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CHAP. III.
That the Iesuites are guilty of the murther of our de∣ceased King, Henry the fourth.
WHosoeuer shall consider the crime of this wicked (wretch) Rauillac, in euery part and circumstance of it shal easily perceiue that the Iesuites had their fingers in the Pie, and that the mischiefe came none otherwise then by their instruction.
It is some fiue yeares since that at S. Victors, there was a Maide possessed with a Diuell, whose instru∣ment she was for the tel••ing of diuers things that see∣med admirable. Father Cotton, either moued with curiositie, or grounding himselfe vpon the familiari∣tie he had with his Spirits, tooke a iourney thither, to question with this Spirit on diuers points which he had a desire to know. And to helpe his memory, hee wrote in a ticket the points whereon hee was to de∣mand: Amongst other points these were some: What should be the issue of the conuersion of Mounsieur de la Val: and of the enterprises against Geneua: and of the continuance of Heresie: and of the estate of Madamoy∣selle Acarie; and about the life of the King. There were many like vnto these: but so it fell out, that Father Cot∣ton, deliuering vnto Mounsieur Gill••t, Counsailour, in in the great Chamber a booke which he had promised