THE arraignment OF THE WHOLE SOCIETY OF IESVITS IN FRANCE, holden in the honourable Court of Parliament in Paris, the 12. and 13. of july. 1594.  
Wherein is laid open to the world, that, howsoever this new Sect pretendeth matter of Religion, yet their whole travails, endeavours, and bent, is but to set up the kingdom of spain, and to make him the onely Monarch of all the West.  
Translated, out of the French copy imprinted at Paris by the Kings Printer.  
AT LONDON Printed by Charles Yetsweirt Esq 1594.  
cum PRIVILEGIO.   

THE PLEA OF M. antony ARnauld counsellor in Parliament, and heretofore counsellor and attorney general to the late deceased queen Mother, for the university of Paris plaintiff, against the Iesuites defendants, the 12. and 13. of july. 1594.  

The subject of the Plea.  
THe Iesuites having born out themselves against sundry complaints of the university, by the support of such as used their service in executing of their great and mischievous enterprises, became at length after the blocking up of the town imperious commaunders in Paris, and kindled the fire of sedition in al the chief towns of the realm, using blasphemous railings without ceasing in their sermons and confessions, against the memory of the late King, & against the kings majesty that now reigneth, whom they wounded and stonge with their venomous tongues, and the most slanderous words they could by any means devise: And to heap up the full measure of their impieties, attempted to murder the King by the hands of one Barriere, who was executed at Melun, and confessed it at his death. Which was the cause of the first resolution, taken and agreed vpon by the university of Paris, since the town returned to the obedience of the King, to be humble suitors that the Iesuites might be banished. To which end and purpose, a supplication was presented against them to the Court of Parliament, the authority of which Court, though they kicked and spurned against for the space of certain daies, yet in fine being enforced thereunto( by an order set down on thursday the 7. of july 1594. the tenor whereof was, that vpon the Monday then next ensuing their default of appearance should receive iudgement, without any more delay) they brought in their Counsel that day into the great chamber, before the Court was set: which counsellor gave the Court to understand, that in way of defence of his Clients cause he should be constrained to utter much matter, which would be very displeasing to many which were now become Seruants to the King, and therefore prayed the Court, that the doors might be shut, whilst the matter was pleaded. This was a subtle practise of the Iesuites, to secret from the people,( whom they had to this day bewitched with their sorceries and enchantments,) their illusions and daungerous practices, whereby they laboured to subject all Europe to the thraldom of spain. Notwithstanding, this cunning-plat of theirs took so good success, that order was taken by the Court, that the doors should be shut whilst the matter was in pleading. Master antony Arnauld pleaded for the university, Master Lewes Dolle for the Curate of Paris, who joined with the university, Master Claud Duret, for the Iesuites, Monsieur Seguier for the Kings attorney general.   

The plea of Master antony Arnauld counsellor in Parliament for the university of Paris plaintiff: against The Iesuites defendants, the 12. & 13. of july. 1594.  
IT may please this honourable Court, I will begin this action with an other maner of protestation, then our adverse parties haue used: for whereas they gave out yesterday to the world, that the doors should be shut whilst this matter was in pleading, by reason of the threats which they had cast out of speaking against many, which had now submitted themselves to the Kings obedience, and were content and forward to hazard their lives daily in the warres for his service: I protest on the contrary, to offend no man neither in word nor thought, but such as stand and remain metamorphosed Spaniards.  
The reason of the diversity of these two protestations is apparent enough. The Iesuites can not do a greater piece of service to the King of spain their Master, then in this place to slander such men, as haue, in sort as the world seeth, sharpened his edge, by putting so strong and important towns into the hands of his greatest and most daungerous enemy.  
And on the other side, the university of Paris,( the kings eldest daughter, for whom I speak,) can not do his majesty a greater service, then to keep inviolably the Law of Forgetting; which is the original and fountain of the peace which we now enjoy, and that we are and hope to enjoy from hence forward.  
I remember that I haue red, that at what time the battle of Pharsale was agreed on by the Generals & Leaders on both sides, and the Trompetters were commanded to sound their charet, certain of the best of the Romaines, and some Grecians( that were then present in the field, but not within the battle) seeing the state of both those huge and mighty armies so near to danger, began to consider with themselves to what point the forces of the roman Empire were brought. For their armor was all one, the setting and ordering of their battailes was all alike, their ensigns were without difference, resembling the one the other in all points, the very flower of all the valiant men of one selfe same city, and a mighty strength now vpon the instant to ruinated itself: giuing a notable example how blind, raging and furious the nature of man is, when it giveth itself over to be carried away with any violent passion. For if they would haue ruled and governed that which they had wholly conquered, the greatest and best part of the world both by land and sea, had been in their subiection, and under their obedience.  
In like sort, whosoever that knoweth our state well, will consider to what point of greatness, of happiness, of honors, of riches, and mightiness, the crown of France had now attained unto, had it not been for our warres more then civil, and that the flower of so many valiant men( which might now haue been alive, had not our civil diffentions been) had but more then sufficient to haue gone and assailed our old enemy even within M●●… ill, and haue brought him to parley & compromise for his treasures 〈◇〉 it wels, especially under the happy conduct of so great and excellent a Leader, who hath the harts and arms of Nauarre, of arragon, and Portugal stretched out unto him as their hoped for deliverer out of the hands of this horrible tyranny of Castile: whosoever, I say, will consider these things, can not hold himself from entering into just choler and extreme indignation against them that haue been sent in amongst us to blow the bellows, and kindle the coals of this great fire, without ceasing and intermission, wherewith this monarchy hath been almost wasted and consumed  
That these instruments and firebrandes of the world are the jesuits, there is no man that doubteth, but onely two sorts of people: the one, which are of nature so fearful, that they think they are stil within the clutches of the sixteen Murderers, and the jesuits their counsel: and the other which are of their brotherhood and congregation, and haue secretly executed the most dangerous point of their vows, as a whole town may be jesuitical.  
But these men speak but softly, as not daring to be heard. And on the contrary side, we see a great and universal consent of all honest men, as well of such as departed out of this town during the warres, as of them that tarried behind, and with so great zeal and stout courage opened the gates of the capital to their King, ( For we can not all of us but fear alike, desire alike, and hate alike.) we see, I say, so great an affection of all the heartes that are true French, and vnfainedly desirous of the greatness and increase of this crown, that they are ready( vpon a grounded hope they haue vpon an infallible assurance of your Iustice and devotion to his majesties service) to hunt out all those murderers of kings, these confessors, and eggers on forward of such parricides: to hunt them, I say, out of France, and from amongst all them that are under the obedience of the Flower de Lys, sworn enemies to these monsters, that haue bereft them of one of their dearest children, and are now come to the watch to hear of the like news of the King that now reigneth, whom they haue already murdered, as much as in them might lye by aid, counsel, and burning desire, and at this day strive with tooth and nail wholly to subvert and break in a thousand pieces the pillar whereupon the sceptre resteth, which they haue shaken many a day: which they haue shaken, I say, in the sight of all men of understanding, that foretold it in this great Oracle of France, not when the doors were shut, but when they were full open, and with as great resort of people, as is now in this great hall, desirous to come in. That foretold it, I say, not doubtfullie and in a cloud, but clearly, and with all the circumstances which wee haue seen: foretelling us of all the miseries which wee haue felt, and the calamities which haue brought us within two fingers breadth of our utter ruin. But their foresights, their advertisements, their protestations, were no less fruitless then true, true Cassanders,  Tongues by the ordinance of God never believed of the Teuerians. 
And why so? whence came this so great and dead sleep? and how cometh it to pass that these miseries could not be remedied, which were so providently foreseen? The cause is very manifest. The gold of spain had gotten a passage into the purses of the greatest favourites, that daily maintained and set up these charet of war, these firebrands of sedition, these tempestuous and stormy winds, which can do no other but daily and hourly vex and disquiet the calm of France  
As for such as in great sincerity rejected this gold of spain, the greatest part of them notwithstanding became faint hearted, and cast downe-countenanced, and feeble handed, when the time came wherein it behoved them to strike this main stroke for the liberty of the Gaules, and to exterminate these traitors which haue been sent in amongst us by herdlems.  
Few were found that joined courage, force, and resolution with honesty, and yet such as they were, the enemy found the means to rid his hands of them, all credite & authority was taken from them: But yet at the length, the feeble handed received strength, and we may not onely without fear, but also with honor and reputation speak against these wicked enchanters, that haue given the wine of rebellion to the people to drink, and haue fostered them with a most dangerous kind of food, souring the dow of france with the leaven of spain.  
think not, you espials of Castile, that you shal be able to break this blow, of the heat of france, and send us back to your accustomend too too long delays of judgements, and framed for guilty persons, as you did in the year sixty four. At what time, men spake of your actions but as in way of prophesying: and for one man that perceived a right the thing that was futurely like to come to pass, there where always ten that did not so much as dream of any such matter. But at this day, what man is there, that in his body, in his goods, in the loss of his parents, or of his friends, hath not felt the horrible effects of your conspiracy, and the violent executions of the commandments, which you gave to the people in pulpits, places dedicated to truth and piety? which you haue filled with fire, with blood, and horrible basphemies, making the people believe that God was a murderer of Kings, and attributing to heaven, the stroke of a knife forged in Hell.  
Henry the third, my renowned and redoubted Prince( who hast this contentment in heaven, to see thy lawful and noble successor, having marched vpon the bellies of all thine enemies, to reign now peaceably in thy house the Loure, and vpon the frontier, to break, scatter, and put to flight( an accident a thousand times more dishonourable, then the loss of ten battailes) the Spanish armies, and thunder with thy Canons, against the rebellious Cities that stood out to the last, accompanied with six thousand Gentlemen boiling with impatiency to continue the glorious reuenge of thy death,) assist me in this cause, and representing continually before mine eyes thy bloody shirt, give me force and strength to make all thy subiects feel the grief, the hatred, and indignation which they are bound to bear against these Iesuites, who by their bloody confessions, by their frantic sermons, by the secret counsels with the ambassador of thine enemy, poisoner of thine onely brother, haue been causers and séedsmen of all the miseries which thy poor people hath endured, and the end of thine own life.  
My good Lords, Charles the fift, and Philip his son, seeing themselves full fraught with the gold of the Indes, not yet drawn dry, haue conceited unto themselves and embraced no smaller hope, then to make themselves entrails and Emperours of the West, and to set up the house of Austria in like greatness in Europe, as the house of the Ottomans is in Asia.  
These great men of State were not ignorant, what force the scrupules of conscience were of in the hearts of men, and how deeply and bottomlesly they pierce into mens breasts.  
The compassing of the greatest part of the Court of Rome was but a trifle to them, by means of their great pensions, and of the rich benefice of Millan, Naples, Sicile, beside the livings of Spain, which were wonderful rich.  
But because the charge that is in this great city is heavy, and burdensome, they wanted light and stirring fellowes to be placed in all quarters, to execute whatsoever might tend to the good and aduancement of the affairs of spain. These are the jesuits which are scattered abroad in huge and mighty swarms: for there are between nine and ten thousand of them, and haue already founded two hundred and four score Spanish Colonies, they possess in revenues above two thousand millions of gold, they are Lords of Erledomes and great Baronies in spain, and in Italy, and attained already to the dignity of Cardinals, ready to be made Popes: and in case they should haue continuance but thirty yeares more in all the places where they haue nestled themselves already, it would be without doubt the richest and mightiest company in christendom, and would wage Armies, as already they begin to contribute.  
Their principal bow is to obey their general and superior( who is always a Spaniard, and chosen by the King of spain) every way and in all things. This appeareth true most manifestly by experience. Layola their first General was a Spaniard. Laynes the second a Spaniard also. The third Euarardus was a fleming, a subject of the King of spain. Borgia the fourth was a Spaniard. Aqua Viua the fift, living at this day, is a neapolitan, subject to the King of spain. The words of this fourth vow are strange, yea horrible: for they go thus far, In him they must aclowledge Christ present, as it were, If Iesus Christ should command to go and kill, they must do so. If therefore their Spanish general command them to go and murder, or cause the King of France to be murdered, they must of necessity do so. Their history compiled by Peter Ribadenaire a Iesuite, imprinted at antwerp in the year 1587. under the title, De vita Ignatij, sheweth that their institution hath no other end but the aduancement of the affairs of spain, where they were received long time before they were received in any other part of the world. mark, these are the words written in the page. 146. of that book. For this Society, not yet born in their Author Ignatius, was first allowed of in spain, & after that it was born, was mightily resisted in italy and France. moreover they are not bound so strictly to any thing, as to pray day and night for the prosperity of the warres, and for the victories and triumphs of the King of spain. Behold the words of the page. 169. We are bound day and night to appeace and weary God with our prayers, to protect and defend Philip the catholic King in al safety and happiness, who of his ancient and exceeding piety, singular wisdom, and wonderful watchfulness, of the mightiest power of al Princes that ever were, setteth himself as a wall for the house of God, and defendeth the Chatholique faith. A matter which he doth not onely with his invincible power, but with those scout-watches of the holy Fathers, which haue the rule and government of the Senate of the catholic faith. So that we may not find it strange, that so many honourable personages do assure us that they haue heard them pray for Philip our King. For there is not a Iesuite in the world, that doth not once in the day pray this prayer: and as the affairs of spain require, wheresoever they become, they make their vows for him either publicly or secretly.  
And on the contrary side, it is well known to all men, that they never pray in any sort for our King, to whom also they haue no oath of obedience, as whereof they are not otherwise capable, because their corporation is not allowed in France, and being liege vassals, & wholly bound as well to their general as to the Pope: which point doth manifestly discover their conspiracy, & sheweth evidently, that their vow tendeth to the subversion of the state. For within the compass of almost sixteen hundred yeres( wherein the Christian Religion was watered with the blood of Christ, & his Martyrs) there hath not a Sect been heard of, that hath had such strange vows as this sect hath.  
So far of is it, that the clergy of France hath ever been spotted with the like, that on the contrary side, whensoever the Popes combined themselves without cause with the Enemies of this Crown, and would haue employed the authority and power which they haue from God to edify withal, would haue employed it, I say, to the destruction of the most flourishing state of christendom, and whom they may thank for their temporalties, they haue found great and holy Parsonages, who with a common consent of the whole Church of france haue manfully resisted such enterprises.  
But in this later age, one part of the clergy is found to haue sucked of this poisoned milk, and this doctrine of the Iesuites, that whosoever had been chosen Pope,( notwithstanding that from time to time it had been well known that he was a pensioner & Partisan of spain, and a sworn enemy to France,) yet might he notwithstanding make the whole kingdom a pray, and discharge the Subiectes from their obedience which they owe to their Prince.  
This schismatical and damnable proposition, directly contrary to the word of God, which hath wholly separated and put a difference between the spiritual and Temporal powers. This proposition which would make Christian Religion, as contrary to the maintenance of States and kingdoms, as in truth it helpeth to establish them: This proposition, I say, having taken place in the hearts of some Frenchmen, hath brought us these rages, these cruelties, these murders, and horrible confusions which wee haue seen.  
In the year 1561. John Tanquerel bachelor of divinity was condemned to recall his error in being so bold and hardy as to set down amongst other his disputable questions, this for one, that the Pope might excommunicat Kings. In Ianuarie 1589. at what time there was a question put forth in the divinity school called Sorbonne, whether subiects might be freed from the obedience of the King: Faber the chancellor, Camus, Chabot, Faber the Curate of Saint paul, Chauagnac and the most ancient divines withstood it stoutly, but the great number of the scholars of the jesuits, Boucher, Pichenat, Varadier, Semelle, Cueilly, Decret, Aubourge, and many other carried it away with plurality of voices against al the maxims of france, & liberties of the French Church, which the Iesuites call abuses and corruptions. These are the goodly fruits of their lessons in divinity.  
The Kings of France are the eldest sons of the Church, sons which haue deserved as much as may be, withstanding and suppressing the encroaching of the kings of Castile, arragon, and other that went about to take away the right of the Church of Rome. look when the Pope will aclowledge the King, for his eldest son, and chief king of christendom, then will the Frenchmen aclowledge him for their holy Father: but as long as he playeth the part of a Father in law, and not of a Father, of a Partisan, and not of a mediator, as long as of a malicious stomach he shall bestow his might and main to dismember France, to purchase unto himself a sovereign commandment there, and to tread the Flower de Lys under his feet, or to join them in way of triumph to the arms of spain, which are far different from them, Let our Sea banks be opposite unto theirs, & our surges unto their streams, let our armies be against theirs, and let the nephews themselves fall together by the ears.  
Thus haue our fathers lived: in the time of Lewys the gracious, gregory the 4. would needs intrude himself to come to excommunicat the King: the Church of France willed him to return excommunicate himself: the like befell in the time of Charles Chauue against Pope Adrian.  
O brave and invincible Church of France! in those daies, thou wasteful of French courages in deed, Christians in deed, Religious in deed, whose principal vow was every way and in al things, to obey Gods commandments which are always just, and not all the insolences and enterprises which Rome or spain would make against the French: but since that thine enemies haue combined themselves together against thy greatness, they haue sent to thee these new Colonies of castilians, these convents of Murderers, bound by their solemn vow to obey their Spanish general as Iesus Christ come down vpon the earth, and to go and murder Kings and Princes, or to cause them to be murdered by others, to whom they recommend their raging fury, Since that time, I say, where are these brave resolutions of the Church of France?  
As we read of certain twins, that the death of the one, was the end of the other, in like sort this law, which bindeth us not to start from our obedience due to the King, what excommunication soever come from Rome, this law, I say, is so firmly knit to the state, and the state to it, that even as the day of their beginning is one, so must and ought their end to be. It is this sincere, perfect, and absolute obedience, that winneth battailes, that scattreth our enemies, which advanceth the desert, and crowneth the labour, without which nothing can prosper, nothing can be durable. This is the true bonde, the ornament, and strength of all things. kingdoms can bear no fellowships, nor lights with lights agree▪ if there be two suins, all the world willbe set on fire. So though the Primates, Archbishops & Bishops haue the principal charge of religion in France, yet notwithstanding before and above all things, they must give their oath of fidelity to the King, so far are they from having a contrary vow to obey the Pope absolutely.  
Holy Lewes set himself stoutly & with great sharpness against the bulls of Rome, as may be seen by his placarde, the Popes of Rome had wrought a good reuenge, if they could haue rooted out all the race of that good & valorous King. Whereabout the cardinal of Plaisance laboured mightily being sent into France under the title of Legate, who employed all the means he had, all his greatness, and all his forces to subvert the salic law, the true Palladion of France, and without which, the Flower de Lys, could never haue mounted to so high a degree of honour and glory, as even at this day maketh them to glister and shine maugre the beards of all the practices, of all the treasons, of all the vnderminings of spain, far above all the proudest and topsailed in the world.  
Let us go on and see how these fellowes may abide in France, which haue this fourth and principal vow of absolute obedience every way and in all things, to their Spanish general, and to the Pope( commanded and daily menaced by King Philip, who hath his foot vpon his throat by means of Naples and Sicile, and of his partisans within Rome itself) To the Pope, I say, who maintaineth in the Chapter, Ad Apostolicae. de Sentent. & re iudicata. in 6. and in the extravagant Commu. unam sanctam. de Maioritate & obedientia. That it is necessary for every man, if he will ever be saved, to be subject to the Bishop of Rome. And because the world may not think, that this saying may be salved by the distinction of spiritual and temporal, behold how namely and expressly he declared himself to be head, superior, and absolute master both in spiritual and temporal things, over all kings and Princes of the earth, maintaining that he hath power to judge and depose them: So then both the swords, that is to say, both the Spiritual & the Material are in the power of the Church: but the one is to be used for the Church, the other by the Church: the one by the hands of the priest, the other by the hand of Kings and Souldiers, but yet at the beck and sufferance of the Priest, and the one sword must be under the other: & the Temporal authority be subject to the Spiritual power: for as the truth witnesseth, The Spiritual power may institute and judge the earthly power, if it be not good. So is the prophesy of hieremy verified vpon the Church and Church power: Behold I haue appointed or placed thee this day over Nations and kingdoms, &c. as followeth there. Therefore, in case the earthly power stray out of the way, it shalbe judged of the spiritual power: but if the spiritual power stray out of the way, the lesser shalbe judged by the greater: but if the highest go astray, that is to be judged of God onely, and not of man, as witnesseth the Apostle, The Spiritual man iudgeth al things, and himself is judged of no man.  
If these propositions be not erroneous and Schismatical, what followeth but that al we that obey the King are excommunicate, that the whole kingdom of France standeth interdict, accursed, and a pray to satan? But how did our ancestors( whose virtue even at this day supporteth our faults) behave and carry themselves in such accidents, and in such rencounters? Philip the faire sent to Boniface the eight, that he had no authority at all over the kings of France, and that they that said to the contrary were fools and madmen. red Belannin, hear all the Sermons, all the confessions of the Iesuites, they send all such propositions to the bottomless pit of Hell together with Philip the faire, and all those that burnt Pope Boniface his bull openly at an assembly of the states of this town of Paris, declaring the seat of Rome vacant. This Belarmin a Iesuite maintaineth, that the Popes haue power to put down the Kings and Princes of the earth, alleging for his reason, certain tyrannous attemtats and enterprises.  
Pope Benedict the 13. would needs follow Boniface, but his bull containing a diffamatory libel against the authority of King Charles the sixth, was openly torn in pieces, and they that brought it, were put to their fine, and committed to prison.  
Lewes the 12. surnamed Father of the people, was as much hated in Rome as he was loved in France: he had bestowed on Iulius the second many towns in italy: in acknowledgement whereof, Iulius stirred up the Spaniards, almains, Suisers, and Englishmen against him: but in the year, 1510. the King caused a council to be assembled at Towers, where it was decreed and enacted, that war should be made vpon him, which was also confirmed in an other council holden at Pisa. Whereupon the Pope took vpon him to excommunicate the King and the kingdom, giuing them absolution from all their sins that could kill a French man. Thus you enlarge one mans territories, and take from an other, other some you make tributaries, you increase, you diminish, you give, you take away kingdoms, who gave you this power? For as for God, he hath said, that your kingdom is not of this world.  
This great excommunication could not make a breach in France, but it gave a blow to the kingdom of Nauarre, which was allied to us, where the subiects were not surely grounded against such enterprises: and Fardinand King of arragon seized vpon the best part of the state of Nauarre, while John of Albreat great grandfather to the King that now is, was in the army of France.  God grant that some revenger may rise out of our bones. 
Here am I forced to speak a word or two, touching the beginning of the jesuits, but I will do it shortly, because my matter calleth me away.  
In the year 1521. the Frenchmen undertook to restore one to his inheritance which he had lost by their means. They besieged Pampelune, and beate it with such a fury, as they carried it away, and won it. Ignatius Layola commander of one of the companies of the garrison of Castile, was more heddy in defence of it, then any of the rest, and there had his legs broken, which accident caused him to follow the warres no more, but vowing within himself, an unreconcilable hatred against the French, no less then Hannibal did against the Romains, through the help of the devill, he hatched this cursed conspiracy of jesuits, who haue been the causers of such ruin as France hath received.  
Foresightfull Nature hath made the cruelest and most murdering creatures, least fruitful: the lioness bringeth forth but one, and but once whilst she liveth. If they were as fertile, as other beasts, the world could not possibly be inhabited. But it is a strange thing to see, how this wicked race born to the ruin and desolation of mankind, hath multiplied in a few years: being grown from the number of three sore persons, which was their first foundation, unto ten thousand. In so much as that if they should continue to increase in like proportion, they would become within thirty years space more then twelve hundred thousand, and would make whole kingdoms, all jesuits.  
Had they come into France with displayed enssignes, they had passed from the birth to the grave: but they stily crept into our university of Paris, and took up lodgings in little chambers, where they continued a good while, lurking as Fores for a pray, and playing the spies, receiving directions from Rome, and very peremptory letters of recommendation to such as were the greatest favourites in France, and hunted after credite and honour in Rome( which sort of people was always greatly to be misdoubted for the affairs of this realm.) So that by this sly and forly maner, having vnderminingly crept in by little and little, and in fine having gotten the Cardinals of Tournon and Lorraine for their Presidents and Iudges, they procured a decree, made at Poissy touching the receiving of their college which had been oftentimes rejected before, to be confirmed and signed in their behalf( the university not being admitted to speak for themselves against them) with this proviso, that their profession should be banished, and that they should abandon the name of jesuits.  
They desired no better entrance then this, making full account, that by little and little, and stylie without any perceiving at all, to gather unto themselves such a number of jesuitical converts by their confessions, sermons, and instructions of the youth, that in conclusion they should not onely be maisters of their desire, but also ruinated their aduersaries, and haue a sovereign commandement over the state. As in deed they effected it to the sight of all the world, from the time of the shutting up of this town, until the happy reducing of it to the obedience of his majesty.  
What tongue, what voice is sufficient to express the secret counsels, the most horrible conspiracies, more daungerous then the conspiracy of Catiline, which were holden in their college in S. james street, and in their Church in S. Antonies street? where did the agents and ambassadors of spain, Mendoza, Daguillon, Diego, Diuarra, Taxis, Feria, and others hold their secret meetings and assemblies, but among the jesuits? where did Louchard, Ameline, Cruce, Crome, and such like notorious manquellers, and murderers build their conspiracies, but amongst the jesuits? who made that bloody answer to the catholic apology, but the jesuits? who employed all their studies to speak against the person, and right of his majesty that now reigneth, as false and slanderous matters as possibly their wicked heads could devise. What are they that from the year 1585. would give no absolution to the gentry of France, unless they would vow and promise to band themselves against their sovereign being a most catholic King, and such an one, as against whom they could make no exception, but onely this that he would not die so soon, as their Magiciens had foretold he should? who were the causers of the loss of the town of Perigeux, but the jesuits, which went and made a tumult even in the town house? who were the causers of the revolt of Rhennes, which continued but eight daies, and was as much as all brittany was worth, but the Sermons of the jesuits, as they themselves had caused it to be delivered out in Print even in this city? Who were the causers of the loss of again, Tholose, verdon, and generally of al the towns wherein the y haue gotten footing, Bourdeaux onely except where their traitorous purposes were prevented, and nevers, where the presence of Monsieur de nevers and the weakness of the walls appalled the courages of them whose harts they had empoisoned?  
Where did the two Cardinals, which termed themselves Legates in France, assemble their counsels but onely amongst the jesuits? where was it, that Mendoza the ambassador of spain vpon Alholen day in the year 1589. at what time the King had entred the Faurburges, held his counsel of sixteen, but in the college of jesuits? Where was it, that the year following the resolution was taken, rather to famish the nienth and tenth part of the inhabitants of Paris, then to yield up the town to the King? who was it that lent the enemies Wines, grain, and oats for their horses vpon Mortgage of the jewels of the crown, but onely the jesuits, as they were found by Lugoly, seized thereof the morrow after that the King came into this town? Who was president of the counsel of those sixteen Murderers, but Comolet, Bernard, and Father Odo Pichenar the cruelest tiger in al Paris, who took it so much to heart, to see things go otherwise then he made account of, that he became mad, and remaineth to this day in chains, within their College of Bourges? An ancient writer said, that if it were possible for man to look into the harts of the wicked, he should behold there, both rents and stroke: for as the bodies with wounds, so are the mindes of the wicked rent and torn in sunder with cruelty, lusts, and wicked counsels.  
When K. Philip by the persuasions of the jesuits, had brought in his Spanish garrison into Paris, and would haue that which he held now by force, coloured with some faire show, whom sent he, but father Mathieu the Iesuite, carrying a name like to the surname of an other Mathieu a Iesuite, the principal instrument of the league that was made in the year 1585. This Mathieu, during his short abode in this town, being lodged in the College of Iesuites, caused there a letter, to be written and signed, whereby those noble maisters, that termed themselves the Counselers of the sixteen quarters of the town of Paris, gave not onely the town but the whole kingdom to King Philip, which thing will appear better by the letter itself, then by any other discourse that may be made.  
SIre, where as your catholic majesty hath been so gracious unto us, as to give us to understand by the most religious and reverend Father Mathieu, not onely his holy intentions towards the general good of Religion, but in particular his great affections and favours towards this city of Paris. And a little after. We trust in God that before it be long, the armies of his holiness and your catholic majesties being joined together, will deliver us from the oppression of our enemy, who hath hither unto, by the space of an year and half shopped us vpon al sides, so that nothing can come into the town, but with hazard, or by force of arms, and would press further, stood he not in fear of the garrisons, which it pleased your catholic majesty to sand vs. We may boldly assure your catholic majesty, that the vows and desires of al the catholics, are to see your catholic majesty hold the Sceptre of this crown, and reign over us, as we most willingly cast ourselves into your arms, as into the arms of our Father, or that your catholic majesty would be pleased to appoint some one of his posterity. And if it shal stand with his good pleasure to appoint us any other beside himself, that it may please him to make choice of a son in law, whom we will receive as King with al the best affections, al the devotion and obedience that a good and loyal people can and are bound to yield to their liege and sovereign. For we hope so well of the blessing of God vpon this alliance, that what we haue already received of this most puissant and most Christian princess blanch of Castile, mother of our most christian and most religious King S. joys, we shal receive it, yea to the double of this great and virtuous princess daughter of your catholic majesty, vpon whom for her rare virtues, the eyes of al men are fixed and set, as a most pleasing object, and in whom most gloriously shineth the blood of France and spain, to no other end and purpose, but by a perpetual alliance to fraternise and join in one brotherhood as it were these two great Monarchies under their government, to the advancement of the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ, the beauty of his church, and union of al the inhabitants of the world under the ensigns of christianism, As your catholic majesty, with so many notable and triumphant victories by the favour of God, and his ●ide hath mightily prevailed and advanced the same, so we most heartily pray to God, who is the Lord of battailes, to continue your proceedings therein with such accomplishment, that the whole work may be consummate and perfited in al poincts: to which end and purpose, that it would please him, to prolong your catholic majesties daies in perfect & blisseful health, accompanied with daily success of victories, and triumphs over al your enemies. From Paris this 2. of novemb. 1591. And beneath on the one side. The reverend Father Mathieu this bearer, who hath greatly comforted us, fully instructed with the state of our affairs, shall satisfy your catholic majesty in all things which may seem defective and wanting in our letters, beseeching your majesty most humbly to credite him in whatsoever he shal report unto you from vs.  
The date of this Letter is infinitely to be considered, for it was written the second of november 1591. and 13. daies after, they that wrote the Letters, and understood by father Mathieu King Philips purposes, they, I say, that started not from the Iesuites, ne went to any other mens confessions but theirs, executed this great & horrible cruelty, most butcherly murdering( after the maner of spaniards, and without form or figure of process) that man, whom the day before they reverenced as their Lord chief Justice, to wit, Monsieur Brisson. These Spaniards, Iesuites, and sixteen Murderers, or rather sixteen hangmen and their adherents, being of opinion, that this tragical and hideous spectacle which they presented to the people in a great assembly at the grieve, would hearten them, and inflame them to bath themselves in the blood of all honest men that could not abide to taste of the Spanish tyranny. But God, that abhorreth such and so execrable enterprises, disposed the matter otherwise, and so wrought, that the fearful day, which they thought should haue been an assured establishment of the Spanish commandarie within Paris, was the ruin & overthrow of it, Then was Troy taken. The most drowsy & sluggish spirits began to be awake, the most dastards to change their dread into desperatenes, and they that were most bewitched by the sermons of the jesuits, to know that the Empire of Castile, which had been painted out unto them full of meekness, ioy, and happiness, was nothing but an heap of most barbarous cruelty.  
This Letter written to the King of spain, and intercepted near to lions by the Lord of Chasseron, and sent to the King: the original whereof was seen and is to be seen daily, giveth us clearly to understand, that the Iesuites and other traitors to france, haue no other mark to shoot at during all these warres, but to make the King of spain Monarch of all christendom. The common proverb of these hypocrites is, one GOD, one POPE, & one KING of Christendom, the great King catholic and universal.  
All their thoughts, all their purposes, all their actions, all their sermons, all their confessions, haue no other white they aim at, but to bring all Europe under the subiection of Spanish government. And because they see no Sea wall so strong as the French Empire is, to keep of this great inundation, they busy themselves about nothing so much, as to break insunder, to dismember, to ruinated it by all maner of seditions, divisions, and civil warres, which they cease not daily to kindle in it, labouring with might & main especially to extinguish the kings house, which they see brought to a few Princes. And indeed, who was it that of purpose, to make the race of Monsieur the Prince of Conde joys de Bourbon,( in which rare consisteth the most part of the blood royal) execrable and abominable to all Frenchmen, published amongst us, that he caused himself to be crwoned King of France, but the Iesuites? who were so impudent and shameless in a matter notoriously known to all the world to be false, as to writ in the life of Ignatius pag. 162. that the Prince had caused French crowns to be coined with this inscription: Lewis the 13. by the grace of God the first Christian King of the French, which is a most arrogant inscription, say they, and injurious to all the most Christian kings of France. They say not, ought to be, as of a matter doubtful, but, is, as of a matter certain.  
O you noble Princes, children of such a Father, why do you not with our own hands execute these deceivers of the world, which seek to ingraue as it were, & imprint vpon your foreheads the foulest and most shameful mark that may be thought of in the world.  
But what do I stand vpon? vpon reproaches done to the dead? alas, their purpose and burning zeal is to murder the living: was it not in the college of Iesuites at lion, and also in the college of Iesuites in Paris, that the resolution was last taken to murder the King in August 1593. Are not the depositions of Barriere executed at Melun, notorious to all the world? and do not those depositions make all true French hearts tremble and quake, all them I say, that haue not built their plots and hopes vpon the death of the King? was it not Varade principal of the Iesuites, so chosen by them, as the honestest and best Iesuite, that exhorted and encouraged this murderer, assuring him that he could not do a more meritorious work in the world, then to murder the King though he were a catholic, and that for this deed he should go strait to paradise? And to confirm him the more in this mischievous resolution, did he not cause him to be confessed by another Iesuite, whose name can not be known, and may happily be in this town lying in wait for like occasions? what more? Did not these impious, godless, and execrable murderers, give this Barriere the Sacrament, employing the most holy, most precious, & most sacred mystery of our Christian Religion, towards the murdering of the chiefest King of christendom? But how glad would they be, to be guilty rather of the fact committed, then of the fact intended?  
The shop of Satan, wherein are hammered and forged all the murders that haue been executed or attempted in Europe, within these forty yeres: the right successors of the murderers that murdered Raimond earl of tripoli, Conrard the Marquis of Monferrad, Edward son of the King of England, and many other great Princes. Their Bishop also whom they worshipped( as the Iesuites do their General, always a Spaniard) caused a Pollarful of two edged sharp knives to be carried before him, and the minister that carried it, cried: Get you back, fly away before him who holdeth the death of Princes in his hands.  
There was a murdering Iesuite taken of late in Flanders, who deposed at his death, that there was another sent out of spain to murder the King. Helas, what can we tell whether he be now in the college of Iesuites or no, waiting his fit opportunity, until the king come hither? For to show that the jesuits can not disavow their companions of such enterprises, and that the highest point of their Honor standeth in executing such murders, terming them Martyrs which haue spent their lives therein, there are above three thousand persons that know, that Comolet preaching at Christmas last in Saint Bartholomews Church, took for his theme the third chapter of the book of Iudges, where it is reported that Ehud slay the King of Moab, and scaped away, and after that he had discoursed at large vpon the death of the late King, and exalted and placed amongst the Angels, this tiger, this devill incarnate, james Clement the murderer, he fell into a great exclamation: We haue need of an Ehud, we haue need of an Ehud, were he a friar, were he a soldier, were he a Lackey, were he a shepherd, it made no matter: needs we must haue an Ehud, one blow would settle us fully in the estate of our affairs, as we most desire.  
Behold my good Lords, behold again and again, behold, I say, to how high a degree, our blockishness, or rather our negligence,( pardon me I beseech you for my so saying, grief and anguish of heart forceth me to it) caused the boldness, the pride, the rashness, the impudency of such traitors, of such espials of spain, of such murderers, to climb, and to mount up, as to be so bold as to use the Pulpit for a place to sound out the murder of kings in. This is their pure doctrine. Allyn head of the college of Seminaries at rheims, hath written a book expressly of it. And to this effect, when William Parrie was executed, he confessed that Benedicto Palmio a Iesuite had informed him, that it was lawful to kill and murder all kings and Princes excommunicate by the Pope. upon which point having afterwards had conference with a learned Priest called Vates, he  told him, that it was a false proposition, and that he should be damned if he did so: And in this doubtfulness and contrariety of opinions, Parry went to confession to one Annibal Codreto a Iesuite dwelling in Paris,( this is the man that wrote in a book imprinted at lions, that their society took their name hereupon, because God had given them for companions to his son Iesus Christ, and Iesus had accepted them for his companions) this Codreto  told him, that it could not be but Vates was an heretic, assuring him, that he could not do a more meritorious work, and that the Angels would carry him into heaven.  
You kings and Princes of the earth, what assurance can you promise yourselves of your lives within your Palaces, and in the midst of your guards, if this devilish proposition, vomited out of the bottomless pit of hell, do once seize the hearts and mindes of your people, as the Iesuites cease not daily and hourly to beate it into their heads by their cursed confessions, whereunto also they are bound by their rules: Let them lay hands vpon tyrants, and pluck up darnel out of the lords field. They haue an article in their bulls and Statutes, which tendeth to no other end. They stay not for any year of probation, but receive all fish that cometh to their net, that are ready to take their vows, which being once done, though the party be very simplo, yet without repeal forever, the votary that hath given his word, is bound to the general, and yet may the general displace him at his pleasure, until he be professed: a matter that falleth not out sometimes in the space of 25. or thirty yeares after.  
How cometh it to pass, that the condition of these men, is so strange, so extraordinary, so unequal, that this contract between them cannot be reciprocal? To the end that when a man hath been holden in suspense sometimes for the space of 25. yeres amongst them, if any inheritances fall unto him, then will they take him in, but if none befall him, they may remove him, unless he undertake to execute whatsoever they will command him: so that, he that hath spent all his youth amongst them, seeing himself on the one side brought to beggary, and on the other side fed with faire promises of assured paradise, will easily resolve with himself either to be a murderer himself, or to exhort, confess and minister the Sacrament to all murderers that come.  
As oft as I call to mind into what extremity of miseries, both every one of us in particular, and the state of France in general should haue been brought, in case this murder so cunningly persuaded, so lively imprinted in Barrieres heart by Varade principal of the jesuits, had been executed, the horrible servitude that france should haue been in at this day, the insolent pride and triumphs of the Spaniards, and the miserable estate of this great city, where the infant of Castile would haue proudly commanded, I must needs confess, that choler and just indignation, makes me as it were besides myself, to see that yet these traitors, these wretched caitiffs, these manquellers, these murderers of kings, continue amongst us, live amongst us, enjoy the benefit of the air of france: And how live they? They are in the Palace, they are made much of, they are supported, they make leagues, they make factions, and all sort of new alliances and associations. What? Alas, if God so permit that within these few dayes some Iesuite, or other set on work by them, be apprehended, as he of Melun was, think you, how many soever you be that support them in your discourses, wherein you think yourselves wise, considerate, advised, and to speak in a word, Spaniards, think you, I say, that you shall be in safety amongst us? No, no, in all other matters, man cannot be too modest, and of good stay of himself: but when the life, the safety, the preservation of this so sacred a person, so necessary for France, as without whom the state would be vndon, would be eclipsed for ever, and forthwith become one of the provinces of spain, cometh in question, herein, I say, a man can not be too hot. He that is could, he that is modest in this case, is a traitor: virtue in such cases standeth in excess not of affections onely, but of passions also. Though the might of all nations were conspired against us, though al the world were in an uproar about us, though the Seas were full of navies, though monstrous and strange beasts were brought in upon us, yet wouldest thou keep us unconquered, O most unconquerable sovereign: but who can promise that this pillar and star of france shall continue for ever, in case that these wretched caitiffs that do nothing but practise daily against his life, if they that receive these murderers sent from lions whilst it rebelled, and now from spain: if they, I say, that make the heartes of the religious desperate, that daily sharpen the edge of the peoples hearts against his majesty, be maintained and preserved in this state.  
But they instruct the youth, what to do? to desire and wish for the death of their Kings. far be it from us to mollify and swéeten the punishment due to the Iesuites for their heinous crimes, because they instruct some youth: Nay rather, this ought to be a motive to induce us to aggravat and augment it an hundred fold. For it is this goodly instruction of your youth, it is these cursed propositions which they still into their tender minds, under a pretence of teaching of them learning,( as poisons are not given, but swéetned with sugar, and vices deceive not but under the show and shadow of virtues) it is these bold confessions,( where, without witnesses they paint not the faces but the hearts of their scholars with the tincture & painting of rebellion against their Prince and Magistrates) that hath filled so many places, and so many dignities with Spanish hearts, enemies to the King and his state.  The tender age of Children drinketh up error with the first milk. 
Some of their scholars haue rejected their persuasions, & they do hate them a thousand fold more, then such as never knew them: but where one hath resisted them, a thousand haue been marred.  
We read in the 52. of Dion, that Maecenas shewed Augustus, that there was none so good a way to establish a peaceful state to himself and people, as to cause the nobility of Rome to be taught and instructed by such schoolmasters, as loved the state of a monarchy. For the world altereth and changeth in short time, and this youth shall forthwith be advanced to great offices. In like sort, nothing can be more daungerous, then to haue our youth taught by these Spanish spialles; who above all things hate the French monarchy.  
It is a very easy matter to imprint such an affection as a man will, in these weak mindes: and nothing harder then to disroote them. For the precepts that are learned in our tender yeares, take deep roote. It was not the river of Eurotas that made men warlike, but the good institution of Licurgus. It is not the river of Seine, or the river of Garonne that hath made so many wicked Frenchmen: but the colleges of the jesuits at Paris, Tholouse, and bordeaux. Since such scholars came to charges, the manors of our ancestors fell not away by little and little: but ran down headlong like to violent floods, and raging streams.  
Christian religion hath all the marks of true Iustice and profit, but none so apparent as the exact and precise charge of due obedience to Magistrates and preservation of government: and these people, which term themselves the fellowship of Iesus, haue no other matter they shoot at, but to turn all lawful magistracy upside down, to establish the tyranny of spain in all places: and to this end do they frame and fashion the mindes of youth, committed unto them to be instructed in good literature, religion, and piety.  
Oh Lord, what nightish darkness possesseth the hearts of men even for the very bent to wickedness. Tereus is taken to be godly, and reapeth praise by lewdness.  
The Carthaginians sacrificed their children to Saturne, their Fathers and mothers being constrained to be present and assisting to the sacrifice, with cheerful countenance. It is a strange thing that we haue seen the time, when a man was not accounted a catholic, unless he put his children to school to a Iesuite: and such as ben brought up in this college, had their passports to go whither they would, no man was to make inquiry what condition of life they were of. So that Parents framing themselves to the time, were constrained to lose their Children, which were either charmed, or very often utterly murdered, as it were, if they found them to their vent. There are too many miserable examples hereof, known well enough to every man, & public complaints left to posterity for this wickedness, against these cruel manstealers that bereave Parents of their Children, and oftentimes spoil thē of the supporters and pillars of their houses, as it befell to Airault the sheriff of Angers, who having eight small Children in his old age, was by the Iesuites robbed of his eldest son, who might by this time haue succeeded his Father in his rome, and become a father to his younger Brethren and Sisters. They stale him from him when he was about foretéene yeares of age, and kept him in italy and spain, so that he could never hear news of him, notwithstanding all admonitions, and ecclesiastical censures that he could procure against them, which they make but a mock of, contenting themselves with an absolution sent them from their Spanish general.  
In the mean while, when Airault shall come to die, the jesuits will put in foot for the right of the eldest son in his goods and living: for they never bring any of their novices to the vow of poverty, until they haue no hope of any succession: and before they become professed, they give all their goods to the college. So nothing goeth out of their clutches, all cometh in: both by Intestates and by wils which they hunt after every day, on the one side fearing the weak mindes of such as are at deaths door with the terrors of Hell, & on the other side, promising them open Paradise if they give any thing to the fellowship of Iesus. As Maldonat did to S. Andre president of Montbrun, drawing from him by a confession full of covetousness and masked juggling, all the movables and gains he had gotten by his many years travail and service, of which monstrous abuse and treacherous fraud Monsieur Pibrac complained of in full Court. The world knoweth what a maner of Testament and Will they caused Gondran the president of Dijon to make, by which Will and Testament he gave half a crown to his sister his onely heir, & seven thousand Franckes in land a year to the Iesuites. It is well known how they robbed the house of Bollons, one of the richest houses in all bourdeaux. And of late, how they received for the right of inheritance of the house of Monsieur de Largebaston president, the land of Faiolles, which they sold for twelve thousand Crownes, and sent the money into spain, to be put into their Treasorie there: for they keep nothing in France, but onely the immovables which are bequeathed them without power of alienation.  
It is also notoriously known, how they stolen away the onely brother of the Marquis of Canillac, a Gentleman at this day of eight thousand Francks of revenue, and heir apparent to above five and forty thousand, whom they keep with good aduise from entering into the vow of poverty, because they stand in good hope to become Lords and Maisters of the succession of his elder brother, who is unmarried, and one that daily hazardeth his life in the Kings warres for his service, and is his lieutenant in Auuergne. And without doubt, if that noble man fail, if they haue no worse success in their judgements then they haue had hethervnto, they will become Marquises of Canillac, and so pull down this house, which is at this day one of the greatest, and mightiest, and of greatest honour in all brittany.  
Our nation hath been always charged with want of wisdom. As for iustice, liberality, valour and courage, we haue enough; yea too much: but too too little wisdom. What a careless stupidity is this, that such caterpillars as these are, under a colour of disdain to take a couple of sous, and other usual avails that are given to schoolmasters for instructing mens children, haue gotten within these thirty years two hundred thousand Francks of revenue.  
In our university, there was never any thing taken of the poorer sort: but if a Gentlemans son give four or five crownes to his Reader, for his years travail, is this any great matter? Is it not reason, for him that hath spent his years in learning to haue some little maintenance to buy him an handsome gown withall: To deny this, were not onely not to recieue a poor student, but utterly to sink him. Heretofore poor young men found the means to be entertained of the richer sort till twenty or two and twenty years, and so began to get something: which caused every year a thousand more to give themselves to study, then otherwise would haue done. But since the jesuits haue drawn all scholars to themselves, men are become out of heart: for take away reward of studies, and learning faileth.  
All the greatest and most excellent personages of ancient time were of opinion that it was reason, that such as took pains in bringing up their youth in learning should be recompensed: and besides reason, they thought it very requisite and necessary.  
And yet notwithstanding these fellowes following the steps and practise of cunning impoisoners,( which always mix their dooms of poison finely and subtly with some sweet and delicate ingredient) haue devised none so fit a way to draw away al scholars unto themselves, as the refusing of these simplo and small contributions or allowances. For licentious youths had rather spend the money their parentes send them in dishonest houses, then give it to their Tutors, that all the year long travail for them.  
Yet this were nothing, were it not for the inchantements and sorceries wherewith they bewitch youths. But as the Romaines were very careful to bring up the nobility of France at Authun, where they trained them up to the love of the Empire, and to forget the ancient liberty of France: even so the tyrant of spain hath his jesuits dispersed in France, to imprint the love of his name and of his government in the tender mindes of our children. God hath planted heavenly seeds in the bodies of men, which if a good husband haue the cultifying of, the fruit falleth out answerable to the seed: but if an evil husband haue them in hand, he deddeth them, as barren and marish ground doth; and so for good corn reapeth nothing but weeds. And take we what pains we can to weed out such opinions, our labour is but cast away, and our time lost. For the stomach being once distempered by a disease, it altereth the nature of all the meats it receiveth. So that we haue no other remedy but the fear of laws, and enforcements, as great hatreds must be bridled with great dreads: but that obedience is always more loyal and more acceptable, that proceedeth from love, then that that is grounded vpon fear. They that are stung with the Serpent Dipsas, haue a continual drought, through the force of the poison scattered through all the veins and drying up the store of blood, in so much as the sick man doth nothing but drink, and yet his thirst can never be quenched: In like sort they that haue once tasted of this venomous and pestilenciall instruction of the jesuits, thirst continually after the disquieting of the repose and quiet state of their Countries, and the aduancement of the government of spain.  
The history of Portugal is well known: K. Philip had an eye vpon that his neighbour kingdom a long time: but bring it to his subiection he could not unless he procured the Kings death, & the death of the greatest part of the nobility. In this service he employed the Iesuites which were about King Sebastian, who call themselves in that country, Apostles: these fellowes having by their sly and subtle practices bearest him of all his old servants, especially of Peter of Alcassonne his secretary, and persuading him to go over into Afrike against his enemies, ten thousand times stronger then all the power he had or was able to make, caused him to undertake the voyage, where he lost his life, and the lives of all the nobility almost of portugal. During the regiment of the Cardinal, which was not long, the Iesuites bestir themselves so well with their practices, that incontinently after the Cardinals death, and antony received & acknowledged King by all the states of the country, he was forced to sly the land,( all his Maritime and port towns being fallen from him in one day), and save his life by travail on foot more then four hundred miles. The Isles of Tercere held out yet for King antony, which was a good footing & stopped al the traffic of the Indies, the Frenchmen took part with them, under the conduct of the Commander of Chattes. All the inhabitants of the Islands, al the monks, and Friers, and the rest shewed themselves most loyal and affectionate to their King, and sworn enemies to the castilians. But on the contrary side the Iesuites which had been the instruments of the revolt of the kingdom, began to thunder against the French, and exalt King Philip. What did they then? In lieu of casting them into the sea, or at the least, of driving them out of the land, they were contentonely to shut them up with in their cloister. All this is largely discoursed in the history imprinted at Gennua, by the commandement of the K. of spain, & is wholly to his advantage. moreover all that is there set down touching the Iesuites, is set down for their reputation & honour, as men that had been the principal instruments of the union of portugal to Castile: as their travail at this day is to no other end and purpose, but to unite the kingdom of France to the crown of spain.  
What did the Iesuites? when they saw their time, in a night they broke down the wall that rampired up their gates, and carried the sacrament of the Altar before them, making but a scorn of God in abusing his mysteries to raise seditions withal: and began to conjure the people so well, that they appalled and cooled their courages, so that the French conducted thither by the Marshall Strossy could haue no aid nor assistance from them, which was the cause of his discomūture. And here you are to mark how the history reporteth that four score Noble men, and two and fifty French Gentlemen were boucherly put to death by a Spanish decree in one day, vpon one scaffold in Ville franche, and a number of Souldiers hanged. The same history reporteth, how that during this war, five hundred Friers, or other Religious persons which had preached or spoken for King antony, had been put to death. Behold the precepts of the Iesuites. Kill, murder, hang, play the butchers: We see also in France, that they that go to their confessions, and be norsed at their breasts, are so cruel, that they kill one another.  
Marcelin in his 27. saieth, that about the river Euxinus there was a people called Odrisae, which were so accustomend to  shed the blood of man, that if they had no store of enemies, they would in their feasts and banquets lance their own flesh. These fellows murder one an other, though they haue enemies enough in the field.  
go too then my lords of the nobility, follow these disciples of the Iesuites, to the end they may recompense your services at their best leisure and pleasure with stabs of daggers: and for your best avail make some corner of France a province of the Moores, and from Baetica receive your laws. How much more honourable were it for you, with your common loyalty and mutual assistance to save and recover this kingdom.  
Therefore take hearts unto you and be of good courage, you brave and vndoubtable nobility of France, hold on to conjoin yourselves in one army. God the protector of kingdoms, God that hath always cast his eye of commiseration vpon France in the greatest afflictions it ever sustained, will plant amongst you without doubt, love and concord. He will make your countenances fearful, your arms strong, he will sand his Angels to strengthen you, that within few daies you may roote out of France all these infected, and proud castilians.  
Alexander said that Antipater was outwardly clad with white, but inwardly was altogether red: So there are a number that in utter apparance are the Kings seruants, and are skilful enough to make their profit of his good fortune: but within, they are altogether blood red, wholly Spanish. These men that can not but use the Iesuites to execute their mischievous enterprises, dare not say openly that it were good to let them continue in France,( for to use any such speech, and to wear a red cross is all one) but they can say, it is no time now to rid them from out amongst us, and allege respects wherefore, which I mean to answer. But first of all it is expedient to beate down their chiefest bulwark, which standeth in the referment to counsel set down in the year 64. To which I will bring five answers, the least whereof is more then sufficient.  
The first is, that this instance of 64. is failed, not onely three, but thirty years ago. And whereas they say, that the failing of the instance, hath no place in Parliement, that is not so, but when the process is not discontinued. And as for this matter which is now in question, so far is it from having been used, that on the contrary side, the copy of the pleas and bills haue not been so much as taken out, which is the first act whereby the party, that is referred to counsel, receiveth his first instruction.  
The second answer is, that the instance of 64. differeth wholly from that that is tendered at this present: first the qualities are diuers: for the Iesuites were then plaintiffs, and be now defendants. Secondly, the question was, whether they should enjoy the privileges of the university or no. And now the question is, whether they are to be cast out of France or no. At that time, to appoint them to counsel, was to deny them their demand. Now it were as much as to put to counsel whether the King should live or no, if in the mean while, we must entertain these murderers amongst us, that desire nothing more earnestly then his death.  
Thirdly, there is great difference between the year 64. and the year 94. In 64. that mischief was feared, which is fallen out and many would not be persuaded to conceive it, being deceived by the sugared and honeyed words of these hypocrites. Who would haue thought at that time, to haue seen Spanish dead pays in Paris, the spaniards march up and down in those faire and large streets, their arms a kenbow, their staring eyes, their frowning foreheads, their majestical and solemn march as soft as foot can fall.  
In the year 64. Barnard and Comolet were not heard to call the King, Holofernes, Moab, and Nero, maintaining that the kingdom of France was elective and that it belonged to the people to establish the Kings, and alleging this text of the old Testament, Thou shalt choose thy brother for King, thy brother, say they, that is not to say, of the self same lineage, or of the self same nation: but of the same religion, as this great catholic king, this great king of spain. Comelet was so impudent and bold as to say, very blasphemously, that under these words, deliver me O Lord out of the mire, that I may not stick in it, david understood prophetically the rooting out of the house of Bourbon. During these warres they would haue erected a college of jesuits at Poitiers, saying that a rich and religious Lord would give eight hundred crownes of revenue for the foundation. And when they had been instantly pressed a great while, to discover who this great Lord was, being not able to name any other, they were constrained maugre their beards to confess that it was the King of spain, who will never think it much to be at such a charge to entertain such a pernicious and dangerous vermin amongst us as these Iesuites are. And this was witnessed by all the deputies of Poitiers, which put to their helping hands to reduce that town to the obedience of the King.  
In 64. the Iesuites had not as yet the book of life amongst them, wherein they haue sithence kept a record of all that, that they learn by their secret shriftes of all houses and families, informing themselves by children and servants, not what their consciences are, but what speech and talk their parents and maisters haue commonly in their houses, whereby they may know what disposition they are of. Comolet preaching at the bastille before the Gentlemen that were then prisoners in the beginning of the year 89. said unto them after a thousand impudent blasphemies, that he that had been their King was not their King, plotting from thence the murder which they executed afterwards. When Trouue, and captain Aubrey were imprisoned in the bastille by Bussy the Clerc, the counsel of the forty, could not get them out: but onely Comolet, as an Orpheus of his own authority, set them at liberty, such was the dependency of the sixteen Murderers vpon the Iesuites. At what time there came news of the Popes election that is now, Comolet being come out of the pulpit, went up again, and began to cry out, hear thou Politician, I will tell thee news, we haue a Pope, what maner of Pope? one that is a good catholic? What more? one that is a good Spaniard. go and hang thyself thou Politician. The Iesuites used no such language in the year 64. an ancient writer saieth, young Serpents deceive: when one hath passed his natural bigness and is grown to a monster, when it hath infected the fountains, and by breathing burneth which way soever it go, men seek to destroy it with some shot or other: evils springing may escape, but great are met withall. Titus livius saieth elegantly, It can not be, but the diseases must be known, before their remedies can be found out: so did evil motions break out in men, before laws were made to bridle them. Plato in the beginning of his first book of laws saieth, that Minos, went once in every ninth year to know of jupiter what laws he should give to the Cretensians: because that time beareth such a sway in the change & alteration of al things, that what seemeth good at one season, is hurtful at an other. We find by experience, that good laws, and honest examples, draw their original from others offences: for faultiness goeth before punishment, in time: & amendment is the younger brother to offence.  
speak to the Marquis of Pisany, he will tell you that since the year of 64. when he was in spain and italy, as ambassador about the affairs of france, he found no matter of weight, wherein a Iesuite had not an oar. speak to them that had the decifering of al the letters of importance, which were intercepted during these warres, they will tell you, that they never red any pernicious point, where a jesuits finger was not. And even lately at Lions, since the town yielded to the King, a Iesuite that had begun to say his mass, perceiving a Gentleman in the church with a white scarf, ran out of the Church being full of people of a purpose to raise a sedition: a matter that they attempted since, and will no doubt be the loss of that town being of great importance, if they be not spéedelie banished out of the country by your order and decree.  
Fourthly, who so breaketh the modifications and conditions whereupon a grant is made unto him; is worthy to loose the benefit that he might receive by the grant. Now since the year 64. the Iesuites haue directly broken the conditions of their aduise of Poissy, which is the onely allowance they haue had in france. First they haue broken them herein, that they haue retained their name of Iesuites, which they were expressly charged not to do, because this glorious name is particularly reserved to the onely saviour of the world: and there was never any amongst the Christians to this day found so transported with pride, as to dare to attribute this name either to himself in particular, or to other and himself in common. They alone haue been so impudent, as to take this name in their propositions, by which( through their housed enticing & sugared speech, carrying one thing secreated in their hearts, and another ready at their Tongues ends) their meaning was within three moneths to flatter them, whom they would with all their hearts see instantly plunged in the depth of the Inquisition of spain. Secondly, they haue broken the aduise of Poisy, whereby their college was received, and their profession rejected. For they haue been so bold as to plant it in way of triumph in the midst of Saint Antonies street, where they are at this day so impudent, as to haue in their caps the full arms of France, with a Cardinals hat above, to let us understand that in despite of the King to whom they are not bound by oath of fidelity, and whom they sought and will seek daily to murder: they acknowledged one Charles the tenth to haue been King of france, under whom they hopes to haue wrought with this kingdom, as they wrought with the kingdom of portugal under another Cardinal. Thirdly, their aduise of Poisy purporteth expressly, that they may not procure any bulls contrary to these restraints set down by this act: and in case they do procure any, they shal stand as none, and of none effect nor value, which is verified upon this very condition. But now they haue procured bulls so contrary to this aduise of Poisy, that whosoever make any limitations or restrictions against their privileges and institutions, are by virtue therof excommunicate with the greatest excommunication, yea whosoever shall dare to dispute or reason the matter, though it be but onely to seek out the truth. hear the very words of their bull of 84. And obey their governors in al things and every way, and be immediately subject to this Sea, and clearly exempt from the subiection of all ordinaries and delegates whatsoever, or of any other Iudges, as by the virtue of these presents we do also exempt them. A point directly contrary to this clause of the advise of Poissy. upon condition, that the bishop Diocesan shall haue all superintendancie, jurisdiction, and correction over the said society and colleges. And consequently their aduise of Poisly is become void, as well by the course of law before alleged, as by the clause expressly set down to make it void by the said assembly. They shal renounce expressly and in plain terms all privileges given by their bulls, which are contrary to the points and articles aforesaid. Otherwise and in want hereof, or in case they do hereafter obtain any other, they shalbe as none, and of none effect nor value. But see yet a more strange clause set down in their Bul of 84. by which, both we that speak against them, and you my Lords that are the Iudges, and they of Poissy also, which made the aduise, are al excommunicate. We command therefore( vpon their holy obedience and under pain of excommunication of the sentence given, & of disabling, to all secular offices and benefice, and regular of al orders whatsoever, forthwith to be incurred without further declaration, reserving to ourselves and to our successors only, the absolution from the same,) that no man of any state, degree, or pre-eminence whatsoever, be so hardy and bold as either directly or indirectly to impugn or gainsay any institutions, constitutions, or these presents touching the said society, or any of them, or of al the foresaid Articles, or any other matter concerning the same, though it be done in way of disputation onely, or to seek out the truth.  
Fiftly, and lastly, and to speak plainly without flattery in a matter of such weight, and a speedy issue whereof all honest men do earnestly desire, who knoweth not, how that in Anno 64. there was not a man within this place so hardy as durst speak freely against the conspiracy of spain? All good men were afraid, and speachlesse: when as it was a miserable case to speak what a man would not; and full of danger to speak what he would willingly speak. The wheels, the gallows would not haue been sufficient punishments for them that durst to haue been so hardy: What think you thē you Spanish espials you may allege for yourselves at this day to maintain yourselves? Will you say, because you haue been suffered heretofore, nay that is reason sufficient to banish you out of france, to wit, your force, your violence, your tyranny, & the tyranny of your supporters, of your Spaniards, which haue bound our hands, which haue stopped our mouths, which haue made you so courageous, which haue made you speak so proudly, which haue set you so high: you I say, most wicked varlets with your bloody hands, most pestilent and proud through your insatiable covetousness, you that haue no regard of loyalty, you that are voided of God and all honesty, to be short, you that make your gain of all things be they honest or dishonest.  
But they be not wicked varlets alone, there is a point that makes them worse: for if they onely had been wicked themselves, our misery had been the less. The great number of Frenchmen whom they haue marred, hath been the cause of our miseries. And yet now they seek to throng themselves amongst this press of people, and hid their heads, thinking to lessen their fault through the fellowship of many offenders, as though in this their wicked lewdness they did but keep the kings high way, doing as other men do. But it fareth far otherwise; for the greater the number is of lewd and evil affencted subiectes, the greater is the harvest of the jesuits, for these are their fruits; And why is not this whole sink of sixteen and their adherents, vpon their way to spain? Why are they not banished for ever out of the air of France, which they haue poisoned this long while? What do these Iesuites here still? what do they? see we not well enough what they do? What vndermininges, what violences, what corruptions, what seditions haue they not already committed and done? believe me my Lords, they lose no time; such busy heads, most sharp in devising, most impudent in attempting, most vigilant in effecting, are not unprofitable: they receive packets daily from spain, and from all corners of France, and deliver them at Soissons: they carry their Packets out of the town themselves,( for to rifle and search a Iesuite, were to commit high treason against God himself, neither was there ever any captain that durst to this day attempt such an act,) they receive into their chamber of counsel al that will devise or contrive any thing against the state of the town; if onely they will but make a show to resort to their Churches, or confess to their Iesuites what practise is intended by any man against any of the sixteen, which do nothing but practise our destruction? Shall we still suffer ourselves to be abused by these hypocrites? Shall we be still like to the Barbarians, that made but a scoff of the fortifications which the enemies made against their walls, until they found their walls beaten down about their ears, and their town foolishly lost? Shall we suffer our enemies to gather together the pieces of their shipwrecke? Shall we suffer the Iesuites to fasten the knots again of their practices, and frame a new their faction in the consciences of the people, which are always the greatest number?  
In all this action, this is the strangest point to behold and consider, what delays, what formalities of Iustice haue been used, and how upon the sudden, and even at a very instant, taking not so much leisure as to breath themselves, they could defend by bribery and corruption, what they committed by mischievous wickedness. We haue not banished them as they did at bordeaux, which was the bravest and most honourable act that the marshal of Matignon ever did, though he stand renowned and highly thought of, and so will in the memory of al posterity for many noble victories achieved by his hands. But this blow of resolution which he gave, was a means of the preservation of Guyenne, which otherwise had been lost, and would haue drawn after it even at that instant, the loss of all the rest.  
O brave and noble marshal, thou fearedst not the reproaches, the wicked tongues, the stinking vomits of these amongst us, that falsely terming themselves the kings servants, do foster, do maintain, do support, and favor his most cruel, most detestable, most conjured enemies: Howbeit in the end they shal all come to nought, and that most shamefully together with their Iesuites, notwithstanding their goodly and colourable pretences, the chiefest whereof is this.  
What will they say at Rome? Oh, what do they speak of Monsieur the Marshall of Matignon? will you know what they say at Rome: Let us distinguish the speakers: The spaniards will say, that they which banished the Iesuites out of France, are all of them heretics. Haue they any other talk in their mouths? I will not speak onely of ourselves that haue followed the King and his fortune, but also of them that tarried here in the town, and yet courageously, and with evident peril of their lives, opposed themselves against the abolishing of the salic law. Did not the Spaniards say, that they were all Lutherans and heretics?  
On the other side, they that are at Rome and in italy, and are not spaniards, they I say, will say, that this is the time wherein the French men will show themselves to be French men in deed, frank and free, and sworn enemies to the Spaniards. This is the time wherein they manifest to the world, that they are quick of sight, & look into their state aright, by driving out from amongst them these spialles of their enemies: to be short, this is the time wherein they mean to live in strengthfull and assured health, now that they purge these melancholic and ouerburnt, and most malicious humors out of the body of their common wealth. But though the Iesuites be daungerous to france, yet at the least they haue wrought mighty wonders amongst the Indian people. True it is, and such wonders indeed, as we haue good cause to take knowledge of: for they haue caused twenty millions of those poor souls, as their own history reporteth, and termeth them lambs, to be consumed by fire and sword of the Castilians. They haue wéeded out the paganism, not by converting the Pagans, but by playing the bloody butchers with them. Their maner of dispeopling of the iceland called Spaniola, is much to be marked. They put all the men a part to work in their mines, and the women they forced to cultify the earth: so that keeping them from generation, & using al the cruelty they could against the living, in less then 12. yeares they inhabited the whole iceland which is not small, with Castilians. In Peru they haue public places of torture within the marches, wherein they may put a thousand at once, and there the Souldiers and the lackeys torment these poor people, thereby to make them confess where their treasure is. And if any of them escape out, they go and hang themselves in the mountaines and their wives by them, and their poor children at their feet. These monsters of tyranny, do as ordinarily hunt after men, as we do after the buck and stag, causing their dogges to devour thē, and their Tigers, when they sand them to seek honey and wax, and also by their Tuberons when they cause them to go a fishing for pearls in the most daungerous parts of the sea. If they carry out any of these poor people to war with them, they give thē nothing to live on, but constrain them to eat their enemies, so that the Spanish armies are very boucheries of the flesh of man. And yet we maruail at the cruelties which they use in these parts of the world, which are but fleabitinges, or honey soppes rather in comparison of that that they can do. Their covetousness was so extreme, that they jaded their ships with thrice as many more of these poor silliones then their ships could bear, or they had victual for, in so much, that they cast so many of them over board, that to pass from the Isle of Lucaies unto Spaniola, which is a good distance, a man needed not any compass, but only the trace of these poor Indians dead floating vpon the sea, where they had cast them.  
O ye Frenchmen behold, again and again, behold I say; the great favour of God towards us in drawing us out of the slavery of this monstrous & prodigious nation: chains and Irons should haue been your best entertainment, full Argoses of you should haue been carried to the Indies to work in their mines, whilst they had placed Colonies in your towns, and given your houses in the country for a reward: And yet notwithstanding, this murdering and casting in chains and Irons, al the true Catholiks, & to leave none in france but Atheists, robbers, murderers, incests, & pensioners of Spain, should haue been termed nothing but the planting of the catholic Religion.  
But if the jesuits be so wicked, why is there not an inditement framed against them? I answer you, that Monsieur the kings attorney general knoweth how to prosecute that which he thinketh best, but the matter which the university,( the Kings eldest daughter, who can not hold her tongue from crying out against them that would murder her father) calleth upon, is, that all the rest may be banished out of the realm, whilst the other be arraigned that are in hold: the danger that we are in, will not well abide slow working medicines and lingering physicians. The history of the humble Friers, and of the cardinal Bouromee is very notorious and fresh in memory: one of these Friers would haue murdered the Cardinal. Vpon the instant that old order was put down, and al that were of it banished out of italy by Pope pus the fifth rightfully so called, for that he most occupied himself in making leagues against the turk, whereas others busy themselves in making leagues against france. And shall not the Iesuites at this day be bani●hed, that would haue murdered the K. of france, and for letting Varade that murderer break prison, & sending him away? They that defend this proposition, make more account of the life of a cardinal, then of a King of france, the eldest son and protector of the Church.  
By the civil law, all the issue of that man that practiseth the death of the Prince, even to the very child that sucketh the mothers breasts, are dishenherited and brought to misery: so fearful is the example of treason, and shall we preserve the companions of Varade, the haue vowed the self same vow that he did, that haue the same desire & purpose that he had, that holy him away. whensoever one jesuit, shall attempt the murder of one of our Kings, shal he onely be banished? This is a good proposition, and well worthy to be maintained, that it is better that twenty kings of France be murdered, then all the Iesuites should be banished France. They that are of this opinion, care not how many kings we change.  
If they were to be executed as the rollers, their inditements would be framed. But what say the Iesuites? That they came into france for our good: yea but experience hath shewed us, that they haue caused our ruin. What needeth further inditement? seeing they advance our enemies so greatly. There is an excellent saying in Tacitus to this purpose. O noble counsellors, if we look no further, but consider with what vile language they haue abused mens ears, prisons and gallows are too good for them. It is time you hasten to iudgement, that neither they may scape scotfree, nor you repent yourselves of your severity mixed with clemency: let them be dispatched with fire and water. Behold a good iudgement for the jesuits.  
moreover, happily before the year 85. this formalising might haue been tolerated, for until that day their lewdness and treachery was shadowed with a goodly mask, but now they go so open faced, that we need neither letters nor witnesses. Quintilian saith finely. There be some crimes of treason against the commonwealth, which may be sufficiently condemned by the view of the eye.  
And Seneca to this purpose in the tenth book of his controversies saith, whether the common wealth be hurt or no, it is not to be proved by arguments, the hurt of the common-wealth appeareth forthwith. He that should haue laid hands on Iulius Caesar, had there been any need of confronting of witnesses to prove that he had passed the Rubicon, that he had entred into italy with an army, and taken the treasure of the commonwealth? The painters and poets give a naked sword to Iustice, to give us to understand that we may not always stand vpon doubts and tract of time: neither play the part of evil chirurgeons, who for want of healing the sore in due time, protract the cure so long, till the strength of the patient be utterly cast down & not possible to be restored.  
But what call we notorious? All our Doctors define it in one word, to be that, that is done before the people. And I would to God that the crimes of the Iesuites were not so great, so certain, and notorious as they are, then should we not haue suffered so much misery as we haue.  
O that I might plead, and not overcome?  
O wretch that I am, why is my cause so good?  
But they haue left nothing to the Counseler for him to break his head withall: for, to deny matters, that are as clear as the sun, increaseth the fault, and confuteth it not. Philo the jew, writing vpon the ten commandments, speaking of the voice of God, giveth a good reason why we are said to see the word. Because saieth he, that that which God speaketh is not onely a bare word, but a work. It is an usual and common proverb amongst us, the voice of the people is the voice of God, whereby is meant the voice of the best sort and not of the multitude. Because they speak of such things as they know, of things which haue been seen, and wherein they can not lye.  
But some will say that the Iesuites are not all strangers: as though the Spaniards by adoption, and by oath, had not done us more harm then the natural Spaniards. I will rather take them for citizens, which are born in the remotest place of all Scythia, and yet think well of France, then they that are born of Paris and brought up there, and employ themselves most unnaturally and wickedly, to destroy the place, liberty, and honour of their country wherein they were born. Comolet, Bernard, and such like, are they not Frenchmen born, and yet are there any of any nation that haue so impudently vomited out all sorts of blasphemous speeches against his majesty, and the memory of the King that dead is, as they haue done? Are there any men in the world that haue travailed so much as they haue done to turn the state upside down? for if a man make a show of religion, he may do what he will under that pretext, his penny is good silver: to murder or cause Princes to be murdered, which are excommunicate by the Pope, is the chiefest part of their sending. Varade himself, the encourager, and pusher on forward of that Murderer of Melun was he not a Parisien? Oh sir, the Iesuites would haue been banished out of France long ago, had there been no other Spaniards amongst us but such as are natifes and born beyond the mountaines of Pirene. The pleasures and exceeding great favours, which King Philip bestoweth vpon the Iesuites, maketh it notorious enough, how that he maketh account of them as of his good subiects, and instruments of his certainty. The great jesuitical Argosee, which fetcheth their gold and merchandises from the Indies,( for they draw from all parts of the world, to increase their treasure in Rome and spain withall) this great vessel, I say, payeth no fifth to King Philip. A matter of more value to them, then two hundred thousand crownes a year. For their part of the conquest of portugal, he gave them the present which the kings of the East Indies payed from three years to three years to the King of portugal, which is worth in Gold, and pearls, & Spicerie, more then four hundred thousand crownes. In recompense of which bounty, they speak of him, as of the greatest Prince that ever was in the world, far surmounting the force of the Romaines, and having more countries under him then all the Kings of the world.  
go on ye Spanish souls to praise and magnify the forces of the King of Castile, he will make you all Cardinals, as well as toledo the Spanish Iesuite. They will no small benefice,( & yet for the better maintenance of their table, they unite & knit many Priories and abbeys together) but they willbe Cardinals; to the end they may be Popes, this is good fish for their nets. Who was it that brought that bold and proud message to Monsieur of nevers, but this jesuitical Spanish Cardinal? Who was not ashamed to say to him in Ianuarie last, that the three Prelates, which were present at his majesties conversion, should be made to come before the cardinal of S. Seuerin chief of the Inquisition, for absolution for that fact. What a shane, what blasphemy against God and his religion, to demand absolution, for the best work, the holiest work, the profitablest work, & most necessary work that could be done in christendom? But because it was discommodious, damageable and hurtful to the King of spain, the Iesuites will ever condemn it, and judge it worthy penance and absolution. Hereupon it came, that at the first bruit of his holy conversion, they sent Du Puy from Paris to Rome, at this day their provincial, to persuade the Pope that it was but a feigned matter.  But now it irketh them that time is so far spent and so many darts plucked out. 
How can we doubt to banish these Murderers, seing that since the year 1550.( as Monsieur the Counseler of Mesnil hath well observed it in his plea) when the Iesuites presented their letters, signed in the presence of the cardinal of lorraine, and grounded vpon their admission in spain,( a goodly consideration surely) these letters were simply and absolutely refused by the Court, assembled the two half years. And four years after, vpon a second instancy by the Iesuites, the Court would know the opinion of the Sorbone, which being assembled by four daies space together( the holy Ghost no doubt being their director and president) moved as it may seem by an instinct from above, rejected them, counting them a most daungerous and most pernicious company, for the state of the kingdom and for Religion, and such as would cause many quarrels, divisions and dissensions amongst the French nation. And because it may be apparent, that we add nothing of our own heads, behold the very words of the decree of Sorbone, which in few words, setteth down the misery that we haue received by this new and dangerous sect.  
This new fellowship, challenging unto itself the unwonted name of Iesus, so losely and unadvisedly without any discreet choice receiving into their fellowship tag rag, be they never so lewd, wicked, and infamous, carrying no difference from secular priests in their outward habit, in shaving of their crownes, in saying their canonical houres privately, or singing them openly in the Church, in cloisters and silence, in difference of meats and daies in fastings, and diuers other rites and ceremonies,( whereby states of religion are severed one from the other and maintained) endowed with so many and sundry privileges, licences and freedoms, especially in the administration of the Sacrament of penance and Eucharist, and that without difference of places, or parsons, also in the office of preaching, reading & teaching, in prejudice of Ordinaries, yea of Princes & temporal Lords, against the privileges of universities, to the great burden of the people, seemeth to be against the honesty of monastical religion, it weakeneth the studious, godly, & necessary exercise of virtues, abstinencies, ceremonies, and austerity of life, yea that more is, it openeth a gap, to a general apostasy from other religions: it withdraweth from Ordinaries that subiection and obedience that is due unto them, it spoileth as well the Lords temporal as the spiritual of their rights and jurisdictions, it bringeth in a confusion into both policies, many quarrels amongst the people, many strifes, discords, contentions, emulations, rebellions, and sundry schisms. These things therefore diligently weighed and considered, this fellowship seemeth to be a daungerous thing for the matter of faith, like to be a worker of the disturbance of the peace of the Church, & an utter overthrow of monastical life & tending rather to the pulling down then to the building up of the Christian faith.  
Before the effects of their conspiracies were known, we marveled much in our university, saying what maner of people are these? Are they regulars or seculars? for we haue no third sort. They are not seculars, because they live in common, haue a general, and to be short, make a vow of poverty, and yet haue the whole managing of the goods of their colleges. again, they be not regulars: for they haue no rule, nor fasting, nor distinction of meate, neither are bound to any certain services, and may succeed, though they can not rid themselves of their oath. They haue four or five sorts of vows, simplo, Compounded, solemn, Secreete, public. To be short, they make a hurly burly and turn all things upside down, and if you ask them what they are, they answer you, As you see.  
We marveled greatly, I say at that time, but now we leave. And why so? Because in a word, they be nether secular nor regular. What than? Nothing but very espials of spain, you may term them as you please, they will not read, if you will not haue them; they will take what oaths you will, onely with this proviso, that you will let them alone, to betray at their pleasure, to play the espials, to raise false bruits amongst the people, and now for the advantage of the Spaniard, kindle and blow the fire of our dissensions. This is all they demand, this is their vow, their profession, their rule, their plottings, their greatest hap that can befall them.  
It is not the Sorbone of Paris onely that hath condemned them; but in Rome itself, the honester sort perceiving the plotting of Ignatius the Spaniard, opposed themselves against this sect. Behold what they themselves do writ of this matter in the life of their Ignatius, pag. 149. And afterwards, vpon the request of Ignatius, that his institution might receive confirmation, the matter was committed by the Pope to three Cardinals: who laboured greatly, that it might not be received, especial the Cardinal Bartholomaeus Guidicionus, a godly and learned man, and one that did not like that there should be such a multitude of religions in the Church of God, as there be now a daies, moved thereunto perhaps by the decrees of the lateran and Lion Counsels: which two Counsels do restrain and prohibit the multiplying of new religions, or peradventure by reason of the decay of discipline which was much altered and worn out in some of thē, which he thought were more fit to redress, then to devise and make new. And thereupon it is reported that he wrote a book. So that he being of this opinion, sharply withstood ours, and of all men, was the greatest adversary, that our society had, some few other joined their endeavours to his. How than came it to pass that it was received, all these impediments notwithstanding? The promise of the fourth vow of express obedience to the Pope above all the Princes of the earth. see what they themselves writ of this matter in the self same page. 144. Whose religion, should be the religion of the regular clerkes, but their purpose is to be at the Popes commandment, and to frame their lives wholly according to that rule, which he had long before devised & set down. Which thing the Pope did willingly give ear unto. the 3. of Sept. at Tibure. Anno 1539.  
So that, they were rejected both in France and italy by all the greatest catholics which were no Spaniards: unless peradventure they & their adherents be so impudent as to say, that the Sorbone was an heretic in the year 54. when they made that decree against them. As they are so impudent to publish amongst the women of their congregation, that all they which pursue this cause, are heretics that come from Geneua and England. And were it not, that I, that, now speak had not been known from my childhood, brought up in the kings college of Nauarre, and my profession so notorious, and my preferment to public and honourable charges ever the since the year 80. and 85. did not exempt me too too manifestly from their illusions they would happily imagine that I was sent from some one of those places of purpose to pled against them. But who shalbe counted a good catholic, that speaketh against the jesuits, seeing they haus caused the Sorbone to be pronounced heretics by the Inquisition of spain. We learn this of themselves who make their vaunts, that when they saw this decree of Sorbone against them, they betook themselves to the Inquisition of Castile, to cause the Sorbone of Paris and their decree to be condemned. see,( my good lords) who should be able to escape out of the hands of this brutish, barbarous Spanish Inquisition, the snare laid for all men that oppose themselves against the greatness of Castile, the bloody shop of all cruelty, the scaffold of all the most tragical, hideous, and horrible slaughters that can be devised in the world: who, I say, should be able to escape out of the hands of this Inquisition, seeing the Sorbone of Paris is condemned amongst them? But where is this condemnacion? Behold here it is reported in the life of their Ignatius pag. 403. Furthermore, because the Decree of Sorbone was against the authority of the Sea apostolic which hath allowed and confirmed our religion, the Inquisitors of the faith haue by their Decree forbidden it to be red in spain, as a thing that is false, and offensive to godly ears.  
You may not marvell that the Inquisition is so careful for the jesuits, for these two foundations haue no other mark they shoot at, but to establish the tyranny of Castile, over all Europe.  
And shall we still continue cold in banishing them, that make provisions in spain, against all that we can do in France? To banish them that give all the aduise they can to our enemy, that kindle all treasons, corrupt the mindes of all youth, and haue no desire in the world, but to murder the King? what will you look for more? weighty enterprises, must haue speedy dispatches, no delays must be used. every man is justly provoked against them, the wound of the miseries which they haue wrought us, is yet fresh before our eyes. Either this Audience shall free France of these new Monsters engendered to dismember it, or if their subtleties, their crafts, the bruits which they cast abroad, do maintain them, I tell you plainly and as loud as I can, though they haue found so much favour as to haue the doors shut, yet my voice shal pierce through to the four corners of the realm, and I will yet consecrate it to the posterity that will judge without fear, and without passion, who are best Frenchmen, and most desirous to leave it such a liberty, as we haue received from our fathers, I tell you plain,( and I will stretch out my voice, as loud as I can) they will do us yet more harm, then ever they did. And I know not what will become of our strength, whether it willbe dismembered or no, I know not whether our goods and our lives shalbe ransacked once again or no.  I conceive nothing in my breast but heavy news. 
The affairs of the world pass, and run away in a moment, the idle Mariners tarry a shore, while the weather is faire. That Iudgement is the best, that useth no delays. And to what purpose are these delays? To give them leisure to come to the mark they shoot at, full of alarames, yea full of the blood of the best sort. tigers and Lions never leave of their cruelty, sometime they will lye still, and when thou lookest not for it, their mitigate frowardness becometh worse. O that we might be so happy all together, as to enjoy our country freed from all these miseries, with no less fervent affections and zealous piety, then I am moved to be earnest in this cause without hatred to any man. My mind can never be of from this murderer of Melun, and my hart will never be at rest as long as I see these shréeuing Iesuites and eggers on of such murderers remaining in France. If they might once be banished, then should I be assured, then should I see all the mischievous practices of spain, broken a sunder in France. All the Brotherhoodes of the name of Ihesus, of Cordon, de la verge, de la cap, du Capelet, of the little Collet, and a thousand others would be put out. Then could not the Traitors, that practise against the State, know to whom they might address themselves. For, to go to the ambassador of spain there is none amongst us: to go to a suspect person, that would quickly be discovered; and besides, the papers and writings of private persons, fall after there death into the hands of the Magistrates, but this Society death not: and moreover, under pretence of devotion, the assembly of this council is always covert. To be short, of an hundred, that shall repose any confidence in them, you shall not find two amongst them, that will discover themselves one to another:  No man shall know this but thou that onely art privy to my vows. 
even as therfore the Phisitians leave nothing in the sick bodies, that may be hurtful, so it behoveth us to cut of all whatsoever it may be that may be an impediment to our liberty. And let us not be like to them that are sick of choler, that will in no wise take a medicine to rid them at once of that humour, and to make them whole: but content themselves to take away onely some part of the humour, that doth distaste them, and in conclusion pay for it with usury of extreme grief and anguishes that cut deep into them. As there are certain savours which cause them that haue the falling sickness come quickly to themselves again, but yet heal them not, they are good for a while, and are no remedies for the grief but impediments. No more can the Iesuites be taken to be within the compass of the kings declaration, which hath this exception in proper terms? Forprise and excepted the attempt and felony committed vpon the person of the King, our most honourable sovereign and brother, and the enterprise against our own person: which can in no wise be referred to any other but to the Iesuites, which sent the murderer first from lions, and then from Paris. moreover the self same Edict of the 4. of april in Anno 1594. pardoneth none but such as renounce all leagues and associations as well within the realm as without. Now the principal vow of the jesuits being to obey their general, who is a Spaniard, in all things, and the Pope, they can by no means renounce this association which is the strictest in the world, unless they renounce their society. To be short, they can not be jesuits, and receive benefit by the kings edict, which saith in an other place, that such renouncinges and oath of fidelity must be done within a month. Which the jesuits haue not accomplished unto this day, neither can they show any act, to serve for an inducement for us to think, that they had any such purpose: as in very deed they be not capable of it, for no man can be liege vassal to two Lords.  
There is an old writer saith very elegantly, What availeth it to be valiant in the field, and to live lewdly at home? Whiles the King is on horseback to ruinated, defeat, and put to flight his enemies, and to force towns that hold out headdily against him, whilst he endureth the heat of the summer, the could of the Winter, and endangereth himself daily in the Warres for our liberty, shall we suffer the Iesuites in all his principal towns, which do nothing daily with their confessions but stir up a thousands of new enemies, and hold secret counsels of rebellion, and all sorts of treasons? As it availeth not against the plague, to be careful of a mans health, for it seizeth one as well as another: So is it to small purpose for Magistrates to be careful to torment themselves, to trot up and down every way, as long as the plague continueth in the midst of the Town and university, we shal loose our people by thousands on a plunge.  
The Iesuites had never a fairer day in france, then they had in these last warres, which they could willingly call the golden world, as Commodus did: for they saw all other colleges be pestered with their strange garrison, and spoiled every day by them, they saw all the scholars with them, and the whole university brought to the onely college of Iesuites, as it is almost at this day. A man would not beleeue what slaughters they made in the mindes of these young youths, speaking of nothing in all their discourses and in all their theme, but of reasons why it was lawful to murder the King. And yet the mischief that they haue done in Paris, is nothing in comparison of that, that they haue caused to be wrought in other towns.  
To think that the interest of the university of Paris is bounded within the enclosure of their walls, that were to shoot at a wrong mark, and not to consider the truth of things as they are: For if you stop the springs, which make great riuers when they be once joined together and come into one, they must needs dry up. Suffer the jesuits in all the provinces, what will become of your university of Paris think you? And in deed if we compare the high degree of reputation, which you my Lords, haue seen our university in, with the continual decay thereof since the Iesuites came into France, & settled themselves in all towns from whence scholars came, and the extreme poverty, misery, and want that it is now brought unto, ready to yield up the Ghost, if by you, my Lords, her Children, she be not succoured in this extremity: is it not apparent, what just cause she hath to complain, & with what regard you ought to hear her in the request, she now presenteth to you?  
If the day of our preservation be as well welcome to every one of us, as the day of our birth is to our parents, surely the day wherein the jesuits shalbe banished out of France, willbe as faire and joyful a day as ever was the day of the foundation of our university. And even as Charles the great after that he had delivered italy from the Lombards, germany from the Hungarians, had made two iourneies into spain, and oftentimes subdued the Saxons; erected the university of Paris, which hath been for eight hundred yeares space the most flourishing in the world, in all arts and sciences, and hath been a refuge to learning banished out of Asia, decayed in Greece, Egypt, and Afrike: So henry the great, having chased out the Spaniards by the force of his arms, and banished the Iesuites by your decree, shall set up our university in her ancient brightness, and in her former glory, and his name and praise shall for ever be sounded forth vpon our theatres: His triumphs, his victories, and his high exploits of arms, shalbe for ever the subject of our verses and of our Panegyriques.  
And you, my Lords, that haue this good hap, this rare and wishfull bliss, to be iudges of this great and important cause, lift up your cogitations, I beseech you, stretch them out even to the world to come, your name, your memory shall be for ever engraven in Letters of Gold, not onely in our university, but in the heartes of all honest men, and in the heartes of all true Frenchmen.  
Thou golden Clio, thou sufferest nothing to perish, thou sufferest no famous thing to die, reserving the monument of old ages, to be laid up in future books. The titles of labours that would wax old, thou repairest with the flower of during youth, for thy sake virtue warfareth, at thy beck faults become appalled.  
Therefore, seeing this occasion is offered you, hold it: and bear in mind, that you are Princes of the most honourable council in the world. Doubt you not but your decree shalbe speedily executed every where. The report thereof shall no sooner come to other towns, but they will vpon the very instant, banish from amongst them all these espials of spain. They that say, that the Parliament can not make them to depart further then out of the limits of their jurisdiction, they know not how far the jurisdiction of this Court stretcheth in such cases. It hath no other bounds nor limits, but even as far as the point of the kings most victorious sword, who will cause your decrees of council to be executed even to the midst of Piedmount, where his good fortune hath already planted the Flower de Lys, so far forth as all the Canons of spain can not shake it.  
The King doth greatly desire it: can you think that he loveth them that cease not daily to make attempts against his life? and that haue been the causers of all the miseries, which his poor people endureth? If you had once set down your decree, an hundred thousand men would not be able to empeach thexecution of it: his majesty will haue you partakers in some sort of his triumphs.  And following the examples of his Ancestors, disgesteth the facts of the Empire by the hands of his Counsellors and Iudges. 
He hath chased the armed and open garrison of Spaniards out of Paris: chase you, my lords, the covert and secret garrison, chase that which brought in the other, that caused it to stay so long, and would haue doubled it, if they could haue had but one passage vpon the Oyse, at what time they came as far as Beuuais. The time is come though it be latter than is for the honor of the reputation of france, but yet it is so seasonable, as it may not be differred.  
Consider if it please you, my lords, how far you are come, you haue pronounced the Duke of Mayenne guilty of treason, and the tyrant of spain, and his maintainers which join arms with him, common enemies to christendom. It is well done, play the men, and see how far you are gone: you haue taken the town of Paris from them, which they thought to haue subjecteth to their certainty for ever. Nothing in the world gréeueth them so much, as that they took not away all your lives. Now they make little account of all of you: if you fall into their hands again, the bastille shall not be your prison, but your grave▪ and yet I cannot tel, whether they will vouchsafe you so much favor. God hath this day put power into your hands to make a clear dispatch, and to break in sunder for ever all their practices, and all their intelligences: It will be as good as the loss of two battles unto them, when they shall understand that all Iesuites are banished out of france. O my Lords, let not slip this faire, this ready occasion of delivering yourselves from them, which make no other use of their learning, then as Caracalla did, to be a fit instrument to do mischief. Chase away this kind of people, which haue no fellowes in all sorts of wickedness: so sharp witted, so ready, so bold, so crafty, so watchful in mischief, so diligent in wickedness. Against whom when you shall arise, my Lords, to give iudgement, remember I beseech you, how easy a punishment banishment is to them that haue so great riches in spain, in italy, and in the Indies: whereas in the year 1530. they had but a small pension sent them out of spain, as they themselves confess. Remember also, if it please you, the loss of your parentes, of your friends and of your goods: of the desolation of so great a country, of the loss of so many great Captaines, of so much brave nobility, of so many brave Souldiers carried away with the fury of our warres, which they always blowed the coals of, as they do yet at this day. And doubt not a whit, but if you rid france of this poison, it will fare with it, as it doth with bodies, which become more healthful by long diseases, which give them a more perfect and clear health, then they took from them. And in case their counsel commend unto you the magnanimity and clemency of the King, remember you, my lords, that it is this King, whose blood they haue every day in their vows, his death in their prayers, his murdering in their detestable and execrable Counsels. Remember ye, that it is this King from whom they haue laboured even from their very founder Ignacius, to take away part of the crown of Nauarre, and now labour after nothing else, then by might and main to take away from him the crown of France, which their desire is to subject and unite to spain, as they haue done Portingall.  
Sire, you haue born too long: you haue too much endured these traitors, these murderers in the midst of your kingdom. For your own part, your famed and glory is gone to the uttermost Empires of all the world: there is no talk nor speech, but of your victories, and of your conquests: and you haue gotten the Surname of Great for ever, and so shall it be eternised: your wonderful feats of arms, haue filled your hands with palms, treading under the foot of your authority, the rashness, the disloyalty, & the spoils of all your enemies. But, Sire, you are not in the world for yourself alone, consider, if it please you, how greatly the glory of your name would be weakened, if it should be found red in Histories, that want of smothering these Serpents, or at least, driving them out of your Kingdom, turned in the end to your loss, and to the loss of all your poor subiects after you. Sire, you haue to do with a patient and froward enemy, who will never leave of his hope and plottinges against your state, but when his life must end. All the rest of his sleights haue failed him, & are found to weak. The last remedy that he hath, is to cause you to be murdered by these Iesuites, seeing he can not otherwise stop the stream of your good fortune. He will haue patience, he will dissemble, but still his eye shalbe vpon his mark, & as long as his colonies of Iesuites remain in France, or his aduoises, and his packets may be received, or his murderers exhorted, confessed, houseled, encouraged, nothing will be too hard for him. Sire, if your princely courage will not suffer you to be afraid for your own person, at the least wise, take some apprehension of it for your poor seruants. They haue left their wives, children, goods, houses, commodities, to follow your fortune: the rest that remained in the great towns, haue exposed themselves to be bouchered by the sixteen, to the end they might open the gates unto you: And now, Sire, will you haue no care of your life, to preserve theirs that is inseparably joined to yours? will you haue no pity of so many women, so many poor children, which should become slaves for ever to the Spanish pride and cruelty? Sire, you haue open enemies enough to fight withal in France, Flanders, and spain, defend your sides from these domestical murderers: so that you remove them far enough of, we fear not all the rest. The Spaniard can not make us slaves, but by marching through your blood: the Iesuites his creatures, will never be at rest in france, until they haue  shed it. Hitherunto the care of your faithful seruants hath stopped the course of their parricides. But, Sire, if they be let alone amongst us, they may always sand you murderers, which these fellowes shall confess and housell as they did Barriere, and we, Sire, cannot watch always. It cannot be, but they that shoot so long at one mark, will hit it at the length: their bloody mindes, all to be smeared yet with the blood of the death of the late murdered King, whose murdering was plotted and resolved vpon in their college, and their thirsting after the atchiuing of their attempt vpon your life, giveth them no rest neither day nor night: but they go always musing, always turning, always travailing to come to this last point, which is the full cup of their desires, and of the desires of all the Iesuites. Sire, the considerations which they that haue no apprehension of feeling of your death, represent unto you on the contrary side, are so many evident and manifest treasons. When you haue assured your own life, when you haue assured the state of so many great & mighty Cities by banishing the public counsel which your enemies haue yet within them, by means of the Iesuites, then shall you bee feared on the other side the Mountaines: And then, Sire, shall you haue that Honour and respect done to you, that is due to the greatest King in all Europe: to the king that hath upon his head the crown of glory and liberty to be the greatest King of all Christian people. But as long as some haue hope to dispatch you and all true Frenchmen, through the practices, sleights, & confessions of the Iesuites, you shall haue those indignities done to you, that never any King of France did yet endure. Sire, you are the eldest son of the noblest, of the worthiest, the ancientest house that is vpon the face of all the earth, all the course of your life is nothing but pillars of victory, but triumphs, but bay trees, but victories which you haue gotten of all them that durst lift up an hand against you: All prophecies call you to the signiory of the world, and now what are these people, who are these traitors, who are these bastards of France, that go about to put into your head fears to offend a stranger, to the end you should retain these murderers, that cease not to practise against your life. Sire, the kings of france haue been accustomend to give laws to others, and not to take any. The great God of battailes, that hath lead you by the hand hitherunto, preserve you to far greater things then these are: But Sire, despise not the good advertisements which he giveth you, and banish with these murdering Iesuites, all those, that building their fortune upon your tomb, will labour by all the means they can to keep them still within your kingdom.  
I conclude, that it would please the Court, to cause the request of the university to be recorded, and to decree that all the Iesuites of France void and depart the realm, territories, and Countries under the obedience of his majesty within fifteen dayes after notice given, which shal be done in every one of their colleges or houses by speech to one of them for all the rest. Otherwise, and in default of so doing, and in case any of them be found in France after the said time, that forth with, and without any formality of process, they shalbe condemned as guilty of Treason to the highest head, and having enterprised against the life of the King. And call for the charges.   

The resolution of the university, solemnly and lawfully assembled the 18. of Apr. in An. 1594. to be humble suitors, that the Iesuites might be utterly banished.  
IN the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred nientie four, vpon Monday the 18. day of April, the university of all sorts and degrees of this famous study of Paris, being assembled together in S. Mathurins Church for a general precession to be made from the university to the holy chapel of the Kings palace in Paris, to give thankes to the most high God for the happy delivery of this famous city out of the hands of the Spanish enemies, for the prosperity, and most happy success of the most Christian & most victorious King Henry the 4. King of the French and Nauarre our most dread and liege Lord, for the preservation of the city under the government and protection of our said liege Lord the King, and for many other respects touching and concerning this university, and for the humble supplication presented by Laurence Bouceret doctor of Artes, that the Iesuites might be called in question and be utterly banished out of the realm, the said university, as their maner is, duly assembled at their accustomend hour, with a whole consent of al the Doctors and Maisters of all the four faculties, and with the consent of the four Procurators of the nations, no one man gain saying, ordained, decreed, and determined, that the said supplication of the said Doctor Bouceret was to be allowed, and therefore that the Iesuites were duly and orderly to be called in question, and to be wholly banished out of the realm. To which end and purpose, it seemed good to the said university to make choice of certain select men out of every faculty to prosecute the cause, whereupon the divines name master Adrian d' Amboise President and rector of the Kings college of Nauarre, and such an other Doctor as the said d' Amboise would think good to make choice of: the canonists allowed well of this proceeding, and because there was then present but one onely Doctor of that faculty, to wit D. Dauidson, he promised to name some other of his Doctors: the physicians, D. james Cousinet: Lastly, the faculty of Artes name D. Laurence Bouceret, and D. George Criton. And so with one consent it was agreed and concluded, no man gain saying, by D. james d' Amboise, chancellor of the university, and by the whole university, the day and year above written. Thus signed, du Valle. And on the side. seen by us, james d' Amboise chancellor of the Vniuersiie. And sealed with red wax.   

The Pleading of M. Arnauld The request of the university to the same end.  
To our LL. the Court of Parliament.  
MOst humbly beseechen the chancellor, dean, and Faculties, proctors of the Nations, aiders and scholars of the university of Paris, saying, that whereas they haue of long time complained to this honourable Court of a great disorder fallen out in the said university by a certain new sect, sprung up as well in spain as in other places thereabout, taking vpon them an ambitious title, of the society of the name of Iesus, and haue from time to time, and namely since these last troubles shewed themselves partakers with the Spanish faction, and their instruments, to the utter undoing and desolation of this state, as well in this town of Paris, as elsewhere throughout the realm of France and other Countries, a matter foreseen even from the beginning of their advancement by your said Suppliants, and namely by the Decree of the faculty of divinity which was at that time made against them; purporting that this new sect was foisted in, to break all order as well politic as ecclesiastical, and specially the order of the university, as appeared by their refusing to obey the chancellor, Archbishops, Bishops, and Curates, and other superiors of the Church. And whereas the imps of the said pretended society of Iesus, about thirty yeeres ago, not having as yet then spewed out their poison in all the other towns of France, but onely in this town, presented a supplication to be incorporate into the said university; and that being considered vpon was referred to counsel, and order set down that in the mean season, all things should stand in that state they were, which was in effect, that the Iesuites should not meddle in any thing to the prejudice of that order, which notwithstanding they obeied not, but that more is, beside their pernicious purposes, intruding themselves and meddling with matters of State, served as instruments and espials in this France, for the aduancement of the affairs of spain, as it is well known to all the world, and their request as aforesaid referred to counsel, was not orderly pursued, nor the pleas taken out on either side, whereby it came discontinued. In consideration whereof may it please your good LL. to ordain that this sect may be banished, not onely out of the university, but also out of the whole realm of France, calling to your assistance in this behalf the Kings attorney general, and so shal you do well. Thus signed. Le Royer. and on the side, D' Amboise chancellor of the university. And sealed with red wax.  
FINIS.