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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	church_n	place_n	zion_n	22	3	9.2031	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10852	The anatomy of the English nunnery at Lisbon in Portugall Dissected and laid open by one that was sometime a yonger brother of the conuent: who (if the grace of God had not preuented him) might haue growne as old in a wicked life as the oldest among them. Published by authoritie.	Robinson, Thomas, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 21123; ESTC S115995	20,832	42

his returne from his famous Conquest in France In which two houses he established an Order that to the end of the world there should bee an alternate course of Prayer so that when the one had finished their deuotions the other should instantly begin And beeing thus founded that of Shyne was peopled with Carthusian Monkes the other with Nuns and Friers of S t Brigets Order But when it pleased the Lord of his infinit mercy to disperse and scatter those thicke clouds of ignorance and Superstition which had a long time bedimmed the eyes and darkned the vnderstanding of our forefathers and that the glorious light of the Gospell began to bee more and more resplendent in the latter end of the Reigne of King Henry the 8. then as well these Houses as all other of the like superstition were subuerted and abolished and the people of them either dismissed and sent home to their friends or else continuing more obstinately in their blinde zeale exiled saue onely some few who for withstanding the Kings Supremacy receiued the reward of Traitors Amongst which Father Raynolds the Confessor of these Nunnes was executed In memory of whom they haue painted his Picture manner of execution vpon their Church walles esteeming him as a holy Martyr amongst them as good as either S t Campian or Beatus Pater Henricus Garnet although that amongst the Iesuites these are little lesse then Saints After the death of this their ghostly Father both they and the Carthusians of Shyne translated themselues and diuers of their Reliques and trinkets beyond the Seas into Flanders And the successors of these banished runnagates are now the onely stumpe which remaineth of that huge tree that whilome ouerspred and shaddowed our whole Country which the Papists in regard these two houses had both one foundation and were as it were linked and tyed the one to the other do hold as miraculous and doe take it as a sure signe and token of their future returne from banishment nay some of the holiest of our vnholy Sisters haue not doubted I thinke in imitation of the old Sybils to prophesie of another golden age when they shall againe be installed in Syon but Admiranda canunt sed non credenda sorores I know my Sisters at Lisbon for false prophets in more things then one In the meane time they of Shyne remaine at Macklyn in the Low-Countries and the Nunnes of Syon after many transmigrations from Sierick-zee to their brethren at Macklyn and from thence to Roan doe now reside at Lisbon And this shall suffice for the foundation of the house and the successe thereof till this present And now by the way it shall not be likewise much amisse for the satisfaction of such as haue not been acquainted with Friers businesse in a word or two to declare the originall of both these Orders and from what Patrons they first descended For in the Catholique Romane Church amongst all the disordered orders of swarming Locusts which are almost innumerable there is none but take their beginning from one supposed Saint or other and as the rest so these For the Carthusians sprung vp from one Bruno in the kingdome of France who is said to haue beene present at the Funerall of a certaine Priest reputed for a holy man in his life but when they were executing the office of the dead for him according to the vse of the Papists it seemed they had beene deceiued in their imagination For when the Deacon was come to the Lesson which beginneth Responde mihi quantas habeo iniquitates c. the dead man suddenly start vp and said Vocatus sum or accufatus sum chuse you whether whereupon they deferred his Obsequies vntill the next day being all amazed at what had happened when proceeding the second time and comming to the same words againe the dead body made answer Iudicatus sum Then the third time they began their Seruice and at the same Responde he sate vp and said Condemnatus sum wherewith this Bruno beeing stricken into an extreme feare and much troubled to thinke that a man so generally reputed for holy should yet be damned determined to lead a most austere and solitary life and to that end being accompanied with a few others whom he had made priuy to his purpose he departed to a desart stupendious mountaine called Carthusia where he liued as they say in great regularitie and from the name of that hill they came to be called Carthusians and to this day they pretend more seuerity and strictnesse of discipline then any other Order of Monks or Friers what soeuer Howbeit they remained not long in such solitarie and vnfrequented places but by little and little obtained their houses in euery great Cittie and towne as magnificent yea and more sumptuous then their fellow-Locusts witnesse the Charter-house in London which was once a Cage of these vncleane birds Now for the other house of Syon the Nunnes thereof take their beginning from their holy mothers Saint Briget and her daughter Saint Katherine This Saint Briget was of the blood Royall of Suetia a woman questionlesse of a good vnderstanding and singular memory howbeit miserably seduced and led away by the subtill allurements of her ghostly father by whose perswasions and counsell she went to Rome as a Pilgrime and comming before the Pope she pretended to haue diuers reuelations from God amongst which one was for the founding of this Order of Nunnes which was indeed the chiefe marke that both her ghostly father and she aymed at The rest of her pretended inspirations were for the reforming of sundry abuses in the Church Yea she spared not to tell the Popes holinesse of many faults in himselfe but he like a good blood-hound quickely scented her and followed her footing till he plainly perceiued from whom she was sent who being a fellow that might vpon distaste prooue a Schismatique and make some reuolt in those remote Countries from the Romane Church he thought best to be winked at and thereupon condescended vnto her request touching the erecting of a house of this Order and so dismissed her But she liued not long after whether his Holinesse had procured some modicum to bee ministred vnto her or no it is doubtfull yet in her daughters dayes the businesse came to perfection and the first House of this Order was at a place called Watsteen in Swethland from whence certaine Nunnes were procured into England to propagate their Rules and Ceremonies in Syon house at the time when it was first built The magnificence of this Couent in former times hath beene by the report of the now-liuing Nunnes very admirable at this present it is not of any extraordinarie repute neither are the people of it for birth and parentage equall to their predecessors who were wont to bee of good discent whereas now saue onely a few they are Recusants daughters of the meaner sort and silly tender-hearted chambermaids who haue had