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A38175 The Book of rates now used in the sin custom-house of the church of Rome containing the priees [sic] of the bulls, dispensations and pardons for all manner of villanies and wickednesses, with the several sums of monies given and to be paid for them / published by Anthony Egane ... Egan, Anthony, B.D. 1673 (1673) Wing E245; ESTC R21892 18,740 40

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THE BOOK OF RATES Now used in the Sin Custom-house Of the CHURCH of ROME CONTAINING The Priees of the Bulls Dispensations and Pardons for all manner of Villanies and Wickednesses with the several sums of Monies given and to be paid for them PUBLISHED By Anthony Egane B. d. late Confessor-General of the Kingdome of IRELAND and now through the mercy of God Minister of the Gospel according to the Reformed Religion 2 Cor. 4. 2. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonegy Ephes 5. 12. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret LONDON Printed for Benjamin Southwood at the Sign of the Star next to Searjeants-Inn in Chancery Lane 1673. TO THE READER I Hope you will be so charitable as to believe it is neither Gain nor advantage hath invited me to lay open this Warehouse thus to Publish the Merchandise of the Popish Market nor any hope thereby of supporting my own Interests since I know well enough how many Enemies a work of this nature will make me among some men it being only to let the world see that the abuses that were long since discovered in the Popes Dispensations are yet still in being as is visable enough by the Rules and Imposts of their Chancery being neither imaginary nor yet forged upon the Anvil of Mallice as some persons will be ready to perswade those poor souls who never had any knowledge of the corruptions of the Court of Rome nor of the nature of its traffick a great part of these Papers I cannot command at present by reason of my abscence from my native Country or else I would have inserted them all which would have farther laid open their abominable practices though perhaps this may be sufficient if not too much in so a nauceous a Subject the papists without doubt will disown it and say that this is a meere fiction and that such things are not practised in their Church but I am ready to prove by my own knowledge and experience all I here alledge to be true and able to make good that as all the Arts of Man could not have invented more gross or villanous fins than the Popish Clergy do put to sale so that none but these shrinemakers which mantain their worldly pomp and greatness by such handicrafts could have invented such a way of wiping out sins so destructive to a good Life and the main design of the Christian Religion so that if you will but examine and seriously consider the particulars you will easily be convinced that none but themselves could be the Authors of it I can safely say that there are hundreds even of the ordinary Priests that know not what it means because that these Arcana Imperii are always kept close from them and reserved on purpose for certain persons called Aostolick Poenitentiaries to whom the Absolution of perticular and hainous fins is committed as it was to my self in Ireland within these four years and of such persons there may be one or two in every City or Diocess which before they receive that power must take an Oath of secrecy never to reveal the Misteries of their Church and to Keep them from the knowledge notonly of the Layety but also of the ordinary Priests and Fryers especially from any man that is suspected to be of so acute parts or of so much Learning or honesty as might make him scruple their authority and neither may it perhaps have come to the knowledge of some half-witted fellowes who either for Lucre or Liberty neither stick to the one Religion or the other of which sort of people we have divers amongst us in this Kingdom whose names are not worth the mentioning by either party but as to those sins commonly called reserved causes if any man shall acknowledge himself guilty of any such in eonfession to an ordinary Confessor He can only tell him where the Popes Bankers reside who are to absolve him and will gladly receive him so he bring with him the price of his sin and this great Poenitentiary is thereupon to procure a Bull of Indulgence and pardon for all wicked persons offending in the causes here set down and divers others I would have said more upon this subject and set forth more of their cheats and Artifices but I hope within some time to be at more leisure and to have better opportunities of setting forth their pranks and pollicies to the view of the World I shall now only beg of you to assist me with your prayers for the conversion of those miscreants which have so highly deserved Gods just Indignations since there is no greater figne of his anger then when he strikes men with such blindness of understanding that they take for Oracles whatever the Jugling Priests have invented for their own unlawful Gain and as it were make a mockery of God himself men who can scarce be believed to have any hopes or thoughts of a life after this I humbly submit the treatise to the judgment of the kind Reader and if he think the pains I have taken may any way serve to demonstrate to the World the inormities of the Court and Church of Rome and perhaps convert some that are drunk with its cup of abomination I shall then rest satisfied that I have not ill imployed my time I pray God to continue amongst us the purity of his Gospel and preserve our Clergy from the sin of coveteousness that spiritual Idolatry which first debased the Church of Christ from its primitive purity and to convince if possible those poor deluded creatures which are sold as slaves to this successor rather of Simon Magus than Peter and to unvail the darkness of of his Kingdom which God of his infinite mercy and goodness grant according to the hearty prayers of Your servant in Christ ANTHO EGANE CERTAIN Decreed Impositions OF THE Chancery Court Of the Church of ROME Of Marriage IMPRIMIS THey that Marry in the fourth Degree must pay for a Dispensation the sum of 02 l. 04 s. 00 d. They that have committed Fornication in the fourth Degree notwithstanding their consanguinity which they well knew shall pay 30 l. 00 s. 00 d. For legimating of Children that shall be born of a Conjunction in the fourth Degree 19 l. 00 s. 10 d. Those that have contracted in Matrimony in the fourth Degree and being ignorant of their Consanguinity and after being sensible of their relation having carnally accomplished their Marriage must pay for their Dispensation 27 l. 00 s. 06 d. They who have carnally sinned in the fourth Degree being Ignorant of their Consanguinity their Dispensation is 16 l. 00 s. 06 d. For such as have been sensible of their own Consanguinity in the fourth Degree and nevertheless contracted in Marriage luet non consumatum their Dispensation is 39 l. 00 s. 10 d. But if that Marriage be consummated and carnally accomplished you are to agree with for the Prelate for the
00 d. A Priest having ignorantly said Mass in a prohibited place 06 l. 02 s. 00 d. But if he knew the place to be prohibited and that the prohibition was by the Ordinary he is to pay 06 l. 02 s. 00 d. If by the Pope he must pay 12 l. 03 s. 06 d. A Priest having made a Clandestine Marriage and said Mass in the presence of the Married Couple 06 l. 00 s. 00 d. And every Lay Man that was then present 03 l. 00 s. 00 d. If any Man hinders the Execution of a Bull or Apostolical Mandates his Absolution will cost him 36 l. 09 s. 00 d. And every one of his Assistants must pay 12 l. 03 s. 00 d. A Merchant having brought Warlick weapons amongst the Sarazens except he brings some profitable goods back in exchange he is to pay 12 l. 03 s. 06 d. But if he hath brought considerable goods he is to agree with the Prelate If a servant retains the Goods of his deceased Master for his wages after being advised to restore them and will not he is to be absolved for 06 l. 02 s. 00 d. A Bishop having sworn to take a Voyage to St. Peters in Rome and never performed he pays 12 l. 03 s. 06 d. The Absolution of a spiritual sentence of Excommunication given out by the Ordinary 06 l. 02 s. 06 d. But if the said sentence hath been given out of the Apostolical seat it must be 12 l. 02 s. 06 d. Dispensations and Pardons for Irregularities AN Absolution or a Dispensation for Irregularity is 05 l. 13 s. 00 d. And if there be a general Absolution for all sins it is 08 l. 19 s. 00 d. If the Irregularity hath been cause of giving of Judgment in some criminal matter of Fact and that there was not an absolution for the Fact but only an Absolution for Infamy with the Inhibitory Clause it is only 03 l. 07 s. 06 d. And if in the Bull be a Dispensation of Irregularity any Licence for passing such Judgment afterwards as often as occasion did require and also Authority for being an vocat in Criminal causes it will cost 45 l. 00 s. 00 d. But if the Bull contains a general absolution for all sins passed or for sins not yet committed and also for all sorts of Irregularities it will cost 50 l. 12 s. 06 d. He that is guilty of Irregularity by reason of exercising the profession of a Physitian must pay for the first Dispensation 56 l. 09 s. 00 d. And if the Bull alloweth him a permission to folloow his profession in the future he shall pay more 05 l. 02 s. 06 d. Dispensations for Burials AN excommunicated person deceased or one that dyed a violent Death his Absolution shall cost his friends and Relations 06 l. 02 s. 00 d. But if the Body be buried in a Sanctuary it will cost 12 l. 03 s. 06 d. Dispensations for changing and moderating of punishments A Simple moderation of Banishment or perpetual Imprisonment will cost 04 l. 10 s. 00 d. The moderation of Banishment from ten to fifteen years will cost 36 l. 09 s. 00 d. Or if the Bull contains a Dispensation for Irregularity and a permission for exercising the Office of a Priest it will cost 50 l. 12 s. 06 d. The simple moderation of Banishment or Imprisonment for ten years together with a simple Dispensation or Absolution of the crime committed will cost 25 l. 06 s. 00 d. And if the Bull contains a Clause of assistance it will cost besides the foregoing Tax 06 l. 00 s. 00 d. A Priest being suspended by his Ordinary from saying Mass by Reason of being troubled with the falling sickness must pay for his Absolution and Dispensation 06 l. 02 s. 06 d. And his Bishop is to give him License to say Mass with a proviso of being allways assisted by another Priest Dispensation of Oaths THe Dispensation of an Oath or contract being given to the end one may not be driven or expelled from his occasions or imployments will be had for 07 l. 02 s. 03 d. But if the Bull doth contain the inhibitory Clause together with an Absolution of Infamy it will cost 56 l. 09 s. 06 d. And if many are comprehended in the same fact every one of them must pay 03 l. 00 s. 00 d. And if there be many contracts for the same thing and amongst the same persons for each contract must be paid besides the Ordinary Tax of the former 03 l. 00 s. 00 d. A dispensation for one that hath sworn to take his Degrees in one University and neglected his promise so that he could not get his Degrees his Tax will be 06 l. 02 s. 00 d. For an Oath that cannot be kept without incurring Everlasting Damnation as for example A dishonest vow or some wicked promise the dispensation will cost 06 l. 02 s. 00 d. And you must take notice that there is difference between the tax of a Bishop Abbot or General of an Order and the tax of ordinary men for the Prelates are left to their Confessors Discretion Dispensations for the changing of a Vow A Man having vowed but not solemnly to take the Habit of some Order or Religion to the end he may change his Vow he must have a Dispensation which is made in Conscience it will cost but 15 l. 04 s. 00 d. If a Man hath taken a Vow of Chastity solemnly he is to have his dispensation for not keeping his Vow if need be but he is to pay the Prelate the sum of 15 l. 04 s. 00 d. If any man after taking an Oath of entering into a Religious Life takes a Fancy to marry rather than to perform his Oath or proceed according to his Vow he is to be absolved de jure only he must pay 15 l. 04 s. 00 d. And he shall be enjoined in the Bull to stand to his vow in Case he out-lives his first Wife For the prolonging of the term of Vows to go to the Holy Sepulchre or to Saint Peters at Rome provided there be a lawful cause for it yet a Dispensation will cost 09 l. 02 s. 09 d. If the Dispensation be for two years it will be but 04 l. 00 s. 01 d. For changing the Pilgrimage of the Sepulchre for another you must pay 12 l. 03 s. 06 d. Besides gratifying the Prelate to change one vow for another will cost 06 l. 02 s. 06 d. For getting a Priviledge from fasting or a permission to wear another habit rather than the habit of the Order wherein one took his Vow and made his Profession is 06 l. 02 s. 06 d. If the Bull contains a great number the first man must pay a whole tax and every one of the rest a half But if they are not related and all of one house every man must pay the whole Tax ut supra But if it be for a Chapter or Convent or some great Collidg and that the changing of the