GOOD NEVVES FROM FRANCE.
Containing the Insolent Demands of the IESVITES.
Being against
- 1. The KINGS Authoritie.
- 2. The ordinary Iustice of his Maiestie.
- 3. The dignitie and power of the Cardinalls, Archbishops, and Bishops of other orders & professions.
- 4. The young Scholars vnder them.
- 5. The good and well-fare of the Townes and Cities which receiue them.
- 6. The perfection of Sciences.
- 7. The Antiquity & Cōmandements of the Church.
- 8. The Resolution of the Clergie of France, and the Letters Patents of the Kings; and against the Sentences of Allowance and Registring thereof, which they themselues haue pursued.
TOGETHER WITH The Decree or Finall Iudgement of the Kings Privie Councell giuen the 27. day of September 1624. In the Ioynt defence of the Vniversities of France. And against the Iesuites (in respect of their Insolent demands) whereby they are forbidden to take vpon them the name, title, or qualitie of an Vniversitie, or to giue Degrees in any facultie or nomination to any BENEFICES.
Translated according to the French Copie.
LONDON, Printed by I. D. for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the three golden Lyons, neare the Royall Exchange. 1624.
Good Newes from FRANCE. CONTAINING CERTAINE REASONS, Vpon which is grounded the Decree or Sentence from the Kings Councell against the Iesuites demanding the abrogation of a Decree of the Parliament at Tholouse. By which they were commanded, that they should not take vpon them the name, title, or qualitie of an Ʋniversitie; and that they should not giue any degree in any facultie, nor any nomination to any Benefices.
THe Vniversities haue alwayes had such a favour of our KINGS, that they haue beene received when they did demand Iustice of their Maiesties, not only in their own particular causes, but also in causes which did concerne the publick estate of the Kingdome. The Histories and publick Acts do plainly shew it, and also it may manifestly appeare by the Records of the Parliament at Paris, that our King Charles the 7. when he would restore and confirme the rights and fundamentall [Page 2]lawes of his Kingdome. And having to this end assembled many great Lords to this Councell, there were heard as well their Atturney Generall, as also the Vniversitie at Paris, and vpon that which they did represent were made many good Ordinances, to which his Maiestie did sware, and caused all his Officers and Councell to sware to them inviolably. It is manifest to all the world, that our King is not inferior to his Auncestors in doing Iustice to his Subiects, without acceptation of persons, after GODS Ordinance, by whose grace he doth raigne, with resolution to conserue his royall authoritie, with courage to maintaine his State in all the Bodies whereof it is composed against all Interprises. Therfore haue the Vniversities being prest by an extreame necessity for to defend themselues against the assault, yea against oppression, which the Iesuites not being contented yet with the dissolutions and ruines which they haue brought vpon them heretofore, doe now take in hand to bring vpon them, in attributing to themselues their title and their rights (their title in making so many Vniversities as they haue Colledges of their Societie, their rights in making the advancements, and giving the degrees to the Schollers, yea to them which the Doctors of the Vniversitie hath refused, as if they were their superiors.) The same Vniversitie doe hope that it will not be vnpleasing to the King, that the Deputies should defend them. And in defending themselues in the presence of his Maiestie, and of the Lords of his Councell, they doe not vphold onely the Decree given to their profit by one of the most honorable Parliaments of his [Page 3]Kingdome (that is to say) the Parliament at Tholouse, of which the Iesuites dare demand the Abrogation, and so abusing the favour that his Maiestie hath done to them in taking one of them for his Confessor. A most singular favour, which till this present they haue not received of any of our holy Fathers, nor of the Kings of Spaine.
But also doe shew and proue by authentick Acts, yea by the Iesuites owne writings, that the demand which they doe make now, and the proiects which they haue to attribute to every one of their Colledges the title and rights of an Vniversitie, are contrary and preiudiciall to the Kings authoritie, to the ordinary Iustice of his Maiestie, to the dignitie and power of the Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops of other orders and professions, to the yong Schollers vnder them, and to the good of the Townes which doe receiue them, to the perfection of Sciences and Antiquitie, & to the cōmandements of the Church, and to the resolution of the Clergie of France in the assembly at Poissy, in the yeare 1561. to the Letters Patents which they haue obtained of our Kings, Henry the second, Francis the secōd, Charles the ninth, Henry the third, and to those Letters which they haue had for the re-establishing of the King Henry the Great, of happie memory, and of our King which doth raigne at this present. As also to the Decrees of the allowance and registring thereof, which they themselues haue pursued in the Court of Parliament of this Kingdome.
1. Against the Kings authoritie.
BEcause they will by vertue of a Bull which they say that they haue obtained from our holy Gregory the 13. take vpon them power for to chuse and create Iudges, Conservators for all kinde of causes as well Civill as Criminall, and mixt: yea, & those in which they themselues should be demanders for their rights, lands, and houses, fruits, rents, and revenues, and for all other things moueable and vnmouable, spirituall and temporall: and that the Iudges which they should haue received, should doe Iustice according to the will of the rector of their Vniversitie.
2. Against the Kings Authoritie.
BEcause by vertue of an Institution inferted and related in a Bull which they haue obtained in the yeare 1540. of our holy Father the Pope, they retaine for their Generall, (which since their comming till this present day hath beene a stranger, a Spanyard, or one borne vnder the subiection of Spaine) all kinde of government and soveraigne authoritie over the Scholars which are of their Colledges, and over their Colledges, and over all others which are of their Societie, for to obey him alwayes, and to acknowledge him as one who hath the authoritie of our Lord Iesus Christ: and in their Vow they doe promise to him as to one which keepeth the place of God, all obedience, not onely for things obligatory, but also for all other things, though [Page 5]there should appeare no other thing to them but a signe of the Generalls will, without any expresse cōmandement: in doing all things that which should be cōmanded, in perswading themselues things to be lawfull, & in renouncing through a blind obedience, all advice and iudgement to the contrary, suffering themselues to be carried and vsed even as a dead corpse, willing that no particular person, directly or indirectly, without the permission and approbation of their Generall, should aske or cause to be asked of our holy Father the Pope, nor of any other which is without the Societie, any grace for himselfe or for another: and that he should beleeue if he did not obtaine his desire of his Generall, or with his consent thereto, it is not for him, though it were for diuine service: and on the contrary, if it be fit for him by the consent of his Generall, which keepes the place of our Saviour Iesus Christ for him, that he shall obtaine it. And that which is said of the Colledges, must also be vnderstood to be said of the Vniversities of the Societie in the same manner, that if they obtaine that which they demand for this present time, one must no more say for the royall Vniversitie of Paris, but the Vniversitie of the Societie, and so of all other Vniversities of this Kingdome. And although that he doth communicate his power to other inferiors, which are in the Provinces, Visitators and Commissioners, yet alwayes he hath power to approue or to abrogate and make void that which they haue done, and to ordeine in all things that which he thinketh good. And alwayes they must obey him and honor him as one that is the Vicar of our Lord Iesus Christ.
3. Against the Kings authoritie.
BEcause they haue a generall Agent which giveth advice to the Generall, as well of persons as of things, as it pleaseth them. And their Generall hath foure Assistants, one for the businesse of France and Germany, another for Italy, and Sicilie, the other for Spaine and Portugall, and the other, of the Indies. And generally for to doe all things he hath a Generall Atturney of the Societie, and he hath every yeare a Catalogue sent vnto him of all the Houses and Colledges of the Societies, and another of all the Persons which are in every Province. They will also that there be in their pretended Vniversities, a Secretary of the Societie, which keepeth a Booke, in which are written all the names of them which come to their Colledges, and which of them doe receiue promise to obey the Rector, and to obserue the Constitution. And if there are some which doe refuse to giue their names, and so doe register and enrole themselues, that he should represent and shew them, because they should take more particular care to the Schollers, whose names are written in the Booke of the Vniversitie, and to speake it plainely and without dissembling, what can one say more, as to enrole, seduce, and retaine men for a stranger, as alwayes till this day the Generall of the said Societie hath beene. And this cannot be done in this Kingdome without contrarietie, and infinite preiudice against our Kings authoritie. No man can serue two severall Lords, nor can as a subiect and vassall acknowledge the one and the other for his Lord. Our [Page 7]King cannot be acknowledged & served by a Generall, vpon the conditions here related, more then our holy Father the Pope can be in qualitie of a Vicar of our Lord Iesus Christ, as the Vniversities with the Catholick, Apostolick, and Romane Church do acknowledge him for; and as a Generall that keepeth Gods place, and is our Lord Iesus Christs Vicar. But if they for to cloak this, say like as they are wont to doe, that they doe vow a particular obedience to his Holines, we answer, that they doe suppresse it with that is written in their Constitutions, that it is onely for the Missions, and then they attribute to their Generall the full direction and power thereof.
4. Against his Maiesties ordinary Iustice.
BEcause that no bodie of their Colledges and Houses, whether he be of those which haue made their vowes, or of their helpers, or of their Scholars, must suffer himselfe to be examined for civill and much lesse for criminall causes, without the leaue of their superior, and that their superior must giue no leaue, if it be not in causes that concerne the Catholike Religion.
5. Against the dignitie and power of the Cardinalls, Archbishops, and Bishops.
BEcause they take away from them the power and authoritie of iudging, otherwise then is written in the Bull, which they say they haue gotten for to chuse Iudges, Conservators in all civill and criminall causes, and they doe constraine them to iudge and decree according to their Institutes and Constitutions, [Page 8]by vertue of a Bull which they had from our holy Father the Pope Gregory XIII. in the yeare 1584 which beareth the greatest excommunication, and a penaltie of disabilitie to any Offices and Benefices fecular and regular of all Orders, and that as soone as the deed shall be done, without any other declaration against all persons of whatsoever condition and preeminence they be, which shall withstand and gainesay directly and indirectly the Institutes and Constitutions of this Societie, or any of the Articles, vnder colour of disputation, and seeking of the truth. As also they doe attribute by vertue of their Institutes, Bulls, and Constitutions to their Generall the Government of all the Vniversities which they haue. Which doth exclude and depriue the Cardinalls, Archbishops, and Bishops, of the right and possession that they haue as Governors and Protectors of the Vniversities, which doth exempt many Clerkes of their Iurisdiction.
6. Against the Rules and Professions of other Orders.
BEcause that they in respect of those which haue a portion with them that they take the best Benefices for to ioyne them to their Colledges, as it is manifest; and in respect of others, they doe take vpon them all the Faculties, Concessions, exemptions, Indulgences, remission of sinnes, and grace as well spirituall as temporall, granted, & yet to be granted, which haue and shall haue in time to come all other Orders of beggars, Priests and Nunnes for to enioy by them for all and in the whole so as they themselues, yea with as much right, and they will [Page 9]that all those which doe studie in their Colledges, or pretended Vniversities, doe promise that they will obey them, and obserue all their Constitutions, for so much that if any Priests doe studie and take their degree and promotion, as there doe many in the Vniversitie at Paris, and other Vniversities, they should be bound against the rules of their Orders and Professions, to promise obedience to no other then their Superiors.
7. Against the young Scholars, which are vnder them.
BEcause the professed Societie must take no care to teach in their Colledges perfection of liuing, & Letters worthy to a Christian, but onely those which are esteemed to haue the Talent, for they shall be as a Nurse-gardian to the professed Societie, & to his helpers, and they know that if with the Colledges the Vniversities were also committed to the Societies, keeping in proceeding, the manner of which is spoken in the fourth part, they helpe to the same end, adding thereunto these speeches; For the greater good of God, and the generall good of the Societie, which know certainly, that they doe not establish their pretended Vniversities, but onely for their particular interest and profit.
8. Against the Wealth of the Cities which doe receiue them.
BEcause they giue power to themselues for to leaue and abandon the Colledges and Houses which they haue established, and they say that if [Page 10]it doth appeare by proofe that the Societie is more hindred then helped, and their Generall doth finde no remedie for it, that it then is lawfull to consider in the first generall Congregation, whether such an House, Colledge, or Vniversitie 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 vnto them, if there be not made an expresse reservation to the contrary by them which haue bin the builders of them.
9. Against the perfection of Sciences.
BEcause they doe reduce their pretended Vniversities vnto three faculties: One for the Tongues, another for the Arts, and the third for Theologie; and they will not that there should be any Treatise of Physicke, nor of the lawes (though it be manifest that they are more necessary for mankinde) or at least, that the Societie should not be charged with it.
10. Against Antiquitie and the Commandements of the Church.
BEcause that their Scholars, and especially those which dwell in their Colledges, doe more then they heare and vnderstand the great Masse said by a Deacon and Subdeacon, for they doe not say it in their Churches, as it is knowne to every one, and they haue no Quiere, and they doe derogate the generall Councells.
11. Against the resolution of the Clergie of France that was assembled at Poisy, in the yeare 1501. Against the Letters patents of our King and against the sentences of allowance and registring thereof, which they themselues haue pursued.
BEcause they doe take vpon them the title, name and rights of the Vniuersitie. The title and name in giuing the qualitie of an Vniuersity to euery one of their Colledges for to make so many Vniuersities as they haue Colledges. The rights in making the Promotions and in giuing the degrees to the Scholars, yea to them to whom the Doctors of the Vniuersities haue refused it, if it be that their examiners do find them capable, as if they were their superiors. For by the resolution of the Clergie here dated, and by the Letters patents of our Kings here mentioned, and by the sentence of allowance and registring thereof, which they themselues haue pursued in the Courts of Parliament of this kingdome, it is expressely forbidden that they should doe nothing either spirituall or temporall in preiudice of of the Vniuersities: and they can doe no greater preiudice [Page 12]to the Vniuersities then to make Vniuersities of their Colledges, and to establish them and giue them the titles and rights of Vniuersities like to them of Paris and others of this Kingdome.
The Parties were heard on Friday last, the 28. of September 1624. in the Hall where the Councell was kept at S. Germain in Lay, where was a great multitude of people, and the Iesuties 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 Newes from FRANCE.
CONTAINING A DECREE or FINALL Iudgement from the Kings privie Councell, given the 27 day of
Septemb. 1624. for the Vniversities of FRANCE, ioyntly against the
Iesuites demanding the abrogation of a Decree of the Parliament of
Tholouse. By which they were forbidden to take vpon them the name, title, and qualitie of an Vniversitie,
and to giue Degrees in any facultie, or Nomination to any Benefices.
An extract out of the Registers of the KINGS
Privie Councell.
BEtweene the societie of the Vniuersitie of the towne of Tournon, being of the society of Iesus, demandant in a request and a decree from the Councell giuen vpon the same, on the 15. of Decem. 1623. & defendant on the one part: And the societie of the Vniuersities of Tholouse, Valence Cahors defendants; and the said societie of Tholouse demandant in a request of the 19. Iuly last past, on the other part, without which the qualities may not hinder or preiudice them. And also the Rector, Deans, Atturneys and Deputies of the Vniuersity of Paris; the Rector, Doctors and regents of the Vniuersity of [Page 14] Bourdeaux; the Rector, Doctors, and deputies of the Vniuersity of Reims, the Rector, Dean, and deputies of the Vniuersity of Portiers; the Rector, Deans, and deputies of the Vniuersitie of Caen; the Rector Deans, and Doctors of the Vniuersities of Bourges, Orleans, Anger, and Aix, coming all on the other part.
The which petition and the decree vpon the same dated the 15. of December 1623. being seene by the King in his Councell. In respect of the things therein contained, it pleased his Maiestie to abrogate and make voyde the decree from the Parliament of Tholouse, giuen against the demandant to the profit of the said Vniuersities of Tholouse, Vallence, & Cahors, the 4. of Iuly of the said year: & so doing to ordaine, that the decree of the rule of the Letters patents agreed vpō in the said Vniuersitie of Tournon, in the month of December 1622. should be executed according to the force and tenor thereof, and that the said Vniuersitie should be maintained and kept in the possession and enioying the Priuiledges, rights, and powers, to them agreed by the same: the Bulls of our holy Father the Pope Iulies Letters patents of the ratifying thereof, and decrees of the registring, notwithstanding the oppositions of the said Vniuersities of Tholouse, Vallence, and Cahors, to defend the said societie of the said Vniuersities, not to helpe themselues with the said decree of of the 13. of Iuly, nor vnder colour of the same to trouble nor hinder the Rector, regents, and scholars, & deputies of the said Vniuersity of Tournon directly, nor indirectly in the enioying of the liberties, faculties and powers, which to them haue beene giuen, [Page 15]granted, confirmed, & augmented vpon penaltie of one thousand pounds costs dammages and interests: by which decree was ordayned that the societie of the said Vniuersities of Tholouse, Vallence, and Cahors should be cald for, and in the meanetime that the said Rector and regents of the sayd Vniuersities of Tournon should enioy the same Priuiledges, Authorities, Preeminences, and liberty which they did enioy before the said Letters of the month of December 1622. A Commission vpon the said decree on the said day. Acts of assignements of the 5.9. and 13. of Ianuarie last past. A copy of Bulls obtained by the Cardinall of Tournon deceased, of Pope Iulie 3. being creator of the said Vniuersitie of Tournon, there to make generall studyes in Latine, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean tongues, and morall, and naturall Philosophie; euen as the other Vniuersities; giuen in Rome, in the yeare 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 Nouember, of the same yeare being dated to the said Parliament of Tholouse and to the Seneschall of Beaucaire & Nismes for the proclaiming and registring of the said Bulls. Also the Act of the proclaiming and registring in the said Parliament of Tholouse the 11. of Aprill 1553. And in the registry of the Archbishop extracted out of the registers of the Parliament of Paris containing certaine conclusions and demands made by the Kings seruants in the said Parliament of the 26. Ianuary 1552. A copie of a contract of gist and legacie made foreuer by the said Sir de Tournon deceased [Page 16]the said Fathers the Iesuits of the Colledge which he had caused to be builded in the said towne of Tournon, with the appurtenances, dependancies and reuenue at the charge contained in the clauses and conditions, as be declared by the sayd contract passed before Gilles Mesnager and Malthurin Porcher Notaries publike in the court of Iustice at Orleans the 6. Ianuary 1560. accepted by Don Iohn Baptist Violle a Priest & Atturny generall of the Iosuites. And moreouer is put downe the copie of the Procuration of the generall of the said Fathers the Iesuites, for to accept the said gift and legacie of the 28. of October, of the same yeare: also the acte from the assembly that the Priests of the Abby of Chaise-Dieu being vnited to the said Colledge, had; which did approue and authorize the said contract of the 24. of February in the same yeare; extracted out of the register of the Parliament of Paris, concerning the Kings and the Queenes (his mothers) Letters for the verification of the afore going Letters patents, to the allowance and approbation of the Bulls, priviledges, and institutions of the said Fathers to the Iesuites in the said yeare 1560. A suite in Law of M r Mesnill deceased, Aduocate in the cause of the Vniuersitie of Paris, and of the Fathers the Iesuites, followes the Counsell and resolution of the assembly of the Clergy of France kept at Poissy, in the yeare 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 sayd Parliament at Paris of the 13. of February in the said [Page 17]yeare 1561. By which is ordained that the said Act made in the assembly at Poissy, should be registred vnder the conditions therein conteined. A copy of the Letters Patents of the King Charles the ninth, giuen in the moneth of Iuly 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 Februarie in the said yeare 1561. for the Proclayming and registring of the said Letters of gift, vpon the charges and conditions as are mentioned in the Act of the Assembly kept at Poissy, the fifteenth day of September in the said yeare. A reliefe of King Henry the third, of the thirteenth day of Aprill, 1584. to the Parliaments of Paris, Roan, Bourdeaux, Dauphine, Province and Borgongne, for to verifie and register the sayd Bulls of the said Vniuersitie at Tournon, and of the ratification which is Registred at Paris, Grenoble, and Province the ninth day of Iune, the ninth day of Nouember, and the nineteenth day of December, in the said yeare, 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 Iune 1584. for the execution of the said Letters Patents of the thirteenth day of Aprill aforesaid, in the same yeare; by which was ordayned that the said Letters and Bulls should be registred, without which they may hinder or preiudice the freedome of the [Page 18] Gallican Church, and without which the Patentees may take vpon them no other qualitie then of Scholars of the Colledge at Tournon, A Copie of a Petition extracted out of the Records of of the Vniuersitie at Paris, the seuenteenth day of this present moneth of September. An other Copy of a Declaration made by the Fathers the Iesuites to the said Vniuersitie, and extracted out of the sayd Records on the same day. A Copy of a Petition presented to the Parliament at Paris, by the Priests and Scholars of the Societie and companie of Iesus, of the Colledge at Clermont, vpon the reception to the Assemblie at Poissy, and the Conclusions of the Cheefe Atturney of the sayd Parliament: extracted also out of the sayd Records on the sayd day. A printed Copy of the Edict vpon the reestablishing of the Fathers, the Iesuites giuen at Roan in the moneth of September, 1603. Letters in the forme of a Comminaltie of King Henry the Great deceased in the moneth of October, 1604. By the which hee had allowed the sayd foundation; and for so much as it should be necessarie, confirmed the said Priuiledges and rights.
Other Letters in the forme of a Comminaltie of the moneth of December 1622. bearing such a like Confirmation, vnderneath which is the Registring of the Parliament at Tholouse, of the ninth of Ianuary 1623. A Decree of the said Parliament of the ninth of March of the said yeare 1623. Because [Page 19]the said Demandants should enioy the effect of the said Letters. And a Copie of an Act from the Assembly kept in the great Hall of the Colledge and Vniversitie at Aix, on the twentie-fifth day of Aprill of the said yeare 1623. by those of the said Colledge and Vniversitie. A Copie of the Letters which the said Defendants haue obtained in the Chauncery at Tholouse the twelfth of Aprill 1624. for being received as Opposants against the Decree of the aboue-said Registring. An exploit of an Assignement of the fourth of May 1624. An Extract of a Presentation done in the said Assignement on the seaventeenth day following. A Decree of the said Parliament at Tholouse the thirteenth day of Iuly, in the said yeare 1623. betweene the Societie of the said Vniversities at Tholouse, Vallence, and Cahors, having obtained the Kings Letters against the said Societie of the Fathers the Iesuites 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 Registring; and without having any regard therevnto, the said Fathers the Iesuits at Tournon were forbidden that they should take vpon them any name, title, or qualitie of an Vniversitie, neither to giue any Catholickes of Studie, nor any Degrees in any Facultie, nor any nomination to the Benefices, vpon penaltie of dissolution, and other sentences: neverthelesse that all Testimoniall Degrees and Nominations, which are given by them by authoritie of the same Decree of the Registring, should be of no value. And also they [Page 20]which might haue obtained them, are forbidden not to vse the same vpon penaltie of the fiue hundred pounds, without preiudice of the said Decree of the Registring concerning the vnion of the benefits there onely mentioned. A Decree of the said Parliament at Tholouse of the eleventh of the said moneth of Iuly, saying, That notwithstanding the things aboue-said and alledged by Brun, Attourney of the Societie of the Colledge of the Iesuites at Tournon hee should possesse, and the parties should appeare precisely on Thursday next. An Act of an Attestation of the twentie-fourth of May 1624. passed before the Seneschall at Tholouse, that Master Iohn de Brun, Atturney in the Court, was Atturney of the said Fathers the Iesuites, which are of the Iurisdiction of the Parliament at Tholouse, and in the said qualitie did all their businesse, as well in demanding as defending. Another Decree from the Parliament vpon a Petition of the chiefe Atturney of the eleventh of August 1623. By which all Rectors, Principalls, and Over-seers of the Colledges, and of the Iurisdiction as well of the said Fathers the Iesuites, as others, were forbidden to giue any Testimonialls of the Studie in Parchment, with a seale, nor with a Preface. A quire of writing Paper Printed, containing the declarations of the twenty one of Ianuary 154 and of the twenty-third of Iune 1594. And Letters Patents of the moneth of December 1610. of the priviledges granted by the King to the said Vniversities at Paris. And the Decrees in consequence given to the privie Councell the seaventeenth of [Page 21]December 1604. and the nineteenth of November 1612. A Petition of an Intervention of the said Rector, Deanes, Atturneyes, and Deputies of the said Vniversitie at Paris, the parties interposing themselues were received the seaventeenth of Iune last past. A signification of the twentieth of the said Moneth. Another Petition of Intervention of the Rector, Doctor, and Regent of the Vniversitie at Bourdeaux, the parties interposing themselues were received, and there was an Act given vnto them of that they had imployed for the Intervention of the said Petition, and of that which had beene written and produced by the said Vniversitie at Paris; as also those at Tholouse, Valence, and Cahors, the twentith of this present moneth of September. A signification of the said day. Another Petition of Intervention from the Rector, Doctors, and Deputies of the Vniversitie at Reims, the parties interposing themselues, were received the twentie-fifth of the said moneth of September. A signification of the same day. Another Petition of Intervention from the Rector, Deanes, and Deputies of the Vniversitie at Poictiers; the parties interposing were receiued in the moneth of Iune last past. An Act of a declaration, that for all their Productions and Intervention, they did imploy the said Petition, and all that which had beene written and produced by the Vniversitie at Paris. A signification of the moneth of September then next following. Another Petition of Intervention from the Rector, Deanes, and Deputies of the Vniversitie of Caen; the parties interposing [Page 22]themselues were received the twenty-two of the said moneth of Iune. An Act of a declaration that he would imploy the said Petition for their Production, and all that which had beene produced and written by the Vniversitie at Paris. A signification of the twenty-third of September. A Petition of Intervention from the Rectors, Deanes, and Doctors of the Vniversities at Bourges, and Orleance; the parties interposing themselues were received the twentieth of September, and an Act of their imployment. A signification of the said day. Petitions of Intervention from the Vniversitie at Aix, and Angers. A Petition of the Chancellor, Rector, and Doctors of the Vniversitie of Cahors, that they did imploy for their Production that which had beene written and produced by the said Rector, and Doctors of the Vniversitie at Tholouse, whereof they haud had an Act the twelfth of August last past. A signification of the said day: a Petition of the Societie at Tholouse.
A decree vpon the same that the Parties may be heard throughly of the same day the ninteenth day of Iuly last past. A direction in consequence of the fifteenth day of August. A direction betweene the said parties, of the two and twentieth day of Aprill last past, there to communicate, write and produce writings and productions, and all that which hath bin produced before my Lord of the ludgement Court, Councellour to the King in his Priuie Councell, and ordinarie Master of the Petitions, of this Hall, as Commissioner hereto appointed, and to hear his report. And after that Master Iohn [Page 23]Aubert Rector of the sayd Vniuersitie at Paris, hath beene heard for all the Vniuersities at France, being. The King and his Councell at the same Instance of abrogation hath acquited, and doth acquite the said Parties out of fuite; Prouided that the Demanders may prouide themselues by a ciuill Petition against the said Decree in the said Parliament at Tholouse, and there besides vpon the finall conclusion of the sayd Interposers, his Maiestie doth ordaine that they should prouide themselues so as they should thinke it fit, and without cost. Done in the Kings priuie Councell kept at S. Germaine en Laye the seuen and twentith day of September 1624. And this vnderneath conferd.
LEvvis by the Grace of God, King of France and Nauarre, to Our cheefe Vsher and Sargieant, herevnto required, send greeting. We doe charge & command you by these presents, that the Decree of our Councell hereto annexed [Page 24]vnder Our Counter-seale giuen to day betweene the Societie of the Vniuersitie of the Towne of Tournon, of the Societie of Iesus, Demandant and Defendant on the one part, and the Agent of the Vniuersitie at Tholouse, Vallence and Cahors, Defendants; and the said Agent of Tholouse, Demandant on the other part; And also the Rectors, Deanes, Atturnyes, Doctors, Regents, and Deputies of the Vniuersities at Paris, Bourdeaux, Reimes, Poictiers, Caen, Bourges, Orleans, Angers and Aix, deposing themselues on the other part: That you doe signifie vnto the said Agent of the Societie of Iesus, and all other to whom it shall appertaine, that they doe not pretend any cause of Ignorance, but that they do obey herevnto: Commanding them in Our name, not to doe any thing against it, but to doe this and all other acts and exploits required, and necessarie for the execution of Our said Decree, vpon the request of the said Doctor, Deane, Atturney, and Deputie of the said Vniuersitie at Paris, We doe charge you, without demanding [Page 25]any leaue. Hereof faile you not, for so is Our pleasure. Giuen at S. Germain en Lay, the 27. of September, Anno Dom. 1624. and of Our Raigne the 15.
Vnderneath is written by the King and his Councell.
A GAGGE FOR THE POPE, AND THE IESVITS: OR THE ARRAIGNEMENT, AND EXECVTION OF ANTICHRIST.
Shevving plainely, that Antichrist shall be discouered, and punished in this VVorld: to the amasement of all obstinate PAPISTS.
LONDON Printed by I. D. for Edward Blackmore, and are to be sould at his Shop, at the Great South-dore of Paules. 1624.