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A08690	The vnmasking of all popish monks, friers, and Iesuits. Or, A treatise of their genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state Together with some briefe obseruations of their treasons, murders, fornications, impostures, blasphemies, and sundry other abominable impieties. Written as a caueat or forewarning for Great Britaine to take heed in time of these romish locusts. By Lewis Owen.	Owen, Lewis, 1572-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 18998; ESTC S113782	125,685	175

truth and fidelity they may assuredly rely and depend for the Porter must be a smooth tongu'd fellow and as true as steele or else he is not for their turne neither will they put him into that office before such time as they haue had a long triall and experience of his wit and fidelity for he knowes more of their knauery than all the rest of the society except it be the Rector and two or three more besides what gift or message soeuer is sent vnto any of the College it must come first to his hands for the College gate is alwaies locked fast and he hath the key tied to his girdle Euery Iesuite in their Colleges hath some imployment or office as for example some are imployed in writing books of controuersies or otherwise whose workes neuer come to the Presse till the father Prouinciall and the best Diuines and the best learned men of their society of that Prouince yea of the next Prouince and most commonly their Generall who liues alwaies at Rome doe peruse correct and amend the same so that they neuer print any booke in any of their names without the mature counsell and aduice of their superiours Which in my opinion would not doe amisse if the Diuines of the reformed Church would doe the like among themselues Some of them that haue the gift of preaching doe study their Sermons the Fathers and Schoole Diuinity and attend to heare Confessions and say Masses albeit all those that are Priests are Masse-mongers others doe trot here and there abroad about the College affaires and others who are Lay-brethren haue imploiments enough either at home or abroad for some of them are Tailors and are euer making of new Habits or else mending of old for the other Fathers and Lay-brethren They haue Physicians Apothecaries Chirurgians Barbers Printers Tailors Shoomakers Cookes Washers Bakers and Brewers if they liue in a beere Country of their owne order and society And so haue all or the most part of the other Orders of Monks and Friers in all popish Countries especially in Spaine and Italy and therefore poore Trades-men get little or nothing by the Iesuites or any other Monks Friers or Nuns whatsoeuer The younger sort of them doe teach children the Latine and the Greeke tongues except it be in Spaine where neuer or seldome the Greek is taught in the Iesuits Schools or elsewhere except it be in some Vniuersities And they diuide their Shools into fiue Classes that is to say in the first the Accidence or Introduction to the eight parts of speech and the declination of Nounes and Verbes which they call Figures the second the Grammar the third the Syntax the fourth Poetry the fifth Rhetoricke But if it be in an Vniuersity then they haue other Classes and Lectorers for Logick Philosophy Diuinity and all the other Arts. Now in euery Classe there is a Iesuite that teacheth The Schollers doe remoue or proceed once euery yeere which is after their vacation about Michaelmas from one Classe to another for they are ordinarily no longer than one yeere in one Classe And euery Schoole-master is appointed by the Prefect of the Schooles how much he must reade and expound vnto his Schollers euery day for he must giue them no more nor no lesse than the ordinary Lesson And withall hee teacheth Greeke Grammar and other Greeke Authors together with the Latine The Iesuites doe euery other yeere extract out of such Authors as they like best as well Latine as Greeke such selected places as is most commodious and fitting to reade to young youths and doe print the same in their owne Colleges and sell them at a very deare rate to their Schollers appointing to euery Classe such other bookes besides the Grammar as is fit for their tender capacity Their Grammar and all the rest of their schoole bookes are of the Iesuites owne collections They teach still the selfe same Grammar in all their Schooles in what Country soeuer they be but in the other bookes whether they be in prose or verse they differ and euery second yeere they alter all their schoole bookes except the Figures Grammar and Syntax of meere policy to vtter the more bookes and consequently to gaine the more money for they haue very many Schollers because they doe not permit any Latine Schoole besides their owne in any towne or City where they reside In the three lower Classes they appoint two seuerall Emperours the one they call the Emperour of the East the other of the West as it was heretofore in the time of Charles the Great and others when the Empire of Rome was diuided into two parts betweene two Emperours whereof the one was called the Emperour of the East kept his Court at Constantinople and the other the Emperour of the West who commonly now adaies resides at Prague in Bohemia Now the Iesuites that are the Schoole-masters doe diuide their Schollers in euery Classe equally betweene these two Emperours appointing vnto euery one his owne subiects who are likewise diuided into seuerall offices or callings as Consuls Senators Patricians Knights Plebeyans and the like These Emperours who most commonly are some great mens sonnes doe sit Maiestically in very faire Chaires or Stats hauing their Scutchions Banners and Mottos drawne out very curiously at the end of a lance fastened to the wall ouer their heads And the Consuls Senators and the rest of the chiefest men doe sit according to their dignities places and offices euery one hauing his Scutchion ouer the place where he sits In euery Classe the Schoole-master doth appoint eight or ten and sometimes more or lesse according to the number of the Students Schollers whom they thinke fit for extraordinary pregnancie of wit and learning to be Prefects ouer the other Schollers who beare no dignity or office in that Classe and to heare them recite their Lessons and to giue vp the names of such as are not perfect therin to the master who inioynes them to some publike or priuate penance as to sweepe the Schoole to stand vpon his feet for a certaine time in the Schoole to say so many Paster Noster or Aue Maria vpon their knees in the open street before their Church doore to copie out of some booke so many lines or pages and the like penance for they whip them neuer publikely in the Schoole but send them to the Father Prefect who giues them correction priuately in a little roome which is by the Schoole for that purpose for the boies had rather vndergoe priuate correction than a publike penance because those that passe by will laugh and hush at them neither will they either correct them or impose any publike penance vpon any vnlesse he be a meere block-head that will not learne or one that hath committed some extrordinary offence or crime Moreouer the Porter at the time appointed that they should come to the Schooles rings a bell and at the very last toll all the Schoole-masters come out together and goe

a Saint by Pope Gregory the ninth and his worship was the first inuentor or founder of the Inquisition and the Friers of his Order are as yet the Inquisiters in all Italy Saint Dominick if you will beleeue his Friers wrought more miracles than Christ for they write many blasphemous and ridiculous things of him in his Legend whereof I could recite many but for feare that I should rather surfet than satisfie you I will produce here one or two and so passe ouer the rest La vida de San. Domingo A certaine man was possessed with Deuills whereupon Saint Dominick bound about his necke certaine Reliques whereof some of them were no better than shitten clouts at the least whose perfume the Deuills could not abide and therefore cried out that they would depart But good Saint Dominick would not beleeue the Deuils vntill the Reliques became sureties for them Ibidem Another time as the holy man preached certaine women were amazed at his doctrine and cried out that if he said true they had serued a strange Master the holy man bade them be quiet and they should see what strange Master they had serued Whereupon comes in an vgly Cat with fiery eyes shewing her hinder-parts vnto them which was very filthie to behold at last he leapes into the Belfrie and left such a smell behind him that had almost choak'd them all Ibidem It fortuned also vpon a time that a Nun called Mary had a sore thigh for which she prayed to S. Dominick because she durst not pray to God who pitying the Religious Votary that was so well deuoted vnto him came vnto her when she was asleepe and annointed the place and healed the sore But now leauing the Saint I will proceed to suruey his spirituall babes the Dominican Friers Ouo prognatus eodem In the yeare of our Lord 1470. one Allen of the Frocke a Frier of this Order was the first that deuised and composed the Rosarie of our Lady who neglecting the Gospell of our Lord and Sauiour he preached it abroad and so his booke was published wherein are related many miracles of the Virgin Mary wrought by vertue of this Rosarie wherein he saith That vpon a time the blessed Virgin Mary came vnto his chamber or Cell and hauing a ring made of a locke of her owne haire she by deliuery of it betrothed her selfe vnto him kissed him and offered to him her paps to be handled and sucked by him and finally conuersed with this sweet Frier Allen as familiarly as a spouse is wont to do with her mate O sweet Iesus what true Christian is there that is not astonished at the hearing of these horrible blasphemies These Dominican Friers doe make a great benefit of this foresaid Rosarie for in euery Towne or City that they haue a Couent there is a fraternity of the Rosary consisting of the Lay people of either sex who doe pay to them a good sum of money at their first entrance into the same fraternitie and a yearely pension besides to say Masses for them and the soules of the Brethren and Sisters of the fraternity that are in Purgatorie Of all other Begging Friers these are the Richest and best schollers And therefore the Iesuites and they can neuer agree for they wrote many railing books and libels against each other and in their Sermons especially they doe exclaime and raile the one on the other A certaine Iesuite preaching vpon a time told his Auditors that he had seene a Vision which was thus He thought that he had beene in Hell and that he saw there some of all sorts of men and women as Popes Cardinals Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Monks Friers Priests Abbesses Prioresses and Nuns yea Emperours Kings Princes Noble-men Knights Gentlemen to conclude all manner of men women and children but hee saw there neuer a Iesuite And therefore praised God that had giuen him grace to be of the Societie of Iesus and not of any other Order of Friers or of any other vocation profession or calling whatsoeuer So that all his Sermon was in commendation of the Iesuites These two learned Sermons were preached in the yeare 1600. as a Student of Padua in Italy witnesseth in a Pamphlet which he writ in the Italian tongue about the yeare 1607. it is intituled Condolenza de vn Studente de Padua a 1. Patri Iesuiti par 2. The next Sabbath day a Dominican Frier came and preached in the selfe-same place and told the people that he had likewise dreamed or seene a strange Vision and that hee thought he had beene in Hell and saw there the soules of all sorts of men and women yea of Friers of his owne Order but saw neuer a Iesuite there whereat he wondered and was so amaz'd that he could not say an Aue Maria or a Pater noster and repented him a thousand times that he had not beene a Iesuite In the end he demanded of a little Deuill what was the reason there was neuer a Iesuite there seeing there was some of all other men women and children yea of all other Orders of Religious men The Deuill told him that the Iesuites were by themselues in another hell vnderneath that for said he they come hither so fast and are so many that Pluto and the rest of the Deuills could scarce rule them The Frier replied saying I would wish Pluto to haue a great care to search them with speed for feare that they haue conueyed hither some gun-powder with them for they are very skilfull in Mine-workes and in blowing vp of whole States and Parliament-houses and if they can they will blow you all vp and then the Spanyards will come and take your Kingdome from you whereat the Deuill laughed and the Frier awaked out of his sleepe And was not this good sound doctrine I pray you to edifie their Auditors withall In Spaine the Dominican Friers beare a great sway for the Kings Confessor is alwaies a Dominican Frier yet a Iesuite is the Queenes Confessor both their Patrons were Spanyards and therefore so much the greater Saints It was my fortune about nine years ago to come vpon a Holy-day I think it was S. Isidors day to heare a Sermon which a Dominican Frier preached in commendation of this Spanish Saint who extolled him so much that he preferred him before S. Peter This Saint was as he said once King of Andaluzia in Spaine and forsooke his Kingdome and became a Bishop Others doe write that he was driuen out of his Kingdome by the Moores and then became a Bishop This Frier citing that place of the Gospell where our Sauiour saith Whosoeuer shall forsake father or mother wife or children for my name sake shall haue it a hundred fold in heauen then Peter said Master we haue left all to follow thee what shall we haue Our Sauiour told him that they should sit vpon twelue seats and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel The Frier cried out

euery man to his owne Classe and there stay till the bell rings againe and then againe at the first toll they and the Schollers come out for they must not breake the Orders and Rules of the Schoole In the morning after they haue been at Schoole an houre and a halfe or thereabout the same bell rings and then they goe to Church to heare Masse which endures halfe an houre and then they returne to their Classes againe But in some Countries when the daies are long after Masse they goe home to breake-fast and within halfe an houre after they come to schoole againe Euery day or euery other day they haue disputations in the three lowermost Classes where the boies doe challenge and prouoke one another in the declining of Nounes Pronounes Verbs or Participles or in coniugating of Verbs either in Latine or Greeke And this they doe for to get one anothers place which breeds such emulations among them that it makes them of their owne accord study both night and day some to maintaine their places seats and dignities and others of meere schoole ambition to aspire and ascend higher But none must as I haue heard challenge or prouoke the Emperour or the Senators but those that are next in dignity vnto them so that those of the Plebeyans cannot ascend to the Senate or any other place or dignity but by degree When two of them haue done disputing the Master giues his iudgement and then other boies start vp and craue leaue of the Master to challenge their aduersary to the combat who permits those two whom he pleaseth to enter into the List and thereupon these two companions stand vp and crosse themselues first before they beginne to oppose one another The Iesuits haue another pretty tricke how to make their Schollers study and bring in profit for themselues that is They will sometimes giue vnto their Schollers both a priuate or a publike Premium a reward which doth not onely animate and incourage the boies to study but also oblige and enduce their parents to recompence the Schoole-master But vnto great men or rich mens sonnes they doe vse to giue the best Premia or rewards because they doe expect in counter-exchange a great recompence to the poorer sort they giue little Pictures of Saint Ignatius their Patron of the blessed Virgin Mary or of some Saint that they most affect But on the richer sort they bestow Beads and Bookes or some costlier Pictures Euery Saturday in the afternoone all the Schollers of their seuerall Classes doe meet together in a great spacious roome to be catechized by one of the Iesuites who is appointed to expound Canisius Catechisme and to strike or infuse into their tender capacitie such damnable points of doctrine as they please as that it is a meritorious deed to murder Kings and Princes being excommunicated by the Pope To equiuocate cog lye cheat and that a Roman Catholike is not bound or tied to keepe faith with Heretikes meaning Protestants And a thousand more of their Iesuiticall positions which I for breuitie sake doe forbeare to treat of Into this catechizing Schoole none are permitted to enter but onely their owne Schollers for it seemes they are ashamed to let men of vnderstanding know what good instructions they giue vnto their Pupils But howsoeuer those points of doctrine they strike into their capacity in their tender age the same very seldome weareth away but rather increaseth with their yeeres as daily experience teacheth vs. I would to God that the Church of England which professeth the true Orthodoxall Religion would be as carefull to haue her children instructed in their nonage in the truth of the Gospell of our Sauiour Christ Iesus which leadeth them to saluation as that false Mountebanke Synagogue of Rome the Chaire of Antichrist and the sonne of perdition doth to hurle them headlong to hell and damnation And therefore I would wish all religious and painfull Schoole-masters to take a course that those Infants which are committed to their tutelage bee before all things well instructed and taught the Christian Doctrine and the Principles or grounds of the true Religion Moreouer the Iesuites Schollers must not reueale vnto any man those points of Doctrine that are taught them in their catechizing Schooles for if they doe they must confesse it to their ghostly Father who is a Iesuite and most commonly the Prefect of the Schooles when he comes to be shrift which is once euery moneth and then he is sure to haue some extraordinary penance inflicted vpon him and euer after to be branded and noted for a Tell-tale out of the Schooles But such as will swallow downe this golden poisoned bait and proue a good Proficient oh he is a good boy and shall not want his Premium for indeed this day is the ordinary time that they bestow their best Premia or Rewards vpon their Schollers Oh the subtilties and trumperies of these Loyolists to seduce these simple youths to their diabolicall and Antichristian doctrine And whereas they take vpon them to instruct and teach children freely and without any reward I dare boldly speake it they get six times more than if they would keepe a mercenary Schoole for it is but a poore Schoole that brings them not in yeerely aboue fiue or six hundred pound sterling But their Schooles in great Cities and Vniuersities are worth a great deale more for it is an ordinary thing to see seuen or eight hundred Schollers in their fiue inferiour Classes and therefore in those Colleges where they teach all the Arts and where there are twelue Classes and euery Classe a Master there are not most commonly lesse than a thousand or fifteene hundred Schollers who are still soliciting their parents and friends to be bountifull to their Masters the Iesuites and they themselues when they come to inherit their Lands Patrimony or Portions will likely be beneficiall to them and still fauour and protect their society and faction to the vttermost of their power Yea the poorest of them all that are not able to bestow any gratuity vpon them when they are young and their Schollers when they are come to age and preferment will not be vngratefull to them of whom they had their learning and education And againe the Iesuites doe speake to their Schollers whose Parents are rich if they dwell in the same Towne or City to perswade them to frequent their Churches to heare Masses and to come to them to Confession and withall to be of their sodality to the end they might the better diue into their secrets and participate of their wealth which is the maine matter they aime at And whereas all other Monks and Nuns make three Vowes that is to say Chastity Pouerty and Obedience the Iesuites to the end to giue a push beyond all other religious Orders adde one more which is that they shall at all times be ready to runne and trudge from one Country to another like poore Rogues to what part soeuer

is to bee corrected in religious Orders because that very many of them are become so deformed in life and behauiour that they are a great scandall to the secular people and doe much hurt by their lewd and ill examples and therefore we thinke it meet that all conuentuall Orders be quite abolished and supprest not that we would haue any of them iniured but to prohibit them to admit any new men into their Orders so that by this meanes they may be all soone suppressed And wee thinke it fit that all boies who are not as yet professed Friers be expulsed out of their Monasteries And againe Alius abusus turbat Christianum Populum in Monialibus quae sunt sub cura fratrum conuentualium vbi in plerisque Monasterijs fiunt publica Sacrilegia cum maximo omnium scandalo auferat ergo S. V. omnem curam à conuentualibus eamque det ordinarijs aut alijs prout melius videbitur Another abuse doth trouble the Christian common wealth and that is in the Nuns who are vnder the custody and charge of the Conuentuall Friers who in most of their Monasteries doe commit publike Sacrilege to the great scandall of all men Let your Holinesse therefore take away this charge from the Conuentuall Friers and giue it to the Ordinaries or some others as you shall see best Now the names of these great personages that presented that Booke to the Councell of Trent and the Pope were these Gasper Cardinalis Contarenus Iohannes Petrus Card. Theatinus who was afterwards Pope Paul the fourth Iacobus Card. Sadoletus Reignaldus Card. Auglicus otherwise called Cardinall Poole Fredericus Arch. Salernitanus Hieronymus Arch. Brundusinus Ioh. Matthaeus Episcopus Veronensis Gregorius Abbas Sancti Georgij Venet. F. Thomas Magister Sacri Palatij Now you poore abused Romish Recusants vnmaske pull away the veile which the Monks Friers Iesuits and other Seminary Priests haue put before your eyes turne away your eares from their crafty illusions breake the bonds wherewith they haue captiuated you and purge your braines with some good Antidote against their charmes and then not till then shall you perceiue in what darknesse in what error and in what captiuity you haue beene so long detained whilest these cursed Hispaniolized Bald pates haue gouerned you then you your selues shall bee Iudges how much you haue lost of your beauty of your authority of your wisdome and of your lands reuenues and riches yea of your honour and estimation in the common wealth so that if you would I say looke backe vpon your selues you should see that your visages are so changed that you could not know your selues nay you would be afraid to behold your owne faces and withall your neighbours who were wont to pity your folly doe now hisse at you pointing with their fingers and mocking at your desperate rage and miserable stupidity which hath made you more sauage than Medea against your owne innocent children whom you most cruelly and without any humanity banish and transport ouer into forraigne Countries thereto be mewed vp like so many Hawkes in Colleges and Cloisters and withall wasting and consuming your lands and riches to maintaine these Impostors and cheating Copesmates who delude and deceiue you with their charmes and feed you with hope of the restauration or at least a toleration of the Romish Religion the which you haue long wished and expected for but I hope that you are as neere now to obtaine it as you and your fore-fathers were in Queene Elizabeths raigne Take patience a while and hearken vnto one that wisheth your welfare in the Lord and one who hath nor will relate vnto you any thing which shall be vnreasonable but wholly to your aduantage and profit Imitate therefore that vertuous Prince Antigonus who freely hearkned vnto a plaine country man whom he met with by chance reprehending the vices wherewith he was attached and albeit he felt himselfe pricked to the quicke yet he tooke all in so good part that it turned greatly to his profit correcting afterwards that which the good man had noted to be vicious in him and being returned home to his Court he said vnto his Minions that he had learned that of a Peasant which he neuer knew before namely the truth which his flatterers had kept hidden and disguised In like manner poore deceiued Country-men depart but a while from these fraudulous and traiterous Monks Friers Iesuits and Seminary Priests to learne not of your domesticall flatterers and deluders but of a stranger that is desirous for your owne good and safety to make you know the sincere verity which this long time you haue not heard of for that you would neuer giue eare to any discourse but those of your deceiuers who continually entertaine you with faire words and great hopes and all not worth a rotten Figge The King of Spaine seeing himselfe inriched with the spoiles of other Kings and Princes not contenting himselfe with the prey imagineth that it should serue him but as a Ladder to mount to the top of an absolute Monarchy And being as it were drunke with the greatnesse of his happy successe he beganne to plot higher attempts in his spirit as ambition neuer wants matter proposing England for the marke of his other enterprises but knowing well that hee might not attempt openly vpon it and that herein force of armes might turne rather to his damage than profit as it did in the yeere 1588. and likewise in the latter end of Queene Elizabeths raigne when he sent forces into Ireland to ioyne with the Rebell Tyrone he resolued to follow the aduice of Lisander namely Where the Lions skin is not strong enough to patch it with a peece of the Foxes But then he imagined that nothing could more securely and more soone eleuate him to the top of this greatnesse than a forcible Ladder of gold vnderpropped with a more than Punick subtilty and masked with a false semblance of integrity and religion First of all he had a recourse vnto a company of cunning Magicians who had beene ingendred here in England and other places of our Kings Maiesties Dominions but brought vp trained and instructed in the proud and Magnificent Palace of Rome at the foot of the sonne of Perdition or in some other of his Seminary Colleges or Cloisters whom hauing furnished in abundance with all that was requisite for for their affaires recommending vnto them all his designes but with this prouiso that they should especially keep themselues disguised and lurke vnder the maske of the Catholike Religion then he presently sends them into England And these are those mischieuous and traiterous brood which you call the holy Fathers the Iesuites a name truly fatall and pernicious to euery well ordered Monarchy and Common-wealth These Sorcerers together with a whole regiment of Monks Friers and Seminary Priests as their Coadiutors and fellow-helpers were presently receiued and entertained with great applause of you and all others the Partakers and Pentioners of