from such frauds Note Would it not be a dreadful judgment upon this Nation that it should again be given up to such blindness and have such Villains to lead us as these Popish Priests are the Lord Almighty deliver Prince and People from them and make their folly manifest to all men At St. Stephens a mile from Canterbury was the Boot of St. Stephen kept for a precious Relique The Reliques that follow are taken out of an old written Book yet remaining in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury This Book is called Memorale multorum Henrici Prioris And it may appear by the account to be 262 years since it was written and left for a perpetual remembrance of such things as at that time appertained unto the Monastery commonly called Christ's Church being then a place of Monks now through the benesit and liberality of the most noble King Henry the Eighth a most worthy Cathedral Church and Place of Godly and Learned Prebendaries c. First the Body of Thomas Becket Bishop of the said Church which was first buried in the Undercrast and afterward translated into the upper part of the Church on the East side and there lay in a Coffin of pure Gold as a most holy and precious Relique The Body of St. Alphege which was put into a Coffin of Silver and gilt The Body of St. Dunstan in a Coffin of Copper and gilt The Body of St. Odo in a Chest of Wood gilded The Body of St. Wilfrid in a Coffin of Copper gilded The Body of St. Anselme in a Coffin of Wood gilded The Body of St. Elphrick in a Coffin of Wood gilded The Body of St. Blase in a Chest of Wood gilded The Body of St. Andoen in a Coffin of Silver and gilt The Body of St. Salvin in a Coffin of Wood gilded The Bodies of St. Wulgan and St. Swithune The Head of St. Blase The Head of St. Fursey The Head of St. Austrobert these were framed of Cases made of Silver and gilt enamell'd Item two Arms of old St. Simeon wherewith he embraced Christ in the Temple as we read in the Gospel of St. Luke when he said Nune dimittis servum tuum domine c. We have heard before that one of his Arms was given to Carolus Magnus King of France for the good service he did to Mother Holy Church Whether that Arm were one of these two Arms that were at Canterbury or whether the third Arm was begotten since that time or not I know not for in the Art of Multiplying the Papists for lucres sake are very wise and expert Item the Arms of St. Blase St. Bartholomew St. George St. 〈◊〉 St. Richard Bishop of Chichester of St. Roman Gregory the Pope St. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln St. Mildrith the Virgin and of St. Edburg All these as Holy Reliques were covered over with Cases of Silver and gilt enamell'd Item a Piece of Christ's Cross More of the Cross still A Fragment of the Cradle wherein Christ was rocked A Parcel of the Maunger wherein Christ was laid after he was born A Piece of the Sepulchre wherein Christ was buried A Remnant of Moses's Rod which was turned into a Serpent Christ's usual Napkin wherewith he wiped his Face To say no more of the Cross Note which hath afforded a good Cart-load allready let us observe their Foolery about his Cradle and Maunger and Sepulchre which was of Stone all which it seemeth lay dormant till Antichrist did awake to deceive the Nations which was not till 800 years and is it not 〈◊〉 they should tell us who kept all the so bits of 〈◊〉 before we believe the reallity there of In a great Cross of Gold given by Stephen Arch-bishop of Canterbury with a Ruby on the top and two Emeralds on the sides were these Reliques contained In the midst of the Cross there was a piece of the Cross that Christ dyed on More of the Cross yet a Bone of St. Benigne a Tooth of St. Blese a Bone of St. Julian a piece of St. Paul's Staff certain Reliques of St. Quintin St. Mark and Marcellian Item a Bone of the man of God also a Bone of St. Stephen the Pope How were those poor people pulled in pleces by these Popish Villains Note if what they say were true but the things are so gross yea so impossible that we will rather put them down for Lyars than suppose the people were thus born Limb from Limb by the Primitive Professors of the Christian Religion In the Cross of St. Andrea being of silver and gilt set with divers goodly and precious Stones were these two Reliques First a piece of St. Andrent's Cross Secondly one of his Bones In a Cross of Silver and gilt set with divers goodly and precions stones was this one Relique viz. a piece of the Holy Cross In the Cross of S. Peter which was of Silver and gilt was this one Relique that is to say a piece of the Cross that St. Peter dyed on In a Cross of Silver gilt on the one side and not on the other were contained these Reliques following First a piece of the Holy Cross a good gobbet of Christ's Sepulchre certain Bones of St. James of St. Osuha of St. Andrem of St. Paneras of St. Brigide and of St. Faith In a little Cross of Silver and gilt without any precious stones having the Image of a Lamb on the back-side was this one Relique viz. a piece of Christ's Cross What Fictions are here about the Cross and what abundance do we meet with Note is worth noteing In a Glass of Chrystal was this one Relique contained The Thorns of Christ's Crown sure were many Aron's Rod again viz. one of the Thorns of Christ's Crown Item In a great Aumbry or Cupboard were these Reliques found Aaron's Rod a piece of the Coffin that our Lady was buried in the superaltare of St. Elphege Item a Chalice of St. Elphege made of Crystal gilt and enarâ—â—led with a paten of Mother Pearl The people have no other ground to believe these things to be such Note but that the false Priest tells them so In a certain great Chest of Crystal set in silver and gilt and garnished with many goodly precious stones were these two Reliques first our Ladies Hair secondly a piece of hee Vail It 's impossible that a little Hair Note and a piece of her Vail should laft and not be rotten or lost in those 1000 years that passed before the Papists began to make such show In a Coffer of Copper and gilt was the Blood of St. Edmund King and Martyr a piece of his Shirt a remnant of his Breeches and a fragment of his Cushion The ground of their Faith in these things is the bare word of their Priests Note why may not these bits be old Clouts gathered off a Dunghill and the Blood might be the Blood of a sheep as well as of St. Edmund but they are bound to believe
bread and water that Friday seven year Item In seven years not to sleep one night where he sleepeth another Item In 7 years not to come under no cover'd place except it be to hear Mass in the Church-door or Porch Item In 7 years not to eat or drink out of any Vessel but in the same that he made his avow in He that fulfilleth all these points seven years successively doth and winneth a Karin or Lenton Thus may a man have at Rome great pardon and Soul-health Blessed be those people and in good time are they born that receive these Graces and well keep them Of which pardon and grace our Lord Jesus grant to every good Christian man Here followeth the Indulgences granted to other lower Churches in Rome IN Rome there is a Church of St. Peter ad vincula which Pope Pelagius did Consecrate and Hallow To this Church the aforesaid Pope Pelagius granted to remission of all sins the first day of August by the prayer of the Son of Theodorus the Emperor who brought the Chain from Jerusalem wherewith Peter the Apostle was bound In the Church of St. Vitus Modestus Crescentia Marcellus and others to the number of 5000 martyrs whose bodies were slain in the same place in the time of Antoninus the Emperor is granted 100 years of pardon and as many Karins and forgiveness of the 4th part of all sins In this Church also is a Vault wherein lyeth the body of Sylvester the Pope to which is granted 800 years of pardon and as many Karins and remission of the third part of all sins The old Latin Book saith that the Indulgences and Pardons that belong to this aforesaid Church are 7000 years and as many Lents And that in that Church there is such grace through the merits of the holy Martyrs Vitus and Modestus c. that whosoever is hurt of any mad dog c. or of any other noisom beast and dippeth his bread in the Oyle of St. Vitus and eateth it he is presently made whole In the Church of all the Apostles is every day a year of pardon and every Feast of one of the Apostles 300 years of pardon In the Church entituled Quatuor Coronatorum is 40 years of pardon In the Church of St. Julian is a 100 years of pardon In this Church is a certain kind of holy water very medicinable and easily cureth all kind of Diseases but especially Agues be they never so fervent sharp and hot Provided always that they which are diseased and come to take this blessed and holy water be fasting and say three Pater Nosters and as many Ave Maries in the Worship of Almighty God and of the glorious Virgin Mary and of the sweet Saints Julian and Albert Or else either say Mass or cause it to be said in the honour of the aforenamed St. Albert. In the Church of St. Foelix is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Visy is 100 years of pardon In the Church of St. Peter and St. Marcellin is 1000 years of pardon Moreover Pope Alexander who consecrated and hallowed this Church granted unto it from the day of the Consecration unto the Vtas every year 3 years of pardon and as many Lents And after that he removed the said pardon from that time unto the Monday after the second Sunday of Lent and added the pardon of one year and forty days In the Church of Marcell is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Cire and Joannes is the remission of the fourth part of all sins In the Church of St. John and St. Paul is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Eustace where his own and his Wifes body lieth with their two Sons is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Bartholomew where his body lieth and the body of St. Pauline is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Gregory is 300 years of pardon and in the same Church whosoever be buried he shall never be damned This Church which before was dedicated saith the old Latin book to St. Andrew the Apostle St. Gregory did hallow and endowed the same with great and singular priviledges And after he had finished the Consecration of the said Temple he kneeled down and most humbly prostrated himself before the Majesty of God and prayed on this manner saying O Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the living God which saidst to thine Apostles and by thine Apostles to all faithful Christians Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he shall give it you I desire of the Omnipotency and Almightiness of thy Majesty that whosoever for ever after shall choose his burial in this Church or Church-yard so that he hold the Christian faith may never be adjudged to the pains of Everlasting damnation but be exalted to the joys of Everlasting life When he had thus prayed the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him saying O Gregory thy prayer is heard In the Church of St. Augustin is 1000 years of pardon In this Church is the chiefest Image of our Lord that ever St. Luke painted which Image he always carried with him whithersoever he went And it was found in the Grave of St. Luke about his head And this Image is called Sancta Maria Virgo Virginum mater omnium that is Saint Mary Virgin of Virgins and Mother of all This Image throughout all the City of Rome did excel and was very famous in working of Miracles in the time of Pope Innocent the 8th in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1485. In the Church of St. Jerom is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Alexius where his body lieth is 2000 years of pardon In this Church saith the old Latin Book are every day in the year 100 years of pardon and as many Lents In this Church also is a worthy Image of our Lady which sometime was in a Church of the aforesaid Lady at a certain City called Edesia where blessed Alevius being a Pilgrim was and greatly desired to come and pray before it and he could not be suffered In consideration whereof the most blessed Image miraculously spake twice to the Keeper of the Church and said Let Alexius the man of God come in who sitteth without at the door and is worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven In the Church of Salvator is 1100 years of pardon and 40 days In the Chappel of 3 Wells where St. Paul was beheaded is 1000 years of pardon and as many Karins and the third part of all sins released In the Church of St. Salvator in the way to St. Pauls is an hundred years of pardon In the Church of St. Sylvester is 1000 years of pardon and there is the head of St. John Baptist. In the Church of St. Jacob is 1000 years of pardon and the third part of all sins released and there 's the head of St. James the Apostle In the Church of St. Nicholas is 100 years of pardon In the Church
did this our native Countrey for some Hundreds of years groan for when God in his anger for its sin had removed the Candlestick from it what Plagues attended this dealing of Almighty God with out forefathers I shall not need my Brethren to report to you for I question not your care and zeal and therefore I humbly conceive that you do at your leisure consult and will enquire into those Memoirs left upon Record in order to your more ample satisfaction in this particular and besides all this the experience of those sober men who have and do still converse in those Countreys and Kingdoms where the true Gospel of our Lord Christ is still opposed and persecuted and in its place trifling Ceremonies unworthy Cheats and Devillish Idolatries are used and practised might be a suffient testimony in this case yet for your sakes my Brethren I did think it not at all inconvenient to expose to publick view the great vanity and unspeakable delusion to which God hath given up the Synagogue of Rome even to believe a lye so that her dissembling Votaries might be damned for not receiving the truth of Gods word in the love thereof I confess my Brethren God hath raised up his Servants who have been very vigilant in the discovering of the Intrigues of the Whore of Rome both in respect of her profession and practises who by their pains and skill have exploded her pretended Miracles and have in a lively manner painted her Phanaticism and exposed her abominable Cheats to the world Of these labours and services of good men we have enjoyed the benefits and as â—â—â—se have had the happiness and opportunity of doing Gods Church very eminent services by improving their parts and learning for her advantage I thought it my duty to imploy some spare hours for your service in reviewing her old Trade of Merchandizing and to revive the memory of the great advantage she hath made of her Mock-Indulgences and Mock Pardons and Mock-Miracles Cheats and Villanies so that the consideration of these things may stir you up to hate this abominable Strumpet and burn her flesh with sire Of this Trash and Trumpery you have an exact Catalogue in this Book an incredible gain of which hath been made to their Popes Bishops and Clergy both Secular and Regular to the latter especially who to mine own knowledg have judged their Reliques and Indulgences more advantageous to their Monasteries and Convents than the enjoyments of Lands and Tenements are to those that are of the Laity for a testimony of which the consideration of the vast Treasure that was found in their Dens when these Foxes were unâ—â—ennell'd by Henry the 8th is proof sufficient and to this very day the English Regulars so called have gotten and do still get yearly Four thousands of pounds sterling out of England from their Votaries to the great damage of this our Native Countrey against which they are sworn Enemies nay some that would have the honour of being called Protestants have been highly guilty of an underhand contribution to their Devillish Idolatry and Abominable Cheats to the great dishonour of Almighty God and of Protestant Religion to the disparagement of their Prince and Countrey to whose Laws they pretend to pay all manner of obedience and when at home can swear their Prince into a belief of their loyalty and fidelity I will not name that person in whom his Prince and Countrey have reposed great Trust witness the Employ he hath had for some years for whose sake to mine own knowledg many thousands of Masses have been said for the health of his soul for the preservation of his body and for the rectifying of his unstable Judgment and all this at their priviledged Altars endowed with stores of Indulgences and with a goodly crop of their Reliques and Trumpery But I shall leave him as I fear God hath done to believe the lyes and cheats of those sons of Antichrist whom he hath most heartily entertained at his Table tho Traytors to his Prince and Countrey haters of Almighty God and of all his Servants So that my dear Brethren you may perceive that by means of these Reliques and Merchandize and of their pretended power of conferring grace holiness and eternal life many professing the same holy Faith with us have fell away by the subtilty of the crafty sons of the Synagogue of Rome whom they have perverted from paying their duty to Almighty God and from the profession and practice of Gods true Religion and some of these have become either monstrous Monks chattering Channons flattering Friars heretical Hermites Antichristian Anchorites superstitious Nuns railing Recluses Limbs of Antichrist nay of the Devil himself and have denied the Lord that bought them with no less price than with his own blood and have been led into a deplorable state of Captivity by these Votaries of that filthy and abominable Strumpet and detestable Dragon of Rome who have set up and continued the Trade of making Merchandize of our fellow-subjects and brethren and have devoured the Houses of our Widows by their pretended zeal and devotion to and for this trash and of which in this Book you have a fair account and they have privily for well near an hundred years acted this part till these twenty years last past in which they have had more countenance and indulgence yet their ingratitude is such that they have returned evil for the good-will of our Magistrates one of whom you know they have wickedly murthered our City of London they fired and several Rapes and Cheats they have with that impudence acted so that it is next to an impossibility for us to be safe whilst they subsist for our Peace they have disturbed our Interest Property and Liberty they have endeavoured to betray into the hands of a French Devillish Power and have attempted once more to bring us under the Roman yoke which yoke we nor our Fathers were ever able to bear Yea they have endeavoured the death of our Prince and to overthrow the Government and Laws by which we subsist and live and without which we must of necessity run into confusion did not God appear in mercy to prevent our Ruin and their Malice But I do not much admire their Impiety because I well know their damnable and wicked Principles of which their Practices are necessary Consequences of which I shall here give you a short account I. They say That to comply with Protestants in obedience to Laws and Government would be an act unreasonable irreligious and damnable Now what security can we have from such unreasonable and irreligious Miscreants and Cut-throats that my Brethren I shall leave to your gravest judgments and considerations II. That the Protestant Ministry is false and intruded and with it they ought not upon pain of damnation to communicate This Proposition being by them believed as an Article necessary to salvation I suppose it will be by all wise and considerate persons concluded That all
OF RELIQVES The Introduction AS the Holy Prophets of old made it their business to shew the vanity and folly of the Apostate Church of the Jews and wherein they had gone away from God to the foolish inventions of idolatrous and superstitious men So our late zealous Reformers laboured to discover the madness and folly of them which did abide still in the Communion of the Popish Religion by shewing wherein the people were cheated by the superstitious pretences feigned miracles and useless reliques with which the seducing Priests Fryers Monks and Antichristian Popes of Rome had deceived the poor sons and daughters of men And herein the faithful Servants of God in the days of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth have laboured and have discovered the fanaticism of the Church of Rome in many instances and shewn what horrid Fanaticks the Popes and their followers have been And because the Papists are to my own knowledg still such Fanaticks and will not be reclaimed I have thought it my duty for the Honour of God and the preventing the good Christian people of this Generation from being any longer deceived by them to revive and recover out of oblivion the old observations and collections of the Servants of Christ which time hath buried in forgetfulness which together with my own Observations I have transcribed and caused to be published that so the madness and folly in which they persist may be known to all men that so as St. Paul saith of the Fanaticks of his time they may proceed no further read 2 Tim. 3.8 9. And I think it but reason if the disease be still the same the means of curing should be continued and of this I am sure that they do still cheat the people with their pretended Miracles and Reliques of pretended Saints and amongst the rest with the Fanatical pretences of Pardons and Indulgences by going to such a Saints Shrine or Sepulcher and of being healed of diseases by the touch of a Relique of a pretended Saint And because you shall see that I do not impose new fictions of my own brain but do follow the wise example of them who to undeceive the people and recover them out of the Fanaticism of the Church of Rome did discover her â—ollies and frauds to all men I have not only followed their methods but transcribed their very Collections which I doubt not but will be as useful in the present recovery of the English Christians as in the the days past And as the Prophets of old used no other means to reduce men but bringing them back to the Law and Testimony shewing them the folly and madness of their forefathers and of them that would or did mislead the people in the days in which they prophesied so ought the Servants of God in this day and I doubt not but the same method will have the same good effect AT Rome in times past as St. Sylvester the Pope writeth in his Chronicle there were One thousand five hundred and five Churches whereof the greater part at this present is destroyed But among those that remain there are Seven principal Churches which as they say * Query Who endued these Churches I am sure not Christ for he bestows spiritual Gifts on persons not Places are endued with greater and more singular priviledges than the rest are yea and that for the grace holiness and dignity which is found in them passing all other Churches * All are but Stone and Timber and dead matter and not capable of any holiness one more than other In those Seven principal Churches there are many yea almost innumerable Indulgences Pardons Priviledges c. and Reliques also as they fain And first I will rehearse the names of all such Reliques as be at Rome not only in those Seven Principal Churches but in the residue also and afterwards rehearse the Indulgences Pardons Priviledges c. that appertain unto the same And because no man shall think that I invent these things of my own head I here truly and faithfully confess that whatsoever in this Treatise is written of Rome is translated out of a Book Printed in Latin at Rome by Mr. Stephen Plank of Patavia in the year of our Lord 1489 the 7th of November the sixth year of Pope Innocent the Eighth And whatsoever is added is declared out of what Books they were taken and the judgment of all these things left to the indifferent Reader But first of all we will go in hand with such Reliques as be in the Churches at Rome and begin with the Seven Principal Churches whereof the Church of Lateran is the first Of the Church of Lateran and of the Reliques contained in the same THE Church of Lateran was dedicated of St. Sylvester the Pope in honour of St. Saviour St. John Baptist and St. John the Evangelist In the Relique-House of this Church there is the Altar of St. John Baptist which he had in the Wilderness It is a likely matter they should have the Altar of St. John Baptist who had no Altar there nor had he use for one A blessed company Why did they not tell us what he offered upon that Altar And besides this the Altar of which they boast is in eight or nine several places Also in a certain Chappel at the end of the said Church Ark. there is the Ark of the Lord which Moses made at the Commandment of God in the Desert after the Children of Israel were delivered out of Egypt They that will believe this story must needs be ignorant and willing to believe lyes seeing the Prophet Esdras 2 book ch 10. v. 22 saith it was spoiled by the Babylonians which any man will believe sooner than the Pope But to put it out of doubt that they do wickedly read Jer. 3.16 There is also the Table whereupon our Lord Jesus Christ did eat his supper with his Disciples when he ordained the Sacrament of his Body and Blood The Table I have seen a great part of this Table so called in Spain and Flanders and it is of excellent virtue if we may believe the holy Fathers of the Society of Jesus Item The Rod of Moses and Aaron which being cast on the ground Rod. became a Serpent wherewith also many and notable Miracles were wrought by the power of God It is strange to hear that they should have that stick or rod of Moses which was 2000 years before Christ in the wilderness of which the Scripture makes no mention after Moses smote the Rock with it Numb 20.11 and one of the Jesuits forgetting that it was said to be at Rome preached this Doctrine that Moses broke it when he smote upon the Rock All these things aforesaid did Vespastanus and Titus bring unto Rome from Jerusalem Padre Antonio de Laudayada on the Feast of St. Alban June 21. 1677. with four Pillars of Brass which are set up and stand about the high Altar of the said Church If we
48 years of pardon and as many Lents or Kerries And seven of the Altars are priviledged with great grace and pardon At the first Altar is the visage of our Lord who looketh upon that hath 700 years of pardon Also the Spear that Christ was pierced with brought from Constautinople sent from the great Turk to Pope Innocent the Eighth When I have nothing else to do I will visit these Altars yet I think a man may do as well to stay at home The second Altar is of St. Andrew there ye have 500 years of pardon The third Altar is of St. Gregory there ye have 400 year of pardon The 4th Altar is of our Lady there is 700 years of pardon The 5th Altar is of St. Leo there he received the absolution in his Mass from Heaven and there is 700 years of pardon The 6th Altar is of All-Souls and there is 500 years of pardon and every high Feast a Soul out of Purgatory The 7th Altar is of Simon and Jude there is 600 years of pardon And before the door stand two iron Crosses who kisseth those Crosses hath 500 years of pardon Had not Christ proposed in his Gospel the way and method that God used in pardoning the sins of mankind the Pope would have deserved well at mens hands yet these pardons require so tedious a Journey that it would ruine a poor Papist to perform it therefore my advice is That he stay at home and make but use of Gods means for obtaining pardon and I assure him he may have it an easier rate for God offers it without mony or without price Isa 55.1 2. Item upon our Lady-day in Lent hangeth afore the Quire a Cloth that our Lady made her self and it hangeth still till our Lady-day Assumption And as many times as a man beholdeth that Cloth he hath 400 years of pardon Our Lady was admirably well imployed and so very many good works have been done by her that the Papists need do none themselves Also as many times as a man goeth through the Crouds at St. Peters Church he hath 400 years of pardon Here the Pope of his great liberality we thank his Holiness for it crouds a great deal of pardon upon his Votaries And as oft as a man followeth the Sacrament to the sick bodies he hath 1400 years of pardon I do not wonder now why Rogues and Whores were so Zealous to follow the Sacrament for here is a Jolly crop of pardon bestowed on them by good Mr. Pope Also Pope Sylvester granted to all them that daily go to the Church of St. Peter the third part of all his sins released and all his Vows and Promises released and all his sins forgotten released and forgiven except laying violent hand upon Father or Mother And above this is granted 2800 years of pardon and the merits of as many Lents or Karins What a Karin is ye shall find in the end of this book And in the Feast of St. Peter 1000 years of pardon and as many Karins and the third part of penance enjoyned released And from the Ascension-day of our Lord unto the Assumption of our Lady ye have 1400 years of pardon and as many Karins and forgiveness of the third part of all sins Who would converse with such Vermin or stand bound to take their words for here is at the first dash a bonny release from all vows and promises Certainly men are not safe in such Conversation as may be ruin'd for such a proinise-makers going to see a Church Nay it is the Opinion of the Jesuits if a man hath but a Friend at Rome that will do it for him it is all one therefore there can be no credit given either to their Promises or Vows And upon the one side of St. Peters Church lieth a Church-yard But they must part with the mony that they have begged in their Journey and that is called Gods field where none but poor pilgrims are buried and it is the Land that was bought with the 30 pence for which our Lord was sold As oft as a man goeth upon that ground he hath 15 years of pardon This if the Pope lieth not would be an excellent motive to draw Pilgrims and other persons to Rome but lazie Protestants had rather stay at home In the old Latin Book we read concerning the Church of St. Peter that there are granted every day in the year to so many as devoutly come unto it 48 years of pardon and as many Lents with the forgiveness of the third part of all sins Well it is but the forgiveness of the third part of your sins but the Pope hath an excellent Church where all your sins shall be pardoned go thither and let this alone till you are assured of your bargain for before you get home it will cost you dear Note also That whensoever the Feast of St. Peter comes or the Feast of the aforesaid Altars or the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord or of Easter or the Feast of All-Saints or any other double Feast than all the aforesaid Indulgences and Pardons are doubled Also in the Feast of the Annunciation of blessed Mary the Virgin there are 1000 years of pardon Again from the above-named Feast unto the Kalends of August Come here 's your man Sir no less than 12000 years of pardon together with a 3d part better and better yet give me this Church for my mony there are 12000 years of pardon and as many Lents and the forgiveness of the third part of all the sins Poor St. Peter how hath this abominable Harlot dress'd thee up I am sure thou didst teach the world other Doctrine but this Pardon-monger hath not told us the price I believe if we go round the Church we shall find the reckoning dear before we come out Item whosoever ascendeth or goeth up the stairs of St. Peter devoutly to him are granted for every step seven years of pardon by Pope Alexander St. Peters steps being well trod and the example of his Master our Lord Christ will produce a better than Pope Alexander could ever give but as for the Stone steps in St. Peters Church what pardon they procure let Pope Alexander inform you but unless he gives better evidence than his own words we will give him leave to lie and our selves the liberty of not giving credit to what he saith In the Church of St. Paul without the walls ye have 47000 years of pardon Here is more pardon than many an honest man can tell what to do withall or at least more than he will have occasion for Item in the day of St. Pauls Conversion ye have a 100 years of pardon Item on Childermas day 4000 years of pardon Item in Vtas of St. Martin when the Church was hallowed 14000 years of pardon and as many Karins and the third part of all sins released Moreover he that visiteth the Church of St. Paul two Sundays doth as much as though he went on pilgrimage
of St. Nicholas is 100 year of pardon and as many Lents In the Hospital of St. Spirit is 700 years of pardon and the seventh part of all sins released Pope Sixtus the fourth granted to all and singular persons that enter into the said Hospital of St. Spirit and become a Brother or Sister of the same Fraternity that they may choose where they will a meet Confessor or Ghostly Father to absolve them from all their sins yea and also once in their life-time and again at the hour of death to Absolve them from the Cases reserved to the Apostolick See as it is most fully contained in a certain Bull made upon the same matter In this Hospital is the Arm of St. Andrew and the Finger of St. Katherin In the Church of St. Michaelis is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Matthew is 200 years of pardon and there is his Arm and the Arm of St. Christopher The old Latin book saith that there is in this Church 1000 years of pardon and as many Lents and the forgiveness of the seventh part of all sins given granted and confirmed by Pope Honorius Pope Alexander and Pope Innocentius In the Church of St. Celore is 100 years of pardon and there is the finger of St. Nicholas the Bishop and the foot of Mary Magdalen In the Church of St. Simplician and Faustinus is 5000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Anastasius in the way to St. Pauls is 1000 years of pardon In this Church is the Pillar whereupon blessed St. Paul the Apostle was beheaded In the Church of St. Thomas is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. John Portlatin is one Soul delivered out of Purgatory with many Indulgences and Pardons In the Church of St. Christopher is 100 years of pardon In the Church of St. Apollinaris is 100 years of pardon In the Church of St. Bennet is 100 years of pardon In the Church of St. Andrew is a 1000 years of pardon And in this Church there are very many Reliques which were found in the ground and lay hid there in a Bason and Glass more than 200 years as it appeareth by the writing that was found with the Reliques In the Church of Cosine and Damiane is 1000 years of pardon Whosoever visiteth this Church hath 1000 years of pardon granted by Pope Gregory the first toties quoties In the Church of St. Simon and Jude is 1000 years of pardon In the Chappel that is called Domine quo vadis be the steps of the Feet of our Lord Jesus Christ and there is 1000 years of pardon In this place when the Angel of God delivered Peter from the hand of Nero our Saviour Christ met with him to whom Peter said Lord whither goest thou and he answer'd I go to Rome to be crucified again In the Church of St. John is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. James the Apostle is 2000 years of pardon And Pope Innocent the Eighth hath granted full remission of all sins to all and singular persons that devoutly visit the aforesaid Church in the Feast of the aforenamed Apostle with this Proviso That they hear Mattens Masses and Even-song in the aforesaid Church In the Church of St. Bernard is 300 years of pardon In the Church of St. Luke is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Mark is 1000 years of pardon This Church Pope Paul the second endowed with many priviledges and very great Indulgences insomuch that all and singular persons that visit the same Church in the Octaves of the most holy body of our Lord Jesus Christ or at the Feast of the Epiphany of Christ or else give somewhat to the beautifying and enriching of the said Church shall have manifold indulgence and pardon with full remission of all their sins In the Church of St. Panthaleon is 48 years of pardon In the Church of St. Pancras is 100 years of pardon Of certain Churches in Rome dedicated to our Lady IN the Church of our Lady called Rotunda is every Friday in the year and in the Feast of All-hollows clean and perfect remission of all sins This Church was edified by one called Agrippa in the Worship of Sibilla Venus and Neptunus and of all other Gods and Goddesses and was called Pantheon But afterward at the desire of the Pope Boniface it was granted by the Emperor to be made a Temple of the Christians so that the asoresaid Pope with a great multitude of the Romans did dedicate the same the first of the Kalends of November in the Worship of our Lady and of all Saints He hath also made there an Altar and said Mass there himself and ministred the Sacrament to the people and on the morrow after he said Mass in the same place for all Souls past He granted also great Indulgence and Pardon to all that devoutly visit this Church and meekly kneeling upon their knees say a Pater Noster and an Ave in the Worship of our Lady and all Saints In the Church of our Lady Trans Tiberim where a Well of Oyle plentifully flowed by the space of one whole day and one whole night when Christ was born of the Virgin Mary is 700 years of pardon in the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady granted by Pope Calixt and in Lent 400 years of pardon granted by Pope Gregory the third Item In the same Church are the steps of Odraphin printed in Stone which was found upon the Castle of St. Angel In the same Church also is one of the five Images of our Lady which St. Luke did paint In the Church of our Lady called Ara Coeli is 3000 years of pardon and as many Lents This Church was sometime the Palace of Octavianus the Emperor who saw in his Vision a fair Virgin in Heaven standing upon an Altar holding a goodly Child in her Arms At which sight he marvailed greatly and afterward heard a Voice from Heaven saying Haec ara Coeli filij Dei est And he fell to the ground and worshipped Christ and believed in his coming This Vision he had in his Chamber where now the Church of St. Mary called Ara Coeli is Under this Church is a Prison where St. Peter was imprisoned where is now a fair Chappel in which is a Pit wherein St. Peter did baptize many Martyrs And St. Peter was led out of that Prison by the Angel and there is great and mighty pardon In this Church also is one of the Images of our Lady which St. Luke painted This Image was made after the same form and manner that our Lady stood at the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ mourning weeping and lamenting This Image is of great virtue and worketh daily many miracles as ye may see in a certain Table that hangeth by the aforesaid Image In the Church of St. Mary the New is 1000 years of pardon and in Lent 200 years In this Church also is an Image of our Lady which St.
Luke painted in Troas of Greece This Image an Angel brought from the Frangapanes unto Rome into the said Church which Church being burnt in the time of Pope Honorius the third this Image stood and was nothing hurt St. Luke had two strings to his bow Physick and Painting Gods word speaks the former but as for the latter we have none but Mr. Pope's word for it and let the Papists believe him if they will Protestants are so saucy as not to believe him In the Church of St. Mary Transpontin in which are the two Pillars unto which the blessed Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul were bound when they were scourged is 300 year of pardon In the Church called Sancta Maria de Campo is 40 years of pardon In the Church of St Mary in Porticum is 200 years of pardon In this Church is a certain precious stone called a Saphir wherein as they write is graven by the hands of the holy Angels the Image of Christ and of our Lady and was delivered miraculously from Heaven to a certain Noble-man called Galla. And to this Stone also is granted great Pardon I never knew the Angels to be Gravers before and it seems they kept their Graving-shop in Heaven but are not their Tools with which they Graved these Images to be seen also Certainly they would be excellent Reliques and would give a little credit to this incredible story In the Church of our Lady De aqua Salina is 1000 years of pardon and in the day of the Consecration of the same is remission of all sins In the Church of our Lady De Apostolis is 200 years of pardon In the Church of St. Mary called Schola Graeca is 100 years of pardon In the Church of our Lady called Scala Coeli is also great pardon This is one of the first Temples that was built in the world unto the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary It is called Scala Coeli This Church is of great height where St. Bernard saw this sight because in it blessed St. Bernard deserved to see a Ladder which reached up to the very Heavens In this Church whosoever says Mass or cause it to be said for the the Souls that are in Purgatory the aforesaid Souls are delivered out of hand But the misery is no Masses can be gotten without mony through the virtue of the Mass and the Merits of the blessed Virgin Moreover whatsoever thing is devoutly asked in that place it is straightway without all doubt obtained And there is great abundance of pardon a poena culpa toties quoties In the Church of St. Mary called Imperatrix is great Indulgence and manifold pardon even to the number of 6000 years In this Church is an Image of the blessed Virgin which spake to St. Coelestine the Pope saying Why dost not thou pray unto me more often seeing that when thou goest by my Image thou clost always salute and reverence it St. Coelestine hearing this voice fell down upon his knees and prayed and desired before that Image forgiveness And more this holy Father hath granted to them that kneel before this Image and say with a good intent three Pater Nosters and as many Ave Maries 15 years of pardon toties quoties In the Church of our Lady called Libera nos a poenis inferni i.e. Deliver us from the pains of Hell is great plenty of pardon St. Sylvester Bishop of Rome who delivered Constantine the Emperor from his Leprosie and afterward baptized him Consecrated and hallowed this place which being the Chappel of the blessed Virgin is called Libera nos a poenis inferni He hath also granted to all and singular persons that devoutly come unto that place and give somewhat to the maintenance thereof 11000 years of pardon toties quoties In the Church of our Lady De Consolatione is an Image of the blessed Virgin which hath wrought many Miracles and there is in the same Church full remission of all sins on the second Sunday of the month of June from the first Even-song unto the last granted by Pope Sixtus the fourth In the Church of our Lady entituled Maria inviolata is the Oratory in which blessed Luke painted four Images of the glorious Virgin One of these Images he made after such sort as he himself knew and saw the blessed Virgin and therefore he painted and set her forth with a Ring on her finger which Image remaineth at this present day in the aforesaid Oratory And forasmuch as the blessed Virgin doth work many miracles in the said Image therefore is there great resort of People unto the said Image which receive there great help and comfort great indulgence and pardon and are replenished with many Graces and singular Benefits In the Church of our Lady De populo is great Indulgence and Pardon For Pope Pascalis hath given and granted to all that devoutly visit this Church at the Feast of the Dedication of the same and bring somewhat for the maintenance of the said Church from the Friday after the third Sunday of Lent unto the Octaves of Easter for every day 1000 years of pardon and as many Lents Pope Sixtus the fourth also hath endowed this Church with marvailous and many great Indulgences insomuch that all and singular persons that of a good mind come and visit this Church at the Feasts of the Nativity Purification Annunciation Visitation and Assumption of Mary the Virgin or at any one of them shall have for every time full remission of all their sins Here follow certain other Churches with their Indulgences and Pardons IN the Church of St. Agnes is every day 48 years of pardon and in the Feast of the same Saint 200 years of pardon In the Church of St. Susan is 300 years of pardon In the Church of St. Tabine the Wife of St. Alexius is 2000 years of pardon and as many Karins In the Church of St. Praxed is remission of the fourth part of all sins and in the same Church is the Pillar that Christ was bound unto when he was scourged The old Latin book saith that in the aforesaid Church there is daily 12000 years of pardon and as many Lents and the forgiveness of the third part of all sins In this Church also is an Altar upon which Pope Pascalis sung 5 Masses for a certain Soul departed which 5 Masses being once ended he saw with his corporal eyes the blessed Virgin Mary to fetch the Soul out of Purgatory and to carry it into the bosom of Almighty God as ye may see it painted upon the wall of the aforesaid Church In consideration whereof the aforesaid Pope Pascalis by his Apostolick Authority hath given and granted to so many as either say Mass themselves or cause Mass to be said in the aforenamed Church power to deliver one Soul out of Purgatory toties quoties In the Church of St. Katharine is 200 years of Pardon In the Church of St. Felix is 40 years of Pardon In the