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A01748	A true relation of the faction begun at VVisbich by Fa. Edmonds, alias VVeston, a Iesuite, 1595. and continued since by Fa. Walley, alias Garnet, the prouincall of the Iesuits in England, and by Fa. Parsons in Rome, with their adherents: against vs the secular priests their bretheren and fellow prisoners, that disliked of nouelties, and thought it dishonourable to the auncient ecclesiasticall discipline of the Catholike Church, that secular priests should be gouerned by Iesuits.	Bagshaw, Christopher, d. 1625?; Watson, William, 1559?-1603.	1601 (1601)	STC 1188; ESTC S100519	61,716	102

mortification had bin the only thing he aymed at Marry with all this hypocrisie he deceiued none but such as did not looke more narrowly into his proceedings a righter Pharisee cannot easily be found In the middest of his humilitie nothing troubled him more then that maister Doct. Bagshaw being a Doctor of Diuinitie should haue place before him at the table insomuch as the better to content him we were driuen to place him at the tables end with him The Iesuites abroad hauing gotten the greatest part of cōtribution for prisoners into their hands much was sent to be distributed by this good father wherewith through his vnequall distribution of it he laboured nothing more then how he might draw and binde men vnto him to make his side and faction strong inough against the time he had occasion to vse them These many other such his vnder-hand practises being well discerned by maister Metham and others he the sayd maister Metham was very much mooued and did greatly lament the same This maister Metham was a vertuous learned Priest who when he was prisoner in the Tower vowed to become a Iesuite as admiring that calling because he was not acquainted with their courses but afterwards at his being in Wisbich he found by wofull experience that all was not gold that glistered Sundry times he hath sayd to some of our company not without teares in his eyes Keepe this fellow downe asmuch as you can meaning Fa. Weston by labouring to be popular he becōmeth the ringleader of all mutinies in the house which in time will breede faction against you This house will come to vtter shame through his folly I pray God that I dye before it commeth to passe for I do foresee such a mischiefe Thus maister Metham Cardinall Alane when the Iesuites first came into England told sundry of his friends that certainely they the said Iesuites would rayse great garboyles in this countrey by seeking to disgrace secular priests and to aduance themselues aboue them He had great experience of the ambition which raigned in many of that societie and therefore indeuoured as he might conueniently to represse that humor in our English Iesuites which kept them within some reasonable compasse whilest he liued But afterwards they heard no sooner of his death and shortly after of the death of Doctor Lewys Bishop of Cassane of whome they stood in some feare suspecting he should haue bin made Cardinall in the others place but their insolencie burst foorth as a flame that had bin long suppressed They depraued both those worthy persons now dead very slaunderously charging the Cardinall to haue bin but a simple man and of no great worth and the Bishop to haue bin a factious person in Rome and all this forsooth because sometimes they both had crossed sundry of their lewd attempts Fa. Weston at Wisbich as a man who had long trauailed with his imaginary discipline hearing of these mens deaths and being as he thought backed sufficiently by his confederates began to bring forth the fruits thereof He lifted vp his coūtenance as if a new spirit had bin put into him and tooke vpon him to controll and finde fault with this and that as the comming into the Hall of a Hobby-horse in Christmas affirming that he would no longer tolerate these and those so grosse abuses but would haue them reformed At this his pride and vanitie some of vs greatly maruayled but the reason thereof which we then knew not was this We were then prisoners in the house to the number of 34. whereof by his foresayd practises he had allured vnto him 19. who by his direction had chosen him to be their head and giuen him the name of their Agent Whereupon this grand senior thus promoted withdrew himselfe to his chamber by the space of a fortnight of purpose as we afterwards perceiued to rowze himselfe and to deuise some such new orders and lawes as he thought most conuenient for the gouernment of his subiects which being resolued vpon by him he did dedicate them vpon Candlemas day to the blessed Virgin as himselfe afterwards confessed You must vnderstand that he did not proceede thus farre without Fa. Garnets priuity and consent Howbeit his sayd subiects being ignorant thereof they poore fooles must needs write a letter to his fatherhood to craue his approbation of their sayd election Besides Fa. Weston had to practised vnder hand with some of his sayd 19. subiects as this his new preferment must be obtruded vpon him whether he would forsooth or not And accordingly the sayd letter was framed signifying to maister Garnet that he the sayd maister Weston was as a man taken with the palsey of the mind and would in no wise accept of their election except that he by his commaunding authoritie would bid him rise vp and walke before them in the way of the righteous With this letter they sent also the sayd lawes or rules being in number 22. where of some of them were ridiculous and some of them very scandalous These things as we coniecture for the distinct times were kept close from vs being sent to Fa. Garnet the new Agent after he had withdrawne himselfe from the rest of the company by the space of a fortnight directed maister Southworth a Priest and our fellow-prisoner vnto maister Bluet to signifie vnto him that Fa. Weston desired him to allot to him and to his company being 19. the high table in the Hall and that leauing the ordinary Kitchin to them he the sayd maister Bluet with the rest but twelue in number would be content to prouide themselues of another What meane you by this message quoth maister Bluet Cannot the Hall and Kitchin serue vs all now as heretofore they haue done No sayth maister Southworth we are determined 20. of vs to draw our selues into a more strict order of life and haue therefore resolued to keepe commons together amongst our selues thereby the better to auoyd such sinnes as whoredome drunkennes and dieing the same being too ordinarie with some in this house What quoth maister Bluet hath Fa. Weston sent you vnto me with this message and he answering yea He the sayd maister Bluet went to Fa. Weston who iustified the sayd message sauing that he qualified the mentioning of the sayd crimes with humme and hah saying at the last as though butter would not haue melted in his mouth indeed we reuerence you and maister Doct. Bagshaw but amongst the rest there are some enormities which we would be glad to auoyd and do therefore purpose to impose vpon our selues a more strict order leauing you and others to follow such courses as you shall thinke good With this his answere maister Bluet being somewhat moued Haue you kept your chamber sayth he all this while for this Shall we haue a new Donatus amongst vs to reuiue againe that pestilent schisme Can you name any in the house worse then your selues Well well I pray you leaue this course it is naught Be

burst asunder all the bands of honestic and modestie and carry away headlong many with the force thereof That if this ambition do remayne vnpunished the age that is to come shall see that it will bring into bondage not only Prelates but the very Princes and Monarches themselues whom yet she flattereth in her infancie They beseech the Pope that he would lay the axe to the roote of the tree and cut off this pride of the Societie spreading it selfe farre and neere least if once it arme it selfe with the authoritie of his Holynes it powre forth a full reuenge vpon all others to their destruction and make an infinite slaughter and massacre of soules which they haue already begun to attempt in wretched England to the great decay of the common cause That the Priests of England can finde in their banishment no harbour safe enough from this their ambition vnlesse they haue first receiued the marke of this beast in their forehead That the Pope can commaund nothing in all his Mandates but the Iesuites finde meanes to frustrate it by the secular power to the great scandall of many That the reuenge of these Iesuites hath neuer an end but with the death of their aduersaries and their reproch after their death That the Iesuites meaning them of Rome do vse to intercept all manner of letters of all men whosoeuer not forbearing the packets neither of the Cardinals nor of Princes N. calleth God and his Angels to witnes that the greatest part of the Nobilitie and Clergie in England both at home and abroade do bewaile with sighes and teares their miserable estate in that they suffer more grieuous things vnder these new Tyrants the Iesuites then in their dayly persecutions That the persecution of the Iesuites is more grieuous to the Catholicks then of the hereticks in England in this respect because they suffer vnder them for their vertue but vnder these in the name of treacherie and vnfaithfulnes The Iesuites haue so persecuted some Priests that are now Martyrs as that their death hath bin imputed partly to the hereticks and partly to the Iesuites That it is a knowne position among the Iesuites diuide and gouerne and therefore those Fathers at Rome do both stirre vp and maintayne dissensions That the Iesuites Confessors are wont to abuse the consciences of their penitentiaries to their owne commoditie That of 300. Priests which haue entred into England scarce sixe or seauen haue fallen away But of twentie Iesuites eight haue reuolted which is a notable slaunder seeing there can not be found one of them to haue reuolted which were sent in by the Societie That the Iesuits in the Low-countries are so cruell as that they haue not only brought many excellent men to a miserable end but haue reproched them after their death That nothing doth so vex the English Catholicks as the contempt and hatred of the President that now is and the slaunderous reproch falsely imputed to the renowned Cardinals Tolet and Alexandrinus That the Iesuites do eagerly wayt for the death of the Pope and of the renowned Cardinall Tolet that they might bring vpon all those that slaughter and bloudshed which they long since assayed against as many as haue dared to oppose themselues against their tyranny The chiefe remedie wherein the state of all controuersies at Rome dependeth is that the affaires of all the Colledges be committed to an assemblie of honorable Cardinals that are regular both to looke into and to determine of For there is nothing that these tyrants more feare then that they should be compelled before the Cardinals to render an accompt of their dealings Neither doth any thing giue them greater libertie of their insolencie then that they are free welnie from being called before any iudgement seate See you see quoth N my letters secretly and effectually because the enemy if he be not preuented flattereth himselfe in an assured hope of a Monarchie While the iron is hote strike worke out your busines while your Patrones liue Your enemies seeke but to gayne the time and if they once set free themselues from the streights wherein they are yet incombred they will belieue me domineere most tyrannously The Iesuites seeke also the gouerment of the Colledge at Doway neither feare they any bridle wherewith they can be curbed but only that the Iesuite Rectors should be made subiect to the regular Congregations The Iesuites by their Machiuilian practises go about to procure the dissolution of the Colledge at Doway The tyranny and insolencie of the Iesuites is horrible especially of those that liuing in Belgia do reproch disgrade depriue whome they list and I feare quoth he do indirectly betray some vnto the enemy The Censure of Paris before mentioned for our instification in suspending our obedience to maister Blackwels authoritie vntill we knew his Holynes further pleasure IN the yeare of our Lord 1600. vpon the third day of May it was proposed to the faculty of the Diuines of the Vniuersity of Paris that by the letters of a most illustrious Cardinall an Ecclesiasticall Superior was constituted in a certaine Kingdome with the title and dignity of an Arch-priest to haue authority and iurisdiction ouer all other Priests residing in that Kingdome This Cardinall did also declare in those his letters that he did it according to the wil and good liking of the Pope Notwithstanding many of these Priests refused to subscribe to the authority of the sayd Arch-priest before he had obteyned letters from the Sea Apostolick conteyning the tenor of his confirmation as well because that kind of gouernment was altogether new in Gods Church and hitherto neuer heard of that an Arch-priest should haue charge of a whole Kingdome and such iurisdiction ouer euery Priest in that Realme then also for that it seemed to them by certaine words of the Cardinals letters that the Arch-priest and his authority was graunted by false information then lastly because they noted great partiality in the choyse of the Arch-priest and of his counsellors Vpon which and some other reasons these Priests sent messengers to the Pope for laying open vnto him these their difficulties and therewithall to signifie their greatest readynes as in this matter so euermore in all other to obey his Holynes The Arch-priest and those who are of his side accuse the other Priests of schisme in that they deferred to obey the Cardinals letters which moreouer he sayd were written according to his Holynes minde and pleasure The Question then is whether these Priests be schismaticks and if not whether they did commit at the least some grieuous sinne The head and chiefe men of the faculty of Diuinity in Paris chosen out of the whole company assembled together in the house of the Senior Bedle in the yeare and day aboue written after full and maturest consideration had of the matter gaue this censure First that those Priests who vpon the aboue-named causes deferred to obey were no schismaticks Secondly that they committed no