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A42516 The frauds of Romish monks and priests set forth in eight letters / lately written by a gentleman in his journey into Italy, and publish'd for the benefit of the publick. Gavin, Antonio, fl. 1726. 1691 (1691) Wing G390; ESTC R31723 231,251 433

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THE FRAUDS OF ROMISH MONKS AND PRIESTS SET FORTH In Eight LETTERS Lately Written By a Gentleman in his Journy into ITALY Aud Publish'd for the Benefit of the Publick LONDON Printed by Samuel Roycroft for Robert Clavell at the Peacock at the West-End of S. Pauls 1691. IMPRIMATUR Nov. 5. 1690. C. Alston R. P. D. HEN. Episc Lond. à Sacris TO THE Right Honourable THE EARL OF NOTTINGHAM HIS MAJESTIES Principal Secretary of State c. My Lord IT would be a great Presumption in me who am a Stranger in this Country to appear in Publick manner without the Protection of some Great Name That of Your Lordships is deservedly such seeing to the Greatness of Your Birth You have added the highest Qualities of Wisdom and Vertue and discharged the Public Trusts of Your eminent Station so much to the satisfaction of all good Men. I find wheresoever I go great Numbers of those who highly Honour the Memory of Your Lordships Father and speak of him as of a Friend and an Ornament of the Church a Pillar of the State an Oracle of the Law a Judge and Patron of Learning and Learned Men an Encourager of Persons of Sound Principles and good Lives a Bountiful Support of those of our Country who have fled hither for meer Conscience sake and a Worthy Example of Sobriety Justice and Charity Your Lordship following so Excellent a Father with equal Steps I presume to make this my Humble Application to You in behalf both of my Self and of this Book which with an honest Design I have Written and Published resting secure under Your Lordships Patronage and resolving by the Blessing of God always to make good the Character of My Lord Your Lordship 's Most Humble and most Obedient Servant G. D. E. E. A. P. TO THE READER IT must be granted That the Publick have been just in the kind Reception they have given to the LETTERS of Dr. Burnet now the Right Reverend Bishop of Salisbury concerning his Voyage to Italy The Truth of his Relations hath been own'd by all those who have had the Curiosity to Visit those Countries and given occasion to the Learned to make curious Reflections upon them But above all I have observed That the Passages He hath inserted by the By about some of their Religious Practices have particularly pleased the English Nation who above all abominate Popery 'T is this Consideration at first that begat a Desire in me to publish many other Particulars on this Subject especially upon the Lives and Practices of Romish Priests and Monks which were known to me as having been a Secular Priest of the same Church and could not come so easily to the Knowledge of others The Reason why I was so Inquisitive is set down at the Beginning of my First LETTER I shall only add That those who are acquainted with the Spirit of Rome will find no difficulty to believe the Matters of Fact here related and much less to venture their Credit in denying them since they are still expos'd to Publick View and as many as go thither may be so many Witnesses of them If at any time I make use of some Expressions which may seem to have too much Lightness in them I desire my Reader to attribute this to the Subject and to consider That as Serious Things ought not to be exprest in a Jocular Style so neither is it possible to utter Ridiculous Matters with a Becoming Gravity Nor do I believe That the Papists will have any reason to Complain of me as they commonly do of those that Leave them saying That they make it their chief business to Expose them without Bounds or Measure For the Truth is I have still Matter enough in store to fill another Volume as big as this which might serve for a Second Part But I choose to stop here and give them an occasion rather of Commending my Moderation than of Complaining of my doing Too much Lastly Forasmuch as those Observations made in my Travels have much conduced to the Change of my Religion so I trust in God the Publication of them will have a good effect upon others by Opening the Eyes of the People of the Roman Church by Discouraging those that Seduce them and by putting Protestants upon Rendring hearty Thanks to God for having delivered them from so Miserable a Slavery This Candid Reader is the principal Aim I had in Publishing this Book Farewel G. D. E. E. A. P. ERRATA PAg. 38. lin 31 read many Fir-trees p. 63. l. 17 Navona p. 155. l 11. miseri p. 174. l. 15. Vicenza p. 237. l. 20. chastest p. 246. l. 3. seipso p. 264. l. 14. Cielo p. 298. l. 5. four years l. 14. two years p. 326. l. 4. cover'd again p. 399. l. 5. who l. 7. dele h● 〈◊〉 with afterwards THE CONTENTS OF THE Principal Relations Contain'd in the Ensuing LETTERS The First LETTER p. 1 OF Relicks and the ill Vse that is made of them in the Church of Rome to deceive the People 2 Some curious Relations on this Subject 5 A description of the Famous Abby of Citeaux and of the Great Chartreuse of Grenoble 23 The Disorderly and Voluptuous Life of those Monks and the Artifices they make use of to advance their Temporal Profit by abusing the Credulity of Seculars 36 The Second LETTER 42 OF the Corrupt Ambitious and Revengful Spirit of the Roman Clergy 43 The Inquisition is a ready Means to satisfie their Cruelty and Revenge 57 Dreadful Examples to this purpose 62 The Doctrin of the Reformed Churches little known in Italy 73 Protestants represented to the People under the Name of Infidels and No Christians 76 The English Church more proper to convince the Papists of their Error than any other Reformed Church 80 The great Caution the Pope takes to prevent the Importation of Protestant Books into Italy 82 The Government of Priests insupportable 84 The Third LETTER 86 OF the Hospitals and Pilgrims of Italy 87 The Monks and Priests have converted the Revenues belonging to them to their own use 90 Superstition of the Italians at Luca Pisa and Florence and more particularly of the Famous Devotion of the Annonciade or Picture of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin 109 The Description of some Famous Monasteries viz. the Great Camaldule Valombrosa and Averne seated on the highest Mountains of the Apennine 119 The Spirit of these Three sorts of Monks 124 The Great Jubilee of our Lady of Portcuncule 136 A Story concerning the Bodies of S. Dominick and S. Francis at Assise 138 The Old Franciscan Convents compar'd with those of this Time 140 The Fourth LETTER 143 OF Journying to Loretto 144 The manner how Gentlemen and Ladies go in Pilgrimage to this place 150 Ridiculous Fables about the Chappel of Loretto 156 The Cheats that are in vogue there and the vast Gain the Popes and Jesuits draw thence 157 What properly an Italian Miracle is 165 Many curious Relations to this purpose 172 The