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lately to the world a work of Suarez a Portuguese, 

 a professor in the university of Coimbra, a confident 

 and daring writer, such an one as Tully describes in 

 derision ; &quot; nihil tarn verens, quam ne dubitare aliqua 

 de re videretur :&quot; one that fears nothing but this* 

 lest he should seem to doubt of any thing. A fellow 

 that thinks with his magistrality and gorfse quill to 

 give laws and tnenages to crowns and sceptres. In 

 this man s writing this doctrine of deposing or mur 

 dering kings seems to come to a higher elevation 

 than heretofore; and it is more arted and posi- 

 tived than in others. For in the passages which 

 your lordships shall hear read anon, I find three 

 assertions which run not in the vulgar track, but 

 are such as wherewith men s ears, as I suppose, 

 are not much acquainted ; whereof the first is, 

 That the pope hath a superiority over kings, as 

 subjects, to depose them ; not only for spiritual crimes, 

 as heresy and schism, but for faults of a temporal 

 nature ; forasmuch as a tyrannical government 

 tendeth ever to the destruction of souls. So by this 

 position, kings of either religion are alike compre 

 hended, and none exempted. The second, that after 

 a sentence given by the pope, this writer hath defined 

 of a series, or succession, or substitution of hangmen, 

 or &quot; bourreaux,&quot; to be sure, lest an executioner 

 should fail. For he saith, That when a king is sen 

 tenced by the pope to deprivation or death, the 

 executioner, who is first in place, is he to whom the 

 pope shall commit the authority, which may be a 

 foreign prince, it may be a particular subject, it may 



