Rumuld and St Fursius which his Holines hath given order shall be translated into English for the good and benefit of the lay Catholicks I beleeue the Hereticks droope and begin to hold downe their heads of late t is not possible they should hold vp long either in England France or Germany they haue lost their plumes Let me know what the old Blocke saith you know my meaning Send vs over if you can six or ten young Schollers to Rome Let not Dr Kellison admit any more at Doway till there be supplie made here There was one Mr Harelcot an English Gentleman here of late and is travailed hence to the Holy-Land he had Letters of commendation from F. Fisher Write to vs as oft as you can hereafter that wee may heare how things succeed Haue among you Cor vnum animam vnam And so praying to our Lady and All Saints for the extirpatiō of Heresie among you with commendations to my kindred you know whom I loue best not forgetting G. Smith who will wonder he had no Letter from me I Rest Your brother in ✚ H. Floud Rome March 27. 1623. ⧠A short Comment vpon Master Flouds long Letter INdorsed To Father Colleton Archdeacon of London To another Letter following Father Colleton hath subscribed himselfe Vicarius generalis orientalis Angliae Vicar generall of the East of England Promotion comes very fast on him For I heare moreover that of late he is made Deane of Chalcedon which I doe not see by what dispensation he can hold being so farre remote as London is from Constantinople yet I will try whether I can likewise get him a facultie to be Deane of Dunstable His Holines hath made three new Bishops It is questioned whether his Holines be a Bishop himselfe for that since Gregory the thirteenth there hath beene no true Pope but all that haue succeeded him haue beene meere Intruders into the Papacy vide A Booke Intituled The New man translated into English by William Crashaw Batchelor in Divinitie according to the Latine Copie sent from Rome into England Printed 1622. Dr Bishop is Bishop of Chalcedon and comes shortly into England I will beleeue him another time For according to his promise true it is that the Bishop of Chalcedon is come into England and hath laid about him in Pontificalibus having confirmed many and ordained some When I was their childe they would haue had mee receiue Confirmation from him T is strange I refusd it when so many gaping gazing gulls flockt after him as after a Lord at Whitson with desire to kisse but the very ground where he had stood Asperges me Domine saith the Holy mightie man Mundati estis saith his Chaplaine Mr Ouerton Oh blessed they that were asperged but with the least drop of his thrice hallowed Holy water Mundati sunt they were purged from all sinne But what shall I say of those who had the liuery and hansell of his sacred Crozier-staffe when his Lordship lorded it with his taper-bearers of each side and one with a Censor burning Incense before him Oh surely those that had this Benediction as Fr. Leech said vpon another occasion Peccare non possint si maximé velint t was almost impossible for them to commit any more sinne Dr Bath and F. Iohn Roch are made Bishops the one of Gortyna the other of Cydonea and are to be sent into Ireland Were I in Ireland and there wanted a Bishops Benediction or Confirmation I might I thinke run over a great deale of ground and leaue many a merry old Towne behinde me before I should finde the severall Seas of these two new-stampt Bishops but casting mine eyes vpō the Globe of the whole earth I find that Gortyna and Cydonea are two renowned Cities of the I le of Creete or Candy which Iland as Strabo writeth is compassed with the Aegean Affrican Egilan and Cytheran Seas So that by the next packet that comes from Rome to the Popes Councell in Ireland I desire to be resolved whether per mortem or else per lapsum these two new Bishops came to their Seas Secondly I would be satisfied concerning the largenes of those two Diocesses Gortyna and Cydonea and how long the Kingdome of Ireland divided from the Continent of Creete by a great many lakes and gulfes hath beene within their precints Thirdly I desire to know what revennewes are annexed or appendant to those said Bishoprickes that the Bishops chuse rather to be commorant at their manner houses in Ireland than at their ancient Palaces at home If matters succeed well there will be other new Bishops and an Arch-bishop sent over They must waite for another winde before they crosse the Seas T is a dangerous storme many of their Mates are like to suffer ship-wracke But I perceiue they make account that their Hierarchy shall blow away ours Our Colledge-money from the Catholickes of England comes in slowly I perceiue according to the old Proverb The English Catholickes are still the Popes Asses But he is beholding to his Ianizaries the Iesuites who will whip them soundly if they beare not their accustomed loads Yet I heare that in the Northerne parts their Mules backes are almost bursten with over-riding There is three hundred pounds to receiue behinde It were a fit Quere what they haue received so many of their Customers being observed of late to be turned Bankrupts Let Mr Wright send an hundred pounds from his stocke It were good grafting vpon this stocke that beares so fruitfull branches There are the Histories of St Columban St Rumuld St Fursius which his Holines hath given order to be translated c. I warrant you there be good huskes in this trough to feed Roman Catholicke Piggs of devouring beliefe The Catholicks droop they cannot hold vp long c. See how they haue cast the dye to make vs loosers and Bankrupts Let me know what the old Blocke saith Wee are such Block-heads that we doe not yet vnderstand who this Blocke is The Iesuites Cabala must helpe vs. Praying for the extirpation of heresie Extirpation The zeale of this Prayer may kindle an Invasion of Gun-powder if need be The Letter subscribed by H. Floud I Haue heard there are three Flouds notorious proiecting proditorious Iesuites beyond the Seas all of them well studied in Machiauell One of them caused the Iesuites at Lisbon to spend a great deale of money vpon Powder on a Festivall day a little before the Powder-Treason in England should haue beene effected thereby to make experience of the force thereof And also perswaded one Iohn How a Merchant whom he had perverted and divers other Catholickes to goe over into England and to expect their Redemption there as he called it a while He is much honoured by the State-Papists of this Kingdome Some I haue heard giue a large testimony of his Wisedome and Worth I beleeue it is he that was the Father of this pestilent LETTER ¶ A Letter sent from one Mr VVorthington
it come to the mountenance of an hundred pounds Vid. The Play of the Alchymist And yet haue I heard he was not vtterly vnfruitfull there For how soever his Inventions proued abortiue concerning the Philosophers stone yet he lest some evidence of bringing forth some worke of perfection or rather imperfection by other kinde of stones concerning which imployment of Multiplication I could make a Quere how it agrees with his Priesthood or with the sublimated quintessence of his Iesuiticall order Whose holy function would be blasted and crackt in sunder by any Matrimoniall Coniunction If himselfe were to answer he could easily put it off with some equivocating tricke Vid. Dr Sheldon of the Miracles of Antichrist like his brother Ignatian who being examined vpon oath whether he were a Priest answered No and after said he meant he was not a Priest of Baal And so aske this man whether it accord with his Father-hood to be as fruitfull in the flesh as in the spirit he will haue some sodering shift that will make all sound without vrging the Text Crescite multiplicamini replete terram Gen. 1. 28. That which I would now haue you obserue out of Mr Fisher and Mr Wainmans pretty iugling practises is with what creeping sly stealth the Master-Gamesters the Iesuites doe driue the female Partridges into their Nett by the helpe of the setting Dogge of sneaking Visions and Phantasmes Or to come nearer the habit of this Scene When I consider their carriage and wily beguiling conveyance me thinkes I behold the cunning Fowler such as I haue knowne in the Fenne-Countries and els-where that doe shoot at Woodcockes Snipes and wilde Fowle by sneaking behind a painted cloth which they carry before them having pictured in it the shape of a Horse which while the silly Fowle gazeth on shee is knockt downe with Hale-shot and so put in the Fowlers-budget Oh the Artificiall incomparable engine of Iesuiticall Fowlers the painted Hobby-horse of Saint-like Apparitions from Heaven or Purgatory Whilst the silly Bird gazeth with rapting admiration Bounce sayes the Iesuites Gunne Thou art mine and takes them by the Coxcombe and packes them by dozens to send by the Poulterers to be put in Coopes at Bruxells and else-where Quó pulchrius E◠charius Wherein I commend their skill in their Trade that they chuse as neare as they can those fowle that are fatte and faire of feather If a leane one come in the way the fatter shall beare it out In the one they haue a pretence of Wisedome in the other of Charitie But oh the profound Policie which our Ignatians vse for the confirmation and establishment of their Religion consisting in these superlatiue proiects and practises wherein they goe as farre beyond their fellow Priests as Master Stevens galloping Crosse beyond a penny Palme Crosse Vid. The Foot out of the Snare pag. 70. or F. Garnets little straw beyond all the Wheat-sheaues in England What infallible arguments are these strange Apparitions to vphold Faith The Sorbonites in truth vpbraid the Iesuites with a Doctrine that they hold it lawfull to forge a Miracle for the furtherance of their Religion Why should not I thinke that they hold it as lawfull sometimes to forge a vision for the better maintenance of their Catholicke cause I remember how the Sorbon concluded by a Decree of the yeare 1554. and 1564. The Sorbons censure of the Iesuites Hac societas periculosa in negotio fidei vana nugax mendax pacis Ecclesiae perturbatiua Monastica Religionis euersura magis in destructionem quam in edificationem ordinata c. Surely if brethren of the same seame censure thus hardly of them for their lowd lying let none wonder if I begin to sentence them for the onely Cogging Impostors of these times scandalizing the name of Christian with most impious inventions vnbefitting any though desperate Hereticke and arguing little lesse than Atheisticall prophanes As for their visions and such like ayery Mountebanke Hobgoblin-stuffe I say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fooles may be frighted with Hagges and Fairies men of vnderstanding know it is but knavery THE COPPIES OF DIVERS LETTERS OF Late Intercourse concerning Romish Affayres The Coppie of a Letter the Originall whereof is in my hands sent from Rome to F. COLLETON Arch-Priest alias Arch-deacon of LONDON FAther Colleton we receiued your Letters dated the xxixth of March wherein you write of Prince CHARLES his going for Spaine The newes was here before your Letters and there is no doubt but we shall now worke all things to our owne content Father Pitts is sent from his Holines with Letters to the King of Spaine vpon his return we shall heare more His Holines hath created 3 new Bishops Dr Bishop is Bishop of Calcedon and comes shortly into England Dr Bath and F. Iohn Roch are made Bishops the one of Gortyna the other of Cydonea and are to be sent into Ireland If matters succeed well there will be other new Bishops and an Archbishop sent over for the propagating of true discipline in your Kingdome and for those who haue now indured the heat of the day will be the freer passage to Ecclesiasticall dignitie His Holines would haue you advise those who are subordinate to you that they walke warily to be as secret as formerly the easier as he sayth may they worke their owne ends He would haue none puffed vp or swell with sensuall delights but remaine yet mortified that humilitie charitie obedience contemplation zeale of soules may be most observed As water doth more inflame the Smiths forge as repugnance doth animate the Lyons courage as tartnes eggeth the languishing appetite so will it imbolden and strengthen the Heretickes if they know they are to finde opposition to their naturall inclinations and sensualitie Religion saith the Divinest of all Divines S. Thomas of Aquin I had thought St Augustine St Bernard and some other of the Fathers had beene as divine as He. must haue neighbourhood of Policie Tunc enim piae suae observantiae ex maiori discretione ordinatae sunt ad finem religionis For then her pious observantiōs through more discretion are directed to the end of Religion Our Colledge-money from the Catholicks of England comes in slowly There is three hundred pounds of what we accustomed to receiue behinde Wee must intreat you to call vpon them and if T. M. be in England acquaint him with it I haue written hereof to Mr Wright and haue desired him to send vs an hundred pounds from his stocke he knowes where to receiue it againe Father Spencer I heare hath laine sicke this great while at Burdeaux I pray God send him lustie againe good man We heare that Mr Daniell whom Father Sweet knowes well hath an ancient Manuscript called the History of S. Gertrude desire F. Sweet if it be possible to get it for vs and send it to Rome or else to Lovaine or Tournay There are the Histories of St Columban St
in partibus Occidentalibus Angliae Londini 24. Septembris Anno Domini 1623. The former Letter in English Indorsed To the most reverend Father the Father Beruille Generall of the Fathers of the Congregation of the Oratory in France deliver this in Paris Most reverend Father He meanes the late new cast Bishop of Chalcedon WEE want at this present a wise diligent and constant man who may dispatch the businesses of our Bishop and Clergie in the Roman Court You haue in your Congregation a reverend Father one Thomas Rant an English man who speakes Italian and hath beene to his commendation sometime imployed at Rome as also he was much and long imployed in England in soliciting of businesses before his admission to your Congregation This man wee thinke fit to trust with our affayres Their affayres are Faires to purchase money And therefore we beseech your most reverend Father-hood that you would grant vs this man or at least lend him vs for a time least the most reverend Bishops affaires ours should be destitute of Protection as occasion may serue in that most high Court We haue heard that it is proper to your Congregation to affoord pious prudent men vnto Bishops Wherefore wee earnestly intreat you that you would not deny our Ordinary this favour who doth fervently loue you and hath heretofore requested thus much from your most reverend Father-hood By which benefit your Father-hood shall much oblige vs all to your selfe and your Congregation God long preserue your most reverend Father-hood in prosperitie Your most reverend Father-hoods much bounden Iohn Colleton Vicar generall of the East parts of England Richard Smith Vicar generall of the South parts of England Richard Broughton Vicar generall of the North parts of England Edward Bennet Vicar generall of the West parts of England London 24 of September 1623. The Comment POore England you finde quartered without iudgement by this domineeting Quaternion of Popish popular Quarter-masters An admirable new-erected intruded Hierarchy Our Lord Bishops had need looke to their Rochets For I heare of a strange imaginary scambling after the revennewes of their Church-livings Great hopes there is of purchasing Churches great newes of sending over more new Bishops The nimble-footed Messengers deligated from the Popes Holines may intrude where they list and obtrude what they please it should seeme without restraint or reproofe Alas great Roman Idoll-Gull there is none of our Bishops that feare your leaden Bull. As for your Bishops of Chalcedon Gortyna and Cydonea who haue their authoritie so brauely signed sub annulo Piscatoris I desire them to tarry where their land lyes that may maintaine them in Pontificalibus The truth is in England we haue as yet no emptie Palace worthy to entertaine them except it be the Gate-house at Westminster or the Stone house at New-gate where they shall be pompously attended Is it not inough that the little Foxes of Rome eate vp our Grapes but other wild Boares must must enter into our Vineyard The Lord hath yet a hooke for their nostrils and a bridle for their lips Let Abaddon the King of the Locusts that Romish vsurper raue and braue seeking to inlarge his Territories from East to West or as far as he lift claiming Hyperbolicall power to beare through Diabolicall drifts It makes no matter our Iosiah whose name shall ever remaine vpon record in the Kalender of the iust hath taken away all abhominations of iniquitie all intruding Iurisdiction that might streame hither from the Well of Rome having in himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an inbred power limited onely with iustice and equitie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 absolute dominion and vniversall command and yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also subiection to none but God onely And who but the Pope and his adherents doubteth but that the limmes and branches of his authoritie are extended over all persons and in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Civilli His power profession and facultie is immediate and next vnto God held from him in Capite not derived from beneath he is not one of those Princes of whom Blondus speaketh that should honor and worship the Pope as God he kisseth not the hands and feet of his Holines but is architectonicall supreame and commander of all other functions and vocations Blond Iust Roma lib. 3. Bertrandus ¶ The Coppy of a Letter sent from P. Rowe a Romish Priest to his brother William Rowe in ENGLAND Loving Brother ALbeit according to S. Bernards saying Efficacior lingua quam litera The tongue is of greater efficacy then the Penne And so I could wish rather to inlarge my selfe vnto you by word then by writing my occasion of writing vnto you at this time being very serious yet sith according to the old Proverb Gainst necessitie there is no law I will plead my cause by this mute Advocate of my minde Those that are of religious Orders vow obedience to their Superiours who may cōmand them to run to any Angle of the world to the Indies So it is that I haue received command from our Superior to travell to the Citie of Seleucia within the Province of Isauria a place I know not where so I know not whether euer I shall see England againe I will delay my Iourney eight weekes longer and would intreat you as you respect me to send me over before my going the thirtie pounds you owe me Though I told you I would forbeare it a yeare longer yet now I cannot doe it neither would you I hope desire it considering my case I had come this Sommer into England but that the Superior of our Order is thus pleased to put a tricke vpon me the burthen whereof I must patiently vnder-goe I haue deserved better I am sure then to be so foysted off and driven God knows where I wrote vnto you a fortnight since by Mr Herbart desiring you to send me a dozen yards of good broad-cloth of a fine new mixt colour for a friend of mine Wee every day expect to heare from you and to receiue it The money that is in my brother Iames hands I freely forgiue him for I know he needs it The Popes pardons you find are hardly purchased I procured Mr Shepheard an Indulgence but there is yet twelue pounds of the charges vnsent I harken still when I shall receiue it If he haue not yet taken order as I appointed him for the payment of it in Anwerpe I pray speake to him that he send it over with your money I pray let there be no iarring betwixt my brother Robert and you I haue written to him and charged him deeply to behaue himselfe soberly and lovingly toward you Had I come over as was intended wee might haue had great comfort one of another I envy not the braue life which my fellow Priests in England now lead Remember me dearely to Master Browne Mr Midleton Mr Iones Mr Curley Mr
a Priest to a kinsman of his living in Lancashire The Coppie of this Letter I haue from Worthingtons friend who will iustifie the truth of it WOrthy and well-beloued Cosen you fhall please to vnderstand that at my late being at Tholouse I receiued your Letter and returned an answer therevnto againe though as I heare it never came to your hands Since haue I beene at Roan where I met with another Letter of yours which I had not time to answer from thence neither would the answering of it there haue beene convenient Since am I come to Hage in Holland where I can scarse endure to heare the lavish and vile speeches which a sort of base vnbridled people daily disgorge against the Maiestie of the King of Spaine For singularity among the people I haue noted that they are generally so bred vp to the Bible that almost every Cobler is a Dutch Doctour of Divinitie and by inward illumination of spirit vnderstandeth the Scripture as well as he that wrote it Those of Holland and the adiacent parts terme themselues of the Vnited Provinces but never people in this world liued in a more disvnited vnitie so great a confusion hath this freedome brought among them of every Idiots babling out of the Bible There are not more different languages at the Tower of Babel then there are different beliefes in Holland But I leaue them to their differences and inward illuminations borrowed from Martin Luther the New-Religion-maker of Germany and desire you let me heare so soone as may be what newes in England whether the Proclamation be yet come forth for Toleration that we may make vs merry at home in our Kingdome without controule I was told by one Mr Hinslow some two or three dayes since that there is three or foure Churches building in London for Catholickes and that the King hath appointed the Bishop of Chalcedon to Preach at Pauls-Crosse and that Mr Fisher hath Preached before his Maiestie twise alreadie If this be true I will be with you within this moneth I heare the Prince was married vpon Easter day last a Gentleman told me who was then at Madrid I could acquaint you with all the solemnitie but that I know you heare the newes in England as soone as it is with vs. F. Mason is lately dead and much lamented at Bruxells I was in good hope my sister Ioan would haue come over to mee before this time I spake to the Lady Abbesse for her who hath promised shee shall be presently admitted and will accept of eightscore pounds I pray you to pay ten pounds for me to my Cosen Maxfield in London which I sent vnto him for and I haue received it I wish his brother Henry and we could agree as well in minde and iudgement as we doe in ancient amity I could write some other newes hence but for reasons I spare till I be departed hence and then I shall make you laugh For this time in hast I leaue you to God and in all kinde affection I take of you my leaue desiring you to remember me to all those to whom in dutie and loue I am bounden I need not name them all but rest Your loving kinsman I. Worthington Hage this 4th of May. 1623. The Comment AS for the former part of his Letter which concerneth the Hollanders they are of age to answer for themselues What newes in England whether the Proclamation be yet come forth for Toleration The hope of a Toleration is the Wine that seasons all their merry Feasts but I hope their Wine is turnd to Vineger by another Proclamation though some I heare make but a iest of it Three or foure Churches building in London for Catholickes Risum teneatis amici Belike they are like those Churches builded vpon the sand a floud came and washd them away I wonder to which of their new Canonizd rubricall Saints those new Churches must be dedicated Oh I remember to St Nicholas Nemo and the Parish where they stand is Nullibi in the Metropolis of Eutopia Goe aske Sr Thomas Moore on which end of those Churches the Weather-cocke shall stand The King hath appointed the Bishop of Chalcedon to Preach at Pauls-Crosse Yes very true and his Text must be Act. 1.20 Episcopatum eius alter accipiat His Bishopricke let another take Mr Fisher hath Preached before his Maiestie twice alreadie As true as steele And there to the comfort of his Auditory he told his owne heroicall Acts in producing Actors from Heaven and Purgatery for the Nunnizing of Mary Wiltshire Mary Boucher Mris Francis Peard and others his ghostly children I heare the Prince was married vpon Easter day True and trusty newes The Capons are not yet fed that should be eaten at that Feast and yet the Epithilamium or Marriage-Song is made by Master Pateson in the dedication to the Booke called The image of both Churches The Lady Abbesse will accept of eight score pounds I verily beleeue it and more money if shee could get it A good Broker for Dowries but those Dowries suck a great deale of money out of England I shall make you laugh Good sport belike In the meane time we laugh at you good Master Worthington for your newes of non ens and that you build Churches and Castles in the ayre ¶ A Letter sent from the said J. VVorthington to his Vnckle in London a Seminary Priest Most loving Vnkle I Know you take it very vnkindly that I wrote not vnto you by the last packet but the reason was because I intended to haue come over within a weeke following had not Dr Kellison hindred me Let mee intreat you to provide some good house where I may be entertained in London at Mid-summer when I intend to see England Wee vnderstand there is libertie enough now every man with you may vse his Conscience My Cosen Melling wrote vnto me that they hoped to purchase all the Churches in Lancashire if this world last long The heaven hath beene long full with our cryes the world with our afflictions Sed tandem miserendi tempus exultandi dies Pursuivants men infamous who at their pleasures inriched themselues with the spoyle of our goods I heare that now they sneake vp and downe and the onely preferment any of them can attaine vnto is to keepe a Tobacco-shop Wee shall no more I hope be made a Spectacle to the World and to Angels and to men But Nisi praecedit pugna non succedit victoria sayth St Cyprian It is a comfort that the case is so altered Interim Germanicus I was lately at the Hage in Holland where I found but seaven Religions in one Familie the man of the house being of one Religion the wife of another the children and servants of others The high powerfull Lords the States keepe a great toyle there though the best of them were but the sonne of a Beere-Brewer or Basket-Maker I saw there King Iames his daughter and her Worshipfull Husband whose high aspiring
as followeth for all his brethren the Catholickes of England indulgence 1 Whosoever shall say Sancte Benedicte or a pro me with Pater noster Aue shall forthwith haue a third part of his sinnes remitted him indulgence 2 Whosoever shall say three Pater nosters and three Aue Maries for the advancement and happy increase of all the Religious Professors of the Order of St Benedict shall participate a particular benefit by all their sacrifices prayers fastings mortification and good workes as if he were a particular member of that Religious Order indulgence 3 Whosoever shall celebrate either by Devotion or Obligation for any part of that Order shall forthwith deliver a soule out of Purgatory indulgence 4 Whosoever shall sacrifice vnto the Disciples of St Benedict that is to St Placidus St Maurus the Virgin St Scholastica his Sister and to all holy Monkes and Nunnes shall be able to make warre against the Flesh the World and the Devill and instantly deliver two soules out of Purgatory ⧠Jndulgences granted by his Holines to the Family of the MANPHILDS in England Anno Dominini 1608. indulgence 1 IN the dayes of the Stations of Rome in what time of the yeare soever any of the aforesaid Family shall pray before any of the sacred Reliques and Pictures sent from his Holines they shall gaine the same Indulgence as well for the liuing as the dead as is giuen that day publickely at Rome saying in the Church or at home before some of the said Pictures or Reliques fiue Pater nosters and fiue Aue Maries in honor of the most holy blood of our Saviour sprinckled in his most holy Passion Of little worth is that skull or dead mans bone which vvill not by becoÌ„ming a holy Relique adde something to the Popes Exchequer indulgence 2 For saying one Miserere or one Credo or Te Deum c. in honor of the most holy blood as aboue and kissing the ground three times any of the aforesaid Family may be partaker of the Indulgences which they doe gaine who make the going of the holy Stayres that day indulgence 3 Whosoever of the aforesaid Family having Confessed and Communicated shall say this Antiphon in honor of our Lady gaineth a plenary and shall free a soule out of Purgatory Aue Regina coelorum Aue Domina Angelorum Salue radix salue porta Ex qua mundo lux est orta Gaude virgo gloriosa Super omnes speciosa Vale ô valde decora Et pro nobis Christum exora Indulgences granted to the Family of the Lord M. in England at the Intercession of Tob. Mathew Anno Domini 1608. HIS Holines hath granted vnto the said Lord M. for the reliefe he hath affoorded vnto distressed Catholickes as also for his bountie to the houses of Bruxells and Lisbon I wish rather that this English money had bin spent in England vpon some publicke service there and for yeelding his helping hand to the repaire of the Churches of St Peters Santa Maria Maggiore St Pauls St Sebastian and Fabian St Lawrance Santa Croce St Iohn de Lateran neare Rome that he shall be partaker of all the Masses Prayers Fastings Watchings Pilgrimages c. had at the Stations of Rome together with a plenary Remission of all sinnes A poena culpa c. for a thousand Lents and sixtie-fiue yeares And besides saying any day of the yeare three Pater Nosters and three Aue's more then is commanded him by his ghostly Father he shall be able to free one of his Friends out of Purgatory Indulgences very large granted to the Family of the Lord W. at the Intercession of the said T. M. Indulgences granted to the Family of the Lord Va. at the Intercession of T. M. A PARDON GRANTED TO THO GER OF England Knight and his Lady PAulus quintus Episcopus servus servorum Dei Dilecto filio nobili viro Tho. Ger. Militi dilectae in Christo filiae nobili mulieri ejus uxori salutem Apostolicam benedictionem c. The same at large in English thus PAul the fift Bishop seruant of the seruants of God To his beloued sonne the noble Gentleman T. G. the younger Knight and to his beloued daughter in Christ the noble Lady his wife greeting and Apostolicall benediction Hauing heard of late of some desires of yours which concerne the saluation of your soules and receiuing your Petitions from the hands of the Religious man Henry Stanley we haue granted to your said Petitions a fauourable hearing and by the tenour of these presents doe grant this Indulgence to your deuotion That such a ghostly Father as either of you shal chuse shall haue power by Apostolicall authoritie to grant to you full remission of all your sinnes whereof you shall be confessed as also freedome from the paines of Purgatory And euery Wednesday Friday or Saturday that any of you shall say ouer the Office of our Lady you shall merit for whom you loue best And if vpon Easter day you shal be confessed and communicate and say nine Pater-nosters and nine Aues with a de profundis for the soules in Purgatory you shall euerie time be able to free one soule thence Also at the houre of your death the Deuill shall haue no power ouer you nor at al trouble or torment you What lawfull petitioÌ„ you shall ask at any time of God he shal grant it you Your enemies shall not preuaile against you Yet we declare that if vpon confidence of this Remission you shall commit any notorious sinnes wilfully that then this present Pardon shall not helpe you as concerning them You must also persist in the vnitie and faith of the holy Church of Rome and pray for the extirpation of heresie and liue in obedience and deuotion towards vs our successors Popes of Rome canonically entring into that Sea and further doe your dutie to all religious men Lastly you shall giue twentie shillings yearlie towards the maintenance of the Cope of S. Thomas Becket and euery Friday a penie to the first poore bodie you meet Let it now be lawful for no man to infringe this Pardon and Grant of ours or with any boldnesse to contradict it And if anie shal presume to attempt any such thing let him know and assured lie vnderstand that hee shall incurre the indignation of Almightie God and of his blessed Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul all other Martyrs and Saints Giuen at S. Peters in Rome vnder the Fishers Ring the 9 of Aprill in the first yeare of our Papacy The forme of the Absolution wherewith they are absolued with whom his Holinesse so graciously dispenseth AVthoritate Dei Patris Omnipotentis beatorum Petri Pauli Apostolorum ejus ac authoritate Apostolica mihi in hac parte commissa Ego absolvote abomnibus peccatis tuis mihi per te vere confessis contritis de quibus confiteri vâ—lles si tuae occurrerent memoriae Plenariam absolutionem omnium peccatorum