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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

persons After the Penitent having confessed his sins the Missinar y begins his Absolution after this manner Miseriatur tui omnipotens Deus dimisis omnibus peccatis tuis per ducat te ad vitam aeternam Amen Indulgentiam Absolutionem Remissionem omnium peccatorum tuorum tribuat tibi omnipotens misericors Dominus Amen Deinde Injungit penitentiam sicut ipsi videbitur convenience postea dicit DOminus noster Jesus Christus te absolvat ego Authoritate ipsius qua fungor te absolvo Imprimis ab omni Vinculo excommunicationis majoris minoris si fuerit Clericus disit suspentionis aut interdicti si forte in curruisti de inde absolvo te ab omnibus peccatis tuis ab omnibus poenis tibi in Purgatorio debitis pro peccatis delictis restituo te unitate participatione Ecclesiae virtute authoritate speciali mihi in hac parte Commissa restituo te illi Innocentiae in qua eras quando baptisatus fuisti si hac vice non moriaris reservo tibi hanc gratiam pro extremo mortis articulo In nomine Patris Fili spiritus sanctti Amen Jesus Pasio Domini nostri Jesu Christi merita Beatae Mariae semper Virginis omnium sanctorum sanctarum ut quicquid bonificeris vel mali patienter sustineris sint tibi in Remissionem peccatorum tuorum augmentum gratiae premium vitae aeternae Amen pax tecum The ABSOLUTION thus Englished OUR Lord Jesus Christ absolve thee and by vertue of the Authority that I hold I do absolve thee First from all sorts of Excommunications whether great or small If the Penitent be a Clerk he must say from all sorts of Suspentions and Interdicts if by chance you have incurred any Then I absolve thee from all thy sins and from all sins and torments due to thee in Purgatory for thy sins and Transgressions And I receive thee into the Union and Participation of the Church And by vertue of a spetial Authority to me committed I restore thee into that Innocency in which thou hast been when thou wert Baptiz'd And if thou die not at this time I reserve to thee this Grace to the hour of thy Death In the Name of the Father c. and by the merits and Passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the merits of the ever blessed Virgin Mary and of all the Saints and Virgins That whatsoever sins thou hast committed and whatsoever Injuries thou patiently hast suffered let them be unto thee a Remission of thy sins and an augmentation to Grace and a Praemium of life everlasting Amen Peace be with you THE POSTSCRIPT ANd now I hope I have made good that I promised sufficiently discovering the cheats of these Merchants of souls and therefore your Charity will give me leave to say with the Apostle tantum bonum certamen certavi though I have not mentioned half the Abominations that are practiced in this kind but I hope this is enough to prove that mony rather than true repentance is made the ground of the Absolution of the most hainous sins but I hope God will give me more leisure and better opportunities of detecting the wickedness of this mystical Babilon and then I engage never to be weary of the designe I have undertook in declaring to the World the enormities of the Church whereof I was once a Member and was though ignorantly as great a deluder as any of them But thanks be to God who hath opened the eyes of my understanding to discover the light of his glorious Gospel which I acknowledge as his infinite mercy and who hath enjoined me being now converted to strengthen my Brethren and therefore I beseech you as you love God and tender the salvation of your own souls to detest not only the vices themselves but the manner of forgiving them practised in the Church of Rome And beware of its Missionaries who go about like Wolves in Sheeps cloathing seeking whom they may devour and have no other end but to breed confusions amongst us to make us break the bond of Union and Charity in which we ought all to be united in one Lord Jesus To whom be all honour and glory World without end An Appendix THese Names of Missionaries and Penitentiaries are all one the distinction only is that those Penitentiaries do reside in the Court of Rome and the Missionaries are those which are dispersed through the World notwithstanding they have the same power and Authority to absolve id est a Cassibus Reservatis The truth is these do not directly accumulate or gather these sums u they are to enlighten the Penance and Pilgrimage of the Penitents for paying these forementioned Taxes to their several Deputies appointed in all places to that purpose FINIS The Author s Testimony from the Vniversity THese are to Certifie All whom it may Concern That Mr. Anthony Egan Clerk lately a Franciscan Fryer in Ireland but now of the Reformed Religion hath for the time of his Abode in the University of Oxford behaved himself soberly discreetly and studiously and thereby hath been a happy means to reduce some persons to the Church of England who had been formerly perverted In Witness whereof I have hereunto putmy Hand Seal in such Causes usual this twentyninth day of August in the year of our Lord. 1673. P. Bath and Wells Vice-Chan of Oxon Joh. Wallis Geo. professor Oxon Tho. Yates President of Brazen Nose Ra. Bathurst Principle of Trinity Colledge Ab. Campion Proct. Senior Idem Testor Tho. Barlow Coll. Reginae Prepositus Tho. Tullie Aulae St. Edmundi principalis Copia Vera. Dispensation Prised

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