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A41427	The English-American, his travail by sea and land, or, A new survey of the West-India's containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... : also, a new and exact discovery of the Spanish navigation to those parts ... : with a grammar, or some few rediments of the Indian tongue called Poconchi, or Pocoman / by the true and painfull endeavours of Thomas Gage ... 1648.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1648 (1648)	Wing G109; ESTC R22621	392,970	244

cloathed with a long loose Coat who represent●… St. Peter or Iohn the Baptist who whilst the rest danceth walketh amongst them with a book in his hands as if hee were saying his prayers all the rest of the Dancers are apparelled like Captaines and souldier s with Swords Daggers or Holbards in their hands They dance at the sound of a small drum and pipes sometimes ●…ound sometimes in length forward and have and use many speeches to the Emperour or King and among themselves concerning the apprehending and executing the Saint The King and Queen sit sometimes down to hear their pleading against the Saint and his pleading for himselfe and sometimes they dance with the rest and the end of their dance is to crucifie St. Peter downwards with his head upon a Crosse or behead Iohn the Baptist having in readinesse a painted head in a dish which they present unto the King and Queen for joy whereof they all again dance merrily and so conclude taking down him that acted Peter from the Crosse. The Indians that dance this dance most of them are superstitious for what they do judging as if it 〈◊〉 indeed really acted and performed what onely is by way of dance represented When I lived amongst them it was an ordinary thing for him who in the dance was to act St. Peter or Iohn the Baptist to come first to Confession saying they must bee holy and pure like that Saint whom they represent and must prepare themselves to die So likewise hee that acted Herod or Herodias and some of the Souldiers that in the dance were to speak and to accuse the Saints would afterwards come to confesse of that sinne and desire absolution as from bloodguiltinesse More particular passages of the Indians according to my experience of them I shall in the Chapter following truly relate unto my Reader CHAP. XX. Shewing how and why I departed out of Guatemala to learne the Poconchi language and to live among the Indians and of some particular passages and accidents whilst I lived there HAving read in the University of Guatemala for three years space a whole course of Arts and having begun to read part of Divinity the more I studied and grew in knowledge and the more I controverted by way of Arguments some Truths and points of Religion the more I found the spirit of Truth inlightening me and discovering unto me the lies errors falsities and superstitions of the Church of Rome My conscience was much perplexed and wavering and I desirous of some good and full ●…atisfaction Which I knew might not bee had there and that to professe and continue in any opinion contrary to the Doctrine of Rome would bring mee to the Inquisition that Rack of tender Consciences and from thence to no lesse then burning alive in case I would not recant of what the true Spirit had inspired into mee The point of Transubstantiation of Purgatory of the Popes power and authority of the merit of mans workes of his free will to choose all soul-saving wayes the sacrifice of the Masse the hallowing the Sacrament of the Lords Supper unto the Lay people the Preists power to absolve from sinne the worshipping of Saints though with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they call it and not with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Virgin Mary with a higher degree of worship then that of the Saints which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the strange lies and blasphemies which they call miracles recorded in the Legend and lives of their Saints the infallibility of the Pope and councell in defining for truth and point of Faith what in it selfe is false and erroneous these points especially with many more of Romes policies and the lewd lives of the Preists Fryers Nuns and those in authority did much trouble and perplex my conscience which I knew would bee better satisfied if I could returne againe to my owne Countrey of England where I knew many things were held contrary to the Church of Rome but what particulars they were I could not tell not having been brought up in the Protestant Church and having been sent young over to St. Omers Wherefore I earnestly addressed my selfe to the Provincial and to the President of Guatemala for a licence to come home but neither of them would yeeld unto it because there was a strict order of the King and Councell that no Preist sent by his Majesty to any of the parts of the India's to Preach the Gospell should return againe to Spain till ten yeers were expired Hereupon I seeing my self a prisoner and without hopes for the present of seeing England in many yeers resolved to stay no more in Guatemala but to goe out to learne some Indian tongue and to preach in some of their Townes where I knew more money might bee got to help mee home when the time should come then if I did continue to live in the Cloister of Guatemala Yet in the mean time I thought it not unfit to write to Spain to a friend of mine an English Fryer in San Lucar called Fryer Pablo de Londres to desire him to obtian for mee a License from the Court and from the Generall of the Order at Rome that I might return unto my Country In this season there was in Guatemala Fryer Francisco de Moran the Prior of Coban in the Province of Vera Paz who was informing the President and whole Chancery how necessary it was that some Spaniards should bee ayding and assisting him for the discovery of a way from that Country unto Iucatan and for the suppressing of such barbarous people and Heathens as stopped his passage and did often invade some Indian Towns of Christians This Moran being my speciall friend and having been brought up in Spaine in the Cloister of San Pablo de Valladolid where my selfe was first entred Frier was very desirous of my company along with him for the better bringing into Christianity those Heathens and Idolaters telling me that doubtlesse in a new Countrey new treasure and great riches was like to be found whereof no small share and portion should befall him and me for our pains and adventure I was not hard to be perswaded being above all desirous to convert to Christianity a people that had never heard of Christ and so purposed to forsake that honour which I had in the Universitie for to make Christ knowne unto that Heathenish people The Provinciall was glad to see this my courage and so with some gifts and mony in my purse sent me with Moran to the Vera Paz in the company of 50. Spaniards who were appointed by the President to aid and assist us When we came to Coban we were well refreshed and provided for a hard and dangerous enterprize From Coban we marched to two great Townes of Christians called St. Peter and St. Iohn where were added unto us a hundred Indians for our further assistance From these Towns two daies journey we could travail on Mules safely among Christians

Conversion of England the onely object of their Ambition and unsatiable Covetousnesse But above all is this envy and hatred found between Dominicans and Jesuites for these owe unto them an old grudge for that when Ignatius Loiola lived his Doctrine de Trinitate which hee pretended was revealed to him from heaven for hee was certainely past the Age of studying at his Conversion was questioned by the Dominicans and hee by a Church Censure publickly and shamefully whipped about their Cloisters for his erroneous principles This affront done to their chief Patron hath stirred up in them an unreconciliable hatred towards the Order of the Dominicans and hath made them even cracke their braines to oppose Thomas Aquinas his Doctrine How shamefully doe those two Orders indeavour the destruction of each other branding one another with calumnies of heresie in the Opinions especially de Conceptione Mariae de libero arbitrio de Auxiliis And of the two the Jesuites is more bold and obstinate in malice and hatred How did they some twenty yeares agoe all Spaine over about the Conception of Mary stirre up the people against the Dominicans in so much that they were in the very streets tearmed Hereticks stones cast at them the King almost perswaded to banish them out of all his Dominions and they poore Fryers forced to stand upon their Guard in their Cloisters in many Cities especially in Sevill Osuna Antiquera and Cordova to defend themselves from the rude and furious multitude Much like this was that publike Conference and disputation betweene Valentia the Jesuite and Master Lemos the Dominican before the Pope concerning their alter●…ation de Auxiliis When the cunning Jesuite hoping to brand with heresie the whole Order of Dominicans had caused Augustmes Workes to bee falsly printed at Lions with such words which might directly oppose the Thom●…sts Opinion and had prevailed had not Lemos begged of ●…e Pope that the Originall Bookes of ●…ustin might bee brought out of his Vatican Library where was found the quite contrary words to what the false Iesuite had caused to be printed hee was forced to contesse his knavery was harshly reprehended and with the apprehension of that great affront the next night gave up his ghost to his father the father of lies and falshood An other reason of this mortall enmity between these two Orders is for that the Jesuites surpasse all others in ambition of honour credit and estimation whence it is they cannot indure to behold the Dominicans to exceed them in any preferment Now it is that by the Laws of Arragon and the Kingdome of Valencia the Kings of Spain are tied to have a Dominican Fryer for their Confessor or ghostly father which could but the Jesuites obtain how would they then rule and govern Spain and the Kings heart But though they could never yet prevail to alter this established law yet have they prevailed now lately so that Antonio de Sotomayor the King of Spains Confessor should lie at rest in the Court of Madrid with a pension and dry title only and that Florencia that grand Statist should be Confessor to the Count of Olivares the Royall Issue the Queen and should hear the Kings confessions oftner then his chosen and elected Confessor Sotomayor Secondly the Dominicans as first Authors of the Inquisition which they prove from their Martyr Peter of Verona still enjoy the highest places of that Court which is a wofull sight to the Jesuites to see their Religion affaires handled their Church kept pure from what they call heresy by any but themselves O had they as they have often strived for it in their hands the judicature of that tribunall how should all Dominicans nay all sorts of Preists but their own presently by them be branded with heresy Thirdly in Rome there is an other preferment successively due to Dominicans from the time of Dominicus de Guzman founder of that Religion to wit to be magister Sacri Palatii the Popes Palace master instituted to this purpose that about him there may be some learned Divine for commonly the Popes are more Statists and Canonists then Divines to read a daily lecture of Divinity to such as will be instructed therein and to resolve the Pope himselfe of whatsoever difficult points in Divinity may be questioned This is the Dominicans due with a pension to maintain Coach and servants within the Palace of St Peter Which the Jesuites have often by favour and cunning Jesuiticall trickes endeavoured to bereave the Dominicans of but proving labour in vain they continue still in their unplacable enmity and hatred against them And thus you see the fountaines of their strife which as here in Europe hath been well seen so hath this contentious fire overpowered the fire of their zeal of soules in the East and West-India's and the wealth and riches of those Countries the ambition of honor in their Gospel function hath more powerfully drawn them thither then what they pretend the conversion of a barbarous and idolatrous nation This was well published to the view of the whole world by a most infamous libel which in the year 1626 fryer Diego de Colliado a missionary Fryer in Philippinas and Iapan set ou●… of the unheard of passages and proceedings of the Jesuites in those Eastern parts At that time the Jesuites pretended that mission to themselves only and petitioned the King of Spain that only they might go thither to preach having been the first plantation of Franciscus Xavier and since continued successively by their Priests To this purpose they remembred the King of the great charges he was at in sending so many Fryers and maintaining them there all which should be saved might they only have free ingresse into those Kingdomes All which charges they offered themselves to beare and further to bring up the Indians in the true faith to instruct them and civilize them to teach them all liberall sciences and to perfect them in musick and all musicall instruments and in fencing dancing vaulting painting and whatsoever els might make them a compleat and civill people But against all this was objected by Diego Colliado that not zeal only and charity moved them to this offer but their ambition and covetousnesse which would soon be seen in their encroaching upon the silly and simple Indians wealth bringing instances of many thousand pounds which they had sque●…zed from the poore Barbarians in the Islands of Philippinas And that their entring into Iapan was more to enrich themselves then to convert the Iaponians to Christianisme that whensoever they entred into the Kingdome they conveyed from Manila whole ships laden with the richest commodities of those Islands that their trading was beyond all other Merchants trading their Bench for exchange mony farre more accustomed then any other whither for China for Iapan for Peru and Mexico and that the Viceroy himselfe made use of none other but theirs That to keep out all other orders out of Iapan they had ingratiated themselves so

and Saviour Jesus Christ and to renounce and abjure from that time all Heat henish Idolatry of their forefathers assuring them for what was past I would intercede for them and secure them from what punishment might be inflicted upon them by the President and Bishop and if they would come to me I would spend my best indeavours for the helping and furthering of them in the way of Christianity And thus concluding without naming any person I went downe out of the pulpit and caused the Idol to be brought after me and sending for an axe and for two or three great pans of coales I commanded him to be hewen in very small peeces and to be cast in the fire and burned before all the people in the midst of the Church The Spaniards cried out joyfully Victor Victor and others repeated Gloria â nostro Di●…s Glory to our God the Idolaters held their peace and spake not then a word But afterwards they acted most spightfully against me and conspired day and night to get me at some advantage and to kill me I writ to the President of Guatemala informing him of what I had done and to the Bishop as an Inquisitor to whom such cases of idolatry did belong to be informed from him of what course I should take with the Indians who were but in part yet discovered unto me and those onely by the relation of one Indian From both I received great thanks for my paines in searching the mountaine and finding out the Idol and for my zeal in burning of it And as touching the Indian Idolaters their counsell unto me was that I should further enquire after the rest and discover as many as I could and indeavour to convert them to the knowledge of the true God by faire and sweet meanes shewing pity unto them for their great blindnesse and promising them upon their repentance pardon from the Inquisition which considering them to be but new plants useth not such rigour with them which it useth with Spaniards if they fall into such horrible fins This advise I followed and sent privately for the Fuentes to my chamber and told them how mercifull the Inquisition was unto them expecting their conversion and amendment They seemed somewhat stubborne and angry for that I had burned that God whom not only they but many others in the Towne and also in the Towne of Saint Iohn Sacatepeques did worship I used reasons to perswade them no honour was due unto it as to a God But one of them boldly replyed that they knew that it was a p●…ce of wood and of it selfe could not speake but seeing it had spoken as they were all witnesses this was a miracle whereby they ought to be guided and they did verlly beleeve that God was in that piece of wood which since the speech made by it was more then ordinary wood having God himselfe in it and therefore deserved more offerings and adoration then those Saints in the Church who did never speake unto the people I told them that the Devill rather had framed that speech if any they had heard for to deceive their souls and lead them to hell which they might easily perceive from the Doctrin which I was informed he had preached against Christ the only begotten son of God whom the Father loveth and in whom he is w●…ll pleased and against whom he certainly would not speake in that idol Another answered boldly our forefathers never knew what Christ was until the Spaniards came unto that Countrey but they knew there were Gods did worship them and did sacrifies unto them and for ought they knew this God of theirs belonged in old times unto their forefathers Why then said I unto them he was a weake God who by my 〈◊〉 hath been burned I perceived that at that time there was no reasoning with them for they were stubborn and captious and so I dismissed them Had not God 〈◊〉 graciously protected me against these my enemies I had certainly been murthered by them for a moneth after the burning of the idol when I thought all had been forgotten and that the Idolaters were quiet then they began to act their spight and 〈◊〉 which first I discovered by a noise which once at midnight I heard of people abou●… my 〈◊〉 and at my chamber doore to whom I called 〈◊〉 from my bed not ●…ring to open but 〈◊〉 have no answer from them I perceived they would have come in by force for they pushed hard at the doore Whereupon I tooke suddainly the sheets from off my bed tying them with a strong knot together and with another to a bar of the window making my selfe ready to fall down by them to the ground and so to flie in the dark night if they had used violence to come in The sheets being thus prepared and they still at the doore thrusting without any word from them I thought by calling and crying out aloud I might affright them away Wherefore with a shrill voice I called first to my servants who were but boyes and lay at the further end of a long gallery then I cryed out to the neighbouring houses to come and assist me against theeves The servants had heard the noise and were awake who presently at my call came out and with their coming my enemies ran down the staires and were heard no more that night But I perceiving which way their spight and malice was bent thought fit to be no more alone in the night with boyes only in so great a house as was that of Mixco whereupon the next day I sent for my trusty friend Miguel Dalva who was able to fight alone with any halfe dozen of Indians wishing him to bring with him what weapons he could get for my defence I kept him with me a fortnight and the next Sabbath I gave warning in the Church that whosoever came in the night to my house to affright me or to doe me any other mischiefe should looke to him selfe for that I had weapons both offensive and defensive Though for a while I heard no more of them yet they desisted not altogether from their evill and malicious intents for knowing that Miguel Dalva did not lie in the same chamber with me a fortnight after I being till about midnight with my candle studying they came up the staires so softly that I heard them not but the Black-more being awake it seems perceived that they were coming up and softly arose up from a long table were he lay upon a Mat and tooke in his hand a couple of brick-bats of many which lay under the table for a worke which I had in hand and as he opened the dore made a little noise which was to them an item to flie down the staires and to run as they thought for their lives The Black-more did also run after them and finding they had got too much advantage of him and not knowing which way they might take sent after them with a fury his two