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A29610 Francis Broccard (secretary to Pope Clement the Eighth) his alarm to all Protestant princes with a discovery of popish plots and conspiracies, after his co[n]version from popery to the Protestant religion / translated out of the Latin copy printed in Holland.; De foedere contra Protestantes. English Brocardo, Francisco. 1679 (1679) Wing B4833; ESTC R21110 17,576 28

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know very well that the Protestant Cause is a good Cause and that God will be assistant to them to defeat the assaults which Satan and Antichrist make upon them yet ought not these things to be despised nor they to sleep securely on such perswasions but ought to believe that it is a providence of God that stirs up any to make discovery thereof to those whose life and safety is in hazard that they may the better secure themselves from those enemies who thus assault them To the end therefore that all Protestant Princes and all Professors of the true Religion may have warning to avoid these Conspiracies of the Pope of Rome and all Popish Princes I will through the help of God clearly and undauntedly declare and make known the most wicked Confederacies and devilish Arts and Machinations of the Popish Confederates against the Protestant Religion And what I shall relate are not slight and trivial stories picked up from the discourse of ordinary persons or idle Monkish dreams but what I have heard my self from the Pope's own mouth and from the Cardinals themselves and which have come to my knowledge from the authentick Writings of Popish Princes under their own hands and seals Nor am I frighted with the wrath and indignation which I am like to sustain from Kings and Potent Princes incensed by this discovery For I ought to be more afraid of God who is able to destroy both body and soul than of those who have power only to kill or torment a frail and mortal body Be they inraged and full of indignation and if God so permit fall fierce upon me I am sensible I do acknowledge that it is from God that I am hereunto moved and incited and shall notwithstanding their rage undauntedly make known their treacherous Conspiracies Hear therefore all ye that bear a good will to the Protestant Cause and take good heed to what you hear Pope CLEMENT the Eighth who is at this time Pope of Rome having by strange Artifice obliged to himself well-nigh all the Princes in Europe not willing to neglect so fair an opportunity to establish his tyrannical Power doth endeavour with might and main to carry on and establish the holy League as they call it of all Popish Kings and Princes against the Protestant Interest and which as to the greatest part is already concluded 1. For the Emperour the King of Spain the Archdukes of Austria Albert and Ferdinand the Dukes of Bavaria Lorrain and Savoy and almost all the rest of the Popish Princes except the French King and the great Duke of Tuscany have already consented and subscribed the League and the Pope moves every stone to engage the rest to concur with them and is in hope to effect it 2. This League consists of divers heads The way of proceeding the Time the Preparation the Proportion which each of them is to contribute to this holy War they are plotting and contriving against the Protestants And on this they are in all points agreed that all these Confederates shall with joynt force endeavour the extirpation of Protestant Religion by all the means they can 3. The Emperour about a year ago was earnest with the Pope for money and Aid against the Turk whereby he might be able either to repress his insolence or at last bring him to honourable terms of Peace or some lasting Truce promising that so soon as he shall have dispatched his business with the Turk he will employ all his strength and forces for the Pope against the Protestants or as they call them the Hereticks 4. The Pope is very much inclined to a Peace with the Turk and for this reason would not last year give ear to the Embassadors of the Persian King who pressed him to a general Confederacy against the Turk For the Pope reckons that the Protestants are a greater hinderance to his affected Tyranny than is the Turk And doth oft complain that a long War hath now been managed for forty years together against the Turk to no advantage whereas in the same time with far less expence the Church of Rome might have recovered her Authority in Europe And he doth therefore endeavour to perswade the Turk to seek a Peace and perswades the Emperour to let him have it on reasonable terms 5. In the year 1601. Cardinal Dietrichstein Bishop of Clomute came in great haste from Prague to Rome and brought Letters to the Pope from the Emperour promising the Pope to put in execution by force of Arms the sentence which the Emperour had given in behalf of the Pope against the Protestants in the Cause concerning goods Ecclesiastick which he commanded to be in all places restored to the use of the Church of Rome And from thence the Pope conceived hopes of some occasion to be offered of beginning some broils and commotions in Germany and it was agreed between them that the greatest part of those goods should be distributed amongst those who should be most active in that War 6. The same Cardinal did at the same time promise as he said in the Emperours name that in the mean time while things were getting in readiness for an open War the Emperour and the Princes of Austria would wholly turn out all Protestants within their hereditary Dominions as in Austria Tyrole Croatia Carinthia Stiria and the like places and that they would in like manner fall upon them in Moravia Silesia and Bohemia first without noise if it may be and then by force of Arms especially of those souldiers which come back from the War of Hungary For in such cases they do not think fit to trust the German souldiers and that he had already granted to them the spoiling and pillaging those people in case they return not to the Church of Rome 7. The Popes Legate now resident at Prague did write some months ago that all these things are in great part already dispatched that the Protestants were cast out of those Provinces and the Jesuites by the Emperors permission possess'd of most of the Protestant Churches and places not only in Austria and Carinthia but likewise in Silesia and Moravia And that the French souldiers under the command of one Count Benegrave had already burnt some Villages in the borders of Bohemia and that they intended this year to make more progress therein especially by the assistance of the Italians which the Pope sends into Hungary chiefly for this end to spoil and destroy the Protestants 8. The Emperour hath also promised that he will not henceforth confer any chief Offices whether in Civil or Military Affairs on any that are Hereticks or do in any wise favour them And moreover that all lesser Offices now enjoyed by Protestants shall be taken from them unless within a time limited they return to the Church of Rome And by this means the Popes Legate informed that daily many of the Nobility in Germany do renounce the Lutheran and turn to the Romish Religion and that on such