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The French King's appeal from the proceedings of the Pope to a general council, September 28, 1688 faithfully translated from the French copy printed at Paris.
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Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.; France. Parlement (Paris). Chambre des vacations.
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THE French King's APPEAL FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE POPE TO A General Council September 28. 1688. Faithfully Translated from the French Copy Printed at Paris LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin 1688. AN Act of Appeal Made to the Future Council BY THE KING'S Attorney General And Judgment given thereupon by the Chamber of Vacation the 27th of September 1688. An Extract from the Records of PARLIAMENT THIS Day the King's Attorney General being come into the Chamber of Vacation declared that the Matters of Fact laid open in the Letter the King sent to the Cardinal d'Estrees the 6th of this Month having oblig'd his Majesty to represent to our Holy Father the Pope that he cannot look upon him otherwise for time to come than as a Prince that takes part with his Enemies or own him for a Competent Judge in all Cases wherein his interest may be concerned The King's Attorney General has thought it his duty at the same time to make use of the Precautions provided by the Law practis'd in many Cases and founded on the Opinions of the Italian Cannonists themselves to prevent his Holiness from passing any Valid and Regular Decrees in these Matters With this purpose he hath made an Extrajudiciary Appeal from all the Proceedings his Holiness may already have made or make for time to come and Decrees he may have pass'd or pass for time to come in prejudice to the King the Rights of his Crown and of the Subjects of his Majesty The Respect he ows to this Court has oblig'd him to come and give them an account hereof and to tender to them the Act of Appeal he has made thereupon They will easily perceive from the Command he has receiv'd from the King on this occasion the Piety Wisdom and Moderation which seem to have quite extinguished in this Prince those passions which so powerfully byass the rest of Mankind He hopes the Court will approve his Conduct herein and is fully assured they will with abundance of zeal and faithfulness employ all the Authority the King has been pleas'd to trust them with to maintain the respect due to his Majesty upon so many just Titles and to preserve the Rights of his Crown the peace of his Subjects and those Liberties which are not peculiar to the Gallican Church but which she has preserved always with more Lustre and Vigour than any other Church whatsoever The Kings Attorney General being withdrawn after having read the said Act of Appeal with his Conclusions thereupon by him left in the Office of the said Court and the Matter put to debate The Chamber Orders That the said Act of Appeal shall be entred in the Office of Records to resort unto as occasion shall be and that most humble thanks be returned to his Majesty that he hath thought good his Attorney General should begin those Proceedings which have been practised upon the like occasions And that the first President shall assure our said Lord the King in the Name of the Court of their constant adherence to his Sacred Person and Service and of their Zeal ever to employ the Authority his Majesty has been pleased to intrust them with in maintaining the Rights of the Crown the Liberties of the Kingdom and the Peace of his Subjects Given in Vacation the 27th of September 1688. Signed DONGOIS Before the Apostolical Notaries under-written to that purpose sent for to the Bar of the King's Council in the Palace of this City my Lord Achilles de Harlay made his personal appearance and declared that the Repute of our Holy Father the Pope Innocent the 11th his Piety having made the King to look upon his Exaltation to the supreme Pontificate with much joy his Majesty has ever since endeavoured to joyn with his Holiness in labouring with one accord to promote the Concerns of the Glory and service of God. That the King's desires herein and the steps he has already made in this matter having mist of the good success he might have expected from them his Majesty notwithstanding has continued on his part to employ the Power God has entrusted him with in preserving the Purity of Faith within his Dominions and in bringing back to the bosome of the Church a great number of the Children that were gone astray from her and in affording her all the protection she could expect from the Authority of a great King His Majesty having moreover at the same time edified her by his own example and instructed all his Subjects by his singular Piety In the mean time our Holy Father the Pope to whom so many Vertues and wonderful Acts ought particularly to have endeared the Person of the King has with fervency embraced the Complaints that two Bishops have made to him concerning the Right of the Regale having at the same time rejected the Attestations tendred him by all the other Bishops of that Kingdom concerning the favours they had received of the King in that regard even in prejudice to his own Right His Holiness has deprived the King's Ambassadours at the Court of Rome of those very Franchises which they have enjoy'd during his Papacy in a City where it might have been expected the gratitude of the Popes would have reserved for our Kings those more Illustrious and peculiar marks of Soveraignty which they in former times divested themselves of in favour of the Holy-See Our Holy Father the Pope has judg'd the Declaration which the Deputies of the Clergy assembled in the City 1682. made of their Opinions concerning the Power of the Church to be at least a suspitious and dangerous Doctrine and at a Juncture wherein many of his Predecessours would rather have gone to the uttermost bounds of Europe than to leave so many new Catholick Converts destitute of Pastours His Holiness has refused his Bulls to many Ecclesiasticks the King had nominated to fill the vacant Churches of his Kingdom and to whom no other Crime can be imputed than that of having known the Truth by their Learning and declar'd the same with a sincerity joyn'd with a great Respect for the Holy See. Our Holy Father the Pope's Behaviour for some Months since in the Business of the Arch-Bishoprick of Cologne has given occasion to Men to believe that his Partial Dealings might as well raise as dissipate a part of his Scruples and Difficulties His Holiness persisting in his not owning and resusing Audience to an Ambassadour whom the King was pleased to send at this Juncture the Thunderbolts he has made use of against that Ministry the Interdiction of the Church dedicated to God under the Name of St. Lewis in the City of Rome and last of all his unheard of refusing not long since to give Audience to a Person whom the King had sent to him on purpose and even so much as to receive a Letter from his Majesty wherewith the said Person was charged will leave an â—â—most Incredible Instance to Posterity of the power that Religion and the desire of preserving the