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A28269	The Black box of Roome [sic] opened from whence are revealed, the damnable bloody plots, practices, and behaviour of Iesuites, priests, papists, and other recusants in generall : against Christian princes, estates and the people in those places where they have lived, &c.		1641 (1641)	Wing B3042; ESTC R7310	8,073	20

pittance and keepe all the rest to themselves In Venice they painted the Virgin Mary like a Lady whom some of them loved The like they did at Shertogen-Bosch in Brabant at my being there by the Lady of Piroy Melanders wife which was Secretary vnto Grave Maurice and set her vp with a child in her armes in St. Iohns Church Pius Quintus cast an Agnus Dei into a River whither it was to draw the Fish to the place or to allay the violence of the waves I cannot say Nay they administer the Sacrament to those who goe about to murther Princes as Walpoole did to Squire who poysoned the pommell of Queene Elizabeths Saddle when she was to ride abroad Moreover they pervert Scriptures and corrupt the ancient Fathers which power Gregorie the 13. in a Bull bearing date 1575 seemeth to have given them But to proceed in their practises Benedict Palmio and Anniball Codret two famous Iesuites did not onely teach William Parrie that it was lawfull to kill the Queene of England but also that it was an act very meritorious Varade a Iesuite of Lyon in confession did absolve Peter Barrien that went about to murder that Prince of famous memory Henry the fourth late King of France assuing him that it was a most noble and a Christian Act for which he should obtaine Celestiall glory In Paris the Iesuits not onely resolved that it was lawfull to kill King Henry the third but by their perswasions did induce Iames Clement to effect the same Richard Williams Edmund Yorke Patrick Ocollen Iohn Savage and divers others who have beene at sundry times executed for attempting to kill Queen Elizabeth confessed that they were set on by Holt and other Iesuits and were made beleeve it was a most meritorious Act Peter Panne at his execution at Leyden confessed that he was hired by the Iesuites to kill Count Maurice The Rebels of Paris that held out against their King were principally directed and encouraged by Comolet and other Iesuites Nay when money and victuals grew scarce in Paris yet would not the Iesuites suffer the Rebels to give over but came into the Trenches and brought them reliefe both of meate and money And by the practises of this seditious Sect the cities of Perigueux Agen Tholofe Verdun and divers tooke armes against the King They perswaded the Duke of Bavaria to goe on foote to visit the Reliques of some Saint or other while these gallants rode in Wagons I know not whose device it was except some of theirs that made young wenches and marryed wives beleeve if they could stride over at one stride St. Rombauts breeches at Mechlin they should assuredly have a Child within the yeare The Princesse of Tyrole not many years agoe built the Jesuites an house hard by her owne but they like Foxes beate the Princesse out of her own Burrow her sumptuous house and thrust her into their owne meane house The like they did to the Bishop of Wirtzburg who excluded him out of a Church which he had built for them They advance themselves and despise others those that confesse themselves to other Priests they account little better then Atheistes in Millan they onely beare the sway in hearing womens confessions and did the like in Venice untill they were forbidden By meanes of their confessions they have drawne unto themselves infinite riches empoverishing many rich houses leaving little to the Widdowes and Orphanes Maldonate a Iesuite of Paris caused the president Monbrun St. Andrew through his perswasion in confession to give the Iesuites all his moveables and halfe his revenues The president Goudran of Dijon making his Testament by their practises gave only halfe a crown to his sister and to the Colledge of Jesuites seven thousand pounds French money in rent In Bordeaux they ruined the whole house of Bollans and impaired the state of the house of Targebaston In the Country of the Grisons they perswaded a silly old man called Lambertin to sell all that hee had and to take their Habit who gathering 20000. Duckats meant to give them all from his onely daughter So cruell they are that they spare none who is repugnant to their purposes Masteus complaineth that the elder Jesuites managed all things absolutely they brought Harbort and Glisell two famous preachers in Vienna in danger onely envying their excellency One Lupus a Franciscane in Millan calling them false Prophets hardly escaped with his life Cardinall Borrhomaus restrayning their encroachments was by them accused before the Pope Iohn Chastell was so wonne and overcome by the Iesuits that at his death he denyed that the Jesuits had any end in the businesse but his examination before the whole Court of Paris affirmeth flat contrary but onely by them plotted wherefore it was ordered that they should depart out of Paris within three dayes and out of France within fifteene dayes after notice to them given as corrupters of youth perturbers of publique peace and enemies of the King and State Iohn Chastell himselfe also confessed that Garet a Iesuite did teach him these lessons which made him resolve to kill the King It is not nor I hope shall never be forgotten deserving to be engraven in Letters of brasse the most hellish and damnable plot of the powder Treason in the dayes of our late Soveraigne of blessed memory King JAMES plotted onely by the Iesuites whereof Garnet was one of the principals who formerly had beene a Corrector to a Printers presse here in London and I shall never forget what that Reverend Bishop of Norwich Doctor Overall told me sitting at his house in Norwich what Garnet confessed unto him at the time of his execution he being at that time Deane of Paules Master Garnet quoth he your time is very short in this world tell me I pray you as you will answere before GOD what just fault can you find with our Liturgie or Common prayer the Booke which wee vse in the Church of England truely quoth Mr. Garnet none at all it is very agreeable to the word of God and to the practise of the primitive Church and truely Mr. Deane you are very happy in your Booke of Common Prayer afterwards this Garnet was made a Saint and By his fellowes his Face and square say they was evidently to be seen in a wheat or barley eare of corne Credat Iudeus Apella non ego Now you must understand that our Iesuites keepe three severall stations some follow the Camp and armies in the field as they did in France and not long since Spinola's army in Cleve Gutick being the greatest incendiaries or Boutefeux in the world setting Princes against people and people against their Prince others follow the Court and can come with God-morrow Madame into a Ladyes Chamber before she be stirring others like the Nether Milstone remaine setled in their Cloyster without Motion yet helpe they the other to grind their Grist for these entice young youthes and great heires into their Colledges and

societies which are like Hell vnde nulla redemptio● What plots end designes were undertooke by Parsons alias Cowbuck the Iesuite against our late Mirrour of Princes Queene Elizabeth one Cecill a Priest complayneth against Chreighton a Scottish Iesuite that his practises made many Widdowes Orphanes in Scotland It would require a whole volume to write their practises plots damnable Treasons which they have set on foote in most Kingdomes of Europe nay God knowes what they are now plotting at this present J doubt not but that their Engines are set on worke and that they have many seconders and partakers here at home amongst us and listen as Cats at a Mouse-hole what is every day determined in Parliament Is it not an exceeding blemish to our Nation and Country which lying in so cold a climate should breed and feed such swarmes-of trayterous Serpents and Vipers When Spaine a great deale hoter hardly affordeth a Traytor against his King and Country in an hundred yeares here if Tobias his Dog doe but wag his tayle he shall be fed with the best from a Ladies trencher and nothing thought too deare for him Then let us now or never take a course with Lesuites and Priests upon whom like Pharoa's Frogges for their plenty we are like to tread upon in every streete let no other Nations accuse us of remissenes or stupidity in giving them so large a liberty Let us consider if they get the upper hand what will become of us our Prince Country wives Children Friends we have tryall more then enough of their good-wills towards us and are like to have more dayly if the heads of these Brats be not dashed against the stones It was the Motto of old William Cecill Lord Burleigh and Treasurer of England Vnum Cor vna via one heart one way which while we observe no forrein force in the world shall bee able to wrong vs if we divide our selves as Silurus Sons did their Arrowes wee are presently broken and made a prey to strangers We all know God appointed Kings and Princes to be Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers to his Church therefore they ought not to see God dishonoured by false Religion and Idolatry or true Christians oppressed with force and Treachery They carry not the sword for nothing and God requireth the maintenance of his truth at their hands therefore these Wolves that walke in sheeps clothing are not to be winked at or tolerated or in any wise to bee endured the world is so fraught with their practises in all places yea some so abominable and unchristian that I will call them the Divels Acts of Parliament and some whereof out of the Popes Rentall I report them onely as Iohn Chassanion hath left them recorded in French therefore Lector en tïbi Leonem ex ungue and let mee begin with the Popes traffique and Marchandize to which there is not the like in the whole world for it hath neither brinke nor bottome feare or shame Religion nor common honesty but rather blasphemous most wicked and ungodly ordinances wherefore out of the monstrous heape accept of these few and let thy Conscience tell thee how tolerable they are For Marriage contracted in the third degree of Consanguinity or affinity the taxe or payment to the Popes Exchequer is in France Italy and other places 14 Tournois 3 Duckats 4 Carlines yet there is a greater summe to be paid out of the Dowry A Iew is allowed to have a Synagogue in his owne house for 30. Tournois 7 Duckats and 6. Carlines to erect a new Synagogue publiquely is 60. Tournois 15. Duckats A parricide or he that hath killed his owne Father is quitted and absolved for foure Tournois one Duckat 8 Carlines Note by the way the Pope makes better markets of Murders committed on the persons of Fathers and Mothers then for the beating onely of a Clark or Priest For he that beates a Priest or Clarke must pay 6. Turnois 2 Duckats He or she that kills any Infant shall pay 4 Turnois 2. Duckats 9. carlines The woman who hath taken a potion a feareful thing to relate to destroy the fruit of her wombe or the child within her shal be absolved and forgiven for 4 Turnois 2 Duckats 8 carlines A notorious witch must pay for her absolution 6 Turnois and 2 Duckats Absolution for Heresie is granted before it bee abjured for 36. Turnois and 9 Duckats For Sacriledge Theft for firing of houses ravishing of women or Maiden-children and withall perjury for your absolution you must pay 36. Tournois 9. Duckats for every one of them severall For absolution for whoredome committed by a Priest or Clergie man though it be with a Nun or any woman of his owne kindred is but to pay for his absolution and free pardon 36. Turnois and 3. Duckats I with such whoredome and incest one demand beside absolution for Sodomy be it eyther with Mankind or Beast which is horrible to relate hee shal be dispensed withall and come to his orders againe and enjoy his benefices for 36. Turnois 9. Duckats The absolution of a Nunne having played the whore either with one or twenty may bee made capable of her Cloyster and of the dignities thereof though it were to be made besse for 36. Tournois 9. Duckats these few for a tast but they have a bitter relish I will now come to some merry passages an absolutions of an easier nature there was one a lusty Fryar had gotten 3 Nunnes and two citizens daughters neere to Beneventum in Italy with child the Archbishop after some sharpe rebuke caused him onely for his penance to say the Lords Prayer five times over which done he received for absolution A merry companion having committed many foule offences came to his Confessour the parish Priest where he dwelt who after he had laid open all his offences the Priest told him his sinnes were so many and so hainous that he could not absolve him without a great summe of money the fellow told him he had no money but he would give him an hare well I am content quoth the Priest where is she Sir J have her not heere but you shall receive her when my Dog can catch her There was a Priest in England of late yeares that confessed how he had shrived few women but he lay with them and yet our simple Recusants neither have a sence of their owne shame nor privide a Remedy for for it Besides of all others are apt to be drawne into disloyall practises as by the example of Arden Somervile Babington and many other in Quee Elizabeths time of Watson Cateby Digby Rookwood and the rest in King James his dayes The Rebellion in the North parts of this Realme was raised by Nicholas Morton and other Priests when as yet there was almost neither act nor law made against Papists And when they could not prevaile in England what broiles made they in Ireland Philip the second King of Spaine at the instance of English Recusants and Priests determined to invade this land both by Sea and Land By procurement of Priests and Recusants the Duke of Guise and Don Iohn of Austria in the Queenes time became our enemies All plots eyther against Prince or State were contrived and determined to bee executed by Papists as in the Queenes dayes by W. Parry Somervile Ocollen Squire with many others and by whom else o● late dayes and I cannot tell what their intentions may be in these dayes for I am sure the Strand Convent-garden Drury-lane St. Giles and Holborne are so replenished with Priests and their people that they openly call one another to goe to Masse in other places or to Somerset house as familiarly as one neighbour will call another to goe to one of our Churches And as they are impudent in their owne Iustification so are they marvailous confident in their strength multitude power and greatnesse of their friends who they are may be guessed The manner of these is to temporize till matters be growne ripe nay they will not stick to professe and protest deepely for so did sometimes Parry Lopez the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland They will say and sweare they are as good Subjects to his Majestie and the State as any protest●nt whatsoever but with a mentall reserv●●ion o● Father Campions old distinction Rebus Sic Stantibus when they cannot helpe it or time fits not their purposes but for feare of the worst our present parliament and State in generall will have an eye unto them their actions I wish not their punishments aggravated yet I say it is a great weakenesse in vs either to suffer their insolency or not to secure our selves against their hatred and Tyranny I need not to stir up those whom it concerneth to vigilancy they see these things and I doubt not but will see them shortly amended in the meane time let every true patriot and lover of his Country not end ure to see the bowels of his deare Mother Country to be gnawne out by these Vipers but as much as in him lyeth discover and oppose all such traitor-hearted adversaries maintain love and vnity among our selves ready to our vttermost to defend aswell our gracious King as Country so shall we have peace in our dayes and our posterity imitating our example remaine blessed here on earth unto the end of the World FINIS Herbipois