THE CHARGE OF SIR FRANCIS BACON, KNIGHT, 



THE KING S ATTORNEY GENERAL, AGAINST 



WILLIAM TALBOT, A COUNSELLOR AT LAW, 



OF IRELAND, 



UPON AN INFORMATION IN THE STAR-CHAMBER ORE TENUS, FOR A 

 WRITING UNDER HIS HAND, WHEREBY THE SAID WILLIAM TALBOT 

 BEING DEMANDED r WHETHER THE DOCTRINE OF SUAREZ, TOUCH 

 ING DEPOSING AND KILLING OF KINGS EXCOMMUNICATED, WERE 

 TRUE OR NO? HE ANSWERED, THAT HE REFERRED HIMSELF UNTO 

 THAT WHICH THE CATHOLIC ROMAN CHURCH SHOULD DETERMINE. 

 THEREOF. 



ULTIMO DIE TERMINI IIILARII, UNDECIMO JACOBI REGIS, 



MY LORDS, 



I BROUGHT before you the first sitting of this term 

 the cause of duels ; but now this last sitting I shall 

 bring before you a cause concerning the greatest 

 duel which is in the Christian world, the duel and 

 conflict between the lawful authority of sovereign 

 kings, which is God s ordinance for the comfort of 

 human society, and the swelling pride and usurpa 

 tion of the see of Rome &quot; in temporalibus,&quot; tending 

 altogether to anarchy and confusion. Wherein if 

 this pretence in the Pope of Rome, by cartels to make 

 sovereign princes as the banditti, and to proscribe 

 their lives, and to expose their kingdoms to prey ; if 

 these pretences, I say, apd all persons that submit 

 themselves to that part of the Pope s power in the 

 least degree, be not by all possible severity repressed 



