broken and I am deliuered Lord establish me in thy Truth thy Word is Truth FINIS A CATALOGVE OR Note of such English bookes to the knowledge of which I could come as haue been printed reprinted or dispersed by the Priests and their Agents in this Kingdome within these two yeers last past or thereabouts INprimis the DOVVAY BIBLES that is the old Testament onely in two Volumes with Notes reuised by D. Worthington and reprinted heer in London sold for forty shillings which at an ordinary price might bee afforded for tenne THE NEVV TESTAMENT translated by the Rhemists and reprinted in quarto sold for sixteene or twenty shillings which might bee afforded for a Noble or lesse THE SAME TESTAMENT in English lately printed in decimo sexto sold for twelue shillings which might bee well afforded for foure THE ANKER OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE in foure parts written by D. Worthington the three last-parts printed in London and sold by him at his Lodging in Turnbull street for foureteen shillings which might bee afforded for fiue shillings THE PROTESTANTS APOLOGIE written by Brerely reprinted and sold for seuenteene shillings and might bee afforded for six shillings or lesse SAINT AVGVSTINES CONFESSIONS translated by Tob. Mathew and sold for sixteene shillings beeing but a little book in octauo and might bee afforded for two shillings six-pence Two other bookes in octauo lately written by Tob. Mathew and sold very deare THE AVTHOR AND SVESTANCE OF PROTESTANT RELIGION written by Smith a Priest now in London and sold for six shillings and might bee afforded for twelue pence LVTHER HIS LIFE AND DOCTRINE a railing book written by Louell a Priest who is at this present in London sold for eight shillings worth two shillings AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THE PESTIFEROVS WRITINGS OF ENGLISH SECTARIES in two parts written by D. Norice a Priest now resident in London sold for eight shillings might be afforded for foure shillings THE GVIDE OF FAITH written by the said Author and sold at an vnreasonable rate THE PSEVDO-SCRIPTVRIST by the same Author a book of some twelue sheetes of paper and sold for fiue shillings THE CHRISTIAN VOVV by the same Author a book of ten sheetes of paper and sold for two shillings six-pence The loud lying Pamphlet tearmed THE BISHOP OF LONDONS LEGACIE written by Musket a Iesuite and reprinted with a preface of a new disguise the book conteineth about sixteene sheetes they squeezed from some Romish buyers six or seuen shillings a piece A deare price for a dirty lye Yet I wish they that haue any beliefe in it might pay dearer for it THE SVMMARY OF CONTROVERSIES written by D. Smith sold as deare as the rest THE NEVV RELIGION NO RELIGION written by one Floud a Priest now in London sold at a high rate and so are all the rest following THE SVM OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE written in Latine by Petrus Canisius and translated into English by I. Heigham a Priest in London THE TRVE CHRISTIAN CATHOLICK by the same Author THE LIFE OF SAINT KATHARINE OF SIENNA by the same Author THE PROTESTANTS CONSVLTATION a dangerous book lately written by an vnknowne Author IESVS MARIA IOSEPH lately come out of the Presse Printed in London by Simons à Carmelite now in London Two other Bookes written by the same Author called THE WAY TO FINDE EASE REST AND REPOSE VNTO THE SOVLE BELLARMINES STEPS in English HIS ART OF DYING WELL in octauo THE EXERCISE OF A CHRISTIAN LIFE by S. B. THE VOCATION OF BISHOPS by D. Champney now in London THE IMAGE OF BOTH CHVRCHES by M. Pateson now in London a bitter and seditious book THE EXPOSITION OF THE MASSE A TREATISE OF THE REALL PRESENCE by Goddard a Priest now in London THE LOVE OF THE SOVLE Printed in London THE FOLLOVVERS OF CHRIST by F. B. DEMANDS TO HERETICKS in two parts by D. Bristow now in London AVRICVLAR CONFESSION MISSALE PARVVM PRO SACERDOTIEVS THE OFFICE OF OVR LADY Or the PRIMER two or three sorts of them lately printed THE IVDGE by G. M. THE RIGHT WAY TO GOD by Pursell an Irish Monke now in London SIXE BOOKES FVLL OF MARVELOVS PIETIE AND DEVOTION by G. P. THE APPENDIX by Doctor Norrice A DEFENCE OF THE APPENDIX written by Master Sweet a Iesuite lying in Holborne AN ANSVVER TO THE FISHER CATCHAT IN HIS OVVNE NET by the same Author These three last bookes containing but some sixe sheetes of paper either of them are sold by the Authors and their Factors for two shillings or halfe a crowne a piece SOLILOQVIES by R. T. THE ROSARY OF OVR LADY MEDITATIONS VPON THE ROSARY AN EXPOSITION OF THE ROSARY THE MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY AN INTRODVCTION TO A DEVOVT LIFE by I. Yorke a Iesuite now in London MIRACLES NOT YET CEASED by P. L. P. a saltlesse booke THE KEY OF PARADISE A HEAVENLY TREASVRY OF COMFORTABLE MEDITATIONS by Antho. Batt a Frier now in London THE WORD OF COMFORT written vpon occasion of the fall of the house at the Black-Friers THE VNCASING OF HERESIE by O. A. THE TREASRY OF CHASTITY THE WIDDOVVES GLASSE THE ECCLESIASTICALL PROTESTANTS HISTORY by D. Smith THE GROVNDS OF THE OLD AND NEVV RELIGION THE HIDDEN MANNA THE WANDRING SAINTS THE LITTLE MEMORIALL AN OVERTHROVV OF THE PROTESTANTS PVEPIT-BABâ—ES THE VNITIE OF GODS CHVRCH by one Master Steuens a Iesuite now in London POINTERS MEDITATIONS THE PROOFE OF PVRGATORY A COMFORT AGAINST TRIBVLATION LEDISME HIS CATECHISME lately printed heere in England THE RECONCILEMENT OF THE DALMATIAN BISHOP THE POPES POVVER THE LIFE OF SAINT BEDE A TREATISE OF FREE-WILL by Doctor Kellison Rector of the Colledge at Doway and now in London THE SACRAMENTS OF THE CATHOLICK CHVRCH by F. S. P. DAVYES HIS CATECHISME THE VISIBILITY OF THE CHVRCH THE CATHOLICK GVIDE A TREATISE AGAINST THE MARRIAGE OF PRIESTS by Wilson a Iesuite A GAGGE OF THE NEVV GOSPEL A SECOND GAGGE THE HONOVR OF GOD by Anthony Clerke An idle frothy booke by a brayn-sicke man THE PRELATE AND THE PRINCE a seditious booke THE RVLES OF OBEDIENCE by G. A. P. SAINT PETERS KEYES by Edmund Gill Iesuite SAINT AVGVSTINES RELIGION written by Brerely and reprinted THE REFORMED PROTESTANT by Brerely There was a Printing-house supprest about some three yeeres since in Lancashire where all Brerely his workes with many other Popish pamphlets were printed THE VIRGINALL VOVV by F. S. THE MIRROVR OF WOMEN MEDITATIONS ON THE PASSION A DIALOGVE BETVVIXT OVR SAVIOVR AND THE SAINTS OBSERVATIONS concerning the present affaires of Holland and the vnited Prouinces by You knowe the hand THE INGRATITVDE OF ELIZABETH OF ENGLAND VNTO PHILIP OF SPAINE THE SPIRIT OF ERROVR by D. Smith MEDITATIONS ON OVR SAVIOVRS WORDS ON THE CROSSE EVERY SAINTS PRAYER THE CATHOLICKS CROVVNE THE THREE CONVERSIONS reprinted written by F. Parsons GRANADOES MEMORIALL GRANADOES COMPENDIVM GRANADOES MEDITATIONS Translated THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CARDINALL BELLARMINE THE SHEDDING OF TEARES PARSONS RESOLVTIONS reprinted Anno 1623. SIONS SONGS or the melody of the Blessed THE DAILY PRACTICE THE ENEMIES OF GOD
by he was rescued Fitz-Simon qui supra Lib. 2. part 6. page 402. R.L.P. in lib. Instit The most diuine Sacrifice Fol. 36. There was a Gentlewoman neere Naples in Italy whose husband was a Captaine and shee hauing tidings that he was slaine in a battel caused weekly Masses to be said for him It fell out that this Captaine was imprisoned and after by good testimony it appeared that at the very same time Masses were saying for him his chaines and fetters fell from him and could not bee fastned Let mee help to prompt this Tale-teller with another of the same Cut. A Frier that had more minde to fill his owne purse then to empty Purgatory did very zealously and resolutely in his Sermon before his Offering auouch and warrant his Auditory that whosoeuer came vp with money to the Altar and would think of any his dearest friend whom he thought to bee a Prisoner in Purgatory should obtaine this grace by that indulgence that at the very instant of the moneys throwne in and clinking in the bason the soule should leap out of Purgatory R L.P. in lib. praedici Fol. 〈◊〉 The aforesaid Author reporteth of another Prisoner supposed also to bee dead whose Brother beeing an Abbot saying Masse for him his bands fell alwaies and could not restraine him whereat his enemies at length wearied gaue him liberty to redeeme himselfe Quorsum haec Why doe they take such paines and imploy their braines vpon these Inuentions namely to hook-in the people and bring greist to their Mill that their Masses may goe readily away for ready money But these former Inventions are but slight work posted ouer by some Prentice of the coyning trade Behold heere following a more worthy Master-piece wherein a chief Architect and a more nimble Interpreter of the Puppets is brought-in for an Actor A gentle-woman of England in one of the yeers of Iubile trauelled to Rome where beeing arriued shee repaired to Father Parsons who was her Confessor and he administring vnto her the blessed Sacrament which in the forme of a little Wafer hee put into her mouth obserued shee was long chewing and could not swallow the same whereupon he asked her whether shee knew what it was shee receiued Shee answered Yes a Wafer At which answer of hers Father Parsons beeing much offended he thrust his finger into her mouth and thence drew out a piece of red flesh which after was nailed vp against a post in a Vespery or priuate Chappell within our Lady-Church and though this were done about some twenty yeeres since or more yet doth that piece of flesh there remaine to bee seene very fresh and red as euer it was Witnesse I. Markes Iesuite in a book of his written of late and intituled The Examination of the new Religion page 128. Yea heere is a knocking and long-lasting lie worthy to be nailed vpon a post or pillory like the eare of a Rogue or a railing Moore This Moore lately lost his eares in Cheapside for speaking against the Protestant Religion c. Father Parsons was but a slender Iuggler that could not without putting his finger into her mouth suborne red for white I doubt that hee that inuented this Tale had sometimes beene at the shop of Cowbuck the Smith held by some to bee the putatiue Father of Parsons and there had seene the bottome hooâ—e of a horse-foot nailed against the Posts which vse to be the triumphant Trophies of Farriers and therfore thought he should meet with some that would beleeue a piece of raw flesh could be as solid lasting But I doe not read that this woman was euer possest with that beliefe as to adore the fore-said post with the forged Appendix and I am glad to finde euen in the weaker sex more truth in calling a Spade a Spade then plain dealing in her Master that would mock her and others by a trick of Leigerdemaine and therefore the Tale-maker was heere defectiue For to shew the acceptation and effect of this Miracle he should haue added that the woman yea and some wisemen too adored not onely the flesh but euen the naile with which it was crucified or rather postified This my new-coyned word fits their new-found Fable A Letter was sent vnto Father Parsons at Rome signifying vnto him that a kinsmans house of his heere in England had beene for the space of forty yeeres together molested by Diuels but by one Sacrifice or Masse offered by Father Parsons it was deliuered and his kinred who liued there hauing beene all their life time before zealous Protestants haue all of them since become Catholicks Io. Markes in lib praedict page 130. I beleeue many houses in England within these forty yeeres especially those that pertained to the friends and wel-wishers of Parsons and his fellowes haue beene much haunted with sprites not of the kinde of Fairies but of those of whom ingenuous Chaucer speaketh Chaucer that where the Limiter Exâ—rcising Priest went vp and downe within his station there were no diuels nor Hobgoblins to molest especially the weaker sex in the night time the reason he giues is demonstratiue For See There n'is none other Incubus but hee But this difference I obserue betweene the antient Priests of a course thread and these refined Scraphicall Masters of the Iesuiticall Loome they droue away Spirits only by their presence but these can dart out a Masse from ouer Sea some thousand miles off and with it blow away all the diuels that dance in such or such an inchanted Castle in England whereupon all the Protestants that dwell within kenning must needs turne Romanists Teste me ipso quoth the Diuell There was a man in Corduba within the conâ—ines of Spain aged fourescore yeers and odde who for the space of thirty yeers had been in a dead palsie and bedred and then had a burning desire to heare Masse and to haue the Bishops blessing and so caused himself by his seruants to be transported to S. Stephens Church The Masse heard and he born back to his house within few daies he to all mens admiration became whole and sound and was as lusty as a man but of twenty yeeres He liued eighteen yeers after during which space hee came euery day thankfully to the said Church to acknowledge the miracle Kelliâ— in a Treatise of his called Gods blessing page 71. At Corduba in Spain A Palsie and yet fourescore and eighteen yeers I am glad it is so farre off I hope they will haue mee excused for trauelling so farre to enquire the truth And yet in another respect I should wish to liue in that aire where Masses grow so medicinall that they prolong a mans life till hee and all his friends bee weary of him like the Iles of Arren in Ireland which will not let the candle of our life bee blowne out though it be in the snuffe whereof a blundering Frier wrote Vbi tam diu viuunt homines ita quod habeant taedâ—um de suo
viuere Leo Tuscus a Confessor Martyr and Pope vpon a certain time was tempted by a woman who would needs kisse him but the holy man by no means consented to such immodesty yet with much struggling shee kissed his hand whether he would or no. Whereupon he commanded it to bee cut off because no corrupt flesh should remain about him Which when the people perceiued they earnestly intercessed our Lady for him and she most mercifully restored it again and then hee said Masse as before and acknowledged our Lady his Sauiour In lib. inâ—it The liues of the Martyrs transl If our sacrificing Priests and â—esuites should execute so seuere a Law vpon themselues the King would haue in this City many Subiects not onely inwardly lame in their obedience but also outwardly lame in their lims I knowe two Priests in London F.H. F.M. who are very vnable at this time to doo the King any seruice in the warres for which they haue a necessary excuse though not legall hauing imployed themselues in other hot warres already so that now they are fitter for an Hospitall than the Camp And yet when the time of their Lying-in is expired they will creep out of the shell again and look as bold as their brethren laying it on with Masses in stead of muskets Yet mee thinks they should vse very fauourably their judical power in Confession who themselues haue had so much need of Indulgence To say nothing of a Catholique Maid supposed to haue been with others oppressed in the ruine at the Black-Friers whose office hath been to carry bands and shirts vnto the Priests chambers but whatsoeuer her ill luck hath been she hath met with some infectious blasting vapours which now sequester her from all company being posted off by her Ghostly Fathers vnto the Physicians But to leaue these noisome corners and to return to the more pleasing path of our old wonder-working Tales He had need be a good Chirurgion who could cement a broken piece especially a hand so long cut off But this is like vnto the Tale of Saint Dominick whose legs cut off at the knees by praying vnto our Lady they were without the help of any Artist graffed on again Read concerning S. Dominick a Book written by a I. Heigham intit The life of S. Katharine of Siena or like that of Saint Denis who for a mile or two carried his head in his hand or not vnlike the Story of Saint Winifred of whom they report Her head once cut off sprung and grew on again but lopt off a second time where it fell there arose a fine siluer stream or a pleasant Fountain of running water which at this day as they vaunt cureth the Diseased and the drops of bloud which Saint Winifred there lost are yet to be seen The place of this beheading and where the miracle is more extant is at Holiwell in Wales not many miles off the City of Chester whither once euery yeer about Mid-summer many superstitious Papists of Lancashire Staffordshire and other more remote Countries go in pilgrimage especially those of the feminine and softer sex who keep there their Rendeuouz meeting with diuerse Priests their acquaintance who make it their chief Synod or Conuention for Consultation and promoting the Catholique Cause as they call it yea and account it their chiefest haruest for commodity and profit in regard of the crop they then reap by Absolutions and Indulgences Let me adde that they were so bold about Mid-summer the last yeere 1623. that they intruded themselues diuers times into the Church or publick Chappell of Holiwell and there said Masse without contradiction It is not vnlike they will easily presume to the same liberty heer in England which they haue vsed of late in Ireland The bold attempts of the Papists in Ireland where they disturbed the Minister at a Funerall erected one or two Frieries with open profession in their Monasticall habits and haue intruded titular Bishops to supplant the Church-gouernment there in force as we see in like maner old M. Bishop sometimes Prisoner in the Gate-house now perking vp and flanting with the vain aeriall fantastick bubble of an Episcopall Title far fetcht and yet lightly giuen hath rambled vp and down Staffordshire Buckinghamshire and other places The Bishop of Chalcedon vnder the name of the Bishop of Chalcedon catching the ignorant vulgar and deuoted Romanists with the pomp of his Pontificall Attire and that empty name of a Bishoprick whereunto he hath as much right as he hath Lands there I commend the thriftinesse of the Popes Holinesse in erecting Bishopricks with such small cost The Title stands him in nothing but a piece of parchment with a Bosse of Lead signed sub annulo Piscatoris As for iurisdiction and reuenues there needs nothing but to send into England this new Puppet of his owne making The honest liberall Pope-holy Lay-Catholiques of England many of them especially the more ignorant and therefore dotingly deuout are so mad of these trumperies and so sick of their money that his Benedictions Beads Rings Reliques Agnus Dei and the like will be good Merchandize better perhaps than Virginian Tobacco and feeding as much as that fume Physicians say and experience shews that for a Consumption Asses milk is not the worst Cure and sure to feed a-fresh the declining and staruing fopperies of Popery in this Land what better nourishment than those no small summes which are daily squeezed from many simple burden-bearing Animals whose radicall moysture of their purses is daily exhausted by the Horse-leeches of Rome The name of Rome is able to these weak and bleared eyes to imbelish any thing to gild-ouer and make acceptable any Pils though being nothing else but sheeps trittles A bundle of Beads worth three pence if sanctified from Rome shall strain out of Catholick purses so many pounds The Preaching the Liturgie of the Church of England is but dry meat and hath no poison in it because it is not basted by the cookery of the Popes Court. The catechizing of children heer is vnfruitfull because not performed by the sublimated pedanticall Instructers the Iesuites such reuerend Fathers as Ledesme Vause Dauies Cox Cortin The confirmation of our children by our English Bishops though done in decent form and with conuenient praier yet forsooth hath no sacred influence because our Bishops haue no Crozier staffe no Holy water no Vnctions no Chrisme no binding of foreheads for seuen daies no deligate Authoritie à DOMINO DEO NOSTRO PAPA But if an Eutopian Chalcedonian New-nothing Puffe-paste Titulaedo come with faculties in his budget from Rome where he was miraculously created ex nihilo then what gadding what gazing what prostration to receiue but one drop of that sacred deaw The least flash of light from the snuffe of a Roman Lamp out-shines and eclipseth all the twinkling petty sparks of the Church of England Strange it is that any of our Nation should so basely degenerate as
the sanctity of their attire and the diuine potencie of their Sacrifice by this meanes to inchaunt and bewitch their innocent simple soules and so to offer them vp for a prey to their great Idol at Rome Surely our Sauiour Christ ate of the same hee gaue to his Disciples but our sublimated Priests will haue finer bread then is made of wheat I maruell none of our people in England sink into the ground for daring to eate of the same bread with the Minister Francis Zauier Apostle of the East-Indies and Iesuite as often as hee extraordinarily trauelled in the Indies so often did a Crucifixe in Spaine in his parents house sweat At length when the B. Bauiere dyed the afore-said Crucifixe during a yeere after did euery Friday sweat bloud Hen. Fitz-Simon in Lib. praedict page 123. Hee had read be like the verse of the Poet In templis sudauit ebur pecudesque loquuti Infandum Anno 36. of Henry the Eightth a Priest did pronounce at Pauls Crosse and there confessed in publick that he himselfe saying Masse pricked his finger and bebloudied the Corporas with the Altar-clothes purposing to make the people beleeue that the Host had bloud miraculously One Epachius a Priest on Christmas Eeue being at Martens resorted often to his owne house to drink euen after midnight whereby hee was made incapable to receiue the blessed Sacrament on Christmas day as hauing in the beginning thereof at midnight broken the Fast The chiefe of the Towne beeing allied vnto him not knowing of such his intemperance desired him to sing Masse Hee as hee was presumptuous vndertook to celebrate But as hee receiued the heauenly Host suddenly hee began to ney like a horse to tumble and wallow on the ground to fome at the mouth and to deliuer vp the blessed Sacrament which hee was not able to swallow vpon the disgorging of which it was seene to bee carried away visibly in the aire The Priest beeing in this plight hee was by his kinred borne out of the Church remaining subiect to the falling-sicknesse all his life Surius in vita S. Godefridi l. 3. c. 12. It seemes to me no more strange now to heare of a drunken Priest of the Iesuiticall fraternity then when I read Petrus Cluniacensis Abbas his book in which hee reports l. 2. c. 2. of some forty and odde Benedictan Monks and Dominican Friers that were most famous and notorious Letchers and Bredenbachius hath a Catalogue of others who were Coniurers Lib. 1. collat sacr c. 13. et 45. Thomas à Cantiprato Th. à Cantip. l. 2. de proprutat Apum part 6. cap. 40. of diuers others who were very wicked and carnall one of which had his mouth and nose putrified that none could tolerate to look on him another of which a fire from heauen consumed the hands and armes to his cubits during his beeing at the Altar Petrus Damianus Pet. Dam spec exempt D. 1. F. 77. and Palladius Pallad in hist Lausiaca sect 17. report of six other Priests that were Sodomites one of which was hideously deformed with a canker another deuoured of a wilde beast and the rest miserably ended their daies All this is storied by their owne Writers Seuerall Miracles haue beene done in England and else-where saith F. Richard Conway the Iesuite by the honouring of Saints Reliques which Protestants saith he will not heed One M. Anderton a Lancashire Gentleman was cured of the Stone by the Reliques he had of F. Campian the blessed Saint being afterwards of another disease laid out so for dead vt ei iam pollices ligarentur that his thumbes were bound by the help of the said Martyr his flesh beeing laid vpon his body he was raised to life Rich. Conway in Apol pag. 281. This is like vnto diuers the blasphemous Fables which you shal finde in the Reuelations of Saint Bridget lib. 4. or like that of Vegas the Frier in comment in cap. 6. Apoc. Aug. de vera relig Gregor hom 29. in Euang. Paul Bombin in vit Mart. Campian What prodigies are these What horrible impâ—etiâ—s Are they not Anti-christi Pseudo-christi that breathe out these damnable forgeries that shame not to affirme that the bones of a Traytor can raise a dead man as did Elias his bones or that the flesh of Campian could performe that which was so much admired in our Sauiour himselfe when hee was amongst vs in the flesh How can they but blush at these things When Father Campian came an Apostle into England there was an Earth-quake say they and so there might well bee Nay the great bell of Westminster tould of it selfe But that I think is a lye When Father Campian was arraigned Iudge Seth his finger burst out a-bleeding through his gloue Thames ouerflowed and diuers other obseruations haue our imposturizing Renagadoes But those saltlesse gulleries are no whit answerable to this their villainous and prophane fiction If M. Anderton were thus strangely raised it is maruell his friends in Lancashire speake not of it with many of whom I conuersed am sure had it bin true would haue recited this tale in their discourse Againe if Reliques bee thus powerfull I wonder they had not tryed brought some of them for the reuiuing of their Priests or any other of them that were killed at the Black-Friers or why made they not vse of some of them for the curing of Lady Blackstones and such as were by the mischance at the Black-Friers sore wounded Campians Saint-ship sure came but from Tiburn And yet what admirable vertue doe our Papists conceiue to bee in the poore Reliques of Story Felton Sommeruile Ardâ—n Parry Lopez Garnet Campian and the rest of that Saint-traitorly Cruâ— The very paring of their nailes doth help to doo miracles Their pictures are so sanctified that they are hung ouer the Altars And I much maruell there were neuer strange wonders performed by the wood of the Tree at Tiburn considering it hath been blessed by some of their sacred bodies and bedewed with their last spritefull breath Campians girdle But did you neuer heare of Campians girdle that hee wore Then reade one Edmunds his book of miracles and that will tell you strange newes Hierosolyma inquit bene nouit ad quem pertinuit Tiburnus non ignorat qui locus erat vbi Pater ipse Campianus martyrio coronatus erat Ierusalem quoth hee knowes this girdle for it girded-about the Sepulchre of our Sauiour Tiburne knowes it the place where Father Campian receiued his crown of martyrdome yea saith he further and the Diuels knowe it who detest all such manner of geere and whom it hath vexed so sore that it hath put them to extreme torments This Girdle cured Lepers the blinde the dumb all manner of diseases If the Girdle that imbraced onely his bare apparell could doo such miracles what then should I think of the Rope that imbraced Father Campian's holy neck yet I heare of no wonders done by that
The besotted Aegyptians that kissed with earnest deuotion the Asse vpon which the Idoll Isis sate and the lymphaticall Priests of Baal that lanced their owne flesh before an Idoll of wood had as much religion and I think more wit than our moderne Reliquesauers haue God hath giuen them ouer to the spirit of illusion to beleeue vnsauory lies He that sits in the heauens laughs them to scorn Psal Almighty God with his Angels and Saints will haue them these mis-shapen monsters in derision Conway in apol pag. 290. A Virgin a kinswoman of mine saith Conway an English Priest was freed from the Diuell by anointing herself with oyle into which another Priest that prayed for her had mingled his Teares I think of late daies our Romish Priests haue wept too little and laught too much and that is the reason we are pestred with more fiends than friends But when the sword of iustice is drawn and inflicted according to the waight and measure of their detestable designes we shall I hope haue fewer of them come ouer This Couey of night-birds may shrowd themselues warme vnder the gentle wings of their holy Father at Rome I am sure as yet they play the Bats and Moles with some of our Countrey-men either trenching themselues in the Mines of their Labyrinths at home or masking in their gold siluer abroad in the fashion of Rake-hels Ruffians How to kenne or smell a Priest If about Bloomesbury or Holborne thou meet a good smug Fellow in a gold-laced suit a cloke lined thorow with veluet one that hath good store of coin in his purse Rings on his fingers a Watch in his pocket it may be of some thirty-pound price a very broad-laced Band a Stiletto by his side a man at his heeles willing vpon small acquaintance to intrude into thy company and still desiring further to insinuate with thee then take heed of a Iesuite of the prouder sort of Priests This man hath vowed pouerty Feare not to trust him with thy wife he hath vowed also chastity But are Priests teares so precious that they are an Antidote against the poison of Diuels Oh yes who knowes not that there is admirable power in a Priests breath his gloues his hose his girdle his shirts to scortch the Diuell in his Albe his Amice his Maniple and his Stole to whip and plague the Diuell Or hath none read of the dreadfull power of Holy-water hallowed Candles Frankincense Brimstone the Book of Exorcismes and the holy potion to scald broil and to sizle the Diuell of the dreadfull power of the Crosse and Sacrament of the Altar to torment the Diuell and to make him roar If any think these strange I referre him to a Book written by D. Harsenet now Bishop of Norwich the Title whereof I haue set in the Margent A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures to withdraw the harts of his Maiesties Subjects from their alleageance and from the truth of Christian Religion vid. c. 14. 15. 16. 18 20. and you shall finde that one Father Edmunds alias Weston F. Dibdale F. Thomson F. Stemp F. Tyrrell F. Dryland F. Tuâ—…ce F. Sherwood F. Winkefield F. Mud F. Dakins and F. Balâ—…rd Priests and Iesuites haue stoutly and strongly confirmed all this long since If the Book cannot easily bee gotten I wish it might bee imprinted again for that the Priests exorcising power is there fully discouered and I haue heard that the most of these Books which were formerly printed were bought-vp by Papists who no question took so much delight in reading them that they burned as many as they could possibly get of them But to acquaint you with the strange power of a Catholique Priests breath Plin. in hist nat Pliny in his Naturall Story tels vs of certain people that doo anhelitu or is enecare homines kill men with the breath that comes from their mouthes And Leno in the Comedy is noted to bee of so strong a breath that hee had almost blowne downe the young Gallant that stood in his way but the Poets Ouid. Virgil. Homer tell vs that Hell hath a more deadly breathing than all so as if a Bird doo by chance flee ouer the Stygian Floud shee is quelled with the smell and fals down stark dead Now the company of Priests for potency of breath doo put down Pliny Leno Hell the Diuell and all for the Diuell who can well enough indure the lothsome odors and euaporations of hell is not able to indure the vapour issuing from the mouth of a Priest but had rather go to hell than abide his smell And hence it is I think that in their baptizing of children the Priest breathes and spets into the mouth of the childe which no doubt is very soueraigne especially if the priests lungs bee but a little vlcerated or pockified One William Trayford and Sarah Williams as you shall reade in Bishop Harsenet's Book page 71. beeing possessed Trayfords Diuell rebounded at the dint of the priests breath and was glad to get him out at Trayfords right eare like a mouse rather than he would come out jump against the priests mouth Mâ—ngus the Canonist giueth vs a rule that if the Diuell be stubborn and will not obey the formidable exorcisme of the Priest then that the Priest shall os suum quamproxime ad energuâ—enum admouere Sarah Williams lay past all sense in a transe being vtterly bereaued of all her senses at once the priest no sooner came neer her but she discerned him by the smell Was not this a jolly rank smell Yea but this is but a flea-biting to the priests gloues his hose his girdle his shirts which had in them a dreadfull power to burne out a Diuell nay all the Diuels in the parties aforesaid possessed Which Diuels because the priests knew so well their names shall not heer go vncited Page 181. Lustie Dick Killico Hob Corner-cap Puffe Purre Frateretto Fliberdigibbet Haberdicut Cocobatto Maho Kellicocam Wilkin Smolkin lustie iolly Ienkin Portericho Pudding of Thame Pour-dieu Boniour Motubizanto Nur Bernon Delicate The chief of these Diuels when one of the priests gloues was but put vpon the possessed's hands durst not abide but was scared and went straight away One of the great Diuels was slipt ere he was aware into Sarah Williams legge Page 81. where finding himself caught within the Priests hose which she had on he plunges and tumbles like a Salmon taken in a Net and cries Harro ho out alas pull off pull off case the poore Diuell of his pain oh a goodly ginne to catch a Woodcock withall O but let me tell you of another trick though not so cleanly as I could wish Page 87. One Fid Landresse â—o the Diuels incarnate was washing a Buck of foule clothes amongst which was one of the Priest-Exorcists shirts The Diuell comes sneaking behinde her trips vp her heeles and pitcheth her on her hip And wot you why the Diuell
played her this vnmannerly trick Because she was washing-out a foule shirt of one of the Priests which afterward serued to whip the Diuell out of one of the possessed There are yet other Anti-daemoniacks of speciall account which in the Diuell-hunting sport are in stead of little Beagles to fill vp the Cry And they are the Amice the Albe and the holy Stole very scorpions and whips indeed and therefore beware Diuell page 89. F. Edmunds no sooner laid the Amice vpon Sarah Williams her face but a spirit puffed at it and could not endure to let it alone The sacred Stole was but wound about anothers neck that was possessed and it so pent and begirt the Diuell that hee stared fumed and fomed as he had been stark mad and in the end was squeezed out with pure violence as water out of a squirt An heroicall combate was performed between Maho one of the diuels and the Priest during seuen houres long page 90. Maho the diuell stood vpon his guard would not come in He was summoned by the Priest first with Salue Regina and Aue Maria then with Mengus club with his whip with Holy-water Maho stood out till the Priest prepared himself to afflict him with the Maniple and then he came in and yeelded to parley or dialogue with the Priest in a milde and temperate voice See the puissance of the Catholique Romish Church whose silliest rag hath power to change the diuels roaring note and to cause him to speake in a milde moderate key Latet anguis in herba a man would little suspect when he meets with the Amice the Stole and the Maniple wound vp in a little casket that there were such black hel-metall within them to excoriate and lancinate a diuell All these tricks and many more were acted at Denham in Buckinghamshire about the yeer 1590. But I conclude Nisi naenijs tricis et puppis vsa esset Roma poenas iam diu dedisset If it were not for puppets apes-faces and gawdes with which Rome allures maskes and disguises the poore silly people shee had long since sung the dolefull Song mentioned in holy Writ Desolatione magnâ— desolata est et turpitudo eius gentibus reuelata that is shee had bin cleane desolate and her turpitude had beene opened to the eyes of all the world As for all the tricks and iuggling shifts so often discouered which the Priests these Exorcists vse the Exorcist driuing the Diuell within the lists of the possessed body with Come aloft Iack-an-apes from one part to another to what end doe all these their dealings tend but to this proiect that the standeâ—s-by may be perswaded of some point of Popery or of the Priests power ouer the Diuels If any Christian in these daies hath been truely and really possessed by the Diuell and if the Romish Priests haue truely such a scourging power to whip out Diuels why vse they it not effectually when most need is For example â— There was one M. Blewet a man of great reuenewes and one M. Fowell a man no lesse famoused both of which either were or seemed to bee indiuelled How often had they beene Exorcized in this Kingdom by Francis Kemp by Philip Woodward by F. Edmunds by F. Campian by F. Sherwin by F. Hil by F. Walpool and diuers others but especially F. Collington and F. Warmington who often promised they would make the Diuell speake in M. Blewet and M. Fowell But as those two had many sweating combates heere in England so had they tormentings at Loretto Sichem Lile Louaine Doway elswhere beyond the Seas and all the consolation which they found was to returne worse and farther from hope of deliuerance then when they went The Popish sanctuaries rather added strength to the diuels And yet our Popish Thrasonical Priests will brag boast that they can tosse a diuell like a Tennis-ball or a Dog in a blanket whereat they are very nimble especially in a possessed woman in whose body they can canuas a diuell by contrectation and certaine inchanting nips making him ferret vp and downe from tongue to toe from toe back againe to finger Oh the formidable magicall power of sacred anointed hands not onely infusing chastity but also sanctity by their touch I could heere set foorth another Theatre of their Exorcising plots and attempts to weet their practising with Grace Sowrebuts of Salmisburie in the County of Lancaster whom one Thomson alias Southworth a Priest caused to accuse Iennet Bierly Helen Bierly and Iane Southworth the one of them her Grand-mother of Witchcraft of the killing of the childe of Thomas Walshman with a Naile in the Nauill the boyling eating and oyling thereby to trans-forme themselues into diuers shapes This was done about 14. yeers ago all which at the Assises holden at Lancaster prooued to be false and the said Grace Sowrebuts confessed that she was perswaded and counselled to accuse the said parties of Witchcraft by M. Thomson alias M. Christopher Southworth a Priest who comploted this to gaine to himselfe some credit by exorcising or vnwitching her This confession of Grace Sowrebuts with the Examination of others who discouered the Priests impious dealings was taken before William Leigh Batchelor in Diuinity and Edward Chisnall Esquire two of his Maiesties Iustices of peace in that County The Examinations were put since in print by Thomas Pots Esquire Sure these iuggling exorcismes are but ordinary with Priests and Iesuites but such a malicious and bloudy proiect of subornation must bee a master-trick of some sublimed spirit fit to instruct a nouice Assassine and to read a Lecture in the Iesuites dark chamber of meditation The Boy of Bilson For the next vnmasking of our Mirabilaries I might adde the Narration of certaine Priests practising with the Boy of Bilson Anno 1621. whose name was William Perry Sonne of Tho. Perry of Bilson in the County of Stafford But because there hath beene so lately a true discouery of the notorious Impostures of certaine Romish Priests in their pretended Exorcisme or expulsion of the diuell out of the said young Boy I referre you to M. Rich. Baddeley his book vpon that occasion written and I intreat you to consider whether they deserue not the reputation of the rarest Mounte-banks of these times Quam falsa dicendo voluptatem ceperint eandem vera legendo et audiendo amittant In praesat lib. praedict Two Maids possest with the Virgin Mary Michael the Arch-Angell c. About some seuen yeeres since two Catholique Maids forsooth the one called Mary the other Amye resorting to the Gatehouse in Westminster took such benefit by the Priests conuersation with them beeing sometimes sequestred from all the world besides that they were cast into extaticall raptures and possessed not with Diuels as the vulgar sort of those that vndergoe the Priests hands but with heauenly and glorious guests pretended to enter into them and inhabit them to the great admiration of the
could haue so little wit and lesse grace to bee the Author thereof till that an incendiary brother of his F. Med. who took dislike at it confessed vnto mee and F. Musket himselfe in some sort acknowledged his paines-taking therein O perfrictam frontem Wâ—at impudence was heere ioynd with ignorance How lewdly did he and his Precursor Kellison bely Him who is now as glorious a Starre in the heauens aboue Non comet a fuit sed Stella as He was a shining Lamp in the firmamenr of the Church heer on earth Sophocl 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Sophocles commended Philoctetes He fought a good fight both in defence of the faith and in expâ—gnation of Heresies Schismes and Seditions brought-in by these our Aduersaries And as Augustine spake of Cyprian Multi erat meriti multi pectoris multioris multae virtutis Aug. Hee was worthy wise well-spoken religious Now whereas they seek to get Proselâ—tes by â—hese monstrous forgeries and trumperies for my owne part I confesse that vpon the first view and reading of it I was somewhat mooued with wonder withall with possibility of credence which made mee the more diligently to enquire of it especially reading there that the Bishop was reconciled to the Church of Rome by a certaine Priest there not named I curiously searched among the Priests to learne who that might be They named to mee F. Preston but him I finde to haue constantly disauowed it on examination and otherwise I found good cause to think that hee spake his conscience in that deniall Then was I posted off to F. Palmer a Iesuite and that hee was the very man but asking him very seriously and priuately about it hee told me hee neuer saw the Bishop of London And verily if this Iesuite did meane to equiuocate with mee hee had no reason to speak doublely on that part but rather to auouch that himselfe did that deed or knew who did it that he might the better hold me in belief of that narration In fine I found this tale to be nothing but a comicall fiction and on better weighing this ridiculous shamelesse pamphlet so belying Integrity so outfacing the open Sunne with audacity and so farre degenerating from all shew of verity I concluded that the frame could not be sound which was built vpon such a rotten foundation nor that Religion sincerâ— which â—ath slanderous leasings for her daily food As Tertullian saith in the behalfe of the Chriâ—tians first persecuted by Nero that hee that knewe Nero well might easily vnderstand non nisi grande aliquod bonum à Nerone damnatum Tertul. in Apologet cont Gentes it was like to be a good thing which Nero opposed So when I view the shamelesse slanders which such Iugglers lay vpoÌ„ that reuerend Bishop I must needs say that I reuerenced his memory the more and might well think him the more constant in his Religion by their faining him to bee wauering M. Anderton Yet thus I must needs testifie of one the most sufficient ingenuous of their Priests that notwithstanding it might make somewhat against their common cause hee plainly told mee hee was sorry that euer any such booke should bee suffred to come forth for it would doe them more hurt then any booke they euer wrote meaning as I take it that the forgerie in it was too palpable But I find that the booke is subscribed by publike authority and particular commendation to it nor will they inflict any censure vpon the lewd Father of this monstrous lie And hence it is that of late they haue altered The Title and changed the Frontispice into a more darke phrase making it a Prosopopeia Doth Master Musket who hath foure or fiue hundred as I haue heard him boast that come to his chamber to a Sermon feed them with no better fare then such windy light empty nay noysom exhalations I can then call it but The dreamed bread of the sluggard They may eat but not bee satisfied Perhaps hee may paralell this and greater fictions out of the Golden Legend when he preacheth vpon any By-Saints-day But I heare me thinks the noise of our hooting Noctua's the Priests Iesuites blind guides and louers of darknes more then the light who are so farre from beleeuing that any cataract or filme is on their eyes that they are rather perswaded themselues are the most quicke-sighted They know and see a farre off that although non adhuc miserendi tempus non adhuc exultandi dies the time to haue mercy The wise words of him that wrote The word of Comfort their appointed day be not yet come yet they shall haue a time a day wheÌ„ Vaevobis woâ— bee to their Aduersaries Their best dayes of late perhaps seeme to them but a leaden or at best a siluer age but a Priest now in London tould mee sometime this Lent and it hath beene the merry tune of many more that they should ere long haue golden daies Many of the Iesuites haue of late cried Woe to England Their meaning is lockt vp in a misery and how they will explicate themselues I know not Nocte dieque suum gestant in pectore â—estem though they scape restem Let mee then premonish the ignorant and feebler sort especially who are like weak and silly flies that they take heed how they be caught in such cobwebs wherein the chiefe thred they spinne is that none out of their Church can be saued And further let them beware lest they depraue their ingenuous disposition in tampering with tooles that may cut their fingers and so venture into that web of hereticall fraud which they want strength of wit to breake thorow I knowe that whom nature or education hath made simple heresie will make proud For who more insolent then the ignorant Which Erasmus noted long agoe Erasm in Spong aduers Hutten and may well bee applyed vnto many of our English Papists who when they might bee informed de vita Christi et de via Christiani they are resolued aforehand not to bee satisfied Oh the blindnesse of vnderstanding of those that are called Lay-Catholickes Iust here were the complaint of the Prophet My people bee in captiuity because they bee without knowledge Esa 5.13 Surely when I begin to weigh and meditate on the abuses that our Kingdome in generall and these weake members thereof in particular sustaine by those Hornets and Drones who flee vp and downe stinging and wounding with the wily insinuation of errour sucking and gathering hony in our gardens yea resting vpon diuers golden flowres my heart begins to bleed my bowels to yearne and my soule is plunged in much heauinesse For wo is mee Are wee not all sonnes to one Father all Subiects to one King cuius sub vmbrâ suauiter quiescimus we rest vnder his shade and his boughes haue beene long distended for our securitie How grieuous alas is it now to him to heare that any his