The General Pardon, geuen longe agone, and sythe newly confyrmed, by our Almightie Father, with many large Priuileges, Grauntes, and Bulles graunted for euer, As it is to be seen here­after:

Drawne out of Frenche, into English.

By VVyllyam Hayvvard.

¶JMPRINTED at London, by VVyllyam Hovv, for VVyllyam Pickeringe.

The General Pardon.

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‘Alpha & omega Primus & Nouissimus Pontifex Maximus.Esa. 41. b. 44 b. Appo 1. b. 22. g.’

IESVS, our onely deare, and welbeloued Sonne by our e­uerlastinge and heauenly wil,Esa. 89. b Mat. 28. d Apo. 19. e. Phil. 2. b. Emperour of ye heauens, Kynge of all the Earthe, Prince of the Seas, Lorde and gouernour of Hell, and all infernall and deepe [Page] places, and generally of all the whole worlde: seeyng and per­ceuyng, the nomber of his people and subiectes to decrease day by day, by & through the continual Warres, that he heretofore hath had (& at this present still hath) aswell against the Turkes, [...] Pai­nims▪ and [...] Iewes, as also against the [...]e [...]s Papists unfaithfull Idolators [...] [...]orgers of sundry sectes (as Anabaptists Arians and Libertines) with al the rest of the rotten rable of his [...]ste greate [...] enemies, bothe to [...] Crowne [...] Law: He conside­ryng his [...] thus more & more to decay, if spedy and conuenient remedie were not had on his be­halfe, after that he had shewed forth with vnto vs, this his busy affayres: required vs here vpon to giue and graunt, a greate and vniuersall, generall, full, and free [Page] Pardon and remission, to al such persons, of what age, state, or condition so euer they be, that will enroule, & enter them selues into his bande, to serue him,Ebr. 4. c. Eph. 6.9. to cast forth of his landes and Ter­ritories, all suche kinde of people as resist his lawes and Decrees, as wel to conuince al such by the most sharpe and cutty sworde of liuely and forsible worde: as also (if neede requier) by the helpe of our seculer arme and Minister, our deputed liuetenant, I mean the Magistrate. Wee therefore consyderyng these thinges,Rom. 13.8 1 Pet. 2.1. and wholy desyringe in our mindes, the whole and entire augme [...] tion, and enlargement of the Re­almes of our dere & wel beloued sonne Iesus, and also to conti­new and holde sith the mutuall amite that was begon between vs, before the beginnyng of the [Page] worlde. And also more and more to encrease and further the same. Haue opned all the tresury of our heuenly Palace, to the furniture and setting forward of the same. Geuyng, ordaynyng, & suffering this our publike Pardon to be [...] to euery estate, and com­maunde by these [...] [...]s, to [...] and publi [...] [...] same through al the world, according to the Bull, by vs geuen hereaf­ter folowyng.

‘Alpha & Omega.’Esay. 14. b. 44 b. Apoca. 1. b. 22. e.
¶ The fyrst and the last of this name to all faythfull Christians, health and heauenly benediction. Amen.

WEe, knowing many great & hainous misorders and abuses to haue been doone, and yet dayly be done, in the Territories [Page] Landes and Lordeships of our welbeloued sonne Iesus:Mat. 3. d. 2. pet. 1. d. 2. pet. 2. a. Infi­dels, Idolatours, and peruers sects of perdition, vnder the sha­dow and sygne of Religion and holynesse, to the greate breche of his holy lawes and statutes, be­side the infinitelesse and [...] of his va [...]es [...] [...]ubiectes, of ou [...] great power and [...]ctoritee, and force, pe [...] to the same (as well in his owne Realms, as general­ly through the whole worlde) to cause to crie, and Proclamation to be made, to publishe to euery one this great and generall Bull and Pardon, by force of these pre­sentes, whereto wee wil that no lesse faith therto be ioigned, then such as is alowed by vs from the beginning.

Commaundynge further, on payne of Excommunication, and euerlastynge curse, all Preachers [Page] to whom our letters shal be offe­red:Deu. 11. b to reade the same, and open­lie to publishe and Preache our Decree amonge all people, and e­uery nation. Also to specifie to the hearers,Mar. 11. d. ye great Priuileges, pardons and Indulgences, that wee haue graunted for euer, to all suche as shall employ their la­bours to conuert others & them selues to be apte vasicles of the same right dere and welbeloued Sonne Iesus,Mat. 18. c. Mark. 1. b of whiche Priue­ledges, benefites, and Pardons the true tenour foloweth.

¶ Libertie to Reade the holy Bible in euery Language.

FIrst, all & euery person, what estate soeuer he be, which shall or will enrowle them, or be of the bande of our beloued sonne, shall and may lawfully haue in theyr [Page] houses, cary abrode with them, reade priuately or publikely, by day, by night, and at all times,Iosu. 1. b. 2. Tit. 3. d a booke called the Byble, contey­ning the Olde and New Testa­ment. And to haue the same as well in Frenche, Italian, Spa­nish, Hiealmayn, Duch, and En­glish, [...] as w [...] [...] or La [...]n.1. Cor. 14. So that it shall be fitte for euery nation to haue the same in his vulgar tongue, or in any other language, whiche he best vnderstandes, or wherein he hath most pleasure. All a [...] [...]ery fonde and abu [...] [...] [...]ing to haue, or reade the same, hereto­fore notwithstanding. For the forbiddynge to reade, to haue or to keepe the same Booke in any vulgar language, was doone by the diuelish deuise of diuers de­stroyers, by the perswasion of [Page] haynous Hypocrites, subtil sedu­cers, idel Idolaters, and peruers Papistes (as if wee should once haue willed onely to haue had our lawes red, and defended, & forbiden, to marke, or vnderstand the same) and therfore to signifie further, wee geue full & free Par­don of all syns remited or not re­mitted for seing that al such read not the holy booke in vayne, but that they rule their life & gouern themselues & theirs to the vtter­most of their powers, accordyng to the rules,Deut. 5. d Mar. 16. d Iofue. 1. & auctorites compri­sed in this saide booke, without bending either to the right hand or ye leaft: Casting apart all mens tradicions (touching the rule of soules) yea, what aparans of ho­lynes soeuer they haue, as well by doing of mirackels, as other wise,Mat. 2. b Gal. 1. a. b for wee do vtterly abhorre all the same: yet although our [Page] most cheefest seruan [...] [...] [...] sters medled there [...]

¶Authoritie to [...]

ALso euery pe [...] [...] truely and d [...] [...] shall admonish [...] the people to liue [...] tenor a [...] onely [...] [...] stitutions and [...] conteined in ye sa [...] [...] out aledging an [...] [...] in their prechyng [...] then such as by o [...] [...] [...] ment & wil, haue f [...] [...] [...] ten before the holy [...] [...] ture. All suche sh [...] [...] vertue of these pre [...] [...] [...] ly and without ga [...] [...] contradiction, go [...] [...] through the whol [...] [...] generall Pardon, [...] Gospell of our we [...] [...] Iesus, forbidding [...] [Page] [...] estate or condition [...] [...]emperish or hynder [...] [...]is their busynesse [...] [...]ery of them wyll [...] vs, at the day of [...] [...]s then, and there [...] our heauy disple­ [...] [...] to fine for theyr [...] [...]al reward them. [...] [...]sentes, wee wyll [...] [...]e, yt in all places, [...] shall so Preache [...], that they haue [...] to liue acordingly.

[...] [...]ose a Ghostly father.

[...] [...]se that heretofore [...], & by these lawes [...] bounde & constray­ [...] [...] [...]o confesse their sins [...] [...]r Monke, or seculer [...] [...]f them receyued, I [...] [...]hat peuish penitens [...] [...]olution, & shal here­after [Page] confesse their [...] to the same our S [...] [...] with true contrici [...] [...] fayth, that he al [...] [...] forgeuen and pat [...] [...] wil also keep the [...] [...] power, to return [...] more, or to doo v [...] [...] neighbour, but [...] ther selfe, forge [...] [...] hartes their spit [...] [...] consylynge then [...] charitably, and [...] wrongfull with [...] to the due owner [...] as thus do, shal [...] [...] [...] ly absolued. A P [...] [...]

¶Partisipation of t [...] [...] and all other his be [...] [...]

YEt they, and [...] shall be cont [...] [...] [...] tant in the [...] of in the article n [...] [...] [Page] [...] selues, in hart, in [...] [...]dede, to fulfill that [...] [...]en in the same (not [...] [...]edy and poore per­ [...] [...], nedy sicke, priso­ [...] [...] [...]es, and fatherles [...] [...]er indigent peo­ [...] [...] [...]uch as in perfect [...] [...]em selues at the [...], otherwise called [...] [...]nd there shal eat [...] [...]d shal drinke of [...] [...]kes geuing, euen [...] [...]r deare sonne Ie­ [...] [...] [...]ed to be done, in [...] [...]f him, & also since [...] [...]r faithful ambas­ [...] [...] [...]ath shewed, and [...] [...]e our auctorite, al [...] [...]o, shall be perta­ [...] [...] [...]enefits, and shall [...], and be fully and [...] of al their faultes [...] [...]ontrarywise wee [Page] publishe all thos [...] & out of our fauour [...] shall and vnworth [...] [...] sayd bread & drink [...] cup not haue exa [...] [...] [...] ued themselues [...] [...] cing vnto them [...] the same shall be [...] [...] ment and conde [...] [...] the text of the cō [...] [...] [...] seth, that wee ga [...] [...] [...] sioner Paule in t [...] [...]

Dispensation o [...] [...] and wh [...] [...]

FVrthermore, [...] person of wha [...] [...] he or thei be, [...] any vowe, be it o [...] [...] [...] uertye or obedien [...] [...] [...] mes de Compost [...] [...] to Rome, or Ier [...] [...] [...] ter into any oth [...] [...] or otherwyse, if [...] [Page] [...] [...]ill of good will in [...] and become in the [...] [...]t they can to serue [...] beloued sonne to ye [...] sayde) his reliue, [...] the rest of their [...] to the prescript [...] [...]yuing, contaynd [...] the Byble before [...] shall by dispen­ [...] [...] of all and euery [...] before sayde: & [...] [...]dons here aboue [...] [...]e freely geuen to [...]

[...] mens lawes [...] adicions.

[...] [...]s, Monkes Chan [...] [...]ystred, Hermits & [...] [...]lso al other kynde [...] [...]ich are agreued [...] [...]oures, Dirges & [...] day feastes, ceri­ [...] [...] and supersticions [Page] abstinence, and peui [...] [...] [...] ges and vayne viag [...] [...] as be not pleased v [...] [...] of Monasterus hal [...] [...] [...] ly paching, being f [...] [...] [...]esh & other meat [...] [...]ayes, tymes, & [...] [...]ut of the state of [...] a great fardle of ot [...] [...] and heauy burthe [...] [...] with the false Do [...] [...] Heretikes, and th [...] [...] [...] sers haue enioyne [...] [...] them selues not, to [...] them with any of [...] al such, I say, as w [...] [...] before shalbe fully d [...] [...] to leaue all those t [...] [...] truely wee our sel [...] [...] detest and abhore [...] that our aduersary [...] [...] nemy ye man of syn [...] [...] [...] dicion which hath [...] selfe aboue vs, [...] [Page] [...] them vpon his own [...] [...]t being willed to do [...] any of oure Secre­ [...] [...] [...]o neuer inclosed in [...] [...]uch orders of liuing [...] of our hie Courte [...] [...]ly, may appere by ye [...] that they haue [...] sayd booke, called [...] conteyneth no [...] [...]h rites: but rather [...] [...]dden straytly that [...] [...]esumteous to ad [...] [...]e there fro.

[...] of sinnes to the de­ [...] [...] [...]s of ymages.

[...] [...]wing the conquest [...] of the realme of our [...] sonne Iesus, eueri [...] shal geue comfort, [...] [...]auour to destroy & [...] [...]erly to abolish and [...] [...]ast down Aulters, [...] [...]ages and Idoles [Page] with the false proph [...] [...] [...] tes, & deceytfull de [...] [...] [...] ted: to the greate p [...] [...] [...] robry of ye honour a [...] [...] due to our beloued [...] & to the detriment [...] of his subiects. An [...] will not offer, n [...] [...] offre [...] hereafter [...] Wine F [...]s [...] [...] Also who so wil ue [...] [...] downe before the [...] [...] more kysse them, [...] [...] nes, Wod, or any o [...] [...] [...] monly called a Rel [...] [...] place here of, shal h [...] [...] [...] ship in spirit and tr [...] [...] king, our sonne Ies [...] [...] sake, and in his na [...] [...] come geue the sayd [...] (before vsed for the [...] Masses & yere min [...] [...] they filled their bel [...] [...] mayntenance of [...] [Page] [...] of poore howses to [...] [...]mfort of strangers, [...] [...]nd orphanes, sicke, [...] [...]res. Such as thus [...] which was abused [...] and fre forgeuenes [...] [...]ce, as in the yere of [...] [...]bily.

[...] paines of Purgatory.

[...] much as the thee­ [...] [...] say they be Shep­ [...] [...] [...]medle so farre, not [...] [...]e Marchandise of [...] [...]so of soules, & that [...] [...]kinge of Sathan, [...] transfygureth him [...] Angel of light) haue [...] made a Fier of Pur­ [...] [...] [...]straite way (for mo­ [...] [...] [...]nd wil finde remedy [...] [...]e same (that is to [...] [...]sses, with Dirges, [...] [...]ages, with Suf­frages, [Page] with publick [...] salted water (or hal [...] [...] terme it) and by o [...] [...] [...] ble meanes, falsely [...] our leaue or licence [...] practized: we ther [...] [...] these presents, yt t [...] [...] [...] gatorye bayn or l [...] [...] onely ye alone bl [...] [...] Iesus abouesay [...] [...] and by whom all [...] [...] fied, purged and [...] in very hart beleu [...] [...] they be so: furthe [...] [...] & frely deliuer all f [...] [...] from ye sayde fier [...] so that they had a [...] [...] [...] posed to haue bene [...] [...] yea also we restra [...] [...] hell fyer and infer [...] [...] that they dayly [...] true and lyuely f [...] [...] of our sonne befo [...] [...]

[...] Pardons geuen [...] [...]ut Money.

[...] [...]eretofore fals Per­ [...] [...] [...]es of Rome, haue [...] [...]se throw ye world, [...] [...]e, & yet are diuers [...] [...]ans, which haue [...] [...]r against, certain­ [...] [...] [...]t was but a mean [...] money, and a very [...], we therfore will [...] [...]d any thing, so yt [...] [...]on none disburse [...] [...]e (but to supply ye [...] [...]re and nedy, as it [...] [...]ticles aboue sayd) [...] [...]erlastyng curse to [...] [...]ur, sclander, or hin­ [...] [...] [...]on of this same.

[...] [...]poynted & chosen [...] [...]r handes ye Per­ [...] [...] [...]ysade shall begin [...] [...]ithin euery yere, [...] [...]oure that it shall [Page] please our soueraig [...] [...] call the subiects of [...] [...] sus Christ) to his f [...] [...] folow alwayes the [...] lastyng predestina [...] [...] from the begyning [...] of our bosum, & t [...] [...] shal induce world [...] two euerlastingly [...] [...]word [...] it is our vncha [...] [...] [...] uenly will. Not [...] [...] commanding all o [...] [...] [...] iectes vpon payne [...] displesure not to ab [...] [...] here vpon, nether [...] [...] contemne ye holy m [...] [...] hath pleased vs t [...] [...] here in as is ye holy [...] that is to say the S [...] [...] Baptym, and that [...] wherof we haue sp [...] [...] the good works of [...] [...] ning the loue due t [...] [...] your neybors, for if [...] [Page] [...] our grace, come to [...] [...]nne or to cast a side [...] [...]ns, he shall fele at [...] [...]ty and sad waight [...] [...]ce vpon him, and [...] now by profe how [...] [...]rrible it is to fal [...] [...] [...]es.

[...] [...]puted to receyue the [...] [...]ons is the onely [...] he of Iesus [...] Christe.

[...] PROCOPIA: [...] [...]stolus Iesu Christi. [...] [...]mothe. 2. d.

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