long detayned in Castile takes his way to Arragon where hee recounts the wrongs that had beene done him to the preiudice of the auncient priuiledges and liberties of their countrey His complaint was generally applauded by all and especially by the Iesuits who inwardly reioyce at any occasion of trouble and commotion They begin by their confessions one of their chiefe weapons to winne the hearts of diuers subiects against their King in Sarragossa the mother Citie of the Realme giuing thē counsell to rise vp in armes in this heat euerie man betakes himselfe to his weapons The king of Spayne on his part armeth himselfe in like manner The Iesuits seeing the forces of the Arragonians on foot readie to put themselues into the field to encounter the kings power they turning their coates began by their sermons and confessions to runne a new course There was no more talking of priuiledges they made no reckoning of the world but of their consciences towards God who commaunded them precisely to liue in obedience to their King that if they would submit themselues vnto him he would take them to mercie a thing whereof they were well assured hauing Letters signed by him to that effect Vpon this promise of theyrs some particuler persons retyre themselues to the Kings Lieutenant generall and obtaine their pardon By whose example manie others doe the like By this meanes the Armie of the Arragonians is dissolued of it selfe The King of Spaynes forces enter Sarragossa without any stroake strooken where they beginne to play theyr parts they pull downe diuers houses to the ground as well of the Cittie as of the Countrie put the chiefe of the Nobility to death raise a Citadell within the Towne and put a garrison into it And since that time the King of Spaine hath commaunded there absolutely as hee doth in the rest of his dominions Those that are ill affected to the Iesuits giue out that they sowed the first seedes of this rebellion by a double carriage of the matter vnderhand which kinde of dealing is very common and familiar with them If that be true they are the more to be condemned I for my part who am enclined to iudge the best impute it wholy to theyr simplicitie and that in medling in matters of state wherein God wot they are but Nouices they ouerthrow those that fondly giue eare vnto them Wherunto the gentleman replying I am not saith he of their number that wish them ill for they neuer deserued ill of me yet I make no question but when they incited the Arragonians to reuolt it was but a iugling trick to further the King of Spaines intendments For as you know much better then my selfe Kings are manie times well pleased with such rebellions that they may thereby take occasion to suppresse and restraine the auncient priuiledges of theyr subiects and to reduce them into euen ranke with theyr fellowes And this leades me persisting in my former opinion to conceiue more and more that the Iesuit beares a Spanish hart that is a hart naturally deuoted to the King of Spaine Besides if you take this Arragonian historie euen in that sence yet should your rule fall short for this practise of theirs fell out most successefully vnto them The Aduocate made aunswere to the Gentleman saying The matter is not great you may conceiue of it as please your selfe as for mee I am of another minde I am perswaded my opinion comes neerer the truth But not to digresse from the matter in hand you shall finde no historie more strange as touching the argument in question then that which of late memorie hath happened to the King of Poland Stephen Batori beeing also King of Sweden This Prince being altogether Iesuited and hauing beene mightily importuned by them to be admitted into his Realme of Sweden at last resolued to satisfie their desire His ordinarie residence is in Poland and for Sweden Duke Charles his Vncle is his Lieutenant generall The King desirous to accomplish what the Iesuits requested signified his pleasure directly to his vncle Charles made him aunswere that the people would neuer be brought to like of that Societie and besought the King his nephew not to grow into termes with his subiects to whom he had giuen his promise at the time of his coronation neuer to receiue the Iesuits into his Realme wherunto the chiefe States of the Land had likewise subscribed But he that saw not but by their eyes heard not but by their eares resolued to goe thorow withall notwithstanding these humble admonitions and to enter his realme with an Armie to make his subiects belieue that he meant good earnest for preuenting whereof they arme themselues likewise on their part The matter was so carried that the Prince was first ouerthrowne by sea afterwards discomfited by Land and taken prisoner within a while after he was set at libertie and restored to his Crowne vnder promise to call a Parliament and to obserue what should therein be concluded and agreed vpon The States were summoned he in time of the Parliament conueyed himselfe away leauing garrisons in certaine places which were at his deuotion Beeing returned backe againe to Polande by the instigation of the Iesuits who wholy possest him hee gathered together the scattered boordes of his shipwrackt Armie implores ayde of the States of Poland to reuenge the wrong which he sayd was done him In the meane time while hee was about his preparations as yet he is the Polanders lending a deafe eare to the matter his vncle tooke frō him those places which were remaining in his subiection within Sweden and is at the poynt to put him quite besides his kingdome which was gotten by the prowesse of Gustaue his grandfather and kept by the wisedome of his Father Poland beeing not very firme to him withall And for all thys his fall and ouerthrow he may thanke none but the Iesuits whose protection he would needs vndertake After I haue trauailed into all these farre Countries I will returne to mine owne The Iesuits raised troubles in the state of Fraunce vnder pretence to roote Caluinisme out of the land In this quarrell the Spaniard was called to for assistance who entertained no meane hopes seeing himselfe commaund within Paris with open armes and aboue all other fauoured by the Iesuits who had the whole rule and superintendencie ouer that Anarchie or confused gouernment of the sixteene Tyrants set vp by the multitude I will not say what the departure of the Spaniard was this I will say that the Kings entrance into Paris was so tryumphant as the Spaniard thought himselfe happie that he might hold his life of him by fealtie homage Moreouer the trayterous practises of the Iesuits which vanished into smoake were the occasion that by a decree made in the high court of Paris themselues vvere banisht and expelled as well out of the good Cittie of Paris as out of the iurisdiction of that Court. To conclude I see not
are none but the fathers of the last vow bound to the Pope in this Mission they make account that the holy Sea is infinitely beholding to thē for it There Generall can do more For he is permitted by their constitutions to send as well some of them of the great vow as of the other whither soeuer he will without partialitie or exception of any person Idem Generalis in Missionibus omnē hababit potestatem in tamen nulla ratione repugnando 9. Par. const ca. 3. art 9. quae à sede Apostolica vt in septima parte dicitur proficiscuntur Mittere ergo poterit omnes sibi subditos siue professionem emiserint siue non emiserint quos mittendos iudicauerit ad quaslibet mundi partes ad quoduis tempus vel definitum vel indefinitum prout ei videbitur ad quamuis actionem ex his quibus ad proximorū auxilium Societas solet exercendant Poterit etiam missos reuocare in omnibus denique vt ad maiorem Dei gloriam fore senserit procedere The said Generall saith the Latin shall haue all authoritie in Missions yet without derogating any way frō those which are granted by the Sea Apostolick as it is said in the seuenth part It is lawful for him therfore to send any of his inferiors whether they haue made profession of the vow or not whom he shal think meet to any part of the world for what time he please prefixed or not prefixed for any purpose in which the Society is wont to be employed for the good of their neighbours It is lawfull for him also to call home them that are sent and to doe in all things as the shall thinke it most conuenient for Gods glory I doe not thinke it straunge that their Generall may countermaund them that are sent by the Pope because he had leaue to do it by the Bull of 1549. But concerning that point which depends only vpon their constitutions that the Generall may send whither he will not only the fathers profest but all other inferiors of his order I cannot choose but he greatly offended at the matter For to grant such libertie is to giue too much to their Generall and too little to our holy Father the Pope Therfore as oft as they trumpet out to vs this vow of Mission by which their fathers of the great vow are bound to the holy Sea they mocke both him vs. For this vow is superfluous their constitutions being such for their Generall as I haue shewed you Of which constitutions also they haue no Pope for warrant and they are extraordinarily punishable for hauing vsurped this priuiledge vpon the holy Sea of their owne priuate authoritie CHAP. 17. ¶ Of the blindfold obedience which the Iesuits owe the Pope which at this day they impudently denie by theyr new bookes PAsquiier pleading for the Vniuersitie of Paris against the Iesuits obiected to them that they yeelded a certaine particuler submission to the Pope that was vtterly contrarie to the liberties of our Ch. of Fraunce A submission that first brought in a schissme into the Church betwixt the popish Iesuit the true catholique French-man Besides of such consequence that if any quarrell should happen betwixt the Popes our Kings the Iesuits would be as sworne enemies to the Crowne of Fraunce as any that we foster in Fraunce When this obiection was made against them Verseris theyr Aduocate answered neuer a word to it as you may see by his Plea But as the time hath refined theyr wits so they haue bethought themselues of a buckler for this blow by a new kind of Sophistrie saying that they make no other particular vow to the Pope then that of Mission and that in all other poynts they are conformable to vs. So they would haue defended themselues in the yeere 1594. when their cause was pleaded the second time in the Parliament at Paris as you may vnderstand by that which I alleaged out of their defences And Montaignes in his book of the Truth defended faith that their vow is containd in these wordes of their profession Mont. c. 24. after the three vowes of Religion Insuper promitto specialem obedientiam summo Pontifici circa Missiones Which signifieth nothing els but that they which are profest promise to obey their holy father the Pope specially without delay or excuse to goe into any part of the world to the Indies or to the Turks among the Infidels and heretiques to conuert them or to the Christians to ayde them But aboue all he best pleaseth me which made The most humble supplication and request to the King for the Societie of Iesus who after he had daubd ouer his cause with many hypocriticall reasons when he comes to this poynt of obedience to the Pope his booke beeing shut vp as if by ouer-sight he had forgot to aunswere it adds by way of an appendix beside the Booke about some twentie lines to this effect Addition to page 56. The same Author hath taught our enemies to take vp matter of reproch about a vow that the profest of our Societie make to the holy Sea vppon which they haue glozed that wee promise to obey it wholy in all thinges whatsoeuer it shall commaund and that if the Pope be a Spaniard we will be so to if he please which glosse is not onely contrarie to the truth but also beside the purpose and matter This vow my Liege containes nothing but a promise readily to employ our selues when it shall please the holy Sea among the Infidels Pagans and Hereticks to conuert thē to the fayth The words of the vow are Further I promise speciall obedience to our holy Father in the matter of Mission This vow contains no other particular obligation cannot be but commendable in a time wherein there is so great need of good labourers to succor the church in danger And it weakens not nor hinders in any poynt the submission obedience allegeance which all subiects owe to their Princes the French to the King of Fraunce the Polanders to the King of Poland and so of others What cause haue they then to cry out that wee make a vowe to obey wholy in all thinges whatsoeuer shall be commaunded and that this vow will make vs Spanyards if the Pope please What agreement is there of such an antecedent with such a consequent Let the word Spayne goe I will make no aduantage of it eyther for or against the Iesuit Euery Prince playes his part vpon this great stage of the world as well as he can for the aduauncement of his estate A thing which is not vnseemly for him according to the rules of state matters which giue Princes leaue to loue treasons and hate Traytors Some such a one may haue ayded himselfe by the seruice of the Iesuits in our late troubles who shall one day find that they are very dangerous officers in his Country that by experience of that which
assembly some laboured harde to make immortall mercilesse war against the Hugonots yet demaunded an abatement of Subsidies a proposition ill sorting with the former those Subsidies hauing heen introduced of purpose to further the warres By means whereof the man of whom I speake taking first aduise of the Iesuits propounded a third course to league thēselues against the Hugonots and that such as willing lie enroled themselues vnder the League should be bound to contribute vnto the charge of this new warre These instructions receiued and published the Deputies did nominate a certaine Prince to be their head The last King knowing of what consequence this practise was and that succeeding it would make 3. parties in France his owne which was not one properly that of the League another of the Hugonots to breake this blow discreetly affirmed that he approued well this League but that be would be chiefe thereof which was to the end the League should flie no further then he was pleased to giue it wings The first stone of our ruine beeing cast in this manner the Prouosts of the Merchants and the Sheriffes of Paris returning home and loath that thys opinion of a League which they held most holy should miscarie sent theyr Commissions throughout all the Wards to to the end that such as would contribute should subscribe their names The Constables bare them vnto euerie house some hardier then the rest opposed themselues the greater number fearing worse subscribed The Commission was brought to Christopher le Tou chiefe Iustice whose memorie vvee cannot honour too much this good Lord refused not onely to subscribe but detayned the Commission it selfe and the next day in open Court detested this vnhappy innouation as an assured desolation to our state His authoritie his honestie his reasons wrought so great effect that euery one allowed and followed his aduise From thence-foorth this opinion of the League did weare away or rather vvas remitted to another season that better might befit the purposes of such as broached it Suddainly after the Parliament was ended Father Aimon Auger a Iesuit got the King to giue eare vnto him through his plausible hypocrisies And after him Father Claudius Matthew of Lorraine both the which had so great part in his good fauour that as Montaignes testifieth hee some-times caused them to ride along with him in his owne Coach At length this good King founde that these coozeners were desirous to incroach vppon the managing of State-matters about him Auger especially whom for that cause hee gaue order to his Embassadour at Rome to get him remooued out of Fraunce by Letters of obedience from his Generall The King departing from the Parliament pacified his subiects by an Edict of the yeere 1577. the which hee sayd was vvholly his owne and yet had by his wisedome cleane dashed the reformed Religion without bloodshed if the Iesuits would haue vouchsafed him the leisure to finish what he had begun Wageing in the midst of peace a gentle warre against the Hugonots gentle but more forcible in great mens oppinions then any weapons could haue made it For although that the Edict of 77. gaue some libertie vnto them yet the king neither called them to places of iudgement nor vnto offices in his Exchequer nor to the gouernments of Prouinces and Townes Hee had moreouer deuised the order of the holie Ghost reserued wholly for Catholicke Princes and Lords as also that of the Hieronimitans of our Lady of Vincennes where none were to appeare but Apostolicall Romane Catholiques and with whom laying aside his most high authoritie he fraternized in all kind of deuotion Nowe the presence of these causing the others absence belieue it was no small meanes to force them into the right way For there is nothing which the French Nobilitie affect so much as to be neere theyr King nor any thing that afflicts the common people more then to be kept from Offices this is a disease of minde that spoyles the Frenchman As soone as a Lawyer or Marchant haue by theyr endeuours stuffed theyr Closets and Storehouses with siluer the thing they chiefely ayme at is to bestowe it on places of Iudgement or roomes in the Exchequer for theyr Children so that the newe Religion beganne alreadie to dissolute and it grieued not the Auncients thereof vvho for shame and to auoyde the imputation of lightnes stucke vnto it to suffer their chyldren to be instructed in our Schooles and consequently to learne there the principles of our Religion All matters in this sort proceeded from ill to well from well to better the Countriman plyed harde his plough the Artificer his trade the Merchant his traffique the Lawyer his practise the Cittizen enioyed his reuenew the Magistrate his stipend the Catholick his owne religion throughout all Fraunce without impeachment The remainder of those Hugonots that liued being sequestred into a backe corner of the kingdome when our Iesuits seeing themselues remoued frō theyr Princes fauour beganne to lay this snare to intrap him Euen as the Societie of Iesuits is composed of all sorts of people some for the pen others for practise so had they amongst them one Father Henry Sammier of Luxembourge a man disposed for all assayes and resolued vnto any hazard This fellow was sent by them in the yeere 1581 towards diuers Catholicke Princes to sounde the Foorde And to say truly they could not haue chosen one more fit for he disguised himselfe into as many formes as obiects one while attired like a soldiour another while like a Priest by and by like a country Swaine Dice cardes and women were as ordinarie with him as his prefixed houres of prayer saying he did not thinke he sinned in this because it was done to the furtherance of a good worke to the exaltation of Gods glorie and that hee might not be discouered changing his name together with his habite according to the Countries wherein he purposed to negotiate He parted from Lorraine and thence went into Germany Italie and Spaine The summe of his instructions were that foreseeing the eminent danger of our Catholick religion the seeming conniuence which the King gaue to it and secret fauour hee yeelded on the other side to the Hugonots whereof the Duke his brother had made himselfe an open Protector in the Lowe-Countries their holie societie had resolued to vndertake this quarrell vnder the leading of a great Prince making sure account of Gods assistance seeing that it was directed to the aduauncement of his holy Name and good of his Church Thus Sammier got intelligence from each part and tooke assurance on all hands but presently to manifest their proiects the season fitted not because the Duke was aliue and the two brothers forces once vnited were sufficient to swallow all such as had made head against them And this was but the preamble vnto our Troubles In the yeere 83. he died That let remoued the Iesuits imbarqued in their quarrell such Lords as they thought good and
you a strange thing which I haue obserued in all their practises CHAP. 15. ¶ That the Iesuits were the cause of the death of Mary the Queene of Scots together with a briefe discourse what mischiefes they haue wrought in England HAuing hitherto discoursed of our countrey of Fraunce it will not bee amisse to cut ouer into England where Marie the Scottish Queene was sometimes detayned as a prisoner to the State for the space of 19. yeeres This Princesse was a most zealous Catholique and was mightily bent to take an order with the Puritans of England their Queene being once gone who had none neerer of blood to succeede her then the Queene of Scots As then the Iesuits in the yeere 1582. stirred the minds of great personages inciting them to take Armes so did Father Henrie Sammier their Embassadour goe ouer into England to trouble the State there He was then in the habite of a souldier in a doublet of Orenge tawny Satten cut and drawne out with greene Taffata a case of pistols at his saddle bow his sword by his side and a Scarfe about his necke I haue it from them that were not farre from his company Thus attired as he was hee practised a secret reuolt with certain Catholique Lords against their Queene which afterwards cost them deere by the wisedome of the Lord Treasurer After that he fell in with the Queene of Scots bearing her in hand that hee and those of his Societie treated with all the Catholique Princes as well for the reestablishing of Catholique Religion in England as also for the libertie of this poore desolate Princesse coniuring her by all manner of obtestations to listen thereunto and to dispose all her seruants and subiects to the accomplishing of so high an enterprise assuring her for his part to make good to her the Realme of England This proiect he laid with her but as these Iesuits haue naturally two hearts he plotted farre otherwise with the aforesaid Noble men of England in the behalfe of a more puissant Prince to defeat his poore Ladie of her future right both he and his adherents diuerting the principall Catholiques from the seruice which they had vowed to this Princesse signifying vnto them that her meanes was too weake and feeble for them to build any hope of rising thereupon And accordingly about the same time did the Iesuits publish in print the title which that other Prince pretended to the Crowne of England Which libel they dispersed in sundrie places of Christendome And albeit this was the principall marke they shot at yet did not Sammier desist to follow the said Queene tooth and nayle At the first hearing whereof she seemed to pause foreseeing the mischiefe that might ensue whereupon the audacious Iesuit said vnto her that if she were so cold in the matter he knew a meanes how to cut off both her and the King of Scotland her sonne from all hope of England for euer and that it was a clause in his instructions quod si molesta fuisset nec illa nec filius eius regnarent Insomuch as she was constrayned to yeeld thereunto And at that time the late Duke of Guise not knowing of the factions and partialities which these men wrought vnder hand in behalfe of the other Prince promised to be wholly for the Queene his Coosen And certainely I make no question but hee as a noble and valiant Prince would haue gone thorow withall had not the Iesuits engaged him in another new quarrell which he embracing on the one side and on the other forsaking his Coosens was left in the lurch in the end The Queene vpon the first intelligence of this new designe shedding aboundant teares and falling vpon her knees cried out Wo is me for both my coosen and my selfe are assurdly vndone In this meane time the troubles set footing in England by the practises of the Iesuit the Scottish Queenes conspiracies were discouered wherein she wanted a head the law proceeded against diuers the poore Catholiques which till that time were not molested for their consciences were forced to forsake their wiues and children and to leaue their houses to auoid the Magistrates seueritie Moreouer William Parrie who was executed in 84. confest that the murther of the Queene of England which he had conspired was to establish the Scottish Queene in her throne albeit she were not priuie to this plot which confession of his made the Queene and Counsell of England to start and to stand better vpon their guards In conclusion the Scottish Queens processe was commēced prosecuted to effect she was adiudged by Parliament to lose her head not long after died a Catholick with meruailous resolution By this you may collect that the Iesuits were the sole contriuers of her death and that they are so farre from hauing established Catholique Religion in England that contrariwise by their meanes both it hath beene quite banisht and a number of great and worshipfull houses brought to vtter ruine and destruction By reason whereof they haue confirmed the erronious doctrine of the Puritans and depriued those of our religion of all hope to set in foote againe vnlesse it be by speciall miracle from heauen CHAP. 16. ¶ That the Iesuits entermedling in matters of State after they haue troubled whole Realmes yet doe all things fall out quite contrarie to their expectation WHen our Sauiour Christ taught vs that we should giue vnto God that which belonged vnto him and to the Emperour of Rome his right likewise his meaning was that paying the Emperour his tribute we ought also to giue God his and in regard of him not to exceed the limits of our calling By which reason the good and true religious person ought to giue himselfe wholly to fasting prayer and heating of Sermons I know that the kings of this land doe sometimes call Prelates to be of their Councell according as their owne disposition leads them or as they finde those persons meet and able for the place yet doth it not therefore follow that they should make that a generall rule and president for the whole Clergie Were not the spirit of Diuision otherwise called the Diuell seated within the breasts of Iesuits I would say that there was neuer wiser Decree made then that of their Synode in the yeere 1593. whereby they were prohibited to meddle in State affaires not only because it is forbidden by God for that is the least part of their care but for that in reasoning the matter as a States-man I cannot see that euer they brought their practises to those ends which they aymed at They are like a March Sunne which stirreth humors in our bodies but is to weake to dispatch and dissolue them I will goe further such is their ill fortune that if they fauour any partie after they haue shuffled the cards al they can yet when the game is at an end he whose part they take euermore prooues the looser Insomuch as albeit to humane reason the Iesuit
since the passion of our Sauiour and Redeemer Iesus Christ and that which hath been approoued be all our auncient Doctors of the Church of whom the meanest had more learning and true Christian feeling in his heart then Luther and all his adherents then Ignace with all his complices It is the religion wherein all good and faithfull Christians ought to liue and die I will adde further that I had rather erre with them then runne the Wild-Goose chase endaungering my soule with these night-growne mushrumps But wee will be moderate in a subiect of such a nature I will not say then that I had rather but that I should lesse feare to erre For to say that Iesuits are the onely clubs to beat downe the blowes of Caluin and Luther I am so farre from beleeuing it as I thinke it is a special meane to confirme them in their erronious opinions I remember a friend of mine being at a Sermon rather for nouelty then deuotion a Minister cryed out to his disciples My brethren saith hee God hath beheld vs with a mercifull eye Although Martin Luther had beene sufficient to giue the Pope battell yet so it is that Ignacius Loyhola is come besides to ayde vs. For hee cunningly vnder colour of support supplanteth him What readier meane to ouerthrow a State then faction and intestine quarrels And I pray you what other milke giue these Iesuits in the Church of Rome Then sith this Sect is his last refuge his principal support be of good cheere the day is ours For without question the head must be verie daungerously sick if for cure therof fauouring this new Sect they vtterly ouerthrow the noble parts But what should be the cause of this disorder An imaginarie vow of Mission in fauoure whereof the Pope prâ—â—ecteth their quarrell For this therefore let vs prayse God and say as Demea said to his brother Mitio in the Poet Consumat perdat pereat nihil ad me attinet These sixe or seuen Latine wordes vttered against the holy Sea are blasphemous But this is the vnbridled licence of these new Preachers who when they are transported with their preposterous zeale may say any thing This dissension concerned not the Minister it had beene his part to touch the conscience of euerie good Catholique who desireth to liue and die in the bosome of the Catholique Apostolique and Romane Church yet it should be our care that these my Maisters the Ministers insult not ouer vs that their triumphs be not grounded on the Iesuits Consider whether they haue cause to say thus or no for among other particulars of the censure of our Diuines in the yeere 1554. this was one that the Iesuits would become Seminaries of Schisme and diuision in our Christian Church that they were rather brought in for the ruine and desolation of it then for the edification thereof Wherfore if I may be thought to erre in saying that the Sect of the Iesuits is no lesse preiudiciall to the Church then that of the Lutherans I doe it not without iudgement hauing for my warrant heerein the censure of that venerable facultie of Diuines in Paris CHAP. 25. ¶ Of the notorious enterprize or vsurpation of the Generall of the Iesuits ouer the holy Sea and that there is no new Sect which in time may bee more preiudiciall to it then this WHen the venerable facultie of the Diuines of Paris censured the Sect of the Iesuites in the yeere 1554. they only considered of the inferiour orders aswell spirituall as temporall But for matter which concerned the holy Sea they went not so farre neither were they acquainted with their Bulls and constitutions But now that it hath pleased God of his grace to enlighten vs I will not doubt to say that the Gouernour of the Iesuits represents the person of Lucifer who would equall himselfe to his Creator So this fellow being a creature of the Popes doth not onely vsurpe equall authoritie ouer his subiects but farre greater then the Pope doth exercise ouer the Vniuersall Church They giue out in Rome that they absolutely obey the Pope not onely in the matter of Mission but in all other his commaundements And vnder this plausible pretence they haue obtayned and daily do obtayne verie many extraordinarie priuiledges in preiudice and if I might presume to say so much in disgrace of Archbishops Bishops Orders of Religion Vniuersities and the whole Catholique Church Notwithstanding the truth is that they hauing two Maisters to serue doe without comparison more homage to their Generall then to the holy Sea Ignatius Loyhola Rib. lib. 1. Chap. 3. a Spaniard verie honourably discended chaunging his condition chaunged not his nature Ribadinere reporteth that when hee was to leaue his Fathers house pretending to goe to visite the Duke of Naiare Martin Garsia his eldest brother iealous of his intention came to him priuately to his chamber and said thus vnto him Brother all things are great in you Wit Iudgement Courage Nobilitie Fauour of Princes the peoples loue Wwisedome Experience in warre besides youth and an able bodie All these promise much of you are exceeding full of expectation How then wil you now frustrate on a sodaine all these our fayre hopes will you defeat our house of those garlands whereof we in a sort assured our selues if you would but maintayne the course you haue begunne Although in yeeres I am much your auncient yet am I after you in authoritie Beware then that these high hopes which sometime we conceiued of you prooue not abortiue ending in dishonour Whereunto Ignace shortly aunswered that he was not vnmindfull of himselfe and his auncestors from whom he would not degenerat in the least degree nor obscure their memorie And beleeue mee he kept his promise For after this vnexpected chaunge of life he neuer entertained any petrie ambitions howsoeuer he altered his habit or any pilgrimage he made to Ierusalem notwithstanding Cloath an Ape in Tissue the beast may happily be more proud but neuer the lesse deformed Naturam expellas furca tamen vsque recurrer Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt Neyther the meanesse of his habit nor his pilgrimage could abate those spirits which were borne with him WheÌ„ he his six first coÌ„panions made their first vow at Mont Marter he made himselfe their head without any election of their part The which you shal finde in Maffeus who witnesseth that when by the aduise of the Phisitions he was to chaunge the ayre for the recouerie of his health after a long sicknes taking his iourny toward Spayne he left Vicegerent ouer his companions Peter Faure in whom he reposed a speciall trust Caeterum saith Maffee nequid é suo discessu res parisiensis caperet detrimenti Maff. lib. 2. cap. 1. primùm commilitones ad fideÌ„ perseuerantiam paucis adhortatus Petrum Fabrum annis vocatione antiquissimum illis praeposuit cui interim obtemperarent He had then