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A10852	The anatomy of the English nunnery at Lisbon in Portugall Dissected and laid open by one that was sometime a yonger brother of the conuent: who (if the grace of God had not preuented him) might haue growne as old in a wicked life as the oldest among them. Published by authoritie.	Robinson, Thomas, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 21123; ESTC S115995	20,832	42

THE ANATOMY OF THE ENGLISH NVNNERY AT LISBON in PORTVGALL DISSECTED AND laid open by one that was sometime a yonger Brother of the COVENT Who if the grace of God had not preuented him might haue growne as old in a wicked life as the oldest amongst them VIRG. Lib. 1. AENEID Caecumque domus scelus omne retexit Published by Authoritie LONDON Printed by GEORGE PVRSLOWE for Robert Mylbourne and Philemon Stephens and are to be sold at the great South doore of Rauls 1622. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL M r THOMAS GVRLIN MAIOR OF THE NO LESSE ancient then loyall and wel-gouerned towne of Kings-Lynne in Norfolke and his Worshipfull Brethren the Aldermen of the same c. THE industrious and painfull Sea-man Right Worshipfull that I may goe no farther for an example then mine owne profession because quod supranos nihil ad nos being a long time crossed with vnfauourable windes persisteth notwithstanding in attempting to attaine to his desired Port which not beeing able to atchieue directly and vpon a precise rhomb or point he maketh his way by diuers Maeanders and crooked turnings lying sometimes East and anon West so neere his course as the winde will permit and by this meanes at length he ankoreth in the wished harbour Euen so my selfe hauing of a long time desired to recouer some fit occasion or meanes as my most wished port to expresse a thankefull minde vnto your Worships for no small benefits formerly conferred vpon me benè apud memores veteris stat gratia facti could neuer through contrarie windes of aduerse fortune arriue there in safety but haue had a long trauerse to and fro with little likelihood of fairer weather till now at length with my bowlins sharpe haled pardon I pray you my ruder Sea-phrase I haue doubled the Cape of good Hope from whence I am bold to send you this first returne of what I long since tooke vp of you vpon interest it being notwithstanding no way of worth to countervaile any though the least part of the debt I owe you For it is now some yeeres agone that I set sayle from the Hauen of your help bound for the Port of Prudence the Vniuersity of Cambridge beeing fully fraughted with your fauour friendship where through mine owne negligence let mee euer sigh to remember it hauing foreslowed my best market and letting go my most precious commodity my Time at an vnder-value I remained a great loser by my voyage not beeing able to make vnto you my Worshipfull creditors such satisfaction as you might iustly expect And now entring into a consideration of your gentle forbearance of me I doomed my selfe worthy to beare the brand of Ingratitude if I should forget you Whereupon not as any part of payment but as a recognizance and acknowledgement of that debt and dutie which I owe to your W ps I presume to send you this insuing discourse being not more plain in the manner then true in the matter If you shall daigne to giue it fauourable acceptance I haue what I desired and in the hope thereof alwaies praying for your prosperitie and welfare I rest Your Worships dutifull debtor THOMAS ROBINSON To the indifferent Reader READER if the Title of this Booke being The Anatomy of the English Nunnery at Lisbon doe make thee expect some Chyrurgicall mysteries or profound Lecture vpon a dissected bodie let me satisfie thee and saue thee a labour of reading it for thou art much deceiued the Author hereof is a man of no such Science being better skilled in Ta●kes Sheats Braces Bowlins c. strange words perchance to thy vnderstanding and yet no canting then in veines sinewes muscles and arteries Yet what hee promiseth by the Title hee hath performed in the Treatise and hath truly anatomized this handmayd of the Whore of Babylon laying open her principall veines and sinewes in such sort that hee is bold to challenge the proudest Doctor of her acquaintance to traduce his worke or to taxe him of the least vntruth in what he hath written for here is no thing published but what his owne experience being optima magistra hath taught him and whereof he hath beene oculatus testis Onely the phrase he vseth is like himselfe blunt and vnelegant for ex quolibet ligno non fit Mercurius winke therefore a little at the method and suruey the matter it selfe with the wide open eyes of thy vnderstanding and spare not And if thou be not already addicted too much to Poperie thou mayst peraduenture find a preseruatiue against it Howsoeuer here it presenteth it selfe to the view of the world bee it well or ill accepted it maketh not much matter for the Authour will alwayes carry this comfort about him A good Conscience is a continuall feast Vale. T. R. THE ANATOMY OF THE ENGLISH NVNNERY AT LISBON IN PORTVGALL HAVING by reason of my Calling beene oftentimes occasioned to trauell beyond the Seas it so chanced that I was once through diuers accidents driuen to haue some conference with father Seth alias Ioseph Foster an English Frier in Lisbon and the sole Confessor of a Couent of English Nunnes residing in the same Cittie who by his subtill and wily fetches inticed me to abide with him in the house imploying me dayly in copying out certaine Treatises of Obedience which hee had composed for the Nunnes And after a while hauing depriued mee of meanes to depart from him by taking away my apparell and putting me into a disguized foolish habite of which I was heartily ashamed both hee and the Abbesse with some others of the sisters as they cal them neuer ceased to vrge me by deepe-dissembled intreaties perswasions vntill I had giuen consent to become a holy Brother and Masse-priest in the house for I had soone attained to more skill in the Rubrick then euery shaueling is ordinarily accustomed to haue and could readily find out and know any Masse by the great Letter at the beginning of it and more then that I could sing Aue regina Salue Sancta parens which is learning enough in conscience for any Abbey-lubber vnlesse hee bee too vnreasonable So that now there wanted nothing to my taking of Orders saue onely that my minority and want of yeeres hindred it wherefore in the meane time I continued in writing ouer diuers bookes for them and amongst the rest the Register of their House whereby I came to some vnderstanding of their estate beginning and successe vntill this present which for the satisfaction of the Reader I thought good to set downe as briefely as I could before I proceed any farther or speake of their manners and conuersation First therefore for the House The Nuns thereof doe challenge and indeed truely a succession from the Abbey of Sion in England now belonging vnto the Earle of Northumber land which house together with another Monasterie of Carthusian Monkes called Shyne beeing both scituated vpon the Thames were erected and built by King Henry the 5. at