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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35032	A short narrative of the discovery of a college of Jesuits at a place called the Come in the county of Hereford which was sent up unto the Right Honorable the Lords assembled in Parliament at the end of the last sessions / by the Right Reverend Father in God Herbert, Lord Bishop of Hereford ... ; to which is added a true relation of the knavery of Father Lewis, the pretended bishop of Landaffe, now a prisoner in Monmouth gaol.	Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing C6977; ESTC R31314	5,342	24

A Short NARRATIVE Of the Discovery of a College of Jesuits At a Place called the COME In the County of HEREFORD Which was sent up unto the Right Honorable The LORDS Assembled in PARLIAMENT at the End of the last Sessions by the Right Reverend Father in God HERBERT Lord Bishop of Hereford according to an Order sent unto him by the said Lords to make diligent Search and return an Account thereof To which is added A true Relation of the Knavery of Father LEWIS The Pretended Bishop of Landaffe Now a Prisoner in Monmouth Gaol London Printed by T. N. for Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1679. A short Narrative of the Discovery of a College of Iesuits at a place called The Come in the County of Hereford Together with an Account of the Knavery of Father Lewis the pretended Bishop of Landaffe c. IN the Parish of Llanro●hall in the County of Hereford there are two Houses called The Upper and Lower Comes or Middle and Lower Comes with a walled Court before each of them having Lands belonging to them worth about Threescore pounds per Annum they pay Taxes at Eight and fifty pounds per Annum This Estate did formerly belong to Edward Lord Marquis of Worcester who by his Lease dated Novemb. 10. in the Twelfth year of King Charles the I. did Lett it for Fourscore and nineteen years to one William Morton who dying left it to one Robert Hutton living in St. Giles's in the Fields London stiled Merchant which Hutton hath by his Lease dated the second day of February 1677. and sealed and delivered in the presence of William Ireland Iohn Fenwick I. Groves set the Lower Come to one William Williams for One and twenty years at Forty pounds per Annum And he hath likewise m de a Letter of Attorney to one Peter Pullen a Servant intrusting him with the management of the Profits of both the Comes which is dated the 27th day of April 1678. and the Witnesses to it are W. Ireland Io. Fenwick and William Cornelius One of these Houses is a fair gentile House wherein there are six lodging Chambers each one a convenient Study to it with a Standish left in them besides several other lodging Rooms The other House is also a good Countrey House with several Chambers and Studies to some of them all in very good repair But the Furniture now removed we cannot yet find whither The remaining Dwellers in the House who were but Under-Servants will not confess They are apparently Perjured For they flatly denied upon Oath several things which were made out by others and then they confessed them There are One and twenty Chimnies in both Houses and a great many Doors to go in and out at and likewise many private Passages from one Room to the other These Houses are seated at the bottom of a thick woody and rocky Hill with several hollow places in the Rocks wherein Men may conceal themselves and there is a very private Passage from one of the Houses into this Wood. In one of these Houses there was a Study found the Door thereof very hardly to be discovered being placed behind a Bed and plaistred over like the Wall adjoining in which was found great store of Divinity Books and others in Folio and Quarto and many other lesser Books several Horse-loads but they are not yet brought to me it being Christmas Holy-days but they remain in a safe hand many whereof are written by the principal learned Jesuits And there were found two Paper Books in Folio in the Front of one written Ordinationes variae pro Collegio Sancti Xaverii Xaverius was the Co-founder with Ignatius of the Jesuits Order and his Picture was there set up Ordinationes doth not here signifie Ordination as we commonly understand it but Orders and Rules sent from the Generals of the Jesuits Carassa and Paulus Oliva to the Jesuits here inhabiting as also Instructions from the Provincials of the Jesuits living in London unto those here The other Paper Book contains the great Benefactors being Queens Princes Nobles and several others of this and divers other Nations who have contributed towards the Foundation of Iesuit Colleges or the Maintenance of them and likewise the number of Masses appointed to be said for their Souls There was also found a Latin Book in Folio declaring That there is in London a College dedicated to S t Ignatius with Revenues belonging to it for the Iesuit Novices in the time of Probation One in Wales which I suppose are these two Houses dedicated to S t Xaverius A third is the Book saith in Staffordshire or Lancashire dedicated to S t Aloysius another prime Iesuit which Colleges when England shall be reduced to the Obedience of the Pope shall never be altered as this Book directs This printed Book and the other two Paper Books in Folio I have There are about Fifteen or Sixteen several printed Books containing the Decrees of the several Congregations of that Society at Rome that contain onely the Rules of the Society of Iesus There are several Books lately written and printed against the Protestant Religion and many small Popish Catechisms printed and tyed up in a bundle and some Welsh Popish Books lately printed and some Popish Manuscripts fairly and lately written Likewise there is a Picture of Ignatius Loiola the Founder of the Society and the most remarkable Actions and pretended Miracles of his Life not only written in printed Books but in Pictures in several sheets which Pictures refer to Ribadeneira's Book of Loiola's Life There is a loose Paper dated the First day of March 1652. it seems this was then founded a College in which directions were given that an Account of the Revenue and Disbursments should be sent yearly to the College in Rome It is there also mentioned that the same year there were baptized 34 reconciled to the Church of Rome 155 a great number of those that were fallen from the Church and regained 15 and other matters One Letter seems written by the Provincial to them of this House wherein Complaint is made That there was not Care enough taken to send Young Men to Rome to be there bred up in the English College and for which he saith the Pope was much displeased and threatned to take away their College there and fill it up with Scholars of some other Nation and Order In one of these Houses lived a mean Servant called Peter Pullen a Papist yet entrusted with the management of these Houses and Estates for Eight years past as he confesseth and was entrusted to receive a Rent of 30 l. per Annum from an Estate called Amberley in the Parish of Monmouth and another Rent of 18 l. per Annum from an Estate called Langunuill in the Parish of Dixton in the County of Monmouth and to manage them also part whereof defrayed the Expences of the College as appears in part by an Account Book where