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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01581	Nevv shreds of the old snare Containing the apparitions of two new female ghosts. The copies of diuers letters of late intercourse concerning Romish affaires. Speciall indulgences purchased at Rome, granted to diuers English gentle-beleeuing Catholiques for their ready money. A catalogue of English nunnes of the late transportations within these two or three yeares. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon-Colledge in Oxford.	Gee, John, 1596-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 11706; ESTC S103057	47,344	130

present at Masse or that being a Priest cannot say Masse or cannot say his office or other things to which he was bound By saying fiue Pater nosters and fiue Aue's in honor of the most sacred blood of our Saviour sprinkled in his most holy Passion obtaineth the same Indulgence which he should haue had in fulfilling the aforesayd things Those which at the point of death devoutly say once Iesu with heart not being able to pronounce it with their mouths being therewith contrite not being able to be confessed and communicated obtaine all Indulgences in forme of a Iubilee indulgence 13 Lastly his Holines doth grant over and beside the aboue-named Indulgences and graces of what sort soever they be that it shall be sufficient for any one to haue of the aforesayd holy things either proper or borrowed and if that it happen any do breake or be lost one other may be put in the place of the same and shall haue the same graces and Indulgences and that they doe serue for all places of the world neither are they to be recalled except there be expresse mention made of the aforesaid Chapters Jndulgences granted to a Countesse of this Kingdome by the Intercession of her Sonne Anno Domini 1607. indulgence 1 HIS Holines is pleased to grant that for thirtie yeares following vpon the sixt of February every yeare in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore which is seated vpon one of the seaven Hills called Mons Esquilinus there shall be said that day at the high Altar a Masse for the said Countesse and thereby shall shee obtaine a plenary remission for all her sinnes past And by repeating fiue Pater Nosters fiue Aue's and one Credo c. Shee shall be able her selfe to free a soule that day out of Purgatory It is granted vnto the said honourable Lady that within a private Chappell of the aforesayd Church called the Splendid Chappell of Pope Paolo the V. where he lyeth buried there shall be said vpon the seventh of February during the space of thirtie yeares following Masses for the children and kinred of the said Countesse and by vertue thereof the third part of their sinnes shall be remitted And if they be Confessed and Communicate the same day they shall obtaine a plenary Indulgence indulgence 3 It shall be lawfull for the said Lady and her Children in time of Lent and other times of the yeare in the which white meats be prohibite and forbidden to eate egges cheese milke butter and other such like freely and without scrupulositie and if they be sicke they may also eate flesh indulgence Lastly to the aforesaid Lady for diverse her pious workes especially for her sustentation and maintenance of a Holy man to say Masse daily for the soules in Purgatory shee shall at the houre of her death haue full remission of all her sinnes excesses and trespasses whatsoever A poena culpa c. The like Indulgence hath shee gained for her children and as many of her kinred as shee shall pray for or wish well vnto ❧ Jndulgences granted to the Catholickes of England at the instance of Cardinall Allen. indulgence 1 HIS Holines doth grant to all the kinred and friends of the said Cardinall imbracing the Romish Catholick Religion and saying every day three Pater nosters and three Aue Maries freedome from the paines of Purgatory and every one of them who shall say one Pater noster and one Aue more for the honor of the said Holy Cardinall shall get a plenary Indulgence for his friend indulgence 2 Whosoever shall cause to be said three Masses of the dead in one or more dayes twelue times in the yeare For every time delivereth a soule out of Purgatory according to his owne intention indulgence 3 Whosoever Catholicke of England vpon holy Thursday before Easter and Ascension of our Saviour shall be Confessed and Communicate and shall pray for his Holines for the Cardinalls and for the Exaltation of holy Church gaineth the Indulgences of the blessing of his Holines which he is vsed to giue publickly in that day as if he were present indulgence 4 Whosoever honoureth our Lady with three Ave Maria's in a day more then is inioyned by his Confessor and once in a weeke shall say over this Prayer O domina mea sancta Maria mater Dei pietate plenissima summi Regis filia mater gloriosissima mater orphanorum consolatio desolatorum via errantium salus omnium in te sperantium virgo ante partum virgo in partu virgo post partum fons misericordiae fons salutis gratiae fons consolationis indulgentiae fons pietatis laetitiae fons vitae veniae hodie quotidie in hora exitus mei animam meam corpus meum tibi commendo omnem spem meam consolationem meam omnes angustias miserias meas vitam finem vitae meae tibicommitto Amen Virgo virginum praeclara Mihi iam non sis amara Whosoever performeth the premisses shall receiue many blessings from our Lady in this life and at his death our Lady shall appeare vnto him and comfort him His Holines doth command all those that honor our Lady to carry about with them the booke called Officium B. Mariae Virginis or our Ladyes Psalter and to keepe our Ladyes Beads and Pictures Jndulgences and Pardons granted to Sir Iohn Markam Knight Anno Domini 1608. indulgence 1 HIS Holines doth grant vnto the said Knight for diverse his pious and laudable acts plenary Pardon and Absolution for all his sinnes formerly committed as also Impossibility for the paines of Purgatory promising him a good Angell alwaies to attend him He doth further yeeld that whosoever shall say for the soule of Sr Iohn Markam being dead thrice Pater Noster Aue shall gaine fortie dayes of Indulgence whatsoever sinne he commit indulgence 2 His Holines doth further grant to Katherine and Mary sisters of the said Sr Iohn Markam comming to Confession and Communicating and having any of the Meddalls of this Pardon saying three Pater nosters and three Aue's a plenary Indulgence for the time past And if to the former they adde a De profundis they obtaine Pardon for fiftie dayes after and may deliver a soule out of Purgatory indulgence 3 The said Sr Iohn Markam and his Sisters saying with Devotion at the houre of their death the word Iesus or if either of them cannot for the extreamitie of their traunce pronounce it with the mouth yet if eyther of the parties but thinke of that blessed name they obtaine a plenary Indulgence in forme of a Iubilee ❧ A Pardon granted vnto Master Rawson of England Anno Domini 1608. THe said Mr Rawson having devoted himselfe vnto the service of the blessed Father and Law-maker St Benedict hath obtained by the Intercession of the said St Benedict who did call himselfe from all worldly tumults to serue God alone a plenary Pardon for himselfe and such Indulgence

and punishment due vnto such offendors Money is the Merchant in all the Popes affaires Pope Clement the 6 of his speciall grace hath giuen and granted to all them that giue some part of their substance being confessed and contrite release of the third part enioyned them by their ghostly father and three yeares of pardon with an hundred daies more of pardon with free buriall in places although interdict and of whatsoeuer kind of death they chance to die with 2000 Lents and 85 dayes of pardon c. Pope Alexander the third hath granted to all them that giue ought to the maintenance of the Collegiate Church of Saint Iohn of Beuerley an hundred dayes of pardon and relaxation from the seuenth part of their penance Pope Innocent the fourth hath granted to all the brethren of the same fraternity pardon of all sinnes forgotten and of all vowes broken except the vow vnto the Holy land and at their latter end remission from all their sinnes à poena culpa so that to euery brother and sister of that fraternity being confessed and absolued their Confessor may say on this manner Iohn or Ioan as free I make thee As heart may thinke or eye may see Of this pardon it is also thus written Omnibus in annis qui turbant jura Ioannis Ter execrantur damnati jure probantur The pardon granted to the Fraternitie of S. Cornelis at Westminster for such as giue any thing vnto it commeth in the year to two thousand seuen hundred and threescore dayes for euer to endure To the Fraternity of the Sepulchre of our L. Iesus Christ haue been granted by diuers Popes of Rome especially Pope Vrban the 4 as large Indulgences as any of the former pardons for 20 30 and 40 thousand yeares with odde daies A DISCOVRSE OF ENGLISH NVNNES of late transported within these two or three yeares IT is obserued that cunning Fowlers when they haue caught one bird in their net will make vse of that for a stale to tole-on others And so it is with our Priests Iesuits who entice the daughters of diuers of our Gentry here in England to the Nunneries beyond the Seas They not onely transport them thither as it were with a Writ called Corpus cum causa them with and for their money but also make vse of those that are in the Cage already that they may seeme to sing out the praises of the place where they are And to this end the Mother Abbesse by the direction of an inspecting spirituall father maketh them write ouer letters or rather inditeth letters in their name to the exceeding magnifying of the state wherein they liue that other young Birds of that brood remaining in Englād may be drawn to flie to the same forain nests I haue seene of late diuers letters written from diuers Nunnified Gentlewomen to some of their kindred here in this Kingdome The subiect of which Letters though from diuers hands wholly concerned first the extolling of those places wherein they were setled secondly the earnest requiring and demanding of great summes of money to be sent ouer at appointed times For the former I enuy them not that mopish mōkish foolish paradice into which their ghostly fathers haue brought them but am content they shall solace themselues with the ioy and delight of their Angelicall life The summes of money which passe out of our Kingdome to the Nunneries But as concerning the other I wish it were duly considered of what infinit summes of money passe out of our kingdome yearly to vnderline those said Nunneries I haue beene credibly informed and some of the Priests namely Father Floud Iesuit their prime Procurator and others haue boasted in my hearing that the annuall pensions giuen by our popish Voluntaries to such vses amount to the full value of foure thousand poūds besides the rich portions which many of our English women carry ouer with them and must sacrifice and lay downe to the Lady Abbesse her shrine before they be accepted of or admitted into their religious Cell unde ut ab Inferno nulla est redemptio The places to which our English women are sent The chiefe places of receipt for our English women are Bruxels Griueling and Lisbon The seuerall Orders of Nunnes The seuerall Couents of Nunnes there are of S. Clares order S. Bridgets or S. Brides order S. Katherines order of Sene Iustinians order Mary Magdalens order and Augustines order Those that haue but a little or no portion are packt by their Masters to Griueling to the poore bare-footed Clares Mary Wiltshire the daughter of a poore Taylor whom I spake of in my other Booke being but a seruant and a poore wench she should haue beene seated in this lower form being of the courser thred Those of a moderate portion trudge away to Lisbon where the whole Nunnery is allowed daily 5 crownes and their bread with some other almes vpon occasion bestowed vpon them as when they shew the head of S. Vrsula the bones of S. Bridget and her daughter sundry reliques of S. Augustine the milke of our Lady the blood of Hales with diuers such trinkets and conceits But those that haue a good round summe for their dowry as 1000 or 2000 pounds which some good customers cary hence such are stamped for Bruxels where the hungry Iesuits who sometimes meet with as good booties as the Merchants of Argier dispossesse thē of all worldly cares and vanities and like subtile Alchimists refine them out of their siluer and golden drosse into a more sublime estate and condition I haue seene within these few dayes Letters that came from M.C. E.C. and A I. Nunnes at Bruxels to some of their kindred in England One of them writes for fiue hundred pounds That the Abbesse had done a great fauour in taking so little That the Nunnery is poore and that the Abbesse cannot forbeare the money any longer Pope Innocent the fourth appointed a company of inlarged vncloistred vbiquitary Votists of seuerall sodalities A great many of which we haue latent in our kingdome and of whom the Priests and Iesuits make great vse For these are the scraping Mendicants who bring good store of prouender to the Ignatian cratch Their labor is to beg what they can get for their holy fathers or masters and to doe them all kinds of seruice as to starch their linnen sweepe their chambers make their beds wast their Church stuffe c of which ranke are Mistris Baily in Grayes Inne Lane Clarentia the Maid Mistris Halsal in Bloomesbury Mistris Venetia Mistris Philpot Mistris Fowler Mistris Floud in Holborne Black Besse and others As for the beginning of Nunnes When Pope Iohn the first was made Bishop of Rome Monke Bennet aliàs Benedict after that hee had placed himselfe and his Monkish brethren in a certaine noble famous Cloyster built vpon the Mount Cassinus raised vp also an Order of Nunnes and made his sister Scholastica Abbesse ouer them Their Apparell is commonly a blacke sometimes a gray coat cloake coule and vaile They may not reade the holy Scripture without consent or permission of their superior Their orders are all wrapped full of superstition and hypocrisie seeking their saluation not in Christ through faith but in mens inuentions by foolish and popish workes ❧ A Catalogue of the Names of such young Women as to this Authors knowledge haue beene within two or three yeares last past transported to the Nunneries beyond the seas Mrs Anne M●…nfeild Mistris Anderton Mrs Parker Mrs Anne Gray Mrs. Talbot Mrs. Linsel Mrs. Sydnam Mrs. Percy● Mrs. Gerard. Mrs. Floud Mrs. Ashton Mrs. Greffin Mrs. Halsal Mrs Blimstone Iane Roe Mrs. Eueleigh Mrs Worthington Elizabeth Lusher Bridget Lee a kitching maid sometime dwelling at the vpper end of Holborne Mrs. Molineux Mrs. Ingam Mrs. Webbe Dorothy Stamp Mrs. Ireland Mrs. Blackstones Elizabeth Powell of Holborne Mrs. Ruckwood Mrs. Lathom Mrs. Fortescue Mrs. Winchcombe Mrs. Townely Mrs. Townely Mary Turner Mary Smith Mrs. Iones Mrs. Bishop Mrs. Owen Mrs Clifton Sara Brewer Grace Wire Mrs. Atkins Mrs. Drury Mrs. Stanley Mrs. Sanders Mrs. Conniers Mrs. Abbington Factors employed for the conueying ouer of the said Women to the Nunneries MAster Hughes of London a man very actiue in performing the said businesse Master Palmer Spanish Iohn cōmonly called The Deuils factor or Forty pound Iohn which name was giuen him for cosening two gentlewomē of 40 pounds whom he vndertook to transport Iohn Smith A kinsman of Master Fisher the Iesuit Vdal of Gun-powder Alley Iohn Barbar Iames Hart. Vincent Captaine Dak Sherborne Langton a Lancashire man Master Peeters Stubbes Louet a brother to the popish Goldsmiths FINIS