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<P><HI>ROMES</HI> RARITIES; OR THE <HI>Pope's Cabinet</HI> UNLOCK'D, And Expos'd to View.</P>
<P>BEING A true and Faithful Account of the Bla|&s;phemy, Trea&s;on, Ma&s;&s;acres, Murders, Lechery, Whoredom, Buggery, Sodo|my, Debauchery, Pious Frauds, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of the Romi&s;h Church, from the Pope him&s;elf to the Prie&s;t, or inferiour Clergy.</P>
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<P>An Hi&s;torical Relation of &s;everal Great and Learned <HI>Ro|mani&s;ts</HI> who did Imbrace the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion,</HI> with their Rea&s;ons for their Change, deliver'd in their own words. 6 <HI>d.</HI></P>
<P>A Sea&s;onable Collection of plain Text of Scripture, for the U&s;e of <HI>Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants.</HI> price 2 <HI>d.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>TO THE Triple-Crown'd Prelate OF ROME.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>HOLY SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Do here, with all imaginable Deference and Humility, pre|&s;ent you (I will not be &s;o un|mannerly as to &s;ay, with <HI>a Pig of your own Sow,</HI> but) with a Rich Cabinet, and good rea&s;on too, be|cau&s;e your own: for 'tis unju&s;t that you &s;hould be the Proprietor, and another the U&s;ufrctuary. A
<PB REF="3">Cabinet, wherein are di&s;play'd all the commendable Qualifications, and inimitable Perfections of &s;ome of your Famous Predece&s;&s;ors, that have had the Honour to &s;it in S^t. <HI>Pe|ter</HI>'s Chair; and in &s;ome particu|lars, a weak Character or Adum|bration of your Holine&s;s's Endow|ments, which no Pen can fully de|lineate. Nor can you any way complain of foul play herein, &s;ince this Tract contains no Quo|tations but what are collected from the mo&s;t Authentic and rigid <HI>Ro|mani&s;ts</HI> that ever e&s;pou&s;ed the Ca|tholic Cau&s;e and Per&s;ua&s;ion.</P>
<P>The Candid Reader, by a &s;eri|ous peru&s;al of this Treati&s;e, will, I pre&s;ume, not onely receive &s;a|tisfaction thereby, but al&s;o make a Di&s;covery of tho&s;e rare Vertues
<PB REF="3">which embelli&s;h the minds of St. <HI>Peter</HI>'s Succe&s;&s;ors, more to their re|nown and Glory, than the re&s;plen|dent Diamonds and Rubies that &s;hine in, and adorn the Triple Diadem; and therefore, I hope, that your Sanctity will leave the Author out when you pre&s;ume to Cur&s;e all Hereticks (as you mi&s;call them) once a Year in the <HI>Bulla Coenae;</HI> or otherwi&s;e you &s;hall hear of him agen in a more Sar|ca&s;tic Style and Satyrick Humour, this being only at pre&s;ent Joco|&s;erious. If any thing herein clinch too clo&s;e, and offend; let tho&s;e of your own Party beg your pardon, (who&s;e Duty it is) that afforded the Materials, which, compiled together and collected, make up this Epitome of your Memorable
<PB REF="4">Acts and Monumental Tran&s;acti|ons. But withall, I mu&s;t needs confe&s;s, that no Bigoted Prote|&s;tant, who moves in the highe&s;t Sphere of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Dignity, dares pre&s;ume or pretend to ar|rive to the height of tho&s;e Excel|lencies herein mentioned, which are only peculiar to the <HI>Roman</HI> Miter. If the &s;ubordinate Clergy &s;torm at the Contents of this Book, let them thank them&s;elves for ex|po&s;ing to the Public their Cheats and Chicaneries &s;o apparently, that an incon&s;iderable Lay-Prote|&s;tant could not po&s;&s;ibly avoid ta|king notice of, he being only the <HI>Amanuen&s;is</HI> of their own Authors, and hath taken the pains to trans|&s;cribe out of them &s;uch Memorials as he thought convenient to reduce
<PB REF="4">to the Method ob&s;erv'd in this &s;mall Sy&s;tem or Collection. I be|queath this <HI>Aurea Legenda</HI> to your Holine&s;s fir&s;t, and then to the re&s;t of the Inferiour Clergy; it being a Brat of their own Brain, a Babe of their own Procreation; and &s;o bid you all farewel, who &s;ub|&s;cribe my &s;elf</P>
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<HEAD>THE <HI>Pope's Cabinet</HI> UNLOCK'D.</HEAD>
<P>A <HI>Papa Principium.</HI> Why not this as good an Invocation now-a-days, as <HI>&agrave; Jove Principium,</HI> in times of Yore? for my part, I know no rea&s;on to the contrary; &s;ince the former is &s;tyled God by &s;ome, and Vice-God by mo&s;t <HI>Romani&s;ts;</HI> the lat|ter known by all to be no God at all, or at be&s;t, a fal&s;e one. Therefore to be|gin with Holine&s;s mu&s;t needs be commen|dable, nay, with <HI>His Holine&s;s,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, that cannot prove &s;ucce&s;sle&s;s. Avaunt then, fond Prote&s;tant, and do not hit him &s;o often in the teeth with the flurt|ing Nick-name of <HI>the Man of Sin.</HI> No,
<PB N="2" REF="6">no, he's the <HI>Man of Sanctity;</HI> there's the Mi&s;take; nor with that frequent unman|nerly Title of the <HI>Whore of Babylon;</HI> for that is both incoherent with Sen&s;e, and in|con&s;i&s;tent with the Sex; but be not too bold with that Argument, whatever you do, good Papi&s;t, for fear &s;ome blunt Prote&s;tant round you in the Ear (and that he is like enuf to do) with the Story of Pope <HI>Joan,</HI> and tell you to your face, when you &s;ay you are abus'd here|in, that it is with a matter of truth, and &s;hew you good rea&s;on for it too; i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> there be either Truth or rea&s;on in a great many of your own Popi&s;h Writers, who allow the Hi&s;tory to be authentick: but of that more anon. An ordinary Phy|&s;ician, by the Indi&s;po&s;ition of the Head, can &s;oon judge of the Temper of the Bo|dy; and no doubt when the Reader un|der&s;tands how this Head of the Church &s;tands affected, he will &s;oon gue&s;s at the foulne&s;s of the Stomach, and give an ac|count of the weak and crazy Con&s;tituti|on of the whole Body Eccle&s;ia&s;tick. Do but ob&s;erve the numerous and haughty
<PB N="3" REF="6">Titles that he &s;o magi&s;terially a&s;&s;umes to him&s;elf, as the Univer&s;al, the Infallible Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome;</HI> the Head of the Ca|tholick Church, the Supreme Pa&s;tor, the Holy one, the Pope, Chri&s;t's Vicegerent, God's Vicar, a Vice-god, nay, a God up|on Earth, and God knows how many more; and then tell me truly, whether in his Pride and number of Names he may not out-vye both <HI>Turk</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> (and at length prove as little a Chri&s;ti|an as either of them) who upon the bare Report of this u&s;urped Authority, have be&s;tow'd on him two glorious Denomi|nations, the one calling him <HI>Rumbeg,</HI> that is, Prince or Lord of <HI>Rome,</HI> the other <HI>Rum&s;chah,</HI> King of <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t then to begin with the Bla&s;phe|mies u&s;ed by &s;everal Popes them&s;elves, which are &s;o great, that if Profanene&s;s it &s;elf, could it a&s;&s;ume an humane Shape, would not be guilty of; and <HI>Lucian,</HI> that Arch-Apo&s;tate, were he now alive, would, if compar'd to them, be account|ed moderate.</P>
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<P> <HI>Leo</HI> the Tenth, Son to the Duke of <HI>Florence,</HI> was a chuck-farthing-Boy Car|dinal, who was thought to de&s;erve the Red Hat at the Age of Thirteen, and a Pope at Twenty, the unerring Bi&s;hop of <HI>Chri&s;tendom</HI> in hanging Sleeves, who be|fore he could write Man, or of Age, was Father of all the Aged; and truly he verified the old Proverb, <HI>Soon ripe, &s;oon rotten;</HI> for what a more putrid and bla&s;phemous Expre&s;&s;ion could be belch'd forth by the Devil him&s;elf, than that of his, who when Cardinal <HI>Bembo</HI> quoted a place out of the New Te&s;tament, re|plied, <HI>Quantum nobis profuit haec Fabul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> de Chri&s;to,</HI> What Wealth have we gain'd by this Fable of Chri&s;t? Was not this becoming Chri&s;t's Vicegerent? And after a Di&s;pute <HI>de Anima,</HI> 'twas as good a Sentence of the Good Soul,
<Q>Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.</Q></P>
<P><HI>Julius</HI> the Third, a mere Epicure, when he was at Table with &s;everal Gran|dees of <HI>Rome,</HI> had a Peacock &s;erv'd in at
<PB N="5" REF="7">Dinner, (his beloved Di&s;h) and gave &s;trict order it &s;hould be kept cold for his Supper; but it &s;eems &s;ome of his Servants through neglect di&s;pos'd of it otherwi&s;e: now when the time of his Evening Re|pa&s;t came, and he found it wanting, he fell into &s;o great a Chafe and Rage, for this Sin of Omi&s;&s;ion in his Servitor, that his Holine&s;s was guilty of a Sin of Com|mi&s;&s;ion; in&s;omuch, that a more mode|rate Cardinal, one of his Gue&s;ts, told him, that it was ill done to be &s;o pa&s;&s;io|nate, and fly out into &s;o great a Fury for &s;o &s;mall a Trifle; but he &s;uddenly replied, If God was &s;o angry as to expel <HI>Adam</HI> Paradi&s;e for an Apple, well might he, who was his Vicar, be offended for the Di&s;appointment of his Peacock which was of greater value than any Apple could po&s;&s;ibly be.</P>
<P>The &s;ame worthy Pope mi&s;&s;ing his Pork, which was one of his &s;tanding Di&s;hes, (for he was a great Lover of Pork and Peacock) asked the Rea&s;on of it; his Steward an&s;wer'd, that his Phy|&s;icians had given order there &s;hould be
<PB N="6" REF="8">no Pork &s;erv'd in becau&s;e it was very in|jurious and de&s;tructive to his Health; whereat he began to fly in the very face of him who&s;e Vicar he boa&s;ts him&s;elf to be, &s;aying, <HI>Porta mi quello mio Piatto al di&s;pet|to de Dio,</HI> Fetch me my Pork (my Di&s;h of Meat) in &s;pight of God him&s;elf. The&s;e Words &s;avour of more than <HI>Luciani&s;me.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Paul</HI> the Third, in a Proce&s;&s;ion at <HI>Rome,</HI> where the Body of Chri&s;t, as they term it, was with great Solemnity and &s;eeming Piety carried before him, &s;aid, That if the Company did not make more ha&s;te he would renounce Chri&s;t; where|upon &s;ome Per&s;ons made up to them that were in the Front, with all &s;peed, and cau&s;ed them to mend their Pace. Nay farther,</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Paul</HI> being in an open Con&s;i&s;to|ry of Cardinals, boldly told by one of them, that he could not be&s;tow <HI>Palma</HI> and <HI>Piacenza</HI> on his two Ba&s;tards, un|le&s;s he would inevitably purcha&s;e his own Damnation. To this he an&s;wer'd, If St. <HI>Paul,</HI> the Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Gentiles</HI> had &s;o tender an Affection for his Coun|try-men,
<PB N="7" REF="8">whom he calls Brethren, as to wi&s;h and de&s;ire him&s;elf to be &s;eparate from Chri&s;t, &s;o that they might obtain Salvation; why may not I with as great Love and Affection to my Sons and Ne|phews, &s;tudy by all means po&s;&s;ible to ag|grandize them, and make them honou|rable with the hazard of my own Salva|tion? O the yearning Bowels and tender Compa&s;&s;ion of this Holy Father to the living Monuments of his Infamy! Poor cow-hearted <HI>Hugonot!</HI> Where is there a <HI>Calvin, Beza,</HI> or Bi&s;hop among you all that dares or can &s;how &s;uch &s;trange and &s;trong efforts of a noble and undaunted Spirit, who for the Promotion and Wel|fare of his Children here, dares damn his own Soul for ever hereafter? Alas! There's no &s;uch Spirit among you.</P>
<P>What think you of <HI>Gregory</HI> the Seventh? tho his proper name (which Popes re|nounce at their Election) was <HI>Hildebrand,</HI> which &s;ignifies <HI>Fire-brand of Hell</HI> in the <HI>Tutonick</HI> Tongue, as the <HI>Germans</HI> affirm; and <HI>Chemnitius</HI> gives him the &s;ame Ti|tle, calling him <HI>Titio Infernalis;</HI> when
<PB N="8" REF="9">he con&s;ulted the Oracle of his Breaden God, threw it into the Fire, before ma|ny Cardinals, who could not withhold him, becau&s;e it gave him no an&s;wer as to the event of his War with the Emperour <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth of <HI>France.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Benno Card. in the life of Hil|debrand.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>John</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Port,</HI> in a Sermon in S. <HI>Pe|ters</HI> Church before a numerous Auditory, being upon the profanation of the Ble&s;|&s;ed Sacrament, &s;aid, <HI>Hildebrand</HI> and we with him have done a Fact for which we De&s;erve to be Burnt alive; meaning the forementioned Action. Nay, this <HI>Ho&s;tia</HI> was &s;o Contemned and Slighted by him, that he mo&s;t wickedly cau&s;ed Pope <HI>Victor</HI> the Second to be poi&s;oned with the Con&s;ecrated Wine of the Holy Euchari&s;t; and yet Cardinal <HI>Bellarmine</HI> had the con|fidence to Ju&s;tifie this Man, as a Saint, by Twenty &s;even Authors; and another had the impudence to own him as a Ca|noniz'd Saint by two more, which he throws into the Bargain to add to the former Number; The&s;e are a pack of Saints of the Devils Canonizing un|doubtedly.</P>
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<P> What will you &s;ay of another of the&s;e Pious Arch Prelates, who was the Per|&s;on that cau&s;ed the Emperour <HI>Henry</HI> the Seventh, &s;urnam'd of <HI>Luxemburg,</HI> to be poi&s;oned, and that with the con&s;e|crated Bread, given him by a Jacobine at <HI>Florence</HI> in the Eucari&s;t.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Math. Paris. P.</HI> 88.</NOTE> And about the year 1154 his Name|&s;ake the Arch Bi&s;hop of <HI>York</HI> was poi&s;on'd in <HI>England</HI> with the Wine in the Sacrament. What will the Fri|ar's Devil do, trow we, if their God be &s;o dangerous, &s;aith the learned <HI>French|man, Stevens,</HI> who compo&s;ed this <HI>Huic|tain</HI> upon the very Subject;
<Q><L><HI>Les Payens ne vouloyent mettre au nombre des Dieux</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ceux qui au genre humain &egrave;toyent perni|cieux:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sile Dieu de Pa&s;te e&s;tun Dieu qui empoi&s;onne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Dont l' Empereur Henri te&s;moignage nous donne;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Que dicoyent les Payens de ces gentils Do|cteurs,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Qui les hommes ont fait de luy Adora|teurs.</HI></L>
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<L><HI>Car &s;i leur Dieu ne fait de meurtrir con&s;cience,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Entre leur Diable et Dieu quelle e&s;t la difference.</HI></L>
<L>Ith' number of their Gods <HI>Pagans</HI> we find</L>
<L>Ner'e rank't &s;uch as were hurtful to Mankind;</L>
<L>If that the God of Pa&s;te can poi&s;on men,</L>
<L>As the Emperour <HI>Henry</HI> te&s;tifies, what then</L>
<L>Would <HI>Heathens</HI> of the&s;e brave Doctors have &s;aid,</L>
<L>Who teach Men to adore a piece of Bread?</L>
<L>For if their God with Murder can di&s;|pence,</L>
<L>'Twixt God and Devil what's the diffe|rence.</L></Q> As for <HI>Boniface</HI> the Eighth, it is too no|torious how he undervalued and vilifi|ed the &s;ame Ho&s;t when he was Pri&s;oner to the <HI>Gibellines</HI> of the Emperour's Faction in the City of <HI>Agnania.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Platina.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Julius</HI> the Second, when he was de|feated by the Earl of <HI>Faix,</HI> and totally routed near <HI>Ravenna,</HI> he out of ex|traordinary Zeal and Fervor (I
<PB N="11" REF="10">mu&s;t not call it Madne&s;s, or Irreve|rence) threw away the <HI>Ho&s;tia,</HI> and made it be trampled upon by the un&s;anctified Feet of the rude Multitude, which hath been formerly taken by them with &s;o much Reverence and Adoration.</P>
<P><HI>Gregory</HI> the Ninth renounced the Go&s;pel,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Baleus li.</HI> 5. <HI>of the lives of the Popes.</HI></NOTE> and embraced in lieu of it an infamous Legend, com|pos'd by as infamous a Monk, <HI>Cyril</HI> by name. Thus you &s;ee how the&s;e Holy Pa&s;tors of Chri&s;t's Sheep behave them&s;elves in Per&s;on, and this is not all, but their Canons publi&s;hed in Print, and allowed, are as bla&s;phemous as their own common Di&s;cour&s;e, or that of their Para|&s;ites (who are &s;o far from puni&s;hment that they are loaded with Rewards) a&s;|&s;erting the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome</HI> to be a God.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Di&s;t.</HI> 96. <HI>c. &s;a|tis evidenter &amp; Panorm. c. Quanto Abbas.</HI></NOTE> I'll warrant you this bold a&s;&s;ertion will frighten the Poor &s;pirited Prote&s;tant to his Litany, From &s;uch Bla&s;phemy good Lord deliver us.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> is &s;o bold as to couple abomination with the merit of the Holy
<PB N="12" REF="11">Pa&s;&s;ion.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cap. inter opera Charitatis de&s;|pons. l.</HI> 4. <HI>De|cretal.</HI></NOTE> We ordain (&s;aith the Pope) that for all &s;uch men who &s;hall take common Strumpets out of the Stewes and Marry them; that it &s;hall advan|tage them as to the remi&s;&s;ion of Sin.</P>
<P>Cardinal <HI>Bellarmine</HI> e&s;tabli&s;h|eth the Pope over the Church Militant <HI>etiam Chri&s;to &s;eclu&s;o;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bell. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>de Pontif. c.</HI> 9.</NOTE> Chri&s;t be|ing &s;ecluded from him.</P>
<P>His Flatterers exclude all Patriarchs and Bi&s;hops, from the Popes Lieutenancy to the Son of God,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>C. quanto l.</HI> 1. <HI>De|cretal. tit.</HI> 7. <HI>de tran&s;lat. Epi&s;cop.</HI></NOTE> in the&s;e words. That he executeth not the Function of a meer Man here upon Earth, but of a true God. Nay farther;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">V. Gl. v. Veri Dei. cap. unico. De jurejurando. gl. v. Vicarium in Clement.</NOTE> That the Pope is able to change the nature of things: That his Authority is heavenly; that of nothing he can make &s;omething, (con|trary to the old Rule <HI>ex nihilo nihil fit</HI>) that his Will is &s;ufficient for Rea&s;on; that none may be &s;o bold as to que&s;tion him; that he can di&s;pence above the Law, that he can make Ju&s;tice of Inju&s;tice,
<PB N="13" REF="11">that he hath fulne&s;s of Power; And el&s;e|where,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Can. omnes Di&s;t.</HI> 22. <HI>cap. &amp;c.</HI></NOTE> that every Creature is &s;ubject to him, that he hath the Rights of Heavenly and Earthly Empire.</P>
<P>Nay they proceed in higher &s;trains, and &s;ay, We declare and define,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Extrav. com|mun. c. &V;nam &s;anctam de Majorit. &amp; obedien. See all the glo&s;s of the chapt.</NOTE> that it is nece&s;&s;ary to Salvation for all Creatures, in all things, and in all places to be under the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome.</HI> Ob&s;erve what the Bla&s;phemous <HI>Para&s;ite</HI> &s;aith, Our Lord would have been very indi&s;creet,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bertrand. in gl. Extrav. com. cap. u|nam &s;anctam de majorit. Petri.</NOTE> if he had not left a Man behind him, that had an equal power with him&s;elf. To conclude this &s;ub|ject, take an ab&s;tract of this Oration pronounced in the <HI>Lateran</HI> Coun|cil, printed by the Authority of <HI>Leo</HI> the Tenth, in the pre&s;ence of the whole Council.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Orat. Ant. Puccii Clerici. Apo&s;tol.</HI> 3. <HI>Non. Maiae</HI> 15, 15 <HI>&s;e&s;s.</HI> 10.</NOTE> Although the A&s;pect of your Divine Ma|je&s;ty by who&s;e re&s;plendent glory my weak Eyes are dazzled. Again, In thee alone, the true
<PB N="14" REF="12">and Lawful Vicar of Chri&s;t and God, this Prophecy is to be fulfilled, All the Kings of the Earth &s;hall wor&s;hip him, and all Nations &s;erve him, <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 71. Then, he &s;aith; Before, and now the Univer&s;al Body of the Church is &s;ubject to one on|ly Head, <HI>viz.</HI> unto Thee. <HI>Item,</HI> Knowing that to thee alone hath been given all Power from the Lord in Heaven and Earth, that thou maye&s;t judge, not only Spiritual, but al&s;o the Earthly Powers of the World. If this be not like the Man of Sin, to exalt him&s;elf above God, let all men judge.</P>
<P>Another Flatterer was General of the Order of Preachers, who received a Cardinal's Cap as the Guerdon of his Bla&s;phemies;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Se&s;s.</HI> 2. <HI>in orat. Cajetam.</HI></NOTE> It &s;hall obtain, if you will (&s;peaking of the Church) and command it, if you imitate the Power and Perfection of the Almighty, who&s;e Lieutenant you are here upon Earth; not only in ho|nour of Dignity, but affection of Will. Gird your Swords (for you have two, the Spiritual and Temporal) one common to
<PB N="15" REF="12">other Princes, the other belongs to you only: And &s;peaking of the Pope's Mercy; It will render you worthy of Wor&s;hip, Gracious and mo&s;t like unto God. And afterwards, by the Mercy of God &amp; yours, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and &s;o runs on with &s;uch a continu|ed Series of Bla&s;phemies, as Black as the Hat could be Red, which he purcha&s;ed by his Adulation in this Hyperbolical Elogy of his Imperious Ma&s;ter.</P>
<P>But I pre&s;ume I have tortur'd you &s;uf|ficiently with this horrid Di&s;cour&s;e; therefore I clo&s;e it with the Words of <HI>Seneca;</HI>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Magne Regnator Deum, tam lentus audis &s;celera!</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tam lentus vides; Ec quando &s;aeva fulmen emittes manis?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Great God of Heaven! can'&s;t thou both hear and &s;ee</L>
<L>Such horrid Crimes as the&s;e &s;o patiently?</L>
<L>When will thy incens'd Ju&s;tice &s;end, I wonder,</L>
<L>From thy Almighty hand revenging Thunder.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<PB N="16" REF="13">
<P> The next Vertues that qualifie them for the Papal Chair, are Cha&s;tity, Con|tinencie and Ab&s;tinence from Carnal Lu&s;ts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and how well they are gift|ed with the&s;e will appear by the follow|ing Examples.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>John</HI> the Thirteenth was a Mon|&s;ter of Men, nay, of Popes too; who, as it was articled again&s;t him in a General Council, committed Ince&s;t with two of his Si&s;ters, deflowred innocent Virgins, lay with <HI>Stephana</HI> his Fathers Concubine (a lovely Generation, like Father like Son) with <HI>Raynera</HI> a Widow, and one <HI>Anna,</HI> with her Neece likewi&s;e. He was a great Enemy to the Married Clergy; and from him <HI>Dun&s;tan</HI> received a Commi&s;&s;ion to be unnaturally ince&s;tuous.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Sylvius</HI> left a brace of Ba&s;tards here in <HI>England,</HI> the one got on a Scotch, and the other on an Engli&s;h Woman; nay, whil&s;t he was Cardinal, he kept his Concubine.</P>
<P><HI>John</HI> the Twelvth was kill'd by the Devil in the Act with another man's Wife, &s;aith <HI>Sigebert;</HI> but others report that he was ta|ken in the Act, and by the hand of an abu|&s;ed
<PB N="17" REF="13">Husband, like <HI>Zimri,</HI> had the ju&s;t re|ward of his foul and open Adultery; for the fatal ga&s;h that he receiv'd &s;ent him pack|ing to the other World in Eight days time.</P>
<P><HI>Rodorique Borgia,</HI> &s;tiled <HI>Alexander</HI> the Sixth after he came to the Papacy, was the fir&s;t Pope that was &s;o ingeniou&s;ly mode&s;t as to own his Ba&s;tards,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Guicciard. Hi&s;t. Ital.</HI> 1. <HI>p.</HI> 10.</NOTE> and tho his Pre|dece&s;&s;ors di&s;gui&s;ed them under the appellation of Nephews and God-&s;ons, (looking upon Fig-leaves to be &s;ome, tho but a &s;lender covering of Nakedne&s;s,) yet he was &s;o &s;hamele&s;s in his Lu&s;t, as publikly to acknowledge his ba&s;e Off|&s;pring; and particularly took cognizance of <HI>Cae&s;ar Borgia,</HI> one that had a Soul of as &s;warthy a Complexion as his Father, and procur'd him a red Hat; but he be|ing &s;oon weary of the Go&s;pel, which might well be a&s;ham'd of him, did as &s;ud|denly procure a Di&s;pen&s;ation to un-Car|dinal him&s;elf; the&s;e two committed In|ce&s;t with their own Si&s;ter,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Guicciardin. l.</HI> 3. <HI>p.</HI> 179.</NOTE> <HI>Lu|eretia</HI> by name; as famous for Whoredom in the new, as her
<PB N="18" REF="14">Name-&s;ake for Cha&s;tity in old <HI>Rome;</HI> of whom <HI>Pontanus</HI> writes this Epitaph.
<Q><L><HI>Conditur hoc tumulo Lucretia nomine, &s;ed re Thais, Pontificis Filia, Spon&s;a, Nurus.</HI></L>
<L>Here lies <HI>Lucrece</HI> by Name, <HI>Thais</HI> in Life,</L>
<L>The Pope's Child, Spou&s;e, and yet his own Son's Wife.</L></Q></P>
<P>He cau&s;ed his elde&s;t Brother, the Duke of <HI>Candia,</HI> to be murthered as he rode one Night in the City of <HI>Rome,</HI> and his Body ca&s;t into <HI>Tyber,</HI> becau&s;e he thought him a Rub in his way to Preferment. He was, like his Father, very lavi&s;h in his Lu&s;t, in&s;omuch that he did not forbear to tread both Hen and Chicken when the Fit was upon him; nay, at the taking of <HI>Capua,</HI> where he a&s;&s;i&s;ted the <HI>French,</HI> he had a Re&s;erve of no le&s;s than forty of the faire&s;t Ladies for his own u&s;e, to &s;atiate his inordinate Lu&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Martin</HI> the 4th kept his Predece&s;&s;or's Harlot, (<HI>Nicholas</HI> 3.) and was &s;o tender of her, that he cau&s;ed all deformed Pictures to
<PB N="19" REF="14">be remov'd out of his Palace, for fear &s;he &s;hould be delivered of a mon&s;trous ugly Child. Surely if his Holine&s;s was &s;o kind to a Whore he would be very fond of a Wife.</P>
<P>Of this Pope's Simony, which he was compelled to for the maintaining his own and his Nephew's Ince&s;ts and lu&s;tful Ex|travagancies, there is extant this Di|&s;tich:
<Q><L><HI>Vendit Alexander Claves, Altaria, Chri|&s;tum;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Vendere jure pote&s;t, emerat ille prius.</HI></L>
<L>Pope <HI>Alexander</HI> &s;ells Chri&s;t, Altars, Keys,</L>
<L>And well he might; for fir&s;t he bought all the&s;e.</L></Q></P>
<P>This <HI>Alexander</HI> the Sixth di&s;penced with <HI>Peter Mendoza,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Valencia,</HI> to u&s;e his Ba&s;tard Son, the Marque&s;s of <HI>Zannet,</HI> as his Ganymede or Sodomitical Boy: in&s;omuch that <HI>Charles</HI> the Eighth being at <HI>Rome,</HI> during his Pontificate, he was &s;o hated by, and odious to all Men, that the whole Conclave of Cardinals (two only excepted) did entreat him to
<PB N="20" REF="15">vindicate the Holy Church from the Vi|olence and Tyranny of the Pope, who was rather a Succe&s;&s;or of <HI>Judas</HI> than St. <HI>Peter,</HI> and a greater Ob&s;erver of the Alcoran than the Go&s;pel. A fine Cha|racter of a Pope from his own Cardinals!</P>
<P>A <HI>German</HI> Prince &s;ent an Amba&s;&s;ador to the Pope, who after he was di&s;patch'd, taking his leave of his Holine&s;s, he in Latin &s;aid to him, Tell our beloved Son, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which put the hone&s;t <HI>German</HI> into &s;uch a Chafe, that he had almo&s;t affront|ed the Pope with the Lye; withal rounding him in the Ear, that his Ma|&s;ter was no Son of a Prie&s;t (meaning no Ba&s;tard.) See the Cha&s;tity of the&s;e Holy ones when their Incontinency and La&s;ci|viou&s;ne&s;s is grown proverbial.</P>
<P><HI>Joan,</HI> Queen of <HI>Naples,</HI> hang'd her fir&s;t Husband, and before he was cold married the Prince of <HI>Tarentum,</HI> one of the hand&s;ome&s;t Men in the Univer&s;e; &s;he kept her &s;elf in a whole Skin by the Schi&s;m that then hapned between Pope <HI>&V;rban</HI> and <HI>Clement,</HI> and &s;o e&s;caped un|puni&s;hed, (tho at la&s;t &s;he was executed)
<PB N="15" REF="15">who be&s;tow'd <HI>Avignon</HI> in <HI>France</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Pope <HI>&V;rban</HI> and his Succe&s;&s;ors, under pretence of Sale. This is only to let you know that his Holine&s;s has not &s;o &s;ickly and &s;queami&s;h a Con&s;cience but he can di&s;pen&s;e with a fair, large Gift from a foul, filthy hand: which contributes much to the Ju&s;tification of the pretend|ed Cha&s;tity of <HI>Rome,</HI> &s;ince &s;he hath been &s;o great a Gainer by Strumpets and Har|lots, Stews and Brothels, a Tribute far wor&s;e and ba&s;er than that of <HI>Ve&s;pa&s;ian, ex lotio:</HI> therefore well might hone&s;t <HI>Mantuan</HI> &s;ay,
<Q><L><HI>I pudor in villas, tota e&s;t jam Roma Lu|panar.</HI></L>
<L>At wanton <HI>Rome</HI> there is no room we know</L>
<L>For Shame-fac'dne&s;s, to Hamlets let her go.</L></Q></P>
<P>And <HI>Na&s;o,</HI> once a <HI>Roman,</HI> to the &s;hame of &s;uch Popes, could &s;ing,
<Q><HI>Turpe Tori reditu cen&s;us augere paternos.</HI></Q></P>
<PB N="22" REF="16">
<P> What a mi&s;erable thing is it that St. <HI>Peter</HI> and St. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;hould be main|tain'd by tho&s;e who live by the Sweat of their Bodies. In the time of <HI>Paul</HI> the Third, he had upon his Roll or Regi&s;ter 45000 Courti&s;ans (nay, <HI>Naples</HI> the Vo|luptuous has 20000 regi&s;tred in the Of|fice of <HI>Savelli,</HI> allow'd of.) This Word Courti&s;an came originally from the Court of <HI>Rome</HI> (the mode&s;te&s;t Synonomon of a Whore) <HI>viz.</HI> from tho&s;e <HI>Religio&s;a</HI>'s or ho|ly Dames who conver&s;ed with his Holi|ne&s;s both at Bed and Board.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> the Thirteenth was a Man of the &s;ame Con&s;titution as the re&s;t of that &s;anctified Tribe, and was &s;ubject to Failings as well as Per&s;ons of an infe|riour degree; witne&s;s his Ba&s;tard, <HI>James Buoncourpagno,</HI> a good Catholick no doubt, and according to the Proverb, he was very fortunate; for his Holy Father in a double Sen&s;e, both Natural and Spi|ritual, gave him <HI>Ireland,</HI> and created him Marque&s;s of <HI>Lem&s;ter,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Thuan. Hi&s;t. l.</HI> 64.</NOTE> Earl of <HI>Wexford,</HI> &amp;c. and &s;ent one <HI>Stukely</HI> to reduce it to his Obe|dience.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="16">
<P> Pope <HI>Paul</HI> the Third, encouraged by the Example of <HI>Alexander</HI> the Sixth, com|mitted Ince&s;t with <HI>Con&s;tantia</HI> his own Daughter; but finding that he could not enjoy her as formerly, being married to the Duke of <HI>Sforza,</HI> he poi&s;on'd her; and then courted his Si&s;ter, and grew ve|ry fond; but he &s;oon di&s;patch'd her al&s;o the &s;ame way, becau&s;e &s;he was not &s;o much delighted with his Embraces as with others.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Martin</HI> the Fifth di&s;|pen&s;ed with one to marry his own Si&s;ter;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Anton. Sum. p.</HI> 3. <HI>tit.</HI> 1. &amp;c. one of their own Wri|ters.</NOTE> of whom it was a common Lampoon among the People, nay the very Sing-&s;ong of little Children in the Streets of <HI>Flo|rence,</HI>
<Q><L><HI>Il Papa Martino.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Non vale un quatrino.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Martin</HI> the Pope</L>
<L>Is not worth a Rope.</L></Q> An Argument they &s;tand not much in awe of him.</P>
<P>In <HI>Rome,</HI> the &s;acred Seat of his Holi|ne&s;s, the Courtizans are many, who are
<PB N="24" REF="17">tolerated and publickly allow'd, for which they pay a &s;mart and certain An|nual Tribute; and every common Whore is oblig'd to have her Name regi&s;tred in the Vice-Gerents Office, an Officer be|longing to the <HI>Vicario,</HI> the Pope's Vicar General; &s;o that they enjoy an ab&s;olute liberty to be licentious throughout the Year, except at the times called <HI>Vacanze,</HI> or Vacation-time, which happens to be about <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> and <HI>Ea&s;ter;</HI> for then the <HI>Sbirri,</HI> or Bailiffs, may make a &s;trict Search in all their Hou&s;es, and if they find any there, may commit them to Goal; but by paying a Sum of Money, they &s;end to the Office, and &s;o prevent their being mole&s;ted by &s;uch kind of Per&s;ons. Nay, in tho&s;e infamous Hou&s;es tho&s;e Harlots boldly and impudently commit their Crimes by the Pope's Ap|probation and Protection. When <HI>Ale|xander</HI> the Seventh &s;ate in the Pontifical Chair, there was &s;ome di&s;cour&s;e of &s;up|pre&s;&s;ing the&s;e Brothel Hou&s;es, but it was but Talk; yet it occa&s;ion'd this impious and horrid <HI>Pa&s;quinata, Laudate Domi|num
<PB N="25" REF="17">Pueri.</HI> This <HI>Rome</HI> is that famous holy City, and the City of his Holine&s;s, but the hone&s;t Carmelite <HI>Mantuan</HI> tells you a quite contrary Tale, when he &s;aith,</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Vivere qui &s;ancte cupitis, di&s;cedite Roma:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Omnia cum liceant, non licet e&s;&s;e bonum.</HI></L>
<L>You that will live well mu&s;t leave <HI>Rome,</HI> for there</L>
<L>All things are lawful but what lawful are.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>Or thus.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>You that will pious be, &s;hun <HI>Rome,</HI> for now</L>
<L>All things but being good they do al|low.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>Pope <HI>Sixtus</HI> the 4th had his Strumpet <HI>Tire&s;ia,</HI> built Stews at <HI>Rome,</HI> which yielded him an annual Income of 2000 Ducats, and gave a Di&s;pen&s;ation to all the Family of the Cardinal of St. <HI>Lucie</HI> to commit a Sin not to be na|med among mode&s;t <HI>Hugonots,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ve&s;&s;el. Groving Tract. de In|dulgent. citat. &agrave; Jac. Laur.</NOTE> during the three hot Months of <HI>June, July,</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> And this made <HI>Pa&s;quin</HI> cry out,
<PB N="26" REF="18">
<Q><L><HI>At</HI> Romae <HI>Puero non licet e&s;&s;e mihi.</HI></L>
<L>A Boy to <HI>Rome</HI> mu&s;t never come.</L></Q> This &s;in the <HI>Italians</HI> &s;ay is (if in any) excu&s;able in them, becau&s;e they live near his Holine&s;s, who doth not only give Licence by permi&s;&s;ion, but a Pre&s;ident by his own Example; this is a common Adage among them.</P>
<P>We cannot I think bring up the rear of the&s;e Cha&s;te ones with any other Per&s;on, fitter or more de&s;erving, than Madam <HI>Gilberta,</HI> commonly called Pope <HI>Joan,</HI> a &s;trapping La&s;s indeed. She was once a Maid of <HI>Mentz</HI> in <HI>Germany,</HI> &s;ans doubt, and after Mi&s;s to a Monk of <HI>Ful|da,</HI> with whom &s;he ran away to <HI>Athens</HI> in Man's Apparel, and there did coha|bit with him, till he unkindly for&s;ook her, and went into the other World; all which time that &s;he did re&s;ide there with him, &s;he per&s;onated the Man &s;o lively, and wore the Breeches &s;o well and hand&s;omly, as &s;ome Viragoes will do, that &s;he bid defiance to all Di&s;covery of her &s;o cunningly counterfeited Sex. Well, what then? Why having lo&s;t her belo|ved
<PB N="27" REF="18">Gallant &s;he trips away to <HI>Rome,</HI> and had made &s;o great a Progre&s;s in all the Liberal Arts and Sciences, that &s;he was thought worthy, it &s;eems, of a Cardinal's Cap, and at la&s;t of the Triple Crown, and for two years and a half behav'd her &s;elf very notably, and wanted no Quali|fication becoming the Papal Chair, but that of her Sex. Yet &s;ee how Murder will come out at la&s;t. Going in a &s;o|lemn Proce&s;&s;ion to the Church of St. <HI>John</HI> of <HI>Lateran,</HI> between <HI>Colo&s;&s;es</HI> and St. <HI>Clements,</HI> &s;he by the way, in the pub|lick Street, was rid of her vicious Life and an infamous Burden both together; (a pretty teeming Prolifick Pape&s;s, this mu&s;t needs be a Babe of Grace that her Holine&s;s was delivered of, and &s;he the Whore of <HI>Babylon</HI> in a double Sen&s;e) and at the very place where this unlucky Accident hapned there was erected the <HI>Colonna infame,</HI> or infamous Pillar, (as they ever after called it) in memory of this Accident, to the end it might the better be tran&s;mitted to Po&s;terity; and out of a zealous Abhorrence of &s;o black
<PB N="28" REF="19">a Deed, her Succe&s;&s;ors baulk that way in their u&s;ual Proce&s;&s;ions, and &s;teer ano|ther cour&s;e to this very day. But this is not all; to prevent &s;uch Female Go&s;&s;ips for the future from putting the like Tricks upon the Conclave of Cardinals, they prudently found out the Porphyry Chair, an infallible Invention to avoid &s;uch gro&s;s Mi&s;takes, to the Prejudice of Infallibility, and the Shame and Scandal of the <HI>Roman</HI> Religion. Thus far <HI>Plati|na</HI> in his Life of that Pape&s;s, who was a great Friend to Popes, wrote the Lives of Popes down to his time, was Secreta|ry to a Pope, and dedicated his Book to a Pope; and indeed the Story were al|mo&s;t incredible had he not the Suffrage of fifty more of their own Authors to ju&s;tifie his Writing upon this Subject, tho Card. <HI>Baronius</HI> leaves her out; of whom we may truly &s;ay, as <HI>Scaliger</HI> did, <HI>Facit Annales non &s;cribit,</HI> He makes Chronicles, but writes them not.</P>
<P>But here will ari&s;e po&s;&s;ibly a Que&s;ti|on, How comes it to pa&s;s that this Por|phyry Chair is now laid a&s;ide? That's a
<PB N="29" REF="19">poignant one, upon my Word: but the Catholicks may be &s;atisfied, if they plea&s;e, with the An&s;wer of <HI>John Pontanus</HI> in an Epigram of his, tran&s;lated by Mr. <HI>Stevens</HI> into French, which runs thus:
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Nul ne pouvoit jouir des &s;aintes Clefs de Rome,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sans mon&s;trer q'uil avoit les marques de vray homme,</HI></L>
<L><HI>D'ou vient donc a pre&s;ent ce&s;te preuve e&s;t ce&s;&s;&eacute;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>Et qu'on n'a plus be&s;oing de la Chaire per&s;&eacute;e?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ce&s;t pource que ceux la qui ores les Clefs ont,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Par les Enfans qu'ils font mon&s;trent bien ce qu'ils &s;ont.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>None had the Keys of <HI>Rome</HI> in times of yore,</L>
<L>But &s;uch as &s;hew'd true marks of Man before.</L>
<L>How comes it then that this Proof's now laid by,</L>
<L>And that the Porphyry &s;tool is u&s;ele&s;s? Why?</L>
<PB N="30" REF="20">
<L>Becau&s;e tho&s;e now, who &s;it ith Papa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chair,</L>
<L>By the ba&s;e Brats they get &s;how what they are.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>But I blu&s;h to think that I have of|fended the cha&s;te ears of the Prote&s;tant Reader by harping &s;o long upon &s;uch loo&s;e Notes, and made his Cheeks glow at the rehear&s;al of &s;uch immode&s;t actions, therefore I'll leave off this filthy di&s;cour&s;e, and &s;ee if I can hit upon a more cleanly Argument, not troubling you with <HI>Ma|thilda, Gregory</HI> 7th<HI>'s</HI> Mi&s;s, nor with <HI>Ser|gius</HI> the third's <HI>Morezia,</HI> nor a <HI>Donna Olympia,</HI> fre&s;h in the memory of mo&s;t men of this Age.</P>
<P>As for the Popes Humility, Poverty, Patience, Clemency and Blood-guiltine&s;s, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> take the&s;e few Examples for in&s;tance.</P>
<P>The Proud and Magi&s;terial name of Univer&s;al Bi&s;hop, <HI>Rome</HI> was at fir&s;t a mere Stranger to; and <HI>Gregory</HI> the Great, a Learned, Good man, declar'd it to be the name of Antichri&s;t, a name of Bla&s;phemy, and to admit it was to
<PB N="31" REF="20">&s;hipwrack the Faith.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>S. Greg. l.</HI> 4. <HI>Ep.</HI> 76.83. <HI>Ep.</HI> 78.</NOTE> See here one Pope Proclaiming ano|ther Antichri&s;t. But bold <HI>Boniface</HI> the third, his Succe&s;&s;or, received the Title of Univer&s;al Bi&s;hop from <HI>Phocas,</HI> who murthered the Emperour <HI>Mauritius</HI> and all his Family, and u&s;urped the Domi|nion of <HI>Con&s;tantinople.</HI></P>
<P>The ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tle St. <HI>James,</HI> called by the Antients the Bi&s;hop of the Apo|&s;tles, <HI>Clem. Epi&s;t.</HI> 1. who was a Prince of the Blood Royal, and Cou&s;in German to our Saviour, was Pre&s;ident in the fir&s;t Coun|cil; though he gave his opinion la&s;t, yet he took upon him no Superiority above others, and within the bounds of &s;uch Chri&s;tian mode&s;ty did the Holy Prelates of Chri&s;tendom contain them&s;elves, till the year 607.</P>
<P>The <HI>Venetians</HI> were Excommunicated by Pope <HI>Clement</HI> the fifth for attempting to be&s;iege <HI>Ferrara,</HI> which is Tributary to the See of <HI>Rome,</HI> whereupon <HI>Francis Dandalo,</HI> afterwards Grand <HI>Dogue</HI> of <HI>Ve|nice,</HI> went to <HI>France,</HI> where the Pope then had his Seat; &s;ubmi&s;&s;ively to beg his
<PB N="32" REF="21">Pardon for that imaginary Offence; when he arriv'd there he &s;pent much time 'ere he could be admitted, but at la&s;t he was brought into his pre&s;ence with an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Iron Chain or Dog's collar about his Neck, crawling on all four the length of the great Hall,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sabellicus in fi|ne</HI> 9 <HI>Aeneid. l.</HI> 7.</NOTE> and afterwards lay among the Dogs under his Table, till his wrath was appeas'd; and then he obtain'd a Pardon, for which Act he was ever after called Dog by his own Countrymen. Surely he very un|de&s;ervedly had the Name of <HI>Clement,</HI> who could be &s;o inhumane and haughty to an ancient Per&s;on, and treat him &s;o curri&s;hly, that pro&s;trated him&s;elf at his Feet with &s;o much &s;lavi&s;h &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>This Pope walking through the City <HI>Bogenci</HI> upon the River <HI>Loire</HI> in great State, had for his Attendants or Servi|tors, the Kings of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> one upon his right, the other on his left hand, and one leading his Hor&s;e by the Bridle.</P>
<P><HI>Alexander</HI> the Third, after he obtain'd the Popedom, had many dangerous Con|flicts
<PB N="33" REF="21">with the Emperour <HI>Frederick Bar|baro&s;&s;a,</HI> and was &s;o often wor&s;ted by him, that he was forced to fly to <HI>Venice,</HI> and there live for &s;ome time <HI>incognito,</HI> in the habit of a Cook (a prety greazy Di&s;gui&s;e for a Pope; &s;ee what nece&s;&s;ity will do; who would have thought &s;o proud a Bi&s;hop &s;hould &s;toop to &s;o ba&s;e a Con|de&s;cention) but at la&s;t he was known, and honourably embraced by the <HI>Vene|tians;</HI> and this coming to the Empe|rours Ear, he was highly offended at them for entertaining his Enemy, in&s;o|much that he &s;ent his Son with a power|ful Army, and great Navy, to take the Pope by force and violence; but the young Prince had the ill fate in that En|gagement to be taken Pri&s;oner by the <HI>Venetians,</HI> nor could his freedom be po&s;|&s;ibly procur'd, unle&s;s <HI>Frederick</HI> would come in his own Per&s;on to <HI>Venice,</HI> and endeavour to be reconcil'd to the Pope; which the Emperour, for his Son's &s;ake, conde&s;cended to; went to <HI>Venice,</HI> and procur'd it upon the&s;e unrea&s;onable and Unchri&s;tian conditions. That he &s;hould
<PB N="34" REF="22">re&s;tore the City of <HI>Rome,</HI> and all the Roy|alties thereof, and undergo &s;uch further Penance as the Pope &s;hould injoyn. This being &s;ubmitted to, the Emperour came to the Door of St. <HI>Mark</HI>'s Church, the People being Spectators, where the proud Pope commanded him very impe|riou&s;ly to ly pro&s;trate on the Ground, and to ask his Pardon and Forgivene&s;s; and then he gently treading upon his Neck, prophanely wre&s;ted the 13 ver&s;e of the 91 P&s;alm, to his own purpo&s;e, &s;aying; Thou &s;halt walk upon the A&s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Ba&s;ilisk, and &s;halt tread upon the Lion and Dragon; And when the Empe|rour &s;aid unto him <HI>Non tibi &s;ed Petro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cujus Succe&s;&s;or es, pareo;</HI> the Pope repli|ed, <HI>Et mihi &amp; Petro,</HI> proudly placing him&s;elf before the ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tle, who&s;e immediate Succe&s;&s;or he fal&s;ly pretends to be. See the unexampled humility of this <HI>Servus Servorum Dei.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Platina,</HI> in the Life of <HI>Gregory</HI> the Seventh, tells you, that the Emperour <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth of <HI>France,</HI> commonly &s;tiled the Great, was Excommunicated
<PB N="35" REF="22">by the Pope, and that for a Trifle too. The Emperour being inform'd of this his rigorous proceedings, came to <HI>Cano&s;&s;e</HI> (where his Holine&s;s was then dallying with his wanton <HI>Mathilda</HI>) and dive&s;t|ing him&s;elf of his Imperial Robes (fine work indeed that the Scepter mu&s;t bow to the Cro&s;ier) went bare-foot and bare|head, in the depth of a hard Winter, to the City Gates, and there humbly crav'd Admittance; but his Entry was denied, and he, like an obedient Son of that See, bore it with unimaginable and uncommon Patience, remaining three dayes complete in the Suburbs fa&s;ting, continually beging Ab&s;olution, which at length by the earne&s;t Interce&s;&s;ion, and repeated Reque&s;t of <HI>Mathilda,</HI> the Popes Minion, or St. <HI>Peters</HI> Daughter as they call'd her, the Earl of <HI>Savoy,</HI> and the Abbot of <HI>Cluniac,</HI> was obtain'd. A brave Jaunt indeed for a Pui&s;&s;ant Po|tentate, at &s;uch an Un&s;ea&s;onable time of the Year, and very kind u&s;age he re|ceiv'd for his pains, but this mu&s;t be done or he is undone, and forfeits all his
<PB N="36" REF="23"><HI>Regalia,</HI> for di&s;obliging a proud, peevi&s;h Pope. Where is there ever a <HI>Gueux</HI> of you all that has &s;o much courage to main|tain your Prote&s;tant Privileges and Epi&s;|copal Dignity? But one Swallow makes no Summer; all Frenchmen are not &s;o &s;oft Spirited.</P>
<P>Well fare <HI>Philip</HI> the Fourth, &s;urnamed <HI>Philip Le Bel,</HI> who in the year 1320 had to do with a Mon&s;ter of a Man, <HI>Boniface</HI> the eighth, when <HI>France</HI> &s;hook off the Supremacy of the Pope in <HI>Temporalibus.</HI></P>
<P>This Prelate wrote to the King in the&s;e and &s;uch like arrogant Terms: We will that thou know,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Annales Nic: Giles.</NOTE> thou art our Subject in Spirituals, as well as Temporals. To which the King return'd this Princely an&s;wer,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sciat fatuitas ve|&s;tra,</HI> &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ta tre&s;grande &s;otti&s;e &s;cache</HI> &amp;c. Let your Sotti&s;hne&s;s and gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Temerity know, that in Temporals w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> have none but God for Superior <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And not being &s;atisfied with this, h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> commanded a Lord of <HI>Languedoc,</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Albigeois,</HI> of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Nogaret,</HI> to
<PB N="37" REF="23">Seize on the Pope, which he did, and withal gave him &s;uch a Blow on the Ear with a Gantlet that fell'd him, for &s;aying his Father was Burnt for an Heretick, and afterwards ca&s;t him into Pri&s;on, where he died of a Phrenzie, gnawing his own hands out of Rage and Fury, and left this worthy <HI>Elogium</HI> or Epitaph behind him. <HI>Intravit ut Vulpes, regnavit ut Leo, mortuus e&s;t ut Canis.</HI> He entred the Papacy like a Fox,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jo. Andr. &amp; Bald. c.</HI> 1. <HI>defend. gl. ad</HI> 6. <HI>Decretal.</HI></NOTE> reigned like a Li|on, and died like a Dog. Twas valiantly done of the Stout <HI>Mon|&s;ieur</HI> to knock down four at a Blow, the <HI>Campanian,</HI> the Cardinal, <HI>Boniface</HI> the Eighth and the Pope; This Pope was &s;o &s;hamele&s;s as to boa&s;t (having de|nied three times to confer the Title of Emperour of <HI>Germany</HI> upon the Duke of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI>) that he him&s;elf was Lord and Emperour of the whole World. Nor did <HI>Lewis</HI> the Twelfth &s;tand in awe of the Pope, who&s;e <HI>Motto</HI> was, <HI>Perdam Ba|bylonis nomen,</HI> I will de&s;troy the name of <HI>Babylon.</HI> But this u&s;urped power of
<PB N="38" REF="24">the See of <HI>Rome</HI> is but Novel, and Mo|dern, for in&s;tead of their depo&s;ing Kings, they depo&s;ed Popes; nay <HI>Con&s;tantius</HI> the Son of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the Great, depo&s;|ed Pope <HI>Liberius;</HI> the Emperour <HI>Otho</HI> Pope <HI>John</HI> the Twelfth, <HI>Henry</HI> the Third, <HI>Bennet</HI> the Ninth, <HI>Sylve&s;ter</HI> the Third and <HI>Gregory</HI> the Sixth,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Platina in vit. Greg.</HI> 6. <HI>Abbas Ve&s;p. anno</HI> 1406.</NOTE> and <HI>Sigi&s;mund</HI> depo&s;ed as many more at one time. The <HI>French</HI> Kings have not only outed but created many Popes formerly. <HI>Phi|lip</HI> the Fair di&s;plac'd <HI>Boniface</HI> the Eighth, who tran&s;lated the See to <HI>Avignon,</HI> where it continued 74 years, and by the King's appointment Six Popes &s;ucceed|ed one another in that place. And this right of dethroning Popes is treated of by a Chanellor of the <HI>Academy</HI> at <HI>Paris, Ger&s;on</HI> by name, one of the mo&s;t learned <HI>Sorboni&s;ts,</HI> in his Treati&s;e <HI>de Auferibili|tate Papae.</HI> So that you &s;ee they were farr from being Lords in Spiritual and Temporal things originally, what ever they pretend to the contrary: and the &s;aying of Pope <HI>Nicholas</HI> in his Eighth
<PB N="39" REF="24">Epi&s;tle makes it out, that they which are both Kings and Prie&s;ts under the Go&s;pel, are Members of the Devil. Thus one Pope contradicts another; yet all infallible. Nay two Popes more <HI>Pelagius</HI> and <HI>Gregory,</HI> look'd upon the Title of Univer&s;al Bi&s;hop as <HI>nomen Bla&s;phemiae.</HI></P>
<P>But the grave&s;t Sages and greate&s;t Doctors of them all mu&s;t needs confe&s;s, that the Large&s;t and Fatte&s;t of the Popes Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, are but the Large&s;&s;e of Kings, and therfore they have little rea|&s;on to carry them&s;elves &s;o Loftily and Exalt them&s;elves above all, which intol|lerable In&s;olence makes them guilty of the Blacke&s;t of Crimes, Ingratitude, if they are unthankful to their fir&s;t Promo|ters; for <HI>Phocas</HI> an adulterous A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ine the Murtherer of his Ma&s;ter <HI>Mauritius</HI> the Emperour,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>An. Dom.</HI> 607. <HI>An. mundi</HI> 4559.</NOTE> gave them their Name, and <HI>Pepin</HI> their Revenues. But their carriage, now adays is quite contrary to the Di&s;cipline of the Apo&s;tles, and humble and Submi&s;&s;ive Deportment of St. <HI>Gregory,</HI> who writing to the Empe|rour <HI>Mauritius</HI> begins in this lowly Stile,
<PB N="40" REF="25">I the unworthy Servant of your Piety <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Li.</HI> 2. <HI>Epi&s;t.</HI> 61. <HI>in dict.</HI> 11.</NOTE></P>
<P>Nor was <HI>Henry</HI> the Fifth terrified by Pope <HI>Pa&s;chal</HI> the Second, who wrought upon his own Son to rebell again&s;t his Father, (but what may not Infallibility countenance and approve) in&s;omuch that he &s;urpri&s;ed his Father with great For|ces, dive&s;ted him of his <HI>Regalia,</HI> toge|ther with the Empire; in&s;omuch that the Aged Potentate died with Grief: and this <HI>Pa&s;chal</HI> was &s;o inhumane as to deny him Inhumation, not permitting him to have Chri&s;tian Burial for five Years after his Death. But <HI>Henry</HI> the Fifth, the new Emperour, went immediately after this into <HI>Italy</HI> to the Pope, who expected to be gratified for his pious a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Son to murder the Father, and therefore demanded the Right of Inve&s;titure; which &s;o incen&s;ed the Emperour, that he took him by the Shoulders, and bold|ly &s;hook his Holine&s;s into a panick Fear; nor was that all, for he was committed clo&s;e Pri&s;oner, never to enjoy his Free|dom unle&s;s he renounced his unlawful
<PB N="41" REF="25">Claim to Inve&s;titures and Collations of Benefices. I could in&s;tance in many more; but let the&s;e &s;atisfie the Reader, that Princes heretofore did under-value the Pope and his Excommunications, or el&s;e the very Citizens of <HI>Rome</HI> would never have pre&s;um'd to expell Pope <HI>Gre|gory</HI> the Ninth that City; for indeed they never took any great notice of the Pope's Excommunication. But now to our intended Di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Boniface</HI> the Fir&s;t began fir&s;t of all to a&s;&s;ume the Dominion of the <HI>African</HI> Churches; but he was &s;oon curb'd in his Career by the &s;ixth <HI>African</HI> Council, where the great Pillar of the We&s;tern Church was pre&s;ent.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">St. Au&s;tin.</NOTE></P>
<P>Nay, <HI>Charles</HI> the Fifth, being &s;hrewd|ly menaced by <HI>Paul</HI> the Third, if he would not &s;urrender <HI>Placentia</HI> to him after the Death of <HI>Peter Lewis;</HI> gave his Holine&s;s to under&s;tand, by an Amba&s;&s;a|dor, that if he would needs be thun|d'ring with his Excommunications, he would both thunder and lighten with his Artillery in An&s;wer to him.</P>
<PB N="42" REF="26">
<P> Do but ob&s;erve the Humility of this Man of God at his Election to the Papa|cy. A Fortnights time is appointed for Preparations, in order to the carrying of him with great Pomp and Magnificence, being &s;eated in a Chair of State, is borne on Mens Shoulders to St. <HI>Peter</HI>'s Church to po&s;&s;e&s;s him&s;elf of the Popedom; and if an Emperour happen to be at the So|lemnity, it is the greate&s;t Honour he is capable of, to be one of the Bearers of that &s;anctified Burthen or Lump of Holi|ne&s;s: and a Fortnight after, or therea|bout, he rides in a <HI>Cavalcata</HI> to the Church of St. <HI>John</HI> of <HI>Lateran</HI> to the &s;ame Intent and Purpo&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Platina</HI> tells you in the Life of <HI>Cle|ment</HI> the Fifth, that <HI>Philip</HI> King of <HI>France, Charles,</HI> the Mon&s;ieur, his Bro|ther, and <HI>John</HI> Duke of <HI>Britain,</HI> with many other Per&s;ons of the highe&s;t Qua|lity, were pre&s;ent at his Inauguration, who lo&s;t their Lives, many of them being overwhelmed with the fall of a Wall, and buried in the Ruins, King <HI>Philip</HI> being lamed, and his Holine&s;s him&s;elf
<PB N="43" REF="26">with an unlucky lucky Blow, was di&s;|mounted from his <HI>Bucephalus,</HI> and lo&s;t a Rubie out of his Miter that co&s;t 6000 Ducats, (how many poor Prote&s;tants are worth le&s;s that de&s;erve much more) which I do not find by the Relator that it was ever heard of afterwards. Now I leave it to the nice Ca&s;ui&s;ts of their Church, to decide, whether this was not a piece of grand Sacriledge in the Find|er, to imbezel &s;uch Goods as were con&s;e|crated to &s;acred U&s;es, and convert them to his own.</P>
<P><HI>Frederick</HI> the Emperour waited upon Pope <HI>Adrian</HI> the Fourth, and like an Imperial Groom, quietly held the Stir|rop whil&s;t he came off of his Hor&s;e; and by all good Signs and Tokens he recei|ved a proud taunting Check for his Hu|mility, in holding the left in&s;tead of the right Stirtop; which moved him &s;o much, that he &s;aid, I was never brought up to this Trade, and thou art the fir&s;t upon whom I ever attended &s;o &s;ervilely; but for all this he was compell'd, the day following, to hold the right. O brave
<PB N="44" REF="27">Country-man! thou did'&s;t like a bold <HI>Britain,</HI> a true <HI>Nicholas Break-&s;pear</HI> (for that was his Name before his Papificati|on) that makes no di&s;tinction of Per&s;ons; and if an Emperour be his Groom he'll make him know his Duty; and Rea&s;on good too, if &s;uch Potentates will &s;ubmit to &s;uch Servility merely to gratifie the ambitious Humour of a proud Prelate.</P>
<P>When <HI>Cele&s;tine</HI> the Third was to Crown <HI>Hen.</HI> 6th, and his Empre&s;s <HI>Con&s;tance,</HI> he did it not with his hands but feet; &s;etting it on, and proudly &s;purning it off again, with the&s;e words in his mouth, <HI>Per me Reges regnant.</HI> It is in my &s;ole Power to make and unmake Kings and Empe|rours.</P>
<P>The State of <HI>Rome</HI> extends three hun|dred miles in length, and two hundred in breadth; and the Pope is able upon occa&s;ion to put 50000 men in the Field well equip'd, be&s;ides his Naval &s;trength in Gallies, which is very great: Nor is he de&s;titute of Money, for as <HI>Sixtus Quartus</HI> u&s;ually &s;aid, So long as the Pope can finger a Pen, he can want no
<PB N="45" REF="27">Pence. Be&s;ides, the &s;ale of Offices is ve|ry gainful; and &s;ome reckon that a Pope hath 6000 <HI>l.</HI> a day, be&s;ides ca&s;ual Incomes, which are as advantageous as numerous. The Legate <HI>&agrave; Latere,</HI> when he goes abroad upon publick Affairs, hath the allowance of twenty five pound Sterling <HI>per diem.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Gregory</HI> the fifteenth, who &s;ate in the Chair but two years wanting a Month, left his Family 250000 Crowns <HI>per Ann. i.e.</HI> 62500 <HI>l.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Alexander</HI> the 6th &s;crap'd up &s;uch va&s;t Sums of Money by the &s;ale of Indul|gences, that his Son <HI>Cae&s;ar Borgia</HI> lo&s;t one night at Dice 100000 Crowns, &s;aying, <HI>Germanorum tantum haec peccata &s;unt.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sixtus</HI> the 5th, of a poor Family, <HI>Pe|retti</HI> by name, tho he was Pope but a lu&s;tre of years, erected the Palace <HI>di San Giovanno Laterano,</HI> fortified <HI>Civita Vec|chia,</HI> began to build <HI>Monte Cavallo,</HI> foun|ded many Colleges, and did as many &s;umptuous and chargeable Works as &s;tood him in fifteen millions of Crowns,
<PB N="46" REF="28">that is, four millions of Engli&s;h pounds Sterling, and yet left five millions of Crowns behind him at his decea&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Gregory</HI> the 15th, who reigned but two years wanting a Month, yet made a poor &s;hift to leave his Family 250000 Crowns a year. If St. <HI>Peter</HI> had been &s;o wealthy, he would not have followed his poor Trade, a&s;&s;ure your &s;elf; indeed his Succe&s;&s;ors you &s;ee have &s;ailed in his Ship for Traffick with &s;uch fortune and &s;ucce&s;s, that they cannot &s;ay as he did, without manife&s;t fal&s;hood, <HI>Silver and Gold have I none;</HI> for they have &s;carce any thing el&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Paul</HI> the 5th left 1000 Crowns a day to his Nephew, the Prince of <HI>Salmona,</HI> be&s;ides what he be&s;towed on other Re|lations.</P>
<P>So much of the Pope's Humility and Lowline&s;s; now for a touch at his Cle|mency, Pity, and Mercy.</P>
<P>And here we mu&s;t make bold with the Papalines, and beg their pardon, if we prove and reprove the horrid Acti|ons of &s;ome <HI>Silve&s;ters, Johns, Bonifaces,
<PB N="47" REF="28">Julii, Gregories, Sexti</HI> and <HI>Alexanders,</HI> who have either kindled a fire in the ve|ry Bowels of Chri&s;tendom, or made her &s;wim in innocent blood.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Hildebrand, Bellarmine</HI>'s Saint, poi&s;oned &s;even or eight Popes to make way for his obtaining the Papal Chair, and when he enjoy'd it, committed all Barbari&s;ms imaginable, and did hang up men at plea&s;ure, with a <HI>&s;tat pro ratione Voluntas;</HI> My Will is my Law.</P>
<P>In the Life of <HI>Honorius</HI> the third, it is reported, <HI>Anno</HI> 1223. that one &mdash; Bi&s;hop of <HI>Cathne&s;s</HI> in <HI>Scotland,</HI> was burnt in his Kitchin by the People of his own Dioce&s;e, becau&s;e he excommunicated &s;ome of them for Non-payment of Tythes; which Story reaching the Pope's ear, did &s;o di&s;tract and di&s;compo&s;e his Holine&s;s, that he could not be at re&s;t till he had hang'd four hundred of them, and ca|&s;trated all their Children, and all this in|&s;ufferable Cruelty upon Innocents too, to revenge the Death of one &s;ingle Per&s;on.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>&V;rban</HI> the Fourth in&s;tead of <HI>&V;rbanus</HI> was called <HI>Turbanus,</HI> becau&s;e he
<PB N="48" REF="29">was &s;o great a Boute&s;eu, that he &s;et all Chri&s;tendom in a Combu&s;tion.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>&V;rban</HI> the Sixth did, out of a revengeful Spirit, cau&s;e five Cardinals to be ca&s;t into the River and drown'd.</P>
<P>It was the u&s;ual and pitiful Expre&s;&s;ion of <HI>Sixtus Quintus,</HI> or <HI>Si&s;e Cinque,</HI> occa&s;i|on'd by the Death of a Noble, renown|ed Prince&s;s; <HI>Che gu&s;to di tagliar te&s;te cor|ronate!</HI> Oh what a Plea&s;ure is it to take off crowned Heads! Well &s;aid, Reverend Head of the Church! We will take thy bare Word for cutting of Throats with|out Security; 'tis hone&s;tly done to &s;peak plainly without mental Re&s;ervation; for to mince the matter were a piece of Cowardize not to be brook'd in the tri|umphant Chieftain of the Church Mili|tant.</P>
<P><HI>Clement</HI> the Seventh was convicted of notorious Crimes; among the re&s;t, to &s;hew his in&s;atiable Thir&s;t after Blood, he &s;ewed five Cardinals in Sacks (not the five Cardinal Vertues I'll warrant you) and threw them into the Sea; beheaded three more, and after burn'd their Bodies
<PB N="49" REF="29">to A&s;hes, which he urn'd up in Che&s;ts, and placed Cardinals Hats upon them, carrying them about with him where ever he went, to give all People to un|der&s;tand what Reliques were contained in them. And if he were &s;o kind to tho&s;e of his own Religion, what mercy could others expect from him that were of a contrary Per&s;wa&s;ion?</P>
<P><HI>Sergius,</HI> who &s;tood Candidate for the Pontificate with <HI>Formo&s;us,</HI> prevail'd &s;o far as to obtain it; and when he after|wards came to be Bi&s;hop of that See, in revenge of his former repul&s;e, compell'd the <HI>Romans,</HI> by his threats and menaces, to make the Ordination of <HI>Formo&s;us</HI> null and void; and made him be taken out of his Grave, (an Act not to be thought on without horror) after he had layn there a con&s;iderable time, and then rob'd him with the Papal Ve&s;ture, plac'd him in St. <HI>Peters</HI> Chair, command|ing him to be beheaded, and to have three of his Fingers cut off, and &s;o di&s;|gracefully and barbarou&s;ly ca&s;t him into the River <HI>Tyber,</HI> and withal degraded
<PB N="50" REF="30">all Per&s;ons that were ordain'd by him.</P>
<P>During the time of the Popes <HI>Innocent</HI> the third, <HI>Honorius, Celi&s;tine, Innocent</HI> the fourth, and <HI>Gregory</HI> the ninth, again&s;t <HI>Frederick</HI> the &s;econd, there was a mo&s;t horrid Slaughter made by them, that la&s;ted for thirty three Years. And then it was that <HI>Mahomet,</HI> the Impo&s;ter, and invete|rate Enemy of Chri&s;tianity, advanced him&s;elf in the Ea&s;t; whom the Empe|rour intended to repul&s;e; but that the good Pope in that juncture of time made War again&s;t him in <HI>Italy,</HI> which ha&s;t'ned his return, and made him leave <HI>Greece</HI> to be hara&s;s'd by the <HI>Turk;</HI> nor would the Pope admit of a Reconciliation, till 11000 Marks of Gold procur'd it. And with the &s;ame zeal Pope <HI>Innocent,</HI> and his Succe&s;&s;ors acted all along, who kept <HI>Zemin Ottoman, Bajazet</HI> the &s;econd's Brother, in cu&s;tody, for which he re|ceiv'd annually 40000 Ducats. Nay, when King <HI>Charles</HI> the eighth would have made an advantage of the Pri&s;oners in his War again&s;t this mortal Foe of Chri|&s;tendom,
<PB N="51" REF="30"><HI>Alexander</HI> the &s;ixth advertis'd the <HI>Turk</HI> of his intended De&s;igns (like a good Pope) and took &s;uch care to prevent him, that <HI>Zemin</HI> was poi&s;oned; (an Action which a <HI>Mufti</HI> would &s;corn to do unto a Chri&s;tian) for which good|ly and godly Work, he was rewarded with 200000 Crowns, which were paid him by <HI>George</HI> of <HI>Antia,</HI> the Me&s;&s;enger of that whol&s;ome advice. By the&s;e fore|going Works we may gue&s;s at the Bloo|dy temper of the&s;e Sanguinary Popes; and the be&s;t and true&s;t Character we can be&s;tow on them is that &s;hameful by-word of young <HI>Tiberius,</HI> that the Pope is <HI>Lu|tum &s;anguine maceratum,</HI> a mere Lump of Clay kneaded together with Blood.</P>
<P><HI>John</HI> the thirteenth was addicted to all manner of vices, as Perjury, Sacriledge, and Cruelty, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> He di&s;memb'red &s;eve|ral Cardinals, becau&s;e they inclined to <HI>Otho</HI> the Great, Emperour, by Exoculating them, cutting off their Hands, and Ca|&s;trating of them. He made Deacons in his Stable, among his Hor&s;es, like a Brute as he was; created young Boys grave
<PB N="52" REF="31">Bi&s;hops, for Money, out of a lucrative and &s;ordidly covetous Humour; who&s;e Gehazi&s;me and Simony, with &s;ome other Com-Popes of the Holy See, was the occa&s;ion of that known Di&s;tich;
<Q><L><HI>An Petrus fuerat Romae &s;ub Judice lis e&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Simonem Romae nemo fui&s;se negat.</HI></L>
<L>Whether St. <HI>Peter</HI> 'ere to <HI>Rome</HI> did go</L>
<L>Is que&s;tion'd, that <HI>Simon</HI> was there, all know.</L></Q></P>
<P>He put out the eyes of his Gho&s;tly Fa|ther <HI>Benedict,</HI> and committed many o|ther matchle&s;s Cruelties.</P>
<P><HI>Boniface</HI> the &s;eventh was &s;o wicked, that <HI>Baronius</HI> him&s;elf, that Grand Pillar of the Papal Cau&s;e, &s;aith, he de&s;erv'd the name of Thief and Murderer of his Countrey rather than of a Pope.</P>
<P><HI>Hildebrand</HI> &s;ainted <HI>Liberius</HI> the <HI>Arri|an,</HI> exerci&s;ed all &s;orts of Cruelty, cut off the Foot of a Widows Son, but at la&s;t, for the Impieties which he was guilty of, (many of which are premention'd) he was depos'd in a Senate at <HI>Brixia;</HI> and as
<PB N="53" REF="31">he lived wretchedly, &s;o he died mi&s;era|bly in Exile, and left the Keys to <HI>Victor</HI> the third, an <HI>Italian,</HI> thru&s;t in by <HI>Matil|da,</HI> who was &s;oon poy&s;on'd by his Sub|deacon in the Chalice; &s;o that you may &s;ee Chri&s;t's pretious Blood is no Antidote nor Pre&s;ervative in the&s;e Ca&s;es.</P>
<P>But this is only Slaughter by retail, take a view of their Ma&s;&s;acres by whole|&s;ail.</P>
<P>As to the Cruelties of <HI>Merindol</HI> and <HI>Cabriere,</HI> they were &s;o barbarous and in|humane, that when the Advocate <HI>Aubery,</HI> and other Civilians, related them in the High Court of Parliament at <HI>Paris,</HI> the Auditory &s;topt their Ears at the hi|deou&s;ne&s;s, and horror of them: take this &s;ingle Example for in&s;tance among many others.</P>
<P><HI>John Menier,</HI> Lord of <HI>Oppede,</HI> Chief Pre&s;ident of the Parliament of <HI>Provence,</HI> and the <HI>French</HI> King's Lieutenant Gene|ral; who, tho he made choice of the wor&s;t Blood-hounds of the Army, could not meet with Soldiers cruel enough to execute his bloody Edicts, commanding
<PB N="54" REF="32">them to rip up the Bowels of big-bellied Women, and to trample their innocent Babes under foot; and this was done be|fore his Face to his delight, who was then Spectator and Author of this In|humanity. This was a piece of cruelty beyond that of <HI>Pharaoh</HI> to the male Chil|dren of the <HI>Hebrew</HI> Women in the old, or the other of <HI>Herod</HI> to the Innocents of <HI>Bethlehem</HI> in the new Te&s;tament, and yet promoted and approv'd of by the Holy Man of <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Pari&s;ian</HI> Ma&s;&s;acre was &s;o dete&s;ta|ble and unparallel'd a Cruelty, according to <HI>Thuanus,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Thuan. Hi&s;t. l.</HI> 52. <HI>&amp;</HI> 53.</NOTE> that &s;ome curi|ous Per&s;ons peru&s;ing the An|nals of other Nations, could not meet with the like in all Antiquity. The manner of this helli&s;h and bloody Per&s;ecution, was as you find it in this en&s;uing Relation. <HI>Catharina di Medici,</HI> the Daughter of Pope <HI>Clement</HI>'s Brother, and Mother to <HI>Charles</HI> the ninth, did Go|vern the Kingdom of <HI>France</HI> during the King's Minority, through the &s;upine negli|gence of <HI>Anthony</HI> King of <HI>Navarre,</HI> with
<PB N="55" REF="32">whom the &s;aid Queen's Mother was joyned in the office of Protector&s;hip, contrary to the Salique Law, which de|nies the Inheritance, or Admini&s;tration of the Realm to the Spindle. And &s;he per&s;uaded her Son to this Ma&s;&s;acre. It was very &s;peciou&s;ly carryed on, and veil'd with pretences of the greate&s;t Ami|ty imaginable, and that was a Match be|tween the Hou&s;es of <HI>Valois</HI> and <HI>Bourbon,</HI> the King re&s;olving to be&s;tow his Si&s;ter <HI>Margaret</HI> in marriage to Prince <HI>Henry,</HI> Son to <HI>Joan,</HI> Queen of <HI>Navarre,</HI> the former being a <HI>Romani&s;t,</HI> the latter of the Religion. But before the Nuptials were Celebrated, the Queen of <HI>Navarre</HI> (being then at the Court of <HI>Paris,</HI> pro|viding all things nece&s;&s;ary for the wed|ding-Solemnity) was poi&s;on'd by <HI>Renat,</HI> an <HI>Italian,</HI> the King's Apothecary, with the venomous &s;cent of a pair of per&s;um'd Gloves; by who&s;e unnatural death, the Kingdom de&s;cended to the &s;aid <HI>Henry,</HI> precontracted to the King's Si&s;ter. Short|ly after the Marriage was &s;olemniz'd with Royal Pomp and State in the chief Church
<PB N="56" REF="33">at <HI>Paris,</HI> to the great joy of his Maje&s;ty and all good Men; to this wedding the Grandees of the Prote&s;tant party were courteou&s;ly invited, <HI>viz. Henry</HI> Prince of <HI>Conde, Ga&s;per de Coligni</HI> Ad|miral of <HI>France,</HI> and Cou&s;in to the King, <HI>Francis de Andelot,</HI> the Admiral's Bro|ther, Captain of the Infantry, and other Princes and Nobles. And the Magnifi|cence, Jollity, and Care&s;&s;es of Entertain|ment were &s;o great as are not to be ex|pre&s;&s;ed. Nothing is &s;een but Banquets, Balls, Ma&s;ques, Stage-Plays, and &s;uch kind of Diverti&s;ments, all per&s;onated in the Night. And this was the rea&s;on the Ad|miral had a de&s;ire to quit <HI>Paris,</HI> becau&s;e he could not have acce&s;&s;e to the King, who was altogether taken up and delight|ed with the&s;e nocturnal Revels. But tho&s;e of the reformed Religion hearing of his purpo&s;e to depart, with all &s;peed delivered their Petitions to him for redre&s;s of Grie|vances, begging of him not to quit the place till he had pre&s;ented them to the King, which he did on the 22^t^h of <HI>Au|gu&s;t</HI> 1572, being the fifth day after the
<PB N="57" REF="33">Marriage. Returning home about noon, a Harquebuzier &s;hot the Admiral with a brace of Bullets through both the Armes, out of the Window of a near adjoyning Hou&s;e; but the Villain made his e&s;cape, before they could reach the Hou&s;e. The King was then at Tennis with the Duke, when one of the Admiral's Gentlemen acquainted him with the news; which he no &s;ooner heard, but he, with a &s;eeming|ly violent Tran&s;port of Pa&s;&s;ion, threw a|way his Racket, and retir'd to his Ca|&s;tle: as young as he was he made good u&s;e of the Motto of <HI>Lewis</HI> the 11^t^h his Predece&s;&s;or, <HI>Qui ne&s;cit di&s;&s;imulare, ne&s;cit regnare.</HI> The King &s;wears mo&s;t de&s;perate|ly, &s;everely to revenge this injury; grants the Admiral a Guard at his reque&s;t, but &s;uch a one as would be &s;ure to ruine ra|ther than &s;ecure him: and <HI>Co&s;&s;in,</HI> Cap|tain of the Guards, was the Man that commanded them; a mo&s;t Inveterate and Irreconcileable Enemy to the Admiral and his Party, and a fa&s;t friend to the <HI>Gui&s;ians.</HI> The Admiral hear's a noi&s;e and ratling of Armour, tho altogether
<PB N="58" REF="34">undi&s;turb'd, having the King's Royal word for his &s;ecurity; Be&s;ides, he reflect|ed on the Oath for Peace publiquely and frequently &s;worn by the King, his Bre|thren and Mother, the League with Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> the Articles with the Prince of <HI>Aurange</HI> to that purpo&s;e; the King's faith ingaged to the <HI>German</HI> Princes; &s;ome Towns taken in the low Countries by the King's order; his Si&s;ters marri|age celebrated but &s;ix days before (yet her Bridal Robes were &s;tain'd and defil'd with innocent Blood) the judgment of foreign Princes, &s;ucceeding Po&s;terity; the honour and Faith of a Prince, and the violation of the Law of Nations; all the&s;e, one would think, might ea&s;ily oblige a Man to beleive that it was in|credible he could ever a&s;&s;ent to &s;o out|ragious and mon&s;trous a Fact.</P>
<P>Well, notwith&s;tanding all tho&s;e Pro|te&s;tations, Promi&s;es, Oaths, and Vows, the Queen-Mother and the King had re&s;olv'd upon a general Ma&s;&s;acre through|out the City of <HI>Paris,</HI> and this bloody Butchery was to be executed on the 24^t^h
<PB N="59" REF="34">of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> being Sunday (no matter for that, the better day the better deed) and accordingly it was perform'd: for <HI>Co&s;&s;in</HI> fir&s;t brake in, which the Admiral under|&s;tanding, caus'd tho&s;e few Servants that were with him to lift him out of his Bed, for he could not ri&s;e without help, be|ing &s;o di&s;abled by his Wounds, and put on a Night-gown, de&s;iring them to make their e&s;cape, he him&s;elf re&s;olving to dy with an undaunted Courage and Chri&s;ti|an-like Re&s;olution.</P>
<P>The&s;e A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ines &s;oon gain'd the Admi|ral's Chamber, broke open the doors, and <HI>Benve&s;e,</HI> a <HI>German</HI> Mi&s;creant, educated in the Hou&s;e of the Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e,</HI> with <HI>Co&s;&s;in</HI> the <HI>Ga&s;coign,</HI> and others, ru&s;h'd in with Swords, Targets, and Coats of Male. <HI>Benve&s;e</HI> pre&s;enting his Sword to the Ad|miral, after he had fir&s;t bla&s;phem'd God, ran him in the brea&s;t, and then cowardly &s;truck the aged Gentleman on the Head; <HI>Attin</HI> Shot him with a Pi&s;tol, and <HI>Benve&s;e</HI> gave him the third Wound on the Thigh, and &s;o he fell down Dead upon the Spot. The Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e</HI> that &s;taid in the
<PB N="60" REF="35">Court call'd to him and bid him throw him out at the window, which he ac|cordingly did. Then he commanded the &s;ign to be given by ringing the Tock|&s;ein, or great Bell of the Palace, (which is never done but on extraordinary oc|ca&s;ions:) the mark whereby the Murde|rers were di&s;tingui&s;hed was by a general con&s;ent to be a white linnen Cloth tied about their Arm, and a white Cro&s;s on their Caps. Then an <HI>Italian</HI> Souldier of Captain <HI>Lewis Gonzagua</HI>'s, Duke of <HI>Ni|vers,</HI> cut off the Admiral's Head, and &s;ent it to <HI>Rome,</HI> pre&s;erv'd with Spices, to the Pope and Cardinal of <HI>Lorrain;</HI> others cut off his Hands, and &s;ome, void of all mode&s;ty, his Privities. Then the rude Rabble, for three days together drew the dead Body, thus mangled and weltering in Gore, thorow the Streets, and afterwards out of the Town, to the common Gallows, and there hang'd it up by the Feet. In the <HI>interim</HI> the re&s;t brake into the other Chambers of the Hou&s;e, and &s;laught'red all they met with; among others, there were two young Pages of
<PB N="61" REF="35">honour, of noble Birth, Count <HI>Roch|foucaut,</HI> and young <HI>Theligius,</HI> who was Guilty of no other crime, but being the Admiral's Son in Law. So they ran about from morning till night, ran&s;ack|ing 400 Hou&s;es, &s;paring neither Age, nor Sex, and threw the Bodies out of the windows, &s;o that the Streets were &s;trewed with murd'red Carca&s;&s;es, and ran down with Blood.</P>
<P>The next day the Butchery was renewed, tho&s;e di&s;perate Villains &s;tripping the dead Bodies of their Garments, and throwing them into the River of <HI>Sein.</HI> Nor was their Blood-thir&s;tine&s;s yet quenched, for Me&s;&s;engers were &s;ent Po&s;t to all Cities, commanding them to imitate <HI>Paris,</HI> and to kill all of the Religion. Many Women with Child, Ladies and Gentle|women, Advocates, Phy&s;icians, and other eminent Men of Learning and Piety; among the re&s;t <HI>Peter Ramus,</HI> and &s;everal Students, were a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inated, without Plea, Sentence or Condemnation. I mu&s;t not omit one pa&s;&s;age that de&s;erves a margi|nal A&s;teri&s;m in blood, that is of <HI>Ma'&s;&s;on
<PB N="62" REF="36">de Rivers,</HI> a Pa&s;tor, and the fir&s;t that laid the foundation of the Prote&s;tant Church at <HI>Paris. Man&s;orel,</HI> a mortal Enemy of the Religion, as &s;oon as the Slaughter was began in <HI>Paris,</HI> was &s;ent Po&s;t to <HI>Angiers</HI> to prevent the News of Ma&s;&s;acre by others: as &s;oon as he arriv'd there, he was conducted to <HI>Ma&s;&s;on</HI>'s Hou&s;e; in the very Entry he meets with his Wife and there &s;aluted her very cere|moniou&s;ly (a right <HI>Judas</HI> ki&s;s, for he came to betray her Ma&s;ter) he demanded where her Husband was, &s;he replied in the Garden, and being brought to him they mutually and lovingly (as to out|ward appearance) embraced each other, <HI>Man&s;orel</HI> told him in plain terms, like a bloody Butcher, I am come hither by the King's command to kill you, as you may perceive by the&s;e Letters, producing his Dague ready charged. <HI>Ma&s;&s;on</HI> an|&s;wer'd, I have committed no Crime; how|ever, I beg the favour of a little time to call upon God and recommend my &s;elf to his merciful hands. Which &s;hort Orai&s;on being &s;oon concluded, he with
<PB N="63" REF="36">a meek Chri&s;tian temper receiv'd his Death-Wound, being Shot through the Body; but to return to <HI>Paris.</HI> We left the Admiral's Body hang'd up; the <HI>Pari|&s;ians</HI> went thither in great Multitudes, and the Queen Mother carried the King along with them and her other two Sons to glut their eyes with that barbarous Spectacle; but the next night the Body was convey|ed away, and interr'd, as 'tis conjectur'd. Their cruelty not being yet &s;atiated, they bring &s;ome to publique Tryal, to efface the blot of di&s;honour that might ju&s;tly reflect upon the King; and there was a parcel of Judges call'd out for that very purpo&s;e, who made an Order that a man of Hay (&s;ince the Admiral's Body could not be found) &s;hould be made, and be dragg'd by the <HI>Boureau</HI> through the Streets, in Effigie, which was according|ly done, his Arms and En&s;igns of Ho|nour broken, his Memory bla&s;ted, his Ca&s;tles and Farms razed to the ground, his I&s;&s;ue declar'd Ignoble, Infamous, and Inte&s;tate, and all the Trees in his Woods to be cut down, to the height of &s;ix Foot.</P>
<PB N="64" REF="37">
<P> Thus in all Towns great Murthers were committed, but none more horrid or devilli&s;h than the Ma&s;&s;acre at <HI>Lions, Mandolet</HI> being Governour. As &s;oon as he received the Letters, he, by a Trum|pet and Cryer, &s;ummoned tho&s;e of the Religion to appear before him, which they readily did. Then he committed them to &s;everal Pri&s;ons, and de&s;ir'd the common Executioner to call &s;ome to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and to murther them in Pri|&s;on, but he refus'd it, &s;aying, he execu|ted the Law on none but &s;uch as were publickly condemned, (a goodly Go|vernour indeed, more cruel than the common Hangman!) Upon this deni|al, he commanded the Garri&s;on Souldi|ers of the Ca&s;tle to take upon them that worthy action, and they refus'd it like|wi&s;e, upon a punctilio of Honour, that they did not u&s;e to fight with naked men; but the Butchers and Water-men at la&s;t (verifying the old Saying, that they are <HI>pe&s;&s;imum genus hominum</HI>) were the wretched Actors of his Bloody De|&s;ign, committing unheard of Cruelties,
<PB N="65" REF="37">and &s;porting with them in the mid&s;t of their mi&s;ery. In&s;omuch that the Blood which came out of the Goal, call'd the Arch-bi&s;hop's Pri&s;on, was &s;een in the day-time, to the horrour of the &s;tanders by, to flow reaking hot in the Channels of the Streets, and &s;o into the River of <HI>Seine.</HI> Thus for the &s;pace of thirty days complete, there was no intermi&s;&s;ion of Murther and Slaughter all over <HI>France,</HI> &s;o that there were about 100000 Per&s;ons &s;lain. The
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Guignard,</HI> in his Oration, &s;aid, It was a great mi&s;take that they did not cut the Ba|&s;ilisk Vein.</NOTE> Bride|groom and the Prince of <HI>Con|de,</HI> who were &s;ecur'd, and turn'd Papi&s;ts to e&s;cape their fury, yet could not avoid it; for the one was poi&s;on'd, and the other &s;tab'd by the Papi&s;ts. But now to the purpo&s;e. His Holine&s;s &s;urely could not but dete&s;t and abhorr &s;uch barbarous In|humanity; yet &s;ince this was done upon the account of Religion, and he is held to be the only competent Judge of it; let us give ear to his Opinion, which we find recorded in <HI>Thuanus,</HI> a Papi&s;t, and an Authentick Hi&s;toriographer, <HI>Hi&s;t.
<PB N="66" REF="38">l.</HI> 53. The Pope's Legate at <HI>Paris</HI> gave him an exact Relation of this Ma&s;&s;acre, which he received with great Joy and Satisfaction; read the Letter openly in the Con&s;i&s;tory of Cardinals, and fell to con&s;ultation about the matter; where it was concluded and decreed, <HI>nemine con|tradicente,</HI> that they &s;hould go to St. <HI>Mark</HI>'s Church, and return &s;olemn thanks to God for &s;o great a ble&s;&s;ing be&s;towed on the <HI>Roman</HI> Church, and the whole Chri&s;tian World: and this being per|formed, that a <HI>Jubilee</HI> &s;hould be forth|with publi&s;hed throughout all Chri&s;ten|dom, to give thanks to the Almighty for de&s;troying the Enemies of the Church, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> The Guns were fir'd at the Ca&s;tle of St. <HI>Angelo,</HI> Bonfires made, and all de|mon&s;trations of Joy manife&s;ted for this great Victory. Within a &s;hort time af|ter, there was a Proce&s;&s;ion to St. <HI>Lewis,</HI> made by his Holine&s;s, under a Canopy, his Train being born up by the Empe|rour's Amba&s;&s;adour, with many of the Clergy and Nobility: and an In&s;cripti|on was &s;et over the Church door; where|by
<PB N="67" REF="38">the Cardinal of <HI>Lorrain</HI> in the name of the <HI>French</HI> King congratulated his Holine&s;s and the Cardinals, <HI>&amp;c. for the plainly &s;tupendous effects, and altogether incredible events of the Coun&s;els they gave him, of the A&s;&s;i&s;tance they &s;ent him, and of their twelve years de&s;ires and Prayers.</HI> Not long after the Pope &s;ent Cardinal <HI>&V;r&s;in</HI> to Congratulate the <HI>French</HI> King in his name; who in his journey highly extoll'd the zeal of tho&s;e who had a hand in the Ma&s;&s;acre, and very prodigally di|&s;tributed the Pope's ble&s;&s;ings among them; and at <HI>Paris</HI> he u&s;ed the&s;e words; <HI>The remembrance of the late Action, to be mag|nified in all Ages, as conducing to the glo|ry of God, and the dignity of the holy Church of Rome, &amp;c.</HI> What could a <HI>Diony&s;ius,</HI> or a <HI>Phalaris</HI> have &s;aid more to purpo&s;e? 'Twas nobly &s;poken, like a Man of God in Ar|mour, one that in tended to make more u&s;e of St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Sword than St. <HI>Peter</HI>'s Keys to do the work of the Lord more effectually.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Sixtus</HI> the fifth, becau&s;e he &s;u&s;|pected <HI>Henry</HI> the fourth of <HI>France</HI> to be an Heritick,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Thu.</HI> Hi&s;t. <HI>l.</HI> 91.</NOTE> mo|ved
<PB N="68" REF="39">the <HI>Gui&s;ians</HI> (whom he &s;tiled the <HI>Mac|cabees</HI> of the Church of <HI>Rome</HI>) to enter into an holy League again&s;t their Law|ful Sovereign; calling in <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>Savoy</HI> to their A&s;&s;i&s;tance, which Succors they paid off with the Rights of the Crown: and did all that in them lay to rob him, both of his Kingdom and Life; which forced this King to treat them as they had the Hugonots; and for &s;tanding thus manfully upon his own Legs, in his own defence, he is &s;hamefully abu&s;ed by one of the <HI>Romani&s;ts,</HI> a Man of a com|mon and &s;hamele&s;s Brow, to be&s;patter a Pui&s;&s;ant Monarch with &s;uch ba&s;e and &s;currilous Language: for he doth not blu&s;h to affirm, that he was 1000 times wor&s;e than <HI>Mahomet;</HI> nay, he goes farther, &s;aying, that no Nation ever &s;uffered &s;uch a Tyrant from the Creation to his time. <HI>Ko&s;|&s;aeus p.</HI> 17. However, the Pope Excom|municates the King, grants an Indul|gence of nine Years, to any Subject that would fight again&s;t him, as the wages of his Rebellion; and did progno&s;ticate (which he might ea&s;ily doe without
<PB N="69" REF="39">Necromancy, an Art that many of them have been very expert in) that it would not be long 'ere he came to a violent Death. The Subjects take up Arms a|gain&s;t their King, and earn the Indul|gence; and a Friar with his Knife vere|fies the Prediction: and the exultation and joy that was at <HI>Rome</HI> for this A&s;&s;a&s;&s;i|nation, can hardly be believ'd, were it not warranted by the Popes Harangue to his Cardinals, printed at <HI>Paris</HI> 1589, wherein he &s;aith, this work of God (the King's murther) is to be compar'd with the Incarnation and Re&s;urrection of Chri&s;t for it's Stupendiou&s;ne&s;s; and prefers the <HI>Friar's</HI> courage and fervent zeal to God, before that of <HI>Eleazar</HI> and <HI>Judith,</HI> aver|ring, that the King died in the Sin again&s;t the Holy Gho&s;t, tho a profe&s;t Papi&s;t. Thus a Popi&s;h King is &s;tab'd, and con|demn'd to Hell for &s;paring the Blood of Hugonots.</P>
<P>I will not trouble you with the &s;tory of the Spani&s;h Inva&s;ion in eighty eight, in the Reign of Queen <HI>Elizabeth;</HI> nor the Gun-powder Plot in the time of King
<PB N="70" REF="40"><HI>James,</HI> tho the former was plotted, counte|nanced, and abetted by Pope <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> and the latter had it's ri&s;e from the Breves of Pope <HI>Clement</HI> the eighth; (for where &s;hall you hear of any mon&s;trous De&s;ign that his Holine&s;s hath not a Hand in?) The&s;e wicked Practices are &s;o modern, and well known, that, I pre&s;ume, the Reader wants not a Remembrancer to put him in mind of them, but my Pen is almo&s;t choakt up with Blood and Gore; therefore I will conclude the&s;e Tragedies with this Epilogue, made ready to my hand, on the deplored death of the La|dy <HI>Jane Gray.</HI>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Ne&s;cio tu quibus es Lector lecturus ocellis,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hoc &s;cio quod &s;iccis &s;cribere non potui.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I know not, Reader, how you can for|bear,</L>
<L>I'me &s;ure I could not write without a Tear.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>The next thing that falls under our con&s;ideration is, the Popes Heavenly-mindedne&s;s, Knowledge, Learning, So|briety, Infalibility, and &s;ome other par|ticulars.</P>
<PB N="71" REF="40">
<P> As to the fir&s;t, to &s;hew how heaven|ly they are inclin'd; <HI>Baronius and Ge|nebrard,</HI> both mortal Enemies to Pro|te&s;tants, and great Promoters of the Po|pi&s;h Intere&s;t and Religion, cannot but confe&s;s ingeniou&s;ly, without any provo|cation thereunto, that from the Year 870, to the Year 1050, none &s;ate in the Papal Chair, but &s;uch as were Necromancers, Magicians, Adulterers, Murtherers and Impious Per&s;ons.</P>
<P><HI>Hildebrand</HI> was a notorious Ne|cromancer, rai&s;ed Devils familiarly, &s;hook &s;parks of Fire out of his &s;leeve by Magick Art, being elected by Soldi|ers, contrary to the Canons of the Church, and when he obtain'd the Papacy, play'd the Devil for Gods &s;ake, expell'd Cardi|nals at his plea&s;ure, and &s;upported him|&s;elf by his Sorcery and Witchcraft.</P>
<P><HI>John</HI> thirteenth, <HI>Mon&s;trum Papae,</HI> a mon&s;ter of a Pope, he, be&s;ides other fil|thy and enormous crimes which he com|mited, call'd for the Devil to a&s;&s;i&s;t him at Dice, and after drank a Health to him, and, like a Devil incarnate, would ram|ble
<PB N="72" REF="41">about and break Windows, fire Hou|&s;es in the night, and run away by the light of them.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Sylve&s;ter</HI> the &s;econd, was a Ne|cromancer, and gave his Soul to the De|vil, by compact made with him, provi|ded he might obtain the Popedom. This is &s;trange, tho true, to part with that for mony, that cannot be purchas'd with mo|ny; &s;ure he had but a very bad Bargain on't.</P>
<P><HI>Alexander</HI> the &s;ixth, was guilty of Witchcraft as well as Ince&s;t, and a con|catenation of other Crimes.</P>
<P><HI>Paul</HI> the third was a Magician, as well as <HI>John</HI> the 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, as if the name, who&s;e Ety|mology implies Gracious, could be &s;o im|pure and &s;atanical; and you will find, if you con&s;ult their own Authors, Idola|try in a <HI>Marcelline,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Platina in vi|ta Marcelli.</NOTE> Arriani&s;me in a <HI>Liberius,</HI> Diabolical Ap|plications and Inhumations in a wicked <HI>Cele&s;tine,</HI> and &s;uch barbarous Cruelties, that Pagani&s;m it &s;elf, is com|paritively merciful, and Mahometi&s;m mo|rally vertuous.</P>
<PB N="73" REF="41">
<P> Their Learning and Knowledge in the Arts and Sciences will appear in a Pope <HI>Paul</HI> the &s;econd, who was brought up a Merchant's Factor, and was &s;o great a hater of Learning and the Learned, that he pronounced them Hereticks, who dur&s;t &s;o much as name the word Academy,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Platina in vit. Paul.</HI> 2.</NOTE> either in je&s;t or earn|e&s;t: Nay farther, my Author &s;aith, <HI>Hunc ob rem Romanos ad hortaba|tur, ne filios diutius in &s;tudiis literarum paterentur; &s;atis e&s;&s;e &s;i legere &amp; &s;cribere potui&s;&s;ent;</HI> therefore he advis'd the <HI>Ro|mans</HI> not to &s;uffer their Children to go to School any longer, than till they had learnt to write and read.</P>
<P><HI>Calixtus</HI> the third, an old decrepit foo|li&s;h <HI>Spaniard,</HI> of whom Cardinal <HI>Pontanus de magni, c.</HI> 12. of his Election, <HI>Quam fatue, fatui, fatuum creavere Calixtum.</HI> How fooli&s;hly did the fools elect thee, fool|i&s;h <HI>Calixtus,</HI> to the Papacy?</P>
<P>The poor Bi&s;hop <HI>Virgilius,</HI> a <HI>German</HI> Mathematician, was cited to <HI>Rome</HI> for an Heretick, becau&s;e he a&s;&s;erted the <HI>Anti|podes,</HI> and there (as one hath it) by
<PB N="74" REF="42">the fiery zeal of Pope <HI>Zachary,</HI> was com|mitted
<Q>to the Flames, to &s;hew how in|fallible the <HI>Roman</HI> Oracle is in con|demning that which all do maintain; and him&s;elf maintain'd the <HI>Antipodes</HI> in his life, his foot&s;teps being oppo&s;ite to tho&s;e of his meek and pious An|ce&s;tors.</Q></P>
<P>Some Popes have been mere ignorant Lay-men at their Election.</P>
<P><HI>Boniface</HI> the ninth, a <HI>Neopolitan,</HI> was &s;o illiterate, that he could neither write, &s;ing, nor &s;ay, (a fit Per&s;on to be Uni|ver&s;al Pa&s;tor, and to in&s;truct the igno|rant) nor under&s;tand matters di&s;cu&s;s'd before him; yet a notable Huck&s;ter for &s;elling Livings, who expos'd all to &s;ale; no Dolt could be long unpreferr'd if he came open-handed, and could purcha&s;e with money.</P>
<P>One of the <HI>Benedicts</HI> was a Boy of ten years of age, a Popeling, not manu|mitted from the rigour of the <HI>ferula<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; John</HI> the 13th, an aged Stripling of nine|teen: Nay, &s;ome Popes, as <HI>Alphon&s;us de Ca&s;tro</HI> intimates, were &s;uch Learned Clerks,
<PB N="75" REF="42"><HI>ut penitus Grammaticam ignorarent,</HI> that they had &s;carce read their Grammar. What? beardle&s;s Striplings a&s;cend the Chair! &s;urely 'tis not come to that yet! but it is, a&s;&s;ure your &s;elf, whatever is the matter. Hence we may rationally infer, that that Church mu&s;t needs be well ma|nag'd that hath &s;uch Reverend Guides and Learned Heads, yet if you look about you, you'l find more in't than you imagine; 'tis very probable the&s;e Suc|ce&s;&s;ors of St. <HI>Peter</HI> did it to avoid the imputation of St. <HI>Paul; Too much Learn|ing hath made thee mad.</HI></P>
<P>Take a &s;pice of their Sobriety in Pope <HI>Benedict</HI> the 12th, who was &s;o great a Drinker, would carouze &s;o briskly, and turn off his Cups &s;o merrily, that it &s;eems he de&s;erv'd this Epitaph, which &s;ome good Fellow or other be&s;tow'd on him: the <HI>Latin</HI>'s hone&s;t, but homely.</P>
<Q><L><HI>I&s;te fuit vero Laicis mors vipera Clero,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Devius &agrave; vero, Cupa repleta mero.</HI></L>
<L>He was to Lay-men death in &s;ooth,</L>
<L>To Clergy and Divines</L>
<PB N="76" REF="43">
<L>A Viper; deviating from truth;</L>
<L>A mere Hog&s;head of Wines.</L></Q>
<P>Well, I'll &s;ay this for him, and a Fig for him, he was a boon blade I'll war|rant you; this is the only &s;ociable Pope that we have met with in the whole crew hitherto.</P>
<P><HI>Innocent</HI> the eighth, a dull ignorant Sot, who would take a Cup too much in the mid&s;t of his Affairs of greate&s;t weight and importance, and like a true Philo&s;o|pher drink till his head run round with the World, in vindication of the <HI>Coper|nican</HI> Sy&s;teme.</P>
<P>Their Conver&s;ation of yea, yea, and nay, nay, they ob&s;erve very perfunctori|ly, for the Laity and inferiour Clergy out-hector the whole World in bla&s;phe|mous and cu&s;tomary Oaths; nor are the Popes them&s;elves free from this vain Vice, that is neither &s;weetned with Plea&s;ure nor &s;ea&s;on'd With Profit.</P>
<P>The Barons of <HI>England,</HI> &s;eeing that the Kingdom and Crown was become ab|&s;olutely tributary to the Pope, to their
<PB N="77" REF="43">great grief and perplexity, demanded &s;ome Priviledges of King <HI>John,</HI> which he had engaged by Oath to grant; to which he return'd no an&s;wer, but referr'd them wholly to Pope <HI>Innocent</HI> the third, as his Liege-Lord of whom he held his Crown. Amba&s;&s;adors were &s;ent to <HI>Rome,</HI> with In&s;tructions and Demands to that purpo&s;e: but his Holine&s;s re&s;ented it &s;o ill, that in the clo&s;e of his Speech, he Swore, with a furrow'd Brow, by Saint <HI>Peter</HI> I cannot &s;uffer this injury to be un|puni&s;hed. Boldly done <HI>Innocent!</HI> 'Twas more than St. <HI>Peter</HI> him&s;elf dur&s;t do, had he then &s;ate in the Chair. And ano|ther time, upon &s;ome occa&s;ion being mo|ved to Pa&s;&s;ion, he Swore by St. <HI>Peter</HI> and St. <HI>Paul</HI> both, that neither of them might take exceptions; of whom one wrote this Di&s;tich.</P>
<Q><L>Pope <HI>Innocent,</HI> the wor&s;t of all the rout,</L>
<L>If you would &s;pell his name right, put <HI>In</HI> out.</L></Q>
<P><HI>Robert Gro&s;thead,</HI> the hone&s;t Bi&s;hop of <HI>Lincoln,</HI> oppo&s;ed Pope <HI>Innocent,</HI> and laught at his thundring Excommunicati|ons;
<PB N="78" REF="44">of whom it is reported, that he came to him after his death, and put his Holi|ne&s;s in mind, by a blow with his Cro&s;ier, of this Item, <HI>Surge mi&s;er, &amp; veni in Ju|dicum Dei:</HI> and &s;oon after he died of a Pluri&s;ie.</P>
<P>Now for the Grand <HI>Palladium</HI> of <HI>Rome,</HI> their &s;o much boa&s;ted of, and highly ap|plauded infallibity, which is infeof'd up|on St. <HI>Peter</HI>'s Chair, tho the Pope be Heretick, Idolater, Ince&s;tuous, a Necro|mancer, Sodomite, nay, what not, if he once claps his Apo&s;tolik Seat there, he mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be free from error.</P>
<P>Doctor <HI>John Funecius,</HI> a Man of great Learning, in the 10th Book of his Chro|nology reports, that in the year 1332 Pope <HI>John</HI> the 22th, fell into a great He|re&s;ie, which was this; That the Souls de|parted this life, did not injoy the Bea|tifical Vi&s;ion, that is &s;ee God, till the la&s;t day; yet this Pope mu&s;t be infallible, tho guilty of &s;o gro&s;s an Error.</P>
<P>There hapned a great difference between this Pope and the <HI>Franci&s;cans;</HI> he char|ging them with Here&s;ie, and they again, to
<PB N="79" REF="44">requite his kindne&s;s, di&s;owning him, as a damnable Heretick, and no Pope; thus his Infallibility of Judgment is di&s;claim|ed by his own Crew, and he him&s;elf un-Pop'd by them.</P>
<P>There were three blazing Comets con|&s;picuous in the <HI>Roman</HI> Horizon at one and the &s;ame time, that was in the 11th Century, <HI>viz. Benedict</HI> the 9th, <HI>Sylve&s;ter</HI> the third, and <HI>Gregory</HI> the &s;ixth, and, as one &s;aith very well, It were very &s;trange if they &s;hould produce no alteration in the Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Body. Three Popes cohabiting at <HI>Rome,</HI> and as many more re&s;iding in three &s;everal Countries; a Grand Schi&s;m for the &s;pace of forty years; and Ambition and Corruption, being more prevalent to advance to the Pon|tifical Dignity, than a good Chri&s;tian Life. It mu&s;t needs be a greater Prodigy, than a Miracle-monger, by the help of his forged Legends, can pretend to, that contrariety &s;hould meet and &s;hake hands, and ab&s;olute Contradictions prove a Pope infallible. The&s;e were Anti-Popes in competition and oppo|&s;ition
<PB N="80" REF="45">to the Papal Promotion; nay, their own Authors are at difference, yet a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> daggers drawn about his infallibility. See <HI>Ger&s;on, Occham, Alimain, Ecchins, Ho|&s;ins, Pighins</HI> and <HI>Walden&s;is.</HI> Nay, the prettie&s;t humour of all is, that they &s;hould impo&s;e upon us &s;o much as to force us to believe, that when two Popes contradict each other, yet they are both infallible, or if they enjoyn the peru&s;al of different Bibles we mu&s;t u&s;e neither.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>&V;rban</HI> the 8th liv'd the longe&s;t and died the riche&s;t of all the Popes; for he &s;at in the Chair twenty years: a rare thing (for they u&s;ually kick up their heels very &s;uddenly, and the rea&s;on is this, if they &s;hould live long they would do too much mi&s;chief) tho none of them ever attain'd to the years of St. <HI>Peter,</HI> who, as they &s;ay, was Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome</HI> twenty five. This <HI>&V;rban</HI> was a very active Man, and did not only pry into the pre&s;ent Affairs of the Church, but with a retro&s;pect did rip up and dive into old matters; to which end and purpo&s;e he appointed a &s;elect Committee to examine Accounts, and
<PB N="81" REF="45">take cognizance of the Errors of his Pre|dece&s;&s;ors; upon which occa&s;ion this witty Pa&s;quin was made at <HI>Rome;</HI> where there are the Statues of St. <HI>Peter</HI> and St. <HI>Paul</HI> erected upon a Bridge there directly op|po&s;ite one to the other, a merry wag had clapt a pair of Spurs upon St. <HI>Peter</HI>'s heels, and St. <HI>Paul</HI> is &s;uppo&s;ed to &s;ay to him, Whither &s;o fa&s;t in this riding po&s;ture? who an&s;wers him; I apprehend there is great danger in my &s;tay at <HI>Rome,</HI> by rea|&s;on of this new Commi&s;&s;ion, for I fear they will que&s;tion me for denying my Ma&s;ter, therefore I'll po&s;t away to &s;ome other place of Safety; and truly Brother <HI>Peter,</HI> &s;aid <HI>Paul,</HI> I intend not to &s;tay long after you, for I have as much rea&s;on to &s;u&s;pect that they will examine me for per|&s;ecuting Chri&s;tians before my Conver&s;ion.</P>
<P>Pope <HI>Zachary,</HI> when the trade of Church-merchandizes was very dead, and he had little or nothing to do, rather than he would be idle, wrote to Bi&s;hop <HI>Boniface</HI> in <HI>Germany</HI> directions when to eat Bacon, and he did very well in't, what&s;oever the prating Hugonot &s;ays to
<PB N="82" REF="46">the contrary; tho he had done far better, in the Opinion of &s;ome of our modern Ca&s;ui&s;ts, if he had al&s;o given him &s;ome whol&s;om In&s;tructions concerning the Man|ducation of Eggs, that &s;o the Prelate might have had a complete Di&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Leo</HI> the tenth had an intention to create <HI>Raphael &V;rbin,</HI> a mere Painter, Cardinal; And why might not a good Painter make a good Cardinal? but &s;ure it was not he who drew the Pictures of St. <HI>Peter</HI> and St. <HI>Paul,</HI> and made them &s;o red-faced, that that he was reprov'd for it by &s;ome of the Conclave, becau&s;e the ignorant might be apt to judge them great Drinkers, to the &s;candal of Religion; but he &s;oon re|plied, that is your mi&s;take and not mine; for I made them &s;o ruddy, becau&s;e I knew that if they were living they would blu&s;h for &s;hame at the vicious lives of their pre|tended Succe&s;&s;ors. Now what if it were the &s;ame Man? It was great and good Policie in the Pope, beyond the reach of a Prote&s;tant Noddle; for hereby he might oblige all of that Profe&s;&s;ion, in hopes of the like Promotion, that when
<PB N="83" REF="46">ever any of them for the future &s;hould undertake to draw the Pourtraicture of any Saint what&s;oever, he &s;hould make them of a more pallid and &s;ober Comple|xion. I'll warrant you this leering Hugo|not laughs in his &s;leeve at this pretty in|trigue of Church-Policy: but no matter for that, the Papi&s;t cries out, Let him laugh that wins, and &s;o gives you one Proverb in exchange of another.</P>
<P>It is reported in our Hi&s;tory, that King <HI>James</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed Memory did once in his Progre&s;s vouch&s;afe to be&s;tow a vi&s;it upon Sir &mdash; <HI>Pope,</HI> Knight, who&s;e Lady at that time was lately deliver'd of a Daughter, and the Infant was pre&s;ented to his Maje&s;ty with a Paper of Ver&s;es in her Hand which the King was much pleas'd with, the Contents whereof were as followeth;
<Q><L>See this little Mi&s;tris here,</L>
<L>Who ne're &s;ate in <HI>Peter</HI>'s Chair,</L>
<L>Or a Triple Crown did wear,</L>
<L>And yet &s;he is a Pope;</L>
<L>She hardly is a &s;even-night old,</L>
<PB N="84" REF="47">
<L>Nor did &s;he ever hope</L>
<L>To Saint one with a Pope,</L>
<L>And yet &s;he is a Pope.</L>
<L>No Benefices &s;he e're &s;old;</L>
<L>Nor did di&s;pence with Sins for Gold;</L>
<L>No King her Feet did ever ki&s;s,</L>
<L>Or had from her wor&s;e look than this,</L>
<L>And yet &s;he is a Pope.</L>
<L>A Female Pope you'l &s;ay, a &s;econd <HI>Joan;</HI></L>
<L>Nay, &s;ure &s;he is Pope <HI>Innocent,</HI> or none.</L></Q></P>
<P>Now if any or all your Romani&s;ts can, out of your long <HI>Nomenclatura</HI> of Popes, produce one that may come near this Pro|te&s;tant Pope for Innocence, Mode&s;ty, or Humility, wee'l &s;ave you the labour of compa&s;&s;ing Sea and Land to make Pro|&s;elytes, for wee'l all unanimou&s;ly return, and without any more adoe re-unbo&s;om our &s;elves with your Holy Mother the Church of <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<P>It is thought by &s;ome, and tho&s;e Ju|dicious Per&s;ons too, that <HI>Pa&s;qin,</HI> among the many witty Je&s;ts he hath thrown up|on the Pope and Clergy, never acted any thing with better Grace, than when
<PB N="85" REF="47">he counterfeited him&s;elf &s;o affronted that he was ready to die for very Grief, be|cau&s;e he had receiv'd &s;uch an Injury as had almo&s;t broke his very Heart: and be|ing askt by one that heard him bemoan him&s;elf; what Injury, Friend, is this that is done to thee? Has any one call'd thee Thief or Buggerer? No, no, &s;aid he. What then? And &s;o went on naming mo&s;t of the gro&s;&s;e&s;t Indignities that could be put upon a Man by opprobrious Lan|guage. No, no, pi&s;h, &s;aid he, you have not hit it yet; and &s;o breaking out into grievous Sobs and Sighs, Alas! alas! &s;aid he, 'tis wor&s;e then all you can imagine, they have been &s;o abu&s;ive as to call me Pope. Nay farther, he has given you to under&s;tand what conceit he and all Men &s;hould have of the Pope, by this follow|ing Hexa&s;tick.</P>
<LG>
<L><HI>Hic Carapha jacet Superis invi&s;us &amp; Imis</HI></L>
<L><HI>Styx animam; Tellus putre cadaver habet.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Invidit pa&ccedil;em Terris, Diis Vota Prece&s;que,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Impius, &amp; Clerum perdidit, &amp; Populum.</HI></L>
<PB N="86" REF="48">
<L><HI>Ho&s;tibus infen&s;is &s;upplex, infidus amicis:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Scire cupis paucis caetera? Papa fuit.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here th' hate of Heaven and Hell, <HI>Carapha</HI> lies:</L>
<L>Ith' Grave's his Body; in <HI>Styx</HI> his Soul cries:</L>
<L>He envied Peace with Men and Prayers to God;</L>
<L>To Lay and Clergy-men a wicked Rod.</L>
<L>Suppliant to Foes; but Faithle&s;s to his Friend:</L>
<L>In &s;hort, he was a Pope, and there's an End.</L>
</LG>
<P>Pope <HI>Leo</HI> the 10th, being told by his Confe&s;&s;or, that he need fear nothing, be|cau&s;e he had the Keys of Heaven at his Girdle, and tho&s;e of the Church Trea&s;u|ry al&s;o, con&s;i&s;ting in the Merits of Chri&s;t, and the ble&s;&s;ed Saints, gave him this true an&s;wer. Thou know'&s;t that he who hath once &s;old a thing, hath no longer right to it; therefore, &s;ince I have made &s;ale of Heaven and all to others, I have nothing to do with it my &s;elf; which being the
<PB N="87" REF="48">common Traffick at <HI>Rome,</HI> was the occa&s;i|on of this &s;aying.</P>
<Q><L><HI>Roma dat omnibus omnia dantibus, om|nia Romae,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cum pretio.</HI> &mdash;</L>
<L><HI>Rome</HI> gives to all that part with all their Gold:</L>
<L>For there all things are merely bought and &s;old.</L></Q>
<P>The &s;ame Pope being reproved by &s;ome of his Cardinals, for leading &s;o leud a Life, being grown wor&s;e and wor&s;e, &s;ince his Inauguration; an&s;wer'd them, If I am wicked you are the cau&s;e of it, for you made me what I am; which &s;trange reply, put them to this que&s;tion, what he meant by &s;aying &s;o; why, quoth he, you have made me Pope, and it is impo&s;&s;ible to be a Pope and a good Man; Now this mu&s;t needs be infallibly true, becau&s;e Infallibility it &s;elf, maintains it to be &s;o.</P>
<P>Thus you &s;ee what it is to be a Pope, and may re&s;t &s;atisfied with this as a Co|rollary for all; if horrid Bla&s;phemies, Oathes, and Execrations; if filthy Whore|dom, Adultery, Ince&s;t, Sodomy and Bug|gery;
<PB N="88" REF="49">if intolerable Pride, Ambition, Ty|ranny and Oppre&s;&s;ion; if bloody Cruel|ty, Butcheries, Murthers and Ma&s;&s;acres; if &s;ordid Avarice, Simony and Sacriledge, if Helli&s;h Sorcery, Witchcraft, and Ne|cromancy; if blocki&s;h Ignorance, Stupi|dity, Gaming, and all manner of Debau|cheries; if the&s;e or any of the&s;e are com|mendable and &s;ufficient Qualifications for the Papacy, then no Per&s;ons in the World were ever more fit to govern the See of <HI>Rome,</HI> than tho&s;e Popes that we have given you an Account of; but it is now high time to take our leave, and bid them all Adieu.</P>
<P><HI>Sic explicit Actus primus. Exit</HI> Pope, Enter Cardinal.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of Cardinals, Abbots, Bi&s;hops, and Je&s;uits promi&s;cuou&s;ly.</HEAD>
<P>ANd fir&s;t of the Cardinals, being next to the Pope, and Superior to others in Dignity; let us ob&s;erve whether the Car|dinals Cap &s;hrowds as many Vices as the Triple Crown; but here I mu&s;t tell you for your Comfort before hand, that
<PB N="89" REF="49">you'l find ne're a Barrel better Herring but like Ma&s;ter like Man; like Head like Members; and tho&s;e as bad as bad can be, nay, which is wor&s;t of all, 'tis a &s;tark &s;hame, that there is no &s;hame among them.</P>
<P>The Popes have been Fathers to &s;ome, but <HI>Silve&s;ter</HI> the fir&s;t was Godfather to all of them: for by him they were cal|led Cardinals. <HI>qd. Cardines,</HI> becau&s;e they are the Per&s;ons about whom, like Hinges, the Church Militant ought to move, re|po&s;e upon, and be &s;upported; to inti|mate unto us, that tho&s;e who attain to the Dignity of the Cardinalate, ought to be &s;o Exemplary in their Lives and Con|ver&s;ations, that all Chri&s;tians may be re|gulated by their Actions, and the very Infidels per&s;waded to return into the bo|&s;om of the Roman Catholick and Apo|&s;tolick Church; Who, when he is cre|ated by the Pope's Breve, 'tis in the&s;e Words; <HI>Creamus te Socium Regibus, &s;u|periorem Ducibus &amp; Fratrem no&s;trum.</HI> We do make thee equal to Kings, Supe|rior to Dukes, and our own Brother. <HI>In|nocent</HI> the fourth gave them the red Hat,
<PB N="90" REF="50"><HI>Boniface</HI> the ninth their Ve&s;tment, and <HI>Paul</HI> the &s;econd the Scarlet Cap, to &s;ig|nifie unto us how ready they are to ven|ture their Lives and &s;hed their Blood for the Honour of God, and Service of their holy Mother the Church, or which is more probable, to &s;pill the Blood of tho&s;e good Chri&s;tians who oppo&s;e their &s;uper&s;titious and idolatrous Wor&s;hip; Now, how they de&s;erve either Name or Habit be&s;tow'd on them by his Holine&s;s, who&s;e Infallibility is as much to be que|&s;tion'd in this, as in any other Matter, the&s;e en&s;uing Relations will &s;oon convince you.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t, for their bla&s;phemous and pro|phane Expre&s;&s;ions and abu&s;es of Scripture; for we will be more plain with them than their Univer&s;al Bi&s;hop, and not cloak Vice with the name of Virtue.</P>
<P>Cardinal <HI>Bembo</HI> was &s;o much affected with, and tied up to <HI>Cicero,</HI> that he would u&s;e none but his Words: therefore the Senate of <HI>Venice</HI> mu&s;t be &s;til'd, <HI>Patres con|&s;cripti,</HI> Dukes and Dukedoms, <HI>Reges &amp; Regna,</HI> the grand <HI>Turk</HI> and the <HI>Sophi,
<PB N="91" REF="50">Reges Armeniae &amp; Thracum:</HI> Excommu|nication, <HI>Interdictio Igni &amp; Aquae;</HI> Faith, <HI>Per&s;ua&s;io;</HI> Nuns, Ve&s;tals; and the Pope <HI>Pontifex Maximus,</HI> and he was &s;o puf|fed up with this Conceit, that he altogether &s;lighted St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Epi&s;tles, abu&s;ing them with the Name of <HI>Epi&s;tolacciae,</HI> little idle Epi&s;tles, di&s;&s;wading his Friends from per|u&s;al of them, le&s;t thereby they &s;hould corrupt their Eloquence. 'Twas done like a true Chri&s;tian Cardinal, to prefer <HI>Cicero</HI> the <HI>Pagan,</HI> before St <HI>Paul</HI> the learned and great Apo&s;tle of the Gentiles.</P>
<P>And another Popi&s;h Prelate had &s;o great a &s;tock of Impudence as to &s;ay, that St. <HI>Paul</HI> penn'd many unnece&s;&s;ary things, which might have been better omitted; and farther, that if he had &s;eriou&s;ly con|&s;idered the offence that might afterwards have been given thereby, he would have been better advis'd, before he had ven|tured upon the Publication of them.</P>
<P>Cardinal <HI>Baronius,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Baron. in his ad|monition again&s;t the</HI> Venetians, <HI>p.</HI> 47.</NOTE> in his Di&s;cour&s;e again&s;t the Seignory of <HI>Venice,</HI> blames the <HI>Venetians</HI> in the&s;e proud and profane
<PB N="92" REF="51">words, <HI>The</HI> Venetians <HI>doing the contrary are as Mon&s;ters and Prodigies of the De<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vil;</HI> adding this rea&s;on to corroborat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and &s;trengthen his Argument, and &s;etting him&s;elf above the Angels, to prove hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> authority over them; <HI>Know ye not that we &s;hall judge the Angels?</HI> Abu&s;ing that Scripture, and wre&s;ting it for his own ends, whereas it &s;peaks of all the Faith|ful, (not Clergy-men &s;olely) who &s;hall &s;it as A&s;&s;i&s;tants to our Saviour at the la&s;t day, when he &s;hall pronounce, <HI>Goe ye cur|&s;ed,</HI> &amp;c. again&s;t the wicked Sinners.</P>
<P><HI>Bellarmine</HI> is &s;o bold as to affirm, that the Pope is Head of the Church,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bellar. l.</HI> 1. <HI>de Pon. c. q.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Etiam Chri&s;to &s;eclu&s;o,</HI> though contrary to the Holy Go&s;pel, <HI>I am with you alway, unto the end of the World:</HI> and in oppo&s;ition to their own Canons: which &s;ays expre&s;sly; <HI>Chri&s;t is always the Governour and Head of his Body,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gl. v. non. con|&s;onam Clem. Ne Romam l.</HI> 1. <HI>de Elect. tit.</HI> 3.</NOTE> viz; <HI>the Church, and although the Vi|car fail, yet he doth never fail it.</HI> It is reported by an <HI>Italian</HI> Writer, that a Cardinal lying upon his
<PB N="93" REF="51">death-bed, de&s;ired to be &s;hriven; and when his Confe&s;&s;or came to do that Of|fice, he told him that he mu&s;t wor&s;hip one God only; who replied &s;o I do, and that God is the Pope: for &s;ince his Holine&s;s is God on Earth, (and two Gods are not to be wor&s;hipped) I had ra|ther adore the vi&s;ible than the invi&s;ible Deity: the Confe&s;&s;or rejoyn'd, the Pope is neither God nor Chri&s;t, but the Car|dinal clos'd the di&s;cour&s;e with this Bla&s;|phemy, I would have thee to under&s;tand, that if Chri&s;t were alive again, and &s;hould take a Journey to <HI>Rome,</HI> the Pope would give him a very cold (or no) reception, unle&s;s he would humble him|&s;elf &s;o far as to ki&s;s his Pantofle.</P>
<P>It was the devout &s;aying of a profound Doctor of the <HI>Roman</HI> Church, who did declare openly, that if he were &s;atisfied no Per&s;on had St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Epi&s;tles but him&s;elf, he would commit them to the flames, and burn them, rather than they &s;hould be publikly Read.</P>
<PB N="94" REF="52">
<P> Next, of their Riches, La&s;civiou&s;ne&s;s, and Incontinency.</P>
<P><HI>Bapti&s;ta Fulgo&s;ius,</HI> though a great &s;tick|ler for Popery,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Fulgo&s;. l.</HI> 9. <HI>c.</HI> 1.</NOTE> reports of <HI>Peter Riarius,</HI> one of Pope <HI>Sixtus</HI> the fourth's Cardinals, that his Gownes, the Tieks, and Coverings of his Bed, were all of Cloth of Gold, and his other Furniture of Silk, and that he fea&s;ted <HI>Elianor</HI> of <HI>Arragon,</HI> as &s;he was on her Journey to <HI>Hercules d'E&s;te,</HI> Duke of <HI>Ferrara,</HI> with whom &s;he was to be mar|ried very &s;umptuou&s;ly, I had almo&s;t &s;aid Royally, where there was &s;uch variety, and different &s;orts of Luxurious Viands, and Delicious Quelque&s;cho&s;es, that the Banquet continued &s;even hours, and that his Gue&s;ts might not be tired with &s;o long and tedious a Treat, he diverted them with &s;everal Plays, which were acted whil&s;t they &s;ate at Table, and every Servitor that attended, to render the Entertainment more &s;plendid, had a new Sute every Cour&s;e that was brought in; this is ac|cording to the Proverb, Prelates fare
<PB N="95" REF="52"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndeed, that is delicious Food; yet all this is &s;hort of what he &s;ays afterwards, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he was &s;o &s;hamele&s;s as to keep his Whore <HI>Tire&s;ia,</HI> publickly, and &s;o &s;plen|didly rich in all her gorgeous Apparel, that her very Shooes were &s;tudded with Diamonds, Pearls, and pretious Stones.</P>
<P>The great and mode&s;t Prelate, <HI>John</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Crema,</HI> who was commi&s;&s;iona|ted to oppo&s;e the Marriage of the Engli&s;h Clergy, did perform his errand &s;o well as to confute him&s;elf gro&s;ly; for that very night he was taken in Bed with a Strum|pet. What of all this? you mu&s;t not take notice of what they do, but what they &s;ay, thus the Catholicks excu&s;e it, but I'le warrant you the Hugonot will either laugh, or &s;hake his head at &s;uch frivolous and &s;inful Eva&s;ions.</P>
<P>At the Council of <HI>Trent,</HI> (a fit place for &s;uch an Action) a Husband lent his Wife to a Cardinal (&s;ee what Fripperers and Brokers they are, that can pawn their Wives Cha&s;tity for filthy lucre) and though at fir&s;t &s;he was religiou&s;ly &s;crupu|lous, pleading Con&s;cience, yet &s;he &s;oon
<PB N="96" REF="53">alter'd her Mind, and pro&s;tituted her Bo|dy to the holy Man's Embraces. The next Morning the Cardinal's Concubine went very confidently to her Husband, and paid him the Mony promis'd for her work; telling him withall, that though you take it but for a Loan, yet a&s;&s;ure your &s;elf it is an ab&s;olute &s;ale, therefore you had be&s;t provide your &s;elf another Bed-fellow; for to tell you the Truth, I had rather be &s;old out right, then bare|ly lent, that I may not be put to the trouble of changing &s;o often.</P>
<P>There was a Bi&s;hop who &s;aid the&s;e Words in the hearing of the Writer;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stevens <HI>Apol. for</HI> Heroditus.</NOTE> In former times Clergy-Men were advanced for their Learning and Knowledge in the Tongues; but for his own particular he under&s;tood not one Syllable of Latin but his Pa&s;&s;e-Latin (that is the Office of a Pander or Bawd) by which means he was promoted to the Epi&s;copacy.</P>
<P><HI>John de la Ca&s;a,</HI> Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bene|vent,</HI> and the Pope's Legate in the whole State of <HI>Venice,</HI> was the Author of an <HI>Ita|lian</HI>
<PB N="97" REF="53">Poem, where he chanted forth 1000 <HI>Encomiums</HI> of <HI>Sodomy:</HI> among other Epi|thets which he gives it, he calls it a hea|venly Work; which Book was printed at <HI>Venice</HI> by <HI>Trojanus Nanus,</HI> as the <HI>A|manuen&s;es</HI> that copied it out, do averr, <HI>Mon&s;trum horrendum,</HI> &amp;c. A Mon&s;ter of of Men.</P>
<P>A certain Friar, &s;ummoned to appear before his Dioce&s;an, being accus'd for a <HI>Lutheran,</HI> but he not only excus'd, but accquitted him, becau&s;e he could wench, &s;wear, be drunk, and did not quote Scripture; which true Story gave birth to this facetious Epigram,
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>E&s;&s;e Lutheranum rumor te, Gaurice, clamat; Sed tuus Anti&s;tes te tamen e&s;&s;e negat;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tam Scortaris ait, quam &s;i vel Epi&s;copus e&s;&s;es,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Et potas dubiam pervigil u&s;que Diem:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nec memor es Chri&s;ti, ni&s;i cum jurare libebit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nec &s;cis Scripturas, nec breve jota &s;acrae,</HI></L>
<PB N="98" REF="54">
<L><HI>Nempe per haec &s;uevit nunqam fallentia &s;igna</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ille vigil &s;anas no&s;cere Pa&s;tor Oves.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Gauricus</HI> by report's a <HI>Lutheran,</HI></L>
<L>His gho&s;tly Father &s;ays he's no &s;uch man,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he wenches at that wanton rate,</L>
<L>As if the Miter adorn'd his bald Pate,</L>
<L>He's &s;uch a fuddle Cap too, as they &s;ay,</L>
<L>He tipples without cea&s;ing Night and Day.</L>
<L>Nor thinks on Chri&s;t, but when he's &s;wearing Oaths,</L>
<L>Nor of the Holy Writ one tittle knows.</L>
<L>Now by &s;uch never failing Marks as the&s;e,</L>
<L>Which are his good Sheep th' watchful Pa&s;tor &s;ees.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>Cardinal <HI>Granvil</HI> was a debauch't Man, one of low Birth, but high Advancement, a Smith's Son; and we may well &s;ay of him, as <HI>Juvenal</HI> did of the <HI>Greek</HI> Orator of the &s;ame extract, in his 10th Satyr, who, though an Heathen, did exceed him as much in Morality as Rhetorick; and if his Lot had fallen within the Pale of
<PB N="99" REF="54">the Church, would undoubtedly have de&s;erv'd the Cardinalate much more than he, and prov'd a better Chri&s;tian.</P>
<Q><L><HI>A carbone &amp; forcipibus, gladiosque pa|rante</HI></L>
<L><HI>Incude, &amp; luteo Vulcano ad Rhetora mi&s;&s;us.</HI></L></Q>
<P>The private part of this Cardinal's Life, his &s;ecret Retirements, and Clo&s;et Con|ver&s;ation, was di&s;&s;olute and dete&s;tably la&s;|civious, even to Romani&s;ts them&s;elves; the dimen&s;ions of his Immoralities and Im|pieties were of a va&s;t extent; his Adul|tery, Lechery, and Wantonne&s;s bani&s;ht him from <HI>Rome, Naples</HI> and <HI>Millan:</HI> He, to promote his Lu&s;t, cau&s;ed &s;everal exqui|&s;ite Pieces of ob&s;cenity to be drawn and printed, and in his private rece&s;&s;es he had the Pictures of the Greate&s;t Ladies and Beauties pourtraicted to the Life, which had been by him violated, and pro&s;tituted to his devilli&s;h Lu&s;t; in&s;omuch that there was a <HI>Pa&s;quinata</HI> that went up and down of him and &s;ome others, that <HI>Carrera</HI>'s
<PB N="100" REF="55">Cowardi&s;e, the Duke of <HI>Se&s;a</HI>'s Gout, <HI>Don John</HI>'s Cod-pi&s;s and Cardinal <HI>Granvil</HI>'s Breeches had lo&s;t the <HI>Guleta.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Heliodorus,</HI> was &s;o captivated and ta|ken with his <HI>Aethyopian,</HI> or amorous Hi&s;tory of <HI>Cariclea,</HI> which was to be called in by rea&s;on of &s;ome loo&s;e pa&s;|&s;ages therein, or he to lo&s;e his Bi&s;hop|rick; that the mitred Gentleman made choice of the latter, rather lo&s;e his pro|fit, than his plea&s;ure and wanton hu|mour.</P>
<P><HI>Octavian</HI> of St. <HI>Gelais,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Angou|li&s;me</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> (yet the worthy Tran&s;|lator of <HI>Ovid de arte amandi</HI>) was &s;o Poetically waggi&s;h, that he would lay a Wager, he could an&s;wer any one <HI>Extem|pore,</HI> &s;hould &s;peak to him in Rythme. Done and done, Cock-pit Law; the Wager is agreed upon and laid, and the&s;e three Ver&s;es were repeated to him, whil'&s;t he was dandling his breaden God.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>L'autre jour venant de l'E&s;cole,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ie trouvai la Dame Nicole,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Laquelle &eacute;toit de verd ve&s;tue.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB N="101" REF="55">
<LG>
<L>Coming from School the other Day,</L>
<L>I met with bonny Be&s;s by th' Way.</L>
<L>Cloathed all in green.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>To which he readily, replied without interruption to his devout Mi&s;&s;ification.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>O&s;tez moy du col ce&s;t 'e&s;tole,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Et &s;i bien to&s;t je ne l'accole,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I'auray la gageure perdu.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some one take off my Stole, I pray,</L>
<L>And if I ki&s;s her not &s;traightway,</L>
<L>I'll lo&s;e the Wager clean.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>A pretty amorous and ki&s;&s;ative Pre|late indeed? This can be no le&s;s than <HI>O&s;culum Charitatis,</HI> let what Female &s;o|ever receive it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of their Cruelty, Ma&s;&s;acres, Murthers, Coveteou&s;ne&s;s, Ignorance.</HEAD>
<P>NOr have we done with Cardinal <HI>Granvil;</HI> for tho we concluded the la&s;t, we mu&s;t begin this Chapter with
<PB N="102" REF="56">him. He was more than &s;u&s;pected to be an Athei&s;t, very much addicted to En|chantments, Sorcery and Poy&s;oning; and he made an E&s;&s;ay of this his black Art on the wi&s;e and virtuous <HI>Maximilian</HI> the &s;econd, King of the <HI>Romans;</HI> yet this walking Monument of Vices was lookt upon by the Pope and King of <HI>Spain</HI> to be a very fit In&s;trument in &s;etling the holy Inqui&s;ition in the <HI>Netherlands;</HI> a proper Agent, &s;ufficiently qualified with Cruelty for that bloody Employment he was to excute.</P>
<P>This bloody Inqui&s;ition had no Cloak to &s;hrowd it's Tyranny, but pious fraud covered with Robes of Sanctity, erected in &s;everal Parts of <HI>Europe</HI> (but we will only mention that of the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> wherein the Cardinal was &s;o much con|cern'd) was confirmed and ratified by Pope <HI>Sixtus</HI> the fourth. This bloody <HI>Granvil,</HI> a Sanguine Cardinal, mu&s;t be the good Man appointed to &s;ettle this horrid Inqui&s;ition, who, with the a&s;&s;i&s;t|ance of that Mon&s;ter the Duke <HI>d'Alva,</HI> puts all in a Flame and Combu&s;tion; and to
<PB N="103" REF="56">enumerate the Troubles, Mi&s;eries, Cru|elties, Ma&s;&s;acres, Murthers, Barbari&s;mes, and Deva&s;tations both of that People and Country, is a Task beyond my Weak|ne&s;s, and too &s;anguinary for a Man of my Con&s;titution: only in &s;hort, the&s;e In|qui&s;itors did impri&s;on and execute all Prote&s;tants with the mo&s;t exqui&s;ite and incredible Tortures; confi&s;cate their Goods, and the Proprietors were ruin'd, expell'd, impri&s;on'd, chain'd, fetter'd, burned, hanged, beheaded, broken on Wheeles, hanged alive by the Feet; nay, the&s;e are but Infant-Cruelties, in the very Cradle, compar'd to the Wrack, the Trough of Water, Pulley: Barba|ri&s;ms far exceeding the Bull of <HI>Phalaris, Regulus</HI> his nailed Barrel, or the Tortures of the mo&s;t bloody and arbitrary Tyrants among Infidels; Cruelties that would melt a Rock, and &s;o inhuman, that it is a Crime to think on them without the Tribute of a Tear: nothing was to be &s;een throughout this mi&s;erable Country but Wheels, Gibbets, Stakes, Wracks, and wretched Objects of Pity; nothing to
<PB N="104" REF="57">be heard but the cries of poor <HI>Orphans</HI> and Widows for their Parents and Hus|bands, the Sons living a deplorable life in Woods, the Daughters and Virgins ravi&s;hed and bruti&s;hly u&s;ed, beyond all Mode&s;ty; in&s;omuch that Cruelty in a Human &s;hape could not have been more outragious and de&s;tructive, then the&s;e modern <HI>Pharaohs.</HI> The Duke <HI>d'Alva,</HI> that Spunge of <HI>Belgian</HI> blood, boa&s;ted, that in &s;ix years he had di&s;patch't to the other World by Cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice, at lea&s;t 18000 <HI>Belgians,</HI> and yet the Pre&s;ident of his Council &s;aid, that he quite &s;poiled the <HI>Ne|therlanders</HI> with too much Clemency and Mercy; &s;o that it might very well be &s;aid of him, as it was once of the Roman Em|perour <HI>Caligula;</HI> that he never &s;pared Man in his Rage. Nobility, Honor, Merit, Cha&s;tity, nor any Virtue, could priviledge the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors from the Wrack, Pulley, Gibbet, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the u&s;ual Attendants of the&s;e di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Souls, and con&s;tantly waited on their Hear&s;es. They were &s;o rigorou&s;ly us'd by the&s;e Lords Inqui&s;itors, that their very Thoughts mu&s;t be &s;up|pre&s;t
<PB N="105" REF="57">and &s;tifled for fear of Di&s;covery; (&s;o that the Proverb fail'd here, Thoughts were not free) for fear of the &s;ame mi&s;|fortune of the Knight at <HI>Rome,</HI> who was executed for putting a Dream into Words; Nay, the Torments of &s;ome were warn|ings to all; witne&s;s the timorous temper of <HI>Sevilian,</HI> who had a fruitful Pear-tree growing in his Garden, and the Inqui&s;i|tors reque&s;ted &s;ome of that Fruit; but he for fear of di&s;plea&s;ing them, pluckt up the very Tree it &s;elf by the Roots, and freely be&s;tow'd it on them, Fruit and Tree and all. I will conclude this Pa|ragraph, with the &s;aying of an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Knight, upon another occa&s;ion; if all Cruelties were lo&s;t, they might be found in this Inqui&s;ition; and yet this was &s;et|tled, promoted, and principally managed by the Religious Clergy-man, Cardinal <HI>Granvil.</HI></P>
<P>In the Reign of <HI>Otho</HI> the Emperour, <HI>Hatto</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Mentz</HI> in <HI>Germany,</HI> was &s;o pitiful to the Poor, that in a time of great Dearth and Want, he a&s;&s;embled a great Multitude of them together, put
<PB N="106" REF="58">them in a Barn, and then &s;et it on fire and burnt them; ju&s;tifying his inhuman Action, with as inhuman and unepi&s;co|pal an Expre&s;&s;ion, That they differed no|thing at all from Rats, and Vermin that devoured the Corn, and con&s;equently were good for nothing. But, he that &s;its above all, and &s;ees all, &s;ent &s;uch Troops of Rats to execute his Vengeance, that they eat him up alive; though he thought to defend him&s;elf from their a&s;&s;aults, by climbing up his lofty Tower, but they pur&s;ued him thither, and never left hunt|ing him from Place to Place, till they had di&s;patcht and devour'd him; and this Place is called the Rats Tower to this very day.</P>
<P>And yet (&s;o obdurate are &s;ome Per|&s;ons in their Cruelty) notwith&s;tanding this &s;evere Judgment executed upon the former Miter'd Offender; <HI>Herebert,</HI> Arch|bi&s;hop of <HI>Cologne,</HI> was &s;o unhappy, as to be related to a Brother, Heir of the like Cruelty to the Poor, in the like Ex|tremity.</P>
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<P> The Cardinal of St. <HI>Eu&s;tace,</HI> poy&s;on|ed Pope <HI>Alexander</HI> the 5th, who might rather be &s;aid to u&s;urp the Papal Throne, then to be fairly made choice of, and elected to it, and adopted to him&s;elf the name of <HI>John</HI> the 23th.</P>
<P>The cruel Prelate of <HI>Verdan,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. Comines.</NOTE> was the fir&s;t that ever &s;hewed King <HI>Lewis</HI> the 11th, the Invention of Iron Cages; and for a reward of his Mitred Cruelty, was ju&s;tly mewed up in one of them, to make the fir&s;t Experi|ment of the Invention, and confin'd like a bloody Bird of prey, to that Cage for 14 years together.</P>
<P>As to their Avarice, and Covetou&s;|ne&s;s; <HI>Pontanus</HI> in his Book of Liberali|ty, tells you, that one Cardinal <HI>Angelot,</HI> was &s;uch a clo&s;e-fi&s;ted griping Mi&s;er, that he would creep privately by night into his own Stable, and &s;teal away the allowance of Hay from the poor Hor&s;es; which he &s;o con&s;tantly us'd, that his re&s;olute, and bold Hor&s;eler took heart of Grace, and bang'd him well-favourdly for his pains.</P>
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<P> It is reported, that when a covetous Prelate begg'd a fat Benefice of <HI>Lewis</HI> the 12th, King of <HI>France,</HI> (notwith|&s;tanding the Pluralities he already en|joy'd) he made him this an&s;wer, <HI>Tot da|bo tibi, quod Diabolus portabit omnia,</HI> I &s;hall give thee &s;o long, that the Devil will carry all away at la&s;t.</P>
<P>As to the leud Lives, Fraud and Co|veteou&s;ne&s;s, of the Popi&s;h Clergy; there is a &s;tanding Monument thereof in the &s;tone walls of the Library at <HI>Fulda,</HI> which remains &s;till to their Reproch, <HI>viz.</HI> the Picture of a Wolf with a &s;haven Crown, a Monk's Cowle, leaning on a Staff, and preaching to a company of Gee&s;e, and this is his Doctrin; <HI>Te&s;tis e&s;t mihi Deus quam cupiam vos omnes in vi&s;|ceribus meis;</HI> and another of a Cat, with a Miter on her Head, and a Cro&s;ier in her Paw, in&s;tructing the Mice; to whom one of the mo&s;t apprehen&s;ive of tho&s;e diminu|tive Animals, as nimble with her tongue, as her feet &s;aid; <HI>Charius e&s;t mihi ut mo|riar Paganus, quam &s;ub ve&s;tra manu fiam
<PB N="109" REF="59">Chri&s;tianus;</HI> but crafty Mrs. <HI>Evans</HI> &s;ud|denly replies,
<Q><L><HI>Quod fueram non &s;um Frater, caput a&s;pice ton&s;um.</HI></L>
<L>I am not what I was of late,</L>
<L>Brother, behold my &s;haven Pate. But &s;he rejoyns,</L>
<L><HI>Cor tibi re&s;tat idem, vix tibi prae&s;to fidem.</HI></L>
<L>Thy heart's the &s;ame as formerly;</L>
<L>Therefore I dare not credit thee.</L></Q></P>
<P>The&s;e Pictures are above 200 years old, and do notably di&s;cover the temper of the Prelacy, and are not a whit the wor&s;e, becau&s;e <HI>Wicelius</HI> calls them <HI>Lu|therani&s;&s;imas,</HI> but the better.</P>
<P>As to their Pride, Stupidity and block|i&s;h Ignorance; It is recorded in Hi&s;tory, of the Cardinal of <HI>Avignon,</HI> that when the <HI>French</HI> King &s;aw the Grandeur, State, and Pomp of the Popes Court, and the Haughtine&s;s and Pride of his Car|dinals; he ask't him whether the <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> were ever lacquey'd with &s;uch a Train at their heels, or attended by
<PB N="110" REF="60">&s;uch a numerous Retinue? To whom he an&s;wer'd, No &s;urely Sir. But you mu&s;t un|der&s;tand, that they were <HI>Apo&s;tles,</HI> when Kings were Shepheards, that's the rea&s;on.</P>
<P>Arch-bi&s;hop <HI>Parker,</HI> in his <HI>Antiq. Britan.</HI> &s;aith, that a <HI>French</HI> Bi&s;hop, be|ing to take his Oath before the Arch|bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> met with the word <HI>Metropoliticae,</HI> which he could by no means Pronounce, &s;o ignorant he was, and therefore pa&s;t it over with this bald expre&s;&s;ion in <HI>French, Soit pour dit,</HI> Let it be &s;o &s;aid or &s;poken; &s;o be it.</P>
<P>He was a wi&s;e Bi&s;hop indeed, (as wi&s;e as the Fellow that put out the Candle, that the Fleas might not &s;ee to bite and &s;ting him with their <HI>probo&s;cis,</HI>) who commenced a Suit with his Canons, which prov'd very dilatory, but he at la&s;t overthrew them, and took order in his life time, that his Tomb &s;hould not lye along in the Church as others do, but &s;tand upright, for fear that after his death they &s;hould pi&s;s upon his Body by way of revenge. A pretty Pa&s;tor, who took more care of his Body while
<PB N="111" REF="60">living, than of the &s;tate of his Soul after death.</P>
<P>Not many Years ago, a Pre&s;ident of the high Court of Parliament, was &s;o ju&s;t and mode&s;t as to beg the favour of a Night's Lodging with a Lady of Quality and Honour, upon which Terms he pro|mi&s;ed her audience, the Lady having at that time a Cau&s;e depending before him: his Name I will conceal, but withall give you this notice of him, that it was the &s;ame Per&s;on, who not not long af|ter being made an <HI>Abbot,</HI> wrote a &s;evere Book again&s;t the <HI>Lutherans</HI> (which he dedicated to the Pope) in &s;o har&s;h and uncouth a Stile, that his Holine&s;s was re&s;olv'd to make Cul-paper of it; for go|ing one day to the Clo&s;e-Stool (to &s;hew as <HI>Platina</HI> &s;ays, that he is &s;ubject to the Nece&s;&s;ities and Infirmities of Nature as well as other Per&s;ons) to ea&s;e him&s;elf, brought a Di&s;ea&s;e upon him&s;elf by ma|king cleanly u&s;e of a Leaf of it; for it did &s;o chafe and gall his Apo&s;tolick Seat, that he lo&s;t a great deal of Leather, and was as &s;ore in the Fundament as he could
<PB N="112" REF="61">have been in the Feet, had his Devotion put him upon the Trott in a Pilgrimage to <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> See the dire Effects of crabbed Latin; 'tis ten times wor&s;e than the Piles, Hemorrhoids or <HI>Fi&s;tula in ano;</HI> but I'll warrant you this was &s;uch a warning to him, that his Holine&s;s, of his own accord, and for his own good, without the Advice of a Phy&s;ician, did forbear ever after the u&s;e of &s;uch excori|ating Ab&s;ter&s;ives.</P>
<P>This Que&s;tion was once propos'd in a Councel, <HI>An &s;int Epi&s;copi immediate &agrave; Chri&s;to, an mediate &agrave; Pontifice?</HI> A Reve|rend Bi&s;hop moved with it, made this learned and <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> reply, <HI>Parcat mihi Dominus Chri&s;tus, non &s;um ab ip&s;o.</HI></P>
<P>Another of their Reverend Doctors, being quite baffled and beat off of the Stage with downright Scripture, plead|ed this as an excu&s;e, <HI>Ego non &s;um Theo|logus, Ego &s;um Canonicus.</HI></P>
<P>One of the&s;e <HI>Reverendi&s;&s;imi,</HI> was not at all a&s;ham'd to declare openly his ad|miration, that &s;uch young Fellows and Boys &s;hould now a days quote the new
<PB N="113" REF="61">Te&s;tament, <HI>per diem,</HI> whereas he did &s;olemnly and truly profe&s;s, that he was fifty years of Age and upward before he was &s;o wi&s;e as to under&s;tand what the New Te&s;tament meant.</P>
<P>But here we will bid adieu to the&s;e <HI>Illu&s;tri&s;&s;imos,</HI> and pa&s;s from the Cardinal's red-Hat, to the Je&s;uits black-Cap; which I fear will prove more mi&s;chievous.</P>
<P>Take but a view of &s;ome of their Pranks, and you'l find them as expert and knowing in the exqui&s;ite Methods of crafty and circumventing Wickedne&s;s, as any of the Popes or preceeding Car|dinals.</P>
<P>As to the name of Je&s;uit, it breaths nothing but health and pro&s;perity, be|ing deriv'd from Je&s;us; but as to the nature of the Per&s;ons, nothing but death and damnation; and for their pre&s;umpti|on in a&s;&s;uming to them&s;elves this name, they were very much maligned, and ha|ted at fir&s;t, and that was the rea&s;on they called them&s;elves afterwards <HI>Socios Je&s;u,</HI> the Companions of Je&s;us. Now in the &s;acred Writ, if you &s;trictly examine it
<PB N="114" REF="62">throughout, you will find only one, and that a goodly one, that was call'd Chri&s;t's Companion, <HI>viz. Judas:</HI> &s;o much for their name. They have al&s;o a Nick-name, which they will carry to their Graves. When they fir&s;t negotiated for footing in <HI>Paris,</HI> they demanded what they were, whether Seculars or Regulars; and they made an&s;wer, <HI>Tales Quales,</HI> Such and Such; a Nick-name, which they will ne're be able to claw off, for they are upbraid|ed with it to this very day.</P>
<P>The Glorious Patron of the&s;e Popi&s;h <HI>Janizaries,</HI> was an infirm <HI>Enthu&s;ia&s;tick Spani&s;h</HI> Souldier, and Cripple; and they, in imitation of him, their fir&s;t founder, do hault lamely ever &s;ince; his name was <HI>Ignatius Loyola,</HI> who being a Souldier in tho&s;e times when <HI>Ferdinand</HI> of <HI>Arra|gon</HI> invaded the Kingdom of <HI>Navarr,</HI> and oppo&s;ed King <HI>John de Albret,</HI> whom the Pope had excommunicated, becau&s;e he &s;upplied the King with Succours; At this very time was this <HI>Loyola</HI> a Soldier at <HI>Pampelona,</HI> where he was maimed; it being then be&s;ieg'd by the King: this
<PB N="115" REF="62">Patron of that Holy Order re&s;olv'd to erect a Society of Je&s;uits, which &s;hould be able from that time forward to main|tain and uphold the U&s;urpations of his Holy Ma&s;ter, and to promote the Power of the unerring Prelate of <HI>Rome;</HI> which they do infinitely prefer beyond the Life, Honour, and Good of Kings: to which purpo&s;e the&s;e Fauters of the Popes Power have a peculiar Vow, and take an Oath of blind Obedience a fourth Vow un|known to other Orders, whereby they move Subjects again&s;t their Sovereigns, and &s;tirr them up to Rebellion again&s;t their Lawful Princes.</P>
<P>Let us begin with their Bla&s;phemies both in Expre&s;&s;ions and Opinions; and you &s;hall find them very bold as to the&s;e Particulars.</P>
<P>The&s;e are they that infected <HI>Ravilliac,</HI> that mon&s;trous A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ine, with the&s;e and the like Bla&s;phemies, That to make War again&s;t the Pope was to make War again&s;t God; that God is the Pope and the Pope is God. O horrid! <HI>Luciani&s;me</HI> is mode&s;t
<PB N="116" REF="63">to &s;uch <HI>Chri&s;tiani&s;me</HI> comparatively. The&s;e are the Per&s;ons who bla&s;phemou&s;ly &s;ub&s;ti|tute another God on Earth be&s;ides our Ho|ly Father in Heaven, whom they &s;tile mo&s;t Holy Father, and &s;eparate Je&s;us Chri&s;t from his Body and Spou&s;e, the Holy Church, creating him a Vicar-General or Vice-gerent in all his Kingdoms: <HI>etiam Chri&s;to &s;eclu&s;o.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bel. l.</HI> 1. <HI>de Pontif c.</HI> 9.</NOTE> What &s;hall we &s;ay of &s;uch a pack of Saints as the&s;e. The <HI>Saracens</HI> had an antient Law, that who|&s;oever &s;hould bla&s;pheme the name of Chri&s;t, or the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> &s;hould be &s;tarved to death between two Boards.</P>
<P><HI>Galeacius,</HI> a Duke, hanged a Man only for murmuring agin&s;t him. And the Duke of <HI>Mantua</HI> put another to death for the like Offence; and mu&s;t Bla&s;phemy again&s;t the Almighty go unpuni&s;h'd in &s;uch pretended Sanctimonious <HI>Religio&s;i</HI> as the&s;e <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> &s;eem to be? But we'll leave the puni&s;hment of this Crime to that Lord who&s;e Morto is, <HI>Revenge is mine.</HI></P>
<P>Father <HI>Garnett</HI> the <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> one of the Gun-powder-Plot, had this Que&s;tion put to him by the Earl of <HI>Nottingham,</HI> Whether
<PB N="117" REF="63">if any one &s;hould confe&s;s to him in the Morning that he intended to murther the King next Evening, he was bound in Con&s;cience to reveal it? To whom he an&s;wered in the Negative: and <HI>Binetus,</HI> another of the Tribe, confirms this Opi|nion, in the&s;e words to <HI>Ca&s;aubon; Prae|&s;tare Reges omnes perire, quam &s;i vel &s;emel Confe&s;&s;ionis Sigillum violaretur; Regem enim ait humani, Juris Imperium e&s;&s;e, Con|fe&s;&s;ionem Juris divini.</HI> Nay farther, ano|ther <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> in <HI>France</HI> was &s;o audacious as to affirm openly; <HI>Si Dominus no&s;ter Je&s;us Chri&s;tus in Terris ver&s;aretur morti obnoxius, et aliquis &s;ibi in Confe&s;&s;ione di|xi&s;&s;e velle &s;e illum occidere, priu&s;quam Con|fe&s;&s;ionem revelaret pa&s;&s;urum &s;e, ut Chri&s;tus occidatur;</HI> that is, If our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t were upon Earth, Mortal, and a Per&s;on &s;hould Confe&s;s to him, that he would kill him; he would rather &s;uffer our Savi|our to be murthered than reveal his Confe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Nor are they le&s;s practi&s;ed in horrid Murthers than Bla&s;phemies.</P>
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<P>'Twas a young &s;tripling of this Pious Order, that &s;tabbed <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth in the Mouth with his Parricide Knife, in|tending his Murther, tho it only proved the lo&s;s of a Tooth; which moved the good King to no other return, than this plea&s;ant Repartie. <HI>Falloit il que les Je|&s;ui&s;tes fu&s;&s;ent convanicus par ma bouche.</HI> Mu&s;t the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> be confuted by my own Mouth? Hereupon they were command|ed to depart the Kingdom by a certain Day, and a new Stone-Gallows erected before the Palace Gate for the Executi|on of the Offender; (tho the Parlia|ments Decree again&s;t this wicked Act was made null at <HI>Rome,</HI>) and afterwards the <HI>Pu&s;illanimous</HI> Prince removed it out of fear; which made one de&s;cant wittily upon this timorous Action of the King's, in this <HI>French Quatrain.</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>Sire &s;i vous voulez du tout a l'advenir,</HI></L>
<L><HI>De l' A&s;&s;a&s;&s;in Cha&s;tel o&s;ter le &s;ouvenir,</HI></L>
<L><HI>O&s;tant la Pyramide &amp; l' Arre&s;t qui le tou|che;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Qu'on vous remette donc une dent dans la bouche.</HI></L>
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<L>Great Sir if you will have &s;ucceeding times,</L>
<L>Ignorant of th' A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ine <HI>Cha&s;tl</HI>'s Crimes;</L>
<L>Waving th' Arre&s;t and Gibbet, Sove|reign dread,</L>
<L>Let him another Tooth &s;et in your Head.</L></Q>
<P>But this was only a Prologue to the en&s;uing Tragedy acted by <HI>Francis Ravi|liac,</HI> born at <HI>Angoule&s;me</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> who, after he had attempted four &s;everal times to kill the King, tho &s;till happily pre|vented, began that day with Confe&s;&s;ion, and &s;eeming Devotion, whereon he per|petrated that horrid Murther, (which was on Friday the 14th of <HI>May, An.</HI> 1610.) and employed the remaining part to fol|low the Kings Coach, to find out a con|venient opportunity, which he met with at la&s;t, to the great damage and irrepa|rable lo&s;s of that Kingdom; which he accompli&s;ht at la&s;t with a Stilletto, and two Stabs in the &s;ide, near the Church of St. <HI>Innocents,</HI> at the end of the Street of <HI>Ferronnerie,</HI> the King being in his <HI>Ca|ro&s;&s;e,</HI> that was put to the &s;tand by the
<PB N="120" REF="65">&s;toppage of a Coach and Cart; which he perceiving, being then in a &s;hop hard by, waiting the good hour, as he thought, came out and killed the King, and &s;uffer|ed for it upon a Scaffold, in the u&s;ual place of Execution; where he died with mo&s;t exqui&s;ite and de&s;erved Torments. All which was done by the In&s;tigation of this wicked and cruel Society. They per&s;waded this Mon&s;ter, that the King intended to make War again&s;t the Pope, and that to make War again&s;t him, was a <HI>Theomachy,</HI> or open War with the Deity; and there was found about him a Chara|cter with a Heart of Cotton hung about his Neck, which he &s;hewed the <HI>Je&s;uit D' Aubinie,</HI> who confe&s;&s;ed him and the Knife, whereon was ingraven a Heart and a Cro&s;s; and that which was one oc|ca&s;ion of this barbarous Fact, was, That the&s;e Per&s;ons of the Popes Party had publi&s;hed throughout the whole King|dom, that who&s;oever &s;hould &s;erve <HI>Hen|ry</HI> the Fourth in the&s;e Wars, tho he was their Lawful and undoubted King, could not avoid damnation.</P>
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<P> The Gun-powder Plot was another <HI>Je&s;uitical</HI> Contrivance. The Provincial, Father <HI>Garnet,</HI> was privy to it in its ve|ry infancy, &s;o were others of that Socie|ty, as <HI>Baldwin, Hammond, Te&s;mund</HI> and <HI>Gerard,</HI> who were all particularly na|med by the Con&s;pirators in their Confe&s;&s;i|ons. A Fact of that dreadful Con&s;equence, had it taken effect, and &s;o heinous in it &s;elf, that <HI>Garnet</HI> the <HI>Je&s;uite</HI> &s;aid him&s;elf before Doctor <HI>Overal</HI> and others, <HI>That he would give all the world, were it at his di&s;po&s;al, to clear his Con&s;cience or Name from that hateful Trea&s;on.</HI> Yet when it did mi&s;carry, many of that Socie|ty had a Religious Veneration for the&s;e Ir|religious Wretches who were deeply en|gaged in it. What a Coil was there a|bout the feigned Miracle of <HI>Garnet</HI>'s Structure! and his Picture, as well as <HI>Ge|rard</HI>'s, was to be &s;een at <HI>la Fleche,</HI> and o|ther Places among the Martyrs of that Society. In the Town of <HI>Dole</HI> towards <HI>Lorrain,</HI> the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> have a great Hou&s;e given them, called <HI>L'arc,</HI> and <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth gave them <HI>la Fleche,</HI> upon the Ri|ver
<PB N="122" REF="66"><HI>Loire,</HI> two &s;tately Covents, among many other Hou&s;es for change, which they have, (&s;ee the gratitude of the&s;e Villains, to be the Death of their princely Patron) tho this latter may be called a Quiver, containing 8000 poy&s;oned Shafts of all &s;i|zes; hereupon their <HI>Ferrier</HI> played up|on them this merry Di&s;tich;
<Q><L><HI>Arcum Dola dedit, dedit his la Flecha Sa|gittam;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sed quis funem illis quem meruere dabit?</HI></L>
<L><HI>La Fleche</HI> th' Arrow, <HI>Dole</HI> gave them the Bow,</L>
<L>But who'll on them the de&s;erv'd Rope be&s;tow?</L></Q></P>
<P>Nay, his Holine&s;s him&s;elf, Pope <HI>Cle|ment</HI> the 8th, who fir&s;t promoted this Trea&s;on by his Breves, did &s;ufficiently te&s;tifie his good Will towards them, by making the <HI>Je&s;uit Te&s;mund</HI> Penetentiary at St. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> in <HI>Rome,</HI> after the di&s;cove|ry of this H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rrid Plot.</P>
<P>And th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Divinity is of as deep a Searlet Dye a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their &s;anguinary and
<PB N="123" REF="66">bloody Actions; for they give free liber|ty and permi&s;&s;on to any Per&s;on to kill another, from whom he fears any Preju|dice or Damage, either in Reputation or E&s;tate, though he is a&s;&s;ured he will be damned; this is <HI>Molina's</HI> Opi|nion, who averrs,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Molina de Ju&s;t. commutat. tr.</HI> 3. <HI>d.</HI> 13. <HI>n.</HI> 1. <HI>p.</HI> 762.</NOTE> that this Circum&s;tance ought not to be pleaded in Bar of the Action, to hinder him from the Murther; and that there is no Law of Ju&s;tice or Chari|ty it &s;elf, which obligeth us to &s;pare the eternal Life of the Soul any more than that of the Body.</P>
<P>The&s;e are Tenets fit to be drawn out in blood, wor&s;e than tho&s;e of <HI>Draco</HI> the <HI>Roman</HI> Legi&s;lator. As for their Doctrine of mental Re&s;ervation, it is very remarkable.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sanchez. Opin. Moral. Par.</HI> 2. <HI>l.</HI> 3. <HI>c.</HI> 6. <HI>n.</HI> 13.</NOTE> <HI>Sanchez</HI> maintains, that a Man may &s;wear he hath not done a thing which is really done by him, by under&s;tanding within him&s;elf, that he did it not on &s;uch or &s;uch a Day, or before he was born, or by making Re|flections on &s;ome other Circum&s;tances of
<PB N="124" REF="67">the like nature; and &s;o the words &s;poken by him &s;hall have a different meaning, and imply no&s;uch thing as is &s;aid. This is of general u&s;e, and great convenience upon many emergent Occa&s;ions; and is ever ju&s;tifiable when a Man's Health, Honour, or E&s;tate, lyes at &s;take and may be injured;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Filintius Tract.</HI> 25. <HI>c.</HI> 11. <HI>n.</HI> 331.</NOTE> Nay, <HI>Filintius,</HI> to confirm this, &s;ays the Intenti|on regulates, and &s;quares the the Action; and for Encouragement of tho&s;e who have wicked craft enough to furni&s;h them with particular Re&s;ervations, he alledgeth, That to avoid Lying no more is required, than to &s;ay &s;imply, they have not done that which in truth they have, provided they have a general In|tention to &s;tamp the &s;ence upon their Di&s;cour&s;e, which a Prudent and Di&s;creet Per&s;on would do. And indeed the&s;e their Equivocations did in&s;ert, that Clau&s;e in the Oath of Supremacy among us here in <HI>England, Without mental Re|&s;ervation.</HI></P>
<P>And this doubtle&s;s was the Rea&s;on that moved one to be&s;tow on them that
<PB N="125" REF="67">&s;o much merited Title, calling them <HI>Con|cinnatores mendaces,</HI> the Poli&s;hers of Lyes, their Tongues being whetted and &s;harp'ned to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the Croaking Frogs, the Amphibious In&s;ects that live both by Land and Water, in Church and State; not a Kings Privy Council, not a Ladies Chamber, not a Lord's Clo&s;et, not a Hou&s;e or Cottage, nay, not &s;o much as a Soul, but is daily haunted by the&s;e Spectres and evil Spirits; not a Gentle|man or Lady can cro&s;s the Seas, but his, or her name is landed before hand in the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> Regi&s;ter. It was not without cau&s;e, that their <HI>Mecaenas</HI> and Patron, <HI>Phi|lip</HI> the &s;econd, King of <HI>Spain,</HI> baptized them, <HI>Clerigos Negotiadores,</HI> Negotiating or Trafficking, Trading Clergy-Men; and that <HI>Marcus Antonius Columna,</HI> Ge|neral of the Navy belonging to <HI>Pius</HI> the fifth, in the famous Battel of <HI>Lepanto,</HI> and Viceroy of <HI>Sicily,</HI> did tell <HI>Don Alon&s;o,</HI> (a noted <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> who endeavoured to be of the Council of his Con&s;cience) very plain|ly and roundly, as well as truly, <HI>Voi altri
<PB N="126" REF="68">Padri di Gie&s;u havete la mente al Cielo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> le mani al Mondo, l'anima al Diavolo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> You <HI>Je&s;uitical</HI> Fathers have your thoughts &s;eemingly in Heaven, your hands on the Wealth and Riches of the World, and your Souls with the Devil. And this their griping for worldly gain, and pol|ling the re&s;t of the Clergy (one of the three Particulars before mentioned) was the rea&s;on that a Reverend Divine did &s;ay, tho the great <HI>Pan</HI> of <HI>Rome</HI> had committed the greate&s;t part, if not all his &s;potted-Sheep to the Pa&s;toral charge of Arch-Bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops <HI>&amp;c.&mdash;Pan curat oves ovium&abque; magi&s;tros;</HI> yet they yield them little or no profit, becau&s;e they are &s;heared to their hands, e&s;peci|ally by the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vindiciae Sacrae Satyr. M. S.</NOTE> whom <HI>Reverardentius</HI> aptly termeth in this re&s;pect, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">quites aurei Velleris,</HI> Knights of the Golden Fleece. And for this cau&s;e a Reverend Divine &s;ays, that they want no maintenance: what by traducing our Nation abroad, and feducing our People at home, their Bones are full of marrow, and their Eyes
<PB N="127" REF="68">&s;well with fatne&s;s; for a Country Par|&s;on cannot make &s;o much of a whole years Harve&s;t as one <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> can get by an hours &s;ingle Confe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>When two <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> pre&s;ented their Pe|tition to Duke <HI>Cezarini,</HI> and made a Complaint to him, that Father <HI>Oliva</HI> their General, had been wrought upon by the in&s;inuating Per&s;wa&s;ions of Pope <HI>Alexander</HI> the &s;eventh, to part with &s;ome of their Lands, for the &s;um of 100000 Crowns, (&s;o covetous they were as by their good will to part with nothing that once came into their Clutches,) he gave them this witty and undeniable an&s;wer, Tho&s;e men who believe the Popes Infallibility, as you do, mu&s;t by no means complain again&s;t him, for if he be Infallible he can do no wrong, nor be guil|ty of an irregular or injurious Action.</P>
<P><Q>A Popi&s;h Writer of our Nation, (as he him&s;elf thought) not unlearned,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> Hall <HI>in his Quo Vadis, as he hath the story out of Robert Pointz in his Preface to the Testimony of the real Pre&s;ence.</HI></NOTE> complaining of the Ab&s;tinence of us He|reticks, de&s;pairs of pre|vailing, becau&s;e he found
<PB N="128" REF="69">it to be long ago fore-prophecied of us, in the &s;econd Book of <HI>Chronicles, c.</HI> 24. <HI>At illi Prote&s;tantes audire noluerunt;</HI> it is well (&s;aith he) that the Prote|&s;tauts were yet heard of in the old Te&s;tam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t, as well as the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> who&s;e name one of their own found out by good hap,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Secar. in Jo&s;ua l.</HI> 1. <HI>c.</HI> 2. <HI>q.</HI> 19. <HI>&amp; Gre&s;&s;er contra</HI> Lernaeum <HI>c.</HI> 1.</NOTE> <HI>Numbers</HI> 26. <HI>ver.</HI> 24. like as <HI>Era&s;mus</HI> found <HI>Fryars</HI> in St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s time <HI>inter fal&s;os Fratres.</HI></Q></P>
<P>Father <HI>Hayndius,</HI> a <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> of thirty three years &s;tanding, found this not to be the lea&s;t of fifty two Complaints which he made again&s;t his own Society, to their General <HI>Aquaviva;</HI> that his Fellows did not blu&s;h to blemi&s;h their Order, and &s;tain their Honour by cog|ging of Miracles, and cheating the Igno|rant into a belief of them. What fardles of Lies do they impo&s;e upon the Vulgar, concerning their <HI>Indian</HI> Wonders? Nay, Cardinal <HI>Bellarmine</HI> is not a&s;hamed to appear as their Voucher, and dares maintain their Frauds and Cozenages, affirming, that his Brother <HI>Xavier</HI> had
<PB N="129" REF="69">not only cured the Deaf, Lame, and Blind, but al&s;o rai&s;ed the Dead, (it &s;eems he was &s;o intent upon his new Di|vinity, that he quite forgot his old Phi|lo&s;ophy, <HI>A privatione ad habitum non da|tur regre&s;&s;us</HI>) while his Fellow <HI>Aco&s;ta,</HI> who continued many years in tho&s;e Parts, pulls him by the &s;leeve, and is down-right with him, whi&s;pering &s;o loud in his Ear that all the World may hear him,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Acosta. l.</HI> 4. <HI>c.</HI> 12. <HI>de &s;alut. Indic.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Prodigia nulla produci|mus, ne&abque; vero e&s;t opus. Africk</HI> is at the be&s;t but barren of Novelties, if compared to <HI>Rome;</HI> and yet the World of Prote&s;tants mu&s;t be branded with Incre|dulity, if they will not be gull'd by their pious Frauds; but let them remember, if they are at lei&s;ure, that <HI>&s;imulata Sanctitas e&s;t duplex Iniquitas;</HI> Counterfeit Sanctity is double Iniquity, and one &s;in is made two, when once defended; Nay, it is more than feared, that they will not want Diabolical Delu&s;ions, and Helli&s;h Incan|tations, rather than lo&s;e a Pro&s;elite; which are &s;o gro&s;s, and frequently put in practice among them, that it hath puz|led
<PB N="130" REF="70">the be&s;t Ca&s;ui&s;ts to make a diffe|rence between their Magick and that which is Diabolical. Hence it is that &s;ome of our weak People have been frightned out of the World upon their Death-Beds, and &s;cared into the Religi|on of <HI>Roman</HI> Catholicks. Take this no|table in&s;tance, among many other, from a famous Divine in <HI>France,</HI> &s;econd to none for Learning and Fidelity, who re|lated it with his own mouth, and his own certain Knowledge and Experience. A Gentleman of the Religion, who&s;e Wife was one of the Popi&s;h Frie, &s;ends for his own Pa&s;tor to di&s;cour&s;e with him, being upon his la&s;t bed of Sickne&s;s, and ready to depart; &s;he likewi&s;e ap|points a <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> to be there, who appears accordingly, and both meet at the Bed's|&s;ide; both plead for their own different Religion, and per&s;wade the Man to come over to their Party, but after two hours &s;mart Di&s;putation at the Bar, before the&s;e Judges, the Gentleman was very well &s;atisfied with the Religion that he had hitherto embraced, and his Con&s;ort al&s;o,
<PB N="131" REF="70">by the prevalence of the Prote&s;tants Ar|guments, began to incline to his Judge|ment. The <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> finding him&s;elf foil'd, went away di&s;contented, but returns a few hours after, when the &s;torm was blown over, and the Coa&s;t clear, de&s;iring a private Conference with the Gentle|woman, which was granted; and her Garden was the Scene appointed for the en&s;uing Tragedy, where they took a turn or two together, and the <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> very ear|ne&s;tly expo&s;tulated with her, and u&s;ed all the per&s;wa&s;ive and inclining Arguments imaginable, to keep her from that &s;up|po&s;ed and fal&s;ely termed Defection from the Truth, <HI>viz.</HI> the change of Religion; and in the clo&s;e of all his Di&s;cour&s;e, did very much importune her to do him that &s;ignal Favour, as to accept of a little Box, (like <HI>Pandor'as,</HI> as it fell out) which he then and there pre&s;ented to her, and to wear it con&s;tantly about her for his &s;ake; which &s;he received as innocent|ly as courteou&s;ly, little dreaming of the en&s;uing mi&s;chief that after befell her; for &s;he no &s;ooner had followed his directi|on,
<PB N="132" REF="71">on, but &s;he fell into &s;o great and ab&s;o|lute a Dete&s;tation of her Hu&s;band, that &s;he could never endure the &s;ight of him afterwards; and within two days died in this mi&s;erable condition: an Act fit|ter for the &s;harp Sword of revenging Ju&s;tice, than the Pen of an Hi&s;torian.</P>
<P>They are a People di&s;e&s;teemed and ill thought of in mo&s;t Places where-ever they get footing, for their Impieties, and and wicked Practices. They have been bani&s;ht <HI>France, Hungary, Germany, Ve|nice,</HI> nay, the <HI>Grand Turk,</HI> upon the re|lation of their Vilene&s;s by Queen <HI>Eliza|beth</HI>'s Amba&s;&s;ador, exiled them out of <HI>Pera,</HI> near <HI>Con&s;tantinople.</HI> They are hated by the common People in <HI>Spain,</HI> tho the Subjects of the mo&s;t Catholick King, as appears by this Libel.
<Q><L><HI>Los mandamientes de los Teatinos,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mas humanos &s;on que Divinos.</HI></L>
<L>The Precepts of the <HI>Je&s;uits Teatine,</HI></L>
<L>Are much more Humane than Divine.</L></Q> And after the enumeration of their De|calogue or ten Commandments, as to
<PB N="133" REF="71">grow Rich, feed well, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> it concludes thus;
<Q><L><HI>E&s;tos diez mandami&egrave;ntes &s;e encierrian en das,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To do para mi, y nada para vos.</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e ten are compris'd in two,</L>
<L>All for me, and nothing for you.</L></Q></P>
<P>I did not promi&s;e you, as I remember, to give you an E&s;&s;ay of <HI>Je&s;uitical</HI> Piquan|cy, but yet if you plea&s;e, take this as an Argument of their pregnant Wit, re|lated by the decea&s;ed Author of the <HI>Ho|ly State;</HI> who &s;peaking of Queen <HI>Eliza|beth,</HI> &s;tiles her de&s;ervedly,
<Q>the Paragon of &s;potle&s;s Cha&s;tity, whatever &s;ome Po|pi&s;h Prie&s;ts (who count all Virginity hid under a <HI>Nun</HI>'s Veile,) have feigned to the contrary. He proceeds farther, and &s;ays, One <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> made this fal&s;e <HI>Anagram</HI> on her, <HI>Edmund Campian</HI> by name, <HI>Elizabeth, Jezabel,</HI> fal&s;e both in matter and manner; for allow it the a|batement of the H (as all <HI>Anagrams</HI> mu&s;t Sue in <HI>Chancery</HI> for moderate fa|vour) which proved tho no Letter,
<PB N="134" REF="72">a guttural a&s;piration to the Compo&s;er, yet was it both unequal and ominous that T, a &s;olid Letter, &s;hould be omit|ted; the Pre&s;age of the Gallows, where|on the <HI>Anagrammati&s;t</HI> was afterwards ju&s;tly executed.</Q> When Flies grow once &s;o blind as to play with the Candle, they either &s;indge their wings, or burn them&s;elves, and when ill-boading Ravens dare be &s;o haughty and proud, as to fly at the Eagle, the King of Birds, may they all have the &s;ame fate as the Brother of this <HI>Je&s;uitical</HI> breed before mentioned.</P>
<P>Now let us anatomize and di&s;&s;ect the Members of this Catholick, and Univer|&s;al Head of the Church, and &s;ee how they &s;tand affected, whether they are fit for Phy&s;ick or Amputation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of their Prie&s;ts, Friars, Nuns, and Laymen.</HEAD>
<P>WE will &s;till continue our Method, and begin with the Bla&s;phemies, Oaths, and Execrations, of the inferiour
<PB N="135" REF="72">Clergy, the Monks and Friars, tho&s;e Can|nibals of the Crucifix.</P>
<P><HI>Italy</HI> abounds in Bla&s;phemies more than any other Country, and therein the Clergy are far better Proficients than the Laity, or el&s;e, <HI>He &s;wears like an Abbot,</HI> would not be Proverbial. Nor do I think as it is, that is to be matcht that was belch'd out by a Prie&s;t at <HI>Rome, Al di&s;petto di quel Can che pendeva nella croce.</HI> I forbear the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> of it, be|cau&s;e 'tis &s;o horrid an Expre&s;&s;ion; and what &s;hould move him to this think you? Nothing, as he confe&s;s'd, but that his Strumpet had played him a &s;lippery Trick; as if there were no way to be even with his Whore, but to revile his God.</P>
<P>A gho&s;tly Father Preaching at <HI>Tours</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> &s;aid, The&s;e Hugonots are &s;o impudently wicked, as to renounce the Pope, and his Authority; but I'll be bold to tell you, that if Chri&s;t and the Pope were both here upon Earth, and the one &s;hould command me to do a
<PB N="136" REF="73">Thing, and the other forbid me, I would &s;ooner obey the Pope than Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>An <HI>Italian</HI> Preacher broacht this bla&s;|phemous Doctrine in the Pulpit before a great Auditory; that the Virgin <HI>Mary</HI> would have crucified our Saviour, ra|ther than he &s;hould go without Cruci|fixion; &s;trengthning his bla&s;phemous Di&s;cour&s;e with this &s;trange Allegation, that it did proceed from the longing de&s;ire that his ble&s;&s;ed Mother had to ha&s;ten the Salvation of Mankind.</P>
<P>There is another &s;tory related by the &s;ame Prie&s;t, much of the &s;ame nature; That the Apo&s;tles drew up Articles of Impeachment again&s;t Chri&s;t, and pre&s;ent|ed them to his Mother, complaining that he was not as good as his word in &s;end|ing the Holy Gho&s;t upon them, and that there was a Di&s;&s;ention between the Fa|ther and the Holy Gho&s;t, who feared to de&s;cend from Heaven, and come into the World, le&s;t he &s;hould have the &s;ame cour&s;e Entertainment as our Saviour had from the murthering <HI>Jews.</HI></P>
<PB N="137" REF="73">
<P> Another Prie&s;t, by relating the Agony that our Saviour endured at his painful and &s;hameful Death on the Cro&s;s, drew Rivulets of Tears from the Eyes of his compa&s;&s;ionate Auditory, but he dried up all their Sorrow with this point of Con&s;olation, Weep not my Beloved, for perhaps it is not true.</P>
<P>But the Devil him&s;elf with all his Helli&s;h A&s;&s;i&s;tance could never invent &s;uch Bla&s;|phemies as are found in the Book of Conformities, printed at <HI>Milain</HI> by <HI>Go|tard Pontice, Anno</HI> 1510. As that Chri&s;t changed Water into Wine but once, St. <HI>Francis</HI> thrice, Chri&s;t felt the Pain of his Wounds but a &s;mall time, St. <HI>Francis</HI> two whole Years compleat. As for Mi|racles, Chri&s;t did nothing comparatively to St. <HI>Francis:</HI> for he cured a 1000 Blind, and as many Lame, both Bea&s;ts and Men; ca&s;t out 1000 Daemoniacks, and rai&s;ed above 1000 from the Dead. <HI>Gen. chap.</HI> 2. <HI>Let us make Man &amp;c.</HI> That is St. <HI>Francis:</HI> &s;o that there is not &s;o much as one Text in the Holy Writ, from the fir&s;t of <HI>Gene&s;is</HI> to the la&s;t of the <HI>Revelation,</HI>
<PB N="138" REF="74">which they have not wre&s;ted to magni|fie the Order of St. <HI>Francis;</HI> but I am tired with the&s;e Bla&s;phemous <HI>Rodomonta|does,</HI> therefore I refer you to the Book it &s;elf, if you de&s;ire farther Satisfaction as to Particulars.</P>
<P><HI>Nilco Po&s;tel</HI> preaching at <HI>Paris,</HI> told them, in the very Face of the Univer&s;ity, that an old Beldame (whom he called his Mother <HI>Joan</HI>) &s;hould &s;ave all Wo|men, as Chri&s;t did all Men; and as hor|rid as the&s;e Opinions were, he found many Catholicks that embraced them, all which he publi&s;hed in Print. This &s;ame Per&s;on was heard by &s;everal at the <HI>Rial|to</HI> in <HI>Venice</HI> to affirm, that if a Man would have a perfect Religion, the&s;e three Ingredients mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily go to its Compo&s;ition, <HI>Chri&s;tiani&s;m, Judai&s;m,</HI> and <HI>Mahometi&s;m;</HI> and that upon &s;erious con|&s;ideration there would appear to be ma|ny excellent Doctrines in the <HI>Turki&s;h Alcoran.</HI> If Trea&s;on again&s;t an earthly King is Capital, then doubtle&s;s <HI>&agrave; fortiori,</HI> Bla&s;phemy again&s;t the King of Kings de|&s;erves Death much more. In mo&s;t Pla|ces
<PB N="139" REF="74">of <HI>Italy</HI> the&s;e are but incon&s;iderable and poor Imprecations: <HI>Te venga 'l Can|caro,</HI> and at <HI>Venice, Te venga la Ghiandu&s;&s;a, Te vengal mal di &s;an Lazaro.</HI> I omit <HI>Puta|na di Chri&s;to,</HI> and others of the like &s;train, as frequent as horrible; and the <HI>French</HI> have taken &s;ome of them upon tru&s;t, as <HI>Te viene le chancre,</HI> a Murrain on thee.</P>
<P>In <HI>France</HI> they have certain Cur&s;es peculiar to their Language; <HI>Ad omnes Diabolos, ad triginta Mille Diabolos,</HI> u&s;ed by Preachers in &s;uch barbarous Latin, taken from the French, who &s;ay, <HI>Je te donnea trente ou quarante mille charte&egrave;s de Diables.</HI> Thirty or forty thou&s;and Cart-loads of Devils take thee. And <HI>Menot</HI> the Preacher, <HI>fol.</HI> 129. fal&s;ly fathers this Cur&s;e on St. <HI>Paul,</HI> who hearing of one that had committed Fornication, &s;aid pre&s;ently, I give him over to the Devils in Hell. He &s;aith farther, <HI>fol.</HI> 47. of one of the two Harlots, that &s;he would &s;wear by her Faith. They have &s;everal ways of bequeathing them&s;elves to the Devil (as if one were not enuf, or indeed too much) Body, Soul, and Guts; that no part may e&s;cape his Clutches, they make &s;ure of all.</P>
<PB N="140" REF="75">
<P> Nor are the Laity &s;o far exempted from the&s;e Vices, but that they have a &s;pice of them; witne&s;s one of the Kings of <HI>Spain,</HI> who having had divers ill &s;uc|ce&s;&s;es, &s;wore he would be reveng'd on the Deity, and therefore commanded that none of his Subjects &s;hould adore God, believe in him, or mention his name for a certain time by him limited and ap|pointed, without incurring a great pe|nalty, and his high di&s;plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>A certain Game&s;ter lo&s;ing at Cards, did cur&s;e and &s;wear mo&s;t de&s;perately for his lo&s;s, and commanded his Servant to a&s;&s;i&s;t him in Cur&s;es, Oaths, and Execra|tions, till his fortune &s;hould alter and he have better luck.</P>
<P>A Secular per&s;on, as he was playing at Cards in the French Amba&s;&s;adors Hou&s;e at <HI>Venice,</HI> belcht forth this Oath; <HI>Venga'l cancaro al Lupo.</HI> Why? What hurt in all this? Aye but his Villany was mani|fe&s;ted afterwards, becau&s;e he &s;pake it by the Figure called <HI>Apo&s;cope&s;is</HI> or <HI>Reticentia;</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>Venga'l cancaro al Lupo, che non mangiava Chri&s;to quando era Agnello,</HI>
<PB N="141" REF="75">calling Chri&s;t <HI>Agnello,</HI> in allu&s;ion to that of St. <HI>John; Ecce Agnus Dei qui tollit, &amp;c.</HI> As al&s;o the Bla&s;phemy of the <HI>Italian,</HI> who frequently &s;aid, A Bots on the A&s;s that carried Chri&s;t to <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Italian</HI> Lord who had his Pa&s;s|port to the other World by a Pi&s;tol-&s;hot, being de&s;ired to commend his Soul to God, beg'd of them to recommend him to the King, and withal to acquaint him, that he had lo&s;t a very good Servant, &s;ay|ing; that he had often made it his bu&s;ine&s;s to believe in God, but could not; and withal was &s;o Bla&s;phemous as to add far|ther, that God dealt very unju&s;tly with Man in condemning him for a peice of an Apple; and that all he had learned by the New Te&s;tament was, that <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> was a very idle Fellow, for not being jealous of his Wife; he being well &s;trick|en in Years, and &s;he &s;o youthful.</P>
<P>Nor mu&s;t I omit that helli&s;h Court-Cur&s;e, which is as common as Flies in <HI>Armenia,</HI> I would I might F&mdash; with &s;uch a Lady, or Gentlewoman upon pain of Damnation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="142" REF="76">
<HEAD>Of the Lechery, Whoredom, and Sodo|my of the Clergy and Laiety.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ITaly</HI> above all places abounds in the&s;e Vices, in&s;omuch that it is a com|mon &s;aying;
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Jamais ni cheval ni homme</HI></L>
<L><HI>N'amenda, d'albera</HI> Rome.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor Hor&s;e or Man e're return'd home</L>
<L>The better by the &s;ight of <HI>Rome.</HI></L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>And Mr. <HI>A&s;cham,</HI> in his Preface to his Schoolma&s;ter, did return thanks to God that he was but nine days in <HI>Italy,</HI> du|ring which time he &s;aw in one City of <HI>Venice</HI> more liberty to &s;in, than in <HI>Lon|don</HI> he ever heard of in as many Years.</P>
<P><HI>John Haywood,</HI> our old Epigrammati&s;t, told Queen <HI>Mary</HI> very boldly, that her Clergy was very &s;awcy, and if they had not Wives, they would have their Lemans.</P>
<P><HI>Richard</HI> the Fir&s;t being rounded in the Ear that he
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Daniel<HI>'s Hist.</HI> Rich. 1. <HI>in fine.</HI></NOTE>
<PB N="143" REF="76">had three wicked Daughters, Pride, Co|vetou&s;ne&s;s and Lechery, an&s;wered ve|ry briskly, Well be it &s;o, if I have, I cannot better match them than with the Templers, Fathers and Friars. If a Prie&s;t be at any time found wantonly ki&s;&s;ing a Woman, the u&s;ual excu&s;e is, it was but to imprint a Ble&s;&s;ing upon her Lips.</P>
<P>It was once &s;eriou&s;ly debated, which was the be&s;t way to furni&s;h <HI>Henry</HI> the Second with Mony. His Je&s;ter, &s;eeing his Ma&s;ter at a great Lo&s;s, propo&s;ed this rational way, <HI>viz.</HI> that he &s;hould com|mand all the Monks Beds to be &s;old, and the Mony to be brought in to him. To which the King replied, where mu&s;t the Monks then lye? O, &s;aid the Je&s;ter, with the Nuns; Alas! &s;aid the King, thou art mi&s;taken; there are not near &s;o many Nuns as Monks. And plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty, &s;aid he, every Nun can lodge half a dozen Monks at the lea&s;t, for her own &s;hare.</P>
<P>'Tis a known Story of the two <HI>Fran|ci&s;cans</HI> who (becau&s;e they are a Crew of beggarly Fellows,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The Queen of</HI> Na|varr<HI>'s Relations.</HI></NOTE> never carry any mony about
<PB N="144" REF="77">them) pa&s;&s;ed over a Ferry, and not be|ing able to pay their Pa&s;&s;age, would have ravi&s;h'd the Ferry Woman in part of Sa|tisfaction, till they were enabled to Pay her her fare; a cunning new way to pay old Debts.</P>
<P>Old <HI>Bromiar</HI> tells you, that a Gho&s;t appeared to a Popi&s;h Prie&s;t, and &s;aid, there came daily &s;o many Prie&s;ts to Hell, as he thought verily there had been no more upon Earth.</P>
<P><HI>Poggius</HI> the <HI>Florentine</HI> reports, that <HI>Au&s;imerius,</HI> an Eremite of <HI>Padua,</HI> who lived in the reign of <HI>Francis</HI> the 7th, Duke of that City, had the reputation of a Pious and godly Man, till he was detected for corrupting and defiling many Women of Noble Extract, e&s;pecially under the &s;pe|cious and Religious colour of &s;acred Con|fe&s;&s;ion; hereupon he was brought to Tri|al before the Duke, who ordered his Se|cretary to take a Catalogue of the names of the married Women that he had gallanted; and after a tedious enumera|tion of many Per&s;ons of quality that fre|quented the Duke's Palace, the Secretary
<PB N="145" REF="77">&s;till pre&s;&s;ed him to a farther Confe&s;&s;ion, whereat the poor Soul fetching a deep, but counterfeit Sigh, &s;aid, Why then Sir, &s;ince you are &s;o urgent, pray &s;et down your own Wife in the number, which &s;udden and unexpected An&s;wer, did &s;o &s;urpri&s;e the Secretary with A&s;toni&s;hment, that the Pen fell out of his hand, and the Duke at the reher&s;al of the Story was almo&s;t re&s;olved into Laughter: The&s;e tricks are &s;o frequent among them, that 'tis commonly &s;aid as a Proverb; An <HI>Au|gu&s;tine</HI> Friar in the Stews.</P>
<P>In a Village near <HI>Coignac,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>This is in the Queen of</HI> Navarr<HI>'s Relations.</HI></NOTE> called <HI>Cherves,</HI> a reputed Maid, Si&s;ter to the Curate of the Pari&s;h, who, becau&s;e &s;he was ac|counted a holy Virgin, &s;pread a Rumour abroad among the credulous People, that &s;he was a &s;econd Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> and was impregnated by the holy Gho&s;t: (O execrable Bla&s;phemy!) But <HI>Charles</HI> Earl of <HI>Angoule&s;me,</HI> and Father to King <HI>Fran|cis</HI> the Fir&s;t, hearing of it, did imagine there was &s;ome packing and gro&s;s villany in the Bu&s;ine&s;s, and took order for a more
<PB N="146" REF="78">&s;trict examination of this Wench, who was about 13 years of Age: The Court where &s;he was &s;ummond to appear to make her defence, did adjure her, as well as her Brother, to reveal the Truth, upon her Salvation, and being &s;worn, &s;he u&s;ed this form of Affidavit; <HI>I take the Body of our Lord here pre&s;ent, upon my Salvation, before you my Ma&s;ters, and you my Bro|ther, that never Man had any Carnal know|ledge of me more than you;</HI> and &s;o recei|ved the Euchari&s;t. Having taken this Oath, as you have heard, they related the par|ticulars of her Proce&s;s to the Earl, who hearing it, thought on what they never dreamt of, that &s;he had great rea&s;on to u&s;e that form of words, That never man touched her more than her Brother, and took it for granted, that he had rai&s;ed her Belly; whereupon he commanded them to return and impri&s;on the Curate, who upon his Commitment confe&s;&s;ed the Fact; his Si&s;ter in few days lo&s;t her Tympany, and was delivered of a Child, and both of them were condemned to be Burnt, which Sentence was according|ly
<PB N="147" REF="78">executed; and 'twas favourable enough too, con&s;idering the horrid Bla&s;phemy and Perjury of the Criminals.</P>
<P>A certain Curate, not far from <HI>Vienna</HI> in <HI>Daulphine,</HI> being taken in the Act with a notorious Strumpet (who had of|ten pro&s;tituted her &s;elf to his di&s;&s;olute Embraces) behind the High Altar; and that on good <HI>Friday</HI> too, an aggravating Circum&s;tance; the worthy Bi&s;hop of that Dioce&s;s, was to inflict a Puni&s;h|ment on him for this heinous Crime, and it was a merry one indeed, <HI>viz.</HI> to &s;ing Ma&s;s for a certain time; but the com|pa&s;&s;ionate Legate of <HI>Avignon,</HI> thought the Prie&s;t was too &s;everely dealt with, and di&s;charged him from that rigid Sentence, which encouraged the holy Man to play his tricks more frequently with the &s;ame Harlot, and in the &s;ame Place, than for|merly; thus to advance their &s;en&s;ual De|light, the&s;e Clergy-men make Religion and Holine&s;s, a Bawd to their own la&s;ci|vious Wickedne&s;s. Methinks they &s;hould be more wary to ob&s;erve the old Rule; <HI>Si non ca&s;t&eacute; tamen caut&egrave;;</HI> and not affront the
<PB N="148" REF="79">Meridian Sun with their Noon days Impie|ties; and this was the cau&s;e of that &s;porting rea&s;on that one gave why gho&s;tly Fathers are called <HI>Beaux Peres,</HI> becau&s;e, &s;aid he, they get Children at the High Altar.</P>
<P><HI>Thomas</HI> of <HI>Abington,</HI> a la&s;civious Friar, could not be &s;atisfied with the U&s;e of three Concubines, but he mu&s;t be ince|&s;tuous, (as if &s;ingle Fornication were a &s;mall matter) for he had two Children by his own Si&s;ter; nay, &s;ome Friars and Monks have maintained twenty Whores at one time: a fine Crew indeed, able to fill a pretty <HI>Seraglio.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Berenger,</HI> an <HI>Italian Marque&s;s,</HI> enter|tained a Chaplain in his Hou&s;e, as Per&s;ons of his Quality u&s;ually do, to perform the Duties of the Family, as to their De|votion, for which he had a competency becoming one of his Coat, and to gratifie his Lord, lay with his Lady; and tho he was but a mere Dandiprat, as deformed in Body, as in mind, yet &s;he notwith&s;tand|ing the Nobility of her Race, run the ri&s;co of &s;o ignoble an Action; but he had his merited Compen&s;ation at la&s;t, which
<PB N="149" REF="79">&s;poil'd his &s;port for the Future, for being di&s;covered by the barking of an unlucky Hou&s;e Dog, he was taken, &s;tript &s;tark naked, and had his impetuous Nerve am|putated for the Offence. This hapned in the time of Pope <HI>Steven</HI> the Eighth, a|bout the year 941.</P>
<P>A Butcher of <HI>Strasbourg</HI> in <HI>Germany,</HI> by a &s;trange accident lo&s;t his Wife, and not hearing the lea&s;t &s;yllable of her in a long time concluded &s;he was Dead, and &s;o &s;he was to him in truth, tho not to the <HI>Franci&s;cans,</HI> who kept her at Bed and Board; an Order &s;o much extoll'd for their Sanctimony and Piety; but he found that there was a <HI>Frani&s;can</HI> Novice, who came daily to the Shambles accom|panied with a gho&s;tly Father, which the Butcher thought did &s;o re&s;emble his Wife, that he would often &s;ay, were he not per&s;waded that his Wife was dead, he &s;hould &s;wear it were &s;he. In fine, &s;he proved to be what he thought her, his Wife indeed, which being di&s;covered, and made known to the Civil Magi&s;trate, not only the <HI>Franci&s;cans,</HI> but the other
<PB N="150" REF="80">Monks and all the wicked rabble of la&s;ci|vious Prie&s;ts were de&s;ervedly expell'd the City.</P>
<P>A <HI>Franci&s;can</HI> lodging in a Gentleman's Hou&s;e of <HI>Pe|rigort,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The Queen of</HI> Na|varr<HI>'s Relation</HI></NOTE> who was his Confe&s;&s;or, and very intimate with him, being privy to all his Secrets, by that Religious Cheat of auricular Confe&s;&s;ion, whereby he came to under&s;tand the Gentleman had a de&s;ign to bed his Wife that Night, who had layn in but three weeks before; which the Confe&s;&s;or per&s;waded him to, only for his own wanton ends: for when Night approach'd, the Friar anticipated him, went to Bed to his Wife, and en|joyed her, who departed immediately after he had &s;atisfied his Lu&s;t, as mute as a Fi&s;h, not &s;o much as opening his lips, and went out of the Door, which the Porter took notice of; Pre&s;ently after in comes her Hu&s;band at the time appoint|ed, who thinking it was he that accom|panied her before, could not forbear di&s;covering it; whereupon he &s;u&s;pected the Friar had play'd him that &s;lippery
<PB N="151" REF="80">trick, and finding him out of his Cham|ber, and the Porter confirming his de|parture, he was &s;atsfied 'twas he, went back to his Wife and acquainted her with the circum&s;tances of the Story: and &s;o left her, to pur&s;ue the <HI>Franci&s;can;</HI> but his Wife being alone, and extreamly per|plex'd, to rid her &s;elf of that trouble that was upon Spirit, hanged her &s;elf; but whil&s;t &s;he was &s;trugling with the pangs of Death, killed a little Infant that was by her with a Blow of her Foot, which cried out &s;o vehemently before Death, that a Woman who lay in the Chamber was awakened with the noi&s;e: and &s;eeing the&s;e mi&s;erable Spectacles, went and ac|quainted her Mi&s;tri&s;&s;e's Brother therewith, who asked her what Villain committed that butcherly Fact? &s;he not being able to &s;atisfie him with the Author of it, only &s;aid, &s;he knew of no body that was there but her Ma&s;ter. He &s;eeks for him, but finds him not, which did very much confirm him in the opinion, that he was guilty of the Murther. He follows him, over takes him, a&s;&s;aults him with a whole
<PB N="152" REF="81">Volley of villanous Names, draws upon him &s;o &s;uddenly, that his Brother in Law had no time to ask him his Rea&s;on; &s;o they fought de&s;perately, and &s;o long, that at la&s;t being tir'd out, they de&s;i&s;ted by con|&s;ent, and then making inquiry into the cau&s;e of this furious and unexpected Ren|contre, he under&s;tood the <HI>Franci&s;can</HI> occa&s;ioned all this Mi&s;chief; his Brother that pur&s;ued him, crav'd his Pardon for fighting and wounding him, and mount|ing him on his Hor&s;e, conducted him to his own Apartment, where he died the next Morning, freely forgiving his Bro|ther in Law, and acknowledging to his Relations, that he was the &s;ole cau&s;e of his own Death; but his Brother, to &s;ati&s;|fie the Law, &s;ued out his Pardon, which was granted him by King <HI>Francis</HI> the Fir&s;t. See the pregnant mi&s;chiefs, and complicated Crimes that did accompany the <HI>Furtiva Gaudia,</HI> the &s;tollen &s;weets, or adulterous action of a Religious <HI>Fran|ci&s;can.</HI> If this be their Religion and Pi|ety, what mu&s;t their Irreligion and Impie|ty be, and what dangerous effects mu&s;t attend it?</P>
<PB N="153" REF="81">
<P> It is &s;toried of a Prie&s;t, that a Catho|lick coming to holy <HI>Shrift,</HI> &s;hook his head at the thought of his Crimes which he was to Confe&s;s, but the Prie&s;t find|ing him &s;omewhat di&s;turbed, per&s;waded him to a free Declaration of his Sins in order to his Ab&s;olution; at la&s;t he told him, with much adoe, that he had deflowr'd a Virgin. Pi&s;h, &s;aid the Prie&s;t, If that be all; <HI>Innocentum docui&s;ti,</HI> Thou ha&s;t in|&s;tructed an innocent Per&s;on. Oh! but Sir, &s;aid he, I have committed a greater Crime. What's that? Why, I have bedded my Neighbour's Wife. Well then, &s;aid the Prie&s;t, <HI>Proximam adjuva&s;ti;</HI> Thou ha&s;t helped thy Neighbour. Alas, Sir, &s;aid he, I have done wor&s;e than all this; I have had carnal knowledge of a Nun. At which the Confe&s;&s;or's zeal was &s;o great, that he could not forbear cur&s;ing in&s;tead of ab&s;olving him, <HI>Abi apud inferos furci|fer, hoc e&s;t pro nobis.</HI> Go and be dam|ned, you Hang-dog, how dur&s;t you take the Trade out of our hands, that's our proper work, and no Lay-man's bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<PB N="154" REF="82">
<P> That unnatural &s;in, which was burnt by fire and brim&s;tone from Heaven, the a&s;hes whereof were drowned in the dead Sea: hath made a &s;hift to revive among <HI>Romani&s;ts,</HI> and cries as loud for Venge|ance as ever; and of all Places <HI>Italy</HI> a|bounds mo&s;t with frequent Examples of Ince&s;t and Sodomy. It is a common Proverb there among them;
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Siena di quatro co&s;e &s;e vanta,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Di Torre &amp; di Campane,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Di Barda&s;&s;e &amp; di Putane.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For the&s;e four things <HI>Siena</HI> far excells</L>
<L>All Places; Towers, Whores, Sodomy and Bells.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>In <HI>Venice,</HI> &s;aith Mr <HI>Howel,</HI> all Amo|rous things are done by Proxy; while the Hu&s;band is abroad in the Gallies, there be others that &s;hoot the Gulph at home.</P>
<P>At <HI>Rome,</HI> that Holy City, Pictures are Printed to provoke Lu&s;t, and to teach men ob&s;cenity by ocular demon&s;tration;
<PB N="155" REF="82">a thing which the very Heathens dete&s;t|ed in <HI>Philaenis</HI> and <HI>Elephantis;</HI> and <HI>Pro|pertius</HI> the elegiack Poet inveighs again&s;t &s;uch filthy Draughts.
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Non i&s;tis olim variabant Tecta figuris,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cum paries nullo crimine pictus erat.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such Pictures n'ere adorn'd in former times</L>
<L>Hou&s;es, when Walls were painted with no crimes.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P><HI>Pietro Aloi&s;io,</HI> Son to Pope <HI>Paul</HI> the third, was a Prince of Sodomy, he dealt with a great number of all Per&s;ons, of what Sex or degree &s;oever, and at la&s;t courted a young man, <HI>Ca&s;mus Cherius,</HI> then Bi&s;hop of <HI>Fano;</HI> and becau&s;e he found he was not to be brought to his ends, but by violence, he cau&s;ed his Servant to hold him, whil&s;t he u&s;ed him as his Ingle.</P>
<P>This &s;ort of be&s;tiality, Sodomy and Buggery, is frequent among the <HI>Italians,</HI> both Clergy and Laiety; for 'tis well known to any &s;mattering Scioli&s;t in Hi|&s;tory,
<PB N="156" REF="83">what bea&s;tly work the <HI>Italian</HI> Soul|diers made with the Goats, when they beleaguer'd <HI>Lions,</HI> during the Civil Wars; now which were the greate&s;t Brutes of the two, I leave it to all &s;ober Men to judge. And this puts me in mind of a facetious, but filthy &s;tory, of a hot <HI>Neopolitan,</HI> in who&s;e Country Ab&s;olutions are as cheap as Whores. There was a <HI>Calabrian</HI> who had buggered a Goat, he confe&s;t the fact to his gho&s;tly Father, and bought an Ab|&s;olution for it: a Friend of his hearing of it, &s;aid to him, Prethee what might it co&s;t thee, for it was a heinous Crime? he an&s;wered, but four Pi&s;tolets, upon my word: and added, that for the other odd one I think verily I might have had a Di&s;pen&s;ation to marry the Brute. This verifies the old &s;aying;
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Dulcis odor lucri ex re qualebet</HI>&mdash;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;cent of Gain is &s;weet</L>
<L>From Sins tho ne'er &s;o great.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<P>It is recorded in <HI>Pontanus,</HI> that <HI>Sigi&s;|mund Malate&s;ta,</HI> Lord of <HI>Romagniola,</HI> got a Child by his own Daughter, nay,
<PB N="157" REF="83">that he de&s;igned to make a Pathick of his own Son <HI>Robert;</HI> but that he, in dete&s;ta|tion of his Fathers wickedne&s;s, drew his Sword in his own defence, and &s;o e&s;caped the fury of his unnatural Lu&s;t: But this is barbarous, and beyond a Parallel, which he acted on a virtuous <HI>German</HI> Lady, tra|velling to <HI>Rome</HI> through his Territories who &s;eeing that his Court&s;hip and Ca|re&s;&s;es could no ways move her to conde|&s;cend to his lu&s;tful de&s;ires, he fir&s;t cut her throat, and then like a barbarous Lecher, made u&s;e of her dead body. The &s;ame <HI>Pon|tanus</HI> alledgeth, That there is to be found among Bea&s;ts them&s;elves a certain natural hone&s;ty, to reprove and convince men of &s;uch gro&s;s crimes: &s;peaking of a Bitch that would not &s;uffer her own Whelp to lime her, but would fly at tho&s;e that endea|vour'd to procure it; and of a Mare that would not let her own Colt cover her; but having at la&s;t leapt her, di&s;gui&s;ed in another colour'd Skin, and other tricks and devices u&s;ed to that purpo&s;e; when &s;he perceiv'd the Cheat, for&s;ook her Mate, and died for grief &s;oon after. The
<PB N="158" REF="84">very Brutes may inform men of their Be|&s;tiality, and &s;hame them out of &s;uch im|moral and criminal Principles and Pra|cti&s;es.</P>
<P>As for the Gluttony and Drunkenne&s;s of the Clergy, among many In&s;tances take the&s;e few; It is grown Proverbial, Bi&s;hops fare, Prelates fare, Theological Wine, for the be&s;t, and Chapter bread for the fine&s;t. He fares like a Church|man, he &s;wears like an Abbot, as fat as a Friar, as frolick as a Friar, and the like; and the true&s;t of all, as fat as a Hog; For as one &s;ays wittily, Friars in <HI>puris na|turalibus</HI> differ very little from Swine. nay, their good St. <HI>Anthony</HI> was but a Swine-heard <HI>ab initio,</HI> and their reverend Patron. And they are known to be &s;uch belly Gods, that 'tis a Proverbial &s;aying, A Carmelite in the Kitchen.</P>
<P>The boon Companions among the Clergy are &s;o prodigiou&s;ly prophane, that they mu&s;t wre&s;t the Scripture for Expre&s;&s;ions to countenance their Intem|perance. They will je&s;t with the two edged &s;word of God's Word. Nothing
<PB N="159" REF="84">will plea&s;e them but to wa&s;h their hands in the Font,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fuller<HI>'s Ho|ly State.</HI></NOTE> and &s;o drink healths in the Church Chalice, eve|ry Gla&s;s that they take off mu&s;t be hal|low'd by this Prayer, <HI>Cor mundum crea in me Deus, &amp; Spiritum rectum innova in vi&s;ceribus meis;</HI> and when they would &s;ignifie that the Wine is generous and good, <HI>Hic e&s;t tenete eum;</HI> and when 'tis all out, the Monks expre&s;s them&s;elves in this Allegory, <HI>Data nobis de oleo ve&s;tro, quia Lampades no&s;trae extinguuntur.</HI> The Abbot of <HI>Chartees</HI> being asked how he came to bear drink &s;o well, and quaff &s;o deeply? an&s;wered out of the P&s;almi&s;t, <HI>Patris no|&s;tri annunciaverunt nobis;</HI> And good Fel|lows u&s;e to Droll with the&s;e words, <HI>Si quis Epi&s;copatum de&s;iderat bonum, opus de|&s;iderat.</HI> Nay, they &s;pare not their own Ma&s;s, for when a Malefactor is executed, they &s;ay, <HI>&s;ur&s;um corda;</HI> when a Man takes the Cup to drink, <HI>quia pius e&s;t.</HI> And &s;ome proceed farther, who are &s;o bold as to belch forth the&s;e or the like &s;ayings, Let God keep Heaven to him&s;elf, and let us alone to injoy our &s;en&s;ual plea&s;ures
<PB N="160" REF="85">upon Earth, like the <HI>French</HI> Clergy-man that would not part with his Benefice in <HI>Paris</HI> for his &s;hare in <HI>Paradice.</HI></P>
<P>In the Civil Wars of <HI>France,</HI> the <HI>Ro|mani&s;ts,</HI> to vex and di&s;turb the poor Prote&s;tants, who began their Prayers with <HI>No&s;tre aide &s;oit au nom de Dieu.</HI> Our help &s;tandeth in the name of the Lord, who made Heaven and Earth; being an Expre&s;&s;ion out of the P&s;almi&s;t; they, I &s;ay, would begin their Game at Dice with the &s;ame Invocation, as if a Je&s;t were not worth a Pin, if not &s;ea&s;oned with the Salt of the Sanctuary. Nay, there is not a Prie&s;t among them, but can give you three pregnat Arguments for their drinking the be&s;t un&s;ophi&s;tica|ted Wine.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, becau&s;e it prevents and di&s;per&s;eth tho&s;e Crudities of the Stomach, which might otherwi&s;e by a Rebellious In&s;ur|rection fly up into the head, and &s;o make them &s;nivel and drivel when they areat their &s;olemn and Religious Services.</P>
<P>Secondly, Becau&s;e Devotion in the opinion of the&s;e Religious Galeni&s;ts, is
<PB N="161" REF="85">more operative and fervent in a hot, then a cold Stomach.</P>
<P>Thirdly, becau&s;e they are to chant and &s;ing Ma&s;s: Now 'tis the opinion of all Mu&s;icians, that a Man cannot &s;ing worth a Button, till he has cleared his throat with a plentiful do&s;e of good Liquor. But it may be the Bigot-Prote&s;tant will throw this rub in their way, that they are in danger of being Drunk; why, alas poor <HI>Ignaro!</HI> what if they be intoxicated, that &s;ignifies nothing, becau&s;e they do it with a good Intention, for if it be allowable, and no ways hurtful to &s;ay, <HI>Hoc e&s;t Na|&s;um meum</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>Corpus meum,</HI> &s;o it be done <HI>cum intentione con&s;ecrandi,</HI> or to ca&s;t a Child into a Well, though it be drowned, <HI>cum intentione Baptizandi,</HI> as &s;ome Glo&s;&s;es maintain; what then if a Prie&s;t take off his cups &s;o freely, as to be fuddled, 'tis not ami&s;s, &s;o long as it is done <HI>cum intentione mi&s;&s;ificandi;</HI> and he is not obliged, maugre all the Laws of good-Fellow&s;hip, to Pay his Groat the next Morning, or to confe&s;s and Pay but his
<PB N="162" REF="86">two-Pence: for the Prie&s;ts are exempted from &s;uch pitiful Lay-penalties.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of the Cruelties, Murthers and Ma&s;&s;acres committed by the Prie&s;ts, Friars, and Laity of the Catholick Religion.</HEAD>
<P>THere was a <HI>French</HI> Prie&s;t at <HI>Orle|ans,</HI> who maintained a Whore, but grew jealous of her for fal&s;e play with others, which the Religious man look'd upon as &s;o heinous an affront to a per&s;on of his Coat and Order, that nothing could &s;ufficiently expiate the Offence but death. The Prie&s;t invites her to the Tavern with accu&s;tomed kindne&s;s and familiari|ty, where being entred, he takes her a&s;ide, as if he intended to play the wanton with her, throws her upon a Bed, and cuts her throat with a Razor, which he carri|ed in his &s;leeve to that purpo&s;e, for which double crime he was only condemn|ed to Impri&s;onment during life; a rigo|rous Puni&s;hment for tho&s;e two prie&s;tly Vertues of Whoredom and Murder.</P>
<PB N="163" REF="86">
<P> A <HI>Jacobine</HI> Friar of the holy Hou&s;e of <HI>Spain, John de Roan</HI> by name, was a cruel Per&s;ecutor of the poor unarm'd and unre&s;i&s;ting Chri&s;tians in <HI>Merindol</HI> and <HI>Cabriere;</HI> nay, his cruelty extended &s;o far, that he put his wicked phancy upon the rack for new torments to torture the&s;e poor Prote&s;tants, and among the re&s;t, this was none of the lea&s;t; he u&s;ed to fill Boots with boyling Oyle or Greace, and to force them on the legs of tho&s;e that were to undergoe his Examination, to the end, that the violence and in&s;uffe|rable extremity of the pain might &s;o di|&s;tract them, that they &s;hould not be able to give any other than disjoynted and impertinent an&s;wers to all Que&s;tions pro|po&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>Bernard, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Jacobine</HI> Friar, being one of the Faction of the <HI>Guelphs,</HI> poy&s;on|ed <HI>Henry</HI> the 7th, with the fle&s;h of our Saviour in the holy Euchari&s;t, of which we have given you a hint in another place before.</P>
<P>Nor are the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Laity altogether guiltle&s;s of the&s;e kind of Cruelties, tho
<PB N="164" REF="87">the two neat Examples, reli&s;h more of witty &s;everity than of palpable Cruelty.</P>
<P>The Curate of <HI>Onzain,</HI> near <HI>Amboi&s;e</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> he had an extraordinary kind|ne&s;s for his much beloved Ho&s;te&s;s; but &s;he, like a crafty Quean, to prevent the jealou&s;ie of her Hu&s;band, &s;et him upon an Impo&s;ture which put a Period to his Ve|nerial &s;port for ever, namely, to pretend that he had a real de&s;ign to be gelded, and that &s;he would provide an able Ar|ti&s;t, and very expert at the Trade of Ca|&s;tration to do it, <HI>Mon&s;ieur Pierre des Serpens.</HI> The Prie&s;t, who thought no pretence grievous, that might conduce to his la&s;civious ends; de&s;ires to &s;peak with his kindred, who accordingly came to know his Plea&s;ure; they no &s;ooner appeared, but he acquainted them with his firm and &s;ettled re&s;olution of making him&s;elf an Eunuch, in order to the happy State of a future Being, and to prevent all illicite In&s;urrections hereafter; and thereupon in the pre&s;ence of them all, made and publi&s;hed his &s;olemn la&s;t Will and Te&s;tament; and withal, the better to confirm the matter, did freely for|give
<PB N="165" REF="87">Mr. <HI>Peter,</HI> if he &s;hould dye un|der his hands, tho he had privately con|tracted with him before to give him five <HI>French</HI> Crowns as a Reward, that he &s;hould only make a &s;hew of doing that which was thought he really intended; &s;o the Patient was fa&s;t bound, and handled as one that was to be cut indeed. But the Ho&s;t receiving Intelligence of the &s;lippery Trick, he de&s;ign'd to Put upon him, paid him in his own Coin, and gave him as good as he brought, for he covenanted with him for twice as much, to do the bu&s;ine&s;s ef|fectually, and he would bear him harm|le&s;s; &s;o my nimble Shaver, for lucre of the Reward went dextrou&s;ly to work and ea&s;trated him indeed, telling him withal, when he had effected it to purpo&s;e, that he did not u&s;e to make a Fool of him&s;elf, nor a mock of his Occupation. Thus the poor Prie&s;t, contrary to his expectation, was di&s;membred by this unlucky Fellow, and I think it was a &s;ufficient Caution to avoid je&s;ting with edged Tools for the future.</P>
<P>A <HI>Savoyard, Mon&s;ieur d' Avanchi,</HI> one that had no great kindne&s;s for Prie&s;ts and Nuns, and therefore took great delight
<PB N="166" REF="88">in di&s;obliging of them, knowing the Wickedne&s;s of their Inclinations, and the Vitiou&s;ne&s;s of their Actions, made two <HI>Franci&s;cans</HI> fir&s;t very merry, and at la&s;t very mad; for having invited them to his Ca&s;tle and treated them very nobly, to complete their good Entertainment, profer'd them the u&s;e of his Mi&s;s, which, like a couple of di&s;&s;embling Varlets, they at fir&s;t refus'd very nicely; but he de&s;ir'd them to embrace his kind proffer, and a&s;&s;ur'd them of their Welcome, and told them, that this was but a mode&s;t Re|pul&s;e, for he knew they were Fle&s;h and Blood as well as other men, and &s;tood in need of &s;uch Refrigerations. In con|clu&s;ion, he lock'd them up in a Chamber together; and they were not &s;uch Fools as to lo&s;e &s;o fair an Opportunity, but to work they went; and when he upon his Return found they had not been idle, O wicked Hypocrites, &s;aid he, Is this the way to overcome Temptations? I'll teach you better things. Immediately he cau|&s;ed them to be &s;trip'd &s;tark naked, and there he and his Man belabour'd them as
<PB N="167" REF="88">long as they could &s;tand over them; and after they were &s;everely la&s;h'd, &s;ent them away with never a Rag to cover their &s;hame, to teach them never to encounter Temptations at all, or to fight more cou|ragiou&s;ly again&s;t them. Thus did this <HI>Ajax Flagellifer</HI> la&s;h them &s;everely, to pre|vent the whipping of them&s;elves, which they &s;ometimes do, but I believe more favourably.</P>
<P><HI>Pontanus. Nicholas Fortibrachius,</HI> an <HI>Ita|lian</HI> Captain, went always attended with a Mute laden with Halters; and when the Fit came on him, he would make a Sign to the dumb Man, who upon this Signal &s;oon di&s;patched the next Per&s;on that came in his way upon the next Tree that was at hand.</P>
<P>A Virtuous Lady, who&s;e Husband was impri&s;oned by the <HI>Provo&s;t la Vou&s;te,</HI> made her Addre&s;&s;es to him on behalf of her Husband, the Criminal: and after &s;he had earne&s;tly &s;upplicated him, he told her in plain terms, there could be no|thing done under the rate of a Nights Lodging with her, and then he would
<PB N="168" REF="89">grant her Reque&s;t. The di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Lady being in this great Strait and anxious Condition, was at a very &s;trange lo&s;s: but after a &s;erious Debate with her &s;elf, re&s;olved to purcha&s;e her Husbands Life with the lo&s;s of her Honour; but with|all, fir&s;t acquainted him with her Inten|tion, to which he &s;oon conde&s;cended; and &s;o his Lord&s;hip had his De&s;ire: but like a &s;ordid Wretch, after he had defi|led the Gentlewoman, the very next Morning hanged up her Husband, and then &s;aid, I promi&s;ed you you &s;hould have your Husband, and I &s;corn to be wor&s;e than my Word; here take him dead.</P>
<P>In the Reign of <HI>Maximilian</HI> the Em|perour, there was a famous Covent of <HI>Franci&s;cans</HI> in <HI>Flanders,</HI> within his Do|minions, near which there dwelt a Gen|tleman, who was a great Favourer of that Order, among whom there was a lu&s;ty proper Brother of the Society, who was the Gentleman's Confe&s;&s;or, and gave him full Power over his whole Family; Now having this Liberty, he came in and out when he pleas'd, in&s;omuch that at
<PB N="169" REF="89">la&s;t he was inflam'd with his Wife's Beau|ty; and one day above all the re&s;t, he vi&s;ited her, and inquir'd where her Hu&s;|band was: &s;he told him he was gone abroad to &s;urvey &s;ome Lands that be|long'd to him, and would be ab&s;ent two or three days. The <HI>Franci&s;can</HI> walks a|bout very di&s;con&s;olately; which the Gen|tlewoman perceiving, &s;ent her Maid to him to know if he wanted any thing; &s;he came to him in the Court and asked him if he had occa&s;ion for any thing that the Hou&s;e could afford? and he &s;aid, yes: and leading her into a bye Corner, took a Dagger out of his Sleeve and thru&s;t it into her Throat. In the <HI>interim,</HI> one of the Gentleman's Tenants came into the Court to bring his Landlord's Rent; who &s;pying the <HI>Franci&s;can,</HI> he embraced him very courteou&s;ly: but the wicked Fryar, to requite his Kindne&s;s, &s;tab'd him, and then lock'd up the Ca&s;tle Gate. The Gentlewoman wondring that her Maid &s;tay'd &s;o long, &s;ent another to know the rea&s;on of it, and he &s;erv'd her as he did the former. Then he went to
<PB N="170" REF="90">the Gentlewoman, there being none but they two in the Hou&s;e, and told her plainly, he had been in love with her a long time, and was re&s;olved now to fulfill his de&s;ire, intreating her to come down, which &s;he did, and there &s;aw her Maids and Tenant dead; telling her that he in|tended to have his plea&s;ure on her, more than once, and therefore would not ra|vi&s;h her; but pulled off his Habit, un|der which he had a &s;horter, which he profered her, and &s;aid, if &s;he would not accept of it, he would deal by her as he had done by the re&s;t: She protracted the time as long as &s;he could, in hopes of &s;ome a&s;&s;i&s;tance; and when &s;he had un|dre&s;s'd her head, her hair being loo&s;e a|bout her Ears, he cut it off, and made her &s;trip to her Smock, and &s;o cloathed her with his &s;hort Habit, and put on his long Robe again, &s;o they both departed; but it fortuned, that her Hus|band had di&s;patch'd his bu&s;ine&s;s, and was upon his return the &s;ame way that they went: The Friar &s;pying him, &s;aid to her, look yonder is your Hu&s;band, go before,
<PB N="171" REF="90">and if you give him the lea&s;t &s;ign I will cut your throat; the Gentleman ap|proaching, asked the Friar whence he came, he &s;aid from his own Hou&s;e, where I left my Mi&s;tri&s;s your Wife in health, ex|pecting you, and &s;o he pa&s;t on, but his Man called to her, thinking it had been Friar <HI>John,</HI> the <HI>Franci&s;can</HI>'s old Com|panion; But &s;he dur&s;t not give him a word, only a wink with a weeping Eye; the Fellow rides after his Ma&s;ter, and told him that Novice did re&s;emble his Mi&s;tri&s;s: Go, &s;aid he, thou talke&s;t like a Fool; but the Servant was &s;o di&s;&s;atisfied, that he went back, his Ma&s;ter &s;taying to know the i&s;&s;ue; he calls out aloud, Fri|ar <HI>John;</HI> whereat the <HI>Franci&s;can</HI> fearing a Di&s;covery, turned back upon him, and with a long quarter-&s;taff knock'd him off his Hor&s;e, and when he was down, fell upon him and cut his throat, the Ma&s;ter &s;eeing his Man fall, made up to them, which the Friar perceiving, beat him down, and fell upon him, but the Gen|tleman being very &s;trong, gra&s;ped him in his Armes that he could do him no
<PB N="172" REF="91">hurt, and the Dagger in the Scuffle fell out of his hand, which his Wife took up, and gave her Hu&s;band, &s;he holding him down by the Cowle, whil&s;t her Hu&s;band &s;tabbed him in &s;everal places, in&s;omuch that he confe&s;&s;ed the Villany, and begg'd his Pardon; The Gentleman being un|willing to kill him, &s;ent his Wife home for &s;ome of his Servants, who came thither immediately, &s;o they took up the <HI>Fran|ci&s;can,</HI> carried him to the Gentleman's, and from thence to the Emperours Depu|ty in <HI>Flanders,</HI> to whom he confe&s;&s;ed the whole matter, and upon his Examinati|on it was found, that abundance of beau|tiful Gentlewomen had been &s;o &s;erved. In &s;hort, the Women &s;o detained were all fetch'd out of the Mona&s;tery, and the Friars and their Covent were burned to|gether.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="173" REF="91">
<HEAD>Of the Necromancy, Sorcery, and Con|jurations of Prie&s;ts and Friars.</HEAD>
<P>FRiar <HI>Lewis,</HI> about 100 years ago, made an ab&s;olute Paction with the Devil, who appeared to him at <HI>Mar&s;eilles</HI> in the &s;hape of a Goat, and promi&s;ed him (I wonder the Friar had no more Wit than to believe him, &s;ince he was a Lyar from the beginning) the uninter|rupted enjoyment of any Woman what|&s;oever, tho never &s;o great a Beauty; or of any other Plea&s;ures for the term of 41 years complete, but the Devil was too cunning an Arithmetician for him, pla|cing the unite before the tens, which amounted but to 14 years, (and this ve|ry Contract is to be &s;een to this day, with the Devil's Claw to it,) when the time was expir'd, the Friar was detected of Witchcraft and burnt; all the Chil|dren he had chri&s;tned during that dou|ble Apprenti&s;hip of twice &s;even years, being rebaptized; and the Women he had abu&s;ed were confined to a Nunnery by them&s;elves.</P>
<PB N="174" REF="92">
<P> There was a cetain Prie&s;t of <HI>Savoy,</HI> who was Curate of the Village <HI>Feling,</HI> near <HI>Bonne,</HI> to whom his Pari&s;hioners re&s;orted in great flocks, to beg of him that he would allay a violent Tempe&s;t that then raged among them; for he had often made his brags he could do it, and that they need not fear either Thunder, Lightning, or any Tempe&s;t, &s;o long as he continued among them. Well, to work my Conjurer goes, and mumbles over a great many Conjurations, which he had by roat, being only a Medley of horrible, terrible, hard words, as dread|ful to the People as the Tempe&s;t it &s;elf, (he being &s;heltered all this while under a thick well-&s;pread Tree, and held by four or five for fear of being blown away) but finding him&s;elf at a lo&s;s in his Art, to mend the matter, pulled out his bread|en God, and &s;aluted it in this irreverend manner, according to the har&s;h Dialect of his Country; <HI>Cour di, &s;e te ne ple for que le Diablou, &amp;c.</HI> By God's heart, if thou be not &s;tronger than the Devil, I'll throw thee into the dirt. And this
<PB N="175" REF="92">did the bu&s;ine&s;s effectually. Avant there|fore all <HI>Agrippa's,</HI> and <HI>Merlins;</HI> let not <HI>Spanheim</HI> boa&s;t any more of her grand Wizard-Abbot, &s;ince <HI>Savoy</HI> hath clearly out-done her with a little Conjuring Curate.</P>
<P>In <HI>Savoy Anno</HI> 1358, &s;everal Prie&s;ts were burnt for Incantations, and Sor|cery, and one of them a notorious Gen|tleman in the Black-Art, was executed at <HI>Rolle,</HI> a Town four miles di&s;tant from <HI>Lau&s;ana,</HI> who had been a Wizard or Sorcerer, as appeared by his own Con|fe&s;&s;ion, for four and twenty Years, and yet all this time &s;ung Ma&s;s, and perform|ed the office of a Prie&s;t, as religiou&s;ly as the be&s;t Ma&s;s-monger of them all; and that he might not &s;uffer uncomfortably, and dye alone, his Whore was burnt with him for company; and 'twas but ju&s;t, that &s;he who had been a long time Co|partner with him in Plea&s;ure, &s;hould at la&s;t be partaker with him in Pain; and it &s;eems &s;he imployed her Talent &s;o well, that &s;he grew Mi&s;tri&s;s of the Trade too, and was &s;o expert in it, that &s;he was
<PB N="176" REF="93">found Guilty, and condemned as a Sor|cere&s;s. Thus the&s;e two Helli&s;h, but lo|ving Mates to the very la&s;t embraced one another in the hot Flames, a ju&s;t reward or guerdon of their fiery Lu&s;t, and Helli&s;h practices of this nature for many years to|gether, formerly by them put in Execu|tion, for which they were both in the end (as you have heard) executed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Of the gro&s;s Ignorance of the Priests and Friars, their falve Impo&s;itions upon the Laity.</HEAD>
<P>THere is a known &s;tory of <HI>Mon&s;ieur Prat,</HI> the Chancellor of <HI>Paris,</HI> a <HI>Reverendi&s;&s;imo,</HI> and grave Clergy-man in the time of <HI>Francis</HI> the Fir&s;t, who had a Pre&s;ent &s;ent him by <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth, King of <HI>England,</HI> with a Letter wherein there was this Expre&s;&s;ion, <HI>Mitto tibi</HI> 12 <HI>Molo&s;&s;os,</HI> I &s;end you twelve Ma&s;tives; but the profoundly learned Chancellor, mi&s;took the meaning for a dozen of Mules, and being over confident of this Expo&s;i|tion, he went to the King, accompanied
<PB N="177" REF="93">with an eminent Noble-man at Court, to intreat his Ma&s;ter to be&s;tow on him that Pre&s;ent, which the King of <HI>England</HI> had &s;ent him; but King <HI>Francis</HI> having heard nothing of it, commanded them to produce the Letter, that he might per|u&s;e it; and the rather, becau&s;e that Mules in <HI>England</HI> are as rarely &s;een as Coaches in <HI>Venice:</HI> But when his Ma|je&s;ty found out the gro&s;s mi&s;take, the Chancellor was the &s;ole object of their ex|ce&s;&s;ive Laughter; who, like a State-Tink|er, to mend the matter, did excu&s;e him|&s;elf with this kind of eva&s;ion, That he mi&s;under&s;tood <HI>Molo&s;&s;os</HI> for <HI>Muletos,</HI> like an A&s;s as he was, which latter mi&s;|interpretation rendred his Lord&s;hip far more Ridiculous than the former.</P>
<P>We read of an aged Prie&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">R. Pacaeus de fructu Doctrinae.</NOTE> who lived in the Reign of our <HI>Henry</HI> the 8th, who was &s;o &s;ordidly ig|norant and &s;tupid, that he always read in his <HI>Porte&s;&s;e Mump&s;imus Domine,</HI> for <HI>Sump&s;imus Domine,</HI> and being told of his error by a Friend that heard it, who was a Wel-wi&s;her of him, and would needs
<PB N="178" REF="94">have made him change his note, yet the Cuckow would not, for this very rea&s;on, becau&s;e he had u&s;ed <HI>Mump&s;imus</HI> the&s;e 30 Years, (the more Block-head He) and therefore he would not leave his old <HI>Mump&s;imus,</HI> for their new fangled <HI>Sump&s;i|mus;</HI> No not he, it was fitter for a young Novice of his Order, to follow the new Modes of refined modern Speech, and not for a Man of his Years and Gravity. Nay, the Prie&s;ts in general, when they had very &s;hrewdly crack'd <HI>Pri&s;cian</HI>'s Crown, and were taken in the fact, would only u&s;e that common Defence out of St. <HI>Gre|gory,</HI> tho never intended for their pur|po&s;e, <HI>Non debent verba coele&s;tis Oraculi &s;ub|e&s;&s;e verbis Donati;</HI> The words of the Sa|cred Writ, ought not to be &s;ubject to the Rules of the <HI>Grammarian Donatus.</HI> But this was very hard u&s;age from them to break the poor old-Man's head, and nei|ther beg his Pardon, nor give him a Plai|&s;ter.</P>
<P>Nay farther, the&s;e learned Men, who&s;e Duty it is to in&s;truct the Ignorant, and undeceive the &s;educed, are &s;o far from
<PB N="179" REF="94">informing their Sheep, that they, the very Pa&s;tors, want In&s;truction them&s;elves, for if in their Lectures, which are but few, and &s;eldom performed, they chance un|happily to &s;tumble at a <HI>Greek</HI> Phra&s;e, they tumble over it with a <HI>non legitur, Graecum e&s;t;</HI> or el&s;e pa&s;s it over with a <HI>Tran&s;eat, Graecum e&s;t.</HI> Away with it, 'tis <HI>Greek.</HI> We have nothing to do with it, it does not at all belong to us. And to &s;hew the acutene&s;s of their Wit in their Derivations, and Skill in the <HI>Etimologi|cal</HI> Art, they derive <HI>Presbyter,</HI> from <HI>Prae|bens iter,</HI> as the Conductor or Pilot of Souls; but their Allu&s;ion is far more true, when they &s;ay,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>This</HI> Etimologi|cal <HI>Art is pra|cti&s;ed by</HI> Hugo Carren&s;is, <HI>and &s;everal of their Praedicants.</HI></NOTE> <HI>qua&s;i prae aliis bibens ter,</HI> and 'tis very favourable too, for they ge|nerally are &s;o rude as to drink all, and leave none for the Company; Nay, the Devil him&s;elf cannot e&s;cape their biting Wit, for they derive <HI>Diabolus</HI> from <HI>dia, duo, &amp; bolus, morcellus, qua&s;t faciens duo bolos de corpore et anima,</HI> as making two morcels or choice bits of a Man, one of his Soul, and ano|ther
<PB N="180" REF="95">of his Body; and herein they give the Devil his due, and make him a de|vouring Abaddon or Apollion.</P>
<P>A certain Sir <HI>John,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stevens A|pology.</NOTE> who de&s;er|ved to be recorded as much as canonized for his Sanctity, when he came to the &s;tory of the Woman in the Go&s;pel who lo&s;t a Groat, and &s;wept her Hou&s;e in hopes to find it; He him&s;elf &s;oon lo&s;t it in the rubbi&s;h; for he read, <HI>Evertit do|mum,</HI> in&s;tead of, <HI>everrit domum;</HI> and whereas in the <HI>Acts</HI> it is &s;aid, <HI>demi&s;imus per &s;portam,</HI> they write it, <HI>per portam;</HI> and in honour of this Tran&s;lation, this <HI>Quatrain</HI> was made by a <HI>French</HI> Poet;
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Par ici pa&s;&s;a devant hier</HI></L>
<L><HI>&V;n tre&s;notable Charpentier,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Qui be&s;ogna de telle &s;orte,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Que d'un Panier fit une porte.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Here pa&s;&s;ed by the other day</L>
<L>A notable Carpenter this way,</L>
<L>He was no bungler at his Trade,</L>
<L>Who of a Basket a Door made.</L>
</LG></Q></P>
<PB N="181" REF="95">
<P> A <HI>French</HI> Curate, being angry with his Pari&s;hioners, becau&s;e the Pavement of the Church was &s;o much out of Repair, to prove it a Duty incumbent upon them to &s;ee that rectified, pleaded the 17th of <HI>Jerem.</HI> in his own Ju&s;tification, and for their Confutation; out of the&s;e words, <HI>Paveant illi &amp; non paveam ego;</HI> let them pave the Church if they will, I have no|thing to do with it, 'tis their bu&s;ine&s;s and not mine, &s;o let them look after it, for my part I'll be no ways concerned, even as they Brew, &s;o let them Bake, and there's an end of the Story.</P>
<P>An ignorant Prie&s;t in <HI>Paris,</HI> finding in his <HI>Almanack, Sol</HI> in <HI>Cancer,</HI> in red Letters, mi&s;took it for &s;ome Saint, and took a great deal of pains to find out a Ma&s;s &s;uitable to that Holy day; turning his Ma&s;s book over and over, and find|ing it to no purpo&s;e, was in &s;o mad a Mood, that he clo&s;ed his <HI>Mattins</HI> with this &s;trange and barbarous Conclu&s;ion, <HI>Sol</HI> in <HI>Cancro, Sol</HI> in <HI>Cancrus, nec e&s;t Virgo, nec martyrus, venite adoremus.</HI> Now I'll be bold to &s;ay, there's never a
<PB N="182" REF="96">Satchel-boy that has had Prote&s;tant E|ducation, but would &s;corn to throw out &s;uch fal&s;e and incongruous Latin.</P>
<P>We will conclude this witty di&s;cour&s;e with a facetious, though old rhythming Epitaph, made upon a Father in times of Yore;
<Q><L><HI>Et mourut quatre cents &amp; neuf,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tout plein de vertu comme un oeuf.</HI></L>
<L>He died ith' year four hund'red and nine complete,</L>
<L>As full of Grace as an Egg's full of Meat.</L></Q></P>
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<HEAD>Of the Abbe&s;s, Nuns, and Religious Women.</HEAD>
<P>NUN is a word derived from the <HI>Egyptian Nonna,</HI> of the &s;ame &s;igni|fication, and truly their Confinement would be no le&s;s than an <HI>Egyptian</HI> Bon|dage, but that their <HI>Pharaoh</HI> is &s;omewhat indulgent to that Sex, and both their Task|ma&s;ters and Task very ea&s;ie and delightful. They have &s;everal other denominations, as
<PB N="183" REF="96">Religio&s;as, Devota's, Votre&s;&s;es, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and all originally derived from fine words, Religi|on, Devotion, Vows of Virginity, and Cha|&s;tity, and the like; but whether the&s;e are broken or kept, judge you by the &s;equel.</P>
<P>They have adopted one name to them|&s;elves, that di&s;covers their Life and Con|ver&s;ation again&s;t their wills, and that is, <HI>Reclu&s;es,</HI> which in its native and genu|ine Signification, &s;peaks no more than to be &s;et open, or left at their own liberty and di&s;po&s;al; tho the Learned Patrons of that barbarous Age, wherein it was fir&s;t &s;tarted, mi&s;took the meaning for tho&s;e that are clo&s;ely &s;hut up, and inclo&s;ed within the round of a Religious Cloi|&s;ter.</P>
<P><HI>Joan</HI> Queen of <HI>Sweden,</HI> was the fir&s;t Authre&s;s of tho&s;e Epicoene Mona&s;teries, as one fitly call's them, wherein Men and Women did cohabit and live together (very religiou&s;ly and cha&s;tly no doubt of it) under one Roof; And here, forty to one el&s;e, the dull Hugonot will ask, why Nuns &s;hould be lodged near the Friars? Sil|ly &s;oul, God-wot, there's a que&s;tion with
<PB N="184" REF="97">all my heart; when every ingenious <HI>Ro|mani&s;t</HI> will &s;oon choak him with this an|&s;wer, The rea&s;on is this, becau&s;e the Barn ought to be near the Thre&s;hers.</P>
<P>Now if you &s;cruple the truth of this Saying; <HI>Boccace</HI> will furni&s;h you with a Precedent to confirm it, and one that is very pertinent, and to the purpo&s;e. For he tells you of an Abbe&s;s in <HI>Lombardie,</HI> that ro&s;e in great ha&s;te from a jolly Mi|norite, who upon pretence of &s;hriving her, took an occa&s;ion to lye with her, and bedded her all that night, &s;aw one of her Nuns at the &s;ame &s;port with her Pa|ramour; but the Reverend Governe&s;s ma|king more ha&s;te then good &s;peed, in&s;tead of her Veil clapt on the Friars Breeches, the points of them hanging down on each &s;ide, as ill luck would have it, and came to her chamber big with reproof, re&s;ol|ving to nettle her for her La&s;civiou&s;ne&s;s, (&s;ee how old Vice corrects youthful Sin) when &s;he her &s;elf was piping hot with the &s;ame wanton Conflict; but the poor Nun, being about to receive her <HI>Benedi|cite,</HI> by chance &s;pied her Head geer, that
<PB N="185" REF="97">prie&s;tly ornament, and &s;aid, Madam, I be&s;eech you fir&s;t tye your Coife, before you proceed any farther, and then I am content to receive patiently your &s;harpe&s;t Reprehen&s;ion; but the Abbe&s;&s;e finding her gro&s;s mi&s;take, &s;oon chang'd her mind, and went &s;neaking away, without bidding her farewell, which &s;hew'd very little breeding; but had her education been never &s;o good, this unlucky Accident was enough to &s;poil it, that's the very truth of it. Surely my Paper would be of a more ruddy complexion than natu|rally it is, for bearing the Contents of this Story, but that I find the <HI>Italian</HI> Pro|verb is like the Pope, infallible; which &s;ays, that Paper cannot blu&s;h. This Sto|ry puts me in mind of <HI>Scoggin's</HI> wonder, who taking a Friar in bed with a Whore, cried out, a Miracle! a Miracle! Here is to be &s;een A Friar with four Legs.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Anatomy of the Engli&s;h Nunnery at <HI>Lisbon,</HI> writ by a young Bro|ther of that Covent.</NOTE></P>
<P>The Author of the Anato|mie of the Engli&s;h Nunnery at <HI>Lisbon</HI> who was once a Brother of that Society, tells us, as a Witne&s;s of their Cha|&s;tity,
<PB N="186" REF="98">that he could go directly to a Place in the Wall of their Covent, where he might pull out the bones of Legs and Arms of the poor innocent Ba&s;tards, that have been both got and murther'd by that Common Society.</P>
<Q>&mdash; <HI>Saxa ip&s;a trabe&s;que Loquntur.</HI></Q>
<P>This verifies the old Proverb; There's cunning in dawbing. Nay, 'tis certain, that the&s;e Tricks have been us'd &s;ome Centuries of Years, or el&s;e Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> could never have found &s;o many Bones of drowned Infants as he did: and that they were very numerous is no wonder, being found in &s;o &s;patious a Place; for his Pond mu&s;t needs be very large indeed, who&s;e See is univer&s;al. <HI>Inter Coenandum hilares,</HI> was the old rule; and you'l find it ob&s;erv'd among the Nuns of <HI>Lisbon,</HI> where this Story was related in their Covent, by one of that Society, to fo&s;ter her gho&s;ty Father, as plea&s;ant Table-talk, by one that had been formerly a Cham|ber-maid
<PB N="187" REF="98">for&s;ooth, in the very hou&s;e where the Comedy was really acted.</P>
<P>Father <HI>Strange,</HI> a young Je&s;uit, who had been brought up in <HI>England,</HI> fell very &s;ick, the Air it &s;eems of <HI>Rome</HI> and <HI>Valedolid</HI> in <HI>Spain</HI> being unhealthful, and di&s;agreeing with his Con&s;titution; which made him beg leave of the Rector to re|turn into <HI>England,</HI> and 'twas obtain'd, in Order to the recovery of his health, and partly al&s;o for the converting, or rather perverting of Hereticks: where he no &s;ooner arriv'd, but he took up this Nun's Ladies Chamber for his Quarters, and in a &s;mall time threw off his Di&s;tem|per and grew very lu&s;ty; in&s;omuch that he had a great mind to be dabbling with that young Gentlewoman, his Si&s;ter <HI>Anne's</HI> Mi&s;tris; for that was her name, that made this relation. Mrs. <HI>Anne</HI> it &s;eems was then &s;itting at her Needle-Work, with her back to her Lady, and the brisk recover'd Je&s;uit, who were by the fire &s;ide; and &s;he looking by chance in a great looking Gla&s;s that hung before her, &s;pied the late &s;ick Je&s;uit at work, and
<PB N="188" REF="99">withall &s;aw what pains he took to &s;hrieve her Mi&s;tri&s;s; but he found before he had ended his &s;hrift, he was di&s;cover'd, and &s;u&s;pecting the truth, that &s;he had &s;een all, he took her a&s;ide, and told her, that he was a man, and Fle&s;h and Blood as well as others, was &s;ubject to &s;uch failings, tho he had vowed Cha&s;tity; u&s;ing all the Per&s;wa&s;ions imaginable to win her to Secre&s;y; and the better to effect it, pro|mi&s;ed her, that if &s;he at any time &s;tood in need of a Confe&s;&s;or to ab&s;olve her for any of her &s;weet Sins (as he call'd them) he would perform that Office, and her Penance &s;hould not be grievous or burthen&s;ome. This was undoubtedly enough to keep a &s;he Saint from tatling. Do but ghe&s;s by this at the &s;ober Con|ver&s;ation of a profe&s;s'd Nun; of the Je&s;u|it's Cha&s;tity in the Action, her mode&s;ty in the Relation, who did not blu&s;h to tell this tale for her own and her Gho&s;tly Fathers Recreation; who, like an old Fornicator, would report it with delight in his jovial humour, as he did to me (&s;aid
<PB N="189" REF="99">the Author) and one Father <HI>Vivian,</HI> a Friar of the &s;ame Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>Nay, 'tis very frequent among them, for the Father Confe&s;&s;or to go alone into the Nuns Cloi&s;ter, or Side, and continue there a whole day together, and Dine at their Table with them, and be every o|ther day in their &s;ight, tho it be expre&s;s|ly again&s;t their Rules; and in the Cell, which is only for them at Confe&s;&s;ion, they have a Grate, which is u&s;ually taken down with a &s;light, through which the Holy Nuns pa&s;s to his Bed by night; a cleanly conveyance for &s;uch lu&s;tful Per|&s;ons: nor indeed can it well be expected to be otherwi&s;e, &s;ince they have &s;uch Provocations to this Sin, as Pride, Ea&s;e, fulne&s;s of Bread, and abundance of all Things, and tho&s;e the be&s;t that can be had for Mony; for many times tho&s;e co&s;tly Viands which the Viceroy's Pur|veyor will not meddle with, becau&s;e they they are &s;o dear, the Caterer of &s;uch Hou&s;es will buy, tho never &s;o unrea&s;ona|ble, which Provi&s;ions are made for the gho&s;tly Father's Table; and when they &s;it at
<PB N="190" REF="100">their Meals, &s;ing bawdy Songs, and ob|&s;cene Catches to plea&s;e their Confe&s;&s;or, playing the mo&s;t loo&s;e and wanton Tunes upon In&s;truments, &s;uch as would make a cha&s;te ear glow, and a mode&s;t Per&s;on colour at the hearing. And this is the con&s;tant practi&s;e of the&s;e Religious Per|&s;ons, who&s;e Covent is made a meer Bro|thel-Hou&s;e, daily practi&s;ing &s;uch la&s;civi|ous Actions as are &s;carce known or heard of in &s;ome common Stews.</P>
<P>But my Pen being tired with writing &s;uch unheard of Villanies; take this for a Corollary to all the precedent Matter. If Bla&s;phemy, Trea&s;on, and Simony, not on|ly countenanced, but daily practi&s;ed and applauded as works mertorious, by a per|&s;ua&s;ion call'd Religion be the way to Hea|ven; if Ma&s;&s;acres, Murders, and A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ina|tions be pious and good Acts, and can help the Soul to everla&s;ting Felicity; If King-killing, depo&s;ing of Emperours and Princes, be not only commendable, but works of Supererogation, and con&s;equent|ly the means to obtain Salvation; If Sodo|my, Buggery, Ince&s;t, and all &s;orts of Un|cleanne&s;s,
<PB N="191" REF="100">are not only allowable, but pre|ferable in &s;ome Ca&s;es to Cha&s;tity, and Matrimony; if the&s;e, or any of the&s;e Qualifications can bring us into the Re|gions of immortal Bli&s;s and Happine&s;s; Then he is to blame that will live an Au&s;tere, Sober, Religious, and Godly Life, and much to blame if he turns not a Pro&s;elyte, and imbrace the <HI>Roman</HI> Re|ligion, which is of &s;o great a Latitude, as to allow what Morality, nay, Pagani&s;m it &s;elf, abhors as Unnatural and Be&s;tial; therefore much more &s;hould every Per|&s;on, who pretends to Chri&s;tianity, de|te&s;t and abominate &s;uch a Religion, who&s;e Tenets and Practi&s;es are &s;o Helli&s;h and Damnable.</P>
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