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Nevv shreds of the old snare Containing the apparitions of two new female ghosts. The copies of diuers letters of late intercourse concerning Romish affaires. Speciall indulgences purchased at Rome, granted to diuers English gentle-beleeuing Catholiques for their ready money. A catalogue of English nunnes of the late transportations within these two or three yeares. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon-Colledge in Oxford.
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Gee, John, 1596-1639.
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in partibus Occidentalibus Angliae Londini 24. Septembris Anno Domini 1623. The former Letter in English Indorsed To the most reverend Father the Father Beruille Generall of the Fathers of the Congregation of the Oratory in France deliver this in Paris Most reverend Father He meanes the late new cast Bishop of Chalcedon WEE want at this present a wise diligent and constant man who may dispatch the businesses of our Bishop and Clergie in the Roman Court You haue in your Congregation a reverend Father one Thomas Rant an English man who speakes Italian and hath beene to his commendation sometime imployed at Rome as also he was much and long imployed in England in soliciting of businesses before his admission to your Congregation This man wee thinke fit to trust with our affayres Their affayres are Faires to purchase money And therefore we beseech your most reverend Father-hood that you would grant vs this man or at least lend him vs for a time least the most reverend Bishops affaires ours should be destitute of Protection as occasion may serue in that most high Court We haue heard that it is proper to your Congregation to affoord pious prudent men vnto Bishops Wherefore wee earnestly intreat you that you would not deny our Ordinary this favour who doth fervently loue you and hath heretofore requested thus much from your most reverend Father-hood By which benefit your Father-hood shall much oblige vs all to your selfe and your Congregation God long preserue your most reverend Father-hood in prosperitie Your most reverend Father-hoods much bounden Iohn Colleton Vicar generall of the East parts of England Richard Smith Vicar generall of the South parts of England Richard Broughton Vicar generall of the North parts of England Edward Bennet Vicar generall of the West parts of England London 24 of September 1623. The Comment POore England you finde quartered without iudgement by this domineeting Quaternion of Popish popular Quarter-masters An admirable new-erected intruded Hierarchy Our Lord Bishops had need looke to their Rochets For I heare of a strange imaginary scambling after the revennewes of their Church-livings Great hopes there is of purchasing Churches great newes of sending over more new Bishops The nimble-footed Messengers deligated from the Popes Holines may intrude where they list and obtrude what they please it should seeme without restraint or reproofe Alas great Roman Idoll-Gull there is none of our Bishops that feare your leaden Bull. As for your Bishops of Chalcedon Gortyna and Cydonea who haue their authoritie so brauely signed sub annulo Piscatoris I desire them to tarry where their land lyes that may maintaine them in Pontificalibus The truth is in England we haue as yet no emptie Palace worthy to entertaine them except it be the Gate-house at Westminster or the Stone house at New-gate where they shall be pompously attended Is it not inough that the little Foxes of Rome eate vp our Grapes but other wild Boares must must enter into our Vineyard The Lord hath yet a hooke for their nostrils and a bridle for their lips Let Abaddon the King of the Locusts that Romish vsurper raue and braue seeking to inlarge his Territories from East to West or as far as he lift claiming Hyperbolicall power to beare through Diabolicall drifts It makes no matter our Iosiah whose name shall ever remaine vpon record in the Kalender of the iust hath taken away all abhominations of iniquitie all intruding Iurisdiction that might streame hither from the Well of Rome having in himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an inbred power limited onely with iustice and equitie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 absolute dominion and vniversall command and yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also subiection to none but God onely And who but the Pope and his adherents doubteth but that the limmes and branches of his authoritie are extended over all persons and in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Civilli His power profession and facultie is immediate and next vnto God held from him in Capite not derived from beneath he is not one of those Princes of whom Blondus speaketh that should honor and worship the Pope as God he kisseth not the hands and feet of his Holines but is architectonicall supreame and commander of all other functions and vocations Blond Iust Roma lib. 3. Bertrandus ¶ The Coppy of a Letter sent from P. Rowe a Romish Priest to his brother William Rowe in ENGLAND Loving Brother ALbeit according to S. Bernards saying Efficacior lingua quam litera The tongue is of greater efficacy then the Penne And so I could wish rather to inlarge my selfe vnto you by word then by writing my occasion of writing vnto you at this time being very serious yet sith according to the old Proverb Gainst necessitie there is no law I will plead my cause by this mute Advocate of my minde Those that are of religious Orders vow obedience to their Superiours who may cōmand them to run to any Angle of the world to the Indies So it is that I haue received command from our Superior to travell to the Citie of Seleucia within the Province of Isauria a place I know not where so I know not whether euer I shall see England againe I will delay my Iourney eight weekes longer and would intreat you as you respect me to send me over before my going the thirtie pounds you owe me Though I told you I would forbeare it a yeare longer yet now I cannot doe it neither would you I hope desire it considering my case I had come this Sommer into England but that the Superior of our Order is thus pleased to put a tricke vpon me the burthen whereof I must patiently vnder-goe I haue deserved better I am sure then to be so foysted off and driven God knows where I wrote vnto you a fortnight since by Mr Herbart desiring you to send me a dozen yards of good broad-cloth of a fine new mixt colour for a friend of mine Wee every day expect to heare from you and to receiue it The money that is in my brother Iames hands I freely forgiue him for I know he needs it The Popes pardons you find are hardly purchased I procured Mr Shepheard an Indulgence but there is yet twelue pounds of the charges vnsent I harken still when I shall receiue it If he haue not yet taken order as I appointed him for the payment of it in Anwerpe I pray speake to him that he send it over with your money I pray let there be no iarring betwixt my brother Robert and you I haue written to him and charged him deeply to behaue himselfe soberly and lovingly toward you Had I come over as was intended wee might haue had great comfort one of another I envy not the braue life which my fellow Priests in England now lead Remember me dearely to Master Browne Mr Midleton Mr Iones Mr Curley Mr