her King and elder Brother Henry and conjures them also to loyalty to throw away all private Interests and Factions and conclude in a firm peace and union The Confederates perceiving that they wanted an Head and so a main pretence to countenance their Arms to the people and that whatever they had hitherto gained was more by their dissembling then strength that also the Pope Paul II had censured them if they continued in open wars For King Henry was held an obedient son to the Bishops of Rome for which Calixtus III had sent him formerly an Hat and a consecrated Sword which they use to bless upon Christmas-Eve at night laying them upon the Altar where they say Mass And farther they recollected that upon Henries death Isabella was like to be Queen whereby they could procure no favour or benefit to themselves by opposing her peaceable desires Upon these considerations they consented to an Agreement so Articles are drawn up a Peace concluded on Donna Isabella is declared Princess of the c Las Asturias formerly of a larger extent is now â— little Province between Galicia Leon and Biscay lying upon the Cantabrian sea 'T is twofold Asturia de Oâ—iedo and Astur de Santillana As the Heirs of England are called Princes of Wales and those of France les Dauphins so are those to the Crown of Castile call'd Princes of the Asturias Upon what occasion this â—hort Scheme may shew Alphonso XI had amongst other Children Henry a Bastard Earl of Transâ—amara took the Kingdom from the Tyrant Pedro and stab'd him with his dagger he had John I. who had Henry III. Don Pedro el Cruel had amongst others a bastard call'd Constancia she was marryed to John of Gant Duke of Lancaster son to Edward III King of England Upon the death of Don Pedro sirnamed the Cruel though his bastard-Brother Henry II. seised upon the Crown and was acknowledged for King yet John of Gant Duke of Lancaster pretended the right to lye in him by reason of his Wife Constance and made some bustle about it Henry dying there succeeded his son John I. with whom and Lancaster a peace was concluded Lancaster to renounce all his Title to Castile and King John to marry his son Henry to Lancaster's Daughter Catherine which accordingly was accompish'd so both their pretensions united And for more honour Don Henry the young son was to be call'd Prince of the Asturias since which time the eldest sons of Castile were call'd Princes and the younger are titled Infantas This hapned about the year 1388. And so much by the way concerning the Title of Prince of Asturias yet do I finde Jehan Froissart who lived at this time to tell us that Henry was call'd Prince of Gallicia in his French Edition 1530. vol. 3. fol. 96. and fol. 143. In the old English Edition vol. 2. cap. 154. fol. 170. and cap. 176. fol. 214. Asturias and lawful Heir to the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon with their dependants What troubles hapned in Castile after this treaty being not considerable I shall pass over Donna Isabella now declared Heir several matches were consulted of but she secretly joyned her self with Don Fernando Prince of Girona and the eldest son living to John II King of Arragon At this marriage King Henry was greatly vext as being contrary to his desire and without his knowledge But at the long run the King becomes more pacified and at last a 1474. dying she succeeds as Queen of Castile and Leon although some busled for Joane the supposed Daughter of King Henry but she is generally thrown by as a bastard being begot of his Queen Joane by one Don Bertrand de la Cueva afterwards prefer'd for his kindness being created Earl of Ledesma Master of Santiago and Duke of Albuquerque As for Henry himself he is by all esteem'd as frigid and uncapable of such loves Not long after John II King of Arragon b 1479. dying that Kingdom was united to Castile by the fortunate former marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella Here might I descend into the troubles of Navar and tell how Don Carlos Prince of Viana took up Arms against his Father John King of Navar and Arragon Upon which quarrel began the great Factions of those of Beaumont and Grammont the first adhering to the Prince and the latter to the King and the feuds of these two potent Families was one of the main causes of the loss of Navar to the Spaniard those of Beaumont assisting Don Ferdinand in the conquest against their own King and Country Of which more hereafter In short the Prince being not able to keep the field withdrew himself to Naples for sometime thence returns endeavours new troubles upon which he is taken and secuâ—ed Upon this the Catalonians rebel and though Prince Carlos was set at liberty and c Some say he was poyson'd by his Step mother D. Joane to make way for heâ—â—â—son Ferdinando to the Crown of Arragon dyed presently after yet they continue their Treasons The people of Barcelona publickly declare King John an Enemy to his Country and so they would withdraw themselves from his obedience And the Catalonians sent to Henry IV. of Castile to desire him to take them under his protection they being resolved no more to obey the Crown of Arragon Don Henry accepts them so they set up the Banners of Castile At last after a tedious War they are vanquish'd forced to submit and King John giveth them all freely a pardon But of Spain more in the next Century A CONTINUATION OF THE REBELLIONS AND Treasonablepractices OF THE ROMANISTS Particularly in Spain Scotland and Ireland From the year MD. to MDC BOOK VI. CHAP. I. 1. John and Catherine King and Queen of Navar deprived 2. Pope Julius II. Sect. 1. John and Catherine King and Queen of Navar deprived THe Conquest of Navar being acted suddenly we year 1500 shall make the story of it but very short At the beginning of this Century we finde John d'Albret or Don Juan de la Brit and Donna Catherina King and Queen of Navar which had boasted it self a Kingdom almost DCCC years Ferdinand II King of Arragon having by his marrying with Isabella Queen of Castile enlarged his Authority and Dominions as also by his banishing the Jews and subduing the Moores to him in Granado made his Government more secure cast many a greedy a Jo. de Bussieres lib. 15. § 16. Spondan an 1512. § 21. thought upon the seising the Kingdom of Navar and then all of Spain Portugal excepted would be his own At last opportunity good enough as he thought offer'd it self which was thus Pope Julius II. a zealous Hotspur falling out with Lewis XII King of France Fernando sides with the Pope and having rais'd an Army not onely demands passage for it through Albrets Territories but the command of his strongest Castles and Fortifications and which was most the possession and custody of Prince Henry eldest son to Navar
or restrain Apostata Princes The foresaid Coquaeus saith that otherwise Christ had not sufficiently provided for the safety either of the Common-wealth or of our Souls And Petrus Bertrandus positively declareth for the former Principle that if such a deposing Authority had not been that then Christ Jesus had not shewn himself wise or discreet or as Father Parsons saith Gods providence had been defectuous And when Johannes Mariana the so noted Spanish Jesuit had in one of his Books so expresly maintain'd the lawfulness of killing bad Kings upon which the said Book was censured I meet with an English Romanist thus to vindicate or justifie the said Book They are enemies to that holy Name i. e. of Jesus that condemn'd Mariana for any such Doctrine Nay so zealous are some for this King-deposing Doctrine that with a De Politia Immunitat Eccles part 4. cap. 50. Laurentius Ortiz de Iberrola they will assure it the onely safety and preservation for Princes But King James who thought himself not a little concern'd and therefore thus deliver'd his opinion to his Parliament b Speech in Parliament 1605. Vid. his works pag. 504. As on the one part many honest men seduced with some errors of Popery may yet remain good and faithful Subjects so on the other part none of those that truely know and believe the whole grounds and School-conclusions of their Doctrines can either prove good Christians or good Subjects And yet if for all these grand Testimonies they should plead their Allegiance and their respect to Princes I could ask why all Books writ against this King-deposing Doctrine are censured and prohibited by their Indices Expurgatorii whilst on the contrary those who affirm it are publish'd with honour as true and authentick and if Agapetus above a thousand years ago speak honourably of the Imperial Authority the c V. Bibliotheca Patrum Expurgatorian Index must stifle it with some worshipful gloss or other And if any should deny this to be the Doctrine of the Roman Church I should gladly know where is the judge whether the Popes themselves the Cardinals their greatest and most famous Writers as Bellarmine Baronius ' Perron c. do not understand what are the Tenents and the meaning of the Roman Church as well as some private Englishman here and whether we are not to believe the Popes Cardinals and their learned Doctors before the said private person Thus are the Romanists as stout and zealous for this King-deposing Doctrine as the d Mart. Martin de bello Tartar pag. 45 107 121 157. Chineses were for their Beards and do adore and worship this destructive Tenet as the old Cainites did Cain because he was the first man-killer or the Ophitae who worshipt the Serpent because he was the first deceiver and as they say the Author of good and evil Thus the Romanist may perceive what danger he runneth himself into if he dare but offer to oppose this Treasonable Principle seeing to deny it is madness flat Heresie nay Paganism contrary to the judgements of Popes Councils and the whole Church nay the Gospel of Christ a more intolerable Heresie then to erre concerning some of the Sacraments nay so gross an one that it doth destroy the very Church and Gospel it self wherefore they perswade us that all good and sound Catholicks must believe that Kings may be deposed seeing all who are truely Romanists and Sons of that Church do and must believe so Thus these men are like Polychronius who would rather erre with Macarius then be in the right with others and this Doctrine must be the Shibboleth to distinguish them from other Christians There is a Sect in Spain call'd a Anton. de Torquâ—meaa Diaâ—og 3 Saludadores who are known by a knack of curing many Diseases as a gift peculiarly belonging to them those of the House of b Luis Du-May Estate of the Empire p. 73. Austria are known by their long chins and thick lips and as they say are particularly blest with other Graces as to cure Wens by giving onely a Glass of Water and to unloose the Tongue of him that cannot speak plain onely by kissing Thus the Monarchs of England do the Kings-Evil and in Brecknockshire within two Miles of Brecknock there is a Lake call'd Lhyn Savathan or Linsavethan or Brecknock mere of which c Itiner Cambr. lib. 1. cap. 2. Giraldus Cambrensis tells us that the birds there will sing at the desire of the Prince of Wales but no man else so that it is the best Rule to know the true Prince of which matter d Polychron lib. 1. Ranulph Higden Monk of Chester thus Poetizeth Si Terrae Princeps venerit Aves cantare jusserit Statim deproment modulos Nil concinunt ad caeteros Which I finde thus translated to my hand by John Trevisa the old Vicar of Barkley almost three hundred years ago Yf the Prynce of the Londe hoote Briddes singe well mery noot As merily as they can And singe for none other man And so this King-deposing Principle they will have to be the Characteristical note whereby a through-paced or true Romanist maâ— be known who must answer to none but their Prince at Rome and whose commands they must not disobey And should any one now begin to teach them Allegiance and the pernicious consequences of this Doctrine which by length of time hath had such a sway with them probably it might be as great a novelty and strange to them as the e people who after a long Interdiction d Sextus de Seâ—tent Excotâ—â—c Alma Mater Gloss v. Insurgunt were so unused to Devotion that they laugh'd at the Priests when they came again to say Mass and pray with them for some will not leave an old Mumpsimus for a new though better Sumpsimus As for the Romanist's distinctions the better to maintain these Treasonable Assertions of Directe Indirecte Propriè Improprie simpliciter secundum Quid Absolute in Ordine ad Spiritualia and suchlike whimsical Save-alls they have not onely been derided by those of the a Pet. Molin de Monarch Temporal Pont. pag. 87. Jo. Buckeridge Episc Roffens lib. 2. cap. 5. Reformed Church but also by several Romanists themselves especially of the b Caron Remonst Hybern p. 236 237. latter stamp and of such cheats as these thus saith Father c More ample accompt pag. 28. Welsh In Ordine ad Spiritualia and the cheat of a verbal distinction the trick of abusing two other words Direct and Indirect and these two very new altogether unheard-of in this matter till some Caprichious heads brought them unfortunately to the Schools of meer designe to make people loose themselves in words by confounding right and wrong together and the fignification of both And so nothing need be said against such childish inventions being nothing to the true and real designe of the positive Doctrine of King-deposing which is the thing we treat of without any
may give you an hint what little credit may justly be given to such Tales and when men have trapt any as Impostures so oft in lying and cheating they have small reason to believe them in their other Stories or Actions And besides these Forgeries when we consider what compact jugling and delusions there may be and that the Devil also may have a hand in the imployment as also some may have their Natural causes we should not so easily believe all to be gold that glistereth nor every thing we see or hear to be a Miracle wrought by God since b 2 Thessal 2. â— Antichrist himself must deceive by signs and lying Wonders Though as I have no power to hinder Almighty God from working Wonders so have I no Authority to deny that he doth do any by his faithful Instruments and I am apt to believe upon good Reason that the Church of Great Britain since the Reformation may glory and triumph in this blessing as well as their fellow-Christians beyond Sea CHAP. IV. Their Idle Extravagant and Prophane Titles and Prerogatives appropriated to the Pope HAving hitherto seen how lavish they are in the commendations of their inferiour Christians those but as it were fellow-Subjects or of the same rank in obedience with themselves what lofty strains and towring Encomiums may we expect when they advance to magnifie their Lord and Master their Infallible Judge and what not If in any thing they observe Sir Philip Sidneys Rule If the man such praises have What must he that keeps the knave And if when several of their Wits have strain'd themselves to compare the great Cardinal a Many of which you may finde collected together in a Quartâ— Book call'd Scriptorum Galliae Maledicentiae Adulationes Impiae Anno 1635. Richelieu to God Almighty for Power and Wisdom though he hath not hitherto been held one of the greatest Saints we may not hope for less Blasphemies to be produced to the honour of their Roman Bishop whom they fancy to command Heaven and Hell and so at his pleasure to dispose of their souls to either of those places But that good Emperour b Volaterran lib. 23. fol. 266. Alexander Severus rejected all such cogging Claw-backs As c Ant. Panormita de rebus gestis Alphonsi Alonso that wise King of Aragon did not onely hate but several times punish his flattering creenging Courtiers whom he justly call'd the Plague of Princes it being a truth not easily denyed that next to such a Treason as Presbytery the dissembling fawning Favorite is the discredit of his King and the ruine of his Country What the Popes have done by way of command to others to proclaim to the World the Commendations Strength Power Vertue and Authority of his Holy-Chair would be a task too tedious and difficult to search exactly and throughly into Yet that such endeavours have been somewhat Ancient appears by Augustinus de Ancona now better known by the name of Triumphus who above three hundred years ago was commanded by Pope John XXI or XXII to write a Treatise to this purpose which he did where he boldly maintains that no d De Potestate Ecclesiasticâ— Quest 44. Art 1. law can be made to binde Christians but by the Popes Authority as of old the Israelites received none but by the Intercession of Moses Nor is this all but he makes all the world to be so much the Popes Right and Inheritance that he expresly gives us this Caution of Interpretation of some Facts in History viz. That if we meet with any Emperours to have given any e Id. Part. 1. Quest 1. Art 1. Temporal Priviledges or Lands to any Popes as they say Constantine did to Sylvester we must here understand that they did not at all give that which was their own to give but onely forsooth restore that which had formerly been taken away from them by Tyranny and Injustice Or if on the contrary we read of any Popes to have given off any such Temporal Benefit we must then suppose that it was done more for peace-sake then really to give to others a true Title to them Fine Rules if they were true to keep all Jurisdiction and Territories in their own clutches But alas they are too simple and childish to be imbraced by any but fools and suchlike Papal Scriblers Not long after him we have a trusty Spaniard Alvarus Pelagius Confessor to Balthassor Cossa call'd John XXII or XXIII who writ a large Book in part to vindicate his Master by many then held an Antipope This Alvarus amongst other things affirms that no Emperour must be held to rule a De planctu Ecclesiae lib. 1. cap. 13. justly who received not his Power and Authority from the Roman Church especially after Christ had granted all Rule and Government to St. Peter which seems a pretty Paradox as if the Church at Rome by right ruled all the world before ever St. Peter was ever there or held as Supream there or for ought that I know before any other Christian in that City had any abode Nor will that which followeth any whit mend the matter viz. that every Pope hath all the same or as much power upon Earth as Jesus Christ himself had and that the Pope is as a God to the Emperour Some years before this Vrban the Sixth and Clement the Seventh bandying for the Popedom the Christians not agreeing which of them was the true one insomuch that the Kings themselves were also divided from which troubles it may be he might expect some disadvantage However it was he had one Johannes de Therano his Chamberlain who upon his command writ a Book to lessen all Temporal Authority in Princes in which he very finely evades these words Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods by affirming that these words of Christ have place onely for a time viz. until his Ascention and that after his Ascention they are of no force or value proving it from this Verse b Joh 12. 32. When I shall be lifted up from the Earth I will draw all men unto me which he interprets by all Kings and Kingdoms to be under the Popes jurisdiction a bundle of such strange Assertions that c Tom. 2. pag. 232. Coquaeus himself seems almost ashamed of them But to go on long before any of these above five hundred years d Anno 1131. ago in a Council at Rheimes some one or other for his certain name I finde not made a learned and wise Sermon as he thought in commendation of the Pope telling his Auditors that he was greater than Moses greater than any Angel greater than Solomon nay except God there is none like unto him either in Heaven or Earth And that this might carry the more credit with it they have foisted this into the Works of e Sermo ad Synod Rhemens beginning Grave est quod mihi injungitur St.
distance and according to his skill in Astronomy he makes the Pope to be about forty seven times better than a King But this seeming too little for his Holiness it fairly concludes him to be above 7744 times greater than any King And though this seems brave and sound high yet e Chimaera fol. 97. a. Stanislaius Orichorius of a later cut makes it his business to out-vapour the Gloss by affirming that a common Priest is as much better than a King as a Man is better than a Beast Nay farther that as much as God Almighty doth excel a Priest so much doth a Priest excel a King And this may somewhat agree with Gaspar Scioppius a great man amongst them though of more words and passion than Charity or Discretion who in the swindge of his Zeal alloweth all Lay-men to be no better than Horses Mules or Asses and that with such small distinction that the Romanist Ecclesiasticus cap. 147. himself hath but the honour to be a tame Ass whilst the Heretick is a wilde one Nor do the Kings of the Popish perswasion get any more addition of esteem from him then that they are the foremost or leading Asses with fine jangling Bells about their necks And that favorite of their Church Reges Catholici sunt Asini cum Tintinnabulâ— c. Charles the Great is honour'd enough as Schoppius thinks by calling him a wiser and greater Ass than our King James because he was obedient to the Pope And the truth is many of our chief Princes by their too much debasing themselves to that Chair have rendred themselves little better than Scioppius his comparisons or his Holiness must have thought them to be so in respect of his Almighty Greatness Witness the great Kings and Emperours who have held the Popes Stirrops have kiss'd his Toe have like Foot-boys led their Horses along witness Alexander the Third for presuming to Vid. Tho. Bozium de Italiae statu l. 3. c. 4. pag. 298. tread upon the Emperour Frederick Barbarossa's neck witness Gregory the Seventh for making the Emperour Henry the Fourth to wait upon him three several days in the midst of Winter bare-foot bare-headed and fasting and several suchlike impudent stories which may be seen more at large in the prosecution of this History And for more confirmation of this Papal Pride and Greatness let us take a short view of somewhat to this purpose which they have left upon Record with a strict injunction to be performed by all Kings and Emperours whatsoever The Pope in the Book of their holy Ceremonies doth command as a Law Sacrarum Ceremoniaâ—um Edit Rom. 1560. lib. â— That when an Emperour goeth to be Crown'd by a Pope a Fol. 22. he is as soon as he espyeth his Holiness to kneel and worship him bare-headed then to approach nearer and kiss his feet and the same is to be done by the b Fâ—l 2â— Empress when she is Crowned When the Emperour is Crowned at the publick Procession before a world of people he is to c Fol. â—6 go to the Popes Horse and there to hold the Stirrop till his Holiness mounts on Horse-back and then like a Lackey must he lead the Popes Rosonante some way by the Reins And this piece of service or slavery must the d Fol. 17. Emperour King or chief Potentate perform when the Pope is chosen in his Procession to the Lateran Church But if there be two Kings present then hath the Pope expresly commanded that e Ibid. one of them on his Right-side the other on his Left must lead his Palfrey along by the Bridle And this Office of the Yeoman of the Stirrop they are confidently pleas'd to tell us that Constantine the Great did it to Pope Sylvester But the f 〈◊〉 Dâ—nâ—â—io vâ—l Privilâ—gi â—â— Constantant Copy whence they produce this I shall prove to be a whilking lye and forgery in the following History The Pope goeth on in his proud Laws by decreeing that the best Lay-man though he be Emperour or King must g Sacâ—aâ— Ceâ—em lib. 1. fol. 20. carry water for the Pope to wash his hands in nor must his trouble and slavery cease here but he must also carry up the first dish of meat to his Table And as if all this were not enough to debase the Temporal Princes the same Authority goeth on commanding that if the Pope will not ride on horse-back but be carryed in his Chair that then the four of the greatest Princes yea although the Emperour be one of them shall put their h Fol. 1â— shoulders to the said Chair and so carry him some space yet this being a tyranny beyond all expression therefore somewhat to mitigate it they provide that four lusty fellows shall so far assist as to ease those Royal Shoulders from the great weight The truth is the Pope is wont to call himself the servant of servants of God But 't is none of the least signs of great Pride to affect a seeming Title of humility when in the mean time they make it their design to Domineer over the whole world and something to this purpose their Gloss upon Gratian affords us this Distich * 1 q. 7. c. Quoties Cordis Gloss Et per te Servierant tibi Roma prius Domini Dominorum Servorum servi nunc tibi sunt Domini The greatest Kings once serv'd thee Rome but now To th'least of Servants thou thy neck must bow And such another like cheat as this doth his Holiness afford the Romans or rather the holy Scripture when he is elected and carryed to the Lateran where he takes up as much a Sacrar Cerem lib. 1. fol. 17. money as he can in his hand and throws it amongst the people saying * Acts 3. 6. Silver and gold have I none but such as I have give I thee A most ridiculous Ceremony for his Infallible Holiness thus to abuse the words of St. Peter And though Pope Julius the Third was content to call himself no more than Gods Vicar yet the extravagancy of the expression spoil'd the Complement For as the story goeth having once commanded a Peacock to H. Estiâ—ne Apol pour Herod p. 291. be set by that he might eat it cold and being missing when he desired it forced him into a great rage and being desired by a Cardinal not to be angry for such a Trifle thus replyed If God was so angry for an Apple as to drive Adam out of Paradise why might not he that was Gods Vicar be angry for a Peacock of more worth And like this was another reply of the said Pope who wanting his Dish of Pork and being told that his Physitian had forbad it as not then good for him thus unholily commanded Bring me my Pork in spight of God Porta mi quel mio piatto al dispetto di Dio. Methinks Johannes Andraeas Bishop of Aleria in Corsica thought himself no
small Wit when his fancy reached so high as to call Pope Leo the Great b Epist ad Paulum II. praefix Opuscul Leonis Fran. Sweert pag. 115. The Tully of Church-Oratory The Homer of Divinity and the Aristotle of Faith and this mode of School-boy-allusion is used also by some others as amongst other Monuments of the Great Duke of Bourbon who took Rome this following is at Gaieta Consiliis Calchas animo Hector robora Achilles Eloquio Nestor jacet hic Borbonius Heros And thus the other day a c Philanax Anglicus or a Christian Caveat against Protestants of Integrity pag. 57 58. Romanist thought he had commended our blessed Martyr King Charles the First beyond all comparison when he call'd him a Prince wise as Apollo Valiant as Achilles Vertuous as Socrates Pious as Aeneas and Beautiful as an Amazon So that it seems to make a noise any thing that sounds great be it devilish or wicked must be brought in like the people of Sofala in the East-Indies who appropriate to their King by way of commendation all things that are great be it good or bad insomuch that they call him not onely d Purchas Pilgr Vol. 2. pag. 1539. Great Lyon but great Thief great Witch and suchlike But for such allusions of Bishop Andraeas I shall let them alone as impertinent to my purpose and of as little harm as they are of discretion I only medling with those of a higher pitch such as attribute a Deity or little less to his Holiness of which formerly and to them I might add this Distich set Da. Magerus Transenna Theologica pag. 61. upon a Triumphal Arch at Rome relating to Pope Sixtus Oraculo vocis mundi moderaris habenas Et merito in Terris crederis esse Deus And therefore they command us a Paris Crassus de Ceremoniis Cardinalium Epist lib. 1. cap 22. to bow at the name of the Virgin Mary and the Pope as well as at the name of Christ And if these and suchlike Extravagances not to say Blasphemies have not been asserted yea and by those who think themselves the wisest concerning the Pope I shall desire the same censure that the famous Parisian Chancellor Gerson by themselves stiled the most Christian Doctor did in the same case viz. to be held a b Mentior si non inveniantur haec scripta ab illis etiam qui sapientes sunt in Oculis suis Jo. Gerson de potest Eccles Consid 12. lyar But to end all with a story or two the famous Stephanus assures us that a Priest at Tours told his Auditors that if * Apol. pour Herod p. 291. Christ and the Pope were by him and one commanded him one thing and the other another that he would obey the Pope rather than Jesus Christ And this Doctrine agrees somewhat with the Cardinal who told his Confessor That he had rather adore the Pope than God because one was visible and the other not And these Extravagances and the Popes taking upon him to domineer over all mankinde made the Greek Church send this short Complement to his Holiness John XXIII We do really acknowledge thy high Jo. Bale Acta Pontif. Rom. l. 6. p. 253. Authority over thine own Subjects but we cannot indure thy great pride nor are we able to satisfie thy avarice So the Divel be with thee and the Lord with us Thus when we finde their Grandees and those who think themselves the wisest of their Religion to ascribe sâ—c 〈…〉 sâ—ve Power and Prerogatives to his Holiness we may the less wonder 〈…〉 simplicity of the poor people Da. Magerus Transenna Theologica pag. â—5 of Limosin who according to the 〈…〉 â—â—aring and so believing that the Pope was not onely Gods Vicar bu◠〈…〉 and so had such great power in Heaven and Earth c. and 〈…〉 wing that the then Pope was their Country-man and so near them 〈…〉 in France at Avignon and so full in hope for Relation-â—a 〈…〉 some comfort and help from him sent to him laying open 〈…〉 of his and their Country scarce any thing growing in it bu◠〈…〉 and a little Corn to serve them on Sundays and th◠〈…〉 â—eg'd that his Holiness would be pleas'd to make their poo 〈…〉 unâ—â—y so fruitful that they might have two Harvests in a year The Pope after long consultat 〈…〉 with his Grave Council about this weighty matter was pleas'd very 〈…〉 sly to grant their request but upon this condition that for the future 〈…〉 sâ—ould not reckon twelve but twenty four Months for the year 〈…〉 engers glad at heart of this unspeakable favour and benefit return 〈…〉 rrily into their Country with this good news to the great rejoycing and â—riumpâ—â— no doubt of their Neigbours However those people with those of Munding in Schwaben who knew not the difference between a c â—â—bel Facet l. â— p. 18â— Crab Pigeon and Stag and contended in voice with a d Id. lâ—â— p. 56. Cuckow and those Inhabitants of e Mâ—rt Zâ—â—â—â—e Hâ—span lâ—iner pag. 1â—9 El Campo in Estramadura who knew not three Miles beyond their own homes and our Virtuosi of Gotham may be for ought that I know as honest though they are not the wisest of their four respective Nations But though the Pope may think himself above all Power in this World and so not liable to any censure whatsoever yet against this I remember a droling story A Fryar Minorite having proved that the Pope might be Excommunicated by this as he thought invincible Dilemma Either the Pope is a Brother or not if he be a Brother he may be Excommunicated by a Brother if he be not a Brother why doth he say Our Father The Pope not knowing how to answer this a merry Courtier undertook the solution and so to ease him of his troubled minde by this advice Let your Holiness never say the Lords Prayer and the Argument is void and of no force against you And so I leave his Holiness in deep consultation with his Cardinals in the Consistory what to do in this case not troubling my self a Rush what advice he shall follow THE TREASONABLE AND Rebellious Principles Of the ROMANISTS BOOK II. CHAP. I. Their fancying that the Pope hath Power and true Authority to depose Emperours and Kings and dispose of their Dominions HAving hitherto taken a short view of the Glories as they fancie of the Romish Church let us now see some of their Destructive and Treasonable Principles whereby we shall perceive that Heathens in some things have better Tenets than those who call themselves the truest Christians For though Attabalipa King of Peru told that Cacafuoco Dominican Vincent Valverde That the Pope who would thus Pontificem insigniter satuum Impudentem esse eo sacile prodi quod aliena tam liberaliter largiatur Hier. Benzo Hist Novae Orbis lib. 3. c. 3. dispose of Kingdoms was not onely Impudent but a great Fool to give
munificentia largus erga indigentes Iâ—opes misericordia satis premptus ita ut non solum Princeps Populotum sed etiam Pater Pauperum vocari sit dignus lâ—â—dori Chron. magnified for a brave Souldier and King for one vertuous faithful prudent industrious just munificent and liberal that he ought to be call'd the Prince of his people and Father of the poor He had done well if his Subscription had been true to have corrected his History that they might not stand thus at defiance against each other to deceive Posterity we cannot plead â—sidores ignorance seeing he lived in the same time and Country and why may not this good Character in his Chronologie be more true and authentick than that other testified by his and the others subscription since the first was writ freely and privately without any obligation to flatter onely to inform Posterity whilst the other as is very a Marian. de rebus Hispan lib. 6. cap. 5. probable was onely subscribed to gratifie and pleasure Sisenandus a dissembling and powerful Usurper But 't is all one to my purpose were he good or bad And here we have another rancounter amongst Historians for the aforenamed Rodericus Ximenius Archbishop of Toledo and Alphonsus de Carthagena Bishop of Burgos with b De Reg. Hispan lib. 2. Michael Ritius c Arbori delle famiglie Regall di Spagna pag. 34. Cesare Campana and several others give not the least hint of any opposition that Suinthila had in his Government but that he dyed at Toledo and the learned Belgick Jesuit d Bibl. Hisp Tom. 1. p. 163. Andraeas Schottus agreeth to the last whilst other Writers are confident of his deposition the story of which is rather hinted at than told but in sum thus One Sisenandus or Sisnandus but of what relation Pens will not agree great in Wars and Authority having a desire to make himself King plotted Treason with some others of the Nobility and the better to carry on this Rebellion he sent to Dagobert King of France to desire his assistance the which he obtain'd by his great promises and treasure which he sent to this Dagobert who sent the Wealth to St. Denis where he had built the great Church since that the burying-place of the French Kings A strange piece of Policy commonly in practice for Kings not onely to assist but if beaten to protect Rebels against their Soveraigns when two to one it may a little after be their own case And as this is a strengthing so 't is an incouragement by the certainty if overcome of a refuge to Rebellion Dagobert accordingly sends Abondant and Venerand or e Jo. de Bussiers Hist Fran. Tom. 1. pag. 183. Venerabandus with an Army of Burgundians who enter Spain and march straight-way to Saragoza Upon this the Gothick Rebels revolt joyn to Sisenand by which he grew so powerful and strong that Suinthila with his Queen and Children were forced to flee and so Sisenandus by his treason obtain'd the f An. 631. Crown The Laity having thus proved themselves bold Rebels let us see if their Church be cleer from this vice Sisenand having thus usurp'd the Throne cunningly courted peace with all people and in the third year of his Reign pretending forsooth a great care for Religion and the Church though his g Jo. Mariana lib. 6. cap. 5. design was to get himself fully setled and the through extirpation of Suintila and his Relations call'd a Council at Toledo where met some LXX Spanish and French i. e. that part of it then under Spain Bishops The Bishops being met at Toledo in the Church de Santa Leocadia a h An. 305. 9. Decemb. Virgin-Martyr Sisenand like an Hypocrite humbles himself before the Council and with many tears and sobbings upon his knees desires their blessings and prayers and to mend the faults they found in the Church and suchlike good words After some Consultation and the making of some Canons they gratifie Sisenando to the purpose not onely by declaring of him true and lawful King and confirming of him in the Throne but by dashing in pieces all the hopes of Suintila whom they call Suinthilanis against whom they raunt very dapperly calling of him Fugitive and Runaway from his Authority A pretty jest that Titius should be call'd coward Qui propria scelera metuens se ipsum Regno privavit potestatis facibus exuit and worthy to loose his Lands when being over-power'd by a company of Robbers he is forced to flee to save his life And thus they deprive Suinthila his Queen and Children of all benefit there Having thus confirm'd Sisenando they go on and make strange curses and threats against any that shall indeavour to disturb him in his Throne or who shall intend by sinister ends to aspire to the Crown A pretty Type of Oliver Cromwel and his Parliament who having beat out the true Heir to the Crown and so made himself Lord Paramount they vote it high-Treason for any to oppose that Government or deny the Authority and Rule of his Highness forsooth as if it were vertue and godliness in him to depose a lawful Prince but Treachery and Villany in others to withstand an Usurper And Mariana the Jesuit himself though a great Patron to a De Institut Reg. c. 6. Treason doth confess that Sisnandus obtain'd the Kingdom either by Treachery or Rebellion though to me in the conclusion there is no difference Another of the same Society Sisenandi proditione an rebellione Suinthila sublatus est Jo. Marian. de reb Hispan lib. 6. cap. 4. viz. Andraeas Schottus doth confess that Sisenando obtain'd the Kingdom by force or b Sisenandus rex creatur qui per Tyrannidem Regnum fuit adeptus A. S. Bibl. Hispan Tom. 1. pag. 163. Tyranny and so to conclude this story we see not onely an action but also a Vindication of Treason and Rebellion and that by one of their Councils Nor is this any such wonder for they say that the twelfth Council of Toledo did the same courtesie to Flavius Ervigius or Ervingius Erigius or Hermigius after he had Trayterously endeavour'd the poysoning of the renouned King Bamba or Wamba and so got the Crown to which he had no c Hist of Spain pag. 150. Rob. Tolet. l. 3. c. 12. Alphons de Carthag cap. 1940. Andr. Schott pag. 170. Jo. Marian l. 6. c. 17. right And so much at this time for Spain Sect. 2. The Murther of Childerick the Second King of France with his Queen great with Childe ANd now let us walk over the Pyrenean Mountains and take a turn in France where we shall finde Childerick the Second King but in short time most barbarously murdered the story thus in short This Childerick but for what fault Authors will not tell us had caus'd on Bodilo or d Gaguin fol. 22. Bolidus to be bound and whipt with Rods Upon this he and some others of
Haillan fol. 316. lib. 4. Majordom Maire du Palais being the principal Officer in the Kingdom one Landregesile being the first that was chosen these by little and little rais'd their Authority so high that they disposed of all things For though at first they were onely Stewards to the Kings Houshold and could stretch their jurisdiction no farther yet after the death of Clotaire the Second they began to increase their power and at last taking opportunity by the negligenâ—e and weakness of some Kings they began to rule all things The first that advanced the Majordoms was Ebroin in the time of Theodorick or Thierry the First a very meek and patient King In this Kings raign was also Pepin the Gross Major of the Palace Son to this Pepin was Charles sirnamed Martel who had himself call'd Prince and Duke of the French and in his Tomb at S. Denis he is stiled a Carolus Martellus Rex King and the truth is he ruled both King and People Son to this Charles was Pepin sirnamed the short who deposed his Soveraign and made himself King the story thus Pepin agitated by an ambitious humour resolves to make himself King of France and to facilitate his Treachery he had several of his Creatures prompted to sound nothing but his commendation and having thus got a good esteem amongst the Vulgar who love nothing more than novelty and having also gain'd over to his Faction and interest what by former favours future promises and some awe many of the great ones he procures an Assembly or Parliament to be held at Soissons by the Prelates and Nobility for as then the third Estate or Commons had no authority in voting onely the liberty of preferring their complaints The Assembly presently agreeth to the preferment of Pepin nor was there any thing which lay in the way but one scruple viz. the Oath of Allegiance they had formerly sworn to Childerick And if they could be but disingaged from this they were then resolved to pull down their King and set up the little Candidate To cut in pieces this Gordion-knot 't is concluded to send to the Pope Zachary whom to gratifie themselves they would fancie to have the power to absolve Subjects from Allegiance and Oaths And so two are pitch'd upon to go as Ambassadors to his Infallible Holiness about the pretty loyal and honest Errand The first was call'd Burchard but now by a French a Jo. de Bussieres Hist Fran. Tom. 1. pag. 244. Jesuit erroniously call'd Richardus acknowledged by all men to be a Britain by birth but of what Kingdom is the Question since both b Jo. Pâ—ts de Scriptor Angl. pag. 164. English and c Dav. Camerar de Scot. foâ—titud p. 100. Tho. Demsâ—â—r Apparatâ—s ad Hist Scot. Scotch declare him to be theirs some will also have him to have been Bishop of d Jan. de Serres pag. 184. Bourges in France but I see little reason for that opinion neither Claudius Robertus nor Chenu making any such name or man in their Histories of that Archbishoprick And therefore we shall with the common opinion conclude him to have been the first Bishop of Wirtzburg in Franconia However he is well enough being Sainted in the Roman Calendar The other imploy'd in this Ambassie was Tulrad chief Chaplain to Pepin and made Abbot of S. Denis These being got to Rome and brought to the Popes presence Burchard as the better man told his tale at large stuft with the commendations of Pepin and his Father Charles Marteâ— what great maintainers they had and would be to the Romish See And as for King Childerick they render'd him the worst of all Creatures but what was worth all the rest they promis'd him that if he would do Pepin this favour that he when he was King would assist the Pope against his Enemies the Lombards and by reducing of whom the Pope would in a manner Rule all Italy This was that which Zachary look'd for and so the bargain being thus struck the Pope by some pretty knack or other declares the French disingaged from the Oath of Allegiance they formerly sware to Childerick and with this good news the two Ambassadors return joyfully to their Associates at Soissons the Pope having delegated S. Bonifacius to annoynt Pepin King This Boniface was then the first Archbishop of Mentz which before him had onely Bishops he was first call'd Wenefrid but when Nâ—c Seâ—ar Hist Mâ—gunt p. 341. Gregory the Second consecrated him Bishop he changed it to Bonifacius from his good deeds he was born in Britain but both Scoth and English strive for him and it may be that e Hist Mogunt p. 438. Serarius mistakes the Italian Bonifacius for f Spotswood pag. 20. this who is call'd the Father and Apostle of the Germans he being the chief means of their Conversion to Christianity and he was in all things a true man of the Popes by whom he is declared a Saint and Martyr Bonifacius being accordingly come to Soissons anoynts Pepin King and then according to their ancient Custom being lifted up by some of the Nobility upon a Shield to be seen of all is by the acclamation of the people shouted out King of France And thus was Childerick deposed whose Heir they rounded or shortned as a badge of infamy and degrading and the better to understand the ignominy of this we must know that Clodion or Cloion the Second King of the Francks or France and Son to Pharamond Jan. de Serres made a Law that none but the King his Sons or Princes of the Bloud-royal should wear long Hair it being as with the Romans a sign of Rule and Authority which occasioned their cropping of Slaves or Servants and this Custom confirm'd by this Law of Clodioâ— continued a long time in France insomuch that Clodamire Son to Clouis being slain in Battail by the Burgundians was found and known from the rest of the dead men by his long Hair And which is more this badge they observed with such Reverence and Devotion that their Histories tell us that Queen Clotilde would rather allow her Sons heads to be cut off than their hair as if she exprest by that an honourable death before an ignoble life This King Clodion for his establishing this Custom amongst his people was sirnamed the a Le Chevelu Hairy But the dishonourable cropping was not all they did to their King Childerick but as if to make him ever after incapable to sit in the Throne again they had his Pole shorne or shaven his Robes pull'd off and a Religious Habit put on and so forcing of him to be a Monk thrust him into a Monastery and they served his Queen Gâ—selee after the same way making of her be vail'd and so thrust into a Nunnery And thus ended the Royal Family of the Merâ—uingiens so call'd from King Merouce the first that brought them out of Germany after they had raigned over the
French CCC years As for Childerick I believe he was easie-natured-enough apt to be cheated by every knave being none of the wisest but yet it will not follow that he should therefore be deposed but on the contrary upheld by good assistants and councsels himself being tainted with no vice or wickedness but on the contrary as b Chilperico non si mosse punto dell ' ingiuria fattagli per haverlo privato del Regno anzi essendo di natura pia è pacifica si arreccò à gloria l'esse fatto Monaco Perche tutto il tempo che visse nel Monasterio egli menò vita Angelica Paolo Morigi Hist de Personaggi illustri Religiosi lib. 3. cap. 18. pag. 138. Paolo Morigi will assure us very religious good-natured and peaceful and all the time to his dying day in the Monastery led a very heavenly life Here some raise an objection concerning the anoynting of Pepin sirnamed the c Le bref short for his littleness for some will have him onely anoynted by S. Boniface Archbishop of Mentz others onely by Pope Stephanus the Third But d Hist Mogunt lib. 3. not 38. pag. 522 523 524. Serarius thinks it no great wonder to have them both true it being not the first time as he sheweth that a King hath been twice anoynted as amongst the Israelites and that Pepin was also Crowned by Pope Stephanus the Third they with joy confess and thus tell the story The Lombards being rampant in Italy the Pope for his security and to beg assistance fled to Pepin at his coming into France P. Mexia vite di gl' Imperadori vit Constantin V. fol. 306. b. Jo. de Bussieres Tom. 1. pag. 249 250. Grimston's Imp. Hist pag. 371. Fulrad the Abbot and Duke Rotaldus were sent to congratulate him in the Kings name and moving forward in his journey Charles his Eldest Son waited upon him and three miles off Paris Pepin himself met him alighted off his Horse prostrated himself before him kiss'd his feet and the more to curry-favour with that See whence he had his Crown and was now to desire another courtesie very humbly play'd the part of a Lackey himself refusing to ride but on foot very dapperly leading by the Bridle the Horse on which Pope Stephanus rode Whilst this Pope stay'd in France he anoynted at S. Denis Pepin for King Bertrad his Wife for Queen and his two Sons Charles afterwards Emperour and call'd Charlemaign and Caroloman as Princes to succeed their Father whom he publickly declared to be the true and lawful King and that it should be unlawful hereafter for the French to have any King but of the Race of Pepin The Pope having done this good turn to Pepin he in requital beats the Lombards and the Towns taken from them bestows upon St. Peter for the good of his soul and having thus resetled the Bishop of Rome returneth to France And this Pepin as a Hist de France Tom. 1. Scipion Dupleix saith was the first Christian King that ever was anoynted I shall not trouble my self with the dispute of this b Id. pag. 338. § 4. Dupleix against dâ— Haillan and Hotoman whether the Kingdom of France be Hereditary or Elective for if these great French Lawyers and Historians cannot agree they will never grant a stranger to be Umpire though I shall willingly grant that Monarchy absolute and Hereditary And again though some will have this deposition done onely by the Authority remaining in the French yet I finde most of the c Bellarm. de Rom. Pont. l. 2. c. 17. l. 5. c. 8. Gasp Sciop Ecclesiast pag. 511 512. Diâ—nys Carthus de Author Pap. l. 1. art 6. Celsmancinus de jur Principat l. 3. c. 3. Fran. Duarenus de Benefic l. 1. c. 4. Fran. Ghetius Theol. Moral v. Papa § 10. S. Raymond Sum. l. 1. tit de Haeret. § 7. pag. 41. Jo. de Turrecrem Sum. de Eccles c. 14 propos 4. Lud. â— Param l. 1. Q. 1. Opin 4. § 55. Sylvest de Priero Sum. v. Papa § 11. Dom. â— Soto dist 25. Q. 2. Art 1. Alphoâ—s d Castro de Haeret. punit lib. 2. c. 7. Guil. de Monserrat de success Regum dub 1. § 30. Jo. Quintinus Repet in C. Novit de judic § 127. Jo. de Selva de Benefic part 4. Q. 8. § 25. Fran. Duarenus de sacris Eccles Minist lib. 1. cap. 4. Romanists affirm it acted onely by the Popes authority and so vapour with this story as an example of the Popes power to depose Kings And so I leave it as I found it CHAP. V. 1. The Murther of Constantine the Fifth Emperour of Constantinople by his Mother Irene 2. The miserable and troublesome Raign of the Emperour Lewes le Debonnaire by the many Rebellions against him 3. The Murther of Michael Emperour of Constantinople with Pope Adrian the Second his opinion of the Murtherer 4. Several Insolencies and Murders committed by the Venetians against some of their Dukes about this time Sect. 1. The Murther of Constantine the Fifth Emperour of Constantinople by his Mother Irene WE have formerly seen a quarrel between the Emperour and Pope about the worshipping of Images and now we shall perceive a giddy zeal make a Mother monstrously unnatural Leo the Fourth Emperor of Constantinople being dead his Son Constantine the Fifth succeeded but being then young his Mother Irene governed all she was very earnest for the worshipping of Images and which hugely gratified the Pope of Rome she had the use of them confirm'd by a Council at Nice and though she was a woman and the handsomest of her time yet she wanted neither policie nor courage to sway the Imperial Scepter and for that time she governed she was esteemed by most But Constantine being now come to years takes the Government upon himself hath his Mother Irene to live by her self shews himself as his Father and Grand-father had done before zealous against Images and willing that Priests should marry and commands Stauratius an Infant of his Mothers not to meddle any more with State-Affairs though at last he let Irene have a great hand in the Empire But she not content unless she had all conspires against her Son and with the assistance of Stauratius won the Army over to their Faction and so violently seised upon the Emperour who endeavoured an escape but could not whose eyes she unnaturally ordered to be pluck'd out which was acted with such violence upon him that he dyed presently after And some Historians tell us which must be left to every mans belief that the a Christ Besold Synopsis Hist Univers p. 307. Sun as disdaining to shine upon those who had wickedly pluck'd out the eyes of their Soveraign vail'd himself up in blackness and mourning that for seventeen days together there was no light upon the Earth As for Irene there were some Overtures of a Marriage between her and Charles the Great so to unite the Empires But
on but some might have thought that all would have been spoil'd when the Pope perceived Michael to play the jugler and underhand to f Id. anno 1266. § 9. plot with Romes Enemies and that all his fair pretences were onely to get the ruine of his Lord Baldwin But no such matters for if the Pope got but his design he would wink at the others petty contrivances But this Pope ruled not long and after him the See being void for above two years by reason of the wrangling of the then few Cardinals no great matter was done onely Michael to look to himself At last Gregory X is set in the Roman Chair In the mean time Baldwin to strengthen himself marrieth his Son to the Daughter of Charles King of Sicily or Naples Charles seeing himself so neer related to an Empire resolves to gain it to which purpose he rais'd many Forces This puts Michael to his wits-ends in this distress scarce knowing whither to turn himself at last he knew the Pope used to be good Friends to such as he at a dead lift and therefore he sends to Gregory X newly made Pope to have the Union between the two Churches setled provided he would g Modo Caâ—olâ— expeditionem averteret Bzov. anno 1271. § 5. hinder Charles from his attempts against him And so the story of the Union goeth on not belonging to my purpose In short Michael Palaeologus must be true Emperour of Constantinople and Baldwin rejected nor must we think any injury done in this onely because it pleas'd this Gregory X so to order it and of this Example and Jurisdiction h De jure status l. 3. c. 4. p. 287 288. Thomas Bozius is not a little proud and how should the Pope who is infallible and hath power over all Kingdoms do injustice or wrong Sect. 4. The beheading of Conrado the young King of Naples HEre I might inlarge in relating the Popes Usurpations over the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily But I shall only instance in the misfortune of young Conradino who without any shew of Reason or Justice was basely deprived by the plots and contrivance of Pope Clement IV who putting his Oar in another mans Boat and year 1266 medling with that with which he had nothing to do very impudently gives these Kingdoms to the French Charles of Anjou and accordingly Crowns him King though I wonder how either he or St. Peter came to have any right to dispose of those Territories But thus is Theft Robbery and Treason sanctified and made legal by the Popes fiat Young Conradinus marcheth out of Germany to redeem his right Inheritance knowing none but Fools or Knaves would value such an Antichristian Donation Clement seeing Conradino not willing to loose his Kingdom sends to him to desist or else he will curse him with Bell book and Candle and prohibits all people to assist him Conradine knowing such Censures not to have been year 1268 justified to maintain wickedness marcheth on then the Pope falls to his Dog-tricks Excommunicates and deprives him and all those who take his part and qâ—its their Subjects from their Allegiance And because Conradine would not desist from his lawful engagement Bzovius in a fury shoots his Bolt and calls him an a Insolens juveâ—â—s an 1268. § 2. Insolent youth The young Prince thus put to it makes his lamentable case known to the World in which his Secretary or the Historian doth sometimes play the quibler He complain'd how Pope Innocent Naucler gener 43. p. 839. had abus'd him an b Sibi innocenti nocuerit Innocent for Conradus his Father King of Scicily by will left him a young thing in the care of the Church and then that Pope Innocent under the pretence of a Tutor seiz'd upon the whole Kingdom then endeavour'd to extinguish his name distributing his Lands amongst his own Kinsfolks â—hat Manfredo pretending to be his friend had cheated him too That Innocent dying Pope Alexander succeeded who also abused him inviting others to take possession of his Kingdom That Pope Urban dealt very c Sibi â—â—erat â—â—urbanus inurbanely perswading Manfredo to take the Kingdom to him but this bargain failing he would have Charles to undertake the business That this Pope dying the next viz. Clement had used all d Conâ—â—a â—um inclementer egerit inclemencie againct him setting up a e Antiregem false King Excommunicating him and depriving him of his lawful Title But see the misfortune of War the Armies of Conradinus and Charles meet Conradinus is overcome he and Frederick Duke of Austria are taken carryed to Naples and there imprisoned Then a f Convocatis ex toto Regno Syndicis Civitatum Spond anno 1269. § 7. Parliament or bloudy Rump call'd where King Conradinus and the Duke are condemn'd to dye a Scaffold is set up publickly in the City and for more pomp cover'd with Silk-Tapistry the two innocent Princes are had thither Frederick of Anstria is first beheaded whose head Conradinus kisseth then the young King having declared the injustice vindicated his own innocencie and pronounced a Some say Peter of Arragon Frederick some say Henry of Castile his Aunts Son to be the Heir to the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily as a token of which Investiture he threw his Glove amongst the people kneel'd down and had his head cut off Thus dyed Conradinus and Frederick neither of them being eighteen years old and to add more ignominy their Corps were not permitted to be buried in Consecrated ground because not absolved from the Popes Excommunication yet they tell us that Frederick of Austria's b Bzov. an 1268. § 11. head call'd upon the Virgin Mary after it was cut off and that a wonderful Mark remains in the place where this execution was done That the Pope perswaded to this cruelty I cannot say positively though c Page 841. Nauclerus hints as much and others affirm d Page 841. that his advice being asked about it he return'd this answer that d Vita Conradini mors Caroli mors Conradini vita Caroli Conradines life is Charles his death and Conradines death is Charles his life However it was no sooner was this wicked act done but the Heads-man was also slain that he might not boast of his spilling such Royal Bloud A poor come off as if those who pronounced judgement by this act could clear themselves from the guilt And some make it the worse and with reason because Charles himself was a spectator all the while to this bloudy Execution Though certainly the Pope might have saved all this bloudshed by permitting young and innocent Conradine to possess that which was left him by his Father and how unjustly his life was taken away d Page 841 853. Nauclerus will inform you CHAP. III. The troubles of Philip the Fourth sirnamed Le bel King of France with the pride of Pope Boniface the Eighth THe first thing
gets hastily a company of men and makes towards the Isle Most of Barklays men were otherwise imploy'd dreaming of no such thing and himself not thinking that his plot was known did not take Knox his men though he saw them coming for enemies thus careless Knox lands and encounters him on the very shore upon which Barklay resolved not to be taken runs into the Sea and drowns himself and so there is an end of him and the Popish troubles in Scotland for this time CHAP. IV. The troubles in Ireland against Queen Elizabeth TO run through all the Rebellions of Ireland would be troublesome both to my self and Reader their whole stories and life being but an heap or chain of Troubles Riots Misdemeanors Murthers Treasons and suchlike enormities whereby they have not onely vext and molested their Governours but in the end brought ruine to the disturbers and such undertakers of disobedience Nor could any thing else be expected from the ancient Irish to whom civility and discretion were strangers but the Robbery of Cambden Britan pag. 790 791 792. others held a piece of Devotion insomuch that they never undertook such mischief without first sending up their prayers and after to give God thanks for such a good booty Though they profest themselves good Catholicks yet they supposed no small holiness to remain in Horses Hoofes and that the Lords prayer mumbled into the right ear of a sick beast was cure enough for its distemper and any man was held past living in this world if he desired to receive the Sacrament Nor need we look for many cures amongst them when to a Ric. Stanihuâ—st de â—ebus Hibeâ—n lib. 1. pag. 44. beat Eggs together to squeeze out with ones fingers the juyce of shred herbs to probe and finde out a wound were signes of an able Physitian and thus qualified he may go for an Hippocrates And no doubt but others of them were much of the discreet hardiness of b Id pag. 42. him who having received four desperate wounds and seeing his sword not hurâ— gave thanks to God that these wounds were given to his body and not to his sword And what else might be expected from those of former times when even within these few years they c Sir John Temples Hist of Iâ—ish Rebeâ—lion the Prefaâ—e ld pag. 84 threatned to burn and ruine Dublin to destroy all Records and Monuments of English Government make Laws against speaking English and have all English names changed Nay to put their thoughts into practice they endeavour'd to destroy all the goodly breed of English Cattle by killing many thousand Sheep and Cows meerly because they were of English breed and so to leave them lye stinking in the Fields and as others testifie to destroy the very Corn ' cause sown by English men And yet 't is known they had not only Government Civility and what else is praise worthy spred amongst them by the English but stately Buildings and other Ornaments of the Country whereas Dublin it self could not afford a place sit for King Henry II to lye in so that he was there forced to set up a long house composed of d Id pag. 4. Wattles after the manner of the Country therein to keep his f Riâ—h Stanibuâ—st lib 3. pag. 129. splendid Christmas But these glories and advantages some of them may think a discredit if not a ruine to their Nation and may fancie it as good to have their Kings as a Speeds Theater of Great Britain in Ireland in Vlster § 6. formerly to lap up their Coronation-sustenance without the assistance of Spoons or Hands and to sit in state naked within the bottom of a â—aldron at his Inauguration as to have Decencie and Manners Thrones or Magnificence amongst them However that which they supposed to ruine all you may guess at by this their complaint as old at least as King Edward the Thirds time as b Discovery of Ireland pag. 184. Sir John Davies supposeth c M S. F. 99 Laud p. 332. in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon. ex albo libro scaccarii Dublin By granting Charters of peace To falce Englishe withouten lesse This land shall be much undoe But d Gossipred a custom amongst them of trusting too much to God-fathers as they thought their Nurces and Forster-Children akin to them as Mother and Sister Gosipride and alterage And leesing of our Language Have mickley holpe thereto The truth is above all people they hated the English being willing that French Spaniard or any body else should rule them but those who do But of their Combinations and Overtures I shall go no higher then Queen Elizabeth though this following note by the way will not be amiss a M S. F. 99. fol. 185. Land in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon. Jehan du Tillet Recuil des Guerres Traitez d'entâ—e les Roys de France d' Angleterre fol. 157. Articles agreed upon between Francis I. King of France and James Fitzjohn Earl of Desmond Extracted by Tillet out of the Records in Paris Anno 1523. Francis I. King of France in a Treaty with James Fitzjohn Earl of b The French Copy calls him Jaques Conte de Cymonie Prince â—n Hybernie Desmond wherein he is stiled a Prince in Ireland It was accorded That as soon as the Kings Ships should land in Ireland the said Earl in person and at his own charge should take Armes against his Soveraign King Henry VIII not onely to conquer that part of the Kingdom wherein he lived which should be to the proper use and benefit of the said Earl except onely one Port which should be reserved for the French King for ever for to harbour his Ships in and that Port to be left at the Election of the King out of one of these three viz. d The French Copy reads thus Quinquesalle Core ou Drudal Kinsale Cork or Yoghal but also for to e As if he ever had it but no such matter restore the Duke of Suffolk to the Crown of England from whence he was banished and at the present living in France The Earl of Desmond for this War was to raise 400 Horse and 10000 Foot and if need required to increase them into 15000 or more The King Covenanted to entertain them at the rate of two Angels â—e peece for every man armed with Corsselets and Mayle for three months and for every man furnished onely with Swords and Halberts at one Angel le peece for the like time That for the draught of the Artillery which should be sent into that land by the King and the Duke of Suffolk the Earl should provide horses sufficient That after the War was begun the French King should not at any time make Truce or peace with the King of England without comprehending therein the said Earl and Turloghe O Brian with his Nephews That if King Henry VIII should after a Truce or Peace accorded make War upon the said Earl the French King
vilifie and discourage her Priests thereby to make her contemptible to very Pagans yet for all this as all other Rebels do they make a grand shew of Zeal and Religion appointing such Prayers daily to be said for good success viz. The Pater Noster and Ave Maria and these five times a day and as a word of Cognizance they had the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist And thus constituted they were resolved to give no quarter but kill all their Opposers as Enemies and Traitors to God But by the assistance of the Emperour Maximilian I. and Lodowick the good Bishop of Spire this intended Rebellion was crushed in the very bud by a timely discovery being quell'd which occasioned the deserved punishment of several of the chief Undertakers But from this we shall proceed to another sort of Leaguers or Covenanters who carried on their Rebellions with more success and vigour which had like to have ruin'd the whole Kingdom of France In this League there were three Families chiefly concern'd of whom for the better understanding of the History we shall with all haste speak a word or two not that we design to set down all their Children leaving that to the Heralds but onely those who may afford some light to the more common Readers of this short Essay of the French League The Families are those of I. VALOIS ending by the death of Henry III. II. BOURBON next Heir to the Crown beginning with Henry IV. King of France and Navarre III. GUISE assisted by their Chief LORRAIN FRANCOIS I. de VALOIS Henry II. de Valois King of France wounded in the eye at Tilt by Count * Beheaded at Paris as a Rebel 1574 and the sentence of Treason revoked 1576. Montgomery of which he died 1559. François II. King of France died 1560. Charles IX King of France died 1574. Hen. III. King of France murdered by a Monk 1589. François Duke of Alençon Anjou Brabant c. died 1584. Catherine de Medicis daughter to Lorenzo Duke of Urbin Cousin to Alexander Duke of Florence She died at Bloys 1589. By the death of King Henry III. the Line of Valois so called from a little Territory North-East of Paris betwixt Picardy and Champaigne fail'd and that of Bourbon as next Heir succeeded to the Throne in the Person of Henry IV. ALENCON a Town in lower Normandy it was formerly an Earldom but King Charles VI. raised it up to a Dukedom 1414. though †Le â—ray ostat de la France pag. 65. du Verdier by a mistake would make us believe that it was made a Dutchy by King Lewis IX surnamed the Saint BOURBON This Family is so named from a Town in Aquitaine call'd Bourbon with a differâ—nce of l'Archambault to distinguish it from another in Burgondy call'd Bourbon l'Ancien but by corruption of speech Bourbon Lancy It was erected from a Barony into a Dukedom by Charles IV. surnamed le Bel 1327. It would be endless to speak of the Antiquity of this Family according to some men and for its Commendations * Les Antiquitez pâ—g 628. du Chesne hath said enough by affirming that the Women of it were born to people Christendom and the Men to defend it They draw their relation to the French Crown from Robert Son to S. Lewis IX Charles de Bourbon the first Duke of Vendosme died 1536. Antoine de Bourbon married to Jane daughter and heiress to Henry d'Albret second King of Navarre and so by his Wife became King of Navarre He was wounded at the siege of Rouen of which he died 1562. Henry III. King of Navarre and the IV. of France was murdered 1610. Charles the old Cardinal de Bourbon by the Leaguers called King Charles X. He died in prison 1590. Lewis de Bourbon Prince of Condé slain at the battel of Jarnac 1569. Henry Prince of Condé died 1588. Henry born 1588. died 1646. Charles the Younger Cardinal of Vendosme after the death of his Uncle called of Bourbon died 1594. He was Head of the Thirdlings or third party Françoise Daughter to René Duke of Alençon died 1550. VENDOSME a Town in Beausse was from an Earldom erected to a Dukedom by King Francis I. 1514. CONDE ' a Town in Hainault or Henegow whence these Princes of the House of Bourbon took their Title GUISE This Family is a branch of the House of LORRAIN the Antiquity of which hath been undertaken by François de Rosieres born at Bar-le-Duc and Archdeacon of Thoul and so being born a Vassal to that Family we may allow him to ramble as far as he pleaseth for Originals and though he Preface his History with Adam and his Children yet his modesty alloweth him to fetch this Family no higher then the story of Troy as it was the fashion of old Monkish Tale-tellers to draw the beginning of most Kingdoms from the Legendaries of that scatter'd People Lotharius Emperour of Germany and the rebellious son of Lewis le' Debonnaire made his younger son Lotharius or Lothaire King of those Territories which from him were called Lorrain as if it were Lotair-Riick and Lot-Reyck the Dominion Possession Jurisdiction or Kingdom of Lotaire or Lotharius which was then in a far larger extent then that which is now the Dukedom to which now the name only belongs René Duke of Lorrain who also call'd himself King of Sicily and Hierusasem and his eldest Son Duke of Calabria Philippe Sister to the Duke of Guelderlandt and after his death her Husband René took upon him that Title also Antoine Duke of Lorrain Bar Counte de Vaudemont Marquess de Pont died 1544. Renee daughter to Guilbert de Bourbon Count of Mont-pensier died 1439. François Duke of Lorrain died 1545. Charles III. married to Claude daughter to Henry II. King of France He died 1608. François Count de Vaudemont Charles de Lorrain a Cardinal chosen to be Bishop of Strasburg which occasioned great troubles He died 1607. Henry II. Duke of Lorrain Nicolas Conte de Vaudemont and Duke of Mercoeur died 1576. Charles de Lorrain Cardinal de Vaudemont Bishop of Toul He died 1587. Philippe-Emanuel Duke of Mercoeur died 1602. Louyse de Lorrain Wife to K. Henry III. of France Claude Duke of GUISE Baron de Joinville came to the Court of France and obtain'd the Government of Champaigne and Burgondy He married Antoinette daugher to François Counte de Vendosme she died 1583. This Claude de Guise was the first and top of that House which by his children divided it self into these following branches François Duke of Guise kill'd by Poltrot at Orleance 1653. Anne d'Este Sister to the Duke of Ferrara and Widow to this Francis Duke of Guise was afterwards married to the Duke of Nemours Henry Duke of Guise kill'd at Bloys 1588. Charles Prince of Joinville after his Fathers death call'd Duke of Guise Charles Duke of Mayenne died 1611 Catherine wife to the Duke of Nevers Henry slain before Montauban 1621. Lewis Card. de
also 1563. Spondâ—n §. 48. 49 50 51. Davila p. 191. sollicited to use his Authority against the Queen of Navarre which would give a greater color and encouragement for others to attaque her accordingly because she was of the Reformed Religion He falleth to work publisheth a Citation or Monitory against her concluding that if she did not turn a Romanist within six moneths he would deprive her of her Dominions and give them to any that would conquer them At this the French King is not a little troubled looking upon it as a thing of dangerous consequence as the common cases of all other Kings nor did he like that any third party should have any pretence to seize upon those Territories which lay so near to and convenient for Spain whom possibly he might suspect though it is said that Philip complemented Queen Jane with an assurance that he would protect her and her Dominions against any that should assault them Besides this another thing happened which did not a little perplex the King the Council of Trent as they call it being now ended Cardinal de Lorrain desired the Pope to use his Interest with the French King that it should be receiv'd and approv'd of in his Dominions that he would root out the Huguenots that he would break the late Peace made with year 1564 them that he would punish the Accessors to the death of Guise c. And that these Petitions might carry the greater awe an Embassadour is sent as from the Pope the Emperour the King of Spain and the Duke of Savoy to demand them from Charles who is not a little puzled how to behave himself in this case For to refuse the Council of Trent would render him suspect to the Pope to receive it would be against the Liberties of the Gallican Church to make war against the Huguenots would not advantage him as he had found by experience and he did not much care for Forein assistance to extirpate them quite was not probable to be done and if he should he must destroy many of his nearest Relations however so weaken and impoverish the Kingdom that at last it might bâ—come a prey to a third party As for the death of the Duke of Guise Poltrot who shot him was executed for it and though he had accused Admiral Coligny Beza and some others as Instigators of him to it yet they had publickly disown'd it both by Oath and Declarations besides Poltrot did vary in his Accusations and so his Credit not possitively to be stood to However the King by his cunning doubtful Answers and Delays wheedled all these things off to the no small trouble of the Guisians who hoped for a war and troubles that being the only way to raise themselves and carry on their designs Yet was not the House of Navarre free from danger for Pius V. advised 1568 Spoâ—d § 26. the Queen-mother to seise upon their Dominions seeing Queen Jane was an Heretick or if she approv'd not of this that he might by his Papal Authority appoint one of the Family of Valois to be King of those Territories that for his part if neither of these liked her he was resolved to give to the King of Spain that part of the Kingdom which Jane possessed I suppose he did not mean all those Territories in France which for her Son she governed as Queen of Navarre but only that little spot of ground which lieth North of the Pyrenean Mountains in Gascogne which the French do call the lower Navarre having St. Jean-Pied-de-Port St. Pelage and a few other little Towns in it But which of them the Pope meant is no great matter for both of them if gain'd must be won by the Sword which it seems at this time Philip had no mind to whereupon this went no further then a vapour and so I leave it But nothing can more clearly demonstrate the intent and design of the year 1572 Guisards then the Massacre of Paris a slaughter so much the worse because of its long contrivance before the action viz. almost * Davila p. 346 350 355 356 357. two years for so long was it concluded on before where the †Id. p. 370. Duke of Guise was very urgent and earnest that the young King of Navarre and his young Cousin the Prince of Condé the next Heir to the Crown after Navarre should be both slain with the rest but others though cruel enough oppos'd this as not willing to imbrue their hands in the Bloud Royal which would seem so abominable all the world over But whether at this time the Guisards had any design to secure themselves of the French Crown I shall not say any thing though that they had afterwards is apparent and confest by all Historians And thus much by the way though one might enlarge himself on this bloudy story by observing how the King endeavouring a vindication of himself did make the thing worse by his many Contradictions as appears by his * Vid. Ernest Varamund de Furoribus Gallicis Letters and Declarations Sometimes declaring how sorry he was for the death of his Cousin the year 1572 Admiral how the Massacre was acted without his knowledge how it was contriv'd and done only by those of the House of Guise upon some quarrel between them and the Admiral that it was not in his power to hinder it he having enough to do to secure and guard himself his Queen his Brethren the King of Navarre c. in his Palace the Louvre that he is for peace and desires all to keep the Edict of Pacification c. Othertimes he declareth that the Massacre was done by his express will and commandment that it was acted for the security of himself and Friends that the Admiral and Huguenots had plotted and determined to destroy him his Queen his Brethren the King of Navarre c. Now orders all of the Reformed Religion to be turn'd out of their Imployments Places and Estates and then that they shall be * Davila p. 735. massacred after the same manner all France over c. And as a forerunner to all these slaughters happened the sudden death 12 June of Jane the stout Queen of Navarre who being come to Paris upon earnest Invitations about her sons Marriage was as is commonly believed poisoned by order of the King and Queen-mothers private cabal Certain it is though all the rest of her body was dissected and open'd to view yet the King would * Thuan. l. 49. not by any means let her Head be touched he knowing as †p. 364. Davilla saith that the poison of the Perfum'd Gloves prepar'd for her had only wrought upon her Brain But for all this the Marriage went on and was solemniz'd between 18 August the young King of Navarre for now Henry after the death of his Mother took upon him the Title of King being before only call'd Prince and Margaret Daughter to Henry II. of
enough to oppose his Enemies nor certain where to secure himself fearing if he left Paris it would rise against him and if he stay'd there he might be seiz'd on so zealously bent was that City for the Covenant However he gets a strong Guard about him and sends the Queen-mother to treat with the Confederates And what a grand conceit they had of their enterprise may in part be Gomberville vol 1. p. 648. seen by their Cardinals Letter to the Dutchess of Nevers wherein he tells her How pleas'd he is with the good will which she and her Duke bears to their designs which is onely for the honour of God though others traduce them as Ambitious That they shall shortly have the bravest Army that hath been in France these five hundred years That though the Queen-mother now talk to them of peace yet their demands are so many for Religion that she will not grant them c. Your most humble Uncle to serve you CHARLES Cardinal de Bourbon Chalons 23 May 1585. But in short the Treaty is carried on very cunningly on both sides and at last both Parties growing jealous of their own Force and Guise doubting the Cardinals constancy by reason of his easie nature a Peace was clapt up advantageous enough to the Covenanters for by Agreement 7 July the Huguenots were to be prosecuted several Cities and strong places given to the Guisards strong Horse-guards appointed and paid by the King to wait upon their Chieftains Guise himself is to have one hundred thousand Crowns his Forces paid and all things forgiven c. And for better satisfaction upon this Re-union of his Subjects as they call'd it the King in Parlement must publish an Edict which Perefixe calls a Bloudy one The summe of it was thus HENRY by the grace of God King of France and Poland c. 18 July Edict de Juillet How God and Man knoweth his care and endeavours to have all his Subjects of one Religion i. e. the Roman the want of which hath been the occasions of so many troubles Wherefore with the advice of his Mother and Council he doth ordain and command this unalterable Decree and Edict That in his Dominions there shall be but one viz. the Roman Religion under pain of confiscation of Body and Goods all former Edicts to the contrary notwithstanding That all Huguenot Ministers or Preachers do avoid and depart the Kingdom within one moneth That all his other Subjects who will not change their Religion shall depart within six moneths yet shall have liberty to sell and dispose of their goods That all Huguenots or Hereticks shall be incapable of any Office or Dignity That all * * Courts 〈…〉 in severâ—l plâ—â—ces by former Edicts 1576 1577. wherein half were to be Romanists and half Huguenâ—ts These were restored agâ—in by the Edict of Nantâ—s 1589. with maâ—y other favours to the Hugâ—enots mâ—ny or which have been since null'd and taken away Chambre mi-parties and tri-parties shall be taken away That all those Towns and Places formerly given to the Huguenots for their security shall by them be deliver'd up That what hath hitherto or formerly been done shall be pardon'd on both sides And that for the better preservation of this Edict all Princes Officers Governours Justices Mayors c. shall swear to keep it and their said Oaths to be registred HENRY By the King in his Council Broulart Read and publish'd in Parlement the King present De-Hevez The King of Navarre seeing himself thus aim'd at not only challengeth Guise to single Combat which the Duke answer'd only by Libels but also vindicated himself by an Apologetical Declaration drawn up by Philippe Morney Sieur du Plessis whose Pen and Learning that King used to make much use of as appears by his Memoirs and whose Life was afterwards writ by one of his Amanuenses and in whose commendations you may read a large Ode in Monsieur * Le Paâ—nasse des Poetes Francoises tom 2. fol 69 70 c. D'Espinelle's Collections King Henry III. perceiving that the Leaguers made great noise against him for not prosecuting the war against the Huguenots or rather against the King of Navarre told them his willingness to such a war and therefore desir'd them to put him in a way to have Moneys for the raising and paying the Armies but this they car'd not for being unwilling that he should be either strong or rich yet to stop their clamours he gave order for the levelling of three Armies to fight Navarre and his Associates Thus were their three several Interests in France at the same time I. The King and his Royalists II. The King of Navarre with his Huguenots in their own defence as a * Andr. Favyn Hist de Navarre p. 936. Davila p. 579. Romanist confesseth III. The Guisians or Covenanters designing the ruine of the two former and to advance themselves And now Pope Gregory XIII dying there succeeded in the Chair Sixtus V. who upon sollicitation of the Guisards thunders out a Bull against the King of Navarre and the Prince of Condé which being too long for this place I shall refer you to the reading of it in other * Pet. Math. Sâ—â—mma Constitut Rom. Pont. p. 901 902 903. Fran. Hoâ—oman â—ulmen Brutum Goldest Monarch Rom. tom 2 3 p. 124 125 126. Authors But because it is in none of the Editions of Cherubinus his Bullarium possibly since that time thinking it not convenient to exaspeâ—â—te that Kingdom as they have either fraudulently or politickly left out some other Bulls take the summe of it as followeth First it telleth us what a fine thing a Pope is that by his right and power can throw down and depose the greatest of Kings Then what favours and kindnesses this Henry hath received from the Pope for Gregory XIII abolished and pardoned his former sins and Heresies and gave him a Dispensation to marry his Queen Margaret and the like done to the Prince of Condé Yet for all this they have adhered to Calvinism opposed the Roman Religion and endeavoured to carry on that which they call A Refâ—rmation for which they have by Arms and Council withstood the Romanists Wherefore according to our duty we draw the sword of vengeance against these two Sons of wrath Henry sometimes King of Navarre and Henry Prince of Condé And therefore declare them and all their posterity deprived of all their Dominions Principalities Titles Places Jurisdictions Offices Goods Rights c. And that both they and their posterity are and shall hereafter be uncapable to succeed in or possess any of the premisses And we also absolve all Nobles Feudatories Vassals Subjects and all other people from their Oaths of Allegeance Fidelity and Duties they owe or promis'd to them And do hereby command and forbid all and every one that they in no wise obey the aforesaid Henries or any of their Laws or Commandments and those that do otherwise we excommunicate with the
him Yet by these was the King brought so low that he borroweth aid from England Holland and the German Princes and Mayenne sendeth to desire the like from the Pope and King of Spain By this time Barnaby Brisson chief President of the Covenanting year 1591 Parliament at Paris for fome reason or other was more agreeable to the King then formerly and several in the City began to wish a Reconciliation with him The King himself knew that he had some friends in the City by whose assistance he had a design to surprize it by having several of his Captains disguised in Countrey habits pretending to carry Horse-loads of corn or meal into it by night the usual time so to steal in by reason of the Kings Forces scouring the ways and Countrey But this plot being discovered it fail'd and is yet call'd the * 20 Jan. Journee des farines Farinarum dies or Nox farinarum Day of Flour or Meal These caused the Parisians for the more strengthning themselves against any such like attempts to receive into their City Four thousand Spaniards to the displeasure of Mayenne who feared that Nation and Faction might in time be too strong for him there But he was very male-contented with the forwardness of the new Pope Gregory XIV who espoused the quarrel of the League with a great deal of earnestness sendeth Marsilio Landriano of Milan Nuncio into France with two * They may be seen at large in a Book calld de Christianissimi Regis pericuâ—â—s or de periculi Henrici IV. Printed 1591. Monitory Bulls I. One relating to the Clergie whom he interdicted if within 15 days they forsook not the obedience and part of the King And further if within 15 days more they departed not from him then to be deprived of their Livings Benefices and Functions II. The second concerned the Princes Nobility and the rest of the Laity wherein under great pains he also warned them to depart from the King whom he call'd Heretick Persecutor of the Church an Excommunicated Person and therefore depriv'd of all his Dominions and Possessions To these the Pope addeth Arms and Money sending his Nephew Hercole Sfondrato newly for Honours sake made by him Duke of Montemarciano with an Army which he will maintain with the moneys gathered up by Sixtus V. and kept in Castel St. Angelo and besides this he alloweth 15000 Crowns a moneth to the Leaguers The Royallists are greatly offended at these Papers and Proceedings Those of the Soverein Court for conveniency then sitting at Chaalons by Decree declare that the former Bulls and actings against Henry III. as also these against the present Henry IV. to be odious seditious false impostures contrary to all holy Decrees Canons Constitutions Councils the Rights and Liberties of the Gallican Church and so to be idle vain null and void and to be burnt by the hands of the Hangman Ordain also that Landriano calling himself Nuncio to be seiz'd on and suffer according to Law forbid any to entertain him declare that all Cardinals Prelates and other Ecclesiasticks who any way promote a Consent to these Bulls or approve of the late Murther of Henry III. shall be deprived of all their Benefices in this Kingdome and that none hereafter carry any money to Rome or procure any Benefices thence c. * Yet I have a Copy of it that year printed bearing date 29 Aug. 10 June 1599. The same in effect was decreed by the Parliament then sitting at Tours but with this addition prohibiting any upon pain of Nigh Treason to publish and obey any of the aforesaid Bulls And which was best of all * A declare declare Gregoire se disant Pape quatoriesme de ce nom ennemie de la pâ—ix de l'union de l'Eglise Catholique Apostolique Romaine du Roy de son Estat adheâ—ant a la Conjuration d'Espagne fauteur des Rebelles coulpable du tres cruel tres cruel tres inhumain tres detestabable parricide proditoiremenâ— commis en la personne de Henry III. Roy de tres henreuse memoire tres Christen tres Catholique Hath declared and doth declare Gregory calling himself Pope the XIV of that name an Enemy to the Peace to the Union of the Chatholick-Apostolick-Roman Church to the the King and his Estate a Partaker of the Spanish Conspiracy a favourer of Rebels guilty of the most cruel most inhumane and most detestable Parricide Trayterously committed on the Person of the most Christian King and most Catholick King Henry III. of most happy memory 5 August 1591. The same Language was used by the Parliament sitting at * 3 Aug. Caen on the contrary the Parliament at Paris thunder out their Decrees commanding the Nuncio and Monitory Bulls to be received and obeyed as proceeding from an Authentick Authority threatning severe punishments to all those who submit not to them And here having mentioned several Parliaments the common Reader may understand once for all that France had then and hath now several Seats of Parliament or rather Courts Judicature having command within their respective Precincts and instituted by several Kings as this following Scheme will shew Order Where Settled by Anno I. Paris Philippe IV. le Bel. 1302. II. Tholouse Charles VII 1443. III. Grenoble Charles VII 1453. IV. * Was constituted 1447 and so it was then tâ—e thâ—rd Parlâ—ment â—uâ— it lâ—st thâ—t â—ank and â—dâ—râ—â—y a rebelliâ—n Bourdeaux Louis XI 1462. V. Dijon Louis XI 1476. VI. Rouen Louis XII 1499. some say 1503. VII Aix Louis XII 1501. VIII Rennes Henry II. 1553. IX Pau said first to be instituted afterwards confirmed Louis XIII 1620. X. Mets Louis XIII 1633. I order and time these as they were made fixed or sedentary otherwise we might say that Parlements were had at Paris 577 at Tholouse 1302 and at Rouen 1443. In the time of this League Paris and Rouen being in the hands of the Covenanters King Henry III. removed the Sessions of those Parlements to Tours Caen c. whither accordingly as many of the Royal Members as could go went and sate acting for their Kings whilest those of the other persuasion staid and were as busie and zelous for the Leaguers But to return the Nuncio the Embassadours of Spain and Savoy the Lords of the House of Lorrain Nicolas de Pellevé then Archbishop of Sens and not of * Card. de Lenoncourt was now livâ—â—g and Archbishop of Rheims Rheims till the year after as †Pag. 1014. Davila mistakes with some others meet at Rheims where every man seeming for the League yet under that vizard to carry on their own designs and Interest their Consultations broke up without any determinations In the mean time spang up a third Party which had like to have foil'd both King and League Charles Cardinal of Bourbon who whilst the old Kingling Cardinal Bourbon lived was called Cardinal of Vendosm he seeing the Pope Spaniard and Covenanters and all
days by Pope Paul V. within the great Church St. Maria Maggiore and the Guadalupians will assure us That there is a great wooden Statue with a * Mart. Zâ—ilerus Itiner Hispan p. 198 black Face Hands c. with white Raiment Thus here is Miracle upon Miracle the very same thing at the same time both at Rome and Guadalupa and a curious painted Picture turn'd to a Wooden Statue dawb'd over with black and white which requireth no great skill And something like this is the Straw-Miracle of Father Garnet which at first was but a common Ear of Wheat with a few Lines drawn upon one of the Grains but is since wonderfully encreased by the Industry of the Jesuits for the honour of their Society and Trayterous Martyr And to this might be added another Miracle for though at first there was but one Straw and Face yet it seemeth that they had afterwards an ambition to multiply them and for ought that I know would make every Straw at his Execution bear his Picture for * Osborn's Mem. of K. James pag. 35 one tells us that he hath had several of them in his hands but could observe no great matter in them unless ruled by his Fancy and these they sold about for holy Reliques Thus they encrease and multiply as Falstaff did at Gads-hill in Shakespeer and Miracles which are made a Trade and Gain may well be suspected if not held palpable Cheats Thus this Straw amongst that Society got such a Fame that Homer's Frogs Passeratus his Asse Virgil's Flye Ovid's Flea Hiensius his Lowse were not able to stand in competition with it that methinks it was a great oversight in an Ingenious Romish Knight not to remember it in his late Song in the Commendation of Straw Of this Straw-Miracle Gualterus Paulus a German Jesuit would perswade the world to allow of this Anagram PATER HENRICVS GARNETVS Anagram Pingere cruentus arista Which for all his pains will not hold unless he will make an I stand for an H a liberty that must not be allowed of yet as if it were Authentick thus doth he gloss upon it Quid petit hic vultus sicca redivivus Arista Quid frons Quid sacris ora locuta notis Nominis augurio PINGERE CRVENTVS ARISTA Garnete agnosco vultum Opus Artificem Spica Tabella Deus Pictor Color unda Cruoris Spica Crucem vultum dat Deus astra cruâ—r But enough of this Straw which * Cornelius à Lapide thinks worthy Com. in Apocalyps cap. 7. ver 3. to illustrate and explain the Revelations But possibly he thought Garnet happy because he dyed on the Gallows such a great esteem did a Lapide seem to have for violent Deaths still pueling and lamenting that he could not dye a Martyr still sighing and wishing that he might burn at the Stake still grieved and troubled that he should dye in his Bed now begging of the Prophets then beseeching the Virgin Mary and anon desiring Christ that he might dye a Martyr and not in his Bed after the common way of Mankind But for all these fond and idle thoughts the little Jesuit would secure himself leaving it to the Hereticks or Pagans to fetch take and kill him as for his part he would neither go to them nor their Countreys whereby for all his seeming desire of Martyrdom he would make sure of one As for Father Garnet I should scorn to have been so unworthy or uncivil to have objected some of the former Crimes to him or upbraided him with them but that I perceive they will yet tax the King and Kingdom with Cruelty and Murther by enrolling Garnet in their Catalogue of Martyrs and proclaiming him the most Virtuous Holy and Innocent of men A Lapide as aforesaid must magnifie his miraculous Straw * Casaub Epist ad Front Duc. Martinus Delrio must compare him with Dionysius the Areopagit his Pictures must be hung up in Churches and at Lovain it was once publikely pray'd Sancte Henrice intercede pro nobis O Holy Henry intercede for us And * Opus Chronolog Tom. 2. An. 1606. Gordon the Jesuit having placed Garnet in Heaven desires him to intercede there for the Conversion of England But if such people may obtain a Beatitude we may have some cause to suspect many of their Old Saints * A Catalogue of Good Works Dr. Andrew Willet tells us thus To Baliol Colledg William Hammond gave Fifteen thousand pounds though the greatest part thereof the Colledg was defrauded by one Anthony Garnet a Popish Priest sometime Steward to the old Lord Montague which Garnet notwithstanding had been sometime Master of the Colledg and so stood by Oath perpetually bound unto it What this Anthony Garnet was related to our Henry I know not but by the by this Anthony was Fellow of Baliol Colledg 1550. was Master of it 1560. October 27 and 1563 Richard Hooper succeeded him in the Headship There was also of the same Colledg one Richard Garnet Fellow 1567 who was turn'd out by their Visitor 1570 October 8. But this only by the way CHAP. III. The Romanists threaten the Earl of Salisbury King James seeing them thus high thought it best to bind them strictly to him by the Oath of Allegiance The Pope sends forth two Breves Constitutes Mr. Birket to be Arch-Priest and orders the Oath shall not be taken Birket accordingly sending forth his Letters Newton's Miracle to prove the Oath of Allegiance not to be taken Pope Urban the Eighth his Breve against the Oath of Allegiance THE abominable Treachery and Villany of this Gun-powder Plot undertaken under the pretence of maintaining and restoring the Roman Religion engaged the Governours to consult the preservation of themselves and the Kingdom And considering the furious Zeal and wicked Principles of some men in affirming the lawfulness of deposing and killing Heretical Kings That the Pope had power to deprive Temporal Princes absolve Subjects from their obedience and such like Villanous Positions with the many wicked Practises yet fresh in memory against the Crown and Life of Queen Elizabeth and King James Upon these and such like Considerations after several serious Consultations to prevent the like mischiefs They thought fit to draw up a solemn Oath whereby every one should abjure such Treasonable Doctrines and swear for the future to behave themselves as became good Subjects The Romanists fancied Robert Cecyl Earl of Salisbury and Secretary of State to be their greatest Enemy and the chief promoter of this Oath against them Whereupon some of them thought if they could any way deterr him from prosecuting them as they call'd it the King and others would trouble their thoughts the less with them and so these Parliamentary Proposals would fall of themselves Upon this fancy this Threatning Letter was sent to the said Earl of Salisbury My Lord WHereas the late unapprovable and most wicked Design for destroying of his Majesty the Prince and Nobility with many other of
Queen Elizabeth 454 455 456 Francis Duke of Anjou his death 502 Suspected by poyson Ibid. Causes the Guisard to rejoyce Ibid. Don Juan d'Aquila lands in Ireland with Spanish forces 658 c. L'Auspespine the French Ambassador in England plots the murder of Queen Elizabeth 450 B BAbington's treasons against Queen Elizabeth 445 446 Baldwin II Emperour of Constantinople deposed 279 Fran. Baroncello his pranks at Rome 306 Cardinal Baronius bad Principles 78 The Barricadoes 523 Pierre Barriere his plots against the King 589 Becket vid. Thomas Cardinal Bellarmines bad Principles 68 69 Berengarius murther'd 192 John of Bilboa his imposture 360 361 Birket constituted Archpriest of England 720 Blois the Assembly of the States-General meet there 527 The D. of Guise rules all there ibid. Boniface VIII Pope his life and actions 282 c. Cardinal Bourbon declar'd King 562 Bow at the name of the Pope and Virgin Mary 40 Richard Bristow's bad Principles 62 66 C CAelestine V Pope 282 283 Alphonso Carillo Archbishop of Toledo chief of the Rebels against Henry IV King of Castile and Leon 337 338 c. Catherine Queen of Navar deprived 343 344 Robert Cecil threatned in a Letter from the Romanists 707 708 Charles III le Gross Emperour depos'd 185 First dated his Letters from the year of Christ 186 Charles III le simple King of France deposed 203 204 Carlos I King of Spain chose Emperor called Charles V 353 His going from Spain into Germany opposed by the Spaniards 353 354 Chastel stabs the King 596 Childerick II King of France and his Queen murdred 160 Childerick III King of France deposed 165 166 His Subjects absolv'd from their Oaths of Allegiance by Pope Zachary Ibid. Clement VIII thanks the Irish for their Rebellion 651 Sends a Letter to Tyrone the Rebel 655 Fryar Clement kills Henry III of France 547 The Prince of Conde poysoned 521 Conradino King of Naples beheaded 281 Constantines Donation a meer cheat 117 118 c. Constantine V Emperour of Constantinople murdred 169 170 The Covenant vid. League Council of Sixteen vid. Paris Culene King of Scotland murther'd 211 D DAndalo in a Chain under the Popes Table 307 Deodato Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Desmond ' s Plots against Ireland and Articles with Francis I. King of France 385 386 Proclaim'd Traitour 390 His death 392 Devils abused 27 28 The Devil confess'd his sins and loved the Mass 28 Pray'd for that his sins might be forgiven 136 S. Dominick his lying stories 5 Donald V King of Scotland imprison'd 183 Duffe King of Scotland murder'd 208 209 210 Duncan King of Scotland murder'd 215 E EDict vid. Vnion Edmund King of England murther'd 205 Edmund Ironside King of England murder'd 214 Edward King of England sirnamed the Martyr 206 207 Edward II King of England his deposing and murther 309 310 Edward VI insurrections in the North and West against him 408 409 Queen Elizabeth leaves out the word HEAD and is stiled onely Supreme Governour 400 Her Vindication 410 411 c. to 423 Her commendations by Forraigners 411 Defended from cruelty in putting some Romish Priests to death 413 414 416 Declared in a Bull of Pope Pius V Excommunicated Deprived and Deposed 419 Her mildeness and mercy towards Romish Priests 419 420 421 422 423 Who were put to death for Treasons not for Religion Ibid. Deposed by Pope Paul IV Her murder designed by Pius V 426 Her Subjects absolv'd from their Oath of Allegiance by his Bull 427 to 431 Insurrections in the North against her Government 432 Attempts to kill her 445 446 Several plots against her 675 676 c. Empire its troubles by the Papal arrogancie 303 England not subject to the Papal Power 233 234 Equivocation 190 Exorcisms used by the Romanists to inveigle the ignorant people 446 447 448 449 St. Ericus IX King of Swedland kill'd 252 Erick VI King of Denmark beheaded 279 Erick VII murdred ibid. Ethus King of Scotland imprison'd 183 Exorcisms cheating 27 F FAbritio Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Felton condemned for Treason not for Religion 419 Esteemed as a Martyr by the Romanists 433 Florence wicked designs against it by the Pope 331 332 c. Folly of Heathens 1 2 Formosus Pope his troubles 196 197 His body drag'd out of the grave and his fingers cut off 197 198 France the holy League and Covenant there 483 More stirs there upon the deaths of the Guises 529 The people's Declaration 530 S. Francis his childish stories 2 3 4 Frederick I Barbarossa his troubles 254 c. Frederick II Emperour troubled and depos'd 266 G GAlla Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Father Garnet his life 696 to 707 The story of his straw 704 705 Gerberg a Nun drown'd in a Wine-vessel 178 Gibbelines their Story 270 Giovanni Duke of Venice banish'd 183 Men held for Gods 1 2 God abused and blasphemed 29 30 Gradenico Duke of Venice murder'd 183 Gregory I against a Vniversal Bishop 154 Commendeth the murther of Mauricius 155 156 Calls himself servant of servants 156 Delivers Trajans soul out of Hell 157 Gregory VII his power 218 219 c. Deposed by a Synod at Worms 220 By another at Brixen 226 Dyeth and is Sainted 227 Gregory XIII his explication of Pius V his Bull against Queen Elizabeth 435 436 Jac. Gretser his bad Principles 69 Guelfs their story 270 Guisards several designes against the House of Navar as the chief of that of Bourbon 488 489 490 Their under-plottings against Henry III of France 494 495 496 to 502 Their designes against the House of Bourbon 502 And to make themselves next Heirs of the Kingdom 502 503 c. Look upon Cardinal Bourbon as first Prince of the Bloud rather then the King of Navar 507 Duke of Guise holds a Treaty or Conventicle with some Spanish Commissioners and others and the agreement at that Cabal 505 Has a meeting of the Chieftains of the House of Lorrain at Nancy 520 Presents several propositions to the King ibid. Comes to Paris has the acclamations of the people 522 The Queen-Mother sent to treat with him 524 His insolent demands 524 Refuses to swear Allegiance to the King and plots to take away his life 528 Is kill'd at Blois ibid. Cardinal of Guise kill'd by the Kings order ibid. Gunpowder-Treason vid. Treason H LOng Hair of great value 167 Hare occasion'd the taking of Rome 187 Harenscaran punishment what 256 257 Heaven abused with lyes 29 30 Henry II King of England his troubles by Thomas a Becket 235 236 c. His grief and penance for Beckets murther 247 248 Henry IV King of Castile and Leon his miseries by his proud rebellious Nobility 337 c. They make a League against him ibid. Designe to kill him 340 Henry IV Emperour his troubles and deposition 218 219 c. Deprived 220 224 225 His strange Humility and Submission 222 Crown'd at Rome 226 Depos'd by his son 228 229 His poverty and death
Civitates evertit destruxit solo adaequavit quot Provincias vastavit quot Regna depredatum est quantum denique innocentis sanguinis prosundere non dubitavit dicat hoc Gallia dicat Belgium dicat Scotia dicat etiam vestra haec Anglia Siquidem omnis illa tyrannis barbarics crudelitas saevitia quae hodie apud vos obtinet aliud nihil sunt quam vestri Evangelii fructuâ— Quibus ita constitutis Evangelium adhue vestrum Deo attribuere ad illum reserre audetis Potestne blasphemia major ista reperiri Pet. Ribad Appendix sive Lib. 4. ad Nicol. Sanders de Schismate Angl. cap 17. You may see the same also in his Spanish Hist Ecclesiastica del Schisma del Reyno de Inglaterra lib. 3. cap. 17. Lying Perjury Deceipt Flattery Hypocrisie Tyranny Sedition Destruction Murther and what not is nothing but the fruit and result of our Religion upon which the man wonders how we dare intitle it to God or Christ but never remembers the treasonable Principles of himself and his Brethren with the Practices of his Church Jacobus Gretser another of the same stamp will have our Religion not onely to be the off spring but also the b Sectam vestram Martis Bellonae esse filiam parentem clarius est quam ut sine impudentia negare possis loquatur Gallia utraque Germania Anglia Scotia Jac. Grets Apol. pro vita Ignat. Loyolae lib. 3. pag. 475. Mother of War and Sedition to deny which he looketh upon as a grand piece of Impudence And c Ubique seditiones tumultus praetextu Religionis movent ubique jugum Principum quantum possunt excutiuâ—t sibi omnem gubernationem vindicant Discussio Decreti Magni Concilii Lateran pag. 129. Leonardus Lessius of the same Order but disguised under the false name of Guilielmus Singletonus is much of the same opinion and we need not doubt but these men speak the sentiment of their whole Order But to come neerer home No sooner was King James setled in the Kingdom here but the English Romanists drew up a d 1604. pag. 7 Supplication to his Majesty and the Parliament in which they do not a little vaunt of the loyalty of their Religion in these words The Catholick Subject is if any other the Glory strength and perpetuity of the Kingdom because he principally seeking Heaven in this world and will not for the world be diverted cannot be treacherous or disloyal or undutiful to your Highness but in every service and distress occurring valiant resolute and most faithful and all these fair words were to the same King and Parliament whose destruction they intended and had at that time contrived it Towards the latter end of the said King James his Reign Prince Charles was sent a wooing into Spain at which time the Romanists were fill'd with hopes though upon no certain grounds of the Conversion of the Prince a Free Toleration of their Religion or rather that the whole Kingdom would be at their Devotion As a preparative to this grand Expectation Father Pateson drew up a Book under the Title of Jerusalem and Babel or The Image of both Churches collected mostly out of the Answers to Anti-coton and Brerely This Treatise he dedicateth to the Prince the main designe being to vindicate the Popish Loyalty and to declare the Protestants to be absolute Rebels For proof of which he boldly affirms a Pag 347. Editionis Lond. 1653. Now it is manifest that in the short space of her Reign viz. of Queen Mary of England which was not much above five years she had more open Rebellions and Insurrections made agâ—inst her from such of her Subjects as were not well-affected unto her Religion then Queen Elizabeth had from Catholicks in full forty and five c. And to testifie farther what loyal people they were to Queen Elizaheth let Pope Spain or any other confederate against her never so much thus the same Penman taketh upon him the confidence to testifie b Pag. 491. Among so many Priests as by that time there were both in England and beyond the Seas and in so long a time as this pretended Confederacie was in framing when Spies and Intelligences were many and well paid by the State was there so much as one Priest nominated and accused to have been so corrupted or induced any way by these Princes or their Ministers to practice ought to the prejudice of their Country was there any one apprehended or convicted of such a Treason was there ever any subject of England call'd in Question for entertaining Priests that were sought after upon that account In a word when the Spanish Armado was under sail for England was there so much as one Priest or Seminary-man found or known to be in it Or at any time since discover'd to have been imploy'd in that service And lastly thus the same man characters the two Religions The c Pag. 560. Catholicks seek onely by way of Petition Supplication Prayer and humble Remonstrating of their sufferances the other viz. Protestants seek chiefly by Fire and Sword and Cannon-Bullet and by thundring of Ordnance With these Arguments or Weapons did Pateson endeavour to force the Prince from his Religion but they were too weak and blunt against such a noble and knowing Champion yet when he was in Spain he is there assaulted again and that by no less man then Zacharias Boverius the old Cappuchine who wrote a Folio Book call'd Orthodoxa Consultatio and dedicated it to the said Prince where he endeavours by might and main to bring a dislikeing in Prince Charles to the Church of England by hinting to him the Divisions of it as if forsooth the Romanists agreed in all things He would also perswade him to turn Romanist one of his encouragements being that the Pope can d Ortho. Coâ—sult part 2. Reg. 6. p. 286. Depose Kings a very excellent complementive Argument to convert a man out of his Rights and Dominions But this e Caeterum si Reges â—e oves esle aegre serent ac luporum more Ecclesiasticum Potestatem invadant sciant profecto eam potestatem Pontifici totius Ecclesiae Pastori à Christo esse collatam quae veâ—o Pâ—stori adveâ—sus Lupos gregâ—s vastatores ipso naturali jure permissa est nimitum ut Lupos à grege arceant Id enim postulat commissa sibi à Christo Dominici gregts cura qua Ecclesiae conservationi sedulo invigilare debet ut Lupos gregem invadences expellat ac modis omnibus Ecclesiasticae Reipub. utilitati atque incolumitati consulaâ— Praestat namque Principem à grege expelli quam gregem totum corruete Zach. Bover Demonstrationes Symbolorum verae falsae Religionis Tom. 2. Art 5. pag. 150. Doctrine Boverius had taught in his former Writings from which his Orthodoxa Consultatio if a man may be a Plagiary to himself is stoln for the nonce Dr. Benjamin Carier having plaid
deposed That he was absolutely perswaded so in the latter the first we shall treat of in its proper place you may judge by his declaring these following Propositions to be Heretical I Qu'un Heretique relaps nommement Fran. de Verone Apologie pour Jâ—han Chastel Part 2. cap. 15. pag. 95. excommunie du S. Siege ne perd le droit de la Couronne II. Que tel est Roy legitime donne Ordonne de Dieu III. Que l'eglise ne le peut priver de ce droit ny les Estats ny generallement les Princes de leurs dignitez ou Royaumes pour crime ou Heresie quelcunque IV. Ny absoudre les subjects de l'Obeissance fidelite a eux deue V. Qu'il fault resister a tels jugemens qu'ils n'obligent en conscience VI. Qu'il ne se fault enquirer des actions ny de la Conscience de son Prince VII Qu'il n'est loysible de resister a un Prince Heretique VIII Qu'un Roy Catholique peut permittre deux Religions en son Royaume I. That a relaps'd Heretick and by name excommunicated by the Pope doth not loose the right of his Crown II. That such an one is a lawful King given and ordained of God III. That neither Church nor Parliament Estates can deprive them of that right nor that Princes for any Crime or Heresie whatever can be deprived of their dignities IV. Nor that subjects can be absolved from their obedience and fidelity they owe to their Kings V. That such sentences as these are not to be obeyed being not obligatory in Conscience VI. That the Actions and Consciences of Kings are not to be pry'd into VII That it is not lawful to resist an Heretical Prince VIII That a Catholick King may permit two Religions in his Kingdom What this Verone was I know not onely we may observe that about Id. Apol. pag. 29. the same time there was a French Jesuit of the same name who afterwards writ some Books And that the same year viz. 1595. that this Book was Printed one Le Bell was punished for endeavouring to convey one Franzois Veron a Student at Poictiers out of France This same Verone also in the same Book vindicates Jacques Clement for murthering Henry the Third The which horrid murder was also publickly maintain'd as an act most lawful and glorious by another French-man call'd Bouchier and he that will thus boldly affirm the greater you may justly suppose he will not deny the less viz. the deposing of them And this he tells us the Pope can do if there be need of it and the Prince Cum ille Christi vicarius sit ut videat ne quid Christo ne quid ejus Ecclesiae ac Religioni injuria fiet ne quid vel populi vel Regni vel Regum ipsorum salutem impediat cujusmodi sunt Haeresis schisma perjurium apostasia similia quae sine gravi Ecclesiae detrimento in Regibus esse nequeunt id ei licâ—re ut cum nihil leniter admo nuisse profuerit cum censuras contemni audierit cum periculum grave Ecclesiae è tali regimine imminere deponi denique utile commodum esse agnoverit tum populos Obedientiae vinculo eximat decque operam ut alteri commodiori grex à Christo redemptus commiâ—tatur De justa Henric III. abdicatione lib. 1. cap. 5. pag. 13. contemn his inferiour censures Nay probable that a greater Authority than this Boucher can more than Countenance the deposing of Kings For anno 1589 a little before the said King Henry the Third was murdered the Colledge of Sorbone in Paris being then present about seventy Doctors declared Id. P. 398 399 370 373. Jan. de Serres that all the Kings Subjects were freed from their obedience to him of which Pope Sixtus the Fifth was informed and desired to compleat by his Authority One tells us with confidence that the Pope can create and depose Vid. Phil. Horn. Thesaur Polit. p. 318 319 323 361 362. Kings Another wonders that some German Divines should deny him to have power to translate Empires And a third tells Cardinal Mont ' alto Nephew to the foresaid Sixtus the Fifth that amongst other Priviledges which belong to the Pope is to give Titles to Emperours and Kings to translate Empires from one Nation to another and to judge Princes And our Country-man Thomas Harding when he sees Childerick of France deposed by the Pope cannot refrain from telling us a Confutation of the Apology fol. 181. b. What a strength of Authority is in that See which is able with a word to place and displace the mightiest King in Europe And this is also approved of by his good friend and great admirer b A brief shew of the false wares in the Apology fol. 93. John Rastell And the Portugal c Quaestiones Regulares Tom. 2. Quest 40. art 1. Quest 63. art 7. Tom. 4. Tit. 4. c. 3. Emanuel Rodericus in several places of his Works fob'd up by the Canon-law tells how the Pope can alter Kingdoms and depose Kings What force either Loyalty or Obedience is with some Roman Catholicks may in part be seen by their cavilling at our Oath of Allegiance as where it saith that the Pope hath no power or authority to depose the King or discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty upon any cause or occasion whatsoever They answer to the first A strange prevention to stir up humourâ— Answer to the Penal Statutes against Catholicks pag. 81 82. and to alter them with DANGEROUS Physick without necessity And to the second they thus retort Although the King should force them to be Mahometans Jewes Pagans or Infidels To that part of it which calls the opinion of the Popes power to excommunicate or deprive Kings Impious and Heretical They onely say How came the English Parliament by Authority to censure Doctrine who delivered them this power who made them assurance of Gods infallible Spirit To that part which saith That they do believe that the Pope nor any other hath power to absolve them of this Oath They deny the Article by their thus reasoning If they do not believe it NOR INDEED CAN BELIEVE IT WITHOUT GROSS IGNORANCE why should they inforce them to swear False or what get they by this And to the last part of it where 't is said that They do acknowledge this Oath to be administred unto them lawfully and by good and full Authority and that they do renounce all dispensations and pardons to the contrary They quite null the Proposition by this their answer He that sweareth false had need of absolution from the sin but needeth no dispensation because the Oath hath no force to bind as in this case By which means they declare their approbation of these following Propositions I. To affirm that the Pope hath no power or authority to depose the King is dangerous II. That in
he was chosen being ruled by the Cardinals made by this Clement thirty nine of them being present he having created fifty three in all And the same objection might pass against his Successor Paul the Fifth at whose Election forty Cardinals made by Clement the Eighth assisted Besides this we are told of suchlike dealings in this Conclave as there was in that when S. Severina had the go-by viz. that in this Conclave sixty one Cardinals entred forty four of whom full two parts in three chose Cardinal Tuschus and took him though sick and lying in his bed and had him carryed into the Chappel of Sixtus the Fourth that they might Inthrone and Adore him as a Pope and whilst in the mean time they expected the rest of the third part according to custome to increase the solemnity they altogether used Tuschus as Pope both by their demeanor some exhibiting Petitions others begging favours at last in haste cometh Cardinal Baronius Justiâ—iano and Montalto the Ring-leaders of the third party or faction and being got to the Chappel-door Baronius cryeth out What will you chuse a Pope that at every word speaks Qui in omni verbo Priapum miscet bawdily and filthily to the great scandal of Christians Upon which and some other discourses the other Cardinals were tolled away and so poor Tuschus was there left sick of a Fevour in his bed and so at last Cardinal Borghesi was chosen and call'd Paul the Fifth As for this Dominicus Tuschus Cardinal de S. Onufrio in relation to Baronius his accusation I shall say little onely that he shew'd himself to be a Lombard he was born at Reggio where custom makes some bad words proverbially familiar even with the best of men and Tuschus himself was naturally of a free debonnaire and jocant spirit and humour being all heart and full of merry stories and jests which never agrees with a morose and zeal-pretending-gravity And yet was Tuschus as famous for his skill in Law as Baronius in Church-story and for ought that I know as diligent a Student as the other as his eight large Volumes can testifie dedicated a great sign of good nature even to this Paul the Fifth they were both of them made Cardinals by Clement the Eighth But enough of this though a discourse might be renew'd concerning the awe if not bribery that many Cardinals lye under in a Conclave both of Temporal Princes and others ruling them in these Elections sufficient to satisfie us that neither Heaven nor a true Spirit hath always an influence in the chusing of this infallible Vicar As for that sneaking vice of Simony as 't is most triumphant in the Court of Rome as practice can testifie and their old a Taxa Cancell Apost sect 4. Tit 6. Taxa declares it to be but a puny Peccadiglio yet by them far greater than b Id. sect 3. Tit. 6 7. sect 4. T it 4. Murder so I could wish it were no where else and 't would be well if Patron as well as Parson were obliged by Oath against it But it may be 't is dangerous too speak too plain on this case since story tell us that the good c Bâ—ron an 1066. § 19 20. Arialdus was publickly murdred for accusing one though justly of this vice Yet I cannot but think of Rudolphus Son to Simon the Second Duke of Lorreign Bishop of Liege in Germany and I think by some made Bishop of Ments who gloried so much in this Simony that Caesarius Hist lib. 6. cap. 5. one time having sold a Prebendship shew'd publickly the mony to many people boastingly said I have hugely inrich'd the Church of Liege and inlarged her Revenues for that Prebendship which my Predecessors used to sell for ten Marks I have now skrew'd up to pass for forty And this we may suppose was a good price in his time about five hundred years ago But though the vice with this man went unmask'd and at noon-day one of the Philips of France by an ingenious trick shew'd his dislike of it in short thus According to mine old Author the Abbot of S. Denis being dead one came to the King begg'd the prefâ—rment Ib. cap. 1â— and offer'd him 500 pounds the King would consider of it but bid him give the money to the Chamberlain another knowing of this cometh with the same Petition and Sum and receives the same Answer and so to a third all unknown one to another At last the King appoints a day for the disposing of the place and being set in the Chapter-house every one of the three moneygivers thinking to be the man at last after some discourse the King looking about saw a poor Monk sitting in a corner never thinking of any preferment he calls him to him and bid him take notice that he made him Abbot of St. Denis The poor Monk desired by all means to be excused as one no way fit for such an honour and besides all that the Abbey was in debt and had not wherewithal to pay it sufficiently But the King bid him take no care for that for he would give him moneys to defray those things and forthwith order'd the 1500 pounds given to the King by the three former Competitors to be given him And so he became Abbot whilst the other three deservedly lost it And such a story as this there goeth on our King William the Second who though he used to be guilty in selling Church-places yet one time it seems in a frolick he crost the humour for an Abbey being vacant two Monks went to him to beg it or buy it in opposition one to the other and in thus out-bidding one another offer'd great sums Whilst these were thus chaffering the King espyed another Monk at the lower end of the Chamber who by chance for company sake had come along with one of the Competitors The King asked him what he would give for it who answered that he neither had any thing to give nor if he had would he give any thing Well quoth the King thou hast spoken like an honest man and art fitter to be Abbot than either of these and so bestowed the Abbey upon him freely The truth is it must be something else besides true Politicks that prefers the covetous man to Church-dignities because the very Office or Order through him gets an Odium amongst the people The Learned Italian in his Supplication to the Emperour c. from the Popes guiltiness of Simony concludes the necessity of a General Council to amend and restrain these enormities And though he be a serious Romanist yet he confesseth that upon these and suchlike faults the Temporal Princes have good and sufficient Authority to call such a Council and earnestly perswades the Christian Princes to effect it But experience tells us that these meetings are as terrible to the Pope as tumults to the Grand Seignior the latter upon sight of these up-rores fears his ruine and end not to be
at Tornay Bruges and Dunkirk from which place it was boldly taken down by one William Locke a Mercer of London They were also posted up at Bolloigne and Diepe in France and St. Andrews in Scotland And so liberal was his Holyness that by a Breve he freely offers England to James V King of the Scots promising to assist him in the gaining of it and for a further incouragement by his Legat Giovanni-Antonio Compeggio presented him with many Ceremonies and Apostolical Benediction a Cap and a Sword newly before Consecrated on Christmas night But for all this sturdy King Harry who above all things hated a bassle kept his Crown Kingdom and Authority the Paper not putting him to the tenth part of trouble if it were any at all to him as some Northern Rebels did who being fob'd up that year 1537 Christ and his Religion were now a throwing down sell to Arm themselves with what Weapons they could get In Lincolnshire their number was supposed to be about twenty thousand who at last growing jealous one of another dispers'd themselves some being after taken and executed amongst whom was their Ring-reader being a stuâ—die Monk call'd Doctor Makerel though in this expedition he nominated himself Captain Cobler Yet no sooner is this stisled when another and that more terrible began in York shire and the other Northern Counties their strength supposed to be about forty thousand formed into a complâ—at Army not wanting a Train of Artillery They call'd their March The holy and blessed Pilgrimage and the Pilgrimage of Grace On the one side of their Bannerâ— was painted Christ hanging on the Cross On the other a Chalice with the Wafer in it The Souldiers upon their sleeves had represented the five Wounds of Christ and in the midst the name of Jesus And thus are they thought to be brave Roman Blades by a De Schiâ—m lib 1. pag. 155. Nicholas Sanders who would thus take up Arms for their Religion But for all this their designes came to nothing being perswaded upon better advice to creep home again which troubled Sanders so much that he cannot think on this opportunity without accusâ—â—g the King of Perjury and Knavery As for King Henry VIII it fareth with him as with other Princes most speaking of him as their interest lay being honour'd by some with as great Commendations as Fancie or Flattery could reach whilst by others he was look'd upon as the worst of Tyrants and loaded with all the Reproaches and Infamies that Satyr or Malice could invent for as the worst of Kings and Actions will never want Flatterers and admirers so the best will never escape the slanders of the envious The truth is though he was Learned above the custom of Princes yet if ever any man had his faults our Henry had his share to the purpose his Will being both Law and Reason as far as his Dominions reacht and to contradict his humour was little less then to be next door to another world and which might make him worse was that amongst all his Favourites and Courtiers there was scarce any but either Knave or Flatterer if not both since 't is hard to separate them So that in many things where that King did amiss whether he acted them by his own inclinations and judgement or by the suggestions and instigations of his griping and base-soul'd Courtiers and Minions shall be left to every ones opinion nor is it much material where the fault should be laid being both so guilty Yet this is certain that when he followed his own proper Genius viz. Martial exploits none came off with greater glory then himself for his personal Acts and Valour And the whole Kingdom is beholden unto him for the great Fame and Renown she gain'd abroad by her Victories and Warlike Atchievements under his conduct And what cannot Englishmen do under an Active and Martial Prince But in brief I shall not undertake to quit him from that short but comprehensive Character given him of old viz. That he never spared man in his Anger nor woman in his Lust As Henry VIII was no sooner set in the Throne but a In his English Traâ—slation of Dr. Sebastian Brant's Stultiferâ— Navis fol 205 206. Alexander Barklay endeavoured to declare his Renown and Vertues so no sooner was he dead but one William Thomas undertook his Apology This Thomas as himself words it being constrain'd by misfortune to abandon the place of his Nativity meets after the said Kings death several Gentlemen at Bologna in Italy against whom he enters into discourse in the Month of b 1546 7. February in which Month the King was buryed at Windsore in Defence of that Noble Prince whose honour had been wrongfully toucht as he expresseth it which he draweth up into a Treatise by way of a Dialogue which he directed to Pietro Aretino the well known Tuscan Poet as famous for his Satyrical Wit as infamous for his life and death This he did he saith the better to inform the said Aretine of the Kings worth telling him also that the King Hath remembred thee with an honourable Legacie by his Testament the which his Enemies pretend proceeded of the fear that he had lest thou shouldst after his death defame him But certain I am that the King in his Will and Testament maketh no mention of this Poet so in this Mr. Thomas was misinformed a thing of no great wonder And that the King stood in any fear of Aretines writing against him or that Aretine intended to write of him I cannot say but true it is that though this Florentine was no great Clerk yet in his Mothers Tongue he laid so about him and with that rage and fury that he was stil'd the Scourge of Princes and his Epitaph in St. Lukes Church in Venice will further tell the Temper of the Fellow in Italian I meet with it thus Qui giace l' Aretin Pâ—eta Tosco Chi disse mal d'Ognun fuor chedi Dio Scusandosi dicendo n'il conobbi But I think it is more true and Authentick thus in Latiue Condit Aretini cineres lapis iste sepultos Phil. Labbe Thesaurus Eâ—â—â—aph Fran. Sweetâ— select delit pag. 156. Mortales atro qui sale perfricuit Intactus Deus est illi causamque rogatus Hanc dedit ille inquit non mihi notus erat Here th' Poet Aretine Intomb'd doth lye Who ' gainst all let his spiteful Pasquins fly But God escap'd him and why being ask'd fro' him Thus clear'd himself 'T was cause I did not know him But d Orat. contra Aretinum Joachimus Perionius will assure us that he neither spared the Apostles Christ or God himself As some call'd him the Scourge of Princes so others intitled him the Divine both which a Venetia descritta Sansovino tells us Ariosto thus mentioneth in his Orlando Furioso Ecco il Flagello De Principi il Divin Pietro Aretino But as for the Title of Divine or Penitent I see little reason
which Nevil Parry offer'd to call cozen in him he endeavours to foment a discontent and having as he thought fully brought over discourseth more openly with him At last he opens to him about killing the Queen which he call'd An Act honourable and meritorious to God and the world At several times they consult about it either of killing of her in White-hall Garden and so to escape by water or by St. James's on horse-back But at all this Nevil seem'd staggering Parry to take away all doubts from him lent him a b It was call'd A Defence of English Catholicks against the Book call'd The Execuâ—ion of Justice which Book was made by the Lord Burleigh Book made by Dr. Allen afterwards for his Treasons made Cardinal which had been sent him out of France And now this Book wrought with Parry himself you shall see by his own confession thus It redoubled my former Conceits every word in it was a warrant to a prepared minde it taught that Kings may be Excommunicated Deprived and violently handled It proveth that all Wars Civil or Forregn undertaken for Religion is honourable Nevil also declares himself convinced of the lawfulness and braveness of the action and so they both swear in Parry's lodging secrecie and to kill her of which thus Parry in his Confession He came to me the next morning to my lodging in London offer'd to joyn with me and took his Oath upon a Bible â—o conceal and constantly to pursue the enterprise for the advancement of Religion which I also did and meant to perform THE KILLING OF THE QVEEN WAS THE MATTER The manner and place to be on Horse-back with eight or ten Horses when she should ride abroad about S. James or some other like place All this while Parry carryed himself pretty fair with the Queen several times conferring with her telling her of Cardinal Como's Letter by which discoveries though he did it onely the better to gain opportunity and credit he obtained so much favour of the Queen that she not onely thought him a trusty loyal Subject but intended him a liberal Pension or Allowance Whilst he thus gets esteem with the Queen and at the same time contrives her death Nevil resolves to discover all doth so and is examined by Leycester and Sir Christopher Hatton The Queen wonders at the juggle and contrivance but had it kept secret and the better to finde out the Plot Parry is sent for by the a Sir Fran. Walsingbam Secretary to his house there to see according as the Plot was laid if he would any way confess this who had shew'd himself so ready on his own head to discover the Forraign designes against her Majesty The Secretary entertains him kindely telling him that the Queen had appointed him to deal with him in a matter that highly concerned her Majesty knowing him to be one who bare an extraordinary Devotion to her Having thus begun the Secretary told him that the Queen had been advertiz'd that there was some plot in hand against her own person wherewith she thought he could not but be made acquainted considering the great trust that some of her greatest Enemies reposed in him Of this she desired to understand his knowledge and whether he himself might not some time have let slip some suspitious words not with any real designe against her but to discover the intention of others Parry strongly confiding in Nevil earnestly denyed it again and again with several protestations that he was neither party nor privy to any such motion or enterprise Walsingham dealt fairly with him telling him that there was a Gentleman and his friend who would prove the contrary to his face Yet Parry denyeth all though probably had he confest and these were hints enough and accused Nevil at this first asking he might have saved himself and in this his great cunning was overseen Parry thus obstinate in denyals is not permitted to go home but lodged that night at Mr. Secretaries house within London This puts him in a peck of troubles fills his head full of suspitions and having consulted with his pillow the next morning he desired to speak with the Secretary which granted he confesseth that now he had call'd to remembrance that he once had speech with one Nevil concerning a point of Doctrine contain'd in one of Dr. Allens books where it was maintain'd that it was lawful to take away the life of a Prince to benefit the Roman Religion but protested that he talked nothing of the Queen That night he was examin'd at Leycester-house before several but still he denyed all whereupon Nevil was brought before him who punctually justified every circumstance before his face yet the other as formerly denyed all However he is sent to the Tower where perceiving the exactness of the proof against him he freely and of his own head confess'd all and sent his humble Letter to the Queen which take as followeth YOur Majesty may see by my voluntary confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented minde and how constantly I pursued my first conceived purpose in Venice for the relief of the afflicted Catholicks continued it in Lyons and resolved in Paris to put it in adventure for the restitution of England to the ancient obedience of the Sea Apostolick You may see withal how it is commended allowed and warranted in Conscience Divinity and Policie by the POPE and some great Divines though it be true or likely that most of our English Divines less practised in matters of this weight do utterly mislike and condemn it The enterprise is prevented and conspiracie discover'd by an honourable Gentleman my kinsman and late familiar friend Mr. Edmond Nevil privy and by solemn Oath taken upon the Bible party to the matter whereof I am hardly glad but more sorry in my very soul that ever I conceived or intended it how commendable or meritorious soever I thought it God thank him and forgive me who would not now before God attempt it if I had liberty and opportunity to do it to gain your Kingdom I beseech Christ that my death and example may as well satisfie your Majesty and the world as it shall glad and content me The Queen of Scotland is your prisoner let her be honourably intreated but yet surely guarded The French King is French you know it well enough you will finde him occupied when he should do you good he will not lose a Pilgrimage to save you a Crown I have no more to say at this time but that with my heart and soul I do now honour and love you am inwardly sorry for mine offence and ready to make you amends by my death and patience Discharge me a Culpa but not a Poena good Lady And so fare well most gracious and the best natured and qualified Queen that ever lived in England â—rom the Tower the 14 of February 1584. W. Parry In short Parry is Arraigned and Tryed at Westminster where at first he confesseth
shall surely count again CARDINAL OF BOURBON But each may reckon what he thinks his own QUEEN-MOTHER CATHARINE For what whilest my Son lives and wears the Crown DUKE OF LORRAIN Yet let 's the LEAGUE and her designs pursue DUKE OF SAVOY Then th' KING will lose FRANCE and his Subjects too KING OF SPAIN If FRANCE doth lose her self I shall her gain FRANCE Puh for ane Bone so many Dogs are vain And to their cost my might and force they 've try'd Who durst disturb my Quiet by their Pride The Covenanters having with what diligence and secrecy they possibly could contriv'd their designs the Duke of Guise pretended to retire to his Government in Champaigne but in truth to consult the better about their Affairs and to get the Duke of Lorrain to subscribe their League To all which purposes he held a Treaty or Conventicle at Joinville a place of his on the borders of Champaigne where met him 31 Decâ—m 1584. Juan Baptista Tassi a Knight of St. Jago and Dom Juan Morreo of Rhodes the King of Spains Commissioners the Duke of Mayenne Brother to Guise François Roncerole Sieur de Meneville Agent in the League for Cardinal Bourbon with some other Favourites of the Faction At this Caball amongst other things was 2 Jan. 158â— agreed on That supposing King Henry III. should die without a Son lawfully begotten that then the old Cardinal of Bourbon should be declared King all Huguenots or Hereticks excluded from the Succession That in the mean time all care industry and force should be used to root out the Huguenots That Cardinal Bourbon coming to the Crown a firm Peace should be made betwixt France and Spain That he should restore unto Spain all that had been taken from it by the Huguenots namely Cambray That he should assist the Spaniard in the recovery of the Netherlands That the Council of Trent should be received in France and that it and no other Religion should be permitted That the Spaniards should have free Traffick into the Indies and not not be molested by the * This complain'd on 1571. Dâ—vila p. 353 French Pyrats That the King of Spain should monethly contribute fifty thousand Crowns for the maintenance of the League and afford men also if need be That he should receive into his protection Cardinal Bourbon with the Guisians and all other Covenanters That no Treaty or Agreement whatsoever should be made with the present 1585 ☞ French King without mutual consent of both parties viz. the Spaniard and Leaguers That the Articles of this Confederacy should for some reasons be kept secret till a more fitting opportunity Besides these the Spaniard secretly promis'd to the Duke of Guise the Assignment of two hundred thousand Crowns per annum for his own particular In the mean time the Covenanters had Cardinal Pellevée solliciting their cause at Rome with Pope Gregory XIII to whom they also sent their Agitator Claude Mathieu an active Jesuite and as there they intended to consult their Interest so were they not negligent at home and amongst the rest were very careful to secure Ludovico Gonzago Duke of Nevers in his approbation of their Cause For though at first being a zealous Romanist he had been overpersuaded to adhere to the League really thinking that nothing else was intended thereby then the propagation and maintenance of the Roman Religion and possibly his Wife Catharine daughter to the Duke of Mayenne and so Neece to Guise might somewhat work upon him to put a greater credit in that Family then was necessary yet upon better considerations or Interest he began to cool and at last resolved to do nothing but what was as he said legal and honest being determined upon any terms whatever not to violate his Conscience or Loyalty the Gomberville les Memoirâ— de M. dâ— Nevers vol. 1. p. 649 better to secure which he draweth up and desires to be satisfied in these following Quaere's Whether it be lawful for the Subjects of a Christian Prince to take up arms on their own heads or accord without the Popes leave signified to them in writing to root out the Hereticks of their countrey seeing the Prince himself neglects to punish them according to his duty though desir'd and petition'd so to do by the three Estates Supposing this and that the King should so far dislike the Resolution of his said Subjects as to withstand and oppose their Declarations and Sentiments and therein to call to his assistance the said very Hereticks Whether in this case the said Subjects shall be quit and free from the Oath of Fidelity and Allegeance they ow'd him Whether 't is lawful for them to fight against the said Prince even to conquer him in battel or otherwise with intent to obtain their Design viz. to root out the aforesaid Hereticks And to this purpose whether it be lawful for them to seize on imploy and use the Towns and Treasuries of the said Prince though against his express will and pleasure Of these Nevers for his better satisfaction would not onely have the opinion of some private persons in whose judgment and learning he much confided but also of the Pope himself For the private persons he sendeth the Quaeres to his Confessor Monsieur Berthonnier conjuring him in the Name of the Living God to give him his advice and resolution and therein to consult with Monsieur Faber Accordingly they return to him that he ought forthwith to take up arms and that in so doing it will be so far from harming his Conscience that it will on the contrary be a Meritorious deed an immortal Honour to him and his Family and very grateful and agreeable to God himself As for the Pope Cardinal de Pellevée Jaques la Rue alià s Martelli and the aforesaid Claude Mathieu assure him that the Pope doth so much approve of the Quaeres that he doth not only declare it to be just and lawful to fight against Hereticks but also against any that shall favour or adhere to them though it were the * De quâ—lque qualite on estat qu ' ils fussenâ— mesme Royale King himself yet he would not have them to attempt any thing against his life though he would allow them to seize uhon his person and so dispose and command him Yet that his Holiness would not publickly declare this by Bull or Brief it at this time being not convenient as he thought so to do considering the humours of the Protestants in Germany Switzerland the Low-countries and in France it self and so hopes that Nevers and the other Leaguing Princes will be content with his Verbal declaration which he will stand to and never revoke And for the better security of this Martelli brought from Rome some pretty Beads sanctified by the Pope himself for the Cardinal de Bourbon that he might bestow them upon the Covenanting Princes and the other Chieftains and Commanders of that design But these things not fully satisfying
Nevers he posts to Rome though contrary to the Popes desire and growing daily more jealous of the Leaguers intentions is very sollicitous for a perfect Agreement and Accommodation writing several times to Cardinal de Bourbon not to press too much upon the Kings patience and at last being fully convinced that the Guises had more a private Interest then a publick good in their thoughts quite forsook them and their Cause and joyn'd with the King The King in the mean time somewhat inform'd of the troublesome and warlike designs of the Covenanters was persuaded to consult his own security and therefore by a publick Decree forbids all raising or gathering 28 March together of Souldiers unless by his express Command and Authority commanding all his good Subjects at the ringing of the Toquesaint the Alarm bell to fall upon the said Souldiers as declar'd enemies But the Leaguers proceed cunningly and vigorously having strengthned themselves as they thought pretty well were resolved to make an open Rupture according to their former determinations To which purpose they overpersuade Cardinal de Bourbon to quit the Court under colour of keeping Lent at his Archbishoprick of Rouen so he went to Gailon a Palace belonging to that See in higher Normandy where a great company of the Covenanters of Picardy waited upon him and for his more pretended security conducted him to Peronne where the League was first framed as aforesaid and here he was met by the Dukes of Guise Mayenne Aumale Elboeuf and other Covenanting Nobles where a large Declaration is drawn up in his Name whom they call the First Prince of the Ploud and subscribed by him the substance of it is as followeth In the Name of God Almighty King of Kings be it known unto all c. That a design to subvert Religion hath been the cause of the late troubles That it is fear'd the King dying childless the Church and Kingdom may be ruin'd over which they are resolved never to let an Heretick sway the people being bound neither to admit or obey any Prince but of the Roman Religion That to hinder all mischiefs some remedy is to be applied That the great preparations of the Huguenots are sufficiently understood That it is also not unknown but * * Chiefly â—â—ming at the Duke of Espernon some people have so possest themselves of the Kings affection that they have as it were seiz'd upon his Authority and excluded those who ought to be more near him That these Favourites or Minions have got the chief Governments and Places of Trust whereby they may command all by Land or Sea That they have imbezell'd the Kings Revenues thereby making themselves more powerful and obey'd to the great oppression of the people which daily increaseth That though the Amendment of Abuses was hoped for at the meeting of the Estats at Bloys yet Private Interests spoil'd all That these Abuses are now grown so great that the Kingdom is almost ruin'd by them the Clergy surcharged and despised the Nobles debas'd abus'd and ruin'd and all the people in a manner beggar'd and impoverish'd by strange Taxations c. Therefore We CHARLES de BOURBON first Prince of the Bloud assisted with the Princes Cardinals Peers Bishops c. being the best and soundest part of the Kingdom DECLARE that we have sworn and faithfully promis'd to continue in Arms till the Church and Roman Religion be establish'd in her former Dignity the Nobles enjoy their Privileges the people eas'd the new Taxes abolished the Parlements left to their wonted freedom and liberty c. These and such others are the causes of our Arming which by these necessities is made justifiable though otherwise we should disclame such courses and so believing we cannot have a more honourable Funeral then to die in so holy and just a cause Yet protesting that we do not intend any thing against the King but on the contrary in defence of his Person Life and Estate being willing to lay down our Arms when he shall remedy these evils in doing of which he shall be more honoured and obeyed by us That seeing the Laws and their good Intentions are clear enough therefore they will not force the King to declare a Successour though in so doing the Nation might hereafter be eas'd of Troubles and Factions about it That as they have all a grand Veneration for the Queen-mother so they hope she will have a good opinion of them Humbly desire all people to assist them in this their good design and to have a favourable construction of their actions Protesting never to lay down Arms till we have accomplish'd all these our desires and so desire all good Romanists to assist them in their Prayers and Devotions CHARLES Cardinal de Bourbon At Peronne 31 March 1585. But this Declaration was drawn up and confirm'd by the Cardinal some time before and also Copies of it sent abroad by the Leaguers the better to confirm their Party for I meet with a Letter sent by the Dukes of Guise and Mayenne to the Parlement of Province meaning Aix the chief City of that County where that Parlement sits in which they tell Memoiâ—es de Nevers vol. 1. them That they have sent the copy of the said Cardinal de Bourbons Declaration to them by which they might perceive how unwilling they were to take up arms yet that in the quarrel they were resolved to venture life goods friends too exhorting and adjuring that Parlement to assist them telling them that as they shall aid those who joyn with them so they will endeavour the ruine of those who oppose their League Your most Affectionate Servants HENRY de LORRAIN CHARLES de LORRAIN Joinville 19 March 1585. As for the Declaration it self it was rejoyned to by the King in another well and cunningly worded endeavouring to answer all their Objections desiring them to lay down their arms and admonishing all his Subjects not to believe their idle pretences but to confide in and joyn themselves to him But it was not words that were to befriend the Covenanters so they draw their Forces together rendezvouz at Chalons in Champaigne whither the Cardinal Bourbon is conducted to them by the Duke of Guise with as great demonstrations of Honour and Joy as could be the better to insnare and bewitch the old man whose Name and Interest they wero to make so much use of And now Guise tampers again with Nevers assuring him that all things go better and better desireth his speedy assistance and is much troubled that Rochette one of his cunning Agitators is taken and carried prisoner to Paris fearing thereby some of their Plots may be discover'd Yet they look upon themselves strong enough to defie any opposition having muster'd about 12000 men expecting daily Recruits of German and Spanish Forces hir'd to joyn with them and thus fortifi'd they seize upon several strong places As for the King he is at a stand what to do not having strength
out of their houses and shops to follow him insomuch that he had presently above thirty thousand Followers crying out Long let Gnise live 9 Mâ—y Davila p. â—80 D'Aubigne tom 3. l. 1. ch 23. the Pillar of the Church All â—hewed their greatest affection to him some thanking him others bowing to him some kissing the hem of his garment others that could not get so near by their hands and gestnres shewed their zele and joy some ador'd him as a Saint touch'd him with their Beads kissing as they thought the then said hallowed stuff or touching their Eyes and Foreheads with them the Women strowing leaves and flowers from their windows Madam Vitri crying out O good Prince seeing you are come we are safe others adding Shall we not die for joy when we have seen you King To such an height of madness and wickedness will a giddy Zele for Religion transport the indiscreet Rabble Guise on the other side with a popular Face and and smiling Countenance shewed himself affable and courteous to all by Words Salutations or kind Looks and thus passing along with his Hat in his hand omitted nothing that might gain their Affections and Applause and in this complemental Triumph he rode directly to St. Eustache allighted at the Filles Repenties where the Queen-mother then lay with whom having some discourse she in the mean time informeth the King of his coming by her Gentleman-Usher Luigi Davila a Cyprian by birth and elder brother to Henrico Caterino Davila that excellent Author of the History of the Civil Wars of France which so perplex'd His Majesty that he was fain to rest himself upon his Arm hanging his Head down almost to the Table Guise having had some discourse with the Queen-mother who was not a little frighted at his coming waits upon her on foot to the Louvre she being carried in her Chair or Sedan being come before the King he endeavours to excuse and vindicate himself and so returneth to his own house in St. Antoine's Street And here not only Pope * ponâ— an 1588. § 3. Sixtus V. but several others condemned the King that he had not Guise forthwith kill'd whilest he was in his power in the Louvre and some of his Counsellours advised him then to do it whilest others thought there was no policy or safety in that seeing the People so furiously resolved for him Yet probably the King being then in an high passion might have order'd his dispatch but that Guise by whisperings and other demeanours perceiv'd their Resolutions not settled so very cunningly taking hold of their uncertainties pretending a weariness by reason of his travels took his leave and went to his House attended with the former multitude of his Admirers And now the Plot begins to work Guise that night gets above four hundred Gentlemen and Commanders to his House sends for the Council of Sixteen and the * Like our City Sheriffs Paris hath 4 Eschevins Eschevins then of his Faction with whom he consults ordereth Guards to be kept in every Ward all the Covenanters to be ready upon notice and had his own house well stored with Arms. And the same care was also taken by the Court to fortifie the Louvre The next day Guise attended with above four hundred Gentlemen privately armed with Pistols under their cloaks for upon his former jealousie 10 May. he would not venture himself so unprovided as he was before went to the Louvre waited upon the Queen his Cousin then the King and so â—eturn'd and held a deep consultation with Pierre Depinac Archbishop of Lyons his chief Confident and Counsellour After dinner he went to the Queen-mothers house whither the King came and after several discourses concerning the faults of the Government and the People each endeavouring to vindicate himself and Favourites they departed The next day the King order'd all strangers to depart the City thinking 11 May. by that means to lessen and divide the Forces of the Guisards but this could not be perform'd nor obey'd and Guise to render His Majesty more odious gave out that the King intended to put to death LX. of the chief Romanists a counterfeit List of whom he framed and sent abroad by his Creatures in which were named the Eschevins the chief of the Sixteen and Covenanters and then all their Curates and Preachers and to make this more terrible it was confidently reported how that the * The Townhâ—usâ— Hostel de ville was full of Gibbets to hang the said people on All which so incens'd the Rabble that they were thinking to rise up that very night their Commanders being settled in every Quarter And that which most confirm'd these Opinions to the People was the approach of the Kings Forces for His Majesty perceiving the high Attempts of the Leaguers determined to put it to the push to secure himself and daunt or quell his Enemies to which purpose he had sent for the several Regiments of the Swisses and French who quarter'd near Paris who accordingly were led into the City on Thursday morning by 12 May. Mareschal Byron and agreeable to the Kings Orders had taken up their Stations or Postes in several places of the City especially near the Court which some think was not done to the best advantage seeing they kept too great a distancâ— from L'Hostel de Guise in S. Antoine's street whereby with the greater ease all his Associates and Rabble might come to him and unite without any opposition However at the noise of these Royal Forces the people shut up their Shops fly to their Arms and according to their former Instructions what with Tubs Barrels and such like materials stop * Thâ—refore the French do yet call this day and action Les Barcieades de Paris or Journee des Barrieades barricado and chain up the Streets Lanes and Passages and that with such cunning and quickness that the Kings Forces being as aforesaid divided could not come to or assist one another whereupon after a little resistance and a few slain they yielded themselves And thus this vast City became subject to Guise who rode through the streets exhorting the people to stand upon their Guard since God had been so merciful to them as to secure their Lives Families Liberties and the Honour of the Holy Church desiring them to depend upon him and all would be well On the other hand the King and Court found themselves in a sad condition and seeing no help after many Consultations the Queen-mother is sent to treat with the Duke and being with a great deal of difficulty by reason of the stoppages and barricadoes brought to him upon discourse she findeth him haughty and exorbitant in his demands more like a Conquerour then a Subject not departing a jot from such as these That he should be Lieutenant General in all Provinces and places in the Kingdom That the States should be call'd at Paris who with the King should confirm to him that Power
That the King of Navarre with the other Princes of Bourbon his Adherents should be declared to have forfeited their Right and Title to the Crown That a Form of Government should be made which the King should not have power to alter That such of the Kings Favourites should be banish'd the Court and turn'd out of all Offices and Places That War should be made against the Huguenots and the absolute Command of it committed unto him That the King should have no extraordinary Guards about his Person and so dismiss his Guard 45 Gentlemen That the Dukes of Aumale Elboeuf and Nemours should have the Government of Picardy Normandy and Lyons and that the Leaguers should have six other Towns as they should name That the Duke of Mayenne should be Admiral and his Creature De la Chastre be Mareschal instead of Byrâ—n That Brissac an active Leaguer should be Governour of Paris And at last concluded That he was resolved either to lose his life or secure Religion and the Estate of his Family The Queen-mother returneth and the King finding no mâ—ans by staying there to escape his snarâ—s of the Enemies who were now forming 13 May. a Siege against him resâ—lved to withdraw himself so stealing through the * So calâ—'d from the 〈…〉 of Tâ—les theâ—e formâ—rly Tuilleries the Gardens by the Louvre he took horse with a dozen Gentlemen posted to Trapes and the next day to Chartres where he was receiv'd with great demonstrations of joy 'T is said that the people were so bewitch'd with this Solemn League and Covenant that seeing him thus fly for his safety they * Jo. de â—â—â—ssieres tol 4. l. 21. p. 259. shot at him cross the River calling him all the Contumelious names that malice could invent And that the King was so troubled at these Villanies and Indignities that having got a little from Paris he turn'd him about uttering some threats and menaces against that ingrateful City The Courtiers hasted after the King with what speed they coâ—ld make most trudging afoot for in this burly-burly happy was he that could procure an horse though never so bad many Persons of Quality being content to make use of their own legs â—â— preserve themselves and amongst those who fled to the King was Niâ—â—las Poulain not daring to stay in Paris suspecting himself discover'd and well was it for him that he so escaped for the Leaguers were so mad against him for his Loyalty that they imprison'd his Wife threatned his Children rifled his house and as for himself he got to Chartres and the King without ever a Peny of mony nor do I hear of any reward excepting Promises that he received for his faithful service in so often saving the Kings life it being the custom for such good-natur'd or negligent Princes not to understand worth and vertue and so to be Misers in rewarding of such but Prodigals in heaping Riches and Honours upon their phantastical and flattering Minions or Favourites and it may be Poulain was too grave and serious for such a wanton and frolicksom Court as Henry III's was And here the Skill or Policy of Guise hath been much call'd in question for not speedily following his blow having all the advantages that possibly could be expected his great neglect being his letting the King escape the seizing of whose Person might have compleated his Triumphs and by his Enemies so wanting an Head might have brought France to submit to his pleasure all which might with ease have been accomplish'd had he but forthwith begirt the Louvre by which he might have taken the King but this nelect he remembred too late and afterwards repented of so grand an oversight Though here he had fail'd yet he resolveth to secure himself to which purpose having gain'd all the strong places in Paris put out and imprison'd the * Like the Lord Maâ—or of London Prevost des Marchands and others whom he suspected to favour the King and settled his own Creatures in their Places he surpriseth all the Neighbouring places and presently Orleans Bourges Amiens Abbeville Montrovil Rouen Rheims Chaalons and above twenty other considerable places submitted to him the mad people every-where crying out Long live Guise long live the Protector of the Faith And his Sister the Dutchess Dowager of Montpensier was so zealous against the King and Peace that she would brag how the King should be * Jo. de Buss vol. 4. p. 261. shorn for a Monk and shew the Scisars which should do the feat And for a good encouragement the Spaniard sendeth 600000 Crowns supposing that the League would make rare work for him And thus D'A bigne tom 3 l. 1. ch 23. Guise commanding all the King can find no safety for himself but by Peace though upon never so bad Conditions and that which was no small argument of his Compliance was the approach of the Spanish Armado by them call'd the Invincible and the vast Preparations of the Duke of Parma in Flanders which though in the main design'd against England yet he understood not what if Conquerours as most suppos'd they would they might act against him and France knowing full well the Catholik King to have all along assisted the Covenanters In short The King thus forc'd to shackle himself lest the Mischief and Rebellion should run too far he submits to Guise granting him and his Faction all the Proposals they desir'd and so by a Decree call'd the Edict of Union or July a Peace is hudled up between them The Edict it self being somewhat long take here the Heads of it HENRY by the Grace of God King of France and Poland c. We ordain and decree these following Articles as an unalterable and fundamental Law in our Kingdom We swear and renew the Oath made by us at our Coronation to live and die in the Roman Religion We ordain and would have all our Subjects to swear as we do and to joyn themselves with us in the extirpation of Hereticks We swear that we shall never favour or advance them and command all our Subjects to swear never to admit of an Heretical King or one that favoureth Heresie to reign over them We promise never to promote or imploy any but of the Roman Religion and expresly forbid any to be receiv'd into any Place or Imployment but who have proved themselves of the said Religion We swear and promise to protect and use our Subjects who joyn with us in these our undertakings as becometh a good King We would have our said united Subjects to swear to assist one another against the Hereticks And that our said Subjects swear to live and die in their Allegeance to us And that they swear to depart from all Practices and Leagues contrary to the said Union our Person and Authority We declare all to be Rebells who will not sign this said Union and all Towns who will not admit it shall be deprived of all their Privileges and Franchises And to
at Rome that a Breve should be drawn up and sent the main Procurers of which were supposed to be Cardinal Bellarmine and Father Parsons the later of whom as a fore-runner of the Breves sent a Letter into England part of which take as followeth About some four or five Months ago it was consulted by seven or eight Id. cap. 10. Sect. 2. §. 53. 54 55 56. of the Learned'st Divines that could be chosen to give their judgment of it i. e. the Oath Their Reasons are many but all reduced to this That the Pope's Authority in chastising Princes upon a just Cause is de fide and consequently cannot be denied when it is call'd into controversie without denying of our Faith nor that the Pope or any other Authority can dispence in this For if the Question were de facto and not de jure to wit Whether the Pope might justly in this or that occasion Excommunicate or Depose this or that Prince upon these or these causes or whether precedent Popes have done well therein or no Then might some of these Reasons which you say your Friends do alledg be admitted into Consideration to wit Whether it could be in aedificationem or destructionem do hurt or good be profitable or improfitable or Whether the Causes be sufficient or no for without cause none holdeth that the Pope may depose Or Whether the due form of Admonition touched in your Letters were observed But forasmuch as the Question is de Potestate of the See-Apostolick Power What it may do upon any Cause or against any Catholick Prince whatsoever these Considerations of temporal hurt cannot enter Besides these I have conferred the matter with Cardinal Bellarmine and sundry others of great Learning and Conscience and all are of one opinion in this case That the form of the Oath as it lieth is Heretical and no way may be admitted by him that will not deny the Catholick Faith I had occasion twice to speak with his Holiness the first in company of Mr. * Kinsmanto the former Nic. Fitzherbert Thomas Fitzherbert where we proposed certain manners of Mitigation suggested by Friends c. Whereto his Holiness answered That as for any Actual using Censures against his Majesty he meant not but rather all Courtesie But as for the Authority of the See-Apostolick to wit using of Censures he was resolved and would rather lose his Head than yeeld one jot The second He being informed that some Priests did seem to incline to the taking of the Oath He answered He could not hold them for Catholicks c. Thus we see how the Plot was carried and how zealous the Pope and his Assistants were against the taking of this Oath as if it were enough to overthrow their whole Religion Though King James did assure them and the World That no decision of any one point of Religion was intended in this Oath For saith he as for the Catholick Faith Can there be one word found Apol. for the Oath pag. 63 in all that Oath tending or sounding to matter of Religion Doth he that takoth it promise there to believe or not to believe any Article of Religion Or doth he so much as name a true or a false Church there And as for St. Peter's Primacy I know no Apostle's Name that is therein named except the Name of JAMES it being my Christian Name Neither is there any mention at all made therein either disertis verbis or by any other indirect means either of the Hierarchy of the Church of St. Peter ' s Succession of the See Apostolick or of any such matter But however as if this Oath quite overthrew the Roman Religion and rendred the Pope no more powerful than his Predecessors were in the first Three hundred years out comes a Breve from his Holiness right or wrong expresly commanding the English not to take the said Oath upon any means whatever Part of which take as followeth Dilecti filii Salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem MAgno animi moerore Nos semper affecerunt Tribulationes Calamitates quas pro retinenda Catholica fide jugiter sustinuistis Sed cum intelligamus omnia hoc tempore magis exacerbari Afflictio nostra mirum in modum aucta est c. Non potestis absque evidentissima gravissimaque Divini honoris injuria obligare vos Juramento quod similiter maximo cum Cordis nostri dolore audivimus propositum vobis fuisse praestandum infra scripti tenoris viz. Ego A. B. c. Here was inserted the Oath it self Quae cum ita sint vobis ex verbis ipsis perspicuum esse debet quod hujusmodi Juramentum salva fide Catholica salute animarum vestiarum prastari non potest cum mulâ—a contineat quae fidei saluti aperte adversantur Propterea admonemus vos ut ab hoc atque similibus Juramentis praestandis omnino Caveatis Quod quidem eo acrius exigimus a vobis quia experti vestrae fidei Constantiam quae tanquam aurum in fornace perpetuae Tribulationis igne probata est Pro comperto habemus vos alacri animo subituros esse quaecunque atrociora Tormenta ac mortem denique ipsam constanter oppetituros potius quam Dei Majestatem ulla in re laedatis c. Praecipimus vobis ut illarum Literarum verba ad amussim servetis simpliciter prout sonant jacent accipiatis intelligatis sublata omni facultate aliter illa interpretandi c. Datum Romae apud S. Marcum sub Annulo Piscatoris x. Kal. Octob. 1606 Pontificatus nostri Anno secundo Dearly beloved Sons Greeting and Aposiolical Benediction THE Tribulations and Calamities which you have continually sustained for the keeping of the Catholique Faith hath always afflicted us with great grief of mind But for as much as we understand that at this time all things are more grievous our Affliction hereby is wonderfully encreased c. You cannot without most evident and grievous wronging of God's Honour bind your selves by the Oath which in like manner we have heard with very great grief of Heart is administred unto you of the tenor following viz. I A. B. c. Which things since they are thus it must evidently appear to you that such an Oath cannot be taken without wrong to the Catholick Faith and the salvation of your souls seeing it contains many things plainly contrary to Faith and Salvation Wherefore we admonish you That you do utterly abstain from taking this and the like Oaths Which thing we do the more earnestly require of you because we have experience of the constancy of your Faith which is tried like Gold in the fire of perpetual Tribulation We do well know that you will cheerfully undergo all kind of cruel Torments whatsoever yea and constantly endure Death it self rather than you will in any thing offend the Majesty of God c. We command you That you do exactly observe the words of those Letters and
229 His body denyed burial 229 230 Henrician Heresie what 230 Henry V Emperour kisseth the Popes Toe ibid. Henry VI Emperour how Crown'd 262 Henry VII Emperour his death 301 302 Henry Son to John d'Albret King of Navar Excommunicated and declared Deprived by Pope Leo X 346 Henry King of Navar protests against the Declaration and Excommunication of Pope Sixtus V 512 513 Hen. VIII King of England Supreme Head of the Church declar'd deprived of his Dominions 399 400 401 402 c. Paul III ' s Bull against him 404 405 Rebellions in the North against him 406 His Apology undertook by William Thomas 407 Hen. III K. of France his troubles from the Leaguers Book the 8th He steals privately out of Paris 524 Submits to the D. of Guise 525 Closes in with the King of Navar 540 His Name dash'd out of all Prayer books ibid. A Monitory Bull sent out against him by Sixtus V 540 541 542 543 Is murdred by Fryar Clem. 547 The Action rejoyced at and vindicated by the Covenanters 548 and the Chieftains of Rome 549 550 551 c. Henry IV King of France his troubles lib. 8. cap. 7. Declared Heretick and deprived of his Dominions by Gregory XIV 577 Murdred by Ravaillac 640 to 648 Hildebrand vid. Gregory VII Hugonots the Grandees of them massacred in one day 416 The action commended and applauded publickly 416 417 Hungary bloudy actions there 308 Ors Hypato Duke of Venice slain 183 I JAmes VI K of Scotland plots against him by the Romanists 366 367 368 369 370 c. Designes against his taking the Crown of England 676 677 678 Imposes the Oath of Allegiance defends it 709 710 711 c. Jesuits foolish stories of their Founder and Order 5 6 They have two Consciences 45 Jesus Christ childish stories of him 16 c. 29 Marryed to several 16 22 Not so much worship'd as were others 17 Ignatius Loyola his lying stories 5 6 Images troubles about them 163 164 Ingratitude 229 The Spanish Invasion 451 to 459 The Spanish Royal Standard blest 453 454 Joane Pope 180 John King of England his troubles 274 Joh. K. of Navar deprived 343 344 Ireland troubles there against Q. Elizabeth 384 385 386 387 to 397 Articles between Francis I K. of France the Earl of Desmond for the conquering it 385 386 A Rebellion raised there by Tir-Oen 648 649 The Irish send a slanderous Letter to the Pope against Queen Elizabeth 649 They are thanked for their Rebellion by the Pope 651 Defended by the Divines of Salamanca and Valladolid 667 668 c. Irene murthers her son Constantine 169 Donna Isabella Sister to Hen. IV K. of Castile invited to accept the Government refuses declared Princess of the Asturias and lawful Heir to the Kingdom of Castile and Leon 341 Succeeds in the Kingdom 342 Julio II Pope deprives John d'Albret K. of Navar and gives his Kingdom and Dominions to Ferdinand II K. of Arragon 344 Of a Warlike disposition 347 348 Interdicts Lewis XII absolves his Subjects gives his Kingdom to any that will take it takes away the Title of MOST CHRISTIAN from the French and confers it on the King of England ibid. the first Pope that wore a long beard 350 Holy Junta of Spain against Charles V 357 358 361 c. Justinian II Emperor of Constantinople his troubles 161 162 His Nose 162 K Kennith III King of Scotland murder'd 211 Kings are but Asses 38 Must kiss the Popes Feet ibid. Lead the Popes Horse ibid. Hold his Stirrop ibid. Carry up water for the Popes hands ibid. Carry up his meat ibid. Carry the Pope on their shoulders ibid. May be deposed by the Pope 41 42 c. May be deposed by Bishops though poor 53 Compar'd to Asses 38 to Dogs 43 May be deposed by their Subjects 86 87 c. May be kill'd by their Subjects 95 96 c. For how many Causes Kings may be depos'd 107 108 c. Their murder defended by a B. D. of the Sorbonne 503 L Lambert Emperour slain 190 Holy League and Covenant in France the introduction to it 483 484 485 486 to 494 The Articles of the Holy League 494 495 496 497 The Leaguers sollicite their cause at Rome with Pope Gregory XIII 506 Their Declaration drawn up in the name of Cardinal Bourbon whom they call first Prince of the Bloud 507 508 Their Council of Sixteen at Paris vid. Paris Some Preachers set on work by them to bespatter the King and his actions 518 519 Their insolences against King Henry III after the death of the Guises 529 534 Their Holy Vnion 535 They send Messengers to the Pope with private instructions to act 536 Card. Bourbon declared King by the Leaguers 562 563 c. Leo III Emperour troubled about images 163 264 L. Lessius bad Principles 74 75 Lewis le Debonnaire Emperour depos'd 170 171 c. 177 Lewis IV his eyespull'd out 189 Lewis VII of France Interdicted 254 Lewis IV Emperour his troubles 303 304 Lewis XII of France Interdicted 347 Calls a Council at Pisa to depose Pope Julio 349 Roderigo Lopez his treasons against Queen Elizabeth 461 462 463 Designes to poyson her ibid. Loretto's Chappel and flying story 23 Luidolph his humble submission 194 Those of Lyons joyn with the Leaguers 537 Their Declaration ibid. The form of their Oath 533 M THe Office of Majordom Maire du Palais first set up by Clotaire the I 165 One Landregesile first chosen to that Office ibid. Ebroin the first that advanc'd that Office ibid. Malcolme King of Scotland murdred 208 Malcolme II King of Scotland murdred 214 Gregory Martin's Pamphlet against Queen Elizabeth 437 Virgin Mary abused with lying stories 4 5 7 8 c. 21 29 Her kissing and marrying 8 9 Her kindness to whores 9 Equal to Christ himself 11 12 Her bloud better then Christs bloud 13 How hurried into Heaven 14 We must bow at the Name of the Virgin Mary 40 Queen Mary of England in her 5 years Raign put above 260 to death for Religion 418 Mauritius Emp. murther'd 153 c. The D. of Mayenne goes to Paris is made Head of the Leaguers 538 539 Refuses peace is proclaimed Traitor all his adherents 539 Medici the wicked designs of the Pope upon that Family 331 Giuliano murdred by Bandini de Pazzi 332 Lorenzo wounded but escapes ibid. Michael Emperour of Constantinople murdred 182 Miracles lying and forged 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. 21 22 23 24 25 c. 134 135 184 199 207 247 266 Monegario Duke of Venice his eyes put out 183 Cardinal Montalto his Letter to the General Council of the holy Vnion about the murther of Hen. III 549 550 551 c. N NAples its troubles 330 John Nichols an account of him 434 O OAths of Allegiance 60 Endeavour'd to be in France 57 58 59 Opposed in England 73 74 75 76 77 First framed 709 710 The Pope sends out two Breves against the taking
some cases as if the Prince should force his People to be a a Allow one or two Exceptions and twenty will follow if the Romanists be Judges Prateo lus Elench Haeret. § Mahometes compares the Protestants to the Turks Gifford Prâ—f in lib. D. Reinald Calvino-Turcismus saâ—th that the Protestants belief is worse than the Alcoran Mahometans Jewes Pagans or Infidels the Pope may discharge his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience otherwise due to him III. That the King Bishops Peers and Commons in Parliament cannot declare or censure the opinion which alloweth the Popes power to excommunicate and deprive Kings to be Impious and Heretical IV. That it is gross Ignorance and False not to believe that the Pope or any other have power to absolve Subjects of their Oaths of Obedience and Allegiance V. That this Oath of Allegiance though taken is not obligatory nor hath any power to binde Thus we see the foundation of Government shaken Oaths and Obedience brought to be but trifles and Supream Authority and Rule upon the common-canting whining pretence of Religion consumed to nothing Leonardus Lessius a Jesuite of great repute under the false name Discussio Decreti Mag. Concil Lateran of Guilielmus Singletonus is very zealous for this Authority to be in the Pope Tells us in one place that if the Pope b Si sam Pont. non haberet illam potestatem in Tâ—mporalia Ecclesia errarâ—t in Doctrina morum quidem circa res gravissimas Docet enim Principe per sententiam summi Pont. abdicato omnes subditos ab ejus obedientia esse solutos ditionem ejus ab alio posse occupari ut ex Conciliis constat Discuss Decret Concil Lat. pag 46. have not this power then the Church of necessity must err because it teacheth such jurisdiction to lye in the Pope but to affirm so of the Church viz. that she erreth is Heretical nay that this error viz. that the Pope cannot depose Kings c Id. Pag. 90. Hic enim error longe perniciosior erit magisque intolerabilis quam error circa aliquod Sacramentum is more pernicious and intolerable than an error concerning some of the Sacraments for 't is a d Id. Pag. 100. certain and undoubted received Opinion of the Church and therefore he e Id Pag. 123. conjures all Catholicks as they love the salvation of their Souls to have a care of doubting of it or believing the contrary for it f Ad sidem pertinere sive ita cum rebus fidei Religionis esse conjunctam ut absque sanae Doctrinae injuria non videatur posse negaâ—i belongs to faith or agrees so neer with it that it cannot be denyed without great injury to sound Doctrine And whether this Lessius in another of his Books concerning the a De potestate summi Pontifici Popes power maintains any Tenents more dangerous than these I know not no more than I do the reasons that made them suppress it though many years ago printed The Lawyer b De sindicatu Summar 4. § 56 57 58 59. Paris de Puteo from the Canon-law and other such-like authorities gathers that the Pope may depose Kings or Emperours and the old c Dist 40 Si Papa Gloss Glassator upon Gratian standing upon the same sandy Foundation maintains the same proposition against the latter and with these agree another Lawyer d Et Imperator debet confirmari à Papa tanquam superiore ab eo examinare approbari ac incongi consecraâ—i coronari si est dignus vel rejici si est indignus puta si esset sacrilegus excommunicatus licet esset electus ab Electoribus Imperii Jo. Bapt. Plot. Consilium § 64. Johannes Baptista Plotus In the year 1619. Frederick Elector Palatine of Rhine being over-perswaded by the Bohemians who had then denyed Ferdinand the Emperour to be their King to take upon him the Government over them was after some Wars overcome by the Imperialists and bereft not onely of that Kingdom but the rest of his Territories Upon this great consultation is had privately at Rome to get another Elector into his place and for the person they need not study long The Duke of Bavaria having his great expence in this War against the Bohemians and the Jesuits to whom he was a great Benefactor had a particular Devotion and was in all things sway'd by them to speak loud in his behalf and besides which was no small mover his Zeal for the cause of Rome Frederick being a Protestant and thus laid by would thus over-sway the reformed Electors in number whereby the Empire probably would still be ruled by that Religion These and other like reasons made Pope Gregory the Fifteenth and his Nephew and Favourite Cardinal Ludovisio who was also made Protector of the Irish to be earnest with the Emperour about it which at last though the Spaniard at its first motion seem'd not to like took effect and Maximilian Duke of Bavaria obtain'd that honour 1623. But that which I most aim at in this story is the Paper of advice or reasons to perswade to this action presented to the Pope and Cardinals by Michel Lonigo da Esle belonging to his Holiness in which is strongly pleaded for Bavaria ranting and boasting in a whole beadrole what pretty pranks and tricks the Popes have formerly acted over Kings and Emperours by interdicting excommunicating and deposing them altering and changing of Empires and Kingdoms and in one place speaks boldly and plainly thus It is in the Popes hands as appeareth by all Histories to renew the Emperours in their Empire to translate the authority of one Nation to another and utterly to abolish the right of Election And that Rome did think her power over Kings by way of punishment to be just and really her own you may partly guess from this following story No sooner came forth our Oath of Allegiance for the preservation Ro. Widdrington's Theological Disputation cap. 10. Sect. 2. § 52 53. c. of the King and security of his Kingdoms but Father Parsons at Rome sollicited the Pope for his Breves against it which were obtain'd but before they were sent into England this Jesuite wrote a Letter hither to intimate though falsly that he was for mitigation but that true enough the rest were for the Popes power against the King but take his own words as they are delivered to us by an honest Benedictine About some four or five Months ago it was consulted by seven or eight of the Learned'st Divines that could be chosen who gave their judgement of it Their Reasons are many but all deduced to this that the Popes Authority in chastising Princes upon a just account is de fide and consequently cannot be deny'd when it is call'd into Controversie without denying of our Faith nor that the Pope or any other Authority can dispense in this For if the Question were de facto and
not de jure to wit whether the Pope might justly in this or that occasion excommunicate or depose this or that Prince upon these or these causes or whether precedent Popes have done well therein or no then might some of those reasons which you say your Friends do alledge be admitted into consideration to wit whether it would be in aedificationem or destructionem do hurt or good be profitable or improfitable or whether the causes be sufficient or no for without cause none holdeth that the Pope may depose or whether the due form of admonition touched in your Letters were observed But for as much as the Question is de Potestate of the See Apostolick power what it may do upon any cause or against any Catholick Prince whatsoever these considerations of temporal hurt cannot enter Besides these I have conferred the matter with Cardinal Bellarmine and sundry others of great Learning and Conscience and all are of Opinion in this case that the form of the Oath as it lyeth is Heretical and no way may be admitted by him that will not deny the Catholick Faith I have had occasion twice to speak with his Holiness the first in company of Mr. Thomas Fitzherbert where we proposed certain manners of Mitigation suggested by Friends c. Where to his Holiness answered That as for any actual using Censures against his Majesty he meant not but rather all courtesie but as for the Authority of the See Apostolick to wit for using of Censures he was resolved and would rather loose his head than yeild one jot The second he being informed that some Priests did seem to incline to the taking of the Oath he answered He could not hold them for Catholicks c. What an enemy this Parsons was to his Native Country we may discourse of hereafter onely at this time we shall go no farther than what belongs to the Popes power now in hand yet we may observe by the by that whatever he writ he never put his own name to it but sometimes false ones and sometimes onely two Letters which he commonly alter'd in every new Pamphlet stuft up onely with evasions resolved to let the Romanists know what he meant but would never acknowledge any thing to be proved against him yet an indifferent Judge will acknowledge his hints to be bold enough In one place thus he tells the Learned Morton You know that deposition of Princes is an effect of Excommunication P. R. Quiet and sober reckoning pag. 64. and can never happen by Ecclesiastical Authority but where Excommunication hath gone before And I would ask M. Morton in good earnest out of his Divinty when a Christian Prince is lawfully excommunicated and shut out from all society of Christian Communion and he persists Impenitent how can he be head of a Christian Common-wealth for so much as he is no member nor hath any place or part at all in the whole body the head-ship being the chief part of all others In another place he telleth thus his own Principles from his learned Opponent Catholick Subjects do believe that in some cases there is power Id. Pag. 80. left by God in the Church and the Head thereof the Bishop of Rome over Princes to use not onely spiritual Censures for restraint of Exorbitant Excesses but Temporal Remedies also either directly or indirectly when urgent necessity of the Common-wealth should require All Catholick Subjects also of other Countries do hold and acknowledge Id. Pag. 81. this Doctrine In another of his Books against the foresaid Oath of Allegiance to the objection that some Roman Catholicks had taken it he thus answereth The judgement of a Catholick English-man in a Letter touching the Oath of Allegiance p. 18. § 30. I cannot but in charity assure my self that they being Catholicks took the said Oath for so much as concerneth the Popes Authority in dealing with Temporal Princes in some such lawful sence and interpretation as being by them expressed and accepted by the Magistrate may stand with the integrity and sincerity of true Catholick Doctrine and Faith to wit that the Pope hath not Authority without just cause to proceed against them But concerning the general Question to deny simply and absolutely Ib. Pag. 19. § 31. That the Pope is Supream Pastor of the Catholick Church hath any Authority left him by Christ either directly or indirectly with cause or without cause in never so great a necessity of the Christian Religion to proceed against any Prince whatsoever Temporally for his restraint or amendment or to permit other Princes to do the same This I suppose was never their meaning that took the Oath for that they should thereby contradict the general consent of all Catholick Divines and confess that Gods Providence for the Conservation and Preservation of his Church and Kingdom upon earth had been defectuous for that he should have left no lawful Remedy for so great and excessive an evil as that way might fall out And if you look but a little a Id. P. 85. § 25. farther you will see where the Shoe pincheth and that to deny the Popes power to depose Kings is one of the main reasons they have against this Oath the Affirmative being one of the greatest Pillars that upholds their puissant Hierarchy right or wrong And in another of his b Temperate Ward-word p. 53 54. Pamphlets you will see him close with Cardinal Allen Sanders and suchlike against Princes in behalf of the Popes power over them Nor need we question his attributing this Authority to the See of Rome when he alloweth the same to the People not onely telling them that they may Rebel against c See his R. Dolemans conference about the Crown but depose their King too and it may be worse of which in its due place But enough of Robert Parsons at this time unless he were better And if we consult some others abroad we shall finde d Con. in 2. 2. D. Tho. pag. 63. § 151. Johannes Wiggers e Com. in 2. 2. Aquin. Quest 12. art 2. Hieronymus de Medicis the Dominican f In 2. 2. D. Tho. in Summario Conclusionum d. 57. conclus 2. Luisus Turrianus the Spanish Jesuit g Com. in 2. 2. Quest 1. art 10. disp 8. Johannes Malderus Bishop of Antwerp and h De potestate Ecclesiastica fol. 154. Potest Papa jure optimo à gradu dignitate sua omnem Regem Principem dejicere non solum propter Heresim Schisma propter quam vis aliam sceleâ—osam impietatem verum etiam propter secordiam negligentiam ad regendum ineptitudinem si praesertim ejusmodi sit ut Regnum periclitetur Christianorum Johannes Antonius Delphinus allow that Kings may justly be deposed and that by the Pope and to these we may add Carolus Scribanius the Dutch Jesuit under the false name of i Amphitheatrum Honoris lib. 1. cap. 12. Clarus Bonarscius