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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

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

and dress her self above what their Order did permit Her Discourses were full of vanity and worldly matters and of lascivious practises In stead of their Hours so is their Prayer-Book called she always had in her hand some Book or other treating of disorderly Love Some good Nuns did reprove her shewing her how these things were unworthy of her Profession but she did nothing but laugh at them and mock them Those that were with her of her most familiar Friends heard nothing else coming out of her mouth besides vain and dissolute Discourses She prais'd her self to have acquir'd within these few days a Gallant who came to see her every night and taught her the Art of Speaking eloquently They reported this to the Abbess who not being able to apprehend the meaning of it caus'd immediately all her Actions to be taken notice of and made her lie with Company When she saw her self kept so close she made her complaints to her Gallant who induced her to revenge her self and to set the Covent on fire The Enemy gave her the Fire his own self and assisted her to begin at the fairest place of all the Lodgings in the Abby The Fire did take and before any one could perceive it it spread it self from Chamber to Chamber and destroyed that brave Edifice from the Court to the Temple whither all the Nuns repaired as to a place of a holy resuge But O deplorable case as soon as this incendiary went out of a corner The flame went on with such a violence that almost in less then a moment that elegant and magnificent structure together with the Cloysters Chapters Refertories and Dormitories were brought to dust and ashes The poor Nuns were glad to save themselves and leave all the rest to the mercy of the Hames Afterwards they were dispersed from one place to another and beg'd every where some assistance for the restauration of their edisice which will never be so as it was before unless some Royal hand should extend its liberality After this inraged Gentlewoman had asswaged her desire of ●evenge her Parents shut her up ●n another Monastery full of Piety and Devotion After her accustomed insolency her filthy discourses and the Lecture she ordinary had in her lascivious Books forced some devouter Nunns of that Covent to reprove her for her loose behaviour They always set her vanity before her Eyes and endeavoured to make her sensible of the fear of God and of due obedience but it was only labour lost Instead of being beholden to them because of this good and holy advise she by the means of Satan that lay with her made to dy three of the Religious Women of a sudden death All the re●● being amazed at their death and fearing the same danger and mischief presented a Petitio● to the Soveraign Prince of Mere● desiring him most humbly that they instantly might be delivered from this plague The King having understood the deport ment of that young Woman commanded that they should send her back again to Abila that is to her Father and Mother who could not believe what they reported of their Daughter and had a great feeling of sorrow and heaviness in their hearts They had her a while always in their Eye but afterwards thinking it was no action of people fearing God to make no conscience of keeping in the world a professed person they resolved to ●uilt and found in one of ●heir lands a little Abby to ●ut in there Melissa His Ma●esty himself promised to contribute towards the doing of this Abby a thousand pounds While the Abby was a building My Lord and my Lady Abila observed their Daughter in a more strict manner then before They made her ly in a Chamber next to theirs and gave her a Gentlewoman of a good age and behaviour to attend her The mischievous young Lady turn'd her out of her Chamber with adeal of injurie saying it was impossible for her to rest if she was not by her self Those that had their Ears bent to her actions hearing her talking in th●● night time without knowin● to who An inarticulate voi●● gave her answer and an intel●gence of all things she demande● This was told to her Father an● Mother who could not as ye● give credit to these reports bu● once of a sudden entred into he● Chamber for to surprize her But hainous and most horrible case They perceive presently a Pig rolling upon the Belly of their execrable Daughter My intentionis not to write at large of it whether this vision was true or illusory My Lord Abila puts out his hand to catch him he appeared to run from one side of Melissa to the other at last disappeared with the great admiration of the Beholders and to the great grief of her bather but especially of the Mother who having abandoned all patience and crying grieviously began to speak these sad and pitious words O cursed and execrable birth was it so that a House so illustrious and so renouned at all times for its piety should now be dishonoured by thy horrible deeds O good God is that the instruction I gave thee in thy tender days that you should make your self acquainted with the Enemy of our salvation When thou madest profession and was inclosed in the Cloyster didst not thou renounce the World Devil and Flesh and wert not thou espoused to him who shed his precious bloed upon the Tree of the Cross to redeem us from Eternal Death And now having broken thy Vows and not kept the Faith which thou gavest to thy Bridegroom madest thy s●● acquainted with the Prince of da● kness Will it not be said that 〈◊〉 Belly hath born a Socerer Ha●● death shall end my days before should hear any speaking of such scandal Recommend thy self to Go● O thou miserable wretch that the● art beseech his goodness that he may deliver thee from this evill and go to the holy Sacrament which he hath instituted in his Church take up armes to overcome the Enemy of man-kind May be the Son of God shall assist thee and receive thee into his mercy Such and the like Complaints and Reproofs went out of the Mouth of that virtuous and never worthily praised Madam of Abila when her abominable Daughter in the mean time being possessed by the Devil did nothing but laugh and mock at her ●others Words And what then 〈◊〉 swered she is it such a great matter to see Satan in love with 〈◊〉 young Gentlewoman Is it a thing to ●are as that it never happened in the World Doth it necessarily follow that because I talk with a Spirit I gave my self over to him Socrates who was the greatest Man of the past A●ges and who by the testimony of the Oracle was esteemed the wisest had not he a Demon to consult withal was he therefore a Sorcerer or a Conjurer I do not know why you make so great a noise about a thing so common as this is And what will you say

if I be of those Women for the number is infinite that pays homage to the most a bominable parts of a stinking and infected Goat No no Satan hath no power over me The Spirit that visits me every Night is a good Demon who giveth me advise in all things I am to do If you do vex or provoke him you 'l quickly feel his Wrath and Vengeance The Father and Mother after they had made Remonstrances seeing to their great Grief that they but lost their labour resolved to lock her up in a Dungeon if she would not be otherwise and to make her die miserably Moreover they gave her attendance more then usual whereat she was tormented with spite and gave all bad Language to the Gentlewomen that were about her that in short it was a wonder to be●old ber In the mean time it 〈◊〉 out that the Lord Abila made a ●●yage because of some Affairs concerning the Government he ●ad of the City of Mavia He intended but to go and to come again for that he might give Orders about that evil he lest in his ●ouse When he was departed the good and vertuous Lady her ●other was always near her Daughter She incessantly represented to her the Justice and the Love of God invited her to ●onfess her Sin and to beg Mer●y for her Faults all this time this Wretch bore with great impatience their holy admonitions ●ut yet a great deal worse the ●uards which were at the night time about her because they hindred her from conversing freely with her beloved At last sh● not willing any longer to hea● those holy discourses of the Lad● her Mother endowed with P●ety and Religion without regard or respect which we owe to them who brought us forth into the World the detestable Daughter by the instigation of the Devil who already had an intire Possession of her attempted the most horrid deed that can be imagined against which the great Lawgiver Solon would discern no Punishment because he could not perswade himself that a crime of that nature could be committed by the hands of Men. It was about eleven a Clock at Night when the darkness cloatheth all things with silence when this infernal Fury rose out of her Bed she lay in and going out of her Chamber entred into her Mothers Chamber who was in a fast sleep upon her chast and innocent Bed the youngest Son of the six of about five or six years of age was lying at her side The Paricide with a great and large Knife drew near to the Bed and so promptly cuts the Throat of her from whom she had received Life that the poor Gentlewoman could not as much as cry out An old Gentlewoman lay next to her who having leap'd out of the Bed runs hastily towards her Mistress and finding her weltring in her own Blood slang open the Window of her Chamber and began to cry out for help The Domesticks of the Castle came hastily to see what it was and amongst the rest the eldest Son of the House who perceiving this sad and lamentable Spectacle immediately fell down and swooned away Having recovered his Spirits he runs to the next Chamber catches up a Sword to revenge upon this execrable Woman the Death of so good a Mother And he had undoubtedly done it had he not been prevented by some that were thereabouts who laid open to him That in a matter of such consequence the common course of Law was to be taken and not a private Revenge to be used and therefore they forced the Sword out of his hand Nevertheless the grief which he conceived at this sad accident made him vomit out many reproachful Words against the Murtheress and put in him so great a desire of Revenge that he could not be hindred from beating her with his Fists and disfiguring her Face with his Nails and if they had not drawn her away he had certainly strangled her This Wretch was presently secured by a Safe-guard expecting the coming of the doleful Father who came two or three days after But who can sufficiently express his grief to find so sweet a Companion with whom he had lived so long in peace and quietness bereaved of Life by her to whom she gave it O Lord said the sorrowful Gentleman I must needs have greatly offended you for that you permit so many mischiefs to fall out in my House I beseech you O Lord to appease your wrath or else to exercise your vengeance upon my blame-worthy head Alas my poor wife How comes it that I had so little wisdom to leave you here alone without advising with my self about the cruel Designs of this Infernal Fury If I had been here peradventure this execrable Wretch had turned her hands upon me and my death had been a safeguard for your life for the love of which I would have sacrificed my own a thousand times O cruel Viper what Punishment can one invent which should be answerable to thy unnatural deserts Thus this good Gentleman lamented abandoning all patience and moderation and giving himself wholly over to his grief He desembled a just and innocent Job who notwithstanding his cruel and extreme Afflictions did neither curse his Creator nor murmur against Heaven So the true Servants of God patiently suffer Adversitie order'd for them by the same Providence by which they receive their Wealth and Prosperity Afterwards he caused his execrable Daughter to be enclosed betwixt four Walls and a true Information to be taken of the horrid Crime by her committed The Process being made he went to the King of Meroe and to his Privy Council to desire they would give Orders to execute Justice His Majesty having thorowly weigh'd the whol● matter and finding that neither Fire nor Sword nor any other Punishment could expiate the greatness of the Crime sentenced the young Woman to die such 〈◊〉 death as her Father would inflict upon her giving him power either to augment or to lessen the Torments according to his pleasure As soon as ever she was condemned the Evil Spirit advertised her that she should neither eat nor drink any thing but what they that brought it to her should taste before hand And so persisting in her Wickedness threatning to kill her Father and Brother at last she died miserably either by Poyson or by starving her self to death An abominable Cruelty of a Fryer committed for the accomplishing of his detestable Lechery and the ensuing Punishment for it IN the Dominions of the Emperour Maximilanus of Austria was a Convent of Fryers of great esteem near unto which a Gentleman of Quality had his House This had such a great kindness for these Religious Persons that for their sake and Service nothing was so dear to him but he would have parted with it thereby to have a part in their good works fasting and chastizings of themselves And amongst the rest there was a lusty and well shaped Fryer whom the Gentleman chose for his Father

this World Master Capelletto deceiveth a Holy Father by a false confession and dieth and having been a most dissolute Man in his Life was after his death reputed for a Saint and called S. Capelletto ONE Muscato a Frenchman from a rich and a great Merchant being become a Knight was bound by the invitation of Pope Bonifacius and his own promises to go for Tuscany in the company of Don Carlo Brother to the King of France and knowing his affairs as often times those of Metchants are to be here and there extreamly intricated and that he could not extricate himself by lew or suddenly he determinmined to commit the whole matter to some more Persons And he found out means for all his Debtors onely he still remained doubtful unto whom to give a Plenipotence for the receiving of those Monies some few Burgundians owed him The reason of this his musing was for that the Burgundians are very cunning ill conditioned and faithless people and because of this none could fall into his mind whom he thought fit enough to intrust with his mony and to oppose to the cunning malice of the Burgandians Examining and overweighing the matter for a long time at last fell into his mind Siur ●appaletto who often times repaired into his House at Paris This Capp letto was of a very bad life For being a publick Notary he was extreamly ashamed if any of his Indentures or Law Instruments were found otherwise then false To bear false witness was his greatest delight whether he was desired to it or not and at that time the French-men gave great credit to Oaths not regarding whether they were false or no he unjustly won as many Tryals as upon Oath he was desired to declare the Truth he delighted above measure yea studied to breed betwixt friends relations or any other people Mischief Envy Malice and scandall and in how much the consequence was the worser in so much he took a greater pleasure in it Being invited to a murder or any other criminal exploit he without denial and willingly went thither and very often to strike at a man and to kill him also was almost his mean besiness He was the greatest blasphemer of God and for the smallest matter on Earth who was it but he that was outraged beyond measure He never went to Church but with despising and scorning at the Sacraments of the same as things ●il and of no Efficency And as well as he abominably railed ag●inst them so on the other side he usu●lly frequented Taverns and visited the most dishonest and unlawfull places To in vade on goods and to rob me● of all they had was done by him with a Conscience as free as ever an honest and a godly Man distributed some thing to the poor He was a great Glutton and an excessive Drinker so that he never eat or drink but his Stomach turn'd within him A Gamester very expert and a very famous Hocuspocus at throwing of false Dice But not to use so many digressions he was in short the basest Wretch that ever was born Whose Knavery and wickedness was for a long time supported by the riches and the estate of Sir Muscato for whose sake as well as by some private persons with whom he too often plaid in jurious tricks as also by the Court where he always acted a Knave was somewhat respected This same Mr. Capelleto came into Sir Muscatos mind who intirely knowing his manner of Life thought him the fittest Person that ever could be ●ound for his purpose and such a one as the malice of the Burgundians required And so having made him to be cal'd spoke to him thus Mr. Capelleto you know that I am going wholly to depart from hence and having amongst the rest to do with some Burgundians a People much addicted to currynning I do not know unto whem I may so cenveniently give plenipotence of receiving my own from them as to you And since you at present have nothing at all to do if you wil● attend this my concern I l'e make you to have the Favour of the Court and give you a part of what you recover according as I shall deem it expedient Mr. Capelleto who see himself in streights being constrained by necessity without deliberation answered he would willingly obey his Command So they went together and Mr. Capelleto having received his orders and Favourable Letters from the King departed from Mr. Muscato in his way for Burgundy where he was known by no Body There contrary to his Nature he with great Modesty and a deal of Civility began to recover the moneys and to do that which he was sent for thither So doing he repaired to a House of two Brothers of Florence to Lodge there these were Usurers and for the Love of Sir Muscate they Honoured him very much being there it hapned he fell Sick to whom these two Brothers caused presently some Physicians to come and Nurses to serve him there was nothing wanting whatsoever was requisit for the recovery of his Health But all this help availed nothing for the good Gentleman who was already old and had lived very disorderly grew according to the saying of the Physicians every day worse and worse and was already combating with Death which these two Brothers were exceeding sorry for And one day being very near to the Chamber where Mr. Caselleto lay Sick began to talk between themselves saying one to another what shall we do with this Man We have a very bad business under our hands For if we put him out of Dores as he is now Sick and Weak a great murmuring of People will arise neither will it be an Argumient of great wisdom in us but a manifest sign of folly if after we have first received him curteously and then made him to be attended and carefully to be cured should now without having received any displeasure at his hands so suddenly throw him out of our House in this weak and deadly condition On the otherside he is a Man so wicked that he will not yield to go to confession neither can be perswaded to receive any of the Sacraments of the Church and if he dies without confesion there is not one Church will bury him so that he must be thrown into some hole after the manner of a Dog And if he should confess his Sins are so great and horrible that there is none like to be found for which sake the Priest that will hear him if he would shall not be able to absolue him and he not being absolved shall nevertheless be thrown into some Dunghil And if this should fall out the People of this Country seeing this either because of our calling which they judge to be unlawful and every day speak against it or else for desire of robbing should make a rumour saying regard not these Lombardian Dogs which could not be Buried in the Church and how can we or how should we tolerate them any longer