A
LETTER
FROM
VENICE
,
Setting
foorth
the
variance
betweene
the
Pope
and
that
State
:
Declaring
the
causes
,
proceedings
,
and
present
issue
thereof
.
SIr
,
I
reckon
my selfe
so
much
in
your
debt
,
for
your
last
aduertisements
,
concerning
matters
lately
fallen
out
in
England
,
some
in
question
,
some
in
action
,
and
all
worthy
of
obseruation
,
As
that
I
can
do
no
lesse
,
then
render
some
part
of
requitall
,
by
the
returne
vnto
you
againe
,
of
a
true
Relation
concerning
that
memorable
accident
here
with
vs
in
Venice
,
so
famous
in
speech
,
(
as
sounding
in
euery
eare
)
so
weighty
in
deed
,
(
as
drawing
on
great
consequences
,
)
and
so
remarkable
in
consideration
,
(
as
that
our
English
Nation
may
make
good
vse
thereof
)
which
in
this
my
plainest
manner
,
affecting
more
veritatis
candorem
,
then
ornamenta
artis
,
I
offer
to
your
perusall
;
praying
aswell
your
pardon
,
where
I
do
not
satisfie
your
curious
eye
,
as
your
acceptation
of
my
good
intention
,
though
I
come
short
of
your
expectation
.
I
hold
it
not
necessary
to
discourse
of
the
wealth
,
power
,
or
amplitude
of
this
Segniorie
,
referring
you
to
sundry
copious
and
exact
Treatises
,
written
as
it
were
to
the
life
of
this
Subiect
,
which
describe
as
in
a
Mappe
or
Table
,
euery
matter
obseruable
for
a
requisite
knowledge
thereof
.
It
may
suffice
therefore
,
for
the
opening
of
a
conuenient
entrance
into
the
Narration
which
I
haue
vndertaken
to
deliuer
vnto
you
,
That
you
doe
conceiue
thus
much
:
The
Venetian
State
is
at
this
present
,
(
as
also
of
long
continuance
)
very
strong
,
and
not
easily
to
be
shaken
,
their
administration
being
fuller
of
Wisedome
then
Force
,
and
yet
withall
of
such
Force
,
as
(
with
a
Wisdome
not
ouer
hastie
to
prouoke
others
)
is
well
able
to
defend
and
maintaine
their
owne
both
honour
and
right
.
Their
Territories
are
large
and
fertile
,
though
subiect
to
the
affront
of
more
mighty
Monarchs
;
Wherof
the
meanest
(
in
course
of
hostilitie
)
may
well
seeme
so
dangerous
,
as
they
are
not
slightly
to
bee
feared
.
And
therefore
it
much
concerneth
that
State
,
to
stand
vpon
a
circumspect
carriage
of
it selfe
,
not
exercising
actes
of
enmitie
with
such
their
neere
neighbours
,
or
ministring
to
any
of
them
any
vniust
or
offensiue
occasions
.
It
hath
euermore
especially
,
and
with
strictest
correspondence
,
(
if
not
with
ouermuch
addicted
obedience
)
assured
it selfe
vnto
his
Holinesse
,
casting
their
ancre
,
aswell
of
their
safetie
in
worldly
distresses
,
as
also
of
their
hope
of
eternall
blessednesse
,
into
the
deepe
and
deceiueable
sands
of
the
Romish
dissimulation
.
This
knot
of
league
betweene
the
Pope
and
the
Venetians
,
which
oftentimes
some
great
opposing
Potentates
endeuored
to
vntie
,
is
now
of
late
(
I
will
not
say
vpon
an
accident
,
but
rather
vpon
a
very
essentiall
iniury
offered
by
the
Pope
)
so
cut
asunder
,
as
that
many
stitches
,
and
much
labour
of
the
best
apted
composers
,
will
not
easily
fasten
or
draw
it
together
againe
.
If
you
aske
me
,
what
miracle-maker
hath
had
his
hand
in
the
working
of
this
wonder
;
I
must
first
answere
you
seriously
,
that
GOD
hath
his
times
,
and
meanes
to
bring
to
passe
his
fore-decreed
purposes
;
And
vseth
out
of
small
beginnings
,
to
draw
the
threed
at
length
to
his
owne
determined
conclusion
.
Next
,
I
will
tell
you
merily
,
That
it
is
both
the
Popish
proposition
prohibiting
Priests
to
marry
,
and
the
Popish
practise
of
couering
their
habite
of
sinne
,
vnder
their
habit
Clericall
,
that
was
the
Factor
of
tearing
asunder
so
sure
friends
.
And
lastly
,
take
this
for
a
Maxime
,
That
the
superlatiue
supremacie
of
the
Popes
ouer-awing
power
,
endureth
not
any
touch
in
the
least
part
of
his
body
Ecclesiasticall
,
no
not
in
the
very
heele
or
little
toe
.
In
the
meditation
whereof
,
and
before
I
enter
into
my
promised
Declaration
,
I
cannot
conteine
my selfe
,
from
powring
out
my
prayers
to
GOD
,
that
he
will
blesse
this
the
Venetians
encounter
of
the
Romish
pride
,
with
the
like
successe
,
which
it
pleased
him
to
giue
to
the
like
aduenture
,
in
the
time
of
King
H.
8.
when
he
reuiued
the
question
of
the
Popes
Pontifical
decrees
,
&
did
eiect
his
false
and
ill-gotten
Supremacie
;
by
which
one
blow
so
stroken
,
he
hath
left
vpon
him
the
print
of
his
fingers
euer
since
.
And
surely
if
this
one
Capitall
point
,
of
his
strange
,
or
rather
idle
Attribute
of
Power
to
dispose
of
Princes
,
were
truely
battered
,
there
would
such
breaches
bee
made
vpon
him
on
euery
side
,
as
he
would
easily
part
with
that
which
he
accounteth
his
strongest
hold
.
You
shall
see
how
notoriously
his
Greatnesse
,
or
rather
vnlimited
Absolutenesse
,
of
Dixi
&
elocutus
sum
,
displaying
it selfe
in
his
best
robes
and
in
his
Consistoriall
power
,
is
now
become
contemptible
,
and
held
as
a
meere
scorne
,
by
his
aggrieued
neighbour
State
,
bound
by
vowes
to
all
filiall
duties
,
and
nursed
vp
with
the
milke
of
Rome
,
close
at
his
doore
,
in
Italy
it selfe
,
where
hee
sheweth
foorth
all
his
pageants
of
pompe
and
glory
,
And
that
vpon
iustifiable
occasion
,
and
by
proceedings
vnreproueable
.
ABout
December
last
,
the
said
free
,
absolute
,
and
vndependant
State
of
Venice
,
(
finding
nothing
more
necessary
for
continuance
,
or
more
estimable
for
dignitie
,
then
to
suppresse
and
punish
enormious
offendors
)
did
lay
the
hands
of
Iustice
vpon
two
of
their
Cleargie
in
Clericall
habit
,
the
one
an
Abbot
,
accused
of
many
notorious
crimes
;
The
other
a
Canon
of
Vicenza
,
for
dishonouring
of
a
Virgine
.
The
imprisoning
and
prosecuting
against
these
two
,
was
the
first
stimulatory
cause
of
splene
and
diuision
,
betwixt
the
Pope
and
the
Segniorie
.
The
Canonists
helde
the
State
to
stand
(
ipso
facto
)
Excommunicate
,
without
any
Iuridicall
proceeding
,
for
this
their
presumptuous
,
and
Irregular
vsurpation
of
Authoritie
beyond
their
bounds
ouer
the
Delinquent
Cleargie
,
whom
they
ought
(
forsooth
)
to
haue
remitted
to
the
Censure
of
their
owne
immediate
superiours
.
The
Clergie
thus
startled
,
and
all
sparkling
with
heate
and
indignation
,
posteth
ouer
their
Aduertisements
of
these
supposed
wrongs
offered
the
Church
,
vnto
his
Holinesse
;
In
whose
Court
,
and
about
whose
Person
,
they
wanted
not
stirring
Instruments
to
exasperate
his
anger
,
by
other
aggrauating
suggestions
added
to
the
former
.
The
principall
Agent
that
blowed
this
Fire
,
is
suspected
to
be
the
Cardinall
Delphino
,
one
of
their
owne
Nobilitie
,
who
(
either
to
winne
in
that
Court
of
Rome
the
credit
of
a
good
Churchman
,
or
to
breede
the
more
awe
of
himselfe
in
his
owne
Countrey
,
or
being
(
as
he
is
)
Bishop
of
Vicenza
,
where
the
Canon
was
apprehended
,
to
hold
vp
his
owne
Iurisdiction
,
with
what
preiudice
soeuer
of
the
State
where
he
was
born
)
holdeth
fast
as
it
seemeth
,
the
eare
of
the
Pope
to
his
secret
insusurrations
.
And
as
it
vsually
commeth
to
passe
,
that
where
there
is
one
hole
already
made
,
there
euery
small
touch
wil
make
the
same
wider
and
teare
it
out
farther
:
So
fell
it
out
in
this
breach
or
contention
:
for
now
are
the
Venetians
further
catched
at
,
and
looked
into
,
for
former
offences
against
the
Church
,
to
make
thereby
a
broader
irruption
,
and
scandall
vpon
them
.
First
,
they
are
charged
with
the
retention
of
Decime
due
vnto
the
Church
;
and
for
their
ill
affection
toward
their
Cleargie
in
keeping
them
downe
generally
as
much
as
may
be
.
Secondly
,
they
had
passed
an
Act
in
the
Councell
of
the
Pregati
,
whereby
is
directly
forbidden
the
leauing
of
any
land
to
Holy
vses
;
ordering
further
any
such
Legacie
to
be
immediatly
sold
.
Thirdly
,
the
State
hauing
in
penurious
times
taken
money
of
certaine
Churches
and
Hospitals
,
at
vse
of
fiue
or
sixe
pro
Cento
,
refuseth
nowe
to
restore
the
principall
,
tending
that
it
hath
bene
repayed
in
the
very
Interest
.
These
causes
added
vnto
the
first
,
and
malignantly
vrged
to
his
Holinesse
,
were
so
distastful
,
and
so
distempered
his
affections
,
as
that
shortly
after
,
(
hauing
this
grudge
lying
heauy
and
vndigested
)
about
Ianuary
,
in
the
time
of
Marino
Grimani
then
Prince
,
he
commanded
the
Venetian
Embassadour
then
resident
at
Rome
,
from
his
presence
,
forbidding
him
further
accesse
,
while
the
State
which
hee
serued
stood
in
termes
of
contumacie
against
the
Church
;
And
then
with
conuenient
speede
,
(
the
sting
of
this
complaint
still
egging
on
his
sharpnesse
)
he
directed
vnto
the
Venetians
a
Monitoriall
Breue
,
(
as
they
call
it
)
summoning
them
to
obedience
,
and
in
defect
thereof
,
menacing
Excommunication
of
the
whole
State
.
This
admonishing
Briefe
was
by
the
Popes
Nuntio
not
onely
defended
and
iustified
in
publique
,
but
with
his
Oratory
further
recommended
,
as
ful
of
wise
and
louing
moderation
,
Sith
,
by
giuing
vnto
them
both
fatherly
aduise
,
and
respit
of
repentance
,
it
was
rather
an
Argument
of
indulgence
in
his
Master
,
then
of
any
furious
precipitation
.
Hereupon
Leonardo
Donato
(
now
Prince
)
at
72.
yeres
of
his
age
,
was
presently
elected
to
goe
in
quality
of
extraordinary
Embassadour
to
the
Pope
,
of
whom
(
being
ready
to
depart
)
the
death
of
the
former
Prince
made
a
stay
,
(
not
as
if
so
vrgent
a
businesse
of
the
State
,
had
giuen
way
to
his
priuate
aduancement
,
but
because
this
accident
did
bring
with
it
,
a
necessary
excuse
of
deferring
their
answere
to
the
summons
,
till
they
had
made
choice
of
another
Prince
,
)
all
consultations
ceasing
in
the
time
of
the
vacancie
.
Howbeit
(
this
so
solemne
Embassage
thus
accidentally
respited
)
It
being
thought
fit
in
the
meane
while
,
to
apprehend
and
imploy
all
reasonable
meanes
in
Rome
,
by
the
friends
of
this
Rebublique
,
to
remooue
the
Popes
indignation
with
conuenient
lenities
;
It
prooued
all
of
so
little
effect
,
that
it
rather
turned
into
further
exasperation
,
partly
,
through
the
Popes
naturall
tenacitie
,
in
whatsoeuer
hee
hath
once
resolued
,
(
which
is
a
note
of
him
in
his
Court
,
)
and
partly
,
by
the
cunning
of
the
first
instigators
,
(
who
stil
kept
a
watch
ouer
him
in
that
businesse
;
)
but
principally
,
by
the
fore-expressed
causes
themselues
,
which
in
their
owne
nature
,
and
pondered
according
to
the
grounds
of
that
religion
,
doeth
not
admit
any
dispensation
in
such
an
occasion
,
where
no
qualifying
can
bee
vsed
,
without
notorious
affront
and
preiudice
to
the
Popes
Authoritie
.
Whereupon
,
(
after
it
was
discerned
that
these
cooling
mediations
by
interceding
friends
so
slenderly
preuailed
,
)
The
State
of
Venice
and
their
new
Prince
Leonardo
Donato
,
(
who
as
a
priuate
man
for
many
yeeres
hath
had
great
credit
in
that
State
)
elected
for
Embassage
toward
Rome
,
the
Caualiere
Dodo
,
whom
they
furnished
and
prouided
with
good
reasons
for
the
iustification
of
the
State
;
Namely
,
That
concerning
all
those
foure
points
,
wherein
they
be
so
blotted
with
disobedience
toward
the
Church
of
Rome
,
they
haue
sufficient
and
iustifiable
allegations
,
out
of
common
reason
,
Nationall
right
,
and
priuiledges
Authenticall
.
And
specially
for
the
first
,
which
seemed
to
pricke
the
very
master
veine
,
by
restraining
and
correcting
the
vncleane
conuersation
of
their
licentious
brood
of
single
fornicatours
,
and
was
otherwise
most
incensiue
,
as
most
derogatory
to
the
Popish
chalenged
exemption
and
preheminence
.
For
which
were
deliuered
two
reasons
:
First
that
some
of
the
Popes
predecessours
haue
granted
a
power
vnto
them
,
to
proceed
according
to
the
forme
of
their
Secular
Courts
against
the
Cleargie
of
their
owne
Dominion
,
In
delictis
atrocibus
.
(
of
which
nature
these
must
needs
be
accounted
)
Secondly
,
that
they
did
not
by
any
their
iudiciall
attaches
,
or
proceedings
,
inhibite
or
impeach
the
Ecclesiasticall
iurisdiction
:
But
seeing
that
their
immediat
and
competent
Iudges
through
fauors
,
negligence
,
or
conniuence
,
omitted
their
dueties
in
such
criminall
prosecutions
;
that
they
were
bound
,
both
for
the
conseruation
of
their
State
,
and
by
diuine
Law
,
not
to
leaue
malefactours
vnpunished
.
This
Dodo
,
whom
as
a
very
choice
man
of
great
worth
and
wisdome
,
they
had
(
as
their
manner
is
)
chosen
by
their
balls
,
to
the
composing
of
this
businesse
,
was
also
further
instructed
in
some
circumstantiall
cariages
,
As
by
faire
speech
of
their
professed
zeale
vnto
the
Church
and
his
Holinesse
,
to
asswage
his
angry
and
ouer-vehement
intentions
;
And
to
finde
out
and
pursue
any
likely
meanes
of
sauing
the
Popes
reputation
,
whom
they
might
perceiue
to
be
the
more
stiffe
and
vntractable
,
because
he
had
proceeded
so
farre
already
,
as
that
he
could
not
hansomly
make
stop
or
goe
backe
.
And
lastly
,
to
passe
ouer
that
impediment
and
obiection
,
deuised
by
the
Factors
and
followers
of
the
Pope
,
obtruding
to
the
Venetians
as
a
president
what
they
should
doe
,
the
State
of
Genua
;
(
Who
hath
lately
in
diuers
things
satisfied
his
Holinesse
,
)
that
therein
a
difference
might
bee
sought
out
,
and
insisted
vpon
,
betweene
the
case
of
this
Common
wealth
,
and
that
of
Genua
,
(
shewing
it selfe
to
the
Sea
of
Rome
so
subiect
and
obsequious
)
which
example
the
Venetians
much
stomacked
,
and
are
very
sensitiue
of
the
comparison
with
that
president
.
The
Caualiere
Dodo
,
being
in
readinesse
to
depart
for
Rome
,
it
was
thought
fit
to
sound
first
,
whether
he
should
be
receiued
with
all
circumstance
,
according
to
the
dignitie
of
the
State
,
being
afraid
of
a
publique
scorne
,
and
meaning
to
proceede
in
this
businesse
,
from
point
to
point
very
curiously
,
as
pretermitting
no
precise
regard
,
And
taking
assurance
either
directly
from
Rome
,
of
good
acceptation
in
plaine
deliuered
termes
,
or
comfortably
presupposing
the
same
by
a
construction
(
which
might
easily
take
holde
of
mindes
well
inclined
)
because
the
Pope
had
since
the
Monitoriall
,
sent
to
them
a
congratulatorie
Briefe
(
which
perhaps
was
his
complementing
with
the
new
Prince
,
)
which
they
reckoned
as
some
signe
of
his
relenting
.
They
dispatched
Dodo
,
with
opinion
that
their
iust
Arguments
would
bee
allowed
of
.
He
had
as
Associate
in
these
affaires
,
the
then
Embassadour
resident
,
that
with
the
concurrence
of
both
their
aduises
and
labours
,
the
desired
effect
might
bee
the
easier
attained
vnto
.
Notwithstanding
all
the
diligence
and
forwardnesse
of
both
these
Ministers
,
the
Pope
like
to
a
shrew
,
the
more
earnestly
that
hee
was
instanced
,
the
more
crossely
hee
gaue
his
answeres
;
And
in
the
end
became
so
stately
,
as
he
would
endure
no
more
debatings
or
entreatings
,
but
with
a
Papall
sternnesse
hee
proceeded
to
the
publishing
of
his
Excommunication
against
this
whole
State
,
though
in
the
same
he
made
a
reseruation
of
seuen
and
twenty
dayes
for
repentance
.
The
Venetians
,
after
notice
taken
of
this
extremitie
,
(
finding
so
small
likelihood
of
reducing
the
raging
passions
of
the
Pope
,
to
such
a
pacification
as
might
stand
with
their
contentment
and
reputation
)
began
to
take
vnto
them
such
confidence
&
comfort
,
as
both
the
goodnesse
of
their
cause
,
(
which
was
nothing
else
but
the
execution
of
Iustice
)
and
the
honour
of
their
State
,
(
which
hath
not
vsed
to
stoupe
with
base
obsequiousnesse
)
could
worthily
inspire
them
with
.
Wherein
that
you
may
knowe
how
their
spirits
did
presently
sparkle
,
and
were
set
on
fire
,
by
the
tidings
of
these
fulminations
,
they
forthwith
published
in
the
chiefe
places
of
the
City
by
sound
of
Trumpet
,
a
Proclamation
to
this
effect
,
That
whosoeuer
hath
receiued
from
Rome
any
Copy
of
a
Papall
Interdict
,
published
there
,
aswell
against
the
Law
of
God
,
as
against
the
honour
of
this
Common-wealth
,
shall
presently
render
it
vnto
the
Councell
of
Tenne
,
vpon
paine
of
death
.
Wherein
,
I
pray
you
,
let
me
make
bold
to
obserue
vnto
you
by
way
of
a
Parenthesis
,
(
which
I
haue
hitherto
spared
to
interpose
for
feare
of
interrupting
the
contexture
of
the
Storie
)
that
this
so
graue
,
iudicious
,
and
most
aduised
Senate
,
desteineth
and
defaceth
the
Pope
,
euen
for
his
spirituall
vsurpations
,
by
laying
vpon
him
the
publike
note
of
hauing
erred
against
the
word
of
God
it selfe
,
and
that
in
a
Consistoriall
and
Cathedrall
conclusion
(
as
the
Schoolemen
terme
it
)
and
that
they
sticke
not
to
reward
with
death
the
publishers
of
the
Popes
Bull
of
Interdiction
:
Wherein
,
for
that
(
to
my
vnderstanding
)
they
doe
speake
verbatim
our
English
Lawes
,
holding
consent
with
vs
by
the
very
directions
of
Reason
,
I
would
haue
our
English
Catholiques
(
for
by
a
Popefashion
they
will
needes
vsurpe
that
name
)
to
know
that
the
King
of
Great
BRITAINE
,
and
that
Nation
,
hath
better
cause
to
denounce
and
execute
death
against
Offendors
in
that
kinde
,
then
the
Venetians
,
formerly
,
and
at
all
times
obliged
to
the
Lawes
and
gouernment
of
that
Church
of
Papall
superstition
.
But
I
must
go
on
with
their
other
passages
and
proceedings
,
which
(
to
bee
a
true
witnesse
vnto
them
)
were
all
in
euery
circumstance
very
sutable
and
approoueable
.
In
the
beginning
of
May
,
(
after
mature
deliberation
,
&
constant
resolution
to
vphold
the
Rights
of
their
Magistracie
,
together
with
their
right
proceedings
,
vnculpable
,
and
not
subiect
to
any
iust
exception
,
)
they
concluded
in
Senate
,
vpon
the
composing
and
publishing
of
a
Protestation
,
in
answere
of
the
Popes
cursing
,
or
cursed
Bul
;
Which
being
conceiued
,
and
expressed
both
for
forme
,
and
matter
,
so
exquisite
,
as
that
any
my
interpreting
,
amplifying
,
or
abreuiating
thereof
,
might
diminish
or
deface
the
perfection
which
in
it
is
natiue
,
I
do
send
herewith
vnto
you
,
truely
copied
for
your
more
diligent
perusall
.
LEONARDO
DONATO
BY
THE
GRACE
of
God
Duke
of
Venice
,
&c.
To
the
most
Reuerend
Patriarkes
,
Archbishops
,
Bishops
,
of
all
our
Dominions
of
VENICE
,
And
to
all
Vicars
,
Abbots
,
Priors
,
Rectors
of
Parish
Churches
,
and
other
Prelates
Ecclesiasticall
,
Health
.
IT
hath
come
to
our
knowledge
that
the
17.
of
Aprill
last
past
,
by
order
of
the
most
holy
Father
Pope
Paul
the
fift
,
was
published
and
affixed
in
Rome
a
certaine
Bull
thundred
out
against
vs
,
our
Senate
and
Dominion
,
directed
to
you
,
of
such
Tenor
and
Contents
as
therein
appeareth
.
Whereupon
finding
our selues
bound
to
preserue
in
peace
and
Tranquillitie
the
State
which
God
hath
giuen
vs
to
gouerne
:
and
to
maintaine
the
Authoritie
of
a
Prince
that
in
temporall
affaires
acknowledgeth
no
Superiour
vnder
the
Diuine
Maiestie
;
We
by
these
our
publique
letters
protest
before
God
,
and
to
all
the
world
,
that
we
haue
not
failed
to
vse
all
possible
meanes
to
make
his
Hol.
capable
of
our
most
strong
and
insoluble
Reasons
.
First
,
by
our
Ambassadour
Lieger
with
his
Hol
Then
by
our
letters
,
responsiue
to
Briefes
written
by
him
;
and
finally
by
a
speciall
Ambassador
sent
for
this
very
purpose
.
But
finding
his
Hol.
eares
shut
vnto
vs
,
and
seeing
the
foresaid
Bull
to
haue
bene
published
against
the
forme
of
all
reason
,
and
contrary
to
that
which
the
diuine
Scriptures
,
the
doctrine
of
holy
Fathers
,
and
the
sacred
Canons
do
teach
vs
in
preiudice
of
the
secular
Authoritie
giuen
vs
from
God
,
and
of
the
libertie
of
our
State
,
with
disturbance
of
the
quiet
possession
,
which
by
Gods
grace
our
faithfull
Subiects
vnder
our
gouernement
hold
of
their
goods
,
honors
and
liues
,
with
vniuersal
and
grieuous
scandall
of
all
:
Wee
doubt
not
a
whit
to
hold
the
foresaid
Bull
,
not
only
for
vniust
and
vnlawfull
,
but
also
for
annulled
and
of
no
value
,
and
so
without
force
,
frustrated
,
and
vnlawfully
thundred
,
De
facto
nullo
Iuris
ordine
seruato
.
Wherefore
we
haue
reputed
it
conuenient
to
vse
against
the
same
such
remedies
as
our
Ancestours
and
other
Souereigne
Princes
haue
vsed
with
Popes
,
that
haue
extended
the
power
giuen
them
by
God
for
edification
,
beyond
their
limitts
:
Especially
being
perswaded
that
by
your
and
other
our
Loyall
Subiects
,
and
by
the
whole
world
it
shall
bee
so
held
and
reputed
:
Assuring
our selues
,
that
as
you
haue
hitherto
attended
to
the
Cure
of
soules
of
our
faithfull
Subiects
,
and
to
the
Diuine
Seruice
,
which
through
your
diligence
flourisheth
in
this
our
State
no
lesse
then
in
any
other
,
so
you
will
hereafter
continue
in
the
selfe
same
pastorall
care
.
It
being
our
most
stedfast
Resolution
to
continue
in
the
holy
Catholique
and
Apostolique
faith
,
and
in
the
obseruance
of
the
Holy
Romane
Church
,
euen
as
our
Predecessours
from
the
beginning
of
the
foundation
of
this
Citie
till
this
present
by
the
grace
of
God
haue
done
.
And
wee
will
that
these
our
Letters
for
the
vnderstanding
of
all
men
be
affixed
in
the
publique
places
of
this
our
Citie
,
and
so
of
all
other
Subiect
to
our
Dominion
,
Assuring
our selues
that
so
manifest
a
publication
will
come
to
the
eares
of
all
such
as
haue
had
knowledge
of
the
foresayd
Bull
;
and
also
to
the
notice
of
his
Hol.
whom
we
beseech
our
Lord
GOD
to
inspire
that
hee
may
vnderstand
the
Nullitie
of
his
Bull
,
and
of
other
his
Attempts
against
vs
,
and
that
hee
taking
knowledge
of
the
Iustice
of
our
cause
,
we
may
be
encouraged
to
obserue
our
Reuerence
to
the
Holy
Sea
Apostolike
,
of
the
which
we
and
our
forefathers
,
together
with
this
Common-wealth
,
haue
beene
,
and
will
be
euer
most
deuoted
.
Giuen
at
our
Ducall
Palace
the
sixth
of
May
in
the
fourth
Indiction
.
1606.
Giacomo
Girardo
,
Secretarie
.
THis
is
to
be
noted
,
that
before
the
publication
of
this
Protesta
,
they
called
the
Popes
Nuntio
to
the
Colledge
,
and
gaue
him
knowledge
thereof
;
where
it
being
pronounced
before
him
,
by
a
Secretary
of
State
Exscripto
(
as
is
vsuall
)
he
craued
a
second
view
thereof
,
in
the
next
roome
:
which
being
granted
him
,
after
he
had
changed
countenance
at
some
things
much
displeasing
him
,
he
tooke
his
Priests
cap
,
and
striking
himselfe
therewith
vpon
the
right
thigh
,
brake
foorth
into
these
words
,
Io
so
che
si
(
ô
Papa
Paulo
5.
)
che
ti
vogliono
vbidire
.
But
for
a
matter
of
better
note
,
and
more
memorable
,
I
commend
this
vnto
you
,
That
in
the
Protesta
(
as
in
all
other
Actes
of
the
State
since
the
said
17.
day
of
April
)
there
hath
bene
seene
such
vnitie
,
not
onely
of
Iudgement
,
but
euen
in
passion
among
them
,
that
one
onely
ball
did
faile
in
the
whole
Senate
,
which
yet
was
not
in
the
negatiue
boxe
,
but
in
a
boxe
of
a
newtrall
nature
,
suspending
the
assent
of
the
party
.
After
the
solemne
publication
of
this
Protesta
,
the
Embassadours
departed
on
both
sides
;
The
Nuntio
first
,
and
with
leaue
demanded
and
granted
,
ciuilly
and
easily
:
but
the
‛
Venetian
Resident
at
Rome
,
was
thence
sent
away
with
violence
.
For
the
Pope
by
a
Bishop
commaunded
him
to
bee
gone
,
vnlesse
hee
would
remaine
there
in
priuate
qualitie
.
The
Caualiere
Dodo
was
before
returned
by
order
from
the
State
.
Their
owne
moderate
proceeding
with
the
Nuntio
,
matched
in
comparison
with
the
harsh
,
&
splenetike
discharge
of
their
Embassadour
,
maketh
that
sending
away
of
him
,
to
be
almost
as
ill
taken
,
by
all
degrees
of
people
in
Venice
,
as
the
very
Excommunication
it selfe
.
The
State
here
is
so
setled
and
animated
,
as
that
on
all
sides
,
yong
and
old
,
rich
and
poore
,
Gentlemen
and
Artificers
,
are
hitherto
fully
resolute
,
to
mainteine
against
the
Pope
their
owne
actions
.
They
consider
not
onely
of
their
present
detriment
,
in
making
any
disaduantagious
,
or
dishonourable
end
,
but
also
of
the
future
consequencies
,
if
they
should
giue
head
,
and
addition
of
strength
to
the
Ecclesiasticall
authoritie
,
which
already
seemeth
ouerswolne
and
too
bigge
,
to
all
the
wiser
Princes
and
States
of
Italy
.
And
besides
they
do
readily
discerne
,
that
in
this
controuersie
,
the
Pope
will
sustaine
more
losse
and
shame
then
they
;
As
was
very
grauely
set
foorth
in
a
pretty
tale
,
very
pertinently
told
by
a
discreet
Gentleman
,
in
a
deliberation
concerning
this
businesse
;
Who
told
them
,
That
by
the
Popes
menaces
,
hee
was
put
in
minde
of
a
nephew
which
he
had
,
who
was
wont
to
draw
from
his
brother
(
being
a
tender
father
)
all
his
satisfactions
,
by
threatning
that
otherwise
he
would
turne
Frier
,
or
seeke
his
fortune
in
some
strange
Countreys
,
or
the
like
:
Till
one
day
lighting
on
his
father
in
a
wrong
humour
,
and
swearing
,
That
vnlesse
hee
might
bee
presently
furnished
with
a
good
summe
of
money
,
(
whereof
hee
pretended
want
)
he
would
precipitate
himselfe
downe
the
staires
;
His
father
put
it
to
the
triall
what
he
would
doe
:
but
the
youth
seeing
it
was
now
come
to
the
question
of
his
owne
safety
,
went
downe
the
staires
very
quietly
.
So
,
said
he
,
will
the
Pope
doe
,
notwithstanding
this
heat
of
words
,
and
present
distemperature
,
when
hee
shall
come
to
consider
somewhat
cooly
,
that
in
proceeding
against
vs
,
Ginochera
il
suo
&
non
il
nostro
.
This
opinion
of
his
was
much
applauded
,
as
very
probable
,
(
if
the
diuulging
had
not
caried
the
matter
too
farre
,
and
past
returning
to
second
cogitations
.
)
The
very
vulgar
sort
doeth
discoursingly
lay
foorth
and
discipher
the
Popes
inconsideratenesse
in
this
so
hard
a
course
of
his
iniustice
.
They
commemorate
the
many
binding
benefits
of
their
State
collated
on
the
See
of
Rome
;
And
particularly
for
instance
and
demonstrance
,
how
much
that
Church
is
to
them
obliged
,
(
if
there
were
no
other
testimony
)
They
do
in
one
notable
matter
of
the
triumph
which
Pope
Alexander
the
third
had
in
this
Citie
ouer
the
Emperour
Fredericke
Barbarossa
,
both
remember
the
greatnesse
of
their
owne
merite
,
and
exprobrate
the
vnexcusable
ingratitude
of
that
See
.
In
this
very
place
,
That
Emperor
who
had
chased
the
Pope
out
of
Rome
,
and
scant
left
vnto
his
Holinesse
any
one
hole
for
the
Foxe
to
hide
his
head
in
,
was
himselfe
brought
,
or
rather
wrought
to
so
base
a
degree
of
humiliation
,
as
that
he
was
first
stouped
to
the
kissing
of
the
Popes
toe
,
and
after
,
his
head
and
necke
was
trode
vpon
,
by
those
vnholy
presuming
feet
,
whilest
in
a
scorning
and
insulting
glory
,
his
Holinesse
made
bold
of
this
Text
,
Super
aspides
&
basiliscos
ambulabis
,
&
conculcabis
Leones
&
Dracones
.
I
trust
that
that
sinne
of
the
assistance
and
adherencie
of
this
Segniory
in
that
shamefull
trampling
vpon
Imperiall
Maiestie
,
hath
bene
pardoned
,
and
remaineth
not
in
any
debet
vnto
this
day
.
They
spare
not
also
to
make
particular
reckoning
of
the
great
wealth
and
vast
summes
,
which
by
the
colour
of
his
Ecclesiasticall
headship
is
fetched
from
them
to
the
Popes
Coffers
.
But
especially
,
they
speake
of
their
continuance
from
the
beginning
of
the
foundation
of
their
Citie
,
in
the
obseruance
of
the
Rites
and
Religion
of
the
Romane
Church
.
By
all
which
and
much
more
,
as
euery
mans
fancie
or
disposition
serueth
him
,
they
doe
amplifie
the
ingratitude
,
iniuries
and
indiscretion
of
their
holy
Father
.
This
matter
hath
stirred
vp
the
industrie
and
sharpnesse
of
many
that
were
idle
before
:
The
Politiques
,
how
to
contriue
,
capitulate
,
excuse
,
delay
,
preuent
,
or
circumuent
:
The
Canonists
,
how
to
finde
distinctions
for
the
Conflict
when
it
commeth
to
Disputation
:
The
Oratours
,
how
to
declaime
copiously
;
and
the
Historians
,
to
report
credibly
these
extreme
wrongs
:
The
Poets
,
how
they
may
out
of
their
ful
pennes
raine
foorth
showres
of
wit
in
this
matter
:
The
Diuines
,
how
to
bee
conuerted
to
a
new
Religion
,
which
point
was
subdiuided
into
one
of
these
two
resolutions
;
either
to
force
their
Priests
to
say
Masse
after
Excommunication
,
(
as
if
either
the
Pope
were
Nullus
,
or
his
Sentence
a
Nullitie
)
or
otherwise
to
passe
to
the
Greeke
faith
,
like
vnto
displaced
or
discharged
seruants
or
souldiers
,
that
vpon
their
cassiering
must
seeke
a
new
Master
or
Captaine
.
There
is
a
generall
liberty
giuen
for
divulging
of
Discourses
and
Translations
;
amongst
which
is
put
in
print
the
iudgement
of
Gerson
the
Chancellour
of
Paris
,
vpon
the
inualiditie
of
the
Popes
Excommunications
,
and
some
such
like
considerations
of
Saint
Bernard
to
that
purpose
.
For
the
more
free
publishing
of
which
and
the
like
Treatises
,
the
Inquisition
hath
been
suspended
by
particular
Warrant
of
the
State
;
And
when
once
the
fludgates
were
thus
set
open
to
all
such
writers
,
as
heretofore
were
pent
and
restrained
,
to
deliuer
freely
to
the
world
,
either
defensiue
matter
,
in
iustification
of
this
cause
,
or
offensiue
taxings
,
to
blemish
and
blame
the
Pope
for
his
temeritie
;
It
is
strange
to
see
what
sundry
sorts
of
gybing
and
biting
Pasquils
were
let
fly
abroad
in
derision
of
his
Holinesse
.
But
,
amongst
the
workes
Apologeticall
sagely
and
iudiciously
written
,
Frier
Paulo
hath
in
a
set
Treatise
composed
by
him
,
not
onely
defended
the
Venetians
from
this
Excommunication
and
demands
,
but
also
in
many
points
lessened
the
Authoritie
of
the
Pope
,
by
sound
allegations
,
&
by
the
proofe
of
priuileges
appertaining
of
right
and
in
dignity
vnto
the
State
:
whom
it
is
said
,
that
this
Commonwealth
hath
rewarded
for
his
labour
with
a
good
pension
yeerely
during
life
.
And
I
haue
likewise
met
with
another
intelligence
,
That
there
is
on
the
other
side
made
out
a
secret
processe
against
him
,
by
the
Church
,
for
his
infidelitie
and
treachery
therein
.
Nay
,
a
later
newes
hath
here
arriued
,
That
this
Frier
Paulo
hath
bene
since
solemnly
(
by
his
image
or
picture
)
burned
at
Rome
,
and
reproched
also
by
a
scornefull
appellation
of
a
mezo
Lutherano
;
Such
and
so
hote
a
fire
of
the
Popes
wrath
,
hath
blazed
foorth
against
him
.
But
the
Venetians
,
on
the
other
side
,
(
to
vphold
him
in
comfort
,
and
make
him
amends
in
glory
,
)
haue
out
of
their
grace
and
contemplation
of
his
well
deseruing
,
dignified
him
with
a
better
chosen
title
of
Theologo
designato
;
Expressing
thereby
the
nature
of
his
merite
to
haue
beene
this
,
Euen
the
opening
vnto
their
darkened
vnderstandings
,
some
necessary
trueths
in
Diuinitie
,
tending
to
the
discouery
of
the
false
pretences
of
the
Romish
Supremacie
.
This
high
Attribute
,
from
so
Iudicious
and
Illustrious
a
Senate
,
is
(
in
the
stead
of
his
image
reported
to
haue
beene
consumed
with
flames
)
like
to
a
goodly
or
gilded
statue
,
which
shall
preserue
his
name
and
memory
,
in
all
succeeding
times
.
It
is
to
bee
remembred
,
that
the
Popes
Interdict
,
did
prohibite
all
the
Religious
to
celebrate
diuine
Seruice
,
or
to
exercise
any
Ministeriall
function
among
the
Venetians
,
whilest
they
persisted
in
their
contumacie
.
And
the
Pope
by
further
order
called
away
the
Iesuits
,
Theatines
,
and
Capuchines
,
from
among
them
,
as
if
he
meant
to
fire
them
all
when
hee
had
once
reserued
or
preserued
them
.
The
Pope
conceiued
(
though
in
deed
hee
was
deceiued
)
that
no
sooner
should
his
Papall
indignation
,
and
the
terrors
of
his
Excommunications
be
spread
abroad
,
but
that
the
people
would
haue
presently
rebelled
,
and
the
Churchmen
haue
streight
retired
themselues
.
But
the
Venetians
making
a
concurrence
of
their
Fortitude
and
Wisedome
,
to
maintaine
the
vprightnesse
of
their
Iustice
,
&
nothing
doubting
of
the
blessing
and
operation
of
Gods
Spirit
,
to
giue
thereunto
answerable
successe
,
Decreed
and
commmanded
sub
poena
furcae
,
as
they
would
answere
it
at
the
gallous
,
that
no
Ecclesiasticall
persons
should
relinquish
or
desist
from
his
charge
or
attendance
at
the
Altar
,
or
should
depart
out
of
the
dominions
of
the
Segniory
without
order
or
leaue
.
Whereby
in
plaine
trueth
they
tread
our
steps
,
by
ioyning
vnto
Principalitie
the
Supremacie
ouer
persons
Ecclesiasticall
.
They
caused
also
to
appeare
before
them
all
the
Priors
of
Parishes
,
and
Superiors
of
Cloisters
,
to
receiue
of
them
their
promise
of
faith
.
The
Friers
of
S.
George
haue
presented
their
Reuenew
,
which
is
of
good
value
,
to
the
seruice
of
the
Prince
.
Others
haue
answered
,
That
howsoeuer
they
haue
had
their
habite
from
the
Pope
,
their
flesh
put
them
in
minde
of
an
other
duety
,
and
clapping
their
handes
vpon
their
naked
armes
,
testified
that
they
were
disposed
to
liue
and
die
in
the
seruice
of
S.
Marke
,
and
the
State
of
their
Countrey
.
The
Prior
of
Saint
Martins
,
hearing
the
Proclamation
afore
inhibiting
the
hanging
vp
of
Bulls
vpon
the
Church
,
and
commanding
the
deliuery
of
them
to
the
Councell
of
Tenne
,
(
if
may
should
be
found
,
)
said
he
had
rather
bee
excommunicated
twelue
yeres
,
then
hang
halfe
an
houre
.
Others
haue
protested
,
that
seeing
they
finde
the
difference
betwixt
the
Segniorie
and
the
Pope
,
to
be
for
matters
onely
of
Iurisdiction
,
and
that
the
Pope
seeketh
his
particular
profit
,
and
not
that
of
IESVS
CHRIST
,
they
be
resolued
to
aduenture
all
with
their
vttermost
powers
and
constancie
,
vnder
the
obedience
of
the
Common
wealth
.
Thus
you
see
the
vnanimous
and
cheerefull
resolution
,
aswell
of
Ecclesiasticall
as
Secular
,
and
generally
of
the
whole
Republike
,
to
imploy
their
goods
and
life
,
to
maintaine
their
libertie
,
and
approue
their
fidelitie
,
against
the
vniust
,
and
haughtie
pretences
of
the
Pope
.
And
the
Segniorie
vseth
all
diligence
possible
,
to
keepe
the
people
vnmouable
in
so
godly
and
blessed
inspirations
.
Neuerthelesse
,
certaine
orders
of
their
Churchmen
are
hence
departed
,
The
Theatines
,
and
Capuchines
,
by
licence
and
voluntary
relinquishment
.
The
Iesuits
were
the
first
that
did
begin
to
swarme
,
and
seeke
further
for
a
new
hiue
,
but
they
were
sent
away
by
course
of
expulsion
,
and
open
banishment
out
of
the
whole
dominion
,
and
that
by
a
speciall
decree
,
not
so
much
for
refusing
to
continue
the
sacrifice
of
the
Altar
,
(
which
at
the
first
they
had
giuen
some
hope
that
they
would
do
notwithstanding
the
Popes
Interdict
,
vnto
whom
they
professe
to
bee
as
true
and
helpfull
as
his
very
life
blood
,
)
as
for
other
weightie
Imputations
,
And
among
the
rest
,
for
the
dangerous
abuse
of
that
great
instrument
of
State
,
Auricular
confession
.
And
although
they
haue
beene
before
banished
out
of
diuers
other
Countries
by
Acts
of
Parliament
,
(
being
such
,
as
wheresoeuer
they
come
will
touch
the
quicke
and
eate
to
the
core
)
yet
surely
,
neuer
were
they
from
any
place
discarded
or
throwen
out
with
more
resolution
and
contumely
then
from
hence
.
They
were
suffered
to
carrie
with
them
only
their
Quotidian
habite
and
Breuiaries
,
cum
viatico
to
support
their
necessities
in
their
traueile
.
There
was
an
inuentory
taken
by
an
vnder
Secretary
and
Commendatore
,
of
the
goods
left
behinde
them
,
and
seased
vpon
by
the
State
,
rather
for
curiosities
sake
,
to
know
what
they
had
gathered
,
then
for
any
meaning
that
the
State
hath
euer
to
bee
accountable
for
any
part
thereof
.
The
value
whereof
in
certaintie
of
summe
,
if
you
expect
I
should
relate
,
I
answere
they
met
with
a
concealement
,
and
so
it
is
vsed
,
being
a
reserued
secret
not
yet
made
knowen
:
but
if
they
haue
kept
their
vow
of
pouerty
,
as
regularly
as
the
rest
of
their
Society
doth
in
other
places
,
you
may
well
guesse
that
they
were
in
that
point
no
more
beggars
,
then
in
their
other
rule
or
vow
of
chastitie
they
bee
ouer
honest
.
In
which
search
haue
bin
discouered
two
memorable
things
:
First
a
Scrinio
(
as
they
call
it
here
)
with
partitions
of
their
addresses
to
and
from
all
parts
,
As
England
,
France
,
Spaine
,
Flaunders
,
Germany
,
Poland
,
Russia
,
&c.
with
subdiuisions
also
of
the
Prouinces
into
Townes
,
as
London
,
Paris
,
Lions
,
Rome
&c.
And
in
this
Scrinio
,
they
had
lest
rather
through
vanity
,
then
hast
,
a
great
and
incredible
heape
of
the
very
ashes
and
tynder
of
their
dispatches
.
The
other
was
an
artificial
furnace
,
such
as
the
Italian
Goldsmithes
doe
vse
for
the
dissoluing
of
gold
and
siluer
,
which
was
brought
into
the
Councell
of
Tenne
,
and
hath
bred
much
discourse
;
the
best
opinion
being
,
that
it
was
to
melt
the
chaines
,
rings
,
and
iewels
which
they
got
from
Gentlewomen
,
and
so
(
Mutata
specie
)
to
put
them
away
in
Bullion
.
Now
,
before
their
going
,
one
of
them
reckoning
himselfe
the
principallest
,
would
needes
also
shew
himselfe
the
boldest
:
for
hauing
obtained
a
priuate
accesse
vnto
the
Prince
,
made
offer
vnto
him
,
of
interposing
his
Society
,
for
the
reconcilement
of
the
Pope
.
Whereunto
hee
receiued
from
the
Prince
this
Noble
answere
,
That
the
State
of
Venice
had
neuer
before
vsed
such
instruments
,
and
would
not
now
beginne
,
And
therefore
hee
willed
him
,
to
forbeare
the
imployment
of
themselues
,
either
much
or
little
,
in
this
matter
,
and
rather
to
spend
their
time
,
in
considering
that
they
had
bin
alreadie
too
busie
in
the
world
.
Me
thinkes
I
heare
him
further
tell
them
,
that
they
might
better
bestow
themselues
in
heauenly
Meditations
,
then
in
Negociations
with
States
,
and
that
they
should
rather
abound
in
spirituall
contemplation
,
enclosed
in
Scrinio
pectoris
,
then
in
such
entercoursing
traffique
about
secular
businesse
,
wherewith
their
Scrinio
of
enterchanged
aduertisements
was
so
fully
fraught
.
Lastly
,
that
they
should
rather
haue
had
melting
and
relenting
hearts
to
powre
out
fountaines
of
teares
for
the
sinnes
and
errors
of
the
people
,
than
those
melting
furnaces
to
conuert
their
fraudulently
extorted
rings
or
chaines
into
wedges
of
gold
:
Therefore
be
packing
hence
you
practisers
of
iniquitie
,
and
proude
Politicians
that
endeuour
the
rearing
vp
of
your
owne
greatnesse
,
with
the
ruines
of
your
Countrie
that
hath
fostered
you
,
shall
no
more
claspe
about
this
flourishing
tree
to
raise
and
encrease
your
own
faction
,
by
pinching
and
wronging
the
stocke
whereby
you
be
supported
.
Since
their
departure
many
things
haue
beene
proposed
for
their
perpetuall
exclusion
,
as
the
placing
of
other
Religious
in
their
Colledge
,
the
depriuation
and
losse
of
Nobilitie
to
him
that
should
euer
speake
in
fauour
of
them
,
and
lastly
,
to
rase
the
sayde
Colledge
and
conuert
it
to
ciuill
vses
.
What
course
herein
will
be
held
,
it
is
as
yet
vndecided
:
but
on
all
sides
,
the
State
reckoneth
it selfe
well
ridde
of
such
pernicious
Statists
,
that
bee
the
Enginers
and
Pioners
for
the
Pope
,
working
vpon
,
and
against
all
,
Princes
and
States
,
with
their
practising
plots
,
to
bring
them
to
their
,
either
submission
or
subuersion
,
and
their
Master
to
his
supremest
exaltation
.
Thus
haue
they
let
the
Kytes
flie
,
and
I
trust
they
will
so
destroy
their
nests
,
as
that
they
may
sooner
make
their
flights
to
the
furthest
Indians
,
(
there
amongst
these
Sauages
to
practise
their
extreame
sauagenesse
,
whereof
the
sayd
Indians
,
haue
already
taken
a
sowre
taste
)
then
to
nestle
,
or
to
bee
nouseled
any
more
in
this
Region
.
And
let
vs
English
also
make
hereof
this
vse
and
obseruance
,
That
if
the
Venetians
(
clad
in
the
same
liuery
of
Religion
)
hauing
not
any
direct
and
expresse
particularities
of
their
treasonable
complottings
to
accuse
them
of
,
yet
haue
iudged
their
very
profession
,
and
the
generalitie
of
their
dealings
,
not
agreeable
or
sufferable
in
a
well
instituted
Common
wealth
;
How
much
more
are
wee
bound
by
the
Law
of
Nature
and
Nations
,
with
all
care
and
prouidence
to
seeke
to
expell
,
abandon
,
and
keepe
out
such
pernitious
instruments
,
whom
we
haue
in
all
our
tryals
of
any
Treason
,
from
time
to
time
,
expresly
proued
to
haue
bene
the
seed-sowers
,
and
the
firebrands
of
all
contriued
and
intended
mischiefes
?
Therefore
Exeat
ex
vrbe
Catilina
:
For
we
feare
not
so
much
the
Popes
open
hostilitie
,
as
we
doe
the
ensnarings
&
circumuentings
by
secret
practises
.
Hee
cannot
gaine
from
vs
by
any
forcible
meanes
,
so
much
as
the
worst
haire
vpon
the
body
of
any
Subiect
;
Then
let
him
not
by
the
conueyance
of
his
poyson
,
(
through
these
Snakes
)
into
the
bosomes
of
our
people
,
bereaue
our
body
Politique
of
so
many
worthy
members
,
by
alienating
their
hearts
from
their
sincere
obedience
.
But
left
you
may
tell
me
,
that
my
passions
make
mee
to
forget
my
passages
for
orderly
proceeding
in
this
Relation
,
I
returne
to
the
declaring
of
that
which
remaineth
,
which
is
the
Ciuill
and
militarie
prouisions
of
this
Segniorie
.
They
haue
bene
here
aduertised
by
good
intelligence
,
that
the
Pope
is
preparing
of
Forces
,
and
seeking
confederates
,
to
tame
their
contemptuous
insolencies
(
as
he
termeth
it
)
purposing
,
if
he
cannot
bring
them
to
their
former
subiection
,
to
bring
vpon
them
vnexorable
Warre
,
and
mercilesse
diuastation
.
Therefore
out
of
their
prudencie
,
they
haue
also
inclined
their
cares
to
the
like
courses
of
preparation
.
Some
offers
of
aide
and
adherencie
haue
beene
made
vnto
them
,
by
their
confederate
Princes
,
by
the
mouth
of
Embassadours
there
resiant
,
whether
seriously
and
by
Commission
,
or
for
fashion
and
complementally
,
I
thinke
they
can
scant
tell
:
But
they
goe
on
confidently
,
and
with
good
conceite
of
their
owne
strength
.
There
is
a
Generall
made
by
Sea
,
and
A
Prouiditore
de
terra
ferma
,
accompanied
with
Lieutenants
general
of
the
Italian
foote
&
horse
.
Into
seuerall
Townes
are
assigned
the
principall
leaders
of
experience
vnder
their
pay
,
especially
in
such
places
as
frontire
Milan
,
or
confine
with
the
Ferrareszes
.
Thirtie
new
Gouernours
of
Galleyes
haue
beene
chosen
.
The
principall
Townes
and
Communities
assured
by
a
letter
of
solemne
tenour
,
drawen
by
the
Prince
himselfe
.
A
Gentleman
and
Citizen
ballited
here
in
euery
contrada
,
by
whom
twentie
fiuemore
are
to
be
chosen
against
suddaine
casualties
,
that
might
happen
in
the
night
in
this
seate
of
their
Dominion
.
Finally
they
seeme
so
excited
in
courage
and
confidence
,
as
if
they
euen
longed
to
pull
him
out
of
his
Chaire
,
whom
they
haue
already
cast
out
of
their
hearts
,
and
as
if
they
were
no
lesse
resolute
to
bee
reuenged
of
him
,
then
he
was
proudly
vniust
to
offend
them
.
And
howsoeuer
in
the
dependencie
of
this
businesse
,
many
things
haue
bene
done
here
prouisionally
,
some
by
aduise
,
some
in
distemper
,
some
in
earnest
,
some
in
sport
,
some
respectiuely
,
some
with
contempt
;
yet
hath
nothing
hitherto
beene
discerned
to
be
done
in
feare
:
Hauing
caried
euery
circumstance
,
(
if
my
weake
capacitie
may
presume
to
censure
so
graue
a
State
)
with
most
exemplar
wisedome
and
magnanimitie
,
that
we
may
conceiue
hope
,
that
GOD
will
by
such
beginnings
,
open
an
entrance
for
his
trueth
to
get
in
to
them
,
that
haue
long
slept
in
errour
and
ease
.
To
passe
on
by
following
the
tract
of
this
businesse
so
farre
as
wee
finde
the
same
to
haue
bene
driuen
,
I
must
tell
you
of
another
chiefe
Actor
that
hath
stepped
on
the
Stage
to
shewe
himselfe
in
this
Scene
.
It
seemed
fit
to
adde
encouragement
vnto
his
Holinesse
,
and
to
hold
him
on
in
the
course
of
his
former
feruencie
,
whereupon
sundry
of
his
Cardinals
,
and
other
great
Clearkes
attending
about
him
,
with
much
vehemencie
incited
him
to
an
vnrelenting
constancy
against
the
vnconformable
Venetians
.
Among
whom
Cardinall
Baronius
,
a
principall
man
,
of
great
name
and
note
in
that
Court
,
addressed
vnto
the
Pope
his
hortatory
letters
in
that
behalfe
:
whereof
(
for
that
I
trust
and
intend
shortly
to
send
the
same
vnto
you
)
I
wil
forbeare
to
rehearse
the
particular
and
regardable
points
:
Onely
that
you
may
know
it
by
a
true
marke
wheresoeuer
you
may
otherwise
fortune
to
see
it
,
you
shall
haue
thereof
the
first
and
the
last
words
;
wherein
if
you
doe
finde
sound
Diuinitie
,
and
Texts
of
Scripture
well
applied
,
know
that
a
Cardinall
is
the
Authour
,
who
perhaps
hath
a
kind
of
copartnership
with
the
Pope
in
that
prerogatiue
of
neuer
erring
.
It
beginneth
thus
:
Duplex
est
,
beate
Pater
,
ministerium
Petri
;
Pascere
&
occidere
.
Dixit
enim
ad
eum
Dominus
,
Pasce
oues
meas
:
audiuitque
è
coelo
,
Occide
&
manduca
.
The
ministerie
of
Peter
,
holy
Father
,
is
of
two
sorts
;
To
Feed
and
to
Kill
.
For
the
Lord
said
vnto
him
,
Feed
my
sheepe
:
and
hee
heard
from
heauen
,
Kill
and
eate
.
From
Occidere
,
that
is
,
Slaying
or
killing
,
&c.
he
inferreth
the
Popes
power
of
Excommunication
:
how
strangely
or
streiningly
,
let
the
Diuines
iudge
:
I
promised
you
only
a
narration
,
and
therefore
will
not
be
bold
in
any
refutation
.
It
concludeth
thus
,
Memor
esto
te
in
Ecclesia
positum
esse
in
Petram
,
in
quam
omnes
qui
offendunt
,
confringentur
.
Remember
thy selfe
to
bee
placed
in
the
Church
as
a
Rocke
,
against
the
which
whosoeuer
rusheth
,
shal
be
broken
to
pieces
.
Howsoeuer
this
making
of
the
Pope
a
Petra
,
be
much
beyond
their
former
titles
of
deriuation
from
Petrus
,
yet
that
application
or
rather
amplification
,
serued
well
for
an
apt
perswasion
,
to
keepe
the
Pope
to
an
vnfainting
resolution
.
How
far
this
Letter
,
or
other
the
like
incensings
,
haue
caried
the
Pope
in
his
intentions
of
holding
his
hardest
hand
,
or
of
streyning
the
strength
of
his
arme
against
this
Segniorie
,
it
is
not
readily
to
be
affirmed
:
but
this
I
can
further
aduertise
you
of
,
that
the
seuen
and
twentieth
day
of
respite
giuen
to
the
Venetians
for
to
returne
into
their
bonds
of
obedience
,
by
giuing
to
his
Holines
some
satisfaction
,
expired
on
Whitsunsunday
,
and
that
it
was
then
expected
,
that
the
Pope
on
the
Munday
following
,
would
haue
performed
his
blacke
ceremonies
belonging
to
the
actuall
fulmination
of
his
Interdict
before
mentioned
.
But
there
was
Nullus
strepitus
,
&
nihil
turbarum
,
no
thing
was
done
in
that
businesse
,
in
so
much
as
(
the
expectation
of
people
being
frustrated
by
such
omission
)
it
occasioned
much
diuersitie
of
voyce
and
rumour
,
according
to
the
many
sundry
coniectures
made
thereof
.
Some
were
of
opinion
,
that
his
Holines
(
with
a
kinde
of
faynting
)
was
content
to
haue
all
to
stand
at
a
stay
,
till
he
could
haue
some
agreeable
meanes
offered
,
for
cleanly
auoyding
of
the
vttermost
extremities
.
Some
thought
that
hee
would
first
consider
of
,
and
prepare
his
helps
and
aduantages
,
(
which
might
concerne
him
to
put
in
readines
,
)
and
so
backe
his
formalities
with
substantiall
prouision
.
Others
,
whether
to
saue
the
Popes
credit
,
or
out
of
their
knowledge
and
experience
in
the
like
causes
,
affirmed
,
that
any
further
acte
on
the
Popes
part
was
vnnecessary
,
sith
the
first
denunciation
or
promulgation
of
the
said
Interdict
,
standeth
of
it selfe
in
sufficient
force
:
And
that
,
because
the
Venetians
tooke
no
holde
of
the
fauour
aforesayd
,
graunted
vnto
them
by
way
of
reseruation
of
the
seuen
and
twenty
dayes
,
they
remained
now
vtterly
excluded
from
all
grace
,
and
were
actually
vnder
the
curse
.
Thus
this
present
Iune
standeth
the
state
of
this
businesse
,
more
in
expectation
and
preparation
,
then
as
yet
in
any
hostile
action
,
and
without
any
on
either
side
,
either
discernable
yeelding
,
or
open
pursuit
,
The
Venetians
attending
in
readinesse
what
further
storme
his
Holinesse
out
of
the
thicke
and
black
cloud
of
his
displeasure
wil
powre
foorth
vpon
them
:
And
the
Pope
eagerly
looking
,
that
the
beastes
of
the
Forrest
will
tremble
when
the
Lion
roreth
.
Among
the
other
neighbours
that
be
lookers
on
,
some
perhaps
are
setters
on
,
to
increase
the
controuersie
;
others
gazers
on
,
keeping
themselues
in
a
direct
neutrality
;
some
it
much
concerneth
to
stop
the
course
of
this
contention
;
some
with
hollow
intentions
may
plot
on
their
owne
drifts
;
All
,
though
they
differ
in
their
particular
affections
or
cariages
,
yet
concurre
in
admiration
of
this
accident
,
with
a
discerning
of
the
finger
of
God
and
his
diuine
prouidence
,
not
to
be
penetrated
into
by
our
humane
imbecillitie
.
But
what
will
be
the
issue
and
euent
of
this
great
stirre
,
it
is
onely
knowen
to
him
,
who
is
the
first
stirrer
of
all
causes
,
and
vnto
whose
fore-concluded
endes
,
all
the
drifts
and
actions
of
men
are
but
subordinate
.
Yet
for
that
it
is
a
custome
in
humane
reason
to
coniecture
probably
,
where
it
cannot
define
a
certaintie
;
I
wil
not
sticke
to
acquaint
you
with
the
Iudgements
of
the
wiser
and
most
experienced
men
,
that
by
precogitation
do
discourse
the
successe
of
this
busines
.
Some
thinke
that
the
Pope
will
first
yeeld
,
when
he
shall
finde
that
hee
hath
intricated
himselfe
into
a
trouble
,
which
bringeth
vnto
him
assured
losse
,
and
is
not
to
bee
pursued
without
extreme
cost
.
Others
,
that
the
Venetians
wil
be
easily
perswaded
to
submit
vnto
the
Pope
,
and
returne
into
his
bosome
for
grace
,
sith
they
before
so
effectually
laboured
their
reconcilement
,
and
haue
not
yet
disseuered
their
Iudgements
in
the
questions
of
Religion
.
Some
are
of
opinion
,
that
they
may
bee
accorded
by
this
middle
course
,
that
the
Pope
may
grant
one
thing
,
and
they
agree
to
an
other
,
by
way
of
permutation
;
that
so
each
of
them
hauing
in
some
sort
their
minds
,
they
may
apprehend
a
satisfaction
in
part
,
to
be
accepted
for
the
whole
.
Some
argue
that
the
troubles
of
Hungarie
will
call
the
Popes
considerations
that
way
,
being
arriued
to
a
great
desperation
and
insolencie
in
their
rebellious
demands
.
Most
men
doe
directly
thinke
,
that
it
will
finally
resolue
into
a
Schisme
,
because
it
cannot
well
be
discerned
,
how
either
partie
can
giue
ground
or
relent
,
without
disparaging
or
abasing
of
their
estimation
.
Some
of
more
piercing
insight
,
and
expert
knowledge
of
courses
vsuall
at
such
times
,
doe
doubt
that
in
conclusion
it
will
prooue
nothing
but
the
further
in
riching
of
a
Popes
Nephew
,
or
one
of
his
brothers
,
or
of
some
vehement
Cardinall
,
for
working
of
this
same
feate
of
flexibilitie
,
in
the
Popes
stiffe
conceite
and
dislike
of
the
Venetians
.
Others
do
contemplate
aforehand
the
sedulitie
and
deuotion
of
many
well
affected
,
(
though
supersticiously
zealous
)
who
doubtlesse
will
not
be
wanting
with
any
their
ardencie
,
to
compose
this
controuersie
,
were
it
but
either
for
feare
,
lest
the
Turke
doe
take
occasion
by
such
dissentions
to
aduantage
and
aduance
himselfe
in
Christendome
,
or
for
shame
,
that
we
whom
they
account
so
vilely
of
,
should
reioyce
to
behold
their
ruinating
contentions
among
themselues
.
If
you
giue
me
leaue
to
tel
what
I
thinke
,
Truely
if
the
Pope
should
be
so
peremptorie
with
the
Venetians
,
as
hee
hath
beene
euermore
maliciously
busie
with
vs
in
England
(
where
yet
his
Authoritie
hath
so
long
beene
out
of
date
)
hee
would
make
short
worke
with
them
.
Hee
would
giue
away
their
Lands
and
Territories
vnto
some
high
Potentate
,
(
that
must
fight
the
Popes
battels
)
who
with
cruell
incursions
and
Inuasions
,
euen
by
the
sword
and
Conquests
,
shal
spoyle
and
subdue
them
,
till
they
fall
on
their
knees
for
his
Fatherly
compassion
.
And
may
hee
not
iustifie
his
so
doing
?
Be
they
not
Excommunicate
?
and
so
consequently
to
be
executed
and
prosecuted
by
the
Secular
arme
,
which
it
shall
please
his
Holinesse
to
implore
or
imploy
?
(
Wherein
certainely
as
a
Secular
prince
himselfe
,
he
is
likely
to
put
in
also
his
arme
or
foot
among
them
;
)
Nay
,
must
not
then
the
Leaguers
by
the
oath
of
Trent
combine
their
whole
powers
against
the
denounced
enemies
of
the
Church
?
If
Venice
now
had
bene
in
his
regiment
Monarchicall
,
vnder
the
rule
of
one
absolute
King
,
Hee
should
haue
bene
sure
to
haue
had
good
store
of
bad
practizers
,
vpon
his
person
and
against
his
life
;
And
perhaps
(
for
ought
that
I
know
,
)
such
particular
aduenturers
,
authorized
in
such
Actions
by
their
dismission
from
obedience
,
and
incitation
to
suppresse
their
Soueraigne
,
may
draw
their
warrants
from
this
title
of
Seculare
brachium
,
imployable
at
the
Popes
call
:
But
where
there
be
so
many
Senatoriall
gouernours
,
they
can
hardly
be
at
once
surprised
with
such
hidden
treacheries
,
if
they
can
but
take
warning
from
vs
,
to
preuent
the
danger
of
The
vault
Treason
.
To
prosecute
this
Theame
,
What
the
Pope
may
do
in
his
malice
,
let
vs
out
of
our
feeling
be
still
the
exemplary
instance
.
Can
the
Pope
in
Venice
,
where
his
doctrine
is
wholly
receiued
,
and
where
he
hath
so
long
bene
an
adored
Idoll
,
make
no
side
or
faction
to
raise
among
them
seditions
vprores
and
insurrections
?
England
is
taught
by
experience
what
he
can
doe
,
where
being
(
I
say
not
a
stranger
,
but
)
an
anowed
enemie
,
yet
hath
hee
stil
enterprised
to
make
a
part
,
for
the
stirring
of
tumults
&
Commotions
;
And
hath
all
this
bene
done
against
vs
to
regaine
England
so
farre
off
?
And
wil
he
sleepe
or
let
slip
any
opportunity
to
recall
,
recouer
,
or
recommand
Venice
?
Well
,
if
his
heart
or
his
meanes
doe
not
serue
him
,
to
follow
them
with
enforcements
of
fiercenesse
,
Do
you
thinke
that
he
will
not
as
easily
become
a
Foxe
to
ouertake
them
with
kindnesse
,
as
he
would
haue
played
the
Lion
by
terrors
and
compulsion
?
Hath
hee
in
England
(
by
so
many
fawnings
and
deprecations
)
sought
to
draw
vs
againe
into
his
Imbracements
,
that
are
diuided
from
him
by
a
broad
sea
of
difference
in
many
points
of
Religion
?
And
wil
he
not
in
the
cause
of
Venice
,
which
hath
so
long
bene
his
darling
,
and
as
yet
but
by
one
parting
channell
disseuered
,
(
which
may
easily
bee
ouerstridden
)
vnbend
his
brow
from
his
heauie
frowne
,
and
turne
againe
his
appeased
countenance
?
O
that
the
Honourably
minded
Venetians
would
put
him
to
it
,
and
trie
his
disgestion
!
That
they
would
holde
themselues
to
their
freedome
,
and
shake
off
his
shakels
!
If
he
doe
but
let
it
be
a
question
till
it
be
studied
and
looked
into
in
Venice
,
it
will
assuredly
breed
more
disciples
against
him
in
one
yere
,
then
twentie
successiue
popes
shall
bee
able
to
weed
out
.
I
hope
it
hath
already
euen
in
this
course
of
a
Table
talke
,
and
by
the
defensiue
proceedings
which
necessity
hath
constrained
,
so
fastened
in
his
mind
a
corrasiue
,
as
(
considering
the
place
)
he
may
for
euer
complaine
of
an
Vlcer
in
his
pretended
Monarchie
;
Then
haue
not
I
reason
to
suppose
,
that
he
doth
already
euen
longingly
wish
a
kind
&
well
formed
reconcilement
?
The
matter
is
,
how
to
worke
his
purpose
handsomely
by
some
cleanly
carriage
,
As
where
his
owne
desires
importune
him
to
concluding
termes
,
there
vnder
hand
to
procure
himselfe
to
bee
much
importuned
.
I
haue
very
lately
heard
,
that
there
is
a
French
Cardinall
newly
come
to
Rome
,
to
bestow
his
labour
&
loue
in
the
according
of
these
variances
.
What
the
successe
thereof
will
be
,
wee
must
expect
to
heare
hereafter
:
onely
my
conceit
is
,
that
no
man
of
any
indifferent
discerning
,
can
be
so
simple
as
not
to
beleeue
,
that
all
this
so
rough
and
high
blowing
contention
,
will
well
enough
be
on
the
Popes
part
quieted
and
accommodated
.
Onely
,
it
concerneth
vs
all
,
for
the
honour
and
loue
of
the
trueth
,
vnfainedly
to
wish
,
that
the
eyes
and
hearts
of
the
renowned
Venetians
,
may
by
the
touch
of
Gods
finger
bee
opened
wider
,
to
let
in
the
Lord
of
glory
,
bringing
in
his
traine
his
trueth
and
righteousnesse
;
and
that
their
hands
and
puissance
may
bee
so
strengthened
with
an
extraordinary
addition
of
valour
,
as
that
they
may
from
that
nooke
or
corner
of
Italy
,
become
as
it
were
Gods
harbengers
to
make
way
for
him
throughout
that
goodly
countrey
,
to
the
suppression
and
demolishing
of
that
so
intolerable
vsurpation
.
Which
though
wee
may
rather
wish
then
hope
for
;
yet
respecting
his
prouidence
in
these
beginnings
,
we
may
with
erected
mindes
attend
the
manifestation
of
his
further
ordinance
,
in
the
euent
which
his
wisedome
and
Iustice
shall
bring
forth
.
And
to
suckle
vp
our
hopes
herein
,
with
the
opinion
(
at
the
least
)
of
possibilitie
,
if
not
of
better
likelihoods
,
let
England
bee
a
comfortable
Instance
,
to
cherish
and
vphold
our
thoughts
from
despairing
of
a
successefull
issue
to
the
Venetians
also
.
How
many
yeeres
,
or
rather
ages
,
was
England
as
it
were
in
labour
of
this
trueth
,
That
the
Pope
had
no
right
in
this
kingdome
to
order
,
gouerne
,
command
,
or
censure
any
causes
or
persons
,
Ciuill
or
Ecclesiasticall
?
How
many
perillous
throwes
hath
shee
felt
in
her
wombe
and
bowels
to
bring
foorth
this
child
?
what
,
how
many
,
&
how
mightie
practises
haue
beene
contriued
to
haue
destroyed
this
child
within
her
belly
,
that
it
might
neuer
haue
seene
the
light
?
It
is
plainly
and
fully
to
be
prooued
by
many
ancient
Records
,
whereof
some
are
registred
in
the
Courts
of
Law
,
(
of
the
which
that
learned
Knight
Sir
Edward
Coke
Atturney
general
to
his
Maiestie
,
hath
made
an
exact
and
most
iudiciall
Collection
)
some
be
remaining
in
the
Towre
,
as
Acts
and
signitures
of
Princes
,
or
of
the
high
Court
of
Parliament
,
some
are
kept
in
Archiuis
of
our
Spirituall
Courts
,
which
also
affoordeth
vs
some
vestigia
pristinae
libertatis
.
That
this
Nation
almost
at
all
times
hath
in
some
measure
or
other
sought
to
deliuer
into
the
world
this
her
conception
,
(
that
hath
liued
and
growen
great
within
her
)
against
the
Popes
encrochings
and
intrusions
into
this
Kingdome
,
with
his
vnwarranted
and
vnlimited
Supremacie
;
If
you
aske
me
why
,
or
how
the
sight
and
publique
apparance
of
this
Trueth
,
(
like
vnto
the
birth
of
a
childe
)
was
so
long
deferred
and
hindered
:
First
,
you
must
know
that
it
is
a
Lions
whelpe
,
and
nihil
magnum
subito
nascitur
:
next
,
the
Midwife
TIME
serued
not
nor
lent
not
sufficing
ayd
;
but
chiefly
,
the
great
red
Dragon
,
that
with
his
taile
drewe
the
third
part
of
the
Starres
of
Heauen
,
In
the
14.
yeere
of
K.
H.
1.
the
Popes
Authoritie
was
so
little
esteemed
in
England
,
as
that
it
was
come
to
that
passe
,
that
no
persons
were
permitted
to
appeale
to
Rome
in
cases
of
Controuersie
.
Their
Synods
and
Councels
about
Ecclesiasticall
affaires
were
kept
,
without
seeking
any
his
licence
or
consent
:
And
they
would
not
obey
such
Legates
as
hee
sent
,
nor
come
to
the
Conuocations
which
they
held
.
In
the
31.
yeere
of
K.
H
3.
The
Pope
vnderstanding
that
diuers
rich
beneficed
men
in
England
died
Intestate
,
he
ordeined
a
Decree
,
That
the
goods
of
any
Spirituall
persons
dying
Intestate
,
should
remaine
to
the
Pope
:
which
Decree
(
purporting
the
Popes
oppression
in
preiudice
of
this
Realme
and
the
suruiuing
friends
of
the
deceased
)
the
King
in
no
sort
would
suffer
to
take
place
:
And
the
same
King
by
his
Letter
Inhibitorie
did
flatly
forbid
a
talage
of
the
Cleargie
,
which
the
Pope
about
that
time
had
required
.
In
the
30.
of
E.
1.
the
Popes
Peter-pence
,
being
not
his
due
,
but
rather
the
King
of
Englands
Almes
,
were
denied
to
the
Pope
.
In
the
17.
yeere
of
K
Edw.
3.
the
Commons
pray
the
Kings
assent
,
to
banish
the
Popes
power
quite
out
of
England
.
And
in
the
same
yeere
vpon
the
Popes
intruding
of
himselfe
to
make
a
peace
betweene
the
King
,
and
France
,
King
Ed.
sent
him
word
,
That
if
hee
would
mediate
betweene
them
as
a
friend
,
hee
would
heare
him
;
but
in
no
sort
if
he
intermeddle
as
a
Iudge
.
In
the
50.
of
E.
3.
the
Commons
complaine
,
that
all
the
miseries
of
the
Kingdom
come
by
the
Popes
vsurpation
;
beseeching
the
King
(
this
being
the
50.
and
the
Iubile
yeere
of
his
Reigne
)
that
hee
would
ioyne
with
them
to
cast
him
out
,
for
that
he
doth
not
pasture
but
pill
Gods
sheepe
.
In
the
times
of
E.
3.
R.
2.
H
4.
and
H.
5.
sundry
Statutes
were
made
against
then
that
out
of
the
Court
of
Rome
obtaine
or
pursue
any
personall
Citations
against
the
King
or
any
of
his
Subiects
,
or
that
procure
from
thence
any
impetrations
and
prouisions
of
Benefices
and
offices
of
holy
Church
.
And
for
that
(
as
I
before
declared
)
the
Pope
on
the
other
side
,
opposed
to
these
Statutes
his
Interdicts
and
sentences
of
Excommunication
against
the
obseruers
of
the
same
:
In
the
13.
yeere
of
R.
2.
the
said
Excommunications
also
are
so
farre
disauowed
,
as
that
for
the
maintenance
of
the
Liberties
of
the
Kingdome
,
and
the
dignity
of
the
State
,
it
was
ordained
,
That
if
any
did
bring
or
send
within
this
Realme
,
any
summons
,
sentence
,
or
excommunication
against
any
person
,
for
the
cause
of
making
motion
,
assent
,
or
execution
of
the
said
Statute
of
Prouisors
,
he
shall
be
arrested
,
imprisoned
,
and
forfeit
all
his
Lands
and
Tenements
,
goods
and
cattels
for
euer
:
and
moreouer
incurre
the
paine
of
life
and
member
:
And
a
Prelate
making
execution
of
such
summons
or
sentence
,
to
forfeit
into
the
Kings
hands
all
his
Temporalties
.
Neuerthelesse
,
for
a
long
space
after
(
whether
by
reason
of
our
continuall
ciuill
broyles
in
England
,
which
scant
affourded
any
leisure
of
thinking
,
much
lesse
of
prosecuting
vpon
this
cause
,
or
for
that
the
superstitious
ignorance
of
those
times
did
entangle
or
rather
captiuate
the
consciences
of
our
people
)
this
point
of
the
rights
appertaining
and
incident
vnto
the
Royall
power
&
Maiesty
of
this
Imperiall
Crowne
,
and
of
the
Popes
vnlawfull
oppressions
and
vsurpations
within
this
Land
,
lay
asleepe
,
was
silenced
,
and
suffered
open
wrong
,
vntill
the
latter
dayes
of
K.
H.
8.
who
,
instructing
himselfe
by
the
conferences
and
disputations
of
his
learnedest
Diuines
,
and
by
the
aduise
and
assent
of
the
whole
State
assembled
in
Parliament
,
fully
and
finally
decided
this
question
,
with
the
absolute
exclusion
and
extermination
for
euer
out
of
this
Realme
and
the
Dominions
thereof
,
of
any
the
Popes
Authoritie
and
Iurisdiction
.
Thus
hath
God
his
prefixed
periods
for
the
producing
at
the
last
of
that
trueth
which
hee
oft
suffereth
his
Church
to
be
long
in
trauaile
of
:
Then
why
should
not
we
likewise
reteine
some
comfortable
conceits
of
Gods
accomplishing
and
bringing
to
an
happy
effect
of
that
worke
in
the
Venetian
State
,
(
though
sensim
&
gradatim
)
whereof
hee
hath
,
of
his
prouidence
and
goodnesse
(
and
by
occasions
which
for
the
iustice
thereof
may
expect
his
blessings
)
begun
and
layd
so
likely
groundworkes
?
ANd
now
(
my
good
friend
,
)
for
a
closing
conclusion
to
this
my
ouerlong
letter
,
(
as
remembring
wherefore
I
ted
this
tale
)
Lend
me
a
little
more
of
your
gentle
patience
,
whilest
I
draw
out
of
the
fresh
remembrance
of
this
Relation
,
some
satisfactory
vse
,
for
the
iustification
of
the
Nationall
Lawes
of
England
,
and
the
Iustice
of
our
Magistracie
,
from
the
scandalous
imputation
of
crueltie
,
in
our
prosecutions
against
our
professed
Aduersaries
transgressing
our
Politicall
and
poenall
Ordinances
.
Which
I
will
comprise
in
a
comparison
betweene
our
English
proceedings
,
with
these
of
the
Venetians
:
not
intending
at
this
time
to
sort
out
for
them
any
other
example
or
presedent
,
then
what
I
here
haue
already
with
my
best
iudgment
wel
obserued
,
knowing
,
that
if
I
should
post
through
France
,
Spaine
,
Italy
,
and
all
Germany
,
to
collect
proofes
&
demonstrations
to
that
purpose
,
it
would
be
as
to
me
a
labour
supererogatory
,
so
to
them
(
whom
nothing
will
satisfie
)
like
a
charme
to
a
deafe
Adder
.
It
cannot
be
obscure
to
the
whole
world
,
That
our
Royall
kingdome
hath
for
many
yeeres
together
,
quite
expelled
the
Pope
with
his
Supremacie
and
superstition
,
where
the
Venetians
(
for
any
thing
yet
of
publique
note
)
haue
not
fallen
from
him
in
any
point
of
Religion
,
no
not
disauowed
his
gouernance
or
Supremacie
in
causes
Ecclesiasticall
,
but
onely
excepted
against
his
intrusion
into
the
right
of
their
owne
Iurisdiction
,
in
causes
on
their
part
iustifiable
by
all
humane
and
Diuine
rules
.
Yet
haue
they
resolued
vpon
,
and
pursued
courses
,
no
whit
inferiour
in
rigour
and
extremitie
,
to
the
sharpest
Lawes
made
with
vs
,
in
so
long
a
time
,
and
after
so
manifold
and
violent
occasions
.
Yea
,
though
the
matter
concerned
vs
in
the
deepest
degree
,
euen
of
(
vter
esset
&
vter
imperaret
both
)
our
regall
and
Imperiall
rights
lying
at
the
stake
,
in
conflict
with
the
Papall
vsurpations
,
and
our
Religion
,
Peace
,
Iustice
and
tranquillitie
,
being
continually
infested
by
the
positions
,
oppositions
,
practises
,
and
iniuries
of
the
Romish
faction
.
You
see
the
Commands
,
and
prohibitings
of
the
Venetians
,
to
be
all
accompanied
with
the
terrors
of
death
,
which
is
vltimum
in
malis
.
I
doe
not
taxe
or
dislike
this
their
seeming
austeritie
:
But
I
inferre
,
that
as
necessitie
coacteth
them
to
be
seuere
,
so
that
our
Lawes
being
enforced
from
vs
by
the
like
coaction
,
haue
also
the
like
defence
of
naturall
reason
and
primatiue
Iustice
,
in
the
righteous
directions
whereof
they
and
wee
doe
agreeingly
concurre
.
What
doe
you
thinke
they
would
doe
,
if
they
had
once
made
a
generall
reuolt
or
defection
from
the
Pope
,
in
all
the
controuersed
Articles
of
difference
?
Can
you
imagine
,
that
beginning
thus
roundly
,
they
would
not
against
their
aduerse
part
,
and
in
the
behalfe
of
the
States
quietnesse
and
preseruation
,
proceed
proportionably
?
As
the
businesse
now
standeth
,
I
make
no
question
,
but
that
in
case
that
any
one
Venetian
should
be
found
to
oppose
against
the
current
or
streame
wherein
they
be
now
caried
,
he
should
so
be
suncke
and
confounded
,
as
neuer
to
see
the
Sunne
againe
.
In
one
point
I
must
confesse
they
haue
stepped
further
then
we
,
(
yet
they
may
hold
it
to
be
Iustice
too
,
that
the
professors
of
pouertie
should
be
forced
to
pouertie
)
Wee
haue
neuer
vsed
against
any
Subiects
such
seazures
and
confiscations
of
their
goods
,
neither
exiling
of
them
out
of
their
natiue
Countreys
,
without
orderly
and
iuridicall
Trials
and
Conuictions
.
Neuerthelesse
,
I
condemne
it
not
,
that
either
feare
of
danger
maketh
them
sensitiue
,
or
that
apparance
of
danger
be
met
withall
by
wise
preuention
:
but
if
our
Gouernours
should
driue
the
wheeles
of
Iustice
so
furiously
,
as
to
possesse
and
take
from
euery
dangerous
or
suspected
Subiect
his
whole
Estate
,
thereby
stripping
and
clipping
him
first
,
and
then
to
send
away
his
body
to
seeke
his
heart
beyond
the
Seas
,
whither
himselfe
before
had
sent
it
;
How
clamorously
,
and
with
what
horrible
yellings
would
our
Enemies
cry
shame
and
vengeance
vpon
vs
all
?
The
trueth
is
,
That
there
is
no
State
or
Body
politique
whatsoeuer
,
that
will
not
in
very
sense
of
Nature
seeke
their
best
meanes
against
repugnant
and
sicknesse-breeding
humours
,
and
either
to
reduce
them
to
amendment
,
if
it
may
be
,
or
to
rid
them
away
by
eiection
when
that
cannot
bee
hoped
.
And
therefore
(
howsoeuer
we
may
imbrace
rather
the
sweete
and
well
contenting
motions
of
mercy
,
for
which
princes
are
blessed
)
let
vs
giue
leaue
to
the
Venetians
(
in
imitation
of
their
paterne
the
ancient
Rome
)
to
restraine
by
prouisions
,
that
such
detected
and
detested
enemies
of
the
State
,
as
the
Iesuits
are
,
should
liue
amongst
them
,
and
that
ad
confirmandam
audaciam
,
yea
that
they
should
there
,
designare
oculis
ad
interitum
,
or
beyond
all
this
,
to
bring
in
into
their
very
bowels
a
Troiane
horse
,
with
his
belly
full
of
treasons
,
murders
,
and
all
villanies
,
to
be
vnloden
and
let
loose
among
them
,
for
their
finall
ruine
and
confusion
.
In
England
,
for
that
first
the
graue
aduisednesse
of
the
whole
State
in
their
great
Assemblies
of
Parliament
,
is
but
to
giue
support
to
Iustice
;
And
next
,
aswell
the
Maiestie
of
our
dread
Souereigne
,
who
,
to
his
Diademe
of
Dignitie
,
vnseparably
conioyneth
the
Scepter
of
his
Iustice
;
as
also
the
true
Nobilitie
of
so
wise
and
Honourable
Counsellors
,
who
doeth
make
publique
Iustice
their
primum
in
intentione
:
all
true
hearted
Subiects
will
rest
indubitably
satisfied
of
the
integritie
,
equitie
,
and
vprightnesse
of
that
Gouernment
.
And
for
other
carping
reproouers
,
or
barking
slanderers
,
let
vs
obfirmare
mentes
,
that
whome
we
cannot
content
with
honest
reason
,
them
we
may
contemne
with
a
disdaining
confidence
.
Here
I
will
end
this
threed
,
which
I
feare
I
haue
drawen
out
in
length
ouer
tediously
:
I
doe
craue
your
well
accepting
curtesie
to
dispence
therewith
:
And
I
further
promise
you
,
that
if
you
please
to
vouchsafe
the
returne
of
some
endeuours
on
your
part
concerning
the
new
arising
occurrences
within
your
discouery
,
you
shall
not
faile
to
be
plyed
still
in
this
sort
with
more
of
my
loue
and
diligence
.
THE
ANSWERE
OF
AN
ITALIAN
D
or
.
of
Diuinitie
,
vnto
a
Letter
written
by
a
friend
of
his
,
concerning
the
Briefs
of
Pope
Paulus
5.
his
censure
published
against
the
Venetians
;
And
vpon
the
Nullitie
thereof
:
Drawen
out
of
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
the
Fathers
,
and
the
Catholique
Doctours
.
¶
Translated
out
of
the
Italian
tongue
.
MOst
reuerend
Sir
,
I
haue
read
your
Letter
,
and
doe
not
a
little
wonder
,
that
when
I
was
wont
alwayes
to
receiue
from
you
the
first
aduertisements
of
all
occurrents
(
especially
when
there
was
cause
to
aske
my
opinion
in
them
,
)
Now
when
so
many
matters
of
greatest
importance
are
current
in
your
Citie
,
you
haue
bene
the
last
man
that
certified
mee
thereof
.
And
yet
you
require
me
to
set
downe
my
opinion
vpon
these
Briefs
published
against
your
Common
wealth
,
and
vpon
the
protestation
of
the
nullitie
and
inualiditie
of
the
same
,
made
for
the
defence
and
maintenance
of
their
reasons
.
Albeit
I
know
well
the
causes
of
this
your
slackenesse
,
and
may
attribute
it
to
the
difficultie
of
the
matter
:
though
I
know
not
what
scruple
sticks
most
in
your
minde
;
yet
I
will
excuse
you
by
reason
of
the
extraordinary
businesse
you
alledge
,
and
satisfie
you
in
this
as
I
haue
beene
wont
to
doe
.
And
I
hope
to
doe
it
with
that
speed
which
you
desire
,
I
being
prepared
thereunto
by
the
exact
consideration
and
studie
which
I
haue
bestowed
in
that
matter
alreadie
.
I
say
then
(
if
I
vnderstand
it
aright
)
that
your
desire
is
,
to
know
if
the
censures
publisht
by
Pope
Paulus
Quintus
against
the
Segnior
of
Venice
,
be
voyde
and
of
no
force
,
as
is
declared
in
their
protestations
;
that
they
being
so
,
you
may
celebrate
the
Sacraments
,
and
doe
your
Offices
in
your
Churches
,
as
you
did
before
the
publication
of
the
said
censures
,
without
any
scruple
of
Conscience
.
To
answere
then
plainly
&
in
order
to
these
your
requests
,
I
will
include
whatsoeuer
may
be
said
in
that
matter
,
in
Eight
propositions
.
The
doctrine
whereof
as
it
shal
be
far
from
faction
,
or
flatterie
,
so
shall
it
be
founded
vpon
the
holy
Scriptures
,
the
sayings
and
expositions
of
the
Fathers
,
and
vpon
the
strongest
force
of
trueth
and
reason
,
that
no
man
but
vpon
peeuishnesse
shall
dare
to
contradict
it
.
¶
The
first
Proposition
.
THe
power
that
Secular
Princes
haue
,
&
the
Pope
also
(
as
a
temporall
Prince
ouer
the
States
and
Prouinces
which
he
possesseth
)
is
granted
vnto
them
immediatly
from
God
without
any
exception
.
For
the
vnderstanding
and
cleerenesse
of
this
Proposition
,
it
must
be
considered
,
that
Lordship
&
seruitude
wrs
brought
in
by
the
Law
of
Nations
.
The
command
of
the
Prince
&
obedience
of
the
Subiect
,
is
by
foure
meanes
;
that
is
,
by
Election
,
by
Inheritance
,
by
Gift
,
or
by
right
of
Warre
:
So
that
all
Princes
which
by
any
of
these
foure
meanes
euer
haue
beene
,
or
now
are
placed
in
the
Throne
of
Principalitie
,
are
iust
and
lawfull
Lords
:
those
,
I
say
,
which
haue
Authoritie
from
God
to
command
,
to
make
Lawes
,
to
exact
Tribute
,
to
Iudge
,
and
to
punish
Subiects
,
without
any
exception
.
The
Doctrine
is
not
mine
,
but
the
Apostle
Saint
Pauls
in
the
Epistle
to
the
Romans
,
Chap.
13.
yea
it
is
the
holy
Ghosts
doctrine
,
which
speaks
with
his
mouth
,
and
writeth
with
his
penne
,
whose
wordes
are
these
,
Omnis
anima
subdita
sit
potestatibus
sublimioribus
,
nam
nulla
potestas
,
&c.
Let
euery
soule
submit
it selfe
to
the
authoritie
of
the
higher
powers
,
for
there
is
no
power
but
of
God
.
Saint
Chrysostome
expounding
this
place
,
saith
,
The
Apostle
doeth
this
to
shewe
that
Christ
brought
not
in
his
Lawes
to
ouerthrow
Policie
,
but
to
giue
it
a
better
institution
,
shewing
that
this
is
a
commandement
to
all
both
Clergie
and
Laity
,
which
hee
declareth
in
the
beginning
,
saying
,
Omnis
anima
potestatibus
sublimioribus
subdita
sit
,
etiamsi
Apostolus
,
Euangelista
,
Propheta
,
aut
quisquis
tandem
fuerit
:
Let
euery
soule
be
subiect
to
higher
powers
,
whether
he
be
Apostle
,
Euangelist
,
Prophet
,
or
whosoeuer
.
And
for
all
that
doeth
not
this
subiection
subuert
pietie
.
Whereupon
in
the
old
Lawe
,
although
the
Leuites
had
a
high
Priest
that
was
Aaron
;
yet
in
temporall
things
,
causes
,
and
iudgements
,
they
were
subiect
to
Moyses
their
temporall
Prince
,
as
Couuarruuias
prooueth
,
Cap.
31.
quaest.
prateca
.
Nu.
3.
And
in
the
Primitiue
Church
there
was
no
difference
of
Tribunall
or
Iudgement
seate
:
for
Iustinian
the
Emperour
was
the
first
which
at
the
request
of
the
Bishop
of
Constantinople
granted
,
that
the
Cleargie
in
Ciuill
causes
might
be
iudged
by
their
owne
Prelates
,
without
preiudice
notwithstanding
to
himselfe
.
In
which
case
,
and
in
all
criminall
faults
he
left
it
so
that
the
Clergie
should
be
subiect
to
the
Prince
and
to
the
Ministers
of
the
Prince
temporall
,
as
is
plainely
to
be
read
Nouell
.
Constitu
.
85.
Neither
because
Constantine
the
Great
said
to
some
Ecclesiasticall
persons
presented
vnto
him
,
Vos
à
nemine
iudicari
potestis
,
quia
ad
Dei
iudicium
reseruamini
,
as
Gratian
writeth
,
Cap.
12.
quaest.
1.
Can
it
bee
gathered
that
they
be
not
subiect
to
secular
Princes
?
for
this
was
an
excesse
of
that
Emperor
to
shew
himselfe
towards
the
Church
benigne
and
deuote
.
But
it
was
not
because
he
thought
so
indeed
:
for
if
he
had
said
true
,
they
could
not
be
iudged
by
Prelates
neither
,
the
wordes
being
ad
Dei
iudicium
,
&c.
which
would
be
a
grieuous
errour
.
The
Clergie
then
as
well
as
the
Laitie
(
de
iure
diuino
)
are
subiect
to
the
secular
Prince
.
Omnis
anima
potestatibus
sublimioribus
subdita
sit
;
the
reason
is
,
that
as
none
is
excepted
from
the
obedience
he
oweth
to
God
,
so
hee
cannot
be
excepted
from
the
obedience
which
is
due
to
the
Prince
:
For
as
the
Apostle
addeth
,
Omnis
potestas
est
à
Deo
,
for
which
Kings
and
Secular
Princes
by
the
Prophet
Dauid
are
called
Gods
.
Deus
stetit
in
Synagoga
Deorum
,
in
medio
autem
Deos
dijudicat
:
for
as
King
Iosaphat
declareth
,
Lib.
2.
Paralip
.
Cap.
19.
The
Secular
Iudges
,
Non
hominum
,
sed
Dei
iudicia
exercent
.
The
same
place
Christ
citeth
in
Saint
Iohn
,
Cap.
10.
and
confirmeth
,
that
the
name
of
Gods
belongeth
vnto
them
.
Si
illos
dixit
Deos
ad
quos
sermo
Dei
factus
est
,
as
Bellarm.
learnedly
noteth
,
Cap.
3.
Lib.
de
Laicis
.
The
Apostle
goeth
forward
and
sayth
,
Qui
potestati
resistit
,
Dei
ordinationi
resistit
:
behold
here
the
Authoritie
that
Princes
haue
to
make
Lawes
vpon
euery
matter
,
which
shall
binde
euery
person
according
to
that
which
is
read
in
the
Prouerbs
of
Salomon
,
where
God
sayth
,
Per
me
Reges
regnant
&
legum
conditores
iusta
decernunt
.
Hence
is
it
,
that
the
Christian
Emperors
,
Iustinian
and
Theodosius
in
the
Code
haue
made
many
lawes
concerning
Ecclesiastical
persons
,
their
goods
,
and
gouernment
,
vnder
the
titles
of
Episcop.
&
Cler.
&
Sacrosanct
.
Ecclesiis
.
To
these
Lawes
the
Apostle
commandeth
obedience
without
resistance
,
because
they
which
shall
make
resistance
,
Ipsi
sibi
damnationem
acquirunt
,
that
is
,
do
commit
mortall
sinne
,
wherein
if
they
die
,
they
shall
be
condemned
to
the
eternall
fire
of
hell
.
Moreouer
,
the
Apostle
commandeth
to
pay
to
the
Prince
Tribute
of
euery
thing
,
Cui
vectigal
,
vectigal
;
cui
tributum
,
tributum
:
sunt
enim
ministri
Dei
ad
tributa
:
which
place
the
Angelicall
Doctor
Thomas
Aquinas
master
of
Diuines
the
sonne
of
the
Cath.
schoole
,
sayth
,
That
if
the
Cleargie
be
free
from
Tribute
,
they
haue
not
that
Priuiledge
(
as
some
thinke
)
Iure
diuino
,
but
ex
priuilegio
Principum
,
speaking
there
of
Secular
Princes
.
Finally
,
I
conclude
with
Saint
Paul
for
the
authoritie
of
the
Prince
,
Non
enim
sine
causa
gladium
portat
,
Dei
enim
minister
ad
vindictam
:
behold
the
authoritie
of
the
Secular
Prince
,
Punire
poena
sanguinis
,
which
the
Ecclesiasticall
Prelats
not
hauing
,
(
after
they
haue
disgraded
malefactors
of
the
Clergie
,
and
declared
them
vnfit
for
Ecclesiasticall
degree
)
they
can
goe
no
further
,
but
to
haue
them
punisht
by
death
,
deliuer
them
to
the
Secular
power
.
And
that
no
man
should
thinke
,
that
his
words
were
words
of
counsell
and
not
of
precept
;
to
make
all
sure
the
Apostle
affirmeth
,
Ideo
necessitate
subditi
estote
non
solùm
propter
iram
,
sed
etiam
propter
conscientiam
:
So
that
wee
are
bound
in
conscience
to
obey
the
Secular
Prince
in
all
things
abouesaid
,
as
we
are
taught
by
S.
Paul
.
¶
The
second
Proposition
.
OVr
Sauiour
Christ
,
although
as
the
Sonne
of
God
equall
to
the
Father
,
is
Rex
Regum
&
Dominus
Dominantium
:
Notwithstanding
beeing
clothed
with
our
mortalitie
,
neither
before
his
death
,
nor
after
his
most
holy
Resurrection
did
hee
exercise
power
as
a
temporall
Prince
.
Hee
had
no
temporall
kingdome
,
as
he
said
to
Pilat
,
asking
him
,
Rexestu
?
he
answered
,
Tu
dicis
:
but
though
I
be
a
King
,
notwithstanding
Regnum
meum
non
est
de
hoc
Mundo
,
that
is
,
a
Kingdome
temporall
.
Wherupon
when
those
people
which
were
miraculously
fedde
by
him
with
fiue
loaues
and
two
fishes
,
would
haue
made
him
a
King
,
aufugit
,
ne
raperent
eum
,
&
facerent
ipsum
regem
.
Hee
would
iudge
no
man
,
for
he
answered
to
those
which
would
haue
had
him
giuen
sentence
in
one
of
their
controuersies
,
Quis
me
constituit
iudicem
super
vos
?
yea
hee
acknowledged
Pilate
the
minister
of
Caesar
for
his
iudge
:
Non
haberes
in
me
potestatem
nisi
tibi
data
esset
desuper
,
as
S.
Thomas
noteth
in
the
Epistle
to
the
Romanes
.
Finally
,
he
commanded
that
tribute
should
bee
paide
to
the
secular
Prince
Caesar
.
Reddite
quae
sunt
Caesaris
Caesari
.
Some
do
oppose
to
this
proposition
of
ours
,
saying
,
though
Christ
paied
tribute
to
Caesar
for
himselfe
and
Peter
,
yet
he
said
,
that
he
was
not
bound
to
pay
it
,
Nunquid
filij
debent
soluere
tributum
?
wherein
(
say
they
)
he
tooke
vpon
him
the
right
of
a
temporall
Prince
,
who
is
exempt
from
tribute
.
To
this
is
answered
,
that
those
of
the
Countrey
(
as
some
Doctors
say
)
called
by
the
name
of
Children
,
were
not
bound
to
pay
tribute
,
and
he
being
of
the
Countrey
,
and
S.
Peter
also
,
he
affirmed
that
he
was
not
bound
.
Others
to
further
contradict
this
proposition
,
doe
alleadge
,
that
Christ
did
cast
out
the
buyers
and
sellers
of
the
Temple
.
Which
is
answered
,
that
hee
did
this
as
a
Prophet
vpon
zeale
:
for
to
the
like
purpose
the
Euangelist
citeth
the
verse
of
Dauid
,
Zelus
domus
tuae
comedit
me
.
Others
say
,
that
when
he
sent
his
Disciples
to
bring
him
the
Asse
and
the
Colt
,
he
appointed
them
to
say
to
the
master
,
Dominus
opus
habet
,
that
is
,
The
Lord
of
all
the
world
.
But
that
place
is
not
vnderstoode
to
drawe
from
thence
the
authoritie
of
a
Prince
,
but
to
signifie
that
the
Lord
of
heauen
and
earth
was
so
poore
,
that
he
was
faine
to
borrow
those
Cattell
(
as
some
Doctors
doe
expound
it
)
the
reason
is
,
for
that
if
hee
would
haue
taken
vpon
him
the
Authoritie
of
a
Prince
,
he
would
not
haue
said
,
Opus
habet
,
but
Dominus
ita
praecipit
,
or
some
other
such
like
.
To
conclude
,
they
which
iudge
this
proposition
of
ours
hard
to
bee
prooued
,
doe
say
generally
that
Christ
(
when
hee
entred
triumphantly
into
Ierusalem
,
the
day
of
the
Palmes
)
tooke
vpon
him
the
Authoritie
of
a
temporall
Prince
:
Whereupon
the
Euangelist
alledgeth
the
prophecie
,
Ecce
Rex
tuus
venit
tibi
sedens
super
asinam
&
super
pullum
filium
asinae
:
but
hee
that
considereth
the
matter
,
may
perceiue
that
albeit
our
Sauiour
was
the
promised
King
and
Messias
,
yet
entring
into
Ierusalem
in
that
base
and
abiect
sort
,
he
shewed
not
to
take
vpon
him
the
Authoritie
of
a
Prince
temporall
,
but
rather
as
hee
said
to
Pilate
,
that
his
Kingdome
was
not
of
this
world
,
but
spirituall
and
eternall
:
for
temporall
Kings
enter
into
the
Cities
of
their
Kingdomes
in
an
other
maner
of
Pompe
,
then
Christ
did
sitting
vpon
an
Asse
and
an
Asses
Colt
.
¶
The
third
Proposition
.
OVr
Lord
Iesus
Christ
hauing
neuer
vsed
the
Authoritie
of
a
temporall
Prince
,
it
may
not
be
said
that
hee
left
this
Authoritie
to
S.
Peter
and
his
successors
,
which
are
his
Vicars
,
seeing
the
Vicar
is
neuer
more
then
his
principall
.
Wherupon
Soto
treating
vpon
this
point
,
lib.
4.
Sententiarum
,
and
Cardinall
Bellarmine
de
Autoritate
Papae
,
say
,
that
they
wonder
at
the
Canonists
,
that
they
durst
without
any
reason
or
authoritie
of
the
New
Testament
,
affirme
Quod
Papa
sit
Dominus
totius
orbis
directè
in
temporalibus
:
A
doctrine
indeede
ill
founded
and
scandalous
.
I
know
well
that
some
besides
the
Canons
(
which
as
humane
Lawes
in
concurrencie
with
the
Diuine
can
haue
no
equall
Authoritie
)
doe
say
that
Tho.
Aquinas
lib.
de
Regimine
Principum
,
Cap.
10.
&
19.
affirmeth
the
Pope
to
bee
Dominus
totius
Orbis
in
temporalibus
&
inspiritualibus
.
But
that
Booke
is
not
his
,
as
Cardinal
Bellarmine
sheweth
,
li.
de
potestate
Papae
:
For
besides
other
assured
coniectures
,
this
is
one
,
That
in
that
Booke
lib.
3.
cap.
20.
he
makes
mention
of
the
Succession
of
Adolphus
the
Emperour
after
Rodulphus
,
and
of
Albertus
after
Adolphus
,
which
were
,
the
first
Anno
1292.
The
second
1299.
And
Tho.
Aquinas
died
Anno
1274.
They
cite
moreouer
an
other
place
of
Thom.
Aqui.
lib.
2.
sent.
distin.
44.
where
he
saith
,
Esse
in
summo
pontifice
apicem
vtriusque
potestatis
,
Temporalis
&
Spiritualis
:
But
he
that
reads
the
Text
may
see
that
Thomas
was
of
a
contray
opinion
:
for
hauing
said
that
in
matters
Temporall
,
the
Temporall
Prince
ought
rather
to
be
obeyed
then
the
Spirituall
,
and
in
matters
meerely
Spiritual
,
rather
the
Spirituall
then
the
Temporall
;
hee
concludes
,
that
if
it
were
not
the
Pope
,
who
hauing
in
the
Prouinces
subiect
vnto
him
both
Iurisdictions
,
hee
ought
of
his
subiects
to
bee
equally
obeyed
in
the
one
and
the
other
.
To
weaken
the
force
of
this
our
Proposition
,
some
say
that
Pope
Alexander
6.
diuided
the
Indies
to
the
Kings
of
Spaine
and
of
Portugale
:
Because
hee
as
Christs
Vicar
was
the
naturall
Temporall
Prince
therof
,
and
that
Pope
Leo
3.
gaue
the
Empire
of
the
West
to
Charles
the
great
by
the
same
reason
:
But
these
men
are
very
much
deceiued
,
sith
Alexander
not
as
Lord
of
the
Indies
,
but
as
Compromissary
Iudge
elected
betwixt
the
Kings
to
appease
and
quench
the
flames
of
Discord
,
by
sentence
determined
that
the
seas
should
be
diuided
,
and
that
the
Armadoes
of
the
one
should
passe
through
one
of
those
seas
,
and
the
other
through
the
other
,
and
that
whatsoeuer
was
gotten
or
conquered
on
either
side
Iure
belli
,
should
be
the
Conquerers
,
according
to
the
diuision
made
by
him
,
as
the
Historians
of
that
time
report
.
T
is
true
that
Leo
3.
being
chased
from
the
See
of
Rome
,
and
reestablished
by
Charles
the
great
,
caused
the
people
to
proclaime
him
Emperour
,
as
Platin
saith
:
which
act
the
Historians
doe
attribute
to
the
people
of
Rome
,
who
seeing
the
Empire
euill
gouerned
by
the
Grecians
Iure
antiquo
,
did
elect
an
other
Emperour
.
Now
they
say
that
Charles
being
Patron
of
the
State
,
bought
the
title
thereof
of
Irene
and
Nicephorus
that
were
Emperours
,
and
that
Irene
&
Nicephorus
were
content
therewith
.
In
summe
,
be
it
as
it
will
,
it
is
certaine
that
the
Pope
being
driuen
from
his
seat
,
and
being
possessour
of
nothing
,
gaue
no
Empire
to
Charles
,
who
already
Iure
belli
was
Patron
thereof
.
And
that
he
gaue
him
the
absolute
title
thereof
,
it
is
not
a
thing
certaine
:
and
if
it
were
,
yet
it
may
bee
answered
(
aswell
in
this
case
as
in
others
alledged
against
our
Proposition
)
that
the
Pope
not
hauing
from
Christ
any
authority
in
Temporall
things
,
(
as
hath
beene
,
and
shal
be
said
more
cleerely
in
the
next
Proposition
)
if
hee
haue
taken
to
him
any
such
authoritie
,
or
hath
done
it
by
consent
of
the
interessed
,
or
for
that
hee
hath
any
Temporall
power
by
any
of
the
foure
meanes
aforesayd
:
yet
for
all
this
,
hence
it
is
not
proued
that
he
hath
direct
authoritie
in
Temporall
things
from
our
Sauiour
Christ
.
And
besides
,
many
things
are
done
by
many
men
,
whereof
if
it
be
sought
Quo
iure
they
doe
them
,
it
will
not
easily
be
found
.
¶
The
fourth
Proposition
.
THe
authoritie
promised
by
Christ
to
Saint
Peter
vnder
the
Metaphor
of
the
Keyes
,
is
meerely
Spirituall
.
Tibi
dabo
claues
Regni
Coelorum
:
hee
saith
not
Regni
terrarum
:
and
reason
teacheth
that
which
is
read
in
the
Hymne
of
the
Church
,
Non
Eripit
mortalia
,
quia
regna
dat
Coelestia
:
for
the
Temporall
kingdome
,
and
the
Monarchie
was
founded
from
the
beginning
,
(
by
God
the
great
Monarch
of
the
world
,
)
in
what
sort
that
should
bee
gouerned
.
So
that
Christ
our
Sauiour
did
not
found
the
Monarchie
Temporall
.
It
remayneth
then
to
say
that
hee
founded
the
Spirituall
,
which
is
plainely
seene
in
Saint
Ioh.
cap.
20.
where
he
hauing
said
,
Omnis
potestas
data
est
mihi
in
Coelo
,
&
in
terra
:
yet
giueth
hee
it
to
the
Apostles
,
and
amongst
them
to
Saint
Peter
limited
and
with
reseruation
.
Insufflauit
in
eos
&
dixit
,
Accipite
Spiritum
Sanctum
:
quorum
remiseritis
peccata
remittuntur
ijs
,
&
quorum
retinueritis
retenta
sunt
:
where
both
by
the
act
that
Christ
doth
,
&
by
the
words
he
speakes
is
gathered
,
that
the
authority
of
the
Pope
is
Spirituall
,
and
ouer
sinne
,
and
only
ouer
soules
,
according
to
the
wordes
of
that
prayer
of
the
Church
to
Saint
Peter
,
Qui
beato
Petro
potestatem
animas
ligandi
atque
soluendi
tradidisti
:
the
which
is
limited
,
as
is
said
,
yea
the
authoritie
of
Excommunication
giuen
to
Saint
Peter
is
conditionall
,
Math.
18.
Si
frater
tuus
in
te
peccauerit
,
&
Ecclesiam
non
audiuerit
,
sit
tibi
sicut
Ethnicus
&
Publicanus
.
In
the
which
place
our
Sauiour
giueth
authoritie
to
Excommunicate
,
but
the
sinne
,
and
obstinacie
in
the
sinne
presupposed
.
¶
The
fift
Proposition
.
THe
persons
and
goods
of
the
Cleargie
exempted
from
the
power
of
the
Secular
Prince
,
albeit
some
(
I
know
not
vpon
what
ground
)
hold
that
it
is
done
Iure
Diuino
:
Notwithstanding
the
contrary
opinion
(
that
it
is
onely
Iure
humano
)
is
the
better
,
and
more
conformable
to
the
Diuine
Scripture
,
to
the
holy
fathers
,
and
to
the
trueth
of
Histories
.
For
(
besides
that
which
we
haue
said
in
the
first
Proposition
,
that
Priests
in
the
old
Law
were
subiect
to
the
Secular
Prince
,
besides
that
Solomon
depriued
Abiathar
of
the
Office
of
high
Priest
amongst
the
Hebrewes
,
as
is
read
in
the
3.
Booke
of
the
Kings
Cap.
2.
)
in
the
time
of
the
Primitiue
Church
vntill
the
time
of
Iustinian
the
Emperour
,
it
is
not
read
in
the
Law
,
of
any
priuiledge
of
exemptio
giuen
to
the
Cleargie
.
S.
Paul
said
,
Ad
tribunal
Caesaris
sio
,
Caesarem
appello
.
And
to
leaue
infinit
other
examples
,
It
is
read
in
the
life
of
Otho
the
first
Christian
Emperour
,
That
he
deposed
Pope
Iohn
22.
by
his
owne
authoritie
,
because
he
was
a
most
wicked
man
.
And
if
the
exemption
be
iure
diuino
,
why
would
Pope
Adrian
the
first
graunt
,
That
Charles
the
great
should
haue
auctoritie
to
chuse
the
Bishop
of
Rome
.
Cap.
Adrianus
&c.
which
also
Leo
8.
did
in
fauour
of
Otho
the
first
,
as
is
written
in
the
same
Distinction
which
is
the
63.
Canon
in
Synodo
.
This
doctrine
is
not
only
of
S.
Paul
as
I
haue
proued
in
the
first
Proposition
,
but
of
S
Chrysostome
,
Tho.
Aqui.
Soto
that
excellent
Diuine
.
Distinct
.
25.
Lib.
4.
Senten
.
of
Corrunias
an
excellent
Canonist
.
Cap.
31.
Pract.
quest.
who
for
his
owne
behoofe
citeth
Pope
Innocentius
3.
Alciat
.
Ferrarese
Medina
,
and
others
.
And
these
two
doctors
Soto
and
Corrunias
in
this
particular
are
much
to
bee
esteemed
,
hauing
both
of
them
written
since
the
Councell
of
Trent
.
And
their
demonstrations
are
of
exceeding
efficacie
:
For
besides
the
Authoritie
affirmatiue
of
S.
Paul
,
Chrysostome
and
Thomas
;
and
besides
the
vsance
of
the
Primatiue
Church
,
they
bring
two
most
forceable
negatiue
Arguments
,
that
is
,
1.
If
the
Clergie
,
and
that
which
belongs
vnto
them
be
exempted
Iure
Diuino
;
In
what
booke
of
the
New
or
old
Testament
,
Or
in
what
Epistle
of
S.
Paul
,
or
in
what
Gospel
are
they
exempted
?
2.
The
other
is
,
that
no
Christian
Prince
Secular
,
looking
well
to
the
quiet
and
good
gouernment
of
his
State
,
regards
this
at
all
,
but
lets
the
Clergie
enioy
what
exemptions
hee
pleaseth
,
and
what
he
pleaseth
not
,
he
suffereth
them
not
to
enioy
.
¶
The
sixt
Proposition
.
WHilst
the
Prince
of
Venice
(
lawfull
and
naturall
Lord
of
his
State
,
who
acknowledgeth
no
superiour
in
Temporal
things
but
God
)
maketh
Lawes
concerning
goods
and
possessions
Ecclesiasticall
,
which
are
vnder
his
dominion
,
and
punisheth
Ecclesiasticall
persons
,
in
grieuous
and
haynous
cases
,
&
doth
dispose
of
such
goods
,
as
are
not
already
passed
to
Ecclesiasticall
persons
by
the
Authoritie
which
he
hath
immediatly
from
God
,
wherof
he
hath
neuer
beene
bereaued
,
either
by
Priuiledge
granted
away
,
or
by
Canon
receiued
,
but
is
in
possession
thereof
by
an
immemorable
custome
of
many
,
not
yeeres
,
but
ages
,
He
sinneth
not
in
so
doing
.
The
reason
is
,
for
that
Qui
non
facit
contra
aliquam
Legem
non
peccat
,
Much
lesse
can
it
be
said
,
That
he
sinnes
Qui
obseruat
Legem
.
And
moreouer
,
Qui
retinet
quod
suum
est
non
peccat
.
Neither
are
wee
to
be
forced
to
follow
the
opinion
of
them
which
hold
,
That
the
exemption
is
De
iure
Diuino
:
for
euery
Christian
is
free
to
follow
what
opinion
he
pleaseth
,
so
it
be
a
Catholique
opinion
.
Nay
rather
to
follow
the
opinion
of
a
Doctour
grounded
vpon
reason
,
against
a
torrent
and
forced
opinion
,
doubtlesse
,
is
not
sinne
;
As
Nauarra
well
prooueth
in
his
Praeludia
.
Then
shall
it
be
no
sinne
to
follow
the
opinion
of
S.
Paul
,
and
of
so
many
,
and
so
famous
Doctors
,
alleadged
in
the
first
,
and
the
fift
Propositions
.
Nay
to
say
true
,
I
cannot
excuse
them
which
hold
that
the
Exemption
is
Iure
Diuino
,
they
seeming
vnto
mee
sometimes
ill
grounded
,
sometimes
ill
aduised
,
sometimes
too
bolde
,
sometimes
too
flattering
.
¶
The
seuenth
Proposition
.
WHilest
the
Segniorie
of
Venice
is
not
culpable
,
nor
commits
any
sinne
in
doing
that
which
is
spoken
of
in
the
precedent
Proposition
,
if
it
be
excommunicated
by
Pope
Paulus
Quintus
his
Briefe
published
,
&
if
the
Churches
and
holy
places
be
thereupon
interdicted
:
the
Sentence
is
of
no
force
,
not
only
by
the
law
positiue
,
because
the
order
prescribed
by
the
Canon
,
De
sent
.
Excom.
6.
is
not
obserued
;
but
also
Iure
diuino
it
auayleth
not
,
because
the
authoritie
of
Excommunicating
is
conditionate
,
Si
peccauerit
in
te
frater
,
&c.
so
that
where
there
is
no
sinne
,
Excommunication
hath
no
place
;
and
a
Sentence
fulminated
against
him
that
sinnes
not
,
is
no
Sentence
for
defect
in
the
matter
.
Neither
let
any
man
be
so
grosse
of
vnderstanding
to
thinke
,
that
if
the
Segniorie
(
as
is
proued
)
hath
not
offended
,
neither
doth
offend
in
retinendo
quod
suum
est
,
that
it
doeth
neuerthelesse
offend
in
not
obeying
the
Pope
,
and
persisting
in
their
opinion
.
For
constancie
in
a
good
opinion
is
not
obstinacie
:
and
he
that
offends
not
,
cannot
bee
termed
disobedient
and
obstinate
,
sith
hee
which
obserueth
the
Law
,
doth
a
holy
an
meritorious
worke
,
and
he
that
obeyes
not
in
those
things
which
cannot
bee
commanded
him
to
doe
,
commits
no
sinne
at
all
.
¶
The
eight
Proposition
.
IT
is
true
that
Pope
Gregory
sayth
,
that
the
sentence
of
the
Pastor
,
be
it
iust
or
vniust
,
is
to
be
feared
:
but
this
sentence
makes
nothing
to
the
matter
.
For
there
is
great
difference
betwixt
the
sentence
of
an
Ecclesiasticall
Iudge
which
is
vniust
,
and
that
which
is
no
sentence
at
all
,
as
most
learnedly
affirmeth
Nauarra
de
Censuris
Ecclesiasticis
,
Cap.
27.
&
Soto
4.
Sentent
.
dist.
22.
That
the
vniust
censure
is
to
be
feared
,
but
the
censure
that
is
no
censure
is
not
to
be
regarded
,
therefore
the
Censures
published
by
Pope
Paulus
Quintus
as
is
said
,
being
none
at
all
,
but
like
Scrowles
formed
in
the
Water
and
the
Aire
,
that
is
without
foundation
,
substance
or
matter
;
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
you
ought
not
to
obserue
them
,
neither
that
you
ought
to
innouate
any
thing
in
your
Churches
therefore
.
For
although
Nauarra
in
that
place
recited
,
reasoning
vpon
Excommunication
forcelesse
and
nought
,
saith
these
wordes
:
Sententia
Iudicis
Eccleciastici
inualida
seu
nulla
,
nihil
aliud
operatur
in
fore
interiori
siue
exteriori
,
quàm
quod
obligat
Execmmunicatum
ad
seruandam
eam
quoad
populus
sibi
persuadeat
vel
persuadere
debeat
causas
nullitatis
propter
scandalum
.
Notwithstanding
this
doctrine
makes
much
for
me
:
for
the
cause
of
the
nullitie
is
apparant
to
all
the
people
of
Venice
,
&
if
it
were
not
manifest
to
all
,
yet
all
must
needs
know
it
by
the
Edict
which
the
Prince
hath
made
to
let
euery
man
vnderstand
it
:
so
that
the
scandall
is
not
onely
not
to
be
feared
,
but
I
say
vnto
you
,
that
I
cannot
excuse
certaine
Religious
persons
,
who
whether
their
error
breeds
of
ignorance
,
or
of
some
sinister
affect
,
haue
made
choise
rather
to
depart
from
the
Citie
,
then
to
goe
forward
to
celebrate
and
Minister
the
Sacraments
as
they
were
ordained
to
doe
by
the
Prince
,
both
for
the
good
of
the
Common-wealth
and
the
Religion
.
Nam
ipsi
sibi
fuerunt
lex
,
and
would
not
follow
the
example
of
the
Cathedrall
Church
,
and
of
all
other
holy
and
auncient
orders
of
Religious
,
nor
of
all
the
parishes
,
vnto
whom
I
will
say
with
Christ
,
Quòd
expediret
vt
suspenderentur
molae
asinariae
in
colla
eorum
,
vt
non
scandalizarent
pusillos
meos
Besides
,
to
defende
the
libertie
of
the
naturall
Prince
,
who
maintaines
and
conserues
amongst
the
people
peace
,
libertie
,
and
Religion
,
is
a
thing
de
iure
Naturae
,
that
is
as
much
to
say
,
as
Iure
diuino
,
whereas
sentences
Ecclesiasticall
are
de
iure
positiuo
,
which
must
yeeld
vnto
the
other
,
especially
when
there
is
question
of
the
Nullitie
of
them
,
whereupon
some
doe
deceiue
themselues
which
thinke
that
this
controuersie
is
about
matter
of
faith
,
sith
it
is
onely
about
maners
.
So
that
Sir
,
you
may
go
forward
to
celebrate
and
communicate
,
and
to
doe
whatsoeuer
you
did
in
your
Church
before
the
publication
of
the
Censures
,
not
only
because
you
write
to
me
to
be
resolued
to
do
it
,
but
also
to
auoyd
the
scandale
;
both
because
a
sentence
of
no
force
is
not
to
be
obserued
cùm
constat
de
nullitate
,
and
also
that
you
doe
not
separate
your selfe
from
your
head
(
which
is
the
Prince
)
in
controuersies
of
Iurisdiction
which
haue
no
ground
of
Reason
.
Nay
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
he
which
shall
not
heare
Masse
at
least
vpon
the
holy-day
,
shall
commit
sin
,
their
Sentence
being
of
no
force
,
and
it
being
celebrated
in
all
places
.
Nolite
agnoscere
timorem
vbi
timor
non
est
,
nolite
trepidare
,
&c.
Let
it
not
be
said
of
you
which
haue
beene
alwayes
faithfull
to
your
Prince
and
to
the
Commonwealth
,
that
Filij
matris
meae
pugnauerunt
contra
me
:
but
,
obey
the
Apostles
precept
,
Omnis
anima
potestatibus
sublimioribus
subdita
sit
,
non
solùm
propter
iram
,
sed
propter
conscientiam
.
This
I
say
not
,
because
I
doubt
of
your
constancie
(
perswaded
as
I
am
of
your selfe
and
all
others
of
that
City
,
that
you
are
most
ready
to
spend
your
liues
for
your
Prince
)
but
because
the
iustice
of
the
cause
which
is
manifest
vnto
you
,
may
be
much
more
apparant
by
this
my
answere
.
For
a
Conclusion
let
mee
aduertise
you
,
that
although
the
Segniorie
of
Venice
,
haue
ordained
vpon
paine
of
life
,
that
all
the
Religious
keepe
open
their
Churches
,
and
proceed
to
doe
their
dueties
as
they
did
before
,
yet
haue
they
not
done
that
for
feare
:
But
because
that
Citie
hauing
bin
alwaies
Catholike
(
and
now
more
then
euer
professeth
to
conserue
it selfe
so
,
)
it
will
not
suffer
that
in
the
exercises
of
pietie
there
should
bee
any
change
,
or
that
the
intermission
thereof
should
be
occasion
of
precipitaon
vnto
any
;
which
euill
the
Prince
is
bound
by
all
meanes
to
remedy
,
by
the
Law
of
God
,
for
the
interest
of
the
Church
.
Many
other
authorities
and
reasons
I
could
haue
adduced
in
this
discourse
,
which
would
haue
made
for
me
:
But
for
the
haste
you
haue
made
me
make
,
and
for
the
desire
I
haue
to
vse
breuitie
,
I
leaue
them
all
,
reseruing
my selfe
to
write
of
this
matter
at
large
in
a
booke
Of
the
Supreame
authoritie
of
a
secular
Prince
,
which
shortly
I
will
set
forth
in
the
Latine
tongue
.
In
the
meane
time
let
me
put
you
in
mind
that
you
read
the
doctrine
of
that
most
sound
Doctor
Nauarr
:
who
in
all
that
is
said
before
is
of
our
side
,
as
in
particular
Cap.
Nouit
.
de
iudicijs
Notab.
3.
and
in
his
Manuel
Cap.
27.
de
Censuris
.
And
to
omit
other
particularities
,
that
you
retyre
your selfe
to
that
most
secure
Port
of
that
notable
doctrine
,
which
teacheth
that
all
Ecclesiasticall
persons
,
if
they
enioy
any
exemptions
,
they
enioy
them
not
de
Iure
diuino
,
sed
ex
priuilegio
principum
.
Which
Priuiledges
do
retract
,
diminish
,
and
enlarge
as
pleaseth
them
,
when
new
reasons
present
themselues
vnto
them
,
to
doe
it
to
the
profit
of
the
Dominions
subiect
vnto
them
,
euen
as
Popes
doe
with
the
Priuiledges
of
Indulgences
,
and
other
things
depending
vpon
their
Spirituall
authority
,
the
which
they
sometimes
annihilate
,
sometimes
diminish
,
somtimes
increase
at
their
pleasure
.
And
because
the
doctrine
which
I
haue
produced
,
is
not
mine
,
but
all
drawen
out
of
the
bookes
of
deuote
and
Catholique
Doctors
;
I
wil
adde
no
more
now
for
the
confirmation
thereof
.
Our
Lord
IESVS
giue
you
Consolation
.