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and Colleges of learned men, whom they called Seminarios Seminaries, that is, as if they were Sowers—men hardened for destruction, vigilant for completing their crimes and practiced, and likewise wonderful artists in spreading the poisons of sedition. These same men, just as soldiers into provinces, they distributed into all parts of both England and Ireland most cautiously and diligently: some as fully ordained Priests, many as Seminaries of a lower order, some even as Jesuits of a more excellent rank. All were masked, and they deliberately and by arrangement changed themselves from their professed discipline, lest perhaps their clothing or equipment betray them, with the insignias of their orders erased and their distinctive marks hidden. To all of whom, however, this was the purpose, this the institute: that as diligent farmers and sowers of crops, so these might scatter the feces and filth of the Roman Pontiff, consecrated waxes, creeping Agnus Dei waxen discs stamped with the figure of a lamb, blessed by the Pope as if they were gods of lesser nations, mystical seeds, sanctified prayer beads, and the superstitious trade of shameful things and toys for boys,
The clandestine access of the Seminaries into the kingdom to solicit the common people toward defection.