broken and I am deliuered Lord establish me in thy Truth thy Word is Truth FINIS A CATALOGVE OR Note of such English bookes to the knowledge of which I could come as haue been printed reprinted or dispersed by the Priests and their Agents in this Kingdome within these two yeers last past or thereabouts INprimis the DOVVAY BIBLES that is the old Testament onely in two Volumes with Notes reuised by D. Worthington and reprinted heer in London sold for forty shillings which at an ordinary price might bee afforded for tenne THE NEVV TESTAMENT translated by the Rhemists and reprinted in quarto sold for sixteene or twenty shillings which might bee afforded for a Noble or lesse THE SAME TESTAMENT in English lately printed in decimo sexto sold for twelue shillings which might bee well afforded for foure THE ANKER OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE in foure parts written by D. Worthington the three last-parts printed in London and sold by him at his Lodging in Turnbull street for foureteen shillings which might bee afforded for fiue shillings THE PROTESTANTS APOLOGIE written by Brerely reprinted and sold for seuenteene shillings and might bee afforded for six shillings or lesse SAINT AVGVSTINES CONFESSIONS translated by Tob. Mathew and sold for sixteene shillings beeing but a little book in octauo and might bee afforded for two shillings six-pence Two other bookes in octauo lately written by Tob. Mathew and sold very deare THE AVTHOR AND SVESTANCE OF PROTESTANT RELIGION written by Smith a Priest now in London and sold for six shillings and might bee afforded for twelue pence LVTHER HIS LIFE AND DOCTRINE a railing book written by Louell a Priest who is at this present in London sold for eight shillings worth two shillings AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THE PESTIFEROVS WRITINGS OF ENGLISH SECTARIES in two parts written by D. Norice a Priest now resident in London sold for eight shillings might be afforded for foure shillings THE GVIDE OF FAITH written by the said Author and sold at an vnreasonable rate THE PSEVDO-SCRIPTVRIST by the same Author a book of some twelue sheetes of paper and sold for fiue shillings THE CHRISTIAN VOVV by the same Author a book of ten sheetes of paper and sold for two shillings six-pence The loud lying Pamphlet tearmed THE BISHOP OF LONDONS LEGACIE written by Musket a Iesuite and reprinted with a preface of a new disguise the book conteineth about sixteene sheetes they squeezed from some Romish buyers six or seuen shillings a piece A deare price for a dirty lye Yet I wish they that haue any beliefe in it might pay dearer for it THE SVMMARY OF CONTROVERSIES written by D. Smith sold as deare as the rest THE NEVV RELIGION NO RELIGION written by one Floud a Priest now in London sold at a high rate and so are all the rest following THE SVM OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE written in Latine by Petrus Canisius and translated into English by I. Heigham a Priest in London THE TRVE CHRISTIAN CATHOLICK by the same Author THE LIFE OF SAINT KATHARINE OF SIENNA by the same Author THE PROTESTANTS CONSVLTATION a dangerous book lately written by an vnknowne Author IESVS MARIA IOSEPH lately come out of the Presse Printed in London by Simons à Carmelite now in London Two other Bookes written by the same Author called THE WAY TO FINDE EASE REST AND REPOSE VNTO THE SOVLE BELLARMINES STEPS in English HIS ART OF DYING WELL in octauo THE EXERCISE OF A CHRISTIAN LIFE by S. B. THE VOCATION OF BISHOPS by D. Champney now in London THE IMAGE OF BOTH CHVRCHES by M. Pateson now in London a bitter and seditious book THE EXPOSITION OF THE MASSE A TREATISE OF THE REALL PRESENCE by Goddard a Priest now in London THE LOVE OF THE SOVLE Printed in London THE FOLLOVVERS OF CHRIST by F. B. DEMANDS TO HERETICKS in two parts by D. Bristow now in London AVRICVLAR CONFESSION MISSALE PARVVM PRO SACERDOTIEVS THE OFFICE OF OVR LADY Or the PRIMER two or three sorts of them lately printed THE IVDGE by G. M. THE RIGHT WAY TO GOD by Pursell an Irish Monke now in London SIXE BOOKES FVLL OF MARVELOVS PIETIE AND DEVOTION by G. P. THE APPENDIX by Doctor Norrice A DEFENCE OF THE APPENDIX written by Master Sweet a Iesuite lying in Holborne AN ANSVVER TO THE FISHER CATCHAT IN HIS OVVNE NET by the same Author These three last bookes containing but some sixe sheetes of paper either of them are sold by the Authors and their Factors for two shillings or halfe a crowne a piece SOLILOQVIES by R. T. THE ROSARY OF OVR LADY MEDITATIONS VPON THE ROSARY AN EXPOSITION OF THE ROSARY THE MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY AN INTRODVCTION TO A DEVOVT LIFE by I. Yorke a Iesuite now in London MIRACLES NOT YET CEASED by P. L. P. a saltlesse booke THE KEY OF PARADISE A HEAVENLY TREASVRY OF COMFORTABLE MEDITATIONS by Antho. Batt a Frier now in London THE WORD OF COMFORT written vpon occasion of the fall of the house at the Black-Friers THE VNCASING OF HERESIE by O. A. THE TREASRY OF CHASTITY THE WIDDOVVES GLASSE THE ECCLESIASTICALL PROTESTANTS HISTORY by D. Smith THE GROVNDS OF THE OLD AND NEVV RELIGION THE HIDDEN MANNA THE WANDRING SAINTS THE LITTLE MEMORIALL AN OVERTHROVV OF THE PROTESTANTS PVEPIT-BABâ—ES THE VNITIE OF GODS CHVRCH by one Master Steuens a Iesuite now in London POINTERS MEDITATIONS THE PROOFE OF PVRGATORY A COMFORT AGAINST TRIBVLATION LEDISME HIS CATECHISME lately printed heere in England THE RECONCILEMENT OF THE DALMATIAN BISHOP THE POPES POVVER THE LIFE OF SAINT BEDE A TREATISE OF FREE-WILL by Doctor Kellison Rector of the Colledge at Doway and now in London THE SACRAMENTS OF THE CATHOLICK CHVRCH by F. S. P. DAVYES HIS CATECHISME THE VISIBILITY OF THE CHVRCH THE CATHOLICK GVIDE A TREATISE AGAINST THE MARRIAGE OF PRIESTS by Wilson a Iesuite A GAGGE OF THE NEVV GOSPEL A SECOND GAGGE THE HONOVR OF GOD by Anthony Clerke An idle frothy booke by a brayn-sicke man THE PRELATE AND THE PRINCE a seditious booke THE RVLES OF OBEDIENCE by G. A. P. SAINT PETERS KEYES by Edmund Gill Iesuite SAINT AVGVSTINES RELIGION written by Brerely and reprinted THE REFORMED PROTESTANT by Brerely There was a Printing-house supprest about some three yeeres since in Lancashire where all Brerely his workes with many other Popish pamphlets were printed THE VIRGINALL VOVV by F. S. THE MIRROVR OF WOMEN MEDITATIONS ON THE PASSION A DIALOGVE BETVVIXT OVR SAVIOVR AND THE SAINTS OBSERVATIONS concerning the present affaires of Holland and the vnited Prouinces by You knowe the hand THE INGRATITVDE OF ELIZABETH OF ENGLAND VNTO PHILIP OF SPAINE THE SPIRIT OF ERROVR by D. Smith MEDITATIONS ON OVR SAVIOVRS WORDS ON THE CROSSE EVERY SAINTS PRAYER THE CATHOLICKS CROVVNE THE THREE CONVERSIONS reprinted written by F. Parsons GRANADOES MEMORIALL GRANADOES COMPENDIVM GRANADOES MEDITATIONS Translated THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CARDINALL BELLARMINE THE SHEDDING OF TEARES PARSONS RESOLVTIONS reprinted Anno 1623. SIONS SONGS or the melody of the Blessed THE DAILY PRACTICE THE ENEMIES OF GOD
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 Psal Almighty God with his Angels and Saints will haue them these mis-shapen monsters in derision Conway 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 How to kenne or smell a Priest If about Bloomesbury or Holborne thou meet a good smug Fellow in a gold-laced suit a cloke lined thorow with veluet one that hath good store of coin in his purse Rings on his fingers a Watch in his pocket it may be of some thirty-pound price a very broad-laced Band a Stiletto by his side a man at his heeles willing vpon small acquaintance to intrude into thy company and still desiring further to insinuate with thee then take heed of a Iesuite of the prouder sort of Priests This man hath vowed pouerty Feare not to trust him with thy wife he hath vowed also chastity 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 A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures to withdraw the harts of his Maiesties Subjects from their alleageance and from the truth of Christian Religion 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. Tuâ—…ce F. Sherwood F. Winkefield F. Mud F. Dakins and F. Balâ—…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 Plin. 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 Ouid. Virgil. Homer tell vs that 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 Mâ—ngus the Canonist giueth vs a rule that if the Diuell be stubborn and will not obey the formidable exorcisme of the Priest then that the Priest shall os suum quamproxime ad energuâ—enum admouere 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 Page 181. 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 Page 81. where finding himself caught within the 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 Page 87. One Fid Landresse â—o the 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
aduantage They perswade that their houses are the houses of Cloë their housholds the housholds of Onesiphorus 2. Tim. 4.19 But trust you no such vndermining Iesuites beleeue you not any of those 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. Ier. 7.14 Let them not with their golden Calues reared at Dan and Bethel keepe you from going to serue God at Ierusalem 1. King 12.28 Let them not bring you out of loue with your Dauid your Gouernour and true Father or with our Orthodox Reuerend Church of England your Mother Let them not intrench you with their false lying Fables the most of which you cannot be so absurd and dull but to conceiue and confesse that they are forgeries and meere fopperies Weigh but some of them in the balance of your vnderstanding which in this poore work of mine out of their moderne Authors I haue truly collected qâ—oted recited and you will finde that according to the old plain verse 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 Gen. 25.22 notwithstanding all their faire pretexts and shewes they are but as tinkling cymbals and greene bay-trees whereunto Dauid compares the wicked Psal 37. The Pope dispenseth with any thing heere while they be in our Kingdom Their penury is turn'd into plenty their Chastity becomes charity for the relieuing collapsed Ladies wants their 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 gloâ—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 wiâ—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 Raban lib. 2. 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 people 's 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 â—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 Fulgent So easy was it with him to comprehend
by he was rescued Fitz-Simon qui supra Lib. 2. part 6. page 402. R.L.P. 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 R L.P. 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 This Moore lately lost his eares in Cheapside for speaking against the Protestant Religion c. 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 hooâ—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 Chaucer that where the Limiter Exâ—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 conâ—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 Kelliâ— 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 taedâ—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. inâ—it The liues of the Martyrs transl If our sacrificing Priests and â—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 F.H. F.M. who are very vnable at this time to doo the King any seruice in the warres for which they haue a necessary excuse though not legall hauing imployed themselues in other 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 Read concerning S. Dominick a Book written by a 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 The bold attempts of the Papists in Ireland where 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 The Bishop of Chalcedon vnder the name of the 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
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 page 89. 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 page 90. Maho the diuell stood vpon his guard would not come in He was summoned by the Priest first with Salue Regina and Aue Maria then with Mengus club with his whip with 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 All these tricks and many more were acted at Denham in Buckinghamshire about the yeer 1590. 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 magnâ— 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 standeâ—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 â— 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 This was done about 14. yeers ago all which at the Assises holden at Lancaster prooued to be false and the said 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 The Examinations were put since in print by 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 The Boy of Bilson For the next vnmasking of our Mirabilaries I might adde the Narration of certaine Priests practising with the 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 Two Maids possest with the Virgin 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
grew so weake in her body that shee was past hoâ—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 The Priests insinuating with one Mistris Reid and fishing for her estate In Summer 1623. A Gentlewoman named Read 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 The Priests visiting M. Netlam to get from him his Land In August last one Musket a Iesuite and another Priest came to 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 Laâ—ds to themselues or whom they should nominate so to be at their disposing Which graÌ„ted 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 mislâ—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 anâ— 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 à marsupio 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 Author of The B of Londons Legacie I should haue commended M. Muskets wit if hee could at so easie a rate haue purchased M. Netlams inheritance Sure it was a better plot and his time better spent then in writing and forging his book called 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 F. Med. who took dislike at it confessed vnto mee and F. Musket himselfe in some sort acknowledged his paines-taking therein O perfrictam frontem Wâ—at impudence was heere ioynd with ignorance How lewdly did he and 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 Sophocl 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Sophocles commended Philoctetes He fought a good fight both in defence of the faith and in expâ—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 Aug. Hee was worthy wise well-spoken religious Now whereas they seek to get Proselâ—tes by â—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 sincerâ— which â—ath slanderous leasings for her daily food As Tertullian saith in the behalfe of the Chriâ—tians first persecuted by Nero that hee that knewe Nero well might easily vnderstand non nisi grande aliquod bonum à Nerone damnatum Tertul. 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 vpoÌ„ 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 M. Anderton Yet thus I must needs testifie of one the most sufficient ingenuous of their Priests that notwithstanding it might make somewhat against their common cause hee plainly told mee 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 The wise words of him that wrote The word of Comfort their appointed day be not yet come yet they shall haue a time a day wheÌ„ Vaevobis woâ— bee to their Aduersaries Their best dayes of late perhaps seeme to them but a leaden or at best a siluer age but a Priest now in London tould mee sometime this Lent and it hath beene the merry tune of many more that 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 â—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 Erasm 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 Esa 5.13 Surely when I begin to weigh and meditate on the abuses that our Kingdome in generall and these weake members thereof in particular sustaine by those Hornets and Drones who flee vp and downe stinging and wounding with the wily insinuation of errour sucking and gathering hony in our gardens yea resting vpon diuers golden flowres my heart begins to bleed my bowels to yearne and my soule is plunged in much heauinesse For wo is mee Are wee not all sonnes to one Father all Subiects to one King cuius sub vmbrâ suauiter quiescimus we rest vnder his shade and his boughes haue beene long distended for our securitie How grieuous alas is it now to him to heare that any his
by M. Barlow a Priest now in London THE HOLY TRIVMPH THE PROSPERITY OF THE VISIBLE CHVRCH THE MANVALL OF PRAYERS reprinted A WATCH VVORD by F. Baker THE APOLOGIST by Richard Conway A TREATISE OF THE INVOCATION AND ADORATION OF SAINTS by Thomas Lee. THE PRINCIPLES OF CATHOLICKE RELIGION by Richard Stannihurst OF THE CONVERSION OF NATIONS of the Miracles of the Martyrdomes and of the vnion of the members of the Catholick Church by George Allanson lesuite A TREATISE OF TRVE ZEALE F. DRVRY HIS RELIQVES somewhat found in his study after his death FLAGELLVM DEI or A Sword for Contradictors a ridiculous pamphlet written by P. D. M. COFFIN against D. HALL his booke intituled The Honour of the married Clergie WALSINGHAM HIS SEARCH in quarto WALPOOLE against Doctor Downham of Antichrist FOX HIS CALENDAR reprinted Anno 1623. FITZ-HERBERT of Policy and Religion reprinted TREATISE OF FAITH by F. Percy Faults escaped Page 3. a bloody catastrophe dele 18. Hell Rome 21. 40 yeeres 12 yeares 35. poyson foison 39. Aesculap Cybele 52. blood bled 42. 43. 44 a lye a lowd-ringing lye 44 Seth. Aleph 45 bare apparell bare neck 44. 45. 54. 55. 46. Sword of Iustice dele 47. one dele 48. Hell Auernus 55 who dele 57. his their 62. found fond 70. one dele 87. of heart of youth 29. marg speaking atheisticall scoffing 81. Two lines left out the words are This my selfe did then see together with two or three hundreth more present at that meeting 67 Norwich North-witch 32. In marg F. M. F. Me. 76. In marg omitted This reuerend Bishops most pious and constant departure was related by his worthy sonne at Pauls Crosse against the sincere Truth whereof I doe not heare that any of those dogs can bark THE NAMES OF THE Romish Priests and Iesuites now resident about the City of London March 26. 1624. OLD Father Bishop the nominall Bishop of Chalcedon F. Ouerton his principall Chaplaine D. Kellison Rector of the English Colledge at Doway D. Worthington the Translator or Corrector of the Doway Bibles and Author of the Anker of Christian doctrine D. Collington the titular Arch-deacon of London lodging in Saint Iones D. Wright a graue antient man Treasurer for the Priests very rich thought to be worth thousands of pounds hee lodgeth in the White-Friers D. Norice one that hath written diuers bookes of late mentioned in the former Catalogue D. Smith senior sometimes of the Colledge of Rome and Author of diuers pestilent bookes D. Smith iunior Author of diuers other bookes no lesse dangerous D. Champney Author of the booke called The Vocation of Bishops D. Bristow sometimes of the Colledge at Doway F. Blackfen a Iesuite an ancient man lodging in Drury-Lane F. Sweet a Iesuite well knowne lodging at the vpper end of Holborn F. Musket a Iesuite lodging ouer-against S. Andrewes Church in Holborn a frequent preacher and one that hath much concourse of people to his chamber F. Fisher a notorious Iesuite lodging neere the Sauoy F. Haruy a very dangerous Iesuite F. Austin a Iesuite an aged man F. Boulton a Iesuite lodging in Saint Iones F. Macham a Iesuite lodging neere the Custome-house F. Barlow a Iesuite lodging about the Custome-house F. Townsend a Iesuite a little black fellow very compt and gallant lodging about the midst of Drury-Lane acquainted with collapsed Ladies F. Browne a Iesuite lodging in Saint Martins Lane F. Palmer F. Palmer both Iesuites lodging about Fleetstreet very rich in apparell the one vseth to weare a scarlet cloake ouer a crimsin Sattin suit F. Riuers F. Riuers both Iesuites F. Lathom a Iesuite F. Goddard a Iesuit lodging about White-Fryers F. Pateson a Iesuite lodging in Fetter-Lane F. Hammershed lodging in White-Fryers F. Armestrong a Iesuite one that insinuateth dangerously and hath seduced many F. Floud a Iesuite lying about Fleet-Lane F. Floud a secular Priest lodging in the Strand F. Kerkam a Iesuite F. Anderton a Iesuite F. Moore a Iesuite F. Moore a secular Priest F. Skinner a Iesuite F. Simons a Carmelite Author of diuers late foolish Pamphlets his lodging is in the lower end of Holborne F. Low a Iesuite F. Simons next neighbour F. Knox a secular Priest F. Shellay a secular Priest F. Price a secular Priest who was long a prisoner in New-gate F. Wilson lodging about Bloomisbury and one that escaped at the Black-Fryers F. Hilton a secular Priest one that escaped the same time F. Medcalfe now lodging in Shoo-Lane a good companion but not guilty of much learning He is often deepe loden with liquor F. Richardson a Benedictan Fryer of great acquaintance about the Towne he lodgeth at the farther end of Grayes-Inne-Lane F. Root a secular Priest F. Hunt a Carthusian Fryer lodging in Holborne an old man F. Conway a Iesuite F. Steuens a little man a Monk F. Wilde a secular Priest F. Smith F. Smith two secular Priests besides the two Iesuites of that name now resident in London F. Greene lodging ouer against North-hampton Stables F. Houghton a secular Priest F. Southworth F. Southworth both secular Priests F. Edmunds F. Edmunds the one as I haue heard a Iesuite the other a Franciscan Frier F. Melling a secular Priest lodging in Holborne F. Louell a secular Priest lodging in Holborne F. Townely a secular Priest lodging about the Strand F. Maxfield a secular Priest lodging in Holborne Simon Maxfield a Deacon lodging in Fleet-Street F. Gerard a secular Priest lodging about Westminster F. Dauyes an old blind man lodging about Holborne Conduit F. Bently I know not of what order F. Pursell an Irish man a Monk a young proud fellow F. Walsingham lodging about the Custome-house F. Linch an Irish man F. Gerald an Irish man F. Sherlock an Irish man F. Stannihurst an Irish man F. Carrig an Irish man F. Houling an Irish man F. Chamberlaine a secular Priest lodging about the Black-Friers a man of great imployment F. Turpin F. Annieur a French-man F. â—astle F. Iones alias Hay a Iesuite F. Iones a secular Priest F. Martin a Monk a Citizens sonne of London F. Bastin F. Wood a very dangerous fellow F. Bellingam F. Young F. Harris F. Baldwin F. Conniers F. Yorke F. Brookes F. Arncot F. Hughes F. Scroope F. Langtree F. Vmpton F. Bold a Benedictan Monk F. Bradshaw a Iesuite F. Line F. Doughty F. Read F. Chambers F. Halsal F. North. F. Cox a Iesuite F. Banister F. Eueleigh F. Powell F. Skinner F. Edwards F. Io. Worthington F. White F. Stroud F. Iennings F. Bat. F. Sanders F. Dier F. Heigham F. Rimmington F. Molineux F. Birket F. Kinsman F. Durham Two Priests lodging in Mistris Fowlers house in Fetter-Lane whose names I cannot learne These bee all the birds of this feather which haue come to my eye or knowledge as residing in or resorting to this City yet aboue seuen times so many there are that ouerspred our thickets through England as appeareth by the empty nests beyond the Seas from whence they haue flowne by shoales of late I meane the Seminarie Colledges which haue deepely disgorged by seuerall Missions of them and also by particular computation of their diuided troops whenas in one Shire where I haue abode sometime there are reputed to nestle almost three hundred of this brood Though they bee heere set downe by one name they are not vnfurnished of diuers other names which they change at pleasure