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<P>The Bloudy Mother. OR The mo&s;t inhumane murthers, committed by <HI>Iane Hatter&s;ley</HI> vpon diuers Infants, the i&s;&s;ue of her owne bodie: &amp; the priuate burying of them in an Orchard with her Araignment and execution. As al&s;o, The mo&s;t loath&s;ome and lamentable end of <HI>Adam Adam&s;on</HI> her Ma&s;ter, the vnlawfull begetter of tho&s;e vnfortunate Babes, being eaten and con&s;umed aliue with Wormes and Lice. At Ea&s;t <HI>Grin&s;ted</HI> in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> neere London, in Iuly la&s;t. 1609.</P>
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<FIGDESC>depiction of the burial of an infant by the two accused</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>depiction of the wasting away in bed of one of the accused</FIGDESC>
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<P>Printed for <HI>Iohn Bu&s;bie,</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>Arth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">r Iohn&s;on</HI> in Paules Churchyard at the &s;igne of the White Hor&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_YOu haue heere no tran&s;lated wonder, no far fetcht matter, no Engli&s;h lie, to pa&s;&s;e for an outlandi&s;h truth: but a true relati|on of that that many tongues can wit|nes to tho&s;e that ambiguou&s;ly &s;hal &s;tand to with&s;tand it. If it broght not with it that probabili|tie that it doth, I could not blame any that &s;hold haue a ielo&s;ie or mi&s;tru&s;t of the certaintie of it; for we haue had &s;ome peices that haue had faire &s;tampes, but the &s;tuffe has bin counterfeite. But this I cannot &s;u&s;pect can be &s;u&s;pected by any (after they haue read it:) For fir&s;t, the nearne&s;&s;e of the place where the&s;e cruelties were executed: &s;econdly the time: thirdly the rumour hath bin &s;pread of it: and la&s;tly the names of tho&s;e that at the bench gaue euidence again&s;t them, per&s;ons (for the mo&s;t part) of good &s;ufficiencie, yet liuing, cannot but inforce a beleefe in any that haue &s;ence to &s;en|&s;ure vpon &s;uch manyfe&s;t markes of veritie.</P>
<P>Such it is, as mothers with wet eyes, and Fathers with grieu'd hearts may receiue: for with the cheife of many precedent &s;oule-confounding mi&s;cheifes, this may &s;tand, to &s;hevv (with terror) the bloody and mo&s;t dangerous events of lu&s;t, and &s;uch libidinous liuing.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Tho. Brew.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The bloodie Mother. OR The mo&s;t inhumaine murthers of <HI>Iane Hatter&s;ley</HI> vppon diuers infants, being the i&s;&s;ue of her owne bodie.</HEAD>
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<P>_HAppie is that man whome o|ther mens harms maketh to be wi&s;e. I happie, and thri&s;e happie is he indeed: but &s;uch is the folly of men in this our vnhappie age, that though they &s;ee the mo&s;t heauie and lamenta|ble ends of thou&s;ands of hell-charmd malefactors, yet they will not learne good from their ill, nor to be wi&s;e by their folly.</P>
<P>Sinne, like a &s;ubtill and mo&s;t cunning adulator, comes vpon vs with a faire looke, and a tongue full of mo&s;t fine words and phra&s;es, promi&s;ing all happine&s;&s;e and &s;weet content at his entrance; and with that promi&s;e ha&s;tilye gets to the heart of man; where hauing once got firme footing, he &s;taies, till the mo&s;t bitter and formenting contraries of his promi&s;ed, euen kill the hart he takes hold on.</P>
<P>O how happy is he, that &s;eeing the foule ends of folly, and vngratious actions a farr off, feares lea&s;t the temptation and thought, which was the <HI>Embryon</HI> of that euill, in&s;inuate, and creepe into his heart: and fearing prai&s;e for a&s;&s;i&s;tance to him that helps, who&s;oeuer calles vpon him for helpe: one cole of fire is ea&s;ily quenched, when many are hardly, or neuer extin|gui&s;ht, till they haue confounded the matter they light on: So &s;inne, while tis but a &s;parke, with ea&s;ie oppo&s;ition may be expeld the hart and minde of man: but &s;uffered to feed vpon the fewell Sathan ca&s;ts in, and &s;o to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;pread it &s;elfe in furious <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ames, will be the dire fall an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">u&s;ion of his &s;ufferer.</P>
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<P>What heauie ends follow light beginnings, we may ea&s;ily &s;ee, &amp; not goe farre to finde them; for alas, the multiplicity of &s;in, &s;hews it in euery corner. As for example: many there be that among&s;t their cannes, halfe cannes, and mo&s;t vnhealthfull healths, haue falne from ordinarie &amp; familiar conference to high and opprobrious &s;peeches: from &s;uch words, to blowes: from blowes to &s;tabs: &s;o in blood, and hemp, haue made an vn|timely and heauie deui&s;ion of their &s;oules and bodyes.</P>
<P>Some entring into play, thinking at the enterance vppon nothing but the ordinary end; vpon &s;ome pettie, ridiculous, and mo&s;t childi&s;h occa&s;ion, haue entertaind anger, and in that madne&s;&s;e, (for indeed it is &s;o) one has bin &s;ent to his graue, and the other to the gallowes.</P>
<P>Some taken in the &s;tronge entangling nette of a beautious looke, haue &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">bord for their maintenance, and &s;ecuritie in that mo&s;t dangerous plea&s;ure, that they haue drawne vpon them&s;elues, an vnexpected reward: for the reward of their la|bor has bin the horror of their con&s;ciences, the greife of their friends, and the &s;hortning of their owne dayes, with &s;hame and bitterne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Thus much haue I &s;aid, to excite men at the very beginning, and entrance of &s;inne to behold it, with an eye of perfect iudgement and thoughts of a heauenly temper, that this Ser|pent, with an Angelles forehead and a diuells taile, may not be &s;uffered to creepe in, to his confounding labor.</P>
<P>But now to my bloody and heauie &s;ubiect: In <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> in a towne cald Ea&s;t <HI>Grin&s;teed,</HI> dwelt one <HI>Adam Adam&s;onne;</HI> a man that for his yeares, place, and &s;ufficiencie in e&s;tate of liuing, was in good account and recconing among&s;t his neighbours, But men can but &s;ee as men; the eye of man, cannot peirce or prye into the thoughts and intent of man; neither can it giue the hart intelligence, but from outward behauiour and work|ing: And therefore right ea&s;ily may the iudgements of men be deceiued: for mo&s;t common it is for man, to &s;eeme that he &s;hould be, and be that he &s;hould not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;o deceiuing (as I &s;aid) the ho|ne&s;t coniectures and iudgements of men, by a fal&s;e and adulte|rate appearance; as in this <HI>Adam Adam&s;onne</HI> is apparant:
<PB REF="5"> for with a &s;hew of hone&s;tie and good dealing, he couered a ma&s;&s;e of di&s;hone&s;t and putrified cogitations: among&s;t which, the mo&s;t ranke and corrupted, were of lu&s;t.</P>
<P>He had a wife, but the vigor and &s;trength of lu&s;t, carried his loue from her to a &s;eruant he kept; who was as fitt for his thoughts (in affibilitie and ea&s;ie yeelding) as if &s;he had &s;pent an apparenti&s;hip in a hou&s;e of &s;uch trading, as train<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;uch as &s;he to &s;uch damnable &s;eruice and imployment.</P>
<P>So much he doted vpon this &s;trumpet, that all the loue and kindnes that was fully due to his ligitimate bed-mate, &s;he was mi&s;tris and commaundre&s;&s;e of: what &s;he commaunded mu&s;t be performed; what &s;he reque&s;ted, mu&s;t be prouided; and what &s;he was di&s;plea&s;d with, to plea&s;e her mu&s;t be remoued: her will was <HI>Adamant</HI> and his <HI>Iron,</HI> which followed the at|traction of hers, to the very vtt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ermo&s;t of her plea&s;ure: and often to make her the more prone and apt to his will, he would pro|mi&s;e her when his wife dyed, to make her his wife: which pro|mi&s;e &s;o wrought in her minde, that &s;hee thought euery day a yeare till &s;he might &s;ee the la&s;t ga&s;p of her Dame.</P>
<P>So long were the&s;e thoughts &s;uffred, without a gracious re&s;i&s;tance, that they grew to that &s;trength, that they &s;tird her to &s;hew the fowlnes of them in action: but the Lord &s;o guarded the innocent wrong'd wife of <HI>Adam&s;on,</HI> that &s;he could not haue the power to performe her diuilli&s;h purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Six weekes &s;he bare poy&s;on in her pur&s;&s;e, to &s;pice hir dames drinke withall, in which time &s;he made many faire (or rather mo&s;t damnable foule) proffers; but all were mo&s;t &s;trangely, and admirably fru&s;trated by the will of the almighty &s;earcher of harts and reines, who &s;aw and preuented euery wicked and vngodly attempt of hers. When &s;he &s;aw that &s;he was &s;o oft and &s;o &s;trangely preuented &s;he re&s;olud to giue ouer that purpo&s;e, and in that re&s;olution, &s;he threw her poy&s;on into the fire and burnt it.</P>
<P>Many yeares did this olde Lecher maintaine this young <HI>Lena</HI> in this ob&s;cure and mo&s;t foule &s;inne, in &s;o thick a cloud of &s;ecrecie, as the diuell makes fit, to helpe tho&s;e that labour in the bu&s;ines that is &s;weete &amp; plea&s;ing to him, for ten or twelue
<PB REF="6"> harue&s;ts haue they reapt the mo&s;t wicked plea&s;ures of their vn|godly lu&s;t. In which time, the ful number of the babes they haue had, cannot be knowne, but three &s;he confe&s;t, be&s;ides one that is yet liuing.</P>
<P>Of the fir&s;t of her loads of woe and &s;hame, (being by <HI>Adam&s;on</HI> turnd off, for that he &s;u&s;pected &s;he made another partner with him in his loath&s;ome libidinous &s;inne) &s;he lay in the hou&s;e of one goodman King, who with his wife ignorant of her ignomi|nous cour&s;e of liuing, and pre&s;ent e&s;tate of bodie, had enter|taind her very kindly.</P>
<P>But as &s;he deceiu'd them, &s;he deceiu'd many, for &s;he &s;o cun|ningly blinded the eyes of people, in the time that her &s;inne mu&s;t needs appeare, with loo&s;e lacing, tucking, and other odde tricks that &s;he v&s;ed, that to the very in&s;tant minute of her deliuerie, none could perceiue &s;he was with childe.</P>
<P>This Good-man King, and his wife (as thriftie per&s;ons v&s;e to doe) left their bed very early euery morning, and <HI>Iane</HI> to lye by it at her plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>It chanced &s;o one morning, being thus left alone, that a neighbors wife, comming to &s;peake with goodwife King, found her in hard trauaile with child: which (with an a&s;toni&s;ht mind) perceiuing, &s;he pre&s;ently ran to Kings barne, where &s;he found him at his labour.</P>
<P>To him &s;he very ha&s;tily, as halfe affrighted with that &s;he had &s;eene, tould all, de&s;iring him to call his wife and goe hen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e&punc; he pre&s;ently left his worke and went with her, and before they came to his doore they met his wife, then altogether going ha&s;tily home, they met this common &amp; mo&s;t impudent ba&s;tard|bearer, co~ming out of the dores with the prety infant, that euen that minute was come from her poluted womb, into this world, and that then &s;hould haue bin tenderly laid and louingly looked vnto, mo&s;t carle&s;ly wrapt vp in her apron, intending (as we may bouldly imagine) in &s;ome impuous and execrable &s;ort to haue made it away.</P>
<P>But that intent was by the ble&s;&s;ed will and plea&s;ure of God mo&s;t happily preuented, by the&s;e per&s;ons.</P>
<P>Very kindly at fir&s;t, con&s;idering her ca&s;e, they de&s;ired to &s;ee
<PB REF="6"> what &s;he had in her apron; but <HI>Iane</HI> knowing the perill of it, told them &s;he had nothing there but a few foule clothes &s;hee had looked vp to haue wa&s;ht, and &s;o would haue pa&s;t by them.</P>
<P>But they by no meanes, would &s;uffer her to pa&s;&s;e; in&s;o|much that &s;he fell to &s;triuing with them for pa&s;&s;age.</P>
<P>In this &s;trife, the poore infant, &s;o vnnaturally laid, by his mo&s;t vnaturall mother, (in a pittifull &s;hreeke) did as it were, tell his pre&s;eruers, that &s;he told a wicked and villanous vn|truth.</P>
<P>They hearing the cry of the infant, violently tooke it from her, and after they had it, with kind v&s;age reque&s;ted her to &s;how the womanhood that in that ca&s;e was requi&s;it; and not to &s;hame her &s;elfe, and bring a &s;candalous imputation vpon her &s;ex, by her ob&s;tinacie, and &s;tuborne wildnes.</P>
<P>After many hone&s;t and faire per&s;wa&s;iue &s;peeches, they got her in a doores, and laid her in her bed, good-wife King very carefully tended her, and mi&s;tru&s;ting &s;he would doe &s;ome mi&s;|cheife to that vnhappy i&s;&s;ue, of her loynes, &s;he nightly lay with her.</P>
<P>Fiue or &s;ix nights &s;he was her bedfellow, in which time &s;he perceiud in her no intent of euill again&s;t the infant, &s;o that then &s;he made boulder to ri&s;e from her, then at the fir&s;t &s;he v&s;d to do.</P>
<P>But (oh greefe to relate it) &s;he was no &s;ooner out of the hou&s;e, but this &s;hame of women tooke that from her &s;weet infant, that all hone&s;t mothers &s;triue, with all tender, louing, and diligent indu&s;try to pre&s;erue and maintaine.</P>
<P>With that hand that &s;hould haue tenderly fed it, and giu'n it that &s;hould haue maintaind the breath, &s;he more then Tyger|like, &s;topt the breath. O cruell mother, O griefe to mothers, O wretch mo&s;t wicked, vnworthy the name of a mother.</P>
<P>Mothers haue harts of war that melt and con&s;ume in the heate of &s;orrow, that comes by the wrong of their children: and eyes (that like full fountaines) in aboundance of teares, &s;hew the greefe and angui&s;h they &s;uffer for the lea&s;t wrong their children &s;uffer.</P>
<P>But this wretch had a hart of &s;teele, and eies of marble, &s;o indurate, that no motion of heauen, or &s;parke of humaine pitty,
<PB REF="7"> could be &s;eene or perceiued in them.</P>
<P>Long this woman (though too long) &s;taid not in the bu&s;ines &s;he went to, but returning &s;he found a heauie obiect, the babe by his mother breathle&s;&s;e, with the mouth of it all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">oyld with fome, that ro&s;e by her violent wringing.</P>
<P>This &s;ight &s;truck her with &s;uch a &s;trange and inexcogitable amazment, that &s;he could not perfectly tell, whether &s;he &s;aw that &s;he &s;aw or no, but &s;tood as if her &s;ences had lo&s;t their power and operations: for &s;he knew &s;he left the child perfectly well, and to &s;ee it &s;o &s;uddainly dead, (for &s;he was not an houre ab|&s;ent) &s;he lamentably wondred.</P>
<P>This hone&s;t woman, maruelou&s;ly incen&s;ed again&s;t her, by the death of the infant, pre&s;ently ran and fetch'd the con&s;table, and other neighbours, to &s;ee that eye-wounding &s;pectacle, but before &s;he (with them) could returne, this mo&s;t wicked of all precedent wickednes, had &s;o wrought vpon the child, to clen&s;e &amp; trim it, that there was no &s;igne of &s;uch a hand as is mini&s;ter to a hell-hardned hart, to be found vppon it: &s;o that the babe, (ignorantly) taken to be ignorantly ouer laid (for &s;o <HI>Iane</HI> bouldly &amp; deeply &s;wore it was) was without any great adoe, there buried. Goodwife King pre&s;ently giuing her &s;uch things as were hers, except a gowne &s;he &s;topt for &s;ome arrerages, or mony due for &s;ome matter, turnd her out of her dores.</P>
<P><HI>Iane</HI> pre&s;ently, notwith&s;tanding the &s;pleene of her mai&s;ter, in his iealious humor went vnto him, &amp; after a fewe faire words and kinde promi&s;es, was as &s;trongly po&s;&s;e&s;t of his filth-affect|ing fauour and friend&s;hip as euer &s;he was before: where with a face artificially &s;et de&s;embling, &s;he made a very &s;ore complaint of very great and greiuous abu&s;e offered her by goodman King and his wife, and how they kept her gowne from her.</P>
<P>The&s;e words of hers, &s;tird the blood of <HI>Adam&s;on</HI> &s;o &s;trongly, (in which he &s;hewed the &s;trength of the loue he bar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> he) that pre&s;ently he got them iointly are&s;ted, and &s;o wrapped them (as I may &s;ay) in the law, and wrought vpon that wrapping, that in reuenge of his harlot, like a man vtterly void of all &s;ence or feeling, either of the ioyes of heauen, or woes of hell, he did vt|terly vndoe this poore couple.</P>
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<P>As &s;oone after this as nature will &s;uffer, mi&s;tru&s;ted to be with child, &s;he was &s;earched by women, and found to be &s;o: yet again&s;t them all, with bitter and vehement othes, &s;he &s;tood in it they wrongd her, and were ignorant in that knowledge, in giuing that iudgement vppon her, &s;wearing &s;he was as cleare from that &s;tate or the cau&s;e of it, as &s;he was in her cradle.</P>
<P>But within a while after, (as great breakers v&s;e to doe) &s;hee plaid lea&s;t in &s;ight, for the &s;pace of foure or fiue dayes, no neigh|bour could haue a &s;ight of her: all which time, &s;he lay to be de|liuered of the loade that made her load her &s;oule, with periurie, in <HI>Adam&s;ons</HI> hou&s;e.</P>
<P>This infortunate fruite of lu&s;t, and vnlawfull plea&s;ures, was no &s;ooner borne, but by the hand of the bloody mother it was murthered, and by the cunning of the cruell father, mo&s;t &s;ecretly buried in a graue of his owne making, by the &s;ide of a Box tree, in his orchard, which orchard not long after he &s;ould to one <HI>Edward Duffield:</HI> which done, &s;he pre&s;ently (to wipe of the &s;taine of &s;u&s;&s;pition) &s;tept from her bed (the bed that honne&s;t wo|men cannot &s;tepp from &s;o lightly, neither if they could would, in decencie and woomanhood) to her ordinary walkings.</P>
<P>She was (I &s;ay) pre&s;ently &s;eene abroad againe well, and &s;o lu&s;tie, as if &s;he had no &s;uch &s;trength-abating pang, as was iu&s;tly &s;u&s;pected, and &s;he truly &s;uffred to haue made her carrie a con|trary appearance.</P>
<P>But common it is that &s;uch common peices, can beare it out better then true and lawfull bearers of children can.</P>
<P><HI>Adam&s;on</HI> vppon this, cunning in their villanie emboldned, (to ca&s;t this and other &s;uch like rubbes out of the way of their wickedne&s;&s;e) impudently like a true brazen fac'd founder, oppo&s;d him&s;elfe again&s;t her &s;earchers, and all &s;uch as mutterd in &s;u&s;pi|tion again&s;t her, with peremptory &s;peeches, oathes and threa|nings, which carried &s;uch a &s;hew of innocencie and clearne&s;&s;e, that for that time he carried him&s;elfe cleare from the danger due to &s;o foule and mo&s;t vild a tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>The &s;hame of her priuie offending, a third time growne to ripene&s;&s;e, &s;he was laid in her old receptacle of &s;inne, (<HI>Adam&s;ons</HI> hou&s;e) very priuatly? to which iu&s;t vppon the time of her paine
<PB REF="8"> in that bu&s;ines, came one <HI>Fraunces Foord,</HI> the wife of one <HI>Iohn Foord</HI> a neighbour to buye bread, who hearing &s;ome lowe de|pre&s;t cryes and grones from <HI>Iane;</HI> thinking &s;he had bin di&s;&s;ea&s;ed by &s;ome ordinary infirmitie, went vp: but &s;he was no &s;ooner entred into the roome where <HI>Iane</HI> lay, but <HI>Iane</HI> very &s;odainly (fearing &s;he would bewray her) reque&s;ted her to goe downe into the parler to &s;et her nekercher, which <HI>Foords</HI> wife did; and when &s;he had don, (mi&s;tru&s;ting no &s;uch thing, as they feared &s;he would finde) went vp againe to her chamber, but ere &s;he could get to the top of the &s;taires, the chamber doore was &s;hut again&s;t her by the wicked woman that was hir'd by her and her mai&s;ter to keep her in that ca&s;e, and to keep that wickednes for euer concealed. This goodwife <HI>Foord,</HI> thus with&s;tood in her kindne&s;&s;e, marueiled, but made no words about it, yet mi&s;tru&s;t|ing &s;he knew not what, &s;he went not downe, but &s;taid and peept through the key-hole of the doore: through which &s;hee &s;aw <HI>Iane</HI> (very warme wrapped) &s;et in a wicker chaire by her beds &s;ide, with a look bewraying very great debilitie and faint|nes of body: and not farre from, was a good fire to comfort her and to make ready &s;uch things as might comfort her.</P>
<P>Yet, nothing mi&s;tru&s;ted <HI>Foords</HI> wife, that &s;he &s;ate then gro|ning vnder the Annuall, or yeerely woe of a woman.</P>
<P>But long &s;he &s;tood not thus, ere &s;he heard the weake &s;hrike of a new borne infant, and &s;awe in the hands of the keeper, a bole-di&s;h, in which was the after birth of a child, and other per&s;picuous and euident tokens of a child borne at that in&s;tant.</P>
<P>Hauing &s;eene this, to keepe it from their knowledge, &s;he ve|ry ea&s;ily went downe the &s;taiers, and after a little &s;tay, hearing the chamber doore open, vp againe, and &s;uddainely (to preuent auother preuention) into her chamber: And there (without any &s;hew of any thing that might bewray her knowledge) &s;he &s;tood talking with <HI>Iane</HI> halfe an houre: in the time of which confe|ence, her eye and eare were bu&s;ie, to find that &s;he &s;awe through the key hole; but &s;he could neither &s;ee what &s;he had &s;eene, nor heard what &s;he had heard: for all was mo&s;t cunningly cleard by her conning keeper.</P>
<P>This child, as by manife&s;t and probable circum&s;tances
<PB REF="8"> appeard at her triall, <HI>Adam&s;on</HI> (after they had by mo&s;t vile and inhumaine violence, taken the breath from it, that but then it had receiued) in the dead of night (friend to rape &amp; murther) bu|ried in an vnknowne graue as the former.</P>
<P>And this villainie, as the former, he with his countenance, as oppo&s;d again&s;t the weake words of <HI>Foords</HI> wife by rea&s;on of want of greater proofe then her owne &s;peeches, he ea&s;ily pa&s;t ouer, and they &s;lept as &s;ecurely for all this &s;tart, in their horrible vncleane&s;&s;e as before.</P>
<P>Still progre&s;t this mo&s;t gracele&s;&s;e, audatious and impudent bea&s;t, (too bad to beare the good name of woman) in this &s;inne, with all impudencie.</P>
<P>This <HI>Chimera,</HI> with a Lions vpper-part in bouldne&s;&s;e: a <HI>Goates</HI> middle part in lu&s;t: and a Serpents lower part in &s;ting and poy&s;on.</P>
<P>Not long after this (for there were no greater Interims, be|tweene their great bellies then mu&s;t needs be) the maturitie of her wombe, &s;hewed it &s;elfe againe in &s;welling, which with a greater circum&s;pection, then before was looked into, many eies attended it to &s;ee the euent, and finde the euents of former.</P>
<P>But &s;he perceiuing &s;he was &s;o narrowly pryed into, fearing they would finde that they &s;ought for (her forepa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> villanie) &s;he left her mai&s;ters hou&s;e; and went to <HI>Darking,</HI> to one <HI>Crab</HI> a Tailor, who had married a &s;i&s;ter of hers, &amp; in his hou&s;e, &s;he was deliuered of a child, which was put to nur&s;e to one <HI>Thomas El|lis,</HI> who tenderly tended it.</P>
<P>There &s;he was too farre from the murdering hand, or cun|ning braine of her mai&s;ter, to &s;erue it as &s;he had &s;erued his fellowes: nay this babe had &s;uch ble&s;t fortune, that in&s;teed of the cruelltie, his poore bretheren or &s;i&s;ters had from his lawle&s;&s;e begetter, he had kindne&s;&s;e and comfort, for he allowed the nur&s;e a good cow to giue her milke, that the allowance of the child might be the better.</P>
<P>Many great bellies had &s;he, be&s;ides the&s;e here &s;poken of, but the vnhappie loads of them could neuer be &s;eene: by which we may iu&s;tly think<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">, and perfectly in rea&s;on, knowe,
<PB REF="9"> that there were many more murders, then are in the&s;e leaues laid open: for (as I haue before &s;aid) for the &s;pace of ten or twelue yeares this wicked couple continued vndetected, in the&s;e abho|minable &s;innes of lu&s;t and murder.</P>
<P>Many times did <HI>Adam&s;on,</HI> with his owne tongue giue cau&s;e of a &s;u&s;pition for three or foure times, as <HI>Edward Duffell</HI> wrought in his Orhcard (which as I haue before &s;aid was <HI>A|dam&s;ons</HI>) he was earne&s;tly reque&s;ted and &s;ometime &s;traightly charged, not to digg neere the Box tree: he not mi&s;tru&s;ting &s;uch a thought as rai&s;d that prohibition, maruailed; yet not know|ing what to make of it, let it pa&s;&s;e without any further think|ing vppon it.</P>
<P>But &s;ee the goodne&s;&s;e of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">eare of euery &s;ecret: within a &s;mall time after this (vppon what occa&s;ion I know not) <HI>Adam&s;on</HI> &amp; <HI>Iane</HI> were at high words, and very bitter reuilings pa&s;t from one to another. In which windie battails, <HI>Iane</HI> cald her mai&s;ter murderer, in the hearing of many neighbours, and that not once or twice, but itterated and reitterated it, very freely &amp; bouldly: and to this added, that there was that yet hid|den, that would hang him. And that there was a tree in <HI>Duffels</HI> orchard, which if it could &s;peake, would &s;end him to the gallows.</P>
<P>The&s;e words in the vehemencie of anger &s;he vttered, for thus it plea&s;ed him that made <HI>Balaams A&s;&s;e</HI> to &s;peake, that bea&s;t, to make the bea&s;t &s;peake to open the way to their de&s;truction: for hereupon <HI>Edward Duffel</HI> tooke diuers of his neighbours, and (remembring that many times he had bin warned not to digg neere the Box tree) went then and diggd about it, to &s;ee if there were any &s;uch thing as they &s;u&s;pected &s;hould be, by her &s;peeches.</P>
<P>Small digging &s;eru'd to bewray their wickedne&s;&s;e, for he had not digd a full foot deepe, eare he found many &s;mall bones, which bones, not long after, before Iu&s;tices and men of account, were prooud (to barr al oppo&s;ite obiections) by the skill of a cun|ning and very expert <HI>Anothomi&s;t,</HI> to be the bones of a child.</P>
<P>Vppon this (in a word) <HI>Adam&s;on</HI> and his &s;eruant <HI>Iane</HI> were apprehended, &amp; &s;ent to <HI>Hor&s;han</HI> gaole &s;ome ten or twelue miles from <HI>Green&s;teed:</HI> but <HI>Adam&s;on</HI> vpon bands and good
<PB REF="9"> &s;ecurity to an&s;wers all that might be obiected again&s;t him at the A&s;&s;izes, was in a litle time from thence relea&s;ed, and had his li|bertie to walke about his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Iane</HI> lay not long there neither; &s;he was vppon bonds from thence relea&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">oo: but her bonds were the bonds &s;he was bound in, &amp; her relea&s;e, but a remoue from thence to the Kings bench in &s;outhwarcke, where while &s;he &s;taid, &s;he wanted nothing, for he that had bin kind and liberall to her in the time of her libertie, did not forget her in the time of her captiuitie.</P>
<P>But that he did at the fir&s;t was in loue, the la&s;t in pollicie: for all he &s;pent then vpon her, was onely to win her confidently to denie the words &s;he had &s;poken, &amp; to cleare him in her &s;peech|es: and as for her&s;elfe, he had her pre&s;ume vpon it, without fears or doubting, he would get her pardon.</P>
<P>But to preuent that, and all hope of it, &s;he was remoued from thence to King&s;ton, from thence (to omit teadious recitall) to <HI>Green&s;teed</HI> againe. And there againe <HI>Adam&s;on</HI> as before (For contrary to orders in that ca&s;e in&s;tituted (whether by pur&s;e or pollicie I know not) he had acce&s;&s;e vnto her in the gaole) labord hard with her to vn&s;ay all her dangerous words again&s;t him; and to &s;ay that &s;he was to &s;ay at the Bench to the demands of the Iudges, for his clearing &amp; acquiting: &amp; withall, tould her that in &s;o &s;peaking well in his behalfe, &s;he &s;hould helpe her &s;elfe in that danger.</P>
<P>And more ouer (for like waues our vpon the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ck of another came words of inducement from him) if the wor&s;t &s;hould come that might, he would &s;aue her with the Kings pardon.</P>
<P>And to make her beleefe and re&s;olution the &s;tranger, he tould her, if &s;he did not doe as he coun&s;eld her there was no le&s;&s;e to be expected by her then death: and backt it with this rea&s;on; that the lea&s;t &s;illable vtterd in way of confe&s;&s;ion, would fru&s;trate the pardon he &s;hould purchas<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and make it to be of no force or vertue.</P>
<P>Thus, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;ince her execcution hath bin <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ound, did he very cunningly, &amp; as clo&s;ely worke vpon her &s;implicitie, and effected his wi&s;hes, in her mo&s;t wicked and impious credulity; for &s;he beleeuing all he &s;pake, and making no doubt of the performance,
<PB REF="10"> with a face &s;et to the highe&s;t key of impudencie, was at the Bench very readie in the le&s;&s;on he had taught her: &s;o that he was by the Iurie acquitted, but &s;he condemned and adiug'd to the gallowes: which &s;entence (pre&s;uming vpon her mai&s;ters pro|mi&s;e) &s;he heard with an vndaunted heart.</P>
<P>To be &s;hort, &s;he was according to her iudgement, vppon, or about the &s;ixt of <HI>Iuly</HI> 1609. carried to the place of execution, where &s;til expecting the pardon <HI>Adam&s;on</HI> tould her &s;hould come to the gallowes and &s;aue her, &s;he was as &s;tout and fearele&s;&s;e, as if &s;he had bin but (like a &s;tage player) to act the part in lea&s;t.</P>
<P>But when &s;he had &s;taid &s;o long, &s;he might &s;taie no longer from the halter, her hart began to fall, and feare to ri&s;e, yet re|membring that he had &s;aid, a word in confe&s;&s;ion &s;hould fru&s;trate her pardon which (notwith&s;tanding) in the la&s;t minute of her breath &s;he expected (and fearing &s;o to preuent it) &s;he would &s;ay nothing but in that feare, and hope of life, euen in the rope &s;he gaue the hangman &s;ix pence to cut her downe quickly: for &s;he (&s;imple wench) thought verily though &s;he were turnd off, before &s;he could be halfe dead, the pardon would come, &amp; &s;aue her in that heauie ga&s;ping: but her beleefe was vaine, and her vaine hopes were deceiued, for as &s;he de&s;erued &s;he there died.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<P>BVt now you haue, with the eyes of your vnder&s;tanding, &s;eene the mo&s;t iu&s;t and de&s;erued end of her, turne them a|gaine to <HI>Adam&s;on,</HI> who pre&s;ently after her execution, fell into a mo&s;t mi&s;erable, greeue|ous and lamentable con&s;umption.</P>
<PB REF="10">
<P>Wormes meate we are al in death, but he in life, was (by the iu&s;t iudgement of God (which God make vs all haue an eye to) a prey to the&s;e de&s;picable and deuouring creatures, which had intrenched them|&s;elues in many parts of his bodie to the bone, and minutely, and &s;o mercile&s;ly, with eager appetites fed vpon his afflicted fle&s;h, as though he had bin laid onely but but for one meale to be deuoured.</P>
<P>Lice in great multitudes tormented him: no &s;hift in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">innen, nor other co&s;tly &s;hift in trimming, picking &amp; annointing, could de|crea&s;e y^e innumerable number of them: and &s;o loath&s;ome a &s;auour came from his body, that tho&s;e that went to &s;ee him could not &s;tand to giue their eyes &s;ati&s;faction, for the greeuous and odious &s;trength of it: but turning as di&s;dainfully in the offence, or greeuance of that &s;ence) as from the in|fecting &s;tench of carrion they would leaue him, ere they could well looke on him.</P>
<P>Thus for the &s;pace of halfe a yeare lay he mo&s;t greeuou&s;ly tormented, in which time, he &s;pent much mony, for a happie re|&s;tauration or recouery, but all his co&s;t was lo&s;t, for alas <HI>Cum Deo pugnare,
<PB REF="11"> graue e&s;t:</HI> there is no &s;triuing again&s;t the will of God.</P>
<P>All his meanes were wa&s;t and con&s;um|ed: for he neuer left con&s;uming till he was con&s;umed to &s;kinne &amp; bone, and &s;o lamen|tably ended his dayes about the begining of <HI>Nouember</HI> la&s;t.</P>
<P>Yf we looke well into this lamentable end of his, we &s;hall finde a le&s;&s;on worth the looking into, and that is this: that though he could, by mony and freinds; or &s;ome fal&s;e colour and couering, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> his de&s;ert from the hands of men, yet the Lord would not let him pa&s;&s;e this world without a puni&s;hment, that like the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> bur&s;t out through the Fogg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; cloudes of his di&s;&s;embling and priuie contriuing, to &s;hew the world that he was not the inno|cent man that he would haue &s;eemd to be.</P>
<P>Many that haue wit to &s;hift, and craft to couer, thinke them&s;elues wi&s;e, but the Lord knowes they are fooles, &amp; &s;o makes their end &s;hew them. But to that we ca&s;t not an eye, but (alas) being &s;et in the race of our owne ruine we runne (like the <HI>O|nagrie,</HI> or wild <HI>A&s;&s;e,</HI> of <HI>Mauritaunia,</HI> with &s;uch dexteritie and &s;trength that till we
<PB REF="11"> are breathle&s;&s;e we &s;toppe not till we are breathle&s;&s;e indeed: for til our breath leaues vs, we leaue not &s;inning. O could we imi|tate him as well in the path of pietie, we &s;hould haue heauen in our bo&s;omes, I meane &s;uch con&s;ciences as (after this life) would a&s;&s;ure vs of the euerla&s;ting beati|atitude of Angelles.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="exhortation">
<HEAD>An exhortation.</HEAD>
<P>IF the Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter</HI> illuminated by the &s;pirit of God, in his time determined the con&s;umation of the world to draw nigh, and like the Lord of Ho&s;ts his loyall Herault proclaimed thervpon to all the faithfull: Now the end of all things is at hand. If godly <HI>Cypryan</HI> many yeares after iu&s;tly thought, and taught, that the end of the world did hang ouer his head&punc; &s;weete <HI>Laotantius</HI> &s;ighed in &s;pirit, &amp; &s;aid it could not lack aboue two hundred yeares: and ho|ly <HI>Ierome</HI> (that ob&s;erued a iournall, &amp; watched the houres of his life) had &s;o certaine a per&s;wa&s;ion of the &s;uddennes, and nearenes thereof, that he euer &s;eemed, to heare the &s;ound of the Troump of the latter day, &s;ounding this hea|uy note in his eares: <HI>Surgite mortui, venite ad iudicium:</HI> That is <HI>Ari&s;e ye dead and come to iudgement:</HI> all no doubt incited thereunto, and inlightened by the holy Goh&s;t: certes we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> good cau&s;e, that liue in the&s;e latter and dangerous dayes, &s;tedla&s;tly to beleeue for many cau|&s;es; and e&s;pecially the&s;e three, that the &s;econd comming of Chri&s;t cannot be farre off.</P>
<PB REF="12">
<P>Fir&s;t, for that all the prophe&s;ies of the Patriarkes, and Prophets, of all the auncients, yea, and of the <HI>Iewes</HI> them|&s;elues, who yet idlely and ignorantly expect another Me&s;lias, &s;o concordantly agree with this our after age, that the <HI>Orthodoxes</HI> &s;o long &s;ince decea&s;ed, may &s;eeme now to liue and beholde the &s;tate of the dayes in&s;tant.</P>
<P>Secondly, for that all tho&s;e prodegies, and tokens fore|tolde by our Sauiour in the Go&s;pel, are now vniuer&s;ally fulfilled in the worlde, and autentiquelly importe an vni|uer&s;all di&s;&s;olution of the world.</P>
<P>Thirdly, for that in the &s;ame place our Sauiour promi&s;eth to &s;horten tho&s;e dayes: and &s;urely if (as there he promi|&s;eth) for his elects &s;ake tho&s;e daies were not &s;hortned, &s;cant any fle&s;h &s;hould be &s;aued; for if we narrowly looke on the cour&s;e of time, the manners of men, the &s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ting vp of fal&s;e Chri&s;ts, the vpri&s;e of counterfeyte Prophets, the contempt of Religeon, and vntowardnes of all things, we &s;hall a&s;&s;uredly finde, that this our old writhen world, is altogether like to vnfruitfull, and drie &s;tubble or chaffe, apt for nothing, but to be con&s;umed with fire, or as the Apo&s;tle <HI>Peter</HI> &s;aith, the heauens, and earth that now are kept by the &s;ame word in &s;tore, and re&s;erud vnto fire, a|gain&s;t the day of iudgement: Lord it is time, yea it is full and due time (fit were thy ble&s;&s;ed will and plea&s;ure) that thou come to iudgement: Come thou <HI>Alpha</HI> and <HI>Omega,</HI> thou fir&s;t and la&s;t, come Lord Ie&s;u, come quickly: For &s;inne ouerfloweth, Iniquitie aboundeth, Faith fayleth, Hope fadeth, Loue free&s;eth; in &s;teade whereof Pagani&s;|me, De&s;paire, and Murder are founded, and generally wickedne&s;&s;e flouri&s;heth, and vertue falleth.</P>
<P>But omitting all the re&s;t, this wilfull murderiug of Inno|cents
<PB REF="12"> is iudged a mo&s;t heynous iniquitie in the &s;ight of God, and among&s;t all good men counted principall of tho&s;e &s;innes, who&s;e lamentable clamours a&s;cend vp be|fore the maie&s;tie of God, &amp; ince&s;&s;antly yell out, greedily thir&s;ting for reuenge.</P>
<P>Let vs therefore take warning by tho&s;e Cruell, bloudy, and libidinous bad liuers, who&s;e horrid &s;innes calles ven|gance from heauen: and let vs de&s;ire almighty God to ha&s;ten the latter day, to the comfort of his elect and glory of his mo&s;t holy name</P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>The names of the witne&s;&s;es.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mai&s;ter Andrew Sackuill</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Paine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Drury.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Steeuen Price.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>And Edward Duffield in who&s;e orchard the bones of the murthered Infants were found.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Goodwife King</ITEM>
<ITEM>Goodwife Foord</ITEM>
<ITEM>Goodwife Paine</ITEM>
<ITEM>Goodwife Pulman</ITEM>
<ITEM>Goodwife Kent.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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