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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

as many as fall into the hands of these Tyrants who are far more cruel in this kind than Mezentius or Phalaris ever were Nor are they without a Devils Coat and a long Steeple-crown'd Hat with black Feathers a jagged Doublet cut and slashed Breeches puffed out and bagged like Bellows down to their ankles such as would even make a man affrighted to look upon them But perhaps he that readeth this relation will wonder to what end Religious persons who profess themselves the Disciples and Followers as they would have all men to believe of our most meek Saviour Iesus should make such provision I will resolve you this question also if you please to attend With such Instruments as these doth the Society captivate the understanding of their Disciples unto Jesuitical obedience for if in the least matter they get any hint of suspicion against any of their Novices that he will not be constant or that he desireth to escape from them and that he is likely to betray the secrets of their Society they clap up such a Fellow in a fair pair of Stocks and having macerated him a long time with hunger and cold and want of all bodily comforts at the last they make an end of him with some exquisite tortures and killing torments I do not belie them I write nothing but a truth There was at Gratz about three years ago a young man named Iacobus Clusseus a Youth of an excellent and pregnant wit this man did they lay hands upon and miserably tormented him by whipping and scourging for a matter of no moment and because he told them plainly that he would renounce their Society and complain publickly if ever he got liberty for this and other such wicked dealing towards him they clapped him up into such a Prison under ground as aforesaid from whence he was never seen to come out again alive Nor did any of us that were Novices make question but that he was made an end of with most exquisite torments And how many Women think you have been devoured and eaten up in the same Gulph How many young Children slain How many young Men that have been sole Heirs of very large and ample Patrimonies have been made away by them I do not say I think but I believe and am firmly persuaded so often as shrieks and cries sighings and most woful lamentations were heard in the night season the hearing whereof would put a man into a cold sweat all over and make his hair stand on end though our simpler Novices believed them to be the Souls of some lately departed it was nothing but the shrieks and mone of Children lately murthered or then a murthering Moreover that the extreme and devillish malice of Iesuits may be in nothing defective they are accustomed divers times in those their Vaults under ground to make the Devil very fine sport putting on terrible disguises they cause some of their Novices to be called down to behold their Tragedy upon whom they will rush suddenly with an horrible yelling noise to make trial forsooth of their courage and constancy For if they find any to be timorous and fearful they admit not such a man to the secrets of Magick as accounting them cowardly and degenerate but appoint them to some of the inferious Arts but such as appear to be of bold and undanted spirits they take special notice of them and reserve them for serious imployments And yet they are not always successful for all this as appeared by that which hapned at Prague For whereas there were five principal Iesuits who being habited as Devils made sport with their Youth It so fell out That there was found to be a sixth in their company before they were aware and he questionless was a Devil indeed who catching up one of the personated Devils in his arms gave him such a kindly unkind embrace that within three days after he died of it The fact was common talk at Bake-houses and Barber-shops and at every Table discoursed upon all over Prague And yet for all that the rest of them as nothing amazed with this Tragical event dare still in an heighth of obstinacy proceed in that most ungodly and devillish study of Magick Now amongst that whole Society the prime Man for a Magician is a French Iesuit whom the King of France himself had in so high estimation That he admitted him not onely to his Princely Table but also to familiar conferences in private concerning whom the Iesuits themselves did make their boast That he had a Glass made by Art-Magick wherein he could plainly represent unto the King whatsoever his Majesty desired to see insomuch that there was nothing so secretly done or consulted upon in the most private room of any Cloister or Nunnery of other Orders which he could not easily and instantly discover and disclose by help of this his Inchanted or rather Devillish Glass And indeed it was by the art and means of this Magitian Iesuit that their Society was confident That they should be able to draw on their side one of the most Potent Princes of the Empire albeit a Protestant forasmuch as he was observed to be somewhat delighted in the study of Magick Now as for those whom they take in as Novices to be instructed in this way they expound unto them those nine hundred Propositions which Picus Earl of Mirandula published at Rome as also the Book of Iohannes Trithemius together with a Tract or Treatise touching Abstruse or hidden Philosophy written by Cornelius Agrippa Likewise Theophrastus concerning the Constellations and Seals of the Planets with the Steganographia of I know not what Abbot and the Art of Paul to procure Revelations meaning St. Paul whom they affirm to have been instructed in the Art Magick and thereby to have understood such high Revelations and profound Mysteries Yea they blush not to affirm that St. Iohn was an excellent Magician nor do they stick to say That even our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus himself was a most absolute and perfect Magician as mine own ears hath heard it oftner than once or twice related by some of that Society and such as I am able to nominate And thus much for the Iesuits Church onely take this direction along with you Those Vaults and Rooms under-ground which I mentioned even now those secret Conveyances and Circean Dens are for the most part contrived to be under the Quire or Cloister not where the people do walk or stand And now when thou shalt pass from their Temple into their Study for I will say nothing touching their Parlour or Chambers Refectories or places of Recreation instruction of Novices who are newly admitted and the training up of other Scholars committed to the Iesuits tuition nor yet touching the method and order of their Studies When I say thou shalt enter into their publick Library thou shalt find a most exquisite choice of Authors of all sorts all of them most curiously bound up in Leather or Parchment

it is a pretty Fabrick of eight corners representing the form of a Church built of a black Stone and adorned in the inside with diverse coloured Iasper In four of the corners stand four great Giants vomiting Water into four Marble Cisterns In the midst of this Arbour lieth the principal Path of the Garden Now from the said Vault you pass to the Chapter-house and another House like it These two Rooms together with their Porch have their roofs set forth with most exquisite Pictures and their Pavement chequer'd with white and black Marble round about them are seats for the Monks and each hath his sumptuous Altar The way to the Monks Cells is from the great Porch also wherein by winding Stairs you ascend to the Priors upper Cells and other Chambers and Cock-lofts besides all covered with Lead The Prior's lower habitation is an excellent Building all vaulted and arched exhibiting divers Histories of holy Scripture which are included in artificial Crowns and Studs wrought with Flowers the Pavement also is chequer'd with white and black Marble The Prior's upper Cell is built towards the North-west on both sides of which are the Cells of the other Monks The Chamber or Dormitory where the Novices lodge joyns to the Monks Cells The Monks Beds are all in a row over the Wardrobe or Refectory We come now to the Library which is seated above the chief Entrance to the Monastery it is 185 foot long and 32 foot broad in whose arched roof is the representation of divers Arts and Histories to which place is joyned another Room for the use of the Library The Library it self is distinguished into three Partitions In the first and principal are painted all the Arts and Faculties and at the foot of every ones Picture all the Books of that Faculty marshall'd in seemly order all gilt and of the same binding Here is to be seen a great Parchment-book wherein are exactly expressed in their proper colours all kind of living Creatures which are known to be in the world The other Partition contains nothing but ancient Manuscripts of Divinity in Latin Greek and Hebrew with the Pictures of the several Authors set before them The third room is furnished onely with Manuscripts of diverse Faculties and Languages the Authors whereof are in like manner expressed to the life We come in the next place to describe the Colledge and the Kings Palace these two take up the North part of the Building their Porch is an open Gallery which lies before the Church over against the great Porch of the Monastery To this Porch is joyned another by which the Youth who apply themselves to Learning pass daily into a little Room to hear Mattins and Vespers this place is shut up with three Brazen Gates In the great Court separating the Colledge from the Monastery is a common passage to the Schools where are taught all Arts but especially Law Physick and Divinity This place hath its peculiar Courts and Cloisters and Galleries to one of which adjoyns the Refectory of the Colledge with its Porch near the Porch stands the Kitchin between its proper Court and the Court of the common School to which is joyned the Childrens School and their Refectory On the North side through a narrow Gate and Entry is a Passage to the Kings Palace In the Porch or Entrance are three Mansions or Offices with their Courts built partly for those who oversee the Purveyance of Corn and Victuals and partly for the use of the Kitchin These Houses are joyned together for the service of divers Tables By the same Porch is a way to a fair Room where the Nobles of the Kings Bed-chamber the Captains of the Guard with others of Noble rank and quality do Dine and Sup daily This way also you may pass to the Galleries and other Offices belonging to Diet and Workmanship Those Galleries round about contain other Chambers both above and below On the same side is another Portal by which they pass from the Palace to the lower Quire Church Colledge and Monastery Near to this Gate is a Walk where the Kings Watch and other Officers use to meet Towards the East side are lodgings for Ambassadors which reach to the great Porch and run out us far as the Palace In the same Court are other houses for the Kings own use and from hence by a Gallery through a stately Portal you enter into the Kings own lodgings built behind the Chappel where you meet with an open Court with Porches and Cloysters On the West side next the High-Altar is another Gate whereby the King passes to the Monastery the Colledg and other Offices of the Court The Kings Porch looks towards the North side of the Church Hereupon the Church wall is curiously painted the famous battle of Higuervela wherein King Iohn the second overthrew the Moors and Saracens of Granado which Picture represents the story most exactly and shews both the order and manner of their Fight with the several habits and weapons both of horse and foot which were then in use This Picture was drawn from the first Copy which was made at the time of the battle in a fair Linen Cloath above 130 foot long and found since by chance in the Tower of Segovia which History the King caused to be painted again upon that wall for a perpetual remembrance of so noble a victory This Piece is well worth the sight In the last place we come unto the Garden lying towards the East and South part of the Buildings It reaches 100 yards in breadth and is distinguished into many curious knots and beds c. Set with all kind of herbs and flowers and watered with many pleasant Springs and Fountains This Garden is much higher than the Orchard adjoyning and you ascend from hence thither by a walk of many stairs set with trees on both sides There are accounted to be above 40 Fountains of pure water within this Monastery There are so many Closets and Keys belonging to this Monastery that there is a special Officer appointed to be master of the Keys which Keys are kept in a Closet by themselves and are esteemed to exceed some thousands The third part of this famous Monastery of St. Laurence is possessed by 30 Monks of the Order of St. Hierom whose yearly Revenues amount to above 35000 Spanish Ducats and the rest goes to the King and his Family To Conclude it is furnished with so many Halls Parlours Dining-Rooms Chambers Closets Offices Lodgings and other the second had begun this 〈◊〉 Work he coming thither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Lemos and having shewed him the plot and disclosed his purpose in finishing so great a piece of Work which would amount to an incredible Charge he demanded the Earl to tell him 〈◊〉 what he thought of the Work The Earl stoutly and with a 〈◊〉 Spirit answered the King thus Your Majesty as You are the 〈◊〉 Monarch of Christendom so are you reputed the wisest amongst Kings now considering the

great charge your Majesty is at in your Wars in Italy in France and the Low-Countreys with the Great Turk and elsewhere together with your ordinary and extraordinary expences and the likelihood of Wars with the Queen of England All these things considered it would be a blemish to your Wisdom if your Majesty should go forward with this Building and the charges will make you sink before it be finished The King replied that notwithstanding all his Wars and other charges He would go on with This and hoped by the grace of God to see it finished and to take pleasure and comfort in it in his life the which he did and enjoyed it 7 years and that after his death it should be a Receptacle for his bones and likewise for the Kings which should succeed him to be for a Court in their lives and a Sepulcher for them after their deaths And now Reader you have had the true and exact relation of This Mighty Structure which for Beauty and Riches c. may be worthily esteemed the wonder of the World exceeding Solomons Temple in several respects if it may be lawfull to compare the True Church of the living God which was a figure of the Heavenly Jerusalem above with this which for all its Splendor c. is but the Seat of that Black Prince who hath here transformed Himself into an Angel of Light or purpose by this means to delude if it were possible ever Gods own Elect. Thus by Captivating the astonished Sences with This Gilded Appearance of True Religion and specious pretences of Christianity for they only Garnish the Statue and Sepulcher of Christ his Prophets and Apostles c. and at the same time murder all who teach their blessed Doctrine and live their lives at least are setting Their examples before their view on whose charge the righteous blood of all the Prophets Apostles and Martyrs nay of Christ himself will most certainly be laid without a true repentance when the glory of this Babylonish Synagogue shall be laid in dust and driven like the chaff before that great and terrible Tempest and Whirlwind of Gods wrath which is hasting on apace and who shall abide This Day Who shall stand when God doth This CHAP. VI. Camilton's Discovery of the devillish Designs and Projects of the Society of Iesuits of late years WHat Marcus Cato sometimes spoke concerning the Roman South-sayers that he wondred how they could forbear to smile upon each other so often as they met may not unfitly be applied to the Iesuits It is a wonder that one Iesuit when he looketh upon another doth not straightway burst forth into a laughing outright they being amongst themselves privy to such impostures practised upon the people I speak not touching your simpler sort of Iesuits from whom these more reserved and closer practises of the Society are altogether concealed either in respect they are not held wise enough forsooth to be acquainted with them or that they are thought too devout to entertain them or else in regard of their short continuance in that Society for all such are so kept short through severity of Discipline that not one of them except he be wondrous quick of sent can ever smell out in the least measure what knavery is therein practised under a shew of Holiness My discourse onely toucheth the prime and principal fellows of that Society their Regents Fathers Provincials and Generals all which are so universally and joyntly tainted with all manner of wickedness but especially with Whoredom Covetousness and Magick that indeed any reasonable man may think it little less then a Miracle if a Iesuit of this rank meeting such another upon a sudden and beholding as it were another picture or lively representation of himself should have power to abstain from laughing outright I therefore thought it not amisi considering the premisses to lay open to the world some particular passages and practises of that Society of the greatest part whereof my self have been an eye-witness and some part whereof hath been related unto me by Iesuits whom I am able to name and will undoubtedly nominate if they shall but dare in the least manner to lift up their tongues against me or to contradict what I have written First of all then at your entrance into any Colledge of Iesuits especially if it be scituated in or near unto any large and populous and rich place But alass why do I say if it be built there seeing they have no Colledges in any poor mean or obscure place At your first entry I say into such a place or Colledg take principal notice of the Porter of their Gate and him you shall find to look like unto the picture of a very Charon or rather a Cerberus For the most part you shall observe him to be a man of very great years or if he be younger he is a fellow of most approved trust and secrecy And this is the man if any such there be who is well skilled in all the mysteries of the Iesuits Cabal or reserved Divinity In this fellows keeping is great store of apparel both for Men and Women of every degree and calling And with this apparel do the Iesuits habit themselves according to the quality that every one findeth himself ablest to personate and so practise wonderful Impostures in the World For at sometimes being habited like Souldiers very gallant they walk in the streets and high-ways Whoring and Swaggering in the publick Stews At other times in the civil habits of Citizens professing themselves to be of the reformed Religion they pry up and down and listen in Inns in Play-houses in Taverns upon the Exchange and in all places of publick meetings wheresoever there is any frequent resort what the people speak up and down concerning them what consultations are abroad what manner of Action is set afoot in any part Another while like Doctors of Physick or of the Civil Law with great Rings on their fingers avowing and purposely professing themselves to be Papists wheresoever they know any of the Common sort that is wealthy and hath sons they devise some cause of business with them and insinuate themselves into their acquaintance by strange fetches and in Conclusion do advise them to bring up their sons in some School or Colledg of Iesuits affirming that themselves have been educated by them and that they have so profited under them that God be thanked they never had cause to repent thereof And sometimes again apparelled like Noblemen and compleatly attended they cause Coaches to be provided abroad and frequent the Courts of Princes as giving attendance upon Ambassadors of foraign States and serve as Intelligencers to unlock the Cabinets of great Potentates Nay further I have known them to make shew of being banished persons and to crave collections amongst Protestant Divines purposely to learn under-hand what such men write against them yea such were those men for the most part who so miserably deluded so many Reverend