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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26001	Some generall observations upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book, and way of wrighting with a vindication of St. Ignatius Loyola, and his followers the Iesuits, from the foul aspersions he has lately cast upon them, in his discourse concerning the idolatry, &c. : in four letters, written to A.B.	Ashby, Richard, 1614-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing A3942; ESTC R7040	65,474	73

Protestants had sign'd and delivered a bloody Petition to the Parliament for their utter extirpation or banishment And the Author of the Polititians Catechism proves at large 6. 10. n. 6. that Protestants had a greater hand then Catholicks in these cruel disorders 8. His second charge against the Jesuits in point of practise runs yet higher for he makes them privy Counsellors to three of the greatest Parricids in the world Clement Chastel and Ravillas Never was there so much malice crouded into one line but it will cost me many Lines to clear the Jesuits from that riple crime for I cannot do it but by giving you a short Narrative of these three treasonable attemps To begin with Clement the murtherer of Henry 3. of France the Case is clear he was no Jesuit nor had he any other Counsellour that we know of but the Divel to set him at work I think the Dr. is the first man that ever named the Jesuits in that wicked fact I beseech God forgive him for it 9. For Chastel it is true Sir the Iesuits and the Churches common enemies have blazed about many stories as if they had been accessary to his execrable attempt upon the life of Henry 4. but if any credit be to be given to the French Historians due Pleix Peter Matthew de Ton Spodanus and others or to the grave Counsellors who pleaded for the Jesuits before the Parliament Rene de la Fon and Montholon or to the Kings own testimony who was most of all concerned to know the truth they are most shamefully slaundered This is the true Story One Iohn Chastel wounded the King in the upper Lip and struck out one of his Teeth He was taken in the Fact and confess'd all before he was led to Prison that he did it of his own head without communicating his design with any body only something a far off to his father that it was eight months since he had left the Jesuits Schooles and that they knew not any thing of his intentions All this he confessed freely and without compulsion The same story he repeated again and again in Prison and though often cruelly rack'd and tortured to declare his councellours and complices never varied in the least from what he confessed at first nor let one word fall against the Jesuits And there were thousands of witnesses in the place of Execution that when his arms and thighs were cruelly pinched his hand cut off and all humane means used to extort the truth from him he persisted still in the same confession and dyed upon 't declaring the Jesuits innocent to the last breath Yet for all this because he had once frequented the Jesuits schooles their malicious enemies would needs forsooth conclude thence that they were plotters of the mischeif Away then they go armed to their Colledge set guards at the Gates that no body should escape seize on their persons ransack their chambers but discover nothing either in their carriages or their countenances that could argue a guilty conscience but rather all the signs and demonstrations of innocency only because amongst other writings of Father Guignard they found the common question de Tirannicidio which was writ in the time of the League and which Canonists and moral Philosophers were wont to treat much in those dayes and which Bodin amongst modern Authors thought fit to dispute in his Common-wealth they took him and hang'd him up for a Traytour without any form or order of Justice say the Authors And in the same fury they led away Gueret who had been Chastel's Master and put him upon the rack but finding him innocent they banished him out of France and all the Jesuits for company with confiscation of their goods and to make them eternally infamous they erected a Pyramid with an inscription tending more to their disgrace then the Kings honour This sentence of Paris was executed in most places of France only the Parliament of Tholouse look't upon it as an unjust Act and forbade all townes under their jurisdiction to obey it This is the summ of that Tragical story which serves well for the Jesuits justification for morally speaking it was impossible that Chastel should not have accused the Jesuits had he known them guilty He that made no difficulty to accuse himself and bring his own father upon the stage why should he stick to accuse the Jesuits is it credible that a youth of eighteen years age should undergo a thousand torments worse then death rather then acknowledge the Authors of his sufferings when we have heard of men that were made of Iron who rather chose to accuse themselves wrongfully and dye once for all than suffer so many lingring deaths upon the Rack It was questionless a most admirable and miraculous price of p●ovidence over the Jesuits that he did not unjustly accuse them when he was so many wayes tempted to do it for one syllable would have done their business had it been upon the rack had it been afterwards recall'd it would have serv'd to ruine them utterly not only in their lives and fortunes but in their credit and reputation which is far dearer to them for if a meer shadow of presumption gave their adversaries the boldness to charge them and treat them so severely what were they to have expected had the force of torments made them criminals true or false it would never have been then much disputed 10. You may imagine the King himself would be curious to sift out the t●uth whether indeed the Jesuits had a hand in that stroak which aim'd at his life He soon discover'd the malice of their accusers but having scarce got the Reins of Government into his hands he thought fit to dissemble for a time but upon occasion of a studyed bitter invective which the President Harley made in Parliament to persuade his Majesty not to think of recalling the Jesuits he suddenly took upon him to plead their cause and did it with so much Wisdome and Eloquence that they could not have chosen a better advocate The Speech is worth your reading and therefore I send it with this Letter that you may peruse it The conclusion was that the Jesuits were restored and the infamous Pyramid pull'd down by the Kings Command who not content to have re-established them in their own Colledges built and founded them a stately Colledge and Academy at La Fleche and bequeathed his heart to them as a perpetual monument of his constant Love to the Society And that you may here also read his affection for them in his own language I think it not amiss to insert that Speech of his which he made at Villiers-Coterez A. D. 1606. to the Fathers that were deputed by the Provincial Congregation to give his Majesty thanks for his continual favours and to Petition for two things first that as he had been graciously pleased to recall them to Paris he would also settle and establish them there by his Letters Patents Secondly that he would