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A08690	The vnmasking of all popish monks, friers, and Iesuits. Or, A treatise of their genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state Together with some briefe obseruations of their treasons, murders, fornications, impostures, blasphemies, and sundry other abominable impieties. Written as a caueat or forewarning for Great Britaine to take heed in time of these romish locusts. By Lewis Owen.	Owen, Lewis, 1572-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 18998; ESTC S113782	125,685	175

your Iudgement to imagine what torments these two Friers suffered Frier Gregorie of the Order of S. Augustine was also captiuated in the Gallies Lewis Soarez a Trinitarian Frier hauing been tortured with a thousand torments in prison was afterwards banished And Frier Anthony Senenses was constrained to lurke secretly in hills woods and wildernesses to auoid the bloudie rage of this Philip King of Spaine And briefly thousands of others who were either drowned strangled empoisoned imprisoned or constrained to abandon their naturall Countrey friends goods lands and reuenues Againe many of them were compelled to flie into England France and other Countries who declared the cruell barbarisme of the Spaniards But for what occasion or to what end were all these cruelties committed Because these men were true Patriots and knew the qualities and nature of a Spanish Vsurper and therefore left they should moue the people to recouer their liberty hee vsed them thus I speake not of an infinite number of the heads of their Nobilitie wherewith the gates of their Townes and Cities were stuffed and replenished daily Yea but hee hath fully gratified all those that were fauouring him in the vsurpation of the Kingdome Surely according to their merits and the bounty of a Spaniard a people who most commonly loue Treason but hate the Traitors when their owne turnes are serued Hee made them know when they demanded recompence for their seruice that albeit they had sold and betraied their Countrey yet he was nothing in their debt and that a man was ill aduised to buy that which is his owne Behold the faire reward of their treacherie and the good paiment of their sale Christian Var de Vegua Gouernour of the Castle of Saint Iohn experienced this to be true although too late who for a good annuall pension promised to him during his life deliuered that place to the Spaniard and in stead of enioying this promise he was incontinently banished for ten yeeres into Affrica to make warre against the Moores And if you desire to know further hereof behold the request which those traytors presented vnto the sayd King Philip beseeching him to keepe his promise You shall find it in print in the later end of the Iustification of Don Antonio the true King of Portugall touching the warres which he made against the same King Philip so that if hee left any hauing chased away the rest of the Nobilitie or Gentrie hee and his Successors haue held them short that they are as it were in captiuitie and continually in danger of the Inquisition which is as bad if not worse than vnder the Turks captiuitie Were these the effects of a King terming himselfe so great a Catholike was this the reuerence he beareth to the holy Apostolike See was this to shew himselfe The sole Protector and Pillar of the Christian Church as he impudently vaunted in his titles Was this to be the true Pastor of the people as Homer writeth of the Prince Agamemnon is this to be like the good Housholder was this to vanquish his will to handle those rigorously whom he had conquered by force of armes No no and therefore as Demosthenes heretofore perswading the Athenians to resist Philip King of Macedonia exhorted them not only to repulse the Vsurper but consequently to chase and banish out of their Citie certaine Orators whom by rewards he had drawne vnto his faction In like manner I aduise you my louing Country-men to auoid and eschew future inconueniences to exile and cashiere from you these pernitious Iesuites Monks Friers and Seminarie Priests if they will not amend contenting themselues to preach the Gospell of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ as he hath enioyned his Apostles whose Imitators and Successors they saine themselues to be Goe saith he thorowout the whole world and preach the Gospell vnto euery creature he commandeth them not to meddle with the estates of Kings and Princes to seduce their people or to cause them to reuolt against them or to cause their doctrine to be obserued by armes committing cruell and bloudie butcheries and inhumane man-slaughters or to murder Kings and Princes or to blow vp houses of Parliaments and the whole estate of a Kingdome as these your traiterous Iesuits Monks and Friers haue to you and your fore-fathers no small dishonour and damage done or at least-wise would haue done The Lord of his infinite goodnesse and mercy illuminate your vnderstanding that you may truly know him and perfectly loue and embrace the light of the Gospell And that for Christ Iesus sake our Lord and only Sauiour To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be giuen and ascribed all Honour and Glory Laud Praise Dominion Power and Dignitie from henceforth for euermore Amen FINIS

Institutor of the Grandimontensian Monks was one Stephen a Noble-man borne in Auernia in France who gaue them much about that time large possessions and reuenues to maintaine themselues withall The Cistercienses or Bernanardin Monks And about the very selfe-same time one Robert Abbot of Molismenia perceiuing how the old Benedictin Monks had then almost quite left and forsaken the ancient rule and discipline that Benet had giuen them accompanied with more than twentie other Monks repaired to a place called Sistercium in Burgundie being an horrible stupendious place and not inhabited and there erected another new Family and called them Sistercienses of the place he built his first Abbey In the yeare of our Lord MXCVIII The Bernardin Monks Saint Bernard being a man nobly descended in Burgundie and one that before that time had vndertaken this Monastical life at Cistercium aforesaid became very famous as wel for his learning as for his sanctitie of life and therefore was chosen to bee Abbat of the Abbey of Claranallensis which Abbey one Robert a Noble-man of that Countrey had then lately built and then began the Order of the Monks of Saint Bernard but to say the truth the Cistercensian Monks and the Bernardine are all one sauing a little in their habite for the Bernardins weare a blacke gowne ouer a white coat and the Cistercians all white and yet the Bernardins weare most commonly euery festiuall day the habite of the Cistercians to shew the beginning of their Order as Seb. Franckin witnesseth Seb. Fran. Chron. folio 470. These Bernardine Monks haue their Abbeyes for the most part in some pleasant valley neare to some riuer side accommodated with woods and groues as an ancient Poet well obserued in these verses Semper enim valles Syluestribus vndique cinctos Arboribus Diuus Bernardus amaenaque prata Et fluuios c. amabat That is to say In valleyes and groues neare some riuer side The Bernardine Monks doe loue to reside The Celestine Monks About some fourescore and foure yeares after one Petrus Moronēus who had beene formerly an Anchorite and afterwards Pope and called Caelestinus the fift erected an Order of Monks and called them Caelestini His Order was confirmed in the Councell of Lyons by Pope Gregory the tenth who gaue them many priuileges and indulgences they obserue the rule of Saint Benet An. Dom. 1294. This Sect or Family did afterwards increase so fast that within few yeares hee himselfe did consecrate six and thirty Cloisters for them in Italy wherein were six hundred Monks afterwards they came to inhabite all Christendome Their first comming into England was in the yeare 1414. Surius in Caelestino tom 3. de vitis Sanctorū Vide Tho. Walsingham George Lilyus and Balaeus Centuria 7. cap. 50. in Appendice There is also a Confraternitie or Brotherhood of this Order Their Institutor gaue his Monks among other things this caueat Tunc Caelestinus eris si caelestia mediteris that is to say Thou shalt be a Caelestin in deed that is a heauenly man if thou wilt alwaies meditate vpon heauenly things They weare a kinde of a Skie-coloured habite ouer a white coat and doe neuer or seldome eat flesh and haue their Monasteries in some fertile and pleasant soile and most commonly a mile or two from any Towne or Citie Of the Gilbertin Monks and Nuns THe Institutor of this Sect was one Gilbert of Sempringham a Knights sonne borne at Sempringham in Lincolne-shire his fathers name was Iocelin This Gilbert was a man very deformed in his body but very studious and learned and withall very superstitious as most men then were After such time that hee had spent some certaine yeares in France in study he repaired backe to England vnto whom many people resorted by reason of the great fame of his holy life And in a very short time he erected thirteen Cloisters of Friers and Nunnes whereof the chiefest was at Sempringham Anno 1148. wherein were as Balaeus witnesseth seuen hundred Friers and eleuen hundred Nunns Capgrauus Scropus in Chron. And about the yeare 1148. he went againe into France to Pope Eugenius the third who then liued at Auignon to haue his Order confirmed who admiring much at his deuotion and forwardnesse confirmed his Order From thence he came backe to England and gaue his Friers and Nunns a Rule which he had formerly taken out of Saint Benet and Saint Augustines Rules Of these Religious Votaries chastitie one Nigellus Wireker an ancient Poet wrote these ensuing verses Nigellus in speculo stultorum Quid de Sempringham quantùm aut qualia dicam Nescio nam nouares me dubitare facit Hoc tamen ad presens nulla ratione remittam Nam necesse nimis fratribus esse reor Quod nunquam nisi clam nulla sciente sororum Cum quocunque suo fratre manere licet Thus I finde these Verses of Sempringham Englished many yeares since What should I much prate An order it is begun of late Yet will I not let the matter so passe The silly Friers and Nunnes alasse Can haue no meeting but late in the darke And this you know well is a heauie warke The same Poet wrote likewise these Verses Canonici Missam tantùm reliquumque sorores Explent officij debitajura sui Corpora non voces murus distinguit in vnum Psallant directo Psalmatis absque mero That is to say The Monks sing the Masse the Nuns sing the other Thus doe the Sisters take part with the Brother Bodies not voices a wall doth disseuer Without deuotion they sing together And of the Nunnes he wrote thus Harum sunt quaedam steriles quaedam parientes Virgineo tamen nomine cuncta tegunt Quae pastoralis baculi dotatur honore Illa quidem melius fertiliusque parit Vix etiam quaenis sterilis reperitur in illis Donec eius aetas talia posse negat That is to say Some Nunnes are barren and some bearing best Yet all are Virgins at principall Feasts She that is Abbesse as doth her befall In fruitfull bearing is best of them all Scarce one shall you finde among the whole rout That is vnfruitfull till age comes about But now adaies God be blessed this Sect among others is quite extinguished for since the dissolution of the Abbeys here in England which was in the reigne of King Henry the eight or to say the truth since the beginning of the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth these Gilbertins were neuer heard of Of the Bethlemit Friers Balaeus in Appendice ABout the yeare of our Lord 1257. the Bethlemit Friers began to peepe into the world Their first dwelling was at Cambridge and their habite was like the Dominican Friers sauing that these did weare a starre in their brest wrought vpon their habite in memoriall of the Starre that did appeare at the time that our Sauiour was borne in Bethlem There were so many Sects of Monks Friers and Nuns at that time vpon a sodaine

Crudum delitias saepe vocamus olus That is to say From loose Franciscans we distinguisht are Not one iot in our habit but our fare To feed on flesh in flesh-daies are their wishes Gammons of Bacon are their daily dishes Venison they deuoure both sod and rost And bak't meat of all sorts them pleaseth most With herbs we stay our stomacke when it barkes And raw thin broth our Capons is and Larkes But they did not long perseuer in this austere kinde of life for now adaies all their delight is to fare deliciously and to cram their fat guts with the best dainties the Country yeelds and weare Shooes and Stockins These Cormorants and fat-bellied Mates will preach Christ crucified poore naked and hungry and command fasting and other Christian exercises but themselues will neuer practise any one of them This Order of the Obseruant Minorite Friers was confirmed by the Councell of Constance the Sea of Rome being vacant and afterwards by Pope Eugenius the fourth Pius the second Paul the third Sixtus the fourth Innocentius the eighth and Alexander the sixt Petrus de cruce in Anti●… inor●…a Afterwards through the opinion that men had of their singular sanctity or holinesse they beganne to increase wonderfully in so much that within a short time they had in Italy twenty Cloisters wherein were six score Friers and in the latter time of Bernardin who was of their Order and a very famous man in those daies they had three hundred Cloisters and were more than fiue thousand Friers From Italy they came to dwell in all the Townes and Cities of Christendome yea out of Christendome among Turkes and Iewes in all quarters King Edward the fourth brought them into England and King Henry the seuenth augmented their number in whose time they had six famous Cloisters in England whereof Christ-Church in London was one Baleus Polydor lib. 7. cap. 4. This Schisme betweene the Minorite Friers was prophesied as I haue read by one Guido a Frier of their Order long before that it began Their Habit is of a more darker gray than the Conuentuall Friers But now there are many other Sects of Friers that challenge Saint Francis for their Patron whereof the Capuchins Recollects Penitentiarians and the French Franciscans whom they report Saint Lewis King of France to haue erected are the chiefest Euery one of all which doth challenge to be of the institution of Saint Francis and to liue according to his Rule and Discipline And doe exclaime one against another most shamefully in so much that there is no more loue and amity betweene them than betweene Christians and Turkes no not so much for Christians and Turkes will conferre and trafficke yea sometimes eat and drinke together But Saint Francis his holy ghostly children will not so much as speake a good word one of the other The other Sect of Friers that claimed Francis for their Patron and Instituter who were called Amadeani Minimi Reformati fratres de Euangelio Chiacini Paulini Bosiani Gaudentes fratres de portiuncula c. are now for the most part either vnited to the Obseruants Recollects Penitentiarians or Capuchins or else quite dissolued and abolished Those Friers that Francis did institute as I finde in their owne Bookes were inioyned to labour for their liuing as appeareth by his last Will and Testament but now a daies these lazy Lubbars scorne to worke and liue by begging yea it is no lesse than Heresie to say that Friers must worke Their Patron among other things commanded them to weare but one Frocke or Coat and not to carry either Bag or Wallet and yet these holy men neuer goe abroad without a great Wallet ouer their shoulders as big as a Sack I speake not of their sleeues which are as wide as they may well carry a dozen of white bread in either of them And besides the Capuchins Recollects and Penitentiarians doe weare short Clokes ouer their Frocks And withall euery one of them all hath two Coats or Frocks to shift himselfe withall when he pleases Those Friers that are called Conuentuales or non obseruantes doe weare a long whitish gray Coat or Frocke close before downe to their heeles with a Hood or a Cowle to couer their heads the lower part reaching downe round about their shoulders and brests and ouer this Habit they weare a Girdle made of a Cord with many knots tied on it which they call Saint Francis Girdle which is a holy thing as they say Vnderneath this Habit they weare Doublets Breeches Shirts gray Stockins and Shooes They haue Couents in Italy and Germany and in no other Countrie and Lands and reuenues to maintaine themselues and doe very seldome beg publikely but priuately and therefore haue all things that they want brought vnto them The obseruant Franciscans doe weare the selfe same kinde of Habit sauing that it is a little a more darke gray and professe as I told you before to leade a more austere life than the Conuentuals for they haue no Lands or Reuenues other than the Wallet or Scrip neither will they touch any money but they can command money at their pleasure as I haue formerly told you They flourish in Italy Spaine France Netherland and many other Prouinces The Penitentiarian Franciscan Friers doe affirme that Saint Francis did institute three Orders that is to say The Obseruant Franciscans themselues and an Order of Nuns which are called Clarissae or Claristae who take their names of one Clara that was a very superstitious woman and Francis his Mate These Penitentiarian Friers haue but very few Couents and those in Italy and France They pretend to doe penance for themselues and for others especially for their Benefactors and such as are married folkes They weare no linnen as they say neither doublet breeches or hose but only a little paire of linnen drawers to saue their priuy members from their course Habit in stead of Shooes they weare woodden clogs vnder their feet bound ouer with leather straps Their Habit is made of a very course cloth and close before reaching downe to their heeles with a Cowle close to their head made of the same and a gray Rope made of haire full of knots in stead of a girdle about their loines They neuer ride when they trauell but goe a foot Withall they haue a great woodden paire of Beads with a woodden Crosse at the end tyed to their Girdle before them There is another Order of Franciscan Friers in France which they call the third Order of Saint Francis which as they say was erected by Saint Lewis King of France after his returne from the warres of the holy Land These Friers haue no lands but may possesse money and of all the Franciscan Friers these are the most dissolute for they are common Whoremongers Gamesters and Drunkards They haue no Couents but onely in France where they liued for a long time in no great reputation but now of late many of them