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A08896	Fiscus papalis. Siue, Catalogus indulgentiarum & reliquiarum septem principalium ecclesiarum vrbis Romæ. Ex vetusto manuscripto codice vere & fideliter descriptus. = A part of the Popes exchequer, that is A catalogue of the indulgences and reliques belonging to the seauen principall churches in Rome. Laying downe the spirituall riches and infinite treasure which (as sure as the Pope is holy & true) are to be found in the Catholike Roman Church, whereof the poore heretikes in England haue not one mite. Taken out of an antient manuscript, and translated. Together with certaine notes and comments explaining the more difficult place, for the ease and helpe of good Catholikes, who had best goe to Rome, to trie the vertue of the glorious indulgences. By a Catholike diuine.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1617 (1617)	STC 19174; ESTC S114000	84,865	184

Christians to heare Sermons on the Sabboth or festiuall dayes And whereas there was so much goodnesse in the Councell of Trent as the Heretickes call it or rather so much curiosity as we may say as to decree that Bishops should diligently admonish their people and tell them that they are bound to come to their parish Churches to heare Gods word Azorius the Iesuite hath answere ready that the Bishops are bid to warne them not to compell them and if that seeme too slight he hath a better in store whereas saith he the Councell would haue them come to heare Gods word that must be vnderstood of the Gospell in the Masse for is there not a Gospell read in euery Masse and is not the Gospell Gods word Then he that comes to the Masse heares a Gospell read and consequently heares Gods word Is not here deepe diuinity and shall not an ignorant man be well edified when hee heares a peece of the Gospell read in Latine whereof he vnderstandeth not one word Yes doubtlesse saith learned Ledesma the Iesuit if they come with deuotion and a good intent Thus then you see that preaching is a meane matter in respect of the Masse And this is the reason why here and elsewhere in our Liturgies and chiefe and best bookes of state as our Missall Pontificall Ceremoniall Sacerdotall and the like for one mention of a Sermon and a Pulpit you shall heare a hundred times of an Altar and a Masse And if this bee done by the Church and that Church cannot erre then all good Catholickes must know that not Pulpits Preaching but Altars and Masses must they looke after The Heretickes I confesse do hereat take great offence and hereupon doe cauill and raile bitterly and say that it is no maruel to see the pope preferre the Altar before the Pulpit a Masse before preaching for say they and my eares haue heard them say it to my great griefe if they gained no more by the one then the other his Holinesse would be faine to strike saile for the wings of his pride would soon be clipt He tels vs say they of a miracle in Transubstantiation that the Bread and Wine are turned into Christs Body and Bloud and there remaines nothing but the fashion colour or likenesse of Bread and wine But as our faith findes none such in Scripture no more doth our bodily sence finde it in experience But we can tell them of a much more true and sensible wonder daily amongst them for their Pulpits are transubstantiated if we may be so bold with their word for Gods it is not into Altars their Preachers into Priests their Sermons into Sacrifices their Bibles into Missals and these are so absolutely altered and really changed that indeed there remaines nothing but names and shadowes For the other haue the substance Pulpits say they are for Lent Altars for euery day Masses are commanded Sermons but aduised Sermons may doe well but Masses are necessary The Bible hath bred many heresies but the Masse booke breeds and feedes deuotion Therefore Gods Dan. 11. 36 37. 38. booke the Bible is to be remoued from the people as a dangerous thing and the Masse booke of mans making is to bee their daily bread Is not this the same say they or as bad that Daniel prophesieth of that there shall be a King that shall doe what him list and shall exalt himselfe and magnifie himselfe against all that is God and speake maruellous things against the God of Gods and shall prosper till the wrath be accomplished c. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers nor the desires of women nor care for any God for hee shall magnifie himselfe aboue all And in stead of God shall worship his God Mauzzim euen the God that his fathers knew not Whether their Masse be this Mauzzim here meant or no say they we affirme not once this is cleere that hee hath turned his Masse into a Mauzzim and made an Idoll of it and worships in it a God of his owne making a God that his fathers knew not for his transubstantiation and his propitiatory sacrifice which two be the life and soule of the Masse were not knowne in the ancient and purest Church for 500 yeares after Christ And this Mauzzim is set vp in the very roome of God For since the Masse was erected vnto this height it is at Christ neuer had his due but was despoiled of his Offices and Honour Gods booke cast aside and a Masse booke laid in his place Sermons accounted but things indifferent or conuenient but Masses the onely necessary duty of the Sabboth day And as he here saith No man may say Masse at the high Altars of the seuen Churches in Rome but the Pope or his Deputie but you shall finde no such prerogatiue for preaching here or else-where Arise O Lord mainteine thine owne cause against that Idoll the Masse and Mauzzim of the Romish Synagogue Thus madly and extrauagantly doe these idle heretickes prate but let not this nor ought that can be brought out of Scripture trouble any good Catholicke conscience these be but the temptations of the Diuell let him hearken what the Pope teacheth who is Gods Vicar and Peters successor and if they be good Catholickes they know that he cannot erre and that whatsoeuer he doth or teacheth as he is Pope it is all one as if God did it or taught it let hereticks then if they will extoll preaching let this satisfie deuout Catholicks that here the Pope takes order for saying Masse reseruing certaine Churches to himselfe at whose high Altars none may say Masse but himselfe or some by commission from him but finde me any whose pulpits he reserues to himselfe nay finde me any in whose pulpits he will come at all No it is too base a place and preaching too painfull a duty for his holinesse hee harh something else to doe as namely to create Cardinals to translate Empires and dispose of Kingdomes to reade and answere letters from the Princes of the earth and to giue audience to their Embassadors to controll Kings when they displease his holinesse and to excommunicate them if they submit not to his pleasure and if they persist to depose them and discharge their subiects of their oath and alleageance to giue their kingdomes to whom he list and to raise their owne subiects against them to augment Saint Petars patrimony by procuring Princes and Dukes to giue him the reuersions after them to goe and take possessions of the Prouinces that fall to him by such excheates as Clemens the 5 did lately of Ferrara to make leagues betwixt Princes and to breake them when he seeth good yea though they be confirmed by Oath and Sacrament * Vide Peter Math inter constitutiones Pont. Rom. in Bulla Pauli 3. contra Henricum 8. Angliae Regem as Paul the 3. did against Henry the 8 of England Pius 5 against Elizabeth and Sixtus 5. against Henry of

then whoring or Adultery Alasse then who can blame them or rather doth not commend the holy Clergy of Rome if of the two euills they chuse the lesse to auoide the great and if any little fault remaine after that fact how easily may they goe to confession or as soone as they haue done all being Priests may one absolue another and so come out of the Stewes as holy and pure as they went in where as all good Catholikes know that these heretike Priests that haue their owne wiues though they neuer toucht other woman are neuer pure but euer defiled with that pollution that followes them in that damned estate of mariage as whatsoeuer the heretikes prate out of the Scriptures the holy Roman Church hath truely and holily determined Seeing therefore the Clergy in Rome are not wrapt in the sacrilegious bonds of marriage and so not tied to one And for all other scapes haue the holy and happy and present helpe of confession euer at hand and alwaies in season let no good Catholicke doubt but as all that haue trauelled thither doe well know holy Clergy men and Priests with pure Consciences are as common in Rome as post-horses in Venice And this Indulgence thus granted was confirmed by sixe and fortie Popes whose bodies doe all rest in the Church-yard 13 If 46. Popes lie buried in one Church-yard It seemes those daies were not so deuout as these of ours nor the Popes so pompous nor so rich for now it is not agreeable to Catholicke deuotion Nor to the Maiesty of his holinesse to be buried in a Churchyard but in as stately and pompous manner as any of the greatest kings of the earth of Saint Sebastian and namely by Pope Ieruatius Pelagius Vrbanus Siluester Benedict Honorius Leo Clement Innocent c. Who all and euery one of them haue confirmed the foresaid Indulgence for the increase of deuotion Furthermore it is found registred in the same most holy Monasterie that whosoeuer shall drinke the water of these three fountaines where Saint Paul was beheaded shall from thenceforth be deliuer frō whatsoeuer disease he hath 14 The Heretikes will here obiect and aske how it then comes to passe that any in Rome or neere it bee sicke or die of such filthy diseases as they doe for either they may here drinke and bee healed or else this here praemised is but a cosenage and delusion But heretikes are not worthy to be answered let thē go And whosoeuer shall drinke of these three fountaines as afore shall haue from euery fountaine a thousand yeares 15 Here is a sweet a gracious indulgēce when for drinking 3 draughts of 3 sweete fountaines in a hot Sommers day in a hot country a man may gaine 3000 yeares of pardon Is it not pity but so good a mother as the holy Roman Church should haue deuout children of pardon and all this because that when Saint Paul was there beheaded his head being smitten off leaped three times and at euery leape when it fell to the ground forthwith there sprung vp a fountaine of water 16 The Heretikes cauill and say that this is a fable of the three fountaines and that there is no good history for it and say further that he made and digged foureteene better fountaines and left them not for Rome alone but for all Christians and say that whosoeuer drink of these fountaines shall receiue true Indulgence indeed and haue the diseases of his soule healed but they babble and shew themselues true heretikes who alwaies come with Scripture Scripture But contrariwise al good Catholickes know that the holy Roman Church in these later and wiser daies found these fountaines so dangerous to drinke of that prudently she stopt and wald them vp within the wall of the Latine tongue And the wiser sort of Catholickes doe know and some of them are bold and zealous to affirme it had beene better for the Catholicke faith if they had beene better and safer stopt vp then they haue beene But as for these three blessed fountaines that sprange when Saint Pauls head leapt three times after it was smitten off which is as certaine as that Saint Denise tooke vp his head when is was striken off and carried it in his hands three miles as the Breuiary saith in his seruice these the Pope is sure will not infect the drinkers with heresie as those Epistles of Paul haue often done And therefore these fountaines his holinesse stops not vp but lets them be alwaies open that good Catholickes may resort vnto them at all times of the yeare and from all parts of the world to the great honour of Saint Paul at least to the great gaine of his holinesse and of the Roman Citizens who could not well maintaine their City without these good helps and consequently to the great aduancement of the holy Catholicke Roman faith Moreouer in the Chappell there is saphire stone which whē it is laid to the side of a sick-man that hath an Apostem presently the sicke partie shal be healed with onely touching Also in the same Chappell there doe rest the bodies of many holy Martires and Confessors And there is also the sword with which Saint Paul was beheaded and it standeth there in a wall 17 Behold a most pretious relicke the sword that cut off Saint Pauls head And hath not the Popes holinesse good cause to preserue and honour the sword that cut off his head who durst rebuke Saint Peter whose successor he is The Caluinists bragge of a better sword which they say Saint Paul left them Ephes 6. 1. The sword of the Spirit which is the word of God but let them like foolish Cockes take the barley come and leaue vs the Iewell for all good Catholickes know that the sword of the Scripture howeuer Paul commended it in those times is found in these daies to bee a dangerous sword to be vsed and the holy Roman Church had neuer seene so many of her children fall to be Cauinists and Lutherans had it not been that the vse of this sword was too easily and freely premitted vnto them As for this sword that cut off Saint Pauls head that neuer did hurt to the Catholicke Roman Church but hath gained it many a faire million of crownes euen the very shewing of it to people and pilgrimes seeing then the Popes holinesse gaines so well by this sword and hath lost so much by the sword of the Spirit full wisely therefore he prohibits the vse of that sword but allowes the other to bee seene of all men and if Saint Paul bee angry that wee make more account of the sword that cut of his head then that sword of the spirit which vpon his knowledge he commended so earnestly to the Church let him know his holinesse cares not a pin for though he was so bold to reprehend Peter when they were on earth Yet now his holinesse being Peters successor hath made and enacted it for a law

sic Noscant vniuersi hanc paginam ininspectnri gratiam pietate dei meritis sancti Iuliani omnibus fidelibus datam precipue si quis presumens iter arripere peregrinationis pro animabus patris matris ad dictam Ecclesiam cum deuotione vnum Pater noster Aue maria dixerit prosperum fine aduersitate obtinebit hospicium Reliquiae praedict Ecclesiae ITem primo est ibi de lacte Mariae Virginis Item ibi est mentum Beati Iuliani Item de Crinibus Beati Iohannis Baptistae Item de spina de Corona qua coronatus crat Iesus Item dentes Beatae Apolloniae Of certaine Indulgences and Relikes of diuerse other Churches IN the Church of Saint Iames there is the stone vpon which our Lord Iesus Christ was presented in the Temple and at it there bee a thousand yeares of pardon Also in the Church of Saint Martine on the hill lieth Saint Siluester and there bee daily there three hundred yeares of pardon Also not farre from Saint Peters Church there is a field called Gods field where there are euery day a thousand yeares of pardon and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes In this field Pilgrims are buried and their bodies after three daies are found no more 15 Of this strange field read in the larger notes or comment Also there is one stone of a great height vpon whose pinacle or toppe there is the bodie 16 Heere is a holy relicke indeed namely the body of Iulius Caesar it is pity so great a Saint hath not a day in the Kalender which many haue that were neuer so well knowne as Iulius Caesar of Iulius Caesar Also in the Church of Saint Peter at the prison there is remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes and euery day two hundred yeares of pardon all which are granted by diuers Popes to such as shal be truelie penitent and bee confessed so oft as any man shal either for cause of deuotion or of pilgrimage visite the said Church or else if hee giue his almes vnto it thus doing he is released of all his sinnes Also there a little below is a well which appeared and spange vp miraculously when Saint Peter was laide hold of by Neroe the Emperonr Also in the Church of Saint Agnes there are sixe and fortie yeares of pardon And vpon her feast day two hundred yeares Also in the Church of Saint Susan who was wife to Saint Alexius two hundred yeares of pardon Also in the Church of Saint Katrine there are two hundred yeares of pardon And vpon her feast day a thousand yeares Also in the Church of Saint Felicitie are fortie yeares of pardon Also in the Church of Saint Lucie a hundred yeares of pardon Also in the Church of Saint Petronilla a thousand yeares of pardon Also in the Church of Saint Elizabeth a hundred yeares of pardon euery day Also in the Church of Saint Clare a hundred yeares of pardon Also in the Church of Saint Mynerua a thousand yeares of pardon Also in the Church of Saint Iulian it is thus written Know all men whosoeuer shall looke vpon this chapter that by the goodnesse of God and merites of Saint Iulian grace and pardon is graunted from God to all faithfull men Especiallie if any man doe vndertake a iourney of pilgrimage to this Church for the soules of his father and mother and shall there say with deuotion one Pater noster and one Aue hee shall also be sure to obtaine a prosperous iourney good lodging without daunger of theenes or any other aduersitie 18 See what a sweet and comfortable thing it is to trauell to Rome when a man is sure by vertue of the Popes Indulgence to escape theeues and all his iourney long to bee sure of good lodging who that beleeues this would not trauell to Rome The Reliques of the same Church FIrst of all there is in this Church some of the milke of our Lady Also there is Saint Iulians beard Also there is some of Saint Iohn Baptists haire Also some of the crown of thornes with which Iesus Christ was crowned Also some of the teeth of Saint Appollonie 19 And all these are so miraculously market as they cannot bee counterfeited no nor changed neither but when it pleaseth his holinesse for the greater edification of his good Catholickes CAP. 16. ITem in Ecclesia sancti Euzebij Vincentij CCC anni Indulgent ibi est brachium Beati Christopheri Item in Ecclesia sancti Viti Modesti aliorum millium Martirum sunt omni die septem melle anni Indulgent tot carenae tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio Item in Ecclesia sanctae Potentianae ibi est scampnum super quo Christus sedebat cum discipulis suis in cena ibi est mille Indulgent omni die Item in Ecclesia sancti Anthonij ibi conceditur sextae partis omnium peccatorum remissio Item in Ecclesia Sancti Petri ad Vincula ibi sunt Cathenae cum quibus Sanctus Petrus fuit Cathenatus quas portauit filius Theodotij de Ierusalem Quam Ecclesiam pellagius Papa primo die Augusti consecrauit remissionem omnium peccatorum ibidem concessit Reliquiae quae sunt in Ecclesia quae vocatur ara Celi ITem in Ecclesia fratrū minorum quae vocatur ara Caeli ibi sunt vestigia Angeli in lapide stantis Regina Caeli laetare cantantis in castello Sancti Angeli Item in eadem Ecclesia est primum altare totius mundi confectum Item dicitur quod Octauianus Imperator vidit circulum in Celo ibi pulcherimam gloriosissimam virginem Mariam super altare stantem suis brachijs puerum tenentem qui ammiratus valde audiuit vocem de caelo dicsentem haec est ara caeli filij dei qui statim procidens in terram adorauit Christum venturum Haec visio facta fuit in camera Octauiani Imperatoris vbi ipsum primum Altare construxit Et est ibi dominica dic assumpsionis Beatae Mariae Virginis omnium peccatorum remissio Item est ibi vna venerabilis Imago Mariae Virginis manibus Beati Lucae depicta Quam venerabilem Imaginem Beatus Gregorius in processione portans tempore quo illa horribilis pestilentia fuerat Romae cum magna solemnitate veniente processione prope Castellū Sancti Angeli Angelus Marmoreus qui se inclinauerat sepe ad hanc venerabilem Imaginem Beatae Mariae Virginis pluribus videntibus audientibus Regina caeli laetare alle luia cantauit Et composuit Beatus Gregorius Ora pro nobis Deum Alleluia c. CHAP. 16. Of Indulgences and Reliques in diuers other Churches IN the Church of Saint Euzebius and Vincentius there are three hundred yeares of pardon and in that Church there is the arme of Saint Christopher Also in the Church of Saint Vitus and Modestus and of a thousand other Martires there are euery