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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02994	A discourse to the lords of the Parliament As touching the murther committed vppon the person of Henrie the Great, King of Fraunce. Manifestlie prooving the Iesuites to be the plotters and principall deuisers of that horrible act. Translated out of French, and published by authority.; Remonstrance à messieurs de la Cour de Parlement sur le parricide commis en la personne du roy Henry le Grand. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1611 (1611)	STC 13134; ESTC S103959	20,195	50

weake so witlesse They were so choaked with the ioye of his death so ouer ioyed with the glorie of his murther as that they had quite cleane forgotten the sorow due to our common griefe and the praises due to his worthy life Wretched thing that it is to haue procured to them such honour nay such pleasure and vnto France such a perpetual reproach so immortall shame shall I euer forget that thou hast a hand in this vnhappinesse When they chose thee in their affaires and businesses as Protector and Procurer diddest thou not perceaue these Hippocrites the shadowes of sanctimonie how they curtesied and courted thee how they sought and solicited thee at thine vprising at thy downe-lying to the end that by thy credite against the decree of a most soueraigne Court a decree pronounced by the bleeding mouth of thy distressed Master they might be recalled into France againe Thinkest thou that if the Court had giuen thee neuer so little incouragement it had been fot good or for euill for their praise or for their dispraise had it been conuenient that they should so strumpet-like vildely and villanously prostitute their shamefastnes to thy shame They whose pride is well knowne to haue no other purpose but to broke and buye our ruine thongh it be valued at the rate of their highest shame are they not worthy to bee shunned And among the rest thou thy selfe sith thou art not borne to die for griefe were it not fit that thou shouldest come to the Court with an halter about thy necke creeping on thy belly clad in sacke-cloth and ashes to craue of him pardon and Iustice pardon for thy brutishnesse that art so neare in fault to a fault so monstrous in that thou hast presumed vppon a fauour most vnworthily giuen thee in causes belonging to kings to doe against the lawes ignorant and infamous person that thou art Iustice against those haue blindfolded thee bewitched thee made thee the instrument of thy Maysters murther and of such a Maister as from the dunghill hath raised and enritched thee without any desart of thine as against all reason so beyond measure and nature But my Lords it may be Peter Cottons declaratiō hath satisfied you blot out his suspitions Put him ouer to be examined by our Abbot by our Clergie men that can better handle this matter than you yet it were good to haue an eye to the maine in as much as the case stood otherwise before my L. Chancellor according to his grauity and wisedome corrected it They are reproached with that famous booke of D. Iohn Mariana which breatheth out nothing else but poison and slaughter They make vs belieue it is a very badde booke In our Iesuites Calapine might not a man thinke you picke out some one word or other that may bring this booke into detestation whē his owne mouth speaketh so maydenly of his owne worke what doth he leaue vs to coniecture of his heart Thus himselfe speaketh of himselfe This booke of mine saith he is but the slight passage of an euill cut pen Is he to be acquitted to be cleared for these gallant Metaphors for these glozing far-fetcht borrowed phrases whereas this execrable doctrine of his that hath passed currant without contradiction these seauenteene yeres sauoureth of nothing else but mischiefe and murther and that not against meane men but the mightiest it aymeth at nothing but Kings and Princes But saith he what charity what iustice were this that for one Mariana the whole society should suffer And why not for it is the whole society that speaketh and offendeth in Mariana for it appeareth by his owne mouth by his own assertions and attestations that the grauest and most learned of that sect and sort haue taken a view thereof the Prouinciall and Visitor haue allowed of it the Generall taken order that it should be imprinted to haue it acknowledged for a most Autenticke woorke of that society what greater ceremonie would they haue then this what other forme of confirmation But let vs farther saye it is not one Mariana alone that hath written of this matter of this subiect The Iesuites of all Nations of all Climates haue practized this Apostleshippe haue published this Gospell Emanuell Sa the Portugall Gabriell Vasques and Peter Ribadineira Spaniards Martin Becanus and Nicholas Bonarsius base Almains Iohn Guignard and the Authors of the Apologie of Chastell Frenchman Robert Bellarmine Italian Ioseph Creswell Englishman and many others haue executed the selfe same practise with ioynt consent vpon the persons of Kings and Princes in Fraunce in England in the lowe Countries and of late memotie in Transiluania where there was but one onely so contagious and corrosiue is this poison whersoeuer it catcheth hold wheresoeuer it seazeth Our dolefull mischiefe was knowne at Prage at Madrill at Brucells before it came vnto vs as the Ambassors euer truely iustified and all this done by the most accursed correspondence of that company To conclude let vs all iumpe in this which is a thing more then certaine that whether it bee their best Diuines their most authorized Doctors Prouincialls Generalls Cardinalls pretended Martires or whosoeuer else of that rascally rabble they haue all conspired and knotted themselues together to no better intent than is already alleadged For as touching any thing that they can saye for themselues to cleare their accursed cause it is so weake so withered so darke so double so spoken in the teeth so tumbled out that there is no one so simple or so sencelesse but that he may with ease iudge that it is the doctrine of Equiuocants the doctrine of D. Navarre that is spoken But we saye they in our congregation Provinciall held at Paris requested of the Generall of our company that whosoeuer had written to the preiudice of the crowne of France he should be punished and his booke suppressed Now note my good Lords what hath happened fifteene yeres after when this poyson had leisure to runne throughout all the vaines and let them preduce but any one if they can what hath beene excommunicate or otherwise censured for this booke or for any the like Or let vs our selues remember what Curate wee haue knowne solemnly in the Church to haue but threatned Hell to such a Diuell as these Iesuites are yea saye you but there was one censured true but why I pray you forsooth for telling tales out of the schoole for too openly and too seuerely publishing their secrets abroad And to what end I pray you was this great peece of seruice done surely to as great purpose as that that Rauailac did to let fall the knife after hee had strooke the fatall blowe burne the booke after they had fired their hearts by the meanes of all these hell hound spirits of Europe But made he not as good a confession of his faith to the Queene It is to bee seene saith he in the Councell of Constance c. What better thing could he haue spoken Here beginneth