Indulgencer

Criminal indulgencers boast, it is true, of their exploits of love, and gallant achievements.

With endless opportunities for illicit gains in every kind, these horse-leeches are the pardoners and indulgencers of China, and as popular here as their prototypes in the literature of our Middle Ages.

There is a situation that demands the services of a kind-hearted indulgencer.

As if God should say to Papists, Go to your Indulgencers, pardon-mongers, Aneylers: or to carnal Gospellers, Go to your parasitical-preachers, that have soothed you up in your sins (and ye loved to have it so) or at the best, have shot off a few pot-guns onely against gross sins, and licked you whole again presently with, I hope better things of you, &c.

This cannot be understood literally; for it were a weak reason, because thy merchants are great men, therefore thou shalt be destroyed : by merchants therefore we must understand Rome's factors, the Pope's indulgencers, and other officers of his exchequer.