The hellish and horribble councell, practised and vsed by the Iesuites, (in their priuate consulations) when they would haue a man to murther a king According to those damnable instructions, giuen (by them) to that bloody villaine Francis Rauilliacke, who murdered Henry the fourth, the late French king. Sent to the Queene Regent, in answere to that impudent pamphlet, published by Peter Cotton Iesuite, in defence of the Iesuites, and their doctrine; which also is hereunto annexed. Translated out of French. 1610 Approx. 36 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 13 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A19436 STC 5862 ESTC S108850 99844503 99844503 9320 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. 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According to those damnable instructions , giuen ( by them ) to that bloody villaine FRANCIS RAVILLIACKE , who murdered HENRY the fourth , the late French King. Sent to the Queene Regent , in answere of that impudent Pamphlet , published by PETER COTTON Iesuite , in defence of the Iesuites , and their doctrine ; which also is hereunto annexed . Translated out of French. IOHN 8. VER . 44. Ye are of your father the Diuell , and the desires of your father ye will doe : he hath beene a murtherer from the beginning . LONDON , Printed for T. B. and are to be sold by Iohn Wright at his shop by Christs-Church-gate . 1610. TO THE QVEENE , MOTHER OF OVR KING , AND REGENT OF FRANCE . MADAME , THE combate of spirits is so iealous , as there is not any kind of errour , how cleare and euident so euer it be , but it shall finde a defender , rather then any way to yeeld or giue place to truth : because opinion , in such mindes as pride will neuer permit , to humble themselues vnder the victorious arme of the strongest wrastler , beares them out ( with no meane courage ) in all apparant and impudent shame . The Iesuites doe hereof giue sufficient testimony , whose doctrine , both iustifying and defending the killing of Princes , they dare yet put on such shamelesse vizardes ; as , to perswade your Highnesse , that they are no such men , neither doe deserue any such taxation . Vpon this our late lamentable disaster in France , by such a bloudy , fatall , and parricide hand , as hath bereft vs of the most remarkable King , that euer this flourishing Kingdome enioyed ; the Iesuites , to excuse their hellish harts , and palpable bloudy intentions ( hauing beene so highly fauoured from you , as to haue the buriall of the Kinges hart , at the College of La Flesche ) haue published a little pamphlet , called ; A dedicatorie Letter , of the doctrine of the Fathers Iesuites , conformable to the decrees in the Councell of Constance ; directing it also to your Maiesty , that you might remaine fully assured , of their harmelesse innocency and honest inclination . But , as it becommeth any true harted French-man , ( so much as in him lyeth ) to discouer truth from falsehood , and verity from lying ; I haue sent vnto your sacred view , the same booke of Peter Cottons , without altering or adding thereunto any the very least sillable . And when your Highnesse shall haue read it ouer , that you would be pleased , to reade likewise a much shorter discourse following , to giue you a true tast of the Iesuites doctrine , and whereby you may discerne them in their kinde . So may you rest fully perswaded , how neare their hollow harts and equiuocating soules doe agree together , and how studious they are , in imploying their paines and vttermost endeauour , to nurse vp such villaines as must become the murderers of Kinges . Withall , if it might please you , but to remember him , to whom ( that monster of men ) Rauilliack , that robde you of your richest iewell , and vs of our dearest Lord ; had shewne the fatall instrument , wherewith he did the deede , and the man commending the beautifull workemanship of the knife , seeing withall , that he kept it curiously , and made no vse thereof in his feeding ; was answered by the said Rauilliack : That that fayre knife , was to performe a faire deede , yea , that it was to kill a King. Which wordes , whether he vnderstood not , or guiltily concealed them , he paied the price of his life for : And with that , as also these other serious considerations , I humbly intreate your Highnesse , to take an intire apprehension of these dangerous men , how smooth soeuer Cottons discourse shall appeare vnto you . ( * ⁎ * ) THE SECRET AND hidden Mysterie , which the Iesuites doe vse , when they resolue to haue a King murthered . WHen they would haue a man to vndertake the resolution of murthering his King , this is their order : After such a wicked person shall be entred into their Meditation , or Chamber appointed for such prayers ; then this infernall ofspring doe giue their attendance , and lay before him a knife foulded vp in a Skarffe , and closed in a little Casket of Iuorie , couered with an Agnus Dei , written round about with many sweete and perfumed Characters . And taking the knife forth of the said Casket , they bedew it with diuers sprincklings of holy water , and sastening to the hast or handle thereof , sundry little beads of Corrall , to the number of fiue or sixe , blessed and hallowed with their holy-water ; they do giue therby to vnderstand , that he giuing so many stabbes or wounds with that knife , shal ( by that act ) release as many soules out of the fire of Purgatory . Then , deliuering it into the hand of the murderer ; they vtter these words : Goe thou forth like Iephtah ; the sword of Sampson ; the sword wherby Dauid did cut off the head of Goliah ; the sword of Gedeon ; the sword wherewith Iudith did cut off the head of Holofernes ; and the same wherewith Saint Peter did smite off the eare of Malchus , and the sword of Pope Iulius the second , whereby he brake the power of Princes , and ( with great effusion of bloud ) got out of their handes the Cities of Setusa , Imola , Fayenza , Furlie , Bologna , and many other Citties : Goe thou forth ( I say ) be vertuous , and God will strengthen thine arme . After this , the hellish company doe all fall downe vpon their knees , and the most renouned among them , or he that is the cheefe Priest , makes the coniuration , saying these words that follow : come Cherubins , come Seraphins , Thrones and Dominations ; come most blessed Angels , Angels of charity ; come and fill this holy vessell of glorie and eternity , & carry him forthwith to the crown of the Virgin Mary , of Patriarkes and of Martyrs : for he is no more one of ours , but he is yours . And thou , O great and powerfull God , that hast reuealed vnto him , in his prayer and Meditation that he must ( of necessity ) be the murtherer of a Tyrant and Heretique , to giue his crowne to a Catholique King , and he being ( by vs ) made apt and disposed vnto this murder : do thou fortefie his senses , and make bolde his courage , to the end , that he may accomplish thy will. Arme him with a compleat Armour of thy prouidence , to escape from them that would apprehend him . Giue him winges , that the foule hands of the barbarous may not touch his sanctified members . Spreade the beams of thy ioyes vpon his soule , to the end that thereby his body may bee so encouraged , that cheerefully he may dispose himselfe to this fight , without any feare . This coniuration being thus ended , they bring him before an Altar , and there they shew him a goodly picture , wherein the Angels doe beare the body of Iames Clement the Iacobine Frier , who murthered HENRY the third , King of France , and present it before the Throne of God , saying : O Lord , behold thy scholler ; see the defender and accomplisher of thy iustice , and all the Saints arise out of their roomes , to giue him place . When all these things are thus done and finished , then is there no more but foure Iesuites , that may be allowed to speake vnto him , and when they draw neere vnto him , they tell him , that it appeares that there is some Diety dwelling in him , and they are so affraide of the splendor shining in him , as falling down , and kissing his hands and feete , they holde him no more for a mortall man , but stand by him , as halfe vnworthy of the great glory and happinesse , whereunto he hath already attained , and breathing forth many sighs , they say vnto him . I would to God , that he had elected and called me into your estate and condition : for then should I be certainly assured , to go really and presently into Paradice , without euer comming into Purgatory . FINIS . A Declaratorie Letter , to the Queene , Mother of the King , Regent in France . MADAME , GOD ordained in the old Testament , that no man should seethe the Kidde in the Milke of her Damme or Mother ; to instruct thereby , according to the exposition of Philo the Iew , that hée shold not be charged with new afflictiō , who in other cases is oppressed . According to this rule dictated of the same nature , these men of our Society shold hope , that , by this lamentable accident which hath shaken with dreadfulnesse the two Poles of Christendome ; they might ( at least ) haue a free breathing , to sigh after their incomparable losse : a losse which to them is as much in particular , as it is to all in generall and common . But they pay the same price , as happens to them who meeting vnder the ruines of a crazed building , where one stone staies not for another , doe couer and ouerwhelme them altogether vpon whom they fall : we being with hart and body busied , for translation of that precious pawne and remarkable gage , which it pleased your Maiestie to haue consigned into our handes , by them of my Lord the Prince de Conty , and whereunto the principall Lordes of France rendered their latest honours : when there were some , slenderly affected to Catholique Religion , and to them that are of our profession ; to discredit vs , and make benefit of our absence ; who sowed abroade such bruites , so farre off from true resemblance and probability , as a man would neuer haue imagined , that such calumnies could enter , ( especially in railing ) into the opinion of any reasonable soule . This came by the occasion of a very badde booke , the doctrine whereof hath beene ( by good right ) condemned , by the Court of Parliament : some maintaining , that the doctrine contained in that booke , was common to al the Iesuites : Others , that it was in such sort particuler to the Authour , as that many of the selfe same company had written to the contrary , and altogether had condemned it , in the body of the Prouinciall congregation , some few yeares since . A difference , which the least passionate might determine , concluding , that disallowance should be the reason , and that it must be attended , what we should say thereof . Whereupon , I hauing beene named in particuler , this is the cause , Madame , that instantly made mée set hand to pen , to represent vnto you , ( as to her that is equally affected to the true Religion , the most interessed in the good of this State , and the very safest Sanctuarie that innocence can haue ) that which the Doctors of our company haue written vpon this subiect . Knowing , that the greatnesse of affaires wil not easily permit you , to looke into this case your selfe , nor the little loue which those detractors doe beare vs , make any true report vnto you . After all this , I wil declare with the selfe same breuity , what is the common sense , and what is the opinion of our Societie , dispersed through the world concerning the matter whereof question is made . They all presupposing one verity , which cannot bée called into controuersie , no , not euen by the hatefull and enuious of this flourishing Crowne : To wit , that the subiect which was debated in the Councell of Constance , and which ( since then ) hath beene declared more amply by our Catholique Doctors , concerning the expulsion of Tyrants : doth not any way touch the happy renowne and most honourable memory , of him whose death we deepely deplore , his life hauing beene so farre from the detection of tyranny ; as it hath beene , and for euer shall bee to all the Monarches in the world : the model of Piety , Iustice , Clemency , Valour , Debonaritie , and Fatherly affection towardes all his Subiects . In the first place , the most Illustrous Cardinall Tolet presents himselfe to our eyes , a personage of rare knowledge , a Spaniard by Nation , and a French-man in affection . In the first Booke of his Summe , the sixt Chapter , there he teacheth in expresse tearmes that it is not lawful to attempt on the life of a Prince although he doe abuse his power . And addeth , that to maintaine the contrary , is an heretical doctrine , condemned in the Councell of Constance . The most Illustrous and most learned Bellarmine , answering to the selfe same obiection , in the third Chapter of his Apologeticall answere to the booke of the King of great Brittaine speaketh thus . I haue neuer read , nor heard it said , that eternall life should bee promised , to them that attempt on the life of Kinges . But contrariwise I haue read , that the Article which saith : Euery Tyrant may and ought lawfully bee slaine : was long since condemned in the first Session of the Councell of Constance . Very true it is , that Iohn Wickliffe an English-man , hee whom the Protestants doe praise so much , and of whose commendations they haue made a Placarde in the frontispice of their Histories , teacheth : That he is no longer a Lord , either Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill , after the one or other is fallen into any deadly sinne . An errour which the said Councell condemned in the eight Session . Gregory of Valencia , a man of eminent knowledge , as publique testimony maketh proofe , which is deliuered of him in Italie , Spaine , and Germany ; he writing on the second part of Saint Thomas , Question 64 and conforming himselfe to the Doctrine of other Schoole Diuines , determineth : that it is no way permitted to attempt vpon the life of a Prince , although he should abuse his authority . Alphonsus Salmeron , in the thirteenth Tome of his workes , expounding the thirteenth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans , instructeth the very same , he citeth the Councell of Constance , and declareth the fact of Aod on Eglon King of the Moabites , by the expresse and manifest commandement of God , of whom no man ought to be Iudge , in his particuler case . Martin del Rio , who is in like manner famous in al kinde of good writings , in his Commentaries vpon Hercules Furens in Seneca , number 920. saith : That the sentence of the Poet is perilous , and alleageth to the contrary , the decree of the Councell of Constance , which cannot be too often inculcated , reiterated , and declared to the people in this matter . Sebastian Heissius , in his Apologeticall declaration of Aphorismes , attributed to the Iesuites doctrine , sheweth by the very wordes of Mariana , that he spake out of his owne head , and that he himselfe , perceiuing that he had exceeded the limites of the common doctrine , did acknowledge , that he was subiect to errour , and he should be submitted to the censure of whomsoeuer would accept it , immediatly after , his opinion was brought , and the common censure of all the Diuines of our company , that he counterpointed that of the said Mariana . Martin Becanus , in his Answere to the ninth Aphorisme , sendeth the Reader to the Councell of Constance , shewing , that a lawfull Prince cannot loose his superiority , although he should become a Tyrant . Iaques Gretserus , Reader in Diuinitie at Ingolstad , in his Booke intituled vespertilio haereticopolicus , answering to some obiections that had béene made vnto him concerning the opinion of Mariana ; saith with Heissius : That hee ought to holde with the common consent , leauing the particular iudgement of Mariana , and that hee himselfe had submitted to that of others . Leonard Lessius Reader in Diuinitie at Louaine , in his second booke De iusticia & iure , the ninth Chapter , and fourth doubt ; giueth his consent likewise to the common sentence , That it is not lawfull to enterprise on the person of a Prince , although hée should abuse his power ; grounding his saying on the aduertisement of the Prince of the Apostles , Seruants , be yee subiect to your Masters , and not onely to the good and modest , but also to the sharpe and troublesome , and then hée alleadgeth the aboue named Decrée of the Councell . Nicholas Serier , writing on the third Chapter of the booke of Iudges , in the first question , declareth , that the Act of Aod , neither can , or ought to serue , for fore-iudging or example to detestable Assassinates , Parricides , and murtherers of their Kings . Iohn Azor , in the second part of his morall Institutions , the first booke , fift Chapter , and tenth Question , shewes himselfe a much greater enemie of the audacious and sacrilegious attentates , of such as shal enterprise vpon the liues of Princes , Instructing , that it is not lawfull , to attempt on the liues of them that doe vniustly possesse themselues of ane State , Grounding his saying principally vpon this ; that no man ought to be condemned , before he be heard , and without knowledge of the cause , in which case , any one particular is no competent Iudge . As for Lewes Richeome , his Apologies doe make peremptory proofe of the vnreconcilable hatred , which he beares to the doctrine of such , as dogmatise against the authority of Kings , And that in such maner , as the Lord Pasquire himselfe , a criticke censurer of his workes , after he hath reported his words in the third booke and first Chapter , hee commendeth him , and saith , that he cannot chuse but loue him , adding these words , I cannot chuse but honor thee , beholding thee , to portraite the Idea of obedience , which the Subiect oweth to his King. A praise which hee might giue to many other of the same Societie , who , after they had examined this matter with Saint Thomas and the whole Schoole , concluded all conformably to the Sorbonne , and to that which hath béene determined in the Councell of Constance . Such then being the sense , and such the sentences of these Doctors , very graue and signall men of our company , what preiudice can the particular opinion of Mariana bring to the reputation of a whole Order ? which Order being ( according to her Institution ) extreamely iealous , for the manutention of those holy ordinances of the Church , and respecting the power and authority of Kings , who , for their temporall estate , doe depend onely vpon God : haue ( of long time ) disallowed the legertie of a drie penne , and namely in the Prouinciall congregation of Fraunce , helde in this Citie of Paris the yéere 1606. where moreouer , the reuerend Father Claudius Aquanina , Generall of our Company , was required , that such as had written to the preiudice of the Crowne of Fraunce , might be reprooued , and their Bookes suppressed , which the saide Reuerend Father ( afterward ) did very seriously and exactly : being very sorie , that by ouer-sight or negligence in his absence , and without sight of the worke ; any one should presume vpon his admittance . The words which he vseth in his answere , are these . We haue approued the iudgment and care of your congregation , and haue béene greatly gréeued , that no man will looke after the impressions of such Bookes : which Bookes neuerthelesse , wée haue suddainly commaunded to be corrected , and shall haue most exact care hence-forwarde , that such things shall not happen any more . So that very hardly now is to be found one onely Copy of Mariana , except it be by the pernitious liberality , of the inheritours of Wechell , who are knowne to be of the pretended reformed Religion : and haue caused the said Booke to be imprinted at their owne proper charges , not so much excited ( as is easie to be presumed ) by desire to the publique seruice , as particularly to hurt our Company . Some are of the mind , that they haue added thereto somewhat of their own : Others say , that those Bookes of the first impression were much worse , a controuersie seruing to no purpose : for albeit it were so , and that no man had lent any charity , to this ill-handled penne : yet is there no reason why it should rather incommodate the body of our Societie ; then the writings of Iohn Petit , and others , the Uniuersities and Orders whereof they were Schollers , Batchelers , Maisters , and Doctours . But forasmuch , Madame , as I made promise in the beginning , to expose clearely and distinctly what our opinion and credence is , touching the matter proposed , I come now to the point , which shall make vp the last part of this declaration . 1. All the Iesuites in generall and particural , will signe , yea , euen with their proper blood ; that they do not hold , either in this matter , or any other whatsoeuer , any other faith , doctrine , or opinion , then that of the whole vniuersall Church . 2. In the second place , that among all the kindes of gouernment , and publicke administration , Monarchie only is the best . 3. That such is the spirituall gouernement of the Church , as it came to the Vicar of Iesus Christ the successor of Saint Peter , and such the temporall of the State and Kingdome of Fraunce , as it holdeth in the person of the King , her soueraigne Lord and Maister . 4. That Kings are , as Homer calls them , the children , and darlings of God , or rather his soules image , as Meander saith . 5. That they are annointed , and thereby surnamed Christes of the Lord , to the end , saith Simon Archbishop of Thessalonica , that each one may vnderstand , that they are inuiolable , and ought to be respected , as things holy and sacred . 6. That it is a damnable heresie ( euen as Saint Ireneus noted it fourtéene hundred yéeres agoe ) to beléeue , that Kings are giuen to men by chaunce or hap , considering that all power commeth of God. And because , saith Saint Isidore of Damieta , in the most ancient paintings , wée behold a hand comming out of heauen , that sets a Crowne vpon their head . 7. That whosoeuer resisteth Kings , or rebelleth against them , begetteth his owne damnation according to the doc●rine of the Apostle . 8. That obedience is due vnto them , not because they are vertuous , wise , potent , or endued with other commendable qualities : but because they are Kings , established by God. 9. That our Kings in Fraunce , are the eldest in the Church , endowed with rare and signall priuiledges , aboue the common condition of other Kings in the world . 10. That it is not lawfull to denie them obedience , much lesse then to reuolt or turne against them : although they were vicious , hard to endure , and froward , according as the same Apostle speaketh . 11. That in such case , we ought to pray for them , as the Prophet willed it to be done , for the prosperity of Nabuchodonozer , and Balthazar his sonne . And that afflictions , losse of goods , persecutions , and other discommodities , are to be endured patiently : without rebelling ( for any of these ) against superiours , because such things are most acceptable to God , and conformable to the praise , which ( in the like case ) S. Paule gaue to the Hebrewes , and to the ordinance which he had published in the Church , saying , Let euery soule be subiect to the superiour powers . 12. And therefore , that not only it is vnlawfull , to attempt vpon their persons ; but also , that it is an execrable paricide , a prodigious offence , and a detestable sacriledge . 13. That the Decrée in the Councell of Constance in the fiftéenth Session , ought to bée receiued of all men , and also to be maintained inuiolably . 14. That the declaration of Sorbonne , in the yéere 141● . and that of Iune this present yéere , is good , holy and wholsome . 15. What euery one is to be aduertised , to take héede of diuers Bookes , which goe against the Edicts , the reading whereof is not only in this matter greatly dangerous : but much more to be feared , that their Authors being ( to our extreame gréef ) themselues deuided from the Catholique Church , doe hold ( as nothing ) the Councell of Constance , all Catholique censures , and the Doctors before mentioned : but that which is to be deplored , they doe fortifie themselues the stronger in their opinions , by their opposition , and séeme to render themselues so much the more recommendable vnto their admirers . I would note downe the places , specifie the passages , and alledge the very words : were it not , that it is much better , they should remaine buried in the bottomlesse depth of obliuion : and fitteth more conueniently , to make knowne , that innocencie hath better arms , then this recrimination . And for this reason also , I could wholly haue abstained from this aduertisement , had it not béene my desire to shew , that the body of our company , can no more bee infected by the opinion of one man , then those of the pretended reformed Religion , doe finde themselues any way interessed , by the erronious doctrine of some of their owne ranke : whom they reiect , disallowe , and condemne , as willing to liue ( with vs ) vnder the lawes of the Kingdome , and with the obedience and voluntarie submission , which wée render to the Scepter of our Kings . And I am perswaded , that if they had the penne in hand , as I haue , they would say with vs , and thunder out a curse ( euen in common voyce ) against such infamous Authors . Which being maturely and wisely considered , as well by the Court of Parliament , as by the sacred College of Sorbonne : they haue made no mention at all in their Arrest and Decree , of the doctrine of the Iesuites . Knowing very well , like iust Iudges and Doctors , that faults are personall ; that there would bee no innocencie in the world , if the offence of one man should be imputed to another , and that it hath beene a deplorable and incommunicable property of sinne , which was committed by the first man , to haue his extendure ouer others , because his posterity was represented in his person . Knowing also else-where , by the reiterated disposition of the wicked , that Mariana had not in any thing contributed to this execrable parricide , neither could he doe it : considering , that the villaine had not sufficient intelligence , of the tongue , wherein the said booke was written . Wherein is discouered , the scarse charitable intention of such as sticke not to say , that he had it all by hart , to the end , to throw the publique hatred of this mishappe , on others , then on the culpable himselfe . It is then in this case , Madame , that you are most humbly intreated , to imploy your supreame authority , and to ordaine , that all those writings , which , in the beginning are small glimpses of rebellion , and ( in few houres ) will become flaming Beacons of sedition ; may bee taken from the instant view of the French : you are our Soueraigne Lady , endued by God , with a high vnderstanding , and with vertues no way to be equalled , you can clearely discerne , how much it importeth , that we should liue vnited , which séeing it cannot be , in one and the same faith , by reason of the iniquity of time , at least let it be in fidelity , obedience and mutuall affection , for conseruation of our peace . We haue a King , who in his young age represents to vs , the spirit and substance of great Henry , his Father , your husband , and who with the increasing of his yeares , will haue , ( while it pleaseth God to continue vpon him his benigne influences ) his valour , his wisedome , his good fortune , and his experience . It is for vs , to cherish this treasure , to serue ( with good hearts ) this great and little Master : And willingly to obey you his most-honoured Mother , our Regent and Mistresse . And to the end , that nothing may trouble the vnion , which onely can ( next vnder God ) preserue this puissant Monarchy , and render it euermore dreadfull to her enimies , how much were it to be desired , Madam , that ( among vs ) there could no false speakers be found ? If the imposture were banished , his fraternity should receiue the wages due to their calumny ; rancours would be rooted vp , and when any sinister report is brought vs , then iudgement would be susspended : And in a word , according to the Councell of the Apostle , each one would maintaine inuiolably the band of charity . Those Otaconstes and Prosagogides of these times , are greatly to be feared , and some doe holde assuredly , that if it so liked your Maiesty , such tongues should receiue the recompence of the auncient Quadruplatores . But if they haue it not from men , let them attend the ineuitable iustice of him , who is the Author , protector , and ( in the end ) the rewarder of innocence . Our small company is entred , and ( aboue al other Religious families ) most exposed to the hatred and calumny of such , as will not take the paines to know them . And you doe know , Madam , how many times the deceased King our good Master , did himselfe doe vs the fauour , to defend and make vs knowne : you can witnesse it , and no body knowes it better then you , that wheresoeuer that great Prince was , we had in him a King , a Father , and a Defender . But alas , it can no more be so , great Henry is taken away from vs. O Fraunce , the eye of Christendome , Rose of Empires , and Pearle of the world , how great is this losse for thée , and how horrible this ship-wracke ? Fraunce , the fauorite of heauen , and welbeloued of God ; who hath taken away the Mantle of glory , that couered thée , and the crowne of honour , that exalted it selfe so highly vpon thy head ? who hath dealt with thée so , thou chosen of God ? who hath thus afflicted thée ? But thou poore society , that couldest not subsist , but by the blessings of that Monarch , who hath made thée so desolate ? so deplorably abased , and so miserably enthralled ? the misfortune is common to all , but it is singularly particular to thée , this blow hath smitten the whole body of the Kingdom , but it hath wounded thee ( almost ) mortally . O how approuedly is it true , and how sensibly dost thou féele it ; that griefe if it had a tongue , could not call it selfe griefe ? And I , that write these things , how iust reason haue I , yea , more then all others , to leaue my selfe to the sadde accents of a teares-drowned voyce , and to say , Adiew O thou wonder of Kings , Adiew thou ornament of this age , our ioy , our glory , and our honour , Adiew thou father of the weale publick , restorer of the state , second founder and chéefest benefactor of our companie . Adiew my King , my Prince and my defender , thou hast giuen vs in this vale of teares , the rest that is here to be had : rest thée then in peace , liue for euer among the Lillies and the Roses , deliuered from the thorny charge of this Monarchy , and enioy the blessednesse , not of earth , but of heauen . Here thou hast bin the most eminent subiect of the grace of God , be there now on high , and for euer so continue , the obiect of his mercies . The laurels of this base earth , doe wither very easily , let thy head weare them that are alwaies verdant : Those victories , triumphs , and Empires , which thou beheldest here below ; are now changed into a more eminent glory , liue then for euer reioycing in that possession ( of all men ) most desired . Thy happinesse giues vs leaue to respire , thy absence iustly compels vs to suspire , and the place where we make no doubt thou art , makes vs thither to aspire : for leaning on the mercy of God , the sorrowful circumstances of thy decease , cannot depriue vs of hope , to méete thée in the goodly great day , euen there , where we shall finde thy principall , and the wished arriuall , after so gréeuous a diuorce . And during the sadnesse of this expectation , you Madam , with the King his liuely Image , shall wipe away part of our teares . We doe acknowledge his person in your persons , his Crown , in your Crowns , and his authority Royall , in yours : and though all your subiects are bound thereto , by all kindes of dueties ; yet our company , being thereto extraordinarily obliged : haue charged me to present at the feet of your Maiesty , the most sincerest vowes of their fidelity , and affectuous offers of their most humble seruice , which I doe , Madam , and so much the ▪ more willingly , because I am tied thereto by a very singular taste of grace , From your Maiesty , Your most humble seruant , most obedient and faithfull subiect , Peter Cotton , of the company of Iesus . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A19436-e520 Or Ehud . S. Iren lib. 5. Cap 24. Rom. 13. 2. 1. Pet. 2. 11. Heb. 10. 34.