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THE Court of the great Chamber, Tournelle, and of the Edict assembled, ha∣uing viewed the Booke printed at Cologne this present yeere, entituled, FRANCISCI SVARES Granatensis, è Socie∣tate IESV, Doctoris Theologi, Defensio Fidei Catholicae & Apostolicae, aduersus Anglicanae sectae errores, contayning in the third Booke, Chap∣ter 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 con∣trary to the soueraigne power of Kings, or∣dayned and established by GOD, the peace and tranquilitie of their States; and that it is lawfull for their Subiects, and Strangers, to attempt against their Persons.
THE said Court hath declared, and doth declare, the Propositions and Principles contayned in the said Booke, to be scanda∣lous and sedicious, tending to the subuersion of States, and to induce the Subiects of Kings, and Soueraigne Princes, and others, to at∣tempt against their sacred persons: and the speeches mentioning the Kings Chlowis and Phillip the faire, to be false and slanderous: hath also ordayned, and doth ordaine, that the said Booke of Suares be burned in the Court of the Pallace, by the Executioner of high Iustice.
Furthermore, it hath and doth inhibite and forbid all sellers of Bookes and Printers, to print, sell, or disperse any of the said bookes: as also, all other persons of whatsoeuer cal∣ling or condition, to transcribe, haue, to write out, or to retaine, or to teach in Schooles or else-where; or else to dispute vpon the said Principles or Propositions.
It also ordaineth according to the decree of the 8. of Iune 1610. that the Decree of the facultie of Diuinitie, made vpon the fourth of Iune in the same yeere, concerning the renewing of the doctrinall censure of the said facultie, bearing date the yeere 1408. and confirmed by the Councell of Constance, together with this present Act, as also those of the yeeres 1578. and 95. shall yeerely be read the fourth day of Iune, as well in the said facultie, as in the Colledge of the Priests and Schollers of the Colledge of Clermont, and of the foure Orders of begging Fryers. Also, that at the request of the Kings Attur∣ney Generall, Informations shall be taken of the contrauentions against the said Decrees,
and Prohibitions made against writing, ha∣uing or detayning the like Bookes. Giuen in Parliament the twentie sixt day of Iune, 1614.
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FVrthermore, it is decreed that the Fathers, Ignace Armand, Rector in this Citie, Cotton, Fronton, and Sirmund, shall be summoned the first day to this Court, and to them shall be shewed, that contrary to their declaration and the Decree of their Generall of the yeere 1610. the Booke of Suares hath beene printed and brought into this Citie, a Booke impug∣ning the authoritie of the King, and the safe∣tie of his Person and State: and they shall be enioyned to cause their Generall to renew the said Decree; and to publish it, and to bring in an Act thereof within these sixe Moneths, and to prouide that no such damnable and pernitious Propositions be made or published by any of their Companie: as also, they shall be enioyned in their Sermons to exhort the people to the doctrine contrary to the said Propositions; otherwise the Court will pro∣ceede
against the transgressors, as men guil∣tie of Treason and disturbers of the publike quietnes.
This aboue-said Decree, and the decreed, were pronounced in the presence of the Fathers Ignace Armand, Charles de la Tour, in the absence of Peter Cotton, Fronton du Duc, and Iames Sirmund. And the Decree was put in execution before the great Stayres of the Pallace, the 27. of June. 1614.