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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

their Order they kept close this secret from vs by the which they thought themselues to be dispensed with from all that which was required of them and from that which they promised not being able to be bound without the consent and will of the Generall they being more bound vnto him then vnto God the Church or Pope or to all the world beside They were reestablished in the moneth of Ianuary 1604. and a little before their brethren of Doway had managed the enterprise vpon the person of Duke Maurice and had sent their Purueior named Panne to execute it And a short time after was discouered another designe of their good intentions to wit the conspiracy of the which three of their fathers Tesmond Gerard and Garnet had the managing against the King of England and all the Estates and Magistrates of the country the most prodigious that euer could enter into the heart of man and which surpasseth and confoundeth all the excesse and villany of former times The Estates of England were summoned the place and day appointed and the ouerture prepared the conspirators had found meanes to fill the vault vnder the roome where the assembly should haue beene with such a quantity of gunpowder hidden and couered with wood that with the least artifice frō as far off as they listed they could haue blown vp ouerthrown a whol kingdom at one instāt they themselues haue thus described it and part of those which were guilty haue confessed it It is not the meane to establish the Catholique Religion to fill an Estate with murders and horrible combustion it is rather the way to giue cause vnto heretikes stifly to bend themselues against proceedings so contrary to moderation and mildnes which God hath left as a marke of his light and to make that the Christian verity neuer returne more thither from whence it hath beene expelled and that it come to passe that infidelity and paganisme shall rather succeed heresie then that euer there should be any amendment or restoring of that which is better From this establishing of the spirituall power aboue the temporall proceedeth this other proposition of the doctrine of the Iesuits to wit that Ecclesiasticall men are neither subiects nor vnder the iurisdiction of any Prince but of the Pope alone yea in that which concerneth temporall matters that liuing in the Estate of any one whatsoeuer they are not bound by the lawes nor policies be they fundamentall and most supreme and therefore Bellarmine in his treatise de Clericis from the 28. chapter to the 30. Emmanuel Sa in his Confessionary vpon the word Clericus Gretserus in his writings against the common-wealth of Venice doe concurre together with all the rest of their society that although Ecclesiasticall men should conspire against the Estate or person of the Prince yet they cannot encurre the danger of Treason because he is neither King nor Prince as to them neither are they subiects in respect of him The schoole of Paris on the contrary hath alwaies held and taught that Ecclesiasticall men as naturall subiects of the Princes and common-wealths in the which it hath pleased God they should be borne are bound in the selfe same manner as other men are to obey the lawes of direction and constraint and are exempt only in regard of that which concerneth Gods diuine seruice and the competent maintainance of the Ecclesiasticall Estate and as to this point the Iesuits dispute fallaciously going from the declaration of a very speciall and particular exemption to an entire generall and absolute immunity contrary vnto the doctrine of the Church who teacheth vs that as the feare of God is the beginning of wisdome so the feare of the Magistrate is the beginning of discretion that as this life is the shadow of the life eternall so the lawes of Princes and Kingdomes are a figure of the eternall law so that he that loueth not the figure sheweth that he loueth yet lesse the thing figured This exemption continuing it is not to bee doubted but that Ecclesiasticall men should be as it were so many garrisons of strangers in an Estate and if the Prince or magistrate would constraine them to anie thing for the good of his Estate it ariseth from the same learning that in as much as they are not his subiects he should be a tyrant and an vsurper which might be deposed and killed by any one whosoeuer This was the foundation of the trouble which we haue seene stirred vp against the common-wealth of Venice euer most Catholique and deuoted to the holie Sea which cannot bee attributed to any but the Iesuits whom the Senate of that common-wealth in honor of the Catholique religion had carefully cherished fifty or threescore yeeres in such sort that foure or fiue yeeres before they had bestowed a great Pallace vpon them for their Colledge where they had aboue three hundred schollers children of the best houses of Venice and possessed in this Estate twelue or fifteene thousand crownes a yere reuenues During the Papacie of Pope Clement the Venicians had published an ordinance by the which Ecclesiasticall men were inhibited from acquiring any immoueables this holy father knew it well inough without taking offēce therat And how could he take it in euil part since that in the Estate of Milan there was the like prohibitiō strictly obserued that the Pope that now is vpon his first comming vnto the Popedome had forbidden the house of Loretta to purchase any more immoueables the Iesuits being desirous neuerthelesse to purchase a Pallace of pleasure vpon the riuer of Brent neere vnto the City were hindered by this law so as the gentlewoman which was owner thereof drew backe and said that she had been seduced by her Confessor This nourished in their minds an euill will towards the State so that two Ecclesiasticall men of Vincence being imprisoned for most horrible crimes the Iesuits taking their time gaue aduertisement vnto the Pope that these were enterprises vpon his authority and of those who depended immediately on him that the Venetians had no power to make lawes which should concerne Ecclesiasticall men although they were necessary for their Estate and conseruation without the will and consent of the Pope neither to decree any thing without making him first acquainted therewithall thus doing they tooke from them all soueraigntie they perswaded the excommunication with all earnestnesse whereunto Cardinall Zapata protector of Spaine subscribing for confirmation of their counsell said that this action done for the greatnes of the Church merited a statue of gold dedicated to immortalitie This first breach gaue apprehension of great calamities to ensue so that the Pope naturallie desirous of mild and gentle courses and enclined thereunto by the counsell of the Princes of Christendome and specially of that of our great King was againe exasperated by the Iesuits and by letters which they wrote vnto their Generall who hath no shew of a religious man besides his habite and behaueth