THE
FOOT
OVT
OF
THE
SNARE
.
SAint
Augustine
reports
,
Ciuit.
de
Dei
.
l.
1.
that
euen
in
the
Primitiue
Church
,
and
in
those
better
times
,
the
Diuell
was
become
both
Leo
apertè
saeuiens
,
&
Draco
occultè
insidians
:
by
open
and
outrageous
cruelty
,
hee
shewed
himselfe
a
Lion
;
and
,
by
his
secret
poisoning
of
Religion
,
a
Dragon
.
Yet
his
malicious
power
was
curbed
,
and
himself
bound
in
chains
for
a
thousand
yeers
:
so
that
,
notwithstanding
all
his
subtilty
,
Truth
,
like
a
Palme-tree
,
flourished
;
and
Christ's
Crosse
,
like
Aarons
Rod
,
did
blossom
,
and
bring
forth
much
fruit
.
But
now
the
old
Serpent
is
let
loose
,
and
of
late
yeers
hath
acted
both
the
Lion
and
the
Dragon
without
restraint
;
both
by
policy
and
puisance
,
studying
to
extinguish
the
light
of
the
Truth
.
Neither
haue
his
attempts
been
effectlesse
:
for
,
what
by
Magogs
sword
in
the
East
,
and
Gogs
vsurped
Keyes
in
the
West
,
hee
hath
driuen
Truth
,
like
a
Doue
,
into
the
holes
of
the
rocks
,
and
banished
Faith
in
many
places
from
among
men
.
In
Reformed
Churches
(
especially
in
our
Church
of
England
)
Gods
Mercy
hath
supported
his
Truth
,
euen
amidst
the
slacknes
and
carelesnes
of
the
Professors
themselues
:
whil'st
yet
some
,
like
Dinah
the
daughter
of
Iacob
,
primam
et
puram
fidem
,
their
first
faith
,
by
going
abroad
,
and
haue
returned
home
impure
.
Some
,
like
Salomons
outlandish
women
,
outlandish
Religion
.
Many
at
home
,
in
stead
of
the
voice
of
the
Faithfull
,
Come
,
let
vs
go
vp
into
the
House
of
the
Lord
,
Let
vs
go
vp
to
Bethel
,
and
trangresse
to
Gilgal
,
and
multiply
transgressions
.
So
that
our
Countrey
,
which
ought
to
bee
euen
and
vniforme
,
is
now
made
like
a
piece
of
Arras
,
full
of
strange
formes
and
colours
.
But
what
is
the
reason
?
Besides
the
drowzinesse
of
many
Luke-warm
Gospellers
,
there
is
a
vigilant
Tribe
(
I
mean
,
the
Emissaries
of
Rome
,
and
Factors
for
the
Papacy
)
,
who
are
like
vnto
Dan
,
and
are
as
an
Adder
in
the
path
,
which
bites
the
horse
,
and
makes
the
Rider
to
fall
backward
.
Ephesus
,
to
leaue
their
first
loue
,
the
hearts
of
the
weaker
sort
:
leading
captiue
simple
women
loaden
with
sinnes
,
and
led
away
with
diuerse
lusts
.
Strange
indeed
it
is
to
consider
,
how
That
Wolf-bred
and
Wolf-breeding
Romulus
doth
daily
send-ouer
his
rauening
brood
of
Iesuites
&
Priests
,
to
make
hauock
&
spoil
,
&
to
conclude
a
bloudy
Catastrophe
to
a
direfull
Tragedy
.
Astant
&
instant
,
vt
Hannibal
ad
portas
:
nay
,
like
Brennus
and
his
Gaules
,
vid.
de
Bren.
they
haue
not
onely
surprized
our
Suburbs
,
but
almost
taken
our
Capitol
.
The
Gaules
came
stealing-in
by
night
through
the
Thickets
:
so
these
Bats
,
in
the
twi-light
of
our
security
,
creep
vpon
vs
,
defensi
tenebris
.
They
finde
,
perhaps
,
among
vs
a
still
night
of
negligence
and
drowzinesse
:
but
they
bring-on
a
greater
night
,
by
the
thick
cloud
and
fogge
of
superstitions
and
forgeries
;
wherein
they
enwrap
themselues
,
and
would
ensnare
vs
;
who
if
they
should
go
on
to
the
height
of
their
hopes
,
what
may
wee
expect
,
but
vt
notent
&
designent
oculis
ad
caedem
vnumquemque
nostrum
,
&
c
?
sonnes
of
Belial
,
not
onely
cast
off
the
yoke
of
obedience
,
with
a
Nolumus
hunc
regnare
,
Luke
19.14
.
but
euen
clothe
themselues
in
the
robes
of
rebellion
,
with
a
Venite
&
occidamus
,
Luke
20.14
?
Vade
,
&
nè
pecca
ampliùs
,
nè
deterius
contingat
tibi
:
Sinne
no
more
,
lest
a
worse
thing
happen
vnto
thee
.
And
sure
,
for
my
owne
particular
,
I
make
such
application
,
and
will
euer
consider
,
that
I
had
a
faire
warning
to
come
out
from
among
them
;
non
tam
pede
,
quàm
pectore
;
non
tam
gradibus
,
quàm
affectibus
;
not
so
much
in
motion
,
as
in
affection
;
leauing
them
to
their
superstitious
deuotions
,
and
neuer
more
partaking
with
them
in
any
their
abominations
.
But
,
omne
beneficium
petit
officium
:
as
in
morality
euery
benefit
is
obligatory
,
and
bindes
to
some
thankfull
duty
;
so
more
especially
in
Diuinity
,
the
wonderfull
works
of
God
,
extended
to
all
in
general
,
or
to
any
one
man
in
particular
,
in
regard
of
speciall
protection
,
doo
binde
to
a
duty
of
Thanksgiuing
.
Though
I
haue
long
runne
vpon
the
score
,
and
hitherto
yeelded
to
Ingratitude
,
that
crafty
Sinon
,
to
keep
the
doore
of
my
lips
,
so
that
I
haue
neither
discharged
my
conscience
toward
God
or
man
,
yet
will
I
at
last
,
with
the
alone
Lepe●
,
return
to
giue
praise
.
And
surely
,
of
those
that
escaped
the
danger
of
the
Black-friers
(
an
Accident
for
which
I
haue
been
much
noted
,
and
often
pointed
at
)
,
none
hath
greater
cause
to
offer
the
calues
of
his
lips
,
a
gratefull
Sacrifice
vnto
the
Almighty
,
then
my self
.
For
,
as
my
escape
was
not
the
easiest
;
so
my
offense
,
the
greatest
:
whereof
,
one
mooueth
me
to
compunction
;
the
other
,
to
gratulation
.
Being
in
the
midst
of
the
Roume
that
fell
,
and
though
that
omnes
circumstantes
,
all
(
in
a
maner
)
that
stood
about
me
,
perished
in
that
calamity
,
and
I
inuolued
in
the
down-fall
,
and
falling
,
being
couered
with
the
heaps
of
rubbish
and
dead
carcases
;
yet
it
pleased
God
to
hasten
my
Escape
,
beyond
my
owne
expectation
and
humane
vnderstanding
.
Surely
,
when
I
record
this
common
down-fall
,
which
wounded
others
vnto
death
,
and
mee
but
vnto
affright
,
I
cannot
but
strike
my
brest
,
and
look
vp
into
heauen
,
or
rather
with
the
Publican
,
down
to
the
earth
,
and
say
,
What
was
there
,
or
is
there
in
me
,
miserable
man
,
that
the
hand
of
God
should
strike
so
many
on
my
right
hand
and
left
,
and
yet
ouerpasse
me
?
Surely
I
was
no
Lot
,
to
escape
out
of
burning
Sodom
;
no
Noah
,
to
bee
preserued
in
a
generall
Deluge
.
If
the
load
of
sinne
pressed
them
down
that
fell
(
alas
!
farre
be
it
from
me
to
haue
vncharitable
conceit
of
their
persons
)
,
that
waight
should
haue
sunk
mee
then
deeper
than
any
of
them
,
not
onely
to
the
ground
,
but
vnder
ground
,
to
hell
it self
.
But
our
good
God
is
Master
of
his
owne
work
,
and
free
Lord
of
his
owne
mercies
.
Hee
bestoweth
them
where
there
can
bee
no
plea
of
merit
.
He
spared
to
crop
mee
in
the
strength
of
my
yout
h
,
in
the
midst
of
my
wandring
vanities
,
in
the
act
of
my
bold
curiosity
.
Hee
hath
prolonged
my
daies
,
that
my
heart
may
be
inlarged
in
thankfulnesse
to
his
glorious
Name
;
that
my
feet
might
bee
inlarged
,
to
walk
the
way
of
his
Commandements
;
sudden
death
(
against
which
our
Church
hath
taught
me
to
pray
)
,
deserue
now
to
be
praised
,
toto
voto
,
tota
vitâ
,
toto
pectore
,
toto
homine
;
in
al
my
life
,
with
all
my
soule
,
and
with
all
my selfe
?
Yes
sure
,
I
will
euer
take
the
Cup
of
saluation
,
and
call
vpon
his
Name
.
I
will
not
cease
to
pay
my
vowes
vnto
him
,
in
despight
of
our
spirituall
Aduersarie
,
or
any
his
Aduocates
.
It
becommeth
well
the
iust
to
bee
thankfull
.
For
others
that
escaped
,
I
wish
they
would
not
so
presumptuously
tempt
God
,
as
some
of
them
,
whom
I
haue
heard
repine
,
because
they
had
not
a
share
in
this
slaughter
.
And
what
is
the
reason
forsooth
?
Because
euer
since
that
accident
befell
,
at
all
the
places
about
the
City
of
London
,
where
Priests
are
harbored
,
which
are
not
few
(
there
beeing
at
this
present
,
to
my
knowledge
,
more
then
two
hundred
of
them
,
within
the
City
and
Suburbes
)
,
af●er
euery
Masse
of
theirs
,
the
Priest
or
Clarke
starteth
vp
presently
vpon
the
Benediction
,
and
calleth
aloud
vnto
the
people
,
to
say
three
Pater-nosters
,
and
three
Aue-maries
for
the
soules
of
those
that
died
at
Black-Friers
.
So
that
they
think
it
cannot
otherwise
chuse
,
but
that
their
soules
must
be
by
this
time
in
heauen
.
And
sure
so
think
I
,
or
else
they
will
neuer
come
thither
.
For
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
à
modo
,
forthwith
,
blessed
are
the
dead
that
dye
in
the
Lord
:
they
rest
from
their
labors
,
&c.
p.
disp
.
●4
.
there
is
nothing
but
torture
and
torment
to
be
expected
.
I
cannot
,
but
,
by
the
way
,
tell
you
of
one
that
very
narrowly
escaped
the
danger
of
Black-Friers
,
&
accompanied
me
that
night
to
my
Lodging
:
his
name
was
Parker
,
one
that
had
beene
long
a
Trader
and
Factor
for
the
Papacie
beyond
the
seas
.
Hee
told
mee
by
the
way
,
that
nothing
grieued
him
more
,
then
that
hee
had
not
beene
one
of
those
that
dyed
by
the
afore-said
mischance
.
W●at
should
make
him
so
prodigall
of
his
life
,
I
know
not
:
but
sure
,
not
long
after
,
the
Powers
diuine
cut
the
thred
of
his
daies
:
for
,
the
weeke
following
,
hee
beeing
the
man
that
must
carry
the
newes
ouer
the
seas
to
Doway
,
and
going
then
to
take
Priestly
Orders
there
beeing
need
of
a
supply
,
F.
Drury
,
F.
Redyate
,
and
one
F.
Moore
,
beeing
so
vnexpectedly
,
as
they
tearme
it
,
martyred
;
The
reuenge
of
Iniuries
,
The
glory
of
deeds
,
The
Iudgement
of
secrets
.
Quae
Deus
occulta
esse
voluit
,
non
sunt
scrutanda
:
quae
autem
manifesta
fecit
,
non
sunt
negligenda
;
ne
etenim
in
illis
illicitè
curiosi
,
et
in
his
damnabiliter
inueniamur
ingrati
.
de
prouid
.
I
will
iudge
of
my
owne
cause
,
and
conclude
,
that
the
Mercy
of
God
was
of
larger
extent
to
mee
,
then
any
other
.
None
had
prouoked
him
,
or
tempted
him
more
:
and
therefore
,
where
sinne
abounded
,
there
the
mercy
of
God
hath
abounded
much
more
.
He
is
,
multus
ad
ignoscendum
,
according
to
the
Vulgar
Latine
,
and
Because
of
sinners
,
he
shall
be
called
mercifull
.
But
why
should
I
haue
entred
into
the
house
of
Rimmon
,
or
haue
partaken
with
the
abomination
of
the
children
of
Ammon
?
Why
should
I
,
that
knew
my
owne
Fathers
Courts
,
haue
gone
into
the
house
of
a
stranger
?
Curiosity
,
in
these
kindes
,
cannot
excuse
.
Bee
not
deceiued
,
God
will
not
bee
mocked
.
vnsauory
salt
.
How
great
was
his
glory
!
how
infinite
his
beauty
aboue
his
fellowes
,
who
could
say
vnto
his
Father
;
Those
that
thou
gauest
me
,
haue
I
kept
,
and
none
of
them
is
lost
,
but
the
childe
of
perdition
.
Holy
Father
,
keepe
them
in
thy
name
euen
them
whom
thou
hast
giuen
mee
,
that
they
may
be
one
,
as
I
am
!
And
let
mee
here
admonish
all
such
as
are
facile
to
yeeld
vnto
Popish
perswasion
,
and
are
ready
to
take
vp
the
old
saying
of
the
Chaldees
,
Mel.
can
.
in
loc.
com
.
Homo
quidam
ex
Iudaeis
venit
,
Sacerdos
,
neutiquam
decipiet
nos
:
Such
a
Priest
will
not
deceiue
vs
.
Sure
,
none
sooner
,
though
they
winde
as
close
as
Iuy
about
a
tree
,
and
so
insinuate
,
as
they
suck
no
small
aduantage
.
They
perswade
,
that
their
houses
are
the
houses
of
Cloë
;
their
housholds
,
the
housholds
of
Onesiphorus
.
oyly-mouthed
Absolons
,
though
they
speake
plausible
things
,
to
steale
away
your
hearts
from
Gods
Truth
,
and
the
Kings
Obedience
;
crying
as
lowd
,
The
Church
of
Rome
,
as
euer
the
Iewes
did
,
Templum
Domini
,
Templum
Domini
,
The
Temple
of
the
Lord
.
golden
Calues
reared
at
Dan
and
Bethel
,
keepe
you
from
going
to
serue
God
at
Ierusalem
.
Qui
leuiter
credit
,
deceptus
saeperecedit
.
All
that
they
study
,
is
but
Imposture
and
Legerdemaine
.
They
will
perchance
tell
you
of
their
strict
Orders
;
that
they
are
religious
men
,
of
the
society
of
Iesus
,
Benedictans
,
Franciscans
,
Augustines
,
Bernardines
,
Antonians
,
Ioannites
,
Carthusians
,
Praemonstratentians
,
Cistertians
,
and
the
like
;
that
they
haue
distinct
habits
and
customes
,
differing
one
from
another
;
that
they
professe
perpetuall
chastity
,
obedience
,
and
wilfull
pouerty
,
and
liue
for
the
most
part
a
solitary
life
,
and
thence
called
Monks
.
Oh
beleeue
them
not
:
they
haue
Esaus
hands
,
though
Iacobs
voice
:
tinkling
cymbals
,
and
greene
bay-trees
,
whereunto
Dauid
compares
the
wicked
.
Friers
coat
is
a
Gold-laced
Suit
,
to
hide
their
iuggling
knauery
,
and
keepe
them
vnknowne
,
when
they
are
drunke
in
good
company
;
which
is
not
seldome
with
them
,
as
my selfe
haue
seene
in
sufficient
ouerflowing
measure
,
hauing
beene
their
companion
ad
hilaritatem
;
but
I
protest
,
neuer
ad
ebrietatem
.
But
thinking
,
a
faire
outside
at
the
Altar
shall
mend
all
,
to
tempt
you
to
their
Idolatry
,
they
will
shew
you
their
Bishops
and
Priests
offering
vp
the
Sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
attired
in
holy
Vestures
,
commanded
(
as
they
say
)
by
a
sacred
Synod
,
which
for
their
perfection
are
borrowed
out
of
the
Law
of
Moses
.
I
am
not
so
singularly
conceited
and
fantastick
,
as
to
think
,
that
it
is
not
expedient
for
a
Minister
of
the
Christian
Church
,
by
his
decent
habit
to
bee
distinguished
from
the
people
,
and
adorned
with
some
sacred
significant
Robe
,
in
the
function
and
action
of
presenting
publick
prayers
vnto
God
,
or
executing
the
sacred
Mysteries
instituted
by
our
Sauiour
,
to
indure
ad
consummationem
mundi
.
But
to
inuent
and
multiply
vndecent
and
theatricall
habits
,
burthensome
in
number
,
superfluous
in
signification
,
and
superstitious
in
opinion
of
sanctity
,
this
may
bee
the
proper
dower
of
Mother
Rome
,
rather
then
the
beauty
of
the
Kings
Daughter
,
who
is
all
glo●ious
within
.
What
a
Wardrope
of
habiliments
and
idle
complements
,
doth
the
superstitious
Massing
Priest
beare
about
him
!
the
Amice
,
the
long
Albe
,
the
Girdle
,
the
Stole
,
the
Maniple
,
the
Castula
,
the
Napkin
or
Sudary
,
common
to
inferiour
Priests
;
besides
the
Sandals
,
the
purple
Coat
with
wide
sleeues
,
the
Gloues
,
the
Ring
,
the
Pall
or
Cope
,
the
Crozier
Staffe
,
a
Chaire
standing
neere
the
Altar
:
the
last
sort
of
which
,
are
more
proper
to
the
Bishops
.
The
Pope
(
by
the
donation
of
the
Emperor
Constantine
the
Great
)
weareth
,
in
the
Celebration
of
the
Masse
,
all
the
Robes
vsed
by
the
Emperors
of
Rome
;
as
,
the
Scarlet
Coat
,
the
short
purple
Cloake
,
the
Scepter
,
and
the
Triple
Diadem
,
and
wi●h
these
hee
is
arrayed
in
the
Vestry
.
Sure
I
am
,
that
our
Sauiour
and
his
Apostles
,
when
they
preached
and
baptized
,
had
other
kinde
of
accoutrements
.
They
boast
much
of
their
propitiatory
Sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
which
the
Doctors
of
their
Church
hold
fit
to
bee
said
in
no
other
Language
then
in
Latine
;
yea
,
Rabanus
auerreth
,
de
cler.
instit
.
cap.
9.
that
it
is
no
lesse
then
Sacriledge
,
to
think
of
changing
it
into
another
Tongue
,
which
the
people
can
vnderstand
.
Now
their
common
answer
for
the
peoples
not
vnderstanding
their
publick
prayers
,
hath
beene
,
That
the
Priest
,
who
pronounceth
them
,
doth
vnderstand
them
:
but
many
of
their
Priests
cannot
themselues
interpret
those
very
prayers
which
they
powre
foorth
for
the
people
.
The
Masse-Book
,
as
it
is
Latin
to
the
Vulgar
,
so
it
is
Greek
to
the
Priest
:
and
how
Prayers
,
vnderstood
neither
by
the
one
nor
the
other
,
should
be
other
then
a
dead
Sacrifice
,
I
cannot
vnderstand
,
euen
by
their
owne
Tenents
.
Saint
Paul
,
1.
Cor.
14.16
.
speaking
of
one
,
quisupplet
locum
Idiotae
,
surely
intended
,
that
in
the
Church
there
should
be
at
least
one
who
should
bee
of
an
higher
forme
then
Idiota
;
but
,
for
ought
I
●ee
,
some
of
their
Priests
must
bee
content
in
their
Masse
,
to
act
two
parts
in
one
;
both
of
the
Guide
,
and
of
the
Idiote
.
For
I
am
sure
,
some
of
them
whom
I
haue
met
withall
in
this
Kingdom
,
when
I
haue
spoken
Latine
to
them
,
they
haue
not
beene
able
to
distinguish
whether
it
were
Irish
or
Welsh
.
One
of
their
woodden
Doctors
I
will
name
,
called
Courtney
,
whom
I
met
withall
in
Lancashire
:
he
was
very
busie
talking
,
that
none
could
be
saued
without
hearing
Masse
;
and
that
Christ
and
his
Apostles
went
vp
and
downe
saying
Masse
,
in
all
Villages
and
Countries
.
And
I
asked
him
,
how
he
prooued
that
?
He
could
name
no
Scripture
or
Author
,
but
told
me
,
He
had
read
it
in
a
Book
,
and
,
perceiuing
me
smile
,
said
,
It
was
in
The
Reuelation
of
Saint
Iohn
.
Hearing
his
Answer
to
this
,
I
asked
him
another
Question
,
which
was
,
What
might
be
meant
by
the
words
so
often
vsed
together
in
the
Masse
,
Kirie
Eleison
,
Christe
Eleison
,
Kirie
Eleison
.
He
told
me
,
The
word
Kirie
signified
The
Host
;
and
Eleison
,
Christ
.
No
maruell
now
,
that
they
maintaine
Ignorance
to
bee
the
Mother
of
Deuotion
,
the
old
Prouerb
beeing
still
true
,
that
They
haue
golden
Chalices
,
but
woodden
Priests
.
Talking
another
time
in
London
with
another
Brother
of
his
,
one
Father
Medcalf
,
who
lyes
at
a
Tobacco-shop
in
Shoo-lane
,
I
asked
him
,
why
he
could
not
pray
without
a
Pictures
He
replied
,
How
can
you
vnderstand
what
manner
of
man
Christ
is
,
but
by
seeing
him
?
or
any
Saint
,
but
by
their
Picture
?
or
how
can
you
pray
without
a
Picture
,
but
your
minde
will
be
carried
some
other
way
?
Then
thought
I
vpon
that
sentence
of
Fulgentius
,
It
a
facilè
possit
Christum
comprehendere
,
quem
tota
terra
nequit
apprehendere
.
a
Iesuite
,
who
wrote
the
book
called
Euangelicall
Counsailes
,
told
mee
beeing
with
him
in
Christmas
last
,
That
if
any
but
heare
Masse
,
and
after
hearing
,
be
sprinkled
with
holy
water
,
and
kisse
the
Priests
garment
,
hee
could
not
commit
that
day
any
mortall
sinne
,
si
maximè
velit
,
though
hee
would
neuer
so
fain
.
Which
indeed
,
though
very
grosse
and
absurd
,
is
no
lesse
than
some
of
their
Writers
auouch
.
in
lib.
inst
.
The
Propitiator
,
pag.
74.
vid.
Fitz-Sim
.
in
fin
.
citat
.
in
diuers
.
loc.
O
how
doo
they
lead
along
poor
silly
soules
into
the
gulf
of
destruction
,
by
telling
them
,
such
and
such
sinnes
are
but
venial
;
drunkennesse
,
lying
,
swearing
,
and
(
vpon
occasion
)
forswearing
,
but
venial
sinnes
!
whereas
no
sins
are
lesser
than
the
point
of
those
thorns
that
pierced
the
head
of
Christ
:
pro
quibus
abluendis
,
sanguis
Christi
effusus
;
for
the
washing
away
of
which
,
Christ
shed
drops
of
bloud
in
the
garden
,
and
opened
the
spouts
of
bloud
on
the
Crosse
.
Our
sinnes
,
in
Scripture
,
are
compared
vnto
sands
;
which
are
very
small
,
con●idering
them
seuerally
,
and
yet
the
greatest
shippe
is
swallowed
vp
of
them
quickly
.
sting
of
a
Viper
,
and
doth
wound
vs
mortally
:
yea
,
the
least
sin
,
legally
considered
,
is
damnable
;
though
euangelically
,
the
greatest
of
all
is
pardonable
.
Elias
Cretensis
his
words
:
Expeccati
fumo
,
ortae
sunt
lachrymae
.
Lying
,
in
some
cases
,
the
Papists
hold
not
onely
to
bee
no
sinne
,
but
to
bee
lawfull
:
and
a
man
may
forsweare
himself
before
Authority
sometimes
,
nay
,
ought
to
doo
so
,
vnder
pain
of
damnation
.
Witnes
their
Notes
Anno●
.
in
23.
c.
Act.
Apost
.
vpon
the
Rhemists
Testament
,
and
diuerse
their
Books
.
According
to
the
Rule
of
the
Parthians
,
they
will
keep
faith
with
none
,
nisi
quantum
expedit
,
but
as
it
serues
their
turn
.
As
for
Oaths
,
to
the
most
of
them
,
they
are
no
other
than
Collars
for
Munkies
;
which
,
vpon
dispensation
of
Superiours
,
they
slip
off
their
necks
at
their
pleasure
;
especially
if
they
be
such
State-Papists
as
haue
been
inspired
with
Iesuitical
Equiuocations
and
mentall
Euasions
:
whom
a
Reuerend
Father
of
our
Church
Let
me
proceed
to
a
further
furuay
of
their
doctrine
and
religion
,
and
acquaint
you
with
what
I
finde
true
by
my
owne
experience
.
Sure
I
am
,
that
the
Papists
,
by
diuers
their
Impostures
,
haue
more
dishonoured
Christ
,
than
euer
he
was
by
any
Sect
or
Profession
whatsoeuer
:
for
,
haue
not
their
best
Doctors
,
Bellarmine
,
Valentia
,
Vasquez
,
with
others
,
been
the
very
Patrons
of
damnable
Idolatry
,
suam
perditionem
sentientes
,
there
is
a
proper
worship
due
to
Images
;
tract
.
&
cont.
de
Imag.
Vasquez
,
implying
,
that
the
Diuell
,
in
some
cases
,
may
bee
adored
.
Catec
.
page
217.
and
a
Book
of
theirs
,
called
,
The
Manual
of
Controuersies
;
and
see
whether
they
doo
not
allow
of
falling
down
to
Images
,
of
kissing
them
,
as
they
doo
the
Pax
in
the
Masse
.
What
shall
I
say
of
their
much
mumbling
of
Masses
,
and
jumbling
of
Beads
?
If
there
be
twenty
Priests
in
a
house
,
they
must
all
say
Masse
before
Noon
,
though
there
be
no
body
by
,
though
they
sacrifice
to
the
wals
.
They
must
haue
beads
,
to
pray
by
number
,
or
else
their
prayers
want
weight
.
They
are
commanded
to
say
somtimes
in
one
day
an
hundred
and
fifty
Pater-nosters
,
as
many
Aue-Maries
,
forty
Creeds
;
and
,
if
they
misse
but
one
of
the
right
number
,
all
is
vaine
and
effectlesse
:
nay
,
the
Confessors
hold
it
to
be
a
mortall
●inne
,
if
,
among
so
many
Prayers
appointed
to
be
said
for
Penance
,
one
onely
be
omitted
.
As
concerning
their
Processions
,
Praying
to
the
Dead
,
Inuocation
of
Saints
,
Ad●ration
of
the
consecrated
Hoast
,
Administration
of
the
Sacrament
vnder
one
kinde
,
sprinkling
of
Holy-water
,
tinkling
of
a
Bell
at
the
Eleuation
,
kissing
the
ground
where
the
Priest
hath
stood
,
worshipping
of
Reliques
,
repeating
the
name
Iesus
nine
times
together
,
with
nines
vpon
nines
,
often
crossing
the
fore-head
and
the
brest
,
their
necessary
wetting
of
their
fingers
in
the
holy
Pot
,
before
they
go
toward
the
Altar
,
their
kneeling
down
to
euery
Priest
they
meet
,
their
ambling
thrice
about
a
Crosse
,
their
Pilgrimages
,
Dirges
,
seuerall
sorts
of
Letanies
,
in
which
the
Saints
only
are
inuocated
,
and
other
like
trash
,
which
are
the
very
Diana
of
the
Romish
Religion
,
what
foundation
haue
they
in
holy
Scripture
?
Are
they
built
vpon
the
Rock
Christ
?
No
;
but
vpon
the
sands
of
humane
brains
;
being
inuented
,
and
obtruded
vpon
the
people
,
to
aduance
the
benefit
and
honour
of
their
Clergie
.
So
saith
one
of
their
owne
Writers
:
An
non
audis
dicentes
grata
multitudini
,
flectentes
,
fingentes
,
ac
refingentes
religionem
ad
nutum
&
c●piditates
Dominorum
&
coetuum
;
quorum
gloriam
,
nisi
suam
,
pluris
faciunt
,
quam
gloriam
Dei
?
in
prae●
.
in
com
.
Philip.
super
Christ
.
ad
Cor.
Doo
you
not
heare
them
,
how
they
speak
plausibly
to
the
itching
eares
of
the
multitude
,
inflecting
,
fashioning
and
refashioning
their
religion
according
to
the
will
and
wantonnes
of
them
,
whose
glory
,
next
vnto
their
owne
,
they
preferre
before
the
glory
of
God
?
But
shall
not
their
owne
Disciples
one
day
●peak
vnto
them
,
according
to
that
of
Saint
Augustine
,
Quare
nos
decepistis
?
Quare
tanta
mala
&
falsa
dixistis
?
Et
erubescunt
humanae
infirmitati
,
&
non
erubescunt
inuictissimae
veritati
.
de
verb.
apost
.
Why
did
you
seduce
vs
?
Why
did
you
tell
vs
so
many
false
things
;
more
regarding
the
weaknes
of
men
,
than
the
inuinciblenesse
of
Truth
?
Yes
sure
:
Necesse
est
,
cùm
dies
Iudicij
venerit
,
&c.
saith
Saint
Cyprian
:
one
day
bee
laid
,
and
a
strict
account
exacted
.
Many
wauing
Babes
were
carried
away
with
the
blast
of
your
deceits
,
beaten
and
broken
against
the
rock
of
errour
;
many
,
I
say
,
whom
Saint
Paul
tearmeth
Paruulos
fluctuantes
,
vnconstant
yong-ones
;
not
so
much
swelling
with
pride
,
as
deceiued
and
tossed
with
the
rage
of
your
Imposture
.
But
,
my
beloued
Country-men
,
let
not
fuch
vipers
eat
out
your
hearts
:
let
not
the
ignis
fatuus
of
their
preposterous
zeale
mis-lead
you
:
but
discouer
the
hypocrites
,
and
send
them
home
to
hell
,
where
they
were
hatched
.
For
,
they
that
dare
thus
dally
with
God
,
no
marnell
,
though
they
bee
bold
with
your
soules
,
consciences
,
your
children
,
and
your
estates
,
and
all
that
belong
to
you
.
Many
a
poore
Gentleman
,
that
cannot
rule
his
wife
,
I
knowe
,
is
faine
to
weare
their
mark
in
capite
;
and
somewhat
they
must
haue
in
marsupio
,
though
the
other
lie
for
it
in
carcere
.
They
must
bee
fed
with
the
daintiest
cheere
,
the
best
wine
,
the
best
beer
,
the
chiefest
fruits
that
can
bee
got
;
when
oft-times
the
poor
husband
is
fain
to
slink
away
hungry
to
his
rest
.
In
the
end
,
they
proue
Plagiarij
,
stealing
away
their
children
,
and
sending
them
beyond
the
seas
,
to
their
vtter
ruine
and
ouerthrowe
.
This
is
too
common
a
practice
.
Some
friends
of
mine
Archbishop
of
York
,
about
the
end
of
February
last
.
They
perswaded
him
,
what
a
fine
life
it
would
bee
to
liue
beyond
the
seas
;
and
withall
told
him
,
that
,
if
hee
would
go-ouer
to
one
of
their
Colledges
,
he
should
want
no
maintenance
:
and
,
for
that
he
was
not
fully
grounded
in
their
religion
,
he
was
referred
to
one
to
conferre
withall
.
It
fortuned
,
that
he
came
to
that
man
that
must
indoctrinate
him
,
while
I
was
by
.
I
,
smelling
their
knauery
,
could
not
rest
quiet
,
till
I
had
found
out
the
yong
man
,
and
inquired
his
businesse
with
the
Priests
,
with
whom
I
had
seene
him
often
conuersant
;
who
presently
tould
mee
their
project
,
and
acquainted
me
,
that
he
must
suddenly
take
his
iourney
:
o
Saint
Omers
.
But
,
my self
discouering
vnto
him
diuerse
of
their
cheats
and
tricks
,
and
assuring
him
,
that
he
should
finde
the
case
altered
,
if
he
went
out
of
England
;
the
young
man
,
being
very
ingenuous
,
was
deterred
,
and
(
I
hope
)
will
haue
no
more
familiarity
with
them
.
Some
of
the
Priests
Agents
dealt
in
the
same
sort
with
a
very
pretty
modest
Youth
,
one
Henry
Syluester
(
sonne
to
the
no
lesse
worthy
than
famous
Poet
,
Iosuah
Syluester
,
the
Translator
of
Du
Bartas
)
;
who
,
being
a
scholar
at
Suttons
Hospitall
neere
London
,
was
drawn
to
such
places
as
the
Priests
often
frequent
,
and
there
had
books
bestowed
on
him
.
They
inueigled
and
wrought
so
farre
with
him
,
that
he
consented
to
bee
sent
beyond
the
seas
.
And
away
they
had
packed
him
,
but
that
their
plot
was
in
time
discouered
.
Many
others
haue
they
of
late
daies
seduced
:
but
,
I
hope
,
their
Kingdome
is
now
almost
at
an
end
.
As
for
you
who
haue
occasion
to
liue
neer
the
wals
of
these
Aduersaries
,
and
it
may
bee
,
sometimes
,
of
necessity
,
must
conuerse
and
haue
some
commerce
with
them
,
take
heed
you
be
not
corrupted
by
them
.
Haue
no
fellowship
with
the
vnfruitfull
works
of
darknes
,
though
with
the
workers
.
Be
like
vnto
the
Riuer
Arethusa
,
which
passeth
through
the
Sicilian
Sea
,
and
yet
takes
no
saltnes
.
eccl.
vlt.
Liue
blamelesse
in
the
midst
of
a
peruerse
and
crooked
generation
.
And
let
me
now
speak
vnto
you
who
are
my
Brethren
of
the
Ministery
,
and
should
(
in
regard
of
your
office
and
example
)
be
as
Angels
in
the
Fi●mament
of
the
Church
:
Perceiue
you
not
how
heresie
begins
to
spread
,
as
that
of
Arrius
in
the
daies
of
Athanasius
?
pray
for
the
peace
of
Ierusalem
?
Behold
you
not
the
ranke
of
our
hollow-harted
Neuteralists
,
who
think
the
time
is
come
,
to
pull
downe
our
Culuer-house
,
our
little
Church
?
How
often
hast
thou
heard
them
,
O
God
(
though
they
whispered
vnto
themselues
)
say
of
the
enemies
of
our
peace
,
Why
are
the
wheeles
of
his
Chariot
so
long
a-comming
?
cor
meum
,
tanquam
cera
liquescens
:
my
heart
is
as
melting
wax
.
I
verily
beleeue
,
they
haue
vented
more
of
their
pamphlets
within
this
Twelue-month
,
then
they
did
in
forty
yeeres
before
.
They
haue
Printing-presses
and
Book-sellers
almost
in
euery
corner
.
And
how
doe
they
by
this
meanes
put
their
poore
Disciples
vpon
the
tenters
,
selling
that
book
for
forty
or
fifty
shillings
,
which
they
might
affoord
for
eight
or
ten
;
&
that
for
ten
,
which
they
might
afford
for
one
?
For
instance
,
I
referre
you
to
the
Cat
alogue
in
the
latter
end
of
this
book
.
I
speak
this
by
the
way
,
to
discouer
their
extorting
policie
,
who
make
a
Treasury
for
themselues
by
these
means
,
and
raise
no
small
summes
of
money
.
You
are
those
whom
God
hath
set
vp
as
Lamps
in
his
Sanctuary
,
to
giue
light
vnto
those
that
sit
in
darknesse
,
&
in
the
shadow
of
death
,
to
guide
their
feet
into
the
way
of
Truth
:
hide
not
your
glory
vnder
a
bushell
;
let
not
your
beauty
be
eclipsed
:
but
(
as
the
Spirit
to
the
Angel
of
Philadelphia
)
Hold
that
which
you
haue
:
Stand
with
your
loines
girt
:
Be
strong
in
the
Lord
,
and
in
the
power
of
his
might
:
and
remember
,
that
Vincenti
dabitur
,
To
him
that
ouercommeth
,
shall
it
be
giuen
:
eccl.
hist.
l.
3.
cap.
22.
Saint
Augustine
,
in
his
disputations
,
spake
hot
words
,
coles
of
Iuniper
,
against
the
Arians
,
the
Pelagians
,
the
Donatists
,
and
the
Manichees
.
Bee
you
as
vigilant
and
seuere
:
Res
postulat
,
the
times
require
it
:
and
therefore
beginne
to
blame
the
Church
of
Ephesus
,
for
imbracing
the
doctrine
of
the
Nicolaitans
;
and
the
Church
of
Smyrna
,
for
imbracing
the
doctrine
of
Balaam
;
and
the
Church
of
Thyatyra
,
for
imbracing
the
doctrine
of
Iezabel
:
and
shame
not
to
tell
the
Lady
of
Rome
,
that
,
notwithstanding
all
her
paintings
and
complexions
vpon
her
face
,
the
cup
of
fornication
is
in
her
hand
.
in
the
gall
of
bitternesse
,
and
bond
of
iniquity
;
Paul
vnto
Elymas
,
O
full
of
misc●iefe
,
and
enemy
of
all
righteousnesse
;
of
abomination
:
many
wilde
Asses
runne
thereunto
to
quench
their
thirst
:
and
yet
they
that
taste
thereof
,
perish
.
The
Pastors
of
Christs
flock
,
who
haue
Peters
Pasce
for
their
charge
,
if
they
keepe
not
their
Hold
,
that
is
,
hould
their
sheepe
within
their
fold
,
their
soule
shall
answer
for
the
same
,
except
it
shall
appeare
,
they
drank
the
deadly
waters
of
sinne
,
through
their
owne
wilfulnesse
,
rather
then
the
others
negligence
.
The
Shepheard
cannot
step
aside
,
but
the
Wolfe
is
ready
to
seize
vpon
his
Flock
.
There
are
many
Wolues
;
so
termed
,
not
so
much
in
regard
of
the
composition
of
their
bodies
,
as
the
disposition
of
their
mindes
;
for
they
sh●ll
come
vnto
you
insheepes
clothing
:
but
beleeue
them
not
for
inwardly
they
are
rauening
.
There
are
subtile
Serpents
,
that
still
wait
for
their
booty
:
Their
poyson
is
like
the
poyson
of
a
Serpent
,
Their
tongue
is
full
of
deadly
poyson
.
Non
aegroti
,
sed
defuncti
,
beeing
not
diseased
,
but
deceased
.
They
are
no
sooner
feuerous
,
but
their
Physician
holds
them
to
a
dyet-drink
:
they
shall
not
haue
the
water
of
the
Sanctuary
,
that
would
coole
them
;
but
Marah
,
the
harsh
,
bitter
,
and
ill-brewed
drink
of
damnation
,
to
destroy
them
.
I
haue
read
of
one
Exagon
,
an
Ambassadour
to
Rome
,
beeing
at
the
Consuls
command
cast
into
a
Tunne
of
Snakes
,
that
they
licked
him
with
their
tongues
,
and
did
him
no
harme
:
But
these
Snakes
,
though
they
were
sent
vs
from
Rome
,
bring
such
poyson
with
them
,
non
in
caudâ
,
sed
in
linguâ
,
not
in
their
taile
,
but
in
their
tongues
,
that
with
their
very
breath
they
can
infect
and
infest
.
How
many
soules
haue
they
so
killed
in
our
land
!
Aspidis
et
morsu
laesum
dormire
fatentur
In
mortem
,
antidotum
nec
valüisse
ferunt
.
It
behooueth
vs
to
bee
in
our
generation
,
as
wise
as
these
Serpents
,
though
as
harmelesse
as
Doues
.
Musicall
bells
of
Aaron
,
and
sing
the
sweet
songs
of
Sion
,
that
is
,
arme
our selues
with
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
of
God
,
treasured
vp
in
the
Scriptures
:
so
shall
not
the
Locusts
of
the
wildernesse
,
with
their
Scorpion-like
tayles
(
who
now
swarme
in
such
abundance
)
hurt
any
of
our
little
ones
with
the
deadly
sting
of
their
contagious
error
:
but
,
hauing
the
seale
of
God
in
their
fore-heads
,
they
shall
be
able
to
resist
all
such
as
cease
not
to
persecute
the
Spouse
of
Christ
,
and
to
make
warre
with
her
seed
.
Now
for
the
better
discouery
of
the
impious
tricks
and
deuices
of
the
Priests
and
Iesuites
,
and
that
all
who
meet
within
any
of
their
moderne
bookes
(
whereof
I
told
you
,
there
is
such
plenty
)
may
hoot
at
them
for
most
abominable
Impostors
and
lyers
.
Let
mee
intreat
you
to
reade
a
few
of
such
Tales
as
I
haue
culled
and
collected
out
of
their
books
lately
sent
ouer
,
the
most
or
all
of
them
according
to
the
frontispice
printed
at
Doway
;
and
you
would
think
,
any
solid
wit
could
not
be
miscarried
by
them
,
but
rather
admire
the
poore
shifts
they
are
driuen
vnto
,
for
the
keeping
of
their
weather-beaten
cause
aflote
.
So
palpably
doe
they
proceed
beyond
the
bounds
of
modesty
and
reason
,
vt
nemo
eorum
obtestationibus
et
iactationibus
quicquam
credat
,
nam
eos
mentiri
●t
dupliciter
mentiri
certissimum
est
,
saith
Luther
.
defen.
v●…
.
caen●…
.
Fol.
381
,
382.
Let
none
beleeue
their
protestations
and
vaunts
:
for
it
is
most
certaine
,
they
lie
,
and
that
lowdly
.
If
they
will
needs
be
Architecti
mendaciorum
,
still
hammering
vntruths
;
I
would
aduise
them
to
lay
probable
foundations
,
and
chuse
such
Materials
as
are
more
malleable
.
To
beginne
then
with
one
Tale
of
theirs
,
and
it
is
a
pretty
one
,
alleadged
by
one
Henry
Fitz-Simons
Iesuite
,
in
his
book
called
The
iustification
and
Exposition
of
the
Sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
Lib.
1.
page
131.
Deepe
(
saith
he
)
,
a
Towne
of
France
,
a
woman
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
dandling
her
infant
,
that
neuer
before
could
speak
;
the
childe
distinctly
pronounced
,
To
Masse
,
To
Masse
.
The
mother
,
warned
so
admirably
,
went
instantly
with
the
infant
in
her
armes
to
Church
,
and
found
therein
a
learned
man
preaching
of
Religion
.
His
Sermon
beeing
ended
,
shee
felt
her selfe
so
sufficiently
resolued
,
that
,
renouncing
her
heresie
,
shee
forthwith
became
Catholick
.
It
pleaseth
God
indeed
to
vse
the
weake
sometimes
to
confound
the
strong
;
to
imploy
the
child
,
to
conuert
the
parent
;
and
to
indoctrine
the
innocent
,
to
refute
the
insolent
:
but
that
he
should
shew
any
such
Miracle
,
for
the
iustification
and
ratifying
of
that
most
impious
&
idolatrous
Sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
is
beyond
the
lists
of
reason
,
I
may
well
say
,
the
bounds
of
Christian
faith
,
to
beleeue
.
But
for
want
of
better
Argument
,
you
shall
heare
what
other
Tales
haue
flowed
from
the
f●oth
of
their
vnderstanding
,
to
delude
the
ignorant
,
and
confirme
this
said
Sacrifice
.
Fitz-Simon
,
qui
supra
,
Lib.
2.
part.
6.
page
402.
in
lib.
Instit
.
The
most
diuine
Sacrifice
.
Fol.
36.
There
was
a
Gentlewoman
neere
Naples
,
in
Italy
,
whose
husband
was
a
Captaine
:
and
shee
,
hauing
tidings
that
he
was
slaine
in
a
battel
,
caused
weekly
Masses
to
be
said
for
him
.
It
fell
out
,
that
this
Captaine
was
imprisoned
:
and
after
by
good
testimony
it
appeared
,
that
at
the
very
same
time
Masses
were
saying
for
him
,
his
chaines
and
fetters
fell
from
him
,
and
could
not
bee
fastned
.
Let
mee
help
to
prompt
this
Tale-teller
,
with
another
of
the
same
Cut.
A
Frier
that
had
more
minde
to
fill
his
owne
purse
,
then
to
empty
Purgatory
,
did
very
zealously
and
resolutely
in
his
Sermon
before
his
Offering
,
auouch
and
warrant
his
Auditory
,
that
whosoeuer
came
vp
with
money
to
the
Altar
,
and
would
think
of
any
his
dearest
friend
,
whom
he
thought
to
bee
a
Prisoner
in
Purgatory
,
should
obtaine
this
grace
by
that
indulgence
,
that
at
the
very
instant
of
the
moneys
throwne
in
,
and
clinking
in
the
bason
,
the
soule
should
leap
out
of
Purgatory
.
in
lib.
praedici
.
Fol.
〈◊〉
The
aforesaid
Author
reporteth
of
another
Prisoner
supposed
also
to
bee
dead
,
whose
Brother
(
beeing
an
Abbot
)
saying
Masse
for
him
:
his
bands
fell
alwaies
,
and
could
not
restraine
him
,
whereat
his
enemies
at
length
wearied
,
gaue
him
liberty
to
redeeme
himselfe
.
Quorsum
haec
?
Why
doe
they
take
such
paines
,
and
imploy
their
braines
vpon
these
Inuentions
,
namely
,
to
hook-in
the
people
,
and
bring
greist
to
their
Mill
,
that
their
Masses
may
goe
readily
away
for
ready
money
?
But
these
former
Inventions
are
but
slight
work
,
posted
ouer
by
some
Prentice
of
the
coyning
trade
.
Behold
heere
following
a
more
worthy
Master-piece
,
wherein
a
chief
Architect
,
and
a
more
nimble
Interpreter
of
the
Puppets
,
is
brought-in
for
an
Actor
.
A
gentle-woman
of
England
,
in
one
of
the
yeers
of
Iubile
,
trauelled
to
Rome
;
where
beeing
arriued
,
shee
repaired
to
Father
Parsons
,
who
was
her
Confessor
,
and
he
administring
vnto
her
the
blessed
Sacrament
(
which
,
in
the
forme
of
a
little
Wafer
,
hee
put
into
her
mouth
)
,
obserued
,
shee
was
long
chewing
,
and
could
not
swallow
the
same
:
whereupon
he
asked
her
,
whether
shee
knew
what
it
was
shee
receiued
?
Shee
answered
,
Yes
,
a
Wafer
.
At
which
answer
of
hers
,
Father
Parsons
beeing
much
offended
,
he
thrust
his
finger
into
her
mouth
,
and
thence
drew
out
a
piece
of
red
flesh
,
which
after
was
nailed
vp
against
a
post
in
a
Vespery
or
priuate
Chappell
within
our
Lady-Church
:
and
though
this
were
done
about
some
twenty
yeeres
since
or
more
,
yet
doth
that
piece
of
flesh
there
remaine
to
bee
seene
,
very
fresh
and
red
as
euer
it
was
.
Witnesse
I.
Markes
Iesuite
,
in
a
book
of
his
written
of
late
,
and
intituled
,
The
Examination
of
the
new
Religion
,
page
128.
Yea
,
heere
is
a
knocking
and
long-lasting
lie
,
worthy
to
be
nailed
vpon
a
post
or
pillory
,
like
the
eare
of
a
Rogue
or
a
railing
Moore
.
Father
Parsons
was
but
a
slender
Iuggler
,
that
could
not
,
without
putting
his
finger
into
her
mouth
,
suborne
red
for
white
.
I
doubt
,
that
hee
that
inuented
this
Tale
,
had
sometimes
beene
at
the
shop
of
Cowbuck
the
Smith
(
held
by
some
to
bee
the
putatiue
Father
of
Parsons
)
,
and
there
had
seene
the
bottome
hoo●e
of
a
horse-foot
nailed
against
the
Posts
(
which
vse
to
be
the
triumphant
Trophies
of
Farriers
)
and
therfore
thought
he
should
meet
with
some
that
would
beleeue
,
a
piece
of
raw
flesh
could
be
as
solid
&
lasting
.
But
I
doe
not
read
,
that
this
woman
was
euer
possest
with
that
beliefe
,
as
to
adore
the
fore-said
post
,
with
the
forged
Appendix
:
and
I
am
glad
to
finde
,
euen
in
the
weaker
sex
,
more
truth
,
in
calling
a
Spade
,
a
Spade
,
then
plain
dealing
in
her
Master
,
that
would
mock
her
and
others
by
a
trick
of
Leigerdemaine
:
and
therefore
the
Tale-maker
was
heere
defectiue
.
For
,
to
shew
the
acceptation
and
effect
of
this
Miracle
,
he
should
haue
added
,
that
the
woman
,
yea
and
some
wisemen
too
,
adored
not
onely
the
flesh
,
but
euen
the
naile
with
which
it
was
crucified
or
rather
postified
.
This
my
new-coyned
word
fits
their
new-found
Fable
.
A
Letter
was
sent
vnto
Father
Parsons
at
Rome
,
signifying
vnto
him
,
that
a
kinsmans
house
of
his
heere
in
England
had
beene
for
the
space
of
forty
yeeres
together
molested
by
Diuels
;
but
,
by
one
Sacrifice
or
Masse
offered
by
Father
Parsons
,
it
was
deliuered
:
and
his
kinred
who
liued
there
,
hauing
beene
all
their
life
time
before
zealous
Protestants
,
haue
all
of
them
since
become
Catholicks
.
Io.
Markes
,
in
lib
praedict
,
page
130.
I
beleeue
,
many
houses
in
England
,
within
these
forty
yeeres
,
especially
those
that
pertained
to
the
friends
and
wel-wishers
of
Parsons
and
his
fellowes
,
haue
beene
much
haunted
with
sprites
,
not
of
the
kinde
of
Fairies
,
but
of
those
of
whom
ingenuous
Chaucer
speaketh
;
Limiter
Ex●rcising
Priest
went
vp
and
downe
,
within
his
station
,
there
were
no
diuels
nor
Hobgoblins
to
molest
,
especially
the
weaker
sex
in
the
night
time
;
the
reason
he
giues
is
demonstratiue
,
For
See
,
There
n'is
none
other
Incubus
but
hee
.
But
this
difference
I
obserue
betweene
the
antient
Priests
of
a
course
thread
,
and
these
refined
Scraphicall
Masters
of
the
Iesuiticall
Loome
:
they
droue
away
Spirits
only
by
their
presence
:
but
these
can
dart
out
a
Masse
from
ouer
Sea
,
some
thousand
miles
off
,
and
with
it
blow
away
all
the
diuels
that
dance
in
such
or
such
an
inchanted
Castle
in
England
;
whereupon
,
all
the
Protestants
that
dwell
within
kenning
,
must
needs
turne
Romanists
:
Teste
me
ipso
,
quoth
the
Diuell
.
There
was
a
man
in
Corduba
,
within
the
con●ines
of
Spain
,
aged
fourescore
yeers
and
odde
;
who
for
the
space
of
thirty
yeers
,
had
been
in
a
dead
palsie
,
and
bedred
,
and
then
had
a
burning
desire
to
heare
Masse
and
to
haue
the
Bishops
blessing
;
and
so
caused
himself
,
by
his
seruants
to
be
transported
to
S.
Stephens
Church
.
The
Masse
heard
,
and
he
born
back
to
his
house
,
within
few
daies
he
(
to
all
mens
admiration
)
became
whole
and
sound
,
and
was
as
lusty
as
a
man
but
of
twenty
yeeres
.
He
liued
eighteen
yeers
after
:
during
which
space
,
hee
came
euery
day
thankfully
to
the
said
Church
,
to
acknowledge
the
miracle
.
Kelli●
.
in
a
Treatise
of
his
,
called
,
Gods
blessing
,
page
71.
At
Corduba
in
Spain
?
A
Palsie
,
and
yet
fourescore
and
eighteen
yeers
?
I
am
glad
it
is
so
farre
off
:
I
hope
they
will
haue
mee
excused
,
for
trauelling
so
farre
to
enquire
the
truth
.
And
yet
,
in
another
respect
,
I
should
wish
to
liue
in
that
aire
,
where
Masses
grow
so
medicinall
,
that
they
prolong
a
mans
life
,
till
hee
and
all
his
friends
bee
weary
of
him
:
like
the
Iles
of
Arren
in
Ireland
,
which
will
not
let
the
candle
of
our
life
bee
blowne
out
,
though
it
be
in
the
snuffe
:
whereof
a
blundering
Frier
wrote
,
Vbi
tam
diu
viuunt
homines
,
ita
quod
habeant
taed●um
de
suo
viuere
.
Leo
Tuscus
,
a
Confessor
,
Martyr
,
and
Pope
,
vpon
a
certain
time
was
tempted
by
a
woman
,
who
would
needs
kisse
him
;
but
the
holy
man
by
no
means
consented
to
such
immodesty
:
yet
,
with
much
struggling
,
shee
kissed
his
hand
,
whether
he
would
or
no.
Whereupon
,
he
commanded
it
to
bee
cut
off
,
because
no
corrupt
flesh
should
remain
about
him
.
Which
when
the
people
perceiued
,
they
earnestly
intercessed
our
Lady
for
him
;
and
she
most
mercifully
restored
it
again
:
and
then
hee
said
Masse
as
before
,
and
acknowledged
our
Lady
his
Sauiour
.
In
lib.
in●it
.
The
liues
of
the
Martyrs
,
transl
.
If
our
sacrificing
Priests
and
●esuites
should
execute
so
seuere
a
Law
vpon
themselues
,
the
King
would
haue
in
this
City
many
Subiects
not
onely
inwardly
lame
in
their
obedience
,
but
also
outwardly
lame
in
their
lims
.
I
knowe
two
Priests
in
London
,
hot
warres
already
:
so
that
now
they
are
fitter
for
an
Hospitall
,
than
the
Camp
.
And
yet
when
the
time
of
their
Lying-in
is
expired
,
they
will
creep
out
of
the
shell
again
,
and
look
as
bold
as
their
brethren
,
laying
it
on
with
Masses
,
in
stead
of
muskets
.
Yet
(
mee
thinks
)
they
should
vse
very
fauourably
their
judical
power
in
Confession
,
who
themselues
haue
had
so
much
need
of
Indulgence
.
To
say
nothing
of
a
Catholique
Maid
,
supposed
to
haue
been
,
with
others
,
oppressed
in
the
ruine
at
the
Black-Friers
;
whose
office
hath
been
to
carry
bands
and
shirts
vnto
the
Priests
chambers
:
but
,
whatsoeuer
her
ill
luck
hath
been
,
she
hath
met
with
some
infectious
blasting
vapours
,
which
now
sequester
her
from
all
company
;
being
posted
off
,
by
her
Ghostly
Fathers
,
vnto
the
Physicians
.
But
to
leaue
these
noisome
corners
,
and
to
return
to
the
more
pleasing
path
of
our
old
wonder-working
Tales
:
He
had
need
be
a
good
Chirurgion
,
who
could
cement
a
broken
piece
,
especially
a
hand
so
long
cut
off
.
But
this
is
like
vnto
the
Tale
of
Saint
Dominick
;
whose
legs
cut
off
at
the
knees
,
by
praying
vnto
our
Lady
,
they
were
,
without
the
help
of
any
Artist
,
graffed
on
again
;
I.
Heigham
,
intit
.
The
life
of
S.
Katharine
of
Siena
.
or
like
that
of
Saint
Denis
,
who
,
for
a
mile
or
two
,
carried
his
head
in
his
hand
;
or
not
vnlike
the
Story
of
Saint
Winifred
:
of
whom
they
report
,
Her
head
,
once
cut
off
,
sprung
and
grew
on
again
;
but
lopt
off
a
second
time
,
where
it
fell
,
there
arose
a
fine
siluer
stream
,
or
a
pleasant
Fountain
of
running
water
,
which
at
this
day
(
as
they
vaunt
)
cureth
the
Diseased
:
and
the
drops
of
bloud
which
Saint
Winifred
there
lost
,
are
yet
to
be
seen
.
The
place
of
this
beheading
,
and
where
the
miracle
is
more
extant
,
is
at
Holiwell
in
Wales
,
not
many
miles
off
the
City
of
Chester
:
whither
once
euery
yeer
,
about
Mid-summer
,
many
superstitious
Papists
of
Lancashire
,
Staffordshire
,
and
other
more
remote
Countries
,
go
in
pilgrimage
,
especially
those
of
the
feminine
and
softer
sex
,
who
keep
there
their
Rendeuouz
,
meeting
with
diuerse
Priests
their
acquaintance
;
who
make
it
their
chief
Synod
or
Conuention
for
Consultation
,
and
promoting
the
Catholique
Cause
,
as
they
call
it
;
yea
,
and
account
it
their
chiefest
haruest
for
commodity
and
profit
,
in
regard
of
the
crop
they
then
reap
by
Absolutions
and
Indulgences
.
Let
me
adde
,
that
they
were
so
bold
,
about
Mid-summer
the
last
yeere
,
1623.
that
they
intruded
themselues
diuers
times
into
the
Church
or
publick
Chappell
of
Holiwell
,
and
there
said
Masse
without
contradiction
.
It
is
not
vnlike
,
they
will
easily
presume
to
the
same
liberty
heer
in
England
,
which
they
haue
vsed
of
late
in
Ireland
;
they
disturbed
the
Minister
at
a
Funerall
,
erected
one
or
two
Frieries
,
with
open
profession
,
in
their
Monasticall
habits
,
and
haue
intruded
titular
Bishops
,
to
supplant
the
Church-gouernment
there
in
force
:
as
we
see
in
like
maner
old
M.
Bishop
,
sometimes
Prisoner
in
the
Gate-house
,
now
perking
vp
and
flanting
with
the
vain
,
aeriall
,
fantastick
bubble
of
an
Episcopall
Title
,
far
fetcht
,
and
yet
lightly
giuen
,
hath
rambled
vp
and
down
Staffordshire
,
Buckinghamshire
,
and
other
places
,
Bishop
of
Chalcedon
;
catching
the
ignorant
,
vulgar
,
and
deuoted
Romanists
with
the
pomp
of
his
Pontificall
Attire
,
and
that
empty
name
of
a
Bishoprick
:
whereunto
he
hath
as
much
right
,
as
he
hath
Lands
there
.
I
commend
the
thriftinesse
of
the
Popes
Holinesse
,
in
erecting
Bishopricks
with
such
small
cost
.
The
Title
stands
him
in
nothing
but
a
piece
of
parchment
,
with
a
Bosse
of
Lead
,
signed
sub
annulo
Piscatoris
.
As
for
iurisdiction
and
reuenues
,
there
needs
nothing
,
but
to
send
into
England
this
new
Puppet
of
his
owne
making
.
The
honest
,
liberall
,
Pope-holy
,
Lay-Catholiques
of
England
,
many
of
them
,
especially
the
more
ignorant
,
and
therefore
dotingly
deuout
,
are
so
mad
of
these
trumperies
,
and
so
sick
of
their
money
,
that
his
Benedictions
,
Beads
,
Rings
,
Reliques
,
Agnus
Dei
,
and
the
like
,
will
be
good
Merchandize
,
better
(
perhaps
)
than
Virginian
Tobacco
,
and
feeding
as
much
as
that
fume
.
Physicians
say
,
and
experience
shews
,
that
,
for
a
Consumption
,
Asses
milk
is
not
the
worst
Cure
:
and
sure
,
to
feed
a-fresh
the
declining
and
staruing
fopperies
of
Popery
in
this
Land
,
what
better
nourishment
,
than
those
no
small
summes
which
are
daily
squeezed
from
many
simple
burden-bearing
Animals
,
whose
radicall
moysture
of
their
purses
is
daily
exhausted
by
the
Horse-leeches
of
Rome
?
The
name
of
Rome
is
able
to
these
weak
and
bleared
eyes
to
imbelish
any
thing
,
to
gild-ouer
and
make
acceptable
any
Pils
,
though
being
nothing
else
but
sheeps
trittles
.
A
bundle
of
Beads
worth
three
pence
,
if
sanctified
from
Rome
,
shall
strain
out
of
Catholick
purses
so
many
pounds
.
The
Preaching
,
the
Liturgie
of
the
Church
of
England
,
is
but
dry
meat
,
and
hath
no
poison
in
it
,
because
it
is
not
basted
by
the
cookery
of
the
Popes
Court.
The
catechizing
of
children
heer
is
vnfruitfull
,
because
not
performed
by
the
sublimated
,
pedanticall
Instructers
,
the
Iesuites
;
such
reuerend
Fathers
as
Ledesme
,
Vause
,
Dauies
,
Cox
,
Cortin
.
The
confirmation
of
our
children
by
our
English
Bishops
,
though
done
in
decent
form
,
and
with
conuenient
praier
,
yet
(
forsooth
)
hath
no
sacred
influence
,
because
our
Bishops
haue
no
Crozier
staffe
,
no
Holy
water
,
no
Vnctions
,
no
Chrisme
,
no
binding
of
foreheads
for
seuen
daies
,
no
deligate
Authoritie
à
DOMINO
DEO
NOSTRO
PAPA
.
But
,
if
an
Eutopian
,
Chalcedonian
,
New-nothing
,
Puffe-paste
Titulaedo
come
with
faculties
in
his
budget
from
Rome
,
where
he
was
miraculously
created
ex
nihilo
,
then
what
gadding
,
what
gazing
,
what
prostration
,
to
receiue
but
one
drop
of
that
sacred
deaw
!
The
least
flash
of
light
from
the
snuffe
of
a
Roman
Lamp
,
out-shines
and
eclipseth
all
the
twinkling
petty
sparks
of
the
Church
of
England
.
Strange
it
is
,
that
any
of
our
Nation
should
so
basely
degenerate
,
as
to
captiuate
their
wits
,
wils
and
spirits
,
to
such
a
foraine
Idoll
Gull
;
composed
of
palpable
fiction
and
diabolicall
fascination
;
whose
enchanted
Chalice
of
heathenish
Drugges
and
Lamian
superstition
hath
the
power
of
Circes
&
Medaeas
cup
,
to
metamorphize
men
into
Bayards
and
Asses
.
The
silly
,
doting
Indian
Nation
fall
down
and
perform
diuine
adoration
to
a
rag
of
red
cloth
.
de
mor.
Gent.
l.
1●
The
fond
and
braine-sick
Papists
of
our
Nation
doo
little
lesse
,
when
they
adore
the
very
Cope
and
Vestments
(
belonging
to
Bishops
and
inferior
Priests
)
where
they
lie
alone
,
falling
down
to
them
,
and
kissing
them
.
But
to
view
their
new-intruding
Hierarchy
a
little
neerer
:
Me
thinks
,
the
Ministers
of
the
Prouince
of
Canterbury
,
now
meeting
in
Conuocation
,
are
very
forgetfull
,
in
suffering
themselues
to
be
destitute
Arch-deacon
of
London
,
M.
Collington
;
who
,
by
the
experience
he
hath
had
in
exercising
Iurisdiction
ouer
his
fellow-Priests
,
as
also
in
conuenting
the
Laicks
,
is
able
,
if
hee
were
called
by
authority
to
the
Synod
,
to
giue
very
good
aduice
for
reformation
,
or
deformation
of
the
Church
of
England
,
and
laying
it
vnder
the
Popes
sacred
foot
.
The
like
defect
also
is
in
the
Prouince
of
York
,
by
the
absence
of
the
Arch-deacon
of
Lancaster
,
M.
Cli●ton
.
No
doubt
,
these
two
new
Chips
,
clouen
out
of
the
old
Block
of
Rome
,
are
the
onely
sound
Timber
to
build
vp
our
Church
,
or
rather
to
make
wormewoodden
Images
,
for
besotted
Laicks
to
adore
.
I
now
hasten
to
acquaint
you
with
another
of
their
tales
,
and
it
is
a
crafty
one
.
A
poore
old
man
in
Rome
,
lost
his
vpper
garment
:
and
beeing
vnable
to
buy
another
,
he
came
to
the
shrine
of
the
twenty
Martyrs
,
and
prayed
alowd
vnto
them
to
help
him
to
rayments
.
At
his
departure
,
he
met
with
one
at
the
very
Church
dore
a
Priest
,
who
deliuered
vnto
him
from
the
Pope
a
Purse
,
that
had
in
it
to
the
value
of
some
twenty
pound
in
siluer
.
The
poore
man
amazed
,
and
not
knowing
what
he
meant
hauing
neuer
before
in
all
his
life-time
had
the
carriage
of
so
much
money
;
the
Priest
told
him
,
Our
holy
Father
the
Pope
commanded
me
to
deliuer
it
vnto
the
next
man
I
met
going
into
the
Church-dore
,
who
shall
haue
need
of
it
,
and
bid
him
still
pray
to
the
Martyrs
.
The
poore
man
returnedioyfully
to
his
home
,
and
euer
after
visited
the
place
once
a
day
.
Thomas
Lee
,
in
Tract
.
de
Inuocat
.
et
Adorat
.
Sanctor.
Cap.
14.
page
212.
I
see
no
reason
why
this
should
come
into
the
Legend
of
strange
Narrations
,
for
that
the
Popes
eares
might
easily
bee
so
long
,
by
the
Priests
information
,
without
any
inspiration
from
heauen
,
as
to
take
notice
of
the
poore
mans
desire
,
who
(
belike
)
was
not
so
cold
for
want
of
his
coat
,
as
hee
was
warme
with
zeale
,
to
cry
alowd
for
a
new
.
But
this
by
the
way
.
I
learne
the
Popes
price
of
Martyrs
,
namely
,
that
they
are
worth
pounds
apiece
.
Well
might
the
Pope
haue
rated
them
at
a
higher
value
,
whenas
he
yeerely
,
nay
,
daily
getteth
farre
more
in
their
names
,
by
bartering
their
pretended
Supererogations
of
Martyrs
and
Saints
.
In
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
1612.
one
Lucia
,
an
Italian
Virgin
,
came
to
a
Towne
called
Multauia
,
in
Bohemia
,
where
is
taught
the
Waldensian
doctrine
,
first
preached
to
them
by
one
Iohn
Hus
,
and
by
him
generally
receiued
;
wherby
the
traditions
of
the
Romane
Church
are
at
this
day
there
vtterly
neglected
.
This
Virgin
vnderstanding
of
diuers
their
strange
opinions
,
that
they
denied
Purgatory
,
Prayer
for
the
dead
,
Benedictions
,
and
hallowings
of
Water
,
the
obseruing
of
Fasting
daies
,
and
the
like
;
shee
spake
somewhat
disgracefully
of
their
Religion
:
whereupon
,
shee
was
adiudged
and
appointed
by
the
Magistrate
,
to
bee
burned
in
a
field
neere
vnto
the
Towne
where
shee
then
remained
.
But
the
maid
not
willing
to
bee
led
by
them
vnto
the
place
of
Execution
,
they
began
to
tie
ropes
about
her
,
and
so
to
force
her
along
:
but
shee
often
crossing
herselfe
,
and
inuocating
the
blessed
Virgin
,
Mother
of
God
,
could
not
bee
remooued
by
the
strength
of
ropes
,
or
Oxen
,
or
any
power
they
vsed
.
At
length
shee
vanished
from
them
,
and
by
a
Miracle
was
brought
vnto
a
Nunnery
,
about
an
hundred
miles
off
that
place
;
where
,
to
this
day
she
liueth
,
to
praise
God
for
her
deliuerance
.
Richard
Stannihurst
,
in
the
Preface
of
his
Book
,
intituled
,
The
Principles
of
Catholique
Religion
.
Hee
that
made
this
tale
,
had
a
Chimaera
in
his
braine
.
Desinet
in
piscem
mulier
formosa
superne
.
Hee
had
heard
of
an
old
Fable
of
the
Gentiles
,
of
the
Image
of
Aesculapius
,
de
Vest
.
virgine
.
that
was
to
bee
brought
into
the
City
of
Rome
,
but
by
no
means
would
it
stirre
,
though
drawne
with
ropes
,
till
there
came
a
Vestall
Virgin
,
that
with
her
girdle
drew
it
after
her
.
This
botcher
patcheth
such
a
one
together
,
and
fittens
;
that
,
in
stead
of
an
immoueable
Image
drawne
by
a
Virgin
,
heere
is
a
Virgin
that
could
not
bee
drawne
like
the
Image
.
And
so
he
got
a
piece
of
bread
and
cheese
,
and
came
away
.
A
tale
to
some
such
purpose
,
is
repeated
of
one
Clarence
a
sacred
Virgin
,
by
the
said
Author
;
vt
sup
.
the
one
as
well
to
bee
beleeued
,
as
the
other
:
yet
of
both
I
say
to
the
Relator
,
Cui
tua
non
odium
,
velcui
portenta
cachinnum
Non
moueant
posthac
,
is
mihi
prodigium
est
.
One
George
Sephocard
,
a
Sc●…ish
Protestant
happened
to
trauaile
into
France
,
with
a
Brother
of
his
:
where
seeing
them
one
day
goe
in
Procession
,
this
George
scoffed
at
them
,
but
accordingly
he
was
rewarded
:
for
presently
he
fell
to
a
pitifull
screeching
,
and
so
died
.
The
night
after
his
death
,
Iohn
Sephocard
his
brother
,
and
companion
into
that
Countrey
,
had
a
pitifull
Vision
.
He
thought
hee
saw
a
thousand
Diuels
in
hideous
and
vgly
shapes
tormenting
his
dead
Brother
.
But
he
,
hauing
had
a
faire
warning
thereby
,
changed
his
former
Religion
and
course
of
life
,
and
became
Catholick
.
F.
Baker
in
his
Watch-word
,
page
20.
Heere
is
a
Procession
of
lies
,
one
after
another
,
ordine
longo
.
But
yet
,
that
a
man
should
smile
at
their
Procession
,
is
not
strange
;
nor
that
hee
should
die
,
no
maruell
;
nor
that
another
should
dreame
,
no
great
wonder
:
but
they
had
best
take
heede
,
how
they
apply
these
narrations
of
vnexpected
deaths
,
lest
the
Story
of
Black-Friers
be
aswell
inuerted
vpon
them
.
Oswald
Mulser
,
in
the
County
of
Tiroll
,
neere
Oënipont
,
would
not
be
contented
but
with
a
Priestly
Host
:
hee
receiued
it
no
sooner
into
his
mouth
,
but
hee
beganne
to
sink
into
the
ground
,
which
swallowed
him
aliue
.
Fitz-Simon
in
his
Iustification
and
Exposition
of
the
Sacrifice
to
the
Masse
,
page
100.
This
is
a
meere
fiction
,
intended
for
the
magnifying
of
the
Priest-hood
:
it
is
the
steame
of
their
impious
policy
,
adterrorem
incutiendum
,
et
fucum
faciendum
populo
;
to
gull
,
terrifie
,
and
amaze
the
simple
,
ignorant
people
,
and
by
bringing
them
into
admiration
of
their
Priest-hood
,
the
sanctity
of
their
attire
,
and
the
diuine
potencie
of
their
Sacrifice
;
by
this
meanes
to
inchaunt
and
bewitch
their
innocent
simple
soules
,
and
so
to
offer
them
vp
for
a
prey
to
their
great
Idol
at
Rome
.
Surely
our
Sauiour
Christ
ate
of
the
same
hee
gaue
to
his
Disciples
:
but
our
sublimated
Priests
will
haue
finer
bread
then
is
made
of
wheat
.
I
maruell
,
none
of
our
people
in
England
sink
into
the
ground
,
for
daring
to
eate
of
the
same
bread
with
the
Minister
.
Francis
Zauier
,
Apostle
of
the
East-Indies
,
and
Iesuite
,
as
often
as
hee
extraordinarily
trauelled
in
the
Indies
,
so
often
did
a
Crucifixe
in
Spaine
,
in
his
parents
house
▪
sweat
.
At
length
,
when
the
B.
Bauiere
dyed
,
the
afore-said
Crucifixe
,
during
a
yeere
after
,
did
euery
Friday
sweat
bloud
.
Hen.
Fitz-Simon
in
Lib.
praedict
page
123.
Hee
had
read
,
be
like
,
the
verse
of
the
Poet
:
In
templis
sudauit
ebur
pecudesque
loquuti
Infandum
.
Anno
36.
of
Henry
the
Eightth
,
a
Priest
did
pronounce
at
Pauls
Crosse
,
and
there
confessed
in
publick
,
that
he
himselfe
saying
Masse
,
pricked
his
finger
,
and
bebloudied
the
Corporas
with
the
Altar-clothes
,
purposing
to
make
the
people
beleeue
,
that
the
Host
had
bloud
miraculously
.
One
Epachius
a
Priest
,
on
Christmas
Eeue
,
being
at
Martens
,
resorted
often
to
his
owne
house
to
drink
,
euen
after
midnight
:
whereby
hee
was
made
incapable
to
receiue
the
blessed
Sacrament
on
Christmas
day
,
as
hauing
in
the
beginning
thereof
,
at
midnight
,
broken
the
Fast
.
The
chiefe
of
the
Towne
beeing
allied
vnto
him
,
not
knowing
of
such
his
intemperance
,
desired
him
to
sing
Masse
.
Hee
,
as
hee
was
presumptuous
,
vndertook
to
celebrate
.
But
as
hee
receiued
the
heauenly
Host
,
suddenly
hee
began
to
ney
like
a
horse
,
to
tumble
and
wallow
on
the
ground
,
to
fome
at
the
mouth
,
and
to
deliuer
vp
the
blessed
Sacrament
,
which
hee
was
not
able
to
swallow
:
vpon
the
disgorging
of
which
,
it
was
seene
to
bee
carried
away
visibly
in
the
aire
.
The
Priest
beeing
in
this
plight
,
hee
was
by
his
kinred
borne
out
of
the
Church
,
remaining
subiect
to
the
falling-sicknesse
all
his
life
.
Surius
in
vita
S.
Godefridi
.
l.
3.
c.
12.
It
seemes
to
me
no
more
strange
now
to
heare
of
a
drunken
Priest
,
of
the
Iesuiticall
fraternity
,
then
when
I
read
Petrus
Cluniacensis
Abbas
his
book
:
in
which
hee
reports
,
Benedictan
Monks
,
and
Dominican
Friers
,
that
were
most
famous
and
notorious
Letchers
and
Bredenbachius
hath
a
Catalogue
of
others
,
who
were
Coniurers
;
collat.
sacr.
c.
13.
et
45.
Thomas
à
Cantiprato
,
Petrus
Damianus
spec.
exempt
.
D.
1.
F.
77.
and
Palladius
in
hist.
Lausiaca
,
sect.
17.
report
of
six
other
Priests
that
were
Sodomites
;
one
of
which
was
hideously
deformed
with
a
canker
,
another
deuoured
of
a
wilde
beast
,
and
the
rest
miserably
ended
their
daies
.
All
this
is
storied
by
their
owne
Writers
.
Seuerall
Miracles
haue
beene
done
in
England
and
else-where
,
saith
F.
Richard
Conway
the
Iesuite
,
by
the
honouring
of
Saints
Reliques
;
which
Protestants
(
saith
he
)
will
not
heed
.
One
M.
Anderton
,
a
Lancashire
Gentleman
,
was
cured
of
the
Stone
,
by
the
Reliques
he
had
of
F.
Campian
the
blessed
Saint
:
&
being
afterwards
of
another
disease
,
laid
out
so
for
dead
(
vt
ei
iam
pollices
ligarentur
)
that
his
thumbes
were
bound
;
by
the
help
of
the
said
Martyr
,
his
flesh
beeing
laid
vpon
his
body
,
he
was
raised
to
life
.
Rich.
Conway
in
Apol
pag.
281.
Bridget
,
lib.
4.
or
like
that
of
Vegas
the
Frier
,
in
comment
.
in
cap.
6.
Apoc.
Aug.
de
vera
relig
.
Gregor.
hom.
29.
in
Euang.
Paul
.
Bombin
.
in
vit.
Mart.
Campian
.
What
prodigies
are
these
?
What
horrible
imp●eti●s
?
Are
they
not
Anti-christi
&
Pseudo-christi
,
that
breathe
out
these
damnable
forgeries
?
that
shame
not
to
affirme
,
that
the
bones
of
a
Traytor
can
raise
a
dead
man
,
as
did
Elias
his
bones
?
or
that
the
flesh
of
Campian
,
could
performe
that
which
was
so
much
admired
in
our
Sauiour
himselfe
,
when
hee
was
amongst
vs
in
the
flesh
?
How
can
they
but
blush
at
these
things
?
When
Father
Campian
came
an
Apostle
into
England
,
there
was
an
Earth-quake
(
say
they
)
and
so
there
might
well
bee
.
Nay
the
great
bell
of
Westminster
tould
of
it selfe
.
But
that
I
think
is
a
lye
.
When
Father
Campian
was
arraigned
,
Iudge
Seth
his
finger
burst
out
a-bleeding
through
his
gloue
,
Thames
ouerflowed
,
and
diuers
other
obseruations
haue
our
imposturizing
Renagadoes
.
But
those
saltlesse
gulleries
are
no
whit
answerable
to
this
their
villainous
and
prophane
fiction
.
If
M.
Anderton
were
thus
strangely
raised
,
it
is
maruell
his
friends
in
Lancashire
speake
not
of
it
,
with
many
of
whom
I
conuersed
,
&
am
sure
(
had
it
bin
true
)
would
haue
recited
this
tale
in
their
discourse
.
Againe
,
if
Reliques
bee
thus
powerfull
,
I
wonder
they
had
not
tryed
,
&
brought
some
of
them
for
the
reuiuing
of
their
Priests
,
or
any
other
of
them
that
were
killed
at
the
Black-Friers
:
or
why
made
they
not
vse
of
some
of
them
,
for
the
curing
of
Lady
Blackstones
,
and
such
as
were
,
by
the
mischance
at
the
Black-Friers
,
sore
wounded
?
Campians
Saint-ship
sure
came
but
from
Tiburn
.
And
yet
what
admirable
vertue
doe
our
Papists
conceiue
to
bee
in
the
poore
Reliques
of
Story
,
Felton
,
Sommeruile
,
Ard●n
,
Parry
,
Lopez
,
Garnet
,
Campian
,
and
the
rest
of
that
Saint-traitorly
Cru●
?
The
very
paring
of
their
nailes
doth
help
to
doo
miracles
.
Their
pictures
are
so
sanctified
,
that
they
are
hung
ouer
the
Altars
.
And
I
much
maruell
,
there
were
neuer
strange
wonders
performed
by
the
wood
of
the
Tree
at
Tiburn
;
considering
,
it
hath
been
blessed
by
some
of
their
sacred
bodies
,
and
bedewed
with
their
last
spritefull
breath
.
Campians
girdle
that
hee
wore
?
Then
reade
one
Edmunds
his
book
of
miracles
,
and
that
will
tell
you
strange
newes
:
Hierosolyma
(
inquit
)
bene
nouit
ad
quem
pertinuit
:
Tiburnus
non
ignorat
,
qui
locus
erat
vbi
Pater
ipse
Campianus
martyrio
coronatus
erat
:
Ierusalem
(
quoth
hee
)
knowes
this
girdle
:
for
,
it
girded-about
the
Sepulchre
of
our
Sauiour
.
Tiburne
knowes
it
,
the
place
where
Father
Campian
receiued
his
crown
of
martyrdome
:
yea
,
saith
he
further
,
and
the
Diuels
knowe
it
,
who
detest
all
such
manner
of
geere
,
and
whom
it
hath
vexed
so
sore
,
that
it
hath
put
them
to
extreme
torments
.
This
Girdle
cured
Lepers
,
the
blinde
,
the
dumb
,
all
manner
of
diseases
.
If
the
Girdle
that
imbraced
onely
his
bare
apparell
,
could
doo
such
miracles
,
what
then
should
I
think
of
the
Rope
that
imbraced
Father
Campian's
holy
neck
?
yet
I
heare
of
no
wonders
done
by
that
.
The
besotted
Aegyptians
,
that
kissed
,
with
earnest
deuotion
,
the
Asse
vpon
which
the
Idoll
Isis
sate
;
and
the
lymphaticall
Priests
of
Baal
,
that
lanced
their
owne
flesh
before
an
Idoll
of
wood
,
had
as
much
religion
,
and
I
think
more
wit
than
our
moderne
Reliquesauers
haue
.
God
hath
giuen
them
ouer
to
the
spirit
of
illusion
,
to
beleeue
vnsauory
lies
.
He
that
sits
in
the
heauens
,
laughs
them
to
scorn
.
in
apol.
pag.
290.
A
Virgin
,
a
kinswoman
of
mine
,
saith
Conway
an
English
Priest
,
was
freed
from
the
Diuell
by
anointing
herself
with
oyle
,
into
which
another
Priest
that
prayed
for
her
,
had
mingled
his
Teares
.
I
think
,
of
late
daies
our
Romish
Priests
haue
wept
too
little
,
and
laught
too
much
:
and
that
is
the
reason
,
we
are
pestred
with
more
fiends
,
than
friends
.
But
when
the
sword
of
iustice
is
drawn
,
and
inflicted
according
to
the
waight
and
measure
of
their
detestable
designes
,
we
shall
,
I
hope
,
haue
fewer
of
them
come
ouer
.
This
Couey
of
night-birds
may
shrowd
themselues
warme
vnder
the
gentle
wings
of
their
holy
Father
at
Rome
.
I
am
sure
,
as
yet
they
play
the
Bats
and
Moles
with
some
of
our
Countrey-men
;
either
trenching
themselues
in
the
Mines
of
their
Labyrinths
at
home
,
or
masking
in
their
gold
&
siluer
abroad
,
in
the
fashion
of
Rake-hels
&
Ruffians
.
But
are
Priests
teares
so
precious
,
that
they
are
an
Antidote
against
the
poison
of
Diuels
?
Oh
yes
:
who
knowes
not
,
that
there
is
admirable
power
in
a
Priests
breath
,
his
gloues
,
his
hose
,
his
girdle
,
his
shirts
,
to
scortch
the
Diuell
;
in
his
Albe
,
his
Amice
,
his
Maniple
,
and
his
Stole
,
to
whip
and
plague
the
Diuell
?
Or
hath
none
read
of
the
dreadfull
power
of
Holy-water
,
hallowed
Candles
,
Frankincense
,
Brimstone
,
the
Book
of
Exorcismes
,
and
the
holy
potion
,
to
scald
,
broil
,
and
to
sizle
the
Diuell
?
of
the
dreadfull
power
of
the
Crosse
,
and
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
,
to
torment
the
Diuell
,
and
to
make
him
roar
?
If
any
think
these
strange
,
I
referre
him
to
a
Book
written
by
D.
Harsenet
,
now
Bishop
of
Norwich
,
the
Title
whereof
I
haue
set
in
the
Margent
:
vid.
c.
14.
15.
16.
18
&
20.
and
you
shall
finde
,
that
one
Father
Edmunds
,
alias
Weston
,
F.
Dibdale
,
F.
Thomson
,
F.
Stemp
,
F.
Tyrrell
,
F.
Dryland
,
F.
Tu●…ce
,
F.
Sherwood
,
F.
Winkefield
,
F.
Mud
,
F.
Dakins
,
and
F.
Bal●…rd
,
Priests
and
Iesuites
,
haue
stoutly
and
strongly
confirmed
all
this
long
since
.
If
the
Book
cannot
easily
bee
gotten
,
I
wish
it
might
bee
imprinted
again
,
for
that
the
Priests
exorcising
power
is
there
fully
discouered
:
and
I
haue
heard
,
that
the
most
of
these
Books
which
were
formerly
printed
,
were
bought-vp
by
Papists
,
who
(
no
question
)
took
so
much
delight
in
reading
them
,
that
they
burned
as
many
as
they
could
possibly
get
of
them
.
But
,
to
acquaint
you
with
the
strange
power
of
a
Catholique
Priests
breath
:
in
hist.
nat
.
Pliny
in
his
Naturall
Story
,
tels
vs
of
certain
people
,
that
doo
anhelitu
or
is
enecare
homines
,
kill
men
with
the
breath
that
comes
from
their
mouthes
.
And
Leno
in
the
Comedy
is
noted
to
bee
of
so
strong
a
breath
,
that
hee
had
almost
blowne
downe
the
young
Gallant
that
stood
in
his
way
:
but
the
Poets
Hell
hath
a
more
deadly
breathing
than
all
;
so
as
if
a
Bird
doo
by
chance
flee
ouer
the
Stygian
Floud
,
shee
is
quelled
with
the
smell
,
and
fals
down
stark
dead
.
Now
,
the
company
of
Priests
,
for
potency
of
breath
,
doo
put
down
Pliny
,
Leno
,
Hell
,
the
Diuell
and
all
:
for
,
the
Diuell
,
who
can
well
enough
indure
the
lothsome
odors
and
euaporations
of
hell
,
is
not
able
to
indure
the
vapour
issuing
from
the
mouth
of
a
Priest
;
but
had
rather
go
to
hell
,
than
abide
his
smell
.
And
hence
it
is
(
I
think
)
,
that
,
in
their
baptizing
of
children
,
the
Priest
breathes
and
spets
into
the
mouth
of
the
childe
:
which
(
no
doubt
)
is
very
soueraigne
,
especially
if
the
priests
lungs
bee
but
a
little
vlcerated
or
pockified
.
One
William
Trayford
,
and
Sarah
Williams
(
as
you
shall
reade
in
Bishop
Harsenet's
Book
,
page
71.
)
beeing
possessed
,
Trayfords
Diuell
rebounded
at
the
dint
of
the
priests
breath
,
and
was
glad
to
get
him
out
at
Trayfords
right
eare
,
like
a
mouse
,
rather
than
he
would
come
out
jump
against
the
priests
mouth
.
Sarah
Williams
lay
past
all
sense
in
a
transe
,
being
vtterly
bereaued
of
all
her
senses
at
once
:
the
priest
no
sooner
came
neer
her
,
but
she
discerned
him
by
the
smell
.
Was
not
this
a
jolly
rank
smell
?
Yea
,
but
this
is
but
a
flea-biting
to
the
priests
gloues
,
his
hose
,
his
girdle
,
his
shirts
,
which
had
in
them
a
dreadfull
power
to
burne
out
a
Diuell
,
nay
,
all
the
Diuels
in
the
parties
aforesaid
possessed
.
Which
Diuels
,
because
the
priests
knew
so
well
their
names
,
shall
not
heer
go
vncited
:
Lustie
Dick
,
Killico
,
Hob
,
Corner-cap
,
Puffe
,
Purre
,
Frateretto
,
Fliberdigibbet
,
Haberdicut
,
Cocobatto
,
Maho
,
Kellicocam
,
Wilkin
,
Smolkin
,
lustie
iolly
Ienkin
,
Portericho
,
Pudding
of
Thame
,
Pour-dieu
,
Boniour
,
Motubizanto
,
Nur
,
Bernon
,
Delicate
.
The
chief
of
these
Diuels
,
when
one
of
the
priests
gloues
was
but
put
vpon
the
possessed's
hands
,
durst
not
abide
,
but
was
scared
,
and
went
straight
away
.
One
of
the
great
Diuels
was
slipt
,
ere
he
was
aware
,
into
Sarah
Williams
legge
:
Priests
hose
which
she
had
on
,
he
plunges
and
tumbles
like
a
Salmon
taken
in
a
Net
,
and
cries
,
Harro
ho
:
out
alas
!
pull
off
,
pull
off
:
case
the
poore
Diuell
of
his
pain
(
oh
,
a
goodly
ginne
to
catch
a
Woodcock
withall
)
.
O
but
let
me
tell
you
of
another
trick
,
though
not
so
cleanly
as
I
could
wish
.
Diuels
incarnate
)
was
washing
a
Buck
of
foule
clothes
:
amongst
which
,
was
one
of
the
Priest-Exorcists
shirts
.
The
Diuell
comes
sneaking
behinde
her
,
trips
vp
her
heeles
,
and
pitcheth
her
on
her
hip
.
And
wot
you
why
the
Diuell
played
her
this
vnmannerly
trick
?
Because
she
was
washing-out
a
foule
shirt
of
one
of
the
Priests
,
which
afterward
serued
to
whip
the
Diuell
out
of
one
of
the
possessed
.
There
are
yet
other
Anti-daemoniacks
of
speciall
account
,
which
,
in
the
Diuell-hunting
sport
,
are
in
stead
of
little
Beagles
to
fill
vp
the
Cry
.
And
they
are
the
Amice
,
the
Albe
,
and
the
holy
Stole
;
very
scorpions
and
whips
indeed
:
and
therefore
beware
,
Diuell
.
F.
Edmunds
no
sooner
laid
the
Amice
vpon
Sarah
Williams
her
face
,
but
a
spirit
puffed
at
it
,
and
could
not
endure
to
let
it
alone
.
The
sacred
Stole
was
but
wound
about
anothers
neck
that
was
possessed
,
and
it
so
pent
and
begirt
the
Diuell
,
that
hee
stared
,
fumed
and
fomed
,
as
he
had
been
stark
mad
;
and
,
in
the
end
,
was
squeezed
out
with
pure
violence
,
as
water
out
of
a
squirt
.
An
heroicall
combate
was
performed
between
Maho
,
one
of
the
diuels
,
and
the
Priest
,
during
seuen
houres
long
.
Holy-water
.
Maho
stood
out
,
till
the
Priest
prepared
himself
to
afflict
him
with
the
Maniple
:
and
then
he
came
in
,
and
yeelded
to
parley
or
dialogue
with
the
Priest
in
a
milde
and
temperate
voice
.
See
the
puissance
of
the
Catholique
Romish
Church
,
whose
silliest
rag
hath
power
to
change
the
diuels
roaring
note
,
and
to
cause
him
to
speake
in
a
milde
moderate
key
!
Latet
anguis
in
herba
:
a
man
would
little
suspect
,
when
he
meets
with
the
Amice
,
the
Stole
,
and
the
Maniple
,
wound
vp
in
a
little
casket
,
that
there
were
such
black
hel-metall
within
them
,
to
excoriate
and
lancinate
a
diuell
.
But
I
conclude
:
Nisi
naenijs
,
tricis
,
et
puppis
vsa
esset
Roma
,
poenas
iam
diu
dedisset
:
If
it
were
not
for
puppets
,
apes-faces
,
and
gawdes
,
with
which
Rome
allures
,
maskes
,
and
disguises
the
poore
silly
people
,
shee
had
long
since
sung
the
dolefull
Song
mentioned
in
holy
Writ
;
Desolatione
magn●
desolata
est
,
et
turpitudo
eius
gentibus
reuelata
;
that
is
,
shee
had
bin
cleane
desolate
,
and
her
turpitude
had
beene
opened
to
the
eyes
of
all
the
world
.
As
for
all
the
tricks
and
iuggling
shifts
(
so
often
discouered
)
which
the
Priests
,
these
Exorcists
,
vse
;
the
Exorcist
driuing
the
Diuell
within
the
lists
of
the
possessed
body
(
with
Come
aloft
,
Iack-an-apes
)
from
one
part
to
another
:
to
what
end
doe
all
these
their
dealings
tend
,
but
to
this
proiect
,
that
the
stande●s-by
may
be
perswaded
of
some
point
of
Popery
,
or
of
the
Priests
power
ouer
the
Diuels
?
If
any
Christian
in
these
daies
hath
been
truely
and
really
possessed
by
the
Diuell
,
and
if
the
Romish
Priests
haue
truely
such
a
scourging
power
to
whip
out
Diuels
,
why
vse
they
it
not
effectually
when
most
need
is
?
For
example
●
There
was
one
M.
Blewet
,
a
man
of
great
reuenewes
,
and
one
M.
Fowell
,
a
man
no
lesse
famoused
,
both
of
which
either
were
or
seemed
to
bee
indiuelled
.
How
often
had
they
beene
Exorcized
in
this
Kingdom
,
by
Francis
Kemp
,
by
Philip
Woodward
,
by
F.
Edmunds
,
by
F.
Campian
,
by
F.
Sherwin
,
by
F.
Hil
,
by
F.
Walpool
,
and
diuers
others
,
but
especially
,
F.
Collington
,
and
F.
Warmington
,
who
often
promised
,
they
would
make
the
Diuell
speake
in
M.
Blewet
,
and
M.
Fowell
.
But
as
those
two
had
many
sweating
combates
heere
in
England
,
so
had
they
tormentings
at
Loretto
,
Sichem
,
Lile
,
Louaine
,
Doway
,
&
elswhere
beyond
the
Seas
;
and
all
the
consolation
which
they
found
,
was
to
returne
worse
,
and
farther
from
hope
of
deliuerance
,
then
when
they
went
.
The
Popish
sanctuaries
rather
added
strength
to
the
diuels
.
And
yet
our
Popish
Thrasonical
Priests
will
brag
&
boast
,
that
they
can
tosse
a
diuell
like
a
Tennis-ball
,
or
a
Dog
in
a
blanket
;
whereat
they
are
very
nimble
,
especially
in
a
possessed
woman
,
in
whose
body
they
can
canuas
a
diuell
by
contrectation
and
certaine
inchanting
nips
,
making
him
ferret
vp
and
downe
,
from
tongue
to
toe
,
from
toe
back
againe
to
finger
.
Oh
the
formidable
magicall
power
of
sacred
anointed
hands
,
not
onely
infusing
chastity
but
also
sanctity
by
their
touch
!
I
could
heere
set
foorth
another
Theatre
of
their
Exorcising
plots
and
attempts
,
to
weet
,
their
practising
with
Grace
Sowrebuts
of
Salmisburie
,
in
the
County
of
Lancaster
;
whom
one
Thomson
,
alias
Southworth
,
a
Priest
,
caused
to
accuse
Iennet
Bierly
,
Helen
Bierly
,
and
Iane
Southworth
,
(
the
one
of
them
her
Grand-mother
)
of
Witchcraft
,
of
the
killing
of
the
childe
of
Thomas
Walshman
,
with
a
Naile
in
the
Nauill
,
the
boyling
,
eating
and
oyling
,
thereby
to
trans-forme
themselues
into
diuers
shapes
:
Grace
Sowrebuts
confessed
,
that
she
was
perswaded
and
counselled
to
accuse
the
said
parties
of
Witchcraft
,
by
M.
Thomson
,
alias
,
M.
Christopher
Southworth
a
Priest
,
who
comploted
this
,
to
gaine
to
himselfe
some
credit
by
exorcising
,
or
vnwitching
her
.
This
confession
of
Grace
Sowrebuts
,
with
the
Examination
of
others
,
who
discouered
the
Priests
impious
dealings
,
was
taken
before
William
Leigh
,
Batchelor
in
Diuinity
,
and
Edward
Chisnall
Esquire
,
two
of
his
Maiesties
Iustices
of
peace
in
that
County
.
Thomas
Pots
,
Esquire
.
Sure
,
these
iuggling
exorcismes
are
but
ordinary
with
Priests
and
Iesuites
:
but
such
a
malicious
and
bloudy
proiect
of
subornation
,
must
bee
a
master-trick
of
some
sublimed
spirit
,
fit
to
instruct
a
nouice
Assassine
,
and
to
read
a
Lecture
in
the
Iesuites
dark
chamber
of
meditation
.
Boy
of
Bilson
.
Anno
1621.
whose
name
was
William
Perry
,
Sonne
of
Tho.
Perry
of
Bilson
,
in
the
County
of
Stafford
.
But
because
there
hath
beene
so
lately
a
true
discouery
of
the
notorious
Impostures
of
certaine
Romish
Priests
,
in
their
pretended
Exorcisme
or
expulsion
of
the
diuell
out
of
the
said
young
Boy
;
I
referre
you
to
M.
Rich.
Baddeley
his
book
vpon
that
occasion
written
:
and
I
intreat
you
to
consider
,
whether
they
deserue
not
the
reputation
of
the
rarest
Mounte-banks
of
these
times
.
Quam
falsa
dicendo
voluptatem
ceperint
,
eandem
vera
legendo
et
audiendo
amittant
.
In
praesat
.
lib.
praedict
.
Mary
,
Michael
the
Arch-Angell
,
&c.
About
some
seuen
yeeres
since
,
two
Catholique
Maids
,
forsooth
,
the
one
called
Mary
,
the
other
Amye
,
resorting
to
the
Gatehouse
in
Westminster
,
took
such
benefit
by
the
Priests
conuersation
with
them
,
beeing
sometimes
sequestred
from
all
the
world
besides
,
that
they
were
cast
into
extaticall
raptures
,
and
possessed
,
not
with
Diuels
,
as
the
vulgar
sort
of
those
that
vndergoe
the
Priests
hands
,
but
with
heauenly
and
glorious
guests
,
pretended
to
enter
into
them
,
and
inhabit
them
,
to
the
great
admiration
of
the
stupid
,
gullifyed
,
Romanizing
beholders
,
and
to
the
no
small
renowne
of
the
Spirituall
Fathers
then
present
;
F.
Benet
,
F.
Aston
,
F.
Palmer
,
F.
Hanz
.
In
very
deed-law
,
they
were
somtimes
possest
with
the
Virgin
Mary
,
other-while
with
Saint
Michael
the
Arch-Angell
,
Saint
Iohn
the
Baptist
,
M.
Molineux
the
Martyr
,
and
M.
Roberts
the
Martyr
,
Catholick
cause
,
one
of
the
maides
gaue-ouer
her
pretended
guest
,
and
the
other
was
secretly
conueyed
away
.
Hanz
,
alias
,
Hance
possessed
with
the
blessed
Trinity
.
One
of
the
forenamed
Priests
calling
himself
Edward
Hanz
,
alias
,
Hance
,
borne
at
Lutterworth
in
Leicestershire
,
had
a
trick
beyond
all
his
fellowes
,
and
durst
aspire
so
high
,
as
to
pretend
himselfe
to
bee
cast
into
a
deepe
admirable
extasie
,
and
to
bee
corporally
possessed
(
horresco
referens
)
with
the
blessed
Trinitie
.
Neither
was
hee
more
abominably
knauish
in
this
his
Impudencie
,
then
some
of
his
owne
Coat
,
who
were
then
blockishly
foolish
in
their
credulity
.
For
some
of
them
,
when
hee
acted
this
his
Trinitarian
rapture
c●me
and
kneeled
to
him
,
bringing
Oblations
triplici
numero
,
to
present
vnto
the
Trinity
,
inhabiting
this
Mounte-banke
.
Among
which
gifts
presented
by
these
Lozels
,
one
was
gold-coine
,
an
oblation
neuer
vnacceptable
to
those
that
pretend
creare
Creatorem
.
That
it
is
no
fiction
in
mee
to
relate
this
their
fiction
,
may
appeare
by
the
Examination
of
the
said
Hanz
●aken
,
Iulij
5.
1616.
before
the
L.
Arcbishop
of
Canterbury
,
the
LL.
BB.
of
London
,
Lincolne
,
Rochester
,
Litchfield
,
the
Deane
of
Westminster
,
and
Sir
W.
Bird
,
D.
of
the
Law
:
before
whom
he
denieth
not
such
his
rapture
and
possession
.
For
beeing
then
demanded
,
whether
hee
euer
took
on
him
to
bee
possessed
with
the
blessed
Trinity
,
saying
of
himselfe
,
I
God
the
Father
,
that
made
the
world
;
I
God
the
Sonne
,
that
redeemed
the
world
;
I
God
the
holy
Ghost
,
that
sanctified
the
world
,
the
glorious
,
blessed
and
vndiuided
Trinity
,
doe
giue
you
my
blessing
,
and
doe
command
you
to
adore
mee
:
And
beeing
further
asked
,
whether
some
that
were
present
,
did
not
adore
him
,
and
some
other
refused
:
hee
answered
,
That
once
or
twice
when
hee
was
about
those
actions
,
or
in
the
Interim
of
them
,
he
was
in
a
transe
,
and
his
soule
did
see
very
supernaturall
and
admirable
ioyes
:
and
then
whether
God
Almighty
or
an
Angell
(
hee
will
not
meddle
with
it
,
but
referreth
it
to
God
Almighty
and
his
Church
)
spake
in
the
name
of
God
and
the
blessed
Trinity
,
and
gaue
a
Blessing
,
and
that
himselfe
at
those
times
,
had
no
power
in
himselfe
,
but
that
the
Organs
of
his
body
were
vsed
to
a
supernaturall
purpose
,
and
by
a
diuine
or
supernaturall
cause
:
And
as
God
did
cause
the
Aire
to
speak
,
in
giuing
downe
the
Law
,
saying
,
I
AM
THE
LORD
THY
GOD
;
and
did
cause
Balaams
Asse
to
vtter
words
:
so
hee
might
cause
the
Organs
of
this
Examinates
body
,
to
speak
as
best
pleased
the
will
of
his
diuine
Maiesty
:
and
the
truth
of
the
whole
action
,
hee
doth
referre
to
God
Almighty
and
his
Church
.
And
he
doth
say
further
for
his
part
,
that
no
humane
person
whatsoeuer
liuing
can
vse
the
Name
of
the
blessed
Trinity
;
saying
,
I
the
blessed
Trinity
blesse
you
,
without
sinne
,
vnlesse
God
almighty
doo
take
the
creature
,
and
speake
in
him
:
and
then
it
is
Gods
owne
word
,
and
not
the
word
of
the
party
.
But
touching
adoration
,
there
was
no
commandement
of
it
,
to
his
remembrance
:
and
if
any
did
it
,
it
was
no
more
than
due
to
the
eternall
Trinity
,
who
may
be
adored
in
all
places
.
This
imposture
,
though
neuer
so
odious
and
blasphemous
,
yet
flew
abroad
,
and
was
fostered
as
a
true
Miracle
.
For
confirmation
whereof
,
report
was
added
,
that
this
holy
Priest
thus
possessed
by
the
Trinity
,
walking
vp
and
down
the
streets
daily
amongst
the
Hereticks
,
yet
none
of
them
had
the
power
to
apprehend
or
lay
hands
on
him
.
I
could
acquaint
you
with
other
his
horrible
and
sacrilegious
impieties
:
but
let
this
suffice
.
It
was
foretold
by
Saint
Iohn
,
that
their
adulterous
Mother
should
haue
her
mouth
full
of
blasphemies
;
The
spirit
speaketh
expresly
,
that
in
the
latter
times
,
some
shall
depart
from
the
faith
,
giuing
heed
to
seducing
spirits
,
and
doctrines
of
diuels
,
speaking
lies
in
hypocrisie
,
hauing
their
consciences
seared
with
an
hot
iron
:
Such
should
forbid
marriage
,
and
command
men
to
abstain
from
meats
,
&c.
To
these
two
last
blasphemies
,
it
will
not
bee
amisse
to
adde
what
our
Papists
report
of
Katharine
of
Sienna
.
In
vit.
Sanct.
Katharin
de
Sienna
.
She
(
forsooth
)
and
Christ
Iesus
,
by
an
admirable
kinde
of
permutation
,
did
enterchange
their
hearts
;
so
that
Christ
had
the
heart
of
Katharine
;
and
Katharine
,
that
of
Christ
.
Oh
you
ignorant
and
desperately-superstitious
Pontificians
,
who
iustifie
this
Fable
!
Obserue
you
not
?
vnderstand
you
not
,
that
this
miraculous
chaffering
of
hearts
subuerteth
a
very
Principle
of
Christian
Religion
(
receiued
also
by
your selues
)
which
is
,
that
quod
Christus
semel
assumpsit
,
nunquam
dimisit
,
what
Christ
did
once
assume
(
to
weet
,
by
hypostaticall
vnion
)
he
neuer
left
the
same
.
I
cannot
by
the
way
omit
a
fantasticall
relation
of
the
Papists
,
which
I
read
in
Baronius
,
how
the
Virgin
Mary
visited
Fulbert
in
his
sicknes
,
and
gaue
him
her
breasts
to
suck
,
much
comforting
him
thereby
.
I
beleeue
,
there
escaped
at
that
time
some
drops
of
milk
from
Fulbertus
his
lips
,
hee
beeing
not
accustomed
to
suck
,
and
those
are
they
which
are
kept
in
a
siluer
image
of
the
Virgin
Mary
,
in
her
Church
at
Rhemes
,
and
are
there
worshipped
.
There
was
of
late
,
viz.
an.
1621.
one
imprisoned
either
in
the
Gate-house
or
New-prison
,
who
cald
himself
Newton
:
he
pretended
,
he
had
a
Vision
by
night
of
the
Virgin
Mary
appearing
vnto
him
,
and
saying
,
Newton
,
see
that
thou
doo
not
take
the
oath
of
alleageance
.
Virgin
Mary
which
appeared
?
he
answered
,
I
knew
it
was
shee
:
for
,
she
appeared
vnto
me
in
the
forme
of
her
Assumption
.
Of
what
nature
that
idle
Vision
was
,
the
Reader
may
finde
in
M.
Widrington
,
who
handleth
the
same
,
and
doth
in
part
discouer
the
vanity
thereof
.
A
pretty
Argument
this
was
against
taking
the
Oath
.
Since
I
heard
thereof
,
I
asked
a
Priest
,
was
a
very
holy
man
,
and
hath
had
other
visions
besides
that
:
which
if
he
should
repeat
,
would
make
a
man
tremble
and
quake
.
Hereticks
(
quoth
he
)
haue
no
such
visions
&
heauenly
apparitions
.
I
knowe
not
whom
he
meant
by
the
word
Hereticks
:
but
if
he
mean
vs
Protestants
,
who
haue
more
reason
to
inuert
the
phrase
vpon
them
;
sure
,
we
are
not
such
listners
to
miracles
.
Prodigia
nulla
facimus
:
signa
nulla
edimus
:
we
work
no
wonders
:
wee
shew
no
visions
,
as
Acosta
a
Iesuite
of
theirs
once
asseuerantly
deliuered
.
Ies.
de
salut
.
Indor
.
l
4
Our
Sauiour
Christ
himself
(
as
Saint
Augustine
obserueth
)
hath
giuen
vs
a
caution
against
these
miracle-mongers
;
willing
vs
to
take
heed
,
that
we
be
not
deceiued
.
Preacher
Stella
(
whom
of
late
time
they
haue
gelt
,
as
they
doo
all
other
their
Writers
,
when
they
meet
with
any
thing
that
makes
not
for
their
turn
)
entring
into
this
contemplation
,
taught
publiquely
,
that
Miracles
now
would
rather
be
an
hinderance
vnto
faith
.
Katharine
de
Bus
,
dwelling
in
the
City
of
Lile
,
in
the
County
of
Flanders
,
in
the
yeere
1602.
was
possessed
of
the
Diuell
;
insomuch
that
shee
could
bee
scarce
a
quarter
of
an
houre
in
peace
,
without
beeing
seazed
vpon
and
troubled
by
the
enemie
:
which
made
her
speake
(
to
the
purpose
)
diuers
sorts
of
Languages
;
as
,
Hebrew
,
Greeke
,
and
Latine
.
When
they
came
neere
vnto
her
with
the
blessed
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
,
shee
writhed
and
wrested
her selfe
strangely
,
both
with
her
leggs
,
armes
,
and
back
,
gnashing
her
teeth
,
and
grizly
drawing
of
her
mouth
.
The
parents
of
this
wench
laboured
so
much
,
that
shee
was
diuers
times
exorcised
,
sometimes
by
certaine
Fathers
of
the
order
of
the
Capuchins
,
sometimes
by
other
Priests
:
vnto
whom
the
wicked
Spirits
answered
in
diuers
Languages
,
confessing
at
that
time
,
that
they
were
seuen
in
number
.
They
spake
diuers
iniurious
things
,
and
told
the
faults
of
diuers
that
were
present
.
No
meanes
could
bee
vsed
for
the
casting
out
of
these
wicked
Fiends
,
till
there
was
found
a
man
that
was
come
from
Mountague
,
and
had
brought
with
him
a
piece
of
the
Oke
of
our
Ladie
.
Whereupon
,
one
Sir
Siluester
Dennys
,
who
came
to
see
her
,
took
the
said
piece
,
and
made
the
Patient
to
eat
it
:
and
immediatly
after
shee
had
swallowed
it
,
the
enemy
(
who
called
himselfe
Houilliu
Clicquet
and
Clinquart
)
shewed
himselfe
in
her
throat
;
crying
out
,
that
he
scorched
and
burned
,
because
of
the
wood
which
was
eaten
:
and
hee
added
,
that
he
was
compelled
to
depart
,
and
that
there
remained
in
her
as
yet
three
.
And
beeing
demanded
,
by
whose
merit
and
intercession
hee
was
to
depart
;
The
wicked
spirit
answered
,
Of
Mary
of
Mountague
.
Afterwards
,
beeing
demanded
,
what
signe
he
would
giue
of
his
departure
,
he●
said
,
He
would
burst
a
glasse
of
the
Church-window
.
And
immediatly
after
,
two
of
them
departed
with
the
said
signe
of
bursting
the
glasse
;
and
the
third
,
saying
that
hee
was
the
last
of
tenne
,
cryed
out
(
in
going
foorth
)
with
aloud
voice
,
Viue
N.
Dame
de
Mountague
,
qui
nous
faict
sortir
:
Honour
bee
to
our
Lady
of
Mountague
,
who
maketh
vs
to
depart
.
And
from
that
day
afterwards
,
the
said
Katharine
remained
whole
and
perfectly
free
from
the
possession
and
vexation
of
the
enemie
,
inioying
al●her
limmes
and
senses
as
freely
as
euer
shee
did
before
:
In
lib.
intit
.
Miracles
lately
wrought
by
the
intercession
of
the
glorious
Virgin
Mary
at
Mountague
;
and
translated
out
of
the
French
into
English
,
by
Rob.
Chambers
,
Priest
,
page
209.
210.
et
seq.
This
buzzing
relation
,
penned
and
published
by
the
Priests
themselues
,
is
suteable
and
(
in
a
sort
)
paralell
to
that
which
Brerely
tells
vs
of
diuers
who
were
dispossessed
of
Diuels
,
by
kissing
of
the
Altar
and
the
Priests
vesture
.
But
I
will
cap
this
tale
with
a
fresh-bleeding
new
Story
,
fetcht
not
farre
without
the
walles
of
London
.
A
certaine
Catholicke
collapsed
Ladie
(
whose
name
I
spare
,
for
the
respect
I
beare
to
her
best
friends
)
about
some
two
or
three
yeeres
since
,
departed
from
her
husband
(
yet
liuing
)
and
went
ouer
to
Bruxels
,
and
was
admitted
into
the
order
of
Nunnerie
,
I
meane
a
Nunne
at
large
,
one
of
the
vncloistred
sisters
of
the
order
of
Saint
Clare
,
and
there
shee
remained
a
while
,
till
there
appeared
in
her
some
passion
incompatible
with
Nunship
.
Shee
came
ouer
into
England
a
companion
with
a
religious
Iesuite
,
since
of
great
note
,
F.
D.
and
remaining
afterwards
an
inlarged
Nunne
in
London
,
was
(
as
it
seemeth
)
more
visibly
taken
with
a
disease
befalling
that
sexe
,
called
flatus
vterinus
:
and
thereupon
,
that
this
matter
might
bee
carried
the
more
cleanely
,
it
was
giuen
out
,
that
shee
was
possessed
with
an
euill
spirit
,
which
did
make
her
belly
to
swell
like
a
woman
with
child
.
Certaine
it
is
,
many
were
deluded
by
this
occasion
:
and
the
practice
of
the
Priests
to
hide
her
blemish
,
and
gull
poore
people
,
was
lewd
and
abominable
.
For
a
certaine
Iesuite
P.
T.
(
whom
I
could
also
name
,
being
a
smug
,
spruce
,
liquorish
,
young
fellow
,
a
fit
man
to
bee
called
Father
(
forsooth
)
at
euery
word
,
&
of
no
high
stature
;
and
so
,
fit
to
be
a
disguised
Olympio
,
to
act
the
part
of
Casina
in
Plautus
,
or
to
act
a
womanized
Chaerea
in
Terence
his
Eunuchus
)
put
on
the
Ladies
or
such
like
womanish
apparel
,
with
a
Vaile
ouer
his
face
:
&
that
some
found
Ignaro's
about
the
Towne
might
be
perswaded
of
the
Priests
power
for
the
casting
out
of
Diuels
,
they
were
suffred
to
come
to
her
chamber
,
where
were
two
other
Iesuites
F.
D.
about
halfe
a
yeare
after
,
was
a
chiefe
Actor
in
a
true
lamentable
Tragedy
,
yet
memorable
by
a
Downfall
.
(
prouided
for
the
purpose
,
to
act
their
parts
in
this
Comedie
)
;
who
no
sooner
fell
to
their
prayers
,
and
began
to
vse
their
exorcizing
spels
,
but
thereupon
the
supposed
Ladie
began
to
vtter
her
mind
both
in
Italian
,
Latin
and
Greeke
:
which
much
astonished
the
standers
by
,
they
little
dreaming
of
this
deceit
.
Neither
was
this
all
:
I
will
yet
proceed
farther
in
this
so
comicall
a
Narration
.
It
was
wont
,
when
an
Interlude
was
to
bee
acted
in
a
Countrey
Towne
,
the
first
question
that
an
Hob-naile
Spectator
made
,
before
hee
would
pay
his
penny
to
goe
in
,
was
,
Whether
there
bee
a
Diuell
and
a
Foole
in
the
play
?
And
if
the
Foole
get
vpon
the
Diuels
backe
,
and
beate
him
with
his
Cox-combe
till
hee
roare
,
the
play
is
compleat
.
Here
is
Foole
vpon
Foole
,
but
extra
scenam
,
off
from
the
Stage
;
the
gaping
,
admiring
,
beleeuing
Spectators
.
But
to
make
this
pageant
compleat
,
this
disguised
Diuel
must
roare
;
&
that
was
,
by
the
bringing
the
consecrated
Host
in
a
Pix
,
and
applying
it
vnder
the
head
of
this
Sheeknaue-Iesuite
,
or
Hee-lubberly
Lady
.
Then
his
Diuel-ship
raues
and
struggles
,
as
if
hee
would
rather
goe
to
hell
againe
,
then
indure
the
tormenting
presence
of
the
Holy
Pix
.
Diuers
other
feats
were
performed
vpon
this
occasion
,
which
I
will
spare
to
declare
,
till
I
receiue
Command
on
the
one
side
,
or
Challenge
on
the
other
.
Whether
she
euer
heard
of
her selfe
thus
acted
in
her
absence
,
I
know
not
,
but
sure
I
haue
heard
from
a
credible
author
,
that
she
was
actiue
,
or
rather
passiue
in
one
tragical
part
of
this
Mummery
;
which
(
mee
thinks
)
shee
should
rather
some
other
had
performed
it
for
her
.
Forsooth
,
these
Medicinall
Diuel-purgers
were
not
to
seeke
for
the
deuice
of
the
consecrated
potion
(
in
imitation
of
that
which
was
giuen
to
Sarah
Williams
at
Denham
before-mentioned
)
:
this
potion
must
make
her
vomit
vp
no
lesse
then
seuen
Diuels
:
and
to
that
end
,
shee
was
let
downe
into
a
darke
roome
,
and
there
shut
vp
for
a
time
without
light
;
and
,
after
the
operation
of
this
Diuel-scowring
vomit
,
light
was
let-in
,
and
seuen
Todes
shewed
to
her
in
the
place
,
as
regorged
by
her
,
and
being
no
lesse
then
(
doub●lesse
)
dreadfull
Diuels
.
This
last
circumstance
I
doe
not
auerre
vpon
knowledge
,
as
acted
by
them
;
but
rather
think
it
giuen-out
by
the
party
and
others
,
to
pretend
,
that
some
great
miracles
haue
been
wrought
in
her
,
or
by
her
,
that
she
might
haue
the
better
pretence
to
haue
been
resembled
vnto
Mary
Magdalen
,
out
of
whom
seuen
Diuels
were
cast
.
Leauing
it
then
in
medio
,
till
I
receiue
better
information
;
yet
sure
I
am
,
shee
carrieth
the
name
of
working
miracles
.
And
indeed
well
may
it
bee
so
said
,
that
shee
and
her
Copes-mates
the
Priests
do
work
miracles
:
for
,
to
my
vnderstanding
,
it
is
little
lesse
than
a
miracle
,
that
any
of
our
Nation
,
vncapable
of
Bedlam
or
a
Bable
,
should
be
stricken
with
such
stupidity
,
as
to
beleeue
in
these
Iugglers
and
Romish
Mounte-banks
.
If
I
should
heer
recount
all
the
Lies
and
Tales
of
Priests
,
concerning
the
multitudes
that
haue
been
dispossessed
of
Diuels
,
by
the
help
of
a
whole
Beuy
of
Ladies
;
Our
Lady
of
Mountague
,
our
Lady
of
Loretto
,
our
Lady
of
Hales
,
and
our
Lady
of
Sienna
:
no
reasonable
Volume
would
receiue
or
containe
them
.
I
referre
him
that
would
spend
idle
time
in
idle
fables
,
to
Rob.
Chambers
his
book
before-cited
,
and
to
T.
P.
his
book
intituled
,
The
History
of
our
blessed
Lady
of
Loretto
,
and
to
Lipsius
his
dotages
of
our
Lady
of
Hales
,
and
to
I.
Heigham
his
book
intituled
,
The
Lady
of
Sienna
:
and
you
will
need
no
other
Register
of
their
Impostures
,
no
golden
Legend
.
Doting
Metaphrastes
,
fabulous
Lippoman
,
lying
and
voraginous
Iacobus
,
superstitious
Antonine
,
confuse
Vincentius
,
haue
so
cloyed
the
dwellers
vpon
earth
with
delusions
and
lies
,
that
(
for
very
shame
)
the
Papists
haue
exploded
and
pared
out
of
their
Portesses
and
Breuiaries
many
and
sundry
of
their
fabulous
Histories
,
being
indeed
forced
thereunto
by
the
derisions
&
outcries
of
Christians
against
them
.
Yea
,
Claudius
Espencae●…s
(
one
of
their
owne
)
telles
vs
,
et
digres.
l.
c.
1.
11.
that
their
Legends
and
Portesses
were
as
full
of
idle
vanities
,
as
any
Stables
could
be
full
of
dung
.
What
fruit
was
there
in
those
things
,
wherof
you
are
now
ashamed
?
Who
(
me
thinks
)
could
bee
so
bewitched
,
as
be
born
in
hand
,
that
A
house
was
carried
in
the
aire
from
Palestina
to
Loretto
;
T.
P.
page
40.
that
a
Dalmatian
Priest
comming
many
miles
to
Loretto
,
and
carrying
vp
with
his
hand
his
bowels
quite
pulled
out
of
his
belly
,
by
one
onely
praier
to
our
Lady
there
,
was
instantly
healed
;
T.
P.
page
181.
182.
This
is
as
true
,
as
was
our
Dalmatian
ventriosus
Marcus
Amonius
.
that
a
blockish
Image
in
a
wall
,
doth
work
as
high
miracles
,
as
euer
were
performed
by
the
eternall
Sonne
of
God
;
that
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a
Vid.
Ful.
Andros
.
Naucler
.
Costerum
.
Saint
Francis
had
the
prints
of
our
Sauiours
wounds
;
that
the
two
Tails
of
our
Sauiours
Asse
,
the
[
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g
S.
Iohn
Baptis●…
head
shewed
both
at
Ami●…s
and
at
Rome
.
two
heads
of
Saint
Iohn
the
Baptist
,
the
milk
of
our
blessed
Lady
,
are
this
day
to
bee
seen
;
that
at
the
great
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n
Franc-Sales
in
his
introduct.
to
a
deuout
life
Fitz-Simon
.
Lake
of
Vister
,
Saint
Patrick
(
who
chased
all
the
venome
out
of
Ireland
)
is
one
day
by
the
Priests
yet
visible
,
and
that
[
*
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*
As
N●…
had
with
the
nymph
Aeg●…
they
haue
then
conference
with
him
;
beside
,
that
there
is
a
wonder-working
Purgatory
of
his
;
that
a
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*
A
Carmelite
●uru●tting
,
reported
by
all
the
Priests
now
in
London
:
and
one
of
them
swore
to
me
,
that
hee
saw
it
.
Carmelit
came
lately
to
Paris
,
and
there
saying
Masse
,
euery
day
,
at
the
eleuatio●
〈…〉
consecrated
Host
,
himself
was
still
eleuated
or
hoised
on
cock-horse
into
the
aire
;
that
F.
Steuens
a
Priest
(
now
in
London
)
hath
a
Crosse
,
whereunto
are
affixed
some
Reliques
of
a
dead
Martyr
,
one
M.
Maxfield
:
which
Crosse
beeing
stolne
from
him
,
and
carried
one
day
almost
fifty
miles
(
as
was
known
)
,
the
night
following
,
came
back
of
its
owne
accord
,
and
hee
found
it
in
the
morning
vnder
his
beds
head
:
Garnets
straw
hath
made
(
at
least
)
fiue
hundred
in
our
Kingdome
become
good
Catholiques
:
I
Heigham
.
which
if
it
be
true
,
I
see
no
reason
,
but
euery
Thresher
in
England
should
become
a
Romanist
,
because
they
deale
with
strawes
,
which
haue
as
perfect
an
effigies
of
F.
Garnet
,
as
any
other
straw
without
cquiuocation
euer
yet
had
;
that
M.
Gennings
executed
at
Tiburn
,
Edmund
Gennings
,
page
86.
his
belly
beeing
opened
,
his
bowels
cut
out
,
and
his
heart
in
the
Executioners
hand
,
yet
the
Martyr
cryed
out
,
Sancte
Gregori
,
ora
pro
me
;
Holy
Gregory
,
pray
for
me
;
that
the
same
mans
holy
anointed
Thumb
,
beeing
touched
by
a
Virgin
after
his
death
,
of
it self
came
off
,
bone
and
flesh
,
from
the
rest
of
the
hand
;
Tom
Thumb
.
that
when
one
M.
Dakins
a
Priest
,
executed
at
Tiburn
,
was
a-dying
,
vt
sup.
pag.
146.
a
certain
Virgin
,
a
kinswoman
of
his
,
though
many
miles
remote
,
longing
after
some
of
the
Martyrs
flesh
,
she
not
knowing
how
to
obtain
her
desire
,
yet
being
full
of
faith
,
one
of
M.
Dakins
holy
toes
did
miraculously
yield
it self
into
her
virginal
hands
;
vid.
S●…
of
miracles
,
page
25.
that
Robert
Parsons
could
make
the
Diuell
speak
in
any
English
Bishop
or
Heretick
whomsoeuer
;
that
Robert
Parsons
being
apprehended
by
a
Pursuiuant
at
Norwich
in
Cheshire
,
and
put
into
a
chamber
fast
bolted
and
locked
vpon
him
,
the
dore
did
three
times
together
miraculously
and
of
its
owne
accord
flee
open
;
R.
Parsons
a
pick-lock
equiuocator
.
that
one
F.
Scroop
a
Priest
,
being
in
a
Gentlemans
house
in
Lancashire
,
and
certain
Pursuiuants
coming
to
search
for
him
,
notwithstanding
hee
was
in
the
midst
of
the
Roum
with
them
,
yet
he
became
inuisible
to
the
said
Searchers
;
Katharine
Riland
within
the
City
of
London
,
with
eating
one
bit
of
flesh
forbidden
by
her
ghostly
Father
,
was
instantly
choked
;
G.
A
P.
page
41
that
one
Thomas
Vincent
of
London
,
scoffing
at
a
Priest
saying
M●ss
,
forthwith
fell
mad
,
and
,
for
many
daies
after
,
was
heard
pronounce
no
other
words
but
these
,
O
holy
Priest
,
O
holy
Masse
;
that
old
F.
Chambers
taking
the
confession
of
a
Nun
at
Bruxels
,
her
name
M.
Stan
,
she
was
me●amorphosed
,
and
seemed
vnto
him
a
flame
of
fire
;
●
Pi●ing●…
a
Priest
in
〈◊〉
,
the
〈◊〉
that
whensoeuer
a
certaine
Priest
put
his
finger
nigh
Sauerius
his
heart
,
there
issued
out
bloud
and
water
;
Saue
〈◊〉
c.
4.
that
Holy
Father
Philip
Nerius
,
vpon
a
certain
night
as
hee
was
walking
,
and
falling
into
a
certain
ditch
,
was
presently
caught
by
the
haires
of
his
head
by
an
Angell
,
and
so
deliuered
;
in
an
.
1550
that
an
Image
was
crucified
at
Beritum
,
and
did
bleed
;
that
the
diuell
held
both
S.
Edmunds
his
hands
,
that
he
could
not
make
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
;
Christopher
Cusake
,
an
Irish
Iesuite
,
had
a
Crucifix
which
could
speak
?
Are
these
gracelesse
saltlesse
gulleries
,
either
to
be
beleeued
or
countenanced
?
Is
it
possible
,
that
men
of
wit
,
vnderstanding
and
spirit
,
should
bee
intoxicated
and
carried
away
with
such
muddy
deuices
;
the
end
of
which
is
,
non
ethnicos
conuertendi
,
sed
ipsos
euertendi
,
de
praescr
.
vers.
haereticos
.
not
to
conuert
and
bring
any
vnto
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
,
but
rather
to
▪
make
them
wallow
in
the
mire
and
sink
of
errour
;
in
which
themselues
haue
long
stuck
fast
?
And
by
reading
of
all
which
you
may
finde
,
that
the
Diuell
hath
no
greater
cunning
,
nor
preuaileable
art
,
then
to
support
the
Romish
Religion
by
such
palpable
,
grosse
,
filthy
and
idle
inuentions
.
What
is
there
in
them
(
for
the
most
part
)
more
then
in
the
Poeticall
fiction
of
the
Gods
;
the
Fables
of
Homer
,
Herodotus
,
Ouid
,
Bocace
,
and
the
rest
?
All
is
but
the
deceits
of
lying
tongues
,
the
presumption
&
bragging
of
Inchanters
,
and
the
ceremonies
of
Augurers
,
Pythonists
&
Arts-masters
in
Incantations
:
against
whom
the
Poets
themselues
had
many
inuectiues
,
and
condemned
the
Priests
of
that
time
,
as
we
do
the
Friers
of
this
Age
:
as
Euripides
,
Hei
mihi
!
versipelles
vt
homines
semper
odi
,
qui
componentes
iniusta
,
deinde
fr●udes
adornant
.
The
examples
before-recited
,
shew
the
collusions
the
Priests
vse
,
vpon
pretence
of
miraculous
power
:
nor
is
their
diligence
lesse
in
other
means
,
which
they
vse
by
daily
sollicitations
for
their
owne
aduantage
;
Westminster
,
Pauls
,
Winchester
,
Eaton
,
Christ-Church
or
Suttons
Hospitall
,
there
chance
bee
some
young
man
discontented
,
for
the
losse
of
a
place
in
the
Vniuersitie
hee
hoped
for
;
or
in
the
Vniuersities
,
some
young
graduate
,
halfe
distracted
or
discouraged
,
vpon
the
losse
of
some
fellowship
,
or
other
promotion
hee
aspired
vnto
;
Oh
then
there
is
matter
to
work
on
;
none
of
these
,
I
warrant
you
,
shall
escape
without
promise
of
better
preferment
;
there
needs
not
one
to
informe
them
,
what
prouision
is
made
beyond
the
Seas
at
Saint
Omers
,
Doway
,
Lisbon
,
Louaine
,
Spaine
,
Rome
,
for
all
such
Nouices
;
what
beautifull
Colledges
,
stately
Edifices
,
large
Reuenewes
thereunto
annexed
;
what
great
liberty
,
what
good
company
,
what
practice
of
Piety
.
Fistula
dulcè
canit
,
volucrem
dum
decipit
auceps
.
Like
the
Fowler
,
they
can
allure
with
diuers
these
pleasing
notes
,
to
tempt
to
their
lure
,
and
bring
the
Foot
within
the
Snare
:
sed
terminu
sistius
gaudij
,
mors
est
,
Kinsman
,
Ford
,
Mason
;
and
diuers
others
could
I
point
,
at
this
present
,
heere
in
London
,
who
indeed
are
no
lesse
perillous
and
pernicious
then
the
Priests
themselues
.
If
they
can
finde
any
,
for
extraordinary
pregnancie
of
wit
,
learning
,
parentage
,
friends
,
especially
possessions
,
fit
to
serue
their
turnes
,
and
condescend
to
their
expectations
,
by
no
meanes
must
such
scape
their
fingers
.
What
other
shifts
haue
the
Priests
to
wrest
and
wring
from
their
poore
Disciples
,
wherewithall
to
maintaine
their
pomp
and
brauery
?
A
Gentlewoman
of
the
parish
of
Saint
Giles
in
the
fields
neere
Holborne
,
was
of
late
time
sick
,
and
beeing
one
that
was
well
inclining
and
warping
toward
the
Popish
pale
or
bent
,
sent
for
a
Priest
,
a
man
very
famous
about
this
Towne
,
to
come
vnto
her
,
and
assist
her
with
his
best
comfort
and
counsell
;
who
vnderstanding
her
desire
,
was
soone
with
her
:
and
beeing
come
,
shee
acquainted
him
,
how
the
case
stood
betweene
Almighty
God
and
her
distressed
soule
;
and
hauing
laid
herselfe
open
vnto
him
,
after
the
forme
of
Catholick
Confession
,
her
Ghostly
Fa
her
the
Priest
,
told
her
,
that
shee
should
not
neede
to
take
any
farther
thought
or
care
of
her
Soule
,
but
commit
all
to
him
,
his
Absolution
would
bee
auaileable
,
and
by
Prayer
himselfe
would
intercede
for
her
.
Yet
one
thing
farther
hee
must
tel●
her
;
that
shee
might
bee
more
certaine
of
M
rcy
and
Indulgence
,
if
there
were
some
care
had
for
the
saying
of
so
many
Masses
for
her
after
her
death
at
the
high
Altar
.
The
woman
listned
to
this
,
and
liked
it
very
well
.
Yea
,
but
the
Priest
had
not
said
all
;
These
Masses
(
he
told
her
)
could
not
be
had
without
a
round
summe
of
money
.
Shee
demanded
of
the
Priest
,
what
the
whole
charges
might
bee
.
Hee
told
her
,
About
some
thirty
pounds
.
The
poore
gentlewoman
answered
,
Shee
had
not
so
much
money
in
her
custodie
;
but
plate
shee
would
deliuer
him
,
sufficient
to
raise
such
a
summe
:
and
accordingly
shee
deliuered
it
forthwith
to
his
possession
;
who
,
hauing
met
with
such
a
booty
,
had
little
desire
to
visit
any
more
his
sick
patient
.
The
woman
within
a
short
time
after
grew
so
weake
in
her
body
,
that
shee
was
past
ho●e
of
recouery
,
and
then
sent
againe
for
her
spirituall
Doctor
to
come
and
administer
some
of
his
ghostly
physick
to
her
.
But
my
Gentleman
had
taken
paines
enough
before
,
and
by
no
meanes
would
bee
brought
the
second
time
vnto
her
.
A
good
Caucat
heere
was
,
for
her
,
and
others
to
take
heed
of
such
cogging
and
insinuating
companions
.
It
pleased
God
,
this
Gentlewoman
recouered
;
and
,
making
good
vse
of
that
abuse
shee
receiued
by
this
Priest
in
her
sicknesse
,
she
altered
her
Religion
:
and
now
,
to
the
comfort
of
diuers
worthy
and
painfull
Ministers
about
the
City
,
shee
is
become
a
good
Church-woman
,
and
spends
the
most
of
her
time
in
Gods
seruice
,
going
daily
vnto
Sermons
,
and
following
nothing
so
much
as
her
deuotions
.
lying
at
that
time
sick
at
Bednall-greene
neere
London
,
and
hauing
Land
of
inheritance
,
of
aboue
fiue
hundred
pounds
,
per
annum
,
was
vehemently
set
vpon
by
some
Iesuites
and
Priests
;
insomuch
,
that
shee
was
inclineable
to
referre
her
estate
to
their
disposall
.
Whereupon
,
some
of
her
neere
kinne
,
repairing
to
a
Doctor
of
Diuinitie
,
of
good
note
in
London
,
informed
him
,
how
farre
the
Priests
had
wrought
with
her
.
Whereupon
,
hee
by
conference
and
instruction
,
did
set
her
right
againe
(
as
by
Gods
blessing
,
hee
hath
confirmed
diuers
others
)
.
It
is
very
probable
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
that
estate
should
haue
flowne
beyond
the
Seas
,
as
much
other
our
Countrey
goods
and
Riches
doe
,
to
vnderline
the
Nunneries
.
Francis
Netlam
,
lying
very
sick
in
M.
Dawsons
house
in
Fetter-Lane
;
and
vnderstanding
of
some
Lands
or
possessions
he
had
,
to
a
round
value
,
inquired
of
him
,
how
he
disposed
of
these
his
reuenues
,
and
to
whom
he
meant
to
leaue
them
after
his
decease
.
Hee
acquainted
them
,
that
he
had
brothers
&
sisters
,
poore
,
and
of
his
owne
Religion
(
to
weet
,
Papists
)
who
did
expect
them
.
But
these
insinuating
Priests
,
more
regarding
themselues
then
their
Disciples
,
dealt
so
farre
with
him
,
that
hee
was
content
to
giue
his
La●ds
to
themselues
,
or
whom
they
should
nominate
,
so
to
be
at
their
disposing
.
Which
granted
,
M.
Muskets
care
was
such
,
that
a
Will
was
drawne
,
and
the
Lands
thereby
conueyed
to
the
Priests
,
or
to
some
other
for
their
vse
.
Therupon
returning
to
the
house
where
this
sick
Catholick
lay
,
they
requested
the
woman
of
the
house
(
Mistris
Dawson
,
her
husband
not
being
within
)
,
to
bee
a
Witnesse
to
the
said
Will
.
But
shee
,
vnderstanding
the
Contents
thereof
,
refused
so
to
doe
:
neither
would
shee
suffer
them
to
goe
to
the
sick
mans
chamber
,
vnlesse
their
intent
were
better
.
So
soone
as
her
husband
came
home
,
shee
told
him
what
the
Priests
would
haue
done
.
Therevpon
,
her
husband
intreated
the
Lecturer
of
the
parish
,
and
another
Minister
,
to
perswade
the
said
Francis
Netlam
,
not
to
bee
so
foolish
and
vnnaturall
,
as
to
giue
his
Land
from
his
needy
brethren
,
to
these
cheating
,
coozening
,
and
colloguing
Priests
.
The
sick
man
followed
the
counsell
of
these
Ministers
,
in
whom
hee
found
more
plaine
dealing
,
then
in
the
other
his
spirituall
Fathers
.
And
notwithstanding
hee
had
beene
long
misl●d
by
the
said
Romish
Impostors
,
hee
desired
to
bee
prayed
for
(
according
to
the
forme
of
our
English
Church
)
in
Saint
Dunstanes
in
the
West
,
at
their
next
Wednesday
Lecture
:
an●
further
to
expresse
his
conformity
to
our
Church
,
hee
receiued
the
blessed
Sacrament
with
vs
before
his
death
.
Hence
then
obserue
,
how
industrious
our
Priests
are
,
not
onely
to
get
Proselyte
men
and
women
,
but
also
Proselyte
Lands
and
possessions
:
notwithstanding
all
their
pretended
pouertie
,
bonus
odor
lucri
,
they
will
omit
no
opportunitie
to
get
what
gaine
they
can
.
I
know
this
to
be
true
,
that
in
those
parts
where
I
haue
liued
,
and
where
are
most
Papists
of
any
part
of
this
Kingdome
;
there
is
not
a
Popish
Gentleman
in
all
the
Countrey
,
but
there
is
a
Priest
to
his
Steward
,
and
disposer
of
houshold
and
reuenues
;
neither
doth
the
Owner
let
,
set
,
or
sell
any
land
,
without
the
approbation
&
consent
of
these
pretended
spirituall
guides
.
And
that
indeed
is
it
which
causeth
Papists
the
more
to
abound
,
for
that
a
Land-lord
led
by
such
directors
,
will
not
suffer
any
one
quietly
to
liue
vpon
his
Land
,
but
such
as
the
three-quarter
Lord
Priest
taketh
to
bee
his
holy
children
,
and
will
be
ready
to
doe
him
seruice
.
A
fine
engine
to
wheele
about
,
and
scrue
whole
families
and
Townes
,
by
the
pully
which
twineth
the
long
rope
of
Spiritualls
reaching
out
ad
temporalia
.
Another
of
their
engines
is
,
If
an
offender
come
to
one
of
these
Priests
to
Confession
;
as
they
inioyne
him
,
for
one
part
of
his
penance
,
to
say
so
many
Pater-nosters
,
so
many
Creeds
,
so
many
Aue-maries
,
by
scores
euery
day
:
so
likewise
they
impose
on
his
head
a
pecuniary
mulct
,
hee
must
pay
into
the
hands
of
some
other
Priest
40
,
30
,
20
,
10
,
8
,
or
5
pounds
(
according
to
the
ability
of
the
partie
)
,
to
bee
distributed
by
the
said
Priest
,
a
iudicious
man
,
in
pios
vsus
.
Which
money
once
fingered
,
is
very
iudiciously
shared
betwixt
these
two
shriuing
Priests
,
who
(
Iudas-like
)
will
haue
no
waste
,
et
tenentes
marsupium
,
tenentur
àmarsupio
.
Againe
,
that
their
Lampes
may
want
no
Oyle
,
their
pockets
no
weight
,
how
doe
they
gripe
,
exact
and
extort
from
their
poore
Disciples
!
If
a
Shoomaker
,
or
a
Taylor
,
that
hath
nought
but
what
hee
earnes
at
his
fingers
ends
,
chance
to
come
vnder
their
fingers
,
his
money
is
ill
got
,
vnlesse
hee
offer
to
his
holy
Father
a
third
or
fourth
part
of
his
gaine
.
If
a
Countrey
Farmer
bee
so
rich
in
Tenement
or
Land
,
that
hee
haue
but
two
Oxen
to
yoke
,
and
three
kine
to
milke
,
before
the
yeeres
end
one
of
the
beasts
must
bee
sold
,
to
buy
the
honest
Priest
a
new
suit
,
perhaps
of
swaggering
Sattin
.
Nay
,
I
haue
known
a
taxation
such
,
that
out
of
a
mans
means
worth
tenne
pounds
per
annum
,
the
Priest
must
perforce
haue
forty
shillings
a
yeere
at
least
.
And
in
a
great
Shire
,
where
I
haue
conuersed
,
there
is
not
a
man
of
that
Religion
,
of
40
pounds
a
yeer
reuenew
and
vpward
,
but
hee
must
,
at
his
owne
charge
,
keepe
a
Priest
in
his
house
:
perhaps
some
poor
neighbours
that
are
benefited
hereby
,
contribute
some
small
matter
toward
it
.
Thus
,
while
they
pretend
,
that
they
are
forced
to
creepe
into
priuate
houses
for
feare
of
persecution
,
they
carry
more
dominion
ouer
the
Family
,
then
any
Parish-Priest
doth
in
those
Countries
where
Popish
Religion
publikely
preuaileth
.
The
Bishop
of
London
his
Legacie
.
A
pamphlet
,
that
I
much
wondred
who
could
haue
so
little
wit
,
and
lesse
grace
,
to
bee
the
Author
thereof
,
till
that
an
incendiary
brother
of
his
Precursor
Kellison
bely
Him
,
who
is
now
as
glorious
a
Starre
in
the
heauens
aboue
,
Non
comet
a
fuit
,
sed
Stella
.
as
He
was
a
shining
Lamp
in
the
firmamenr
of
the
Church
heer
on
earth
!
He
fought
a
good
fight
,
both
in
defence
of
the
faith
,
and
in
exp●gnation
of
Heresies
,
Schismes
and
Seditions
brought-in
by
these
our
Aduersaries
.
And
as
Augustine
spake
of
Cyprian
,
Multi
erat
meriti
,
multi
pectoris
,
multioris
,
multae
virtutis
:
Now
whereas
they
seek
to
get
Prosel●tes
by
●hese
monstrous
forgeries
and
trumperies
,
for
my
owne
part
,
I
confesse
,
that
vpon
the
first
view
and
reading
of
it
,
I
was
somewhat
mooued
with
wonder
,
&
withall
with
possibility
of
credence
;
which
made
mee
the
more
diligently
to
enquire
of
it
;
especially
reading
there
,
that
the
Bishop
was
reconciled
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
by
a
certaine
Priest
there
not
named
.
I
curiously
searched
among
the
Priests
,
to
learne
who
that
might
be
.
They
named
to
mee
F.
Preston
:
but
him
I
finde
to
haue
constantly
disauowed
it
,
on
examination
:
and
otherwise
I
found
good
cause
to
think
,
that
hee
spake
his
conscience
in
that
deniall
.
Then
was
I
posted
off
to
F.
Palmer
a
Iesuite
,
and
that
hee
was
the
very
man
:
but
asking
him
very
seriously
and
priuately
about
it
,
hee
told
me
,
hee
neuer
saw
the
Bishop
of
London
.
And
verily
,
if
this
Iesuite
did
meane
to
equiuocate
with
mee
,
hee
had
no
reason
to
speak
doublely
on
that
part
,
but
rather
to
auouch
,
that
himselfe
did
that
deed
,
or
knew
who
did
it
,
that
he
might
the
better
hold
me
in
belief
of
that
narration
.
In
fine
,
I
found
this
tale
to
be
nothing
but
a
comicall
fiction
:
and
on
better
weighing
this
ridiculous
shamelesse
pamphlet
,
so
belying
Integrity
,
so
outfacing
the
open
Sunne
with
audacity
,
and
so
farre
degenerating
from
all
shew
of
verity
;
I
concluded
,
that
the
frame
could
not
be
sound
,
which
was
built
vpon
such
a
rotten
foundation
;
nor
that
Religion
sincer●
,
which
●ath
slanderous
leasings
for
her
daily
food
.
As
Tertullian
saith
in
the
behalfe
of
the
Chri●tians
first
persecuted
by
Nero
,
that
hee
that
knewe
Nero
well
,
might
easily
vnderstand
,
non
nisi
grande
aliquod
bonum
à
Nerone
damnatum
:
in
Apologet
.
cont
.
Gentes
.
it
was
like
to
be
a
good
thing
,
which
Nero
opposed
.
So
when
I
view
the
shamelesse
slanders
which
such
Iugglers
lay
vpon
that
reuerend
Bishop
,
I
must
needs
say
,
that
I
reuerenced
his
memory
the
more
,
and
might
well
think
him
the
more
constant
in
his
Religion
,
by
their
faining
him
to
bee
wauering
.
hee
was
sorry
that
euer
any
such
booke
should
bee
suffred
to
come
forth
;
for
it
would
doe
them
more
hurt
,
then
any
booke
they
euer
wrote
:
meaning
,
as
I
take
it
,
that
the
forgerie
in
it
was
too
palpable
.
But
I
find
,
that
the
booke
is
subscribed
by
publike
authority
and
particular
commendation
to
it
,
nor
will
they
inflict
any
censure
vpon
the
lewd
Father
of
this
monstrous
lie
.
And
hence
it
is
,
that
of
late
they
haue
altered
The
Title
,
and
changed
the
Frontispice
into
a
more
darke
phrase
,
making
it
a
Prosopopeia
.
Doth
Master
Musket
,
who
hath
foure
or
fiue
hundred
(
as
I
haue
heard
him
boast
)
that
come
to
his
chamber
to
a
Sermon
,
feed
them
with
no
better
fare
then
such
windy
,
light
,
empty
,
nay
noysom
exhalations
?
I
can
then
call
it
but
,
The
dreamed
bread
of
the
sluggard
.
They
may
eat
,
but
not
bee
satisfied
.
Perhaps
hee
may
paralell
this
and
greater
fictions
out
of
the
Golden
Legend
,
when
he
preacheth
vpon
any
By-Saints-day
.
But
I
heare
(
me
thinks
)
the
noise
of
our
hooting
Noctua's
,
the
Priests
&
Iesuites
,
blind
guides
,
and
louers
of
darknes
more
then
the
light
,
who
are
so
farre
from
beleeuing
that
any
cataract
or
filme
is
on
their
eyes
,
that
they
are
rather
perswaded
,
themselues
are
the
most
quicke-sighted
.
They
know
and
see
a
farre
off
,
that
although
,
non
adhuc
miserendi
tempus
,
non
adhuc
exultandi
dies
,
the
time
to
haue
mercy
,
they
should
ere
long
haue
golden
daies
.
Many
of
the
Iesuites
haue
of
late
cried
,
Woe
to
England
.
Their
meaning
is
lockt
vp
in
a
misery
,
and
how
they
will
explicate
themselues
,
I
know
not
.
Nocte
dieque
suum
gestant
in
pectore
●estem
;
though
they
scape
restem
.
Let
mee
then
premonish
the
ignorant
,
and
feebler
sort
especially
,
who
are
like
weak
and
silly
flies
,
that
they
take
heed
how
they
be
caught
in
such
cobwebs
,
wherein
the
chiefe
thred
they
spinne
,
is
,
that
none
out
of
their
Church
can
be
saued
.
And
further
,
let
them
beware
,
lest
they
depraue
their
ingenuous
disposition
,
in
tampering
with
tooles
that
may
cut
their
fingers
,
and
so
venture
into
that
web
of
hereticall
fraud
,
which
they
want
strength
of
wit
to
breake
thorow
.
I
knowe
,
that
whom
nature
or
education
hath
made
simple
,
heresie
will
make
proud
.
For
who
more
insolent
then
the
ignorant
?
Which
Erasmus
noted
long
agoe
,
in
Spong
.
aduers
.
Hutten
.
and
may
well
bee
applyed
vnto
many
of
our
English
Papists
,
who
when
they
might
bee
informed
de
vita
Christi
,
et
de
via
Christiani
,
they
are
resolued
aforehand
not
to
bee
satisfied
.
Oh
the
blindnesse
of
vnderstanding
of
those
that
are
called
Lay-Catholickes
!
Iust
here
were
the
complaint
of
the
Prophet
,
My
people
bee
in
captiuity
,
because
they
bee
without
knowledge
.
your
inheritance
,
quamuis
adinteritum
animaeet
corporis
,
you
are
readie
to
obey
them
?
and
doe
they
not
accordingly
make
vassals
and
slaues
of
you
?
walke
naked
from
the
girdle
vp
ward
,
and
scourge
himself
with
a
whip
.
The
same
day
twelue-month
last
past
,
at
a
place
of
your
solemne
meeting
in
London
,
you
made
one
whip
himself
so
long
,
till
he
swouned
,
and
was
thought
to
bee
past
hope
of
recouery
,
so
that
hot
water
was
instantly
fetched
to
reuiue
him
.
At
Bruxels
(
as
a
Priest
told
mee
,
saying
hee
saw
it
,
and
boasting
of
the
meritorious
work
)
a
woman
,
about
a
yeere
since
,
so
cruelly
scourged
her selfe
,
that
shee
died
of
it
.
Is
this
Mortification
,
to
murther
our selues
,
lest
sinne
murther
vs
,
to
abolish
our
life
in
the
flesh
,
lest
wee
should
liue
after
the
flesh
?
I
am
no
enemy
vnto
austerity
of
life
,
and
taming
or
chastening
our
bodily
sinfull
members
,
lusts
of
the
eye
,
and
pride
of
life
,
to
depose
the
Tyrant
sinne
from
his
dominion
:
whatsoeuer
tendeth
this
way
,
for
the
better
whetting
of
our
members
to
become
weapons
of
righteousnes
,
I
wish
were
more
,
rather
then
lesse
vsed
in
our
reformed
Churches
;
so
it
bee
without
the
opinion
of
merit
,
without
publike
ostentation
,
without
excesse
,
and
vnnaturall
hating
and
disabling
our
corporal
faculties
.
Such
kind
of
enormous
flagellant
Tragedies
,
proue
sometime
as
absurd
remedies
against
sinne
,
as
a
Philosopher
did
bring
against
sicknes
;
who
visiting
his
diseased
friend
,
that
complained
of
the
irksomnesse
of
his
disease
,
and
desired
his
aduice
for
curing
the
same
,
or
easing
his
paine
,
departed
from
him
,
and
shortly
came
againe
,
and
told
him
,
hee
had
brought
a
medicine
to
cure
all
his
diseases
,
and
rid
him
of
paine
.
The
Patient
hearing
that
welcome
word
,
promised
hee
would
take
the
medicine
.
To
whom
presently
this
Kil-cow
Physicion
shewed
vnder
the
lap
of
his
coate
a
short
sword
,
which
would
make
short
worke
.
To
say
no
more
of
this
outrageous
deuotion
:
as
it
is
Baalaiticall
,
secret
prayer
in
the
Clozet
,
the
doore
shut
,
&
c
?
Must
this
be
done
before
hundreds
of
spectatours
?
Yes
verily
,
else
the
price
of
the
satisfaction
,
the
glory
of
the
merit
,
the
ouer-weight
of
supererogation
,
would
be
made
lighter
by
many
an
ounce
.
And
indeed
,
as
in
this
,
so
in
all
the
rest
of
the
whole
pageant
of
Popery
,
euery
thing
must
bee
theatricall
ad
pompam
,
else
the
gazing
Vulgar
would
not
be
so
frequently
and
easily
caught
.
Lastly
,
if
such
inioyned
penances
must
be
performed
in
an
ambling
fashion
,
with
rouing
abroad
,
would
no
other
place
serue
to
gad
vnto
,
but
Tiburne
?
Is
no
other
place
in
England
left
sacred
and
vnpolluted
?
Oh
,
but
there
is
more
vertue
in
the
goale
they
runne
vnto
,
then
in
the
race
they
vndertake
.
It
was
antient
,
to
visit
memorias
Martyrum
;
and
so
,
the
sending
of
Disciples
to
visit
Tiburne
,
maketh
a
deep
impression
in
their
mindes
,
of
the
Saint-ship
of
some
that
haue
there
paid
their
debt
to
our
Lawes
.
Wee
know
,
Martyr
and
Persecutor
are
Correlatiues
:
and
so
,
in
this
action
of
pretended
humiliation
,
there
is
intended
an
increase
of
the
Romanists
hatred
against
the
Church
and
State
of
England
,
as
persecuting
,
and
guilty
of
the
bloud
of
those
whom
they
adore
.
Thus
euery
step
in
such
pilgrimage
,
makes
those
Penitents
to
walke
further
from
vs
:
nay
,
in
euery
stripe
voluntarily
receiued
in
that
Iourney
,
the
Confessor
that
inioyned
this
performance
,
thinkes
hee
scourgeth
the
Protestants
.
Deare
Country-men
,
let
mee
,
in
the
spirit
of
meeknesse
,
&
out
of
the
tendernesse
of
my
heart
and
affection
inlarged
toward
you
,
a
little
intreat
you
to
consider
,
how
you
are
hood-winkt
and
disguised
.
Doe
yet
,
at
last
,
lay
your
hands
on
your
hearts
,
and
loath
these
despicable
Impostors
,
returning
vnto
the
truth
,
and
assuring
your selues
,
that
neuer
any
true
Religion
did
assist
and
credit
it selfe
by
such
iuggling
shifts
,
tricks
and
deuices
,
as
the
Iesuiticall
brood
are
obserued
daily
to
practise
,
and
many
of
which
(
I
am
sure
)
they
shame
to
heare
of
.
Tho
Cornford
Iesuite
.
For
example
:
Blush
they
not
at
this
;
that
,
one
Thomas
Cornford
a
brother
of
theirs
,
examined
before
my
Lords
Grace
of
Canterbury
,
Iune
25.
1612.
did
first
giue
vnto
himselfe
,
the
name
of
Iohn
Vnderwood
,
and
so
subscribed
it
;
affirming
that
hee
was
a
married
man
,
and
that
hee
had
married
the
daughter
of
one
Robinson
in
Irkinburge
,
where
his
wife
at
the
time
of
his
Examination
remained
?
Hee
added
also
,
he
had
beene
married
vnto
her
twelue
yeers
,
and
that
hee
had
by
her
six
children
.
Hee
said
hee
was
by
condition
a
Farmer
,
and
that
hee
came
to
Towne
,
to
mooue
the
Lord
Vaux
,
that
himselfe
might
be
Tenant
to
his
Lordship
,
for
a
certaine
house
and
land
lying
in
Irkinburge
,
where
his
wife
,
Robinsons
daughter
,
remained
.
But
this
fellow
,
after
,
vpon
some
remorce
of
conscience
,
or
fearing
lest
his
condition
and
estate
might
by
some
other
meanes
bee
discouered
,
doth
of
himselfe
offer
to
manifest
vnto
his
Grace
,
his
condition
and
profession
;
vnto
which
,
as
it
were
on
a
second
examination
,
he
is
admitted
;
and
then
acknowledged
,
That
for
the
space
of
six
yeeres
,
hee
was
brought
vp
in
the
Colledge
of
Rome
;
and
that
there
hee
took
the
orders
of
Priest-hood
,
according
to
the
manner
of
that
Church
;
and
that
from
thence
,
some
12
yeeres
since
,
hee
was
sent
by
mission
into
England
,
where
by
F.
Garnet
hee
was
admitted
into
the
Society
of
Iesus
:
hee
acknowledgeth
also
,
that
his
name
was
Tho.
Cornford
,
and
so
subscribed
the
same
the
second
time
,
after
that
before
hee
had
subsigned
by
the
name
of
Iohn
Vnderwood
.
Will
you
vnderstand
how
this
ingenuous
Iesuite
did
conciliate
such
contrary
sayings
of
his
?
Thus
hee
performed
his
part
:
a
married
man
,
his
meaning
was
,
that
his
wife
was
his
Breuiarie
,
and
that
hee
had
beene
married
vnto
it
12.
yeeres
:
as
for
his
children
had
by
Robinsons
daughter
,
those
were
his
ghostly
and
spirituall
children
.
The
reason
why
hee
called
himselfe
a
Farmer
,
was
,
because
hee
was
so
to
God
,
according
to
that
Text
,
Redde
rationem
villicationis
tuae
:
Giue
an
account
of
thy
Farmer-ship
.
The
reason
why
hee
said
,
hee
came
to
take
a
Farme
of
the
L.
Vaux
,
was
,
because
hee
was
ready
to
doe
him
any
seruice
for
the
spirituall
tilling
of
his
soule
.
Read
D.
Sheldons
book
of
the
Miracles
of
Antichrist
,
page
28.
where
you
may
read
of
another
holy
brother
of
the
Ignatian
society
,
who
did
in
the
same
sort
wilfully
p●…ure
himselfe
.
Thus
much
for
my
present
occasion
,
by
way
of
declaration
,
what
wholesome
vse
(
by
Gods
grace
)
I
haue
made
of
the
noxious
and
balefull
weeds
that
grow
in
the
Papall
garden
;
whereof
,
through
my
owne
vanity
and
leuity
,
hauing
taken
some
taste
,
it
hath
pleased
God
to
turn
those
poysons
into
an
Antidote
,
happy
for
my selfe
,
and
(
as
I
hope
)
not
vnfruitfull
for
others
.
But
first
,
I
am
not
ignorant
,
that
some
particulars
related
by
mee
,
are
like
to
procure
mee
the
hatred
,
and
perhaps
,
some
malicious
machinations
of
those
that
thought
to
hold
me
in
perpetuall
captiuity
.
But
I
protest
to
God
,
that
as
I
haue
in
sincerity
of
heart
,
without
malicious
inuenting
,
or
adding
any
thing
,
giuen
account
of
those
passages
that
came
to
my
knowledge
:
so
I
doe
not
hate
the
person
of
any
of
those
,
who
haue
pretended
to
haue
beene
my
Instructers
while
I
remained
with
them
;
but
wish
to
them
,
as
vnto
my
owne
soule
,
a
sight
of
those
corruptions
&
errours
,
wherein
they
are
deepely
dyed
,
and
whereof
they
did
cast
some
tincture
vpon
me
;
&
also
an
acknowledgement
of
Gods
Truth
resplendent
in
the
Scriptures
,
a
forsaking
and
abominating
of
that
pernicious
trade
,
of
beeing
Factors
and
Brokers
for
the
Papacie
:
The
superstitions
and
tyrannies
whereof
,
I
maruaile
,
if
they
see
not
;
and
I
much
more
mourn
,
if
,
seeing
&
inwardly
acknowledging
,
yet
they
should
entertaine
and
practise
,
for
the
keeping
the
poore
Lay-people
in
awe
,
which
I
take
to
bee
one
of
the
chiefest
Arcana
Imperij
,
secrets
of
State
,
for
the
maintenance
of
their
religion
.
Secondly
,
I
hold
my selfe
bound
in
conscience
,
vpon
the
sight
of
mine
owne
error
,
and
consideration
of
the
scandall
which
I
haue
iustly
giuen
,
to
make
publick
protestation
of
my
recouery
,
with
vnfained
and
hnmble
submission
vnto
our
reuerend
Mother
the
Church
of
England
(
the
most
orthodox
and
pure
Church
now
extant
in
the
world
,
and
most
suitable
vnto
the
Apostolick
and
Primitiue
times
,
both
for
faith
and
discipline
)
.
Before
her
feet
I
prostrate
my selfe
with
deepe
sorrow
of
heart
,
that
I
haue
through
rashnes
of
heart
,
discontent
,
or
any
other
mis-guiding
passion
,
played
the
run-away
out
of
her
family
and
obedience
.
Wherein
my
fault
is
farre
the
greater
,
forasmuch
as
I
,
by
that
calling
which
shee
hath
vouchsafed
mee
(
although
vnworthy
)
in
her
family
,
ought
to
haue
beene
a
guid●
vnto
others
,
to
keepe
their
feet
in
the
waies
of
Truth
and
Peace
.
I
implore
her
motherly
indulgence
,
to
open
her
lap
to
mee
,
her
wandring
returning
childe
,
and
to
vouchsafe
mee
such
pardon
and
absolution
,
as
the
power
of
the
Keyes
which
she
hath
receiued
from
our
Sauiour
,
doth
afford
and
extend
vnto
penitent
Delinquents
.
Nor
did
I
think
it
sufficient
,
to
doe
this
by
a
simple
profession
of
the
cure
of
my
vnderstanding
;
but
I
also
held
it
necessary
for
mee
to
adde
a
manifestation
of
such
particular
meanes
as
I
best
knew
to
bee
vsed
by
our
aduersaries
,
as
stratagems
to
besiege
vs
,
and
snares
to
intrap
vs
.
Whereupon
it
may
perhaps
please
some
to
whom
that
care
belongeth
,
to
make
vse
euen
of
these
slender
informations
,
for
the
preuenting
of
future
mischiefs
in
that
kinde
,
now
growne
very
farre
against
the
Church
of
England
.
Thirdly
,
it
behooued
me
not
to
be
forgetfull
of
the
bond
of
nature
,
and
of
that
duty
which
I
owe
to
my
aged
Father
,
a
Minister
in
the
Diocesse
of
Exon.
whose
righteous
soule
hath
been
vexed
with
my
infamous
deuiation
;
whose
fatherly
care
and
paines
toward
mee
,
euen
then
when
I
most
forgot
him
,
and
my selfe
,
hath
not
beene
wanting
in
his
writing
to
me
diuers
Letters
of
Argument
and
exhortation
:
which
,
together
with
other
meanes
,
concurring
with
Gods
mercy
,
haue
beene
the
loud
Calls
that
haue
pierced
my
eares
,
and
made
mee
look
back
,
and
withdraw
my
foot
out
of
the
horrible
mire
and
clay
wherein
I
stuck
.
Euen
of
him
,
whom
aboue
others
I
haue
deepely
offended
,
I
humbly
craue
fatherly
pardon
and
blessing
,
not
onely
secretly
in
my
heart
,
but
more
publikely
and
authentically
thus
vnder
my
hand
.
What
a
great
debt
lyeth
vpon
mee
,
not
onely
in
regard
of
my
first
beeing
;
my
education
especially
in
learning
,
and
fitting
mee
for
the
Ministery
,
by
his
care
and
cost
,
but
also
for
the
reparation
of
that
discontent
which
hee
hath
iustly
taken
at
my
obliquity
!
All
that
I
can
promise
and
vowe
,
with
the
assistance
of
Gods
grace
,
is
,
that
I
hope
to
pay
double
in
future
comforts
,
for
that
which
I
haue
run
arrerage
by
procuring
fatherly
sorrowes
.
Faxit
Deus
.
Lastly
,
to
touch
again
on
that
string
which
before
I
haue
struck
,
but
neuer
can
sound
too
oft
:
This
streaming
of
my
pen
from
the
fountaine
of
my
heart
,
runs
that
course
,
whither
all
things
else
ought
to
tend
,
euen
into
the
Ocean
of
Gods
glory
exalted
by
his
Mercy
,
in
reaching
out
his
helping
hand
to
such
miserable
creatures
as
my self
,
intangled
in
danger
,
&
ready
to
tumble
into
perdition
.
To
his
glorious
name
I
offer
vp
my self
,
my
soule
&
body
,
as
a
liuely
reasonable
sacrifice
,
vowing
to
bend
al
my
faculties
&
future
indeuours
,
to
the
publishing
of
his
Truth
,
&
to
the
setting
forward
,
by
word
,
and
by
example
,
that
orthodox
faith
,
and
Church
,
which
I
haue
wickedly
contemn'd
.
And
in
special
,
I
make
oblation
of
my
particular
thanksgiuing
,
as
a
repeated
Morning
and
Euening
Sacrifice
,
for
the
double
deliuerance
vouchsafed
mee
;
the
one
Corporall
,
&
concerning
this
life
;
which
in
me
,
beyond
expectation
and
naturall
reason
,
was
prolonged
,
when
I
was
saued
,
tanquam
torris
erutus
e
flamma
,
I
meane
,
in
that
generall
and
wofull
downfall
at
the
Blackfryers
,
wherein
many
lesse
sinners
then
my selfe
breathed
their
last
.
The
other
deliuerance
is
spirituall
,
beeing
in
some
sort
a
child
of
that
mother
,
as
proceeding
from
the
due
cogitation
of
the
other
;
I
meane
,
the
loosing
of
my
bands
,
the
vnfettering
of
my
heart
&
soule
from
the
Babylonian
captiuity
,
the
dispelling
of
that
cloud
of
Romish
errors
,
which
obscu●ed
,
though
not
wholy
extinguished
the
light
of
Gods
Truth
in
me
.
There
were
(
I
know
)
that
said
vnto
mee
,
An
euill
disease
cleaueth
fast
vnto
him
:
and
now
that
hee
lyeth
,
he
shall
rise
no
more
.
But
thou
(
O
Lord
)
hast
put
a
new
song
into
my
mouth
:
Those
that
sit
yet
in
darknesse
,
shall
see
it
,
and
feare
:
For
,
The
Snare
is
broken
,
and
I
am
deliuered
.
Lord
,
establish
me
in
thy
Truth
:
thy
Word
is
Truth
.
FINIS
.