Author: Thomas Edward Watson

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781230350424

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... have procured by remedies, sixty abortions, making the fathers of the children their murderers, besides many others intended, though not executed, by some unexpected accident. I confess I have frequetented the parish club twelve years. We were only six parish priests in it, and there we did consult and contrive all the ways to satisfy our passions. Each had a list of the handsomest women in the parish; and when one had a fancy to see any woman remarkable for her beauty in another's parish, the priest of the parish sent for her to his own house; and, having prepared the way for wickedness, the other had nothing to do but to, and so we have served one another these twelve years. Our method has been to persuade the husbands and fathers not to hinder them any spiritual comfort, and to the ladies to persuade them to be subject to our advice and will; and that in so doing they should have liberty at any time to go out on a pretence of communicating some spiritual business to the, priest. And if they refused to do it, then we should speik to their husbands and fathers not to let. them go"out at all, or which would be worse for themselves, we should inform against them to the holy tribunal of the Inquisition. And by these diabolical persuasions they were at our command, without fear of revealing the secret. I have spared no woman pf my brethren's parishes; but I cannot tell the number. I have sixty riepotes alive of several women; but my principal care ought to be of those that I have by two young women I keep at home since their parents died. Both are sisters, and I had by the eldest two boys, and by the youngest one. The one I had by my own sister is dead. Therefore I leave to my sister five thousand pistoles, on condition that she enter St....