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A32856	Camiltons discoverie of the devilish designes and killing projects of the Society of Jesuites of late years projected and by them hitherto acted in Germany : intended but graciously prevented in England / translated out of the Latine copie ... by W. F. X. B. ...; De studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. English	Camilton, John.; W. F. X. B.	1641 (1641)	Wing C388A; ESTC R11407	15,823	38

so bold as to desire the sight of any one of them except he will 〈…〉 fore-hand with all virulencie and bitternesse raile upon and disgrace the Author whom he desireth to see by some infamous Libell and scurrilous Satyricall verse or writing In the middest of these severall Libraries is placed a Study being divided into many Seates distinct and separate one from another with a blew covering on the right side whereof sit the Fathers on the left the under-Graduates who have already taken some Degrees upon them The other Novices or Fresh-men as wee call them sit mixt with the fellow-Commoners that they may take notice of them and every man in his turne beate into them by continuall discourses the sweetnesse and excellency of the Order of Iesuites especially into such as are of the richer sort or wealthy heires I will say no more at this time as touching their Studies but I will describe briefly the manner of the Visitation which every Provinciall maketh because it is a point which as I thinke and for any thing that I ever read or heard hath beene never hitherto divulged by any Now every Provinciall taketh his Denomination from the Province or Kingdome rather which is committed to his charge and oversight His place is to visit the severall Colledges to take an account of their Revenues and over-see their expences exactly and punctually to take notice what Noble personages commit their Sonnes to the tuition of the Society and how many they are in number Whether there be not yearely an increase of Schollers as also of their meanes and Revenewes Whether there be any converted from Lutheranisme and how many such If there be no such thing or if the Popish Religion have lost ground or if there be any decrease of their wealth he sharpely reproveth their sloath and neglect and chargeth strictly that they make an amends for the wrong they have done and losse they have received in this case But if they have bestirred themselves bravely and converted as they call it or rather perverted many Soules to Popery if they have beene frugall and scraped wealth together he praiseth them very highly and extolleth them to the skyes Moreover he demandeth what is the opinion of the Neighbouring Hereticks concerning them What be the projects of the Nobles What meetings they have How many And where What they consult upon What they resolve to doe Whether the Hereticall Princes as they tearme them delight to live at home or abroad To whom they resort most frequently What is the severall disposition of every one of them In what things he is observed to take most delight Whether he take any care of his people or not Whether he be a Religious Prince or not Or rather whether he be not a man who delights to take his pleasure in drinking Wenching or Hunting Whether he have any Catholickes about him or that are neere unto him What the people report abroad concerning their owne Princes Whether the Churches of the Adversaries be full of resort or not Whether the Pasters of those Churches be learned and diligent men in their place and calling or otherwife lazie Lubbers and unlettered Whether the Profession of Divinitie thrive in the Neighbouring University of Heretickes Whether their Divines maintaine frequent Disputations and against whom principally What bookes they have published of late and upon what Subject To these and sundry such questions if the Regent and the rest of the Fathers doe answer punctually he doth wonderfully commend their industry and vigilancy If he find them defective in answering to these or any such demands hee reprooveth them sharpely saying what meane you my Masters doe you purpose like lazie companions to undoe the Church of Rome How doe you suppose your slothfulnesse in these waighty affaires can bee excused before his Holinesse How is it that you presume to take these places upon you and to manage them no better What or whom are you affrayd of Why doe not you buckle up your selves better to your businesse and performe your places like men These things if you had beene such men as you ought to bee had not beene to doe now These things should have beene done long before this time Doe you observe the incredible watchfulnesse of the Heretickes and can you be lazie And with these or the like speeches hee whetteth them on to their duty At the last he enquireth as touching the schollers fellow-Commoners Novices and the rest how many they are in number How much every one hath profited To what study or delight each one is inclineable Whether there be any one amongst them that is scrupulous or untractable or not a sit subject to be wrought upon For he adjudgeth every such an one sitting to be removed from the study of Divinity except he have bin very well exercised in the Disputations in Schooles and have a very great and good conceit of their Religion beaten into him Moreover hee enquireth if they have any one in the Colledge who can be contented for the advantage of the Catholicke cause to undertake any laudable attempt and to spend his blood in the cause if at any time necessity shall seeme to require it And at last he sendeth away all these informations being sealed up unto the Father Generall at Rome by whom they are immediately made knowne to the Pope himselfe and his Conclave of Cardinals And so by this meanes an order is taken that there is no matter of Action set on foote nothing almost consulted upon throughout the whole Christian world which is not forthwith discovered unto the Pope by these traytors that lurke in every state and Kingdome Also it is not to be omitted that the Iesuites are translated by their Provinciall from one Colledge to another and that for the most part once in three yeares that so the Provinciall out of their severall discoveries may attaine to unlocke all the secretest Cabinets of the Prince and State where he doth reside In the last place I will adde in stead of a Corollary some strange and wonderfull devices of the Iesuites which being but of late newly hammered in the forge they have carnestly endeavoured yea and at this day doe labour tooth and nayle to put in practice by publike consent for an Jnnovation to be made both in the Church and State throughout the whole Romane Empire To this end their chiefe and onely ayme is how to set the Princes of the Empire together by the eares and by taking off some of the Principall Doctors of the Church to bring the tyranny of the Spaniard and the Primacy of the Pope into Germany Concerning which very project I have heard the Provinciall DHL-RIO himselfe discoursing sometimes whose plots and Machinations were such as follow In the first place saith he care and paines must be used to estrange the affections of the Princes of the Empire one from another Now the meanes said he to effect that is to worke upon their contrariety of opinions

be applyed to the Iesuites It is a wonder that one Iesuite when he looketh upon another doth not straight way burst forth into a laughing outright they being amongst themselves privie to such impostures practised upon the people I speake not touching your simpler sort of Iesuites from whom these more reserved and closer practises of the Society are altogether concealed either in respect they are not held wise enough for sooth to be acquainted with them or that they are thought too devout to entertaine them or else in regard of their short continuance in that Society for all such are so kept short through severity of Discipline that not one of them except he be wondrous quicke of sent can ever smell out in the least measure what knavery is therein practised under a shew of Holinesse My discourse onely toucheth the prime and principall fellowes of that Society their Regents Fathers Provincials and Generals all which are so universally and joyntly tainted with all manner of wickednesse but especially with Whoredome Covetousnesse and Magicke that indeed any reasonable man may thinke it little lesse then a Miracle if a Iesuite of this ranke meeting such another upon a sudden and beholding as it were another picture or lively representation of himselfe should have power to abstaine from laughing outright I therefore thought it not amisse considering the premisses to lay open unto the world some particular passages and practises of that Society of the greatest part whereof my selfe have beene an eye-witnesse and some part whereof hath beene related unto me by Iesuites whom I am able to name and will undoubtedly nominate if they shall but dare in the least manner to lift up their tongues against mee or to contradict what I have written And howsoever at this time I passe over things briefly and doe onely as it were give you a first draught thereof I doe purpose in due time God assisting me to doe it more largely and compleatly with expression of all and singular circumstances thereunto appertaining First of all then at your entrance into any Colledge of Iesuites especially if it be scituated in or neere unto any large and populous and rich place But alas why doe I say if it be built there seeing they have no Colledges in any poore meane or obscure place At your first entry I say into such a place or Colledge take principall notice of the Porter of their Gate and him you shall find to looke like unto the picture of a very Charon or rather a Cerberus For the most part you shall observe him to be a man of very great yeares or if hee bee younger he is a fellow of most approved trust and secrecy And this is the man if any such there be who is well skilled in all the mysteries of the Iesuites Caball or reserved Divinity In this fellowes keeping is great store of apparell both for Men and Women of every degree and calling And with this apparell doe the Iesuites habit themselves according to the quality that every one findeth himselfe ablest to personate and so practice wonderfull Impostures in the World For at sometimes being habited like Souldiers very gallant they walke in the streets and highwayes Whoring and Swaggering in the publike Stewes At other times in the civill habites of Citizens professing themselves to be of the reformed Religion they pry up and downe and listen in Innes in Play-houses in Tavernes upon the Exchanges and in all places of publike meetings wheresoever ●here is any frequent resort what the people speak up and downe concerning them what consultations are abroad what matter of Action is set a soot in any part Another while like Doctors of Physicke or of the Civill Law with great Rings on their fingers avowing and purposely professing themselves to be Papists wheresoever they know any of the Common sort that is wealthy and hath sons they devise some cause of businesse with them and insinuate themselves into their acquaintance by strange fetches and in Conclusion doe advise them to bring up their sonnes in some Schoole or Colledge of Iesuites affirming that themselves have beene educated by them and that they have so profited under them that God be thanked they never had cause to repent thereof And sometimes againe apparelled like Noblemen and compleatly attended they cause Coaches to be provided abroad and frequent the Courts of Princes as giving attendance upon Ambassadours of forraigne States and serve as Intelligencers to vnlocke the Cabinets of great Potentates Nay further I have knowne them to make shew of being banished persons and to crave collections amongst Protestant Divines purposely to learne under-hand what such men write against them yea such were those men for the most part who so miserably deluded so many Reverend men in many places by sinister waies under that habit furthering the designes of their Society and breeding disturbances in the reformed Congregations of whom to the end that all honest-hearted Ministers may be more wary I shall tell you hereafter what projects at this day the Iesuites have a foot to this purpose But in the meane while perhaps you will say unto me whereto I pray you serveth so much womens apparell or what is their end in depositing so much in the keeping of the Porter of their gate Attend and J will tell you No Pander that ever TERENCE or PLAUTUS mentioned in their Comedies was so nimble at the trade of winning pretty wenches as are the Iesuites at this day but especially that Porter of their gate whom I mentioned but now For that which the Confessors themselves are not able to wring out of them by Auricular Confession in their Churches and Chappels this fellow knoweth how to winne from them by flattering speeches with wonderfull pleasing and delightfull toyes especially if he meet with a poore widdow or any such silly woman which sendeth her child to the Colledge now and then for an Almes or with some Laundresse or Spinster for be she Lotrix or Netrix hee will make her a Me●etrix Whom so soone as this base Pander hath once but allured to come to his net although her apparell be never so old and tattered yet he hath gay Gownes enough in store with accoutrements suitable wherewith he can make her both tricke trimme which when he hath done he knoweth how to convey her through many secret passages and by-waies to his Venerable Masters the Fathers of the Society And yet he never doth this in the day time but neere upon the shutting in of the Evening and then they make away the whole night in Ryot and Luxury with Revelling and Dancing the younger sort and Novices of the Society being kept farre enough from Discovery thereof For they have for the purpose certaine Vaults framed like Chambers and roomes under ground as had those ancient Romanes who first devised their Stewes in Vaults whose inclination to all carnall lasciviousnesse was so great and so bruitish that the Senate of Rome fearing the just