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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19321	Another letter of Mr. A.C. to his dis-Iesuited kinseman, concerning the appeale, state, Iesuites Also a third letter of his, apologeticall for himselfe against the calumnies contained against him in a certaine Iesuiticall libell, intituled, A manifestation of folly and bad spirit, &c.	Copley, Anthony, 1567-1607?	1602 (1602)	STC 5736; ESTC S120368	72,830	84

being but one yeare and a halfe or thereabouts and the first yeare litle inough by all intendment to settle my wanton idle light witted head afore I could be fit for either the one or the other so high vocation To shew you then how false either of these imputations are you must vnderstand that in my discontentment to be so made a schoole-boy and cosined both of the Popes pension and my libertie I taking a deuotion to S. Monacha S. Augustines mother went often to the Augustines Church in Rome where her bodie lay and there falling acquainted with a Venetian Frier of the Monasterie I vnderstood that he knew my Vnkle Sir Richard Shelley in Venice by whose meanes I afterward often writ vnto him informing him of my discontentment with the Iesuites for their so abusing his Holinesse and me but especially after my Cosin R. S. his departure for England To which my aggriefe in the end after sundrie letters that passed betwixt vs the Lord Prior of Malta for such was his title most louingly complied sending me by this Friers meanes three and fiftie duckets where with to get me from Rome into France with request that I would make Venice my way affirming that forasmuch as he had no other kinsman in those parts he would leaue me when he died if I liked to liue with him all that he had With these three and fiftie duckets I departed the Colledge Rome and Italy where at parting father Cowbucke being come thither but a litle afore and also D. Allan who within a while after was created Cardinall the one gaue me his malediction the other a thousand blessings And this I protest was all the leaue and Uiaticum the fathers gaue me at my departure from Rome this their paternall charitie where with the libeller more in particular vnderneath vpbraideth me Yea ouer and aboue all this father Cowbucke was the man who perceiuing D. Allan his credit to be more with me then his wrought him to be thus farre forth his instrument as to disswade me my going to Venice to my Vnkle which he vnderstood I intended and my said Vnkle expected so ill the father brooked either that good Knight or my good fortunes or both I was too blame in that respect to the good Doctor both for my duties sake to my Vnkle and also for my profit though minding to haue returned of purpose vnto him out of France the next yeare after before which time the good Knight died leauing all his riches to a meere seruant so vnfortunate was I or rather so vnfortunate a Iesuite to me whom this Iesuite termes my friends who neuer failed me And this was all my becomming either College Priest or Augustine Frier and thus much can M. Duke sometimes my entire friend in earth now a Saint in heauen witnesse of my going to the Augustines to whose priuitie I imparted all that my proceeding Insomuch as at a word aswell might the libeller haue affirmed that I would haue become a Nunne for S. Monacha●…s sake or a Iesuite for father Cowbuckes as an Augustine especially if withall he knew what law raigned in my loynes and what spirit colophized me at those yeares with S. Paul In vaine therefore doth this manifester of his folly and bad spirit stroake as it were his beard after so grosse a slander aduise yonkers to beware by me how they slip back contemne when they are in their sister euen as vainely as I haue noted the vaineglorious Spaniard to do the like to his beard picke his teeth pat and stretch forth his paunch and stroke off crummes from his clothes after an egge as if he had dined with a Lord Maior of London But most of all vaine and malicious he is after two so expresse lies to commend himselfe for a timorous conscience as to affirme things that he knowes not for certaine which neither could his fatherhood vaine-gloriously inough do vnlesse withall he condemned me of a lauish conscience in the contrarie Ah poore father and poore praise so to borrow or rather steale grace by the disgrace of others Were there no greater faults in a Iesuite then this please God I had but so much of S. Augustines spirit as to discouer it to the full to the Churches caution and edification But of the two orders the likelihood that was was rather of my becomming Iesuite especially if I had bene as forward in accepting as some were in proffering me that scandal For verie well I remember that whiles I liued in the Colledge father Agazarius who was then Rector till toward the latter end at what time father Cowbucke came in his place the fat father Minister whose name I haue forgotten and my Cosin R. S. Prefect of the studies all three most fauningly woo'd me to like of their Societie to which end they did me the fauour for so they reputed it as to admit me into their spirituall exercises whereof God I thanke I made much better vse vnto my soule then so noting as yong as I was the strange spirit of some youths in the Colledge their chiefe dearlings as namely Anth. Maior whom they made Consiliarius primus or secundus of the congregation of our Ladie in the Colledge which was a fauour who since is Apostated euen wilfully and beneficed here in England Likewise yong as I was I could well see what foule vse they made of the said good exercise of our Ladies congregation for the maintaining offaction amongst both the scholers and Priests and for the Iesuiting of the best wits and best bred youths from the true intent and institution of the Colledge Also I saw how vilely for example they abused M. Doctor Bagshaw and Doctor Cicill putting them to all the boyish exercises of the house and in the end expulsing the former of them with others from thence In few yong though I were I noted by other in cautelam to my selfe from becomming either Iesuit or Iesuiticall that what talent they saw in me apt for their turnes if being such I should not happen to employ it religiously and so to the reputation of their Societie that it would stead them aswell to be employed in dishonestie so the dishonestie were exquisite and extraordinarie as their instructions could helpe to make it so much that Societie is the refuse of religiousnesse and therefore worthily the last religious order in holy Church and their founder not likely to be canonized for a Saint till it be cassie●…ed As then it is but a worke of supererogation a man to confine himself to any order of Religion so is it but a bonum inculpate omissum to be of any whosoeuer haue any such deuotion as I protest I neuer had howbeit to be a Iesuite I do not see how that consideratis considerandis vz. the euils of it as Iesuites are now a dayes for the most part it is not a Malum realissimé commissum From this spirit of religious and ecclesiasticall life he fellbacke soone

I largely wished and in this a litle afore I began to say that is that howsoeuer the world goes we shew our selues as hitherto we haue done loyall to her Maiestie and respectfull to her law and the ciuil magistrate vnder her in whatsoeuer trial of our faith and not malapert saucie and peremptorie like as manie Iesuited Catholickes haue done as though a good matter needed not also good manner Constant it behooues vs to be Usque ad aras to our conscience if it come to that but not currish and surly as in scorne of the law and magistrate we liue vnder whom such cariage doth no whit edifie but rather more and more exasperate to our harmes Besides that it sounds a man in so doing to be guiltie of his owne death and to die not so much for Religion as for an vnciuill fellow So died one of the 14 gentlemen who being questioned of his Religion by a high Commissioner thought it not zeale inough to auouch it Catholike which he did vnlesse with this addition that he thanked God he was not a sheepe of the scabbed flocke of Geneua Briefe our obedience and seruice ought according to the Apostle to be discreete and as much as may be to edification aswell by our morall good deportment as by our religious The Protestants that suffered in Queene Maries time for their errours in Religion were in this point many of them to be commended they fashioning their termes very reuerently to the ciuil Magistrate and shal we then that are Catholikes be to learne of them No let vs remember that we are subiects to a Princesse no more an vsurper yea more applauded to the Crowne by all England and in especiall the same set vpon her royall head and she annointed by a Catholike Bishop then euer that good Queene was who attained to it through the pikes of a competitor Let vs withall hope that seeing bloud will haue bloud the Protestants hand which we are now vnder will one day be satisfied for the Protestant blond in my opinion too profusely shed and other their vexations in the aforesaid good Queeens daies and so perhaps appeased But specially in so singular a good cause as this of our Catholike Religion if no asswage or courtesie should euer befall vs from the Protestant let this be our rest not to be ashamed to be torne members vnder so thornie a head as our Lord and Maister Iesus Which the better we may do and be if we will harken like good sheepe to the pipe of our true Pastors of the secular Cleargie namely the Seminaries yet another while leauing the Iesuites as false ones and who in their singularitie and worldly wealth wherin they settle like Bettles in soile haue cleane forfeited and forsaken the spirit both of their Founder and of the Catholike Church and so are giuen ouer by God to themselues ad insanias falsas as yet a litle more I will shew you and so make an end First then to begin with what I now last touched of their singularitie and common-wealth it is not to be doubted but amid all their Euangelicall labours in India they haue a speciall eye to their Bonum societatis as they terme it but whether truly In ordine ad Deum that is the question Not that I would haue you conster this Item vnto them as in detraction by way of extenuation of their wel-doings for Christs Church in those parts but truly as it is that more then somewhat or competent they respect their temporall boote in that spirituall trafficke Which to do in a religious mediocritie might well I graunt beseeme them forasmuch as Dignus est operarius mercede sua especially if they would vse their gettings as they ought and would haue it thought sincerely In ordine ad Deum as the Benedictines did their riches heretofore in England in almes-hospitalitie and all good edification I meane the gold and pearle and spice and such like Indian-wares wherewith they so copiously euerie yeare inrich their societie here in Europe from thence But if it do appeare as too plaine it doth that by reason of such their riches from thence and what they no lesse secularly gather here in Europe they neglect Gods honor by preferring their owne afore it then loe must we needs condemne both such their gatherings in India and here and much more their said Ordo ad Deum as falsly and hypocritically by them pretended and consequently thinke that Qui cum ijs colligunt spergunt If it appeare to all Europe that by meanes of such their wealth they trouble all Europe by setting Kings and kingdomes at oddes by sowing of factions wheresoeuer they come by ambitioning aboue all religious orders in holy Church In ordine ad daemonem Aemulantes still Charisma●… pessima and dominion euen ouer the secular Cleargie on which for their greatest honors they depend if they busie themselues in disposing and deposing of Crownes and Scepters betraying one nation ouer to the hand of another yea their owne deare countrey and all this in Iesus name briefe if they be scarse good lay men in their cariages but in bare title religious if all this or but half do appeare true how then I pray is their riches to be said In ordine ad Deum or how are they the men they vaunt and would be taken for Who that hath but one eye sees not how that by so abusing their wealth they abuse God and his glorious name after which in their singularitie they haue chosen to be called Who sees not that by being so vnworthie stewards of worldly talent they are much more vnworthie of the spirituall fauors faculties prerogatiues indulged vnto them by holy Church more then to any other order of Religion whatsoeuer insomuch as in regard of the same being spiritual and holy talents they may truly say to God if they were so humble and penitent or since they are not any other for them Domine quinque talenta dedisti mihi ecce alia quinque super furatus sum for what hath a religious person to do with the fat of the earth albeit he would vse it neuer so well much lesse when abuse it as these do Such fat doth but infatuate them from heauen making them looke toward it with fat cheeks which they should do with leane Who sees not how that their neastling in pallace-tops by meanes of such their wealth is not therefore their being true and kind storkes insomuch as they from such their tops and towers pay not like the thankful storke tribute to the place neither kil they vp all the frogges and other vermin in the countrey about but contrariwise would destroy the best things there as here in England we see the lamentable proofe at this houre in their libel against the honors of our best fathers the Seminaries who brought them ouer hither as also in the Catholicke Church of Holland which they haue likewise so fouly disordered with their schisme