IV. of France, December, 1594, by Ms Prime Minister :— " I was present,"

says the Duke de SuUy, " and approached in agony of grief, seeing the King
all covered with blood The King removed our apprehensions,
and we perceived immediately that his lip only was wounded. The parricide was discovered : he was a scholar named John Chatel, and readily answered when he was interrogated, THAT HK CAME FROM THE COLLEGE OF THE JESUITS,
ACCUSING THOSE FATHERS WITH BEING THE AUTHORS OF HIS CRIME." — See Vol.
ii., page 37.
The Parliament of Paris ordered the erection of a column in commemo- ration of this plot, which they declared to have " sprung from the pestilent heresy of that pernicious sect, the Jesuits, who, concealing the most abomi- nable crimes under the guise of piety, had publicly taught the assassination of kings, and attempted the life of Henry the Fourth."
See this famous inscription in De Argintre's History, and many other French histories.
f Extract from the decree issued 15th November, 1602, by order of Elizabeth of England, for the banishment of the Jesuits from her do- minions : —
She declared that the Jesuits had been " the advisers of the new con- spiracies formed against her person, had sought to instigate her subjects to insurrection, had carried on monopolies in order to aid such revolt, had stirred up foreign Princes to associate for her destruction, had engaged in all the affairs of her kingdom, and had undertaken by their discourses and in their writings to dispose of her crown."
The following is an extract from the celebrated memorial addressed to the Pope by the Roman Catholics of England, in reference to the above
149
From England again, in .... 1604
From Denmark, Thorn, and Venice,* in . 1606
From Venice again, in . . . . 1612
From the kingdom of Amura, in Japan in . 1613
From Bohemia, in . . . . . 1618
From Moravia, in . . . . . 1619
From Naples and the Netherlands, in • . 1622
From China and India, f in . . . . 1623
decree, found in 1602, in which they complained that " these Fathers were the sole authors of the troubles ichinh agitate the English Church; that before their arrival no Catholic had been accused of high treason, but as soon as they appeared everything was changed ; that since their political ambition had burst forth they had set a price upon kingdoms, and set i;p crowns for sale." See this memorial more at length in Les Jesuites Criminals de Le'nje Majesti.
* The Jesuits were expelled from Venice in 1606, in consequence of " the Senate having discovered that THE JESUITS HAVING AVAILED THEMSELVES OF
THE OFFICE OF CONFESSION TO DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF FAMILIES and the TALENTS AND DISPOSITIONS OF INDIVIDUALS, BY THE same PROCESS KNEW THE STRENGTH, RESOURCES, AND SECRETS OF THE STATE, AN ACCOUNT OF WHICH THEY SENT EVERY SIX MONTHS TO THEIK GENERAL BY A PROVINCIAL
OR VISITOR." — See these facts stated at length in De Thou's History ; vol. xii.