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A85366	A duell betvveen a Iesuite and a Dominican, begun at Paris, gallantly fought at Madrid, and victoriously ended at London, upon fryday the 16 day of May, Anno Dom. 1651. / by Thomas Gage, alias the English American, now preacher of the word at Deal in Kent.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1651 (1651)	Wing G108; Thomason E629_5; ESTC R206439	6,072	8

Kings Chappell no sooner gets up into the pulpit but like as Florentia before he fals a sleep for a small time and dreams But awaking out of a dissembled slumber before any choice of Text was made he relates unto his Majesty his dream thus May it please your Majesty This place as it breeds too much sleep and dulnesse in the hearers of our Sermons which therefore work so little upon their hearts so it seems the Preachers themselves are here subject to slumbering yea and to dreaming as hath appeared in Father Florentia and now again in my selfe who have dreamed that I saw hell opened before me and that by some chief Devils I was carried about all the corners thereof where I saw many Kings damned for their wicked lives unjust commands and tyrannizing power over their subjects whose damnation I hope will prove a terrour to your Majesty from acting like them there also I saw some who have bin of yours of your Fathers Councell yea let flattering of Princes be far from my mouth I dreamed that neer unto the gates of hell I saw a Coach driving furiously and in it your Majesty with many of your Nobles here present that the Count of Olivares did drive the Coach I hope it will but prove a dream and that none about your Majesty will for the time to come drive your soule by wicked Counsels to that dismall house of darknesse and eternall ruine Further I saw many Fryers of mine own Order damned yea of all other Orders with them beside Bishops Abbots Prelates and many Priests for lewd and carnall lives yet I must confesse that in all the places I had gone through I saw not one Jesuite which made me wonder that they all should live so holily that none of them should goe to hell But being at the gates ready to come out I demanded of some chief devils whither they had no Jesuites in their dark and horrid dungeons and unto me they replyed they had more of them then of any other Orders and that if I would goe back I should see the place and number of them I went back and at the furthest part of hell was shewed unto me a Wel covered with a stone of a vast and mighty bignesse and for the taking of it up Legions of Divels were gathered together the Well being opened I saw a bottomless pit burning with fire and brimstone wherein were thousand thousands of Jesuites And further demanding why they were kept in hell by themselves under more restraint of so waighty a stone then others Answer was made by some chief devils that they feared the Jesuites power and liberty more then all others and that as in the world where they have power they are Masters of Kings people and Laws to subvert and ruine all so if they should in hell give Jesuites liberty not keep them under great restraint they would there also become Masters and as in the world they rule by breeding rebellion and sedition so if power and liberty were given to them in hell they would to eternally racking torments adde a further fire of mutiny faction and sedition Thus much affrighted with the sight of so many damned Jesuites fearing they should rise up and master all hell before the Well were covered again I made hast to depart I was not far gone out when like as father Florentia in the way I saw heaven also opened and looking carefully where the Dominicans were that could not be seen by Florentia in his dream I saw that at the furthest part of heaven they were hid under our Ladies mantle and that as in the world they serve her most so in heaven they have protection under her glorious garment and mantle Thus Torres having delivered his dream freely went on to preach suitably against the Jesuites over ruling power in States Common-wealths Courts or Kingdomes The Duell being ended between these two dissembling dreamers the event followed that Torres was promoted to the Archbishoprick of Saint Foy in the West-India's and Florentia his ambitious thoughts with other his brethren were stopped and with great care and vigilancy their too great power prevented and weakned Thus Gentle Reader with dreams I have pleased 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 detestation of such fire-brands dissemblers and dreamers amongst us that our Nation and People may not be deluded with doctrine of mantles in heaven nor our State and Common-wealth subverted with indulgence of power and liberty to them to whom devils according to Torres his dream dare not indulge too much command and power in hell But lastly Reader I must shew thee a further foil and fall of a Jesuite in our City of London and so give satisfaction to some of my present being here because my coming out of the country hath been misconstrued by some who will not know that high Powers have commanded me up and by those that know it aspersions have been laid upon me that for delinquency and siding with some Gentlemen in Kent now prisoners in London by warrant from high powers I was commanded to come and answer for some misdemeanors against the present Government Know therefore that upon the second of February 1650. at the Marques of Winchester his house in Coven garden was apprehended a Jesuite by name Peter Wright alias Bele and for high treason committed to Newgate whither also was transported from the Clink one Thomas Dade a long time prisoner upon suspition of being Superiour of all the Dominican fryers in England These men being to be tryed at the Sessions and generall Gaol delivery holden at the Old Baily upon the 14. 15. and 16. day of this present month of May and the right honorable Henry Rolle Lord chief Justice of England and member of the Right Honourable Councell of State being informed that I was able upon Oath to give in evidence against both the Iesuite and the Dominican by his warrant commanded me up from Deal in Kent the place of my abode In obedience unto which Order I came up having no thought of Peter Wright the Iesuite but confident that with safe Conscience I could give evidence against Thomas Dade as a Fryer and Superior of the Dominicans for that he was formerly mine own Superiour when I professed obedience to those superstitious wayes and particularly to the Order of the Dominicans Being come to town I began to weigh with my self the danger on the one side I might be in by reason of the bloudy Tenents of Popish enemies and the greatnesse of the Marquesse his friends whose cause must needs bee published with the publike triall of his Priest On the other side I weighed the service of my Country and the State whose bread I eat and whose protection I enjoy and resolved that no danger could be great that I should undergoe nor death more glorious the what I should suffer for the Common-wealth of England as now setled by authority of this present Parliament Being therefore commanded by my Lord chief Justice of England in company of Mr. Clark of the Warrants and others to visit first in New-gate Peter Wright and Thomas Dade with other prisoners there in hold to see if I did know them I was by words uncivilly entertained by them whose tender mercies would prove cruelties against me if they could with advantage finde me here or beyond Sea catch me within the command of their tyrannical Court of Inquisition instituted by the bloudy men of Belial the Dominicans Thomas Dade I found to be indeed the same man that he was indited for Superior of the Dominicans who also had formerly owned me when a Dominican for his inferiour and had exercised authority over me Peter Wright I found to be a Grand Jesuite formerly Chaplain to Colonel Gage my brother and to his Regiment in Flanders who from thence came over with him to Oxford took up Armes with him against the Parliament of England whom I had often seen say Masse in and about Gant in Flanders where out of a deadly inbred spite against Dominicans he was a meanes to cast out of my Brothers Regiment one Peter Martyr alias Craft a Fryer of that Order This man was actually Chaplaine and heard Confessions of the Papist Souldiers and Commanders when one Captaine Vincent Burton of the same Regiment harboured Satanicall thoughts of murthering my person and with such base continued thoughts no doubt but formerly confessed came from Flanders into England where hee indevoured an assault upon my Lodging and murther upon my body but by the watching providence of God was prevented and himselfe escaped The Dominican pleaded for mercy and found it the evidence not being very strong to prove Orders or Masse saying but onely to prove him a Fryer with command in England over that Order The Jesuite having nothing to say against strong evidence was cast and condemned and so let ever justice and righteousnesse spring forth and flourish in the State and Common-wealth of England So let men of Belial be destroyed Shebaes cast over the wall Zimries and Cozbies be slain and no doubt but the plague will cease Now Gentle Reader if after this my publike service any untimely or violent death or mischiefe shall befall me here in town or in my return to Kent or any time hereafter I desire thee from this my declaration to take notice that through spite malice hatred and envious contrivances of bloud thirsty 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 dismall entry into a glorious place of Rest which I doubt not but that I shall enjoy it when once I have finished my course and fought a good fight as faithfull to the Lamb against all Antichristian Abettors and so 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 especially in mine and this States enemies that they may learn with good will and affection better to affect those that seek the glory of God the Kingdome of Christ here the inward peace of God and their Consciences Vale veni vidi vici Dixi. Printed at London for Tho. Williams dwelling at the Bible in little Brittain 1651. FINIS