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A25430	Memoirs of the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late lord privy seal intermixt with moral, political and historical observations, by way of discourse in a letter : to which is prefixt a letter written by his Lordship during his retirement from court in the year 1683 / published by Sir Peter Pett, Knight ...	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Pett, Peter, Sir, 1630-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing A3175; ESTC R3838	87,758	395

above them to him I commit you and in him I am Your Affectionate Friend and Servant ANGLESEY Memoirs Of the Late Earl of Anglesey c. SIR I Have not that time I wish to thank you particularly enough for your Discourse in a Letter to me and writ to me when I was Lord Privy Seal on the Occasion mentioned in your Preface I am so much a lover of my Country that I would be content to have all the Dirt and Shamm again thrown on me by any such Infamous Witness as He was if it might Occasion the Enriching it with the Treasure of such an other Discourse I did not account it a Solamen that not only the Earl of Peterburgh but his Majesty were participants with me in the Calumnious Affidavit Published against me but was sorry and ashamed for the Effrontery of the Infamous Swearer extending it self so far and likewise glad that after I was sufficiently vindicated by your Pen you took the pains so Learnedly to State the Notion of Infamous Witnesses for Illuminating the Age therein I know that in the Hot times of the Martyrocracy as you call it it would not have been for the Advantage of my self or others so unworthily then treated by it for you to have then used Personal Invectives to have rendred any Witness more odious and when likewise it would have proved more dangerous to you than Scandalum Magnatum You having mentioned what Authority of Testimony or real Weight and Worth there should be to Convict a person of such Authority and that Diamonds are not to be Cut but with the dust of Diamonds and that it is not for nothing that the Scripture Cautions the not receiving an Accusation against an Elder but by two or three Witnesses and how the Canon Law requires 72 Witnesses to Convict a Cardinal Bishop accused of any Crime but Heresie and 26 to Convict a Cardinal Deacon and 7 to Convict any Clerk did afterward very justly commend our Iudges for having at a known Tryal acquainted the Iury that they are carefully to weigh the Credibility of Witnesses Pardoned for Perjury and did learnedly shew out of the Canonists and Schoolmen that the Pope himself with the plenitude of his pretended Monarchical Power cannot by his Pardon wash away the infamia facti and thereby did sufficiently rescue my self and other Honest Men from the foul Hands of Infamous Witnesses And that one Notion of yours though softly insinuated and with the Gentleness of a Philosopher that a Man Pardoned for Infamy is to be allowed as a Credible Witness only after it hath been found that he hath acquired anhabit of Virtue by the Series of many Actions in the following part of his Life no Man being supposed able in a desultory way to leap out of a rooted habit of Vice into an Heroical Habit of Virtue and so è contrà was in effect a Thunderclap against the Testimony of the Infamous Person who Slandered me by his Affidavit and which too might serve to Deter all Infamous Persons in that Conjuncture from daring to try to run Men of probity down with the noise of Shamme And your afterwards rendring such Persons capable of being Accusers in the point of Treason and even as Hereticks are allowable by the Canonists to accuse a Pope of Heresy was enough pleasing to me As were likewise the Curious and Soft strokes of your Rhetorick and Reason in the following Page when on the grounds of the dark Colours of such Persons in general who cheated their Countrymen by Retail and who had long acted only Devils parts on the Stage of the World and been Malefactors you lay the bright ones of saving their Country by Whole-Sale and being Benefactors c. and whereby as I may say you have in effect gilded the Pillory for them and have added to the number of the Spectators of their shame and by those soft strokes provided for the Deletion of that Government of the Witnesses better than the most bold touches could then have done That Empire of theirs which you then weighed hath been since naturally destroyed And your having mentioned such having long acted the Parts of Devils brings into my mind what I somewhere met with Cited out of Melchior Adam's Liv●s of the German Divines and with which I shall here Divert you as you have me with some apposit pleasant passages in your Letter Namely that Bucholeer said by way of Counsel to one of his Friends going to live at Court Fidem Diabolorum tibi commendo c. and take heed how you believe Men's promises there otherwise than warily and with fear Your weighty Notion of the Incredibility of any things sworn being to be much regarded in the Depositions of the most Credible Persons inclined me to a necessary Caution and Fear as to the Truth of those Oaths assertory when both Incredible Persons Swearing and Incredible things Sworn were in the Case I was therefore without any fear as I may say an Athanasius against the World of our three Estates when I did as you mention publickly give my Vote that there was no such IRISH PLOT as was Sworn by the Witnesses And what my Sense was of any Irish or English Papists PLOT I shall not here take occasion to express but yet as to some persons Convicted of the Popish Plot in England upon the Oaths of Witnesses who appeared in the Eye of the Law then probi legales homines I was so fearful of the Defects of some Witnesses and their sayings that I being then Lord Privy Seal interceded as earnestly as I could with the King my Master to grant his Pardon particularly in the Case of Mr. Langhorne and the Titular Arch-Bishop Plunkett and was as Active as any in the House of Lords in Exploding the Infamous Accusation of the most Vertuous then Queen Consort And though in the unfortunate Lord Staffords Case I going Secundum allegata probata I gave my Judgment as I did yet his late Majesty did publicly acknowledge that I was an Importunate Solicitor with him for his Lordships Pardon as well as for the Pardon of Langhorne and Plunkett above mentioned And you have done me but Iustice in mentioning that I interceded with his late Majesty for the Releasing of all Lay and Clerical Papists whatsoever out of the Prisons who were not charged with the Popish Plot And which I moved to his Majesty in the warmest time of the late Hot Conjuncture I was always of your Mind in what you mention that 't is easier to give our Account to God for Mercy than Iustice and do more thank you for the Representing my Habitual and Natural Inclination to do all the good I can to all Mankind and to make every miserable Man I know and cannot help yet sure of my Compassion than for your having ventured by your kind Opinion to Multiply or Magnifie any intellectual Talents in me I easily foresaw at that time that my then shewing the Humanity of

Memoirs OF THE Right Honourable ARTHUR Earl of ANGLESEY LATE Lord Privy Seal Intermixt With Moral Political and Historical Observations by way of Discourse in a Letter To which is prefixt a Letter Written by his Lordship during his Retirement from Court in the Year 1683. Published by Sir Peter Pett Knight Advocate General for the Kingdom of Ireland LONDON Printed for Iohn Dunton at the Raven in the Poultry 1693. This may be Printed June 30th 1693. Edward Cooke To the Right Honourable the Lord ALTHAM My Lord HAving taken occasion to present the following Papers of your Noble and Learned Father to the World I held my self obliged to make a particular Dedication of 'em to your self in whom so much of the Acuteness of his Wit and of his incomparable Modesty and of his Loyalty to his Prince and Conformity to the Church Fidelity in Friendship and Candour of Disposition and Manners is Conspicuous to the World And by which latter Qualification your Conversation is perfectly charming to all who have the Honour of it His Lordships great value of these generous qualities in you was often signified to me by him in my more than twenty five years frequent Conversation with him in the latter part of his Life and wherein you gave him so much just Cause to presage that your Lordship would be both a Propp and an Ornament to his Family And I doubt not but those Great and Manly efforts of his Reason Religion and Learning that I here lay before your thoughts will be further Inducements to you to make a Natural use of his great Example and to spend as much of your Life as you can spare from the Service of your Country in the most vigorous pursuits after Knowledge and in the investigation of Truth and for your doing which you have in the Course of Nature so fair a prospect of a long race of Life before you His Lordship used often to quote occasionally that saying of my Lord Bacon's Actio est Conversatio cum Stultis lectio autem cum Sapientibus The thought whereof induced him to spend so much of his time in his Library and where he usually loc'kd himself up so close that in stead of fortifying his Interest at Court as great Men do by frequent giving of Visits to one another he very much avoided the receiving them And therefore he having so vast a Collection of Choice Books both in the Ancient and Modern Languages and especially of Divinity Common-Law Civil Law Canon-Law and History and laying the Scene of his Life so much among them and living to a good Old Age the World might well expect that what he should leave behind him of his own Composing should be worthy of himself and it And such your Lordship will find this Volume to be The first Work of your Fathers that I shall Entertain your Lordship and the World with is that of his Letter to my self of Iuly the 18 th 1683 Writ on the occasion of my minding him of his yearly Custom of sending Venison to Sir George Ent and which Letter is variously instructful to the Age. I placed before his large Discourse by way of Letter to me in Answer of Mine to him of that Nature because the Order of time required it He had my entire Discourse by him in his Study Printed and bound up long before he dyed And his Lordship telling me that he intended his by way of return to it and to be Printed in Folio to be bound up with mine mine thereby happen'd not to be Published in his Life time It was afterward Published with the Title of the Happy Future State of England and since by a new Title viz A Discourse of the growth of England in populousness and trade since the Reformation c. Printed for William Rogers at the Sun over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-Street And as all great Writers and especially of such Subjects that refer to various kinds of Learning have Customarily employed several persons in gathering Quotations for them and abstracting them and as for this purpose I have some where Cited the Lord Secretary Falkland for saying of Cardinal Peron that Baronius and Bellarmine were but fit to gather Quotations for him so your Father was pleased to Crave the Aid of Quotations from his Learned Friend Bishop Barlow in two or three Points relating to Theology and the Canon Law and which were sent to him in Letters I scarce know any one Man who is so absolute a Master of all the various kinds of Learning refer'd to in your Fathers large following Discourse as to have commanded the proper use thereof without applying to the Labour of some other Friend in this kind Nor have any of the most Learned of the Jesuits presumed to Publish the most Famous and Elaborate of their Volumes either Historical or Mathematical without owing a beholdingness to others for Quotations And as any one here who entertains a great Prince in a Splendid manner holds himself obliged not to confine himself to his own Ground for all the Materials of his Treat so he who invites to his Entertainment no meaner a Guest than the World by his Writings ought not to Disdain the use of the Heads or Hands of others in finding out the most Curious Provision for it and especially in so Critical an Age as this But even herein was your Fathers great Modesty so Signal as to shew that he designed not the Appropriating wholy to himself the Honour of all the Bishops Learned and Judicious Quotations and which yet by the Custom of other great Writers he might have justifiably done that he is pleased to notifie to the World in p. 21. his having apply'd to the Bishop on that account and what Communications he had from him by Letters and his desire of their Publication Another great instance of his Exuberant Modesty I shall here Entertain your Lordship with is the great Complement he was pleased to put on me when not very long before his last Sickness he delivered to me his large Discourse as fairly Writ out by his Amanuenses and variously altered by his own Hand and the which after the Printers have made use of I intend to offer to your Lordships Cabinet and desired me that I would take the same Freedom in putting out or Deleting any thing I thought Superfluous or proper to be expunged as he told me Mr. Boyle had desired me to do when I Published his Excellent Book of The Style of the Scriptures Mr. Boyle in a Letter to me Printed before that Book Addrest it to me with the Initial Letters of Mr. P.P. A.G. F.I. by which he meant to refer to me as Advocate General for Ireland and giving a Friendly Reason for not more openly naming me And he is there pleased to say I have been obliged that I might obey you not only to Dismember but to Mangle the Treatise you perused cutting out here a whole side and there half and in another

the History of that Age and could wish that such a Writer as your self would undertake the writing of it Nor can I forbear to observe that your occasional propping up the great Characters of many of his Majesties Ministers in your Discourse in very warm Conjuncture when a Factious Multitude was so busy in Demolishing their Reputations was worthy your great thoughts and generosity And your particular painting the Character of the late Earl of Clarendon in such Noble Colours and with Somewhat as bold strokes too of your Fancy and Judgment as Aerodius shew'd in his penne's Nulling the Laws made above a thousand years ago against the Heroical Men you have mention'd was in you an adventurous piece of Justice The course of Mortality hath carryed several persons off th● Stage whom you mention'd as then living and particularly the late Duke of Norfolk of whom in p. 174. of your Discourse you speak as one of the three Earls then Living who went from the Church of England to the Roman-Catholick Communion and whom you since told me you there introduced only with his Title of Earl a Title that was due to him as Earl of Norwich Arundell and Surry making bold to Level him with the Title of the other two viz. the late Earl of Bristoll and the late Earl of Inchiqueen as intending thereby that if he had lived to have read your Discourse of which you told me you communicated several parts to him he might by that little Obscurity see the Reverence you had paid to that picture of your known great Friend by your drawing a Curtain before it The Earl of Radnor and the late Lord Keeper North whose Characters you have so greatly painted to Eternity left the World without seeing the right that you had so generously done them in Defiance of the vulgar Clamour I am moreover here to own my thanks to you for giving me occasion by your so frequent quoting of D' Ossat to renew my Conversation in my Library with that great Author His Excellent Letters were formerly fresh enough in my Memory and time was heretofore when not to be well versed in him was a Reproach to a Man employed in Affairs of the State as you will see by my Lord Falkeland the Secretary of State 's printed Letter in answer to Mr. Walter Montagues Letter where speaking of D' Ossat he adds viz. An Author which I know Mr. Montague hath read because whosoever hath but considered State Matters must be as well skill'd in him as any Priest in his breviary You very well in p. 38. observ'd how one Priest that in his Book considered State Matters and quoting D' Ossat about the same was not so well skilled in him as in his Breviary I mean Mr. Browne the Franciscan who in his ADVOCATE of Conscience Liberty Cited D' OSSATS Letter to shew that the Gunpowder-Treason was contrived by CECIL But it was the ill fate of that Cardinal on the account of his great Fame for the Politicks to be falsely Cited and even as to the point of the Gunpowder-Treason by several who never read him and particularly by Mr. Osborne in his works bound together p. 487. among the Memoirs of King James where he saith And here I cannot omit that after this happy Discovery his Catholick Majesty sent an Agent on purpose to Congratulate King James his great preservation from the Gunpowder-Treason a flattery so palpable as the Pope could not forbear Laughing in the face of Cardinal D' Ossat when he first told it him Nor he forbear to imform his King of it as may be found in his printed Letters You have truly shewn it out of the Cardinals Epitaph printed in the Edition of his Letters in Folio that he dyed in the year 1604. I am very glad that for the Honour of the Reformation you have with so much Candour and likewise with Substantial Calculation Confuted an Unjust insinuation against it made by the Author of the Compendium who there in p. 77. saith can it be said that the Monarchy of England hath gotten by the Reformation and what desperate Enemies that hath created us may be easily imagined that nothing but Popery or at least its Principles can make it again emerge or lasting It was fit that the clearing of the truth in that matter should be undertaken by some one or other of our Church and it hath been by you very Satisfactorily performed And your thus Confuting that Author without naming him or his Book in that part of your Discourse where you were doing it was the more Congruous to the measures of Charity and Candour and the more for the advantage of your undertaking It was likewise fit that the minds of so many People whose Humour in the late Fermentation was desperare de Republicâ should be fortified with Reason And that the popular Nusance of FEARS AND IEALOVSIES should be removed and which you have so much ex professo I think beyond any of our late Writers done And while the vulgus of Writers were entailing Fears and Iealousies upon us your predicting from Natural Causes the Happy Future STATE of your Country and that the Fermentation would be perfective to it as your words are was an Attempt of a great Genius And I cannot but in Justice say to you that your thoughts in p. 194 195. of the Folly and Madness of any Republican Modellers here are new and great Moreover as I always had a Just and High value and Honour for the Endowments of his Present Majesty that were in him Conspicuous to the World when Duke of York and was as much ashamed of the opprobrious Calumnies that his great Character was then exposed to as any Man whatsoever and was likewise more concern'd for the ill usage he had than for my own when my poor Name was in the printed Affidavit enforced to March round the Kingdom with his Great and Illustrious one so I was glad that in the late Conjuncture I found by some printed Sheets of your Discourse then sent me your papers Representation of his Character made him amends for the Sanbenito of the Affidavit And the Strictures of your great Fancy and Iudgment with which you so apparently refer to his Character in p. 122.176.211.271 and others in your Casuistical Discussion tho' they were but short and seemingly en passant yet they were like the slanting of Lightning and like glances whose quick Movements might probably Create much more powerful Passions of Love and Admiration in a Reader than if you had penned his Character in Set formal Panegyricks whose Hony soon cloys and leaves no sting or Impression in the Mind But that which I may paralel with any Coup de Maitre in your or perhaps any Discourse and Writ with such great Advantage for his present Majesties Service and wherein the Mixtures of your great Colours is so Admirable and wherin you have painted according to the height of a pittore that the Italians say must paint con

diligenza con amore con fortuna is what I find in your page 217 and 218. For 't is there that in your great picture of His Late Majesty as an Agonist and laying the Crown of Righteousness before him eo nomine and as Contending for the Succession You have interweaved the picture of your own Loyalty and Contention for it with such bold Touches as I shall not name but refer the Reader to them which it was pitty but your Index had done with a hand in the Margent There is no doubt but the very Curiosity of the Calculations in your Discourse would have brought it into the late Kings Cabinet and to his perusal had he lived till its Publication and your great Majestick Insinuations of perswasive Arguemnt there brought apparently w●th a Design to fortifie his great Mind against any possible further Batteries from Members of any of the three Estates to occasion his consenting to the Exclusion must necessarily have been soon perceiv'd by so quick an Apprehension as his Majesties and could not but have made deep impressions on him for the continuance in his former purpose And I will hereupon say that if any Loyal Roman-Catholick would not on the Account of what you have said in those two pages absolve you from his severe Censuring of the warmest passages against Popery in your whole Discourse he would injure his own Judgment And the Truth is Arch-Bishop Hutton's minding Queen Elizabeth so boldly from the Pulpit though yet with a Salvo to the Rules of Modesty and Decorum of what in Justice concerned her as to K. Iames's Succession which you have mentioned and which was by her so well taken was not a harder Task to be performed than what you presented to the consideration of his Late Majesty from the Press in the Affair of his preserving the Lineal Succession of his present Majesty As it is natural to Men on the sight of any Combatants or Wrestlers whom they had never before seen to wish better to the one than the other and to have their Fancy's by the Current of Nature constantly carryed along to favour the Fortunes of this or that Contender whom yet they never saw so I have during the course of our long acquaintance observed in you on all occasions a natural and constant tenderness in your Wishes of Happiness and good Success to his present Majesty when Duke of York And had not you on grounds of Nature and so like a Philosopher expressed the same and from the Knowledg of things in particular founded your Conjectural measures of Englands future Happy State if under his Government but had only presaged well of his Reign in general one might have thought that your natural Affection and Honour for his Person might have byassed you that way as a praedicter rather than the natural knowledge of things especially considering what you have well hinted that the very praediction of things is often a Natural cause in some degree of Men's being Animated to bring them to effect And indeed I receiving many of your printed Sheets during our late Fermentation when so many Writers seemed Associated in the praediction of the worst of Events under a Popish Successor was the more pleased to find one Man that was not like a dead fish carryed down with the stream of the Times as to the point of ill boding to the publick and the strength of whose fancy mixt with his great Reason and Judgment might be able to help to turn that stream And God be thanked that by his Majesties coming to inherit the Throne of his Ancestors with almost as equal Peace and Ioy of the People as his Royal Brother was Restored to the same and for your Description of the Figure I made in which latter or to speak more properly of my Duty I discharged therein I return you my Just Acknowledgments and by his so early and voluntary Gracious Declaration of his defending the C. of E. and the Civil Government as by Law Established and so publickly owning the Loyalty of the Principles of that Church and by his continuance of the prosperity of that Church and the Peace and Prosperity of the Kingdom while the whole Creation as I may say groans under the pressure of some of our Protestant Brethren abroad you have hitherto appeared so much a True Praedicter as you have I am likewise glad hereby that another Learned Person of our Church I mean Dr. Thomas Sprat the Lord Bishop of Rochester taking his view of the Future State of England in his History of the Royal Society and there saying as you have Cited it that we may safely conclude that what ever vicissitude shall happen about Religion in our time it will probably be neither to the advantage of implicit Faith nor of Enthusiasm has hitherto appear'd so fortunate in that praediction God be thanked that such as in the late Conjuncture troubled us with the being Lachrymists in another and the imagin'd nubecula est c. as to persecution have had some cause to be ashamed of their Fears And that you have hitherto had no more cause to be ashamed of praedicting Englands future pacifick State though yet we have had a * Monmouths Rebellion since But as to that it may be properly said that that persecution against the Throne nubecula fuit transivit We have had presently after the Kings coming to the Throne a little Cloud of Calumny cast on the Reputations of four of the most Eminent Divines of our Metropolis by some of their fellow Subiects supposed Roman Catholicks but it soon passed off And God brought forth their Righteousness as the Light and their Iudgment as the Noon-Day And the thing scarce deserves to be remembred that after they had thus misrepresented four such Protestant Divines with so much falshood some others of those published a Book called The Papist Misrepresented and Represented and which is lately answer'd with that Candour and Strength of Reason that ought to be in Theological Writings and wherein as the Lord Falkeland who was then Secretary was wont to say it was as absurd to mingle angry reviling expressions as to do so in a Love-Letter There was a despicable Childish Pamphlet and Writ with too much petulant insolence called An Address from the Church of England to both Houses of Parliament and which was by many of the Fathers of that Church held not worth the taking notice of And because it is very Ridiculous for any now to think to Re-Baptize the present Church of England with the Name of ROMAN Catholick I have here thought fit in pursuance of what you mentioned in p. 70. to let you and others have a Copy of the Rescript or Iudgment of the Vniversity of Oxford to Henry the 8 th whereby the Bishop of Rome was pronounced to have no more power here by the Word of God than any other Foreign Bishop I Judge that that Old Book of Dr. Iames's you refer to is

or any Act that shews us that it hath been truly received and publisht for according to the Rules of Right a Council cannot Faire Loy if it hath not been published But if any one were minded to speak Argumentatively and shew that the French do not now receive the Trent Council no not in rebus fidei he might urge 1. That the whole Clergy of France in their Assembly March 19. 1682. declared that a Council is above the Pope 2. That he hath no Power in Temporals in any Princes Dominions 3. That he hath no Power to Depose Princes 4. Nor to Absolve Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance 5. That he is not infallible And though the Pope declared by his Bull Dated at Rome Apr. 11 th 1682. that those Acts of theirs were Null the words of Improbamus Rescindimus Cassamus c. being in the Bull yet the French King had before in his Edict of March 23. 1682. Registred in Parliament Ratified and Confirm'd them all Nor is it deniable that these 5 Propositions contradict many things in the Trent Council which are setled in it as Doctrinal Points And moreover 't is obvious to any one to observe that in the Acts of the General Assembly of the French Clergy in the year 1685. they Cite their new Trent Creed i. e. some PART of it For the last of it they cite is p. 38. of that Book and leave out the LAST part of that Creed which is contained in these words Caetera item omnia Sacris Canonibus aecumenicis Concilijs ac praecipuè à Sacro-Sanctà Tridentinà Synodo tradita definita declarata indubitanter recipio ac profiteor simulque Contraria omnia atque haereses quascunque ab Ecclesiâ damnatas rejectas Anathematizatas ego pariter rejicio damno Anathematizo Hanc veram Catholicam fidem extrà quam nemo salvus esse potest quam in praesente sponte profiteor veraciter teneo eandem integram usque ad extremum vitae Spiritum Constantissimè retinere confiteri atque ab illis quorum cura ad me in munere hoc spectabit teneri doceri praedicari quantum in me est curaturum Ego idem N. spondeo voveo juro c. These are the words which the French Clergy leave out in their Book above mentioned and they knew the Preservation of the Liberties of the Gallican Church obliged them to such omission For by this part of the Trent Creed they are bound to believe and profess Omnia à Concilio Tridentino tradita definita declarata and so not matters of Doctrine and Definitions of Faith only And 't is most plain that the Council intended both matters of Discipline and Doctrine And in the aforesaid words of the Trent Creed a firm Belief is required to be given omnibus in Concilijs oecumenicis traditis and then a long farewel to all their Liberties of the Gallican Church would ensue and their Sanctio Pragmatica which is the Authentick Comprehension of them is Damned by Leo the 10th approbante Concilio in the General Lateran Council It may be moreover said that the words above mentioned that the French Clergy left out of their Book are a part Fidei Catholicae extrà quam non est salus and therefore if the French do not receive as it seems they do not this part of the Trent Creed then it may very well be doubted whether they receiv'd the Definitions of Faith of the Tridentine Council as De Marca would have us believe The Trent Creed I have referred to is at the end of that Council in most of the Editions of it but in the Edition at Antwerp which is the best viz. Anno 1633 it is in the Body of the Council Ses. 24. p. 450 451. It here occurs to my thoughts to entertain yours out of Hoornbeck's Examen bullae Papalis Printed An. 1652. where in p. 42. speaking of the French Embassadors claiming the Honour of sitting before those of Spain he saith uti apparuit in Oratorum Galliae Regis Carol. 9. protestatione in Concilio Tridentino factâ An. 1563 quando secus fieret Oratores Hispan Regis post Imperatoris locum Caperent primum Cujus omnem Culpam in solum rejiciebant Papam Pium 4 tum Cujus aiebant imperium detrectamus quaecunque sint ejus judicia sententiae reijcimus respuimus contemnimus Et quanquam Patres Sanctissimi vestra omnium Religio vita eruditio magnae semper fuit erit apud nos auctoritatis cum tamen nihil a vobis Sed omnia magis Romae quam Tridenti agantur quae hic publicantur magis Pij 4 ti placita quam Concilij Tridentim decreta jure existimentur denunciamus protestamur quaecunque in hoc conventu hoc est toto Pij nutu voluntate decernuntur publicantur ea neque Regem Christianissimum probaturum neque Ecclesiam Gallicanam pro decreto oecumenici Concilij habituram Interea quot quot estis Galliae Archiepiscopi Episcopi Abbates Doctores Theologi vos omnes hinc abire Rex Christianissimus jubet redituros ut primum Deus opt max. Ecclesiae Catholicae in generalibus Concilijs anttquam formam libertatem restituerit Regi autem Christianissimo suam dignitatem Majestatem And he afterward in p. 192. desires that after those words dignitatem Majestatem may be added what followeth among the addenda there to his foregoing work viz. In Concilio Tridentino vehementer illa inter Gallos Hispanos agitabatur Contentio de praecedentiâ Non solum illis primum à legato Imperatoris locum petentibus sed nolentibus ut Orator Hispani Regis alio quo singulari loco ab illis sederet sed ordine post eos aliter se protestari non adversum legatos aut Philippum Regem aut Concilium aut Ecclesiam Romanam sed adversus ipsum Papam Pium 4 tum non pro legitimo illum habentes Papâ provocare se ad Concilium aliud liberum in Galliâ Cogendum Ubi illud facetum accidit quod quando adversus Oratoris Gallici expostulationem diceretur cum Scommate Gallus Cantat hic Concinne protinus respondit Vtinam illo Gallicinio Petrus ad resipiscentiam fletum excitaretur Illàque causa postmodum Gallis fuit inter alias quo minus Concilium Tridentinum in Regno Ecclesiis Gallicanis vel ejus publicatio admissa fuerit This Book of Hoornbeck was Printed at Vtrecht and the Papal Bull on which it very Learnedly Animadverts is that by which the Pope endeavour'd to Abrogate the Peace of Munster But to go on with my Assertion of the Non-reception of the Council of Trent in France I shall acquaint you that another considerable Author Namely My Lord Primate Bramhal who was an Exile in France in the time of the Vsurpation and whose observation penetrated as far into the Constitution of the Gallican Church as either F. Cressy's or any Man 's else