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A09551	An ansvvere made by one of our brethren, a secular priest, now in prison, to a fraudulent letter of M. George Blackwels, written to Cardinall Caietane, 1596, in commendation of the Iesuits in England	Philalethes, Andreas.; Copley, Anthony, 1567-1607?, attributed name.; Charnock, Robert, b. 1561, attributed name.; Blackwell, George, 1546 or 7-1613.	1602 (1602)	STC 19830; ESTC S120908	20,743	44

amongst vs the breath wherof did at any time a little more grecuously mooue vs. Men surely we are compassed with many infirmities but praise be to God in so great a course of most wicked time we haue been so couered with diuine grace that nothing that I know hath hapned which at any time hath cast vs from the state of mutuall peace and brotherly concord P. Deinde expergiscebar And then I awaked A man might dreame as here you write Master Blackwell because for the most part dreames goe as they say by contraries But for a Catholike priest broad-waking to write in this sort to a Cardinal to Rome the citie of God it is most abhominable Is all your whetting come to this If in so many materiall points as here you haue touched any one had been true I could haue borne with you more willingly but all of them being so notoriously false I blush on your behalfe to consider your impudencie First therefore whereas you say in such generall tearmes That some of vs that bee secular Priests for I cannot see how you can meane any other men ignorant of the state of things here haue affirmed that wee the secular Priests in England are at warres amongst our selues I dare be bold to say it that you write therein vntruly I am somewhat better acquainted with this matter than many of my Brethren being peraduenture my selfe then in Rome or knowing at the least whom you did then ayme at If any did so write or report as here you affirme hee was either a Iesuit or such another hyreling as your selfe suborned by the Iesuits to write in that maner of purpose to work their designments against our credits vtterly to subuert vs. Of which kind of persons we hold this opinion That they haue separated themselues from vs and continuing in their Iesuitisme are no right secular Priests but Mongrels betwixt both and therefore to be no better esteemed or beleeued in their speeches than the veriest Iesuit amongst vs. Againe if you meane by your words Sed temerè aiunt They speake rashly c that there was then no contention at all amongst sundry of vs that were Priests imprisoned then that is also most false For you know the stirres that were then at Wisbich few men better amongst the secular Priests for the setting vp of a certain Geneua platforme tearmed an Agenage So that if any of vs about that time did write to Rome how the Iesuits laboured to set some of vs together by the eares amongest our selues for their aduantage hee writ therein most truly and you haue not any sparke of grace left in you if you denie it Furthermore in that you denie that wee the secular Priests were then at a iarre with the Iesuits you are therein so false as I want a fit word to taxe you for it Had not Master Garnet and Master Weston attempted then to haue brought all our necks vnder their yoaks Did they not tell vs plainly that they saw no reason why the Iesuits in England should not as well rule vs all here as the Iesuits in Italy did rule the English Seminarie in Rome Were there not most vntrue reports made by them against vs of purpose to withdraw all the Catholikes hearts from vs Was ther not in this our contention great partaking some holding with vs and some with the Iesuits You know it full well and thrust your selfe as a stickler amongest vs with great hypocrisie God he knoweth Whereas therefore you further say that the Fathers sought not to bring vs seculer Priests into contempt whereby they might beare all the sway ouer vs and that for 20 yeeres you knew of no such contention amongest vs Priests with priests or Priests with Iesuits as tended to the breach either of peace or concord you are in danger to become one of his crue who is tearmed by the Apostle to be the father of all lyes Homines sumus We are men you say but you might herein more truly say Daemones sumus we are Diuels vnderstanding your selfe and them that set you to this shamefull worke I protest before God that I was at the writing hereof in a kind of agonie to thinke that euer a Catholike Priest of my reputation should dare to write in this impudent maner Why Master Blackwell how commeth this to passe If men saw you not yet God you know is not ignorant of this Machiavelisme Shake hands therefore with Iesuitisme repent you of these courses and returne againe vnto vs. You were not wont when you and I were first acquainted to be so immodest Let me obteine of you for our old acquaintance Master Blackwell to tell me here this one thing With what face durst you write that you hoped the sayd accusation of the Iesuits insolent pride in seeking dominion ouer vs would for euer be dashed hereafter as conquered and suppressed tuo valde exiguo testimonio By your verie slender testimonie Or if your face was hard inough what said your conscience Or if that were seared where was your wit learning judgement common sense were they all gone a wooll gathering you might haue remembred that you your selfe did tax them for seeking dominion ouer their brethren at Wisbich But a man puft vp with pride hath no vnderstanding but is become like a beast of the field Your testimony If the Cardinall had knowne you indeed as we doe hee would not haue esteemed your testimonie worth two chips B. As touching the other part of the Accusation which is built vp more iniuriously against the reuerend Fathers of the societie of Iesus that surely will most easily shrinke being pressed with it own waight of falshood nesse charitie than Master Parsons and I warrant you he will giue you a low beck and with his eyes hands lift vp to heauen yeld by many degrees to that worthies perfection And then remember I pray you good Master Blackwell the old saying Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt If Maister Parsons bee the best of that crue then assuredly bad is the best And howsoeuer now you flourish for a time through his good fauour yet when hee shall know what once you thought and spake of him since hee was a Iesuit downe you must as fast if he himselfe can keepe his owne footing Although indeed he neuer preferred you to your high estate for any other true cause than that knowing your weaknes hee was sure you would bee at his commaundement so as the preferring of you to your Archpresbitership was in effect as if hee had preferred a Iesuit But yet downe you must If the waight of your owne folly break not your own neck by the insolent abusing of your place yet the blasphemie which you haue vsed against him will neuer be forgiuen B. Surely we should bee verie vnthankfull if wee should not prosecute them with honour as our Fathers embrace them with loue as our friends worship them with dutie as beneficiall

Fa. M. Parsons as I suppose how say you was it If not he who then Let the man bee knowne that Gods name may bee thereby glorified Those great works would not bee concealed I haue heard indeed of a certaine verie admirable excercise which the Iusuits haue to cousen young Gentlemen and get from them that which their friends haue left them I could name the parties but you meane not them M. Blackwell doe you Surely except you haue the parties names on your fingers ends you were much to blame to write thus to the Cardinall Or otherwise M. Garnet of likelihood told you such a tale you verie wisely beleeued him But that will not serue the turne for you pretend to write the matter vpon your owne knowledge and professe that you your selfe haue receiued much ease consolation out of their fountaines and that many other Saints in prison haue been refreshed by them It was surely well done of them I and some others could say somewhat for the secular Priests that haue ben long in prison now here now there and yet I do here avow it vnto you M. Blackwell in the word of a priest that I neuer heard of or receiued any one penny of any Iesuits patrimonie vnder that name or as giuen out of a Iesuits owne purse to me or any other for ought I know or can remember and I thank god I haue not hitherto forgotten in my praiers my good benefactors I and others with me haue oftentimes felt some want in prison and were assuredly verie vnfortunate Sitam adsanctos refocillandos in carcere detentos occurrerint if they were euer so readie to helpe vs as these your words import that they neuer came by our dores Out of question if the Iesuits haue been so liberall as you informed the Cardinall you that were abroad still in the sunne-shine deuoured it all we that were in the shadow of prisons receiued nothing But in good sooth M. Blackwel to commune a word or two with you as concerning the great burthen of the day and heat you speak of What hath your burthen beene that you should thus brag of it About 20 yeeres since to my remembrance you were imprisoned in London but your brother being the Bishop of Londons Register by fauor procured your release verie shortly after Since which time the greatest heat that for ought I know you haue endured hath ben by the Sunne in the heat of Summer in troubling your walkings and by the fire in winter when you sat too neer it or by your soft bed when you had too many cloaths vpon you For many Priests that way M. Blackwell haue not had your good fortune such hath been the liberalitie of a right good Gentlewoman towards you I write not this to diminish their merits who haue had their measure of afflictions heaped vp vpon them though they haue escaped imprisonment but of all that number none haue had lesse cause as I thinke to complaine than your selfe And therefore if you that had no greater need did draw from the Iesuits Fountains such store of comfort you did poorer men great injurie and it was surely Beneficium male collocatum Almes euill bestowed But all you write hereof are meet fictions and shamelesse vntruths such as few men but your selfe in England would haue presumed to haue vttered much lesse to haue written to Rome where many wise men could easily discerne your folly or rather dishonestie or at the least could not bee long deceiued by you Wee know you are a man that if you bee clapped on the backe and encouraged you dare write anything but otherwise a checke doth daunt and deject you We doe therefore beshrew the Iesuits that haue put this lying spirit and this audaciousnesse into you Marrie I doe much marvaile that you should bee so grossely bewitched by them as not to spare the Catholikes generally throughout England and involue them also within the compasse of your childish calumniations It might haue been sufficient for you M. Blackwell to haue defamed vs and magnified the Iesuits at your pleasure though you had not pinched at them Alas if they forsake vs what shall we doe It seemeth that the Iesuits with their owne patrimonies will be good vnto you but what will become of vs Wee must sticke to the lay Catholikes and relie vpon their pitifull compassion of our necessities or else we must perish After you haue amplified the Iesuits liberalitie in receiuing of Priests from beyond the seas in feeding cloathing horsing and placing them and therevpon doe further adde how they releeue all sorts of distressed poore Catholikes both in prison and out of prison you doe by the way in a short parenthesis preuent this obiection which might haue been made to the no small blemishing of your ridiculous commendation of their said supposed liberalitie For simple men might haue said or thought that by the exceeding bountie of the laie Catholikes there were dailie supplies of money for such godlie vses and that all the Iesuits commendation is or can bee that they deale faithfully in the distributing of it without anie partialitie but as euerie mans necessitie doth require All this you wisely foresaw and therefore you prepared an answeare readie to meet with any such ignorant men of the affaires in England and with their dull conceits that should so much as dreame of anie such matter Tush it is a toy Nam minima sunt quae ex eleemosynts illis obueniunt for they are scarce mites that by almes doth come to their hands it is their owne patrimonies which they imploy to these good purposes It is verie well saide of you good Master Blackwell and like a tall champion And yet shall I be a little bold with you I knew one Catholike that delivered to the Iesuits for such vses as is before expressed 2200 pounds at the least at one time set me such another Iesuit by him gentle Master Blackwell There bee of our companie as I heare that would proceed in this course with you to the value of ten thousand pounds almost within few yeeres which the godlie Catholikes haue deliuered vnto them And could you answere them summe with summe man with man a Iesuit for a Catholike to so great a rate It is wel known that not long since the Iesuits sent for Flanders 2200 pounds which argueth that if you say trulie that they are but mites which they receiue of the laytie here that besides all their said gifts in England they are able to send so round a summe into Flanders their patrimonies thus imploied were exceeding great I praie you Sir in what Countries lay they But you are so hard harted as I maie aske you what I will for you will be sure to answere me nothing These grosse lies serued in Rome for the time and that was all that your Abettors expected leauing you in the briers poore fellow to scamble out as you can B. Enuie is the companion of vertue

but as smoake so shee preuaileth indeede in the beginning and by and by vanisheth the things being lightened wherby she was enuied Therefore I am led into great hope that it will come to passe that the beames of your amplitude will most willingly dissipate by the truth of things now opened those clouds which malitious men haue cast vpon the shining brightnes of our Countrey In explicating of these our iniuries these my silly letters haue proceeded further thā I had determined but not more sharply than I ought I am made vnwise but they that are accusers of their brethren haue compelled me for we should rather haue been commended of them but we goe not a birding for humane praise he shall bee allowed whom God shall commend That vvhich resteth is vve submit vvith the greatest humilitie of mind that vve can the defence of our cause against all assaults of men that thinke not vvell of vs to your protection hoping that your amplitude vvill 〈◊〉 that the licence of slanderers may not so freely run vp and dovvne vn punished as hetherto it hath done to our ignominie the offence of good men the losse of the Catholike faith whose immouable strength that I may vse S. Cyprians words hath hether to rema●ned by Gods grace amongst vs and her stable and vnshaken vertue against all the incursions of b●●king floods against it God preserue your amplitude most long in safetie and health At London the tenth of Ianuarie 1596. The most humble seruant of your most illustrious Lordship George Blackwell P. Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas You are in great hope you say that by this your relation the Cardinall will rest satisfied as well concerning the deserts of the Iesuits as also the aforesaid injurious reports made by some against them Why Maister Blackwell who were you then that you should once imagine that your letter should bee of such credite with his excellencie If you had then been aduaunced to the Archpriestdome such a conceit had beene more tollerable Shall wee thinke so basely of the Cardinals in Rome as that they will be led this way and that way vpon euerie simple priests letter It is certainely a verie shallow imagination or rather if you were a man of any substance verie injurious and scandalous Hope you know Maister Blackwell is fed with promises Either then you had no such hope as you write of or a vaine hope or els you were told of some promise that the Cardinals mind was so vnderstood alreadie that whatsoeuer you should write vnto him in commendation of the Iesuits hee would beleeue you But that which followeth passeth all the rest Consider with me I pray you how discreetly you allude to the Apostles words S. Paule 2. Cor. 12. after his painefull preaching amongst the Corinthians was in his absence greatly depraued by certaine false Prophets who blaming him and his doctrine in sundrie points hee justifieth both and thought it conuenient in respect principally of the weaker sort in that citie to enter into a discourse concerning some mercies of God bestowed vpon him for their good I know a man saith he that was taken vp into the third heauen and into paradice and heard secret words which are not lawfull to bee vttered and thereupon after some other speeches hee commeth to these words Factus sum insipiens vos me coegistis ego enim a vobis debui commendari And now let vs see Maister Blackwell how substantially you knit your matters together that so you might bee countenanced a little with the Apostles words I am become vnwise say you and indeed to take away your allusion they are the truest words in all your letter But you should rather haue said I am become a mad man or a dishonest man or a man bewitched by the Iesuits and not to excuse your bad dealing so grossely to haue abused the Apostles words When Saint Paule vsed that speech he did not taxe the spirit of God which was the authour of them but a little reproueth thereby the weakenesse of some who by his former speeches hee foresaw might deeme amisse of him Now it might be demaunded whether you Maister Blackwell ascribed the like weakenesse to the Cardinall as suspecting that hee might by your letter think you not the wisest man in the world whereas all that you haue said did proceed from the Holy ghost which were a great imputation and to the Cardinals discredite And yet if you did not wilfully or foolishly abuse the Apostles words you could haue no other apt meaning Sed illi me coegerunt But they compelled me Who Maister Blackwell dealt so roughly with you Speake the truth man Was it not Master Garnet that vrged you to write this letter or did some other Iesuit in his name or by his procurement so greatly misuse you If you mean that some of vs the secular Priests had so written of the Iesuits wee confesse it as I haue said before we did so and that most truly But then you doe vs great injurie to say that we compelled you For wee haue beene euer so farre from vrging you to commend the Iesuits as in truth now that you haue done it so eagerly we condemne you for it as hauing lent your penne all the while to Sathan who is the authour of all those glauering vntruths wherewith you meant to haue adorned them But who they were that compelled you it is a point wee care not for and therefore wee will omit it Onely giue vs leaue to conjecture how it came to passe that you amongst all the secular Priests in England should be compelled to take this office vpon you There was nothing laid to your charge for ought wee know that might haue drawne you vnto it You were not then in our opinions a man worth the whistling and a little otherwise regarded of than as of an ordinarie priest amongst vs. Besides you write nothing in your owne defence as of your beeing in any supercoelestiall places or of any such your diuine illuminations wherewith your wise friend hath told you in his Metaphisycall Treatise of his Three farewels that the Iesuits are so fully replenished Againe you were not then our Apostle nor any mans else the paines you haue taken for twentie yeares hath been cheefely with a Gentlewoman or two which cannot demerit the name of an Apostle But peraduenture we haue found you In turning ouer a chapter or two of Saint Paule to find some vaile to couer your folly with you did out of doubt light on that place where hee saith That the care of the whole Church did lie vpon his shoulders Instancia mea quotidiana solicitudo omnium ecclesiarum and so you tooke vpon you as a most principall person that stood in the gap against our enemies to commend the Iesuits euen for conscience sake If still we misse your intent then tell it vs plainly to ease vs of further trouble for we will haue it out before we leaue you