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A35445	The visions of Pasquin, or, A character of the Roman court, religion and practices together with an account of the arts of the Pope's nephews to get money, the tricks of the priests to fill the churches coffers by masses for the dead, the policy of the Jesuites to cully princes, and cheat Christendom, as also an exact description of purgatory and hell, in a dialogue between Pasquin and Marsorio, translated out of Italian.; Pasquillus ecstaticus. English	Curione, Celio Secondo, 1503-1569.	1689 (1689)	Wing C7622A; ESTC R13924	82,935	71

returned with a desire of attaining that which I thought I should have attained but that which is most material my Curate seeing me ever return empty handed he told me it was through defect of my Faith. I durst answer him nothing then because I was in the other world where the Inquisition reigns But I said within my self It 's enough that the Priests have so much Faith as to take the Gifts whatever becomes of the rest But now I am in a place where Truth is unveiled I am informed of all those Errors in which so many unfortunate poor people are plunged and 't is a wonder to see how the Christians can imagine that there should be Simony in Heaven when the Popes have banished it out of the world 't is a Diabolical thing not to be forgotten that the Popes have established and decreed a most severe Bull that under no pretence of Alms Donatives or Debts any one should receive the least thing imaginable out of hope of obtaining any benefits or indulgencies yet the Christians of Rome deceived alas by the Roman Priests commit solemn Simony and indent with Heaven under the name of a Vow some promising a pair of silver Candlesticks to our Lady of Loretto some a Lamp to St Nicholas of Toledo some a silver Statue to St. Antony of Padua some this thing and some that thing to this or that Saint upon condition of obtaining their request and in case of not obtaining it the Vow to become null I know that in the Great Dukes Gallery in Florence they shew an Altar-piece of Massy Silver which was made upon the occasion of a Vow made by the Great Dutchess to St. Charles but because the desired Grace was not obtained the Altar remains in the Great Dukes hands mocking at the Vow since the Saint had mocked at the Offering This example made me remember another which I did not fail to relate to my friend That Roman Lady being barren whose Husband was very desirous of Children she recommended her self to the prayers of her Confessor who was a Theatine Father making use of all those means that are necessary for such a blessing Finally after two years use of prayers made in her own Chamber the effect of the blessing began to appear there being manifest signs of her conception whereupon the Father Confessor being greatly pleased and the Lady no less they both possessed the Husband that it proceeded from a Vow made to the blessed Cajetan and thereupon the poor Husband was to make a silver Statue which must be presented by his Wife to the blessed Cajetan but the mystery was that this Statue must be solemnly blessed by this Confessor whilst the Husband and Wife were kneeling before him with so great a Devotion that all the rest of the Fathers rejoyced M. Thou wilt make me never credit such like Vows again but what did your venerable friend say to this P. He fell a laughing but yet modestly and I in the mean time begged of him to know where were the other Mothers of God at which he laughed out and said What dost thou think then that God hath many Mothers or that there are many Gods I told him no I had ever believed one only God and one Virgin Mother but that which made me speak was that I had heard them at Rome discourse of the Mother of God of the Rosary of the Mother of God of Popolo of the Mother of God of the Carmine and of so many others that the number of them is infinite Truly said he again the people of Rome have great need of that Mother of God of Loretto that she might lend them her Treasures to ease them from the many insupportable Exactions which the Popes Nephews have laid upon them It were better said I for the people to find out some kind Madonna like her who obtained the Victory against the Turks that by her means they might be once delivered from the Popes Nephews which are worse than the Turks Come let us leave said he all these Mothers of God invented by the Priests just as the old Poets invented a great number of Deities and let us go down to see the particularities of this Vatican No I beseech you replyed I have a little patience with me and help me first to the sight of the Saints which are the Senators of Heaven and the Advocates of the Earth for I see none here and yet they see so many in the world This Question did so extreamly displease him that chiding me heartily for such a folly he proceeded to say For ought I see thou thinkest God is grown so old that he hath not strength enough left to govern the world alone and so calls in the Saints to assist him I seeing him in a rage endeavoured to pacifie him professing it had never been my belief but that I always thought God was the only Ruler of all things without any help or assistance but the Priests made the poor Christians believe that God operated nothing at all but through the intercessions of his Saints 't is no news to me added he then that the Priests joy in the Ignorance of the faithful and they borrow for lending too much Faith to the Priests ' hose who read the sacred Scripture have no need to lose themselves by the Lectures of the Priests M. He was well acquainted with the Plague which reigns at present amongst the Christians in Europe P. After this he made me go down and at the foot of the Ladder he asked me whether I was satisfied to which Question I answered that my Curiosity did but begin to be inflamed whilst my Intentions were only set upon seeing where the Popes lived therefore the longer I was kept from seeing them the more violently my Curiosity increased yet the Romans said he then to me ought to be glutted with the sight of the Popes having perhaps seen too many with their eyes and touched too many with their hands so that methinks they should esteem it high time to rid themselves of such Plagues who infect the very Liberty of Princes and disturb the Tranquillity of the People yet since thou hast such an anxiety still to see the Popes let us go I will accompany thee not only to shew thee the way but to take care of thee lest thou shouldst break thy neck for usually near the Papal Habitations there are great Precipices which are not seen till after one is faln down into them Thus discoursing we walked on through a round Gallery which looked liker the house of some Magician than the Palace of the Popes at the end was a most magnificent Hall of a quadrangular form lofty and of an admirable structure but it trembled like a Bush I would have stopt apprehending the Machine would have faln down upon my back and buried me in its ruines but my Comrade encouraged me saying there was no danger yet for the time of the destruction of that place was not

THE VISIONS OF PASQUIN OR A CHARACTER OF THE Roman Court Religion and Practices Together with an Account of The Arts of the Popes Nephews to get Money The Tricks of the Priests to fill the Churches Coffers by Masses for the Dead The Policy of the Jesuites to Cully Princes and Cheat Christendom AS ALSO An Exact Description of Purgatory and Hell. In a Dialogue between Pasquin and Marforio Tran slated out of Italian Ridentem dicere verum Quis vetat Licensed Feb. 9. 1689. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin near the Black Bull in the Old-Bailey 1689. THE PREFACE THE Vices of the Roman Court have been so notorious the Pride of their Popes the Ambition of their Prelates the Covetousness of the Nephews and the Hypocrisy of their Monastick Orders not to instance in their Lusts and Brutalities have been and still are so visible to the World that in their own Country Italy under the awe of the Inquisition and within the immediate reach of his Holinesse's Catchpoles the Sbirri there have been found some men of Courage and Honesty who have dared to pull off the mask and expose their pretended sanctity and let the World see that no men have erred more grosly than the bold pretenders to Infallibility no men are more slaves to the World its Pomps and Vanities than those who have vowed to forsake them and no mens minds are so eagerly set upon hoarding up wealth for their ravenous kindred as those who say in Hypocrisy what St. Peter said in truth Silver and Gold have I none For there are a sort of Inbabitants of the Roman World who have no Estates and yet have great Revenues no tillage and yet abound in corn no Wives and yet have more Children to a single mans share than the Countess of Holland had at a birth It is true the learned men of the Reformed Church have with much strength of argument and authority baffled and confuted the false Doctrines of the Papal faction but perhaps those who have shown their actions in a true light and made appear how specious their sanctity is and how ridiculous their devotion dressing up their Narratives in a Jocular and Comical habit have used the more successfull method to make the World acquainted with their extravagancies This course the old Satyrists took to expose Vice and in later ages the Copy was transcribed by Orthuinus Gratius and Rabelais who gave the World an excellent Picture of the Ignorance and Luxury of the Friars and of late the Author of the Cardinalismo the Nepotismo the life of Donna Olympia and the History of the Roman Curtesans hath admirably described the practices of the men of the Purple the sottishness of the Papal Nephews the incestuous intrigue between even his Holiness himself and his Brother's Wife Olympia together with the unlawful and preposterous Indulgences of that Court that pretends to unspotted sanctity many other such writings having been sent into the World some of which have visited this Country while others are still confined to their forreign dress Such writings are for the most part called Pasquils or Pasquinades from the statue of Pasquin in the middle of Rome to which they are commonly affixt It is thought by learned men to be the remains of a statue of one of the old Gladiators with his Enemy lying dead at his Feet and the conjecture is happy for Pasquin is invincible he triumphs over Princes and subdues all the World and without the help of Arms or Armies makes even Popes stoop and tremble and executes those in Effigie who by their power rescue their persons from the punishments they deserve It hath been often consulted and perhaps in the Conclave to remove this statue and a certain Prince once resolved to throw it into the River Tyber but chang'd his resolution when his Servant told him that it would make a greater noise under Water than while above-ground and produce a spawn of Frogs whose croakings would deafen the City that sits on seven Hills and what a noise then may we imagine makes he when his friend Marforio attends him and like some Ecchoes repeats what he says much louder than it was first spoken Such a couple of Companions are enough to laugh Impudence it self out of countenance and put the Governess of a Roman Bordelli to the blush Nor is it but requisite that those who by their Station or their Interests are above the Laws should be subject to the lashes of a smart wit as well as to those of their own Consciences the Furies within when they lay on most severely are seldom heard by the by-standers but the World takes notice how a dissolute Grandee is whipt by a keen and implacable Satyrist who rubbs off the Paint and shews the deformities who strips the Actor in Religion of his mortified dress and exposes the Covetousness and Hypocrisy the sensuality and leudness that lodges under the habit of devotion and by these means instructs mankind to make a less show and to be more truly and really pious and honest and not to admire a demure outside which covers all manner of villanies For what inclinations can we have to believe that Pope Pius who being forbidden to eat Pork lest it should throw him into his grave made answer that he would indulge his appetite al despito di Dio in despite of God and his Authority What incouragement have we to think him just who throwing St. Peter's Keys into the Tyber said that St. Paul's Sword should conquer his adversaries Who can believe Alexander the 6th to have been true to his vow of chastity who prostituted his own Daughter Lucretia Or Leo the 10th to have had any regard to Religion who boasted of the vast sums he had gotten by the Fabula de Christo the fabulous accounts which the Gospel gives of our Holy Saviour as he blasphemously stiled the Sacred Scriptures Who can believer the Inquisition to be the Tribunal of Christ while their proceedings are a demonstration that they are the Executioners of the Kingdom of Darkness Who can think that there is much charity at Rome when the Papal Nephews like the Plant-animal Boranez eat up and devour all that comes within their reach Or that Chastity is to be reckoned among the Vertues of that City in which their Curtesans are the Companions of their mitred men and the Monks are the notorious practisers of Masculine Venery While the book of God is lockt up in Libraries and made a Prisoner under the restraint of an unknown Tongue and those who all their life long walk in the direct paths to Hell and Destruction hope to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven at the back-door by the help of an Indulgence or a thousand Masses as if every thing were to be bought in the Court of Christ above because there is nothing to be had in the Court of his pretended Vicar on Earth without Money But I detain you too long in the Portal the

Lux i.e. after Darkness comes Light and of the other side Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis onerati estis ego reficiam vos i. e. Come unto me all that labour and are heavy laden and I will refresh you As soon as I had read these two Motto's I was mightily comforted and the good man asked me my Name and my Sir-name then I said within my self I am gravelled again for if this person should serve me as the other did I shall be sure to be stopt so that I was almost resolved to change my Name but thinking better of it I judged it fit to proceed with sincerity therefore I answered him that my Name was Mr. Pasquino a Roman he seemed to be extreamly pleased with that answer only adding that I needed only to have named my self Pasquino because the name of Roman was not well liked here after that he told me that none was permitted to enter into that place of the side that he guarded till they first confessed what he himself had been forc't to confess and all the rest of his company I told him then that I desired to be informed what was needful for me to confess and he replied tell me friend which of the two dost thou believe to be Head of the Church Christ or the Pope M. This was a hard Question for my part I should have answered that they were both Heads P. That would have been the answer of a foolish ignorant and wicked Christian I wonder thou art not yet instructed better in this point What! thou believest the Church hath two Heads as the Emperor's Eagle The Eagle of two Heads was the Invention of a German Poet and the Church with two Heads was the Invention of the Roman Priests M. I cannot Reason so finely I go on in a plainer way but what didst thou answer him then P. I confess that I believed the Church had only one Head which was Christ nor would I ever believe there was any other Head because I would not run into such a diabolical Heresie for the having so many Heads and so many Bodies are proper to Cerberus's Briareus's and Devils and not to coelestial creatures and therefore it was necessary to believe as I believed that the Church hath one only Head and one only Spouse and that is Christ our Lord and that all others are Members of the Church one of which is the Pope As soon as he heard this he rose from his seat and came to embrace me with great tenderness saying Truly thy words shew thee to be that pleasant Pasquin who I have so often heard spoken of with infinite praise thou art heartily welcom and when he had said so he hugged me several times and called me his Brother in Christ M. This title is not so common in the Roman Vatican for the Popes give it to none but Cardinals P. It would be better for the Cardinals if the Pope would leave off calling them Brethren seeing he doth not a little flatten their reputation in this world besides that he makes them perverse and wicked in the other M. How can this be thou art either too obscure or I am too dull to comprehend thee P. They that come nearest the Fire are the hottest and they that come nearest to Clay and Dirt are the most defiled this is a general Rule in Philosophy therefore it must needs follow that those who draw nearest to evil are the most wicked Now every one knows that the Popes are the fountains of all those evils which the Church hath suffered therefore the Popes calling the Cardinals Brethren they cannot avoid the reproach of having their part in every mischief Moreover the Popes are like Pitch which defiles them most that roul in it M. What can then be said of Kings which the Pope calls his Sons P. This also is a great Cheat the Popes believe they have given half the Heavens and half the Earth to Kings by giving them the title of Sons and Kings think they receive the other half of the Earth and the rest of Heaven every time they call the Pope their Father yet that title serves to no purpose but to lowre and vilifie Kings in the presence of the Popes and to render the Pope too proud and high in the presence of Kings all the rest of it is nothing but smoke and tell me the truth my dear Marforio whether doth the Natural and Divine Law teach a man to love his Children or his Nephews best without doubt his Children but this Rule is not observed with the Popes for they rob all the Treasure of the Church and apply to their own occasions and when they die give it all to their Nephews without leaving any thing to their Sons Vrban the 8th Innocent the 10th and Alexander the 7th are great instances of this who left more than seven millions of Pistols to their Nephews and to the poor Emperor oppressed with the Turk nothing at all but the title of Son I would curse him a hundred times a day to the Devil M. I beseech you do not fall into passion but go on with the discourse how did the Caresses end between you and that honest man P. He perceiving me to be alone for the French-man was gone back to his own affairs promised me to be my faithful Companion and conduct me to see all those places First then he carried me up a very high Ladder on the top of which was a Terrace that looked towards Heaven and when we were there he bid me look up and as I looked I thought I saw the Mother of our Lord shining with great glory but I did not see any Pearls or Jewels or Gold or Silver which amazing me very much and my new friend perceiving it asked me what was the cause of it whereupon I answered him that having several times seen the Madona of Loretto loaded with Jewels and Gold of inestimable value I wondred how she was now deprived of those rich gifts to which he instantly replied that that Lady of Loretta was not the Mother of our Lord but the Mother of the Priests for she not only gives them money enough to buy them food but also to feed their prodigality neither are we to believe there is any correspondence betwixt the Mother of Christ in Heaven and that Mother of the Priests on Earth and possibly I replied the faithful who give such vast Offerings and Alms believe they put them all into the hands of the Mother of our Lord and shall draw from her the remuneration of graces Would to God it were so said he immediately but the mischief is that the poor Fideles impoverish themselves to enrich the Priests so that being shamm'd into that false belief they thereby commonly lose both their Moneys and Rewards I have been fifteen times at Loretto to impetrate some blessings which my Curate told me I should undoubtedly obtain and every time I carried some Gift I still

Popes busied with such trifles as for seeing them disingaged from heaping up riches and I really said within my self how strange a thing is this the Popes in Rome now think of nothing else but building Palaces for their Nephews and pulling down those which others have built with so much Sweat to advance their own memories in imposing Taxes and Customs on the miserable people in selling of Offices and Benefices to those who offer most money for them in threatning Princes with War upon every petty account in looking out for great Marriages to advance their own families in charging Bishopricks with heavy Pensions In giving liberty to their Relations to accumulate immense treasures in robbing the Altars of Christ for to hang the Walls of their Nephews palaces And after I had made some reflections on these particulars I freely told my sentiments to the good man who accompanied me who quickly answered me thus Friend the Popes never change their nature always preserving the very same inclinations they had at first though nature is altered in them yet whatever small difference thou seest between this Vatican and that at Rome it does not come from the nature of the place but the alteration of time for none of the Modern Popes enter into this place for those which thou seest here were Popes of the Primitive Age which were not used to theft perhaps because the Church in those times had not treasures that could be stolen and therefore they imployed the hours of the day in such affairs as thou sawest them busy in But since the Popes have had much Wealth and Estates to distribute they have other thoughts and apply themselves to those Exercises that thou speakest of which are at present the business in Rome So that 't is sufficient to satisfy thee at present to know that all the Popes which thou seest in this place are those who have lived holily or at least moderately and sworn Enemies to their kindred But as soon as ever the news was brought to this place that the Popes had changed their nature and put on humane affections and minded nothing else but inriching their Nephews to the prejudice of all Christendom Heaven thought it Expedient to shut its Gates against them so that 't is above two hundred years since any of them have come into this place I was astonish't at this information yet was curious enough to go round a second time the better to observe every thing there and truly amongst all the Popes faces which I saw there I saw but three which I knew which gave me the greater amazement because I had well known at Rome all the Popes for two hundred years last past from which time the Gates of that place had been barr'd M. And who were those Popes you knew P. Adrian the sixth Pius the fifth and Sixtus the fifth And having a more particular curiosity to look on them distinctly I declared my Sentiments to my good Guide thinking it very strange how they had got in after the doors had been shut but he who was better inform'd than my self told me that these had got in after the shutting up of the Gates by singular favour two of them for being enemies to their kindred and the third which was Sixtus for having left the Church so extreamly rich O then cried I Heaven looks more narrowly into the Actions of the Popes than the men of the world do for they dare not speak the least word against their Holinesses though they see them rob all the wealth of the Church openly M. Heaven fears not imprisonment as Men in the World do P. Seeing I saw not one of the last Popes in this place particularly not Alexander the seventh I grew furiously angry for having wholly lost all my pains which aimed above all things to be informed not of the State of those Popes who had died with the repute of holiness but those who had expired with the Name of very Devils and my fury raged more violently because I had askt that man if he knew where the Popes of the two last Ages were he had replyed he knew not any thing of them at all because the Lord God in the hidden secrets of his Justice had disposed of them suitably to the deserts of their works at Rome But I notwithstanding my knowing very well that they Merited Hell for their Tyrannies and Extortions towards the poor people to inrich their kindred yet would not at that instant Judge so rigorously but I imagined they were in Purgatory M. There then you might look for them for when the Purgation of their sins is past they would come thither to the others P. Thy Councel does not please me in this Matter for I would never be such a fool to wait perhaps in vain thousands of years there and specially whilst I was so uncertain whether they were in Purgatory or indeed in hell Nay if they were really in Purgatory it were madness in me to wait for their coming out the Popes having not only their own particular guilts on their backs but also the sins of their Nephews and of Many others sinners whom they lead unto sin therefore Purgatory must be a very hell to them M. What didst thou do then having lost thy longing P. I threw away all those thoughts which so tormented my head to see the Popes and began to fix in my mind a desire to see their Nephews though it were requisite to go into Purgatory for it which that good person observing he was so scandalized at me that he went out before me and when we were in the middle of the last Gate of the aforesaid Vatican he disappeared I do not know how and I remained in an unknown place and where no body knew me M. Poor Pasquin I begin to pitty thee but what resolution didst thou take P. I was besides my self and continued in suspence for the space of a good half hour when wandring about in a strange perplexity just like one of those who know not whether they are of God or of the Devil in Heaven or Earth in Hell or Paradise when not knowing which Leg to set forward I perceived there was but one way so I determined to go on and see the end of it I bid farewel to the Vatican and mended my pace for the quicker dispatch and had scarce gone on two hours when I found my self in a great Court built about with lofty Walls painted with sundry stories of Martyrs of Confessors of Nuns of Virgins and of Hermits at the very entrance into this Court I met with a person of good Meen with an ill favoured rough face and a beard like a Capuchin in the habit of a Switzerland Carrier I look't a little while on him and he did the same looking wistly upon me and I perceiving he carried a great bundle of letters I could not refrain inquiring of him whither he was travelling and from whom he was sent who courteously

a different nature The Franciscans were disputing Precedency with one another every Order amongst them desiring to be the first and at the same time the Cappuchins and the Reformed who had been of the poor Orders were reviling and railing at the Conventuals who defended themselves by proving that their Poverty was compelled and fastned on their Habit and not in their heart and the Recollects who were neither of the poor nor of the rich were enraged against both of them and left not a Curse that was ever found out unuttered against them● but the most to be noted was that the Devils who still fomented this discord when they saw them well heated with disdain interposed and ran in between them and with certain Iron Bars parted them and ended the Fray saying Remember that ye are Minorists 'T is true the Recollects were exempted from this punishment but the Devils in lieu of Bastinading them as they did the others hung them up by the throats and I having desired to know the reason was answered that they justly merited to be used like Thieves for having stollen so many Convents from the other Franciscans the whilst I turned to the other side and saw the Augustinians who suffered torments equal to the Franciscans so that I cared not to fix any longer on such Objects and the rather because they were so near unto the Minimes which are the Franciscans of St. Paul the last Order that came into the World. M. How is it possible What I are those Fathers who are all Charity in Hell P. Why they go the surer into Hell for having relyed too much upon their Charity as one of those Daemons told me who was entrusted to torment those Fathers and their torment was to eat the flames of fire which was a sort of meat that I perceived very well was not a little nauseous to them tho' they were obliged to it by their making such ill-favoured faces as sick men do that are to take a loathsom Potion and they had reason for the Devils used no great Ceremony towards them in putting such Viands in their mouths but threw the flames in with Pots and Kettles without either Ladles or Spoons I thought at first that the Devils had done this on a good design to wit to digest so much Oyl so much crude Herbs so much Fish ill drest so much unwholesom Pulse and so much other Lenten fare which these Fryers used to stuff their bellies with in their Cloysters But the Daemon which I spoke to thee of before told me that amongst all the Religious Orders these had the greatest need of being inwardly heated all the fire of Charity being extinguished in their hearts by having too much inflamed the Walls of their Cloysters with the Device and Emblem of Charity and so priding themselves in setting up such a Motto that it is set over the very doors of their Kitchins and Privy-houses and at the rate they inflame their Walls with Charity they exhaust it out of their hearts neither regarding the Religious nor the Poor driving all from the Gates of their Cloysters so that we have taken a resolution to enkindle their hearts with all the warmth our fire can give them The Daemon saying nothing further about this particularity suffered me to go wandring on in the Rode where I met with nothing but Fryers of all sorts on whom I attentively fixt my eyes not out of any Devotion I had towards them but only to see if I could find any Jesuits among them on which all my thoughts were bent but the more I pryed about so much the greater was the confusion of my spirit that having already seen thousands and ten thousands of Franciscans Augustinians Carmelites Dominicans Regular Canons in fine Monks and Fryers of all kinds notwithstanding I had not seen one Jefuite whereupon I threw my self without either fear or wit into the midst of these miserable wretches to find them out At last I discovered at a great distance certain black Habits like unto those of the Jesuits and so I turned my feet that way hoping to find them in that place but found my self much deceived for these were the Theatines and the Sommaschs who do likewise make a profession to imitate and Ape the Jesuits and drawing near to one of these Fathers to inquire some news of the Jesuits he could tell me nothing at all but complained after a strange rate against those Fathers saying That they the Sommaschs and Theatines were obliged to the Jesuits for their being in Hell seeing the most of them were damned for following of the Jesuitical Maxims Mean while I imagined that the Jesuits being neither Priests nor Fryers nor of the World nor Religious men that perhaps they would be placed in the middle between both Whereupon after I had well observed all the Fryers and Monks and all the Religious of every other sort and Order I passed calmly on into the Priests Apartment but their number was so very great that I was forced to stay above two hours before I could get in and yet in that place there were only Mass-Priests for the others were intermixt with the Fryers Then I began to stare every one in the face and asking every one of them whether he were a Jesuit they answered in such a manner as if I had injured them mightily By that Question so having seen the Priests the Canons and the Abbots tormented all of them with very sharp pains I past to the residence of the Bishops and the Arch-Bishops having lost the very hopes of ever seeing the Jesuits for they did always so contemn the Bishops and Arch-Bishops scorning such dignities as things inferiour to their Merits that it could not be thought they would endure them to be there amongst them so that despairing that I could not see the Jesuits in Hell I set me down upon a Stone beating my brains and studying with my self where the Devil these Jesuits should be Perhaps said I these Fathers pawn the Souls of the dead to guard the Treasures they have got by so many Stratagems from the living Perhaps by the power of the Moneys which they possess in so great an abundance they have bought the Inheritance of Heaven Perhaps the Devils leave them in the custody of the Women who made profession on Earth to be such civil Guardians of that Sex. Whilst I was roving thus within my self the Devil who conducted me being sensible of all and knowing very well the great passion that I had to see the Jesuits could not contain from deriding me yet not having the heart to see me in so much suspension told me that he had found a way how to satisfie my curiosity but it was requisite to go very cautiously for the seeing of the Jesuits in Hell was esteemed a matter of State because the Devils kept the said Fathers there meerly out of policy I replyed I would do all things he esteemed necessary whereupon he went before me and