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A68221	Antisixtus An oration of Pope Sixtus the fift, vppon the death of the late French King, Henrie the third. With a confutation vpon the sayd oration, wherein all the treacherous practises of the house of Lorraine, are largely described and layde open vnto the view of the world, with a briefe declaration of the kings death, and of many other things worthy the noting, which neuer yet came to light before. Translated out of Latin by A.P.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.	1590 (1590)	STC 14002; ESTC S114241	39,544	58

sorrowe was seene in al the Campe but greate ioye among the ennemy whose reioysing voices were hearde at that instant demanding one of another whether the Friars knife was sufficiently sharpe or not The King thus wounded was laid in his bed wher he yeelded by his ghost vnto God the next night following hauing before made his will and set al things in good order Here haue you hearde the ende of this mighty Prince and here may you beholde as in a looking glasse the ouerthrowe of a whole Realme I see many thinges in it to bee lamented Wheresoeuer I turne my selfe I can perceaue nothing but a dreadfull horrour a cruell and blouddy spectacle yet nothing more heauily doth present it selfe afore vs then thine Oration Sixtus an ouerplus to the common griefe Farre bee such a shame from vs lette it suffice vs to haue lost a good Prince and that by our owne faulte and negligence as to suffer the name of the dead to bée slandered and defamed and the Monuments of so many worthy acts destroyed Therfore I demand first of thée Sixtus by what lawes that I shall contend with thée With Christian lawes But what hast thou to doe with Christ whose birth and buriall thou ●landerest with a most detestable murtherers comparison With the lawes of nature but by what bandes of nature can bee vpholden the maintainer of willfull murther Howe then with the ciuil lawes The statutes of Princes and the ciuill lawes haue enacted diuers and seuere punishmentes vnto those that offended but by chaunce but vnto those that reuenged their priuate quarrell by their own authoritie fearfull torments What punishments doe they alot then vnto those who violat ouerthrow the welfare af a common wealth truly almost incredible But I see that I am constrained to séeke out new lawes to deale with thée I am ready for it Thou the autor of new offences shalt bée my lawe and witnesse Europe the court and the Heauens the Iudges and vpon these equall conditions I will pleade against thée Come then and hearken first vnto this It séemeth verie straunge vnto mee and therefore make me somewhat better acquainted with it that thou so oftentimes vsurpest the worde of Gods iudgement Could not this suffice thee to know God to bée the best of all goodnesse but to say that hée willed such a detestable and wicked act In déede wée sée euerie where his wonderful iudgements and we know that Princes the larger their gouernement hath béene the greater accounts they haue to make Besides if kinges had committed any offence that not onely themselues did smart for it but sometimes all their subiects felt the punishment thereof Both is to be séene in the holie Scriptures I will not deny but that this prince hath suffered deserued punishment if thou doest regard God onely in whose eies all thinges are corrupt naught and crooked nothing entire or vndefiled But leaue the iudgement hereof vnto God not vnto thy selfe Sixtus How knowest thou whether this is in stéede of a blessing and benefit which thou thinkest to be a curse and a punishment Did not Iosias also die an vntimely death doth not God most often cal them first vnto him whom he loueth Are tirants not séene oftentimes to raigne and liue longest and good princes seldome come to great age Superfluous nay too curoius it were Sixtus to search examin these things more impious to iudge them But let it be so I grant this vnto thée Shall therfore the excuse and cloake of Gods iudgement protect defend the cause of a murtherer the king of France for his offences hath deserued some heauy punishment at Gods hāds doth it follow therfore the he is to he accounted godly great famous happy and worthy the title of an Emperor whosoeuer of the common people the most abiect and vilest shall haue murthered his Prince Then with thée that sonne shall be accounted innocent that is a reuenger of his fathers offence by his fathers death and the indignation of those children estéemed iust spilling the bloud of their parentes in Gods quarrell What is he worthy any longer to be reuerenced and honored with the title of a father who liketh the example of naturall affection violated and quite extinguished Herewith thou art touched Sixtus but wherfore art thou so soone afeard thou hast no cause yet to tremble these are but toyes and trifles come but néere for to heare that which shall not make thée pale but altogether senselesse Let first the lawes of bloud and nature which are the sacred bandes of humaine societie depart and goe aside for as long as they are present I haue no reason to speake any word at all I grant againe that it is lawfull by thy lawes to kill parents condemned by iudgement and an executioner not to be wanted in the citie as long as the offenders sonne is found present Let thy iudge then pronounce sentence and say That lawfully the sonne may kill the father but let him adde vnto it at the least accused noted and condemned of a notorious offence as an enemie vnto the cōmon wealth that by these meanes the priuate lawes of a familie may be disanulled by those which concerne the publike vtilitie But contrariwise if thou destroyest the publike commoditie by a publicke offence away with thy lawes for they cannot be exogated with the welfare of a common wealth Let vs now sée then Here lyeth wallowing in his bloud not the father of a priuate familie but hée of a great kingdome not the griefe of one household but the heauinesse and sorrow of a whole realme most trecherously procured And yet doest thou commende this and sayest that he is murthered worthely Well let it be so so that he for whom we mourne be too worthy for to die after such a manner But what was the offence in the reuenge whereof the diuine the ciuill the common and priuate lawes did cease and loyter Thou sayst that he hath commanded Lodouick the Cardinall the Guise his brother to be executed whose consecrated head was not to be touched but only by full authoritie from the Bishop of Rome Thou cruell beast dost thou say that it is not lawfull for a King ruling onely by Gods grace and authoritie to punish traytors against his Maiestie and conuicted so oftentimes to haue troubled the publike peace and that it is permitted vnto a gracelesse Friar to stabbe a Prince for to haue iustly executed a Cardinall What say ye to this O ye Princes of Europe vpon whose neckes this cruell and bloudie Lyon treadeth If he were to be punished it was not to be done after that order witnesses were to be produced the offender was to be heard iudges to be chosen no hast was to be made vpon the execution of so great a Potentate As if he wanted witnesses by whose ambition now 3. yeares together France hath béene disquieted with ciuill warres but his execution was to be delayed to what end To the

ANTISIXTVS An oration of Pope Sixtus the fift vppon the death of the late French King Henrie the third WITH A Confutation vpon the sayd Oration wherein all the treacherous practises of the house of Lorraine are largely described and layde open vnto the view of the world with a briefe declaration of the Kings death and of many other things worthy the noting which neuer yet came to light before Translated out of Latin by A. P. LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe 1590. An Oration of Pope Sixtus the fift vpon the death of King Henry the third in Rome in the full assemblie of the Cardinalles COnsidering oftentimes with my selfe and applying my whole vnderstanding vnto these things which now of late by a iust iudgement of God are come to passe I thinke I may with right vse the words of the Prophet Abacuck saying I haue wrought a worke in your daies and none will beleeue it though it be told them The French King is slaine by the hands of a Friar for vnto this it may fitly be compared although the Prophet spake of an other thing namely of the incarnation of our Lord which excéedeth and surmounteth all other wonders and miracles whatsoeuer as also the Apostle S. Paul referreth the same wordes vnto the resurrection of Christ When the Prophet sayde a worke his minde was not to signifie by it some common or ordinarie thing but a rare and notable matter and a déede worthie to be remembred as that of the creation of the worlde The heauens are the workes of thine handes And againe He rested the seauenth day of all the workes which he had made When he sayth I haue wrought with these wordes the holy Scripture is wont to expresse thinges not come to passe by casualtie fortune or accident but things befallen by the determined prouidence will and ordinance of God as our Sauiour sayde The workes which I doe yée shall doe also and yet greater and many more such like wherewith the holy Scriptures are replenished And that he saith that it is done in times past herein hee followeth the vse and order of the other Prophets who for the certentie of the euent are wont to prophesie of things to come as if they were past alreadie For the Philosophers say that things past are of necessitie things present of being and thinges to come only of possibilitie For which certaintie the Prophet Isaie long before prophisying of the death of Christ hath thus spoken He was led as a shéepe to the slaughter and like a dumme lambe before his shearer so opened hée not his mouth c. And this whereof we speake at this present and which is come to passe in these our dayes is a famous notable and an vncredible thing not done or atcheiued without the particular prouidence and disposition of the Almightie A Friar hath kilde a King not a painted one or drawen vpon a péece of paper or pictured vpon a wall but the King of France in the midest of his armie compassed and enuiconed round about with his Guard and Souldiers which truely is such an act and donne in such a manner that none will beléeue it when it shall be tolde them and perhaps our posteritie and the age to come will account and estéeme it but a fable That the king is dead or else slaine it is easily to be beléeued but that he is kild and taken away in this sort is hardly to be credited euen as we presently agrée vnto this that Christ is borne of a woman but if we adde vnto it of a woman virgine then following naturall reason we can in no wise assent vnto it Euen so we lightly beléeue that Christ died but that he is risen vp againe from death to life it falleth harde vnto mans vnderstanding and therefore not lightly digested That one is wakened againe out of a sléepe extasie or a sound because it is not against nature we naturally beléeue it but to be risen againe from death it séemeth so vncredible vnto the flesh that S. Paule desputing in Athens of this point was nushked greatly and accused to be a setter soorth of new Gods so that many as S. Luke witnesseth did mocke him and many for the strangenesse of the doctrine saide We will heare thée againe of this thing Of such things therefore which befall not according to the lawes of nature and the ordinarie course thereof speaketh the Prophet That none shall beléeue it when it shall be tolde them But wee giue credite vnto it by consideration of the omnipotencie of God and by submission of our vnderstanding vnder the obedience of faith and seruice which we owe vnto our Sauiour Christ And by these meanes this that was incredible by nature commeth credible by faith therefore we that beléeue not after the flesh that Christ is borne of a virgine yet when there is added vnto it that this was doone supernaturally by operation of the holy Ghost then truely we agree vnto it and faithfully beléeue it So likewise when it is saide that Christ is risen againe from the dead as wee are flesh onely we beléeue it not but when it is affirmed that this was done by the power of the diuine nature which in him was then without any doubting we beléeue it In the same manner when it shall be tolde vs that such a mightie King was kilde by a poore simple and a weake Friar euen in the middest of his arnne and enuironed with his Guardo and Souldiers to our naturall reason and fleshly capacitie it will séeme vncredible yet considering on the other side the great and grieuous sinnes of this King and the speciall prouidence of the almightie herein and by what accustomed and wonderfull meanes he hath accomplished his most iust will and iudgement against him then most firmely we will beléeue it Therefore this great miraculous worke I may but onely ascribe it vnto the particular prouidence of God not as those that referre all things amisse vnto some ordinarie causes or vnto fortune or such like accidentarie euentes but as those who more néere obseruing and looking in the course of the whole matter easely sée that here in this befell many things which could in no wise haue béene brought to passe and dispatched without the speciall helpe of God And truely the state of Kings and kingdoms and all other such rare and weightie affaires should not be thought to be gouerned of God rashly and vnaduisedly In the holy Scripture some are of this kind and none of them can be referred vnto any other thing but vnto God the only author therof yet there are none wherein the celestiall operation more appeareth then in this whereof we speake at this present We read in the first booke of the Machab. the 6. chap. how Eleazar offered himselfe vnto a certaine death to kill the king that was an enemie and persecutor of the people and children of God For in the battell espying an Eliphant more excellent then any

to stirre vp the rest to ciuill iarres with a hope of spoile and such like nouelties Call moreouer Philip King of Spaine and thy predecessor Sixtus vnto their ayde Promise vnto the king then occupied in the Lowe Countries that France should nothing hinder or molest him and vnto the Bishop of Rome an euerlasting warre against the enemies of the holy Sea For they perswaded vnto themselues that their intent could neuer or hardly at the least be brought to passe as long as the common wealth flourished with peace and quietnesse but it being once troubled and with seditions disquieted should make it easie and this their thought was not amisse For the Princes of the Royall bloud being all dispatched the strongest and mightiest of whom was now assaulted with open warre they hoped that the rest should eyther die in warre or for the affinitie which they had with the Prince of Conde in hope of the Crowne would soone depart from the Court and finally that then Charles and his brethren but children might be without labour conuayed away and murthered And to that effect they began warre and with these torches haue kindled first the fire of ciuill discorde in France but the last destinies and extreme calamities of the Realme were not yet come for as in our bodies a dangerous disease is oftentimes long felt before and with diuers paines and grieues the forces thereof are assaulted and wearied before they are broken and ouercome euen so the like befalleth with Empires and kingdomes But both the brethren departed first out of this world before they could accomplish and make an end of their long practised enterprises Francis died at the siedge of Orleans at the thréescore and thrée yeares of his age hauing left behind him thrée sonnes Henry Duke of Guise Charles Duke de Mayne and Lodouick a Cardinall not yet come out of their childhoods But in whom as there appeared sparkes of domesticall prowesse so in them séemed to be no feare of vice Vnto whom he left not onely good store of treasure and great reuenewes but also a hope of a large Empire his damnable practises and sparkles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 warre But in the meane while the king his brethren grew in age before the Lions whelpes were capable of their fathers ferocitie and so France turning her former mind began to worship honor obay her Princes now come to full age and full of courage magnanimitie whom she neuer before had séene but children But chiefly respected Henry whom comlines of body perfect age valure in armes commended aduanced to the gouernment of outlandish Nations And thus by little and litle their vaine ambition hath béene repressed but in tract of time other occasions of euill were presented Charles dieth whether by destime or poyson it is vncertaine And I haue no leasure at large to discourse vpon this point to rehearse from the beginning this tragidie but yet this is most true a litle before his departure out of this worlde séeing his estate greatly weakned by the tediousnes of war cruel murthers massacres euery day cōmitted vpon his subiects the treasure of this Reamle consumed spent Italy Spain laughing at it inuaighed with sharpe threatning words against the authors hereof and this was peraduenture the occasion of his vntimely death Henry the third succéeded him whom whether Polonia hath suffred with greater griefe to depart from thence or France receiued him with more ioy it is doubtfull He warned by his brothers example as soone as he had set established the affaires of his realme in good order gaue his mind wholly to the studie of peace knowing very well that riuill broyles are alwaies good for them that affect crownes and kingdoms but naught to them the raigne weare thē From hence is come the first originall of this mischief for thou thine Sixtus would neuer commend the kings most wholsom counsell thy drifts tending to nothing els but by sword fire to confirme thine own sauegard litle regarding by what law or with what condition one rained so the those perished together with their crowns whom thou didst hate couldst not abide And so by litle litle the remēbrance of so many victories and so many bloud-sheds committed for the Sea of Romes sake grew stale presently after enuie began to swel in the peoples minds dasly corrupted by the seditious fermons of Friars not delaying only the most godly vow of their Prince but infecting it And so it was easie to make an entrie for mischiefe to follow The Duke of Guise in the meane time with his two brethren increased in age power and fauor by the Catholikes as their father was before at the first cōmended thēselues sundrie wayes vnto them and hauing prospered reasonably vnder Henry being not yet come to the crowne saluted courteously euery one that met thē although one of the simplest amongst the cōmon people spake to them left nothing vndoone to steale away the hearts of the commontie all true signes tokens of an ambitious mind practising attempting some nouelties Spread abroad false reports to rayse priuie grudges displeasures amongst the Nobilitie and finally Francis the kings youngest brother being now departed out of this life either by sicknes or fraud ietted to fro through all cities beraied yet with the bloud of those of the reformed religion fearing for their massacres a iust reuenge Lamented the cōmon miserie vnlesse there should be looked vnto in time affirmed that after the death of the king which too true they sayde should be ere long they all should become subiects againe of an Heretike endure all bondage miserie flauery whatsoeuer But that they would display their power against it the promised and ready succor of Spaine Italy to defend protect by it their liberties and the Catholike religion these things are knowen vnto euery man the king himself hath bin aduertised of thē by diuers spyes since the yeare 77. yet for lacke of punishment as it is often seene grew maruellous strong Let therefore the posteritie iudge whether this is come to passe through too great a clemency or by some fatall negligence of all French men In the yeere 1585. Ianus temple being shut vp in France a happy peace flourishing in all the realme no external or domesticall enemy once knowne the Duke of Guise withall the house of Lorraine hauing conspired together take the weapons in haude the only cause therof was a crowne their cloake and probable occasion pietie religion a care for the realme now ill gouerned a pitte to see the commontie with exactions pould and oppressed and an intent to reduce all things in good order They hauing put this vizard vpon their rebellion by their first writinges published in theyr names complayned of the publicke calamities of the weakenesse of the kings friendes of the Realmes treasure wasted and spent notwithstanding the

nowe againe to be séene for at the arriuall of this mightie prince and vnlooked for armie the hearts of all the good being herewith incouraged and of the conspirators terrified de Maine himselfe to represse and stay by his presence the common report of the people complaining already against the intollerable insolences of the souldiours and féeling a dearth of all maner of victuals and necessaries commonly the only causes of vproares and sedisions in great cities is constrained to returne again to Paris with his mutinous companies which hee had brought from thence into the territories of Tours to place them euery where in garrisons His departure was not vnlike a cowardly running away the K. of Nauarre following him so neere vpon his héeles that he put al the hindermost of thē all straglers to the sword His maiesty in the meane time fortified with a power of Switzers incoraged with some good successe against the rebelles commeth in person in his camp and marcheth directly to Paris with al his forces to punish them for their treacherie rebellion Help commeth to him from all parts his bands increase dayly in number fame and power The state of the realm thus suddenly chāged as the hearts of men are commonly inconstant and wauering the chiefe cities beginne to intreate vpon peace the German and Italian Princes to send ambassadors to wish wel to his M. to promise him mony and men and some of the first conspirators also through dispaire flie to his mercy All thinges finally fal contrary vnto the Guises expertatiōs now out of all hope to looke any more as long as the King liued for any condition of agréement or surety of life The conspirators all begin to tremble at this new and suddaine chaungement doubtfull what to doe or to vndertake yet the ring-leaders of the rebellion assemble togither in counsell to determine vppon the extremitie of their affaires One among the rest whose name shall be knowen and spread abroade by his execution declareth the daunger wherein they liue what they haue in France lesse trustie That the minds of the nobilitie were mutable and inconstant falling alwayes on fortunes side That the fearefull Cities coulde not bée kepte faithfull vnto them vnlesse they were partakers of the like rebellion and treachery if liberty were giuen vnto them that ere long they woulde reuolte to the king again That the cleargie was couetous and neuer did giue but little of their own vnto their kings that therefore there was but small hope that they woulde giue more vnto them that could and might but intreate for it That this was their case at home from abroad lesse hope was to be looked for That the Spaniard was olde carefull for the quietnesse of his owne family vnto whome it was more surer that France were troubled then vsurped by any but himselfe That the Italian Princes were circumspect and wise and those of Germany couetous and misers That the Pope was subtill crafty and inconstant gréedy for his own gain turning with euery blast of Fortune That therefore all his hope stoode in himselfe if they had any good successe that they should want nothing but otherwise that they néeded not to looke for any help safety but in their héeles and flight Finally that by the death of one King all their affaires might bée repaired and that only was to be intended and labored how by what meanes the Prince was to be dispatched or murthered That there was no other remedie for the redresse of their distressed estate Hereunto they apply all their witte and industry and there are not found wanting some who offered themselues to be ministers of this villanous trechery Many are solicited and prouoked thereunto by great promises according as they had a quicknesse of hand to performe such an act a desperate audacitie of mind to dare vndertake it Amongst them al Sixtus is found Clement th● welbeloued a Friar Iacobin fit and ready for such a trecherous enterprise yer trusting not so much vppon his owne boldnesse wherin not withstanding hée greatly did excell all his fellow-friars then knowing that Friars but chiefely those of his order had alwaies had a frée acces vnto his Maiesty wher other verie seldome were admitted but at certaine howrs This from his youth of hauing béene brought vp in the monasterie very-poorely hath giuen oftentimes notable tokens of his vngodly inclination and vilde disposition which many haue heard out of the Deanes owne mouth and for his lewdnesse by their order of discipline hath béene often diuersly punished yet nothing to his amendement was most often taken in stews and whore houses oftentimes assaied to runne away No godlinesse piety or learning hee had no not so much as the knowledge of the French letters which any wayes might haue commended him Which I think good to be spoken of this accursed murtherer that our posterity may iudge whether thy words are worthy of a sacred mouth that doth not make God only himselfe priuy of manslaughter pardon I craue O Iehoua but farther dost presume to say that he hath communicated vnto a desperate bloudshedder the giftes of his spirite and such motions of the minde which haue beene graunted only vnto his Prophetes and Apostles This Friar nowe sent out of Paris goeth directly to the Campe vppon this prouiso notwithstanding that all those that were suspected to bee of the Kinges side should be kept fast within the Cittie wherevppon his life did stand altogether Those whom bee met first solde them that he brought letters and writings from certaine Parisians who were greatly affectionated and known vnto the King that they contained matters of great importance And that hee besides had other things to be disclosed vnto none but vnto his Maiesty heruppon was brought vnto the king with like facillity as all the rest of his order were before Gréeteth the king but risen and yet scarse ready and at such a time as he was wōt to bee alone deliuereth the letters the which when his M. had perused demanded him what newes he brought The Friar falleth vpon his knées the king at that present sitting in a chaire and inclining his eare to heare what hee would say stabbed him with a knife which he had made poisoned for that purpose The prince hereuppon crieth out the Lordes presently come running into his chamber after many wounds slay this cursed and most miserable wretch Clemens as also him that came with him although the king did most earnestly forbid it for to learne by them the order of the conspiratis the signes tokens and conspirators who if they were knowen as no double they shall be yet hereafter I can not tell Sixtus whether● thou shalt bee able to shake from thy souldiers the suspition of this bloudy crime or at the least to haue béene the inuentor of this vngodly counsell But the author of truth hath kept it to himselfe till the time of thy punishment Great heauinesse and