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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00956	A letter of a baker of Boulougne, sent to the pope. Translated out of the Italian copy (printed at Florence) into French and Dutch and now into English..		1607 (1607)	STC 3218.7; ESTC S91128	3,119	16

A LETTER of a Baker of Boulougne sent to the Pope Translated out of the Italian Copy printed at Florence into French and Dutch and now into English IN DOMINO CONFIDO LONDON Printed for William Ferebrand and are to bee solde at his Shop in the Popes head-Pallace neere the Royall Exchange 1607. A LETTER OF a Baker of Boloigne sent to the Pope BEhold Maister Pope wee haue had wonderfull greate windes without anye raine and I am verily perswaded that the clowde wherein your Thunderbolt was enclosed was not well comprised to make the clap sound vpon the earth or else that the Venetian water was of so great vertue that it extinguished or quencht the fire that threatned to burne and consume all Italie But it may be that therein you immitated Iupiter of whome you holde the Capitol and gaue out many threatning wordes but durst not strike contenting your selfe to showe what your Cyclops can doe without making proofe thereof vpon mens heads which I beleeue to be true if they had sought by prayers and Oblations to mollifie and appease your wrath and furious displeasure and not by obstinate contempt or rather as many men reporte by an assured constancie which the Venetians haue shewed in their iust rightfull cause But shall I tell you what I thinke I am of opinion that you feared that the promises and the faith of the Spanyards are not so smoothe as their faces and that the Venetians shold haue ceazed on Boulougne with other places of the Churches patrimony they would make as honest and good agreement with them as they haue lately made with the newe Commonwealth of Holland Let them say what they will of you Maister Pope for my part I perceiue and finde that you haue done greate good vnto our holy Mother the Church by disputation mooued stirred vp between you and the Venetians In times past there was none but the wicked and pestiferous Huguenots which disputed and enueighed against the holy Seat of Rome and would by no meanes acknowledge any of Saint Peters swordes to belong vnto you but now at this time they are your own natural childrē your tēder most deerly belooued friendes who perceiuing you to be too much burdenned ouerladē by bearing of two swords haue pulled out of your hands the one which is called the temporall Sword and so dulled and blunted the other that from hence-foorth it shall not cut but in measure and reason But to remedy the matter if you will follow my counsell you shall doe wel and wisely to excommunicate all Princes and Potentates of Christendome and to giue their Realms and Dominions to those that haue the best Mittens to lay holde of the Catte But I will tell you what will fall out thereupon they will all flatlye make answer that they wil do nothing and tell you plainly that it is not in your power to take that from them which you neuer gaue them And to that ende they will cause Acts of Parliaments to be confirmed and ratified within their States and Dominions and record it as a Decree or Re iudicata for all posterities and so you may sit downe vpon your taile with al your Pretences and take your ease whilst men come to kisse your feete and so that solemne disputation shall bee ended in your time without taking any great paines to assemble a generall Councell to tell both you and my Lorde Bellarmine that it is not a matter of Breuiaries to gouern and commaund kingdomes and that you haue no more authoritie to meddle with the Temporall power of Princes then you would haue them to intermeddle with your spirituall gouernment No doubt it will procure great good vnto your seate and somewhat abate the papall insolencies and threatnings and by that meanes put Rome out of a great fear and consequently bereaue it of the hate of many men Touching the Venetians by whom so notable and memorable an enterprise hath been begun I am sure that you for your part will iudge and esteeme them to be worthy of a pardon and dispensation to go into paradice or to hell and that they may lawfully hereafter bear in their shield of armes a great paire of Sheeres to witnesse to all posteritie that they were the first among your faithfull Masse-mongers that durst curtall and clippe your garment which dagled too long on the ground I counselled you before to giue al the Kingdoms Dominions of the princes of Christendome as a pray vnto their enemies to the end that they may all flatly and plainely tell you that they wil not daunce after such vnpleasant musick And if you will beleeue me you shall first begin with the house of Austria and yet I am content that your eares should be cut off if you doe not finde that it is not Catholike in that point It is chiefly deuided into three heades as the Emperor the King of Spaine and the Arehduke Albertus and in which of them I pray you doe you not finde iust occasion of deposition Touching the Emperor he hath made you the Turks Grandfather taking him for his Son and is so much busied with his Mathematiciās to take the measure and compasse of the heauens that he forgetteth and neglecteth his gouernment on the earth Is not this sufficient to depose him to raise the Duke of Bauaire in his place as your predecessors in times past sought to doe As for the King of Spaine he is already absolutly excommunicated ipso facto for retaining and witholding Scicilia and your noble kingdom of Naples from you Aske Baronius counsell and I am assured that he will tel you that you may lawfully kill and eat him according to the commaundement giuen by God vnto S. Peter though it were in the middle of Lent and suppose I pray you what ioy pleasure it wold be to that good old man if he could as well take the Crowne from the King of Spaines head as the King of Spain tooke your place from him There resteth nothing now but to deale with that Arch-duke Albertus that durst be so bolde to make a truce to procure a peace with the Heretickes of Hollād it is not that a sufficient crime and a greate offence to incur your sentence of displeasure but if you thinke good to spare him in regard of his ancient priest-hood yet you must at the least excommunicate Spinolaes pursse which is one of the greatest causes of this conuention but I am verily perswaded that at your commandement the Archduke wil alwaies find occasion to renew the warre as first that faith ought not be kept and obserued with Heretickes and secondly that a prince cannot infranchise his subiects renounce his superioritie ouer them to the preiudice of the estate of him his successors besides that there may be a kinde of equiuocation or mentall reseruation of some words vsed in the making of the treatie of peace Againe it is lawfull at al times to make war for our holy mother the Church to conclude the Spaniard will not care greatly to proue periured for his owne profit and commodity When you haue excommunicated all these of the house of Austria then you must set vpon the King of France you may find matter enough to be offended and to take displeasure against him he meanes enough not to care much for it and to send you bull for bull letter for letter and if you wil two blows for one and finally to proceed to my intent he wil take an oath of all his subiects specially the Priestes that they shall neither beleeue nor teach that the Pope can directly or indirectly nor by right or wrong neither yet by the head or the foot depose a lawful king out of his Throane But now we come to another great matter the question consisteth herin what wee shall doe with the king of England for assure your selfe hee is not for you which is worse you shall not find much matter to lay holde vpon touching him nor his royall proceedings I am perswaded that the best way for you will be to let him alone or else that you procure his friendship that you wholy renounce all superiority ouer him as the Spaniard hath done to those of Holland and in regard therof he wil make you a great present of all the Priestes and Iesuites in his country which he will send vnto you to Rome and because that England is interdicted hee will procure that you shall be obeyed in that point and that the Masse shall be no more vsed in his Dominions This maister pope I thought necessary to be written vnto you praying you to send me good store of holy Medales but I wold haue them al of pure fine golde or else they will doe me but small pleasure Farewell From my Bakehouse in Boulougne vpon this good Sunday of Quasimodo FINIS