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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67363	The tragical history of Jetzer, or A faithful narrative of the feigned visions, counterfeit revelations, and false miracles of the Dominican fathers of the covent of Berne in Switzerland, to propagate their superstitions for which horrid impieties, the prior, sub-prior, lecturer, and receiver of the said covent were burnt at a stake, Anno Dom. 1509 / collected from the records of the said city by the care of Sir William Waller, Knight ; translated from his French copy by an impartial pen ...	Waller, William, Sir, d. 1699.; Impartial pen.	1679 (1679)	Wing W548; ESTC R18749	85,978	50

THE Tragical History OF JETZER OR A Faithful Narrative of the Feigned Visions Counterfeit Revelations and False Miracles of the Dominican Fathers of the Covent of Berne in Switzerland to Propagate their SVPERSTITIONS For which Horrid Impieties the Prior Sub-Prior Lecturer and Receiver of the said Covent were Burnt at a Stake Anno Dom. 1509. COLLECTED From the RECORDS of the said City by the Care of Sir WILLIAM WALLER Knight Translated from his French Copy by an Impartial Pen and now made Publick for the Information of English Protestants who may hence Learn that Catholicks will stick at no Villames which may Advance their Designs nor at any Perjuries that may Conceal them WITH AN EPISTLE Wherein are some soft and gentle Reflections upon the Lying Dying-Speeches of the JESVITES lately Executed at TYBVRN LONDON Printed for Nathanael Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey M.DC.LXXIX The PREFACE Reader IF thou hast taken a Surfeit with too liberal feeding upon the late nauseous Pamphlets perhaps this Novel season'd with Delight and Profit may awaken and revive thy Languishing Appetite A Narrative whose Truth as far transcends the modest Faith of Protestants to believe as the now-despaired Ingenuity of Papists to acknowledge For the former cannot easily suspect those Horrid Impieties should harbour in the Breasts of others to which they were never conscious in their own And the latter can never want Confidence to deny those Villanies which they had the Malice to contrive and project I do not obtrude this story upon the belief of the World on my single Credit but can produce the whole State of Berne to attest it The Authentick Certificate of Salvator de Meligotis Publick Notary to his Holiness the Pope and his Highness the Emperour to avouch it with the Records of the Executions of the Principal Actors in this Tragedy to confirm it Nor can I fore-see what may Reasonably be Objected against its Credit which being admitted would not equally shake the Repute of all History Our Modern Catholicks 't is true have a Catholick Answer ready cut and dried to all Indictments drawn up against them grounded upon Matters of Fact a short flat and peremptory Denial And as when they slander stoutly they hope some dirt will stick upon the most Innocent So when they deny valiantly do hope some dirt will rub off when it 's dry from the most peccant 'T is no longer than since the first Discovery of the late present Plot that a Catholick Gentleman avow'd it to a Person of Honour here in Town that the Massacre in Ireland was not made by the Papists upon Protestants but that whatever our Records say or our Eyes saw to the contrary the Cruel Hereticks Butcher'd the Innocent Catholicks And all this he Asserted with such earnestness as almost storm'd the Belief of that Honourable Personage so great is the Advantage the Impudent have over the Modest in contests of this Nature managed before the Vulgar that loud Vociferation supplies the place of Evident Demonstration Casaubon assures us that in his Time when the Powder Plot was fresh in every Mans memory when the Witnesses were alive the Jesuites bore him down that the whole was a meer trick of State to render their Cause odious to the People and their Persons obnoxious to the Laws And therefore desired him at his coming for England to assure King James That their Sacred Order had a marvellous Veneration for His Majesties Person and Government Wonder not then if Father Gavan in his Dying or rather Lying speech thus boasted That that Wise and Victorious King Henry the fourth of France the Royal Grand-father of our present Gracious King in a Publick Oration which he pronounced in Defence of the Jesuites Declared that he was very well satisfied with the Jesuites Doctrine concerning Kings c. Yes no doubt he was very well satisfied when their Treasonable Practises had so clearly Commented upon the Text of their Equivocating Principles and he felt the Consecrated Dagger stick in his Royal Heart But however all true Protestants pray that His Majesty may be satisfied in their Doctrine at cheaper Rates I Question not but the Politick Prince knew how to sprinkle them with a little of their own Cheap Complemental Holy-water and could discern the ungracious knife in their Hands when nothing but Gracious Prince was in their Mouths for so do the Americans sometimes speak the Devil fair not out of love to him but for fear of a Mischief from him I should not therefore be at all surprized if in confutation of this Narrative they should bring over a score of well Instructed Young Boys yet Old Knaves to affirm and if need be to swear that Jetzer whom our Story places at Berne was all that while Resident at St. Omers and that they saw him every day for two or three Years together excepting those few he was in the Infirmary Dine at a Side-board Table by himself And if you Object that this was a hundred Years agoe they can be a hundred Years old in a moment when their Superiours please and the Cause requires it Nor would it stagger me should they swear by all that they have made or left Sacred that there never was such a Man in the World as John Jetzer but that he was as pure a Romantick Person as Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey Only I would Humbly Advise these Gentlemen to lay the ends of their Lies a little closer together lest they ravel out and that they would walk by their own Old Celebrated Maxim Si non caste tamen caute To be a little more cautelous if not Consciencious for they that frisk and caper so nimbly in their Evidence will find Truth one time or other too nimble for them and perhaps trip up their heels That the Speeches of the lately Executed Jesuites made such deep Impressions on the Minds of some has created me no trouble yet I shall tell the Reader a great secret in his Ear provided he will keep it to himself That they that would seem to believe the Plot least do really believe it most And they that pretend to believe the Jesuites Speeches most do indeed believe them least They know better than we the Plot to be true the Speeches to be a Lye but it 's an ordinary Policy to let the Hue and Cry fall when the Officer that should spread it is the Person described by it They that plead so Zealously for the Merit of their Good Works are unwilling to receive according to the demerit of their bad ones and many that will claim an undeserved Heaven are more modest than to be Ambitious of a deserved Halter But there are a sort of well-meaning though less discerning Protestants who are unwilling to believe that any can be so far Debauch'd in Conscience as to assert an apparent falshood or deny a plain Truth in that great moment which is their last on this side Eternity and these are cumbred with such a large measure of mistaken