forth a Declaration affirming That Henry of Bourbon could not be lawfull King because he was an Heretick and therefore they cannot be blamed for opposing him in obedience to the Pope's Bulls and Admonitions to which his Holiness's Legate added another assuring the Romanists that the Pope would never consent to the admission of an Heretick that such who assisted the King were in a desperate Condition and exhorting all to be obedient to the Pope and when the Estates were met he proposed that all should take an Oath never to acknowledge the King though he should be converted to their Church nay so great was his Fury that when the Romanists with the King sent to the States some Propositions for a Treaty he declared the very Proposals to be Heretical and by his influence the Doctours of Sorbon asserted the same as intimating a declared Heretick might be King but the Proposition was accepted and a Conference agreed on but with this Clause in the Answer to the Proposal That to fight against an Heretical King is not Treason yet the Legate entred his Protestation against the meeting and the Parisians attempted to make the young Duke of Guise King Nor were things better in the Royal Army where the Romanists whom the King most trusted were falling from him upon which resolving to change his Religion his Intensions were no sooner published than the Legate forbad all Bishops to absolve him pronouncing all that should be assisting to his reception into the Roman Church excommunicated and deprived and all their Actions in that Affair null and void But hower the King was reconciled and sent his Ambassadours to Rome but the Pope who had formerly refused to admit any Message from him prohibited their Entrance neither would he receive the Prelates that absolved him In the mean while the Leaguers stormed at the King's reconciliation and set themselves to destroy him by private Treason now Force could doe no good for which purpose one Barriere or Le Barr was employed who confessed that the Curate of St. Andrews of Arts in Paris commended the Design telling him he would merit Heaven and Glory by the Act and recommended him to Varade Rectour of the Jesuites College who affirmed that the Enterprise was most holy exhorting him with good constancy and courage to confess himself and receive the B. Sacrament and then leading him to his Chamber gave him his Blessing He mentioned also another Preacher of Paris who counted it meritorious Thus encouraged he bought a knife seven Inches long and went to St. Denis where the King then was but being discovered was executed affirming at his death that there were two black Friars that went from Lyons upon the same Account It is probable the Preacher at Paris mentioned in his Confessions was Father Commolet the Jesuite who two days before this Barriere's Execution at St. Denis in a Sermon at Paris which yet continued obstinate against the King exhorted his Auditours to have Patience for they should see in a few days a wonderfull Miracle of God But the next Year Paris was reduced to its obedience Anno 1594 soon after which the University endeavoured the Expulsion of the Jesuites accusing them of all manner of Injustice of the ruine of Families and many other Crimes but insisting particularly on their Treasons charging them with being abettors to the Spaniard Fomenters of Civil Wars and always ready to assassinate the French King whom they omitted to pray for while they extolled the Spaniard that they taught and asserted the Pope's deposing Power that they refused to give Absolution to several Persons of Quality because they would not renounce the King that they had been the cause of the Death of Twenty-eight Barons Fifty Noble-men of France and above Five hundred Monks and Friars in the Tercera Islands and had refused to renounce the League Which Spirit of Rebellion was so strong amongst the Leaguers that a little before the Seduction of Paris the Pope's Legate published a Declaration exhorting all Catholicks to oppose the King assuring them that the Pope would never grant him Absolution and upon the Rendition of Aix to his Majesty the famous Genebrard was so vext at the Loyalty of the Place that he left it resolving not to live among the Royalists nay when the King entered Paris the Cardinal Pellivee lying upon his Death-bed very angrily told those about him That he hoped the Arms of the Spaniards and good Catholicks would yet drive the Huguonots out of Paris And Hay a Scotch Jesuite affirmed That if the King passed by their College he would leap from the top of it upon him and did not doubt to go directly to Heaven But to return to the Jesuites who finding their Banishment out of the Kingdom thus zealously endeavoured and fearing lest the King to whom they had been such bitter Enemies should consent to it resolved to dispatch him * Francis Jacob one of their Scholars at Bourges had boasted that he would doe it but John Chastel who was bred under them at Paris went farther and with a knife struck the King in the Mouth and beat out one of his Teeth he was immediately apprehended and on Examination confessed That he esteemed it an Act highly conducing to promote Religion and that Father Gueret his Master in the Jesuites School had taught him those Doctrines upon which Sentence of Death was pass'd upon him by which also the Jesuites were banished as Corrupters of Youth Disturbers of the publick Peace Enemies to the King and Kingdom and enjoined to depart the Realm within fifteen days and all their Goods confiscated to be disposed of as the Court should see fit This Sentence was published after the search made in the Jesuites College wherein was found a Book of T. Guignard's which he confessed to be his own writing lamenting that the King was spared in the Parisian Massacre applauding the Murther of King Henry the Third affirming that if the King were shut up in a Monastery he would be treated more gently than he deserved and concluding that if he could not be deposed without force of Arms they ought to be taken up against him for which and his other Treasons he was executed but Gueret Chastell's Master of the same Order was only banished with the rest in memory of which Fact and to the perpetual Ignominy of that Order Chastell's House was demolished and a Pillar erected in the place on one side of which was engraven the Decree of the Court on another a Copy of Verses expressing the Crime and discovering to the World that it was attempted by the Persuasions of the Jesuites on the third another Inscription to the same purpose and on the fourth a summary Account of their banishment and the reasons of it wherein the Jesuites are termed A mischievous and novell sort of superstitious Men and Disturbers of the Nation by whom that young man
was encouraged and persuaded to that horrid Fact This Pillar as appears by the date of the Inscriptions was not erected till the following year however having such a relation to their banishment which was decreed the 29th of December 1594. I thought it most proper to give an account of it in this place One would think that if any Fact would render men ashamed this murtherous Attempt was so horrid as to make those concerned in it blush but so far were they from that that Francis Veron a Jesuite wrote an Apology for the Murtherer calling the Enterprise a most holy most humane most laudable and worthy Act that it is acceptable to God and conformable to all Laws and Decrees of the Church and in the same Book he extolls Clement that stabbed the former King Thus Fruitfull were the French Romanists in their Contrivances of Rebellion and Murther and as willing were their Brethren in these Nations to promote Enterprises of the same nature for Tir-Oen in Ireland continued in the Rebellion which he began the year before but distrusting his own power submitted himself to the Lord Deputy yet the very same Month he rebelled again several Provinces revolting to him by which accession of Forces he grew very powerfull And in Scotland the Noblemen who were imprisoned and condemned for their Insurrection the last year having been pardoned by the King took Arms again being assisted with Money from the Spaniards and defeated the King's Forces under the Earl of Argyle though much superiour in number to them but were at length reduced so low that they begged leave to depart the Land which was granted them so promising to enterprise no more against the King they left the Kingdom Bothwell the chief of them went to Naples where he lived miserably the rest about three years after got their Pardons and returned home Yet were not these all the Popish Enterprises upon the Estates and Persons of Princes which were discovered this year for I find that about this time they employed Le Four and others to murther Prince Maurice of Nassaw General of the Forces of the United Provinces But the indefatigable Romanists Anno 1595 though so often disappointed would once more apply themselves to the Spaniard to favour their cause in England who to correspond with their Desires and satisfie his own Ambition sent Diego Brocher upon the English Coast who with four Gallies put into Mounts Bay in Cornwall fired St. Paul's Church and three small Fish Towns and this was all the King of Spain made of his vast expences and preparations against England Tyr-Oen having the two last years strengthned himself Anno 1596 writes this year to the King of Spain desiring him not to give ear to those who affirmed that he design'd any Accommodation with the English assuring him that he was resolved never to submit to or have any Treaty with them About the same time the Jesuites at London had laid a Plot to seize the Tower and keep it till the Spaniards arrived to their Assistance in one of their Letters from their Correspondents in Spain dated June the 20th 1596. they are put in hopes that the Spanish Armada should be with them about the August following cautioning them to advise all the Romanists of the Design before-hand and Proclamations were ready Printed in Spain to be dispersed at their Arrival here and the better to secure the Spaniards landing in Scotland the Conspiratours fortified the Isle of Elsay in the Western Seas for their Reception but were surprized before they had proceeded far so the Enterprize miscarried And now we are come to the last Conspiracy that hath been discovered against the Life of Queen Elizabeth which was the attempt of Edward Squire a Servant in her Stables to whom Walpoole Anno 1597 the Jesuite gave a very strong Poison which Squire undertook to press out upon the Pommel of her Saddle but before he could bring himself to undertake so horrid an Action he had several conflicts in his own mind which the Jesuite perceiving told him That the Sin of Backsliding did seldom obtain pardon and if he did but once doubt of the lawfulness or merit of the Act it was enough to cast him down to Hell exhorting him to go through with it †for if he failed he would commit an unpardonable Sin before God and at parting after having bless'd him he used these words My Son God bless thee and make thee strong be of good courage I pawn my Soul for thine and being either dead or alive assure thy self thou shalt have part of my Prayers Thus satisfied with the Jesuites he upon the first opportunity poisoned the Pommel of the Queens Saddle but it pleased God the Poison had not the expected effect upon which the Jesuites not hearing of her Death in some time suspected Squire of Unfaithfulness and got him under-hand accused of some Design against the Queen upon which being apprehended he confessed all and was executed But Tyrone created more trouble to the Queen in Ireland where daily he encreased his strength took fortified Places from the English and in several Skirmishes got the better of the Queens Forces And continuing his Rebellion Anno 1598 slew Sir Henry Bagnall and routed the English under his Command took the Fort of Black-water and in it great store of Ammunition and Arms and created James Fitz-Thomas Earl of Desmond and got several Advantages over the Forces of the Kingdom In England Anthony Rolston was employed by the Jesuite Creswell to prepare things for an Invasion which the Spaniard intended to make very suddenly in order to which a Fleet was prepared and a Proclamation drawn up by the Admiral justifying the Action and declaring his Intention to be to reduce these Kingdoms to the Obedience of the Catholick Roman Church This year also was apprehended in Holland one Peter Pan a Cooper of Ipres who confess'd That his Design was to murther Prince Maurice of Nassaw that the Jesuites of Daway for his encouragement promised to make his Son a Prebend and the Provincial gave him his Blessing in these Words Friend go thy ways in peace for thou goest as an Angel under God's safeguard and protection But almost innumerable were the Conspiracies against King Henry of France against whom after Mayenne and all others had submitted the Dukes of Aumale and Mercent continued obstinate refusing to acknowledge him and the Pope's Agent at Brussels first employed Ridicove a Dominican of Ghent to murther the King assuring him That the Pope and Cardinals approved of the Action but he after two Journeys into France about it was apprehended and executed confessing That the daily Sermons he had heard in praise of Clement who stabb'd the former King and was esteemed a Martyr among them had so enflam'd him that he resolv'd to follow his steps Besides this Man one Arger of the same Order
had no power in those matters and therefore commanded them to raze the Edict out of their Records and he would publish one for the same purpose by his own Authority and when the State of Genoa prohibited some seditious Meetings of Ecclesiasticks he threatened them with Excommunication and forced them to recall their Order But the Venetians would not be frighted by his Thunders though he threatened them with the same Censure if they did not speedily revoke their Decrees concerning the building of Churches and giving Lands to the Church which they had prohibited any to doe without the Senate's Order and required them to deliver two Clergymen whom they had imprisoned for many horrid Crimes concluding his Breve with an Assertion of his Power to deprive Kings and that he had Legions of Angels for this Assistance But when the Senate would not gratifie him in thus yielding their Rights to an Usurper Anno 1606 the Pope told their Ambassadour that the Exemption of Clergy-men from the Jurisdiction of the Magistrate was Jure divino that his Cause was the Cause of God and he would be obeyed and therefore in a Consistory of one and forty Cardinals he published a Bull of Excommunication against that State wherein he declares That by the Authority of Almighty God and the Apostles Peter and Paul the Duke and Senate of Venice if within four and twenty days after the publication of the Bull they do not revoke their Decrees are excommunicated and if they continue obstinate three days more he lays an Interdict upon the whole State forbidding the Clergy to perform Divine Offices in any part of their Dominions and threatens farther Punishments according to the sacred Canons This Bull he expected would gain his point by causing the Ecclesiasticks to withdraw themselves and that the People seeing themselves deprived of Church-Offices would run into Sedition but the Event answered not his Expectation for the People joined unanimously with the Senate but the Jesuites and others refused to celebrate Mass upon which they were banished the Dominions of Venice after which they did all they could to stir up the Common People But not succeeding in this the Pope published a Jubilee granting Indulgence to all but those of Interdicted places this he expected would make the People murmur but he was deceived in that point too so that he declared in a full Consistory that he would have War with the State of Venice and called the Spaniards to his aid but finding the Senate resolute in Defence of their Rights he was glad to recall his Bull and make a Peace with them and though he earnestly pressed for the Restauration of the Jesuites yet he could not obtain it About this time the Oath of Allegiance being established by Law the Romanists sent to Rome to know what they should doe in this Case where it was consulted by seven or eight of their learnedest Divines who all agreed that the Pope's Power of chastizing Princes is a Point of Faith and consequently cannot be denied without denying of the Faith and the Pope told Father Parsons and Fitzherbert he could not hold those for Catholicks who took the Oath which he soon after declared by his Breve addressed to the Romanists of England Septemb 22. 1606. wherein he affirms That they cannot without most evident and grievous wronging of God's Honour bind themselves by the Oath seeing it contains many things contrary to Faith and Salvation But when some Romanists who had taken it began to question the Breve Anno 1607 willing to think it was obtained from his Holiness by surreption he sent another to undeceive them wherein he blames them for entertaining such thoughts and assures them That it was written upon mature deliberation and therefore they are bound fully to observe it rejecting all interpretation to the contrary upon which several who were willing before refused it some of whom were imprisoned It is an hard thing for men accustomed to doe evil to learn to doe well which Truth Tyr-Oen is a great Example of for notwithstanding after his frequent Rebellions he was pardoned by King James and received into favour yet returning into Ireland he began new Contrivances and fearing he was discovered fled this year into Flanders which caused the King to publish a severe Proclamation against him from thence he went to Rome where he was maintained at the Pope's charge this his death This same Year Parsons published his Treatise tending to Mitigation wherein he labours to take off the imputation of rebellious Principles from the Romanists and yet he tells us in the same Book That this is Catholick Doctrine that in publick Perils of the Church and Common-Wealth Christ our Saviour hath not left us wholly remediless but besides the natural Right which each Kingdom hath to defend themselves in certain cases he left also supreme Power in his High Priest and immediate Substitute to direct and moderate that Power and to add also of his own when extraordinary Need requireth though with great deliberation Where we have a plain justification of the Pope and People's Power to depose and resist their Princes a most excellent Argument to clear the Papists of Disloyalty Though we find no Plots discovered this year in England yet in Transilvania the Jesuites were employed in poisoning Stephen Potscay the Prince And in France Father Cotton recommended a Spaniard to the King who had not been in the Court many hours when the King had Intelligence of his coming from Barcellona purposely to poison him upon this he sent for Father Coton who desired his Majesty not to give any Credit to the advice and when the King ordered him to produce the Spaniard he pretended to seek him but at his return told his Majesty that he was escaped and he could not find him This year the Pope sent another Breve into England directed to the Arch-Priest Anno 1608 forbidding him to take the Oath and commanding him to deprive all Priests of their Faculties who took it except they immediately renounc'd it prohibiting likewise the resort of any to the Protestant Churches At the same time Divines of Italy Germany and France wrote against it all grounding their Exceptions upon this that it takes away the Pope's Power of Deposing Kings So rebellious had the Writings and Practices of the Jesuites been that the Bohemians petition'd the Emperour against them Anno 1609 and the Valesian Magistrates refused to admit them because wherever they came they disturbed the publick Peace and were under such a tie of blind Obedience that if their Superiour enjoin'd them a treasonable Attempt they must obey They had made it their Business Anno 1610 for some time to endeavour to get footing in Transilvania but when all their Importunity could not prevail they engaged several of the Nobility in a Design against the Prince's Life which proceeded so far that
King's Forces but at last were entirely Routed and their Leaders Executed Anno 1549 Yet the next year in Norfolk they Rebell'd again and when the King sent them his Pardon they refus'd it 〈◊〉 after which they took the City of Norwich and fir'd it beat the Marquess of Northampton and were very near Defeating the Earl of Warwick whose Cannon they took and refus'd the King's Pardon a second time but were at length Defeated and so were another Party who took Arms upon the same Account that year in Yorkshire There were other Insurrections in this King's time which I will not at present mention only observe what is confess'd by a late noted Authour of the Romish Church ‖ That these Risings of the Laity in such numbers for their former way of Religion would not have been had not their Clergy justified it unto them After this Anno 1555 we find that Pope Paul the Fourth following the steps of his thundering Name-sake when the Dyet of the Germans at Ausburgh made an Edict for full Liberty of Conscience whereby the Protestants were maintain'd in the Possession of their Church Revenues fell into a furious rage publickly threatening the Emperour and King of the Romans That he would make them repent it protesting that if he did not recall the Edict he would proceed against them with as severe Censures as he intended to use against the Protestants telling all the Ambassadors in his Court That he was above all Princes that he expected not that they should treat with him as with their Equal that he could alter and take away Kingdoms as he thought good And one day at Dinner in the presence of many Persons of the highest Quality he affirmed That he would subject all Princes under his Foot No wonder then that the same Spirit of Opposition to Princes actuate the Members of the Church which possess'd their Head in such a degree that upon the Resignation of the Emperour Charles the Fifth Anno 1558 Ferdinand his Brother was rejected by the Pope who affirmed That none had power to Resign but into his hands and so it belong'd to him to nominate a Successor not to the Electors but he kept the Imperial Crown though the Pope would never acknowledge him for Emperour With the same Haughtiness did he demean himself towards Sir Edward Karn the English Agent at Rome who acquainting him by order from her Majesty of Queen Elizabeth's Accession to the Crown the Pope answer'd That the Kingdom of England was held in Fee of the Apostolick See that she being Illegitimate could not succeed and therefore it was great boldness in her to assume the Government without his leave yet if she would renounce her Title and refer all to him he would act as became his Honour But the Queen took no care to satisfie this blustering Gentleman who soon after dyed But the Pope who succeeded him Anno 1560 Pius the Fourth issued out a strict Bull commanding all the Learned of that Church to find out Arguments to persuade Subjects to break their Oaths of Allegiance in favour of the Apostolick See in order to which he granted several Dispensations to preach among the Protestants of England and to marry if need were And the same year his good Sons in Ireland by their example shewed their Obedience to it for Shan O Neale Earl of Tyrone rebelled but finding himself too weak submitted and had his Pardon though not till two years after In the mean while Anno 1561 viz. the next year the Pope's Nuncio in Ireland joyn'd himself to the Rebels publickly assisting them and by his Authority pronounced the Queen deprived of that Kingdom But the year following Anno 1562 though the Irish submitted yet Arthur Pool and others contriv'd to joyn themselves with the Duke of Guise land an Army in Wales and Proclaim the Queen of Scots to which the following Pope afterwards added his endeavours to get our Queen Murthered as the Writer of his Life informs us But in the mean time Anno 1563 that it might not be said of this that he neglected any thing for the advantage of his Supreme Power to keep his hand in ure he published a Monitory against the Queen of Navarre declaring That if she did not turn Romanist within six Months he would deprive her of her Dominions and give them to any that would conquer them but the King of France promising to stand by her his terrible Threat serv'd only to shew how ready he was to Depose all Princes that offended him if his Power had been equal to his Will And in this year it was that the Council of Trent made that excellent Decree whereby they confirmed all the Canons of Popes and Councils which set the Pope above Princes gave him Power over them and exempted the Clergy from being subject to them thereby endeavouring to Depose all Princes who knew themselves and their Rights too well to truckle under the usurped Power of their Supreme Head But though the Pope could not send any Sovereign Prince of his Errand to destroy the House of Navarre Anno 1564 yet such obedient Sons were the Cardinal of Lorrain and the rest of the House of Guise that they resolv'd its Ruine To which End they sent Captain Dimanche into Spain to get Assistance there designing to fall upon Bearn seize the Queen of Navarre the young King and his Sister and send them to the Inquisition in Spain to be proceeded against as Hereticks but this Design was discovered and so came to nothing But in the same year we are informed by one of the English Spies at Rome That the Pope granted Indulgences and Pardons to any Person that should assault Queen Elizabeth either in private or publick or to any Cook Baker Vintner Physician Brewer Grocer Chirurgion or any other Calling that should make her away together with an absolute Remission of Sins to such Person 's Heirs and an Annuity for ever and to be one of the Privy Council successively whosoever Reigned To the Endeavours of the Pope O Neale likewise added his by rebelling again and murthering the English committing the most barbarous Cruelties imaginable Anno 1565 but his Power was broken in a pitcht Battel the year following notwithstanding which he continued his Rebellion till two years after when he was Stabb'd by Alexander Oge whose Brother he had slain before Anno 1567 But though the Rebels had such ill success Anno 1568 yet the Pope will not be disheartened but the next year sends one Rodolpho a rich Florentine Gentleman into England to stir up the People against the Queen To him the King of Spain joins the Marquess of Cetona who under the pretence of an Embassy was sent over to countenance the Rebellion and command the Forces which the Duke of Alva should send from the Low Countries in order to which La Motte Governour of Dunkirk had come
But four years after was that desperate Confederacy entred into by that Duke and his Adherents in France Anno 1576 which they and the Pope afterwards termed the Holy League which had all the parts of a most desperate Rebellion and continued for so many years to the Destruction of one Prince and infinite vexation of another It was first begun at Peronne and afterwards formed into a more strict Union by which under a shew of maintaining the King they took from him all his Authority to confer it upon the Head of their Conspiracy Nay the zeal for this rebellious Association was so great that they subscribed it with their Bloud and in order to the prosecution of what they had there promised they sent Nicolas David an Advocate of the Parliament of Paris to Rome but he being slain by the way on his return Cardinal de Pellive afterwards managed their business with the Pope But among the Memoirs of that Advocate there was found an Account of the Transaction between the Pope and the Duke of Guise wherein the Design laid down is to pull down the House of Valois then reigning from the Throne and set up the Duke of Guise In this Transaction the Liberties of the Gallican Church are called a damnable Errour nothing else but the shift of the Waldenses Lutheranes and Calvinists and it is affirmed that France shall never prosper as long as the Crown continues in that line The whole Platform of the Design is there laid down and the Pope is to advance that Duke to the Crown of France as the Successour of Charlemagne in consideration whereof the Duke is bound to cause the See of Rome to be plainly acknowledge by the States of the Kingdom without Restriction or Modification abolishing the Privileges and Liberties of the Gallican Church Thus do we find the Pope promoting the most rebellious Designs to advance his own usurped Greatness And his Missionaries not desiring a better example than that of their holy Father Anno 1577 in prosecution of his Designs Cuthbert Mayne came into England dispersing Libells to maintain the Pope's Authority over the Queen and he confessed under his own Hand that he brought with him several holy grains to distribute among the Catholicks which they should keep as so many Preservatives by the producing of which they should be safe when the Protestants were to be destroyed In the same business several others were employed and one Hemford sent over with a Dispensation of the Pope's Bull whereby the Romanists had liberty to yield outward Obedience till an opportunity offered itself for the execution of that deposing Sentence And one Haydock was employed to prepare things against such a time and to note the fittest places for landing an Army as himself wrote to Allen the Jesuite Besides these one Paine a Priest and fifty others were furnished at the Pope's Charge who undertook to kill the Queen as she went to take the Air. And yet these are the men whom Sanders in his Letter to the aforenamed Jesuite terms chosen Vessels But our Countrey was not the onely Nation afflicted with these Plots and traiterous Contrivances for about the same time was Sebastian King of Portugal betrayed by the Jesuits to the loss both of his Life and Kingdom which they had before engaged to transfer to the Spanish King in which they were as good as their word though near fifty years since it is returned to the Obedience of its lawfull Heir during which War attempting to deliver one of the Isles of the Azores to the Spaniards they were discoved and treated as their Wickedness deserved but of this more hereafter The Pope's Designs upon the Queen's Life being by the good Providence of God frustrated Anno 1578 the holy Father Anno 1579 Gregory the 13th carried on the projects of his Predecessour who had willingly lent an Ear to the advice of Thomas Stukely an English Fugitive and in hopes of getting the Kingdom of Ireland for his own Son the Marquess of Vineola where we find though Popes do not marry yet they can get Children created Stukely Marquess of Leinster adding several other Titles and assisting him with Forces and a plenary Indulgence dispatcht him away for Ireland but by the way being persuaded by the King of Portugal to join with him against the Moors he was slain in the Battel together with that King But though Ireland was delivered from this Danger yet soon after James Fitz-Morice who was pardoned in the Year 1569. went over into France where he desired Assistance to beat the English out of Ireland and reduce that Nation to the French Obedience but King Henry the Third then reigning having sufficient Employment for his Forces at home Fitz-Morice addressed himself to the Pope and the King of Spain the former embraced this opportunity and sent Sanders with him as his Nuncio with a consecrated Banner and the latter assisted them with Men and Money the Pope in the mean while raising Souldiers in his Countrey for their Assistance and Relief Fitz-Morice and Sanders with the Spaniards landed in Kerry in Ireland Anno 1580 and committedall manner of Outrages in one of which Fitz-Morice was killed by the Sons of William a Burgh soon after made Baron of Castleconnel in his place succeeded his Brother John E. of Desmond to whom the Pope sent an Indulgence dated May 13. 1580. wherein he highly magnifies the Piety of James laments his Death and exhorts all the Nobility Clergy and People of the Land to follow this John in fighting against the Hereticks for the Catholick Cause and to encourage them in that good work he grants a Plenary Indulgence and Remission of all their sins in the same extent as was granted to those who were engaged in the Holy War And when the Spaniards were required by the Lord Gray then Deputy of Ireland to express their Intention in thus invading her Majesties Dominions they returned Answer That they were sent from the Pope and King of Spain to whom his Holiness had given Ireland for that Elizabeth had justly forfeited her Title to the Kingdom by Heresie that they would keep what they had got and get more if they could But in a small time after they were glad to surrender upon Mercy the Earl of Desmond having been routed before and Allen the Priest who came with the Legate Sanders slain This ill success put a stop to the Recruits the Pope was preparing to send after them Sanders dyed of hunger in the Woods and the Earl of Desmond was slain two years after by a common Soldier And to encourage these Rebels and to excite to more such Attempts this Pope Gregory the Thirteenth the same year renewed the Bull of Pius Quintus against the Queen There were five hundred Copies of it printed at Rome and the Bull it self dispersed over all Italy Spain and part of Germany as is attested by one
was to be cut off by the Spaniards but these Designs being discovered as also another Plot to seize the King in the Abby of St. Germains their hopes were disappointed in which Conspiracies Cardinal Pellevee a French man then at Rome was so deeply concerned that the King ordered his Revenues to be seized and distributed to the Poor But His Majesty going from Paris Anno 1578 they proposed the seizing of the City in his absence the Duke of Guise designing to secure the King in the Countrey and for the exciting those rebellious Spirits to some Action the Preachers at Paris generally vented nothing but Sedition affirming that the King was a Tyrant and an enemy to the Church and People and when the King sent to apprehend one of these furious Leaguers he retired into the house of one Hatte a Notary where Bussy and his men fought in his defence against the King's Officers headed by the Lieutenant Civil And the Sorbonne Doctours made a Decree That Princes might be deposed from their Government if they did not what became them as the charge taken away from a negligent Guardian And that there might want no Encouragement the Pope presented the Duke of Guise the Head of the Rebels with a rich Sword thereby declaring his approbation of his Proceedings The same year Sir William Stanley being made Governour of Deventer Anno 1587 and Rowland York of Zutphen for the Queen they betrayed both these places to the Spaniard upon which the former beginning to sink in his Reputation lest the sense of his Treasons should put him upon thoughts of returning to his Loyalty Dr. Allan afterwards Cardinal wrote to him and his traiterous Accomplices telling them that the Queen being deposed by the Pope could make no just War and all her Subjects were bound not to serve or obey her in any thing And in another of his Books he affirms That God had not sufficiently provided for our Salvation or the Preservation of his Church if there were no way to restrain or deprive Apostate Kings Therefore saith he let no man marvel that in case of Heresie the Sovereign loseth his Superiority and Right over his People and Kingdom And now we are come to the Year Eighty eight Anno 1588 wherein as the Conspirators acted more publickly having prepared all things ready for their designed Subversion of the Government and being aided by that Armado of the Spaniards which they vainly thought invincible so the Divine Providence as openly declared against them notwithstanding their Navy was blessed by the famous Nun of Lisbon and the Assistance given by the fiery Pope who published his Crusado as against the Turks and promised to contribute a Million of Gold to which he added the Apostolical Benediction covenanting that the Crown of England should be held as feudatary to the See of Rome and for encouragement to those who should assist his Cause he gave plenary Indulgences to them all neither did he stop here but having provided for the Invaders by securing them of Money and Heaven he thundred out his Bull against the Queen whereby he deprived her again of her Dominions confirming the Censures of Pope Pius and Gregory his Predecessours commanding all under penalty of God's Wrath to render her no obedience or assistance and enjoining them to aid the Spaniards against her concluding all with declaring it both lawful and commendable to lay hands on her and granting a full Pardon to all Undertakers To second which Bull Cardinal Allen advanced to that Dignity the year before published a Book at Antwerp wherein he enlarges upon the Bull and tells the World that it was at the vehement desire of some English men that the Pope engaged the Spaniard and appeared in the Cause himself This Book is said to be written by one Parsons though it was owned by the Cardinal and therein it is affirmed That the Roman Catholicks in England were destitute of Courage and erroneous in Conscience or else they had never suffered Her Majesty to reign so long over them The way thus prepared the Spanish Armado put to Sea while the Prince of Parma was preparing a great Army in Flanders where the Earl of Westmorland and the Lord Pagit and Sir William Stanley lay with seven hundred English ready to be transported and the hopes of the Romanists came nothing short of what was to be expected in men elevated by such great Preparations insomuch that the Jesuites at Rome had appropriated several Palaces in London to themselves and were so sure of Success that they would have had Te Deum sung in the College Church for joy upon the news of the Spaniards being arrived in the narrow Seas and the secular Priests acknowledge the like Disposition in the Party here We had some of us greatly approved the said Rebellion many of our Affections were knit to the Spaniard In all these Plots none were more forward than many of us that were Priests With the same zeal towards the Action were the foreign Clergy actuated among whom Johannes Osorius the Jesuite preached two Sermons in Defence of the Attempt and in Commendation of the Spaniards for thus fighting against Hereticks in one of which his Confidence of the Success transported him so far as to give Thanks for the Victory but he and his Party trusted too much in the Arme of Flesh they thought themselves so powerfull that they forgot one that was above them who made that terrible Fleet the scorn of the world and so protected the just Cause of the Queen and assisted her Navy that most of that Armado perished in the Sea or were taken or burnt so vain a thing it is to forget and fight against the Almighty who blessed where the Pope cursed and turned the Harangues of the Thanksgiving-Jesuite into three Sermons of Humilâ—ation for so great a Disappointment of the Papal Designs and the entire Destruction of its strongest Forces In the beginning of the year several Missionaries were sent into Scotland to get the Assistance of the Papists there The Lord Maxwell actually took the Field with a small Party who were defeated The Lord Bothwell secretly listed Soldiers and Collone Sempill arriving at Leith in order to the Design was seized but soon rescued by the Earl of Huntley Yet could not these wonderfull Disappointments work any remorse in the Papists who still laboured by means of the Jesuite Holt and others to persuade the King of Spain to another Invasion which Parma comforted the Romanists in Scotland with promises of effecting and sent them ten thousand Crowns to prepare matters against the next Spring As busie were the Leaguers in France prosecuting their intended Rebellion with all diligence the Duke of Guise and his Council resolved to put the King in a Monastery in order to which when he went his usual Processions in the time of Lent they designed to seize him
but being prevented by a Discovery another Resolution was agreed on to secure his Person at his return from Bois de Vincennes slenderly accompanied but failing in this also the Duke of Guise came to Paris contrary to the King 's express Order where he was received with great joy and soon after his Party being numbred and found considerable he openly rebelled barricadoing the Streets and forcing the King to flie who made his Escape with very few Attendants Soon after the King of Spain sent six hundred thousand Crowns to the Rebels and the Pope by solemn Letters applauded the Duke's Zeal compared him to the Maccabean Heroes and exhorted him to go on as he had begun but here the insignificancy of the Pope's Blessing again appeared the Duke of Guise being soon after slain at Blois and so receiving the just Reward of his continued Rebellions Thus were the Designs of wicked men who prostituted the holy Name of Religion to serve their Lusts baffled and defeated both in their Attempts against the incomparable Queen Elizabeth and the French King as also in a Plot against the K. of Navarre which by the same Divine Providence was this year discovered But the Scotch Papists were so possessed with Spanish Promises Anno 1589 and influenced by their Gold and the persuasions of Holt Creighton and other Jesuites that several Noblemen conspired to seize the King afterwards King James the First of England at his Palace in Edinburg where Huntley coming before the others was upon Suspicion apprehended which terrified the rest but being set at liberty joined himself to the Earl of Crawford and others in open Rebellion entred Aberdeen but were so terrified by the approach of the Royal Army that they retreated were taken and after Tryall imprisoned And here I find such an Account of the Conversions made by the Jesuites in Scotland as fully confirms the Observation made before of their Design in their diligent Endeavours to make Proselytes For Mr. Bruce the chief Agent for the Spaniards in his Letter to the D. of Parma commending the Zeal of the Missionaries in Scotland tells him that they had converted the Earls of Arroll and Crawford who were very desirous to advance the Catholick Faith and Spanish Interest in this Island and resolved to follow entirely the Directions of the Fathers Jesuites whence it appears their main design is to enlarge their Empire for as the same Gentleman affirms no sooner any person of Quality is converted by them but they forthwith encline and dispose their affections to the Service of the King of Spain as a thing inseparably conjoined with the advancement of true Religion in this Countrey so that by the Confession of this great Man Popery and Treason were inseparable at that time the Romanists being so in love with it that they made their Address to the broken Fleet of the Spaniards the last year to land what Forces they had several great Persons being ready to receive them And the two new Noble Converts wrote to the Duke of Parma testifying their entire devotednes to the Spanish Interest Nor was Scotland alone thus infected for in England the Earl of Arundell was this year tried and dyed in the Tower who rejoiced at the Spaniards coming prayed for their Success and exceedingly grieved at their Overthrow And the Jesuite Parsons prevailed to have a Seminary wherein to instruct Youth in such treasonable Principles as his own founded at Valedolyd But though this Island was sufficiently pestered this year by the Papal Agents and Factours for Rebellion yet were we favourably dealt with in comparison of the Treasons and Insurrections in France against Henry the Third a Prince of their own Communion who after the Death of the Duke of Guise was opposed by an almost universal Rebellion the Priests calling on their Auditours to swear to revenge the Duke's Death and railing with all manner of virulency against the King insomuch that Father Lincestre affirmed that if he were at the Altar and the Eucharist in his hand he would not scruple in that very place to kill him The Rebels styl'd him Tyrant Heretick and to have his Picture or to call him King was crime enough to deserve death they threw down his Arms and Statues and practised all sort of Magick Incantations and Charms to hasten his death The Parisians wrote to the Pope desiring to be absolved from their Allegiance with several other requests of the same nature and in their Letters to the Cardinals styled their Sovereign The late King of France and sent Agents to Rome giving them among other Instructions Orders to desire the Pope not to entertain or hear the King's Ambassadours and Messages and to excommunicate all that join with him and having chosen the Duke of Mayenne for their General would have had him take the Title of King but he refused it yet they broke the King 's great Seal and made a new one To these the City of Lyons joined affirming that Kings ought to be resisted and they will resist the King in conjunction with the Holy Union to whom the Parisians sent a Letter exhorting them to defend their Religion c. against that prodigal perjured cruel and murthering Prince the Duke of Mayenne refusing to have any Peace or admit so much as of a Truce and prosecuting the War with the utmost vigour To these Attempts and Perseverance in them they were encouraged by the Sorbon Doctours who in a Decree made Jan. 7. 1589. resolved That the People were freed from their Oaths of Allegiance and Fidelity and that they may legally and with a safe Conscience take Arms for the Defence of the Roman Religion against the wicked Counsels and Practices of the King Which Decree they ordered to be sent to the Pope for his Confirmation and this they affirm was concluded on and resolved by an entire consent of the whole Faculty not one dissenting And with the same Zeal and no more Loyalty they licensed a Book which asserted that the King ought to be assassined affirming that there was nothing in it contrary to the Roman Church To promote which they concluded that the King ought to be no longer prayed for declaring all such of the Body as should not agree to this to be guilty of Excommunication and deprived of the Prayers and Privileges of the Faculty And that there might remain no badg of Royalty to put them in mind of their Duty the Cordeliers struck off the Head of the King's Picture which was in their Church and the Jacobins defaced those in their Cloisters But this was done after the Pope had once more publickly owned the Rebels and their Cause who by his Bull asserted his Power of Rule over all Kingdoms and Princes of the Earth proceeded to admonish the King to release the Cardinal of Bourbon and Archbishop of Lyons in thirty days and within sixty days to make
yet in Scotland their Designs went on from whence William Creighton the Jesuite went into Spain into whose King he so insinuated himself that he resolved to be guided by his Advice both for the invading England and the alteration of Religion in Scotland which was the Account himself gave of his Negotiation by a Message to the Earl of Huntley desiring as many blanks and Procurations as could be had of the Scottish Noblemen for the greater Credit of his Agitations In the mean time the Duke of Mayenne solicited the Pope and Spaniard for aid Anno 1591 and entred into an Obligation with the Duke of Lorrain and others not to admit any to the Crown except he were of their Family but if they failed in that to exclude all who were not of the Roman Catholick Religion But the Leaguers drew up a Letter and sent it to the King of Spain affirming that it was the desire of all the Catholicks to see his Catholick Majesty sway the Sceptre of that Kingdom and reign over them or that he would appoint some of his Posterity offering the Crown to the Infanta Isabella that King's Daughter in particular And to make all sure within themselves they contrived a new Oath whereby not onely the King but all the Bloud Royal were excluded from the Crown and set up a Court of Justice to proceed against the Royalists In which rebellious Actions they were encouraged by the Pope Greg. 14. who sent a Nuncio into France with two Bulls one interdicting the Clergy if within 15 days they forsook not the obedience and Part of the King and depriving them of all their Benefices if they left him not within thirty days the other threatening the Nobility and all others with the Papal Curse if they assisted that Heretick Persecutour Excommunicated Person who was justly deprived of his Dominions which were the mild Expressions with which this meek Servant of Servants treated that great Prince And farther to shew his Fatherly care of the Rebels he sent an Army to their relief under the Command of his Nephew and allowed them fifteen thousand Crowns a month whose steps were followed by his Successour Innocent the 9th who remitted them fifteen thousand Ducats every month of his Popedom which was but short for he sate not much above eight weeks in that Chair Yet were not these Designs of the Leaguers and Mayenne sufficient to content the Pope but the young Cardinal of Bourbon hoped for the Crown and so formed another Party of seditious Persons called Thirdlings among whom was Perron afterwards Cardinal and this Faction also had the countenance of the last Pope who to advance this Cardinal exhorted the States to chuse a Roman Catholick for their King And his Example was so far approved of by Clement the Eighth Anno 1592 who was chosen in his room that he continued the same allowance to the Leaguers renewed the same Exhortations and declared any other but a Romanist incapable of the Crown The Parliament of Roan published a severe Edict against all who adhered to the King and Discourses were spread abroad maintaining That it was unlawfull to desire his Conversion and that such as proposed or endeavoured it were excommunicated and ought to be driven away lest they should infect the rest and the Parliament of Paris enjoined Obedience to the Pope and his Legate declaring that the Convention of Estates designed to chuse a Popish King And by this time those few Romanists who had continued with the King became rebellious too requiring him to change his Religion within a time which they prescribed otherwise protesting they would elect another of their own Persuasion Thus Rebellion and the Roman Catholick Cause went on prosperously in France but not having the same strength and opportunities in England the more secret Methods were made use of the Spaniard was importuned to make another Invasion which he prepared for but the Romanists unwilling to trust to that alone took a shorter course and by Mr Hesket's means attempted to persuade the Lord Strange afterwards Earl of Derby to take upon him the Crown which they pretended he had a Title to and soon after Father Holt and others employed Patrick Cullen an Irish Fencer to murther the Queen which he readily undertook and for a very small reward but his barbarous Intention was discovered and he upon apprehension confessing the Design and who set him on was executed Two years before this the Jesuite Creighton upon his going into Spain had desired blanks to be filled up with Credentials and Procurations from the Noblemen of the Popish Party in Scotland and this year he received them the Persons who sent them farther engaging that all the Romanists in Scotland should assist them upon the arrival of the Army which the King of Spain promised should be with them by the End of the Spring to the number of thirty thousand whereof some were to remain in Scotland and the rest march directly into England These Blanks were sent by a Servant of the King 's with Letters from several Jesuites but he was apprehended and some of the Conspiratours imprisoned and executed The Jesuites complained in their Letters that the Spaniards were too slow and therefore desired the Invasion with great earnestness Upon this Discovery the Earls of Angus Anno 1593 Huntley and Arrol rebell'd but the King's Army marching against them before they had formed any considerable Body they fled into the Mountains submitted and were imprison'd in Order to a Tryall At the same time Tir Oen in Ireland after having persuaded and underhand maintained several Insurrections openly declar'd himself for the Rebells taking on him the Title of O Neal which by an Act of Parliament was declared Treason for any to assume Nor was England long free from open Rebellion yet clear'd of a Treasonable Generation who were daily employ'd in new Conspiracies against the Queens Life for Lopez one of the Queens Physicians undertook to Poison her for which he was to have Fifty thousand Crowns but being discovered confessed all and with two of his Accomplices was Executed But being unwilling to depend wholly on this Doctour the Jesuite Holt Dr. Worthington and others employed Edmond York Nephew to him who six years before had betrayed Zutphen to the Spaniards and Richard William with others to Kill the Queen who upon their Apprehension confessed That after several Consultations among the Priests and Jesuites in Flanders Holt threatned That if this Plot failed they would take this honourable Work out of the Hands of the English and employ Strangers for the future that they had vowed to Murther the Queen and that one Young Tipping Garret with two others had undertaken the same Design While God was thus confounding the Designs of these bloudy Men in this Nation the Leaguers in France seemed to have forgotten that an all-seeing Eye beheld their Actions where the Duke of Mayenne put
several Priests were found among the dead at Edghill Battle but the Endeavours of his Holiness to encrease those miserable Confusions were managed with all imaginable Secresie while the Irish were openly commended by him and assured of his Prayers for their success in his Breve to Owen O Neal dated Octob. 8. 1642. and so willing was he to lay hold on all occasions for the exercising his Deposing Power that because the Prince of Parma offended him he declared him to have incurred the greater Excommunication and deprived him of all his Dominions and Dignities But not content with sending the forementioned Breve to O Neal Anno 1643 his Holiness granted a Bull of plenary Indulgence May 25. 1643. to all the Catholicks in Ireland Anno 1644 who joined in the Rebellion which was prosecuted as fiercely as the Pope could desire and a defence of it set forth by an Irish Jesuite in Portugal Anno 1645 though the Title-page mentions Franckfort who asserts That the English Kings have no Title or Right to Ireland that if they had yet it is the Duty of the Irish to deprive them of their Rights seeing they are declared Hereticks Anno 1607 and Tyrants that this Power of deposing such Princes is inherent in every State but if the Authority of the Holy See be added to that Power none but a Fool or an Heretick will deny what the Doctours of Divinity and of the Civil and Canon Law do generally teach and which is confirmed by Reasons and Examples And so far did the Pope approve of the Contents of this Book that when soon after its publication the Irish had submitted to the King and promised to assist him in his Wars His Holiness by his Nuncio took upon him to be their General absolved them from their Oaths and imprisoned and threatened the Lives of those who had promoted the peace and desired to return to the King's Subjection which renewed the Rebellion again and brought infinite Miseries on that bigotted Nation At the same time above an hundred of the Romish Clergy were sent into England by Order from Rome who the better to promote the Divisions there were instructed in several Trades both handicraft and others these upon their arrival were ordered to disperse themselves and give Intelligence every month to their Superiours abroad accordingly they listed themselves in the Parliament Army and kept a constant correspondence with their Brethren Anno 1609 who for the same end served under the King The next year many of these Missioners were in consultation with those in the King's Army to whom they shewed their Bulls and Licenses for taking part with the Parliament about the best methods to advance their Cause Anno 1647 and having concluded that there was no way so effectual as to dispatch the King some were sent to Paris to consult the Faculty of Sorbonne about it who return'd this Answer That it is lawfull for Roman Catholicks to work Changes in Governments for the Mother Church's advancement and chiefly in an Heretical Kingdom and so they might lawfully make away the King which Sentence was confirmed to the same Persons by the Pope and his Council upon their going to Rome to have his Holiness's Resolution in the Point And now those of them who had before followed the King after his flight from Oxford agreed to desert the Royal Cause and as one of them inform us to ingratiate themselves with the Enemy by acting some notorious piece of Treachery and Father Carr who went by the name of Quarter-Master Laurence declared that he could with a safer Conscience join with and fight for the Round-heads than the Cavaliers in prosecution of which Resolve they dispersed themselves into all the Garisons of the King's Party to endeavour the Revolt of the Soldiers to the Parliament in which they succeeded as they had projected my Authour being one of those who seduced the Wallingford Horse from their Obedience and in Scotland the Lord Sinclare a pretended Presbyterian but a real Papist commanded a Regiment of his own Religion and it being a Maxim receiv'd among them That the surest way to promote the Catholick Cause was to weaken the Royal Party and advance the other they bent all their Endeavours to expedite and accelerate the King's Death and His Majesty having in the Treaty of the Isle of Wight consented to pass five strict Bills against Popery the Jesuites in France at a general meeting there presently resolved to take off his Head and this His Majesty had notice of by an Express from thence but two days before his removal from the Isle of Wight This Year Mr. Cressey published the Reasons of his leaving the Church of England and turning Romanist wherein obviating the Objection so often made against the Romanists about their rebellious Principles and Practices he sets down a Declaration which he affirms that they were all ready to subscribe and which differs but little from our Oath of Allegiance But here we may see what Credit can be given to the representations of their Doctrines which their Writers study to make as favourable as possible For though Mr. Cressy thought himself a good Representer in this point yet his Superiours were of another mind and therefore that Edition was soon bought up and in the next the Profession of Obedience quite left out and that this was not an omission of the Printer but the action of his Superiours we are assured by an honourable Person from Mr. Cressy's own mouth and we shall find in a little time that the same form hath been condembed by the Pope himself But the ensuing year Anno 1648 as it was dolefull to the English Nation so it brought great disturbances to the most potent Princes of Europe in France the Parisians rose in Arms shot at the Lord Chancellour Sequier and wounded his Daughter barricadoed the Streets and forced the King to set the Counsellour Broussell and other factious Persons at Liberty And at the Treaty at Osnebrugh when by several Articles of the Peace the possession of Church Lands were assured to the Protestant Princes the Pope displeased with it took upon him to make void the Peace by a special Bull declaring all those Articles unjust and of no Force and commanding the Princes concerned to observe his Bull in which he renews his Claim to the superiority over Princes and particularly the Emperour not only by the Bull in general but by asserting that ‖ the Electours of the Empire were established by the Authority of the Bishop of Rome But to come to their Contrivances in England where when several Papists had subscribed to some Propositions importing the unlawfulness of murthering Princes and breaking Faith with Hereticks and that the Pope hath no power to absolve Subjects from their Allegiance the very same with the Declaration published the year before by Mr. Cressy this Action was condemned at Rome
as putting it to the Question They offered indeed several Forms instead of the Remonstrance but in none of them renounced the Deposing Power in that the Assembly signed at their breaking up they disowned the Doctrine but would not declare that Doctrine which abetts it unsound and sinfull wherein they have been imitated by some late Writers who though called upon to affirm it such never did it Once indeed they seemed to come something near what was expected when their Chairman told Father Walsh That it was not out of any prejudice against the Remonstrance they would not sign it but because they thought it more becoming their Dignity and Liberty to word their own sense for the rest they were far from condemning that Remonstrance or the Subscribers thereof Yet would they not own this when desired under their Hands but refused so that no good being expected they were dissolved leaving an undeniable Evidence of their aversion to Loyalty and approbation of the treasonable Doctrine of the Ch. of Rome Soon after the Dissolution of this Synod the E. of Sandwich Ambassadour in Spain informed His Majesty that Primate Reilly was emplyed to stir up his Countrey-men to rebell upon which a Gurd was set upon him and in a little time was sent into France The Bp. Anno 1674 of Ferns still justified the Rebellion defending the Actions of the Clergy for laudable vertuous meritorious Deeds and becoming good Men Anno 1679 and therefore needing no Repentance And this is the last Account I find of him for he soon after dyed And now the Controversie about the Regale growing hot between the King of France and the present Pope His Holiness had so much of the Spirit of his Predecessours who were for asserting their Power over all the Kingdoms of the World as to threaten the King with Excommunication and that speedily if he would not renounce his Claim Anno 1682 and he was as good as his word for the King not being affraid of his Thunders and refusing to lose his Right and the Assembly of the Clergy joining with his Majesty the Pope sent a Bull of Excommunication to his Nuncio requiring him to publish it in the Assembly but by the diligence of the Cardinal d'Estree the Assembly was adjourned before the Arrival of the Bull. At the same time Szlepeche my Primate of Hungary with his Clergy maintained the Deposing Power by a Censure of the Contrary Opinion and the next year the Spanish Inquisition at Toledo did the same Anno 1687 which was followed three years after by four Theses Anno 1686 publickly maintained by the Jesuites at their College of Clermont in Auvergne wherein it was defended and even among our selves the Authour of Popery Anatomised defends the Decree of the Council of Laterane in that the Kings and Princes of Europe by their Ambassadours consented to it affirming that the Christian World apprehended no injury but rather security in that Decree FINIS Advertisement of two other Books writ by the Authour of this Book 1. THE Missionaries Arts discovered or an Account of their Ways of Insinuation their Artifices and several Methods of which they serve themselves in making Converts to the Church of Rome With a Letter to A Pulton 2. A Plain Defence of the Protestant Religion fitted to the meanest Capacity being a full Answer to the Popish Net for the Fishers of Men that was writ by two Converts wherein is evidently made appear that their Departure from the Protestant Religion was without Cause or Reason Fit to be read by all Protestants a Fowl p. 287. b Fowl p. 301. 302. c Fowl p. 315. See the Bull at the end of Brutuâ—… Fulmen Lond. 16. 4to * Hunting of the Romish Fox p. 3 4 5. * Fowlis Hist. of Romish Treas p. 316. †Foxes Firebrands part 2. p. 34. Dublin 1682. Mr. Mason Minister of Finglas in the year 1566. copied the substance of the Bull out of the Records at Paris ‖ Fowlis's Hist. p. 316. Surii Commentar p. 314. Speed's Chron. p. 1033. * Surii Comment brevis p. 314. Fowlis's Hist. p. 316. Speed's Chron. p. 1034. †Speed's Chr. p. 1041 1042. ‖ Speed's Chr. p. 1044. * Bulla Quarta Pauli Tertii Jesuitis concessa apud Hospin Histor. Jesuit p. 104 105 106. this Bull is called by the Jesuits Mare magnum * Speed's Chronicle p. 1110 to 1114. †Speed's Chronicle p. 1114 1115 1116. a Speed's Chron. p. 1116 1117. Fifth part of Church Government p. 139. Oxford 1637. b Hist. of the Council of Trent p. 262 263. London 1684. 8vo c Fowl Hist. of Romish Treasons p. 287. d Idem p. 329. * â—xes and Firebrands part 2. p. 20. * Fowlis's Hist. p. 302. †Idem p. 329. ‖ Idem p. 330. * Gabut Vit. Pii Quinti l. 3. c. 9. apud Fowl ubi supra Thuanus lib. 44. ibid. †Fowl Hist. p. 367. ‖ Concil Trid. Sess. 25. c. 20. Decemb. 4. 1563. * Fowlis's Hist. p. 366. Edward Dennum See his Letter to the Lord Cecil of April 13. 1564. in Foxes and Firebrands p. 51 to 56. out of the Memorials of the Lord Cecil †Speed's Chr. p. 1162. Fowlis Hist. p. 302. ‖ Fowlis's Hist. p. 130 131. Import Câ—â—sâ—d p. 57. * Id. p. 368. †Sir Ed. Coke at the Tryall of the Gunp. Trait Hist. of the Gunp. Tr. p. 109. ‖ See the Bull in Fowlis Hist. p. 331. and Speed's Chron. p. 1171. * Surii Comment p. 770. ‖ Il. * Speed's Chr. p. 1169 1170. Fowl Hist. p. 335. †Execut. of Justice for Treason Pr. Lond. 1583. 4to ‖ Surii Comment p. 770. Non illos habuere successus conatus illorum nobilium quos peraverant â—â—rtassis quod Catholicis omnibus ea denuntiatio necdum innotuisset * Idem p. 771. Noluerunt Elizabetham legitimam Reginam confiteri †Fowl Hist. p. 302 303. * Speed's Chr. p. 1170. Fowlis's Hist. p. 335. Speed's Chron. p. 1174. †Surii Com. p. 786 787 788. * Resp. ad Edict Regin Angl. †Ad An. 15â—0 Sect. 4. ‖ See Fâ—wlis ubi supra Surii Comment P. 794 795 796. â—owlis's Hist. p. 368. Fowl Hist. p. 371. * See the Instrument of that Confederacy in Maimbourg's Hist of the League p. 42. Lond. 1684. 8vo †See the Instrument in Fowlis p. 372 373 374. See the Account of this Transaction in the Appendix to the Vindication of the sincerity of the Prot. Relig. Speed's Chr. p. 1176. * Nelson Hance Lacies Briant c. †See his Letter in Speed ib. ‖ Hist. Jesuit p. 244 245. Anat of Popish Tyr. in the Ep. Dedic Lond. 1603 4to Fowlis's Hist. p. 303 304. †Fowlis ubi suâ—pra Fowl p. 305. See the Bull at large in Fowlis p. 306. ‖ Eandem plenariam Peccatorum vestrorum indulgentiam Remissionem quam adversus Turcas pro recuperanda terra Sancta bellantes consequuntur tribuimus