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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11248	Merry iests, concerning popes, monkes, and friers Whereby is discouered their abuses and errors &c. Written first in Italian by N.S. and thence translated into French by G.I. and now out of French into English, by R.W. Bac. of Arts of H.H. in Oxon.	N. S., fl. 1617.; Willet, Roland, b. 1588 or 9.	1617 (1617)	STC 21510; ESTC S110774	55,403	144

Parish they shut him vppe in a Chamber and kept him vnder locke and key that hee might bee present to serue them at their neede But when the Bishoppe was certified of it hee was greatly moued thereat so that hee cited the Church-wardens of the Village to appeare before him and sharpely reprehended them but they excusing themselues said that that which they had done to their Curate was not to doe him harme but that they might haue him present when they stood in need of him what said the Bishoppe are yee not ashamed to doe an act so worthy of blame as to kéepe your Curate shut vp as it were in prison why sir said the Church-wardens you keeps not onely a simple priest but Iesus Christ the great Pastour and Bishoppe of our soules and the onely Sonne of the liuing God shut vppe as your selues confesse vnder locke and key in a little chest or bare to serue you against maladies and if you therein doe nothing worthy of dispraise haue wee done ill in keeping our Curate in a faire and spacious Chamber nay which is more that Iesus Christ may bee present at your néede yée kéepe him imprisoned not onely in a bore but also in the host it selfe wherein hee is so irrately held that hee cannot moue and yet yee can easily namely with speaking onely fine words as our Curate hath tould vs make him discend thither when yee please but as for vs the words admonitions and intreaties which wee vsed to our Curate preuailed nothing for though wee did call and séeke and send for him yet oftentimes hee would not come at vs. To conclude the Bishoppe seeing they spooke reason promised that their Curate should forsake them no more The 46. Apologue wherein is shewed on whom the Popes Church is founded IN a disputation concerning the foundation of the Ramane Church it was concluded that the Pope was the foundation thereof because that Iesus Christ had said to Peter Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke will I build my Church but there was one who dissenting from the rest said I am not of your opinion but I thinke that it is much rather founded on the King of France and the Emperour for if they should become Lutherans they would vtterly ruinate the Romane Church because that all men following their example would bee Lutherans also but it would not bee so if the Pope should turne Lutheran for in that case it were to bee feared that they which are Lutherans by reason of the Antipathie betweene them and the Pope would suddenly become Papists The 47. Apologue wherein is shewed the foolly of them who giue credit to the Indulgence of the Portioncula THe Capuchin Cordeliers hauing vnderstood that S. Francis had heretofore obtained of the Uirgin Mary full remission of sinnes for all those who at any time should goe or cause other to goe and enter for them into a certaine Chappell of hers and knowing that they could not doe a worke of greater charitie then to deliuer soules from their sinnes on a day fiue and twenty of them went to that Chappell and did nothing else but goe in at one doore and out at another so they thought by that meanes they did euery day deliuer more then fiue and twenty thousand from their sinnes therefore after a little time supposing that they had deliuere all Christians of their sect they were determined to enter also for Turks Iewes Gentiles and Heritiques But the Cordeliers of the Obseruance violently set vpon them and braue them thence saying that if they had gone foreward with their enterprise none would haue come to the Portiuncula because all would thinke themselues by their meanes fréed from their sins which would be a cause of cooling the peoples deuotion and by consequence of withholding their almes from them The 48. Apologue which sheweth what the Pope and Popish Bishops are ON a time there was a new Pope created while a Councell was held and a friend of his came priuately vnto him and said holy Father vse meanes to dissipate the Councell and doe not you trust the Bishops who are all Traitors for if they were so bold to lay hands on Iesus Christ and cast him out of the Church to set the Pope in his place doe not thinke they will spare you but the Pope answered wee are not at all afraid in that respect for wee know certainely that the Bishops are so wicked that they doe not desire that an honester man then my selfe should be Pope and a worse they can by no meanes finde The 49. Apologue by which is shewed how great the Popes authority is THe Fathers of the Councell of Trent desiring to increase the dignity of the Popedome proposed whatsoeuer they thought fit to accomplish their purpose and one of them said thus I thinke it fit to bee enacted that S. Peter be héereafter painted with three keyes in his hand and that to those pictures which are already made there be one added to shew and declare vnto the world that the Pope hath not onely the key of Paradise and the key of Purgatory but also the key of hell and I greatly wonder that the Bishops in precedent Councells had so little wisedome and discretion as to neglect a matter of such great importance What said the other Bishops shall the Pope haue authority also in hell without doubt answered he the Pope hath more authority there then in Paradice the other replied that the Pope could not deliuer the damned out of Hell As more said he can he call backe those which are saued out of Paradice although he haue the key thereof the other Bishops answered that it was sufficient hee could send them thither so said the Bishop he can send soules to the Diuells and much easier too then to Paradice and being asked by what meanes hee answered by his commandements articles of faith excommunications maledictions and bad examples and principaly according to the Lutherans by his false doctrine Of all these things the Pope was certified and hee was content to doe as they should thinke conuenient The 50. Apologue by which is condemned the foolish superstition of Confession A Certaine Priest demanded of his Bishop whether hee ought not at confession to cause the sinners to shew the members where with they offended saying that as it was the part of a good Phisition not onely to heare of his sicke patient what his disease is but also to sée the soare if it bee possible and touch it with his hande for feare least hee faile in the cure so hee thought it his part being a spirituall Phisition not onely to bee informed of the sinnes with their circumstances but also to behold the Instruments wherewith they were committed then being asked by the Bishop whether hee were not ashamed to behold the secret parts of man he answered and said If I ought not to be ashamed to sée with the eyes of my spirit which are much more precious then those

kinde against this concupiscence which is the holy marriage instituted of God in Paradice and honored by the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ in Cana of Galilee where he did his first miracle This counsell so well pleased the Gentleman that he resolued to marry his daughter The 18. Apologue by which is shewed vs what commonly is the pride of the Pope and faith of his Prelates A Cardinall being sicke and likely to dye made his confession and his Confessor amongst other things demanded of him whether he had worshipped one God alone And he answered and said knowing wel that I ought to worship but one God and one Christ and seeing that the Pope is God and Christ on earth for feare least I should worship two Gods and two Christs I haue abandoned the inuisible God in heauen and in his stead haue adored the visible God on earth and therefore haue alwayes worshiped the Pope as my God and Christ and on him haue grounded all my faith and hope him haue I honored loued feared praised magnified and glorified as my God Then the Confessor said that there was but one God and one Christ and that the Pope was neither God nor Christ although indéed the abused world did accompt him as his Vicar When he had thus spoken the Cardinall cryed out vpon him and said thou art a foole and a very hereticke too if thou beléeuest that the Pope is Christs Vicar on earth for then it would necessarily follow that Iesus Christ were greater then the Pope but on the contrary I would thou shouldst well know that if Iesus Christ should come visibly to Rome the Pope would not entertaine him if hee did not first humble himselfe before him acknowledgeing him to bee his superior yea and also kisse his Pantosle The 19. Apologue by which is shewed the great men of the world what they ought to doe A Cerretan or seller of pardons ariued at a citty w e authority to deliuer soules out of Purgatory and many went vnto him to obtaine this deliuerance Wherefore the Gouernour of the Citty communded him to shew his buls and when he perceiued by them that he had all the power of the Pope hee demaunded of him how many soules hee could deliuer out of Purgatory The Cerretan answered that the power of the Pope which he had was infinite and that by the same he could deliuer as many soules as were in Purgatory although they were in number infinite and moreouer that hee could preserue all from comming thither which should at any time deserue to bee tormented there Then the Gouernour said vnto him for how many crownes wilt thou deliuer all the soules of those which either are dead or shhall hereafter die within my Iurisdiction And bée demaunded two hundred crownes contenting himselfe to gaine foure hundred by the bargaine for the odde hundred he had disbursed for the buls and authority which he had bought of the Pope the Gouernour was contented with the price and paid him the money and caused him to make a publike and authentike acknowledgement of the sale Then presently he let the Priests and Monkes which were his subiects vnderstand how the matter went aduertising them that they should no more take paines to read their Breuíere nor to say Masses and prayers for those which either were dead or should at any time dye within his liberties but that they should praye onely for the liuing or if they would pray for the dead that they should pray for those only which died out of his dominions but thee knew well enough that they would pray for none but those they were paid for Then hee caused the yearely donatiues and guifts which his Subiects had subiects had bestowed for saying of Masses and Seruices for the dead to be brought vnto him and therwithall conuerting it to a good vse hee built an Hospitall for the poore and maintained a great number therein for the reuenewes were very great The 20. Apologue whereby is shewed the folly of them who beleeue that the Councells cannot erre CErtaine Iudges on a day went and visited their Bishop and finding him very busie in the study of the holy Scriptures they demanded of him why he did so trouble and weary himselfe with study Because said he I must goe to the Councell of Trent where wee must iudge not of things which concerne the goods life and honor of men as you do in your iudgements but of things which concerne the safety of mens soules You are unwise said the Iudges vnto him to study for that purpose séeing that when you are at the Councell you cannot erre in your determinations for the Councells cannot erre If that wee temporall Iudges were as sure that wee could not erre in our iudgements wee would neuer study the lawes then the Bishop said vnto them Ye say true indéed and for that cause many of vs Bishops who come to the Councels are very ignorant and vnlearned but I study that I may be able to conferre and talke with other men of matters which shal be presented vnto vs or haue bin heretofore obiected by the Lutherans for although wee cannot erre in our publike determinations it doth not follow that we cannot erre in our priuate talks and conference nay if you were there present yée should heare not only differences and dissentions amongst vs but also manifest contradictions The Iudges said vnto him that for all this he did ill to study séeing that by how much the more learnedly and truely hee spake of Iesus Christ by so much the more he should be estéemed a Lutheran The 21. Apologue whereby is shewed the folly of them who beleeue in the Pope IN the time of Pope Boniface the seauenth who was very wicked as commonly the rest of the Popes are there was in Rome a foolish and wicked fellow possessed with such a frenzie that he thought himselfe to bee the Popes Lieutenant wherefore going vp and downe Rome he would bragge that he had all the Popes authority so that all laughed at his folly except one Romane Gentleman who beléeued him and there vpon bought of him diuers offices and liuings which when the Cittizens vnderstood they began to mock and laugh at him more then at the foole saying vnto him that he had lesse wit then the other because he belieued him withall shewing him certaine reasons why he should not giue credit to the fooles words as first because he shewed no warrant or authentike testimonie from the Pope secondly because the Pope was then present at Roome so that hee could well execute his office in his owne person and therefore it was not likely that hee would ordaine a Vicar in his place Lastly that if the Pope would make one hee would by no meanes substitute such a wicked foole as this fellow was to exercise his authoritie in his stead But the Gent. answered them and said by your owne reasons ye are better fooles then I in that you belieue that