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A42518	A short history of monastical orders in which the primitive institution of monks, their tempers, habits, rules, and the condition they are in at present, are treated of / by Gabriel d'Emillianne.	Gavin, Antonio, fl. 1726.	1693 (1693)	Wing G394; ESTC R8086	141,685	356

Europe Abbies of this Order which do acknowledge Citeaux for their Mother and him who is Abbot thereof for their General This Plague did infect England almost in its very beginning They had there a Monastery in the year 1132 at Rishval They wore at the beginning a Black Habit but it was changed by Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux into what it is now viz. a White Casock with a narrow Patience or Scapulary and a black Gown with long Sleeves when they go abroad but going to Church they wear it White and pretend that the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernard and commanded him to wear for her own sake such white Cloathes Of the Sacred and Reformed Order of Citeaux called Feuillans FAther John de la Barriere a French Gentleman was the Author of this Reformation Being twenty one years old he was made Commandatory Abbot of a Monastery of St. Bernard called Feuillans He held this Abby in commendam during eleven years after the manner of other Commendatory Abbots without exercising any other Function but that of receiving his Revenues After which it came into his thoughts to make himself a Monk under the Rule and the Habit of Citeaux He put this design in execution in the Monastery of Eunes and thence he retired to his Abby of Feuillans where being witness of the disorders of his Monks he undertook to reform them But these bony Fryers seeing him begin the Reformation in the Kitchin with a great courage opposed him threatning to break his Head and Shoulders is he went on with such work Nevertheless Father John was never the more disheartned for this and by his Constancy won at length some of them to his Party which became in time the strongest and chased those who would not reform from the Monastery The new reformed Monks lead there as saith a Popish Author a more Angelical than Humane Life abstaining not only from Flesh Eggs Fish and from all Milk-meats but also from Oyl Salt and Wine living only on Bread Pulse and Water Pope Gregory the XIII being informed of this Institution of the Abbot of Feuillans sent to him a Brief of Congratulation and founded at Rome a Monastery for his Monks Since this Sixtus the V. and Clement the VIII favoured them very much and their Congregation got ground particularly in France But they are now fallen very much from their former observances They boast themselves of being under a special Protection of the Virgin Mary in whose Honour they are all Cloathed in White Of the Order of the Humbled or Humilies THIS Order was founded in the year 1162. by some Gentlemen of Milan who were detained in a very hard Captivity under the Emperor Conrade or according to some others under Frederick Barbarossa These Gentlemen having put themselves all in White came before him and fell prostrate at his Feet which moved him so much to compassion that he gave them permission to return into their own Country They continued still to wear there the same Habit wherewith they had obtained their liberty and having taken the Name of Humiliati began some Congregations which growing every day bigger and bigger a Gentleman called Guido who was their Chief ordered them to live according to the Order of St. Benet There have been particularly in the State of Milan several rich Monasteries of this Order The Cardinal Charles Boromeo was the last Protector of it who seeing their abominable lewdness undertook to reform them But these Monks not willing to be redressed perswaded one of their Gang called Hierom Donac to murder him This desperate Fellow fired a Gun at the Cardinal who being a little out of his reach he missed him and being apprehended was immediately sentenced to Death and executed for his barbarous attempt Pope Pius the V. justly incensed at such a bloody Villany intended against one of his Cardinals did quite abolish that Religion in the year 1570 They wore white Cloaths and their Superiors were called Provosts The Bull of Abrogation of this Order is exprest in such terms that make a true representation of the detestable Life which the most part of the Monks of the Church of Rome lead to this day in their Cloisters There is an enumeration of all sorts of Crimes and Sacriledges which can be imagined If the Popes do not undertake to abolish these 't is not for want of reason for the doing of it but because these Monks for their mony have powerful Protectors at the Roman Court to whom they pay yearly very big Pensions and against whose Lives they have not attempted yet as the Humiliati did against that of Cardinal Boromeo their Protector 'T was observed when this Order was abolished that only seventy Monks were found in ninety Monasteries which they did possess Of the Order of the Celestins PEter Celestinus was born in the year 1215 at Isernia a Town in the Kingdom of Naples Scarcely was he come to be sixteen years of age when he left his Fathers House and fled into a Solitude Some years after he went to Rome where he was Ordained Priest and then he became a Monk in a Monastery of St. Benet From thence he withdrew into one of the Grotto's of Mont Moron in the year 1239 and lived there several years for which he was called Peter of Moron He gave beginning to the Monastery of the Holy Ghost at Majella which is the Chief of the Order established by him afterwards and confirmed in the Council of Lions by Gregory the X. under the Rule of St. Benet After the death of Nicholas the IV. the Roman See having been vacant two years and three months by reason of the Competition and Intreagues of the Cardinals this Peter was at last upon the motion of Cardinal Latinus elected Pope in the year 1294. They went to search for him in his Solitude where they found him busie in plowing the ground He was with much ado wrought upon to accept of the Pontificate but yielded at last came riding upon an Ass to Aquila where he was consecrated in the presence of above 20000 people He took the name of Coelestinus and was the fifth of this Name But his Genius proved soadverse to the Pride and Stateliness of the Roman Court that having drawn thereby upon himself the hatred of the Cardinals and being moreover very simple and of little wit one of those Gentlemen the Cardinals had the cunning to persuade him to abdicate the Popedo● on his behalf which he did and the new Pope was called Boniface the VIII But poor Celestin had no sooner deposed himself but his wretched Successor fearing lest for his apparent Holiness he should be recalled made him to be apprehended and put in a stinking loathsom Dungeon near Anagni where he died in the year 1296. Boniface disannulled a great many things which the deceased Pope had established for the grandeur of his own Order and took from it the Monastery of Cassin Clement V. made him a Saint in

Imprimatur Feb. 3. 1692. Ra. Barker Advertisement Two Books published by the same Author THE Frauds of the Monks and Priests set forth in Eight Letters lately written by a Gentleman in his Journey to Italy the third Edition in Octavo Observations on a Journy to Naples wherein the Frauds of Romish Monks and Priests are farther discovered by the same Author Bedae Venerabilis Opera quaedam Theologica nunc primum edita nec non Historica anteà semel edita accesserunt Egberti Archiepiscopi Eboracensis Dialogus de Ecclesiastica Institutione Adhelmi Sireburnensis Liber de Virginitate ex Codice Antiquissimo Emendatus in Quarto L. Annei Flori Rerum Romanarum Epitome Interpretatione Notis Illustravit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri Filia Jussu Christianissimi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini in Octavo A SHORT HISTORY OF Monastical Orders In which the Primitive Institution OF MONKS THEIR Tempers Habits Rules AND The Condition they are in at Present are Treated of By Gabriel d' Emillianne LONDON Printed by S. Roycroft for W. Bentley in Russel-street Covent-Garden 1693. TO The Most Reverend the ARCHBISHOPS The Right Reverend the BISHOPS And to the rest of the Reverend Clergy OF THE Church of England This Book is humbly Presented by Gabriel d' Emillianne THE PREFACE I Must desire my Reader to observe here three things concerning this Book First What were the Motives which induced me to write it Secondly The Methods which I observed in it and Thirdly The Reasons I have to dedicate it to the English Clergy I. Several of the Order of Gray and Black Fryars having had the confidence in the late King James's Reign not only to flock by Troops from beyond Seas into England but also to appear publickly in their Monkish Habits and a great many others of different Colours preparing to follow The People here was not in a little amazement to see these new Faces while the Papists were very busie in combing the Fox's Tail to make it appear finer and magnified every where the pretended Holiness both of these Monks and of their Habits The good Protestants did only laugh at them but the wiser sort inquired who they were and in what Book one might have a sufficient notice of them There were indeed some Latin Books which treated of Monks and also some French and Italian but besides that all these were written in Foreign Tongues unknown to the most part of the vulgar sort of People they were almost all of them written in a Popish way and by Monks who had not forgot to be kind to themselves There wanted then an English Book to give a sufficient and true information about this matter A learned Doctor in Divinity undertook at that time to do it whose Pen would have without doubt far out-done mine had he perfected the Work which he had begun But these mimical Faces of Monks having disappeared in the late happy Revolution and the Doctor 's applications being required another way he thought fit to leave off and I was desired to try what I could do on this Subject both with shortness and impartiality II. These Two Parts I have endeavoured to make good having briefly related the times of the Institution of each Religious Order their Founders their Tempers their Habits and given a short Abstract of their Rules I have made use both of Protestant and Popish Authors amongst whom I have endeavoured to retrieve the Truth After each Rule I have treated of those Monks who do profess the same according to the times of their respective Foundations excepting only some few who are under the pretended Rules of St. Austin and have taken the Name of Regular Clerks whom because they are so newly hatched I have placed after the Mendicant Fryars After these you shall find a little Treatise of Nuns and another of Military Regular Orders All these Treatises might have been more enlarged each of them affording very plentiful matter but I have chosen to he short and to relate only what might give a sufficient notice of them I am further now to inform my Reader of some Reasons I had to dedicate this small Performance to the Venerable Clergy of the Church of England III. First As I cannot sufficiently praise God for his great Mercy in calling me to be a Member of this Holy Church so I I thought I could not honour enough those who are the Pillars and the chief Ornaments of it Secondly Having many particular Obligations to several of the Clergy I hoped they might perceive in this Dedication of my Book to them though in General the earnest desire which I have to be thankful But what inclined me yet very powerfully to do it was that being not altogether ignorant of the great disturbances which the Monks in all Ages almost from their first Establishment in this Country Caused amongst the English Clergy nay of the violent Usurpations Slanders Tyrannies Persecutions and Oppressions wherewith they so devilishly attempted the total Destruction both of Churches and Church men I thought it would well suit with the Honour of the Reformation if I should bring in these Monks as vanquished Slaves and lay them at the Feet of the Protestant Clergy who at last by God's Grace and Mercy have so gloriously triumphed over them The Church History is full of the bold and malitious attempts of the Monks against the English Secular Clergy and it will not be methinks amiss to relate here some few instances among so many to verifie what I have said before One of the first who declared against the Clerical State was Dunstan The Monks who always reverenced him as their great Support Patron and Favourer ceased not to extol him to the Skies and went so far as to assert that he had been sanctified in his Mothers Womb and they made so much noise with Lyes and pretended Miracles that he was easily made a Saint in the Church of Rome However several good Authors speak otherwise of him that he had been a very debauched Youth excessively inclined to Women and a great lover of Magical Arts wherewith he bewitched to that degree Alfgina Princess of the Royal Blood that she could not live separate from him Therefore that she might enjoy continually his Company she caused a House to be built near the Church of St. Mary at Glascow where the Hypocrite Dunstan to deceive the World had built a little Cell for himself When she died she left to him the whole disposal of her Estate to be given to Pious Uses thinking thereby to attone for her great sins before God Dunstan builded with the Mony five Monasteries and richly endowed them making himself Abbot of the best of them Which which was also they say the first that was built in England Nevertheless he did not build them out of any love for Solitude for during the Reigns of seven Kings under whom he lived he almost never stirred from great Lords Houses or from the