The Iesuits downefall threatned against them by the secular priests for their wicked liues, accursed manners, hereticall doctrine, and more then Matchiavillian policie. Together with the life of Father Parsons an English Iesuite.
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The Iesuits downefall threatned against them by the secular priests for their wicked liues, accursed manners, hereticall doctrine, and more then Matchiavillian policie. Together with the life of Father Parsons an English Iesuite.
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James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.
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At Oxford :: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee sold by John Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit [, London],
1612.
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The 29. Proposition. Cooseners.
a 1.1 THese Iesuits are cogging mates, and b 1.2 vse cony-catch∣ing devises to get mony, c 1.3 with all manner of false∣hood and coggerie, that may be imagined. Besides this, they haue sundrie other d 1.4 dogtricks of cousenage, to cut purses, pick-locks, commit burglaries, extortion, simo∣nie, and all kinde of Lombardinian devises to make gaine
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of, and these e 1.5 finefingred boies, are very nimble about Ladies & gentlewomens iewels, & thus by their f 1.6 pret∣tie slie cousenage, and such points, rules, and principles of learning and knowledge, as pertaine to conycatching, and other Machiavilian devises, (wherein there is none that goeth beyond them) they haue here in g 1.7England gotten into their hands all auctoritie, good estimation, and all the stocke or treasury of mony, doing what they list, both at home and abroad; but for these and the like h 1.8cousenages to enrich themselues, they haue beene ba∣nished both out of the cittie of Perugio, and i 1.9Milan.