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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19025	The parricide papist, or Cut-throate Catholicke A tragicall discourse of a murther lately committed at Padstow in the countie of Cornewall by a professed papist, killing his owne father, and afterwardes himselfe, in zeale of his popish religion. The 11 of March last past. 1606. Written by G Closse, preacher of the word of God at Blacke Torrington in Deuon.	Closse, George.	1606 (1606)	STC 5441; ESTC S118612	8,015	26

relapsed Catholicke againe and as busie as other Waspes of that swarme consorted with the crew of other corner-creepers in obscure Caues to doe seruice to the Prince of darknesse And although Iames the Father of thē said Inigo Ieanes often disswaded him from those dangerous courses which the seuerity of the Lawes would sharply correct yet he desperately running on and resolued to persist not only refused to obey the admonitions of his father but became an earnest perswader that hee would permit them a place of secrecie in his house for the exercise of their idolatrous massings The Father whether fearing God or the Law more I omit to censure still constantly contradicted his sonnes vnreasonable and vnseasonable request alleaging that at this time Lawes were making in y e Parliament to punish Popery more seuerely then euer heretofore and that vpon iust occasion of the late discouerie of so damnable a stratageme as was neuer plotted against any Christian or Heathen state and therfore in some round termes as it seemed checked reiected his peeuish sonnes Popish petition But he in the franticke spirit of a Papist hastily tooke vp a club or beetle where-with they vsed to cleaue wood and rudely O let me studie a more apt word for such sauage inhumanitie barbarously assailed his owne naturall Father and strooke him violentlie on the head to the ground And doubting that hee had not throughly dispatched him tooke vp a barre of yron strooke him with maine force and brake his backe so that hee presently died of those wounds Then this Inigo Ieanes leauing his Father groueling on the ground and wallowing in his owne blood immediatly fled to a Chappell called Saint Sauiours neere Padstowe and hastily vnclothing himselfe with a bad and blunt knife adding all his force thereto gastly in two or three places gashed his own belly athwart that his bowels were to be seene The Mother of the saide Inigo shortly after comming into her Garden and finding her husband thus cruelly murthered and vtterly dismaid there-with came into the house enquiring for her sonne Inigo Ieanes and finding him fledde away she caused another of her sonnes and some other messenger to seek him who comming vnto the foresaid Chappell of Saint Sauiours found him there leaning to one of his hands most greeuouslie wounded Vpon some speeches and conference the said Inigo confessed the murthering of his father and wounding himselfe and was very desirous to speake with Maister Nicholas Prideaux then and nowe high Sherieffe of Cornwall dwelling neere the said Towne of Padstow to the intent he might reueale some speciall matters vnto him where-with it seemed his conscience was surcharged And being brought vnto his presence hee instantlie made knowne vnto him how he had been seduced by the foresaid Manfill vnto his erronious Religion and that the same morning himselfe with seauen men eyght women more had been at Masse at one Richard Hores house of S. Eruin Heerevpon the said Maister Prideaux sent for three other Iustices of the Peace next adioyning namely Maister Arundell of Trerise Maister Michell and Maister Cosworth Esquires to whom vpon further examination he confessed all that is before declared and that he had beene there-vnto drawne mooued by the instigation of the deuill and seeming very sorrowfull for the fact after some two or three daies languishing departed this life And so wee will leaue him to the tribunall seate of the most righteous and All-seeing Iudge to be censured Before I proceed further in examining the innumerable impieties in this one fact comprised I may not omit to note vnto y e world what a blinde sencelesse guide they had for theyr Priest that from such a director no hope of better fruites could bee conceiued This paltry Popeling was well knowne a little before to be a badde and rude Schoolemaister and a fellow of such noted stupidity that young Gentlemen seruingmen and others for an exercise and recreation would practise to haue him stand still whiles they with all theyr force quoyted sbillings or testernes at his blockish browe which for a small peece of mony he would as quietly endure as if a Stoicall stupidity had possessed his braines and body euen till his face and fore-head was often-times most grieuouslie gashed moouing many beholders to pittie him which did not pitty himselfe This Dorus was now lately become like one of Ieroboams Priests taken as one out of the basest of the people consecrated with the Popes vnguent a priest of the deuill or Masse-monging Catholick This calfe of Dan beeing now become a Bell-wether to the scabbed flocke it is doubted whether the sheepe infected him more with the hope of hire to become a Micahs priest or hee with his Ramme-like forehead had hardned the faces of his flock vnto this extreame impudencie and impiety but sure the prouerbe was well shared amongst them such a priest such people Theyr mother was Atheisme theyr nurse Ignorance Darknes theyr dwelling and Confusion theyr inheritance Let me returne to our seraphicall Doctors of Rome which accuse all the world but thēselues of impurity and let them answere me in earnest shall wee know the tree by the fruites iudge of the soundnes of the profession by the workes of the professors Will you try vs not by rules of Diuinitie but examples of Diuines Looke vpon this patterne peruse this picture of your Parricide Papist whose offence is taxed not as hee is a man falling through infirmitie but as he is a Papist erring wilfully no passion but his profession no hope of gaine but blind deuotion no reason but his vnreasonable Religion plunged him into these execrable enormities It is your religion that hath dubbed you man-quellers king quellers selfe-quellers Are you not Parricides alas your maisters are not like Peter that forsooke his Maister repenting did counteruaile his triple deniall with a three-fold confession of him but as your Legend noteth of Iudas that had murthered his father and cōmitted incest with his mother and became Christes disciple for a cullour to shadowe his horrible impieties and betraying his maister lastly hanged himselfe such succession rightly correspondeth with your Popedome by bloodsheds they are hatched grow great and strengthen themselues Phocas murthered his Maister the Emperor Mauritius and was it not the first surest step to the Romish Popedome But it may be you can allow this lay Parricide to murther Princes for establishment of a Popedome Your holy Fathers Popes Bishops haue by sundry poysonings some lost their liues and places others gained them how approue you this spirituall parricide Christian Kinges and Princes are designed to destruction by your holy Popes ordinances is it no Parricide The Prince of Orenge the french-French-King deceassed murthered by Papists and he that now raigneth assailed to be slaughtered by your vnhallowed hands will not all men abhor these portentuous parricides King Iohn of England long agoe poysoned by Monks our late renowned Maiden