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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01748	A true relation of the faction begun at VVisbich by Fa. Edmonds, alias VVeston, a Iesuite, 1595. and continued since by Fa. Walley, alias Garnet, the prouincall of the Iesuits in England, and by Fa. Parsons in Rome, with their adherents: against vs the secular priests their bretheren and fellow prisoners, that disliked of nouelties, and thought it dishonourable to the auncient ecclesiasticall discipline of the Catholike Church, that secular priests should be gouerned by Iesuits.	Bagshaw, Christopher, d. 1625?; Watson, William, 1559?-1603.	1601 (1601)	STC 1188; ESTC S100519	61,716	102

that the said diuision toucheth the greater and better part of that company Alack alack doth it so It toucheth indeede the greater part and that very neerely for it shewed them for the time to be very factious such as secretly banded and combined themselues with a Iesuite against their fellow prisoners and brethren And therefore in that hee sayth those conspiring companions were the better part he speaketh like himselfe very vntruly as we in our indgements do esteeme of honest men Mary in his sense and according to the common saying the veryer knaues the better luck they may well be reckoned the better part because none are iudged vertuous or of any estimation that oppose themselues against the Iesuites or refuse to worship their Iesuiticall Idoll our Arch-priest And yet we will be content to let them go for once as he would haue them so he ioyne those words with the other that follow and to this effect The sayd contention toucheth the better part and therefore it concerneth neither himselfe nor any of his louing assistants nor their impregnable authoritie But in good sooth maister Blackwell speake truly man doth not that contention in some sort touch your high authoritie Was it not the ground of it If we had yeelded to Fa. Westons agencie had you bin euer aduaunced as you are Did not our garboyles beget your greatnes If maister Weston had preuailed with vs maister Garnet would haue wiped your nose for dealing like a yong prince abroade-as you do And therefore indeed in a right good sense wee are your good maisters and so you ought to esteeme vs. But if we should deale more seriously with you and vrge you to set downe wherein the said great part was or is the better what durst you say if you haue any sparke of the feare of God before your eyes Are they better learned for shame you will not say it Are their liues more sincere I hope you will charge vs with no dishonestie or if you dare we defye you being in our liues we trust blameles before men and euery way as honest as your selfe at the least As touching the orders you speake of they were yeelded vnto it is true by our consent and that most willinglie but as for maister Weston it so stroke him to the hart to yeeld vnto them as he fell downe presently before the company into a swoune such was his pride and so vnwilling he was to be ouer-ruled for the time And whereas our Archpriest saith that it is well knowne at Rome by whose means the said orders were disanulled we are glad to heare it and haue taken some little paines in this treatise to make it also as well knowne here in England If his meaning be that we of the Vnity did first disanull them he sayth vntruly and they in Rome are falsely informed No no those orders crossed too much the Iesuites deseignements to haue any long continuance where they had any factious creatures to infringe them But that which followeth is worthie some especiall consideration Neither was it more vnfitting sayth maister Blackwell for those which liued in one house to institute rules for such as voluntarily demaunded and accepted them then to procure a sodality abroade In good faith we are sory that we are compelled to disclose this fellowes fals●hood and how much he is sunne-burnt with Iesuitisme It is a world to see how artificially he doth smooth ouer in thi● place diuers false and some very absurd points And firs● consider we pray you whether it was as fit for Priests i● prison to choose a Iesuite to rule them as for other Priests abroade to desire to haue a Bishop to gouerne them and whether suiteth better with the auncient discipline of the Catholick Church for secular Priests to sue to the Prouinciall of the Iesuites to haue a Iesuite for their head or for others to sue to his holynes to assigne them a Bishop But let this passe and proceede we to the rest and when you heare the truth in a word then consider the mans sinceritie It will appeare vnto you by the history following that Fa. Weston had bin laboring for a superioritie ouer his brethren for the space of seauen yeeres To that purpose he had insinuated himselfe by hypocrisie and vnequall distribution of money into the fauors of the yonger sort such as were either themselues Iesuites or else inclining thereunto The Rules he speaketh of were of Fa. Westons owne making And all this was done secretly the grauer sort of the company being neuer acquainted with it When they had contriued their busines as you haue heard they pretend themselues to be more holy then the rest of vs whom they misliked and that therefore in respect of the sinnes that raigned amongst vs they would no more either eate or drinke with vs but would haue their diet by themselues And in conclusion they seuered themselues from vs and dealt as you shall perceiue in this treatise at large more like Donatists then Catholick Priests And all this inquitie doth this Iesuiticall Arch-priest couer in the sayd words so Clarkly masked with good tearmes without any regard either of conscience or common honesty but to abuse the world for the better vpholding of his owne credit which being gotten by falshood is still yet so mainteined But we keepe you too long from the story it selfe and therefore referring you for this matter to the sayd printed discourse in answere both of it and many other points we commit you by our prayers to Almighty God who open your eyes and harts that you may truly discerne betweene wolues and true pastors of your soules and accordingly to imbrace them as heretofore you haue done and we hope will do hereafter A true relation of the faction begun at VVisbich IN the yeare 1579. M. Saunders was dispatched from Rome to Ireland and not long after the Pope sent other forces thither About the same time also the King of Spayne intending to assayle Portugall vpon the death of King Henry the late Cardinall prepared an Army and a Nauy as it was pretended for England And to countenance the same he procured by Cardinall Alexandrino his meanes the renouation of the Bull published by Pius quintus against her Maiestie and printing of them to the number of 1500. at the least he was content they should be spread abroad Not long after Father Parsons and two other Iesuites his subiects Father Campion and Father Cotham came into England with such a noyse as mooued great expectation in some and diligent caution to be had of their proceedings by others These things hapning thus together her Maiestie and the State as fearing the worst disposed of the affayres in the Realme accordingly and thought it conuenient to carry a hand more hardly vpon the Catholicks So as in the yeare 1580. Doctor Watson Bishop of Lincolne Doctor Fecknam Abbot of Westminster Doctor Young maister Metham Doctor Oxenbridge and maister Bluet were sent to remayne