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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32856	Camiltons discoverie of the devilish designes and killing projects of the Society of Jesuites of late years projected and by them hitherto acted in Germany : intended but graciously prevented in England / translated out of the Latine copie ... by W. F. X. B. ...; De studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. English	Camilton, John.; W. F. X. B.	1641 (1641)	Wing C388A; ESTC R11407	15,823	38

Novices make question but that he was made an end of with most exquisite torments Which unparallel'd piece of tyranny I purpose in due time to divulge to the whole World with relation of all circumstances being the thing which the poore wretched Clussaeus had a purpose to have done himselfe if he had not been hindered and prevented by death I shall withall make publike unto the World another such piece of Villany committed by the Iesuites of Fulda in Germany upon the body of one MARTINUS whom they stole away most basely from his Parents who are yet living at Miltenberg or Milberg And how many women thinke you have beene devoured and eaten up in the same Gulfe How many young Children slaine How many young men that have beene sole Heyres of very large and ample Patrimonies have beene made away by them I doe not say J thinke but J beleeve and am firmely perswaded so often as shrikes and cryes sighings and most woefull lamentations were heard in the night season the hearing whereof would put a man into a cold sweat all over and make his hayre stand on end though our simpler Novices beleeved them to bee the Soules of some lately departed it was nothing but the shrikes and mone of children lately murthered or then a murthering Moreover that the extreame and Divelish malice of Iesuites may be in nothing defective they are accustomed divers times in those their Vaults under ground to make the Divell very sine sport putting on terrible disguises they cause some of their Novices to be called downe to behold their Tragedy upon whom they will rush suddainly with an horrible yelling noyse to make tryall forsooth of their courage and constancy For if they find any to be timorous and fearefull they admit not such a man to the secrets of Magicke as accounting them cowardly and degenerate but appoint them to some of the inferiour Arts but such as appeare to be of bold and undanted Spirits they take especiall notice of them and reserve them for serious imployments And yet they are not alwaies successefull for all this as appeared by that which happened at Prague in the yeare 1602. For whereas there were five principall Iesuites who being habited as Devils made sport with their youth If so fell out that there was found to be a sixth in their company before they were aware and he questionlesse was a Divell indeed who catching up one of the personated Divels in his Armes gave him such a kindly unkind embrace that within three dayes after he dyed of it The fact was common talke at Bake-houses and Barbershops and at every table discoursed upon all over Prague And yet for all that the rest of them as nothing amazed with this Tragicall event dare still in an height of obstinacy proceed in that most ungodly and Divelish study of Magicke Now amongst that whole Society the prime man for a Magician is a French Iesuite whom the King of France himselfe 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 Iesuites themselves did make their boast that he had a glasse made by Art-Magicke 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 roome of any Cloyster or Nunneric of other Orders which he could not easily and instantly discover and disclose by helpe of this his Inchanted or rather Divelish glasse And indeed it was by the Art and meanes of this Magitian Iesuite 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 for asmuch as he was observed to be somewhat delighted in the Study of Magicke 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 Earle of Mirandula published at Rome as also the Booke of Iohannes Tritemius together with a Tract or Treatise touching abstruse or hidden Philosophy written by Cornelius Agris pa Likewise Theophrastus concerning the Constellations and Seales of the Planets with the Steganographia of I know not what Abbot and the Art of Paul to procure Revelations meaning Saint Paul whom they affirme to have beene instructed in the Art Magicke and thereby to have understood such high Revelations and profound Mysteries Yea they blush not to affirme that St. Iohn was an excellent Magician Nor doe they sticke to say that even our blessed Saviour CHRIST IESVS himselfe was a most absolute and perfect Magician as mine owne eares have heard it oftner than once or twice related by some of that Societie and such as I am able to nominate And thus much for the Iesuites Church onely take this direction along with you Those Vaults and Roomes under ground which I mentioned even now those secret Conveyances and Circean Dennes are for the most part contrived to be under the Quire or Cloister not where the people doe walke or stand And now when thou shalt passe 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 trayning up of other Schollers committed to the Iesuites tuition nor yet touching the Methode and Order of their Studies but will reserve that for another Discour●e seeing those passages are for the most part knowne abroad● already being discovered by another When I say thou shalt enter into their publike 〈◊〉 thou shalt finde a most exquisite choyse of Authors of all sorts all of them most curiously bound up in Leather or Parchment with fillets of Silver or Gold and as for such whereof there is daily use they are layd in order upon Deskes fastened with chaines upon a long table But as for the inner Library that is onely reserved for the Fathers of the Society it is free for none but them to goe in thither and to borrow thence what bookes they thinke good Those ordinary bookes are onely free for the Iuniors of the Societie nor may they take a sentence out of the rest without speciall leave obtained from the Regent Moreover in this first Library are no Heriticall bookes as they call them but onely the Writings of most approved Authors and Catholickes all For they hold any other unworthy to be placed amongst them as fearing perhaps they should infect the rest Looke therefore upon thy left hand and there thou shalt see the wretched bookes of Heretickes as they tearme them standing all in Mourning for the faults of their Authors bound up in blacke Leather or Parchment blacked over with the very leaves thereof dyed in blacke Of these not one of the Fathers themselves may make choyse or use without leave obtained from the Regent before-hand but your inferiour Iesuits and younger Novices may not be