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A08690	The vnmasking of all popish monks, friers, and Iesuits. Or, A treatise of their genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state Together with some briefe obseruations of their treasons, murders, fornications, impostures, blasphemies, and sundry other abominable impieties. Written as a caueat or forewarning for Great Britaine to take heed in time of these romish locusts. By Lewis Owen.	Owen, Lewis, 1572-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 18998; ESTC S113782	125,685	175

euery man to his owne Classe and there stay till the bell rings againe and then againe at the first toll they and the Schollers come out for they must not breake the Orders and Rules of the Schoole In the morning after they haue been at Schoole an houre and a halfe or thereabout the same bell rings and then they goe to Church to heare Masse which endures halfe an houre and then they returne to their Classes againe But in some Countries when the daies are long after Masse they goe home to breake-fast and within halfe an houre after they come to schoole againe Euery day or euery other day they haue disputations in the three lowermost Classes where the boies doe challenge and prouoke one another in the declining of Nounes Pronounes Verbs or Participles or in coniugating of Verbs either in Latine or Greeke And this they doe for to get one anothers place which breeds such emulations among them that it makes them of their owne accord study both night and day some to maintaine their places seats and dignities and others of meere schoole ambition to aspire and ascend higher But none must as I haue heard challenge or prouoke the Emperour or the Senators but those that are next in dignity vnto them so that those of the Plebeyans cannot ascend to the Senate or any other place or dignity but by degree When two of them haue done disputing the Master giues his iudgement and then other boies start vp and craue leaue of the Master to challenge their aduersary to the combat who permits those two whom he pleaseth to enter into the List and thereupon these two companions stand vp and crosse themselues first before they beginne to oppose one another The Iesuits haue another pretty tricke how to make their Schollers study and bring in profit for themselues that is They will sometimes giue vnto their Schollers both a priuate or a publike Premium a reward which doth not onely animate and incourage the boies to study but also oblige and enduce their parents to recompence the Schoole-master But vnto great men or rich mens sonnes they doe vse to giue the best Premia or rewards because they doe expect in counter-exchange a great recompence to the poorer sort they giue little Pictures of Saint Ignatius their Patron of the blessed Virgin Mary or of some Saint that they most affect But on the richer sort they bestow Beads and Bookes or some costlier Pictures Euery Saturday in the afternoone all the Schollers of their seuerall Classes doe meet together in a great spacious roome to be catechized by one of the Iesuites who is appointed to expound Canisius Catechisme and to strike or infuse into their tender capacitie such damnable points of doctrine as they please as that it is a meritorious deed to murder Kings and Princes being excommunicated by the Pope To equiuocate cog lye cheat and that a Roman Catholike is not bound or tied to keepe faith with Heretikes meaning Protestants And a thousand more of their Iesuiticall positions which I for breuitie sake doe forbeare to treat of Into this catechizing Schoole none are permitted to enter but onely their owne Schollers for it seemes they are ashamed to let men of vnderstanding know what good instructions they giue vnto their Pupils But howsoeuer those points of doctrine they strike into their capacity in their tender age the same very seldome weareth away but rather increaseth with their yeeres as daily experience teacheth vs. I would to God that the Church of England which professeth the true Orthodoxall Religion would be as carefull to haue her children instructed in their nonage in the truth of the Gospell of our Sauiour Christ Iesus which leadeth them to saluation as that false Mountebanke Synagogue of Rome the Chaire of Antichrist and the sonne of perdition doth to hurle them headlong to hell and damnation And therefore I would wish all religious and painfull Schoole-masters to take a course that those Infants which are committed to their tutelage bee before all things well instructed and taught the Christian Doctrine and the Principles or grounds of the true Religion Moreouer the Iesuites Schollers must not reueale vnto any man those points of Doctrine that are taught them in their catechizing Schooles for if they doe they must confesse it to their ghostly Father who is a Iesuite and most commonly the Prefect of the Schooles when he comes to be shrift which is once euery moneth and then he is sure to haue some extraordinary penance inflicted vpon him and euer after to be branded and noted for a Tell-tale out of the Schooles But such as will swallow downe this golden poisoned bait and proue a good Proficient oh he is a good boy and shall not want his Premium for indeed this day is the ordinary time that they bestow their best Premia or Rewards vpon their Schollers Oh the subtilties and trumperies of these Loyolists to seduce these simple youths to their diabolicall and Antichristian doctrine And whereas they take vpon them to instruct and teach children freely and without any reward I dare boldly speake it they get six times more than if they would keepe a mercenary Schoole for it is but a poore Schoole that brings them not in yeerely aboue fiue or six hundred pound sterling But their Schooles in great Cities and Vniuersities are worth a great deale more for it is an ordinary thing to see seuen or eight hundred Schollers in their fiue inferiour Classes and therefore in those Colleges where they teach all the Arts and where there are twelue Classes and euery Classe a Master there are not most commonly lesse than a thousand or fifteene hundred Schollers who are still soliciting their parents and friends to be bountifull to their Masters the Iesuites and they themselues when they come to inherit their Lands Patrimony or Portions will likely be beneficiall to them and still fauour and protect their society and faction to the vttermost of their power Yea the poorest of them all that are not able to bestow any gratuity vpon them when they are young and their Schollers when they are come to age and preferment will not be vngratefull to them of whom they had their learning and education And againe the Iesuites doe speake to their Schollers whose Parents are rich if they dwell in the same Towne or City to perswade them to frequent their Churches to heare Masses and to come to them to Confession and withall to be of their sodality to the end they might the better diue into their secrets and participate of their wealth which is the maine matter they aime at And whereas all other Monks and Nuns make three Vowes that is to say Chastity Pouerty and Obedience the Iesuites to the end to giue a push beyond all other religious Orders adde one more which is that they shall at all times be ready to runne and trudge from one Country to another like poore Rogues to what part soeuer

truth and fidelity they may assuredly rely and depend for the Porter must be a smooth tongu'd fellow and as true as steele or else he is not for their turne neither will they put him into that office before such time as they haue had a long triall and experience of his wit and fidelity for he knowes more of their knauery than all the rest of the society except it be the Rector and two or three more besides what gift or message soeuer is sent vnto any of the College it must come first to his hands for the College gate is alwaies locked fast and he hath the key tied to his girdle Euery Iesuite in their Colleges hath some imployment or office as for example some are imployed in writing books of controuersies or otherwise whose workes neuer come to the Presse till the father Prouinciall and the best Diuines and the best learned men of their society of that Prouince yea of the next Prouince and most commonly their Generall who liues alwaies at Rome doe peruse correct and amend the same so that they neuer print any booke in any of their names without the mature counsell and aduice of their superiours Which in my opinion would not doe amisse if the Diuines of the reformed Church would doe the like among themselues Some of them that haue the gift of preaching doe study their Sermons the Fathers and Schoole Diuinity and attend to heare Confessions and say Masses albeit all those that are Priests are Masse-mongers others doe trot here and there abroad about the College affaires and others who are Lay-brethren haue imploiments enough either at home or abroad for some of them are Tailors and are euer making of new Habits or else mending of old for the other Fathers and Lay-brethren They haue Physicians Apothecaries Chirurgians Barbers Printers Tailors Shoomakers Cookes Washers Bakers and Brewers if they liue in a beere Country of their owne order and society And so haue all or the most part of the other Orders of Monks and Friers in all popish Countries especially in Spaine and Italy and therefore poore Trades-men get little or nothing by the Iesuites or any other Monks Friers or Nuns whatsoeuer The younger sort of them doe teach children the Latine and the Greeke tongues except it be in Spaine where neuer or seldome the Greek is taught in the Iesuits Schools or elsewhere except it be in some Vniuersities And they diuide their Shools into fiue Classes that is to say in the first the Accidence or Introduction to the eight parts of speech and the declination of Nounes and Verbes which they call Figures the second the Grammar the third the Syntax the fourth Poetry the fifth Rhetoricke But if it be in an Vniuersity then they haue other Classes and Lectorers for Logick Philosophy Diuinity and all the other Arts. Now in euery Classe there is a Iesuite that teacheth The Schollers doe remoue or proceed once euery yeere which is after their vacation about Michaelmas from one Classe to another for they are ordinarily no longer than one yeere in one Classe And euery Schoole-master is appointed by the Prefect of the Schooles how much he must reade and expound vnto his Schollers euery day for he must giue them no more nor no lesse than the ordinary Lesson And withall hee teacheth Greeke Grammar and other Greeke Authors together with the Latine The Iesuites doe euery other yeere extract out of such Authors as they like best as well Latine as Greeke such selected places as is most commodious and fitting to reade to young youths and doe print the same in their owne Colleges and sell them at a very deare rate to their Schollers appointing to euery Classe such other bookes besides the Grammar as is fit for their tender capacity Their Grammar and all the rest of their schoole bookes are of the Iesuites owne collections They teach still the selfe same Grammar in all their Schooles in what Country soeuer they be but in the other bookes whether they be in prose or verse they differ and euery second yeere they alter all their schoole bookes except the Figures Grammar and Syntax of meere policy to vtter the more bookes and consequently to gaine the more money for they haue very many Schollers because they doe not permit any Latine Schoole besides their owne in any towne or City where they reside In the three lower Classes they appoint two seuerall Emperours the one they call the Emperour of the East the other of the West as it was heretofore in the time of Charles the Great and others when the Empire of Rome was diuided into two parts betweene two Emperours whereof the one was called the Emperour of the East kept his Court at Constantinople and the other the Emperour of the West who commonly now adaies resides at Prague in Bohemia Now the Iesuites that are the Schoole-masters doe diuide their Schollers in euery Classe equally betweene these two Emperours appointing vnto euery one his owne subiects who are likewise diuided into seuerall offices or callings as Consuls Senators Patricians Knights Plebeyans and the like These Emperours who most commonly are some great mens sonnes doe sit Maiestically in very faire Chaires or Stats hauing their Scutchions Banners and Mottos drawne out very curiously at the end of a lance fastened to the wall ouer their heads And the Consuls Senators and the rest of the chiefest men doe sit according to their dignities places and offices euery one hauing his Scutchion ouer the place where he sits In euery Classe the Schoole-master doth appoint eight or ten and sometimes more or lesse according to the number of the Students Schollers whom they thinke fit for extraordinary pregnancie of wit and learning to be Prefects ouer the other Schollers who beare no dignity or office in that Classe and to heare them recite their Lessons and to giue vp the names of such as are not perfect therin to the master who inioynes them to some publike or priuate penance as to sweepe the Schoole to stand vpon his feet for a certaine time in the Schoole to say so many Paster Noster or Aue Maria vpon their knees in the open street before their Church doore to copie out of some booke so many lines or pages and the like penance for they whip them neuer publikely in the Schoole but send them to the Father Prefect who giues them correction priuately in a little roome which is by the Schoole for that purpose for the boies had rather vndergoe priuate correction than a publike penance because those that passe by will laugh and hush at them neither will they either correct them or impose any publike penance vpon any vnlesse he be a meere block-head that will not learne or one that hath committed some extrordinary offence or crime Moreouer the Porter at the time appointed that they should come to the Schooles rings a bell and at the very last toll all the Schoole-masters come out together and goe

Virgil. But would you know the reason because there could come no profit vnto Plato or Virgil of Purgatory as commeth to these Alchymists and therefore they were of a better conscience than these are for they did not seduce the ignorant people to inrich themselues for they doe shew by their writings that they had a certaine feare and knowledge of God and in some sort more than the Pope and his Clergy because popish Monks Friers and Priests doe watch ouer their dead bodies as the Rauens doe vpon Carrion And if they happen to meet with a dead man that hath his purse well cram'd with money wherewith he is able to pay his ransome they will be sure to make him vnderstand who hath eaten the fat for they will put him into Purgatory from whence he shall not come out before they haue taken some fat from him Nay these hangmen will not suffer the poore soules to be broiled and tormented of the Deuils but they will be their Executioners themselues And therein they take from the Deuill that office that God gaue him But I would aduise them to amend in time lest one day they themselues bee tormented in hell by the Deuill and his angels Well then among many Authors which they bring to maintaine Purgatory I thinke Virgil to be one of the best they haue for he saith thus speaking of the departed Aeneid lib. 6. Moreouer when their end of life and light doth them forsake Then can they not their sins or sorrows all poore soules off shake Nor all contagious fleshly from them voids but must of need Much things ingendr'd long by wondrous means at last out spred Wherefore they plagued be for their former faults and sins There sundry pains they bide some in th' aire doe hang on pins Some fleeting be in flouds deepe in gulfes themselues they tire Till sinnes away be wash'd or cleans'd fully with burning fire Each one of vs our penance here abides then sent we be To Paradise at last where we few fields of ioy doe see Till compasse long of time by course perfect hath purged quite Our former clodded spots and pure hath left our ghostly sprite The Heathens had but three drugs to free poore soules out of Purgatory as Ouid witnesseth saying Three times the old man washed was with water faire cleare And with hot fire and sulpher strong he purged doth appeare But these Mountebanks haue more as holy Water Sprincklings Torches Candles Howlings Aniuersaries and a thousand more which to auoid prolixity I will omit In their holy Water and sprinckling of the graue they doe imitate the Heathens and their Priests who vsed in their purgations the sea water with which they sprinckled that which they would purge Procl de Sacrif Mag. Of which Proclus a Platonicall Philosopher yeeldeth this reason saying That such water hath property to purge because it is salt and that salt hath in it some portion of the fire That makes me imagine that the popish Priests for the same cause doe put Salt into their holy Water for before they exercise or coniure the Water they coniure the Salt and then they put it into the Water and then they coniure the Water But I neuer read or heard that the Pagans did euer baptise their dead mens graues with their water as they doe And as for their Candles and Torches which they burne at noone day I know not what they meane vnlesse they will doe as Diogenes did who at noone day lighting a Candle and putting it in a Lanthorne did seeke for men in the middle of the market to giue them to vnderstand that they were rather beasts without vnderstanding than reasonable men and that hee had much adoe to finde out one wise vnderstanding man among them although be sought them with Lanthorne and Candle And should 〈…〉 haue more occasion now adaies if he liued among the Papists to seeke for one vnderstanding man for to what end doe all their Torches and Candles serue but that they would imitate the Heathens who in the same manner vsed Candles and Torches at the burials and funerals of their dead for wee reade not in all the holy Scriptures that euer the true Christians vsed any Candles or Torches for the dead And in like manner the sprinkling of the holy Water they borrow of the Pagans as Virgil in the before cited place witnesseth saying When fallen his ashes were which did but a small space indure His relickes and remaine of dust with Wine they washed pure Then Choryney his bones they put in Coffin bright and close And sprinkling water pure about his Mates three times he goes And drops of sacred deaw with palmes Oliue on them did shake And compassing blest them all and this sentence sadly spake To fields of ioy and endlesse rest thy soule we doe betake These popish Monks and Priests are like vnto Smiths for we see when they would haue their Coles burne well and to giue great heat they sprinckle them with a little brush or besome wet or dipt in water and so doe these men imitating the Pagans with a brush dipt in their holy Water besprinckle their dead bodies and their graues but I imagine these Monks and Priests drift is to kindle the fire of Purgatory and to haue it broile them the more Their howlings ouer the dead they learned from the Heathens as the same Poet testifieth in another place speaking of the buriall of Polydorus Aeneid lib. 3. And holy bloud in Basons brought we poure and last of all We shrike and on his soule our last with great cries out we call And in another place speaking of the Aniuersary that Aeneas did for his father Anchises saith He came from councel with him were thousands in mighty throng Vnto his fathers tombe in midst of all his Princes strong Two bowles of blessed Wine he cast in solemne wise on ground And milke in Basens twaine about the tombe he poured round And two of sacred bloud then all the graue he spred and laid With flowers of purple hue thus at last full loud he praid A man may well compare these Monks Friers and Priests vnto Apes for they would counterfeit all the workes of our Sauiour Iesus Christ but to say the truth they come somewhat neere vnto the old Pagans And indeed almost all their doings are as those of the Apes who doe but little and that by imitation and that euill and ridiculous And let them say what they will I for my part doe verily thinke that they haue no better remedies for the soules of those that are dead than the old Heathenish Priests heretofore had And to tell the truth they are like vnto these Empericks that haue but one receit for all diseases and complexions for all ages times and Countries who kill more than they heale and that is their Mass● that Sanctum Sanctorum with the which they can heale if all be true that they say more sores