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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47671	The history of Father La Chaise, Jesuite, and confessor to Lewis XIV, present King of France discovering, the secret intreagues by him carried on, as well in the court of England, as in all the courts of Europe, to advance the great designs of the King his master / made English from the French original.; Histoire du père La Chaize, jésuite et confesseur du roi Louis XIV. English.	Le Noble, Eustache, 1643-1711.; Le Noble, Pierre.; Le Roux, Philibert-Joseph.	1693 (1693)	Wing L1052; ESTC R179438	143,271	350

Rome and Alexander VII then Pope lent him a willing Ear and employ'd him in several Negotiations wherein he acquitted himself with good Success And well it was for the Bishop of Bayeux that the Father was so much in the Pope's Favour for otherwise he might have had but an ill time of it This Prelate was one of those whom nothing will serve but to be Petty Soveraigns in Spirituals and who refuse to acknowledge the Holy See but only ad Honores He had already play'd several Pranks of a Petty Lord and Master by permitting People in his Diocess to work on Holy-days only some few excepted by granting Indulgences and giving Dispensations beyond the Limits of his Privileges which had very much incens'd the Pope against him But that which was the Complement of all the rest and contributed to make him a perfect Rebel was an Action that made a great Noise no way to be endur'd by the Pope There was in his Diocess a little Abby belonging to the Benedictines not reform'd call'd the Abby of St. Clement which depended solely upon the Pope and which till then had preserv'd that Privilege to themselves but he not enduring those Dependencies under his Nose pretended to a Right of Visitation of their House and to that purpose went to the Convent The Monks refus'd to admit him However having open'd their Door out of Civility and that they might not provoke him to be their Enemy shew'd him their Grants and their Patents for the Possession of that Immunity of which the Bishop not only took the least notice but taking the Benefit of the Entrance that had been given him made a verbal Report upon the Spot Upon which the Monks finding him to be in Earnest stood upon their Terms and sent away both their Complaints and their Privileges to Rome whereupon the Pope granted 'em a Bull prohibiting the Bishop under pain of Apostolick Censures not to impose any Innovations upon ' em The Fathers so soon as they had receiv'd this Bull caus'd it to be fix'd up upon the Doors of the Cathedral which so provok'd the Bishop that as he went out from High Mass he pull'd it down and tore it in pieces with his own Hands and within a few Days after in despite of the Monks he made his Visitation in the Convent after he had caus'd the Doors to be broke open Such an Act of Violence so incens'd the Holy Father against him that he threaten'd him with nothing less then Excommunication and then it was that Father La Chaise who became the Bishop's Friend while he resided in Paris was employ'd to attone the Pope but it cost him a great deal of trouble to bring it to pass and a small Accident happen'd at the same time which had like to have let flye the Thunder that grumbl'd so terribly For the Monks sent to Rome an Ordinance of that Bishop at the top of which the Bishop styl'd himself Bishop Miseratione Dei without making any mention of the Holy-See The Pope saw it and foaming with Anger Ecco said He Un Ridiculoso Barone con il suo Miseratione di dio voglio bene che Sappia che non e Vescovo che per la mia e che quando vorrò non serà piu niente Look here said he a ridiculous Scoundrel of a Bishop with his M●●●●atione Dei I 'll have him to know 〈◊〉 no Bishop but by my Mercy and when I please I 'll make him nothing at all 'T was well this fiery Pope liv'd at that time for had he liv'd till now he must have been forc'd to have swallow'd many a Miseratione Dei the Bishops at this Day not using any other Addition Now in regard this Bishop was one of Mazarine's Creatures his Eminency wrote to Rinaldo d' Este Protector of the Affairs of France and enjoin'd him to wait upon his Holiness about this Affair And indeed he made a great number of Jaunts to and fro without making any Progress for the Pope who had already thunder'd out a Bull of Excommunication against him would not yield a hair's breadth unless the Bishop came himself in Person to acknowledge his Fault and beg his Mercy Thus the Affair was spun out for above a Twelve-month and in all likelyhood would have lasted a great while longer had not La Chaise found out an Expedient that the Excommunicated Bishop should make an Acknowledgment at Paris before the Nuncio and write to his Holiness a submissive and respectful Letter wherein he was to beg Pardon for his Disobedience and set forth his Repentance in most significant Expressions After which his Holiness should take off the Excommunication which was to be read in the Body of the High-Mass in the Cathedral Church of Bayeux Father La Chaise did a considerable piece of Service also for his own Order which did not a little contribute to advance his Reputation There arriv'd at Rome toward the end of the Pontificate of Innocent X. an ancient Jesuit of a Venerable Presence who wore Long Hair with his Locks flowing over his Shoulders and a Beard down to his Belly This Jesuit took upon him the Title of Embassador from the King of China to his Holiness whom he came to assure of the barbarous Monarch's Respect and Filial Obedience to the Holy See and to desire a new Supply of Missionaries to labour the Conversion of a numerous People who waited for the Succour of his Charity The only Son of that King was also come in Person to kiss his Holiness's Feet and render the Embassie the more Authentick The Pope was over-joy'd beyond Imagination to hear of such a happy Progress of Religion in those far distant Regions and not being able to testifie his Satisfaction to the Prince of China whose Zeal had engag'd him to cross so many vast and dangerous Seas he lodg'd him magnificently and gave Order That both He and the Embassador of the King his Father should be entertain'd at his Expence during their stay in Rome and moreover he pay'd him all the Honours that are usually pay'd to the Sons of Sovereign Princes But the Dominicans who are no Friends to Jesuits and less in the Countries where Missionaries are employ'd then otherwhere utterly destroy'd all this fine Story They wrote to the Pope That understanding the Jesuits had counterfeited an Embassie from the King of China and had also Personated the Son of that Monarch which was a pernicious Imposture They could not forbear to give his Holiness Advice of it for fear he should fall into the Snare that only tended to advance the Jesuits Reputation and to procure him to part with considerable Summs of Money for the Support of the Mission whereas the King of China who was then at War with the Tartars had no thoughts of turning Catholick much ●ess of sending his only Son to the other end of the World to make a fond Submission to his Holiness To this they added heavy Accusations of the Jesuits