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A14830	A sparing discouerie of our English Iesuits, and of Fa. Parsons proceedings vnder pretence of promoting the Catholike faith in England for a caueat to all true Catholiks our very louing brethren and friends, how they embrace such very vncatholike, though Iesuiticall deseignments.	Bagshaw, Christopher, d. 1625?; Watson, William, 1559?-1603.	1601 (1601)	STC 25126; ESTC S119548	53,231	85

other place taking vpon him to shew the causes why our English Students haue of a long time bin so troublesome in that Colledge he writeth thus you shall heare him at large Some thinke that it is in great part the nature of the place that ingendreth high spirits in them that are not well established in Almightie Gods grace For comming thither very yong and finding themselues presently placed and prouided for abundantly and acquainted daily with sights and relations of Popes Cardinals and Princes affaires our youths that were bred vp at home with much more simplicitie and kept vnder by their Parents and Maisters then the Italian education doth comport forgetteth easily themselues and breaketh out to liberty I meane such as haue runne astray and lost respect to their superiors in Rome This opinion of the circumstance of the place is greatly increased by the iudgement of Strangers both Spanyards Frenchmen and Flemings and other Nations who affirme that they try by experience their people that liue in Rome if they be not men of great vertue do proue more headie afterward and lesse tractable then others brought vp at home But yet to this other men of our Nation do adde a second reason for the English Colledge which is at Rome being a place whereunto many young men do resort only vpon a desire of seeing nouelties When any come thither of the English Nation finding such a commoditie of study and maintenance there and themselues in want and misery they made suite for that whereunto perhaps they had not true vocation from God nor due preparation in themselues to so holy and high estate And so being once admitted fell afterwards to disorder and to put out of ioynt both themselues and others Thus farre the Father of the want of grace in some and of a true calling in others that disagreed with the Iesuites and how dangerous a matter it is for Parents to send their children to Rome except they will haue them Iesuites or at the least to runne their tray terous courses the very place will marre them But now heare his report of the estimation that our English Students and Priests haue gotten by their being at Rome he shall tell it himselfe Baronius often told me that our youths bragged much of Martyrdome but they were refractary that was his word and had no part of Martyrs spirit which was in humilitie and obedience His holynes oftentimes told me that he was neuer so vexed with any Nation in the world for on the one side they pretended zeale and pietie and on the other shewed the very spirit of the Diuell in pride contumacy and contradiction c. And euer now and then his holynes would put his finger to his brayne signifying that there stoode their sicknes and so would most of the Court when they talked of Englesye were Indiauoluti and like words His holynes added also that he knew not what resolution to take for on the one side to punish them openly would be a scandall by reason of the hereticks and if he should cast them forth of Rome some had told him that they would haue become hereticks c. Againe in his letter to Maister Bishop writing of the report that he the sayd Maister Bishop and Maister Charnock had made to the Commissary of the Inquisition at their being in Rome he sayth thus to Maister Bishop You talked before your restraint heere with the Commissary of the Inquisition and you gaue him such a relation of our English matters as afterward when Maister Doctor Haddock and Maister Doctor Array had talked with him also and informed him as they thought of the very truths of matters he told an Honorable man in Rome and a great friend of mine that foure English Priests hauing talked with him they had taken from him all list to beleeue any English men or matters more they told him so different tales and yet all of them would seeme to be men of zeale And againe thus he writeth in the other letter I haue heard his holynes often and diuers Cardinals more often repeate with exceeding dishonor to our Nation the headynes and obstinacie of our youths so as now many great and wise men begin to suspect that the sufferings of our blessed Martyrs and Confessors in England was not so much for vertue and loue to Gods cause as of a certaine choler and obstinate will to contradict the Magistrate there What thinke you Sir ofthese reports by Parsons In what case are we poore Priests The chiefe cause of our affliction is our defending of the Church of Rome and therein his holynes authoritie And thinke they no better of vs for it If this do come to the knowledge of our aduersaries what aduantage will they make of it Wo worth that Iesuiticall broode that to mayntaine their ambition haue wrought vs this discredit We haue bin in better reputation with his holynes and so we hope to be agayne when this Machiuilian companion shall reape the shante himselfe of this report For it is not possible if euer his holynes will be pleased to be informed of him but that he will reward him with ignominy as he hath deserued You know our estates at home and you haue heard what estimation both we and all our Nation haue at Rome if Parsons write truly as we trust he doth not Our chiefest hope must therefore be in her Maiesties goodnes and mercie towards vs to graunt vnto vs if it be possible the libertie of our consciences But herein obserue this viperous Iesuite At the league of peace betweene the French and the Spanish Kings there was a rumor that the Queene would enter into that league and so graunt a toleration of religion which Parsons did vtterly dislike saying that either they would haue all or none they will admit of no conditions And his reason is this because sayth he a toleration would make the Catholicks of England dull and without spirit It is indeede quicknes that this Father desireth but such a quicknes as deserueth a quick dispatch at the Gallowes We trust he shall neuer draw our Catholicks heere to any such quicknes but that after our dull manner we shall for euer continue her Maiesties most faithfull subiects and with such quicknes as becommeth vs oppose our selues to his restles quick and bloudy deseignements against our Countrie But obserue we pray you that we say our hope is thus of all English Catholicks which hope may be subiect to some little doubt especially if his wicked platforme do proceede heere amongst vs that all Catholicks must hereafter depend vpon Blackwell and he vpon Garnet and Garnet vpon Parsons and Parsons vpon the Diuell who is the author of all rebellions treasons murthers disobedience and all such deseignements as this wicked Iesuite hath hitherto deuised against her Maiestie her safety her Crowne her Kingdome and her life So as our conclusion shall be with a branch which we will alwayes remember as an addition when we say the Letany à Machinationibus Parsoni libera nos Domine And thus wee end desiring God to blesse vs all Amen

calumnies and slaunders breathed out by them against Popes and Princes against the Cathol Rom Church and common wealth of England nay of euery Christian Kingdome against the Mother Citie where stands inuiolate the fortresse of our faith and religion against all monasticall and religious orders against the secular Clergie and especially Seminary Priests against all noble and generous blouds titles honors and princely prerogatiues from the regall Throne of Maiestie to the seate of worship against the right of inheritance to armes lands and honors euen from the Soueraigne to the Freeholder or Tenant in fee simple of all degrees against all and euery parcell part and member of the publick weale molested endaungered infested by them I might here set downe the finall conclusions of their intention for and to what end they do these things scil to aduance themselues and pull downe all that are not they For this cause it is that all their cormorant crowes are milke white doues their black birds swannes their haggardhawkes gentle fawcons of the Tower For this cause it is that their sots are Salomons their preuadoes saincts their silents politicks and all amongst them rare matchlesse peerelesse For this cause it is that they haue a more neere familiaritie with God greater skill and more aboundance of grace giuen them for edifying directing and instructing of soules then any other Priest For this cause it is that they dare presume to call the Pope himselfe an heretick the Kings of Fraunce and Scotland reprobates and to giue her Maiestie and the State heere names so odious as too oft it is once to repeate them after them No maruaile then if the secular afflicted Priests be subiect to their torturing toongs in all extreamenes that may be thought vpon For this cause it is that they the Spanish faction I meane haue labored these 30. yeers space and vpward for so long it is since the Bull of Pius Quintus came out by the Iesuiticall humorists procurement for depriuing her Maiestie of her life Kingdome Crowne and all at once for setting this flourishing common wealth on fier and flame for establishing their owne Allobrogiall conceited soueraignty vnder pretence of restoring this whole I le to the auncient Cathol Rom. faith and Religion For this cause it is that no Religion deuotion pietie charitie no nor any face of a true reformed Cathol Church as they tearme it must be spoken of or thought to be any where but amongst the Donatistiall-Africanian-Spanish-Iesuites No not in Rome it selfe without the Iesuites residence were any true religion to be found For this cause it is that all secular Priests or other Catholicks must be censured iudged and condemned by these arrogant Iesuites for irreligious malecontents atheall polititians apostataes and what not vile tearmes are giuen vnto them that fauour not nay that will not applaude further and sweare to the Ladies Infantaes title to the English Crowne or that will seeme any way to defend wish or shew any fauour in their poore and worthles conceits as what other opinion can afflicted subiects haue to the line of King Henry the seauenth or any one of the bloud royall of our owne Nation borne and liuing within the I le of Albion For this cause it is that the secular Priests must be holden for men infamous detected of most notorious vices scandales passionate ignorant vnlearned and vnfit for gouernment For this cause it is that an innouate or new authoritie must be gotten and giuen to one Maister George Blackwell a man by so much the more fit for to serue their turne by how much as he is the most vnfit of an 100. secular Priests within the Realme for the purpose in shew pretended by them for to extend ouer all England Scotland and Wales with a premuniriall stile and title of regall dignity derogating as well to the see Apostolick as to the seate of Maiesty And yet he thus authorized standeth at the deuotion of the Iesuites to runne and turne like a lackey boy in a french Ioupe and is to attend on his good Lord and Maister Fa. Garnets will and pleasure being but aduaunced to the dignitie honor or office of a viceroy nay but of a viceregent nay but of a vice-president nay but of a viceprotonotary nay but of a viceuiridary nay but of a meere spirituall rackmaster at the most For he hath nothing to do with any Iesuite among whom there is a subordinate authoritie by degrees ascendent euen to Emperour Robert Parsons or their Generall but is at the commaund of the meanest puny father amongst them to strike with ecclesiasticall censure whomsoeuer any of them willhaue smitten downe and therefore he must needs be said to be in some inferior calling vnder them as the word Archpriest importeth For the meanest Iesuit though a lay brother being accounted far better and to be preferred before any ordinary Seminary or secular priest it followeth then that any Iesuite priest is to be preferred before an extraordinary secul priest that is to say before an Archpriest or chief maister head-priest ouer the rest of the seculars For this cause it is that the seeming to take notice of the Iesuits falshood treacheries treasons against the Cathol Church and commonwelth intended by institution of this new puritanianlike superintendency or authority and thereupon resisting it as the secular priests did first by non-acceptance of him and then by appealing from him is tearmed schisme disobedience disloyaltie rebellion and what not offence committed against Pope Clement or Q. Elizabeth for the words schisme rebellion c. must needs haue a relation to some supreme Maiestie and seeing the secular priests haue only if against any schismatiz'd rebelled against M. Geor. Blackwell and his Iesus masters ergo by necessary sequel it must ensue that he is the Pope in respect of the schism the Prince in respect of the rebellion incurred and committed against him But then withal I do infer that he is an absurd vsurper and traitor to them both alike by his dotage in suffering such vaine Iesuiticall applauses to his owne destruction For this cause it is that he the said M. Blackwell must by the Prouinciall or other superior or inferior Iesuits commaund excommunicate suspend and take away faculties from what priest they please yea and their goodnames besides Nay which is not more cruell tyrannicall barbarous monstrous then childish ridiculous peeuish indiscrete void of all wit sense learning religion conscience ciuility humanity or honesty he must and doth forbid men to defend their good names to say or thinke they are wronged by him or the Iesuits to seeke for any iustice to appeale from him in any thing And in few such absurdities are desperately diuulged by him as neither Prince nor Pope in like cases can make lawfull being against the law of God and Nature wherein the Pope cannot dispence much lesse M. George Blackwell suspend inhibite or abrogate at a Iesuites pleasure For this cause it is

that all manner of bookes writings or other passages of speech are contemned and condemned that fauor not Fa. Parsons popularitie in his bookes of titles or his treasons and slanders against our soueraigne and state in the late Bull of Excommunication 1588 set out against her Maiestie c. or other rayling bookes of Philopater the scribe the wardword derogating to secular priests in sundry places especially his high counsell of Reformation c. For this cause none but Span. and Iesuites are secretly nominated to rule the roast in England vpon the pretended Span. inuasion for restoring of religion all the english that are not Iesuits being but fooles or atheists and libertines vnfit for gouernment For this cause it is that they the Iesuits haue bin plotting about this monarchie how to bring both states ecclesiasticall and temporall vnder them aboue these 20. yeeres space first beginning to tyrannise ouer the students and secular priests at Rome then at Wishich after that throughout England and now in euery place where any of them are opposite to their ambitious designements For this cause it is that Fa. Parsons was so beneficial to some engl soldiers though hereticks taken prisoners in Spain that he so spedily obtained of the King Cathol there to institute three Seminaries on his Maiesties costs and charges that graynes and indulgences must be published in England on the Span. behalfe for all that take his part that all who come out of Spayne must sweare vow professe or at least acknowledge an obedience to Maister Blackwell in all things yea euen to become ranck traytors against their Prince and Countrey for that is principally intended In few for this cause it is that the Iesuites labour in all things to be holden for peerelesse and to haue all the secular Priests to be accounted of as abiects vnworthy the naming These with many the like particular points are here and in other bookes handled more at large of all which as I might enlarge my selfe beyond the limits of an Epistle so desiring the gentle Cathol charitable and friendly Reader to peruse these with this ensuing discourse aduisedly voide of passion affection or other partiall doome I craue only in recompence of my paines taken for their sakes to bring them out of error a kinde censure of my well meant indeuors with a charitable remembrance of my poore sinfull soule in their Cathol religious deuotions and at the time of their best remembrance as one that can not let passe any of my brethrens works that haue hitherto or shall hereafter come into my hands without an exhortatiue Epistle vnto all true English hearted Catholicks to beware of the Iesuiticall poyson Dixi. Yours as you loue our holy auncient Apostolicall Cathol Rom. Church W. W. A sparing discouerie of our English Iesuits and of Fa. Parsons proceedings vnder pretence of promoting the Catholicke faith in England OMnis Christi actio est nostra instructie Our Sauiour Iesus his deedes are to all true Catholickes so many documents The Scribes and Pharisees religious men had in processe of time through their hypocrisie vtterly discountenanced the ordinary Priesthood It is strange by Iosephus report into what credit they were growne with the people and especially with women But ficta non diu fallunt dissemblers for a time may beare a sway but being like the apples of Sodome touch them and they turne into ashes their continuance willnot be long Christ our Lord the truth and the light finding these maskers ietting in his Church plucked off their vizards and with many woes disclosed their dissimulation leauing vs an example to imitate when we perceiue any religious persons countenanced with neuer so high titles to shift and practise by the like fraude how for their owne aduancement they may discredit the secular Priests on whose shoulders and not vpon religious mens the cure and charge of all christian mens soules are chiefly layd by the institution of Christ and by the continuall practise of the Catholick Church We do not make this mention of religious men as disliking of those most holy and religious orders we are verily perswaded that they were deuised and founded by the spirit of God some of them especially to contemplation and some to ioyne therewith their paynes and trauell for the assisting of vs that be secular Priests in so great a worke committed vnto vs but not to deale with vs as these our new maisters the Iesuites do to oppose themselues against vs factiously or to calumniate and slaunder vs falsely or to allure the peoples hearts frō vs hypocritically or to insult and tyranize ouer vs most prowdly and disdainefully For this is plaine Pharisaisme and may not any longer be well endured it hath already taken deeper roote in short time amongst vs then many men deeme of and will grow to be pernicious to the Catholick Church if with the greater foresight and diligence as pestilent weeds they be not plucked vp Some of their followers haue presumed by their directions to affirme in writing that the Iesuites are more free from error more familiar with God more particularly illuminated in all their meeds and more specially indued with the spirit of guiding soules then are the secular Priests in the haruest of God and thereupon an admonition is giuen to all Catholicks to take diligent heed and beware of all Priests in generall that are not either them selues Iesuites or such else as haue relation to them and are in all their proceedings aduised and guided by them And concerning women some of them are admitted by our Archpriest and the Iesuites into their secret Counsels and both there and elsewhere amongst their gossips they censure vs in the depth of their great iudgement very wisely they rayle vpon vs of their charity very deuoutly and they condemne vs before they heare vs very iudiciously their seducing guides do fawne vppon them flatter and magnifie them and that makes the poore soules to be so fond of them and to doate as they do and runne ryot after them We confesse and thanke God for it very heartily that as yet there are many sound and graue Catholicks both men and women that are not bewitched with the Syrens songs of these new inchaunters Marry the infection of this sore doth dayly as a Gangrene so spreade it selfe as we haue thought it our duties a little to seare it vntill the disease may be vndertaken hereafter by some more skilfull Chirurgions that may if it mend not haue power to cure it In the applying of our remedy for the same we will not tell you of the bones and rottennes that are in these graues or sepulchres or of the inward filthines that remayneth within their pots and platters or of any such inward vncleanes and iniquitie For except the very out sides of their monuments and of their vessell notwithstanding all their cunning paynting and scowring be foule inough and loathsome to any that will not foolishly shut their eyes we shall very