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 found the quite contrary words, to what the false Jesuite had caused to be Printed; he was forced to confess 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. Another reason of this mortal enmity between, these two Orders, is for that the Jesuites surpass 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 Kingdom of Valencia, the Kings of Spain are tyed 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 Florentia that grand Statist should be Confessor to the Count of Olivares, the Royal 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 woful sight to the Jesuites to see their Religion-affaires handled, their Church kept pure from what they call Heresie by any but themselves. O had they (as they have often strived for it) in their hands the judicature of that Tribunal, how should all Dominicans nay all sorts of Priests but their own, presently by them be Branded with Heresie? Thirdly, in Rome there is another preferment successively due to Dominicans from the time of Domimcus 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 dayly Lecture of Divinity to such as Will be instructed therein, and to resolve the