[186] Mezarai, Ab. Chr. at the end of 1594.
[187] See Acts of the Parliament, or D’Argentré Collect. Jud. tom. ii. p. 524.
[188] In one of these writings, speaking of Henry IV., the Jesuit says:—“Shall we call him a Nero, a Sardanapalus of France, a fox of Bearn?” and further on, he declares, that “the crown of France could and ought to be transferred to another family; that Henry, although converted to the Catholic faith, would be treated too leniently, if a monk’s crown (tonsure) were given him in some convent to do penance; that if he cannot be deposed without war, then (said he) let us make war, and if we cannot make war, let him be killed.”—Crét. vol. ii. p. 435.
[189] See the whole of the inscription in the authors of the epoch, in the Recueil des Pièces touchant l’Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésu. Liège, 1716. A very instructive work.
[190] Sigismond, on the death of his father John, having proceeded from Poland to Upsala for the ceremony of his coronation, the estates peremptorily refused to render him homage, till he had solemnly sworn that the Augsburg Confession should be inculcated everywhere, alone and purely, whether in churches or schools. In this strait, the prince applied to Malaspina, the Pope’s nuncio, to know whether in conscience he could give such promise. The nuncio denied that he could. The king thereupon addressed himself to the Jesuits in his train, and what the nuncio had not dared, they took upon themselves to do. They declared that, in consideration of the necessity, and of the manifest danger in which the sovereign found himself, he might grant the heretics their demands without offence to God.—Ranke, Hist. of the Popes, vol. ii. pp. 147, 8.
[191] See Ranke’s History of the Popes, vol. i. p. 411.
[192] Ranke’s Hist. of the Popes, vol. i. pp. 415-417.
[193] Ranke’s History of the Popes, vol. i. p. 411.
[194] Ibid. p. 426.
[195] Ranke, vol. i. p. 422.