name which they had once giuen as they thought vnto the truth Nay the matter proceeded so farre that this name grew to be imposd vppon the rest of that societie almost throughout all Portugall Trust me this passage is of such desert that I should deceiue these good men if I should not translate it into French to discouer with howe great pietie they haue purchast this title For Fraunces Xauier is honoured for a great Saint among all the Iesuits Was there euer any impietie or imposture greater then this that these two hypocrits to be counted Apostles bruted it abroad that two new supplies were added to their Sect to make vp the number of twelue Apostles and that vpon this false alarum they were called Apostles This was against theyr will saith Turcelline belieue the reporter For Xauier tooke speciall care not to loose his tytle when hee came into the Indies Tincel 2. booke of Xauiers life cap. 3. Therefore as before in Portugall so in India he began to be commonly calld an Apostle and the same title afterwards flowed from Francis as from the Head to the rest of his fellowes Tell me I beseech you whether this be not to renue the heresie of Manes whose followers were cald Manichees he naming himselfe the Paraclet had twelue Disciples whom he cald Apostles and for such he sent them abroad one by one to other prouinces to spread abroad the poyson of his heresie through their preaching To say the truth Ignace neuer tooke on him the name of Paraclet yet was he willing inough to be accounted for another Iesus by his company As I wil discourse to you in his proper place when I come to speak of their blind obedience He did not only take this authority power vpon himselfe But resigned it ouer also to all the Generals of his order that succeeded him who in like manner haue embraced the title of Apostles wherewith their inferiours were endowed in Portugall This is apparant in Rome and yet no man sees it but quite contrarie this Family is there had in honourrable regard vpon a wrong conceit men haue entertained touching their absolute obedience whereof these my Maisters make semblance vnto the Pope And shall we hereafter haue any maruaile to heare a barking at the holy Sea by diuersities of new opinions that fight against it Pardon me I beseech thee O holy Sea for it is the heat of my zeale deuoted to thee that inforceth me to vtter this speech Great and vnspeakable are Gods iudgements to suffer that in the Citie of Rome in your sight and knowledge there should bee a Manes continued by successions from one to another which hath not twelue onely but infinite Apostles dispersed here and there God will reuenge it early or late though it be by his enemies The Aduocate as a man much wounded in heart was desirous to prosecute this in a chafe when the Iesuit interrupting him said Verie well sir you are in daunger to be drawen drie Marking your discourse you put me in mind of those young Historiographers which imputed it for folly to Alexander the great that he would haue all men thinke him to be Iupiters sonne they attributed this to his immoderate ouer-weening neuerthelesse it was an excellent wise drift of his Can you imagine why so long as the country of king Darius was the marke he shot at he was too wise to take that title vpon him and chose rather to thrust forward his fortune by ordinarie meanes of armes But as soone as he plotted to passe into India a kind of new world deuided from ours he would haue the people perswaded by the great Priest of Aegypt that he was Iupiters sonne and from that time he would be adored as such a one not by the Macedonians his natural subiects bred in the liberty of a Greeke spirit But by the barbarous people with such respect and beliefe that from that time forward they should take him not to be a meere Prince but a great God that came to the conquest of the Indies this deuice tooke so good effect that he made himselfe Lord of the country without striking stroke The Kings Potentates and common people saying that their countrey was first vanquished by Bacchus then by Hercules both sonnes of Iupiter and that the whole rule and Dominion was reserued for the comming of Alexander a third sonne of his Thinke you our Societie followes not this plot you see we neuer tooke the name of Apostles any where but in Portugall but when we were to go to the same Indies where Alexander had beene we thought as he did that it was fit we should be authorized beyond others by a more ample sacred and maiesticall title which was to be called Apostles It had beene ill for vs to challenge it in Portugall if Xauier had not continued it by an entercourse of his companie after his arriuall in the Indies to the end he might be reputed another Saint Thomas sent thither after the passion of our Sauiour Iesus Christ And it were impossible to recount what conquests of soules we made there vnder this holy perswasion Ha quoth the Aduocate verily if this be your fashion I haue nothing to do with you for as when you entred Italy you borrowed I know not what of their Mountebanks so would you do the like of Machiauell in Portugall and the Indies Meane while you my maisters that haue bragged much of your knowledge in Diuinitie haue verie ill turnd ouer the history of the kings in the the Bible from whence you gather by a continued ranke that God tooke away the crownes of all the Kings of Israel as oft as they became Idolaters eyther while they liued or in all time to come neuer suffered them to descend vnto their children How thinke you I pray ye that God hath left the true Kings of Portugall without heires and that their Realme came into the hands of the first Prince that caught it That one Don Anthonio a bastard one Katherine de Medices Queene-mother of our King pretended title to it and last of all that one Philip King of Spaine became maister of it without any great resistance I will not discourse in partriculer of the goodnes of his title for mine one part I thinke that the best title he had was the iustice of God whō it pleased in reuenge of the giddie Idolatrie and blasphemie of the kings and people to make this realme without triall of the cause passe from one family to another by this holy title of Apostles attributed to these hypocrites And I perswade my selfe that the King of Spayne now raigning will one day fall into the like mischiefe if he suffer this impietie CHAP. 10. ¶ The impieties of William Postell a Iesuits BVt why should we thinke this blaphemie strange in them if within few yeeres after they tooke the title of Apostles on them some one of them was found so abhominable in the sight of God and man
then the godly zealous of our faith desire Besides the labourers of this Societie without hauing Colledges prepared for theÌ„ for the conseruation of Christians conuersion of the heathen frequent the countries of Mount Libanus of Aegypt of Africa of China When I read this passage with a friend of mine I told him that this Iesuit without name played in the dark and the verie lyer As of old Apollonius Tianneus the coozner did alleaging to the Greekes for witnesse of his miracles the Gymnosophists that were in India Whereupon Aeneas Goseus in his Theophrast saith that it was not without reason that this impudent coozner tooke for warrant of his cooznages them that were a farre of and dwelt as it were in an other world I said that our Iesuits Theatins did the like at this day who to feed vs with toyes send vs to the same Indies and other countries whereof we scarse know the names But at this word my friend smiling said that there was some Picrochole in their doing What Picrochole quoth I I think it is the name of a diuel as Macrobe is I perceiue quoth he again that ye haue not studied our Rabelais who discoursing of a great warre that king Picrochole made vpon Grandgosier after that his foolish noule had reckned vpoÌ„ the whole couÌ„try of France which he took to be already conquered his gallants that followed him added therto And moreouer you shall assault the kingdomes of Tunis of Hippo Argier of Bone of Corode valiantly all Barbarie Passing further you shall take into your hands Maiorca Minorca Sardinia Corfu and the other Islands of the Ligustick and Balearick Sea and in coasting on the left hand you shall beare rule ouer all Gallia Narbonensis Prouence the Allobroges Sionna Florence Luca you shall take Italy euen Naples Calabria Apulia and Sicill and sacke them all Malta to Afterward we will take Candy Cyprus Rhodes and the Cyclades we will set vpon Moria It seemes that this wise foole Rabelais meant then in the person of Picrochole to paint out the imaginarie victories of our Iesuits with their wallets though they were not then hatcht You are a merrie man quoth I but let vs leaue these trickes for the Iesuit De la Fon For I see nothing in this matter but to laugh at If the Iesuit had taken Munsters Cosmography he might haue added many other sauage countries and it had beene hard for vs to haue proued him a lier I remember that the wise Tulenus seeing vpon a time the lawyer Balduin walking with Andrew Theuet the trauailer said that they took no care to disproue one with another because the one had been alwaies in his chamber wedded to his booke and the other had employed his whole time in trauaile without looking vpon a booke That the one might quote many false authorities without being reproued the other name many countryes where he had neuer beene without being contrould The very same you shall find in this case of the Iesuits we haue in hand It is aboue 40. yeere since they bragd that they had made these great conquests in the most part of those countreyes Their Statutes ordaine that when their General is dead all the fathers of our prouinces that are in any estate or dignitie must come to Rome to proceed to the election of a new successor After the decease of Ignace in the yeere 1556. many came thither where Iames Lainez was chosen he dead in the yeere 1565. Fraunces Borgia was chosen in neither of these elections though there was a great care had that the titles of all the fathers Prouincials might be sent thither yet I find not any one of those farre countries and yet the names and titles of all the fathers that were brought thither were verie carefully set downe They are bound to send letters to their Generall euery yeere from euerie Colledge to certifie him how their matters stand I haue runne ouer all that were sent to their Generall Aquauiua in the yeere 1583. yet find no mention among them of any of these Colledges It should seeme their winning of soules hath beene meruailous great since that time Let vs leaue things as they be let vs not speak vpon idle imaginatioÌ„s but agreeable to common sense If they be scattred in so many barbarous countries haue there conueried so many soules to our Christian faith they must needs haue had the gift of tongues to conuert theÌ„ It is in the power of our holy Father to send them into these vnknown countries but not to bestow vpon them the gift of tongues That was a grace of the holy Ghost particularly reserued for the Apostles for the spreading of our Christian faith Consider I pray you whether there be not likelihood of reason in that I say Besides where are the sauage Kings Princes Lords which after their conuersion haue come to kisse the feet of the holy father to receiue his blessing I vnderstand that once in 60. yers they haue had a Maske in Rome of 3. beggers disguisd like kings this is all I place therfore their vow of Mission in the chapter of money counted but not receiued It is a very coozeâ—age by which these honest felowes dally with vs. And yet this cooznage is nothing in comparison of that whereby they abuse our holy father It must be granted by euery man that he only and none but he hath authority to send into heathen countries for their conuersion so that no man in this case may be ioyned in commission with him But for all this there is nothing wherein the Iesuits despise his authority more then in this the least part of this Mission depends vpon the holy Sea and the residue is in their Generall Bull of Paule the 3. the yeere 1549. Possit tamen ipsemet Praepositus pro tempore existens suos quocumque locorum etiam inter Infideles cùm expedire in Domino iudicabit mittere ac reuocare per nos ac successores nostros ad locuÌ„ aliquem missos sine temporis certi limitatione cùm id expedire ad Dei gloriam animarum auxilium visum fuerit super quo conscientiam dicti Praepositi oneramus ad alia loca transmittere liberè licite valeat Yet let their Generall saith the Bul for the time being whensoeuer he shall thinke it expedient send them of his order into any heathen country whatsoeuer and when he list call them home againe and if we or our successors shal send any of them to any place without limitation of time let him whensoeuer he shal see it expedient for Gods glory the good of soules wherin we charge the said General vpon his conscience remoue them from thence whither he shall think meet From hence you may gather that the Generall not only may send them as well as the Pope but which is more may alter clippe curtall the Popes letters Patents as please him Besides there
to them Which can not bee that of Clairmounte except peraduenture for the three Colledges sake founded by the Bishop of Clairmounte It is therefore requisite they should adde the word Iesuists This verie name was afterward in vse in their owne Colledge at Paris when they were expeld It is true that in processe of time the common people for the easier pronunciation discarded the S. and called them Iesuits in steed of Iesuists And when Pasquier printed his Epistles in the yeere 1586. likewise when the Plea was printed in the yeere 94. And that of the Aduocate Mesnil they were termed Iesuists according to the common custome of time Neither was this reformed in Versoris Plea Take it then for certaine that they were called Iesuists as you may better be informed by such as liued in those daies this was done vpon graue consideration for no sparke of true Iesus being in them but hypocrisie only appareld with his name the people branded them with the name of Iesuists In like manner you know that from the Greeke word Sophos which sigfies sage in old time the word Sophister was deriued to decipher such a one as troubled the waters of Wisdom Therfore we do noate by the name of Iesuists these new disturbers of Iesus his Church After this manner in our time from the word Deus some haue wrested a title of men deified which is a new heresie And as God shines in his wisdome so shal it not be from the purpose to couple a Iesuist a Sophister togither because a Iesuist is nothing else but the Sophister of our Catholique religion Here said the Aduocate you haue reason not only I subscribe to your obseruatiō but more I hold him a heauie beast which shal not acknowledge them to be of the Societie of Iesus Verely they are but iust as Iudas was among the Apostles so many Iesuies so many Iudases readie to betray their princes or their countries whensoeuer occasion serues to do it What wil you giue vs wil be the burdē of their song to those princes that haue most money we will deliuer our Leege Lord into your hands or troble his state that it may be yeelded to you Did they not attempt the same in Fraunce and if our famous Henry had beleeued them had they not performed it But thanks be vnto God they met with such a barre as the necessitie of our affaires required CHAP. 9. ¶ That the Iesuits are called Apostles in Portugall in the Indies and with what deceits they haue wrought it QVestionlesse he is much deceiued that makes any doubt of the societie of Iesus for there must of force be a Iesus in theyr companie sithence they haue had Apostles such remaine among them in the Realme of Portugall to this day an impietie certainly shamefull for our Catholique Apostolique Romane Church that vnder cullour of a paynted obedience they say they yeelde to the holie Sea vvee haue suffered these hypocrites to be called Apostles not in Portugall onely but in many other Townes and Citties also of the Indies where they commaund Thys historie howe disgracefull soeuer it be to vs deserues notwithstanding to be vnderstood knowne to all good men that they may be informed how the Iesuits haue not spared for any sleights to rayse theyr reputation by the downfall of the true Church of GOD. I must tell you then that Ignace beeing at Venice with his nine companions Peter Faure which in Latine is called Faber Fraunces Xauier Iames Lainez Alphonsus Salmeron Nicholas Bobadille Simon Roderic Pasquier Broet Claudius Iay and Iohn Codury One Hosius of Nauarre Bachelor of Diuinitie after many doubts cleered vnto him by Ignace Ribad lib. 2. cap. 6. at last ioynd hart and companie with Ignace and was put into the Cataloge with the rest saith Ribadener and vppon the poynt of theyr departure from the territorie of Venice Ribad lib. 7. cap. 5. Maff. lib. 2. cap. 4. after their first returne from Rome Ignatius saith the same Authour Faber and Lainez went to Viceria Fraunces Xauier and Salmeron to mount Celesius Iohn Codurus Hosius late said to be put into their nūber to Tarnisium Claudius Iay Simon Roderic to Bassanū Paschasius Bobadilla to Verona It pleased God that after Ignace was appointed by his companions to goe to Rome Maff. lib. 2. cap. 4. Ribad lib. 2. cap. 12. as hee was saying Masse at Mount Cassin hee saw an Angell carry Hosius soule with ioy to heauen Thus by his death their companie was reduced to their first Cataloge of tenne that number which I say preferd their request to Pope Paule the third and you shall not finde that they soone afterwardes gathered any more to make vp eleuen or twelue as they did with Hosius Now the record tels vs that as they were at Rome attending the Popes pleasure to giue order for their plot Iohn the third of that Name King of Portugall was desirous to haue some one of these new Pilgrims to send him to the Indies where hee possest a great part of the Country The Portugals had by their long and venterous nauigations opened a way to these newe founde Lands for so our Auncestors calld them and they made thēselues maisters of them where the most part of the Commaunders continued in their old idolatry others although they were baptized were but rude Christians By this meanes Ma. Iames Gouea sometime principall of S. Barbes Colledge in Paris aduised the King to choose some one of these new Pilgrimes at Rome to conuert his subiects Gouea by the Kings appointment wrote to Ignace who aunswered him againe by Letters that he had no authoritie in that case but that all depended vppon the Popes pleasure After a little coursing to and fro the charge was committed to Fraunces Xauier of Nauarre and Simon Roderic a Portugall These trauaild to the King which entertayned them verie graciously Vppon their arriuall the Pope enlarged this newe companie to the number of threescore these two men were called Apostles a title deriued from them to their Successors in that Country Horace Turcelin a Iesuit yeeldes this reason of it Last of all saith he speaking of Xauier and Rodoric Turcel lib. 1 ca. 10. of Xauers life the excellencie of theyr vertue and contempt of the worlde was miraculous in the eyes of the whole Cittie It was bruted among the commen people that twelue Priests for two were added to the ten had combined together at Rome Two of the which company liuing among them seemed to carrie I know not what shew of an Apostolicall life This made the people whether it were for the equalitie of the number or for the conformit is of life to begin by too great a title to call them Apostles and continued so to tearme them though much against theyr wills For the Portugalls beeing no lesse constant in theyr dooings then religious in determination they coulde neuer be drawne to recall that
verie true that they coggd a Die when they got a Bull from Gregorie the 13. to forbid them this matter But thys was before their constitutions bare anie prohibition I come nowe to another matter which is that Elizabeth Rossell one of Ignace fauourers Rib. lib. 3. cap. 14. Maf◠lib. 2. cap. 17. seeking to erect a Iesuiticall order of women in Rome Ignace would neuer agree to it hee knewe it well that this would haue ministred matter of laughter to all the world for what kinde of habite or place should these women haue had in their Monasteries The religious men of Saint Benits order S. Barnards S. Dominicks and S. Fraunces do all weare the habite appertaining to their orders The Iesuits are apparrelled as priests if women should haue taken that attire to you must haue called them vvomen priests Let vs returne to our processions which all good and free Catholiques religiously embrace Ignace bragged euery where he was a Catholique why then did he forbid his societie the processions Because hee knew that if they came among other Ecclesiasticall orders they were vncertaine what place they should take theyr sect being a newe bastard religion a very hotch potch of all our orders without any thing pure in it or any poynt of our auncient Church Therefore to call them the societie of Iesus is to goe out of the way but I wil now giue them a name more agreeable vnto them I remember I haue read in the Romante of the Rose late alledged by me that when Saint Lewes brought the Carmelites into Fraunce from Mount Carmell they vvere called the Pred-coats because their cloakes were striped welted with black white Sith then we see the Iesuits to be a partie-colourd religion of diuers peeces of our ancient Church ill suted sowed together you may call them and theyr religion the new Motley Heere the Aduocate held his peace which ministred matter of talke vnto the Gentleman who said to him I know not how true it is that you had such a dreame as you haue told me yet I may well say there is much truth in it And more then that you cannot paynt out these matters more liuely then by the picture of a dreame But seeing you make reckoning of the Romant of the Rose me thinks by the modell of it wee may more fitlie call the Iesuits Papelards and theyr companie Papelardie Heere-vnto saide the Aduocate I beseech you let vs not ingage the authoritie of the holie Sea by the quarrell of these hypocrits I will not saide the Gentleman sith you haue bound mee to harken till you haue made an end CHAP. 16. ¶ That without wrong to the authoritie of the holy Sea you may call the Iesuits Papelardes and theyr sect Papelardie that is hypocrits and theyr order hypocrisie WEe haue euer yet in Fraunce embraced Poperie with all honour respect and deuotion and euer yet in Fraunce hath this holy name by many men been by false shewes abused VVhen you see a soaking Vsurer adulterer or a thiefe mumble manie Pater nosters daily at the Masse without amendement of his euill life or a Monk within his cloister vnder his habite his sad looke and thin visage nourish rancor auarice enuie and brocage in his hart wee call both the one and the other Papelards and their actions Papelardie what say you then to Poperie It is the cleere spring and fountaine from whence we ought to draw the vnitie of our Christian fayth What is this papelardie A maske of poperie in them which outwardly would be esteemed to be better men then others and inwardly are worst of all This one lesson haue I learned in that Romant of the Rose where William Lorrey represents vs an Orchard enuirond with high walls painted with the portraitures of Hate Enuie Robberie Auarice Sorrow Pouertie among which was the picture of Hypocrisie drawn in this manner I will set you downe the old language with the newe of Marot the first for his authoritie the second for his grace THere was an Image in my sight That well became an hypocrite Papelardie it was nam'd Because in secret it is fram'd To feare no mischiefe to atchiue If none spie what it dooth contriue The lookes were like a penitent And it appeared to lament A creature sweete it seemd to be Yet vnder heauen no villanie Is found but that it dares performe And it resembles much the forme That hath beene made to this semblance Set out with sober countenaunce In apparrell it was clothed Like vnto a woman yealded In the hand it held a Psalter The hart did groane the eyes did water With prayers to God that fained be And to the Saints both he and shee It was not merry it was silent As if the thoughts were euer bent To shewe deuotion euery where Inuested in a shirt of haire Fat fed she was not you must know Fasting had brought her very low She grew so pale and wan of late That vnto her and hers the gate Of Paradise denied them passe For many people haue a glasse Of flesh abated saith Gods booke That many others they may booke And for a little glory vaine Gods kingdome they shall neuer gaine VVhen this Romante was compilde Wickliffe Iohn Hus Ierom of Prage Martin Luther and Iohn Caluine were not yet borne to make warre vppon the holy Sea for William of Lorrey liued in the time of S. Lewes yet was the word Papelardie then in vse marke whether all these particularities set downe by him doe not encounter our Iesuits I confesse that none of them lye in hayre and likewise that they take no knowledge of the extraordinarie fasts which other religious persons keep They are wisely dispenst withall by their statuts but to passe ouer all other poynts they repose thēselues whollie vpon the authority of the holy Sea as if they were the first-borne children of the Popedome And at other times when you see thein vpon theyr knees saying ouer their Beades one by one before a Crucifix or an image of our Ladie and after marke theyr confessions communions before the people with I knowe not what leaden lookes fraught with hipocrisie and notwithstanding they worke vnder-hand the ruine of the Countries where they dwell and the murder of whatsoeuer Kings and Princes it pleases them and that theyr Masses confessions and cōmunions are the directorie starres of their Machiauelian tricks what better name can we giue them then Papelards As for the name of the societie of Iesus it is so proude a title as no good men can make agree with them except it be to grace their hipocrifie the more Their sect as they say was first cōsorted in Paris and sworne at Montmarter in the hart of Fraunce The words of Papelard and Papelardie are French words I thinke we shall find very many that will resigne them ouer vnto them as words euery way fitting theyr profession Neither is it any disparagemēt to the merit of Christes
may seeme to be an enemie of some value yet so it is that by Gods secret iudgement it is more for our profit to haue him our enemie then our friend I will prooue it by fiue or sixe notable examples They went about to make alteration in the State of England and to that end bent all their strength what followed of that their enterprise the ruine of a number of poore Catholiques misse-led by them which before time liued at ease in their owne houses the death of the Scottish Queene the establishing of the Queene of England for a long time both in her Religiō estate I come next vnto Scotland as being next in place to England where Father William Crichton and Iames Gourdon both Scots by birth had their residence Crichton tooke a conceit vpon some discontentment to depart the land he takes his course directly into Spayne by the licence and permission of his Generall Whether he is no sooner come but he practiseth to insinuate himselfe into the Kings fauour and to that effect drawes a tree of the descent and petigree of the Infanta his daughter shewing therein that the Crownes of England and Scotland did by right appertain vnto her and to incite him the rather to take armes against the Scottish King he scattred abroad diffamatorie libels against him Whereunto the King of Spayne giuing no eare Crichton determined with himselfe by letters to sollicite the Catholick nobility of Scotland to the same purpose and to that end wrote letters in the yeere 1592. to Gourdon and other Iesuits remayning in Scotland whereby he gaue them to vnderstand in what grace he was with the King who by his incitement was resolued aswell for the inuasion of England as for the restoring of the ancient religion in Scotland But this mightie Prince desired to haue assurance before hand from the Catholique Lords of their good affection towards him from whom he willed them to procure blanks readie signed to be supplied afterwards by himselfe with deputations in their names which being obtained he had the Kings promise for two hundred and fiftie thousand crownes which should be sent ouer to be distributed amongst them The Iesuits of Scotland vpon this aduertisement drew many blanks from diuers persons which they deliuered to George Ker to carrie who being discouered by the folly and indiscretion of Robert Albercromi a Iesuit was apprehended with his letters and blanks and the Scottish King supposing this aduertisement giuen by Crichton to be true indeed caused the Baron of Fentree a Gentleman endued with many good parts to be beheaded The like had hapned to the Earle of Anguis the chiefe Earle of that country if he had not cunningly escaped out of prison After in continuance of the troubles his Castles were ruinated as also the Earle of Huntlies a man of the greatest power of them all the Earle of Arrols the Constable of Scotland All which since that time haue made profession of the pretended reformed religion as wel to returne into fauor with the king as to liue within their owne countrey in securitie of their goods persons Insomuch as in conclusion Scotland hath lost that small remainder of our Catholique Religion in the yeere 1596. The like fell out as well in the Realme of Portugall as of Arragon I will first speake of Portugall To say that the Iesuits procured the death of King Sebastian as some in their writings haue charged them is hard to beleeue for as Montaignes hath very well declared they were too highly in his fauour But marke the proceedings among all the nations of Spaine there is none so superstitious as the Portugall and of all the kings of Portugall there was neuer any more superstitious then Sebastian The Iesuits being cunning and subtle headed thought this to be a fit soyle for them to plant their vineyard in And to win the more credit they caused themselues at their first comming to be called not Iesuits but Apostles putting themselues in rank with those that followed our Sauiour Christ in person A title thich they hold as yet in that place as being generally assented to The kingdome being fallen to Sebastian these holy Apostles conceiued a hope that by his means it might descend vnto their family dealt with him many times that no man might from thence forward be capable of the Crown of Portugal except he were a Iesuit chosen by their Society as at Rome the Pope is by the Colledge of Cardinals And for as much as he although as superstitious as superstition it selfe could not or rather durst not condescend thereunto they perswaded him that God had appointed in should be so as himselfe should vnderstand by a voice from heauen neere the Sea side Insomuch as this poore Prince thus caried away resorted to the place two or three seuerall times but they could not play their parts so well as to make him heare this voice They had not as yet got into their cōpany their impostor Iustinian who in Rome fained himselfe to be infected with a leaprosie These Iesuits seeing thy could not that way attaine to the marke they shot at yet would they not so leaue it This King being in heart a Iesuit determined to lead a single life Therefore to bring themselues into neerer employment about him they councelled him to vndertake a iourny for the conquest of the kingdom of Fesse where he was slaine in a pitcht field losing both his life and his kingdome together This then is the fruite which King Sebastian reapt by giuing credit to the Iesuits And this which I haue here discoursed vnto you I had frō the late Marques of Pisani an earnest Catholick who was then Embassador for the king of France in the Spanish kings Court I omit all that hath since passed in that Realme as being impertinent to my discourse I come vnto that which hath since hapned within the Realme of Arragon wherein you shall see the like accidents by the indiscreet dooing of the Iesuits The people of Arragon had in their foundation from all antiquitie verie great priuiledges against the absolute power of their kings and the oath of fealty which they tendered their King at his Coronation ranne thus Nos qui valemos tanto come vos y podemos mas que vos vos elegemos Rëy con estas y estas conditiones intra vos y nos que el á vn que manda mas que vos That is We that are as great in dignitie as you and of greater power then you doe elect you our King with this and this condition between you and vs that there shal be one amongst vs who shall commaund aboue you And vnder that they specified all their priuiledges which the King promised by oath to obserue most exactly These liberties hauing beene infringed in the person of Antonio de Peréz their countriman and Secretary of Estate to the late King of Spayne he escaping out of prison wherein he had beene
proculdubio occupassent promissionis terram had long since out of doubt possessed this Realme of England nisi quorundam inobedientia atque ingratissimum obstitisset murmur had not the disobedience of some and theyr most displeasing murmuring hindred it It is the manner of our English Iesuits and of such as are Iesuited neuer to mention Frier Parsons trecheries but they ioyne that good Cardinall with him to mittigate the odiousnes of his proceedings But howe coulde they haue gotten this land of Promise into their fingers Meane they by their attempt 1588 or had they before this time layd violent hands vpon her Maiestie or what had they else doone if some such impediment as they speake of had not hapned Blessed was that disobedience and happy was that murmuring that deliuered this kingdome from such vncatholick and most trayterous designements Rather content your selues deere Catholicks to goe dwell in Babilon then euer seeke to obtaine the Land of Canaan by such cruell barbarous and Turkish stratagems Are not such Iesuits or persons whatsoeuer Iesuited worthy to be detested that dare publish their dislike of such disobedience and murmure as hath preuented such a Chaos of all mischiefes as the conquering of our little land of promise would haue brought with it Or if we haue been too sharpe in our encountering of the Gyants as they falsly terme vs are we not to be excused And as wee woulde haue you to iudge of vs and the rest of our brethren that whatsoeuer they haue written it proceeded of theyr loue and zeale both to our Church and Countrie so our hartie desire is that you would thinke and iudge the like of those right zealous Catholicks of other Countries that haue written against the Iesuits in the like respect much more sharply then any of our brethren hetherto haue done For howe highlie soeuer the Iesuits are yet in our bookes because you know them not throughlie yet are they alreadie become an odious generation in manie places In the kingdome of Swecia their verie names are detested The Cleargie of Spayne is in great dislike of them The religious men generallie in all countries doe hate them At this instant there is a great most dangerous contention in particuler betwixt them and the Dominicans about a speciall point of grace At their first attempt to come into Fraunce it was fore-seen by the graue Sorbonists of Paris what mischiefe they would work if they were admitted there Afterwards they crept into that countrie like Foxes by little and little and so in processe of time behaued thēselues as not long since they haue been banished thence as men of most pernitious wicked and dangerous conuersation You haue heard in a word or two out of Osorius the Spaniard what the Iesuits thinke of themselues it woulde make a large volume to recount the praises which they haue else-where heaped vppon their founder their societie their fellowes according as the saying is Claw me and I will claw thee You also vnderstand as well by the premises as by our bretherens seuerall treatises what estimation we haue of them and some haue beene offended vvith them for their plainenes therein But now wee humbly intreate you to obserue howe roundly they haue beene taken vp in Fraunce for halting by men of no small credite in that State for theyr yeres verie auncient for their experience verie wise and for their soundnes in the Catholicke Romane religion neuer impeached by any but Iesuits who condemne all men eyther for Newters or schismaticks or hereticks or at the least for cold and luke-warme Catholicks that disclose their impieties Maister Anthony Arnold counsellour in parliament and heeretofore counsellor and Atturney generall to the late deceased Queene mother a man throughlie acquainted with the proceedings of the Iesuits in Fraunce writeth as followeth both of them By this the Iesuits are discouered to be not onely the fore-runners but also the chiefe captaines of Antechrist out of whose societie or sect it is very probable homo peccati that man of sin shall rise ere all be ended betwixt the secular priests them the saide sectarie Iesuits though for the present they remaine catholicke and somwhat of their Founder Ignatius saith he through the help of the deuill hatched this cursed conspiracie of the Iesuits who haue beene the causes of such ruine as Fraunce hath receiued They are a vvicked race borne to the ruine desolation of mankinde In their fourth vowe to their Generall they goe thus farre that in him they must acknowledge Christ present as it were If Iesus Christ should commaund to goe and kill they must doe so The Generall of the Iesuits is alwayes a Spanyard and chosen by the King of Spayne Loyola their first Generall was a Spanyard Laynes the second a Spanyard also The third Euerardus was a Fleming a subiect of the King of Spayne Borgia the fourth was a Spanyard Aquauiua the fift now liuing is a Neopolitane subiect to the King of Spayne If their Spanish Generall commaund them to murther or cause the King of Fraunce to be murthered they must of necessity do it They shoote at no other matter but to establish the tyrannie of Spaine in all places All the Iesuits in the world are bound to pray for the King of Spayne and that once a day as his affayres doe require They haue stirring fellowes to be placed in all quarters to execute whatsoeuer may tend to the good and aduauncement of Spayne They had no other marke during the warres in Fraunce but to make the King of Spaine Monarch ouer all Christendome The common prouerbe of these hypocrits is one God one Pope and one king of Spaine the great King catholick and vniuersall All their thoughts all their purposes all their Sermons all their cōfessions haue no other white they ayme at but to bring all Europe vnder the subiection of Spanish gouernment The Ambassadour of Fraunce when hee was in Spayne and Italie neuer found matter of weight wherein they had not an oare There was neuer Letter intercepted during the warres wherein there was anie pernicious point but a Iesuits singer was in it In their confessions and without witnesses they paint not the faces but the harts of their schollers with the tincture of Rebellion against their princes and naturall Soueraignes Mathew a Iesuit was the principal instrument of the League 1585. And from that yeere 1585. they would giue no absolution to the Gentry of Fraunce vnlesse they would vow promise to band themselues against their Soueraigne Henry the third being a most catholick King Barnard and Commolet the yere before the sayde League called the King Holofornes Moab and Nero maintaining that the kingdome of Fraunce was electiue and that it belonged to the people to establish kings alledging this text of the old Testament Thou shalt chuse thy brother for King Thy brother say they that is to say not of the same linage or of the selfe same Nation but of
grant it only to pleasure you Therefore they that allow not of your societie are heretiques I denie that The Colledge of Diuines and the Vniuersitie of Paris our whole Church of Fraunce so many societies so many of worth and honour made themselues parties against you in the yeere 64. and disalowed of you yet for all that ye neuer heard that they were decleard at Rome to be heretiques Insomuch that the Popes which authorised you neuer thought that you were to inhabit in France They knew that their dignitie is the mother of vnitie in the Vniuersall Church They were not ignorant of the liberties of our Church of Fraunce wholy contrarie to the profession of the Iesuits and that to settle them in Fraunce had beene to plant a huge sort of schismes and diuisions Whereby you may perceiue the reason why they repeald not the iudgements that had past against these goodly Maisters as well in the conuocation of our whole Cleargie at Poisie as in the Parliament at Paris Following herein by a good inspiration of God and his holy Spirit the steps of Paulus the third to whom when the Iesuits presented themselues at the first faining that they would goe into Palestine and there settle theyr aboade for the coÌ„uerting of the Turkes Masf lib. 2. capit 3. Ribad lib. 2. capit 7. they were not onely fauourably entertaind by him but which is more he caused money to be deliuerd to them for the defraying of the charge of theyr voyage But when they returnd the second time to haue a confirmation of their new determination Pope Paule was two whole yeeres before hee could yeelde to it And why so Because in theyr first proiect there was no danger to Christendome but onely to themselues that were the vndertakers of this matter In the second there was assurance for their persons but great hazard danger to all Christendome And after many denialls refusals although he suffered himselfe to be carried away by Cardinall CoÌ„tarens importunitie yet he was of opinion that not onely they were not to take vp theyr dwelling in Fraunce but not to continue in any other part of Christendome but verie sparingly Howe then Shall wee thinke that this great Pope would leaue desolate this new Order approued by him No truly And if you will examine this storie aright you will rest satisfied If in the yeere 1539. the Iesuits had made promise of no more but the 3. substantiall vowes of other religious orders he would neuer haue admitted them in such a fashion as they presented themselues Munks who by a title appropriated to themselues were termed of the societie of Iesus wearing no religious habite at all Munks that would not tie themselues to their Cloysters there to leade a solitarie life nor reduce themselues to the extraordinarie abstinence from meates and to the fasts of other religious orders Munks that would preach and administer the holy Sacraments without the permission of the Bishop For all these circumstances layd together promise I cannot tell what great dissolution rather then edification What then prouokt him to receiue them First their vow of absolute obedience to the holy Sea afterward that of their Mission by which Ignace and his companions promised that when soeuer they should be commaunded by the Popes they would goe into all heathen Countries to dispeople them as it were of Idolatry to plant Christianitie in them They were a company of Argonautes which promised to embarque themselues not to goe conquer the golden Fleece like â—ason but to transport abroade the fleece of the Paschall Lambe vnder the ensigne of Iesus A goodly profession doubtlesse in fauour whereof Pope Paulus suffred these newe pilgrims which tooke the crosse for the glorifying of the Name of Iesus to terme themselues the societie of Iesus to weare the habits of Priests not of Munks not to shut themselues vp in Cloysters to minister the word of God and the holy sacrameÌ„ts one with another for as much as they vowed themselues to the conquest of those Countries wherein there were no Bishops not Curats a conquest to be made not with materiall armes but only with spirituall Send them to the new found Lands according as they promisd to goe neuer was there order in greater request then this prouided that they acquit themselues of their promise not by word but effect Transplant them into the midst of the Christian Churches especially of this our Church of Fraunce in sted of order you shall make disorder of as dangerous a consequence as the sect of the Lutherans And that no man may thinke I make fantasticall and idle discourses in the Bull of the yere 1540 repeated all at large in that of 1550 they promise to goe without shifting or delay whether soeuer the Pope will send theÌ„ for the sauing of soules and aduauncing our fayth whether to the Turks or to other miscreants euen to those parts which they call the Indies or to any heretikes or schismatiks or to any belieuers If the meaning were to make new seminaries of them through all Christendome it were a ridiculous thing to set the couÌ„tries of belieuing Christians in the last place besides it seemes that these words or to any beleeuers are added but by the way and as it were for a fashion But these great promisers and trauailers forgetting what theyr first institution was haue set vp onely some doozen Colledges such as they be in Countries vnknowne to vs at the least if we must belieue them haue erected an infinite sort in the midst of vs to plant thereby a newe Popedome and to trample vnder foote the old vnder which the Church militant hath triumphed Wee are not out of the Church of S. Peter because we condemne these new Friers in Fraunce but we conforme our selues without Sophistrie to the originall and primitiue wills of the Popes Paulus and Iulius the third and though their wills had been otherwise yet our Ch. of Fraunce hath time out of minde beene accustomed most humbly to make the case knowne to the Popes when they were to be carried away by the vniust importunitie of particuler men to the preiudice of the church So did S. Martine Bishop of Tours an Apostle gardian of our Country of Fraunce so did our good Saint Lewes and yet they were iudgd to be hereticks therefore no more then Saint Paule when hee withstood S. Peter who in that case yeelded vnto him CHAP. 3. ¶ That it is against the first institution of the Iesuits for them to teach all sorts of Schollers humaine learning Philosophy and Diuinitie and by what proceedings deuises they haue seazed vppon this new tyrannie to the preiudice of the auncient discipline of the Vniuersities YE may not thinke Gentlemen that Ignace and his companions when they presented themselues to Pope Paulus made offer to teach the youth in such sort as the Iesuits since that time haue done I haue shewed you what his sufficiencie was in
verò Collegiorum eorundem extra Vniuersitatis existentium studiorum suorū cursu absoluto ac rigoroso examine praecedente à dicto Praeposito Generali vel de eius licentia à quouis ex Praepositis vel Rectoribus huiusmodi Collegiorum cum duobus etiam vel tribus Doctoribus vel Magistris per eosdem eligendis quoscunque Baccalaureatus Magisterij Licentiaturae ac Doctoratus gradus accipere Praepositis vel Rectoribus cū Doctoribus huiusmodi vt eosdem Scholares ad gradus ipsos promouere eisdemque scholaribus vt postquam promoti fuerint in eis legere disputare ac quoscunque alios actus ad haec necessarios facere exequi omnibus singulis priuilegijs praerogatiuis immunitatibus exemptionibus libertatibus antelationibus fauoribus gratijs indultis ac omnibus singulis alijs quibus alij in quibusuis Vniuersitatibus studiorum huiusmodi rigoroso examine praeuio ac alias iuxta inibi obseruari solitos requisitos vsus ordinationes ritus ac mores pro tempore promoti de iure vel consuetudine aut alias quomodolibet vtuntur potiuntur gaudent ac vti potiri gaudere poterunt quomodolibet in futurum non solùm ad ipsorum instar sed pariformiter aequè principaliter absque vlla penitus differentia vti potiri gaudere in omnibus per omnia perinde ac si gradus huiusmodi in eisdem Vniuersitatibus non eorum Collegijs accepissent They that haue been brought vp in the Latine tongue shall finde that Iulius speakes onely of Iesuits schollers It is a clause that hath relation to all other the former Bulls wherin there hath been speech of their Colledges and in this particularly it is ordained that although the schollers of this Order haue been students in Vniuersities or out of them if after they haue been well and duly examind they be found fit they should be freely admitted to the degrees of Practitioners and Doctors a word which cannot reach to strangers and that if any man would make them pay duties it should be in the power of their Generall to creat them or to cause them to be created and after they haue taken their degrees they may read dispute and keepe all other acts heerunto requisit in short that they may receiue the same prerogatiues that others doe What will you stretch this worde read to all goers and commers as in other Colledges of Maisters that are Secular No truly For what power soeuer is here granted them it was graunted as to persons that were Regular for so they haue termed themselues and therefore it was to giue these new Maisters and Doctors leaue to read to theyr schollers allowed as if theyr degrees had beene giuen them by the Vniuersities Let the Iesuit according to his good custome bring all the shifts of Sophistrie hee can this passage if a man read it from the beginning to the end can not be otherwise vnderstood If Iulius had meant that the Iesuit graduated might read to all goers commers as the Seculars doe assure your selfe hee would not haue forgotten to make expresse mention of it But you see will some man say to mee howe manie termes he hath giuen to the Iesuits Lectures to authorize them Doe you thinke that strange how could he doe lesse sith that by a new deuise neuer seene before hee ordained that vpon the simple credit of the Generall of this Order the Iesuits might read Lectures to them of their order This pollicie that so weakens all the auncient sinewes of the Vniuersities could not be sufficiently exprest for the authorizing of it I haue hitherto declared vnto you what as then was the estate of their Buls concerning their Colledges you shall now vnderstand their historie to this purpose Although neither by the auncient custome of the Vnuersities nor by the new grant of their Buls they were permitted to set open their schooles to all sorts of schollers nor to haue in their Colledges any other but of their seminarie yet finding themselues to be supported by Maister William du Prat Bishop of Clairmont they setled themselues in one of the Townes of his bishoprick called Billon where they opened their Colledge not only to them of their order but also to all other the students O singular obedience of French-men to the Church of Rome They bragge that they haue Buls from Iulius the third permitting them so to doe At this word we thought that the onely alledging of the title ought to be held for a good and sufficient title And yet they had no title but of their owne Villaine quoth I to a Gentleman of Gascoigne who aunswered me very readily that he be beleeued it because they had chosen for their chiefe Colledge in Fraunce the Town of Villon They vsed this word for Billon as the Gascoigns are wont to pronounce V. for B. and B. for V. To which I replyed that we need not to make any change of the letter because by our lawes we were commaunded to bring into Bullion all false and counterfait moneyes and that the Colledges of the Iesuits were of that stampe In the Towne of Billon this villanie tooke beginning which afterward they spread abroad first to Tolosa thē to Paris by meanes of the great legacies that du Prat had giuen them Neither durst any of vs make head against any of their vnlawful enterprises so much did our coūtry of France honor the Sea Apostolik vnder which they shielded themselues though falsely We are indeed reuerently to yeeld obedience to that Sea but cooseners are not to be suffered to abuse it for their aduantage and there is none whom it more concernes to looke to this then our holy Father the Pope if he meane to preserue his authoritie ouer all and against all Good God where are our eies Let vs runne ouer all their Buls of 1540. 43.45.46.49 if you find that they are permitted to hold and open their Colledges in such sort as others of the Vniuersities I will yeeld my selfe to any sentence that shall be giuen against me All their worthie actions are but coosinages and if you speake of them in secret to them they will tell you that they are the miracles which God hath wrought by their Saint Ignace When they first presented themselues to Paul the third to be admitted they termed themselues Maisters of Arts proceeded in the Vniuersitie of Paris and at this day Maffee flouting the whole consistorie of Rome is of opinion that three of them had proceeded Maisters in Spaine and that himselfe and Ribadinere would not giue any place of maistership to Broet Iaye and Codury And setting open their Colledges in Fraunce they did but shroud themselues vnder the authoritie of the Sea Apostolike an authoritie falsely supposd by them Whence came these illusions From the miracles forsooth of great Ignace who blinded all mens eies I will now returne againe to the course of their Buls that you may vnderstand when this
profest fathers but onely of the simple vow he procured letters dimissorie as you haue heard wherein though it be said for iust cause yet if you talke with him he will tell you that there was no other but onely this hee would continue with them no longer as I haue learned of himselfe and you see it was at his owne request that he came away and not at the motion of the Superiour And surely sith Clemēt du Puits vsed the matter thus I assure my selfe he might doe it by some mysterie that is kept secret amongst them without seeking the authoritie of the Generall and if he might I doubt not but the like authority is graunted to all the other Prouincials Good God what a discipline is this What respect and obedience sheweth it to the holy Sea The General may now defend himselfe by the Gregorian Bull of 1594. but in what Buls will the Prouincials find that this power is graunted them If that vpon the importunitie of an inferiour he may dismisse him to the preiudice of the 3. religious ordinary vowes of all substantial orders Pouertie Chastitie and Obedience What a Religion is this wherein all things are permitted him against our Religion Are not all these iolly Maisters verie coozners liuing in the midst of vs But you shall find other manner of stuffe in the rest of their vowes if it please you to giue me audience as hitherto you haue done CHAP. 14. ¶ How the Fathers Iesuits voning pouertie by their great and third vow make a mocke of God YOu haue vnderstood of the Father Iesuit here present that after the simple vow they make a solemne vow by which they adde nothing to the former but onely that by making this second they cannot any more inherit nor be dismist by their Generall There remaines now the third which is the vowe of three steps by which besides Pouertie Chastitie and Obedience vowed by them they make a particular vow of Mission to our holy Father the Pope which is to goe to the Indies and Turkie for the winning of soules if they be commanded by his holines But aboue all I make great account of that precise Pouertie which is enioyned them by their constitutions Runne through all the orders of religion there is not one of them in which Pouertie is so recommended as among the Capuchins which liue from hand to mouth and put ouer the care for to morrow to the onely goodnes of God Buls of the yeere 1540. and 1550. The foundation of the profest which are the Iesuits of the great vow is to vow pouertie as well ingenerall as in particular as it is in all the orders of begging Friers But because their pouertie had need to be expounded let vs see the commentaries they bring vs by their constitutions Part. 3. constit ca. 1. Art 27. They haue three sorts of houses one for their Nouices another for their religious bound by their solemne vowes which they call the house where there Church is and another which they call a Colledge for the religious that are bound only by the simple vow wherof some are schollers probationers others coadiutors some spiritual some temporall In domibus vel ecclesiis quae à Societate ad auxilium animarum admittentur redditus nulli ne Sacristiae quidem aut fabricae applicati haberi possunt sed nec vlla alia ratione Part. 6. constit ca. 2. Art 2. ita vt penel Societatem eorum sit vlla dispensatio sed in solo Deo cui per ipsius gratiam ea inseruit fiducia constituatur sine reditibus vllis ip sum nobis profecturum de rebus omnibus conuenientibus ad ipsius maicrem laudem gloriam Professi viuant ex eleemosynis in domibus cum aliquò non mittuntur nec officium Rectorum ordinarium in Collegiis Art 3 vel vniuersitatibus Societatis habeant nisi ipsarū necessitas vel magna vtilitas exigeret nec reditibus aorum in Domibus vtantur Parati sint ad mendicandum ostiatim Art 10. quando vel obedientia vel necessitas id exiget Et sit vnus vel plures ad elecmosinas petendas quibus personae societatis sustententur destinati quas eleemosinas simpliciter amore Domini nostri petent Non solum redditus sed nec possessiones habeant in particulari Art 5. nec in communi Domus vel Ecclesie That is to say In those houses and Churches which the Societie shall accept of for the saluation of soules there shall be no reuenewes proper eyther to be applied to the vestrie or to the frame and buildings or for any other purpose whatsoeuer That the Societie may haue nothing to dispose of but onely depend vpon God whom by his grace they serue trusting that without reuenewes he will prouide things necessarie for vs to his praise and honour They that are professed that is men of the last great solemne vow shal liue by almes in their houses when they are not sent forth to any countrey nor take the ordinarie charge of Rectors of Colledges or Vniuersities except it be vpon necessitie or vrgent vtilitie require it neither shall they vse the Colledges reuenewes in their houses They shall be readie to begge from doore to doore when obedience or necessitie requires it And to this purpose let there be one or two or more appointed to craue almes for the sustenance of the Societie which shal begge the almes simply For the loue of our Sauiour Iesus The houses and Churches of the Societie shall not onely haue no rents or reuenewes but no possessions or inheritance in generall or particular Gather all these particulars together was there euer pouertie more obstinately vowed then this And therefore it was that first Pius 5. and after Gregorie 13. ordained that this Societie should be placed among the orders of Mendicants If they would obserue that which heere is enioyned them I would excuse them with all my heart of the heresie of their first vow And that because that after they had a long time enioyed goods during the time of theyr simple vowe at the last to make satisfaction to GOD for it being come to the period of their great vow by reason whereof they haue the name of Fathers aboue the other religious yet not onely they vow from thence forwards a beggery but also so themselues to become treasurers thereof I would honour them as the true followers of S. Peters repentance after he had denied his maister would esteeme them aboue all the other orders of Mendicants But when saw you thē goe with a wallet vp and down the towne For all this they liue richly and plentifully not with the Manna of God for they are not children of Israel but by a notable poynt of Sophistrie see how By the Bul of Pau. 3. 1540. and that of Iulius 1550. The houses where these holy Fathers dwell are not permitted to haue any goods
the deadly enemies of the Iesâ—its which indeed is nothing else but to couer himselfe with a wet sacke The processe against him is kept in the Records and Roles of Iustice And particular enmitie or hatred could not easily preuaile so farre that there he should be condemned to death who by his dissimulations and hypocrisies had in some sort gotten the Queenes fauour But now ye shall heare an other tragedie played against the verie selfe same Princesse and Queene CHAP. 4. ¶ Of an other assault and murther procured in the yeere 1597. by the Iesuits against the Queene of England THe Iesuits miracle when they conuerted Parrie was great but yet not so great nor yet of so good stuffe as that which I will now declare vnto you for Parrie in his last confessions acknowledged that he had had part in all the conspiracies that for religion were directed against the Queene except it were one But this man of whom I will presently speak alwaies was and had bin of the religion of England and yet notwithstanding he was by an English Iesuit not only happily turned to our religion but also induced to kill his owne Queene Insomuch that if his enterprise had taken good effect it had deserued to be ioyned to the booke of miracles that Lewes Richeome of the Societie of Iesus made and published Edward Squâ—â—â— Englishman who 〈…〉 acquaintance place in the Qâ—â—â—heâ— stable did in the yâ—â—â—e â—â—95 â—mbarque himselfe in the â—â—eâ—â—e with Drâ—â—â— to the New-found world The Vessell wherein Squire was beeing by the fortune of the Sea scattered froÌ„ the rest hee was taken at Gadâ—â—ap was brought as a prisoner or captiue into Spayne where beeing breathed vpon and fauoured by Father Richard Wallpole a man of great authoritie there he was set at full libertie by the intercession and sute of that Iesuit who began to dog and watch him and to deale with him notwithstanding finding him firme in his English religion hee procured another prison for him which went to or touched the conscience And beeing committed to the Inquisition by interposed persons hee knew so well and skilfully to handle him that at the last he became Catholicke perhaps vppon no other respect or deuotion but that hee might get out of prison Whatsoeuer the matter or manner were there is nothing in all this but praise woorthie to the Iesuit Now hauing gotten this first aduantage against him he suffered him not to breathe but sought out all sorts of cunning to make him fall into his Nets declaring vnto him the afflictions of the English Catholickes that were in that Country and more particulâ—rly of them that had forsaken it and all their goods to the end they might liue in the libertie of their conscience and that the Earle of Essex then great Marshall of England and afterwards Viceroy of Ireland was the chiefe Author of all these euils and miseries that he must rid the couÌ„try of him by poyson and that hee would giue him the meanes to archiue thereto without hazard or danger Whereunto hauing in some sort perswaded him hee proceeded further and treated with him concerning the Queenes life which also he might as easily bring to an end as the Earles That this also shold be a goodly sacrifice to God and that Squire need not feare the â—â—â—ger of his life or person by reason of the meanes which hâ—â— had opened vnto him And though this his enterprise might fall out otherwise then hee might desire yet hee should assure himselfe that he should change his present condition into the state of a glorious Saint martyr in Paradise And he persued him in such earnest coÌ„tinuall manner with his perswasions that in the end hee made him to yeelde to his will and pleasure And seeing him now and then to waâ—er hee oftentimes confessed or shroâ—â— him to confirme him therein declaring further vnto him that he should no more admit any coÌ„sultation with himselfe touching this poynt because he was quiet in his conscience and that he should no more make question of it whether it were good or ill but stand vppon the maintenaunce vpholding of his vow wherein if he failed he should commit an vnpardonable sinne before God and throw himselfe headlong into the deepe pit of hell alleaging for that purpose vnto him the example of Iephtha who liked rather to kill his daughter then to infringe the vow he had made This poore miserable man beeing thus dealt withall passed at the last his setled resolution to the Iesuits who caused him yet once againe to come to confession or shrift as the perfection of that theyr holy plot he gaue him his blessing comforted him and put his left arme about his necke and with the right hande making the signe of the crosse after that hee had mumbled betwixt his teeth certaine words in Latine hee said distinctlie in Englishe My sonne God blesse thee and make thee strong bee of good courage I pawne my soule for thine and beeing either dead or aliue assure thy selfe thou shalt haue part of my prayers Vppon thys embracing Squire tooke leaue of Wallpole and returned into England Now the instruction that the Iesuit has giuen him was touching a secret poyson betweene two hogs bladders which he gaue him for a present with charge that he should not touch it but gloued least he poysoned himselfe and that when the Queene would goe to horseback he should make sundrie smal holes in the first bladder with which he should rubbe the pummell of her saddle assuring himselfe that of necessity the Queen laying her hand thereupon and bringing it to her face this poyson should be of such power that she should die thereof And that hee must doe the like to the Earle of Essex who prepared himselfe to set sayle for the Ilands of Terseras and had gathered great troups when Squier arriued who presenting himselfe to the counsel of estate and seeing he was verie fauourably receiued at his arriuall he purposed to put in execution his designe and practise against the Queene before the Earle should take shipping whom also he meant to follow in that voyage supposing that if the poyson did not worke but with length of 〈◊〉 and brought forth the effects thereof whiles he was absent he should be altogither free from suspiâ—ion Vpon this conceit he watched all the meanes to worke his enterprise he vnderstood that the Queene would goe abroad on horsebacke and entred thereupon into the stable where also he found the horse sadled Then making shew to see all things fit and neat he rubbed the pummell with the bladder that was hid vnder his hand which also was couered with a gloue all according to the instruction that the father his Confessor had giuen him and as he was occupied about this worke he sing and said aloud God giue the Queene long life repeating that word sundrie times But God would not that the poyson should work But for all this the wicked
and afterwards by way of parable in great iollitie before the people maintained it in the pulpit And yet were there but this sole example in this kinde I should be verie iniurious to challenge theyr whole sect but when wee see it is theyr continuall practise what shall we say As for instance theyr attempt against the deceased Prince of Orange at Antwerpe Afterwards in the towne of Trierres where he was murthered At Doway likewise against the Counte Maurice his sonne At Venice Lyons Paris against the Queene of England in the yeere 1584. Againe against her in Spayne in the yeere 1597. In Scotland against the Chauncellor Metellinus Againe in Fraunce that in Paris against our King in the yeere 1594 by one of theyr schollers Chastell who in open Court before the face of the Iudges was so shamelesse to maintaine that in certaine cases it was lawfull to kill his king Now if the rule of Logitians be true that from manie particulers a generall may be concluded I thinke I may truly affirme that their axiom whereuppon they ground theyr massacring of Kings Princes and great personages is as naturall and as familiar vnto them as the rest of theyr vowes It is most certaine they consented to the death of the late king and that Guignard one of their order since executed made as I told you a booke wherein hee maintaineth that the death of such offenders is meritorious and that the king now liuing should be serued so to Hetherto you haue heard mee discourse vnder the name of the venerable Pasquill of Rome notwithstanding the things themselues are serious and true Among others there is a booke made by the Iesuit Montaignes Principall of the Seminarie of Reims vppon the same subiect Arnauld hauing in his pleading obiected it vnto him Montaignes made no hast to aunswere it although in things more friuolous his pen hath euer been too busie For conclusion all their actions all theyr plots are barbarous and bloodie Which occasioned a pleasant Gentleman of Fraunce hauing in a little Poem briefly discouered their deuilish practises in his conclusion to say thus of them Gesum is a warre-like weapon vsed by the French as Liuie Festus Nonius and Sosipater testisie A Gesis sunt indita nomina vobis Quae quia sacrilegi Reges torquet is in omnes Inde sacrum nomen sacrum sumpsistis omen Of Gesum not Iesus are Iesuits hight A fatall toole the French-men vsed in fight Which sith by sacriledge at Kings you throw From hence your holy name and fortunes flow Notwithstanding any thing can be sayde to the contrarie yet this conclusion still must stande inuiolable The particuler offender is to be punished the Order not to be touched as beeing farre from the thought of such impietie Who is so braine-sicke to belieue it I vvill not abuse your patience by reckoning vp the tumults and seditions they haue caused in our state I knovve the great Maisters of our Common-wealth respect them as men very zealous ouer the good of their Country I beseech them to consider whether that I haue sayd be true or no Other Rhetoricke I will not vse to draw them to my opinion And because I haue begunne this discourse vvith the Decree graunted in Rome against the Humiliati I vvill vrge the same againe to make it plaine vnto you with what impudencie the Iesuits ward thys blow CHAP. 23. ¶ The impudencie of the Iesuits to saue themselues from the processe of the Consistorie of Rome granted out against the order of the Humiliati ARnauld first of all in the yeere 1594. Marion the Kings Attorney since in 97. declare that the Order of the Humiliati was in our time suppressed for lesse cause then the Iesuits deserue to be The one and the other in few words This is the position I maintaine Let vs see how the Iesuits will ward this blow Montaignes writing against Arnauld sayth Montaig ca. 59. To strengthen your weake assertion you bring the example of the Order of the Humiliati which were suppressed in Italy You are farre wide the cases are nothing alike The causes of their suppression are mentioned in the Bull namely that they were irrigular imperious and incorrigible They conspired against their Prelat their Protector and reformer and the executor of the conspiracie being taken discouered the rest who likewise confessed the fact You cannot affirme the same of the Iesuits could you it is like you would not spare them I am of the Iesuits mind they are nothing like indeed For the question was there but of a Prelat wherof there is plentie here of a King of which fort we had no more who is Gods true annoynted The conspirator of the Humiliati was punished as soone as he was taken the Iesuit was not for after they had brought him backe from Paris as to them nothing is impossible they found meanes for his escape In truth this defence of Montaignes is full of preuarication and therefore La Fon denieth it Concerning the Humiliati saith hee it hath beene answered heretofore by Francis Montaignes that they were sensual licentious vnlearned irregular without discipline scandalous whose houses were Princes Pallaces their chambers garnished like Kings Cabinites Their Cloisters Galleries full of lasciuious pictures Their Prouost keeping a publique Curtisan all the rest of the Prouosts diet In the end they were conuict of treasonable practise against the person of their Prelate the Cardinall Borrhomeo a man of verie holy life labouring by all meanes to reclayme them Their cause was exactly heard the crimes examined debated and iudged by our holy Father the Pope to whom the cognisance of such causesproperly belongeth who condēned them not to depart out of Italy but to liue confined vnder other religious as Pentioners depriued of their possessiōs of whom some liue at this day in Milan And hereof all Millan is witnesse togither with the Bull thereof likewise extant My purpose was to haue made a comparison betwixt the Humiliati the Iesuits therby to show that there is much more reason to suppresse the Iesuits now then there was cause then to dissolue the Humiliati But the impudencie of this last Iesuit presseth me to encounter him before I passe any further What a strange comment is this he maketh vpon his fellow Montaignes Where findeth he either in Montaignes or in the Bull those crimes which he mentioneth where findeth he this same conspiracie in person against the Cardinal Borrhomaeo where findeth he the Prouosts Curtisan was there but one Prouost in this order Had not euery Priory one Had this Prouost no name It is an vse the Iesuit hath gotten when hee begins to tell tales he leaues not till he haue told twentie But to bring him to the touch Let vs see the Bull of Pope Pius Quintus it wil easily appeare whether his allegations be Alchimie or no. PIVS EPISCOPVS SERVVS seruorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam QVE MAD
in synagoga Deorum And that S. Bafill said that the Praelate representh the person of Iesus Christ And S. Gregory of Nazianzene addressing his speech to the Emperour sayth Thou holdest thy Empire with Iesus Christ with him thou commaundest on earth thou art the image of God I might more strongly alledge one thing which I haue from themselues for when the Popes Paule and Iulius the fift in their Bulls of the yeeres 1540. 50. speaking of their Generall sayd In illo Christum velut praesentem agnoscant was this with any purpose that they should vsurpe ouer theyrs this great title No questionlesse but to vse it as we see in the Coūsel of Trent where it is said that our Lord ascending into heauen Sess 14. ea 15. where it speakes of confession Sacerdotes sui ipsius Vicarios reliquit tanquam praesides iudices ad quos mortalia crimina deferantur in quae Christi fideles inciderint to giue them absolution And in another place when recōmending the poore to the beneficed men he addeth Sess 24. ea 8. where it speakes of reformatiō Memores eos qui hospitalitatem amant Christum in hospitibus recipere That is to say that they remember to be hospitals to the poore for entertaining them they entertained Iesus Christ Words vttered to excite charitie not to builde an Anabaptisme which the Iesuits seeme to ground vpon these wordes that they should acknowledge Iesus Christ in their Generall as Iohn Leiden the king of Anabaptists gaue out of himselfe and would haue had others to belieue it But because already I haue heereof discoursed at large I will nowe content my selfe onely to tell you this that their Generall taking vpon him the authority of Gods Vicar hath brought in a schisme and deuision betwixt our holy Father the Pope and him And although to maintaine this authoritie Montagnes his suffragans ayde him with all the places aboue alledged they breede withall their cunning another schisme of more dangerous effect then that for that Emperours Kings and Iudges may euery one vsurpe the same state And so at vnawares wee shall slippe into the heresie of the Lutherans who would equall Archbishops and Bishops to our holy Father whom notwithstanding in their seuerall iurisdictions we acknowledge the Vicars of God and yet they take not this title vpon them neither though wee yeeld it them it is a title which belongeth onely to the Pope a title which no honest and faithfull Christian can denie him and whereof he may be iustly iealous if any endeuour to rob him of it But whether wander we There is none but knoweth that they are in their seuerall charges the true creatures and deputies of God and that such since the time of the Apostles downe to this day they haue cōtinued There is none likewise but knoweth that the Iesuits are the Popes creatures if any should assume this title the Bishops haue most interest to challenge it yet they take it not vpon them but modestly leaue it to our holy Father and the Iesuit who deriueth his reputation from him will hee be thus immodest By the Counsell of Trent so much renowned in Rome there are many articles whereby the Bishoppes are restrained of many things the which our French Church thinketh to be groūded on ordinary right yet is it so orderd that they may be knowne to be Vicars vnder the holy Sea and yet shall vvee permit that these vnderminders of our Church shall vsurpe authoritie as immediate Vicars of God and not as Vicars of the holie Sea I confesse that ordinarilie we giue the terme of most Reuerend to our Cardinalls to those which are princes most illustrious Their generall Cōsistorie hath not the title of most illustrious as we see in the great Canonist Nauarre Aduertendum est sayth he quod per solam gestionem habitus Naua com de reg num 76. per vnum vel plures annos in illustrissimo societatis Iesu ordine non videtur fieri professio tacita You must consider saith he that by wearing the habit onely for one or more yeeres in the most famous order of the societie of Iesus a man is not thought to make secret profession Nauarre liued in Rome vnder Gregory the 13 did more honour to his hypocrits then we doe to the great venerable Consistorie of Cardinals which are Counsailers in ordinarie to the holy Sea Writing to Bishops we entitle them Reuerend Fathers in God and thinke herein we honour them sufficiently there is no Father Iesuit of the great vowe who hath not this title of a Bishop The Letter written to the king of Spayne in the troubles by our Sixteene Tygers of Paris speaking of Father Mathew a Iesuit termes him in three seuerall places the Reuerend Father Mathew And in a great part of the Booke there be added to the mention of his name these two Letters R. P. When we speake vnto our holy Father we say Your Holinesse when you speake to the Generall or other Superiour of this Order yea but vnto the meanest Father amongst the Iesuits he taketh his greatnesse much wronged if you vse not this terme Your Reuerence yet wee must say they encroche not vpon the authorie of the holie seate But why should they not impeach the authoritie of his holines sith they vsurpe and insult vpon Christ himselfe vnto whom onely our Christian Church permitteth Apostles Yet suffers the Generall his in some places to be called Apostles This is not to turne our holie Father out of his seate but to put Iesus Christ out of his throne This is not to be Gods Vicar but to belieue that he is God himselfe When Ismaell afterwards called the Sophi about the yeere 1503 attempted by putting the Easterne parts in combustion to ouerthrow the Estate by that means to equal himselfe with the Othomans Emperors of Constantinople he began first to alter and trouble the auncient religion of Mahomet pretending that hee would reduce it to a farre better passe alledging that Mahomet who neuer tooke vppon him higher title then the Prophet of GOD had a brother called Hali vvho brought in vnder the Banner of his Brother a Religion more austere whereof Ismaell tooke vppon him to be the Restorer And vnder thys plausible pretext hee made himselfe to bee called a Prophet as well as Mahomet altered the auncient forme of Turban among his owne people insomuch as they beganne to adore him as the true Image of God and resolutly to follow his aduertisements So that he assembled at the first a handfull of men after added to them multitudes and shortly after like another new Mahomet so encreased his Armie that he was followed with sixe hundred thousand men both horse and foote making the East to tremble And in these his proceedings so mingling religion with state conquered a great part of the Country which his posterity enioyeth vnder the great redoubted name of Sophi The comparisons
sute not in euerie particuler but if it please you to consider what hath passed and is now in practise among our Iesuits you shall find they follow the same steps in Christianisme which Ismaell first trode in Mahumetisme Their prophet Ismaell is the great Ignatius who with his fabulous visions would beare the world in hand that sometimes hee spake with GOD. sometimes with Christ sometimes with our Ladie or Saint Peter And as Ismaell fetched out of Hali the pretended Brother of Mahomet a new branch of Religion taken from the old stocke So Ignatius christning him selfe with this new name of a Iesuit in sted of the name of a Christian authorized frō the Apostles buildeth vp a religion neuer auncientlie obserued by our Church Ismaell vnder this new vowe changed the auncient Turban Ignatius inducing a new Monachisme amōgst vs yet retaineth not the auncient habite of Munks Ismaell first assembled a handfull of people after raysed millions Ignatius doth the like Ismaell to make himselfe great mingled pollicie and religion together hath not Ignatius followed him Ismaell and his successours were adorned and magnified by their followers Ignatius hath been so idolatrized and the rest of his successors in the Generalship But they goe beyond him for the Generall of the Iesuits will not only be honoured by his followers but by those which are not of his sect though happily somwhat tainted with his superstitious hipocrisie Ismael made himselfe be called the Prophet of God The Generall termeth himselfe Gods Vicar In all these proceedings and practises Ismael troubled and tormoyled the Mahometical state And shall not we mistrust in Rome this same new Iesuited Sophi Whosoeuer suspecteth them not is no true and legitimate child of the holy Sea I pray you obserue a little their encreasing and their growth The Iesuits at the first beginning were content to be some threescore in number some three yeeres after they kept open house come who would and welcome which was an anticipation preiudiciall to Ordinaries and Vniuersities to Kings and their kingdomes In the end they were not content to equall themselues with Bishops in their Diocesse vsurping their iurisdiction but exacted more obedience ouer their followers then the Pope ouer vs. And although there can be no certaine iudgement giuen of future things yet I dare say it is true that in matter of State the predictions of good or ill are no lesse infallible then iudgements Mathematicall Toward the declining of the popular state in Rome there grew a ciuill warre in Fraunce betwixt two great factions the Sequanois and the Heduans which diuersly aspyred to the chiefe gouernment The Heduans confederate with the Romans demanded their ayde Iulius Caesar who from his cradle neuer brooked small attempts obtayned the command of the French aswell on this side the mountaynes as beyond for fiue yeeres Besides there were giuen him foure legions of souldiers paied by the State He as he was a man of great leading and verie valiant soone brought his affaires to such a passe that pretending to succour the Heduans he made the Gaules tributary to the people of Rome In regard whereof at the instance of his friends he obtayned great priuiledges As for one he obtayned that Pompey or his kinsman might be vndertaker generall who besides the bond of alliance might doe much in fauouring of Caesars greatnes Hee was of great place in the Towne and consequently verie much followed Wise Cato the Vticen seeing how these things were carried often tolde him verie earnestly hee would ouerthrow the state ere he were aware by teaching Caesar to play the Tyrant which he should finde when it was too late His prediction came to passe for after much ciuill warre the Empyre fell to his family I wish to God I might be a false Prophet But when I consider seriously the history of our Iesuits I am full of feare and pensiuenes Martin Luther directly opposed himselfe against the holy Sea The Iesuits cunning statesmen couer no lesse ambition vnder their long cassocks then Caesar and proffer to support the Popedome but with a proposition of new obedience as if I durst I would say that they make vp a third religion betwixt the true Catholique and the Lutheran Caesar vanquished the French these if we wil beleeue it subdued a part of the Indies with their prattle but yet vnder the fauour of the Kings of Portugall in places where he had command For as for our wandring soules I do not see they had done any great seruice in reducing them to the fold Caesar in regard of his victories obtaind of the State many extraordinarie priuiledges not before imparted to any The Iesuits in recōpense of their imaginarie conquests in vnknowne countries haue obtained many priuiledges of the holy Sea neuer hertofore graunted to them Cato cried out that the priuiledges giuen to Caesar would ouerthrow the common-wealth The great facultie of Diuines in Paris declared in the yeere 1554. that this Sect would become the vtter desolation and ruine of our Church And some diuining spirits foretold long before the tragedies they should act in Fraunce Caesar chaunged the popular State into a Tyrannie what the Iesuits will attempt against the holy Church is in the hand of God yet one thing comforteth me that this great Sea is builded vpon a surer foundation then the Romane common-wealth Only this I wil adde that euen as our Lord Iesus Christ lodged his Diuinitie in a humane body for our redemption so long as our Prelates harbour holines and integritie in their hearts all will goe well with them and vs. But when they shall fall once a brewing mingling cunning and pollicie with Religion thereby thinking to maintaine their greatnes then will they ouerthrow them selues and our whole Church CHAP. 26. ¶ That there is no credit to be giuen to the promises and protestations of Iesuits for that they haue no other faith but such as maketh for the effecting of their purposes YOu haue hetherto vnderstood the heresies Machiauelisms Anabaptismes of the Sect of Iesuits the treasons the troubles they haue brought to France whersoeuer else they haue remaind it is now time to sound retreat And yet before I do it we must haue a little skirmish with the reestablishment by them procured against the processe of the Parliament at Paris giuen rather by God his iust iudgement then by men Now in this new pursuit hee which shall obserue the time wherein they beganne to remoue and the authoritie of him whom they imploy shall find them cunning and worldly wise rather then religious I cannot tell whether in the end they wil preuaile or no For to speake truly importunitie and perseuerance their two principall vertues haue great aduantage ouer the French which are naturally without gaule when they are flattered I assure you the annals of the Iesuit Magius their Deligate giue thē leaue to vse all the faire promises that may be till they become owners of their desire
how canst thou be a Father To which I aunswerd him that it was meere follie to giue any credit to names or Anagrams as Iulius Scaliger hath very elegantly proued against Cardan Besides I am out of doubt that you Anagram is a lyer as I will proue by another that is contrarie to it TV MATRES VICIAS thorosque sacros Antistes pie virginesque sanctas Hoc qui martyrio fidem propagat Hoc qui consilio propagat orbem Is verè est pater pater beatus O tuam veneror beatitatem Amplectorque piam paternitatem Iosuita Patrum Pater supreme Thou stainest Mothers and the marriage bed Prelate by thee are holy Virgins sped Who by this martyrdome graceth the sleeple Who by this skill begets faith in the people He is a father and a father blest Thy happines I honour with the rest Iesuit I bow to thy paternitee Father of Fathers in the highest degree The diuersitie of these two Anagrams which is a plaine contrariety of doing vndoing teacheth vs that there is no credit to be giuen to them And I hold it for certaine and an Article of faith if you will giue me leaue to say so that the Iesuits keepe their vow of chastitie as strictly holily and religiously as they do that of beggerie wherefore let vs not trouble our talke with this ordure You are verie desirous quoth the other to fauour them without ground and you consider not that your Anagram lackes one letter E. whereas mine fits all That which I haue said to you of them is an inseparable accident which the Logicians call Poprium quarto modò Remember the Templers who were allowed heretofore vnder the cloake of Religion to wander ouer the world to enlarge our faith by their swords and what was one of the principall points for which they were condemned See if the Iesuits now adaies doe not follow their steps the actiōs of a man that rogues about the world as the Iesuits doe are to me meruailous suspicious I beleeue no part of that you say quoth I it is all but lies and slaunders CHAP. 16. ¶ Of the vow of Mission and that by it the Iesuits mocke vs all and especially our holy Father the Pope IN all other orders they that are admitted make three vowes In this of Ignace to enthrall the good liking of Pope Paule the third that of Mission is added not for his fellowes but for them which are of the last and great vow The words of their Buls are that they promise without shifting to go whether soeuer the Pope shall commaund them Ad profectum animarum fidei propagationem siue miserit nos ad Turcas siue ad quoscumque alios infideles etiam in partibus quas Indias vocant existentes c. He that caused the defence of the Colledge of Clairmont against the Vniuersity of of Paris to be printed 1594. saith thus speaking of the greatnes and excellencie of his new vow The defendants haue a particular vow of obedience to the Pope but circa Missiones tantùm which is grounded vpon this that they being called by God to ayde the Church and to defend it against the enemies thereof such as the Infidels and heretiques are must of necessitie be sent abroad And a little after And they cannot be more rightly sent then by him that is set in Saint Peters chaire and gouerns the whole Church who as the Pilot in the sterne sticking to the helme appoints some to the fore-ship some to the ancor some to the sailes and tackles and other to other offices in the ship Let vs dwell a little vppon this goodly sentence ere we passe any further The first promise of this vow is for the conuersion of the Turks which follow Mahometisme then of all other infidels yea euen of them that inhabit certaine countries vnknowne to vs which they call the Indies I pray you tel me if euer you vnderstood that they went either to the country of the great Turke the Emperour of Constantinople or of Sophy the Emperour of Persia to acquit themselues of this promise They were neuer commaunded to goe thither by our holy Father will some man say to me I grant because those places were too hot for them Whither then haue they gone Into those countries that are farre from vs quas Indias vocant which Ignace cunningly added as a thing harder to performe then the conuersion of Turkie and yet he knew being a Spaniard that nothing was so easie as to vndertake this charge as you haue vnderstood by me when I recoūted to you the Embassages of the Iesuits into Portugall Maff. lib. 2. chap. 10. Rib. lib. 2. chap. 16. the Indies which were vnder the subiection of Iohn the third King of Portugall Do yoe thinke Gentlemen that if it had pleased the Pope to send thither any of the foure orders of the Mendicants they would haue drawne backe from this seruice permitting them to goe in a secular habite as the Iesuit dooth In steed of one Xauier that was sent thither by Ignace there would haue beene found 500. men full of deuotion and learning to performe this holy voiage And why so Because it was a deuotion without daunger for going thither vnder the banner of a Christian king who had power of life and death ouer them whom by faire meanes he would bring to our Christian Religion it was a voyage without feare But as for all Turky which is vnder Princes enemies to Christianitie I see not that eyther the Pope would giue them commaundement or these worldly-wise Iesuits be any thing hastie to goe thither and yet read the first bull and it appeares that Ignace set downe the voyage of Turky as the more easie to be vndertaken I would to God it had come into the head of one of the Popes that succeeded Paule the third to commaund our Iesuits to go to Constantinople to conuert the Mahumetans to trie in good earnest wha◠obedience they would yeeld to this vow of Mission we should haue seene what miracles they would haue wrought there Heare notwithstanding not a new Currier but a discourser of his most humble supplication request presented to the king We liue not vnder christian princes only but vnder heathē Potētates those that are ignorant of the law feare of God We haue Colled ges euen in Iappon scituated to the East of our Hemisphere we haue to the West in Brasil which is the beginning of America in Lima Cucham which is the end of Peru and the vtmost part of the West in Mexico which is in the middle of the two countries To the Northward we haue in Goa a City country that lies by ⅔ as far from Iappon as Iappon from Lisbon some 6000. leagues We haue Colledges in many places of the east west Indies That I may say nothing of those we haue in Europe which are a great many more then our enemies would fewer by a great many