1810.] 
heing once admitted into the same so- 
ciety, they may obtain pardon of all 
their sinnes past, at the hour of their 
death, saying or but thinking ou the 
name of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, they are 
actually pardoned, and free from the 
paines of purgatory; which otherwise, 
had they not beene of this society, they 
should have endured. 
“ With one of the sferesyd graines, 
saying Ave Marie, they may, by the 
virtue of each, deliver a " soule 
from purgatory. Besides, on the day 
any that are an this sodality estabtishe 
their sins ere remitted, swearing fide- 
lity, and stling themselves the Virgin’s 
slaues. Qn this manner each Sunday, 
between seven and? eight Uiey spend 
their time, and they all go fo masse, and 
receive the counnumon; thence to 
breakefast, after to study, whereas be- 
fore, they busie themnselues in reading 
diume stories ul diner; anon after din- 
ner to their church where they sing 
vespres and Jetanies to our lady tor 
Bngland’s conuersion, having written on 
their church and colledge doores in great 
goldenletters, Jesu, Jesu, conuerte An- 
glum, fiat, fiat. These are only the 
outsides of their profession: Latnow will 
I rippe up the very bowels of these 
treacherous giosing fathers: first, those 
schollars who ace nobly” deecendedl and 
of rich parentage, they strive to allure 
by their henied words and flattered im- 
bracings, endowing them with pictures, . 
beads, meddals, ayius dei, which they 
have from Rome, * Also that their baits 
inay take effect, they licence them to 
participate of all those wines and jun- 
cutes, prouided for their own paliates, 
and if white boys of a comely feature, 
they bestow on them (though jil-de- 
sre the preheminence of the 
schooles. And with these is the pre- 
fect of musick most recreated, reading to 
them Quid, Hor. Catull, and Pra 
From page 111019. © 
* As tor their relivion, they make i a 
cloake for their wickedness, being most 
of them atheists, og very bad christians ;— 
these are Nar & that observe these tet 
commander s which follow: | 
1. Toseek riches and wea a : i 
2. To govern the world. 
3. To reforme the clergy. 
4. To be still jocund and merry. 
5. To drinke white and red wine. 
6. To correct text of scripture. 
7. To receive all tithes. 
£. To make aslaue of their ghostly child. 
8. To keepe their owne and live ouano- 
ther inan’s purse. 
19. To govern their neighbour’s wife. 
Scarce Tracts, Ke. 565 
These 
into two parts: all tor me, and nothing 
for thee.”—From page 27 to 28. 
{n-1622, our author obtained leave to 
go frony St. Omer’s to Spain, which he 
did, he says, (page $1) in a ship ‘that 
had taken” a false certification from the 
governor of Calats that the ship and 
goods belonged thereunto. In their 
voyage they had an engagement with a 
pirate, which T shall vive, as describing 
a sea-fight of that era, in hisown words: 
“This ship was of an one huudred 
tunne burthen, carrying twelve pieces of 
ordnance, forty men besides passenvers 
one chirurgion and two trumpeteers, 
Aud we departed with senen other ships 
in the company, and hauing sailed to 
the promantery called Fines Terre, 
upon the coast of Galina, we descried 
a stip coming from the coast of Portu- 
gall, which took bis course aside of us; at 
last we perceiung hee discerned our 
French colours, we forthwith made tu- 
wards him, who put out the Siates co- 
Jours, but we sapposing him to be a 
pyrate of Algier, Sally, or Rochell, it 
would not be amisse to board lim, being 
s9 near the coast of Spaine, not doubte 
iug-within a few houres to take hin, to 
which end the admiral], with the other 
five being ali French, joyned himselfe 
to the vice-adimirall, betag the strongest 
of the company, they were conceited 
it were best to tet him goe; but the vice-' 
admiral, desirous to contest with them, 
preparing himselfe for to fight, Jaunch. 
ing forth his boate, charging his artillery 
muskets, and murthering pieces, # bisie 
his traines of powder, nayling vp bis 
decks, crossing the hatches wiih cables, 
and hanging his grappliug chaine on the 
maine mast; which done, the captaine 
of the vice-admirall Jaques Banburge by 
name, began to encourage his mariners, 
telling how easy it was for seuen to take 
one, vot thinking the supposed pyrate to 
have had above thirty men, and ten 
pieces of ordnance, whereupon the rest 
gathering bogether, resolved that the ad- 
‘mirall éhould make the firse onset, and 
the vice-admirall the second, and the 
rest in their order; but the Hollander 
discerning us to be French, made no 
haste to escape us, aid hauing gotten the 
winde made towards us, with a desire to 
sPegonie provision of vs for his money, 
Sts ae 
* Grose (Milt Antig. i. 403) has Mur- 
therers charabered pieces of cannon, much 
used in small forts, and on shipboard. Ar 
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