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bitter, I might say, blood-thirsty, attack upon James I., to whom he attributes Machiavellian principles of government, professes, in the Dedicatory Epistle, that he obtained a license to read Machiavelli from the Inquisition — impetratâ prius ab Illustrissimis Sanctæ Inquisitionis Cardinalibus legendi Machiavelli facultate, ut ex eorum diplomate, quod penès me est, satis liquet. This work is bound up with a vile Jesuitic lampoon against James I. by Bartholus Pacenius, I. C., Εξεταόις Epistolæ nomine Regis, M. B. &c. I. C. Montibus, Impressore Adamo Gallo. Anno 1610; forty unpaged leaves, remarkable for fligate profession of contempt for the obligation of an oath, and noticed by Richard Thompson,[1] Ussher, Henry Mason, and others.
- ↑ As this work of Pacenius is exceedingly unknown, and that of Richard Thompson throws more light upon it than I have any where else been able to find, the reader must tolerate a few words upon a not unimportant subject. The full title of the first — Εξεταόις Epistolæ nomine Regis Magnæ Brittaniæ, ad omnes Christianos Monarchas, Principes & Ordines, scriptæ; quæ Præfationis monitoriæ loco, ipsius Apologiæ pro juramento fidelitatis, præfixa est. Eisdem Monarchis, Principibus, & Ordinibus dedicata, à Bartholo Pecesio, I. C. Claudianus de Inst. Prin. Qui terret plus ille timet, Sors illa Tyranno convenit, Montibus, Impressore Adamo Gallo. Anno 1610. It extends to forty folia, and is small 8vo. From the absolute non-appearance of author or book in any of the regular books of
