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A07901	The English Romayne lyfe Discouering: the liues of the Englishmen at Roome: the orders of the English semiminarie [sic]: the dissention betweene the Englishmen and the VVelshmen: the banishing of the Englishmen out of Roome: the Popes sending for them againe: a reporte of many of the paltrie reliques in Roome: ther vautes vnder the grounde: their holy pilgrimages: and a number other matters, worthy to be read and regarded of euery one. There vnto is added, the cruell tiranny, vsed on an English man at Roome, his Christian suffering, and notable martirdome, for the Gospell of Iesus Christe, in anno. 1581. VVritten by A.M. sometime the Popes scholler in the seminarie among them. Seene and allovved.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18272; ESTC S112987	53,560	84

chéefest enimie if he can iustlie report otherwise by me for I thanke God albeit I were so far from my Countrey he gaue me the grace to consider I was a Subiect I was bound by duety to regard and honour my Prince so long as I liued And because my aduersaries obiect against me that I went to Masse helped the Préest my selfe to say Masse so that say they who is wurst I am as euill as he I aunswer I did so in déed for he that is in Roome especially in y e Colledge amōg the Schollers must liue as he may not as he will fauour comes by conformitie and death by obstinacie These rash heads béeing in England would doo many goodlie matters at Roome they would tell the Pope of his lasciuious vnchristian life the Cardinals of their Sodomiticall sinnes the Friers of their secret iugling with the Nunnes the Préestes of their painted Purgatorie their wafer God and their counterfeit blood in the Challice all this they would doo nowe they are in England But I doubt if they were at Roome and behelde the mercilesse tiranny executed on the members of Christe God hauing not endued them with the spirit of perseuerannce to suffer and abide the like for what can this frayle carkase endure if God doo not say I will that thou shalt suffer this I feare me they would be as ready to doo any thing for the safegard of their liues as I was You maye note a speciall example in these our Countreymen lately executed that neither their cause was estéemed of God nor perfectlie perswaded in them selues yet they would die in a brauerie to be accoumpted Martyres at Roome and in the middest of their brauerie all the world might note their false and faynt hearts Sherwood he ranne downe the Ladder when death should arest him hauing killed one of his fellowe Papistes Campion their glorious Captaine he looked dead in the face so soone as he sawe the place of Execution and remained quaking trembling vnto the death Shert would haue the people thinke hée feared not death and yet he catched holde on the halter when the Cart was drawne away Kirbie quaking when he felt the Cart goe away looked styll how néere the ende of it was tyl he was quite beside And Cottom dismaying died trembling in great feare These are the Martirs of y e Romish Church not one of them patient penitent nor endued with courage to the extremitie of death but dismaying trembling fearfull as y e eye witnesses can beare me record We may therfore-wel knowe y ● a good cause dooth animate y e Martir which belonging to God let Roome Hell all the deuils set them selues against vs they cā touch vs no farder thē God wil suffer them As Saint Lauraunce béeing broiles on the Gridiren to witnesse the inuincible courage wherewith God indued him he sayde Thou Tiraunt this side is now roasted enough turne the other And Saint Isidore likewise sayde to the Tiraunt I knowe thou hast no further power ouer me then my God will suffer thee from abooue But now to our matter As I haue sayde through the great report they made of this Uaute one of the Préests two of the Schollers and I tooke with vs a line two or three great lights and so we went to this aforesayde Uaute we going a long in farder and farder there we sawe certaine places one aboue an other thrée and thrée on either side during a great way in length and these places they sayde to be some of them the graues of persecuted Saintes and Martires where they hid them selues in the time of the cruell Emperours of Roome and there they died Procéeding on forwarde we came to an olde thing like an Aultar wheron in olde and auncient painting which was then almost cleane worne out was Christ vpon the Crosse and our Lady and Saint Iohn by him there the Préest sayde Saint Peter Saint Paule and many other Saintes had sayde Masse to the Christians that hid them selues there And besides this quoth he there chaunced not many yéeres since a poore man of the Cittie to come into this Uaufe and when he was come so farre as this Aultar the light he caried in his hand suddenlie went out so that he was forced to syt downe and stay héere He béeing thus without any light and ignoraunt of the way to get out againe fell in prayer to our Lady who presentlie appeared to him hauing about her little Angelles holding burning Lampes in their handes where through y e place was illumined verie gloriously And there she questioned with him he with her about many holy and Religious matters then she departing lefte him there accompanied with Angelles so that he remained there ten dayes at the ende whereof he came foorth and went and tolde the Pope what he had séene for which when he died he was canonized a Saint and in this order arise many of our Romish Saints As for the Pilgrimage to Saint Iames in Gallitia it is a thing that is vsuallie frequented all the yéere by such a number of people as you would scantlie iudge among whome diuers of our Englishmen be so holie that they will not stick to beare them company There they saye lyeth the bode of Saint Iames the Apostle and there is the Cocke that crowed when Peter denied Christe some of the heaire of our Ladies head certaine of the Thornes of the Crowne of Thorne the Napkin that was about Christes head in y e graue certayne droppes of his blood a péece of the Crosse wheron he was crucified and a number such lyke Reliques which are honoured and worshipped as if they were God him selfe Then one of the chéefe Pilgrimages is to a place called Santa Maria di Loreto where within is an olde little bricke roome which they name to be the house our Lady dwelt in there is the Image of our Lady all in Golde and Siluer the house round about her beset with Challices of Golde and Siluer which are oblations and offeringes of diuers Pilgrimes that come in whole companies thither And before her is a great barred Chest of iron wherein they throwe money to our Lady by whole goblets full at once Within this little house there is an Aultar made right before our Lady there is sayd euerie day fortie or fiftie Masses whereat the people will throng in great heapes to get into the house for they thinke them selues happie if our Lady haue once séene them And all the Church is likewise hung with pictures Tapers and waxe Candles which are the vowes of the Pilgrimes to our Lady I haue heard of some who by the counsaile of their ghostlie Father haue made money of all their householde stuffe and haue come fiue or six hundred mile bare foote and bare legged to giue it all to our Lady there meane while the holy Father hath had libertie to play

Then we went with him to the Popes Pallace where comming into the Popes Chamber and hauing euerie one kissed his foote we stayde to attende what was his pleasure But before he spake any woorde with a dissembling and hippocriticall countenaunce he fell into teares which trickled downe his white beard and began in Latin with these or the very like woords O you English men to whome my looue is such as I can no way vtter considering that for me you haue left your Prince which was your duetie and come so farre to me which is more then I can deserue yet as I am your refuge when persecution dealeth straightly with you in your Countrey by reason of the hereticall Religion there vsed so will I be your Bulwarke to defend you your guide to protect you your Father to nourish you and your fréend with my hart blood to doo you any profite Beholde what deceites the deuill hath to accomplish his desire teares smoothe spéeches liberallitie and a thousand meanes to make a man carelesse of God disobedient to his Prince and more to violate vtterlie the faith of a Subiect These teares that he shed these woordes that he spake made diuers of them say within them selues as one of them for example presentlie to me sayde Oh singuler Saint whose life looue and liberalitie may be a spectacle to the whole world Who would liue in England vnder the gouernment of so vile a Iezabell and may rest in safetie vnder the perfect Image of Iesus who would not forsake Father Mother fréends goods yea and the life it selfe to haue the bountifull blessing of such a prouident Father The Pope recouering his health againe from his wéeping caused this deuout fellowe to stay his talke because he began againe as thus What is the cause that you will depart from me that haue so well prouided for you to thrust your selues on the rocke of your owne destruction Then Maister Sherwin began and tolde him all the dealinges of Doctor Morris towarde them according as he had done before to the Cardinall and how they would haue the Iesuites for their Gouerneurs for the causes before mentioned Upon these woordes the Pope started out of his Chayre Why quoth he I made the Hospitall for Englishe men and for their sake I haue giuen so large exhibition and not for the Welsh men Returne to your Colledge againe you shall haue what you will desire and any thing I haue in the worlde to doo you good Then he commaunded one of the chéefe Gentlemen of his Chamber to goe with vs and to certifie the Popes minde to Doctor Morris and so giuing vs his benedicton we all went merilie againe to the Colledge The Gentleman gaue Doctour Morris to vnderstande he must be Rector no longer the Iesuite named Father Alfonso whom the Schollers had chosen must haue his office then were the Schollers glad that they had gotten the victorie of the Welshmen On the morrowe the Pope sent fowre hundred Crownes to newe reparation the house to buie the Students all néedefull thinges that they wanted and the house must no longer be called a Colledge but a Seminarie Then Cardinall Morone because Doctor Morris should not loose all his dignitie caused the house to be parted and so made bothe a Seminarie for the Studientes and an Hospitall for the entertainement of Englishe Pilgrimes when they came whereof Doctor Morris continued Custos by the Popes appointment Thus was the strife ended and my selfe and my fellowe admitted by the Popes owne consent to be Schollers there but yet the sicknesse I gotte with lying in my former Chamber hung styll vppon mée so that I was then remooued to a verie fayre Chamber where the Schollers euery daye would come and visite me vntyll such tyme as I recouered my health againe ¶ Of the Carne vale in Roome the Popes generall curssing on Maunde Thursdaie and the manner of the Flagellante that night Chap. 7. DUring the time of Shrouetide there is in Roome kept a verie great coyle which they vse to call the Carne vale which endureth the space of thrée or fowre dayes all which time the Pope kéepeth him selfe out of Roome so great is the noyse and hurlie burlie The Gentlemen will attire them selues in diuers formes of apparell some lyke Women other lyke Turkes and euerie one almost in a contrarie order of disguising and eyther they be on Horsebacke or in Coatches none of them on foote for the people that stand on the grounde to sée this pastime are in verie great daunger of their liues by reason of the running of Coatches and great Horses as neuer in all my life did I sée the lyke sturre And all this is done where the Courtezanes be to shew them delight and pastime for they haue Couerlettes layde out at their windowes whereon they stand leaning foorth to receiue diuers deuises of Rosewater and swéete odours in their faces which the Gentlemen will throwe vp to their windowes During this time euery one weareth a disguised visor on his face so that no one knowes what or whēce they be and if any one beare a secrete mallice to an other he may then kill him no body will lay hands on him for all this time they will obey no lawe I sawe a braue Romaine who rode there verie pleasant in his Coatch and suddenlie came one who discharged a Pistoll vpon him yet no body made any accoumpt eyther of the murderer or the slaine Gentleman beside there were diuers slaine bothe by villanie and the Horsses or the Coatches yet they continued on their pastime not making any regard of them The first daye of their Carne vale the Iewes in Roome cause an Ensigne to be placed at the Capitoll where likewise they appoint certaine wagers at their owne coastes and then they runne starke naked from Porta populo vnto the Capitoll for them the which I iudge aboue a myle in length And all the way they gallop their great Horsses after them and carie goades with sharpe pointes of stéele in them wherewith they will pricke the Iewes on the naked skin if so be they doo not runne faster then their Horsses gallop so that you shall sée some of their backs all on gore blood Then he that is foremost and soonest commeth to the Capitoll he is set on a Horse backe without any saddle one going before him carying the Ensigne but then you shall sée a hundred boyes who haue prouided a number of Orrenges they will so pelt the poore Iewe that before he can got vp to the Capitoll he will be beaten beside his Horse fowre or fiue times The next day there are certaine of the Christians that runne naked likewise but no body pursueth them either with Horse or Coatch and the wager they run for the Iewes must pay likewise Then the Buffell and the Asse runneth but it is vnpossible for me to tell all the knauerie vsed about this and therefore thus much