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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04409	A discouerie of the most secret and subtile practises of the Iesuites. Translated out of French		1610 (1610)	STC 14528; ESTC S107737	9,230	22

of Mirandola Item Tritemius booke with the Treatise of hidden Philosophie made by Cornelius Agrippa Item Theophrastus touching the constellation and signes of Planets with the Steganographia of a certaine Abbot and lastly the Arte of Paul for the concilliation of the reuelations They say that Saint Iohn was very learned in this Arte yea they make no doubt the which is an insupportable blaspemy the which I haue heard often from them-selues and could name my authors that Iesus Christ was a most perfect Magitian Thus wee haue seene what concernes the Iesuites Temple wherevnto I will adde that these holes and Caues vnder ground whereof wee haue spoken are most commonly vnder the Quier or the Galleries not whereas the people are accustomed to kneele Art thou come from their Temple to their Library for at this present I will not speake any thing of their refectorie where they eate nor of their Chambers nor Court dedicated for their recreation nor of the nourishment of other Schollers which are vnder the Iesuites charge nor yet of the methode and order which they hold in their studies for I referre it to an other time besides that most of these things are very well knowne from others Art thou come I say vnto their Liberies looke on the right side thou shalt finde it richely furnished with all sorts of Authors Their bookes are bound in Leather or velome guilt or siluered Those whereof the vse is ordinary are chained to long deskes As for their secret Library it is onely lawfull for the Fathers to enter and to make vse of the bookes which they desire They yonger Iesuites make vse of the ordinary neither is it lawfull for them without leaue from the Regent to extract any one word Finally in this Library there is not any hereticall bookes but onely the most approoued bookes all Catholikes For as for Heretickes they hold them vnworthy to haue any place among the rest for that it may bee they feare they should infect and poison them Wherefore looke vpon the left hand thou shalt finde the bookes of these poore heretikes all dusty and bound in ill fauoured skinnes and black parchment Of these bookes euen the Fathers may not take any one without the permission of the Regent and the yonger sort dare not demand them before they haue by some Poem or other writing defamed with all sorts of Iniuries the Author which they would see In the middest of this Library there is a studie full of seates diuided one from another the feeling beeing of a Celestiall coulour The Fathers set on the right side and on the left they place the yonger who notwithstanding haue receiued some Orders among them The other Nouices stand among the ordinary Pentioners to the end they may obserue them and that discoursing with them they may make accompt of the mildnesse and excellent order of the Iesuites especially with the richest and such as bee sole heires of some good house I will make no mention of their manner of studie But I will briefly describe the Prouincialls examination which I suppose hath not yet beene written Euery Prouinciall receiues his name of the Prouince or Realme which hee hath in charge to ouersee all that passeth His duty is to visite the Colledges to cast vp the reuenewes thereof and which is more to obserue carefully what great men doe breede vp their children in the Iesuites Colledges and how many there bee Then hee must take an accompt how their Schollers doe multiply and if their riches increase who they bee that are turned Lutherans and how many they are If hee finde not any or if he perceiue that the Popish religion decayes in any sort and that their goods and reuenewes diminish then hee reprocheth the Regents of Colledges of negligence and slouth inioyning them seuerely to recompence the fore-pased losse If he findes that they haue carryed themselues as they ought that that they haue conuerted many that they haue spared and gathered much together then hee spares for no praises extolling them vnto the third Heauen More-ouer his charge is to enquire what Hereticall Princes lye nearest vnto them if they doe liue vsually at home or abroad to whome they are accustomed to goe of what disposition euery one is wherein hee takes delight if hee haue any care of the state if hee bee any way religious or rather if hee bee giuen to drunkennesse women or Hunting If hee haue any Catholikes in his Court and what they bee what the people say of their Prince if hee fauour the aduersaries If the Pastors of Churches bee learned and diligent men or slouthfull and ignorant If the profession of Diuinitie doth flourish in the next Vniuersitie if the Diuines dispute often and against whom principally what Bookes and of what subiect they haue lately set forth If happily the Principall and the Fathers answer pertinently to these questions and to an infinite number of others the Principall doth wonderfully commend their trauell and vigilancie But if hee findes them not very curious of all these things and that they answer not roundly hee doth then blame them very sharply What doe you saith hee you slouthfull and idle men Why doe you suffer the Church of Rome to goe to ruine What accompt shall wee giue vnto our Holy Father of his our negligence Why doe you not meddle with affaires what feare you Why doe you not set your hands to the worke with an assured courage and resolution It is long since that yee should haue done and ended that which I say consider the wonderfull vigilancie of Heritikes and yet yee sleepe for slouth Hee blames them and aminates them by these and such like speeches Finally hee enquires touching the Schollers Pensioners Nouices and others in what number they are how euery one doth profitte to what study hee is inclined if whether any one amongst them be no disputer but is scrupulous for they will not set such to the study of diuinity before they be well practised in scholasticall disputations and instructed in the Articles of their religion The Prouincial moreouer hath charge to enquire if happily there bee any one among them whoe if necessity required would make no difficulty to vndertake some commendable Act yea to loose his life for the aduancement of the Church of Rome This examination made and set downe in writing is sent by the prouinciall to Rome to their Generall by whom it is immediately deliuered to the Pope And thus nothing is done or resolued throughout all Christendome which comes not to the Popes knowledge by meanes of these Traytors of the Empire The Iesuits also in a maner euery three yeeres are transported by their Prouinciall from one Colledge to another For a conclusion I will adde the wonderfull subtilties of the Iesuites framed of late in theyr common Councell the which they haue sought and doe at this day seeke to put in effect for the subuersion of the church the state in the Romain