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A64738	The nunns complaint against the fryers being the charge given into the court of France, by the nunns of St. Katherine near Provins, against the Fathers Cordeliers their confessours / several times printed in French, and now faithfully done into English.; Factum pour les religieuses de Sainte-Catherine-les-Provins. English	Varet, Alexandre-Louis, 1632-1676.	1676 (1676)	Wing V110; ESTC R34691	69,713	232

of false keys or ladders of cord and in baskets of such as were made in open day-light upon frivolous pretences of dancings performed in the Refectory and other regular places nor lastly of the insolencies committed at the Nuns Funerals It was ordinary for the Cordeliers before and after these kind of Ceremonies to run after those they fancied to take them in their Arms to kiss them to carry them from one place to another to play the foolwith them to go into private Nuns Chambers to feast it there and be frolick to stay whole hours there a Father and a Nun alone by themselves and a little pensioner set as sentinel in foolery to keep the door Nothing was ever able to put a stop to these insolencies and they have scarce ever gone in to confess the sick or to administer the Sacraments without committing new ones There has been some of them who after they had heard the Confession of one sick Nun were upon a bed with others and after they had spoken some devout words aloud to them laid themselves down again to kiss them and would have put their hands into their bosoms There has been some of them who after they had given extream Vnction to a sick Nun and entred in again to assist her at her death instead of performing this duty have conducted other Nuns to their Chambers and there cooped up themselves together in a small closet There has been some of them who after they had sate up a night with one that was dangerously ill made themselves be carried into the Dormitory to go into the Nuns Chambers to see as they said their Loves in their beds before them In fine there has been of them that at the very foot of the Altar did violence to a Novice upon the holy day of Good Fryday it self who had been ordered to go out into the Church to take down the Reposier according to the custom of this Monastery she was kissed by force and her neck-cloth was torn off and she was oftentimes * Plusieurs attouchemens very rudely handled IN SOLENCIES IT is fit now to conclude the representation that was undertaken to be given of these horrible disorders That which remains is too abominable and our tongue is too chast to be able to express it Not but that a just regret and indignation has made the greatest part of these Religious Sisters find terms to declare such things in their Depositions as to use their own words passe all Imagination and the bare mentioning of which makes them blush But 't is enough that they have been once wrote that they are under the hands of the Judges of the Court and that Time has not been able to blot them out of the memory of those who have seen them themselves in the time of their youth or by eye-witnesses have been acquainted with the names of those Nuns whom the Fathers have engaged in the * Dans le dernier Desordre last Act of Incontinency with the number of Children that they have had * Les Artifices criminels the horrid contrivances that they have made use of to hinder these crimes from making a noise abroad and other abominable circumstances of * Des plus horribles corruptions most horrible corruptions which made one of the Ancientest amongst them who had her self been overtaken in these dreadful debaucheries say That she stood in admiration how this House could still subsist and how it came not to be swallowed up as those miserable Cities of which the Holy Scriptures speak But if the Cordeliers have omitted nothing that might draw down these sad judgments upon this miserable House And if the Nuns who have sent their complaints to Court may justly say that they owe it only to the mercy of God that these Fathers have laid all the traps imaginable to make them fall into these dangerous precipices they do not continue still engaged in them certainly they have not less reason to acknowledge that if there be yet amongst them any remainders of Piety and Religion as it cannot well be doubted considering the warm instances they make at Court they do also owe that wholly to the particular providence and special favour of the same Mercy For the Cordeliers have omitted nothing that might plunge them in impiety and take away from them the respect that is due to the Sacraments of the Church and the just confidence that ought to be reposed in them that are the disspensers of them See what the Nuns say of it in their Depositions The Disorders of the Cordeliers One called N. when Confessour being come into the Monastery to give the last Sacrament to a Nun was so full of Wine that he put on the Priests Garments the wrong side outward and the Mother Infirmiere was fain to guide his hand to apply the Holy Oyle Another called N. Confessour too of our House came once into the Confession-Chayr so overcharged with Wine that he fell asleep and the Nun that was confessing to him after she had began a part of her Confession twice and often endeavoured to wake him was at last forced to withdraw I my self happened to confess my self to one Father N. who was so full of drink that after I had repeated many Articles of my Confession over again I was forced to leave it One called Father N. who was here about eighteen years ago has revealed the Confessions of all the Nuns of our Community and has given them in writing to many Cordeliers to favour their design upon those whom they had a mind to seduce beginning these Sacrilegious writings by some passage of Holy Scripture that was agreeable to the humour of the several respective persons I have seen and read this paper A Cordelier having intrusted me with this secret I made my complaint of it to Father N. at that time Provincial the first time who confessed to me that he had seen that writing Father N. twelve years ago did the same and besides had always Women with him Once he kept a maid of Provins in his Closet and her Parents being very much troubled for her thinking she had been stolne he sent her away to Paris He himself intrusted me with this secret to oblige me to conceal what I knew of it They commonly gave us Directours who had no sense of Piety in them who came into the Confession-Chair after they had been well-drunk And for proof of this I my self once confessed to one Father N. to no purpose for he slept so soundly that he heard not a word which made me draw the curtain and endeavour to awake him but to no effect at all many saw him in this condition and made him be carried to bed Another called Father N. was continually thus distempered A Canon of Provins called M. N. came often to sup with him to make him drink that he might afterwards have the pleasure of making him reveal our Confessions I know it for a

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