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

and neare to this vp-start Lady and the Bathes Besides all the Copper that is brought from the vpper parts of Germany to Netherland or these parts is first brought thither to be refined In fine when the mistie fogges of superstition began to disperse and the glorious sun-shine of the Gospell to appeare it pleased God in this Citie among others the neighbouring Townes and Prouinces to call some to the true knowledge of his word in so much that the most part of the inhabitants thereof the Monks Friers Nuns and the other Clergy men excepted in a short time became Protestants and had Ministers and a Church in the middest of the Citie The Priests and Friers perceiuing how the number of the Protestants began to increase daily more and more that this counterfeit Lady was fallen sicke and could worke no more miracles because the Protestant Ministers had discouered their deceits and trumperies and spoiled their market and withal that the people came not with their offertories vnto them as in former times which was to their no small losse and hinderance They I say plotted how to preuent this danger and first they intended to bring the Iesuites into the City but this could not be for the Protestants were more in number than they and withall there was an equall number of Magistrates of either Religion for there were two Protestant Burghemasters and two Papists Then they practised how to betray the Citie to the King of Spaine but their treacherie was discouered and the Protestants betaking themselues to their armes preuented it and the Duke of Cleue who was then Protector of the Citie at their request put in a garrison of souldiers to defend them from the King of Spaines forces who neuer after attempted any thing against the Citie vntill after the Duke of Cleues death at which time by the treacherous plots of the Iesuites who were priuately lurking there sent an armie secretly vnder the conduct of Spinola and tooke the Citie by treachery and not by force of armes or valour and sets a garrison of foure thousand men therein all billeted or lodged in Protestants houses and they themselues constrained to abandon the City or else to liue no better than those that liue vnder the cruell tyrannie of the Turks And as for the Ministers some they put to death others escaped away to Holland and other parts Those of the Protestants that euer had beene Burghemasters that they found they put likewise to death and many other of the Townsmen that at any time withstood them vpon any former tumults or commotion fared no better I came to this Citie in the moneth of December 1616. where the next day I beheld to my no small sorrow a most lamentable tragedie which was as followeth As I would haue departed away I could not because the Ports or Gates were locked and all the souldiers in the Towne but onely those that had the watch drawne in their full compleat armes to the Market-place which is very spatious as big as Smithfield in London In which Market-place there was a scaffold set vp hard by the State-house vnto the which they brought a proper young man about six and twentie yeares of age bound hauing a Iesuite on either side who mounting the scaffold with a very sweet and chearefull countenance kneeled downe and said a short mentall prayer then rising and looking about him espied a friend of his hard by the scaffold vnto whom he cast his cloake intreating him to deliuer it vnto his wife who was in a corner of the Market-place a farre off together with many other women and children vpon their knees making the most lamentable noise that euer I heard and desiring God to iudge their cause This man lifting vp his hands pulled off his hat and making a low reuerence towards those women and many other Protestants that stood by them with a loud voice desired them all to pray for him and desired God to forgiue him all his sinnes for Christ his sake signifying further vnto them that the Iesuits had promised to saue his life if so be that he would confesse his sinnes and receiue the Sacrament the which said he I did being drawne thereunto by their faire promises and perswasions and the entire loue I bare to my wife children and kinsfolkes But now I am heartily sory for it and then kneeling downe again asked God the Reformed Church with teares forgiuenesse for said he I doe from my heart renounce all Popery and will die a member of the Reformed Church wherein I was brought vp Whereupon the Iesuits perswaded him to recant those words and to call to the blessed Virgin Mary for helpe but he would not saying that he was sory for that which he had already done And within a while he kneeled downe againe and the Executioner after that he had tyed a hand-kerchiefe ouer his eyes with a sword strucke off his head whereupon the Protestant women and children made such a lamentable crie that it made some of the Papists themselues weepe and pull their hats ouer their eyes This being done they presented to the view of all the beholders another pitifull spectacle more lamentable than the former A poore old man of about threescore and ten yeares of age whose name was Iohn Balkbern●r who being not able to go by reason of his long imprisonment which was aboue two yeares in a Dungeon as I was told where none of his friends was permitted to visit him or to administer any comfort vnto him hauing beene racked and tortured three seuerall times This man had beene one of the Burghemasters of the Towne and euer opposed himselfe against the Iesuites and the Spanish faction in the defence of the Liberties of the Citie Him they brought supported by the Hangman and his man to the scaffold accompanied likewise with two Iesuites and when he was got vp the scaffold all the drums in the Citie were beaten and the Trumpetters did found their Trumpets being set all round about the scaffold because that no man should heare what this poore dying-man said who lifting vp his hands and eyes often towards heauen in the end kneeled downe and receiued very patiently that fatall stroke the Executioner smiting off his head as he had done the former Whereupon the Protestant women and children made such a great cry as they had formerly done which made many of the Papists yea the Gouernour himselfe who was a Germane to weepe and shake his head The Magistrates of the City and the Emperours Delegats sate in a gallery on the side of the State-house to see the execution which being ended they withdrew themselues backe into the State-house where was a great feast prouided for them Good God how merry were the Iesuits Priests and Friers all that afternoone I protest to you I did see with mine eyes aboue twentie of them crossing the streets so drunke that they could scarce go or stand and when they met the Hangman they shooke

men of the Towne where they built the goodliest houses in all the Citie because forsooth they would be neare these holy Fathers to haue their spirituall comfort and consolation in time of need The Iesuits being thus seated and setled like Princes the first thing was that they did to requite the Citizens great loue and extraordinary charges They procured vnto themselues from the King of Spaine the Archduke the Archduchesse Letters Patents that they should haue for euery barrell of beere that is drawn within that Town two shillings nine pence farthing which is for euery quart pot two Liards or halfe a Stiuer which is about an halfe-peny halfe farthing English and doth amount to a great summe of mony yearly considering the greatnesse of the Towne and the multitude of the people that are the Inhabitants thereof Albeit the Assise which they were constrained to pay before that time for their beere was as much in equall portion to the King and the Archduke as they did pay to the Brewer from which the poore begger was not free but if he did drinke he paid so much vnto the King as he did to the Victualer And yet these vnconscionable and couetous Iesuites did for their benefit and better maintenance procure this other imposition to be laid vpon the Inhabitants notwithstanding the former extraordinary loue and kindnesse which they receiued from them Both which assise of the beere the poore inhabitants haue beene constrained to pay euer since as well to the King as to the Iesuites by means whereof and other their politike cheating and cosenage they are become not only exceeding rich but also odious to all the Townes and Countrey there adioyning And besides whereas the inhabitants of this Towne had been for many hundred yeares free and exempt from all forfeiture or confiscation of their lands and goods to the King if any of them had committed any felony murder treason or the like their bodies being only liable to the Law and not their lands or goods Now these Iesuites perceiuing that the State-house the Towne Charter and all the ancient Records of the Towne had beene some certaine yeares before burnt by occasion of fire procured vnder-hand a Patent to be granted to their College of all forfeitures and confiscations whatsoeuer that should happen to fall due to the King within that Towne and the liberties thereof and hauing so done they began to seize vpon the land and goods of all such as were conuicted for any of these or the like crimes or offences The Magistrates of the Towne and all the rest of the inhabitants with one consent did oppose the Iesuites as intruders vsurpers and common perturbers of their Priuileges and Liberties whereupon the Iesuites commenced their sute against the Magistrates and all the inhabitants of the Towne in the higher Courts wherein the Iesuites would haue surely preuailed if that a certaine Religious man as I thinke a Canon Regular of the Order of S. Augustine that liued in an Abbey about six miles from the Towne and yet in the territories of the same had not found out in the Library there an old booke of Histories or Antiquities in Manuscript written many hundred yeares since wherein was contained among other things a Copie of the Charter of this Towne of Lysle which being shewed vnto the Councell of State the Iesuits with much shame disgrace had a definitiue sentence giuen against them neuer afterwards to intermedle with the Priuileges and Statutes of the Towne and to pay cost and charges besides Oh the honestie of these holy men of the society of Iesus Iohn Chastell was taught and perswaded by the Iesuites to murder Henry the fourth of France and yet some Papists would deny it if they could because they are loth to make the Iesuites odious and yet others did helpe to erect a pillar of stone neare to the Kings Palace in Paris whereby so much was signified But the Iesuits when they were recalled againe into France from their banishment got leaue of the King vpon the Queenes request to deface it some few yeares before the King was murdered by Rauillacke In the yeare 1607. The Iesuites procured the Emperour Rodulphus to prescribe that ancient Imperiall City Donawert in high Germany and to giue it in prey vnto the Duke of Bauaria who came priuately with foure or fiue thousand men and tooke it and ransacked it and afterwards put a strong garrison therein altering their Lawes and Customes and debarring them of all their former Priuileges whatsoeuer in so much that the chiefest men in the Citie were constrained to abandon both house and home and to seeke after another place to inhabite I came thorow this Citie within three moneths after that the Duke of Bauaria had taken it and it grieued my heart to see into what miserable bondage the poore Citizens were brought and all through the deuillish practise of these irreligious Machiauills who then did tyrannize ouer them like so many Turks or Infidels for they managed the whole affaires of the Citie the Gouernour which the Duke had placed there ouer the souldiers stood but for a cipher for he durst doe nothing without the consent of the Iesuits The Magistrates were all put out of their charge offices other base poore mechanicall fellowes appointed in their places farre vnworthy the high dignitie of Consuls or Burghemasters in such an ancient free and noble City as that is The souldiers were billeted in all the Protestants houses and not in any Papists house where they dominierd like so many deuills making hauock of all that they could come by and yet the Protestants were constrained to pay them their wages besides What shall I say The Iesuites in effect did command and controll the whole Citie as they pleased They banished their Ministers and compelled the inhabitants either to goe to heare Masse contrary to their consciences or else forsake the Citie and liue in exile And yet this is nothing in comparison to that the Protestants of Aquisgranum haue endured and yet doe suffer The Emperour Charles surnamed the Great hunting vpon a time in the Forest of Arden found out certaine Bathes or hot waters in which place he built a very faire Citie and called it Aquisgranum and gaue it many priuileges and great freedome among other things he ordained that all other Emperours his Successours should be crowned there and that the Imperiall Diadem which is now kept at Franckfurt vpon Main should be kept in this Citie Here likewise hee built among other Churches a very faire Collegiat Church endowing it with great reuenues within a Chappell of this Church the craftie Clergie men obseruing the ignorance of the people in those daies set vp an Image of the blessed Virgin Mary which they affirmed to worke great miracles by meanes whereof and of the hot Bathes this Citie came to be very famous and haunted by many people for many that were visited with sicknesse and diseases came from farre