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<P>THE LIFE AND DEATH OF <HI>JOHN ATHERTON</HI> LORD BISHOP Of WATERFORD AND LYSMORE within the Kingdome of <HI>Jreland,</HI> borne neare Bridgwater in <HI>Somer&s;et&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>Who for Ince&s;t, Buggery, and many other enormous crimes, after having li|ved a vicious life, dyed a &s;hamefull death, and was on the fifth of December la&s;t pa&s;t, hanged on the Gallows Greene at Dublin, and his man <HI>Iohn Childe</HI> being his Proctor, with whom he had committed the buggery, was hangd in March following at Ban|don Bridges, condemned thereunto at the A&s;&s;i&s;es holden at Corke.</P>
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<P>London Printed, 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>THE SHAMEFVLL ENDE, Of Bi&s;hop <HI>Atherton,</HI> and his Proctor <HI>Iohn Childe</HI><FIGURE>
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<L>COnfu&s;ion give my thoughts once leave to be</L>
<L>Exempted from thy lawle&s;&s;e Tyranny&punc;</L>
<L>If for the &s;pace of but one poore hal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e houre,</L>
<L>O give me leave to &s;it in quiets Bower,</L>
<L>That I with patience may delineate,</L>
<L>In lines of life this Prelates &s;ordid &s;tate,</L>
<L>Who fir&s;t in England did his life receive,</L>
<L>His education Oxford did him give,</L>
<L>Thence to a Benefice preferd he was,</L>
<L>In which he vitiou&s;ly his time did pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And although married to a hand&s;ome wife,</L>
<L>ble&s;t with &s;weet children th'only joy of life,</L>
<L>Yet &s;o farre ba&s;ene&s;&s;e did in him prevaile,</L>
<L>That unto Lu&s;t he him&s;elfe &s;et to &s;aile;</L>
<L>Defloured Virgins, Marriage beds defilde,</L>
<L>With many other vitious crimes too vilde</L>
<L>To be conceivd, beyond all mea&s;ure proud,</L>
<L>Impudence and ambition did him &s;hroud.</L>
<L>Among&s;t his flock he &s;ow'd &s;editious &s;trife,</L>
<L>Set friend 'gain&s;t friend, husband again&s;t wife.</L>
<L>So that 'mong&s;t many he did live alone,</L>
<L>And loving none, beloved was of none.</L>
<L>La&s;tly through pride, high fare, and lu&s;tfull life,</L>
<L>Ince&s;t committed with the Si&s;ter of his wife,</L>
<L>For which he &s;ued his pardon, and then fled</L>
<L>To Ireland, where a wor&s;er life he led,</L>
<PB REF="3">
<L>There through in&s;inuation did obtaine,</L>
<L>The Par&s;onage of S. <HI>Iohn,</HI> became Chaplaine</L>
<L>Vnto that honored Lord and worthy Peere,</L>
<L>Lord Chancellor there, Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Loftus</HI> here,</L>
<L>By who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance he did eke require,</L>
<L>To be Sub-deane of Chri&s;t-church, one &s;tep higher,</L>
<L>Who&s;e goodne&s;&s;e for to guerdon he did prove,</L>
<L>A Iudas, and betrayd him for his love,</L>
<L>Brought him into di&s;grace with that great Sir,</L>
<L>Who brookt no Rivall nor Competitor,</L>
<L>Straffords &s;terne Earle, a man of eminent hight,</L>
<L>Knowledge, and wit, had it beene governd right.</L>
<L>Courage and re&s;olution to tho&s;e high</L>
<L>Imployments he had given him, but why</L>
<L>Should he his merits bani&s;h and &s;o dye,</L>
<L>Imping his wings with fal&s;e felicity?</L>
<L>Winning on him, by him he was preferd</L>
<L>Vnto the Bi&s;hoprick of Waterford,</L>
<L>And of Ly&s;more, where he did five yeares Lord it</L>
<L>In &s;uch &s;ort, as all good men much abhord it.</L>
<L>But in the Interim marke what did befall,</L>
<L>If &s;o he had had any grace at all,</L>
<L>At which he aimd, but not the grace of God,</L>
<L>But at &s;uch Grace as had our Graceles Laud</L>
<L>He &s;urely warned was to mend his life,</L>
<L>By his owne Si&s;ter Ma&s;ter Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">kies wife,</L>
<L>Which Ma&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r Leakies Mother being dead,</L>
<L>And in her life-time con&s;cious how he led</L>
<L>His lu&s;tfull life, her Ghoa&s;t in ga&s;tfull wi&s;e</L>
<L>Did oft appeare before her Si&s;ters <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yes,</L>
<L>But &s;he feare-&s;trucken dur&s;t not &s;peake unto it,</L>
<L>Till oft appearing forced her to doe it:</L>
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<L>Then thus &s;he &s;pake, Mother in Law what cau&s;e</L>
<L>You from your re&s;t, to my unre&s;t thus drawes?</L>
<L>Who an&s;wered, daughter tis the wicked life</L>
<L>Your Brother leads, warne him to mend his life;</L>
<L>If not, then plainely tell him tis decreed,</L>
<L>He &s;hall be hangd, bid him repent with &s;peede:</L>
<L>Then &s;hall my re&s;tle&s;&s;e &s;pirit be at re&s;t,</L>
<L>And not till then; Thus vani&s;ht&punc; &s;he addre&s;t</L>
<L>Her&s;elfe for travaile, Into Ireland went</L>
<L>With this &s;ad me&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ge unto him was &s;ent:</L>
<L>Which how he tooke to heart may plaine appeare</L>
<L>By the &s;light an&s;wer he returned her.</L>
<L>What mu&s;t be, &s;halbe: If I mu&s;t, I mu&s;t dye,</L>
<L>Mariage, and hanging, come by de&s;tiny.</L>
<L>Thus &s;coft her coun&s;ell, &s;ent her back, and when</L>
<L>Sh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e was returnd, he grew farre viler then</L>
<L>He was before, if Viler man may be,</L>
<L>For one bad Act before, committed three.</L>
<L>Here Lord like Prelates, two things I propound,</L>
<L>Or leave your Seas, or in them your vice Dround.</L>
<L>If ye will Bi&s;hops be, be &s;uch as was</L>
<L>That Godly Timothy, make him your gla&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Shun avarice, &s;hun extortion, &s;hun vaine pride,</L>
<L>Shun hate, di&s;&s;imulation, let your Guide</L>
<L>Be godline&s;&s;e. Shun Lu&s;t, Shun Buggary,</L>
<L>Shun Ince&s;t, Rape, and &s;hun Adultery.</L>
<L>Be practizers of every hone&s;t thing,</L>
<L>Be meeke like Chri&s;t your Bi&s;hop Lord and King,</L>
<L>So may you live belov'd, and dye to life,</L>
<L>Not by the Axe or by the hangmans knife,</L>
<L>A halter as this Bi&s;hop here hath done,</L>
<L>When being hangd your &s;elves doe &s;carce bemone:</L>
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<L>And Proctors be ye warnd by Iohn Childs fall,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t that his fate betide unto you all.</L>
<L>Lu&s;t, Avarice, Extortion of Fees</L>
<L>Cau&s;'d him at London bridge his life to lee&s;e.</L>
<L>Y' are alike guilty: let not the &s;ame thing</L>
<L>Draw you like him to Heaven in a &s;tring.</L>
<L>Now to the Bi&s;hop we returne agen,</L>
<L>With who&s;e loath'd Crimes I loath to fowle my pen,</L>
<L>A &s;trict Ly&s;t being taken of each whore</L>
<L>He was knowne to u&s;e, amounts to &s;ixtie fower.</L>
<L>Nor was it out of frailty he did &s;in</L>
<L>In this vile &s;ort, That might excu&s;'d have bin.</L>
<L>For when that nature faild all the&s;e to plea&s;e,</L>
<L>To provoke Lu&s;t he u&s;ed Cantharides,</L>
<L>Nor did this Bravo as &s;ome Lechers u&s;e</L>
<L>When they have acted &s;inne, &s;eeke to excu&s;e</L>
<L>The &s;ame by mincing or a flat deniall,</L>
<L>He &s;cornd &s;uch ba&s;ene&s;&s;e, let him make a triall</L>
<L>Of any neighbours wife, as oft he did,</L>
<L>He would not have his dealing to be hid.</L>
<L>He'd rather Iu&s;tifie the act for good,</L>
<L>As thus, twas done, to purifie the blood.</L>
<L>Or if a barren wombe he chanc'd to prove,</L>
<L>Twas cau&s;e he did not the Stone Collick love.</L>
<L>Some women he did doe in Charitie</L>
<L>And &s;ome becau&s;e they u&s;'d good Cookery,</L>
<L>Knew how to plea&s;e his pallat as his bed,</L>
<L>So that at once his Corpes and Lu&s;t he fed.</L>
<L>Thus many &s;alves he had for many &s;ores,</L>
<L>But &s;till the cure was wrought by the art of his whores.</L>
<L>If not, t'aduance his Lu&s;t this Lu&s;tfull Elfe</L>
<L>Had tricks enough whereby to helpe him&s;elfe.</L>
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<L>A man well knowne in Waterford had neede</L>
<L>To borrow A hundred pounds, in hope to &s;peed</L>
<L>Vnto this Reverend Lord he did addre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe, and his &s;ute, which thus he did expre&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>My Lord <HI>I</HI> oft have ta&s;ted of your favour</L>
<L>And promi&s;es to doe me good, which rather</L>
<L>Induceth me unto this bould reque&s;t.</L>
<L>Your Lord&s;hip wilbe plea&s;'d to make me ble&s;t</L>
<L>With the Loane of 100. pound which Ile repay</L>
<L>Within a month or el&s;e on any day</L>
<L>Your Lord&s;hip &s;hall appoint. This courteous Lord</L>
<L>An&s;wer'd, Sir you &s;hall have it on your word</L>
<L>And more to doe you good, but let your wife</L>
<L>Be pre&s;ent, lea&s;t there &s;hould be any &s;trife,</L>
<L>If you &s;hould faile for to repay the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Or <HI>I</HI> for breach of payment &s;hould make claime.</L>
<L>He grants, and goes, &s;hee comes, the mony's ready,</L>
<L>So is my Lord, And the poore Cuckold's needy.</L>
<L>Sir &s;aith my Lord, though't be an intire &s;umme,</L>
<L>It is odd mony that to me is come.</L>
<L>Among&s;t it all ther's but one piece of gould,</L>
<L>That with the re&s;t not ea&s;ie to be tould,</L>
<L>Goe draw it out within my &s;tudy dore,</L>
<L>Ile tru&s;t you there, but will not many more.</L>
<L>But cau&s;e your credits crackt, ile keep the Key,</L>
<L>The dore being lockt, mean while your wife &s;hal &s;tay</L>
<L>And talke with me: tis granted, in his &s;eat</L>
<L>The Bi&s;hop mounts, and does the well knowne feat.</L>
<L>Another when his Lord&s;hips watch digre&s;t,</L>
<L>As he him&s;elfe did alwayes, to a fea&s;t</L>
<L>He invites him&s;elfe: which ended, he reque&s;ts</L>
<L>The Goodman of the hou&s;e (there being no Gue&s;ts!</L>
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<L>To &s;poyle his &s;port) That he would &s;et his watch</L>
<L>At his Sunne Dyall, at which he doth catch,</L>
<L>Proud of &s;uch favour, goes without deniall,</L>
<L>Meane while another's &s;et by his wives noone dyall.</L>
<L>The&s;e are but tricks of youth, now arme your eares</L>
<L>With patience, for to heare of pallid feares:</L>
<L>Suppo&s;e a Devill from th'infernall Pit,</L>
<L>More Mon&s;terlike, then ere was Devill yet,</L>
<L>Contrary to cour&s;e, taking a male fiend</L>
<L>To Sodomize with him, &s;uch was the mind</L>
<L>Of this Lord Bi&s;hop, he did take a Childe</L>
<L>By name, not yeares, acting a &s;inne &s;o vilde,</L>
<L>As is forenam'd; this Childe a Proctor too,</L>
<L>Nor him alone, but his Parrator he mu&s;t doe;</L>
<L>The&s;e and a Thou&s;and like the&s;e he hath done,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides endeavouring to eclip&s;e the Sunne</L>
<L>Of this our Skie, by making Charles waine draw</L>
<L>Sublunary, by &s;ubverting the Law</L>
<L>Fundamentall, and putting in the place,</L>
<L>Commi&s;&s;ion high, Popes Canons, Great Lauds Grace.</L>
<L>For the &s;ubverting of &s;uch Devilli&s;h plots,</L>
<L>From &s;taining of our Kingdome with &s;uch blots,</L>
<L>For th'happy raigne of our mo&s;t Sacred King,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e that from that Royall Stocke doe &s;pring,</L>
<L>For Parliament, and health of Martiall men,</L>
<L>All Loyall Subjects cry with me, <HI>Amen.</HI></L>
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