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A35032	A short narrative of the discovery of a college of Jesuits at a place called the Come in the county of Hereford which was sent up unto the Right Honorable the Lords assembled in Parliament at the end of the last sessions / by the Right Reverend Father in God Herbert, Lord Bishop of Hereford ... ; to which is added a true relation of the knavery of Father Lewis, the pretended bishop of Landaffe, now a prisoner in Monmouth gaol.	Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing C6977; ESTC R31314	5,342	24

A Short NARRATIVE Of the Discovery of a College of Jesuits At a Place called the COME In the County of HEREFORD Which was sent up unto the Right Honorable The LORDS Assembled in PARLIAMENT at the End of the last Sessions by the Right Reverend Father in God HERBERT Lord Bishop of Hereford according to an Order sent unto him by the said Lords to make diligent Search and return an Account thereof To which is added A true Relation of the Knavery of Father LEWIS The Pretended Bishop of Landaffe Now a Prisoner in Monmouth Gaol London Printed by T. N. for Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1679. A short Narrative of the Discovery of a College of Iesuits at a place called The Come in the County of Hereford Together with an Account of the Knavery of Father Lewis the pretended Bishop of Landaffe c. IN the Parish of Llanro●hall in the County of Hereford there are two Houses called The Upper and Lower Comes or Middle and Lower Comes with a walled Court before each of them having Lands belonging to them worth about Threescore pounds per Annum they pay Taxes at Eight and fifty pounds per Annum This Estate did formerly belong to Edward Lord Marquis of Worcester who by his Lease dated Novemb. 10. in the Twelfth year of King Charles the I. did Lett it for Fourscore and nineteen years to one William Morton who dying left it to one Robert Hutton living in St. Giles's in the Fields London stiled Merchant which Hutton hath by his Lease dated the second day of February 1677. and sealed and delivered in the presence of William Ireland Iohn Fenwick I. Groves set the Lower Come to one William Williams for One and twenty years at Forty pounds per Annum And he hath likewise m de a Letter of Attorney to one Peter Pullen a Servant intrusting him with the management of the Profits of both the Comes which is dated the 27th day of April 1678. and the Witnesses to it are W. Ireland Io. Fenwick and William Cornelius One of these Houses is a fair gentile House wherein there are six lodging Chambers each one a convenient Study to it with a Standish left in them besides several other lodging Rooms The other House is also a good Countrey House with several Chambers and Studies to some of them all in very good repair But the Furniture now removed we cannot yet find whither The remaining Dwellers in the House who were but Under-Servants will not confess They are apparently Perjured For they flatly denied upon Oath several things which were made out by others and then they confessed them There are One and twenty Chimnies in both Houses and a great many Doors to go in and out at and likewise many private Passages from one Room to the other These Houses are seated at the bottom of a thick woody and rocky Hill with several hollow places in the Rocks wherein Men may conceal themselves and there is a very private Passage from one of the Houses into this Wood. In one of these Houses there was a Study found the Door thereof very hardly to be discovered being placed behind a Bed and plaistred over like the Wall adjoining in which was found great store of Divinity Books and others in Folio and Quarto and many other lesser Books several Horse-loads but they are not yet brought to me it being Christmas Holy-days but they remain in a safe hand many whereof are written by the principal learned Jesuits And there were found two Paper Books in Folio in the Front of one written Ordinationes variae pro Collegio Sancti Xaverii Xaverius was the Co-founder with Ignatius of the Jesuits Order and his Picture was there set up Ordinationes doth not here signifie Ordination as we commonly understand it but Orders and Rules sent from the Generals of the Jesuits Carassa and Paulus Oliva to the Jesuits here inhabiting as also Instructions from the Provincials of the Jesuits living in London unto those here The other Paper Book contains the great Benefactors being Queens Princes Nobles and several others of this and divers other Nations who have contributed towards the Foundation of Iesuit Colleges or the Maintenance of them and likewise the number of Masses appointed to be said for their Souls There was also found a Latin Book in Folio declaring That there is in London a College dedicated to S t Ignatius with Revenues belonging to it for the Iesuit Novices in the time of Probation One in Wales which I suppose are these two Houses dedicated to S t Xaverius A third is the Book saith in Staffordshire or Lancashire dedicated to S t Aloysius another prime Iesuit which Colleges when England shall be reduced to the Obedience of the Pope shall never be altered as this Book directs This printed Book and the other two Paper Books in Folio I have There are about Fifteen or Sixteen several printed Books containing the Decrees of the several Congregations of that Society at Rome that contain onely the Rules of the Society of Iesus There are several Books lately written and printed against the Protestant Religion and many small Popish Catechisms printed and tyed up in a bundle and some Welsh Popish Books lately printed and some Popish Manuscripts fairly and lately written Likewise there is a Picture of Ignatius Loiola the Founder of the Society and the most remarkable Actions and pretended Miracles of his Life not only written in printed Books but in Pictures in several sheets which Pictures refer to Ribadeneira's Book of Loiola's Life There is a loose Paper dated the First day of March 1652. it seems this was then founded a College in which directions were given that an Account of the Revenue and Disbursments should be sent yearly to the College in Rome It is there also mentioned that the same year there were baptized 34 reconciled to the Church of Rome 155 a great number of those that were fallen from the Church and regained 15 and other matters One Letter seems written by the Provincial to them of this House wherein Complaint is made That there was not Care enough taken to send Young Men to Rome to be there bred up in the English College and for which he saith the Pope was much displeased and threatned to take away their College there and fill it up with Scholars of some other Nation and Order In one of these Houses lived a mean Servant called Peter Pullen a Papist yet entrusted with the management of these Houses and Estates for Eight years past as he confesseth and was entrusted to receive a Rent of 30 l. per Annum from an Estate called Amberley in the Parish of Monmouth and another Rent of 18 l. per Annum from an Estate called Langunuill in the Parish of Dixton in the County of Monmouth and to manage them also part whereof defrayed the Expences of the College as appears in part by an Account Book where

there are many Leaves cut o●t I suppose they had timely Notice given them before the Order was sent me by the House of Lords and did thereupon do this and remove what they could before hand and part paid in money to such Iesuit Priests as were a●pointed to receive it but for these Eight years that he hath been Servant there he never hath made any Account unto nor held any Correspondence with the said Hutton who carrieth the name of this Estate This Pullen names seven several Iesuit Priests viz. Prichard Archer Harris Lewis Price Humfreys and Draicot who were used to resort thither and say Mass there but the Altar with all the Ornaments thereof was taken down and conveyed away only the Altar Stone remaining with five Crosses cut in it one at each corner and one in the middle Two Vestments with some other small matters were found in two Boxes hid in the Wood above-specifi'd it seems the other things were but newly removed and they had begun also to remove the Library for they had carried out and hid in a Pigs-Cot adjoining about two Horse-loads of Books There were found many Bottles of Oyl a Box of White Wafers stamped several Popish Pictures and Crucifixes some Reliques a little Saints Bell and an Incense Pot. It doth appear by several Examinations that on Sundayes and Holydayes many Papists did resort to these Comes and the greater part of Mr. Milburn ' s Family near unto them but I do not find that ever he himself frequented it A Relation of the Knavery of Father LEWIS the pretended Bishop of LANDAFFE Amongst other things which fell out in the Examination of the Jesuits College at Come in Herefordshire there is fully proved by several Witnesses this true Story following which being matter of Fact cannot be denied THere is amongst the Foxes of this Kennel one Lewis one of the established number of Jesuits of the College who is reported to be the Titular Bishop of Landaffe and who is now Prisoner in Monmouth There was a poor Woman to whom this Lewis was a Confessor her Father was a vicious Liver and dyed about half a year ago This poor Woman having been taught the Doctrine of Purgatory and being it seems of a very tender nature and reflecting upon the condition of her Father● Soul which she apprehended by their doctrine was in great torment in Purgatory S●e thereupon fell into a great grief and sorrow and with tears in her eyes address'd her self to this Father Lewis and told him She was inform'd that he could use means to fetch her Fathers Soul immediately out of Purgatory into Heaven and that she would give him all she had in the world to have it done with speed though she did not leave her self one penny to live on To this Father Lewis after a long pause told her thus Daughter I am glad to see so much grace in you as to believe the Holy Doctrine of Purgatory so firmly as to be so truly sensible of the Torture of your Fathers Soul therein True it is I can with the assistance of our most Holy Father the Pope bring your Fathers Soul out of Purgatory into Heaven but it will cost a great deal of money For I must send over to Rome to have power herein and several Masses must be celebrated both in Rome and all other Colledges of Iesuits and other Offices perform'd to do the work which Father Lewis said would cost a great deal of money The poor Woman answer'd She did not care what it cost her so dear so precious was her Fathers Soul to her that she would give all she had to have it done And then she ask'd him How much it would cost to have it done Who after a pause and reckoning upon his fingers-ends told her It would cost One Hundred pound to have it well done With that the Woman cry'd bitterly and said She was not worth half so much money in the world Then Father Lewis told her He would do it for Fourscore pounds The Woman reply'd She was not worth half Fourscore Then Father Lewis ask'd her What she was worth in the whole world To which she answer'd very honestly and truly That she was worth but Thirty five pound Then Father Lewis told her Because she was poor that he would take but Thirty pound And thereupon they agreed But when Father Lewis understood after from the Woman that she had no ready money he began to storm and to be in a great passion yet at last he was contented to take her own Bond for the Thirty pound but took the Bond in a Friends name and caus'd the Woman to give a Warrant to an Attorney to confess Judgment upon the Bond which was done accordingly and the money was to be paid within six Weeks within which time Father Lewis undertook peremptorily to have the Man's Soul out of Purgatory into Heaven and so they parted and the Woman hereby much comforted Afterwards as soon as ever the six Weeks were over and the money became due Father Lewis sent to the poor Woman to come to him again and as soon as ever she came he produc'd unto her a Book with gilded Leaves and red Letters and after he had tumbled the Leaves of the Book backward and forward he clapt the Book to his car and then said thus looking into the Book Here it is I am sure now your business is done this I tell you to your comfort that your Father's Soul is as surely in Heaven at this very time as I am here in this Chair And then after a little time that the Woman had express'd her joy at these good tydings Father Lewis ask'd her Whether she had brought him his money the Thirty pound she was engaged for She answer'd She had not brought him all because her money was out in other mens hands and could not get it in so soon but she had brought him Ten pound and humbly intreated him to receive that at present and he should have the residue as soon as possibly she could get it in But at this Father Lewis was startled that she had not brought the whole Sum and fell into a violent fury with the poor Woman reviled her gave her many harsh and bitter Words threaten'd the poor Woman to send Bayliffs to take her in Execution upon her Judgment and cast her Body into Prison and not only so but threaten'd to Excommunicate her also for the breach of her faith in not paying the Thirty pound according to her Engagement But upon second thoughts Father Lewis took the Ten pound and he came to this farther agreement with her which was that she should pay Five pound more forthwith and the other Fifteen pound within a quarter of a year after and if she failed then to render her Body to Prison and suffer Excommunication After this the poor Woman made hard shift to pay Father Lewis the Five pound but before the other Fifteen was due a man of the Protestant Religion sollicited the poor Woman for Marriage The poor Woman ingenuously and conscientiously confess'd unto him That she was worth nothing but was in debt to her Ghostly Father Lewis Fifteen pound And acquainted him how and for what she came to be so indebted This man notwithstanding marries her and afterwards by degrees drew her from the Roman Church to the Church of England and then brought her before a Justice of Peace to whom she discover'd all this upon Oath And this Woman knowing where her holy Confessor Lewis us'd to hide himself under Ground under a clay Floor cunningly contriv'd in a poor despicable Cottage and being now exasperated at the Holy Cheat and desirous as is most just to catch his person as he would have catched hers and endeavouring to have satisfaction from him for the money he with so much uncharitableness cheated her of did conduct a Justice of Peace to the place where they found and unkennel'd the Fox and from thence the Justice of Peace sent Father Lewis to Monmouth Gaol where he now continues FINIS S●e the Examination of Mr. Bo●thby Lord of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Peter Pullen ' s Examination