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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60213	The fryer, or, An historical treatise wherein the idle lives, vitiousness, malice, folly, and cruelty of the fryers is described : in two parts, tragical and comical : collected out of sundry authors, and several languages, and caused to be translated into English / by James Salgado ...	Salgado, James, fl. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing S376; ESTC R16369	87,870	357

her fall she had got a hurt in her head Now being come to her self the Prior fearing lest she should declare to the Abbess who was her Aunt the Cause of her illness told her secretly by her self Daughter I forbid you upon pain of Disobedience and of eternal Damnation from ever speaking or revealing any thing that I have done to you in this place for you must know that the extreme affection I have towards you hath constrained me to it but ●eeing I perceive you are unwil●ing to grant your consent I will never mention it any more but this time I assure you that in case you be pleased to correspond with my love I shall cause you to be elected Abbess of one of the most famous Abbies of this Kingdom But she answered him that she would rather chuse to dye in a stinking Dungeon rather than take any other Lover besides him who suffered death for her upon the Cross with whom she would rather suffer all the indignities and torments which the World and the Devil could inflict on her than without him enjoy all worldly pleasure and treasure And withall she desired him to forbear mentioning such discourse any more or else the would declare all to the Abbess but if he did so she promised she would be silent After this manner was this wicked Pastour or rather ravenous Woolf defeated of his prey who notwithstanding that he might longer enjoy the sight of her whom he lusted after he in an Hypocri●ical manner went to the Abbets and prayed her to command her Nanns to sing a Salve Regina to the honour of that Virgin on whom he relyed all his h●pes which was done accordingly but all the time of their singing this crafty Ruffian shed abundance of tears not out of any devotion towards the blessed Virgin Mary but out of regreat and sorrow that he had conceived in not having enjoyed his sweet Mary the Nun as for the Religious Nuns thinking he did it for the Love he had for the blessed Virgin Mary they had him in great Veneration and esteemed him as a very holy Person but as for Sister Mary who knew his abominable hypocrisy prayed to GOd in her heart that he would confound him who made so light of the Pearl of Chastity So this execrable Hypocrite went his way to his Pr●●ry of Saint Martins in which place the fire of his base Lust was not extinct but rather kindled every day more and more and he left no stone unturned that he might compass his wicked enterprize and because he chiefly feared the Abbess who was a vertuous Lady he contrived a way how he might remove her from that Monastery and for that purpose he went towards Madam of Vendosme who then did live at a place called La●fere where she had Erected and founded a Convent of Nuns by the name of Mount Olivet And he as he was the chief Reformer made her understand that the Abbess of the said Mount Olivet was not sufficient to Govern so great a Congregation upon which words the good Lady prayed him to name her one who was more able and more worthy of that Office but he who required nothing else Counselled her to take and make ●hoice of the Abbess of Gif she being the most vertuous and the ●est able in all the Kingdom of France Madam de Vendosme ●id forth with send for her and ●ommitted to her the Government of her Monastery of Mount Olivet This Prior of St. Mar●ins who could command the ●otes of all the Convent of Gif ●aused her to be elected Abbess whom he liked best Now af●●er this Election he again went ●o the said Monastery to try once more whether he by intreaty could gain the Love of Sister Mary Herovet but seeing that ●here was no hope returned desperate to his priory of St. Mar●in in which place partly ●o compass his end and partly to revenge himself of her cruelty and also least his filthiness should be detected he c●used the Relicks of the said Convent to be stollen in the night and char'd the Confessour of Gist a very honest old man as if he had stole them and for that sent him to Prison to S. Martins in the while he had kept him Prisoner he did subourn two Witnesses which ignorantly subscribed to all the Dictates of the Prior of S. Martins which were these That in a certain Garden they had seen the said Confessour with Sister Mary in an obscene act the which he endeavoured to make the old Monk to confess But he who knew right well all the mad pranks of his Prior intreaded him he might have the liberty to plead his cause before a Congregation of all the Monks and that in the presence of them all he would declare the long and the short of all he knew but the Prior well knowing that the justification of the said Confessour would prove his Condemnation would by no means condescend to his request but finding him firm and stiff in his purpose did use him so severely and barbariously in Prison that some say he died there others that he forced him to abandon his order and totransport himself out of the Kingdom of France however it be he never was seen any more When this Prior thought he had got such an advantage over Sister Mary he went to the Monastery where the Abbess being at his beck durst contradict him in no kind of thing and then he began to exercise his Authority of Visitour he therefore caused all the Nunns to be brought before him one after another that he might hear their depositions and confessions but the turn of Sister Mary being come who had lost her good Aunt he began to tell her Sister Mary you know the crime whereof you are accused and that your fair pretences as i● you was a singular model o● Chastity did avail you nothing for it is evident enough you are far from being that you would be reputed to be but Sister Mary with an undaunted courage answered him let him that hath accused me be brought before me and you shall see whither he shall dare to persist in his accusation but he presenely replying said That there was no need of any more Testimonies seeing the Confessour himself had already been convicted Sister Mary answered him I do repute him to be so honest a man that I think he would not wrong his Conscience and the truth so far as to confess such a wickedness and lye against me but suppose the Case it was so let him be brought before me and I do undertake to prove the contraty to his Face The Prior perceiving he could no way fright her told her I am your Father and for this cause I desire to save your reputation wherefore I remit the whole business to your Conscience but one thing I will ask you and I conjure you upon pain of a mortal sin to tell me ingeniously the truth my question is whither you was a Virgin when you was

born Infant than ●onsidering the horrible conditi●n into which she was come ●ithout excusing her ignorance ●hought her self as if she was guil●y and the most miserable Crea●ure in the World and thinking on the love of her Husband and the Honour of her Relations which must need susier she esteemed Death more happy than her Life so that being transported with Fury forgetting the knowledge of God she took her Bed Cord and with her own hands strangled her self and which is worse being in the Agony of this Cruel death struck with her Foot on the Face of the Child and so killed it but dying made such a noise that a Woman lying in the Chamber rose up hastily to light a Candle and seeing her Mistriss Strangled with the Bed Cord and the little Infant lying dead under her foot she ran in great hast into the Chamber of her Mistresses Brother whom she brought to see this sad Spectacle her Brother weeping and very much lamenting this sad Accident he being one that lov'd his Sister dearly demanded of the Maid who had Committed this Crime who answered she knew not and that none but her Master had been in the Chamber who was just gone out upon which he went into his Chamber and not finding him there believed surely he had Committed this Horrible and Vilanous Crime took his Horse without any other Inquiry to ride after him and hit on the way where he met his Brother returning from the Pursuit of the Fryer as soon as he saw his Brother in Law he spake thus Cursed Coward as thou art defend thy self this Day I hope God will Revenge me on thee by my Sword The Gentleman would have excused himself but seeing his Brothers Sword drawn thought it fitter to defend himself than to inquire the cause of the difference Whereupon so many Blows past between them that with expence of Blood they were forced for some time to part for Respiration and then the Gentleman began to inquire the cause of their difference and what was the cause of this great Combat But what occasion had you answered his Brother in Law to put to death my dear Sister the best Wife that ever Lived and so Barbarously that under a colour of going to Bed with her you Strangled her with the Bed Cord the Gentleman hearing these Words being almost dead with Grief said to his Brother is it possible that you have found your Sister in such a condition And when his Brother had assured him of the truth thereof Pray quoth the Gentleman hear the cause wherefore I left the House and when he began to tell him the whole Story of the Fryer Whereupon being very much astonish'd and extreamly Sorry he had thus rashly fought his Brother and humbly begging his Pardon said I have wrong'd you I beseech your Pardon the Gentleman Replied If I have wrong'd you you have sufficiently punished me for I am so wounded that I believe I shall hardly escape death whereupon his Brother helping him upon his Horse brought him home where the next day he died confessing before all his Kindred and Friends that the Fryer was the cause of all their Deaths The Abomination of a Priest who got his own Sister with Child under a colour of Piety and how they were both punish'd CHarles Earl of Angoulesme Father of King Francis the first a very honest Prince and fearing God when he was at Coignac a small Town in France some body told him that in a Country Town hard by there was a Virgin who did live with so great an Austerity that she was the Wonder of all People and notwithstanding was found big with Child and did confess it to every Body testifying that she never knew any ●an and could not tell how it ●●me that she was big with Child ●nless it were by the operation 〈◊〉 the Holy Ghost and the Peo●●e did believe her because they ●ought her to be an other bles●d Virgin Mary For every Bo●y knew that she was always 〈◊〉 modest and wise that never ●ppeared in her any sign of Vani●y She not only did Fast upon ●e days commanded by the ●hurch but also upon several o●er Days in the Week meerly ●r Devotion and as long as they ●ere praying and singing in the ●hurch she was there always ●herefore she was esteemed so ●odly by the common People ●hat every Body came to see her ●s a Miracle and thought themselves very happy if they could but touch her Peticoat He● Brother was the Curate of the Parish being a Man of middle age who did live according to outward appearance religiously and was esteemed by all for a godly Man and speaking to his Sister severely he caused her to be put in Prison that was soon spread abroad and came to the Ears of the aforementioned Earl● who seeing how much every Body was deceived desired to discover the truth therefore he sent two Gentlemen who were counted very godly and prudent to find out the cheat they went to the said Curate and enquired as diligently as they could about that business the Curate being weary of this Inquisition desired ●hem to be present at the verification he did hope to make for it The next day early in the morn●ng he said Mass where his Sister was present kneeling down big with Child and when the Mass was finished the said Curate took ●he Corpus Domini and before all ●poke thus to his Sister Misera●le that thou art here is he that suffered Death for thee and before ●im I ask thee whither thou art a Virgin as thou didst tell me always ●nd she boldly answered that she was so and how then is it possible saith he that thou art big with Child and still remainest a Virgin ●hen she did reply thus I cannot ●ive any reason for it except it ●e by the vertue of the Holy Ghost who works in me what he ●leaseth but I cannot deny the Grace that I have received from God in keeping me a Virgin fo● I never had a mind to be mar●ed Then her Brother spoke th● to her Here I give thee the Bo●● of the Lord Jesus Christ which the shalt take as thy Damnation if it 〈◊〉 otherwise than thou sayest and they Gentlemen who are here prese● shall be Witnesses of it The Gi●● being about 13 years old too● this Oath I take the Body of t● Lord here present as my Damnat● on before you Gentlemen and b●fore you my Brother if ever any Man had more to do with me tha● you and so speaking she did receiv● the Body of our Lord. The tw● aforesaid Gentlemen who we● there present seeing and hearin● her speak thus went away wit● shame and wonder thinking tha● with such an Oath she could not lie and so came back again to the Earl and told him what both they had seen and heard and did their endeavour to make him believe what they did believe But the Earl being a wise Man meditating upon the Words that they related unto