Epistle to a Good Friend in Italy

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XIX. Judgment of His Royal Majesty in England regarding Vorstius.

Sharper and more important is the judgment of His Royal Majesty James in Great Britain regarding the godless doctrine of Vorstius, after which, as if after a thunderclap, the lightning also soon followed (for from such highness does not come a lightning or thunder soon). Since his aforementioned Royal Majesty has condemned the books of the godless man, now infamous for public heresy and blasphemy, and has ordered them to be burned by the smoke of fire in England. And so that the named Vorstius might be driven and chased not only out of the Leiden academy but out of all of Holland, a serious exhortation has gone out from His Royal Majesty to the States, about which course of events, and the careless suppression of such exhortation, Isaac Casaubon, a special friend of the protesters, writes as follows:

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The book of Vorstius, marked with signs and little stars by the Cantuarian referring to the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot, has been rejected and condemned by the King. All copies and reprints have been burned by the commanded order of the authorities, both in the capital and in both universities. Important and serious letters, which His Royal Majesty himself conceived and dictated, have been sent to the Royal Legate remaining there, which are a sufficient testimony of what the opinion and view of His Royal Majesty, and partly of the English Church, is regarding such new doctrine.