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A04408	A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike Christians, in the kingdome of Iaponia diuided into two bookes. Taken out of the annuall letters of the fathers of the Society of Iesus, and other authenticall informations. Written in Spanish, and printed first at Mexico in the West Indies, the yeare of Christ M.DC.XVI. and newly translated into English by W.W. gent. The first part.; Breve relacion de la persecucion que huvo estos años contra iglesia de Japon. Part 1. English	Morejon, Pedro, 1562-1634?; Wright, William, 1563-1639.	1619 (1619)	STC 14527; ESTC S106448	116,621	360

banished for the same cause to a little Iland scarce inhabited did suffer there exceeding much in this occasion 7. Many noble personages in the Courtes of Yendo and Suruga did imitate the Xoguns proceedinges in this kind but aboue all the Prince of Toxogun did shew himselfe most cruell and rigorous moued partly by the Xoguns example but principally incited by the wordes of an English Pilot who spake most bitterly against religious men and Spaniardes making their persons odious vnto him and all that they did suspitious Whereupon many Christians of great worth quality were sent into banishment And this affliction had beene much more greeuous and more generall had not Itacuradono the Gouernor of Meaco an honorable moderate and morall man a friend vnto the Fathers signified vnto the Xogun that it was no reason that all the Christians being as they are people that liue in the Kingdome well and quietly and do hurt and iniury to none should be punished for the fault of some one or a few particuler persons of their Religion neyther do I hold it sayd he for good policy now that the Kingdome is in peace and quietnes to strike a string that may make to great a noyse perhaps put matters more out of tune then is by vs imagined 8. Vpon this good aduise the Xogun did for a while somewhat temper himselfe and gaue license againe that the Fathers of the Society might remaine and haue one Church within the Citty of Meaco and thereupon and by reason that the Gouernour did cōmaund to proclaime that the Xoguns former order was not to be vnderstood of merchantes tradesmen or common people but only of Souldiers and Gentlemen many of their Churches did remaine vntouched and the Christians in some good quietnesse for that many other Princes winked at them as at the Fathers also So that this persecution first of all begunne as it see meth in Suruga and Yendo although the principall blow did fal vpon the prouince of Taccacu or Arima which is all one 9. For when notice was giuen in the Country of Ar●ma with what determination the new Arimadono was comming from the Court great was the griefe and affliction generally of all the Christians thereof but aboue all vnto the good Fathers of the Society the newes was most heauy seeing the euident danger of those whome with so great paynes care labour and trauaile they had connerted to the Christian fayth and for so many yeares instructed therein and that the Churches which with so great costes and charges they had builded for the seruing and honoring of Almighty God should now ey●her be destroyed or els turned into ● emples of Idols for the seruice of the Diuell And sinally that that flocke of Christ whereof they had had so great care should be now deliuered to the custody of cruell wolues the Bonzos without hauing any Pastor that might feed it keepe it and defend it Like good sheepheardes therefore they beganne to animate their sheep and arme them by meanes of the holy Sacramentes which they ministred vnto them making also many spirituall exhortations vnto them and pyous sermons perswading them therein to patience constancy and perseuerance to fasting prayer and true penance for their sinnes 10. As soone as Arimadono was arriued at Ximauara which is the first towne of that Prouince together with Sasiove and another fauourite of the Xogun who were his wicked counsaylers which was vpon the ninth of Iuly they published an edict or Proclamation in which was commaunded that all his subiectes and seruantes should leaue the faith of Christ and send for the Bonzos to instruct them in the sectes of Iapone appointing withal three Iudges vnto whō they gaue order to procure by all meanes possible that all the Gentlemen of quality that had any rentes reuenewes or pensions from the Xogun should immediatly Ieaue to be Christians vnder paine of loosing both them and the rest of their goods and liuinges and thereby be reduced to extreme pouerty and most miserable estate And vpon the 13. day of the same moneth he sent word vnto the Fathers of the Society that seeing the Xogun had forbidden the profession of Christian religion his pleasure was they should immediatly depart out of his Country leauing their Churches and houses as they stood The ornaments of the Church the pictures and their bokes they had caused before to be conuaied to Nangasaqui and so they dispatched now the sooner obeying to his commaund though not without great greife and affliction for they had in that country a Colledge the best and biggest in all Iapone a Seminary also where they did bring vp many yong youthes and children of the Iaponians teaching them learning and vertue latin musicke and the characters of the Religions and sectes of Iapone and the manner how to confute them which hath beene one of the best and most efficacious meanes for the conuersion of those Gentiles They had also in that Country of Arima six other places of ordinary residēce besids other Churches and houses which now and then they visited to the number of three score and ten and all these in one day were confiscated and they cast out of them Some of the Fathers remayned in the contry secretly disguised together with some of the Brothers also youths of the Seminary for the better helping of the poore afflicted Christians thereof And although they did it not without great labour and paines and exceeding danger of their liues yet was it wel recompensed with the great good they did thereby among the Christians who with great care loue and charity did hide them keep them and maintaine them 11. The Iudges appointed by young Arimadono for the examining and proceeding against the Christians sent for some of them one after another and did their best endeauors to perswade them to do some exterior act whereby at least they might make shew to haue obeyed to the Xoguns commaund in leauing of their faith Some although very few did easily condescend to their requests hopinge thereby to gaine the fauour of their Prince and these all of them were such as eyther were not well grounded in their faith or else were men of euil life and bad corrupted consciences Others moued and ouercome with the entreaties importunities and teares of of their kinred freinds acquaintaine shewed some weaknes and fraylty at the first it seeming to them eyther no sinne at all or else not very great exteriorly to dissemble for a time so that inwardly in their hartes they did not leaue their fayth thereby to giue contentment to their Prince and saue their owne estates But being afterwards aduised of their fault and told how great a sinne it was they were so seriously sorrowful and penitent therefore and did recompense their fall with so great courage seruour and constancy that some of them afterwards endured most cruel martyrdome and others suffered incredible afflictions want misery and pouerty for their faith