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A75204	An Account of Spain being a new description of that country and people, and of the sea ports along the Mediterranean : of Ceuta, Tangier, &c. / written by a French gentleman, who was in disguise aboard the English fleet, with an account of the most remarkable transactions of that fleet : to which is added, a large preface concerning the establishment of the Spanish crown, on the Duke of Anjou.	R.; Lewis, E.	1700 (1700)	Wing A226C; ESTC R13796	86,012	229

at him Soon as the roaring beast saw him he ran furiously towards him and there being no Body else in the Lists the Sailor must now make the best of a bad Market the poor Fellow still stood his Ground and when the Bull came near him he try'd to amuse him with his Hat as he had seen the Spaniards do with their Cloaks and throwing it between his Horns it signify'd as much as if he had held his Hand against a Thunderbolt for down he came upon his Back with his Face to the Bulls one of the Bulls Feet on his Stomach and one of his Horns thro' his Cheek and out at his Mouth One wou'd have thought these Braves that saw him shou'd have run in to his Rescue but not one of 'em stirred tho' the defeated Hero lay every Moment expecting Death till of his own accord the generous Beast got out his Horn and as if he had been sensible of his Conquest left him on the Ground and walkt on as if he were satisfy'd with his Victory Soon as the Bull quitted him then they run Races who shou'd first see if he were living and finding no other hurt about him but that of his Cheek he was carryed to the Hospital and soon afterwards Cured If you have the Curiosity to ask on what Occasion these Bull-Feasts are generally made take this Account which was given me of that which I was at The Duke of Medina Sidonia Captain General of Andaluzia had a Son at the point of Death his Life being given up by the Physicians the Duke had recourse to the Prayers of the Church as his last Remedy and particularly addrest a Monastery of Augustines in the Town where he Dwelt to offer up their Intercession for him In some Time after the Gentleman recover'd and the glad Father thinking his Recovery had been an effect of the Prayers of the Convent presented it with these 33 Bulls to be first Baited for publick Diversion and as a Token of his Gratitude their Carcasses to be devoted to the Holy Fathers This is not always the Reason of 'em for sometimes the King or some Grandee entertains Embassadors with them before the royal Palace at Madrid or for want of a better Occasion sometimes the Mob When ever the latter happens it is done to pacifie their Clamours for they are always Mutinous in a Time of Scarcity and then the King appoints 'em a Bull-Feast which is both Sport and Supply to ' em Tho' generally this is perform'd here with Circumstances of great Ostentation yet in Barbary they have 'em in ten times more Splendour Those African People being lovers of all sorts of Cruelty and not to be pleas'd but with such savage Diversions But so much for their publick Sports I cou'd now make you merry with another kind of Gallantry very much in practice among these Spaniards I mean that of Pimping and Intriguing And tho' these two Excellencies are chiefly prevailing among the Laity yet to give the Church its due the Clergy are very dextrous at any thing wherein a Woman is concern'd But since I have mention'd the Reverend Clergy let me not traduce 'em without entring their Convents and Chapels and examine what sort of private Devotion they practise and I can assure my Friend whoever sees 'em in their cells tho' they are zealous pretenders and carry to the World such a Face of Austerity will find nothing less than Mortification among ' em Consider My Friend I am not speaking of all that are in Religious Orders God forbid I shou'd accuse so solemn a Life with general Prophannes No Brunet I have a profound Reverence for that Monastick Holiness which inspires the greatest part of 'em but yet as in all other Societies there are even among these some Corrupt Members which shame the Sanctity of our most Holy Communion and are Weeds that ought to be torn from the Earth and Rooted out from the Churches of the Faithful I am now speaking of those abandon'd Hypocrites who have other secret Causes for their entring into holy Orders than Contrition and Repentance That there are such every Age hath inform'd us and every Convent or there wou'd be a little work for publick Scandal or for Confession and such severe Chastisemenas as are often exercised in ' em It was my Fortune to be acquainted with some of these we are now speaking of Brave Fellows My Friend Men who wou'd stick at nothing to gratifie their Appetites or to serve a Companion If a Husband or a Brother be in the way they have devices to remove 'em and such subtil Stratagems as will hardly admit of Opposition That what I say is true every English and Dutch Officer that 's here will bear me witness for there 's hardly a Gentleman in the Navy that loves an Intrigue and can part with his Money but has been helpt by one Friar or other of his acquaintance Tho' I am very much scandaliz'd at so great an infamy which gives occasion to our Adversaries to reproach us yet in spite of all shame 't is an absolute truth and so much the more deplorable It may well be answer'd if it shou'd be ask'd how these Vermin have a knack at Pimping above any other People that by the power they have when they receive the confessions they discover who are Corrupt and having known that the rest is easy And that these Villains are sometimes as successful in Debauching innocent Maids as they are in continuing the pollutions of others already Defil'd has been notoriously prov'd by Examples that have occur'd to my particular knowledge and the reason is plain why the Priesthood is more mischeivious that way because the doors of every Family lie open to them and that reservation which Parents use in guarding their Children from all the World beside is put by at the approaches of a Priest who wherever he comes is as familiar as if he were one of the Domesticks The liberty which they thus assume as it is the particular priviledge of the Church so it is very serviceable to 'em in their Designs of every kind but principally to insinuate for Alms and Benevolences in which they are so dextrous that 't is a hard matter to avoid 'em For besides the Artifices they use by fair means they have always the necessities of the Church to pretend and when good words won't do they have a Purgatory and Damnation to awe the unknowing Vulgar I wou'd not say this of the Roman Clergy if I did not know it to be litterally true for as I wou'd be thought impartial in my remarks of every thing I undertake to Relate so in this particular I woud shun all detraction and cover as much as I cou'd the nudities of the Catholick Communion but to deal plainly with a Friend I found within these holy Societies very much Corruption and Degeneracy I found Abstinence and Chastity which are their Principal vows no more than nominal Vertues but I saw every