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A09170	A declaration of the variance betweene the Pope, and the segniory of Venice with the proceedings and present state thereof. VVhereunto is annexed a defence of the Venetians, written by an Italian doctor of Diuinitie, against the censure of Paulus Quintus, proouing the nullitie thereof by Holy Scriptures, canons, and catholique Doctors.	Manfredi, Fulgenzio, attributed name.	1606 (1606)	STC 19482; ESTC S114206	32,389	92

trueth concerning Englands continued claime of her owne Imperiall rights and her manie prouisions decrees and consultations tending to the renunciation or abdication of any the Popes Interest or intermedlings in England In the 14. yeere of K. H. 1. the Popes Authoritie was so little esteemed in England as that it was come to that passe that no persons were permitted to appeale to Rome in cases of Controuersie Their Synods and Councels about Ecclesiasticall affaires were kept without seeking any his licence or consent And they would not obey such Legates as hee sent nor come to the Conuocations which they held In the 31. yeere of K. H 3. The Pope vnderstanding that diuers rich beneficed men in England died Intestate he ordeined a Decree That the goods of any Spirituall persons dying Intestate should remaine to the Pope which Decree purporting the Popes oppressiō in preiudice of this Realme and the suruiuing friends of the deceased the King in no sort would suffer to take place And the same King by his Letter Inhibitorie did flatly forbid a talage of the Cleargie which the Pope about that time had required In the 30. of E. 1. the Popes Peter-pence being not his due but rather the King of Englands Almes were denied to the Pope In the 17. yeere of K Edw. 3. the Commons pray the Kings assent to banish the Popes power quite out of England And in the same yeere vpon the Popes intruding of himselfe to make a peace betweene the King and France King Ed. sent him word That if hee would mediate betweene them as a friend hee would heare him but in no sort if he intermeddle as a Iudge In the 50. of E. 3. the Commons complaine that all the miseries of the Kingdom come by the Popes vsurpation beseeching the King this being the 50. and the Iubile yeere of his Reigne that hee would ioyne with them to cast him out for that he doth not pasture but pill Gods sheepe In the times of E. 3. R. 2. H 4. and H. 5. sundry Statutes were made against then that out of the Court of Rome obtaine or pursue any personall Citations against the King or any of his Subiects or that procure from thence any impetrations and prouisions of Benefices and offices of holy Church And for that as I before declared the Pope on the other side opposed to these Statutes his Interdicts and sentences of Excommunication against the obseruers of the same In the 13. yeere of R. 2. the said Excommunications also are so farre disauowed as that for the maintenance of the Liberties of the Kingdome and the dignity of the State it was ordained That if any did bring or send within this Realme any summons sentence or excommunication against any person for the cause of making motion assent or execution of the said Statute of Prouisors he shall be arrested imprisoned and forfeit all his Lands and Tenements goods and cattels for euer and moreouer incurre the paine of life and member And a Prelate making execution of such summons or sentence to forfeit into the Kings hands all his Temporalties Neuerthelesse for a long space after whether by reason of our continuall ciuill broyles in England which scant affourded any leisure of thinking much lesse of prosecuting vpon this cause or for that the superstitious ignorance of those times did entangle or rather captiuate the consciences of our people this point of the rights appertaining and incident vnto the Royall power Maiesty of this Imperiall Crowne and of the Popes vnlawfull oppressions and vsurpations within this Land lay asleepe was silenced and suffered open wrong vntill the latter dayes of K. H. 8. who instructing himselfe by the conferences and disputations of his learnedest Diuines and by the aduise and assent of the whole State assembled in Parliament fully and finally decided this question with the absolute exclusion and extermination for euer out of this Realme and the Dominions thereof of any the Popes Authoritie and Iurisdiction Thus hath God his prefixed periods for the producing at the last of that trueth which hee oft suffereth his Church to be long in trauaile of Then why should not we likewise reteine some comfortable conceits of Gods accomplishing and bringing to an happy effect of that worke in the Venetian State though sensim gradatim whereof hee hath of his prouidence and goodnesse and by occasions which for the iustice thereof may expect his blessings begun and layd so likely groundworkes ANd now my good friend for a closing conclusion to this my ouerlong letter as remembring wherefore I ted this tale Lend me a little more of your gentle patience whilest I draw out of the fresh remembrance of this Relation some satisfactory vse for the iustification of the Nationall Lawes of England and the Iustice of our Magistracie from the scandalous imputation of crueltie in our prosecutions against our professed Aduersaries transgressing our Politicall and poenall Ordinances Which I will comprise in a comparison betweene our English proceedings with these of the Venetians not intending at this time to sort out for them any other example or presedent then what I here haue already with my best iudgment wel obserued knowing that if I should post through France Spaine Italy and all Germany to collect proofes demonstrations to that purpose it would be as to me a labour supererogatory so to them whom nothing will satisfie like a charme to a deafe Adder It cannot be obscure to the whole world That our Royall kingdome hath for many yeeres together quite expelled the Pope with his Supremacie and superstition where the Venetians for any thing yet of publique note haue not fallen from him in any point of Religion no not disauowed his gouernance or Supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall but onely excepted against his intrusion into the right of their owne Iurisdiction in causes on their part iustifiable by all humane and Diuine rules Yet haue they resolued vpon and pursued courses no whit inferiour in rigour and extremitie to the sharpest Lawes made with vs in so long a time and after so manifold and violent occasions Yea though the matter concerned vs in the deepest degree euen of vter esset vter imperaret both our regall and Imperiall rights lying at the stake in conflict with the Papall vsurpations and our Religion Peace Iustice and tranquillitie being continually infested by the positions oppositions practises and iniuries of the Romish faction You see the Commands and prohibitings of the Venetians to be all accompanied with the terrors of death which is vltimum in malis I doe not taxe or dislike this their seeming austeritie But I inferre that as necessitie coacteth them to be seuere so that our Lawes being enforced from vs by the like coaction haue also the like defence of naturall reason and primatiue Iustice in the righteous directions whereof they and wee doe agreeingly concurre What doe you thinke they would doe if they had once made a generall reuolt or

aduenturers authorized in such Actions by their dismission from obedience and incitation to suppresse their Soueraigne may draw their warrants from this title of Seculare brachium imployable at the Popes call But where there be so many Senatoriall gouernours they can hardly be at once surprised with such hidden treacheries if they can but take warning from vs to preuent the danger of The vault Treason To prosecute this Theame What the Pope may do in his malice let vs out of our feeling be still the exemplary instance Can the Pope in Venice where his doctrine is wholly receiued and where he hath so long bene an adored Idoll make no side or faction to raise among them seditions vprores and insurrections England is taught by experience what he can doe where being I say not a stranger but an anowed enemie yet hath hee stil enterprised to make a part for the stirring of tumults Commotions And hath all this bene done against vs to regaine England so farre off And wil he sleepe or let slip any opportunity to recall recouer or recommand Venice Well if his heart or his meanes doe not serue him to follow them with enforcements of fiercenesse Do you thinke that he will not as easily become a Foxe to ouertake them with kindnesse as he would haue played the Lion by terrors and compulsion Hath hee in England by so many fawnings and deprecations sought to draw vs againe into his Imbracements that are diuided from him by a broad sea of difference in many points of Religion And wil he not in the cause of Venice which hath so long bene his darling and as yet but by one parting channell disseuered which may easily bee ouerstridden vnbend his brow from his heauie frowne and turne againe his appeased countenance O that the Honourably minded Venetians would put him to it and trie his disgestion That they would holde themselues to their freedome and shake off his shakels If he doe but let it be a question till it be studied and looked into in Venice it will assuredly breed more disciples against him in one yere then twentie successiue popes shall bee able to weed out I hope it hath already euen in this course of a Table talke and by the defensiue proceedings which necessity hath constrained so fastened in his mind a corrasiue as considering the place he may for euer complaine of an Vlcer in his pretended Monarchie Then haue not I reason to suppose that he doth already euen longingly wish a kind well formed reconcilement The matter is how to worke his purpose handsomely by some cleanly carriage As where his owne desires importune him to concluding termes there vnder hand to procure himselfe to bee much importuned I haue very lately heard that there is a French Cardinall newly come to Rome to bestow his labour loue in the according of these variances What the successe thereof will be wee must expect to heare hereafter onely my conceit is that no man of any indifferent discerning can be so simple as not to beleeue that all this so rough and high blowing contention will well enough be on the Popes part quieted and accommodated Onely it concerneth vs all for the honour and loue of the trueth vnfainedly to wish that the eyes and hearts of the renowned Venetians may by the touch of Gods finger bee opened wider to let in the Lord of glory bringing in his traine his trueth and righteousnesse and that their hands and puissance may bee so strengthened with an extraordinary addition of valour as that they may from that nooke or corner of Italy become as it were Gods harbengers to make way for him throughout that goodly countrey to the suppression and demolishing of that so intolerable vsurpation Which though wee may rather wish then hope for yet respecting his prouidence in these beginnings we may with erected mindes attend the manifestation of his further ordinance in the euent which his wisedome and Iustice shall bring forth And to suckle vp our hopes herein with the opinion at the least of possibilitie if not of better likelihoods let England bee a comfortable Instance to cherish and vphold our thoughts from despairing of a successefull issue to the Venetians also How many yeeres or rather ages was England as it were in labour of this trueth That the Pope had no right in this kingdome to order gouerne command or censure any causes or persons Ciuill or Ecclesiasticall How many perillous throwes hath shee felt in her wombe and bowels to bring foorth this child what how many how mightie practises haue beene contriued to haue destroyed this child within her belly that it might neuer haue seene the light It is plainly and fully to be prooued by many ancient Records whereof some are registred in the Courts of Law of the which that learned Knight Sir Edward Coke Atturney general to his Maiestie hath made an exact and most iudiciall Collection some be remaining in the Towre as Acts and signitures of Princes or of the high Court of Parliament some are kept in Archiuis of our Spirituall Courts which also affoordeth vs some vestigia pristinae libertatis That this Nation almost at all times hath in some measure or other sought to deliuer into the world this her conception that hath liued and growen great within her against the Popes encrochings and intrusions into this Kingdome with his vnwarranted and vnlimited Supremacie If you aske me why or how the sight and publique apparance of this Trueth like vnto the birth of a childe was so long deferred and hindered First you must know that it is a Lions whelpe and nihil magnum subito nascitur next the Midwife TIME serued not nor lent not sufficing ayd but chiefly the great red Dragon that with his taile drewe the third part of the Starres of Heauen Apoc. 12. stood before the woman which was ready to be deliuered to deuoure her child when she had brought it foorth For let this be obserued as a probatum est This Kingdom did neuer make or enact any Law so forcible and ful against the Pope or See of Rome touching any such their vsurped powers or pretended rights whereof the edge and point was not straight broken or blunted by a Counter-law made at Rome That whosoeuer should prosecute any of those Lawes to execution should be and remaine vnder the heauiest curse of their greatest Excommunication Whereupon the danger of the soules damnation whereof those times of blindnesse were so sensitiue and fearefull preuailed more to suppresse and annihilate all such Statutes giuing them no effect as if they had neuer ben borne then any other respects of duety either to the trueth or to our Countrey could giue them life or strength But that I may shewe you some euidence for the proofe of that which I haue affirmed I wil so farre as my memory wanting at this present my larger notes can doe his office giue you a discerning taste of this