Beast and thereupon our * * Viz. That mentioned before which was ruined and lost Army is to go into Munster and with the will of God we consent unto you and will that you believe not any word from us for ever before we write again unto you For you shall see * * I believe he relates to the Earl of Essex his business in which he was also concern'd trouble enough in England by English-men it self so as there shall be easiness of suffering their warrs by May next in respect of that it is now And since this Cause of Munster was left to you next under God let no weakness or imbecillity be found in you and the time of help is near you and all the rest From Dungannon the vith of February 1601. O NEALE Rumors being spread abroad of divers Informations brought in of Insurrections and Spanish Invasions Her Majesties Governours thought it was their duty to look about them So Sir George Carew gets James Fitz-Thomas the Titular Earl of Desmond to be surprised as he lurked in a filthy Cave and also secured Florence Mac Cartie who for all his under-hand Treasons and Conspiracies outwardly yet carried a shew of Loyalty Both which were sent into England and clapt up in the Tower of London and some others also were seised on and kept in hold Whilst they were thus busie in consulting the safety of the Kingdom the Spaniards of which Invasion the Bishops of Clonford and Killaloe Archer the Jesuit and others were great Instigators landed with a great Fleet at Kingsale in the County of Cork in Munster which Town they began to fortifie and sent notice of their abode to Tyrone and O Donnel desiâ—ing them to haste to them with all their Powers The Lord Deputy informed of the Spanish arrival sets out a Proclamation at Cork forbidding any to assist them declaring also upon what unjust grounds the Pope and King of Spain had undertook that Invasion and commanding all people to live in obedience to their true Soveraign Queen Elizabeth In answer to which Don Juan de Aquila General of the Spanish Forces sets out this following Declaration which is pat to our business and worth the perusal the better to discover the true Roman-Catholique Doctrine DON Juan de Aquila General of the Warr and the Catholique King This is in Latin MS. F. 97 Cant. in Bib. Bodl. Oxon. thus in English in Pacata Hibernia p. 200 201 202. of Spain ' s Chief Commander in Gods Warr which is made in Ireland for the defence of the Faith To all the Irish Catholiques living in Kingsale the City of Cork and in all other Villages Cities and Castles wisheth health in Him who is the true Happiness There is come unto our ears a Proclamation or certain Libel made in the City of Cork in the Name of the Deputy which because it containeth many untruths and such things as offend the ears of honest men lest they may lead and seduce the minds of simple men into errors and turn them from the truth I am compell'd to shew their falshood to lay open the truth and in few words to signifie the pretence and intention of our most Excellent King Philip in this Warr which is with the Apostolique Authority to be administred by us And to speak the truth I could very easily retort upon them those reproaches which they object to us and make them lose the pleasure which they have taken in ill-speaking by hearing the like Notwithstanding we will not like unto weak and unarmed women go to reproachings but setting these things aside answer to those that are objected with sound truth and Christian modesty First of all Ye fain that we would lead away the pretended Subjects of the Queen of England from their obedience to bring them under Our yoak which is a very untruth for we endeavour not to perswade any body that he should deny due obedience according to the Word of God to his Prince But ye know well that for many years since Elizabeth was deprived of her Kingdom and all her Subjects absolved from their fidelity by the Pope unto whom he that reigneth in the Heavens the King of Kings hath committed all power that he should Root up Destroy Plant and Build in such sort that he may punish temporal Kings if it should be good for the spiritual Building even to their deposing which thing hath been done in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland by many Popes viz. by Pope Pius Quinâ—us Gregory the Thirteenth and now by Clement the eighth as it is well known whose Bulls are extant amongst us I speak to Catholicks not to froward Hereticks who have fallen from the faith of the Roman Church seeing they are blind leaders of the blind and such as know not the grounds of the truth it is no marvel that they do also disagree from us in this thing But our Brethren the Catholiques walking in the pureness of the faith and yeelding to the Catholique Church which is the very Pillar of the Truth will easily understand all those things Therefore it remaineth that the Irish which adhere to us do work with us nothing that is against Gods Laws or their due obedience nay that which they do is according to Gods word and the obedience which they owe the Pope Secondly Ye affirm That we Spaniards go about to win the Irish with allurements and feigned flatteries which is a thing far from our natures and that we do it but for a while that after we have drawn the minds of simple men unto us we might afterwards exercising our Cruelty towards them shew our bloody nature O the Immortal God! Who doth not wonder at your bitter and unexpressible cruelty and your boldness shewed in these words For Who is he that doth not know the great Cruelty which you English have exercised and cease not to exercise towards the miserable Irish You I say go about to take from their souls the Catholique Faith which their Fathers held in which consists eternal life Truly you are far more cruel than Bears and Lions which take away the temporal life for you would deprive them of the eternal and spiritual life Who is it that hath demolished all the Temporalities of this most flourishing Kingdom except the English Look upon this and be ashamed Whereas on the other side We commiserating the condition of the Catholiques here have left our most sweet and happy Countrey Spain that is replenished with all good things and being stirr'd with their Cries which pierce the Heavens having reached the ears of the Pope and our King Philip They have being moved with pity at last resolved to send unto you Soldiers Silver Gold and Arms with a most liberal hand not to the end they might according as they feign exercise Cruelty towards you O Irish Catholiques but that you may be happily reduced being snatched out of the Jaws of the Devil and free from their Tyranny unto
Boâ—aventure Aâ—â—inus Perron c. rather say that these with your other chiefest Doctors Divines School-men Canonists Lawyers with your grat est Scholars and Writers have belyed and slander'd you and your Religion rather then I who am onely the Instrument to convey to you the Words sentiments and belief of these your grave Oracles leaving at your own discretion either to approve or reject them For if you doubt or question the truth of this Assertion According to the Church of Rome Kings may justly and lawfully be deposed it being nothing to the purpose which way or by what knavish distinction The true-blew Romanists will positively assure you that it is a truth so certain that not so much as any one do make any doubt of it For as saith Bellarmine It is agreed on by all Nor amongst the School-men is there any Controversie about it nor can they shew one Catholick Author against it And to say that Kings may be deposed is a golden sentence and this is not a meer Opinion but a certain truth amongst all Catholicks And that this may be justly done none but a Madman will deny Decianus saith that it is the true and common Opinion so that Germonius affirmeth that it is madness not to believe it It is now evident and conspicuous to all says Mancinus and Capistranus Botero would have us believe that it is ridiculous to think otherwise or as Gretser saith to deny this King-deposing Doctrine as the same to deny the Catholick faith And this he repeats over and over again that he might be the better believed and offers at some reason for it too which he need not have troubled himself with to have convinced King James seeing his Majestie would easily believe him if by the Catholick Faith he meant the Roman Religion as we need not question but that he did In behalf and vindication of Allegiance in King James his time was here publish'd by Authority a little Book call'd God and the King In opposition to this Tract is another Dialogue printed by the Romanists beyond Seas and also call'd Deus Rex wherein is affirm'd that this King-deposing Doctrine is doubtless the suffrage of all men Gregorius Nunnius Coronel telleth us that if we should read all the Ancient and Modern Divines and Lawyers we shall finde that they do unanimously affirm this Doctrine and those who think otherwise are not onely far from truth but madmen If you ask Cardinal Perron of this thing he will tell you that it was always the judgement of the Roman Church that all Magistrates and Divines maintain'd the same and to believe the contrary would make them Schismaticks and Hereticks or else the Church must have fail'd and so the Pope not to have been Christs Vicar but a perfect Heretick and Antichrist If you advise with Adolphus Schulckenius Vicar-General of Colen he will plainly tell you that it is the judgement of all their Divines Lawyers Councils and Popes that he is no good Catholick that denyeth it which cannot be opposed without great rashness and blasphemy and no less man then Cardinal Allen assureth the Catholicks that by maintaining this Principle they are no Traytors nor hold Assertions Treasonable false or undutiful His friend Father Parsons saith that it is asserted and taught in all the Schools both of their Divines and their Lawyers and that the Doctrine is certain and must be believed as an Article And again that it is the most certain undoubted Common Judgement of all the learned Catholicks And in another of his Books thus he assures his good Romanists All Catholick Subjects also of other Countries do hold and acknowledge this Doctrine If this Doctrine be not true Sanctarellus will have the Church to erre and Suarez affirms that it is as certain as it is certain that the Church cannot erre That to believe otherwise is against Ecclesiastical Custom the practice and agreement of the General Councils against the opinion of all learned Catholicks â—nd against reason it self Nay in short that to believe the contrary is downright and flat Heresie as several of them tell us Carerius calls it the very Heresie of Calvin and suchlike Hereticks meaning in not allowing the Pope to have power to depose Kings and Solarzanus testifieth the same with this addition that it hath been formerly condemn'd as Heretical No less man then Leonardus Lessius though under the disguise of Singletonus tells us that to think that Kings may not be depos'd is expresly against the great Lateran Council whence he makes these following Conclusions and the same method and arguments are also used and approved of by Cardinal Bellarmine I. If Kings may not be deposed then of necessity must that General Council of Lateran have erred and not onely this but also that of Lyon that of Vienna that of Constance c. nay that the very Council of Trent it self must also have erred and also not onely these his General Councils but also several Provincial ones II. If this King-deposing Doctrine be not true then must the Popes themselves also be fallible for then must Gregory VII have erred Vrban II have erred and so must also Gregory IX III. If this Principle be not true then must also the Church it self have erred for many Ages nay farther to have erred willingly or maliciously with a designe or on purpose And that Hell hath prevail'd against the Church and so the Roman Church not to be a true Church nor the Church of Christ IV. And if the Church Councils Popes have erred in this they may also erre in other Articles as the Sacraments Trinity Incarnation c. and that with greater ease and facility whereby Christ must be a Deceiver and so we may suspect the whole Christian faith it self Thus you see the judgement of their so much cryed up holy Lessius who farther assures us that to deny this Doctrine is the meer cunning and instigation of the Devil Again That there is scarce any Article in the Christian Religion the denying of which is more dangerous to the Church then this Doctrine Again That it is more pernicious and intolerable then to erre concerning the Sacraments And to conclude with him he at last conjures all that call themselves Catholicks upon their Salvation to have a care how they deny this For as Coquaeus will tell you this King-deposing Doctrine is agreeable to the holy Scriptures and the Rules of Christ Another assures us that to doubt of the truth of it would seem not onely to oppugn the verity of the Christian Faith but to savour of perfect Heathenism But not to trouble my self or Reader with their zeal and resolution in defence of this King-deposing Doctrine in which I might be endless I shall tell you that no less man then our Cardinal Allen declares his judgement in these very words God had not sufficiently provided for our Salvation and the preservation of the Church and Holy Laws if there were no way to deprive
ac impunitatem nedum in vita sed post obitum aere licet immodico comparari posse à Nundinatoribus illis Indulgentiarlis semel persuasum habent Verum si quis unde numeret habeat jam nedum Praesentes Indulgentur harum constitutionum transgressiones sed in futurum impune ut eas ipsas transgredi liceat indulto permittitur Quo fit ut ansam inde accipâ—ant ii cum quibus ita dispensatum est Pejerandi Homicidia Adulteria similia flagitia perpetrandi quando quilibet ex Sacerdotum vulgo Absolutionem emptitiam virtute indulti his impartiri potest Gravam German § 3 6. that the true Romanist would boldly commit any villany under the security or shadow of these Pardons or Indulgences which he by Tradition supposed to be Protection enough both to himself and sins But what need we talk of guilt or sins or trouble our heads about procuring Indulgences or Pardons as if he that is obedient to the commands of the Pope and a through-paced son of the Roman Church could in his so doing either commit the one or stand in need of the other As for the Church of Rome to which this grand All-obedience is due 't is nothing else but the a Cardinales cum Papa constituunt Ecclesiam Rom Quare Episc jurans fidelitatem Ecclesiae Rom. Papae successioribus ejus obligat se non tantum ipsi Papae sed Collegio Cardinalium Mar. Altercus disput de Censuris Eccles Tom. 1. lib. 5. disp 14. cap. 1. pag. 655. Pope and his Cardinals as some say or as others will have it by the Church there is nothing else to be understood but the b Jacob. Gretser defens Card. Bellarmin lib. 3. cap. 10. col 1450. Pope whose almighty Infallibility is not to be call'd in question Therefore if there be any doubt of any thing the Holy Scriptures Andr. du Val de Ecclesiastica Politica potestate pag. 88 89. and other such means must be thrown aside as being doubtful and like the Lesbian or Leaden Rule may be bended this way or that way and so may serve for any mansturn they must therefore not be credited or trusted to And so none is to be judge but the Pope who in his determinations cannot erre neither of right or matter of fact for which we need go no farther then the positive sentiment and judgement of their grand Masters the Jesuits of their Colledge of Clermont in their publick Theses publish'd by themselves to be held vindicated and maintained against all the World and that of very late days as appears by part of it as followeth XIX Christum nos ita caput agnoscimus ut illius Regimen dum in Coelos abiit primum Petro tum deinde Successoribus commiserit EANDEM QVAM HABVIT IPSE INFALLIBILITATEM concesserit quoties ex Cathedra loquerentur XX Datur ergo in E. R Controversiarum fidei Judex Infallibilis ETIAM EXTRA CONCILIVM GENERALE tum in Questionibus Juris tum FACTI c. Propugnabuntur Deo Duce auspice Virgine in Aula Collegii Claromontani Societatis Jesu die XII Decembris 1661. We acknowledge Christ so to be the Head of the Church that during his absence in Heaven he hath given the Government thereof first to Peter and then to his Successors and bestowed unto the Popes his Successors THE VERY SELF-SAME INFALLIBILITY WHICH HE HIMSELF HAD as often as they speak e Cathedra There is therefore Constituted in the Church of Rome an Infallible Judge i. e. the Pope of Faith and that even without a General Council as well in questions appertaining to Right as in matters of Fact These shall be defended by the assistance of God and the favour of the Virgin in the Hall of the Colledge of Clermont belonging to the Society of Jesus the XII day of December 1661. And by their Canon-law 't is as plain as a Pike-staff that the Popes b Dist 19. c. Si Romanorum Decretory Letters not onely carry Authority along with them and what he a Ib. c. Enimvero commands to be obey'd and are to be received as if they were the very words of b Ib. c. Sic Omnes St. Peter but they are also to be reckon'd and esteem'd as authentick as the Word of God or c Ib. c. In Canonicis Holy Scriptures themselves Therefore they say 't is d Dist 40. c. Non nos Gloss Quis enim Sacriledge to question the Popes actions and downright e Dist 81. c. Si qui sunt Paganism not to to obey him and he is f 25 q. 1. c. Generali decreto curst of God who violates the Popes Censures so we must be g Extra Com. l. 1. Tit. 8. c. unam Sanctam Si quid quod oculis nostris apparet album nigrum illa esse definierit debemus itidem quod nigrum fit pronunciare Ignat. Exercitia Spiritualia apud finem Regulae aliquot servandae ut cum Orthodoxa Ecclesia verè sentiamus Reg. 13. obedient to him upon peril of our Souls And no less man then their late great Saint Ignatius Loyola layeth this down for a certain and perpetual Rule of Obedience If the Church affirm that to be black which our own eyes judge to be white we ought also then to declare that it is black And we are not to question the Truth and Authority of this Rule being so strongly confirm'd commended and ratified by the h 1548. Bull of Pope Paul III as every thing also is which is contain'd in the said Exercitia Spiritualia and how can any thing be amiss in it if it was as some say by Inspiration from Heaven dictated to Ignatius And now who dares call himself a son of the Roman Church and not be of the same Religion with the Pope be of the same Opinion Obey his commands and dictates seeing there is no difference between the sentiment and judgement of the i Sententia Papae sententia Dei una est sententia August de Ancona Q. 6. art 2. Pope and that of God and what a grand Power and Authority the Pope hath for diversion sake take them thus in verse out of Andrew Melvin from their own Writers Quod Paepa Romanus vult norma est juris aequi Delit. Poet. Scot. vol. 2. pag. 150. Quod Papa cumque facit ratum habet Deus aethere in alto Posse Papam quodcunque Deus par aequa potestas Cumque Deo Christoque Papae commune Tribunal Est major Paulo Papa major foedere prisco Contra Evangelium statuit Papa Scriptaque Pauli Articulos fidei condens Oecomenicumque Concilium cogens decretaque sancta reformans Si currus plenos animarum ad Tartara trudat Secum ipse haud quisquam potis est contendere contra Dicere cur facis hoc Stat pro ratione voluntas The Papal Fiat of all right is the guide What he doth here in Heaven
Defender of the Faith When I finde you refuse the Oath of Allegiance one reason being because it will not allow the Pope to have a true right and authority to depose Kings and to absolve subjects of their Oaths of Allegiance When I finde you in your very b Image of both Churches pag. 171 172. Apologies for your selves confess the Romanists to be but conditional Subjects i. e. onely to one of your own perswasion in Religion as is farther proved all along in this History that Heretical Kings may be depos'd When I finde you in your late c Vid. The Roman Clergy of Irelands Remonstr before P. Welsh's more ample Account Remonstrance and Petition to his present sacred Majesty King Charles II. come off so bluntly in relation to his Majesties life and your own loyalty in these really insignificant yet too much significant words And we do hold it impious and against the Word of God to maintain that ANY PRIVATE SUBJECT MAY KILL or MURTHER the ANOYNTED of God HIS PRINCE though of a different belief and Religion And what will they have to be the meaning of these idle words though they will not have a Ravaillac to kill a King will they allow of an English Rump or a French League to order the same though they will not allow a private person will they think it legal if done by a Representative a Popular Convention or the three Estates But a word is enough to the wise and 't is dangerous sometimes to speak too plain When I finde your selves confess that even since the happy Restauration of his Majestie d P. Welsh more ample Accompt pag. 32. Some of you have given sufficient demonstrations of their failing in the duty of good Subjects and that some of your Tenents have been e Id. p. 43 44. inconsistent and injurious to good Government And yet for all this to take upon you the confidence of declaring to the world your innocencie and loyalty and that Treason and Sedition are onely the Principles of us English Hereticks the Puritan and Phanatick I grant are as wicked as your heart could wish for so you are pleas'd to nominate all those who are true sons of the Church of England Upon these slanders in respect of this Church I could not but think my self obliged to shew to the world where as to this case the truth is and in so doing shew my self a dutiful son in vindicating his Mother A Church famous for her Loyalty and Sufferings not one of her Constitutions intrenching upon the Crown nor any of her sons faithless or rebellious to his Prince whereas that of Rome by her Popes Bulls Constitutions Pen-men and Sword-men have destroy'd Nations harras'd Kingdoms Dethron'd Emperours Depos'd and Murdred Princes trampled upon Crowns and Scepters In a word hath declared f Illos quod bella civilia abhorrerent à nobis Imperio deficere nollent crimen laesae Majestatis scelus perfidiae admittere recusarent Haeresios nota inussit Jo. Aventiâ— Annal. Boiorum lib. 7. pag. 613. Loyalty a Crime Treason a signe of true Roman Religion look'd upon her self as the Supreme Judge of the world in all cases usurp'd a power to dispose of all Dominions to dethrone Monarchs and absolve Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance Some may fancie a Surata 76. Edit lat 1550. or Surat 66. Mahomet in his Alcoran the first absolver of Oaths and that Pope Zachary presently after put it in practice against Childeric King of France But letting this pass we have it from good Authority that there were formerly a Sect amongst the Turks call'd Assasini whence we say to Assassinate they lived in the Mountains of Phoenicia towards Tyre their Government and chiefest Laws were Mat. Paris pag. 83. Hen. Spelman glossaâ—ium § Assasini these Their Governour or Master was not Hereditary but Elective He under the Notion of Humility as if he would be onely the servant of servants refused all lofty Titles being onely call'd the Old man of the Mountains Was honour'd and worship'd as Vicar to Mahomet and so their Father and Prophet They pretended to be such exact Observers of their Turkish or Mahometan Laws that all other seem'd but as meer cheats or Non-conformists in respect of them They were led with that Blinde Obedience that they never question'd their Masters command be the action never so dangerous difficult or wicked they never left off till it was finish'd Any Prince whom they either hated or thought to be no friend to them or their party upon the least hint they would Murther though they were sure to suffer for it Whosoever murther'd a Prince that was not of their Religion they believed him to have the second place next to Mahomet in Paradise For they also believed that the Old man their Head and Prophet could also dispose of Paradise 'T is said that this Sect was long ago destroy'd by the Tartars and whether any who call themselves Christians have espous'd their Tenents I shall not say But to return As for the Pope though the Pagan King of Peru might call him a b Hier. Benzo Hist Nov orbis lâ—b 3. cap. 3 great impudent fool though the great Turk might call him the c Jo. Gerhard loc Theolog. Tom. 5. de Ecclesia § 294. King of Fools or though Marbizan the Mahometan might term Pius Il's Bulls onely d Hist impressa ante Alcoran Edit lat 1550. p. 99. Epigrams yet it may seem to go hard when those he pretends to be his own sons should shew no more respect to him as when Philip King of France call'd him Your Foolishness and the Emperour Maximilian I should say he was onely e Discours d'un Bourgeois de Paris sur les Pouvoirs de Cardinal Chigi legat en France p. 80. King of Fools But methinks Sancho Brother to the King of Arragon if my Author mistake not another onely saith Spain was most ingeniously even with his Holiness and bit the closer by seeming to do him Lâ—uys Garan le chasse Ennuy-Cent 2. § 3. the greater honour the story in brief thus Pope Adrian IV supposing he had Authority to dispose of all Kingdoms in the world gave to the former Sanctius the Land of Aegypt then in Possession of the Sarazens yet he should have it if he would take but the small pains to conquer it and accordingly at Rome proclaims him King of Egypt so bountiful and noble was this English Breakspear Sancho informed of this would not be behinde-hand with his Holiness in courtesie and so very gravely proclaimed the Pope to be Caliph of Bandas which he might also conquer and possess if he pleas'd Yet others there are as may be seen in this following Treatise who are more wide on the other side and will be satisfied with nothing but I know not what strange Almighty Faculties Authorities and Blessings adhering to the Pope As if they were related to George the Suffragan of
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
Whether the Pope have power to discharge any of her Highness Subjects or the Subjects of any Christian Prince from the Allegiance or Oath of Obedience to her Majesty or to their Prince for any cause V. Whether the said Dr. Saunders in his Book of his visible Monarchy of the Church and Dr. Bristow in his Book of Motives writing in Both of them affirming that Kings may be deposed by the Pope allowance commendation and confirmation of the said Bull of Pius the Fifth have therein taught testified or maintain'd a truth or a to falshood VI. If the Pope do by his Bull or sentence pronounce her Majesty to be deprived and no lawful Queen and her Subjects to be discharged of their Allegiance and obedience unto her and after the Pope or any other by his appointment and authority do invade this Realm which part would you take or what part ought a good Subject of England take The Answer of Mr. Luke Kirby LUke Kirby To the First he saith that the Resolution of this Article dependeth upon the general Question whether the Pope may for any cause depose a Prince Wherein his Opinion is that for some causes he may lawfully depose a Prince and that such a sentence ought to be â—beyed II. To the second he thinketh that in some cases as infidelity or such-like her Majesty is not to be obeyed against the Popes Bull and sentence for so he saith he hath read that the Pope hath so done de facto against other Princes III. To the third he saith he cannot answer IV. To the fourth that the Pope for Infidelity hath such power as is mentioned in this Article V. To the fifth he thinketh that both Dr. Saunders and Dr. Bristow might be deceived in these points in their Books but whether they were deceived or not he referreth to God VI. To the last he saith that when the case shall happen he must then take counsel what what were best for him to do Luke Kirby John Popham Da. Lewes Thomas Egerton John Hammond Mr. Thomas Cottoms Answer THomas Cottom To the first in this and in all other Questions he believeth as the Catholick Church which he taketh to be the Church of Rome teacheth him And other answer he maketh not to any of the rest of these Articles By me Thomas Cottom Priest John Popham Da. Lewes Thomas Egerton John Hammond Mr. Lawrence Richardsons Answer LAwrence Richardson To the fifth he answereth that so far as Dr. Saunders and Dr. Bristow agree with the Catholick Doctrine of the Church of Rome he alloweth that Doctrine to be true And touching the first and all the rest of the Articles he saith that in all matters not repugnant to the Catholick Religion he professeth obedience to her Majesty and otherwise maketh no answer to any of them But believeth therein as he is taught by the Catholick Church of Rome Lawrence Richardson John Popham Da. Lewes Thomas Egerton John Hammond Mr. Thomas Ford's Answer I. THomas Ford. To first he saith that he cannot answer because he is not privy to the circumstances of that Bull but if he did see a Bull published by Gregory the Thirteenth he would then deliver his Opinion thereof II. To the second he saith that the Pope hath Authority to depose a Prince upon certain occasions and when such a Bull shall be pronounced against her Majesty he shall then answer what the duty of her Subjects and what her right is III. To the third he saith he is a private Subject and will not answer to any of these Questions IV. To the fourth he saith that the Pope hath Authority upon certain occasions which he will not name to discharge Subjects of their Obedience to their Prince V. To the fifth he saith that Dr. Saunders and Dr. Bristow be learned men and whether they have taught truely in their Books mentioned in this Article he referreth to answer to themselves for himself will not answer VI. To the last he saith that when that case shall happen he will make answer and not before Thomas Forde John Popham Da. Lewes Thomas Egerton John Hammond Mr. John Sherts Answer JOhn Shert To all the Articles he saith that he is a Catholick and swerveth in no point from the Catholick Faith and in other sort to any of these Articles he refuseth to answer John Shert John Popham Da. Lewes Thomas Egerton John Hammond Mr. Robert Johnsons Answer I. RObert Johnson To the first he saith he cannot answer II. To the second he cannot tell what power or authority the Pope hath in the points named in this Article III. To the third he thinketh that the Pope hath authority in some cases to authorize Subjects to take arms against their Princes IV. To the fourth he thinketh that the Pope for some causes may discharge Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to their natural Prince V. To the fifth he saith the Answer to this Article dependeth upon the lawfulness of the cause for which the Pope hath given sentence against her But if the cause was just then he thinketh the Doctrine of Dr. Saunders and Dr. Bristow to be true Whether the cause were just or not he taketh not upon him to judge VI. To the last he saith that if such deprivation and invasion should be made for temporal matters he would take part with her Majesty but if it were for any matter of his Faith he thinketh he were then bound to take part with the Pope Robert Johnson John Popham Da. Lewes Thomas Egerton John Hammond Mr. John Harts Answer I. JOhn Hart. To the first he saith that it is a difficult Question and that he cannot make answer thereunto II. To the second he saith that her Majesty is lawful Queen and ought to be obeyed notwithstanding the Bull supposed to be published by Pius the Fifth But whether she ought to be obeyed and taken for a lawful Queen notwithstanding any Bull or sentence that the Pope can give he saith he cannot answer III. To the third he cannot answer and further saith that he will not meddle with any such Questions IV. To the fourth he saith he is not resolved and therefore he cannot answer V. To the fifth he saith he will not deal with any such Questions and knoweth not whether Saunders and Bristow have taught well herein or not VI. To the last he saith that when such a case shall happen he will then advise what becometh him to do for presently he is not resolved This he did acknowledge to us after he had fully perused the same but refused to subscribe to it John Popham Da. Lewes Thomas Egerton John Hammond Mr. William Filbee's Answer I. WIlliam Filbee To the first he saith the Pope hath authority to depose any Prince and such sentences when they be promulgated ought to be obeyed by the subjects of any Prince But touching the Bull of Pius the Fifth he can say nothing but if it was such as it is affirmed to be he doth allow
of Constantine is a foolish and absurd forgery to be disposed and hist at by all men being onely maintain'd by a company of ignorant people And i De Script Eccles Tom. 1. pag. 237. Philippe â—abâ—e another French Jesuite well versed in these things confesseth that Baronius Morinus and others may very well doubt it XIII They write that this Baptism and supposed Donation of Constantine was in the CCCXXIV and yet the Decree it self of such a Donation with the story of his Baptism is dated Constantine and Gallicanus being Consuls And yet according to the Fasti of the Consuls Crispus and Constantinus were then Consuls and not Gallicanus who was Consul with Bassus some VII years before this and was again V years after the Nicen Council and this false dating is another sign of the cheat XIV If Constantine gave all this to the Church of Rome in Pope Sylvesters time how cometh k 12. Q. 1. c. Futuram Melchiades who was Pope before this Sylvester to take notice of Constantine's being a Christian and expresly to relate his building of Churches his giving great things to Rome and his leaving of that City to the Popes The truth is they are both cheats to the shame of the Collectors of their Canon-law who would thus fob such forgeries upon us And Gregory XIII his amendments were to small purpose leaving such gross lyes as these in their Canon to deceive the more ignorant More might be said against the pretended Donation of Constantine but this is enough to satisfie any man of its forgeries and that there was never any such thing However because they pretend to give some reasons for it take some for example sake I. First they say that Eusebius in his book call'd Enneadoes writes the storie of the Leprosie Baptism and Donation of Constantine and so why not true Answer This is a spurious and counterfeit Book never made by Eusebius as a An. 1191. § 51. Baronius and b Var. Resol l. 4. c. 16. § 8. Covarruvias confess and the true Eusebius writes no such thing but quite contrary as aforesaid II. Again they say that S. Hierome in one of his c Beginning Saepissime rogatus Epistles to Eustichius affirmeth Constantine to have been baptized by Sylvester and so not at Nicomedia as Eusebius saith Answer This is also a forged Epistle never writ by S. Hierome but by some cheat or other and father'd upon him as many other writings are as is confess'd by d Not. in Martyr Rom. Aug. 1. Baronius and e Apparat. in Hier. pag. 752. Possevine with f Tom. 4. pag. 202. Annot. ante Epist Praef. ante Tom. 4. Hieroâ— Erasmus and several g See Jo. Hen. Hottinger Elench Scriptor suppositiorum page 83. others III. Again they say that h Dist 96. c. 14. Constantinus Gratian having collected the storie of it into his Decrees and so become a part of the Canon-law we need not suspect the Antiquity of it no question but they had good reason and true for putting of it there Answer I hope you will not take all to be Gospel in these Decrees for if so i Dist 34. c. 4. 5. with the contents Edict Ludg. 15 44. 1572. Edict Paris 1561. Concubines will thank you for allowing them so fair a plea. But to the purpose 't is confest by k Hist part 1. Tit. 8. c. 2. § 8. Antonius Bishop of Florence by l Antropol l. 23. fol. 270. a. Volateran by m De concord Cathol l. 3. c. 2. Cusanus and others that this was not inserted by Gratian nor is it in the Ancient Copies and the Palea or Chaff prefixt to its Title tell you what stamp and authority 't is of However to prove this donation though not inserted by Gratian yet to be set in these Decrees in his time n De jurisdict part 1. c. 30. § 35 36. Dr. Marta tells us a storie of a plagiary Cardinal why such Chapters were so call'd But another Italian Lawyer o De juris peritis Catellianus Cotta saith that Palea was one who was Schollar to Gratian and probably one is as true as the other Several other suchlike spurious Authorities as these are alledged in behalf of this Donation to which I need not trouble the Reader with an Answer but refer him to Dr. Crakinthorp And in truth Dâ— Barwâ—ck's lite of Bishop Morton some of them are impudent to a miracle in this way of forgery witness their yet confident storie of the Nags-head Ordination as notorious a lye as ever was spread abroad witness their affirming that the Reverend Bishop Mâ—rton confest the truth of the storie in a Speech in Parliament as true as the other But had the storie been true might not we say we took the Example from Pope John XII who a Baron anno 963. § 17. Binius Concil ordain'd a Deacon in a Stable Here basely the Fathers and others have been abused and corrupted in their Additions I shall not at this time undertake to declare but refer you to b Corruption of Father See also Blondel Psâ—udo-Isidor W Crashaw's Romish forgeries and falfications Dr. Tho James and Archbishop Vsher left a large Manuscript behind him much to the same purpose The aforesaid c Appendix to the Reader Dr. James an industrious Toyler amongst all sorts of Books and Writings tells that in the Vatican Library there are certain men maintain'd onely to write out the Acts of the Councils or Copies of the Fathers works who are brought up to imitate the ancient Letters and writings of some of them which Possevine the Jesuit confessing that Manuscripts themselves need a Purgation To prevent the thrusting of these Abuses upon us the Noble Prince Henry had some thoughts to erect a Royal Library with all sorts of Books and Editions as I think betwixt St. James and the Muze And in the Proposition presented to the aforesaid Prince both to forward and to shew the means to carry on such a glorious design I finde these following words according to my Manuscript confirming the former observation of Dr. d It would be well if several of his Books were reâ—â—inted to shew the abuse of some Editions of Fathers James The Pope gathereth up all the Manuscripts he can into his Library the Vatican and there useth them at his pleasure One of their tricks is Notorious they have men that can counterfeit any hand and write the old hands that were written 500 and 1000 years ago then they have an artificial Ink which within three days after the writing looks as it had been written 500 years afore Thus having altered and taken out all that made for us they suppress the old true Copies and produce these new ones they written by themselves as afore as the Authentical Books In this was also designed a noble maintenance for the Library-Keepers and other Officers thereunto belonging to
be that there were many Conspiracies against the life of this good King since from Twenty places advice was given of it since by a Printed Paper both in Spain and at Milan a report of his death was publish'd before since there passed a Currier eight days before he was Assassinated through the City of Liege who said that he carried news to the Princes of Germany that he was kill'd since at Montargis there was found a Paper upon the Altar containing the Prediction of his approaching death by a determinate blow since in fine the Report ran through all France that he should not out-live that year and that he should dye a Tragick death in the LVII year of his Age and some also said in a Coach which made him to dread and tremble when he was in one The Jesuits were accused of having some knowledg of it and to this purpose was call'd to mind the Sermon of Father Hardy preached at St. Severins in Paris not two Months before the Blow in which amongst other things he told his Auditors That Kings heaped up Treasures to make themselves fear'd but yet there needed but a Blow a or Mattock to kill a King and 't is known that none was more gathering and hoarding up of Moneys in his latter days to carry on his Armed design than this King insomuch that they talk of Mountains of Gold that he had amass'd together 'T is also objected that Ravaillac declared he had inform'd Father d'Aubigny of this intended Murther and shew'd him the Knife but that this was told him in Confession and so not to be reveal'd the cunning Jesuit upon Examination protesting that God had given him that Grace or Quality that as soon as any thing was reveal'd to him in Confession he presently forgot it But however it be the reverend Hardovin de Perefixe the present Arch bishop of Paris doth assure us that the Constancy hardiness and unconcernedness of the Malefactor at his exquisite Torments in suffering strongly confirm'd the suspicion had that certain Emissaries under the Mask of Religion had instructed and charmed him with false assurances that he should dye a Martyr if he kil'd him whom they made believe was the sworn Enemy of the Church The truth is after the Villain had given the murdring blows he neither took care to flee to conceal his Knife or shift for himself but stood still by the Coach as if he desired to be taken notice of and glorified and prided himself in such a noble Exploit And that there was some Secret more than ordinary discovered in his Examination and Confession and that those who instigated him to that bloody action were such that it was not thought fitting whether for the Honour of Religion or some other respect that they should be publickly known is more than hinted at by the foresaid Prelate For of these things saith he * les juges mesâ—ue qui l'interrogerent n' oserent en ouurir la Bouche qui n'en per lerent jamais que des Espaules Hist Hen. le grand part 3. The Judges themselves who Examin'd him durst not open their mouths but with a Shrug or Covertly with excusing put offs And that some grand thing was here husht up may in part be suppos'd by the Prince of Conde and others five years after putting forth a Publick Complaint amongst other things that the discovery of Henry the Great 's murther was stopt and not fully prosecuted However the Common Censure was apt to think worst of the Jesuits reckning them as the chiefest Assertors and Champions of this King killing Doctrine insomuch that Pierre Coton himself fell to work to write an Apology for his Order which he did by way of a Declaratory Letter dedicated and directed to the Queen-Regent where though not long the Reader will find more words than materials either not down right plain and pat to the purpose or else drawing false and fair shadows over some black and seditions Authors and yet those whom he mentions are but a very few Amongst the many others who thought this King-killing Doctrine most agreeable to the Jesuits and at this time began to shew himself both in the Pulpit and at the Press was Jean du Boys Olivier Abbot of Beaulieu born at Paris Preacher to the King one held a Lover of his Prince and Country and of an honest free downright disposition The stirring of this du Bois did a little vex the Fathers his Credit and Repute having the heavier hand upon them and therefore nothing could satisfie them but removal upon some honourable pretence and no place so fitting as to pack him for Italy Of which take a piece of a Letter to Archbishop Abbot as I transcribed it from the Original May it please your Grace Since the writing of my last to your Grace c. we have freshly receiv'd the news from Rome that the Abbot du Bois a man very popular here in Paris a Town-born Child and famous also for his freedom both of speech and writing against the Exorbitancy of the Popes Authority and the practises of the Jesuits and in particular against Pere Coton to whose Lettre Declaratoire publish'd presently after the Kings death to acquit his Order of the Imputation of the Kings death he set forth an Answer in print dedicated Aux Bons Francois being also cited by the Anti-coton as a witness * * But here it may be Anti-Coton was wrong informed concerning Father Coton Que sentence a este donnee contre lay a Avignon pour avoir engrosse une Nonnain That this Abbot Isay going lately to Rome is there clapt up in the Inquisition which hath occasion'd the French here to speak according to their manner very frankly in Commiseration of him who was always held a good Patriot And it is thought dishonourable to the state in regard that he is the Queens Chaplain and was imploy'd by her as some say but to Florence as others to Rome to thank the Pope for the Cardinals Hat which he lately bestowed upon the Queens Almoner the Bishop of Beziers but however it is agreed by all that he carryed Letters from hence wherewith it is said he was purposely gratified to bring him within the compass of the snare wherein he is caught c. From Paris the 5th of December 1611. Your Graces most humbly to be Commanded J. WOODFORD Having thus followed him to Prison it is easie to conclude that he must end his days there it being not agreeable to their custom and Policy to set such at Liberty that can tell Tales and that they might be no more fear'd or troubled with him they forthwith * sed cum sub idem tempus Abbas Silvius ob paricidialem illam doctrinam esset in Jesuitas invectus voce et scripto paulò post Romae necatus est in carere Peter Molin de Monarchiâ— Temporali Pont. Rom. cap. 2. pag. 22. murther him in Prison at Rome his main falt being for any that
Notinghamshire a disorderly pretended Protestant were there apprehended and committed to the Town-Hall at last were carried to Thomas Cecyl Earl of Exeter who proffer'd them the Oath of Allegiance Sutton after some excuses took it but Newton desired time to consider of it Upon which for want of Bail and at the Constables desire they were return'd to the Town-Hall Here these two discoursed about the Oath Newton assuring to his Companion its unlawfulness To bed they go together About midnight September 4. 1612. Sutton cryeth out That he was damned only for taking the Oath and declareth Newton happy for refusing it Newton bids him make the sign of the Cross Sutton doth so then creeps down into the bed saying he durst not look up to behold the Vision Newton looks up sees the Room full of light and brightness the Mystery of the Trinity represented to him then there appears the Virgin Mary in a shining white Robe with an infinite company of Angels about her holding a Crown over her head singing in honour of the Trinity Alleluia Gloria in Excelsis Deo c. Then Newton thought that the Virgin thus spake to him Behold see and believe my Assumption in Body Take not the Oath but rather endure all Torments for I will be with thee and assist thee in all and will strengthen and preserve thee from all pains and torments with such Consolations as thou now feelest This Vision continued about half an hour and a little before they vanished there appeared also a multitude of Saints and Martyrs offering up as it were Incense unto Almighty God and saying to him Double thy Devotion unto Saints for nothing is more acceptable unto Almighty God Thus was Newton confirmed in two points which before as he said he somewhat doubted of viz. the Virgins Assumption and Prayers to Saints The Vision ended Newton and Sutton roar out as loud as they could Alleluia Gloria c. and thus they continued balling for three or four hours Sutton saying that now he had learned how to pray In short Sutton turns stark mad and becomes distracted The Bishop of Peterborough administers the Oath of Allegiance to Newton who for all the contrary Commands in the Vision took it and so was set at liberty And this is the sum of the pretty Tale which Father Preston an honest Romanist thinks ought to be ascribed either * Theolog. Disput cap. 10. Sect. 5. § 23. to the vehement Imaginations of a troubled Brain or else to be accounted a meer Illusion of the Devil And so I leave it to the discretion of the Reader with liberty to approve or disprove these doughty Arguments against the Oath of Allegiance But lest these Illusions Inventions and idle Stories should not do the good or mischief intended the Pope must ever now and anon hurry over his Bulls into England to rowse up the Romanists and put them in a posture of Defence against the said Oath In King James his time there were several such Papers nor were they discontinued in King Charles 1. his days In the beginning of whose Reign Pope Vrban viii one said to have some affection to the English Nation sent over a Bull of Comfort to the Romanists part of which relating to the Oath take as followeth VRBANVS Pp VIII Dilectis Filiis Catholicis Angliae Dilecti Filii Salutem Apostolilicam Benedictionem NON semper terraena faelicitas est beneficium Coeli Patrimonium Pietatis pacem enim peccatorum videns Ecclesia non raro experta est potentiam mortalium esse stipendium sceleris Quare Catenas Martyrum anteferimus exuviis Triumphantium Rex sempiternus Principatus Coelestes pollicetur non iis qui superbo pede jura proterunt sed qui persecutionem patiuntur propter justitiam c. Quod si eousque vis progrediatur ut vos ad noxium illud illicitum Anglicanae fidelitatis jura mentum adigat mementote Orationem vestram ab universo Angelorum spectantium consessu audiri Et adhaereat lingua vestra faucibus â—estris priusquam Authoritatem B. Petri ea jurisjurandi formula imminutam detis Non enim ibi id solum agitur ut fides Regi servetur sed at sacrum Universae Ecclesiae sceptrum eripiatur Vicariis Dei Omnipotentis Quod soeliciis Recordationis Paulus V. Praedecessor noster in tam gravi deliberatione decrevit id omnino tanquam Decretum Veritatis servare debeatis Dilecti Filii Tributum hoc Principi Apostolorum debitum nullaâ— hominum minae aut blanditiae a vobis unquam extorqueant qui secus suadent ij visionem mendacem divinationem fraudulentam prophetant vobis Citius enim viro Christiano debet potentium gladius vitam eripere quam fidem Quod si Angelus etiam e Coelo descendens vos aliter quam veritas Apostolica doceat Anathema sit c. Datum Romae S. Petri sub Annulo Piscatoris die xxx May 1626. Pontificatus nostri Anno tertiâ— Pope VRBAN VIII To his beloved Sons the Catholicks of England Beloved Sons Greeting and Apostolical Benediction TErrene foelicity is not always the benefit of Heaven and the Patrimony of Piety For the Church seeing the prosperity of sinners hath often found by experience that the greatness of Mortals is the stipend of Impiety Wherefore we prefer the Chains of Martyrs before the spoils of the Triumphant and the Eternal King promiseth Heavenly Principalities not to them who proudly trample the Laws under their feet but to those who suffer Persecution for Righteousness sake c. And if Violence proceed so far as to compel you to that pernicious and unlawful Oath of Allegiance of England Remember that your Prayers are heard in the whole Assembly of the Angels beholding you And let your Tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth rather than you permit the Authority of St. Peter to be diminished with that form of Oath For that is not all that Fidelity be kept unto the King but that the Sacred Scepter of the Catholique Church be wrung from the Vicar of God Almighty That which our Predecessor Paul V. of blessed memory with so great deliberation decreed that ought ye altogether to observe as a Decree of Truth Beloved Sons this Tribute due to the Prince of the Apostles no threats or flatteries of men ought at any time to extort from you and they who perswade you otherwise prophesie unto you a lying Vision and a fraudulent divination for sooner ought the Sword of the Mighty take from a Christian his life than his Faith yea if an Angel from Heaven teach you otherwise than the Apostolique Truth let him be Accursed c. Dated at Rome at St. Peters under the Signet of the Fisher xxx of May 1626 the third year of our Popedom FINIS THE TABLE A A Drian II commands the murther of Michael the Emperour 182 Albert. Emperour murther'd 301 The Oath of Allegiance vid. Oath Cardinal Allens bad Principles 70 71 His actions against