The Salamanca wedding, or, A true account of a swearing doctor's marriage with a Muggletonian widow in Breadstreet London, August 18th, 1693 : in a letter to a gentleman in the country. Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704. 1693 Approx. 11 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-11 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A29791 Wing B5075 ESTC R31630 12197079 ocm 12197079 56013 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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SIR , THE only News of importance I have to communicate to you at present , is , That the famous and never-to-be-forgotten Dr. O — t s was married the beginning of this week . You know , for a person of his Constitution , that always expressed , and perhaps inherited an aversion to the Fair Sex ; and ●esides , had found out a Back door to bestow his 〈◊〉 and Strength elsewhere , 〈◊〉 himself at last to the and Duties of Matrimony , is as unnatural 〈◊〉 unexpected a Change as for an Old Miser to turn Prodigal ; and this perhaps was the surprising Revolution which most of our Almanacks both at home and abroad threatned us with in the month of August . I remember I happened to be at Garraway's , when a Gentleman came in , and told us the News . Immediately all other discourse ceased , East-India Actions , the price of Pepper , and rising of Currants ; not a word of our Army in Flanders , or the Seige of Belgrade , the Turky Fleet , and the Battle at Landen were not mentioned in two hours after . Nay , the Duke of Savoy , who is now working miracles for us in Piedmont , was wholly laid aside . Every body stood amazed , and it was a considerable time before they could recover themselves out of this astonishment . At last , an Old Gentleman at the upper end of the Table , broke the silence , and made himself and the Company very merry at the Doctor 's Expence . Says he , I remember I have somewhere read , that when Erasmus heard that Martin Luther , of blessed Memory ; was married , he should say in a j●sting manner , That if , according to the Old Tradition , Antichrist was to be got between a Monk and a Nun , the World was now in a fair way to have a Litter of the sort . Not that I would by any means ( continues he ) apply this story to the Doctor , for God forbid that we should ever live to see a Brood of Sucking Antichrists come out of the Doctor 's Loyns . My meaning is only this , That since the Saviour of the Nation has joyned his Saving Faculty with a Damming Talent ( for you are to understand his Lady is a Muggletonian , and those people pretend to have the power of Damnation ) we may now expect to see a Motley Race of half Saviours and half Dammers . Hold you there , crys another Gentleman , you ought to have said half Dammers and half Saviours ; for since the Mother's is the surest side , if the Doctor lives to have Children , they 'll Damm in all likelihood before they 'll Save . The Doctor ( as I have been acquainted by several of his intimate Friends ) had Two Reasons to incline him to marry in his Old Age. The first was his great Grief and Concern to see the Noble Army of Evidences defeated , Bedlow , Dugdale and Dangerfield , sleeping with their Fathers ; viz. the Witnesses that swore against Sus●nna , and those that stoned St. Stephen . Fuller , who with good management , would have made a clever fellow , buried alive in a Prison , Etcoetera Young , his Virtuous Companion , routed , past all hopes of rallying . Others , at the sight of a Pillory , or Whipp●ng-post , utter●y discountenanc'd , and ashamed of their Profession . So the Doctor finding the whole hopes of the Family of Evidences centring in himself , and that if due care were not taken the Species would be intirely lost , resolved , as far as in him lay , to prevent its utter extinction , and to raise up Seed to the Popish Plot himself . In the Second place , the Doctor was touched in Conscience for some Juvenile Gambols that shall be Nameless . It seems , though he had quitted the other Corruptions of Popery , yet he still fancied Cardinalism . Now all the World knows Conscience is a sad terrible thing . What says the Doctor 's Friend St. Austin ? Why , Conscientia mille Testes , Conscience is a thousand Witnesses . Is it therefore to be admited if the Doctor , who , make the be●● of him , is but one single Witness , and scarce that , sound himself forced to yeild to a thousand ? So then , as I said before , his Conscience perpetually alarming and disturbing him , the Doctor at last , merely for his own ease and quiet , made a Vow to sow his Wild Oats , and not to hide the Talent which God had plentifully given him , in an Italian Napkin . No sooner was this pious Resolution communicated to his Friends , who were mightily pleased at the News , but they looked out sharp to find him a proper Yoke-fellow . It was represented to him that a Maid was by no means for his turn , the D. was Fat and Pursy , a Maidenhead was not to be got with out much drudging for't ; and besides 't was now just the Dog days , and who knew but the D. Reins might receive great damage in case of a violent Encounter . At last an Independent Minister advised him to Mrs. Margaret W — of Breadstreet ( whose former Husband was a Muggletonian , and she continued of the same Perswasion ) urging this Argument in her behalf , that in her the D. might have open and free ingress , egress and regress as oft as he pleased , that as he might enjoy her without the sweat of , so he might eternally Live with her without the least peril of his Brows , she being no Charmer , and consequently would not equip him with a pair of Horns , which he knew the D. abominated , as being Marks of the Beast , and all together Popish . The D. liked the Proposal , and at the first interview , was so extremely smitten with the Gravity and Goodness of her Person , that he could neither Eat ( which was much ) nor Drink ( which was more ) till the business was concluded . A Comical passage happen'd at the Commons , which I think very well worth the sending to you . The D. going thither for a License , two scurvey Questions were asked him . The first was , whether he would have a License to marry a Boy or a Girl ; the second whether he would have a License for Behind or Before . At this the D. lost all Patience , held up his Cane , and thundered out You Raskal as thick as Hops , till upon the Proctor's crying Pecavi , the Sky cleared up again . The Articles of Marriage were as follows . Imprimis , The D. promises in verbo Sacerdotis , to keep ne're a Male Servant in his House under Sixty , and to hang up the Picture of the Destruction of Sodom in his Bed-Chamber ad reficandam memoriam , and to teach his Children to swear as soon as they can speak , Item , The D. promises that he will never offer to attack either in Bed , or Couch , Jointstool , or Table , the Body of the aforesaid Mrs. Margaret W — à parte post , but to comfort , refresh , and relieve her à parte ante , giving the aforesaid Mrs. Margaret W — in case he offends after that manner , full leave to make her self amends before , as she pleases ; as also upon a second Trespass , to burn his Peacemaker . However with this Proviso , that whenever the aforesaid Mrs. Margaret W — happens to be under the Dominion of the Moon , that is to say , whenever it is Term-time with the aforesaid Mrs. Margaret W — then the abovementioned D. shall have full power , liberty and Authority ●o enter the Westminster-hall of her Body at which door he pleases . This last Clause was not obtained till after a Stiff Dispute on the D's part , who threatned to break off if it were denied him . The other Articles a● less considerable , I pass over , to come to the main business in hand , the Marriage . On the 17th of this present August the Dr. was new Washed and Trimmed , with a large Sacerdotal Rose in his 〈◊〉 ▪ and all his other Clergy ●●●page , came to the House of an Anabaptist 〈◊〉 in the City ▪ where in 〈…〉 of a numerous A●sembly , consisting of all 〈◊〉 divisions , and sub-divisions of Protestants , he was Married to 〈◊〉 . Margaret W — The D. was observed to be very merry all Dinner time , 〈…〉 of his Face , meaning his Chin , moved 〈◊〉 . There stood 〈…〉 against him a mighty Surloin of Beef , to which he sh●wed 〈…〉 to the 〈◊〉 in the Reign of the P●●t . After Dinner six fifth Monarch-Men , larded with as many Ranters Danced a Spiritual Jig , and a dozen sweet-Singers of Israel employed their Melodious Qu●il-pipes all the while . But Madam Salamanca ( for so we m●st now ca●l her ) seemed not to be much affected with this Diversion , but looked very Disconsolate and Melancholly . One of the Sisterhood asked her why on a day of Rejoycing she expressed so much Sorrow in her looks ? To which Madam O. after two or three deep sighs , answered , That she very much doubted ( like the Staffordshire Miller that M●unted King Charles after Worcester Fight upon one of his sorry Horses ) whether she should be able to bear the weight of the Saviour of three Nations . Thus the time was agreeably spent till Ten , at which time a Bell rung to Prayers , and afterwards ( his Spouse , after the landable custom of England having gone before ) the D. resolutely marched towards the place of Execution . There was no Sack Posset , nor throwing of Stockings , both those Ceremonies being judged to be Superstituous , and things of mere human Invention . The Bed continued in a trembling fit most part of the Night , which I suppose occasioned the report of an Earthquake , which the next Neighbours said they felt that 〈◊〉 Night . 'T is not doubted but the D. behaved himself with great Gallantry , 〈◊〉 Madam O. told her Midwife that is to be , that the D. Fought out all his ●●inger , and she already begins to Puke , and be out of Order , like Women in a Breeding condition . An Astrologer 〈◊〉 Morefield , having been consulted upon this occasion , has Prophesied it will prove a Boy , which makes the D. take up all the Hebrew Genealogies in the old Testament , to find out a pat name for him . FINIS . London , Printed in the Year 1693.