duke of Mercury gives this advice that divers of those who are his adherents may be promoted to Military employments And himself hath written to Cardinal Aldobrandine to perswade the Pope that this the Emperor may do very easily The Pope believing this to be a good means for the removing Sermons out of the Army and for preparing a way to many other things for the ruine of the Protestants hath very earnestly desir'd the same thing of the Emperour from whom yet he hath received no other answer than that he must wait a convenient time for the doing of it and some better opportunity and in the mean time he will take care to do it by little and little 11. The same Duke of Mercury about two years since having conference with the Confederates to this purpose had resolved that in winter time when the War in Hungary could not be carried on he would carefully take a view of all Germany and as if he were minding somewhat else observe and take notice of the places Situations Rivers Straights Borders Passes Avenues Forts and Strengths of the Protestant Princes and Protestant Cities that he might the better contrive waies to surprize and circumvent them in the War design'd And I my self have seen at Rome with the Duke of Suesse the delineations of some places belonging to the Protestants drawn by Petrine a Mathematician to the said Duke And while he was yet living I heard the same was to be done by the Duke of Nevers who seeks for the place of the Duke of Mercury in the War of Hungary 12. When the Pope perceived that he could not presently obtain from the Emperor to put out the aforesaid Protestant Nobility he did by a new device desire of the Emperour that he would at least employ a smaller number of the Protestant forces least by this means they might be trained up in military skill to the prejudice of the Roman Church and come to have the better of the Catholicks That it were much better that the Emperour should raise none but Popish Souldiers and require pay and contributions for them from the Protestants For by this means the Protestants in a short time would be at once disarm'd and impoverish'd That many of the things design'd might then be begun and attempted for the distruction of the Protestants which as things now stand could not be thought off And the better to perswade the Emperour hereunto he accused the Protestants of holding correspondence with the Turk 13. The Pope hath some Councelours in the Emperours Court who stick very close to him who for large pensions and great hopes wherewith he feeds them do incline the Emperour to comply with the Popes directions and by their means he is made acquainted not only with the Emperours actions but with his very propensions and inclinations 14. The Pope presseth for an election of a King of the Romans fearing least if the Emperour should die before a Successor were appointed some might be chosen in his place who either is not a Papist or at least more moderate toward the Protestants And for this reason he doth press the Emperour to it and both to him and to the Ecclesiastick Electors he doth earnestly recommend Albertus whom in many respects he desires to have preferr'd before the rest for this consideration especially because he thinks that by this means the Popish Religion will come to be restored in the Netherlands and in Germany and moreover because the King of Spain doth make offer and promise to imploy all his strength and forces against the Turk and the Hereticks in case they chose Albertus 15. The King of Spains Embassadour resident at Rome produced letters from that Kings Embassadour at Prague informing him that one of the Protestant Electors was inclinable to Albertus and that the Spaniards promise themselves great things of him both as to the business of the election and the affairs of the Netherlands 16. The Emperour seems more inclined to Matthias whom yet the Pope seems to reject by reason of some suspicions raised of him in matter of religion which he endeavours to remove by the persecutions in Austria and Moravia in which places he is very severe against the Protestants hoping thereby to reconcile himself to the Pope and to the Ecclesiastick Electors but in vain For the Pope and Ecclesiasticks do not so much look at matter of Religion as Politick Interests and would have Albertus not because he is more religious but because they think he will be the more potent and will less regard the Protestant Princes 17. Because of this Election it is that many things against the Protestants are at present deferr'd which they would forthwith put in execution if they could without them obtain an Election for the house of Austria For the Emperour is afraid if he should use open hostility against the Protestants the Protestant Princes would be averse to him and his family and for this cause he doth sooth and make much of many of them at present whom if he had obtained his end he would certainly despise 18. The Archbishop of Cologne hath also writ letters to Cardinal St. George wherein he intercedes for his house of Bavaria affirming that he hath the votes of some of the Electors inclinable to his Family And makes offers to the Pope both in his own and in his Fathers name of all their forces and assistance for the exaltations of the Roman Church 19. At the same time came privately to Rome in the Duke of Bavaria's name an Embassadour called Somburg one of the four Knights of the Empire who on the