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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01391	The friers chronicle: or, The true legend of priests and monkes liues	T. G., fl. 1623.; Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?, attributed name.; Goad, Thomas, 1576-1638, attributed name.	1623 (1623)	STC 11511; ESTC S117209	32,307	72

THE FRIERS CHRONICLE OR THE TRVE LEGEND OF PRIESTS AND MONKES LIVES Sua cuique mihi mea LONDON Printed for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Churchyard at the Signe of the Greene Dragon 1623. TUm puppe è media magno clamore Sacerdos Parcite pollutis contingere vincula palmis Et procul hinc moneo procul hinc quaecunque prophanae Ferte gradus nec vos casto miscete labori Dum satis est mouisse deae quod si qua pudica Mente valet si qua illae si sibi corporis adstat Constat vel sola subeat pia munera dextra Silius Italic lib. 17. Bell. Punicum TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE Countesse of DEVONSHIRE with all her other well-deseruing VERTVES Right Honorable ALthough such Ladies as your selfe are either compared to rich Caskets containing within thē more richer Iewels or resembled to precious Diamonds made the more glorious by enameling and the cunning of the workman yet I protest beeing an eye-witnesse of your constant resort vnto wisedomes Feast and apprehensiue that you loue Religion meerely for Gods loue that alone hath incited mee to select you the Patronesse of this Discourse whereby I make no doubt you shall not onely runne with Zacheus to the top of a Figge-tree to behold IESVS but bee glad in your very soule that your foot-steps are fixed in the way of saluation and that you are now going on in the path that will conduct you to new Ierusalem The Worke it selfe is the Discouery of the vnswept corners of Popish Monasteries The Instrument wherewith it is done though it bee not the Prophets Lanterne and Candle to search the great Citie yet it is the opening of a Booke wherein you may reade such loathsome particulars against Papistry that in your friends behalfe you will doe as wee were wont to doe in England euen spit at the naming of the Diuell and in your owne lift vp your hands to Heauen with thanksgiuing that God hath blessed you with a better knowledge The Author is I confesse no Diuine but a penitent sinner and one that would faine striue to be a doore-keeper in the House of GOD who hath taken this mercy vpon him to welcome him home with better acates then to feed with the Hogges at the troughs My name you shall sure finde at the last which if it carry an vnpleasant accent oh bee thus honourable to admit of one good qualitie as the mirrour of his time Sir Philip Sidney was wont to say For a great many haue none and no man hath all Your Honors humbly deuoted T. G. THE FRIERS CHRONICLE OR THE TRVE LEGEND OF PRIESTS AND MONKES LIVES I Make no question but that true and wel written Discourse of the Anatomie of the English Nunnery at Lisbone in Portugall hath not onely had a gracious acceptation with you but vvrought vpon your iudgements and vnderstanding as farre as the abhorring their impieties and lamenting the seduction of silly Ignorants vvho I dare affirme being brought out into the sunnie splendour of Truth and Discouerie would either vvonder where and how they haue been so long detained in darknesse or make sport at such ridiculous absurdities as they haue beene befooled withall But because there remaines much more to be spoken out of other Relations and vndeniable Verity to make the pride of Babel loathsome to true Christian soules and the impieties of that Man of sinne abhorred of all iudicious and vnderstanding men I haue heere vnder-taken further searches for the good of all true-hearted Protestants indeed And although I haue no such portion allotted as with the Prophets Lanterne and Candle to search the vnswept corners of Ierusalem or with Christs rodde of cords to whip the buyers and sellers out of the Temple yet I hope I shall haue strength enough to wrastle downe the Strumpet and lay her flat on her back to the hissing of the passengers For all the painting of Iezabel and adorning of her head to seeme more maiesticall to Iehu she was yet at the last thrown out of the window and dashed against the ground so shall Babylon that great Citie beserued in the end shee shall be set on fire and the Merchants of the earth shall howle at her desolation amazed afarre off at her falling to rubbish and beholding her smoake to ascend like the smoake of a furnace vvherein that you may see the reason of Gods indignation and whereby you may intertaine certaine motiues for your owne conuersion or establishment I haue heere taken vpon me to discouer how the Popish Clergie left and forsooke the pure waters of Siloa to drinke the puddled streames of Traditions and filthinesse scorned to quench their thirst and buy milke and food without money but would needs vvith Simon Magus pay deare for spirituall gifts and in a word denied to come to wisedomes Feast because they would runne a whoring after their owne inuentions and feed their sensuall carkases with the banquet and acates of their owne desires and deuising At first I determined no method or diuision supposing that the spredding of instances examples would haue afforded sufficient contentment to the Reader for the subiect in hand which is the detection of sundry foule abuses in Popery or if you will in the liues of Priests and Friers but finding the streame to come downe with a maine current and that the stopping or damming it vp too close would ouer-flow the fields and spoile much good ground I thought it better to cut out certaine riuolets and passages wherein the Riuer might runne betweene bounded Bankes and so the lookers on receiue both pleasure and profit in the handsome keeping their channels For which purpose if you runne about the streame you shall finde out certaine deceitfull Nookes Holes Creekes and dangerous Flats or Shelues First of lying Miracles Secondly coozening Deuices Thirdly Whoredome Fourthly Epicurisme Fiftly Thefts and Robberies Sixtly Murthers Seuenthly Blasphemies Eighthly grosse Ignorance Ninthly Beastlines Tenthly Fooleries Absurdities Eleuenthly Impieties and 12. Simony Of all which in order or as orderly as I can not that I place them in their seates of precedencie or tye them to any coherence of depending one vpon another but to shew you with what palpable grosenesse they proceeded to ouerthrow True Religion and iustified themselues in the world to countenance their wickednesse though they were neuer so foule delinquents I leaue to dispute of their Doctrines Schoole-questions fundamentall Controuersies Church-Ceremonies the Popes Supremacie and many other tedious disceptations which haue clogged vs with heauy burthens and filled Libraries with thousands of Volumes and onely at this time with Elias gather vp my cloathes for a cursorie iourney and take my staffe in my hand to goe the more speedier forward and as I confesse I must passe ouer much ground vnseene and vnmarked So I beseech you gentle Reader censure mee in the same manner and excuse my not fully satisfying of you by reason of the hastinesse of