GOOD NEWS FROM FRANCE.  
Containing the Insolent Demands of the JESVITES.  
Being against 

1. The KING'S Authority.  
2. The ordinary justice of his Majesty.  
3. The dignity and power of the Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops of other orders & professions.  
4. The young Scholars under them.  
5. The good and welfare of the Towns and Cities which receive them.  
6. The perfection of Sciences.  
7. The Antiquity & Commandments of the Church.  
8. The Resolution of the Clergy of France, and the Letters Patents of the Kings; and against the Sentences of Allowance and Registering thereof, which they themselves have pursued.    
TOGETHER WITH The Decree or Final judgement of the King's Privy Council given the 27. day of September 1624. In the joint defence of the Universities of France. And against the jesuites (in respect of their Insolent demands) whereby they are forbidden to take upon them the name, title, or quality of an University, or to give Degrees in any faculty or nomination to any BENEFICES.  
Translated according to the French Copy.  
LONDON, Printed by I. D. for john Bellamy, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the three golden Lions, near the Royal Exchange. 1624.   

Good News from FRANCE. CONTAINING CERTAIN REASONS, Upon which is grounded the Decree or Sentence from the King's Council against the jesuites demanding the abrogation of a Decree of the Parliament at Tholouse. By which they were commanded, that they should not take upon them the name, title, or quality of an University; and that they should not give any degree in any faculty, nor any nomination to any Benefices.  
THe Universities have always had such a favour of our KINGS, that they have been received when they did demand justice of their Majesties, not only in their own particular causes, but also in causes which did concern the public estate of the Kingdom. The Histories and public Acts do plainly show it, and also it may manifestly appear by the Records of the Parliament at Paris, that our King Charles the 7. when he would restore and confirm the rights and fundamental laws of his Kingdom. And having to this end assembled many great Lords to this Council, there were heard as well their Attorney General, as also the University at Paris, and upon that which they did represent were made many good Ordinances, to which his Majesty did swore, and caused all his Officers and Council to swore to them inviolably. It is manifest to all the world, that our King is not inferior to his Ancestors in doing justice to his Subjects, without acceptation of persons, after GOD'S Ordinance, by whose grace he doth reign, with resolution to conserve his royal authority, with courage to maintain his State in all the Bodies whereof it is composed against all Interprises. Therefore have the Universities being pressed by an extreme necessity for to defend themselves against the assault, yea against oppression, which the jesuites not being contented yet with the dissolutions and ruins which they have brought upon them heretofore, do now take in hand to bring upon them, in attributing to themselves their title and their rights (their title in making so many Universities as they have Colleges of their Society, their rights in making the advancements, and giving the degrees to the Scholars, yea to them which the Doctors of the University hath refused, as if they were their superiors.) The same University do hope that it will not be unpleasing to the King, that the Deputies should defend them. And in defending themselves in the presence of his Majesty, and of the Lords of his Council, they do not uphold only the Decree given to their profit by one of the most honourable Parliaments of his Kingdom (that is to say) the Parliament at Tholouse, of which the jesuites dare demand the Abrogation, and so abusing the favour that his Majesty hath done to them in taking one of them for his Confessor. A most singular favour, which till this present they have not received of any of our holy Fathers, nor of the Kings of Spain.  
But also do show and prove by authentic Acts, yea by the jesuites own writings, that the demand which they do make now, and the projects which they have to attribute to every one of their Colleges the title and rights of an University, are contrary and prejudicial to the King's authority, to the ordinary justice of his Majesty, to the dignity and power of the Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops of other orders and professions, to the young Scholars under them, and to the good of the Towns which do receive them, to the perfection of Sciences and Antiquity, & to the commandments of the Church, and to the resolution of the Clergy of France in the assembly at Poissy, in the year 1561. to the Letters Patents which they have obtained of our Kings, Henry the second, Francis the second, Charles the ninth, Henry the third, and to those Letters which they have had for the re-establishing of the King Henry the Great, of happy memory, and of our King which doth reign at this present. As also to the Decrees of the allowance and registering thereof, which they themselves have pursued in the Court of Parliament of this Kingdom.  

1. Against the King's authority.  
BEcause they will by virtue of a Bull which they say that they have obtained from our holy Gregory the 13. take upon them power for to choose and create judges, Conservators for all kind of causes as well Civil as Criminal, and mixed: yea, & those in which they themselves should be demanders for their rights, lands, and houses, fruits, rents, and revenues, and for all other things movable and unmovable, spiritual and temporal: and that the judges which they should have received, should do justice according to the will of the rector of their University.   

2. Against the King's Authority.  
BEcause by virtue of an Institution inserted and related in a Bull which they have obtained in the year 1540 of our holy Father the Pope, they retain for their General, (which since their coming till this present day hath been a stranger, a Spaniard, or one borne under the subjection of Spain) all kind of government and sovereign authority over the Scholars which are of their Colleges, and over their Colleges, and over all others which are of their Society, for to obey him always, and to acknowledge him as one who hath the authority of our Lord jesus Christ: and in their Vow they do promise to him as to one which keepeth the place of God, all obedience, not only for things obligatory, but also for all other things, though there should appear no other thing to them but a sign of the General's will, without any express commandment: in doing all things that which should be commanded, in persuading themselves things to be lawful, & in renouncing through a blind obedience, all advice and judgement to the contrary, suffering themselves to be carried and used even as a dead corpse, willing that no particular person, directly or indirectly, without the permission and approbation of their General, should ask or cause to be asked of our holy Father the Pope, nor of any other which is without the Society, any grace for himself or for another: and that he should believe if he did not obtain his desire of his General, or with his consent thereto, it is not for him, though it were for divine service: and on the contrary, if it be fit for him by the consent of his General, which keeps the place of our Saviour jesus Christ for him, that he shall obtain it. And that which is said of the Colleges, must also be understood to be said of the Universities of the Society in the same manner, that if they obtain that which they demand for this present time, one must no more say for the royal University of Paris, but the University of the Society, and so of all other Universities of this Kingdom. And although that he doth communicate his power to other inferiors, which are in the Provinces, Visitators and Commissioners, yet always he hath power to approve or to abrogate and make void that which they have done, and to ordain in all things that which he thinketh good. And always they must obey him and honour him as one that is the Vicar of our Lord jesus Christ.   

3. Against the King's authority.  
BEcause they have a general Agent which giveth advice to the General, as well of persons as of things, as it pleaseth them. And their General hath four Assistants, one for the business of France and Germany, another for Italy, and Sicily, the other for Spain and Portugal, and the other, of the Indies. And generally for to do all things he hath a General Attorney of the Society, and he hath every year a Catalogue sent unto him of all the Houses and Colleges of the Societies, and another of all the Persons which are in every Province. They will also that there be in their pretended Universities, a Secretary of the Society, which keepeth a Book, in which are written all the names of them which come to their Colleges, and which of them do receive promise to obey the Rector, and to observe the Constitution. And if there are some which do refuse to give their names, and so do register and unroll themselves, that he should represent and show them, because they should take more particular care to the Scholars, whose names are written in the Book of the University, and to speak it plainly and without dissembling, what can one say more, as to unroll, seduce, and retain men for a stranger, as always till this day the General of the said Society hath been. And this cannot be done in this Kingdom without contrariety, and infinite prejudice against our King's authority. No man can serve two several Lords, nor can as a subject and vassal acknowledge the one and the other for his Lord. Our King cannot be acknowledged & served by a General, upon the conditions here related, more than our holy Father the Pope can be in quality of a Vicar of our Lord jesus Christ, as the Universities with the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church do acknowledge him for; and as a General that keepeth God's place, and is our Lord jesus Christ's Vicar. But if they for to cloak this, say like as they are wont to do, that they do vow a particular obedience to his Holiness, we answer, that they do suppress it with that is written in their Constitutions, that it is only for the Missions, and then they attribute to their General the full direction and power thereof.   

4. Against his Majesty's ordinary justice.  
BEcause that no body of their Colleges and Houses, whether he be of those which have made their vows, or of their helpers, or of their Scholars, must suffer himself to be examined for civil and much less for criminal causes, without the leave of their superior, and that their superior must give no leave, if it be not in causes that concern the Catholic Religion.   

5. Against the dignity and power of the Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops.  
BEcause they take away from them the power and authority of judging, otherwise then is written in the Bull, which they say they have gotten for to choose judges, Conservators in all civil and criminal causes, and they do constrain them to judge and decree according to their Institutes and Constitutions, by virtue of a Bull which they had from our holy Father the Pope Gregory XIII. in the year 1584. which beareth the greatest excommunication, and a penalty of disability to any Offices and Benefices fecular and regular of all Orders, and that as soon as the deed shall be done, without any other declaration against all persons of whatsoever condition and preeminence they be, which shall withstand and gainsay directly and indirectly the Institutes and Constitutions of this Society, or any of the Articles, under colour of disputation, and seeking of the truth. As also they do attribute by virtue of their Institutes, Bulls, and Constitutions to their General the Government of all the Universities which they have. Which doth exclude and deprive the Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops, of the right and possession that they have as Governors and Protectors of the Universities, which doth exempt many Clerks of their jurisdiction.   

6. Against the Rules and Professions of other Orders.  
BEcause that they in respect of those which have a portion with them that they take the best Benefices for to join them to their Colleges, as it is manifest; and in respect of others, they do take upon them all the Faculties, Concessions, exemptions, Indulgences, remission of sins, and grace as well spiritual as temporal, granted, & yet to be granted, which have and shall have in time to come all other Orders of beggars, Priests and Nuns for to enjoy by them for all and in the whole so as they themselves, yea with as much right, and they will that all those which do study in their Colleges, or pretended Universities, do promise that they will obey them, and observe all their Constitutions, for so much that if any Priests do study and take their degree and promotion, as there do many in the University at Paris, and other Universities, they should be bound against the rules of their Orders and Professions, to promise obedience to no other than their Superiors.   

7. Against the young Scholars, which are under them.  
BEcause the professed Society must take no care to teach in their Colleges perfection of living, & Letters worthy to a Christian, but only those which are esteemed to have the Talon, for they shall be as a Nurse-gardian to the professed Society, & to his helpers, and they know that if with the Colleges the Universities were also committed to the Societies, keeping in proceeding, the manner of which is spoken in the fourth part, they help to the same end, adding thereunto these speeches; For the greater good of God, and the general good of the Society, which know certainly, that they do not establish their pretended Universities, but only for their particular interest and profit.   

8. Against the Wealth of the Cities which do receive them.  
BEcause they give power to themselves for to leave and abandon the Colleges and Houses which they have established, and they say that if it doth appear by proof that the Society is more hindered then helped, and their General doth find no remedy for it, that it then is lawful to consider in the first general Congregation, whether such an House, College, or University ought to be abandoned or kept, with such a charge, and in abandoning it, they will dispose of it, and of all the revenues given unto them, if there be not made an express reservation to the contrary by them which have been the builders of them.   

9 Against the perfection of Sciences.  
BEcause they do reduce their pretended Universities unto three faculties: One for the Tongues, another for the Arts, and the third for Theology; and they will not that there should be any Treatise of Physic, nor of the laws (though it be manifest that they are more necessary for mankind) or at least, that the Society should not be charged with it.   

10. Against Antiquity and the Commandments of the Church.  
BEcause that their Scholars, and especially those which dwell in their Colleges, do more than they hear and understand the great Mass said by a Deacon and Subdeacon, for they do not say it in their Churches, as it is known to every one, and they have no Choir, and they do derogate the general Counsels.   

11. Against the resolution of the Clergy of France that was assembled at Poisy, in the year 1501. Against the Letters patents of our King and against the sentences of allowance and registering thereof, which they themselves have pursued.  
BEcause they do take upon them the title, name and rights of the University. The title and name in giving the quality of an University to every one of their Colleges for to make so many Universities as they have Colleges. The rights in making the Promotions and in giving the degrees to the Scholars, yea to them to whom the Doctors of the Universities have refused it, if it be that their examiners do find them capable, as if they were their superiors. For by the resolution of the Clergy here dated, and by the Letters patents of our Kings here mentioned, and by the sentence of allowance and registering thereof, which they themselves have pursued in the Courts of Parliament of this kingdom, it is expressly forbidden that they should do nothing either spiritual or temporal in prejudice of of the Universities: and they can do no greater prejudice to the Universities then to make Universities of their Colleges, and to establish them and give them the titles and rights of Universities like to them of Paris and others of this Kingdom.  
The Parties were heard on Friday last, the 28. of September 1624. in the Hall where the Council was kept at S.  in Lay, where was a great multitude of people, and the jesuties' demandants were thrust from their Letters of abrogation, and it was ordained that the decree or sentence at Tholouse should stand in full force and power.    

Good News from FRANCE. CONTAINING A DECREE or FINAL judgement from the King's privy Council, given the 27 day of Septemb. 1624. for the Universities of FRANCE, jointly against the jesuites demanding the abrogation of a Decree of the Parliament of Tholouse. By which they were forbidden to take upon them the name, title, and quality of an University, and to give Degrees in any faculty, or Nomination to any Benefices.  
An extract out of the Registers of the KING'S Privy Council.  
Between the society of the University of the town of Tournon, being of the society of jesus, demandant in a request and a decree from the Council given upon the same, on the 15. of Decem. 1623. & defendant on the one part: And the society of the Universities of Tholouse, Valence Cahors defendants; and the said society of Tholouse demandant in a request of the 19 july last passed, on the other part, without which the qualities may not hinder or prejudice them. And also the Rector, Deans, Attorneys and Deputies of the University of Paris; the Rector, Doctors and regents of the University of Bourdeaux; the Rector, Doctors, and deputies of the University of Reims, the Rector, Dean, and deputies of the University of Portiers; the Rector, Deans, and deputies of the University of Caen; the Rector Deans, and Doctors of the Universities of Bourges, Orleans, Anger, and Aix, coming all on the other part.  
The which petition and the decree upon the same dated the 15. of December 1623. being seen by the King in his Council. In respect of the things therein contained, it pleased his Majesty to abrogate and make void the decree from the Parliament of Tholouse, given against the demandant to the profit of the said Universities of Tholouse, Balance, & Cahors, the 4. of july of the said year: & so doing to ordain, that the decree of the rule of the Letters patents agreed upon in the said University of Tournon, in the month of December 1622. should be executed according to the force and tenor thereof, and that the said University should be maintained and kept in the possession and enjoying the Privileges, rights, and powers, to them agreed by the same: the Bulls of our holy Father the Pope julies' Letters patents of the ratifying thereof, and decrees of the registering, notwithstanding the oppositions of the said Universities of Tholouse, Balance, and Cahors, to defend the said society of the said Universities, not to help themselves with the said decree of of the 13. of july, nor under colour of the same to trouble nor hinder the Rector, regents, and scholars, & deputies of the said University of Tournon directly, nor indirectly in the enjoying of the liberties, faculties and powers, which to them have been given, granted, confirmed, & augmented upon penalty of one thousand pounds costs damages and interests: by which decree was ordained that the society of the said Universities of Tholouse, Balance, and Cahors should be called for, and in the meantime that the said Rector and regents of the said Universities of Tournon should enjoy the same Privileges, Authorities, Preeminences, and liberty which they did enjoy before the said Letters of the month of December 1622. A Commission upon the said decree on the said day. Acts of assignments of the 5.9. and 13. of januarie last passed. A copy of Bulls obtained by the Cardinal of Tournon deceased, of Pope julie 3. being creator of the said University of Tournon, there to make general studies in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean tongues, and moral, and natural Philosophy; even as the other Universities; given in Rome, in the year 1552. the 3. day of May. For the furtherance of which, there are copies of the Letters of King Henry the second, of the 9 of November, of the same year being dated to the said Parliament of Tholouse and to the Seneschal of Beaucaire & Nismes for the proclaiming and registering of the said Bulls. Also the Act of the proclaiming and registering in the said Parliament of Tholouse the 11. of April 1553. And in the registry of the Archbishop extracted out of the registers of the Parliament of Paris containing certain conclusions and demands made by the King's servants in the said Parliament of the 26. january 1552. A copy of a contract of gist and legacy made forever by the said Sir de Tournon deceased the said Fathers the jesuits of the College which he had caused to be builded in the said town of Tournon, with the appurtenances, dependencies and revenue at the charge contained in the clauses and conditions, as be declared by the said contract passed before giles Mesnager and Malthurin Porcher Notaries public in the court of justice at Orleans the 6. january 1560. accepted by Don john Baptist Violle a Priest & Attorney general of the josuites. And moreover is put down the copy of the Procuration of the general of the said Fathers the jesuites, for to accept the said gift and legacy of the 28. of October, of the same year: also the act from the assembly that the Priests of the Abbey of Chaise-Dieu being united to the said College, had; which did approve and authorise the said contract of the 24. of February in the same year; extracted out of the register of the Parliament of Paris, concerning the Kings and the Queens (his mothers) Letters for the verification of the afore going Letters patents, to the allowance and approbation of the Bulls, privileges, and institutions of the said Fathers to the jesuites in the said year 1560. A suit in Law of Mr Mesnill deceased, Advocate in the cause of the University of Paris, and of the Fathers the jesuites, follows the Counsel and resolution of the assembly of the Clergy of France kept at Poissy, in the year 1561. A copy of the act of the assembly kept by the Gallican Church at Poissy aforesaid the 15. of September, 1561. A copy of the decree from the said Parliament at Paris of the 13. of February in the said year 1561. By which is ordained that the said Act made in the assembly at Poissy, should be registered under the conditions therein contained. A copy of the Letters Patents of the King Charles the ninth, given in the month of july 1561. for the conformation and allowance of the said gift and transport. A copy of the Decree of the Parliament of Tholouse, of the foureteenth day of February in the said year 1561. for the Proclaiming and registering of the said Letters of gift, upon the charges and conditions as are mentioned in the Act of the Assembly kept at Poissy, the fifteenth day of September in the said year. A relief of King Henry the third, of the thirteenth day of April, 1584. to the Parliaments of Paris, Rouen, Bourdeaux, Dauphine, Province and Borgongne, for to verify and register the said Bulls of the said University at Tournon, and of the ratification which is Registered at Paris, Grenoble, and Province the ninth day of june, the ninth day of November, and the nineteenth day of December, in the said year, 1584. A Decree of the court of Parliament at Aix for the verification of the said Bulls and Letters the nineteenth day of December, 1584. A decree of the Court of Parliament at Paris of the nineteenth day of june 1584. for the execution of the said Letters Patents of the thirteenth day of April aforesaid, in the same year; by which was ordained that the said Letters and Bulls should be registered, without which they may hinder or prejudice the freedom of the Gallican Church, and without which the Patentees may take upon them no other quality then of Scholars of the College at Tournon, A Copy of a Petition extracted out of the Records of of the University at Paris, the seventeenth day of this present month of September. An other Copy of a Declaration made by the Fathers the jesuites to the said University, and extracted out of the said Records on the same day. A Copy of a Petition presented to the Parliament at Paris, by the Priests and Scholars of the Society and company of jesus, of the College at Clermont, upon the reception to the Assembly at Poissy, and the Conclusions of the Chief Attorney of the said Parliament: extracted also out of the said Records on the said day. A printed Copy of the Edict upon the reestablishing of the Fathers, the jesuites given at Rouen in the month of September, 1603. Letters in the form of a Commonalty of King Henry the Great deceased in the month of October, 1604. By the which he had allowed the said foundation; and for so much as it should be necessary, confirmed the said Privileges and rights.  
Other Letters in the form of a Commonalty of the month of December 1622. bearing such a like Confirmation, underneath which is the Registering of the Parliament at Tholouse, of the ninth of january 1623. A Decree of the said Parliament of the ninth of March of the said year 1623. Because the said Demandants should enjoy the effect of the said Letters. And a Copy of an Act from the Assembly kept in the great Hall of the College and University at Aix, on the twentie-fifth day of April of the said year 1623. by those of the said College and University. A Copy of the Letters which the said Defendants have obtained in the Chancery at Tholouse the twelfth of April 1624. for being received as Opposants against the Decree of the abovesaid Registering. An exploit of an Assignment of the fourth of May 1624. An Extract of a Presentation done in the said Assignment on the seaventeenth day following. A Decree of the said Parliament at Tholouse the thirteenth day of july, in the said year 1623. between the Society of the said Universities at Tholouse, Balance, and Cahors, having obtained the King's Letters against the said Society of the Fathers the jesuites at Tournon. By the which allowing the said Letters, the said Obtainers were received as Opposants to the Examination of the said Decree of the Registering; and without having any regard thereunto, the said Fathers the jesuits at Tournon were forbidden that they should take upon them any name, title, or quality of an University, neither to give any Catholics of Study, nor any Degrees in any Faculty, nor any nomination to the Benefices, upon penalty of dissolution, and other sentences: nevertheless that all Testimonial Degrees and Nominations, which are given by them by authority of the same Decree of the Registering, should be of no value. And also they which might have obtained them, are forbidden not to use the same upon penalty of the five hundred pounds, without prejudice of the said Decree of the Registering concerning the union of the benefits there only mentioned. A Decree of the said Parliament at Tholouse of the eleventh of the said month of july, saying, That notwithstanding the things abovesaid and alleged by Brun, Attorney of the Society of the College of the jesuites at Tournon he should possess, and the parties should appear precisely on Thursday next. An Act of an Attestation of the twentie-fourth of May 1624. passed before the Seneschal at Tholouse, that Master john de Brun, Attorney in the Court, was Attorney of the said Fathers the jesuites, which are of the jurisdiction of the Parliament at Tholouse, and in the said quality did all their business, as well in demanding as defending. Another Decree from the Parliament upon a Petition of the chief Attorney of the eleventh of August 1623. By which all Rectors, Principals, and Overseers of the Colleges, and of the jurisdiction as well of the said Fathers the jesuites, as others, were forbidden to give any testimonials of the Study in Parchment, with a seal, nor with a Preface. A choir of writing Paper Printed, containing the declarations of the twenty one of january 154 and of the twenty-third of june 1594. And Letters Patents of the month of December 1610. of the privileges granted by the King to the said Universities at Paris. And the Decrees in consequence given to the privy Council the seaventeenth of December 1604. and the nineteenth of November 1612. A Petition of an Intervention of the said Rector, Deans, Attorneys, and Deputies of the said University at Paris, the parties interposing themselves were received the seaventeenth of june last passed. A signification of the twentieth of the said Month. Another Petition of Intervention of the Rector, Doctor, and Regent of the University at Bourdeaux, the parties interposing themselves were received, and there was an Act given unto them of that they had employed for the Intervention of the said Petition, and of that which had been written and produced by the said University at Paris; as also those at Tholouse, Valence, and Cahors, the twentith of this present month of September. A signification of the said day. Another Petition of Intervention from the Rector, Doctors, and Deputies of the University at Reims, the parties interposing themselves, were received the twentie-fifth of the said month of September. A signification of the same day. Another Petition of Intervention from the Rector, Deans, and Deputies of the University at Poitiers; the parties interposing were received in the month of june last passed. An Act of a declaration, that for all their Productions and Intervention, they did employ the said Petition, and all that which had been written and produced by the University at Paris. A signification of the month of September than next following. Another Petition of Intervention from the Rector, Deans, and Deputies of the University of Caen; the parties interposing themselves were received the twenty-two of the said month of june. An Act of a declaration that he would employ the said Petition for their Production, and all that which had been produced and written by the University at Paris. A signification of the twenty-third of September. A Petition of Intervention from the Rectors, Deans, and Doctors of the Universities at Bourges, and Orleans; the parties interposing themselves were received the twentieth of September, and an Act of their employment. A signification of the said day. Petitions of Intervention from the University at Aix, and Angers. A Petition of the Chancellor, Rector, and Doctors of the University of Cahors, that they did employ for their Production that which had been written and produced by the said Rector, and Doctors of the University at Tholouse, whereof they haud had an Act the twelfth of August last passed. A signification of the said day: a Petition of the Society at Tholouse.  
A decree upon the same that the Parties may be heard throughly of the same day the ninteenth day of july last passed. A direction in consequence of the fifteenth day of August. A direction between the said parties, of the two and twentieth day of April last passed, there to communicate, writ and produce writings and productions, and all that which hath been produced before my Lord of the ludgement Court, Counsellor to the King in his Privy Council, and ordinary Master of the Petitions, of this Hall, as Commissioner hereto appointed, and to hear his report. And after that Master john Aubert Rector of the said University at Paris, hath been heard for all the Universities at France, being. The King and his Council at the same Instance of abrogation hath acquitted, and doth acquit the said Parties out of fuite; Provided that the Demanders may provide themselves by a civil Petition against the said Decree in the said Parliament at Tholouse, and there beside upon the final conclusion of the said Interposers, his Majesty doth ordain that they should provide themselves so as they should think it fit, and without cost. Done in the King's privy Council kept at S. German en Say the seven and twentith day of September 1624. And this underneath conferred.  
Signed. De Choisy.   

Lewis by the Grace of God, King of France and Navarre, to Our chief Usher and Sargieant, hereunto required, send greeting. We do charge & command you by these presents, that the Decree of our Council hereto annexed under Our Counter-seale given to day between the Society of the University of the Town of Tournon, of the Society of jesus, Demandant and Defendant on the one part, and the Agent of the University at Tholouse, Balance and Cahors, Defendants; and the said Agent of Tholouse, Demandant on the other part; And also the Rectors, Deans, Atturnyes, Doctors, Regent's, and Deputies of the Universities at Paris, Bourdeaux, Rheims, Poitiers, Caen, Bourges, Orleans, Angers and Aix, deposing themselves on the other part: That you do signify unto the said Agent of the Society of jesus, and all other to whom it shall appertain, that they do not pretend any cause of Ignorance, but that they do obey hereunto: Commanding them in Our name, not to do any thing against it, but to do this and all other acts and exploits required, and necessary for the execution of Our said Decree, upon the request of the said Doctor, Deane, Attorney, and Deputy of the said University at Paris, We do charge you, without demanding any leave. Hereof fail you not, for so is Our pleasure. Given at S.  en Lay, the 27. of September, Anno Dom. 1624. and of Our Reign the 15.  
Underneath is written by the King and his Council.  
Signed De Choisy.  
FINIS.   

A GAG FOR THE POPE, AND THE JESVITS: OR THE ARRAIGNMENT, AND EXECUTION OF ANTICHRIST.  
Showing plainly, that Antichrist shall be discovered, and punished in this World: to the amazement of all obstinate PAPISTS.  
LONDON Printed by I. D. for Edward Blackmore, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Great South-dore of Paul's. 1624.