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<P>THE Apprentices VVarning-piece.</P>
<P>Being A Confe&s;sion of <HI>Peter Moore,</HI> formerly Servant to Mr. <HI>Bidgood,</HI> Apothecary in Exeter, executed there the la&s;t A&s;&s;i&s;es&punc; for poy&s;oning his &s;aid MASTER.</P>
<P>Wherein is ob&s;erved &s;uch lamentable expre&s;&s;ions proceeding from him, as may produce a trembling to all who reade or-heare thereof, and be a warning to &s;uch leud &s;ervants who walk the &s;ame &s;teps, le&s;t they receive the &s;ame puni&s;hment.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed, and are to be &s;old by <HI>Henry Walker.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>The Apprentices warning-piece.</HEAD>
<P>_TO heare good coun&s;ell is not &s;ufficient, but to make u&s;e of it is the thing which is required of al men. Here is example pre&s;cribed for al yongmen, that they may learne to rule them&s;elves according to Gods holy Statutes; let them marke well the relation of this penitentiall con|fe&s;&s;ion, and by him which made it bee &s;ure to take warning. But fir&s;t of his parents, which are a very &s;ufficient couple; their chiefe delight was in him their &s;onne <HI>Peter Moore.</HI> Whil&s;t he was young they &s;ent him to Schoole, where he proved an indifferent good proficient. At length he grew to &s;uch ripene&s;&s;e of yeares, that they bound him as an Apprentice to Ma&s;ter <HI>Humphrey Bidgood,</HI> an Apothecary in Exeter; with whom for a certaine &s;pace hee lived very well, and was willing to obey their commands in every thing. But the devill (which doth envy the happine&s;&s;e of all mankinde) was vext to &s;ee him tread the paths to goodne&s;&s;e, wherefore
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he by his alluring bait, called pride, provoked him to for&s;ake piety, and imbrace iniquity; as you &s;hall now perceive by his confe&s;&s;ion writ with his owne hand.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The confe&s;sion of</HI> Peter Moore <HI>at the place of Execution.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BEing brought to the common place of exe|cution upon a &s;ledge, bowing his body to the people round about him &s;o wel as he could, he &s;pake after this manner.</P>
<P><Q>All you good Chri&s;tian people which are come hither to &s;ee me dye, let me de&s;ire you to give attention to what I &s;hall now declare, who hath now &s;carce one quarter of an houre to live: my parents are &s;carce unknowne to any here pre&s;ent: but as for my unhappy ma&s;ter, (the more wretch I for making him &s;o) he was better knowne to you. I was an Apprentice to Ma&s;ter <HI>Humphry Bidgood,</HI> Apothecary, too good a ma&s;ter for &s;o ungracious a &s;ervant; notwith|&s;tanding, for a time my &s;ervice was not di&s;li|ked of, neither had it &s;till, had I not wanted grace. Being in the prime of my youth, the devill by his allurements and wicked inticing, made me partaker of each damned vice, &s;o that my heart being puffed up with ambition, I be|gan to &s;coffe at Gods holy Mini&s;ters, propha|ning Sabbaths, and taking Gods holy name in
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vaine. But yet &s;till was I provoked further to evil cour&s;es, &s;o much alas, that you could &s;carce name a &s;inne wherein I had not beene an actor. Pride waxed daily more and more &s;trong in me, in &s;o much that I beganne to kicke at &s;er|vice, my time &s;eeming too long and tedious to me, wherefore in all ha&s;te I did run to my pa|rents, that they out of hand might buy out my time, which they rebuking me denyed, &s;aying, I made more ha&s;te then good &s;peed, in &s;o much as I had not skill enough as yet to manage a &s;hop of any con&s;equence. Then went I againe to my ma&s;ter, &s;eeming to be contented to &s;erve out my Apprentice&s;hip, and &s;o had done, had not my mi&s;tre&s;&s;e beene too cruell toward me; never permitting me to remaine quiet; for dai|ly &s;he was cau&s;e of &s;uch &s;trife, that I grew de|&s;perate, and as one weary of life which makes me now to pray that never any young man may have &s;o bad a mi&s;tris as &s;he was to me.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Dayly was my heart more and more filled with di&s;content, &s;till meditating of nothing but mi&s;chiefe, which at length thus did worke my fatall overthrow, for be|ing &s;till greedy to bee freed from my Ap|prenti&s;hip, I acted a deed which now doth make each Artery to quake, and totall body to tremble: for I &s;eeing a me&s;&s;e of pot|tage about dinner time provided for my Ma|&s;ter, I mo&s;t unnaturall &s;ervant put powdred
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white Mercury into it, &s;o privately that no man could perceive me, which &s;o &s;oone as he good man had ta&s;ted, pre&s;ently began to &s;wel, and a while after died.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Thus <HI>Iudas</HI> like traterou&s;ly did I betray my ma&s;ter unto death, but yet was not found out, but yet the Lord who&s;e judgments are alwaies ju&s;t and true, cau&s;ed many towards me to have a great mi&s;tru&s;t, and layd the fault to my charge, which I mo&s;t impudently denyed, which &s;o &s;oone as my father and mother did heare, upon their knees weeping with brini&s;h teares came and de&s;ired mee to confe&s;&s;e the truth, which I denied, notwith&s;tanding my con&s;cience told mee that I lyed; in the &s;ame minde I went to my fathes hou&s;e and received the Sacrament, &s;till denying the hainous mur|der committed upon my Ma&s;ter, but God at la&s;t revealed it, and I was &s;ent to pri&s;on, to an|&s;wer for the Death of my Ma&s;ter, where I thought my &s;elfe to be &s;ecure from being found out, becau&s;e I did the act un&s;eene. All the while I lay in pri&s;on, I had the keies thereof in my owne cu&s;tody, with which I might have both freed my &s;elfe and others; the divell dai|ly tempted me to runne away, but God hee would not have it &s;o, for to goe thence I had not the lea&s;t of power, untill &s;uch time as the A&s;&s;izes did begin, that I &s;hould an&s;wer the death of my Ma&s;ter, where I was mo&s;t ju&s;tly
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judged to die, my con&s;cience &s;till telling mee no man did the deed but I. One there is in this City whom I pray that the Lord may forgive, God hee knowes that I &s;peake nothing concerning him at this pre&s;ent for a|ny malice I beare to him, but to cleare my owne con&s;cience.</Q></P>
<P><Q>His name is <HI>White</HI> a Papi&s;t, who did often|times &s;educe me to abu&s;e Gods Mini&s;ters, and to &s;pend my time in that Diabolicall &s;tudy of reading Magicke, in which I tooke too much delight, which now doth very much oppre&s;&s;e my &s;oule: All young men which are here pre|&s;ent, and did behold me drawne hither upon a &s;ledge, take warning by me, and let your &s;tu|dy be, fir&s;t, to plea&s;e your heavenly Ma&s;ter, and then your Ma&s;ters upon earth.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Contemne the divell, de&s;pi&s;e the world, and abhore lu&s;t; Hence, hence, with pride which is the divels darling, away with lu&s;t which is the divells chiefe attendant, away with ma|gicke &s;pells which lead unto the divell.</Q></P>
<P><Q>When I am dead let the cau&s;e of my dy|ing bee engraved upon a &s;tone that all may know wherefore I did die, and thereby take example. Pray, pray for my &s;oule good chri&s;ti|an people, that notwith&s;tanding my horrid of|fence, the gate of heaven may not be barred again&s;t me<HI>:</HI> Againe, againe, and againe I ear|ne&s;tly intreat your prayers.</Q></P>
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<Q>Now farewell dear father, a thou&s;and times farewell O mother, al&s;o farewel to all my dear friends and kinsfolks.</Q></P>
<P><Q>Wipe, wipe your eyes, and each one cea&s;e his mourning, for I am now exchanging a lump of mortall clay, for immortall bli&s;&s;e; which that I may receive, grant, grant mo&s;t mercifull father. O receive me, receive me in|to thy bo&s;ome, for behold, I come, I come, I come;</Q> &s;o &s;oone as which words were &s;poken he was turned off the ladder and &s;o died.</P>
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