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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61365	The Roman horseleech, or An impartial account of the intolerable charge of popery to this nation ... to which is annexed an essay of the supremacy of the King of England.	Stanley, William, 1647-1731.; Staveley, Thomas, 1626-1684.	1674 (1674)	Wing S5346; ESTC R12101	149,512	318

injoined such penances as made to the prejudice of the sinners purse but their own profit Of the Exorbitances of these cloister'd Monks and Fryers many examples might be produced as of their Ribauldry Lechery Quarelling Fighting Idleness Cheating Thieving Debauchery Gluttony c. all maintain'd by the People's money but we will here content our selves with one instance only Cook 4 Insti c. 11. fo 112. King Edward the first about the latter end of his raign having collected a vast summ of money to carry on his warr against the Scots and layd it up in his Treasury at Westminster his Treasury was broken up in the night and one hundred thousand pounds in money besides Plate and Jewels stol'n out of it by the Abbot and Monks of Westminster and their confederates whereof eight and forty Monks with the Abbot were apprehended and sent Prisoners to the Tower and by Inquisition and examination of witnesses it appeared that divers of the Monks and other persons in the night time were seen often passing to and fro the Kings treasury Pat. 31 Ed. 1. m. 23. dors De inquirend de thesaurar Regis fracto and the Abby carrying bundles in their arms and laps and that they conveyed away by water great hampers that were very heavy and some part of the King's Plate and Jewels were found and seised in London and other places upon which the Monks were long detained in prison till afterwards released by the King 's special command when he repaired to Westminster to give thanks to God for his Victories over the Scots Matthew Westminster Matt. Westm An. 1303. a Monk of that Abby minceth this story of the Robbery of the Kings Treasury in favour of the Monks and sayes that only Ten of them were imprisoned when it appears by the Record that 48 of them Cook ut Supra with the Abbot were imprisoned and Indited for it And upon this occasion it was that the Court of Exchequer sometimes called the Novel Exchequer was new built Chanterys Free-Chappels and Colledges as they were instituted and employed spent and exhausted huge summs of money and revenues the purposes of which expence will appear in the brief description of the nature of those Foundations A Chantery so called à Cantando was a Chappel commonly annexed to some Parochial Chantery Collegiate or Chathedral Church endowed with Lands or some other yearly revenues for the maintenance of one or more Priests daily to sing Masse Vid. Stat. 37 H. 8. ca. 4. 1 Ed. 6. ca. 14. for the souls of the Donors or Founders and such others as they did appoint Now the exact number of all these in England cannot be known for they were very numerous but if at Mathematician measured Hercules by his foot a probable conjecture may be made of them from those which were founded in the Chathedral of St. Paul in London for in the second year of King Ed. the sixth a certificate was returned by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's to the King's Commissioners affirming that they had seven and forty Chanterys in that Church according to which proportion there was certainly a vast revenue swallowed up by them throughout the whole Kingdom For there was not a Cathedral or Collegiate Church in England but some number of Chanterys were founded in them and in many Parochial Churches also And if the modell of the Country Churches be observed very often some additional building or excrescence appears differing from the old or first Fabrick erected and used for these Chanterys And that the nature and use of these may be the better apprehended we will here specifie the Foundation and Ordination of one of them viz. Thomas de Pakinton in the year 1348. W. Duadale Amiq. Warw. in Chelmscote An. 22. Edward the third founded a Chantery at Chelmescote in Warwickshire and setled Lands and Tenements of a good value to maintain four Priests to sing Mass for his Lord the Earl of Warwick his Countess Children and Ancestors as also for himself his Parents Kinsfolks and their posterity and for the Souls of all faithful people deceased in manner following viz. Two of them which were to inhabite near the Chappel at Chelmscote every day to sing the Mattens of the day and of the blessed Lady with all Canonical hours distinctly and openly and to sing Mass daily viz. one of them every Sonday and on the great Festivals and on Monday the Mass of the holy Trinity Tuesday of St. Thomas the Martyr on Wednesday of St. Katherine and St. Margaret Thursday of Corpus Christi Friday of the holy Cross and Saturday of the Annunciation of our Lady The other Priest to celebrate every day the Mass of Requiem for the Souls of all faithful departed this life and in every Mass to say 7 Collects one of the celebration of the Mass the second for him the said Thomas de Pukinton viz. Deus qui Caritatis c. the third also for him after his death Deus cujus misericordiae c. the fourth of St. Thomas the Martyr the fifth of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin the sixth for the Souls of the deceased beginning with Inclina the seventh the general Collect which beginneth Sanctissima Dei genetrix Maria especially naming therein the said Earl his Countess and Children and him the said Thomas de Pakinton and all his kindred and upon all Holy dayes to say a Placebo and Dirige with special commendation of the Souls of the Persons before spoken of and the souls of all the faithful deceased Likewise he ordained that the other two Priests should live together near the Church and be daily present therein at Mattens and all other Canonical hours to joyn with the other Priests except just cause and hinderance happened and daily sing Mass at the Altar near his Fathers grave And that all these Priests before their admission to these Chanterys should take their corporal Oaths to observe all the Orders to their utmost power And this Ordination containing several other particulars was confirm'd by the Canons of Kenilworth Rectors of the Church by John de Chelmescote Vicar the Earl of Warwick and Bishop of Worcester Free-Chappels were such as were founded Free-Chappels and endowed and had no relation unto or dependance on a Mother-Church saving only the right of Sepulture and these were greater than Chanterys having greater Revenues and more room for Priests and more Priests for that room to fing Mass and pray for the souls of the Founders and others according to the institution Colledges were Foundations of like nature Colledges and though fewer in number yet were richer than both the former amongst which the Colledge of Fotheringhay Speed Catal. in Northampt. in Northamptonshire was yearly valued at four hundred nineteen pounds eleven shillings ten pence half-penny For the Offices and imployments of the Priests in these and the Free-Chappels maintained they were much of the nature of Chanterys of

which enough before Now the yearly value of all those Lands Tenements Rents and Revenues which were setled upon these Abbys Monasterys Nunnerys Chanterys Colledges and Free-Chappels without doubt was as vast as to us now unknown the Pope being better able to give an account of them at this day than we our selves for they say that Rentals and Particulars of all those Lands and revenues are still kept upon the file in the Pope's study that great Landlord of the world in expectation and hope they will once revert to their former use and behoof but the generous English will not easily be gull'd and they will not be wheadled by Romish Arguments out of their Estates In the next place Shrines Images Reliques c. Shrines Images Reliques Indulgences c. in a multitude of places within the Kingdom daily drew great summs out of the People's purses both in the procuring and purchasing and donation of such precious Commodities and in daily resorting to them afterwards with Vows and Offerings But these being of the same nature and ejusdem farinae with those at Rome and elsewhere of which enough before we will trouble you no more with them here So the Commanding Dispensations and forbidding many things wherein Dispensations might be had from Courts and Officers here as certain obstacles of marriage the use and difference of meats vows c. and all to be redeem'd for money Many wandring Mountebank Priests went up and down the Country Mountebank Priests preaching the lives of some holy men and Saints and promising the simple people that if they vowed themselves to those Saints and payd something in hand and such a yearly tribute they should be freed from such diseases as they desired The Bishops had divers wayes Bishops and Priests and Artifices to scrue money out of the Priests under them and then those Priests to heal themselves were forced to cheat and wring money out of the people Great Consecrations and frequent expences were had in Consecrating and hallowing of Churches Church-yards c. Baptizing of Bells making repairing apparelling and adorning of Images and such like matters for upon pretence that these or any of these were prophaned by several and trifling wayes then all must be consecrated anew and the Parish and the People Assessed and constrained to pay deeply for it And of this kind of grievances great complaints were often made Many Courts were also in England Courts to which citations and summons were made and therein People continually vexed tormented and excommunicated and thence dismissed never till excessive summs were extorted and payd the aggrieved partys not daring to appeal to Rome for fear of more excessive charges Nay the corruptions in and the grievances growing by these Courts as they were innumerable so no other way tolerable but that all was to be redeemed for money And one pretty trick the Ecclesiastical Judges had in these Courts that when the business of matrimony had proceeded so farr that one of the partys had pretended a Contract which the other denyed and that some gifts as earnests of love or marriage had passed between them the Ecclesiastical Judges separating the partys would keep the gifts for themselves as forfeited or escheated Visitors Visitors c. and Synodal Judges travelling about the Country with a numerous retinue of Advocates Proctors Notaries Registers Summoners Servants Apparitors and Officers under Colour of visiting of Churches Chappels and Parishes were a very great burden and charge to the People where ever they came scruing money upon every pretence out of their pockets as they pleased besides annual summs claimed as due making themselves stalking-horses whereby any man might satisfie his revenge or malice upon his Neighbour upon Complaint Suggestion or information of wrongs done or Canons broke whereupon sentences censures Condemnations and Excommunications with all rigour followed to the utter undoing of many men the inriching the Judges and Officers but never turning to any avail or satisfaction of the Complainant These Itinerants also extorted great summs as they pleased weekly monethly or yearly from Usurers Brokers Scriveners Bakers Butchers Victuallers Physitians Surgeons Midvives Schoolmasters c. Private Confessions Confessions as they were managed were the more frequently and excessively abused for the drawing moneys out of men in regard the cheat was closely handled whilst the Sinner's conscience was quieted and the world served with a publick penance or some visible addresses to these Confessors The new Doctrine Purgatory and invention of Purgatory bred by Superstition and nursed by Covetousness as it was managed became a most forceable engine continually to drain the People's money For when men were made to believe that after death their Souls should enter into a region of Fire there to suffer long and bitter torments to be purged and fitted for the region of bliss but yet to be eased there and the sooner released according to the measure and number of the Masses Offices and Prayers which should be made on their behalf here whilst they lay broiling in that fearful State People were put upon it to make the best provision they could in their life-time or at least at their deaths that such helps and means should be used on their behalf as they might reasonably reckon upon a short and tolerable continuance there To this purpose the Founding and Endowing of Monasteries Abbys Nunnerys by the best and richer sort and the Colledges Free-Chappels and Chanterys by the middle sort of people according to their respective abilitys and the apprehensions they had of this future State all pointed at the good of the Founder's soul after death and the souls of such others as he appointed of which we have had something before But then alas for those poor Creatures whose small estates and narrowness of fortunes would not reach to such provisions what would become of them These then were put to it to make the best shift they could for themselves by endeavouring in their life-time to get an interest in the favour and merit of some Saint and by purchasing and getting all the Indulgences they could for it was a very sad thing to leave all to chance or to trust to the voluntary intercession of others this would leave them at a great uncertainty and in articulo mortis make the poor Soul shift its mansion in a most fearful apprehension and horrour Indeed Sir Thomas Moore was so Charitable a Sollicitor for these poor Souls Sr. Thomas More 's Supp●ication of souls In imitation of Gerson's quer●●a defunctorum in igne Purgatrorio ad Supersites amico● Pars 4 oper Coll. 959. that he drew up a most Pathetical Supplication for them and presented it in their names thus To all good Christen people in most piteous wise continually calleth and cryeth upon your devout Charity and tender pitie for help comfort and relief your late acquaintance kindred Companions Spouses Playfellows and friends and now your humble