A further discovery of the mystery of Jesuitisme In a collection of severall pieces, representing the humours, designs and practises of those who call themselves the Society of Jesus.

CHAP. IX.

A fifth Enditement, of the lascivious Villanies committed by the Jesuits in their Itinerancies, and Country-Houses.

GReat fires have many times their beginning from the miscarriage of a single spark. A sparke be∣gets a flame, a flame devoures all it comes at, so

that a populous City, such as was sometime that of Lyons, is turned to ashes in a night. Carnal Love hath in it much of the nature and qualities of fire, i•• ever gaines where it takes, and growes greater stil as you supply it with matter. That of the Jesuit Petiot, which from small beginnings grew up to that hight of insolence we have mentioned, set his heart so pro∣digiously on fire, that he came not any where, but he more or lesse scattered the sparkles thereof. Before we come to speake of his uncleannesses in his jour∣neyes, it will not be amisse to find some thing for the Reader to employ his consideration about by the way.

There are two sleights which many Jesuits do now make use of, and have done formerly, in order to the enjoyment of their Loves. One is, to get them∣selves invited by their Confidents into the Country, that so they might enjoy them with greater privacy, or that they might thence send for those women whose company they were desirous of. The second is, to make their advantages of their journeys, that is, so order things before-hand by their plots and secret correspondencies, that some blind Inne by the way, some tenants cot, nay, it may be some ditch may be the place for them to satiate their brutall inclinations. The examples which they have furnished the world with of this nature are so numerous, that, of foure that go abroad to take their recreation, there hardly ever returnes two, who have not commited some unclean∣nesse or other The liberty of walking, the conve∣niences of being at a distance from their companion (if they have any) the opportunities of garden-walkes, groves, Chambers, lodgings, the severall places, in∣to which they are purposely disposed in the night time, the long and passionate conferences, after the satisfacti∣on of delicate wine, and provoking dishes, are so many favourable assistances to heighten their desires, and accomplish the expectation of those that love them.

I would not have any man to inferre hence, that my meaning is, that all those who invite them, do it out of a design to bring them into the occasions of sinning; no, I know there are many persons of honor and quality, who when they invite them, have no other end in it then that of obliging them, and giving them an honourable enter∣tainment and diversion. But I say, that those Jesuits who lay plots to get themselves invited, and the women that invite them, are not alwayes guilty of that purity of in∣tention. Guales, Penot, Cadiot, Biroat, Henry du Chesne, Alemay, Delvaux, Dusresne, Reignier, and other Je∣suits, whom I name not, have made their addresses to servant▪mayds, have had designes upon the Mistres∣ses, have had dealings with the young gentlewomen where they came, nay, have made use of their Agnus Dei's and their beads, as baits, to draw in the inno∣cent and the simple.

I know some that have procured invitations into the Countrey, to a place where there were Nunns, in order to the recovery of their health, and, un∣der pretence of devotion and spirituall communi∣cation, had inter-crurall dealings with them; and those I could also name, if the respect, wh ch I owe their Friends did not prevaile with me to forbeare. And if it be further considered, that many of them continue in those houses of recreation, six weeeks and two moneths together, he must certainly be ve∣ry hard of perswasion, who will not inferre, that such a long time cannot but produce abundance of dallyance and Love tricks, since it is well known they are a sort of people, very delicate in point of diet, tenderly brought up, and much in the respects of all manner of persons.

Nor do they make lesse advantages of their journy∣ing up and down to pro••ote their Loves. The grea∣test part of their Procurators, who, by reason of ••heir occasions are many times forced to ride on ••orseback, have, in the Innes, as they passe, their

wenches layd, ready to entertain them in their severall stages. Th•• Colledge-money will not stick too close to their hands, now is it squander'd among their drabs, who are feasted upon the charge of the Community. The Rectors, who▪ out of a consideration of decorum, would think themselves obliged to take a compani∣on along with them, if they went a foot, purposely to avoid that incumbrance, will needs ride, though the journey were not a quarter of a mile out of the City, purposely to visit their female acquaintances up and down with greater freedome. The orders and provisions made in such exigencies by the Pro∣vincialls to be observed in their visits, that is, the ob∣ligations of taking companions with them, whether they were invited or travell'd abroad, sufficiently di∣scover the infirmitie•• of times past, and the neces∣sities of the present. Certain Pastors of Bardenac found, not long since, one of their Coadjutors with a beggarly drabbe, digging in a ditch; and at Tulle, was Brother Coustaud, sound by the inhabitants, busie with the Bakers wise of the Colledge, in the vineyards. The famous Petiot from whom we have all this while digressed, shall make this chapter good measure, that so, of thirty whom I could name, his single example may serve the turn.

An amorous Monk is like a stone-horse got loose, when he is once out of the walls of his Cloister. This Petiot being commanded to go to Pau, to preach there in the Lent, made his journey thither very fa∣mous by the wanton pranks he play'd by the way. There is a multiplication of wickednesse, when ho∣linesse and devotion are made cloaks to cover it; and when piety is made a stalking-horse to commit adulte∣teries. This lascivious Gamester having a desire to enter the tables of a young lasse of Xaintonge, one of his Penitents whom his teeth very much watered it, gave out, that he would not go out of the Countrey, till he had done some devotions at our Ladies Church

of Verdelais, and out of an exc••sse of ghostly kin••∣nesse, profered the Maide, to receive her confesh∣on and to say Masse for her in that place, if s••e would beare him company thither. Pilgrimages are never so meritorious in the apprehensions of young wenches, as when a Monk hath the mannagement of the Devotion: she accordingly took the profie•• for an extraordinary favour. O that the poore lasse had but had the least mistrust of the lewd design the Vil∣lain had upon her! He had prepared a bawdy Sol∣licitrix to go along with her, that is to say, had got∣ten a shee wolf to keep company with a sheep, and they both played their parts so well, that after they had gone two leagues upon the river of Garronne, they all landed with a design to lie one night by the way. I am asham'd to discover these i••pious pra∣ctises of a Body, wherein I had lived so long; but the obligation that lyes upon me to promote the glo∣ry of God justifies my revelation of these impu∣rities.

This old bawd, who had, while they were in the boat, by her impudent discourses craftily endeavou∣red to raise lascivious thoughts in the maide, was re∣solv'd to bring her lewd sollicitations to some effect, when they were gotten close into a chamber in the Inne. For having by thousands of sle ghts and wanton insinuations somewhat enflam'd them both, she took occasion to leave them together, under pretence of taking some order for Supper. But, as the Jesuits ill fortune would have it, he met with a Susanna that maintained her chastity very resolutely; for having through feare suff••red thousands of kisses and cares∣ses, she at last bethought her of God and the dis∣honour she was ready to fall into, and so frustrated the Stallion of his expectation, in such manner, that he was forced to ••atiate his lust by an evacuation with the Bawd. Upon her therefore he satisfied his brutish passion, even in the presence of the Maid,

with such expressions of Lust on both sides, as might have forced impudence it self into a blush. The heat being over, he comes a little to his wits, and would needs lay a strict charge upon the maid, to keep all secret whatever she had seen. Shee did so for the space of fifteen dayes, but at la••t being much trou∣bled in conscience, that she had given way to some lasciviousnesse, she went and discovered the whole businesse to the Superiour of the professed House. And this was the first pranke he played in that journey.

But one depth calleth upon another. Those that once suffer themselves to be enslaved and trampled on by that tyrannicall passion, never leave sinning. Let us see what becomes of our Confessor, after this excellent and devout pilgrimage; we find him tra∣velling towards the City of Pau. Being come there to the House of Madame de Mommas or Mombas, (a family of as great blood and Nobility as any in Beard) with John Francis Marin, who had overta∣ken him at Macaire, the wayting gentlewoman of that Lady raised such flames of Lust in him, that he watched his opportunity to get any one of them aside, as a cutpurse would do the criticall minute to give a man a cast of his office. He that hath a mind to do a mischief layes hold on all occasions con∣ducing thereto. The first exploit of impurity which this shamelesse man did, was, just upon his coming from Masse, to run up his hand under the smock of one of the M••ids, that was going up staires be∣fore him, saying to her, Take heed, fairest, you lift up pour legge too high. The second was more dan∣gerous, considering the discreet mannagement of the businesse. For having understood by some questi∣ons he had made to another, that she was to goe away from her Mistresse; Come, said he to her, b••ing me pen, ink▪ and paper, I will recommend yo•• to the service of a President's Lady in Bour∣deaux,

that shall be a thousand times more to your advantage then that which you now are in. The poore innocent wench, who thought her happinesse indisputable, brought him what he called for, and was cajoll'd by him into another Roome, where th•• cunny catching companion writ a Letter so full of recommendation, that the wench was over head and eares in joy at it. Whereupon taking his advanta∣ges upon the reading of it, Does not this, said he to her, argue an extraordinary affection in me towards thee, upon the first sight? What canst thou re∣fuse to do for so cordiall a friend, who would give thee a Letter, not written with inke, but with his own blood to put thee into a good condition? His action during all this fine discourse was, to kisse her forehead, her eyes, her mouth, and to embrace her in his armes with so much fire and violence of pas∣sion, till that at last, the wench sensible of the danger she was in, getting from him as a serpent that were grasped too hard, I do not intend, Fa∣ther, said she to him, to purchase recommendations with the hazzard of my salvation. The noise which these strange sallies of incontinency made in the house, was at first the diversion onely of the Servants, but afterwards coming to the Lady her selfe, she very angrily expostulated the businesse with his compa∣nion, Francis Marin, asking him, What Harlot-hun∣ter is this that you have brought to my house, who hath already attempted two of my Mayds. If any man's judgement be so overgrown with blind zeale as to imagine this story to be no other then a calumny, be it so; but this I am sure of, that Madame de Momb••s or Mommas and her servants shall acknowledge, that the Jesuits never could salve, with any credit, this act of brutality.

Those who are returned to their Colledges after the absence of some time in travell, or otherwise, passe,

for three dayes after their arrivall, for Pilgrims. The ensuing story shall be the consummation of that no∣torious journey of Petiot. Of all acts of unchastity, those, in common apprehensions, are thought the most execrable which do violence to the chastity of children. Heaven certainly would not have thun∣derbolts, but to crush the committers of such im∣purities, nor the earth abysses but to swallow them up. Our Sardanapalus went the next day after his coming home, to divert himself into a place not far from the house, called Lewis's wood, and to make his diversion criminal in all the wayes imaginable, he inveigled to him, by litle Agnus dei's, the Over∣seer's daughter, a girle of about nine or ten yeares of age, under pretence of making her say her pray∣ers, and so brought her into the thickest part of the wood. Here my heart beats, and my hand trem∣bles with the horrour which I cannot but conceive at the very remembrance of the crime. This inef∣fably wicked man put himself into a posture of for∣cing the little child, and, with his defiled fingers, dilatabat illi foemineum vas, when her Father hearing her crying and complaining, came seasonably to her rescue, and delivered her out of the clawes of that uncleane bird.

The di••order wherein he ••ound that infamous Je∣suit, and the posture of his daughter, whom he found layd all along, rais'd such an indignation in that affli∣cted Father, that in the heat of his passion he ran im∣mediately to the Colledge, and accus'd him.

What answer will these celestiall Eunuchs, who would perswade the world that they imitate the pu∣rity of Angels, make to these things? Disclaime the story? Truth will dazzle their eyes. Will they ac∣knowledge it? Tis somewhat indigestible. The stars, will th••se sincere men say, fall out of heaven; Tis true, but then they never get up again into their spheares, and yet this great one that is now fallen, af∣ter

it had extinguished its light in the common-shore of thousands of uncleannefies, is gone to shine again in another horison. Does any man imagine, that Petiot, in some measure to expiate so many trans∣gressions, should have been eternally silent, and ne∣ver appeared in the pulpit again, he is mistaken. Be it known to him that so thinks, that the said preacher is as much employed as ev••r he was, and that he hath onely made an exchange of provinces, till that Time shall have eaten out or abated the resentment of the wickedne••se. May it please that glorious holy Spirit who takes its greatest delights to be among the Lil∣lies, to gird about their Loines, and to take off the violence of their concupiscence, to the end that they may not any longer gull the world with deceitfull shews of a pretended chastity.