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A08690	The vnmasking of all popish monks, friers, and Iesuits. Or, A treatise of their genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state Together with some briefe obseruations of their treasons, murders, fornications, impostures, blasphemies, and sundry other abominable impieties. Written as a caueat or forewarning for Great Britaine to take heed in time of these romish locusts. By Lewis Owen.	Owen, Lewis, 1572-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 18998; ESTC S113782	125,685	175

bewraied them at the last and made them infamous among the people and in the end they were taken tardè but not punished for feare of giuing scandall and that the Protestants of Geneua should not heare thereof That Caue is called the Iacobins Oratory to this day in meere scorne and scoffe of Monks and Friers And God be blessed the most part of the Townesmen at this instant are good Professors of the Gospell There are some English Scots and Irish of this Order dispersed here and there in forren parts and some also lurking in England and other places within his Maiesties Dominions whereof I knew two in Xeres or Sheres in Spaine the one a Gentleman well descended but a Roaring boy fit to keepe company with any English collapsed Lady and the other a meere Hypocrite the Spanyards called him Santico a little Saint He got more money with his counterfeit holinesse than any six Friers in that Cloister for he neuer lay in a bed as they reported but vpon a matt in the Church neither did he put off his Habite but lay therein his name is Father Thomas a singular good Philosopher but no Latinist A kinsman of his came to visite him very poore and almost naked and this good Father after such time that he had reconciled him to the Church of Rome procured for him a new sute of apparell cloake and all things else Gentleman-like and yet payed neuer a peny for them but promised to cleare the score with Masses De Profundis and Diriges I wonder whether our Salemen in Burchen Lane or Saint Thomas the Apostle will take a Trentall or two of Masses of him for a new sute But I would aduise him not to goe on the score with them if hee giues them no better payment than Masses lest hee be clapt with a Mase on the brest with the old word I arrest you sir when he shall not bee weary vnlesse it be of the Sergeants company Neuerthelesse I doubt not but that there are some good Catholike Taylors about London that would not sticke to trust a holy Frier with a Secular sure rather than he should want And withall if our English Catholike Ladies and Gentlewomen will loue him as well as the Spanish Señoras did then his Father-hood need not to goe vpon trust And I hope that his Reuerence hath crammed his purse with Spanish pistolls before his departure from thence Of the Franciscan Friers otherwise called the Gray Friers THis Idoll whom they call Saint Francis professed at the first the Rule of Saint Augustine and wore that Habit that the Augustin Mendicant Fries now vse But afterwards being somewhat scrupulous remembring how our Sauiour had commanded his Disciples when he sent them forth to preach the Gospell not to weare two coats or to carry any bag or wallet with them he wore a long gray coat downe to his heeles with a Cowle or a Hood a Cord or Rope about his loines in steed of a girdle and went bare foot and liued in the Wildernesse on the top of the Appenine hills at a place which they now call Auerna where he receiued if you will beleeue them the markes of the wounds that our Sauiour had in his hands side and feet Afterwards he gathered a company of lazy Friers together and built them a Couent at Asylo a Towne in Vmbria a Region of Italy and called his Friers Fratres Manores or Minorite Friers Pope Honorius who succeeded Innocentius the third approued of his Order and gaue them many Priuileges Pardons Indulgences and Graces And afterwards Saint Francis died and within two yeeres after Pope Gregory the ninth canonized him a Saint which was in the yeere 1129. There was neuer any Order of Friers that increased like this Order for there is neuer a City or Towne of any worth vnder the Catholique Dominion but that these Friers haue a Couent and before the Reformation they had Cloisters in all the Countries of Christendome And here in England they had many famous Couents whereof Christ-Church in London was the chiefest What this man whom they call Saint Francis was I know not it may be he was a good zealous man and yet superstitious according to the time But this I am assured of his Friers are as great Blasphemers Hypocrites and Gluttons as any in the world whatsoeuer And whereas it is reported of him that he first professed the Rule of Saint Augustine but because he was scrupulous and would not weare two Coats or carry a Wallet he erected another Order I conclude it was a very poore excuse But admit it to be true then his Friers are not of the same opinion and they obserue not his Rule for they carry Wallets ouer their shoulders from doore to doore daily through all Cities Townes and Countries wheresoeuer they inhabit as hereafter shall be proued And as for the markes of our Sauiours wounds which his Friers affirme and brag that he had in his body I thinke it is but a loud lie For Saint Paul should rather haue them than Saint Francis for the Apostle saith thus of himselfe Ego stigmata Domini nostri Iesu Christi in corpore meo porto And yet it is apparant that the Apostle had them not but spoke that in another sense And yet the Friers of Saint Francis his Order vsurpe that sentence and attribute it only to their Patron For in their Churches wheresoeuer any Picture or Image of Saint Francis is you shall finde those words vnder written Ego stigmata Domini nostri c. But shall I tell you what a good Iouiall Augustine Frier told me of this Saint Francis as I trauelled with him and another Frier of his Order vpon a time betweene Bayon and Bourdeaux in France among other questions to passe away the tediousnesse of the way I demanded of him if he did beleeue that Saint Francis had those markes in his body He answered me That he had certaine markes in his body which he receiued not from Christ but from Saint Dominicke for if you will said he heare me patiently and not laugh I will resolue you in that matter I promised I would Saint Dominick and Saint Francis said he were both great friends and kept company for a long time Dominick was a Scholler and a great Preacher and Saint Francis a dolt a great Gurmund and a Glutton as all his Friers are It fortuned vpon a time as they were both together that a good Lady or Gentlewoman that was much deuoted to religious Friers as many women are sent them a fore-quarter of Veale vpon a Saturday night for a present requesting the two Saints to pray for her The next day Saint Dominick was to goe to a certaine parish Church a mile or two from home to preach and Saint Francis and Frier Gyles were to stay at home to play the Cookes for Saint Francis and his Friers were euer fitter for the Kitchin than for the Pulpit But before such time that Dominick

blowes with his Musket rest and would haue broken her bones if another whore of his acquaintance had not come in hearing the old woman cry who pacified him and lay with Señor Laurencio for so was his name that night O the Religion and conscience of these Catholike Spaniards that tyrannize farre worse than the Turke wheresoeuer they get the vpper hand But now to returne againe to the Iesuites who are the only commanders of this City whose words are Lawes yea Oracles among the Spaniards They preach and catechise young children twise or thrise a weeke yea the Souldiers doe take protestants children by force and bring them to the Iesuites to be instructed in popery Alas if I should tell you all the wrongs and misdemeanours that the Iesuites haue committed in this City and elsewhere this Pamphlet would grow to be a great volume The next Summer after the death of the Emperour Matthias the Iesuites of Liege kept a great solemne funerall for him which was as neere as I can remember in this manner First a noble mans sonne that was one of their Schollers being very richly attired riding vpon a great horse with an imperiall Crown on his head hauing a Canopy carried ouer him borne by six men attended on with a great traine representing the person of the King of Spaine another in the same manner representing the King of France others the King of Bohemia that is now Emperour and all other Catholike Princes Euery one of them hauing a guard of Souldiers both horse and foot all being the Iesuites Schollers They were all drawne out in their diuisions Souldier-like hauing their Captaines and other Officers who were Iesuites to lead them on in a great market place which is by Saint Pauls Church from whence the counterfeit hearse was brought forth carried and accompanied with many Mourners with that state and Ceremonies as great Princes are wont to be brought to their last home After that followed these Kings and Princes seuerally accompanied with their traine and guard hauing their banners carried before each of them placed by Heralds Then came the Breaden god their Sacrament carried by a Iesuit vnder a Canopie borne by foure schollers in white Surplices singing after that followed the Image of the blessed Virgin Mary very curiously wrought wherein wanted neitheir cost nor art carried vpon mens shoulders accompanied with many Iesuites and singing men and last of all came Wickliffe Iohn Hus Ierome of Pragus Martin Luther Caluin Beza M. Bucer P. Martyr Oecolampadius Zuinglius Bullinger Melancton Fox and Master Perkins all bound with iron chaines and led and guarded with a squadron of Deuils who made the Monks Friers and other Clergy men to skip for ioy to see those men that had writ en against them to be led captiue by Lucifer and his Angels The Hearse being thus attended by so many Kings and Princes the Sacrament the blessed Virgin and the blacke guard marcht forward to the Iesuites College where they all entered and fell to their prayers here might you haue seene Hus Luther Beza Perkins and the rest yea the Deuils with their Beads in their hands say Paters and Aues for the Emperours soule Truly I maruelled much to see the Iesuites permit those whom they call and condemne for Heretikes to enter into their Church and to accompany the blessed Sacrament and the blessed Virgins Image yea in my opinion they abus'd those Catholike Kings and Princes who were then and there represented to intrude those men into their company whom they neuer affected or loued and that which is worse to place Deuils to bring vp the reare of their armie All these Souldiers were the Iesuites Schollers and taught and instructed in military Discipline by the Iesuites themselues who are euery where martiall men and giuen tam Martiquàm Mercurio for in euery Army Leaguer Garrison or Nauie that any Catholike King or Prince hath there the Iesuites will be as busie as an Atturney in Westminster Hall in the middest of a tearme Hij Palladi oratores noui Philosophi in Castris non in Claustris versantur They had rather to be stirring abroad and follow the Campe than bee confined within the circuit of a Cloister And therein they doe imitate their Father Ignatius of infamous memory for he was a Souldier and so are they yea in euery one of their Colleges they haue Armour and munition to furnish many thousand Souldiers and besides there is not any one of them but knowes how to vse his Armes as if he had beene a Souldier all the daies of his life To conclude this funerall or Obsequies did cost the Parents and friends of these young Iesuiticall Kings and Princes by report aboue two thousand pounds sterling What shall I say The Iesuites haue beene the vtter ruine and ouerthrow of Don Sebastian the last King of Portugall and Algarbes for through their policie and wicked counsell he lost his Crownes and Kingdomes and in the end his life They haue beene the chiefest cause of all the ciuill Warres Massacres and troubles in France since the death of Henry the third of France to this present time These seditious infernall Locusts haue beene the only occasion of those bloudy warres betweene the King of Poland and the great Duke of Moscouia or Russia and againe betweene Poland and Swethland Haue not the Iesuites beene the cause of the losse of Voltalin the vpper and lower Palatinate And haue they not beene the cause of all these Wars Bloudshed Commotions Dearth Famine Persecutions Rapine Miseries Calamities and Destructions that haue hapned in Italy France Germany Bohemia Netherlands the seuenteene Prouinces and other neighbouring Countries Cities Townes and Common wealths these forty or fifty yeeres and vpwards I omit to speake of their seuerall trecherous designes against Queene Elizabeth of famous memory or of the Gunpowder treason or how that they haue beene these twenty yeeres banished out of all the territories of the Signory of Venice for their impostures and lewd practises and for being common disturbers of the peace and tranquillity of the common wealth Neither how they haue incroached vpon the priuileges and liberties of most of the famous Schooles and Vniuersities of Italy Spaine Portugall France Netherland Germany Poland and other Catholike Countries But I will speake a word or two more of their Colleges Churches Schooles and manner or method of teaching and so conclude First of all I would haue you to vnderstand that they receiue none into their Society but such as are either descended of great parentage and good friends whose greatnesse may countenance their designes and procure others to bee beneficiall vnto them or such as are wealthy to inrich their Colleges or learned and witty Schollers who by their workes writings are like to aduance the credit and reputation of their society or some Trades-men to be their Lay-brethren and Officers of their Colleges or else some cunning fly knaue or crafty companion to bee their Porter vpon whose