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<HEAD>A <HI>LETTER</HI> to a Per&s;on of Quality, occa&s;io|ned by a printed Libel, Entituled, <HI>The Cau&s;e of the Difference between</HI> Tobias Cage <HI>E&s;quire, and</HI> Mary <HI>his Wife:</HI> Stated by the &s;aid <HI>Mary</HI> in a Letter to a Gentleman, for her own Vindica|tion: The De&s;ign, Malice, and Fal&s;hood whereof is hereby detected with Proofs by Per&s;ons of value, on Oath, and otherwi&s;e.</HEAD>
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<P>I Cannot but acknowledge my obligation to you for acquainting me with this Libel, which is as fal&s;e as Hell it &s;elf: The de&s;ign of it was to ob&s;truc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> my being di&s;charged of my Bonds, for the Peace which my Wife maliciou&s;ly bound me in; whereby &s;he conceives her Friend (as &s;he calls him in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Libel) would be pre&s;erved in his Per&s;on, and the Jury who is to try the Cau&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> between her Husband and that Friend, be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with &s;ome obliquities in he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Husband, and &s;o award the le&s;s for damages; but principally in pur&s;uance of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> old wicked De&s;ign between her and her Friend for a &s;eparation from her Husband believing that a Gentleman can never po&s;&s;ibly dige&s;t &s;uch Slanders and Indignitie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> from a Wife.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> We are not to judge either of the Integrity, or Wickedne&s;s of a Man by hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Affliction, or Pro&s;perity in this Life; <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aith, <HI>the &s;ame event hapneth to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ju&s;t and &V;nju&s;t;</HI> nor yet by what is &s;aid on the one &s;ide or the other, <HI>but from th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mouth of two or three Witne&s;&s;es.</HI> You know <HI>Job</HI> was &s;aid to be wicked, becau&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> he was afflicted. St. <HI>Paul</HI> was &s;aid to be a pe&s;tilent Fellow, and mad when he wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in Bonds; and <HI>Sir,</HI> you know who was accu&s;ed to be a Wine-bibber, and a Frien<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Publicans and Sinners: <HI>Job</HI> al&s;o had his Wife, and <HI>David</HI> his <HI>Michal;</HI> and yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> know that Law among the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians, That every man &s;hould bear rule in h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> own Hou&s;e,</HI> was publi&s;h'd upon <HI>Va&s;hties</HI> contempt of her Husband. Even <HI>Socrat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> the patient Philo&s;opher had his <HI>Xantippe,</HI> a&s;well as others. <HI>Sir,</HI> It hath plea&s;e God to exerci&s;e me with Afflictions mo&s;t of my days, yet hath his Providenc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> miraculou&s;ly &s;upported me, and that under this trial by &s;uch a Wife as <HI>Solomo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> reckons, <HI>a continual dropping, and as rottenne&s;s in the Bones.</HI> I am not ignorant o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the nature and duties of a married Life, and have now twice experienced it. I hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> found (as <HI>Charon</HI> of Wi&s;dom calls it) the fir&s;t a Paradi&s;e, and this la&s;t a Hell i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> compari&s;on of that &s;weet &s;ociety of Life I enjoyed for &s;ixteen Years with my forme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Wife, of whom I ever did and mu&s;t &s;ay with an honour to her Memory, <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Daughters have done vertuou&s;ly, but thou excelled'&s;t them all:</HI> but what I can &s;ay of thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and that truly, I &s;hall forbear in all things not nece&s;&s;ary for my defence.</P>
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<P><HI>Sir,</HI> I &s;hall an&s;wer that infamous Libel with all the moderation I can, and only &s;hew in a plain, familiar, and hi&s;torical way the whole truth and occa&s;ion of the unparallell'd differences between me and my Wife, or rather (as &s;he calls it) be|tween her and me: &s;ome of the Paragraphs of the Libel I recite, and an&s;wer parti|cularly; others as &s;ummarily as I can, to avoid prolixity, and make all good with Proofs.</P>
<P>Libel 1. <HI>It being my own intere&s;t as well as my obligation to &s;atisfie you in your re|que&s;t, I &s;hall give you a faithful and impartial account of the ri&s;e and continuance of the difference between me and my Husband.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> This <HI>Sir,</HI> de&s;erves a Remarque; The Per&s;on that thus invites a Wife to condemn her Husband he never heard, and that in Print, merits a character that he may be known by; he has taken the de&s;igns of his coun&s;els from <HI>Achitophel.</HI> When <HI>David</HI> and <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> his &s;on were at difference, <HI>Achitophel</HI> coun&s;elled him to go in unto his Fathers Concubines, in the &s;ight of all <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> that all <HI>I&s;rael</HI> might know he was abhorred of his Father; adding, that then his hands &s;hould be &s;trengthened. Such is this coun&s;el, and given with the &s;ame expectation; and becau&s;e this Anarchical Coun&s;ellor is namele&s;s, I will call him <HI>Achitophel,</HI> who when he reflects upon his own iniquity in this matter, e&s;pecially if the hoped for effects of his coun&s;els fail, perhaps may &s;et his Hou&s;e in order, and make the &s;ame good end.</P>
<P>Libel 2. <HI>Before my intermarriage with Mr.</HI> Cage, <HI>I did by the name of</HI> Mary Okey <HI>&s;ecure all my E&s;tate in the hands of Mr.</HI> John Okey <HI>as my Tru&s;tee, for the &s;eparate main|tenance of my &s;elf,</HI> Elizabeth Blackwel, <HI>and</HI> Mary Okey, <HI>my two Daughters by my two former Husbands; and that by a Deed drawn by Mr.</HI> Cage <HI>him&s;elf: &s;o that no &s;urpri&s;e in the ca&s;e could be pretended.</HI></P>
<P>Note, That here &s;he &s;aith, <HI>She made provi&s;ion for the maintenance of her &s;elf and her Children:</HI> and <HI>pag.</HI> 7. that had &s;he known &s;uch a condition had been foi&s;ted into her Articles, <HI>viz. of maintaining her &s;elf and her Children,</HI> &s;he would never have been the Wife of Mr. <HI>Cage.</HI> Here ob&s;erve her ju&s;tice and affection, and how <HI>Achitophels</HI> cunning <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ailed in &s;uffering her thus to contradict her &s;elf: but <HI>&s;ome &s;ort of People have had memories.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 2. This cannot be an&s;wered but by giving account of the whole tran&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ction before the Marriage, and the &s;everal times of every action; and therefore, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n the beginning of the Year 1669, I buried my former Wife, with whom my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow Wife was well acquainted and familiar 14 Years before, and had been &s;eve|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">al times at my Hou&s;e with her. And about the latter end of <HI>October,</HI> the &s;ame <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ear I and my pre&s;ent Wife met at Mr. <HI>Doelittles,</HI> where &s;he took notice of my Wives death; and &s;hortly after came to advi&s;e with me as Coun&s;el in her &s;uite, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">etween her &s;elf and Mr. <HI>John A&s;hburnham,</HI> and de&s;ired one of my Clerks might <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ake care of it, which gave frequent opportunities of conver&s;e. Within a little <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ime &s;he de&s;ired me to di&s;po&s;e of 500 <HI>l.</HI> for her at Intere&s;t, thereupon &s;ent me the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">00 <HI>l.</HI> by Mr. <HI>Okeys</HI> Son, without taking any Note for the &s;ame; <HI>which pray <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">b&s;erve.</HI> This I put out to Mr. <HI>Neal,</HI> in the names of Dr. <HI>Paget,</HI> and <HI>John Okey,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> the latter end of <HI>November</HI> of the &s;ame Year: at which time I had no re&s;olution <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rrying with her. But &s;he having carried her &s;elf very obliging to me. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="2"> Friends &s;u&s;pecting &s;ome affection in the ca&s;e, endeavoured to divert me; &s;ome giving one rea&s;on, &s;ome another, and propo&s;ing con&s;iderable Matches; but I do acknowledge that her extraordinary carriage towards me, made me believe there was affection, and that &s;he would make me a very tender and loving Wife, e&s;pe|cially con&s;idering the circum&s;tances &s;he was under, of two young Children; and the di&s;couragement and manner of her Husband <HI>Okeys</HI> death, which was then u&s;ed as an argument again&s;t my marrying her. I then de&s;ired them to forbear, and declar'd that as the truth was, I had never propos'd or mention'd marriage to her, but if I knew that &s;he had a real affection for me, I would marry her. At this time I knew not &s;he was worth a Groat more than the five hundred Pounds I had put out, unle&s;s the 250 <HI>l.</HI> in Suite with Mr. <HI>A&s;hburnham,</HI> prov'd good, which appear'd then de&s;perate.</P>
<P>The truth of this Mr. <HI>Thomas Dun</HI> of <HI>Spittlefields,</HI> or Mris. <HI>Rebecka Fowk</HI> at Mr. <HI>Buchanons</HI> Hou&s;e in <HI>Chancery-Lane</HI> knows, who were the Per&s;ons pre&s;ent at this Di&s;cour&s;e. Notwith&s;tanding this re&s;olution, I &s;uffered her to go out of Town, I never &s;pake any thing to her of my thoughts of marrying her, until &s;he return'd to her Cou&s;en <HI>Okeys</HI> in <HI>Lawrence Lane,</HI> and had layen &s;ick a Week there, and &s;ent for me, nor until ten days before we married.</P>
<P>Before the 15th of <HI>December,</HI> we agreed to marry on the 21th following, the Marriage-Clothes were making before any di&s;cour&s;e touching E&s;tate on either &s;ide. But I being willing to free my &s;elf from the uncertain expectations of her Children, by &s;eeing &s;ome provi&s;ion made for them before I married, I de&s;ired to know what her E&s;tate was, and what &s;hare thereof her Children &s;hould have: She told me that her E&s;tate in all was 1500 <HI>l.</HI> good and bad Debts, and Jewels; and &s;hewed me her Jewels, and pre&s;ented them to me, as &s;he hath confe&s;&s;ed upon her Oath, by an&s;wer to the Duke of <HI>York</HI>'s Bill, to make me pay the value thereof, although &s;he knows Mr. <HI>Butler</HI> the Gold&s;mith new &s;et them fa&s;hionable at my charge, which co&s;t me 12 <HI>l.</HI> and I return'd them to her again, and never had any of them &s;ince in my cu&s;tody or power, but a <HI>Saphire</HI> Stone of thirty Shillings. I de&s;ir'd a particular of the E&s;tate: &s;he refer'd me to Mr. <HI>Okey,</HI> who gave me a particular in Writing, as follows, Mr. <HI>Neal</HI> 500 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Wil&s;on,</HI> Mr. <HI>Ballard,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> 500 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Garth</HI> 100 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>A&s;hburnham</HI> 250 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> 40 <HI>l.</HI> Jewels 100 <HI>l. Ephraim Man&s;il</HI> 40 <HI>l.</HI> In all 1500 and odd Pounds. This I acquainted her with, and de&s;ired her to make &s;ome &s;ettlement, which &s;he refu&s;ed, but left the whole to me, to propo&s;e, order, di&s;po&s;e, and &s;ettle as I thought fit. But at my importunity, &s;he declared at fir&s;t that her Daughters &s;hould have 200 <HI>l.</HI> a piece; then at my further reque&s;t, that her Daughter <HI>Mary Okey</HI> &s;hould have 400 <HI>l.</HI> and her Daughter <HI>Blackwel</HI> not &s;o much: Thereupon I pre&s;&s;ed her to name &s;ome Coun&s;el, to con&s;ult with me about a &s;ettlement of the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> which &s;he refu&s;ed al&s;o, but left the matter wholly to me, whether I would &s;ettle it or no. Then I de&s;ired to know whether &s;he was any way indebted, or was likely to have any other Suite or trouble, but that with <HI>A&s;hburnham;</HI> to which &s;he and Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> an&s;wered, &s;he had not; and thereupon I drew the Deed of Settlement in the be&s;t manner I could: And becau&s;e I did not know, nor then enquire, by what kind of Security the &s;aid 1500 <HI>l.</HI> was &s;ecured, whether by Mortgages&punc; Statues <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="3"> E&s;tate or Monies which might be gotten in by Suites: but &s;he denying that &s;he was ever likely to have any other Suites; I put as general words in the Deed as I could make u&s;e of, that I might be &s;ure to pa&s;s all the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> &s;ent the draught of the Deed to her by Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> to advi&s;e with Coun&s;el, which &s;he refu&s;ed to do; but &s;he and <HI>Okey</HI> peru&s;ed the &s;ame, and the &s;ame was &s;ent back to be ingro&s;&s;ed, which was faithfully ingro&s;&s;ed accordingly, and by me and her &s;igned and &s;ealed on the Marriage day.</P>
<P>This Deed was made thus voluntarily by me, not at her reque&s;t, but to protect and &s;ecure the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> from any accident by me, and notwith&s;tanding that Deed, Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> was not to intermeddle with the E&s;tate unle&s;s &s;ome danger appear'd; and the better to &s;ecure it I gave &s;ufficient &s;ecurity to enable her to reimbur&s;e her &s;elf, if it any way hapned to &s;uffer by me. <HI>Sir,</HI> For five Years, and until the&s;e differences were compleated by him &s;he calls Friend, <HI>Okey</HI> the Tru&s;tee, never in|termedled with the E&s;tate, nor to defend Suites touching the E&s;tate, or main|tenance of the Wife or education of the Children, but all was ca&s;t upon me, as the manager of the E&s;tate; and the truth is, I put a greater power and confidence in my Wife and <HI>Okey</HI> than this, relating to her &s;ecurity, which &s;he hath perfideou&s;ly broken.</P>
<P>The truth of all which Allegations is proved by depo&s;itions of Witne&s;&s;es exa|mined in <HI>Chancery,</HI> and that the Deed was ingro&s;&s;ed according to the original draught thereof.</P>
<P>Note, That the true Marriage-agreement lying only in the knowledge of Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> the Tru&s;te&eacute;, the Court of Chancery (after the differences came there) ordered him to be examined as a Witne&s;s, which my Wife would not &s;uffer until he was ta|ken upon Contempt; and then he and his Wife &s;ubmitted to be examined: and his Depo&s;ition does agree in all the particulars with his An&s;wer to my Bill in <HI>Chancery</HI> again&s;t him, all which and all other proof under the hand of the Court &s;hall at any time be &s;ent to Mr. <HI>Miles,</HI> Scrivener in <HI>Threed-Needle-&s;treet,</HI> over-again&s;t the <HI>Crown Tavern,</HI> to be peru&s;ed by any Per&s;on that de&s;ires &s;atisfaction in the &s;ame, upon notice there left.</P>
<P>That part of Mr. <HI>Okeys</HI> te&s;timony which relates to this matter before &s;et forth, I have here in&s;erted immediately after this, and the re&s;t of the Proofs are at the end of this Letter all together.</P>
<P><HI>John Okey</HI> being &s;worn and examined, depo&s;eth, that when the Marriage was in agitation, the particular of Mrs. <HI>Cages</HI> E&s;tate given in was 1500 <HI>l.</HI> which con&s;i&s;ted in the&s;e, Mr. <HI>Neal</HI> 500 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Wil&s;on</HI> 300 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Ballard</HI> 100 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>A&s;hburnham</HI> 250 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Garth</HI> 100 <HI>l.</HI> This Deponent 100 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> 40 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Ephraim Man&s;el</HI> 40 <HI>l.</HI> and the &s;aid <HI>Maries</HI> Jewels 100 <HI>l.</HI> and this Deponent knows, that the &s;aid <HI>Mary</HI> did leave the matter touching the E&s;tate wholly to Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> to propo&s;e, order, and &s;ettle as he thought fit; and knows, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did voluntarily declare, that he was re&s;olved to &s;ettle the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> in the Mothers power for the maintenance of her and her Children, and &s;uch Children as he &s;hould have by her; and did &s;eal and deliver the Deed accordingly, that he managed Mrs. <HI>Cages</HI> E&s;tate &s;everal Years before the Marriage, but he did not know that &s;he was indebted, had any other E&s;tate, or was lyable to any Suites or troubles. And that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">luntarily, and of his own accord and free will, draw and &s;eal the &s;aid Deed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="3"> Per&s;on for her; and that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> made the Deed purely upon the communica|tion that her Portion was 1500 <HI>l.</HI> and in order to pre&s;erve the &s;ame for the maintenance of the &s;aid Defendant <HI>Mary</HI> in cohabitation with her Husband, and for the maintenance, education, and preferment of her Children &s;he had and might have by him. That Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> did acquaint the Deponent, that &s;he had known Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> in his former Wifes days &s;everal Years, and when he was in his troubles, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> gave &s;ecurity to enable her to reimbur&s;e her &s;elf, in ca&s;e the E&s;tate &s;hould &s;uffer by his means. That he doth not know when he was to enter on that tru&s;t; he did not, nor was he de&s;ired for five Years after the Marriage, nor until Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> and her Husband differed, and during that five Years Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> without any controul, managed all the E&s;tate, maintained the Wife, and educated the Children with Mu&s;ick, Dancing, and other Accompli&s;hments, &s;o as Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> was very well plea&s;ed therewith, and kept a Hou&s;e and Servants for them and their accommodation at <HI>Highgate.</HI> This is the &s;ub&s;tance of what is &s;worn, both by his Depo&s;itions and An&s;wers, as to this matter. Mrs. <HI>Okey</HI> the Tru&s;tees Wife in many things &s;weareth the &s;ame with her Husband, and that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> was very de&s;irous of the Marriage, and did declare to Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> (before the Marriage) that &s;he was no way indebted, nor likely to have any Suites but Mr. <HI>A&s;hburnhams,</HI> nor did &s;he ever hear her &s;ay &s;he had any E&s;tate but 1500 <HI>l.</HI> and again&s;t the Marriage &s;he &s;old &s;ome Goods to make that up.</P>
<P>Libel 3. <HI>Notwith&s;tanding this &s;ettlement, my Husband after Marriage got into his Hands a great part of the E&s;tate belonging to me and my Daughters, partly by the facility of Mr.</HI> Okey <HI>my Tru&s;tee, who having &s;everal Writings and Bu&s;ine&s;s in the Hands of my Husband, was afraid of offending him; and therefore both paid him Money contrary to my order, and &s;uffered him to receive a con&s;iderable Debt (given by his Royal Highne&s;s to my Children,) be&s;ides other Money; all which he &s;till keeps to him&s;elf, and partly by other indirect means, as by getting mo&s;t of my Jewels and Plate from me, under pretence of &s;e|curing them (whil&s;t we &s;hould be in the Country,) and then converting them to his own u&s;e, and that I deceived her, pretending to put out Money to one Mr.</HI> Mills.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 3. The &s;ettlement was made to &s;ecure the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> E&s;tate, for the maintenance of her and her Children, and &s;uch Children as I &s;hould have by her, upon confidence that &s;he was no way indebted, nor was any way liable unto, or likely to have any Suites but that of <HI>A&s;hburnhams,</HI> which was depending before I married her. I was &s;carce warm in my wedding Sheets before Mr. <HI>Mead</HI> of <HI>Fanchurch-&s;treet,</HI> by Mrs. <HI>Walters,</HI> (&s;ince Mrs. <HI>Vinor,</HI>) demands of me 300 <HI>l.</HI> due by Bond from my Wife. Mr. <HI>Kirkham</HI> in <HI>Ludgate-&s;treet</HI> demanded 30 <HI>l.</HI> expended by him for her u&s;e. One <HI>Ry&s;e Yates</HI> to whom there was a 100 <HI>l.</HI> due by Bond from Collonel <HI>Okey,</HI> which &s;he had promi&s;ed to pay him for &s;ervice in the management of her affairs for &s;everal years. One <HI>Valentine</HI> demanded of me 10 <HI>l.</HI> due by Note for nur&s;ing of her Daughter Mi&s;s <HI>Okey.</HI> One Mrs. <HI>Pool</HI> demanded of me about 4 or 6 <HI>l.</HI> for Silver Lace bought of her. Mr. <HI>Tottenham</HI> a <HI>Linnen-Draper</HI> demanded about the &s;ame Sum for Linnen. Mr. <HI>Somes</HI> of St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard demanded about 8 <HI>l.</HI> (as I remember) for Woolen Cloth. And Mr. <HI>John Blackwel</HI> her fir&s;t Husbands Son hath &s;ince demanded near 300 <HI>l.</HI> for Goods and Jewels, proved to to be delivered to her at a price agreed on; and threatned to &s;ue me upon a Bond of 5000 <HI>l.</HI> &s;he entred into to him before the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="4"> to claim any thing of his but what he gave her by his Will. To &s;tay which Suite, I obtain'd an Injunction in <HI>Chancery.</HI> Several other Debts were demanded of me, and I &s;ued for &s;everal of them; and by this judge what a dear, a faithful Wife &s;he was like to prove to me, who brought me her &s;elf and two Children to maintain and educate. An E&s;tate rackt up at her own value at 1500 <HI>l.</HI> whereof there was not 1100 <HI>l.</HI> &s;ecure; had I not rea&s;on then to get into my hands what E&s;tate I could of hers to defend my &s;elf, and to take the&s;e concealments of her Debts very unkindly? But I did neither, for I did never receive of her Tru&s;tee <HI>Okey</HI> of her Money, more than 20 <HI>l.</HI> which was paid towards the purcha&s;e of the Hou&s;e at <HI>Highgate.</HI> True it is, I did Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> &s;ome &s;ervice, but I do not know that I ever had any Writings of value of his in my Hands for three days together, and when &s;he clamour'd at him for imploying me, I voluntarily left his bu&s;ine&s;s. For the Plate and Jewels &s;he pretends to, I do affirm &s;he had no other pieces of Plate, than a Silver Thimble, Bodkin, and Spoon; therefore I could get none of them into my Hands. For her Jewels, &s;he had no Neck-lace but a black Bobbin and one of Gla&s;s. She had indeed a Phoenix Jewel, and &s;ome old Rings, which &s;he afterward valued at a 100 <HI>l.</HI> (not worth 50 <HI>l.</HI>) part of the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> which Ring and the <HI>Phoenix</HI> &s;he pre|&s;ented to me as an <HI>Emblem</HI> of her &s;elf the fourth day I had declared my intention of marrying her. True it is, the 21th of <HI>December</HI> I unhappily married her; after which, being a thing &s;o &s;uddenly done, and not accommodated with a Hou&s;e, I brought her to my Chamber at <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> which is none of the wor&s;t Chambers: She thinking that too mean for her, complained &s;he was never &s;o lodged in her life. Then I removed to Lodgings in a great Hou&s;e in <HI>Fullers</HI> Rents; there &s;he carried her &s;elf &s;o imperiou&s;ly, that the Mi&s;tri&s;s of the Hou&s;e was weary of her; and I being de&s;irous that &s;he might be plea&s;ed, de&s;ired her to chu&s;e where &s;he would be, &s;he cho&s;e one Mrs. <HI>Shermans</HI> in <HI>Bedford&s;hire,</HI> which though it was inconvenient for me, I agreed to it; and in <HI>March</HI> after our Marriage, waited upon her thither, where there was one Mrs. <HI>Sparks,</HI> a Widow Gentlewoman, and an acquaintance of hers, Daughter to Mrs. <HI>Sherman,</HI> who &s;ince married one Mr. <HI>Minors</HI> of <HI>Lichfield;</HI> there in a little time, &s;he &s;o deported her &s;elf, and abu&s;ed Mrs. <HI>Minors,</HI> that Mrs. <HI>Sherman</HI> was weary of her company. Then we returned to the Hou&s;e in <HI>Fullers</HI> Rents again, where in a little time &s;he &s;hewed her &s;elf of the &s;ame temper; and thereupon I conceiving that none of tho&s;e Per&s;ons where &s;he had lived had been educated fit for a Companion for her, I found out a place in <HI>Grays-Inn-Lane,</HI> where one Madam <HI>Burcher,</HI> who had been the Widow of Mr. <HI>Thomas,</HI> a Gentleman in <HI>Kent</HI> did lodge and table Per&s;ons of Quality, and there I carried her, her Daughter <HI>Okey</HI> and her Maid; and &s;hortly after, her other Daughter and Si&s;ter came to me, for whom I paid the &s;ame proportion, for whom and my &s;elf I paid 4 <HI>l:</HI> a Week. In a &s;hort time &s;he deported her &s;elf &s;o haughtily, unquiet, and di&s;obligingly to|wards Mrs. <HI>Burcher,</HI> that I was forced to think of &s;ome new place, hoping that &s;he would be more quiet in a Hou&s;e where &s;he might have none to contend with. I gave her her choice of Hou&s;es neer <HI>London,</HI> &s;he re&s;olved upon Mr. <HI>Archers</HI> Hou&s;e at <HI>Highgate,</HI> which &s;he had &s;een when &s;he lived with the Lady Marchione&s;s of <HI>Dorche&s;ter:</HI> Of this Hou&s;e at fir&s;t, I could have but part, which I took, carried her thither, took Servants for her, and &s;upplied her with all things nece&s;&s;ary: In <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="7" REF="4"> Hou&s;e; and in regard Mr. <HI>Archer</HI> had but a Term of Years, &s;he de&s;ired me to treat with Mr. <HI>Blake</HI> who had the rever&s;ion, who was unwilling to &s;ell it; and therefore I agreed with Mr. <HI>Archer</HI> for his Term, which was eleven Years, for which &s;he promi&s;ed to lay out part of her 1500 <HI>l.</HI> Mr. <HI>Archer</HI> died before Writings were &s;ealed, the Hou&s;e was out of repair, the Gardens ruined, the Fences all down; yet I agreed with Mr. <GAP DESC="blank"> Mr. <HI>Archers</HI> A&s;&s;ignee, for a 100 <HI>l.</HI> of which having no Witne&s;s, Mr. <GAP DESC="blank"> pre&s;ently &s;old it to a Neighbour for a 120 <HI>l.</HI> which my Wife took for &s;uch an affront, that &s;he put me upon &s;uing for my Bargain in <HI>Chancery,</HI> which I accordingly did, &s;ued for the &s;ame in my own and Wifes name, to be &s;ettled upon her; which Suite was &s;oon determined, a Conveyance drawn and engro&s;&s;ed, of the Hou&s;e to her Tru&s;tee <HI>Okey,</HI> with an Indor&s;ement thereon, under my Hand and Seal, that the Money paid for it was part of her 1500 <HI>l.</HI> that the Conveyance was made in tru&s;t for her, and to be di&s;po&s;ed of by her according to Marriage-&s;ettlement; which Deed with the Indor&s;ement was and is left with Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> the Tru&s;tee, and the &s;ame is proved by the Depo&s;ition of Mr. <HI>Anthony Smith</HI> in <HI>Chancery,</HI> who ingro&s;&s;ed the Bill in <HI>Chancery,</HI> Deed, and Indor&s;ement: judge therefore how true that charge of the Libel is, that I made the Conveyance of the Hou&s;e to my own u&s;e.</P>
<P>And as to that of Mr. <HI>Mills,</HI> there is &s;omething of truth in that, but not as the Libel declares. The <HI>Michaelmas</HI> after my unhappy Marriage, I received of Mr. <HI>Neal</HI> 25 <HI>l.</HI> for 500 <HI>l.</HI> of her 1500 <HI>l.</HI> I had laid out with him for 100 <HI>l. p. an.</HI> for &s;even Years by her con&s;ent; 25 <HI>l.</HI> whereof I did put out to Mr. <HI>Mills,</HI> and in <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term (her Cau&s;e with Mr. <HI>A&s;hburham</HI> being to be heard in <HI>Chancery</HI>) I did take that 25 <HI>l.</HI> in to imploy the &s;ame in defence of Mr. <HI>A&s;hburhams</HI> Suite, but as to all other the circum&s;tances of that allegation, the &s;ame is abominably fal&s;e throughout. And as to that part which &s;ays Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> permitted me to re|ceive a con&s;iderable Debt, which was granted to her by his Royal Highne&s;s, is utterly fal&s;e, for the Debt &s;he means, was a Debt due by Bond to Collonel <HI>Okey,</HI> from one <HI>Shepherd,</HI> and one <HI>Rogers,</HI> the remainder of &s;ome purcha&s;e Money of a publick Title. The Bond &s;he had in her cu&s;tody, which &s;he had &s;ued before my Marriage, and was non&s;uited, which the Defendents have al&s;o &s;worn. Two Years after I married her &s;he brought me that Bond, and told me &s;he had &s;ued it, but could get nothing, and if I could get any thing &s;he would be glad: Thereupon I by agreement with the Dukes Attorney Sir <HI>Francis Goodrike,</HI> &s;ued the Obligors who lived in <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire</HI> by Engli&s;h Bill in the <HI>Exchequer.</HI> The Per&s;ons being &s;o remote, and I having no acquaintance near them, was forced to employ an At|torney at 50 Miles from them, and Commi&s;&s;ioners (Strangers to me) at as great a di&s;tance to examine Witne&s;&s;es in the Cau&s;e. The Sheriff al&s;o and his Bailiffs, being remote, wrought upon me; &s;o that the expence of that Suite co&s;t me 105 <HI>l.</HI> I recovered by Decree but 250 <HI>l.</HI> of which Mr. <HI>Doelittle,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Vincent</HI> being Mini&s;ters of <HI>London,</HI> applying them&s;elves to me in behalf of <HI>Shepherd,</HI> affirming him to be an hone&s;t Man, I remitted 50 <HI>l.</HI> &s;o that of that Debt which was no part of her 1500 <HI>l.</HI> nor any part of her E&s;tate, being before granted away to another Per&s;on with whom I have &s;ince had a conte&s;t, I never received clear a 100 <HI>l.</HI> w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">h I had before laid <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> her importunity <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="5"> hindred her at any time to repair to her Tru&s;tee, or to any Per&s;on but this Friend, and Dr. <HI>Paget,</HI> after he had given her advice not to return home.</P>
<P>Libel 4. <HI>Ob&s;erving the&s;e with other contrivances of my Husband, as his pre&s;&s;ing me to &s;ell</HI> 700 <HI>l. which I have &s;ettled upon my two Daughters, telling me that he could obtain a Decree in</HI> Chancery <HI>confirming the &s;ale, grievou&s;ly abu&s;ing me for my denial of it, which was one of the rea&s;ons of his quarrelling with me; and when in this he could not have his ends, to perfect my unhappine&s;s, his endeavouring to alienate from me the affections of my Children, knowing that all the comfort I have left in this World, is their tenderne&s;s of me, obedience and dutifulne&s;s towards me, and particularly in tempting my Daughter</HI> Blackwel <HI>to go into</HI> France, <HI>for the advantage of her better breeding than</HI> England <HI>could afford her; offering to go with her him&s;elf to &s;ettle her there, which he did, that he might upon her account have a &s;eeming ju&s;t pretence for his vexatious Suites again&s;t me, and give &s;ome &s;hew of truth to that fal&s;e and groundle&s;s Slander in his An&s;wer to my Bill, and in his</HI> Affidavit <HI>annexed to his Petition to my Lord Chancellour, where he makes his reproving me for my &s;everity to my Children one cau&s;e of our difference; when indeed he perfectly hates them for their affection and obedience to me, and becau&s;e they will not be drawn off from me to him, and fearing that by degrees he would get all my E&s;tate into his Hands, and then turn me and my Children out of doors; and al&s;o, having di&s;covered his de&s;ign of quitting me, by a Letter under his own hand, (in an&s;wer to one writ to him by a Friend of his, advi&s;ing him to deal hone&s;tly and ju&s;tly with me and my Children,) which Letter was &s;hewed and read to me, wherein he declares that it had been, and &s;till was his de&s;ign, which he would pur&s;ue, to part with me; and likewi&s;e, being advi&s;ed by the &s;ame Friends of his to look to my &s;elf, otherwi&s;e he would not leave me Bread, I endeavoured to hinder his receiving any more Money of mine.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 4. I never was guilty of de&s;igning any wrong or injury to her or her Children; nor did I ever know or hear that &s;he &s;ettled or de&s;igned to &s;ettle 700 <HI>l.</HI> upon her Children; or did I ever move her to &s;ell or part with any part of her E&s;tate, &s;aving to her Children; nor did I ever oppo&s;e her, or differ with her touch|ing her E&s;tate, or giving her Children any part of it, but the true and only cau&s;es are as follow. About three Years after my Marriage (the Friend mentioned, and intended in her Letter) repaired often to my Hou&s;e in my ab&s;ence, and never but once, and to my Chamber twice or thrice at mo&s;t to my remembrance, in my pre&s;ence; and when he had been there, I found her at my return home, always very di&s;cour&s;ive and talkative, touching Per&s;ons not fit to be his or her Subject of Di&s;cour&s;e, now &s;he was my Wife, to &s;ay no more: All the&s;e intel|ligences of publick affairs &s;he derived from this pretended Friend, which &s;he did u&s;ually inform me of; and I perceiving them to be dangerous, did admoni&s;h her to avoid his company. She told him this, and thereupon he &s;ought occa&s;ions of rendring me in an ill character to my Wife, endeavoured to render me incon&s;iderable, &s;ometimes one way, &s;ometimes another, and u&s;ed this expre&s;&s;ion, <HI>What did you marry this</HI> Cage <HI>for? I have</HI> 800 <HI>l.</HI> per annum, <HI>and if you had &s;tayed, I had married you?</HI> Of this <HI>(Sir)</HI> in di&s;content &s;he one day told me. I then &s;u|&s;pecting this friend had &s;ome de&s;ign of making a breach, then begg'd of her to forbear his company: and yet notwith&s;tanding my reque&s;t, I had notice that he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> thither in my ab&s;ence &s;ome con&s;iderable time after. I having <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="5"> and being informed that &s;he had &s;o cruely beaten Mi&s;s <HI>Okey,</HI> for (with that appel|lation I always treated her Children) I took notice thereof to her, with &s;ome little earne&s;tne&s;s. Shortly after I had complaints of her beating her Daughter <HI>Blackwel</HI> naked in her Bed, with a Hazel Stick, until &s;he brake it, of which her &s;aid Daughter keeps a piece to this day, I al&s;o reproved her for it: After that, finding that &s;he had &s;o cruelly abu&s;ed Mi&s;s <HI>Okey,</HI> treading her under her Feet, which did &s;o exa&s;perate the Child, that &s;he got a great piece of Bread and Chee&s;e in her Coats and ran away, and re&s;olved to beg rather than return to her Mother; her Mother &s;ent about to find her, brought her home, and for her entertainment, beat her until &s;he was all in a gore of Blood; the Child again hid her &s;elf, &s;ometimes in the Hay-Loft, &s;ometimes under Hedges, nor ever came into the Hou&s;e to eat a bit of Victuals until I returned home, which was three days; when I came home, mi&s;&s;ing the Child, I enquired for her, who at la&s;t appeared, and her Mother complained of her, I enquiring into the matter, endeavour'd to reconcile them, and when I went to Bed I &s;eriou&s;ly di&s;cour&s;ed my Wife, and advi&s;ed her, and &s;hewed her there was no &s;uch cau&s;e of cruelty, and for my pains I was forced to ri&s;e out of Bed at midnight, and walk in the Garden all night. This being <HI>Satur|day,</HI> and on <HI>Monday</HI> morning before I came to Town I reconciled her and her Daughter, as I thought; I was no &s;ooner gone but &s;he took her Daughter up into the Purple Clo&s;et, beat her until her No&s;e bled, then lock'd her into the Clo&s;et, until my Wifes Woman taking pity of the Child, look'd in at the Key-hole, &s;pied her upon the ground, lying in her Blood, forced open the door and relieved her, who (as the Genlewoman told me) believed &s;he had peri&s;hed had not &s;he relieved her. Another time my Wifes Brother Captain <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> being at <HI>Highgate,</HI> my Wife took a Broom, and with both her hands &s;truck at the head of the Child, which her Brother defended, u&s;ing the&s;e words to me, Brother, <HI>If you do not interpo&s;e, my Si&s;ter will &s;poil that Child.</HI> Next &s;he fell upon her Daughter <HI>Blackwel</HI> and beat her mo&s;t cruelly: when I came in I found the Daughter in the Chamber, lamenting her Mothers cruelty; I enquired, and &s;he told me the cau&s;e which was trivial. I mu&s;t confe&s;s I was wounded at my very Soul to &s;ee the daily affliction the poor Children were in under the tyrannical &s;pirit of their Mother, &s;ometimes one, &s;ometimes the other hiding them&s;elves for two or three days until I come home, and conceiving that by the marriage of their Mother I was &s;omewhat concerned in them, and that it was my duty to interpo&s;e, I re&s;olved to do it effectually, and did thorowly di&s;|cour&s;e with Arguments from Nature and Scripture, and I think covinced her, but the effect was lamentable: She fell upon me &s;aying, <HI>What have you to do with my Children? You, you,</HI> (making hideous grimaces) and pronounced it with &s;o il an Accent, that I then thought it was my duty to deal more plainly with her which I did with all the moderation I could. In &s;hort, all the return I had from her was, <HI>You are a Rogue, a ba&s;e Fellow,</HI> and &s;everal other opprobrious words. This unexpected language from a Wife, I confe&s;s made me amazed; but without offering the lea&s;t violence to her Per&s;on, I departed to my Chamber at <HI>Grays-Inn&punc;</HI> leaving this re&s;olution with her, that I would not return again to her until I were ju&s;tified or condemned by &s;ome of her own Friends or Relations. And this I ker<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> too; and thereupon Collonel <HI>Birch,</HI> Dr. <HI>Paget,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> the Tru&s;tee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="6"> &s;he was any way faulty, otherwi&s;e than through di&s;contents, (as &s;he pretended) that her E&s;tate was wa&s;ted, which &s;he had never pretended unto before that in&s;tant. They refu&s;ed to intermeddle, unle&s;s I would &s;ubmit they &s;hould enquire into that, and &s;ettle the matters of E&s;tate between us, which I did, &s;o that I might be &s;ecured of quietne&s;s for the future. At the la&s;t meeting of the&s;e Per&s;ons, Collonel <HI>Birch</HI> dictated the heads of an <HI>Award</HI> touching the E&s;tate, which though but ju&s;t, was more for my advantage than I expected. The next day Collonel <HI>Birch</HI> informed her of this <HI>Award,</HI> at which &s;he railed at him at Mr. <HI>Okeys</HI> Hou&s;e in &s;uch a manner, that from that time he would no more meddle; but at the &s;ame time a Per&s;on telling her that I de&s;ired &s;he would return home to me, Dr. <HI>Paget</HI> as I am credibly informed, &s;aid no, Let him bite of the Bridle; either he or &s;ome other pre&s;ent &s;aid, if he will not &s;ubmit we will choak him with the Judgement, meaning the &s;ecurity I had entred into, to &s;ecure her 1500 <HI>l.</HI> E&s;tate after my death, in ca&s;e it &s;hould fall &s;hort by my means. From this time &s;he ab&s;ented her &s;elf; and had I not then rea&s;on to &s;u&s;pect the Doctor, who not only encouraged her in this &s;eparation, but went with her to coun&s;el? I confe&s;s, her &s;tubborn ab&s;ence greatly afflicted me, neverthele&s;s I made all the applications that any Gentleman, nay Man, rea&s;onably could, by Friends of her own, Mini&s;ters, nay by her own Tru&s;tee, who found her implacable. This being about <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1674, I re&s;olved as the be&s;t way to bring her to her &s;elf, to &s;erve her Tru&s;tee <HI>Okey</HI> with a <HI>Sub-Poena,</HI> to an&s;wer a Bill in <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term following: My intent was, and &s;o was the Bill, to complain of her ab&s;ence, and to have the Marriage-Deed, or the <HI>Award</HI> of Collonel <HI>Birch,</HI> Dr. <HI>Paget,</HI> and <HI>Okey</HI> decreed. Upon this &s;he complains to Mr. <HI>Abraham Barrington</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> pretending &s;he was willing to do what&s;oever he advi&s;ed her, who ap|plied him&s;elf to me, and offered his friendly Mediation, which I thankfully ac|cepted. The further account whereof, and my Grievances then declared, al&s;o an account of the &s;everal References and Proceedings thereon, and in what manner this pretended Friend hath carried him&s;elf, you will meet with all by and by.</P>
<P>As to my de&s;iring <HI>Betty Blackwel</HI> to go with me into <HI>France;</HI> true it is, I being in this affliction, and &s;he de&s;perately in love with one Mr. <HI>Browning</HI> a Merchant who failed, and her Mother managing that bu&s;ine&s;s with great inde&s;cretion and cruelty to her Daughter, and I my &s;elf being re&s;olved to &s;tep over into <HI>France</HI> for diverti&s;e|ment, not being able to mind my Imployment, I was willing for <HI>Betty Blackwels</HI> diver&s;ion al&s;o to carry her over with me, but I do not remember or believe that ever I &s;pake or &s;ent to her of any &s;uch thing, nor would I have done it without her Mothers con&s;ent: But I well know Ingratitude is her Mothers nature, and that I am rewarded for my kindne&s;s to her and hers as her former Husbands for theirs, one of them with treachery, if not both with death: Mr. <HI>Blackwels</HI> Si&s;ter told her &s;o before me. And her abu&s;ing Collonel <HI>Okey</HI> in his ab&s;ence (&s;he knows how,) and in the Tower her unquietne&s;s with him, (&s;he knows the circum&s;tances) denote the kindne&s;s &s;he had for him; and I &s;olemnly prote&s;t &s;he hath &s;aid that her Husband <HI>Blackwel</HI> was an old Knave and deceived her, for that his agreement with the Marque&s;s of <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> was to make her a Jointure of ancient Title, and he made it of Fee-Farm-rent, which was lo&s;t by the King's return; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;he importun'd me to in&s;ert in a Bill in <HI>Chancery</HI> again&s;t Mr. <HI>John Blackwel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="11" REF="6"> Hou&s;es in <HI>Old&s;treet</HI> which he had &s;etled to &s;ecure her Jointure before the Settlement. That he kept a Whore in his Hou&s;e at <HI>Brogborough</HI> before he married her, but &s;he her &s;elf routed her. <HI>Sir,</HI> I find I &s;hall be too trouble&s;om to you to make the te|dious recitals of the particular Paragraphs of the re&s;t of the Libel, I will only touch the particular things &s;he charges me withal, and give you &s;ome Arguments again&s;t them, where nece&s;&s;ary and &s;ufficient Proofs by Depo&s;itions and living Te&s;ti|monies that the Cau&s;es of Difference are not relating to her E&s;tate, or any de&s;ire I ever had to po&s;&s;e&s;s that, but her conver&s;ing with this pretended Friend, her cru|elty to her Children, her Unkindne&s;s, Treachery and Perfideou&s;ne&s;s to me her Husband, are the Cau&s;es, and the only Cau&s;es of my Grief and Trouble.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t, <HI>Sir,</HI> as to her Fal&s;hood, in pretending that I de&s;ired to &s;eparate my &s;elf, or break my Marriage-Vows, or that I ever confe&s;&s;ed to her that I had com|mitted Adultery; the&s;e are the greate&s;t Wrongs that ever were offered to a Man by a Wife of his bo&s;om: For had this been true that I had acquainted her with &s;uch a Folly as a Secret, can you believe any Wife of Genero&s;ity could have di&s;covered it? it had been certainly a &s;in again&s;t the mo&s;t common Ingenuity. But I do &s;o|lemnly deny it, or that ever I carnally knew any Woman that was vicious to my knowledge; but for that &s;he her &s;elf be&s;t knows. For my other Wife, I dare an&s;wer for her, who I am &s;ure was as vertuous and mode&s;t as ever was any per&s;on now a Saint in Heaven. It hath been her practice to a&s;per&s;e all of her &s;ex that have been any way concerned with me (either as Clients, Witne&s;&s;es, or Friends) as lewd and vicious, not &s;paring my Relations, Per&s;ons of Quality, nor her own Nei|ces, her Brother's Daughter; whom I believe was as vertuous (if not more vertu|ous) than her own Daughter; I am &s;ure more ju&s;t, grateful, and mode&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> I lived forty years before I married this Woman, I was never taxed, &s;u|&s;pected, or gave the lea&s;t cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect I had any conver&s;e with any vicious per|&s;on before I married her. Give me leave to inform you of one Helli&s;h practice of this Womans, to take off the Te&s;timony of one Mrs. <HI>A. Price,</HI> a Mini&s;ters Daugh|ter that waited on her, a Gentlewoman well known to be vertuous to Mrs. <HI>Pled|ger</HI> the Mini&s;ter's Widow, her Relation is as follows.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> in the time of his Mediation before mentioned, de&s;ired to di&s;|cour&s;e &s;ome Servants who had lived with us: this Mrs. <HI>Price</HI> being my Wifes Wo|man, among others was called, and &s;peaking her Con&s;cience touching my Wifes Behaviour towards my &s;elf and her Children; Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> condemned my Wife, and acquainted her, that Mrs. <HI>Price</HI> was a &s;ober Woman, and being now married had no dependence on us, and that Credit was to be given to her Te&s;timony; and &s;he had told him my Wife was very unquiet with me, that I was forced &s;ometimes to leave my Dinner and Supper, other times to ri&s;e out of my Bed, and walk all Night. Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI>'s Endeavours taking no effect, the Suits at Law proceeded, and this Friend, in the Libel named, reparired with my Wife to Sir <HI>Francis Winnington,</HI> Sollicitor General, to retain him. He took their Fee, but with this Condition, That they &s;hould refer the Matters in difference to him: to which I al&s;o &s;ubmit|ted. Sir <HI>Francis</HI> appointed &s;everal days to hear the Matters, we accordingly at|tended. It being demanded of me what my Grievances were, I told him, her keeping this Friend company again&s;t my injunction the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="7"> made not many Demands, and applied him&s;elf to her to &s;hew him her Grievaances. Upon which &s;he replied with great art, <HI>Ah Sir!</HI> (with a Sigh fetcht from the Aby&s;s of Hell) <HI>my Grievances are &s;uch as never Womans were; Mr.</HI> Cage <HI>(but I am loth to &s;hame him),</HI> and makes a Stop. Pray go on Madam, &s;aid Sir <HI>Francis Win|nington. I am loth to di&s;parage Mr.</HI> Cage, &s;ays &s;he: To which I replied, Wife, we come to deal plainly with Sir <HI>Francis Winnington,</HI> he hath been plea&s;ed to undertake the Cure, he cannot heal unle&s;s he knows the Wound, and the Bottom of it; therefore pray &s;peak fully the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth. Where|upon &s;he went on, <HI>Ah Sir!</HI> (&s;ighing again) <HI>Mr.</HI> Cage <HI>u&s;ed to ri&s;e from my Bed, and go to bed to my Maid.</HI> How, &s;ays Sir <HI>Francis Winnington!</HI> I was about to reply, but he &s;topt me, and bid her go on. <HI>Sir,</HI> &s;aid &s;he, <HI>nothing el&s;e could have made</HI> Mr. Cage <HI>and I at a difference: and Sir, after he had long u&s;ed this, he marries her off; and after he invites her to &s;ee us at</HI> Highgate, <HI>and when &s;he came, told her his Hou&s;e was at her &s;ervice, come as often, and &s;tay as long as &s;he plea&s;ed. She mu&s;t &s;it at my Table, and if I did not cut her the fir&s;t and be&s;t piece,</HI> Mr. Cage <HI>was ready to &s;tab me.</HI></P>
<P>I being not able to hold longer, told Sir <HI>Francis Winington</HI> that I could not have believed there could be &s;uch a Devili&s;h De&s;ign hatch'd on this &s;ide Hell. Upon which Sir <HI>Francis</HI> told her, <HI>I doubt, Madam, you are jealous.</HI> She replies, <HI>Sir, it's pa&s;t that. Madam,</HI> &s;aid Sir <HI>Francis, do not conceit &s;uch a thing. No, Sir,</HI> (conti|nued &s;he) <HI>I'le give you Proofs,</HI> and with a brow of Bra&s;s begins thus: <HI>When</HI> Price <HI>was there,</HI> Mr. Cage <HI>forced me to vi&s;it the Lady Marque&s;s of</HI> Dorche&s;ter, <HI>and &s;ent the Servants and Children, and this Queans Husband to the Garden to Stool-ball, and took his Wife up into my Chamber: I returned home before they expected, and knock'd at the door a good while:</HI> (Sir, I be&s;eech you ob&s;erve the Cunning and Subtilty of this Woman) <HI>by and by I heard four feet coming down &s;tairs, two heavier and two lighter, which I thought had been the Ma&s;tiff-Dogg;</HI> (Note, the Stairs were two Rooms from the Door) <HI>by and by</HI> Mr. Cage <HI>opens the Door, and holds it a-jar, put it to and fro, as if he had been je&s;ting with me. I ob&s;erved di&s;order in his Face as if he had been doing</HI> &s;omething, <HI>and with that I thru&s;t the Door from me, and I &s;aw the &s;hadow of this Baggage running into the Garden:</HI> To which Sir <HI>Francis</HI> replied, <HI>Madam, Mr.</HI> Cage <HI>and &s;he might be in the Hou&s;e and not naught together; I doubt you are jealous. Nay,</HI> &s;ays &s;he, <HI>be gave the Quean twenty &s;hillings a time when &s;he lived with me. Ile make it plain to you yet,</HI> (I prote&s;t I was never &s;o amazed in my life, I was wondering what would come next when &s;he thus began again) <HI>I went up into my Chamber, and there my Chamber was di&s;ordered, and my Bed tumbled, I called my Maid</HI> Mary, <HI>and chid her for not &s;etting my Chamber in order. She told me that</HI> Mr. Cage <HI>and</HI> Mrs. Price <HI>had been there all the afternoon, and &s;he dur&s;t not come into the Chamber.</HI> Upon which Sir <HI>Francis</HI> took notice, <HI>I pray, Madam, let me &s;peak with that Maid</HI> Mary. She alledged &s;he was gone from her, and could not produce her: There|upon Sir <HI>Francis</HI> advi&s;ed me to find her out, and that &s;he might make Oath touch|ing that matter. The &s;aid <HI>Mary,</HI> (who was a Gentleman's Daughter, and waited on my Wife, depo&s;ed, That all this Allegation was untrue, as by her Oath among the Depo&s;itions hereunto annexed may appear; which when you have read, judge I be&s;eech you, if ever &s;uch a Woman lived before her.</P>
<P>And to &s;hew her further Deceit and Subtilty, ob&s;erve the like about the pretend|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="7"> for a Separation, &s;he pretended great care of me, procured her Si&s;ter to provide a Servant for me to wait on me in my Chamber at <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> for I had none before; &s;he came about <HI>Bartholomew</HI> Tide; my Wife before <HI>Chri&s;tma&s;s</HI> ab&s;ents: <HI>March</HI> fol|lowing 1674 Mr. <HI>Cremor</HI> of <HI>Grays-Inn</HI> had been informed that this Wench haunted &s;u&s;pected hou&s;es, acquainted me with it, advi&s;ed me to turn her away. I gave her Warning, and in <HI>June</HI> turn'd her away. In <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> following comes a Letter by the Po&s;t, directed to Mr. <HI>A. S.</HI> of <HI>Grayes-Inn,</HI> then my Clerk, and is as follows; The Super&s;cription, <HI>To</HI> Mr. A. S. <HI>at</HI> Mr. Cage's <HI>Chamber in Grays-Inn.</HI></P>
<P>After the fir&s;t fold opened was wrote, thus, <HI>To Mr.</HI> A. S. <HI>at &s;ome of the Bawdy-Hou&s;es, or with the Crew in</HI> Grays-Inn. Within thus:</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<P>THis is to imform you of the truth. There is one intends to lay the third Child on your back, which I do not really think is yours, but your Ma&s;ters; he is better able to keep it, for you have more than you can keep already, for now you begin to want Chink, having no Suppliers but Spenders; you may lick your Breech like a Dog, (if you have any left;) for in &s;ometime you will not have Money to buy you Plai&s;ters, and I believe the Squire is in as much need as your &s;elf; but he is a Gentleman, therefore I pity him, and if his Wife were dead I would do what I could to help him to &s;uch another, but in &s;ome things &s;he &s;hould not be like this, for &s;he &s;hould be as ugly as all the Devils could make her, no more wit than him&s;elf, like an O&s;trich, and as much Heathen as he is Turk. Take this advice young Man, though old in &s;in; <HI>Ponder well thy paths, and enter no more into the hou&s;e of an Harlot, le&s;t thou &s;leep the &s;leep of death, and &s;o be taken in an evil hour.</HI> Thus de&s;iring to hear you are in another World, I conclude for ever. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Anno Domini, <HI>1677.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Of who&s;e contrivance can you think this Letter was, what could be the de&s;ign of it? I am &s;atisfied <HI>(Sir)</HI> my Wife contriv'd it, it is certain, &s;he &s;ent it to her Daughter <HI>Blackwel</HI> to be there tran&s;cribed, and &s;ent it up by the Po&s;t, di|rected as above. I &s;uppo&s;e you will take it as a magical Prediction of what was intended, <HI>viz.</HI> the laying a Ba&s;tard to my charge for a farther pretence of &s;epara|tion; for <HI>(Sir)</HI> &s;he knew the Wench was of ill fame, and had layn at a &s;u&s;pected Hou&s;e, before &s;he procured her Si&s;ter to hire her for me; my Wife had a corre|&s;pondency with the Wench whil&s;t &s;he lived with me, met her &s;everal times. And <HI>Sir,</HI> is it not &s;trange that my Wife (who for eighteen Months before was not to be heard of,) &s;hould within four days after this Wench was brought to Bed, (if there was any &s;uch matter) find out the Wench, examine her with &s;o much cunning and patience, and &s;o unconcernedly endure to be told that her Husband was &s;o familiar with her nine Months, without leaving &s;ome marks upon her?</P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> The Wench lived not above ten Months in all with me, of which my Cou&s;in Mr. <HI>William Cage</HI> was my con&s;tant Bedfellow for four Months before &s;he went away, and never lodged from me. I had warn'd her away in <HI>March,</HI> &s;he went away in <HI>June,</HI> and had the Ba&s;tard (if any) in <HI>January</HI> following: 'tis not probable, that after the Wench had taken warning to be gone, &s;he &s;hould be willing, nor yet that I &s;hould venture after Mr. <HI>Cramer</HI> gave me notice of her haunting Bawdyhou&s;es.</P>
<P>And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> my Wif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="8"> &s;everal Per&s;ons as witne&s;&s;es for a pretence with her: And becau&s;e, when I heard of this damnable de&s;ign again&s;t me, I re&s;olved to puni&s;h the Wench, and for that end gave to Mr. <HI>Winford</HI> in <HI>Fullers</HI> Rents (who&s;e Cook Maid &s;he then was) ten Shil|lings to get a Warrant, and to &s;et a watch upon her that &s;he &s;hould not get away before the matter was examined before a Magi&s;trate. But my Wife gave her ano|ther vi&s;it, pretending to &s;earch the Ba&s;tard for a Mole I had on my Body, which no Per&s;on knew but my Wife, and this mark &s;he acquainted the Woman of the Hou&s;e with, that the Wench might the better pretend to a familiar acquaintance with me. <HI>Sir,</HI> This Wench on the &s;udden (to prevent my bringing the matter to a full examination) was conveyed away, without either my will or knowledge, and whither I know not, or whether there ever was any Ba&s;tard of that Wenches, (as pretended) I know not, nor did I ever hear that the Wench was with Child until this Ba&s;tard Plot was di&s;covered. And <HI>Sir,</HI> although my Wife hath &s;everal times declared in &s;everal places, and to me afterwards, that &s;he had &s;earched to the bottom of the bu&s;ine&s;s, and was &s;atisfied I was wronged in that matter, yet I have ever &s;ince laid out to have this Wench taken; I have offered five Pounds to effect it, and will now give the &s;ame Sum to have her taken, that the matter may come into Judgment publickly; nay <HI>Sir,</HI> I have &s;ued, and do now &s;ue in the Spi|ritual Court a Con&s;ort of my Wifes for it, that the truth may appear; nor cer|tainly, would any man think me &s;o &s;illy as not to have prevented the di&s;grace, by providing otherwi&s;e for the Whore, and in a more remote place than <HI>Fullers</HI> Rents was, which joyns to <HI>Grays-Inn;</HI> where the Libel &s;aith, the Whore was lodged for neighboured.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> I would not have in&s;i&s;ted &s;o much upon this mean matter, but that my Wife u&s;ed it as her <HI>Achilean</HI> argument to ju&s;tifie her treacherous departing from me, notwith&s;tanding &s;he was gone from me eighteen Months before.</P>
<P>As to tho&s;e fal&s;ities of turning my Wife out of doors, and bidding my Servant to &s;hut the door upon her, and threatning to fire the Hou&s;e over her head: Thus I &s;ay, when I bought the hou&s;e at <HI>Highgate</HI> for her, and had drawn the Convey|ance ready, &s;he refu&s;ed to pay for it according to her agreement, nor had I any Money of hers in my hands, or to command, to pay for it, I having at that time laid out above 400 <HI>l.</HI> in Suites at Law in her concerns, as Mr. <HI>Middleton</HI> and Mr. <HI>Barrington,</HI> who were &s;ent on the &s;udden to view my Books, found: Mr. <HI>Middle|ton</HI> then ca&s;t up my Book and &s;igned it. I did, as I remember, bid my Servant ac|quaint her, then (as the truth was) that I was &s;ued in an Ejectment for that Hou&s;e, and that I had covenanted that &s;he or her Tru&s;tee &s;hould pay the Money, or I would deliver po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Hou&s;e by &s;uch a day, if &s;he did not the one or the other, &s;he would be turned out of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion: But I do not remember, nor can I believe that I ever did threaten the firing of another Mans Hou&s;e, &s;o penal by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Law, no le&s;s than Felony: And I do &s;olemnly prote&s;t, that from the fir&s;t day of my Marriage to this very time, I did never turn her, or cau&s;e her to be turned out of any Hou&s;e or Place where I lived, or the door to be &s;hut again&s;t her: But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rue it is, after &s;he had di&s;turbed me in my bu&s;ine&s;s at <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> and I provided a Lodging for her, I lock'd my Chamber door, and when &s;he had left the Hou&s;e at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ighgate,</HI> and taken away and &s;old &s;everal of my Goods, bought with my own <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="15" REF="8"> Chairs of my Parlour, and other things, I did then indeed forbid my Servant to &s;uffer her or her Daughter any more to ran&s;ack the Hou&s;e. As to any Servant de|nying her otherwi&s;e entrance or admittance unto me, where ever I was, or at any hour, none ever dur&s;t be &s;o &s;aucy, or had any &s;uch orders. As to Mr. <HI>Middletons</HI> endeavouring to introduce her, and &s;ending Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> to acquaint me with it, and that I refu&s;ed it, there is nothing more fal&s;e; for Mr. <HI>Middleton</HI> knows that when I heard that he was per&s;wading her to return to her duty, and that &s;he refu&s;ed it, and went away on Foot toward <HI>Highgate,</HI> I was greatly troubled, and &s;ent Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> one way, and my Clerk another, a third Per&s;on another, to bring her back if po&s;&s;ibly; nor did I ever take or keep any Woman-&s;ervant again&s;t her con&s;ent, otherwi&s;e than is hereafter &s;et forth. When &s;he ab&s;ented her &s;elf from me for eighteen Months together, and at la&s;t returned home, with a de&s;ign to have a fur|ther advantage again&s;t me, then I having a Servant-maid who lived with me about &s;ix Months, and one Year before with her; and my Wife de&s;iring to intro|duce another, who lived in the Hou&s;e where &s;he was concealed from me all that time, and of the Plot as I concluded, &s;he, I &s;ay, de&s;iring I would turn my Maid-&s;ervant away, and admit of hers: I acknowledge I did refu&s;e it, but declared that if &s;he would take a meer Stranger to all the differences, I would turn her away, otherwi&s;e I would keep them both, that &s;he de&s;ired to introduce, and that I had, that I might have one Per&s;on that might te&s;tifie for my Carriage, as well as &s;he one for hers: and this the righteous God knows was all the de&s;ign I had in keeping of that Maid-&s;ervant; and as &s;oon as my Wife had provided <HI>Elizabeth Gun</HI> that was &s;uch a Stranger, (nay, I think &s;ooner,) I turn'd my Maid away: Nor did I ever endeavour any ways to weaken the Marriage Articles, if &s;he would live with me as a Wife, but endeavoured to have them decreed according to the intent and meaning thereof; which was, that an equitable proportion of the profits of the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> might be &s;et out for her maintenance with me, and the re&s;idue thereof (after her Debts paid, and my ju&s;t disbur&s;ements for the maintenance and educa|tion of her Children, and in Suites at Law in defence of her, and occa&s;ioned by her) &s;hould be given to her Children upon their preferment in Marriage. I acknow|ledge in my Bill (which was commenc'd <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term 1674) I lay the cau&s;e of our Suites (but not the fir&s;t differences) upon Doctor <HI>Paget,</HI> and I &s;till do af|firm the &s;ame. It is true, when &s;he ab&s;ented her &s;elf for eighteen Months toge|ther, I not knowing where to find her, to reduce her to a &s;ociety with me as a Wife, the Marriage-&s;ettlement being made to &s;ecure her maintenance <HI>in cohabi|tation as a Wife,</HI> and &s;he had broke her Marriage vows with me by her ab&s;ence, I did deliver to &s;everal Per&s;ons Papers to prohibit their receiving her, or paying her any Money; yet at the &s;ame time gave private in&s;truction to Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> to &s;upply her, and not to let her want. I deny that my Bill in <HI>Chancery</HI> was ever condem|ned for being &s;candalous or impertinent by any Ma&s;ter what&s;oever; but true it is, Sir <HI>Miles Cock</HI> (as I am informed) did tax 12 <HI>l.</HI> co&s;t, without &s;ummoning me, to be paid to Doctor <HI>Paget</HI> upon my exceptions to his in&s;ufficient An&s;wer, for &s;aying, my Wife ab&s;ented her &s;elf from me by the in&s;tigation of the Devil, and the Doctor the Defendant, but I believe &s;uch Co&s;ts were never taxed befor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="16" REF="9"> <HI>Paget</HI> to reward him in that kind for his ill advice, I need not, I have had oppor|tunity enough. For <HI>Stedman,</HI> I believe I have &s;aid, no Gentleman would have advi&s;ed a Wife to &s;eparate her &s;elf from her Husband, to maintain a Bill again&s;t him in the name of another man, and that his Wife and Children too hath more cau&s;e to complain than my Wife. For Mr. <HI>Jenner,</HI> another of her Coun&s;el, I deny that ever I &s;aw him to my knowledge, or that ever I wrote a Sentence, Letter, ot Note to him; for all the re&s;t of that Slander, there is no part of it true: Nor did I ever de&s;ire Mr. <HI>Middleton</HI> of <HI>Hackney</HI> to acquaint her capricious Friend with the differences, for I did never think him a man either of Brains or good will enough to do any good office between me and my Wife, which long &s;ince appear'd, but more particularly now of late, as follows: Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> met this pretended Friend upon the <HI>Exchange,</HI> and moved to him, that there might be &s;ome end put to the differences between Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his Wife, any end were better then none: The pious Friend replies, There can be no end. Certainly this up&s;tart Dictators Decree is not unlike that advice given to the treacherous <HI>Cateline</HI> by the Gho&s;t of factious <HI>Scylla</HI> (one of the Council of State in the <HI>Roman</HI> Commonwealth,) <HI>The evils thou ha&s;t done cannot be &s;afe without attempting greater:</HI> So here, <HI>there can be no end</HI> (&s;ays he) according to the modern principle, <HI>When the Sword is drawn again&s;t the Head, throw away the Scabbard.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> 'Tis a thing impo&s;&s;ible to an&s;wer this Libel in any method, becau&s;e it is confu&s;edly, and di&s;orderly, a&s;well as maliciou&s;ly pen'd: Sometimes the Friend is mentioned in one place, &s;ometimes in another, and &s;o in &s;everal places, That a Gentleman &s;eeing this Libel in my Chamber, concluded by the Stile, that the &s;ame Pen that wrote <HI>The Worlds Mi&s;take in</HI> Oliver Cromwel, wrote this. But now to apply wholly to the divorcing Friend, I do (as the Libel &s;ays) lay the whole blame of the difference upon him, not for the rea&s;on of lending his Name (to &s;ue me before he di&s;cour&s;ed me,) but for maliciou&s;ly endeavouring a &s;epara|tion &s;ome con&s;iderable time before the differences broke out; for Mr. <HI>Abraham Barrington</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> the fir&s;t Mediator for our reconciliation, before any Bill in <HI>Chancery</HI> was filed on either &s;ide, at <HI>Bartholomew</HI> Tide 1674, (when his Family was in the Country,) appointed us to meet him at his hou&s;e in <HI>Suffolk-Lane</HI> for priva|cy, that we might have liberty to talk our Bellies full, (as he him&s;elf expre&s;&s;ed it:) Meet we did there, but I confe&s;s I dur&s;t not enter the li&s;ts, (&s;he always wor&s;ting me at that;) therefore &s;he being in one Room and my &s;elf in another, I intreated Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> to deal with us &s;everally there: As one of my principal grievances, I complained that this Per&s;on had &s;owed di&s;&s;ention, endeavoured a breach, and that my Wife her &s;elf had told me he had u&s;ed this expre&s;&s;ion to her at my Hou&s;e in my ab&s;ence; <HI>Is this your man of di&s;cretion, to make Walks here, and no longer time in the Hou&s;e?</HI> Another time, <HI>What did you marry this</HI> Cage <HI>for? if you had &s;tayed I had married you, I have</HI> 800 <HI>l.</HI> per annum. I was afterwards frequently upbraided with what a Fortune &s;he had lo&s;t for me. <HI>Sir,</HI> his &s;aying this to my Wife was occa&s;ioned by my de&s;iring her to forbear his company, &s;he having di&s;covered to me his principles and u&s;ual di&s;cour&s;e of Per&s;ons, not fit to be rendred in &s;uch Characters by any Engli&s;hman; to my di&s;turbance, many times when I came home, for I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> di&s;cour&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Sir</HI> I confe&s;s their wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="9"> made then al&s;o, was, that &s;he would abandon this pretended Friend: which &s;he refu&s;ing before Mr. <HI>Barrington,</HI> I then charged her to forbear his company. This al&s;o, <HI>Sir,</HI> was long before any Suite, I &s;ay, 'twas in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1674. Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> u&s;ed long and earne&s;t endeavours of reconciliation, until the beginning of <HI>Mi|chaelmas</HI> Term: And now, <HI>Sir,</HI> &s;ee how obliging my Wife was to me; in&s;tead of abandonding his company, &s;he vi&s;its him at his Chamber frequently, and pub|lickly goes abroad with him in affront to me, for&s;akes my company wholly, and &s;ends railing, lying Letters, which I have by me, to one of which &s;he &s;ub&s;cribes my Name, and &s;trikes a da&s;h through it thus, <HI>Cage.</HI> One day meeting her at Mr. <HI>Doelittles,</HI> where &s;he took Sanctuary, and communicated with his Hearers in the height of this malice. I would have taken her home with me. She &s;ends for a Con&s;table to have me before the Lord Mayor, and before &s;he came before him, &s;he ran away; and &s;he then (at Mr. <HI>Doelittles</HI>) told me, &s;he would keep this Friend company in &s;pight of me, and declared the &s;ame at another time to Mr. <HI>Creamer.</HI> Mr. <HI>Barrrington</HI> prevailed with her at the beginning of <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term to come and dine at my Chamber. I then al&s;o told her my di&s;&s;atisfaction touching the de&s;ign of this Friend, and begged of her (with all the fervency of my &s;oul) to abandon him; after this was named, &s;he would not by any means &s;tay with me that night, which Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> cannot but remember. <HI>Sir,</HI> before the end of <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term I entreated her to let me know what the matter was why &s;he was &s;o unju&s;t, for I &s;olemnly prote&s;t I did not know; nay her Daughter <HI>Blackwel</HI> knows, and hath told it to divers, that I once gave her a Pen, Ink, and Paper, and bid her write what &s;he would, touching her E&s;tate, and it &s;hould be done; but &s;he would not. The next news I heard of my Wife (in&s;tead of complying with me) was, that this precious Friend had in affront to me, brought a Bill in his own name again&s;t me, for and on the behalf of my Wife, therein abu&s;ing me, complaining fal&s;ly I had altered the Marriage-&s;ettlement, and &s;candalou&s;ly alledges that my Wife had no Child by me, and we were parted, (as my Wife calls it in her Libel;) which I never knew of, nor agreed unto, nor ever will. I am now on &s;uch a Subject, that I know not when I &s;hould leave it; if I &s;hould &s;uffer my &s;elf to tell you all the unworthine&s;s of the&s;e two precious Friends, how the one hath an&s;wered her Marriage vows, and the other the profe&s;&s;ion of Piety he makes. I will only add this in an&s;wer to that part of the Libel, that &s;ays I &s;o much de&s;ired the com|pany of that Friend, but really I never did &s;o but once at dinner, which was be|fore I knew him, and that in kindne&s;s to my Wife, being de&s;irous to &s;hew re&s;pect to all Per&s;ons &s;he called Friends, when I fir&s;t married her; I have ever &s;ince avoided him as much as I could; I never took him to be a man fit for the &s;ociety of any but of his own humor, his conver&s;e being only of the Rapines and Ruines of the late Times and Per&s;ons, his own di&s;&s;atisfaction, and quarrelling with tho&s;e above him. The next, <HI>Sir,</HI> is to &s;hew you what unhappine&s;s and mi&s;ery this Woman was (as &s;he alledged in her Libel) a&s;hamed to acquaint this Friend of hers with. <HI>Sir,</HI> this Woman having for &s;everal Years laid her Snares for a con&s;iderable Prey, mi&s;&s;ing the greater, would have taken up with a Mechanick; &s;he lo&s;t her labour there, but at la&s;t en&s;nared the Man, well read as &s;he alledges in <HI>Machiavel.</HI> For three or four Years &s;o kind and hypocritically obliging &s;he was, that all the World mu&s;t know <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="10"> his bu&s;ine&s;s, and &s;pent all his time (but that of dallying with, and care&s;&s;ing her,) in &s;ecuring her &s;hattered E&s;tate to make her Children happy, gave them all man|ner of Education, and was &s;o kind to them that their own Fathers could not have been kinder; gave her liberty to di&s;po&s;e of her 1500 <HI>l.</HI> &s;he brought, for her &s;elf and Children; provided more than &s;he de&s;ired for her and them, and never asked her for any accompt of Money he &s;ent; but when what he had &s;ent was gone, &s;he had more: but yet (as &s;he declared) the truth was &s;he did not know what &s;he ailed, &s;he wanted nothing, yet &s;he could not be content: This is the un|happine&s;s for the fir&s;t three or four Years, that &s;he was a&s;hamed to acquaint this precious Friend with, as you will &s;ee by the Proofs at the latter end.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Pray &s;ee when this mi&s;ery began. At the four Years end her Husband find|ing the Children grew marriageable, and although that which was de&s;perate of her own E&s;tate her Husband had &s;ecured by Suites, yet becau&s;e it would not be readily paid if her Children had offers of preferment, her Husband &s;ecured 800 <HI>l.</HI> to her Children, 700 <HI>l.</HI> thereof by undeniable City-&s;ecurity, payable one the day of Marriage, and in the mean time the Intere&s;t is paid to the Cildren for their maintenance, and the Bond written in the Childrens names, and delivered to them, of which 800 <HI>l.</HI> there was but 100 <HI>l.</HI> part of the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> nor of her E&s;tate. Next, her Husband at the expence of very great Sums of Money obtained a Decretal Order for a 100 <HI>l. per annum</HI> for her life, which &s;he had lo&s;t, nay relea&s;ed: her Husband had done all this, and maintained and educated her Children without wa&s;ting any of the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> &s;till remaining, but what &s;he her &s;elf &s;pent. Thus the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> whereof five was de&s;perate, being made good by Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> by expenceful Suites, 700 <HI>l.</HI> &s;ettled on the Children, a 100 <HI>l. per annum</HI> for her Life, and in all probability 500 <HI>l.</HI> at lea&s;t Arrears &s;ecured: Now was the time to &s;et up the Deed, and for the Tru&s;tee to enter upon the Tru&s;t now; and never before, did &s;he pretend to more at her di&s;po&s;e than the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> but now &s;he would &s;eparate, before her Husband had got in any part of this E&s;tate to recompence any of his disbur&s;ements, either for her, the Suites, or for, or to her Children: now &s;he brags that her Children had 800 <HI>l.</HI> &s;ettled on them, &s;he had her own E&s;tate, with the 100 <HI>l. per annum,</HI> and 500 <HI>l.</HI> Arrears; now for a &s;eparation of Per&s;ons, and E&s;tate would follow.</P>
<P>Now her mi&s;ery began indeed, this addition to the E&s;tate made her talk &s;he might have de&s;erved her precious Friend with his 800 <HI>l. p. an.</HI> and a better man than he. Mr. <HI>Smith,</HI> if he had known what would have followed, would have had her, for he was only afraid of her Children, and as things fall out, &s;he had brought him a better Portion than his Wife he now hath. And truly, from that very time &s;he may date her mi&s;ery, for from that time &s;he grew &s;o intollerably proud, and haugh|ty, no Servant could plea&s;e her, nor Child be &s;ervile or Slave enough; and her Husband that unhappily had made the E&s;tate &s;o con&s;iderable, was now &s;et at naught. Here began her extremity of cruelty to her Children; from reproving her for that, her abu&s;ing her Husband; from thence Collonel <HI>Birch,</HI> Dr. <HI>Paget,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Okey,</HI> hearing the difference, Dr. <HI>Paget</HI> not then ju&s;tly complying with Collonel <HI>Birch</HI> and Mr. <HI>Okey,</HI> advi&s;ing her not to return home, but let her Husband bite on the Bridle, adding, We will choak him with the Judgment: to which end Dr. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="10"> her to one of <HI>Lincolns-Inn,</HI> who encouraged her, and told her the general words of the Deed excluded her Husband if he &s;hould have afterwards di&s;covered and recovered 15000 <HI>l.</HI> more than the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> intended by that Deed: This vain conceit made her and her precious Friends &s;well like <HI>Lucifer;</HI> thus &s;prung her mi|&s;ery, and henceforward, &s;he that was not able before to educate her Children, now &s;hould have no need of an Husband; her Children in this five Years well educated by her Husband, her E&s;tate thus increa&s;ed, &s;he and her Friend would make her Husband truckle. From this time nothing but occa&s;ions of &s;eparation was &s;ought for. Then when I &s;ought to her for Peace, &s;he told, No, you complained of my cruelty to my Children, the World &s;hall now &s;ee, that I value my Children before you. And about this time Mr. <HI>Creamer,</HI> Mr. <HI>Reynolds</HI> the Mini&s;ter, and Mr. <HI>Doelittle</HI> (I not pre&s;ent) di&s;cour&s;ed her touching a Reconciliation, &s;he declared, No, let them do what they would with the E&s;tate, but &s;he would never live with her Husband, (then &s;he never pretended whoring,) then &s;he only pretended &s;he dur&s;t not live with me, I had offered to &s;tab her with Sizars, another time to cut her Throat, which I wonder &s;he hath omitted in the Libel, but (the Lord knows) I never then offered her the lea&s;t unlawful violence, nor afterwards indeed, that might ju&s;tly be &s;o termed.</P>
<P>Then began &s;he fir&s;t to ab&s;ent her &s;elf, and hence follow all the Provocations to a Separation, in the Proofs annexed. But to return again to the pretended Friend, he goes with her, and retains Sir <HI>Francis Winnington</HI> Coun&s;el for her; who wor|thily would not receive any Fee, but upon the&s;e Terms, That they would refer the matter to him, and if Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> would do &s;o too, he would make an end of the Bu&s;ine&s;s. This was the Reference before mentioned, wherein &s;he fal&s;ly accu&s;ed me of Adultery with Mrs. <HI>Price.</HI> Sir <HI>Francis</HI> upon &s;everal Meetings examining the Matter, and the Tru&s;tee <HI>Okey</HI> him&s;elf reproved my Wife very plainly, and told her that &s;he de&s;erved to be bound to the good Behaviour, drew up the Heads of his Award in writing with his own hand, and deliver'd it to the Tru&s;tee to acquaint my Wife with, which was as follows, That the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> made known to Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> before the Deed was &s;ealed, &s;hould be made good according to the Marriage; and for the re&s;t that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> had &s;ince di&s;covered, and recovered by Suits, he ought to have. And thereupon I de&s;ired, as my free Gift, that Sir <HI>Francis</HI> would award five hundred more out of the Iri&s;h Arrears, which at my Reque&s;t he al&s;o a|warded. This being &s;hewed to her, &s;he and her Friend contrives a Revocation of Sir <HI>Francis Winnington</HI>'s Power, and &s;ent it to him before the Award was publi&s;h|ed in due form, whereby a Period was put to all tho&s;e Endeavours. Then this Woman begins to rail at Sir <HI>Francis Winnington,</HI> and her Friend threatens me in a Notice left with my Clerk of his own hand-writing. Then a Reference was had to Sir <HI>Fr. Winnigton</HI> again, and Mr. <HI>Creamer,</HI> which &s;he made fruitle&s;s; then to Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> and Mr. <HI>Creamer,</HI> they re&s;olv'd on every particular, as well touching her Behaviour for the future, as the E&s;tate, and put them into writing, tho&s;e I &s;ign'd, but &s;he refu&s;ed. <HI>Note,</HI> all the&s;e Per&s;ons were of her own nomination, and Friends. But I omitted to mention the Reference to Mr. <HI>Middleton</HI> of <HI>Hackney,</HI> her Brother in Law, and Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> her Tru&s;t&egrave;e; they agreed &s;everal, if not all the particular Differences, which al|&s;o &s;he refu&s;ed to abide by, reflecting uncivilly upon them. After this &s;he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="11"> Ba&s;tard, more particularly to Madam <HI>Broughton</HI> and the Lady <HI>Li&s;le,</HI> and lived above a year with me. And indeed &s;he might well be &s;atisfied when &s;he was the Foundation of that Slander. But &s;he not having advantage enough again&s;t me before &s;he went from me; for &s;he and her Friend had advi&s;ed with Civilians for a Divorce, and it was told &s;he could not have it but for Adultery or Cruelty; for A|dultery &s;he was &s;ure, and hath often declared, &s;he &s;hould never have that for a Cau&s;e, and therefore to provoke me to &s;ome act of Severiy &s;he continues at home, and pretends &s;he was &s;orry &s;he had gone away, &s;he was advi&s;ed to it by &mdash; her Friend and his Coun&s;el. With what Joy I received her, &s;he and others know well, and that I treated her with all the kindne&s;s imaginable; and for her greater obliga|tion, &s;he de&s;iring to have her Children live with her, I took another Hou&s;e for her at <HI>Thi&s;tleworth,</HI> furni&s;hed it all at my own Charge, took Servants for her, and lived there with her. And that all Cau&s;es of Difference for the future, and Di&s;|cour&s;e of it might be taken away, I de&s;ired her to think of &s;ome Lawyer of Repu|putation and Integrity, to &s;ettle all things as they ought to be upon the true Ba&s;is of Ju&s;tice and Equity. She names Mr. <HI>Powel</HI> of the Temple, in the Libel menti|oned, who had always been of Coun&s;el with her long before I married her, and married an intimate Acquaintance of hers: I agreed to it, and attended him with an Order in Chancery by con&s;ent, whereby all Matters in difference were referred to him. Mr. <HI>Powel</HI> knows I then told him, <HI>Sir, we have both pitcht upon you to fi|ni&s;h our Breaches, here is the Ca&s;e, do as you would be done unto, if the Ca&s;e were yours, I will not re&s;train you, you &s;hall not di&s;plea&s;e me.</HI> This I often afterward declared to him, particularly before Mr. <HI>Thornton</HI> the Earl of <HI>Bedford</HI>'s Chaplain, and Madam <HI>Broughton,</HI> and by this I thought my &s;elf &s;ecured from any further Troubles and Di&s;quiets from my Wife, and indeed &s;he began to be obliging. But Sir, <HI>Betty Blackwel</HI> her own Daughter coming again to live with us, pretended frequent Oc|ca&s;ions of going to <HI>London,</HI> of which I mu&s;t know nothing, &s;ometimes going in the Morning betimes, Letters and Whi&s;perings when &s;he came home of great Se|crets, my &s;elf and Hou&s;e neglected; of this I took little notice, my Wife grew &s;trange, nothing of kindne&s;s from her. One day being greatly troubled, I di&s;|cour&s;ed mildly with her, &s;aying, <HI>Wife, what is the matter? how comes this Change? other Women are more kind to their Husbands.</HI> She replied, <HI>She could be no otherwi&s;e, I might help my &s;elf if I could.</HI> Sir, I was amazed, I found Affronts daily from her and her Daughter; the Rea&s;on I knew not, they wanted nothing, the Money for the Hou&s;e the Daughter kept, never without ten or twenty Pounds, they did what they plea&s;ed, I never demanded an Account to this day. This, <HI>Elizabeth Gun</HI> who then lived with us, and now lives with Mr. <HI>Gun</HI> at <HI>Billing&s;gate,</HI> can inform you. On Friday-night my Wife began to &s;torm bitterly, for my &s;aying, That it would have become her Daughter to have told me that &s;he was going to <HI>London,</HI> and I had de&s;erved more Civility than that. The Storm grew &s;o great, that I ro&s;e from Bed, where I then was, and walk'd all Night in the Garden. The next day I cro&s;t the <HI>Thames,</HI> to wander for quietne&s;s &s;ake, and met in the Afternoon on <HI>Richmond</HI> Hill Mr. <HI>Thankeful Owen,</HI> whom I engaged to give me a Vi&s;it next day at my Hou&s;e, by which I hoped to lay the Devil; that &s;ucceeded, and had effect for about a fortnight. But the Daughter going to <HI>London</HI> again, when &s;he came home <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="11"> attend my Bu&s;ine&s;s. Term came on, Mr. <HI>Powel</HI> did nothing, though importun'd by me. Her precious Friend came al&s;o to Town, whom upon my taking the Hou&s;e at <HI>Thi&s;tleworth</HI> &s;he promi&s;ed me never to conver&s;e with, or &s;ee again, if &s;he could avoid it: but &s;he that never kept Promi&s;e with me, no not her Marriage Vows, could not forbear but mu&s;t go to him for Coun&s;el, as &s;he her &s;elf owned. And what Coun&s;el &s;he had, judge by the Effects following. I was often told of her go|ing to this Friends Lodging, I blam'd her for it; &s;he told me, let me help my &s;elf; I replied, I would upon him, though I could not upon her. This made her rage in|tollerably, &s;o that neither Day nor Night I could have re&s;t, as the &s;ame <HI>Elizabeth Gun</HI> can inform you; &s;he knows I have been forced to ri&s;e out of my Bed, and &s;it up whole Nights, &s;ometimes in Mr. <HI>Morgan</HI>'s Chamber in <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> &s;ometimes at Mr. <HI>Fairberds,</HI> &s;ometimes lock up my &s;elf in my Study all Night, then &s;he would break my Windows, &s;aying, <HI>Turn me out then, turn me out of Doors.</HI> She once rail'd me fir&s;t out of the Bed, followed me out of one Room into another, then going out into the Court pur&s;ued me, crying, <HI>Rogue, Ba&s;tard, thy Father and Mother were Ba&s;tards,</HI> and mi&s;calling my fir&s;t Wife by &s;uch Names which I can't in Mode&s;ty mention, and that I murder'd her. This was at Midnight. I confe&s;s I turned to|wards her with a mind to have laid her at my foot, but I had not the Heart to &s;trike her, but betook me to my Heels to run from her; &s;he followed me clo&s;e round about the Court again and again, till I was ready to &s;ink. From this I &s;ee &s;he de&s;igned to provoke me, either to turn her violently out of Doors, or do &s;ome|thing cruel again&s;t her in pa&s;&s;ion, that &s;he might have a pretext of &s;eparation, or living a&s;under at her liberty. I &s;ent Madam <HI>Broughton</HI> to her, al&s;o Mr. <HI>Fairbeard,</HI> who de&s;ired her to remove out of my Chamber to a Lodging at my charge, that I might have my Chamber quiet for my bu&s;ine&s;s, but &s;he would not, but being afraid that I &s;hould revenge my &s;elf on her precious Friend, She perjured her &s;elf to bind me to the Peace, takes my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice's Warrant, a Tip&s;taff, and Mr. <HI>Powels</HI> man, one <HI>Sorrel,</HI> who comes for me at eight of the Clock at night, &s;up|po&s;ing I could not get Bail &s;o late at night, and that I mu&s;t ly in cu&s;tody that night (being <HI>Saturday</HI>) and that next day, for want of Bail. I being not in the way, Mr. <HI>Powel</HI>'s man waits for me to give the Tip&s;taff notice when I &s;hould come in; this I believe was the occa&s;ion of his being pumpt (if he was) the next time he came, for I never call'd out Bayliffs, nor did I know he was pumpt, until my Wife told me it was done, and if any Per&s;on &s;wore any &s;uch thing, I believe he was &s;uborned by her.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Seeing I could not prevail with her to leave my Chamber, I removed my &s;elf, and left her there; fir&s;t, to Mr. <HI>Brooks</HI> in <HI>Bawldwins-Garden,</HI> next to another Chamber in <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> where I lodged to my great damage in my practice, until her own Brother Captain <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> came to Town, who being made &s;en&s;ible by her own Friends of her Mi&s;carriages, at la&s;t prevailed with her to remove to a Lodging at <HI>Grays-Inn-gate,</HI> which I had long before taken for her at 20 <HI>l. per annum;</HI> and indeed he &s;o di&s;creetly managed the bu&s;ine&s;s, that he brought us together to lodge and keep Hou&s;e there, which we did until the Saturday before <HI>Whit&s;ontide</HI> la&s;t: but &s;he &s;till retained her de&s;ign of provoking me to give matter of divorce for pre|tended cruelty, and endeavoored it; &s;o that I was there forced, &s;ometimes to ri&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="12"> this way of provocation, &s;he put this device in practice. I had appointed to go out of Town with her and her Daughter, for all the <HI>Whit&s;on</HI>-week for the Air, which they agreed unto; <HI>Saturday</HI> after dinner was appointed, I came from my Chamber to bid them get ready, but &s;he and her Daughter were gone, whither, or with whom, I could not learn, nor when they would return: I &s;upp'd, lodg'd, din'd next day, and &s;o till <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> morning, and then I left a Note in writing at the Lodging, to this purport:</P>
<P><HI>Wife, This is a new &s;ort of provocation, I am retired to my Chamber; if when you come home you write me word where you have been, with whom, and why you dealt thus unkind|ly by me, I will come to you, but till then I will never meet you at that Lodging where you have put &s;uch an affront upon me.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wedne&s;day</HI>-night &s;he comes to the Lodging alone without her Daughter, takes no notice of me, or what I wrote, goes away again and &s;tays till <HI>Saturday,</HI> never gives me any account where &s;he was, or with whom; &s;ends indeed for me one day to dinner by a Girl of the Hou&s;e; I returned, I could not, until &s;he gave me the &s;atisfaction I de&s;ired. A day or two after a Gentleman of <HI>Grays-Inn</HI> Society informed me &s;he was in the Walks the day before, walking with this Friend: This <HI>Sir,</HI> (I hope you will believe) could not but provoke a Porter; but <HI>Sir,</HI> the next day after, I walking in the Walks, &s;ee my Wife &s;itting with the Lady Marque&s;s of <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> I call'd her to me, demanded of her what &s;he and that Friend intended to walk in that familiar manner under my No&s;e, they would re|pent the&s;e provocations, and 'twas &s;uch a piece of Impudence, that no vertuous Woman would have offered again&s;t the honour of a Husband; &s;he gave me &s;ome ba&s;e Language, but out of re&s;pect to the Lady Marque&s;s, I prote&s;t I departed with|out any further wrangling; nor did I otherwi&s;e than is here &s;et down treat my Wife, neither did I ever &s;ee her at any other time in the Lady Marque&s;&s;es pre&s;ence. Since this time, my Wife would never give me the &s;atisfaction to know where &s;he was, nor with whom, in that <HI>Whit&s;on</HI>-week. But this indeed, a Woman whom my Wife hath prevailed withall to depart from her Husband al&s;o, one full as wicked, (though not &s;o cunning as her &s;elf,) and of my knowledge a notorious Slanderer, did once &s;ay, &s;he knew my Wife was with no man at that time. This <HI>Sir,</HI> if there be truth in man, this was her la&s;t parting (as &s;he calls it) from me, without any cau&s;e given her. Therefore, &s;ee what a Wife I have, that will for twelve Months together thus grieve her Husband, rather than give him &s;o ea&s;ie a &s;atisfaction; &s;urely, there is no Per&s;on but mu&s;t conclude, that either &s;he cannot di&s;cover with reputation to her honour the Per&s;ons and Place where &s;he then was, or el&s;e that &s;he is well plea&s;ed in this &s;eparation, and that this la&s;t affront and provocation hit her de&s;ign, though others failed. <HI>Sir,</HI> till <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> la&s;t I paid for her Lodging, and then declared, I would not for the future, unle&s;s &s;he would give account of the <HI>Whit&s;on</HI>-week, which &s;he hath not yet done. <HI>Sir,</HI> I know not what words are in every Letter I have wrote to her in an&s;wer to her railing Accu&s;ations, and perhaps I might &s;ometime in Term-time have de&s;ired her by Letter not to trouble my Chamber with &s;colding and brawling, for you may believe I would never have kept my Chamber in the Inn, which I can lett for 20 <HI>l. per annum,</HI> and keep Lodgings for her be&s;ides at 20 <HI>l. per annum,</HI> if I could live quietly with her in either, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="23" REF="12"> married her: But the di&s;turbance I received from her in my Chamber, which I made convenient for her, and intending her company there only in the depth of Winter, was not tollerable, as too many of the Society well know. And now <HI>Sir,</HI> what a Friend this precious Friend has been to us both (as &s;he pretends,) leaving the deci&s;ion of the differences he created, to <HI>Chancery,</HI> judge by Mr. <HI>Thomas Dan&s;on</HI> the Mini&s;ters depo&s;ition, and whether I did not intend fairly by the offers Mr. <HI>Dan&s;on</HI> made him on my behalf, in order to a &s;peedy and right deci&s;ion of the pretended difference, whatever the Libel pretends. And <HI>Sir,</HI> for the la&s;t order of Reference, which &s;he &s;ays I refu&s;ed, I acknowledge that it being pen'd different from the other order, to include the wrongs the pretended Friend had done me, in mi&s;leading my Wife, cau&s;ing this &s;eparation, fomenting and maintaining the&s;e quarrels between me and my Wife, I did refu&s;e to refer the&s;e wrongs to the arbitre|ment of Mr. <HI>Powel;</HI> yet at the &s;ame time, I my &s;elf, my Council, and my Clerk in <HI>Chancery</HI> did &s;ign the &s;ame order, with exception only of the wrongs the pretended Friend had done me, and &s;uch Actions and rights of Action as I then had again&s;t him, for I do aver, the fir&s;t difference between my Wife and I aro&s;e from my de|&s;iring my Wife to forbear his company, becau&s;e of his cen&s;orious, dangerous, and malecontent Spirit, for which he took a &s;pleen, and then told her, he would have married her if &s;he had &s;tayed. And after I had publickly forbidden her his compa|ny, he brought this Bill in his own name, without any cau&s;e, and in affront to me, which is prohibited by &s;everal Statute Laws, he being no way concerned, either as Tru&s;tee, or otherwi&s;e than as a Fomenter of the Quarrel: For which, and other wrongs he hath done me, I have brought my Action, and laid the damages in the Libel, and will have it po&s;&s;ibly fir&s;t or la&s;t of him, &s;uch a ju&s;t re|compence of &s;atisfaction as is fit for a Gentleman &s;o much abu&s;ed to have. Not|with&s;tanding, this Woman (the &s;hame of her Sex) by her Libel contemns the power and worth of her Huband, with regard to this perfidious Friend, and &s;ays this Libel is only to &s;hew how little credit or belief is to be given to her Husbands &s;ugge&s;tions, or indeed oaths. But <HI>Sir,</HI> her Husband needs not to make oath; read but the Proofs and Oaths of others annexed, I hope they are not all &s;uch Per&s;ons. as this perfidious Wife would have her Husband to be.</P>
<P>Now <HI>Sir,</HI> as to the pretended beating of her, I once more &s;olemnly prote&s;t, I never did, or offered any unkind or unlawful violence to her Per&s;on, until &s;he had ab&s;ented her &s;elf from me for about eighteen Months, nor until &s;he was returned home with a de&s;ign of provocation, and fir&s;t &s;troke me on the face in the pre&s;ence of her Neece Mrs. <HI>I&s;abel Ro&s;e,</HI> and one <HI>Mary Bucknal;</HI> her Neece is indeed gone to <HI>Barbadoes</HI> to her Father, but hath left a &s;ufficient te&s;timony behind of that matter with Per&s;ons of credit: I confe&s;s I then gave her one box on the Ear with my open Hand, and <HI>Sir,</HI> ought not that in ju&s;tice be deemed rather a moderate correction I was obliged unto, for the re&s;training her from &s;uch like impudent attempts hereafter, than any unlawful violence or cruelty? Could that <HI>Socrates</HI> his patience, or any more Chri&s;tian have done le&s;s in &s;uch a provocation, without emboldening her hereafter to contemn a Husband. But I ever till then accounted it &s;o di&s;honourable to offer any violence to a Woman, that I never could, or ever did th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> like before: nor <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="13"> And certainly, had here been a little Hone&s;ty mixt with the profe&s;&s;ion of this di|vorcing <HI>Jew,</HI> there had been no attempts and &s;truglings to break the peace and unity of a Family, united by the Ordinance of God; <HI>If you had &s;tayed, I had mar|ried you, and I have</HI> 800 <HI>l. a Year.</HI></P>
<P>Pray ob&s;erve this Pa&s;&s;age of the Libel, <HI>After her patient waiting on the References two Years, then and not before, &s;he moved to have my Demur to her Friends Bill argued.</HI> Sir, &s;ee the patience &s;he pretends unto. In <HI>Hillary</HI> Term 1676, &s;he brings two other Bills again&s;t me, one in the Tru&s;tee's name, another in the name of one <HI>Wil&s;on. Wil&s;on</HI> I an&s;wered; that Cau&s;e was heard the 12th of <HI>June</HI> 1677, at which hearing, the Lord Chancellour &s;u&s;pended the &s;ettling the Cau&s;e upon the merits, until the Tru&s;tee <HI>Okey's</HI> Bill was brought to hearing, and to that end, that all the matters in difference between her, my &s;elf, and the Tru&s;tee may receive a full &s;ettlement. It was decreed the Tru&s;tee do amend his Bill, and make the Chil|dren Parties, and bring the Cau&s;e to hearing in <HI>Hillary</HI> Term following, and con|tinued 300 <HI>l.</HI> in Court towards my &s;atisfaction. At the hearing of the Cau&s;e, &s;he and her precious Friend finding I was like to have Ju&s;tice on hearing <HI>Okeys</HI> Cau&s;e, then indeed and not before brings on my Plea to the Friends Bill, put in three Years before, knowing that I would never an&s;wer that Bill to give her and him any colour of conver&s;e, and by pretence of my not an&s;wering that Bill, &s;he hath ever &s;ince, and by other vexations, &s;tayed the hearing of <HI>Okeys</HI> Cau&s;e, which would have &s;ettled all the matters long e're this; for I &s;olemnly prote&s;t, I do not wave the an&s;wering that pretended Friends Bill, or any thing in it, but the <HI>Per&s;on,</HI> and that I would not encourage a conver&s;e between them, I had &s;o long &s;ince for the peace and &s;afety of my Family prohibited by the power of a Huband.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> For &s;uing her Daughter <HI>Blackwel</HI> in the <HI>Exchequer,</HI> I had good rea&s;on for it as well as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">thers. <HI>Sir,</HI> my Wife had received before I married above <GAP DESC="blank"> be|longing to the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> more than ever was granted to her; I was &s;ued at Law for part of it, I pleaded the Statute of Limitations of Actions in Bar of the Dukes Action: afterwards, a Bill in the <HI>Exchequer</HI> was brought again&s;t me and her for this Money; I drew a Plea of the Statute of Limitations to that Bill, carried the Plea to Mr. <HI>Powel</HI> who was her Coun&s;el, gave him a Piece to peru&s;e it and fit it for her with me; he approv'd of it, I got it ingro&s;s'd, &s;he refu&s;ed to joyn with me in it, (though her own Coun&s;el approv'd it,) and when I &s;aw &s;he would not joyn, I being altering it in my Study for my &s;elf only, re&s;olving to put that in for my &s;elf to prevent co&s;ts, &s;he thereupon raged and broke my Windows, which for that time (to &s;atisfie her) I omitted putting in. At <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term following, a Serjeant at Arms was out for me and her, then 'twas too late to plead; But I an|&s;wered, and finding all other the Duke's Coun&s;el, as well as Sir <HI>John King</HI> who had &s;igned the Bill in the Dukes name, were of her Coun&s;el, and &s;he refu&s;ing to joyn with me in the Plea her Coun&s;el had allowed, which would certainly have put an end to the Suite; might not I, Sir, well &s;u&s;pect that this Suite in the Duke's name was in tru&s;t for her, and that &s;he had di&s;covered and beg'd by &s;ome other name what &s;he had before received and concealed, and would now make me pay that Debt to her Friend, as if to the Duke? Therefore it was, <HI>Sir,</HI> that I brought this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ill in the <HI>Exchequer</HI> again&s;t the Dukes Grantee, <HI>Betty Blackwel,</HI> and &s;everal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="13"> the Grantee of the Duke in tru&s;t for my Wife. This <HI>Sir,</HI> was the rea&s;on (and no other) of my &s;uing <HI>Betty Blackwel</HI> with others; nothwith&s;tanding, when her Mo|ther had taken away my Goods from <HI>Thi&s;tleworth,</HI> and put only an old Petticoat of <HI>Betty Blackwels</HI> in the Bundle, which I had &s;topped by the way; &s;he goes to the Lord Chief Ju&s;tice and complains I kept her Clothes, when I never knew &s;he had one Rag there, and got his Warrant to convene me before him, boa&s;ted of it pub|lickly that &s;he had brought her Father before the Ju&s;tice, as &s;he did one other time, that her Mother had &s;et her Fathers No&s;e awry: Was not this a barbarous action? Ingratitude in the highe&s;t! and is not the Mother like to make the Daughter as good as her &s;elf?</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Two things pretended I had almo&s;t omitted; The one is, that I promi&s;ed I would adopt her Daughter <HI>Okey</HI> for mine, for her Fathers &s;ake, with whom ('tis pretended) I had an intimate friend&s;hip. <HI>Sir,</HI> If there be truth in man, I never changed one Word with Collonel <HI>Okey</HI> but once, and that was only to have a Commi&s;&s;ion for our County Troop to be renewed upon &s;ome of the changes of the Govern|ment; nor have ever &s;pake or thought ill of the Man for any thing, but the Fact he died for, nor did I ever in any proceedings in <HI>Chancery</HI> or otherwi&s;e, blemi&s;h him or her upon his account, otherwi&s;e than by &s;aying, that my marrying her un|der the reproach of the manner of his death ought to have been an obligation to her, which no man that I ever yet met withall but will grant me; and how pro|bable it is that I &s;hould promi&s;e to adopt her Daughter, when I might expect Children of my own by her, and had made provi&s;ion for her Children by the Deed to the Libel annexed, judge you?</P>
<P>The other is, That, <HI>had my Husband de&s;igned nothing but what was ju&s;t, the vali|dity of my Marriage-Articles might have long e're this been tryed by con&s;ent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> I never oppo&s;ed the performance of the Articles, nor ever will accord|ing to the true intent of them. And I do affirm that it never was intended, that I maintain her Suites and pay her debts concealed, nor could I bind my &s;elf to be her Slave to recover an E&s;tate not then mentioned to me, nor known to her &s;elf, and that Deed can extend no further than unto the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> made known to me before the Deed of Settlement.</P>
<P>But for the plau&s;ible excu&s;e the Libel offers for the Friend, that there would be a Failer of Ju&s;tice, if a Stranger might not &s;ue the Husband on the behalf of the Wife, when the Tru&s;tee is either corrupted or weary of his tru&s;t, e&s;pecially being Guardian to an Infant-party to the Articles: I an&s;wer, That if the Tru&s;tee of the Wife &s;hould die, leaving her Husband his Heir or Executor; there I confe&s;s there might be failer of Ju&s;tice; becau&s;e if the Husband &s;hould wa&s;te the E&s;tate which came to his Hands in tru&s;t for his Wife, &s;he being a Per&s;on di&s;abled by Law to &s;ue her Husband in her own name, there I conceive it rea&s;onable that &s;he &s;hould be permitted to &s;ue her Husband in the name of a third Per&s;on, for the pre&s;ervation and &s;ecurity of her E&s;tate according to the tru&s;t; But whil&s;t the Tru&s;tee is in being he mu&s;t &s;ue, and if he refu&s;e, it is the con&s;tant cour&s;e of Equity to order one of the &s;ix Clerks, or &s;ome Relation of the Wife, to &s;ue in the Tru&s;tees name, whether he will or no; or if the Tru&s;tee be weary of his tru&s;t, he him&s;elf may &s;ue to be di&s;|charged. But that a Per&s;on no way concern'd, but as a Contriver, Promoter, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="14"> braided with it, one telling me &s;he was &s;een late at Night &s;itting between her pre|tended Friend and his Secretary, like <HI>Su&s;anna</HI> between the two Elders, but &s;he did not look &s;o innocently.</P>
<P>Sir, &s;he hath Daughters which I hope may prove better Wives, therefore I &s;pare her, yet I cannot wholly excu&s;e her from Blemi&s;hes. And I can with a good Con&s;cience reply, that for my Companions &s;he calls lewd, I never had a wor&s;e than her &s;elf. That &s;he liv'd with two former Husbands is true, with the one eight Months, with the other not four, yet with neither of them without Con|tention, although but Hony-Moon. And for five years &s;he did me that Right to &s;ay that I loved her; which you will find by the Proofs.</P>
<P>For that Slander touching my Mother, I was dutiful, and &s;hall carry the Proof of it to my Grave, having parted with at her Command 3500 <HI>l.</HI> of my own E|&s;tate, as Mr. Serg. <HI>Connieres</HI> well knows, and that purely out of Love and Duty to her, and I do not know that ever I &s;hewed any Irreverence to her in word or deed. And be&s;ides this, every one of my Si&s;ters hath had a better Portion of me, than my Wife and all her Si&s;ters had together. It is true, I have one Si&s;ter, who through her own Weakne&s;s and Incon&s;ideratene&s;s was reduced to Straits; her I took into my Hou&s;e, and &s;he lived quietly and with re&s;pect to my former Wife &s;ixteen years, and was beloved by her; but after I married this Wife, I had no quiet till I turned her out of doors; &s;ince which I have and do &s;upply her according to her Capacity, and that Ability my Wife hath left me, and do not know &s;he hath need of the Charity of any Per&s;on. But my Wife forgets her own &s;avage hand|ling of her own Mothers Ears. And as to my fir&s;t Wife, and her Death, this is a Helli&s;h In&s;inuation of her own Contrivance, fal&s;e and malicious; but indeed &s;he endeavoured to &s;ubborn Mrs. <HI>Mary Husbands</HI> to Perjury, to diffame me in that. Read the Depo&s;ition of Mrs. <HI>Mary Husbands.</HI></P>
<P>And as to that which &s;he pretends of Court&s;hip with &s;o con&s;iderable an E&s;tate, certainly a Man of my years, and no Children, and a competent Employment need, not u&s;e &s;uch Arguments for &s;uch a Woman with two Children, and of &s;uch Cir|cum&s;tances; and that I, who never have lived above ten Miles from <HI>London,</HI> could &s;o deceive her that had married two Husbands before, and had lived mo&s;t of her time in <HI>London</HI> too, and had known me and my former Wife in my Troubles, as appears by Mr. <HI>Okeys</HI> Depo&s;ition, is the mo&s;t incredible thing imaginable. Sir, &s;he knew me in all the Changes of my Fortune, and all my Wives Relations four|teen years before, &s;he knew I was in con&s;iderable Bu&s;ine&s;s, and as likely as &s;ome other Men to be &s;omething in the World; and without doubt I had &s;o been, had I mi&s;&s;ed the Unhappine&s;s of marrying her, and thereby tho&s;e Interruptions and Di&s;tractions in my Bu&s;ine&s;s. But that I endeavoured to tempt her with any Argu|ments touching E&s;tate, &s;he knows there is nothing more fal&s;e. But I never pre|tended to any &s;uch E&s;tate after I knew her, never promi&s;ed to &s;ettle any thing up|on her. I did out of Con&s;cience and Hone&s;ty, without any Reque&s;t of her, or any for her, &s;ettle her 1500 <HI>l.</HI> and &s;ecure it as fully as the Art of Man could contrive, for a Provi&s;ion for her and her Children, and this I declared to Mr. <HI>Thomas Dun</HI> was my Re&s;olution to do before I married her.</P>
<P>As touching my former Wife no Woman ever gave greater Te&s;timony of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="14"> and for her Satisfaction and Content with me, no Woman ever declared more: Of which this Wife found a Letter, &s;ent to me not two Months before &s;he died, with as great Expre&s;&s;ions of Love and Unity as ever any Woman expre&s;&s;ed. This Letter my now Wife ob&s;erving me to read before I married her, and that the Kindne&s;s of the Expre&s;&s;ions greatly moved me, &s;he got it away, and will never &s;ince produce it. But Sir, for that I refer you to her own Si&s;ters, Mrs. <HI>Hannah</HI> and Mrs. <HI>Rebecca Fowks,</HI> who live at Mr. <HI>Buchanans</HI> in <HI>Chancery-Lane.</HI> And for her Death, and indeed how we lived together, I al&s;o refer you to Dr. <HI>William Staynes,</HI> who was her Neighbour and Phy&s;ician many years, who with Doctor <HI>Clerk</HI> his Kin&s;man opened and embowel'd her after her Death.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> There are &s;ome few things more will be expected I &s;hould &s;ay &s;omething unto, <HI>viz. That I permitted a Gentleman in</HI> Grays-Inn <HI>to abu&s;e her before my Face.</HI> Another is, <HI>That</HI> Mr. Okey, <HI>being a Citizen of a mild and &s;oft Spirit, was hectored by her Husband to neglect his Tru&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>An&s;wer. What is alledged concerning the Gentleman in <HI>Grays-Inne</HI> is utterly fal&s;e, I have known him now above twenty years, and never heard any Per&s;on but my Wife &s;ay any thing ill of him. He is near eighty years old, &s;he fell upon him and beat him, becau&s;e he condemned her, I never &s;aw or heard him carry him&s;elf uncivilly towards her by word or deed. This al&s;o is a Device to take off his Te&s;timony. For Mr. <HI>Okey,</HI> if he hath done any wrong in his Tru&s;t, it hath been to me. He hath permitted her both to u&s;e and abu&s;e his Name as &s;he and her Coun&s;el plea&s;ed again&s;t me, yet &s;he hath abu&s;ed his Wife and Children e|very one of them. Certainly a Woman of greater Fal&s;hood and Ingratitude never lived; her U&s;age of that Per&s;on and Family (who were as a Father and Mother to her in her Troubles) is enough alone to convince any Per&s;on of what Spirit &s;he is.</P>
<P>I never moved the Tru&s;tee to do any thing unfair, nor to omit his Duty. I never yet made u&s;e of any Protection, nor did I ever in the greate&s;t of my Troubles ob|tain any, but now when my Wife maliciou&s;ly endeavoured to have me arre&s;ted on the Bond of 5000 <HI>l.</HI> &s;he entred into before her Marriage to her fir&s;t Husband; nor did I ever, nor would I offer to in&s;i&s;t on any &s;uch Shift again&s;t any other Suit. She knows I voluntarily waved it. As to <HI>Bethel her Confidence,</HI> of whom &s;he will one day be <HI>a&s;hamed,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jer.</HI> 48.13.</NOTE> when that <HI>Calf</HI> cannot &s;ave her. Sir, You cannot but ob&s;erve the malicious and venemous Compo&s;ition of this Libel. What is left un&s;aid, that might render me odious? Yet Sir, you &s;ee there is no Proof nor Reference to any Per&s;on to ju&s;tify any thing in it. It is only the Wind of my Wives Spleen, who like the wild A&s;&s;e in <HI>Jer.</HI> is &s;aid <HI>to &s;nuff up the Wind at her plea&s;ure; and in her Occa&s;ion who can turn her away?</HI> You know how <HI>Occa&s;ion</HI> is rendred in this Place <HI>if &s;uch.</HI> When &s;he hath filled up the Mea&s;ure of her Iniquity, God will find her out.</P>
<P>Sir, I think I have omitted nothing that de&s;erves to be taken notice of, only this, I have none of her E&s;tate in my Hands, I left it &s;ecure four years &s;ince, and better by &s;everal hundreds of Pounds than I found it. I am out of Pur&s;e above 600 <HI>l.</HI> for her &s;elf, Children, and Suits occa&s;ioned by her, be&s;ides the 700 <HI>l.</HI> &s;et|led on her Children. You may plainly &s;ee it is not the E&s;tate is the Difference by the &s;everal Awards I have agreed unto; you may as plainly &s;ee it is a Separation <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="15"> not. And &s;ince it is &s;o, I hope no indifferent Per&s;on will think it rea&s;onable, after &s;uch unparallel'd Wrongs and Perfidiou&s;ne&s;s in a Wife, that &s;he &s;hall go away a Gainer by me, leave me to pay her Debts, particularly her Debt &s;ued for by her Confederates in the Duke of <HI>York's</HI> Name, carry away with her my Plate and Jewels I had in my former Wives days to the value of 170 <HI>l.</HI> which I never gave her; &s;eventy Pound more &s;he received and kept, which was &s;ent me by Ex|change from the <HI>Barbadoes,</HI> and &s;everal other Sums: And &s;everal of my Goods &s;he hath robb'd me of be&s;ides, &s;he hath &s;carce left me any Bed or Table Linnen; &s;he hath &s;old my Picture &s;et in Gold, which before I married &s;he begg'd of me, ex|pre&s;&s;ing her Affection with &s;uch an Empha&s;is, that no Man could have believed counterfeit. I can hardly forbear, but will &s;ay no more, but that I am,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sir, your honouring Servant, <HI>T. C.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>The Scriptures added to the Libel, my Wife knows, I &s;ent her long &s;ince with a private Admonition. I now &s;end her the&s;e.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Amos 5.5.</BIBL> <HI>Seek not</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">That is the Idol wor|&s;hippped in <HI>Bethel,</HI> which was a Provocation, and Cau&s;e of Divorce twixt God and his Church.</NOTE> Bethel, &mdash; <HI>For</HI> Bethel <HI>&s;hall come to naught.</HI></Q>
<P>And the&s;e I &s;end, as well to her Friend and his Secretary <HI>Thomp&s;on,</HI> as to her &s;elf.</P>
<Q><BIBL>P&s;al. 14.1.</BIBL> <HI>The Fool hath &s;aid in his Heart, There is no God.</HI></Q>
<P>(But)</P>
<Q><BIBL>I&s;a. 33.1.</BIBL> <HI>Wo to thee that &s;poile&s;t, and thou wa&s;t not &s;poiled; and deale&s;t treacherou&s;ly, and they dealt not treacherou&s;ly with thee. When thou &s;halt cea&s;e to &s;poil, thou &s;halt be &s;poiled; and when thou &s;halt make an end to deal treacherou&s;ly, they &s;hall deal treacherou&s;ly with thee.</HI></Q>
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<DIV1 TYPE="depositions">
<PB REF="15">
<HEAD>The <HI>DEPOSITIONS</HI> of <HI>WITNESSES, proving the Premi&s;&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>THomas Dan&s;on,</HI> Mini&s;ter, depo&s;eth, That he being de&s;ired by Mr. <HI>Cag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> to endeavour a Reconciliation betwixt him and his Wife, did endeavou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to effect the &s;ame. Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was very de&s;irous of Reconciliation, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in no &s;ort to &s;eparate. That Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> was aver&s;e, but before the Diffe+rences he hath heard, Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> and her Children &s;ay, That <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> was careful o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> them in their Maintenance and Education, and provided (to u&s;e her own words nobly for them; but after the Differences Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> complained that her Husban<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> had wa&s;ted her E&s;tate, but this Deponent could not find any &s;uch thing. Tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Wife did ab&s;cond her &s;elf from him, but Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> often de&s;ired this Deponen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to intreat her to return home. That this Deponent during this Agitation, at th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Reque&s;t of Mrs. <HI>Cage,</HI> did treat with <HI>Slingsby Bethel</HI> touching the Compo&s;ure o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Differences, and did propo&s;e at Mr. <HI>Cage's</HI> Reque&s;t, That the Difference<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> might be &s;tated, and a Trial at Law had upon an I&s;&s;ue out of Chancery, for &s;peed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> determining of the Differences, or el&s;e that a Reference might be had to &s;ome in+different Per&s;ons touching the &s;aid Differences, or to that effect: But &s;aith, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;aid <HI>Slingsby Bethel</HI> was aver&s;e to both the &s;aid Propo&s;als, and &s;aid, That &s;uc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Propo&s;itions was a Trick in Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> to put his Wife by, or off the Advantag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;he had again&s;t him in Law. And this Deponent hath been informed, that M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Bethel</HI> &s;pake very hardly of this Deponent upon the Exchange in <HI>London,</HI> fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> offering &s;uch Propo&s;itions on the behalf of a Per&s;on that has been &s;o ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> (as Mr. <HI>Bethel</HI> &s;aid) to his Wife. <HI>Note,</HI> (the Ba&s;ene&s;s was to forbid her his Company&punc;</P>
<P><HI>CHarles Cremer</HI> of <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> E&s;quire, depo&s;eth, That &s;ome Differences betwee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his Wife were heretofore referred to this Deponent, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> afterward to this Deponent, and one Mr. <HI>Barrington,</HI> one Mr. <HI>Reynold<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and Mr. <HI>Doelittle;</HI> and afterwards to Sir <HI>Francis Winnington,</HI> and after to Mr. <HI>Powe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> That their Differences aro&s;e from &s;mall Beginnings; that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> not aver&s;e to a Reconciliation, and that on &s;uch Terms, as this Deponen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and others tru&s;ted to arbitrate, &s;hould think fit: and remembers Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ub&s;cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+bed to &s;ome Propo&s;als made by this Deponent and Mr. <HI>Barrington,</HI> the &s;am<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> (which Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> inform'd this Deponent) Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> refu&s;ed to agree unto, whic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Propo&s;als did relate to the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI>'s Behaviour, and the E&s;tate. This Dep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+nent remembers one Difference that grew at <HI>Highgate</HI> by the broaching of a Barr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Beer by his Order again&s;t her Mind, whereupon &s;he &s;aid &s;he would part, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> accordingly de&s;ired this Deponent &s;o to act as &s;he might live &s;eparate. And this D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ponent did move Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;everal times to &s;eparate, but could not prevail wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him, nor did ever Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> move this Deponent for any &s;eparate living.</P>
<PB REF="16">
<P><HI>ABraham Barrington</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> Gent. depo&s;eth al&s;o on Oath, That <HI>Charles Cremer</HI> of <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> and this Deponent did often meet and endeavour a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">econciliation betwixt Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his Wife; and this Deponent at all times <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">und the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> aver&s;e to a Separation, and would not allow of it to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;cours'd of. That the Differences were about very &s;mall matters. And as to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e E&s;tate, this Deponent did not find it to be true, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> had wa&s;ted the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me. That Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> did acquaint this Deponent, that &s;he lay privately, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d hide her &s;elf, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> might not find her, declaring that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ould compell her to live with him; but Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did often urge this Depo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent to de&s;ire his Wife to return to live with him. That this Deponent never <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">und by di&s;cour&s;ing with them&s;elves, or their Acquaintance, that there was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ny Cau&s;e by any of the Differences con&s;iderable enough to occa&s;ion them to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve &s;eparate.</P>
<P><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Ohn Okey</HI> depo&s;eth, That Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> often declared before the Differences, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was put to great Troubles and Charges in Suits for her and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er Daughter <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and yet greatly commended him for his Love and Kindne&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>SArah Okey</HI> &s;wears the &s;ame, and that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> in the time of the Marriage-Treaty declared her Daughters &s;hould have but little, at another time 400 <HI>l.</HI> piece, and &s;he would not &s;traiten her own Condition. That Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did keep <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Hou&s;e at <HI>Highgate,</HI> and &s;everal Servants for the maintenance and education of his Wife and Children, and educated the Children very well in Mu&s;ick, Dancing, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ther Accompli&s;hments.</P>
<P><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">Ohn Okey</HI> &s;wears to the latter part, and that before the Differences Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> whol|ly managed the E&s;tate, and &s;ecured to the &s;aid Daughters 700 <HI>l.</HI> by good City-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ecurity; 400 <HI>l.</HI> to <HI>Mary Okey</HI> at the Day of Marriage, and 16 <HI>l. per annum</HI> for loaths in the mean time; and upon <HI>Elizabeth Blackwel</HI> 300 <HI>l.</HI> and 12 <HI>l. per annm.</HI> Which 16 <HI>l.</HI> and 12 <HI>l.</HI> they both received duly&punc; and the Securities were taken <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Childrens Names, and delivered to them.</P>
<P><HI>ANthony Smith,</HI> That Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;etled 100 <HI>l.</HI> more on <HI>Elizabeth Blackwel</HI> by a Statute from Mr. <HI>Garthe.</HI> And that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> bought and &s;ued for the Hou&s;e in <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hancery-Lane,</HI> to be &s;etled in Tru&s;t for his Wife; and that the Deponent engro&s;&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Deed of A&s;&s;ignment to Mr. <HI>Okey,</HI> and delivered it to him with a Declaration <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gned and &s;ealed by Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> that the Mony was his Wives, and the Hou&s;e con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eyed to <HI>Okey</HI> on Tru&s;t for her, and at her Di&s;po&s;e without her Husband; yet note, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;aith, <HI>her Husband would have taken it to him&s;elf;</HI></P>
<P><HI>Note,</HI> That Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> and his Wife, and many other Per&s;ons know, That Mr. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">age</HI> was re&s;olved before this barbarous U&s;age, to make each of the Daughters <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orth a thou&s;and Pound; they know al&s;o how he re&s;olved to do it; and that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l&s;o he re&s;olved before this Difference to &s;ecure 200 <HI>l. per annum</HI> for his Wife, du|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng her Life; they al&s;o know how and which way he intended to do that, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ould have done it, although no way obliged to it. But pray ob&s;erve how &s;he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="depositions">
<PB REF="16">
<HEAD>All the Depo&s;itions following were taken at the Reque&s;t of Mr. <HI>Barrington,</HI> and other the Arbitrators, for their &s;atisfaction, by the Con&s;ent and Agreemen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of my &s;elf and Wife, except Mrs. <HI>Langly,</HI> who was &s;worn by the order o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Sir <HI>Francis Winnington,</HI> Sollicitor General.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<P><HI>MAry Husband,</HI> Wife of <HI>Thomas Husband</HI> of St. <HI>Andrew Holborn,</HI> Gent. ma|keth Oath, That &s;he this Deponent lived with Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> at the time that &s;he married Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> about a year and half before the &s;aid Marriage, and about a year and half after; and &s;aith, That during the time &s;he lived with Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> after the &s;aid Marriage, and they kept Hou&s;e, &s;he this Deponent did keep (by Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI>'s order) and lay out the Mony for the Hou&s;hhold Expences, which &s;he recei|ved, and gave her an Account how the &s;ame was expended. And this Deponent &s;aith, That &s;he doth not know or ever heard, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did ever require any Accompt of Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> of the Mony received for the &s;aid Family-Expences. Nor did this Deponent know, or ever hear, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did complain, or &s;ay at any time, that there was too much Provi&s;ions or Mony &s;pent in the Family by Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> or her Children. And this Deponent &s;aith, that during this Deponents li|ving in the Family, there was always Plenty of Provi&s;ions of all &s;orts convenient, and of Mony; and this Deponent hath received &s;everal con&s;iderable Sums of Mo|ny for that purpo&s;e, as &s;ometimes Ten Pounds, &s;ometimes Twenty Pounds, &s;ome|times more, &s;ometimes le&s;s, And when Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ent to M. <HI>Cage</HI> for more, it was &s;ent; and this Deponent laid out what &s;he received for that purpo&s;e, as Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> thought fit. And this Deponent &s;aith, That during that time the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was very loving and kind to Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> and her Children, which &s;he hath &s;ince often acknowledged. And this Deponent &s;aith as to the Quarrels and Di&s;contents between them, the fir&s;t that this Deponent took notice of was at <HI>Wooborn,</HI> upon &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages and provoking words Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> took very unkindly of her. And this Deponent remembers there was a great Quarrel upon Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI>'s &s;aying Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> killed his former Wife, which Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> told Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;he heard from this Deponent, and that this Deponent heard it from one Mrs. <HI>Greenhil.</HI> And Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> de&s;ired this Deponent to put it upon that Mrs. <HI>Greenhil,</HI> and de&s;ired this De|ponent to make Oath that Mrs. <HI>Greenhil</HI> &s;pake tho&s;e words, which this Deponent refu&s;ed to do; for indeed this Deponent never heard any other Per&s;on but Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> her &s;elf &s;peak tho&s;e words, or any other to that effect. And &s;everal other Quarrels have been upon the like Provocations. But this Deponent doth not know or believe, or ever heard, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did u&s;e any Violence, Force, or Hurt to her Per&s;on, or deny her or her Children any thing &s;he de&s;ired for her &s;elf or them. But knows that <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> de&s;ired &s;everal times, that both &s;he and her Children would wear and have better Cloaths and things than they had or did wear, but &s;he would not. And this Deponent hath heard Mrs <HI>Cage's</HI> Daughter, Mi&s;s <HI>Okey,</HI> &s;everal times complain, that her Mother and Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> had Quarrels about her Mo|thers beating her the &s;aid Mi&s;s <HI>Okey;</HI> and this Deponent knows &s;he was always very &s;evere to her &s;aid Daughter. And this Deponent doth not know, or ever heard by any of the Servan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> or Children in the Hou&s;e that Mr <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="17"> but very &s;mall Trifles. And this Deponent hath &s;everal times been informed by Mrs. <HI>Blackwel</HI> Mrs. <HI>Cage's</HI> Daughter, and Mrs. <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> her Neece, that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> led Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> a very weary Life by picking Quarrels with him, and vexed him with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ro&s;s Expre&s;&s;ions. And this Deponent hath heard Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;everal times confe&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he and her Children were as happy in her marrying Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> as any Per&s;on could <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and verily believes &s;he and they might be happy &s;till, in ca&s;e &s;he would forbear her ill Words and Carriages towards him. Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was very careful of her in her Sickne&s;s, and when he conceived &s;he was in a Con&s;umption, bought her a Cup of Ma&s;&s;y Gold to drink new Milk and Sugar of Ro&s;es in, and many times hath put in &s;everal Pieces of Gold to boil in Broth made for her, and many other Te&s;ti|monies of great Affection he hath &s;hewed to her and her Children.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Mary Husband.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat. <DATE>9^o Die <HI>Martii,</HI> 1674.</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me <HI>Wm. Bever&s;ham,</HI> Per <HI>S. Poynter.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="depositions">
<P><HI>RObert Loveday,</HI> Servant to Sir <HI>Purbeck Temple,</HI> maketh Oath, That he lived with Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his now Wife, as their Servant, above two years, and knows, that during all this time Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> kept a very plentiful Hou&s;e for their Family, and never heard but that they did &s;o after this Deponent came away. And this Deponent and the other Servants ob&s;erved, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was very careful that his Wife &s;hould not want Mony or Provi&s;ions for the Family, and knows Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> paid the Butcher, Brewer, Baker, and Mealman, very well, and never heard any of them complain, or &s;ay they were ill paid, or &s;tayed at all for their Mony. Nor did this Deponent ever hear Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> complain, or &s;ay that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;pent too much Mony or Provi&s;ions in the Family, or for her Children. But this Deponent always carried home what Mony Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ent for, and Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> hath &s;ent home to his Wife, when he was not there, what Rarities were in &s;ea|&s;on, either Fi&s;h or Fowl. And this Deponent hath often de&s;ired the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> from her Husband, that &s;he would &s;end for what &s;he had a mind to. And this Deponent &s;aith, that he and the other Servants have ob&s;erved many Quarrels be|tween the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his Wife about her beating her Children, and knows that the Children were glad when Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> came home to make their Mother and them Friends. And this Deponent and other Servants have ob&s;erved, That Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> would be very cro&s;s, and give her Husband very ill Words, in&s;omuch that he hath &s;everal times ri&s;en from his Dinner and Supper, and gone into the Garden, to avoid being provoked by her, and &s;ometimes ro&s;e in the Night, and walked the mo&s;t part of the Night in the Gallery and Garden, and in the next morn|ing came away to <HI>Grays-Inn</HI> in di&s;content. And this Deponent and the other Servants have often wondred why &s;he was &s;o unkind to her Husband, and pi|tied him for the unquiet Life &s;he led him, when he was &s;o kind to her and her Children. And this Deponent doth not know, or ever heard, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was the fir&s;t Occa&s;ion or Beginning of any of the Quarrels: but hath often heard the Children and other Servants &s;ay, that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> was the Occa&s;ion thereof, and they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> about very &s;mall matters. And this Deponent remembers that one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="17"> were at Mr. <HI>Cage</HI>'s Hou&s;e at Supper, Mr. <HI>Creamer</HI> asked for &s;ome &s;trong Beer, and Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> bid this Deponent go broach a Barrel: But Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> at Table &s;pake &s;ome cro&s;s words about it, contradicting the &s;ame, (but the very words this Depo|nent cannot remember.) But Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> taking them ill, &s;hewed &s;ome di&s;content, whereupon Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> openly at the Table, &s;aid, <HI>She cared not for his ugly looks;</HI> which cau&s;ed a very great di&s;content in Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> &s;o that he left the Table, and Friends, and went away. But the Deponent never knew or heard that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did any ways offer any wrong, violence, or hurt to her Per&s;on, or her Children, although many times &s;he would make him very angry. And this Deponent hath often heard the other Servants &s;ay, that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> might live happily and well with Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> if &s;he her &s;elf plea&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Robert Loveday.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat <DATE>13 Die <HI>Martii</HI> 1674.</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me <HI>Will. Bever&s;ham.</HI> Per. <HI>S. Poynter.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<P><HI>LEttice Dickman,</HI> Wife of <HI>William Dickman</HI> of <HI>Wapping,</HI> Confectioner, maketh oath, that &s;he lived with Madam <HI>Cage</HI> as her Servant at <HI>Highgate,</HI> and waited upon her and her Children about one Year, ending between <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Whit&s;ontide</HI> la&s;t. And hath many times ob&s;erved Madam <HI>Cage</HI> and her Husband very kind one to the other, and &s;ome other times at great Differences and Di&s;contents one with the other: But doth not know that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> ever u&s;ed any force, violence, or wrong to her Per&s;on, but hath heard very angry, pa&s;&s;ionate words and expre&s;&s;ions pa&s;s between them: But this Deponent knows, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was very loving and kind to the Children, and &s;everal Quarrels were about her beating of them, parti|cularly Mrs. <HI>Okey,</HI> to whom &s;he was very &s;evere. And knows, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did &s;everal times de&s;ire, and offer, that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> and her Children would have more, and better Clothes, and things than they had, which &s;he would not; and yet neither of them wanted any thing fitting. And this Deponent remembers, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> by rea&s;on of angry words between them, hath ro&s;e from the Table &s;everal times, and out of his Bed, and walked di&s;contentedly in the Garden, and Gallery, mo&s;t part of the night, and believes that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> was extream pa&s;&s;io|nate, and provoking to her Husband, upon &s;mall occa&s;ions. And this Deponent remembers particularly a Difference between them, occa&s;ioned by her beating Mrs. <HI>Blackwel,</HI> which Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> chiding her for, &s;he took her Bed; and Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> came &s;everal times to her Bed-&s;ide, and asked her how &s;he did, to whom &s;he an|&s;wered, <HI>As well as a Woman that had &s;o bad a Husband as &s;he had, could do.</HI> Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> de&s;ired to know in what he was &s;o bad; She replied, <HI>He killed his former Wife, and would now kill her.</HI> And this Deponent verily believes, that they might have lived as happily as any Per&s;ons, if Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> would have moderated her pa&s;&s;ionate expre&s;&s;ions, which were indeed very abu&s;ive: And this Deponent &s;everal times told Madam <HI>Cage</HI> as much. And this Deponent believes Madam <HI>Cage</HI> is &s;atisfied &s;o much; for this Deponent being &s;ince married, &s;he met Madam <HI>Cage</HI> in the Street, and &s;he gave this Deponent good advice touching this Depo|nents Carriage towards her Husband; and advi&s;ed the Deponent to avoid what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="18"> was de&s;irous to have the Children well educated. And a Mu&s;ick-ma&s;ter came from <HI>London</HI> to <HI>Highgate</HI> frequently to teach them. And this Deponent remembers, that in a Quarrel at Mr. <HI>Cage</HI>'s Chamber at <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was &s;o provoked by her pur&s;uing him with provoking expre&s;&s;ions, out of one Room into another, that finding a Knife at his Clerks Desk, he &s;natch'd it up, tore open his Doublet; and if this Deponent had not got hold of his, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cage</HI>'s Hand, verily believes his Di&s;content and Rage was &s;o great, he had &s;tabbed him&s;elf, which this Deponent (by the Providence of God) prevented.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Lettice Dickman.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat <DATE>19^o Die <HI>Martii</HI> 1674.</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me <HI>Will. Bever&s;ham.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<P><HI>WHereas the &s;aid Madam</HI> Cage <HI>hath informed Mr.</HI> Sol. General, <HI>That at</HI> Whit|&s;ontide <HI>la&s;t, the &s;aid Mr.</HI> Cage <HI>forced her to vi&s;it the Marque&s;s of</HI> Dorche&s;ters <HI>Lady, and in the mean time Mr.</HI> Cage <HI>and Mrs.</HI> Ap-Rice <HI>were above in her Chamber alone; and when Mrs.</HI> Cage <HI>came, &s;he found her Chamber di&s;ordered, and her Bed tum|bled; and that &s;he chiding her Maid</HI> Mary <HI>for not &s;etting her Chamber in order, her &s;aid Maid replied, that Mr.</HI> Cage <HI>and Mrs.</HI> Ap-Rice <HI>were there all the Afternoon, and &s;he dur&s;t not come into the &s;aid Chamber.</HI> Now</P>
<P><HI>Mary Langly</HI> Gentlewoman maketh oath, That &s;he this Deponent, was Servant to the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> from three Weeks after <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> la&s;t was twelve Month, till about <HI>Michaelmas</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, and knows all the &s;aid Information (if any &s;uch were) to be untrue; for Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> had appointed that vi&s;it &s;everal days before Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> came home, and knows Madam <HI>Cage</HI> made but one vi&s;it to the Marchione&s;s all the time Mrs. <HI>Ap-Rice</HI> was there, and never made any other vi&s;it at any time when Mrs. <HI>Ap-Rice</HI> was at <HI>Highgate;</HI> and knows, that during all the time Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> was at the Marchione&s;s, Mrs. <HI>Ap-Rice</HI> and her Husband were in the Orchard with the Children and this Deponent, and did not go out of the Orchard till Madam <HI>Cage</HI> returned home; nor was the Bed or Chamber any way di&s;ordered, nor did this Deponent ever know, believe, or &s;ay, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and Mrs. <HI>Ap-Rice</HI> were ever together alone in any Room or Chamber. And this Deponent &s;aith, that no Maid called <HI>Mary</HI> (but this Deponent) lived with Madam <HI>Cage</HI> all la&s;t Summer. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> as to the Quarrels between them, this Deponent &s;aith, they were occa&s;ioned by Mrs. <HI>Cages</HI> abu&s;ive Language to her Husband, when he hath chid her for beat|ing her Children, which &s;he did very frequently, and unrea&s;onably; in&s;omuch, that the Children have oftentimes threatned to run away, and declared they would marry, one a Tinker, and another a Cobler, rather than endure <HI>their Mothers cruel|ties.</HI> And this Deponent knoweth Madam <HI>Cage</HI> hath &s;poken very maliciou&s;ly and unhand&s;omly of her &s;aid Husband, &s;ometimes &s;aying of him, he is an <HI>ugly fat Bear,</HI> and &s;ometimes <HI>ugly Dog,</HI> and &s;ometimes &s;aid &s;he received a Letter from the <HI>ugly Dog</HI> when &s;he received a Letter from Mr. <HI>Cage.</HI> And this Deponent knows, that Madam <HI>Cage</HI> and her Daughter <HI>Blackwel</HI> agreed together not to come to <HI>London</HI> and live with Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> and one time Madam <HI>Cage</HI> did re&s;olve to remove the Goods from <HI>Highgate</HI> into the Country, and take a Hou&s;e and live by her &s;elf; and &s;aid, when Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> came into the Country &s;he would fly to her Brother <HI>Ro&s;e,</HI> for Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> would be afraid to go thither. And this Deponent knows that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;ion
<PB REF="18"> of) the Children and her Si&s;ter many times importun'd her to be reconciled to her Husband, and told her how kindly he &s;pake of her; but &s;he refu&s;ed and would never hearken to it, but would part from him: And when &s;he had wrote a provoking Letter to Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> the Children and her Si&s;ter importun'd her to write a kind conclu&s;ion of that Letter, and &s;et her name to it, which &s;he would not; and yet Mrs. <HI>Blackwel</HI> &s;ent in her Mothers name for Money, by the &s;ame Me&s;&s;enger, and Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ent it. And this Deponent knows, that when Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> hath grieved and di&s;contented Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> with her ill Language and Carriage, and &s;he hath been informed of his di&s;content, &s;he hath been very merry and plea&s;ant, and no way concerned at it, as this Deponent could perceive. And this Deponent hath heard Madam <HI>Cage</HI> oftentimes acknowledge, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was very kind to her and her Children, and that their own Fathers could not have been more kind to them; and being de&s;ired to go to <HI>London</HI> after the fir&s;t difference, to &s;ubmit her &s;elf, &s;he &s;aid &s;he would not go after him, and all the World &s;hould never make her &s;ubmit, calling her &s;aid Husband <HI>fat Bear,</HI> and <HI>ugly Dog:</HI> And this Deponent did never know or hear, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did ever offer any wrong, violence, or hurt to her, or that he &s;uffered her to want any thing &s;he de&s;ired, but believes, and hath heard from the Children and Servants, that &s;he might live plentifully, happily, and well if &s;he plea&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Mary Langly.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat. <DATE>5^o Die <HI>Maii</HI> 1675,</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me, <HI>Tho. E&s;tcourt.</HI> Per. <HI>S. Poynter.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<P><HI>MAry Ap-Rice</HI> Wife of <HI>Benedict Ap-Rice</HI> of the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Giles</HI> in the Fields, in the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> Gentlewoman, maketh Oath, That &s;he came to live with Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> his Lady on the <HI>Friday</HI> in <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI>-week la&s;t was two Years, and continued in her Service till near <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> following, and during that time this Deponent knoweth, that by agreement with Mr. <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> a Butcher, he was to &s;erve the Family with Beef, Mutton, Veal, Pork, Tongues, and Udders, and al&s;o Lamb, at a certain price; and he did &s;erve the Family with what Meat was be&s;poke by Madam <HI>Cage</HI> her order from time to time; and the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> paid him for the &s;ame when he required it, or in &s;ome very little time after. And al&s;o the <HI>Meal|man</HI> and <HI>Brewer.</HI> And this Deponent &s;aith, &s;he never heard that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did find fault with his Lady for &s;pending too much, either Provi&s;ions or Money; but when the Money that was in the Hou&s;e was near &s;pent (as there were &s;everal occa&s;ions of buying Poultry at the Door) when Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ent for more Money, it was &s;ent to her, or brought home by Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> the next time he came. And this Deponent &s;aith, that there was not any want or &s;hortne&s;s in Provi&s;ions or Money for the Family at any time, whil&s;t this Deponent lived there; for this Deponent did keep the Money for the Family-Expences by Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI>'s orders, and gave her from time to time an account thereof; and this Deponent doth not know, or ever heard that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did ever deny any thing, or Money for Clothes, or nece&s;|&s;aries for Mrs <HI>Cage</HI>'s Daughters; but knows, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> would have had both Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> her &s;elf, and Children, have had more Clothes, and better than they had which Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;everal times refu&s;ed&punc; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
<PB REF="19">
<P>And as to the Quarrels and Di&s;contents between Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his &s;aid Lady, whil&s;t &s;he lived there, They were occa&s;ioned about &s;mall trifling things, which grew into words, but doth not know, or ever heard that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> ever u&s;ed any force, violence, or wrong to Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI>'s Per&s;on, but hath often heard from her Daughters and Neeces, that their Mother and Aunt was the fir&s;t occa&s;ion and beginning of &s;uch Differences and Quarrels. And this Deponent hath often heard Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> and her Daughters acknowledge Mr. <HI>Cage</HI>'s love and kindne&s;s to them, and Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> in particular, &s;aying, Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was as good a Husband as any Wo|man had. And this Deponent &s;aith, that when Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> came home to <HI>Highgate,</HI> (which was commonly on <HI>Saturdays,</HI>) he &s;pent mo&s;t of his time in Mrs. <HI>Cages</HI> com|pany, and believes he delighted &s;o to do; for this Deponent never knew him ac|company other Per&s;ons to any the Alehou&s;es or Taverns there. And (excepting when &s;uch Quarrels were) this Deponent hath heard and &s;een Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his Lady both of them, as kind and affectionate to each other as any Per&s;ons (as this Deponent believes) could be. And this Deponent knoweth, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ent many extraordinary provi&s;ions from <HI>London</HI> home, and the Hou&s;e was very &s;eldom (if at all) without &s;trong Beer, and Ale, and Wine, which Mrs. <HI>Blackwel</HI> kept the Keys of. And this Deponent &s;aith, that when Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> was ill, this De|ponent u&s;ing her utmo&s;t care about the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Cage,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> taking no|tice thereof, he gave this Deponent twenty Shillings, and de&s;ired this Deponent to continue her care to, and be very careful of the &s;aid Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> and this De|ponent never received of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> any Gift in Money, Provi&s;ions, or other things what&s;oever. And this Deponent &s;aith, that the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was never to this (Deponents knowledge) at any Lodging of this Deponents.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Mary Ap-Rice.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat. <DATE>24 Die <HI>Februarii</HI> 1674.</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me <HI>Will. Bever&s;ham.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<P><HI>MArgaret Fyney</HI> maketh oath, That in the Year 1672 this Deponent came to &s;erve Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his Wife at <HI>Highgate</HI> as Cook-maid, and lived that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mmer there with them. And &s;aith, that &s;he hath lived &s;everal Years in &s;everal Families, of Per&s;ons of Quality, and never did &s;ee more plenty for their own Fa|mily, than was in Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI>'s Family, and never knew that there was any want of Money or Provi&s;ions; and when there was any thing that was rare, and in &s;ea&s;on, it was &s;ent home by Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> to his Wife. And this Deponent &s;aith, that all the Servants ob&s;erved, that what&s;oever Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ent for, either Money, or other things, Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ent it: And this Deponent carried Money and other things home &s;everal times to Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> from her Husband, which &s;he &s;ent for. And this Deponent knows, that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was very loving and kind to the Children, and whatever they de&s;ired for Clothes, or other things, Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> bought and &s;ent them home, and never knew or heard that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> did beat or di&s;content the Children: But knows, that many times Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> would quarrel needle&s;sly at Dinner with Mr. <HI>Cage,</HI> and that he hath left his Dinner and gone out into the Garden, and &s;ate there; and &s;ometimes out of the Bed, and walked about mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> and the Servants many times pitied Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> for the unquiet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="19"> times, and turned her out of her &s;ight, and &s;he dur&s;t not come into her &s;ight until Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> came home, who u&s;ually reconciled them; and knows, that the Chil|dren always rejoiced when Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> was to come home; and believes, that Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> did live as freely, and happily, as any Per&s;on need do, and might &s;till have &s;o done, if it were not her own fault; for the Servants ob&s;erved &s;he would provoke him with very ill words, upon very &s;mall for no occa&s;ion.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Margaret Fyney.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat. <DATE>8^o Die <HI>Martii</HI> 1674.</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me <HI>Will. Bever&s;ham.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<P><HI>MAry Bucknal</HI> maketh oath, That &s;he lived about one Year, but &s;omething le&s;s with Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> and his Lady, as Cook-maid; and knows that they kept a plentiful Hou&s;e for their Family, and that Mr. <HI>Cage</HI> (during this Deponents living there) always &s;ent home what Provi&s;ions or Money Mrs. <HI>Cage</HI> &s;ent for, and doth not believe, or ever heard, that he ever denied any Money, or other thing for his Wife or Children, but knows, they might have had more and better Clothes than they had, if &s;he had plea&s;ed. And hath heard Madam <HI>Cage</HI> many times acknowledge, and &s;ay, that &s;he was as happy in a Husband, and her Chil|dren in a Father, as &s;he could de&s;ire; but there were &s;everal Quarrels between <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> and his Lady, &s;ometimes about her beating her Children, and turning <HI>Mrs. Okey</HI> out of her &s;ight; and &s;ometimes about &s;ome cro&s;s and unkind &s;lighting Words or Expre&s;&s;ions &s;he would give her &s;aid Husband; and &s;ometimes about her forbidding what he had ordered to be done: And &s;aith, that all the Servants took notice how &s;he would &s;light and cro&s;s him; and many times pitied him for the di&s;contented life &s;he led him; and hath heard her Daughters &s;everal times &s;ay, that they wondred their Mother would be &s;o cro&s;s unto, and quarrel with their Father; and would always &s;ay, that their Mother began the Quarrels. And this Deponent knoweth, that <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> hath been &s;o provoked by her ill Language, that he hath &s;everal times aro&s;e from the Table at Dinners and Suppers in Di&s;con|tent; and many times out of his Bed, and walked many parts of the night di&s;|contented in the Hou&s;e and Garden alone. And this Deponent remembers, that <HI>Mr. Creamer</HI> and his Lady coming to <HI>Mr. Cage</HI>'s Hou&s;e at <HI>Highgate, Mrs. Cage</HI> was di&s;plea&s;ed, and would &s;tay in the Kitchin; and <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> intreated her very much to walk into the Parlour and keep them Company, which &s;he at length did: But at Supper <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> ordered a Barrel of <HI>March</HI> Beer to be broached, which <HI>Mrs. Cage</HI> was angry at, and gave <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> &s;ome ill words openly at Table, (as the Per|&s;ons then pre&s;ent di&s;cour&s;ed in the Kitchin:) And <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> looking angrily upon her, &s;he then &s;aid, <HI>She cared not for his ugly looks;</HI> which cau&s;ed great di&s;conten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> between them. And <HI>Mrs. A&s;h</HI> told this Deponent, <HI>Mrs. Cage</HI> was with Child and mi&s;carried then, and that &s;he might have prevented it if &s;he would. But this Deponent doth not know or ever heard that <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> was ever &s;o provoked to &s;trike or hurt her, but the Servants have often &s;aid, they wondred at their Ma&s;ters patience, that he would bear &s;uch u&s;age. And this Deponent &s;aith, that <HI>Mr. Cag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> did always expre&s;s great kindne&s;s to <HI>Mrs. Cage,</HI> in &s;ending home what Provi&s;ion were in &s;ea&s;on, (though he was not there) and Wine and other <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="20"> there was no want or &s;carcity of Provi&s;ions, or Money in the Family: And <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> took care that the Family, Children, and Servants, &s;hould be in&s;tructed in the fear of God; for he u&s;ually (if not every Sunday) had &s;ome Mini&s;ter preached twice in the Family, u&s;ually <HI>Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Dan&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Mr. Dan&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Mr. Fowler.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Mary Bucknal.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat <DATE>16 Die <HI>Martii</HI> 1674.</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me <HI>Will. Bever&s;ham.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<P><HI>SImon Picknol</HI> Servant to <HI>Tobias Cage</HI> E&s;quire, maketh oath, That he came the fourth of <HI>May</HI> la&s;t to &s;erve the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> at his Hou&s;e at <HI>Highgate,</HI> and hath lived with him as a Servant to this day. And this Deponent &s;aith, that be|fore this great difference hapned between the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> and his Lady, this De|ponent bought in mo&s;t of the Provi&s;ions for the Hou&s;e at <HI>Highgate,</HI> and &s;everal times received Money of the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> to buy the &s;ame. And this Deponent &s;aith, that until the difference hapned, this Deponent did neither know nor hear that the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> did &s;uffer any want of Provi&s;ions or Money in the Family, or that the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> ever found fault that they &s;pent too much. And this Deponent &s;aith, that &s;ince the &s;aid difference, the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> often enquired whether they wanted either Meat or Money at <HI>Highgate.</HI> And this Deponent did acquaint the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage,</HI> that the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage's</HI> Wife had forbid him (this Deponent) to receive or bring any Money from him; after which time, this De|ponent did not receive any Money for the &s;aid Hou&s;e, or Provi&s;ions from the &s;aid <HI>Mr. Cage,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Mrs. Cage</HI> having forbid this Deponent to receive any. And this Deponent &s;aith, that the &s;aid <HI>Mrs. Cage</HI> &s;everal times &s;ent this Deponent to Town about her Bu&s;ine&s;s, and forbad him (this Deponent) to come at <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> her Husband.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Simon Picknol.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat <DATE>24 Die <HI>Februarii</HI> 1674.</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me <HI>Tho. E&s;tcourt.</HI> Per <HI>S. Poynter.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<P>WHereas this Deponent <HI>Robert Fairbeard</HI> of <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> in the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> E&s;quire, is informed, that the Defendatns Wife did affirm to her Coun&s;el at the <HI>Rolls,</HI> the la&s;t day of the la&s;t Term, that her Husband would not allow her maintenance for her &s;elf and Servant; This Deponent maketh oath that he hath known both the Defendants ever &s;ince they were married, and before, and hath been often in the Family; but this Deponent never under&s;tood that the Defendant the Husband denied any thing nece&s;&s;ary or convenient for his Wife. And this Deponent being their Kin&s;man, was de&s;ired to prevail with the Defen|dant the Wife, to remove out of <HI>Mr. Cage</HI>'s Chamber in <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> about the be|ginning of the la&s;t Term, that he might have his Chamber quiet for his Bu&s;ine&s;s. And in the Deponents pre&s;ence, <HI>Mr. Cage</HI> offered his &s;aid Wife, that if &s;he would diet any where near <HI>Grays-Inn,</HI> until after Term, he would pay twenty Shillings per Week for her &s;elf and Maid; and then offered her five Guinies, twenty Shillings <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="20"> Pieces of Gold, and would have delivered them unto her, to pay for &s;uch diet for her Maid and &s;elf for five Weeks. But &s;he refu&s;ed to receive any Money of her Husband.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Robert Fairbeard.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Jurat <DATE>13 Die <HI>Februarii</HI> 1676.</DATE></DATELINE> Coram me <HI>Tho. E&s;tcourt.</HI> Per <HI>S. Poynter.</HI></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>Many other Depo&s;itions I omit.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<HEAD>POSTSCRIPT.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SInce my Wife had notice this An&s;wer was Pen'd; &s;he, her Friend, and Com|plices, re&s;olved to improve the Slander of the Ba&s;tard, to ju&s;tifie her eighteen Months &s;eparation, before that pretence had any Being; and the better to colour it, have by &s;urpri&s;e drawn in the aid of Sir <HI>W. T.</HI> of <HI>London.</HI> You may remember, the Libel pretends, I had a familiar conver&s;e nine Months with a Wench, and lodged her in <HI>Fullers</HI> Rents, to ly in for Neighbourhood. <HI>Note,</HI> She knew this Wench &s;he cau&s;ed her Si&s;ter to hire for me, was a Comrade of a Woman that went by the name of <HI>Mrs. Hilton,</HI> as a Merchant's Widow, but is really the Wife of a Butcher in <HI>Puckridge</HI> in <HI>Hartford&s;hire,</HI> and ran away from her Husband too, and who (as is now found out) plyed at a Bawdyhou&s;e near <HI>Bond-Stables,</HI> and hath had a Ba&s;tard, for who&s;e cure of the <HI>Pox,</HI> there is now a Suit depending, and Mr. <HI>Walker</HI> of <HI>Grays-Inn</HI> is Coun&s;el for the Chirur|gion, and <HI>Mr. Ray</HI> is Attorny. This <HI>Hilton</HI> was my Wifes chief In&s;tru|ment in this Ba&s;tard plot, and whil&s;t this Wench lived with me, &s;he often lay out with this <HI>Hilton,</HI> and was no doubt imployed as well as her &s;elf: You &s;ee that in <HI>March,</HI> upon <HI>Mr. Creamer</HI>'s &s;u&s;pition, I gave this Wench warning, that for four Months after this &s;u&s;pition of <HI>Mr. Creamers,</HI> and until this Wench was gone, I procured my Cou&s;in <HI>Will. Cage</HI> to live and lodge with me: She had the Ba&s;tard in <HI>January,</HI> &s;even Months after &s;he went from me. I mentioned my Wifes tampe|ring with her whil&s;t &s;he lived with me. Her Daughter <HI>Betty Blackwels</HI> Prediction by Letter to <HI>Mr. Smith.</HI> You have heard of my Wifes frequent and kind vi&s;its to the Wench; whereas a Genleman I &s;ent to examine the Wench, could never be admitted. And note Sir, that &s;he concealed her being with Child, and went about to murder it in the Hou&s;e of Office, as <HI>Mr. Waingford,</HI> Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e, and his Wife can te&s;tifie; either of which (in all likelihood) &s;he &s;hould have no rea&s;on attempt, if I were concerned in it. That I left ten Shillings with Mr. <HI>Waingford</HI> Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e for Charges to watch and apprehend her. And that I &s;ue one of my Wifes Confederates in the Spiritual Court for Slander, that the matter may there be enquired into. And Sir, this is ob&s;ervable, that after my Wife heard Mr. <HI>Creamer</HI> advi&s;ed to the turning the Maid away <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> Wife <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="21"> Wife again accu&s;es me, that I had &s;ent the Wench away to ly in: Hereupon, by Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI>'s advice, I &s;ent for the Wench, &s;tayed her from Service, and gave five Shillings a Week for five Weeks after &s;he was gone from me, that &s;he might appear, and the contrary be ob&s;erved; and after this Slander proved ineffectual, <HI>Betty Blackwels</HI> Letter was &s;ent.</P>
<P>Now Sir, &s;ince my Wife was a&s;&s;ured I would an&s;wer her Libel, &s;he and her Friend rage like Satan, fore&s;eeing the time is &s;hort, and in pur&s;uance of her for|mer Practice of Subornation and Fal&s;hood, hath &s;uborned this Whore. She upon pretence of a Warrant &s;ent me word by her Nephew, my Clerk, at ten of the Clock at Night, that &s;he was going with her before Sir <HI>W. T.</HI> a Ju&s;tice of Peace. I confe&s;s, the Suddenne&s;s of it, and the Time of the Night, made me &s;u&s;pect &s;ome De&s;ign and way-laying, being as yet bound to the Peace, however I &s;ent my Wife word by her Nephew, that I expected &s;he would now &s;ecure and pro&s;ecute the Wench; but mi&s;tru&s;ting &s;he &s;hould not, I de&s;ired two Gentlemen of our Hou&s;e to &s;tep to the Ju&s;tice to get her &s;ecured; they attended, and ob&s;erved that the Ju&s;tice gave the Whore that had the Ba&s;tard her Oath, and examin'd her. Certainly this Ju&s;tice of Peace, though a very worthy Per&s;on, was &s;trangely influenced by her Libel and Friend, to a&s;&s;ume a Power as a &s;ingle Ju&s;tice of Peace to examine a Whore <HI>on her Oath</HI> on the Complaint of a Wife again&s;t her Husband. Indeed if the Ba&s;tard were li|ving, two Ju&s;tices of the Peace, in order to di&s;charge the Pari&s;h, may examine the Matter, but in no other Ca&s;e, el&s;e the Malice of a Wife by the Te&s;timony of a common Whore might defame her Husband. But Sir, the Wench being fore-in&s;tructed, prompted on and &s;urrounded by my Wife and her other Confederaies that Night, fware, that &s;he having lived with me near a year, it was half a year before I had any Commerce with her of that &s;ort, and that was only four times (as &s;he &s;aith); but my Wife was over-heard putting her in mind, that &s;he &s;hould &s;ware I had to do with her nine Months. <HI>Note,</HI> this was to make good her Libel: but ob&s;erve, that when this Mrs. <HI>Hilton</HI> the Agent fir&s;t charged me with the Ba&s;tard, &s;he told to Mr. <HI>Fincham</HI> and Mr. <HI>Fairebeard</HI> of <HI>Grays-Inne,</HI> that the Wench af|firmed I never had the knowledge of her but once. And now when one of the Gentlemen prayed the Ju&s;tice take notice &s;he was in two Tales, he favourably termed that but Forgetfulne&s;s; whereas all other Judges allow &s;elf-contradicting to be a clear Evidence of Fal&s;hood and Forgery. And mark this, <HI>Sir,</HI> that when the Per&s;ons I &s;ent earne&s;tly moved that the Wench &s;hould be had to Pri&s;on until I were heard next day, and that it was for my Wife's Credit, if &s;he would avoid all &s;u&s;picion of having &s;uborned this Wench; yet my Wife and her Con&s;orts oppo&s;ed it; but the Ju&s;tice took a Strangers bare word for her to appear next Day at eleven a Clock, but they never appeared more. For indeed there was no farther De&s;ign but to have the Whore deliver this Slonder on her Oath, and &s;o be gone. And the Ju&s;tice of Peace is now to be examined on all Occa&s;ions as a Witne&s;s, as to te&s;tify what the Whore delivered on Oath, which they vainly think will be a &s;tabbing Evidence, that any Man though never &s;o innocent had a Ba&s;tard; but I doubt not e're long to di&s;cover more of the Matter without Bribery or Subornation. Sir, this Woman, <HI>Hilton,</HI> was the Per&s;on that managed this Plot for my Wife from the beginning and that came to me when the Wench (as was pretended) lay in, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="21"> grace. Mark the De&s;ign: when &s;he &s;aw I would not be wrought upon to betray my own Innocency that way, &s;he applied her &s;elf to Mr. <HI>Fincham,</HI> offered him, if I would give her ten Pounds, &s;he would bring a Per&s;on &s;hould take off the Child, and give Security from future Charge: but my Innocency was &s;uch; I rather cho&s;e to abide a Trial at Law than give one Penny. And I never heard of it more until my Wife &s;uborned this Wench to &s;wear this, to ju&s;tify her &s;elf; nor could I ever light of this Wench or the &s;aid <HI>Hilton</HI> &s;ince the Ba&s;tard pretence, nor can I yet catch this Whore although I do endeavour it; but by the Grace of God as &s;oon as po&s;&s;ibly I can get her Appearance, I will try the matter by a Jury upon an Action of Slander, whether that Ba&s;tard ought to be charged on me, or no: which Action, as the Ca&s;e is, and the Dammages may be laid, I think will lie. And in order to the &s;peedy doing of it, I &s;hall take it kindly of my Wife, if &s;he will procure this Wench to give me an Appearance by an Attourney in the Common-Pleas, without further Trouble.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Something may be expected I &s;hould &s;ay as to the Deed printed at large, with de&s;ign either to in&s;inuate &s;ome Indi&s;cretion in giving &s;uch a Power, or In|ju&s;tice in not keeping it according to the Letter. Therefore Sir, I entreat you to con&s;ider that Deed with the Circum&s;tances &s;he and her E&s;tate were in, and you will not (I think) conceive me guilty of much Folly, or any Fraud at all in the penning of it. The E&s;tate was but 1500 <HI>l.</HI> &s;he had two Children, and no Debts or Troubles, as &s;he and her Tru&s;tee affirmed. The E&s;tate was forfeited, and all liable to be taken away by his Royal Highne&s;s, except &s;uch Part as could be proved granted to her. Now Sir, though her Affection to me before I married her, was by her Subtilty &s;et out in as taking Colours as the greate&s;t Hypocri&s;y could paint it; her Carriage &s;uch, as might have prevailed with a wi&s;er Man to put Confidence in her who was to be a Wife, e&s;pecially con&s;idering the great Pro|fe&s;&s;ion &s;he made of Religion. Yet I endeavoured to &s;ecure my &s;elf, as well again&s;t her Childrens future Clamours and uncertain Expectations, as from all Suites to di&s;cover or accompt for her Husband <HI>Okeys</HI> E&s;tate, toward which any Lawyer will allow me the pleading this Deed would have gone very far. Sir, you will find &s;he hath not &s;uch a Power as &s;he pretends unto, but only the Power of appointing Proportions, as well for her Childrens Preferment, as her own Maintenance; and that mu&s;t be al&s;o according to Equity and Ju&s;tice, &s;o that &s;he cannot give all to her Children, and leave no Maintenance for her &s;elf; and the whole is &s;o limited, that &s;he cannot di&s;po&s;e of any part of the Principal, but for the Preferment of the Chil|dren &s;he then had, and might have by me. And if the Tru&s;tee con&s;ents to employ any part of it to any other u&s;e, he is an&s;werable to me for breach of Tru&s;t, and mu&s;t make good the Dammage out of his own E&s;tate. And as to the Letter or general Words of the Deed, <HI>viz. [all her E&s;tate]:</HI> Was it not a great Fraud in her (and her Tru&s;tee too if he had known it) to conceal and deny her Debts &s;he owed, and &s;everal expenceful Suits &s;he knew I mu&s;t be engaged in, not only to defend the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> made known to me, but to recover that which I never knew of, nor was ever mentioned before I married her? Can it be imagined by a|ny rational Man, that I &s;hould intend by that Deed, either that &s;he &s;hould give a|way the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> and I maintain her, and pay her Debts; or that I &s;hould &s;ell my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="22"> I then knew not of, nor &s;he neither, &amp; that for her &amp; her Children. I could &s;ay much more, but 'tis not convenient. The Deed is before the L. Chancellor for his Judgment at her Suit. But this I &s;ay, I never endeavoured to defeat or avoid the true Intent and Meaning of that Deed; but I think now her denying Co-habitation with me hath taken away much of the force of it, and altered the Ca&s;e.</P>
<P>And as to her Pretences, <HI>That I would have no End, that nothing would &s;atisfy me but the whole E&s;tate,</HI> you &s;ee how fal&s;e &s;he is proved. And yet to give a full An|&s;wer, and &s;top the Mouth even of Fal&s;hood it &s;elf, I make her the&s;e Offers.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Let her produce any Woman in</HI> England <HI>(except the Whore of her own making) that will &s;oberly affirm, that ever I tempted her to any la&s;civious act of Dalliance, or any Gentleman that was ever in my company at any &s;uch time, or with any &s;uch Per&s;on, I will relea&s;e her E&s;tate, and all claims to it.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>If &s;he de&s;ires Reconciliation, and will &s;ubmit her &s;elf, make &s;uch acknow|ledgement and &s;atisfaction as any two Divines (I having liberty to except again&s;t two only, and &s;he the like) &s;hall think fit and honourable for me to receive, I will not only as to her E&s;tate give her choice of the three Awards already made, but if &s;he refu&s;es them, I will &s;ubmit all the matters in difference &s;he pretends unto what&s;oever (except the pretended Friend) to any two or three private Gentlemen, or Lawyers, that have not been concerned with either &s;ide, to their final and ab&s;olute determination.</HI></P>
<P>But if &s;he refu&s;e all the&s;e Propo&s;als, judge you Sir, and all the World, whether &s;he can be other than as <HI>Solomon</HI> denotes, &s;uch a Woman <HI>as for&s;akes her Husband, and the Covenant of her God?</HI> or, whether there ever was &s;uch a Diabolical combination again&s;t the Laws of God, Nature, and Humanity, as is between the pretended Friend and her &s;elf?</P>
<P>Sir, I fore&s;ee an Objection will be by this Woman. <HI>What, &s;hall I give up a Per&s;on that has e&s;pou&s;ed my Quarrel again&s;t my Husband, and make an agreement and he not included? I cannot in honour do it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 'Tis my unhappine&s;s &s;he is not better acquainted with true Honour: where that is, you always find it imprinted in the Mind with indelible Characters; The Flatteries or Pretences of &s;uch a Friend could never have prevailed with her to forget her Covenant, nor any ways to wrong her Husband, unto whom 'tis her duty <HI>to do good, and no evil all his days.</HI></P>
<P>'Tis no di&s;honour to turn from an evil way, 'tis no di&s;honour to leave this Seducer to the Law; if he hath done well, the Law will ju&s;tifie him; if not, the World will ju&s;tify her Husband. Which is mo&s;t honourable? to prefer the peace and comfort of her Husband, to which &s;he is bound by a &s;acred vow, or that of &s;uch a Stranger, who&s;e own folly hath rendred him lyable to que&s;tion? Methinks, the four Years di&s;traction and wrong I have &s;uffered, may re&s;olve that Doubt in honour; I am &s;ure it doth in her own Con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Sir, You now &s;ee who it is that &s;eparates, and the Cau&s;e. The Libel tells you, <HI>That &s;he is &s;till at the &s;ame Lodging I put her in, and never lay a Night out but with my knowledg, at the Hou&s;e of a Friend of mine.</HI> 'Tis true, I could not but know &s;he lay out all that <HI>Whit&s;on</HI>-Week, but 'twas again&s;t my Will. 'Tis now twelve Months &s;ince, but to this day &s;he will not tell where nor with whom &s;he was, nor do I know. Her continuing her Lodging is like that of keeping in my Chamber three Terms <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="22"> a de&s;ign to provoke me with &s;uch Language, that nothing could be more intolera|ble, and at the &s;ame time &s;et one <HI>Sorrel</HI> to eve&s;drop me.</P>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> What I have &s;aid is true, you &s;ee mo&s;t of it is proved, and it is le&s;s than &s;he knows I can &s;ay. If I give you an Account of &s;ome Intrigues in Coll. <HI>Okeys</HI> ab&s;ence, and &s;ome relating to my &s;elf, 'twould chill your Blood to read them. I tell you not all that I can of the Actions of the Friend and his Complices, which are not wrapp'd up in &s;uch a Cloud of darkne&s;s, as they conceive; nor do I mention the various Attempts, Factions, and Threats, to effect my Ruine, nor yet the Faction &s;et up in the Society where I live. But Sir, I doubt not I &s;hall write again; for this Woman is as incorrigible as that duckt under water for a Scold, yet held up her Hands above the water, and made Horns at her Husband. Sir, however I entreat you &s;ignify the Contents hereof to &s;uch Per&s;ons as you think fit, who certainly mu&s;t conclude upon the whole, that although my Wife doth de&s;ign a Separation, &s;uppo&s;ing thereby, and by the general words of the Deed, to carry with her all that con&s;iderable addition I have made by my labours, and thereby hopes to defraud me of what I have expended al&s;o; and if &s;he be di&s;|appointed therein, yet that the Friend can never make a recompence for the ir|reparable and inexpre&s;&s;ible wrongs he hath done me, by contriving and fomenting tho&s;e differences, to the utter de&s;truction of all the comforts of my life; and that he was the mo&s;t indi&s;creet and uncharitable of Men if innocent; the mo&s;t unju&s;t, if otherwi&s;e, to &s;ue and &s;lander a Husband in a Court of Judicature, for, and on the behalf of a Wife, without fir&s;t di&s;cour&s;ing the Husband, and trying whether he were faulty or no. Yet Sir,</P>
<P>This I will offer him al&s;o, let him make out that I have done any thing either imprudently, or di&s;hone&s;tly, relating to the E&s;tate, my Wife or Children, and I will forgive all the wrongs he hath done me, taking the E&s;tate as it was, the Suits I had of hers, and the improvement I have made.</P>
<P>&rindx; Note, <HI>That when my Wife and this Friend had contrived a Suit again&s;t me and her &s;elf in</HI> Chancery, <HI>in the name of</HI> Martha Wil&s;on, <HI>&s;he petitioned the Honourable the Ma&s;ter of the</HI> Rolls, <HI>that &s;he might make an&s;wer by &s;uch Guardian &s;he &s;hould chu&s;e, in|tending to make u&s;e of this Friend for countenance: but the Ma&s;ter of the</HI> Rolls <HI>declared he would not appoint any Guardian for a Wife, &s;he &s;hould an&s;wer with her Husband, or an&s;wer alone. And after my Wife had contrived I &s;hould be bound to the Peace, this Friend did frequently accompany my Wife to &s;everal Ma&s;ters in</HI> Chancery, <HI>and there thru&s;t him&s;elf into Suits wherein he was no way concern'd, meerly to provoke me; &s;o that I not daring to tru&s;t my &s;elf under &s;uch provocations, have been forced to neglect the attendance of my Bu&s;ine&s;s my &s;elf, by rea&s;on whereof, &s;uch reports have been made, and in &s;uch a manner, as would not have been in ca&s;e I were pre&s;ent rightly to inform them, and that to my very great damage. There are two remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages of this nature:</HI></P>
<P><HI>One, My Wife &s;eeing me attending at Sir</HI> Andrew Hackets, <HI>&s;ends privately for the Friend, who before refu&s;ed, and dur&s;t not give me a meeting till I was bound to the Peace, though he was fairly invited to it; yet now he comes, but I having notice of it, and not daring to tru&s;t my &s;elf, went away before he came, and thereupon he falls to accu&s;ing and re|pre&s;enting of me to the Ma&s;ter, as fal&s;ly and barbarou&s;ly as a lying tongue could utter. See the honour of this Woman who hand in hand with a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="23"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hering my Wife to my face, whil&s;t I with my three Friends &s;tood bound to the Peace.</HI></P>
<P>&rindx; <HI>Another time when I petitioned the Ma&s;ter of the</HI> Rolls, <HI>that the cau&s;e between me and the Tru&s;tee might be &s;peedily &s;et down for hearing: the Ma&s;ter of the</HI> Rolls <HI>ap|pointed to hear Coun&s;el on both &s;ides. This precious Friend and his Sollicitor coming be|fore my Coun&s;el, fell upon accu&s;ing of me to him: The Ma&s;ter of the</HI> Rolls, <HI>though he knew me not, and no Per&s;on there for me, was &s;en&s;ible of &s;ome unfairne&s;s, demanded of him, what he was concerned, was he any Tru&s;tee to the Wife or Children, any ways akin to them? He an&s;wered no: Then, what rea&s;on have you to &s;ue the Husband on the be|half of his Wife? To which he replies, 'Tis often done in</HI> Chancery; <HI>and thereupon the Ma&s;ter of the</HI> Rolls <HI>declared, that if it were &s;ometimes, yet he knew no rea&s;on for it, and he doubted Mr.</HI> Cage <HI>had &s;ome wrong; but Mr.</HI> Hutchins <HI>my Coun&s;el coming in, they fell upon the Bu&s;ine&s;s, and the Coun&s;el pre&s;s d, that the Cau&s;e might be &s;et down to be heard and affirmed, that Witne&s;&s;es were examined, and all matters might be &s;ettled upon the Tru&s;tee's Bill, according to my Lord Chancellor's order of the</HI> 12th <HI>of</HI> June: <HI>But the Friend oppo&s;ing that, Mr.</HI> Hutchins <HI>on my behalf offered to refer all the matters in difference to the Ma&s;ter of the</HI> Rolls <HI>him&s;elf, as a private Per&s;on, to be &s;ettled as he &s;hould think fit with|out any Appeal, which the Ma&s;ter of the</HI> Rolls <HI>was plea&s;ed to accept, being betwixt a Gentleman and his Wife: but this religious Fomenter of differences, as before to Mr.</HI> Dan&s;on, <HI>now al&s;o denied all Propo&s;als that might tend to the &s;ettlement and the peace of my Family.</HI></P>
<P>And Sir, To that &s;eeming reflection in the Libel, as a &s;hameful thing, that I oppo&s;e my own Act and Deed, meaning the general words in the Deed printed. I an&s;wer once for all, That where a man &s;eals a general Relea&s;e, whereby in &s;trict|ne&s;s of Law a Debt or Duty, that the Relea&s;or knew not of, is di&s;charged; yet 'tis the cour&s;e of Equity to relieve again&s;t that Relea&s;e: &s;o here I do aver, that I knew not of any other E&s;tate, Debts, or Suits, nor was there any communi|cation of any other E&s;tate or things, than the 1500 <HI>l.</HI> and therefore con&s;idering the Prize I have met withal in a Wife, I doubt not to find relief in Equity, for it is an axiom as well of <HI>Civilians</HI> as <HI>Logicians. Verba re&s;tringenda &s;unt ad pre&s;entem materiam.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Places where the Per&s;ons live to whom I have referred you.</HEAD>
<ITEM>SIr <HI>Francis Winnington,</HI> Sollicitor Ge|neral, in the <HI>Temple.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>William Steynes</HI> in <HI>Fanchurch-&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Middleton</HI> in <HI>Hackney.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Creamer</HI> in <HI>Grays-Inne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Fincham</HI> in <HI>Grays-Inne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Barrington</HI> in <HI>Suffolk-Lane.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Okey</HI> in <HI>Cateaton-&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Thomas Dun</HI> in <HI>Spittle-fields.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Dan&s;on</HI> lives there al&s;o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Reynolds</HI> at <HI>Bun-hill</HI> Fields.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Doelittle</HI> in <HI>Monkwel</HI>-Street.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Thankful Owen</HI> in <HI>Bull and Mouth Street.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Madam <HI>Broughton,</HI> and at Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> a Mini&s;ter in <HI>Fetter-Lane.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Madam <HI>Puli&s;ton,</HI> at Mr. <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> a Mini&s;ter in <HI>Fetter-Lane.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mrs. <HI>Pledger</HI> at Mr. <HI>Brooks</HI> the Mini&s;ter in <HI>Thames-&s;treet.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Gun</HI> at Mr. <HI>Guns</HI> at <HI>Billingsgate.</HI></ITEM>
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