AN ACT OR DECREE OF THE covert OF PARLIAMENT OF PARISH, made the 26. and executed the 27. of JUNE. 1614  
Against a Book printed at Cologne this present year, entitled FRANCISCI SVARES Granatensis è SOCIETATE JESV Doctoris Theologi, Defensio fidei Catholicae & Apostolicae, adversus Anglicanae sectae errores: containing divers Principles and Propositions repugnant to the sovereign power of Kings, ordained and established by God, the safety of their Persons, and the peace and tranquillity of their States.  
Translated out of the French Copy, printed at Paris, by F. MOREL and PETER METTAYER, the King's Printers and Stationers in Ordinary, with his majesties privilege, 1614  
LONDON: Printed for john Barnes, and are to be sold at his Shop, under the sign of the Cardinals-hat without Newgate, 1614   

TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.  
THou hast here (gentle Reader) an Edict and Censure, published by the State of France, against the Book of FRANCIS SVARES, intended for answer to his MAJESTY; which as it is not the first taste they have given to the world of their mislike of sundry Positions maintained and defended by the Jesuits; so neither is this the first borne of my Labours, which thy courteous acceptance hath entreated from me, of exposing to thy view in thy native language, sundry narrations and learned Treatises set forth in French. The printed Copy hereof as it came to my hands, I have subjoined; that thou mayst see this Spanish Goliath, or Popish Champion, invading the King of England, Armado-like, brought to confusion before he cometh to grapple with his enemy. This is he who neither daunted to see LESSIUS beaten, nor BECANUS cast into the fire of Purgatory, lifteth up his arm against the Lords Anointed.  
Now to thee, Romish-affected whosoever thou art, behold your SVARES, Sidus Hispanicum, imò & jesuiticum; The Lodestar of Spain, and glory of his Order, censured, not for his private opinion, but for a common tenant of the Jesuits: some there are, who through favour to the Man and his Order, have not feared to incur the displeasure of his Majesty, censure of our State, and danger of the Laws and Statutes of this Land, in maintaining the doctrine of this Book: but of the meliora spero, I am better conceited: assuring myself that seeing these and the like Doctrines find no better entertainment with these learned Frenchmen (as zealous for the Catholic Faith as thyself) neither the report of their learning, the high commendations of their zeal and gravity, nor the usurped title of the Catholic Faith, shall henceforth lull thee asleep to forget thy duty to thy King and Country; but reddere quae sunt Caesaris Caesari, & quae sunt Dei Deo, teach thee to give unto Caesar those things which are Caesar's, and unto God those things which are Gods: and stop thine ears against the Circean Language of this late-sprung-up Impostors; And in admiration as heretofore some certain Catholics have done, cry out, Good God, that such a Society of men, after so many scandals and foul deserts of theirs in FRANCE, and elsewhere, for PRINCE-KILLING SEDITION, etc. can thus be of credit in ENGLAND? A. C. to his disiesuited Kinsman, pag. 72. And so I leave this and the rest, commended to thy best acceptance.  
Farewell. Thine I. B.   

AN ACT OR DECREE OF THE covert OF Parliament of PARIS, made the 26. and executed the 27. of june. 1614  
THE Court of the great Chamber, Tournelle, and of the Edict assembled, having viewed the Book printed at Cologne this present year, entitled, FRANCISCI SVARES Granatensis, è Societate JESV, Doctoris Theologi, Defensio Fidei Catholicae & Apostolicae, adversus Anglicanae sectae errores, containing in the third Book, Chapter 23. pages 376. 79. 80. 82. Chapter 29. pages 410. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19 20. Chapt. 6. page 834. Chapt. 8. page 484. and in other places, many Propositions contrary to the sovereign power of Kings, ordained and established by GOD, the peace and tranquillity of their States; and that it is lawful for their Subjects, and Strangers, to attempt against their Persons.  

Conclusions of the King's Attorney General. The whole duly considered,  
THE said Court hath declared, and doth declare, the Propositions and Principles contained in the said Book, to be scandalous and seditious, tending to the subversion of States, and to induce the Subjects of Kings, and Sovereign Princes, and others, to attempt against their sacred persons: and the speeches mentioning the Kings Chlowis and Philip the fair, to be false and slanderous: hath also ordained, and doth ordain, that the said Book of Suares be burned in the Court of the Palace, by the Executioner of high justice.  
Furthermore, it hath and doth inhibit and forbid all sellers of Books and Printers, to print, sell, or disperse any of the said books: as also, all other persons of whatsoever calling or condition, to transcribe, have, to write out, or to retain, or to teach in Schools or elsewhere; or else to dispute upon the said Principles or Propositions.  
It also ordaineth according to the decree of the 8. of june 1610. that the Decree of the faculty of Divinity, made upon the fourth of june in the same year, concerning the renewing of the doctrinal censure of the said faculty, bearing date the year 1408. and confirmed by the Council of Constance, together with this present Act, as also those of the years 1578. and 95. shall yearly be read the fourth day of june, as well in the said faculty, as in the College of the Priests and Scholars of the College of Clermont, and of the four Orders of begging Friars. Also, that at the request of the King's Attorney General, Informations shall be taken of the contraventions against the said Decrees, and Prohibitions made against writing, having or detaining the like Books. Given in Parliament the twenty sixth day of june, 1614  
Signed Voisin.   

furthermore, it is decreed that the Fathers, Ignace Armand, Rector in this City, Cotton, Fronton, and Sirmund, shall be summoned the first day to this Court, and to them shall be showed, that contrary to their declaration and the Decree of their General of the year 1610. the Book of Suares hath been printed and brought into this City, a Book impugning the authority of the King, and the safety of his Person and State: and they shall be enjoined to cause their General to renew the said Decree; and to publish it, and to bring in an Act thereof within these six Months, and to provide that no such damnable and pernicious Propositions be made or published by any of their Company: as also, they shall be enjoined in their Sermons to exhort the people to the doctrine contrary to the said Propositions; otherwise the Court will proceed against the transgressors, as men guilty of Treason and disturbers of the public quietness.  
This abovesaid Decree, and the decreed, were pronounced in the presence of the Father's Ignace Armand, Charles de la Tour, in the absence of Peter Cotton, Fronton du Duc, and james Sirmund. And the Decree was put in execution before the great Stairs of the Palace, the 27. of June. 1614   
FINIS.