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A11519	The history of the Inquisition: composed by the Reverend Father Paul Servita, who was also the compiler of the Councell of Trent. A pious, learned, and curious worke, necessary for councellors, casuists, and politicians. Translated out of the Italian copy by Robert Gentilis; Historia dell'origine, forma, leggi ed uso dell'ufficio dell'inquisizione nella città e dominio di Venetia. English	Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.; Gentilis, Robert.	1639 (1639)	STC 21765; ESTC S116775	69,818	96

Extortions and other grievances The other was because the Commonalties did refuse to beare the charges therefore they resolved to lay downe that pretence of having the charges borne by the Commonalty And for to temper the excessive rigor of the Inquisitors they gave some part of Power more unto the Bishop which was the cause of bringing in the Office with lesse difficulty into these three Provinces of Lombardye Romanie and Marca Trivisana and afterwards into Tuscan and so it passed into Arragon and into some Cities of Germany and France it was not brought into the Kingdome of Naples by reason of the small correspondency which was betweene the Popes and the Kings of that Kingdome It was soone taken out of France and Germany some of the Inquisitors being driven out of those places for their rigors and extortions and other some going away for want of employment For which cause they were also reduced to a small number in Arragon since they had not yet penetrated into other Kingdomes of Spaine In the yeare 1484. the Catholick King Ferdinand having extinguished the Kingdome of the Mahometans in Granata to purge his and his Wife Elizabeths Kingdomes from the Moores and Iewes newly converted erected with the consent of Pope Sixtus the Fourth a Tribunall of the Inquisition in all his Kingdomes of Spaine Sicily and Sardinia which were by him possessed in the forme which it lasteth into this present by which Tribunall are judged not onely these which are accused of Mahometisme or Iudaisme but also of Heresie The forme which was then brought in and doth yet last is that the King nameth an Inquisitor Generall throughout all his Kingdomes to the Pope and his Holinesse doth confirme him and for the rest the Court of Rome is not admitted to entermeddle any further The Inquisitor named by the King and confirmed by the Pope nameth the particular Inquisitors in every place which neverthelesse cannot enter into their charge without the Kings approbation The King also deputeth a Councell or Senate upon this businesse in that place where the Court is of which the supreme Inquisitor is President and this Counsell hath supreame jurisdiction consults of all the businesses makes new Orders when it seeth any need determines differences betweene particular Inquisitors punisheth the defects of the Officers heareth the appeales doth not put them over to any oath But the King hisroyal Councel would have the Inquisition to bee brought into the Kingdome of Naples subjected to that of Spaine as also in Sicilio Sardinia the Indies the Court of Rome would have it depending from it alleadging therefore besides the Pontificall spirituall Authority the Temporall superiority which the Pope hath in that Kingdome In the yeare 1547. Don Frederico di Toledo being Vice-roy there would overcome these difficulties and came to execution which thing excited such a commotion and sedition amongst the people that it was almost growne to a Warre betweene them and the presidiary Spaniards and the Spaniards getting the Victory being Masters of the Forts the tumult was quieted and the principals were punished some with death and some with exile Yet he left off his enterprize of bringing in the Inquisition not so much for feare of a new tumult as through the effectuall intercession of the Pope and Cardinals the thought of bringing to passe this their intent remaining still in Spaine and in Rome a resolution to oppose it so that to this day there is no Inquisition in all that Kingdome and if that any case happeneth it is dispatched by the Bishop or else it is delegated from Rome to some other Prelate who notwithstanding doth nothing unlesse hee have first leave from the Vice-roy In the Low Countries since the springing up of the Lutheran Sect the Hereticks were punished by the secular Magistrates without any other Office of Inquisition sometimes with death sometimes with banishment which Magistrates relenting from their rigor by reason of the multitude of Hereticks in the yeare 1550. the Emperour Charles the Fifth resolved to bring in the Inquisition after the Spanish manner and thereupon published a Decree but being advertised by Mary Queene of Hungary his Sister and Governesse of those States that all the forraigne Merchants would bee gone and the Cities would be without Trafficke he declared by another Edict that th' Inquisition should have no power upon strangers and for the Natives he did much mitigate the forme of it yet was it not put to execution according to the Emperours minde but onely unperfectly and the punishing of Hereticks for the most part rested in the Magistrate and slackned continually more and more Wherefore Philip King of Spaine tryed in the yeare 1569 and the yeares following againe the bringing in of the Spanish Inquisition after divers wayes but could by no meanes establish it by reason of divers resistances till that in the yeare 1567 it was by force of Armes established by the Duke of Alva and being brought in immediatly succeeded the Warres and was still more and more restrained both in scope and Authority untill it was brought to nothing in which state it remaineth at this present The beginning of the Inquisition of Venice THe Renowned City of Venice by Gods Grace kept it selfe untouched from the contagion of Heresie at all times before the yeare 1232. which thing is manifest by this that at the promotion of Duke Giacemo Theophilo in the yeare 1229. in which mention is made of the forme of proceeding and of the punishments and chastisements of many sorts of offenders Heresie is not named And in the yeare 1232. when the same Duke published the Statute wherein is ordained the punishment for many offences and especially of misdeeds and charming by Herbes there is no mention made of Heresie as certainely there would have bin if the City at that time had felt any such plague But after that Pope Innocent the Fourth tryed to deprive the Emperour Frederick the Second of the Empire Kingdomes and States which he possessed and a great part of Christendome being thereupon in Armes and all Lombardic in debate with the Marca Trivi●iana and Romania then divided into favourers of the Pope and of the Emperour they were then infected with divers perverse Opinions and retiring themselves to Venice to live in security the wisedome of this Government in the yeare 1●49 found a remedy to guard the City from being infected with that contagion that the rest of Italy was wherefore they determined to chuse honest discreet and Catholicke men to inquire against Hereticks and that the Patriarch of Grado Bishop of Castello and the other Bishops of the Dogie of Venice from Grado to Caverzere should judge of their Opinions and those that by any of the Bishops should be given out to be Hereticks should be condemned to the fire by the Duke and Councellors or the Major part of them which things are seene in the promotion of Duke Marino Moresini in the yeare 1249. But for feare least

And to give it the more credit and force he caused the Edict to be published in Sicily with a Decree and subscribed by Cardinall Doria and was sent in print all the World over The Court of Rome stood amazed as well for the Edict as for the execution of it done by the Cardinall yet in Spaine they moved not a whit and the Edict remaineth still in force Certainly there cannot be imagined a higher enterprize than to send into a Prince his Dominions a booke in print against his Government and to pretend it to bee Lawfull and that the booke shall be there read kept and sold publickely and that the Prince shall have no power to discover it and withstand it and that under colour of Religion and the authority of Christ given to St. Peter Which pretence will be taken away if we doe but marke the Catholicke Doctrine and the custome of the holy Church whence the truth plainly appeares and Cardinall Baronius his reasons are plainely confuted It is a thing well knowne that unto St. Peter were given the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven that many holy Fathers and Catholick Writers meanes by the Keyes in the Plurall number the one of Knowledge and the other of Power and that the power ought not to be understood Universally but onely concerning the Kingdome of Heaven which is the Spirituall for the Civill Royall and Temporall power is expresly forbidden him by Christ So the Knowledge is not to be understood of naturall things nor of corrections much lesse of Politicke Civill or Morall things but as St. Paul saith plainely they are made dispencers of Christs misteries onely Wherefore if by the Ecclesiasticall authority a booke be approved to be good in matters of Faith it cannot be condemned as bad by any Secular power but if the booke treateth of other matters as of jurisdiction of Government of Merchandize although it were applauded by all the Prelates of the World yet doth not that prejudice Temporall authority but that it may be condemned It is a great wrong to pretend that because Christ hath given St Peter the Cognisance and power of the Kingdome of Heaven and forbidden him the Earthly one may against his precept extend spirituall things to temporall St. Augustine often saith that grace doth not destroy nor take any thing away from nature but leaving all her owne unto her doth adde unto it Divine perfections The Temporall power hath of its owne nature power to forbid all things which are repugnant to publicke quietnesse and to honesty and amongst the rest writings and bookes which are contrary to it Christ is not come to take away any of this authority from the Magistrates but to leave it intire onely he addes power to his Ministers over things concerning Christian Faith of which men by nature know nothing but onely by Revelation Therefore these ought not to assume unto themselves the power of approving of bookes which belong not to them or to endeavour to deprive the Magistrate of the authority which is given them by God and by nature Cardinall Baronius alleadgeth the Epistles of certaine Writers who have dedicated unto Popes their bookes of Histories or of Law or of concerning Government and have submitted their Workes to the Popes censure and therefore he concludes that to him alone belongeth to approve of all sorts of bookes and that once approved by him none ought any further to meddle with it But this is but a vaine reason since it doth not make any distinction betweene Obligatory binding words and words of compliment Who ever Dedicateth a Booke not onely to a Prince but also to a private man but that he will submit it unto him and that with some Hyperbole of words If we shall upon these Rethoricall colours ground Articles of Divinity we will also finde other Epistles which wee will give the same power to all manner of Persons and wee shall finde many bookes of Phisicke and of Grammar Learning Dedicated unto Popes with such like phrases of speaking and should that inferre therefore that the Papacy is an Office concerning health or a Grammar Schoole Reverence and civill speaking is one thing and that which must bee holden as an Article of Faith is another But because that Baronius taxeth the Princes Officers with forbidding of bookes because they reprove their unjust dealings it will be good to speake a word concerning that because it shall not seeme that we will have unjust things defended nor that any should thinke that it is Lawfull under colour of reproving of things to disturbe the publicke quietnesse One may speake two wayes of a misdeede by way of Thesis or Position vid. in generall without touching either Person or place or time and to reprove in this manner hath bin alwayes held good for the rooting out of vice It is Lawfull for any one to write bookes in this manner Another way is by Hipothesis that is of particular case naming of Persons and other circumstances and that is not permitted to any but to the Lawfull Judge Every one may write against Usury in generall but to touch any particular instrument for usury belongeth to none but to the publicke Judge and the doing otherwise is to put the World in a confusion leaving the managing of businesses unto unjust persons A generality may easily bee considered of and hath neede of nothing but of study and authors but a particularity by reason of the infinitenesses of circumstances requires an exquisite prudence and experience It is easie to say and to prove in generall that the usurping the Soveraignty of a State is unjust and Cardinall Baronius might have thereupon made a long Parenthesis But to come to a particular and say that the King of Spaine usurpes the Soveraignty of Sicily is not a cause belonging to him And if the Kings Officers in Naples and Milan have therefore prohibited his booke they have not forbidden the reproving of unjustice but rather the small wisedome of him who judgeth the present possession of Sicily to be unjust without having so much knowledge as was needfull for the doing of it And if the Pope did approve the booke intending to doe it for the places Ecclesiasticall Dominion and State it is well but if he did meane it also for other Princes States so that it might not be prohibited by those who held it scandalous that had beene an excesse and usurpation of other mens authority which ought not to be supposed of Pope Clement the eight who was a wise Prince And because Cardinall Baronius addes that publicke Officers cannot prohibit Booke sellers to sell bookes without their Licence under pretence of hindering Hereticall bookes from comming in with false Titles because that seeing such a danger they ought with humblenesse to seeke that the Bishops may doe it this also deserves a little consideration And first to take away all ambiguity neither did any approve of doing any thing under a fained pretence that is to cover

given for the peoples benefit so that if it be diminished it remaines not so sufficient for the good and entire government and the subject receiveth wrong and the Divine Majesty is offended Although the Prince is not bound to his Subject to governe him yet to God hee is and the protection which hee hath of him though towards the subject it be a favour yet towards God it is a duty which cannot be performed without preserving whole and not suffering to be abated the publicke Authority The Office of the Inquisition as it is more holy and needfull than others so if it bee not well handled but abused it is more burthenous and hurtfull Where it is in the hands of just and prudent Church-men they should be incouraged to continue so by looking to them and observing of them for the opportunity of having power to worke after ones owne fancy may cause a Saint to over-runne his course But where the administerer hath all his requisite qualities it is necessary to withstand his excesses In times past it hath beene seene that Subjects have beene burthened with excessive rigours by those who under a shew of zeale have sought to make way for their ambition or to get unto themselves that which belonged to others Therefore it is needfull to marke that avarice or ambition should hurt no particular but a good Father and of a good conscience should seeke a remedy for it the indiscreet zeale which she causeth to bee in persons that are not conversant in worldly affaires hath neede of such a bridle In publicke affaires also the effects of ambition avarice or indiscretion are no lesse dangerous for when a Potentate hath not the favour of him that commands in Ecclesiasticall causes Religion is made a pretext to oppresse him In the yeare 1322. Pope John the 22. published a severe monitory against Mathew Vicount Lord of Milan condemning him of Heresie and under this pretence commanding the most famous Common-wealth that it should hold no commerce with him nor with his subjects although he had no other cause against the Vicount but that he tooke part with Lewis of Bavaria Emperour the Popes enemy And the same yeare the most Reverend Guido Rangoni Bishop of Ferrara and Frier Buono Inquisitor did admonish the most renowned Common-wealth that there should be no commerce held with Rinaldo and Obizo de Este or their adherents and subjects because they had condemned them for Hereticks neither was there any other cause but that they had recovered Ferrara which was possessed by the Popes In the yeare 1355. Malatesta and Galeotto Maltesti holding the City of Rimini Pope Innocent the sixt commanded Venice that no commerce should be held with them or with their adherents because he suspected them to be Hereticks The same Pope the same yeare used the same manner with the most famous Common-wealth against Francisco Ordelafo by reason of the Dominion of Forli and Gulielmo Manfredi because of Faenza caused also the Crociata to be preached against them Yet all these great stirres and condemnations of Heresie vanished into smoake so soone as the accused were contented to acknowledge those Lands held in disputation from the Pope A cleare and undoubted document to shew us that the imputation of Heresie was but onely to oppresse them and perforce bring them to yeeld to the fore designed humane changes But to come to Moderne things In the discords which Paul the Fourth had with King Philip the Second of Spaine which were of temporall businesses That Pope as well in consistory as treating with Ambassadors of Princes alwayes was wont to say and reply that the King and the Emperour his Father were Hereticks It was also seene in these late occasions that those Bookes which were writ in favour of the most renowned Common-wealths cause were forbidden by the Romish Inquisition and others ofth ' Ecclesiasticall State under the colour of Heresie although the things treated of were meerely temporall and approved by all Christian Kingdomes And Cardinall Bellarmin having some yeares since set forth a booke wherein he subjects Princes to the Pope in temporall affaires hee dares therein handle as Hereticks all those who say that the Prince in temporall Causes hath no other superior but God onely although that foure of the five parts of Catholicks doe beleeve it Which things cause us to beleeve that since some mens malice doe make use of this Office for humane ends which are not very honest it is needfull to looke how it is used and not suffer them to take such footing whereby they may abuse it Because then upon occasion when one would take order therein it is found to be too late In Milan where the Inquisition hath great Authority there happened about 1580 a dangerous case Cardinall Boromeo who afterwards was a Saint visiting of some places of the Diocesse of Milan and subject to the Suissers went ordering many things which bred some suspitions in those States wherefore they sent an Ambassadour to Milan to require the Governour to cause the Cardinall to come backe from those places least some alteration should happen The Ambassadour went to Milan and alighted at a Merchants house that he might the more commodiously goe and doe his Ambassage The Inquisitor heard of it and immediatly went with his Officers and carried him bound to Prison to his covent The Merchant reported what had happened to the Governour who presently caused the Ambassadour to be set at liberty honoured him and heard him The Swissers who had no sooner notice of imprisonment then of his delivery said openly that if the newes of his imprisonment had come alone without that of his deliverance they would have imprisoned the Cardinall to whom the Governour sent word of what was done The Cardinall yeelding to necessity went away and the new inventions were revoked These dangers shew that not onely malice may cause inconveniences but impudency also and undiscreet zeale Therefore it behoveth to watch carefully that the power of meeting at all actions of that Office be not diminished which God by his Providence hath hitherto preserved and by which meanes all publicke dangers and oppressions of the Subjects may be withstood It beeing then plainely shewne that the Office of the Inquisition is not ancient in Holy Church and that within this Dominion it was instituted in the same forme as it is now used by the Common-wealth it selfe as an Office properly belonging to it and established by agreement with the Apostolicke Sea and the reasons being unfolded which did move to this deliberation and the necessity which bindeth to keepe inviolated the forme alwayes established With these considerations the grounds of the first Chapter are sufficiently unfolded and proved The second and third Chapters neede not bee any better declared or proved The Exposition of the fourth Chapter THe fourth Chapter wherein is set downe the charge of the Assistance which ought to bee in foure cases requireth some considerations The first case to execute

who are of Iewish or Moorish race are examined at the Inquisition for the suspition of Heresie and punished with branding for the offence If a Turke or Iew become a Christian be found to have two Wives hee may bee tried in the Inquisition for his suspected beliefe and for the offence in the ordinary Court of Iustice But when either for carnality or to steale the portion or for any such ends any one hath taken a second Wife they ought without any circumstance to proceed doing Iustice in the ordinary Secular Court punishing the offence as the quality of the particular circumstances shall require preferring the common opinion of Lawyers and the Universall custome of Courts to cavils onely invented to confound jurisdictions The Exposition of the three and twentieth Chapter IN cases of usury as it is said in this Chapter it is questionlesse that the Inquisition ought not to meddle in them So have many Popes of Rome answered Inquisitors who have purposed to draw cases and questions of Usury unto their Office and the Decree is also Registred in the Canon Law where to exclude absolutely all cases of usury out of the Inquisition and to provide that by no indirect way nor under any good colour it might be attempted to judge of any the Pope saith That though the Inquisition had enjoyned some converted Hereticke such pennance as if hee had beene an Usurer he should make restitution yet for all that not so much as against him can they meddle in such cases It is behoovefull both for Gods Service and the reputation of the Inquisition Office with all diligence to keepe many causes from them So this Chapter being cleare wee neede not say any more of it The Exposition of the foure and twenty Chapter IN this Chapter is set downe that Iewes nor other Infidels shall for no cause be subject to the Inquisition Office but onely to the Secular Court It was said by the Apostle St. Paul plainely that the Ecclesiasticall Power doth not extend to judge those that are not of the Church And so much hath bin held and observed also in these latter times Pope Innocent the third declared that they were not subject to the Pope neither to the Law nor yet to bee judged since that by vertue of the Law the Iudge doth exercise his Office Besides the Infidels of what kind soever they be are not capable of Spirituall punishments and therefore are not subject to the Church which punisheth with such In the Body of the Civill Law there be prohibitions and punishments against Iewes which blaspheme or injury Religion or draw Christians to Iudaisme or to offend Iewes which are become Christians And the Popes of Rome themselves have not used any other remedy against Iewes and other Infidels who have offended in wronging or slandering Religion but onely to excite Princes and Secular Magistrates to doe their duty in punishing them To this purpose there be many Decrees in the Canon Law Some Princes to discharge themselves of the trouble of judging such causes have delegated them to the Bishops which hath not pleased the Popes very well The King of Sicily having delegated power to some Bishops of his Kingdome to punish the Sarazens of his Kingdome in certain cases where they offend Religion Pope Alexander the third did write to them that they should onely punish such offences for which was sufficient a pecuniary Mulct or whipping without blood-shed But if the offence did deserve any greater punishment they should not meddle with it but should leave the judging of it to the temporall Power This authority established by the saying of St. Paul confirmed by the Canon and Civill Lawes and by Customes none should attempt to contrary it But the desire of enlarging authority doth so blinde some men that without regarding so much plainenesse they turne themselves to cavils of no moment saying That if God doth punish and hath punished Infidels the Pope and the Inquisitors his Delegates may and ought also punish them A reason which would prove that they might punish both Christians and Infidels and all manner of offenders for all manner of offences though never so concealed and also sinnes onely conceived in the minde for God doth punish all these The truth is that Christ hath not given his Vicars any power but onely over his Church and in spirituall things and therefore they can judge none but Christians nor punish them but onely with spirituall punishments The temporall punishments God hath committed to the Secular power for punishing all manner of offences and against all offendors be they of what Religion they will And certainly to make an argument from the Divine Omnipotencie to humane authority it agreeth not with the reverence due to the Divine Majesty But another thing must bee considered for they say that although Infidels be not subject to Ecclesiasticall power yet when they doe offend the Church reason will that she may defend her selfe by punishing them it being a terme of Law That he who is not subject to a Territory by reason of an offence committed in it becomes subject to it which things well understood are all most true yet doe they not conclude in this purpose For the Church must not be denyed the defence of her selfe if she be offended but she ought to doe it with all offenders by meanes of the Magistrate The Infidell who violates holy things and offends Religion must not remaine unpunished and the Church may defend it selfe but not with its owne forces but with the authority of the Magistrate to inflict punishment doth not belong to him that is offended but alwayes to the Iudge and when by an offence the Delinquent should have his Court of Iudgement allotted him hee becommeth not subject to him that is offended otherwise every private man might chastise him that doth offend him but he becommeth subject to the Iudge of the place where the offence is committed Wherefore these reasons prove nothing but that the offence done by the Infidels to the Church ought to bee punished by the ordinary Secular Court of judgement and so much the rather ought this to be observed because both Divine and Humane Lawes doe order it so when such sorts of offences deserve greater punishments as indeed such offences for the most part are so grievous that they will deserve greater punishment than the Inquisition would inflict upon them In the yeare 1581. Pope Gregory the thirteenth framed a Bull against Jewes in which he did subject both them and all other Infidels to the Inquisition in tenne cases so fully set downe that if it should be observed no Infidell might inhabite nor trade within Christian Dominion This Bull although it were imprinted yet was it published or received but in very few places and it were impossible to observe it Yea Pope Sixto the fifth and Clement the eight not regarding it did give Infidels safe conducts to come to the City of Ancona And that which is most

may observe them if not they may omit them or dispence with them and they doe wonderfully serve for their ends as well when they are observed as when they are disobeyed because they are not to bee ruled by the Lawes but they doe rule the Lawes Contrariwise in other States when they are once published or received they are no more in the Prince his power They must then runne to Rome to seeke a remedy when they are heard and either they doe get remedy or not they regarding not what is behoovefull to another State but to their owne And this is that which the court of Rome would have and every day attempted vid. to have in their hand under colour of Religion the administration of some certaine things without which States cannot be governed by which meanes it would become judge of all governments For this cause the Popes say daily when they would cause their Decrees to be admitted that if there be any inconvenience they should have recourse to them and they will helpe it but the remedy which commeth not from the same Prince but from them who have their proper interests is worser than the sore God whose workes are perfect and who is the Author of all Principalities gives to every one as much power as is necessary to governe well neither will he have it acknowledged from any other but from his Divine Majesty All that which a Prince acknowledgeth from others but from God is slavery and subjection So much is said generally of the consideration which ought to bee had in publishing or receiving Pontificiall Orders made of old in matters of Heresie But much greater care ought to bee had concerning those which shall be made hereafter Of them which are made already the number is certaine it is knowne whether they be received in other places or no how they are observed what construction they receive what is their aime what consequence of good or evill effects they bring with them But for the time to come if the Court might have her liberty the number would grow to be infinite When one newly appeares it is not knowne whether the World will admit of it or no the aime of him that made it is not yet discovered experience hath not shewne what effects it may bring forth and therefore all delay and maturity in receiving of it will bring forth aboundance of conveniency with it It is not said that new reasonable orders are not to bee accepted but that they ought not to be received as of duty or as subjects but by agreement and publicke treaty the institution of that Office requiring it as it is said and with much consideration because of the great dangers that novelties doe bring with them The Court of Rome in making new Buls taketh no great advice with ease they are made because with ease they are revoked or derogated from or dispensed with as it fals to be most commodious for their businesses wherein they regard their owne ends But that which is profitable for one State is not profitable for another The safety of this Dominion requireth that Religion should bee kept inviolate in all her parts withstanding all change and novelty whatsoever The respects of Rome require that no change shall be made through which Pontificiall power may be diminished nor the Court lose any of her profits which she draweth out of other Statues But those novelties whereby the profit of the Court may be increased or temporall authority may bee diminished with the exaltation of the Ecclesiasticall are not to bee abhorred but procured and that wee see daily This most renowned Common-wealth as well as other Catholicke Kingdomes finds it selfe betweene two contraries The Protestants who have no other aime but to diminish Ecclesiasticall authority and the Court of Rome which hath no other aime but to increase it and to make the temporall her servant Whence your Catholicke States and Kingdomes to preserve themselves doe withstand all novelties on the on the other side and doe keepe Religion without any change at all being knowne by experience that either of the novelties are pernicious That reverence which deservedly is given to Religion is the cause that those abuses have easie admittance which come covered with that sacred Mantle For the maintaining of Religion the office against Heresie is respected and for this cause when Rome will bring in some novelty it willingly makes use of that office supposing that the true end will not appeare And that hath beene wrought in the selfe same manner in times past but very slightly in regard of what was done at this present Neverthelesse the Senators of those times were alwayes carefull They would have the Office against Heresie to bee mixt they have opposed themselves against all novelties they have not suffered Ecclesiasticall Persons to doe any thing unknowne unseene or unexamined By these foot-steps must he walke that will have the Common-wealth preserved not suffering new Buls or Decrees to bee accepted within the State if first by mature deliberation it be not made knowne that they will bring in no inconveniences Which deliberation is proper to the Prince who alone comprehendeth the estate of publicke things The Exposition of the nine and twentieth Chapter THe nine and twentieth Chapter which treateth of publishing a prohibition of bookes since the agreement of the yeare 1596. stands in force there can no doubt be made of it But it will be necessary to consider that the agreement being made with so much consideration and maturity as well of the Apostolicall Seas side as of the most renowned Common-wealths side the matter ought to be held of weight This conference lasted foure Moneths on the Pontificiall side there was the Cardinall the Nuntio and the Inquisition and on the other side the chiefe Senators of the Common-wealth cleare arguments that the businesse on both sides was held to be of great weight and neverthelesse though it was determined by common consent yet did it not take away all hope from the Ecclesiasticall Persons to have it forgotten againe and out of use Wherefore then they treated that there should bee but three score coppies Printed of the agreement for nothing else but because there being an innumerable number of the coppies of the Indexes of the forbidden bookes which passe through all mens hands every one might see those documents which give the authority over the bookes to Ecclesiasticall Persons onely but the moderation of the agreement might not be knowne but by few and so finally it might bee lost And treading these steps in Rome there is not a yeare but there comes forth a Catalogue of new prohibition under the name of the Master of the sacred Palace with clauses that it shall take place in all Cities Townes and places of every Kingdome Nation or People and that it shall bind all men although there be no publication who shall come any way to have notice of the Edict This Index is sent to the