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A08926	The copie of a late decree of the Sorbone at Paris, for the condemning of that impious and hæreticall opinion, touching the murthering of princes generally maintained by the Iesuites, and amongst the rest, of late by Ioannes Mariana, a Spaniard: together, with the arrest of the Parliament, for the confirmation of that decree, and the condemning of the said Marianas booke, to be publiquely burnt by the executioner. Taken out of the Register of the Parliament, and translated into English.	Université de Paris.; I. B., fl. 1610-1614.; I. W., fl. 1610.; France. Parlement (Paris)	1610 (1610)	STC 19204; ESTC S113998	11,678	44

barbarous bloody and execrable murther committed vpon the sacred person of King HENRY the fourth the matter being set foorth by the Kings said Attourney hath ordered and doeth hereby order that by the diligence and procurement of the Deane and Syndicke of the Facultie of Diuines the said Facultie bee forthwith assembled to consult together touching the confirmation of a certaine Decree made the 13. of December 1413. by 141. Diuines of that Facultie and afterwards ratified by the authoritie of the Counsell of Constance In which Decree it is defined That it is not lawfull for any man vpon what occasion cause or deuised colour soeuer to attempt any violence against the sacred persons of Kings and Soueraigne Princes Next that order betaken that what shall be decreed in the assembly of the said Facultie be confirmed by the subscription of all the Doctors and Bachelers now passing their course in Diuinitie which shal be present at the said meeting and consultation That thereupon the Court calling the Kings Atturney thereunto may take such course as shal be agreeable to iustice and equitie Giuen in Parliament on the 27. of May AN NO DOM. 1610. Signed Voisin WHerefore the said sacred Facultie for the performance of the direction and commaundement of the said Court in a matter so iust and requisite did first assemble themselues priuately and then in publique And weighing with thēselues That they were in duty bound to yeeld their opinion and iudgement in points of doctrine to whosoeuer should demand it That the Vniuersitie of París hath euer from her first original bene the mother and nourse of the most Catholique and wholesome doctrine That the peace of a State dependeth chiefly vpon Order and both order and peace next and immediatly vnder God vpon the safetie and preseruation of Kings and Princes That it only appertaineth vnto the Prince and Ciuill power to vse the sword That notwithstāding within these later yeeres certaine strange seditious and impious Positions haue taken footing whereby many priuate persons beeing transported feare not to staine anoynted Kings and Princes with the detestable terme and style of Tyrants and vnder this accursed pretence or by colour of furthering or aduancing Religion pietie or the publique good doe conspire against the annoynted persons of Kings and Princes imbrewing their murtherous hands with their sacred blood and thereby opening a large window to all infidelitie practises treacheries treasons slaughters of people ruines of Cities Countries and most flourishing kingdomes and a thousand sorts of mischiefes besides the ordinarie attendants of Ciuil and intestine warres and that lastly these pestilent and diabolicall points of doctrine are the cause that such as haue departed from the Catholique Romane Church are obdurate in their errours shunning and detesting although without cause other Religious persons and Catholique Doctours and Prelats as if they were the Authors or patrones of those opinions These and such like reasons the Facultie maturely pondering doeth with great vnanimitie of consent and alacritie accurse and condemne the said strange and seditious opinions as impious haereticall and most repugnant to Ciuill societie to the peace and good of the State and to Catholique religion In confirmation and witnesse whereof they thought it fit to renue the ancient Decree established two hundred yeeres agoe by 141. Diuines in condemnation of this damnable Position That euery Tyrant may and ought lawfully and meritoriously to be murthered by any his vassall or subiect whatsoeuer and by what meane soeuer whether by treachery or subtile insinuation notwithstanding any Oath or promised Allegeance made vnto him nay not so much as expecting the sentence or warrant of any Iudge whatsoeuer This Assertion being thus generally layed and as this word Tyrannus is or may be taken is an errour in faith and in the doctrine of good manners being flatly repugnant to that Commandement of God Thou shalt not kill and to that saying of our Sauiour That whosoeuer shall strike with the sword shall perish with the sword The same also tendeth to the subuersion of the whole Common wealth and of all Kings and Princes giuing way and free libertie to a world of mischiefes fraude breach of faith and oath treason and in a word to all disobedience of the Subiect towards his Lord and to all disloyaltie and distrust of the one to the other and consequently to eternall damnation Whosoeuer therfore shal obstinately maintaine the said error others therout ensuing is an haereticke and to bee punished as an haereticke euen after death Let it bee recorded in the decrees 23.9 V. and dated 1413. on Wednesday the thirteenth of December This Censure of the Facultie of Paris was after ratified in the Councell of Constance sess 15. on the 6. of Iuly 1415 in these words THis sacred Synode hauing an especial care as in truth it ought being to that purpose assembled to prouide for the extirpation of all errours and haeresies which haue set foote into diuers parts of the world hath bene lately aduertised that certaine Assertions haue beene published very scandalous aswell in faith and maners as sundrywise else and tending to the ouerthrow of the whole State and gouernment of the Common wealth amongst which this is deliuered to be one That euery Tyrant may and ought lawfully and meritoriously to be murthered by any his Vassall or Subiect whatsoeuer either by close treacherie or by smooth practises and insinuations notwithstanding any Oath taken or promise of Allegiance made vnto him nay not so much as expecting the sentence or warrant of any Iudge whatsoeuer Against which errour this holy Synode addressing it selfe to make head and vtterly to extinguish the same after mature deliberation doth pronounce decree and define that this doctrine is erroneous in faith and manners and doth reiect and condemne it as haereticall and scandalous opening a gap to fraud deceit dissimulation treason and periurie It doeth moreouer declare decree and define that they who shall obstinately maintaine this pernicious doctrine are haereticks and as such to be punished according to the Canonicall decrees Wherefore the sacred Facultie hauing strictly and carefully demanded the suffrages of all and euery of the Doctours doth determine first that the said most ancient Censure of the Facultie confirmed by the Decree of the Counsell of Constance ought not onely to be renewed but by frequent iteration to bee imprinted in the mindes of all men Secondly that it is traiterous wicked and haereticall that any subiect vassall or stranger should vpon any pretext whatsoeuer offer violence vnto the sacred persons of Kings and Princes Thirdly it decreeth that all Doctors and Bachelours of Diuinitie vpon that day when they are accustomed to sweare vnto the Orders and Articles of the Facultie they doe likewise sweare vnto this decree and by their subscription promise that they will in their Lectures and Sermons diligently set foorth the trueth thereof Fourthly that these Acts be published in Print aswell in Latine as in French By the

direction of the Deane and Sacred Facultie of Diuines at Paris Signed DE LA COVR. Compared with the originall Signed VOISIN THERE being viewed by the Court the great Chamber the Tournell and the Chamber of the Edict assembled the Decree of the Facultie of Diuines meeting together on the 24. of this present moneth of Iune according to an Arrest of the 27. of May last past for the renewing of the censure and doctrinall resolution of the said Facultie deliuered in the yeere 1413. and confirmed by the holy Councell of Constance that it is a very impious haeresie to mainteine it to be lawfull for Subiects or strangers vpon what pretence and occasion soeuer to attempt vpon the sacred persons of Kings and Soueraigne Princes there being also viewed a certaine booke written by IOHN MARIANA intituled De Rege Regis institutione printed aswell at Mayence as elsewhere contayning many detestable blasphemies against the late King of happie memory HENRY the third and a-against the persons and States of Kings and Soueraigne Princes and diuers other Positions contrary to the said Decree the Kings Attourney Generall hauing concluded and the matter put to consultation THE said Court hath ordered and doeth order that the said Decree of the fourth of this present Moneth of Iune shal be registred in the Recordes of the same at the motion and request of the Kings Attourney generall and read yerely on the same day of the 4. of Iune in the assembly of the said Facultie and that it shal be published on the next Sunday in seruice time in the Churches of the Citie and Suburbes of Paris It decreeth moreouer that Marianas said booke shall be burnt by the common Executioner before our Ladies Church in Paris and doeth inhibite and forbid all persons of what estate qualitie or condition soeuer on paine of high Treason to write or cause to bee printed the said bookes or Tractats being repugnant to the Decree aforesaide and to the Sentence of this Court. It decreeth that copies examined by the originals of the said Decree and of this present Arrest shal be sent abroad into the Balliages and Shriualties of this precinct there to be read and published in the forme and maner accustomed and moreouer in time of Seruice in the Churches of all Cities Suburbes and other townes on the first Sunday in Iune It enioyneth the Bailiffes and Shiriffes to proceede to the sayd publication and to the Deputies of the Kings Atturney generall to see to the execution and to certifie the Court of their diligence in this behalfe Giuen in Parliament the 8. of Iune 1610. THat you be not ignorant of one particular occasion of these proceedings against Marianas booke which my friend in his Preface hath not touched concurring with the generall detestation of that impious doctrine of murther the practise whereof wee haue seene vpon the persons of two late Kings of France HENRY the third and fourth you shall vnderstand that Rauillac the villaine who gaue that accursed stroke which hath made all France to bleed being as in his Examinations he deliuered a long time in deliberation ere he could resolue that it was lawfull to kill the King falling vpon that booke of Mariana he found his conscience as he said cleared of all scruple in that point and himselfe fully resolued to vndertake it And certainely the cordiall doctrine which he from thence receiued so setled his resolution before hand so steeled his heart in the execution and after the deed seared and mortified his conscience in such sort as that hee was so farre from any remorse of the fact as the conscience and comfort therof seemed to harden him against all sense of his punishment For being vrged by torture to confesse the trueth by whome he was set on worke I will giue you a taste of one or two of his confessions as I receiued them from thence At one time being examined vpon the racke who were his perswaders to that accursed deed he desired to be loosed and hee would confesse the trueth which being done and he set on his feet he stretching out himselfe tolde them The trueth was that now he found himselfe at much more ease then before when he was on the torture And this was all the trueth he would at that time confesse At another time President Iannin being appointed to examine him and pressing him very straightly to confesse who had incited him to this fact hee bad the Clerke set downe that President Iannin had incited him therunto who detesting the villaines desperate audaciousnesse therein he replied againe Well Sir if I should say so much at my death I beleeue it would trouble you These things being aduertised from thence I thought fit to impart vnto you as arguments of the Caitises impenitency and finall obduration touching that execrable fact grounded vpon the doctrine so condemned the first sparkes whereof being as appeareth kindled in France about two hundred yeeres since were then trode vnder foote by the Sorbone and the Councell of Constance but since haue bene reuiued by the Iesuites the most industrious purueyours for the Popes Court and by their Lectures and bookes nourished and brought to those flames that now wee see as it hath beene not seldome obiected vnto them but neuer yet by them wel denied I am sure the doctrine neuer publikely condemned by any resolution of their schooles as heretofore and of late by the Colledge of Sorbone So as whosoeuer put the knife into the villaines hand it is euident that the mettall wherof it was made I meane the aforesaid doctrine was tempered in their forge and their bookes as it is confessed gaue edge vnto it Neither to say trueth can it euer be imagined that these wretched soules such as this Rauillac and before him Iohn Chastel being perplexed in conscience and almost brought to the pit of despaire with remorse of some sinnes of frailtie durst euer haue aduentured vpon a malicious and deliberate purpose of murther especially of their Soueraigne had they not bene resolued in conscience by their ghostly fathers which office the Iesuits haue almost ingrossed to themselues that howsoeuer it were a very dangerous sinne to murther a priuate person yet was it a merite able to redeeme a world of former sinnes to kill a king such a one as they should point out vnto them But whatsoeuer the ground may be certaine it is there is a very hard opinion conceiued of them in France touching the late murther of the King as may appeare by a briefe Pasquill set vp in Paris to that purpose the occasion whereof was this After the Iesuites had stood a while banished by the Arrest of Parliament it is too well knowen how the late King though against the generall wish of the whole State and the aduise of many his loyall seruants repealed that Arrest defaced the Marble Pillar wherein their banishment and the causes thereof were recorded recalled them home into his Realme all men wondering to what purpose it might be vnlesse it were to that which since hath happened tooke some of them too neere his bosome and that he might assure if it were possible their loyaltie vnto him erected for their societie a stately Colledge in la Flesche the place where he himselfe was borne These religious persons in exchange of such his gracious fauours towards them bare him likewise so zealous an affection as they were neuer satisfied vntill they had gotten his heart into their hands the richest treasure hee could haue endowed them withall to initiate therewith the Chappel of their new erected Colledge Which being obtained and deliuered vnto them in a boxe of Siluer layed on a pillow of red Veluet they receiued with solemne countenance to carry in triumph to their said Colledge At whose departure it is by the way reported that a chiefe President of París let fall a question vnto them comming to take their leaue Whether the Kings tooth which Chastel stroke out were likewise enclosed in the boxe with the heart This fauour of obtaining the Kings heart to burie in their Colledge gaue occasion amongst many other of this Pasquill Ce n'est qu'a vous trouppe sacrée Quo'n doibt bailler le Coeur des Roys Quand les grands Cerfs sont aux abboys On en doibt aux chiens la Cureé T' is you alone you sacred crue To whom the hearts of Kings are due When the great Harts are hunted hard The entrailes are the Hounds reward The riddle may perhaps seeme at the first somewhat obscure but I know you wil reade it without a Light And therefore I spare my paines to expound it hauing already done more then I could well doe to turne it in rime And so hauing acquainted you with those aduertisements which came to my handes touching this businesse being certified hither by a very credible Author which I haue to shew I cease to trouble you J. W.