Chapter IX

1560-1600.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE JESUITS IN THE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OF EUROPE.

Jesuits in England under Elizabeth—William Allen establishes
Colleges at Douay and in Rome for Englishmen—The Jesuits direct
them—Bull of Pius V. Excommunicating Elizabeth—Character
given of her by the Jesuits—Campion and Parson at the
Head of a Jesuit Mission in England—Their Biography—They
arrive in England—Encourage the Roman Catholics to Disobey
the Queen—Proclamation against the Jesuits—Their Answer
to it—Enmity of Gregory XIII. to England—His Character—He
Encourages all the Insurrections against the Queen—Parson
and Campion eagerly sought by the Government—Elude the
Search—Capture of Campion—Divers Opinions concerning his
Trial—Execution of three Jesuits, Campion, Sherwin, and
Briant—Parry’s Project for Assassinating the Queen—Encouraged
by the Jesuits and the Pope’s Nuncio, Ragazzoni—The Jesuits
attempt to justify Parry—Absurdity of their Vindication—Severe
Laws against the Jesuits—The most of them leave England—Hume
on Babington’s Conspiracy—The Jesuits along with the
Great Armada—The Jesuits actually Troubling the Peace of
England—Duplicity of their Conduct—A Jesuit, pretending to be
an ardent Republican in Rome in the last Revolution—Is thrown
into the Tiber, 151

Conduct of the Jesuits in Portugal—They prevent Don Sebastian
from Marrying—Pasquier accuses them of having aspired to
become Kings of Portugal—The Accusation repeated throughout
all Europe—They suggest to Don Sebastian the Expedition to
Morocco—Death of the King—The Jesuits place the Crown on the
Head of Philip II. of Spain, 171

The Jesuits at last admitted into France—Under what
Restrictions—Principal Doctrines of the Gallican
Church—The League—Henry III. of France—His Indolence—His
Tolerance—Ambition of the Duke of Guise—He is declared Chief
of the League—Makes a Treaty with the King of Spain—Day of the
Barricades—The King causes Guise to be Murdered—The Jesuits
Preach against the King—Clement, a Dominican Friar, stabs
him, 1589—The Council of Seize order the Preachers to praise
Clement’s Deed—Henry of Bourbon, King of Navarre, assumes the
Title of King of France—Opposed by Cardinal de Bourbon—Civil
War—Henry IV. abjures Calvinism—Siege of Paris—Conduct of
the Jesuits—Henry Acknowledged as King—Part taken by the
Jesuits in the League—Barrière attempts to Assassinate the
King—The Jesuits are his Accomplices—John Chastel—Stabs the
King—Instigated by the Jesuits—The Jesuits expelled from
France—Execution of Chastel, and of the Jesuit Guinard—The
House of Chastel is pulled down—A Pyramid erected to perpetuate
the Memory of his Crime—Inscription on the Pyramid concerning
the part the Jesuits had in it—Horrible Doctrines of the
Jesuits—Reflections upon them, 175

Immense Influence exercised by the Jesuits in Germany—What
Requisites they had for success—Their Schools and
Colleges—Their Method of giving Instruction—Even Protestants
send their Children to their Schools—The Sovereigns of
Germany support the Jesuits—Albert V. of Bavaria obliges
his Subjects to subscribe the _Professio Fidei_—Rodolph II.
Emperor of Germany—Is directed by Father Maggio—Persecutes the
Protestants, and re-establishes the Roman Catholic Worship, 194

The Jesuits in Poland—Sigismond the King of the Jesuits—The
Jesuits’ Paramount Influence employed in re-establishing
Popery, 202

Attempt of the Jesuits to convert to Romanism John III. of
Sweden—The Jesuit Possevin in Stockholm in Disguise—John
promises to become a Roman Catholic—Haughty Conduct of
Gregory XIII.—John remains a Protestant, and expels the
Jesuits—Sigismond succeeds John—War between Sweden and
Poland—The Jesuits are the Authors of it, 203

The Jesuits in Switzerland and Piedmont—Canisius founds
the College of Friburg—The Waldenses—Their Simplicity and
Innocence—Persecution and Cruelties exercised against them
by Possevin—He hunts them as Wild Beasts—Pretends that many
abjure Protestantism—Reflexions on the Influence and Conduct
of the Jesuits throughout Europe, 205