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A19951	An oration made on the part of the Lordes spirituall in the chamber of the Third Estate (or communality) of France, vpon the oath (pretended of allegiance) exhibited in the late Generall Assembly of the three Estates of that kingdome: by the Lord Cardinall of Peron, arch-bishop of Sens, primate of Gaule and Germany, Great Almenour of France &c. Translated into English, according to the French copy, lately printed at Paris, by Antoine Estiene. Whereunto is adioyned a preface, by the translatour.; Harangue faicte de la part de la chambre ecclésiastique en celle du Tiers-estat sur l'article du serment. English.	Du Perron, Jacques Davy, 1556-1618.	1616 (1616)	STC 6384; ESTC S116663	77,855	154

besides the possession without interruption continued and the perpetuall tradition of the Prouince there were writinges made that very houre the date accordinge to the account of the yeare of our Lord falling to be the same with the yeare 536. Which I alleadge not as I haue before made protestation therehence to inferre any particuler consequence from fact to right but to shew in generall how great reuerence our first kinges did beare to the censures of ancient Popes The Pope sayes du Haillā (b) Du Haillan en Phist de France l. 1. incensed with this cruell acte sent word to the King that he should make amendes for this fact otherwise that his realme should be interdicted Then Clotharius feeling remorse of conscience for his crime did ordeine for amendes thereof that from that time forward the Lords of Yuetot and their heires should be quit from all homage seruice and obedience due to the King for the territory of Yuetot c. And thereupon were the euidences drawne and sealed by the foresaid Clotharius And Gaguin (a) Gaguinus hist ●ranc l. 2. I find as an infallible truth that this was done the yeare of our Lord 536. For the English hauing long time after dominion in Normandy there fell out a suite betweene Iohn of Holland Englishman and the Lord of Yuetot as if his territory had beene tributary to the King of England The Lieuetenant of (b) The word which the translator of Gaguin vseth is Caletz which signifieth as well the towne as the coast of Callis the people wherof in old time were cal'd Caletes and wherof one part is euen to this day called le Pais de Caults Callis after he had throughly in the yeare of our Lord 1428. informed himself of the case by order of iustice did determine that he had found iust as I haue noted before And when Queene Brune childe and King Theodorike desirours to haue a confirmation of the priuiledges of the hospitall of Autun which the said Queene had founded and to haue the insuing Kinges bound by the authority of the Sea Apostolike to conserue them inuiolable without the least tuch of any sacriledge the Pope S. Gregory the great at their instance wrote these wordes in an Epistle to Senator which is the tenth in the eleauenth booke of his Epistles (c) An absurd Author hath as fondly made answere that this decree is not found in S Gregory as it was absurdly answered that the Excommunication of the Emperour Theodosius by S. Ambrose was not to be found in the Ecclesiasticall History We grant and confirme ordeyning that no Kings Prelates nor any other of what degree soeuer may in part diminish or take away any thing bestowed on the said hospital by the foresaid most excellent Kings our sonnes And a litle after And if any one of the Kings Prelates Iudges or other secular persons after information giuen of this our constitution do go about to contradict it let him be depriued of his power and dignity For I wil not serue my self of those Buls of the Abbey of Soisson for that they were not inserted within the Register of S. Gregories Epistles but were taken out of the Coffers of the Monkes of S. Medard and put after the work at the end of the Register as appeares both by ancient impressions of the same Register and by the citation of Pope Gregory VII (a) Gregor 7. lib. 8. ep 21. who liued more then 500. yeares since made of the Epistle to Senator without speaking of that of Soisson And when the Emperour Iustinian the 2. sent his Constable to take Pope Sergius and transport him from Rome to Constantinople for that he would not approue the Councel falsely called the Sixt the Imperiall souldiers of Italy opposed themselues droue back the Emperours Cōstable with iniuries reproaches Iustinian the 2. sayes Beda (b) Bed de sex aetat mundi an Author of the same age being offended for that Sergius of happy memory Bishop of the Church of Rome would not signe and fauour the erroneous Synod which he caused to be held at Constantinople sent his Constable Zachary commaunding him to take the Pope and bring him to Constantinople But the Souldiers of Rauenna with the Prouinces adioyning did resist the impious commaundement of the Prince and repelled the said Zachary with contumelies reproaches from the Citty of Rome It is true indeed that afterwardes the same Iustinian did wash away this cryme togeather with other his impieties when as hauing gotten Pope Constantine into the East He threw himselfe prostrate on the earth (c) Bed ib. before him saith Beda and praying him to make intercession for his sinnes he did renew all the priuiledges of the Church And when the Emperour Philippicus successour to Iustinian 2. came to the Empire and according to the custome of the Emperours presently after their comming to the state of sending the profession of their faith to the Pope had addressed vnto him a profession of an hereticall faith the Pope reiected it in Synode and vpon the refusal of it the people of Rome abrogated the Emperour Philippicus his Imperiall titles Philippicus sayth (a) Beda de sex aetat mundi Bede and after him Paulus (b) Paulus Diacon de gestis Longob lib. 6 cap. 4. Diaconus sent vnto Pope Constantine letters of peruerse doctrine which the Pope togeather with the Councell of the Sea Apostolique reiected c. And the people of Rome ordeyned that neither the name nor the edictes nor the money that had the image of the heretical Emperour vpon it should be admitted or receaued And at what time the Emperour Leo Isauricus fell into the heresy of the Iconclastes or Image-breakers and began to persecute the Catholikes in the East Pope Gregory the second after many dilations assembled a Councell of the Bishops of the West at Rome by which he depriued the Emperour of all his rightes tributes iurisdiction and power Imperiall that he had in Italy and all this with the aduise assistance of the French And though some Authors be silent herein yet Theophanes Cedrenus Zonarus Greeke historians affirme it and none of them deny it The most holy Gregory sayth Theophanes (c) Theop. in hi●● miscel lib. 21. withdrew Rome Italy and al the rights as well of the Republique as of the Church into the west partes from the obedience of Leo and of his Empire Zonaras saith (d) Zon. tom 3 Annal in Leon. Isaterico Pope Gregory seeing the persecutions of the Emperour Leo against the Catholikes did cut off from communion with him the Bishop of Constantinople and those who imbraced the same impiety and exposed them together with the Emperour to an Anathema Synodique forbad the tributs which til then had beene paid to the Empire and adioyned himselfe with the French whereupon they might take an occasion to make themselues maisters of Rome And when the French were resolued to abandon and

AN ORATION MADE ON THE PART OF THE LORDES SPIRITVALL In the Chamber of the Third Estate or Communalty of France vpon the Oath pretended Of Allegiance exhibited in the late Generall Assembly of the three Estates of that Kingdome By the Lord Cardinall of PERON Arch-bishop of Sens Primate of Gaule and Germany Great Almenour of France c. Translated into English according to the French Copy lately printed at Paris by Antoine Estiene Whereunto is adioyned a Preface by the Translatour Permissu Superiorum M.DC.XVI THE PREFACE OF THE Translatour to the Reader THOVGH worldly men whose soules are swallowed vp in sense be content to make their purse of gold their God by occasion wherof S. Paul thought good to say that couetousnes was no beter thē a kind of sacrifice to Idols yet such as are not wholy deafe to the voyce of reason may heare it protest that as man is compoūded of flesh spirit so his spirituall goods are incōparably superiour to the corporall and that riches are to be held of the meanest lowest ranke among all such benefits as God Almighty hath vouchsafed to mankind For as those thinges which men haue any colour to account their owne are eyther plenty of fortune health of body glory of reputation or lastly the soule it selfe so who is he that will not empty his purse to recouer his health or saue his life What man of worth will not despise his life to preserue his honour And who doubteth but that the respect of honour should yeild vnto the care which a man ought to haue of his soule Hereupon may be grounded amongst others two apparent truthes The one that for the soule a man is to despise all other things the other that except the soule there is nothing so deare as reputation Now if reputation be so precious for as much as concerns the morall man what accompt ought Christians to haue it in since scandals are often giuen and taken vpon the aboundance or defect thereof and sometimes vpon the credit of a few dependeth the saluation of very many The enemy of mankinde who knowes how true this is hath continually laboured to rob Gods seruantes of so great a Iewell yea and hath presumed to infame God himselfe beeing made man for vs sometimes tempting men to traduce him as a Coniurer sometimes as a Samaritane which did import a Schismatike and sometimes as a trayterous and seditious person The same stile he held with the Christians of the Primitiue Church and we English Catholikes of this age whose cause is the same with theirs haue lyen groaning long vnder the same burthen and felt with vnspeakable griefe though with vndaunted courage the poysoned arrowes of this kinde which he hath beene dayly shooting into our sides Those Aduersaries of our cause who beleeue in God but for fashion-sake at least conceaue that it importes not after what fashion he be serued think they do vs a fauour when they call vs fooles for exposing our selues to persecution vpon the differences of Catholike and protestant Religion Such Protestants as in good earnest belieue that Religiō which they professe are wont to traduce vs for superstitious and Idolatrous persons vnder the pretence of our doctrines which concerne the Reall presence and the reuerent vse which we make of Images But they who vse their Religion no more then for a seruant or rather slaue to their absurd reason of state and know well inough that if they should persecute vs vnder the only title of Heretikes they must be faine both to disclayme from the Society of al ancient Christians and should be forced to deserue the censure of sauage cruelty for presuming to condemne that faith to which their auncestours and ours were conuerted from Paganisme they I say are the men who giue out that we are not vniustly persecuted for our religion but iustly punished for our faction disobedience and treason For the painting ouer of which discourse how many industries haue beene vsed how many Iewels and Cupbordes of plate to forraine Princes Ambassadours haue beene presented how many crafty and cruell lawes haue beene at seuerall times procured enacted and lastly what a couple of daungerous and detestable Oathes vnder the authority of the aforesaid lawes haue with extreme rigour without distinction of sexe or age byn propounded exacted The first of these Oathes is that of the Kings Supremacy deuised heretofore by our Aduersaries for the making of all Catholikes expresse Traytours and executed for a while with great seuerity though afterwardes they grew halfe ashamed therof And the vse which it affoardes at this day is chiefly to distinguish such persons as adore the present state of thinges from others who are more indifferent and so we see it is ordinarily ministred but to such as either pretend to make Lawes by voice in Parlament or els to cary Office in the Common wealth or Church Alwaies that Oath serued rather to other endes then to make diuision or procure mutuall scandalls among English Catholikes since we all agree in the cleere detestation therof and for this later purpose the other Oath which is called of Allegiance was set on foot by the instigation of some Ministers immediatly after the powder-treason as if euery one that did refuse to take it were guilty of that prodigious plot Withall it was couched in such cunning and mysty termes as some Priestes yea euen since the Pope condemned it haue not beene ashamed to take it and more lay Catholikes haue beene led on by their bad example This action of theirs hath implied a kind of disloyalty in them that refused the same and the State hath not beene a little carefull to publish the brute therof both within and without the Realme to the extreme disaduantage and discomfort of all sincere and solide Catholikes There hath not beene a greater meanes towardes the strengthning of fowle aspersions vpon vs then the confidence which our Aduersaries the Ministers haue vsed in protesting that we English Catholikes who refuse the Oath are controlled by many great partes of Christendome euen Catholike where men would vndoubtedly say they haue taken such an Oath as this if they were required thereunto by their seuerall Princes In particuler the example of France hath beene euery day obtruded to vs as if the Catholike parte of that Kingdome were wholy of the English Protestant faith in this particuler● And although this vndertaking of theirs were knowne to be impudent and most vntrue by the industry of some English Catholikes who informed themselues of the Sorbon which is the Diuinity Schoole of Paris and found that it abhor'd the Oath yet partly by the confident asseuerations of our aduersaryes partly by the corrupt beliefe in that point which some one of the Ambassadours of that Countrey residing heretofore in England was faln to and the flattering discourse which for hope of reward he was wont to hold so it is that the ordinary sort of Protestants conceaued