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saint_n	church_n	holy_a	relic_n	1,462	5	10.0599	5	false

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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

parrallel so that it may be justly accounted one of the greatest wonders in the World Besides the charges of rich Vestiments massy Vessels of gold and silver and other precious furniture it stood the King of Spain according to his book of Accounts in 1200 Sesterces which makes according to somes computation about 9 millions of money or pounds sterling Likewise it is credibly reported that when the work was finished and the Officers brought the book of Accounts the King hearing the total of Accounts said I have taken great care many years and troubled my head much heretofore to have that finished I will now trouble my head no longer with the Charges wherefore he commanded the Book of the Accounts to be cast into the fire The whole Fabrick is built in a square except on that side towards the Kings Palace and on the back side of the Church looking towards Madrid which seems to resemble a Cradle or Gridiron upon which St. Laurence was broiled Every side but this extending 220 paces Some account the whole length of it from North to South no less than 720 feet and from East to West according to common measure 570 paces Each corner of the Building is guarded with a fair Tower made more for neatness than strength and beautified from the bottom to the top with many fair Windows The whole Fabrick may be divided into three parts On the South side stands the Monastery of the Monks of St. Ierom which takes up almost one half of it Towards the North side stands the Colledg for younger Novices of the same Order and foreign Children chosen and maintained by the King at a common table amongst themselves Somewhat Eastward stands the Kings own Palace being his Mansion in the Summer time Before you come to this stately Edifice you may first observe on the outside lying before it an open walk beginning from the West side of the Monastery and thence compssiang all the North side being 200 foot broad on the West part between the Monastery and the Partition and 140 foot broad on the North all beautified with a fair pavement of small square stones In the midst according to the length of the Building on that side where the adjoyning mountain overlooks it a fair great Gate opens it self between 8 huge Pillars on both sides of it one above another upon which are four other lesser Pillars and in the midst of the front stands a curious Statue of St. Laurence This great Gate opens to the Church the Monastery and the Colledg on both sides of it are other lesser gates that on the right hand affords a passage to the Shops of Mechanical arts for the use of the Colledg that on the left opens a way to the lodgings of the younger Students or Novices On the same side also is a lesser gate through which you may pass into the Kings Palace In a fair front over the entrance to the Church stand the Statues of 6 Kings of Israel upon their Pillars and Bases each of them 18 foot high whose heads and hands are of white Marble the rest of a courser stone Let us now enter into the inside of this goodly Fabrick and first when you are up the stairs that lead to the chief entrance of the Church a large open walk offers it self to your view separating the Monastery from the Colledg In this walk are broad steps all along which lead to the entrance of the Church and thence to another open Plain and so to a narrow Alley through which those of the Monastery on the one hand and those of the Colledg on the other may pass to the Church and from thence into the lower station of the Quire Now the place where this Quire stands is 4 square have 3 which are accounted for the body of the Church Adjoyning to this place of the lowermost Quire is an open Court on both sides from which the lower Quire it self and 2 Chappels situated towards those 2 Courts receive their light Above this lower Quire stands the Church it self with its proper Quire also which Church besides the upper and lower stations of the Quire and the great Chappel is 4 square of it self and is sustain'd by 4 Pillars and other necessary props and it hath 3 collateral Alleys and Cloysters after the manner of the former In this Church are 2 pair of Organs having each of them 32 registers or keys this Church also hath no less than 36 Altars and a stately Dore by which they go into a large vault at the time of divine Orisons This Church is higher then the inferior Quire by 30 foot and the Quire of that is so much higher then the Church The pavement of the Church as likewise of the upper and lower Quires is chequered with white and black Marble In the roof of the Quire is painted the Sun Moon and Stars with all the hoste of Heaven in a most glorious manner and on the Walls the portraitures of diverse vertues and some histories of St. Laurence and St. Hierom The seats are all made of precious wood of diverse kinds and colours in Corinthian work On the South side of the Church is a fair Porch arched and beautified with diverse pictures in this Porch is a clear fountain built about with Iasper and Marble having 7 cocks and cisterns where the Monks use to wash their hands when they go to celebrate their divine Service the pavement also of this Porch is chequered with white and black Marble The Vestry is next a stately place all arched and paved as the former The Chests and Presses and other places where they keep their holy Vests and Ornaments of the Altars are all made of precious wood and the walls covered with historical pictures From this Vestry they ascend up many steps unto the high Altar The place where this Altar stands is 4 square and paved with Iasper of diverse colours in the same place are certain Oratories built for great Princes to hear Mass in which Oratories are distinguished into 4 little Chappels and adorned both on the walls and pavement with chequer'd Iasper This place where the Altar stands is 10 foot higher then the Church and they go down from thence to the Church by certain steps before the great Chappel all of Iasper Through this Holy Place as they call it they go into the Reliquary where are kept diverse precious reliques of the Saints forsooth and shut up in their Boxes The like Reliquary is on the South side also full of rare monuments On the one side of the High-Altar is a little house wherein is distributed the holy Eucharist a place of great holiness and devotion surely on the walls are curiously painted 4 histories out of the old Testament shadowing out this holy Sacrament in the roof is portrayed the Rainbow in the Clouds with many Cherubins and Seraphims about it Between this House and the High-Altar stands the Sacrista within which is the Custodia of the holy

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