they haue giuen the name of Cardinals to the priestes of Rome granting the sonnes and brethren of kinges and christian princes to be honoured with the same title and estate suffering them also to remaine with their traine amongst them To the end that by these their creatures they might handle and turne the other at their deuotion make them arme their people and march against their neighbours at their pleasure and disarme againe and retire their forces when they should serue God Considering also that by such persons the Councels wils and determinations of kinges and christian princes to the which they are called should thereby be reuealed and manifested to them The quicke spirited Venetians hauing long time since discouered this pollicie being a people of Italie verie subtill and well aduised would neuer permit that any ecclesiasticall person should be admitted into their Councell because they had all taken the oth of the Pope of Rome Sée then it appeareth that the Romanes are priuie to all the counsels and enterpriser of the princes of the earth and of their highest and soueraine courtes they discouer all their actions as well as if they were present where on the contrary not one of these can come within them to vnder féele their consultations and dealinges they are so close and secrete whereby we may iudge clearely how farre they surpasse all other people in inuention and subtiltie of wit Cap. 19. The great force of Excommunication to put the kinges of the arth in feare to make them their tributaries and the magnanimitie of our kinges in France NOw I come to another deuice of theires by the which they haue so cunningly triumphed ouer the kinges of the earth neuer striking stroke for the matter and without any daunger at al and yet they haue brought them vnder as much or more then euer the auncient Romanes did by their Trophées and great victories to wit by excommunication with the which they so frighted them that if they had neuer so little displeased them by and by they were threatned with rebellion of their subiectes to haue their scepters taken from them and others to be inuested therewith incontinent hauing no way in the world to resist or saue them selues but in humbling them selues vnder the greatnesse of their Bishops yéelding them selues to be the Popes vassals or in paying them otherwise some great and intollerable tributes By this meanes they exacted from Iohn king of England that all his subiectes should pay him a penny sterling for fire for the murther by him committed on the person of Arthure Duke of Britanie his owne Nephew and heire which tribute the Italians mined from them more then the terme of trhée hundred yeares albeit the fault of this murther was not in the people therefore they payed this tribute verie vniustly and against all reason Yet they found meanes to augment this tribute verie much by the death of the Archbishop of Cauterburie who was executed by command of the king Yet had the Italians nothing to doe in the matter hauing no interest at all therein being neither his heires nor children Another tribute was exacted of the Polonians for the murther committed on the person of Stauislaus their Arch-bishop to which is paide for S. Peters tongue The Pope hauing thundered by excommunication against the duke of Venis he was faine to make him quiet to créepe on all foure like a Dog hauing a rope about his necke to be absolued The kinges of Nauarre and Granade for disobeying him were dispossessed of their kingdomes which were bestowed on Ferdinand king of Spaine yet the Italians did not forget themselues in this match as in déed they must nener for it was vpon this condition that they should afterwarde be held of their Pope of Rome Pope Nicholas excommunicated the kinges of Naples and Sicilie and making them turne ouer a new leafe inuested the Duke of Aniow brother to Lewes the ninth yet not forgetting him selfe as we saide before vpon condition to pay him eight thousand ounces of gold yearely reuenue He excommunicated also Philippes le Bel king of France because hee would not hold his kingdom of him as his vassall but he being discended of the race of Hue le grand Countie of Paris quaked not a whit at the matter but with a magnanimious courage proper to the kinges of this race constantly resisted and neuer trembled at the hearing thereof as other christian kinges did whose great magnanimitie hath béene continued by his successours This was the cause that the Italian Councell laide their heades together to doe their vttermost to ruine this Monarchy by forraine forces making it to bee assailed on euerie side and hauing set the Armies of the Empire of Spaine and England to thrust this race out of their kingdom which séemed to them inuincible But perceiuing all that tooke not effect as they did wish they haue filled the State full of ciuill warres thereby to weaken and diminish the force of this kingdome and to make way to inuest some other with y e Crowne who should thinke him selfe borne vnder an happie planet and greatly beholding to them to come by it so easily yéelding him selfe therefore there vassall and homager hauing purloyned a kingdome by there meanes Who also would be easily entreated to let slip the accords confirmed betwéene our kings and the popes for the priuiledges and liberties of the French Churches and touching the presentations of Benefices reserned to the Nobilitie and other patrones of the Layty onely translating them ouer wholy to the Pope and so to enrich more and more the citie of Rome And by this meane we should sée this flourishing kingdom parted as a bootie pray betwéene the Italian kéeping for his part the spirituall and his confederates who shoulde haue the temporall for their shares Cap. 20. That it is a verie false pretext that they take to refuse the King for his religion sake seeing they haue a spite at all his race and wish them no more well although they were neuer so great catholikes THat this hath béene the drift of the Italians the proofe is most manifest in this that although Charles the ninth and Henrie the third of this name his brother were the most religious obseruers of the ceremonies of the church of Rome and more precise then any kinges that had béene before them sparing nothing to ruine and rout out the religion of the protestant Huguenots not so much as their owne persons life treasure nor liuings nor their faith and honour beside which is more Yet for all that could they neuer winne the fauour and good will of the Italians nothing neare other princes who had wrought little in comparison of them And what was the cause hereof but that the Italians foresaw that a race of auncient and so long time inuested with the Crowne of France would neuer abide that they should haue anie rule or prerogatiue ouer them nor in no waies permit that the liberties and
Millions which was a most straunge and maruellous debt considering the great tributes which he had exacted of his subiects of the employing whereof there could be none account heard notwithstanding the best friendes and louers of the communaltie made a motion were verie instant They haue at this present farre more abilitie by the authoritie and subtilitie of their Italinesse to prosecute the ruine and vtter subuersion of this estate the which to bring to a low ebbe they must fill full of ciuill warres and so ouer loade with such heauie burthens of subsidies taxes and new rereages that they poore people remained quite ruined and troden downe so that it could neuer since recouer foote againe and the better to feare and torture them thereunto to locke them vp in prisons and there to make them rot miserably if they did not pay their intollerable ransomes excéeding in many partes of France more by the third part then the yéerely reuenue of the poore Pesant did amount vnto not disburdening him therby any thing at all of his charges in finding souldiers of whom he was daily sore gnawen deuoured beaten and oppressed besides the extremitie shewed vnto him in paying the fines of his wine without the which he could by no meanes be discharged Thus this subtill nation hauing gotten on their side some Italionate Frenchmen to take their partes and to fortifie them somewhat more as also to laie part of the blame of these pilleries on their backs do all things at their owne will and pleasure to the enriching of themselues and to the vtter ruine of the poore commons who abide the greatest smart of all And he which would desire to know what is become of all these excessiue heapes of mony leuied in this kingdome let him goe to Florence to behold the sumptuous buildings which there haue béen erected by our ruines and there let him sée the wondrous wealth wherein many Florentines swimme which came but like poore snakes into France and now how they haue altered their state But if the people of France had had as much witte and wisedome as they they should at the first haue laide their heads togither and concluded to haue chased them backe into their owne countrey and foreséeing the debates and quarrels that they began to sow euery where in France haue sent them backe to their owne home as they themselues once serued the French when they were in their country in like maner Cap. 7. How this Nation going about to ruine a countrie beginneth with some one estate and from thence commeth to all the rest by degrees and how the French can by no meanes take such opportunitie when it serueth them ALthough they haue béen alwaies voyd of all mercie and compassion towardes the poore people hauing drenched them drie and brought them to great miserie yet they haue shewed as little fauour as might be to Churchmen making them to be gnawen to the bare bone with tenthes and to be puld a hole lower by sale of their goods maintaining all inequalitie amongst them making floods of riches to run downe the héeles of some Italianate spirits their coherents and as for those who take paines daily in diuine seruice which the French Romans wil not meddle withal nor so much as with the tip of their finger to turne ouer one leafe of it they may haue a sore drowth but the diuell a whit of drinke will they giue them to coole their thirst Their Nobles they were saluted so oftentimes with summonings to assemble themselues who held any landes of the Crowne to bee seassed for the affaires of the warres and paiment of souldiers and withall put to such pinches and daungers to ruine one another with such extreame costs and charges raised by the vaine enhancings of their gold chaines of their Order for all paiments and wages employed onely for the payes of the Italians and other strange nations As for the Officers although that their offices were sold vnto them in the wane of the Italian power ten times dearer then in the raigne of any former Prince or King they were so fléeced and pulled away by substitution of others that did robbe them of all the profit and honour that might grow therby who in their turne also were pilled and brought to nothing by restoring the mony that was sucked from them that first bought them so that by that time all their landes were counted there was nothing to be laughed at on no side but only the Florentines and their partners who might wel laugh in their sléeues hauing so much the more to drinke filling their purses with the emptyings of others so that by such deuises they haue so well sucked out the substance of the French that since the comming of this Italianesse into France they haue picked more pence out of the coate of this people then during the raigne of twelue Kings before The tokens wherof most manifestly appeare especially vpon the poore pesants by their nakednes who go apparrelled but with old linnen cloth in the greatest coldes and are besides constrained to humble themselues so low as to liue vpon Oates and Pease like bruit beasts The cause and originall of all these miseries procéeding of the marriage of one Italinesse in France aspiring to make way for her adherents and to get the Crown into her own hands making our kings odious to the whole world and this sheweth well that they are so ingenious that of the least occasion that may serue to fauour them they know how to finde and fetch out greater aduantages farre beyond the reach of any nation in the world beside This thou shalt easily perceiue if with the consideration of that which goeth before thou cast but thine eye of vnderstanding vpon the French to sée how great a number of the Kings daughters haue béen married into Italy as Madame Renee daughter of King Lewes the twelfth to the Duke of Ferrara others to the King of England into Spaine to the Dukes of Sauoy and of Lorraine By meanes of whom although they were all descended of farre more noble houses then her yet the French could neuer by any such occasion tyrannise and impouerish these people neuer making the least commoditie thereby or get any other preferment but to the contrarie they still left behinde them verie much of their owne as in the marriages of the King of Spaine and of the Duke of Sauoy where they got to their shares the fairest fléeces and conquests of France And this may verie well shew how grosse witted we are in France and how ingenious and subtill the Italian is at euerie opportunitie that may happen Sée wherfore I wold faine be able to perswade the Popes quite to forsake this nation to come into Swicerland and into France verie curteous and good people to deliuer themselues from the yoake of that nation which is the most corrupt in the whole world for if one onely Italinesse were able to chaine our Kings at Paris
accesse or entrance into our Countrey by the reasons and experience of things already past which shall more amply be dilated in this dâ—scourse prepared for a generall remedy for vs all whether we be Catholiques or Protestants to recouer full deliuerance and health of these maladies which so long time haue oppressed and troubled vs hoping by the grace and blesâ—ing of the most highest it shall worke some great effects in those who shall vse these preparatiues which are first of all presented vnto them before the taking of more strong medicines and harder phisicke Now for that the gouernour of the whole world seemeth to haue turned his fauourable countenance towardes vs hauing giuen the royall Scepter into your Maiesties hands being extracted out of a more Meridionall quarter then your predecessours were and also in giuing vs who are neighbours of the great Ocean-sea a wiser and more ingenious King then those before time haue bene to the end that we being lightned by so bright and glorious a starre the quicke and subtill Italians may no more abuse vs so that we shall no more bee exposed to the lamentable miseries into the which they were woont to bring vs headlong as men altogether blind andegrosse-headded at their owne lust and pleasure And this is the cause why I haue presumed to dedicate this discourse vnto your M. hoping that it shal be rather liked and approoued of you then of others who being more Septentrionals haue their spirites more dull and nothing so quicke and pliable assuring also my selfe that if it please you to receiue it with a fauorable countenance that onely shall giue it a far more free passage to all those who are your most affectionate seruants Now I will pray the soueraigne Lord and God to inuirone your M. with his speciall protection in the middest of all the perils and daungers wherewith you are besieged establishing your throwne in all iustice and godlines according to his most holie will and pleasure A discription of Italie and the causes of the subtilitie of that Nation Cap. 1. THe Italians inhabite the right arme of the continent of Europe which hath Spaine in place of the head France for the stomacke for the belly Germany and Denmarke for the left arme From that part of Italie which extendeth more to the Southward and from the other bounding North with his two armes which are parts of the maine entring further into the Sea then the rest of the bodie haue from all times the other principall partes of Christendome sustained great ruines cruelties losse of goods and other oppressions of the first because it goeth farre beyond all Nations bordering Northward in inuention craft and worldly pollicie witnesse Aristotle Strabo Caesar Plinie other approoued Authors of the second in respect of their surpassing streight and corporall puissance by reason of the colde situation of the place That which produceth such effects in Italie is the moderate temperature of the clymate situate in a subtill ayre néere vnto the sea euery where without any excesse heate or cold and beside another cause is the trading and great dealing that the Italians haue with the people of Asia of Affrica and Europa as also with the Ilanders or a great part of them with whome they haunt and liue By reason whereof besides that they are of themselues verie wittie subtill headed all cunning slightes craftie conueyances and deceitfull cosinages are so proper and common to them whereby they can fetch vnder other people and are so cunning to finger from them their money and can moreouer so closely couer their actioÌ„s that of a thousand hardly one could euer come within them to perceiue their iugling For as any deceit or cosinage finely handled is not perceiued but of those which know it and looke verie néere vnto it deceiuing those which haue their eye but on the naturall and externall shew so there are none but those which curiously séeke out the beginning the progresse and aduancements of the Romane and Italian gouernment and the meanes whereby they haue drawne money from other nations of the earth since the time of Romulus to this present day who can finde out their fetches and shifts or discouer the maskes wherewith they are disguised to aduance and enrich themselues by the ouerthrow and pillage of others Albeit it is not inough when we haue gone so farre if besides we throw not away the mufflers which depriue vs of sounde and true iudgement in things of this world as are custome hate loue obstinacie and enuy which are euen so many plagues corruptions ouerthrowing quite the iudgement and cleare vnderstanding of man in all things for if custome carry vs away the Italian may preuaile not only of an hundred but of more then a thousand fiue hundred yéeres which was the verie time that Iulius Caesar an Italian pillaged and ruined not only France but also all other parts of Europe Therefore we should deserue to be commanded and gnawen to the bare bone for euer hereafter as wel as in time past that could looke to these matters no sooner The cause of all haue béen but our blinde affections which peruert vs in true iudgement the which now we must néedes cut off to haue only reason for our guide which is the true essentiall difference that separateth man from other Animals maketh him iudge truly of all things otherwise wee robbe our selues of the most excellent and precious iewell we haue to become as bestiall as the bruit beastes From hence springeth then also the cause of so great diuersitie of opinions in our Continent the principall and chiefest part of the world for that some suffer themselues to be gouerned by the cléere light of reason vnderstanding and other some let themselues be caried away headlong with their owne affections and customes and this is the cause why the inhabitants of the Orientall Asia vnder the dominion of the great Cham of Tartarie whose Empire is two thousande leagues in longitude do hold him for the sonne of God in earth and why those which liue vnder the great Turke belieue Mahomet to be a greater prophet then Iesus Christ and why the Iewes scattered in great multitudes follow the customes of their fathers reiecting the true Messias to looke for another and why Christendome is so troubled by reason of the Romish constitutions which some beléeue to be holie and necessarie to saluation and others altogither contemne being none other meane of reconciliation amongst vs but to cast away these blinde mufflers of customes hatred and consideration of losse or gaine to suffer our selues to be directed by the cleare light of the heauenly word by the vnsearchable workes of God and by liuely reason clarified with authenticall histories of time Putting but this in practise once wee shall soone discouer and cléerely sée with our eyes the wonderfull déepe subtilities of Italians and hereafter beware how we be ouerrought by their pollicies Cap. 2.
because it most consisteth in visible things to be beholded with these our bodily eyes as are sumptuous and goodly Temples glistering with costly glasse windowes triumphantinges liuely pictures images exquisitely carued forth most precious clothes of Arras Chalices Crosses of the finest Ducket gold height of Piramides Copes of crimsin veluet others of cloth of gold and siluer which are thinges most pleasant to the eies to behold And to delight the hearing with songs of Mnsicke noyse of Organs and sound of Belles al these things are delectable in déed and haue some shew of humane wisdom for all that haue they not God for any Authour neither did Iesus Christ nor his Apostles euer institute or occupie the like rather they taught vs to despise the world and all that is therein to aspire vp to heauen instructing vs to renounce our selues and all the lustes of the flesh to do the holie and perfect will of God to take vp our Crosse and wade thorow many tribulations into the glorie of God And this cannot we abide we must haue a religion which wil helpe to augment our dignities and earthly riches that we may liue here in all voluptuousnes and securitie And because the Gospell taken in his puritie is quite contrarie to that there is nothing in the earth that this nation hateth more then to heare speake thereof farre preferring a worldly felicitie present which by no meanes they will forgo vpon hope of any eternall absent and hidden ioyes which are to come Cap. 14. A comparison of the diuine seruice inuented by the Italians with the counsell of some subtill Phisition HE that would thorowly examine the forme of Religion planted by the Italians by the authoritie of their soueraigne high Priest shall finde all these things afore truely obserued amongst them So that flying therby with wings swifter and stronger then the wings of any Engle they are able to beate downe to the ground those that are so sawcie as to withstand in any thing or gainsay in any wise the formes of their seruices which they haue introduced to fetch vnder their subiection the greatest Potentates of the earth and to draw thereby deniers and reuenues from them imitating herein some craftie Phisition who preferring a good bootie of siluer before the health of the sicke patient will learne what meate and drinke pleaseth best his appetite and hauing found that he loueth claret wine aboue all things and sugar to make it haue a daintie taste which he taketh imagine that he goe visit the patient who will straight begin to tell him how he can get no recouerie of his sicknes albeit he hath vsed much blood letting taken many pilles and other phisicke which hath brought him verie low and put him to much paine this same impudent Phisition that tell him that all that serued but to weaken him to take away his stomacke and by mouing a question to the sicke patient shall aske him if he loue not well good claret wine He answering with all his heart this Phisition shall reply that he will warrant him to recouer his health againe if hée leaue taking these hard medicines and those pilles so bitter in swallowing and to get some daintie wine of most delicious taste if he should send his man ten miles for some to haue alwaies at the least thrée or foure good bottles in his Celler in store And bid him besides least the vapours should sume too much to intoxicate his head to take Coriander comfits at the end of his repast assure him that this wil make him more lustie againe then all the phisicke in the world I let you iudge with what audacitie the sicke shall dare to imbrace this counsell But if it chaunce after he hath béen verie ill and his sicknes begin to grow away he come to recouer straight here vpon how will he honour this Phisition he shall neuer be able sufficiently to set foorth his praise But in the seruice of God it is otherwise we must eate the bread of affliction and sorrow drinke the water of bitternes which are verie bitter and loathsome drugs to swallow as things much offending our taste whereas in the seruice inuented by the Italians there is nothing but y t which is verie pleasant to our humane senses and which doth verie well agrée with our carnall nature and therefore do ignorant men imbrace with a most ardent desire all that they inuent which when they haue once receiued is hard to be rooted out of them because their eye sight is not quicke inough to discouer the marke whereat they shoote which is only to beare rule and to share and make boote of the money which they get from them Cap. 15. That they care not at Rome for any diuersitie of Religions so they tend only to maintaine their Domination THis is most manifest for if any man inuent any new form of religion neuer knowne before in the world apparelling himselfe after a straunge fashion neuer séene before vsing iestures altogither rediculous and foolish liuing after a most austere to cruell and brutish maner as do the Capuchians Fucillians and such like foolish orders of Friars all shall be approued and receiued by the Italians with great plaudities so that such religions will serue them for a wall and defence for their kingdome and gaine but if any one appeare or come neare them that dare speake against such abuses and touch them to the quicke a litle leaning vpon the pillar of that doctrine which hath béen giuen from the terrestriall Paradice they will shake a heauen and earth and remoue all a world to stop his mouth and kill him with great exclamations that he went about to sow new doctrines and begin some new sect of religion whereby we may cléerely sée that vnder this cloake of religion they do but aspire to be rulers and to finger mony from other peoples and nations and that all the warres and ciuill broyles which haue so long troubled Germany Swicerland all Flanders and France haue byn broched and begun by them for such matters albeit those who had the conduct thereof enterprised them for the zeale they bore to their owne religion Cap. 16. That the Romanes are not contented to staie themselues with that which is spirituall but would also dispose the kingdomes of the earth at their pleasure THat the Italians shoote at this marke also I bring euident proofe that when they had set their matters in so good forwardnes that the Emperour and the other Christian kings had graunted this title of soueraigne high Priest and vniuersall Bishop to their Prelate of Rome for to be a greater staie and pillar of the Christian Church and to kéepe the other Bishops and Pastours in better order and within the compasse of their dutie they are not content to rest with that passe further and cause to preach and publish by word and writing that their Bishop is Christes onely Lieftenant on earth to whom all Scepters and
preached we shall receiue it as most heauenly doctrine but if it tend to exalt men and their works only to please them withall we shall receiue it as procéeding from the presumption and ouer-sight of men who take themselues to be wiser then God and for such stuffe as may entangle the people in the nets of seruilitie and fill onely the purses of worldlie Pastors wherefore without any regard from whence it procéedeth whether from Coucels or Synods or frō any other sort of Ecclefiasticall persons whatsoener wee will reiect it thinke our selues no more hounden vnto the obseruation thereof then to the dreames and tales of olde women On the other side knowing that life euerlasting is giuen vs by the grace of God in our Lorde Iesus Christ and is offered gratis to all men what ginnes soeuer the Italians and such like can lay to drawe our money finely from vs we shall goe by them well enough making as though wée sawe them not and as though wee neuer heard talke of them These are then the most sure certaine remedies by the which all true Christians may easilie winde themselues out from the Italian Domination and make a prouiso that their money be no more transported to Rome but tary at home iu their owne purses Cap. 57. The eonclusion of this present discourse VVHerhfore thou Spaniard hauing they place of the Head which workest all that thou canst to reduce vnder thy Domination other nations which should be the eye of Christendome thou oughtest to haue as much wit as any other people It is not then agreat blindnes for thée to behold thy selfe in such slauerie to the Roman Counsell that thou art no more then the executour and drudge of their wills and that they make the tributarie to them in huge infinit sumes of mony wheras thou diddest neuer get one penny from them And thou French man which art the hart of Christendome from whom should flow all motions of vertues to encourage the other partes thou hast almost suffered thy selfe to bee ouercome vnder the spirituall Domination of this nation by their flatteries and cautelous shifts suffering them to put a knife into thine owne handes to destroye thy selfe to set all in combustion and ruine to th end that they may fish in thine ouerthrow and destruction As for Germany the seat and residence of the Empire to the which the Apostles and the first Byshops of Rome yeelded all obedience and subiection what greater cowardlines shame and dishonor can there bee on her syde then that in degenerating from their ancient Cesars and other Roman Emperours vnder the which all the world did tremble they are at this present becom the slaues and vassals of Rome and brought so low as to be glad to hold the Styrrop of some filthy Monke who hath been chosen Pope And if heretofore you haue had the eies of your wit and vnderstanding so much dimmed by the darknes of the time suffering your selues to be made so very fooles that they might vse you at their pleasure now in this great light which shineth at this present and is not yet gone from you amend your former faultes to recouer your honor and seeke to rule and sway ouer them another while in your turne and to get from them againe vnder some colour whatsoeuer all the money they haue in their fingers of yours and your people paying them now at the last home according to their deseruings and cursed intentions and that according to good rule that they haue a long time kept in Christendome they may haue their due desart at the last paid them to the vttermost Laus Deo Finis G. B. A. F. A Table of the Contents of this booke A Description of Itlie and the causes of the subtilty of that people cap. 1. How in the personnes of Romulus and Numa Pompilius there were two kinde of gouerments prefigured among the Romans cap. 2. How the subtil Italian borroweth the name of the Pope to come to his pretenses with more faulitie cap. 3. A liuely paterne of Italian subtiltie in the person of Caternie de Medicis and her Florentine councell cap. 4. How of any light occasion this nation can deuise to effect great matters cap. 5. The Roman soweth diuisions and pulleth away the snbstaunce of a people to enrich himselfe and to doe with it at his pleasure cap. 6. How this nation going about to ruine a country beginneth with some one estate and from thence commeth to all the rest by degrees and how the French can by no meanes take such oppertunitie when it serueth them caq. 7. Vpon what occasion the Romans changed there Monarchie into popular Estate that is to wit vpō the Rauishment of Lucretia committed by their King Terquni cap. 8. How the Romans by pretence of their faith found means to angment there Domination cap. 9. The ruine of the first Roman Domination and the causes thereof cap. 10. Of they begininges and first foundations of the second Domination of the Romans in Christendome cap. 11. How in creating an vniuersall Bishop at Rome the Romans entred into possession of a fare more excellent Domination then that the had lost before cap. 12. How they people follow none other Religion but that which their Pastors teacheth them and how they Romans giue vs one according to their owne nature cap. 13. A comparason of the Diuine seruice inuented by the Italians with the councell of some subtil Phisition cap. 14. That they erre not at Rome for any diuersitie of Religions so they tend only to maintaine their Domination cap. 15. That the Romans are not contented to stay themselues with that which is sperituall but would also dispose the kingdomes of the earth at their pleasure cap. 16. That to make the kings of y e earth vassals tributary to the Romans they sow wares amongst them and vse censurs cap. 17. The councell of Rome setteth Kings and Christian Princes together by the eares and the way how they discouer all their councels and enterprises cap. 18. The great forces of Excmmuniation to put the kings of the earth in feare to make them their tributaries and the magnanimitie of Kings of France cap. 19. That it is a verie false pretext that they take to refuse the King for his Religion sake seeing the haue a spight at all his race and with them no more well although they were neuer so great Catholikes cap. 20. The great subtiltie of the councell of Rome in getting into their handes the soueraignitie of the newfound world conquered by the Spaniards cap. 24. The causes why the mony that is transported to Rome is called by the name of quintessence cap. 22. Of the excellencie of the mony which is transported to Rome out of other countries and how the Italians only can fetch it thither cap. 23. How this mony which is transported to Rome doth flie with an incredible swiftnes cap. 24. A descripsion of certaine learned men which hath alwaie