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A08075	Newes from the low-countreyes. Or The anatomy of Caluinisticall calumnyes, manifested in a dialogue betweene a Brabander, and a Hollander Vpon occasion of a placcart, lately published in Holla[n]d, against the Iesuites, priests, friars &c. by those that there assume vnto themselues, the tytle of the high-mighty-lords, the States &c. Translated out of the Netherland language, into English. By D.N.; Anatomie van Calviniste calumnien. English.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.; D. N., fl. 1622.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623, attributed name.	1622 (1622)	STC 18443; ESTC S120471	29,088	102

Fryar as he liued and dyed Heere can I not omit also to note that if so be that for this fact of Iaques Clement the Caluinists should giue vnto the Fryars of S. Dominikes order the name of a Pernicious and Murtherous Sect or that they sought to bring subiects to the murthering of Princes and Potentates they had in all truth done the Religious men of this Order much wrong for there can be no reason that a whole order should beare the blame reproach of the fault that one of the same order hath committed and wherin the others were innocent How much lesse reason can then be found that the Iesuites of whose order no one was euer knowne that euer killed Prince or other person should of slaunderous Gewses be calumniated with the name of a murtherous sect and to be stirrers vp of the inhabitants of Holland to the murthering of Princes and Potentates which were a greater pitty for the inhabitants of Holland to doe considering that Princes Potentates are not among them in so great aboundance vnlesse the meaning of the Placcart should be that the Iesuites and Priestes did intend to imploy the inhabitants of Holland to goe murther Princes and Potentates in other Countreys The eight and last of this vnfortunate number and ranke was Henry the fourth King of France who was murthered by one Francis Rauaillac and if so be the Holland Gewses will make of him a Iesuite also yet the administers of Iustice in France which are as far-seeing as those of Holland and haue throughly enformed themselues of this mans condition and state of life and done their vttermost endeauours to come to the full knowledge of all that might concerne the matter of the Kings death could neuer find that he so was And yet the sharp-sighted states of Holland that can looke further into milstones then other men can better discerne who are the murtherers of Princes and Potentates in other Countreyes then the officers of Iustice themselues in whose handes they happen to fall that commit such criminall facts The Hollander But can there no Princes els be found that haue byn killed or murthered since the Iesuites haue had ther beginning then only these you haue named The Brabander I know not of any more but of this number of eight Marry heere by the way is to be noted that fiue of this number haue byn murthered by Caluinists and three by Catholikes King Henry 3. King Henry 4. both Kings of France William of Nassaw Prince of Orange by Catholikes Melchior Zobell Bishop of Wirtzburge and Duke of Franconia Henry King of Scotland Iames Earle of Murray Francis Duke of Guyse and Mary Queene of Scotland by Caluinists And if thinges had succeeded according to intentions Caluinists had had the honour to haue had six of these eight to haue byn murthered by them for William Prince of Orange before named was in very great possibility to haue byn murthered by a Protestant also and I wot not how many Zeland States with him to haue borne him cōpany in the ayre when he and they should haue byn blowne vp togeather with gunpowder wherof I may take occasion to speake more anone In the meane time behold whether in this odious busynesse of Prince killing Caluinists haue not the precedence by oddes Notwithstanding they cry out so lowd and so falsely vpon Iesuites giuing thē the name of a pernicious and murtherous sect when themselues in this foule fact fall foulest of all that therein are to be touched the Iesuites not found to be touched at all Let all the world now iudge to whome it is that the odious Epithete of Prince-killing is best befitting either to Iesuites or Calumists Who might not laugh at this mad accusation and thinke that reformed Holland-Gewses are turned fooles not knowing what they say They seeme through the vehemency of their malice to be become blind and giue occasion themselues of the manifestation of their owne shame which before lay vndiscouered What strange kindes of Iesuites haue heere byn found among the murtherers of Princes and Potentates The Holland Gewse-reformed brethrē may heere see what comes of lying That their preachers continew their lying in their pulpits I can in some sort tollerate the poore fellowes haue charge of wife children their preaching is their trade to liue by and to mayntaine their families But the worshipfull Lordes the States to lye and to publish lyes in Printed Placcarts that indeed is somwhat to grosse you may please to excuse me for beeing so free with your Lords and States Because He that speaketh what he should not Must heare for his answer what he wold not Me thinkes they that practise lying should in reason become more cūning then to make lyes that are so grosse and palpable and doe indeed bring credit and reputation to Iesuites and shame vnto themselues that spred them for alwayes it is found that when any one is accused and afterward found innocent the accuser is cursed and hated the false accused pittyed beloued and belieued These Caluinian Calumniatours will seeme by calling Iesuites Priests the murtherers of Princes and Potentates as if they poore innocent soules were becom great Care-takers for Princes Potentates safeties This surely is a very suddainly-growne-vp affection they were not wont to be so for me thinks it is not so long ago that Princes can haue forgotten that at such tyme as their subiects rebelled against them the good Hollād-Gewses were alwayes readier to assist their rebelles agaynst them then them against their rebelles I must needes acknowledge some reason why it so should be that is that simile gaudet simili if at this day any Princes find this to be true themselues know it best But further to manifest their good affection to Princes we are to note that it hath not only byn shewed in the fiue aforenamed who they murtherously haue bereft of their liues but also in some vnto whome euen after their deathes they haue shewed indignity and villany as vnto William the Conqueror King of England who was buryed at Cane in Normandie where the French-Hugenotes in their Rebellion in the yeare 1562. vnder conduct of Chastilian when they tooke this towne and spoyled the Churches they brake open the tombe of this great Cōquerer and threw his bones about the streets At Orleans where they also committed their Church-robbery and Sacrilege they brake open the tombe of King Lewys the eleuenth and burnt his bones The bones of Iohn Earle of Angolesme Father to King Francis the first of France who for his vertue deuotion deuotion was reputed as a Saint they suffered not to rest in his sepulcher but threw them out This hate may haue proceeded of two causes the one because he was a Prince the other posible the greatest because of his Sanctity for to the bones of Saints or holy mē haue Caluinists shewed so great hatred that at Towres they tooke the bones of the

going frō the bridge ouer the riuer of Mayne from the Citty of Herbipolis or Wirtzburge to the Castle where he held his Court or Residence which Castle is neere vnto the sayd Citty His murther was caused by a Gentleman of the same Countrey of Franconia called Grumbagh What kynd of Iesuit this Gentleman was resteth in consideration for Catholike he was not but a professor of the new pretended reformation and so were also the actours which he imployed in committing of the murther The second in this vnfortunate nūber was Henry King of Scotland by his mariage with Mary Queen of Scotland Father to his Maiesty King Iames now King of England Scotlād c. This Prince was a Catholike and was murthered by a conspiracy of Caluinists and by Caluinists which thereunto were imployed he is thought to haue byn strangled These then must needes haue bin Caluinisticall Iesuites aswell those I meane that were of the conspiracy as the executors of the fact for there was not one Catholike among them The third was Iames Earle of Murray in Scotland bastard Brother vnto Mary Queene of Scotland before named He was a rebell and a persecutour of the Queene his Soueraygne and Sister by the Fathers side He forced her to fly into England and Tyrannically vsurped the Gouernment of her Kingdome vntill the time that a Gentleman named Hamilton slew him with a gun in the towne of Lithquo when being on horsbacke he was accōpanyed with many Gentleman that came with him to make his entry into that towne Hamilton notwithstanding escaped and fled into France The Earle was in religion Caluinist and so was Hamilton also that slew him It may be that he afterward in France became a Catholike If the Holland Caluinists wil make a Iesuyte of him then must he haue byn a Caluinisticall Iesuite when he committed the fact for Catholike-Iesuite he neuer was The fourth in this number was Francis Duke of Guyse This valiant Prince seruing the King of France agaynst his rebells was by one Iohn Poltrot who came behind him shot throgh the body with a pistoll as he was on horsebacke in his iourney it is worthy the noting that this Poltrot being well horst and hauing discharged his pistoll vpon the Duke put spurres to his horse and made a way with all speed possible and hauing ridden the whole night and not otherwise weening but that he was many myles from the place where he committed the murther was in the morning apprehended neere vnto the place where the deed was done If this Poltrot must now be made a Iesuyte he must then be a Geneuian Iesuyte for Geneua was his schoole and Beza the Caluinian Rabbin his schoolmayster that instructed him to murther this Prince The fifth in this nūber was William of Nassaw Prince of Orange who being in open rebellion agaynst his lawfull Soueraygne Lord King Philip second of Spayne the which by all the lawes of the world is Crimen laesae maiestatis was at Delfe in Holland slayne with a pistoll by one Baltazar Gerard alias Seragh a Burgundian Of what religion this Prince was there is no certainty but Baltazar that slew him was a Catholike that he was a Iesuyte was neuer knowne but if Caluinistes haue gotten the skill to make him a Iesuyte eight and thirty yeares after his death who in his life was neuer any it may be registred for a Caluinisticall miracle The sixt in nūber was Mary Queene of Scotland Mother vnto his Maiesty that now is King of Scotland and Englād c. This Princesse being an absolute and soueraygne Queene being enforced by her rebellious subiects fled into England vpon hope and promise to be by Queene Elizabeth succoured She was with the Queene of England in good peace and amity and was by her through her letters inuyted for her more defence and safety to come into England but so soone as she was there arriued she was layed handes on and detayned as a prisoner directly against all right and reason and so detayned about the space of twenty yeares In all which tyme Queene Elizabeth did neuer so much as once vouchsafe to see her or heare her speake In the end when she accepted of the meanes that was offered her for the escaping out of her vniust imprisonment she was murthered with an axe by the hands of the comon Hang-man which most foule and great murther was cōmitted to the euerlasting dishonour shame of false Iustice because it was done vnder the cloke and colour of true Iustice for she being an absolute Soueraigne Princes of herselfe was no subiect vnto Queene Elizabeth or vnto her lawes and yet notwithstanding she was condemned as a criminall subiect A most Tyrannous example of very murther and iniustice vnto all ensuyng posterity And most contrary to the doctrine of Caluinists that will haue Princes subiect to no authority or power vpon earth but only vnto God vnlesse they can heere make a God of Bul the Hangman This act doth the more remain to the greater shame of the actors because vpon the committing therof great bonfyers were made in the streets and the belles rung in manner of a triumph for ioy of obtaining some great victory This Queene was a Catholike The Hangman that murthered her was a Caluinian Protestant whose handes had byn imbrued in the bloud of diuers Iesuytes Priestes in the raigne of the forsayd Queene Elizabeth If Holland Caluinistes will now make a Iesuyte of of him he must then be a Gewse-reformed Iesuite that can be no great disreputation vnto them seeing that Mayster Paul Bafous a hangman in Liuonia or Liftland left his office of hangmanship and turned preacher of the Word according to the Holland reformation Vpō the death of this holy Queen the Calumnies of Caluinists raised against Iesuytes are contradicted in the ensuing Epigramme OVR Caluinists of Iesuites complayne That they of Kings and Princes killers be But if heerin they did not falsely fayne They must some such the world let know and see But since so much as one they do not show To what end then serues this Calumniation To seeme to hate for sooth Prince-killing so As hauing thereof no imagination And that meane whyle they heerof others taxe They as vnseene may bring them to the axe The seauenth in this number is Henry the third King of France who after he had caused Henry Duke of Guyse his brother the Cardinall to be muthered was murthered himselfe by one Iacques Clement a lacobin or Dominican Friar This King was a Catholyke so was also the Fryar that killed him If our Holland-Gewses wil now make a Iesuyte of him that dyed in the habite of a Dominican Fryar for he was presently killed by those that then were about the King they can do more then the French Hugenots who would as fayne haue had him a Iesuite as the Holland-Gewses would but they must notwithstanding be contented to let him be a Dominican

to Frankford where by the leaue of God we meane to go we should happen to be set vpon by theeues who with their swords should hurt wound vs and take our money goods from vs I demaund of you whether they ought lawfully to possesse it as their owne because they got it by their swords The Hollander I am not obliged to shape you an answere to euery tryfling question you may aske me The Brabander And I am of opinion that no man is obliged to answere vnto any questiō whereunto he is not able to answere But yet I know that if such robbers by the high-way-side should fall into the handes of Iustice they should not be freed frō the hands of the hangman by excusing thēselues that our money goods belonged vnto them because they had gotten it from vs with their swordes The Hollander Let it be as be it may Our high mightfull Lords and States Generall of the Vnited Netherlands haue power and authority and because at the beginning of our discourse you asked me for Newes know now that these our Lords and States haue lately published a Placcart wherein in spite of all that are agaynst it they haue shewed that they haue authority This Placcart conteyneth a prohibition that no Iesuytes Priests Friars or other ordayned persons of Romish profession shall come into these vnited Prouinces or being there may still remayne and continue Moreouer that no man shall send any children to schoole or to remayne in any Cittyes Places Vniuersityes or Schooles vnder the commaund of the King of Spayne in the enemies Countreys or in other Colledges of Iesuites And that no gatherings or collectiōs of money gold siluer coyned or vncoyned or of other goods or wares shal be made to or for the benefit or behoofe of any Churches Hospitalls Spirituall or other Colledges or Conuenticles The Brabander In this tytle of a Placcart published by authority of such as haue not any authority all I note three points 1. The first is the prohibition or forbidding of Priestes and Iesuytes the Countrey 2. The second is that no children may goe to Schoole in any place vnder the commaund of the King of Spayne or in Colledges of Iesuytes 3. The third is that no money may be giuen to the vse or benefit of any Churches Hospitals Spiritual or other Colledges The Hollander So it is and so enacted and established in the assembly of the aforenamed High-mighty Lords the States generall in the Earles-Hage the six and twentith day of February in the yeare of sixteen hundreth two and twenty and there printed by Hillebrand Iabobson sworne printer vnto the High-mighty Lords the States generall The Brabander Heerby I am brought to vnderstand that this Placcart of the High-minded Lords the States is printed in the Earles-Hage Ergo There is an Earle to whome this Hage appertayneth this Earle notwithstanding that he is lawfully issued and descended and consequently the true heyre vnto those ancient Earles that haue gouerned there yet is he of new States which are no Earles wholy thurst out who haue now made thereof a States-Hage but must neuerthelesse suffer it to continue the name of an Earles-Hage in memory of the true claime which the Earle owner thereof hath vnto it Heere then is this Placcart printed by Hillebrand Iacobson sworne Printer vnto the High-minded Lords the states wherby may be noted that this sworne Printer vnto those States is not to leaue out any lye that they shall please to giue him in any Placcart of theirs to print for feare of being found periured The Hollander The Lords the States do giue him no lyes to print The Brabander Doe they punish him when lyes are found printed in their Placcarts The Hollander He is not punished because no such lyes are found The Brabander They that know not a lye from a truth or will not know it fynd it not but they that can discerne vntruthes from truthes can find them out albeit they stand in established Proclamatiōs of highly named Netherland States And surely this must needes proue a more lucky Placcart then many forgoing haue proued if no lyes were to be found in it and especially where there is mention made of Iesuytes and Ecclesiasticall persons The Hollander Indeed the Iesuytes in this Placcart are called a pernicious murtherous sect that they of this sect other priests Friars and spiritual or religious named persons of the Romish Religion doe endeauour to bring the good inhabitants of these vnited Netherland Prouinces by meanes of their fals doctrine Idolatry to an auersion from their lawfull Superiours to the murthering of Princes and Potentates to instruct them in all kyndes of treason agaynst them thereby to preferre the Tyranny and absolute Domination of the King of Spayne and his adherents in worldly and of the Pope of Rome and his dependants in spirituall causes The Brabander Haue I not ghessed right I see now that this Placcart will not for lacke of lyes make any fore-going Placcart ashamed for heere they fall so fast one vpon another that I had need of some breathing tyme to note them The Iesuytes are heere named a pernicious and murtherous sect which is a shamefull lye That the Iesuytes other Priests and spirituall named Persons of the Romish religion doe seeke to bring the inhabitants through their false doctrine to Idolatry is a blasphemous lye That they seeke to bring these inhabitātes to an auersion from their lawfull superiours is a needlesse lye for the Caluinian Preachers and the States themselues haue already done the same That they seeke to bring them to the murthering of Princes and Potentates is a Diuelish lye That they instruct them to all kind of treason agaynst Princes and Potentates is a horrible lye That they seeke in these Countreys to preferre the Tyranny of Spayn is a villanous lye The Hollander It is not inough to say that these are all lyes but they must be prooued so to be The Brabander How els Haue you but the patience that I may haue tyme to doe it Seeing then that the Iesuytes are heere put in the first place and called by the Epithere of a pernicious murtherous sect and that they and other spirituall persons do seeke to procure the murthering of Princes and Potentates this also being a common slaunder and Calumny which dayly rydeth on the serpētine tonges of your Holland Caluinian Ministers It is then needfull to examine and call into consideration what murthers of Princes and Potentates haue hapned in Christendome in this age of ours and since the tyme that the order of the Iesuits by Saint Ignatius de Loyola was founded The number of Princes and Potentates that haue come to such violent and vnfortunate endes I fynd to haue byn eight The first of these was the most Reuerend and Illustrious Lord Melchior Zobel Bishop of Herbipolis and Duke of Franconia in Germany This Prince was cruelly murthered as he was

holy Bishop Saint Martin and the bones of the holy Saint Francis of Paula and ioyning vnto these bones the body of a dead Asse they burnt all three togeather to the end Catholiks should not saue any part of the bones or ashes for reliques and yet to make more sure worke they did cast all the ashes into the riuer of Loire They would also haue broken down wholy destroyed the Abbey of S Denis in France withall the tombes of the Kings of France that there are buried but that the Prince of Condy who then was their chiefe was faine to preuent it by appointing a Guard about the Abbey which he did in regard that he was descended from some of the Kings that there lye buryed The Caluinists of Scotland haue destroyed the Tombes of the Kings of that Countrey aswell in the Abbey of Dunfermeling as in the Abbey of the Holy Crosse In Bruxelles when the Caluinian Gewses had their domination there they opened the vault in the Church of S. Godula where some of the Dukes of Brabant were buryed and brake open the leaden chests and threw out their bones These are acts of Caluinian reformed louers of Princes that not only rebell against them and murther them but when they are dead endure not that their bodyes may quietly remaine in their sepulchers Are not these good testimonies of the great affection that these reformed brethren beare vnto Princes and Potentates Surely Kings Princes and Potentates may take notice of the great change in these fellowes who so suddainly are become so great Care-takers for their safties But because there is no appearance that Princes and Potentates will send their Ambassadors into Holland to thanke them for their care it seemes they can smell it is but a dissembled care and that they doe not heerin giue credit vnto those reformed or deformed Brethren The Hollander I see not for all this that Iesuytes are welcome to all Princes and Potentates The Brabander They are welcome to all those that best know them but it is no wonder that such as are misinformed by lying-teachers and haue no good affection to Catholike religion haue an auersion from Iesuites for they neither know them nor yet come to heare any right report of them from the mouthes of those that truly know their piety and vertuous conuersation But to the end you may know whether the greatest Princes of Christendome do know and respect them or no I will heere for the better knowledge of the ignorant and in opposition to those that out of a resolued malice doe calumniate them make it briefly to appeare in what accompt and reputation they stand with those aforesaid Princes that thereby their Caluinian Maligners and all others may see what they haue profitted by their so loud barking against them in Placcarts in pulpits in pamphlets all kind of detraction Yet with protestation before God that I do this and haue resolued to doe it wholy of my selfe without being thereunto desyred moued or counselled by any Iesuite in the world or being a Iesuite my selfe Let vs then begin with his Holines Gregory the Fifteenth now Pope at this present who chose for his Confessor Cardinall Bellarmyne of the Society of IESVS The Emperour Ferdinand now raigning hath to his Confessor a Iesuite The most Christian King of France hath to his Confessour a Iesuyte The victorious King of Polonia hath to his Confessor a Iesuite The Ecclesiastical Princes Electors with the Duke of Bauaria and almost all the Catholike Princes and Prelates of Germany haue to their confessours Iesuites And so haue in like manner the greatest Prelates and Princes of Italy And albeit his Catholike Maiesty of Spayne hath no Iesuite to his confessour but a Friar of the Dominicans according to an ancient custome of some former Kings of Spayne yet is he very much affected to the Iesuites of the which one was confessor to his mother and his Brother and Sister haue vnto their Confessour a Iesuite called Father Ieronimo de Florentia whome King Philip the third of glorious memory Father vnto the present King Philip the fourth caused to come vnto him for his consolation in his greatest sicknes and to remaine with him till he gaue vp the Ghost So haue also many of the greatest Prelates and Princes of his Court Iesuites to their Confessours In like sort haue the principallest Prelates Princes in the Court of the Emperour in the Court of the King of France and in the court of the King of Polonia c. Are the Iesuites murtherers of Princes and Potentates and haue the greatest Princes and Potentates of all Christendome no more feare of them then to admit them daily in their presence To make choice of them as of those especiall persons vnto whom they reueale the secrets of their soules cōsciences This is no signe that they beliue Caluinists hold Iesuites for Prince-killers but a manifest token that they hold Caluinists for false accusers and Iesuites for true seruantes of Christ whose great learning vnderstanding accompanyed with true religious deuotion with a well tempered discretion and all kinde of vertue these Princes owne experience hath sufficiently taught them to discerne I will neuer desire Caluinists to cease from calumniating Iesuites they doe heereby make themselues the more knowne vnto Catholike Princes Potentates for malicious Calumniatours Caluinists cannot teach Catholike Princes to know Iesuites because they are sure they know them better then Caluinists can know them and Caluinists better then otherwise they should by their calumniating them Heere standeth it also to be noted that some Princes who haue disposed themselues to abandon the world and to serue God in religious state of life haue become Iesuites As the Duke of Gandia in Spayne Aloisius Gonzaga sonne heyre vnto Ferdinand Marquis of Castillion the Duke of Bouino in Italy And now of late Charles of Lonayne Prince and Bishop of Verdune Prince of the Empire and Cosin to his Maiesty of England with sundry other great and noble persons Now is it in all reason to be considered that if such noble Men and Princes who for no other respect then the meere loue seruice of God entred into this Society should not therin haue foūd the deuout godly life of these Fathers with such exercise of learning vertue not to be in all respects conforme to the good opinion which they had conceaued therof before they came among thē there can be no doubt but they wold haue departed frō thē albeit they had made proofe of their conuersation for some yeares togeather for that this Order doth not oblige profession to be made at the end of one yeares probation but alloweth an vnlimited tyme of more yeares Considering with my selfe what great persons in this our age notwithstanding all slaunders that calumniating aduersaries haue raysed against Iesuites Priests Friars c. haue abandoned the world religiously to serue God in pouerty chastity obedience in

sundry Orders and that a Duke hath byn seene to become a Capuchin in Paris and the Brother of a Duke to become of the same austere order in Bruxelles I was mooued to thinke that it may belōg before we may see a Gewse or Caluinian Duke or Prince become a Minister albeit that condition of life obligeth not to the making and performing of any such vowes or to any austerity at all but to liue with ease in the Ghospell of free liberty There is a prouerbe in the Netherland language that Herman did in tyme get on his dublet after he had byn seauen yeares drawing on of one sleeue but I suppose Hermans dublet might wholy be gotten on and quite worne out before a man might see such persons moued by the great piety they might obserue in Ministers to enter with them into the seruice of the Word But to returne vnto my precedent purpose me thinkes it were not heere impertinent to see and consider what cause there may be found of the great hatred which Caluinists beare vnto Iesuytes and not Caluinists alone but all other Sectaryes for albeit they beare il will and hatred vnto all Catholikes especially vnto all Ecclesiasticall persons yet is it manifest vnto al the world that the Iesuites of all others haue the precedence in the malice of Caluinists And seeing something there may seeme to be that is singular in these religious men more then in others I haue the more endeauored to discerne what this may be and three thinges I haue obserued 1. This first is that there was neuer any Order in the Catholik Church that in so short a space hath dispersed it selfe so farre ouer the world to make the name of Iesus Christ knowne vnto heathen and Pagan people 2. The second is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath written so many learned bookes aswel in diuinity as in al other laudable sciences 3. The third is that there was neuer any Order that in so short a tyme hath had so great a number of Martyrs as well by the persecution of Pagans as Apostata Christians As for their exercises of deuotion labour in preaching hearing of confessions instructing and bringing vp of youth in learning without any recompence of their parents making of attonements where there is dissention and discord readines at all houres of the day and night to visit the sicke and to consolate their soules is not now needfull heere to be spoken at large but when I well consider their manifold deedes of Deuotion and Charity I remember the wordes of Christ vnto the Iewes when for his good deedes they would haue stoned him to death I haue wrought many good workes among you for which of those will you stone me Enuy is the deadly enemy of vertue and of wel-prospering The Iesuites thankes be to God do go well forward in al their works of piety and for these Sectaryes will stone them and beeing themselues the actual murtherers of Iesuytes it is no maruell that they seeke to robbe tak away the good name fame of those whose lyues they let not to take away nor is it any wonder that they to coulour their owne tyrannous murthering of Iesuites giue out that Iesuytes are murtherers of Princes Potentates As if themselues did put Iesuites to death therby to saue the lyues of Princes potentates which Iesuites would els bereaue them off But what loue Caluinists and principally Holland-Gewse-Caluinistes do beare vnto Princes themselues doe now adayes the lōger the more make better known vnto the greatest Princes of Christendome then they can make knowne vnto them that Iesuites are murtherers of them and of Potentates The Hollander I must confesse that you haue heere manifested vnto me much more then before I euer knew or heard of But yet notwithstanding that it cannot be perceaued that the Iesuites haue had any hād in the deaths of any of the eight Princes heere by you mentioned it should seeme they haue had knowledge of intentions of murthering Princes as of Queene Elizabeth of England King Henry the fourth of France before he was murthered by Rauaillac his Maiesty that is now King of Great Britayne by the gunpowder Treason his Excellency Prince Maurice in Holland The Brabander For the first concerning Queene Elizabeth of England if we well consider her abandoning of the Catholike Religion which at her coronation she swore to mayntayne and that beeing a woman she tooke vpon her supreame authority in Ecclesiasticall causes which your Caluinian deuines in Holland do affirme to be Idolatry either in man or woman ordayning also by her Statutes that those who should deny to confesse her Ecclesiasticall authority vpon their oathes should suffer death as traytors That she deposed and put from their places the Catholike Bishops and Prelates casting some in prison forcing others to fly the realme That she ordayned a forfayture of twenty poundes a moneth for not comming to her Caluinian-protestant Church-seruice with other lesser forfaytures for Catholikes of lesse meanes who in regard of their consciences absented themselues from the sayd seruice by meanes whereof the prisons euery where became so replenished with Catholikes that new prisons must be made for thē because the old could not conteyne the number Moreouer the putting to death of so many Catholike Priestes as also the putting to death and ruyning of some Gentlemen and others that had harbored them The question now is whether Gewses or Caluinists being to the contrary so treated by any Prince that had sworne to maintayne their Caluinian religion they would with patience endure it Who can belieue this Seeing they haue not letted to rebell agaynst their Princes and Soueraignes that haue intruded no innouation or change in religion vpon them as agaynst the Kings of Spaine France and against Mary Queene of Scotland who I say can belieue this when it is apparent that the very ground-worke and foundation of Caluinian religion is layed setled vpon rebellion as to all the world it is manifest This Queene Elizabeth was so seuere and cruell that she letted not to burne alyue some of our countrey-men beeing Netherlanders not her borne Subiects for their Anabaptisme and caused some Puritans which are directly concurring in religion with the Caluinists of Holland to be hanged and others to fly the realme and lyue in exile because they had sought both by wryting and preaching to bring the religion of England to the iust forme and fashion of that of Geneua Holland Punishing then the Anabaptistes as heretikes and the Puritans as seditious she hath not letted to vse a greater cloke and colour for her persecuting of Catholikes and this was to cause to be giuen out at diuers times that they meant to kill her She imployed among other for one of her spyes sometyme in France somtyme in Italy one William Parry This Parry coming vpon a tyme out of Italy supposing to get more credit

tongue I shall not need in this matter further to enlarge my selfe That King Henry the fourth of Frāce was hurt by one Iohn Chastell at Paris who meant to haue killed him some years before he was killed by Rauaillac is knowne to all the world This Chastell had somtyme byn a scholler in the schooles of the Iesuytes Ergo say the Hugenotes the Iesuytes instructed him to murther the King Surely a very fayre conclusion Many youthes go to other schooles wherof some come afterward to comit criminall offences as treasons murthers thefts and the like is it not a good argument great reason that for this their School-maisters must be punished or defamed The fact of Chastell came to be iudged looked into by certayne Politykes and great enemyes of Iesuites and in a fury the Iesuytes were commaunded out of Paris a Piramide was erected in memory of this fact and in accusation of the Iesuites the Iesuites patiented this Calumny vntill tymes daughter might be admitted to haue audience which in the end so came to passe that this King thankes be vnto God vnto whose view the Iesuites had byn by their Hugenotes and Politike backe-friends so vgly painted out and described receaued at their handes so great satisfaction of their innocency that he not only caused the Fathers of this Society to be receaued agayne into Paris and caused the scandalous Piramide to be raced downe to the ground but by many benefits done by him vnto these Fathers besides the erecting for them the fayrest Church and Colledge they haue in all France he shewed himselfe their very great affectioned true Friend yea he made choyse of thē to be the preceptors and scoole-maisters vnto his owne Children to declare vnto the world that he held them not for euil instructors of youth as they had byn vniustly reported to be Who can desire greater testimony of these Fathers acquyting from this great calumny Let vs now come vnto his Maiesty the present King of great Britaine concerning the acculation of Father Henry Garnet in the matter of the gun-powder treason This treason was without all doubt a most wicked intention of some Catholikes that with patience would not endure the persecution which so many of their Catholike-brethren had so long so patiently endured and as the good Christians in the persecutions of the Roman Emperous also did But who wotteth whether this might not be a deuice first practised in the subtill brayne of the Secretary Sir Robert Cecil who by some subtill deuice might get it put into the heades of some Catholikes aswell as the Secretary Sir Francis Walsingam had before that imployed one Polie a favgned Catholik to draw those Gentlemen into the conspiracy of deliuering out of durance Mary Queene of Scotland his maiesties mother that now raygneth by which meanes of those Gentleman came all to lose their hues and that good Queene also But let that be as be it might One of those Catholikes that was priuy to the sayd powder treason confessed on the torture that he had in confession giuen Father Garnet knowledge of the matter He sayd not that Father Garnet was one of the conspirators or that he animated him or any of them vnto it but to the contrary that he had earnestly diswaded him from it They were put to death Father Garnet was apprehended he was accused to haue byn priuy to the treason and that he had not discouered it Father Garnet answered that he might not in any sort vtter ought that was reuealed vnto him in cōfessiō for secrecy of all that which is vttered in cōfession must euer be an inuiolable precept in the Catholike Church for the priest that should do the contrary is to be degraded and to be shut vp and put to pennance all the dayes of his life But Father Garnet declared that he was so earnest in forbidding him to comit this foule fact that he denyed to giue him absolution vnlesse he would desist from this intention what could the Father haue done more if the conspiracy had byn against the Pope himselfe Thus then was this innocent Father put to death not for that he was a conspiratour or actour in this treason but because he would not violate the strong seale and obligation of the holy Sacramēt of Cōfession which no Priest vpon earth can be licensed to doe It hapned at such tyme as the Caluinian-Gewses had vsurped through their rebellion the gouernement of the Citty of Antwerp that a Spanish merchant there dwelling named Iaspar de Enastro hauing vnderstood that King Philip the second of Spayne had declared by sentence that William of Nassaw Prince of Orange of whome he was the Lawfull soueraigne Lord was fallē in crimen laesae maiestatis for his publike rebellion agaynst his beforenamed Soueraygne and did thereby deserue to suffer death that he had put the execution of the said sentence in the hands of any such person or persons as would vndertake it He thereupon counselled and perswaded a young fellow that was his seruant called Iohn de Iauregny borne in Biscay to performe this act But when this Iauregny was ready to goe about it the aforesayd Enastro his mayster got himselfe out of the way Iauregny with a pistoll shot the Prince of Orange through the checkes whereof he dyed not but Iauregny was presently killed by some of the Prince his seruants heerupon enquiry being made it was vnderstood that Iauregny did vse to go to confession to one Father Antonius Timmerman a religious man of the order of S. Dominicke This Religious man was apprehended and asked what Iohn de Iauregny had vttered vnto him in Confession The Religious Father well knowing the strict commaundement of the Catholike Church that nothing that is vttered in confession must be reuealed made answere that he knew not because that he indeed did know nothing concerning this mans confession that he might vtter His examiners then caused him to be hanged by his thumbes with weightes fastned to his toes to force him by this torture to reueale vnto them what had by Iauregny byn reuealed vnto him in confession but the Reuerend and resolute Father would in no sort violate therein the law and commaundment of the vniuersall Church of God but alwayes whyle he hung in this great torment he called vpon God saying out of the 140. Psalme Keep o Lord my mouth and my lipps that I sinne not with my tongue Heerupon they sentenced him to death and to the deuiding of his body into foure quarters which death martyrdome he constantly endured Of the before-mentioned Powder-treason was also accused Father William Baldwine of the SOCIETY of IESVS This Father as he trauailed in Germany was by Frederike the fourth then Palsgraue of the Rhene apprehended neere vnto Franckendale by him sent prisoner vnto the Ambassador of his Maiesty of England then resident at Duyseldorp in the Countrey of Cleue And worthy it is to be noted that on the very same

day that this Father was deliuered into the handes of the English Ambassadour at Duyseldorp the sayd Palsgraue dyed at Heydelberge so came to tast of death himselfe sooner then the Father which he intended to send to the slaughter The Father was carryed into England where after he had remayned prisoner many yeares in the Tower of London and not the least point in the world could be proued against him cōcerning the aforesayd Treason notwithstanding that in some printed bookes it was published that he was culpable he was at last deliuered out of prison and dismissed the Realme Concerning one Peter Pan sayd to be sent by the Iesuytes of Ipres in Flanders to kill Prince Maurice in Holland the matter hath byn throughly examined and the Calumny raysed agaynst those Fathers sufficiently refuted in a Printed booke wherein is also set downe an attestation of the Magistrates of Ipres of whence this Peter Pan was wherin this accusatiō is shewed to be false Peter Pan was knowne to be a fellow that was frantike but the madnes of his braynes could not free him out of the handes of the Holland-hangman for the Iustice of Holland found it wisdome to put this poore foole to death I trust I haue heere cleerly declared how the Iesuites haue by their Caluinian enemyes byn most falsly calumniated and albeit that themselues do in such cases recomend their cause to God disposing themselues to beare with patience all iniuryes for the loue of CHRIST IESVS notwithstanding they well know how false they are yet my selfe euen of zeale vnto truth and equity could not omit to vtter thus much vpon the occasion now giuen The custome of giuing out that Iesuites and Priests do intend to murther Princes was first takē vp in England put in practise by some of Queene Elizabeths Caluinian Counsellers who to haue the better colour to persecute Catholikes whome they feared might encrease to fast as also to make them the lesse compassionate of the people did seeke to make them odious by ordinarily giuing out that they went about to kill the Queen But that the sayd Queen and her Counsellers themselues did not belieue this reason maketh manifest for whē is it found that a Prince or Ruler fearing that for some certaine notorious cause he is in dāger to be killed by any of his subiects will notwithstāding continue the same cause yea and daily more more increase it as this Queen did her persecution how can this agree with reason of State for through continuance and increase of persecution those that are persecuted doe comonly also increase and it might fall out that among the number of the persecuted for all do not alwayes endure with like patience some might be found that being driuen to desperate termes might attempt some such thing for as the Philosopher sayth the fly hath her splene but the patient suffering for religion is especially taught and recomended by Catholike teachers and the contrary by others of contrary Religions and especially Caluinists of whose hoat and reuengefull spirits the world hath already had testimony inough Father William Criton the Scottish Iesuyte before named being before some of Queene Elizabeths Counsell a little before his departure out of the Countrey sayd vpon occasion concerning this matter My Lords you vse heere a manner of giuing out among your subiects that Iesuites and Priestes do go about to kill your Queene but in very truth if we intended any such thing she could not liue for you must vnderstand that there are a multitude of people of the Catholike religion that haue wholy abandoned the world and haue chosen to liue in all strictnes and austerity sequestring themselues from all worldly pleasures desiring and indeauouring nothing more then to leaue this world and to liue with God in his Kingdome of heauen Among these men that so little respect the world diuers may be found who beeing perswaded that it were so meritorious a deed before God that he who should deliuer the world from an enemy and persecutor of the Catholike religion and therfore loose his life should straightwayes enter into the eternall ioyes of heauen without all doubt this matter would not be left vnattempted The counsellers hearing this had little to say to the contrary The Hollander To say the truth I must needs confesse I haue heere heard much more thē I supposed could be sayd I do now well perceaue a man can neuer come to the true vnderstanding of what standeth in controuersy before he haue heard both partyes The Brabander I haue first recounted what Princes and Potentates haue byn murthered or made away in our dayes and after that I haue spoken of intentions or meanings to make away Princes It resteth that I now speake of the intentions of Gewses or Caluinian reformed Brethren about the murthering or making away of Princes those innocēt wolues I meane that haue had their handes in the bloud of fiue of the eight Princes before named to the end we may also see how pure and vnspotted they are in their good meanings intentiōs to haue put that busines in further practise First then it is a thing cleere notorious that the Hugnenots of France had a resolued purpose to haue murthered the most Christian King Francis the second with his mother and sundry of the nobility in the Citty of Amboise It is also most certayne that a Zeland Gewse or Caluinist meant to haue blown vp William of Nassaw Prince of Orange with some of the Holland and Zeland States with gun-powder in the Towne-house of Flushing if it had not byn discouered by him that assisted him to conuey the powder into the seller or vault of the sayd Towne-house And had this succeeded according to the purpose of the authour thereof Baltazar Gerard that afterward killed the sayd Prince of Orange had saued his life and his labour and the Gewses reformed Brethren had had the honour of murthering six of the eight Princes before named When I consider this Prince and these intentions of his death me thinkes it must needes be a great signe that he was not in the fauour of God since as well Caluinists as Catholikes went about to kill him Heerto may also be added the Earle of Gowry in Scotland a Caluinist also The history is publike in print how he meant to haue killed the King wherof yearly memory both in Scotland England is continued on the fifth day of August for his Maiesties deliuery The Hollander You make me almost ashamed of my selfe to consider that our people in Holland do make such exclamations agaynst Iesuytes and Priestes and are shewed to be in those foule facts faulty themselues and the Iesuyts and Priests whome they accuse not faulty at all The Brabander I am well content thinke my labour well bestowed when I fynd my selfe to haue to doe with such as wil affoard place vnto truth and reason before passion and partiality But heere are you also to vnderstand