TO THE READER.

THE Bookes which are cited in this Dis∣course, are for the most part common, and haue beene diuers times printed in sundry places: there is one cited in the beginning, which was first published in Spanish, and since translated into Latine and French, wherein are contained three very excellent Sermons preached on the feast day of the Bea∣tification of the glorious Patriarch blessed Ignatius, founder of the Society of Iesus.

By the Reuerent Doctor, Petrus de Ʋalderama, an Au∣gustine Frier.

The Reuerent Doctor Petrus Deza of the order of the Do∣minicans.

The Reuerent Father Iacobus Rebuttosa, of the same Oder.

In this Discourse I haue followed the edition of the French translation made by Father Francis Solier a Iesuite, imprinted at Poitiers by Anthony Mesnier, Printer to the King and the Vniuersity, the yeare 1611.

Now although the said Sermons were composed by such as were no Iesuites; yet by translating, publishing, and re∣commending them, they haue made them theirs; and enga∣ged their credits for all that is said in them concerning the founder and Society of the Iesuites. For the other Bookes that are cited, here is a List of them.