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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30463	Some letters, containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c. in the years 1685 and 1686 written by G. Burnet, D.D. to the Hoble. R.B. ; to which is added, An appendix, containing some remarks on Switzerland and Italy, writ by a person of quality, and communicated to the author ; together with a table of the contents of each letter.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5920; ESTC R21514	187,788	260

Reduction of the Interest of mony Due by the MONTES at Rome from 4 to 3 per Cent. EVery body almost knows what 't is which in Italy especially at Rome they call the Montes it it is much like the Rents upon the Town house at Paris The Popes having occasion of money borrow great sums of particular Persons at 4 per Cent Interest This they call at Rome the Establishment of the Monte that is the Creation of certain Officers and the assignment of several Rents for the payment of those who have lent Mony to the Pope The present Pope finding the Chamber engaged to the annual payments of I know not how many Millions of Roman Crowns Interest to those that had ient Money upon the Monte resolved in part to reduce and lessen the great Sum of Money which the Interest amounted to and having for this purpose raised several Millions of Roman Crowns he acquainted those that had money upon the Monte that they should come and receive their principal money unless they would take 3 per cent Interest for the 4 per cent which they formerly received w●ereupon there being really no Trade in all the Ecclesiastical Territories and the Lands worth nothing and that the Estates of the Nobility were all sold to a penny all Persons who had Money upon the Monte not knowing how to Imploy it to advantage elsewhere let it there remain contenting themselves with three per cen● instead of four per cent which they had before So that by this means every one concerned lost a fourth part of their yearly Income and the Chamber got I know not how many Millions of Crowns yearly by this Retrenchment of one per cent It is almost incredible the Immence Sums the Pope hath raised by retrenching of many superf●uous Expences and extinguishing several Offices to which great Salleries were payd by the Ecclesiastical Chamber and b● divers other means Those who are well informed in the●e matters do for certain affirm that all the Subsidies which the Pope hath remitted to the Emperor and King of Poland to carry on the War against the Turks are not the thirtieth part of the Money which he hath treasured up altho likewise he hath pay'd many Debts of the Chamber which were not chargeable upon the Montes I ought not here to omit relating that the Inns especially in Tuscany in Romania and between Rome and Naples are very sordid and incommodious one may give a pretty good guess at the prodigious Wealth belonging to the Clergy in the Kingdom of Naples by the great quantity of plate Vessels and Statues of Silver in the Churches and by the riches and magnificent Furniture of their Habitations and Vestments of the Priests One may upon the whole matter make this Important Reflection that if the King of Spain doth not think of some expedient to hinder the Clergy from Increasing their Estates in Lands which they do daily they will in a very little time become Masters of the greatest part of the Kingdom of Naples for they are already possessed of more than the half of the Lands of that Kingdom besides the other vast profits they make continually under pretence of Service to the Church for their Masses Buildings Burials Marriages Confessions and by their Indulgences and the Legacies left them by Will. Tho these are Remarks made in hast yet they may be of use to the Author I know several very pleasant Stories of the Iesuits at Naples The Prince of Salerme gave them the moiety of a great House which he had at Naples and thereupon an Inscription was engaven in Capital Letters upon the Frontispice of the House of the Donation thereof given to the Iesuits by the said Prince within these few years the Iesuites have turn'd the Heires of the Prince of Sal●rme out of possession of the other Moiety of the said House and have defaced the Inscription upon the House and all this they have done by Colour of Law and Justice Upon the first Establishment of the Society of Iesuits the Carthusians of Naples who are very rich voluntarily assigned them a yearly Pension of several thousand Ducats but the Carthusians perceiving that of late years several of the Iesuits were grown mighty rich resolved to withdraw the said Pension the Iesuites hereupon went to Law with them and obtained Sentence that the said Pension should be continued The Iesuits have got a very considerable part of the Lands of the Nobility in the Kingdom of Naples All the Religious of what Order soever they be who have Houses at Naples have the Priviledge of purchasing all Houses that are contiguous to them on the one side or the other to the very end of the Street in order to make their Houses entire and to stand alone like an Island and for this purpose they have no more to do than only pay the Proprietor for his House not according to the present Value but as it was last sold perhaps 50 60 or 100 years ago and so hath descended from Father to Son successively to the person then in possession Many other very considerable Remarks might be made of the divers Triks and Methods the Clergy of this Kingdom make use of to wheed●e and trapan the Laity out of thei● Estates FINIS

one of the most inquisitive Men of the Assembly There is also a Grandchild of the Great Alciat who is very c●rious as well as learned Few Churchmen come into this attempt for the reviving of Learning among them O● the contrary it is plain that they dread it above a●things Only one Eminent Preacher Rinaldi that 〈◊〉 Archdeacon of Capua associates himself with them ●e was once of the Iesuits Order but left it and as that alo●● served to give a good Character of him to me so upon ● long conversation with him I found a great many other t●●ngs that possessed me with a high value ●or him Some Physicians in Naples are brought under the Scandal of Atheism and it is certain that in Italy men of searching understandings who have no other Idea of the Christian Religion but that which they see received among them are very naturally tempted to disbelieve it quite for they believing it all alike in gross without distinction and finding such notorious Cheats as appear in many parts of their Religion are upon that induced to disbelieve the whole The Preaching of the Monks in Naples are terrible things I saw a Iesuit go in a sort of a Procession with a great company about him and calling upon all that he saw to follow him to a place where a Mountebank was selling his Medicines near whom he took his Room and entertained the people with a sort of a Farce till the Mountebank got him to give over fearing lest his action should grow tedious and disperse the company that was brought together There are no famous Preachers nor men of any reputation for learning among the Iesuites I was told they had not men capable to teach their Schools and that they were forced to hire Strangers The Order of the Oratory hath not that reputation in Italy that it hath gained in France and the little Learning that is among the Clergy in Naples is among some few Secular Priests The new Method of Molino's doth so much prevail in Naples that it is believed he hath above twenty thousand Followers in this City And since this hath made some noise in the World and yet is generally but little understood I will give you some account of him He is a Spanish Priest that seems to be but an ordinary Divine and is certainly a very ill Reasoner when he undertakes to prove his Opinions He hath writ a Book which is intituled il Guida Spiritual● which is a short abstract of the Mystical Divinity the Substance of the whole is reduced to this That in our Prayers and other Devotions the best Methods are to reti●e the mind from all gross Images and so to form an Act of F●ith ●●d thereby to present our selves before God and then to sink into a silenoe and cessation of new Acts and to let God act upon us and so to follow his Conduct This way he prefers to the multiplication of many new Acts and different form● of Devotion and he makes small Account of corporal Austerities and reduces all the Exercises of Religion to this simplicity of Mind He thinks this is not only to be proposed to such as live in Religious Houses but even to Secular persons and by this he hath proposed a great Reformation of mens Minds and Manners He ha●h many Priests in Italy but chiefly in Naples that dispose those who confess themselves to them to follow his Method The Iesuites have set themselves much against this conduct as foreseeing that it may much weaken the Emp●●●● that Superstition hath over the Minds of People that 〈◊〉 may make Religion become a more plain and simple thing● and may also open a door to Enthusiasms they also pretend that his conduct is Factious and Seditious that thi● may breed a Schism in the Chur●h And because he saith in some places of his Book That the Mind may rise up 〈◊〉 such a Simplicity in its Acts that it may rise in some of its Devotions to God immediately without contemplating t●● Humanity of Christ they have accused him as intending to lay aside the Doctrine of Christ's Humanity tho it 〈◊〉 plain that he speaks only of the purity of some sing●● Acts Upon all those heads they have set themselve● much against Molinos and they have also pretended that some of his Disciples have infused into their Peniten●● That they may go and communicate as they find themselv●● disposed without going first to Confession which they thought weakned much the yoke by which the Pri●●● subdue the Consciences of the People to their Conduc● Yet he was much supported both in the Kingdom of Nap●●● and in Si●ily he had also many Friends and Followers 〈◊〉 Rome So the Iesuites as a Provin●ial of the Order a●●●red me finding they could not ruin him by their o●● force got a great King that is now extreamly in the I●●●rests of their Order to interpose and to represent to the Pope the danger of such Innovations It is certain 〈◊〉 Pope understands the matter very little and that he is po●sessed with a great opinion of Molino's Sanctify yet upon the Complaints of some Cardinals that seconded the Zeal of that King he and some of his Followers were ●●pt in the Inquisition where they have been now for some Months but they are still well used which is believed to flow from the good opinion that the Pope hath of ●im who saith still that tho he may have erred yet ●e is certainly a good man Upon this Inprisonment Pa●quin said a pleasant thing in one week one man had been condemned to the Gallies for somewhat he hath said ●●●ther hath been hanged for somewhat he had writ and Mali●●s was clapt in prison whose Doctrine consisted ●●efly in this that m●n ought to bring their minds to a state of inward qu●etness from which the name of Quie●●●●● was given to all his followers The Pasquinade upon all this was Si parliamo in Galere si scrivemmo Im●i●cati si stiamo inquiete all' Sant ' Officio ●e che bisog●● for● If we speak we are sent to the Gallies if 〈◊〉 write we are hanged if we stand quiet we are clapt dapt in the Inquisition what mus● we do then Yet his Followers at Naples are not daunted but they believe he will come out of this Tryal victorious The City of Naples as it is the best scituated and i● the best Climate so it is one of the Noblest Cities of ●●rope and if it is not above half as big as Paris or London yet it hath much more beauty than either of them The Streets are large and broad the Pave●ent is great and Noble the Stones being generally above a foot square and it is full of Palaces and great Buildi●g● The Town is well supplied by daily Markets so that Provisions are ever fresh and in great plenty the Wine is the best of Europe and both ●he Fish and Flesh is extream good it is scarce ever cold in Winter and there is a