456 CHARGE AGAINST WILLIAM TALBOT. 



Now, my lords, I cannot let pass, but in these 

 glasses which I spake of, besides the facts themselves 

 and danger, to shew you two things ; the one, the 

 ways of God Almighty, which turneth the sword of 

 Rome upon the kings that are the vassals of Rome, 

 and over them gives it power ; but protecteth those 

 kings which have not accepted the yoke of his ty 

 ranny, from the effects of his malice : the other, 

 that, as I said at first, this is a common cause of princes ; 

 it involveth kings of both religions ; and therefore 

 his majesty did most worthily and prudently ring 

 out the alarm-bell, to awake all other princes to 

 think of it seriously, and in time. But this is a 

 miserable case the while, that these Roman soldiers 

 do either thrust the spear into the sides of God s 

 anointed, or at least they crown them with thorns ; 

 that is, piercing and pricking cares and fears, that 

 they can never be quiet or secure of their lives or 

 states. And as this peril is common to princes of 

 both religions, so princes of both religions have been 

 likewise equally sensible of every injury that touched 

 their temporals. 



Thuanus reports in his story, that when the 

 realm of France was interdicted by the violent pro 

 ceedings of Pope Julius the second, the king, other 

 wise noted for a moderate prince, caused coins of 

 gold to be stamped with his own image, and this 

 superscription, &quot; Perdam nomen Babylonis e terra.&quot; 

 Of which Thuanus saith, himself had seen divers 

 pieces thereof. So as this catholic king was so 

 much incensed at that time, in respect of the pope s 



