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A01748	A true relation of the faction begun at VVisbich by Fa. Edmonds, alias VVeston, a Iesuite, 1595. and continued since by Fa. Walley, alias Garnet, the prouincall of the Iesuits in England, and by Fa. Parsons in Rome, with their adherents: against vs the secular priests their bretheren and fellow prisoners, that disliked of nouelties, and thought it dishonourable to the auncient ecclesiasticall discipline of the Catholike Church, that secular priests should be gouerned by Iesuits.	Bagshaw, Christopher, d. 1625?; Watson, William, 1559?-1603.	1601 (1601)	STC 1188; ESTC S100519	61,716	102

that the said diuision toucheth the greater and better part of that company Alack alack doth it so It toucheth indeede the greater part and that very neerely for it shewed them for the time to be very factious such as secretly banded and combined themselues with a Iesuite against their fellow prisoners and brethren And therefore in that hee sayth those conspiring companions were the better part he speaketh like himselfe very vntruly as we in our indgements do esteeme of honest men Mary in his sense and according to the common saying the veryer knaues the better luck they may well be reckoned the better part because none are iudged vertuous or of any estimation that oppose themselues against the Iesuites or refuse to worship their Iesuiticall Idoll our Arch-priest And yet we will be content to let them go for once as he would haue them so he ioyne those words with the other that follow and to this effect The sayd contention toucheth the better part and therefore it concerneth neither himselfe nor any of his louing assistants nor their impregnable authoritie But in good sooth maister Blackwell speake truly man doth not that contention in some sort touch your high authoritie Was it not the ground of it If we had yeelded to Fa. Westons agencie had you bin euer aduaunced as you are Did not our garboyles beget your greatnes If maister Weston had preuailed with vs maister Garnet would haue wiped your nose for dealing like a yong prince abroade-as you do And therefore indeed in a right good sense wee are your good maisters and so you ought to esteeme vs. But if we should deale more seriously with you and vrge you to set downe wherein the said great part was or is the better what durst you say if you haue any sparke of the feare of God before your eyes Are they better learned for shame you will not say it Are their liues more sincere I hope you will charge vs with no dishonestie or if you dare we defye you being in our liues we trust blameles before men and euery way as honest as your selfe at the least As touching the orders you speake of they were yeelded vnto it is true by our consent and that most willinglie but as for maister Weston it so stroke him to the hart to yeeld vnto them as he fell downe presently before the company into a swoune such was his pride and so vnwilling he was to be ouer-ruled for the time And whereas our Archpriest saith that it is well knowne at Rome by whose means the said orders were disanulled we are glad to heare it and haue taken some little paines in this treatise to make it also as well knowne here in England If his meaning be that we of the Vnity did first disanull them he sayth vntruly and they in Rome are falsely informed No no those orders crossed too much the Iesuites deseignements to haue any long continuance where they had any factious creatures to infringe them But that which followeth is worthie some especiall consideration Neither was it more vnfitting sayth maister Blackwell for those which liued in one house to institute rules for such as voluntarily demaunded and accepted them then to procure a sodality abroade In good faith we are sory that we are compelled to disclose this fellowes fals●hood and how much he is sunne-burnt with Iesuitisme It is a world to see how artificially he doth smooth ouer in thi● place diuers false and some very absurd points And firs● consider we pray you whether it was as fit for Priests i● prison to choose a Iesuite to rule them as for other Priests abroade to desire to haue a Bishop to gouerne them and whether suiteth better with the auncient discipline of the Catholick Church for secular Priests to sue to the Prouinciall of the Iesuites to haue a Iesuite for their head or for others to sue to his holynes to assigne them a Bishop But let this passe and proceede we to the rest and when you heare the truth in a word then consider the mans sinceritie It will appeare vnto you by the history following that Fa. Weston had bin laboring for a superioritie ouer his brethren for the space of seauen yeeres To that purpose he had insinuated himselfe by hypocrisie and vnequall distribution of money into the fauors of the yonger sort such as were either themselues Iesuites or else inclining thereunto The Rules he speaketh of were of Fa. Westons owne making And all this was done secretly the grauer sort of the company being neuer acquainted with it When they had contriued their busines as you haue heard they pretend themselues to be more holy then the rest of vs whom they misliked and that therefore in respect of the sinnes that raigned amongst vs they would no more either eate or drinke with vs but would haue their diet by themselues And in conclusion they seuered themselues from vs and dealt as you shall perceiue in this treatise at large more like Donatists then Catholick Priests And all this inquitie doth this Iesuiticall Arch-priest couer in the sayd words so Clarkly masked with good tearmes without any regard either of conscience or common honesty but to abuse the world for the better vpholding of his owne credit which being gotten by falshood is still yet so mainteined But we keepe you too long from the story it selfe and therefore referring you for this matter to the sayd printed discourse in answere both of it and many other points we commit you by our prayers to Almighty God who open your eyes and harts that you may truly discerne betweene wolues and true pastors of your soules and accordingly to imbrace them as heretofore you haue done and we hope will do hereafter A true relation of the faction begun at VVisbich IN the yeare 1579. M. Saunders was dispatched from Rome to Ireland and not long after the Pope sent other forces thither About the same time also the King of Spayne intending to assayle Portugall vpon the death of King Henry the late Cardinall prepared an Army and a Nauy as it was pretended for England And to countenance the same he procured by Cardinall Alexandrino his meanes the renouation of the Bull published by Pius quintus against her Maiestie and printing of them to the number of 1500. at the least he was content they should be spread abroad Not long after Father Parsons and two other Iesuites his subiects Father Campion and Father Cotham came into England with such a noyse as mooued great expectation in some and diligent caution to be had of their proceedings by others These things hapning thus together her Maiestie and the State as fearing the worst disposed of the affayres in the Realme accordingly and thought it conuenient to carry a hand more hardly vpon the Catholicks So as in the yeare 1580. Doctor Watson Bishop of Lincolne Doctor Fecknam Abbot of Westminster Doctor Young maister Metham Doctor Oxenbridge and maister Bluet were sent to remayne

as prisoners in the Castle of Wisbich where they liued in great vnitie and brotherly kindnes euery man intermedling only with his owne affayres and priuate meditations They were all in commons with the keeper and for their recreation had a Garden there to walke in and to solace themselues as they thought good Such money as was sent to any particular man he had himselfe the disposition of it as he thought it conuement that which came for the common vse was by all their consents deliuered still to mayster Bluet who diuided the same to euery man alike There was then no affectation of superiority but euery man yeelded of his owne accord that duty and precedencie which to euery one was due the keeper hauing the commaundement ouer them all Afterwards within about three yeares eight or nine Gentlemen were likewise sent to remayne there as prisoners vpon certayne speeches that the Duke of Guise had some intendment against England whereby the number of the prisoners increased without any disturbance at all to the foresayde vnity These Gentlemen liued at their owne charges and as most dutifull children demeaned themselues towards their fellow prisoners and spirituall fathers If at any time some little indiscretion hapned in any a word especially of his ghostly father was more then sufficient to reforme it or if vpon such like an occasion Bishop Watson were mooued to reprooue this or that his answere was What are we not fellow prisoners Are we not at the commaundement of an other Shall Iadde affliction to one that is afflicted Are we men who professe our selues to be examples to others in suffering for our consciences and shall we not be thought then able without controllers to gouerne our selues Be content I will not take vpon me to reprooue my fellow prisoners And indeed this was the course that euery man held so as by submitting themselues one to an other euery man had a commaunding power one ouer an other such was the most christian and brotherly affection amongst them In this sort they liued till all were either dead or gone but maister Metham and maister Bluet which was for the space of about sixe or seauen yeares Afterwards vpon new attempts by Babington and his associates against her Maiestie and by reason of the rumours of the King of Spaines preparations aboue thirtie priests that were prisoners elsewhere were in the yeare 1587 as we remember sent likewise to Wisbich In which number was maister Edmonds alias Weston a Iesuite a man who after Heywoods departure out of England was sent hither by Parsons from Paris to bee his substitute or Prouinciall Vpon whose apprehension maister Walley alias Garnet by order from Fa. Parsons did succede him in that office This company had scarsely consorted themselues with maister Metham and maister Bluet by the space of a weeke but Fa. Weston hauing in him the reliques of his late prouincialitie began to cast about how he might aduance himselfe aboue his brethren To which effect entring amongst his best acquaintance into a great commendation of discipline he offred to their considerations a very simple man one maister Dry-land a Seminary priest and his ghostly father for a fit person to take vpon him the direction and ouersight of the whole companie adding that if they thought that there were any thing in him the sayd Weston worthy the reckening of he would imploy the same at their commaundement to the assisting and directing of him the sayd Dryland for the full supplying of any defects in him This motion finding little successe it being very absurd to make choyse of a head that must borrow his discretion and directions of an other as at this day our Arch-priest Blackwell doth of Fa. Garnet the Iesuite he the sayd Weston gaue it ouer for about three weekes And then he began againe though in a more generall sort to insist very grauely vpon his sayd pretended discipline ayming with all his skill at his owne particular preferment for thus the case stood Maister Bluet being a man that had bin chiefely imployed in the affaires of that house was iunior to maister Metham and he the sayd maister Metham hauing more lately entred into the society of the Iesuits then maister Weston was thereby notwithstanding that otherwise he was farre his auncient yet his inferior according to the rules of that calling Now one of these three if there should haue bin a gouernour chosen being supposed to be the fittest amongst all the rest for such a place maister Weston gessed that in that choyse they would haue omitted maister Bluet in respect of maister Metham and him the sayd maister Metham in regard of himselfe and that so they should haue bin driuen to haue chosen him the sayd Weston But it fell out otherwise for in their consultation it was thought that maister Bluet by reason of his long experience in that house and of his acquaintance in that towne together with the generall knowledge had of him with all Catholicks in England in respect of his long dealings with the common money could in no sort be omitted So as they concluded that if they must be driuen to haue any such gouernment ouer them it was most expedient to choose them all three Whereupon maister Weston perceiuing that he could not get the whole regiment to himselfe gaue that attempt ouer vnder pretence that he being a Iesuite was forbidden by the rules of his order and others his superiors to meddle in matters of gouernment But it is here to be obserued that the Iesuites long before this time hauing gotten the regiment of the English Seminary at Rome our countriemen of that order no sooner came into England but presently as the sequele declared they began to lay their plots how they might bring the secular priests heads vnder their girdles For notwithstanding their said rule of not intermedling with gouernment mentioned by Fa. Weston they haue so many wayes to qualify it as indeed it is but a mask to couer their sleights with till opportunitie doth serue them Whereof Fa. Weston hauing sufficient intelligence and skill did not from time to time almost by the space of seauen yeares omit to put the same in practise He laboured as cunningly as he could to creepe into the fauour of the yonger sort When strangers came it should escape him narrowly but he would be the first that should bid them welcome and no friendship could be held with him except he might make the collation at such times vsuall In which collations he would seldome omit to insist vpon the commendation of order and discipline which being things in themselues of great worth he was still therein to them that vnderstood him not very plausible Being a man as impatient as some of his fellowes and of as haughty a spirit as any man can be it was wonderfull to consider what humblenes and simplicitie he would pretend His sighs and zeale seemed to be extra ordinary as though the perfection of true

skorne to come to any one but where they may be daintily and costly entertayned they looke not after the cottages of the poore nor minister their help to them be there neuer so much need Moreouer they are so delighted with equiuocation or a subtile and dissembling kind of speech as that to the scandall of others they are not ashamed to defend it in their publick writings There were read before the Iudges on the bench in open Court and in the hearing of all the people the letters of a certain Iesuite named Southwell wherein equiuocations were most absurdly defended which gaue cause of laughter to the hereticks and occasion of scandall to the Catholicks They take pleasure also to scatter rumors and to suggest certaine nouelties in the eares of Catholicks yea to forge and inuent things that are not insomuch as they are commonly held now a dayes great lyars and it is come to that passe that though they sweare men will not beleeue them All Vniuersitie men and such as haue taken any degree in schooles and such in our countrey are most regarded they hate most despise contemne and reproch It is a common report in England that had it not bin for the pride and ambition of the Iesuites there had eare this bin graunted some toleration in Religion To conclude omitting all other things which are very many I wil only rehearse one which I haue heard of many that it is come to this passe now that the Catholicks stand in more feare of the Iesuites then of the hereticks For the hereticks say they can but chasten the bodie only but the Iesuites wound both their bodies and their good name They do not indeed directly cause Priests to be apprehended but indirectly That is hauing spread some reports of them whereby their good name is taken away so as they stand suspected either of heresie or of some other heynous offence no Catholick entertayneth them and so consequently they are driuen to pouertie how can they escape the hands of the hereticks And albeit they lye in prison and bonds and are many wayes tormented if they be not crowned with the glory of martyrdome they shal neuer be purged from that former suspition but shall be accounted euery day more and more as hereticks Certayne chiefe points of accusations wherewith many English men haue iustly charged the Iesuites vnto the Pope and diuers Cardinals taken out of the Memoriall and other letters some of them dated at Rome 8. of Nouember 1597. Touching the Iesuites in England THe Fathers of the Societie do dissent among themselues Fa. Henrie the superior and Fa. Edmonds in the Prison at Wisbich and there 26. Articles of their dissension If any Priest haue a conuenient place of residencie the Iesuits will not cease vntill they haue cast him out and that by wicked meanes by defaming him and bringing him into suspition That the Iesuites are the firebrands of all soditions That the Iesuites by right or wrong seeke simply and absolutely the Monarchie of all England They are enemies to all secular Priests They are the causes of all the discord in the English Nation They are called of the schismaticks horse-leaches or bloud-suckers That Fa. Parsons and Sir Fra. Inglefeild Knight deuised the complot to set the Cardinals Aldobrandinus Caietane and the Bishop of Cassana together by the cares and to fall foule one vpon an other N. wrote to Cardinall Allen that Fa. Holt stoode guiltie and might be accused by him of such infamous matters as he durst not make mētion of in his letters That Fa. Holt did not only intend but would indeede giue wretched England in Conquest to himselfe and his fauorites That Fa. Holt and his companions had gathered such an infinite masse of money from the Catholicks in England for dispensations or vnder the colour of expending it to their vses as many credibly affirmed it to exceede the summe of 50000. pounds english which make two hundreth millions of Italian Scutes That the Iesuites haue driuen certaine excellent men to desperation inforcing them to leaue England and to enter into some religious order or to take some other miserable course That the Iesuites in England by certayne cunning sleights hauing gotten into their hands all authoritie good estimation and all the stock or treasure of money do what they list at home and abroade They thrust out and let in hire and buy intercept letters and maintayne factions as they please them selues That Fa. Holt in Belgia and Parsons in Spayne haue continued these nine whole yeres to the great gricfe of the Nobilitie and Clergie and haue procured themselues to be continued the Kings seruants That there are many things in the dealings of these Fathers which offend good men viz. the contempt of Nobilitie the turning away of Students from the Colledge at Doway the attempting to bring the most flourishing kingdome of England into a Prouince the polling and pilling of Catholicks in England vnder the colour of holy vses by intollerable fraude a continuall enterdeale with hereticks and men of suspected religion There must be care taken that the Priests in England may haue either equall or greater faculties then the Iesuites seeing their pride by reason of their large faculties is fenced as it were with authoritie That the English Nobles which are in Belgia wonder that his Holynes suffreth Iesuites in England who are the firebrands of all contentions especially in any place of authoritie and that these ten yeers and more notwithstanding the miserable clamor and lamentations of our Nobles and Gentlemen who be oppressed vnder the yoke of slauery and their tyrannie The Iesuites do withstand any mans comming out of England into Belgia vnlesse they know him prepared to write to speake to do what they will and that he sweare to be ruled by them and herein they exercise notorious tyrannie Other infinite matters of this nature are omitted which are conteyned in the letters that are kept vpon record Taken out of letters dated at Rome 8. Nouember 1597. Concerning the whole Societie and the Iesuites at Rome THe Iesuites are so ambitious as not content with the bounds which their Fathers placed in their vnsatiable desire they haue alreadie swallowed vp Kingdomes and Monarchies That being led by this ambition they go about to change the forme of the Hierarchie or supreme gouerment of the auncient Church by disordered packing That this pride and ambition of the Iesuites is the cause of seditions not only in England in the very prisons there in the Low Cuntries and in Italy but all the world ouer That this their ambition hath taken footing not only in Prouinces and Cities but also in priuate families it separateth brethren one from an other and the husband from the wife inflaming them with rancor and enuie one against another That men must giue way to the time as in the controuersie at Rome least while they set a damme against the streame of this their pride the raging course thereof do