at the instance of the most High and Excellent Princess Elizabeth late Queen of England and Wife to our Soveraign Lord King Henry the Seventh God have mercy on her sweet Soul and all Christian Souls to all them that every day in the morning after 3 tollings of the Ave Bell say three times the whole salutation of our Lady Ave Maria gratia plena that is to say at six of the Clock in the Morning 3 Ave Maries At 12 at Noon 3 Ave Maries and at six of the Clock at Evening for every time so doing is granted of the Spiritual Treasure of the holy Church 300 dayes of Pardon toties quoties And also our Holy Fathers the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York with other 9 Bishops of this Realm have granted 3 times in the day 40 days of pardon to all them that be in the state of Grace able to receive pardon the which begun the 26th day of March Anno 1492 in the seventh year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh And the sum of the Indulgence and pardon for every Ave Maria gratia plena is 740 dayes toties quoties Suscipe verbum Virgo Maria c. This Prayer was shewed to St. Bernard by the Messenger of God saying That as Gold is most precious of all other Metal so exceedeth this Prayer all other Prayers And whoso devoutly says it shall have a singular reward of our Blessed Lady and of her sweet Son Jesus Ave Maria ancilla Trinitatis humillima Our Holy Father Pope Bonifacius hath granted to all them that devoutly say this lamentable Contemplation of our Lady standing under the Cross weeping and having compassion on her sweet Son Jesus 7 years of Pardon and 40 Lents Also Pope John the 22d hath granted 300 days of Pardon Stabat mater dolorosa These be the 15 O's which the Holy Virgin St. Bridget was wont to say daily before the Holy Rood in St. Paul's Church at Rome Who so saith them an whole year shall deliver 15 Souls out of Purgatory of his next Kindred and convert 15 Sinners unto good life and other 15 Righteous men of his Kindred shall persevere in good life And whatsoever he desireth of God he shall have it if it be to the Salvation of his Soul To all them that before the Image of Christ scourged devoutly say 5 Pater Nosters and 5 Ave Maries and a Creed piteously beholding the Arms of Christ's Passion are granted 32755 years of Pardon And Pope Sixtus of his great clemency and fatherly goodness hath doubled this aforesaid Pardon Adoro te Domine Jesu Christe This Epistle of our Saviour sent our Holy Father Pope Leo unto the Emperor Carolus Magnus of which we find written That whosoever beareth this Blessing upon him and saith it once a day he shall obtain 40 years of Pardon and 80 Lents and he shall not perish with sudden death Crux Christi sit mecum This Prayer made St. Augustin affirming That whosoever saith it daily kneeling shall not die in Sin but after this life he shall obtain everlasting Joy and Bliss Respice ad me c. Our Holy Father Pope Bonifacius the Sixth hath granted to all them that devoutly say this Prayer following between the elevation of our Lord and the third Agnus Dei 10000 years of Pardon Domine Jesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem c. Our Holy Father Pope John the 22d hath granted to all them that devoutly say this Prayer after the elevation of our Lord Jesu Christ 3000 days of Pardon for deadly Sins Anima Christi sanctifica me c. The same Pope hath granted 100 days of Pardon to all them that say this Prayer at the Elevation of our Lord Jesus Christ Ave caro Christicara c. Our Holy Father Innocentius Pope of Rome hath granted 7 years of Pardon to all them that say this Prayer devoutly at the Elevation of our Lord in the Mass Salve lux Mundi c. Our Holy Father Pope Sixtus the Fourth hath granted to all them that be in the state of Grace saying this Prayer following immediately after the Elevation of the Body of our Lord clean Remission of all their Sins perpetually enduring And also Pope John the 22d at the request of the Queen of England hath granted unto all them that devoutly say this Prayer before the Image of our Lord Crucified as many days of Pardon as there were wounds in the Body of our Lord in the time of his bitter Passion which were 5465. Precor te amantissime Domine Jesu Christe c. This Prayer was shewed to St. Augustin by revelation of the Holy Ghost and whoso devoutly saith this Prayer or hears it read or beareth it about him he shall not perish in Fire nor Water nor Battel nor Judgment And he shall dye no sudden death and no venom shall poison him that day And whatsoever he asketh of God he shall obtain it if it be to the salvation of his Soul And whensoever his Soul shall depart from his Body it shall not enter into Hell Deus propitius esto mili peceatori c. Our Holy Father Innocentiue the Third hath granted to all them that say this Prayer following devoutly Remission of all their Sins confessed and contrite Domine Jesu Christe Fili Dei vivi c. This Prayer following made the worshipful St. Bede of the seven last words which our Lord Jesus Christ spake hanging on the Cross Whoso says this Prayer devoutly kneeling neither the Devil nor wicked men shall hurt him And he shall not dye without Confession Domine Jesu Christe qui septem verba c. These 5 Petitions and Prayers made St. Gregory and hath granted to all them that devoutly say these 5 Prayers with 5 Pater Nosters and 5 Ave Maries and 5 Credo's 500 years of Pardon Ave manus dexter a Christi c. This Prayer shall ye say in the worship of all the Blessed Members of Christ devoutly And ye shall have 300 days of pardon for every Salve And there be 13 Salves Salve tremendum c. This Prayer is made by our Holy Father Pope John the 22d and he hath granted to all them that devoutly say this Prayer beholding the glorious Visage or Vernacle of our Lord ten thousand days of pardon And they that cannot say this Prayer let them say 5 Pater Nesters 5 Aves and 5 Creeds and they shall have the like Pardon Salve Sancta faeies c. Another Oracle to the blessed Vernacle or Visage of our Lord Jesu Christ Whoso saith it devoutly shall have 300 years of pardon granted by our Holy Father Pope Innocentius Ave facies praeclara c. Whoso devoutly beholdeth these Arms of our Lord Jesus Christ shall obtain 6000 years of pardon granted by our Holy Father St. Peter the first Bishop of Rome and by 30 other Popes of the Church of Rome's Successors after him And our Holy Father Pope John the 22d hath granted to
Reliques certain pieces of the fragments which remained of the five barley Loaves and two fishes when Christ in the Wilderness fed so miraculously five thousand people There are divers others Reliques which were brought out of the churchyard of St. Calixt But whether fragments of the bread or of the fishes or both we will not contend and he that is minded to fish for lyes let him cast his nets into the Roman Ocean which Sea is certainly stored with such fish As for the bread of life I am sure they have none and as for their nameless Reliques I suppose we may give as much credit to them as to the fragments and we may look upon them with as much veneration but any thing good Mr. Pope to fill our Treasures and maintain our pride and tyranny In the Church of the holy Apostles are these Reliques following The Bodies of Philip and Jacob. Bodies of St. Philip and Jacob. St. Thomas his Cloak The Body of Sabinus the Martyr The Cloak of St. Thomas the Apostle The Foot of St. Philip. The Arm of St. James A Rib of St. Lawrence The Shoulder-plate and the Arm of St. Blase We have but their bare word for all this and they which we have taken in so many lyes already how shall we give them credit in this Arm of Saint Matthew In the Church of St. Marcellus is the Arm of St. Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist In the Church of St. Sylvester is the Head of St. John Baptist Head of St. John Baptist Hands and Feet of S. Lawrence the Hands and Feet of St. Lawrence and a piece of St. Francis Cowle and many other Reliques which are shewed on the Feasts of St. John the Baptist and of St. Sylvester This looks as like a cheat as all the rest for can any wise man think that Herod preserved it and in four days it would stink as bad as any dead flesh therefore this untruth accuseth it self and as for the Cowle of St. Francis he being a notorious thief is as miraculous as the Cross of the Thief which they say is preserved In the Church of St. Lawrence are these Reliques following The Blood the Fat the Clout the Gridiron Two Flagons full of the Fat and Blood of St. Lawrence Also a Vessel full of the roasted flesh of blessed Lawrence The Clout wherewith the Angel did wipe the Body of St. Lawrence Item the Cridiron whereupon St. Lawrence was roasted That St. Lawrence was roasted is true but first Saints did not use to be very fat 2ly His fat dropt into the fire so did his flesh 3. How could they separate his fat from his blood as it dropt through the Gridiron and that the Tormentors should give the Christians his flesh is as uncredible as that they have vessels full of it and that the Angel stood in need of a clout to wipe his body is as likely as that they have the Clout or Gridiron In the Church of St. Julian there is a certain kind of holy water whose virtue and power is so great that it easily healeth all them that be diseased of the Ague It cureth also all other infirmities and diseases so that they which will be made whole take that holy water fasting and say three Pater Nosters and as many Ave Maries in the honour of Almighty God and of the glorious Virgin 〈◊〉 and also of St. Julian and St. Albert or else cause one Mass to 〈◊〉 in the honour of the aforenamed Saint Albert. I wonder so many Papists die of the Pox and that the old Priest was so long in a Doctors hands that kept an Apothecaries shop in St. Giles Parish if there be such healing vertue in their holy water But one thing I note that the Virgin and the Saints have honour but Christ is forgotten and how the Popes themselves have not been cured of those foul diseases by which they have perished if they have had such excellent and infallible Remedies In the Church of St. Vitus there is a Marble stone set about with Iron Stone on which a 1000 poor Saints was slain upon which were slain more than a thousand bodies of holy Martyrs In this Church there is so great virtue and grace through the merits of those holy Martyrs Vitus Modestus and Crescentia that if so be any man be bitten with a mad Dog or of any other beast and take a piece of bread and dip it in the Oyl of St. Vitus and so eat it he shall straightway be made whole All their healing is ascribed to the Virgin or to Saints not to Christ And if they were not all bit with some Beast or another they would not set Saints of their own coining above the Son of God Jesus whom God hath made to all a means of spiritual health and eternal salvation But of this Oyl of St. Vitus I find not one word but at Rome and its virtues are not there mentioned In the Church of St. Braxed there is a Chappel which is called Libera nos a penis inferni and Ortus Paradisi in the which is a Pillar whereunto our Lord Jesus Christ was bound in his passion But our comfort is That we are not bound to believe it In the midst of this Church there is a round stone inclosed with Iron under this stone is the blood of many holy Martyrs which blessed St. Braxed gathered up with a certain Sponge and put it in a pit laying that round stone upon it They that tell these lyes will be in a pit one day in which there is no water to cool their tongues Luke 16.24 In this Church also there is an Altar upon the which Pope Pascalis said five Masses for a certain soul departed Which Masses being once finished he saw the blessed Virgin Mary take that soul out of Purgatory and carry it into the bosom of Almighty God as ye may see it plainly painted upon the wall of the said Church When Pope Pascalis had seen this miracle he granted by his Apostolique Authority That whosoever did either sing mass or cause mass to be sung on that Altar he should deliver for every time so doing one foul out of the bitter pains of Purgatory That this looks as the rest do like a piece of Forgery from top to the bottom for the Virgin never came near any other place but where Gods blessed presence is since she left this World her spirit went to God that gave it and thence it did never stir In the Church of St. Potentiana is the Altar upon which St. Peter did sing his first mass Also a Pit in which lieth hid the blood of three thousand martyrs It is as scandalous to fasten saying mass upon St. Peter as upon St. Paul who knew that your Massing-trick never came into the heart of Christ or any of his sincere followers if St. Paul himself say true Acts 20. ver 20 comp with ver 27. and if the Popes Massing had been Gods
they need nothing to confute them Note but the serious reading and weighing them In Geneva was a certain Relique called St. Peters Brain and was esteemed for a precious treasure among all the people of the Countrey and had in great worship But after that it pleased God to reveal the truth of his holy Word to the Inhabitants of the City and the crafty juggling of the Papists began to be espied and search made it was found to be not St. Peters Brain but a Marble-stone When people came to exercise their own brains Note they soon found the cheat and so may men now At Pise at Ravenna at Clugny at Anger 's at St. Saeviours in Spain Note These Pots are found in divers places and none but they that are drunk with the Popes Wine will believe it c. are the Cruses or Water-pots which they call Hidries wherein the Water was that Jesus Christ changed into Wine at the marriage of Cana in Galilee and are taken for great Reliques And as in the aforesaid places they have the Cruses or Water-pots so they of Orleans affirm and say That they have among them at this present part of the Wine which Christ miraculously turned from Water unto Wine at the aforesaid marriage and kept it among them devoutly as an holy and worthy Relique This custom also have they among them Once a year so many as will religiously and devoutly come on Pilgrimage unto the aforesaid Relique and offer something for the relief of our Mother-holy-Church they shall not only see it but also taste of it by licking the end of a Spoon which is dipped into it And they make the simple people believe that it is part of the same Wine which Christ at the marriage of Cana in Galilee turned from Water into Wine They add moreover that the tasting of the Wine is not only profitable to expel all sorrows and cares and to make them the more merry and joyful all the year after but also very medicinable against divers and sundry diseases And the virtue thereof is so great and marvellous that although never so many taste of it yet the quantity thereof abideth always one and diminisheth nothing at all Is not this a marvellous Relique This is a thing which requireth great store of Ignorance to make it go down Note and I hope the people of England will never be so drunk with the Wine of the Cup that the Whore of Rome fills out as to believe any of the Wine Christ made by a Miracle is to be licked in Spain from the end of a Spoon The Knife wherewith the Paschal Lamb was cut up at the Supper which Christ made with his Disciples the night before he was crucified is as they say at Trier and there kept for a precious Jewel with no small devotion and reverence At how small rates these Papists deceive the people Note here is a Knife forsooth had in great reverence because the Lord used it at the Paschal Supper but that the Good-man of the house where they eat did not call for his Knives and other things but that his Dish and Knife was carried away by the Disciples is to make them thieves like Popish Priests in Spain this is like the rest of their lyes and I hope will cut them to the heart Part also of the Bread which was at that Supper is to be seen at St. Saeviour's in Spain This is Bread of Sixteen hundred years old Note if they say true but they are such old lyers that there is no wise man will believe them The Platter also wherein the Paschal Lamb was put The Platter is found to be in divers places as at Rome at Geves at Earles c. This Platter it seemeth is in many places Note so that a wise man will judg it is not at all except they can multiply Platter as they can do bodies of Christ which they say may be in many places at the same time much alike The Cup wherein Christ gave the Sacrament of his blood to his Apostles to drink is shewed at our Lady of the Isle near to Lyons and also at Allegeios in a certain Covent of Austin-Friers and in both places kept as a most precious Relique How this may be good Reader make no inquisition except thou wilt repay unto them that lately have brought in the Doctrine of the Ubiquity of Christs body But if they can perswade thee that one and the same Cup being a dead thing may be in divers places at once then maist thou the sooner be brought to believe the strange Doctrine of the Ubiquity of Christs body That what is said to the former Paragraph serves to undeceive the Reader in both Note The Towel Napkin or Cloth wherewith Christ wiped his Apostles feet after that he had washed them is not only at Rome in the Lateran Church but also at Aix and at St. Cornelius with the sign of Judas foot The Traytor Judas betrayed Christ but once Note these Popish Priests make a Trade daily to betray Christ in his Person and Members into all the contempt imaginable by their frauds and falshoods The very same bough that Jesus held in his hand when he entred into Jerusalem on Palm sunday is as they say at St. Saviours in Spain and is taken for a great Relique It is doubtful whether Christ had a bough or not Note for the holy Text is silent But that this is a falshood is out of all doubt The common opinion is That Christ was fastned to the Cross only with three Nails which Nails how they were bestowed we have heretofore heard Notwithstanding it is found that there is one of those Nails at Rome in St. Helens Church another in the Church of the holy Cross another at Milan another at Carpentras another at Venice in Germany two at Colein one at the three Maries another at Triers one in France at the holy Chappel of Paris another at the Carmes one also at St. Denis in France one at Bruges one at Tenail one at Draquigne c. And every one of these places perswade themselves to have one of those three Nails wherewith Christ was fastned to the Cross and count it for a precious Relique But how this may be true let the indifferent Reader judg But who knoweth not that the Kingdom of the Papists is crowned confirmed and maintained with lyes and tyrannies The Spear-head wherewith Christ was thrust to the heart is not only at Rome but also as they report at the holy Chappel of Paris at the Abbey of Tenail at St. Euge at Selne c. And in all these places it is counted to be a precious Relique Also the very same Spear wherewith Christ was pierced unto the heart That divers Thorns of Christs thorny Crown be at Rome we have likewise before heard But besides those there are other yea and those not few at Venice one at Bruges five at Besanson
bread and water that Friday seven year Item In seven years not to sleep one night where he sleepeth another Item In 7 years not to come under no cover'd place except it be to hear Mass in the Church-door or Porch Item In 7 years not to eat or drink out of any Vessel but in the same that he made his avow in He that fulfilleth all these points seven years successively doth and winneth a Karin or Lenton Thus may a man have at Rome great pardon and Soul-health Blessed be those people and in good time are they born that receive these Graces and well keep them Of which pardon and grace our Lord Jesus grant to every good Christian man Here followeth the Indulgences granted to other lower Churches in Rome IN Rome there is a Church of St. Peter ad vincula which Pope Pelagius did Consecrate and Hallow To this Church the aforesaid Pope Pelagius granted to remission of all sins the first day of August by the prayer of the Son of Theodorus the Emperor who brought the Chain from Jerusalem wherewith Peter the Apostle was bound In the Church of St. Vitus Modestus Crescentia Marcellus and others to the number of 5000 martyrs whose bodies were slain in the same place in the time of Antoninus the Emperor is granted 100 years of pardon and as many Karins and forgiveness of the 4th part of all sins In this Church also is a Vault wherein lyeth the body of Sylvester the Pope to which is granted 800 years of pardon and as many Karins and remission of the third part of all sins The old Latin Book saith that the Indulgences and Pardons that belong to this aforesaid Church are 7000 years and as many Lents And that in that Church there is such grace through the merits of the holy Martyrs Vitus and Modestus c. that whosoever is hurt of any mad dog c. or of any other noisom beast and dippeth his bread in the Oyle of St. Vitus and eateth it he is presently made whole In the Church of all the Apostles is every day a year of pardon and every Feast of one of the Apostles 300 years of pardon In the Church entituled Quatuor Coronatorum is 40 years of pardon In the Church of St. Julian is a 100 years of pardon In this Church is a certain kind of holy water very medicinable and easily cureth all kind of Diseases but especially Agues be they never so fervent sharp and hot Provided always that they which are diseased and come to take this blessed and holy water be fasting and say three Pater Nosters and as many Ave Maries in the Worship of Almighty God and of the glorious Virgin Mary and of the sweet Saints Julian and Albert Or else either say Mass or cause it to be said in the honour of the aforenamed St. Albert. In the Church of St. Foelix is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Visy is 100 years of pardon In the Church of St. Peter and St. Marcellin is 1000 years of pardon Moreover Pope Alexander who consecrated and hallowed this Church granted unto it from the day of the Consecration unto the Vtas every year 3 years of pardon and as many Lents And after that he removed the said pardon from that time unto the Monday after the second Sunday of Lent and added the pardon of one year and forty days In the Church of Marcell is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Cire and Joannes is the remission of the fourth part of all sins In the Church of St. John and St. Paul is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Eustace where his own and his Wifes body lieth with their two Sons is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Bartholomew where his body lieth and the body of St. Pauline is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Gregory is 300 years of pardon and in the same Church whosoever be buried he shall never be damned This Church which before was dedicated saith the old Latin book to St. Andrew the Apostle St. Gregory did hallow and endowed the same with great and singular priviledges And after he had finished the Consecration of the said Temple he kneeled down and most humbly prostrated himself before the Majesty of God and prayed on this manner saying O Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the living God which saidst to thine Apostles and by thine Apostles to all faithful Christians Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he shall give it you I desire of the Omnipotency and Almightiness of thy Majesty that whosoever for ever after shall choose his burial in this Church or Church-yard so that he hold the Christian faith may never be adjudged to the pains of Everlasting damnation but be exalted to the joys of Everlasting life When he had thus prayed the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him saying O Gregory thy prayer is heard In the Church of St. Augustin is 1000 years of pardon In this Church is the chiefest Image of our Lord that ever St. Luke painted which Image he always carried with him whithersoever he went And it was found in the Grave of St. Luke about his head And this Image is called Sancta Maria Virgo Virginum mater omnium that is Saint Mary Virgin of Virgins and Mother of all This Image throughout all the City of Rome did excel and was very famous in working of Miracles in the time of Pope Innocent the 8th in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1485. In the Church of St. Jerom is 1000 years of pardon In the Church of St. Alexius where his body lieth is 2000 years of pardon In this Church saith the old Latin Book are every day in the year 100 years of pardon and as many Lents In this Church also is a worthy Image of our Lady which sometime was in a Church of the aforesaid Lady at a certain City called Edesia where blessed Alevius being a Pilgrim was and greatly desired to come and pray before it and he could not be suffered In consideration whereof the most blessed Image miraculously spake twice to the Keeper of the Church and said Let Alexius the man of God come in who sitteth without at the door and is worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven In the Church of Salvator is 1100 years of pardon and 40 days In the Chappel of 3 Wells where St. Paul was beheaded is 1000 years of pardon and as many Karins and the third part of all sins released In the Church of St. Salvator in the way to St. Pauls is an hundred years of pardon In the Church of St. Sylvester is 1000 years of pardon and there is the head of St. John Baptist. In the Church of St. Jacob is 1000 years of pardon and the third part of all sins released and there 's the head of St. James the Apostle In the Church of St. Nicholas is 100 years of pardon In the Church