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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

vnderneath them and the Church to be diuided in like manner But I am afraid that the Friers doe sometimes lie vppermost and the Nuns vndermost if that be true as I feare it is which I haue read in that little Pamphlet which is intituled The Anatomy of the English Nuns of Lisbon These Friers and Nuns weare a gray Habit and abound in wealth They haue a Couent at Monachum in Bauaria another in Collen another neere Calcar at a place called Maria in Bosco or Marie in Busse in Cleueland another in Isle or Insula in Flanders and another of English Nuns in Lisbon in Portugall who had heretofore a great Couent in Midlesex at a place called Sion which is now the Right Honourable the Earle of Northumberlands house and another they had in Swethland before the reformation but now they are expulsed thence I neuer knew or heard of any more Couents that they haue or had Their Rule is patched out of Saint Augustines Rule Of the Minorite Friers otherwise called Boni homines or Good men THese Friers doe challenge for their Patron Saint Anthony of Paula they weare a moorish colour Habit and neuer eat Flesh Butter or Cheese but feed on the best Fish and Oile the finest Bread and purest Wine the best Spices Fruits Herbs and Roots that they can buy for money They are infinite rich in Lands Reuenues and Money Their Superiour they call father Guardian and haue many Monasteries in Italy France Spaine and some in Germany Richard Duke of Cornwall and brother to King Henry the third being elected King of the Romans by the Electors of the Empire tooke his Sonne Edmund with him into Germany who vpon his returne into England built a Cloister for these Monks at Barkamsteed three and twenty miles from London which was in the yeere 1257. Of the Carthusian Friers I Am now come to the Carthusian Friers whose first beginning was in the yeere 1130. their first Founder was one Bruno borne in Collen in high Germany and a Professor of Philosophy at Paris in France at which time it hapned as they say that a certaine friend of his who was reputed to be a godly man and famous for his learning and preaching in that City hapned to die and as they were singing of the office for the dead as the manner is among the Papists when they came to repeat these words Dic mihi quot habes iniquitates this Bruno being then and there present the dead man cryed out Iusto Dei iudicio damnatus sum that is I am damned through the iust iudgement of God Whereupon this Bruno being strucken with such a feare beganne to consider that if such a good man as that was in the iudgement of the world was damned through the iust iudgement of God what would become of him and many thousands more that were farre worse than that man was in mans iudgement and therefore with all speed left Paris and tooke his iourney together with six of his Schollers to liue solitary in some Wildernesse and not long after came to the Prouince of Dolphinè in France neere to the City Gratianopolis or Grenoble where he obtained a place to build him a Monasterie on the top of a high stupendious hill called Carthusia from whence this Family tooke name This place one Hugo then Bishop of Grenoble gaue them who afterwards became a religious Frier of that Order They weare a long white cloth Coat loose with a Cowle and a long blacke Cloke ouer when they goe abroad which is but seldome white cloth Stockings and a haire Shirt as they say but credat qui vult let him beleeue that will for mine owne part I beleeue it not The Lay-brothers for so they call all those that are religious men and no Priests weare a short Coat or Iacket of a reddish coloured cloth downe to their knees They neuer eat Flesh Butter or Cheese but the best Fish Egges Oile Honey Fruits and the purest Wine that they can get They fast as they say the sixt day of the weeke with Bread and Water to bring the flesh in subiection to the spirit They are enioyned I meane the Priests to a perpetuall kinde of silence for they must not talke or conuerse one with another but at certaine daies in the yeere none of them are permitted to goe abroad out of their Monastery but the Prior and Procurator vnlesse it be some of the Lay-brethren who goe abroad now and then about the affaires of their Cloister for they are very rich and haue great store of lands corne cattell flocks of sheepe and heards of goats and swine and many seruants They permit no woman kinde to come within their Monasteries or Churches lest with the sight of them they should bee tempted to lust for them Truly it is an excellent thing if they can keepe the affection of their mindes correspondent to their outward gestures and tame the flesh by liuing idle and solitary the which Saint Ierome who tooke great paines and liued a farre more austere life than they do could hardly performe as he himselfe testifieth They neuer eat together but on Sundayes or Festiuall dayes and then euery man hath his seuerall portion but all alike as the fashion is among all Monks and Friers Euery Priest Deacon or Subdeacon among these Carthusians hath a little house or Cell and a little garden to himselfe where his bed and study is and where hee is alwaies but when he is at Church There is a partition-wall between euery Friers house and garden and another When they are in their houses or Cels they must locke their doores fast that no man can come at them but some of the Lay-brethren that haue libertie to goe vp and downe the Cloister at their pleasure for they are the vnder-officers who bring them their portions of meat and drink and do deliuer it in at a window or hole that is by their doores in the wall but they must not goe into the Cell nor speake together vnlesse it be vpon extremitie This Order was instituted about the yeare 1080. as I told you before and confirmed by Pope Alexander the third about the yeare 1178. since which time they haue beene spread ouer all Christendome and still are vnder the Catholike gouernment Balaeus Cent. 2. cap. 63 de Scrip. Brit. e●… Tho. Scrop● They came into England about the yeare 1180. and at Witham neare Bath built their first Cloister Afterwards they came to London and had a faire sumptuous house at the Charterhouse and another at Sein neare Brainford They began very poore but now they are as rich as Princes They should not by their rule bee more in one Couent than twelue Religious men besides the Prior and the Procurator and eighteene Lay-brothers and a conuenient number of hyndes or seruants who neuer come into the Quire where the Prior the other Religious men that are present sit to heare Masse or any spirituall exercise but sit in