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A04991	The argument of Mr. Peter de la Marteliere aduocate in the Court of Parliament of Paris made in Parliament, the chambers thereof being assembled. For the Rector and Vniuersitie of Paris, defendants and opponents, against the Iesuits demandants, and requiring the approbation of the letters patents which they had obtained, giuing them power to reade and to teach publikely in the aforesaid Vniuersitie. Translated out of the French copie set forth by publike authoritie.; Plaidoyé de Pierre de la Martelière ... pour le recteur et Université de Paris ... contre les Jesuites. English	La Martelière, Pierre de, d. 1631.; Browne, George, lawyer.; Université de Paris.	1612 (1612)	STC 15140; ESTC S108203	61,909	128

himselfe in all his actions as one who would raise some great Empire they promised that the Senate would be diuided and that the people would rise that the schollers which they had were as so many prisoners and assurances of their promises that the excommunication should haue the like effect at Venice as at Ferrara and vpon this was the interdict published The common-wealth of Venice contented it selfe in this occurrence to forbid all Ecclesiasticall men to trouble the state of mens consciences and to take from them all occasion of excuse gaue the religious men choise to stay or to retire themselues the Iesuits made answere that they would conforme themselues to the ordinances of the common-wealth in the meane time they secretly send father Posseuin to Rome to their General and vnder hand labor to suborne other Ecclesiasticall men and to hinder their obedience due vnto their Soueraigne There fell out an action very memorable of a good religious man accustomed to plaine honest dealing which had no other end but the loue of God and not the care of worldly affaires or of rule and gouernment the Prouinciall of the Capuchins a man of singular integrity and of a holie life who wrote vnto all the Couents of his Order that if the Prince common-wealth should command any thing contrary vnto the twelue Articles of the Creede they were rather to suffer a thousand deathes then to obey it but that in whatsoeuer thing else should be cōmanded them they should discharge the duty of good subiects without any scruple of conscience vpon paine of his indignation the which they ought to feare as much as death it selfe True holinesse without dissimulation or ambition which shall crown the glory of this obedience with immortality which in despite of these new doctrines the wind of truth shall blow into all corners of the Christian world There passed not many daies before that there were fathers and husbands which complained that their wiues and children made a doubt whether they should yeeld them the loue and obedience due vnto them being afrighted by the Iesuits who preached that they were excommunicate and damned and notwithstanding that at their departure from Venice they had burned a great quantity of their papers fearing least they should be seene neuerthelesse there were found some bearing wirnesse that they kept a register of the confessions of men of quality and that they had sent a great masse of money vnto Rome and carried away all the ornaments which had beene giuen to their Churches and at Padua and Bresse where they were surprised and had not leasure to dispose of their papers nor to burne them there were found so many enquiries and searches of the disposition of the Estate and of all the families in particular that it was a most infallible token that they had some great designe in hand to the execution whereof was required so painefull a curiosity It is another secret very remarkeable that they stirred vp this trouble in the Estate of Venice then when the Count de Fuentes had an armie on foot in Italie for the King of Spaine and had caused two great forts to be built which are held impregnable for to hinder the passage of the Switzers and the Grisons by meanes whereof they thought assuredly in them selues that these forces their directiōs meeting they might haue transferred that Estate as they did that of Portugal first by the vanity wherewith they knew how to puffe vp the mind of the King Don Sebastian to his ruin and vtter ouerthrow who had suffered them to beare authority in his Estate then by withdrawing the affection of King Henry the Cardinall his successour from Iohn Duke of Bragance husband vnto Catherine his neece and daughter of Edward his brother which had excluded Isabel from whom the King of Spaine was descended to make vse of it in his behalfe and in strengthening his pretention and likewise by the warre which they kindled against Don Antonio acknowledged to be their naturall and lawfull Prince in the which they spared not the blood of two thousand good Religious men loyall vnto their King by reason whereof there was obtained a Bul of speciall absolution For beside that the stocke and race of him who was the founder of the Iesuits is Spanish and their Generals of the same nation or of some other country subiect vnto the King of Spaine which inspireth into them a particular affection vnto that Estate they aiming at no other marke but the absolute establishment of the spirituall power wherewith they promise readily to crush and beate down heresies haue more need of force then perswasion and doe rather chuse to make vse of the materiall sword then the spirituall now the King of Spaine being hee who most applieth himselfe vnto this designe they seek to exalt him aboue all other Princes and indeed they haue written that the Emperour Charles the sift and King Philip did well conforme themselues vnto this resolution but that they were hindered by the Kings of France without whom heresie had beene quite rooted out they say that King Frances the first made alliance with the Turke that Henry the second defended the Protestants whom the Emperor would haue destroied that Henry the 3. made alliance with the Queene of England Germaines and Switzers that Spaine hath receiued the Councell of Trent and caused the inquisition to the strictly obserued Great ingratitude are there any Princes in the world that haue so much exalted the Catholique Religion as the Kings of France and which haue more augmented the holy Sea the Donations of Pepin and Charlemaine falsly attributed vnto Constantine the armes of France so often trāsported into the holy land those of king Lewis the 12. and of his successors emploied in recouering the Popes estate which was vsurped on all this is nothing to those who preferre their nouelties before any other consideration and are bound to take it in euill part that the thrice christian Kings of France for the conseruation of their Estate haue maintained thēselues against Charles the fist and neuer blame the alliance which he bought with King Henry the 8. of England for to ruinate and subuert vs. And for proofe of this their affection conspiring against vs those which haue gone frō amōgst them do report that they obserue this order that in euery house there are two which keep registers haue the charge of matters of Estate to whom the rest doe confesse themselues and are bound to report what they learne this is carried by the Visiters vnto their Generall and he must be a Neapolitane Sicilian or Spaniarde to giue aduise thereon And in the yere 1604 there being discouered a cōfraternity of Iesuits associated as they say that a whole Towne may be Iesuited who made their assembly in the house of the Iesuits in the City of Genua in the which those of the brotherhood had sworne not to giue their voices for the election of Magistrates and

Seminaries was committed vnto the Iesuits presently they meditated how they might take from the Priests and Ecclesiasticall men of the Country whose deuotion and affection had beene prooued the rule and authority from ouer their flocke for to attribute it vnto themselues caused Arch-priests to bee made which should yeeld them a reason of all things and would that the contributions and almes of the Country which are not small should be distributed by their hands which caused more trouble amongst those poore Catholiques then all their persecution in the which before they medled with matters there was neuer any obiect of committing treason yea they came to such excesse that some Ecclesiasticall men of England hauing passed the Sea for to aduertise his holines of this disorder Persons the Iesuite made them to be put in prison and to be handled as malefactors and schismatikes and hindered their appeales from being receiued These poore men thus afflicted found meanes by the Councell of the Vniuersity of Paris to make the iustice of their complaint to appeare whereupon came forth the Breue of Pope Clemēt the 8. by which the Ecclesiasticall men of England were forbidden to render any account of their administration vnto the Iesuits or to their Generall nor to communicate their affaires vnto them by letters or otherwise but to addresse themselues directly to his holinesse with reuocation of that which Cardinal Caietan protector of England had decreed in fauour of them principally concerning the distribution of the almes and after that the trouble of that Church ceased and the peace thereof had continued longer had it not beene for the negotiations of the Iesuits in that which rather concerned the Monarchie of the world then the Kingdome of heauen Another example without exception and the carriage whereof was publike and notorious a testimony of the mediocrity whereof they boast that they haue gotten the perfection and of the peace which they procure vnto the Church The inquisitiō was placed in the hands of the Dominicans as well for their great and excellent knowledge as for the great seruices they had done the Catholike Church time hath not diminished the ancient and first glory of this order The Iesuits whose designe tendeth to the soueraigne dignity of the Church bethought themselues to stirre vp against them a dispute which they call de auxillijs concerning iustification thinking that by getting some aduantage vpon the reputation of these Religious men lesse cunning then they are it would bee easie to pull out of their hands this powerfull function although they neuer had abused the same Which Pope Clement vnderstanding forbad the disputation notwithstanding the Iesuits published the same and there is no man who is ignorant that this wise and holy Pope desired to abate their ambition confessing that hee had entred into speech thereof with Cardinall Tolet who preferred towards his latter end the honor and good of the Church before the factions of his society that he had sought meanes to make the counsell of Sixtus the fifth to preuaile which was to shut them vp and to submit their Generall to the capitular resolutions of the society and to make him triennall from the which that they might secure themselues they haue obtained a Bull from Pope Gregory the foureteenth which importeth excommunication to all those who should offer to enterprise the like but the Pope being not able to bring it to passe and Cardinall Tollet being deceased he would vnder colour of reforming their Order haue sent their Generall into Spaine which the Iesuits withstood affirming vnto his Holinesse that he could not do it without preiudice of his health which made one amongst them to enquire of a woman which was possessed with an euill spirit what should be the successe of that voyage doubting with others of his society that this was a meane to diminish the power of Aquauiua which is as great at Rome as that of the Pope The leauen which the Iesuits had left in the Townes where the Kings Edict touching there banishment was not executed made them alwaies to encrease the hope of their returne histories the witnesse of time the memorie of ages past the mirror of men the messenger of all the accidents which declare the truth shall faithfully report vnto posterity that they haue not omitted ought which might make for their purpose and they haue not concealed it in a great discourse composed of thirty or fourty articles which they published and supposed it to haue been made in the yeere 1603. by the King in answere to the graue remonstrances of his Parliament which they impose and thrust vpon strange nations as if it were true hauing made it to bee printed in Latin and Italian and lately Gretserus in Germany for their last discharge and also Posseuin doe imploy it in their Bibliotheca or Chronicle which they haue composed to the end that this imposture should passe current vnto posterity who after that they had beene so bold as to compare their reestablishment which was of pure and meere grace vnto the diuine and lawfull establishment of our King in his Estate yet they confesse that they obtained it as they might very hardly As we all acknowledge that the clemency of our King hath giuen peace to his people so it was necessary for him to assure the foundations thereof by iustice in case of so great so inueterate and pernicious a corruption for the sure establishment of the common weale not to content himselfe to command wel but to inhibite the committing of euill Great King which hast beene without comparison more exalted in vertue then in dignity aboue other men your good seruants wounded by the knife which hath shortened your daies shall for euer complaine that your vnmeasured clemencie and gentlenesse hath encreased the boldnesse of those who haue beene to you as very infidels as you haue beene vnto them a good and gracious King Our heart was sound our wound recouered and the griefe of the Vniuersity in particular beganne to breake away when the Iesuits emploied the intercession of Pope Clement the 8. about their reestablishment in this kingdome All Christendome can be witnesse of the deuotion which our King did beare towards the holy Sea and of the honour which hee gaue particularlie vnto Pope Clement for his high great and eminent vertues the bounty of the King more respected the contentment of the Pope and the assurance which he gaue him then the naturall apprehension of the iniuries and outrages which he had receiued so that after manie commandements vnto you my Lords and many remonstrances by you the letters which they had obteined were verified it being worth the noting that the conditions added vnto their reestablishment by meanes whereof men thought to bring them to the tearmes of simple religious men and obedient Subiects being consented and agreed vnto by the Pope were not allowed by their Generall by reason that they were different from the principall rules of