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A47042 Saint Patricks purgatory containing the description, originall, progresse, and demolition of that superstitious place / by Henry Jones ... Jones, Henry, 1605-1682. 1647 (1647) Wing J946; ESTC R16600 121,914 152

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resort thither and so by stealths continue those superstitious abuses while the place standeth as now it doth We have therefore adjudged it the best and fittest meanes to prevent and wholly take away the continuance of that abuse hereafter that the place be defaced and utterly demolished And therefore We doe hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispached from this Board unto the Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Clogher Sir Iohn Dunbarre high Sheriffe of the County of Fermanagh Edward Tarleton Esquier high Sheriffe of the Countie of Donnegall Edward Archdale and Leonard Bleverhasset Esquier and Archbald Areskon Clearke or any three or more of them whereof the said Lord Bishop or Sir Iohn Dunbarre or Edward Tarleton to be alwayes one Requiring and authorising them or any three or more of them as aforesaid by or before the third day of December next to cause the Chappell and all the Irish houses now scituate in that Island which is called S. Patrickes Purgatory all the buildings pavements walls workes foundations Circles Caves Cels and Vaults thereof of lime or stone or otherwise to be broken downe defaced and utterly demolished And that also called S. Patrickes Bed as also that Rocke or sto●e standing in the water there having a clift in it whith as is vainely said S. Patricke made kneeling at his prayers And also that stone covered there with water which hath the print of a mans foot which as the seduced people do beleeve S. Patrick made with standing thereupon and likewise all other things there whereunto those superstitious people have used to goe in pilgrimage And that they cause all the stones to be throwne into the Lough or water wherein the Island standeth saving onely such of the stones of the said Chappell as Iames mac Gragh Esquier the Proprieter of the Land will forthwith carry cleere out of the Island and make use of in some other place We doe also order that the same Iames mac Gragh shall forthwith enter into Bond to the Clerk of the Councell for his Majesties use in the summe of one thousand pounds English with condition to be are all the charges necessary for the performing of all that by this Order is required to be done and to be personally present at the seeing of it done and not to suffer any interruption or impediment to be given therevnto And that such of the stones of the Chappell as the said Iames shall carry out shall not at any time hereafter during his life be againe returned to that Island And that he shall from time to time take order that no person or persons be admitted at any time hereafter during his life with his permission or knowledge or privily to goe into that Island or place called S. Patrickes purgatory to the end to say Masse there or to performe any pilgrimage offerings or any other superstitious Ceremonies there And that he shall saffer no Boate to bee kept there to passe to or from the said Island And that during his life there shall not be any conventions there of Iesuits Fryars priests Nuns or any other superstitious Orders of the popish pretended Cleargie that the said mac Gragh shall be able to prevent which Bond being so entred into the Sargeant at Armes in whose custodie the said mac Gragh now remayneth is upon Certificate hereof from the Clerke of the Councell to release the said mac Gragh he paying his due fees For which a coppy of this Order attested by the Clerke of the Councell shall be his warrant Dated the 13. of Sept. 1632. Charles Wilmot Roger Ranelagh Iohn King Thom. Baltinglasse William Parsons Thom. Rotheram Of the execution whereof the Lord Bishop of Clogher chiefe of the Commissioners gave this following account by his Letters dated Octob. 31. 1632. directed To the most Reverend Father in God IAMES Lord Archbishop of Ardmagh Primate and Metropolitane of all Ireland his Grace MOst Reverend my Most honoured Lord Your grace like enough may be desirous to know what is don touching the demolishing of S. Patricks purgatorie required by the Lords Iustices and Councell to be done by me and some other joynt Commissioners with me May it please your Grace then The next day after I tooke my leave of your selfe at Ardmagh I sent the Coppy of the Lords Iustices and Councels Letter with the Order and Commission to every one of my fellow Commissioners and appointed our Randevouze at the Towne next Lough-derge the 25. day of this instan● October From them I received answer that they might well come alone but could get none to accompany them or any labourer or tooles upon any tearmes And that an hundred men were not able to execute the Commission in a fortnight notwithstanding whereof I required them againe to keepe the day and assured them howsoever that I my selfe would be present and accordingly I came to the place appointed the 24. day with some twenty able men in my company any well armed and brought with us all sorts of tooles fitting for the service If I had not come so appointed we had returned without effecting any thing For the high Sheriffe of Donnegall came not at the day The high Sheriffe of Farmanagh on the other side came no better accompanied than with one serving man and shewed himselfe altogether unwilling and refused to enter the Island I had many discouragements my selfe For first I was forced on a rainy day on a bleake place without any shelter to horse or man three houres before we could have the Boate. The winde in the meane time did rise and there was none could take in hand to guide the Boate through dangerous rockes lying betweene the maine and the Island Againe we were certified that we might be hardly put to it for fault of victuals if we tooke them not in with our selves for the winde would sometimes blow ten dayes together so strong that no Boate durst venture to goe out or in notwithstanding all which discouragements I adventured to goe in without victuals and stayed in the Island till the service was done The first thing I searched diligently after was the Cave wherein I remembred your Grace enjoyned me to digge to the very foundations and leave no corner unsought and so I did I caused to digge about it on all sides till I came to the Rocke but found no appearance of any secret passage eyther to the Chappell or to the Lough neyther would the nature of the ground suffer it in a word this Cave was a poore beggerly hole made with some stones layd together with mens hands without any great Art and after covered with Earth such as husbandmen make to keepe a few Hogs from the raine When I could finde nothing there I undermined the Chappell which was well covered with shingles and brought all downe together Then wee brake downe the Circles and Saints Beds which were like so many Cole-pits and so pulled downe some great Irish houses
of Ireland and from the Pryor and Convent of the said Purgatory with others of great credit As also by other cleere evidences that the said Nobleman hath duly and couragiously performed that his pilgrimage we have therefore thought sit favourably to give unto him Our Royall testimonie concerning the same And to the end there may be no question made of the premisses and that the Truth of them may more clearely appeare unto all men We have thought good to grant unto him these our Letters sealed with our Royall Seale Given at our Pallace at Westminster the 24. day of October Like Letters and of the same Date hath Nicholas of Ferrara a Lumbard See here to what an height from so obscure a beginning it is now risen not onely visited from all parts but also Tested in so high and eminent a manner and that as you have heard done with so great deliberation and advice as a matter of the greatest consequence Yet how farre the Teste runneth you see that it is but onely of The due performance of the pilgrimage And here it is to be observed that in the times of Edward the third of England the Esteeme of this Purgatory was at the height after it had been rising thereunto 186. years for so long it is betweene Henry of Saltry anno 1140. and Edward the third anno 1326. And within the compasse of this Kings Raigne wee shall finde much more noyse of it and pressing to it even from farre then eyther before or after as that of Ramon the Spanish Viscount Anno 1328. if wee beleeve the date in the beginning of his Raigne of whom wee shall hereafter have occasion more largely to discourse together with that following being 37. yeares after Yet in the said Kings raigne also That I meane which wee finde Recorded in the Registrie of Ardmagh sent unto me by the now most learned Primāte for the furthering of this worke being Letters recommendatory from Milo Archbishop of Ardmagh in the yeare 1365. on the behalfe of certaine Pilgrims The words are these Milo by divine permission Archbishop of Ardmagh Primate of Ireland to the religious and prudent man the Pryor of Saint Patricks Purgatory in Loghderg within the Diocesse of Clogher And to all others the Cleargie and Laitie within the Province of Ardmagh everlasting health in the Lord. Iohn Bonham and Guidas Cissi comming to us have related that they have for devotions sake gone in pilgrimage and visited many holy places and that they are desirous for the health of their Soules to see the place called the purgatory of Saint Patricke our Patron which is in the Diocesse of Clogher aforesaid Wee doe therefore entreat and exhort in the Lord all and every by whom these strangers shall passe that you would entertayne and receive them courteously And that of the goods which God hath bestowed upon you you would afford them some charitable helpe not suffering asmuch as in you lyeth any molestation or disturbance to bee given them By which meanes we doubt not but that you shall be partakers of that their devout labours Dated in the Citie of Downe the fifteenth day of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred sixty and five And of our Consecration the fift It were easie to exceed in testimonies of this kinde yet will I adde onely One more being 120. yeares after This in the yeare 1485. about the beginning of the Reigne of Henry the seventh King of England That it may be seene how long it held up in that great esteeme These are Letters Testimoniall of Octavianus Archbishop of Ardmagh given to certaine French Pilgrims Unto all the Children of our mother the Church to whom these our letters Testimoniall shall come Octavianus by the grace of God and of the See Apostolike Archbishop of Ardmagh Primate of all Ireland wisheth everlasting salvation in the Lord wishing you would without question credit what followeth Seeing it is an holy and meritorius thing to give your Testimonie unto the Truth chiefly seeing our Saviour Christ the Sonne of God came downe from heaven into this world to beare witnesse of the truth Hence it is that by these presents we make knowne unto you that Iohn Garhi and Francis Proly of the Citie of Lyons Priests and Iohn Burgesse their boy and servant the bearers hereof Men of good repute and piously affected did visit the Purgatory of the holy Confessor Saint Patricke the Apostle of Ireland within which the sinnes of offenders are even in this world purged And the mountaine in which the said holy Confessor did fast without Temporall meate forty dayes and fortie nights together with other holy places of devotion and things of greatest observation in Ireland And that afflicting their bodies in fasting and prayer according to the Ceremonies of that place they did for acertaine time remaine in that Purgatory as it cleerely appeareth to us And that by the power of CHRIST our redeemer they did contemplatively encounter all the fraudes and fantasticall temptations of the Devill devoutly so finishing their pilgrimage and desiring the merits and prayers of the said Saint to the most High whom by these presents we receive into the protection of us our Church of Ardmagh and of the said holy Confessor whose manners life and perfection we doe recommend unto you all of which wee are confident having two yeares conversed with them Which few among infinite others will sufficiently declare the wonderfull rising and as strange continuance of this purgatory that from the times of Henry of Saltry that I may not with others rise higher untill this of Octavianus Ann. 1485. that is for 345. years For after this did it begin to Decline againe For we finde it solemnely demolished within twelue yeares after in the yeare 1497. during the Reigne of the said King Henry the seuenth of which in its due place Yet if what hath beene said seeme strange unto any that eyther so obscure a thing should so befoole the world into so great an admiration of it or that so generall a delusion and of so long continuance should on so small or no grounds be mantayned let him consider the slavish feare into which by the Popish Doctrine of purgatory the world had bin brought with feare whereof many have all their lives long been held in bondage being told that all the sorrowes in this life labours want banishments prisons shame miseries calamities wounds nay death it selfe are nothing to the paines of purgatory All which with how great cost men seeke to redeeme is not unknowne Hence those Masses and prayers for the soules departed that they might bee eased if not delivered of those paines Hence those large Legacies both of Lands and Annuities bestowed for the continuance of that charitable worke But the hazards are great and much uncertaintie is there in this course And first for the Rich and the most bountifull in this kinde it may happen that the care