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A08896	Fiscus papalis. Siue, Catalogus indulgentiarum & reliquiarum septem principalium ecclesiarum vrbis Romæ. Ex vetusto manuscripto codice vere & fideliter descriptus. = A part of the Popes exchequer, that is A catalogue of the indulgences and reliques belonging to the seauen principall churches in Rome. Laying downe the spirituall riches and infinite treasure which (as sure as the Pope is holy & true) are to be found in the Catholike Roman Church, whereof the poore heretikes in England haue not one mite. Taken out of an antient manuscript, and translated. Together with certaine notes and comments explaining the more difficult place, for the ease and helpe of good Catholikes, who had best goe to Rome, to trie the vertue of the glorious indulgences. By a Catholike diuine.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1617 (1617)	STC 19174; ESTC S114000	84,865	184

in the Church of Saint Paul IN the Church of Saint Paul the halfe part of the bodies of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul which Saint Siluester equally deuided by weight as we heard before vpon a certaine altar which is in the Church of Saint Peter in the yeare from the natiuitie of our Lord three hundred and nineteene and the other halfe was left at the second Church of Saint Peter There is also in this Church of Saint Paul the head of the first Martir Saint Steeuen 6 What if any other place say that they haue Saint Steuens his head No great matter for that the Church of Rome hath power to multiply at her pleasure and to doe many fine trickes besides to the great edification of deuout Catholickes And there is also one of the armes of Saint Anne the mother of Marie the Virgin There is also a Cloyster of Munkes scituated without the wales which hath a Church consecrated to the honor of Saint Eustachius this Cloister is commonly called the Cloister by the three fountaines And there is also in the same Church the piller vpon which Saint Paul was beheaded 7 A very pretious relicke doubtlesse for they that loued Saint Paul cannot but make much of the blocke wh●reon hee was beheaded The Lutherans and Caluinists seely fooles doe make much of Saint Pauls Epistles as being a better Relicke of him let the poore asses alone with their Epistles and them with his Epistles The holy Roman Church where wisdome dwels knowes that it had beene better for her if some of them had neuer beene written and therefore lets them lie in Libraries and commends to her children this holy relicke of the blocke on which his head was striken off for this shee is sure will teach nor breed no heresie as Saint Pauls Epistles haue done too many Indulgences belonging to the foresaid Cloister of the Church of Saint Paul IT is written of the foresaid Church that Pope Vrbane gaue and granted to all men penitent and truly contrite and confessed that shall repaire to the said Church in the vigills of blessed Marie the Virgin the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and of the Apostles and Euangelists and of Saint Marie Magdalen and of Saint Katherine and of Saint Agatha and Saint Agnes and Saint Lucie Saint Margaret and of the holie Martir Saint Laurence Saint Vincent and Saint Anastasius And also in the Octaues of the said feasts or vpon any Sunday through the whole yeare or in the dedication for euery day of the foresaid solemnities three thousand yeares of pardon And as many were giuen by Pope Siluester and as many by Pope Nicholas Also Gregorie the Pope granted as many to all and singular Pilgrims that shall come to the said Church at any time of the yeare or that for the 8 Here a penitent hath 9000 yeares of pardon for once visiting the Church is not here a roiall recompence for so litlit labour Oh thrice blessed Romans that liue so neere reuerence of Paul the Apostle shall come to the Cloister of the salt waters otherwise called the three fountaines either to pray there or as a pilgrim to visite it or for any other deuotion All men so doing shall haue released or forgiuen their sins forgotten the vowes broken their offences against father or mother vnlesse they did lay violent hands vpon them Furthermore vnto the same Church there doe belong of old 9 See how anticent the giuing of Indulgences is for these be giuen of old saith this blessed booke a thousand and fortie yeares of pardon Moreouer it is written and recorded in that Church of Saint Marie at the salt waters aforesaid That vpon the day of the consecration of the said Church there is true 10 Yea certainely as true remission is there of all sinnes as the bread in the Priests hands is the true transubstantiat body of Christ or as the maffe is a true expiatory sacrifice or as the Pope is the true Vikar of Christ But whereas the Caluinists loudly laugh and say that if in other places where it is said there is remission there bee not true remission then the people are deluded and if there bee then this word here is an idle boast No matter what they prace they be heretickes remission of all sins and that is vpon the nine and twentie of the month of Ianuarie Likewise there is a certaine Chappell of the said Church which is called the Ladder of Heauen as it is written in the Chronickles of the Citie of Rome where wee also finde that the said holie Chappell was builded in the honour of blessed Marie the Virgin vnder the High Altar of this Chappell there rest the bodies of tenne thousand holy Martires that were souldiers in the time of Tyberius the Emperor 11 Behold another wonder 10000. souldiers that were Christians in one army in the time of Tiberius immediatly after Christ The Scripture tells vs of no such wonders for there the beleeuers are reckoned in fewer quantities but the Catholicke traditions of the Roman Church supply the defects and wants that be in the Scriptures and the Catholicke cause were in a faire case indeed if nothing might bee beleeued but that is in the scripture or gathered from it as these foolish Heretikes would haue it And what Priest soeuer shall deuoutly celebrate one masse at the said altar for the liuing and the dead with a pure conscience and a contrite heart shall haue remission of all his sinnes both from the punishment the fault and shall deliuer one soule out of purgatorie 12 See what a happy thing it is for a man to liue in Rome for its impossible he should euer come in purgatory if hee list to auoide it for how easie is it to get a Priest say Masse at this altar for him But all the difficulty will bee say the Caluinists in getting a Priest with a pure Conscience for such it is said are not common in Rome Oh idle Heretikes as who say in the holy City and so neere his Holinesse can be suffered any but holy Priests for though they goe at noone day to the Stewes can they not goe afore night to confesse it and so bee made as pure as they were the day they were baptized Certainely if Cardinall Poole and his fellow committees had remembred regarded this they would not in their report they made to Paul the third of the abuses in the Church haue held it so foule a matter that Priests of Rome and Cardinals Chaplaines doe at noone day goe to Whores for as for Cardinals themselues they goe modestly in the night time vnlesse it be in the Carniuall Seeing that a wife being forbidden them as a most vnholy and vnlawfull thing therefore they vse this but as a conuenient remedy to keepe them from that foule sinne of marriage which by the Catholicke teachers Iesuits and others is concluded to bee in them a farre greater sinne

but good Catholickes seeing they know not what to say to it they are silent and hope all is well and for the matter doe beleeue as the Church beleeues Also in the same Chappell there is the third part of that pillar at which our Lord Iesus was whipped in Pilats house And in this Chappell there is euery day to bee had remission of all a mans sinnes But into this Chappell women may not enter 6 It seemes strange that still women may not come in the the holy places where remission of all sinnes is seeing the good natured courtizans of Rome are so kinde to the Clergy of Rome that they bid them welcome whether they come by day or by night Or else belike women there need not to goe to these holy places for remission for that the Priests when they goe from them doe giue them absolution as part of their wages I say as part for seeing the poore women doe pay a rent to his holinesse weekely good reason they haue some thing else by which to raise their rents and to liue by their trade But let these goe good Catholickes doe more wonder why honest and godly Matrons may not enter into those places seeing Paul tels vs that in Christ there is no difference betwixt Male and Female But no matter what Saint Paul saith that must not trouble the conscience of a good Catholicke Hee must consider what the Church deliuers and what the Pope teacheth that must hee harken and trust vnto and not trouble his head further with Scripture matters for that is very dangerous But howsoeuer the dames of Rome maynot go in yet it is credibly hoped that if our English Catholicke Ladies would leaue this hereticall dunghill of England and come themselues to the holy City of Rome his holinesse would be so fauourable and gratious to them as to giue them leaue to enter into those most holy places for great is the loue that his holinesse beares to our nation for hee loues our men our women nay for baser things hee loues our siluer and gold and any thing that comes from thence Oh that our Catholicke Ladies would goe thither CAP. 12. Indulgentiae Beatae Mariae maioris IN Ecclesia Beatae Mariae maioris ibi sunt omni die xlviij anni Indulgent tot carenae terciae partis omnium peccatorum remissio Item in omnibus festiuitatibus virginis Mariae in Natiuitate domini in Resurrectione domini in festo Laurencij sunt ibi mille anni Indulgent Etiam in festo omnium Sanctorum est ibi omnium peccatorum remissio Itē in festo assūptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis vsque ad eius natiuitatē sunt omni die xiiij anni Indulgentiarum tot carenae tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio Omnes istae Indulgentiae in quadragesima duplicantur Reliquiae predicta Ecclesiae ITem in summo altari requiescit corpus Sancti Mathai Apostoli in alio altari a dextro latere corpus Sancti Hieronimi ibi sunt aliae multae reliquiae quiae in die paschae ostenduntur Item ibi est cunabulum Christi Item de ligno sanctae Crueis Item de lacte capillis ac vestimentis Beatae Mariae Virginis alia vestis in qua Sanctus Hieronimus celebrauit missam Item brachium sancti Lucae Euangelistae Itam de reliquijs Sanctorum Cosmae Damiani Itaem brachium sancti Thomae Cantuarien Martiris de vestibus eiusdem Item ibi est vna Image Beatae Mariae Virginis facta per manus Beati Lucae Item panniculus sanctissimi corporis Virginis Mariae quem filius eius Dominus noster Iesus Christus nascendo secum adduxit in illo velut in quodam pallio inuolutus qui in Tabernaculo argenteo lapidibus preciosis ornatus retinetur inclusus Item de feno in quo iacuit Iesus in presepio siti ortus CHAP. 12. Indulgences belonging to the Church of Saint Marie the greater IN the Church of Saint Marie the greater there be euery day eight and fortie yeares of pardon and as manie quarentens and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes Also vpon all and euery the feast daies of Saint Marie and of the birth and resurrection of our Lord and vpon the feast day of Saint Laurence in all and euery of these daies there are to be had in this Church a thousand yeares of pardon and vpon the feast of all Saints there is full remission of all sinnes Also in the feast of the assumption of our Ladie and so from thence vntill the feast of her Natiuitie there are euery day foureteene yeares of pardon and as many quarentens and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes And all these Indulgences how many or how great soeuer are doubled in Lent Relikes in the said Church IN the high altar of that Church lieth the body of Saint Mathew the Apostle and in another altar on the right side thereof the body of Saint Hierome and there be also many other relikes which are alwaies shewed openly to the people on Easter day Also there is the Cradle that Christ lay in Also some of the wood of the holy Crosse Also some of the milke and of the haire and of the apparell of the blessed Virgin Mary there is also the vestment in which Saint Hieorme vsed to say Masse Also there is an arme of Saint Luke the Euangelist Also some of the relikes of the holy Saints Cosmus and Damian Furthermore there is in the same Church an arme of Saint Thomas the Martire of Canterbury and some of his rayment 7 See how his holinesse loues the English nation euen so much as he makes great account of an arme of Thomas a Becket who you know in England is held a traytor Moreouer there is an Image of the blessed Virgin Marie with Saint Luke tooke and made with his owne hands Also there is the very skinne or pannikle that came out of the most holy body of the Virgin Mary which her sonne Iesus Christ our Lord in his birth brought with him from her in which he was wrapt as in a coate 8 Heere is a strange relike for where as all women vse to burne that skinne as soone as the child is borne its maruailous that the Virgin Mary preserued hers and if she would it is strange how shee could doe it But it is to be thought by all good Catholikes that some Angell tooke it and laide it vp safe till the time came that the holy father of Rome knewe how to make profitable vse of it which Christ himselfe that brought it into the world with him nor his Apostles neuer knew and this pannickle is laide vp and kept close in a siluer Tabernacle or Cabinet set with many pretious stones Also there is some of that very hay it selfe in which Iesus lay in the Cratch or Manger when he was borne 9 Good Catholickes must not doubt but

and since him Villamont d Villamont therefore no good Catholicke may doubt of the truth and validity hereof vnlesse hee will deny such grounds as may not without mortall sin be cald in question b Here be not all but a great part and yet there bee in one Church 33000 yeares of pardon for once going vp one paire of staires and in another Church is to be had within the compasse of one yeare more then two and twenty hundred thousand yeares of pardon Oh what a glorious treasure the Pope is Lord of his Exchequer is neuer empty and what silly fooles are the Heretickes to depriue themselues they know not of what c We read say the Caluinists in the fathers of bookes Canonicall and the Papists tell vs of houres Canonicall but of any booke called by the name of Canonicall it selfe or any thing else so called they might do well to haue told vs more plainly and particularly for Possevine the Iesuite their good friend who takes vpon him so exactly to describe all Authors and their bookes speaking of this Silvester mentioneth no such Booke therfore take heed this Canonicall proue not some Apocriphal hidden and forged story Thus prate the Heretickes out of their ignorance and presumption not knowing that the holy and authenticall Canon law of the Pope teacheth in the Decree that the Popes Decretall Epistles are numbred amongst Canonicall Scriptures but these Caluinists care little it seemes what the Popes law saith they are all for Scripture Scripture and that makes them such Heretickes as they be d If this be true that there were in Siluesters time 1505 Churches in Rome how comes it to passe say the Heretickes that the greater number is now defaced it cannot bee said to bee done in time of persecution for in Siluesters time the persecutions of the Heathen were all ceased What then hath Popish deuotion puld downe the Churches that the persecutions left standing Hath Rome been Gods Church and Gods house all these yeares and yet puld downe aboue 800 Churches They accuse Protestants of pulling downe Churches but they cannot shew so many puld downe in this whole kingdome as here they haue done in one Citie And for these that are downe mens corruptions not our religion tooke them away sauing some few which being needlesse and superfluous others or more in places more needfull haue been erected for them But if any good Catholicke heare any Hereticke babling on this fashion stoppe his mouth presently and tell him that their Churches beeing Hereticall Churches therefore the more the worse e None may say Masse at these Altars but the Pope or those that haue license from him but hee tels vs not say the Caluinists who may preach in their Pulpits An idle obiection and so let all good Catholickes hold it for what is Preaching to a Masse euen nothing at all nay it s hard to say whether the Roman Church hath got more good by Masses or hurt by preaching and therefore let all deuout Catholickes neuer stumble at it if in all Catholicke bookes they finde the altar so much spoken of and the pulpit so little the Altar so magnified and the Pulpit set aside for his Holinesse well knoweth it is the Altar that sends him in his rent hee neuer got any thing by the Pulpits what he hath lost by them hee knowes and feeles so well that if he knew how to carry it cleanly he would rid his Churches as cleane of them as he hath done of the Bibles in the vulgar tongue In the meane time his Holinesse out of great wisedome is content that any disgraces be cast vpon Preaching that can bee deuised insomuch as if any bee great preachers in Catholicke Countries it is enough to suspect them for heretickes and their bookes must be purged witnesse Stella Ferus and many others and though Christ and the Scriptures seeme to magnifie preaching neuer so much yet good Catholickes must not care for it but must know that Christ spake what was fit for those times but his Holinesse knowes and must appoint what is fit for these times and therefore hee will notwithstanding giue it what place he list And if any man offer to compare it with the Masse it is little better then Heresie But Frier Lobo a great preacher in Rome could not containe but in the hearing of Pope Gregory the 13 deliuered this in the Pulpit That it is of greater worth before God and more profitable to the doer to heare Gods Word preached then to see a Masse But what followed His holy stomacke could digest no such doctrine nor indure such blasphemy against his God and therefore forthwith he constrained the poore Frier to go vp againe and in the same place to eate his words to teach the contrary Thus he made him in the Pulpit to disgrace the Pulpit in the place of preaching to disparage preaching And not thus content he also susspended the Frier from preaching yea his recantation could not keepe him from suspension and no maruell for hee that durst magnifie preaching aboue the Masse is not a man fit to preach in Rome * Bapt. Corradus Resp cas con To. 2o. quaest 253. art 2o. Nauar. in Manual cap. 13. art 30. Fumus in verb. Festum pag. 378. Neither is this practise contrary to our doctrine for do not our Iesuits and Casuists teach and write that as vpon the Sabboth day the Commandement of the Sabboth enioynes not the inward worship of God but onely the outward * Soto de Iust Iure lib. 2. q. 4. art 4. Iac. de Graf de decis aur To. 1o. lib. 2o. cap. 34. art 8. Azor. Institut Moral To. 1o. lib. 7o. cap. 3. q. 6. Posseu Bib. sel To. 1o. l. 11. cap. 1o. a peece of rare Diuinity So also that that outward or exterior worship only commanded in that Commandement consisteth onely in hearing the Masse and as for praying or hearing of Sermons they are not of the essence of that Commandement Nay our Church say they hath no law for hearing or being present at any part of Gods seruice but onely at the Masse nor is it any where a custome in the Catholike Church that a man is bound vnder paine of mortall sinne to pray to God on the Sabboth day or heare the word preached but onely to heare a Masse Oh sweete and dainty doctrines And these be no triuiall Doctors but of our chiefe ring-leaders especially * Molanus Comp. pract Theol. Tract 2o. c. 9o. Azorius who was one of the principall founders of Iesuitisme This was he whom as Possevine reporteth Gregory the thirteenth called to Rome to be one of them that should make lawes and orders for the whole society This holy Iesuite hauing gotten some secret inspiration from his Holinesse and suckt out of the Popes owne breast more pure Popery then all the rest he goeth further and saith It is the common opinion that there is no Diuine law compelling or commanding

there had hee would haue blamed their negligence in them rather then of preaching and this I say by the warrant and president of the Mariale which saith that whereas Salomon writes thus The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous flye vnto it and are helped Salomon saith he knew little of the Virgin Mary for if he had he would haue said The name of our Lady is a strong Tower the righteous flye vnto it and are helped And surely with as good right may I say the Prophet knew little of the dignitie vertue and efficacie of the holy Masse for if he had hee would not haue blamed them for not preaching but for negligence in saying Masse But Salomon and Esay are both to be pardoned because of the times they liued in but as for these Heretickes that liue in these times and cannot but see the great vertue and high price that Masses are at and how beneficiall they bee to the Catholicke Romane Church and consequently how good cause the Church hath to magnifie Masses aboue Preaching they are without all excuse and their fault vnpardonable But though they be so madde to moue it and so malicious to presse it that the Pope and all his Cleargy ought rather to preach then say Masses yet hee is too wise to hearken to it nay though sometime some of his owne Catholicke children are bewitched with this poyson and are harping on this string that preaching is the greater and worthier of the two yet he hath wit enough to discouer and power to suppresse them in time therefore if any of them write so he commands it to be razed out of their bookes that hereafter it may not testifie against them and if any be so bold to preach it his holinesse takes such order with them as few dare follow their example Witnesse Frier Lobo of whom wee spake before whose iudgement was so iust and sentence so sharpe by Pope Gregories owne holy mouth for that his impious presumption in preferring a Sermon before a Masse and that also in Rome where like a foole that he was he might haue remembred that preaching hath been out of season these 500 yeares that from that day we haue not heard of any that durst attempt the like in Rome and if the like course had beene taken in Germany France and England these new heresies had neuer spred as they do For it is nothing but hearing Sermons reading the Bible that hath bred fed and still feeds and disperseth those heresies of the Lutherans and Caluinists as daily and lamentable experience lets vs see and feele For his Holinesse knowes full well that if he could but rid the world of the Bibles in the vulgar tongues and pull downe this talking trade of Preaching we should soone see these Heresies and this new Gospell of Luther and Caluin melt away and come to nothing for take away the meanes and cause and the effect will follow And full well spoke a wise Cardinall to the Pope when in a priuate consultation there was complaint of the growing and spreading of Lutheranisme Wee may thanke our selues saith he and our owne sloth and carelesnesse for this who let the Scriptures flye abroad and become so common for we ought to haue kept them vnder colour of Maiesty and to procure them greater Generation in the learned tongues and laid them vp in safe and secret Libraries so should neither they haue beene corrupted by heretickes and Iewes as they haue beene nor they haue corrupted and made so many Hereticks as they haue done A wise and worthy speech doubtlesse and well beseeming a Cardinall and a full deuout soule I warrant him was he of the Romish Mother Church And from that day forward hath the Pope beene more carefull in this poynt and hath set on worke his darlings the Iesuits who haue done him faithfull seruice in this kinde as may appear to their great honor to al them that wil loose a litle time to reade their bookes for by their bookes their Sermons and their perswasions they haue so preuailed that where euer any of them do remain or but lurk you shall not finde a Romish Catholicke but he can learnedly prate against the Scriptures whereof he heartily thanks his God he neuer read one booke and can tell you what a dangerous booke it is and how many haue beene made Heretickes by it and by this meanes their Disciples bogle at it and auoyd it as snare or a pit in the way or a rocke in the sea Now if this bee true that the Scripture is so dangerous a booke and that preaching must be out of that booke who sees not that therefore in good Popish reason and Pope-holy religion it followeth that it beseemes all men to be wary tender and dainty euen how they make or heare too many Sermons For if the Scripture be a dangerous booke surely preaching cannot but be a dangerous exercise in which regard appeares the wisedome of the holy Romish Church who hath ordained there shall be Sermons daily in the Lent in most great Cities and so by making them proper to Lent she makes them seeme to be out of season all the yeare besides and in most places neuer expected neuer thought of till Lent come againe wheras contrariwise the holy and blessed Masse is alwayes in season and by the strict order of the holy Roman Church is daily to be said without omission nay some dayes two or three and euery day the more the better So then sermons are but the Lent prouision but Masses are the daily bread of the holy Roman Catholikes And howsoeuer the holy fathers the Popes and his Cardinals doe not trouble their heads nor disturbe the peoples mindes with much preaching yet they make them a bountifull amends with the multitude of Masses wherein all good Catholikes know they doe but as if a housholder kept away course bread and gaue his people store of fine Manchets for it for what bee sermons but as course bread but the Masses these bee the fine Manchers they be the dainty feeding for the refined stomackes of all Romish Catholikes Therefore let these bawling heretickes know that because the Popes Holinesse sawe the olde Church in former times surfetted of Sermons and that euery hereticke brought Scripture presently for his heresie therefore in these latter more prudent times they haue made a blessed exchange and for poore homely vestments wodden Chalices and a golden Cleargy haue giuen the people goodly rich Copes and golden Chalices good store to make amends for their leaden Bishops and wodden Priests which we cannot deny but are plentifull in many Catholique countries For the Scripture in the vulgar tongues which thereby was made too common and exposed to contempt haue giuen them the Latine Gospell in the Masse which is read so solemnly so stately and with such glorious ceremonies that all the people stand stricken with admiration and amazement and are oftentimes edified as much by