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A19586	A mittimus to the iubile at Rome: or, The rates of the Popes custome-house Sent to the Pope, as a New-yeeres-gift from England, this yeere of iubile, 1625. And faithfully published out of the old Latine copie, with obseruations vpon the Romish text, by William Crashavv, Batchelor of Diuinity, and pastor at White-Chappell.; Taxa cancellariae apostolicae. English	Catholic Church. Cancellaria Apostolica.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626. aut	1625 (1625)	STC 6023; ESTC S121001	73,722	136

protestations or you want faith to beleeue her or else that loue that good Children should beare their Mother CHAP. IX Murder or the killing of ones Father or Mother or any other Lay-person The Romish Text. An Absolution for a Lay-man for murdering of a Lay-man is rated at 5. Grosses But if hee be a Clergy-man in any the lowest Orders that is slaine 7. Grosses And if he bee a Priest that is one that is promoted to all the holy Orders then he must pay 8. Grosses Also an Absolution for him that hath kild his Father Mother Wife Sister or any other Kinsman or Kins-woman so they bee of the Laity is rated at no more but 5. or 7. Grosses And his Letters of Absolution will cost him 1. Duc. 5. Carlens But if the partie so slaine bee a Clerke a Priest or Clergy-man then the Murderer is bound by the Law to go to Rome or to visit the Sea Apostolicke English Obseruations SOlon an ancient Law-giuer made no Law against such as should kill their Fathers for said hee in his honest simplicity Doubtlesse there bee none such But the Officers of the Romane Custome-house bee wiser in their Generation and know well they liue in such times as there will bee such Monsters Murderers euen of their Parents At least if there were or would bee none yet they hope to make some and to worke or winne them so to bee by the basenesse of the price they set on him that shall murder his Father Let the World wonder at this wickednesse Exod 21.14 for Gods Law allowes no Sanctuary for a wilfull Murderer of any man and values not all the Gold a Nabal hath a sufficient price or ransome for a Murderer Yet this Babylonish Strumpet dare set a price of a few Grosses euen vpon him that kils his owne Father Oh what grosse impiety and hellish abomination is this And yet this is shee forsooth that will bee the Mother Church and onely Spouse of Christ But it appeares heere that she is no Mother but the cruell Step-dame that cares so little for the liues of her Children And not the Spouse but the spirituall Harlot that dare vndertake to bee wiser then her Husband and to make Lawes contrary to his and to discharge for a little money those whom her Husbands Iustice had condemned to death CHAP. X. Striking or wounding of a Clergy-man The Romish Text. An Absolution for laying violent hands vpon a Clergy-man or a Religious man if it be with effusion of blood is rated at the price of 9. Grosses But if it bee without blood then it costs but 7. Grosses But note heere that if many haue their hands in this striking laming maiming or killing then if the Letters of Absolution be for particulars for euery Offendor there must be added 2. Grosses a peece English Obseruations TOuch not mine Anointed 1 Chro. 18.22 and doe my Prophets no harme saith God He will not haue his so much as toucht to their hurt It is therefore likely that the Popes Clergie are none of Gods whose blood may bee sold at so cheape a rate or else that the Pope is not the Vicar of Christ who sells the blood of his Brethren to enrich himselfe with the price thereof whose Persons God will haue not so much as touched But heere let all reasonable men consider how vnreasonable and partiall the Romane Church is betwixt their Clergie and Laity and how impious in their estimation of Gods Lawes and their own who dare make the price and penalty for killing a mans Father being a Lay-man lesse then the bare striking of a Clergy-man Arise O Lord and maintaine thine owne Lawes against such insolent enemies of thy Crowne and deliuer thy Church from those euill and vnreasonable men But will some say Amongst all those many kinds of Murders and Absolutions for the same how chance wee heare not of any Absolution for him that kils a King Courteous Catholikes of England aske the gentle Iesuites your kind Confessors and they will resolue you that those Absolutions are for sinnes and foule offences not for such Heroicall feates and meritorious acts as to kill any Heretique King And to proue it to bee most meritorious in Heauen and therefore most commendable vpon earth they will doe it by no lesse authority then the Pope himselfe who though he make but few Orations and fewer Sermons yet his ioy compel'd him to put himselfe to the trouble to make an Oration in the Consistory of Cardinals in praise of the Frier that stab'd Henry the third of France though hee were no Heretique himselfe but only a suspected fauourer of them Now if hee bee praised by the Pope who kils a King that is but a fauourer of Heretiques no marueil if hee be held no Offendor but rather one of an Heroicall spirit that kils that King his Holinesse shall pronounce an Heretique CHAP. XI Ouerlaying of an Infant The Romish Text. An Absolution for the Husband and Wife who find in the Morning or when they awake the Infant lying by them to be dead is rated for either of them at 6. Grosses English Obseruations ONe exception against the Romish Religion is that the grounds and practice of it are not only against Religion and Holinesse but also against the rules of Reason and grounds of Iustice for example set aside all Religion and Gods Word doth not Nature it selfe and naturall Reason euen amongst the Heathen make wilfull Murder a greater sinne then accidentall and vnwilling How shamefull and vnreasonable then is the Romish Church to make the punishment more nay twice as much for the casuall death of an Infant then for the wilfull Murder of ones Father or Mother Yet withall marke good Reader how this so vnreasonable Romish Stepdame neuer wants a priuate reason tending to her owne ends for shee knowes well that where one Villaine is found so wicked as to kill his Father 20. nay 100. the whole world ouer may be taken tardy in this vnwilling mischiefe of ouer-laying a Child the greater part of the World being so poore that their Children lye with them in the same beds It had therefore beene thought she but a silly peece of policie to impose a large and high rate vpon a fault that is seldome committed but rather on such as fall out dayly indeed that is the way to worke in wealth and so she may fill her Purse with money the World may see shee little cares though she empty her head of all wit and her heart of all honestie What shall the Christian World say to her but as Simon Peter said to his ancient friend Simon Magus Act. 8.20 Thy money perish with thee CHAP. XII Destroying of Infants in the Mothers Wombe The Romish Text. An Absolution for the Husband who beates or strikes his Wife being with Child so as that thereupon shee comes before her time and loseth her Child is rated at 6. Grosses An Absolution for a Woman who being with

Child took medicinall drinke to destroy her Birth or doth any other Act whereby the Childe being aliue in her Wombe is destroyed is taxed at the rate of 5. Grosses English Obseruations IF the slauery of Women and Iealousie of Husbands in Italy bee so common as Trauellers tell and the violent beating of Wiues so ordinary as this Particle implies then certainly our English Women may iustly thanke God for that comfortable freedome that they enioy which is such as made Erasmus and other strangers comming hither say That no Women in the World liued so faire liues as ours in England And our Catholike Women may heere see how little they are beholding to the Pope who cares so little for them more then for seruing the filthy lust of him and his lustfull law-lesse Clergie that all the base Iealousies vnworthy vsage and cruell blowes of their imperious Husbands moue not him at all nor holds hee it worthy so much as a poore Purse-punishment vnlesse it cause the death of the Child Haue not our Catholike Dames great cause to runne after Romish Religion as they do If they loue it so well Oh that they would euen runne to Rome and enioy it there where they may haue the Popes dayly blessing to make amends if their Husbands should pay them with dayly and sometimes deadly blowes It is also fit for the Readers obseruation what little account is made in Rome of killing Infants and his Shauelings and vnholy Cloyster-brethren shew themselues children not vnlike their Father amongst whom and their carnall Sisters the Nunnes their Chronicles and all Trauellers and the Visitations of their Abbeyes doe all declare how wickedly hundreds and thousands of Infants doe perish amongst them some newly borne and baptized in their blood and either cast into Ponds or buried in their Gardens Celles Cellers Vaults hollow Walles and sometimes in baser places some slaine and strangled in the Birth many destroyed and neuer suffered to see the light of this Life and those bee held of tender and honest hearts among them who feare to destroy these harmelesse Babes and doe therefore saue them sending them out to be nursed and liue And yet these are the men that condemne holy Marriage as vncleane and vnholy nay as a foule sinfull and punishable fault aboue Whoredome and all Fornication CHAP. XIII VVhoredome or keeping of Concubines The Romish Text. An Absolution for a Priest or Clergie-man that keepes a Concubine as also his Dispensation to saue him from being Irregular which by the generall and Prouinciall Constitutions hee incurres all this together is rated at the price of 7. Grosses And if a Layman will keep a Concubine his Absolution also will cost him the same price euen 7. Grosses English Obseruations SEe the horrible impudencie of this shamelesse Generation they confesse that euen their owne both Generall and Prouinciall Councels doe condemne the keeping of Concubines vnder paine of Irregularity and yet the Pope is not ashamed against them all to set to sale this filthy sinne and to put down so base a price as seauen Grosses But speak you monstrous Whore-maintayners Is not the keeping of Concubines or Whores for what is shee better then a Whore whom a man keeps as a wife and is no wife Is it not I say as well against the expresse Law of God and Gospell of Christ as against Canons of Councels and Constitutions of the Church If it be as euery Child knowes it to be so why doe you then conceale it The reason is plaine enough to them that bee acquainted with your pollicies euen because it little moues you what is commanded or forbidden by God in the Law or in the Gospell But all that you care for is what is forbidden in your owne Constitutions And lest that should breed some scruple of conscience that keeping a Concubine is forbidden in your generall and prouinciall Constitutions you take a course to quench that also euen that little sparke of conscience and feare of sinne and tell the offendor that besides his Absolution from the sinne hee shall also haue a dispensation to deliuer him from the danger of Irregularity that most seuere and most iust punishment which the Canons of the former and better times inflict vpon that sinne See all good Christians marke I beseech you you potent Princes and Kings of Christendome you godly Bishops and faithfull Diuines who all in your seuerall places wish the welfare of Sion and seeke to settle true peace in the Church See to what little purpose it is to haue any generall Councell or to make any wholsome Canons and Constitutions as long as this Man of sinne is suffered to sit in the Chayre of Pestilence seeing all the good and carefull Canons the Councels haue made against that filthy and reigning sinne of whoredome in sixe and sixe hundred yeeres are all cast off cashierd and nullified for the bringing in of scuruie sixe or seuen Grosses into the Popes Coffers See what all your labours tend vnto Kings and Princes in calling learned Bishops and Diuines in managing the proceedings of Generall Nationall or Prouinciall Councels as long as hee is suffered in his exorbitant pride and insatiable couetousnesse and vnmeasurable lasciuiousnesse thus to tyrannize ouer the World And you that bee learned marke heere what good cause had Erasmus the Low-Germane Espencaeus the French-man Ferus the Dutch-man Caranza Oleaster Stella and Viues the Spaniards Sauanarola Mirandula Mantuan and other Italians to cry out vpon the Romish abominations and to call so earnestly for reformation as they did both in Pulpit and Print And because they set so easie a penaltie euen for a Lay-man also that shall keepe his Concubine it puts mee in minde of a memorable example in that kinde whereof I can make report vpon my owne certaine knowledge wherein it is manifest that this villany though hatcht at Rome yet reacht euen as farre as England Mr. William Strickland of Bointon neere Bridlington in the Eastriding of Yorkeshire whose sonne Mr. Water Strickland or else his sonne liues there at this day Lord of that Towne and diuers others in that Countrey can witnesse the same An ancient Gentleman in Yorkeshire told me himselfe neere thirty yeeres agoe that liuing at Yorke in Queene Maries time where hee was one of the Councell of State or else the Queenes Secretary to her Councell there and fearing to be questioned for not comming to the Church to Masse which hee resolued neuer to doe whatsoeuer it cost him and hearing that Cardinall Poole was come from Rome to reconcile England being Legat à latere and came furnisht with these faculties and power of giuing the Dispensations and Licences mentioned in this booke and complayned on by Espencaeus sent to his Sollicitor at London to get him a Dispensation out of the Lord Legats the Cardinals Court not to goe to Church but that hee might exercise his Deuotions at home The Sollicitor going about it found it somewhat difficult because they