The fryer, or, An historical treatise wherein the idle lives, vitiousness, malice, folly, and cruelty of the fryers is described : in two parts, tragical and comical : collected out of sundry authors, and several languages, and caused to be translated into English / by James Salgado ...

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The fryer, or, An historical treatise wherein the idle lives, vitiousness, malice, folly, and cruelty of the fryers is described : in two parts, tragical and comical : collected out of sundry authors, and several languages, and caused to be translated into English / by James Salgado ...

Author

Salgado, James, fl. 1680.

Publication

London :: Printed for the author,

1680.

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Friars -- Controversial literature.

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Contents

• title page
• To His GRACE JAMES DUKE of Monmouth and Buclough.
• THE PREFACE.
• A Tragical Narration.
  • The horrible Cruelties of a Spanish Fryer, and his miserable and desperate End.
  • wo Fryers Ruffino and Valeno, goeth out at nights very often out of their Covent privatly, by a Gate, and Houseth with their Amorous Ladies, at last one be∣ing forced to it by necessity kills the other, and the Murtherer is also killed by his Ladys Hus∣band.
  • An abominable Sin of a Knight of Malta, committed by the assi∣stance of a Monk, upon a young Gentleman, and of the ensuing Punishment for it.
  • The horrible Excesses committed by a religious Woman, by the in∣stigation of the Devil.
  • An abominable Cruelty of a Fryer, committed for the accomplishing of his detestable Lechery, and the ensuing Punishment for it.
  • Two Fryers, the first Night of Wedding, takes one after th other in the place of the Bride-groom, and afterwards were se∣verely paid for it.
  • Three several Murthers committe in one House, viz. upon the Ma∣ster, his Wife, and their Child by the Lust of a Monk.
  • The Abomination of a Priest, who got his own Sister with Child, under a colour of Piety, and how they were both punish'd.
• title page
• A Comical Narration.
  • Tryer Robert infermeth a Gentle∣woman, how the Angel Gabriel had fallen in Love with her; under which disguise, he often accompanies her; at last for fear of her Parents, throws himself out of the Window, and retires into a poor Bodies House. Who the next day after, carries him to the Market place, in the shape of a wild man; where the Fryer being discovered, was taken by the Monks of his Or∣der, and Imprisoned.
  • Master Capelletto, deceiveth a Holy Father by a false confession and dieth, and having been a most dissolute Man in his Life, was after his death reputed for a Saint, and called S. Capelletto.
  • A Certain Prior and a great Re∣former of Nunns, under the Cloak of Hypocrisy trieth all possible means to beguil and in∣tice a Religious Nunn, but at length his Wickedness is made manifest.
  • A Fryer fraudulently marrieth another Fryer, his Compani∣on, to a pretty Young Gentle∣woman, and a while after they were both punished.
  • A Dean of Fiesola, is in Love wit an handsom Widdow, and is no beloved of her, and believing himself to lye with her, lyet with one of her Servant-Maid and the Bretheren make him be cacht by the Bishop.
  • Fryer Rinaldo, lyeth with his Gos∣sip, whom her Husband finds together in the Chamber, they making him believe, that the Fryer had Conjured some Worms out of their Childs Belley.
  • A Boat-Woman wittily escapeth from the hands of two Monks which went about to ravish her and how their wickedness came to be known to all.
  • A Fryer falls into a Sin deserving great punishment, and wittily intangling his Abbot into the same Fault, was asquitted.
  • An Abbess riseth in haste, and go∣eth to surprize a Nun (accu∣sed before her) in Bed with her Lover; and her self being with a Priest, thinking to have put on her head a Vail, did put on the Breeches of the Priest, which the Arraigned Gentle∣woman seeing, and bidding to unloose them, was acquitted, and granted the liberty to accompany her Gallant.
  • A strange and a new way of Pe∣nitence, which was to be Infli∣cled by a Father Confessour upon a young Gentlewoman.
  • The vile wickedness of a Monk, together with the shallowness and simplicity of a Nun.
  • The Canning of a Jesuit, and the Simplicity of a Pryer.