Fiscus Papalis. SIVE, Catalogus Indulgentiarum & Reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae. Ex vetusto Manuscripto codice vere & fideliter descriptus. A part of the Pope's Exchequer, That is A Catalogue of the Indulgences and Relics belonging to the seven principal Churches in ROME. Laying down the spiritual riches and infinite treasure which (as sure as the Pope is holy & true) are to be found in the Catholic Roman Church, whereof the poor Heretics in England have not one Mite. Taken out of an ancient Manuscript, and translated Together with Certain notes and Comments explaining the more difficult place, for the ease and help of good Catholics, who had best go to Rome, to try the virtue of the glorious Indulgences. By a Catholic Divine.  
LONDON, 〈◊〉 by Nicholas Okes, for George Norton, and are to be sold at his Shop near Temple-bar Gate. 1617.   

THE PREFACE, To the devout and distressed Catholics of Great Briton. WRITTEN AS IT SEEMS from one of their Priests, to invite them to leave England as a den of Heretics, and get themselves to Rome, there to be made partakers of the riches and blessings laid down in this Book.  
COnsidering (dear Catholics) that nature teacheth, and we have well learned that lesson in other things, to leave the worse and take the better, it hath often made me muse and marvel, that you can be hired to stay amongst these Heretics, or kept from running to Rome with all speed possible: Many things have amazed me in this consideration but three especially.  
1 To see how all your hopes here vanish and come to nothing.  
2 The miseries and vexations you here endure.  
3 The comforts and blessings you might enjoy at Rome. What our hopes have been, it grieves me to call to mind. In those golden days of 
Onuphrius in vita Pauli 4 Petramalerius in vita Poli Card.  Queen Mary, when Cardinal Poole reconciled us, than they rejoiced at Rome, we triumphed at home and made bonfires of the Heretics all over England: But by and by all the fat was in the fire: for Elizabeth soon caused us to turn our Te deum into the profund is. We cried and complained 
Extat ipsa bulla excommunicationis inter Petri Mataei Constitutiones Rom. Pont. pag. 624.  at Rome, and found relief. Pius quintus thundered out his roaring Bull against her, excommunicated her as an Heretic, deprived her, discharged her subjects of their oaths to her. Gregory confirmed it. Sixtus renewed it that this threefold cord might not be broken, and we for the execution of that thrice blessed Bull, plotted Treasons in the South, raised rebellions in the North: But alas what became of all? She lived to see those three Popes & three more, all turn up their heels as though the curse had fallen upon the cursers' heads: and the rebellion's Treasons and Conspiracies against her, were all discovered and defeared.  
Hereupon the penalties of the laws, being doubled and redoubled upon us, we groaning under 
Vide librum inscriptum. Canenizatio. S. Didaci impressum. Roma anno 1588.  the burden, got Sixtus quintus to hire the Spanish King against her, who came upon her with his Invincible Armado. Now were our hopes at the height, and we could scarce contain ourselves for joy. But how soon was it dashed, for what became of all the invincible Armado, but confusion to itself, shame and loss to the senders, and such grief to the Pope that procured it, as cost him his life: and we were left not like Sheep to the slaughter (for we love not the sheeps qualities) but like Foxes to be hunted by the Heretics and ferreted out of all our warm nests.  
Thus laden with shame and sorrows, we lay languishing in woe and misery, having now no hope left but the death of that wicked woman, for which we said many a mass, made many a prayer, and (because you know we trust not to our prayers) devised many a treason against her life, but all in vain, she lived to see the hanging of hundreds of us, and died at last with nothing but old age, surmounting in glory and greatness, all the Princes in the world of her sex and time.  
And now had we been utterly forlorn, and desperate, had it not been that some good Catholics put us in hope to find favour from him that did succeed her. This kept us in life, and and therefore at his entrance, we went with the foremost, and let the world see our hopes were not dead. But alas alas for us poor cursed caitiffs, we leapt out of the Frying-pan into the fire, for presently we found ourselves in worse case under him and far more hopeless than before.  
Whereupon some of our zealous brethren, 
Watson and Clarke.  seeing how they and we were deceived, plotted against him, and hoped to have constrained him to that they desired, but all in vain, for this was defeated and they were hanged, and we poor Catholics left cold and comfortless. Oh had we then been so wise as to have gone all to Rome, how happy had we been, but we were yet put into one hope more by our ghostly fathers and confessors, that at the next Parliament we should be relieved: for the good success whereof we all prayed and longed to see that happy day: and indeed a number of our bravest spirits and most zealous Catholics had attempted one of the worthiest exploits that ever the world heard of, and the blow was even almost given, sentence was pronounced upon the Heretics of England, in Rome itself confirmed by all the jesuited Catholics in the world, and execution was expected within a few hours: But alas alas (as some of those good men said when they were 
Grant and Keyes.  in the Tower) the business was too good to prosper, for all was discovered and we defeated, and so in stead of them, we gave ourselves the deadliest blow that ever we had, and of which, whilst the world stands we shall never be cured: for by this action many of our chief ones lost their lives, we our peace, and our religion that little credit it had afore amongst them, & all we got was this that his Holiness lest we should be all discouraged from such brave works, made them 
As was the powdet treason.  Martyrs at Rome, and we hope ere long will Canonize them for Saints, as they well deserved.  
And thus good Catholics if we will not cousin ourselves, say in earnest, where are we now? and what is become of all our hopes? are they not all like Tabacconists food, and the Alehimists riches blown away in smoke? And as our hopes are past and worn away, so if we consider the present persecutions & miseries we endure, it is more than marvelous we stay in in England, you know how bitter the laws are against us, and the King because he seethe his mercy is abused, commands them all to be executed upon us, so that now to offer to bribe the pursuivants and corrupt the justices, will do us little good, he is so set against us and transported with zeal to his own religion (which He good soul thinks verily to be the true Gospel of Christ jesus) as now all the gold we can keep from Rome will scarce purchase us a protector, or find one that dare once open his mouth to speak a word for us.  
Oh then (dear Catholics) what do we here, what stay we for? what can you hope or look for here? but for a heavier yoke, and more grievous persecution every day? why then do we not get us all to Rome, out of the stormy and tempestuous England into the happy haven and sweet sunshine of his holiness favours? where should the Children be but with their father? where the Servants wait, but on their Lord? where the Sheep feed but with their Shepherd? where can you drink so pure as at the Fountain? where graze so daintily as upon the Seven hills? where suck so sweetly as at your Mother's teats? Is not his Holiness your father, and the holy Roman Church your mother? why then can you be kept from them, unless you be bastards and not children? But if you fear to find him a hard father or a stepmother of her, be not deceived: how dearly he loves all his children, ask Venice, Naples, Savoy and Sicily: who ever committed themselves to his care that repent but once? And for her (most loving mother that she is) she never received more than came to her, nor deceived any that trusted her not: her lap was ever open to receive, and her treasure to disbuse again, but mark the difference and magnify her bounty: for she takes from you but your silver or gold or such like temporal trash, but opens you her treasure, and jades you again with better blessings, spiritual riches, holy pictures blessed grains, Agnus this, holy bones, holy stones, holy wood, holy blood, holy relics, holy rags: glorious pardons, gracious Indulgences, and other invaluable jewels: and well may I call them so, for no living man can tell the value of them: leave then these Heretics, who (gross heads) know not the virtue of these riches, leave them I say to their Onions and Garlic, their word and Sacraments, their Psalms and Sermons, their praying and preaching, like Dogs to their crusts, or Swine to their acorns. Let us, as more refined spirits, seek for purer feeding, and therefore hasten to the seven hills where holiness dwells, and where we shall at easy rates, be made partakers of such riches as the poor Protestants never tasted of: witness this book that here I send you venerable only for the antiquity of it. For as to the truth of it, it cannot be questioned, seeing Onuphrius, and many other great and well 
Onuphrius de 7 urbis Ecclesijs.  approved Authors, confirm the same, and all travelers find it to be true, as their purses will testify if they should deny it.  
Oh than what a worthy change shall you make, Italy for England: Rome for London, Tiber for Thames, Mass books for Bibles, seven Sacraments for two, and many other great blessings to boot: you shall be delivered from Sermons, and Psalms singing, and Prayers in a known tongue, and many other such superstitious ceremonies, which here you are cumbered withal: and whereas here you can scarce walk in Paul's, nor make a bargain in the Temple Church, without being offended with Psalms singing, Bells ringing to serve heretical devotions, nor walk scarce by any Church, but shall be scandalised and tormented with a Sermon. There you shall be quite delivered from all such purgatories, and contrariwise you shall not peep into a Church, nor creep into a Cloister where you shall not find more bounties and blessings, and more thousands years of pardon, than all the Churches of England are able to give; as you shall well perceive by this ensuing Book: And if you have such queasy and tender stomachs as you cannot be without a Sermon, his Holiness herein also condescends to your infirmity, and provides, therefore you shall have store of them in Lent, when like Fish they be in the best season.  
And if the fear of Purgatory hap to trouble you, Rome is the only place in the world for you, for you will perceive by this book so many fine and easy ways to escape it, as you will hold him more than worthy to go to hell, that ever suffers himself or any he loves to come within the sent or smoke of purgatory.  
And for your Clergy and confessors, and young men unmarried fear not, they will be in better plight than they ever were in England, for the stews are there in every street which his Holiness (out of his own former experience, no doubt of the necessity thereof) in great wisdom tollerats both for Clergy and laity, for eschewing of greater inconveniences but especially that his Clergy may avoid that fowl and detestable sin of marriage: which with us is held a greater 
Costerus in Euchirid. Gretsecus, Ignatius etc.  sin then to lie with other men's wives, or twenty whores. And if any thing do afterward trouble the conscience, you have there at every hour a Confessor at hand, and are not to seek him a far off, send for him with cost, keep him with danger, and send him away in secret as you do in England: and he is as ready to give you absolution, as you to pay him, and as able to discharge you of all your sins as of his own.  
And as for worldly wants, fear them not, how can so tender a father, and so loving a mother see their children want? who knows not the rich and royal entertainment that Westmoreland had, when having lost all for his Holiness he fled to them? and least the English should plead it as their privilege, call to mind how the Scottish Bishop of Rosse was received & rewarded, first with 
unde laesleum in sua congratulatione ad Albertum Archiducem de Seipso.  the title of the Bishopric of Constance in France and afterward (because Constance by reason of the wars was little worth) with a promise of the archbishopric of Macklin, and that he might not starve in the mean time, he had a pension assigned him of fifty scutes a month, which though it was most ill favouredly paid him, yet was it most fairly and frankly bestowed on him: And howsoever you be not such Arch-traitors to your own states, nor such well-deserving favourits of the Roman Church as these two were, yet fear not for you shall at your first coming be welcome, and well refreshed at the English College, and after that know for your comforts, that every day certain pilgrims of several nations dine in the Pope's presence, of meat from his own table, blessed with his own most holy hands: (oh who were not worthy to want it that would not post from England to Rome for such a dinner) And it is but a reasonable suit to some Cardinal, or the fathers of the College to be often made guests at this table, the very crumbs whereof gathered up and carried away are of as much virtue as many of the Relics in Saint Peter's Church.  
Now then seeing there be such entertainments and rewards to be had for the body, as these examples prove and such riches for the soul, as this Book declares, let us leave these Heretics to wallow in their mire, let covetous Merchants go to the Indies, and Gallants to Guiana: let silly Catholics go dwell in Ireland, and fools into Virginia: Let us take a wiser course and post to Rome, where we are sure to have as good entertainment as we deserved at home, and to find as much honesty as holiness, and as much happiness as both: And as the Heretics make themselves sport with this Book, because (poor fools) they believe it not: so do you more wisely who know it to be true, take it with you, read it in your journey for your recreation, and when you come there, examine the truth of it Church by Church: And if you find the Relics there as precious, and as full of virtue and value, as you will find the relation here made of them to be true, I dare say you will be the richest and happiest people in the world: And further, off this be assured for your better content, the Heretics will not so much envy your rich and happy State in Rome, as they do the little liberty you have in England: and to say truth (If I may without offence) they are not such cruel bloodsuckers, as we speak and write of them, for I have often heard many of them say, they had rather have you all sent away to Rome, than the blood of any of you to be shed in England. And that you may require them for this courtesy. Let me advise you when you come at Rome, and now and then for your recreation go forth to see an Heretic burnt after a sessions from the Holy house (where it is pretty sport to Catholics to see how the fat Friars out, and how the burning Torches bring away pieces of their, flesh) then if it happen to be an Englishman, do him this favour for country's sake, to get him a little sooner dispatched out of his pain: But I put you to too much pain, by keeping you so long from preparing for your journey, which I am sure you will do as soon as you have read this Book, unless it be you doubt of the truth of it, (which none will do that are true Catholics,) and then I suspect you are turning Heretics and therefore will wish, that for your punishment you never see Mass again, and for your penance may every Sunday hear a Sermon, daily read two Chapters of the Bible, and receive the Eucharist once a month, which most grievous penance, if you would avoid, get you first to your Book, and then to your journey.  
And as true as the Pope is as (we call him) the Vicar of Christ, and his breast the habitation of Holiness and truth, and (as the canon-law calls him our Lord God, so certainly you will be most happy in your journey, and most welcome to his Holiness, especially if you leave all you have in England, and come to him poor and unprovided, and so give him occasion to exercise his Charity, for you know, He and his Cardinals, and all his Court hold it a better thing to give them to receive.  
FINIS.   

Good Reader, He out of whose study this old book was printed, and by whose means it was transcribed being absent, these errors escaped the Press, which thou art desired to amend or pardon, besides many less and literal faults.  
B 4. For thirty, read thirteen. C 2. for Clement the 5. read 8. for Sixtus the 6. read 5. D 3. for censure, read answer. E 1. for prays, read preacheth. 3. for soul, read son. 4. for vocal, read royal. F 3. for Ideses, read Kalends. G 1. for God his, read God knows his. for Epistles, read Thistles. H 1. for per, read pro. 3. for Stephani, read Sehastiani. 4. for 38000, read 366000. I 3. for altar sancti, read altar sub quo sancti. 4. for cezend, read cozening. K 1. for three, read there. L 4. for with, read which. 4. for quart sunt, read quart feriae sunt. M 1. unibiculus, read umbilicus. 3. for anni, read omni.   

Index Authorum.  

COrpus juris Civilis.  
Onuphrius de 7 Vrbis Ecclesijs.  
Azorij Institutiones Morales.  
Villamonts Travels in French.  
Corradi casus Conscientiae.  
jacobus de Grafijs Decisiones.  
Petri Mathaei constitutiones Rom. Pontificum  
Platina De vitis Pontificum Rom.  
Onuphrius De vitis Pontificum Rom.  
Cicerella. De vitis Pontificum Rom.  
Molani Compendium practicae Theologiae.  
Toleti Instructio Sacerdotum.  
jac. Ledesma de sacra Scriptura non jegenda, etc.  
Serranus de Ecclesijs Vrbis Rom.  
Hen. Korumanni, liber inscriptus, Roma Communis Patria.    

Certain Notes to explain the Text.  
ᵃ The glorious mother City of Rome, which some good Catholics call, The Mistress of the world: some, The wonder of the earth: some, The eternal City (not because they believe it shall be eternal, but for that they wish it) is built on seven hills, which are called by these names:  
Capitolinus, Quirinalis, Caelius, Exquilinus, Aventinus, Viminalis, Palatinus.  
and of late are added 4 more.  
Mons Hortulorum, Vaticanus, janiculus, Testaceus.  
Of the great glory of this City if any would be more fully satisfied, let him read the little book called, Roma communis Patria, written lately by one that was there, and it will give him a stomach to go thither, if it were further of then it is, or else surely he wants Catholic devotion. And as it is built on seven hills, so it hath seven principal privileged Churches above the rest, and Patriarcall: they be  

St john Laterane, St Peter in the Vatican,  
St Paul, St Mary the great, St Cross,  
St Laurence and Steven, St Sebastian's.   
No tongue can tell the glorious, gracious, and blessed Indulgences that belong to these seven Churches. But this ancient Manuscript copy sets down good part of them, & much more than these idle Caluinists will believe: but no matter for them, if they will be ignorant, let them be: they know not the virtue of an Indulgence, therefore they contemn it. But if any Catholic think lightly of these gracious Indulgences, they wrong themselves, and their religion. And therefore whereas some zealous English Catholic of late 
a I. R. In his confutation of the Protestant Pulpit-babels, against W. Crashaw.  called this book contemptuously an old worm-eaten Manuscript: he was much unadvised, and hath given (I fear) too much advantage to his adversary, who cannot but tell him again, (as I here tell you my Catholic brethren) that the truth of these Indulgences set down in the old boookes, is averred and confirmed by the late books of many great and learned Catholics, as Onuphrius, 
b Onuphrius de 7. urbis Ecclesijs.  a great man in his time, since him Serranus, 
c Serranus.  and since him Villamont, 
d Villamont.  therefore no good Catholic may doubt of the truth and validity hereof, unless he will deny such grounds as may not without mortal sin be called in question.  
ᵇ Here be not all, but a great part, and yet there be in one Church 33000 years of pardon for once going up one pair of stairs, and in another Church is to be had within the compass of one year, more than two and twenty hundred thousand years of pardon: Oh what a glorious treasure the Pope is Lord of! his Exchequer is never empty, and what silly fools are the Heretics to deprive themselves they know not of what?  
ᶜ We read (say the Caluinists) in the fathers, of books Canonical, and the Papists tell us of hours Canonical: but of any book called by the name of Canonical itself, or any thing else so called, they might do well to have told us more plainly and particularly: for Possevine the jesuite their good friend, who takes upon him so exactly to describe all Authors and their books, speaking of this Silvester, mentioneth no such Book, therefore take heed this Canonical prove not some Apocryphal, hidden and forged story. Thus prate the Heretics out of their ignorance and presumption, not knowing that the holy and authentical Canon law of the Pope teacheth in the Decree, that the Pope's Decretal Epistles are numbered amongst Canonical Scriptures: but these Caluinists care little, it seems, what the Pope's law saith, they are all for Scripture, Scripture, and that makes them such Heretics as they be.  
ᵈ If this be true, that there were in Siluesters time 1505 Churches in Rome, how comes it to pass (say the Heretics) that the greater number is now defaced? it cannot be said to be done in time of persecution: for in Siluesters time the persecutions of the Heathen were all ceased. What then, hath Popish devotion pulled down the Churches that the persecutions left standing? Hath Rome been God's Church, and God's house all these years, and yet pulled down above 800 Churches? They accuse Protestants of pulling down Churches, but they cannot show so many pulled down in this whole kingdom as here they have done in one City: And for these that are down, men's corruptions, not our religion took them away, saving some few which being needless and superfluous, others or more in places more needful have been erected for them. But if any good Catholic hear any Heretic babbling on this fashion, stop his mouth presently and tell him, that their Churches being Heretical Churches, therefore the more the worse.  
ᵉ None may say Mass at these Altars but the Pope, or those that have licence from him; but he tells us not (say the Caluinists) who may preach in their Pulpits. An idle objection, and so let all good Catholics hold it: for what is Preaching to a Mass? even nothing at all: nay, it's hard to say whether the Roman Church hath got more good by Masses, or hurt by preaching; and therefore let all devout Catholics never stumble, at it, if in all Catholic books they find the altar so much spoken of, and the pulpit so little: the Altar so magnified, and the Pulpit set aside: for his Holiness well knoweth, it is the Altar that sends him in his rent, he never got any thing by the Pulpits; what he hath lost by them he knows and feels so well, that if he knew how to carry it cleanly, he would rid his Churches as clean of them as he hath done of the Bibles in the vulgar tongue. In the mean time his Holiness out of great wisdom, is content that any disgraces be cast upon Preaching that can be devised, insomuch as if any be great preachers in Catholic Countries, it is enough to suspect them for heretics, and their books must be purged, witness Stella, Ferus, and many others; and though Christ and the Scriptures seem to magnify preaching never so much, yet good Catholics must not care for it, but must know that Christ spoke what was fit for those times; but his Holiness knows and must appoint what is fit for these times: and therefore he will notwithstanding give it what place he list. And if any man offer to compare it with the Mass, it is little better than Heresy. But Friar Lobo, a great preacher in Rome, could not contain, but in the hearing of Pope Gregory the 13, delivered this in the Pulpit: That it is of greater worth before God, and more profitable to the doer to hear God's Word preached, then to see a Mass. But what followed? His holy stomach could digest no such doctrine, nor endure such blasphemy against his God: and therefore forthwith he constrained the poor Friar to go up again, and in the same place to eat his words, & to teach the contrary. Thus he made him in the Pulpit to disgrace the Pulpit, & in the place of preaching to disparaged preaching. And not thus content, he also susspended the Friar from preaching; yea his recantation could not keep him from suspension: and no marvel, for he that durst magnify preaching above the Mass, is not a man fit to preach in Rome.  

* Bapt. Corradus Resp. cas. con. To. 2o. quaest. 253. art. 2ᵒ. Navar. in Manual. cap. 13. art. 30. Fumus in verb. Festum pag. 378.  Neither is this practice contrary to our doctrine: for do not our jesuits and Casuists teach and write, that as upon the Sabbath day, the Commandment of the Sabbath enjoins not the inward worship of God, but only the outward, 
* 
Soto de just. & jure lib. 2. q. 4. art. 4.  
jac. de Graf. de decis. aur. To. 1ᵒ. lib. 2ᵒ. cap. 34. art. 8.  
Azor. Institut. Moral. To. 1ᵒ. lib. 7ᵒ. cap. 3. q. 6.  
Posseu. Bib. sell. To. 1ᵒ. l. 11. cap. 1ᵒ.   (a piece of rare Divinity.) So also that that outward or exterior worship (only commanded in that Commandment) consisteth only in hearing the Mass; and as for praying or hearing of Sermons, they are not of the essence of that Commandment? Nay, our Church (say they) hath no law for hearing, or being present at any part of God's service, but only at the Mass: nor is it any where a custom in the Catholic Church that a man is bound under pain of mortal sin, to pray to God on the Sabbath day, or hear the word preached, but only to hear a Mass. (Oh sweet and dainty doctrines!) And these be no trivial Doctors, but of our chief ringleaders, especially 
* Molanus Comp. pract Theol. Tract. 2ᵒ. c. 9ᵒ.  Azorius, who was one of the principal founders of jesuitisme. This was he, whom as Possevine reporteth, Gregory the thirteenth, called to Rome, to be one of them that should make laws and orders for the whole society. This holy jesuite having gotten some secret inspiration from his Holiness, and sucked out of the Popes own breast more pure Popery than all the rest, he goeth further, and saith: It is the common opinion that there is no Divine law compelling or commanding Christians to hear Sermons on the Sabbath or festival days. And whereas there was so much goodness in the Council of Trent, as the Heretics call it, or rather so much curiosity as we may say, as to decree that Bishops should diligently admonish their people, and tell them that they are bound to come to their parish Churches to hear God's word. Azorius the jesuite hath answer ready, that the Bishops are bid to warn them, not to compel them: and if that seem too slight, he hath a better in store, whereas (saith he) the Council would have them come to hear God's word, that must be understood of the Gospel in the Mass: for is there not a Gospel read in every Mass? and is not the Gospel God's word? Then he that comes to the Mass hears a Gospel read, and consequently hears God's word: Is not here deep divinity? and shall not an ignorant man be well edified when he hears a piece of the Gospel read in Latin, whereof he understandeth not one word? Yes doubtless, saith learned Ledesma the jesuit, if they come with devotion, and a good intent. Thus than you see that preaching is a mean matter in respect of the Mass. And this is the reason why here and elsewhere in our Liturgies and chief and best books of state, as our Missal, Pontifical, Ceremonial, Sacerdotal and the like, for one mention of a Sermon and a Pulpit, you shall hear a hundred times of an Altar and a Mass: And if this be done by the Church, and that Church cannot err, than all good Catholics must know, that not Pulpits & Preaching, but Altars and Masses must they look after. The Heretics I confess do hereat take great offence, and hereupon do cavil and rail bitterly, and say, that it is no marvel to see the pope prefer the Altar before the Pulpit, & a Mass before preaching: for say they, and my ears have heard them say it to my great grief, if they gained no more by the one than the other, his Holiness would be feign to strike sail, for the wings of his pride would soon be clipped. He tells us (say they) of a miracle in Transubstantiation, that the Bread and Wine are turned into Christ's Body and Blood, and there remains nothing but the fashion, colour, or likeness of Bread and wine: But as our faith finds none such in Scripture, no more doth our bodily sense find it in experience. But we can tell them of a much more true and sensible wonder daily amongst them: for their Pulpits are transubstantiated (if we may be so bold with their word, for Gods it is not) into Altars: their Preachers into Priests, their Sermons into Sacrifices, their Bibles into Missals; and these are so absolutely altered, and really changed, that indeed there remains nothing but names and shadows. For the other have the substance. Pulpits (say they) are for Lent, Altars for every day. Masses are commanded, Sermons but advised: Sermons may do well, but Masses are necessary. The Bible hath bred many heresies, but the Mass book breeds and feeds devotion: Therefore God's 
Dan. 11. 36 37. 38.  book, the Bible, is to be removed from the people, as a dangerous thing, and the Mass book of man's making, is to be their daily bread. Is not this the same, say they, (or as bad) that Daniel prophesieth of, that there shall be a King that shall do what him list, and shall exalt himself, and magnify himself against all that is God, and speak marvelous things against the God of Gods, and shall prosper till the wrath be accomplished, etc. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desires of women, nor care for any God: for he shall magnify himself above all. And in stead of God, shall worship his God Mauzzim, even the God that his fathers knew not. Whether their Mass be this Mauzzim here meant, or no, say they, we affirm not: once this is clear, that he hath turned his Mass into a Mauzzim, and made an Idol of it, and worships in it a God of his own making, a God that his fathers knew not: for his transubstantiation and his propitiatory sacrifice (which too be the life and soul of the Mass) were not known in the ancient and purest Church for 500 years after Christ. And this Mauzzim is set up in the very room of God. For since the Mass was erected unto this height it is at, Christ never had his due, but was despoiled of his Offices and Honour, God's book cast aside, and a Mass book laid in his place: Sermons accounted but things indifferent, or convenient, but Masses the only necessary duty of the Sabbath day. And as he here saith, No man may say Mass at the high Altars of the seven Churches in Rome but the Pope, or his Deputy; but you shall find no such prerogative for preaching here, or elsewhere. Arise O Lord, maintain thine own cause, against that Idol the Mass, and Mauzzim of the Romish Synagogue. Thus madly and extravagantly do these idle heretics prate: but let not this, nor aught that can be brought out of Scripture, trouble any good Catholic conscience, these be but the temptations of the Devil, let him hearken what the Pope teacheth, who is God's Vicar, and Peter's successor: and if they be good Catholics, they know that he cannot err; and that whatsoever he doth or teacheth as he is Pope, it is all one as if God did it or taught it: let heretics then if they will, extol preaching, let this satisfy devout Catholics, that here the Pope takes order for saying Mass, reserving certain Churches to himself, at whose high Altars none may say Mass but himself, or some by commission from him: but find me any whose pulpits he reserves to himself: nay find me any in whose pulpits he will come at all. No, it is too base a place, and preaching too painful a duty for his holiness, he hath something else to do, as namely, to create Cardinals, to translate Empires, and dispose of Kingdoms, to read and answer letters from the Princes of the earth, and to give audience to their Ambassadors, to control Kings when they displease his holiness, and to excommunicate them if they submit not to his pleasure, and if they persist, to depose them, and discharge their subjects of their oath and allegiance, to give their kingdoms to whom he list; and to raise their own subjects against them; to augment Saint Petards patrimony, by procuring Princes and Dukes to give him the reversions after them, to go and take possessions of the Provinces that fall to him by such escheats as Clemens the 5 did lately of Ferrara; to make leagues betwixt Princes, and to break them when he seethe good, yea though they be confirmed by Oath and Sacrament 
* Vide Peter Math inter constitutiones Pont. Rom. in Bulla Pauli. 3. contra Henricum 8. Angliae Regem.  (as Paul the 3. did against Henry the 8 of England) Pius 5 against Elizabeth, and Sixtus 5. against Henry of France) to canonize and make Saints at his pleasure, to set up shrines for them, and appoint them their holy days: as Sixtus the sixth lately made a new Spanish Saint, (namely S. Diego) whom he canonised at the request of the last Philip, to encourage him in the invasion of England, Anno 88 
* Vide canonizationem S. Didaci.  To make new holidays (and alter the Calendar as Gregory the 13. did) putting out many of his old Saints, by whom he hath got well, and are now past date, and out of memory, and to put in new ones in their room, which as new brooms shall cleanly sweep up the gold of the world into his Coffers. These are employments fit for Popes, and not to busy their brains, and spend their spirits about preaching. And are these all? Nay, who is able to recount all the honourable affairs his Holiness hath to manage. Therefore fie upon these 
Decretum.  foolish heretics, who hold that the Pope ought to preach. For is not he the universal Bishop of the world, and Pastor of Pastors? and is not all the world his province? and is not the care of the whole world, and government of the whole Church laid on his shoulders? how then can he find time to preach? For besides all the aforenamed weighty employments, he hath much more to do, and which none can do, but himself, as namely, to receive appeals from all parts of the world made unto him, to review matters judged, and reverse, disannul, and alter them at his pleasure, to nominate and fill the Abbacies and bishoprics of the world as they fall void, to elect into all places, or at least to confirm the elections made by others, to send his provisions into all Lands for what livings he list, against they be void, that he may have them to gratify his Minions: to appoint general Counsels, when and where, and as oft as he pleaseth, to call them, continue them, prorogue them, remove them, dissolve them: to nullify or confirm them as he list; or to take that that is for him, and reject that that is against him, as he did, and yet doth in the Counsels of Constantinople, Chalcedon, Constance, and Basill: To devise and create new relics when the old ones are lost, perished, or worn, and to hollow them, that devout Catholics may have what to worship, and so may be encouraged to pay their rents well: and when need is, to execute his admirable skill in Arithmetical Multiplication, or rather his transcendent power and Omnipotency for the multiplying of holy relics, as he did to the great comfort and edification of his Church, when he multiplied S. john Baptists head, of one making three, and of the three Kings of Collen, making three more: and found out a third arm of Saint Peter, and that little and cursed Cross which Simon of Cyrene once bore upon his shoulders, he by his mighty power hath multiplied in such sort as now never a ship in the world, can carry it. And as he multiplied the substance, so hath he changed the nature and quality, for being cursed before, he hath made it now so blessed, that (as he 
Gretserus de Cruse, Tom. 1. Cap.  teacheth) it ought to be worshipped with the same worship as Christ himself. Oh silly heretics, that will tie him to study and preach that hath these things to do: what, think they that these can be done in a day? No, no, it hath cost the holy Mother Church many a years labour, and it hath sore beaten her brain to bring these matters to this pass. As for the multiplying of the nails that fastened Christ's body to the cross, which of 3, are brought to more than 23: that we will not speak of, as being but a small matter: for every Goldsmith can make of one great plate of gold 100 little ones, and every one as good gold as the great one, but let us leave that, and proceed to see what further employments his holiness hath. Hath he no more to do? Yes, to weed out the heresies that spring so fast with the hooks of his holy Inquisitions, to confute the heretics with those excellent arguments of Fire and Faggot, Daggs and Daggers, Pistols and Poniards, Murders, and Massacres: to look to the books and writings of the world, that nothing be left that may make against him: to allow what and how many he will have read, and to bar or prohibit all the rest: and for those that are to be read, to alter them as he seethe cause: taking out what makes against him, and putting in what nay make for him: surely he hath little time to spare, that hath all this to do. And yet he hath more to do. namely, to create new religions, and set up new orders. For Christ when he ascended, left but one religion in the world: but to multiply that one into many, and to derive 100 several from it, and yet all these to be religions: this labour, because it beseemed not the Author of unity to leave many, but one religion, he left to his Vicar, who hath performed it most diligently: for since his Ascension into heaven, he hath reared up at least an hundred more than Christ ever thought of: and yet still every day he deviseth more, all tied together by the tails, like Sampsons' Foxes, but every one looking and drawing several ways, one pulling against another, one envying and supplanting another, so that another business that much troubleth him, is to reconcile them one to another, and yet all he can do, is not sufficient to keep them in love and amity. And when he seethe any of them grow too high, and too full of wealth, than another part of his care is to squeeze the sponge, being too full, as he did the Templars for their lands and riches, whose order he pulled down, and burned their great Master at Paris. Thus to create new religions, and erect new orders, to keep them from one overthrowing another, and to dissolve them again when he seethe cause, are not these sufficient employments to keep him from preaching, if he had no other? yet there is one more, and that no small one, which he hath to do, namely, to look to the succession of Princes, and to take care how kingdoms may be provided when their Princes either dye, or be by him deposed. As Innocentius the fourth having deposed Frederick the Emperor, Alexander the fourth took pains to make a Decree touching the succession of the Empire, publishing a Bull, prohibiting and forbidding the Electors to choose Conradus his son to be Emperor. A fact without example, and beyond belief, that a foreign Prince should publicly dare to interpose himself in a foreign election, and publish his letter to the world written against that Prince, whom the Prince's Flectors, and all the Christian world had their eyes upon, as the most probable successor of the Empire. But by this, that idle Heretics, Huguenots, Caluinists, and Lutherans may see that the Pope is tied to no precedents of other Princes; nay, he is to give example to all, but to take of none; and they may see, that the fact that would have been foul in another Prince, is in him not only justifiable, but commendable. And though they babble and say, that if the wise and judicious reader make himself the reader of that Bull, (for it is enrolled in the public Register, and inserted for a perpetual precedent in the continuation of the corpse of his Canon law) he will see in that one alone the complete and lively picture of the great Antichrist: yet all good Catholics know, that therein they do but show themselves open Heretics, that dare call in question the facts of their holy Father: who though he should draw millions of souls into hell, yet no mortal creature ought to say; Sir, why do you so? And also it did little hurt, for that Conrade even maugre the Pope's malice, as the heretics say, was chosen Emperor; yet showed it the Pope's good will and godly care over kingdoms, that they may be provided of such successors as may be to his liking: and it shows in what holy and mortified cogitations and actions he spends his time, namely in disposing the Crowns and Kingdoms of the earth.  
Now then put all these together, & are not these fit and proper employments for the Pope's Majesty? A Fig therefore, or rather a Faggot for these foolish Heretics, that will tie his Holiness to preach? What? is it fit his sovereignty should forbear and forsake these supreme prerogatives, and stoop down to so base a business as preaching is? No, no, Aquila non capit muscas. Indeed the case was otherwise heretofore in former ages, but they are gone. Preaching might beseem Gregory, or Leo the great, or their Predecessors, and no marvel, for seeing then there were Emperors that would govern the world, and Italy itself, and set peace between kingdoms, call general Counsels, keep the Pope within compass, and command him to his duty; What therefore had the Popes to do but to Preach? But Haec aetas alios mores postulat: then the Popes called and acknowledged the Emperors their Sovereign Lords, now they be their servants, and if they please them well, their beloved white sons, and shall have the honour to hold his stirrup, lead his horse, hold the basin, when he washeth, and bring up the first dish when his Holiness eats. Then therefore they had time and leisure to preach; but now as we have showed, they have so far better businesses to attend, and so far higher employments to manage, that they have no leisure.  Non vacat exievis rebus adesse iovi. 
Again, these idle and adle-headed Heretics that would tie the Pope to the Pulpit, never consider that every man is to be disposed to that which he is fittest for, and which thriveth best in his hands. Now do we not know, that Pope john the 22. who would needs be so busy with preaching (which indeed he used more than many before him, and all after him) hath given a precedent to all his successors: for did not he fall upon the rocks of strange opinions, little less than heresies in the judgement of his own friends? And hath not Occam the famous Franciscan Friar, written an accusation against him, that not in one, but in many Sermons, he taught not one or two, but many several (and some condemned) heresies? Such was the success of his preaching, and so ill hath preaching succeeded in the hands and mouths of Popes. Whereas contrariwise when they go about the consecration of bishops, coronation of Emperors, deposing of Heretic Kings, disposing of their Kingdoms, granting dispensations, sending out Indulgences, receiving appeals, answering Ambassadors, taking of homages, releasing of oaths, dissolving of leagues, intermeddling in the affairs, and interposing in the elections of Princes. In these, and such as these, which so well beseem the Majesty of the Pope, he proceds and prospers, and hereby he hath advanced and magnified his seat, in the eyes of all his friends and favourers; whereas when Pope john the 22. forgetting himself, and the honour and Majesty of his place, would fall a preaching, he incurred at the least so strong a suspicion of Heresy, as neither his Penitentiary Pelagius with all his tears, could wash away: nor his successor Benedict with his interpretative Bull to that purpose set out, could remove: nor Bellarmine and all his beloved friends with their best wits and learning, can wipe off to this day; nor ever will whilst the works of learned Ocham do live in the world. Is it not therefore an idle conceit of these bawling heretics, that will have the Pope to preach, which in these latter times of the world doth so ill beseem them, and prospers so badly in their hands?  
And if they object, that Preaching is a principal part of divine service, and of God's worship: and therefore best of all beseems the Pope that is God's vicar, & nearest to him: Let them know busy fools as they be, that it is not determined among the Schoolmen and Casuists, whether hearing a Sermon be at all commanded, or rather but counseled and advised: so that herein they do but show their own Ignorance. But the great learned jesuite Azorius can teach them, and beside him Molanus, that it may well be a counsel to hear a Sermon on the holy day, but they are assured there is no commandment for it: so that the doing of it may be a work of supererogation, but cannot be a duty of necessity. But if it were allowed to these heretics, that it were a necessary duty to make and hear Sermons, and a part of God's worship; yet sure they cannot be so ignorant as not to know, nor so profane as once to doubt, but that the saying and seeing of a Mass is far before it. For thus do all the best approved Schoolmen and Casuists teach with one voice, and do reprove the elder Doctors, or doaters rather for their presumption in holding the contrary. For Summa Angelica, and Summa Rosella do both teach, that where it falls out (which these Heretics ought to know falls not often out in Popish Churches) that on one day a Sermon and a Mass so come together, as both cannot be heard, but the one must necessarily be omitted: in this case the Mass is to be left and the Sermon preferred. And these sottish fellows seem to prove their assertion out of the Canon-law, and out of Bernard, and out of Austin, (and it's marvel they brought not Scripture for them also, as all these heretics, and maintainers of new opinions use to do.) But let all these stoop, for a jesuite comes in place, let the Canon-law vanish like smoke, let the Doctors go to the School again and learn, and let the Scripture, that dumb judge, stand aside in a corner, and let us hearken to the irrefragable, unanswerable, sovereign, and superexcellent determination of the jesuits, The men that were borne to bless the world, to save it from sinking, to purge it of Heretical books, and rid it of heretical Kings, to restore learning, and preserve the truth, which without them had perished, to make plain and perfect the Scriptures, which till their time lay neglected, to compose all controversies, read all riddles, know all secrets, hear all confessions, and (to discover no more than makes for their purpose) censure all questions, satisfy all consciences, resolve all doubts; and in a word, to be the very Oracles of the Christian world, as holy, as true, and as infallible as ever was that of Delphos, or jupiter Hamon. I say, let us hearken how those reverend jesuits, and for them all, how renowned Azor, one of their most glorious Fathers, and founders of that blessed company, handles this question.  It's moved (saith he) and made a question, if on one day a Mass and a Sermon do so concur, as both cannot be heard, whether is to be omitted with less loss and sin. The forenamed Doctors, and many other more (Dunces as they be) do teach that the Mass must yield to the Sermon. 
And the good jesuit ingenuously confesseth, which he doth: not for that he holds jesuits tied to speak truth (who can speak nothing but truth, and whatsoever they speak, is therefore truth because they speak it) but because the more and greater his Adversaries be, the more glorious is the victory: Therefore he freely confesseth, that many of the Popish Doctors be of the same opinion; and that they ground this their opinion upon the Decrees, and upon S. Bernard, and S. Augustine. But what are all these to such sincere, learned, and judicious men as the jesuits, even nothing at all when once the truth comes in question: for than down go Doctors, Fathers, Counsels, Scriptures, and all to make room for the holy Catholic Romish Truth, out of the jesuits holy mouths. In which Catholic zeal, the noble jesuit thus resolves the question.  But whatsoever (saith he) these, or any of these, or all these, or any other do think, It is to be said, (Mark ye dull Heretics, with what majesty a jesuit concludes against Canon-law, Schoolmen, and Fathers, and tremble when you see what potent adversaries you have of them.) It is (saith he) to be held without control, That the Mass, which is to be heard by the Church's commandment, is to be preferred before the hearing of the holy word of God. 
And mark his reason whereby he proves it: for though it be no reason to expect a reason from so great, so grave, so godly men as the Fathers of the Society, who by their nature and constitution will not think, speak, nor do any thing without a reason; yet is his Fatherhood here pleased to give us a reason: but mark it I say again, for it's as good, as honest and as religious a reason, and as well-beseeming a jesuit, as the opinion itself.  The Mass (saith he) is to be preferred before the Sermon, and the Sermon is to be omitted for the Mass, for that (saith he) there is great difference betwixt that that is due by Commandment, and that that's due by Counsel: for that that's due by Commandment may not be omitted, nor can be, under pain of mortal sin. But it is no sin to omit that that's due only by Counsel: Now the Mass is commanded, Preaching is but counseled: to hear a Mass a man is tied by virtue of the commandment, to hear a Sermon he is but counseled, or advised: therefore it's apparent, that a man is bound to prefer the Mass before a Sermon, and to omit or lose a Sermon for a Mass. 
And thus so learnedly, so holily, so irrefragably is this question resolved, that none but professed foes to the holy Romish Church, and open enemies to the Mass, and advancers of that dangerous book called the Scriptures, (and who therefore are justly condemned for Heretics) can, or will, or dare gainsay it. And as for those that durst hold the contrary, though they were none of them of these upstart Heretics, yet it's not fit that they pass without reproof, and just censure for this their so gross ignorance, or so foul impiety, as to perfer a Sermon before a Mass; and therefore saith the jesuite religiously and learnedly, like himself:  If this be so, It will be here demanded, whether Angelus, and the rest that hold this Detestable Error, that a Sermon is to be heard rather than a Mass, be to be condemned as holder's of a Timerariouse opinion. Some saith he, absolutely condemn it and them so to be: Others hold it to be a false Opinion, but not Temerariouse: And thus they excuse them, and they gloss it over with some shows and shadows of argument; as if it were a hard case for the Church to tie a man, for the gazing of a mass, to lose so great a matter as a Sermon. But this is idle (saith the jesuite) and therefore (for you shall always see jesuits take the better part) seeing they have no good reason for their opinion, in my judgement the opinion is to be holden Temerariouse, and they to be condemned to have spoken Temerariously, that is, rashly, unadvisedly, and without judgement. 
So then these Heretics might see, if they were not blind, that in the holy Roman Church, it is so firmly holden that a Sermon is not so good, so holy, so necessary, as a Mass: That whoever holds the contrary, be it Caluinist, or schoolman , Father or Council, they are subject to censure and punishment for it. And even Bernard and Augustine, may be glad they had so good hap to be made Saints by that Roman Church; for otherwise, for this their impious conceit, to prefer a Sermon before a Mass, they had been sure, and that very worthily, to be condemned for Heretics: But seeing the Church that cannot err, hath vouchsafed to Canonize them for Saints, she will therefore deal more mercifully with them than their impiety deserves, and at the humble mediation of the charitable jesuits, will only pronounce them temerarious, but not condemn them for Heretics.  
If this than be clear, that by the resolved Doctrine and Definition of the Roman Church, A Mass is the principal part, if not the whole worship of God; and that only the Mass is strictly commanded, and hearing of God's word preached, is but conditionally advised; And that therefore a Mass is far more excellent in itself more available with God, more profitable and comfortable to the soul, then is the hearing of sermons: than who sees not but if the Pope's holiness prays but seldom or not at all; Yet do often and continually say Mass, that then he hath stopped the mouths of all heretics, that like curs do bawl and bark against him, and call him and his great Bishops Dumb Dogs that cannot bark: O silly fools, these Heretics, that bring these words of the Prophet against his Holiness. For do they not know, that when the Prophet complained of those dumb dogs, that could not bark, there were then no Masses in the world: for if there had, he would have blamed their negligence in them, rather than of preaching; and this I say by the warrant and precedent of the Mariale, which saith, that whereas Solomon writes thus, The name of the Lord is a strong Tower, the righteous fly unto it, and are helped; Solomon (saith he) knew little of the Virgin Mary: for if he had, he would have said, The name of our Lady is a strong Tower, the righteous fly unto it, and are helped. And surely with as good right may I say, the Prophet knew little of the dignity, virtue, and efficacy of the holy Mass, for if he had, he would not have blamed them for not preaching, but for negligence in saying Mass. But Solomon and Esay are both to be pardoned, because of the times they lived in; but as for these Heretics that live in these times, and cannot but see the great virtue and high price that Masses are at, and how beneficial they be to the Catholic Roman Church, and consequently how good cause the Church hath to magnify Masses above Preaching, they are without all excuse, and their fault unpardonable. But though they be so mad to move it, and so malicious to press it, that the Pope and all his Clergy ought rather to preach then say Masses, yet he is too wise to hearken to it: nay though sometime some of his own Catholic children are bewitched with this poison, and are harping on this string, that preaching is the greater, and worthier of the two, yet he hath wit enough to discover, and power to suppress them in time: therefore if any of them write so, he commands it to be razed out of their books, that hereafter it may not testify against them: and if any be so bold, to preach it, his holiness takes such order with them, as few dare follow their example. Witness Friar Lobo, of whom we spoke before, whose judgement was so just, and sentence so sharp by Pope Gregory's own holy mouth, for that his impious presumption, in preferring a Sermon before a Mass, and that also in Rome, where (like a fool that he was) he might have remembered, that preaching hath been out of season these 500 years: that from that day we have not heard of any that durst attempt the like in Rome, and if the like course had been taken in Germany, France, and England, these new heresies had never spread as they do. For it is nothing but hearing Sermons, & reading the Bible, that hath bred & fed, and still feeds and disperseth those heresies of the Lutherans and Caluinists, as daily and lamentable experience lets us see and feel. For his Holiness knows full well, that if he could but rid the world of the Bibles in the vulgar tongues, and pull down this talking trade of Preaching, we should soon see these Heresies, and this new Gospel of Luther and Caluin melt away, and come to nothing: for take away the means and cause, and the effect will follow. And full well spoke a wise Cardinal to the Pope, when in a private consultation there was complaint of the growing and spreading of Lutheranisme, We may thank ourselves (saith he) and our own sloth and carelessness for this, who let the Scriptures fly abroad, and become so common: for we ought to have kept them (under colour of Majesty, and to procure them greater Generation) in the learned tongues, and laid them up in safe and secret Libraries, so should neither they have been corrupted by heretics and jews, as they have been: nor they have corrupted and made so many Heretics as they have done. A wise and worthy speech doubtless, and well beseeming a Cardinal, and a full devout soul I warrant him was he of the Romish Mother Church. And from that day forward hath the Pope been more careful in this point, and hath set on work his darlings the jesuits, who have done him faithful service in this kind, as may appear to their great honour, to all them that will lose a little time to read their books: for by their books, their Sermons and their persuasions, they have so prevailed, that where ever any of them do remain, or but lurk, you shall not find a Romish Catholic, but he can learnedly prate against the Scriptures, (whereof he hearty thanks his God he never read one book) and can tell you what a dangerous book it is, and how many have been made Heretics by it; and by this means their Disciples bogle at it, and avoid it, as snare, or a pit in the way, or a rock in the sea.  
Now if this be true, that the Scripture is so dangerous a book, and that preaching must be out of that book, who sees not, that therefore in good Popish reason, and Pope-holy religion, it followeth, that it beseems all men to be wary, tender and dainty, even how they make or hear too many Sermons. For if the Scripture be a dangerous book, surely preaching cannot but be a dangerous exercise: in which regard appears the wisdom of the holy Romish Church, who hath ordained, there shall be Sermons daily in the Lent, in most great Cities, and so by making them proper to Lent, she makes them seem to be out of season all the year beside, and in most places never expected, never thought of, till Lent come again, whereas contrariwise the holy and blessed Mass is always in season, and by the strict order of the holy Roman Church, is daily to be said without omission: nay, some days two or three, and every day the more the better. So then sermons are but the Lent provision, but Masses are the daily bread of the holy Roman Catholics.  
And howsoever the holy fathers the Popes and his Cardinals do not trouble their heads nor disturb the people's minds with much preaching, yet they make them a bountiful amends with the multitude of Masses wherein all good Catholics know they do but as if a householder kept away course bread, and gave his people store of fine Manchets for it: for what be sermons but as course bread, but the Masses these be the fine Manchers, they be the dainty feeding for the refined stomachs of all Romish Catholics: Therefore let these bawling heretics know, that because the Pope's Holiness saw the old Church in former times surfeited of Sermons, and that every heretic brought Scripture presently for his heresy, therefore in these latter & more prudent times they have made a blessed exchange, and for poor homely vestments wooden Chalices, and a golden Clergy, have given the people goodly rich Copes and golden Chalices good store to make amends for their leaden Bishops and wooden Priests, which we cannot deny but are plentiful in many Catholic countries. For the Scripture in the vulgar tongues which thereby was made too common and exposed to contempt, have given them the Latin Gospel in the Mass, which is read so solemnly, so stately, and with such glorious ceremonies, that all the people stand stricken with admiration and amazement, and are oftentimes edified as much by it as he that reads it, because he that reads it oftentimes understands it as well as they that hear it. And for that unreasonable much preaching with which S. Chrysostome, S. Basill, S. Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Leo, Gregory, and other fathers, did consume their time, good simple plain meaning men they were for those times, but full silly God wots if they be compared with the holy Roman Father of these days) and with which they did fill the people's heads; they have given them the celestial food of the blessed Mass, and having appointed preaching to the hard time of Lent (that so both the body and soul may fast, feed hardly, and do penance together) and having commended it to Prince's Courts, and great Cities and Cathedral Churches, and that so it might be used and respected as a state ceremony, they made Masses common and vulgar commanding (for the holy Mother Roman Church, is ever so gracious and merciful and such are the bowels of her bounty, as she never takes any thing from her children, but she gives them a better) that the people should have every day a Mass or two one for their breakfast, and another or two or three for their dinner, and such dainty feeding being so continual, will make them not find the want of such homely fare as preaching is.  
And to that end for the people's better content and satisfaction, she hath holily and bountifully ordained, that not only in King's Courts and great places, but in every Church, every Chapel; nay at every altar in every Church, shall be every day, a Sermon. A Sermon said I, oh forgive me holy father, forgive me so foul an error, I should have said a Mass and not every day only but sometimes more: In so much as in diverse great Churches there are by the Pope's bounty so many altars, that there be oftimes twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, Masses of a day in one Church, as the people there do find to their great edification; and travelers to their great admiration, who when they see twenty or thirty, or more majestical Masses, like so many glorious Masks, all in one great Church, in one forenoon, in every i'll, and every corner one; No marvel if it astonish them, and make them say fie upon these foolish, silly, poor, plain, heretics the Protestants. Who in steed of all these (besides the ordinary divine service, which is also made so common with them that every one can say it at home when they list) are feign to be content with one silly Sermon, or one plain Communion: and hereupon it comes to pass that many one, who travels out of Protestant into Popish countries, though they went away no great good Protestants, yet return again fine zealous Popish Catholics, for the holy pictures, and goodly gilded Images, whereof many are made so artificially, as they can smile and laugh and speak, by the mighty power of the Pope and his Priests, and the gorgeous ceremonies, and the pompous Vestments, and the stately processions, and the many majestical Masses, and the glorious light of the tapers burning day and night in their dark Churches are all strong and excellent well made cobwebs to catch such flies in.  
And that all this may have the more credit, his holiness hath wisely ordained, that howsoever great men as Bishops and Cardinals have little or no time to preach and therefore, and for the good reasons aforesaid shall not be tied to it, but at their pleasures, or at visitation or certain great days (that so the sermon may come in as a third course it a feast, neither certainly expected afore it come, nor much regarded when it's come) yet none are so great, but that being Priests they are tied to the continual saying of Mass wherever they be, and to that end he hath appointed it (because the Mass in a sacrifice, and no sacrifice can be without an altar) if there want an altar consecrated, they shall have altars made of a little square stone which they may carry about with them, 
This is called Altar portatile.  and shall serve at all occasions, and these little movable altars by virtue of the Pope's blessings have as much virtue as the great standing altars, and the cake consecrated, at these shall be as truly transubstantiated and made as really the body and flesh of Christ as at the other.  
And lest that this God of the holy father, and his Priests making, should, like the Heathen Gods in continuance of time come into contempt, or least that his Maozim the Mass should become of less account by the common, continual and vulgar use; Or because the generality of the Mass makers namely of the Monks, Friars and secular Priests are held contemptible men: His Holiness therefore (in whose breast all wisdom that is not from above, doth reside and dwell) hath politicly and worthily ordained, that in all great feast days, Coronations of Princes, Consecration of Bishops, Dedication of Churches, translation of relics, confirmation of leagues, Canonization of Saints: and in all public meetings, royal assemblies, and even in General Counsels, the chief of all, or one of the chief shall say the Mass; Nay often times himself will vouchsafe to do it, kindly and thankfully giving some honour to it that yields him so much profit, and fills his coffers with so many millions of Crowns. And such is the devotion of his holiness, and so great his neglect of all the matters of this world (which he with all his heart as willingly treads under his feet, as his predecessor Alexander trod upon the neck of great Frederick the Emperor) that in the morning, when other great men and Princes of the world are making them ready for their recreations, then is his holiness full devoutly fitting himself to say Mass. And this he doth not sometime and seldom; But continually every morning, as not only his books tell us, but as travellers also testify. Some whereof have had the happiness and honour to be present at the Pope's morning Mass: Oh happy men to receive so high and unvaluable a reward for their travel and cost. For what though they went two thousand miles, & spent twice two thousand pounds, what is that in comparison of this honour, these miles may be counted, and these pounds numbered. But the benefits they shall receive by hearing the Pope say Mass are without number, I can name but one that is this. He that hears the Pope say Mass, escapes hell as he can, but I dare warrant him he shall never come in Purgatory. Are not they therefore to be commended for their devotion, and held for wise men in their countries, when they return, that willingly be at the cost and labour to travel to Rome to be partaker of so blessed a Breakfast? Or rather were it not good that they might stay in Rome, and never be suffered to return that so they might never be deprived of that blessedness, and in steed of the homely fare in their countries be fed with the excellent Manna of the Pope's Masses: As for the Hugenets and Heretics they are well worthy to want it seeing they hold it not worth their labour, and therefore for their penance, let them be enjoined to read every day two Chapters of that hard, harsh and homely book called the Bible, and to have three Sermons a week: and with those Garlic and Onions, let these base stomachs be contented, seeing they know not, nor care not for the dainty and costly Manna of the Masses of the Romish Catholic Church.  
But what then (will these babbling Heretics say) and doth the Pope never preach at all? What matter if he do not, seeing he every day saith Mass, which every sage Catholic knows is far better, for what tho Christ being upon earth and in his glorified body after his resurrection calling together his Apostle, gave them not only commission but commandment also to go and teach all Nations, and preach to every Creature: Yet the holy Mother Church of Rome knows that he spoke it, as fir for those times, but he left his spirit to his Vikar, who should supply and put down what he did not. And therefore whereas he forgot to bid his Apostles say Masses, the Pope like a good Vikar adds what he forgets, and commands all his Priests that howsoever they preach now and then, when they please; Yet that they miss not to say Masses daily, whilst they live: and for the better satisfaction of their Consciences he hath by his power concluded; (which Christ never did, nor it seems could do) that preaching is but a Counsel, and Masse-saying a commandment, and therefore Masses be necessary, and preaching but voluntary. If therefore the Pope's Holiness never busy himself with the pulpit and preaching, that's no great matter as long as he every day devoutly sings his Mass and offers up the unbloody sacrifice, which is a sacrifice propitiatory for the sins of quick and dead, as sure as he is the Vikar of Christ.  
But let them stop their mouths and hold their babbling for howsoever Preaching is a mere voluntary action, and a work of supererogation, and the least and last matter of twenty that belongs to a Mass, and the least and basest of a thousand that his Holiness hath to do: Yet let these Heretics know his holiness doth not forswear all preaching, for howsoever upon those common occasions of calling, converting or saving souls, he cannot find time to preach, but leaves that to such of his Friars or Priests, as have such tender and precise consciences as to think that preaching only, ordinarily begets faith: yet upon other great and solemn occasions, as when some Saint is to be canonised, at the mediation of some great Prince (who pays royally for it, and like a Prince) Or when some great King comes home from heresy, and honours himself and makes himself so happy, as to kiss his holy foot and be reconciled, and pay a round ransom for his, former rebellion as Henry the fourth did. Or when some such blessed work is attempted & achieved as was that Massacre at Paris, and in the most great Cities of France (where the Heretics were killed up like Rats or mad Dogs, where ever they could be catched, and so were sent to hell by heaps) Or when some young novice, & brave spirit, bred and brought up in the jesuits school, and that hath past and practised all their spiritual exercises, hath attained to that high perfection as to refuse nothing that is enjoined him, and in that holy obedience, hath stabbed some Heretic, or killed some great King, that would not stoop to the Vikar of Christ (as the jacobine killed Henry the third, and the young jesuite had killed Henry the fourth, but for a tooth, oh cursed tooth that hindered the jesuits from that honour, and made them leave it for that base Friar and rascal Ravilliacke) When such blessed occasions, such high and holy occasions as these fall out (For these are occasions beseeming his Holiness) than he will vouchsafe to grace the pulpit, and in his own person take pains to make a Sermon, sometime blessing his gods of silver and gold, and thanking his great god Dagon, sometime praising the Inventors, Plotters and Prosecutors, but especially the actors of such noble facts, and stirring up others to the admiration and imitation of them. And if the Heretics be so mad to deny this, that holy and zealous Sermon made by Sixtus V upon the death of Henry the third, and in praise of that happy Friar that stabbed him with that holy and 
See the Sermon itself set out in latin and English by F. Warmington the Priest.  hallowed knife, shall prove and testify it for ever to their shame, and his everlasting honour: And it's not to be doubted, but if the Powder-plot in England had been so happy to have taken effect. His holiness would have been as willing to have preached himself for joy, and made a Sermon of thankfulness for the good success of so great and glorious a work, as his successors must be serious and busy and prudent in conceiling it from the ages to come, seeing it succeeded ceeded not, or in diverting it from the Catholics to Puritan or other enemies. Or at least in denying it, and telling the world that it was but an invention, and a trick of the State put upon the poor Papists to make them odious. And herein appears the malice of these Heretics that care not how they slander the Pope's holiness, saying, he never hath care, nor Conscience to preach, when its most certain, never Huguenot in France more desired to go to a Sermon, nor a Puritan in England to a Faft then his Holiness did to have preached upon that occasion, if he could but once have heard the joyful news from England that the blow had been given: But no matter what these blind and malicious Heretics say or think, let it suffice God his heart, how earnestly he desired it, and will doubtless reward him accordingly, and all others that looked and longed for that joyful day.  
And thus I hope we have given a sufficient Apology for his Holiness against these curious and carping Heretics. will you have Masses? His Holiness misseth not a morning, but hath a Mass to his breakfast, will the Heretics have preaching? his Holiness preacheth also, when there falls out an occasion that is worthy of his pains.  
Quae est Caput totius Orbis: And is the Church of Saint john Lateran the principal and head of all Churches urbis & Orbis, not of Rome alone but of the whole world: But why is not Saint Peter the head Church, seeing he was the head of the Apostles, and the Pope is his successor & by being his successor is head of the Church: If Peter be head of the Apostles, and his successor head of all men, why then is not his Church head of all Churches? Thus do idle Heretics carp and cavil. But all good Catholics know that seeing Pope Gregory the eleventh almost 300 years ago established it, and long after him Pius the fourth, and after him Pius the fifth, by several and solemn Bulls confirmed it; therefore, no devout Catholics will once call it into question. Indeed some in old time were so curious as to make doubt of it, but Gregory therefore sends out his Bull and stops their mouths: And about the time of the Counsel of Trent the Benedictive Monks were so proud and pompous, as to stand upon points with the Prebendaries or Canons Regular of this Church of the Lateraene, and challenge place and precedence afore them in the Counsel, (for many such high points and mighty Church matters were debated in that Counsel) But what got they? Pius the fourth then Pope called the matter to his own hearing, (shaming much that the world, and Heretics especially should see two of his best sons together by the ears which of them should be the greatest,) and after long and deliberate hearing, judgeth the matter for this Church, and imposeth perpetual silence to the Friars in this point: Yet afterward the Prebendaries or Priests of Saint Peter in the Vatican, hoping that these constitutions concluded not them, out of their holy humility they also strove with the Laterane Clergy for precedence. So that Pius Quintus was feign to take the matter upon hers, and by a solemn and irrevocable decree, pronounced for the Laterane Church.  
Yet let not the devout Catholic think that his holiness neglects his Church of Saint Peter. For he honours it with his presence living and dead, more than any other, he keeps the blessed jubilee in it, and therefore he adorns it most gloriously, and he is so careful of it, that for the very repair and fabric of that one Church, he hath scraped up out of Christendom more than five hundredth thousand pounds sterling; and yet most wisely he keeps it unfinished, that so it may yet bring in more, for as Saint Peter being a fisherman, yet catched but few fishes, but by the help of Christ caught many; So even Saint Peter's Church by the help of his holiness, brings good store of fish to his Net, and those as well great as small: So true a fisherman is Saint Peter's successor and so far more skilful than Peter was, that he hath made the very name of Sant Peter's Church bring him ten thousand times more gold and silver than Peter himself got either by his fishing, or his preaching all his life long. Indeed Peter at one Sermon caught three thousand souls, and if any Lutheran ask when the Pope will do so, answer them (like Heretics as they be) that Peter was made a fisher of men, and therefore had nothing else to do, but to labour to win souls: But Peter's successors have other kind of employment, they have another kind of fishing, and other kind of fishes to fish for, they have other, and higher, and better matters then winning of souls to look to. For if they for these last thousand years had found themselves nothing else to do, but to preach and win souls, they had never brought it to this pass, to give and take away Kingdoms and Empires, to wear a triple Crown, to be carried on men's shoulders to have Emperors hold his stirrup, power his water, and bring up his first dish, and King to serve him at dinner, and many glorious matters more, whereof silly Saint Peter never once dreamt, and little thought he (good man) when he trudged up and down and preached, that his successors could ever have brought it to so fair a pass. But such was the simplicity of those, and such is the wisdom of these days, that where Saint Peter did take nothing but souls, now the very name of his Church shall bring in as much gold and silver as will build good Churches: and as Peter at one Sermon took three thousand souls, the Pope in holy imitation of him sends out his Legates into several nations, whereof one, in one City, by reading and casting abroad one Bull of Indulgence from his holiness shall catch up three thousand, and three thousand Crowns at a clap, and all for the repairing of Saint Peter's Church. And what though some, even Catholics are so curious as to cavil and say that not the tenth penny is bestowed on the Church, nay what if not the hundredth part? must that offend a good Catholic? As though the Pope hath not many other as good occasions as that to bestow it upon: Hath not he occasion to send Royal Embassages, and to reward Ambassadors that come to him. Hath he not his offices, his Guard, his Garrisons to pay: to build his Galleys, to uphold his armies, to maintain his Minions, to advance his Kindred, can these and many more as holy and good as these be done with nothing? And therefore very requisite that his Holiness have goodly Lands, Dominions, Rents and revenues, and the rather because he takes it not as his own, but as Saint Peter's patrimony and borrows it from him, as the money that his officers sweep up out of Christendom, he most honestly saith, is not for himself, but for the building and repairing of Saint Peter's Church.   

The Indulgences and Relics of the seven Churches in Rome.  


Textus Latinus ex manuscripto ad verbum descriptum.  
HAE sunt Reliquiae & Indulgentiae septem ᵃ Ecclesiarum principalium urbis Romanae pro maiori part, ᵇ necnon aliquarum aliarum Ecclesiarum Parochialium & Capellarum.  
Sanctus Silvester scribit in sua Canonica, ᶜ quod Romae fuerunt mill quingentaequinque Ecclesiae quarum maior pars nunc destructa est. ᵈ Et fuerunt ibidem quadringenta sexaginta septem Ecclesiae Parochiales privilegiatae gratiae & sanctitate, & dicuntur Regales, quia à summis Pontificibus & Imperatoribus sunt constructae. In quarum summis altaribus solus Papa vel cui ipse licentiam dederit vel concesserit licite potest celelebrare. ᶜ Inter istas Ecclesias sunt septem privilegiatae maióri graria sanctitate & dignitate & magis omnium regales: Inquas prima & principalis dicitur Ecclesia sancti johannis in Laterano quae est caput totius orbis. ᶠ Item Ecclesia sancti johannis est dedicata in honore sancti salvatoris, & sanctorum johannis baptist & Euangelistae. Et sunt ibidem quotidie xlviii. anni indulgentiarum & tot carenae & tertie partis omnium peccatorum remissio. Item Papa Silvester & Papa Gregorius qui eandem Ecclesiam consecraverunt dederunt tot indulgentias quot nemo numerare potest nisi solus Deus testante Papa Bonifacio qui dicit quod si homines scirent indulgencias Ecclesie sancti johannis quot essent, non transirent ad sanctum Sepulchrum in jerusalem ultra mare ubi absolvuntur à poena & culpa: nam sic etiam absoluuntur in Ecclesia sancti johannis predicta. Item dicit sanctus Bonifacius, qui devote venit ad orandum in die consecrationis salvatoris qui visibiliter apparuit omni populo Romano, cuius dies est nona die mensis Novembris, & est ibi remissio omnium peccatorum Constantino Imperatore supplicante, postquam Constantinus Imperator à lepra mundatus fuit per sacri baptismatis susceptionem dixit beato Siluestro Papae pater sancte domum meam in Ecclesiam ordinavi, infunde in Ecclesiam tuam largam benedictionem omnibus venientibus ad eam. Respondens sanctus Silvester dixit; Dominus jesus Christus, qui te per suam misericordiam sanavit, & mundavit; & purificet omnes venientes sine peccato mortali ad locum istum quocunque tempore Anni ab eorum peccatis. Et nos authoritate beatorum Petri & Pauli, atque nostra, remittimus & concedimus eis remissinem omnium peccatorum.  
Item sanctus Gregorius qui hanc Ecclesiam consecravit reparatam post demolitionem per hereticos, confirmavit indulgentias predictas positas per beatum Siluestrum.  
Item, Bonifacius Papa dixit; indulgentias Ecclesiae Lateranensis nullus numerare potest ego tamen omnes confirmo.   

The same in English.  
THese be 
1 These be they that then were: namely some 300 years ago; since then little hath been altered but the better way: for if some have been taken away, or spent, or lost, many more have been conveyed into their rooms, to the comfortable upholding of the Roman faith, as he may see who will read Onuphrius and Villamont of this matter.  for the most part the Relics and Indulgences of the seven principal Churches of the City of Rome: as also of divers other principal parish Churches and Chapels of the same City.  
Saint Silvester in his Canonical, writeth that in Rome there were a thousand five hundred & five Churches, which for the more part are now defaced. And there were in the same City fourehundred sixty and seven parish Churches, privileged with grace 
2 Lo, is not Rome a holy City, and is not she to be called The Holy Mother Church, where the very Churches have grace and holiness? The religion of the Protestants can give grace but to men, but the Catholic Religion even to Churches, nay she hath holy bones, holy stones, and holy rags, & holy hair, and holy swords, and holy water, and holy earth, & holy milk, and all things in a word as holy as herself. Therefore may not the Caluinists be ashamed to say, that she is not the holy Church?  & holiness: and these are called Churches Royal, because they were built by the Popes or by Emperors. In the high Altars of these Churches no man can 
3 Lawfully: By what law say the Caluinists? Not Gods certainly: for if God command to say a Mass, the Mass is not only lawful, but a good action: they therefore mean their own law, and they do well to confess that their Mass stands by virtue of their own Law. Thus they prate: but alas for these idle heretics! as though God's law and the Pope's law were not all one: yes assuredly, as sure as the Pope is God's vicar: only there is one difference, that where God's law is defective, the Pope's law supplies it, & where it is imperfect the Pope's law adds perfection to it: therefore though the Mass stand by the Pope's law, yet stands it surely & safely enough.  lawfully celebrate or say Mass, but only the Pope himself, or he to whom the Pope gives or grants licence in that behalf. Amongst all these Churches there be seven 
4 Now there be 7. but in the old Provincial, which I have seen manuscript in a far more ancient copy, there were but five: but the Pope adds & altars at his pleasure, and as he seethe it for his profit: and good reason, for he is Christ's vicar, and may do that Christ left undone.  that be privileged with more holiness and greater grace and dignity, and be more royal than all the rest: of which seven the first and principal is called the Church of Saint john the Laterane which is the head of all the world. 
5 The first principal Church in ROME is the Church of Saint john in the Laterane.  Also this Church of St john is dedicated in the honour of St Saviour, and of St john the Baptist, and St john the Evangelist. In this Church of St john Laterane, there be daily and every day eight and forty years 
6 Every day 48 years. It is in a year more than thirty thousand years. Oh how bountiful the Pope is to all his good children.  of pardon, and as many Quarrantens, together with the remission of the third part of all a man's sins. 
7 Remission of the third part: but what will that help a man seeing one will condemn him? Again, see what a Vicar Christ hath, who can remit a third part, & keep two thirds unremitted for another occasion, Christ did never so, but for gave all or none. Thus prate the Heretics: but let all good Catholics only regard what the Church saith, no matter what Christ said or did.  And further Pope Silvester, and Pope Gregory, who consecrated the same Church, gave and granted thereunto so many Indulgences, as none can number but God alone, as witnesseth Pope Boniface, who saith, that if men knew the Indulgences belonging the Church of S. john, and how many they were, they would never go so far beyond the sea, as to the holy sepulchre in jerusalem, 
8 All men may believe there be as many Indulgences in the one place as in the other, as it is very true that a blind man sees as well at midnight as, at noonday.  but would spare so great a labour: for say that they be there absolved à poena & culpa (both from the punishment, yea and from the guilt & sin also) even so are they likewise in the Church of S. john aforesaid. Likewise the same S. Boniface saith, that he coming devoutly to the said Church to pray, upon the day of the consecration of S. Saviour, our Saviour appeared 
9 Hueguenots & heretics think it a great matter that a Saint or an Angel should appear to a a man or a woman, but here they may see that is no great matter in the Catholic Roman Church, when at one time, not an Angel nor a Saint, but Christ himself appears, & that not audibly, but visibly; and that not to the Pope, or a few, but to all the people of Rome. No marvel surely, though that be a holy City, where Revelations are so common. And let no devout Catholic doubt of this: for it's as certain & true as that the host bleeds when it is pricked, or that a woman carried home an Host to charm withal; and when she could not work her feat by it, threw it into the fire, but the Host spoke to her, & said, Why wilt thou burn me? and leapt again out of the fire into her lap. unbelieving Heretics will laugh at these, but good Catholics may as safely believe the one as the other.  visibly to all the people of Rome. And this day was the 9 day of the month of November: and there is there upon that day remission of all sins, which was obtained at the supplication of Constantine the Emperor. For (saith he) after that Constantine the Emperor was healed of his leprosy, by receiving holy Baptism, he said to S. Silvester the Pope, holy Father, I have ordained or consecrated my own house to be a Church, thou therefore infuse and power upon this Church thy plentiful blessings, for all that shall repair and come unto it. Hereunto S. Silvester answering, said, our Lord jesus Christ, who of his own mercy hath healed thee, & cleansed thee from thy leprosy; cleanse & purify from all their sins all that come to this place without mortal sin 
10 This is most undoubtedly true, that whosoever comes to that Church, without mortal sin, shall obtain all these Indulgences: and the very Caluinists and Lutherans will not for shame deny this. But if they be so curious as to reply and say, that none can come without mortal sin, and therefore by this grant none at all shall get any good, let them go like busy heretics as they are: for being Heretics they are not worthy to be censured but by fire and faggot.  at what time of the year so ever they come to it. And we by the authority of S. Peter and S. Paul, and our own, do remit & pardon them, and do grant unto them remission of all their sins.  
Likewise S. Gregory, who also consecrated this said Church after it was repaired, having been defaced by Heretics, confirmed all the aforesaid Indulgences formerly founded by S. Silvester.  
Moreover, Boniface the Pope once said, The Indulgences that are to be had in the Church of Laterane no man can number, 
11 Here again the heretics will laugh & say, that it is most true, they that are not at all cannot be numbered, as no man can number or count the gold in a beggar's purse, because there is none. But these show themselves bold heretics indeed, that dare suppose holy Pope Boniface, especially the 8. would equivocate.  yet I confirm them every one.    

CHAP. 2.  

Reliquiae eiusdem Ecclesiae.  
IN illa Ecclesia est quaedam Capella, quae vocatur Sacristia, ibi est Altare sancti johannis quod habuit in Deserto & ibi tabula super quam cenavit Christus cum suis discipulis in cena Domini.  
Ibidem est testamentum vetus, scilieet, virga Moysi et archa foederis. Ista omnia apportaverunt Titus & Vespasianus de jerusalem cum quatuor columnis aeris, quae stant circa summum Altare, ubi sunt capita beatorum Apostolorum Petri & Pauli. Et quando ista capita monstrantur tunc sunt ibi tot indulgentiae quot sunt ad sanctum Petrum in ostentione Veronicae.  
Item imago Domini quae depicta est in pariete non per manus hominum, sed Divino opere, coram omni populo Romano apparuit quinto Idus Novembris. Item Candelae aureae quae fuerunt in priori tabernaculo.  
Item, mensa in quae lex est scripta digito Dei.  
Item, de quinque panibus ordeaceis & duobus piscibus ex quibus saturati fuerunt quinque millia hominum.  
Item, tunica inconsutilis, quam fecit Maria virgo mater Domini nostri jesu Christi.  
Item est ibi vestimentum purpureum quod Maria sibi fecit.  
Item est ibi de sanguine & aqua fluente de latere Chricit.  
Item de loco ascenfionis domini in coelum.  
Item de crinibus & sanguine beati johannis Baptistae.  
Item de pulvere & cinere corporis eius combusti.  
Item cilicium eius quod fuit de pellibus Camelorum.  
Item tunica sancti johannis cum qua duos mortuos resuseitavit.  
Item de Manna sepulturae johannis Baptistae, quod fuit inventum in sepultura sua magna pulla plena.  
Item Imago Domini nostri jesu Christi quam fecit Nichodemus sicut judei Christum percusserunt.  
Item ibi est linteum cum quo Christus pedes suorum Discipulorum tersit in coena Domini.  
Item praeputium Domini jesu Christi quod sibi abscissum fuerat in Circumcisione Domini.  
Item caput Zaechariae Prophetae, & caput sancti Pancracij de quo sanguis emanavit ad tres dies quum Ecclesia Lateranensis combusta fuit.  
Item stapula sancti Laurentij.  
Item una Capsa plena reliquijs Mariae Magdalenae.  
Item, sudarum Christi.  
Item Cyphus ex quo sanctus johann bibit venenum.  
Item Camisia quam beata Maria virgo fecerat mhristo.  
Item pannus ille quem beata Maria dedit filio suo pendente in cruse circa femur.  
Item magna pars de cruce Domint.  
Item duo dentes de sancto Petro.  
Item in eadem Ecclesia est una Capella quae vocatur ad sancta sanctorum: in quam mulieres non intrant, & ubi est una facies salvatoris quando fuit quatuor decem annorum.  
Et ibi est omnibus diebus remissio omnium peccatorum à poena & à culpa & circa eandem Capellam est unus assensus triginta trium graduum quoties homo aliquis illos devote ascenderit de quolibet gradu habet mill annos Indulgentiarun, qui gradus apportati sunt de jerusalem, quos etiam gradus jesus ascendit ad Pilatum presidem.  
Item Cathena cum qua venit sanctus johannes de Epheso Romam & forpices cum quibus fuit tonsus de mandato Domitiani.  
Item velum quod portavit beata Maria in capite.  
Item de arundine cum quo percusserunt Christum in domo Pilati.  
Item tabula plena de reliquijs Martirum, Confessorum, atque virginum, & magna pars verae crucis.  
Item, de vestimentis, lact, capillis beatae Mariae virginis.  
Item, de capillis sancti johannis baptistae.  
Item, juxta lavaecrum omni die est remissio omnium peccatorum in quem locum non intrant mulieres.  
Item, in Aula domini Papae sunt tria ostia & cuilibet intro eunti per unum, & exeunti per aliud, conceduntur xliiij anni indulgentiae, & tot carenae. Et in part orientali Ecclesiae capitalis sunt tria ostia quae portata fuerunt de jerusalem.   

CHAP. 2. Of the Relics in the said Church of Laterane.  
IN this Church of the Laterane there is a certain Chapel which is called the Sacrist, or the Vestry: in it there is S. john's Altar 
12 Here the Heretics may see how ancient Altars be, for as sure as this is true, Altars be as old as since S. john Baptist. Now whether this be that very Altar or no, & whether those under-named, be not the very Table that Christ supped at, and Moses his rod, & the right Ark of the covenant, Heretics will make question, but good Catholics will as firmly believe it and more, than they will that the book of the Revelation is Canonical Scripture.  even that very Altar which he had in the Wilderness. And there is also that very Table upon which Christ supped with his Disciples at his last supper.  
In the same place is the old Testament, to wit, Moses his rod, & the Ark of the Covenant. All these did Titus and Vespasian bring thither from jerusalem, together with those 4 great brazen pillars which now stand about the high Altar, within which Altar are the heads of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul. And when these heads be showed unto the people, than there are as many Indulgences at that Church as there be at S. Peter's Church 
13 True, as many in the one place, as in the other.  at the showing of Veronica. 
* He means a picture of Christ, which they say he gave to a woman called Veronica, in that handkerchief which she gave Christ to wipe his face withal.   
Also there is the Image or picture of our Lord, which was painted upon the wall, not with man's hands, but by the Divine work of God, before all the people of Rome. 
14 Here is a picture that is worth speaking of, which God himself painted. If the heretic Calvinists did believe that God made this Picture, they would not be so earnest against Images. But they (poor souls) think that some of the cunning Clergy of Rome made it secretly in the night, or some way else conveyed it thither. And thus they wilfully cast away themselves, as though the holy Mother Church of Rome would say this if it were not true.  And this Image thus appeared upon the 5. day of the Ideses of November. Also there are the golden Candlesticks that were in the first Tabernacle of the old Testament.  
Also the Table wherein the Law was written with the finger of God. 
5 The Heretics also will not believe that these be the true Tables wherein the Law was written, because the jews that are in Rome in great abundance would by one means or other have got them away, though it had cost them their lives: but no matter what jews or Heretics say, as long as the Holy Mother Church tells us these be they.   
Also some of the 5 barley Loaves and two Fishes, with which five thousand men were fed by Christ.  
Also the coat without seam which Mary the virgin and mother of our Lord made for jesus her son.  
And there is also the purple garment that Mary made for herself.  
Also there is some of the blood and water that flowed out of CHRIST'S side.  
Also some of the ground where Christ stood when he ascended into Heaven.  
Also some of the hair and of the blood of S. john Baptist.  
And some of the dust & ashes of his body when it was burnt.  
And the haircloth which he ware, being of Camels skins.  
There is also the Coat of S. john the Evangelist, with which he raised up two dead men to life.  
And there is some of the Manna of S. john Baptist his Sepulchre, which was found in his grave even a great pot full.  
Also, there is an Image of our Lord jesus Christ, which Nichodemus made as the jews were a beating him. 
16 A very fit time to take a man's picture when one is beating him. But it seems Nichodemus was a very cunning painter.   
Likewise, there is that very linen cloth or towel with which Christ wiped his Disciples feet 
(1) This fore-kin was missing many years, but it was found again (saith Onuphrius) such good hap hath the holy Church of Rome, that if any relics be stolen or lost, they are found again in a short time, some are so bold to say, that others are put in their rooms, but they prate like Heretics.  at his last supper.  
There is also the foreskin of jesus which was cut from him in his circumcision. (17)  
Furthermore there is the head of Zacharias the Prophet, and of S. Pancrase, out of which blood did stream forth for 3 days space when the Church of Laterane was burnt.  
Also there are the breeches of S. Laurence. 
18 Was it not a strange thing, that when S. Laurence was broiled to death on the grid-iron, the fire that burned his flesh and bones; would not touch his breeches. The Catholic Roman Church is full of these miracles, let the Caluinists match them if they can.   
Also, there is a Casket full of the Relics of Mary Magdalen.  
Also Christ's handkerchief.  
Also the Cup out of which S. john drunk the poison.  
Also the shirt which the blessed virgin Mary made for jesus.  
Also that linen cloth which the blessed virgin gave unto jesus, about his thigh, as he hung on the cross.  
There is also a great deal of the cross itself our Lord died on.  
Also two of Saint Peter's teeth.  
Moreover in the same Church there is another Chapel, which is called the sancta sanctorum, or holy of holiest, whereinto women may not enter. 
19 Not on the day time by any means lest they should pollute it, but is not so on the night.  In it is a picture of our Saviour, that was taken when he was fourteen years old.  
And in that Chapel there is daily & every day remission of all sins. 
20 If there be remission of all sins there, why are women excluded? because they have no sin? or because they need no remission, or they must not have remission so lightly as men? Let every good Catholic ask his Confessor this question.  both à poena & culpae, from the punishment and the sin also. Not far from the same Chapel there is an ascent of three and thirty steps, and how oft soever any man shall devoutly ascend up that ladder, for every step he hath a thousand years of pardon: 
21 so than the going up of these steps procures to a man three & thirty thousand years of pardon: oh what a bountiful Lady the holy Mother Church of Rome is!  these steps were brought from jerusalem, and be those very steps which Christ ascended when he went up before Pilate the Precedent, to his judgement.  
Also there is the chain with which S. john was bound when he came from Ephesus to Rome, and the shears with which he was polled at the commandment of Domitian. 
22 There be the shears that polled him, but where is his hair? surely they were too blame to leave the hair, that were so careful to preserve the shears, especially seeing they have the hair of other Saints.   
Also the virgin Maries vail with which she used to cover her head.  
And some of the Reed with which they smote jesus in Pilat's house.  
And a Table full of the relics of Martyrs, Confessors and virgins: and a great quantity of the true Cross. 
23 The Cross on which Christ died, which Simon once bore, is multiplied by miracle. For an hundred years ago, Erasmus wrote, the greatest ship in the world could not carry the pieces of it, that are kept, showed, & worshipped in the holy Churches Roman, let the Heretics show such a miracle if they can.   
And of the apparel, milk and hair of blessed Mary the virgin.  
And of the hair of Saint john Baptist.  
Moreover, in the place where the Font is, there is every day remission of all sins to be had. But as for women, they may not enter into that place. 
24 Poor women of Rome, what have you done, that you still may not come where remission of all sins is to be had?   
Also in the Hall of our Lord the Pope, there be three doors, and to every one that enters in at one door, & goeth out at another 
25 Here is an easy piece of penance indeed: he that will not go in at onedoor, and out at another for 44 years of pardon, surely he is unworthy of them: so what an easy, sweet, and comfortable religion the Catholic Romish? what can be less required of a man then this: he will not do this will do nothing.  are granted four and forty years of pardon, and as many quarantanes. And in the East side of the principal Church of Laterane, there be 3 doors which were brought thither from jerusalem.    

CHAP. 3.  

De Reliquijs Ecclesiae Sancti Petri.  
SCiendum quod in urbe Romana jacent octo copora sanctorum Apostolorum ab invicem separata.  
Primo in Ecclesia Sancti Petri est medietas sancti Pauli, & medietas sancti Petri, quorum corpora fuerunt inventa in uno tumulo, & dubitatio erat quae erant ossa sancti Petri, & quae erant ossa sancti Pauli, ideo ponderaverunt dicta ossa in duas partes aequales mittentes medietatem unam in Ecclesiam sancti Petri, alteram in Ecclesiam sancti Pauli, sub maioribus altaribus dictarum Ecclesiarun.  
In Ecclesia sancti Petri jacent corpora sanctorum Apostolorum Simonis, judae, sancti Gregorij Papae, Chrysostomi Doctoris sanctorum Martyrum Processi & Martiniani Sanctae Petronillae virginis, & aliorum sanctorum Martirum, quae numerari non possunt: & ibi est caput sancti Lucae Euangelistae.   

CHAP. 3. Of the Church of S. Peter, 
The second principal Church, S. Peter in the Vatican.  and first of the Relics in that Church.  
IT is to be known, that in the City of Rome there lie the bodies of eight of the Apostles 
1 Is not therefore the Church of Rome worthiliy called, The Apostolical Seat, who hath still 8 of the Apostles lying as afore she had 2 of them living there. Heretics doubt of both, but certainly one is as true as the other.  severed one from another.  
And first of all, in the Church of Saint Peter, there is the half of Saint Paul, and the half of S. Peter, whose bodies were found together in one grave: and for that it was doubted, whether was S. Peter's, and whether S. Paul's bones, therefore they weighed the said bones, & by weight divided them into two equal parts 
2 See how equally and justly the holy mother Church of Rome deals in all her actions: heretics babble and say, that she loves to divide kingdoms and principalities of another fashion. They may say what they will, but here it's plain, that when it comes to a question about dead bones, there was never a more equal division then here she made.  and sent the one half of the whole to the Church of Saint oeeter, and the other to S. Paul's, and laid them under the high Altars of the said Churches.  
In the same Church of S. Peter lie the bodies of the holy Apostles Simon and Jude, and of S. Gregory the Pope, and of Chrysostome the Doctor, and of the Martyrs, S. Processus and Martinian, and of S. Petronell the virgin, and of other holy Martyrs, so many as cannot be numbered: and there is also the head of Saint Luke the Evangelist.    

CHAP. 4  

Istae sunt Indulgentiae Ecclesiae suncti Petri.  
ITem, anno Domini millesimo tricentesimo septuagesimo primo, Papa Silvester assignavit in Canonica sua quod in omni Ecclesia parochiali Cathedrali urbis Romanae, scilicet, ad Ecclesiam beati Petri Apostoli, & ad Ecclesiam beati Pauli, ad Ecclesiam beati johannis in Laterano, & ad Ecclesiam beatae Mariae maior is, unicuique introeunti in quamcunque praedicatarum sanctarum Ecclestarum quandocunque, quotiescunque, & quocunque tempore anni de iunctis penitentijs xlvij annos, & tot carenas Indulgentias, & terciae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item, ibi est quidam ascensus viginti nonem graduum quotiens devote ascenderit vel descenderit sine peccato mortali, totiens sibi relaxantur de quolibet gradu septem anni indulgentiarum à Papae Alexandro depenitentijs Iniunctis.  
Item in dicta Ecsia sunt septem (parce precor Prisciane) centum & quinque altaria; quotiens aliquis homo illa visitauerit devote tociens sibi conceduntur de quolibet altari septem anni Indulgen: Et in quolibet altari quando celebratur eius festum sunt ibi xviii anni Indulgent. Et tot carenae. Et tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Et ex istis altaribus sunt septem altaria pra alijs privilegiata maiori gratia, sanctitate, & dignitate.  
In prime altari est sudarium, Domini nostri super quo monstratur facies Christi. Et quando cadem facies Christi monstratur. Tunc Romani habent septem millia annorum de Indulgent. & tot carenas & alij circum quaque habitantes habent novem millia annorum, & tot carenas, venientes autem ultra mare, sive vltramontes habent duodecim millia annorum Indulgent, & tot carenas & remissionem tertiae partis omnium peccatorum.  
Et secundum altare est beatae Mariae Virginis.  
Tertium altare beati Andreae Apostoli.  
Quartum altare beati Gregorij Papae juxta sepulchrum eius.  
Quintum altare beati leonis Papae ubi in missa recepit visum.  
Sextum altare Apostolorum Simonis & judae.  
Septimum altare Sanctae Crucis ad quod non (als, approximant) appropinquant Mulieres.  
In quolibet altari sunt omni die septem anni Indulgent.  
Item Gregorius in summo altari concessit Indulgent. de peccalis oblitis, votis factis, & de offensis patrum & matrum, (preter quam manuum iniectionem) viginti octo annos Indulgent. & tot carenas.  
Item ab ascensione Domini usque ad kalendas Augusti sunt omni die xiiii. anni Indulgent. durant istae Indulgentiae per octavas Sancti Martini Episcopi.  
Et multae aliae Indulgentiae sunt in eadem Ecclesia secundum Chronicas quae numerari non possunt, quae in quadragesima, omnes duplilantur.  
Item in festo Sancti Martini fuit ista Ecclesia dedicata Beato Siluestro, & tunc est ibi remissio omnium peccatorum Et omnibus festivitatibus Beati Petri & Pauli. Et in omnibus festivitatibus Beatae Mariae Virginis sunt ibi mill anni Indulgent. & tot carenae.  
Item in die ascensionis Domini sunt ibi mill anni Indulgent. & tot carenae. & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.   

CHAP. 4 Of the Indulgences belonging to Saint Peter's Church.  
IN the year of our Lord one thousand three hundred seventy one (3) Pope Silvester in his Canonical Bull, assigned and granted, that in every parochial or Cathedral Church in the City of Rome; as namely, to the Church of Saint Peter the Apostle, & to the Church of blessed Paul, to the Church of Saint john in the Laterane, and to the Church of blessed Mary the greater, to every man that should enter into any one of the foresaid holy Churches, whensoever, how oft soever, and what time of the year soever they come, seven and forty years of pardon 
4 47 years of pardon for each time a man enters into any one of these Churches: O wicked Lutherans to charge the Church of Rome with covetousness. See what a bountiful & liberal Lady she is to her followers, who would not trudge from France or England to Rome, for such vocal rewards? If the Lutherans believed this, surely they would come to Rome also. But as for the next indulgence.  or releasement of their enjoined penances, and as many quarantens, and remission of the third part of all their sins.  
Also in the same Church there is an ascent consisting of nine and twenty steps, which whosoever shall ascend, or descend devoutly, without mortal sin 
5 that whosoever goes up or down these steps without mortal sin, shall have seven years pardon, they believe that to be very true; but they say that clause, Without mortal sin, was wisely put in, and to good purpose.  so oft as he doth it, he shall receive for every step 7 years of pardon, or shall be released of so much of his penances enjoined and this is granted by Pope Alexander.  
Moreover in the same Church there be seven hundred and five altars 
6 Oh base & beggarly Balaam that had but his 7 altars. But here the glorious Church of Rome hath 700 in one Church: Balaam may certainly be abashed and hide his face: But who would not pity the poor Caluinists and Lutherans, come in to one of their Churches & you shall find a poor Pulpit and a plain Communion table, whereas here you find 20. 30. 50. 100 altars in a Church, besides many precious relics, & many rich Copes and Vestments, and goodly gilded Images, whereof some can weep and laugh and speak, & move, and some are apparelled most costly. Who would not leave that beggarly religion & embrace this rich, royal, and stately Religion of Rome.  which how oftsoever any man shall devoutly visit so often there be granted unto him for every altar seven years of pardon, also at every one of these altars when the feast of Saint Peter is kept, there be eighteen years of pardon, and as many Quarantens. And remission of the third part of all sins.  
Amongst all these altars there be seven which are privileged with greater grace, holiness and dignity than all the rest.  
In the first Altar is the handkerchief 
7 This handkerchief the good Lady Veronica as Christ came by her door carrying his Cross, gave him to wipe his face, who laying it on his face forthwith gave it her again with the picture of his face in it, which is now every year showed and scene with great devotion. The Caluinists prate that there is no good history to warrant this, and say further, that if Christ had left any such monument behind him, some of the Evangelists would have put it down, who have not omitted lesser matters: and they say that twenty to one this is made by art, and hath been often trimmed, but not a pin matter what they say, for they be heretics.  of our Lord, wherein is to be seen the picture or face of Christ, which whensoever it is showed to the people, than all the people of Rome, have seven thousand years of pardon, and as many quarantens. And all people dwelling abroad out of Rome have nine thousand years of pardon, and as many quarantens. But as for them which to see this sight, do come from beyond the seas, or from beyond the hills, they have twelve thousand years of pardon, and as many quarantens. And remission of the third part of all their sins.  
The second altar is the altar of the blessed Virgin Marie.  
The third is Saint Andrew's altar.  
The fourth is the altar of Saint Gregory the Pope over against his Sepulchre.  
The fifth is the altar of Saint Leo the Pope standing in the place where himself once said Mass at which Mass he being blind received his sight.  
The sixth is the altar of the two Apostles Simon and jude.  
The seventh and last of these principal and privileged altars is, the altar of the holy Cross whereunto women 
8 It is delivered & held for a truth that a woman (namely Helen, Constantine's mother) first found the Cross, yet now women may not approach to the altar of the Cross: See what holy and deep and secret mysteries are in the Roman religion.  may not approach.  
At every one of these altars there are every day seven years of pardon.  
Also Gregory the Pope gave and granted to the high altar of this Church, that there should be at it Indulgence and pardon of sins forgotten and vows broken, and of all offences to father and mother, saving the laying of violent hands upon them, to these he granted eight and twenty years of pardon, and as many quarantens. 
9 And why do the Heretics carp at this, that the Pope's holiness pardons them that abuse their father and mother: for did nor the Pharisees the like. Math. 15. 5. 6. and hath not his holiness the like or more power than the Pharisezes had?   
Moreover from the Ascension of our Lord to the Ideses of August, there be every day in that Church fourteen years of pardon, and this pardon of Indulgence 
10 Why this time is more blessed then the rest, Heretics curiously do cavil, and say that by the Law we are forbidden to regard times. But do not they know that his Holiness is free from all Laws?  doth also last and is of force in and through the Octaves of Saint Martin the Bishop.  
There be also many more indulgences as the Chronickles do record belonging to this Church even so many as are past numbering, but in the time of lent how many soever they be, they be all doubled. 
11 Oh glorious Roman Church that hath so many Indulgences in one Church for her children as are past numbering. But behold a greater wonder. In Lent these be all doubled? So then out of Lent they be innumerable, and in Lent innumerable are doubled. How many than be these Indulgences in Lent, let all these idle Heretics and curious Caluinists tell if they can.   
Now this Church was dedicated by Saint Silvester, upon the feast day of Saint Martin, upon which day there is to be had in the Church full remission of all sins. And in all and every of the feasts of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and of the blessed Virgin Marie there be in this Church a thousand years of pardon, and as many quarentens.  
Also upon the feast day of the Ascension of our Lord, there be in this Church a thousand years of pardon as many quarantens, and remission of the third part of all sins. 
12 Upon Saint Martin's day there is remission of all sins in this Church, than what needs the third part be left to an other day: Again why should Saint Martin's day yield remission of all, and the day of Christ's ascension but a third: these be questions fit for Heretics to make, not Catholics.     

CHAP. 5  

Indulgentiae in Ecclesia Sancti Pauli.  
IN Ecclesia Sancti Pauli extra muros sunt omni die xviii anni Indulgentir aum, & tot carenae, & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item in omnibus festivitatibus Sancti Pauli, mill anni Indulgent. & in conuersione eius centum anni.  
Item in octavo Sancti Martini fuit ist Ecclesia dedicata a Beato Siluestro papa. Et tunc est ibi omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item in festo Innocentium sunt ibi xlviii. anni Indulgent. Item in dedicatione viii mill anni Indulgent. & durat per octo dies post festum Sancti Martini.  
Item qui continuaverit visit are omnibus diebus dominicis praedictam Ecclesiam per integrum annum haberet tot Indulgentias ac si iret ad Sanctum jacobum.  

Reliquiae Ecclesia Sancti Pauli.  
IN Ecclesia Sancti Pauli est mediatas sive pars corporum Beatorum Apostolorum Petri & Pauli quae ut supradictum est aequaliter ponderata sunt a Beato Siluestro supra altare quoddam quod habet in Ecclesia Sancti Petri, anno a nativitate Domini Tricentesimo Decimonono. & alia medietas ad Sanctum Petrum.  
Ibi etiam est caput Sancti Stephani Prothomartyris. Et ibi est brachium Annae matris Maria Virginis.  
Item ibi est claustrum monachorum situatum extra muros, cuius Ecclesia consecrata est in honore Sancti Eustachij, quod claustrum vulgariter nuncupatur ad tres fontes.  
Item ibi est unae columpna suprae quam Sanctus Paulus fuit decollatus.   

Indulgentia praedicti claustri.  
DE praedictae Ecclesia scribitur quod Papa Vrbanus concessit omnibus paenitentibus confessis & vere contritis qui ad dictam Ecclesiam in vigilia Beatae Mariae Virginis, Apostolorum Beatorum Petri & Pauli & omnium Apostolorum & Euangelistarum, Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae, Catharinae, Agathae, Agnetis, Luciae, Margaretae atque Sanctornm Martrum I aurentij, Vincentij, Anastasijs.  
Nec non per Octavas corum, & omnibus dominicis diebusper annum & in dedicatione devote accesserint qualibet die dictarum solemnitatum tria miltia annorum a Papa Siluestro, & totidem a Papa Nicholae. Et totidem a Papa Gregorio universis & singulis peregrinis, quocunque tempore anni venientibus ad dictam Ecclesiam, Nec non pro reverentia Sancti Pauli Apostoli ad aquas salivas, alio nomine ad tres fontes, causa orationis, peregrinationis, seu causae devotionis, peccata oblita, vota fracta, offensa patrum & Matrum sive Iniectione mnawm relaxantur.  
Nec non in eadem Ecclesia de antiquis sunt mill anni & xl. anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae ad aquas salivas predictas scribitur, qd in consecratione eiusdem est vera remissio omnium peccatorum. Videlicet vicesima nona die mensis januarij.  
Item in capella ibidem qua vocatur scala Caeli, sicut scribitur in Chronicis urbis Romanae, quod illa capella Sancta adificate est in honore Beatae Mariae Virginis, sub cuius maiori altari requiescunt corpora sanctorum decem millium, Martirum, militum tempore Tiberij Imperatoris.  
Et quicunque sacerdos in dicto altari missam provivis & defunctis pura conscientia, cord contrito devote celebrauerit, a paena & culpa remissionem omnium peccatorum suorum habebit, & unam de purgatorio liberat animam.  
Ista Indulgentia concessa, consummata est per quadraginta sex pontifices, quorum corpora in Caemiterio Sancti Stephani habentur & requiescunt: primo per Papam Geruasium, Pelagium, Vrbanum, Siluestrum, Benedictum, Honorium, Leonen, Clementem, Innocentem qui omnes & singuli dictam Indulgentiam confirmaverunt ad augendam devotionem.  
Item in codem monasterio sanctissimo habetur, quod quicunqne ex tribus istis fontibus ubi Beatus Paulus fuerat decollatus biberit aquam, a qua cunque infirmitate de caetero liberabitur. Et quicunque de illis tribus fontibus biberit, ut dictum est, a quolibet habebit mill annos Indulgentiarum. Quia dum arat decollatus tunc caput eius fecit tres saltus & a quolibet saltu generabatur fons unus.  
Item in eadem capella habetur lapis saphyricus, qui cum sit positus ad latus ubi quis Apostema habuerit, solo tactu illius libera bitur.  
Et ibi multa corpora Sanctorum Martyrum atque confessorum requiescunt. Et ibi est etiam gladius, per quem decollatus fuerat. Et stat ibi in uno pariete.    

CHAP. 5 Of the Indulgences of the Church of Saint Paul.  
IN the Church of Saint 
3 The three principal Church, the Church of Saint Paul.  Paul without the wales of Rome, there are every day eighteen years of pardon, and as many quarantens, and remission of the third part of all sins.  
Also in every feastday of Saint Paul, there be a thousand years of pardon, and upon the day of his conversion one hundred years. 
1 Why upon other feast days of Saint Paul should be a thousand years, and on the day of his Conversion, being the chief of all, but a hundred is certainly a very Mystery of Roman faith, the Protestant's doubt less cannot attain to it.   
This Church was dedicated by Saint Silvester the Pope in the Octaves of the feast day of Saint Martin upon which day there is to be had in that Church full remission of all sins.  
Moreover upon the feast day of the Innocents' there be eight and forty years of pardon. 
2 This is also a deep mystery, why 48 years and not full 50.  And upon the day of the dedication of this Church there be eight thousand years of pardon. 
3 Every day there be 18 years, that is in a year, 6000. and here be 8000 on one day: (summa tot 14000 years) let the Caluinists in England show as much of their Saint Paul's Church if they can.  And this Dedication lasteth eight days after the feast of Saint Martin.  
Moreover whosoever shall continue to visit the said Church every Sunday for one whole year 
4 Who would not be at cost to go to Rome, and there take up his lodging for a whole year to enjoy so great a reward?  shall have as maindulgences, as if he went unto Saint james in Spain. 
5 The Heretics cannot deny but this is most true: but they have a malicious and heretical meaning, namely that there is none in neither place.   

The Relics in the Church of Saint Paul.  
IN the Church of Saint Paul the half part of the bodies of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul which Saint Silvester equally divided by weight as we heard before, upon a certain altar, which is in the Church of Saint Peter in the year from the nativity of our Lord three hundred and nineteen, and the other half was left at the second Church of Saint Peter.  
There is also in this Church of Saint Paul the head of the first Martyr, Saint Steeven. 
6 What if any other place say that they have Saint Steuens his head? No great matter for that, the Church of Rome hath power to multiply at her pleasure, and to do many fine tricks beside to the great edification of devout Catholics.  And there is also one of the arms of Saint Anne, the mother of Marry the Virgin.  
There is also a Cloister of monks, situated without the wales, which hath a Church consecrated to the honour of Saint Eustachius, this Cloister is commonly called the Cloister by the three fountains.  
And there is also in the same Church the pillar upon which Saint Paul was beheaded. 
7 A very precious relic doubtless for they that loved Saint Paul cannot but make much of the block whereon he was beheaded. The Lutherans and Caluinists (silly fools) do make much of Saint Paul's Epistles, as being a better Relic of him: let the poor asses alone with their Epistles, and them with his Epistles. The holy Roman Church, where wisdom dwells, knows that it had been better for her if some of them had never been written, and therefore lets them lie in Libraries, and commends to her children this holy relic of the block on which his head was stricken off, for this she is sure will teach nor breed no heresy, as Saint Paul's Epistles have done too many.    

Indulgences belonging to the foresaid Cloister of the Church of Saint Paul.  
IT is written of the foresaid Church, that Pope Urban gave, and granted to all men penitent and truly contrite, and confessed that shall repair to the said Church in the vigils of blessed Marie the Virgin, the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of the Apostles and Evangelists, and of Saint Marie Magdalen and of Saint Katherine, and of Saint Agatha, and Saint Agnes, and Saint Lucy, & Saint Margaret, and of the holy Martyr Saint Laurence, Saint Vincent and Saint Anastasius.  
And also in the Octaves of the said feasts or upon any Sunday through the whole year, or in the dedication for every day of the foresaid solemnities three thousand years of pardon. And as many were given by Pope Silvester, and as many by Pope Nicholas. Also Gregory the Pope granted as many to all and singular Pilgrims that shall come to the said Church at any time of the year, or that for the 
(8) Here a penitent hath 9000 years of pardon, for once visiting the Church: is not here a royal recompense for so litlit labour. Oh thrice blessed Romans that live so near.  reverence of Paul the Apostle shall come to the Cloister of the salt waters otherwise called the three fountains, either to pray there, or as a pilgrim to visit it, or for any other devotion. All men so doing shall have released or forgiven, their sins forgotten, the vows broken; their offences against father or mother, unless they did lay violent hands upon them.  
Furthermore unto the same Church there do belong of old 
9 See how anticent the giving of Indulgences is: for these be given of old saith this blessed book.  a thousand and forty years of pardon.  
Moreover it is written and recorded in that Church of Saint Marie at the salt waters aforesaid, That upon the day of the consecration of the said Church, there is true 
10 Yea certainly as true remission is there of all sins as the bread in the Priest's hands is the true transubstantiat body of Christ, or as the maffe is a true expiatory sacrifice, or as the Pope is the true Vikar of Christ. But whereas the Caluinists loudly laugh and say, that if in other places, where it is said there is remission, there be not true remission, than the people are deluded, and if there be, than this word here, is an idle boast. No matter what they prace, they be heretics.  remission of all sins, and that is upon the nine and twenty of the month of januarie.  
Likewise there is a certain Chapel of the said Church which is called the Ladder of Heaven, as it is written in the Chronickles of the City of Rome where we also find that the said holy Chapel was builded in the honour of blessed Marie the Virgin, under the High Altar of this Chapel there rest the bodies of ten thousand holy Martyrs that were soldiers in the time of Tiberius' the Emperor. 
11 Behold another wonder 10000 soldiers that were Christians in one army in the time of Tiberius immediately after Christ. The Scripture tells us of no such wonders for there the believers are reckoned in fewer quantities: but the Catholic traditions of the Roman Church, supply the defects and wants, that be in the Scriptures and the Catholic cause were in a fair case indeed, if nothing might be believed but that is in the scripture, or gathered from it, as these foolish Heretics would have it.   
And what Priest soever, shall devoutly celebrate one mass at the said altar for the living and the dead with a pure conscience, and a contrite heart, shall have remission of all his sins, both from the punishment & the fault, and shall deliver one soul out of purgatory. 
12 See what a happy thing it is for a man to live in Rome, for its impossible he should ever come in purgatory, if he list to avoid it, for how easy is it to get a Priest say Mass at this altar for him. But all the difficulty will be (say the Caluinists) in getting a Priest with a pure Conscience, for such it is said are not common in Rome: Oh idle Heretics, as who say in the holy City, and so near his Holiness can be suffered any but holy Priests: for though they go, at noon day to the Stews, can they not go afore night to confess it, and so be made as pure as they were the day they were baptised: Certainly if Cardinal Poole and his fellow committees had remembered, & regarded this they would not in their report they made to Paul the third, of the abuses in the Church have held it so foul a matter that Priests of Rome, and Cardinal's Chaplains, do at noon day go to Whores, (for as for Cardinals themselves they go modestly in the night time, unless it be in the Carnival.) Seeing that a wife being forbidden them as a most unholy and unlawful thing, therefore they use this but as a convenient remedy to keep them from that foul sin of marriage, which by the Catholic teachers, jesuits and others is concluded to be in them a far greater sin than whoring, or Adultery: Alas than who can blame them, or rather doth not commend the holy Clergy of Rome, if of the two evils they choose the less, to avoid the great: and if any little fault remain after that fact, how easily may they go to confession, or as soon as they have done all being Priests, may one absolve another, and so come out of the Stews, as holy and pure as they went in: where as all good Catholics know that these heretic Priests that have their own wives, though they never touched other woman, are never pure, but ever defiled with that pollution that follows them in that damned estate of marriage as (whatsoever the heretics prate out of the Scriptures) the holy Roman Church hath truly and holily determined. Seeing therefore the Clergy in Rome are not wrapped in the sacrilegious bonds of marriage, and so not tied to one; And for all other escapes have the holy and happy, and present help of confession, ever at hand and always in season, let no good Catholic doubt, but as all that have traveled thither do well know, holy Clergy men and Priests with pure Consciences are as common in Rome, as post-horses in Venice.   
And this Indulgence thus granted was confirmed by six and forty Popes, whose bodies do all rest in the Churchyard 
13 If 46. Pope's lie buried in one Churchyard. It seems those days were not so devout as these of ours, nor the Popes so pompous, nor so rich, for now it is not agreeable to Catholic devotion, Nor to the Majesty of his holiness to be buried in a Churchyard, but in as stately and pompous manner as any of the greatest kings of the earth.  of Saint Sebastian, and namely by Pope jeruatius, Pelagius, Vrbanus, Silvester, Benedict, Honorius, Leo, Clement, Innocent, etc. Who all and every one of them have confirmed the foresaid Indulgence for the increase of devotion.  
Furthermore it is found registered in the same most holy Monastery, that whosoever shall drink the water of these three fountains, where Saint Paul was beheaded, shall from thenceforth be deliver from whatsoever disease he hath. 
14 The Heretics will here object, and ask how it then comes to pass that any in Rome or near it, be sick or die of such filthy diseases as they do, for either they may here drink and be healed, or else this here premised is but a cozenage and delusion. But heretics are not worthy to be answered, let them go.  And whosoever shall drink of these three fountains as afore, shall have from every fountain a thousand years 
15 Here is a sweet & a gracious indulgence when for drinking 3 draughts of 3 sweet fountains in a hot summers day, in a hot country, a man may gain 3000 years of pardon: Is it not pity, but so good a mother as the holy Roman Church should have devout children.  of pardon and all this because that when Saint Paul was there beheaded, his head being smitten off, leapt three times, and at every leap when it fell to the ground, forthwith there sprung up a fountain of water. 
16 The Heretics cavil and say that this is a fable of the three fountains and that there is no good history for it, and say further that he made and digged fourteen better fountains, and left them not for Rome alone, but for all Christians, and say that whosoever drink of these fountains, shall receive true Indulgence indeed, and have the diseases of his soul healed: but they babble and show themselves true heretics, who always come with Scripture, Scripture: But contrariwise all good Catholics know that the holy Roman Church in these later and wiser days found these fountains so dangerous to drink of, that prudently she stopped and walled them up within the wall of the Latin tongue. And the wiser sort of Catholics do know, and some of them are bold and zealous to affirm, it had been better for the Catholic faith, if they had been better and safer stopped up, than they have been. But as for these three blessed fountains that sprang when Saint Paul's head leapt three times after it was smitten off, (which is as certain as that Saint Device took up his head, when is was stricken off, and carried it in his hands three miles, as the Breviary saith in his service) these the Pope is sure will not infect the drinkers with heresy as those Epistles of Paul have often done, And therefore these fountains his holiness stops not up, but lets them be always open, that good Catholics may resort unto them, at all times of the year, and from all parts of the world, to the great honour of Saint Paul, at least to the great gain of his holiness, and of the Roman Citizens, who could not well maintain their City without these good helps, and consequently to the great advancement of the holy Catholic Roman faith.   
Moreover in the Chapel there is sapphire stone, which when it is laid to the side of a sick-man, that hath an Apostem, presently the sick party shallbe healed with only touching.  
Also in the same Chapel there do rest the bodies of many holy Martyrs and Confessors. And there is also the sword with which Saint Paul was beheaded, and it standeth there in a wall. 
17 Behold a most precious relic, the sword that cut off Saint Paul's head: And hath not the Pope's holiness good cause to preserve and honour the sword that cut off his head, who durst rebuke Saint Peter, whose successor he is? The Caluinists brag of a better sword which they say Saint Paul left them, Ephes. 6. 1. The sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, but let them like foolish Cocks take the barley come, and leave us the jewel, for all good Catholics know that the sword of the Scripture, however Paul commended it in those times, is found in these days to be a dangerous sword to be used: and the holy Roman Church, had never seen so many of her children fall to be Cavinists and Lutherans had it not been that the use of this sword was too easily and freely premitted unto them: As for this sword that cut off Saint Paul's head, that never did hurt to the Catholic Roman Church, but hath gained it many a fair million of crowns, even the very showing of it, to people and pilgrims: seeing then the Pope's holiness gains so well by this sword, and hath lost so much by the sword of the Spirit, full wisely therefore he prohibits the use of that sword: but allows the other to be seen of all men: and if Saint Paul be angry that we make more account of the sword that cut of his head, than that sword of the spirit, which upon his knowledge, he commended so earnestly to the Church, let him know his holiness cares not a pin, for though he was so bold to reprehend Peter when they were on earth; Yet now his holiness being Peter's successor hath made and enacted it for a law, and hath so put it in the body of his law, Dist. 40. c. 6. That though he should be so faulty and so enormously wicked, as that he draws millions of souls with him into hell; Yet no man must presume so much as to reprove him for it. Therefore let Saint Paul do what he can, his holiness will keep and make much of the sword that cut of his head, and show it to be honoured, and will gain fairly by it, and will also restrain and prohibits the use of the other sword, though he pleased to call it the sword of the Spirit, seeing he finds by so long experience, that he looseth by it every day.      

CHAP. 6  

In Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae annunciatae.  
ITem ibi scribitur sic quod Beatissima virgo Maria apparuit Cuidam fratri dictae Ecclesiae cum multitudine Angelorum dicens omnis homo vere confessus & contritus qui hanc Ecclesiam intraverit, & me puro cord visitauerit, ab infernali incendio liberabitur.  
Scribitur etiam in cronicis, quod cuilibet visitanti quotidie dictam Ecclesiam pro quolibet die qua eandem visitauerit mill anni Indulgent. & quadraginanni Indulgent. & remissio tertiae partis omnium peccatorum, & tot carenae. Et omnes predictae Indulgentiae duplicantur in adventu domini & in quadragesima. Et in die Annuntiationis Beatae Mariae, est ibi plena remissio omnium peccatorum, data a Sanctissimo domino Bonifacio.  
Quicunque etiam in dicta Ecclesia ob honorem & reverentiam gloriosissimae Virginis Mariae Genetricis dei missam celebrauerit, unam animam meritis & in tercessionibus eiusdem Virginis Mariae de paenis purgatorij liberabit.   

CHAP. 6 
4 The fourth principal Church, the Church of our Lady.  Of the Church of Saint Marie of the Annunciation.  
furthermore it is thus written in the place aforesaid, that the most blessed Virgin Marie appeared to a certain Friar of the said Church attended with a great multitude of Angels, and said unto him every man truly confessed and contrite, which shall euter into this Church, and visit me with a pure heart shallbe delivered from the fire of hell. 
1 The Heretics say that certainly this is but a tale, for the Virgin Mary (say they) would not take upon her to deliver any out of hell, nor purgatory by her own merits as it is here said, and if she could, she would not tie it to such a condition as the visiting of that Church, because then the poor souls that dwell in far countries could never receive good by it, thus these shameless heretics dare argue against it that the holy Church teacheth, are not they worthiy condemned?   
It is also written in the Chronickles, that whosoever shall daily visit this said Church, shall have for every day wherein he shall so visit it a thousand and forty years of pardon 
2 So that then to visit that Church every day for one year, a man shall obtain 38000 years of pardon: come, come all good Catholics, let us go leave this cursed country of England, and go dwell at Rome, where we shall be received, entertained and enriched with such bountiful blessings.  together with remission of third part of all his sins and as many quarentens &c. And all the said Indulgences are doubled in the time of the Aduent of our Lord, and in lent. And in the day of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Marie, there is full remission of all sins to be had in that Church, granted by our most holy Lord Pope Boniface.  
Whosoever also shall celebrate Mass in the said Church in the honour and reverence of the most glorious Virgin Marie, mother of God, shall through the merits and intercessions of the said Virgin Marie deliver one soul out the pains of Purgatory. 
3 See what a blessed thing it is to be a Priest in Rome, when a man may every day at his pleasure deliver a soul our of Purgatory: is it therefore any marvel if so many of our fine wits and hopeful young men do run to Rome, and become Priests? No surely, but the wonder is that if they believe this, they will come again into England, where they may sooner send themselves to hell, then deliver a soul out of Purgatory.     

CHAP. 7  

Indulgentiae Ecclesiae Sancti Sebastiani.  
ITem scribitur in Ecclesia Sancti Sebastiani, quod ibi Angelus domini apparuit Beato Gregorio in celebratione Missae in altari Sancti Sebastiani Martiris dicens. In isto loco est vera remissio omnium peccatorum splendor & lux perpetua & sine fine laetitia. Quam Indulgentiam a Papa glorioso concessam Beatus Sebastianus meruit.  
Item dominica die prima mensis Maij est ibi omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item ab ascensione domini usque ad Kalendas Augusti sunt omni die mill anni Indulgent. & tot carenae, & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item in alijs diebus per totum annum sunt omni die quadraginta septem Indulgentiarum & tot carenae.  
Item ibi est quidam introitus subterraneus, & ille Introitus vocatur Caemiterius Sancti Calixti Papae, ubi solebant se ab scondere Sancti dei martyrs quando persequebantur a Romanis. Et ibi sunt tot Indulgentiae quot nemo numerare potest nisi solus Deus.  
Item ibi est puteus in quo corpora Sanctorum Petri & Pauli per centum annos iacuerunt antequam fuerunt inventa & sunt ibi CCC anni Indulgent.  
Item in eadem Ecclesia est adhuc unus puteus situatus modicum extra Ecclesiam: ibi requiescunt quadraginta septem pontifices, dantes unusquisque suam Indulgentiam, tantam quantam potuerunt.  
Item in dicta Ecclesia est tanta Indulgentia, quanta in Ecclesia Sancti Petri Apostoli.  

Reliquiae Ecclesiae Sancti Sebastiani.  
ITem in summo altari requiescit corpus Sancti Sebastiani. Et in altari inferius, corpus Sancti Fabiani. Et in altari in fine Ecclesiae subtus requiescit corpus Stephani Papae.  
Item retro Ecclesiam est alius transitus rotundus circa altare Sancti Apostoli Petrus & Paulus ad centum annos iacuerunt in quo transitu multae corpora Sanctorum, iacuerunt confessorum, atque Virginum requiescunt.  
Item in eadem Ecclesia est columpua illa ad quam Sanctus Sebastianus fuit sagittatus.  
Item ibi est caput Sancti Calixti & plura corpora aliorum Sanctorum.  
Item in Caemiterio sancti Calixti quod habetur in eadem Ecclesia stat quoddam altare ad quod sanctus Petrus, tempore quo Romani persequebantur illos sanctos Martyres ibidem sepultos, celebrare so lebat.  
Item in eodem Caemiterio habetur longitudo per quendam lapidem, unius claeui, cum quo Christus fuit affixus crucis patibulo.  
Item in eadem Ecclesia habentur vistigia undecim pedum in una capella a latere, super altare quoddam. Quae vestigia sunt illa viz. quando sanctus Petrus voluit fugere de Roma & tunc obuiabat domino jesu Christo & dixit domine quo vadis, juxta paruam capellam modicum extra civitatem scituatam, & respondeus jesus vado Romam iterum crucifigi, & illa capella vocatur capella Beatae Mariae de Palmae.  
Item in Ecclesia sancti johannis ante portam latinam, ubi coctus fuit sanctus johannes in oleo, est liberatio unius animae in die sancti johannis a purgatorio.    

CHAP. 7 
5 The fifth principal and patriarchal Church; namely of Saint Sebastian.  Of the Indulgences belonging to the Church of Saint Sebastian.  
IT is registered in the 
(1) The presumptuous Caluinists say this is a foul stinking lie. For an Angel, say they would never tell a lie, but to say that in any Church in Rome, or any place on earth is or can be everlasting light, and without end, is not only false but plain Atheism and intimates that the world shall never have end: Oh shameless heretics that dare call in question the sayings or doings of the Pope, as though his holiness can either speak aught but truth, or do aught but good: So there have been some heretofore like to these Caluinists that durst be so bold with the Popes, as to bring them under censure, accusing Liberius for an Arrian condemning Honorius for a Monothelite, and them, and john the 22 for heretics, as did the sixth general Council, and Occam, and many more, but what got they? some of them are condemned and all of them reproved for their labour by the Pope's holiness, as be also the Caluinists, who were pronounced heretics in the Council of Trent, and excommunicate every passion week in Bulla Caenae, and therefore no matter what they object.  Church of Saint Sebastian, that an Angel of the Lord appeared in that Church to Saint Gregory as he was a saying Mass at the Altar of Saint Sebastian the Martyr, and said to him these words. In this place there is true remission of all sins, brightness and light ever lasting, joy and gladness without end. This Indulgence did Saint Sebastian merit to the Church, and thereupon that glorious Pope did grant and ratify it.  
Also upon every first Sunday or Lords day of the Month of May, there is in the same Church remission of all sins.  
Likewise from the ascension of our Lord, until the Kalends of August, there be for every day, in that Church a thousand years of pardon, and as many quarantens, and remission of the third part of all a man's sins.  
And moreover, all the year long, there is daily and for every day seven and forty years of pardon, and as many quarantens.  
Furthermore in the Church, there is a certain Vault, or hollow passage under the earth, and it is called the Churchyard of Saint Calixtus the Pope: In this the holy Martyrs of God in times past used to hide themselves, when they were persecuted by the Romans: & to this Vault there do belong so many Indulgences and pardons as none can number but only God. 
2 Seeing there belongs to that vault, so many Indulgences, it seems that our holy fathers, the Abbots of England held vaults to be very holy places, and therefore it was (doubtless) that they made at so many abbeys, vaults under the ground, leading from the Abbay to the Nunnery, which was never very far off, that so the Nuns might meet the Friars & get their part of these blessed Indulgences: Many of these holy vaults are yet to be seen in England to the shame and confutation of the Caluinists: And though those vaults have been dearly loved of the Romish Clergy, and so are still where they yet be, and are therefore partakers of the Pope's Indulgences, which made the Nuns frequent them so willingly: yet was there one vault in England which was of greater value and expectation than all these, and which (if the powder there laid by those devout and zealous Catholics had blown up the heretics according to the mind and desire of them that laid it, and the hope of his holiness, and the jesuits) should certainly have had as many blessings and Indulgences bestowed on it, as the bottomless treasure of the holy Roman Church could have afforded. But that work was too good to prosper as some of themselves said, the day before they died.   
Also in the same Church there is the pit or hole, wherein the bodies of Saint Peter and Paul lay hid for an hundredth years before they were found, and at this hole there are three hundredth years of pardon.  
Likewise in the same Church there is yet a pit or hole, situate a little without the Church, and therein do rest the bodies of seven and forty Popes, every one whereof granted to this Church Indulgences, as great and ample as they could or might.  
To conclude, there is in this Church as great and large Indulgence, as there is in the Church of Peter the Apostle.  

Relics in the Church of Saint Sebastian.  
IN the high altar of this Church, there is the body of Saint Sebastian himself: and in another lower altar, the body of Saint Fabian, and under the altar that is at the end of the Church resteth the body of Pope Stephen.  
Also in the backside of the same Church there is another passage, which is round, hard by the altar, under which Saint Peter and Saint Paul lay for a hundredth years, and in the same place to this day there lie the bodies of many holy Confessors & Virgins.  
Also in the same Church there is the post or pillar, at which Saint Sebastian was thrust through with darts.  
There is also the head of Calixtus, and many bodies of other Saints.  
Moreover in the Churchyard of Saint Calixtus (so called as afore) which is in the same Church, there stands a certain altar, and that is the very altar whereat Saint Peter used to say Mass, 
3 The Caluinists say this is an idle tale for say they if Peter had had an altar or said Mass the Scriptures would not have concealed it: But a fig or rather a faggot for these heretics and their Scripture also, for what care Catholics though it be not it the Scripture, as long as the holy Roman Church saith it here and elsewhere.  at such times as the Romans persecuted those holy Martyrs that used to fly thither, and are now there buried.  
Likewise in same Churchyard of Calixtus, there is a certain great stone, upon which is drawn out the length of one of the nails, with which jesus was nailed to the tree of the cross. 
4 This was doubtless a great nail, for out of one of them have been since made at least a thousand more nails, and which is more strange, the first is still as great as it was.   
Further, in the same Church there be yet to be seen the steeps of eleven foot, and they be upon an altar, that is in a Chapel, situate on one side of the Church: what these steps are, & how they came there, we are to know that when Saint Peter would have fled out of Rome, jesus met him at a little Chapel, 
5 Here again the Caluinists cavil and say, that this is surely a cozened tale. For Saint Peter say they spoke it Acts 3. 21. that the heavens must hold Christ till the end of the world, and therefore say they though it might well be that Saint Peter might see Christ in a vision sitting in heaven as Saint Stephen did. Act. 7. 55. yet it's not credible that he saw Christ so really standing by him that the steps of his feet should remain in the earth, but we have a short answer for them, and that is this, let them, and such fools as they, rely upon that uncertain rule the Scripture (which therefore our Catholic Doctors, Eccius, Pighius, Hosius etc. have justly called a nose of wax, and a shipman's hose, a dumb judge and a leaden rule) we Catholics will hold the sure certain and unfallible rule that can never deceive us, namely the determination of the holy Roman Church, that is the rock that Catholics rest upon: and therefore though the Scripture say never a word of it, yet by virtue of that determination we believe that Christ is really and corporally in the Sacrament, and that the bread is turned into his body, and we believe that this story is true, and what ever else the Roman Church shall teach us.  somewhat out of the City, than Peter meeting Christ asked him, Lord whether goest thou? And jesus answered, I go to Rome to be crucified again, and these steps of jesus and Peter as they stood talking there, are here to be seen to this day: and that Chapel where they thus met, is called the Chapel of our blessed Lady Mary of the palm.  
Likewise in the Church of Saint john before the Port Latin, where Saint john was boiled in hot scalding oil, is every Saint john's day, deliverance for one soul out of purgatory.     

CHAP. 8  

Indulgentiae Eccleclesiae sancti Thomae Apostoli.  
IN Ecclesia eius scribitur quotienscunque homo visitauerit, illam Ecclesiam videlicet manus ponendo adiutrices ad sustentationem Pauperum & liberationem Captivorum in sancta terra incarceratorum; in Ecclesia quae dedicata est in honore sancti Michaelis Archangeli & sancti Thomae Apostoli, conceduntur per multos pontifices tria millia annorum Indulgent. & xl. dies, vota fracta, offensa patrum & Matrum sine mannuum violentarum iniectione relaxantur illi ut permittitur predictam Ecclesiam visitanti.  
Item summi tres pontifices viz. Alexander, Inocentius & Vrbanus quilibet eorum concessit septimam partem anni & omnium peccatorum remissionem & unum annum & quadraginta dies plenamque participationem omnium stationum & dedicationum Romunae Ecclesiae quae facit xlix. annorum Indulgent. & tot Carenas. Ac etiam participationem terrae Sanctae ubi Indulgentiae mirabiles conceduntur.   

CHAP. 8 Indulgences belonging to the Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle. 
6 This Church though it bear the name of one of the Apostles, yet is it none of the seven principal and patriarchal, because as Onuphrius freely tells us, those Churches are most dignified by the Pope, which he gains most by: and he gains most by them that are in the way betwixt the great Churches of Saint john Laterane, Saint Peter and Saint Paul, therefore Saint Sebastian's is one which stands in the way betwixt Saint Paul's, and the Lateran, and not this of Saint Thomas which stands out of the way.   
IN the Church of Saint Thomas, it is written and recorded, that how oft soever any man shall visit that Church, putting to his helping hand for the sustentation of the poor, or for the redeeming and deliverance of captives imprisoned in the holy land, so oft there be in that Church, which is consecrated to the honour of Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Thomas the Apostle, three thousand years of pardon, granted thereunto by diverse Popes. And for xl. days long, vows that be broken, and offences against father and mother, excepting laying violent hands upon them, 
7 Still the heretics prate and say that the Pope forgives the offences committed against father and mother: poor fools why should he not, is not he the father of fathers and supreme father of us all, good reason then that he overrule our fathers and mothers, and those that please his holiness, let them not care though they displease father mother, master, mistress, nay Prince or Sovereign, for he can and will release the punishment as well as he can forgive the fault.  are three released to him that shall visit the Church as is aforesaid.  
Moreover three chief Bishops or Popes, as namely Alexander, Innocentius and Vrbanus, every of them gave and granted thereunto, the seventh part of the year, and remission of all sins and one year 
8 It's very hard to know the meaning of these bountiful Indulgences, they are so many that we may say Copia ipsa nocet: therefore devout Cathikes that desire to know them distinctly, had best go to Rome, and there they may both know them and have them.  and forty days, and full participation of all stations and dedications of the Roman Church which make up nine and forty years of pardon, and as many quarentens, and also they granted hereunto participation with the Holy Land, where strange and wonderful Indulgences be granted.    

CAP. 9  

Indulgentiae Ecclesiae Sanctae Crucis.  
IN Ecclesia Sanctae Crucis sunt omni die xlviij anni Indulgent. & tot carenae & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item ibi modicum inferiùs a latare est una capella que vocatur jerusalem, in quam mulieres non possunt intrare nisi in die sancti Benedicti. Et tunc est ibi omnium peccatorum remissio a paena & a culpa.  
Item hanc Ecclesiam Constantina Imperatrix edificavit in honorem santae Crucis & ad preces sanctae Helenae Papa Silvester consecravit.  
Item omnibus diebus dominicis & mercurij sunt ibi CCliiij anni Indulgent. & omnibus alijs diebus Cxxx viii anni & tot carenae.  
Et multae aliae plures Indulgentiae sunt quas explicare non audemus nam omni die dominica & die mercurij Sanctus Silvester omnes indulgent. duplicavit.  

Reliquiae predictae Ecclesiae.  
IN praedicta Ecclesia sanctae Crucis est funis cum quo Christus jesus fuit ductus, portans sive baiulans crucem.  
Item clavis unus cum quo cruci fuit affixus.  
Item magna pars vestis sancti johannis Baptistae. Item duo dentes de sancto Blasio Episcopo. Item duo lacerti Apostolorum Petri & Pauli sub maiore altari requiesunt corpora sanctorum Anastasijs Caesaris & Prothasijs.  
Item ibi est de ligno verae Crucis.  
Item una lampa plena Balsomo, in quo jacet caput Vincentij Martiris.  
Item spongia cum qua judaei dederunt Christo jesus acetum bibere cum fell mixtum.  
Item ibi sunt duo sophiri, quorum unus est plenus sanguine Christi, & alter plenus lact Mariae Virginis.  
Item caput Innocentij Martiris.  
Item in dextro latere altaris est liguum crucis latronis conversi.  
Item ibi est unus digitus Beati Thomae Apostoli.  
Item ibi est titulus jesu Christi appositus cruci, scilicet jesus Nazarenus Rex judaeorum.  
Item in eadem Ecclesia jacent corpora xlij. summorum pontificum quorum unusquisque suam dedit Indulgentiam.    

CHAP. 9 
6 The sixth principal and patriarchal Church is the Church of Saint Cross.  Indulgences of the Church of Saint Cross.  
IN the Church of Saint Cross, there are every day eight and forty years of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a man's sins.  
Also a little lower on the side of the Church there is a Chapel called Jerusalem, into which women may not enter, but only upon Saint Benet's day. 
1 Blessed Saint Benet was the good woman's friend, who got them leave on his day to come into the holy Chapel, which is one reason doubtless, why women are so devout to the Benedictins.  And then there is in that Chapel, full remission of all sins, both a paena & a culpa.  
Further, Constaniina the Empress builded this Church to the honour of the holy Cross, 
2 Bawling heretics do here make a stir and wonder, that we dare build Churches in honour of the dead Cross. But they be fools, and know nothing. But all devout and learned Catholics do know that the holy Roman Church teacheth to pray to the Cross, and hath a prayer to it in the holy Mass book or Breviary, O cruxave spes unica, hoc passionis tempore, auge pijs justiciam Reisque dona veniam: and lest some should think, (who have too nice and spiced consciences as some Catholics have) that this prayer is to him that died on the Cross, and not to the Cross, our approved Doctors have handled the case, and resolved it that ipsam Crucem alloquimur, ipsam Crucem deprecamur, quasi ipsum Crucifixum: If we may speak to the Cross, and pray to the Cross itself, as to Christ; Then surely no man will deny but we may build Churches to it.  and Pope Silvester did Consecrate it at the instance, and prayers of Saint Hellen.  
Likewise upon every Sunday, and every Wednesday there be in this Church two hundred fifty and four years of pardon, and upon every other day an hundred thirty eight years, and as many quarentens.  
And there be many other pardons and indulgences here which we dare not set down, 
3 Let the heretics here see to their shame; First the great modesty of the Roman Church, who forbears to put down the Indulgences, when they are so exceeding many as they cannot be counted, and behold also the bounty of our spiritual mother, who grants Indulgences so plentifully as modesty forbids to express them: what good Catholic can stay from going to Rome, that there he may dive into the midst of this sea, and partake of this bottomless Treasure.  for upon every Lord's day and every Wednesday Saint Silvester doubled all the Indulgences.  

The relics of the same Church.  
IN the foresaid Church of Saint Cross there is the rope 
4 Behold a precious relic, the Rope that Christ was led in, for though the Gospels speak of none, yet here is as good warrant for it as the Gospel, to all good Catholics.  where in Christ jesus was led to his death when he bore his Cross.  
There is also one of the nails with which he was nailed to the Cross.  
Also a great deal of Saint john Baptists coat, and two of the teeth of Saint Blaze the Bishop. And two arms of the Apostles 
5 Here be two arms of Peter and Paul in this Church, and yet we are to believe that the whole half of them both is in Saint Peter and the other whole half in Saint Paul's Church for these two arraes the Pope created by his power.  Peter and Paul. And under the high altar of that Church do lie the bodies of Saint Anastatius Caesar & Saint Prothatius.  
Also there is in that Church some of the wood of the true Cross. 
6 Here is some of the wood of the true Cross: to put a difference betwixt too many, that are counterfeits, by which good devout Catholics are darly cozened to their great discomfort.   
Also a lamp full of balm, wherein lies the head of Saint Vincentius Martyr.  
Also there is the Sponge with which the jews gave jesus Christ vinegar mingled with gall to drink.  
Likewise there be two glasses whereof the one is full of the blood of Christ, and the other full of the milk of Marie 
7 God Catholics do greatly wonder, seeing the holy virgin had no child after Christ, how this milk of hers was preserved, for sure she would not keep it herself, and in those days few regarded either her, or her son for thirty years: we hope therefore his Holiness will let us know this great secret, for sure there is some great miracle and mystery in it. But seeing in that Church there is both of the milk & the blood, we now see the reason why father Scribanius the jesuite, writers that he so longs for the milk of the mother, and blood of the Son, that he knows not whether to desire more, and saith that therefore he will mingle them both together, and of that mixture, make a precious sovereign medicine for his soul: Indeed we do easily believe jesuits to be such extardinary men, that they have some extraordinary spiritual physic for their souls which others have not: yet as great and as good as he is, he may now be beholding to us that publish this blessed book, for now he knows where he may have both his simples to make his confection, both the milk and blood, and let him not fear that they at Rome can spare none of it: for if he pay well for it, he shall have it, and yet by the supreme power of the Pope, though never so much be taken continually, yet they multiply again, and the last is as good as the first, and all of like virtue.  the Virgin.  
Also there is the head of Innocentius the Martyr.  
And upon the right side of the altar there is the wood of the Cross whereupon the good thief died.  
And there is also one of the fingers of Saint Thomas the Apostle.  
There is also the title of jesus Christ, which was set upon his Cross, namely, jesus of Nazareth King of the jews.  
Moreover in the same Church there lieth the bodies of two and forty Popes or chief Bishops, whereof every one bestowed their indulgence upon this Church.     

CAP. 10  

Indulgentiae Ecclesiae Sancti Laeurencij.  
ITem Papa Pallagius qui hanc Ecclesiam consecravit concessit ibi in quatuor temporibus anni & in omnibus festivitatibus Stephani & Laurencij vel stationum seu dedicationum illius Ecclesiae septem annos indudgentiarum, & tot carenas & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissionem.  
Quas Indulgentias Beatus Siluester confirmavit, & in quadra gessima duplicantur, & sunt omni die xlviij. anni Indulgent. & tot carenae & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item quicunque continuaverit omninibus diebus dominicis vel quartis ferijs per integrum annum, liberat unam animam depaenis purgatorij qd promeruit Sanctus Laurencius martyr Christi, unde Continet hoc templum sanctorum corpora pura. A quibus auxilium, suppleri poscere cura. 
2 See here, we are taught to call upon the Saints for help. Some Catholics are so nice, and tender conscienced that they rhinke we must not pray to Saints for any thing, but only that they would pray to God and to Christ for us, but here we see that a man ought to pray to them for supply of all good things he wants, this is true Catholic religion, let some mince and distinguish it as nicely as they will.   
Cum Sixto jacet Laurencius igne crematus,  
Et prothomartir Stephanus Leuita beatus, Post hypolitus equorum Collo ligatus,  
Cum nutrice sua cum cuncta plebe suorum,  
Romanus miles trisona virgo quirella,  
Et quadraginta quas passio continet illa.  

Reliquiae Ecclesiae predicta.  
ITem in altari inferius requiescunt corpora Sanctorum Martirum Stephani & Laurencij, quicunque visitauerit sepulchrum corum & lapidem super quem Sanctus Laurencius positus fuerat qui etiam habetur a latere summi altaris habet seven mill Indulgent. & tot carenas, ac etiam terciae partis omnium peccatorum remissionem.  
Iten ibi est lapis cum quo Sanctus Stephanus lapidatus erat.    

CHAP. 10 Indulgences belonging to 
7 The seventh prinpall Church: the Church of Saint Laurence and Saint Stephen.  the Church of Saint Laurence.  
POpe Pellagius who Consecrated this Church, granted unto it that in the four times otherwise called the four Ember weeks of the year, and upon every of the feast days of Saint Steeven and Saint Laurence, and upon the days of the stations or dedications of this Church at all and every of these times, there should be seven years of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a man's sins.  
All these Indulgences Pope Silvester confirmed, 
1 Here is a great miracle and a mystery that may stop the mouths of all Heretics that say we have no true miracles, for here Pope Pelagius consecrated this Church and gave the Indulgences to it, and Silvester the Pope confirmed and doubled them, and yet Pelagius was not Pope till two hundred years after Silvester died. Let Lutherans or Caluinists show such miracles if they can.  & doubled them them in the time of lent: and granted further to the same Church, every day eight and forty years of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a man's sins.  
And further whosoever continued his devotion to this Church every Sunday, or every Wednesday through the year, he shall deliver one soul out of the pains of purgatory, and this is merited and procured by the holy Martyr of Christ St. Laurence. Whereupon this is witten in old latin verses, of this Church. This Church containeth the full and perfect bodies of many Saints, from whom see that thou have care to call for supply of help.  
Here lieth Sixtus and with him Laurence that was broiled in the fire,  
And Stephen the first Martyr, that blessed levity,  
Besides these Hippolytus that was pulled in pieces with horses,  
Together with his Nurse and all his people.  
Here lieth also a Roman soldier, and Crisona the Virgin.  
And Quirella and forty Martyrs more, who suffered the same time.  

Relics in the foresaid Church of Saint Laurence.  
IN the lower altar of that Church, do lie the bodies of the holy Martyrs, Saint Stephen and Saint Laurence. And whosoever shall visit their Sepulchre, and that stone whereupon Saint Laurence was laid, which lieth at the side of the high altar, hath seven thousand years of pardon and as many quarentens and remission of the third part of all his sins.  
There is also the stone with which Saint Stephen was stoned. 
3 Caluinists think that Stephen was stoned with many stones, because the Scripture saith. They stoned Stephen: But they may see here how they are deceived, for he was stoned with one, and that is to be seen in Rome, he that will go thither to see it is worthy to see it, and kiss it also: And see here the wisdom of the holy Roman Church who can find gain for herself, and make profit of the rope that tied Christ, the stone that stoned Stephen, and the sword that cut off Paul's head, they were not so hurtful to the parties, as they be beneficial to the present Church and City of Rome: So wise are these times, beyond the times of the Primitive Church, for we find not that they made any profit of these.      

CAP. 11.  

In Ecclesia Sancti Praxedis.  
ITem ibi est una Ecclesia quae vocatur Ecclesia Sancti Praxedis & est luxta Ecclesiam Beatae Mariae maioris situata, necnon Sangrome multoram sanctorum consecrata.  
Item in eadem Ecclesia habetur una Capella in qua est corpus Sancti Paschalis Papae primi illo nomine vocati.  
Item in eadem Ecclesia est una Capella quae vocatur hortus paradisi & sunt ibi duo millia & tricenta sanctorum Martirum corpora & quatuor decem corpora Sanctorum pontificum.  
Item in eadem capella est tercia pars illius collumpriae jesu Christi circa quam in domo pilati fuit flagellatus.  
Et in eadem capella omni die omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item in eadem capella non possunt intrare mulieres.   

CHAP. 11. In the Church of Saint Praxed. 
4 Thus we have heard the riches, and blessings, belonging to the seven great Churches in Rome. Now follow some other.   
furthermore there is a Church which is called the Church of Saint praxedes, seituated near unto the Church of Saint Marie the greater, and Saint Sangrome filled with the bodies of many Saints.  
Also in the same Church there is a Chapel, wherein is the body of Saint Paschall the Pope first of that name.  
There is also in the same Church another Chapel called the garden of Paradise, in it there be the bodies of two thousand and three hundredth holy Martyrs, and of fourteen holy Popes that were Saints. 
5 It is a matter that troubles many good devout Catholics to see that of the first forty Popes in the first four hundred years all almost were holy, and made Saints, but of a hundred Popes in this last five hundred years, there is not one Saint, nor scarce one that ever was held worthy: Caluinists they make a foul matter of this, and laugh loud at it, but good Catholics seeing they know not what to say to it, they are silent, and hope all is well, and for the matter do believe as the Church believes.   
Also in the same Chapel, there is the third part of that pillar at which our Lord jesus was whipped in Pilat's house.  
And in this Chapel there is every day to be had remission of all a man's sins.  
But into this Chapel women may not enter. 
6 It seems strange that still women may not come in the the holy places where remission of all sins is seeing the good natured courtesans of Rome, are so kind to the Clergy of Rome, that they bid them welcome, whether they come by day or by night: Or else belike women there, need not to go to these holy places for remission, for that the Priests, when they go from them, do give them absolution as part of their wages: I say as part for seeing the poor women do pay a rent to his holiness weekly, good reason they have some thing else, by which to raise their rents, and to live by their trade: But let these go: good Catholics do more wonder why honest and godly Matrons may not enter into those places, seeing Paul tells us that in Christ there is no difference betwixt Male and Female: But no matter what Saint Paul saith, that must not trouble the conscience of a good Catholic. He must consider what the Church delivers, and what the Pope teacheth, that must he hearken and trust unto, and not trouble his head further with Scripture matters, for that is very dangerous: But howsoever the dames of Rome may not go in, yet it is credibly hoped, that if our English Catholic Ladies would leave this heretical dunghill of England, and come themselves to the holy City of Rome, his holiness would be so favourable, and gracious to them, as to give them leave to enter into those most holy places: for great is the love that his holiness bears to our nation, for he loves our men, our women, nay for base things, he loves our silver and gold, and any thing that comes from thence: Oh that our Catholic Ladies would go thither.     

CAP. 12.  

Indulgentiae Beatae Mariae maioris.  
IN Ecclesia Beatae Mariae maioris ibi sunt omni die xlviij. anni Indulgent. & tot carenae & terciae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item in omnibus festivitatibus virginis Mariae & in Nativitate domini & in Resurrectione domini & in festo Laurencij sunt ibi mill anni Indulgent. Etiam in festo omnium Sanctorum est ibi omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item in festo assumptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis usque ad eius nativitatem sunt omni die xiv anni Indulgentiarum & tot carenae, & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio. Omnes istae Indulgentiae in quadragesima duplicantur.  

Reliquiae predicta Ecclesiae.  
ITem in summo altari requiescit corpus Sancti Mathai Apostoli & in alio altari a dextro latere corpus Sancti Hieronimi, & ibi sunt aliae multae reliquiae quiae in die paschae ostenduntur.  
Item ibi est cunabulum Christi.  
Item de ligno sanctae Crueis.  
Item de lact capillis ac vestimentis Beatae Mariae Virginis, & alia vestis in qua Sanctus Hieronimus celebravit missam.  
Item brachium sancti Lucae Euangelistae.  
Itam de reliquijs Sanctorum Cosmae & Damiani.  
Itaem brachium sancti Thomae Cantuarien. Martiris & de vestibus eiusdem.  
Item ibi est una Image Beatae Mariae Virginis facta per manus Beati Lucae.  
Item panniculus sanctissimi corporis Virginis Mariae quem filius eius Dominus noster jesus Christus nascendo secum adduxit & in illo velut in quodam pallio involutus qui in Tabernaculo argenteo lapidibus preciosis ornatus retinetur inclusus.  
Item de feno in quo iacuit jesus in presepio siti ortus.    

CHAP. 12. Indulgences belonging to the Church of Saint Marie the greater.  
IN the Church of Saint Marie the greater there be every day, eight and forty years of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a man's sins.  
Also upon all and every the feast days of Saint Marie and of the birth and resurrection of our Lord, and upon the feast day of Saint Laurence in all and every of these days there are to be had in this Church a thousand years of pardon, and upon the feast of all Saints there is full remission of all sins.  
Also in the feast of the assumption of our Lady and so from thence until the feast of her Nativity there are every day fourteen years of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a man's sins. And all these Indulgences, how many, or how great soever are doubled in Lent.  

Relics in the said Church.  
IN the high altar of that Church lieth the body of Saint Matthew the Apostle: and in another altar on the right side thereof, the body of Saint Hierome: and there be also many other relics, which are always showed openly to the people on Easter day.  
Also there is the Cradle that Christ lay in.  
Also some of the wood of the holy Cross.  
Also some of the milk, and of the hair, and of the apparel of the blessed Virgin Mary: there is also the vestment in which Saint Hieorme used to say Mass.  
Also there is an arm of Saint Luke the Evangelist.  
Also some of the relics of the holy Saints Cosmus and Damian.  
Furthermore there is in the same Church an arm of Saint Thomas the Martyr of Canterbury, and some of his raiment. 
7 See how his holiness loves the English nation, even so much as he makes great account of an arm of Thomas a Becket, who you know in England, is held a traitor.   
Moreover there is an Image of the blessed Virgin Marie, with Saint Luke took and made with his own hands.  
Also there is the very skin or pannikle that came out of the most holy body of the Virgin Mary, which her son jesus Christ our Lord, in his birth brought with him, from her, in which he was wrapped, as in a coat, 
8 Hear is a strange relic, for where as all women use to burn that skin as soon as the child is borne its marvelous that the Virgin Mary preserved hers: and if she would, it is strange how she could do it. But it is to be thought by all good Catholics, that some Angel took it, and laid it up safe till the time came that the holy father of Rome knew how to make profitable use of it which Christ himself that brought it into the world with him, nor his Apostles never knew.  and this pannickle is laid up and kept close in a silver Tabernacle or Cabinet set with many precious stones.  
Also there is some of that very hay itself, in which jesus lay in the Cratch or Manger when he was borne. 
9 Good Catholics must not doubt, but some of that hay was preserved, howsoever the Evangelists forgot to put it down.      

CAP. 13  

Indulgent. Ecclesiae Sanctae Mariae ro rocundae.  
ITem in Ecclesiae Sanctae Mariae Rotundae tercia Mensis Maij & in festo omnium sanctorum & in octavis assumptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis est ibi remissio omnium peccatorum & omnibus diebus quart, sunt ibi CCC anni Indulgent. & tot earenae & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.   

CHAP. 13 Indulgences belonging to the Church of Saint Mary the Round.  
IN the Church of Saint Mary the Round 
10 This is that Church which was once of old building to heathen jupiter: afterward Agrippa beautifying it, would have dedicated it to the honour of Augustus, but he refusing it, he consecrated it to Mars and Venus first, afterwards it was held to be the Temple of the great Mother of the gods, and consequently of all the gods, and was therefore called Pantheon, and so continued for more than six hundred years after Christ, and then Boniface obtained it of Phoca (the same holy man that killed his Master Mauritius, and was Emperor in his steed, and the same that gave the Romish Church to be the head and Mistress of all other in the world) and consecrated it to the holy Virgin, and to all Saints, see Marlianus his Topographia Romae, and Massonus de vitis pontificum.  upon the third day of the month of May, and on the feast of all Saints, and in the octaves of the assumption of blessed Mary the Virgin, there is remission of all sins: and every Wednesday in the year, there are three hundred years of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a man's sins. 
11 Every Wednesday 300 years, that is in the total every year, 15600 years of pardon: a fair Indulgence, and no marvel, for if any one Saints Church can give many years, then good reason that this should yield good store, which is now the Church of all Saints: But mark here the wisdom of the holy Roman Church, that makes these Indulgences grow due, not on the Tuesday, nor Friday lest it should be thought that they had been given to the honour or proceeded from the virtue of Mars or Venus, to whom that Temple was first consecrated, but on the Wednesday the day betwixt both.     

CAP. 14.  

Indulgent. Ecclesiae Mariae de Populo.  
IN Ecclesiae Sanctae Mariae de populo est etiam Imago quaedam Beatae Mariae Virginis per manus Sancti Lucae facta: Ibiest remissio omnium peccatorum in assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis.  
In eadem Ecclesia sunt omni die duo millia octingenta anni Indulgent. & mill CCCC xiv carenae quas confirmavit Papa Paschalis primus, & Bonifacius octanus & Gregorius nonus.  

Reliquiae illius Ecclesiae.  
PRimo est ibi umbiculus domini nostri & de lact Beatae Mariae Virginis.  
Item de ossibus Sancti Petri & Pauli.  
Item de ossibus Sancti Andreae Apostoli.  
Item de ossibus Beatae Mariae Magdalenae.  
Et de ossibus Beatorum Laurentij & Sixti.    

CHAP. 14. Indulgences belonging to the Church of Saint Marie of the People.  
IN the Church of Saint Marie of the People, so called, there is another picture of the blessed Marie the Virgin, made by the hands of Saint Luke the Evangelist. 
12 Catholics may see by his Gospel that Luke was an Evangelist, and they may learn in his Gospel, and elsewhere in the Scriptures, if they might so read them that he was a Physician, But that he was a picture drawer they should not have known, but out of this blessed book. Therefore a fire and faggot for the Caluinists, that would make us believe that all things needful for salvation are contained in the Scripture, for how should good devout Catholics have ever come to know this great point, had they been tied to the Scripture alone.  In this Church there is remission of all sins in the feast of the assumption of blessed Marie the Virgin.  
In the same Church there are every day two thousand and eight hundred years of pardon, 
13 Every day 2800 years of Indulgence, is more in the year than a million of years: oh Indulgence of all Indulgences: See what a bountiful Master our Lord God the Pope is.  and a thousand, four hundred and fourteen quarentens, all which, Pope Paschall the first confirmed, and after him Boniface the eight, and Gregory the ninth.  

The Relics of that Church.  
FIrst there is the Navel of our Lord that was cut in his birth. And there is some of the blessed Virgin Mary's milk.  
And some of the bones of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. 
14 Though it was said before that just half of all Peter & Paul's bones are in Peter's Church, and the other in Paul's, & yet must it not trouble the devout Catholic, to hear that some of their bones are in this Church also, let it suffice thee to believe, what the Church teacheth.   
And some of the bones of Saint Andrew the Apostle.  
And some of the bones of Saint Mary Magdalene.  
And some of the bones of Saint Laurence, and Saint Sixtus.     

CHAP. 15.  

ITem in Ecclesia Sancti jacobi est lapis super quem dominus noster jesus Christus fuit presentatus in templo & sunt ibi mill anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia Sancti Martini in montibus requiescit Sanctus Silvester, ibi sunt cottidie CCC anni Indulgent.  
Item juxta Sanctum Petrum est ager dei & sunt ibi omni die mill anni Indulgentiarum & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio. In quo agro Peregrini sepeliuntur quorum corpora post triduum non reperiuntur.  
Item ibi est unus lapis altus in cuius pinaculo est corpus julij Caesaris.  
Item in Ecclesia Sancti Petri in carcere est remissio tertiae partis omnium peccatorum & omni die CC anni Indulgent. quae omnibus vere penitentibus & confessis a summis pontificibus sunt concessae totiens quotiens quis causa devotionis sive peregrinationis visitauerit vel etiam suas eleemosinas erogaverit, relaxatur ab omnibus peccatis.  
Et ibi inferius est puteus sive fons qui miraculose apparuit dum Sanctus Petrus captus fuit Nerone Imperatore.  
Item in Ecclesia Sancta Agnetis sunt xlvi anni Indulgent.  
Et in festo illius CC anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Susannae uxoris Sancti Alexij CC anni Indugent.  
Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Katharinae CC anni Inaulgent.  
Et infesto eiusdem mill anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Felicitatis xl anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Lucy C anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Petronille mill anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Elizabe the C anni Indulgent. anni die.  
Item in Ecclesia Sainctae Clare C anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia sanctae Mineruae mill anni Indulgent.  
Item in Ecclesia sancti Iuliani scribitur sic.  
Noscant universi hanc paginam ininspectnri gratiam pietate dei & meritis sancti Iuliani omnibus fidelibus datam, praecipue si quis presumens iter arripere peregrinationis pro animabus patris & matris ad dictam Ecclesiam & cum devotione unum Pater noster & ave maria dixerit prosperum fine adversitate obtinebit hospicium.  

Reliquiae praedict. Ecclesiae.  
ITem primo est ibi de lact Mariae Virginis.  
Item ibi est mentum Beati juliani.  
Item de Crinibus Beati johannis Baptistae.  
Item de spina de Corona qua coronatus crat jesus. Item dentes Beatae Apolloniae.    

Of certain Indulgences and Relics, of diverse other Churches.  
IN the Church of Saint james there is the stone upon which our Lord jesus Christ was presented in the Temple, and at it there be a thousand years of pardon.  
Also in the Church of Saint Martin on the hill lieth Saint Silvester, and there be daily there three hundred years of pardon.  
Also not far from Saint Peter's Church there is a field called God's field, where there are every day a thousand years of pardon and remission of the third part of all a man's sins. In this field Pilgrims are buried, and their bodies after three days are found no more. 
15 Of this strange field read in the larger notes or comment.   
Also there is one stone of a great height, upon whose pinnacle or top, there is the body 
16 Hear is a holy relic indeed, namely the body of julius Caesar it is pity so great a Saint hath not a day in the Calendar, which many have that were never so well known as julius Caesar.  of julius Caesar.  
Also in the Church of Saint Peter at the prison, there is remission of the third part of all a man's sins: and every day two hundred years of pardon, all which are granted by divers Popes to such as shallbe truly penitent, and be confessed so oft as any man shall either for cause of devotion or of pilgrimage visit the said Church or else if he give his alms unto it: thus doing, he is released of all his sins.  
Also there a little below is a well which appeared and spange up miraculously when Saint Peter was laid hold of by Nero the Emperonr.  
Also in the Church of Saint Agnes there are six and forty years of pardon.  
And upon her feast day two hundred years.  
Also in the Church of Saint Susan, who was wife to Saint Alexius two hundred years of pardon.  
Also in the Church of Saint Katrine there are two hundred years of pardon.  
And upon her feast day a thousand years.  
Also in the Church of Saint Felicity are forty years of pardon.  
Also in the Church of Saint Lucy a hundred years of pardon.  
Also in the Church of Saint Petronilla a thousand years of pardon.  
Also in the Church of Saint Elizabeth a hundred years of pardon every day.  
Also in the Church of Saint Clare a hundred years of pardon.  
Also in the Church of Saint Mynerua a thousand years of pardon.  
Also in the Church of Saint julian it is thus written.  
Know all men whosoever shall look upon this chapter that by the goodness of God, and merits of Saint julian, grace and pardon is granted from God, to all faithful men. Especially if any man do undertake a journey of pilgrimage to this Church for the souls of his father and mother, and shall there say with devotion one Pater noster and one ave, he shall also be sure to obtain a prosperous journey, good lodging without danger of thieves or any other adversity. 
18 See what a sweet and comfortable thing it is to travel to Rome, when a man is sure by virtue of the Pope's Indulgence to escape thieves and all his journey long to be sure of good lodging: who that believes this would not travel to Rome?   

The Relics of the same Church.  
FIrst of all there is in this Church some of the milk of our Lady.  
Also there is Saint julians' beard.  
Also there is some of Saint john Baptists hair.  
Also some of the crown of thorns with which jesus Christ was crowned.  
Also some of the teeth of Saint Appollonie. 
19 And all these are so miraculously market, as they cannot be counterfeited, no, nor changed neither, but when it pleaseth his holiness, for the greater edification of his good Catholics.      

CAP. 16.  

ITem in Ecclesia sancti Euzebij & Vincentij CCC anni Indulgent. & ibi est brachium Beati Christopheri.  
Item in Ecclesia sancti Viti & Modesti & aliorum millium Martirum sunt omni die septem melle anni Indulgent. & tot carenae & tertiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item in Ecclesia sanctae Potentianae ibi est scampnum super quo Christus sedebat cum discipulis suis in cena ibi est mill Indulgent omni die.  
Item in Ecclesia sancti Anthonij ibi conceditur sextae partis omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item in Ecclesia Sancti Petri ad Vincula, ibi sunt Cathenae cum quibus Sanctus Petrus fuit Cathenatus quas portavit filius Theodotij de jerusalem. Quam Ecclesiam pellagius Papa primo die Augusti consecravit & remissionem omnium peccatorum ibidem concessit.  

Reliquiae quae sunt in Ecclesia quae vocatur ara Celi.  
ITem in Ecclesia fratrum minorum quae vocatur ara Caeli, ibi sunt vestigia Angeli in lapide stantis & Regina Caeli laetare cantantis in castello Sancti Angeli.  
Item in eadem Ecclesia est primum altare totius mundi confectum.  
Item dicitur quod Octavianus Imperator vidit circulum in Celo & ibi pulcherimam & gloriosissimam virginem Mariam super altare stantem & suis brachijs puerum tenentem qui ammiratus valde audivit vocem de caelo dicsentem & haec est ara caeli, filii dei qui statim procidens in terram adoravit Christum venturum.  
Haec visio facta fuit in camera Octaviani Imperatoris ubi ipsum primum Altare construxit.  
Et est ibi dominica dic & assumpsionis Beatae Mariae Virginis, omnium peccatorum remissio.  
Item est ibi una venerabilis Imago Mariae Virginis manibus Beati Lucae depicta. Quam venerabilem Imaginem Beatus Gregorius in processione portans tempore quo illa horribilis pestilentia fuerat Romae cum magna solemnitate: veniente processione prope Castellum Sancti Angeli, Angelus Marmoreus qui se inclinaverat sepe ad hanc venerabilem Imaginem Beatae Mariae Virginis, pluribus videntibus & audientibus, Regina caeli laetare, alle luia cantavit: Et composuit Beatus Gregorius. Ora pro nobis Deum Alleluia etc.    

CHAP. 16. Of Indulgences and Relics in divers other Churches.  
IN the Church of Saint Euzebius and Vincentius, there are three hundred years of pardon, and in that Church there is the arm of Saint Christopher.  
Also in the Church of Saint Vitus and Modestus, and of a thousand other Martyrs, there are every day seven thousand years of pardon, 
20 Here is yet one Indulgence greater than any of the former, 7000. years every day, which is in one year more than two millions of years: Oh how endless and infinite is the love of our holy father the Pope to his devout children.  and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of a man's sins.  
Also in the Church of Saint Potentiana, there is the stool, or bench, or form whereupon Christ sat at his last supper with his Disciples. 
21 For good reason seeing the table came the stool should come also.  In this Church there are every day a thousand years of pardon.  
Also in the Church of Saint Anthony there is granted remission of the sixth part of all a man's sins.  
Also in the Church of Saint Peter ad Vincula there be the Chains, with which Saint Peter was bound in prison which the son of Theodosius the Emperor did bring with him from jerusalem. 
22 But who kept these holy chains in jerusalem, all those four hundred years long, from Saint Peter's time to the days of Theodosius, the book tells us not: therefore let not good Catholics be too curious to inquire, this is not fit to be written, but let them go to Rome, and there they may learn it in private, for this is the wisdom of his holiness, and the holy fathers of the society, not to make all things plain by writing, that so they may invite devout Catholics to come to Rome, to ask what is not elsewhere revealed, that so in Rome they may be partakers of all the unvaluable riches of the Pope's treasure, and of the holiness of the pure Clergy, and of the virtue of the many precious relics that be there.  This Church did Pope Pellagius consecrate the first day of August and granted unto it full remission of all sins.  

Relics in the Church that is called Ara Caeli, or the altar of heaven.  
IN the Church of the friars Minors, which is called the Altar of Heaven, there be the footsteps of the Angel that stood upon the stone and sung (Regina Caeli laetare, or, rejoice the Queen of Heaven) in the Castle of Saint Angel. 
23 This is very likely, that Angels have so gross and heavy bodies, that they leave their footsteps in stones where they tread. But is not this a great miracle, that when the Angels sung Gloria in excelsis to God, they left no print behind them: But when they sung to the praise of a creature, than they made and left the impression of their footsteps.   
Also in the same Church there is the first altar that ever was made in the whole world.  
Concerning which altar, thus it is said that on a time Octavian the Emperor saw a Circle in the Heavens, and in the Circle the most beautiful and glorious Virgin Mary standing upon an Altar, & in her arms holding a child: The Emperor amazed at this sight, heard a voice, that said to him from Heaven, This is the Altar of Heaven, of God's Son. Octanian hearing this, instantly fell down upon the earth, and worshipped Christ to come.  
This vision was seen in the chamber of Octavian the Emperor, and in that chamber he built the first Altar. 
24 Must not this be an holy Altar that was made by so great a Saint as the Heathen Emperor Augustus? But if any ask how this can be the first Altar, when as we herd afore there is in Saint john's Church the Altar that Saint john Baptist said Mass on in the wilderness. Let not this trouble the good Catholic for is it not likely that Saint Octavian would send this his new made Altar to john Baptist from Rome? Yes verily as likely as that he made any.   
And at this Altar there is every Sunday and upon the assumption of our Lady the blessed Virgin, pardon and remission of all sins.  
Also there is a worshipful Image of Mary the Virgin painted by the hands of blessed Luke: 
25 See what good hap the holy Roman Church hath, that all the pictures she hath of the Virgin Mary were drawn by the hands of Saint Luke himself, but he forgot to tell us this when he wrote his Gospel, or rather he left it for the Pope to teach in aftertimes, when greater points are to be revealed then the Scripture teacheth, or then were fit for those times.  which worshipful Image, whilst blessed Gregory carried in procession with great solemnity, at that time when there was a horrible pestilence in Rome (that it was called the great plague) as the procession came near the Castle of Saint Angelo, the Angel of Marble, as often times before it had bowed itself to this venerable Image 
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Caluinists and Lutherans will not worship Images. But we see here that the Image of marble did worship the Image of our Lady. Is it not strange that a graven Image should bow to a painted Image? But such and so wonderful are the miracles in the holy Roman Church, and so deep are the mysteries of her piety.  
Away therefore to the fire with these cursed Heretics that will worship no images: More hard hearted are they then the Marble Angel which full devoutly bowed itself to the Venerable image. But no marvel though they be worse than marble, when it is apparent (as the jesuits have learnedly of late proved from France) that they be worse than the devil? For they deny purgatory, but the devils confess it; they say the Roman Church is not the true Church, but the devils dare swear it by all the faith and truth that is in them: Nay they have renounced God and their part in heaven, if the Roman Church be not the true Church: So far better are they then these Heretics; And therefore it is great marvel that some nice Catholics hold that we may not equivocate with these Heretics, nor delude them, nor deceive, nor oppress them, but that it must be called cruelty. For what can be hard or sharp enough, towards such beasts as are worse than devils, and harder hearted than marble stones: or what good Catholics care what they do to such base and vile Heretics: who it is certain are greater enemies to the Roman faith and Church, that now be, than the devil him: Let them therefore go as they be.  
But whereas some tender hearted Catholics, do here make a question how the marble Image was made strait again, when it had bowed itself, alas that they should be so scrupulous, for could not the holy Image as easily rear up itself again as it bowed itself down? Yes assuredly and I think the very Heretic will not deny it: Therefore that needs not to move you: But the other doubt I confess is of more difficulty, namely that a goodly graven Image should bow to an Image that was but painted, and the Image of an Angel to the Image of a woman, or to any but the Image of God.  
This is certainly some great mystery, I have asked of the holy fathers and priests that come thither of it, but they answer me diversely, and no marvel though the best wits differ in so dark and difficult, and deep a question: Therefore the best advise is that till his Holiness call another Council, if any man list to be resolved, Let him go to Rome, and repair to the Chair that cannot err: and besides an infallible resolution, he may happily find such excellent instructors, and such good examples there, as may make him, as devout, as holy, as tender hearted, as is the marble Image that stands at the gate of the Castle of Saint Angel.   of the blessed Virgin Mary, so now in the presence of many that saw & heard it, it sung out aloud, Alleluia & Regina caeli laetare, and thereupon Saint Gregory made the prayer. Ora pro nobis Deum Alleluia.     
FINIS.   

LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes, for George Norton, and are to be sold at his Shop near Temple-bar Gate. 1617.