this progresse by degrees the Iesuits request was presented to the Court of Parliament that had tenne Aduocates as Montaignes and Fon do confesse in their writinges in respect of 13. aduersaries Mont. ca. 22 Fon. ca. 4. which Fon reports were sixe boysterous mightie limmed bodies to wit the Vniuersities the Sorbons the Mendicants the Hospitals and the Parish priests With other foure Lordes of great authoritie namely the Gouernour of Paris the Cardinall Chastilion as protector of the Vniuersitie the Bishop of Paris and the Abbot of S. Geniueue Now can we be so sencelesse as to thinke that so many both of the better and meaner sort banded against them without cause in a matter of so great importance But what were the commons those which of late memorie plagued the Hugonots out of all measure raced the walls of Patriarch and Popincourt where they had theyr exercise of religion who by order of Lawe procurd the death of Gabaston the Captaine of their garde and protector of theyr attempts together with Cagres both the Father and the sonne So many Sages of the common people sworne enemies to heresie did sette thēselues against the Iesuits lying but yet in the suburbs of our ciuill warres against the Iesuits I say who then vaunted themselues to be the scourge of Hereticks Assuredly it cannot be but that all those great personages who then vndertooke the quarrell against them were perswaded that this Sect was extreamely to be feared as well by the libertie of the French Church and generall estate of Fraunce as of all Christendome Besides these two great parties there was yet another more strong mightie then them both namely Mounsieur Mesnil the Kings Aduocate in the Court of parliament directly opposite to them But for all this great multitude of partakers sayth the Iesuite the matter came not to open triall but was put ouer to coūsell as a plaine argument that the goodnesse of our cause did craue very much fauour Poore foole and young Scholler hadst thou been brought vp in the light of the Royall pallace or read the course of iustice of our kings as thou art nuzled in the dust of the Colledges thou shouldst haue knowne that the high Courts admit no open triall of great causes they haue no time nor leysure duly to informe theyr consciences As appeares by a like course helde by the same Court in the month of Iuly 94. And for this cause Mounsieur Marion pleading against the Iesuits of Lyons in the yeere 97. said that a defectiue and imperfect prudence of the yeere 64. was in some sort the occasion that the affaires of Fraunce degenerated with the time waxed worse and worse As for my selfe I will say more boldly with open face that this matter was in the yeere 64. put ouer to counsell by the wisedome of men but thys counsaile was guided by the hand of God who to take vengeance of our sinnes preserued the Iesuits as a deuoted instrument hung aside in the Temple fit for the future miseries of Fraunce To what purpose is all this saue onely this to shewe you that if I detest abhorre the Sect of Iesuits I haue no small shelters for my oppinion first the venerable censure of Paris the yere 1554. wherein were the greatest Diuines that euer were in Fraunce and by name Picard Maillard Demochares Perionius Ory the Inquisiter for matters of faith The first an admirable preacher whose body after his death being layd forth in his house in the Deanry of S. Germins of Lauxerrois the people of Paris for the sanctimony of his life did striue to kisse his feete the foure other his companions were extreame persecutors of the Heretiks I haue the great decree of the French church in the yeere 61. the iudgement that did second it and finally many men of marke and communalty set against them in the yeere 1564. Amongst these I may speake it for a certainty which I ought to beleeue because I saw it There was two honorable resemblances of antiquitie Solicitors in the cause Bennet the Deane and Courselles the Subdeane of the facultie of the Diuinitie Schooles in Paris The one fourscore yeeres of age the other threescore seauenteene both ready to depart from hence to giue vp an account of theyr actions in another world at which time euery man standes stricte vppon his conscience With them was Faber Sindic one of the wisest men that euer was among the Sorbons In the winding vp of all I will set downe Ma. Noell Brullarte Procurator generall the great Aristides and Cato of his time which liuing in the yeere 50. withstood the receiuing of the Iesuites I tell you this expresly to discouer how like the iugling of the Iesuits of our time is to the former For Fon is so impudent as to report that Ramus Mercerus after they became the Kings Professors reuolted from our auncient Religion and were folicitors in this cause and that if they had not encountred them they had won the field but to auoid sedition the Court was forced warilie to strike saile to the tempest by putting the matter off to counsell Well but yet thou lyest most impudently thou Iesuit Pardon me for it is very fit I should be in choller Neither Ramus nor Mercerus for theyr parts euer stirred in this although they tooke part with their brethren the Kings Professors because they would not separate thēselues from the body of the Vniuersitie Moreouer what likelihood is there that the mindes generally of the Parisiens could be so suddenly changed to take part with the Hugonots Mercerus was so farre from faction that hee had no skill in any thing but Hebrue wherein he spent all his time without intermission and became so great a Superlatiue in that tongue that by the iudgement of the best learned he was preferd before all the Iewes In all worldly matters hee stoode but for a bare Cypher But this is a Iesuiticall priuiledge to vnderset theyr slaunders with the time by newe cogges For if this Iesuit Fon durst he would say that the towne the Vniuersitie and the facultie of Diuinitie in Paris all the foure orders of Mendicants the Parish priests were Hugonots because they hindred the matriculation of this holy Order what other consequence can be deduced from his speech Oh singuler and admirable impudencie yet to be excused because it proceedeth from a Iesuit Neuerthelesse to shew with what truth integrity I mean to confound thē in their lying they caused Versoris Plea to be printed in the yere 94. he to bring the Vniuersity into hatred In the 24. 32. leafe of Versoris Plea saith first formost not that Mercerus but Ramus Gallandius were made solicitors in this cause but this was so far frō all likelihood of truth that euery man tooke it for an hyperbole by reason of the open enmity they caried to all times which accompanied them vnto their death This enmity Rablays the Lucian
of our age in the preface of his 3. booke after him Ioachim Bellay a gallant Poet in one of his chiefe Poems scoffed at with expresse inuentions which are the best passages in all theyr bookes As for Gallandius he was neuer of any other religion then the Catholique Apostolique Romane I haue quoated out this in particular as I passe along to giue you to vnderstand that in euery matter be it neuer so small the Iesuite cannot goe by without lying and disguising CHAP. 7. How the Iesuits were refused at Rome and by what cunning they were afterward receiued NEuer thinke that if they were so euill intreated in Fraunce they had any better entertainmēt at Rome At their first comming Ignatius and his new companions arriuing there plotted in the yeere 1539 to establish a new sect that should make the three ordinarie vowes of other religious a fourth beyond them all concerning mission and that they should haue a Generall whom they should be bound absolutely to obey without any reason yeelded them I will report it to you word for word what was the conclusion of their assembly and what Massee the Iesuite saith in the life of Ignatius dedicated by him to Aquauiua their Generall which booke was imprinted by his allowance Ergo without controuersie one must be chosen to whom all in earth must be obedient as if it were to Christ Maffee lib. 2. cap. 9. de vita Ignacij to his word they must sweare and esteeme his becke and his will as an Oracle of God And after they concluded that their Generall should continue in this dignitie while he liued Moreouer that whosoeuer entred this profession should to the three solemne vowes of all other religious houses adde a fourth to go without shrinking to whatsoeuer countrey of beleeuers or iufidels it should please the Pope to send them and that without fee or so much as petition to defray their charges by the way Thus you see in the first planting of them another absolute obedience to their General in all things different from that to the Pope concerning their mission onely I will leaue the rest of their rule presented to Paul the third to the examination it pleased his holinesse to make of it He committed it to three Cardinals to discusse which thought good to refuse it specially the Cardinall Guidicion Ignatius whom I haue allowed for one of the most sharpe and worldly wise men our age afforded knew he had plaid the Clarke and in his new statute couched a greater obedience to the Generall than to the holy Sea For this cause he reformed his rule and made their obedience to the Pope and their Generall in both alike These be the words of Ribadener a Iesuit who hath also written the life of Ignatius Rib. lib. 2. cap. 7. The order of these Clarks must be that by their Institution they be readie to obey the Pope at a becke and liue by such a line as he shall well consider and determine of Which the Pope at Tibur the third of September in the yeere 1539. was glad to heare From this passage you may gather that assoone as they offered him absolute obedience in all things Pope Paulus began to lend a fauourable eare vnto them Neuerthelesse he stood a while in doubt to open any broad way freely for them to enter for in the yeere 1540. he alowed them no number aboue threescore afterwards in the yeere 43. he laid the gate wide open vnto them CHAP. 8. ¶ Of the insolent title of the societie of Iesus vsurped by the Iesuits and how many sundrie fashions they haue vsed to authorize it OVr whole country of Fraunce was very much offended at the proud and partiall name of Iesuites which they tooke vpon them The French Church first next to it the Court of Parliament expresly forbad the vse of it Mesnil the kings great Aduocate pleaded the cause shewing how odious the name ought to be among Christians for ripping vp the reasons that moued the Bishop the facultie of Diuinitie and the Vniuersitie of Paris to reiect them at their first arriuall The maine reasons were quoth he first the insolent name title of Iesuits and verily by how much the more the name may be tollerated among Iewes Turks and Pagans by so much the more it is to be refused among Christians which do all make profession of the law of Iesus It is as worthie to be blamed as if a man should attribute and vsurpe vnto himselfe alone the name of a Christian among Christians the name of a French man among the French or the name of Parisian among the Parisians Moreouer the name of Iesus is of such dignitie and excellencie that his Disciples Followers left it only to their Head and neuer tooke but the adiectiue of Christian wherewith they are contented to this day Vpon the same ground Pasquier said as much in a Plea of his I will begin with their name and after descend to their propositions First of all they call themselues Iesuits in the midst of Christians Blessed God is not this an accusation of the Apostles happie and renowmed were those holy Fathers seeing our Sauiour Iesus Christ face to face to heare his exhortations daly and after his ascension into heauen to receiue the holy Ghost from him Neuerthelesse knowing with what humility they ought to regard and honour that great and holy name of Iesus they neuer durst call themselues Iesuits but Christians onely in the towne of Antioch where that name was taken vp by them and as for matters of religion they were afterwards so handled that as in Rome the Popes neuer took vpon them the name of S. Peter for the honour reuerence they bare to their Captain so in Christendome was there neuer any Christian baptized by the name of Iesus All the old fathers knew it well that it had beene blasphemie to attribute the name due to the onely Creator and Sauiour of mankind vnto a meere creature You must acknowledge then my maisters Ignatiens that you blaspheme against the honour of God when you intitle your selues Iesuits It may be you will say we do not take vpon vs the name of Iesus but of Iesuits to let the people know that we be Iesus followers Why did the Apostles other disciples of our Lord they that immediatly succeeded him briefly all the old fathers of the Primitiue Church trace any lesse after him then you do so as by some speciall priuiledge you must borrow this title and not they Furthermore I would be glad to learne whether we by withdrawing our selues from the vow of your arrogant superstition be shut out from the fellowship of our Lord and Maister Iesus Christ Pasquier said well that it is to call the Apostles in question For Fon the Iesuit defended afterwards that the Christians title was a prouder stile then the Iesuits Ignatius and his companie as they said being desirous to draw our Church backe
chyldren can be excommunicated It fell so out after that time that the same Pope falling at variance with king Phillip the fayre hee needes would excommunicate him but there was neuer excommunication cost Pope so deere as that did him For his Nuncios weare committed prisoners his Buls burnt and Boniface himselfe being taken by Naugeret Chauncelor of Fraunce presently after died for very sorrow despight that he had receiued so foule a disgrace at the hands of his enemie Wherein Phillip did nothing but by the counsell and consent of the whole Cleargie of Fraunce So farre was this excommunication from falling to the preiudice of the King and his Realme that contrariwise it turned to his shame and confusion by whom it was decreed Benet the 13. otherwise called Peter de Luna keeping his sea or residence in Auignon hauing interdited Charles the sixt and his realme the king sitting in the throne of iustice in the Parliament or high Court of Paris the 21. of May 1408. gaue sentence that the Bull should be rent in peeces and that Gonsalue Conseloux the bearers thereof should be set vpon a pillorie and publiquely notified and traduced in the pulpit the meaning whereof was that the people should be taught and informed that the king was not liable to any excōmunication Which decree was accordingly put in execution in the month of August with the greatest scorne that could be deuised the two Nuncios or Legats hauing this inscription vppon their Miters These men are disloyall to the Church and to the King Iulius the second offered the like to king Lewes the twelfth his censures were censured by a Conuocation of the Clergie of Fraunce holden at Tours 1510. Not to goe too farre from our owne times the like censures came from Rome in time of our last troubles in the yeere 1591. by the sentence aswel of the Court of Parliament of Paris then remoued to Tours as of the soueraine or high chamber holden at Chalons in Champagnie it was ordered that the Bulls should be burnt by the publique Executioner as accordingly they were A Maxime so grounded in the realme of France that in the treatie of peace which was made in the towne of Arras in the yeere 1481 between king Lewes the 11 and Maximilian the Arch-duke of Austria and the States of the Low-countries the Deputies for Maximilian and the States treated with ours that the King should promise to keepe obserue this agreement and to that end he and his sonnes should submit themselues to all Ecclesiasticall censures Notwithstanding the priuiledge of the Kings of Fraunce Whereby neither hee nor his Realme might bee compeld by Ecclesiasticall censures Which treatie was afterward confirmed by king Lewes the same yeere at Plessi neere vnto Tours the confirmation carrieth these words Wee haue submitted vs and our said sonne and our Realme to all Ecclesiasticall censures for the keeping and obseruing of the saide treatie notwithstanding the priuiledge which we haue that wee nor our successours nor our Realme ought not to be subiect nor liable to censures VVhich thing hath beene since that time confirmed by a decree made in the yeere 1549. Charles Cardinall of Lorraine Archbishop of Reims to make his memory immortall by a most honourable action founded an Vniuersitie in Reims with manie great priuiledges hauing first obtained leaue and permission of the King Henry the second and next of the Pope Paule the third for so much as concerned the spiritualties who graunted forth his Buls verie large and ample contayning amongst other clauses this one Nos igitur piū laudabile Henrici Regis Caroli Cardinalis desiderium plurimū commendantes praefatum Henricum Regē à quibusuis excommunicationis suspensionis interdicti alijsque Ecclesiasticis sententijs censuris poenis à iure vel ab homine quauis occasione vel causa latis si quibus quomodolibet innodatus existat ad effectum presentium duntaxat consequendum harum serie absoluentes What greater fauour or courtesie could we expect from Rome then that our king without any suit of his should be absolued from all censures which he could incurre de iure or de facto Neuerthelesse this courtesie was by the Court of Parliament at Paris as frankly refused as it was offered Because in the verification aswell of the Buls as of the kings Letters-patents it was enacted by a decree in Court giuē the last saue one of Ianuary 1549 with this prouiso that notwithstanding this pretended absolution it be not inferd that the king hath beene or hereafter may be any way or for any cause whatsoeuer subiect to the excommunications or censures Apostolicall or thereby preiudice the rights priuiledges or preheminences of the king and of his Realme As also the sentence giuen against Iohn Chastell the 29. of December 1594. contained this peculiar clause that amongest other things he was condemned for hauing maintayned that our king Henry the fourth raigning at this present was not in the Church vntill he had the approbation of the Pope whereof he did repent and aske forgiuenes of God the king and the Court. This that I haue deliuered in this present discourse doth not proceed of any sinister affection which I beare to the holy Sea sooner let GOD bereaue me of my life but onely to make it appeare that our kings carrie together with their Crowne their safe conduct in all places and are not subiect to the trecherous practises of their enemies neere the Pope Notwithstanding you see how these accursed Iesuits enemies of our peace instruct vs in the contrarie that is kindle and prepare vs to reuolt in case our kings should stand in ill termes with the Pope which prooues that it is not without iust cause that by a Decree of the Parliament of Paris they haue beene banisht out of Fraunce CHAP. 18. ¶ The Decree of the Parliament of Paris against the Iesuits in the yeere 1594. and a Chapter taken out of the third booke des Recerches de la Farunce by Stephen Pasquier HAuing dedicated this booke saith Pasquier to the liberties of our Church of Fraunce Lib. 3. de◠Recer ca. 32 I hope I shall not digresse from my purpose if I entreat somewhat of the Sect of the Iesuits which to the subuersion of our State maintayneth principles quite contrarie to ours The Iesuits hauing got into their hands the great legacies giuen and bequeathed them by Maister William du Part Bishop of Clairmont they bought Langres place lying in Saint Iaques street in the Citie of Paris where they after their manner established the forme of a Colledge and of a Monasterie in diuers tenements and taking vpon them to instruct youth without the authoritie of the Rector they made sute sundrie times to be incorporated into the Vniuersitie Which when they could not obtayne they exhibited a petition to the same effect to the Court of Parliament in the yeere 1564. The Vniuersitie did me the honour to choose me in
openly in Fraunce The one sounded nothing but the word of GOD in their preachings The next tooke vp the Name of Iesus in their Sinagogues The third was our auncient Catholiques to whom we attribute in our Churches the honour of our fayth by the onely Gospell of Iesus Christ CHAP. 5. ¶ The decree of the French-Church against the Iesuits in the assembly had at Poissy 1561. FOr all this I would not haue you thinke my Maisters but that our French church did put many notable ingredients into this Iesuiticall poyson to qualifie it For after the recitall all along the Decree of all the priuiledges and fauours diuersly giuen them by Paule and Iulius the third and some Letters-Patents obtayned by them and reckoning made of theyr request presented to the Court and put ouer to these Prelates in the end behold what order they set downe The Assembly according to the matters put to them by the Court of Parliament of Paris hath receiued and doth receiue hath approued and doth approue the said Societie and Companie in forme of a Colledge not of theyr new institution of Religion with expresse charge that they take another title then the Name of IESVS or of Iesuits that the Bishops of the Dioces shal haue all superioritie iurisdiction and correction ouer this societie and Colledge to thrust out and expell from the saide Company all men of euill life and misbehauiour Neyther shall the Brothers of this Company enterprise or performe any action temporall or spirituall to the preiudice of the Bishops Chapters Curats Parrishes Vniuersities or other religious but they shal be bound to conforme themselues wholly to the disposition of the Common-lawe without hauing any right or iurisdiction and renouncing all their former priuiledges expresly theyr Bulls contrary to the things afore-said prouided that if they fayle heerein or shall heereafter procure any other that then this present Decree shall be voyde of none effect or exceptions to be taken to the right of the sayd Assembly of others in all cases Giuen in the Assembly of the French Church held by the kings commaundement at Poissy in the great hall of the venerable religious men of Poissy vnder the signe and seale of the most reuerend Cardinall of Tournon Archbishop of Lyons Metropolitane and Primate of Fraunce President of the said Assembly and of the reuerend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Paris the messenger of this request Giuen vnder the signes of Maister Nicholas Breton and William Blanchy actuaries and Secretaries of the said Assembly vpon Monday the 15. of December 1561. Pontius Congordan theyr Agent now furnisht with this holy Decree presented it to the Court of Parliament of Paris where it was soone ratified Heere I will make a pause and tell you that if euer though not all yet the least part of this decree had beene obeyed I would here aske them forgiuenes assure my selfe that these Gentlemen Marion Pasquier Arnault Dole which haue all vowed to make warre vppon them would doe the like But if the request they put vp was but a meere mummery not onely to mocke the French Church heereafter but the Court of Parliament and that they haue made no account of that which was commaunded them they must with one consent confesse that neither the particular aunswere made by Fraunces de Montaignes against Arnalts impleadment nor the venomous tooth of one Fon I wot not whō striken into Marion and Pasquier the one the Kinges Aduocate in Parliament the other of the Chamber of accounts in Paris nor the hipocriticall request made to the King without the Authors Name shall euer be sufficient to proue thē any naturall or French brood The Facultie of the Vniuersitie of Paris denounced them at theyr first arriuall to be Schismatiques disturbers of the peace of the Church and monasticall discipline Afterwards the Church of Fraunce to prouide for their great disorder allowed them by way of limitation before rehearsed notwithstanding all the ingredients coolers put in to temper this poyson the venim ouer-came their vertue For as soone as they had seazed vppon this sentence they wrote vppon theyr Colledge gate The Colledge of the societie of IESVS They followed theyr first course which they haue continued will continue so long as they remaine in Fraunce As it is the nature of the French to be more hardie then men at the beginning and more cold and feeble then women in continuaunce So suffred wee our selues to be led away at last by these wit-foundred newe Friers Euerie man if hee be not hunted hote abandons the publique affaires to be wedded to his owne in particular CHAP. 6. ¶ Of the request preferd by the Iesuits to the Parliament the yeere 1564. to bee incorporated into the Vniuersitie of Paris and howe many sides made head against them POntius Cōgordan for his part did not lay him down to sleep when he saw vs wearie but thinking hee had got the day preferd a petition to the Vniuersitie in the yeere 1564. the tenour whereof was this The Principall of the Colledge and company of Iesus called the Colledge of Clairmont beseecheth you to incorporate thē into the Vniuersitie that they may enioy the priuiledges of it The Vniuersitie hauing giuen them the repulse they fledde to the Court of Parliament where Congordan Chos Versoris for theyr Aduocate the Vniuersitie entertaind Pasquier The cause pleaded by these two here was the sport Pasquier at the first push shewed them that to read theyr request onely was enough to ouerthrow them For the foundation of theyr cause depended vppon the French Churches decree which forbad them expresly to take vppon them the name of the societie of Iesus which title notwithstanding they had inserted into theyr request This was to strike thē right vpon the visor by meanes whereof they were compeld to flie to a deniall where they tooke sanctuary for the liberty of their actions as often as they found themselues driuen into any narrowe streight that might preiudice them Versoris denied him that framed the request that was in plaine termes Congordan who denied himselfe by the mouth of his owne Aduocate whom hee chose By the negotiations which haue on their part passed between them and vs to set vp their sect An Asse and a Foxe haue beene tyed together A meruallous matter and worthy to be rung into the eares of all succeeding ages First they of the newe Religion troubled vs about the towne of Amboise against the Lords protectors of the young King Fraunces the second partly by the conference had at Poissy and Geneuian preaching insinuated into Fraunce Lastly by the surprize of townes and a bloody battaile fought before Dreux In briefe by a ciuill warre of 18. monethes continuaunce vpon the parcialities of Papists and Protestants which was afterward luld a sleepe with an Edict of conniuence our hands beeing yet embrued with the blood of those troubles and hauing scarce any leysure to take our breath In
name which they had once giuen as they thought vnto the truth Nay the matter proceeded so farre that this name grew to be imposd vppon the rest of that societie almost throughout all Portugall Trust me this passage is of such desert that I should deceiue these good men if I should not translate it into French to discouer with howe great pietie they haue purchast this title For Fraunces Xauier is honoured for a great Saint among all the Iesuits Was there euer any impietie or imposture greater then this that these two hypocrits to be counted Apostles bruted it abroad that two new supplies were added to their Sect to make vp the number of twelue Apostles and that vpon this false alarum they were called Apostles This was against theyr will saith Turcelline belieue the reporter For Xauier tooke speciall care not to loose his tytle when hee came into the Indies Tincel 2. booke of Xauiers life cap. 3. Therefore as before in Portugall so in India he began to be commonly calld an Apostle and the same title afterwards flowed from Francis as from the Head to the rest of his fellowes Tell me I beseech you whether this be not to renue the heresie of Manes whose followers were cald Manichees he naming himselfe the Paraclet had twelue Disciples whom he cald Apostles and for such he sent them abroad one by one to other prouinces to spread abroad the poyson of his heresie through their preaching To say the truth Ignace neuer tooke on him the name of Paraclet yet was he willing inough to be accounted for another Iesus by his company As I wil discourse to you in his proper place when I come to speak of their blind obedience He did not only take this authority power vpon himselfe But resigned it ouer also to all the Generals of his order that succeeded him who in like manner haue embraced the title of Apostles wherewith their inferiours were endowed in Portugall This is apparant in Rome and yet no man sees it but quite contrarie this Family is there had in honourrable regard vpon a wrong conceit men haue entertained touching their absolute obedience whereof these my Maisters make semblance vnto the Pope And shall we hereafter haue any maruaile to heare a barking at the holy Sea by diuersities of new opinions that fight against it Pardon me I beseech thee O holy Sea for it is the heat of my zeale deuoted to thee that inforceth me to vtter this speech Great and vnspeakable are Gods iudgements to suffer that in the Citie of Rome in your sight and knowledge there should bee a Manes continued by successions from one to another which hath not twelue onely but infinite Apostles dispersed here and there God will reuenge it early or late though it be by his enemies The Aduocate as a man much wounded in heart was desirous to prosecute this in a chafe when the Iesuit interrupting him said Verie well sir you are in daunger to be drawen drie Marking your discourse you put me in mind of those young Historiographers which imputed it for folly to Alexander the great that he would haue all men thinke him to be Iupiters sonne they attributed this to his immoderate ouer-weening neuerthelesse it was an excellent wise drift of his Can you imagine why so long as the country of king Darius was the marke he shot at he was too wise to take that title vpon him and chose rather to thrust forward his fortune by ordinarie meanes of armes But as soone as he plotted to passe into India a kind of new world deuided from ours he would haue the people perswaded by the great Priest of Aegypt that he was Iupiters sonne and from that time he would be adored as such a one not by the Macedonians his natural subiects bred in the liberty of a Greeke spirit But by the barbarous people with such respect and beliefe that from that time forward they should take him not to be a meere Prince but a great God that came to the conquest of the Indies this deuice tooke so good effect that he made himselfe Lord of the country without striking stroke The Kings Potentates and common people saying that their countrey was first vanquished by Bacchus then by Hercules both sonnes of Iupiter and that the whole rule and Dominion was reserued for the comming of Alexander a third sonne of his Thinke you our Societie followes not this plot you see we neuer tooke the name of Apostles any where but in Portugall but when we were to go to the same Indies where Alexander had beene we thought as he did that it was fit we should be authorized beyond others by a more ample sacred and maiesticall title which was to be called Apostles It had beene ill for vs to challenge it in Portugall if Xauier had not continued it by an entercourse of his companie after his arriuall in the Indies to the end he might be reputed another Saint Thomas sent thither after the passion of our Sauiour Iesus Christ And it were impossible to recount what conquests of soules we made there vnder this holy perswasion Ha quoth the Aduocate verily if this be your fashion I haue nothing to do with you for as when you entred Italy you borrowed I know not what of their Mountebanks so would you do the like of Machiauell in Portugall and the Indies Meane while you my maisters that haue bragged much of your knowledge in Diuinitie haue verie ill turnd ouer the history of the kings in the the Bible from whence you gather by a continued ranke that God tooke away the crownes of all the Kings of Israel as oft as they became Idolaters eyther while they liued or in all time to come neuer suffered them to descend vnto their children How thinke you I pray ye that God hath left the true Kings of Portugall without heires and that their Realme came into the hands of the first Prince that caught it That one Don Anthonio a bastard one Katherine de Medices Queene-mother of our King pretended title to it and last of all that one Philip King of Spaine became maister of it without any great resistance I will not discourse in partriculer of the goodnes of his title for mine one part I thinke that the best title he had was the iustice of God whō it pleased in reuenge of the giddie Idolatrie and blasphemie of the kings and people to make this realme without triall of the cause passe from one family to another by this holy title of Apostles attributed to these hypocrites And I perswade my selfe that the King of Spayne now raigning will one day fall into the like mischiefe if he suffer this impietie CHAP. 10. ¶ The impieties of William Postell a Iesuits BVt why should we thinke this blaphemie strange in them if within few yeeres after they tooke the title of Apostles on them some one of them was found so abhominable in the sight of God and man
Mass lib. 2. capit 2. as to the ring-leader of them all didst wisely take thy iourney into Spayne to take order for your affaires and fellowes And after that with great zeale you tooke shippe at Valentia to goe for Venice without any feare of Barberosse the Turks scouring of the Seas all of you met at Venice you came after that to me to receiue my blessing and passe for your trauell and inhabiting Palestine You obtained at my hands all that you craued you receiued much gold and siluer giuen you by diuers men for your first earnest of the voyage vpon this blessing you returned back to Venice with a purpose to performe your promise I would saine know who diuerted you You say the warre suddenly made betweene the Venetians and the Turke What Gallies mand what ships rigged what preparation sawe you for this exployt The Turke and wee are continuall enemies yet doth hee not refuse to giue pasport and safe conduct to poore Pilgrims paying him his auncient trybute did this warre driue away the religious persons that dwell neere the holy Sepulcher Furthermore who compeld you to alter your vow for that which is prolonged from one yeere to another Paul Ioui lib. 32. hist is not quite broken off Likewise the Venetian and the Turk are now vpon entreatie of peace the matter either already concluded or at a point so to be Besides if the passages be stopt that way they lie open for you to the Indies there is no feare in that passage the King him selfe leades you by the hand why doe you draw back You that so late made shewe to goe to Palestine a voyage subiect to a thousand dangers of your liues go now in Gods name to this new world and come not heere to plant a new world in our old Church It is not the warre betweene the Venetian and the Turke that driues you froÌ„ your first vow it is your selues that vow what you lust This sauors of man more then I would it did At your first comming froÌ„ Venice to my Court you little knowe what cheere was made you by me and mine and whether good or bad which of the two I haue no leasure to tell you you founde more fauour then you looked for good countenaunce kinde entertainement gold siluer to spend by the way For this cause you returned to Venice you tooke your shortest cut to recoyle back againe to Rome with more promises of submission to the holy Sea forgetting your originall vowe But let vs yeelde a little to you as you are men let vs take your new excuse for payment How can I winke at the lies you flap me in the mouth withall to circumuent mee and betray mee You say you are all Maisters of Arts of the great famous Vniuersitie of Paris I find three of you neuer tooke degree You say you haue studied diuinitie many yeeres where shall I finde these manie in two of the companie that vvere but Maisters in the yeere 1534. two others in the yere 1535. and these came to Venice in the yeere 1536. Where shal I find then I say these many in Ignace that forsooke Paris three yeeres before he was Maister or in that other that neuer tooke degree To be short I see but two of your companie Faure and Xauier that euer could haue any leysure to follow this studie I knowe it well that if you make any lie on your part you will say it is to be borne withall because it is done to a good end A ghostly deceit and I tell you at a word that Chistianiâ—e brookes no fraudulent pietie Set these two particulers apart let vs come to the naked truth Howe can I dissemble the breach of your vow wherein it cannot be but the deuill had a finger You promised and swore to God that you woulde goe no further with your enterprizes before you had ended your Diuinitie course where is the end nay where is the beginning of it Prick mee out the time when euery one of you seuerally began it If you began it who hindered your finishing of it for there was nothing in Paris to feare you The vvarre betweene the Emperour and the French King God be thanked is ceased Nothing constrained you to make such a hote vow at Montmatter it proceeded from your zeale which tied you to nothing at the first but now the vow is made you are bound to keepe it Before it was made was not this worke necessarie for the winning of soules which you promise to performe You like auriculer confession in our Ministerie a most holie thing the transsubstantiation of the bodie of our Sauiour Christ in the Sacrament a most holy thing If the word most import no more These be meanes to keepe the Catholiques to theyr old religion yet are they not sufficient to conuert men of a long time nousled vp in Idolatry and Mahometisme Euery one of them hath in his impious superstition certaine Maximes contrarie to the Christian fayth Besides this doe not you know that the deuill Martine Luther so I meane to call him as an impe of the deuil of S. Martins is in complet Armour against the two Sacraments by an infinite sort of Sophistications ill deduced from the holie Scripture if you learne of him to dosse out your hornes as you haue promised this is no young Schollers worke nor for a simple Maister of Arte but for one of the wisest and best learned Diuines to take in hand For otherwise while you thinke to defend our cause you will betray it What weapons must you haue to foyle these miscreants The foure Euangelists with the Commentaries of the good Doctors of the Church S. Hierom S. Ambrose S. Augustine S. Gregory Nazianzen Gregory the great the first Pope of that name S. Iohn Chrisostome S. Bernard and many others whom the Church hath enroled in the Kalender of Saints All these hold a course of morrall Theologie a verie trenchant sworde to destroy the euill life of Christians but that blade which I meane to speake of now is fittest to bring you to close fight with poynt to poynt One Peter Lombard maister of the Sentences and S. Thomas of Aquine men worthy to be followed in Schoole learning These be two Champions by whose help we may be sufficiently armed to buckle with our enemies this is no studie of two or three yeeres ancient discipline requires at the least sixe yeres trauell in them for publique exercise besides all the rest of our life in particular Sith you haue vowed to GOD to distill your wits through this Limbec why would you haue me dispence with you You that haue dedicated your selues as wel to conuert Infidels as Hereticks why haue you not doone it It became you to doe it except you meant to present vs with Phaetons fable of newe Coach men who vndertaking to driue the horses of the Sunne cast the whole earth into a combustion Had you any sparke of
A Cleargie mans goods may be confiscated by an ecclesiasticall Iudge in such cases as a Lay-man may be so punisht by the law 38 A Cleargie man may not be punisht by a Secular Iudge for a false testimonie giuen before him 39 A Clergie man being smitten by on of the Laitie may sue him before an ecclesiasticall Iudge 40 A Cleargie man may vse the custome and statute of Lay-men for his owne profit His meaning is that the custome binds him not vnlesse it please himselfe 41 A Bishop may constraine men vpon paine of excommunication to bring in the Testaments of the dead and see they be executed 42 A Bishop may charge a benefice which hee bestowes with a yeerely pension for the maintaining of a poore scholler or Clarke 43. A woman is not vsually to haue succession in Fee 44. A Cleargie man dying intestate and hauing no kinred the Church which he serued must be his heire but now perhaps the chamber of the Apostolique Sea inherits 45. A prisoner going to execution is not bound to confesse that which before he vntruly denied vnlesse otherwise some great harme may ensue 46. A prisoner is not to be compelled by his confessor to confesse his fault All which Propositions directly derogate from those which we obserue by the common law of Fraunce And yet that which is more mischieuous intolerable is that which he hath in two other Articles written in this sort 47 The rebellion of a Cleargy man against his Prince is not high treason because he is not subiect to the Prince 48 If a Priest in confession haue intelligence of some great daunger intended to the state it is sufficient to giue a generall warning to take heed He also against whom euill is intended may be warned to take heed to himselfe at such a place and time so that the penitent be not in daunger to be discouered thereby Good God Can we abide this order in our countrey of Fraunce I know that although God be thanked our kings were neuer tyrants yet the Iesuits propound two Maximes which if they should take place euerie soueraigne Prince must stand to the mercie of his people 49 A King may be deposed by the State for tyranny and if he do not his dutie when there is iust cause an other may be chosen by the greater part of he people Yet some thinke that tyrannie onely is the cause for which he may be deposed 50 He that gouerns tyranously may be deposd by the peoples sentence yea though they haue sworne perpetuall obedience to him if being warned he will not amend If these two Articles take place there is no Prince be he what he will that can be assured in his estate And I pray you suppose that this confessionary was printed in the yeere 1589. that is to say to confirme authorize that which was purposed against the King deceased in the beginning of the yeere when certaine ill disposed persons would haue declared him to be a tyrant 51. We haue in this countrey of Fraunce an appeale as it were a writ of Errour of the thundring of the Apostolike Buls when they are found to enterprize anie thing eyther against the maiestie of our Kings or against the auncient Councels receiued and approued in our Church of Fraunce or against the liberties thereof or against the authoritie Royall or Acts of the high Courts This appeale as from the abuse I tell you is one of the principall sinewes of the maintenance of our estate The Iesuit will not acknowledge it for many causes which touch him neere which I will not here discouer 52 The Iesuits acknowledge none for their Iudge but the Pope or their General desiring by this means to fend vs backe againe to that old labyrinth of Rome wherof our good Saint Bernard complaind to Pope Eugenius in his bookes of consolation And thereof we saw a notable example in Burdeaux when Lager Rector of the Colledge of the Iesuits declared that he would not obey the Maire and Iurats who had sent for him for the preuenting of a certaine sedition saying that he acknowledged them for ciuil Magistrates ouer the Burgesses of the Citie but that neither they nor any other Iudges of what nation qualitie dignitie and authority soeuer had any power ouer their societie but onely our holy Father the Pope or the Generall of their order And shall we then suffer this family to liue in the midst of vs That were indeed to receiue in a vermine which at length will gnaw out the heart of our estate both spirituall and temporall Then said the Iesuit to the Aduocate I will not be long in aunswering your curious collections Sess 25. ca. 16. de regular For against all that you haue said I oppose in one word the generall counsell of Trent by which we are approued and authorized 53 Whereto the Aduocate aunswered I grant that you haue thirtie on your part but we haue 45. aboue you This Councell concerning the doctrine is an abridgement of all the other auncient Councels therfore it is in that regard to be embrast by all deuout soules but wholy to be reiected concerning discipline as well Secular as Ecclesiasticall as that Councell by which our whole Realme of Fraunce would be set on fire if it should be receiued And they that can sent well smell that all which was then decreed came from the Iesuitish soules I meane as concerning matter of gouernment If there were no other respect but this ye were to be banisht out of Fraunce because we cannot allow of you without allowing of this Councell and the approuing of it were to make a great breach both into the Maiestie of our Kings and into the liberties of our Church of Fraunce CHAP. 2. ¶ That the Popes authorizing the Iesuit at his first comming neuer had any perswasion that eyther he could or ought to inhabit in Frannce WHen the Aduocate had made an end of this discourse the Iesuit thinking he had some great aduantage against him began to speak thús to him Let vs lay aside the counsell of Trent though it be a strong fort for the confirming of our order At the least you cannot deny that we are assisted with an infinite number of the Buls of diuers Popes Paulus and Iulius the third Pius the fourth and fifth and Gregorie the thriteenth by all which they do not onely approue vs but gratifie vs with many great priuiledges such as neuer were granted to any other order of religion as you might vnderstand by me yesterday Whereupon it followes that you and all other that set themselues to fight against vs ought to be held for heretiques Aduoc. A great obiection forsooth for you could not possibly fight against me with any better weapons I am right glad that my whole discourse begins continues ends according to the authority of the holy sea Abs Ioue principium Iouis omnia plena The holy Sea hath approued of you say you I
red haire Regent in the Colledge of Trers who also assured him that hee had conferd touching that enterprise with three of his companions who tooke it wholy to be from God assuring him that if he died in that quarrell he should be enroled and registred in the Kalender of the Martirs And the second confessed that the Iesuits of Doway hauing promised him to procure a Prebend for one of his chyldren the Prouinciall gaue him his blessing before he went about it said vnto him Friend goe thy wayes in peace for thou goest as an Angell vnder Gods safegard and protection And vpon this confession he was put to death in the Towne of Leyden by solemne sentence giuen the twentie-two of Iune in the yeere 1598. Neither am I ignorant of this that the Iesuits will say that they gaue that councell to kill two Princes who had armed theÌ„selues against their King But I tell them that then the King himselfe must put them to death be they neuer so many because they were the first enterprisers and attempters of our last troubles in Fraunce as well against the King that dead is as against the King that presently raigneth But their murthers haue a further reach then that For minding to stirre vp Robert Bruse a Scottish Gentleman eâ—â—her himselfe to kill or to cause to bee killed by some other my Lord Iohn Metellinus Chauncellour to the King of Scots euen of hatred towards him because hee was the Kings very faithfull subiect they caused the said Bruse because hee would not condiscend yeelde vnto them to be summoned and sore troubled at Bruxelles And were they not pertakers with the Iacobin in the assault and murther that was committed against the last French King And haue they not at sundry times and by sundry meanes attempted to take away the 〈◊〉 of the Lady Elizabeth Queene of England And to be short haue they not doone the like against ouâ— King both by the meanes of Peter Barrier and Iohn Caâ—â—ill froÌ„ which God hath miraculously preserued him To euerie of which particularities I will allow his proper discourse and begin the storie of their assaults and murthers that should haue been committed by the Scottish Gentleman CHAP. 2. ¶ Touching an extraordinarie processe and course that was held in the Low-countries against Robert Bruse Gentleman of Scotland vpon the accusation and information of Father William Chrichton Iesuit because he would me cause the Chauncellour of Scotland to be murthered MEn ordinarily giue out and grant extraordinarie processe against such as murther or consent to murther but to procure it or make it against one that would not consent thereto this is the first of that qualitie that euer was heard of And this is the very argument of this present chapter A little after the death of Mary Queene of Scots the late King of Spaine coÌ„maunded the Duke of Parma who was then Gouernour for him in the Low-countries to send Robert Bruse a Gentleman of Scotland to the Scottish King with Letters in the which he promised him men money enough to reuenge him selfe for the death of the Queene his Mother vnto who he protested that hee bare alwaies a singuler affection because she had vowed and so declared herselfe to the last gaspe of her life to be of our Catholique Religion which affection hee would continue to the King her sinne by successiue right but yet so as hee should promise to become the inheritour of the vertues and religion of that good and worthy Princesse My purpose is not largely and by peece-meale as me say to meat and declare howe this matter proceeded though I haue good and faithfull Intelligences of it This onely I will tell you that the said Gentleman had at the same time charge of certaine great sums of money for the fraight of threescore shipps to the end that they might first serue for transporting of victualls and munitions into the Low-countries and afterwards for men of war which the Spanyard resolued to send into England hoping that the Queene of England should be assaulted on both sides A short time after Bruses arriuall in Scotland he hauing beene all his young dayes brought vp and nourished with the Iesuits there came thether Father William Crichton a Scottish man who some-time had berne Rector of the Colledge of the Iesuits at Lyons And he was in the company of the Bishop of Dumblaine who was sent by Pope Sixtus the 5. to the King of Scotland to make him offer of a marriage with the Infant of Spaine so that hee would become a Catholique and ioyne with them against the English My Lord Iohn Metellenus set himselfe against thys negotiation and for sundry good and weighty reasons councelled his Maister not to regard it Insomuch that the Bishop returned thence without effecting any thing leauing Crichton in Scotland who ioyned himselfe with Bruse and was his companion And because hee conceiued that Metellenus alone had turned the King from accepting the offers made him he purposed to shew him a Iesuits â—â—ick indeed And that was this A catholick Lord had inuited the King his Chauncellour to a banquet Crichton solicited Bruse if it would please him to lende him soâ—â— mony to compasse thys Lord that should giue order for procuring the slaughter of the Chauncellor assuring himselfe that by 〈◊〉 of the mony he should make him doe whatsoeuer hee would Bruse flatly refused and that not onely because hee was sent to another end as hee made it appeare to him by the iustructions and memorials which hee had from he Duke of Parma but also and that much the rather by reason of the shame that would fall out vpon the execution of that enterprise especially he hauing before made shew of friendship familiarity with the Chauncellor Yea that that murther would neuer be thought good and lawfull beeing committed in the midst of a banquet and in the Kings presence against whom the iniutie should specially be performed as well by reason of the small account they made of his Maiestie as for the slaughter they should commit vpon a person whoÌ„ he entirely affected for his fidelitie and wisedome And that if he did this deede they should minister matter to the King to exasperate him against the Catholicks as murtherous infamous and trayterous persons to God and the world who to that present houre had receiued all bountifull kindnesses curtesies from their King Crichton seeing he had missed of this his match weâ—â— to moue him to another and to perswade Bruse to giue fifteene hundred crownes to three Gentlemen that did offer to kill the Chauncellor after some other lesse flauÌ„derous and offensiue manner But Bruse answered him that as in respect of the fault or sin it was all one to kill a man with his owne handes and to giue money to procure such a purpose and act to be doone And that for his part hee was a priuate person that had not anie authoritie ouer the
perticular as our aduersaries haue sought often times to prooue against vs and yet could neuer doe it And that amongst all things whatsoeuer which the Clergie the Preachers and others haue done or said wee haue said or done farre lesse then they reported of vs vnto you and that they alwaies carried a tange rather of a bad glosse then of a true text in whatsoeuer they did or said For if they now dare at high noone and in the bright Sun-shine of our peace charge truth with a thousand inuentions contrarie to truth indeed what might they haue done then when as amidst all the rumours and foggie clouds of warre lying had his full course without encounter and where truth durst not shew it selfe For the time of warre is the time of lying saith the old prouerbe If happily wee may obtaine that of your Maiestie we doe thereby obtaine the vpper hand and the second accusation will be without force for it hath nothing to vphold it from falling to the ground with the least touch For by what argument can they prooue that we in particular are enemies against your Maiestie From what spring doe they meane this hatred must proceede And from what premises doe they inferre this conclusion Is it by reason that you are a King Why our Societie honoureth Kings and this is approued by witnesses by experience and by reason Is it because that you are the eldest sonne of the Church We respect this qualitie as much yea and rather more then the first Is it by reason that you are King of Fraunce Fraunce is our natiue countrey and you as King are our Father Whom shall wee loue if we loue not our Father and mother Is it by reason that you are a worthie warrier and Captayne of Kniges and King of Captaynes This vertue maketh it selfe at all times to be beloued both of frends and foes Is it by reason that you are milde in your conuersation wise in your sentences free in your manners stedfast in your promises prompt in your actions ready to labour bold in daunger forward in combat moderate in victorie and in euery thing royall These qualities cannot ingender or bring forth hatred but on the contrary they are amiable in all but admirable in the person of a King This speech was appropriated in particular to the Kings owne royall person and a little before neere the same place is another sentence by which this honest man the Iesuit vpheld that men had wronged them in imputing vnto them to haue as it were wrastled against the state To these witnesses dread Soueraigne we adde a second argument taken from the cause Whereupon we building doe demaund what true likelihoode there is in our profession that we should bee enemies of Kings and of their States Are wee so ignorant of the law of God that we know not that it is God that giueth them that by him kings doe gouerne and by him Legifers make and giue good lawes That both the name action of a king is a right of patronage proper to the Diuine and Supreme Maiestie and that kings beare in their royaltie the image of God and in this calling God willeth vs to obey them to honour and serue them for the safetie of their persons and the State And if wee know these things hauing both preached and written them and againe doe preach and write them how may it be that we haue so little conscience as to hate that which we beleeue that God loueth to dispise that which he alloweth to destroy that which he maintaineth to haue so little iudgement as to publish one thing and doe another Are we to be reputed religious Nay rather more heathenish then the heathens themselues then Canibals and Mainelnes who though they can do nothing but shew hatred and reuenge yet doe they notwithstanding loue their Princes I praise those two sentences Iesuit be thou whatsoeuer thou art and would to God that thy soule were as cleane as thy wit is fine and as I perceiue thy words to be smoothly couched together I cannot but loue thee inseeing thee draw to the life the counterfait of those singular and admirable vertues of soule bodie which shine in our King and with all I must honour thee in seeing thee set out the picture of Obedience which the subiect oweth vnto King And sure if thy heart and my penne agree I know thou wilt condemne them all that would haue attēpted any thing against the person of this great Prince who hath not yet met with his paragon as one who in martial prowesse hath far surpassed all others Thou carriest too noble a mind were it not that thou art a Iesuit to Iudge of it any otherwise Go to now I will shew thee that all that which thy fellow hath said in his Truth defended is but a starke lie for that which toucheth the deed of Barrier when he came to murther this king whom thou so much exaltest was contriued by the expresse counsel of thy fellowes copartners Not only then when he was but simply king of Nauarre but since he was called to the Crowne of Fraunce reduced into the bosome of our Catholique Apostolique and Romane Church If againe I shew vnto thee the generall rebellion of Fraunce enterprized vnder the title of the holy League which was first begun after conducted by your holy religious persons against one Henrie the third King of Fraunce one of the most Catholique kings that euer France enioyed what iudgement wilt thou passe against thy owne party I remit it euen to thy owne conscience yea to the conscience of any good Catholique that is not a cloaked Iesuit Nay further I say that these two parties are the onely vpholders of your condemnation and vpon them grounding my opiniō I take vpon me directly to shew that to establish you again in France were great lack of iudgement experience I wil therfore lay down these two points in order and first I will begin with Barriere afterwards with Chastell then with the Vniuersall reuolt of the which you Iesuits take it amongst you were the first authors within this Realme CHAP. 6. ¶ A prodigious historie of the detestable paricide attempted against King Henry the fourth of that name the most Christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre by Peter Barriere for the raysing vp of Iesuits I Will recite vnto you faithfully this historie of Barriere and that you may beleeue mee I will speake it vpon perill of my goods of my bodie and of mine honour for I haue learned it of a friend of mine whom I esteem of as my selfe which was then present at Melun when this deed was done and who spake twice vnto Barriere in the presence of Lugoly his Iudge who saw him executed to death heard all that he maintained during the time of his tortures vntill the last breathing of his life who handled the knife of the which I will hereafter speake who since drew out the
moribus ipsamque tanquam scandalosam ad fraudes deceptiones mendacia proditiones periuria vias dantem reprobat condemnat Which is to say This holy Councell chiefly desiring as it is bound therfore assembled to prouide for the rooting out of errors heresies which now begin to spread abroad in diuers parts of the world hath lately beene enformed that some divulge opinions erronious in faith against good manners and verie scandalous tending to the subuersion of the whole State and order in States among which this assertion passeth for currant Euery Tyrant may and ought lawfully and meritoriously to be killed by any his Vassal subiect euen by ambushments or flatteries or faire allurements notwithstanding any oath passed vnto him or League made with him and without attending the sentence or commaund of any Iudge whatsoeuer Which this holy Counsel endeauouring to resist and wholly to root out decrees ordaines and iudgeth to be erronious both in matters of faith and manners and reprooues and condemnes it as a point most scandalous opening the way vnto all manner of guiles deceits lies treasons and periuries An ordinance which I respect and reuerence not only because it was enacted in that great counsel of Constance wherby the abuses of the Church and heresie were rooted vp but in that it was deriued from our Fraunce Gerson being the first and principall Solicitor against the new Diuines who then had intertained this opinion which since that time our Iesuits haue reuiued in the death of good king Heny whom they called a Tyrant had done the like to our great King now liuing if God by his holy grace had not preserued him But because the Iesuits would seem to deny their Peter Mathew as not being of their Sect what say they to father Emanuel Sa terming himselfe a Doctor of Diuinitie and of their Societie who by two artcles in his Aphorismes of confession hath maintained that it is lawfull for subiects to kill the Tyrant and to expell a misbeleeuing Prince out of his Realme as if the people could or should giue lawes vnto their King whom God hath giuen them to be their soueraigne Magistrate I am ashamed that I must prooue no subiect ought to attatch his Prince what part soeuer he doth play but hauing vndertaken to combate an heresy which Iesuits haue practized by deeds now would faine go from it in words I purpose to giue thē a fulsome gorge therof Learne therefore of me this lesson Iesuit for I owe this duty to al Christians we ought to obey our kings whatsoeuer they be I will say good or badde this is that the wise man teacheth vs in his Prouerbs S. Peter in his Epistles S. Paule vnto the Romans to Titus to Timothie the Prophet Baruch speaking of Nabuchodonozer whō God of all other Princes had made to fall into a reprobate sense the goodly example of Dauid persecuted by Saul Such Kings as God bestoweth on vs such are we to receiue without examining as thou dost whither they be Kings or Tyrants The hearts of Kings are in the hands of God they execute his iustice euen as it pleaseth him to punish vs or more or lesse whereto we are not to oppose our selues but by our humble praiers vnto him if we deale otherwise we resemble those ouerweening Giants described by ancient Poets who offring to skale the heauens there to sit cheek by iowle with Gods were in a moment tumbled down to hel by their god Iupiter Yet ought not a King abuse his power but know he is a father not to prouoke his subiects his children vpō euery sleight occasion for if he do God the father of Fathers king of Kings wil when he least thinks of it dart his vengeance against him with a most dreadful horrible arme To conclude seeing that thou Iesuit yeeldest a blind obediēce to thy superiors who are but thy adopted Lords thou owest it in greater measure a hundred-fold vnto thy King thy true lawfull naturall Lord father Therfore art thou a most dangerous yonker to propose vnto vs in thy writings this distinction of a King Tyrant not that I know not the great difference which is betweene the one the other but we are to blindfold our eyes vnder their obedience otherwise we shroud a rebellion of subiects against their Prince Rebellion which produceth much more euell then the tyrannie whereunto we were subiect CHAP. 10. ¶ A memorable act of Ignace whereupon the Iesuits haue learnt to kill or cause to be killed all such as stand not to their opinions THere remained in the confines of Spain certaine dregs of the Marranes whom king Ferdinand had chased out of that realme therfore got the title of Catholique a surname wherwith his successors haue since adornd themselues One of these rascals mounted on a Mule accoasted Ignace on the high way somwhat after he had changed his former life haning told one another to what place they were bent they entred into sundry discourses at length fell into talke of the blessed Virgin Mary whom the Moore acknowledged for a true Virgin before her Conception but not after grounding his opiniō on natural reasons the which haue no affinity with our faith Ignace vrged the contrary with good deuotion that she was a Virgin both before at and after her deliuery searched euery corner of his braine to make it good But being then a simple nouice if you wil needs know it but an a. b. c. man in points of religiō it was not for him to manage so high misteries so that supplying the want of arguments wherof he had none left with a iust choller the Moore who laughed at him in his mind spurring his Mule and giuing him a ful carriere left Ignace all alone who chafing that he was not able to get the victory at the blunt of the tongue went yet to win it at the sharp with the sword and so resolued to pursue him amaine presently to kil him Notwithstanding like a man of a good conscience he found himselfe extreamly perplexed For on the one side it vexed him to see a monster fraught with impiety and blasphemie goe vpon the ground on the other he weighed his owne feare of offending the Virgin in sted of defending her In this cōtention suspended between yea and no at length hee determined to take his Mules aduise Hee sawe the fellowe passe into a crosse way and knew whether it led wherefore in admirable wisdome he resolued not to slacken the reynes of his choller but to giue his beast the bridle on condition that if of her owne instinct she followed the tract of that Infidell along the crosse-way he would dispatch him without all remission but as God would haue it she chose another path by meanes whereof Ignacius suddenly appeased himselfe supposing the matter happened to his Mule by diuine inspiration God sometimes giues aduise vnto false Prophets by their beasts as we
read of Balaams Asse and this Ignatius his Mule without the which he had most furiously executed his disseignment Therefore I finde no whit strange the resignation he hath made of the same furie vnto his successors with whom I list not dispute whether it be fit or no but send them after his example vnto a Mule for resolution At this word the Iesuit woulde needes lay himselfe open Excuse me I pray you quoth he me thinks you deliuer not the vvhole matter For Ribadinere one of them of whom you borrowed this historie sayth that Ignatius at that time was surprised with a remembrance of his old Adam Homo quippe militaris fallaci veri honoris irâ—itatione olim elusus he was falne into this foolish opinion of reuenge but that afterwards arriuing at our Ladies Church of Mountserrat hee hung before her alter all his weapons after hee had confessed himselfe by writing of all his sinnes three dayes together Ibi optimo confessario totius vitae suae crimina per triduum ex scripto confessus est illique homini omnium primo animi sui propositum aperuit iumentum reliquit gladium pugionemque quibus Mundo meruerat ante aram beatissimae Matris Dei apendi iussit which was in the yeere 1522. Truly replyed the Aduocate I heeded not those 4. or 5. lines when I perused Ribadinere and I thank you hartilie for putting mee in minde of them for I will vse but this one poynt to shewe your Sect to be most wicked and most vnhappy that hauing this faire goodlie mirror of your Father and Author before your eyes your heads haue entertaind no other obiects but the disquiet of the Realmes you liue in especially of our countrey of Fraunce as I will proue immediatly CHAP. 11. ¶ Of the holy League brought by the Iesuits the yere 1585. into Fraunce and that they are the cause of the Hugonots new-footing among vs. HEtherto I haue discoursed vnto you of the murders paricids and massacres of Kings princes now I will shewe you the ruine and desolation of kingdoms procured by them and beginne first with our owne It is not for a King of Fraunce saith the Iesuit in his Most humble Request to reuenge the quarrell of a King of Nauarre nor fits it the Churches eldest sonne to be sencible of what was done against an opinion contrarie to the Church Goodly words which I remember often so wel they please mee as though the Iesuits had onely warred against the King now liuing and no way touched the last Henry the third not onely adorned with the title of Most Christian a title long agoe bestowed on our kings but who among the most Christian was in particuler the most Catholick We saw him in the beginning of his raigne follow the Iesuits beeing charmed by them and holding them the soundest Catholicks afterwards the Priers Minims of Nigeon hard by Paris where hee had his chamber for his priuate prayers by night on festiuall dayes and for his deuotion at theyr Mattins at certaine other seasons then haunted hee the Capuchins and Feuillants and with a like zeale instituted the brotherhood of the Penitentiaries Whippers and after all this the congregation of the Hieronimits at our Ladies of Vincennes where hee and his companions changed theyr habits as Munks on those dayes and feasts whereon they were confined thether I know well that his enemies imputed all this to hypocrisie for his ill hap or to say more truly their vnhappie shifts would haue led men to turne all his actions to the worst If you say that the greatest part of such as ioyned with him did it for hypocrisie onely to please him I belieue you say most truly but as for him I doubt not but he did it onely to please God It were a want of common sence to auerre that a King nourished in the midst of delights and fulnes of all pleasures would haue chosen this painfull course had hee not beene drawne vnto it by true zeale and deuotion hee who otherwise had tenne thousand means to credit him selfe by such leud hypocrisies may fall into the harts of meane companions who by religions maske striue to seaze on new greatnes but not into theirs whose auncient right assures it them alreadie Then must the Iesuite the hypocrite raze this clause out of his paper that the warre whereof I will hereafter speake was vndertaken against a King of any other opinion then the coÌ„mon it resteth to know by whom the warre was vndertaken Some charge Princes and great Lords with it therein altogether are deceiued I will deliuer it at large vnto you After the decree of the yeere 1564. had passed we liued in some rest throughout all Fraunce vntil the yere 1567. about which time the enteruiew had at Bayon betweene vs and the Spanyard vndid vs. For it put iealousies perhaps not without cause into the hart of such as were not thorowly setled Ielousies that bred in Fraunce tenne thousand mischiefes which to remember makes my haire to stare Nowe let vs examine the Iesuits carriage during this loose generall corruption A surceasing from Armes being appointed in councel the yeere 64 they thought also to haue had leysure enough for the venting their ambition WheÌ„ their cause was pleaded that irregular profession of theirs was onelie dealt against the wiser sort foresaw as in a clowde that this Impostume could not chuse in time but yeelde a malignant and lothsome matter though to poynt at it in particuler none either could or durst because that outward simplicitie wherewith they shadowed their inward thoughts surprised euen such as wished theÌ„ most euill for they imagined the Iesuits would haue forwarded our Religion by good examples zealous prayers wholesome manners holy exhortations and not by Armes But stayed they in these termes nothing lesse they brought into their houses the knowledge of State matters they made themselues Iudges of Princes actions disposing them at their owne pleasure they contriued warres thereby to compasse their dessignes and the Pulpits out of which they preached were to no other vse but as Drums Fifes and Trumpets to incense our Princes in theyr combats one against another And especially we are not to doubt of their beeing the Authors solicitors and cherishers of our last troubles a thing which not onely they denie not but make theyr boast of in their bookes as you may find in that of the Iesuit La Fon. I vndertake not in this place to recite at large the storie of these troubles this only I wil tel you that before the yere 1576 wee neuer had put the word League in vse it was onely familiar in Italie the chiefe harbor of Iesuits VVhen the Parliament was held at Blois a Lord of some note in Paris whom I will not name whose hart was wholly Iesuited and who on festiuall dayes left his own Parish-church to be present at their Masses sent to the Deputies of Paris these instructions following In this
assembly some laboured harde to make immortall mercilesse war against the Hugonots yet demaunded an abatement of Subsidies a proposition ill sorting with the former those Subsidies hauing heen introduced of purpose to further the warres By means whereof the man of whom I speake taking first aduise of the Iesuits propounded a third course to league thēselues against the Hugonots and that such as willing lie enroled themselues vnder the League should be bound to contribute vnto the charge of this new warre These instructions receiued and published the Deputies did nominate a certaine Prince to be their head The last King knowing of what consequence this practise was and that succeeding it would make 3. parties in France his owne which was not one properly that of the League another of the Hugonots to breake this blow discreetly affirmed that he approued well this League but that be would be chiefe thereof which was to the end the League should flie no further then he was pleased to giue it wings The first stone of our ruine beeing cast in this manner the Prouosts of the Merchants and the Sheriffes of Paris returning home and loath that thys opinion of a League which they held most holy should miscarie sent theyr Commissions throughout all the Wards to to the end that such as would contribute should subscribe their names The Constables bare them vnto euerie house some hardier then the rest opposed themselues the greater number fearing worse subscribed The Commission was brought to Christopher le Tou chiefe Iustice whose memorie vvee cannot honour too much this good Lord refused not onely to subscribe but detayned the Commission it selfe and the next day in open Court detested this vnhappy innouation as an assured desolation to our state His authoritie his honestie his reasons wrought so great effect that euery one allowed and followed his aduise From thence-foorth this opinion of the League did weare away or rather vvas remitted to another season that better might befit the purposes of such as broached it Suddainly after the Parliament was ended Father Aimon Auger a Iesuit got the King to giue eare vnto him through his plausible hypocrisies And after him Father Claudius Matthew of Lorraine both the which had so great part in his good fauour that as Montaignes testifieth hee some-times caused them to ride along with him in his owne Coach At length this good King founde that these coozeners were desirous to incroach vppon the managing of State-matters about him Auger especially whom for that cause hee gaue order to his Embassadour at Rome to get him remooued out of Fraunce by Letters of obedience from his Generall The King departing from the Parliament pacified his subiects by an Edict of the yeere 1577. the which hee sayd was vvholly his owne and yet had by his wisedome cleane dashed the reformed Religion without bloodshed if the Iesuits would haue vouchsafed him the leisure to finish what he had begun Wageing in the midst of peace a gentle warre against the Hugonots gentle but more forcible in great mens oppinions then any weapons could haue made it For although that the Edict of 77. gaue some libertie vnto them yet the king neither called them to places of iudgement nor vnto offices in his Exchequer nor to the gouernments of Prouinces and Townes Hee had moreouer deuised the order of the holie Ghost reserued wholly for Catholicke Princes and Lords as also that of the Hieronimitans of our Lady of Vincennes where none were to appeare but Apostolicall Romane Catholiques and with whom laying aside his most high authoritie he fraternized in all kind of deuotion Nowe the presence of these causing the others absence belieue it was no small meanes to force them into the right way For there is nothing which the French Nobilitie affect so much as to be neere theyr King nor any thing that afflicts the common people more then to be kept from Offices this is a disease of minde that spoyles the Frenchman As soone as a Lawyer or Marchant haue by theyr endeuours stuffed theyr Closets and Storehouses with siluer the thing they chiefely ayme at is to bestowe it on places of Iudgement or roomes in the Exchequer for theyr Children so that the newe Religion beganne alreadie to dissolute and it grieued not the Auncients thereof vvho for shame and to auoyde the imputation of lightnes stucke vnto it to suffer their chyldren to be instructed in our Schooles and consequently to learne there the principles of our Religion All matters in this sort proceeded from ill to well from well to better the Countriman plyed harde his plough the Artificer his trade the Merchant his traffique the Lawyer his practise the Cittizen enioyed his reuenew the Magistrate his stipend the Catholick his owne religion throughout all Fraunce without impeachment The remainder of those Hugonots that liued being sequestred into a backe corner of the kingdome when our Iesuits seeing themselues remoued frō theyr Princes fauour beganne to lay this snare to intrap him Euen as the Societie of Iesuits is composed of all sorts of people some for the pen others for practise so had they amongst them one Father Henry Sammier of Luxembourge a man disposed for all assayes and resolued vnto any hazard This fellow was sent by them in the yeere 1581 towards diuers Catholicke Princes to sounde the Foorde And to say truly they could not haue chosen one more fit for he disguised himselfe into as many formes as obiects one while attired like a soldiour another while like a Priest by and by like a country Swaine Dice cardes and women were as ordinarie with him as his prefixed houres of prayer saying he did not thinke he sinned in this because it was done to the furtherance of a good worke to the exaltation of Gods glorie and that hee might not be discouered changing his name together with his habite according to the Countries wherein he purposed to negotiate He parted from Lorraine and thence went into Germany Italie and Spaine The summe of his instructions were that foreseeing the eminent danger of our Catholick religion the seeming conniuence which the King gaue to it and secret fauour hee yeelded on the other side to the Hugonots whereof the Duke his brother had made himselfe an open Protector in the Lowe-Countries their holie societie had resolued to vndertake this quarrell vnder the leading of a great Prince making sure account of Gods assistance seeing that it was directed to the aduauncement of his holy Name and good of his Church Thus Sammier got intelligence from each part and tooke assurance on all hands but presently to manifest their proiects the season fitted not because the Duke was aliue and the two brothers forces once vnited were sufficient to swallow all such as had made head against them And this was but the preamble vnto our Troubles In the yeere 83. he died That let remoued the Iesuits imbarqued in their quarrell such Lords as they thought good and
in die Coenae Domini solita est legi ac eis pro commissis poenitentiam salutarem iniungendis That is we giue leaue and permission to as many of you as are Priests to heare the Confessions of the faithfull of the one and the other Sexe from what part soeuer they come vnto you and them being diligently heard to absolue from all and singuler their sinnes crimes excesses and offences how great and enormous soeuer yea euen those that are reserued to the Sea Apostolique and all circumstances thence arising by sentence censure or paines Ecclesiasticall those excepted which are contayned in the Bull accustomed to be read on Maundie Thursday and to ordayne to the Penitents for the faults by them committed wholesome and profitable penaunce As the priuiledges which they perswade themselues haue beene graunted them for the Catechising and instructing of youth haue peruerted all the auncient order of famous Vniuersities so this large and extraordinarie licence permitted them in matter of Confession hath beene the cause that the greatest part of the people haue in great and haynous sinnes forsaken the auncient custome of resorting to the Penitentiaries of Cathedrall Churches and had recourse to the Iesuits whom wee see by vertue of this Bull to be all of them authorized for Penitentiaries And God knowes how farre these holy and blessed Fathers haue abused it The first breaking forth of our troubles was in the yeere 1585. at which time all that resorted to them to be confessed if they affirmed themselues to be good subiects and loyall seruitors to the King for they were questioned vpon that article they were sent backe by the Iesuits without receiuing absolution Which beeing obiected against them by Arnauldus marke I beseech you the cold aunswere which they make in their defence against his accusations For in the 17. article it is obiected saith Arnauldus that the said Defendants haue at diuers sundry times denied absolutiō to them that stoode for the late King from the yeere 1585. The said Defendaunts aunswere that the article is vntrue although themselues know that it hath beene often by sundrie persons auouched yea and deposed against them in the presence of the late King in his closet and what witnesse could there be produced against them in this case saue only those who had been by them denied absolutiō There is no smoak without some fire Read their annuall letters of the yeere 1589. when griefe rage and furie of the last troubles beganne you shall find that the number of their confessions was infinitely encreased and specially in the Colledge of the Iesuits at Paris Totius vitae confessiones auditae trecentae Wee haue heare 300. totall confessions wrote the Substitutes of the Colledge to their Generall Aquauiua If you aske me whence this new deuotion of the common people to them proceeded I wil tell you Our Kings represent the true image of God Against whom this yeere there hapned three straunge and vnusuall accidents first the rebellion against the late king which they coloured with the title and pretext of tyrannie for the fairest title they could affoord him was the name of Tyrant secondly the parricide committed vppon his person by a Munke and lastly the continuance of that rebellion against the King that now is for his religion Be you assured that all such as did not hold their consciences at as low a rate as many of the Cleargie doe found themselues much disquieted vpon these accidents Which was the cause that during these troubles they went to be confest by these vpstart Penitentiaries some were to be resolued by them whether it were sin not to yeeld obedience to their King others to be absolued for the same But this was to commit the Lambe to the Woolues custodie for their confessions were as many instructions or rather destructions to teach Rebellion refusing to absolue them which eyther were not in their consciences fully confirmed in their reuolt from the two Kings or had any inclination to acknowledge them for their Soueraignes And which is full of horrour and detestation their ordinarie course was before they would absolue them to make them sweare by the holy Gospell contayned in their breuiaries neuer to take these two Kings for their lawfull Soueraignes That which I speake I haue by good information from many that were fayne to passe through that strait and I know one amongst the rest more neere mee then the rest who rather then hee would giue credit to their doctrine departed from his Confessour without receiuing absolution This teacheth to the whole bodie of the Realme But as concerning priuate Families the Iesuits make a double vse of ministring Confession One is to take information from the Penitent not onely of his owne sinnes but of their demeanour likewise that dwell with him or with whom hee dwelleth nay of the whole neighbourhoode as if it were a sinne in him not to discouer an other mans sinne in confession eyther if hee know it or suppose that he knowes it Which is as much in effect as to make so many spies and carrie-tales in a Towne as there be Iesuits Confessors The second vse which toucheth them in a neerer respect is that in sucking by the eare the soule of a timorous conscience they sucke or rather swallow there-withall his goods and possessions by promising abundance of Spirituall goods in the world to come after their death to those that shall in their life time be charitable to them out of their temporall goods A course whereby they haue carried away an infinite masse of wealth if you beleeue those that haue taken vppon them to write their Legend for I know not by what other name to in title the liues of these holy Fathers One point more I will adde whereof I desire to be resolued by our auucient Doctors in Diuinitie they haue a rule in practise that men are bound to accuse themselues to their Confessour and not themselues onely but all their confederates likewise and as for the Magistrate the malefactor being condemned to die after he hath once made confession of his sinnes to his ghostly father is not tyed to reueale it to his Iudge nay it is lawfull for him to stand in stiffe deniall thereof at the time of his execution as being cleere before God although he persist in a lie after he hath once discharged the depth of his conscience to his Confessor A thing that breedeth much scruple in the minde of a Iudge who otherwise is greatly quieted in conscience when an offender adiudged to die howsoeuer he haue before time stood in deniall of the fact yet at the time of his death confesseth the truth CHAP. 13. ¶ Of a generall assemblie of the Iesuits holden in Rome in the yeere 1593. wherein they are prohibited to entermedle in matters of state I Haue formarly in this discourse charged the Iesuits to haue beene both the first sparkes and the chiefest flames of our last troubles for proofe whereof
after they haue raised tumults in all Countries that theyr designements sort to effect CHAP. 17. ¶ That the Pope hath not power to translate the Crowne of Fraunce from one to another against the dangerous position of the Iesuits and some other discourse tending to the same effect THe Iesuits not content to haue offered violence to our King in time of the troubles doe at this day in the time of peace by theyr pennes offer violence to the Royaltie it selfe Hee that maintaines in Rome that the Pope may transfer Empires and Kingdomes from hand to hand at his pleasure deserueth a Cardinals hat as Father Robert Bellarmine the Iesuite he that maintaines the same position in Fraunce is worthie of a hat of that colour but not of that kinde as the Cardinals Kings die whē it pleaseth God to call them the Roialtie neuer dies Which is the cause that the Parliament Court of Paris when they accompanie the funerall obsequies of our Kinges are not in mourning weedes but in Scarlet the true marke and ensigne of the neuer dying maiestie of the Crowne or Royaltie One of the chiefe flowers of our Crowne is that our Kings cannot incurre the censures of the Church of Rome nor their realme be interdicted nor consequently transposed It is a law not made but bred with vs which we haue not learned receiued or by long instruction imprinted but a law which is drawne inspired and deriued into vs out of the very breasts of our Mother Fraunce wherein we are not nurtured but nursed that if any thunderbolts fortuned to be sent from Rome against the maiestie of our Kings so as in consequence thereof the realme might fall vnder the sentence of Interditement we are not bound to yeeld obedience thereunto Neither yet for all this did our kings euer loose the title of Most Christian nor wee of the Eldest sonnes of the Church The Iesuit hath beene condemned by a decree of the Court he drawes his chaine after him still yet will hee not cease to be a Iesuit that is a Seminarie of diuisions factions and dissentions within our country Let vs then heare what he saith who vnder the name of Montaignes hath publisht the booke of the Truth as hee intitles it but of the forged and lying Truth After hee had discoursed that the Temporall state onely appertained to the King and the Spirituall to the holy Father who claimed no interest in their souerainties hee affirmes that if the king happē at any time to transgresse God hath put a rod into the Popes hand to chastise him and depriue him of his kingdome And this is for the behoofe Mont. cap. 15. of the Truth defended for the good of Princes saith he who most commonlie are reclaimed and brought to their duties rather for feare of their Temporall estate which they euer-more hold deer though otherwise ill giuen then of their Spirituall which they set not by vnlesse their conscience be the better which is not generall to all of them But the Pope is no God no more was Samuell who executed that sentence against Saul So as God had annointed Saul King by the Prophet so doth he send the sentence of his deposition by him and by him translate the kingdome annoint Dauid king In the time of Osias king of Iuda the high priest no more a GOD then Samuell gaue the kingdome from the father to the sonne he being strooken with leprosie for his presumption This transposition of the Crowne was doone by the appointment of the high Priest according as by the Law was ordained and consequently the deposition of the Father Iehoiada was no God but a priest and Gods Lieutenaunt when after he had caused Athalia the Queene to be put to death for her tyrannous gouernment hee put the scepter into the handes of Ioas a prince of the blood and lawfull successor to the Crowne All those were but Gods ministers to execute his decrees as the Pope likewise is And seeing God hath infinite meanes to translate a kingdome by the force and weapons of Pagans as of Moores Turks and other strange Nations making the Assyrians conquerours ouer the Greekes the Greekes ouer the Assyrians both of the Iewes and the Romans of both what milder course could he haue ordained among Christians what way more reasonable or more secure then by the mediation and authoritie of the head of the Church and the common Father of all Christians who beeing specially assisted by God and by men both learned and religious will in likelihood doe nothing preiudiciall to the right of the lawfull successors and will proceede without passion and withall moderation and mildnes in a case of that importance hauing an eye euermore to the honour of God and vnto the publique and priuate good In conclusion by this learned position which our pernitious Iesuit maintaines the Pope hath authoritie to transferre kingdoms frō one hand to another when he seeth cause so to doe and dooing it hee is subiect to no mans controule inasmuch as if God himselfe may doe it then is it lawfull for his Vicar to doe the like the Pope hauing no lesse preheminence ouer Kings in these times of Christianity then the Prophets had in the time of Moses law This fond opinion of thine brings mee to a meruailous straite forcing mee to combate against the authoritie of the holie Sea First if you will argue this position morallie where shall you finde that a King constituting his Lieuetenants generall in Prouinces giueth them in all poynts as ample authoritie as himselfe hath ouer his subiects And to say that God hath transferred his omnipotent power into any man whatsoeuer is a poynt of blaspemie against the Maiestie of GOD. Besides tell mee Sophister where finde you that you ought to beg such examples out of the old Testament to transplant them into the new But with such illusions doe you and your associats surprise the consciences of the weake ignorant multitude For if that reason of yours were of any value or consequence we should by the same bring Circumcision into vse againe at this day because it was vsed vnder the Law of Moses And by the same pretext it shall be lawfull for the subiect to lay violent handes vppon his Soueraigne Iudges 3. because Ehud murthered Eglon King of Moab vnpunished Seeing you terme your selfe a Iesuit let vs follow the footesteps of Iesus Christ for to this marke ought all our cogitations to leuell whereunto restraining our discourse I will make it appeare that I am a true Cathotholicke liegeman to the Pope and thou a true Catholique Impostor VVee consider the power of our Sauiour Christ in two different times one was vvhen for our Redemption hee descended from heauen into the earth the other vvhen after his death and passion hee ascended from earth into heauen The first was the time of his humilitie in respect whereof hee professed that his comming was not to be an vmpire of their
cannot at once be a King and a Prelate and that his predecessors ordered the Ecclesiastical State which belongeth vnto him and not the temporall which pertaines only to kings Let him not inioyne vs to receiue a King who remayning in a countrie so farre distant cannot ayde vs against the sodain oftē incursions of the Infidels Neither let him commaund vs who of our Franchise and Freedome beare the name of Franks to serue him whom we list not to serue which yoake his predecessors neuer imposed vppon our Auncestors And we finde it written in holy Scripture that we ought to fight to the death for our libertie and inheritance And a little after Propterea si Dominus Apostolicus vult pacem quaerere sic quaer at vt rixam non moueat That is Therefore if our Apostolicall Lord seeke after peace let him so seeke it as he be not an occasiō of war And in conclusiō Hingmare shuts vp his letter with these words Et vt mihi experimento videtur propter meam interdictionem vel propter lingue humanae gladium nisialiud obstiterit Rex noster vel eius Regni primores non dimittent vt quod coeperunt quaniū potuerint nō exequantur That is And as I find by proofe our King or the Peeres of his Realme are not minded eyther for my excommunication or the sword of mans tongue vnlesse some other matter come to stop them to desist from prosecuting what they haue begun By which letters you may vnderstand that the Pope tooke vpon him not onely to censure King Charles the Bald for his disobedience in so iust and rightfull a cause but to make himselfe Iudge also of Empyres and Kingdomes wherevnto neither the king nor his subiects would euer assent auouching that the Pope could not confound Religion with State and that they were resolued to withstand him whatsoeuer it cost them as being a new law which he meant to obtrude vpon the land to the preiudice of our kings It may be some honest meaning man will say How doth this hang together You allow the Pope all primacie and superioritie in spirituall causes and yet limite his general power in your owne king though he should runne astray out of the right way For in respect of temporall matters I grant it but as for this high point of spirituall authority all things make against that position Whom I aunswere thus We acknowledge in Fraunce that the Pope is supreame head of the Catholique and Vniuersall Church yet is it not therefore absurd or inconsequent that our Kings should be exempted from his censures We see that all auncient Monasteries are naturallie subiect to the iurisdiction of theyr Diocesans yet are many of them by speciall priuiledge exempted from the same Our auncient Kings haue beene the first protectors of the holy Sea as well against the tyrannie of the Emperous of Constantinople as against the incursions and inuasions of the Lombards which were dailie at the gates of Rome One king alone Pepin conquered the whole state or Herarchie of Rauenna which he freely gaue to the Pope deliuering their Cittie from the long siege which Astolpho king of the Lombards had held about it And Charlemaine the sonne of Pepin chased out of Lombardie Didier their king and his whole race making himselfe Maister as well of the Cittie of Rome as of all Italie where he was afterwards acknowledged and crowned Emperour of the West by Pope Leo whom he restored fully and wholly to his auncient libertie against the insolencie of the people of Rome who repined and mutined against him And at that time was it concluded that the Popes elect might not enter vpon the exercise or administration of theyr functions vntill they were first confirmed by him or his successors I am certainly perswaded that hee and his posterity were at that time freed and exempted from all censures and excommunications of the holy Sea And albeit we haue not the expresse Constitution to shew yet may it be extracted out of the Ordinaunces of the said Emperour recorded by Iuon Bishop of Chartres Si quos culpatores Regia potestas Epist 123. 195. aut in gratiam benignitatis receperit aut mensae suae participes fecerit hos sacerdotum populorum conuentus suscipere Ecclesiastica communione debebit vt quod principalis pietas recepit nec à Sacerdotibus Dei extraneum habeatur If the king shall receiue any sinner into the fauour of his clemencie or make him partaker of his owne table the whole companie of the Priests and people shall likewise receiue him into the cōmunion of the Church that that which the princes pietie hath admitted be not by the priests held as cast off or reiected If then the table or the fauour of our Kings did acquite and absolute the excommunicated person from the Ecclesiasticall censures wee may well say that our kings themselues were exempt from all excommunications Our kings had right to confirme the Popes after their elections a right which the Popes alledge to haue beene by them remitted then why should we be more enuied then they if the auncient Prelacie of Rome haue priuiledged our kings from all excommunications and censures whatsoeuer Sure I am that Pope Gregorie the fourth going about to infringe that prerogatiue to gratifie the sonnes of king Lewes the Milde the sonne of Charlemaine the good Bishops and Prelats of Fraunce sent him vvord that if he came in person to excommunicate their king himselfe should returne excommunicated to Rome A peremtorie speech I must confesse but it wrought so as the Pope to couer his packing pretended hee came into Fraunce for no other intent but to mediate a peace betweene the Father and the sonnes as indeede he did and had he stood vppon other termes hee would haue gone out of Fraunce greatly displeased So much doe wee embrace this priuiledge of our kings as wee dare affirme that it had his beginning eyther with the Crowne it selfe at what time Clouis became a Christian or at least in the second line within a while after our kings had taken in hand the defence protection of the Church of Rome for so doe we find it to haue beene obserued successiuely in Charlemaine Lewes the Milde his sonne and Charles the Balde his grand-child And since in the third line when our kings seemed some what to forget the right way and that it was requisite to extend the authoritie of the Church towards them the Pope or his Legates were fayne to ioyne the Clergie of Fraunce with them In briefe as long as all thinges were quiet and peaceable betweene the King and his subiects the censures of Rome were neuer receiued against our Kings In our auncient Records wee finde a Bull bearing date from Pope Boniface the eyght the tenor whereof is Vt nec Rex Franciae nec Regina nec liberi eorum ex communicart possint That neyther the King nor the Queene of Fraunce nor theyr
a full congregation for their Aduocate Hauing prepared my selfe for the cause being armed with that sacred Decree which the facultie of Diuinity had pronounced against them in the yeere 1554. where those two great pillers of our Catholique Religion Monsieur Picard and Monsieur Maillard were assistants I was perswaded that I was able with a free and vncontrouled conscience to encounter hand to hand with this monster which being neyther Secular nor Regular was both togither and therefore brought into our Church an ambiguous or mungrell profession We pleaded this case two whole forenoones Maister Peter Versoris and I he for the Iesuits I for the Vniuersitie before an infinite multitude of people who attended to see the issue thereof Maister Baptist du Menill the Kings Aduocate a man of great sufficiencie was for me In my declaration I alledged the irrigularitie of their profession the iudgement and determination of the whole facultie of Diuinitie pronounced against them tenne yeeres before the obiection made by Monsieur Bruslard the Kings Attorney Generall against their admittance for that their vow was cleane contrarie to ours that if we should harbour them in our bosome we should bring in a Schisme amongst vs and besides so many espials for Spayne and sworne enemies to Fraunce the effects whereof wee were like to feele vpon the first chaunge that the iniquitie of time might bring vpon vs. Notwithstanding for the conclusion we were referred to Counsell Eyther partie both got and lost the day For neither were they incorporated into the Vniuersity nor yet prohibited to continue their accustomed readings When God hath a purpose to afflict a realme he planteth the roots thereof long time before hand These new-come guests blind and bewitch the people by shewes of holines and fayre promises For as if they had the gift of tongues which the holy Ghost infused into the Apostles they made their boasts that they forsooth went to preach the Gospel in the midst of barbarous and sauage people they that God knowes had ynough to do to speake their mother tongue With these pleasant baits did they inueigle and draw the multitude into their snares But as they had brought in a motly religion of Secular and Regular disturbing by meanes thereof all the Hierarchie of our Church so did they intend to trouble thence-forward all the politique states in Christendome In as much as by a newe inuented rule they beganne to mingle and confound the State with their religion And as it is easie to fall from liberty to vnbridled licence so did they vpon this irriguler rule of theirs ground the most detestable heresie that can be deuised affirming that it is lawfull to murther any Prince that should not conforme himselfe to their principles treading vnder foot both the checke which our Sauiour gaue to Saint Peter when he drew his sword in his defence and the Canon of the Councell of Constance whereby they were pronounced accurst that set abroach this position When I pleaded the cause I mentioned not these two propositions against them For though they bred them in their hearts yet had they not as yet hatched them only I said that there was no good to be hoped for of this monster but that they would euer put in practise eyther that principle which was broched by the old Moūtainer who in time of our wars beyond the Seas dispersed his subiects called cut-throats or murtherers through the the Prouinces to slay the Christian Princes or that horrible Anabaptisme which sprung vp in Germanie when we were young this should I neuer haue imagined Notwithstanding both the one and the other Maxime hath beene by them put in execution in the sight and knowledge of all Christendome For as concerning the first there is no man but knowes that they hauing set foot in Portugall not vnder the title of Iesuits but of Apostles they sollicited King Sebastian by all maner of illusions to make an vniuersall law that none might be called to the Crowne vnlesse he were of their Societie and moreouer elected by the consent suffrages of the same VVhereunto they could not attayne albeit they met with the most deuout and superstitious Prince that could be And not to lead you out of our owne countrie of Fraunce they were the men that kindled the first coales of that accursed League which hath beene the vtter ruine and subuersion of the land It was first of all debated amongst them and being concluded they constituted their Fathers Claudius Matthaeus a Lorrain and Claudius Sammier of Luxembourg for so are their Priests of greatest antiquitie called to be their trumpets for the proclayming thereof ouer all forraine nations And after that time did they with open face declare themselues to be Spaniards as well in their Sermons as publique Lectures In fauour of whom they attempted to bring their second principle into practise not all the while that the King was diuided from vs in religion for they knew that was a barre sufficient to keepe him from the Crowne but as soone as they saw him reclaymed into the bosome of the Church they set on worke one Peter Barriere a man resolute for execution but weake and tender in conscience whom they caused to be confessed in their Colledge at Paris afterwards to receiue the Sacrament and hauing confirmed him by an assured promise of Paradise as a true Martyr if he died in that quarrell set forward this valiant Champion who was thrise at the the verie point to execute his accursed enterprise and God as often miraculously stayed his hand vntill at length being apprehended at Melun he receiued the iust hyre of his trayterous intention in the yeere 1593. I speake nothing but what mine eyes can witnesse and what I had from his owne mouth when he was prisoner View peruse all the impieties that you will you shall find none so barbarous as this To perswade an impietie and then to couer it with such a seeming maske of pietie In a word to destroy a soule a King Paradise and our Church all at a blow to make way for their Spanish and halfe-Pagan designements All these new allegations caused the Vniuersitie of Paris the Citie being brought vnder the Kings obedience to renew their former suit against them which had beene stayed before time by the Counsels appoyntment The cause was pleaded effectually and learnedly by Maister Authonie Arnald but when the processe was brought to the verie poynt of Iudgement there fell out another accident which made them proceed roundly thereunto Iohn Chastell a Paritian of the age of 19. yeeres a graft of this accursed Seminarie stroke our king Henris the fourth with a knife in his Royall Pallace of the Louvre in the midst of his Nobilitie He is taken his processe being commenced and finished sentēce ensueth dated the 29. of December 1594. the tenour wherof followeth Being viewed by the Court the great Chamber and the Tournel being assembled the arraignement of processe criminall begun
and declare That wickedly accursedly against the truth hee hath written that the late King was instlie slaine by Iaques Clement and that if the King nowe raigning should not die in the warres he ought to be killed For the which he is hartily sorrie and asketh forginenesse of God the King and the Court. This done to be led to the place of the Greue there to bee hanged vntill hee be dead vppon a Gibbet which shall be there erected for the same purpose And afterwards the dead bodie to be consumed to ashes in a fire which shal be made at the foote of the said Gibbet it hath declared doth declare all and singuler his goods to be forfeited and confiscate to the King Pronounced to the said Iohn Guignard and executed the seauenth day of Ianuarie 1595. ¶ Another sentence against Peter Chastel Father of Iohn Chastell and Iohn Gueret Priest naming himselfe of the Companie and Societie of the Name of Iesus BEing viewed by the Court the great Chamber the Tournell assembled the triall or processe criminall cōmenced by the Controuler of the Kings houshold and since finished at the requisition and demaund of the Kings Atturny generall plaintife against Iohn Gueret priest naming himselfe of the Cōpanie and Societie of the Name of Iesus abiding in the Colledge of Clairmont and heeretofore Schoolemaister to Iohn Chastell lately executed by sentence of the said Court Peter Chastell Cittizen and Draper of the cittie of Paris Denise Hazard his wife the Father mother of the said Iohn Chastell Iohn le Comte and Katherine Chastell his wife Magdelan Chastell the daughter of the said Peter Chastell and Denise Hazard Anthonie Villiers Peter Russell Simona Turin Louisa Camus theyr man and maid-seruaunts Maister Claudius l' Allemant priest Curat of Saint Peters of Arcis Maister Iaques Bernard priest Clarke of the said charge and Maister Lucas Morin priest qualefied in the fame prisoners in the prisons of the Conciergerie of the Pallace examinations confessions and denialls of the saide prisoners confrontation being made of the said Iohn Chastell to the saide Peter Chastell his Father information beeing giuen against the said Peter Chastell the witnes therein heard produced face to face the processe criminall intended against the saide Iohn Chastell by reason of the most execrable and abhominable parricide attempted vppon the person of the King the processe verball of the execution of the sentence of death giuen against the said Iohn Chastell the 29. of December last past The conclusions of the Kings Atturny generall the said Gueret Peter Chastell Hazard being heard and examined in the said Court vpon the matters to them obiected and contayned in the said processe other examination and denialls made by the sayd Gueret and Peter Chastell on the rack or torture to them applied by order of the said Court and all weighed and considered BE IT KNOWNE that the sayd Court for the causes contriued in the said processe hath banished and doth banish the sayd Gueret and Peter Chastell out of the Realme of Fraunce that is to say the said Gueret for euer and the sayd Chastell for the terme space of nine yeeres and for euer out of the cittie suburbs of Paris it is enioyned them to keepe obserue their sentence of banishment vpon paine to be hanged without any other forme or manner of processe it hath declared and doth declare all and singuler the goods of the said Gueret forfeited and confiscate to the King hath condemned and dooth condemne the said Peter Chastell in two thousand crowns for a fine to the king to be employed to the releasing and relieuing of prisoners in the Conciergerie and to remaine in prison vntill the full payment and satisfaction of the said sum neyther shall the time of theyr banishment runne but from the day that he shall haue fully paid the said sum The said Court doth ordaine that the dwelling house of the said Chastell shall be puld downe ruinated and raced and the place made common that no man may heereafter builde thereon In which place for euerlasting memorie of this most wicked and detestable parricide attempted vppon the person of the King there shall be set vp and erected an eminent piller of Marble together with a table wherein shall be written the causes of the said demolition and erection of the said piller which shall be made with the mony arising out of the demolition or pulling downe of the said house And as touching the said Hazard le Comte Katherine and Magdalen Chastell Villiers Russell Turin Camus l' Alemant Bernard and Morin the sayd Court dooth ordaine that they shall be set at libertie Pronounced to the said Hazard le Comte Katherine and Magdalen Chastell Villiers Russell Turin Camus l' Allemant Bernard and Morin the seuenth of Ianuarie to the said Gueret and Peter Chastell the tenth of the said month 1595. These are the three sentences of the Court of Parliament of Paris whereby it appeares what diligence religion and iustice was performed in the whole proceeding how those that were accused were punished more or lesse those that were onely suspected freely discharged and released in a case which concerned the vvhole state of Fraunce Let vs now take a view if you please of the comments which the Iesuits haue made and doe make vpon these sentences for of late they haue againe recouered their speech CHAP. 19. ¶ The Iesuits vnder couert termes chalenge the sentence giuen against Iohn Chastell of iniustice and how GOD suffered him to be punished to make the punishment of the Iesuits more notorious to all posteritie AGainst this Sentence touching Iohn Chastell doe our Iesuits outragiouslie exclaime and making shew as if they would excuse the Court they accuse it of vniustice by it committed in condemning them VVee are saith the hypocriticall Iesuit in his most humble petition presented to the King enemies to Kings the state and your person seducers of youth Against these generall accusations we first oppose the testimonie of the Court of Parliament of Paris The Court had heard the Aduocates which brought and emptied their baggs loden with these weightie accusations it had beene with all importunitie sollicited to condemne vs It had aboue 9. months respite to weigh and ballance the cause that is from the last of Aprill vntill Christmas following It condemned vs not but suffered vs to remaine in peaceable possession of our rights reseruing it selfe to a fitter season to call them to account which had most vncharitably suggested these calumnious accusations against vs. Thinke you that this body of Iustice composed of the most famous ornaments of the Lawe vvhich the world yeelds and of the strongest firmest members of the state if it had seene the least of these crimes as sufficiently prooued as they were maliciously obiected thinke you I say that it would not haue proceeded to condemne vs in the very instant And hauing not condemned vs hath it
not by his silence condemned our Accusers and giuen most assured testimonie of our innocencie If since that time it haue condemned vs that proceeded not of the due and formall pleadings of the Aduocates or of any aduantage of law which our aduersaries had against vs it is an inconuenience vvhich hath condemned vs in costs but not ouer-throwne our cause And vvithin a fewe leaues after In Iuly 1594 at what time the processe was reuiued by two pleading Aduocates they charged vs with Barriere and framed many like imputatiōs to agranate this crime against our credite and reputation But all these were but blunt assertions not sharpe proofes proceeding frō the tongue and not from the truth the Court made no reckoning of them and by their silence cleered acquited vs. Rene de la Fon followeth his steppes and goeth about to proue in like manner that the cōdemning of Chastell is the acquiting of all their Societie in as much as hee being racked and tortured appeached none of them But theyr intelligence was very bad in this matter For albeit this wretched fellow by his aunswers and interrogatories to him ministred spared the names of particulers yet did he accuse the whole Order in generall as I wil verifie hereafter more at large Moreouer these Iesuits seeme to be both of them altogether ignorant in the course of Iudgements pronounced by those high Courts The Court saith the first hath not forthwith proceeded to iudgemēt in this cause notwithstanding the sharp accusations wherewith we were charged Ergo by his silence it pronounced vs guiltlesse Furthermore Barriere his fact was laid to our charge yet the Court would not presently condemne vs Ergo the Court intended by silence to acquite vs thereof I beseech you seeing you professe your selues to be Logicians to haue the start of all men in scholasticall Diuinitie by what principles can you make good these conclusions Yet are they not strange to proceede from a Iesuits pen. For these reuerent Fathers are in place and authoritie to cōdemne Kings without hearing them and to abandon their realmes and lay thē open for a pray to him that can possesse himselfe thereof◠as they did to the last King High and soueraigne Courts obserue another manner of proceeding They heare the Counsell on both parties yet rest not thereupon but in such important causes as this especially they remit their iudgement or sentence to their better leysure and to theyr second thoughts The like course was held in their cause Arnauld and Dole vrged in their Declarations the tragical historie of Barriere the Court gaue no credite therevnto and not without good consideration In as much as it was requisite for them to view Barriere his triall or processe which was made at Melun by Lugoly that they might be throughly informed of what had there passed But alas Iesuit what is become of thy wit Thou doost acknowledge this Court to consist of the greatest ornaments of the Law which the world yeeldeth as elsewhere also that referring both parties to counsell they had proceeded without passion or partialitie and yet in the instant thou changest thy note challenging it to haue done iniustice in grounding their sentence against you vpon Chastell who had not accused you Iudges proceede indirectly when eyther they want skill to iudge or that their iudgements are corrupted by hatred fauour or other such partial affections Neither of these defects can be shewed in the managing of your cause as your selfe confesse therefore it is presumption in vs both in you to assay by Sophistrie out of your shallowe braine to elude this sentence in mee to endeuour by reasons and arguments to maintaine and vphold the fame Let it suffice vs that it is a Decree or Arrest and it is our part therefore to rest our iudgements there-vppon In all causes especially in those of weight and importance like this GOD is in the midst of the Iudges to inspire and direct them Many times a man that hauing heard a case pleaded on both sides prepared himselfe in his minde either to acquite or condemne this or that partie yet when hee heares the first Iudge deliuer his opinion hee changeth his mind yea oftentimes it falleth out that one word vttered by the first giueth new light to him that secondeth when as happely he that spake it dreamt not thereon and when it cōmeth to the casting of the Bell for by that by-word doe the Lavvyers terme the vp-shot or conclusion of all they gather and collect out of the precedent opinions a generall ayre or abstract whereuppon this sentence is built Doost thou think that Chastells fact was the sole occasion of your fall thou art deceiued The Court had wisely referred the cause to counsell giuiuing thereby to vnderstand that it meant not to proceed therein eyther with passion or rash hastines two great enemies of iustice In the meane time hapned this damnable act committed by one of your schollers the principals which were before disposed to your condemning were taken in hand a fresh in the handling of Chastels cause your cause is adiudged all vnder one The indignitie and detestation therof awaked iustice in the hearts of the Iudges which in your cause might peraduenture haue slept had it not beene thereby stirred and excited And in all this there is nothing wrought by man but by a speciall iudgement of God which wee ought to proclayme through the whole world It is well knowne that your Colledge was the fountayne and seminarie of all those calamities which we endured during the last troubles There was the rebellion plotted and contriued there was it fully and wholly nourished and maintayned your Prouincials your Rectors your deuout Superiours were the first that troad that path they that first and last dealt with this merchandise Your Colledge was the retreat or Randeuous of all such as had vowed and sold themselues aswell to the destruction of the State as to the murther of the King in which your doings you at that time gloried and triumpht both in your Sermons and Lectures The true hearted subiects who had the Flower de Luce imprinted in their breasts beheld this tyranny and sighed in their soules for they durst not giue breath to their sighes all their recourse was to God that it would please him to haue compassion on their miserable estate God suffered you to raigne fiue yeeres and more swaying both people Magistrate and Prince to trie whether there were any hope of your amendment in time The King was no sooner entred into Paris but the iust hatred of the people towards you brake forth the Vniuersitie of Paris stirreth against you and reuiueth their former suite which had beene referred to Counsell in the yeere 1564. the occasion thereof was founded vpon your owne fresh practises and lewd misdemeanours the cause is pleaded by two worthie Lawyers Arnauld and Dole heard with patience discreetly not iudged forthwith by reason of the waightines besides the heat and
Paris Doctores Sorbonici quorum magna pars discipuli nostri fuere The Doctours of the Sorbone a great part whereof haue beene our Schollers And by your Pleas It is certaine that for those fewe yeeres a great part of the Bachelers of Diuinitie the better sort of them haue spent the course of their studies in our Colledge Which caused mee somewhat to suspect that thys conclusion had been before handled frō time to time in your Lectures I read in the same Letter that notwithstanding you were inhibited by Gregorie the 13. to come at any Processions yet as soone as the Reuolt was concluded on one of your Societie to stirre the people against theyr King assembled three or foure thousand boyes which he led in procession all ouer the cittie with a rabble of all sorts of people at their heeles I read in another place that about that verie time you instituted in Lyons the Brotherhood of our Lady and in Burges of the Paenitents vnder the name of Ieronomitans not to appease the wrath of GOD but to prouoke it against the late King And as I was turning ouer your Letters there commeth in Father Iames Commolet whom I name with al due title of honor who with teares standing in his eyes as one that at al times hath teares at commaundement confessed vnto me that the day following this determination of the Sorbone hee in a Sermon made at the Church of Saint Meri publiquely preached that the whole Sorbone was resolued to take Armes against the King if any should oppose themselues to withstand it they ought not to thinke it strange in asmuch as in that number which followed our Sauiour the most perfit societie that euer was there was one Iudas found And that thereuppon the people ranne head-long to Armes Wherein hee ingeniously confessed his fault in concealing from the people that this Resolution vvas referred to the pleasure and arbitrement of the holie Sea Furthermore that the 15. of the same Month certaine of the chiefe and principall Iudges of the Court of Parliament beeing committed prysoners to the Bastille he went to visite and comfort them and for theyr consolation preached nothing else but of the tyrannie of King Henrie the third thereby to stirre and excite them to rebelliou that he who had been their king should be so no longer Moreouer that as long as the Troubles endured hee was a Trumpet in all Churches to rend and deface the reputation as well of the late King as of him that nowe raigneth but that this was vsuall with all Preachers and therefore the more excusable in him Which Montaignes did not denie excusing it by the heate and choller vvhich is incident to Preachers when they are in the Pulpit With that a troublesome fellow whispering mee in the care bad me looke to my selfe For saith he that which he termes choler he would say it were the holie Spirit if he durst I told him hee was a busie companion and bad him hold his tongue if hee could All thys did Commolet cōfesse he had done in Paris but Father Bernard Ronillet proceeded on further acknowledged that by his packing and preaching hee had vvithdrawne the cittie of Bourges from the obedience of the King But aboue all the Confession of Father Alexander Hayes did most satisfie me who entertained me with these words Right honourable Pasquill seeing you charge and coniure me in the name of God and in vertue of the Apostolicall censures I will deliuer my whole knovvledge as well concerning the proceedings of our Colledge at Paris as mine owne particuler actions in thys busines As touching the generall I must confesse to you that vppon the first breaking out of the Troubles wee presently instituted within our Colledge of Paris a Brotherhoode which we named a Congregation in the honour of our Lady beeing for that cause called the Congregation of the Chappelet because the Brethren of that Companie were bound to carry a Chappelet or payre of Beades and to say it ouer once a day Into this Congregation did all the zealous and deuout personages of our holy League cause themselues to be enrolled the Lord Mendoza Embassadour for the Catholick King of Spayne the Sixteene Gouernours of Paris with their whole families and diuers other holy religious persons whereof I haue kept no register neither was it any part of my charge Our Congregation was kept euery Sonday in a certaine high Chappell where all the brotherhood vvas bound to be present if there were no necessarie cause of let or impediment There were we all seuerally confessed on the Saturdayes and on Sonday wee receiued the Sacrament When Masse was done one of our Fathers went into the Pulpet and there exhorted all the Audience to continue stedfast in their holy deuotion which at this day is in Fraunce called Rebellion sith it pleaseth the Magistrats to haue it so I cannot be against it This done all the common sort departed and those of greatest place and authoritie stayed behind to consult about the affayres of the holy League Our good Father Odon Pigenat vvas long time President of that Counsell And this briefely in the summe of what I am able to deliuer as touching the generall proceedings of the whole Colledge As concering my selfe in particular you must vnderstand that those that know mee call me Father Alexander Hayes the Scot who during the troubles was Regent of the first Forme of our Colledge for the space of 3. or 4. yeeres Not to recapitulate the whole but some of the principall and most notable acts of my historie which may peraduenture giue light to the residue I read to mine Auditours Demosthenes his Inuectiues against Phillip king of Macedonia where in I some-what suited with our good Father Commolet for as hee wrested to his purpose all the texts of Scripture against the n = * A by-name which the leaguers gaue the king that now is for that he was borne in Biarne Biarnois giue me leaue to vse that terme before your Highnes which was then currant in Paris so did I play by the Philippica which to say truth were not Lectures but despightful railings against him which I amplified accordingly as I was caried by a violent kind of deuotition which I was neuer able to bridle or restraine For it was an ordinary braunch of my Lectures that he were a happy man whosoeuer could kill him if he fortuned to die in the execution of so blessed an enterprise hee should goe directly into Paradise and though his soule were stained with some veniall sinnes yet should it be exempted from the paines of Purgatory And if God should so much afflict the citie of Paris as that the Biarnois should enter passe through S. Iames his gate I made open protestation that I would leape downe vpon him frō the highest window in our Colledge being assuredly perswaded that this fall would serue me for a ladder to clime vp into heauen That
to his report This letter did mightily incense me against your iustifications wherupon I desired to see the aunswer hereunto in your Pleas. Tenthly Arnauld alledgeth that the yeere 1591. Monsieur de Chaseron intercepted certayne letters written to the king of Spayne carried by Father Mathew of the Order of the said defendants We aunswere that Arnauld vnder correctioÌ„ of the Court is ill informed for the said father Mathew died three yeers before at Ancona in Italy that is in the yeere 1588. and by consequent could not but by a greater miracle then Saint Dennis go and come into Spayne And addeth moreouer that that Mathew was a Spanish Frier of one of the four orders of the begging Friers I see the same aunswere to be likewise made by Moâ—â—â—gâ—es one of the chiefe men of your Order which made me presently exclaime against Arnauld O straunge impudence of an Aduocate against an innocent Societie But one of the companie interrupting me prayed me to take better aduisement for saith he if there be any impudence herein it is on the Iesuits part nay rather want of common sence For Arnauld was farre from saying that father Clâ—â—dâ—â—s Mathew was the bearer of those letters but an other Iesuite whose Christen name iumpt with Mathew his surname Let vs read his Plea When King Philip saith he by the Iesuits perswasion had sent a garrison of Spaniards into Paris and desired to haue some colourable title for that which he held alreadie by force whom sent he thether but father Mathew the Iesuite whose ChristeÌ„ name was all one with the other Mathewes surname the Iesuit that was the principall instrument of the League in the yeere 1583. This Mathew in fewe daies that hee abode in this Citie being lodged in the Colledge of the Iesuits caused this letter to be there written and signed Marke saith one of the companie who against my will insulted therupoÌ„ the foolish sophistrie of these fellowes For in their Pleas they make Arnauld say that which he neuer meant hauing in plaine termes distinguished betweene the two Mathewes Likewise to alledge that it was a Spanish Frier whose name was Mathew carieth lesse probabilitie because the foure orders of the begging Friers are not called Fathers but Friers or brothers and much lesse Reuerend whereas in this letter the bearer is stiled the Reuerend Father Mathew Which proueth palpably and to the eye that howsoeuer the letter were written in the name of the Sixteen seditious Gouernours and Tyrants of Paris whereof Pigenat was the Superintendent yet came it out of the Iesuits shop who were aswell the composers as the bearers thereof Compare the date of the letter which is of the 2. of Nouember 1591. with the sauage cruelty vsed the same month by those Sixteen against him that was then chiefe President of the Parliament of Paris and two other personages of name who were attached and executed all at one instant it will appeare that in all this buisines there was nothing but proceeded from the Iesuits If all these euidences in writing and confessions by mouth doe not yet satisfie you read the booke of René de la Fon you shall see that he acknowledgeth the Iesuits to haue been the authors originals of our last troubles and of the generall ruine of France But forasmuch as this Pamphlet is of great consequence to our present purpose you must vnderstand that Pasquier in two or three places of his pleadings fortuned to say that the sect of the Iesuits once taking root in France would bring forth a Seminary of diuision betweene the n = * The French and the Spayniard Christian and the Catholique in the end of his pleading protesteth that wheÌ„soeuer this misery should come to passe yet at the least they that should liue in those daies should acknowledge that this age was not vnfurnisht of such as had long before as it were from a high Tower foreseen the tempest to come In the yeere 1597. Monsieur Marion the Kings Aduocate in the court of Parliament of Paris pleading against the Iesuits of Lions recounting the mischiefes which this sect had caused added these words Wherein appeareth a notable example of the true predictioÌ„s which God when he pleaseth inspireth into those whom he loueth For the cause being solemnly pleaded aboue thirtie yeeres agoe for the admittance not of their Order which was neuer approued in Fraunce but of their Colledge into the bodie priuiledges of the Vniuesity the wisest men of that time hauing indeed a singular insight into the course of the world foresaw eueÌ„ in those daies that in tract of time they would kindle the flames of dissension in the midst of the Realme La Fon the Iesuit supposing that he meant it specially by Pasquiers Pleas takes vpon him to aunswere it but in so pleasant a manner as I cannot but acquaint you withall But what are these Diuine Diuiners saith he that prophecied so well so truly so effectually of the Iesuits Is it not possible for vs to diuine at their names and Diuinations although our breasts swell not with the enthusiasmes of these inspired spirits Is not Pasquier one of them And Marion in the prophecies which he alledgeth doth he not directy poynt at those which were vttered by Pasquier If I prophecie truly Pasquier his Pleas haue made me a Prophet This Plea hauing lyen buried for thirtie yeeres and digged vp againe within these three yeeres like an old Image loaden with newe Pardons hath like a ridiculous Pasquill spoken and prophecied backward That which in the yeere 1564. he neither could nor durst say returning out of hell in the yeere 1594. 95. better instructed in things which were past alredy he hath pronouÌ„ced theÌ„ like an Oracle from the tripode from him haue I learnt them But the mischiefe wil be wheÌ„ these pleadings shal be one day brought forth in their originall forme to discouer the new Pardons that are pasted vpon this plastred Pasquin and when the reward of his prophecies shal be branded vpon his backe O mightie and worthie champion meriting to haue his statue set vp in the mids of all your Colledges for hauing so valiantly hunted not to couert but to death the auncient enemie of your Order was there euer man that behaued himselfe better with his perme and his wit Onely this troubleth me that giuing such a braue onset vpon this poore old man he chargeth him at last to haue new forged his pleadings and set downe vnder the yeere 1594. in manner of a prophecie those things which he had seene come to passe through Fraunce the yeere 1564. whereby this honest man doth confesse that all the miseries of Fraunce haue proceeded from the Iesuits for this was the scope of Pasquier his Plea And my selfe also acknowledge that the holy Ghost was minded to speak by the mouth of this Iesuit O how great is the force of truth which cannot but break forth whatsoeuer fig-leaues of cunning cloaking
paused a while which gaue the Gentleman occasion to say vnto him I assure you Sir I cannot but much commend your inuention in representing this matter in the person of Stones For seeing men will not speake stones must their dealinges beeing such as you haue shewed and prooued not by proofes at randon and vncertaine but most infallible and drawne out of their owne bookes But how commeth it to passe that this being so notoriously knowne and remayning of record yet neuerthelesse there be certaine Courts of Parliament within the Realme which doe not onely receiuâ—â—â—em but honor cherish and embrace them within their Cities and iurisdictions I did expect you should aske me that question quoth the Aduocate and was about to haue entred thereinto of my selfe had you not preuented mee Thinke it not straunge it should be so it is a mysterie hidden in the secret counsell of God who hath not wholy withdrawn his wrath from vs but intendeth one day to vse these as his instruments to bring more plagues vpon vs. Neuerthelesse doe not you thinke but that those other Parliaments haue some great shew of reason for their doings Did you neuer see a new Testament wherein the histories were drawne in pictures In that place of the Gospell where our Sauiour is tempted in the desart Sathan is pictured in the habit of a Munke Some Lucianists sticke not to say that thereby is vnderstood that the life and conuersation of Munks is Diabolicall But I am of a contrarie opinion For whosoeuer the Painter was that in this matter of the temptatioÌ„ deuised to cloth the Diuell in those weeds he did it not without great consideration iudging that this being the true habit of piety there was no way more readie certain to surprise the consciences of well meaning men then by it The Diuel after he had set forth diuers mommeries of religious Orders he meant to set his rest vpon this and transforming himselfe into Ignacius and his adherents to pretend the holy name of Iesus and to promise by the mouth of the Iesuits not onely terrestriall kingdomes to Princes wherewith they would inuest them as Sathan did to our Sauiour but also the kingdome of heauen to such as would execute their malice against those Kings that were their enemies Wherein the Diuell hath not much missed of his ayme For vnder this glorious name hath he abused and onerreached our Popes their holines and consequently a number of religious soules And as himselfe is the Spirit of Diuision so is it no meruaile if the Iesuits his true and lawfull children enioy the same priuiledge that their father doth They haue caused diuision between themselues and our Prelates of Fraunce betweene themselues and the Vniuersities betweene Popes and Kings betweene Popes and other Prelats if now they cause a new dissension amongst our Parliaments of Fraunce they haue done that which onely was wanting to the ful and absolute accomplishment of the Sorbones prophecie when in her censure of the Iesuits Sect in the yeere 1554 she saith Multas in populo querelas multas lites dissidia contentiones aemulatioues variaque schismata inducit It breadeth many quarrels controuersies discords contentions emulations and many divisions amongst the people The Parliament of Paris vpon mature wise deliberation hath banished theÌ„ out of their iurisdiction Some other Parliaments doe retaine them albeit the attemps of Barriere and Chastell vppon the person of the King be vnto them notoriously knowne and that they were the first plotters and contriuers of our troubles When I thinke of these dissentions I am put in minde of a discreet aunswere made by King Henry the second touching the case of Pelisson President of the Parliament of Chamberi who by the sentence of the Parliament of Digeon was depriued of his office besides sundry other disgraces which he receiued vpon the complaint and information of Tabouè Atturny generall Afterward obtayning Letters for a second examination and and the cause being remoued to the Parliament of Paris he was restored to his office and Tabouè condemned to make him honourable amends bare-headed in his shirt with a halter about his neck The King beeing informed of these proceedings in both the Courts of parliament wisely made aunswer that he esteemed all his Iudges to be men of honestie vprightnes but that they of the parliament of Digeon had iudged according to their consciences and they of Paris according to right and iustice I make no doubt but that all the Iudges of other parliaments are by their consciences induced thereunto but this I say that there was neuer any thing decreed in Court more sufficiently and sincerely then this was by the parliament of Paris The other as I suppose are swayed by the authority of the holy Sea supporting the Iesuits which is no small aduantage for them to leane vnto notwithstanding I will oppugne them by the same authoritie beseeching them not to take in euill part this admonition which in all dutie humilitie I offer vnto their coÌ„siderations not doubting but after they haue heard me if at least they please to giue me hearing they will theÌ„selues condemne this their opinion You haue heeretofore vnderstood how at two seuerall times our Iesuits had practised the murder of the King and not at that time when hee was deuided from vs in religion but euen then when he was reconciled to our Church in the time of a truce desiring nothing else but a generall vnion and reconcilement of all his subiects throughout the Realme They are highly fauoured at Rome as the Iuie which seemeth outwardly to succour the wall when as inwardly it eateth into it but if they had euer conspired any attempt against the Popes person I am out of doubt that by the Decree of that great and holy Consistorie of Rome theyr Order would haue beene put downe and abolished for euer At the least I haue seene the like practise in a case not vnlike for a matter not so dangerous for example nor of such consequence as that shewed vppon the whole Order of the Humiliati I will acquaint you with the historie CHAP. 22. ¶ How the Order of Humiliatj was suppressed by Decree of the Consistorie of Rome and that there is greater cause to suppresse the Iesuits then the Humiliatj THis Order in outward appearance like this of the Iesuits promised so great sanctitie and deuotion as Cardinall Borrhomao the Archbishop of Millan vvould needes take vpon him the patronage and protection thereof This good Prelate perceiuing that the greatest part of them gaue themselues ouer to a voluptuous and dissolute kinde of life tooke in hand to reforme them which some of them tooke in such indignitie dignitie as that they vowed his death There was a Guardian of that Order resident in the Cittie of Versellis his name was Girolano Lignana who with certaine other his confederats vndertakes this execution And to make way to their purpose they resolued to kill Frier Fabio
not haue beene auoyded but their Generall the Prouincialls of their Order and the Priors of their Monasteries must haue beene of the conspiracie or at the least some part of them A clause which would not haue beene forgotten in the Decree that Pope Pius the fift the holy Consistorie of Rome sent out hauing so great intention finallie to suppresse them And this is the reason the Iesuits haue layed this condemnation most falsely vppon all the Order who had in Chapter as they say conspired against Borrhomeo Let vs acknowledge a truth like the children of Christ and not like the disciples of Ignacius This Order vvas growne very infamous by reason of their incontinency and licentious life the which the good Cardinall Borrhomaeo would haue helpt if it had beene possible This was I must confesse a fault and that verie foule and scandalous yet for this it is like they should not haue beene suppressed It is a vice whereunto naturally wee are prone Insomuch that hee who would suppresse all houses of Religion where this vice aboundeth especially those which are seated in places farre from resort wee may say with Tacitus Vt antea vitijs ita tum demuÌ„ legibus laboraremus And there might be peraduenture more scandale in suppressing then in winking at theyr vices How then What caused the suppression It vvas GODS will that vnexpectedly Lignana Pryor of Versellis and some others angry with this new reformation conspired against Borrhomaeo as it is expressed in the Bull. And this ryot was the cause of the suppression and this is the cause the Bull dooth recount theyr disorders in generall but specially theyr attempt against Borrhomaeo The which is set downe verie particularlie and not the incontinencies which La Fon reciteth VVhat is there in this storie but will fit the Iesuits as well as if it were made for them They are notorious throughout the world for the troubles raised by them in Fraunce And as manifest it is that they practised and bargained with a stranger to bring in a newe King into this kingdome The detestable fact of Barriere The howlings of Commolet to the people to kill the King euen in the time of the truce The people vvith one mouth from the youngest to the most aged cried vengeance on them so soone as the King reentred Paris The cause was pleaded in the name of the Vniuersitie and as it falleth out oftentimes that in matter of iudgement where the cause is of consequence while we feare to be negligent wee growe ouer-curious so heere the cause was referred to counsaill GOD would so haue it that Chastell a disciple of the Iesuits poysoned vvith theyr damnable positions wounded the King with a knife and beeing taken hee maintained in the open face of iustice that hee might doe it lawfully The haynousnes of thys fact aggrauated with other circumstances gaue occasion of the pronouncing the processe against the whole Order Nowe I pray you tell mee if the same holie Ghost which wrought in the suppression of the Humiliati had not a stroke likewise in driuing the Iesuits out of Paris They are the same things the same proceedings vnder seuerall names Theyr difference is in these two poynts The one that the Humiliati in being too subiect to their pleasure sinned yet committed such a sinne as our corrupt nature teacheth vs but the Iesuits beeing the principall Authours of the troubles wherein two hundred thousand lost theyr liues haue sinned against GOD against nature For nature abhorres nothing more then death which is so cheape among the Iesuits to the losse of others The other difference is that the attempt of Lignana was but against a Cardinall whoÌ„ I acknowledge willingly to be one of the holiest men our age yeeldeth A Cardinall whom the Colledge would be loth to spare yet notwithstanding hee liues and liueth in as great reputation as euer hee did Whereas the attempt of Chastell endangered a King sole in his kingdome such a king as the world must yeeld to bee as valiant wise and curteous as anie before him and by whose death if the treason had sorted to effect wee were to expect nothing but horrour and confusion our olde inhabitants And yet they must be cherrished in some part of the kingdome But because some not remembring or not obseruing things past others not foreseeing lesse laboring to preuent dangers to come suffer themselues to be abused by them accounting them the Champions and protectors of the Catholick faith I wil make it manifest vnto you that their sect is as dangerous as Martin Luthers that there is nothing the Pope hath more to feare as preiudiciall to his authority and greatnes then their Generall what showes and protestations soeuer they make to the contrary notwithstanding CHAP. 24. ¶ That the Sect of the Iesuits is no lesse dangerous to our Church then the Lutherans THis position may seeme at the first sight Paradoxicall but it is true The distribution of the hierarchicall Order of our Church hath a proportion and correspondeÌ„cy with the humane body wherin the head coÌ„mandeth ouer the other members amongst the which there are certaine noble parts as the hart the liuer the lungs without which the bodie cannot consist So as hee who would take from the head to adde to the noble parts or diminish them to giue vnto the head disordering the proportion and correspondency which should bee betwixt the members hee should confound destroy the bodie So is it in our hierarchy the head of the Church is our holy father the Pope the noble parts vnder him are the Archbishops Bishoppes Cardinals Priors Abbots I will adde Princes Lords Vniuersities as for the rest of the people they represent the other members of the body Martin Luther was the first who durst traduce this head bringing in a form of Aristocratie into our Church making all the Bishops in their seueral dioceses equall to the Sea Apostolique There succeeded him Ignactius Loyhola some yeeres after who by a contrarie course defended the authoritie of the holy Sea but after such a fashion as hee no lesse endamaged our Church then theirs For pretending more zeale to the Sea and our holy Father then the rest and still intituling him to more predominant and new authoritie ouer the Ordinaries hee and his successiuely obtaynd from diuers Popes so many Priuiledges Indulgences and Graunts in disaduantage of the Prelats Monasteries and Vniuersities that suffering them to liue in the midst of vs you disfigure stain the face of the Catholique and Vniuersall Church RemeÌ„ber what the Iesuit said to you this other day you will find my words true The difference betwixt Luther and Ignace is that hee troubled our Church fighting against the head And this warring against the noble parts All extremitie is a vice vertue is â—â—â—ympiere betwixt both For mine owne part I beleeâ—â—â—hat the true Catholique Apostolick Roman faith is that which hath bin in vse euer
he vsed And that you may not thinke that this Maxime proceedeth from the pliantnes of their consciences which they restraine or extend as best fitteth their profit their good Father Ignace first taught them this dispensation whereof since they haue made a particular constitution The other holy Fathers founders of diuers orders of Religion established diuers ordinances which they fastened if I may so speake with nailes of Diamond in tombs of brasse which should perpetually be obserued by their Munks and other Religious In the Sect of Iesuits there is nothing so certaine as their vncertaintie as I said of late In the Bull of Pope Paule the third it is written as followeth Et quod possint constitutiones particulares quas ad Societatis huiusmodi finem Iesu Christi Domini nostri gloriam ac proximi vtilitateÌ„ conformes esse iudieauerint condere tam hactenus factas quam in posterum faciendas constitutiones ipsas iuxta locorum temporuÌ„ reruÌ„ qua litatem varietatem mutare alterare seu in totum cassare alias de nouo condere possint valeant Quae postea alteratae mutatae seu de nouo conditae fuerint eo ipso Apstolicae sedis authoritate praefata confirmatae censeaniur cadem Apostolica authoritate de speciali gratia indulgemus That they may make saith Pope Paule particular ordinances which they shal iudge fit for the Societie to the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ and the profit of their neighbour And that such as are alreadie made or shall be made hereafter they may chaunge alter or abolish according to the varietie of place time and occasions and in steed of them make new the which so chaunged reuoked or new made we will that they be confirmed by the foresaid authoritie of the Apostolique Sea and by the same authoritie of our speciall grace and fauour we confirme them I haue translated this place word for word and yet when the Bull saith in Latine that the constitutions may be chaunged as shall be fit for the Societie it must be vnderstood for the maintenance and aduancement of the Order Out of this generall constitution they haue drawne one particular which is woorthie to be knowne in the 16. part of their constitutions Chapter 5. the title beginning thus Quod Constitutiones peccati obligationem non inducunt Cum exoptet Societas vniuersas suas Constitutiones declarationes ac viuendi ordinem omnino iuxta nostrum institutum nihil vltraan re declinando obseruari Optet etiam nihilominus suos omnes securos esse vet certè adiuuari ne in laqueum vllius peccati quod ex vi constuationum huiusmodi aut ordinationum proueniat incidant visum est nobis in Domino vt excepto expresso voto quo Societas summo Pontifici pro tempore existente tenetur aecâ—tribus alijs essentialibus Paupertatis Castitatis Obedientiae nullas Constitutiones declarationes vel ordinem vllum viuends posse obligationem ac peccatum mortale vel veniale inducere Nisi Superior ea in nomine Domini Iesu Christi vel in virtute obedientiae iuberet And a little after Et loco timoris offensae succedat amor desiderium omnis perfectionis vt maior gloria laus Christi creatâ—ris ac Domini nostri consequatur That the constitutions may not bind any man in conscience sith the Societie desires that all their constitutions declarations and order of life should be without euasion conformable to our direction and also neuerthelesse wisheth to be secured or at least succourd that they be not snared in any sin which may grow by theyr constitutions or ordinances We haue thought good in the Lord exception taken to the expresse vow wherewith the societie is bound to the Pope for the time beeing and the three other essentiall vowes of Pouertie Chastitie and Obedience that no Constitutions declarations or any order of life shall impose any yoake of mortall or veniall sinne vpon them vnlesse their Superiour commaund those thinges in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ or in the vertue of obedience And againe In stedde of feare of offending let loue and desire of all perfection come in place and let the glory praise of Christ our Lord and Maker be the more exalted By the first article it is lawfull for them to change rechange their constitutions at their own pleasure forsooth for their good By the second their constitutions are held in regard of the soule indifferent so that the Iesuit may breake them without committing mortall or veniall sinne A law which their great Law-giuer gaue them to the end that to Gods honour and glory there might be fewer sinners in theyr societie Oh holy soules oh pure consciences Who restrayning their inferiours from sinne take themselues the reines committing all manner of sinne vncontrouled Let vs examine these poynts without passion and let vs consider the scope of these two propositions By the first no Prince shall be assured of his estate and by the second no Prince shal be secure of his person in his own kingdome Concerning the first poynt call to minde howe matters haue beene carried for these 25. or 30. yeeres There hath beene no Nation where they be fostered but they would be tempering with their affaires of state I think they are such honest men as what herein they haue done they haue vndertaken to doe it by vertue of their silent Constitutions which the auncient Romans termed Senatus-Consulta tacita or if they did it by their owne priuate authoritie the Generall vvere vnworthy of his place should he suffer it Further this was forbidden them in the yeere 1593 when they sawe all their plots meere frustrate Admit newe troubles should arise these gallants will cassiere and disanull this last Ordinaunce suffering their companions to intermedle as before This same Pauline will it not breede in them a trouble-state where euer they become â—manuel Saâ—n his Aphoâ—ismes of confession Montag cap. 58. But what are their rules in such affaires Marry that it is lawfull to kill a Tyrant That a King breaking and contemning the common lawes of the Land may be depriued of his Crowne by the people That there are other causes for the which Princes and great personages may be slaine In what a miserable condition shall Princes liue if the assurance of theyr Estate shall depend vpon these fellowes Let vs see their newe constitutions of 93. I will that they meddle not at all in affaires of state in generall termes And that particulerly they practise not vpon the person of Princes Are they bound to obey this Nothing lesse Inasmuch as their Lawgiuer chargeth not their consciences but in expresse termes he would otherwise haue charged them by vertue of their blinded obedience And this is the cause that Commolet preaching since this new Statute that there wanted a newe Chud to kill our King and Walpoole furnishing Squire with poyson and instructions to kill the