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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

before the Image of our Lady of Atocha for Gods sake Now this fellow is either their seruant and hath a daily weekly or a monthly pension of them for his maintenance or else he is one that paies them a yeerely rent for it I omit also to speake of what infinite summes of mony is sent vnto them daily hourely out of euery corner of Spaine to fay Masses before this Lady I thinke in my conscience that this goodly Image doth bring in yeerely one way or another aboue foure or fiue thousand pound sterling to this one Cloister of Dominican Friers which are most commonly one hundred and fifty To conclude there is neuer a Cloister of Friers as well of this Order as of other Orders but they haue one Image or other to deceiue the silly ignorant people of their money as I meane to shew God willing more fully hereafter for I doe purpose to speake more at large of their rotten Reliques and other popish trash in another Pamphlet These Dominican Friers doe get an infinite summe of money with the Fraternity of the Rosary for euery one of the Lay-people of either Sex that is of their Fraternity must pay them a good round summe for their first admittance and a certaine annuall summe to say Masses for themselues their friends and the soules in Purgatory and these fooles are to haue nothing for their money but to be partakers of the superabundant merits of these Friers which they call Supererogations that is to say Good workes that the Friers haue performed ouer and aboue that which they are obliged to merit the Kingdome of Heauen for themselues and the brethren and sisters of their Fraternity And withall they haue procured many Pardons Priuileges and Indulgences from seuerall Popes for themselues and for the Nuns that are of their Order and withall for all the brethren and sisters of their fraternity as may appeare by the Copies of the Popes Bulls which are fixed vpon Posts and Pillars in their Churches Yea for euery Masse that is said vpon any of their priuileged Altars they draw one silly soule by the heeles out of purgatory if all be true that they say I shewed you before how Dominick and his Mates were Murderers let vs now descend and suruey his ghostly children and how they haue behaued themselues all this while whom if you view well you shall finde not to be inferiour to their bloudy Patron but to haue exceeded him for he murdered but a company of poore silly people but his Friers haue not spared Emperours and Kings whereof I could bring you many examples but for breuity sake I will content me onely with two or three referring the Reader to the Histories of seuerall Nations written by men of their owne Religion and are extant to this day A Frier of this Order poisoned the Emperour Henry the seuenth in the Sacrament or their breaden god Another Frier of this same Order poisoned the Emperour Henry of Lutzenburgh likewise in the Sacrament at the command of Pope Clement the fifth The reason was as Baptista Ignatius and Sleidan affirme because the Emperour grew too strong in Italy But these Friers got not much by the bargaine for many of them were afterwards slaine by the Emperours Souldiers Iames Clement another Frier of this holy Order did most shamefully murder King Henry the third of France which fact was not onely ratified and allowed of at Rome but highly commended by the Popes sweet holinesse and others for Mariana one of their Writers saith That that young man meaning the said Frier Iames Clement being of a simple spirit and weake body but one in whom a greater vertue had confirmed strength and courage got himselfe no small renowne by killing that King accounting it a memorable act And hee accuseth them of barbarousnesse and cruelty Meaning the Suizers of the Kings Guard that comming gaue so many blowes to a man that was dead before And withall he assureth that in his face it might haue beene read how ioyfull and glad he was amidst all his blowes and wounds that with his bloud he had bought the liberty of his Country for he had learned saith he of Diuines Iesuites and Friers with whom he had consulted that the Tyrant meaning the King might iustly be killed Vide Mariana in 2. Regum lib. 1. cap. 6. pag. 53. 54. O infamous and peruerse wretched Writer doest thou commend that villanous Traitor that murdered his naturall Soueraigne O detestable crime and so horrible that there is not a name so cruell or abominable as may sufficiently expresse it Damnable Monks Friers and Iesuites doe you reade in the holy Scriptures that it is lawfull for any one to murder I say not only his King but euen the basest man on earth The Law of God forbiddeth vs to defile our hands in humane bloud And God also commandeth in the Booke of Deuteronomy to take the Homicide from the very Altar and to slay him but as for Kings he hath giuen a particular priuiledge as the Lord saith by the mouth of the Psalmist You shall not touch mine anointed much more you shall not kill him Dauid also forbare to lay hands vpon King Saul his enemie albeit he had him at aduantage Did the Apostle teach you to murder Kings when hee said Obedite praepofitis vestris etiam discolis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dare you thus tread vnder feet the Law of God to which in words you vaunt your selues though falsly to bee so zealously affectionate Shame fall vpon you mischieuous and traiterous Hypocrites are not your Monasteries and Churches Sanctuaries for Murderers Deny it if you can The very Pagans shall condemne you in the latter day for albeit they were ignorant and knew not God yet they carried such respect vnto the Princes of their lands as to tearme them in reuerence the liuing portraiture of the supreme Diuinity Hearken what one of their Poets said Rex est Imago animata Dei If they be wicked yet you ought to obserue this good aduertisement which one giueth Principes boni voto quidem expetendi quale cunque tolerandi sunt But leauing these Traitors to their wickednesse I returne now to the matter Frier Iohn de Roma another good religious man of this Order and one of the Inquisitors of Spaine did prosecute the poore Protestants of Mirandula and other places of Spaine that he caused Boots to be filled with scalding hot Oile and drew them on their legs both to bring them to confession and to confesse where their mony lay hid At Chalon in France there liued in a Couent of this Order two reuerend Fathers that were in outward shew like Angels of Heauen neuerthelesse they loued the female Sex so well that they made them a Caue in a Rocke not farre from the City to entertaine two young whores where they purposed to performe their Monasticall vow of Chastity But their often walking from their Cloister to this sanctified Caue