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A02994	A discourse to the lords of the Parliament As touching the murther committed vppon the person of Henrie the Great, King of Fraunce. Manifestlie prooving the Iesuites to be the plotters and principall deuisers of that horrible act. Translated out of French, and published by authority.; Remonstrance à messieurs de la Cour de Parlement sur le parricide commis en la personne du roy Henry le Grand. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1611 (1611)	STC 13134; ESTC S103959	20,195	50

giue it reading as a Testimonie of the love and speciall respect my heart doth owe you who as I will ever pray that you may still honour GOD and your selues by zeale against Poperye and constancye in the Truth So shall I reioyce by anye service I can perfourme to bee an instrument of your Confirmation in the same Till when giue mee leaue to bee one of those who will euer honour your Noble and Religious vertues and who in all Christian and heartie affection doth vowe to remaine Your Honours servant in Christ WILLIAM CRASHAVV● A RELATION TO the Lordes of the Parliament concerning the death of their KING SHall wee then loose our King the most mightie and puissant King that ever France fostered that ever Europe contayned for the space of 500. yeares The heart that gaue life to the bodie of this State even vnto the least Arterie The naturall heat the force vigour of so many soules is pierced is slaine with the accursed knife of a damned Caytife shall he for so strange and inhumane a fact receiue no greater torture or torment than this base and ordinary punishment Shall this bee iudged a sacrifice sufficient for so hainous a trespasse Shall this be delivered vnto posterity for our shame and suffered of vs in these our dayes to our vtter ruine and confusion And you my Lordes of this Parliament that owe to him Iustice and ought to doe your selues right are you at a stand rest you now amazed you that through the height of your wisedomes are able to vnfolde the most difficult pointes of darkest causes are you now at a stand and besides your selues in a matter so cleare and evident You busily enquire after the Authors of this prodigious bloody blow and yet you perfectly vnderstand that the knife was but the instrumēt of Ravailac of Ravailac set on induced and instructed by other It was others that put the knife into his hand and planted the murther in his heart And is it then such a matter for you that are men of such wisedome gravity and experience to devine coniecture nay absolutely to convince who those Abettors are Seeing that all Christendome by general consent concluded that since the creation of the world there hath not any sect or societie beene found more capable or more culpable in such villanies than the Iesuits and their confederates and doe you make a doubt thereof Haue not Murtherers risen again in our dayes of Christian kings the remnants of Sarazin progenie and race of the Mores who haue written books erected schooles wherin they teach the Methode ther and manner of murthering Kings Haue they not reduced this monstrous and mischieuous practife into an Art into a Caball haue they not these many yeres framed and fashioned mens minds by their misteries and meditations by their consecrations and execrations to this end purpose are they honoured for any other exploytes or magnified for any other miracles Your owne lawes tell and teach vs that hee that hath once beene conuinced of villanie is euer after presumed to bee a bird of the same feather Sithence then their Emanuell in the institution of Confessors decreeth that it is lawfull to kill their King that euery Clarke may without offence exempt himselfe from the subiection of his naturall Prince and further averreth and auoucheth that hee cannot bee iustly termed a rebell whatsoeuer he doth or in what matter soeuer hee medleth what shall wee thinke Iohn Mariana is yet more bolde and broad in Iohn Mariana de institutione Regio l. 1. c. 6. 7. these businesses he is more particuler and more methodicall in these affaires he strideth a step beyond all the rest of his crewand company He maintaineth flatly and plainly that whosoeuer hath a charge committed vnto him by the society of Iesuites or from the hand of their Visitor or vnder the commaund of a fewe graue and learned persons of that rancke nay without feare or daunger attempt and assaile the person of his Prince or King by pollicie treason or poyson nay he spareth not to repeate the diuers sorts and kinds of poyson as swift or slow in working giuen in drinke or in meates by touching of his sacred and annoynted body vnder a friendly pretēce of offring him some excellent present or saith he after the manner of the kings of the Moores by rubbing his garments his Chayre his Linnen his Armour his Saddle Stirrops or Bootes And further he warranteth that whosoeuer shall loose his life in such an attempt shall doe a thing acceptable with God and praise-worthy among men hee shall bee forsooth a sweet smelling sacrifice in the nosthrils of the Lord of hoastes These Bookes passed not their Authors with a streight hand nor were they composed or compiled by nouices for the Emanuell as he saith in his preface was a worke of 40. yeares forging The ordinarie Manuell of the Father Confessors The Author therof was among thē a man of such fanctimony as for his pretended Petrus Ribadeneira in his Catalogue p. 14 holynesse the Virgin Marie say they and their good Father Ignatius appeared vnto him at his death That of Iohn Martana mencioned in the Catalogue of the bookes Idem pa. 3. L. 141. of their society published by Father Peter Ribadeneira in the yeare 1608. with singuler commendation of the Author and his woorkes as quallified with an excellent iudgement with admirable learning with profound Diuinity that he taught in Rome in Sicile and in Paris it selfe Both of them imprinted with Anthenticke priuiledges approbations and solemnities of their superiors the first at Antwerpe the other at Toledo and Maience But the latter which should strike the greater stroake was mostcuriously and cunningly framed to carry the greater authority besides it bore in the forefront greater recommendation as the censure and approbation in Spaine by Frier Peter of Onna Prouinciall The sufferance to be imprinted giuen by Stephen Hoieda visitor of the society of Iesus in the prouince of Toledo And consequently the full power and authority of passing current was giuen and graunted to this Booke by the Father Generall of their society so highly commended by them Claudius Aquauina after approbation these are his wordes By graue and learned personages of our order Can you any longer doubt my good Lords when you so euidently see out of what forge of what temper this mettall is Especially when it is too well knowen to you all what attempts within these 30. yeares this sect or society haue made vpon the sacred persons and lyues of many Kings Princes of Christendome pre●ailed ouer some When that diuellish and damnable gunpowder deuise of England resteth so fresh in your memories so bleeding new wherin it was purposed that the King Queen Prince the whole Nobilitie of the Land the whole Clergie Archbishops Bishops and others the chiefe and choice of the Commons infinite numbers of all sorts and qualities in briefe the best of the lands estate without any exception or acceptation of Religion or

present matter and whence came all this but from that viperous broode that had instructed and catechized him at the full Was hee not a small while before the villanie performed presented vnto Father Abigny to him he discouered that he had waighty affayres in hand and shewing him his knife that had grauen vpon it a Heart with a crosse vnderneath to prosper his wicked worke Doe you take for good payment or for a mocke that pretended gift of forgetting confessions to frustrate your authority Why according to the rule of Mariana by the councell of these graue and learned Fathers or at the least by the aduice of the Visitor of the Prouince was this murtherer from his youth nourished and nurtured among the Iesuites Neede you my Lords any other ground to giue out your censure and sentence against this society against these conspiratours what else is it that you want Haue not the same Actes beene ratified and multiplyed before to our costs and griefe for the person of our King Doe not they tell you that these Maxims haue passed for Law hath not the like beene determined and iudged before are not those Canons and Rules turned into an habite nay into nature Of a truth the case of them that pierced the heart of our King by the hands of Rauaillac is all one with theirs that stabde the king in the mouth by the hands of Chastell whereof they failed asore by Barriere They haue in time not enboldned onelie but secured the hands and hearts of such as attempt these enterprises but alwayes vnder the same Masters in the same Schooles and by the same Doctrine There is therefore not a pinne to choose in this whether you will haue the Iesuites Rauillacs or that Rauailac shall become a Iesuite whether the Iesuites shall be the spirit of Rauailac or Rauailac the hand of the Iesuites Heere methinkes I here some say If it bee done of simplicity I pardon it and them but alas these poore soules to what purpose should they doe this The king hath alwaies shewed them good countenance he hath much graced them more benefited them Loe Peter Cotton confesseth that he was their protector the second founder and father Yea but for all that knowe that these blacke sowles the taile of this society doe them what pleasure you please they will bite at vnawares This poyson like the Phisitions deletories keep always their venomous condition quality temper it with what you will or may The market that their society aimed at vnder a Spanish founder attaitour and runagate of Nauarre was indeed the mihgtines and Monarchy of Spaine With the leauen is their whole lumpe of dowe leauened with this it is seasoned and sowred breake and chuse where you will or please France might bee giuen vnto them peece-meale The king in the meane space hath giuen vnto them his owne heart they will be sure to saue their owne stake whatsoeuer they compasse or come by they reserue that alwaies for Spaine Will you haue this prooued vnto you was there euer a greater flatterer fauourer I would say of our late king than this good Father himself who was late named And yet withall we must not forget to represent vnto you vnder this vizard his fained reuerences his deepe dissembled humility his Syrens smiles tended to no other end but the preiudice of the kings reputation to the hinderance of the good of his affaires and to what not that might woorke his and our wracke what letters wrote he what aduise gaue he in Spaine As for the Iesuites of Bordeaux what did they with the Captaines that leuied supplye to the Regiments for the warres of Gleueland how handled they them when they were confessed by them euen the same that Father Gonteir dared to speake in his sermon That is that to go against the Catholickes might not be done with a safe conscience that euery blowe that they should strike vppon any of them strooke our Lord Christ to the heart because they holde none for Chatholique but the Catholique king of Spaine There is none registred in their Catalogue for a Catholique but such as haue eaten of that Catholicon that seeketh the ruine of the realme wherein they inhabite Let vs step yet one step higher Did not those two Iesuites that followed so fast after my Lord Marshall of Chatres at such time as he departed to conduct the Armie instruct him in a case of conscience Did they not tell him flatly that he was damned if hee went forward in his iourney And if their accustomed impudencie would or should deny this being avouched and averred by so waighty by so graue a witnesse were hee not witlesse that would belieue them Assuredly they thought by this detestable deuise to haue cut off and pluckt vp the purpose of our late king by the rootes Yet they see that our most dread Soueraigne and Queene pursueth the same chace and is desirous that in despite of our heauy mishappe her woorthye and warre-like Armies shall suruiue Haue recourse further vnto their accustomed practises and you shall then discerne them in their liuely colours you shall find them voide of all pittie and piety Note with what abhominable superstition they fill the eares minds of such as listen vnto them see how they haue cooled or rather vtterly quenched in them the true worship and reuerence of the name of God how they seeke to lead and guide vs by false feares and vaine doubts They would not by their good wills suffer vs to strengthen our frontiers against the forage and force of an enemie the ftontiers of firme friendshippe They are vnwilling wee should maintaine and defend the auncient friendes and Allyes of this or rather according to the iudgement of Vernin the common Allyes of twoo Crownes This were if you will giue them credite to make you fighr against the Gospell to wage battaile against Heauen And what can we make of this but flatte heresie And of this hereticall religion the King of Spaine forsooth could bee content to accuse and condemne our late king Henrie the third who was a better Catholique then himselfe and that euen in his own Realme wherevpon he studied to remooue his place stirred vp mutinies against him caused his greatest most principall Cities to reuolte and all this must needs be called Christianitie this maketh the Actors true Catholiques them that dye in such a warre Martires and their worke a worke of supererogation not a single merite Will you yet haue an other proofe Aske of your Iesuites where their murthering zeale was then when our late deceased king King of Navarre made warre for his Religion when the Pope excommunicated him and they like themselues openly denounced him for an Hereticke and one fallen into Relaps It cannot be found in all this time for the space of fifteene yeares but that they haue attempted the taking away of his life because they holde him as a mightie instrument to entertaine our Ciuill warres

hoped that he would in small time consume our forces and that hee and all our whole Estate should in the end be buried in the ashes consumed and confunded Well now they see hee hath attained the Crowne that he hath changed his Religion to imbrace that wherof they so much vaunt wherof they call themselues the Pillers by that means to enioye the Kingdome quietly and as they suppose to become a fearefull eye-sore to the King of Spaine Now their zeale sheweth it selfe now their spirits are mooued now they bestirre their witts and busie their mindes now the whole swarme of that darke dungeon appeare in their liknesse and scatter themselues abroad in euery corner of our Region and Countrye In such manner and after such a sort as it is absolutely seene and knowne that they haue sharpened tempered and whet their malice fortified and redoubled their accustomed and long continued practises and deuises and why all this I pray you Is it for Religions cause Why did they not rather then afore this when our king was excommunicate when he was by them denounced hereticke why is this geere now onely set abroach when he is openly of all men declared and by their own selues acknowledged and confessed to bee a Catholique And yet for all this they are not ashamed to warrant vs safety against these vnsaciate murther-moouers prouided that wee will continue good Catholiques by this slye means seeking to change our iustly kindled mindes to turne vs from the execution of that iust reuenge which they haue too iustlye called vpon their owne heads They preach vnto vs the bannishing of the Hugonets against them they arme themselues with tooth and naile But certainly if these Hugonets were Spaniards if they would fashion and frame themselues to their intents and purposes if they would bee but once registred in their red bloody bookes I knowe then what they would say of them and how they would deale with them They should soone bee purged and purified from this crime heresie and with little a do be made perfect Catholiques nay they should haue both themselues and their Armour sanctified for so sound a seruice Well be that so in the meane time they importune vs that there ought to be but one Religion in France They find it conuenient that the Spaniard should make peace with the Estates at the charge of the Masse of our Church and of the Pope himselfe if their diuinity will allowe thereof For you shall neuer heare them sing other song they themselues are the onely denouncers of this decree Why haue our Kings for the quiet of their Estate forbidden preaching retayning wholye our Religion and the Pope his authority And I pray you why should this action which ought rather be taken in the better part be accounted Catholiques in the Spaniard and Heresie in our Kings In the end after this slander to please vs againe they tell vs wee haue now no more Hugonets left then will serue for a breakfast those are their owne words and I would those few might choake them at the first morcell What villanies they haue before time committed you haue heard what mischiefes they haue not deuised onely but practised you haue seene with your eyes and will you not belieue that this comfort which they pretend this strange restoratiue that they offer commeth out of the same Apothecaries shop Are you not perswaded that they would for the accomplishment of their ioye that the same knife that hath slaine our head should smite vs at the heart Of a surety these Hugonets as they tearme them neuer had any thing of hurt in them that resembleth theirs Yet the time was that wee haue burnt them that we haue prosecuted and persecuted them in so strange manner as that it hath beene an horror to our owne consciences yet in the middest of all their miseries and our rigours it was neuer heard or known that they so much as imagined much lesse pretended any thing against the liues of their Princes either of King Charles or of King Henrie the third Who hath euer accused them suspected them but he hath slaundered them But on the other side howsoeuer we haue oppressed them iniuried them imprisoned them or euer so much abused them yet when it came to the vpshot that there was any vse to bee made of them that the enemy assaulted or assailed the Land that the stranger offered to wrong the Countrie haue they not been as forward as the best of vs to defend haue they not drawne their swords with ours nay haue they not receaued woundes with vs and lost their bloud with ours By this meanes as euery one knoweth our Estate stood in safety These kind of people that are most readie then to kill Princes when they most commend them that haue vowed to weare no weapon but for the death of a King that teach that murther is the high and ready way to heauen if any enquire it at their hands dare they now adaies speake of banishing especiallie our Countrimen our Neighbours our Friends our Fathers our Brothers our kindred nay our owne flesh and bloud that are so readie to runne to relieue vs in our dangers Doe they holde vs for so blunt and blockish as that wee cannot see into their subtiltie who haue already so without all pittie and mercie opened the Basilike and Cephalicke vaines that I may vse the tearmes of that good Father Guignard vnder pretence to let vs bloud for the disease of Heresie that they goe about to cut in peeces both the sinewes and Arteries yea of the Catholiques themselues for is it possible if this course were taken but that bloud should be shed on both sides and both parties perish And all this notwithstanding to the heart-breaking of all good Frenchmen they must haue our hearts and good wills at their commaund To them bee the impudency and to vs the shame Let them come to aske vs Rent after the accompts are cast vp and the reckoning full made How full of misteries they are in all their dealings and doings And this among the rest is none of the least misteries for they thinke they haue wonne the game they take it that they haue gotten the goale that they haue what they would haue Who doubteth but that they will take this for a Trophie a Trophie or Tryumph of their victorie of their magnanimity but a badge and cognizance of our simplicity or to speake more plaine sottishnes What cause then haue we to commēd them what reason to reward or regard them Is it because they haue slaine him is it because they haue murthered him for what Chastell hath done they did Is it their funerall Orations that you so honor in the prime and pride of all their Rethoricke of all their eloquence their was hardly one Latine sentence or French phraze that tended to his good that was dead and for that I pray you pardon them There was neuer thing heard so colde so