Excerpt from The Frauds of Romish Monks and Priests: Shewing the Abominable Deceptions and Practices of the Church of Rome, by a Frenchman, Who Was Formerly a Monk, but Afterwards Became a Convert to the Protestant Religion Ing, he went his way. Two hours before us. For my part, I remembered the counsel the bishop had given us; who was a venerable old man; and considered, that if it were only for the respect that is due to old age, we ought never (where it may be done) reject the advice of such persons. For this reason, I yoined myself with the Genovese merchants, resolvmg to go with them, attended by our guides. The Benedictine parted from us at sis: o'clock, though with an intent not to make so much haste, but that we might overtake l1i1n, so that he might have an Opportunity of falling again as it were by chance) into our company, withe being obliged to pay any thing towards the guid we had taken on our own accounts. But it happened, that very unluckily for him, we stayed three hours longer than was intended for we did nor leave thecity till eleven of the clock. Lire were extremely surprized, when at the end of seven leagues, upon the mountain, we found this poor monk sitting on a stone, in his boots, lamenting, and all in tears, for the mishap that had befallen him. He had been set upon, in the same place by five robbers, who having dismounted him, had taken away all his money, and all they found in his portmanteau, except his Brecia'ry, which they had restored to him; which seemed to vex him more than all the rest: For, (said he) had they but taken this with the rest, I should at least hare been excused from saying my breviary till I came to Rome. We made a shift to get him on horseback again, persuading one of the uides to lend him his; in consideration of whio the monk promised to give him his boots, and we defrayed his charges between us till we came to Luca. He assured us, That the men that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.