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A08083	The tocsin, or watch-bell sent to the king, queene regent, princes of blood, to all the parlaments, magistrates, officers, and loyall subiects of France. Against the booke of the popes temporall power, not long since set forth by Cardinall Bellarmine Iesuite. By Memnons Statue. With the permission of the best genie of Fraunce. And done into English by I.R. ...; Tocsin au roy. English	Le Jay, Nicolas.; I. R., fl. 1611.; France. Parliament (Paris)	1611 (1611)	STC 1845; ESTC S113759	24,586	62

THE TOCSIN OR WATCH-BELL Sent TO THE KING QVEENE Regent Princes of blood to all the Parlaments Magistrates Officers and loyall Subiects of FRANCE Against the booke of the Popes temporall power not long since set forth by Cardinall BELLARMINE Iesuite By MEMNONS Statue With the permission of the best Genie of Fraunce And done into English by I. R. Notate Verbae Signate Mysteriae Ecce enim mysterium vobis dico LONDON Printed for Edward White the younger and are to be sold at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne 1611. THE TRANSLATOR TO THE LOYALL Hearted Subiects of ENGLAND AS the Author of this small Treatise testifieth himselfe to be a true hearted subiect to the Crowne of France by composing it J will likewise in emulation and imitation of his fidelity approue my selfe to be no lesse to the Crowne of England by translating it For sith this bloudy booke of Cardinal Bellarmine ambitiously arrogating to himselfe the Title of the Popes Temporall power though particularly sent to France is neuerthelesse meant and doth concerne all other Kingdomes Soueraignties and free States whatsoeuer I thought in honour to God in alleageance to my Prince in loue to my Countrie and in duetie to all J was bound to dispoile out of his French habilements and to sute in our English attire this iudicious and compendious Treatise which so worthily opposeth and impugneth it Come nay then run if not flie hither you loyall hearted English men and as the choise of the wisest chiefest and loyallest hearted French haue already so in religion in zeale in discretion and iustice doe you now commit and sacrifice to the fire both Bellarmines booke and the thought much more the practise of those irreligious vsurping and sanguynat speeches and positions therein contained tending to the disgrace preiudice and destruction both of our Kings Countries yea for euer in your hearts and soules not onely spit at but defie the wrongfull tyrannicall Jesuiticall and Diabolicall pretence of this Sophisticall traytor and treacherous Sophister Bellarmine who as subtlely as inueterately aimeth not to reach at but to take off the Crownes of Kings and iniustlie to place them vpon the heads of Popes yea to trample their Scepters and Regall Ornaments vnder their feet and to bring their Dominions and subiects both into a wofull desolation and a miserable subiection and slauerie For alas shall we permit to see or liue to permit that our Roiall Kings of England not inferior to anie but equall with the greatest Kings of the world should now through our negligence be made homagers subiects nay slaues vnto Popes Gods mortall enemies and our deadly professed foes as was our King Iohn the Emperour Fredericke Barbarossa the King of Nauarre and Earle of Tholouse c. No no illustrious and generous Nobilitie iudicious and faithfull priuie Counsellors learned and vpright Judges reuerend and religious Prelates valorous and warlike Gentry incorruptible and watchfull Magistrates faithful and vigilant Officers obedient and loyall Commons ioine all in one yea let euery mothers sonne if occasion require with an vnanime consent Viua Voce cheerfully and couragiously with Drummes beating Trumpets sounding and Canons roaring denounce Warre to that Cardinall nay to that Pope nay to that diuell which presumeth or durst presume to depriue either our King of his soueraigntie or our Countrey of her independencie yea next and immediatly to the zeale of the glory of God let vs be zealous watchfull watchful and couragious couragious and resolute for the securitie and preseruation of King IAMES our dread Soueraigne and his heires for euer and for the conseruation and maintaining of the Soueraigntie both of his Crowne and Kingdome of England the Paradice of the world and our sweet natiue Countrie And the more to incite and powerfully incourage you in the performance of this your religious and sworne duety I haue translated published and here present you this Tocsin or Watch-bell that when you chaunce to sleepe in your beddes of securitie it may arouse and awake you to stand vpon your guard with Swordes drawne Muskets charged Match lighted and hearts eagerlie sharpened and animated to destroy and confound the Pope and his adhaerents and to subuert and ouerthrow all other hostile enemies whatsoeuer which shal either incroach vpon our Temporalitie or attempt to depriue vs of our Soueraignty to the end that neither the fame and renowne of our deceased triumphant and victorious warriours which hath heretofore spread it selfe to the farthest and remotest parts of the world and is for euer characteris'd vpon the neuer-dying Records of immortality may not deseruedly taunt taxe vs with the scandalous imputation of cowardise nor our posteritie hereafter reuile and curse vs for leauing them inheritors and heires onely to Tyrannicall slauery and Presbyteriall seruitude from the which God of his mercy preserue defend both our selues and them And hereunto let all the loyall hearted subiects of King Iames clappe hands and say Amen Amen By I. R. THE TOCSIN OR WATCH-BELL FRance it is high time without delay that this Tocsin or Watch-bell sound shrilly in the hearts of all thy people to awake and giue the Alarum to all those which ought to defend thee sith Cardinall Bellarmine the Iesuite as impudently as vniustly hath chosen the right of thy Kings minority to giue the assault to thy Soueraignty and to fixe the Petard to the gates of thy Maiesty hitherto inuiolated He hath watched the time that thy Hercules Henry the great was translated to a better Kingdome then thine to leaue the Supreintendency thereof ill assured to the young King his heire the Regency vncertaine to the Queene Regent the succession doubtfull to the Princes of blood the authority decrepit and feeble to the Parliaments the care voy de of honour to the Magistrates the loyalty without assurance to the Officers the obedience without fidelity to the Subiects and the peace without continuance to our neighbours For this booke published of late in Rome vnder the title of The Popes Temporall power hath performed all yea farre worse then all this This proud Cardinall in his booke depainteth vs Popes as if each were a Cyrus that is to say inflamed with a desire both to haue and to commaund all but our Queene Mary shall be to them a Tomiris which authorised and incouraged in the right of her sonne shall not onely cut off the complots of those Vsurpers but also the intrusion of all others whatsoeuer An acte both iust and necessary sith it is not done in contempt of the Apostolicke authoritie but contrariwise to exempt vs from that bondage whereunto this Cardinall through his booke would bring vs yea and which he would cause to steale in to the buddes of the Flower-deluces thereby to yoke and curbe the free necks of the Kings of France which more iustly then all other Kings of the world may say Filij Abrahae sumus nemini seruiuimus vnquam A iudicious

on the hearts of those which are enemies and rebels to their Prince and countrey to incourage and harden them in the execution of their wicked plots and proiects Eneas surnamed the Pious threatned with a cruell death those Ruteloys which furnished his enemy Turnus with armor and weapons and the Corcyriens burnt the citie of Cillena because the Helenians being Lords thereof had aided the Corinthians their enemies and shall our Iudges winke at the assistance and aide which these Booke-sellers giue the enemies of France by dispersing and selling this booke of Bellarmine which most secretly and dangerously they sow and distribute No France no if the Iesuites participate of this wickednesse entertaine them no longer as companions and friendes for being aduanced and risen through the fauour which thou hast bestowed on them they vse thee as the Scythian slaues did their Masters esteeming themselues worthy to aspire to their nuptiall beddes so the Iesuites beleeue they may both sport and doe what they please with the Soueraignty of France But once curbe and correct them with the whip and thou shalt see they will take heed to offend thee For I cannot more properly compare them then to the beasts Teuterydes which feare and flie at those which assault them and vehemently assault and follow those which permit them to repose and rest in peace Anciently wise Vlisses conceiued an extreme horrour when his seruant Eumenius informed him what theft and ryot the louers of his wife Penelope committed and acted in his house But now King Queene Regent Princes Iudges Magistrates Officers and commons of France would we might be showen the dangerous Maximes of this Cardinals booke the spoyle of subuersion which it pretendeth to doe in France if you I say foresee not and procure the suppression and extirpation therof yea be ye all inflamed thereat with iust anger for there is therein included and comprehended such dangerous positions and bloudy propositions that it is to be feared they will occasion the Kings Palaces and Cities to resemble the Cities and Palaces of Adonia wherein was nothing heard but cryes and sighes nothing seene but lamentations and teares Iudicious Queene let not the apparent and dissembling remonstrances of a Nuncio deceiue your vigilancy For herein your Maiesty may please to remember the Egyptian fable of the Crocodile who vpon the shores of Nylus hauing surprised a childe from his mother cryed out as he bore him away I will render him thee againe if thou canst define what I thinke the mother bitterly weeping answered I define thou wilt not render him me therefore restore him me for I haue defined aright The Crocodile replied If I restore him thee then thou hast lied I will therefore keepe him both for thee and me So when the censure of the Arest of Parliament was complained of and made knowne to our Bride and Lord the late King what promises did the Popes Nuncio make him that he would cause it to be both remedied and reuoked yea what sugred speeches gaue he to Monsieur Chancelier and Monsieur Villeroy who onely hindred and with-held that the Court of Parliament imposed and bent not their authority against it and which of all those faire promises hath he since accomplished and performed No no he well knoweth the humour of the French to be sensible in new wounds and forgetfull when they are become more aged and when they should seeke for reuenge thereof he beleeueth that amongst vs hee which hath time hath life or to say more properly He which is reprined is pardoned And so much will he now likewise doe to preuent the burning of Bellarmines booke but when the shame and feare thereof is past you shall neuer obtaine the honour of the libertie of France whereof this booke will depriue you yea his promises will vanish away as smoake knowing well that as Denis the tyrant had rather permit himselfe to be pulled and drawne downe from his Throne then to mount vpon a furious and warlike horse so the Popes his Masters haue determined neuer to abandon their pretension which they haue of the Soueraignty of France or to see themselues reduced and brought to an authority purely Apostolike and Sacerdotall except by meere force of the faithfull Officers of Kings Potentates and Princes It is an Axiome Madam incident to all Ambassadours wheron dependeth eyther the glory or the interest of the Princes their Masters Turpe est vinci sed non cessisse Decorum And to arriue to a Cardinalship there is no directer way then effectually to occasion Kings to submit themselues to the authority of Popes which falsely apply and attribute to themselues this verse of Dauids Psalme Ador abunt eum omnes Reges terrae omnes gentes seruient ei Which neuertheles belongeth not properly to any of them but on the contrary to Iesus Christ And for Cardinall Bellarmine he well knoweth that he hath not alwaies taught that which in his booke hee now teacheth concerning the Soueraignty of Popes ouer Kings For were not Sixtus the fift dead hee would make him wedde the prison of the Inquisition because hee then taught more conformable to the truth then he now doth But seeing this Cardinals booke now in the hangmans hand ready to be conuerted into ashes I would willingly demaund of him the sense of the same demaund which Cyrus made vnto Craesus whom he had vanquished and taken in battaile Bellarmine who hath called thee without reasonable motiues to warre against the temporall Soueraignty of France And I answere my selfe if his booke could speake it would answere for him The aduancement and security of the Soueraignty of France the augmentation of her honour but without thought thereof and for euer the eclipsing of the renowne of my authour with the eternall banishment of all his Aahaerents from the Territories of the Flower-de-Luce of which saith the Euangelist Salomon in all his maiesty was neuer so maiesticall as it is When Antipater would haue reduced the Lacedemonians to his subiection they said vnto him Vse vs as Citizens worthy of Lacedemonia and let our truce bee as preiudiciall vnto vs as it pleaseth thee so f●rre forth as it redound not to our shame So France saith at present to the Pope Vse me as France which hath temporally made thee what thou art and on that which is spirituall extend thy authority as farre as thou canst but beware make not this Crowne thy slaue which in many partes of Italy hath made thee King Otherwise thou must needes beleeue if thou durst vndertake it that as Augustus said to those which disswaded him from hating Cassius and Brutus the murtherers of his adopted father Caesar God which hath esteemed our King Lewes the twelfth worthy the Scepter of great Henry his father will make him as worthy a successor of his valour to conserue the crown which he hath left him free from all domination except that of heauen For France resembleth pretious stones the least cracke or haire

my comfort is that there is a great difference and distance betwixt the sale and deliuery of vs. I say if this come to passe to auoyde their enteprises it were better wee surprised them for otherwise it will befall vs as it did the Marriners of the Lake of Laumont in the Prouince of Escouie in Scotland which as long as the said Lake was tempestuous they passe without danger but being calme they alwayes endure shipwracke And alas who hath better and fitter meanes to annoy vs then the Iesuites who confesse the King importunately solicite the Queene liue as companions with Monsieur the Chancellor and Monsieur Villeroy of whom through their dexterity they may obtaine many things which may tend to our ruine as aduice and agents to those which employ them thereunto I am not ignorant that their speeches and bookes are more sweeter then the Syrens songs and that many good spirits pricked forwards with the spurre of Religion throw themselues headlong into the Sea of their acquaintance morefully to participate of their harmony But I know likewise that as the winde sprong vp which conducted Butes out of danger and saued him in Lybia so the winde which at present bloweth against them in France hath drawen many excellent spirits forth the Sea of their captiuity and hath fortunately brought them to the port of happines For considering more narrowly why they are so applauded and with a circumspectious eye beholding the forme of their comportments yea and not onely in their faces but in their liues and doctrines yea in their very hearts and actions they affirme they haue found nothing but death for life euill for good the losse of the Church for her preseruing and the losse of the estate for his conferuation As for me if such they are I am of opinion that there was neuer spell nor charme more stronger and powerfull then that wherewith they practise For when I do see a Sillery and Villeroy both spirites shining with brightnesse and on all sides enuitoned with piercing sights which as two Argus haue rather their heads in their eyes then their eyes in their heads to be so inchanted and lulled asleepe with the dissembling songs of those treacherous Mercuries which perceiue not that in shutting their eyes to their practises they both close vp and finish the dayes of their own honor and eclipse the splendor of the dignity of France their deere mother and sweete Countrey which hath so honourably imparted them the choyce of her chiefest dignities and yet of whom they will rauish her chiefest Iö to wit her independency and soueraignty whereof this great Iupiter in Bellarmines booke doth demonstrate himselfe desperatly enamoured I am besides my selfe and beleeue all and more too which antiquity hath reported of Circes the Magician This Capitolian Iupiter durst neuer haue assaulted our French Hercules in the face but when he perceiued his backe turned then hesent this couragious canker Sophister Bellarmine sweating with the blood of Princes to wound him in the heele But couragious couragious the wound is not yet mortall for Iolaus the inflexible Parliament of Paris will cure him yea and so manage and operate that this Ixion which thought himselfe cock-sure to haue embraced our French Iuno shall in stead thereof onely embrace a cloud from whence shal issue Centaures that shall go through all countries blessing those which will receiue them yet neuerthelesse shall not be entertained in France which was neuer ordained to be Augeas stable And as Theron King of Spaine knocking at the gate of Hercules Temple was with his whole Fleete miraculously consumed by a clap of lightning from heauen right so this booke beating at the Soueraignty of France shall iudicially be consumed to cynders together with all his Sophisticall reasons This being incident and fatall to France that as neuer vitious person entred into the Temple of Vulcan on mount Aetna but was by the guardians thereof destroyed and rent in pieces so there was neuer any ill affected to the Flower-deluces which heretofore hath published their impostures but by the vigilancie of the Parliaments haue beene both defaced and burnt And although the late troubles haue opened the doores of France and so let in some indiscreet and pernitious bookes as sometimes forrainers came and cast ancre in Diomedes Ilands wherein the habitation was onely permitted to the Grecians because there were certaine birds which Diomedes brought thither which would not endure that any others should peaceably reside there except those which were of Diomedes country so as if they found any forrainers or strangers there those carefull birds would violently fall on them picking and tearing their faces yea and biting their armes and breasts and neuer forsake them vntill they had slaine them In the same manner in this Kingdome are carefull and watchfull Parliaments and Magistrates which our Kings haue established that will neuer permit that the enemies of the state should violate their priuiledges or infringe their authority And although for a time either through importunity or protection of great personages they winke as if they saw nothing so permit them to inhabite amongst vs Neuerthelesse they will neuer tolerate themlong to dwell peaceably amongst vs but vvill closely and violently pursue them vntill they haue both extenuated and exterminated them yea and neuer wearie themselues to bite and sting them continually but proue as faithfull as the dogges being Porters of Mineruaes Iliadnes Temple in Dulia which by a naturall instinct alwayes bit those which came to prophane the Temple yea although they were brought in by her Priest which vnder colour of religion was deceiued by those detestable prophaners It is reported that the Lisards crooked teeth hauing once taken hold cannot be remoued without breaking them Let vs therefore breake the crooked teeth of this Lisard Bellarmine to the end he leaue vs in our auncient liberty and freedome It agreeth well with Rome to haue a Pantheon wherein to adore the generality of Gods but France can serue onely one Master And to speake truely the causes which concerne the Temporalitie of France ought not to be censured much lesse decided in the Consistorie of Rome For were that tolerated it were the direct way to put in practise the cousenage of subtle Ithacus who before the Grecian army would pleade the processe of generous and ingenious Palamedes to the end the sub●●ller to depose stone this innocent Prince and notwithstanding all this while to cloake treason with a dissembling shew of iustice and equity resembling the Popes which oueruaile their vsurpation with the scarfe of Religion But if Iupiter inflamed with choler commanded the Riuer Acheron to remoue and descend into hell because the water therof refresht the Tytans his mortall enemies which rebelled against him So what Iudge is there in France which will not be cheerefull yea willing to controlle yea consound such Stationers Libraries running Book sellers which cause seditious and pernitious pamphlets to alight

them so the Iesuites in their Troublexiue of Gretzerus report and write Being a barrell of wine and a filthy lodge stinking of lyes and blasphemies that this Cotton is the Kings Master that his Maiestie heareth no other Masses then his and that hee gouerneth the Queene Regent and yet the learned Prelates of France well know that he himselfe is a puny and in effect nothing For otherwise great Cardinall Perron the Kings spirituall Master and great Almoner and the prudent and graue Bishop of Bayone his first Almoner and the rest of the kings Almoners amongst whom there are personages alwaies ready not onely to dispute but conuict him and render him all the daies of his life their scholar should be highly debased and blamed and his Maiesties Chaplaines appeare not to be much imployed and busied But notwithstanding this I see not that eyther the king or Queene gouerne or rule the Iesuites and that for all the multitude of Benefices fauors bestowed vpon them they cannot yet draw them to loue them much lesse to liue as good subiects containe themselues in peace without innouating some things amongst vs but rather I see they alone thinke to draw all France to them and beleeue themselues able at one blow yea and with high wrestling now in the kings minority to obtaine that whereof during the life of great Henry they durst not presume to haue dream't For hardly had this great king shut his eyes and God knoweth if by their meanes because he at Rome pursued the reparation of the iniury done to his Maiesty in censuring the Arest of his Court of Parliament and threatned Cotton that vnlesse he changed maximes he would dispatch him yea no sooner I say had great Henry giuen his last adiew to this world but they built a Citadel in the suburbes of St. Germanes without that eyther the king or Queene knowing at whose expence and charge whereunto some peraduenture contributed which were least doubted of with strong and craftie force and policy endeuouring to violate the authority of the Parliament of Paris that thereby they might be permitted to open their Colledge in despite maugre the whole body of the Vniuersity As if to ouercome all they thought it sufficient to alleadge they were Iesuites as the Temple of Trophonius built in Mnatinea needed no other stay then the thread of a Spiders webbe Already through their confidents they inioy the principall offices both of the Parliament and politike authority esteeming by meanes hereof during the Kings minority so to secure and inuellop themselues in the state that through their intelligences it will be lawfull for them to diuert and turne it as they please But I will giue them an aduice which if they are wise may perchance much steade them and this it is Vindekint Duke of Saxony heretofore a sworne enemy to France in the raigne of King Charllemaine seeing the King to be gone in person to the wars of Spaine addresses himselfe to a certaine Prince of Denmarke and solicited him to inuade France in respect the King was absent and his kingdome left desolate for a prey But the Danish Prince better instructed in the conduction of the affaires of France replied No no reiect Sir those simple opinions and deceiue not your selfe for the kingdome of France is neuer vnprouided of his guard It is I confesse a prey but I assure you a subtle dangerous prey which destroyeth and ruineth those which attempt to surprise it In like manner it is true that our king is a Minor yea I acknowledge it but it is also true that the Magistrates of France are very quick sighted and marueilous resolute and vigilant in his Maiesties affairs And amongst these Magistrates there are ciuill Lieutenants which cannot dissemble any thing indamageth or preiudiceth France in respect wherof the Iesuites are not yet arriued where they desire nor haue not stroken the marke whereat they aime yea I know a certaine Magistrate which heretofore reposed vpon the vigilancy of the late king without remouing or stirring for any matter which past in Paris that now watcheth day and night to keepe king Lewes the thirteenth from danger whom God preserue and protect Yea and I perswade my selfe considering it was a Iaye which by his cryes hath discouered the assault which Bellarmine hath giuen France that it may likewise be true that a Goose by his voyce hath heretofore saued the Capitoll of Rome from the surprising of the French and I beleeue also that the Iesuites with all their snares and nets shall neuer surprise this Iaye to whom France ought to contribute and affoord an yearely memory as at Rome they yet remember the Geese which guarded and preserued the Capitoll because thorough his crie so effectually and fitly made he hath awakened and aroused France from her slumber wherein through this Cardinals wicked booke she was on the point to lose the life of her liberty Ha ye Iesuites what presage is this for you that birdes picke and warre at you Peruse I say the fortieth chapter of Genesis what was the dreame of Pharaohs Baker and thereunto adde this other place of Scripture Speake not euill of the King in secret for the birds of the ayre will reueale it and the newes therof and so applying all this together feare the discouery and torment thereof It may be you thinke that as Dragons cannot obtaine to be Dragons before they haue caten a Snake so likewise you cannot become the most furious and redoubtable of the world before you haue swallowed downe and deuoured France But let me certifie you that this booke of Cardinall Bellarmine hath awakened vs from our Lethargie and hath brought vs to the knowlege why the Popes Nuncio fauored vs so much and not many moneths since was so afraide lest the Preachers would haue stirred vp the Parisians to haue expelled and banished you the Citie For as an Arest of the Court of Parliament is of small efficacy and power without Serieants or Pursuyuants to execute him so were Bellarmines booke of small or no vertue were you not in France vnder colour of religion and conscience to put in practise the execution thereof For the maske is taken off and we are aduertised at our Ladies Church in Paris if any one deceiue vs. No no France thinke not that when question was to suppresse the sellers and distributers of Cardinall Baronius his booke at Naples written against the Sicilian Monarchy that then the Popes Nuncio remayned silent or idle with his armes a crosse for there are many hundreds now present which then saw his goings and commings yea which ouer-heard his threatnings But as those which dwell at the foote of the mountaines of Egypt are deafe by reason of the cataracts sluces of Nylus so the Magistrates of Naples seemed to be deafe and gaue no occasion of laughter to the Court of Rome which triumph when they see people tremble and feare at the threatnings of their Nuncios and feede