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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65789	The memoires of Mr. James Wadswort [sic], a Jesuit that recanted discovering a dreadful prospect of impiety, in the blasphemous doctrines (or Gospel) of the Jesuits, with their atheistical lives and conversations / faithfully published to the world out of the authors own original notes, with the particular places, persons, and circumstantial actions &c., of which he himself was both an eye and ear-witness from time to time.	Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1679 (1679)	Wing W183; ESTC R38026	56,469	76

in his stomach Likewise the detension of the Kingdom of Naples from the Pope confirmed me that the Spaniards were and are little better than Atheists onely making use of the Pope for their own particular ambition and ends as to confirm and establish him in unlawful Monarchies and under colour of Religion to make Subjects become Slaves Moreover Charles the Fifth sacking Rome and with his Army besieging the Pope in his Castle of St. Angelo was to this particular end to confirm him Emperor and to colour and maintain all his unlawful Usurpations Likewise it confirmed me in the Protestant Religion to see how Flanders and other parts the Jesuits Friers and others before they enter their Colledges Monasteries and other Religious Houses to be Probationers onely for a week or a month their Friends Parents and others give them a good sum of money to spend in Ale-houses Taverns and other prophane Houses for to take their farewell of the world of which I was an eye-witness both at Antwerp and Doway Likewise it confirmed me in the said Protestant Religion to see Protestants with whom I conversed so modest religious and honest quite contrary to the report of the Jesuits who make them worse than Devils All which I having well consider'd and also observing the cozenages and impostures of the Jesuits Priests and Monks in St. Omers Doway Flanders Spain France and elsewhere my Father being dead and I at my own disposal I came for England where intending to declare my self a Protestant I was advertised by some great Personages of Authority in this Kingdom to keep my resolution for a time that so I might the better discover the Plots and Stratagems of our Adversaries and hereby do my Countrey far greater service Whereupon I streight made my repair to the Court of the Arch-Dutchess where being suspected as a Spie I was in great danger of my life by the negligence of some who had employ'd me I had forthwith been imprisoned had not Earl Gundamor interceded for me who never could be perswaded that ever I would turn Protestant being so long confirmed in the Romish Religion But I would not let any occasion over-slip me but taking the best opportunity time did then allot me I directed my course for England Where after a quarter of a years abode I was sent back again into France having my residence at Paris where I gave intelligence to some great Personages of this Kingdom and sending Letters by my Man for England he being bribed by some of our Land whose names I here spare they were intercepted and delivered to a Sorbon Doctor Dr. Matler by name whom the Letters partly concerned Now at this very time one Smith Nephew to the Bishop of Chalcedon staid two months in Paris on purpose to have kill'd me This became an occasion of great affliction to me for being by him discovered my Pension from Spain was debarr'd me and forthwith the Jesuits and Priests banded themselves and conspired against me and caused my Host to imprison me for some Moneys I owed him where I suffered for six months space receiving Letters from my Mother in Spain who perswaded me to fix my self either in Naples Milan Sicily c. and several visits from the Fathers who could not well tell what to conjecture of me I entertain'd them with all outward shews of favour c. till my Mother had paid my debts with my own Pension and being freed out of Prison I shew'd them a fair pair of heels and in stead of going towards Spain or Italy I bent my course towards England taking my journey towards Roan and Deep in Normandy and finding no Shipping at either places I bent my course for Callis taking my journey by a Town call'd Arks or Arka where lodging at an Inn I with a fellow Companion was robb'd by Soldiers and in extreme danger of our lives and being escaped that difficulty blessed be God I soon fell into a greater for being embarqued in an English Vessel newly come from Dover there being five or six Papists in the Ship bound with me for England it hapned that some of them knew me and understanding that I had left my Pension c. fear'd that I had no good affection to the Catholicks in England and therefore they accused me as a Spie against their State Whereupon the Captain of the Ports committed me to Custody and the Serjeant-Major of that Town cast me into Prison I began to manifest my innocency but he told me I was false and was accused by Angels meaning the Iesuits and presented me to the Rack to extort Consessions from me where I was kept in a Cage or Dungeon remaining under seven Locks for the space of three days without any food my Bed was Straw which had not been changed in ten months without any cover as for my Shirt I never had any variety my hair grew wild and savage-like my Companions were thousands of Lice and Fleas and in this misery I continued near ten months And to augment my misery Father Baldwin with the rest of the English Iesuits in St. Omers not onely sent but came themselves to Callis to persuade the Governour for my continual restraint during my whole life The Iesuits in England also hearing of me writ Letters to Callis to the same effect At length I perceived my life was the mark they shot at they not long before having determined to hang me for a Horse-stealer had not the truth been discovered by one Carpenter the King of France's Advocate-General and one of the Politest Wits for Law in the whole Kingdom whose hap it was at that time to be in Prison with me To be short several Persons of quality hearing of my misery interceded with the Governour in my behalf as my Lord Mountroy who had been taken Prisoner at the Isle of Ree Colonel Grey Mr. Walter Mountague the Governour of Pontsel who was my Lord Mountjoy's Conductor but all in vain Nay the King of Denmarks youngest Son coming by Callis at that time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 land did the same as also Sir Edmond Ver●●●● and Mr. Hawkins the Kin●● chief Agent did the same but none could prevail onely they relieved 〈◊〉 with Moneys which the Jaylor for the most part got from me threatning to keep me more recluse if I did not give him the better half and there passed not one person of note by but for his own lucres sake he acquainted them with my case At last through the great Providence of God one Mr. Scipio Intima a Gentleman of Friezland came that way who had been my fellow-prisoner at Paris and he never left solliciting till he obtained leave of the Governour that I might have an equal Trial by Law which before this I could not obtain and so got leave that the Kings Advocate might be my Counsellor All which being granted through great importunities my Advocate began to write the occasion of my unlawful detention with a Petition which he sent drew up and presented to the High Court of Parliament at Paris where the Parliament commanded all my Adversaries and Accusers to be personally cited before them My Advocate did likewise challenge the Law of the Kingdom which is that no Malefactor can be kept in prison above three months but he must have either the Sentence of life or death to pass upon him unless it be for Treason against the Kings proper Person I having continued a long while in Prison contrary to the said Law All which was so well pleaded and alledged by my Advocate in my behalf that there was no accuser to prove any thing against me so that the High Court of Parliament declared me innocent and condemn'd the Serjeant-Major of Callis and the rest of my Adversaries to the reparation of Honour Damage and Interest and so forthwith I was set free Thus giving Almighty God hearty thanks for this his gracious deliverance in freeing me from the hands of these infernal Monsters and blood-suckers and at such a time when all hope was fled and gone and of their Faction I forthwith embarqued my self and came into England with full resolution never to depart out of it beseeching God to make me a worthy Member of his Catholick Church of England unto whose sweet embraces I happily arrived after very many persecuting afflictions and miseries thus endured And now courteous Reader thou hast had a view of my Travels Observations and Miseries which it pleased God I should endure abroad in the Narrative of which I here vow to God in whose holy presence I am and most in another manner shortly appear I have not written any thing but what for the most part I have been an eye-witness of So beseeching God to keep in true faith concord and unity this our Kingdom of Great Britain France and Ireland together with all Protestant Dominions I rest an humble Suppliant at his Throne of Grace that the end of all may be Gods everlasting Glory and his true Churches eternal Peace and Rest. 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was still as all are by natural inclination well affected to my native soil which the Iesuits perceiving though they suspected not any thing to the contrary but that I would continue a Catholick they declared daily to me how much I was obliged to God for delivering me out of the bondage of Error and Heresie in my very infancy and dis-swaded me withall from conversing with any of my native Countrey which were not of the Church of Rome upon pain of being Anathematized and rejected out of the same holy Catholick Church And when they heard of the decease of my Grandfather and other kindred they charged me not to wish a requiem to their Souls because they were Hereticks and so by consequence are damned in Hell and commanded me to pray to the Virgin Mary and to all the Saints in heaven for the rest of my surviving friends that they might at length become Proselytes to the Roman faith and obedience I gave them the hearing with patience but when I came to be of the age of 18 years or thereabouts I began to read the sacred Scriptures in secret and being curious to know the grounds of the differences between the Protestants and our selves viz. of the Popes Supremacy the real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist the Indulgencies Pardons and profits of Purgatory with the Popes Authority to set up and depose Kings for nitimur invetitum semper cupimusque negata we have a very itching desire to that which is most strictly forbidden us which we had from our granmother Eve I began to enquire into and examin the lives and courses of our Iesuits and Priests and besides I supervised the Letter of Dr. Hall and Mr. Bedel which I found in my fathers Study c. And after I had conferred one thing with another I found more resemblance of Probability in the Protestants Religion than in our own Besides I never found any pregnant proof that they could alledg out of the Scriptures that the Pope was the only Head of the Church Militant nor that the Apostles of Christ were commanded to exercise any Spiritual or Temporal Jurisdiction over each other but directly to the contrary and least of all over all other Dominions in the World Nor could I ever find they had good authentick Arguments for Purgatory Indulgences holy Grains Meddals c. As for the real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist I could never obtain a full liberty from my reason to believe it And as for the Popes Bull for which each person from 7 years of age and upwards gives 12 pence to his Catholick Majesty by vertue whereof he may eat any gross meat called grossura with eggs milk butter cheese c. on Saturdays and such like days I perceived this to be but a trick of State-policy of the King to fill his coffers the Pope giving him way and sharing with him in the profit Now touching their Miracles they pretend to be daily done in Spain Flanders Italy and other parts though inquisitive about them yet I never could see any And as for the holy Crucifix which is in the Suburbs of the City Burgus which they shew to great Personages with as much devotion as if it had been Christ himself telling them that his Hair and Nails do grow miraculously which they cut and pair every month giving them to Noblemen as holy Relicks forsooth I judge it a thing incredible and thereby all their pretended Miracles to be but meer Impostures As likewise the grand Miracle of Hermana Luisa the Nun of Carrion who for twenty years space hath lived by the bare receipt of the Host which if any could believe in truth and reality argues in my opinion a very sottish Credulity And infinite other Miracles and Relicks which they have I have found to be meer Cheats and Cosenages As also their Masses for the dead and delivering of Souls out of Purgatory by saying Mass for them on a Priviledged Altar Nay some of them make Spells of their Relicks as Peter Godfrey that Priest of Marseils famous for infamy who was burnt not many years since for bewitching the principal Ladies of that Province for instead of Agnus Dei and other Relicks he gave them Inchantments whereby they might fall in love with him of which you may read at large in the French Tragical History Moreover I examined the cause why the Pope should beautifie Garnet and Campian with several others as Saints and holymen and could find no manner of colour and ground except it were because their Souls were so frightfully black with the Gun-powder Treason that they were in danger to terrifie all the Devils Guests of that Generation and therefore to abate of their dreadful aspect he painted them and of black made them white Devils For the Iesuits themselves confessed to me witness Father Bently and Father Freeman the one Minister of the Colledge at St. Omers the other one of the Masters of the Schools that the Legend of Miracles of their Saints is for the most part false onely said they it was made with a good intention forsooth and that in this particular it is not onely Lawful but Meritorious to lie and write such things to the end the common people might with greater zeal serve God and his Saints and that otherwise there would be no means to govern them and especially to draw the Women to good order being by nature more facile and credulous and for the most part addicted to novelties and miraculous events Likewise I detested that Doctrine of theirs as abominable viz. That it is a very meritorious thing to Kill or Depose any King or Prince who is Excommunicated by the See of Rome Likewise the discontent of my Father after his death and his ●etters to his Brother in England gave me to understand that the Roman Faith was not the surest way to Salvation What this Gentleman's meaning is I cannot certainly tell I have writ his own words verbatim I suppose his Father walked after his death and related several things that evidenced a disturbed mind upon the account of the Catholick Religion c. Likewise these most abominable dealings that are used at the Election of their Popes being chosen for the most part by favour and money their Predecessors being extinguished by poison and villanous means and for which end the King of Spain hath Ambassadors continually employ'd at Rome which confer great largesses of annual Pensions to inflame them to nominate him Pope whom he pleaseth The like doth the King of France by his Ambassadors but the Spanish Indian Oyl for the most part greaseth home to the purpose For when the Spaniards saw the King of France to invade the Valtoline in the year 1624 that the Pope took his part as one of his Creation they began to cast out Libels and set them upon the Pasquil of Rome threatning the Pope with a sudden end if he did not recant which he did for fear the Spanish venome might operate