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A67363	The tragical history of Jetzer, or A faithful narrative of the feigned visions, counterfeit revelations, and false miracles of the Dominican fathers of the covent of Berne in Switzerland, to propagate their superstitions for which horrid impieties, the prior, sub-prior, lecturer, and receiver of the said covent were burnt at a stake, Anno Dom. 1509 / collected from the records of the said city by the care of Sir William Waller, Knight ; translated from his French copy by an impartial pen ...	Waller, William, Sir, d. 1699.; Impartial pen.	1679 (1679)	Wing W548; ESTC R18749	85,978	50

Magdalene toucht Christ the marks of it appear'd in his forehead ever after with abundance of such impertinent stuffe wherewith the doating Friers used to fill up their Sermons Upon Easter-Eve the Lecturer being returned from his Journey two of their Friends amongst the Burgesses of the City namely Mr. Martyn a Goldsmith and Mr. Luke a Glasier had a strange itching humour to see and hear the V. Mary which communicating to the Fathers and they ashamed to deny and yet afraid to grant yet importunity at last prevail'd and they were desir'd to wait the Virgins leisure At last when they had almost quite worn out their patience to the stumps as they sate with two of the Fathers big or rather bursting with expectation out comes the Novice Megerlin who for that time acted the Virgin in all his Accoutrements his first feat of activity was to put out the Lamps and then applying himself to Jetzer Commanded that the Fathers should drive on the point of the Conception with more vigour and zeal and when he or she had besprinkled them with Holy Water and after a strange fashion lighted the Lamps again that were in the cross walk of the Covent using the benefit of their surprize disappear'd without the least suspicion given to their superstitious noddles Now these credulous fools were fob'd off with a very short interlude lest too long a Vision might have produced some accident that might possibly have rub'd up some jealousie in their dull brains of Imposture and Forgery Eight dayes after Easter the four Fathers which were the main Wheels in the Engine being in close Consult the Prior of Basil made them a Visit to see the sport and that he might contribute his Mite to this blessed design he brought with him not only a fine robe of a whitish grey for a property but curious Vizards and Masks and some cunningly contrived Engines to accommodate the Puppet-play and some small Wafers which the Sub-prior could varnish and paint over with admirable artifice They waited for an opportunity wherein they might give the Spectators a trial of their skill during the time that the Prior of Basil sojourn'd with them Now for a preparation to their designed Comedy they brought the Sacrament in its Pixe and placed it on the Table together with a Treatise made by Bernardin de Bustis the Cordelier as also another Tract written by the said Prior of Basil in confutation of the said Treatise of Bernardin and advised Jetzer if ever the V. Mary should appear again he should speak thus to her If thou beest verily the mother of Jesus Christ worship thy Son here before thee carry him unto his place and tear in pieces that Treatise which is erroneous about thy Conception That night the Lecturer appeared in the shape of the Virgin and kneeling devoutly before the Sacrament worshipt it saying withall Yes yes this is my Son and then takes the Treatise of Bernardin de Bustis tears it all in pieces with indignation and then turning to Jetzer Doubt not of the Truth of my Revelations which I have now so Authentically sealed and attested And presently she carries the Sacrament away with her and conveighs it to its own place in the Chappel In the Morning the Fathers gave him a Visit to whom he gave a particular account what had passed seeming to question the truth of these apparitions for his Confessor had put this Crotchet in his head that from thence he might take an occasion to set on foot a new game To whom the Prior of Basil answer'd Brother John An evil Spirit could never worship and carry away the holy Sacrament Why replyed the Lecturer cunningly did not the Devil carry our Saviour to the top of an high Mountain The issue of this dispute was they all agreed that Jetzer should conjure the Spirit upon its next appearance by the Power of God the Father God the Son and God the H. Ghost to tell him directly whether it were a Good or an Evil Spirit And if it should answer that it was a Good Spirit that then he should command it by virtue of the aforesaid Charm to say One Pater Noster one Ave Mary and the Creed which without question would be impossible for any evil Spirit to doe Matters being thus laid the next night comes the V. Mary with great state and pomp usher'd in with Wax-candles which she brought lighted with her from Heaven and placed them very devoutly upon his Table then drawing near to Jetzer he began to Conjure her in the manner and form aforesaid To this she readily Answers Yes yes I am a good Spirit I am Mary and Jesus is my Son whom I worshipt visibly before thee the last night and then carried him away to the Altar If thou beest a good Spirit replyed Jetzer let me hear thee say distinctly thy Pater Noster Ave Maria and the Creed Hereupon she falls down devoutly upon her knees and repeats the Lords Prayers till she came to those words And forgive us our trespasses then turning to Jetzer Mark brother John says she had I not been conceived in Original Sin I had small cause to say forgive us our Trespasses but rather forgive them their trespasses This said she went on with the rest Then she begins her Ave but after an odd fashion Hail Mary I am full of Grace and Jesus Christ my own Son is with me Blessed am I amongst women and blessed is the fruit of my Womb Then she falls to her Creed And when she had repeated those words The third day be rose again from the dead she added And appeared unto me first and not to Luke and Cleophas and so finisht the remainder And when she had in short said Dear brother John do not fancy that any evil spirit thus durst appear to thee 't is I the Blessed Virgin she comforted him with Holy-Water and taking up her Candles she went and placed them before the Image of our Lady which stood in the Walk of the Cloyster The Fathers presently found them and told the Friers that the Virgin Mary had brought those Wax-candles with her from Heaven which were of such a strange nature that no power on earth could light them the Virgin her self must come down from Heaven to do it or it must never be done Several of the Burgesses of the Town were show'd these holy Reliques and their celebrated Properties and when one or two had made a trial in vain the third man it seems unhappily lighted them which put the Prior into a great chafe yet he had an Excuse ready saying That when we begin to undervalue the great favours of God it 's just with him to take away their virtue and so seem'd to come off pretty handsomly But Jetzer at the instruction of his Confessor who to make him more settled in his Faith taught him how to raise scruples not being fully satisfied in the point was resolved upon an Experiment to try the Virgins Patience

thanks to all the Religious in this Covent for what they have contributed to my Deliverance assuring thy self and them that I shall be always ready prest to do them any service at the Throne of Divine grace Thus far matters succeeded well to and beyond expectation but Success is a great flatterer and teaches men to transgress all bounds of Modesty For the Fathers not content either with what they had atchieved or this poor wretch endured were resolv'd to push hard for a more Authentick proof of their Opinion and to make Jetzer a second St. Francis which they hoped to accomplish by the Appearances of St. Barbe and the V. Mary for which they had sufficiently prepared him by the former Revelation Having therefore taken a particular account from his own Mouth of what passed between him and the former Ghost they gave him ample Instructions how he should demean himself in the following Visions They enjoyned him to be Earnest in humble Prayer and all acts of Piety they exhort him to be of a good Courage and told him withall that for their better inspection over him and whatever accident might happen to him they had made a Hole in the Wall that divided his Chamber from the Receiver's which was very true but upon another design namely that the Novices in the Neighbouring Cells who understood not the Intrigue might not chance to smell some knavery nor discover this mystery of Iniquity That very evening before this designed apparition his Father Confessor brought to his dear Son Jetzer a Ticket which he laid upon his Table with this Instruction that when the Virgin should appear he should humbly tender it to her hands saying If thou beest really and indeed the Virgin Mary take this Ticket and carry it before the Hoste which is upon the great Altar of the Church Now this Ticket you must know contained divers sophistical Questions as whether St. Bernard Anselme Alexander of Hales Bonaventure and St. Thomas had taught the truth in this point or no Whether St. Katherine of Sienne St. Lucie of Ferrara both of the Order of the Dominicans had really and indeed received the Five wounds of our Lord and whether they had publisht the true Doctrine of her Conception And lastly what we ought to judge concerning the Council of Basil All things being now ready between Ten and Eleven at Night enters the Lecturer in the shape of a very fair young Lady cloathed as white as Innocence it self her flaxen hair dishevelled and playing upon her shoulders in this Equipage she finds Jetzer and thus with courteous words salutes him Frier John the Friend of God! I am St. Barbe for whom thou hast always had a singular Devotion since the day I drew thee out of the Rhine when thou thoughtest thou shouldest have been drowned I am a Martyr of Jesus Christ and servant of the V. Mary who will condescend to visit thee to illuminate thee in many secrets whereof that blessed Spirit which late appeared to thee and who now enjoys eternal happiness gave thee some hints See here is a Ticket I know well what thou art enjoyn'd to do with it I will goe and carry it to the blessed Virgin and they shall find it in that very place which thy Father Confessor desir'd And with that word she withdrew and entring the Quire of the Church laid it before the Hoste upon the great Altar having first put to it a Seal of five drops of Blood which was his own and the Sub-prior's contrivance Hereupon the Candles and Lamps in the Walk of the Covent and those in the Church were all lighted and the Bells in Jetzers and the Receivers Cell rung in a miraculous manner of their own accord which was the common trick in all the former Apparitions since the deliverance of the poor Prior's Soul out of Purgatory This feat being so neatly carried the Lecturer retreats to his Cell where he strips himself of his borrowed properties The Sub-prior runs in all haste to Jetzer whom he found wholly transported between fear and joy and Asks him what discourse he had with St. Barbe who gave him no other Answere but desir'd him he might speak with his Father Confessor To whom he rehearsed all the particular occurrences of their enterview A needless labour to acquaint him with what he knew as well as himself His Confessor gave him no other Return but some serious exhortations but presently he taking the Sub-prior Frier Osweld the Cook and Jetzer along with him went into the Church to find out the foremention'd Ticket which they found in the assigned place with the precious Seal of five drops upon it whereupon they return magnifying and exalting all that had happen'd to Jetzer as a thing wholly miraculous charging him at their departure to wait for the Apparition of the blessed Virgin with Devotion About one a Clock at night the Lecturer personating the Virgin Mary with one St. Barbe to wait on her made another Visit to Jetzer and for the greater credit of the Cause she was introduced by two Angels who supported her by both her feet aloft in the Aire all in Mourning habit as to the form but yet pure white to keep Decorum for so we must suppose the Saints above do mourn Her Vail trail'd decently on the ground and the upper part did so Muffle the best part of her face and half her Arms that they hoped the whole of the Knavery would be hidden also And thus accoutred she addresses her self to poor Jetzer Frier John be not afraid I am Mary sent to thee by my Son Jesus to assure thee of the Truth of whatsoever that good Spirit told thee concerning this my Appearance Know therefore that my Son can no longer endure that the Honour to be Conceived without Original Sin which is his sole Prerogative should upon my account be sacrilegiously ravisht from him Nor can I own this gross error of the Cordeliers as an honour to my self which tends so visibly to the reproach of my Son Nay I am thereby highly provoked and that thy holy Fathers may be assured that they are in the right in this weighty point and that they may have undoubted proofs that I was conceived in Original Sin by my Mother St. Ann in common with the rest of Mankind Behold here I have placed with the Ticket which St. Barbe delivered lately to me two Seals made of the shreds of Cotton which I scrap'd from that pure fine linnen with which my Son was wrapt when he lay in the Manger upon each of which is form'd a little Cross of that very blood which he shed when he hung upon the Tree which Blood I gather'd up my self and have carefully kept it to this hour in memory of his Passion Vpon the greater of these two Seals thou seest here are three drops of this precious blood upon the lesser there are five drops of the same blood although mingled as thou wilt easily believe with my own

that are quoted in confirmation of the Christian Doctrine are equally to be suspected and rejected 7. Lastly Observe we hence how unmovably constant the Papists have been to their main Design who though they produce Miracle against Miracle Revelation against Revelation the Franciscans striving to out-vie the Dominicans and these again to out-do those yet all agree in Calculating their spurious Miracles and Apparitions for the abetting some of their Superstitions and Heresies Worshipping of the Virgin Mary Saints and Angels the Doctrine of Purgatory and the Mass above all which because they cannot be Justified from Heaven must be Justified as they can and rather than left Naked to shift for themselves shall be warranted from Hell But the Reader will find these with many other particulars through this ensuing Narrative wherein the Translator has kept so Superstitiously to the Text of his Author that he fears nothing more than to be Condemned for spoiling the Language whilst he has bound himself up to a rigid and Exact Rehearsal of the Truth The Contents of this History THe Quarrel between the Dominicans and the Franciscans about the Immaculate Conception Page 1. The Dominicans meet at Wimpten where they propound and agree to the Counterfeiting of certain Miracles Apparitions c. for the supporting of their Doctrine ibid. John Jetzer a Taylor comes to Berne is admitted into the Covent of the Dominicans he is judged by the Fathers a fit subject to practise upon p. 2. Jetzer is haunted with a Spirit in the shape of a Prior persecuted and tormented with Devils in the shape of Monks which ceases during the time he is in the Infirmary ibid. The Fathers meet in close Consult to advise how to carry on their Design the Sub-prior promises them a trial of his Skill how well he can Act the part of a Ghost p. 3. He appears to Jetzer followed with mad Dogs Jetzer makes use of Holy Water and Reliques to resist the Devil ibid. He appears a second time with great Terrour throws down his Holy Water yet promises to come again within eight days if he could get leave p. 4. The Fathers teach him how to conjure the Spirit they hang about his Neck a small Cross made of the wood of the true Crose of Christ to fortifie him against the Assaults of the Devil ibid. The Spirit confesses himself to be a Soul tormented in Purgatory that he had been once Prior of the same Covent he tells him by what means he might be deliver'd p. 5. The whole Covent Fast Pray receive the Discipline the Spirit appears again giving further directions for his final release ibid. The Spirit appears the last time in a Glorious shape give the Covent thanks with some hints that the V. Mary would appear also p. 6. St. Barbe appears to him to give Notice of the appoach of the Virgin p. 7. The Virgin her self appears declares her displeasure against the Doctrine of the Franciscans about the Immaculate Conception Shee gives him some drops of the true Blood of Christ shed on the Cross ibid. Shee peirces his right hand through with a dagger telling him it was the first of the five Wounds of Christ and that in due time she would honour him with the rest p. 8 These Miracles are divulged and the Fathers shew great Veneration to this great Saint Jetzer The Lecturer in a Sermon magnifies these Miracles as Vnparallel'd p. 9. The Virgin appears a second time opens and condemns the Doctrine of the Franciscans and justifies that of the Dominicans condemns the Council of Basil and tells how she got the blood of Christ for the Covents of Cologne and Berne ibid. The Prior of Ulm is acquainted with the Intrigue he Advises to Caution the Prior of Berne undertakes to Act the Virgin Appears to Jetzer in the presence of two Citizens p. 10. The Prior of Basil comes to Berne he furnishes the Confederates with properties and rare Engines to carry on the Design ibid. They bring the Sacrament into Jetzer's Cell and lay it with a Treatise of the Cordeliers upon the table The Virgin appears worships the Hoste tears in pieces the Treatise as containing Heretical Doctrine p. 11. The Virgin appears again Jetzer desires her to say the Lords Prayer Ave Maria and the Creed which she does after an odd fashion ibid. For a final proof that this was really the Virgin Mary Jetzer spits in her Face three times which she approves and commends as done to try the Spirits ibid. Dandanlus a Jew but a pretended Convert colours wafers of so exact a dye that they represent Flesh and Blood these are laid on Jetzer's Table p. 12. The Virgin appears again shuffles a red Wafer in the room of a white one Jetzer leaps out of bed catches hold on the Virgins hands and finds her to be the Lecturer he stormes and rages ibid. The Confederates are put to their shifts how to reconcile Jetzer many Artifices are used by his Confessor and the Prior of Basil but all in vain p. 13. To satisfie him in the Truth of the red colour'd Hoste they make an experiment to colour a white wafer with a Chickens blood Dandalus runs away The Prior of Basil of Berne and the Lecturer go to Pforcheim and in the Interim the Sub-prior appears in the shape of the V. Mary p. 14. The Sub-prior prepares Jetzer Ceremoniously to receive the other four wounds of Christ appears like the Virgin peirces his other hand his side both his feet with the same dagger p. 15. The Sub-prior Conjures up a Devil who instructs him to make a potion that should work strangely upon Jetzer and forces him to Act all the parts of the Passion of Christ he renounces God the Mass and gives himself to the Devil Body and Soul by a Deed under his hand written with his own blood ibid. Jetzer receives the Potion is in a stranges Extasie Acts all the parts of Christs passion before witnesses one of them at the horrid sight falls into a swoon p. 16. Jetzer continuing incredulous in the matter of the red coloured Hoste the Fathers resolve to poyson him p. 17. They provide him a mess of broth he suspects refuses throws it secretly out of the window where some young wolves lick it up and are poyson'd but they endeavour to heal and salve all again ibid. The Virgin appears again to dress Jetzer's wounds Jetzer knows the hand falls into a rage and spoils the sport ibid. The Fathers contrive how to make the Virgins Image weep tears of blood he is brought after midnight into the Chappel A young Frier is placed behind the Image to counterfeit the voices of Christ and Mary p. 18. The Virgin complains of the worlds Vnbelief about her Revelations and Apparitions her Son in her Arms comforts her and promises to take the matter into his own hands ibid. Jetzer is convinced of the truth of this last Revelation Company is called in to see the Virgin weep tears of blood p.

assure him that they for their parts would not be wanting to pray for him as if the case had been their own Telling him that they knew not but God might make use of him to discover to the world matters of great Importance and if God should own him to be the Instrument to bless the Age with some remarkable Revelations it was nothing but what his former Methods did render usual to reveal that to Babes which he concealed from the wise and prudent promising him moreover that they would have a special eye upon and care over him and did expressely recommend the care of his person to the Cook They reinforced his overthrown Lamp recruited his Holy-water gave him new Candles and the better to strengthen his weak faith they placed some Reliques of incredible virtue and infinite value upon a little Table or Altar which he had in his Cell and in short shewed themselves very officious and serviceable in his behalf During those eight dayes wherein the Spirit promised to return the Sub-prior taught Jetzer the best way of Conjuring him on purpose that if he returned as if he had leave no doubt he would he might strictly Catechize him What he was Whence he came What was his business In what state he was In order to which they severely charged him to Discipline himself to Confess to Pray and Fast that he might be able to deal with a Spirit so unruly and procure the desired ease and rest for him Nay the whole Covent was solemnly exhorted to put up their Prayers for a poor Soul grievously tormented in Purgatory as was conceived that it might please him to deliver the Soul from its pains and their Covent from the present trouble and inquietude Upon the Eve of the Eighth day the Fathers and Friers Confessed themselves and having put on their Holy Garments every man fortified himself as well as he could in his Cell with consecrated Candles Holy-water and some precious Reliques that they might stand their ground against the assaults of this furious Spirit Only the Cook being nearest to danger by the special advice of the Fathers provided himself of the Holy Sacrament to keep the Spirit at Arms-end for he doubted much whether he should be able to close with him and come to handy-gripes The Sub-prior for the same Reason hung about Jetzer's neck a little Purse wherein was a small Cross made of the true Cross upon which Christ suffered and taught him how to exorcise the Spirit so as to make him fly with a vengeance and thred the Doors double Things being in this posture presently after Midnight the Spirit returns with a pack of infernal Beagles and breaking into Jetzer's Cell were so hardy as to fall upon his Person notwithstanding all his fortifications of Holy-Water Holy Candles and holy Reliques Jetzer raising up himself in his Bed falls a Conjuring the Spirit as he had been taught I conjure thee thou outragious Spirit in the Name of the blessed Trinity that is by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost by the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ by the Blessed Virgin and all the Saints that thou tell me Whether thou art a good Spirit or no Who thou art and whether thou mayst be relieved or no These terrible words did so amate the Spirit that he recoyl'd to the other side of the Room four times he attempted to assayl Jetzer and as often was repuls'd but the Charm abating in its vigour upon the fifth Attack he came close up to his Bed and with a menacing voice thus accosted him Rascal If thou hast no need of me I have no need of thee and immediately down he kicks his Cruet of Holy-Water adding That he valued not these Baubles for they had none sincere and pure these eleven years the Church-warden always dashing it with common water and following on his discourse Conjure me these Dogs says he that haunt and torment me night and day without pity without ease or intermission though I am at Present out of Purgatory Jetzer presently falls to work with these Hell-hounds and belabour'd them so effectually that the whole pack of them quitted the tormented Soul giving thereby leave to him to open his wofull case in these words Frier John I am now by thy Intercession and that of thy holy Fathers permitted to speak Know therefore that I am a good Spirit I was formerly Prior of this Covent my Name was Henry Halbourg of Soleure Priest and Doctor of the Order but having unfaithfully managed my trust I was forced to fly to Paris after I had obtained my Absolution There I followed my Studies till one night going out with a Companion of mine we both met with a mischance that cost us our lives He because he had purloyned some Books out of the Library was doom'd to Hell and wretched I because I had quitted the Habit of my Order was sentenc'd to Purgatory where for this hundred and sixty years consult the Register and you 'l find it so long since to a Year I have endured a Martyrdome nothing short of Hell save the Eternity And now by the permission of God have got this liberty to seek some Relief in this Covent though still I am in unconceivable anguish and inexpressible Torments Hereupon the Spirit discovered its face all sliced and slasht the flesh and skin hung down in long Collops and Labels his Nose slit his Ears shred and the colour of his face was as if it had been newly Carbanadoed and laid upon a Gridiron Jetzer demands of him in virtue of his former Charm by what means he might be releas'd from this miserable condition The Spirit replyed That if every Priest in the Covent would sing three Masses for his Soul and if they would all in generall Discipline themselves every day of that ensuing week and if he in particular would receive the Discipline thrice till the blood ran down And if every Lay-Frier would say one Psalm five hundred Pater-nosters and as many Ave Maria's with seven Credo's And if he whilest the Priest was singing Mass would lye flat on the ground stretching his Arms in the form of the Cross and at every Pater-noster would kiss the ground in remembrance of the treacherous Kisses of Judas and lastly if the Fathers should precisely record all these passages in their Registers that he hoped he might obtain the Pardon of his sins and especially his grand neglect to Conform himself to the Rules of that holy Order And therefore would return after the Octaves to see what effect his miserable Case had had amongst them He added that the Friers had done very wisely to furnish themselves with the holy Sacrament and particularly that it was advisedly done of him to hang about his neck the Cross made of the wood of Christs Cross without which there 's not a man of them had escaped some dreadful mischief nor had he been able to have open'd his Case being under the custody of

deliver up their Keys to the Prior The Fathers then desired them to feal it up with their own Seals they desir'd to be excused pretending they had not their Seals about them but one Henry Volfli a Canon being desired yielded which the Receiver evaded by taking the Impression in Lead and afterwards causing a Seal to be made by it The third day after Jetzer's discharge from his wounds the Fathers had a grand Consult touching the Conception of the V. Mary in Sin and did solemnly swear to Jetzer that if he believed not these following Articles they would bind him with Excommunication and deliver him up to the Secular Powers The Articles were these 1. That the Virgin was conceived in Original Sin 2. Born in Original Sin 3. That she was in Original Sin when she stood under the Cross 4. And when she died 5. That she conceived our Saviour being her self in Original Sin 6. That she was then only freed of it when she was taken Body and Soul into Heaven These Articles they commanded him to subscribe in testimony of Assent and Consent to them but Jetzer was almost grown an Infidel by this time and had got such a habit of Incredulousness that he would hardly believe his own eyes Why said they brother Jetzer what if the Virgin her self should appear to you in reality and St. Catherine of Seulis a Holy Sister of their Order would he not then believe He replyed He could not well tell what he should doe but if the B. Virgin should verily and indeed come down from Heaven he would labour to give her credit This being all they could scrue out of him they must be content with the answer His Confessor calls him to Confession and takes thence occasion to advise him to Faith in God and good hope that he would provide some means for the Confirming of his Truth wherein his Interest so much lay The next night after Mass the Virgin Mary appeared and St. Catherine waiting on her and because they came about their old Errand I shall not need to trouble the Reader and my self to repeat the Discourse it may suffice that Jetzer having been now more versed in these Apparitions at first dash knew the Sub-prior's voice who at that time acted the Virgin and drawing out his knife made at her Ladyship full tilt 't is true he miss'd his Mark but sheath'd his Whittle in the thigh of St. Catherine represented by the Receiver and presently down came all her Holy-water The disguised Virgin seeing this in a rage cried out Lay him o're the face St. Catherine dash out the Rogues brains Surely he 's possest with the Devil St. Catherine for all her wound gave him as hot as he brought and hit him so full o're his face that the swelling continued eight dayes after Jetzer's blood was up and catching up a Mallet which he there spied let fly at her head that gave her such a rebuke that she fell down Mary came in for her Second and taking up a pint pot with all her might threw it directly at his pate but missing him dasht in pieces the Glass window Jetzer seeing himself overmatcht betook himself to his heels and running out at the door lockt it after him he goes up to the Prior and the Lecturer and bringing them to his Cell where he had left these two Actors Prisoners Look says he Reverend Fathers and behold the Fruits of your late Preaching Are you not come to an end of your Villanies The Sub-prior presently played the Chirurgeon and dresses the Receivers Wound giving it out that he had an Ulcer long time a breeding in his Thigh and by this means would make Jetzer a Lyar. But these Reverend Fathers seeing it was to no purpose to endeavour to hide their Knaveries from Jetzer held a close Council how they might rectifie their former errours the result whereof was this That to oblige him to secresie they would find a means to make him guilty of Sacrilege so that having him upon the hip he might not dare to play the Blab of his tongue and disclose their Secrets Having therefore in their hands some Church-utensils and Ornaments pawned to them as Jewels Bracelets and Necklaces for the Virgin very rich and gawdy besides some small Images of Silver and Agnus Dei's they made him a Present of these Rarities Jetzer whether he smelt the Plot or no I cannot tell modestly refused them onely one sett of Beads hugely allured his eye which because he would not seem to take gratis he would needs buy of them whilest they were driving this bargain who should come in but Henry Volfli a Canon who askt him who had given him that excellent sett of Beads he answered his sister had sent it him for a token for so he was instructed by the Fathers By and by a rumour went up and down the Covent that the Virgins Image had been rob'd of its Ornaments and a great bussle there was about it The Fathers desired Jetzer that if ever he had the happiness to see the B. Virgin he would desire her to discover the Thief They had provided him a Mary that should answer the Question but she at the next interview told him she was the Mother of Grace and Mercy it became not her to turn Informer or to delate any one to expose them to shame or danger of Death Nay then Brother John said they you may be confident 't was really the Virgin her self and no evil Spirit nor Delusion the Devil delights in nothing more than to bring Men to Ruine but they turn'd their tale to the rest of the Friers and said no doubt it was this Rascal Jetzer that had committed this horrid Sacriledge Jetzer had noted that there had passed several Dishes of Meat and store of Wine very late at Night towards one of their Chambers he was minded to stand Scout if he might happily discover the matter The first time the Prior and Lecturer had got a couple of Ladies the Prior himself was in a Secular Habit like a Gallant with his Sword by his side by the same token it was the same he had of Jetzer upon his Admission He had a Montere on his Head of Crimson Velvet his Doublet was all slash'd and prick'd A-la-mode his Breeches were green These Madams had got on all the Array of the Virgin The Lecturer espying Jetzer peeping in at the door gently rebuked his sawciness but withal telling him he ought not to take any Offence at their Liberty for those Gentlewomen were their Sisters whom in Civility they could not but Treat handsomly Another time he surprized them with three Wenches that were Notorious Baggages where they were Epicurizing with good fat Capons and Fowls when at other times they would look so demurely as if Butter would not melt in their mouths Jetzer in Passion What the Devil said he do you make here What would the Senators of Berne say if they saw your pranks The Prior Answer'd Now