THE
Life
of
Mary
Carleton
.
I
WAS
born
at
Cologn
in
Germany
,
though
incredulous
People
do
take
that
for
a
Pretence
,
and
better
Concealment
from
any
Research
that
can
be
made
after
me
.
They
that
know
it
,
know
it
to
be
one
of
the
Mistresses
and
compleatest
Cities
in
that
Empire
,
not
only
famed
for
the
Birth
of
very
Illustrious
Persons
of
ancient
Times
,
and
the
Honour
it
hath
received
from
them
,
but
for
that
modern
Glory
it
received
by
the
Entertainment
of
the
King
of
Great-Britain
,
who
was
most
hospitably
and
cordially
,
and
with
all
imaginable
Respect
and
Honour
treated
here
,
when
,
by
virtue
of
Cromwell's
League
with
France
,
he
departed
that
Kingdom
.
I
mention
this
at
large
,
because
hence
I
took
up
those
Resolutions
,
which
since
,
with
so
much
Misfortune
,
I
have
put
in
Execution
.
I
observed
here
the
courteous
Civility
and
affable
good
Temper
of
the
English
Nation
,
for
by
those
Gentlemen
that
then
attended
the
King
,
I
measured
his
Kingdom
.
Those
were
Persons
of
such
winning
and
obliging
Carriage
,
of
so
easy
and
familiar
Addre●s
,
and
yet
of
that
generous
and
regardful
Demeanour
,
that
I
was
hugely
taken
with
such
sweet
Conditions
;
and
being
then
young
,
by
their
frequent
Converse
in
the
Town
,
which
was
constantly
in
my
Ears
,
came
to
such
an
acceptable
Knowledge
of
their
Manners
,
that
I
then
thought
of
passing
over
to
that
Country
,
for
a
fuller
Satisfaction
and
Delight
I
had
promised
my self
among
such
a
People
.
As
to
my
Parents
,
who
by
Pythagoras's
fanciful
Philosophy
,
or
rather
envious
Witchcraft
,
have
been
transmigrated
into
I
know
not
what
filthy
and
vile
Persons
,
of
the
most
perdite
and
abominable
Sort
of
Men
;
I
do
desire
pardon
of
their
Ghosts
,
and
shall
sprinkle
their
Ashes
with
my
Tears
,
that
I
have
by
my
unadvised
and
ungoverned
Resolution
,
raised
them
from
their
quiet
and
honourable
Graves
,
to
be
the
suspicious
and
leud
Discourse
of
every
malevolent
and
busy
Tongue
.
But
let
such
know
,
that
my
Father's
Name
was
Henry
Van
Wolway
,
a
Licentiate
and
Doctor
of
the
Civil
Law
,
and
Lord
of
Holmstein
;
a
Man
esteemed
for
his
Services
done
to
this
City
of
Cologn
,
in
mediating
their
Peace
and
Security
and
Neutrality
,
in
the
Swedish
and
German
War
,
and
for
other
Effects
of
his
Counsels
and
Endeavours
to
our
Ecclesiastical
Prince
Elector
,
and
the
House
of
Lorain
,
in
all
those
Turmoils
of
that
Country
,
in
the
first
Rupture
of
the
Spanish
and
French
War
.
I
instance
these
Remarks
,
because
,
having
been
so
long
dead
,
some
nineteen
Years
,
I
cannot
better
describe
or
characterize
him
to
Strangers
,
though
he
was
known
in
his
own
Country
by
other
great
and
noble
Actions
,
as
well
as
for
his
long
and
ancient
Descent
from
an
honourable
Family
of
that
Name
;
which
,
whosoever
shall
give
himself
the
trouble
or
curiosity
in
enquiring
,
may
yet
find
preserved
from
the
Ruins
of
a
destructive
,
and
but
just
composed
Conflagration
.
It
will
seem
foolish
and
sottish
Flattery
in
me
,
to
adorn
his
Monument
with
any
more
Elogy
,
to
a
strange
,
and
perhaps
unbelieving
Nation
,
who
have
no
Faith
for
any
thing
they
see
not
,
or
have
not
heard
from
plain
and
undeniable
Testimony
.
And
if
I
be
taken
for
uncharitable
in
this
rigid
Imputation
,
let
the
Practices
of
those
,
who
have
made
their
unreasonable
Incredulity
a
Pr●●●nce
to
their
more
barbarous
Cruelty
,
be
my
Excuse
to
the
World
.
I
shall
not
need
therefore
to
particularize
any
more
of
him
,
for
Places
and
Circumstances
,
and
the
like
Accidents
,
will
be
of
no
greater
Demonstration
,
or
convincing
Verity
,
than
those
punctual
Relations
of
Sir
John
Mandeville
,
concerning
things
that
were
impossible
to
be
in
Humanity
and
Nature
;
and
I
will
not
so
much
as
seem
to
impose
upon
the
Reader
with
those
nearer
Artifices
of
a
Lye
.
I
am
capable
of
doing
myself
right
,
(
which
I
suppose
will
be
too
readily
interpreted
to
my
disadvantage
)
by
any
Means
,
within
the
Compass
of
a
Woman's
Understanding
;
and
therefore
,
if
I
thought
I
should
need
more
ordinary
ways
,
I
would
have
applied
myself
thereunto
.
And
so
I
will
proceed
to
a
further
Narrative
of
my
Life
;
having
acquainted
the
Reader
that
it
pleased
God
to
take
away
both
my
Father
and
Mother
,
before
I
was
full
three
Years
old
,
but
my
Father
died
last
suddenly
,
and
left
me
entirely
possess'd
of
his
Estate
,
without
any
Guardian
or
Trustees
;
the
Expectation
of
many
People
,
who
had
long
Designs
both
upon
it
and
me
.
Being
thus
an
Orphan
,
and
destitute
of
a
Procurator
,
as
we
call
it
in
our
Law
,
the
Church
as
next
a-kin
to
such
Estates
(
and
claims
the
Right
and
Disposal
of
the
Ward
)
secured
me
,
and
what
I
had
,
in
their
hands
,
until
such
time
as
I
should
be
of
Age
and
Understanding
to
determine
of
myself
and
my
Fortunes
,
which
they
hoped
by
so
early
a
Matriculation
and
Induction
of
me
into
the
Profession
of
the
Religious
,
to
grasp
finally
into
their
hands
.
By
them
I
was
put
into
the
Monastery
or
Nunnery
of
Sancta
Clara
at
this
infant
Age
,
and
educated
in
all
such
Breeding
as
was
fit
for
one
devoted
to
the
Service
of
God
and
his
Church
;
wherein
,
if
Ignorance
and
Innocence
might
render
Devotion
acceptable
,
my
young
Probation-Years
,
I
may
be
confident
,
were
not
offensive
.
But
growing
up
to
some
capable
Years
,
and
my
active
busy
Soul
exerting
itself
,
and
biting
as
it
were
the
bit
of
this
Restraint
and
Confinement
;
the
Hours
and
Days
of
this
Solitude
and
Retirement
,
in
which
I
was
,
as
it
were
,
buried
as
soon
as
I
was
born
,
grew
most
irksome
and
tedious
to
me
,
though
I
was
not
yet
acquainted
with
the
World
.
I
felt
some
such
strong
Impulses
and
natural
Instincts
to
be
ranging
abroad
,
and
in
Action
,
as
the
first
Finders
of
Terra
Incognita
were
urged
with
,
to
the
Discovery
of
those
Regions
,
of
whose
Existence
they
had
no
further
Assurance
than
their
own
hopeful
Bodings
and
Divinations
.
The
Discipline
also
began
now
to
aggrieve
me
,
and
the
more
my
Thoughts
wandred
and
strayed
after
my
roaming
and
strange
Fancy
of
the
World's
Bravery
,
(
which
I
began
now
to
take
notice
of
,
from
the
gallant
Appearance
of
Persons
of
Quality
,
who
frequented
our
Chappel
)
the
more
did
the
Orders
of
the
Place
straiten
and
fret
me
.
I
began
to
be
weary
of
my
Company
,
and
the
Poverty
of
those
Votaries
,
called
in
derision
Bare-footed
Clares
;
and
though
I
suffered
none
of
these
Hardships
,
nor
underwent
any
of
those
nice
Penances
and
Mortifications
,
as
having
no
Inordinacies
of
Youth
to
quell
and
subdue
;
yet
the
customary
Severity
of
such
Dealing
with
that
Sweetness
and
Tenderness
of
our
Sex
,
did
much
grate
me
,
and
I
blindly
wished
I
were
(
what
my
Inclinations
prompted
me
to
)
a
Man
,
and
exempt
from
that
tedious
Life
,
which
yet
was
so
much
the
worse
,
because
it
was
altogether
passive
and
sedentary
.
Nor
could
I
find
,
when
more
matured
,
but
that
Religion
,
when
imposed
as
a
Task
,
and
made
an
Employment
,
was
one
of
the
greatest
Burdens
I
could
endure
;
(
though
I
have
learned
better
things
by
Practice
and
the
Troubles
of
the
World
,
and
could
wish
myself
safe
in
such
a
Retreat
from
the
Cares
of
the
future
,
and
the
doleful
Thoughts
of
my
past
time
,
and
have
a
Zeal
for
my
Religion
,
the
Obligations
and
Conduct
whereof
I
have
,
to
my
Sorrow
,
so
much
in
my
late
unadvised
Resolutions
,
abdicated
and
neglected
.
)
I
look'd
upon
it
more
as
Constraint
,
and
not
a
voluntary
Act
,
wherein
I
had
no
Manner
of
Election
;
and
my
Libertine
Spirit
,
which
mistook
bold
Humanity
,
and
the
Dictates
of
a
generous
Nature
,
for
simple
and
genuine
Adoration
,
confirmed
me
in
this
Opinion
,
and
●inally
persuaded
me
,
and
prevailed
with
my
Reason
,
which
grew
not
up
equal
with
my
Passion
,
to
abandon
this
serene
and
blissful
Mansion
,
and
venture
upon
the
World
's
alluring
promising
Vanities
.
I
was
arrived
at
that
Age
wherein
I
was
capable
of
being
admitted
,
and
professing
myself
a
Nun
,
and
to
take
upon
me
the
Vows
of
the
Order
of
perpetual
Virginity
,
and
the
like
Requisites
of
that
Monastical
Life
;
and
therefore
the
Fathers
and
Confessors
,
willing
to
make
me
a
Proselyte
,
were
very
urgent
that
I
would
take
the
Habit
,
and
devote
myself
to
a
Religious
Life
,
setting
before
me
the
many
Examples
of
some
excellent
Ladies
and
Gentlewomen
then
in
the
Cloyster
(
though
it
be
one
of
the
poorest
Convents
of
all
)
who
had
great
and
noble
Friends
,
and
great
Estates
(
some
of
them
)
and
had
notwithstanding
,
with
all
Readiness
of
Mind
,
separated
and
estranged
themselves
from
all
worldly
things
,
and
consecrated
themselves
to
God
.
But
my
Resolutions
of
forsaking
that
melancholy
and
silent
Abode
,
were
so
far
advanced
,
and
so
obstinated
in
me
to
the
Prosecution
of
my
Masculine
Conceptions
,
that
I
obtained
my
Discharge
at
the
same
time
,
as
I
have
partly
hinted
before
,
that
his
Majesty
was
in
Cologn
,
whom
,
with
the
rest
of
the
desirous
World
,
I
longed
to
see
.
Accompanied
therefore
with
my
Maid
,
who
had
attended
me
in
the
Religious
House
,
and
a
Man-Servant
,
who
was
my
Steward
or
Bailiff
abroad
,
and
had
prepared
all
things
for
my
secular
Estate
,
I
went
to
his
Palace
,
where
,
to
pass
other
Rencounters
,
I
met
with
a
civil
Person
,
one
Mrs.
Margaret
Hammond
,
the
Daughter
of
Sir
Richard
Hammond
,
living
somewhere
then
in
the
North
of
England
,
a
very
accomplish'd
Woman
,
who
for
her
Religion
had
left
England
,
intending
to
have
betaken
herself
to
the
English
Nunnery
at
Lovain
;
but
some
Difficulties
happening
therein
,
she
had
journeyed
up
hither
upon
the
same
account
,
and
perceiving
me
a
Stranger
,
did
me
the
Civility
,
with
her
Countrymen
,
as
to
procure
me
the
satisfactory
View
of
the
King
and
his
Court
;
which
could
do
no
less
than
oblige
me
to
invite
her
home
,
and
to
desire
her
,
while
she
staid
at
Cologn
,
to
make
use
of
my
House
,
and
what
Entertainment
she
found
.
She
was
pleased
to
accept
of
this
Offer
,
and
hereupon
,
my
Curiosiry
having
attained
some
part
of
its
wish
,
we
began
to
be
familiar
,
and
I
for
my
part
to
enquire
into
her
Condition
,
the
reason
of
her
Travel
,
and
the
News
of
the
World
,
of
all
which
she
gave
me
so
delightful
an
account
,
insinuating
the
Necessity
of
her
Condition
,
with
the
Perfection
of
her
Endowments
,
that
I
told
her
,
if
she
could
think
it
answerable
to
her
Content
to
stay
with
me
,
and
be
my
Governess
,
she
should
plentifully
partake
of
my
Fortunes
.
We
agreed
:
But
not
to
weary
the
Reader
with
those
Instructions
and
Fundamentals
of
Education
she
laid
,
as
she
was
a
rare
and
absolute
Mistress
of
all
those
Arts
,
it
will
be
sufficient
to
declare
,
that
seeing
so
much
Virtue
in
her
,
my
Greediness
of
communicating
with
it
more
freely
and
clearly
,
put
me
upon
giving
her
the
Trouble
of
teaching
me
the
English
Tongue
,
the
lock'd
Repository
of
so
many
Excellencies
.
This
by
a
fond
and
most
pleasing
Diligence
,
I
pretty
well
attained
in
a
Year's
time
,
having
my
Governess
always
in
my
Company
,
whether
abroad
,
as
I
used
to
ride
some
Miles
,
by
Coach
,
or
else
pass
in
a
Pleasure-Boat
in
the
Summer
,
to
acquaint
myself
first
with
my
own
Country
;
the
Tenderness
of
my
Years
offering
no
Man
the
Occasion
or
Thoughts
of
Love
or
Marriage
,
by
which
means
I
passed
free
and
unobserved
,
and
then
returned
again
to
my
Country
Retirement
near
the
City
.
I
now
addicted
myself
to
the
reading
of
History
,
and
then
to
take
off
the
gravity
and
seriousness
of
that
Study
to
more
facile
Pastimes
of
Literature
,
Romances
,
and
other
Heroical
Adblandiments
;
which
being
written
for
the
most
and
best
part
in
French
,
I
made
that
my
next
business
,
tho'
of
lesser
difficulty
,
to
gain
a
Knowledge
in
that
Tongue
,
which
being
conterminous
to
ours
,
and
spoke
promiscuously
in
the
adjacent
Provinces
of
the
Walloon
Country
,
rendred
itself
at
my
devotion
.
The
facility
of
these
two
,
put
me
upon
a
desire
of
attacking
the
rest
of
the
European
Languages
,
wherein
,
without
arrogance
,
and
as
many
can
testify
,
I
have
more
than
a
Smattering
;
and
here
was
lately
an
Italian
,
(
as
I
have
since
been
told
upon
discourse
,
and
some
wonder
of
my
readiness
in
them
)
who
was
one
of
my
Masters
;
and
who
might
have
justify'd
the
Truth
of
this
and
the
rest
of
my
Story
;
his
Name
was
Giacomo
della
Riva
,
well
known
to
many
Gentlemen
in
this
Town
.
In
those
and
the
like
Studies
,
and
other
befitting
Exercises
of
my
Sex
,
I
pass'd
away
the
Age
of
nineteen
Years
,
when
I
thought
it
high
time
to
put
all
this
Speculation
and
Theory
into
practice
;
and
being
furnished
with
such
a
fraught
and
store
of
all
foreign
Necessaries
,
to
launch
into
the
World
,
and
see
what
Returns
I
could
make
of
this
Stock
.
But
in
the
interim
of
such
Meditations
,
an
unhappy
Accident
,
(
at
my
being
at
the
Spaw
the
last
Summer
,
to
drink
those
Medicinal
Waters
)
discovered
me
,
and
invited
two
strange
Gentlemen
,
which
that
place
is
always
furnished
with
,
to
enquire
further
what
I
was
:
who
,
having
obtained
my
Country
,
and
some
inckling
of
my
Quality
,
made
claim
to
be
my
Servants
.
I
could
not
in
that
Place
,
the
Mart
of
Good-Manners
,
and
where
there
is
no
Nicety
of
Converse
,
but
all
Persons
use
their
frankest
Liberty
of
Visit
and
Discourse
,
refuse
their
Addresses
:
but
seeing
both
of
them
so
importunate
,
and
both
so
desperately
and
unsociably
qualified
for
my
Choice
or
Approbation
;
I
privately
withdrew
home
,
but
could
not
so
be
rid
of
my
odd
Pair
of
Gallants
,
who
quickly
haunted
me
and
my
House
.
I
was
thus
of
a
sudden
encompassed
with
two
Evils
,
of
so
indifferent
a
Choice
,
that
I
could
not
tell
which
was
worse
:
One
was
an
Old
Gentleman
that
had
fair
Demesnes
about
Leige
or
Luyck
,
not
many
Miles
distant
from
Cologn
,
a
Man
of
serious
Gravity
and
venerable
Aspect
for
his
grey
Hairs
,
but
disfigured
with
some
Scars
his
youthful
Luxury
had
given
him
,
which
were
repaired
and
supplemented
by
Art
,
but
so
that
he
plainly
spoke
his
Infirmity
through
the
ruined
Arches
of
his
Voice
.
He
accosted
me
the
rude
military
way
,
for
he
had
been
a
Soldado
,
and
had
caught
,
as
he
said
,
that
rotten
hoarse
Cold
and
Snuffling
,
in
the
Trenches
of
Breda
,
in
the
Brigade
of
Count
Henry
of
Nassau
,
in
Spinola's
Army
;
and
had
afterwards
served
Monsieur
Tilly
against
the
King
of
Sweden
,
whom
he
had
seen
fall
at
Lutzen
;
and
therefore
by
no
means
must
be
said
no
,
or
denied
his
suit
,
since
he
had
never
known
what
a
Repulse
meant
in
his
life
.
The
other
was
a
young
and
pale
Student
in
the
Mathematicks
,
Chymistry
,
and
Magick
,
like
a
Fellow
here
that
pretends
to
be
Secretary
to
God
and
Nature
,
and
had
exhausted
a
plentiful
Estate
,
and
was
like
to
be
a
second
Dr.
Faustus
,
and
like
my
Lord
,
threatened
either
a
Contract
with
me
,
or
with
the
Devil
:
for
having
lost
his
Projection
of
the
Philosopher's
Stone
,
and
decocted
all
his
Money
and
Estate
,
his
magical
Glass
shewed
him
me
,
who
should
by
my
Fortune
make
him
up
again
.
In
short
,
the
one
said
he
would
storm
and
force
me
;
and
the
other
would
make
me
yield
,
or
else
he
would
set
Archim●des
his
unexperimented
Engine
at
work
,
to
remove
me
with
him
into
some
unknown
World
;
to
which
he
added
the
efficacy
of
his
Spells
and
Conjurations
.
I
had
by
my
Servants
and
some
distant
Friends
,
account
of
such
a
design
as
carrying
me
away
,
and
forcing
my
consent
by
the
Gouty
Cavalier
,
who
had
some
Castellans
and
Governours
in
Alsatia
,
his
Friends
;
and
there
was
no
less
danger
from
my
Magical
Sweet-heart
:
but
the
open
violence
of
the
one
,
and
the
secret
Mines
of
the
other
,
were
in
prudence
to
be
prevented
by
my
Absence
,
which
I
now
concluded
on
by
myself
.
I
shall
not
be
obliged
to
give
you
any
further
account
of
my
Parentage
or
Condition
,
for
by
such
means
my
disaster
here
may
reach
the
Ears
of
some
Friends
and
Acquaintance
,
from
whose
Knowledge
my
purpose
is
yet
to
estrange
myself
,
(
and
to
general
Enquiries
,
Cologn
is
too
spacious
and
populous
to
afford
any
discovery
.
)
It
will
suffice
,
that
I
was
liberally
and
honourably
educated
,
and
such
Principles
laid
,
that
I
wonder
at
the
Superstructure
of
my
Fortune
.
I
knew
not
what
belonged
to
vulgar
and
plebeian
Customs
or
Conditions
,
and
they
that
idly
tax
my
Discourses
and
Behaviour
with
mimick
Pedantry
,
know
not
the
generous
Emanations
of
a
right-born
Soul
.
And
so
,
that
which
probably
makes
me
obnoxious
to
the
Censures
of
the
Multitude
,
as
it
hath
to
the
Hatred
of
my
new
Relations
,
is
the
Low-Spiritedness
,
and
pitiful
Ignorance
of
such
mechanick
and
base
People
.
I
would
not
be
thought
to
boast
of
any
Accomplishments
,
which
some
Persons
(
who
favour
my
distress'd
Estate
,
and
they
are
of
Honour
also
)
do
please
to
acknowledge
in
me
;
all
the
Use
I
can
make
of
them
,
shall
serve
only
for
an
Argument
against
that
vile
and
impertinent
Falshood
,
that
I
am
of
a
most
fordid
and
base
Extraction
in
this
Kingdom
,
no
better
than
the
Daughter
of
a
Fidler
at
Canterbury
.
That
blasphemous
Lye
was
first
broached
in
an
Anonymous
Libel
,
entitled
,
The
Lawyer's
Clerk
trapann'd
by
the
crafty
Whore
of
Canterbury
;
but
at
whose
Instigation
,
I
could
never
tell
,
nor
did
I
make
enquiry
:
but
at
last
spontaneously
the
Roguery
discovered
it self
at
my
being
in
Custody
near
Newgate
,
where
I
understood
the
Devil
and
Necessity
,
with
the
Writer
and
Undertaker
,
were
as
instrumental
as
the
Devil
and
Covetousness
in
the
Occasioner
of
that
Report
:
But
that
Fellow
is
of
so
leud
and
miserable
an
Infamy
for
such
defamatory
Pamphlets
,
that
his
Name
will
poison
the
Eyes
of
the
Reader
,
and
fester
even
my
Charity
in
forgiving
him
.
To
proceed
.
The
time
of
my
deliberated
Departure
being
come
,
and
other
intervening
Accidents
having
confirmed
me
to
the
pursuance
of
that
Journey
,
some
piece-meal
Rumours
whereof
have
been
scattered
up
and
down
,
not
far
distant
from
the
Truth
,
(
namely
,
Constraint
and
Awe
of
an
unliked
and
unsuitable
Match
,
which
the
freedom
of
my
Soul
most
highly
abominated
and
resented
:
)
I
privately
by
Night
withdrew
from
my
Governess
,
and
by
the
way
of
Utrecht
,
where
I
staid
a
while
incognito
,
thence
passed
to
Amsterdam
,
and
so
to
Rotterdam
,
I
came
to
the
Brill
,
and
there
took
Shipping
for
England
,
the
Elyzium
of
my
Wishes
and
Expectation
,
being
in
hope
of
finding
it
a
Land
of
Angels
;
but
I
perceive
it
now
to
be
,
as
to
me
,
a
Place
of
Torments
.
I
am
not
single
,
or
the
first
Woman
,
that
hath
put
herself
upon
such
Hazards
,
or
Pilgrimages
;
the
Stories
of
all
times
abound
with
such
Examples
,
enough
to
make
up
a
Volume
.
I
might
as
well
have
given
Lustre
to
a
Romance
,
as
any
,
any
,
any
,
of
those
supposed
Heroina's
:
And
since
it
is
the
Method
of
those
Pieces
,
and
the
Art
of
that
way
of
Writing
,
to
perplex
and
intricate
the
Commencement
and
Progress
of
such
Adventures
,
with
unexpected
and
various
Difficulties
and
Troubles
,
and
at
last
bring
them
to
the
long-desired
fruition
of
their
dear-bought
Content
;
I
am
not
altogether
out
of
heart
,
but
that
Providence
may
have
some
tender
and
more
courteous
Consideration
of
me
:
For
I
protest
I
know
not
what
Crime
,
Offence
,
or
Demerit
of
mine
,
hath
rendred
her
so
averse
and
intractable
as
she
hath
proved
to
my
Designs
.
Nor
do
the
Modern
and
very
late
Times
want
Examples
of
the
like
Adventures
.
I
could
mention
a
Princess
,
and
great
Personage
out
of
the
North
,
who
not
long
since
came
into
my
Country
,
and
hath
passed
two
or
three
times
between
Italy
and
France
,
and
keeps
her
Design
yet
undiscovered
,
and
is
the
only
Lady-Errant
in
the
World
.
I
could
mention
another
of
a
far
worse
consequence
in
this
Country
,
a
She-General
,
who
followed
the
Camp
to
the
other
World
in
America
,
&c.
and
was
the
occasion
of
the
loss
of
the
Design
.
Mine
compared
with
those
,
are
mere
puny
Stories
,
and
inconsiderable
:
I
neither
concerned
my
Travel
in
negotiating
Peace
,
or
carrying
War
;
but
was
merely
my
own
free
Agent
.
Nor
can
I
be
blamed
for
this
Course
;
for
besides
the
Necessity
and
Enforcements
of
forsaking
my
Country
,
without
running
into
a
more
unsupportable
Condition
of
Marriage
than
this
I
am
now
in
,
(
for
my
Patience
,
and
Suffering
,
and
Continence
I
have
,
I
trust
in
my
own
power
,
and
shall
endeavour
to
keep
them
undisturbed
and
uncorrupted
,
whatever
Temptations
or
Occasions
,
by
reason
of
this
unjust
Separation
,
now
are
,
or
shall
be
put
upon
me
hereafter
:
but
my
Life
is
not
in
my
disposal
or
preservation
;
which
I
had
certainly
endangered
at
home
,
if
I
had
been
bedded
to
him
whom
my
Heart
abhorred
:
)
And
besides
other
reasons
,
which
I
cannot
in
prudence
yet
render
to
the
World
,
the
very
Civility
and
Purity
of
my
Design
,
without
any
lustful
or
vicious
Appurtenance
,
would
fairly
excuse
me
.
What
harm
have
I
done
in
pretending
to
great
Titles
?
Ambition
and
Affection
of
Greatness
to
good
and
just
purposes
,
was
always
esteemed
and
accounted
laudable
and
praise-worthy
,
and
the
Sign
and
Character
of
a
virtuous
Mind
;
nor
do
I
think
it
an
unjust
purpose
in
me
to
contrive
my
own
Advancement
by
such
illustrious
Pretences
as
they
say
I
made
use
of
.
To
grant
the
Question
,
that
I
am
not
so
honourably
descended
as
I
insinuated
to
the
Catch-dolt
my
Father-in-law
,
(
which
yet
by
their
favour
they
shall
first
better
and
more
evidently
disprove
than
as
yet
they
have
done
,
before
I
relinquish
my
claim
to
my
Honour
)
I
think
I
do
rather
deserve
commendation
than
reproach
.
If
the
best
things
are
to
be
imitated
,
I
had
a
good
Precept
and
Warrant
for
my
assumption
of
such
a
Personage
as
they
were
willing
to
believe
me
to
be
.
If
indeed
by
any
misbecoming
Act
unhandsome
and
unbefitting
such
a
Person
,
I
had
prophaned
that
Quality
,
and
bewrayed
and
discovered
any
inconsistent
Meanness
therewith
,
(
as
it
was
very
difficult
to
personate
Greatness
for
so
long
a
time
without
slips
or
mistakes
)
I
had
deserved
to
be
severely
punished
and
abominated
by
all
Gentlemen
;
whereas
after
all
these
loads
of
Imputations
which
my
Enemies
have
heaped
upon
me
,
I
do
(
with
my
acknowledgements
to
them
for
it
)
enjoy
,
and
am
happy
in
many
of
their
loves
and
good
estimation
.
And
I
will
yet
continue
the
same
respects
,
and
make
the
World
to
know
,
that
there
is
no
possibility
of
such
Perfections
,
without
a
more
intent
care
and
elegancy
of
Learning
,
to
which
I
have
by
great
labour
and
industry
attained
.
I
need
not
therefore
engage
further
in
this
preliminary
part
of
my
Defence
,
only
as
an
irrefragable
Confutation
of
the
poorness
of
my
Birth
;
and
in
this
Kingdom
,
I
would
have
my
Adversaries
know
,
as
some
of
them
do
,
though
they
don't
well
understand
,
that
the
several
Languages
I
have
ready
,
and
at
my
Command
,
as
the
Greek
,
Latin
,
French
,
Italian
,
Spanish
,
English
,
and
something
of
the
Oriental
Tongues
,
all
which
I
pronounce
with
a
Dutch
Dialect
and
Idiom
,
are
not
common
and
ordinary
Endowments
of
an
English
Spinster
,
no
not
of
the
best
Rank
of
the
City
.
And
since
I
must
praise
myself
,
in
short
,
I
came
not
here
to
learn
any
thing
for
Use
or
Ornament
of
a
Woman
,
but
only
the
ways
to
a
better
Fortune
.
I
come
now
to
the
Matter
of
Fact
.
The
first
place
I
touched
at
was
Gravesend
,
where
I
arrived
towards
the
end
of
March
1663
,
and
without
any
stay
took
a
Tide-boat
,
came
to
London
in
company
with
a
Parson
or
Minister
,
who
officiously
,
but
I
suppose
out
of
design
,
gave
me
the
trouble
of
his
Service
and
Attendance
to
the
Exchange-Tavern
right
against
Stocks-Market
,
betwixt
the
Poultry
and
Cornhill
,
the
House
of
one
Mr.
King
;
not
having
any
knowledge
of
the
Master
or
his
Acquaintance
,
and
free
,
God
knows
,
from
any
Design
:
for
I
would
have
entred
any
other
House
if
I
had
found
the
doors
open
,
or
could
have
raised
the
Folks
nearer
to
my
landing
;
for
I
was
distempered
with
the
Night's
Passage
;
but
it
was
so
early
in
the
Morning
,
five
a-Clock
,
that
there
was
no-body
stirring
elsewhere
,
only
here
by
mishap
Mr.
King
himself
was
up
,
and
standing
at
the
Bar
telling
of
Brass
Farthings
,
whom
the
Parson
desired
to
fill
a
Pint
of
Wine
,
which
he
readily
performed
,
and
brought
to
a
Room
behind
the
Bar
.
While
the
Wine
was
a
drinking
,
(
which
was
Rhenish
Wine
,
the
Complement
being
put
upon
me
by
the
Parson
as
the
Fruit
of
my
own
happy
Country
)
Sir
John
very
rudely
began
to
accost
me
,
and
to
offer
some
Incivilities
to
me
;
which
I
found
no
other
way
to
avoid
,
than
by
pretending
want
of
Rest
to
the
Master
of
the
House
,
and
acquainting
him
with
my
Charge
of
Jewels
,
and
that
I
was
,
as
I
do
justify
myself
to
be
,
a
Person
of
Quality
.
Hereupon
a
Room
was
provided
for
me
to
repose
myself
in
,
and
the
Clergyman
took
his
leave
,
with
a
troublesome
Promise
of
waiting
upon
me
another
day
to
give
me
a
Visit
,
which
I
was
forced
to
admit
,
and
to
tell
him
,
I
would
leave
word
wherever
I
went
;
but
he
considering
,
as
I
suppose
,
of
the
Unseasibleness
of
his
Desires
,
and
the
Publickness
of
the
Place
,
neglected
his
Promise
,
and
troubled
me
no
more
.
He
being
gone
.
Mr.
King
began
to
question
me
what
C●●ntry-woman
I
was
,
and
of
what
Religion
.
I
frankly
told
him
,
and
acquainted
him
withal
what
Charge
I
had
about
me
;
which
to
secure
from
the
danger
of
the
Town
,
that
was
full
of
Cozenage
and
Villany
,
he
advised
me
〈◇〉
●●a●
with
him
'till
I
could
better
provide
for
myself
.
I
rested
myself
here
'till
Eleven
a-Clock
at
noon
;
when
I
arose
,
and
was
very
civilly
treated
by
Mr.
King
,
who
well-knowing
I
was
a
Stranger
,
and
well
furnished
with
Money
,
omitted
no
manner
of
Respect
to
me
,
nor
did
I
spend
parsimoniously
,
and
at
an
ordinary
Rate
,
but
answerable
to
the
Quality
and
Account
,
at
their
fetching
and
itching
Questions
,
I
gave
of
my self
.
This
invited
him
earnestly
,
with
all
submiss
Address
,
to
request
my
staying
with
them
'till
I
had
dispatched
,
and
had
provided
all
things
for
my
publick
Appearance
;
for
the
better
furnishing
and
equipping
whereof
,
I
acquainted
him
I
would
send
by
Post
to
my
Steward
,
for
the
Return
of
some
Money
to
defray
the
Expences
thereof
:
which
Letters
he
viewed
,
and
conceived
such
Imaginations
in
his
Head
thereupon
,
that
it
never
left
working
'till
it
had
wrought
the
Effect
of
his
finely
begun
,
and
hopefully
continued
,
Enterprise
.
These
Letters
he
himself
delivered
at
my
Desire
to
have
them
carefully
put
into
the
Post-House
;
and
thereafter
observed
me
with
most
manifest
Respects
.
In
the
interim
of
the
Return
of
this
Money
,
I
was
slightly
,
and
as
it
were
by
the
by
,
upon
Discourse
of
my
Country
,
(
wherein
they
took
occasion
to
be
liberally
copious
)
engaged
into
some
discovery
of
myself
,
my
Estate
and
Quality
,
and
the
nature
of
both
,
the
causes
of
my
coming
hither
,
&c.
But
I
did
it
so
unconcernedly
and
negligently
,
as
a
matter
of
no
moment
or
disturbance
to
me
,
though
I
had
hinted
at
the
Discontent
of
my
Match
,
that
this
did
assure
them
that
all
was
real
,
and
therefore
it
was
time
to
secure
my
Estate
to
them
by
a
speedy
and
secret
Marriage
.
Let
the
World
now
judge
,
whether
being
prompted
by
such
plain
and
publick
Signs
of
a
Design
upon
me
,
to
counterplot
them
,
I
have
done
any
more
than
what
the
Rule
,
and
a
received
Principle
of
Justice
directs
:
To
deceive
the
Deceiver
is
no
Deceit
.
I
knew
not
nevertheless
,
which
way
their
Artifices
tended
,
'till
Master
King
brought
into
my
Acquaintance
old
Mr.
Carleton
his
Father-in-Law
,
and
soon
after
Mr.
John
Carleton
his
Son
.
It
seems
it
had
been
consulted
to
have
preferred
George
the
elder
Brother
:
He
,
troubled
with
a
simple
Modesty
,
and
a
Mind
no
way
competent
to
so
much
Greatness
,
was
laid
aside
,
and
the
younger
flush'd
and
encouraged
to
set
upon
me
.
By
this
time
they
had
obtained
my
Name
from
me
,
viz.
Maria
de
Wolway
,
which
Passage
also
hath
suffered
by
another
lewder
Imposture
,
and
allusory
Sound
of
De
Vulva
;
in
the
Language
of
which
I
am
better
versed
than
to
pick
out
no
civiller
and
eleganter
Impress
.
To
the
Addresses
of
Mr.
John
Carleton
I
carried
myself
with
so
much
Indifference
,
not
superciliously
refusing
his
Visits
,
or
readily
admitting
his
Suit
,
not
disheartening
him
with
a
severe
Retiredness
,
or
Challenges
of
his
Imparity
,
nor
encouraging
him
with
a
Freedom
or
Openness
of
Heart
,
or
Arrogance
of
my
own
Condition
,
that
he
and
his
Friends
were
upon
the
spur
to
consummate
the
Match
,
which
yet
I
delayed
and
dissembled
with
convenient
Pretences
;
but
herein
I
will
be
more
particular
in
the
ensuing
Pages
.
In
the
mean
while
,
to
prevent
all
notice
of
me
,
and
the
Disturbance
of
their
Proceedings
,
that
might
be
occasioned
thereby
,
they
kept
me
close
in
the
nature
of
a
Prisoner
;
which
though
I
perceived
,
yet
I
made
no
Semblance
thereof
at
all
,
but
colluded
with
them
in
their
own
Arts
,
and
pretended
some
Averseness
to
all
Company
,
but
only
my
Enamourate
Mr.
Carleton
:
nor
was
any
body
else
suffered
to
come
near
me
,
or
to
speak
with
me
;
insomuch
,
as
I
have
been
informed
,
that
they
promised
to
one
Sackvil
,
to
whom
for
his
Advice
,
they
had
too
forwardly
,
as
they
thought
,
imparted
the
Business
,
the
Sum
of
200
l.
to
be
silent
,
lest
that
it
should
be
heard
at
Court
,
and
so
the
Estate
and
Honour
,
which
they
had
already
swallowed
,
would
be
lost
from
their
Son
,
and
seized
by
some
Courtier
,
who
should
next
come
to
hear
of
this
great
Lady
.
After
many
Visits
passed
betwixt
Mr.
Carleton
and
myself
,
old
Mr.
Carleton
and
Mr.
King
came
to
me
,
and
very
earnestly
pressed
the
Dispatch
of
the
Marriage
,
and
that
I
would
be
pleased
to
give
my
Assent
,
setting
forth
all
the
Qualities
and
great
Sufficiencies
of
that
Noble
Person
,
as
they
pleased
to
stile
him
.
I
knew
what
made
them
so
urgent
,
for
they
had
now
seen
the
Answers
I
had
received
by
the
Post
,
by
which
I
was
certified
of
the
Receipt
of
mine
,
and
that
accordingly
some
thousands
of
Crowns
should
be
remitted
instantly
to
London
,
and
Coach
and
Horses
sent
by
the
next
Shipping
,
with
other
things
I
had
sent
for
;
and
to
reinforce
this
their
Commendamus
the
more
effectually
,
they
acquainted
me
,
that
if
I
did
not
presently
grant
the
Suit
,
and
their
Request
,
Mr.
Carleton
was
so
far
in
love
with
me
,
that
he
would
make
away
with
himself
,
or
presently
travel
beyond
Sea
,
and
see
England
no
more
.
I
cannot
deny
but
that
I
could
hardly
forbear
smiling
,
to
see
how
serious
these
Elders
and
Brokers
were
in
this
Love-killing
Story
;
but
keeping
to
my
Business
,
after
some
Demurs
and
Demands
,
I
seemed
not
to
consent
,
and
then
they
began
passionately
,
urging
me
with
other
Stories
,
some
of
which
long
Repetition
I
will
now
insert
.
Wednesday
the
first
of
April
,
Mrs.
King
made
a
great
Feast
,
where
were
divers
Persons
of
Quality
,
as
she
said
;
among
the
rest
,
her
Brother
Mr.
John
Carleton
.
At
which
Entertainment
Mrs.
King
did
advise
me
to
call
her
Cousin
,
the
which
I
did
.
Thursday
the
second
of
April
Mr.
John
Carleton
came
in
his
Coach
,
with
two
Footmen
attending
on
him
,
calling
him
my
Lord
,
and
Mrs.
King
did
also
call
him
my
Lord
.
With
that
I
asked
Mrs.
King
if
it
was
not
the
same
Person
that
dined
with
us
yesterday
?
She
said
,
true
,
it
was
so
,
but
he
was
in
a
Disguise
then
,
and
withal
,
that
in
a
Humour
he
would
often
do
so
:
But
,
saith
she
,
I
do
assure
you
he
is
a
Lord
.
Upon
that
I
replied
,
Then
his
Father
must
be
an
Earl
,
if
living
.
She
affirmed
,
that
he
was
a
Person
of
great
Honour
.
The
same
time
my
Lord
presented
me
with
a
rich
Box
of
Sweet-meats
:
I
could
do
no
less
than
thankfully
accept
thereof
.
My
Lord
came
every
day
to
Mr.
King's
,
and
by
his
Importunity
would
carry
me
abroad
in
a
Coach
to
Holloway
and
Islington
.
Mrs.
King
would
often
ask
me
what
my
Lord
did
say
to
me
;
I
told
her
,
nothing
that
I
observed
,
but
his
Lordship
abounded
in
Civility
,
mix'd
with
Compliments
.
How
,
said
she
,
Madam
,
he
loves
you
.
Loves
me
,
for
what
,
Mistress
King
?
I
replied
.
She
said
,
For
your
great
Paris
and
Endowments
.
I
asked
her
,
How
my
Lord
could
tell
that
I
had
either
.
She
said
,
my
Lord
must
have
very
good
Eyes
if
he
could
see
within
me
,
or
else
I
must
be
very
transparent
.
After
which
,
I
did
order
the
matter
so
,
that
his
Access
to
me
was
not
so
easy
:
Mrs.
King
importuned
me
to
admit
my
Lord
to
visit
me
;
I
told
her
plainly
,
that
I
did
not
understand
his
Lordship's
Meaning
.
He
provided
me
a
great
Banquet
,
at
which
his
Lordship's
Mother
was
very
fine
drest
,
who
questioned
what
I
was
.
I
told
my
Lord
,
That
I
had
received
Civilities
from
him
,
and
he
had
the
like
from
me
,
and
that
I
had
no
necessity
to
give
any
Account
to
any
Person
what
I
was
,
for
any
thing
that
I
intended
;
and
that
if
any
Design
or
Affair
of
his
required
any
such
thing
out
of
Convenience
,
or
otherwise
,
he
might
forbear
it
.
His
Lordship
excused
his
Mother's
Inquisition
,
by
saying
,
She
was
his
Mother
,
and
that
Parents
did
think
themselves
concerned
,
in
looking
after
the
Good
of
their
Children
.
But
(
said
he
)
Madam
,
wave
all
this
,
however
,
I
will
marry
you
to-morrow
.
What
(
said
I
)
my
Lord
,
without
my
Consent
?
My
Lord
,
I
desire
your
Lordship
not
to
come
near
me
any
more
,
I
will
not
lie
under
such
Questioning
and
Scrutiny
.
Your
Lordship
will
be
safe
in
following
my
Advice
,
in
not
coming
at
me
any
more
.
Upon
this
his
Lordship
wept
bitterly
:
I
withdrew
my self
from
his
Presence
:
He
writ
a
Letter
of
high
Complements
to
me
,
(
the
which
Letter
was
lost
in
that
violent
Surprize
of
me
and
my
things
,
by
the
Force
of
Mr.
George
Carleton
,
my
Husband's
Father
.
)
At
the
same
time
I
had
a
Gown
making
upon
my
own
account
,
by
Mrs.
King's
Taylor
in
the
Strand
.
I
took
a
Coach
,
and
went
thither
;
all
this
while
the
young
Lord
not
knowing
where
I
was
,
remained
impatient
until
my
Return
,
where
I
found
him
standing
at
the
Bar
(
in
a
very
pensive
and
melancholly
Manner
,
as
if
he
had
been
arraigned
for
not
paying
his
Reckoning
)
at
the
Exchange-Tavern
,
and
suddenly
clasp'd
about
my
middle
,
and
violently
carried
me
to
my
Chamber
.
I
asked
his
meaning
;
he
answered
,
That
I
had
forbid
him
my
presence
;
that
it
had
almost
made
him
mad
;
that
he
desired
nothing
more
of
me
,
than
but
to
let
him
look
upon
me
.
Upon
that
he
did
,
with
a
very
strange
Gesture
,
fix
his
Eyes
upon
me
:
In
compassion
to
him
,
I
ask'd
him
what
his
Lordship
meant
,
and
intended
;
he
replied
,
in
a
kind
of
discomposed
manner
,
I
would
have
you
to
be
my
Wife
.
'
I
answered
him
,
'
My
Lord
,
I
rather
think
you
have
courted
me
for
a
Mistress
than
for
a
Wife
:
I
assure
you
,
that
I
will
never
be
a
Mistress
to
the
greatest
of
Princes
,
I
will
rather
chuse
to
be
a
Wife
to
the
meanest
of
Men
.
Upon
which
,
he
uttered
divers
Asseverations
in
Confirmation
of
the
Reality
of
his
Intentions
,
and
earnest
Desire
of
the
honour
in
making
me
his
Wife
,
without
any
respect
to
what
I
had
.
After
my
Lord
had
insinuated
his
Affections
so
far
,
that
I
began
to
understand
him
,
and
did
mix
and
scatter
some
such
like
acceptable
Words
,
which
put
him
into
some
Confidence
of
obtaining
me
;
he
began
,
like
other
Lovers
,
to
set
forth
the
Amplitude
of
his
Fortunes
,
and
those
brave
Things
he
would
do
,
if
I
would
finish
his
Suit
.
Among
many
other
Finenesses
and
Grandures
he
would
bestow
on
me
,
I
well
remember
he
told
me
,
that
he
had
given
order
for
a
great
Glass
Coach
of
the
new
Fashion
,
to
be
presently
made
,
against
our
Wedding
was
over
,
where
eleven
or
twelve
might
conveniently
sit
,
and
that
he
would
suit
it
with
a
Set
of
Lacquies
and
Pages
,
the
neatest
and
handsomest
of
the
Town
for
their
Liveries
and
Persons
:
That
I
might
see
I
had
married
a
Person
that
not
only
dearly
loved
me
,
but
would
also
highly
honour
me
,
with
the
most
splendid
Accommodations
that
England
yielded
.
At
the
very
same
time
,
he
had
changed
,
as
he
told
me
,
(
and
part
of
it
I
saw
)
two
hundred
Pound
of
Silver
,
into
two
hundred
Pieces
of
Gold
,
for
the
better
Portableness
thereof
,
that
his
Princess
might
see
nothing
of
Meanness
belonging
to
him
;
and
that
as
soon
as
the
Coach
was
made
,
and
all
things
fitted
,
he
would
presently
go
to
Court
,
and
carry
me
with
him
,
and
introduce
me
to
the
King
and
Queen
:
his
further
Intention
being
,
which
as
yet
he
concealed
to
me
,
to
get
a
Knighthood
,
and
have
something
of
Honour
,
to
oppose
the
Envy
of
Men
,
that
so
great
an
Estate
was
conferred
on
a
private
Person
.
And
now
my
Lord
spoke
nothing
but
Rodomantadoes
of
the
Greatness
of
his
Family
,
of
the
Delights
and
Stateliness
of
his
Lands
and
Houses
,
the
Game
of
his
Parks
,
the
Largeness
of
his
Stables
,
and
Convenience
of
Fish
and
Fowl
,
for
furnishing
his
liberal
and
open
Housekeeping
,
that
I
should
see
England
afforded
more
pleasure
than
any
Place
in
the
World
;
but
they
were
(
without
the
Host
)
reckoned
and
charged
beforehand
to
my
Account
,
and
to
be
purchased
with
my
Estate
,
which
was
his
,
by
a
Figure
of
Anticipation
,
when
we
two
should
be
all
one
;
and
therefore
he
lyed
not
,
but
only
equivocated
a
little
.
But
he
did
not
in
the
least
mention
any
such
thing
to
me
,
nor
made
any
Offer
of
Enquiry
what
I
was
,
no
not
the
least
Semblance
or
Shadow
of
it
;
he
seemed
to
take
no
notice
of
my
Fortunes
,
it
was
my
Person
he
only
courted
,
which
having
so
happily
and
accidentally
seen
,
he
could
not
live
,
if
I
cherish'd
not
his
Affections
.
Nor
did
I
think
it
then
convenient
or
civil
to
question
the
Credit
of
his
Words
,
and
the
Report
given
me
of
him
.
His
Demeanour
I
confess
was
light
,
but
I
imputed
that
to
his
Youth
,
and
the
Vanity
of
a
Gallant
,
as
necessary
a
Quality
,
and
as
much
admired
as
Wit
in
a
Woman
.
The
last
Day
of
my
Virgin-State
,
Easter
Eve
,
the
Taylor
brought
me
my
Gown
to
my
Lodging
,
I
being
drest
and
adorned
with
my
Jewels
.
He
again
renewed
his
Suit
to
me
,
with
all
Importunity
imaginable
:
His
courteous
Mother
was
also
now
most
forward
,
pressing
me
to
consent
,
by
telling
me
,
that
she
should
lose
her
Son
,
and
his
Wits
,
he
being
already
impatient
with
Denials
and
Delays
,
adding
withal
,
that
he
was
a
Person
hopeful
,
and
might
deserve
my
Condescension
.
I
withstood
all
their
Sollicitation
,
although
they
continued
it
until
twelve
of
the
clock
that
Night
:
The
young
Lord
at
his
taking
his
leave
of
me
,
told
me
he
would
attend
me
betimes
the
next
Morning
,
and
carry
me
to
St.
Paul's
Church
,
to
hear
the
Organs
,
saying
,
that
there
would
be
very
excellent
Anthems
performed
by
rare
Voices
,
the
Morrow
being
Sunday
,
the
19th
of
April
last
.
In
the
Morning
betimes
,
the
young
Lord
coming
to
my
Chamber-door
,
desiring
Admittance
,
which
I
refused
,
in
regard
I
was
not
ready
;
yet
so
soon
as
my
Head
was
dressed
,
I
let
him
have
access
:
he
hastned
me
,
and
told
me
his
Coach
was
ready
at
the
Door
,
in
which
he
carried
me
to
his
Mother's
in
Grey
Friers
,
London
,
where
I
was
assaulted
by
the
young
Lord's
Tears
,
and
others
,
to
give
my
Consent
to
marry
him
,
telling
me
that
they
had
a
Parson
and
a
Licence
ready
;
which
was
a
meer
Falsehood
,
and
temporary
Fallacy
to
secure
the
Match
.
So
on
Easter
Morning
,
with
three
Coaches
,
in
which
,
with
the
Bride
and
Bridegroom
,
were
all
the
Kindred
that
were
privy
to
the
Business
,
and
pretended
a
Licence
,
they
carried
me
to
Cloth-Fair
by
Smithfield
,
and
in
the
Church
of
Great
St.
Bartholomew's
,
married
me
by
one
Mr.
Smith
,
who
was
well
paid
for
his
pains
:
And
now
they
thought
themselves
possessed
of
their
Hopes
,
but
because
they
would
prevent
the
Noise
and
Fame
of
their
good
Fortune
from
publick
Discourse
,
that
no
sinister
Accident
might
intervene
,
before
Mr.
Carleton
had
bedded
me
,
Offence
being
likely
to
be
taken
at
Court
,
(
as
they
whispered
to
themselves
)
that
a
private
Subject
had
married
a
foreign
Princess
,
they
had
before
determined
to
go
to
Barnet
;
and
thither
immediately
after
the
Celebration
of
the
Marriage
we
were
driven
in
the
Coaches
,
where
we
had
a
handsome
Treatment
;
and
there
we
staid
Sunday
and
Monday
,
both
which
Nights
Mr.
Carleton
lay
with
me
;
and
on
Tuesday
Morning
we
were
married
again
,
a
Licence
being
then
obtained
to
make
the
Match
more
fast
and
sure
,
at
their
instance
with
me
to
consent
to
it
.
This
being
done
,
and
their
Fears
over
,
they
resolved
to
put
me
in
a
Garb
befitting
the
Estate
and
Dignity
they
fancied
I
had
;
and
they
were
so
far
possessed
with
a
belief
of
it
,
that
they
gave
out
I
was
worth
no
less
than
80000
l.
per
Annum
;
and
my
Husband
,
as
I
now
stile
him
,
published
so
much
in
a
Coffee-House
;
adding
withal
,
to
the
extolling
of
his
good
Hap
,
that
there
was
a
further
Estate
,
but
that
it
was
my
Modesty
or
Design
to
conceal
it
:
And
that
he
could
not
attribute
his
great
Fortune
to
any
thing
but
the
Fates
,
for
he
had
not
any
thing
to
ballance
with
the
least
of
my
Estate
and
Merits
.
So
do
conceited
Heights
of
sudden
Prosperity
and
Greatness
dazzle
the
Eyes
and
Judgment
of
the
most
;
nor
could
this
young
Man
be
much
blamed
for
his
vain-glorious
mistake
.
My
Clothes
being
made
at
the
Charge
of
my
Father-in-Law
,
and
other
Fineries
of
the
Mode
and
Fashion
sent
me
by
some
of
his
Kindred
and
Friends
,
(
who
prided
themselves
in
this
happy
Affinity
,
)
and
who
had
an
Eye
upon
some
Advantages
also
,
and
therefore
gave
me
this
early
Bribe
,
as
Testimonies
of
their
early
Respect
;
and
as
for
Jewels
I
had
of
mine
own
of
all
sorts
,
for
Necklaces
,
Pendants
and
Bracelets
,
of
admirable
Splendor
and
Brightness
.
I
was
in
a
Prince-like
Attire
,
and
a
splendid
Equipage
and
Retinue
,
accoutred
for
publick
View
,
among
all
the
great
Ladies
of
the
Court
and
Town
,
on
May-day
ensuing
:
At
which
time
,
in
my
Lady
Bludworth's
Coach
,
which
the
same
Friends
procured
for
my
greater
Accommodation
,
and
accompanied
with
the
same
Lady
,
with
Footmen
and
Pages
,
I
rode
to
Hyde-Park
,
in
open
View
of
that
famous
Cavalcade
and
Assembly
,
much
gazed
upon
by
them
all
,
the
Eximiousness
of
my
Fortune
drawing
their
Eyes
upon
me
;
particularly
that
noble
Lady
gave
me
Precedence
,
and
the
Right-hand
,
and
a
neat
Treatment
after
our
Divertisement
of
turning
up
and
down
the
Park
.
I
was
altogether
ignorant
of
what
Estate
my
Husband
was
,
and
therefore
made
no
nicety
to
take
those
Places
his
Friends
gave
me
;
and
if
I
be
taxed
for
Incivility
herein
,
it
was
his
Fault
that
he
instructed
me
no
better
in
my
Quality
,
for
I
conceited
still
that
he
was
some
landed
,
honourable
,
and
wealthy
Man
.
Things
yet
went
fairly
on
,
the
same
Observances
and
Distances
continued
,
and
Lodgings
befitting
a
Person
of
Quality
were
taken
for
me
in
Durham-Yard
,
at
one
Mr.
Green's
,
where
my
Husband
and
I
enjoyed
one
another
with
mutual
Complacency
,
till
the
Return
of
the
Moneys
out
of
Germany
failing
the
Day
,
and
their
rich
Hopes
,
old
Mr.
Carleton
began
to
suspect
he
was
deceived
in
his
Expectation
,
and
that
all
was
not
Gold
that
glistered
.
But
to
remove
such
a
Prejudice
from
himself
,
as
if
he
were
the
Author
of
those
Scandals
that
were
now
prepared
against
my
Innocence
,
a
Letter
is
produced
,
and
sent
by
some
then
unknown
Hand
,
which
reflected
much
upon
my
Honour
and
Reputation
;
and
thereupon
on
the
fifth
or
sixth
of
May
ensuing
,
I
was
by
a
Warrant
dragged
forth
of
my
new
Lodgings
,
with
all
the
Disgrace
and
Contumely
that
could
be
cast
upon
the
vilest
Offender
in
the
World
,
at
the
instigation
of
old
Mr.
Carleton
,
who
was
the
Prosecutor
,
and
by
him
and
his
Agents
divested
and
strip'd
of
all
my
Clothes
,
and
plundred
of
all
my
Jewels
and
my
Money
,
my
very
Bodice
,
and
a
pair
of
Silk-stockings
,
being
also
pulled
from
me
,
and
in
a
strange
Array
carried
before
a
Justice
.
But
because
this
Story
hath
not
yet
been
fully
discovered
,
I
will
more
manifestly
here
declare
it
.
The
Letter
abovesaid
came
from
one
Mr.
John
Clay
,
the
younger
Son
of
Mr.
Clay
,
a
Drugster
at
the
Bear
and
Mortar
in
Lombard-street
,
a
Servant
and
Admirer
of
Mrs.
King
,
my
fine
Sister-in-Law
,
(
who
because
her
Husband
hath
a
weak
Head
,
though
he
sat
like
a
Parliament-Man
once
in
Richard
Cromwell's
Time
for
three
Days
,
as
since
I
have
been
informed
)
must
have
an
Assistant
to
carry
on
the
Business
.
The
Contents
of
this
Letter
were
near
to
this
purpose
:
SIR
,
I
Am
unknown
to
you
,
but
hearing
that
your
Son
Mr.
John
Carleton
hath
married
a
Woman
of
a
pretended
great
Fortune
,
and
high
Birth
,
I
thought
fit
to
give
you
timely
notice
of
what
I
know
,
and
have
heard
concerning
her
,
that
she
is
an
absolute
Cheat
,
hath
married
several
Men
in
our
County
of
Kent
,
and
then
run
away
from
them
,
with
what
they
had
.
If
it
be
the
same
Woman
I
mean
,
she
speaks
several
Languages
fluently
,
and
hath
very
high
Breasts
,
&c.
I
was
at
the
Exchange
Tavern
,
as
it
was
designed
,
when
this
Letter
was
brought
,
and
thereupon
their
Countenances
were
set
to
a
most
melancholly
Look
,
and
pale
Hue
,
which
shewed
a
mixture
of
Fear
and
Anger
:
Presently
I
was
brought
before
the
Inquisition
of
the
Family
,
and
examined
concerning
the
said
Letter
,
which
I
constantly
,
innocently
,
and
disdainfully
denied
,
so
that
they
seemed
something
satisfied
to
the
contrary
,
and
so
my
Husband
and
I
went
home
in
a
Coach
;
but
that
very
same
Night
,
all
the
Gang
,
with
one
Mrs.
Clark
,
a
Neighbour
to
King
,
came
to
my
Lodging
,
where
after
the
most
vile
Language
,
as
cheating
Whore
,
and
the
like
,
they
pulled
me
up
and
down
,
and
kept
me
stript
upon
a
Bed
,
not
suffering
my
Husband
to
come
near
me
,
though
I
cried
out
for
him
to
take
my
part
,
and
do
like
a
Man
to
save
me
from
that
Violence
;
who
at
a
distance
excused
it
,
by
putting
all
this
Barbarity
upon
his
Father
.
In
fine
,
they
left
me
not
a
Rag
,
rincing
every
wet
Cloth
out
of
the
Water
,
and
carrying
them
away
.
The
whole
was
a
most
unwomanly
and
rude
Action
at
the
best
of
it
,
if
I
had
been
such
as
they
pretended
me
to
be
,
and
not
to
be
parallell'd
,
but
by
a
Story
I
have
lately
heard
of
the
six
Woman-shavers
in
Drury-Lane
.
See
the
Fickleness
and
Vanity
of
human
Things
,
to-day
embellished
and
adorned
with
all
the
female
Arts
of
Bravery
and
Gallantry
,
and
courted
and
attended
on
by
the
best
Rank
of
my
Sex
,
who
are
jealous
Observers
what
Honour
and
Respect
they
give
among
themselves
,
to
a
very
Punctilio
.
And
now
disrobed
and
disfigured
in
mishapen
Garments
,
and
almost
lest
naked
,
and
haled
and
pulled
by
Beadles
,
and
such
like
rude
and
boisterous
Fellows
,
before
a
Tribunal
,
like
a
leud
Criminal
.
The
Justice's
Name
was
Mr.
Godfrey
,
by
whose
Mittimus
,
upon
an
Accusation
managed
by
old
Mr.
Carleton
,
that
I
had
married
two
Husbands
,
both
of
them
in
being
,
I
was
committed
to
the
Gatehouse
.
Being
interrogated
by
the
Justice
,
whether
or
no
I
had
two
Husbands
,
as
was
alledged
,
I
answered
,
if
I
had
,
he
was
one
of
them
,
which
I
believe
incensed
him
something
the
more
against
me
;
but
I
did
not
know
the
Authority
and
Dignity
of
his
Place
,
so
much
am
I
a
Stranger
to
this
Kingdom
.
There
were
other
Things
and
Crimes
of
a
high
Nature
objected
against
me
besides
,
that
I
cheated
a
Vintner
of
sixty
Pounds
,
and
was
for
that
committed
to
Newgate
;
but
that
Lye
quickly
vanished
,
for
it
was
made
appear
,
that
I
was
never
a
Prisoner
there
,
nor
was
my
Name
ever
recorded
in
their
Books
:
And
that
I
pick'd
a
Kentish
Lord's
Pocket
,
and
cheated
a
French
Merchant
of
Rings
,
Jewels
,
and
other
Commodities
;
that
I
made
an
Escape
,
when
sold
and
ship'd
for
the
Barbadoes
:
but
these
were
urged
only
as
Surmises
,
and
old
Carleton
bound
over
to
prosecute
only
for
Bigamy
,
for
my
having
two
Husbands
.
Thus
the
World
may
see
how
industrious
Mischief
is
to
ruin
a
poor
helpless
and
destitute
Woman
,
who
had
neither
Money
,
Friends
,
nor
Acquaintance
left
me
;
yet
I
cannot
deny
that
my
Husband
lovingly
came
to
me
at
the
Gatehouse
the
same
Day
I
was
committed
,
and
did
very
passionately
complain
of
his
Father's
Usage
of
me
,
meerly
upon
the
Disappointment
,
as
he
said
,
of
their
Expectations
,
and
that
he
could
be
contented
to
love
me
as
well
as
ever
,
to
live
with
me
,
and
own
me
as
a
Wife
;
and
used
several
other
Expressions
of
Tenderness
to
me
.
Nor
have
I
less
Affection
and
kind
Sentiments
for
him
,
whom
I
own
and
will
own
till
Death
dissolve
the
Union
;
and
did
acquaint
him
with
so
much
there
,
and
protested
my
Innocence
to
him
;
nor
do
I
doubt
,
could
he
have
prevailed
with
his
Father
,
but
that
these
things
had
never
happened
.
If
now
,
after
my
Vindication
he
prove
faithless
and
disown
me
,
his
Fault
will
be
doubly
greater
,
in
that
he
neither
assisted
my
Innocence
when
endangered
,
nor
cherished
it
when
vindicated
by
the
Law
.
In
this
Prison
of
the
Gatehouse
I
continued
six
Weeks
,
in
a
far
better
Condition
than
I
promised
myself
,
but
the
greater
Civilities
I
owe
to
the
Keeper
:
As
I
am
infinitely
beholden
to
several
Persons
of
Quality
,
who
came
at
first
,
I
suppose
,
out
of
Curiosity
to
see
me
,
and
did
therefore
nobly
compassionate
my
calamitous
,
and
injurious
Restraint
.
All
that
troubled
me
was
an
abusive
Pamphlet
which
went
under
my
Husband's
Name
;
wherein
,
most
pitifully
he
pleaded
his
Frailty
and
Misfortune
,
and
intitled
it
to
no
lesser
Precedent
then
Adam
;
which
I
suppose
was
had
out
of
the
new
Ballad
of
Your
Humble
Servant
;
a
Hint
whereof
,
please
the
Reader
to
take
in
this
Abridgement
.
Reader
,
I
shall
not
give
myself
the
trouble
to
recollect
and
declare
the
several
Motives
and
Inducements
that
deceitful
,
but
wise
enough
Woman
used
to
deceive
me
with
,
&c.
Her
Wit
did
more
and
more
engage
and
charm
me
:
Her
Qualities
deprived
me
of
my
own
:
Her
courteous
Behaviour
,
her
majestick
Humility
to
all
Persons
,
her
emphatical
Speeches
,
her
kind
and
loving
Expressions
,
and
amongst
other
things
,
her
high
Detestation
of
all
manner
of
Vice
,
as
Lying
,
&c.
her
great
pretence
to
Zeal
in
Religion
,
her
modest
Confidence
and
Grace
in
all
Companies
,
fearing
the
Knowledge
of
none
;
her
Demeanour
was
such
,
that
she
left
no
room
for
suspicion
,
not
only
in
my
Opinion
,
but
also
in
others
both
grave
and
wise
.
And
all
this
is
real
and
not
feigned
,
and
more
convincingly
and
apparently
true
,
by
this
Foil
of
his
own
setting
.
As
for
his
undertaking
to
tell
the
Story
of
the
Management
of
the
Business
betwixt
us
,
he
is
so
far
from
doing
me
justice
herein
,
that
he
wrongeth
me
and
his
own
Soul
by
lying
.
For
Confutation
of
which
,
I
refer
the
Reader
to
the
ensuing
Tryal
;
only
there
is
one
Passage
that
I
am
unwilling
to
let
slip
,
that
is
,
he
saith
there
,
that
my
Father
was
in
Town
upon
my
Commitment
,
and
did
acknowledge
me
to
be
his
Daughter
,
and
that
I
had
played
many
such
Tricks
.
It
's
strange
this
Father
of
mine
could
not
be
produced
at
the
Tryal
,
if
that
had
been
true
.
And
yet
a
little
before
this
,
upon
his
visiting
me
in
the
Gatehouse
,
where
I
was
destitute
of
Money
and
Subsistence
;
at
my
first
coming
in
,
he
seemed
very
tender
of
me
,
and
charged
the
Keeper
I
should
want
nothing
;
for
as
far
as
forty
Shillings
went
,
he
would
see
him
paid
,
which
,
I
believe
,
he
must
e'er
long
:
and
after
that
sent
me
a
Letter
,
which
is
the
only
Paper
I
have
by
me
of
his
;
the
other
amorous
and
loving
Scriblings
being
lost
and
taken
from
me
,
the
same
time
that
they
plundered
me
of
my
Jewels
:
I
do
not
know
what
I
may
do
for
them
,
but
I
hope
I
shall
never
cry
for
those
Epistles
.
This
was
done
in
these
Words
,
so
that
my
Love
and
my
Dear
could
be
hot
and
cold
almost
in
an
instant
.
My
dearest
Heart
,
ALthough
the
manner
of
your
Usage
may
very
well
call
the
Sincerity
of
my
Affection
and
Expressions
to
you
in
question
;
yet
when
I
consider
,
that
thou
art
not
ignorant
of
the
Compulsion
of
my
Father
,
and
the
Animosity
of
my
whole
Relations
,
both
against
you
and
myself
for
your
sake
,
I
am
very
confident
your
Goodness
will
pardon
and
pass
by
those
things
which
at
present
I
am
no
way
able
to
help
;
and
be
you
confident
,
that
notwithstanding
my
Friends
Aversion
,
there
shall
be
nothing
within
the
Reach
of
my
Power
shall
be
wanting
,
that
may
conduce
both
to
your
Liberty
,
Maintenance
,
and
Vindication
.
I
shall
very
speedily
be
in
a
Condition
to
furnish
you
with
Money
to
supply
you
according
to
your
desire
.
I
hope
Mr.
Bayly
will
be
very
civil
to
you
;
and
let
him
be
assured
,
he
shall
in
a
most
exact
measure
be
satisfied
,
and
have
a
Requital
for
his
Obligation
.
My
Dearest
,
always
praying
for
our
happy
meeting
,
I
rest
,
Your
most
affectionate
Husband
,
JOHN
CARLETON
.
May
the
11th
,
1663.
One
of
my
Husband's
Friends
came
to
visit
me
in
the
Gatehouse
,
(
of
the
many
hundreds
of
others
I
shall
say
nothing
)
one
of
them
said
,
Madam
,
I
am
one
of
your
Husband's
Friends
and
Acquaintance
,
I
had
a
desire
to
see
you
,
because
I
have
heard
of
your
Breeding
.
Alas
,
said
I
,
I
have
left
that
in
the
City
amongst
my
Kindred
,
because
they
want
it
.
Another
in
his
Discourse
delivered
as
an
Aphorism
,
That
Marriage
and
Hanging
went
by
destiny
.
I
told
him
,
I
had
received
from
the
Destinies
Marriage
,
and
he
in
probability
might
Hanging
.
To
wave
many
others
of
the
like
nature
.
My
Innocence
furnished
me
with
several
of
those
Answers
and
Repartees
to
the
mixt
sort
of
Visitants
,
who
either
for
Novelty
or
Design
came
to
trouble
me
.
I
was
advised
indeed
to
seclude
myself
from
such
Company
;
but
because
there
might
be
no
disadvantage
pretended
by
reason
I
kept
close
,
and
Evidence
might
be
puzzled
,
not
having
seen
me
in
so
long
a
time
,
as
afterwards
at
my
Trial
might
have
been
suggested
,
I
gave
all
Persons
the
Freedom
of
my
Chamber
.
But
for
the
nobler
sort
,
I
may
in
some
measure
thank
my
Stars
,
that
out
of
this
Misfortune
extracted
so
much
Bliss
,
as
the
Honour
of
their
Acquaintance
,
which
otherwise
,
at
large
,
I
had
been
in
no
Capacity
to
attain
.
The
time
of
the
Sessions
of
the
Peace
for
London
and
Middlesex
being
arrived
,
I
was
conveyed
from
the
Gatehouse
to
Newgate
;
where
,
by
the
Civility
of
the
Master
of
the
Prison
,
I
had
Lodgings
assigned
me
in
his
own
House
,
which
adjoins
to
the
Session's-house
Yard
;
and
there
I
was
publickly
seen
by
all
Comers
,
that
my
Enemies
might
want
no
advantage
of
informing
their
Witnesses
of
my
Person
,
Age
,
and
Condition
,
and
so
square
their
Evidence
:
but
my
Innocence
,
and
my
good
Angels
,
preserved
me
from
the
worst
of
their
Malice
.
From
thence
,
on
Wednesday
,
June
the
third
,
in
the
Evening
,
the
first
Day
of
the
Court
's
sitting
in
the
Old
Baily
,
I
was
brought
down
to
the
Bar
;
and
there
an
Indictment
upon
my
Arraignment
was
read
against
me
,
to
which
I
pleaded
Not
Guilty
:
and
,
as
instructed
by
my
Friends
,
and
a
good
Conscience
,
(
being
altogether
ignorant
of
the
Laws
and
Customs
of
this
Kingdom
)
put
my self
for
my
Trial
upon
God
and
the
Country
,
without
making
any
Exception
,
or
ever
so
much
as
examining
what
my
Jury
were
.
And
because
they
approved
themselves
Men
of
Honesty
,
Judgment
,
and
Integrity
,
and
did
me
so
much
Justice
,
I
can
do
no
less
than
take
occasion
here
to
return
them
my
humble
and
hearty
Thanks
,
that
they
would
regard
the
oppressed
Condition
of
a
helpless
Prisoner
,
and
not
give
credit
to
the
wicked
Asseverations
of
a
Wretch
,
who
only
swore
to
the
purpose
against
me
;
and
to
let
the
World
know
my
particular
Gratitude
,
I
will
transcribe
into
this
my
Case
,
as
one
of
the
happiest
and
fairest
Remarks
therein
,
the
Names
of
those
upright
Jurors
,
viz.
-
William
Rutland
,
-
Arthur
Vigers
,
-
Arthur
Capel
,
-
Thomas
Smith
,
-
Francis
Chaplain
,
-
Robert
Harvey
,
-
Simon
Driver
,
-
Robert
Kerkham
,
-
Hugh
Masson
,
-
Thomas
Westley
,
-
Richard
Clutterbuck
,
-
Randolph
Tooke
.
The
Indictment
was
in
haec
verba
.
That
she
the
said
Mary
Moders
,
late
of
London
,
Spinster
,
otherwise
Mary
Stedman
,
the
Wife
of
Thomas
Stedman
,
late
of
the
City
of
Canterbury
,
in
the
Country
of
Kent
,
Shoemaker
,
12th
of
May
,
in
the
Reign
of
his
now
Majesty
the
sixth
,
at
the
Parish
of
St.
Mildred's
,
in
the
City
of
Canterbury
,
in
the
County
aforesaid
,
did
take
to
Husband
the
aforesaid
Thomas
Stedman
,
and
him
the
said
Thomas
Stedman
then
and
there
had
to
Husband
.
And
that
she
the
said
Mary
Moders
,
alias
Stedman
,
21st
of
April
,
in
the
fifteenth
Year
of
his
said
Majesty's
Reign
,
at
London
,
in
the
Parish
of
Great
Bartholomew's
,
in
the
Ward
of
Farringdon
without
,
feloniously
did
take
to
Husband
one
John
Carleton
,
and
to
him
was
married
,
the
said
Thomas
Stedman
her
former
Husband
then
being
alive
,
and
in
full
Life
,
against
the
Form
of
the
Statute
in
that
case
provided
,
and
against
the
Peace
of
our
said
Sovereign
Lord
the
King
,
his
Crown
and
Dignity
,
&c.
After
which
,
being
set
to
the
Bar
,
in
order
to
my
Trial
,
I
prayed
time
till
the
Morrow
,
my
Witnesses
not
being
ready
,
which
was
granted
:
and
all
Persons
concerned
were
ordered
to
attend
at
nine
of
the
Clock
in
the
Forenoon
.
Being
returned
to
my
Lodging
,
where
some
Gentlemen
gave
me
a
Visit
to
counsel
and
advise
me
,
my
Husband
Mr.
Carleton
came
thither
to
take
his
leave
of
me
,
as
I
understood
afterwards
by
his
Complement
:
but
my
Keeper
knowing
him
,
thought
him
not
fit
Company
for
me
,
who
was
one
of
the
Causers
of
my
injurious
Usage
:
but
notice
at
last
being
given
me
of
it
,
I
gave
order
for
his
admittance
,
and
treated
him
with
that
respect
which
became
my
relation
to
him
;
tho'
he
,
to
add
trouble
to
me
,
fell
into
more
impertinent
Discourses
concerning
the
Shortness
of
my
Days
,
and
speedy
Preparation
of
Repentance
for
another
World
;
and
that
he
would
pray
for
me
,
and
the
like
:
to
the
which
I
replied
,
Pray
my
Lord
let
none
of
those
things
trouble
you
;
I
thank
God
I
am
as
well
as
ever
in
my
Life
;
and
do
of
all
things
least
fear
hanging
;
and
as
for
your
Prayers
,
are
you
righteous
or
no
?
if
not
,
they
will
so
little
avail
me
,
that
they
will
not
profit
yourself
.
Hereupon
a
Gentleman
to
break
off
this
discourse
,
drank
to
him
in
a
Glass
of
Canary
;
which
my
Lord
unhandsomely
declining
to
accept
,
I
could
not
forbear
to
tell
him
,
I
was
sorry
to
see
his
Lordship's
slender
Breeding
could
not
suffer
him
to
be
civil
.
Thus
the
World
may
see
how
these
mine
Adversaries
had
already
swallowed
my
Life
and
my
Credit
,
and
devoted
them
to
the
Gibbet
without
Redemption
:
the
only
Security
of
all
their
past
Injustices
towards
me
.
—
Per
scelera
sc●leribus
est
ite●
:
they
must
end
as
they
have
begun
.
Thus
the
Devil
and
his
Imps
were
here
frustrated
.
For
on
Thursday
,
June
the
fourth
,
I
proceeded
to
Tryal
,
according
to
appointment
;
but
my
Fathers
Bandogs
being
not
ready
,
my
Husband
came
into
the
Court
very
spruce
and
trim
,
in
one
of
his
Wedding-Suits
,
and
prayed
the
Court
,
that
in
respect
his
Father
and
his
Witnesses
were
not
yet
come
together
,
or
rather
had
not
concinnated
their
Lyes
to
be
found
in
one
Tale
,
that
the
Trial
might
be
deferred
for
half
an
Hour
.
I
could
not
but
smile
to
see
my
dear
Husband
labour
so
to
make
sure
of
my
Death
,
and
with
so
little
regard
to
pass
by
his
dear
Princess
,
without
so
much
as
vouchsafing
a
Look
to
her
;
as
if
he
were
angry
at
his
Eyes
for
having
beheld
so
much
already
.
But
to
abrupt
these
Thoughts
,
and
to
continue
the
Discourse
:
The
Court
growing
impatient
of
these
uncivil
Delays
;
and
telling
my
Father-in-law
that
they
were
not
bound
to
wait
on
him
or
his
Witnesses
;
they
were
now
produced
before
them
,
and
sworn
,
and
with
old
Carleton
himself
were
six
in
number
;
namely
,
James
Knot
,
one
that
will
almost
cleave
a
Hair
;
William
Clark
and
George
Carleton
my
Brother-in-law
;
Mr.
Smith
the
Parson
,
and
one
Sarah
Williams
;
which
for
fuller
Information
of
the
World
I
will
give
,
with
a
Review
of
the
whole
Trial
,
according
to
the
exactest
Copy
of
it
,
which
was
taken
in
Short-hand
at
my
desire
.
James
Knot
.
My
Lord
,
and
Gentlemen
of
the
Jury
,
I
gave
this
Woman
in
marriage
to
one
Thomas
Stedman
,
who
is
now
alive
in
Dover
,
and
I
saw
him
last
Week
.
Court
.
Where
was
she
married
?
Knot
.
In
Canterbury
.
Court
.
Where
there
?
Knot
.
In
St.
Mildred's
,
by
one
Parson
Man
,
who
is
now
dead
.
Court
.
How
long
since
were
they
married
?
Knot
.
About
nine
Years
ago
.
Court
.
Did
they
live
together
afterwards
?
Knot
.
Yes
,
about
four
Years
,
and
had
two
Children
.
Court
.
You
gave
her
in
Marriage
,
but
did
the
Minister
give
her
to
her
Husband
then
?
Knot
.
Yes
,
and
they
lived
together
.
Jury
.
Friend
,
did
you
give
this
very
Woman
?
Knot
.
Yes
.
Court
.
What
Company
was
there
?
Knot
.
There
was
the
married
Couple
,
her
Sister
,
myself
,
the
Parson
,
and
the
Sexton
.
Court
.
Where
is
that
Sexton
?
Knot
.
I
know
not
,
my
Lord
.
Court
.
You
are
sure
they
were
married
in
the
Church
,
and
this
is
the
Woman
?
Knot
.
Yes
,
I
am
sure
of
it
.
Court
.
How
long
ago
?
Knot
.
About
nine
Years
ago
.
Court
.
Did
you
know
this
Woman
before
the
Marriage
?
and
how
long
?
Knot
.
Yes
,
I
knew
her
a
long
time
;
I
was
an
Apprentice
seven
Years
near
her
Mother's
House
in
Canterbury
.
Court
.
Then
she
's
no
foreign
Princess
?
Of
what
Parentage
was
she
?
Knot
.
I
did
not
know
her
own
Father
(
and
in
that
he
might
be
believed
)
but
her
Father-in-law
was
a
Musician
there
.
Court
.
You
see
her
married
:
What
Words
were
used
at
her
Marriage
,
and
in
what
manner
?
Knot
.
They
were
married
according
to
the
Order
of
the
Land
,
a
little
before
the
Act
came
forth
touching
Marriages
by
Justices
of
the
Peace
.
Court
.
Was
it
by
the
Form
of
Common-Prayer
,
any
thing
read
of
that
Form
?
Knot
.
I
did
not
take
notice
of
that
:
I
was
but
a
young
Man
,
and
was
desired
to
go
along
with
them
.
William
Clark
being
sworn
,
said
,
My
Lord
,
I
was
last
Week
in
Dover
,
in
company
with
this
James
Knot
,
and
Thomas
Stedman
;
and
he
the
said
Stedman
did
own
,
that
he
did
marry
one
Mary
Moders
,
a
Daughter
of
one
in
Canterbury
,
and
that
Knot
gave
her
;
and
that
he
had
two
Children
by
her
,
and
declared
his
willingness
to
come
up
to
give
Evidence
against
her
,
but
wanted
Money
for
his
Journey
:
And
I
have
understood
that
a
Person
here
in
Court
was
of
a
Jury
at
Canterbury
,
at
a
Trial
between
Day
and
Mary
Stedman
at
the
Bar
,
for
having
two
Husbands
.
Court
.
Was
she
cleared
?
Clark
.
I
cannot
tell
.
Young
Carleton's
Father
sworn
.
My
Lord
,
I
was
at
Dover
last
Week
on
Wednesday
;
I
saw
the
Husband
of
this
Woman
,
and
the
Man
acknowlegded
himself
to
be
so
;
and
did
say
,
that
James
Knot
was
the
Man
that
gave
her
in
marriage
to
him
.
Court
.
Where
is
this
Man
her
Husband
?
Hearsays
must
condemn
no
Man
:
What
do
you
know
of
your
own
Knowlegde
?
Carleton
the
Elder
.
I
know
the
Man
is
alive
.
Court
.
Do
you
know
he
was
married
to
her
?
Carleton
.
Not
I
,
my
Lord
.
Sarah
Williams
.
My
Lord
,
this
Woman
was
bound
for
Barbadoes
,
to
go
along
with
my
Husband
,
and
she
desired
to
lodge
at
our
House
for
some
time
,
and
did
so
;
and
when
the
Ship
was
ready
to
go
,
she
went
into
Kent
to
receive
her
Means
,
and
said
she
would
meet
the
Ship
in
the
Downs
;
and
missing
the
Ship
,
took
Boat
and
went
to
the
Ship
.
After
several
Days
remaining
there
,
there
came
her
Husband
with
an
Order
,
and
fetched
her
ashore
,
and
carried
her
to
Dover-Castle
.
Court
.
What
was
his
Name
that
had
an
Order
to
bring
her
on
shore
again
?
Sarah
Williams
.
His
Name
was
Thomas
Stedman
.
Court
.
Have
you
any
more
to
prove
the
first
Marriage
?
Carleton
the
Elder
.
No
,
none
but
Knot
;
there
were
none
but
three
,
the
Minister
dead
,
the
Sexton
not
to
be
found
,
and
this
Knot
who
hath
given
Evidence
.
Court
.
What
became
of
the
two
Children
,
Knot
?
Knot
.
They
both
died
.
Carleton
the
Elder
.
Stedman
said
in
my
hearing
,
that
he
had
lived
four
Years
with
her
,
had
two
Children
by
her
,
and
both
dead
:
five
Years
ago
last
Easter
since
she
left
him
.
Court
.
Mr.
Carleton
,
what
have
you
heard
this
Woman
say
?
Carleton
.
My
Lord
,
she
will
confess
nothing
that
pleases
him
.
Court
.
Mr.
Carleton
,
did
you
look
in
the
Church-Register
for
the
first
Marriage
?
Carleton
.
I
did
look
in
the
Book
;
and
he
that
is
now
Clerk
,
was
then
Sexton
(
just
now
not
to
be
found
;
)
he
told
me
,
that
Marriages
being
then
very
numerous
,
preceding
the
Act
before-mentioned
,
the
then
Clerk
had
neglected
the
Registry
of
this
Marriage
.
If
she
intended
this
Trade
,
she
likewise
knew
how
to
make
the
Clerk
mistake
Registring
the
Marriage
.
Young
Carleton's
Brother
sworn
;
who
said
,
My
Lord
and
Gentlemen
of
the
Jury
,
I
was
present
at
the
Marriage
of
my
Brother
with
this
Gentlewoman
,
which
was
on
or
about
the
21st
of
April
1663.
They
were
married
at
Great
St.
Bartholomew's
,
by
one
Mr.
Smith
,
a
Minister
here
in
Court
,
by
Licence
.
Mr.
Smith
the
Parson
sworn
.
My
Lord
,
all
that
I
can
say
,
is
this
,
That
Mr.
Carleton
the
Younger
told
me
of
such
a
Business
,
and
desired
me
to
marry
them
;
they
came
to
Church
,
and
I
did
marry
them
by
the
Book
of
Common-Prayer
.
Court
.
Mr.
Smith
,
are
you
sure
that
is
the
Woman
?
Parson
.
Yes
,
my
Lord
,
it
is
;
I
believe
she
will
not
deny
it
.
Prisoner
.
Yes
,
my
Lord
,
I
confess
I
am
the
Woman
.
Court
.
Have
you
any
more
Witnesses
?
Carleton
.
We
can
get
no
more
but
Knot
to
prove
the
first
Marriage
;
the
last
is
clear
.
Judge
Howel
.
Where
is
Knot
?
Remember
yourself
well
what
you
said
before
.
You
say
,
you
know
that
Woman
at
the
Bar
;
that
you
had
known
her
a
great
while
;
that
she
was
born
near
you
in
Canterbury
;
that
you
were
present
at
her
Marriage
;
that
Parson
Man
married
them
;
that
none
were
present
but
yourself
,
the
married
Couple
,
Parson
,
Sexton
,
and
her
Sister
.
Knot
.
Some
others
came
into
the
Church
,
but
none
that
I
knew
;
I
am
sure
none
went
with
her
,
but
those
I
named
.
Court
.
Who
gave
her
in
Marriage
?
Knot
.
I
did
.
Court
.
How
came
you
to
do
it
?
Knot
.
I
was
Stedman's
Shop-mate
,
and
he
desired
me
to
go
along
with
him
.
Court
.
Were
her
Parents
living
,
or
no
?
Knot
.
Her
Mother
was
.
Jury
.
How
old
are
you
?
Knot
.
Two
or
three
and
thirty
Years
.
Jury
.
How
long
ago
was
this
Marriage
?
Knot
.
About
nine
years
since
.
Court
.
Then
he
was
twenty-three
,
and
might
do
it
.
What
is
your
Trade
of
Life
?
Knot
.
I
am
a
Cordwainer
,
otherwise
a
Shoe-maker
;
Stedman
was
so
too
:
we
wrought
both
together
.
Jury
.
We
desire
to
know
whether
she
had
a
Father
and
Mother
then
living
.
Knot
.
She
had
a
Father-in-Law
.
Court
.
Did
you
know
her
Mother
?
Knot
.
Yes
.
Court
.
How
long
before
that
Marriage
did
her
own
Father
die
?
Knot
.
I
did
not
know
him
.
He
said
so
before
indeed
.
Court
.
What
Age
was
she
when
married
?
Knot
.
I
suppose
nineteen
or
twenty
.
Prisoner
.
May
it
please
your
Honours
,
and
Gentlemen
of
the
Jury
,
you
have
heard
the
several
Witnesses
,
and
I
think
this
whole
Country
cannot
but
plainly
see
the
Malice
of
my
Husband's
Father
against
me
;
how
he
causelesly
hunts
after
my
Life
:
when
his
Son
,
my
Husband
,
came
and
addressed
himself
to
me
,
pretending
himself
a
Person
of
Honour
,
and
upon
first
Sight
pressed
me
to
Marriage
;
I
told
him
,
Sir
,
said
I
,
I
am
a
Stranger
,
have
no
Acquaintance
here
,
and
desire
you
to
desist
your
Suit
:
I
could
not
speak
my
Mind
,
but
he
(
having
borrowed
some
thread-bare
Compliments
)
replied
,
Madam
,
your
seeming
Virtues
,
your
amiable
Person
,
and
noble
Deportment
,
renders
you
so
excellent
,
that
were
I
in
the
least
interested
in
you
,
I
cannot
doubt
of
Happiness
:
And
so
with
many
Words
to
the
like
purpose
courted
me
.
I
told
him
,
and
indeed
could
not
but
much
wonder
,
that
at
so
small
a
Glance
he
could
be
so
presumptuous
with
a
Stranger
,
to
hint
this
to
me
;
but
all
I
could
say
would
not
beat
him
off
:
And
presently
afterwards
,
he
having
intercepted
my
Letter
,
by
which
he
understood
how
my
Affairs
stood
,
and
how
considerable
my
Means
were
,
he
still
urged
me
to
marry
him
;
and
immediately
,
by
the
Contrivance
of
his
Friends
,
gaping
at
my
Fortune
,
I
was
hurried
to
Church
to
be
married
;
which
the
Parson
at
first
did
without
Licence
,
to
secure
me
to
my
Husband
,
and
some
time
after
had
a
Licence
.
And
my
Husband's
Father
,
afterwards
considering
I
had
a
considerable
Fortune
,
pressed
me
,
that
in
respect
I
had
no
Relations
here
,
and
because
,
says
he
,
we
are
mortal
,
you
would
do
well
to
make
over
your
Estate
to
my
Son
your
Husband
;
it
will
be
much
for
your
Honour
,
Satisfaction
of
the
World
,
and
for
which
you
will
be
chronicled
for
a
rare
Woman
:
and
perceiving
he
had
not
baited
his
Hook
sufficient
(
with
some
fair
Pretences
)
to
catch
me
then
,
he
and
his
Son
,
who
were
both
willing
to
make
up
some
of
their
former
Losses
in
circumventing
me
of
what
I
had
,
they
robb'd
me
of
my
Jewels
and
Clothes
of
great
Value
,
and
afterwards
pretended
they
were
counterfeit
Jewels
,
and
declared
that
I
had
formerly
been
married
to
one
at
Canterbury
,
which
Place
I
know
not
;
and
this
grounded
on
a
Letter
(
of
their
own
framing
)
sent
from
Dover
,
with
a
Description
of
me
;
that
I
was
a
young
fat
Woman
,
full-breasted
,
that
I
spoke
several
Languages
,
and
therefore
they
imagined
me
the
Person
:
and
so
violently
carried
me
from
my
Lodging
before
a
Justice
of
the
Peace
,
only
to
affright
me
,
that
I
might
make
my
Estate
over
to
them
.
The
Justice
,
having
heard
their
several
Allegations
,
could
not
commit
me
,
unless
they
would
be
bound
to
prosecute
me
;
which
my
Husband
being
unwilling
to
,
the
Justice
demanded
of
his
Father
whether
he
would
prosecute
me
,
saying
they
must
not
make
a
Fool
of
him
;
and
so
after
some
Whisperings
,
the
Father
and
his
Son
were
both
bound
to
prosecute
;
and
thereupon
I
was
committed
to
Prison
.
And
since
that
,
these
People
have
been
up
and
down
the
Country
,
and
finding
none
there
that
could
justify
any
thing
of
this
Matter
,
they
get
here
an
unknown
Fellow
,
unless
in
a
Prison
,
and
from
thence
borrowed
,
you
cannot
but
all
judge
,
to
swear
against
me
.
My
Lord
,
were
there
any
such
Marriage
as
this
Fellow
pretends
,
methinks
there
might
be
a
Certificate
from
the
Minister
,
or
Place
;
certainly
if
married
,
it
must
be
registred
:
but
there
is
no
Registry
of
it
,
and
so
can
be
no
Certificate
,
no
Minister
nor
Clerk
to
be
found
;
and
if
I
should
own
a
Marriage
,
then
you
see
that
great
Witness
cannot
tell
you
,
whether
I
was
lawfully
married
,
or
how
?
But
it
is
enough
for
him
(
if
such
a
paltry
Fellow
may
be
believed
)
to
say
,
I
was
married
.
I
was
never
yet
married
to
any
but
John
Carleton
,
the
late
pretended
Lord
:
But
these
Persons
have
sought
all
ways
to
take
away
my
Life
,
bring
Persons
to
swear
against
me
,
one
hired
with
five
Pounds
,
and
another
old
Fellow
persuaded
to
own
me
for
his
Wife
;
who
came
to
the
Prison
,
and
seeing
another
Woman
,
owned
her
,
and
afterwards
myself
,
and
indeed
any
body
.
If
such
an
old
inconsiderable
Fellow
had
heretofore
woo'd
me
,
it
must
have
been
for
want
of
Discretion
,
as
Carleton
did
for
want
of
Money
;
but
I
know
of
no
such
thing
.
Several
Scandals
have
been
laid
upon
me
,
but
no
mortal
Flesh
can
truly
touch
the
least
Hair
of
my
Head
for
any
such
like
Offence
:
They
have
framed
this
of
themselves
.
My
Lord
,
I
am
a
Stranger
and
a
Foreigner
,
and
being
informed
there
is
Matter
of
Law
in
this
Tryal
for
my
Life
,
my
Innocence
shall
be
my
Counsellor
,
and
your
Lordships
my
Judges
,
to
whom
I
wholly
refer
my
Cause
.
Since
I
have
been
in
Prison
,
several
from
Canterbury
have
been
to
see
me
;
pretending
themselves
(
if
I
were
the
Person
as
was
related
)
to
be
my
School-mates
;
and
when
they
came
to
me
,
the
Keeper
can
justify
,
they
all
declared
that
they
did
not
know
me
.
Court
.
Knot
,
you
said
she
lived
near
you
at
Canterbury
;
What
Woman
or
Man
there
have
you
to
prove
she
lived
there
?
Have
you
none
in
that
whole
City
,
neither
for
Love
of
Justice
nor
Right
,
will
come
to
say
she
lived
there
?
Knot
.
I
believe
I
could
fetch
one
.
Court
.
Well
said
,
are
they
to
fetch
still
?
Prisoner
.
My
Lord
,
I
desire
some
Witnesses
may
be
heard
in
my
Behalf
.
Elizabeth
Collier
examined
.
My
Lord
,
my
Husband
being
a
Prisoner
in
the
Gatehouse
,
I
came
there
to
see
my
Husband
,
and
did
work
there
a-days
;
and
there
came
in
an
old
Man
,
his
Name
was
Billing
,
he
said
he
had
a
Wife
there
:
says
Mr.
Bayley
,
go
in
and
find
her
out
;
and
he
said
I
was
his
Wife
,
turned
my
Hood
,
and
put
on
his
Spectacles
,
looks
upon
me
,
and
said
I
was
the
same
Woman
his
Wife
;
and
afterwards
said
I
was
not
,
and
so
to
others
:
I
can
say
no
more
.
Jane
Finch
examined
.
My
Lord
,
there
came
a
Man
and
Woman
one
Night
,
and
knock'd
at
my
Door
;
I
came
down
,
they
asked
to
speak
with
one
Jane
Finch
.
I
am
the
Person
,
said
I.
We
understand
,
said
they
,
you
know
Mrs.
Carleton
now
in
Prison
.
Not
I
,
said
I
;
I
only
went
to
see
her
there
.
Said
they
,
be
not
scrupulous
:
if
you
will
go
and
justify
any
thing
against
her
,
we
will
give
you
5
l.
Court
.
Who
are
those
two
?
Finch
.
I
do
not
know
them
,
my
Lord
.
Mr.
Bailey
examined
.
My
Lord
,
there
has
been
at
least
500
People
to
view
her
;
several
from
Canterbury
,
forty
at
least
that
said
they
lived
there
;
and
when
they
went
up
to
her
,
she
hid
not
her
Face
at
all
,
but
not
one
of
them
knew
her
.
Court
.
What
Countrywoman
are
you
?
Prisoner
.
I
was
born
at
Cologn
in
Germany
.
Court
.
Mr.
Carleton
,
how
came
you
to
understand
she
was
married
formerly
?
Carleton
the
elder
.
I
received
a
Letter
from
the
Recorder
of
Canterbury
to
that
purpose
.
Prisoner
.
They
that
can
offer
five
Pounds
to
swear
against
me
,
can
also
frame
a
Letter
against
me
:
They
say
I
was
nineteen
Years
of
Age
about
nine
Years
ago
,
and
I
am
now
but
one
and
twenty
.
Court
.
Mr.
Carleton
,
you
heard
what
Knot
said
;
he
said
she
lived
near
him
four
Years
a
Wife
:
Why
did
not
you
get
some
body
else
from
thence
to
testify
this
?
Carleton
.
Here
was
one
Davis
that
was
at
her
Father's
House
,
and
spoke
with
him
.
—
Court
.
Where
is
he
?
Carleton
.
I
know
not
;
he
was
here
.
Court
.
You
were
telling
the
Court
of
a
former
Indictment
against
her
,
what
was
that
for
?
Carleton
.
She
was
indicted
for
having
two
Husbands
,
Stedman
of
Canterbury
her
first
Husband
,
and
Day
of
Dover
Chirurgeon
,
her
second
Husband
.
The
Indictment
was
traversed
the
year
before
his
Majesty
came
to
England
,
she
was
found
not
guilty
.
Court
.
Who
was
at
that
Trial
?
Carleton
.
One
here
in
Court
was
of
the
Jury
;
but
that
Party
said
there
was
such
a
Trial
,
but
knows
not
that
this
is
the
Woman
.
Judge
Howel
.
Gentlemen
of
the
Jury
,
you
see
this
Indictment
is
against
Mary
Moders
,
otherwise
Stedman
,
and
it
is
for
having
two
Husbands
,
both
at
one
time
alive
;
the
first
Stedman
:
afterwards
married
to
Carleton
,
her
former
Husband
being
alive
.
You
have
heard
the
Proof
of
the
first
Marriage
,
and
the
Proof
doth
depend
upon
one
Witness
,
that
is
Knot
;
and
he
indeed
doth
say
,
he
was
at
the
Marriage
,
gave
her
,
and
he
names
one
Man
,
the
Parson
that
married
her
,
that
he
is
dead
;
none
present
there
but
the
married
Couple
that
must
needs
be
there
,
the
Parson
,
this
Witness
,
her
Sister
,
and
the
Sexton
;
that
he
knows
not
what
is
become
of
the
Sexton
.
All
the
Evidence
given
on
that
side
to
prove
her
guilty
of
this
Indictment
,
depends
upon
his
single
Testimony
.
It
is
true
,
he
says
she
was
married
at
Canterbury
,
but
the
Particulars
,
or
the
manner
of
the
Marriage
,
he
doth
not
well
remember
;
whether
by
the
Book
of
Common-Prayer
,
or
otherways
:
but
they
lived
together
for
four
Years
,
had
two
Children
.
If
she
were
born
there
,
married
there
,
had
two
Children
there
,
and
lived
there
so
long
,
it
was
easy
to
have
brought
somebody
to
prove
this
;
that
is
all
that
is
material
for
the
first
Marriage
.
For
the
second
,
there
is
little
Proof
necessary
:
she
confesses
herself
married
to
Carleton
,
and
owns
him
;
the
Question
is
,
Whether
she
was
married
to
Stedman
,
or
not
?
You
have
heard
what
Defence
she
hath
made
for
herself
,
and
some
Witnesses
on
her
Behalf
;
if
you
believe
that
Knot
,
the
single
Witness
,
speaks
the
Truth
so
far
forth
to
satisfy
your
Conscience
that
that
was
a
Marriage
,
she
is
guilty
.
You
see
what
the
Circumstances
are
,
it
is
penal
;
if
guilty
,
she
must
die
;
a
Woman
hath
no
Clergy
,
she
is
to
die
by
the
Law
,
if
guilty
.
You
heard
she
was
indicted
at
Dover
for
having
two
Husbands
,
Stedman
the
first
,
and
Day
the
second
.
There
it
seems
,
by
that
which
they
have
said
,
she
was
acquitted
;
none
can
say
this
was
the
Woman
:
That
there
was
a
Trial
,
may
be
believed
;
but
whether
this
be
the
Woman
tried
or
acquitted
,
doth
not
appear
.
One
here
that
was
of
that
Jury
,
says
,
there
was
a
Trial
,
but
knows
not
that
this
is
the
Woman
.
So
that
upon
the
whole
it
is
left
to
you
to
give
your
Verdict
.
The
Jury
went
forth
,
and
after
some
short
Consultation
returned
to
their
Places
.
Clerk
.
Mary
Moders
,
alias
Stedman
,
hold
up
thy
hand
;
look
upon
her
,
Gentlemen
,
what
say
you
?
Is
she
guilty
of
the
Felony
whereof
she
stands
indicted
,
or
not
guilty
?
Foreman
.
Not
guilty
.
And
thereupon
a
great
number
of
People
,
being
in
and
about
the
Court
,
hissed
and
clapped
their
Hands
.
Clerk
.
Did
she
fly
for
it
?
Foreman
.
Not
that
we
know
.
Afterwards
I
desired
,
that
my
Jewels
and
Clothes
,
taken
from
me
,
might
be
restored
to
me
:
The
Court
acquainted
me
,
that
they
were
my
Husband's
,
and
that
if
any
detained
them
from
me
,
he
might
have
his
remedy
at
Law
.
I
then
charging
old
Mr.
Carleton
with
them
,
he
declared
they
were
already
in
the
custody
of
his
Son
my
Husband
.
So
that
if
they
had
been
counterfeit
,
as
they
all
along
pretended
,
I
doubt
not
but
that
they
would
have
had
so
much
Confidence
and
Justice
for
themselves
,
as
to
have
acquainted
the
Court
with
so
much
,
to
the
bettering
the
Envy
and
Scandal
of
their
gross
Abuses
:
but
of
the
real
worth
of
those
Jewels
,
I
shall
have
occasion
to
speak
presently
.
Being
thus
fairly
acquitted
,
I
was
carried
back
to
my
former
Lodgings
;
where
,
among
other
Visits
,
I
had
one
from
my
Husband's
near
Friend
,
who
but
two
Hours
before
had
swore
and
threatned
my
Death
:
Yet
to
feel
my
Temper
in
this
Disappointment
of
their
bloody
and
desperate
Design
against
me
,
he
was
sent
with
an
impertinent
Story
into
my
Company
,
where
he
began
to
glaver
,
and
offer
me
a
Glass
of
Wine
;
(
above
which
,
their
Generosity
yet
never
reached
:
)
but
my
Passions
were
so
high
at
the
very
sight
of
him
,
that
I
bid
him
get
out
of
the
Room
,
and
not
trouble
me
with
his
Company
:
which
he
did
,
by
slinking
from
me
,
as
the
Dog
in
the
Proverb
that
had
lost
his
Tail
.
They
thought
,
being
thus
freed
,
I
would
have
ranted
and
vapoured
,
and
gave
them
some
further
unwary
Hint
of
my
Condition
,
as
being
now
out
of
Danger
:
but
I
(
that
knew
myself
not
to
be
in
any
)
was
transported
with
no
small
Exultation
,
but
kept
the
same
Equanimity
and
constant
Tenour
;
no
less
affected
with
the
Triumphs
of
Justice
than
those
of
my
Honour
and
Reputation
.
Hitherto
they
have
not
found
any
thing
unbecoming
the
Person
I
am
,
or
what
they
made
me
to
be
,
except
in
my
Necessities
,
and
that
frequency
of
Company
to
which
they
have
subjected
me
by
false
Imprisonment
,
and
other
Scandals
;
which
I
could
not
better
remove
,
than
by
my
bare-fac'd
Appearance
to
all
Comers
:
so
that
that
,
which
other
Women
hide
and
mask
for
Modesty
,
I
must
shew
and
set
to
publick
View
for
my
Justification
.
On
the
6th
of
June
,
being
Saturday
,
I
was
discharged
of
my
Confinement
,
(
having
been
all
along
most
civilly
used
by
the
Masters
and
Keepers
of
both
the
Prisons
,
where
I
was
in
Durance
;
but
indeed
rather
in
the
Suburbs
of
a
Prison
,
than
in
a
Prison
itself
;
for
which
I
am
their
Debtor
)
and
did
expect
that
my
Husband
,
by
whom
I
was
committed
,
that
is
,
by
his
Relations
,
would
have
brought
me
out
;
and
I
staid
there
to
that
purpose
two
days
after
my
Acquittal
and
Purgation
:
but
no
such
matter
;
they
had
got
my
Estate
,
I
might
do
what
I
would
with
my
Person
:
the
groundless
Slanders
they
had
cast
upon
that
,
should
yet
serve
turn
to
insame
my
Bed
;
and
the
Counterfeit
,
though
after
Conviction
of
the
Falshood
thereof
,
must
be
separated
and
divorced
:
but
the
counterfeit
Jewels
they
'll
hug
and
embrace
,
and
part
withal
at
no
rate
.
And
therefore
instead
of
my
lawful
and
true
Husband
,
they
endeavoured
to
put
a
Counterfeit
upon
me
:
but
too
much
are
they
stupified
,
instead
of
being
sublimed
in
this
mysterious
way
of
Cheat
,
which
,
as
in
melancholy
People
,
works
still
in
their
Fancy
,
that
they
sent
me
the
most
ridiculous
Dotard
for
Husband-Gentleman-Usher
,
that
ever
Woman
laid
Eye
on
:
A
Fellow
that
could
be
no
younger
than
Brother
to
Mother
Shipton
,
and
had
his
prophetical
Spectacles
to
fit
him
for
a
Legacy
.
It
was
one
of
my
pretended
Husbands
,
by
whom
a
Bill
was
preferred
(
but
not
found
,
as
I
said
before
,
)
by
Billing
the
Bricklayer
.
Upon
Whitsun-Monday
,
the
8th
of
June
instant
,
the
said
Billing
came
to
Newgate
,
demanded
of
the
Keepers
to
deliver
his
Wife
to
him
.
The
Turn-Key
,
and
other
subordinate
Officers
of
the
Goal
,
told
him
,
They
had
none
of
his
Wife
.
He
insisted
upon
it
,
and
withstood
all
denial
,
mentioned
my
Name
,
and
the
particulars
of
my
Trial
.
The
Keepers
remembring
there
was
a
former
mistake
of
the
same
Person
,
given
in
Evidence
on
my
behalf
at
the
Trial
,
called
one
Grizel
Hudson
,
a
Convict
,
a
pretty
Woman
,
and
in
good
Habit
:
The
Turn-Key
asked
Billing
,
Whether
this
was
his
Wife
?
Billing
reply'd
,
Yes
;
and
ask'd
her
,
Why
she
did
not
come
to
him
upon
his
first
sending
for
her
?
She
told
him
,
That
the
Keepers
would
not
permit
her
to
stir
out
of
the
Prison
,
in
regard
her
Fees
were
not
paid
.
Billing
said
,
He
would
pay
the
Fees
;
and
whispered
her
in
the
Ear
,
saying
,
That
they
had
a
mind
to
hang
her
,
(
meaning
the
Carletons
)
but
he
would
not
prosecute
her
.
True
it
was
,
he
had
put
in
an
Indictment
against
her
,
but
he
could
not
help
that
.
Well
Moll
,
said
he
to
her
,
Have
you
all
your
things
?
She
said
,
Yes
.
But
,
said
he
,
Moll
,
why
do
you
stay
here
amongst
such
wicked
Company
,
Rogues
and
Whores
?
I
see
their
Irons
about
their
Legs
.
Why
,
said
she
,
I
have
left
some
Linnen
engaged
in
the
Cellar
.
To
the
Cellar
the
Keeper
carried
them
both
;
and
there
Billing
left
a
Note
under
his
Hand
,
to
pay
five
Shillings
to
the
Tapster
:
which
Note
he
hath
to
produce
,
to
satisfy
any
that
shall
make
further
enquiry
in
this
particular
.
He
further
said
,
That
she
had
cheated
him
of
forty
Pounds
,
and
that
he
would
pawn
the
Lease
of
his
House
,
rather
than
she
should
want
Money
,
although
she
was
a
wicked
Rogue
,
if
she
would
but
live
with
him
:
She
promised
she
would
.
He
told
her
,
he
would
give
her
a
Sky-colour'd
Silk
Petticoat
and
Waistcoat
,
and
a
Paduasoy
Gown
,
new
Holland
for
Smocks
,
and
all
other
things
necessary
.
Billing
,
turning
himself
to
the
Company
there
present
,
said
merrily
,
That
she
had
cost
him
much
before
when
he
married
her
,
but
he
never
lay
with
her
,
but
he
had
kiss'd
her
,
and
felt
her
a
hundred
times
.
Billing
ask'd
her
again
,
if
she
would
leave
these
wicked
Rogues
,
and
go
along
with
him
.
She
said
,
She
had
another
Debt
to
pay
.
He
ask'd
what
it
was
:
She
said
,
Twenty
Pounds
to
such
a
one
,
a
Stranger
then
present
;
unto
which
Person
he
gave
a
Note
to
pay
20
l.
in
one
Month
after
the
Date
thereof
:
(
it
's
more
than
probable
he
will
be
made
so
to
do
.
)
He
further
said
to
her
,
That
now
it
will
trouble
me
to
pay
all
this
Money
,
and
then
you
to
run
away
from
me
in
a
short
time
.
Withall
,
said
he
,
Moll
,
you
need
not
,
for
I
have
a
better
Estate
than
the
young
Man
that
tried
you
for
your
Life
.
So
gave
the
particulars
of
his
Estate
,
what
in
Money
,
Houses
,
Leases
,
and
Land
.
He
added
moreover
,
that
he
did
love
her
out
of
measure
,
notwithstanding
she
had
done
him
other
mischiefs
than
what
he
had
before
mentioned
.
She
ask'd
him
,
What
they
were
?
He
said
,
She
had
stol'n
from
his
Daughter
a
Knife
and
a
wrought
Sheath
,
a
Handkerchief
,
and
a
Seal-Ring
.
With
that
,
the
Standers-by
told
him
,
that
he
was
mistaken
,
that
this
Grizel
Hudson
was
not
the
Person
.
He
swore
it
was
,
and
that
he
knew
her
well
enough
;
that
he
saw
her
in
the
Gate-house
,
and
that
she
knew
what
passed
between
us
there
.
But
,
said
he
,
Moll
,
thou
art
a
cunning
Rogue
;
I
desire
nothing
of
thee
but
to
be
honest
,
and
live
with
me
.
The
which
she
promised
;
and
he
parted
with
great
Content
thereupon
.
This
Affront
,
and
indeed
Disgrace
I
put
to
the
other
;
but
am
very
sorry
the
poor
old
Fellow
should
be
abused
so
by
my
Relations
;
the
second
Part
,
or
worst
of
the
Cheat
of
a
cunning
Gypsie
,
who
having
inveagled
his
Affections
,
and
set
him
on
edge
by
some
lascivious
Gesture
,
entangled
him
in
a
Marriage
:
and
for
the
better
Port
and
Celebration
of
the
Nuptials
,
procured
him
twenty
Pounds
from
a
Friend
of
hers
,
for
which
he
gave
Bond
,
(
the
Duplicate
of
this
Story
)
and
when
bed-time
came
,
and
the
rusty
Bridegroom
had
prepared
himself
,
he
ran
away
in
the
dark
with
most
of
the
Money
,
and
some
odd
things
,
as
Linnen
,
and
the
like
,
and
never
after
appeared
,
till
those
skillful
Conjurers
of
Grey-Fryars
(
in
quo
peccamus
,
in
eo
plectimur
)
where
my
fault
was
in
deserting
my
first
Station
among
the
Religions
,
from
the
like
demolished
place
am
I
punished
,
raised
up
my
white
Name
,
and
made
me
personate
the
baseness
of
that
Imposture
.
To
proceed
:
I
might
now
very
well
be
said
to
be
set
at
Liberty
,
having
no
where
to
go
,
or
where
to
betake
myself
;
for
the
Verdict
did
not
reach
to
give
me
possession
of
my
Husband
,
whose
Wife
I
was
declared
to
be
,
(
the
Jury
telling
my
young
Lord
,
upon
his
asking
of
them
the
Verdict
,
as
they
were
coming
through
the
Garden
of
their
Sessions-House
into
the
Court
,
That
he
must
make
much
of
his
Princ●ss
,
and
keep
her
to
himself
:
)
Nor
was
it
easy
to
avoid
the
trouble
of
twenty
several
Courtships
for
Lodgings
,
which
I
well
considered
might
give
further
occasion
of
reproach
,
and
abuse
of
my
Credit
.
But
Mr.
Carleton
not
appearing
,
which
gave
me
suspition
of
some
further
design
,
I
took
Lodgings
in
Fuller's-Rents
,
where
in
privacy
I
resolved
to
wait
the
reduction
of
him
to
better
and
honester
thought
;
and
that
when
they
his
Friends
had
all
prejudice
laid
aside
,
and
considered
the
Duty
and
Obligation
that
lay
upon
him
,
they
would
have
restored
and
returned
him
to
me
.
But
this
neither
had
its
designed
end
,
though
the
danger
that
I
threatened
his
Father
with
,
brought
him
to
me
.
This
was
on
Sunday
in
the
Evening
,
June
the
sixth
,
when
he
came
to
me
,
accompanied
with
Mr.
George
Hewit
his
Master
,
a
Barrister
of
Gray's-Inn
in
Coney-Court
;
where
,
after
some
discourses
,
and
perseverance
of
my
resolved
manner
of
proceeding
against
his
Father
in
the
same
Method
,
and
at
the
same
Bar
where
he
had
arraigned
me
;
he
did
most
submissively
supplicate
me
,
and
adjure
me
by
all
respects
to
him
,
falling
upon
his
Knees
to
move
me
the
sooner
,
that
I
would
promise
him
not
to
prosecute
his
Father
for
my
Jewels
,
or
any
other
account
:
Adding
moreover
,
that
if
I
did
it
,
he
should
presently
murder
himself
;
with
such
like
cowardly
Bravado's
as
he
had
used
to
the
over-ruling
of
my
Affections
,
when
he
pretended
he
would
do
an
hundred
more
Mischiefs
to
himself
,
if
I
would
not
consent
to
marry
him
.
And
now
he
resumed
his
first
Kindnesses
,
in
hope
I
would
do
what
he
intreated
;
kissed
me
,
and
offered
his
Embraces
:
though
I
could
not
so
easily
admit
such
danger
into
my
Bosom
,
having
so
lately
felt
the
viperous
Sting
:
But
this
loving
humour
,
like
a
time-serving
passion
,
soon
abated
by
the
interposition
of
Mr.
Hewit
.
I
do
suppose
,
that
if
he
had
been
alone
,
and
out
of
the
custody
and
tuition
of
that
Person
,
he
would
have
staid
with
me
all
night
,
and
perhaps
for
the
future
;
but
that
Person
who
hath
surfeited
,
may
be
,
and
hath
had
too
much
of
a
Woman
,
had
now
so
little
respect
for
our
Sex
,
as
to
curse
it
in
general
:
but
let
him
beware
,
as
froward
and
as
great
a
Woman-hater
as
he
is
,
lest
he
expiate
those
Maledictions
by
some
notable
feminine
Revenge
a
steeping
and
preparing
for
him
.
Next
day
I
sent
a
Letter
to
my
Husband
,
and
left
it
for
him
at
Mr.
Hewit's
Chamber
:
but
through
his
means
,
as
I
can
conceive
no
otherwise
,
I
received
no
word
of
any
answer
;
so
that
I
resolved
once
for
all
to
go
and
make
a
demand
of
my
said
Goods
and
Jewels
of
old
Mr.
Carl●ton
;
which
I
did
on
Friday
Night
,
the
19th
of
June
,
at
his
House
at
Grey-Friars
;
and
knocking
at
the
door
,
he
himself
asked
who
was
there
:
I
answered
,
Your
Daughter
,
when
a
Princess
;
but
now
your
Son's
Wife
.
He
demanded
my
business
;
I
told
him
,
I
came
to
demand
my
Jewels
,
and
other
things
he
had
taken
from
me
,
and
also
my
Husband's
Person
.
He
reply'd
in
short
,
the
old
Gentlewoman
pulling
him
back
from
further
discourse
,
That
for
the
Jewels
,
my
Husband
had
them
;
and
for
himself
,
he
was
gone
.
There
being
no
more
to
be
said
or
done
,
I
bid
them
look
to
their
hits
,
and
departed
:
having
on
all
occasions
,
after
so
many
injuries
sustained
,
proffered
a
Reconciliation
,
being
willing
to
cohabit
with
him
,
and
have
left
no
means
unattempted
to
bring
us
together
,
that
the
World
might
see
I
am
not
such
a
loose
,
irregular
,
leud
Woman
as
I
am
slandered
to
be
,
by
my
carriage
and
demeanour
in
that
relation
of
a
Wife
,
which
Title
I
am
more
ambitious
of
,
than
any
other
yet
put
upon
me
:
But
since
it
must
be
otherwise
,
I
doubt
not
so
prudently
and
innocently
to
behave
myself
,
as
I
shall
not
want
a
Husband
,
much
less
the
trouble
of
so
impertinent
and
fickle
a
Person
as
my
Husband
,
whom
I
would
willingly
exchange
for
my
Jewels
,
and
give
him
liberty
to
look
after
another
Princess
where
he
can
find
her
.
And
now
for
that
Hocus
Pocus
,
the
delaying
of
those
counterfeit
Jewels
,
as
they
talked
,
I
shall
make
it
no
difficulty
to
prove
that
those
Gems
they
had
of
me
,
were
none
of
their
Bristol-stones
,
or
such-like
Trumpery
:
for
not
long
after
my
Trial
,
they
were
offered
in
Cheapside
to
the
view
of
a
Goldsmith
,
and
he
demanded
what
they
might
be
worth
;
who
having
steadily
and
considerately
look'd
them
all
over
,
said
,
they
were
worth
1500
l.
At
which
the
Trustee
,
or
Fiduciary
,
in
whose
hands
they
were
,
ask'd
the
Goldsmith
if
he
was
mad
,
or
knew
what
he
said
.
Yes
,
that
I
do
,
reply'd
he
,
and
will
presently
lay
you
down
so
much
Money
for
them
,
if
you
have
power
to
sell
them
:
Whereupon
my
Gentleman
put
up
his
counterfeit
Ware
with
a
more
counterfeit
Face
,
saying
,
he
came
only
to
try
his
skill
,
and
departed
.
And
now
let
all
the
World
judge
of
the
Cheat
I
have
put
upon
this
Worshipful
Family
of
the
Carletons
.
I
have
of
theirs
not
a
Thread
,
nor
piece
of
any
thing
,
to
be
a
Token
or
Remembrance
of
my
beloved
Lord
,
which
I
might
preserve
and
lay
up
as
a
sacred
Relick
of
a
Person
dear
to
me
,
(
I
think
indeed
the
dearest
that
ever
Woman
had
.
)
But
it
may
be
they
intend
to
furnish
my
Lord
with
this
portable
and
honourable
Furniture
to
the
second
part
of
this
Guzman-Story
,
against
he
shall
Knight-Errant
it
abroad
;
and
having
found
the
way
,
marry
some
other
great
foreign
Lady
,
and
instead
of
Boys
whooping
and
hallooing
at
him
here
,
be
revered
and
adored
by
Subjects
,
as
his
great
Spirit
always
divined
and
suggested
to
him
he
should
be
somebody
,
tho'
to
little
purpose
:
But
I
hope
to
prevent
that
design
,
and
to
have
speedy
redress
against
all
this
fraud
and
violence
that
hath
been
acted
against
me
.
And
now
I
have
concluded
the
Narrative
,
and
I
hope
to
the
satisfaction
of
the
World
:
And
if
there
be
any
thing
not
so
elegantly
and
clearly
expressed
as
my
Cause
requires
,
let
it
be
known
it
is
my
Father's
,
not
my
fault
,
which
hath
in
some
places
disturbed
and
muddied
my
fancy
,
and
in
others
reserved
a
hiding
place
and
obscurity
for
my
pursued
Honour
.
I
hope
the
Ingenuous
will
pardon
and
admit
of
this
defence
,
considering
the
nature
of
it
.
No
Man
is
bound
by
any
Law
to
set
forth
more
than
what
he
is
directly
interrogated
and
questioned
to
;
and
there
I
have
for
my
Innocence
sake
exceeded
.
And
for
the
ignorant
and
malicious
,
let
them
wonder
and
slander
on
;
and
when
they
shall
give
me
worthy
occasion
,
which
is
not
in
the
capacity
of
their
shallow
Brains
,
or
in
their
dishonest
Intentions
,
to
a
further
Vindication
;
that
is
,
when
my
Relations
shall
have
returned
me
what
they
took
from
me
,
and
leave
me
in
statu
quo
,
by
any
handsome
Expedient
,
I
shall
not
fail
of
making
the
Discourse
most
evident
Demonstration
,
and
descend
to
such
undeniable
proof
of
every
particular
here
,
that
shall
make
their
Impudence
and
rash
folly
one
of
the
leudest
Stories
of
the
Age
.
The
World
usually
and
frequently
judges
as
it
likes
and
affects
,
and
is
altogether
sway'd
by
Interest
and
Humour
;
and
even
by
that
,
amidst
all
those
industrious
Calumnies
,
I
dare
stand
or
fall
.
Let
my
Quality
and
Condition
alone
,
and
he
is
not
weighed
in
the
common
Scales
;
yet
the
fair
Conduct
and
the
harmless
Example
deserves
no
Censure
.
Let
both
alone
,
my
Sex
is
to
be
pitied
and
respected
,
and
my
Person
not
to
be
hated
.
But
I
will
not
prostitute
my
Fame
to
them
:
To
his
Highness
I
have
appealed
,
and
to
him
I
shall
go
.
Not
doubting
but
what
the
strictness
and
nicety
of
the
Law
doth
at
present
withhold
him
,
we
shall
by
his
gracious
Protection
of
Innocence
,
be
freed
from
such
incumbrances
;
and
some
easier
solution
found
for
those
Intricacies
,
than
my
Lawyers
can
at
present
expedite
.
I
am
advised
howsoever
to
prosecute
my
Adversaries
in
the
same
manner
,
and
at
the
same
Bar
where
they
arraigned
me
,
for
a
suspicion
of
a
real
Suit
of
Felony
,
for
that
Riot
against
the
publick
Peace
committed
upon
my
Person
;
which
I
am
resolved
to
do
,
in
case
I
receive
not
better
satisfaction
from
them
before
the
Sessions
,
nor
shall
my
Husband's
dilating
Intreaties
an
Persuasions
befool
me
any
longer
.
Either
love
me
,
or
leave
me
,
And
do
not
deceive
me
.
The
Fashions
and
Customs
here
are
much
different
from
those
of
our
Country
,
where
the
Wife
shares
an
equal
Portion
with
her
Husband
in
all
things
of
Weal
and
Woe
,
and
can
liber
intentare
,
begin
and
commence
and
finish
a
Suit
in
her
own
Name
;
they
buy
and
sell
,
and
keep
Accounts
;
manage
the
Affairs
of
Household
,
and
Trade
,
and
do
all
things
relating
to
their
several
stations
and
degrees
.
I
have
heard
and
did
believe
the
Proverb
,
That
England
was
a
Heaven
for
Women
;
but
I
never
saw
that
Heaven
,
described
in
its
proper
Terms
:
For
as
to
as
much
as
I
see
of
it
,
't
is
a
very
long
prospect
,
and
almost
disappears
to
view
;
it
is
to
be
enjoy'd
but
at
second-hand
,
and
all
by
the
Husband's
Title
;
quite
contrary
to
the
Custom
of
the
Russians
,
where
it
is
a
piece
of
their
Divinity
,
that
because
it
's
said
,
that
the
Bishop
must
be
the
Husband
of
one
Wife
,
they
put
out
of
Orders
,
and
from
all
Ecclesiastical
Function
,
such
Clergymen
,
who
by
the
Canon
being
bound
to
be
married
,
are
by
death
deprived
of
their
Wives
;
so
that
their
Tenure
to
their
Livings
and
Preferments
clearly
depends
upon
the
Welfare
and
Long-life
of
their
Yoke-Fellows
,
in
whose
Choice
,
as
of
such
moment
to
their
well-being
,
they
are
very
curious
,
as
they
are
afterwards
in
their
Care
and
Preservation
of
them
.
I
could
instance
in
many
other
Customs
of
nearer
Nations
,
in
respect
to
female
Right
and
Propriety
in
their
own
Dowers
,
as
well
as
in
their
Husband's
Estates
:
but
cum
fueris
Romae
,
Romano
vivite
more
.
I
will
not
quarrel
with
the
English
Laws
,
which
I
question
not
are
cal●ulated
and
well
accommodated
to
the
Genius
and
Temper
of
the
People
.
While
I
mention
these
Customs
,
I
cannot
forbear
to
complain
of
a
very
great
Rudeness
and
Incivility
to
which
the
Mass
and
Generality
of
the
English
Vulgar
are
most
pronely
inclined
;
that
is
,
to
hoot
and
hollow
,
and
pursue
Strangers
with
their
Multitudes
thro'
the
Streets
,
pressing
upon
them
even
to
the
Danger
of
their
Lives
;
and
when
once
a
Cry
,
or
some
scandalous
Humour
is
bruited
among
them
,
they
become
Brutes
indeed
.
A
Barbarity
I
thought
could
not
possibly
be
in
this
Nation
,
whom
I
heard
famed
for
so
much
Civility
and
Urbanity
.
This
I
experimented
the
other
day
in
Fan-church-street
,
as
I
was
passing
through
it
upon
some
occasion
;
which
being
noised
and
scattered
among
the
'Prentices
,
I
was
forced
to
bethink
of
some
Shift
and
Stratagem
to
avoid
them
;
which
was
by
putting
my
Maid
into
a
Coach
,
that
by
good
hap
was
at
hand
,
and
stepping
into
an
adjoining
Tavern
;
which
the
Herd
mistaking
my
Maid
for
me
,
and
following
the
Coach
as
supposing
me
there
for
the
Convenience
thereof
,
gave
me
the
Opportunity
of
escaping
from
them
.
A
Regulation
of
this
kind
of
Uproar
by
some
severe
Penalties
,
would
much
conduce
not
only
to
the
honour
of
the
Government
of
the
City
,
but
the
whole
Nation
in
general
;
having
heard
the
French
very
much
complain
of
the
like
Injuries
and
Affronts
:
but
those
to
me
I
may
justly
place
to
my
Husband's
Account
,
who
hath
exposed
me
to
the
undeserved
Wonder
,
and
to
be
a
May-game
to
the
Town
.
And
to
his
Debility
and
Meanness
of
Spirit
,
I
am
likewise
beholden
for
some
other
scandalous
Libels
and
Pasquils
divulged
upon
this
occasion
of
our
Marriage
;
chiefly
for
the
Ribaldry
of
some
pitiful
Poetry
,
intitled
,
A
Westminster
Wedding
,
which
equally
reflects
as
much
upon
himself
as
me
.
This
Tameness
of
his
doth
hugely
incense
me
;
and
I
swear
,
were
it
not
for
the
Modesty
of
my
Sex
,
the
Bonds
of
which
I
will
not
be
provoked
to
transgress
,
I
would
get
satisfaction
myself
of
those
pitiful
Fellows
,
who
by
this
impudent
and
saucy
Scribling
,
do
almost
every
day
bespatter
my
Honour
.
At
least
,
I
wonder
my
Husband
doth
not
vindicate
himself
,
and
assert
his
own
Reputation
,
(
having
threatned
it
so
much
in
print
,
)
and
justify
mine
.
FINIS
.