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A34790	A letter written to Dr. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pool's secret powers from which it appears, that it was never intended to confirm the alienation that was made of abbeylands : to which are added, two breves that Card. Pool brought over, and some other of his letters, that were never before printed.	Coventry, William, Sir, 1628?-1686.; Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558.	1685 (1685)	Wing C6631; ESTC R17149	17,951	40

after Ormanet came to him his Letter bears date from Bouchain the 3 d of August 1554. By Ormanet's Letter is appears that these last Powers gave the Emperor full satisfaction and were not at all excepted against only Granvell made some difficulty in one Point Whether the Settlement of the Church-Lands should be granted as a Grace of the Pope's by the Cardinal's hands immediately to the possessors or should be granted to Philip and Mary and by their means to the possessors For it seems it was thought a surer way to engage the Crown to maintain what was done if the Pope were engaged for it to the Crown with which he would not venture so easily to break as he might perhaps do with the possessors themselves But Ormanet gave him full satisfaction in that matter for the manner of setling it being referred wholly to the Cardinal by his powers he promised that he would order it in the way that should give the Nation most content The Emperor's Delays became very uneasy to Cardinal Pool upon which he wrote to Soto that was the Emperor's Confessor the 12 th of August and desired to speak with him By the place from whence the Cardinal dates most of these Letters it appears he was then in a Monastery called Diligam near Brussels I will not determine whether it may not be a Mistake that passes so generally that no wonder you have gone into it that he was stopt at Dilling a Town upon the Danube by the Emperor's Orders which might have been founded on his being lodged in this Monastery for as he dates some of his Letters from Diligam and others from Brussels so he dates one from Diligam-Abbey near Brussels but this is not of any great importance After some Letters of no great consequence there comes a long one writ by Pool to the Pope bearing date from Brussels Octob. 13. 1554. which I send you In it Pool gives him an account of the first Conference that he had with the Emperor on this Subject He told the Emperor That tho as to Matters of Faith the Pope could slacken nothing nor shew any manner of Indulgence yet in the Matter of the Church-Lands in which the Pope was more at liberty he was resolved to be gentle and indulgent And as to all the Pains and Censures that the possessors had incurred and the Rents that they enjoyed which were points of great importance he was resolved to use all sort of Indulgence towards them and to forgive all Nor had he any design of applying any part of these Goods either to himself or to the Apostolick See of which some were afraid tho he might pretend good reason for it considering the Losses that that See had sustained by reason of the Schism but he would give up all that to the Service of God and the Good of the Kingdom And such regard had the Pope to the King and Queen of England that he was resolved to grant upon their Intercession whatsoever should be thought convenient to such Persons as they should think worth gratifying or were capable to assist in the Design of Petling the Religion To all this the Emperor answered with a new delay He was expecting to hear very suddenly from England and it was necessary to have that Difficulty concerning the Church-Lands first cleared which by his own Experience in Germany he concluded to be the chief Obstacle For as to the Doctrine he did not believe they stuck at that and he thought that they believed neither the one nor the other Persuasion and therefore they would not be much concerned in such points Yet since these Goods were dedicated to God it was not fit to grant every thing to those that held them and therefore the Pool had told him how far his Powers extended yet it was not fit that it should be generally known But as the Emperor was putting in new Delays Pool prest him vehemently that the Matter might at last be brought to a Conclusion The Emperor told him that great regard must be had to the ill Dispositions of the Parties concerned since the Aversion that the English Nation had to the very name of Obedience to the Church or to a Red Hat or a Religious Habit was so universal that his Son had been advised to make the Friers that came over from Spain with him change their Habits but tho he had done it yet the danger of Tumults deserved to be well considered Pool replied That if he must stay till all Impediments were removed he must never go Those that were concerned in the Abby-Lands would still endeavour to obstruct his coming since by that means they still continued in Possession of all that they had got In conclusion it was resolved that Pool should stay for the return of the Messenger that the Emperor had sent to England Two things appear from this Letter one is that Cardinal Pool intended only to grant a general Discharge to all the Possessors of the Abby-Lands for what was past but resolved to give no Grants of them for the future except only to such as should merit it and for whom the Queen should intercede and whose Zeal in the matter of Religion might deserve such a Favour and it seems that even the Emperor intended no more and that he thought that this should be kept a great Secret The other is that the Aversion of the Nation to Popery was at that time very high so that Tumults were much apprehended yet the whole Work was brought to a final Conclusion within two Months without any Opposition or the least Tumult so inconsiderable are popular Discontents in Opposition to a Government well established and supported by strong Alliances Pool being wearied out with these continued Delays of which he saw no end writ a long and high-flown or according to the stile of this Age a canting Letter to Philip then King of England I send it likewise to you because you may perhaps desire to see every thing of Pool's writing for whose Memory you have expressed a very particular esteem he tells the King that he had been knocking at the Gates of that Court now a Year tho he was banished his Country because he would not consent that she who now dwelt in it should be shut out of it but in his Person it was S. Peter's Successor or rather S. Peter himself that knock'd and so he runs out in a long and laboured Allegory taken from S. Peter's being delivered out of Prison in the Herodian Persecution and coming to Mary's Gate where after his Voice was known yet he was held long knocking tho Mary was not sure that it was he himself c. Upon all which he runs division like a Man that had practised Eloquence long and had allowed himself to fly high with forced Rhetorick And to say the truth this way of enlarging upon an Allegory from some part of Scripture-story had been so long used and was so early practised that

I do not wonder much to see him dress this out with such pomp and so many words I shall be very glad if these Papers give you any considerable light in those matters in which you have laboured so successfully I am very sincerely Sir Your most Humble Servant W. C. Cardinal POOL'S general Powers for reconciling ENGLAND to the Church of ROME JULIUS PAPA III. DIlecte Fili noster salutem Apostolicam benedictionem dudum cum carissima in Christo Filia nostra Maria Angliae tunc Princeps Regina declarata fuisser speraretur Regnum Angliae quod saeva Regnum Tyrannide ab unione Sanctae Ecclesiae Catholicae separatum fuerat ad ovile gregis Domini ejusdem Ecclesiae unionem ipsa Maria primum regnante redire posse Nos te praestanti Virtute singulari Pietate ac multa Doctrina insignem ad eandem Mariam Reginam universum Angliae Regnum de Fratrum nostrorum Consilio unanimi consensu nostrum Apostolicae sedis legatum de latere destinavimus tibique inter caetera omnes singulos utriusque sexus tam Laicas quam Ecclesiasticas seculares quorumvis ordinum reglares personas in quibusvis etiam sacris ordinibus constitutas cujuscunque Status Gradus Conditionis Qualitatis existerint ac quacunque Ecclesiastica etiam Episcopali Archiepiscopali Patriarchali aut mundana etiam Marchionali Ducali aut Regia dignitate prefulgerent etiamsi Capitulum Collegium Universitas seu Communitas forent quarumcunque heresium aut novarum Sectarum Professores aut in eis culpabiles vel suspectas ac credentes receptatores fautores eorum etiamsi relapsae fuissent eorum errorem cognoscentes de illis dolentes ac ad Orthodoxam fidem recipi humiliter postulantes cognita in eis vera non ficta aut simulata penitentia ab omnibus fingulis per eos perpetratis haereses ab eadem fide Apostasias Blasphemias alios quoscunque errores etiam sub generali sermone non venientes sapientibus peccatis criminibus excessibus delictis nec non Excommunicationum Suspensionum Interdictorum aliis Ecclesiasticis ac Temporalibus etiam Corporis afflictivis capitalibus Sententiis censuris paenis in eos premissorum occasione a jure vel ab homine latis vel promulgatis etiam si in iis viginti plus annis insorduissent eorum absolutio nobis divinae sedi per literas in die Caenae Domini legi consuetas reservata existeret in utroque Conscientiae videlicet contentioso foro plenare absolvendi liberandi ac aliorum Christi fidelium consortio aggregandi nec non cum eis super irregularitate per eos premissorum occasione etiam quia sic Ligati missas alia divina officia etiam contra Ritus Ceremonias ab Ecclesia eatenus probatas usitatas celebrassent aut illis alias se miscuissent contracta nec non bigama per eosdem Ecclesiasticos Seculares vel Regulares vere aut ficte seu alias qualitercunque incursa etiamsi ex eo quod Clerici in sacris constituti cum viduis vel aliis corruptis Matrimonum contraxissent pretenderetur rejectis expulsis tamen prius uxoribus sic de facto copulatis quodque bigamia irregularitate ac aliis premissis non obstantibus in eorum ordinibus dummodo ante eorum lapsum in heresin hujusmodi rite legitime promoti vel ordinati fuissent etiam in altaris ministerio ministrare ac quaecunque qualitercunque etiam curata beneficia secularia vel regularia ut prius dummodo super eis alteri jus quaesitum non existeret retinere non promoti ad omnes etiam Sacros Presbyteratus Ordines ab eorum ordinariis si digni idonei reperti fuissent promoveri ac beneficia Ecclesiastica si iis alias canonice conferentur recipere retinere valerent dispensandi indulgendi ac omnem infamiae inhabilitatis maculam sive notam ex premissis quomodolibet insurgentem penitus omnino abolendi nec non ad pristinos honores dignitates famam patriam bona etiam confiscata in pristinumque eum in quo ante premissa quomodolibet erant statum restituendi reponendi reintegrandi ac eis dummodo corde contriti eorum errata excessus alicui per eos eligendo Catholico confessori sacramentaliter consiterentur ac penitentiam salutarem eis per ipsum confessorem propterea injungendam omnino adimplerent omnem publicam confessionem abjurationem renunciationem penitentiam jure debitam arbitrio suo moderandi vel in totum remittendi Nec non Communitates Universitates ac singulares personas quascunque a quibusvis illicitis pactionibus Conventionibus per eos cum Dominis aberrantibus seu in eorum favorem quomodolibet initis iis praestitis juramentis homagiis illorumque omnium observatione si quem eatenus occasione eorum incurrissent perjurii reatum in etiam absolvendi juramenta ipsa relaxandi Ac quoscunque regulares religiosos etiam in haeresin hujusmodi ut prefertur lapsos extra eorum regularia loca absque dictae sedis licentia vagantes ab Apostasiae reatu Excommunicationis aliisque censuris ac paenis Ecclesiasticis per eos propterea etiam juxta suorum ordinum instituta incursis pariter absolvendi ac cum eis ut alicui beneficio Ecclesiastico curato de illud obtinentis consensu etiam in habitu Clerici Secularis habitum snum regularem sub honesta toga Presbyteri Secularis deferendo deservire extra eadem regularia loca remanere libere licite possint dispensandi Nec non quibusvis personis etiam Ecclesiasticis ut quadragesimalibus aliis anni temporibus diebus quibus usus ovorum carnium est de jure prohibitus butiro caseo aliis lacticiniis ac dictis ovis carnibus de utriusque seu alterius spiritualis qui Catholicus existeret Medici Consilio aut si locorum personarum qualitate inspecta ex defectu Piscium aut olei vel indispositione Personarum earundem seu alia causa legitima id tibi saclendum videretur ut tuo arbitrio uti vesci possint indulgendi concedendi Nec non per te in praeteritis duntaxat casibus aliquos Clericos Seculares tantum Presbyteros Diaconos aut Subdiaconos qui Matrimonium cum aliquibus Virginibus vel corruptis Secularibus etiam Mulieribus de facto eatenus contraxissent considerata aliqua ipsorum singulari qualitate cognita eorum vera ad Christi fidem conversione ac aliis circumstantiis ac modificationibus tuo tantum arbitrio adhibendis ex quibus aliis praesertim Clericis in Sacris Ordinibus hujusmodi constitutis quibus non licet Uxores habere Scandalum omnino non generetur citra tamen altaris ac alia Sacerdotum ministeria titulos