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acverest weather, in defiance of all the 
yemonstrances of his attendants, that 
serious and alarming symptons began to 
discover themselves. At length he was 
confined to his room and his bed: a mor- 
tification ensted; and after six weeks of 
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It is proposed in future to devote a | 
Scarce Tracts, Ke. 
[July 1, 
the most painful sufferings, with which 
the amazing strength of his constitution 
eo to the las t, he died on the 30th - 
of November, 1800, in the &8th year of 
his age. 
gil tine ‘Mas 
SC: SRCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS AND. “ANALYSES OF 
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BOOKS.j.20 0 
vi hae 2S Mi? 4 
agin of Ale: Monthly Magazine to the 
Insertion of such Scarce Tracts. as are ie “an interesting Nature, wife tthe Use’ 
of whith we me. be fuvoured by our Correspondents any under the sume Head io 
introduce-also the Analyses of Scarce and Curi f 
ee 
The English Spanish Pilgrime: or, anew 
Discovery of Spanish Popery und Jesu- 
atical Sératagems. With the Estate 6 
the English ~Pentioners and Puasa, 
under the King of Spaines Dominion, - 
and elscahere, at this present. Also, 
laying open the new Order of theSesuitri= 
CeS, and sp se Nunnes. Composed by 
James Wadsworth, Gentleman, newly 
conuerted ento his true Mothers Bosame, 
the Church of England; with the Mo- 
tiueswhy he left the Sea (see) of Rome ; 
a late Pentioner to his Majesty of 
Spain, and nominated his see ea 
Flunders ; Sonne to Mr. Sames Wads-— 
worth, Bachelor of Divinity, sometime ~ 
of Emanuell Co! ledge, in Uniuer sity of 
Cambridge, who was peruerted in the 
Yeere 1604, and late Tutor to Donna — 
Maria, Infanta ef Spaine- The second 
Fdition, corrected and wnended. 
ss at London, by T. Cotes, und 
. C. for Mich. Sparke, dwelling at~ 
dhe Blue Bible, in Greene Arbor. 
1650: 7 ‘ 
HE 2 ave commences his narrative ~ 
T with observing, that he was born in 
4604, and son of "Janies Wadsworth, 
B.D. rector of Colton and Great*Thome, — 
Norfolk, and chaplain in ordinary to 
the Bishop of Norwich: Upon his” 
father’s going out clap} ain and joint 
commissioner with the ambassador sir 
Charles Cornwallis to Spain, the Jesuits’ 
immediately attacked him with disputa- orders, an 
tions, which he was weak enough to hold er than” dvi “ERestath in 
with them; but not succeeding by this 
qneans, at least openly, they effected their 
purpose by mock miracles. He there- 
fore settled i in Spain: the Jesuits, that 
his conversion might not be aseribed to 
profit, t aking care ‘that bis income should 
not be toolarge. After a time he per- 
auaded his wife to come to him in Spam, 
«ith their children, the youligest of whom 
was our bibies after being tanght to 
read and write at Seville, till he was 
’ 
’ eight years old, he was sent, by the ad- 
vice of the Jest, to the celebrated col= 
lege of St. Omer’s, the institutes and cus-" 
toms of whith, he thus details: 
“This ecvlledge was founded about — 
some 40 years since, by the order and> 
furtherance of Father Parsons, that fa-~ 
mous Jesuit who sent Father Flacke to’ 
S: Omers, with sufficient monyes for the 
- foundation, having before obtained of bis ° 
Catholic” Majesty. a-pension of 2008 
cee aha annum, for the maintenance ’ 
e students there. 
“At which ‘colledge (as I above said) 
accompanied with two. other fryars, I ar- 
vived, who after they had been well re- 
fectioned by the rector, ‘they tooke their, 
leave-of them and the rest of the paterni- 
ties, and returned inte their own cor 
vents: I remained behinde, and f 
first night was, by the rec ( 
other fathers, weild : 
“making vp the time ot 
spare vs, with discourse of 
Journey from Spaine, whi 
they might more at large be 
they lengthened the mea to 
vnull bed-time broak vf 
sooner bad the “mo “nit 
opened aur eyes, but the 
ther Creswell sent fo ea 
begun a remonstration of th 
id obseruations, sot 
that they might take none blindfold, th 
opened newith a general ¢ confession of | 
all my sins; then closed vp all again hy 
the sacrament ; and‘after this, least there ~ 
might be any relique of the world left | 
upon mee, they made mee disinvest my-= ° 
selfe of such profane garments I had, and — 
the sagas es of baire ; but one they — 
kept, the other they threwe aWay bast oa) 
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