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<HEAD>A Duell between a Ie&s;uite and a Dominican, begun at <HI>Paris,</HI> gallantly fought at <HI>Madrid,</HI> and victoriou&s;ly ended at <HI>London,</HI> upon fryday the 16 day of <HI>May, Anno Dom.</HI> 1651. by <HI>Thomas Gage, alias</HI> the <HI>Engli&s;h American,</HI> now Preacher of the Word at <HI>DEAL</HI> in <HI>KENT.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Curteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THE cau&s;e of my being at pre&s;ent at <HI>London</HI> requiring &s;ome &s;atisfaction and ju&s;t vin|dication, I thought fit to &s;et my &s;elf in the publick view of my Country, and once more to appear with the poor and begger|ly Cloak of my former <HI>American</HI> Stile. The object of my di&s;cour&s;e being a Je&s;uite and a Dominican, both profe&s;&s;ours of a &s;ole fancy-plea&s;ing Religion, my pen &s;hall drop before thee a dream, the relation whereof may peradventure de|light the &s;en&s;e and fancy of &s;ome, and from thence get further into the hearts of &s;ome others now holding the Stern of the weather-beaten &s;hip of this Common-wealth. It is a mo&s;t true and well experienced &s;aying, that <HI>odia Religionum &s;unt acerbi&s;&s;ima,</HI> and may be in&s;tanced both at home and a broad, but e&s;pecially between the Je&s;uites and Dominicans, both clothed with out|ward weeds of di&s;&s;embled mortification, but both inwardly <HI>Lu|pi rapaces,</HI> ravening Wolves, with &s;harp teeth of Pa&s;&s;ion biting and
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devouring one another&punc; This Pa&s;&s;ion begun with the birth of <HI>Ignatius,</HI> founder of the Je&s;uites Order, a fiery birth &s;econded &s;peedily with a fiery name; what el&s;e &s;ignifieth <HI>Ignatius,</HI> but <HI>Igni|natus,</HI> born for fire of mi&s;chief and &s;edition? This fire began to burn at <HI>Paris,</HI> and with it that ever &s;ince la&s;ting quarrell between the <HI>Ignatians</HI> (now Je&s;uites) and the Dominicans. There it was that <HI>Ignatius</HI> like a Cobler beyond his La&s;t, took upon him to &s;oar above his reach, and to &s;earch into the my&s;tery of the ble&s;&s;ed Trinity, which proving too hard for his weak brain, brought him to a publike cen&s;ure and judgement, &amp; for his &s;pee|dy triall the Dominicans (being the Grand Inqui&s;itors of the In|qui&s;ition Court) were nominated Judges; who finding <HI>Ignatius</HI> too &s;aucy with the &s;ecret Trinity of one glorious and Immortal God, and traducing it with bla&s;phemous and erroneous princi|ples, condemned him to a publike puni&s;hment, no le&s;s then whip|ping. La&s;hes they were, that did not only gall <HI>Ignatius</HI> his back, but ever &s;ince have cau&s;ed la&s;hing and cla&s;hing between <HI>Ignatius</HI> his children and the Dominican Whippers. And if <HI>Ignatius</HI> his name betray his fire, &s;til blown and further kindled in mo&s;t parts of the world by his train of Je&s;uites; &s;o likewi&s;e doe the Domi|nicans in their Legend Confe&s;&s;ion, acknowledge fire to be blown by them, who boa&s;t that when their founder Dominick was born, his mother &s;aw in a dream &s;tand by her a Dog with a lighted Torch in his mouth and a Globe; which, if true, may bet|ter &s;ignifie that he and his children al&s;o &s;hould kindle fire of re|bellion and &s;edition in the world, then what they mo&s;t fooli&s;hly fancy upon it. Thus Gentle Reader, if you plea&s;e, you may take notice of the&s;e two fiery brands of Chri&s;tendome, the Ignatian Je&s;uite, and the barking and biting dog with fire in his mouth the Dominican. But as two fire-brands laid together upon one hearth, &s;trive with the fire that is in them, not only to burn what comes neer or is laid upon them, but further are active in burning and con&s;uming each other. Even &s;o where ever the&s;e two, the Je&s;uite and Dominican do meet, they according to their from hell infu&s;ed Activity indeavour to kindle not only the fire of di&s;cord and rebellion in the Common-wealths or Kingdomes where they live, but al&s;o burning pa&s;&s;ionately each again&s;t the o|ther, doe indeavour like fire-brands one to con&s;ume the other. Oh how did <HI>Ignatius</HI> his fire with a violent flame about the yeere 1620 run in <HI>Spain</HI> over all the hou&s;es and Cloi&s;ters of the Domi|nicans,
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who by the Je&s;uites then were &s;o pro&s;ecuted that with weapons they were forced to defend their lives in their Cloi|&s;ters again&s;t the fury of the common people &s;tirred up again&s;t them by the fiery Je&s;uites, and were like to bee bani&s;hed that Kings Dominions for here&s;ie imputed to them, becau&s;e again&s;t the <HI>Ignatians</HI> and <HI>Suarez</HI> his Crew, they held that <HI>Mary</HI> Chri&s;ts mother was conceived in &s;in, and not like <HI>Jeremy</HI> &s;anctified in her mothers womb. Tedious I might be in relating their cla&s;hings in <HI>China, Iapan,</HI> in <HI>Rome,</HI> yea and in <HI>England;</HI> but I mu&s;t make ha&s;t to <HI>Madrid,</HI> and from thence give thee, Reader, intelligence of a &s;in|gle Combate or Duel fought before the King and his Court in the Kings Chappel between <HI>Florentia</HI> a grand Je&s;uite and <HI>Domingo de Torres</HI> a Dominican, both Chaplains to that Maje&s;ty when my &s;elf was living in <HI>Valladolid</HI> in <HI>Spain. Florentia</HI> envying the Domini|cans fortune &amp; honor, who by the Laws &s;of <HI>Arragon</HI> are con&s;tant Confe&s;&s;ours to the Kings of <HI>Spain,</HI> and ambitious of that place him&s;elf, thought if he could any wayes bani&s;h them from the Court of heaven, he might &s;oon cau&s;e them to be bani&s;hed from the Court of <HI>Madrid,</HI> and from hearing that Maje&s;ties Confe&s;&s;i|ons. Whereupon he plotted a feigned dream and &s;leep that &s;hould befall him in the Pulpit, ready to preach before his Maje&s;ty and his Nobles. Up to the Pulpit he goes to act in publike his &s;ecret|ly contrived plot; before the naming of his Text, hee faineth a &s;leep, re&s;ting upon his hand and Elbow, the Court being for a while in &s;u&s;pen&s;ion, wondring what had befallen the &s;leepy and drow&s;ie Je&s;uite, at la&s;t he awakes with a di&s;&s;embled amazement, and craving pardon of his Maje&s;ty, relates his dream, as follow|eth. Sacred Maje&s;ty, being in a &s;leep I have dreamed that I was in heaven, (Wel &s;aid Je&s;uite, thou may&s;t dream of heaven, that is all thou art like to have) and there I &s;aw the glory of all the Saints, and among them <HI>Herme, Negildus,</HI> and many other Kings of <HI>Spain,</HI> with <HI>Philip</HI> your Father, who&s;e glory may be your Maje&s;ties in|couragement, I &s;aw al&s;o of all religious Orders &s;ome, but above all <HI>Ignatius</HI> was mo&s;t glorious with his train of Saints; but prying earne&s;tly among&s;t them, and ca&s;ting a carefull eye about all the Corners of that capacious Court, I could &s;ee no Dominican Saint, which hath made me Judge that &s;urely their lives here upon earth are unworthy of eternall life in glory, and that their ambition to be great here, e&s;pecially about your Maje&s;ty, is cau&s;e of their lo&s;&s;e of any greatne&s;&s;e hereafter in heaven. Thus having
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with a lying Dream unthroned all Dominicans from Seats in glory (who doubtle&s;&s;e without a lye may be &s;aid to have none there) and bani&s;hed them that Court, hoping to work a bani&s;h|ment of them from the heart and affections of his Maje&s;ty and his Nobles, he went on to his Text, &s;uiting his di&s;cour&s;e with his faigned dream &amp; fancy. But the Dominicans hearing of this Je&s;uiticall plot again&s;t them, made choice of one of their be&s;t Champions by name, <HI>Domingo de Torres,</HI> who might enter into Duell with <HI>Florentia,</HI> having <HI>Goliah</HI>-like defied the ho&s;t of the Guzman or Dominican families. Therefore upon the next Lords-day, <HI>Domingo de Torres</HI> being appointed to preach in the Kings Chappell, no &s;ooner gets up into the pulpit, but like as <HI>Florentia</HI> before, he fals a &s;leep for a &s;mall time and dreams. But awaking out of a di&s;&s;embled &s;lumber before any choice of Text was made, he relates unto his Maje&s;ty his dream thus. May it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty, This place as it breeds too much &s;leep and dulne&s;&s;e in the hearers of our Sermons (which therefore work &s;o little upon their hearts) &s;o it &s;eems the Preachers them&s;elves are here &s;ubject to &s;lumbering, yea and to dreaming, as hath appear|ed in Father <HI>Florentia;</HI> and now again in my &s;elfe; who have dreamed that I &s;aw hell opened before me, and that by &s;ome chief Devils I was carried about all the corners thereof, where I &s;aw many Kings damned for their wicked lives, unju&s;t commands, and tyrannizing power over their &s;ubjects, who&s;e damnation I hope will prove a terrour to your Maje&s;ty from acting like them: there al&s;o I &s;aw &s;ome who have bin of yours &amp; of your Fathers Councell; yea let flattering of Princes be far from my mouth, I dreamed that neer unto the gates of hell I &s;aw a Coach driving furiou&s;ly, and in it your Maje&s;ty with many of your Nobles here pre&s;ent, &amp; that the Count of <HI>Olivares</HI> did drive the Coach. I hope it will but prove a dream, and that none about your Maje&s;ty will for the time to come drive your &s;oule by wicked Coun&s;els to that di&s;mall hou&s;e of darkne&s;&s;e and eternall ruine. Further I &s;aw many Fryers of mine own Order damned, yea &amp; of all other Orders with them, be&s;ide Bi&s;hops, Abbots, Prelates, and many Prie&s;ts for lewd and carnall lives; yet I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, that in all the places I had gone through, I &s;aw not one Je&s;uite, which made me wonder that they all &s;hould live &s;o holily that none of them &s;hould goe to hell. But being at the gates ready to come out, I demanded of &s;ome chief devils, whither they had no Je|&s;uites
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in their dark and horrid dungeons; and unto me they re|plyed, they had more of them then of any other Orders, and that if I would goe back, I &s;hould &s;ee the place and number of them. I went back, and at the furthe&s;t part of hell was &s;hewed unto me, a Wel covered with a &s;tone of a va&s;t and mighty bigne&s;&s;e, and for the taking of it up Legions of Divels were gathered together; the Well being opened, I &s;aw a bottomle&s;s pit burning with fire and brim&s;tone, wherein were thou&s;and thou&s;ands of Je&s;uites; And further demanding why they were kept in hell by them|&s;elves under more re&s;traint of &s;o waighty a &s;tone then others. An&s;wer was made by &s;ome chief devils, that they feared the Je&s;u|ites power and liberty more then all others, and that as in the world where they have power, they are Ma&s;ters of Kings, peo|ple and Laws to &s;ubvert and ruine all; &s;o if they &s;hould in hell give Je&s;uites liberty, &amp; not keep them under great re&s;traint, they would there al&s;o become Ma&s;ters; and as in the world they rule by breeding rebellion and &s;edition, &s;o if power and liberty were given to them in hell, they would to eternally racking torments adde a further fire of mutiny, faction and &s;edition. Thus much affrighted with the &s;ight of &s;o many damned Je&s;uites, &amp; fearing they &s;hould ri&s;e up and ma&s;ter all hell before the Well were co|vered again, I made ha&s;t to depart. I was not far gone out, when like as father <HI>Florentia</HI> in the way, I &s;aw heaven al&s;o opened, and looking carefully where the Dominicans were, that could not be &s;een by <HI>Florentia</HI> in his dream, I &s;aw that at the furthe&s;t part of heaven, they were hid under our Ladies mantle, and that as in the world they &s;erve her mo&s;t, &s;o in heaven they have protection under her glorious garment and mantle. Thus <HI>Torres</HI> having delivered his dream freely, went on to preach &s;uitably again&s;t the Je&s;uites over ruling power in States, Common-wealths, Courts or Kingdomes. The Duell being ended between the&s;e two di&s;|&s;embling dreamers, the event followed that <HI>Torres</HI> was promo|ted to the Archbi&s;hoprick of Saint <HI>Foy</HI> in the <HI>We&s;t-India's,</HI> and <HI>Florentia</HI> his ambitious thoughts with other his brethren were &s;topped, and with great care and vigilancy their too great pow|er prevented and weakned. Thus, Gentle Reader, with dreams I have plea&s;ed thy fancy; indeed they were dreams, but according to my true and faithfull relation they were really acted before the King and Court of Spain; Let them therefore enter beyond our fancy, to work a horrid dete&s;tation of &s;uch fire-brands,
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di&s;&s;emblers and dreamers among&s;t us, that our Nation and Peo|ple may not be deluded with doctrine of mantles in heaven, nor our State and Common-wealth &s;ubverted with indulgence of power and liberty to them, to whom devils (according to <HI>Tor|res</HI> his dream) dare not indulge too much command and power in hell. But la&s;tly, Reader, I mu&s;t &s;hew thee a further foil and fall of a Je&s;uite in our City of <HI>London,</HI> and &s;o give &s;atisfaction to &s;ome of my pre&s;ent being here, becau&s;e my coming out of the country hath been mi&s;con&s;trued by &s;ome, who will not know that high Powers have commanded me up, and by tho&s;e that know it, a&s;per&s;ions have been laid upon me, that for delin|quency and &s;iding with &s;ome Gentlemen in <HI>Kent</HI> now pri&s;oners in <HI>London,</HI> by warrant from high powers I was commanded to come and an&s;wer for &s;ome mi&s;demeanors again&s;t the pre&s;ent Government. Know therefore that upon the &s;econd of <HI>February,</HI> 1650. at the Marques of <HI>Winche&s;ter</HI> his hou&s;e in <HI>Coven garden</HI> was apprehended a Je&s;uite, by name <HI>Peter Wright, alias Bele,</HI> and for high trea&s;on committed to Newgate; whither al&s;o was tran&s;|ported from the Clink, one <HI>Thomas Dade,</HI> a long time pri&s;oner, upon &s;u&s;pition of being Superiour of all the Dominican fry|ers in <HI>England.</HI> The&s;e men being to be tryed at the Se&s;&s;ions and generall Gaol delivery holden at the Old <HI>Baily</HI> upon the 14. 15. and 16. day of this pre&s;ent month of <HI>May,</HI> and the right hono|rable <HI>Henry Rolle</HI> Lord chief Ju&s;tice of <HI>England</HI> and member of the Right Honourable Councell of State, being informed that I was able upon Oath to give in evidence again&s;t both the Ie&s;uite and the Dominican, by his warrant commanded me up from <HI>Deal</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> the place of my abode. In obedience unto which Order I came up, having no thought of <HI>Peter Wright</HI> the Ie&s;uite, but con|fident that with &s;afe Con&s;cience I could give evidence again&s;t <HI>Thomas Dade</HI> as a Fryer and Superior of the Dominicans, for that he was formerly mine own Superiour, when I profe&s;&s;ed obedi|ence to tho&s;e &s;uper&s;titious wayes, and particularly to the Or|der of the Dominicans. Being come to town I began to weigh with my &s;elf the danger on the one &s;ide I might be in by rea&s;on of the bloudy Tenents of Popi&s;h enemies, and the greatne&s;&s;e of the Marque&s;&s;e his friends, who&s;e cau&s;e mu&s;t needs bee publi&s;hed with the publike triall of his Prie&s;t. On the other &s;ide I weighed the &s;ervice of my Country and the State, who&s;e bread I eat and who&s;e protection I enjoy, and re&s;olved that no danger could be
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great that I &s;hould undergoe, nor death more glorious the what I &s;hould &s;uffer for the Common-wealth of <HI>England</HI> as now &s;etled by authority of this pre&s;ent Parliament. Being therefore commanded by my Lord chief Ju&s;tice of <HI>England</HI> in com|pany of Mr. Clark of the Warrants, and others to vi&s;it fir&s;t in New-gate <HI>Peter Wright</HI> and <HI>Thomas Dade,</HI> with other pri&s;oners there in hold, to &s;ee if I did know them; I was by words unci|villy entertained by them, who&s;e tender mercies would prove cruelties again&s;t me, if they could with advantage finde me here, or beyond Sea catch me within the command of their tyrannical Court of Inqui&s;ition, in&s;tituted by the bloudy men of <HI>Belial</HI> the Dominicans. <HI>Thomas Dade,</HI> I found to be indeed the &s;ame man that he was indited for, Superior of the Dominicans, who al&s;o had formerly owned me, (when a Dominican) for his inferiour, and had exerci&s;ed authority over me. <HI>Peter Wright</HI> I found to be a Grand Je&s;uite, formerly Chaplain to Colonel <HI>Gage</HI> my bro|ther and to his Regiment in <HI>Flanders,</HI> who from thence came over with him to <HI>Oxford,</HI> took up Armes with him again&s;t the Parlia|ment of <HI>England;</HI> whom I had often &s;een &s;ay Ma&s;&s;e in and about <HI>Gant</HI> in <HI>Flanders,</HI> where out of a deadly inbred &s;pite again&s;t Do|minicans he was a meanes to ca&s;t out of my Brothers Regiment one <HI>Peter Martyr, alias Craft,</HI> a Fryer of that Order. This man was actually Chaplaine and heard Confe&s;&s;ions of the Papi&s;t Souldiers and Commanders when one Captaine <HI>Vincent Burton</HI> of the &s;ame Regiment harboured Satanicall thoughts of mur|thering my per&s;on, and with &s;uch ba&s;e continued thoughts (no doubt but formerly confe&s;&s;ed) came from <HI>Flanders</HI> into <HI>England,</HI> where hee indevoured an a&s;&s;ault upon my Lodging, and mur|ther upon my body, but by the watching providence of God was prevented, and him&s;elfe e&s;caped. The Dominican pleaded for mercy and found it, the evidence not being very &s;trong to prove Orders or Ma&s;&s;e &s;aying, but onely to prove him a Fryer with command in <HI>England</HI> over that Order. The Je&s;uite having no|thing to &s;ay again&s;t &s;trong evidence was ca&s;t and condemned; and &s;o let ever ju&s;tice and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;pring forth, and flou|ri&s;h in the State and Common-wealth of <HI>England:</HI> So let men of <HI>Belial</HI> be de&s;troyed, <HI>Shebaes</HI> ca&s;t over the wall, <HI>Zimries</HI> and <HI>Cozbies</HI> be &s;lain, and no doubt but the plague will cea&s;e. Now, Gentle Reader, if after this my publike &s;ervice any untimely or violent death or mi&s;chiefe &s;hall befall me here in town or in my
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return to <HI>Kent,</HI> or any time hereafter, I de&s;ire thee from this my declaration to take notice, that through &s;pite, malice, hatred and envious contrivances of bloud thir&s;ty enemies, I have been butchered, and by their butchering of me, a doore hath beene opened unto me to let me goe through a dark and di&s;mall entry into a glorious place of Re&s;t, which I doubt not but that I &s;hall enjoy it, when once I have fini&s;hed my cour&s;e and fought a good fight as faithfull to the Lamb again&s;t all Antichri&s;ti|an Abettors, and &s;o I take leave of thee, well affected Reader, with the Angels Carroll and Doxology; Glory to God on high, on Earth peace, and good will towards men, e&s;pecially in mine and this States enemies, that they may learn with good will and affection better to affect tho&s;e that &s;eek the glory of God, the Kingdome of Chri&s;t here, the inward peace of God and their Con&s;ciences. <HI>Vale, veni, vidi, vici.</HI></P>
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<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> for <HI>Tho. Williams</HI> dwelling at the Bible in little <HI>Brittain,</HI> 1651.</P>
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