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A11510	A discourse vpon the reasons of the resolution taken in the Valteline against the tyranny of the Grisons and heretiques To the most mighty Catholique King of Spaine, D. Phillip the Third. VVritten in Italian by the author of the Councell of Trent. And faithfully translated into English. With the translators epistle to the Commons House of Parliament.; Discorso sopra le ragioni della resolutione fatta in Val Telina contra la tirannide de' Grisoni & heretici.. English	Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.; Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Philo-Britannicos.	1628 (1628)	STC 21757A; ESTC S116780	64,044	104

ought very well to consider if hee haue lawfull cause and honest right to possesse them and where hee knowes no other Title then that of Religion much more hee ought to be aduised that it bee not a faire and honest Couer of a foule and wicked Couetousnesse Don Pedro the tenth King of Aragon and third of that name hauing raised the greatest forces in his power passed therewith into Affrica to make warre vpon the Moores the ancient enemies of our Christian Religion For which holy purpose he receiued great Aides of money from S. Lewis the most Christian King of France What more worthy action could he haue vndertaken Who would haue found occasion to blame him yet vnder the herbe lay hid the Serpent Iosephus Bonfilis Hist. Sicil. par 1. li. 8. Gonzalo de Igliescas Hist. Pontif. par 1. lib 5. cap. 45. M. A●ton Sabel p. 2 E●●ad 9. li. 7. This King had sometime before sent into Sicily Iohn Procita who offended by Charles of Anioy his Lord desired to be reuenged disguised in the habit of a Fryar to stirre the mindes of that Nation to rebell who for some ill vsage did shew themselues distasted with the French Gouernment Iohn Procita effected his businesse The Rebellion of the Sicilians and the destruction of the French followed King Charles armed for the recouery of his lost Kingdome and the Rebells to resist him In the meane while Peter of Aragon that scarcely hauing touched the Coast of Affrica was retyred to Sardinia to be nearer Sicily obseruing the time and occasion of his designe fitting suddenly went to Palermo where hee was receiued with great ioy and gladnesse and published and proclaimed King of the Siciltans who flocked to him from all parts of the Island See now your Maiestie with what insidious and cursed Art vnder the colour of Religion the King Don Pedro faining to haue taken Armes against the Enemies of Christianity tooke that Kingdome from a Christian King and foedary of Holy Church and which is more with the help of that Gold which he had receiued from the most Christian King right Brother of King Charles Whereupon the blessed Pope Martin the fourth a man of renowned sanctitie of whom as the Spanish Pontificall and other Histories doe report Igliescas vbi supra were seene many miracles after his death did excommunicate and depriue him of his Kingdomes and absolue his Subiects of their Oath of Allegiance giuing power to any Prince to persecute him as a common Enemy Perhaps the holy Bishop thought that with this rigour the King Don Pedro would be brought to acknowledge his error and to restore what he had ill gotten But it proued without any fruit for hee which made it lawfull vniustly to vsurpe the rights of others did little feare Ecclesiasticall censures for their restitution And what more Catholique and more pious Enterprise could bee imagined then that of India for the enlargement or the sacred Gospell What iuster title then that which the highest Bishop Alexander the Sixt did grant to the Catholique Kings Ferdinand and Isabell in the new world ordeyning them as supreme Emperors ouer those Kings and Infidell Kingdomes But after what thing was more vniust then the Conquest of the immediat Dominion of those Countries I call it a Conquest to enter with warre to subdue the people before they were allured with the peacefull voice of preaching and to take away the life of lawfull Lords and Naturall Princes to vsurpe their States notwithstanding they did not hinder the promulgation of the Gospell but rather were ready to receiue the holy Faith And it is a certaine truth that when also they were not conuerted whilst yet they did not oppose the progresse of Christian Religion they could not be by the way of warre subiected that being contrary to the will of Christ who said Speciosi pedes Euangelizantium pacem And much lesse could they bee spoiled of their Dominion seeing the same Christ when he came into the world did declare that the empire also of the Gentiles is iust lawfull commanding euen his own Apostles to pay tribute to Caesar. Neither is it to bee beleeued that the Pope when hee granted to the Catholique Kings the Soueraign Empire of the Indies had any thought to preiudice the immediate Dominion of Gentile Princes because he could not doe it The which the great Atabaliba King of Peru did know by the onely light of nature to whom Friar Vincenzo di val verde made the most sottish and abominable oration to reduce him to the holy faith that could be imagined amongst other Curious things which he spake this was one El Papa que oy biue diò a nuestro potentissimo Rey de Espana Emperador de los Romanos Igliescas p. 2. lib. 6. c. 26. Sect. 14. y Monarca del mundo la conquista destas tierras El Emperador embia agora Francesco Piçaro à rogaros seay●su amigo y tributario y que obedezcays al Papa y recibays la feè de Christo y creays en ●lla porque uereys como es sanctissima y quc la que vos agora teneys es mas que falsa Si esto todo no haz●ys sabed que os hemos de dar guerra y os que braremos los Idolos y os sor çaremos a que dexeys la Religion di uuestros falsos Dioses That is The Pope this day liuing hath granted our most mighty King of Spaine Emperor of the Romans and Monarch of the World the Conquest of these lands now our Emperor doth send Francesco● Pisaro to desire you to be his friend and Tributary to obey the Pope to receiue the faith of Christ and to beleeue therein because you shall see that it is most holy and yours most false If you doe not all this know that wee must make warre vpon you wee will breake your Idols and enforce you to leaue the religion of your false Gods Who euer heard a holier and wiser Sermon Como si el hijo de Dios que murio per cadauno dellos Vescouo di Chiappa nel lib della d●structione di India ouicra en su ley mandado quando dixo Euntes docete omnes gentes que se hiziessen requerimientos à los insieles pacisicos y quietos y que tienen sus tierras propias y si no la ricibiessen luego sin otra predication y dotrina y si n● diessen a si mesmos al scnorio del Rey que nunca oyeron ni vieron espetialmente cuya gente y mensaieros son tan cruel●s tan desapiadados y tan horribles Tirannos perdiessen por el mesmo caso la hazienda y las tierras la libertad las mugeres y hijos con todas sus vidas que es cosa absurda y estulta y digna de todo vituperio ●scarnio y infierno That is As if the Sonne of God who dyed for euery one of them had commanded in his holy Law when

depriuing the Catholiques of the publication of Indulgence and Iubilees and of Entrance into Orders taking away all their Goods and from the Pastorall Cure of their Bishop Not suffering any to obey him nor that he should come to visit or comfort them That they permit the Heretique Ministers openly to treade downe the Sacraments of the Catholique Church and if any oppose hee is suddainly and barbarously punished in life and goods That they exclude out of the Vally almost all the orders of Religion admitting on the other part indistinctly hereticall Ministers of all Nations That they erect Seminaries and lately hereticall Colledges assigning them the profits tithes Canonryes and Benefits taken from the Curates and Catholique Church O● all these there are passed Decrees Statutes and open Edicts And of Cases particular there are publique Acts whereof the memory is too fresh and renewed by most cruell death inflicted on Catholiques and Religious men in the most Infamous maner imaginable Now what else is this but to vse manifest Tyrannie ouer the soules of the Catholique Subiects to take from them those helpes wherewith they aduance their saluation and their way to Heauen and to enforce them to embrace a new Religion which leads them downe to Hell The cause too much declares it selfe there is no neede of greater exaggeration to make it mani●est and to shew it more intollerable In the rest to demonstrate the wretched estate of the said Vally it shall suffice simply to represent the maner of Gouernment vsed many yeares past it shall be sufficient to say that it hath beene giuen onely to him that would offer most money without any the least Consideration of abili●ie or other parts necessary to such a charge and that the Commissaries sent in apparance to remedy the forepast iniustice were of the same quality and sometimes worse Insomuch that both the one and the other had for their aynie and thereto onely did attend to get their charges and to heape vp by all imaginable meanes so much Gold that therewith they might returne to their owne houses enrich't for euer From hence it proceeded that the liues of poore Innocents were a thousand waies ensnared and often taken away with open iniustice at the instance of their Enemyes who with great summes of money bought them and sometimes after sharpe Imprisonment and other torments hardly were dismissed naked by the price of all their substance which remained openly to the Officers without any shame in so much security that the miserable oppressed both in life and goods durst not thereof lament By the same meanes the estate of the Subiect in Ciuill Causes was alwaies in great danger For the Magistrates being publiquely mercenary it often happened that some did loose by an vniust sentence dearely bought of the Aduersary and others to preserue them against Iniustice were forced to present a great part to the Iudge No Sentence although confirmed passed in Iudgement whether Ciuill or Criminall was euer secure because the Successor to dig out money did renew the trouble to the partty acquitted and for a new price did often racall without any respect that which of others though iustly had beene iudged Safe-Conducts were broken at their pleasure and publique faith with vaine pretences violated to depriue life that by such death they might enrich themselues Lawes and Statutes were not now with arts and Stratagems deluded but openly despised and trodden vnder foot as if all had beene freely giuen to them in prey Orphans and Widdows and others of that Condition so much recommended both by diuine and humane law to the protection of Princes and Magistrates as vnable to helpe themselues by infamous meanes did remaine wholly exposed to the auarice of rauening wolues to the extreame griefe and compassion of good men On the other part it often occurred that those wicked men which had offended others in life goods and honor being fallen into the hands of Iustice in stead of exemplary punishment were for great bribes sometimes by vniust Iudgement absolued sometimes vnder couler of feined escape let free out of prison to the great oppression and affliction of those whom they had wronged There were seene numbers of infamous persons gracious with the officers of Iustice and by them rewarded onely because they serued as Instruments many and many wayes to betray the life and goods particularly of Catholiques From whence did often follow the destruction and ruine now of one now of another family alwayes of the most ancient and honorable of the Valley Lastly who shall well consider that which the Sicilians did for three yeares suffer in the Roman Common wealth vnder the gouernment of the infamous Verres shall find that the vnhappy Valtelines haue endured much more a longer time from the hands of so many worse then Verres and perhapps shall not find any other gouernment so infamous and which so well resembles that as this of the Grisons in the Vally which should more clearely be manifested if it were here necessary to represent all the Cases and their circumstances one by one as it was for Cicero handling his Cause for ends far different from ours That which makes our Case more full of compassiō is that when the miserable oppressed haue attempted the refuge of their Superiors for remedy against so many Tyrannies and Acts of Iniustice the officers themselues haue opposed with seuerest banishments and imprisonments those who for the publike good intermedled and when it hath happened that all Impediments vanquished the Procurators of of the Vally haue arriued at the Community of the Three Leagues and haue informed particularly their many and excessiue grieuance● in the end after hauing receiued in diuers places such affronts that scarcely Slaues could suffer they haue rested deluded without effect or any prouision These things without doubt are sufficient to take away all hope euer to find vnder that gouernment any ease of so many miseries But there are other accidents thereunto added whereby the Subiects are brought into vtter desperation The Assembly in the towne of Tosana is already notorious which was applied to nothing else but the destruction of good and Catholique men as well Grisons as Valtelines In the Diett there called many banishments and many Capitall Condemnations were decreed amongst which was that against Nicolo Rusca Arch-Priest of Sondrio a Priest of most innocent life and a true Martyr of Christ tormented and put to death with all cruelty and possible infamy without any other fault then being a good Catholique a priest Now these Iniuries and Cruelties hauing necessitated some Catholique Communities to seeke redresse of so many euills vsing their vtmost force they obtained that these Sentences being reuiewed were as barbarous and most vniust reuoked But a little time the remedy lasted because those people stirred vp by the fury of their Ministers and which more imported moued by the practices and monies of that Neighbour Potentate who per ragion di stato makes any thing lawfull

them also to vsurp the Ponti●icall Iurisdiction O God if yet they did vse it well Holy Church doth continually pray for the extirpation of heresie not so of Heretiques But those Ministers with too much excesse of holy zeale will first vsurp the Estates of Heretiques and destroy their persons throughly to roote out their heresies Quid saeuiunt vt stultitiam suam dum minuere volunt Lact. ipst Diu. li. 5. C. 20. augeant longè diuersa sunt carnificina pietas nec potest aut veritas cum vi aut Iustitia cum credulitate coniungi Here a Consideration comes into my head which makes me astonished The Euangeliques among the Grisons so your Ministers affirme and I beleeue it are the superiour party These as wee say are impious wicked and our Capitall Enemies they desire our harme and our vtter ruine They might perhaps haue beene able with little difficultie with their owne force and with the ayde of those of Zurich and Berne obliged to them by loue by law and particular Confederation vtterly to ruine destroy and annihilate the Roman faction in their Countrey and to become Lords alone of the whole Dominion And yet these wicked these impious these Enemies of the true faith haue had so much humanitie that they haue abstayned and haue beene contented that the Roman Catholiques liue freely and quietly among them and to haue them friends and Companions in the politique Gouernment And those of Zurich and Berne no whit better then the Euangelique Grisons haue neuer promoued nor counselled them to Alterations On the contrary the true Sonnes of the holy Roman Church instructed in the meeknesse patience and benignity of Christ Men charitable pious and holy doe make it lawfull to rise against those who molest them not to rebell from those who admit them into fellowship of Gouernment to procure the losse of State to those who being able haue neuer attempted to expell them out of the State And the Ministers of your Maiestie who professe to bee the most true Catholiques this day liuing in the World are they who instigate foment and ayd yea who principally doe opperate in these so honest Rebellions and with warre fire and ruines doe pronounce that it is requisite to defend the holy Religion O quam honesta voluntate miseri errant Lactant. vbi supra fentiunt enim nihil esse in rebus humanis Religione praestantius eamque summa vi oportere defendi sed in defensionis genere falluntur Defendenda enim Religio est non occidendo sed moriendo non saeuitia sed patientia non scelere sed fide Illa enim malorum sunt haec bonorum necesse est bonum in Religione versari non malum Nam si sanguine si tormentis si malo Religionem defendere velis iam non defendetur illa sed polluetur atque violabitur Nihil est enim tam voluntarium quam Religio in qua si animus Sacrificantis auersus est iam sublata iam nulla est The Polititians say that Salust de con Catil li. 1. Imperium his artibus retinetur quibus initio partum est So is it consequent to say of our Religion the which was planted not by killing but dying not with crueltie but patience not in wickednesse but faith With these Arts Christ laid the foundation with these the Apostles and those holy fathers of the Pri●itiue Church did build vpon it and since their Successors from these wayes haue declined it is diminished restrayned and in many places vtterly extinct Religion is more free then the will of man because the forced will remaines still a will but enforced Religion is no more Religion for in the will the Act is regarded and in Religion the minde And therefore If the mind of the sacrificer be auerse the efficacie is taken away and annihilated Then the Ministers of your Maiestie doe erre in these their cruell proceedings against Heretiques They too farre wander from the path in which Christ hath guided them Let your Maiestie bee aduised not to suffer your selfe to bee drawn into the same error by giuing them faculty power to prosecute so bloody Enterprises Command them by your Roiall authority to leaue so preposterously to fauour Christian Religion For now the world doth know their ends and Christ himselfe doth hate detest and abhorre them And when they shall endeauour to perswade you otherwise bee not easie to giue them credit seeing as I haue already shewed vnder holy pretences they doe counsell Deuillish actions Let your Maiestie giue full credence to their Aduices when they shall perswade you to imploy your forces against the Mahometans Capitall and continuall Enemies of Christianitie when they shall say that therein you ought to spend those many Millions which you draw from the Church for that holy end when they shall excite you to dresse your Fleets and Armies to recouer so many Prouinces vsurped by Infidells vpon miserable Christians But why doe I say recouer them I tremble O Sacred Maiestie to speake it but it may not be passed in silence I feare that they rather will counsell you to take from the Christians Arzila in Affrica enforceth me to speake wrested from the possession of the Portugalls by the King Don Phillip the second and giuen to Muley Achmett King of Marocco I well know what they will answer that he gaue it because he could not defend it But if a King of Portugall did keepe it how can it be that a Monarch of Spaine of the new World and of so many other Kingdomes and Prouinces should be vnable No no wee are not deceiued how matters did then passe with the Portugalls doth too clearely shew the truth Phillip did feare that Muley might succour Don Antonio who did claime the Kingdome of Portugall wherfore to extinguish that Christian King the Ministers did perswade King Phillip with the price of that Citie to buy the friendship of that Infidell Consider now your Maiestie this perfidious Counsell the which drew King Phillip into so euill considerations though otherwise an excellent Prince that hee became publikely reproached Giou. Hist. li. 34. and it was said that he had learned this liberalitie to Barbarians of the most famous Emperour his father Charl●s the fift Iglies vit● de Paolo 3 lib. 6. C. 27 sect 1. who after the Conquest of the Citie of T●●us in Barbarie did presently render it to the King Muleasses which he would not haue done if it had bin taken from any Christian Prince Giou li. 37. Iglies nel Capit. preditto sect 9. As he refused to restore Castel nouo to the Republique of Venice recouered from the Turkes at the instance of that Common-wealth and with the ayde of their owne Armado although by particular conuention thereunto obliged Then againe I say let your Maiestie take heed of the false Counsels of your Spanish Ministers who where reason of State is in question would haue Princes vtterly depriued of