proclaimed the subuerters of the common good the enemies and destroyers of the kingdome which custome of yours seemes very feeble For the Kings of the gentiles beare rule and they which haue power ouer them are liberall But you not so it is your part not to reigne but to vse the rod and to shake the feruloe within the territories of your kingdome This we thinke belongeth to you ô Fathers that wee may speake truely It is one thing to weaken another thing to entreat this belongeth to you It is one thing to obey another thing to command that belongeth to you It is fitting to keepe priests in the state of humility and obeysance We ô good Fathers but that you goe in an outward shew and title of holinesse which hath a shadow of vertue would by these relations call your vile company wicked adulterate to whom it is pleasant to deceiue they had rather haue a great name then a good name while they cannot be knowne by their vertues they desire to be knowne by their wickednesses The end of your actions doth declare that which is to bring in subiection not onely these two Kingdomes but the whole Romane Empire yea all the whole world to the Spanish and Romish bondage YEa it is not the least amongst the greeuances of the Hungarians for which you are driuen out of that Kingdome namely that by your helpes and perswasion truce is made betweene the Turkes and our men onely that the strength of the house of Austria might be kept whole and sound for the rooting out of all Heretikes as you terme them out of Gremany And hereupon you stirre vp a Bishop elsewhere in the City that he would build a fortresse or tower to the hurt of his potent neighbour and to the disprofit of all professors of the Gospell The loue of the Dublines elsewhere keepeth no measure amongst the counsailers whom you disgrace and staine with a Portugallike liberality Whereupon one professor of the Gospell is exceeding mistrustfull to another and although they seeme to encline to friendship we know not what hand oftentimes doth cause contention O strife ô cruell strife ô strife sprung from the furies and hell it selfe All excellency of true professours of the Gospell is by you troden downe and behold the Authors of discord is come to nothing This ô Fathers Iesuites is your crafty deuice by which you might giue from hand to hand the sacred Romane Empire to the Pope and Spaniard as perpetuall dictatours but that Mercury the gouernour of sleepe had lately although too too late stirred vs vp This is your end who can hope for better meanes by which you atchiue your end Lucius Mummius taking Corinth reserued not so much as an halfpeny to himselfe of so many inestimable spoiles you doe not thirst after our goods or liberty but euen after our very blood Your letters proclaime this your plots and stratagems in Commataw and elsewhere doe proclaime it For your auncienter wickednesses in France and Spaine are odious vnto vs. Haue you not yet heard how some blood-sucker of your owne order in the yeare of our Lord 1582. spake but that we knew it was one of the Emperours house we should haue sworne it had bin written in Caucasus How Germany may safe be held Take my aduise thou Reader mild O Caesar vse thy power the seruants all of Luther With sword with wheel with sea With ropes with fire eke bemurther Wee tremble to repeate your filthy Spanish exploits which is your praise surely you haue thought of that same old saying of yours If I cannot mooue the gods aboue I will trouble the diuels below So your workes are vnprofitable and the worke of iniquity is in your hands your feete doe runne to mischiefe and doe make hast to spill innocent blood These are the things which haue caused you to be banished For what would it haue beene if the Bohemians or Hungarians should haue contended any longer with words They said with Cato mooued with the reproaches of a certaine man we haue an vnequall condition of striuing with you for as it is most easie for you to speake ill and to heare ill so it is vnpleasant to vs to speake ill and vnaccustomed to heare ill But get yee gone rather yee Iesuites neuer returne into these Kingdomes So the daies of the wicked shall be shortned And what other remedy is there Agar and her sonne Ismael attempted to stirre vp strife dissensions and contentions also to sow the greatest discord betweene Abraham and Sara Can a wise father of a family winke at these things he can neuer doe it rather let him cast out the bondwoman with her son Which thing is done who can say it is ill done furthermore the Bohemians are not priuy to any fault in your setting forth of showes vnlesse happily passing by they appoint a popular action against the act of eiection and banishment which those crafty and nimble actours and able knaues doe we speak these things againe ô Fathers lest wee too much smart for them not retained and kept in darknesse but openly restored into the City Prague and so the aire is a fresh infected In the meane while not nimble in relating the Bohemians doe wonder at your nimblenesse in dancing accusing nature that shee made not you actors and tumblers The report goeth for what do we standing any longer vpon these that in times past chastity and continency were amongst the Catholike brethren wee beleeue it but in that age when innocency was honored simplicity extolled and pouerty esteemed now what sinke is not more cleane then this state of Priests yee are truly the Fathers of your country the Bohemians haue found your key which you haue lost or laid aside they now behold your effeminate apparrell and houshold stuffe Thus they see and throughly see now that which so many religious men of you haue locked vp who are whoremongers adulterers lewd persons Sodomiticall Parricides murtherers of Kings disdainefull warre-makers Atheists Epicures malefactors truce-breakers tyrants in a word who are all wickednesse Ye shall know them by their fruites as it is written Where you intrude your selues you make your selues Lords these seruants which the Preacher foreseeing saith I saw the seruants riding and the Princes walking on foot like seruants Marriages also are contracted amongst some of which you are the authors without the consent of parents they talke of this in euery towne village and company in Flanders Italy and Germany You steale away their eldest sonnes France doth witnesse this You take away their onely sonnes from their Parents that yee may afterward be possessors of their goods and so relieue and help your owne companies And this is your sure Vulcans shield by which you were so noted that Spaine did vrge you to change these your wicked practises that the elders of the families might be secure from your inuations Pliny I beleeue foreknewe this your religiousnesse saying Many doe feare an ill report fewe an
France and there not onely swarme in the Iesuite Colleges but also creepe into the Kings Court and Counsell and so domineere that no man dare open his lippes against them Thus the Iesuites flew out of the countrey as it were with the wings of Peggasus and no maruell for no man would hold vp his finger to stay them whether Papist or Protestant The Superior Commanders among the Iesuites rid thus in pompe but the ordinary frye of them did laky it out on foot and carried euery one his pack at his backe and these were as proud as their masters that ridde and would be thought to imitate the Apostles and as they went in Procession they chaunted a Letany to saint Rorspine making the faberdum of their song Nunc dimittis Seruos tuos Domine whereto Germany sung an Ecco Iusta sunt iuditia tua Domine Thus I haue deliuered in briefe the relation of the sending of the Iesuites of Bohemia and Hungary on a long arrante to Saint Rorspine whereto I adde nothing else but that it is hoped that all Germany wil furnish their Waggons with all their Iesuits to follow their Fellowes on this iourney the eyes of great many of the greatest haue bene long time hoodwinked and the darke night cast ouer them but now that vaile vanisheth and cleare light appearing discouereth the danger which hangeth ouer the Empire so that now small brabling controuersies being laidaside the Princes of the Empire wil haue an eye to the publick forasmuch as they see that all this danger and mischiefe doth arise from the Iesuites why should not they begin at the right end with casting them out and it being euident that these are spies and vnderminers for the aduancing the Spanish Monarchy Why should they not be more iealous of them then of the Ottoman Empire Spaine boasteth that the Empire of the West is due to them by destinie vpon this hope they which had their beginnings from the Mores and Sarizens goe on to worke their owne ends by their bloudy Inquisitions This creeping Gangreine must be cut off lest it grow to farre in the Low Countries in Italy France and England What Priuy Counsels of State are there in Germany vnreuealed to the Spaniard Where hath he not in other countries his Pensioners for intelligence and his partie among the Counsellors of State linked to him with a golden chaine What Diets or publike meetings haue we the secrets whereof are not knowne to the Spaniard as well as to them that sit in those Parliaments A thing most pernicious to our States and dishonourable to the name of Germany What Prince or people is there of the reformed Religion whom the Spaniard doth not thinke he hath as iust cause to ruine as to quell the Turkes or Pagans Nor is this iust feare to be found in Protestants but it concernes them also that are pure Roman Catholikes Were not the Fredirankes Othoes and Henries thinke you good Catholikes yet drunke they of this cuppe They that will not beleeue that all the Bishoprickes in the Empire were promised by the Spaniard to the Iesuites They that would rather haue the Spaniard rule ouer them then a Caluinist or Lutheran Prince let them expect the reward which he gaue to the Neopolitans and Portugales Vestram animam pertranscibit gladius the Iesuites Creede is that there is one God one Pope and one Catholike or Vniuersall King Be wise O yee Kings yee haue an enemy as full of gold as Midas who hath in readinesse in diuers Garrisons for any exploite thirty thousand Spaniards all olde beaten Souldiers Moreouer he sends out his Firebrandes into Europe Affrica Asia and America and into the East and West Indies also He commandeth Lucitanta with the most fertill Iles and Kingdomes of Oceanus besides Italy and he thirsteth after your prosperitie Your prosperity That sufficeth not but he thirsteth after your bloud hee is potent But hee will neuer disturbe you if these his grounds be broken by vnited forces But O good God! How men are most secure in their dangerousest most hazardablest matters O yee Lords Princes of the Empire if all the Spaniards heare me let them view with a curious eye the Lands situated with long distance of place to which they deny passage they cut off ayde and doe waste all places this is a hard matter but he will put to his hand againe that the Spaniard may bring forth the extreamest of his cruelty and tyrranny that the Subiects lamentably should see the last Act of the Tragedy whose heart doth ake through the feare and horror of the Spaniard that they can desire nothing but occasion how they may gett out of this bondage into their former libertie Let vs see the Belgie destitute of all hope they shaked off his yoake they retained the Field let vs see the Prince of Auratia the huge number of Souldiers hee derideth and explaudeth them and their madde attempts And that I may goe no farther o Princes and Peeres who are yee are yee not Germaines surely altogether the same Now the dignitie and power of the Germaine Empire is not to be measured by the greatnes of Countries and people but by the vnited faith power and fortitude by these but what doe I stand to say it you shall ouercome the Kingdomes of the whole world if yee be of one mind I say your dignitie oh yee Peeres of the Germaine Empire and power are mightie if they be vnited Oh yee States of the Empire doe not suffer that Heroycall vertue and those deuine forces to bee extinct in the Germaynes by which yee haue tamed the whole World but exercise your valiant breastes and vnconquered strength against these Massing Priestes and doe yee all meete and agree in one holy league against your professed and sworne enemies if any generositie or courrage remaine in you shew it but if otherwise I like another Cynicke will laffe at your sluggishnes and Lethorgie and will say that I cride out in vaine to this age which hath a great number of sleepers and very few wakers heare a parradox I will giue you a great precept if you will remaine great Cauete Consulite Vigilate this is only nescessary in this age Hoc agite Thou in the meane while good and courtious Reader be fauorable and fare thou well if there be any pleasant speech let it redound to our loueing Country and also to thy pleasant and fauorable iudgement in the meane time doe not esteeme and thinke it my purpose to speake of any Classicke thing to wheet one and stire vp the Professors of the Gospell against the Catholikes to adde fewell to that publike fier I haue another minde that the sweetenes of concord might shine betweene the Professors of the Gospell and the Catholikes in this Empire which the Iesuitticall and Spanish Clowdes haue not only obscured but almost extinguished these Iesuitticall and Spanish wickednesses haue drawne the speaches from me against my will we vnfainedly imbrace these sincere affection of the rest of the Catholikes in this Empire and with our vnited and conioyned forces as it becommeth bretheren in one Land wee doe seeke remedy for these publike euils I did write with a troubled penne in a troublesome yeare wherein we see that good men are pressed downe and euill men set vp and wicked men pressed downe and good men set vp FINIS
by your piety and information in our studies It is not expedient for you ô Fathers if yee determine any thing to bee done of you in our right And if we be not deceiued Germany hath more certaine assertions of liberty to thinke well then Trecensis heretofore in France which is commonly called Troy But we doe exceedingly maruell what the cause should be why in so short a time ye should bee cast out of so many stately common-wealths and Kingdomes Truely all their fields are large bookes which we cannot thrust vpon you by turning them but for conference sake onely shew them as true to the whole world and of you as yet not refuted We desire that some of you would behold your acts done in England Certainly the acts of Garnet and of all of you would breath out some other thing then Innocency namely treason and innouation of which you were all guilty This one thing you obiect ô Fathers but know this a deepe wound retaines a scarce Yee did not bid farewell to the Venetians against your wills but perhaps vnconstrained You had neuer gone away by the decree of the Venetian Lords had not the commandement of Paul the fifth Pope caused you to whom being the head of the Church you yeelded all humble obedience with due obseruance and in this intermission from Religion you adored his Surplice So obedience alone is the vertue which worketh the other vertues in the minde and what were it of ye should call him Lord Lord and would not doe what he saith Ah how impatient were the Venetian Lords of your departure How willingly would they haue detained you longer if good words honours if moreouer new priuiledges could haue preuailed any thing But in sayling we must giue eare to our Pilot in warre to our Captaine So that fidelity due to the Pope by the Venetian title hath made you wretched men banished It is written He that beleeueth shall be saued We now talke alone ô Fathers Iesuits and are weakned we could wish that a Venetian were here who might affirme these things We do adde nothing heere but what your selues had in your Apology that the will of God may be done who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords from whom as you expect saluation so also expect iust iudgement We do willingly passe ouer with silence the Belgicke fame declaring what reproachfull things contentions and wicked deeds you haue there committed If in others there bee any disgrace and wickednesse in you it is prayse and comelinesse as it is in your Apology We know not what to say onely this wee hold that God liueth who causeth his Sunne to shine vpon the good and bad and raineth vpon the iust and vniust and will reward euery one according to his workes VVe do also willingly passe ouer why wee saw your honest company banished out of France for their faults wee are full of writings to this purpose In briefe ye are accused of treason and slaughter intended against Kings whose life and blood how you laid in waite for would haue beene manifest more cleare then the noon day had not that same Carmelitane worke couered it vpon your Martyrs Hereupon a Catholike within these three yeares if I be not deceiued obiected fairly vnto you that you teach and write commonly that any man of what condition soeuer hee bee may and ought to kill or slay a King suppose any King you will for a certaine stipend or pension of mony if hee bee a Tyrant or disobedient to your will and sayings This is your practise whereby you preuaile much with bad men whereupon you deseruedly worship Henry Garnet as a Martyr for that his wicked and sauage deed who for it was executed in England VVee ingeniously confesse that which is proper to all Garmans that our Gallowes Iibbets prisons and all instruments of torture are full of such Martyrs Let vs not cherish a thought of the feyned and lying miracles of such most false martyrs We do euen tremble as God shall help vs that the Catholique religion should couer such Barbarous Sauage and most diuellish facts and that it can call and worship such wicked and filthy men as Saints So much euill was religion able to perswade Neither were the winds the cause of their expulsion out of those most famous Cities of Hungary and Bohemia we will not speake of Polonia and Swetia These things shall neuer be forgotten so long as that winged charriot of Fame shall passe through countries and ages Yea haue beene shunners of peace and concord yea haue brought in dissensions braules and treacheries into these kingdomes All these you doe vnder colour of religion as that your practise wrought by most fraudulent wiles and most wicked attempts doth witnesse This is it by which you wring your selues into high places you flatter the eares of the chiefest men being most skilfull in that matter And so you couer your indirect going and sitting amongst these Peeres with the mantle of religion and piety with a mischiefe We also vnderstand ô fathers vnlesse you haue some other religion then the Catholike that you also after your manner doe attempt the same iust after the manner of Sorceresses which while they can doe no harme to others doe hurt themselues Amongst these excellent Estates of Common-wealths you bring in also an innouation where those same good Catholiques are Atheists Libertines and simple men they are commonly called yee doe all for this end that treacheries and brawlings might be brought in whereby you might fish in safety for your company And truly not the Bohemians and Hungarians onely but euen your Catholikes from elsewhere doe obiect the fame things vnto you Where we certainly suppose this to be in the better part of you grant vs ô Lord to speake forth peace in our times All the turmoiles which you cause your accusers alleadge are made for religions sake vnder this colour you affect your monarchy amongst the Catholikes yet notwithstanding they must not be said to be vndertaken of the professors of the Gospell at any time for the cause of religion O misery we suffer not our cisterns to be drawne for all whom we vnderstand you runne into For to what end is that plenty But aboue all we set before vs the present estate onely of the Bohemians The seducers of the common people say that here is no talking of religion ô blindnesse Let them beleeue that will they shall finde to their owne cost that religion is our beginning middest and end by which all things done or to be done are ruled or rather in which they are all contained your following seuere and harsh proceedings with Clostargrab and Braunaro shall afford you one liuely example of sixe hundred Hereupon the Emperour Matthias wrote very precisely in his late letters to the Earle of Bucquoy Thou shalt deserue excellently well of vs of out Princely house of religion and of the Common-weale if thou wouldest admit of this religion ô Bohemia and
ill consience But you deale warily in that you are not ashamed to teach openly that you are subiect to no gouernment in the world but to the Sea of Rome Who therefore shall iudge you in these coasts Shall the Pope Vnlesse the Bohemians and Hungarians by chance doe come betweene You teach the youth for nothing but for nothing This appeares by your Religious houses by the most Princely and stately Theaters in them on which you haue Comedies acted ful of a poetical or Heathenish delights How faith is not to be kept with Heretikes How Euangelicall faith is to be rooted out with Luther and Caluin and such like things that you may bee the better emboldned you spend whole daies with your Scholers in these delights pleasures and the nights also doe you passe ouer on this wise you are become so brazen faced through these your doings that shortly you may learne to bee quite shamelesse Hence it is no maruell that you are Winebibbers Effeminate stately and full of money Your Schollers bring you Gold as much as they can that they may neuer ouerloade you Is vertue to begotten after money Wee let passe to speake of your companions in certaine well ordered Cities that one example of Father Swares shall suffice you which we commit to your moyst memory in these things But who are they whom you teach for nothing Are they poore truely no they are Heires of great riches and large Possessions These will not suffer your Society to want for riches We wonder that you know not these things You know many things and doe you not know your selues The summe of Philosophy bids Know thy selfe So no man knoweth how much he knoweth not You read Danus in Terence but you doe not see how you disturbe and confound all things You reade of the Giants in Virgill but how you your selues doe wage Warre with heauen and all the gods you doe not know You reade of the Cyclops in Euripides but you see not how you feare neither God nor man Truely it is more then Cymmerian darknesse you are in vnlesse you happily imitate Socrates who knew onely this that he knew nothing But why doe wee prosequte these things with stile and words One thing we adde of those huge ones before we bring in the Conclusion You Iesuits were meere Aeoluses who sent your boysterous Northerne and Easterne windes vpon this age and the whole Romane Empire that you might onely obtaine the most cursed ende of your Sect namely the Monarchie of the whole world and subiect all the Kingdomes of the World to the Sea of Rome Hence doe troubles compasse vs about like vnto Numida and new waues amongst the surges O when shall wee be in that pure and certaine calme which you haue couered with clowdes that shortly will cause a tempest The ashes which you spread abroad seeme to returne to you ready to burne vp your Society The holy Scripture saith In the multiplying of the wicked wickednesse shall be multiplyed and the iust shall see their falles But that wee may make an ende of these things which we say by the report of others do not thinke O Fathers Iesuits that wee would hurt any of your Society hereby for they are not ours but such as long since were obiected against you by the whole world which things because you haue not answered I thought good to mooue not for vpbrayding but for conference sake It is not possible me thinke that Religion and so many wickednesses should dwell together in one Colledge which if you should suffer to reside vpon you surely we would say that you are the worst of all that goe on two feete whose bodies are hardened with so many skarres of villany and wickednesses that there is no roome for another stroke But though we knowe no other by you yet we hope better For whither you goe you immitate the Nouensilian gods Doe you make speeches your lippes are besmeered with Ciceronian eloquence Doe you laugh the Graces seem to be in your eyes Doe you pray All the Martyrs are beheld in your countenances Doe yee line you are chaster then the Monkes of Syria called Escenor so that if you should chance to see dogges and bitches together in the street you would turne away your faces like Clotomicus for they that haue honest mindes haue tender foreheads as Simocus writeth You are more abstinent from Wine then Fulgentius sometime Bishop of Ruspanary you doe almost go beyond Elias who liued in the Wildernesse neere the Brooke Carith What are Paul the first Hermit Antony Hillarion Patroclus and others in their austere solitarie liues which are mariages in respect of your austesterity Will the world needs be deceiued Let it be gulled we speake sparingly of your praises lest those truthes we tell should be blotted with a suspition of flattery we could not chuse but set down the things fore-mentioned that it might appeare what opinion Germany hath of you and that we might hold you no longer pining in suspence of expectation if you be not guilty of the aforesaide knaueries surely there must be some secret auersation or contrarietie of nature which made these Countries spue ye out as some mens stomacks do Cheese or Fish or Oyle which proceeds not of any known cause but from a certaine Antipothy of nature wherof in imitation of Marshial the Poet we may say I loue thee not O Iesuite The cause thereof I cannot write But this I wot I loue thee not Graue Fathers we can say no more to this vnles there be some strange hidden disease in yee t is wonderful what should be the reason why all true Germaines should openly professe that all Cities Townes are desperatly sick wher ther be any nests of Iesuits surely there must be some contagious diseas that stickes to your Companies or els you are tormented with some other maladies of the Stone or burning Feauers or turmoiling of your loynes els why are found in your Coleges such groaning chaires as women vse in Child-birth Homer tels of of one that was angry because Thirsites sate in councel among the Princes shall we be so patient to suffer those to dwell among vs that are ouerrunne with I know not what scuruy foule euill Surely it were fitter that all of your ranke were swept out of al Germany then be let in adores where they haue bin once fairely rid of ye Why should Germany let ye set footing in more places then ye haue already the Monistary which you seeke are profitable for our Churches schooles which are not to be robbed that you might enioy them It should go very hard with vs if your Lettine should bee song amongst vs we mean that Letany by which ye song to death two Popes Clement the 8. who in the disputation concerning Grace did set you out in your colours and Sixtus the fift who was your professed enemy if ye will not deale so with vs we will afford ye our counsell and