THE
ANATOMY
OF
THE
ENGLISH
NVNNERY
,
AT
LISBON
IN
PORTVGALL
.
HAVING
by
reason
of
my
Calling
beene
oftentimes
occasioned
to
trauell
beyond
the
Seas
:
it
so
chanced
that
I
was
once
(
through
diuers
accidents
)
driuen
to
haue
some
conference
with
father
Seth
,
alias
,
Ioseph
Foster
an
English
Frier
in
Lisbon
,
and
the
sole
Confessor
of
a
Couent
of
English
Nunnes
residing
in
the
same
Cittie
;
who
by
his
subtill
and
wily
fetches
inticed
me
to
abide
with
him
in
the
house
,
imploying
me
dayly
in
copying
out
certaine
Treatises
of
Obedience
,
which
hee
had
composed
for
the
Nunnes
.
And
after
a
while
hauing
depriued
mee
of
meanes
to
depart
from
him
,
by
taking
away
my
apparell
,
and
putting
me
into
a
disguized
foolish
habite
(
of
which
I
was
heartily
ashamed
)
both
hee
and
the
Abbesse
,
with
some
others
of
the
sisters
(
as
they
cal
them
)
neuer
ceased
to
vrge
me
by
deepe-dissembled
intreaties
&
perswasions
,
vntill
I
had
giuen
consent
to
become
a
holy
Brother
and
Masse-priest
in
the
house
,
for
I
had
soone
attained
to
more
skill
in
the
Rubrick
,
then
euery
shaueling
is
ordinarily
accustomed
to
haue
,
and
could
readily
[
a
](A10852-e470-b)
a
There
are
not
a
few
Fryers
and
Priests
that
haue
no
other
meanes
to
finde
their
Masse
;
and
when
they
haue
found
it
,
(
if
you
would
hang
them
)
they
are
not
able
to
construe
two
lines
of
it
.
find
out
and
know
any
Masse
by
the
great
Letter
at
the
beginning
of
it
;
and
more
then
that
,
I
could
sing
Aue
regina
,
&
Salue
Sancta
parens
,
which
is
learning
enough
in
conscience
for
any
Abbey-lubber
,
vnlesse
hee
bee
too
vnreasonable
.
So
that
now
there
wanted
nothing
to
my
taking
of
Orders
,
saue
onely
that
my
minority
and
want
of
yeeres
hindred
it
;
wherefore
in
the
meane
time
I
continued
in
writing
ouer
diuers
bookes
for
them
,
and
amongst
the
rest
,
the
Register
of
their
House
,
whereby
I
came
to
some
vnderstanding
of
their
estate
,
beginning
and
successe
vntill
this
present
,
which
for
the
satisfaction
of
the
Reader
,
I
thought
good
to
set
downe
as
briefely
as
I
could
,
before
I
proceed
any
farther
,
or
speake
of
their
manners
and
conuersation
.
First
therefore
for
the
House
.
The
Nuns
thereof
doe
challenge
(
and
indeed
truely
)
a
succession
from
the
Abbey
of
Sion
in
England
,
now
belonging
vnto
the
Earle
of
Northumber
land
,
[
b
](A10852-e540-b)
b
See
Stowes
Chronicle
at
large
.
which
house
,
together
with
another
Monasterie
of
Carthusian
Monkes
,
called
Shyne
,
beeing
both
scituated
vpon
the
Thames
,
were
erected
and
built
by
King
Henry
the
5.
at
his
returne
from
his
famous
Conquest
in
France
.
In
which
two
houses
,
he
established
an
Order
,
that
to
the
end
of
the
world
there
should
bee
an
alternate
course
of
Prayer
;
so
that
when
the
one
had
finished
their
deuotions
,
the
other
should
instantly
begin
.
And
beeing
thus
founded
,
that
of
Shyne
was
peopled
with
Carthusian
Monkes
,
&
the
other
with
Nuns
and
Friers
of
St
Brigets
Order
.
But
when
it
pleased
the
Lord
of
his
infinit
mercy
to
disperse
and
scatter
those
thicke
clouds
of
ignorance
and
Superstition
,
which
had
a
long
time
bedimmed
the
eyes
,
and
darkned
the
vnderstanding
of
our
forefathers
,
and
that
the
glorious
light
of
the
Gospell
began
to
bee
more
and
more
resplendent
in
the
latter
end
of
the
Reigne
of
King
Henry
the
8.
then
as
well
these
Houses
,
as
all
other
of
the
like
superstition
were
subuerted
,
and
abolished
,
and
the
people
of
them
either
dismissed
and
sent
home
to
their
friends
,
or
else
continuing
more
obstinately
in
their
blinde
zeale
,
exiled
;
saue
onely
some
few
who
for
withstanding
the
Kings
Supremacy
,
receiued
the
reward
of
Traitors
.
Amongst
which
Father
Raynolds
the
Confessor
of
these
Nunnes
was
executed
.
In
memory
of
whom
,
they
haue
painted
his
Picture
&
manner
of
execution
vpon
their
Church
walles
,
esteeming
him
as
a
holy
Martyr
amongst
them
,
as
good
as
either
[
c
](A10852-e680-b)
c
Althongh
that
Campian
,
Garnet
,
and
such
other
of
the
Iesuites
as
dyed
for
Treason
,
are
no
canonized
Saints
;
yet
are
they
beatified
by
the
Pope
,
which
is
the
highest
step
to
canonization
:
and
euery
one
of
them
is
painted
vp
in
the
Iesuites
Churches
,
with
the
Title
of
Beatus
Pater
.
St
Campian
,
or
Beatus
Pater
Henricus
Garnet
,
although
that
amongst
the
Iesuites
these
are
little
lesse
then
Saints
.
After
the
death
of
this
their
ghostly
Father
,
both
they
and
the
Carthusians
of
Shyne
,
translated
themselues
,
and
diuers
of
their
[
d
](A10852-e770-b)
d
If
they
carried
no
reliques
with
them
,
it
maketh
not
much
matter
,
for
little
worth
is
that
scull
or
dead
mans
bone
,
which
will
not
by
becomming
a
holy
relick
,
adde
something
to
the
Popes
Exchequer
.
Reliques
and
trinkets
beyond
the
Seas
into
Flanders
.
And
the
successors
of
these
banished
runnagates
,
are
now
the
onely
stumpe
which
remaineth
of
that
huge
tree
,
that
whilome
ouerspred
and
shaddowed
our
whole
Country
:
which
the
Papists
(
in
regard
these
two
houses
had
both
one
foundation
,
and
were
as
it
were
linked
and
tyed
the
one
to
the
other
)
do
hold
as
miraculous
,
and
doe
take
it
as
a
sure
signe
and
token
of
their
future
returne
from
banishment
;
[
e
](A10852-e790-b)
e
The
Register
booke
of
their
bouse
,
telleth
of
many
of
these
prophesies
which
were
spoken
by
sundry
of
the
Sisters
vpon
their
death-bed
.
nay
,
some
of
the
holiest
of
our
vnholy
Sisters
,
haue
not
doubted
(
I
thinke
in
imitation
of
the
old
Sybils
)
to
prophesie
of
another
golden
age
,
when
they
shall
againe
be
installed
in
Syon
:
but
Admiranda
canunt
,
sed
non
credenda
sorores
.
I
know
my
Sisters
at
Lisbon
for
false
prophets
in
more
things
then
one
.
In
the
meane
time
they
of
Shyne
remaine
at
Macklyn
in
the
Low-Countries
;
and
the
Nunnes
of
Syon
,
after
many
transmigrations
from
Sierick-zee
to
their
brethren
at
Macklyn
,
and
from
thence
to
Roan
,
doe
now
reside
at
Lisbon
.
And
this
shall
suffice
for
the
foundation
of
the
house
,
and
the
successe
thereof
till
this
present
.
And
now
(
by
the
way
)
it
shall
not
be
likewise
much
amisse
for
the
satisfaction
of
such
as
haue
not
been
acquainted
with
Friers
businesse
,
in
a
word
or
two
to
declare
the
originall
of
both
these
Orders
,
and
from
what
Patrons
they
first
descended
.
For
in
the
Catholique
Romane
Church
,
amongst
all
the
disordered
orders
of
swarming
Locusts
,
which
are
almost
innumerable
,
there
is
none
but
take
their
beginning
from
one
supposed
Saint
or
other
:
and
as
the
rest
,
so
these
.
For
the
Carthusians
sprung
vp
from
[
a
](A10852-e950-b)
a
Reade
Surius
vpon
the
life
of
Bruno
.
one
Bruno
in
the
kingdome
of
France
,
who
is
said
to
haue
beene
present
at
the
Funerall
of
a
certaine
Priest
reputed
for
a
holy
man
in
his
life
:
but
when
they
were
executing
the
office
of
the
dead
for
him
,
(
according
to
the
vse
of
the
Papists
)
it
seemed
they
had
beene
deceiued
in
their
imagination
.
For
when
the
Deacon
was
come
to
the
Lesson
which
beginneth
Responde
mihi
quantas
habeo
iniquitates
,
&c.
the
dead
man
suddenly
start
vp
,
and
said
,
Vocatus
sum
,
or
accufatus
sum
,
chuse
you
whether
;
whereupon
they
deferred
his
Obsequies
vntill
the
next
day
,
being
all
amazed
at
what
had
happened
;
when
proceeding
the
second
time
,
and
comming
to
the
same
words
againe
,
the
dead
body
made
answer
,
Iudicatus
sum
.
Then
the
third
time
they
began
their
Seruice
,
and
at
the
same
Responde
he
sate
vp
and
said
,
Condemnatus
sum
:
wherewith
this
Bruno
beeing
stricken
into
an
extreme
feare
,
and
much
troubled
,
to
thinke
,
that
a
man
so
generally
reputed
for
holy
,
should
yet
be
damned
;
determined
to
lead
a
most
austere
and
solitary
life
:
and
to
that
end
being
accompanied
with
a
few
others
,
whom
he
had
made
priuy
to
his
purpose
,
he
departed
to
a
desart
stupendious
mountaine
called
Carthusia
,
where
he
liued
(
as
they
say
)
in
great
regularitie
,
and
from
the
name
of
that
hill
,
they
came
to
be
called
Carthusians
;
and
to
this
day
they
pretend
more
seuerity
and
strictnesse
of
discipline
,
then
any
other
Order
of
Monks
or
Friers
what
soeuer
.
Howbeit
they
remained
not
long
in
such
solitarie
and
vnfrequented
places
,
but
by
little
and
little
obtained
their
houses
in
euery
great
Cittie
and
towne
,
as
magnificent
,
yea
and
more
sumptuous
then
their
fellow-Locusts
,
witnesse
the
Charter-house
in
London
,
which
was
once
a
Cage
of
these
vncleane
birds
.
Now
for
the
other
house
of
Syon
:
the
Nunnes
thereof
take
their
beginning
from
their
holy
mothers
[
a
](A10852-e1140-b)
a
Reade
the
reuelations
of
Saint
Briget
.
Saint
Briget
,
and
her
daughter
Saint
Katherine
.
This
Saint
Briget
was
of
the
blood
Royall
of
Suetia
;
a
woman
(
questionlesse
)
of
a
good
vnderstanding
and
singular
memory
,
howbeit
miserably
seduced
and
led
away
by
the
subtill
allurements
of
her
ghostly
father
,
by
whose
perswasions
and
counsell
,
she
went
to
Rome
as
a
Pilgrime
,
and
comming
before
the
Pope
,
she
pretended
to
haue
diuers
reuelations
from
God
;
amongst
which
,
one
was
for
the
founding
of
this
Order
of
Nunnes
,
which
was
indeed
the
chiefe
marke
,
that
both
her
ghostly
father
and
she
aymed
at
.
The
rest
of
her
pretended
inspirations
,
were
for
the
reforming
of
sundry
abuses
in
the
Church
.
Yea
,
she
spared
not
to
tell
the
Popes
holinesse
of
many
faults
in
himselfe
:
but
he
(
like
a
good
blood-hound
)
quickely
scented
her
,
and
followed
her
footing
,
till
he
plainly
perceiued
from
whom
she
was
sent
:
who
(
being
a
fellow
that
might
vpon
distaste
prooue
a
Schismatique
,
and
make
some
reuolt
in
those
remote
Countries
,
from
the
Romane
Church
)
he
thought
best
to
be
winked
at
;
and
thereupon
condescended
vnto
her
request
,
touching
the
erecting
of
a
house
of
this
Order
,
and
so
dismissed
her
.
But
she
liued
not
long
after
,
(
whether
his
Holinesse
had
procured
some
modicum
to
bee
ministred
vnto
her
or
no
,
it
is
doubtfull
)
yet
in
her
daughters
dayes
the
businesse
came
to
perfection
:
and
the
first
House
of
this
Order
was
at
a
place
called
Watsteen
in
Swethland
,
from
whence
certaine
Nunnes
were
procured
into
England
,
to
propagate
their
Rules
and
Ceremonies
in
Syon
house
,
at
the
time
when
it
was
first
built
.
The
magnificence
of
this
Couent
in
former
times
hath
beene
by
the
report
of
the
now-liuing
Nunnes
very
admirable
:
at
this
present
it
is
not
of
any
extraordinarie
repute
;
neither
are
the
people
of
it
for
birth
and
parentage
equall
to
their
predecessors
,
who
were
wont
to
bee
of
good
discent
:
whereas
now
(
saue
onely
a
few
)
they
are
Recusants
daughters
of
the
meaner
sort
,
and
silly
tender-hearted
chambermaids
,
who
haue
had
the
custodie
of
such
Seminaries
and
Iesuits
,
as
resorted
to
their
Masters
houses
in
England
,
at
such
times
as
they
haue
beene
mewed
vp
for
feare
of
Crosse
and
his
[
a
](A10852-e1290-b)
a
A
perillous
Curre
to
smell
out
a
Iesuite
,
or
a
Seminary
,
though
they
had
beene
neuer
so
closely
cooped
vp
.
Dogge
,
and
durst
not
aduenture
abroad
in
any
of
their
ruffling
disguises
,
to
seeke
out
for
more
change
of
pasture
;
(
like
fathers
Strange
the
Iesuite
)
where
,
making
a
vertue
(
or
rather
a
vice
)
of
necessitie
,
the
ghostly
children
haue
ministred
to
their
spirituall
fathers
in
all
things
.
And
by
such
meanes
hauing
gotten
a
clap
,
diuers
of
them
[
b
](A10852-e1310-b)
b
It
is
no
great
miracle
for
a
whore
to
become
a
Nunne
;
nor
for
a
Nunne
to
become
a
whore
.
become
Nunnes
.
And
with
a
rabble
of
such
like
stuffe
,
is
this
house
of
Syon
much
replenished
,
there
beeing
of
them
in
all
betweene
40.
and
50.
whereof
onely
fiue
are
strangers
,
and
the
rest
all
English
.
The
names
of
so
many
of
them
as
I
can
at
present
remember
,
I
haue
at
the
end
of
the
Booke
set
downe
,
for
the
satisfaction
of
such
as
desire
to
know
them
.
There
are
likewise
three
Friers
,
the
Confessor
and
two
more
;
and
a
simple
besotted
fellow
,
who
hath
the
title
of
a
familiar
.
And
well
may
they
call
him
so
:
for
he
will
be
drunke
familiarly
foure
or
fiue
times
euery
weeke
;
by
reason
whereof
hee
is
not
apparelled
in
any
religious
habit
,
but
goeth
like
an
ordinary
secular
man
,
to
the
end
the
House
should
be
the
lesse
scandalized
by
him
:
for
now
so
many
doe
not
take
notice
of
his
drunkennesse
as
would
,
if
they
should
see
him
in
a
religious
habite
.
And
this
is
the
whole
company
of
the
House
at
this
time
:
but
now
if
any
man
demand
,
how
and
by
what
meanes
they
are
brought
thither
;
and
by
whom
they
are
maintained
:
let
him
know
,
that
there
lurketh
in
England
an
arch-Traytour
,
one
[
a
](A10852-e1360-b)
a
This
Flood
caused
the
Iesuites
at
Lisbon
to
spend
a
great
deale
of
money
vpon
Powder
,
on
a
Festiuall
day
,
a
little
before
the
Powder-treason
in
England
should
haue
been
effected
,
thereby
to
make
experience
of
the
force
thereof
.
And
also
perswaded
one
Iohn
How
(
a
Merchant
whom
be
had
peruerted
)
and
diuers
other
Catholikes
,
to
goe
ouer
into
England
,
and
to
expect
their
redemption
there
(
as
be
called
it
)
awhile
.
Henry
Flood
a
Iesuit
,
who
is
the
chiefe
Agent
for
the
transporting
of
Nunnes
,
both
to
[
b
](A10852-e1420-b)
b
In
all
these
places
there
are
Engl●sh
Nunneries
,
but
none
that
hath
continued
euer
since
the
suppression
of
Abbots
in
England
,
saue
onely
that
at
Lisbon
.
Bruxels
,
Greueling
,
Lisbon
,
or
any
other
place
;
and
whither
he
pleaseth
to
send
them
,
thither
they
must
goe
.
If
they
haue
no
portion
,
and
perhaps
some
little
honestie
,
they
are
not
for
the
Iesuits
tooth
,
Aquila
non
capit
Muscas
,
they
must
packe
to
Greueling
,
to
the
poore
bare-footed
Clares
.
If
they
haue
a
small
portion
,
that
likes
not
the
Iebusite
neither
:
a
pound
of
butter
is
nothing
amongst
a
cure
of
hungry
Hounds
;
nec
vacat
exiguis
rebus
adesse
loui
:
then
away
they
trudge
to
Lisbon
,
where
they
are
allowed
daily
fiue
crownes
,
and
their
bread
,
and
many
a
good
almes
beside
is
often
bestowed
vpon
them
.
But
if
they
haue
a
good
round
summe
for
their
dowrie
,
ab
Inferno
nulla
est
redemptio
,
there
is
no
plucking
them
out
of
the
Iesuites
Iawes
;
they
are
stamped
for
Bruxels
,
and
thither
must
they
goe
;
where
Fitz-herbert
and
his
fellow-Iesuits
wil
quickly
dispossesse
them
of
all
worldly
cares
and
vanities
,
and
(
like
subtill
Alchymists
)
refine
them
out
of
their
siluer
and
golden
drosse
,
into
a
more
sublime
estate
and
condition
,
and
will
cherish
and
nourish
them
,
euen
in
their
owne
bosomes
:
such
a
burning
zeale
haue
they
towards
them
.
And
this
is
the
manner
after
which
our
Recusants
daughters
in
England
are
translated
into
other
Countries
,
to
take
vpon
them
the
profession
of
a
solitary
life
,
and
to
liue
in
pouerty
,
chastity
,
and
obedience
:
which
how
well
they
performe
,
I
shall
now
(
God
willing
)
in
part
declare
.
First
therefore
for
their
pouertie
,
I
meane
of
these
Nuns
of
Syon
,
and
they
professe
themselues
the
poorest
of
any
English
,
except
them
of
Saint
Clares
Order
.
It
is
well
knowne
,
that
they
haue
ten
thousand
pounds
at
vse
in
the
Towne-house
of
Antwerpe
;
a
great
part
whereof
hath
beene
giuen
them
by
sundry
deceased
Gentlemen
in
Flanders
and
Portugal
;
and
beside
their
yeerly
pension
.
Likewise
when
they
remained
in
France
,
they
had
the
custodie
of
no
small
summe
of
money
,
which
was
sent
to
them
to
keepe
for
Doctor
Lopez
the
Portugese
,
as
his
reward
for
poysoning
our
late
Queene
Elizabeth
of
famous
memorie
,
which
after
that
Traitor
(
hauing
missed
of
his
intent
)
was
executed
,
was
remitted
vnto
them
as
an
almes
,
as
the
Register-booke
of
their
house
,
(
from
whence
I
had
it
)
shameth
not
to
make
mention
.
They
haue
likewise
of
late
yeeres
,
through
the
politicke
plodding
of
their
Confessor
,
[
a
](A10852-e1640-b)
a
Sic
figulus
figulum
,
sic
&
fabrum
faber
odit
.
giuen
the
Iesuites
noses
a
wipe
of
two
thousands
pounds
,
being
the
portion
of
the
two
daughters
of
Sir
A.
B.
Viscount
M.
whom
a
Nunne
of
the
house
(
sometimes
a
Chamber-maid
of
their
fathers
)
had
inticed
from
the
Iesuites
.
For
which
,
and
some
other
like
trickes
about
a
Portugese
Gentlewoman
,
the
posteritie
of
lame
[
b
](A10852-e1650-b)
b
Ignatius
Loiola
,
a
lame
souldier
,
a
Spaniard
,
the
glorious
Patron
of
the
Popes
Ianizaries
,
the
Iesuits
Ignatius
could
almost
find
in
their
hearts
to
re-assume
their
Patrons
first
profession
,
and
vi
&
armis
to
take
reuenge
vpon
that
old
hypocriticall
Frier
,
which
durst
presume
to
be
better
studied
in
Nic.
Machiauell
then
themselues
:
yea
they
so
threatened
him
once
,
that
he
durst
not
goe
abroad
,
lest
they
should
worke
him
a
mischiefe
.
Moreouer
,
they
haue
a
daily
pension
of
5.
crowns
,
and
wheat
more
then
sufficeth
for
to
spend
in
the
House
.
They
haue
Vineyards
,
Oliue
fields
,
corn-ground
and
houses
,
to
the
value
of
foure
hundred
[
c
](A10852-e1700-b)
c
Euery
mil-reis
is
twelue
shillings
and
sixe
pence
.
mil-reis
by
the
yeere
,
which
was
the
portion
of
the
Portugese
aforesaid
,
whom
(
being
sole
heire
to
her
father
,
a
man
of
great
wealth
)
they
perswaded
to
become
a
religious
sister
in
their
Couent
.
What
should
I
speake
of
the
sale
of
their
Masses
.
I
meane
the
reuenues
in
generall
of
the
Sacristia
or
Reuestrie
?
where
,
though
there
bee
but
three
Priests
of
them
,
and
therefore
but
three
Masses
;
and
that
neuer
but
vpon
Festiuall
dayes
,
for
the
Confessor
himselfe
will
not
say
Masse
vpon
a
worke-day
,
yet
they
will
take
money
of
twenty
men
,
and
tell
euery
one
they
will
say
for
him
.
Then
haue
they
their
boxes
sent
foorth
in
the
Indian
and
Brasilian
ships
,
with
S.
Brigets
image
vpon
them
;
to
which
,
in
a
storme
the
poore
blinded
people
will
contribute
liberally
;
and
sea-men
that
go
on
such
long
voyages
will
take
vp
a
moneths
pay
or
two
aforehand
,
and
giue
it
for
Masses
to
bee
said
for
their
good
successe
.
I
haue
knowne
this
in
one
yeere
woorth
sixe
hundred
mil-reis
vnto
them
.
Diuers
other
meanes
they
haue
to
get
money
:
as
by
putting
a
good
summe
into
the
hands
of
a
couple
of
young
Merchants
,
whom
they
haue
peruerted
to
their
Religion
:
and
these
men
deale
for
them
vnder
a
colour
.
So
that
I
may
boldly
say
,
(
for
I
haue
heard
Foster
himselfe
speake
it
,
and
I
haue
partly
seene
it
)
that
all
charges
and
expences
of
the
House
being
payed
,
they
doe
yeerely
lay
vp
[
a
](A10852-e1780-b)
a
And
it
is
no
small
summe
of
money
that
he
sendeth
to
his
kindred
in
Yorkshire
,
that
are
Papists
:
but
he
will
acknowledge
none
of
them
that
are
Protestants
.
sixe
hundreth
pounds
.
For
the
siluer
that
inshrineth
their
Reliques
,
and
for
their
Church-plate
,
I
know
not
how
to
value
it
;
but
it
is
without
doubt
both
plentifull
and
massie
;
for
there
bee
few
of
their
rotten
Reliques
but
are
set
in
siluer
.
They
haue
two
armes
of
Thomas
of
Canterbury
,
notwithstanding
all
his
bones
were
burned
in
England
,
when
Popery
was
suppressed
;
so
that
they
wil
make
of
him
a
Briareus
,
or
a
centimanus
Gygas
,
as
doubtlesse
he
was
in
his
life
,
a
very
obstinate
Prelate
to
his
Prince
.
And
for
Saint
Vrsula
,
she
must
needes
bee
a
diua
triformis
,
or
a
triceps
Hecate
;
for
they
haue
one
of
her
heades
;
and
there
is
another
of
them
at
Collen
,
and
the
third
at
Rome
.
Then
haue
they
the
bones
of
S.
Briget
and
her
daughter
,
and
sundry
Reliques
of
Saint
Augustine
,
from
whose
rule
theirs
is
deriued
.
There
is
[
a
](A10852-e1910-b)
a
Beleeue
it
who
list
.
the
milke
of
our
Lady
,
the
blood
of
Hales
,
which
was
held
so
precious
in
England
;
and
(
sir
reuerence
)
there
is
a
piece
of
old
[
b
](A10852-e1940-b)
b
Although
they
cannot
abide
the
Iesuits
,
yet
they
loue
their
Gallowes
,
because
thereby
they
get
money
.
Tyborne
,
which
the
Iesuites
stole
away
out
of
England
,
because
it
had
beene
honoured
by
so
many
of
their
brethren
,
which
is
had
in
little
lesse
esteeme
then
the
holy
Crosse
:
for
(
say
they
)
as
the
Master
died
on
that
,
so
his
Disciples
died
vpon
this
.
And
these
are
all
set
in
siluer
,
and
richly
adorned
.
Then
haue
they
a
little
childs
legge
,
which
I
thinke
they
may
truly
call
as
they
doe
;
for
they
say
it
is
a
legge
of
the
Innocents
;
and
doubtlesse
so
it
is
,
for
I
could
(
if
I
were
in
the
house
)
goe
very
neere
[
c
](A10852-e1980-b)
c
Saxa
ipsa
trabésque
loquentur
.
a
place
in
a
wall
,
where
I
could
fetch
out
both
legges
and
armes
of
poore
innocent
bastards
,
which
might
euidently
proue
,
that
there
is
knauery
in
dawbing
.
And
hauing
hereby
giuen
a
sufficient
instance
of
their
pouerty
,
I
will
now
proceed
to
speake
a
little
of
their
chastitie
,
which
is
as
scarce
and
penurious
,
as
their
pouerty
is
plenteous
.
Neither
can
it
be
otherwise
;
for
they
haue
Sodoms
prouocations
to
sinne
,
Pride
,
Fulnesse
of
bread
,
and
abundance
of
Idlenesse
.
As
for
their
pride
,
though
it
bee
not
outwardly
in
gorgeous
and
curious
attire
,
yet
are
they
possessed
with
a
vain-glorious
pride
of
hypocrisie
,
and
dissembled
sanctitie
.
For
their
fulnesse
of
bread
,
who
knoweth
not
that
they
(
like
the
Caterpillers
of
Egypt
)
doe
eate
vp
the
fat
and
best
fruits
of
the
Land
?
for
what
the
purueyors
of
the
Vice-rey
haue
forsaken
in
the
Market
,
(
as
too
deare
)
I
haue
knowne
the
Cator
of
this
house
to
buy
at
vnreasonable
rates
for
their
ghostly
fathers
Table
,
and
for
such
of
his
Chickens
as
hee
most
affected
:
whose
greatest
(
and
indeed
onely
)
care
is
,
to
proue
skilfull
in
the
confection
and
dressing
of
such
dainty
cates
as
may
best
please
their
wanton
palats
.
And
well
doe
they
manifest
the
abundance
of
idlenesse
that
is
in
them
,
when
at
sundry
times
playing
vpon
their
instruments
for
their
fathers
recreation
,
they
sing
him
ribaldrous
Songs
and
jigs
,
as
that
of
Bonny
Nell
,
and
such
other
obscene
and
scurrilous
Ballads
,
as
would
make
a
chaste
eare
to
glow
at
the
hearing
of
them
,
and
which
I
would
scarce
haue
beleeued
would
haue
proceeded
out
of
their
mouthes
,
had
I
not
heard
them
with
my
owne
eares
.
And
now
againe
for
the
House
.
Whereas
all
other
Religious
Houses
are
vnder
the
Iurisdiction
of
Prouincials
of
their
owne
Order
mediatè
,
and
vnder
the
Bishop
of
the
Diocesse
immediatè
,
yet
this
is
not
subiected
to
either
:
For
as
for
a
Prouinciall
they
haue
none
,
in
regard
there
are
no
more
Houses
of
that
Order
;
neither
would
the
Arch-bishop
of
Lisbon
take
them
into
his
iurisdiction
at
their
first
comming
into
Portugall
,
fearing
lest
that
being
stranger
,
and
at
that
time
pretending
want
and
pouerty
,
he
should
afterward
be
driuen
to
sustaine
and
relieue
them
;
they
being
forbidden
to
begge
by
their
rule
.
And
so
he
put
them
off
with
a
non
noui
vos
,
telling
them
hee
neuer
knew
or
heard
that
[
a
](A10852-e2120-b)
a
At
their
first
comming
into
Lisbon
they
were
little
set
by
.
And
euery
one
maruelled
at
their
order
,
and
liuing
so
together
.
But
now
their
dissembling
hath
wonne
them
a
little
more
credit
.
frayles
y
freiras
Friers
and
Nunnes
should
keep
&
dwell
together
all
,
sub
eodem
tecto
,
vnder
the
same
roofe
.
Wherevpon
they
were
constrained
to
entertaine
that
famous
Arch-Iesuite
Father
Parsons
to
be
their
sollicitor
to
the
Pope
,
who
then
tooke
them
into
his
protection
,
and
appointed
his
nuncio
apostatico
,
resident
in
Lisbon
to
haue
the
care
and
charge
of
them
.
And
he
againe
being
bribed
and
presented
with
gifts
by
Father
Foster
,
and
dwelling
farre
from
the
house
,
is
satisfied
with
what
he
telleth
him
,
and
neuer
commeth
to
visit
the
Nunnes
,
as
he
ought
,
and
to
inquire
and
demand
their
grieuances
;
but
permitteth
him
to
play
rex
ouer
them
at
his
own
pleasure
.
Wherevpon
it
is
pittifull
and
miserable
to
behold
the
condition
of
these
silly
seduced
women
:
for
they
neither
dare
nor
can
complaine
to
any
body
,
beeing
seldome
permitted
to
speake
euen
to
them
that
are
of
the
house
as
well
as
themselues
,
but
onely
at
such
times
when
the
Abbesse
is
present
:
except
it
be
shee
that
keepeth
the
Grate
,
and
some
others
that
are
in
office
amongst
them
:
and
these
are
all
the
yonger
and
more
personable
Women
,
beeing
by
this
Fosters
politique
contriuing
so
placed
of
purpose
,
that
by
and
with
them
he
may
the
more
freely
enioy
the
scope
of
his
lasciuious
and
sacrilegious
desire
.
And
these
women
hauing
predominance
ouer
the
others
whom
want
of
beauty
and
fauour
hath
made
despicable
in
the
eyes
of
this
old
Sinon
,
doe
(
according
to
the
passionatenesse
of
their
mindes
)
more
and
more
vexe
their
poore
fellow-prisoners
.
For
it
is
the
subtiltie
of
this
perfidious
wretch
,
to
set
them
at
variance
among
themselues
,
and
to
cause
them
to
accuse
one
another
,
to
th'
intent
they
should
not
dare
to
trust
one
another
with
the
complaint
of
their
griefes
;
and
so
whilst
they
remaine
in
a
iealousie
of
each
others
secrecie
and
aide
,
they
should
neuer
be
able
to
contriue
any
meanes
to
free
themselues
from
his
thraldome
.
At
this
slay
doth
he
keep
them
:
and
not
so
content
,
hee
will
make
them
to
Article
one
against
the
other
in
writing
.
It
was
my
chance
one
day
to
finde
a
paper
of
these
Articles
in
a
walke
in
the
Friers
Garden
,
which
had
vnawares
fallen
from
him
;
being
drawne
by
one
Sister
Anne
,
alias
Iosepha
Bingham
,
against
Sister
Suzan
Bacon
:
Wherein
the
said
Sister
[
b
](A10852-e2270-b)
b
If
these
silly
oppressed
women
were
examined
by
men
of
authoritie
,
and
were
assured
to
be
free
from
such
a
tyrannous
Confessor
,
they
would
tell
of
horrible
abuses
,
Susan
stood
accused
,
for
blaming
her
ghostly
Father
,
and
the
Abbesse
and
Prioresse
of
partialitie
to
some
of
their
children
more
then
to
others
.
Also
that
she
had
vpbraided
this
sister
Iosepha
(
being
a
deare
darling
of
Father
Fosters
)
of
too
much
familiaritie
with
Father
Garnet
the
Powder
Traitor
,
[
c
](A10852-e2320-b)
c
This
Sister
Iosepha
is
a
stout
defender
of
the
miracle
in
the
Wheat
Straw
,
which
hapned
as
was
said
at
Garnets
execution
,
although
it
be
now
proued
a
very
counterfet
and
a
falselye
.
whose
carefull
keeper
shee
had
of
a
long
time
been
,
when
he
lurked
in
England
at
her
Mrs
house
.
Also
that
another
of
her
ghostly
Fathers
minions
had
a
Bastard
by
a
Priest
in
England
(
whose
name
because
she
is
lately
dead
,
I
wil
passe
ouer
in
silence
)
and
that
if
shee
had
been
a
little
more
honest
,
&
a
little
lesse
personable
,
she
should
not
haue
beene
one
of
the
vpper
Regiment
.
With
this
and
a
great
deale
more
of
such
like
stuffe
was
this
paper
farsed
;
and
with
these
and
the
like
accusations
one
of
another
are
these
silly
women
daily
busied
.
So
that
I
haue
generally
obserued
in
the
superiours
of
this
house
,
an
egregious
neglect
and
contempt
of
their
rule
and
vowed
profession
:
and
in
the
rest
,
an
extraordinarie
maligning
and
enuying
against
one
another
.
And
so
much
the
better
could
I
obserue
this
and
all
other
my
Narrations
,
by
how
much
I
grew
to
be
a
more
neere
and
dayly
attendant
about
the
Confessor
;
for
at
length
,
what
with
my
long
continuance
in
the
house
,
and
the
small
suspect
they
had
of
my
forsaking
them
,
and
what
for
want
of
one
to
serue
him
at
all
occasions
,
I
became
to
be
oftentimes
admitted
euen
into
his
priuate
house
of
iniquitie
,
where
he
vseth
to
sit
and
heare
the
Confessions
of
the
Nunnes
.
In
which
house
being
very
darke
,
there
is
a
grate
of
iron
that
looketh
into
the
Nunnes
partition
or
side
;
and
this
grate
(
howsoeuer
it
seeme
substantiall
and
firme
)
may
be
,
and
is
with
a
sleight
easily
taken
out
,
whereby
the
sisters
haue
free
egresse
and
regresse
into
his
chamber
when
they
list
,
and
hee
to
them
:
for
the
Abbesse
hath
her
bed
not
farre
from
this
Grate
,
where
there
is
also
a
chimny
so
conuenient
that
he
may
take
the
benefit
of
the
fire
into
this
his
roome
,
in
which
he
vseth
to
dine
and
sup
,
hauing
his
meat
serued
him
by
the
Nunnes
through
a
Wicket
in
the
wall
.
And
when
he
is
merrily
disposed
(
as
that
is
not
seldom
)
then
must
his
dearling
Kate
Knightley
play
him
a
merry
fit
,
and
sister
Mary
Brooke
,
or
some
other
of
his
last-come
Wags
must
sing
him
one
bawdy
song
or
other
to
digest
his
meat
.
Then
after
supper
it
is
vsuall
for
him
to
reade
a
little
of
Venus
and
Adonis
,
the
iests
of
George
Peele
,
or
some
such
scurrilous
booke
:
for
there
are
few
idle
Pamphlets
printed
in
England
which
he
hath
not
in
the
house
,
being
either
brought
ouer
to
his
sonne
Peter
,
the
drunken
Familiar
aforesaid
,
by
Sea-men
:
or
else
hapning
into
the
hands
of
Father
Newman
an
English
Priest
,
who
hath
an
office
in
the
Inquisition
house
to
peruse
all
English
books
that
are
brought
into
Lisbon
.
And
hee
,
I
trust
,
shall
haue
the
sight
of
this
,
wherein
if
he
vse
a
good
conscience
,
hee
must
needs
testifie
with
mee
the
truth
of
many
things
herein
contained
;
for
he
is
one
that
knoweth
more
of
these
people
then
any
but
themselues
,
or
some
that
haue
liued
amongst
them
.
If
I
should
repeat
all
their
vnchaste
practises
,
I
should
make
the
Christian
Reader
blush
at
them
:
or
if
I
should
tell
of
all
the
obscene
bawdry
which
I
haue
seene
,
I
might
recount
as
many
irreligious
prankes
as
would
fill
a
great
Volume
:
but
it
shall
suffice
for
the
skilfull
by
the
length
of
their
foot
,
to
iudge
of
the
proportion
of
their
whole
body
.
And
now
for
their
Obedience
,
beeing
the
third
and
last
part
of
their
Vow
;
I
will
not
goe
about
to
vse
any
Theologicall
Definitions
or
proofes
to
tell
what
Obedience
is
,
and
how
it
ought
to
be
performed
;
for
it
is
beyond
my
element
,
and
the
Coblers
checke
shall
be
my
warning
,
I
will
not
goe
vltra
crepidam
:
but
as
I
first
determined
,
so
I
will
proceed
;
that
is
,
to
declare
in
what
sort
they
performe
their
vow
of
obedience
;
referring
it
to
the
censure
of
the
iudicious
,
whether
they
do
wel
or
no.
It
is
certain
that
these
silly
women
thus
muzzled
in
blindnesse
,
doe
liue
in
very
seruile
obedience
vnto
their
Superiours
;
and
,
in
such
sort
,
that
without
standing
to
discusse
or
examine
the
thing
that
is
commanded
them
whether
it
be
lawfull
or
no
,
they
will
readily
performe
it
.
For
their
ghostly
father
hath
composed
sundry
Treatises
for
them
of
Obedience
,
wherein
hee
pronounceth
no
lesse
then
damnation
for
the
least
scruple
or
hesitation
in
the
performance
of
their
Superiours
commands
.
And
here
let
me
tell
the
aforesaid
[
d
](A10852-e2520-b)
d
It
behooueth
father
Newman
for
his
own
credit
to
looke
to
this
.
The
like
also
hath
he
done
with
certaine
meditations
vpon
the
Passion
,
which
hee
requested
Father
Iohn
Kensington
an
English
Iesuite
at
St
Rocks
in
Lisbon
to
peruse
and
approue
;
beeing
gelded
likewise
as
the
other
bookes
of
Obedience
were
.
Father
Newman
what
a
tricke
his
old
friend
Foster
hath
put
vpon
him
,
which
is
this
:
Hauing
made
these
bookes
of
Obedience
,
he
caused
mee
to
write
them
out
faire
,
omitting
in
many
places
a
Leafe
,
and
in
some
two
or
three
together
,
which
contained
any
false
doctrine
and
vnallowable
perswasions
to
draw
them
to
obedience
in
vnlawfull
things
;
and
being
finished
in
this
sort
,
he
bringeth
them
to
Father
Newman
to
be
signed
with
his
approbation
and
testimonie
,
that
there
was
nothing
in
them
repugnant
to
the
Catholique
saith
;
which
beeing
done
,
hee
then
interserreth
and
soweth
in
the
aforesaid
omitted
Leaues
,
and
so
deliuereth
them
to
his
daughters
to
be
practised
,
who
take
the
approbation
at
the
end
of
the
booke
for
a
sufficient
warrantie
of
all
the
doctrine
therein
contained
.
And
this
is
a
principall
furtherance
to
his
sacrilegious
lusts
:
for
I
am
verily
perswaded
that
not
one
amongst
them
will
(
for
feare
of
being
disobedient
)
refuse
to
come
to
his
bed
whensouer
he
commands
them
:
and
that
they
doe
so
,
I
haue
manifestly
seene
and
knowne
.
For
when
I
haue
been
his
Chamberlain
in
the
absence
and
times
of
drunkennes
of
the
familiar
aforesaid
;
hauing
a
Key
to
the
Chamber
doore
,
[
e
](A10852-e2610-b)
e
They
forgate
the
old
caueat
,
Cauté
si
non
casté
.
I
haue
come
sometimes
vnawares
early
in
a
morning
,
when
one
might
haue
seene
as
great
a
miracle
as
Scoggin
spake
off
when
he
tooke
a
Frier
a
bed
with
a
Whore
,
&
called
out
to
see
a
wonder
,
viz.
a
Frier
with
foure
legges
.
And
now
I
will
a
little
digresse
to
aske
a
question
of
my
Ignatians
,
who
are
the
chiefe
teachers
and
allowers
of
equiuocation
and
mentall
euasion
;
whether
these
kinde-hearted
soules
being
professed
Nunnes
,
and
hauing
vowed
neuer
to
come
ouer
the
threshold
,
did
breake
their
Vow
or
no
,
in
comming
thorow
a
grate
?
If
they
say
they
did
:
why
,
their
ghostly
father
will
dispence
with
their
Vow
:
but
if
they
say
they
did
not
;
(
as
I
thinke
they
will
)
what
then
?
Marry
I
thinke
that
when
their
blacke
Synagogues
at
Rome
,
Valladolid
and
Siuill
doe
send
forth
their
Locusts
into
England
,
and
they
chance
to
bait
by
the
way
at
Lisbon
,
as
they
doe
oftentimes
:
they
deserue
to
enter
commons
with
old
father
Seth
for
their
legittimation
of
the
action
.
And
to
the
end
that
no
man
should
doubt
,
but
a
Iesuite
hath
a
carnall
affection
,
as
well
as
a
spirituall
,
to
any
of
his
ghostly
children
,
it
shall
not
be
amisse
to
intersert
a
merry
Tale
for
the
Readers
recreation
of
one
father
Strange
an
English
Iesuite
,
as
it
was
reported
for
[
f
](A10852-e2740-b)
f
Inter
caenandum
bilares
este
.
table-talke
by
a
Nun
of
this
house
to
her
ghostly
father
;
she
hauing
then
beene
a
chamber-maid
in
the
place
where
it
was
done
.
This
Father
Strange
was
a
yong
man
,
and
had
been
lately
before
profest
and
priested
among
the
Iesuites
:
and
being
come
of
good
friends
,
and
tenderly
brought
vp
in
England
,
he
fell
very
sick
shortly
after
his
profession
,
perhaps
by
reason
of
the
vnwholesomnesse
of
the
aire
which
neither
at
Rome
nor
Valladolid
is
very
pleasant
:
wherevpon
hee
obtained
licence
of
the
Rector
to
goe
into
England
,
where
he
hoped
both
to
recouer
his
health
,
and
to
employ
his
talent
of
Priesthood
,
for
the
reducing
of
Heretiques
to
the
Catholique
Church
of
Rome
.
And
being
arriued
,
he
took
vp
this
Nunnes
Ladies
Chamber
for
one
of
his
places
of
rendezvous
:
where
it
so
fell
out
,
that
as
this
sister
Anne
(
for
that
is
her
name
)
sate
sowing
with
her
backe
to
her
Ladies
backe
and
the
Iesuites
,
who
were
sitting
by
the
fire
,
shee
chanced
to
looke
vpon
a
great
Looking-glasse
which
hung
right
before
her
,
wherein
she
espyed
what
paines
the
late
sicke
Iesuite
tooke
to
shriue
her
Lady
:
neither
had
he
ended
his
shrift
,
before
he
also
espied
her
looking
in
the
Glasse
;
and
suspecting
that
shee
had
seene
all
,
(
as
indeed
shee
had
)
[
g
](A10852-e2880-b)
g
Shee
might
haue
knowne
by
this
,
what
she
should
trust
to
when
she
was
a
Nunne
:
but
it
seemes
she
was
as
good
as
her
Mistresse
:
and
I
am
sure
that
her
Father
Foster
is
a
good
as
the
Iesuite
.
he
tooke
her
aside
in
priuate
,
and
told
her
that
he
was
flesh
and
bloud
,
and
could
abstaine
no
more
then
another
man
,
although
at
his
profession
he
had
vowed
chastitie
:
and
vsing
many
perswasions
to
win
her
to
be
secret
,
he
promised
her
,
that
if
she
stood
in
need
of
a
ghostly
father
to
absolue
her
from
any
of
her
sweet
sinnes
,
(
as
he
called
these
)
he
would
be
the
man
should
doe
it
;
neither
should
her
penance
be
ouer-burthensome
vnto
her
.
By
which
may
appeare
both
the
carnall
affection
of
a
Iesuite
,
and
the
chaste
and
sober
conuersation
of
a
profest
Nunne
,
and
her
ghostly
father
:
of
the
Iesuit
in
doing
it
;
of
her
,
in
not
shaming
to
tell
it
as
a
tale
for
recreation
;
and
of
the
old
fornicator
,
in
making
himselfe
merry
at
the
hearing
of
it
;
yea
,
and
reporting
it
againe
in
his
iolly
humors
to
my selfe
,
and
one
Father
Viuian
a
Frier
of
the
house
;
among
a
great
sort
of
such
like
inuectiues
which
he
vsed
against
the
Iesuits
,
because
,
a
little
before
I
came
away
,
they
went
about
(
if
it
had
beene
possible
)
to
extrude
the
succession
of
any
more
Friers
in
the
House
,
and
to
bring
it
vnder
their
gouernement
;
which
I
beleeue
they
will
ere
long
effect
.
For
I
was
told
by
an
English
Iesuite
at
the
Court
of
Spaine
,
that
father
Foster
is
bound
vnto
the
Iesuites
,
neuer
to
ordaine
any
more
Friers
in
the
house
,
that
so
for
want
of
successors
it
may
of
force
fall
into
their
hands
;
and
vpon
this
condition
the
Iesuites
permit
him
to
liue
quietly
;
which
,
if
hee
should
not
obserue
,
they
would
quickly
informe
against
him
of
sundry
of
his
prankes
which
they
know
well
inough
.
And
if
this
be
so
,
(
as
like
it
is
)
the
Nunnes
haue
no
knowledge
thereof
,
for
hee
feedeth
them
with
hope
of
making
new
brothers
,
which
they
seeme
earnestly
to
wish
for
:
[
a
](A10852-e2950-b)
a
The
Nunnes
thought
surely
it
should
be
so
,
and
if
he
did
not
meane
so
,
yet
I
was
loth
to
trust
to
it
,
in
regard
of
his
daily
earnestnesse
with
me
concerning
that
matter
.
and
they
would
often
tell
me
,
they
hoped
ere
long
to
see
me
a
profest
brother
of
the
Couent
:
but
it
pleased
God
to
dispose
better
for
me
,
and
not
to
suffer
me
to
bee
any
longer
lulled
in
sinne
and
superstition
:
for
after
I
had
beene
two
yeeres
and
an
halfe
with
them
,
I
found
a
meanes
to
free
my selfe
from
them
,
before
I
had
made
any
profession
or
vow
of
religion
either
to
that
or
any
other
Order
:
for
I
plainely
saw
,
that
these
were
led
by
a
wrong
guide
,
who
was
so
deepe
plunged
,
and
had
continued
so
long
in
all
wickednesse
and
dissembling
,
that
hee
was
growne
insensible
of
sinne
;
according
to
that
saying
,
Consuetudo
peccandi
,
tollit
sensum
peccati
.
For
he
shamed
not
,
vnder
pretext
of
Religion
,
to
perswade
a
young
man
,
a
Merchant
in
Lisbon
(
one
How
doe
you
call
him
)
to
defraud
his
[
b
](A10852-e2990-b)
b
These
two
brethren
are
both
liuing
in
Lisbon
at
this
present
,
and
well
knowne
to
most
Englishmen
that
vse
Portugall
.
owne
elder
brother
of
his
estate
;
which
matter
was
thus
effected
.
These
two
brethren
were
by
profession
Iewellers
,
and
aduentured
their
stocke
ioyntly
together
:
the
yonger
brother
(
for
that
hee
was
a
Bachelor
)
being
Factor
for
it
beyond
the
seas
.
At
length
hauing
made
many
good
returnes
,
hee
tooke
vp
his
abode
in
Lisbon
,
as
a
place
most
conuenient
for
his
Trade
;
and
falling
into
familiarity
with
this
Father
Foster
,
and
Father
Flood
a
Iesuite
,
who
then
liued
in
Lisbon
,
they
perswaded
him
to
become
a
Romane
Catholique
,
and
so
soone
as
he
could
get
his
brothers
Stock
againe
into
his
hands
,
to
professe
himselfe
such
;
which
he
accordingly
did
:
and
so
(
being
instructed
by
them
,
that
it
was
meritorious
to
coozen
an
Heretique
,
as
they
account
all
Protestants
)
defrauded
his
brother
,
and
would
come
to
no
accompts
with
him
,
relying
vpon
the
supportation
of
these
Hypocrites
,
on
whom
he
bestowed
liberall
almes
;
giuing
them
many
faire
pictures
for
their
Church
,
and
a
horse
of
twenty
mil-reis
price
,
to
fetch
home
their
prouisions
to
the
House
,
besides
diuers
other
things
:
whilst
in
the
meane
time
his
brother
was
vndone
,
and
could
get
nothing
at
his
hands
by
Law
,
in
regard
hee
was
a
Protestant
.
Whereupon
hee
was
faine
to
petition
in
England
for
redresse
many
times
,
and
yet
could
not
preuaile
to
recouer
any
thing
:
yea
,
he
refused
to
come
into
his
owne
Country
,
or
to
obey
the
command
of
the
Councell
,
in
giuing
satisfaction
for
what
hee
had
in
his
hands
.
At
length
the
Lord
Rosse
comming
Ambassadour
into
Spaine
,
and
staying
by
the
way
at
Lisbon
,
(
where
he
landed
)
decided
the
matter
betwixt
them
;
and
articles
of
agreement
were
drawne
by
Father
Newman
,
which
my selfe
afterward
wrote
out
faire
for
them
:
the
tenour
whereof
was
this
in
effect
:
That
either
of
the
brothers
should
by
a
day
prefixed
,
bring
in
a
iust
accompt
of
all
debts
due
vnto
them
,
as
likewise
of
all
debts
which
either
of
them
ought
:
also
that
they
should
bring
in
all
such
moneys
and
goods
as
did
any
way
as
their
owne
belong
vnto
them
:
and
that
they
should
both
depose
and
sweare
,
that
they
had
truly
laid
open
their
estates
.
And
this
being
done
,
their
debts
which
they
ought
,
were
to
be
payed
out
of
the
whole
summe
,
and
the
debts
which
were
owing
to
them
,
were
to
be
added
vnto
it
;
and
so
they
to
share
equally
betwixt
them
whatsoeuer
remained
,
that
by
this
meanes
their
estates
might
be
both
alike
.
Now
a
few
dayes
before
this
was
to
be
put
in
effect
,
the
yonger
brother
knowing
his
estate
to
be
farre
better
then
the
others
,
commeth
very
pensiuely
to
his
ghostly
Father
old
Foster
for
counsell
;
who
instructed
him
to
come
to
the
Abbesse
,
and
some
other
of
the
sisters
at
their
Grate
,
where
they
vse
to
talke
with
strangers
,
and
there
to
tell
them
that
he
was
weary
of
the
troubles
and
vexations
which
attended
a
Merchants
life
,
and
therfore
he
would
renounce
the
world
,
and
become
a
religious
man
:
and
seeing
that
God
had
bestowed
sufficient
wealth
vpon
him
,
he
could
not
do
better
,
then
to
impart
it
to
them
;
being
such
holy
Saints
as
had
preferred
that
kind
of
life
in
a
strange
country
,
before
all
worldly
contents
in
their
owne
.
And
thereupon
at
his
fained
request
,
they
sent
their
horse
to
his
house
,
and
had
him
laden
backe
with
plate
,
iewels
and
money
,
which
my selfe
helped
to
take
from
the
horse-backe
,
and
carry
into
Fosters
Cell
.
He
had
likewise
at
that
time
a
great
quantity
of
Cochenill
in
sundry
bagges
,
being
at
least
foureteene
or
fifteene
hundred
waight
,
amounting
to
no
small
summe
of
money
,
which
he
had
a
little
before
bought
of
the
Indian
Fleet
,
who
that
yeere
,
and
about
that
time
put
into
Lisbon
;
and
this
was
brought
into
the
Nunnery
by
night
out
of
the
shippes
,
to
defraud
the
King
of
his
right
,
and
was
vnder
a
colour
,
together
with
the
other
things
,
giuen
to
the
Sisters
of
the
House
.
By
which
dealing
he
so
imbezeled
his
estate
,
that
when
his
brother
and
he
came
to
an
accompt
,
there
remained
little
or
nothing
for
him
to
receiue
;
being
by
this
means
defrauded
of
all
hee
should
haue
had
.
When
as
presently
after
this
conclusion
was
made
betweene
them
,
Father
Foster
and
the
Abbesse
send
for
their
ghostly
child
,
giuing
him
thankes
for
the
good
wil
he
had
to
bestow
his
estate
vpon
them
:
but
they
told
him
,
(
as
was
before
determined
)
that
so
much
money
and
wealth
was
an
hinderance
to
their
deuotion
;
and
therefore
they
requested
him
to
haue
it
away
againe
:
to
which
he
soone
condescended
;
telling
them
,
that
now
also
his
chiefest
troubles
were
ouerpast
,
(
meaning
,
because
hee
had
done
with
his
brother
)
and
that
he
perceiued
it
was
not
Gods
will
to
make
him
so
happy
,
as
(
such
another
youth
)
Father
Nicholas
Price
,
who
awhile
before
,
of
a
Merchant
,
became
a
Dominican
Frier
:
and
therefore
hee
would
liue
as
aforetimes
;
and
when
he
died
,
hee
would
bequeath
all
hee
had
to
the
Church
:
and
thereupon
tooke
home
all
his
estate
againe
,
after
he
had
by
these
aequiuocations
and
euasions
,
defrauded
his
brother
.
And
now
lest
this
Treatise
should
rise
to
an
ouer-bigge
Volume
,
I
will
hasten
to
an
end
,
after
I
haue
in
a
few
words
set
downe
the
manner
of
my
departure
from
them
,
which
was
thus
:
After
I
had
continued
with
them
for
the
space
of
two
yeeres
and
an
halfe
,
and
had
plainly
perceiued
,
that
all
their
outward
shew
of
holinesse
was
nothing
but
dissimulation
,
hypocrisie
and
lustfull
sacriledge
,
I
began
to
consider
in
what
a
miserable
estate
I
should
be
,
if
God
should
at
that
time
call
me
out
of
the
world
;
for
I
could
well
say
with
the
Poet
,
Video
meliora
,
proboque
,
deterior
a
sequor
,
I
saw
and
allowed
of
the
best
way
,
yet
followed
the
worst
:
at
length
the
feare
of
my
soules
health
,
and
a
naturall
affection
to
my
kindred
and
countrey
so
wrought
with
me
,
that
I
waxed
resolute
in
my
determination
of
forsaking
them
:
but
not
knowing
how
to
effect
my
purpose
without
hazard
of
my
life
,
(
for
they
would
haue
poysoned
me
,
if
they
had
knowne
I
would
haue
gone
from
them
,
because
I
should
not
bewray
their
secrets
)
it
came
in
my
mind
to
draw
out
certaine
Articles
in
manner
of
an
information
against
them
,
which
I
thought
to
exhibite
to
the
chiefe
Inquisitors
of
the
Citie
.
And
this
might
haue
beene
very
dangerous
vnto
me
,
if
they
should
not
haue
proceeded
according
to
Equitie
;
of
which
I
was
doubtful
,
fearing
that
[
a
](A10852-e3240-b)
a
Reade
Musgraue
his
Motiues
,
for
forsaking
the
Carthusian
Monkes
,
and
Romish
Religion
after
he
had
bin
20.
yeeres
professed
.
many
great
men
of
other
Monasteries
(
being
perhaps
in
the
same
predicament
)
would
haue
stopped
the
course
of
Iustice
,
propter
honorem
Monastica
vitae
,
for
the
credit
of
a
Monasticall
life
,
as
is
many
times
done
:
yet
notwithstanding
I
was
resolued
to
vndertake
this
course
,
and
had
prouided
my
Articles
,
which
were
these
:
1.
That
Father
Seth
,
alias
Ioseph
Foster
,
the
Confessor
of
the
English
Nunnes
of
Saint
Brigets
Order
in
Lisbon
,
did
compell
diuers
youths
his
countrimen
,
against
their
wils
to
remaine
with
him
in
the
house
:
who
if
they
had
any
good
affection
to
the
Romish
Catholike
faith
before
they
came
there
,
were
soone
brought
into
dislike
of
it
,
by
reason
of
the
ill
gouernement
which
is
vsed
in
the
house
.
And
of
this
sort
I
could
haue
instanced
in
twenty
,
who
within
a
few
yeeres
haue
beene
recorded
in
their
Register
booke
,
for
Apostate
runne-awayes
.
2.
He
would
daily
without
any
companion
goe
into
the
Nunnes
Cloister
or
Side
,
and
remaine
there
halfe
a
day
together
,
yea
and
sometime
,
sit
and
dine
at
their
Table
with
them
:
but
euery
day
in
their
sight
,
which
is
expressely
against
their
Rule
.
And
this
I
could
haue
prooued
by
the
testimonie
of
diuers
Portugeses
our
neighbours
,
who
frequenting
the
house
,
haue
oftentimes
obserued
and
seene
him
going
in
,
and
comming
foorth
;
and
haue
spoken
of
it
to
my selfe
and
others
.
Also
the
Nunnes
themselues
would
haue
auouched
it
vpon
their
examinations
.
3.
He
hath
in
his
Cell
,
where
he
heareth
their
confession
,
a
Grate
,
which
I
can
shew
how
he
vseth
to
take
downe
with
a
sleight
,
thorow
which
the
Nunnes
passe
to
his
bed
by
night
.
And
for
the
further
auouching
of
this
,
I
would
haue
brought
in
the
drunken
familiar
aforesaid
,
who
will
many
times
in
his
drinke
,
tell
how
he
helped
to
make
it
firme
,
against
a
time
when
there
was
a
Visitation
intended
by
the
Popes
Nuncio
,
and
expected
by
them
of
the
House
,
although
it
was
not
performed
.
4.
That
in
many
yeeres
past
there
neuer
came
any
Visitor
to
the
House
,
to
examine
and
vnderstand
their
grieuances
:
neither
haue
they
any
Confessor
extraordinarie
,
as
all
other
Religious
haue
,
to
whom
they
might
freely
complaine
of
their
Superiours
oppressions
.
And
this
needed
small
proofe
,
for
it
would
soone
haue
beene
apparant
enough
of
it selfe
.
5.
Through
his
politique
plotting
,
he
causeth
whom
he
list
to
be
elected
Abbesse
,
(
for
they
hold
their
places
but
three
yeeres
)
and
her
to
dispose
of
the
House
as
he
thinketh
good
.
This
also
the
Nunnes
themselues
would
quickly
complaine
of
,
if
they
had
one
to
heare
their
complaint
.
6.
That
my selfe
(
being
diuers
times
called
into
the
Nunnes
partition
or
side
,
to
helpe
them
to
nayle
vp
boords
,
set
vp
their
Vines
in
the
walkes
of
their
Garden
,
and
doe
such
like
things
which
women
could
not
so
well
doe
)
did
chance
to
make
a
hole
in
a
hollow
place
in
a
wall
,
(
which
had
beene
latelier
dawbed
vp
then
the
rest
)
to
set
vp
a
Sparre
to
vnderprop
the
Vines
;
out
of
which
hole
I
pulled
sundry
bones
of
some
dead
children
,
and
left
many
more
remaining
behind
.
And
this
the
place
it selfe
would
haue
testified
to
be
true
.
Hauing
thus
prouided
my
Articles
in
a
readinesse
,
I
absented
my selfe
from
helping
the
Priest
at
Masse
that
day
,
who
being
readie
to
go
into
the
Church
,
and
missing
mee
,
was
faine
to
take
another
Clerke
,
whilst
I
walked
vp
and
downe
my
chamber
,
with
a
resolute
mind
to
depart
the
house
.
At
length
commeth
Father
Foster
,
(
for
he
vsed
euery
day
to
visit
me
at
vnawares
,
to
see
if
he
could
finde
mee
writing
of
any
thing
that
disliked
him
)
and
espied
vpon
my
table
(
which
I
had
negligently
forgot
)
a
blotted
Copy
of
my
Articles
,
beeing
the
first
draught
of
them
:
which
when
I
saw
him
take
vp
,
I
proffered
to
snatch
out
of
his
hand
,
but
missed
of
my
purpose
;
and
therevpon
went
downe
the
staires
,
and
so
tooke
my
way
out
at
the
gates
:
but
he
(
hauing
soon
perceiued
to
whom
they
were
intended
)
followed
mee
amaine
,
and
quickly
ouertooke
me
,
yea
,
euen
before
I
was
past
his
own
wals
;
and
demanding
of
mee
what
I
meant
by
such
doings
,
I
told
him
my
intent
;
and
bade
him
peruse
the
Articles
at
large
,
giuing
him
a
faire
copy
of
them
out
of
my
bosom
,
where
I
had
three
or
foure
more
.
But
as
soone
as
he
had
read
them
,
he
waxed
pale
as
ashes
,
and
was
so
terrified
,
that
he
began
earnestly
to
intreat
me
that
I
should
not
proceed
with
my
purpose
,
and
told
mee
that
if
I
would
bee
secret
,
I
should
haue
his
good
will
to
depart
;
whereof
beeing
glad
,
I
not
onely
promised
,
but
performed
secrecie
,
(
although
indeed
I
ought
not
to
haue
done
it
)
not
bewraying
any
of
his
prankes
to
my
neerest
acquaintance
and
friends
;
vntill
such
time
as
hauing
occasion
a
few
months
after
to
be
at
Lisbon
againe
,
he
suspected
mee
vniustly
of
telling
tales
of
his
house
;
and
meeting
mee
one
day
in
the
street
,
he
called
me
to
him
,
and
told
me
,
that
if
I
did
not
presently
depart
the
City
,
he
would
haue
my
throat
cut
.
Vpon
which
his
diuellish
speech
I
could
not
refraine
any
longer
,
but
in
the
open
street
I
told
him
of
many
of
his
vngodly
actions
,
which
came
to
the
hearing
of
diuers
of
our
Nation
,
beeing
men
of
good
qualitie
,
whereof
some
haue
testified
in
England
to
Honorable
Personages
in
my
behalfe
,
how
ready
and
willing
I
was
to
auouch
and
maintaine
whatsoeuer
is
herein
contained
,
and
much
more
:
which
(
although
it
be
here
omitted
)
I
am
ready
at
all
times
truely
to
declare
and
set
forth
for
the
satisfaction
of
all
that
desire
it
:
but
especially
for
such
as
haue
either
Daughters
or
Kinswomen
in
that
house
,
in
whose
behalfe
I
am
bound
to
intreat
their
friends
to
enter
into
a
further
search
of
their
miserable
estate
and
condition
;
and
(
hauing
found
my
words
true
)
to
vse
meanes
,
if
it
be
possible
,
to
free
them
from
such
horrible
and
sacrilegious
rapine
and
spoile
;
themselues
not
being
able
to
send
any
word
thereof
,
because
all
their
Letters
must
bee
giuen
to
him
to
be
sent
into
England
;
which
if
they
contain
any
thing
contrary
to
his
mind
,
shal
neuer
be
sent
;
for
hee
will
peruse
them
all
.
And
likewise
when
their
friends
send
to
them
,
the
Letters
must
first
come
to
his
hands
,
wherein
also
if
there
be
any
thing
that
he
misliketh
(
for
he
will
breake
them
all
vp
)
they
shall
neuer
know
of
it
.
And
here
I
will
conclude
,
hoping
that
the
friendly
Christian
Reader
wil
be
no
way
scandalized
with
any
thing
herein
contained
.
But
as
for
the
curious
and
captious
(
especially
Romanists
)
if
they
taxe
me
for
any
thing
I
haue
written
,
let
them
know
I
haue
done
neither
them
not
any
of
their
sect
any
wrong
in
publishing
the
truth
.
If
any
of
them
amongst
these
insuing
names
finde
either
a
Sister
or
Kinswoman
,
or
Friend
,
let
him
sigh
to
thinke
on
their
misery
,
and
vse
his
best
indeuours
to
free
them
.
I
haue
not
set
downe-all
their
names
,
because
I
cannot
well
call
them
to
remembrance
;
neither
are
many
of
these
christen
names
the
same
which
they
had
in
England
,
it
being
vsuall
at
the
Bishops
confirmation
to
take
what
name
they
will
:
as
also
some
of
the
sirnames
are
not
their
true
names
indeed
;
for
the
Papists
do
many
times
change
their
names
:
but
there
are
few
of
these
which
are
not
right
;
and
howsoeuer
,
they
are
knowne
to
their
friends
by
these
.
The
Friers
of
the
House
.
-
Seth
,
alias
Ioseph
Foster
,
Confessor
.
-
Iohn
Viuian
.
Nicholas
Barrowes
.
two
Priests
.
-
Peter
Consul
,
a
Familiar
,
that
is
,
a
Lay-Brother
,
but
a
drunken
one
,
God
knowes
.
The
Nunnes
of
the
House
.
-
Barbara
Wiseman
,
Abbesse
.
-
Anne
Wiseman
Prioresse
.
-
Elizabeth
Hart
,
Chantresse
.
-
Anne
Wharton
,
Treasuresse
.
-
Anne
,
alias
,
Iosepha
Bingham
,
Portresse
.
-
Lucy
Iohnson
,
Notaresse
.
-
Dorothy
Fowler
,
Keeper
of
the
Reliques
&
Church
stuffe
.
-
Briget
Browne
,
Lucy
Browne
,
Daughters
of
St
Anth
:
Browne
,
Visc
.
Montacute
.
-
Elizabeth
Preston
,
sometime
Abbesse
,
but
now
in
disgrace
with
old
Foster
.
-
Anne
Martin
.
-
Anne
Markenfield
.
-
Susan
Bacon
.
-
Sisly
Arundell
.
-
Margaret
Smith
,
alias
Becket
,
and
her
Sister
.
-
Mandlyn
Shelly
,
Katherine
Dendy
,
Elizabeth
Cole
,
three
of
the
Kitchin
.
-
Martha
.
-
Clara
Dowman
,
indeed
Anne
Foster
,
the
Confessors
Kinswoman
.
-
Kath:
Knightly
.
Mary
Brooke
.
two
merry
singing
wagges
.
-
Anne
,
A
Chambermaid
of
St
Anth
:
Browne
.
-
Mary
Barnes
,
a
welbeloued
friend
of
Fosters
.
-
Mary
Dimmock
,
a
discontented
yong
Nunne
.
-
M.
Blinksop
,
falsely
reported
by
Father
Foster
,
to
be
allied
to
diuers
of
the
Nobilitie
.
-
Agatha
.
-
Elianor
and
Angela
:
two
Dutchwomen
.
-
Briget
Mandanha
.
Maria
Suarez
.
Maria
Rodriguez
.
three
Portugeses
.
FINIS
.