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A55446 The Pope's letter to Maddam Cellier in relation to her great sufferings for the Catholick cause, and likewise Maddam Celliers lamentation standing on the pillory, and also the Popes commission to Maddam Celliers, for several places of honour for her so well managing the affair on her part hitherto, and if she receive martirdome by the hereticks, acanonization or saintship among the other holy saints. 1680 (1680) Wing P2935; ESTC R33943 3,593 6

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THE POPES LETTER TO Maddam Cellier In Relation to her great Sufferings For the Catholick Cause And likewise Maddam Celliers Lamentation standing ON THE PILLORY AND Also the Popes Commission to Maddam Celliers for several places of honour for her so well managing the Affair on her part hitherto and if she receive Martirdome by the Hereticks a Canonization or Saintship among the other holy Saints DEAR DAUGHTER HAving Received an Account from the Provincial of the Jesuites residing here in Rome how great and glorions an Instrument you have been in promoting the Holy-Cause and how very active you have shewed your self and of your great sufferings almost to Martyrdome I find my self bound to take notice thereof and to send you these under the Seal of the Fisher to encourage your Zeal and to strengthen and provoke you to go on in so righteous a Cause Fear not therefore what man can do unto you be Bold Confident Couragious faint not under the work for I have ordered many hands to help you and to dispose of the Issue you shall bring into the World Tho as yet the success has not answered ours nor your Expectations yet I am glad to find you have still no small hopes of bringing about your great Design in setting up our true Religion and in pulling down the Heretical which is an Attempt as difficult as it is good and meritorious and therefore you are to make use of all manner of ways to bring about so great a work Though some Instruments have proved false and wicked and are become Traitors to us and the Cause be not troubled so long as our Cofers are full and open to be imployed for the procuring others you shall not want them nor money for the carrying on what we have so fairly begun We give you therefore leave and authority both to speak and write in the Church and to do and say what you and they whom we have assigned of your Council shall think sit or convenient and by the power granted to us in Heaven and Earth we do authorise all you shall say or publish to be Truth and do absolve your Conscience from all Scruples though you did believe or know the contrary for by the unbounded power granted us as the Head of the Church we do give you full Absolution in these matters And for that end we have sent Indulgences both for lying and Perjury free and without the usual Fees We have also of our great benignity sent you a free pardon for all your sins past from the hour of your Birth to the day of the date thereof be they of what Nature or Complexion soever and also that you may to the hour of your Death be as innocent as the Child unborn ●e do also send you Indulgence for five thousand years yet to come and have given order to my dear beloved Sons the Jesuites to give you Absolution for all your Sins whatsoever constantly and without Pennance that you may not want Incouragement or be slack in the holy Cause We have also Dear Daughter sent you a blank Commission to be either Abbess of any one of the Richest Nunneries in England when they come into our Hands which you shall choose or think convenient but if you shall prefer Temporal preferment to Spiritual I have also sent you a Commission for to create you a Countess under what Title you shall choose and twenty thousand pounds of yearly Rent out of the Estates of the Capital Hereticks whom yon shall find guilty of the same And for a farther additional Honour and in honourable memory of your former Professions we Create you Procuress and Midwife-General and a Fee to be received from all of those Professions in England and Wales by you at their first admission they receiving only their authority from you for the same which we make confirm and ratifie to be legal and authentick And Dear Daughter that we may yet farther stir you up and confirm you in your ●ealous work we do promise you an immortal Crown after this Life and if you should obtain that of Martyrdome among the wicked Hereticks we do promise you to ingrave your Name among the other blessed Martyrs and Confessors who have suffered by the Hereticks in England and also we do further promise you Canonization or Saintship among the holy Saints and Martyrs who have lately suffered in England as St. Coleman St. Ireland St. Gawen and the rest and to be equal in Fame and esteem with St. Joan of Arque that great Championess for the Cause that Mall of English-Hereticks All these things considered we hope Dear Daughter that you will strenuously endeavour by all manner of ways and means to promote the Cause and not to let your heart fail you tho your Adversaries have published many disgraceful things of you while you were a Sinner but we have already denounce the Anathausas against them and have given order to my Sons the Dominican Priests in England to make use of the solemn Rite of Cursing them with Bell Book and Candle and we have also pronouneed all they have said or shall say against you or that is any way contrary derogatory to your Honour Reputation Modesty Life or good Name to be all wicked Lies and abominable invention malice and dispight and that my dear Sons the Jesuites and Priests of what Order soever and the Lay Sons of the Church to endeavour all they can to make it so to be taken and believed And likewise on the other side I do confirm all you shall write and publish concerning your own Life and Transactions or in Vindication of your Honour Modesty and Innocency to be true and undoubted as the Gospel and likewise all that you shall say or relate concerning your Adversaries or others or whatever you shall Print or make known to the world by the help or advice of one or more of my dear Sons to be true Scripture undoubted and authentick in every Paragraph Sentence Line and Word and that they also beforementioned Cause it to be believed and taken We also have ordered our Sons the Franciscans to preserve the Meal-Tub in which lay hid the Design of the holy Cause among their chiefest Reliques and have also bestowed on it the Authority of doing of Miracles and that the Meal therein should never be consumed though all the Priests in England should make Cakes thereof every day that shall be assigned to your Saint-ship and we have ordered this Relique to be inshrin'd and to be called the Holy Meal-Tub with St. Colemans Halter and that our Sons may have full power and authority to exercise pias fraudis or any other manner of deceits to cause the same to be believed and to be had in esteem and Veneration and that the same be also entered into the Legend of Reliquies and Miracles All this Dear Daughter have we done for your incouragement and therefore we hope you will proceed in that forward and notorious dexterity you have hitherto shewed for the holy Cause and that you will not be afraid boldly to affront the Hereticks from the greatest to the least nor fear what they can be able to do unto you neither their Prisons their Whips Pillories or Halters for we can exalt you above all and make you live Righteous Just Holy and a Saint for ever notwithstanding they should Condemn you as Infamous and Traytress to your King and Country And we do engage to you if ever we do get up again in England we will not spare the Cocatrices but crush them so they shall never more be able to rise we will exercise full power and authority and root out all manner of Hereticks Root and Branch and will have no pity or commiseration but new plant and slack that Land with new powers and Forces from abroad so as they shall never be able to pull their Necks out of the Yoak we have prepared for them Therefore Dear Daughter fear not to follow the Dictates of my dear and venerable Sons the Jesuites whom I have ordered to direct advise and instruct you from time to time whose careful Instructions I desire you constantly to follow and to go on as you have begun for the prosperity of these your holy and pious undertakings and for the encouragement of your endeavours we here send you our Fatherly Benediction From the Vatican the first of August 1680. Sealed with the Seal of the Fisher Maddam CELLIERS LAMENTATION Standing on the PILLORY HArk to my Lamentable Ditty You Pope-lings of both Town and Citty Of my Sufferings take some Pitty For Heriticks assault me They do not think that 't is enough To see me with a Wooden Ruff For Writing Treason and such stuff But they with Stones must palt me But let them fling and fling again Though I schriek out and feel no pain Whilst on me Showers of Stones like Rain Did make my Armour rattle For like a Championess I came Not arm'd with Modesty and Shame But clasp'd about with Armed Frame Prepared for the Battel Upon my Head I had a Case A Blinding Board before my Face Such as before Wild Cows they place To keep my Nose from ●uffit The Shed kept of the falling Storm The Dirt and Stones did me no harm I had against them got a Charm And laught whilst they did Cuff it Apples and Eggs and Marrow-bones Dirt and Dung and pibble-stones The wicked Rogues flung for the nonce Which I put in my Pocket For Stones I Veneration had Lov'd them till Dangerfield grew mad Those given by many a Lusty Lad I cherish'd under Placket But these hard Stones I carry home With Brick-Batty Tiles and lumps of Loom Which shall est soon be sent to Rome There to be Sanctify'd For I do know my Father Pope Will lay them up with Coleman's Rope To be a Saint I still do hope Though by the Pox I dyed A Fart for all the Rogues can do I to the Cause will still prove true And to my own dear Meal Tub too If I come off alive In spite of Richardson and Fate All Hereticks I still will hate And if Plots thrive again will prate And new Print my Narrative London Printed by D Mallet 1680.