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A08690	The vnmasking of all popish monks, friers, and Iesuits. Or, A treatise of their genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state Together with some briefe obseruations of their treasons, murders, fornications, impostures, blasphemies, and sundry other abominable impieties. Written as a caueat or forewarning for Great Britaine to take heed in time of these romish locusts. By Lewis Owen.	Owen, Lewis, 1572-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 18998; ESTC S113782	125,685	175

who liued among them many yeeres vpon whom the Emperour Charles the fifth bestowed the Arch-bishoppricke of Brundusium the which he refused to accept of chusing rather to leade his life among those religious men in praying fasting and contemplation than to trouble himselfe with any worldly promotion Within a short time after three other famous men in those daies ioyned with this Carrafa viz. Caietanus a Gentleman borne at Vicentia who was Protonotarius Apostolicus Bonifacius a Gentleman borne in Piemont and a noble man of Rome whose name was Paulus These foure men considering how the Roman Clergy men did then erre and go astray yea so absurdly degenerate from their ancient and primate sincerity and purity to the great detriment and scandal of the Christian Religion consulted together how they might preuent the future danger that houered ouer the Church and how they might restore the dignity of the Clergy to its ancient splendor and credit and afterwards keepe and preserue it and therefore they gaue and put all the wealth that they had to be spent in common among them as euery one of their society should haue need or occasion to vse the same with a full resolution hauing cast away all worldly cares to spend the residue of their liues in the seruice of God by fasting praying meditating singing of Psalmes and diuine Hymnes to the praise of God imagining that to be the best way to restore all things to their ancient purity and integrity and therefore they were called Presbyteri Regulares But because that this Carrafa had reiected that Arch-bishoppricke and vndertaken such a course of life to the great admiration and wonderfull amazement of all men they were called in the Italian tongue Theotini This Carrafa with his dignity and authority gaue them their first institution and did greatly increase this Society Afterwards this good man was created a Cardinall by Pope Paul the third which great dignity this great despiser of worldly wealth and refuser of Bishoppricks most willingly and gladly accepted and comming to Rome receiued the selfe same Arch-bishopprick which he had formerly refused And so this Fox refusing meane promotions because vnder colour or pretence of holinesse and austerity of Religion he aimed at greater first was created Senator of Rome and within a short time after Pope and called by the name of Paul the fourth Panauinus This egregious fellow of the Society of the Diuine Loue this contemner and despiser of the world and restorer of the splendor of the ancient order of the Clergy studied all the rest of his life no other thing but to hoord vp gold and siluer all his cares and meditations were how to extirpate and root out all peace and concord out of the world to moue wars betweene Christian Kings and Princes and to set all Christendome in a combustion To be briefe these Theatines doe differ very little in Habit from the Iesuits for their shirt bands are scarce to be seene so are the Iesuites and likewise in all the rest of their Habit they concurre one with another They are very rich for they heare Confessions as the Iesuites doe and thereby delude the people to giue them money and all things else that they want and yet they begge neuer or seldome publikely but haue all things necessary for prouision brought vnto their Couents Neuerthelesse this Order or Sect is as yet very obscure and not knowne in no other Country than in Italy for ought that euer I saw or heard of and therefore I will speake so much the lesse of them Of the Friers that are called the Fathers of the Congregation of the Oratory THese irregular Priests that call themselues Fathers of the congregation of the Oratory sprang vp of late yeeres and liued likewise very obscure vntill about some six or seuen yeeres agoe that they beganne to flourish in France In their Habit they differ but a little from the Iesuits and Theatins and in some townes where the Iesuits haue no College these Oratorians doe teach young children Their congregation doth for the most part consist of rich Rectors or Pastors of parish Churches vnlesse it be those that are the Lay-brethren yea I haue knowne some Bishops of this Congregation But most of their Priests haue Benefices They haue a maruellous great house in Paris not farre from the Kings Palace which did heretofore belong vnto one of the Peeres of France whither the King Queene and many Princes and Lords doe often repaire to heare Masse and Sermons in so much that they are very rich and in great reputation thorowout all France And therefore the Iesuites doe ha●e them the more and not without a cause for since that they beganne to be so gracious with the King Prince and commons the Iesuits beganne to lose a great part of their former credit and reputation To conclude they are as superstitious and as idolatrous as any other Friers whatsoeuer yea they maintaine the selfe same position for murdering of Kings and Princes as the Iesuits doe and therefore no lesse dangerous than they are But howsoeuer vnder colour of humility sincerity and sanctity of life they deceiue the world cram their purses and enrich themselues There are both English Scots and Irish of this Order Of the Barnabists THese Barnabists or rather Barrabists are a company of poore Priests that wanting meanes gathered themselues together and called themselues Fathers of the congregation of Saint Barnabie they are as yet very obscure but in time I make no question but they will be as famous as the Iesuits or Oratorians But I wonder why they call not themselues Paulists of Saint Paul as well as Barnabists of Saint Barnabas seeing Paul was the great Saint in my opinion But the truth is all popish Priests loue not Saint Paul because his Doctrine is quite repugnant to theirs otherwise they had erected an Order of Friers vnder his name and patronage long agoe Their Habit differs little or nothing from the Oratorians Theatines and Iesuits and they keepe Schooles in some Townes as well as the Iesuits The vulgar people beginne already to dote vpon them for as I told you before euery new Sect of Friers or Nuns is at the first in great request Ouid lib. 3. de Ponto Est quoque cunctarum nouitas gratissima rerum This Sect is not yet often yeeres standing neither is their Order as yet confirmed Of the Fullians Friers THese Friers are called by the name of Friers of our blessed Lady of the Fullians They weare a course Habit of white cloth This Congregation beganne about that time that King Henry the third of France was murdered by Iacques Clement a Dominican Frier which was about the yeere 1587. they are of the Order of the Cistercensis whereof I formerly spake They liued very obscure vntill such time that King Henry the fourth of France was likewise murdered by Francis Rauillac in the yeere 1610. since which time they built them sumptuous Monasteries and

blowes with his Musket rest and would haue broken her bones if another whore of his acquaintance had not come in hearing the old woman cry who pacified him and lay with Señor Laurencio for so was his name that night O the Religion and conscience of these Catholike Spaniards that tyrannize farre worse than the Turke wheresoeuer they get the vpper hand But now to returne againe to the Iesuites who are the only commanders of this City whose words are Lawes yea Oracles among the Spaniards They preach and catechise young children twise or thrise a weeke yea the Souldiers doe take protestants children by force and bring them to the Iesuites to be instructed in popery Alas if I should tell you all the wrongs and misdemeanours that the Iesuites haue committed in this City and elsewhere this Pamphlet would grow to be a great volume The next Summer after the death of the Emperour Matthias the Iesuites of Liege kept a great solemne funerall for him which was as neere as I can remember in this manner First a noble mans sonne that was one of their Schollers being very richly attired riding vpon a great horse with an imperiall Crown on his head hauing a Canopy carried ouer him borne by six men attended on with a great traine representing the person of the King of Spaine another in the same manner representing the King of France others the King of Bohemia that is now Emperour and all other Catholike Princes Euery one of them hauing a guard of Souldiers both horse and foot all being the Iesuites Schollers They were all drawne out in their diuisions Souldier-like hauing their Captaines and other Officers who were Iesuites to lead them on in a great market place which is by Saint Pauls Church from whence the counterfeit hearse was brought forth carried and accompanied with many Mourners with that state and Ceremonies as great Princes are wont to be brought to their last home After that followed these Kings and Princes seuerally accompanied with their traine and guard hauing their banners carried before each of them placed by Heralds Then came the Breaden god their Sacrament carried by a Iesuit vnder a Canopie borne by foure schollers in white Surplices singing after that followed the Image of the blessed Virgin Mary very curiously wrought wherein wanted neitheir cost nor art carried vpon mens shoulders accompanied with many Iesuites and singing men and last of all came Wickliffe Iohn Hus Ierome of Pragus Martin Luther Caluin Beza M. Bucer P. Martyr Oecolampadius Zuinglius Bullinger Melancton Fox and Master Perkins all bound with iron chaines and led and guarded with a squadron of Deuils who made the Monks Friers and other Clergy men to skip for ioy to see those men that had writ en against them to be led captiue by Lucifer and his Angels The Hearse being thus attended by so many Kings and Princes the Sacrament the blessed Virgin and the blacke guard marcht forward to the Iesuites College where they all entered and fell to their prayers here might you haue seene Hus Luther Beza Perkins and the rest yea the Deuils with their Beads in their hands say Paters and Aues for the Emperours soule Truly I maruelled much to see the Iesuites permit those whom they call and condemne for Heretikes to enter into their Church and to accompany the blessed Sacrament and the blessed Virgins Image yea in my opinion they abus'd those Catholike Kings and Princes who were then and there represented to intrude those men into their company whom they neuer affected or loued and that which is worse to place Deuils to bring vp the reare of their armie All these Souldiers were the Iesuites Schollers and taught and instructed in military Discipline by the Iesuites themselues who are euery where martiall men and giuen tam Martiquàm Mercurio for in euery Army Leaguer Garrison or Nauie that any Catholike King or Prince hath there the Iesuites will be as busie as an Atturney in Westminster Hall in the middest of a tearme Hij Palladi oratores noui Philosophi in Castris non in Claustris versantur They had rather to be stirring abroad and follow the Campe than bee confined within the circuit of a Cloister And therein they doe imitate their Father Ignatius of infamous memory for he was a Souldier and so are they yea in euery one of their Colleges they haue Armour and munition to furnish many thousand Souldiers and besides there is not any one of them but knowes how to vse his Armes as if he had beene a Souldier all the daies of his life To conclude this funerall or Obsequies did cost the Parents and friends of these young Iesuiticall Kings and Princes by report aboue two thousand pounds sterling What shall I say The Iesuites haue beene the vtter ruine and ouerthrow of Don Sebastian the last King of Portugall and Algarbes for through their policie and wicked counsell he lost his Crownes and Kingdomes and in the end his life They haue beene the chiefest cause of all the ciuill Warres Massacres and troubles in France since the death of Henry the third of France to this present time These seditious infernall Locusts haue beene the only occasion of those bloudy warres betweene the King of Poland and the great Duke of Moscouia or Russia and againe betweene Poland and Swethland Haue not the Iesuites beene the cause of the losse of Voltalin the vpper and lower Palatinate And haue they not beene the cause of all these Wars Bloudshed Commotions Dearth Famine Persecutions Rapine Miseries Calamities and Destructions that haue hapned in Italy France Germany Bohemia Netherlands the seuenteene Prouinces and other neighbouring Countries Cities Townes and Common wealths these forty or fifty yeeres and vpwards I omit to speake of their seuerall trecherous designes against Queene Elizabeth of famous memory or of the Gunpowder treason or how that they haue beene these twenty yeeres banished out of all the territories of the Signory of Venice for their impostures and lewd practises and for being common disturbers of the peace and tranquillity of the common wealth Neither how they haue incroached vpon the priuileges and liberties of most of the famous Schooles and Vniuersities of Italy Spaine Portugall France Netherland Germany Poland and other Catholike Countries But I will speake a word or two more of their Colleges Churches Schooles and manner or method of teaching and so conclude First of all I would haue you to vnderstand that they receiue none into their Society but such as are either descended of great parentage and good friends whose greatnesse may countenance their designes and procure others to bee beneficiall vnto them or such as are wealthy to inrich their Colleges or learned and witty Schollers who by their workes writings are like to aduance the credit and reputation of their society or some Trades-men to be their Lay-brethren and Officers of their Colleges or else some cunning fly knaue or crafty companion to bee their Porter vpon whose

the King of Spaine who leaue nothing vndone that they make themselues plausible vnto you and your fauourers Now these traiterous Iesuites Monks Friers and Seminary Priests who aime at nothing else than to corrupt the fidelity of England and to withdraw the hearts of his Maiesties subiects from their obedience to their Soueraigne yea finally to plucke England Scotland and Ireland from due subiection to his Maiesty and to present them to this ambitious Philip of Spaine gained first of all secretly those whom they knew to be best affected to the Spaniards as some of the Priuy Councell Nobility Gentry and of his Maiesties Officers at Court and elsewhere and withall not few of our collapsed Ladies in whose laps these holy Fathers doe often lay downe their heads to take a nap nay which is worse they suborned and peruerted many of the Clergy and Students of either Vniuersitie to ioyne with them who O horrible shame make no conscience to sell for ready money their Eloquence and Knowledge which they ought to haue imploied in preaching the Gospell and instructing the simple people in the feare of God and obedience to their King to corrupt the constancy and fidelity of England but Quid non mortalia pectora cogit aurisacra fames What is it that gold will not doe These cunning Iebusites or if you will Iudaists are the King of Spaines trading Factors and Dispensers to distribute and pay his gold to his Pentioners that lurke about the Court of England so that by this meanes he hath still notice and intelligence of the estate of the Realme and withall they seduce the subiects as Cambyses heretofore espied and deceiued the Ethiopians These I say by meanes of their mercenary tongues omit no art that may serue their purpose to suborne England but vse all meanes possible to make his Maiesty odious vnto her and him vnto his subiects in altering as much as in them lieth by their flattering discourses the sincere amity and faithfull loyalty which English men haue alwaies intirely borne towards his Maiesty and his Ancestors either aggrauating euery seeming petty imperfection aboue his great perfection blaming and accusing his gouernment or else in attributing vnto the King of Spaine the glory onely due vnto our Royall Soueraigne and withall in all their Discourses magnifying the greatnesse and vertues of this ambitious Spaniard whom they paint out accomplished with all the perfections that may be imagined and briefly they forget nothing whereby they may withdraw England if they could from her King and withall gull you of your money to enrich themselues and their Colleges Cloisters and Seminaries in those forraigne parts But some Iesuite or one of that faction perchance may obiect that nothing moueth the King of Spaine to be at such great charges to maintaine so many English Seminaries Colleges and Cloisters in those forraigne parts and to transport from thence so many Monks Friers and other religious men into the King of Englands Dominions but onely to conserue among you the Catholike Religion Ah poore senselesse soules for Gods sake giue eare to what I shall briefly recount touching him and his Predecessors actions in this point and then you shall plainly perceiue whether the zeale that he beareth towards your Religion solliciteth him to be so charitable you vnto as you imagine Hath this great King or his Father or Grandfather spent their treasures or hazzarded the liues of their subiects onely for the aduancement of the Christian Faith against vnchristian Princes nothing lesse To verifie this to be true I will produce you these two examples Pope Gregory the 13. proposing himselfe to the aid of certaine Christian Princes to make an enterprise vpon the Persian for the augmentation of the Church of Rome requested that ambitious Philip King of Spaine this Kings Grand-father to giue him some succour which he not only flatly denied but which is more would not lend any of his Gallies albeit the holy Sea of Rome offered to charge them at her owne charges Moreouer how dealt he with the late King of Portugall Don Sebastian whose death all Christendome had sufficient cause to bewaile who desiring to assist Mulei Mahumet King of Fez and Morocco against Mulei Maluco his brother who had expulsed him his Realme a worke surely worthy of so noble a Prince and aduantagious besides to the Church of Rome for the good conditions he had compounded with the stranger required Philip his Vnkle to succour him in that expedition who accorded that hee should haue fifty Gallies equipped and foure thousand fighting men which Mulei Maluco the other brother perceiuing incontinently offered Philip certaine Townes on the Sea side to desist from his promise which he speedily accepted not shaming to breake his oath sworne to his Nephew to contract alliance with a barbarous Infidell so much did auarice raigne ouer him as to cause him to violate the Lawes of God and men but he was paid with the same mony that he lent for sending his Ambassadour Vanegas to take possession of the Towne of Rarach and others promised vnto him the Barbarians mocking at his treachery and perfidiousnesse constrained the Ambassadour by force of the Cannon to retire sooner than he was willing But it may be you will say he bare himselfe politikely in these two actions to conserue and maintaine his owne estate as if humane policy were to be preferred before the Law and honour of God I but for all this he hath shewed himselfe a very zealous Catholike and hath carried a particular respect towards tho●e that make a strict profession of his owne Religion well but let vs see if that be true After that he had inuaded the Kingdome of Portugall and that among infinite other Ladies he had banished into Castile the wife of the Agent of Don Antonio the lawfull King thereof his children and Mother in Law he drew three of his sisters chaste and religious Nunnes out of the Monastery of Saint Clare at Lisbone and confined them likewise into Castile But he hath dealt maruellous mercifully with them in sauing their liues albeit seruile and miserable Yea but sith the women are thus dealt with the men must be handled a little more rigorously and surely herein he hath thorowly acquitted himselfe witnesse a religious Frier named Iohn of the Order of Saint Dominick who for embracing the liberty of his Country was hanged in the I le of Madera Another Frier Hector Pintus of the Order of Saint Hierome was committed to the hands of certaine souldiers in Castile where he was afterwards impoisoned Frier Iames de Noronba another Dominican Frier and brother to the Earle of Mira was so cruelly beaten by the souldiers that were of his guard that he died A Doctor named Frier Augustine of the Order of Saint Augustine and one Frier Emanuel Margues a Franciscan Frier were both chained together with Rouers and Theeues in a Galley which was afterwards taken by the Turks vnder whose crueltie I leaue it to