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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

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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