Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	spain_n	3,841	5	8.4366	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

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

and so many others that if they now should bee traduced for scandalizing the Church and Religion of Rome their very bones would rise out of their graues in Iudgement against you and their now bookes extant in the world would vp and assume life to defie you to your faces 12. Last of all concerning their Simony The History of Matthew Paris is a very Map wherein he doth quasi digito demonstrare the Vsury Symony Rapi ne Sacriledge and vniust gaine wherewith the Popes inriched their Coffers out of England yea he inlargeth the particulars of euery Kings Raigne insomuch that speaking of Gregory the 7. he cryes out that his Agents did vexe the people And Feline sheweth that without the rent of Simony the Church of Rome would come to contempt For of late dayes they haue erected diuers Bankes called Monti de Pieta as appeareth in Onuphrius in the liues of Iulius the 3. Paul the 4. and Pius the 4. Vrbane the 6. would sell Crosses Chalices and Images Boniface the 9. would bargaine for money for Benefices and when it was scarce take Pigs Cattel and Wares which his Agents should vent out againe I will not talke of Masses Sacraments Pardons Indulgences such like but tell you what they say in Spaine and that in a Rime Es el primero ganor dinero and for the person of the Pope Todo parami nada para Vos There is a saying of Alexander the 6. Vendere iure potest emerat ille prius Benet the 9. sold the papacy for 1500. pounds of gold to Gregory the 6. And no man obtaineth that place but for great summes of money and larger promises as the discourses of the Conclaues testifie and Bene writeth at large Briget in her Reuelations saith that the Pope hath turned all Gods commandements into one and that is Dapecuniam But Mantuan hath it thus Venalia nobis Templa Sacerdotes altaria sacra coronae Ignis thura preces Calum est venale Deusque Frederick the 2. for one absolution paid to Gregory the 9. 125000. ounces of gold as the Pontificall Nanclere epitome rerū Germ. Iohn of Pineda and others doe reckon Leo the 10. brought such a scandall vpon the sale of Indulgences in Germany as comming then to Magdalene the Popes honest Sister that all the Country was mooued and complained thereof But Theoderick testifieth in his booke that Boniface the ninth sold benefices as he was hearing of Masse and Theoderick Trudo hath a pretty complaint That Christs sheep-folds were broken downe with hammers of siluer The time of Henry 3. in England was so deplored of the Emperour that hee reprehended the King for suffering his Country to bee so shamefully empouerished by the Pope For Mathew Paris writes that at one time they had as much money out of England as remained there except Church ornaments Plate and Iewels c. yea Bonner in his preface to Gardiners Booke De vera obedientia saies plainly That the Popes spoiles did equall the Kings reuennues Lewis the 9. of France in his Pragmatical sanction not onely complaineth of the Popes exactions but absolutely forbideth them Whereupon the Uniuersitie of Paris in an appeale from Leo the tenth taxeth the insatiable Auarice of the Court of Rome as drawing from thence 2500000. crownes a yeere confounding lawes and Cannons by expectatiues and reseruations and vpon pretence of diuers faculties comming from thence Iames Arch-Bishop of Ments payed diuers summes of money for his Pall and Valla made a treatise against the forged deuotion of Constantine accusing the Pope for selling the gifts of the holy Ghost wherein he did worse then Verres or Cateline or any robber of the common treasure But Theoderick compares the Popes exchecquer to the Sea into which all Riuers runne and yet it runnes not ouer yea he sayeth plainely that the Popes officers were so many tormentours of Hell to scourge the people Alan Chartier testifies that Gods Sanctuarie was a common market place for the sale of benefices Iohn of Salsburie cries out that the Pope became intolerable delighted in the spoiles of the Church Vespergēsis affirmeth that all men sought to Rome for dispensation of offences and were released for money But Iohannes Andreas goes further exclaiming that Rome was founded by robbers and yet retaineth a sent of her first liquor as if hee should say Quo semel est imbuta recens seruabit odorem pesta diu I could here also recite the 100. grieuances of 〈◊〉 the sayings of Albericus à Rosato the complaints of Iohannes Petrus de Ferrara and that Pretrach calleth her Lanata Babylonia But if I now should tell you after all this getting of wealth and amassing of treasure their pride and sumptuousnes in the spending of the same you would be amazed and wonder with what spirit they durst iustifie such sacrilegios vanity and vnparaleld magnificence wherein Princes come short of their Regality Baptista Fulgosius recordeth of one Peter Riarus at first a Frier minorite that being created Cardinall by Pope Sixtus 4. he had his Gownes of cloth of gold the Couerings and Tikes of his bed of the same and all other furniture of the best Silke At Rome hee made a Feast to Elenor of Arragon as shee was going to marry the Duke of Ferrara called Hercules de Est which lasted seuen houres with great varietie and pompous playes and liued in that excesse of Voluptuousnesse and cost that all Italy admired his wealth Another had a Concubine called Tiresia and kept her publikely with shooes set with Pearle and precious Stones but this is common and the Cardinals at this houre glory in such excesse A Franciscan of Millane called Sanson had so enriched himselfe by Bribery Simony Sacrilege and other exactions that hee offered 120000. dukats for the Popedome but this kinde of life and expences is so customary in Rome that I need insist on no further particulars especially the maintaining of Curtezans which name had originall from the courtlinesse and maiestie of the Cardinals so that you shall read that in the time of Paul the 5. which was then esteem'd a time of restraint there were but 45000. notorious Curtezans in Rome But what need I goe so farre as Rome for wealthy Prelates when wee had in England in the time of Henry the 5. a Bishop of Winchester who lent the King 20000. pound Sterling to goe into France In the time of Rich. the 1. a Bishop of Durham able to buylan Earledome In the time of Henry 6. Cardinall Beuford worth aboue 200000. Sterling In the time of Henry the 8. a Cardinall Wolsey exceeding all the Prelates of Europe for wealth and magnificence And in the time of Queene Mary a Cardinall Poole one of the sumptuous subiects of the world The Conclusion NOw ye Lords that entertaine these Priests with familiar imbraces and admit them to your Tables and Closets as if you would rely vpon the Verdict of some Oracle whereas yet in other Countreys they are euen derided of their best Supporters Now ye Ladies that in a manner hang about their necks with admiration as if you were to runne to touch the hemme of Christs garment supposing all sanctitie and piety to bee the ornaments of their hypocrisie Now see Gentiles that are so easily seduced with imposturing cunning of dissimuled holinesse and wil not beleeue the incantation of Syrens whose end is destruction or to deuoure your soules Now yee people that are transported with vaine apparitions and gew-gaw superstition to please the naturall man with pastime and trumperies seeing these things are so which I haue recited being not the tenth of that which I could enlarge May I not well say to you as S. Paul said to the Galatians O ye Fooles who hath bewitched you What a Pope doe you adore The Man of sinne the sonne of perdition the Whore of Babylon the Beast with seuen heads and ten Horns c What Priests and Prelates doe yee entertaine that will leade you from the pure Waters of Shiloa where you may wash and be cleane without money into the durty puddles of filthinesse where yet you must be at great expences to purchase monstrous deformitie What doctrine doe you make much of of darknesse and pollution which cannot endure the sunny splendour of the Word of God so that without controuersie if the blind lead the blind both fall into the Ditch and in the end you shall bee so besmeared with the deuices of wicked Traditions that neither Culanais nor a thousand Riuers of Oyle shall make you cleane Returne therefore betimes I beseech you to Wisedomes Feast to the balme of Gilead to bring in the Arke and to re-edifie Ierusalem Oh returne returne I say for Gods sake for Christs sake for Religions sake for your owne soules sakes that you may see the difference betweene the bloudy Scarlet Robes of the Cardinals and the innocent white garments of the Saints That ye may heare the voice of Come ye blessed and not Goe you cursed And that you may come before the Lambe freely with the signature of righteousnesse and repentance and not at all bee beholding to Saint Peter and his Keyes which I dare sweare are not yet found since the Pope cast them into Tyber A Ioue surgit opus FINIS Martial l. 13. Epigram 1. Lying Miracles Coozening deuices 4. Epicurisine and Drunkennesse 5. Thefts and Robberies 6. Murther and bloudy cruelty 7. Their Blasphemies 7. Their Blasphemies 9. Their Beastlinesse 10. Their fooleries 11. Their impieties 12. Their Simony

Tale is seconded by many other Stories in mine Author Pogius the Florentine reports of an Hermite at Padoa called Anfimirius in the time of Francis the 7. Duke who was accused for intising the yong and handsome women to his lust and pleasure Wherevpon the Dukes Secretarie was very busie to examine him hoping hee would name some at whose husbands hee might make sport and laughter In which iollitie hee vrgeth him againe and againe to set down the women Why then quoth the Hermite and you bee so hastie write downe your owne Wife first I hope you may imagine hee was amazed the Duke smiled and the whole company stood silent for feare their turne should be next A Priest at Paris after Shrift vvent no further then the Pew he sate in to satisfie his lust A Curate neere Vienne in Daulphine vvent behinde the high Altar A woman taken in Adulterie with a Priest was accused and examined but because shee could not deny the fact the Priest was brought before the Bishop who prescribed him this penance not to come in three months within a Church Whē the man who was thus abused vnderstood of so small a punishment he lies in wait for him and cruelly beates him so that hee is brought before his Iudge to receiue punishment who awarded him not to come into a Tauern in 3. moneths At which the Bishop seemed much offended till the Iudge answered My Lord considering the first abuse I hope it is as great a punishment for him not to visit a Tauerne as penance for the Priest not to trouble a Church In a Village neere Corguac called Cherues a Maid was got with child by her owne Brother which she discouered to a Priest and he perswaded the people impragnatam à spiritu But when so great an imposture came to the eares of the Earle of Angolesme father to Francis the first he quickly found out the deceit and so they vvere both burnt and the Priest suspended To conclude this Section I will be bold with the Records of the time of Henry the eight in our owne Countrey concerning the Visitation of Monasteries Couents Collegiat Churches and other religious Houses out of which these particulars are extracted that in the Monasterie of Battell or Bete in the Diocesse of Chichester these So domites were discouered Iohn Abbot Richard Salchurst Thomas Cuthert William March Iohn Hasting Gregory Champion Clement West field Iohn-Crosse Thomas Crambrooke Thomas Bayl Iohn Hamfield Iohn Ierom Clement Grigg Rich. Toucy and Iohn Austine In the Church of Canterbury among the Monks of Saint Bennet Richard Godmershem William Leichfield Christopher Iames Iohn Goldingston Nicholas Clement William Causton Iohn Ambrose Tho. Chichester Iohn Champion and Roger Barram And in the Monasterie of Saint Austine Tho. Barram all these were found Sodomites and punished accordingly To name other places and other commissions of whoredome and fornication were infinit but so it was and will be in all Nations where impuritie and superstition ouercomes true zeale and deuotion yet because there were certaine religious men that did obserue state in their impiety and thought scorne to goe to common Brothels or prostituted Whores but kept women by the name of sequestration and so liued more glorious then the rest of poorer Priests I will also name you some of them as among the Monkes of Saint Bennet Christopher Iames had the command and vse of three married women William Abbot of Bristow had foure Whores In Windsor Castle Nich Whyden Priest had but foure George Witborne had fiue Richard Hunn fiue Robert Danison sixe Richard Prior of Maiden-bedly fiue In the Monasterie of Shulberd in the Diocesse of Chichester George Walden Prior had seuen Iohn Standney seuen Nicholas Duke fiue In the Monasterie of Bath Richard Lincombe had seuen In the Cathedrall Church of Chichester Iohn Hill had onely thirteene Iohn White Prior of Bermonsdy had twenty Now if there were foure hundred Couents of Monkes and Nunnes and two hundred of Begging Friers and a suruey taken of all the delinquents in this kinde O iudge for Gods sake iudge how many Whores and Bastards of Priests and Friers might bee in England in those dayes and then if according to the Poet sic paruis componere megna solebam wee could step into France Italy Spaine Germany and other Countries where the Clergy bare the sway and gaue the example and so pull out the dust and rubbish of their vnswept corners Oh what a deale of filth and a dunghill of noysomenesse would arise and what a mountaine of sinne would this sinne make As for the distinction of time I will be bold to say It is as ill now as euer it was in any time Concerning their Epicurisine and gurmandize If euer the Prophet had cause in his time to finde fault with the Priests not onely for their hypocrisie but their filthy and incontinent liues giuen to gluttony and belly-cheere which hee setteth out by the termes of Drunkennes and vomiting I hope the Monkes and Friers of Europe come behinde none of them all Oh looke for Gods sake looke and you shall finde in the Booke of God many inuectiues against corrupt priests couetous priests winking priests negligent priests obstinate priests idolatrous priests rebellious priests indifferent priests gluttonous priests blind priests ignorant priests dumbe priests courtly priests idle vnconstant priests bribed priests hypocriticall priests diuellish priests deuouring priests raging priests incredulous priests flattering priests bloudy priests murchering priests luke-warme priests madde priests Oh looke for Gods sake looke and you shall finde in the Cloisters of Monasteries in the Cels of Abbeys in the Walkes of religious places in the Courts of Princes in the Castles of Lords in the houses of Gentlemen in the streets of Cities in the Farmes of Countreymen and in the Chambers of Widdowes religious men of all these sorts especially hunting after belly-cheere and to fill their veines with fulnesse of blood hot and corrupted Marke but the situation of their Monasteries and Houses Are they not in the fattest grounds and the plentiful fields of the Country Doe they not feed on the choisest Lambes of the fold and stretch out their limmes on beds of Iuory Doe they not carowse in Gobblets and Chalices of Gold and haue the purest Wines of the Vintage With what delicate fruits are their Orchards stored and vvith what walkes of pleasure are their Gardens contriued Was it not a by-word in those dayes A chuffing Abbot A fiery-faced Abbot A gorbellied Abbot Is there not at this houre bread made at Paris of the finest Wheat called the Chapter bread doe they not euery where feed on the daintiest Manchet yea those they call Mendicant Friers eceiue no scraps I hope but whole Loaues and the best prouision in an house Are not their Caters sent to the Markets to prouide the best meat both Flesh Fish Fowle Pikes of fiue French crownes Carps Tenches Barbels and all of that sort at high rates and must they