if he should prevail against the Christians when he had strengthned himself and had more leisure The Sophy at length gave answer in seven Letters two to the Pope two to the Emperor and three to the King of Poland the result of all was That the Sophy is in Peace with the Turks and that his Conscience will not permit him to violate his Oath by which he had confirm'd it in declaring War against the Turk In March the Pope remitted a 100 thousand Crowns to his Nuntio at Vienna for the service of the next Campagne Cardinal D'Estrees told the Pope that the French King would religiously observe the Truce and good correspondence with the Emperor yet went on to Fortify places on the Rhine In February the Pope resolv'd to maintain 1000 Men at his own charge to assist the Venetians in Dalmatia and Signior Imperiale Treasurer General of the Chamber went to Civita Vecchia to give orders and hasten the fitting of the Galleys against May that Month being appointed for the Rendezvous of the Popes Galleys and those from Malta and Tuscany who had all along heretofore joyned the Popes to assist in the Morea 1687. In July the Popes Maltese and Tuscany Galleys did not think fit to joyn the Venetian Fleet for fear of infection the Plague having been amongst them tho' it was assur'd that now the Fleet was clear however they fear'd there might be some remains in Napoli di Romania but his Holiness wrote to the Senate That in case his Galleys could be serviceable to them towards Dalmatia they should have Orders to Sail thither Towards the end of July the Venetian Fleet in the Gulph of Lepanto Landed some Soldiers and beat the Turkish Army found Lepanto and several other places presently abandoned by the Turks which they made themselves Masters of with some Guns at Sea they took almost all their Naval Force being 14 Galleys The Popes Galleys c. at length having adventur'd to joyn the Venetian Fleet with the assistance of these they also took Castle-Novo in Albania and discomfited the Turks Army there the Vessels from this place used much to infest the Adriatique Sea which made the gain of it the more considerable there were found in it 700 Christian Slaves who had been taken by the Turks this year which the Conquerors released getting besides a very considerable booty which had been taken by Pyracy This year the Venetians likewise took Athens and the Turks having abandon'd Corinth and set fire to it the Venetians entred it and had the Keys of the Castle of Totnes deliver'd to them Thus in a little time the Venetians became Masters of all the Morea being 500 Miles in Circuit but the Fortress of Malvasia and now the Season of the year requiring it the Popes Galleys c. return'd homewards and in the beginning of November arriv'd at Civita Vecchia On the 10th of August the Dukes of Lorrain and Bavaria Generals of the Imperial Army obtained a very great Victory over the Turks Army near Siclos It was said the Turks Army consisted of 100000 of which between 8000 or 10000 were kill'd on the place and as many drown'd the Imperialists also took all their Cannon Tents and Baggage of very great value with the loss of not above 500 Men. After this the Duke of Lorrain passed the Danube but found the Country so scarce of Provision and Forage that he was forced in October to retire towards his Winter-Quarters to refresh his Men but General Dunewalt with some of the Imperial Army that were left with him and the assistance of the Croatian Militia took Buezin and Walpo and surprised Esseck where at the Imperialists entrance at the one end of the Town the Turks fled out at the other Mines were ready charg'd to have blown up the Castle at their departure but their haste to be gone prevented firing them and the Imperialists being speedily by the Inhabitants directed to them took out the Powder And thus was this Campagne compleated with the possessing the chief Passage the Turks had into Hungary The Arch-Duke Joseph Son of the Emperor was by consent of the Dyet December the 9th Crowned King of Hungary On the 18th of December that considerable place Agria was surrendred to the Imperialists that stayed in Hungary It was taken by the Turks 1596 and had continued in their possession until this time The Pope had formerly taken the Assignments of several Noblemens Creditors because he could better deal with them than others as is noted before This year in June He gave Orders for seizing the Estate of the Duke of Bracciano for payment of his Debts notwithstanding the great Sollicitations of his Relations and Friends to the contrary The Dutchess who was Sister to the Duke of Noirmonstier parted the latter end of this Month for Paris hoping to find out some means whereby to prevent the absolute sale of their Estate and consequently the ruine of that ancient Family which is a Branch of the House of Ursini In the beginning of July several Congregations were held in presence of the Pope upon occasion of the Quietists whom he was thought to favour and was reproach'd in France as though he had suffer'd a Heresie to grow up under his Nose and spread it self through the whole Church In August another Congregation was held on the same account where it was Decreed that Dr. Molinos should publickly Recant several Propositions drawn out of his Books his Letters and the Confessions of some that had been apprehended and imprison'd by the Inquisitors for those Opinions But this business of the Quietests is so considerable that this History would be imperfect if I do not give a farther account of it for in February and March before this came so home on Dr. Molinos there were imprisoned by order of the Inquisitors 200 Persons some whereof for their Rank Learning and Piety were very much esteem'd at Rome who were supposed to have imbibed the Doctrine of Molinos it will be therefore necessary to begin with some account of him Michael de Molinos was a Spaniard of a good and wealthy Family He entred into Priests Orders but had never any Ecclesiastical Benefice so that he seemed to have Dedicated himself to the Service of the Church without designing Temporal Advantage to himself He passeth in Italy for a Man both of Learning and good Sence but hath to good way of Reasoning to maintain his Opinion His course of Life hath been exact so that the Pope who looked chiefly at the practice of Men not well indeed understanding or concerning himself in the Mystery of Divinity said of him That though he might err yet he was a good Man and therefore to depress him in the Popes favour and calumniate him to others the Jesuits who became the Prosecutors of him and his Followers suggested that he was of a Vicious Life and Conversation It is true he never practised those Austerities that are so much magnified in the Church of Rome
of Athens and the Fortresses of Dulcigno and Maona with all the Morea and that the Turks should pay the Venetians 400000 Ducats towards the Charge they had been at in the War The Poles demanded Caminiec to be deliver'd up to them The Envoys gave answer That they were tied up to the Propositions they had made and could not recede from them or give any answer to their Propositions until they had sent to inform the Port of them and had receiv'd thence further Instructions It was discoursed of offering them fifty days and that if a Peace were not after that concluded the Envoys should be sent to Raab and detain'd there during the War in return for that the Grand Seignior had secured Count Caprara when he resided in quality of the Emperor's Ambassador at Constantinople No Peace ensued for the French Minister at the Port represented to the Divan or Council That his Master was entred into the heart of the Empire with an Army and that he had put all the Princes and the Estates thereof into a great Consternation wherefore the Emperor had withdrawn his Forces out of Hungary for the defence of the Empire and that his Master being now actually in War with him the Grand Seignior would have a favourable opportunity by continuing the War to recover the ground he had lost and promised on his Masters part a powerful Diversion to the Empire Upon which the Divan resolved to continue the War and gave orders for new Levies c. As to the War against the Turk little can be said of it in the time I am limited to viz. the Pope's Death the Venetians had then made but little Progress in this years Expedition April 17. Prince Lewis of Baden was appointed by the Emperor to command his Army against the Turks which consisted of 32000 Germans besides Hungarians and Croats that should joyn him on his march He pursued the War with very great Success The Tartars in the beginning of this year made an Incursion into Russia from whence they carried a great number of People into Slavery having defeated some Troops that got together in hast without due order or conduct to oppose them And since I have often mentioned the Tartars and their Incursions take this short Account of them They are a Savage sort of People that have few Towns or Villages in their Country but live for the most part in the Fields and Woods removing from place to place with their Children and Cattle in great Troops or Bands where they can find Sustenance They breed up Horses with great Difficulty for their use practising them to live two or three days without Meat or Water so that in the training of them to it they loose many when they go into a neighbouring Country to Pillage they ride on one of these Horses and lead another to carry away their Plunder or change in riding as they see occasion and for themselves they provide a good piece of raw Flesh of a Horse or other Beast and putting it under their rude Saddles they ride upon it and in a days time the heat of the Horses back will have stew'd it sufficiently and then as they are hungry they tear or draw out a piece of the Flesh and devour it without any Let or Hinderance in their Journeys but they that have Milch'd Mares sustain themselves by drinking their Milk And thus they will with great speed travel 2 or 300 Miles till they meet with People or Spoil which they take and carry away before Troops can be assembled to attack them Their Arms are only a kind of Sword or Scimiter with which they spare not to cut off the Heads of such as will not yield to them When they joyn the Turk they march in the Van without any order Robbing and killing as they please Those of them in Caminiec this year did often ride forth Robbing and Spoiling the King of Poland's Country and 2000 of them brought in 300 Wagons laden with Provisions into the Town which did formerly belong to the King of Poland and he hath often attempted as he did this year to regain it but without Success In June the Moscovites met and engaged a very great Body of them and on the place and in pursuit kill'd 3000 of them April 19. Christina Queen of Sweden died at Rome In the year 1655. she renounced both her Religion and her Kingdom she had been educated in and own'd the Protestant Religion but after she was Queen she was perswaded to change it for the Roman Catholick and considering her Subjects could not bear the Propagation hereof which her new Principles obliged her unto she resign'd her Kingdom unto her Kinsman Charles Gustavus and apparelling her self in the Habit of a Man she stole away and passed through Denmark and the Lower Germany and came by way of Holland into Brussels where she changed her Habit and in the Privy-Chamber of the Arch-Duke Leopold then Governor of the Low-Countries made her self and Design known and on Christmas-Eve in the presence of him and several of his Nobles she abjur'd the Heresies of Luther and made Profession of the Roman Catholick Faith She resolved to spend her days at Rome where she might live and enjoy her Religion in the most pompous and splendid manner and not only delight her self in the Conversation of Grave Cardinals and Learned Men which she loved but also gain Favour of the Pope and have recourse to him for Pardons Indulgences and his paternal Benediction But the Plague raging that year at Rome she defer'd her Journey thither almost a Twelve-month until the City and Country were restored unto Health Alexander the Seventh was then Pope and she signified her Intentions to him who gave her License to come but desired she would make another solemn Abjuration at Inspruck to prepare and dispose Italy for her more solemn Reception When she was on her way in Germany the Pope sent Luke Holstein the Keeper of the Vatican Library to make her Majesty a Complement in his Name which Person he thought would be very acceptable to accompany her in her Journy being accounted one of the Learnedst Men of that Age. When she approached near Rome he sent four Nuntio's to meet her at her entrance into the City she was met by two Legates a Latere who with a pompous Train conducted her to the Vatican Palace where she was lodged with the Royalty appertaining to a Queen Many and various were the Ceremonies which passed at the Reception of this Great Person after which on Christmas-day she was confirmed by the Pope in St. Peter's Church who superadded the name of Alexandra to Christina She continued her abode at Rome to the day of her Death and out-lived that Pope and Clement the Ninth and Tenth and died a little more than a quarter of a year before Innocent the Eleventh in whose time by reason of Wars in Sweedland the yearly Stipend of one hundred thousand Crowns which she reserved
and Nature for the Title prefixt to the Decree for condemning these Propositions runs thus The Decree of our most holy Lord Innocent the XI by Divine Providence Pope by which he hath condemned 65 Propositions of Casuists as at least scandalous and pernicious in practice and hath forbidden the defending and publishing of them by any one under the pain of Excommunication ipso facto and that to be reserved to the Holy Apostolical See This Decree was publisht at Rome in the usual places on the 4th of March 1679. by Francis Perin Cursor to the Pope and Court of Inquisition In December 1682 an Imperial Envoy arrived at Rome to give the Pope an account that the Turks were making very great preparations for a War in Hungary the Pope very readily gave assurance of his Assistance both against the Turks and Count Teckeley who had been some time in Arms in Upper-Hungary and January the 8th a Congregation was held to consider of the best way to give assistance to the Emperor and resolved That the Tenths of all Ecclesiastical Benefices in Italy and Spain and where the Popes Power is acknowledged except in France shall be employed for carrying on this War and in the mean time for present Occasion remitted 200000 Crowns to the Emperor at Vienna He also wrote to the French King to agree the Differences with his Neighbours and assist against the Turks and the French King's Envoy at Vienna declared his Master desired a lasting Peace between him and the Emperor and that he would be ready to assist with his Forces against the Turks But at the same time a Domestick of the Envoy's was found to have Correspondence with Count Teckeley and secur'd the French Troops had about a year before forced in upon the Magistrates and seiz'd Strasburgh which he refused to re-deliver And the French King both now and for some time after so alarm'd the German princes that they could not assist the Emperor promoting in many ways the Turks Invasion of the Empire and assisting Teckeley with Money This last the Pope charged him with and urged it as one ground for his displeasure when the Disputes were about the Regale which suspicion the King endeavoured to remove though with little satisfaction to the Pope And since it will be my part to give an account of the large Assistances the Pope gave both to the Emperor the King of Polâ—nd and the Venetians in carrying on the War it will not be impertinent to give yearly a short account of the Success that ensued thereupon The Turk published his Declaration of War against the Emperor containing many Blasphemous Reproaches of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which in the Consequence was the occasion of his own Deposing though by his own Soldiers May the 8th 1683 his Holiness had an account that according to his desire the King of Poland had entred into League with the Emperor for assisting in the War which was to be Sworn to by each of their Cardinal Protectors at Rome for every Prince and State that own the Pope for their Head hath a Cardinal at Rome who joyns with his Ambassador if there be any residing there or else alone to take care of the Affairs of that Country at Rome and is call'd the Protector of such a Realm or State Cardinal Pio was for the Empire and Barbarin for the King of Poland In June the Pope sent to the States of Venice to persuade them to enter into the same League with all the Encouragements he was able In the latter end of July this year the Turks besieged Vienna much sooner than was expected the Emperor Court and many Inhabitants speeded out of it almost surprized Count Staremberg the Governor made a very brave Defence notwithstanding the many violent Assaults of the Turks and before Relief came kill'd near 20000 of them The Duke of Lorraine lay with the Emperor's Forces not far off expecting the King of Poland and other Succors to raise the Siege the Turks therefore sent a Body of 15000 Turks and Tartars against him but he kept his Ground killing many of them and foreing the rest to return to their Camp General Dunewald possessed himself of a considerable Post on the Forest near Vienna which if the Turks had been possessed of it might have been difficult for the Christian Armies to have joyn'd September the 9th the King of Poland with his Army and and other Forces came and the whole Christian Army amounted to 64400 fighting Men. On the 12th of September they attack'd the Turks in their Camp and in a short time totally routed them the Turkish Horse fled and there were about 25000 Foot kill'd in the Camp their Baggage two millions of Money 60000 Tents and vast Riches were taken the Garison was brought to its last extremity their Bombs being spent many Cannons burst the Turks were lodg'd in their Ditches so that the Shot from the Garison could not annoy them and the Soldiers within were reduced brought from 15000 to 5000 these sallied out and assisted at the Fight also It was said the Turk lost during the Siege and at the raising 70000 Men. The Christians Chiefs at this Battle were the King of Poland the Electors of Saxony and Bavaria the Duke of Lorraine Prince Waldeek two Princes of Baden Prince D'Anhalt Duke of Croy Prince de Salme Margrave of Brandenburgh the Landgrave of Hess the Prince of Hanouer two Princes of Newburg four Princes of the House of Saxony three Princes of Wirtemberg the Prince of Hobenzeller c. In May this year the Emperor sent to the Pope to desire to grant him the Tenths of the Ecclesiasticks in the Hereditary Countries and for leave to turn Church-Plate into Money towards carrying on the War against the Turks The Pope for the present returned Answer That he would see the War first begun But in August following he called a Congregation and it was resolv'd that a Tax after the Rate of 6 l. per Cent. should be laid on all the Ecclesiastical Revenue per Annum for 10 years in Italy and that the Emperor might renew the Imposition of One pound per Centum upon the Clergy in the Hereditary Countreys for the War The King of Spain in Answer to the Popes Request sent One hundred and seventy thousand Crowns to the Emperor on the same account In November the Pope having notice of the taking of Gran by the Duke of Lorrain receiv'd it with Joy and remitted Money to his Nuncio at Lintz for the Emperors use and sent 30000 Crowns to the Vice-Roy of Croatia to encourage and enable him to assist in the War And being desirous to have the War carried on effectually he not only renew'd his Perswasions to the Venetians to enter into the League offering them the Tenths of the Ecclesiasticks within their Dominions for their assistance but labour'd a Peace between France and Spain and the Empire and was very much troubled he could not effect it then In February
to the Emperour In June the Popes Galleys joyned the Venetian Fleet near Corfu and about August they took Coron a very considerable place in the Morea and in the end of the year the Venetian Envoy gave the Pope an account of the good success that their Fleet and Army had this year had in gaining ground of the Turks in the Morea to his great satisfaction and in November the Popes Galleys return'd home to Civita Vecchia without any considerable detriment The Duke of Lorrain with the Imperial Army went on prosperously in Hungary and took the strong Town of Newheusel from the Turk which had been in a manner blockt up near twelve months and also obtained a very considerable Victory over the Turkish Army who had besieged the Imperial Garison of Gran to make a diversion The King of Poland made a great appearance this year but did little it was suppos'd the French Kings Money overweigh'd the Popes The Republick of Venice named four persons to the Pope for his Holiness to choose one out of them to fill the place of the Auditor of the Rota vacant by the death of Signior Palucci that place being always held by a Venetian In September Cardinal Paulo Savelli de Montalio dyed at Rome in the 63d year of his Age and 20th of his Cardinalship whereby there became 27 vacant places in the Colledge of Cardinals The Pope to encourage brave undertakings against the Turk advanced one Dunstar an Englishman to be Lieutenant of his Guards as a reward or shewing his Valour lately at the siege of Coron occasion'd by a lusty Turk who came forth out of the Garison brandishing his Scymiter and Goliah like sent a bold Challenge to the Venetian General that he was there ready to fight any single man of his whole Army for several hours none durst undertake the Combat till it coming to the Ears of this Dunstar whole pay was but 6 d. a day he acquainted his Captain that he would embrace it and being brought before the General Morosini he enquir'd of his name and Country who told him that he was an Englishman bred up near the Bear-Garden in Southwark the General commended his resolution and so he went forth with a good Backsword in his hand and engaged the Turk who with his Scymiter made a stroke to cut off Dunstar's head but he warded off the blow and gave the Turk a cut on the Hamstring which enrag'd him greatly and at a second blow brought him down to the ground and then cut off his head searched his bosom which the Turks use as a Pocket and found 200 Chequins and some Jewels the Hilt of his Scymiter was set with precious Stones the Conquerour bore them all off and presented them with the Turks head at his Generals feet who only accepted the head and gave him the rest with a reward suitable to his Merit and afterwards his Captain presented him to the Pope with a relation of his Exploit upon which he was advanced as aforesaid November the 21. Things being a little quiet betwixt the Pope and French King his Ambassador at last had Audience of his Holiness acquainting him that the King his Master had resolv'd to refer to his Arbitrement with the approbation of the Duke and Dutchess of Orleans the pretensions the Dutchess had by the death of her late Brother the Elector Palatine to certain Lands and the Moveables for these the Dutchess claimed as not belonging to her Brother as Elector but in his natural Capacity and so to her after his decease as nearest ally'd The Ambassador added that the chief motive that induc'd his Master thereunto was to take all pretences from the Princes of the Empire of excusing themselves from assisting against the Turks and that for that reason his most Christian Majesty would not do any thing that might disturb the Peace of the Empire The Pope shew'd all tokens of his favourable acceptance of this Declaration which if it had been real would have been the greatest satisfaction the French King could have given the Pope but he too well knew the contrary and that tho' he did not with his Arms at present molest the Empire it was not out of good will but while he prepar'd by building some new Forts and fortifying others on or near the Rhine for the better carrying on his work when he thought it convenient for his purpose which accordingly he did in 1688. by sending forces into the Palatinate and taking several places and harrasing the Country c. However the Pope sent notice to the Emperour of the French Kings Declaration touching the Dutchess c. And now preparations must be made for the next Campagne in December therefore the Nuntio acquainted the Emperour that his Holiness had remitted to him 400 thousand Florins to be employ'd for that purpose and the Clergy of the Hereditary Countrys brought in their Contributions to the Popes Nuntio at Vienna the Pope also sent a brief for raising an extraordinary Contribution on the Clergy in Spain and desir'd his most Catholick Majesty to assist the Venetians with his Galleys which tho' he did not consent unto yet he ratified a Treaty the Venetians had made with the Governor of Milan for raising forces The Nuntio at Poland continued his applications to that King assuring him to receive from the Pope 500 thousand Florins and to provide cloaths for 6000 foot Soldiers and Money towards a train of Artillery and in February the King assur'd the Nuntio that he would be in the field before the end of May next and command his Army in person the Nuntio therefore employ'd 500 thousand Florins which the Pope had remitted to him in providing Magazines c. for the War without putting it into the Kings Treasure having for two years past had experience that it never turn'd there to good account for the design it was intended he sent also a considerable sum of Money for raising 12000 Cossacks to joyn the Polish Army 1686. In May the Popes Forces were put on board his Galleys and in June they joyn'd the Venetian Fleet and directed their course to Old Navarino in the Morea and soon became Masters of it and then sate down before New Navarino and having intelligence that the Serasquier of the Morea was advancing towards them with 10000 Men and destroyed all the Country as he marched General Conningsmark leaving some Forces to maintain the Siege with 14000 men hasted to encounter him and totally routed the Turkish Army and return'd to the Siege where the place was speedily surrendred to him and having Garison'd both these considerable places he set sail and made Modon which was also surrendred unto him and shortly after he obtained two considerable Victories over the Turks near Napoli di Romania In August the Fleet blockt up 12 of the Turks Galleys eight whereof they took the other four escaping by Night the Land Army also took in the Castles of Argos and Termini and August the 29th
to stand ipso facto Excommunicated and therefore the Marquiss de Lavardin and the principal persons of his Retinue on Christmass-Eve following being admitted to midnight-Mass as other French Ambassadors used to be at the Church of St. Lewis about two days after there was found affixed on that Church the following Sentence of Interdict By the Apostolical Authority and the special Command of our holy Lord the Pope the Parish Church of St. Lewis is declared to be under an Ecclesiastical Interdict for that the Rector Officials and Members of the said Church have rashly presumed on the Eve of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ to admit to Divine Service and the Participation of the Sacrament Henry de Beaumonoir Marquis of Lavardin who is notoriously Excommunicated Given at Rome this 26th day of December 1687. Jaspar Cardinal-Vicar Let none dare to take this down upon pain of the greater Excommunication to be incurr'd by a Sentence reserved to our holy Lord. On the morrow after the affixing the aforesaid Interdict the Ambassador published the following Protest Henry Charles Sire de Beaumonoir Marquiss of Lavardin Ambassador Extraordinary from the Most Christian King to Pope Innocent the Eleventh cannot believe that a Printed Placard that is spread abroad vended and affixed in Rome supposing Notorious Excommunication against him by virtue of a certain pretended Bull unknown to him and not published in France can have proceeded from his Holiness himself and there are few Rational People in all Christendom exempt from passion and animosity against France that can imagine that at a time when his Majesty does with so much success employ all his Care and Authority to reduce his Subjects into the Bosom of the Church and to cause God to be served and adored in all places where his Dominion reaches in the purity of the Catholick Apostolical and Roman Religion a Pope whose advancement he desired through the esteem he had of his Virtue should of his own proper Motion refuse all Audience to the Ambassador of so great a King the eldest Son of the Church who hath deserved as much and more of it than his August Ancestors to whom it is indebted for the most considerable part of its Temporal Greatness and who even in this conjuncture of continual Occasions of Discontent given him by the Popes Ministers has recommended nothing more expresly to the said Ambassador than to make manifest to his Holiness the Filial Respect he shall ever have for him and use his utmost care to restore a perfect understanding between the Pope and himself It seems much farther from all probability that his Holiness should without any Form Cause Reason and without having allow'd him a Hearing Interdict the Church of St. Lewis and term him notoriously Excommunicated before that he had done any thing that might incur the least Censure nay and without their being able to know what his Orders are with which he is encharged which coming from the Wisdom and Piety of a most Christian King can never expose him to the penalty of Excommunication from which also his Character representing the Sacred Person of so great a Monarch ought ever to Skreen him God forbid also that the said Sieur de Lavardin should suspect his Holiness of so unmaintainable and so extraordinary a Procedure He plainly perceives that he hath only occasion to complain of the Insolence and Temerity of those that abusing the Confidence which the Infirmities of so great an Age as is that of his Holiness obliges him to put in persons about him and whom he makes use of to be eased of part of his care and make advantage of his relianceon them to make him enter into Engagements directly contrary to the sentiment of Paternal Affection which the most holy Popes have ever had for the Kings of France and giving false Colours to all that passes through their Hands impose upon his Holinesse's Judgment and make it their Business to let him see nothing but what must exasperate him against France This has made them redouble all their Efforts to hinder his Holiness from being undeceived by all that the Marquess de Lavardin is to represent to him in his Majesties Name and it would be easie for him to make it appear to his Holiness that the pretexts they make use of are without any ground for not only the said Ambassador is not come to disturb his Holiness's Temporal Jurisdiction but on the contrary he can with Truth protest on the behalf of the King his Master that if the Pope were attack'd by any one whatsoever his Majesty would employ the Forces and Power that God hath put into his hands to maintain the Holy See after the Example of the Kings his Predecessors in its Prerogatives and Possessions to whose Augmentation they have ever contributed This is also what ought to oblige his Holiness to hinder as a Sovreign Prince that in his Territories there should not be any Diminution made in the Respect which hath ever been observ'd towards the Ambassadors of France And as the Marquis de Lavardin does not pretend to extend it beyond the Immemorial possession which the said Ambassadors have ever had and which the Duke de Crequi de Chaulnes and D'Estrees have retain'd as his Holiness himself hath seen and known not only by Vertue of that ancient Prerogative of the Crown of France in the common Country of all Christendom of which it hath ever been the firmest support but also in Consequence of the Treaty of Pisa for whose performance the Pope is no less bound than he that contracted it There is not a person of good sence that can presume that this pretended Excommunication can regard the said Ambassador and without entring into all the reasons that have been so often said upon the Bull in Coena Domini against which the whole Gallican Church assembled at Tours in 1510. has reclaimed as being unmaintainable in regard of France and publish'd by a Pope who had declared himself its Capital Enemy nor in all that can be said against the other Bulls which serve for a Foundation to that which is pretended to be from his Holiness which can never be publish'd nor receiv'd in the Realm It is sufficient to say that the Marquis de Lavardin is his most Christian Majesties Ambassador and by Consequence exempt from all Ecclesiastical Censures as long as he shall be invested with that Character and shall Execute the Orders of the King his Master Therefore he doth not think it necessary to appeal from his pretended Excommunication of the Pope ill inform'd to his Holiness himself when he shall be undeceived in the Audience he shall grant him of the false Impressions which turbulent Spirits and such as are Enemies of France who make it thelr whole business to break the good understanding that ought to be between the Holy-See and his Majesty have made upon him He also reckons it to be useless to appeal to a future Council lawfully