with the Crown of Spain do just the same with them and so with the rest From which carriage of theirs ariseth this mischief that it causes such distrusts in the hearts of Christian Princes that they cannot credit one the other which is a great hindrance to the publick peace and the universall wellfare of Christendome Besides this diffidence of theirs is that which makes it so difficult a thing to conclude a league against the common enemy and the precious enjoyments of peace to be of so little value among Princes Furthermore with these circumventing devices though they have so opened the eyes of the world and so sharpened mens wits in matter of State that they are notorious to all yet even at this very day to the great prejudice of the Church they are wholly taken up with matters of policy and ballance all their actions according to their worldly and selfish concernments But that these Jesuiticall Mysteries and Stratagems may be made yet more manifest I cannot here conceale the means whereby they inveigle Princes to their party There are some years now past since one of these Fathers called Father Parsons the Assistant of England wrote a book against the succession of the King of Scotland to the crown of England And another Father of the same Society called Crittonius with some others in a Book which they wrote defended the Title of the King of Scotland opposing the opinion of Father Parsons and pretending to be at difference among themselves But the truth was that all was cunningly contriv'd and carryed on by the command of their Father Generall onely out of this design that whosoever should succeed in the Kingdome of England they might have an excellent argument to work in him a great good opinion of their Society and so as much as may be make their advantages of him What more pertinent example can we desire to shew that Princes and their interests are the objects of all Jesuiticall actions and determinations and consequently to make good their own assertion That their Society is ae grand Monarchy Again that this truth may also be made manifest That the Jesuits regard not whether they please or displease any Prince when their own commodity lyes at the stake though the experience of infinite things past make it as clear as the Sun yet the particular instance I shall now adde wil make it somewhat the more conspicuous There is not any person in the world whom they are more bound to serve or indeed for whom they themselves pretend greater submission then the Bishop of Rome were it not for other particular reasons but out of a consideration only of the solemn vow they make to obey him Yet when Pius Quintus would have brought in something of reformation amongst these Fathers by reducing them to a performance of their duty in the Quire they submissively refused to obey him as conceiving it a notorious prejudice to their Society to be reduced to any thing suitable to the practise of other Monkes And for those few among them that conscientiously did comply with the Popes pleasure they were ever afterwards called by way of derision Quintini and made so contemptible that never any of them could be admitted to the least preferment among them After the same manner did they oppose glorious S Charles Archbishop of Millaine when in the quality of Legate à latere to his Holinesse he endeavoured to reduce them to Religious discipline But to what end do I mention these when they think it a scorn to submit to the sacred Canons themselves but contrary to the provisions made therein make merchandise of Jewels Rubies and Diamonds which they trade to the Indies for Nor is that opinion altogether groundlesse that the greatest part of the precious stones sold in Venice belong to the Jesuits since the report took its first rise from their own Agents and Brokers whom they employ'd in the sale of them But that they are no faithfull Servants to the Bishop of Rome what ever they pretend I need onely the acknowledgement of those Fathers who for no mean default were called by processe to Rome I neither can nor would if I could name them nor am I much inclin'd to wade any farther into this businesse partly to avoid the bringing of any Prince upon the stage that might take offence at my discourse it being my desire to please all and not to disoblige any and partly that it might not be said I were guilty of an humour to inveigh against the Jesuits my purpose only having been to give a short and plain account of their courses and customes For as it many times happens that we see a person afflicted with some grievous infirmity betraying the extremity of his sufferings by such lamentations and cryes as reach heaven it self and it is apparent to every one that the man suffers no small torment yet there is not any able to discern the originall cause of his indisposition So the world is full of complaints against the Jesuits some for being persecuted by them others for being treacherously served by them yet the mischief still remains among us Nor is the cause thereof easily discovered though it is conceived it does not proceed from any thing so much as from that prodigious and indeterminate desire which they have still to encrease their power This is the apple of their eye which if it be but ever so little touched they make no difficulty to disgust any man whatsoever to circumvent and over-reach Princes to oppresse the poor to force Widdows out of their estates to ruine whole Nations nay many times by their interloping into affairs of publick concernment to raise jealousies and dissatisfactions among Christian Magistrates Now as there would happen a great inconvenience if that part which according to the designe of Nature was last formed as an instrument to serve the rest that for their precedency are the more noble and should attract unto it self all the purest blood and vitall spirits for it were the way to bring the whole to destruction So is it no lesse inconvenient that the Jesuits an Institution lately graffed into the body of the Church to be instrumentall as they themselves pretend in the conversion of Hereticks and the reduction of Sinners into the ways of Repentance should grasp into their power and presume upon the management of all the most weighty and important affaires of Prelates and Princes drawing from them the very life and spirits of their interests to make their own advantages thereof From this source springs all publick and private disturbances many are depressed who were their worth consider'd should be exalted many advanc'd who were more deservedly trod under foot with thousands of other inconveniences consequent thereto Many reasons might be produc'd drawn from experience it self to make it apparent what an insatiable ambition the Jesuits have to encrease still more and more in greatnesse It shall therefore suffice to make it appeare out of
upon the Empire and that there would have happened great revolutions if God had continued his life a little longer ita est sayes he in Latine sed per dei gratiam et bonorum curam culter obstitit That is to say 't is true but through the grace of God and the care of good men a knife prevented it Had there been a rack provided upon this hint he would possibly have said the truth not by halvs but absolutely and had discovered to posterity what France hath much suspected but never could clearly finde out May it please God to let the Grand-child of the great Henry know who these good men are who as the Jesuit said put France into mourning and sent out of this world his Grand-father of famous memory when he was preparing a triumph for his dearest spouse The Jesuits are afraid God should take them at their words if in their devotions they should say what all France does in that particular prayer which is made for the K ng Vitiorum monstra devitare hostes superare that is to say to shun the monsters of vices and to overcome his enemies The Provincial Pitard caused to be razed out of their Litanies which they say at eight of the clock these words printed HOSTES SUPERARE TO OVERCOME HIS ENEMIES the reason is for that the greatest enemy of the Crown of France since Charles the fifth being the Spanyard it would trouble them extreamly to wish any victories to the King of France to the prejudice of the King of Spain I have been my self and have seen others very grave persons reproved by the Superiours for having after the prohibition made added the fore-recited words To which these making answer that it was lawful for them as French men and according to the order of Cathedral Churches that prayed so to pray to God that the King might be victorious over his Enemies you must replied they to hide their malicious treachery under the veyl of Piety conform your selves not to the Gallican Church but to the order of Rome which does not demand victories for Kings If there be any one that out of curiosity would surprize them in this he may make speed to see the Litanies which they have in the Oratory of their Hall of recreation and he shall finde in those little books if they are still used that these words Hostes superare are dashed out with a pen. It must needs be that the wills of these Zealots are very corrupt since they distil venome even into their devotions The King of France founds Colledges for these Hypocrites to the end they may pray for the prosperity of his arms and the Superiours of Guienne by an express command forbid those that are under them to desire even in their publick prayers that he should overcome his enemies This hatred against Kings which in many among them is become another nature is not satisfied only with Blood royal but engages them further to wish ill to all those who by their wise councels and high enterprises endeavour the greatness and dilatation of the state When the news came of the general revolt of all Portugal they immediately conceiving that a revolution so fatal to the Spanyard had been brought about by the policy of the most eminent Cardinal Richelieu I have known for certain that four Jesuits discoursing of it that night very confidently and privately in a chamber on that side where Theology is taught in Bourdeaux one of them was so enraged to hear that so considerable a loss had befallen the Crown of Spain that out of madness he took a picture he had of the Cardinall 's and having run it through several times with a pen-knife at the eyes and the heart put it into the flame of the candle and burnt it The wounds given the paper did that great Polititian no great hurt but had he ever discovered the exasperated inclinations of these creatures of Spain he would have taken a little more heed of those who under the name of Jesuits would make the world believe that they live out of it Another of the same society having observed that an unskilful Graver had made a very wretched draught of that great Minister of state bought up abundance of them and having made them up into packets sent them to diverse Colledges in Spain and Germany saying that he would have his Brethren to see the Picture of that Devil These sallies do indeed speak something that is childish but they are withal conclusive Arguments of their malice against the Crown under which they live When some Bishops have ordered Te Deum to be sung and publick devotions to be made in acknowledgement of the happy success of his Majesties Arms I have often heard sometimes one sometimes another say I am content to pray heartily to God not that he would prosper his Majestie 's Arms but that he would stay the course of their bloody victories and confound the counsels and designs of the Cardinal who sets all Europe on fire to satisfie his own vain glorious humour What will all well affected French men say of those that persecute the state even in their prayers If they consider their proceedings ever since their first comming into France they will find that if this hypocritical Body ever discovered any respect to the Princes thereof it hath been meerly in order to its own concernments and is no longer dutiful and obedient to the soveraign power then it is flattered aâ—d loaden with benefits thereby From the acts of hostility which they exercise against their lawful superiours the Bishops when they are countenanced by the Court you may imagine how violent and furious they will be against the civil Magistracy when ever the Pope shall think fit in their particular quarrels to protect them I shall say more when in a book it is in my thoughts to write concerning their Institution I shall take occacasion to explicate the Rule which obliges them to stick to one or the other party in the differences that happen between Christian Princes In the mean time I wish France may open its eyes that she may take heed that this generation of Vipers which she feeds in her breast do not at last to her destruction eat out their way through her belly and her bowels CHAP. III. An enditement of Encroachments and Antidates put in against the Jesuits THose things whereof most men agree in their judgements are commonly grounded upon some truth Of a thousand people in France that shall take occasion to speak of the revenues of the Jesuits nine hundred shall accuse them of being too much inclined to the things of this world and I dare affirm without running the hazard of doing truth any injury that to procure them they make nothing to supplant Orphans and Widdows nay think it not much to oppress by false contracts tradesmen and the poorest sort of people When I was sent to preach in their Priories and was accordingly obliged to
what he was before and they make â—o more account of him in their domestick discourses â—nd visits then if he were but an imaginary piece of â—relacy that signifies nothing in the Church I shall â—ot here make it my businesse to name those Prelates whose lives and manners they wreak their malice upon Crimes though falsly imputed may very much preâ—udice those whose lives are as it were the Looking-Glasses of the ordinary rate of men But should I undertake such a Catalogue I should bring into that number above two Cardinalls above five Arch-bishops and above twenty Bishops whose reputation though spotlesse as the Sun they have seriously endeavoured to eclipse I need say no more then that the Clergy of France is obliged to demand an honourable reparation and acknowledgement for the indignities committed by these Enemies of the Hierarchy â—gainst the most illustrious the Lord primate of Aquiâ—aine the late Arch-bishop of Bourdeaux as also against Lytâ—lfi Maroni Bishop of Bazas who having through his whole life behaved himselfe as a learned and zealous Prelate so far as to have spent some part thereof in the hardship and inconveniences of a painfull Mission among the pastors of his Episcopall charge to the edification of his whole Diocesse is neverthelesse by them accused as a Desertor of the true fâ—ith and charged with being a cruell enemy to the Pope and all upon no other ground then that he had receiv'd order to get Aurelius printed a book it seems that containes something against them The Bishop of Rochell heretofore of the same quality at Xainctes they cannot affect because he is too much a Bishop and too good a Frenchman for their designes Monsieur de Bethune Arch-bishop of Bourdeaux is not so well serv'd by these crafty Sycophants as he imagines himselfe nay he is not unacquainted with those that have wounded his reputation with their venemous discourses I say nothing of the Bishop of Poictiers whose life is a perpetuall Sermon and whose learning is generally known nor yet of the Bishop of St Papoul of whose great worth and abilities they have a great jealousy They employ the utmost of their malice to revile and disparage those that any way injure them and make all the interest and lay all the plotts they can to crush them underhand The case is the same with Vniversities Let them be never so famous or considerable they shall not be free from their attempts A man needs no more then to be a Doctor and to weare the hood to raise against him the persecutions of those who to the prejudice of Learning and learned men impudently pretend to the Empire of all Literature Who of that quality of the Inhabitants of Guienne nay indeed of France hath not heard of the Affronts they did the magnificent Rector of Poictiers during the Rectorship of Gilbert Rousseau Did they not cause him to be hissed at by the petties of their Classes O disgrace that speakes the excesse of insolence The Muses will never forget that black-pach of Jesuiticall malice Do but call to mind the complaints of Sorbonne the scandalous pamphlets that have been written the palpable cheats and foule play they make use of to bring into a certaine disesteem the excellent Books of Monsieur Arnauld and you will soone find what badgers teeth they have when they come to bite Nay when they are once exasperated they have not the least respect or tendernesse for Governours and Intendents of Provinces I know that to be revenged of the Count de Oignon Governour of Rochell who had deny'd them something which he could not justly grant them they did him at Court very considerable disservices Ungratefull men ought not only to be stript of those things which they have received from the liberality of others but should be reduced to a condition below Beasts who have all in some measure a resentment for 〈◊〉 good turne done them Monsieur de Ville Montei hath â—een at the charge of building them a very sumptuous Church furnished them with means to build magnifiâ—ent Lodgings suitable therto procured them an adâ—ition to their Revenue of two thousand Francs per â—n in Rochell made great presents to the Colledge of Poictiers maintained them against the university â—lwayes countenanced them by his authority and Inâ—erest and yet I speak it in the presence of God he â—oes not escape their bloody revilings and calumnies When the Provinces whereof he now hath the superinâ—endency petitioned the King that he might be restored â—o his former Employments I have known some Jesuits â—hat expressed a more then ordinary dissatisfaction thereâ—â— and countenanced the discourses of those that were â—dversaries to that great person and that with so much â—ndiscretion and impertinence that I went to Peter Regnier Rector of Fontenay to give him notice thereof â—hreatning him with all that if he would not stay the â—uxe in the tongue which two Fathers above all the â—est were extreamly troubled with I would give the General an account of the businesse For certainly it was a thing not to be endured that that Gentleman â—hould be spoken of every where with much honour â—hat only those whose subsistance was in a great part the â—ffect of his good offices and liberality towards them â—hould be the most violent in speaking against his reeâ—tablishment 'T is generally known all over France what extraâ—rdinary obligations were put upon the Jesuits by â—he late Duke of Espernon as having been one whose sollicitations contributed more to their reestablishment in France after they had been deservedly â—anished thence for their crimes by the most honouraâ—le parlement of Paris then any other man's whatsoeâ—er And yet all the Province of Guienne whereof that Heros of our age was Governour hath with much indignation observed that those ungratefull wretches thought it no prudence with the other Monkes not to engage themselves in the great difference that afterwards happened between him and the Arch-bishop but would needs declare themselves for the latter embarking the Society in his interests preached up the Interdiction were witnesses in the Suite and which is a thing execrable and wâ— thy death were the Authors of that mischievous Libell which treats his highnesse the Duke of Espernon as a Tyrant and persecutor of the Church with such strange sallies of infamy that his Eminence the Cardinall dela Valette thinking the insolence of the piece insupportable made diligent enquiry after the Authour but could never discover him But God who hath appointed certaine times wherein crimes should be reveal'd hath so order'd things as that this shall not any longer be hid I conceive my self obliged to make a publick discovery therof and it may be Monsieur de Candale will not be displeased to know who have been the implacable enemies of his great Father The Author of the Book is Leonard Alemay aâ— Jesuit an eloquent man who this last yeare taught eloquence with me in Bourdeaux The Superiours had laid their commands upon
hands of the Jesuits In the mean time let us take their proceeding into examination and consider the imprudences and poore occasions they are put to therein CHAP. V. Discovering the cheats and evasions of the Iesuits in their prosecution WHen Ignatius said in the Letter he writ to the Monkes of his Order in Portugall that it was his desire that Obedience should be the ear-mark whereby the true children of the Society should be distinguished from others he had said more truly according to their Institution and ordinary practise if he had express'd himself thus it is my desire that cheats and circumventions should be the undeniable characters whereby you might be known to be right Jesuits For he that shall consider their equivocations in matter of Justice their ambiguous expressions in conversation and dealings with men the mentall reservations and restrictions which they have introduced into Morall Divinity to the great disadvantage of Truth their crafty designes to cajoll the simple in their Shriving-seats and their visits purposely to get a claw into their Estates by surreptitious donations must needs conclude that a mischievous craftinesse is the Soule which informs and gives motion to that vast Body which acts not either in things relating to Morality or civill affaires but by dissimulation and complyances To demonstrate this truth I have instances enough to make a volume but the businesse now in agitation is to shew their foule practise in their indictment against me Beaufes through whose mouth the Provincial and the Consultors cast up their choler and indignation furnishes me with an argument that cannot be answered Courteous Reader says he in the beginning of his Book you are desir'd to take notice that the prosecution against Peter Jarrigius by way of indictment is not carryed on either upon any request of the Reverend Fathers of the Society of Jesus or for any crime committed by him while he was of their Society he is onely charged with Sacriledges committed by him since his profession of the Religion pretendedly reformed And a little lower the charge they have hitherto had against Monsieur Vincent is purely civill to oblige him to produce before Monsieur the Lieutenant Generall of this City the originall copy of the book he hath published to be compared with the Letters whereby Jarrigius himself hath refuted the Impostures scattered abroad under his name And a little lower The Consistory was obliged to bring into Court those pieces which the Fathers of the Society required especially the Act of Novemb. 24. 1647. Here I desire the Reader to take notice that these Monasticall Fiends demand and that with importunity that the Act of November 24 should bee brought before the Judge and he shall find anon wherefore and to what end they desire it Lastly he saies in the conclusion of his Advertisement that the Scribes Viau and L' Erpiniere have declared that the writing and Seale of the Act of Profession of Peter Jarrigius of Novemb. 24 represented by M. Gasper Le Roy Register agreed with the writing and subscription of the beforementioned Letters Of all men Lyers ought to pray for good memories This man hath one that is so treacherous that ere he come to the midst of a discourse that takes up but a small page he destroyes what he had affirmed in the beginning of it The cheat is discovered ere the word is out of his mouth as a pick-pocket taken in the midst of the market-place with the purse in his hand I feare me the man fondly imagines that the French who will be guilty of so much curiosity as to read his book are overgrowne with such a sottish credulity that he can perswade them that they do not see what 's before their eyes He impudently affirmes that they are not my prosecutors in that indictment and two periods after he acknowledges that it was by their means the Consistory was forced to produce in Court the act of November 24. which they thought a sufficient ground whereupon to put in an endictment against me When they have thrown the stone before all the world they withdrew the hand and then confidently affirme both by word and writing that they did it not For any horrid thing such as this may be the only way is to deny it But is it possible the Inhabitants of Rochell should read this abominable lie in the very Frontispiece of the advertisement to the Reader without conceiving an indignation against the Impostor who must needs be thought to reproach the weaknesse of their understanding when he denies to their faces what they have seen with their eies Methinks it might have been enough for James Beaufes to cleare himselfe for his own part and to call for a basin of water as Pilate did and to wash hands before the people saying I am innocent as to the blood of this just person which if he had done I am confident the people of Rochell would not have cryed out His blood be upon us and upon our children No it is a priviledge proper only to the Jesuits to procure the death not only of an inconsiderable person such as I may be but that of great Princes and most Christian Kings and to say after all we have not done any such thing I referre my self to any man whether this be not to lie diabolically or rather Jesuitically The Sermons they have preached convince them the bookes they have written betray their malice and their both private and publick sollicitations generally known all over Rochell discover their violence against me and yet they are so insensibly impudent as to affirme nay were it requisite they would sweare as Jesuits that they are not my prosecutors in this businesse Let us divert our selves so far as to snap these notorious Lyers in their Sycophancy and elusions What should be the meaning of those violent and furious invectives wherein Beaufes and others were publickly employed to the great scandall of the people all the insinuations of wit and Rhetoricks and all to prove during the space of four whole months that I was guilty of sacriledge and consequently of death To what end was that Scandalous pamphlet scattered up and down under the title of The Impieties and Sacriledges of Peter Jarrigius Out of what designe was it that there was such importunity used to oblige the Consistory to bring into Court the act of the 24th of November it being the onely thing whereon they thought an enditement might be justly grounded against me as to Sacriledge In a word what 's to be inferr'd from so many consultations So many combinations against me so many designs upon me so many persons sent to seize my person so many falsities imposed upon me Must it not needs argue an absolute losse of judgement not to perceive that they are so far from being simply the adversaries that seeke my life but the witnesses that accuse me and the Advocates that plead against me in as many places as they can command pulpits in
him to write it and accordingly Peter Guales his Rector and the Superiour of the professed house were the men that furnish'd him with arguments and memorialls that so the illustrious house of La Valette may be satisfied that it was not some private Jesuits that put that affront upon the late Duke of Espernon but the superiours who in law do alwayes represent their whole Society To justify what I now affirme there are many witnesses and among others Laurence Fontenay and Peter Chabanaâ— Jesuits who could never digest that presumption Besides not to mention that the said Duke having bestowed on them the Abbey of La Tenaille in Xaintoâ—g they have had another difference with hâ—m since for that he had built his faire house of Plassac upon some part of â—he lands belonging to the said Abbey and forced him â—o pay therefore seventeen thousand Livers Thus â—s it remarkeable that God hath sooner or later a punishment to be inflicted on those who further and countenance the Order of the Jesuits a generation of Vipers so destructive to the universe CHAP. XIII Reflections upon the twelve precedent Discourses REFLECTION I. IF I had taken a generall survey of all the Colledges all the Houses all the places designed for the enterâ—ainment of their Novices and all the Residences which â—he Jesuits are possessed of all over the universe and made enquiries into the crimes I charge them with â—nd convict them of in the precedent discourses the mischiefe were not inconsiderable nor the confusion â—ight to a Body which out of a pure regard of its outward profession of Sanctimony if it could not avoid â—ll disorders should not certainly have degenerated â—o far as to wallow in so great a number of crimes and â—hose so horrid But that which I would have the Reader particularly observe is that it was not my deâ—igne to give an account of all the Provinces in the world no that were too great a labour my Inquisition â—eaches not all those of France for I have not been in â—hem all but is confined only to the Province of Guiâ—nne which is the least of all nor do I search all the Colledges thereof but limit my selfe to foure or five of those wherein I have lived This considered no doubt but the inference will be That the corruption of Manners ' must needs be grown to a great height in that Society when that upon the examination of foure or five of their Residences I find in them some guilty of Forgeries others of Murthers others of Sodomies others of Coyning others of Sacriledge c. And these not guilty of the said crimes once or twice commited but twenty fifty a hundred times Let the world then judge of the whole peece by this patterne and measuring the other provinces proportionably to this conclude how prevalent the spirit of mischiefe and Villany must needs be in that Society and consequently that it is not without just ground that the world thinkes it too too burthensome to be any longer endured REFLECTION II. 'T is a monasticall Maxime that the offences which being committed by a secular or worldly person were veniall become grand sacriledges and mortall sinnes in a high Nature when they are committed by a Monk or Frier That a man may affirme an Order to be guilty of a degeneration there is no necessity he should convict the Cenobites of being Murtherers Sodomites Traytors to their King no he need say no more then that they decline from the profession of that regular severity which made their predecessors be looked on as Saints and that they are come to that degree of dissolution as not to observe in a manner any of their rules Be it therefore taken into consideration that I do not here prosecute the Jesuits for triviall offences such as they might casually commit in the observation of their Institution Of which nature are grumbling and dissatisfaction in point of obedience their shunning the inconveniences of that Poverty which they solemnly vow to embrace that they live more sumptuously and feed more delicately then the most luxurious Cittizens that they are perpetually quarrelling among themselves and impose crimes one upon another that their bell does indeed ring at four in the morning to make the world believe that they are at prayers upon their knees when in the mean time they are stretching themselves in their beds none rising unless it were two or three of the most zealous in every colledge c. But it is to be observed that I charge them with crimes no less then those of Antidates Murther of infants Treason the violation of Religious women Coyning such as are sufficient to prove not only an irregularity and deformation or degeneration of the order but such an absolute corruption as is not found in the greatest Republicks but only among those Cains and Cast-aways that are equally abominable in the sight of God and men Imagine then from this reflection what an order this is which yet fills the world with shameless brags that they outvy the Recollects in point of austerity by practising the exercises of Ignatius REFLECTION III. For a more particular understanding of the accusations I produce to the publick I desire the Reader to make yet this further reflection that I have not made an inquisition into all the horrid crimes committed by the Jesuits for these seventy or eighty years past since which time the Locusts have been scattered up and down the Province of Guienne But I have confined my self to a search only of ten or twelve years for the most part of their crimes and to fifteen or sixteen at the most for some as for instance that of the Antidate If then they are come to that height of wickedness in so few years what can be expected from that Society for the future when they are already come to these extremities And if a man consider those who within these eight or nine yeares upon very just grounds have quitted it he will find that they are the greatest wits and the most eminent of the Order REFLECTION IV. When some ordinary servant Maide yields to the violence and importunity of temptation and betraies her honour the scandall is not great in a Citty two or three of her nearest relations are a litle troubled at it and four or five of her neighbours make a stirre that any such thing should happen But when it falls out that some gentlewoman of quality parts with that whâ—ch is accounted most precious among women it raises discourse through a whole Countrey and the world is in a manner scandalised at it The Reflection that naturally arises hence is that the persons whom I produce by name and surname as Authors of the crimes before mentioned are the most eminent of the Order such as Provincials Rectors Procurators of Provinces Preachers Divines great Humanists as for instance Malescot Rousseau Pitard Sabbatheri John Adam Petiot Olive Biroat Dusresne Manian and such others in abundance as whose names