When as this villaine hath by his inchantments drawne them to his humor , being before tattered , and torne , he attireth them in goodly apparell , which he hath in keeping , and hauing thus trimmed them vp , he brings them to my maisters the Reuerend Fathers , by vnknowne wayes . And least they should be discoured , hee doth it not by day , but attends the twy-light . So they passe the night in feasts and dansings , when as the yonger sort amongst them perceiue nothing . For to this end they haue vaults , yea they haue secret places vnder ground , in imitation of those , which in old time did vowe them-selues to Venus , who gaue them-selues so brutishly to Luxurie , as Titus Liuius reports , that the Senate fearing the wrath of the Gods , did quite ruine this Stues , and Brothel-house . And thus much you may obserue of the Iesuites Porter . Where-vnto I will adde , that if happily any one seeming amazed , at this great aboundance of apparell , shall demand of them to what vse it serues , they presently answer him , that they keepe it to play Comedies . But this is not their chiefe end .

If thou beest come to enter into their Temple , be assured that thou art vnder a heauen of Iron . For thou hast ouer thy head a bloudy Mars , and not the God and Prince of Peace . Vnder thy feete thou hast as it were a hideous Gulph of hell , and a shop of Tormentours . I will represent here faithfully what I my selfe haue seene .

At Prague aboue the vault of their Temple , thou shalt finde thousands of Chaines , and scourges of Iron , according to the vse of Bohemia . On the one side are Canons placed , and a number of Muskets , and betwixt both many Lances , and Battle-axes . In the middest of the vault thou shalt see great heapes of Bullets . The like is seene in Cracouta in their temples ; I doubt not but the like is to be found in other coledges . But wil you know where to all this serues . Truely I confesse that at the beginning I found it very strange and prodigious . But behold their desseigne . The Iesuites know wel that by reason of the troubles which they haue stirred vp , & of their nottable villenies , they are in a manner generally hated of all the world , euen of the honestest men among the Papists . For they esteeme not any one , no not them of their owne relligion , so as they may gratifie the Pope , were it with the ruine and confusion of all the world , and the betraying of their owne countries . And therefore for that they are in continuall feares , by meanes of this warlike furniture they prouide in time for their safeties , for I haue heard them-selues say , they feare the like accident should fall vpon them , as did vpon the Templers , who although they were good Catholikes , yet being grown insuportable , by reason of their great Ambition , and Auarice , were by the consent of all Christian Princes , and the approbation of the Pope himselfe , all slaine and massacred almost in an instant throughout the world . They will haue their defence and armes placed in their Temples , to the end if any motiue happened , the Papists which should run to their suckers , might be speedely armed , or else if happely they of the contrary relligion should come to spoyle them , they might bee beaten downe with armes , and stones which they would throw from aboue , I would gladly know if this bee not to make a denne of theeues of the house of prayer . But you shall heare things which you will admire and detest more : for all that hath beene said are but Roses and Flowers in regard of that which followeth .

Vnder the Pauement of the Temple , in the Towne of Gratz in Stirria , and in other places , the haue Caues and prisons vnder ground , whereunto they descend by secret deuises . Thether they carry , ( like to Cacus in Virgill ) all their spoiles and treasures , and lay vp great store of Siluer . And thus not onely of their owne free will , but euen with an incredible delight , these good men make profession to be poore , supporting this pouerty with admirable patience , and cursing all such as will not make profession of pouerty as they doe , holdinge them vnworthy of so happy and sweet a crosse : they doe commonly place their treasures , directly vnder the great Altar : by this meanes in singing Masse , they do sacrifice to Mars aboue , and to Mammon vnderneath .

There is also to bee seene in these prisons vnder ground , a Store-house full of coards , swords , hatchets , pincers , fetters , boults , and ladders , which serue to mannacle , torture , and miserably to torment those which fal into the hands of such as Maxentius and Phalaris . They haue also store of Garments fit for hangmen , hats , doublets and hose , the sight or description whereof would strike terrour into any one . But alasse ! to what end do these religious men make such preparation , who say they imitate the perfect mildenes of our Sauiour ? By these instruments they make captiue the vnderstandings of their poore Shcollers , vnder their Iesuiticall tirrannie : for if they finde any one that they suspect not to be constant in the resolution which he hath taken to be a good Iesuite , or if they feare that escaping , he will discouer their secrets , they presently clap both on his heeles , and after they haue made him to endure hunger and thirst , they put him to death with most cruell torments . I inuent nothing I write the truth .

There was a yong Gentleman of an excellent spirit , at Gratz in Stirria , called I mes Clussans of the Prouince of Karneten , who hauing beene very miserably beaten with whippes , and stirrop-leathers , for a very light fault , threatninge them that hee would flye , and complaine publikely of their vniust proceeding against him , was by them put inot one of these prisons which wee haue described , from whence it is not said that hee was euer released : wee other yong Schollers which did study in the Colledge , did not doubt but that they put him to death by strange torments .

I will publish when time shall serue , this example of tiranny , the like whereof hath not beene heard , with all the circumstances , in the place of this poore Gentleman , the which hee himselfe had done if hee had liued : moreouer I will set forth to the viewe of all the world , another notable villany committed by the Iesuites of Fulda , vpon the person of one named Martin , whose father and mother , are yet liuinge in the towne of Miltemberg , or Millberg in Franconia . And how many women thinke you that these wretches haue murthered , in these Caues ? how many little infants haue they slaine ? How many young children of very rich-houses haue they stolne away ? For my part I hold it most certaine : how often haue wee poore nouices , heard the lamentations and shrikes of little Infants , their sighes and cryes , which did so moue vs to pittie , as our haire stood right vp . The most simple thought they were the soules of the departed , and for my part I knew they were of those that were newly borne , or that were newly slaine .

Finally the Iesuites to attayne vnto the soueraigne degree of their deuilish mallice , are accustomed in these places vnder-ground to make sightes pleasing vnto the Diuell , for they disguise them-selues with maskes and fearefull Attires , and causing the nouices to come to see such Tragedies , they present them-selues vnto them , casting forth horrible cryes , to try their constancie and resolution , for they doe not admit to the Study of the Magike Art , such as bee Tymerous and fearefull : But as incapable of great matters , they leaue them to the exercise of inferiour Arts , as for the most hardy , they obserue them carefully , and reserue them for the most Serious studies .

But many times such trialls succeede ill for them , as it happened at Prague in the yeare one thousand sixe hundred and two , in the month of September , For as the fiue cheefe Iesuites , were busied to terrifie their youth vnder the forme of Deuills , a sixt , a very Deuill without doubt , came among them , and did so imbrace one of these fiue disguised Diuells , as hee dyed within three dayes after . The Children talke openly of it in the Citty of Prague . These Iesuites not-with-standing without any amazement of so Tragicall an euent , comtinew still obstinately with Sacrilege , in the Study of Magike , In the knowledge whereof father Coton a French man excells all those of his sect . The French king did so much esteeme him as hee did assist alwaies at his Table , and did commonly intertayne him : wee haue seene the questions which hee propounded in the yeare one thousand six hundred and fiue , to a young Mayden that was possest at Paris , whereby his wickednesse , and the pleasure hee takes to speake with the Diuell appeareth playnly .

The Iesuits them-selues brag that hee hath a looking glasse of Astrology , wherein he made the King to see playnly what-soeuer his Maiestie desirded to know , and that there is nothing so secret , nor any thing propounded in the priuy councells of other Monarkes , which may not be seene or discouered by the meanes of this celestiall or rather diuilish glasse . It is by the endeuour of this coniuring Iesuite that the rest had promised vnto them-selues to draw vnto their party one of the greatest Princes of the Empire , although he were a Protestant , for they held him to be much giuen to the study of Magike . To such of their nouices as they haue sequestred to instruct in these Arts , they first expound vnto them the 900. propositions set vp at Rome by the Earle of Mirandola , Item Tritemius booke , with the Treatise of hidden Philosophie made by Cornelius Agrippa , Item Theophrastus touching the constellation and signes of Planets , with the Steganographia of a certaine Abbot , and lastly the Arte of Paul , for the concilliation of the reuelations . They say that Saint Iohn was very learned in this Arte , yea they make no doubt ( the which is an insupportable blaspemy ) the which I haue heard often from them-selues , and could name my authors , that Iesus Christ was a most perfect Magitian .

Thus wee haue seene what concernes the Iesuites Temple : wherevnto I will adde , that these holes and Caues vnder ground , whereof wee haue spoken , are most commonly vnder the Quier or the Galleries , & not whereas the people are accustomed to kneele . Art thou come from their Temple to their Library ? ( for at this present I will not speake any thing of their refectorie , where they eate , nor of their Chambers , nor Court dedicated for their recreation , nor of the nourishment of other Schollers which are vnder the Iesuites charge , nor yet of the methode and order which they hold in their studies , for I referre it to an other time , besides that most of these things are very well knowne from others .

Art thou come ( I say ) vnto their Liberies ? looke on the right side , thou shalt finde it richely furnished with all sorts of Authors . Their bookes are bound in Leather , or velome guilt or siluered . Those whereof the vse is ordinary , are chained to long deskes . As for their secret Library , it is onely lawfull for the Fathers to enter , and to make vse of the bookes which they desire .

They yonger Iesuites make vse of the ordinary , neither is it lawfull for them without leaue from the Regent , to extract any one word . Finally , in this Library , there is not any hereticall bookes : but onely the most approoued bookes , & all Catholikes . For as for Heretickes , they hold them vnworthy to haue any place among the rest , for that it may bee they feare they should infect and poison them . Wherefore looke vpon the left hand , thou shalt finde the bookes of these poore heretikes , all dusty and bound in ill fauoured skinnes and black parchment . Of these bookes euen the Fathers may not take any one without the permission of the Regent , and the yonger sort dare not demand them : before they haue by some Poem or other writing defamed with all sorts of Iniuries the Author which they would see .

In the middest of this Library , there is a studie full of seates diuided one from another , the feeling beeing of a Celestiall coulour . The Fathers set on the right side , and on the left they place the yonger , who notwithstanding haue receiued some Orders among them .

The other Nouices stand among the ordinary Pentioners , to the end they may obserue them , and that discoursing with them they may make accompt of the mildnesse and excellent order of the Iesuites , especially with the richest , and such as bee sole heires of some good house .