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HAE sunt Reli­quiae & Indul­gentiae septem ^a Ec­clesiarum principa­lium vrbis Roma­nae pro maiori parte, ^b necnon aliquarum aliarum Ecclesiarum Parochialium & Ca­pellarum.

Sanctus Siluester scribit in sua Cano­nica, ^c quod Romae fuerunt mille quin­gentaequin (que) Ecclesiae quarum maior pars nunc destructa est. ^d Et fuerunt ibidem quadringenta sexa­ginta [Page] septem Eccle­siae Parochiales pri­uilegiatae 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 priui­legiatae maióri gra­ria sanctitate & dignitate & magis omnium regales: In­quas prima & prin­cipalis dicitur Ec­clesia sancti Iohan­nis in Laterano quae [Page] est caput totius or­bis. ^f Item Ecclesia sancti Iohannis est dedicata in honore sancti Saluatoris, & sanctorū Iohan­nis Baptiste & E­uangelistae. Et sunt ibidem quotidie xlviii. anni indul­gentiarum & tot carenae & tertie partis omnium pec­catorum remissio. Item Papa Siluester & Papa Gregorius qui eandem Ecclesi­am consecrauerunt dederunt tot indul­gentias quot nemo numerare potest nisi solus Deus testante Papa Bonifacio qui dicit quod si homi­nes scirent indul­gencias Ecclesie san­cti Iohannis quot essent, non transi­rent ad sanctum Se­pulchrum in Ierusa­lem vltra mare vbi absolvuntur à poena [Page] & culpa: nam sic e­tiam absoluuntur in Ecclesia sancti Io­hannis predicta. I­tem dicit sanctus Bonifacius, qui de­uote venit ad oran­dum in die conse­crationis Saluatoris qui visibiliter ap­paruit omni populo Romano, cuius dies est nona die mensis Nouembris, & 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 or­dinaui, infunde in Ecclesiam tuam lar­gam benedictionem omnibus venienti­bus ad eam. Respon­dens sanctus Silue­ster [Page] [Page] dixit; Dominus Iesus Christus, qui te per suam miseri­cordiam sanauit, & mundauit; & 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 Eccle­siā consecrauit repa­ratā post demolitio­nē per hereticos, con­firmauit indulgētias predictas positas per beatum Siluestrum.

Item, Bonifacius Papa dixit; indul­gentias Ecclesiae La­teranensis nullus [Page] numerare potest ego tamen omnes confir­mo.

The same in English.

THese bee These be they that then were: namely some 300 years ago; since then little hath been alte­red but the better way: for if some haue been taken away, or spent, or lost, many more haue beene conuaied into their roomes, to the com­fortable vpholding of the Romane faith, as hee may see who will read Onuphrius and Villamont of this matter. for the most part the Reliques and Indulgences of the seuen principall Chur­ches of the Citie of Rome: as also of diuers other principall parish Chur­ches and Chappels of the same Cittie.

Saint Siluester in his Canonicall, writeth that in Rome there were a thousand fiue hundred & fiue Churches, which for the more part are now defaced. And there were in the same Cittie foure­hundred sixtie and seuen [Page] parish Churches, priui­ledged with grace Lo, is not Rome a holy Citty, and is not she to be called The Holy Mother Church, where the very Churches haue grace and holinesse? The religion of the Protestants can giue grace but to men, but the Catholicke Religion euen to Churches, nay shee hath holy bones, ho­ly stones, and holy ragges, & holy haire, and holy swords, and holy water, and holy earth, & holy milke, and all things in a word as holy as her­selfe. Therefore may not the Caluinists be ashamed to say, that she is not the holy Church? & holinesse: and these are called Churches Royall, because they were built by the Popes or by Emperours. In the high Altars of these Churches no man can Lawfully: By what law say the Cal­uinists? Not Gods cer­tainely: for if God command to say a Masse, the Masse is not onely lawful, but a good action: they therefore meane their owne law, and they doe well to confesse that their Masse stands by vertue of their owne Law. Thus they prate: but alas for these idle heretikes! as though Gods law and the Popes law were not all one: yes assuredly, as sure as the Pope is Gods vicar: onely there is one difference, that where Gods law is defectiue, the Popes law supplies it, & where it is imperfect the Popes law addes perfection to it: therfore though the Masse stand by the Popes law, yet stands it surely & safely enough. lawfully celebrate or say Masse, but onely the Pope him­selfe, or he to whom the Pope giues or grants li­cense in that behalfe. A­mongst all these Chur­ches there bee seuen Now there be 7. but in the old Prouincial, which I haue seen manuscript in a farre more ancient copy, there were but fiue: but the Pope addes & alters at his pleasure, and as he seeth it for his profit: and good reason, for he is Christs vicar, and may doe that Christ left vndone. that be priuiledged with more holinesse and grea­ter grace and dignity, and bee more royall then all the rest: of which seuen the first and principall is called the Church of Saint Iohn the Laterane which [Page] is the head of all the world. The first prin­cipall Church in ROME is the Church of Saint Iohn in the Late­rane. Also this Church of S^t Iohn is de­dicated in the honour of S^t Sauiour, and of S^t Iohn the Baptist, and S^t Iohn the Euangelist. In this Church of S^t Iohn Late­rane, there be daily and e­uery day eight and forty yeares Euery day 48 yeares. It is in a yeare more thē thir­ty thousand yeares. Oh how bountifull 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 mans sinnes. Remission of the third part: but what wil that helpe a man seeing one will con­demne him? Againe, see what a Vicar Christ hath, who can remit a third part, & keepe two thirds vn­remitted for another occasion, Christ did neuer so, but for gaue all or none. Thus prate the Heretikes: but let all good Ca­tholickes onely re­gard what the Church saith, no matter what Christ said or did. And further Pope Siluester, and Pope Gregory, who conse­crated the same Church, gaue and granted therun­to 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. Iohn, and how many they were, they would neuer goe so farre beyond the sea, as to the holy sepulcher in Ierusalem, All men may be­leeue there bee as many Indulgences in the one place as in the other, as it is very true that a blinde man sees as well at midnight as, at noone-day. but would spare so great a labour: for [Page] say that they be there ab­solued à poena & culpa (both from the punish­ment, yea and from the guilt & sin also) euen so are they likewise in the Church of S. Iohn afore­said. Likewise the same S. Boniface saith, that he cō ­ming deuoutly to the said Church to pray, vpon the day of the consecration of S. Sauiour, our Sauiour ap­peared Hueguenots & he­retickes thinke it a great matter that a Saint or an Angell should appeare to a a man or a woman, but here they may see that is no great matter in the Catho­licke Roman Church, when at one time, not an Angell nor a Saint, but Christ him­selfe appeares, & that not audibly, but visi­bly; and that not to the Pope, or a few, but to all the people of Rome. No maruell surely, though that be a holy Citie, where Reuelations are so common. And let no deuoute Catholicke doubt of this: for it's as certaine & true as that the host bleedes when it is pricked, or that a woman caried home an Host to charme withall; and when she could not worke her feat by it, threw it into the fire, but the Host spake to her, & said, Why wilt thou burne me? and leapt againe out of the fire into her lap. Vnbeleeuing Here­tickes will laugh at these, but good Ca­tholicks may as safe­ly beleeue the one as the other. visibly to all the people of Rome. And this day was the 9 day of the month of Nouember: and there is there vpon that day remission of all sins, which was obtained at the supplication of Con­stantine the Emperor. For (saith hee) after that Con­stantine the Emperor was healed of his leprosie, by receiuing holy Baptisme, he said to S. Siluester the Pope, holy Father, I haue ordained or consecrated my owne house to bee a Church, thou therfore in­fuse and powre vpon this [Page] [Page] Church thy plentifull blessings, for all that shall repaire and come vnto it. Hereunto S. Siluester an­swering, said, our Lord Ie­sus Christ, who of his own mercy hath healed thee, & cleansed thee from thy leprosie; cleanse & purifie from all their sins all that come to this place with­out mortall sinne This is most vn­doubtedly true, that whosoeuer comes to that Church, without mortall sin, shall ob­taine 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 mortall sin, and therefore by this grant none at all shal get any good, let them goe like busie heretickes as they are: for being Here­tickes they are not worthy to be censu­red but by fire and fagot. at what time of the yeare so euer they come to it. And we by the authority of S. Peter and S. Paul, and our owne, do remit & pardon them, and do grant vnto them remission of all their sinnes.

Likewise S. Gregory, who also consecrated this said Church after it was repai­red, hauing been defaced by Heretickes, confirmed all the aforesaid Indul­gences formerly founded by S. Siluester.

Moreouer, Boniface the Pope once said, The In­dulgences that are to bee had in the Church of La­terane [Page] no man can num­ber, Here againe the heretickes will laugh & say, that it is most true, they that are not at all cannot bee numbred, as no man can number or count the gold in a beggars purse, because there is none. But these shew themselues bold heretickes indeede, that dare suppose ho­ly Pope Boniface, es­pecially the 8. would aequiuocate. yet I confirme them euery one.

Reliquiae eiusdem Ecclesiae.

IN illa Ecclesia est quaedam Capella, quae vocatur Sacri­stia, ibi est Altare sancti Iohānis quod habuit in Deserto & ibi tabula super quam cenauit Chri­stus cum suis disci­pulis in cena Domi­ni.

Ibidem est testa­mentum vetus, sci­lieet, virga Moysi et archa foederis. Ista omnia apportaue­runt Titus & Ves­pasianus de Ierusa­lem cum quatuor columnis aeris, quae stant circa summum Altare, vbi sunt ca­pita [Page] 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 Diuino opere, co­ram omni populo Romano apparuit quinto Idus No­uembris. 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 quin (que) mil­lia hominum.

Item, tunica in­consutilis, quam fe­cit Maria virgo mater Domini no­stri Iesu 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 Iohannis Baptistae.

Item de puluere & cinere corporis e­ius combusti.

Item cilicium e­ius quod fuit de pel­libus Camelorum.

Item tunica san­cti Iohannis cum qua duos mortuos resuseitauit.

Item de Manna sepulturae Iohannis Baptistae, quod fuit [Page] inuentum in sepul­tura sua magna pul­la plena.

Item Imago Do­mini nostri Iesu Christi quam fecit Nichodemus sicut Iudei Christum per­cusserunt.

Item ibi est linte­um cum quo Christus pedes suorum Disci­pulorum tersit in coe­na Domini.

Item praeputium Domini Iesu Christi quod sibi abscissum fuerat in Circumci­sione Domini.

Item caput Zae­chariae Prophetae, & caput sancti Pancra­cij de quo sanguis e­manauit ad tres di­es quum Ecclesia La­teranensis combusta fuit.

Item stapula san­cti Laurentij.

Item vna Capsa plena reliquijs Ma­riae Magdalenae.

Item, sudarum Christi.

Item Cyphus ex quo sanctus Iohan­ne bibit venenum.

Item Camisia quam beata Maria virgo fecerat mhri­sto.

Item pannus ille quem beata Maria dedit filio suo pen­dente in cruce circa femur.

Item magna pars de cruce Domint.

Item duo dentes de sancto Petro.

Item in eadem Ecclesia est vna Ca­pella quae vocatur ad sancta sancto­rum: in quam muli­eres non intrant, & vbi est vna facies saluatoris quando fuit quatuor decem annorum.

Et ibi est omni­bus diebus remissio omnium peccatorum [Page] [Page] à poena & à culpa & circa eandem Capel­lam est vnus assen­sus triginta trium graduum quoties homo aliquis illos devote ascenderit de quolibet gradu habet mille annos Indulgentiarū, qui gradus apportati sunt de Ierusalem, quos etiam gradus Iesus ascendit ad Pilatum presidem.

Item Cathena cum qua venit sanctus Iohannes de Ephe­so Romam & for­pices cum quibus fu­it tonsus de manda­to Domitiani.

Item velum quod portauit beata Ma­ria in capite.

Item de arundine cum quo percusse­runt Christum in domo Pilati.

Item tabula ple­na [Page] de reliquijs Mar­tirum, Confessorum, atque virginum, & magna pars verae crucis.

Item, de vesti­mentis, lacte, capillis beatae Mariae virgi­nis.

Item, de capillis sancti Iohannis bap­tistae.

Item, iuxta lauae­crum omni die est remissio omnium peccatorum in quem locum non intrant mulieres.

Item, in Aula do­mini Papae sunt tria ostia & cuilibet in­tro eunti per vnum, & exeunti per ali­ud, concedūtur xliiij anni indulgentiae, & tot carenae. Et in parte orientali Ec­clesiae capitalis sunt tria ostia quae por­tata fuerunt de Ie­rusalem.

CHAP. 2. Of the Reliques in the said Church of La­terane.

IN this Church of the Laterane there is a cer­taine Chappell which is called the Sacrist, or the Vestry: in it there is S. Iohns Altar Here the Here­tickes may see how ancient Altars be, for as sure as this is true, Altars bee as old as since S. Iohn Baptist. Now whether this be that very Altar or no, & whether those vnder-named, be not the very Table that Christ supped at, and Moses his rod, & the right Arke of the co­uenant, Heretickes will make question, but good Catholicks will as firmely be­leeue it and more, then they will that the booke of the Re­uelation is Canonical Scripture. euen that very Altar which he had in the Wildernesse. And there is also that very Table vpon which Christ supped with his Disciples at his last supper.

In the same place is the old Testament, to wit, Mo­ses his rod, & the Arke of the Couenant. All these did Titus and Vespatian bring thither from Ierusa­lem, together with those 4 great brasen pillars which now stand about the high Altar, within which Altar are the heads of the blessed [Page] Apostles Peter and Paul. And when these heads be shewed vnto the people, then there are as many In­dulgences at that Church as there bee at S. Peters Church True, as many in the one place, as in the other. at the shew­ing of Veronica. Hee meanes a pi­cture of Christ, w^ch they say he gaue to a woman called Ve­ronica, in that hand­kercher which shee gaue Christ to wipe his face withall.

Also there is the Image or picture of our Lord, which was painted vpon the wall, not with mans hands, but by the Diuine worke of God, before all the people of Rome. Here is a picture that is worth spea­king of, which God himselfe painted. If the hereticke Calue­nists did beleeue that God made this Pi­cture, they would not be so earnest against Images. But they (poore soules) thinke that some of the cun­ning Clergy of Rome made it secretly in the night, or some way else conueighed it thither. And thus they wilfully cast a­way themselues, as though the holy Mo­ther Church of Rome would say this if it were not true. And this Image thus ap­peared vpon the 5. day of the Ides of Nouember. Also there are the golden Can­dlestickes that were in the first Tabernacle of the old Testament.

Also the Table wherein the Law was written with the finger of God. The Heretickes also will not beleeue that these be the true Tables wherein the Law was written, be­cause the Iewes that are in Rome in great abundance would by one meanes or other haue got them away, though it had cost them their liues: but no matter what Iewes or Heretickes say, as long as the Holy Mother Church tels vs these be they.

Also some of the 5 barley Loaues and two Fishes, with which fiue thousand men were fed by Christ.

Also the coate without seame which Mary the vir­gin and mother of our Lord made for Iesus her sonne.

And there is also the pur­ple garment that Mary made for her selfe.

Also there is some of the bloud and water that flo­wed out of CHRISTS side.

Also some of the ground where Christ stood when he ascended into Heauen.

Also some of the haire and of the bloud of S. Iohn Baptist.

And some of the dust & ashes of his body when it was burnt.

And the haire-cloath which hee ware, being of Camels skins.

There is also the Coate of S. Iohn the Euangelist, with which hee raised vp two dead men to life.

And there is some of the Manna of S. Iohn Baptist his Sepulchre, which was [Page] found in his graue euen a great pot full.

Also, there is an Image of our Lord Iesus Christ, which Nichodemus made as the Iewes were a bea­ting him. A very fit time to take a mans pi­cture when one is beating him. But it seemes Nichodemus was a very cunning painter.

Likewise, there is that very linnen cloath or to­well with which Christ wiped his Disciples feet (1) This fore-kin was missing many years, but it was found a­gaine (saith Onuphri­us) such good happe hath the holy Church of Rome, that if any reliques be stolne or lost, they are found againe in a short time, some are so bold to say, that o­thers are put in their roomes, but they prate like Hereticks. at his last supper.

There is also the fore­skinne of Iesus 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 bloud did streame forth for 3 dayes space when the Church of Laterane was burnt.

Also there are the bree­ches of S. Laurence. Was it not a strange thing, that when S. Laurence was broyled to death on the grid-iron, the fire that burnt his flesh and bones; would not touch his breeches. The Catholicke Ro­man Church is full of these miracles, let the Caluinists match them if they can.

Also, there is a Casket full of the Reliques of Ma­ry Magdalen.

Also Christs hand-ker­cher.

Also the Cuppe out of which S. Iohn drunke the poyson.

Also the shirt which the blessed virgin Mary made for Iesus.

Also that linnen cloath which the blessed virgin gaue vnto Iesus, about his thigh, as hee hung on the crosse.

There is also a great deale of the crosse it selfe our Lord died on.

Also two of Saint Pe­ters teeth.

Moreouer in the same Church there is another Chappell, which is called the sancta sanctorum, or ho­ly of holiest, whereinto wo­men may not enter. Not on the day time by any meanes least they should pol­lute it, but is not so on the night. In it is a picture of our Sa­uiour, that was taken when hee was foureteene yeares old.

And in that Chappell there is daily & euery day remission of all sins. If there bee re­mission of all sinnes there, why are wo­men excluded? be­cause they haue no sin? or because they need no remission, or they must not haue remission so lightly as men? Let euery good Catho­licke aske his Con­fessor this question. [Page] [Page] both à poena & culpae, from the punishment and the sinne also. Not farre from the same Chappell there is an ascent of three and thirty steps, and how oft soeuer any man shall de­uoutly ascend vp that lad­der, for euery step he hath a thousand yeares of par­don: so then the go­ing vp of these steps procures to a man three & thirty thou­sand yeares of par­don: oh what a boun­tifull Lady the holy Mother Church of Rome is! these steps were brought from Ierusalem, and be those very steppes which Christ ascended when hee went vp before Pilate the President, to his iudgement.

Also there is the chaine with which S. Iohn was bound when hee came from Ephesus to Rome, and the sheares with which he was polled at the cōman­dement of Domitian. There bee the sheares that polled him, but where is his haire? surely they were too blame to leaue the haire, that were so carefull to preserue the sheares, especially seeing they haue the haire of other Saints.

Also the virgin Maries vaile with which she vsed to couer her head.

And some of the Reede with which they smot Ie­sus in Pilats house.

And a Table full of the [Page] reliques of Martyrs, Con­fessors and virgins: and a great quantitie of the true Crosse. The Crosse on which Christ died, which Simon once bore, is multiplied by miracle. For an hun­dred yeares agoe, E­rasmus wrot, the grea­test ship in the world could not carry the peeces of it, that are kept, shewed, & wor­shipped in the holy Churches Roman, let the Heretickes shew such a miracle if they can.

And of the apparrell, milke and haire of blessed Mary the virgin.

And of the haire of Saint Iohn Baptist.

Moreouer, in the place where the Font is, there is euery day remission of all sins to be had. But as for women, they may not en­ter into that place. Poore women of Rome, what haue 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 bee three doores, and to euery one that enters in at one door, & goeth out at ano­ther Here is an easie peece of penance in­deed: hee that will not go in at onedoor, and out at another for 44 yeares of par­don, surely he is vn­worthy of them: so what an easie, sweet, and comfortable re­ligion the Catholick Romish? what can be lesse required of a man then this: hee will not doe this will do nothing. are granted foure and forty years of pardon, and as many quarantanes. And in the East side of the principall Church of La­terane, there be 3 doores which were brought thi­ther from Ierusalem.

De Reliquijs Eccle­siae Sancti Pe­tri.

SCiendum quod in vrbe Romana ia­cent octo copora san­ctorum Apostolorum ab invicem separa­ta.

Primo in Ecclesia Sancti Petri est me­dietas sancti Pauli, & medietas sancti Petri, quorum corpo­ra fuerunt inuenta in vno tumulo, & dubitatio erat quae e­rant ossa sancti Pe­tri, & quae erant ossa sancti Pauli, ideo ponderauerunt di­cta ossa in duas par­tes aequales mitten­tes medietatem v­nam in Ecclesiam sancti Petri, alte­ram in Ecclesiam sancti Pauli, sub maioribus altaribus [Page] dictarum Ecclesiarū.

In Ecclesia sancti Petri iacent corpora sanctorum Apostolo­rum Simonis, Iudae, sācti 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 prin­cipall Church, S. Peters in the Va­ticane. and first of the Reliques in that Church.

IT is to be knowne, that in the Citie of Rome there lye the bodies of eight of the Apostles Is not therefore the Church of Rome worthiliy called, The Apostolicall Seate, who hath still 8 of the A­postles lying as afore she had 2 of them li­uing there. Hereticks doubt of both, but certainely one is as true as the other. seuered one from another.

And first of all, in the Church of Saint Peter, there is the halfe of Saint Paul, and the halfe of S. Peter, whose bodies were found together in one graue: and for that it was doubted, whether was S. Peters, and whether S. Pauls bones, therfore they weighed the said bones, & by weight diuided them into two equall parts See how equally and iustly the holy mother Church of Rome deales in all her actions: heretickes babble and say, that she loues to diuide kingdomes and prin­cipalities of another fashion. They may say what they will, but here it's plaine, that when it comes to a question about dead bones, there was neuer a more e­quall diuision then here she made. and sent the one halfe of the whole to the Church of Saint oeeter, and the o­ther to S. Paules, and laid them vnder the high Al­tars of the said Chur­ches.

In the same Church of S. Peter lie the bodies of the holy Apostles Simon and Iude, 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 bee num­bred: and there is also the head of Saint Luke the E­uangelist.

Istae sunt Indulgen­tiae Ecclesiae suncti Petri.

ITem, anno Domi­ni millesimo tri­centesimo septua­gesimo primo, Papa Siluester assignauit in Canonica sua quod in omni Eccle­sia parochiali Cathe­drali vrbis Romanae, [Page] scilicet, ad Ecclesiam beati Petri Aposto­li, & ad Ecclesiam beati Pauli, ad Ec­clesiam beati Iohan­nis in Laterano, & ad Ecclesiam beatae Mariae maior is, vni­cuique 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 de­uote ascenderit vel descenderit sine pec­cato mortali, toti­ens sibi relaxantur de quolibet gradu septem anni indul­gentiarum à Papae [Page] Alexandro depeni­tentijs Iniunctis.

Item in dicta Ec­sia sunt septem (par­ce precor Prisciane) centum & quinque altaria; quotiens ali­quis homo illa vi­sitauerit deuote 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 omniū peccatorū remissio.

Et ex istis alta­ribus sunt septem altaria pra alijs pri­uilegiata maiori gratia, sanctitate, & dignitate.

In prime alta­ri est sudarium, Domini nostri su­per quo monstra­tur facies Christi. Et quādo cadē facies [Page] Christi monstratur. Tunc Romani ha­bent septem millia annorum de Indul­gent. & tot care­nas & alij circum quaque habitantes habent nouem mil­lia annorum, & tot carenas, venientes autem vltra mare, siue 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 iuxta sepulchrum eius.

Quintum altare beati leonis Papae v­bi in missa recepit visum.

Sextum altare Apostolorum Simo­nis & Iudae.

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 vsque ad kalendas Augu­sti [Page] sunt omni die xiiii. anni Indul­gent. durant istae Indulgentiae per octauas 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 festiuita­tibus Beati Petri & Pauli. Et in omnibus festiuita­tibus Beatae Mariae Virginis sunt ibi Mille anni Indul­gent. & tot carenae.

Item in die as­censionis Domini sunt ibi mille anni Indulgent. & tot carenae. & tertiae partis omnium pec­catorum remissio.

CHAP. 4 Of the Indulgences belon­ging to Saint Peters Church.

IN the yeare of our Lord one thousand three hundred seuentie one (3) Pope Siluester in his Ca­nonicall Bull, assigned and granted, that in euery pa­rochiall or Cathedrall Church in the Citie of Rome; as namely, to the [Page] Church of Saint Peter the Apostle, & to the Church of blessed Paul, to the Church of Saint Iohn in the Laterane, and to the Church of blessed Mary the greater, to euery man that should enter into any one of the foresaid holy Churches, whensoeuer, how oft soeuer, and what time of the yeare soeuer they come, seuen and for­ty yeares of pardon 47 yeares of par­don for each time a man enters into any one of these Chur­ches: O wicked Lu­therans to charge the Church of Rome with couetousnesse. See what a bountifull & liberall Lady shee is to her followers, who would not trudge from France or Eng­land to Rome, for such vocall rewards? If the Lutherans be­leeued this, surely they would come to Rome also. But as for the next indulgence. or releasement of their en­ioyned penances, and as many quarantens, and re­mission of the third part of all their sinnes.

Also in the same Church there is an ascent consi­sting of nine and twentie steppes, which whosoeuer shall ascend, or descend deuoutly, without mortall sinne that whosoeuer goes vp or downe these steps without mortall sinne, shall haue seuen yeares pardon, they beleeue that to be very true; but they say that clause, Without mor­tall sinne, was wisely put in, and to good purpose. so oft as he doth it, he shall receiue for eue­ry step 7 yeares of pardon, or shall bee released of so much of his penances en­ioyned [Page] and this is graun­ted by Pope Alexander.

Moreouer in the same Church there be seauen hundred and fiue altars Oh base & beg­gerly Balaam that had but his 7 altars. But here the glori­ous Church of Rome hath 700 in one Church: Balaam may certainely be abasht and hide his face: But who would not pitty the poore Cal­uinists and Luthe­rans, come in to one of their Churches & you shall finde a poore Pulpit and a plain Cōmunion ta­ble, whereas here you finde 20. 30. 50. 100. altars in a Church, besides ma­ny pretious relicks, & many rich Copes and Vestments, and goodly gilded Ima­ges, whereof some can weepe and laugh and speake, & moue, and some are appa­reled most costly. Who would not leaue that beggerly religion & embrace this rich, roiall, and stately Religion of Rome. which how oftsoeuer any man shall deuoutly vi­sit so often there be gran­ted vnto him for euery altar seuen yeares of par­don, also at euery one of these altars when the feast of Saint Peter is kept, there be eighteene yeares of pardon, and as manie Quarantens. And remis­sion of the third part of all sinnes.

Amongst all these al­tars there be seuen which are priuiledged with greater grace, holinesse and dignitie then all the rest.

In the first Altar is the handkercher This handker­cher the good Lady Veronica as Christ came by her doore carying his Crosse, gaue him to wipe his face, who laying it on his face fourthwith gaue it her againe with the picture of his face in it, which is now euery yeare shewed and scene with great deuotion. The Caluinists prate that there is no good history to war­rant this, and say fur­ther, that if Christ had left any such monument behinde him, some of the E­uangelists would haue put it downe, who haue not omit­ted lesser matters: and they say that twenty to one this is made by art, and hath beene often trimmed, but not a pin matter what they say, for they be here­tikes. of our Lord, wherein is to bee seene the picture or face of Christ, which whenso­euer it is shewed to the [Page] people, then al the people of Rome, haue seauen thousand yeares of par­don, and as many quaran­tens. And all people dwel­ling abroad out of Rome haue nine thousand yeres of pardon, and as many quarantens. But as for them which to see this sight, doe come from be­yond the seas, or from be­yond the hills, they haue twelue thousand yeares of pardon, and as many quarantens. And remissi­on of the third part of all their sinnes.

The second altar is the altar of the blessed Virgin Marie.

The third is Saint An­drewes altar.

The fourth is the altar of Saint Gregorie the Pope ouer against his Sepul­cher.

The fifth is the altar of Saint Leo the Pope stan­ding in the place where himselfe once said Masse [Page] at which Masse he being blind receiued his sight.

The sixt is the altar of the two Apostles Simon and Iude.

The seuenth and last of these principall and pri­uileged altars is, the altar of the holie Crosse wher­unto women It is deliuered & held for a truth that a woman (namely Helen, Constantines mother) first found the Crosse, yet now wemen may not ap­proach to the altar of the Crosse: See what holy and deepe and secret mysteries are in the Roman religion. may not approach.

At euery one of these altars there are euery day seauen yeares of pardon.

Also Gregorie the Pope gaue and graunted to the high altar of this Church, that there should be at it Indulgence and pardon of sinnes forgotten and vowes broken, and of all offences to father and mother, sauing the laying of violent hands vpon them, to these he granted eight and twenty yeares of pardon, and as manie quarantens. And why doe the Heretikes carpe at this, that the Popes holinesse pardons them that abuse their father and mother: for did nor the Pha­rises the like. Math. 15. 5. 6. and hath not his holinesse the like or more power then the Pharisezes had?

Moreouer from the As­sention of our Lord to the Ides of August, there bee [Page] euery day in that Church foureteene yeares of par­don, and this pardon of Indulgence Why this time is more blessed then the rest, Heretikes curiously doe cauill, and say that by the Law wee are forbid­den to regard times. But doe not they know that his Holi­nesse is free from all Lawes? doth al­so last and is of force in and through the Octaues of Saint Martine the Bi­shop.

There bee also many more indulgences as the Chronickles doe record belonging to this Church euen so many as are past numbring, but in the time of lent how manie soeuer they be, they be all doub­led. Oh glorious Roman Church that hath so many Indul­gēces in one Church for her children as are past numbring. But behold a grea­ter wonder. In Lent these be all dubled? So then out of Lent they be innumera­ble, and in Lent in­numerable are dub­led. How many then be these Indulgences in Lent, let all these idle Heretikes and curious Caluinists tell if they can.

Now this Church was dedicated by Saint Silue­ster, vpon the feast day of Saint Martine, vpon which day there is to bee had in the Church full re­mission of all sinnes. And in all and euery of the feasts of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and of the blessed Virgin Marie there be in this Church a thousand yeares of par­don, and as many quaren­tens.

Also vpon the feast day of the Ascension of our Lord, there bee in this Church a thousand years of pardon as many qua­rantens, and remission of the third part of all sins. Vpon Saint Martins day there is remission of all sins in this Church, then what needs the third part bee left to an other day: Againe why should Saint Martins day yeild remission of all, and the day of Christs as­cension but a third: these bee questions fit for Heretikes to make, not Catho­lickes.

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 festiuitatibus Sancti Pauli, mille anni Indulgent. & in conuersione eius cen­tum anni.

Item in octauo Sancti Martini fu­it ist Ecclesia de­dicata a Beato Sil­uestro [Page] papa. Et tunc est ibi omnium peccatorum remis­sio.

Item in festo Inno­centium sunt ibi xlviii. anni Indul­gent. Itē in dedica­tione viii mille anni Indulgent. & durat per octo dies post festum Sancti Martini.

Item qui conti­nuauerit visit are omnibus diebus do­minicis praedictam Ecclesiam per in­tegrum annum ha­beret tot Indulgen­tias ac si iret ad Sanctum Iacobum.

CHAP. 5 Of the Indulgences of the Church of Saint Paul.

IN the Church of Saint 3 The three principall Church, the Church of Saint Paul. Paul without the wales of Rome, there are euery day eighteene yeares of pardon, and as many qua­rantens, and remission of the third part of all sins.

Also in euery feastday of Saint Paul, there bee a thousand yeares of par­don, and vpon the day of his conuersion one hun­dred yeares. Why vpon other feast daies of Saint Paul should bee a thousand yeares, and on the day of his Conuersion, being the chiefe of all, but a hundred is cer­tainely a very Mis­tery of Roman faith, the Protestāts doubt lesse canot attaine to it.

This Church was dedi­cated by Saint Siluester the Pope in the Octaues of the feast day of Saint [Page] Martine vpon which day there is to be had in that Church full remission of all sinnes.

Moreouer vpon the feast day of the Innocents there be eight and fortie yeares of pardon. This is also a deepe mystery, why 48 yeares and not full 50. And vpon the day of the dedication of this Church there bee eight thousand yeares of pardon. Euery day there be 18 yeares, that is in a yeare, 6000. and here bee 8000 on one day: (summa tot 14000 yeares) let the Caluinists in Eng­land shew as much of their Saint Pauls Church if they can. And this Dedication lasteth eight daies after the feast of Saint Martine.

Moreouer whosoeuer shall continue to visite the said Church euery Sunday for one whole yeare Who would not be at cost to goe to Rome, and there take vp his lodging for a whole yeare to enioy so great a re­ward? shall haue as ma­indulgences, as if hee went vnto Saint Iames in Spaine. The Heretikes cannot deny but this is most true: but they haue a ma­licious and hereti­call meaning, name­ly that there is none in neither place.

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 intraue­rit, & me puro corde visitauerit, ab in­fernali incendio li­berabitur.

Scribitur etiam in cronicis, quod cui­libet visitanti quo­tidie dictā Ecclesiā pro quolibet die qua eandem visitauerit mille anni Indul­gent. & quadragin­anni Indulgent. & remissio tertiae par­tis omnium pecca­torum, [Page] & tot care­nae. Et omnes pre­dictae Indulgentiae duplicantur in ad­uentu 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 & reuerentiam glorio­sissimae Virginis Mariae Genetricis dei missam celebra­uerit, vnam ani­mam meritis & in tercessionibus eius­dem Virginis Ma­riae de paenis purga­torij liberabit.

CHAP. 6 4 The fouth principall Church, the Church of our Lady. Of the Church of Saint Marie of the An­nunciation.

FVrthermore it is thus written in the place a­foresaid, that the most blessed Virgin Marie ap­peered to a certaine Frier of the said Church atten­ded with a great multi­tude of Angels, and said vnto him euery man truely confessed and con­trite, which shall euter in­to this Church, and vi­site me with a pure heart shalbe deliuered from the fire of hell. The Heretikes say that certainely this is but a tale, for the Virgin Mary (say they) would not take vpon her to deliuer any out of hell, nor purgatory by her owne merits as it is here said, and if shee could, she would not tie it to such a con­dition as the visiting of that Church, be­cause then the poore soules that dwell in far countries could neuer receiue good by it, thus these shamelesse hereticks dare argue against it that the holy Church teacheth, are not they worthi­y condemned?

It is also written in the Chronickles, that who­soeuer shall daily visit this said Church, shall haue for euery day wherein hee shall so visite it a thou­sand and fortie yeares of pardon So that then to visit that Church e­uery day for one yeare, a man shall obtaine 38000 yeres of pardon: come, come all good Ca­tholicks, let vs goe leaue this cursed country of England, and goe dwell at Rome, where we shal be receiued, enter­tained and inriched with such bountifull blessings. together with remission of third part of all his sinnes and as ma­ny quarentens &c. And [Page] 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 sinnes to bee had in that Church, graunted by our most ho­lie Lord Pope Boniface.

Whosoeuer also shall celebrate Masse in the said Church in the honour and reuerence of the most glorious Virgin Marie, mother of God, shall through the merites and intercessions of the said Virgin Marie deliuer one soule out the paines of Purgatorie. See what a bles­sed thing it is to be a Priest in Rome, whē a man may euery day at his pleasure deliuer a soule our of Purgatory: is it therefore any mar­uel if so many of our fine wits and hope­full young men doe runne to Rome, and become Priests? No surely, but the won­der is that if they be­leeue this, they will come againe into England, where they may sooner send themselues to hell, then deliuer a soule out of Purgatory.

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 vsque ad Kalendas Au­gusti sunt omni die mille 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, vbi solebant se ab scon­dere Sancti dei Martires quando persequebantur a Romanis. Et ibi sunt tot Indulgētiae [Page] quot nemo numera­re potest nisi solus Deus.

Item ibi est pu­teus in quo corpo­ra Sanctorum Petri & Pauli per centum annos iacuerunt an­tequam fuerunt in­uenta & sunt ibi CCC anni Indul­gent.

Item in eadem Ecclesia est adhuc vnus puteus situa­tus modicum extra Ecclesiam: ibi requi­escunt quadraginta septem pontifices, dantes vnusquis­que suam Indulgen­tiam, tantam quan­tam [Page] potuerunt.

Item in dicta Ecclesia est tanta Indulgentia, quanta in Ecclesia Sancti Petri Apostoli.

CHAP. 7 5 The fifth principall and Patriarchall Church; namely of Saint Sebastian. Of the Indulgences belong­ing to the Church of Saint Sebastian.

IT is registred in the (1) The presumptu­ous Caluinists say this is a foule stin­king lie. For an An­gel, say they would neuer tell a lie, but to say that in any Church in Rome, or any place on earth is or can be euerlast­ing light, and with­out end, is not onely false but plaine Atheisme and inti­mates that the world shall neuer haue end: Oh shamelesse heretikes that dare call in question the sayings or doings of the Pope, as though his holinesse can ei­ther speake ought but truth, or doe ought but good: So there haue beene some heretofore like to these Caluinists that durst be so bold with the Popes, as to bring them vnder censure, accusing Liberius for an Arrian condemning Honorius for a Monothelite, and them, and Iohn the 22 for heretikes, as did the sixth generall Councell, and Occham, and many more, but what got they? some of them are con­demned and all of them reproued for their labour by the Popes holinesse, as be also the Caluinists, who were pronounced heretikes in the Councell of Trent, and ex­communicate euery passion weeke in Bulla Caenae, and therefore no matter what they obiect. Church of Saint Seba­stian, that an Angell of the Lord appeared in that Church to Saint Gregory as he was a saying Masse at the Altar of Saint Se­bastian the Martir, and said to him these words. In this place there is true remission of all sinnes, brightnesse and light euer lasting, ioy and gladnesse without end. This Indul­gence did Saint Sebastian merit to the Church, and thereupon that glorious Pope did grant and rati­fie it.

Also vpon euery first Sunday or Lords day of the Month of May, there is in the same Church re­mission of all sinnes.

Likewise from the as­cension of our Lord, vn­till the Kalends of August, there be for euery day, in that Church a thousand yeares of pardon, and as many quarantens, and re­mission of the third part of all a mans sinnes.

And moreouer, all the yeare long, there is dai­ly and for euery day sea­uen and forty yeares of pardon, and as many qua­rantens.

Furthermore in the Church, there is a cer­taine Vault, or hollow passage vnder the earth, and it is called the Church-yard of Saint Calixtus the Pope: In this the holy Martires of God in times past vsed to hide themselues, when they were persecuted by the Romans: & to this Vault [Page] there doe belong so ma­ny Indulgences and par­dons as none can number but onely God. Seeing there belongs to that vault, so many Indul­gences, it seemes that our holy fa­thers, the Abbots of England held vaults to be very holy pla­ces, and therefore it was (doubtlesse) that they made at so ma­ny Abbaies, vaults vnder the ground, leading from the Abbay to the Nun­nery, which was ne­uer very far off, that so the Nuns might meete the Friers & get their part of these blessed Indul­gences: Many of these holy vaults are yet to bee seene in England to the shame and confuta­tion of the Calui­nists: And though those vaults haue beene deerely loued of the Romish Cler­gy, and so are still where they yet be, and are therefore partakers of the Popes Indulgences, which made the Nunnes frequent them so willingly: yet was there one vault in England which was of greater value and ex­pectation then all these, and which (if the pouder there laid by those deuout and zealous Catholickes had blowne vp the heretikes according to the minde and de­sire of them that laid it, and the hope of his holinesse, and the Iesuites) should cer­tainely haue had as many blessings and Indulgences bestowed on it, as the bottom­lesse treasure of the holy Roman Church could haue affoorded. But that worke was too good to prosper as some of themselues 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 laie hid for an hun­dreth yeares before they were found, and at this hole there are three hun­dreth yeares of pardon.

Likewise in the same Church there is yet a pit or hole, scituate a little without the Church, and therein doe rest the bo­dies of seauen and for­tie Popes, euery one whereof graunted to this Church Indulgen­ces, as great and ample as [Page] 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.

Indulgentiae Eccle­clesiae sancti Tho­mae Apo­stoli.

IN Ecclesia eius scribitur quoti­enscunque homo vi­sitauerit, illam Ec­clesiam videlicet manus ponendo adiutrices ad su­stentationem Pau­perum & liberatio­nem Captiuorum in sancta terra incar­ceratorum; in Ec­clesia [Page] 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 vt permitti­tur predictam Ec­clesiam visitanti.

Item summi tres pontifices viz. Alex­ander, Inocentius & Vrbanus quili­bet eorum concessit septimam partem anni & omnium peccatorum remissi­onem & vnum an­num & quadragin­ta dies plenamque participationem om­nium stationum & dedicationum Ro­munae Ecclesiae quae [Page] facit xlix. annorum Indulgent. & tot Carenas. Ac etiam participationē terrae Sanctae vbi Indul­gentiae mirabiles conceduntur.

CHAP. 8 Indulgences belonging to the Church of Saint Thomas the A­postle. This Church though it beare the name of one of the Apostles, yet is it none of the seauen principall and Pa­triarchall, because as Onuphrius freely tells vs, those Churches are most dignified by the Pope, which he gaines most by: and hee gaines most by them that are in the way betwixt the great Churches of Saint Iohn Laterane, Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there­fore Saint Sebastians is one which stands in the way betwixt Saint Pauls, 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 soeuer any man shall vi­site that Church, putting to his helping hand for the sustentation of the poore, or for the redee­ming and deliuerance of captiues imprisoned in the holy land, so oft there bee in that Church, [Page] which is consecrated to the honour of Saint Mi­chael the Archangell and Saint Thomas the Apo­stle, three thousand yeares of pardon, gran­ted thereunto by diuerse Popes. And for xl. daies long, vowes that be bro­ken, and offences against father and mother, ex­cepting laying violent hands vpon them, Still the here­tikes prate and say that the Pope for­giues the offences committed against father and mother: poore fooles why should he not, is not he the father of fa­thers and supreme father of vs all, good reason then that he ouerrule our fathers and mothers, and those that please his holinesse, let them not care though they displease father mother, master, mi­stresse, nay Prince or Soueraigne, for hee can and will re­lease the punishment as well as he can for­giue the fault. are three released to him that shall visite the Church as is aforesaid.

Moreouer three chiefe Bishops or Popes, as namely Alexander, Inno­centius and Vrbanus, euery of them gaue and gran­ted thereunto, the sea­uenth part of the yeare, and remission of all sinnes and one yeare Its very hard to know the meaning of these bountifull Indulgences, they are so many that wee may say Copia ipsa nocet: therefore de­uout Cathikes that desire to know them distinctly, had best goe to Rome, and there they may both know them and haue them. and forty daies, and full par­ticipation of all stations and dedications of the Roman Church which make vp nine and fortie yeares of pardon, and as [Page] many quarentens, and al­so they graunted hereun­to participation with the Holy Land, where strang and wonderfull Indul­gences be granted.

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 vna capel­la que vocatur Ie­rusalem, 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 edifica­uit in honorem san­tae Crucis & ad pre­ces sanctae Helenae Papa Siluester con­secrauit.

Item omnibus diebus dominicis & mercurij sunt ibi CCliiij anni Indul­gent. & omnibus alijs diebus Cxxx viij anni & tot carenae.

Et multae aliae plures Indulgentiae sunt quas explicare non audemus nam omni die dominica & die mercurij San­ctus Siluester omnes indulgēt. duplicauit.

CHAP. 9 6 The sixth principall and patriarchall Church is the Church of Saint Crosse. Indulgences of the Church of Saint Crosse.

IN the Church of Saint Crosse, there are euery day eight and forty yeares of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes.

Also a little lower on the side of the Church there is a Chappell called Hierusalem, into which women may not enter, but onely vpon Saint Be­nets day. Blessed Saint Be­net was the good wo­mans friend, who got them leaue on his day to come into the holy Chappell, which is one reason doubtlesse, why wo­men are so deuout to the Benedictins. And then there is in that Chap­pell, full remission of all sinnes, both a paena & a culpa.

Further, Constaniina the Empresse builded this Church to the honour of the holy Crosse, Bawling here­tikes doe here make a stirre and wonder, that wee dare build Churches in honour of the dead Crosse. But they be fooles, and know nothing. But all deuout and learned Catholickes doe know that the holy Roman Church teacheth to pray to the Crosse, and hath a praier to it in the holy Masse booke or Breuiary, O cruxaue spes vnica, hoc passionis tempore, auge pijs Iusticiam Re­isque dona veniam: and least some should thinke, (who haue too nice and spiced consciences as some Catholickes haue) that this praier is to him that died on the Crosse, and not to the Crosse, our approoued Do­ctors haue handled the case, and resol­ued it that ipsam Crucem alloquimur, ipsam Crucem depre­camur, quasi ipsum Crucifixum: If wee may speake to the Crosse, and pray to the Crosse it selfe, as to Christ; Then surely no man will deny but wee may build Churches to it. and Pope Siluester did Consecrate it at the in­stance, and praiers of Saint Hellen.

Likewise vpon euery Sunday, and euery Wed­nesday there bee in this Church two hundred fif­tie and foure yeares of pardon, and vpon euery other day an hundred thirty eight yeares, and as many quarentens.

And there bee many o­ther pardons and indul­gences here which wee dare not set downe, Let the heretikes here see to their shame; First the great modesty of the Roman Church, who forbeares to put downe the Indulgences, when they are so exceeding many as they cannot bee counted, and behold also the bounty of our spirituall mother, who grants Indulgences so plentifully as modesty forbids to expresse them: what good Catholicke can stay from going to Rome, that there hee may diue in­to the middest of this sea, and partake of this bottomlesse Treasure. for vpon euery Lords day and euery Wednesday Saint Siluester doubled all the Indulgences.

Indulgentiae Eccle­siae Sancti Laeu­rencij.

ITem Papa Palla­gius qui hanc Ec­clesiam consecrauit concessit ibi in qua­tuor temporibus anni & in omnibus festiuitatibus Ste­phani & Laurencij vel stationum seu dedicationum illius Ecclesiae septem annos indudgentia­rum, & tot care­nas & tertiae par­tis omnium pecca­torum remissionem.

Quas Indulgen­tias Beatus Siluester confirmauit, & in [Page] quadra gessima du­plicantur, & sunt omni die xlviij. anni Indulgent. & tot carenae & ter­tiae partis omnium peccatorum remis­sio.

Item quicunque continuauerit omni­nibus diebus domi­nicis vel quartis ferijs per integrum annum, liberat v­nam animam de­paenis purgatorij qd promeruit Sanctus Laurencius Mar­tir Christi, vnde Continet hoc templum sancto­rum corpora pura. A quibus auxilium, suppleri poscere cu­ra. See here, we are taught to call vpon the Saints for helpe. Some Catholickes are so nice, and ten­der conscienced that they rhinke we must not pray to Saints for any thing, but onely that they would pray to God and to Christ for vs, but here we see that a man ought to pray to them for supply of all good things he wants, this is true Catholicke religion, let some mince and distinguish it as nice­ly as they will.

Cum Sixto iacet Laurencius igne crematus,

Et prothomartir Stephanus Leuita beatus, [Page] Post hypolitus equo­rum Collo ligatus,

Cum nutrice sua cum cuncta plebe suorum,

Romanus miles trisona virgo qui­rella,

Et quadraginta quas passio continet illa.

CHAP. 10 Indulgences belonging to 7 The seauenth prin­pall Church: the Church of Saint Laurence and Saint Stephen. the Church of Saint Laurence.

POpe Pellagius who Consecrated this Church, graunted vnto it that in the foure times o­therwise called the foure Ember weekes of the yeare, and vpon euery of the feast daies of Saint Steeuen and Saint Lau­rence, and vpon the daies of the stations or dedica­tions of this Church at all and euery of these times, there should bee seauen yeares of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes.

All these Indulgences Pope Siluester confir­med, Here is a great myracle and a my­stery that may stop the mouthes of all Heretikes that say we haue no true mi­racles, for here Pope Pelagius con­secrated this Church and gaue the In­dulgences to it, and Siluester the Pope confirmed and dub­led them, and yet Pelagius was not Pope till two hun­dred yeares after Siluester died. Let Lutherans or Calui­nists shew such mi­racles if they can. & doubled them [Page] them in the time of lent: and granted further to the same Church, euery day eight and forty yeares of pardon, and as many qua­rentens, and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes.

And further whosoe­uer continued his deuo­tion to this Church euery Sunday, or euery Wed­nesday through the yere, he shall deliuer one soule out of the paines of pur­gatory, and this is meri­ted and procured by the holy Martire of Christ St. Laurence. Wherupon 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 haue care to call for supply of helpe.

Here lieth Sixtus and with him Laurence that was broiled in the fire,

And Stephē the first Mar­tire, that blessed leuite,

Besides these Hypolitus that was pulled in pieces with horses,

Together with his Nurce and all his people.

Here lieth also a Roman souldier, and Crisona the Virgin.

And Quirella and forty Martires more, who suffe­red the same time.

In Ecclesia Sancti Praxedis.

ITem ibi est vna Ecclesia quae voca­tur Ecclesia Sancti Praxedis & est lux­ta Ecclesiam Beatae Mariae maioris situata, necnon San­grome multorā san­ctorum consecrata.

Item in eadem Ecclesia habetur vna Capella in qua est corpus Sancti Pas­chalis Papae primi illo nomine vocati.

Item in eadem Ec­clesia est vna Capel­la quae vocatur hor­tus paradisi & sunt ibi duo millia & tricenta sanctorum Martirum corpora [Page] & quatuor decem corpora Sanctorum pontificum.

Item in eadem capella est tercia pars illius collumpriae Ie­su 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. Thus wee haue heard the riches, and blessings, belonging to the seauen great Churches in Rome. Now follow some other.

FVrthermore there is a Church which is cal­led the Church of Saint Praxede, seituated neere vnto the Church of Saint Marie the greater, and Saint Sangrome filled with the bodies of manie Saints.

Also in the same Church there is a Chap­pell, wherein is the body of Saint Paschall the Pope first of that name.

There is also in the same Church another Chappell called the gar­den of Paradise, in it there bee the bodies of two thousand and three hundreth holy Martires, [Page] and of foureteene holy Popes that were Saints. It is a matter that troubles many good deuout Ca­tholickes to see that of the first fortie Popes in the first foure hundred yeres all almost were ho­ly, and made Saints, but of a hundred Popes in this last fiue hundred yeares, there is not one Saint, nor scarce one that euer was held worthy: Caluinists they make a foule matter of this, and laugh loude at it, but good Catholickes seeing they know not what to say to it, they are silent, and hope all is well, and for the matter doe beleeue as the Church beleeues.

Also in the same Chap­pell, there is the third part of that pillar at which our Lord Iesus was whipped in Pilats house.

And in this Chappell there is euery day to bee had remission of all a mans sinnes.

But into this Chap­pell women may not en­ter. It seemes strange that still women may not come in the the holy places where remission of all sinnes is seeing the good natured courtizans of Rome, are so kinde 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 goe to these holy places for remission, for that the Priests, when they goe from them, doe giue them absolution as part of their wages: I say as part for seeing the poore women doe pay a rent to his holinesse weekely, good reason they haue some thing else, by which to raise their rents, and to liue by their trade: But let these goe: good Catholickes doe more wonder why honest and godly Matrons may not enter into those places, seeing Paul tels vs 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 Catholicke. Hee must consider what the Church deliuers, and what the Pope teacheth, that must hee harken and trust vnto, and not trouble his head further with Scripture matters, for that is very dangerous: But howsoeuer the dames of Rome maynot go in, yet it is credibly hoped, that if our English Catholicke Ladies would leaue this hereticall dunghill of England, and come themselues to the holy City of Rome, his holinesse would be so fauourable, and gratious to them, as to giue them leaue to enter into those most holy places: for great is the loue that his holinesse beares to our nation, for hee loues our men, our women, nay for baser things, hee loues our siluer and gold, and any thing that comes from thence: Oh that our Catholicke La­dies would goe thither.

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 festiuitatibus vir­ginis [Page] Mariae & in Natiuitate domini & in Resurrectione domini & in festo Laurencij sunt ibi mille anni Indul­gent. Etiam in festo omnium Sanctorum est ibi omnium pec­catorum remissio.

Itē in festo assūp­tionis Beatae Mariae Virginis vsque ad eius natiuitatē sunt omni die xiiij anni Indulgentiarum & tot carenae, & ter­tiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio. Omnes istae Indul­gentiae in quadra­gesima duplican­tur.

CHAP. 12. Indulgences belonging to the Church of Saint Marie the greater.

IN the Church of Saint Marie the greater there be euery day, eight and fortie yeares of pardon, and as manie quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes.

Also vpon all and euery the feast daies of Saint [Page] [Page] Marie and of the birth and resurrection of our Lord, and vpon the feast day of Saint Laurence in all and euery of these daies there are to be had in this Church a thou­sand yeares of pardon, and vpon the feast of all Saints there is full remis­sion of all sinnes.

Also in the feast of the assumption of our Ladie and so from thence vntill the feast of her Natiuitie there are euery day foure­teene yeares of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes. And all these Indulgen­ces, how many, or how great soeuer are doubled in Lent.

Indulgent. Eccle­siae Sanctae Mariae ro rocundae.

ITem in Ecclesiae Sanctae Mariae Rotundae tercia Mē ­sis Maij & in festo omnium sanctorum & in octauis as­sumptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis est ibi remissio omni­um peccatorum & omnibus diebus quarte, 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 This is that Church which was once of old building to heathen Iupiter: afterward Agrippa beautifying it, wold haue dedicated it to the honour of Au­gustus, but hee refu­sing it, he consecra­ted it to Mars and Venus first, after­wards it was held to bee 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 then sixe hundred yeares af­ter Christ, and then Boniface obtained it of Phoca (the same holy man that killed his Master Mauritius, and was Emperour in his steed, and the same that gaue the Romish Church to be the head and Mistresse 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. vp­on the third day of the Moneth of May, and on the feast of all Saints, and in the octaues of the as­sumption of blessed Mary the Virgin, there is remis­sion of all sinnes: and e­uery Wednesday in the yeare, there are three hun­dred yeares of pardon, and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes. Euery Wednesday 300 yeares, that is in the totall euery yeare, 15600 years of pardon: a faire Indulgence, and no maruell, for if any one Saints Church can giue many yeares, then good reason that this should yeeld good store, which is now the Church of all Saints: But marke heere the wisdome of the holy Roman Church, that makes these Indulgences grow due, not on the Tewsday, nor Friday least it should be thought that they had beene giuen to the honour or proceeded from the vertue of Mars or Venus, to whom that Temple was first consecrated, but on the Wednesday the day betwixt both.

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. & mille CCCC xiiij carenae quas confir­mauit Papa Pascha­lis primus, & Boni­facius octanus & Gregorius nonus.

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 Euangelist. Catholickes may see by his Gos­pell that Luke was an Euangelist, and they may learne in his Gospell, and else­where in the Scrip­tures, if they might so read them that he was a Physition, But that he was a picture drawer they should not haue knowne, but out of this bles­sed booke. Therefore a fire and fagot for the Caluinists, that would make vs be­leeue that all things needfull for saluati­on are contained in the Scripture, for how should good de­uout Catholickes haue euer come to know this great point, had they been tied to the Scripture alone. In this Church there is re­mission of all sinnes in the feast of the assumption of blessed Marie the Virgin.

In the same Church there are euery day two thousand and eight hun­dred yeares of pardon, Euery day 2800 yeares of Indul­gence, is more in the yeare then a million of yeares: oh Indul­gence of all Indul­gences: See what a bountifull Master our Lord God the Pope is. and a thousand, foure hundred and foureteene quarentens, all which, Pope Paschall the first confirmed, and after him Boniface the eight, and Gregory the ninth.

ITem in Ecclesia Sancti Iacobi est lapis super quem [Page] dominus noster Iesus Christus fuit pre­sentatus in templo & sunt ibi mille anni Indulgent.

Item in Ecclesia Sancti Martini in montibus requiescit Sanctus Siluester, ibi sunt cottidie CCC anni Indulgent.

Item Iuxta Sanc­tū Petrū est ager dei & sunt ibi omni die mille anni Indul­gentiarum & ter­tiae partis omnium peccatorum remissio. In quo agro Pere­grini sepeliuntur quorum corpora post triduum non repe­riuntur.

Item ibi est vnus lapis altus in cuius pinaculo est corpus Iulij Caesaris.

Item in Ecclesia Sancti Petri in car­cere est remissio ter­tiae partis omnium [Page] peccatorum & omni die CC anni Indul­gent. quae omnibus vere penitentibus & confessis a sum­mis pontificibus sunt concessae totiens quotiens quis causa deuotionis siue pere­grinationis visita­uerit vel etiam suas eleemosinas erogaue­rit, relaxatur ab omnibus peccatis.

Et ibi inferius est puteus siue 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 vx­oris Sancti Alexij CC anni Indugent.

Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Katharinae CC anni Inaulgent.

Et infesto eius­dem mille anni In­dulgent.

Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Felicitatis xl anni Indulgent.

Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Lucie C anni Indulgent.

Item in Ecclesia Sanctae Petronille mille 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 mille anni Indul­gent.

Item in Ecclesia sancti Iuliani scri­bitur sic.

Noscant vniuersi [Page] hanc paginam in­inspectnri gratiam pietate dei & me­ritis sancti Iuliani omnibus fidelibus datam, precipue si quis presumens iter arripere peregrina­tionis pro animabus patris & matris ad dictam Ecclesiam & cum deuotione vnum Pater noster & Aue maria dixe­rit prosperum fine aduersitate obtine­bit hospicium.

Of certaine Indulgences and Relikes, of di­uerse other Churches.

IN the Church of Saint Iames there is the stone vpon which our Lord [Page] Iesus Christ was presen­ted in the Temple, and at it there bee a thousand yeares of pardon.

Also in the Church of Saint Martine on the hill lieth Saint Siluester, and there bee daily there three hundred yeares of pardon.

Also not farre from Saint Peters Church there is a field called Gods field, where there are eue­ry day a thousand yeares of pardon and remission of the third part of all a mans sinnes. In this field Pilgrims are buried, and their bodies after three daies are found no more. Of this strange field read in the lar­ger notes or com­ment.

Also there is one stone of a great height, vpon whose pinacle or toppe, there is the bodie Heere is a ho­ly relicke indeed, namely the body of Iulius Caesar it is pity so great a Saint hath not a day in the Ka­lender, which many haue that were ne­uer so well knowne as Iulius Caesar. of Iulius Caesar.

Also in the Church of Saint Peter at the prison, there is remission of the third part of all a mans [Page] sinnes: and euery day two hundred yeares of pardon, all which are granted by diuers Popes to such as shalbe truelie penitent, and bee confes­sed so oft as any man shal either for cause of deuo­tion or of pilgrimage vi­site the said Church or else if hee giue his almes vnto it: thus doing, he is released of all his sinnes.

Also there a little be­low is a well which appea­red and spange vp mira­culously when Saint Peter was laide hold of by Ne­roe the Emperonr.

Also in the Church of Saint Agnes there are sixe and fortie yeares of pardon.

And vpon her feast day two hundred yeares.

Also in the Church of Saint Susan, who was wife to Saint Alexius two hun­dred yeares of pardon.

Also in the Church of Saint Katrine there are two hundred yeares of pardon.

And vpon her feast day a thousand yeares.

Also in the Church of Saint Felicitie are fortie yeares of pardon.

Also in the Church of Saint Lucie a hundred yeares of pardon.

Also in the Church of Saint Petronilla a thou­sand yeares of pardon.

Also in the Church of Saint Elizabeth a hun­dred yeares of pardon euery day.

Also in the Church of Saint Clare a hundred yeares of pardon.

Also in the Church of Saint Mynerua a thou­sand yeares of pardon.

Also in the Church of Saint Iulian it is thus written.

Know all men whosoeuer [Page] shall looke vpon this chap­ter that by the goodnesse of God, and merites of Saint Iulian, grace and pardon is graunted from God, to all faithfull men. Especiallie if any man doe vndertake a iourney of pilgrimage to this Church for the soules of his father and mother, and shall there say with deuotion one Pater noster and one Aue, hee shall also be sure to obtaine a prospe­rous iourney, good lodging without daunger of theenes or any other aduersitie. See what a sweet and comfor­table thing it is to trauell to Rome, when a man is sure by vertue of the Popes Indulgence to escape theeues and all his iourney long to bee sure of good lodging: who that beleeues this would not trauell to Rome?

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 mille Indul­gent [Page] 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 portauit filius Theo­dotij de Ierusalem. Quam Ecclesiam pellagius Papa primo die Augusti consecrauit & re­missionem omnium peccatorum ibidem concessit.

CHAP. 16. Of Indulgences and Re­liques in diuers other Churches.

IN the Church of Saint Euzebius and Vincenti­us, there are three hun­dred yeares of pardon, and in that Church there is the arme of Saint Chri­stopher.

Also in the Church of Saint Vitus and Modestus, and of a thousand other Martires, there are euery day seauen thousand yeares of pardon, Here is yet one Indulgence greater then any of the for­mer, 7000. yeares euery day, which is in one yeere more then two millions of yeares: Oh how end­lesse and infinite is the loue of our holy father the Pope to his deuout children. and as many quarentens, and remission of the third part of a mans sinnes.

Also in the Church of Saint Potentiana, there is the stoole, or bench, or forme whereupon Christ sate at his last supper with his Disciples. For good reason seeing the table came the stoole should come also. In this Church there are [Page] euery day a thousand yeares of pardon.

Also in the Church of Saint Anthonie there is graunted remission of the sixt part of all a mans sins.

Also in the Church of Saint Peter ad Vincula there bee the Chaines, with which Saint Peter was bound in prison which the sonne of Theo­dosius the Emperour did bring with him from Ie­rusalem. But who kept these holy chaines in Ierusalem, all those foure hundred yeares long, from Saint Peters time to the daies of Theodo­sius, the booke tells vs not: therefore let not good Catholicks bee too curious to inquire, this is not fit to bee written, but let them goe to Rome, and there they may learne it in pri­uate, for this is the wisdome of his holinesse, and the holy fathers of the society, not to make all things plaine by writing, that so they may inuite deuout Catholickes to come to Rome, to aske what is not elsewhere reuealed, that so in Rome they may be partakers of all the vnualuable riches of the Popes treasure, and of the holinesse of the pure Clergie, and of the vertue of the many pretious relickes that be there. This Church did Pope Pella­gius consecrate the first day of August and gran­ted vnto it full remission of all sinnes.