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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01576	The foot out of the snare with a detection of sundry late practices and impostures of the priests and Iesuits in England. VVhereunto is added a catalogue of such bookes as in this authors knowledge haue been vented within two yeeres last past in London, by the priests and their agents. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, of Exon-Colledge in Oxford.	Gee, John, 1596-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 11701; ESTC S103001	57,356	118

to captiuate their wits wils and spirits to such a foraine Idoll Gull composed of palpable fiction and diabolicall fascination whose enchanted Chalice of heathenish Drugges and Lamian superstition hath the power of Circes Medaeas cup to metamorphize men into Bayards and Asses The silly doting Indian Nation fall down and perform diuine adoration to a rag of red cloth Damianus à Goes de mor. Gent. l. 1● The fond and braine-sick Papists of our Nation doo little lesse when they adore the very Cope and Vestments belonging to Bishops and inferior Priests where they lie alone falling down to them and kissing them But to view their new-intruding Hierarchy a little neerer Me thinks the Ministers of the Prouince of Canterbury now meeting in Conuocation are very forgetfull in suffering themselues to be destitute The new Arch-deacons of London and Lancashire of a worthy member the new-stampt Arch-deacon of London M. Collington who by the experience he hath had in exercising Iurisdiction ouer his fellow-Priests as also in conuenting the Laicks is able if hee were called by authority to the Synod to giue very good aduice for reformation or deformation of the Church of England and laying it vnder the Popes sacred foot The like defect also is in the Prouince of York by the absence of the Arch-deacon of Lancaster M. Cli●ton No doubt these two new Chips clouen out of the old Block of Rome are the onely sound Timber to build vp our Church or rather to make wormewoodden Images for besotted Laicks to adore I now hasten to acquaint you with another of their tales and it is a crafty one A poore old man in Rome lost his vpper garment and beeing vnable to buy another he came to the shrine of the twenty Martyrs and prayed alowd vnto them to help him to rayments At his departure he met with one at the very Church dore a Priest who deliuered vnto him from the Pope a Purse that had in it to the value of some twenty pound in siluer The poore man amazed and not knowing what he meant hauing neuer before in all his life-time had the carriage of so much money the Priest told him Our holy Father the Pope commanded me to deliuer it vnto the next man I met going into the Church-dore who shall haue need of it and bid him still pray to the Martyrs The poore man returnedioyfully to his home and euer after visited the place once a day Thomas Lee in Tract de Inuocat et Adorat Sanctor Cap. 14. page 212. I see no reason why this should come into the Legend of strange Narrations for that the Popes eares might easily bee so long by the Priests information without any inspiration from heauen as to take notice of the poore mans desire who belike was not so cold for want of his coat as hee was warme with zeale to cry alowd for a new But this by the way I learne the Popes price of Martyrs namely that they are worth pounds apiece Well might the Pope haue rated them at a higher value whenas he yeerely nay daily getteth farre more in their names by bartering their pretended Supererogations of Martyrs and Saints In the yeere of our Lord 1612. one Lucia an Italian Virgin came to a Towne called Multauia in Bohemia where is taught the Waldensian doctrine first preached to them by one Iohn Hus and by him generally receiued wherby the traditions of the Romane Church are at this day there vtterly neglected This Virgin vnderstanding of diuers their strange opinions that they denied Purgatory Prayer for the dead Benedictions and hallowings of Water the obseruing of Fasting daies and the like shee spake somewhat disgracefully of their Religion whereupon shee was adiudged and appointed by the Magistrate to bee burned in a field neere vnto the Towne where shee then remained But the maid not willing to bee led by them vnto the place of Execution they began to tie ropes about her and so to force her along but shee often crossing herselfe and inuocating the blessed Virgin Mother of God could not bee remooued by the strength of ropes or Oxen or any power they vsed At length shee vanished from them and by a Miracle was brought vnto a Nunnery about an hundred miles off that place where to this day she liueth to praise God for her deliuerance Richard Stannihurst in the Preface of his Book intituled The Principles of Catholique Religion Hee that made this tale had a Chimaera in his braine Desinet in piscem mulier formosa superne Hee had heard of an old Fable of the Gentiles of the Image of Aesculapius Vid. Liuium de Vest virgine that was to bee brought into the City of Rome but by no means would it stirre though drawne with ropes till there came a Vestall Virgin that with her girdle drew it after her This botcher patcheth such a one together and fittens that in stead of an immoueable Image drawne by a Virgin heere is a Virgin that could not bee drawne like the Image And so he got a piece of bread and cheese and came away A tale to some such purpose is repeated of one Clarence a sacred Virgin by the said Author Stannihurst vt sup the one as well to bee beleeued as the other yet of both I say to the Relator Cui tua non odium velcui portenta cachinnum Non moueant posthac is mihi prodigium est One George Sephocard a Sc●…ish Protestant happened to trauaile into France with a Brother of his where seeing them one day goe in Procession this George scoffed at them but accordingly he was rewarded for presently he fell to a pitifull screeching and so died The night after his death Iohn Sephocard his brother and companion into that Countrey had a pitifull Vision He thought hee saw a thousand Diuels in hideous and vgly shapes tormenting his dead Brother But he hauing had a faire warning thereby changed his former Religion and course of life and became Catholick F. Baker in his Watch-word page 20. Heere is a Procession of lies one after another ordine longo But yet that a man should smile at their Procession is not strange nor that hee should die no maruell nor that another should dreame no great wonder but they had best take heede how they apply these narrations of vnexpected deaths lest the Story of Black-Friers be aswell inuerted vpon them Oswald Mulser in the County of Tiroll neere Oënipont would not be contented but with a Priestly Host hee receiued it no sooner into his mouth but hee beganne to sink into the ground which swallowed him aliue Fitz-Simon in his Iustification and Exposition of the Sacrifice to the Masse page 100. This is a meere fiction intended for the magnifying of the Priest-hood it is the steame of their impious policy adterrorem incutiendum et fucum faciendum populo to gull terrifie and amaze the simple ignorant people and by bringing them into admiration of their Priest-hood