COP●● OF A LATE DECREE OF the Sorbone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, for the condemning of that impious and heretical opinion touching the murdering 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; Generally maintained by the jesuits, And amongst the rest, of late by JOANNES MARIANA, a Spaniard▪ Together, with the Arrest of the Parliament, for 〈…〉 that Decree, And the condemns 〈…〉 Mariana's Book 〈…〉  by the Executioner.  
¶ Taken out of the Register of the Parliament, and translated into English.  
¶ IMPRINTED AT LONDON by R.B. ANNO 1610.   

THE PREAMBLE.  
IT hath been long since observed, that England whilst it was in captivity and bondage under the Bishop of Rome, was of all other countries most oppressed with his intolerable exactions, and most heavy impositions. In so much as this our most noble Country was termed by the Frenchmen the Pope's Ass; and one of the Popes own Cardinals, in the days of Innocentius 4. understanding of the polling and pillage which the Roman Collectors and ministers did use in this Country, to the great grief of the inhabitants thereof, of, did in compassion use these words to the said Pope, Anglia nostrís iniurijs multoties laesa, quasi Asina Balaam, calcaribus & fustibus caesa, tandem loquitur & obloquitur, & se nimis & intolerabiliter conqueritur fatigatam, & instaurabiliter damnificatam; England many times wounded with our injuries, and beaten as it had been Balaams' ass, with spurs and clubs, at the last doth speak and repine at it, and doth complain, that she was too much and intolerably wearied, and irrecoverably damnified. Into which blockish thraldom this kingdom was brought, through the lewdness, false practices, and impostures of the Priests, who by their counterfeit miracles, and Revelations, touching the several pains and punishment of souls in Purgatory, so terrified the minds of men and women (brought up in ignorance and more than aegyptiacal darkness) as they led them hither and thither like brute beasts, for the compassing of their own designs, that they, and the Pope their master might tyrannize as they list. And although the juggling and fraud of the Bishop of Rome, and his traitorous brood, is now more publicly known to all the world, and especially to us here in England, than it was in former times: Yet as if we meant to be Asses still, it is incredible, how many are daily seduced with toys and babbles by such lewd Priests and jesuits, as having been traitorously brought up in the Seminaries beyond the Seas, and learned all the false sleights and juggling tricks that those places can afford, do lurk, upon their stealth into England, in many corners within this Realm, studying with all their skill, not only to imitate their Predecessors in all their wicked and lewd practices, but to go therein far beyond them; as being Vipers of a more detestable generation, than we ever heard of in this Country, or in any other Christian Kingdom or Nation in the days and times of our forefathers. And as it is observed by Philo the jew, of the old Scribes and Pharisees before the coming of our Saviour CHRIST, how mightily they prevailed and were followed by women; so now it happeneth and falleth out in this Kingdom with that sex, that these new Scribes and Pharisees, the jesuits and Priests that adhere unto them, do strangely bewitch them, having more secret conversation with them, under pretence of Confession, then in some politic considerations perhaps is convenient. It is too well known to this false brood of Romish Priests and hypocrites, how easily, and by what light sleights women may be seduced: neither are they ignorant, when they have so done, what mischief doth thereby (for the most part) happen, in those families, where such seduced women do live and bear rule, they being commonly very passionate and violent in their affections and opinions. But it were less hurt, if these new Scribes and Pharisees did limit their false practices to the inveigling and seducing of women, and that they did not in like sort seek with all their Engines and devilish stratagems to infect with their poison young Gentlemen, and such others of the Laity, as they can by any means induce to give ear unto them; most men (not well grounded) being soon weary of the present estate wherein they live, and ever desirous of Novelties, (especially we in England,) if they tend to superstition and Idolatry: Whereby it falleth out, according to the nature of pestilent corruption and poison, which worketh very violently when it is taken, that the late sort of Recusants in England, men and women of all sorts (which have been perverted and poisoned by the said new jesuitical brood, and other Impostors of their strain) are grown into great fury, enduring with no patience at all, to be in any wise impugned. For the more violent the poisoned opinions are, wherewith they are perverted, the more desperate and audacious they are become, to uphold and defend them. The Powder-Treason in England had many abetters; and that lewd jesuite Garnet, drawn and hanged for his Treason, is now become a Martyr, and wanteth not the confirmation of his Martyrdom by a strange miracle in a straw, devised and published by two lewd Recusants in London, one Griffin a tailor, and Wilkinson a young silk man▪ And it is not to be doubted, a jesuite very lately having written an Apology in the behalf of the said lewd Traitor, (the same being approved by the General of the jesuits in Rome, after it was allowed by three other jesuits) but that our Recusants in England of the furious stamp, will hereafter, as they dare, justify the said villainous Traitor. When the Oath of Allegiance Anno 3. Regis jacobi was made and confirmed by Act of Parliament, it is probably supposed, that all the Recusants in England would willingly have taken it, as sundry of them began, had not the jesuits opposed themselves, and procured the Pope to command the contrary. Since which time it is evident, how many have refused, (as being bewitched and cast into a reprobate sense) to receive the said Oath, divers even of the more moderate sort, as well Priests as other persons, pretending that they cannot in conscience receive it, because the traitorous positions concerning the deposing or murdering of Princes by their Subjects (there being little difference betwixt them, in that it hath been seldom seen, that such traitorous Subjects as were able to depose their Sovereigns, did ever think it policy to suffer them to live) are there termed to be heretical. False and diabolical assuredly they are, and directly contrary to the two first Commandments of the second Table, Honour thy father and mother; and Thou shalt do no murder; And then, if they have been wilfully and publicly defended by any, why they should not be acknowledged for damnable Heresies, I for my part cannot discern. For I agree in judgement herein with Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln (in the days of Henry the 3. King of this Realm) where he defineth Heresy in these words; Haeresis est sententia humano sensu electa, Scripturae sacrae contraria, palam edocta, pertinaciter defensa: Heresy is an opinion chosen by human sense, contrary to the Scripture, publicly taught, and wilfully defended. How these false lewd and traitorous opinions have been published to the world, and shamefully maintained, it doth appear by divers books and Treatises, printed and divulged, to the perpetual shame of the Authors and approvers of them: As by the book entitled De iustâ abdicatione Hen. 3. and by another not long since, Viz. Decemb. 13. An. 1598. allowed to be Printed In Coenobio Madriti, at Madrill in Spain, by Friar Peter de Onna the Principal of that Order, and compiled by john Mariana, a Spanish jesuite, at that time Schoolmaster to the now King. This second book is thus entitled, johannis Marianae Hispani è societate jesu, De Rege & Regis institutione libri tres ad Philippum 3. Hispaniae Regem Catholicum; Three books of john Mariana, a Spaniard, of the society of jesus, Of a King, & Of the instruction, or bringing up of a King, to Philip the 3. the Catholic king of Spain. And the Author of it hath the now King's Licence, that none within his dominions under a certain penalty, shall print it, nisi de Authoris voluntate, without the Author's consent. In this book the murdering of Princes by private persons, is in direct terms fully approved, and particularly the butcherous and traitorous slaughter of the French King Henry the 3. by james Clement a Dominicane. Against which traitorous, devilish and heretical doctrine, divers learned men have opposed themselves, and lately the University of Paris, upon the barbarous murder of their late renowned King Henry the 4. who besides their detestation of that fact, do fully conclude the said new conceit of murdering of Kings and Sovereign Princes, to be a very lewd and heretical opinion. The Act of whose proceed coming to my friends hands, together with the Arrest of the Parliament of Paris, for the condemning, drawing through the streets, and burning of the said book of john Mariana, he hath thought it fit to offer to the Press to be published in Print, if so it might seem good to some in Authority: to the end that thereby, if it were possible, not only the malignant humours of the more furious sort of our Popish Recusants, might be abated, when they shall find their treacherous and traitorous schoolmasters, the jesuits, with their adherents, to be condemned for Heretics; but that also the milder and more moderate sort of Priests, and other Recusants, might be induced not to refuse the said Oath of Allegiance, because the said conceits of murdering of Princes (a consequent in effect of deposing them) is therein termed an heretical opinion. And so I refer you to the Acts themselves, as they were copied out of the Register of the Parliament of Paris.  
J. B.   

ANNO DOM. M.DC.X.  

CUM SACRA THEOLOGIÆ facultas, ob festa Pentecostes, & Comitia privata, inter viros selectos Ordinis Theologiae, in presenti negotio agitata, suos statos & ordinarios conventus prima aut secunda die Junii habere non potuisset, illos in diem quartum Junii transtulit, atque omnes Magistros Theologiae, in vim obedientiae, quam emisso sacramento Facultati sposponderunt, in Collegium SORBONICUM convocavit, ubi post Missam de Sancto Spiritu more solito celebratam, deliberârunt super executione Senatusconsulti, cuius haec summa est.  
CVria Parlamenti, Decurijs, maiore rerum Capitalium, atque Edictivnd congregatis, procedendo ad judicium & litem capitalem, ac extraordinariam, Cognitoris generalis Regis postulatione instructam, adversus nefandissimum, crudelisimum, & execratissimum parricidium, in sacratam personam HENRICI 4. Regis patratum, audito Cognitore generali Regio, decrevit, atque decernit, ut diligentia & procuratione Decani & Syndici Facultatis Theologiae, eadem facultas quàm primùm convocetur, ad deliberandum super confirmatione Decreti praedictae Facultatis, quod die xiii. Decembris Anno M. CCCC. XIII. à centum quadraginta & uno Theologis eiusdem facultatis constitutum, dehinc Concilij Constantiensis authoritate roboratum fuit. Quo Decreto definitur; Nemini licitum esse, quacunque occasione, causa vel praetextu quaesito, Sacrosanctis Regum & aliorum Principum supremorum personis vim inferre; Deinde, ut Decretum quod in eiusdem facultatis Comitijs statuetur, omnium Doctorum, qui Comitijs & deliberationi interfuerint, nec non etiam omnium Baccalaureorum, qui cursum Theologicum decurrunt, syngraphis muniatur; Quò tùm demum, auditô super eare Cognitore generali Regio, Curia decernat quod justum & rationi conform erit. Datum in Parlamento xxvij. Maij, Anno Domini 1610. Signatum. Voisin.  
ITaque eadem sacra facultas, ut mandato amplissimi Ordinis, tàm justa & necessaria praecipientis obtemperaret, primùm privata, deinde publica habuit Comitia. Considerans autem sibi ex officio incumbere, ut suam Censuram & judicium doctrinale cunctis illud poscentibus declaret, atque Parisiensem Academiam à primis suis incunabilis parentem & alumnam optimae ac saluberrimae Doctrinae perpetuo extitisse, & tranquillitatem Reip. ab ordine, ordinem porrò & pacem (secundum Deum opt. Max.) à Regum & Principum salute pendere; ac solius esse principis aut potestatis politicae, gladio uti; atque insuper paucis ab hinc annis nonnulla peregrina, seditiosa atque impia dogmata invaluisse, quib. plerique privati homines dementati, Sacrosanctos Reges & Principes excrranda appellatione Tyranni contaminare, hôcque nefario praetextu, necnon Religionis, pietatis, aut boni publici iwandi, vel promovendi specie, in Sacrosancta Regum & Principum capita conspirare, suasque manus parricidas sacro Illorum sanguine cruentare, & continuò patentissimam fenestram aperire non horrent ad perfidiam, ad fraudes, insidias, proditiones, populorum interneciones, urbium, Provinciarum, ac Regnorum florentissimorum excidia, & alia innumerabilia nequitiae genera, quae civilia aut interna bella concomitari solent, haec demùm pestifera & diabolica dogmata hody in causa esse, ut qui discessionem ab Ecclesiâ Catholicâ Romanâ fecerint, in suo errore obdurescant, virosque religiosos, Doctores & Praelatos Catholicos, quanquam insontes, quasi talia docerent vel authorarent, fugiant & detestentur:  
Eadem (inquam) Facultas haec & similia consideratè perpendens, magna animorum consensione & alacritate, ista peregrina & seditiosa dogmata, velut impia, haeretica, societati civili, paci & tranquillitati publicae, ac Religioni Catholicae penitus contraria execratur, atque condemnat. In cuius rei fidem, ac testimonium, Decretum antiquum sibi de integro renovandum esse duxit, quod ducentis ab hinc annis à 141 Theologis sancitum fuit, in condemnationem huius execrabilis propositionis.  Quilibet Tyrannus potest & debet licitè & meritoriè occidi, à quocunque suo vassallo aut subdito, & per quemcunque modum, per insidias & per adulationes, non obstante quocunque juramento, aut confoederatione facta apud eum, non expectando sententiam aut mandatum judicis cuiuscunque. 
Haec assertio sic generaliter posita, & secundum acceptionem huius vocabuli (Tyrannus) est error in nostrâ fide, & doctrinâ bonorum morum, & est contra praeceptum Dei, Non occides: & contra hoc, quod dicit Dominus noster, Omnes qui gladium acceperint, gladio peribunt. Item haec Assertio vergit in subversionem totius Reipub. & uniuscuiusque Regis aut Principis. Item dat viam & licentiam ad plura alia mala, & ad fraudes & violationes fidei, & juramenti, & ad proditiones, & generaliter ad omnem inobedientiam subiecti ad Dominum suum, & ad omnem infidelitatem & diffidentian unius ad alterum, & consequenter ad aeternam damnationem. Item ille qui affirmat obstinatè talem errorem, & alios qui inde sequuntur, est haereticus, & tanquam haereticus debet puniri, etiam post suam mortem. Notetur in Decretis twenty-three. ix. V. & Act. Anno M. CCCC. XIII. die Mercurij xiii. Decembris.  
Quae Censura Facultatis Parisiensis in Synodo Constantiensi, Sessione xv. Anno M. CCCC. XV. pridie Nonas julij, his conceptis verbis comprobata füit.  
PRaecipuâ solicitudine volens haec sacrosancta Synodus, ad extirpationem errorum & haeresium in diversis mundi partibus invalescentium providere, sicut tenetur, & ad hoc collecta est, nuper accepit, quod nonnullae assertiones in fide, & bonis moribus, ac multipliciter scandalosae, totiusque Reip. statum, & ordinem subvertere molientes, dogmatisatae sunt; inter quas haec Assertio delata est; Quilibet Tyrannus potest & debet licitè & meritoriè occidi per quemcunque vassallun suum, vel subditum, etiam per clanculares insidias, & subtiles blanditias vel adulationes, non obstante quocunque pręstito juramento, vel confoederatione facta, nec expectatâ sententiâ, vel Mandato judicis cuiuscunque.  
Aduersus hunc errorem satagens haec sancta Synodus insurgere, & ipsum funditùs tollere, praehabitâ deliberatione maturâ declarat, decernit, & definit, huiusmodi doctrinam erroneam esse in fide & moribus, ipsamque tanquam haereticam, scandalosam, & ad frandes, deceptiones, mendacia, proditiones, periuria, vias dantem, reprobat, & condemnat. Declarat insuper, decernit, & defifinit, quod pertinaciter doctrinam hanc perniciosissimam asserentes, sunt haeretici, & tanquam tales, juxta Canonicas sanctiones puniendi.  
Sacra igitur Facultas strictè, accurateque, exploratis omnium & singulorum Doctorum suffragijs, Primò statuit antiquissimam illam Censuram Facultatis, Synodi Constantiensis sanctione firmatam, non modò iterari, verùm etiam omnium hominum animis inculcari debere. Secundò censet seditiosum, impium, & haereticum esse, quocunque quaesito colore, à subdito, vassallo, aut extraneo, sacris Regum & Principum personis vim inferri. Tertiò statuit, ut omnes Doctores & Baccalaurei Theologiae, quo die in instituta & Articulos Facultatis jurare consueverunt, in hoc similiter Decretum iurent, ac syngraphae suae appositione obtestentur, se illius veritatem, docendo & concionando, diligenter explicaturos. Quartò, ut haec Acta cùm Latinè tùm Gallicè typis mandentur, & promulgentur.  
De mandato Domini Decani & sacrae Facultatis Theologiae Parisiensis, Signé DE LA COUR. Collatione factâ. Signé. VOYSIN.   

VEu, par la COUR, les Grand Chambre, Tournelles, & l'Edict assemblies, le Decret de la Facultè de theology Assemblée le quatriesme du present mois de Iuin, suiuant l'Arrest du 27. May precedent sur le renowellement de la Censure doctrinale de la dicte Faculté faicte en l'an 1413; confirmee par le S. Concile de Constance; Que c'est heresy pleine d'impiete, de maintenir qu'il soit loisible aux subjects, ou estrangers soubsquelque pretext & occasion, qui puisse estre, d'attenter au personnes sacrées des Roys, & Princes Souuerains; Le liure de JEAN MARIANA, intitulé De Rege & Regis institutione, imprimé tant á Mayence qu'autres lieux, contenant plusieurs blasphemes execrables contre le feu Roy HENRY 3. de tresheureuse memoire; les personnes & estats des Roys, & Princes souuerains; & aultres Propositions contraires au dict Decret; Conclusions du Procureur general du Roy; Lamatiere mise en deliberation;  
La dicte Cour à ordonné, & ordonne, que le dict Decret du 4. du present Mois de Iuin, sera registré es Registres d'Icelle; ouy & ce requerant le Procureur general du Roy; & leu par chacun an â pareil iour, 4. de Iuin, in l'assembleé de la dicte Faculté, & publié au premier iour de Dimanche es Prosnes des Paroisses de ceste Ville, & Faulxbourgs de Paris: Ordonne, que le liure de MARIANA sera bruslé par l'Executeur de la haute justice devant l'Eglise de Paris. Et à fait & fait inhibitions & defenses a toutes personnes de quelque estat, qualité & condition qu'elles soyent, sur pain de crime de lese Maiesté, d'escrire ou fair imprimer aucuns liures, ou Traité contreuenants au dict Decret, & Arrest d'Icelle. Ordonne, que copies collationneés aux Originaux du dict Decret, & present Arrest seront enuoyeés aux Bailliages & seneschausseés de ce Resort, pour yestre leaves & publieés en la form & maniere accostumee; & outre es Prosnes des Parroisses des Villes, Faulxbourgs & autres Bourgs, le premier Dimanche du Mois de Iuin. Enjoint aux Baillifs & Seneschaux proceder a la dicte publication, & aux substituts dú Procureur general du Roy, tenir la main a l'execution; & certifier la Cour de leur diligence au mois. Fait en Parlement le 8. de Iuin. Mil▪ six cent dix.    

¶ COPIED OUT OF THE Acts of the Court of Parliament.  

ANNO DOMINI 1610.  
THE SACRED FACULTY OF DIVINES, not being able, by reason of the feast of Pentecost, and of some private meetings held touching this present business by certain selected persons of that Order, to keep their annual, and ordinary Assemblies on the first and second of june, assigned them over unto the fourth of the same, and summoned by virtue of their obedience sworn unto that Faculty, all the Graduates in Divinity, unto the College of the SORBONE. Where after celebration of the Mass de sancto Spiritu, (as the usual manner is) they entered into consultation touching the performance and execution of the Arrest of Parliament: the tenor whereof ensueth.  

THE covert, the Great Chamber, the Tournell, and the Chamber of the Edict being assembled, and proceeding to judgement in the process criminal and extraordinary, commenced and prosecuted at the suit of the King's Attorney General, against the most barbarous, bloody, and execrable murder committed upon the sacred person of King HENRY the fourth, the matter being set forth by the Kings said Attorney, hath ordered, and doth hereby order, that by the diligence and procurement of the Dean and Syndicke of the Faculty of Divines, the said Faculty be forthwith assembled, to consult together touching the confirmation of a certain Decree made the 13. of December 1413. by 141. Divines of that Faculty, and afterwards ratified by the authority of the Counsel of Constance. In which Decree it is defined: That it is not lawful for any man upon what occasion, cause, or devised colour soever, to attempt any violence against the sacred persons of Kings and Sovereign Princes. Next, that order betaken, that what shall be decreed in the assembly of the said Faculty, be confirmed by the subscription of all the Doctors, and Bachelors now passing their course in Divinity, which shallbe present at the said meeting and consultation. That thereupon the Court, calling the King's Attorney thereunto, may take such course as shallbe agreeable to justice and equity. Given in Parliament on the 27. of May, AN NO DOM. 1610. Signed. Voisin.   
WHerefore, the said sacred Faculty, for the performance of the direction and commandment of the said Court in a matter so just and requisite, did first assemble themselves privately, and then in public. And weighing with themselves; That they were in duty bound to yield their opinion and judgement in points of doctrine to whosoever should demand it: That the University of París hath ever from her first original, been the mother and nurse of the most Catholic, and wholesome doctrine: That the peace of a State dependeth chief upon Order, and both order and peace (next and immediately under God,) upon the safety and preservation of Kings and Princes: That it only appertaineth unto the Prince and Civil power to use the sword: That notwithstanding within these later years, certain strange, seditious, and impious Positions have taken footing, whereby many private persons being transported, fear not to stain anointed Kings and Princes with the detestable term and style of Tyrants, and under this accursed pretence, or by colour of furthering or advancing Religion, piety, or the public good, do conspire against the anointed persons of Kings and Princes, imbruing their murderous hands with their sacred blood, and thereby opening a large window to all infidelity, practices, treacheries, treasons, slaughters of people, ruins of Cities, Countries, and most flourishing kingdoms, and a thousand sorts of mischiefs beside, (the ordinary attendants of Civil, and intestine wars:) and that lastly these pestilent and diabolical points of doctrine, are the cause that such as have departed from the Catholic Roman Church, are obdurate in their errors, shunning, and detesting (although without cause) other Religious persons, and Catholic Doctors and Prelates, as if they were the Authors or patrons of those opinions:  
These and such like reasons the Faculty maturely pondering, doth with great unanimity of consent and alacrity, accurse and condemn the said strange and seditious opinions, as impious, heretical, and most repugnant to Civil society, to the peace and good of the State, and to Catholic religion. In confirmation and witness whereof, they thought it fit to renew the ancient Decree established two hundred years ago by 141. Divines, in condemnation of this damnable Position: That every Tyrant may and ought lawfully and meritoriously to be murdered by any his vassal or subject whatsoever, and by what mean soever, whether by treachery, or subtle insinuation, notwithstanding any Oath or promised Allegiance made unto him, nay, not so much as expecting the sentence or warrant of any judge whatsoever.  
This Assertion being thus generally laid, and as this word Tyrannus, is or may be taken, is an error in faith, and in the doctrine of good manners, being flatly repugnant to that Commandment of God: Thou shalt not kill: and to that saying of our Saviour: That whosoever shall strike with the sword, shall perish with the sword. The same also tendeth to the subversion of the whole Common wealth, and of all Kings and Princes: giving way, and free liberty to a world of mischiefs, fraud, breach of faith and oath, treason, and in a word to all disobedience of the Subject towards his Lord, and to all disloyalty and distrust of the one to the other, and consequently to eternal damnation. Whosoever therefore shall obstinately maintain the said error & others thereout ensuing, is an haereticke, and to be punished as an haereticke, even after death. Let it be recorded in the decrees 23.9. V and dated 1413. on Wednesday the thirteenth of December.  
This Censure of the Faculty of Paris was after ratified in the Council of Constance sess. 15. on the 6. of july, 1415: in these words:  

THis sacred Synod having an especial care (as in truth it ought, being to that purpose assembled) to provide for the extirpation of all errors and heresies, which have set foot into divers parts of the world, hath been lately advertised, that certain Assertions have been published very scandalous aswell in faith and manners, as sundrywise else, and tending to the overthrow of the whole State and government of the Common wealth, amongst which this is delivered to be one: That every Tyrant may and ought lawfully and meritoriously to be murdered by any his Vassal or Subject whatsoever, either by close treachery, or by smooth practices, and insinuations, notwithstanding any Oath taken or promise of Allegiance made unto him: nay not so much as expecting the sentence or warrant of any judge whatsoever.  
Against which error this holy Synod addressing itself to make head, and utterly to extinguish the same, after mature deliberation doth pronounce, decree, and define, that this doctrine is erroneous in faith and manners, and doth reject and condemn it, as heretical and scandalous, opening a gap to fraud, deceit, dissimulation, treason, and perjury. It doth moreover declare, decree, and define, that they who shall obstinately maintain this pernicious doctrine, are heretics, and as such to be punished, according to the Canonical decrees.   
Wherefore, the sacred Faculty, having strictly and carefully demanded the suffrages of all and every of the Doctors, doth determine; first, that the said most ancient Censure of the Faculty confirmed by the Decree of the Counsel of Constance, ought not only to be renewed, but by frequent iteration to be imprinted in the minds of all men. Secondly, that it is traitorous, wicked, and heretical, that any subject, vassal, or stranger should upon any pretext whatsoever, offer violence unto the sacred persons of Kings and Princes. Thirdly it decreeth, that all Doctors, and Bachelors of Divinity, upon that day when they are accustomed to swear unto the Orders, and Articles of the Faculty, they do likewise swear unto this decree, and by their subscription promise, that they will in their Lectures and Sermons diligently set forth the truth thereof. Fourthly, that these Acts be published in Print, aswell in Latin, as in French.  
By the direction of the Dean, and Sacred Faculty of Divines at Paris. Signed DE LA COUR. Compared with the original, Signed. VOISIN.   

THERE being viewed by the Court, the great Chamber, the Tournell and the Chamber of the Edict assembled, the Decree of the Faculty of Divines meeting together on the 24. of this present month of june, according to an Arrest of the 27. of May last past, for the renewing of the censure and doctrinal resolution of the said Faculty, delivered in the year 1413. and confirmed by the holy Council of Constance, that it is a very impious heresy, to maintain it to be lawful for Subjects or strangers, upon what pretence and occasion soever, to attempt upon the sacred persons of Kings and Sovereign Princes: there being also viewed a certain book written by JOHN MARIANA, entitled: De Rege & Regis institutione: printed aswell at Mayence as elsewhere, containing many detestable blasphemies against the late King of happy memory HENRY the third; and a-against the persons and States of Kings and Sovereign Princes, and divers other Positions contrary to the said Decree: the King's Attorney General having concluded, and the matter put to consultation:  
THE said Court hath ordered and doth order, that the said Decree of the fourth of this present month of june, shallbe registered in the Records of the same, at the motion and request of the King's Attorney general, and read yearly on the same day of the 4. of june in the assembly of the said Faculty, and that it shallbe published on the next Sunday in service time in the Churches of the City and Suburbs of Paris: It decreeth moreover, that Mariana's said book shall be burnt by the common Executioner before our Lady's Church in Paris: and doth inhibit and forbid all persons of what estate, quality, or condition soever, on pain of high Treason, to write, or cause to be printed the said books or tractates, being repugnant to the Decree aforesaid, and to the Sentence of this Court. It decreeth, that copies examined by the originals of the said Decree, and of this present Arrest, shallbe sent abroad into the Balliages, and Shrivalties, of this precinct, there to be read and published in the form and manner accustomed; and moreover in time of Service in the Churches of all Cities, Suburbs, and other towns on the first Sunday in june. It enjoineth the Bailiffs and sheriffs to proceed to the said publication, and to the Deputies of the King's Attorney general to see to the execution, and to certify the Court of their diligence in this behalf. Given in Parliament the 8. of june 1610.    

THat you be not ignorant of one particular occasion of these proceed against Mariana's book (which my friend in his Preface hath not touched) concurring with the general detestation of that impious doctrine of murder, the practice whereof we have seen upon the persons of two late Kings of France, HENRY the third and fourth: you shall understand that Ravillac, the villain, who gave that accursed stroke, which hath made all France to bleed, being (as in his Examinations he delivered) a long time in deliberation ere he could resolve, that it was lawful to kill the King: falling upon that book of Mariana, he found his conscience (as he said) cleared of all scruple in that point, and himself fully resolved to undertake it. And certainly the cordial doctrine, which he from thence received, so settled his resolution before hand, so steeled his heart in the execution, and after the deed seared and mortified his conscience in such sort, as that he was so far from any remorse of the fact, as the conscience and comfort thereof seemed to harden him against all sense of his punishment. For being urged by torture to confess the truth by whom he was set on work, I will give you a taste of one or two of his confessions, as I received them from thence. At one time being examined upon the rack, who were his persuaders to that accursed deed: he desired to be loosed, and he would confess the truth: which being done, and he set on his feet, he stretching out himself, told them: The truth was, that now he found himself at much more ease, than before, when he was on the torture. And this was all the truth, he would at that time confess. At another time President jannin being appointed to examine him, and pressing him very straightly to confess, who had incited him to this fact: he bade the Clerk set down that Precedent jannin had incited him thereunto: who detesting the villains desperate audaciousness therein: he replied again; Well Sir, if I should say so much at my death, I believe it would trouble you. These things being advertised from thence, I thought fit to impart unto you, as arguments of the Caitises impenitency, and final obduration, touching that execrable fact, grounded upon the doctrine so condemned: the first sparks whereof being (as appeareth) kindled in France about two hundred years since, were then trodden under foot by the Sorbone and the Council of Constance: but since have been revived by the jesuits (the most industrious purveyors for the Pope's Court) and by their Lectures and books nourished and brought to those flames that now we see: as it hath been not seldom objected unto them, but never yet by them well denied; I am sure the doctrine never publicly condemned by any resolution of their schools, as heretofore, and of late by the College of Sorbone. So as whosoever put the knife into the villains hand, it is evident, that the metal whereof it was made, (I mean the aforesaid doctrine) was tempered in their forge, and their books (as it is confessed) gave edge unto it. Neither to say truth, can it ever be imagined, that these wretched souls (such as this Ravillac and before him john Chastel) being perplexed in conscience, and almost brought to the pit of despair, with remorse of some sins of frailty, durst ever have adventured upon a malicious and deliberate purpose of murder, especially of their Sovereign; had they not been resolved in conscience by their ghostly fathers, (which office the jesuits have almost engrossed to themselves) that howsoever it were a very dangerous sin to murder a private person: yet was it a merit, able to redeem a world of former sins, to kill a king, such a one, as they should point out unto them. But whatsoever the ground may be, certain it is, there is a very hard opinion conceived of them in France touching the late murder of the King, as may appear by a brief Pasquil set up in Paris to that purpose, the occasion whereof was this. After the jesuits had stood a while banished by the Arrest of Parliament, it is too well known how the late King (though against the general wish of the whole State, and the advise of many his loyal servants) repealed that Arrest, defaced the Marble Pillar, wherein their banishment and the causes thereof were recorded, recalled them home into his Realm (all men wondering to what purpose it might be, unless it were to that, which since hath happened) took some of them too near his bosom, and that he might assure (if it were possible) their loyalty unto him, erected for their society a stately College in la Flesche, the place where he himself was borne. These religious persons, in exchange of such his gracious favours towards them, bore him likewise so zealous an affection, as they were never satisfied, until they had gotten his heart into their hands (the richest treasure he could have endowed them withal) to initiate therewith the Chapel of their new erected College. Which being obtained, and delivered unto them in a box of Silver, laid on a pillow of red Velvet, they received with solemn countenance, to carry in triumph to their said College. At whose departure it is by the way reported, that a chief Precedent of París, let fall a question unto them, coming to take their leave: Whether the King's tooth which Chastel struck out, were likewise enclosed in the box with the heart. This favour of obtaining the King's heart to bury in their College, gave occasion (amongst many other) of this Pasquil: 

Ce n'est, qu'a vous (trouppe sacrée)  
Quo'n doibt bailler le Coeur des Roys:  
Quand les grands Cerfs sont aux abboys,  
On en doibt aux chiens la Cureé.   

'tis you alone (you sacred crew)  
To whom the hearts of Kings are due.  
When the great Hearts are hunted hard,  
The entrails are the Hounds reward.    
The riddle may perhaps seem at the first somewhat obscure, but I know you will read it without a Light. And therefore I spare my pains to expound it, having already done more than I could well do, to turn it in rhyme. And so having acquainted you with those advertisements which came to my hands touching this business, being certified hither by a very credible Author, which I have to show; I cease to trouble you.  
J. W.