and chesnut trees, of which they make the hoops for casks; there is also a great number of casks made in the country, and at Passage, and brought to St. Sebastians empty on mules.

There is, near to the town, the convent of St. Austin, a nunnery of women, where there is to be seen the corpse of a woman dead hundreds of years ago. Her arms, legs, and face appear as full, as if she had been buried but yesterday; she looks tawny, and I believe has been served mummy-like. When they were digging the foundation of this monastery, they found this corpse, which they pray to. The chief trade of the town is iron, wine, and oil.

Their iron-mills are near to the town, and their iron bars are brought to the town on horses or mules, on crooksaddles, to the publiek magazine, which is under the town hall; where constant attendance is given for receiving them out of the country, and delivering and weighing them to the buyer. Our tin-men in Cornwall are here supplied with their stamps, and other utensils for the carrying on their work.

All other merchandises, except iron, are drawn on sledges, by two oxen, in and out of the town.

They deal somewhat in train-oil and whale-bone. They have some ships that go to the northward a whale-fishing; besides, they catch some in sight of the castle; and in order to this, some months in the year, they hire a man that looks out continually from the top of the hill, betwixt St. Sebastians and Passage, who, when he sees a whale or bottle-nose, makes a sign to the castle; the centinel, from the castle, advertises, by his bell, the town ; immediately the fishermen upon that go forth to the prey. There was a bottle-nose about the bigness of that which was brought up to Greenwich, brought into St. Sebastians in November last, out of whom they got a great quantity of that which they call sperma ceti; the flesh was boiled to oil.

They have also some trade to Newfoundland, but with that sort of fish, Cabelau they call it, they are better supplied from other nations than by their own ships.

The great quantity of pilchards, caught on the coast of Galicia, is a mighty help to this part of Spain; of which they are great lovers, and are in more esteem with them than herrings.

But the more remarkable trade of the town at present, and that which brings most money to the town, is the wine trade,

The late war with France, from whence we were supplied with their excellent Grave Medoc and Pontack wines, occasioned our Parliament to put such a great duty on French wines, and other liquors of the growth of France, that merchants have looked out how to be supplied otherwise, that they may pay easier duties; and, luckily, they have light upon a spot of ground, called the Spanish Navarre, of which Pampelone, Ablitas, and Villa Franca are the chief towns, that afford us as good wines as any French wines; and the Spaniards of late both at St. Sebastians, Passage, Fontarabia, and Guitaria, finding such a demand for wines, and considerable profit by them, have improved their vineyards to so great

a degree, both in quantity as well as quality of good wines, that their improvement equals, if not exceeds that of Portugal; which, before the war, was not able to furnish us with above three or four hundred pipes in a year, and now there are above ten thousand pipes a year imported from thence, which appears from the custom-house books.

This will not be allowed by some, but it is very true. One shall see at St. Sebastians mules by hundreds, loaden with wine in hogskins; three skins upon a mule, containing ten gallons each, come every day into town, Sunday not excepted. All this is unloaden in the magazines and sorted, and next day put into casks; the mules carry away the empty skins into the country for more.

This is not only done at St. Sebastians, but also at Fontarabia, Passage, and Guitaria. From these places they come to St. Sebastians in barques and barcelongo's, because of the conveniency of sea-carriage, in casks, and are lodged in merchants cellars ready for the buyer.

The truth of all this is so well known in England, from the care the commissioners of the customs took, in sending over two of their officers to examine into the truth of it, and from some tryals at the Exchequer bar, that it cannot be further questioned.

Besides, for all wines shipped off from St. Sebastians, the masters of ships are obliged to take certificates from the mayor and consul, as a sufficient testimony that their wines are of the growth of Navarre, in his Catholick Majesty's dominions, given under the great seal of the

Most noble and Most Loyal City of St. Sebastians.

And undersigned by their sworn master cooper, Signior Nicola and his assistants, that the very casks are made by them.

A LIST OF THE

MONASTERIES, NUNNERIES, AND COLLEGES,

BELONGING TO THE ENGLISH PAPISTS IN SEVERAL POPISH COUNTRIES BEYOND SEA.

Published to inform the People of England, of the Measures taken by the Popish Party for the re-establishing of Popery in these Nations. In a Letter to a Member of Parliament. [From eight Pages Quarto, London; printed in 1700.]

SIR,

FIND that your honourable House is fully sensible of the dan

your present proceedings; and to add what I can to your knowledge concerning Papists, I have here sent you a list of the seminaries and religious houses abroad, maintained at the charge of the English Papists. I cannot assure you the list is perfect, believing there are many more that have slipped my knowledge, but what I here send you is known to be true.

Lisbon.

1. Here is a college of secular English priests, in number about forty.

2. Here is also a monastery of English nuns *, of the, order of St. Bridget; their community thirty.

3. Also a convent of Irish Dominican friars, in number sixteen +. 4. Also Dominican nuns of the same country.

5. With a college of secular Irish priests, under the government of Portuguese Jesuits, in number about thirteen.

Valladolid in Spain.

Twelve secular priests, under the government of Spanish Jesuits. An English Jesuit is the minister § in the house, and is next to the rector.

Madrid.

1. An English college, under the government of Spanish Jesuits. An Englishman is the minister in the house, in number eight. 2. A Scots and Irish college.

Sevil.

An English college, under the government of Spanish Jesuits.

St. Lucar.

A small college of English, called, St. George's.

Bilboa.

A house whereof father Anthony is chief.

Paris.

1. In the Feaubourge St. Jacques, is a convent of English Benedictine monks, they are in number twenty-four.

2. A monastery of visitation nuns, otherwise Blue Nuns, number twenty.

3. A monastery of nuns of the order of St. Augustine. The nuns are in number sixty, the pensioners as many more.

4. A monastery of Benedictine nuns, in number thirty.

5. A college of Irish secular priests, called Montacute College.

6. A college of Scots secular priests.

These nuns call their nunnery, Sion-House, and pretend to be originally transported from the ancient monastery of Bridgettan nuns, at Sion-House, near Richmond in Surrey. To which they lay claim, when time shall serve.

Now increased to double the number.

These nuns are situated at Bethlem, about three miles from Lisbon.

9 Confessor.

This was originally an hospital belonging to the English factory, and afterwards turned into a college, but now it has only one priest in it.

7. Near Paris a convent of English discalced, alias bare-legged, Carmelite friars.

Doway.

1. A college of secular priests and students, in number about one hundred and fifty.

2. A convent of Benedictine monks, in number twenty-five.

3. A college in the convent of English youths, they have been known to be fifty-nine.

4. A convent of Franciscan friars, iu number sixty.

5. A Scots college of Jesuits.

A nunnery.

Blois in France.

Pontois in France.

A monastery of Benedictine nuns, under the direction of the Jesuits *.

Dunkirk.

1. A monastery of Benedictine nuns, commonly called the rich Dames, under the direction of the Jesuits.

2. A monastery of poor Clares.

Gravelin.

A monastery of English poor Clares.

Flanders.

A monastery of discalced, alias bare-legged, Carmelite nuns.
Two other monasteries of Augustine nuns.

At Burnham near Brussels.

A convent of Dominican friars, founded by Cardinal Howard.

1. A college of Dominican friars. 2. A college of Irish Capuchins.

Nieuport in Flanders.

A convent of Carthusian monks †, in number twelve.

Cambray.

A monastery of Benedictine nuns, under direction of the monks of the same order, in number thirty.

• Viz. Having gesuits for their confessors, &e.

Who pretend a title to the Charter-House, London, and all its estates, when ever they can lay hold of a Popish government in England.

Liege.

1. A monastery of Canonesses Regulars of the order of St. Austin. 2. A college of English Jesuits, consisting of one hundred and eighty.

Ghent.

1. A college of Jesuits, in number six.

2. A nunnery.

Bridges.

1. A monastery of nuns of the third order of St. Francis, in number thirty.

2. A monastery of Augustine nuns.

St. Omers.

A college of Jesuits about thirty *, with one hundred and eighty English scholars.

Lanspring in Germany.

An abbey of Benedictine monks, with a lord abbot, in number thirty.

Deiulward in Lorrain.

A convent of Benedictine monks, in number sixteen.

Rome.

1. A college of secular priests under the government of the English Jesuits +.

2. A Scots college.

By this account it appears that there are fifty-one religious houses maintained at the charge of the English Papists, which carries vast sums of money yearly out of the nation, and returns nothing in lieu thereof, but a sort of vermin, that are a common nusance to church and state. The methods, how to prevent this growing evil, are left to the great wisdom of your honourable house.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.

Upon the establishment of the house.
This college has flourished very much of late years.

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