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A14210	The Romane conclaue VVherein, by way of history, exemplified vpon the liues of the Romane emperours, from Charles the Great, to Rodulph now reigning; the forcible entries, and vsurpations of the Iesuited statists, successiuely practised against the sacred maiestie of the said empire: and so by application, against the residue of the Christian kings, and free-states are liuely acted, and truely reported. By Io. Vrsinus ante-Iesuite.; Speculum Jesuiticum. English	Beringer, Joachim.; Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 24526; ESTC S118919	126,713	245

no obscure reputation amongst the Spanish Marke Anthonie Colonna beeing absent he citeth to appeare before him within three daies space and in default of appearaunce hee maketh prize of his goods To Iohn Count of Montorian he giueth the goods of Ascanius Colonna together with the titular Earledome of Pallianum In despight of Caesar he recalleth the Out-lawed gentlemen of Naples and endoweth them with offices and publique preheminences At the instance of Peter Stroza he fortifieth Pallianum and prepareth it for the receit of the French to the infesting of Naples Finally by sending his kinsman Cardinall Caraffa into France most impiously he disturbeth the peace concluded in Belgia betweene his most excellent Maiesty and the French Monarch And to bee especially carefull that no one shot of Popish malice should misse his Maiesty he absolutely denieth his sonne Philip vnto whom the father had resigned the administration of all his kingdoms the inuestiture of the kingdomes of Naples and Sicil being held of the Church Wherupon followed such furious and lamentable wars managed between these mighty potentates of Christendome that Italy and France being chiefly ingaged therein reeked againe in the bloody tragedies of their deerest Citizens For not Rome only was almost brought vnto those extremities by the presence of the Duke of Alua which once it suffered in the daies of Clement and for the present auoided by accepting of these conditions which the now-somwhat-lenified Lord Generall propounded but the French also in fauour of the Papacy being sent into Italy vnder the conduct of the Guise to infest the peacefull estate of the Latian prouinces vnderwent the miserable destiny of vnfortunate warfare in their indeauours to thrust in new forces into the chiefe City of Vermandois against the squadrons of King Philip marching out of Belgia to the reliefe of the said place In which conflict their whole army was routed by the Germane Horse the Constable the Rhene-graue and many noble men taken prisoners and the City forced And not long after being masters of Calaies they suffered a no lesse disasterous defeature in their returne by Graueling at Count Egmonds hands Termes and Villebon their two most famous leaders beeing taken prisoners their armie routed and their people slaine Now what vpright conscience can sauour a Religion so insatiate of blood or what Christian can thinke that Man who to perfect his owne respects careth not what mischiefe he worketh to be the Vicar of Christ Surely Let them impudently affirme what they list their workes so perspicuously layde open to meanest capacities may with sufficiencie assure vs that through the whole course of their successions they haue euer rather merited the Sir-names of Saule then the least title of Paul And so to the worlds end will they doe rather then by the redeeming of one Christian soule from spoile and blood shed they will suffer one Acre of Saint Peters imaginary patrimony to be wrested from them if possibility or trecherous pollicy can any way withstand it ❧ Ferdinand Caesar Hee raigned 1558. About the fift yeere of Queene Mary AS soone as Charles had betaken himselfe to a solitarie life in Saint Iustus in Spaine his brother Ferdinand long before elected King of the Romanes now by the generall suffrage of the Electors assembled at Frankford is preferred vnto the Empire After the ceremonies whereof accomplished to make manifest his obseruancie towards the Romish Sea he dispatcheth to his Holinesse Guzman his chiefe chamberlaine to signifie that his Maiesties pleasure was vpon oportunity of first-offered-occasion to request and receiue the imperiall Diadem at his Holinesse Hands But such was his father-hoods arrogant and froward answer that it may well argue the Relator not onely not to be the successor of Peter who with the residue of the Apostles reuerenced the authoritie of the higher powers as the ordinance of God with due honour and obedience no nor a man willing to doe one good turne for another according to the mutuall lawes of courtesie and humanity but in truth that very Antichrist whom the warrant of Holy writ doth point out to be the person who should arrogate to himselfe to prescribe aboue and against any thing that God himselfe hath commanded to be holy and inuiolable For this irregular Beast would vppon no reason acknowledge Ferdinand for Emperour cauilling that his predecessour Charles had no ability or capacity to surrender the Empire to no liuing creature but to the Romish Sea Neither that it was lawfull for Ferdinand to take vppon him the administration of the State without the approbation thereof His Maiesties Embassadour hee would at no hand suffer to approach his presence but hauing learnt out the tenour of his Embassie hee propounded vnto the Cardinals and Lawyers certaine questions neither arising from the rudiments of Gods word nor enforced from the grounds of Nationall Lawes but harried from the deepest Abysse and there discussed by Lucifer the Prince of malice pride and falsities Which as afterward they were libelled out and dispersed by the Romanists themselues you shall here receiue 1 If Guzman who auerreth that Hee is sent from his Lord Ferdinand vnto the most Holy Lord the Pope ought by Law to speake what Charles the fifth hath done about the resignation of the Empire to his brother Ferdinand 2 Which being sufficiently vnderstoode whether they wholy or in part haue done rightfully and lawfully sithence the Approbation of the most Holy Lord the Pope and the Apostolique sea was not interposed therein 3 Whether these difficulties being cleared nothing for the present may bee obiected against the person of the most excellent Lord Ferdinand Whereby hee may be adiudged incapable of the Imperiall dignity As the euill education of his sonne the king of Bohem inclinable to manifest heresie It beeing promised that within the Kingdomes subiect to his authority heresies are tollerated without punishment Catholiques are oppressed Monasteries dissolued Churches auoided and the Professours of the Augustane reformation suffered to conuerse and inhabite promiscuouslie with Romish Catholiques As also that Ferdinand himselfe did graunt a conference at Wormes as touching controuersies in Religion without the consent and good leaue of the Holy Apostolique Sea That Hee bound himselfe by oath in the Dyet of Frankford to obserue all the Articles confirmed in the fore passed Sessions wherein manie damnable and Hereticall opinions were maintained and allowed That Hee vsurped the Name of Emperour by his owne Authority That he suspended the Decree published against Communicants vnder both kindes especially at such a time wherein seuerest execution was most requisite That he had falsified his oath taken vpon his first election of King of Romanes wherein he had bound himselfe to be a defender of the Church and the Catholique faith schismes heresies and the Protestant Religion That he had faulted in many more points of like kind against his oath and the Holy Canons 4 What in like manner were to be determined concerning the persons of many the Princes

his Cardinals All without difference were alike made captiues all alike tortured He that was rāsomed to day by the Spanish to morrow was again in durance to the Germans Caesar writeth his letters to the Pope and the King of England that all this happened besides his priuity or command yea that he would not acknowledge such transgressors for his souldiers who durst attempt so wicked a seruice Yet sticketh hee not to attribute the mishap to the secret iudgements of God who would not suffer so grosse an indignity concluded against the Maiesty of the sacred Empire to escape without punishment Bona verba The Pope being restored to liberty maketh shew of great friendship but in secret worketh him all possible vexation For either vpon hope to possesse the Kingdome of Naples a precise condition in the articles or else in desire of reuenge he so wrought with the French king to renue the warre that at his direction Lautrick was sent into Italy for the conquest thereof But such was the euent that Lautrick died the pestilence raged through the Camp and nothing was effected Wherupon the French king for the loue of his children as yet captiues in Spaine was glad to accept of the proffered conditions The Bishop alwaies accustomed to goe with the streame vpon the peace perfected at Cambray betweene the Emperour the French and the other Princes enstalleth Charles at Bononia with the Imperial diadem and aydeth him in the siege and conquest of Florence the people whereof hee saw punished most seuerely But his Holines had not forgotten to requite Charles with many like courtesies if God had bestowed longer life vpon him For within three yeeres after hee had complotted a league with Francis the French King at Marsellis to take Millan from Caesar to inuade Sauoy bestowing his niece Katherin vpon his sonne Henry if to the good of the Christian common-wealth he had not beene by death preuented and that not without the suspition of poison as some suppose Could a more treacherous man be found liuing then this Clement who continually being taken into fauour and alliance with Caesar continually betrayed his faith and of a dissembling friend euermore proued a professed enemie After the decease of Clement succeeded Alexander Farnesius otherwise Paul the third a man almost spent with age yet of a farre more subtile disposition For vpon obseruation that the controuersies in religion did daily more and more augment and propagate with singular affection he studied Caesars fauour but to no other purpose then in thirst of the German bloud to combine his Maiestie and the other Princes in stricter bonds of perseuerance to take armes against the Lutherans hypocritically giuing out to all persons and in all places and that vpon his faith that hee would speedily assemble the Generall counsell so often petitioned and promised to the Germane Nation And surely so he did first proclaiming it to be held at Mantua then at Verona and lastly after the expiration of many yeares at Trent but not with any intention to salue the greeuances of the Christian Common-weale or the distemperature of the Church but that by holding the Germanes in suspence vpon the finall determinations of the Councel meane time he might win time to effectuate his secret resolutions viz. the suppression of the truth and the restitution of Germanie now through the light of the Gospell beginning to shake off Babilonian tyrannie to it pristinat captiuity So in the yeare of our Lord 1546. he celebrateth the Councell at Trent and maketh all possible faire weather with the Germanes But with what intent surely to combine the nobility to instigate his Maiestie to begin the warre against the Protestant Princes and the Euangelicall Cities In the beginning whereof good fortune prognosticated a prosperous progresse vnto Caesar by the taking of Iohn Frederick Elector of Saxonie the Lantgraue of Hessen the confiscating of all Wittembergs estates and the finacing of many confederat Cities yet in being too officious to giue his Holines content in keeping his prisoners more strictly then Honour could warrant and in coyning new articles of religion to the Popes best liking such an alteration followed vpon the rising of Maurice Prince Elector and Albert of Brandenburg and other new confederates that dismissing the captiuated Princes and granting liberty of Conscience through Germanie so disaduantageous were his proofes of papall countenance that he often wished that he had preferred the loues of the Princes before the Popes surest alliance For although to confesse truth the proceedings of Paul against his Maiestie were slower and better caried then those of his predecessors in regard that hee was his Champion to manage bloudy and difficult stratagems against the seruants of God yet vpon the death of Peter Aloysius duke of Parma Placentia murdered by treason for his tyrannie when Ferdinand Gonzaga Caesars Generall and Gouernour of Millan was inuested in his stead the Pope presently mistrusteth Caesar for an author of the murder and in vaine requesting the Restitution of Placentia he strait starteth from Caesar and bethinketh himselfe how to ioyne with the French And had ioyned in deed if hee had longer liued the time offering so fit an opportunity For now Henry vpon the defeature of the Princes and the seizing on Placentia aboue expectation growing into iealousie of the powerfulnesse of Caesar renueth his league with the Switzers and strengthneth his party with friends on all hands But in midst of these reuengefull deuises this miser dyed distracted more through griefe and anguish then any infirmity of Age the tenth day of Nouember 1549. After long wrangling in the Conclaue 1550. Iulius the third is saluted Pope being before his installment of the French faction and after so giuen ouer to belly-cheere and venery that he died of a Lethargy and wanted rather leisure then will to attempt against Caesar But Paul the fourth a most diuelish Hypocrite and next succeeding Marcellus the second a Pope also of a few daies standing by the packing of the Cardinalls wholly deuoted to the French seruice was consecrated High Priest This man during his Cardinalship was Caesars most malitious enemy Insomuch that by his prouocation Paul the third was perswaded to inuade Naples as an apourtenāt of the Church But now enioying fuller meanes to worke fuller despights hee maketh open profession of his late concealed malice and prosecuteth his followers with indignities of deepest fury For no sooner was he seated in the Chaire of the scarlet Beast but he casteth into durance Alexander Farnesius Cardinall of Sanflorian Camillus Collonna and Iulianus Caesar with his brother the Archbishop vpon suspition of a conspiracy complotted against him in fauour of the Imperialists As many the Seruants and ministers of Caesar here and there negotiating his affaires through Italy as he could lay hands on he seazeth and amongst these Tascis master of the forests to his maiesty and don Garzia Lassus a Duke of

epitomized vnto your considerations the theorems rules and policies of this inforced vsurpation I will also make manifest vnto you by true booke cases how they haue practised vpon these Theorems throughout all the kingdoms of Christendome In Spaine vpon suspition of heresie they so ouer-awed the conscience of Philip the second that they caused the vncompassionate father in a bath to open the veines of Charles his eldest sonne a Prince of admirable expectation there to bleede out his deerest life Now to explane vnto you what heresie this noble yong Prince had committed let me report vnto you if fame say truth that it arose forsooth vpon his hard vsage towards the Clergie In dismounting them riding vpon their pleasures from their excellent Ienets and stately Mules and sending them home to their studies bestowing these beasts vpon some of his more worthy followers Or peraduenture vpon iealousie that manifesting too much of the Grandfathers spirit in future times He might call them to account as did Charles the fifth Herman once Archbishop of Colein to say for himselfe what he could against the accusations libelled against Him by his Clergie and the Vniuersitie I assure you farre lesse sinnes then these are able to cast the best man liuing into the bottomlesse pit of their fierie Inquisition Vnde nulla redemptio Who were of Councell vnto Sebastian the last of house of Portugal to vndertake that wofull but as they termed it that most meritorious iourney into Africa To vnderstand the true motiues whereof I will say no more but referre you ouer to the Iesuits Cata. fo 709. Who but the same brood of Iesuits made away Iohn of Albret Queene Dowager of Nauarre the very eye of the French Protestants by impoisoned Pills which an Italian the Kings Apothecary at Paris prepared for her Who but the brochets of such impieties were the instruments of that most infernall resolution vnder the colour of so solemne and Prince-like a marriage to contriue the death of the Nauarrois and the massacre of so many braue Princes and Gentlemen of the Religion through the whole territories of Fraunce And that without any regard or touch of conscience in abusing and violating the oath of safe conduct religiously swore vnto by the King himselfe By what sort of men I pray you was Peter Barr. suborned and obliged by Sacrament trayterously to haue murdered Henry the fourth And by whom let me aske you is the Auditory at this day admonished but to make vse of some small patience For within few dayes God himselfe is to make his personall appearance amongst vs to worke I know not what miracles to the confusion of Heretiques Was not Iohn Chastelius a yong man of nineteene yeers of age and a nouice in Claremount Colledge fully satisfied thinke you by the resolutions and incouragements of these persons and vpon the foresaid positions before he would hazard his portion in heauen to vndertake the slaughter of the said king of France Nauar But as God would he missed his throat by the wauering of his hand strooke out but one of his teeth affirming that he was but as another Ehud apointed to murder Eglon the wicked king of the Moabites By whome were so many and so often treacheries plotted not only to haue beene executed by strangers against Queene Elizabeth but also by her owne seruants namely Parry Squier Lopez Yorke Williams and Patrike Cullen By whome was her sacred Maiesty excommunicated her peace disturbed her subiects assayled her Realme betrayed and her life set at sale to bee taken away by any meanes by poyson by massiue rewards or any other kind of violence what euer I will not stand to dilate hereupon The world I hope is againe and againe satisfied with the proofe hereof It yet freshly remembreth what ouertures were made euen but yesterday and by whome vnto the Spanish king for a second Inuasion And as yet Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt For it is as cleere as day that none but men moulded and sold ouer to the worst of wickednesse would euer haue imagined or consented to haue blowen vp a State-house And that vpon the first day and first sitting when in certainty they knew that of necessity the King and Prince would be present the assembly fullest and the massacre bloodiest Who were the instruments that Sigismund K. of Polonia and Sweland after the death of his father returned into Sweland there against the tenor of his oath to root out the Lutheran Religion as they terme it who were the authors of the vnseasonable commotions in Liuonia who accouncelled him by surprise to inuade the kingdome and almost to haue lost his life as he hath now at last the kingdome And by whose seducements hath hee attempted so many innouations in Polonia To what shall we attribute but to their daungerous instigations that Demetrius beeing returned out of Poland into Moscouie in attempting to alter the receiued Religion of the Moscouits was himself in one day depriued of life and Empire with an infinit number of his nobles and followers Whom should we accuse but these furies for the murder of the worthy Prince of Orange shot to death by Balthasar Gonhard before prepared for blood by the assurance of these cunning Garnets What should I dull your eares with these vnpleasant discourses If you list your selues may reade at leysure the examinations of Peter de Pennes Michael Renicher and Peter de Four against the life of Graue Maurice the aforesaid Prince his Son for maintaining the cause of Religion I could also bring you presidents from Transiluania 1607. from Bohemia 1608. from Austria 1609. Bauaria 1592. Argentina 1698. Aquisgran 1607 Donauerd and Venice 1606. but that I am very vnwilling to tire your patience with the desperate resolutions of these irregular and faithlesse men Faithlesse to God for they vow religion and humility but worke treachery and affect superiority And irregular amongst men for they preach faith and administer oathes and yet if any thing displease them they send soules to desperation and make port-sale of periury And therefore to conclude I will for your perpetuall remembrance in the person of one describe the very genius of the whole fraternity in these short remembrances following Seductor Sweco Gallo Sicarius Anglo Proditor Imperio Explorator Dauus Ibero Italo Adulator Dixi teres ore suitam He that hath oft the Sweth-land-Pole seduced Murdred the French And Englands-King abused A spie for Austria A cunning knaue for Spaine And sooths th' Italian States to Popish gaine Is All one Man and Iesuit is his name And what yee read of Henry Frederick Of Otho Great and their Succession Gainst Philip Faire and the twelfe Lodowic French Kings Gainst Henry th' eight of Albion And his diuinest child Eliza Queene With many more of Nations far and wide Be bold to say Like measure to haue