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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 the Religious, albeit there were at that present assembled (as all the world knoweth) a number of both sorts in that companie, should equally without care had, or regard, or respect made, beene misera­bly and monstrously (by blowing vp the house wherein they were contained) muthered and massacred.

Father Garnet by name their Prouinciall in England, with all his equiuocations, conuinced by his confederates, nay, by his own confession, to be the Author, Director, and Executor of that thrice horrible actiō, if God of his singular grace and goodnesse had not preuented the same: was yet by their sect and sort onely for attempting so diuellish and detestable an enterprize, as to swal­low vp and vtterly deuour so worthy an Estate: in stead of a thousand tortures and torments due vnto his desert, open declared and denounced holie, Canonized amongst their Martires, imprin­ted, sold, and in sacred tearmes set out with this [Page] title: By him that is consecrated to posterity.

And can any man yet doubt, that this murthe­ring Society vnder their hipocriticall maske, fra­med this [...]yne, lodged this pouder, and were ready to put fire to their frame? who or what bee they that reward thus these fire-forgers? what are they that crowne thus these mischiefe making Martyres? for so they say they are, and for such they set them to sale.

Now, if these be their Martyres, what kind of ones (I pray you) are their Angells? But let vs wade yet a little deeper, what saye you to this, that Cardinall Bellarmine the Champion and chiefetaine of that sect, their generall Doctor, in an expresse Treatise written of purpose, ex­tolleth and with great commendation exalteth, the murther that I ames Clement committed vp­pon the person of King Henrie the third: which Mariana dareth auouch, did proceede from the strong hand of the spirit of God, working in the weaknesse of his bodie, who consecrated (as he speaketh) that knife to that intent and purpose, being rubbed ouer with venomous hearbs.

And Rhibadenira, Bec anus, Vaskes, Bonarsius, with many others after him, vnto the booke composed by the Iesuites of Paris; Of the iust expulsion of Henrie the third, giue this Preface: That in a common cause one may lawfully ex­pell, depose, yea, and slay if neede were Henrie the fourth.

Tell me I pray you, in the execution of this monstrous controuersie, what deuise, what stra­tageme, what practise was there among all the attempts made against the life of our King; wher­in some Iesuite or other had not a hand, or was not chiefe? yea, euen in that namely of Iohn Chastell, that stabde the king in the mouth where you (my Lordes) knewe, and euidently found, that he was instructed and induced by Iesuites to strike that stroke.

As first, by the lessons & confessions of that vn­holie Father Iohn Gueret; and next, by those execrable positions of Father Iohn Guignard, both whome, you did condemne for the same their filthy fact, and with them the whole socie­ty by a most solemne decree.

And doe you yet stay for further proofe? Doe you doubt from the same iudgement seat, to de­liuer the same sentence, and vse the same execu­tion vpon those that be guilty of the same crime, of the same murder?

Why, adde then this to therest, that the Ie­suites being not contented to haue razed your Pyramides set vp to leaue a memory to the po­sterity of so inhumane and vnnaturall a fact, and therewithall defaced your decree fixed vppon the same; haue besides within these few mo­neths at Rome censured your decree against Cha­stell, and consequently sought to discredite your Soueraigne authority; why then should they [Page] not be held for fellow-offenders? that ought rather aboue others detest so bloodie a fact, and by detestation thereof, shew their inocencie? But they bolster it vp, they alowe of it, they maintaine it; and all to weaken your iustice, vn­der a pretended power of theirs, to haue superi­oritie ouer all men.

Now, after all this to make vp the messe of their mischiefe, least any thing should bee wanting to the heape of their hellishnes, they haue most glo­riouslie painted forth a Kalender of their suppo, sed Martirs made at Rome, but set to the shewe among vs, wherein they haue appointed seueral seates for those faithlesse Fathers Gueret, and Guignard, Maister, teachers, and confessors of Chastell, and condemned for the same crime.

And why all these? but to confirme and cre­dite the arme and blowe of the traiterous exe­cutioner, by exalting the praise and place, of Gar­net, Gueret, & Guignard? and so to confirme the minde of the murtherer with this imaginarie comfort, against the slanderous ignominie of the punishment.

And whereas three moneths after, our king de­maunded at Rome the reason of their so censu­ring his decree, and restauration of the same: you see the blame was laid vppon our Fraunce; and whence (I pray you) shall it bee said that this happeneth? forsooth by reason of that sacred person, so often attempted and assailed with one [Page] and the same comspiracie, with the selfe-same snares and engines, which hath been negligent­lie looked vnto.

But you seeke yet more plaine and expresse proofe. I would it were so, not so much for your consciences, as our knowledge.

Are you ignorant, or will you not know, that these pestilent people doe traine vp for such di­uellish practises, the most accursed persons that they can find, who after they haue confessed vn­to them their filthy and abhominable liues, as incests, the sinne of Sodome, conuersing with brute beasts, and the like, (for other manner of men are not fit for their fingring): they present­lie shew them hell, with their euerlasting paines thereof, readie gapping to swallow thē vp: af­terwardes they promise vnto them (but with promise, if they wil murther such, or such a one) to draw them from this deuouring gulfe, and plant them in Paradice, at the least among the Angells; threatning them in the meane space, that if they did not what was inioyned them, they should haue hell with out all redemption or remission for their inheritance, and double tor­ture if they discouered their confessors.

By these superstitious impressions, and be­witching charmes, they are armed and embold­ned against all torture or tormenr whatsoeuer, and are vtterlie left voide of any feeling of a good conscience.

And did not that most monstrous mischiefe­worker himselfe deliuer enough vnto you, how he was brought to sermons, especiallie those of the last Aduent, and Lent, and whose sermons were they? none but the Iesuites, who filled all our mindes with sedition, to incense all the cor­ners of the Citie, who praised the tongues of our Curates, if they would haue giuen eare to their alluring words: for who saw not, that whatso­euer they spake there, were it of the King him­selfe, it tended to euill purpose.

Did not the same Monster, the same murthe­rer, (whome you found in all other things blind and blockish enough) in that he intended and executed, shewe himselfe warie and wise e­nough, furnished at the full to answere all ob­iections, with distinctions and exceptions re­quisite for the 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 peece­meale; 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 [Page] 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 weake, so witlesse. They were so choaked with the ioye of his death, so ouer ioyed with the glo­rie of his murther, as that they had quite & cleane forgotten the sorow due to our common griefe, and the praises due to his worthy life.

Wretched thing that it is, to haue procured to them such honour, nay, such pleasure; and vnto France such a perpetual reproach, so immor­tall shame: shall I euer forget that thou hast a hand in this vnhappinesse? When they chose thee in their affaires and businesses, as Protector, and Procurer, diddest thou not perceaue these Hippocrites, the shadowes of sanctimonie, how they curtesied and courted thee, how they sought and solicited thee, at thine vprising, at thy downe-lying, to the end, that by thy credite a­gainst the decree of a most soueraigne Court, a decree pronounced by the bleeding mouth of thy distressed Master, they might be recalled in­to France againe.

Thinkest thou, that if the Court had giuen thee neuer so little incouragement, it had been fot good, or for euill? for their praise, or for their dispraise? had it been conuenient that they should so strumpet-like, vildely, and villanously prostitute their shamefastnes to thy shame?

They, whose pride is well knowne to haue no other purpose, but to broke and buye our ru­ine, thongh it be valued at the rate of their high­est shame, are they not worthy to bee shunned? And among the rest, thou thy selfe (sith thou art not borne to die for griefe) were it not fit that thou shouldest come to the Court with an halter about thy necke, creeping on thy belly, clad in sacke-cloth and ashes, to craue of him par­don and Iustice? pardon for thy brutishnesse, that art so neare in fault to a fault so monstrous, in that thou hast presumed vppon a fauour most vnworthily giuen thee, in causes belonging to kings, to doe against the lawes; ignorant and infamous person that thou art: Iustice against those haue blindfolded thee, bewitched thee, made thee the instrument of thy Maysters mur­ther, and of such a Maister, as from the dunghill hath raised and enritched thee (without any de­sart of thine) as against all reason; so beyond mea­sure, and nature. But (my Lords) it may be Pe­ter Cottons declaratiō hath satisfied you, blot out his suspitions. Put him ouer to be examined by our Abbot, by our Clergie men, that can better handle this matter than you: & yet it were good to haue an eye to the maine, in as much as the case stood otherwise, before my L. Chancellor, accor­ding to his grauity and wisedome corrected it. They are reproached with that famous booke of D. Iohn Mariana, which breatheth out nothing [Page] else, but poison and slaughter. They make vs belieue it is a very badde booke.

In our Iesuites Calapine, might not a man (thinke you) picke out some one word or other, that may bring this booke into detestation? whē his owne mouth speaketh so maydenly of his owne worke, what doth he leaue vs to coniec­ture of his heart? Thus himselfe speaketh of himselfe.

This booke of mine (saith he) is but the slight passage of an euill cut pen; Is he to be acquitted, to be cleared, for these gallant Metaphors, for these glozing far-fetcht, borrowed phrases? whereas this execrable doctrine of his that hath passed currant without contradiction these sea­uenteene yeres, sauoureth of nothing else but mischiefe and murther, and that not against meane men, but the mightiest, it aymeth at no­thing, but Kings and Princes?

But saith he, what charity, what iustice were this, that for one Mariana, the whole society should suffer? And why not? for it is the whole society that speaketh and offendeth in Mariana: for it appeareth by his owne mouth, by his own assertions and attestations, that the grauest and most learned of that sect and sort haue taken a view thereof, the Prouinciall and Visitor haue allowed of it, the Generall taken order that it should be imprinted, to haue it acknowledged for a most Autenticke woorke of that society: [Page] what greater ceremonie would they haue then this? what other forme of confirmation? But let vs farther saye, it is not one Mariana alone, that hath written of this matter, of this subiect; The Iesuites of all Nations, of all Climates, haue prac­tized this Apostleshippe, haue published this Gospell.

Emanuell Sa: the Portugall; Gabriell Vasques, and Peter Ribadineira Spaniards; Martin Beca­nus, and Nicholas Bonarsius, base Almains; Iohn Guignard, and the Authors of the Apologie of Chastell, Frenchman; Robert Bellarmine Italian; Ioseph Creswell Englishman: and many others haue executed the selfe same practise with ioynt consent, vpon the persons of Kings and Princes, in Fraunce, in England, in the lowe Countries, and of late memotie in Transiluania, where there was but one onely; so contagious and corro­siue is this poison whersoeuer it catcheth hold, wheresoeuer it seazeth.

Our dolefull mischiefe was knowne at Prage, at Madrill, at Brucells, before it came vnto vs, as the Ambassors euer truely iustified: and all this done, by the most accursed correspondence of that company.

To conclude, let vs all iumpe in this which is a thing more then certaine, that whether it bee their best Diuines, their most authorized Doctors, Prouincialls, Generalls, Cardinalls, pretended Martires, or whosoeuer else of that rascally rab­ble, [Page] they haue all conspired and knotted them­selues together, to no better intent than is alrea­dy alleadged. For as touching any thing that they can saye for themselues, to cleare their ac­cursed cause, it is so weake, so withered, so darke, so double; so spoken in the teeth, so tumbled out; that there is no one so simple or so sence­lesse, but that he may with ease iudge, that it is the doctrine of Equiuocants, the doctrine of D. Navarre that is spoken.

But we (saye they) in our congregation Pro­vinciall held at Paris, requested of the Generall of our company, that whosoeuer had written to the preiudice of the crowne of France, he should be punished, and his booke suppressed.

Now note (my good Lords) what hath hap­pened fifteene yeres after, when this poyson had leisure to runne throughout all the vaines, and let them preduce but any one if they can, what hath beene excommunicate or otherwise cen­sured, for this booke, or for any the like?

Or let vs our selues remember what Curate wee haue knowne solemnly in the Church, to haue but threatned Hell to such a Diuell as these Iesuites are? yea, saye you, but there was one censured, true: but why I pray you? forsooth, for telling tales out of the schoole; for too open­ly and too seuerely publishing their secrets a­broad. And to what end I pray you was this great peece of seruice done? surely to as great purpose [Page] as that that Rauailac did: to let fall the knife af­ter hee had strooke the fatall blowe, burne the booke after they had fired their hearts, by the meanes of all these hell hound spirits of Europe. But made he not as good a confession of his faith to the Queene?

It is to bee seene (saith he) in the Councell of Constance, &c. What better thing could he haue spoken? Here beginneth their inchaunting songs. For before they can drawe to an end, all kind of deceit, both in woord and worke, is permitted vnto them; fraude is the best part of their Re­ligion, and of their Rules.

It is not good to buye and sell, not conuenient to traffique at all, with Marchants of this mould and mettall: And yet are wee so mightily blinde, that we make no conscience voluntarily to thrust our selues into their hands, to bee bought and solde by them. Let vs a while heare this Cardi­nall Cardinall Toledo in his Sacer­dotall insti­tution, bo. 4, chap. 21. Toledo: the first man that Peter Cotten doth produce vnto vs, in his Sacerdotall Institution. Marke how hee instructeth his Priests: beeing (saith he) after an oath taken, demanded his supe­rior to answere to any questions, he may lawful­ly vse equiuocation, and is not bound to answere according to the will of the Iudge, but after his own mind and discretion: yea, if it bee in an of­fence knowne vnto him, or else committed by him; he may thus shift it off; I know not, or I did it not; meaning; what I may say or do hereafter.

In like manner Siluanus: It is lawfull to vse equiuocations and doubtfull woordes, to de­ceaue Si [...]uanus in his Phil­lipik. p. 5. the hearers; when he that demandeth the questiō is not your own Superior or Iudge. And of late, they haue set it down for a sure ground­woorke and foundation; that no Clarke is or neede be subiect to any secular person, no not to his owne naturall Prince.

What confidence, what truth or trust, may a man then repose vpon their oathes? vpon the deposition of this good Father so much com­mended?

Gregorie of Valence vseth the like speaches, Tome 3. disputa. 5. quest. 13. commended by that faction for a man of excel­lent learning; well knowne in Spame, Italie, & Germanie: he, writing vpon a booke called the Sonne, nameth this science of Equiuocation; A prudent defence, practized by Garnet Prouincial in England, with a brasen face, and a most irreli­gious heart; and reduced into an Art by Doctor Martin Navarre Ciuilian, in a booke composed for that purpose: in fauour (for those bee his woordes) of the most excellent societie of the Iesuites.

But will you heare the bewitching songs of these lewde Syrens, before wee part from this Narration? Our Kings (saith he) in Fraunce be the eldest Children of the Church: would you not thinke he had flattered the Queene well, and giuen her good words? And yet the Equiuoca­tion [Page] that bewrayeth the villanie is apparant, in that that he sayth; our Kings in Fraunce, and not of Fraunce: If he should haue said of France; he feared the King of Spaine, least he should take exceptions at him for his comparison, wherein he seemeth to preferre the King of France before all the kings of Christendome.

But in that he saith in France, he excludeth the comparison, and doth restraine their preroga­tiue within the bounds and Lymits of their own Realme. And by this drift in the middle of his owne natiue Fraunce, hee lodgeth the heart of Spaine.

Thus woont to speake to our late dread king, in recommendation of their founder Loyola: that hee was his subiect, which caused the King to thinke he had beene a French man: And being taken with the manner in his equiuocation, hee put it off thus, that hee was of Navarre, as being neuer without a hole to creepe out at.

But he was warie enough for telling him that he was Traitor, both to the King and the Coun­try, that he defended Pampelune, against the king his Grandfather, where hee was hurt, and in a madnesse made himselfe a Monke: and now at last a Father among vs, and very well woorthy, for he is the father of many periuries and mur­thers.

The question is asked, what shall we then do? And doe you doubt, all this considered, what is [Page] to be done?

Truely (my Lords) if my councell might pre­uaile, you should vse them like Scorpions, kill them, and laye them to their sting and our wounds; but let vs deale a little more mildely. What lesse can bee done, then to execute your decree with speed and seueritie? doe you thinke that to condemne them, is to condemne you? that to shew them iustice, is to challenge you of iniustice?

Or would you haue it sayd (which God de­fend) that these Monsters increase both in offence and impudency; and you that are Guardians of this Estate; as though you had lost your wits, should faile in vertue, and faint in iustice?

All Christian Estates haue taken their patterne from you, euen to the bounds and borders of all Europe, the Almaines, Hungarians, Veneti­ans, haue banished them their Lands and Terri­tories, as ignoble, vnwoorthy to liue vnder any honest Laws, vnder any Ciuill gouernment; & by expresse decree in these prudēt seignories, they haue determined not to recall them, whatsoeuer reasons Rome can alledge, whatsoeuer instance it bringeth. And yet Rome is very neere Italy, and therefore the sooner likely to bee afraid? And this they haue doone by a diuine prouidence, by a liuely apprehension of what may happen. Is there any mischiefe of greater moment, than what they haue already committed? Can there [Page] bee any thing more monstrous, then what they haue already practised? Is it possible to giue a more vilde name to a villanous practize, then a generall murther, an vniversall slaughter? And would it not on the other side bee thought very strange, that you should beare so vneauen a ballance, weigh things with such inequality, that your example should make Lawes vnto other, and not be obserued of your selues? Your lawes stand in stead of wholesome precautions, and preuentions to your neighbours, to those that dwell a farre off, to those that are not so sicke, not so diseased as you are; and will you make no vse of them in so present and pressing a bu­sinesse?

Belieue it, and looke for no other, that if wee doe dallie and delay to cure or cut off this dan­gerons sore that now breedeth among vs; grea­ter and more grieuous paines will followe a fresh.

Would one sore thinke you bee incarnate, would it be closed, seemeth it readye to cicca­trize? It is a strange case in euery Country, and in euery body, sauing in Spaine; they haue pu­trified our humor, they haue corrupted our bloud, whereof springeth Aposthumation, in­flamation, feuers, rupture of the flesh; which the longer it doth last, the harder it will be to heale: but on the other side, purge it once well, cleare the vlcer; flesh and bloud that wee are one of [Page] another, the lippes will growe together againe, and the hurt will heale alone.

Yea marrie, you saye well, but to bannish so great a society, for the offence of one onelie, were not strange? You saye somewhat; yet I must tell you, the conclusion of your argument hardly agreeth with his promises. It is this so­ciety that strooke that lucklesse stroake, not hee that held the knife: it was their Councell, their doctrine, their coniuration: It is already known and convinced, in the arrainment and exami­nation of Chastell.

Did the Iewes euer commit the like, to de­stroy a whole race? Or the Templers, in see­king to banish all others to establish their order? But saith another, what shall become of good Letters? how shall Learning doe, which these worthie men teach so worshipfully? how shall our youth doe? If thou be an Asse or an Idyot, I pardon thee that askest the question.

When they came first into our Frāce, were our Vniuersities a sleepe? So many great persona­ges, so learned, so graue, as haue beene there brought vp fiftie yeares agoe, which haue ho­noured all Europe: not their owne Country onely; were they of their instruction? followed they their methode? As for their Schooles what hath euer come out of them, worthy the talking of? Of a truth, if as the Scottishmen did long a­goe, vnder Charles the Great; they should come [Page] and call and crie about the streetes, who would buy learning without any further meaning, without thrusting their sickles into other mens harvests, or without medling with other mens matters, they had been to be borne withall, nay they should haue byn welcome, euen to the best learned. But are we now to learne, that vnder the pretēce of this good Latin, they fill our children with very evill French? that vnder the shew of good letters, and wholesome sciences, they confound our Spirites, and corrupt our soules? See wee not how in the end, they insensibly transforme our affections and our wils in this tender age: to fashion, vs and in vs by this meanes in their Colledges, so many Spanish Col­lonies, spredde abroad and founded within the bulke of all our bloud, as therby they alter (tho­row their vilde and base qualities which they im­print there) all the body of the Realme. So, as to buy Latine and learning at this rate, it were better we neuer knew what latine ment, or euer spake other then our own language. Yea but be not so superstitious; what man, banish this good and godly name of Iesus; can you thus without shame and sinne, kicke against the holy Moun­taine? what a number of good deuotions, of ho­ly confessions shall we loose with them? Nay say rather, how many diuels how many deu [...]tes? Antiquity called thē deuotes, that vowed their liues for the death of any one, at any doleful actiō.

What other deuotion is there among these, so woorthy the noting, as this? But not to ad­uenture their owne liues, they are too carefull and cunning in that: but to perswade and bring others vnto it.

Now Sir, whether call you it losse or gaines to loose such deuotes? For, as for any other speci­all marke of holynesse, if you looke for in them; they will send you to the Indians; there are their Martires, there are their miracles. This wret­ched west-part of the world, is neither capable nor worthy of them.

Among vs they can produce no other Mar­tyres but Chastells, Rauailaks, Fathers, Garnets, Guignards, Guerets, murtherers of Kings: bur­ners of Realmes: for their miracles, they pre­sent vnto you; seditions, conspiracies, murthers, massacres.

Those that among vs feede and fill themselues with nothing else, but slaine bodies, and mur­thered carkafles, shall we bee so foolish as to be­lieue, that in other places they raise the dead, yea, or so much as heale the diseased? And as touching confession, the chiefe sinew of their societie, or rather of their coniuration; who knoweth not, that it is nothing else but a Caball of that old Mahumetan of the Mountaine, vsed to confirme and resolue those that are his, to kill christian Princes in the holy Land. They tran­sport their Nouices (casting them into a sleepe [Page] with certaine drinkes) into a certaine place, where they not onely see, but taste all the plea­sures of their holy Fathers prophane Paradice: to the end (that waking) they may despise the danger and death that they might runne into by killing of Kings; a death whereof when they haue tasted, should bring vnto them ioye euer­lasting.

In their confessions such is their craft, (for Sathan alwaies profiteth by growing olde) they draw from all the horrible offences that e­uer they haue committed; And that reuealed, they plunge them ouer the head and shoulders in the horror of that eternall paine, that is allot­ted for so heauie sinnes, and after in their cham­ber, giue them a feeling of heauenly Medita­tions.

Afterwardes, when they haue thus broken the heads and hearts of them, when they haue thus astonished thē, they propound thē for reme­dy of some one offence, an ordinary murde; of some other sin, the killing of a King at the least; and so of the rest: which if they will attempt and accomplish, they will warrant, that it shall not onely free him of iustly deserued paine; but besides, according to the nature of that that hee shall practise, as vpon a noble man, a Prince, a King; his rewarde shall proportioned more, or lesse in Heauen; As to bee an Angell, or Archangell, &c. And thus they furnish with [Page] a consecrated weapon: saying, take the sword of Dauid, of Iudith, of S. Peter: Assone as they haue deliuered it vnto him, straight they honor him, they admire him, they worship him. They perswade him that hee is already deified, they find him transfigured, glorified.

Doe you not thinke that they haue well en­riched the Sarazines invention? This Mahume­tane vsed this practise of his, but onely against his enemies, as he tooke them, infidels; but our mercy more carefull a great deale then this infi­dell, make vse thereof onely against Christians; they reserue it by a speciall priuiledge for an­noynted Kings, those especially whom Christen­dome calleth most Christian among the Catho­liques. In briefe, the pretended wisedome tel­leth vs (I pray God it be not wickednesse) that to deale with so great a bodie, so mighty a society, cannot be without much danger: And who sup­poseth his Holynesse will make vs feare and feele his power? and yet we must needs be affraid of some hundred or not many more, that are scat­tered abroad, heere, and there, in our Coun­try? Such as haue no part or portion in our Estate, that haue nothing to doe with any of our Pro­vinces, Cities, or Families, such as we can easily roote out, without beeing seene or perceiued Shall these hinder you for doing iustice, iustice vnto our King, iustice for so haynous an acte? where (my good Lords) should your auncient [Page] vertue become? whome should it meete with­all in his way, in the way of iustice to hinder you? Cerberus with his three heads, should bee con­strained to creepe on his belly (as our King was wont to say) hee would leaue to doe the iustice of God, for the pleasure of men: of that God which is alwaies able, to strengthen the weake­nesse of man in his affaires. Assuredly, my Lords, he promiseth the same ayde to you at this daye. Nay, the present necessity, extreamitie, and iust dolour, will confirme and redouble strength in you. But to giue the ancient strength and vigor to his Estate, requireth your helping hand; be­come you first strong and couragious, and they will soone follow. Let vs know by the speedy ex­ecution of your decree, what feeling, what mo­tiou there is in you, let nothing hinder, let no­thing staye that? And doe you not repose your selues (my Lords) vppon the quaint deuises of these companions, vppon their supposes, vppon their supports; this voice of mine is the voice of all France, nay of all the Catholicks of this realme. Our fields, our Townes, our Artes, doe rede­mand at your hands our King, that caused them to florish, to flowre to preuaile, to profit. They all sigh and sob for this iustice. Our Clergie cra­neth from you their defender, the Nobles their guide our people their deliuerer, our estate their restorer, the soundest part of Europe their Pro­tector, our French Princes the honour of their bloud, Strangers the Captaine of their Ranckes.

There is nothing that can gainesay, or gaine­striue this request. These trickling teares, these secret murmurings, this astonished silence hath no other wish, nor speaketh any other speech. To be short, the earth that hath giuen entertain­ment to his sacred bloud spilt vpon a pauement (as the Prophet speaketh) that will neuer be dry; cryeth vengeance of the Heauens; The Hea­uens receaue their voices, and rebound from thence a commaund of the same reuenge.

You cannot better (my Lords) continue and increase the yeares of our King, comfort the teares of the Queene, nor better bewaile the death of Henrie the Great, moane his sorrowfull death, celebrate his obsequies, nor consecrate his memory to eternity. By this meanes you shall best continue and defend your Nobilities and places, you shall bee Fathers of your Country, if you will truely the voice of your Country, and otherwise not, which long may you doe and happily.