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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19321	Another letter of Mr. A.C. to his dis-Iesuited kinseman, concerning the appeale, state, Iesuites Also a third letter of his, apologeticall for himselfe against the calumnies contained against him in a certaine Iesuiticall libell, intituled, A manifestation of folly and bad spirit, &c.	Copley, Anthony, 1567-1607?	1602 (1602)	STC 5736; ESTC S120368	72,830	84

being but one yeare and a halfe or thereabouts and the first yeare litle inough by all intendment to settle my wanton idle light witted head afore I could be fit for either the one or the other so high vocation To shew you then how false either of these imputations are you must vnderstand that in my discontentment to be so made a schoole-boy and cosined both of the Popes pension and my libertie I taking a deuotion to S. Monacha S. Augustines mother went often to the Augustines Church in Rome where her bodie lay and there falling acquainted with a Venetian Frier of the Monasterie I vnderstood that he knew my Vnkle Sir Richard Shelley in Venice by whose meanes I afterward often writ vnto him informing him of my discontentment with the Iesuites for their so abusing his Holinesse and me but especially after my Cosin R. S. his departure for England To which my aggriefe in the end after sundrie letters that passed betwixt vs the Lord Prior of Malta for such was his title most louingly complied sending me by this Friers meanes three and fiftie duckets where with to get me from Rome into France with request that I would make Venice my way affirming that forasmuch as he had no other kinsman in those parts he would leaue me when he died if I liked to liue with him all that he had With these three and fiftie duckets I departed the Colledge Rome and Italy where at parting father Cowbucke being come thither but a litle afore and also D. Allan who within a while after was created Cardinall the one gaue me his malediction the other a thousand blessings And this I protest was all the leaue and Uiaticum the fathers gaue me at my departure from Rome this their paternall charitie where with the libeller more in particular vnderneath vpbraideth me Yea ouer and aboue all this father Cowbucke was the man who perceiuing D. Allan his credit to be more with me then his wrought him to be thus farre forth his instrument as to disswade me my going to Venice to my Vnkle which he vnderstood I intended and my said Vnkle expected so ill the father brooked either that good Knight or my good fortunes or both I was too blame in that respect to the good Doctor both for my duties sake to my Vnkle and also for my profit though minding to haue returned of purpose vnto him out of France the next yeare after before which time the good Knight died leauing all his riches to a meere seruant so vnfortunate was I or rather so vnfortunate a Iesuite to me whom this Iesuite termes my friends who neuer failed me And this was all my becomming either College Priest or Augustine Frier and thus much can M. Duke sometimes my entire friend in earth now a Saint in heauen witnesse of my going to the Augustines to whose priuitie I imparted all that my proceeding Insomuch as at a word aswell might the libeller haue affirmed that I would haue become a Nunne for S. Monacha●…s sake or a Iesuite for father Cowbuckes as an Augustine especially if withall he knew what law raigned in my loynes and what spirit colophized me at those yeares with S. Paul In vaine therefore doth this manifester of his folly and bad spirit stroake as it were his beard after so grosse a slander aduise yonkers to beware by me how they slip back contemne when they are in their sister euen as vainely as I haue noted the vaineglorious Spaniard to do the like to his beard picke his teeth pat and stretch forth his paunch and stroke off crummes from his clothes after an egge as if he had dined with a Lord Maior of London But most of all vaine and malicious he is after two so expresse lies to commend himselfe for a timorous conscience as to affirme things that he knowes not for certaine which neither could his fatherhood vaine-gloriously inough do vnlesse withall he condemned me of a lauish conscience in the contrarie Ah poore father and poore praise so to borrow or rather steale grace by the disgrace of others Were there no greater faults in a Iesuite then this please God I had but so much of S. Augustines spirit as to discouer it to the full to the Churches caution and edification But of the two orders the likelihood that was was rather of my becomming Iesuite especially if I had bene as forward in accepting as some were in proffering me that scandal For verie well I remember that whiles I liued in the Colledge father Agazarius who was then Rector till toward the latter end at what time father Cowbucke came in his place the fat father Minister whose name I haue forgotten and my Cosin R. S. Prefect of the studies all three most fauningly woo'd me to like of their Societie to which end they did me the fauour for so they reputed it as to admit me into their spirituall exercises whereof God I thanke I made much better vse vnto my soule then so noting as yong as I was the strange spirit of some youths in the Colledge their chiefe dearlings as namely Anth. Maior whom they made Consiliarius primus or secundus of the congregation of our Ladie in the Colledge which was a fauour who since is Apostated euen wilfully and beneficed here in England Likewise yong as I was I could well see what foule vse they made of the said good exercise of our Ladies congregation for the maintaining offaction amongst both the scholers and Priests and for the Iesuiting of the best wits and best bred youths from the true intent and institution of the Colledge Also I saw how vilely for example they abused M. Doctor Bagshaw and Doctor Cicill putting them to all the boyish exercises of the house and in the end expulsing the former of them with others from thence In few yong though I were I noted by other in cautelam to my selfe from becomming either Iesuit or Iesuiticall that what talent they saw in me apt for their turnes if being such I should not happen to employ it religiously and so to the reputation of their Societie that it would stead them aswell to be employed in dishonestie so the dishonestie were exquisite and extraordinarie as their instructions could helpe to make it so much that Societie is the refuse of religiousnesse and therefore worthily the last religious order in holy Church and their founder not likely to be canonized for a Saint till it be cassie●…ed As then it is but a worke of supererogation a man to confine himself to any order of Religion so is it but a bonum inculpate omissum to be of any whosoeuer haue any such deuotion as I protest I neuer had howbeit to be a Iesuite I do not see how that consideratis considerandis vz. the euils of it as Iesuites are now a dayes for the most part it is not a Malum realissimé commissum From this spirit of religious and ecclesiasticall life he fellbacke soone

and faction at this day that it is at this present in an Appeale against them vnder her Apostolicke Vicar before the Popes Legate a latere in those parts who to his infinit griefe to see it is now in redressing the same So haughtie that societie is growne by reason of her wealth and the countenance of the house of Austrich whose coate and cognisance it hath worne from an egge as aiming to rise and fall by and with the greatest that wheresoeuer in all Christendome it sets footing it straight seekes to innouate all and to captiuate aswell the Laitie as the Cleargie to her homage Here hence it is that all mens faculties must vaile bonnet to it and their good names be vnder her praise or reproofe It is not enough where a Colledge of these fathers is a Citizen to be noble either in bloud by office or rare manners no nor to be neuer so honest innocent and of a safe conscience to God and the world-ward without their superscription or letters patents which sounds as though a man should be more beholding to them then to God to a Icsuit then to Iesus whereas bearing the print of their praise it skils not how very a foole or knaue or both a man be All mens honours and abilities must depend on them and their republicke or else be reputed reprobate Yea the secular Priest as I a litle afore touched which is the supremest dignitie in the Church of God and it whereby a Iesuit Priest is more reuerend then for being a bare Iesuite and no Priest which he can neuer be but by the imposition of the Seculars hand vz. the Bishops ouer him such a one I say not to rise vp to him and giue him the conge and vpper place in all meetings is to be esteemed an vnmannerly puppie and proclaimed by their drum●…e for a scandalous person ouer all the face of a countrey so exorbitant is their pride or ingratitude chuse ye whether Examples hereof are so many and so daily here in our countrey and in our Church notwithstanding the affliction it is vnder that to recount ye them were more tedious then a wonder Was it not for example notable pride and peeuishnesse in a certaine Iesuited priest Northward now an assistant to the Archpriest who being there in a worshipfull womans house where were also a secular Priests residing for the most part he vpon some generall termes of hers to him in confession sounding as though she were scandalized in the too peremptorie cariage of one of the three in her house to refuse to absolue her vnlesse she would there at his feete declare whether she meant it by him as indeed she did a point which she refusing to satisfie him in as meere impertinent nay vnallowable in that Sacrament was faine to stay his inordinate leysure and pleasure for an absolution besides the pride was not this notable sacriledge to so high a Sacrament In like maner this other day a parcell of almes comming to a certaine prison in London and deliuered to a Iesuited Priest of the last yeares condemnation to be by him distributed amongst the Catholikes his fellow-prisoners a Iesuit who was likewise a prisoner in that place demaunded that money of him as in way of exception that he being a profest Iesuit was the worthier man to distribute it The other on the other side stood vpon the honour of his condemnation alleaging that in that respect though no Iesuit he other then in Voto he was the more worthy Thus stood they vpon Puntoes so quarellously and so long in this high affaire that they could take no rest a nights and that all the prisoners there were verie much scandalized thereat who being for the most part Iesuiticall and the brabble referred in the end to their disciding awarded for the substantiue Iesuit against the adiectiue notwithstanding his dissigned martyrdome which I am greatly deceiued if euer God suffer to take effect as long as he continues Iesuiticall Out of this spirit it is that father Cowbucke for all the disparage of his birth which not his basptisme could wash away and other his scandalous cariages aswell since his Iesuitisme as formerly when he was an hereticke in Oxford ambitioneth the Cardinalate forgetting how that to be a bare Priest though no such peere he being a knowne bastard is against the Canons of the Church although to be a Iesuite being such well and good he may A proper person surely to be a Cardinall or to carie so great a taile after him as he doth at this day in England howbeit insooth as good he to be such a ring-leader for Spanish faction here the matter being so leud as it is and he setting his priesthood aside so base as for his Generall or other outlandish Iesuite to be the same who are no whit English Well the man is a Iesuit and therefore to be esteemed whatsoeuer his birth or behauiour be and they worthy the Stropado ●…ay the Garotto that dare to censure him See what a thing it is to be a Iesuit and what an Ordo ad Deum as they vse it in disorder to the Church and of a common wealth This is that societie of Fathers of which it must be said that by Gods speciall prouidence it came vp with Luther as a curbe to his and from him all the ensuing heresies of this age by which it hath morched along like a mattocke cheeke by ioule rooting them vp instantly euery where A fond foundation of a praise as though Beere did not also come in much about that time which notwithstanding immoderatly taken and so abused though good and wholesome drinke of it selfe is as the Iesuites are at this day pernitious intoxicating the braine This is that societie that must be termed of Fathers in Gods Church they being no whit her good sonnes and which would rule not knowing yet how to obey This is that societie that thinkes it becomes it well in Iesus name to grace her Generals and other her inferiour members to the worlds eye with most curious and costly pictures and statues amongst the greatest Lords and Heroes of Christendome which is a monstrous vaine-glorie and which all other religious in the Church are in their humilitie ashamed of But their kingdome being it seemes wholly of this world let not such their vanity seeme strange vnto you neither yet strange a many other their like vaine-glorious fopperies In few this is that societie that must be thought most holy and perfect of all other orders yea or then a generall Councell because forsooth they say it is the most hated corporation and the most persecuted of Heretickes and the diuell of them all which argument we might well graunt them for good were it not that the societie is also no lesse disliked of the Catholike church itselfe Moreouer if that reason might hold aswell may we inferre that Lutheranisme was truest Religion in Queene Maries time because the most persecuted then but Causa

the Iesuits was which of late yea yet possesseth both the court and countrey against the Appellants but what will ye Mentitur iniquitas sibi and according to the Prophet Omnis homo mendax that is as I may here conster it quatenus a Iesuit or Iesuiticall Both these letters are submitted to the censure of holy Church and the mis-printing to the courtesie and discretion of the Reader The Table of my forthcomming Manifestation of the Iesuites Common-wealth CHap. 1. Of the Founder and Institution of the Societie of Iesus and the approbation thereof by the Sea-Apostolicke Chap. 2. Of the fruitefull seruices the Societie hath done to the Sea-Apostolicke till the time of her declination and of some rare men of it at this day Chap. 3. Of the many faculties priuiledges and prerogatiues indulged from time to time to the Societie by the Sea-Apostolicke Chap. 4. How and wherin the Societie differeth from all other religious orders in holy Church and consequently how vnlikely to continue anie long time perfect Chap. 5. Of the Societies retaining to the house of Austrich and Spaine Chap. 6. Of the Societies first stayre downeward to wit her singularitie and ouer-weening Chap. 7. Of the Societies two Poles to wit her Pharisaicall Ordo ad Deum and her fiscall or ingrossall Bonum societatis about which all her other euils do reuolue and gire Chap. 8. Of the lucre the Societie makes of the education of youth and free schoole Chap. 9. Of the lucre the Societie makes as Executrix to Camels and her forme of complying with them Chap. 10. Of the Societies art and lucre in sowing of Factions Chap. 11. Of the Societies art in brutes and reports and the vse it makes thereof Chap. 12. Of the Societies art of defamation and the vse it makes thereof Chap. 13. Of the Societies sleights of equiuocation mentall euasion tergiuersation vulpecular-fawne and the like Chap. 14. Of the Societies hypocrisie and abuse of the Sacraments and other spirituall exercises and the lucratiue vse it makes thereof Chap. 15. Of the Societies interdealing in Court and State and her opposing commonly against the State it liues vnder and to what end though as it hath bene seene to her hazard in the end Chap. 16. Of the Societies treasons murthers and perfidiousnesse in State and her Doctrine according Chap. 17. Of the Societies Magicall art of Auguri●… and her vse thereof Chap. 18. Of the prodigious spirits the Societie puts into her ghostly children Chap. 19. Of the Societies varietie of Appendants and seruitors and their seuerall offices throughout Christendome together with their Pensions and entertainements Chap. 20. Of the Societistes their shiftes and cautions to colour anie euill member or matter of theirs both à priore and à posteriore Chap. 21. Of the Societies schismes heresies and other impostures within and against the Catholike Church Chap. 22. Of the likelihood of the Societies bringing in of Antichrist Chap. 23. Of certaine excellent men who hauing bin Probationors in the Societie and noting the corruption thereof haue left the same Chap. 24. How Cardinal Tollet a Iesuit Cardinal Borhomeo Cardinal Allan and others disliked the Societie and namely Borhomeo his expulsing it out of all his Arch-Diocesse of Millan and her eiection out of France together with many religious mens pens against it at this day Chap. 25. Of the perill of the Societies continuance ouer our English Seminaries both to our Church and Countrey with a briefe narration of her mischiefes hitherto to either of them Chap. 26. Of the meanes to exterpe the Societie out of England namely by the Seminaries continuall Appeales to the Sea-Apostolicke against it and otherwise by ciuill course FINIS Faults escaped in printing Page 8. line 24. D. Fishers reade M. Listers p. 15. l. 19. Sowbucke reade Cowbucke p. 19. l. 8. I behooues reade it behooues p. 29. l. 13 humbe loue reade humble loue p 45. l. 15. owne I reade owne part I. p. 54. l. 11. Apostolike which reade Apostolicke as for matter of religion which p. 56. l. 38. other in reade others in p. 60. l 26. fiue and twentie a reade fiue and twentie crownes a. p. 69. l. 10. yet fauour reade yet the fauour p. 73. l. 20. old corne reade Old-corne p. 80. l. 27. letter ●…e reade latter he