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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47042	Saint Patricks purgatory containing the description, originall, progresse, and demolition of that superstitious place / by Henry Jones ...	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.	1647 (1647)	Wing J946; ESTC R16600	121,914	152

nothing in this Purgatory certaine and as for those subterraneall passages we are as farre to seek for them here as in the former demolished Purgatory the matter is to our hands confessed That in our dayes and in the farthest of mans memory the bottom of the Cave was levelled and made even with the other part of the earth Yet saith Roth when the place was first made it was deeper But how doth that appeare It is the Tradition of some of the Elders and how commeth it to be altered It was raised by directions of the Bishops it may be of the Diocese And with the consent of the Apostolicall Sea To which adde out of the Margent The pavement or floore of the Purgatory was made up by authoritie from the Pope Where the cunning of these men is to be observed who to conceale the former destruction of the former Cave done by authority from the Pope and by the Bishop of the Diocese doe make the Popes act to be a Command onely for the levelling of the ground and taking away the passage into the lower Purgatory which why he should doe I cannot easily imagine if the matter were of that consequence as we have been borne in hand it was unlesse he feared that the great merit of that Pilgrimage might hinder the Mart of his Indulgences But how miserable these shifts be who seeth not there is nothing here to give any certainty of the place or the pretenteded merits of it and yet must this be still a secret to the people they must be told that this is the very place appointed by S. Patricke from whose time even untill now it had continued That the frequenting of it is beyond all degrees meritorious for which no labour watching fasting or paine is to bee refused as wee have shewed to bee used in the latter Pilgrimages Pitty it is so great zeale should be so misguided for the gaining a few nay not a few pence into private purses Considering therefore the grossenes of this Superstition and the blindnesse by which so many poore soules were seduced it suited well with the wisedome of our state to looke more narrowly into the matter and to take away the occasion of so great an errour I speake nothing how dangerous in point of state it might be to permit such frequent meetings in such a place But in the former respects to take away the ground of so many errours at once as it argued the care of the Government both of the estates and soules of the people so in the pulling downe of all there was no new thing done nothing but what was before by themselves in the same case practised as was before shewed I will therefore here insert an Historicall Relation of the manner and proceedings therein by an Abstract thereof taken out of the Councell booke of this Kingdome that after-Ages may not be surprized with another Purgatory starting up they know not how as formerly and thereby men be deluded with reports of I know not what Antiquity The words out of the Records are these The State observing the popish Superstitions used at S. Patricks Purgatory to grow an insufferable height did by their Letters of the 21. of May 1632. directed to the Lo. Balfoure St. William Stuart and others require them to seize it and to make fast the doores and entrance into it hoping that that might take away the continuance of the abuse there To these Letters Sir William Stuart returneth Lucij 8. 1632. Answere to this effect To the Right Honorable ADAM Lord Viscount of ELY Lord Chancellor and RICHARD Earle of CORKE Lords Iustices of this Kingdome and to the Lords and others of his Majesties Honourble Privic COUNCELL Right Honorable I Have received a Coppy of a Letter sent by my Lord Balfoure directed to his Lordship my selfe others for seizing unto his Majesties use S. Patricks Purgatory and his Lordship appointed me to meete him neare the Lough the fifth day of this month whither I accordingly came and staid in the comfortlesse place almost two dayes and one night none comming And then I got intelligence that the Abbot Priests and Fryars which were in the Island had gotten knowledge of your Lordships directions whereupon in the night time they stole out of the Island in a boat which at the least would carry 40. persons Whereupon I sent to search for the said Boate which was found and brought unto me And perceiving that none of the rest mentioned in your Lordships Letters were likely to come and being confident that you would take it in good part that I should rather upon such occasion varie from your directions than leave your intentions unperformed I caused to land some men upon a little Island where Fryars doe inhabit neare unto the other Island which is called S. Patrickes Purgatory where I found foure hundred seventy one persons doing such fooleries as is not to be imagined could be done among Christians a taste whereof your Lordship may perceive by this inclosed description All the fore said number of persons I have caused to be put safe to shore which was done without any kinde of violence For seeing the Priests and Fryars had left the Islland and carryed with them all manner of Provision and goods that therein was the people were willing and desirous to be put on shore The which being done I did cause the Boate which was the safeguarde of the Island to be drawne on shore and delivered the same unto the friends and servants of one Master Magrath unto whom the Boate Island and Countrie doth belong and told them that it was your Lordships directions that the same should not bee medled withall nor the Island any more frequented untill his Majesties pleasure were further knowne And that your Lordships would signifie the same more at large All things being thus fairely done I hope your Lordships will not dislike that I adventured my selfe alone to doe that which was trusted unto me and others And I am well assured if I had slipt that occasion your intentions should not have beene executed So humbly desiring to be excused for what is done amisse I take leave and will ever remaine Your Lordships ready and humble servant William Stuart September 13. 1632. An Order is made by the Lords Iustices and Councell for the demolishing of the place in these words By the Lords Iustices and Councell Adam Loftus Canc. R. Corke FOr as much as the frequent and publike resort of people in great numbers to that place or Island called S. Patrickes Purgatory there performing superstitious ceremonies pilgrimages and offerings is so extreamely abusive and superstitious as is not fit to be endured We therefore taking the same into our due Consideration and foreseeing that albeit there may be a seeming cessation there for a time from those abuses and superstitions in regard they observe the State to resent the same Yet many times the seduced people will secretly finde opportunitie to