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A19434	Anti-Coton, or, A Refutation of Cottons letter declaratorie lately directed to the Queene Regent, for the apologizing of the Iesuites doctrine, touching the killing of kings : a booke, in which it is proued that the Iesuites are guiltie, and were the authors of the late execrable parricide, committed vpon the person of the French King, Henry the Fourth, of happie memorie : to which is added, a Supplication of the Vniuersitie of Paris, for the preuenting of the Iesuites opening their schooles among them, in which their king-killing doctrine is also notably discouered, and confuted / both translated out of the French, by G.H. ; together with the translators animaduersions vpon Cottons letter.	Plaix, César de, d. 1641.; Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Du Coignet, Pierre.; Du Bois-Olivier, Jean, d. 1626.; Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1611 (1611)	STC 5861.2; ESTC S1683	49,353	94

ANTI-COTON OR A REFVTATION OF Cottons Letter Declaratorie lately directed to the Queene Regent for the Apologizing of the Iesuites doctrine touching the killing of KINGS A BOOKE In which it is proued that the Iesuites are guiltie and were the Authors of the late execrable Parricide committed vpon the Person of the French King HENRY the fourth of happie memorie TO WHICH IS ADDED A Supplication of the Vniuersitie of Paris for the preuenting of the Iesuites opening their Schooles among them in which their King-killing Doctrine is also notably discouered and confuted Both translated out of the French by G. H. Together with the Translators animaduersions vpon Cottons Letter LONDON Printed by T. S. for Richard Boyle and are to be solde at his Shop in the blacke Fryers 1611. TO THE QVEENE REGENT May it please your Maiestie IN as much as it is the common opinion as well of your owne Subiects at home as of Strangers abroad that the Iesuites were the workers of that damnable Parricide which striking to the heart of our deceased King whom God absolue hath stricken to the very throate of Fraunce it selfe and thereupon the Iesuites complaine that they are wrongfully dealt withall and that these reports are spread by their enemies thereby to make them odious to the world I thought it necessarie to make appeare to your Maiestie the originall causes of this aspersion cast vpon them to the end that if it be found to spring from sure and vndoubted grounds your Maiestie may from thence coniecture whether it may stand with the safeguard of the present King your Sonnes life to suffer these holy Fathers to approach neere his person as also whether it may be done without holding your Subiects in continuall alarmes and de●iances one of another For if it were forbidden by Moses Law as Father Cotton hath obserued in his Epistle Dedicatorie to seeth the Kid in the milke of the Damme much more vnlawfull must it needs be to deliuer the Sonne into hands already imbrewed in the bloud of the Father I desire not to be beleeued without euident proofes and professe withall that I am no way transported with passion against their persons nor would at all bee drawne to speake or write against them if after the maner of other Monkes and Fryers they would be content to bound themselues within the lists of instructing the people and managing the affaires of the Church but that which I now speake is not the suggestion of Heretiques but the testimonie of your highest Courts of Iustice the consent of the greatest part of your Clergie and among them euen of the sacred facultie of Diuinitie and in a word the common vniuersall out-crie of all your people all which notwithstanding would willingly haue learned the Arte of forgetfulnesse with Father Aubigny and beene content to mourne without speaking a word were it not that wee see the murthering of Princes become a custome and that if your Maiestie put not to your hand to stop it betimes Treason will shortly stand in the rancke of Christian vertues and be helde the fairest and shortest way to heauen If then your Maiestie please for a while to lay aside your important affaires of State and to peruse this ensuing discourse you shall finde I doubt not in this case the voyce of the people the voyce of God whom I beseech to make the Flower de Lice to flowrish vpon your Sonnes head and to poure downe vpon your Maiestie all possible happinesse Your Maiesties most humble and obedient Subiect P. D. C AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER READER meruaile not that the Author of the Worke puts not to his name it may iustly be imputed to the iniquitie of the times in which it is hard to vtter the truth and not thereby to procure enemies notwithstanding if there be any that will vndertake the answering of it from point to point which I hold impossible such is the cleere euidence of truth the Author promiseth to reioyne vpon the same subiect and withall to discouer his name for hee hath both courage and countenance enough to maintaine himselfe and his cause against the malice of his aduersaries and the troublers of the publike peace A REFVTATION of Father Cottons declaratorie Letter to the Queene Regent That the doctrine of the Iesuites approues and maintaines the Parricide of Kings and the Rebellion of Subiects CHAP. I. THat we may take all rubs out of the way and fully cleere the doubt in question it will not proue vnnecessarie to search out and discouer the dependances of the matter in hand till wee arise to the head-spring it selfe Wee finde it registred in the French History that in the yeare 1407. Lewes Duke of Orleans brother to King Charles the sixt of that name the 22. of Nouember in the twilight was slaine by Assassinates hired to that purpose by Iohn Duke of Burgundie who then contested his right to the Regencie against the said Duke of Orleans but the Duke of Burgundie being no way able to inuent any colourable varnish for the shifting off the fact grew bolde to maintaine in the presence of the Princes of the bloud and Officers of the Crowne that what was acted by his command was honourable and iust and thereupon set a worke Iohn Petit Doctor of Diuinitie by birth a Norman who publikely defended that both by the Law of God and man as well Canon as Ciuill it was lawfull for any man to make away a tyrant and that by any meanes whereupon the matter was so carried partly through feare of violence and partly by strength of perswasion that the course of Iustice for that time was stopt and nothing done At that time there liued in Paris Iohn Gerson Chancellour of the Vniuersitie a man of no meane learning as that age afforded who strongly opposed himselfe to the fore-mentioned proposition of Iohn Petit insomuch that not long after a generall Councell being held at Constance Gerson was imployed thither as Ambassadour from Charles the sixt hauing in his instructions expresse charge to propose that conclusion to the Fathers of the Councell by them to be further discussed and censured where both parties being indifferently heard what could be obiected on either side the Councell in their fifteenth Session condemned the opinion of Iohn Petit as hereticall the Canon begins thus Quilibet Tyrannus c. plainely defining that it no way rightfully fals within the compasse of the Subiects reach to set vpon the person of his Soueraigne vnder pretence of curbing a Tyrant This erroneous Doctrine hauing beene now a long time quenched as it were and buried by the authoritie of this Councell is now againe enlightened and set a foote by the Iesuites but vnder the cloake and colour of Religion that is to say when it shall be iudged necessarie to make away a King for the good of the Church to this purpose they haue published diuers discourses in which they permit and incite the Subiect to kill his Soueraigne when his

that not onely by the Romane lawes the Authors whereof were Pagans and Idolaters but euen by the lawes of God as we may read in the 18. Chap. of Deutronomie And Tertullian giues the reason of it in his Apologe ticus to wit that such a one hath imaginations against the Princes life that makes such inquirings about it Two yeares after this so it fell that Mounsieur de le Forze Lieutenant for the King in Bearne by the intelligences which hee had from Spaine by reason of his neighbour-hood vnto it was aduertised that a Spaniard of such a stature of such an hayre and in such apparrell departed such a day from Barcelona to go into France with intendment to make away the King by poyson or other meanes Well this Spaniard came to Paris addressed himselfe to Father Cotton who brought him vnto the King gaue high commendations of him A while after came the Letters of Monsieur de la Forze when the King had read them hee sends forth to seeke Father Cotton and shewes him the Letters of Mounsieur de la Forze and commands him to bring backe againe that same Spaniard Father Cotton answeres he could not belieue it and that the aduertisement was false neuerthelesse he would go seeke out the said Spaniard and bring him before his Maiestie Whereupon he goes forth and returning a good while after hee tels the King he could not finde him and that hee was gone To see clearely vnto the bottome of this but a little good sight is too much It is not aboue a yeare agoe that Father Cotton wrote vnto a prouincial of Spaine diuers things which our King had vttered in secret and reuealed in Confession and such as turned to the disgrace of his Maiestie The discouery whereof was the cause why hee continued in disgrace for the space of sixe Moneths Neuerthelesse the late King through a clemencie that was fatall vnto his owne destruction forgaue him and receiued him into fauour But it may be remembred how not many daies after our young King being importuned by him gaue him a gird by such an answere as he well deserued in these tearmes I will tell you nothing for you will writo in into Spaine as you haue done the confession of my Father And to come neere the fact of Rauillac like as after the death of Henry the third a man might heare the Iesuites preach sediciously and exhort their auditors to do the like vnto his Successor and amongst others Father Commolet crying out in his Sermons We haue need of an Ehud be he a Monke or be he a Souldiour we haue need of an Ehud Right so at Lent last might a man haue heard a Iesuite by name Father Hardy Son to one Mercier dwelling on Nostre-Dame bridge preaching at S. Seuerins and saying that Kings heaped vp treasures to make themselues feared but that there needed but a mattocke to kill a King In witnesse whereof I can produce Mounsier le Grand and Mounsier de la Vau Counsailours of the Court who were present thereat besides diuers others At the same time Father Gontier preached so sediciously and so iniuriously against the King that Mounsier the late Marshall of Ornano as zealously affected vnto the Catholique religion as any man in France being asked of his Maiestie what hee thought of his Sermons made answere to him that if Gontier had spoken as much at Burdeaux he would haue caused him to be throwne into the Riuer Euery one from that time might prognosticate some great mischiefe and the murmure was so great amongst true Frenchmen that my selfe falling on a time amongst good company where some speach past between vs one of them affirmed that a iolly man of qualitie called Mounsier de la Grange Secretary to the Prince of Condy would auouch to Fathe● Gontier s face that whiles during these warres he remained prisone● at Perigeus the said Gontier in presence of Father Saphore Rector of the Colledge did maintaine against the said de la Grange that it were a good deed to kill the King Yet this is not all for to giue fire to the match at both ends the Iesuites by meanes of a person named Guron who makes shew of much deuotion would faine haue prescribed vnto the Curates of the parishes in Paris a forme of preaching the very last Lent giuing them in writing sundry discourses tending to sedition But diuers honest Curates came to the Duke of Sully beseeching him that by his meanes they might speake with the King to whom they made their complaints saying there were some that would prescribe them to preach things contrarie to their allegiance The excessiue clemencie of this great King contented it selfe with making remonstrance hereof vnto Father Gontier yea and to winne his heart he made him his Preacher and gaue him a pension Like as before lightning a man shall heare some grumbling in the Clouds euen so these preachings and seditious meetings were the forerunners of this great blow that hath shaken this State in the person of so great a King whose losse we lament now but shall feele it much more in the time to come Adde hereunto the Confession of Rauillac who iustified vnto Father Aubigny that hee had told him in confession that he had ben sent to giue a great stroke and that hee shewed him the knife hauing an heart grauen vpon it But the said Iesuite protested that God had giuen him this grace that so soone as ought was reuealed vnto him in confession hee forgat it incontinently The Gallant saued his life by this but had he beene in another Countrey hee would haue beene taught the Art of Memorie They that haue sounded this Rauillac and haue beene present at his examination may perceiue that the said parricide hath beene very throughly instructed in this matter for in euery other point of Diuinitie hee shewed himselfe most ignorant but in the question whether it be lawfull to kill a Tyrant he was well skilled in all manner of euasions and Iesuiticall distinctions as my Lords the Commissioners can testifie the Sieur Coeffeteau Doctor of Diuinitie and others who had the examination of this Rauillac in this matter And this parricide being demanded what moued him to this attempt told them more then once What the causes were why it was requisite to kill the King they might vnderstand by the Sermons of the Preachers His meaning was that he was induced hereunto be the sermons before mentioned But more then this it was easie to perceiue that besides publike exhortations he had withall receiued particular instructions at large so well seene was hee in this argument Neyther is it a circumstance to be neglected that Father Cotton hauing obtained leaue to speake with Rauillac in prison amongest other things that he spake vnto him this was one Looke well to it that you accuse not the Innocent fearing belike least hee should accuse the Iesuites but the Cordeliers Carmelites and