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NEVV SHREDS OF THE OLD SNARE.

CONTAINING
  • The Apparitions of two new female Ghosts.
  • The Copies of diuers Letters of late intercourse concerning Romish affaires.
  • Speciall Indulgences purchased at Rome, granted to diuers English gentle-beleeuing Catholiques for their ready money.
  • A Catalogue of English Nunnes of the late transportations within these two or three yeares.


By IOHN GEE, Master of Arts, late of Exon-Colledge in Oxford.

LONDON, Printed for Robert Mylbourne. 1624.


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NEVV SHREDDS OF THE OLD SNARE broken by the foote of J. G.


The Induction.

SOme haue beene said in the olde time vpon receiving of a wound to haue beene healed by the rust of the weapon that gaue the wound; and verily for my part, after the spraine and dislocation which I haue suffered by intanglement in Popish Snares, nothing hath bin more availeable to me for my perfect cure than the view and search of those rotten ragged shredds of those cords of vanitie and illusion, which a while dia hold mee captiue in the time of my weakenesseThe best meanes therefore for the confirming of my selfe and arming others, is and will be the further inquiring into the particular courses of the great seducing Masters, especially the Iesuites; the viewing and handling whereof vpon bare Narration without inference or application, is sufficient to shew the weakeness of those twine-thred bonds and Cob-web netts which they cast over the silly fry of their floating Disciples.

Since the inditing and publishing of my former Booke, called, The Foote out of the Snare, I haue attained better information and knowledge of diverse particulars, which I thought fit to commend to publique view, for the better vnmasking of our Loiolan Mirabilaries, who as yet impudently persist to play their pranckes amongst vs. [1] Some snips of which their legerdemaine trickes, shufflingly twisted and deeply died in graine, here I display in a new Webbe for the e•king out the Curtaines of the tyring house of their former stage in array and manner as followeth.


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All that can sing or say,
Come and heare a Iesuits play.

IN the Conclusion or appendant to my former Booke, I made bold to acquaint my Reader with Mary...

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