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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

the King of Spaine who leaue nothing vndone that they make themselues plausible vnto you and your fauourers Now these traiterous Iesuites Monks Friers and Seminary Priests who aime at nothing else than to corrupt the fidelity of England and to withdraw the hearts of his Maiesties subiects from their obedience to their Soueraigne yea finally to plucke England Scotland and Ireland from due subiection to his Maiesty and to present them to this ambitious Philip of Spaine gained first of all secretly those whom they knew to be best affected to the Spaniards as some of the Priuy Councell Nobility Gentry and of his Maiesties Officers at Court and elsewhere and withall not few of our collapsed Ladies in whose laps these holy Fathers doe often lay downe their heads to take a nap nay which is worse they suborned and peruerted many of the Clergy and Students of either Vniuersitie to ioyne with them who O horrible shame make no conscience to sell for ready money their Eloquence and Knowledge which they ought to haue imploied in preaching the Gospell and instructing the simple people in the feare of God and obedience to their King to corrupt the constancy and fidelity of England but Quid non mortalia pectora cogit aurisacra fames What is it that gold will not doe These cunning Iebusites or if you will Iudaists are the King of Spaines trading Factors and Dispensers to distribute and pay his gold to his Pentioners that lurke about the Court of England so that by this meanes he hath still notice and intelligence of the estate of the Realme and withall they seduce the subiects as Cambyses heretofore espied and deceiued the Ethiopians These I say by meanes of their mercenary tongues omit no art that may serue their purpose to suborne England but vse all meanes possible to make his Maiesty odious vnto her and him vnto his subiects in altering as much as in them lieth by their flattering discourses the sincere amity and faithfull loyalty which English men haue alwaies intirely borne towards his Maiesty and his Ancestors either aggrauating euery seeming petty imperfection aboue his great perfection blaming and accusing his gouernment or else in attributing vnto the King of Spaine the glory onely due vnto our Royall Soueraigne and withall in all their Discourses magnifying the greatnesse and vertues of this ambitious Spaniard whom they paint out accomplished with all the perfections that may be imagined and briefly they forget nothing whereby they may withdraw England if they could from her King and withall gull you of your money to enrich themselues and their Colleges Cloisters and Seminaries in those forraigne parts But some Iesuite or one of that faction perchance may obiect that nothing moueth the King of Spaine to be at such great charges to maintaine so many English Seminaries Colleges and Cloisters in those forraigne parts and to transport from thence so many Monks Friers and other religious men into the King of Englands Dominions but onely to conserue among you the Catholike Religion Ah poore senselesse soules for Gods sake giue eare to what I shall briefly recount touching him and his Predecessors actions in this point and then you shall plainly perceiue whether the zeale that he beareth towards your Religion solliciteth him to be so charitable you vnto as you imagine Hath this great King or his Father or Grandfather spent their treasures or hazzarded the liues of their subiects onely for the aduancement of the Christian Faith against vnchristian Princes nothing lesse To verifie this to be true I will produce you these two examples Pope Gregory the 13. proposing himselfe to the aid of certaine Christian Princes to make an enterprise vpon the Persian for the augmentation of the Church of Rome requested that ambitious Philip King of Spaine this Kings Grand-father to giue him some succour which he not only flatly denied but which is more would not lend any of his Gallies albeit the holy Sea of Rome offered to charge them at her owne charges Moreouer how dealt he with the late King of Portugall Don Sebastian whose death all Christendome had sufficient cause to bewaile who desiring to assist Mulei Mahumet King of Fez and Morocco against Mulei Maluco his brother who had expulsed him his Realme a worke surely worthy of so noble a Prince and aduantagious besides to the Church of Rome for the good conditions he had compounded with the stranger required Philip his Vnkle to succour him in that expedition who accorded that hee should haue fifty Gallies equipped and foure thousand fighting men which Mulei Maluco the other brother perceiuing incontinently offered Philip certaine Townes on the Sea side to desist from his promise which he speedily accepted not shaming to breake his oath sworne to his Nephew to contract alliance with a barbarous Infidell so much did auarice raigne ouer him as to cause him to violate the Lawes of God and men but he was paid with the same mony that he lent for sending his Ambassadour Vanegas to take possession of the Towne of Rarach and others promised vnto him the Barbarians mocking at his treachery and perfidiousnesse constrained the Ambassadour by force of the Cannon to retire sooner than he was willing But it may be you will say he bare himselfe politikely in these two actions to conserue and maintaine his owne estate as if humane policy were to be preferred before the Law and honour of God I but for all this he hath shewed himselfe a very zealous Catholike and hath carried a particular respect towards tho●e that make a strict profession of his owne Religion well but let vs see if that be true After that he had inuaded the Kingdome of Portugall and that among infinite other Ladies he had banished into Castile the wife of the Agent of Don Antonio the lawfull King thereof his children and Mother in Law he drew three of his sisters chaste and religious Nunnes out of the Monastery of Saint Clare at Lisbone and confined them likewise into Castile But he hath dealt maruellous mercifully with them in sauing their liues albeit seruile and miserable Yea but sith the women are thus dealt with the men must be handled a little more rigorously and surely herein he hath thorowly acquitted himselfe witnesse a religious Frier named Iohn of the Order of Saint Dominick who for embracing the liberty of his Country was hanged in the I le of Madera Another Frier Hector Pintus of the Order of Saint Hierome was committed to the hands of certaine souldiers in Castile where he was afterwards impoisoned Frier Iames de Noronba another Dominican Frier and brother to the Earle of Mira was so cruelly beaten by the souldiers that were of his guard that he died A Doctor named Frier Augustine of the Order of Saint Augustine and one Frier Emanuel Margues a Franciscan Frier were both chained together with Rouers and Theeues in a Galley which was afterwards taken by the Turks vnder whose crueltie I leaue it to

another Quire below the other by themselues Of all other Orders of Monks and Friers these doe lead the solitariest life and are lesse troublesome or burthenous to that Common-wealth where they liue And withall I finde but few or none of them to haue beene Canonized Saints by the Popes for they are none of these Miracle-mongers I meane these Carthusian Friers do neuer as they themselues confesse neither aliue or dead worke any miracles And the reason is as they say because heretofore about the yeare of our Lord 1175. A lowd lye a certaine Monk of this Order being dead wrought many miracles at his tombe or sepulcher and therefore many people resorted thither The Prior perceiuing that the concourse of the multitude did much trouble and disturbe the Monks quietnesse and deuotion or rather that much wickednesse was daily committed as well by those people as also by the Monks and withall of the concourse of many beggers that resorted thither to preuent this mischiefe hee came to the place where the dead Monk lay and commanded him vpon paine of disobedience to obey him now being dead as he had formerly done in his life-time Bonifacius Ferrarius Antoninus Tit. 15. cap. 22. And withall afterwards not to worke any more miracles the which the dead Monk straight way obeyed And neuer since the Carthusian Friers wrought not any miracles either liuing or dead They haue a Chapter generall yearely in the moneth of May at Carthusia where the first institution of their Order was and where their first Cloister was built which is by report a famous thing To this Chapter doe two Monks out of euery Cloister that is of their Order in all the world repaire where they doe consult about the affaires and propagation of their Order and Family and after that they haue continued there some fortnight as I haue heard they returne home euery man to his owne Cloister There is a Couent of English Friers of this Order at Mechlin neare Bruxels they are very rich and were in great hope when his Maiestie was in Spaine to haue recouered their Cloisters and Reuenues in England But now of late I heare say the more is the pitie that they as well as others of our English Monks Friers and Iesuites yea the holy Nuns are fallen into a consumption or rather desperation if it be true I would aduise them to send for Don Diego Sarmientes Conde de Gondomar to administer physicke vnto them for he is if I am not much deceiued the best Doctor to touch their pulse and to purge their ill humors as for their purses he hath done it alreadie and to say the truth he is the man that is best acquainted with their diseases All these former Orders or Sects of Monks and Friers doe abound in riches and doe more resemble Princes than Religious men Their Monasteries are most sumptuously built and situated in the fattest ground and the most plentifull fields of the Countrey neare some pleasant Riuer Haue they not all the pleasures that the Country can afford Doe they not feed on the choisest meat and drink yea carouse of the purest wine in bowles and goblets of gold and siluer that can be got for money Haue they not their Orchards stored with the delicatest fruits that can be had Oh how are their Gardens contriued with pleasant walkes and furnished with infinite varietie of sweet and medicinable herbes and roots and with most curious and costly fountaines springs statues groues and thickets Doe they not rest vpon beds of downe and pure sweet linnen How are their Celles hanged with cloth of Arras and other curious and costly tapistrie Haue they not their white Island-dogges munkies parots and other prating birds to sport and recreate themselues withall With what statelinesse doe they ride abroad in their Caroches or vpon their great horses or mules in their foot-cloathes What reuerence doe they exact or at least-wise expect from all sorts of people Haue they not their Monasteries Orchards Gardens walkes groues fountaines and fish-ponds compassed about with a high thicke stone or bricke wall to the end that none may discouer their secret knaueries or participate of their pleasant walkes Are not their gates alwaies locked that none can come in except it be their speciall friends Haue they not whole Manors Farmes Granges Vineyards Dayries and great flockes of sheepe herds of cattell hogs and goats yea all kinde of poultries corne pastures and other prouision of their owne farre more than will serue their turne How costly are their Chalices Corporas Copes Vestiments and other Church-furniture In what pompe doth an Abbot sing Masse and his Monks assist and serue him To conclude wheresoeuer there is any Abbey or Priorie there doe Whores and Bawds dwell and resort by whole hundreds And that this is true all honest Trauellers that know Italy Spaine France Germany Netherland and other Catholike Countries can beare me record And is this iudge you to forsake the world to mortifie the flesh and to spend the time in holy meditations and prayers Or is it not to carry the world and all the pompe pleasures and concupiscences thereof with them into their Cloisters and Monasteries As their holy Father the Pope would haue Orbem in Vrbe Rome to containe all the World Hauing treated though briefly of the rich Monks and Friers it remains now for me to speake of the Mendicant or begging Friers and lastly of the Iesuites whom in regard they are such eminent men in the Church of Rome withall good souldiers and singular good miners well experienced in powder plots and fire-workes I will place in the reareward of this Regiment of Monks and Friers and in the latter end of this Discourse I will therefore according to their antiquitie begin with the Augustine Mendicant Friers because they challenge the first ranke or place among the Begging Friers wherein I shall not as I hope doe the other Friers any wrong seeing that they haue the first place of all these kinde of Friers in all Processions Burialls and other Assemblies whatsoeuer Of the Augustin Mendicant Friers THese Mendicant Friers doe challenge to be the first Order of Religious men that S. Augustine did erect or institute which was say they when he liued in the wildernesse and therefore are called Augustiniani Eremitani or Heremite Augustine Friers The Canon Regulars doe vtterly deny it in so much that the most part of their owne learned men do suspect that neither the one or other was euer instituted by that learned man S. Augustine as I told you before as appeares by these ensuing verses which were written many yeares agoe Mendici fratres induti vestibus atris Augustinus ego nomen habere nego These begging Friers that in blacke are clad Nor name nor habite from Saint Austen had Balaeus Cent. 7. cap. 89. in Appendice c. They came into England from Italy about the yeare 1252. At which time there began such a

is to bee corrected in religious Orders because that very many of them are become so deformed in life and behauiour that they are a great scandall to the secular people and doe much hurt by their lewd and ill examples and therefore we thinke it meet that all conuentuall Orders be quite abolished and supprest not that we would haue any of them iniured but to prohibit them to admit any new men into their Orders so that by this meanes they may be all soone suppressed And wee thinke it fit that all boies who are not as yet professed Friers be expulsed out of their Monasteries And againe Alius abusus turbat Christianum Populum in Monialibus quae sunt sub cura fratrum conuentualium vbi in plerisque Monasterijs fiunt publica Sacrilegia cum maximo omnium scandalo auferat ergo S. V. omnem curam à conuentualibus eamque det ordinarijs aut alijs prout melius videbitur Another abuse doth trouble the Christian common wealth and that is in the Nuns who are vnder the custody and charge of the Conuentuall Friers who in most of their Monasteries doe commit publike Sacrilege to the great scandall of all men Let your Holinesse therefore take away this charge from the Conuentuall Friers and giue it to the Ordinaries or some others as you shall see best Now the names of these great personages that presented that Booke to the Councell of Trent and the Pope were these Gasper Cardinalis Contarenus Iohannes Petrus Card. Theatinus who was afterwards Pope Paul the fourth Iacobus Card. Sadoletus Reignaldus Card. Auglicus otherwise called Cardinall Poole Fredericus Arch. Salernitanus Hieronymus Arch. Brundusinus Ioh. Matthaeus Episcopus Veronensis Gregorius Abbas Sancti Georgij Venet. F. Thomas Magister Sacri Palatij Now you poore abused Romish Recusants vnmaske pull away the veile which the Monks Friers Iesuits and other Seminary Priests haue put before your eyes turne away your eares from their crafty illusions breake the bonds wherewith they haue captiuated you and purge your braines with some good Antidote against their charmes and then not till then shall you perceiue in what darknesse in what error and in what captiuity you haue beene so long detained whilest these cursed Hispaniolized Bald pates haue gouerned you then you your selues shall bee Iudges how much you haue lost of your beauty of your authority of your wisdome and of your lands reuenues and riches yea of your honour and estimation in the common wealth so that if you would I say looke backe vpon your selues you should see that your visages are so changed that you could not know your selues nay you would be afraid to behold your owne faces and withall your neighbours who were wont to pity your folly doe now hisse at you pointing with their fingers and mocking at your desperate rage and miserable stupidity which hath made you more sauage than Medea against your owne innocent children whom you most cruelly and without any humanity banish and transport ouer into forraigne Countries thereto be mewed vp like so many Hawkes in Colleges and Cloisters and withall wasting and consuming your lands and riches to maintaine these Impostors and cheating Copesmates who delude and deceiue you with their charmes and feed you with hope of the restauration or at least a toleration of the Romish Religion the which you haue long wished and expected for but I hope that you are as neere now to obtaine it as you and your fore-fathers were in Queene Elizabeths raigne Take patience a while and hearken vnto one that wisheth your welfare in the Lord and one who hath nor will relate vnto you any thing which shall be vnreasonable but wholly to your aduantage and profit Imitate therefore that vertuous Prince Antigonus who freely hearkned vnto a plaine country man whom he met with by chance reprehending the vices wherewith he was attached and albeit he felt himselfe pricked to the quicke yet he tooke all in so good part that it turned greatly to his profit correcting afterwards that which the good man had noted to be vicious in him and being returned home to his Court he said vnto his Minions that he had learned that of a Peasant which he neuer knew before namely the truth which his flatterers had kept hidden and disguised In like manner poore deceiued Country-men depart but a while from these fraudulous and traiterous Monks Friers Iesuits and Seminary Priests to learne not of your domesticall flatterers and deluders but of a stranger that is desirous for your owne good and safety to make you know the sincere verity which this long time you haue not heard of for that you would neuer giue eare to any discourse but those of your deceiuers who continually entertaine you with faire words and great hopes and all not worth a rotten Figge The King of Spaine seeing himselfe inriched with the spoiles of other Kings and Princes not contenting himselfe with the prey imagineth that it should serue him but as a Ladder to mount to the top of an absolute Monarchy And being as it were drunke with the greatnesse of his happy successe he beganne to plot higher attempts in his spirit as ambition neuer wants matter proposing England for the marke of his other enterprises but knowing well that hee might not attempt openly vpon it and that herein force of armes might turne rather to his damage than profit as it did in the yeere 1588. and likewise in the latter end of Queene Elizabeths raigne when he sent forces into Ireland to ioyne with the Rebell Tyrone he resolued to follow the aduice of Lisander namely Where the Lions skin is not strong enough to patch it with a peece of the Foxes But then he imagined that nothing could more securely and more soone eleuate him to the top of this greatnesse than a forcible Ladder of gold vnderpropped with a more than Punick subtilty and masked with a false semblance of integrity and religion First of all he had a recourse vnto a company of cunning Magicians who had beene ingendred here in England and other places of our Kings Maiesties Dominions but brought vp trained and instructed in the proud and Magnificent Palace of Rome at the foot of the sonne of Perdition or in some other of his Seminary Colleges or Cloisters whom hauing furnished in abundance with all that was requisite for for their affaires recommending vnto them all his designes but with this prouiso that they should especially keep themselues disguised and lurke vnder the maske of the Catholike Religion then he presently sends them into England And these are those mischieuous and traiterous brood which you call the holy Fathers the Iesuites a name truly fatall and pernicious to euery well ordered Monarchy and Common-wealth These Sorcerers together with a whole regiment of Monks Friers and Seminary Priests as their Coadiutors and fellow-helpers were presently receiued and entertained with great applause of you and all others the Partakers and Pentioners of