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A19434	Anti-Coton, or, A Refutation of Cottons letter declaratorie lately directed to the Queene Regent, for the apologizing of the Iesuites doctrine, touching the killing of kings : a booke, in which it is proued that the Iesuites are guiltie, and were the authors of the late execrable parricide, committed vpon the person of the French King, Henry the Fourth, of happie memorie : to which is added, a Supplication of the Vniuersitie of Paris, for the preuenting of the Iesuites opening their schooles among them, in which their king-killing doctrine is also notably discouered, and confuted / both translated out of the French, by G.H. ; together with the translators animaduersions vpon Cottons letter.	Plaix, César de, d. 1641.; Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Du Coignet, Pierre.; Du Bois-Olivier, Jean, d. 1626.; Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1611 (1611)	STC 5861.2; ESTC S1683	49,353	94

Regall power degenerates into tyrannie Peter Ribadenera a Spanish Iesuite venteth this doctrine in a booke which he hath written of Religion and the vertues of a Prince speaking thus of the parricide of Iames Clement For as much as the resolution which Henry the third tooke vpon him was the aduise of a Politician and a machia●elist not conformable to the rules of our Sauiour behold the reason that by the iust iudgement of God the said Henry was made away by the hand of a simple young Monke and dyed by the stroke of a knife Carolus Scribanius a Flemish Iesuite who by an anagrammatisticall inuersion of Letters cals himselfe Clarus Bonars●ius hath written a Booke which he entitules Amphitheatrum honoris in which hee stoutly maintaines the same murthering position Lib. 1. Cap. 12. where he thus speakes if it so fall out that a Denis or a Machanidas or an Aristotimus monsters of their ages oppresse Fraunce shall not the Pope haue power confidently to encourage against them some Dion or Timoleon or Philopoemen that is to say tamers and quellers of tyrants and a little after speaking of a tyrant wasting Fraunce What will no man take armes against that beast will no Pope set free that noble Kingdome from the stroke of the Axe where obserue that he speakes not in that passage of an vsurper but of a lawfull King who vnlawfully vseth his power Bellarmine in his second Booke against the King of England condemneth treason and conspiracie against Princes but in such captious and ambiguous termes that vpon the matter he seemes to approue it and incite men vnto it by commending the Iesuite Garnet that being acquainted with the conspiracie against the King of England by the confessions of the Traytors he would not disclose it his words are these Wherefore was Henry Garnet a man vnmatchable in all kindes of learning and holinesse of life so punished in the highest degree but onely because hee would not detect that which with a safe conscience hee could not See then here the doctrine of the Iesuites which is this that if a man disclose vnto them his purpose to kill the King he ought to conceale it and rather suffer the King to be killed and the kingdome to be ruined then to breake vp the seale of confession an opinion which the Sorbon holds not it being of the Law of God to be loyall to our Soueraigne and of the Law of Nations to hold the receiuer of stolne goods as guiltie as the theefe and in the case of treason equally to punish the vndertaker and the concealer as being both principall an offence of that nature admitting no accessorie The same Iesuite Bellarmine and together with him the whole troupe of that societie generally defend that the Pope hath power to dispose of kingdomes to bestow them as he shall see fit on whom it shall please him and to stir vp the Subiects to rebell against their Prince by vnloosing them from their sacred bond of allegiance his words are these in his sixt Chapter and fift Booke De Pontifice Romano The Pope may dispose of Kingdomes taking them from one and giuing them to another as being the Supreame Prince Ecclesiasticall and the Iesuite Gretzer in his Booke entituled Vespertilio haeretico-politicus pag. 159. We are not such dastards that we feare openly to affirme that the Pope of Rome may if necessitie so require free his Catholike Subiects from their oath of fidelitie if their Soueraigne handle them tyrannically Nay the same man addes in the same place that if the Pope doe it discreetly and warily it is a meritorious worke Consider here this new and vnknowne kinde of merit by raising sedition and commanding disloyaltie from whence must necessarily issue attempting vpon the person of the Prince for in such a rebellion it is to be presumed that the Prince will take armes to safeguard himselfe and oppose force to force which cannot possibly be done without manifest hazard of his life Tolet in his first Booke of the instructions of Priests and 13. Chapter affirmes that Subiects are not bound to keepe vnuiolate their oath of allegiance to an excommunicate person and againe An excommunicate person cannot exercise the act of Iurisdiction which rule if we admit as true we must consequently hold that Henry the third was no King and he which killed him killed no King Mariana another Spanish Iesuite hath set forth a Booke De Rege Regis institutione first printed at Toledo by Peter Roderigo in the yeare 1599. and and since againe at Mentz by Balthasar Lippius in the yeare 1605. in the sixt Chapter of this Booke after hauing commended Iames Clement hee addes that he had beene instructed by Diuines with whom he consulted in that point that it was lawfull to kill a Tyrant and thereupon describing how the young Frier gaue the deadly blow hee cries out Insignem animi confidentiam facinus ●●emorabile O excellent confidence of Spirit O memorable fact And a little after speaking of the same murtherer amidst the blowes and the wounds which he receiued he continued full of comfort as hauing redeemed with his bloud the liberty of his Country and hauing ●lai●e the King he purchased himselfe great renowne in expiating the death of the Duke of Guise treacherously made away by shedding the bloud Royall Thus dyed Clement being about twenty foure yeares of age a young man of nature gentle not tough of body but that a higher power actuated his vigor and courage Thus speakes this Iesuite and in the same Chapter speaking of a lawfull King to whom the Subiects haue passed their oath of allegiance hee sayes If he peruert the Religion of the Land or if he draw the common enemie into his Country he that labouring to satisfie the publike desire shall assay to kill him shall in my iudgement not doe vniustly In the Chapter following hee steppes yet one degree farther in which hee allowes the poysoning of a Tyrant as iust and lawfull notwithstanding it is worth the while to marke the nicenesse of the man and how precisely those of his hayre obserue their cases of conscience for fearing least by poysoning the Tyrants meate or drinke hee should by that meanes be enforced to make himselfe away Mariana brings this remedie For mine owne part saith hee I would vse this moderation not to constraine him whom I purpose to doe away to take the poyson himselfe which might presently disperse it selfe through his inwards and so kill him but that some other lay the poyson so that hee who is to dye no way concurre in the taking of it which may be done when the poyson is so strong that a chaire or a garment being annoynted with it may worke vpon the body which sits on the one or weares the other which is a cunning I finde the Kings of the Moores haue often vsed Such is the pietie of

that the Kings of Fraunce can leuie any mony vpon the persons nor vpon the lands of Italy which are of the Patrimonie of S. Peter For it is not credible that Father Cotton will oppose himselfe against Cardinal Bellarmine the Iesuite all the Iesuites now adayes being his Disciples and Schollers who in his fift Booke De Pontifice Romano and sixt Chapter writes thus The Pope may change kingdomes take them from one and bestow them on another as the supreme Prince spirituall and when he shall finde it necessarie for the saluation of soules Of whom also we haue formerly learned that Kings are not aboue Clarks The same Authour in the second Chapter of his Booke Of the exemption of the Clergie cals all Kings and Princes ingenerall Prophane men And he holds in diuers places that the power of secular Princes is but an humane institution and is onely the worke of men Albeit the Apostle in the thirteenth to the Romanes saith That there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordained of God And therefore it is no part of the Iesuites beliefe to account Kings to be Kings in such sort as the Pope is the head of the Church seeing they are not Kings but by humane institution but the Pope is head of the Vniuersall Church by the institution of God In a word Cotton speakes but with halfe a mouth and by that which hee saith it is impossible to apprehend what he beleeueth And the same may be said of his other Articles The last Article is a recrimination of those of the pretended reformed Religion sundry of whose Books he saith are infected with this opinion that it is lawfull for a Subiect to make away his King After this he addes I could note and specifie the places alledge their words were it not much better that they should remaine swallowed vp of the gulfe of forgetfulnesse Oh what matter of triumph here doth he giue vnto our aduersaries whose saying will be that if Father Cotton had knowne those places hee would not haue failed to bring them to light and it had beene good to name the bookes that they might be suppressed and the Authors punished if they were liuing Now hereupon I haue been moued in the humor of curiosity to cleare my selfe and enquiring of some of the contrary Religion men not vnlearned they haue answered mee that indeede the Councell of Constance in the eight Session makes an enumeration of Wickliffes Heresies and amongst other things accuseth him for being of opinion that no m●n is a Maister or Lord in ciuill things during his continuance in mortall sinne Againe that people may at their pleasure correct Princes that are faulty And that Buchanan an Historian and Scottish Poet in his Booke De iure Regni apud Scotes speaketh indeed of handling Kings roughly and driuing them out when they become Tyrants But the Councell of Constance slandereth Wickliffe not onely in this point but also in diuers others that this is no where to bee found throughout his writings and that he was not present to answere for himselfe that after the same slanderous maner the same Councell chargeth him to haue said that God must● obey the Diuell that Buchanan was no Diuine that amongst their Doctors there are indeed found some free speeches against Kings that persecute their Churches so farre as to say that notwithstanding their wicked wils they will not giue ouer to aduance the worke of God and such like But not so much as any one word is to be found of aduise to kill Kings nor so much as any one precept of rebellion That Luther writ indeed against King Henry the eight of England in most contemptuous sort and indiscreet termes but that Luther was none of his Subiect and that he neuer spake of killing Kings nor of rebelling against their Soueraigne and therefore that these examples are not to purpose This I say not that I rest satisfied with these iustifications I leaue them as they are but to stirre vp Father Cotton to speake more plainly vnto this point for feare least our aduersaries should say that they are accused without proofe and without shewing wherefore That which remaines of Father Cottons declaratorie Letter is onely a declamatorie discourse wherein he talkes of Otacoustes Prosagogides and Quadruplators words that had giuen vs the stop had they been put in the entrance of his discourse For these are words too hard for vs that know no other Latine then that of Ac●ursius and that busie our selues to proue as good French-men as the Iesuites are good Spaniards CHAP. V. Whether it be for the good of the State that Father Cotton should be neere about the person of the King or of the Queene Regent and whether the lesuites are to be suff●red IF all the world wonders to see after the blow that Iohn Chastel gaue with a knife after the condemning of the Iesuites after the erection of the Pyramis for a memoriall yet neuerthelesse a little after all this these Fathers to be established againe and to possesse the heart of the King whose mouth they had slit So is it a thing as much to be wondred at to see at this day after so horrible a death those who haue set abroach the doctrine of murthering Princes and who are knowne to haue a ●inger in the action to continue still and to be neare about the person of the King I will beleeue that the person of Father Cotton is free from this crime and that Father Gontier and Aubigny had no communication with him and that he had no intelligence with the Iesuites of Bruxelles yet such are his maners and his profession that it is no way fit nor for the credit of the Court for him to come neere about the person of his Maiestie First of all I affirme that Cotton who cals himselfe a religious person yea of such a Company who take vnto them the name of Iesus is a scandall to the whole Church being euery day a follower of the Court for this is a thing contrary not onely to the Institution of all Monkes but particularly to the rules of the Iesuites as Father Richeome assureth vs in his Apologeticall complaint and Cardinall Tolet the Iesuite in his Booke Of the Institution of Priests 1. Booke and 40. Chapter holds it for a generall truth that a religious person who betakes himselfe vnto the Courts of Princes is an excommunicate person albeit he hath leaue of his Superiour Secondly for the imprinting of vertue in the heart of a Prince it is fit to set about his person men that are enemies vnto vices and such as will not flatter him in his imperfections This was one of the great faults of Father Cotton euen his conniuence at the pleasures of the late King in stead of with-drawing him from them And such a Prince was hee that if a man an enemie vnto vice had helde his place about him it had beene an easie

Catholiques in defiance and in expectation to behold yet a third parricide Let them be forbidden to entermeddle in affaires of State let them preach the Gospell and the Commandements of the Church let Parents be bound to send their Children vnto Colledges in the Vniuersitie let there not be two distinct Vniuersities let enquirie be made what the Iesuites doe with all their wealth seeing it is wel knowne they are but few in number and that they do not spend it neither vpon apparrell nor on horses nor vpon seruants To what end then serues all their reuenewes saue to make voyages and Commissions for strange Countries and to make a store-house that may serue to wage the enemies of the State and contribute to the charges of some Rebellion as they did in the last league For I finde the Polander had reason when he said that the Societie of the Iesuites was a sword whose scabberd was in France but the handle of it in Spaine or at Rome where the Generall of the Iesuites abides for the first motion to draw this sword comes from thence This is it we had to say on this matter whereunto my desire is that answere should be made from point to point or rather that we would open our eyes vnto these considerations which are most cleare and needfull And if in doing this we shall procure more hatred then we shall gaine commodity yet this shall be our comfort that wee haue not failed in our duty of proposing things necessarie for the good of the State and for the peace and safety of the Church A QVADRANE To the Queene If you desire your State continue may Then chase these cruell Tygers farre away Who cutting their Kings life apart Are their owne pay-maisters with his heart FINIS THE SVPPLICATION OF THE VNIVERSITIE OF PARIS FOR THE PREVENTING OF THE IESVITES opening of their Schooles in Paris WHEREIN THEIR KING-KILLING DOCTRINE IS ALSO OPENED and refuted TO THE QVEENE REGENT THE LORDS THE PRINCES OF THE BLOOD AND THE LORDS of the Councell MAY it please your MAIESTIE The Vniuersitie of Paris in all humility desires to make to it knowne to your Maiestie that the doctrine of the killing of Kings by assa●sins who of deuotion destine themselues to death as to a Martyrdome pleasing to God is by vs held to be a pestilent deuise neuer seene nor read in the records of Antiquitie nor as much as knowne to the ancient Pagans or Christians Among the Mahumetanes only one named the old man of Montagne is found to haue vsed this tricke but the rest of that Sect crushed it in the egge and neuer since put it in practice howbeit their malice a gainst Christian Princes be no way abared Onely about sixty yeares agoe this poyson spread it selfe in the vaines of Christendome and began to be put in execution in England and in France we say in England in as much as in regard of ciuill and temporall obedience due to Kings and for the safegard of their liues all Christian Princes though Pagans Heretiques Idolaters Infidels excommunicates Apostates are notwithstanding vnto vs holy sacred as the Apostles ●each and the primitiue Christian Church and the examples of Saints now in heauen sometime prelates and Bishops of France Now this hellish position of theirs is grounded vpon another erroneous doctrine which is the Popes omnipotencie whom we acknowledge head of the Church in that manner and meaning as our predecessors haue done The doctrine of this omnipotencie is not at all to be found in the diuinitie of Paris nor in the bosome of the Vniuersitie but we find it in the Sermons and writings of the Iesuits in the answeres of assa●sines at their arraignment before the ludges To put this matter out of doubt we need no more then to heare themselues speaking Parrie who vndertooke the murthering of the late Queene of England maintained that he might lawfully doe it she s●anding excommunicate by the Pope and consequently her life abandoned Catesby the vndertaker of the fire-worke which should haue blowne vp the King of great Britaine the Queene their Children the States stood to it that the enterprise was holy for since Clement the eight by two briefes forbad the Catholikes to receiue him they had better reason as he thought to make him away being receiued Iohn Chastel affirmed that he thought i● a meritorious worke to kill our last King because that although the Bishops of Fraunce had receiued him into the Church yet he was not in it the Pope hauing not admitted him Rauillac the last parricide affirmed that the King vndertooke the last warre against the good will of the Pope that God was the Pope and the Pope God by vertue of those words Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke c. Hereupon the Bishop of Cleremont one of their disciples failed not after the execution of the murtherer to be present at the assembly of the Sor●on which was called accordingly as our ancestours had chalked vs out the way for the censuring and condemning of that murthering doctrine where turning himselfe from company to company before the sitting of the Doctors he told them they should take heede what they did for you haue here saith he two of the Popes Nuncioes and the Company being sate he told them that the question then to be discussed had beene diuersly handled and that in his iudgement it was needfull they should propose it to the Popes Nuncioes who might giue notice of it to the Pope their Maister as is none other Kings were to liue but whom it pleased the Pope After that many good Preachers of this Vniuersitie had contested against the murthers of Kings and the broachers and abettors of that doctrine at last Father Cotton presents your Maiestie with a Letter declaratorie of the doctrine of the Iesuites in that behalfe in which hee labours to giue contentment to such as complaine that their writings maintaine these three doctrines cousen-germains the omnipotencie of the Pope and from thence depending rebellion against Kings abandoning of their liues when they or such as themselues shall iudge them Tyrants but men of vnderstanding sufficiently perceiue the Equiuocations and fallacies wherewithall they would shadow their mischieuous doctrine following herein the vse and practise of that position where of their Sect make open profession in treatises expresly allowed by the Generall of their Order as may be seene in the Apologie made in the behalfe of Henry Garnet in the Chapter of Equiuocations yet should wee be loath to discouer them and to hinder their counterfaite coine from being currant for some profit which might might from thence arise were it not that by the vertue of these ambiguities that Sect hopes to get the start of vs in opening their Schooles in the Vniuersitie of Paris against the setled and resolued determination of the last King In regard whereof this Vniuersitie daughter of the French Kings should hold her selfe guiltie of disloyaltie if she did not

ANTI-COTON OR A REFVTATION OF Cottons Letter Declaratorie lately directed to the Queene Regent for the Apologizing of the Iesuites doctrine touching the killing of KINGS A BOOKE In which it is proued that the Iesuites are guiltie and were the Authors of the late execrable Parricide committed vpon the Person of the French King HENRY the fourth of happie memorie TO WHICH IS ADDED A Supplication of the Vniuersitie of Paris for the preuenting of the Iesuites opening their Schooles among them in which their King-killing Doctrine is also notably discouered and confuted Both translated out of the French by G. H. Together with the Translators animaduersions vpon Cottons Letter LONDON Printed by T. S. for Richard Boyle and are to be solde at his Shop in the blacke Fryers 1611. TO THE QVEENE REGENT May it please your Maiestie IN as much as it is the common opinion as well of your owne Subiects at home as of Strangers abroad that the Iesuites were the workers of that damnable Parricide which striking to the heart of our deceased King whom God absolue hath stricken to the very throate of Fraunce it selfe and thereupon the Iesuites complaine that they are wrongfully dealt withall and that these reports are spread by their enemies thereby to make them odious to the world I thought it necessarie to make appeare to your Maiestie the originall causes of this aspersion cast vpon them to the end that if it be found to spring from sure and vndoubted grounds your Maiestie may from thence coniecture whether it may stand with the safeguard of the present King your Sonnes life to suffer these holy Fathers to approach neere his person as also whether it may be done without holding your Subiects in continuall alarmes and de●iances one of another For if it were forbidden by Moses Law as Father Cotton hath obserued in his Epistle Dedicatorie to seeth the Kid in the milke of the Damme much more vnlawfull must it needs be to deliuer the Sonne into hands already imbrewed in the bloud of the Father I desire not to be beleeued without euident proofes and professe withall that I am no way transported with passion against their persons nor would at all bee drawne to speake or write against them if after the maner of other Monkes and Fryers they would be content to bound themselues within the lists of instructing the people and managing the affaires of the Church but that which I now speake is not the suggestion of Heretiques but the testimonie of your highest Courts of Iustice the consent of the greatest part of your Clergie and among them euen of the sacred facultie of Diuinitie and in a word the common vniuersall out-crie of all your people all which notwithstanding would willingly haue learned the Arte of forgetfulnesse with Father Aubigny and beene content to mourne without speaking a word were it not that wee see the murthering of Princes become a custome and that if your Maiestie put not to your hand to stop it betimes Treason will shortly stand in the rancke of Christian vertues and be helde the fairest and shortest way to heauen If then your Maiestie please for a while to lay aside your important affaires of State and to peruse this ensuing discourse you shall finde I doubt not in this case the voyce of the people the voyce of God whom I beseech to make the Flower de Lice to flowrish vpon your Sonnes head and to poure downe vpon your Maiestie all possible happinesse Your Maiesties most humble and obedient Subiect P. D. C AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER READER meruaile not that the Author of the Worke puts not to his name it may iustly be imputed to the iniquitie of the times in which it is hard to vtter the truth and not thereby to procure enemies notwithstanding if there be any that will vndertake the answering of it from point to point which I hold impossible such is the cleere euidence of truth the Author promiseth to reioyne vpon the same subiect and withall to discouer his name for hee hath both courage and countenance enough to maintaine himselfe and his cause against the malice of his aduersaries and the troublers of the publike peace A REFVTATION of Father Cottons declaratorie Letter to the Queene Regent That the doctrine of the Iesuites approues and maintaines the Parricide of Kings and the Rebellion of Subiects CHAP. I. THat we may take all rubs out of the way and fully cleere the doubt in question it will not proue vnnecessarie to search out and discouer the dependances of the matter in hand till wee arise to the head-spring it selfe Wee finde it registred in the French History that in the yeare 1407. Lewes Duke of Orleans brother to King Charles the sixt of that name the 22. of Nouember in the twilight was slaine by Assassinates hired to that purpose by Iohn Duke of Burgundie who then contested his right to the Regencie against the said Duke of Orleans but the Duke of Burgundie being no way able to inuent any colourable varnish for the shifting off the fact grew bolde to maintaine in the presence of the Princes of the bloud and Officers of the Crowne that what was acted by his command was honourable and iust and thereupon set a worke Iohn Petit Doctor of Diuinitie by birth a Norman who publikely defended that both by the Law of God and man as well Canon as Ciuill it was lawfull for any man to make away a tyrant and that by any meanes whereupon the matter was so carried partly through feare of violence and partly by strength of perswasion that the course of Iustice for that time was stopt and nothing done At that time there liued in Paris Iohn Gerson Chancellour of the Vniuersitie a man of no meane learning as that age afforded who strongly opposed himselfe to the fore-mentioned proposition of Iohn Petit insomuch that not long after a generall Councell being held at Constance Gerson was imployed thither as Ambassadour from Charles the sixt hauing in his instructions expresse charge to propose that conclusion to the Fathers of the Councell by them to be further discussed and censured where both parties being indifferently heard what could be obiected on either side the Councell in their fifteenth Session condemned the opinion of Iohn Petit as hereticall the Canon begins thus Quilibet Tyrannus c. plainely defining that it no way rightfully fals within the compasse of the Subiects reach to set vpon the person of his Soueraigne vnder pretence of curbing a Tyrant This erroneous Doctrine hauing beene now a long time quenched as it were and buried by the authoritie of this Councell is now againe enlightened and set a foote by the Iesuites but vnder the cloake and colour of Religion that is to say when it shall be iudged necessarie to make away a King for the good of the Church to this purpose they haue published diuers discourses in which they permit and incite the Subiect to kill his Soueraigne when his

by the hand of the said Guignard containing many arguments and reasons to proue that the murther of the King was iust and lawfull together with diuers inductions and incitements for the making away of his Successour some of which I will here set downe being copied out of the original which is yet to be seene among the Records of the Court First that the ●ruell Nero was slaine by Clement and the counterfaite Monke dispatched by the hand of a true Monke Secondly that the heroycall act of Iames Clement tearmed by Diuines a gift of the holy Ghost was iustly commended by Burgoin Prior of the Iacobins Confessour and Martyr and that by many reasons as well at Paris when he read there vpon Iudith as also before the worthy Parliament of Tours Thirdly that the Biarnois howbeit conuerted to the Catholike faith should be handled more gently then he deserued if he had set on his head a Monasticall Crowne that if hee could not be deposed without warre that it should be vndertaken against him and if that might not be he must be made away priuately The Court hauing perused these papers and Guignard being put to his answere freely confessed that they were written by his owne hands whereupon the Court by an arrest executed the 7. of Ianuarie 1595. declared the said Guignard attainted and conuinced of high Treason condemned him to make honourable amends naked to his shirt the halter about his necke before the chiefe doore of our Ladies Church in Paris and after this to be hung in the Greue and his body burnt May it please the Reader to make inquirie if euer as yet any Iesui●e were heard of who condemned this Guignard of treason and disloyaltie but on the other side Rich●ome in his Apologie excuseth him as farre as he dare affirming that Guignard discussed the forementioned propositions onely by way and in forme of Scholasticall dispute and in this wee agree for I haue alwaies held it that to kill a King is the vndoubted conclusion of the Iesuits diuinitie which position if any Iesuite eyther driuen to it by force of argument or drawne to it by shame any where condemne it ariseth eyther from want of discretion or learning or some such ground The which may from thence be made to appear in that the Iesuites haue ranged Guignard in the catalogue of their martyrs which they haue caused to be Printed at Rome in two formes in the one of which Guignard is in the other he is left out to the end that some copies at le●t might be passable in France without danger besides this the Iesuite Bonarscius Chap. 8. of his Amphitheater extols this Guignard to the skies howbeit without naming him for feare belike of offending the King yet openly enough to decipher him the words are these I will passe thee ouer in silence O bright Star cleerly shining both in heauen and on earth the last expiation of an house no more capable of sorrow no day will euer be able to blot out the tincture of thy blood and then presently addes All Fraunce will concurre with me in these my vowes which words are not applyable to any but Guignard who was a French Iesuite and the last that suffered in France Out of the same forge was shaped that detestable Book De iusta abdicatione Henrici 3. of the iust degradation of Henry the third A Booke whereof the Authour is not certainely knowne but onely that it was printed at Lions and beares in it forefront the stampe of the Iesuites Franciscus Verona Constantinus hath written an Apologie for Iohn Chastel which out-strips Mariana in villany for in his 2. Chap. 2. Part he plainly affirmes that notwithstanding the decree of the Councell of Constance it is lawfull for any priu●te man to murther Kings and Princes condemned of haeresie and tyrannie Now we see by the example of our two last Kings that at their pleasure they would make Princes beleeue whom they purpose to make away that they are Heretiques or fauourers of them if they set not their kingdomes in combustion by ciuil warres thereby to giue aduantage to the inuasion of the Spaniard or send ayde to their neighbour princes for feare of being vndermined by the house of Austria Thus dealt the Cyclope in Homer who finding no reason to misuse Vlysses and his associates and yet desirous to feede vpon them would needes perswade them that they were pyrates In the same Apologie hee commends the fact of Iames Clement as being against a publike enemie iuridically condemned The same Author in his third Chapter defends also the fact of Iohn Ch●stel in this manner that in striking at Henry of Bourbon his intention was not to kill the King howbeit he called himselfe King sithens hee had nothing left but the appearance of a King as being of the blood Royall adding thereunto that Henry of Bourbon could not be called King no not since his reconcilement to the Catholike Church Emanuel Sa in his Aphorismes of Confessions at the word Clericus affirmes that the rebellion of a Clarke against the King is no treason in as much as he is not subiect to him Bellarmine in his 28. Chapter De Clericis speaks in a maner the same the Pope of Rome hath exempted clarks from subiection to Princes Kings are now no more Superiours of Clarkes Consider here a little their cunning if you demand whether it be lawfull for a subiect to kil his king or to rebel against him vnder pretence of being a tyrant vpon this demand the Iesuites fearing to speake too roughly and thereby become odious in affirming that a Clark may kil the King they affirme that Clarks are not subiect to Princes and from thence draw this conclusion that being so they cannot be held guilty of treason since that he against whom they conspire is not their Master or Lord. Garnet the Iesuite with Hall his companion otherwise known by the name of Oldcorne were executed in England for tampring in the pouder treason Garnet being apprehended vpon the deposition of one of the Conspirators constantly and with oathes affirmed that hee knew nothing of the plot whereupon the Commissioners perceiuing that they gained nothing by threats bethought themselues of another course which was this they lodged Hall in a chamber next adioyning to Garnet and wished the Iaylor to tender to Garnet all courteous offices and withall to giue him notice that his companion Hall was placed in the next roome and that there was a little hole in the middle wall by meanes of which they might if they thought good enterchange conference which they daily did in the meane time the Iaylor sets some in a close corner not farre off to listen what their talke was who ouer-hearing them by that meanes brought their secrets to light which they discouered in this conference betweene themselues but had before denied to the Iudges hereupon Garnet being againe conuented before the Court and

the Church neither ought wee to obey him nor hold him for our King vntill hee had receiued approbation from the Pope During the foresaid proceedings certaine of the Lords of the Court came to the Colledge of Cleremont where the Iesuites were and there seazed on the papers of Iohn Guignard amongst which there was found a Booke composed in the praise of Iames Clement who murthered Henry the third with exhortation to doe the like vnto hi● Successour out of which Booke diuers clauses haue beene produced in the first Chapter The Court vpon the sight of these Writings sent for Guignard the Author who when his Writings were shewed him and himselfe examined thereupon confessed that himselfe had composed them and written them with his owne hand And hereupon Guignard by sentence of the Court was condemned and executed the 7. of the Ianuary 1595. By another sentence was Peter Gueret Iesuite the Maister of Iohn Chastell condemned to perpetuall banishment and all his goods seazed on and confiscated vnto the King with commandement for the erection of a Pyramis before the great gate of the palace with an inscription containing the causes why the Iesuites were banished In which inscription they are tearmed Heretiques troublers of the State and corrupters of Youth Which Pyramis while it stood if any did aske why it was set vp many more now a dayes are ready to aske why it was puld down A case like vnto this fell out at Melun the last of Aprill 1593. what time the processe criminall was made against Peter Barriere who being apprehended vpon the intelligence of a Fryer an honest man and faithfull vnto the King confessed that he came purposely vnto the Court to make away the King and that he had been incited hereunto by one Varad● by name a Iesuite whose daily practise was to defame the King with vile speeches By the perswasion of this Iesuite the fore-said Barriere had prepared a knife to doe the fear About this he first of all asked the aduise of A●bry Curate of S. Andrew des arts to whom he made his purpose knowne and afterwards betooke himselfe vnto Varade Rectour of the Colledge of Iesuites vpon the fore-said Aubry his aduise That the said Varade confirmed him in his resolution to kill the King and that by assuring him that in case hee were apprehended and put to death hee should obtaine in heauen a Crowne of Martyrdome That the said Varade adiured him vnto this action vpon the Sacrament of Confession and of Communion of the body of our Lord. It was also obserued that when the late King was striken their Colledges being enuironed with a Guard certaine Iesuits cried out at the doores of their Chambers Surge frater agitur de Religione Vp brother vp our Religion is in danger Besides this in the Colledge of the said Iesuites there were found diuers theames giuen by the Maisters of formes the argument of all which was an exhortation to set vpon Tyrants and to suffer death constantly It was also certified to betrue that after Paris was reduced vnder the Kings obedience the Maisters of the Colledge of Iesuites forbad their Schollers to pray for the King Else-where informations haue beene made against Alexander Hayes Iesuite borne in Scotland who taught openly that it was good to dissemble and for a while to performe obedience vnto the King in shew He was wont to say Iesuita est omnis homo This Iesuite was further charged to haue said and that often that he wished if the King came along by their Colledge he might fall out of the window vpon him and breake his neck For which cause by the sentence of the Court giuen the 10. of Ianuarie 1595. the saide Hayes was condemned to perpetuall banishment and withall hee was wished to keepe himselfe out of the Country vpon paine of being hanged without any other forme of arraignement Moreouer the said Fathers haue beene often conuicted for corrupting children that so they might sende them into strange Countries against the will of their Fathers As for instance in the yeare 1595. the 10. of Aprill a Iesuite by name Iohn the Fayre of the Colledge of Cleremont did honourable pennance in the great Chamber during the Audience bare-head and bare-foote in a white sheete holding in his hand a burning Torch of two pound weight of waxe and sentenced to professe and declare vpon his knees that rashly and vnaduisedly hee practised to seduce Francis Veron Clarke Student in the Vniuersitie of Poictiers to send him fo●th of the kingdome And further that he had indiscreetly reserued and kept with him Lectures and Treatises made by some of the said Societie which hee receiued and wrote out with his owne hand in the said Colledge of Cleremont containing many damnable instructions to attempt against Princes and withall approbation and commendation of that detestable parricide committed vpon the person of our King of most blessed memorie Henry the third These are things so common and so well knowne that who so should faine ought or adde vnto it cannot haue any hope to belieued and he must needes be accounted impudent that should denie them the whole bodie of the Court being witnesses of the truth of them Besides all this there is no man that hath not by experience found that the Iesuites were neuer other then sworne enemies vnto our Kings For during these last troubles which endeuoured to transport France into Spaine there were many of the Religious persons found and that of all Orders to ha●e taken the Kings part but there was no one Iesuite found to be for him vntil such time as for their crimes they were driuen out of the kingdome In a word the late King our Prince who neuer was afraide in warre yet was afraide of these men in peace My Lord the Duke of Sully can testifie this who perswading the King not to recall the Iesuites was answered by him Giue mee then securitie for my life And if we step forth of the kingdome of France we shall finde many examples of the like In all the conspiracies against Elizabeth the late Queene of England it was alwayes found that some Iesuites or other had the tempering of them and yet for all this they cease not to martyr her with wrongfull speeches after her death prouoked hereunto by this that shee suffered them not to murther her Bonars●ius the Iesuite in the first Booke of his Amphitheater and fourth Chapter cals her Lupam Anglican●m The English Wolfe And the Iesuite Eudaemon-Iohannes in the 116. Page of his Apologie for Garnet cals her Sororis filiam Patris neptem Her Sisters daughter and her Fathers Niece Of late Henry Garnet Hall surnamed Oldcorne Hamond Iohn Gerard and G●inuelle were found to be complices in that powder-mine which was made vnder the house where the King with the States of the Country were to assemble together And for these the Iesuite Iohn the H●ppy hath writ an Apologie wherein hee confesseth that indeede they knew the

intendment but that they ought not to reueale it It was found also that they had communication hereon by letters with Bauldwin the English Iesuite who then liued at Bruxels this Iesuite was taken since as hee passed through the Pals●raues Country and we doubt not but that if he were but a little stretcht by the fingers a man might learne strange misteries of him yea that he had some intelligence to with Francis Rauillac who had been in Flanders somewhat before his cursed enterprise And if you passe into Polonie you shall finde that the Iesuites doe absolutely possesse the King and hauing as it were the Tutorship of him haue carried him vnto such violent courses that the Country by their meanes is risen vp against him and he in great hazard of his kingdome Their factio●s humour is the cause that Sueden is lost from the Crowne of Poland and from the Catholique Church For they haue moued the King of Poland to make warre vpon Duke Charles who now stiles himselfe King so by force to compell him to receiue the Iesuites Neither is Transyluania free Wee haue seene the Letters of the Baron of Zerotin dated the 2. of May last wherein hee declareth how a Lord of the Country hauing a Iesuite with him in his house was by the same Iesuite drawne to conspire the death of the Prince of Tran●yluania who being aduertised of the day appointed for the enterprise went forth of the Towne that day giuing out that he went to hunt and laid an ambush without the Towne wherein hee surprised the enterprisers who followed after him to execute their intendment vpon him He put them all to death and the said Iesuite was executed with the generall slaughter of his complices The house of Austria alone hath this priuiledge as to be free from the conspiracies of this Societie Of this family the Princes liues are sacred and inuiolable vnto the Iesuits for the founder of their Order and the General of their Societie being a Spaniard to whom they haue vowed a blinde obedience vnder oath it is not to be feared in this respect that euer they should be moued to enterprise ought against the Kings of Spaine or against such as are of his house And therefore it is not without cause that the Common-wealth of Venice whose wisedome of gouernment is to be admired hath driuen them out of Venice and out of all their dominions They well perceiue that these men are creatures of bloud and fire-brands of warre whom they can better endure without then within their Country For their last troubles had their beginning from the Iesuites for whereas the Senate had discouered that the Iesuites by cunning fetches had gotten great store of Legacies by Will and made themselues Lords of much land to the preiudice of the Common-wealth It was concluded by aduise in Councell to prohibite all Clergie men thence forward to receiue any goods immoueable by testament without leaue of the common-wealth whereunto when other of the Church submitted the Iesuites who opposed it and wrought against it at Rome were for euer banished the State And for these considerations it is that the Citie of Orleans would neuer receiue them albeit they haue much desired it and laboured it They sent thither one of their companie to preach their Lent Sermons but the Inhabitants were not very well satisfied for instead of studying he busied his braines in searching out and entertaining such as had yet in their hearts any remainder of the olde leauen of the League by whose entercourse this Iesuite set the report going that the Kings pleasure was they should be established there Heretofore their talke was of driuing out the Monkes of S. Sampson that they might get their Church and of displacing Mounsieur the Marshall of Chastres Gouernour of that Citie to get his house making reckoning to ioyne it together with the houses in the way vnto the fore-said Church And besides all these preparatiues hauing giuen the King to vnderstand that the Citizens of Orleans did exceedingly desire their company they did so importune his Maiestie that hee granted them to haue an house there yet with this charge that the Citizens should be drawne to consent vnto it Now when they were solemnly assembled together about this matter one amongst them Touruille by name a famous Aduocate of the Citie a man of learning and iudgement declared vnto them the inconueniences that might befall the Citie if they did admit them and by strong reasons made it good that in France for a man to loue his King and the Iesuites were things that could not stand together The chiefe Officers of Iustice following this first tune and all the Citizens concurring iointly in the same opinion it was concluded that they should not be receiued This Citie at other times hath drunk of the cup of Rebellion with many others but sithens their reducing vnder obedience vnto the King they haue at all times declared themselues most faithfull euen by their carriage in this last common affliction as they haue declared more griefe then any other so do they make the continuance of their obedience appeare by al maner of good works more then any other CHAP. III. That the Iesuites are guilty of the murther of our deceased King Henry the fourth WHosoeuer shall consider the crime of this wicked wretch Rauillac in euery part and circumstance of it shal easily perceiue that the Iesuites had their fingers in the Pie and that the mischiefe came none otherwise then by their instruction It is some fiue yeares since that at S. Victors there was a Maide possessed with a Diuell whose instrument she was for the tel●ing of diuers things that seemed admirable Father Cotton either moued with curiositie or grounding himselfe vpon the familiaritie he had with his Spirits tooke a iourney thither to question with this Spirit on diuers points which he had a desire to know And to helpe his memory hee wrote in a ticket the points whereon hee was to demand Amongst other points these were some What should be the issue of the conuersion of Mounsieur de la Val and of the enterprises against Geneua and of the continuance of Heresie and of the estate of Madamoyselle Acarie and about the life of the King There were many like vnto these but so it fell out that Father Cotton deliuering vnto Mounsieur Gill●t Counsailour in in the great Chamber a booke which he had promised him there through some ouersight left behinde him his memoriall which falling by this meanes into the handes of the said M r. Gillot he communicated it vnto certaine others and amongst others to my Lord the Duke of Sully and so the matter came abroad Had this fallen out at some other time while some vigour of spirit yet remained in men this had beene sufficient to haue entred an inditement against the Iesuite it being a matter capitall for a man to enquire about the tearme of his Princes life and