Kingdom declares all Leagues made with him by any Princes void exhorting them to endeavour his Ruine with their whole power bestowing all the Goods of his Adherents upon such as would seize them commanding all Bishops to declare the King and his Followers Excommunicate and denouncing the same Censures against whosoever should hinder the publication of this Bull. This piece of prodigious Impudence and Vanity would not satisfie the Pope but he immediately set his Instruments to work to prosecute the design of his thundering Bull so that the beginning of the next year this Letter was written from Paris to one Fryar Forrest Brother WE behold how the King is changed from a Christian to an Heretick and how he hath robb'd Christ's Vicar of his Rights and Privileges by placing himself in his Holiness's Seat there as Supreme over the Catholick Church within the Realm It was the late damn'd Assembly of Lords and Commons furthered his Pride otherwise he could not nor durst not assume it to himself We have thought of these passages and do agree That there is no way to break this Tyrant's Neck but one Puff him up in his Pride and let our Friends say unto him That it is beneath so mighty a Monarch as he to advise with Parliaments but to act all in Person and that it behooveth his Majesty to be chief Actor himself If he assumes this it will take off great Blemishes from the Nation which the Church holds them guilty of and doe our Business For then the People it being contrary to their Laws will fall from him also the Catholick Party of his Council will be too strong for the Hereticks and then the Common sort will be the abler to declare his Tyranny This is to be contriv'd with the Church's Members and cautiously because it is observed that the Parliaments of England have hindred the Church in most of the Kings Reigns otherwise She had held her Party better than She does now You have our Convent's hearty Prayers for your Guide From St. Francis at Paris Primo Id. Jan. 1536. Thomas Powell This Letter was found two years after among Father Forrest's Papers together with an account of vast Summes which he had expended for the Church of Rome and her Designs But this Design not being sufficient the Pope offered England to James the Fifth King of Scots and presented him with a Cap and consecrated Sword. When that Offer of what was none of his succeeded not according to his Desires the same Pope Paul the 3d. by his Bull of the year following absolv'd in general all Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance unto Heretical Kings Princes and States as they be Enemies unto the Holy See of St. Peter all Men from the tye of their Heretical Wives Wives from their Heretical Husbands c. which was accompanied with a Rebellion in Lincolnshire under the Conduct of one Mackarel a Monk to the number of Twenty thousand against whom the King prepar'd to march in Person but their first Fury being over they embraced the King's Pardon and returned home But this Commotion was succeeded by another more dangerous led by the Lord Lumley several Knights and Gentlemen with most of the Clergy this Army in the North consisted of 40000 Men well Armed who call'd themselves the Holy Pilgrimage and the Pilgrimage of Grace they had the Five Wounds of our Lord the Chalice and the Host painted in their Standard and the Name of Jesus upon their Sleeves their whole pretence was for Religion in their March they took Pontefract Castle but were at length appeas'd But soon after the same Persons raised another Insurrection in which several Monks came armed into the Field as Souldiers who were taken and with the Ring-leaders of the Rebellion Executed Two years after if not the next year to the last Rebellion for some place it in the year 1538. the Marquess of Exceter the Lord Montacute and his Brother Sir Edward Nevill and others enter'd into a Conspiracy to depose the King and advance Reynold Pool then Dean of Exceter and afterwards Cardinal to the Throne for which the Marquess Lord Montacute and Sir Edward Nevill were Beheaded upon Tower-Hill In the year 1546. Pope Paul the Third not content with his shewing his pretended Authority over Kings in the two Bulls mention'd before published another in favour of the Jesuits whereby he exempts them and their Goods from the Power of any but himself and commands all Princes to swear not to molest the Society or invade their Privileges and pronounces an Anathema against all who will not obey the Bull. Two years after this King Edward the Sixth being settled in the Throne one Body a Commissioner pulling down Images by the King's Order was stabbed by a Priest and a Rebellion was rais'd in Cornwall Humphrey Arundell Governour of the Mount with other Gentlemen gathering together Ten thousand Men besieged Exceter and reduc'd it to very great Extremity declaring they would have Popery and the Six Articles restor'd They fought four several Battels with the King's Forces but at last were entirely Routed and their Leaders Executed Yet the next year in Norfolk they Rebell'd again and when the King sent them his Pardon they refus'd it after which they took the City of Norwich and fir'd it beat the Marquess of Northampton and were very near Defeating the Earl of Warwick whose Cannon they took and refus'd the King's Pardon a second time but were at length Defeated and so were another Party who took Arms upon the same Account that year in Yorkshire There were other Insurrections in this King's time which I will not at present mention only observe what is confess'd by a late noted Authour of the Romish Church That these Risings of the Laity in such numbers for their former way of Religion would not have been had not their Clergy justified it unto them After this we find that Pope Paul the Fourth following the steps of his thundering Name-sake when the Dyet of the Germans at Ausburgh made an Edict for full Liberty of Conscience whereby the Protestants were maintain'd in the Possession of their Church Revenues fell into a furious rage publickly threatening the Emperour and King of the Romans That he would make them repent it protesting that if he did not recall the Edict he would proceed against them with as severe Censures as he intended to use against the Protestants telling all the Ambassadors in his Court That he was above all Princes that he expected not that they should treat with him as with their Equal that he could alter and take away Kingdoms as he thought good And one day at Dinner in the presence of many Persons of the highest Quality he affirmed That he would subject all Princes under his Foot. No wonder then that the same Spirit of Opposition to Princes actuate the Members of the Church
pleases And then they proceed to shew That the Bull in favour of the Rebells was not procured by surreption but proceeded from the Pope's own Inclination to them and that the permission given to the Roman Catholicks to obey her extended only to such Obedience as doth not oppugn the Catholick Religion which the assisting Her against Tyrone doth And this Declaration is dated the seventh of March. 1602. And it could be nothing less than such an extraordinary encouragement that could render the Irish so audacious as they were upon the Queen's Death in Limrick they seized the Churches and set up Mass in them the same they did at Waterford in the Cathedral and at the Sessions House they pulled down the Seats of Justice in Cork they refused to proclaim the King and by Force opposed the Commissioners they went in a solemn Procession took the Sacrament to spend their Lives in defence of the Roman Catholick Religion wrote to several Cities to assist them seized upon the King's stores and assaulted his Forces alledging that he could not be lawfull King because he was not appointed by the Pope And for their farther satisfaction the University of Salamanca subscribed the Declaration which the Jesuites made the year before and the Divines of Valedolid did the same About this time the Jesuites laboured to get the Sentence of their Banishment out of France reversed the Pope interposing his Mediation in their Favours upon which the Parliament of Paris attempted to dissuade the King from consenting to it by a long Oration alledging That it was their avowed Doctrine That the Pope hath a Power of Excommunicating Kings that a King so Excommunicated by his Holiness is no other than a Tyrant whom the People may oppose that Clergy-men are exempt from the Prince's Power are none of his Subjects and cannot be punish'd by him for any Crimes And having enumerated several of their Treasons they affirm That it is absolutely necessary for them to renounce these Doctrines or else France cannot with safety admit them to return But though they were very desirous of Admission they would not renounce those Positions for it however by importunity and the solicitation of the Pope and others they were at length received but upon Conditions Two of which were That they should build no Colleges without express Permission from the King and that one of their number should be always near the King to be accountable for the Actions of the Society Thus were they admitted but marks of Distrust set upon them though they have by their Address turn'd the latter of these Conditions which was at first design'd for their Disgrace into a mark of Honour the King's Confessour being ever since a Jesuite Though the Gun-powder Plot was not ripe for Execution till two years after yet they were consulting about it at this time when after a long complaint of their Grievances Mr. Percy told Mr. Catesby that there was no way but to kill the King and he was resolv'd to doe it But to that Gentleman desired him not to be so rash for he had laid a surer Design which would certainly effect it without any danger to themselves and then imparted to him the Contrivance of blowing up the King and Parliament Which Design in May the following year the Conspiratours obliged themselves by Oath upon the Holy Sacrament to keep secret Catesby justifying the Action by the Breves which the Pope had sent to exclude King James it being as lawfull to cast him out as to oppose his Entrance and Bates another of the Conspiratours was assured by the Jesuite Greenwell that the Cause and Action were good and therefore it was his Duty to conceal it Upon the approaching of the Parliament they began to work endeavouring to make a Mine under the Parliament-house but soon after Percy hired a Cellar in which they stowed the Gun-powder with Billets heap'd upon it to hide it in case of search The May before the Plot was to be executed there was an Insurrection of the Romanists in Wales but it was soon supprest yet all things went on in order to the fatal blow when about a week before the Parliament was to sit the Design was discovered and so prevented upon which the Conspiratours flew into Rebellion but were all either killed or taken by the Sheriff of Worcestershire The King in his Speech to the Parliament soon after told them that Faux confessed that they had no other cause moving them to the Design but merely and only Religion which was acknowledged by Sir Everard Digby at his Tryall to be the chief Motive which enduced him to make one among them and which he resolved to hazard his Life his Estate and all to introduce protesting that if he had thought there had been the least sin in the Plot he would not have been of it for all the World and the Reason why he kept it secret was because those who were best able to judge of the Lawfulness of it had been acquainted with it and given way unto it and therefore afterwards he calls it the best Cause The Persons upon whose Authority he so much relied were the Jesuites who asserted the holiness of the Action for Garnet their Superiour had affirmed that it was lawfull and Father Hammond absolved them all after the Discovery when they were in open Rebellion and Greenwell the Jesuite rode about the Countrey to excite as many as he could to joyn with them nay Garnet confessed that Catesby in his name did satisfie the rest of the Lawfulness of the Fact. Parsons had kept a Correspondency with that Jesuite to promote it and at the same time not willing to discover it to them and yet desirous of their Prayers ordered the Students of his College at Rome to pray for the Intention of their Father Rectour And after the Discovery Father Hall encouraged some of the Traitors who began to doubt that the Action was unlawfull seeing God had defeated it in so providential a manner telling them that we must not judge of the Cause by the Event that this was no more than what happened to the Eleven Tribes when they went up at first to fight against Benjamin and that the Christians were often defeated by the Turks nay so highly was it approv'd by that Order that not to mention here the Honours done to the Conspiratours since their Deaths several Jesuites gloried in and bragg'd of it for a little before the Discovery Father Flood caused the Jesuites at Lisbon to spend a great deal of Money in Powder on a Festival day to try the force of it and persuaded one John How a Merchant and other Catholicks to go over into England and expect their Redemption there And Father Thompson was wont afterwards to boast to his Scholars at Rome how oft his Shirt was wetted with digging under the
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Henry though he did not publish it till 1538. wherein he asserts his Authority over Kings to plant and destroy as he sees good and then proceeds with the Advice of his Cardinals to summon the King and all his Adherents to appear before him at Rome on a day appointed threatening them with the greater Excommunication in case of Non-appearance and declaring Him and his Posterity incapable of any Honours Possessions or even of being Witnesses absolves all his Subjects from their Oaths of Fidelity and commands them upon pain of Excommunication not to obey him or his Officers enjoyning all Christians to have no Commerce with him all Ecclesiasticks to leave the Land and all Dukes Marquesses c. under the same penalty to drive him out of his
commending the Zeal of the Missionaries in Scotland tells him that they had converted the Earls of Arroll and Crawford who were very desirous to advance the Catholick Faith and Spanish Interest in this Island and resolved to follow entirely the Directions of the Fathers Jesuites whence it appears their main design is to enlarge their Empire for as the same Gentleman affirms no sooner any person of Quality is converted by them but they forthwith encline and dispose their affections to the Service of the King of Spain as a thing inseparably conjoined with the advancement of true Religion in this Countrey so that by the Confession of this great Man Popery and Treason were inseparable at that time the Romanists being so in love with it that they made their Address to the broken Fleet of the Spaniards the last year to land what Forces they had several great Persons being ready to receive them And the two new Noble Converts wrote to the Duke of Parma testifying their entire devotedness to the Spanish Interest Nor was Scotland alone thus infected for in England the Earl of Arundell was this year tried and dyed in the Tower who rejoiced at the Spaniards coming prayed for their Success and exceedingly grieved at their Overthrow And the Jesuite Parsons prevailed to have a Seminary wherein to instruct Youth in such treasonable Principles as his own founded at Valedolyd But though this Island was sufficiently pestered this year by the Papal Agents and Factours for Rebellion yet were we favourably dealt with in comparison of the Treasons and Insurrections in France against Henry the Third a Prince of their own Communion who after the Death of the Duke of Guise was opposed by an almost universal Rebellion the Priests calling on their Auditours to swear to revenge the Duke's Death and railing with all manner of virulency against the King insomuch that Father Lincestre affirmed that if he were at the Altar and the Eucharist in his hand he would not scruple in that very place to kill him The Rebels styl'd him Tyrant Heretick and to have his Picture or to call him King was crime enough to deserve death they threw down his Arms and Statues and practised all sort of Magick Incantations and Charms to hasten his death The Parisians wrote to the Pope desiring to be absolved from their Allegiance with several other requests of the same nature and in their Letters to the Cardinals styled their Sovereign The late King of France and sent Agents to Rome giving them among other Instructions Orders to desire the Pope not to entertain or hear the King's Ambassadours and Messages and to excommunicate all that join with him and having chosen the Duke of Mayenne for their General would have had him take the Title of King but he refused it yet they broke the King 's great Seal and made a new one To these the City of Lyons joined affirming that Kings ought to be resisted and they will resist the King in conjunction with the Holy Union to whom the Parisians sent a Letter exhorting them to defend their Religion c. against that prodigal perjured cruel and murthering Prince the Duke of Mayenne refusing to have any Peace or admit so much as of a Truce and prosecuting the War with the utmost vigour To these Attempts and Perseverance in them they were encouraged by the Sorbon Doctours who in a Decree made Jan. 7. 1589. resolved That the People were freed from their Oaths of Allegiance and Fidelity and that they may legally and with a safe Conscience take Arms for the Defence of the Roman Religion against the wicked Counsels and Practices of the King. Which Decree they ordered to be sent to the Pope for his Confirmation and this they affirm was concluded on and resolved by an entire consent of the whole Faculty not one dissenting And with the same Zeal and no more Loyalty they licensed a Book which asserted that the King ought to be assassined affirming that there was nothing in it contrary to the Roman Church To promote which they concluded that the King ought to be no longer prayed for declaring all such of the Body as should not agree to this to be guilty of Excommunication and deprived of the Prayers and Privileges of the Faculty And that there might remain no badg of Royalty to put them in mind of their Duty the Cordeliers struck off the Head of the King's Picture which was in their Church and the Jacobins defaced those in their Cloisters But this was done after the Pope had once more publickly owned the Rebels and their Cause who by his Bull asserted his Power of Rule over all Kingdoms and Princes of the Earth proceeded to admonish the King to release the Cardinal of Bourbon and Archbishop of Lyons in thirty days and within sixty days to make his Submission to His Holiness for the death of the Cardinal of Guise or he would proceed to absolve his Subjects from their Allegiance which so pleased the Leaguers that they reported Stories of God's immediate Judgment against the opposers of this Thundering Bull. But the King's Army pressing the Parisians and having reduced them to the last Extremity they found an instrument for their purpose who was so wrought upon by the fiery Preachers that he resolved to kill the King He was a Jacobin Friar and confessing it to Father Bourgoin Prior of the Convent he encouraged him in it telling him he should be a Saint in Heaven and accounted an holy Martyr by the Church which so emboldened him that with a Knife given him by that Father he stabbed the King into the Belly and was himself slain upon the place This Jaques Clement was accordingly honoured by the Clergy of the League as they had promised his Picture was made and shewed publickly and they were about setting up his Statue in the Churches instead of the King 's and pared off the very ground where he was slain to preserve as Relicks and several Divines preached and wrote in his Praise compared him to Ehud and affirmed he had done a greater work than Judith The Cardinal de Montalto rejoiced at it and the Pope made a long Oration in its Praise and decreed that no Funerals should be celebrated for the King. Immediately upon this Murther the Leaguers at Paris would have made the Duke of Mayenne King but he declining it they proclaimed the Cardinal of Bourbon by the name of Charles the Tenth and the Parliament of Tholouse commanded all the Bishops within their Churches to give Thanks to God for this Deliverance and that the first day of August on which the King was slain should be kept for ever in remembrance of that Action and that their Rancour against the King of Novarre might the better appear they forbad any to accept him for their King. And not the Leaguers only who had been in open
Rebellion against Henry the Third but the Roman Catholicks of his Army refused to obey him any longer unless he would become a Romanist nay there were many of that Party found who absolutely renounced him and joined with the Rebels some few only remaining loyal by which defection of the greatest part of his Army he was forced to raise the Siege for his own Security Things standing in this posture the Pope fearfull lest any Rebellion should be prosecuted without his assistance sent a Legate into France with great Summes of Money for the Leaguers who was accompanied with Bellarmine afterwards Cardinal and a famous Defender of the Deposing Power To encourage them farther the King of Spain by his Declaration exhorted all to join with him against the Hereticks of France protesting he designed nothing but the advancement of the Catholick Religion and Extirpation of Heresie And the Parisians were so poisoned in their Principles that the City being straitened by the King's Forces and Provisions failing they threw several into the River for murmuring at the hardships they endured About this time the Cardinal of Bourbon their pretended King dyed upon which the States were summoned to meet for the Election of another and for the encouragement of the People the Legate ordered a Procession of all the Religious Orders who to shew their Zeal marched in order armed like Soldiers the Bishop of Senlis leading them and their Relicks carried before them at which the Cardinal Legate was present in his Coach and the Parliament forbad any upon pain of Death to talk of any agreement with the King in which madness the Parliament of Roan had led the way who decreed That whoever joined with the King should be guilty of High Treason and put several Prisoners to death only because they were the King's Servants Nor could all the prodigious straits to which Paris was reduced incline that headstrong People to Obedience the Famine was so great as no Age can shew the like all eatable things were devoured and but one little Dog to be found in all the City which the Dutchess of Montpensier kept for her self and refused two thousand Crowns only for its Brains yet was the Rebels Obstinacy as great as ever accounting those who dyed of Famine Martyrs and continuing as intent upon the War as in their plenty but finding force not successfull they again employed Assassins of whom two Franciscan Friars and a Priest were seized by the King at St. Denis in a Secular Habit who confessed there were three and twenty more besides themselves who had sworn the King's Death at length the City was relieved by the Duke of Parma's Army and the King raising the Siege retired But as we have not hitherto found a Plot without a Priest in it so they contributed all they could to the vigorous resistance which the Leaguers made For the Doctours of the Sorbon finding some Propositions spread about the City importing that Henry of Bourbon ought to be King and that the Pope hath no Power of Dominion over Sovereign Princes presently condemned them which Decree was confirmed by the Legate and sworn to by the Bishops and Curates But not content with this the same Faculty on May 7. this year decreed by an unanimous Vote That all Catholicks by divine Law are forbid to admit any Prince that is an Heretick or a favourer of Hereticks That if he should procure an Absolution for his Heresie yet if there be evident danger of his Hypocrisie he is by divine Law to be rejected That whosoever endeavours that he should be King ought to be opposed And then they apply all to Henry of Bourbon affirming That there is evident danger of Hypocrisie and therefore though he should obtain Sentence of Absolution yet the French are obliged to keep him from the Crown and abhor the thoughts of making peace with him That those who favour him are deserters of Religion and remain in continual mortal Sin but such as oppose him every way they can invent do merit very much both of God and Man and they who are slain in the Cause are to be reputed Champions for the Faith and shall obtain an everlasting Crown of Martyrdom And soon after they renewed this and their former Decrees and when the City was so very much straitened they wrote a Letter to the Pope complaining that his Legate had not proceeded with severity enough against the King commending Bourgogn and other Rebels who were executed calling them Maintainers and Defenders of the Truth and earnestly supplicating for assistance from his Holiness who besides what Power he exerted by his Legate sent them fifty thousand Crowns for a Supply Thus they went on with an excessive Spleen against the King in France but the Jesuites attempting to doe the same things in Transilvania were expelled the Countrey yet in Scotland their Designs went on from whence William Creighton the Jesuite went into Spain into whose King he so insinuated himself that he resolved to be guided by his Advice both for the invading England and the alteration of Religion in Scotland which was the Account himself gave of his Negotiation by a Message to the Earl of Huntley desiring as many blanks and Procurations as could be had of the Scottish Noblemen for the greater Credit of his Agitations In the mean time the Duke of Mayenne solicited the Pope and Spaniard for aid and entred into an Obligation with the Duke of Lorrain and others not to admit any to the Crown except he were of their Family but if they failed in that to exclude all who were not of the Roman Catholick Religion But the Leaguers drew up a Letter and sent it to the King of Spain affirming that it was the desire of all the Catholicks to see his Catholick Majesty sway the Sceptre of that Kingdom and reign over them or that he would appoint some of his Posterity offering the Crown to the Infanta Isabella that King's Daughter in particular And to make all sure within themselves they contrived a new Oath whereby not onely the King but all the Bloud Royal were excluded from the Crown and set up a Court of Justice to proceed against the Royalists In which rebellious Actions they were encouraged by the Pope Greg. 14. who sent a Nuncio into France with two Bulls one interdicting the Clergy if within 15 days they forsook not the obedience and Part of the King and depriving them of all their Benefices if they left him not within thirty days the other threatening the Nobility and all others with the Papal Curse if they assisted that Heretick Persecutour Excommunicated Person who was justly deprived of his Dominions which were the mild Expressions with which this meek Servant of Servants treated that great Prince And farther to shew his Fatherly care of the Rebels he sent an Army to their relief under the Command of his Nephew and allowed
leave from their General upon which they were prohibited by a Decree of Parliament to teach and threatened with a farther Deprivation if they would not obey The Romanists had tried all manner of ways to deprive King James of his Life or Crown but finding none successfull they had the Impudence to publish a Book this year affirming that His Majejesty was a counterfeit and not the Son of Queen Mary of Scotland The Year following Cardinal Perron who had been one of the young Cardinal of Bourbon's Party against King Henry the Fourth in the Assembly of Estates in France asserted not only that Subjects may be absolved from their Allegiance and Princes deposed in case of Heresie but that they who hold the contrary are Schismaticks and Hereticks This Speech was made to divert the Estates from imposing an Oath like our Oath of Allegiance which Design so disturbed the Pope that he affirmed the Voters of it were Enemies to the common Good and mortal Adversaries to the Chair of Rome And about the same time Suarez printed his Book at Colen wherein he teaches that Kings may be put to Death by their own Subjects which Treatise came into the World with the Approbation of the Bishop of Conimbria of Silvis and Lamego and the University of Alcalum with several others In Scotland one Father Ogelby a Jesuite was taken who being asked whether the Pope be Judge in Spirituals over His Majesty refused to answer except the question were put to him by the Pope's Authority but affirmed that the Pope might excommunicate the King at his Trial he protested against the Judges that he could not own them for the K. had no Authority but what was derivative from his Predecessours who acknowledged the Pope's jurisdiction adding If the King will be to me as they were to mine he shall be my King otherwise I value him not And as for that Question Whether the K. deposed by the Pope may be lawfully killed Doctours of the Church hold the affirmative not improbably and I will not say it is unlawfull to save my Life In France several of the Princes raised Commotions which were appeased with conferring places of Trust and Honour upon the chief among them who were headed by the Prince of Conde Fruits as the Historian observes accustomed to be reaped in France from that which in other places is punished by the Executioner Not satisfied with their Honours they took arms again under the same Leader and passed the Loire but the Prince of Conde falling sick Matters were composed by the Endeavours of the English Ambassadour and some others In Savoy Conspiracies were formed against that Duke's Life and to deliver up the Prince his Son to the Spaniards but timely discovery prevented them and preserved the Duke from another Design of some who undertook to poison him The next Year the Jesuites were banished Bohemia and Moravia for coining Money and sowing Dissentions between the Magistrates and People and a Plot was discovered at Venice against the Senatours whom the Conspiratours designed to murther by a sudden Insurrection assisted by the Marquess of Bedmar Ambassadour from Spain and the Duke of Ossuna Viceroy of Naples and make an utter subversion of the State this was carried on in conjunction with the Spaniards by those Citizens and others who were the Pope's Partisans and a number of Factious Persons discontented with the Actions of the Senate who longed for a change and would stick at nothing to effect it And in France the Queen Mother being imprisoned the Duke D'Espernon with a strong Party rebelled in her Defence but before the King's Army was come up against him he procured his Pardon and the Liberty of the Queen Soon after this the Jesuites were driven out of Hungary and Silesia for their seditious Practices and another Rebellion broke out in France which the King marched in Person to suppress In the Valteline the Revolt was universal the Governours of Provinces and the Heads of Families were all murthered and under pretence of defending the Roman Catholick Religion all manner of outrages were committed and a new form of Government erected these Broils continued some time and the bitterness of the Papists was such that they would make no accommodation if the Protestants were tolerated there so that if a Protestant Bailiff be sent among them he cannot publickly exercise his Religion At this time the Match between Prince Charles and the Infanta was prosecuted at least with a seeming willingness on both sides and being to have some Romish Priests of her Houshold the Pope urged very earnestly that they might be exempt from His Majesty's jurisdiction so very diligent he was in catching at any shadow which might seem to favour the Exemption of the Clergy Three Years after this Sanctarellus his Book was printed at Rome wherein the Deposing Power was asserted in its utmost latitude and though Father Coto and two other Jesuites were required to answer it yet no reply appeared the former affirming before the Parliament that though he disapproved the Doctrine in France yet he would assent to it if he were at Rome The Oath of Allegiance being vigorously press'd in England the Pope sent a Bull to the Romanists exhorting them to continue firm and let their Tongue rather cleave to the Roof of their Mouth then permit the Authority of St. Peter to be diminished by that Oath and commanding them strictly to observe the Breves of Pope Paul the Fifth and Father Fisher justified Suarez and the Doctrine of his Book asking what could be found prejudicial in it to Princely Authority and affirming that if it contained any such thing it would not be permitted in Catholick Kingdoms We have mention'd that the exemption of the Clergy was desired by the Pope in the Treaty for the Spanish Match and now his Emissaries in this Nation affirmed that the King could have nothing to doe with her Majesties Chaplains because he was an Heretick and his Holiness threatned to declare those to be Apostates who should seek their Establishment in the Queens Family from the King. But though these were plain Indications of what they desired yet they kept their Designs so secret that they were not discovered till some time after but there was a Conspiracy detected at Genoa which if it had not been prevented would have ended in the Murther of the Nobility and Alteration of the Government And the next Year a Plot was detected in Mantua against the Life of the Prince and some Officers apprehended who would have betray'd Viadana to the Governour of Millan In Ireland the Papists assaulted the Archbishop of Dublin wounded several of his Followers and forced him to fly for his Life following him in a tumultuous manner along the streets and that they had several
amplitudinem aliorum terrorem colligant at rustliculum unum ad Regem supprimendum sufficere Histor. Jesuit p. 260 261. Fowlis's Hist. p. 471 472. 1611. Histor. Jesuit p. 219 c. 1613. Fowl. p. 348. 1614. See his Speech at large in his Diverses Oâ—â—vres Paris 1633. fol. ‖ Fow. p 52. His Defens Fidei Catholicae See Brutum Fulmen p. 205. c. Frankl Annal. p. 6 7. Nani's History of Venice p. 33 34. 1615. Ib. p. 58 59. Anno 1616. 1617. Nani's History of Venice p. 65 99. 1618. Hist. Jesuit p. 297 299. * Nani p. 121 122. * Consp of the Span. agt. the State of Venice p 15 16. Lon. 1675. 8vo †Nani p. 124. ‖ Hist. Jesuit p 300 301. 1619. * Nani p. 151. 1620. †Id. p. 159. * Burneâ—'s Trav. p. 81. 1622. Wilson's Hist. of Great Brit. p. 203. 1625. Fowlis p. 476. Mister Pret. 60 61. Sen. Quid si essetis Romae P. Coto Mutâ—retur nobiscum coelo animus sentiremus ut Romae 1626. * See Baiting of the Pope's Bull in init ad haereat lingua vestra faucibus vestris priusquam authoritatem B. Petri eâ jurisjurandi formulâ imminutam detis †Jesuits Reasons unreasonable p. 116. 1627. Rushworth's Collect. part 1. p. 427. 1628. Nani's History of Venice p. 283. 1629. Idem p. 3â—2 Foxes Firebrands pt 2. p. 72 73. 1620. †Hunting of the Rom. Fox p. 216 217. 1632. Nani's History of Venice p. 310 c. Anno 1633. Bp. Bedell Long 's History of Plots p. 100. 1640. See whole Account published under this Title The Designs of the Papists Lond. 1678. 4to See it in Frankland's Annals p. 865 866. Non diffidimus quia sicut occasione unius Foeminae Authoritas Sedis Apostolicae in Regno Augliae suppressa fuit sic nunc per tot Heroicas Foeminas brevi modò restituenda sit 1641. See the History of the Irish Rebellion fol. Nani's Hist. p. 493. Nani's Hist. p. 495 c. 1642. Id. p. 535. †Long 's Hist. of Plots p. 64. * Nos divlnam Clementiam indesinenter orantes ut adversariorum conatus in nihilum redigat c. See it at large in the Append to the Hist. of the Irish Rebel p. 59. †Nani's Hist. p. 515. 1643. Hist of the Irish Remon Pres. p. 1644. †Disputatio Apolog. de jure Reg. Hibern pro Cath. Hibern advers Heret Anglos p. 65. cited by Walsh in the History of the Irish Remonstrance p. 736 737. in these words Ordines Regni optimo jure poterant ac debebant omni dominio Hiberniae privaâ—e tales Reges postquam facti sunt Haeretici atque Tyranni Hoc enim jus potestas in omni Regno Republica est Jam si consensui Regui in hac re accederet Authorâ—tas Apostolica quis nisi Hareticus vel Stultus au lebit negare quod hic affirmamus Doctores Theologi Juris utriusque periti passim docent rationes probant exempla suadent 1645. Anno 1607. â—d Clarendon against Cressy p 246. * Bp. Bramhali's Letters to A. P. Vsher ap Vsher's Life Letters p. 611. 1609. Id. p. 612. Anno 1647. * Vindic. of the sincerity of the Prot. Relig. p. 59. * Mutatus Polemo p. 4 5. Iâ— p. 6. 18. 26. 32. Vindic. of the sincer of the Prot. Relig. p. 65. Cressey 's Exomolog p. 72. Paris 1647. 8vo Ld. Clarendon against Cressey p. 76 77. 1648. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 11 c. Lond. 1676. fol. * Declaratio SS Dom. nostri Innoc. divinâ Providentiâ Papae 10. nullitatis articulorum nuperae paciâ— Germaniae Religioni Gatholicae Sedi Apostolicae quomodo libet praejudicialium See it in Hoornbeck Disputat ad Bull. Inn. 10. †Numerus septem Electorum Imperii Apostolicâ Authoritate praefinitus Hist of the Irish Remon p. 523 524. * Vindic. of the Sincer. of the Prot. Relig. p. 66 67. Foxes Firebrands part 2. p. 86. Vindication of the Prot. Rel. p. 65. Id. p. â—8 66. In his Letter to Dr. du Moulin Aug. 9. 1673. Idem p. 64. Ib. p. 61 c. Id. p. 60. See the Excommunication in the Appendix to the Hist. of the Irish Rem p. 34. Walsâ—'s Letters in the Pref. 1649. Hist of the Irish Remon p. 609. Prioratâ—'s Hist. of France p. 49 c. 1650. Id. p. 117 c. See it at large aâ—d the Duke's Answer to it Hist. of the Irish Remonst Ap. p. 65. †Hist. of the Irish Rebell p. 261. Id. p. 276. 1651. Vindic. of the Prot. Relig. p. 69. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 245 285 308 333. 1652. Lonâ—'s Hist. of Plots p. 15 16. Vindic. of the Prot. Relig. p. 67 c. Jesuites Reasons unreasonable p. 103 104. Hist. of Irish Rebellion p. 241. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 358 c. 1654. St. Amour's Annals p. 448. 1655. Baily's Life of Fiâ—her p. 260 261. London 1655. 8vo 1658. Hist. of the Irish Remonst p. 740. * The same who had betrayed Ratâ—mines to Jones 1659. Hist. of the Irish Remon p. 610. †Long 's Hist. of Plots p. 87 88. 1662. Jesuites Reasons unreasonable p. 112 c Id. p. 127. Hist of the Irish Remon p. 16 17 18. Where see the Letters and p. 513 514. †Id. p. 43. * p. 52. †p. 54. ‖ p. 49. * p. 60. †p. 91. ‖ p. 102. ‖ p. 84. †p. 116. 1664. 1665. ‖ p. 531. * p. 617 c. ‖ p. 620 629. Anno †p. 624 c. 1666. * p. 633. †p. 634. * Ld. Clarend against Crâ—ssâ—y p. 247 248. Hist. of the Irish Remonst p. 647 c. †p. 657. * p 666. * Id. Pref. p. 3 4. Idem p. 763. * p. 675. p. 746. 1674. Walsh's Letters p. 54. Anno 1679. 1682. News from France p. 37. Lond. 1682. 4to Walsh's Letters in the Pref. 1687. 1686. Popery Anat. p. 14. Lond. 1636. 4to Advertisement of two other Books writ by the Authour of this Book 1. THE Missionaries Arts discovered or an Account of their Ways of Insiruation their Artifices and several Methods of which they serve themselves in making Convert to the Church of Rome With a Letter to A 〈◊〉 2. A Plain Defence of the Protestant Religion fitted to the meanest Capacity being a full Answer to the Popish Net for the Fishers of Mâ—n that was writ by two Converts wherein is evidently made appear that their Departure frâ—m the Protestant Religion was without Cause or Reason Fit to be read by all Protestants