Did the Iewes euer commit the like to destroy a whole race Or the Templers in seeking to banish all others to establish their order But saith another what shall become of good Letters how shall Learning doe which these worthie men teach so worshipfully how shall our youth doe If thou be an Asse or an Idyot I pardon thee that askest the question When they came first into our FraÌ„ce were our Vniuersities a sleepe So many great personages so learned so graue as haue beene there brought vp fiftie yeares agoe which haue honoured all Europe not their owne Country onely were they of their instruction followed they their methode As for their Schooles what hath euer come out of them worthy the talking of Of a truth if as the Scottishmen did long agoe vnder Charles the Great they should come and call and crie about the streetes who would buy learning without any further meaning without thrusting their sickles into other mens harvests or without medling with other mens matters they had been to be borne withall nay they should haue byn welcome euen to the best learned But are we now to learne that vnder the preteÌ„ce of this good Latin they fill our children with very evill French that vnder the shew of good letters and wholesome sciences they confound our Spirites and corrupt our soules See wee not how in the end they insensibly transforme our affections and our wils in this tender age to fashion vs and in vs by this meanes in their Colledges so many Spanish Collonies spredde abroad and founded within the bulke of all our bloud as therby they alter thorow their vilde and base qualities which they imprint there all the body of the Realme So as to buy Latine and learning at this rate it were better we neuer knew what latine ment or euer spake other then our own language Yea but be not so superstitious what man banish this good and godly name of Iesus can you thus without shame and sinne kicke against the holy Mountaine what a number of good deuotions of holy confessions shall we loose with them Nay say rather how many diuels how many deuâ—tes Antiquity called theÌ„ deuotes that vowed their liues for the death of any one at any doleful actioÌ„ What other deuotion is there among these so woorthy the noting as this But not to aduenture their owne liues they are too carefull and cunning in that but to perswade and bring others vnto it Now Sir whether call you it losse or gaines to loose such deuotes For as for any other speciall marke of holynesse if you looke for in them they will send you to the Indians there are their Martires there are their miracles This wretched west-part of the world is neither capable nor worthy of them Among vs they can produce no other Martyres but Chastells Rauailaks Fathers Garnets Guignards Guerets murtherers of Kings burners of Realmes for their miracles they present vnto you seditions conspiracies murthers massacres Those that among vs feede and fill themselues with nothing else but slaine bodies and murthered carkafles shall we bee so foolish as to belieue that in other places they raise the dead yea or so much as heale the diseased And as touching confession the chiefe sinew of their societie or rather of their coniuration who knoweth not that it is nothing else but a Caball of that old Mahumetan of the Mountaine vsed to confirme and resolue those that are his to kill christian Princes in the holy Land They transport their Nouices casting them into a sleepe with certaine drinkes into a certaine place where they not onely see but taste all the pleasures of their holy Fathers prophane Paradice to the end that waking they may despise the danger and death that they might runne into by killing of Kings a death whereof when they haue tasted should bring vnto them ioye euerlasting In their confessions such is their craft for Sathan alwaies profiteth by growing olde they draw from all the horrible offences that euer they haue committed And that reuealed they plunge them ouer the head and shoulders in the horror of that eternall paine that is allotted for so heauie sinnes and after in their chamber giue them a feeling of heauenly Meditations Afterwardes when they haue thus broken the heads and hearts of them when they haue thus astonished theÌ„ they propound theÌ„ for remedy of some one offence an ordinary murde of some other sin the killing of a King at the least and so of the rest which if they will attempt and accomplish they will warrant that it shall not onely free him of iustly deserued paine but besides according to the nature of that that hee shall practise as vpon a noble man a Prince a King his rewarde shall proportioned more or lesse in Heauen As to bee an Angell or Archangell c. And thus they furnish with a consecrated weapon saying take the sword of Dauid of Iudith of S. Peter Assone as they haue deliuered it vnto him straight they honor him they admire him they worship him They perswade him that hee is already deified they find him transfigured glorified Doe you not thinke that they haue well enriched the Sarazines invention This Mahumetane vsed this practise of his but onely against his enemies as he tooke them infidels but our mercy more carefull a great deale then this infidell make vse thereof onely against Christians they reserue it by a speciall priuiledge for annoynted Kings those especially whom Christendome calleth most Christian among the Catholiques In briefe the pretended wisedome telleth vs I pray God it be not wickednesse that to deale with so great a bodie so mighty a society cannot be without much danger And who supposeth his Holynesse will make vs feare and feele his power and yet we must needs be affraid of some hundred or not many more that are scattered abroad heere and there in our Country Such as haue no part or portion in our Estate that haue nothing to doe with any of our Provinces Cities or Families such as we can easily roote out without beeing seene or perceiued Shall these hinder you for doing iustice iustice vnto our King iustice for so haynous an acte where my good Lords should your auncient vertue become whome should it meete withall in his way in the way of iustice to hinder you Cerberus with his three heads should bee constrained to creepe on his belly as our King was wont to say hee would leaue to doe the iustice of God for the pleasure of men of that God which is alwaies able to strengthen the weakenesse of man in his affaires Assuredly my Lords he promiseth the same ayde to you at this daye Nay the present necessity extreamitie and iust dolour will confirme and redouble strength in you But to giue the ancient strength and vigor to his Estate requireth your helping hand become you first strong and couragious and they will soone follow Let vs know by the speedy execution of your decree what feeling what motiou there is in you let nothing hinder let nothing staye that And doe you not repose your selues my Lords vppon the quaint deuises of these companions vppon their supposes vppon their supports this voice of mine is the voice of all France nay of all the Catholicks of this realme Our fields our Townes our Artes doe redemand at your hands our King that caused them to florish to flowre to preuaile to profit They all sigh and sob for this iustice Our Clergie craneth from you their defender the Nobles their guide our people their deliuerer our estate their restorer the soundest part of Europe their Protector our French Princes the honour of their bloud Strangers the Captaine of their Ranckes There is nothing that can gainesay or gainestriue this request These trickling teares these secret murmurings this astonished silence hath no other wish nor speaketh any other speech To be short the earth that hath giuen entertainment to his sacred bloud spilt vpon a pauement as the Prophet speaketh that will neuer be dry cryeth vengeance of the Heauens The Heauens receaue their voices and rebound from thence a commaund of the same reuenge You cannot better my Lords continue and increase the yeares of our King comfort the teares of the Queene nor better bewaile the death of Henrie the Great moane his sorrowfull death celebrate his obsequies nor consecrate his memory to eternity By this meanes you shall best continue and defend your Nobilities and places you shall bee Fathers of your Country if you will truely the voice of your Country and otherwise not which long may you doe and happily FINIS
giue it reading as a Testimonie of the love and speciall respect my heart doth owe you who as I will ever pray that you may still honour GOD and your selues by zeale against Poperye and constancye in the Truth So shall I reioyce by anye service I can perfourme to bee an instrument of your Confirmation in the same Till when giue mee leaue to bee one of those who will euer honour your Noble and Religious vertues and who in all Christian and heartie affection doth vowe to remaine Your Honours servant in Christ WILLIAM CRASHAVVâ— A RELATION TO the Lordes of the Parliament concerning the death of their KING SHall wee then loose our King the most mightie and puissant King that ever France fostered that ever Europe contayned for the space of 500. yeares The heart that gaue life to the bodie of this State even vnto the least Arterie The naturall heat the force vigour of so many soules is pierced is slaine with the accursed knife of a damned Caytife shall he for so strange and inhumane a fact receiue no greater torture or torment than this base and ordinary punishment Shall this bee iudged a sacrifice sufficient for so hainous a trespasse Shall this be delivered vnto posterity for our shame and suffered of vs in these our dayes to our vtter ruine and confusion And you my Lordes of this Parliament that owe to him Iustice and ought to doe your selues right are you at a stand rest you now amazed you that through the height of your wisedomes are able to vnfolde the most difficult pointes of darkest causes are you now at a stand and besides your selues in a matter so cleare and evident You busily enquire after the Authors of this prodigious bloody blow and yet you perfectly vnderstand that the knife was but the instrumeÌ„t of Ravailac of Ravailac set on induced and instructed by other It was others that put the knife into his hand and planted the murther in his heart And is it then such a matter for you that are men of such wisedome gravity and experience to devine coniecture nay absolutely to convince who those Abettors are Seeing that all Christendome by general consent concluded that since the creation of the world there hath not any sect or societie beene found more capable or more culpable in such villanies than the Iesuits and their confederates and doe you make a doubt thereof Haue not Murtherers risen again in our dayes of Christian kings the remnants of Sarazin progenie and race of the Mores who haue written books erected schooles wherin they teach the Methode ther and manner of murthering Kings Haue they not reduced this monstrous and mischieuous practife into an Art into a Caball haue they not these many yeres framed and fashioned mens minds by their misteries and meditations by their consecrations and execrations to this end purpose are they honoured for any other exploytes or magnified for any other miracles Your owne lawes tell and teach vs that hee that hath once beene conuinced of villanie is euer after presumed to bee a bird of the same feather Sithence then their Emanuell in the institution of Confessors decreeth that it is lawfull to kill their King that euery Clarke may without offence exempt himselfe from the subiection of his naturall Prince and further averreth and auoucheth that hee cannot bee iustly termed a rebell whatsoeuer he doth or in what matter soeuer hee medleth what shall wee thinke Iohn Mariana is yet more bolde and broad in Iohn Mariana de institutione Regio l. 1. c. 6. 7. these businesses he is more particuler and more methodicall in these affaires he strideth a step beyond all the rest of his crewand company He maintaineth flatly and plainly that whosoeuer hath a charge committed vnto him by the society of Iesuites or from the hand of their Visitor or vnder the commaund of a fewe graue and learned persons of that rancke nay without feare or daunger attempt and assaile the person of his Prince or King by pollicie treason or poyson nay he spareth not to repeate the diuers sorts and kinds of poyson as swift or slow in working giuen in drinke or in meates by touching of his sacred and annoynted body vnder a friendly preteÌ„ce of offring him some excellent present or saith he after the manner of the kings of the Moores by rubbing his garments his Chayre his Linnen his Armour his Saddle Stirrops or Bootes And further he warranteth that whosoeuer shall loose his life in such an attempt shall doe a thing acceptable with God and praise-worthy among men hee shall bee forsooth a sweet smelling sacrifice in the nosthrils of the Lord of hoastes These Bookes passed not their Authors with a streight hand nor were they composed or compiled by nouices for the Emanuell as he saith in his preface was a worke of 40. yeares forging The ordinarie Manuell of the Father Confessors The Author therof was among theÌ„ a man of such fanctimony as for his pretended Petrus Ribadeneira in his Catalogue p. 14 holynesse the Virgin Marie say they and their good Father Ignatius appeared vnto him at his death That of Iohn Martana mencioned in the Catalogue of the bookes Idem pa. 3. L. 141. of their society published by Father Peter Ribadeneira in the yeare 1608. with singuler commendation of the Author and his woorkes as quallified with an excellent iudgement with admirable learning with profound Diuinity that he taught in Rome in Sicile and in Paris it selfe Both of them imprinted with Anthenticke priuiledges approbations and solemnities of their superiors the first at Antwerpe the other at Toledo and Maience But the latter which should strike the greater stroake was mostcuriously and cunningly framed to carry the greater authority besides it bore in the forefront greater recommendation as the censure and approbation in Spaine by Frier Peter of Onna Prouinciall The sufferance to be imprinted giuen by Stephen Hoieda visitor of the society of Iesus in the prouince of Toledo And consequently the full power and authority of passing current was giuen and graunted to this Booke by the Father Generall of their society so highly commended by them Claudius Aquauina after approbation these are his wordes By graue and learned personages of our order Can you any longer doubt my good Lords when you so euidently see out of what forge of what temper this mettall is Especially when it is too well knowen to you all what attempts within these 30. yeares this sect or society haue made vpon the sacred persons and lyues of many Kings Princes of Christendome preâ—ailed ouer some When that diuellish and damnable gunpowder deuise of England resteth so fresh in your memories so bleeding new wherin it was purposed that the King Queen Prince the whole Nobilitie of the Land the whole Clergie Archbishops Bishops and others the chiefe and choice of the Commons infinite numbers of all sorts and qualities in briefe the best of the lands estate
hoped that he would in small time consume our forces and that hee and all our whole Estate should in the end be buried in the ashes consumed and confunded Well now they see hee hath attained the Crowne that he hath changed his Religion to imbrace that wherof they so much vaunt wherof they call themselues the Pillers by that means to enioye the Kingdome quietly and as they suppose to become a fearefull eye-sore to the King of Spaine Now their zeale sheweth it selfe now their spirits are mooued now they bestirre their witts and busie their mindes now the whole swarme of that darke dungeon appeare in their liknesse and scatter themselues abroad in euery corner of our Region and Countrye In such manner and after such a sort as it is absolutely seene and knowne that they haue sharpened tempered and whet their malice fortified and redoubled their accustomed and long continued practises and deuises and why all this I pray you Is it for Religions cause Why did they not rather then afore this when our king was excommunicate when he was by them denounced hereticke why is this geere now onely set abroach when he is openly of all men declared and by their own selues acknowledged and confessed to bee a Catholique And yet for all this they are not ashamed to warrant vs safety against these vnsaciate murther-moouers prouided that wee will continue good Catholiques by this slye means seeking to change our iustly kindled mindes to turne vs from the execution of that iust reuenge which they haue too iustlye called vpon their owne heads They preach vnto vs the bannishing of the Hugonets against them they arme themselues with tooth and naile But certainly if these Hugonets were Spaniards if they would fashion and frame themselues to their intents and purposes if they would bee but once registred in their red bloody bookes I knowe then what they would say of them and how they would deale with them They should soone bee purged and purified from this crime heresie and with little a do be made perfect Catholiques nay they should haue both themselues and their Armour sanctified for so sound a seruice Well be that so in the meane time they importune vs that there ought to be but one Religion in France They find it conuenient that the Spaniard should make peace with the Estates at the charge of the Masse of our Church and of the Pope himselfe if their diuinity will allowe thereof For you shall neuer heare them sing other song they themselues are the onely denouncers of this decree Why haue our Kings for the quiet of their Estate forbidden preaching retayning wholye our Religion and the Pope his authority And I pray you why should this action which ought rather be taken in the better part be accounted Catholiques in the Spaniard and Heresie in our Kings In the end after this slander to please vs againe they tell vs wee haue now no more Hugonets left then will serue for a breakfast those are their owne words and I would those few might choake them at the first morcell What villanies they haue before time committed you haue heard what mischiefes they haue not deuised onely but practised you haue seene with your eyes and will you not belieue that this comfort which they pretend this strange restoratiue that they offer commeth out of the same Apothecaries shop Are you not perswaded that they would for the accomplishment of their ioye that the same knife that hath slaine our head should smite vs at the heart Of a surety these Hugonets as they tearme them neuer had any thing of hurt in them that resembleth theirs Yet the time was that wee haue burnt them that we haue prosecuted and persecuted them in so strange manner as that it hath beene an horror to our owne consciences yet in the middest of all their miseries and our rigours it was neuer heard or known that they so much as imagined much lesse pretended any thing against the liues of their Princes either of King Charles or of King Henrie the third Who hath euer accused them suspected them but he hath slaundered them But on the other side howsoeuer we haue oppressed them iniuried them imprisoned them or euer so much abused them yet when it came to the vpshot that there was any vse to bee made of them that the enemy assaulted or assailed the Land that the stranger offered to wrong the Countrie haue they not been as forward as the best of vs to defend haue they not drawne their swords with ours nay haue they not receaued woundes with vs and lost their bloud with ours By this meanes as euery one knoweth our Estate stood in safety These kind of people that are most readie then to kill Princes when they most commend them that haue vowed to weare no weapon but for the death of a King that teach that murther is the high and ready way to heauen if any enquire it at their hands dare they now adaies speake of banishing especiallie our Countrimen our Neighbours our Friends our Fathers our Brothers our kindred nay our owne flesh and bloud that are so readie to runne to relieue vs in our dangers Doe they holde vs for so blunt and blockish as that wee cannot see into their subtiltie who haue already so without all pittie and mercie opened the Basilike and Cephalicke vaines that I may vse the tearmes of that good Father Guignard vnder pretence to let vs bloud for the disease of Heresie that they goe about to cut in peeces both the sinewes and Arteries yea of the Catholiques themselues for is it possible if this course were taken but that bloud should be shed on both sides and both parties perish And all this notwithstanding to the heart-breaking of all good Frenchmen they must haue our hearts and good wills at their commaund To them bee the impudency and to vs the shame Let them come to aske vs Rent after the accompts are cast vp and the reckoning full made How full of misteries they are in all their dealings and doings And this among the rest is none of the least misteries for they thinke they haue wonne the game they take it that they haue gotten the goale that they haue what they would haue Who doubteth but that they will take this for a Trophie a Trophie or Tryumph of their victorie of their magnanimity but a badge and cognizance of our simplicity or to speake more plaine sottishnes What cause then haue we to commēd them what reason to reward or regard them Is it because they haue slaine him is it because they haue murthered him for what Chastell hath done they did Is it their funerall Orations that you so honor in the prime and pride of all their Rethoricke of all their eloquence their was hardly one Latine sentence or French phraze that tended to his good that was dead and for that I pray you pardon them There was neuer thing heard so colde so
weake so witlesse They were so choaked with the ioye of his death so ouer ioyed with the glorie of his murther as that they had quite cleane forgotten the sorow due to our common griefe and the praises due to his worthy life Wretched thing that it is to haue procured to them such honour nay such pleasure and vnto France such a perpetual reproach so immortall shame shall I euer forget that thou hast a hand in this vnhappinesse When they chose thee in their affaires and businesses as Protector and Procurer diddest thou not perceaue these Hippocrites the shadowes of sanctimonie how they curtesied and courted thee how they sought and solicited thee at thine vprising at thy downe-lying to the end that by thy credite against the decree of a most soueraigne Court a decree pronounced by the bleeding mouth of thy distressed Master they might be recalled into France againe Thinkest thou that if the Court had giuen thee neuer so little incouragement it had been fot good or for euill for their praise or for their dispraise had it been conuenient that they should so strumpet-like vildely and villanously prostitute their shamefastnes to thy shame They whose pride is well knowne to haue no other purpose but to broke and buye our ruine thongh it be valued at the rate of their highest shame are they not worthy to bee shunned And among the rest thou thy selfe sith thou art not borne to die for griefe were it not fit that thou shouldest come to the Court with an halter about thy necke creeping on thy belly clad in sacke-cloth and ashes to craue of him pardon and Iustice pardon for thy brutishnesse that art so neare in fault to a fault so monstrous in that thou hast presumed vppon a fauour most vnworthily giuen thee in causes belonging to kings to doe against the lawes ignorant and infamous person that thou art Iustice against those haue blindfolded thee bewitched thee made thee the instrument of thy Maysters murther and of such a Maister as from the dunghill hath raised and enritched thee without any desart of thine as against all reason so beyond measure and nature But my Lords it may be Peter Cottons declaratiō hath satisfied you blot out his suspitions Put him ouer to be examined by our Abbot by our Clergie men that can better handle this matter than you yet it were good to haue an eye to the maine in as much as the case stood otherwise before my L. Chancellor according to his grauity and wisedome corrected it They are reproached with that famous booke of D. Iohn Mariana which breatheth out nothing else but poison and slaughter They make vs belieue it is a very badde booke In our Iesuites Calapine might not a man thinke you picke out some one word or other that may bring this booke into detestation whē his owne mouth speaketh so maydenly of his owne worke what doth he leaue vs to coniecture of his heart Thus himselfe speaketh of himselfe This booke of mine saith he is but the slight passage of an euill cut pen Is he to be acquitted to be cleared for these gallant Metaphors for these glozing far-fetcht borrowed phrases whereas this execrable doctrine of his that hath passed currant without contradiction these seauenteene yeres sauoureth of nothing else but mischiefe and murther and that not against meane men but the mightiest it aymeth at nothing but Kings and Princes But saith he what charity what iustice were this that for one Mariana the whole society should suffer And why not for it is the whole society that speaketh and offendeth in Mariana for it appeareth by his owne mouth by his own assertions and attestations that the grauest and most learned of that sect and sort haue taken a view thereof the Prouinciall and Visitor haue allowed of it the Generall taken order that it should be imprinted to haue it acknowledged for a most Autenticke woorke of that society what greater ceremonie would they haue then this what other forme of confirmation But let vs farther saye it is not one Mariana alone that hath written of this matter of this subiect The Iesuites of all Nations of all Climates haue practized this Apostleshippe haue published this Gospell Emanuell Sa the Portugall Gabriell Vasques and Peter Ribadineira Spaniards Martin Becanus and Nicholas Bonarsius base Almains Iohn Guignard and the Authors of the Apologie of Chastell Frenchman Robert Bellarmine Italian Ioseph Creswell Englishman and many others haue executed the selfe same practise with ioynt consent vpon the persons of Kings and Princes in Fraunce in England in the lowe Countries and of late memotie in Transiluania where there was but one onely so contagious and corrosiue is this poison whersoeuer it catcheth hold wheresoeuer it seazeth Our dolefull mischiefe was knowne at Prage at Madrill at Brucells before it came vnto vs as the Ambassors euer truely iustified and all this done by the most accursed correspondence of that company To conclude let vs all iumpe in this which is a thing more then certaine that whether it bee their best Diuines their most authorized Doctors Prouincialls Generalls Cardinalls pretended Martires or whosoeuer else of that rascally rabble they haue all conspired and knotted themselues together to no better intent than is already alleadged For as touching any thing that they can saye for themselues to cleare their accursed cause it is so weake so withered so darke so double so spoken in the teeth so tumbled out that there is no one so simple or so sencelesse but that he may with ease iudge that it is the doctrine of Equiuocants the doctrine of D. Navarre that is spoken But we saye they in our congregation Provinciall held at Paris requested of the Generall of our company that whosoeuer had written to the preiudice of the crowne of France he should be punished and his booke suppressed Now note my good Lords what hath happened fifteene yeres after when this poyson had leisure to runne throughout all the vaines and let them preduce but any one if they can what hath beene excommunicate or otherwise censured for this booke or for any the like Or let vs our selues remember what Curate wee haue knowne solemnly in the Church to haue but threatned Hell to such a Diuell as these Iesuites are yea saye you but there was one censured true but why I pray you forsooth for telling tales out of the schoole for too openly and too seuerely publishing their secrets abroad And to what end I pray you was this great peece of seruice done surely to as great purpose as that that Rauailac did to let fall the knife after hee had strooke the fatall blowe burne the booke after they had fired their hearts by the meanes of all these hell hound spirits of Europe But made he not as good a confession of his faith to the Queene It is to bee seene saith he in the Councell of Constance c. What better thing could he haue spoken Here beginneth