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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08691	The copie of a letter sent from Paris to the reverend fathers of the Society of Iesus, who liue in England Containing an answere to the calumniations of the Anti-Coton against the same Society in generall, and Fa. Coton in particular.; Copie of a letter sent from Paris to the reverend fathers of the Society of Jesus, who live in England.	Owen, Thomas, 1557-1618.	1611 (1611)	STC 18999; ESTC S104535	49,876	96

and diuert the people from their Parishes c. And by these fraudulent deuises the Abbyes being thus put downe and the Monks turned out and some of them also put to death for denying the Kings Supremacy the aforesaid brethren informed the Nobility that the great riches which the Church enioyed were giuen by their Ancestors and that there could no better course be taken in this great disorder of the Popedome and in this licentious and voluptuous prodigality of the Bishops then to reduce all thinges to their beginning and to render these Ecclesiasticall goodes to the houses out of which they first came And in this manner Scotland was depriued of Religious meÌ„ Priests Curates Chanons Abbots Bishops which also had been brought to passe in England if the Puritans might haue preuailed The spirit of their M. Caluin being impatient of all Superioritie and Ecclesiasticall Hierarchie Moreouer my Author telleth the Hugonots that by their persecutions they establish the Societie more more for they are esteemed so much the more profitable as by them they are described vnprofitable so much the more necessary as they account them harmfull And the like is of others who are no hereticks for euery man obserueth that those who persecute the Societie are neither the deuoutest nor the best Catholiks of the world which might easily appeare if they be Churchmen by inquiring whether they say their Breuiarie or not and if they be lay by marking whether they frequent the Sacraments not to say any more To all which we may add that the Hugonots haue been heard say in their most secret Conuenticles that if they ouerthrow not the Iesuits the Iesuits will ouerthrow them that is their pretended Religion which is the cause that they set vpon the Society more fiercely then vpon some others on whom notwithstanding they might probably take as great hold For my Author saith that he cannot belieue that they are more zealous of the State then of their Religion and therfore there must needs be some enigma equiuocation and mysticall vnderstanding in this great fierce and terrible persecution which they haue resolued in their night-assemblees against the Society But he biddeth them do their worst which will be the best for them since that they are men who haue nothing either to loose or gaine in this world but only the seruice of God and the saluation of soules Wherefore they who will haue and vse them in this sort may and they who will not may send them to China and Mogor where the haruest is plentifull And if nothing els did hold them in Europe but pleasure or profit they would long since haue departed of their owne accord for they are not so kindely dealt withall that they haue any great cause to please themselues according to sense but their contentments yea I may say their delights are crosses tribulations slaunders persecutions and especially when they come from Anti-Cotons and their associats enemies of the Catholick faith They are neuer more content then in such discontentments neuer more strong then when they are thus weakened neuer more vnited to God then when they are cast of and separated from this kind of people All their affliction consisteth in the offence committed by their enemies against God in the harme which Catholicks receaue in the losse of the Hugonots soules Soules for which they would expose their bodyes liues a thousand times NotwithstaÌ„ding they make no great accompt nor haue any great apprehension of the Hugonots attempts they know what they can do of what weight and value they are it is all but threats and menaces which they vse most when they tremble for feare Caluins spirit is insolent in prosperity deicted in aduersity and of it aboue all the spirits in the world we may truly say that he threatneth who is much afraid They know also that it is proper to God to defend and maintaine that which the Diuell impugneth as they haue experienced by their returne into France For in exchange of 9. or 10. yeares of absence from that part of the Countrey which belonged to the Parliament of Paris they haue since not only been reestablished there but also established in the whole Kingdome with more augmentation and increase then their continuall stay could haue produced in an hundred yeares So true it is that God recompenseth with vsury whatsoeuer is done or suffered for his sake Wherfore they haue reason not only to hope but also to be certainely perswaded that vnlesse God should retire himselfe from France for their sinnes Pag. 302. the Society shal hereafter be imployed and esteemed in this Kingdome more then it hath byn hitherto and that in regard of this storme after which as is to be hoped will shortly succeed a quiet calme especially vnder the gouernement of so wise a Queene whome God hath chosen like another Debora during the minority of this Great and Little King her Sonne and their Maister vnder the shadow of her Royall protection the Religious men of this Society so much enuyed by the wicked and persecuted by those who know it not will alwaies breath the same aire of deuotion towards God and of inuiolable fidelity towards their Maiesties requiring one only grace for all the humble seruices which they desire to yeild them and it is that when they shal be accused in coÌ„mon or in particuler either in manners or doctrine it will please them to ordaine that most exact inquisition be made to chastice them if they be culpable or to punish the accusers if they be found innocent And because the Author or Authors of the Anti-Coton are obliged both voluntarily by their own word and necessarily by the qualitie of the cryme of calumniation to tell and declare their names qualities they beseech her Maiestie that it will please her to commaund that if within 8. daies they doe not manifest themselues all the rigors and penalties which Gods and mans law prescribeth and inioyneth against Calumniators may be vsed against them and that she would appoint to this end that extraordinary search and inquiry may be made And in case that they freely name and discouer themselues my Author in the name of all the Fathers and particulerly of Fa. Coton prostrateth himselfe at her Maiesties feet beseeching her by all the extension of graces and power which God hath giuen her to accord that Iustice may be done aswell of Fa. Coton as of all the rest if the CaluÌ„niators shall verify make good that which they haue said and of them reciprocally if for want of proof they shall be found conuinced of imposture or slaunder And he telleth her Maiestie that this is a matter of no small importance and therefore she will be pleased not to attribute this their humble request to importunity For it belongeth to the seruice of God who hath interest in their functions if they be such as they are described The good of her Maiesties people doth also require

Lord Chancellor and the Lord Villeroy and many others and in particuler to F. Coton that he remembreth nothing of that which the Anti-Coton maketh him say to the King or the King to him After some other obiections concerning England Pag. 123. which I am resolued to omit at length he commeth to the Reuerend Father Baldwin now in the Tower and is not afraid to affirme that he had some intelligence with Francis Rauaillac who sayth he had byn in Flanders somewhat before his cursed enterprise Wheras my Author sheweth that Rauaillac was particulerly asked whether he had byn at Bruxels to which he answered that he was neuer out of the Kingdome and that he knew not where Bruxels was From England he goeth to Polonia affirming pag. 124. that the Iesuits haue perswaded that King to vse such violeÌ„ce that he hath byn in danger to loose his Kingdome which my Author calleth a manifest falshod for Polonia was neuer in the memory of man so prosperous nor euer King more beloued and respected or more peaceable in his Estates yea he hath entred into Moscouia where at this present he obteyneth very great victories And as for Sweden euery man knoweth that his vncle Charles withholdeth it against all right iustice not in respect of the Iesuits about whome there was neuer any question but by reason of the Dukes heresie and ambition shewing by his proceeding which is most certaine that out of the Catholicke Church there is no true fayth at all Ibidem That which followeth of Transiluania is a meere fiction neyther can he produce any such letter as he feigneth of the Baron of Zerotin neyther were the Fathers euer suspected of any conspiracy against that Prince yea F. Alfonsus Carillo was his Confessarius vntill he sent home the Lady Catherine of Austria and did put his cosen Balthazar Battorius to death And at this present al besides the heretikes do much desire that the Fathers of the Society may returne to Coluswar otherwise called Claudiopolis to Fayrwar otherwise called Alba-Iulia By all which this slander is made manifest but by nothing more theÌ„ by that which is added of putting one of the Fathers to death for neuer any heard of any such besides F. Martin Laterna Confessarius to King Steuen Battorius who being sent by his Maiesty into Transiluania was taken vpon the sea and put to death by the Pyrates of Duke Charles who styleth himself King of Sweden Because this calumniator could find no colour to charge the Society with any thing against the house of Austria he taketh a new course and will needes giue the reason therof to be because their Generall is a Spaniard to whome they vow blind obedience Pag. 78. 81. 125. But my Author sheweth that it is false that the Generals of the Society are always Spaniards as appeareth by the last who was of Liege and although this who is now be a Neapolitan yet he is of the noble house of Aquauiua sonne to the Duke of Atri Vncle to the Cardinall Aquauiua now liuing which family hath alway byn esteemed to fauour the French It is also vntrue that in the Society the first vowes are made to F. General but immediatly to the Superiours of that place which in France are Frenchmen who cannot be thought lesse faythfull to their King then the Spaniardes to theirs and how their vow of obedience is to be vnderstood hath bin already declared There remayneth yet Venice Pag. 126. concerning which Anti-CotoÌ„ chargeth the Iesuits to haue byn the beginners of the last troubles betwixt that CommoÌ„-wealth the Pope wheras it is manifest out of the bookes of Friar Paul the rest of that crew that the cause of those difficulties were for that his Holynes would not permit the reall libertyes and personal immunities of the Church to be infringed and violated for which cause he had imposed a locall personall interdict vpon that State Neither did the Fathers of the Society proceed any further then the Capuchins and Theatins who tooke it not to belong to them to censure the Popes proceedinges but rather to obey his Decrees vntill the Common-wealth had made their remonstrations and supplications to his Holynesse And wheras this calumniator addeth that the Iesuits wrought against the Common-wealth at Rome my Author sheweth that the late King of France in all mens iudgments a most iudicious Prince commaÌ„ded the proofes of this and other obiections to be examined but nothing could be gotten but silence as that renowned Prelate the Cardinall of Ioycuse to whome this whole affaire was committed by his Maiesty can witnesse Finally the Society can be no more blamed for hauing legacies and lands in that State then in any other or then all other Religious Orders Yea if we speake of their house in Venice it selfe it was not capable of any rent or land whatsoeuer And here my Author hath iust cause to wish all men to informe theÌ„selues throughly of the truth before they giue eare to the calumniations and fals reports which the enemies of the Society are wont to raise This sayth he was the lesson which our great Henry gaue to all those whome he saw ill affected vnto them saying often That it was sufficient to know the Iesuites for to loue esteeme and defend them In so much as all the Princes and great Lords of France can testifie that they haue often heard him speake of the Society with such great affection and such honorable commendation as could be giuen to any Religious Order Hauing thus wandred vp and downe forraine Countreys Pag. 128. this Libeller returneth home to France and for conclusion of his second Chapter heapeth vp ten lyes in one narration concerning the erection of a Colledge of the Society in Orleans First that they sent one of their Fathers to preach in that Citty the time of Lent wheras it is manifest that this prouision of Preachers belongeth to the Bishops themselues besides he mistaketh Lent for Aduent Secondly he affirmeth that the Cittizens were not well content nor satisfied with the Fathers preaching wheras it is certayne that his Auditory was very great and his sermons much applauded in so much that he could hardly excuse himselfe from preaching the next Lent also although there was another very eloquent and learned man appointed Thirdly saith Anti-Coton in steed of studying this Fa. busied his braines in searching out and intertayning such as had yet in their hartes any remainder of the old leuen of the league This is a most malicious lye and such an one as only the Hugonots will belieue whom the late King called the leaguers of his time And the truth is that the Father was alwaies ordinarily eyther in the Church or els in his chamber as those of the Lord Bishops of Orleans house where he had his lodging will testify Fourthly sayth this calumniator this Iesuite gaue out that it was the Kinges will that they should

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