forth a Declaration affirming That Henry of Bourbon could not be lawfull King because he was an Heretick and therefore they cannot be blamed for opposing him in obedience to the Pope's Bulls and Admonitions to which his Holiness's Legate added another assuring the Romanists that the Pope would never consent to the admission of an Heretick that such who assisted the King were in a desperate Condition and exhorting all to be obedient to the Pope and when the Estates were met he proposed that all should take an Oath never to acknowledge the King though he should be converted to their Church nay so great was his Fury that when the Romanists with the King sent to the States some Propositions for a Treaty he declared the very Proposals to be Heretical and by his influence the Doctours of Sorbon asserted the same as intimating a declared Heretick might be King but the Proposition was accepted and a Conference agreed on but with this Clause in the Answer to the Proposal That to fight against an Heretical King is not Treason yet the Legate entred his Protestation against the meeting and the Parisians attempted to make the young Duke of Guise King Nor were things better in the Royal Army where the Romanists whom the King most trusted were falling from him upon which resolving to change his Religion his Intensions were no sooner published than the Legate forbad all Bishops to absolve him pronouncing all that should be assisting to his reception into the Roman Church excommunicated and deprived and all their Actions in that Affair null and void But hower the King was reconciled and sent his Ambassadours to Rome but the Pope who had formerly refused to admit any Message from him prohibited their Entrance neither would he receive the Prelates that absolved him In the mean while the Leaguers stormed at the King's reconciliation and set themselves to destroy him by private Treason now Force could doe no good for which purpose one Barriere or Le Barr was employed who confessed that the Curate of St. Andrews of Arts in Paris commended the Design telling him he would merit Heaven and Glory by the Act and recommended him to Varade Rectour of the Jesuites College who affirmed that the Enterprise was most holy exhorting him with good constancy and courage to confess himself and receive the B. Sacrament and then leading him to his Chamber gave him his Blessing He mentioned also another Preacher of Paris who counted it meritorious Thus encouraged he bought a knife seven Inches long and went to St. Denis where the King then was but being discovered was executed affirming at his death that there were two black Friars that went from Lyons upon the same Account It is probable the Preacher at Paris mentioned in his Confessions was Father Commolet the Jesuite who two days before this Barriere's Execution at St. Denis in a Sermon at Paris which yet continued obstinate against the King exhorted his Auditours to have Patience for they should see in a few days a wonderfull Miracle of God But the next Year Paris was reduced to its obedience Anno 1594 soon after which the University endeavoured the Expulsion of the Jesuites accusing them of all manner of Injustice of the ruine of Families and many other Crimes but insisting particularly on their Treasons charging them with being abettors to the Spaniard Fomenters of Civil Wars and always ready to assassinate the French King whom they omitted to pray for while they extolled the Spaniard that they taught and asserted the Pope's deposing Power that they refused to give Absolution to several Persons of Quality because they would not renounce the King that they had been the cause of the Death of Twenty-eight Barons Fifty Noble-men of France and above Five hundred Monks and Friars in the Tercera Islands and had refused to renounce the League Which Spirit of Rebellion was so strong amongst the Leaguers that a little before the Seduction of Paris the Pope's Legate published a Declaration exhorting all Catholicks to oppose the King assuring them that the Pope would never grant him Absolution and upon the Rendition of Aix to his Majesty the famous Genebrard was so vext at the Loyalty of the Place that he left it resolving not to live among the Royalists nay when the King entered Paris the Cardinal Pellivee lying upon his Death-bed very angrily told those about him That he hoped the Arms of the Spaniards and good Catholicks would yet drive the Huguonots out of Paris And Hay a Scotch Jesuite affirmed That if the King passed by their College he would leap from the top of it upon him and did not doubt to go directly to Heaven But to return to the Jesuites who finding their Banishment out of the Kingdom thus zealously endeavoured and fearing lest the King to whom they had been such bitter Enemies should consent to it resolved to dispatch him * Francis Jacob one of their Scholars at Bourges had boasted that he would doe it but John Chastel who was bred under them at Paris went farther and with a knife struck the King in the Mouth and beat out one of his Teeth he was immediately apprehended and on Examination confessed That he esteemed it an Act highly conducing to promote Religion and that Father Gueret his Master in the Jesuites School had taught him those Doctrines upon which Sentence of Death was pass'd upon him by which also the Jesuites were banished as Corrupters of Youth Disturbers of the publick Peace Enemies to the King and Kingdom and enjoined to depart the Realm within fifteen days and all their Goods confiscated to be disposed of as the Court should see fit This Sentence was published after the search made in the Jesuites College wherein was found a Book of T. Guignard's which he confessed to be his own writing lamenting that the King was spared in the Parisian Massacre applauding the Murther of King Henry the Third affirming that if the King were shut up in a Monastery he would be treated more gently than he deserved and concluding that if he could not be deposed without force of Arms they ought to be taken up against him for which and his other Treasons he was executed but Gueret Chastell's Master of the same Order was only banished with the rest in memory of which Fact and to the perpetual Ignominy of that Order Chastell's House was demolished and a Pillar erected in the place on one side of which was engraven the Decree of the Court on another a Copy of Verses expressing the Crime and discovering to the World that it was attempted by the Persuasions of the Jesuites on the third another Inscription to the same purpose and on the fourth a summary Account of their banishment and the reasons of it wherein the Jesuites are termed A mischievous and novell sort of superstitious Men and Disturbers of the Nation by whom that young man
King's Forces but at last were entirely Routed and their Leaders Executed Anno 1549 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 Anno 1555 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 which possess'd their Head in such a degree that upon the Resignation of the Emperour Charles the Fifth Anno 1558 Ferdinand his Brother was rejected by the Pope who affirmed That none had power to Resign but into his hands and so it belong'd to him to nominate a Successor not to the Electors but he kept the Imperial Crown though the Pope would never acknowledge him for Emperour With the same Haughtiness did he demean himself towards Sir Edward Karn the English Agent at Rome who acquainting him by order from her Majesty of Queen Elizabeth's Accession to the Crown the Pope answer'd That the Kingdom of England was held in Fee of the Apostolick See that she being Illegitimate could not succeed and therefore it was great boldness in her to assume the Government without his leave yet if she would renounce her Title and refer all to him he would act as became his Honour But the Queen took no care to satisfie this blustering Gentleman who soon after dyed But the Pope who succeeded him Anno 1560 Pius the Fourth issued out a strict Bull commanding all the Learned of that Church to find out Arguments to persuade Subjects to break their Oaths of Allegiance in favour of the Apostolick See in order to which he granted several Dispensations to preach among the Protestants of England and to marry if need were And the same year his good Sons in Ireland by their example shewed their Obedience to it for Shan O Neale Earl of Tyrone rebelled but finding himself too weak submitted and had his Pardon though not till two years after In the mean while Anno 1561 viz. the next year the Pope's Nuncio in Ireland joyn'd himself to the Rebels publickly assisting them and by his Authority pronounced the Queen deprived of that Kingdom But the year following Anno 1562 though the Irish submitted yet Arthur Pool and others contriv'd to joyn themselves with the Duke of Guise land an Army in Wales and Proclaim the Queen of Scots to which the following Pope afterwards added his endeavours to get our Queen Murthered as the Writer of his Life informs us But in the mean time Anno 1563 that it might not be said of this that he neglected any thing for the advantage of his Supreme Power to keep his hand in ure he published a Monitory against the Queen of Navarre declaring That if she did not turn Romanist within six Months he would deprive her of her Dominions and give them to any that would conquer them but the King of France promising to stand by her his terrible Threat serv'd only to shew how ready he was to Depose all Princes that offended him if his Power had been equal to his Will And in this year it was that the Council of Trent made that excellent Decree whereby they confirmed all the Canons of Popes and Councils which set the Pope above Princes gave him Power over them and exempted the Clergy from being subject to them thereby endeavouring to Depose all Princes who knew themselves and their Rights too well to truckle under the usurped Power of their Supreme Head But though the Pope could not send any Sovereign Prince of his Errand to destroy the House of Navarre Anno 1564 yet such obedient Sons were the Cardinal of Lorrain and the rest of the House of Guise that they resolv'd its Ruine To which End they sent Captain Dimanche into Spain to get Assistance there designing to fall upon Bearn seize the Queen of Navarre the young King and his Sister and send them to the Inquisition in Spain to be proceeded against as Hereticks but this Design was discovered and so came to nothing But in the same year we are informed by one of the English Spies at Rome That the Pope granted Indulgences and Pardons to any Person that should assault Queen Elizabeth either in private or publick or to any Cook Baker Vintner Physician Brewer Grocer Chirurgion or any other Calling that should make her away together with an absolute Remission of Sins to such Person 's Heirs and an Annuity for ever and to be one of the Privy Council successively whosoever Reigned To the Endeavours of the Pope O Neale likewise added his by rebelling again and murthering the English committing the most barbarous Cruelties imaginable Anno 1565 but his Power was broken in a pitcht Battel the year following notwithstanding which he continued his Rebellion till two years after when he was Stabb'd by Alexander Oge whose Brother he had slain before Anno 1567 But though the Rebels had such ill success Anno 1568 yet the Pope will not be disheartened but the next year sends one Rodolpho a rich Florentine Gentleman into England to stir up the People against the Queen To him the King of Spain joins the Marquess of Cetona who under the pretence of an Embassy was sent over to countenance the Rebellion and command the Forces which the Duke of Alva should send from the Low Countries in order to which La Motte Governour of Dunkirk had come
as putting it to the Question They offered indeed several Forms instead of the Remonstrance but in none of them renounced the Deposing Power in that the Assembly signed at their breaking up they disowned the Doctrine but would not declare that Doctrine which abetts it unsound and sinfull wherein they have been imitated by some late Writers who though called upon to affirm it such never did it Once indeed they seemed to come something near what was expected when their Chairman told Father Walsh That it was not out of any prejudice against the Remonstrance they would not sign it but because they thought it more becoming their Dignity and Liberty to word their own sense for the rest they were far from condemning that Remonstrance or the Subscribers thereof Yet would they not own this when desired under their Hands but refused so that no good being expected they were dissolved leaving an undeniable Evidence of their aversion to Loyalty and approbation of the treasonable Doctrine of the Ch. of Rome Soon after the Dissolution of this Synod the E. of Sandwich Ambassadour in Spain informed His Majesty that Primate Reilly was emplyed to stir up his Countrey-men to rebell upon which a Gurd was set upon him and in a little time was sent into France The Bp. Anno 1674 of Ferns still justified the Rebellion defending the Actions of the Clergy for laudable vertuous meritorious Deeds and becoming good Men Anno 1679 and therefore needing no Repentance And this is the last Account I find of him for he soon after dyed And now the Controversie about the Regale growing hot between the King of France and the present Pope His Holiness had so much of the Spirit of his Predecessours who were for asserting their Power over all the Kingdoms of the World as to threaten the King with Excommunication and that speedily if he would not renounce his Claim Anno 1682 and he was as good as his word for the King not being affraid of his Thunders and refusing to lose his Right and the Assembly of the Clergy joining with his Majesty the Pope sent a Bull of Excommunication to his Nuncio requiring him to publish it in the Assembly but by the diligence of the Cardinal d'Estree the Assembly was adjourned before the Arrival of the Bull. At the same time Szlepeche my Primate of Hungary with his Clergy maintained the Deposing Power by a Censure of the Contrary Opinion and the next year the Spanish Inquisition at Toledo did the same Anno 1687 which was followed three years after by four Theses Anno 1686 publickly maintained by the Jesuites at their College of Clermont in Auvergne wherein it was defended and even among our selves the Authour of Popery Anatomised defends the Decree of the Council of Laterane in that the Kings and Princes of Europe by their Ambassadours consented to it affirming that the Christian World apprehended no injury but rather security in that Decree FINIS Advertisement of two other Books writ by the Authour of this Book 1. THE Missionaries Arts discovered or an Account of their Ways of Insinuation their Artifices and several Methods of which they serve themselves in making Converts to the Church of Rome With a Letter to A Pulton 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 Men that was writ by two Converts wherein is evidently made appear that their Departure from the Protestant Religion was without Cause or Reason Fit to be read by all Protestants a Fowl p. 287. b Fowl p. 301. 302. c Fowl p. 315. See the Bull at the end of Brutuâ—… Fulmen Lond. 16. 4to * Hunting of the Romish Fox p. 3 4 5. * Fowlis Hist. of Romish Treas p. 316. †Foxes Firebrands part 2. p. 34. Dublin 1682. Mr. Mason Minister of Finglas in the year 1566. copied the substance of the Bull out of the Records at Paris ‖ Fowlis's Hist. p. 316. Surii Commentar p. 314. Speed's Chron. p. 1033. * Surii Comment brevis p. 314. Fowlis's Hist. p. 316. Speed's Chron. p. 1034. †Speed's Chr. p. 1041 1042. ‖ Speed's Chr. p. 1044. * Bulla Quarta Pauli Tertii Jesuitis concessa apud Hospin Histor. Jesuit p. 104 105 106. this Bull is called by the Jesuits Mare magnum * Speed's Chronicle p. 1110 to 1114. †Speed's Chronicle p. 1114 1115 1116. a Speed's Chron. p. 1116 1117. Fifth part of Church Government p. 139. Oxford 1637. b Hist. of the Council of Trent p. 262 263. London 1684. 8vo c Fowl Hist. of Romish Treasons p. 287. d Idem p. 329. * â—xes and Firebrands part 2. p. 20. * Fowlis's Hist. p. 302. †Idem p. 329. ‖ Idem p. 330. * Gabut Vit. Pii Quinti l. 3. c. 9. apud Fowl ubi supra Thuanus lib. 44. ibid. †Fowl Hist. p. 367. ‖ Concil Trid. Sess. 25. c. 20. Decemb. 4. 1563. * Fowlis's Hist. p. 366. Edward Dennum See his Letter to the Lord Cecil of April 13. 1564. in Foxes and Firebrands p. 51 to 56. out of the Memorials of the Lord Cecil †Speed's Chr. p. 1162. Fowlis Hist. p. 302. ‖ Fowlis's Hist. p. 130 131. Import Câ—â—sâ—d p. 57. * Id. p. 368. †Sir Ed. Coke at the Tryall of the Gunp. Trait Hist. of the Gunp. Tr. p. 109. ‖ See the Bull in Fowlis Hist. p. 331. and Speed's Chron. p. 1171. * Surii Comment p. 770. ‖ Il. * Speed's Chr. p. 1169 1170. Fowl Hist. p. 335. †Execut. of Justice for Treason Pr. Lond. 1583. 4to ‖ Surii Comment p. 770. Non illos habuere successus conatus illorum nobilium quos peraverant â—â—rtassis quod Catholicis omnibus ea denuntiatio necdum innotuisset * Idem p. 771. Noluerunt Elizabetham legitimam Reginam confiteri †Fowl Hist. p. 302 303. * Speed's Chr. p. 1170. Fowlis's Hist. p. 335. Speed's Chron. p. 1174. †Surii Com. p. 786 787 788. * Resp. ad Edict Regin Angl. †Ad An. 15â—0 Sect. 4. ‖ See Fâ—wlis ubi supra Surii Comment P. 794 795 796. â—owlis's Hist. p. 368. Fowl Hist. p. 371. * See the Instrument of that Confederacy in Maimbourg's Hist of the League p. 42. Lond. 1684. 8vo †See the Instrument in Fowlis p. 372 373 374. See the Account of this Transaction in the Appendix to the Vindication of the sincerity of the Prot. Relig. Speed's Chr. p. 1176. * Nelson Hance Lacies Briant c. †See his Letter in Speed ib. ‖ Hist. Jesuit p. 244 245. Anat of Popish Tyr. in the Ep. Dedic Lond. 1603 4to Fowlis's Hist. p. 303 304. †Fowlis ubi suâ—pra Fowl p. 305. See the Bull at large in Fowlis p. 306. ‖ Eandem plenariam Peccatorum vestrorum indulgentiam Remissionem quam adversus Turcas pro recuperanda terra Sancta bellantes consequuntur tribuimus