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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Manna of the Popes Masses As for the Hugenets and Heretikes they are well worthy to want it seeing they hold it not worth their labour and therefore for their penance let them bee enioyned to reade euery day two Chapters of that hard harsh and homely booke cal'd the Bible and to haue three Sermons a weeke and with those Garlike and Onions let these base stomakes bee contented seeing they know not nor care not for the dainty and costly Manna of the Masses of the Romish Catholike Church But what then will these babbling Heretikes say and doth the Pope neuer preach at all What matter if hee doe not seeing hee euery day saith Masse which euery sage Catholike knowes is farre better for what tho Christ being vpon earth and in his glorified body after his resurrection calling together his Apostle gaue them not onely commission but commandement also to goe and teach all Nations and preach to euery Creature Yet the holy Mother Church of Rome knowes that hee spoke it as fir for those times but hee left his spirit to his Vikar who should supply and put downe what hee did not And therefore whereas hee forgot to bid his Apostles say Masses the Pope like a good Vikar addes what hee forgets and commands all his Priests that howsoeuer they preach now and then when they please Yet that they misse not to say Masses daily whilst they liue and for the better satisfaction of their Consciences he hath by his power concluded which Christ neuer did nor it seemes could doe that preaching is but a Counsell and Masse-saying a commandement and therefore Masses be necessary and preaching but voluntary If therefore the Popes Holinesse neuer busie himselfe with the pulpit and preaching that 's no great matter as long as hee euery day deuoutly sings his Masse and offers vp the vnbloudie sacrifice which is a sacrifice propitiatory for the sinnes of quicke and dead as sure as hee is the Vikar of Christ But let them stoppe their mouthes and hold their babling for howsoeuer Preaching is a meere voluntary action and a worke of superogation and the least and last matter of twenty that belongs to a Masse and the least and basest of a thousand that his Holinesse hath to doe Yet let these Heretikes know his holinesse doth not forsweare all preaching for howsoeuer vpon those common occasions of calling conuerting or sauing soules he cannot finde time to preach but leaues that to such of his Friers or Priests as haue such tender and precise consciences as to thinke that preaching onely ordinarily begets faith yet vpon other great and solemne occasions as when some Saint is to be canonized at the mediation of some great Prince who paies roially for it and like a Prince Or when some great King comes home from heresie and honours himselfe and makes himselfe so happy as to kisse his holy foote and be reconciled and pay a round ransome for his former rebellion as Henry the fourth did Or when some such blessed worke is attempted archiued as was that Massacre at Paris and in the most great Cities of France where the Heretikes were kill'd vp like Rats or madde Dogges where euer they could be catcht and so were sent to hell by heapes Or when some yong nouice braue spirit bred and brought vp in the Iesuits schoole and that hath past and practised all their spirituall exercises hath attained to that high perfection as to refuse nothing that is inioyned him and in that holy obedience hath stab'd some Heretike or kil'd some great King that would not stoope to the Vikar of Christ as the Iacobine kil'd Henry the third and the young Iesuite had kil'd Henry the fourth but for a tooth oh cursed tooth that hindered the Iesuites from that honour and made them leaue it for that base Frier and raskall Rauilliacke When such blessed occasions such high and holy occasions as these fall out For these are occasions beseeming his Holinesse then hee will vouchsafe to grace the pulpit and in his owne person take paines to make a Sermon sometime blessing his gods of siluer and gold and thanking his great god Dagon sometime praising the Inuenters Plotters and Prosecutors but especially the actors of such noble facts and stirring vp others to the admiration and imitation of them And if the Heretikes bee so madde to deny this that holy and zealous Sermon made by Sixtus V. vpon the death of Henry the third and in praise of that happy Frier that stab'd him with that holy and See the Sermon it selfe set out in lattin and English by F. Warmington the Priest hallowed knife shall prooue and testifie it for euer to their shame and his euerlasting honour And it s not to be doubted but if the Powder-plot in England had beene so happy to haue taken effect His holinesse would haue beene as willing to haue preached himselfe for ioy and made a Sermon of thankefulnesse for the good successe of so great and glorious a worke as his successors must bee serious and busie and prudent in conceiling it from the ages to come seeing it succeeded ceeded not or in diuerting it from the Catholikes to Puritans or other enemies Or at least in denying it and telling the world that it was but an inuention and a tricke of the State put vpon the poore Papists to make them odious And herein appeares the malice of these Heretikes that care not how they sclander the Popes holinesse saying he neuer hath care nor Conscience to preach when its most certaine neuer Huguenot in France more desired to go to a Sermon nor a Puritane in England to a Faft then his Holinesse did to haue preached vpon that occasion if hee could but once haue heard the ioyfull newes from England that the blow had beene giuen But no matter what these blind and malitious Heretikes say or thinke let it suffice God his heart how earnestly hee desired it and will doubtlesse reward him accordingly and all others that lookt and longed for that ioyfull day And thus I hope wee haue giuen a sufficient Apology for his Holinesse against these curious and carping Heretikes will you haue Masses His Holinesse misseth not a morning but hath a Masse to his breakefast will the Heretikes haue preaching his Holinesse preacheth also when there falls out an occasion that is worthy of his paines Quae est Caput totius Orbis And is the Church of Saint Iohn Lateran the principall and head of all Churches vrbis Orbis not of Rome alone but of the whole world But why is not Saint Peters the head Church seeing hee was the head of the Apostles and the Pope is his successor by being his successor is head of the Church If Peter be head of the Apostles and his successor head of all men why then is not his Church head of all Churches Thus doe idle Heretikes carpe and cauill But all good Catholikes know that seeing Pope Gregory the eleuenth almost 300

and hath so put it in the body of his law Dist 40. c. 6. That though he should be so faulty and so enormously wicked as that hee drawes millions of soules with him into hell Yet no man must presume so much as to reproue him for it Therefore let Saint Paul doe what he can his holinesse will keepe and make much of the sword that cut of his head and shew it to bee honoured and will gaine fairely by it and will also restraine and prohibits the vse of the other sword though he pleased to call it the sword of the Spirit seeing hee findes by so long experience that he looseth by it euery day CHAP. 6 In Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae annunciatae ITem ibi scribitur sic quod Beatissima virgo Maria apparuit Cuidam fratri dictae Ecclesiae cum multitudine Angelorum dicens omnis homo vere confessus contritus qui hanc Ecclesiam intrauerit me puro corde visitauerit ab infernali incendio liberabitur Scribitur etiam in cronicis quod cuilibet visitanti quotidie dictā Ecclesiā pro quolibet die qua eandem visitauerit mille anni Indulgent quadraginanni Indulgent remissio tertiae partis omnium peccatorum tot carenae Et omnes predictae Indulgentiae duplicantur in aduentu domini in quadragesima Et in die Annuntiationis Beatae Mariae est ibi plena remissio omnium peccatorum data a Sanctissimo domino Bonifacio Quicunque etiam in dicta Ecclesia ob honorem reuerentiam gloriosissimae Virginis Mariae Genetricis dei missam celebrauerit vnam animam meritis in tercessionibus eiusdem Virginis Mariae de paenis purgatorij liberabit CHAP. 6 4 The fouth principall Church the Church of our Lady Of the Church of Saint Marie of the Annunciation FVrthermore it is thus written in the place aforesaid that the most blessed Virgin Marie appeered to a certaine Frier of the said Church attended with a great multitude of Angels and said vnto him euery man truely confessed and contrite which shall euter into this Church and visite me with a pure heart shal be deliuered from the fire of hell 1 The Heretikes say that certainely this is but a tale for the Virgin Mary say they would not take vpon her to deliuer any out of hell nor purgatory by her owne merits as it is here said and if shee could she would not tie it to such a condition as the visiting of that Church because then the poore soules that dwell in far countries could neuer receiue good by it thus these shamelesse hereticks dare argue against it that the holy Church teacheth are not they worthiy condemned It is also written in the Chronickles that whosoeuer shall daily visit this said Church shall haue for euery day wherein hee shall so visite it a thousand and fortie yeares of pardon 2 So that then to visit that Church euery day for one yeare a man shall obtaine 38000 yeres of pardon come come all good Catholicks let vs goe leaue this cursed country of England and goe dwell at Rome where we shal be receiued entertained and inriched with such bountifull blessings together with remission of third part of all his sinnes and as many quarentens c. And all the said Indulgences are doubled in the time of the Aduent of our Lord and in lent And in the day of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Marie there is full remission of all sinnes to bee had in that Church graunted by our most holie Lord Pope Boniface Whosoeuer also shall celebrate Masse in the said Church in the honour and reuerence of the most glorious Virgin Marie mother of God shall through the merites and intercessions of the said Virgin Marie deliuer one soule out the paines of Purgatorie 3 See what a blessed thing it is to be a Priest in Rome whē a man may euery day at his pleasure deliuer a soule our of Purgatory is it therefore any maruel if so many of our fine wits and hopefull young men doe runne to Rome and become Priests No surely but the wonder is that if they beleeue this they will come againe into England where they may sooner send themselues to hell then deliuer a soule out of Purgatory CHAP. 7 Indulgentiae Ecclesiae Sancti Sebastiani ITem scribitur in Ecclesia Sancti Sebastiani quod ibi Angelus domini apparuit Beato Gregorio in celebratione Missae in altari Sancti Sebastiani Martiris dicens In isto loco est vera remissio omnium peccatorum splendor lux perpetua sine fine laetitia Quam Indulgentiam a Papa glorioso concessam Beatus Sebastianus meruit Item dominica die prima mensis Maij est ibi omnium peccatorum remissio Item ab ascensione domini vsque ad Kalendas Augusti sunt omni die mille anni Indulgent tot carenae tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio Item in alijs diebus per totum annum sunt omni die quadraginta septem Indulgentiarum tot carenae Item ibi est quidam introitus subterraneus ille Introitus vocatur Caemiterius Sancti Calixti Papae vbi solebant se ab scondere Sancti dei Martires quando persequebantur a Romanis Et ibi sunt tot Indulgētiae quot nemo numerare potest nisi solus Deus Item ibi est puteus in quo corpora Sanctorum Petri Pauli per centum annos iacuerunt antequam fuerunt inuenta sunt ibi CCC anni Indulgent Item in eadem Ecclesia est adhuc vnus puteus situatus modicum extra Ecclesiam ibi requiescunt quadraginta septem pontifices dantes vnusquisque suam Indulgentiam tantam quantam potuerunt Item in dicta Ecclesia est tanta Indulgentia quanta in Ecclesia Sancti Petri Apostoli Reliquiae Ecclesiae Sancti Sebastiani ITem in summo altari requiescit corpus Sancti Sebastiani Et in altari inferius corpus Sancti Fabiani Et in altari in fine Ecclesiae subtus requiescit corpus Stephani Papae Item retro Ecclesiam est alius transitus rotundus circa altare Sancti Apostoli Petrus Paulus ad centum annos iacuerunt in quo transitu multae corpora Sanctorum iacuerunt confessorum atque Virginum requiescunt Item in eadem Ecclesia est columpua illa ad quam Sanctus Sebastianus fuit sagittatus Item ibi est caput Sancti Calixti plura corpora aliorum Sanctorum Item in Caemiterio sancti Calixti quod habetur in eadem Ecclesia stat quoddam altare ad quod sanctus Petrus tempore quo Romani persequebantur illos sanctos Martyres ibidem sepultos celebrare so lebat Item in eodem Caemiterio habetur longitudo per quendam lapidem vnius claeui cum quo Christus fuit affixus crucis patibulo Item in eadem Ecclesia habentur vistigia vndecim pedum in vna capella a latere super altare quoddam Quae vestigia sunt illa viz. quando sanctus Petrus