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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01260	The French herald summoning all true Christian princes to a generall croisade, for a holy warr against the great enemy of Christendome, and all his slaues. Vpon the occasion of the most execrable murther of Henry the great. To the Prince.	Loiseau de Tourval, Jean.; Marcelline, George, attributed name.	1611 (1611)	STC 11374; ESTC S111986	28,778	56

the blessed Virgin with S. Brigid S. Andrew why not S. George to with a high hand to carry from God such things as she now vpō better information knowes most to be eschewed Together of the same feather you haue there one Becanus the more wicked because the more witty so apt are these monster-men to turne to ill vses the very blessings of God A little lower there is Carolus Scribanius who most iustly ashamed of his trayterous name hath ben faine to faine another in his Ample Theater of dishonour yet neuer forgetting herein the ambitious pride naturall to the society in taking of the best when they choose One who as though he were not able of himselfe to be wicked enough therein is he more wicked that he praises the wickedest Poland Sweth-land Trans-siluania Bohemia at their owne cost will contribute to the publicke shame those by whome they haue receaued and stil receaue so much smart though some haue paide deere enough for it And after these farther countries the remotest part of that famous Iland penitus toto orbe remota will not be ashamed to stake her peny Haies and Hamilton though not a peny worth to the common reproch of Nations But belike her sister would be too proud if she could not name for herselfe or rather against herselfe red-hatted or rather red-harted Allens Campion Hart Parsons Creswell Hall Tesmond Gerrard Hammond all bloody or fiery Traytors and their superior in all Garnet And now Sir among all them perhaps you thinke your Fraunce will escape free But alas shall we not finde within our owne bowels one Kakodemono-zannes apoligising for this Garnet and Franciscus Verona for Ian Chastell both which we know whence they are but since they themselues condemne their owne deeds by counterfeiting their names and therein the onely thing they haue done well in some sort redeeme their Countries shame let them dye for euer vnknowne indeed and vnnamed let those that haue any part in them disclaime it let them perish in their blood let me not haue their names within my lips But oh but we haue such as glory in their owne infamy those cursed ones that call euil good and good euill who least they and their villanies should not be knowne enough by their writings haue preached it openly from Towne to Towne before all the world and shamelessely taught it with a brazen face in their publicke lessons to showe that Fraunce owes nothing to the rest in treason wickednes But because holy father Cotton was come of late as it were with a blast of his sweete breath and in a sheete of paper to gainesay and disanull all his predecessors mis-doings and seeme to recouer the honor of the society though if his Amphibologious Equiuocations be rightly tryed he speakes as trayterously as any of them all yet least they should take to much hold of him and interpret his double meaning in the better part or rather to checke him as a false brother one that had yeelded to much to the time Behold out of Italy the great Iebuzit Cardinalised the great Cardinall shortly to be Papised who not contented with that which he hath formerly written as well he might for any new thing hee sayes but because it was onely done by the way and among his other controuersies a load to big for any man to carry comes out now as the Triarij in that great Army of forlorne hopes with a booke by it selfe and of set purpose sounding and denouncing from the Vatican to al Princes they are subiect to the Pope in temporalibus True it is that in Atheus tOrtus that is he himselfe had first made the way before him but it was vnder an obscure name that could not carry great waight But since the Chapleine was so bold as to vndertake no lesse then a great king for his share to write against Do you thinke Sir that his Illustrissime Lord and Maister hath it against Barclay onely No no poore Barclay is but the poorest part of his booke yet his sonne takes it in hand as his fathers cause and I am sure will not leaue the Cardinall vnpaid Neither is it against the king your braue father They haue his hart fast and haue don as some Barbarians were wont They haue executed him first then comes forth this sentence of death against him But there is nothing more to be had of him but your selfe your selfe Sir It is against your selfe directly that this booke is written against all kings aliue against al kings yet vnborne The haukes of a Cardinall will not flie for lesse then at the birds of Paradice And you holy father oh is it after that maner you wil haue your sons harts Sure sure that great father of mankind of whom you pretend your self so wrongfully to be the general Vicar did neuer meane it so when he said My son giue me thy hart But you sweet childe since you see two Barclaies two priuate men none of them a Protestant nor nothing neere the one vndertake it so vertuously against the Pope vpon no other particuler offence but the meere loue of the truth the other follow it so dutifully against Pope Cardinall and all onely as his fathers quarrell which yet is no such matter you I say which are so great so noble so auncient and so mighty a king will you not reuenge your fathers death will you not reuenge your owne quarrel against one that was but a Cardinall fiue yeares ago one that was but a base priest once It is he It is he that speakes in that booke it is he that made it Bellarmin is vnworthy of your anger He is but a meane instrument he is but a slaue and dares not do otherwise then his master bids The Pope himselfe the great Lord the great God of al not Acquaviva a slaue too hath viewed it corrected it allowed it caused it to be printed at his owne charges vnder his owne nose least there should be any fault in the print To what end then tarry any longer what will you haue more when they haue kild you also you shal no more be able to take reuenge Take it while you can and while you may Yet am not I of those hot-burning spirits though a strong Protestant I confesse that would set Rome all in blood and fire and dig vp her foundacions a thousand fathomes vnder the ground I would haue Rome reformed not Rome ruyned And what can the poore walls do withal for the inhabitants sinnes Yea I will vnparcially deale with the Pope and with more kindnes then he dares looke for at any Protestants hand Let euery Prince according to the law of God of Nature and of Nations establish a good and holy Patriarch within his owne dominions to whome all his Church men shall answer to none els without and he answer for them Let the Bishop of Rome reduce himselfe or be reduced to that estate wherein he

was when the Councell of Nicea did graunt it him and then let him haue the precedency of al our Patriarchs as the ancientest Let him keepe still the keyes of his owne gates as an ecclesiasticall Prince yea and the sword within his owne scabberd as a secular Prince to And let him draw it when he list and flourish with it in his owne territories I am sure this is the best this is the shortest way to reforme many abuses which the reasonabler sort auow are crept into the Churche the surer way to reconcile that wilfull diuersity of opinions which hath so long distracted the harts and mindes yea the bodies of Frenchmen into seuerall factions bringing your two flocks againe into one folde and vnder a shepheard of your owne And there shall not be a Huguenot in Fraunce For the Iebuzits which I wil neuer grace with their vsurped name If you will not deale with them as all Christian Princes did once and at once and vpon farr lesser reasons with the poore knight-Templers If you will not renew that wise sentence of your father pronounced against them with his own mouth yet full of blood when they did beat out his teeth rather imitate his hurtful clemency that call'd them againe to strike at his hart If you wil not followe the laudable example of that graue Senat Common-wealth whose Catholicity none can cal in question Then at least at least for a great worke of supererogation transcendency of kindnes let them be brought vnder a new General of our own Natiō let them take a new oath to him he to your Patriacrh your Patriarch to your selfe so let it be seuerally through al Nations without hauing any thing either to medle or correspond one with another But Sir the Tyrant is in such so long a possession of his vsurped power as he will thinke these most equall conditions vniust and there is no hope of all this to take effect without the sword If faire meanes would do it the better It is written Beati pacifici and most happy be they indeed But if peace cannot be had with peace If an vncertaine but honorable war be to be preferred to a certainly dangerous but dishonorable peace To the sword then in Gods name to the fire if need be And blessed ô thrice-blessed be the war war-makers whose end is so happy desired a peace But all the fier that can euer be kindled all the blood we can euer shed will not giue vs our king againe True but let vs be wise after the blow at least since we haue receaued so mighty a one That which can not bring back HENRY may preserue LEWIS you shall make your own life sure by reuenging the death of your father and yeeld vnto whome you owe your selfe the iustice you owe to all So Cesar made sure his owne Statues by setting vp againe those of Pompey And if any crooked soule or weake minde will still wilfully contend that you are young and your affaires engaged to other ends Once more for all I aunswer whatsoeuer they be they cannot they must not they ought not to admit other or more conuenient and necessary ends then those of your honor life and safety wherein all ours is included and with yours and ours that of all Christendome For your person I haue shewed you are great both for your age Kingdome fauoured besides of heauen and earth in so iust a quarrell namely of other Princes your good friends and neighbors all touched in this murther KIng you ô most mighty most wise most excellent King of yonder fortunat Ilands which by nature as so many little worlds most fortunate in themselues are yet more fortunate by your gouernment Bright morning-starre of humane learning holy Oracle of heauenly wisdome purified light of the finest and most refined iudgements vnto whome there is not any crowned head at this day liuing but will must needs stoope in acknowledgement of superiority Thrice worthy Monarch whose name I need not otherwise set downe since euen those that most are loath must needs acknowledge you by your own marks Do you not really feelingly lament for our losse Do you not aboue all take it in deed as your owne Haue I not often heard you tel it to others Haue you not often told it to my selfe Alas so very wel you may Our braue father your deare brother was taken but in exchange It was but his lot to goe before The enemies did yet at this time do pretend no lesse against your life You knowe it of olde by the blessed miscarrying of their hellish plots and you knew it of late euen by himselfe who more carefull of his friends safety then of his owne as though he had done enough to warne you was since negligent in garding himselfe Monarch o double Monarch equally ouer soules by that worth which makes you a king thogh you had not ben borne so as ouer bodies by right of blood Time is now past writing forbearance longanimity clemency pardon and all pen-worke are now out of season the sword the sword must cut the knots of this busines They make themselues worthy to write against you who are most vnworthy you should looke vpon them And while you striue to cut their taile contrary to the weakest Serpents their venom lies in the head They get a name by being ouer-come by so famous an Aduersary and yet liue They dare bite you againe they dare ruffle your honor who were better to be ruffled by a hangman a most fit decyder of their quarrels Alarum Alarum Hee himselfe hath throwen into the Tiber his most lawful weapons as too kinde setting all his rest vpon Pauls sword but S. PAVLS sword euen that sword of the spirit is ours and will not cut for him His sword is but vaine imaginary blunt broken borrowed though very hurtfull Yours is your owne euen the royall euen the reall and sharp sword of the iust reuenge of God which shall breake his asunder like brittle glasse and that scepter of yron which the sonne of the Almighty hath put into your hands shall crush his in pieces as a Potters vessell On on sword against sword let 's try which cuts best Euen the greatest euen the best part of Christendome all the honest Catholicks not papists wil followe you who looke for nothing els but to see somebody in the field to break the first yce Now they grieue now they are ashamed to haue bene so long nusled vp in so many grosse errors now they confes them now they begin to see somewhat cleere and where they had of old an Aegiptian darknes before their eies they haue now but cobweb-lawnes which yet God will remoue in his good time Long since haue many great learned men earnestly long'd for reformation in their owne Church who yet affirme they cannot hope for so great a good vnlesse the Tyranny of Rome for so they