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Nevv shreds of the old snare Containing the apparitions of two new female ghosts. The copies of diuers letters of late intercourse concerning Romish affaires. Speciall indulgences purchased at Rome, granted to diuers English gentle-beleeuing Catholiques for their ready money. A catalogue of English nunnes of the late transportations within these two or three yeares. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon-Colledge in Oxford.
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Gee, John, 1596-1639.
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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
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