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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

a Saint by Pope Gregory the ninth and his worship was the first inuentor or founder of the Inquisition and the Friers of his Order are as yet the Inquisiters in all Italy Saint Dominick if you will beleeue his Friers wrought more miracles than Christ for they write many blasphemous and ridiculous things of him in his Legend whereof I could recite many but for feare that I should rather surfet than satisfie you I will produce here one or two and so passe ouer the rest La vida de San. Domingo A certaine man was possessed with Deuills whereupon Saint Dominick bound about his necke certaine Reliques whereof some of them were no better than shitten clouts at the least whose perfume the Deuills could not abide and therefore cried out that they would depart But good Saint Dominick would not beleeue the Deuils vntill the Reliques became sureties for them Ibidem Another time as the holy man preached certaine women were amazed at his doctrine and cried out that if he said true they had serued a strange Master the holy man bade them be quiet and they should see what strange Master they had serued Whereupon comes in an vgly Cat with fiery eyes shewing her hinder-parts vnto them which was very filthie to behold at last he leapes into the Belfrie and left such a smell behind him that had almost choak'd them all Ibidem It fortuned also vpon a time that a Nun called Mary had a sore thigh for which she prayed to S. Dominick because she durst not pray to God who pitying the Religious Votary that was so well deuoted vnto him came vnto her when she was asleepe and annointed the place and healed the sore But now leauing the Saint I will proceed to suruey his spirituall babes the Dominican Friers Ouo prognatus eodem In the yeare of our Lord 1470. one Allen of the Frocke a Frier of this Order was the first that deuised and composed the Rosarie of our Lady who neglecting the Gospell of our Lord and Sauiour he preached it abroad and so his booke was published wherein are related many miracles of the Virgin Mary wrought by vertue of this Rosarie wherein he saith That vpon a time the blessed Virgin Mary came vnto his chamber or Cell and hauing a ring made of a locke of her owne haire she by deliuery of it betrothed her selfe vnto him kissed him and offered to him her paps to be handled and sucked by him and finally conuersed with this sweet Frier Allen as familiarly as a spouse is wont to do with her mate O sweet Iesus what true Christian is there that is not astonished at the hearing of these horrible blasphemies These Dominican Friers doe make a great benefit of this foresaid Rosarie for in euery Towne or City that they haue a Couent there is a fraternity of the Rosary consisting of the Lay people of either sex who doe pay to them a good sum of money at their first entrance into the same fraternitie and a yearely pension besides to say Masses for them and the soules of the Brethren and Sisters of the fraternity that are in Purgatorie Of all other Begging Friers these are the Richest and best schollers And therefore the Iesuites and they can neuer agree for they wrote many railing books and libels against each other and in their Sermons especially they doe exclaime and raile the one on the other A certaine Iesuite preaching vpon a time told his Auditors that he had seene a Vision which was thus He thought that he had beene in Hell and that he saw there some of all sorts of men and women as Popes Cardinals Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Monks Friers Priests Abbesses Prioresses and Nuns yea Emperours Kings Princes Noble-men Knights Gentlemen to conclude all manner of men women and children but hee saw there neuer a Iesuite And therefore praised God that had giuen him grace to be of the Societie of Iesus and not of any other Order of Friers or of any other vocation profession or calling whatsoeuer So that all his Sermon was in commendation of the Iesuites These two learned Sermons were preached in the yeare 1600. as a Student of Padua in Italy witnesseth in a Pamphlet which he writ in the Italian tongue about the yeare 1607. it is intituled Condolenza de vn Studente de Padua a 1. Patri Iesuiti par 2. The next Sabbath day a Dominican Frier came and preached in the selfe-same place and told the people that he had likewise dreamed or seene a strange Vision and that hee thought he had beene in Hell and saw there the soules of all sorts of men and women yea of Friers of his owne Order but saw neuer a Iesuite there whereat he wondered and was so amaz'd that he could not say an Aue Maria or a Pater noster and repented him a thousand times that he had not beene a Iesuite In the end he demanded of a little Deuill what was the reason there was neuer a Iesuite there seeing there was some of all other men women and children yea of all other Orders of Religious men The Deuill told him that the Iesuites were by themselues in another hell vnderneath that for said he they come hither so fast and are so many that Pluto and the rest of the Deuills could scarce rule them The Frier replied saying I would wish Pluto to haue a great care to search them with speed for feare that they haue conueyed hither some gun-powder with them for they are very skilfull in Mine-workes and in blowing vp of whole States and Parliament-houses and if they can they will blow you all vp and then the Spanyards will come and take your Kingdome from you whereat the Deuill laughed and the Frier awaked out of his sleepe And was not this good sound doctrine I pray you to edifie their Auditors withall In Spaine the Dominican Friers beare a great sway for the Kings Confessor is alwaies a Dominican Frier yet a Iesuite is the Queenes Confessor both their Patrons were Spanyards and therefore so much the greater Saints It was my fortune about nine years ago to come vpon a Holy-day I think it was S. Isidors day to heare a Sermon which a Dominican Frier preached in commendation of this Spanish Saint who extolled him so much that he preferred him before S. Peter This Saint was as he said once King of Andaluzia in Spaine and forsooke his Kingdome and became a Bishop Others doe write that he was driuen out of his Kingdome by the Moores and then became a Bishop This Frier citing that place of the Gospell where our Sauiour saith Whosoeuer shall forsake father or mother wife or children for my name sake shall haue it a hundred fold in heauen then Peter said Master we haue left all to follow thee what shall we haue Our Sauiour told him that they should sit vpon twelue seats and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel The Frier cried out

to build them a stately Church all the Pillars Arches and the Porches being of fine Marble and the whole Church couered ouer with fine Copper adorned within without with many curious and costly Images Pictures Tablets and the Vtensels belonging to the Altars of gold and siluer Copes and Vestments of cloth of gold cloth of tissue and curious imbroideries And withall to infeoffe whole Townes Castles and Mannors vpon their new College his sonne and heire being constrained to liue in a meane house in the same towne with such small pension as his father had formerly assured vpon him And albeit the old Iesuited Duke had surrendred this gouernment of the Country vnto him at his first entering into their Society yet he durst not doe any thing without the Iesuits aduice and approbation The old Duke being a silly zealous simple well minded Prince was wont to entertaine into certaine Chambers or Lodgings in his Court appointed for that purpose all such Pilgrims as trauelled that way with meat drinke and lodging of the best for three daies and three nights and this was the manner of their entertainment At the gates of the Towne among the Souldiers that had the guard for it is a Garison Towne there were certaine Officers to receiue all such Pilgrims as had good Letters of commendation or testimony that they were Romish Catholikes and bound to Rome or any other place of pilgrimage vpon deuotion or else returning homewards which Officer was to conduct these Pilgrims presently vpon their arriuall to a certaine lodging in the Dukes Court where was another man of purpose to receiue them but before that they entred into their lodgings they were brought into a roome where euery man had deliuered vnto him a cleane Shirt a long Wastcoat made of red Cotton a paire of new blacke Canuasse breeches a paire of new linnen Stockins a paire of Slippers a blacke Gowne a Girdle a blacke Cap and a little sticke in his hand for they were to put off all their owne clothes and to put on these which being done they were shewed the way to the Church there to say a few Aues and Paters and then to returne to their lodging to dinner or supper according to the time of the day that they came thither These poore men had meat sent them from the Dukes owne Table and serued in by his seruants and the best Wine and Beere that the Country did yeeld besides euery man lay alone in a good Feather-bed with sweet fresh linnen more like a noble man than a Pilgrim where they remained for the space of three daies and so many nights Moreouer the Duke came himselfe sometimes and washed these poore mens feet in warme water with sweet herbs and dryed the same with sweet damaske Napkins when they were to depart they had Shirts Shooes those Stockins and Breeches which they had formerly worne a Pilgrims staffe and money in their Purse according to their wants and quality And when the Duke became a Iesuite it was agreed betweene them that the Pilgrims should haue the selfe same entertainment there for euer which indeed they had as long as he liued But as soone as euer the breath was out of his body albeit they had meanes giuen vnto them by the Duke not onely for their owne maintenance more than that was sufficient but also to entertaine the Pilgrims these vnconscionable Machiuillians who can neuer abide any poore body gaue straight order at euery gate of the Towne that no Pilgrim or any other poore man should come in but send their Letters vnto them the which if they like of they marke with a priuate marke that they may know if they come thither againe and then they write their names and Country in their bookes of Record and perhaps send these poore creatures three pence or a groat after such time that they make them attend three or foure houres for it The Polonians and some Netherlanders that did vse to goe that way to Rome doe giue them many a bitter curse for their vncharitable dealings with them but they care not for there is none there that can controll them nay this Duke dare not offend them and whatsoeuer they doe or say is a Law They haue at Bourdeaux in Aquitania built their College vpon the land belonging to an Hospitall that appertained to the Pilgrims that goe to Saint Iames of Compostella and in the end because they would enlarge their College they pulled downe the Hospitall and got into their hands all the reuenues thereof vndertaking to the Magistrates of the Towne and ouerseers of the Hospitall to maintaine the same in farre better manner than it was kept before But now these Vsurpers will admit none to haue a nights lodging there but such as haue speciall Letters of recommendations from some of their Society All which I know to be true for I haue beene told by more than a hundred poore Pilgrims of seuerall Nations of these their vnchristian-like dealing with them The Magistrates and Clergy of Turnay in the Low Countries would not by any meanes receiue them into their Towne albeit they had the King of Spaines Letters Patents In the end vnder hand they got one of their Factors an Antwerpian Merchant to buy them one of the fairest houses in the Citie and a whole rew of houses besides where they built their Schooles and taught maugre all the Magistrates the Bishop and all the Monks Friers and Clergy men whatsoeuer Yea they haue there now two Colleges and a Seminary where they lodge and boord Noblemen Gentlemen and rich mens children which brings them in no smal profit The Magistrates and Citizens of the Towne of Isle or Rissel alias Insula in the confines of Flanders receiued the Iesuites into their City with such honour and respect as is to be admired at and yet they required their kinde courtesies most basely First the Magistrates and the inhabitants assured vnto them an annuall rent of about two hundred pounds sterling And because that there was no spare place in the Towne that the Iesuites did like of to set vp their rest the Magistrates with the common consent and charges of all the Citizens about the yeere 1608. brake downe a great part of of the wall rampier and a great bulwarke of the towne and damped or filled vp the Mote and tooke in aboue a hundred acres of ground into the Towne inclosing and fortifying it againe with a high strong brick wall rampiers bulwarkes and another mote and there built them vpon their proper cost and charges a goodly sumptuous College magnificent Schooles furnished with fine pleasant Gardens Orchards and walkes yea with all necessary offices in so much that they brought water into euery office in the College I omit to speake of a maruellous faire Church adorned with all necessary vtensills thereunto belonging And all this in lesse space than two yeares Moreouer this new plot which was thus taken in was diuided among the chiefest