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A31465	Malice defeated, or, A brief relation of the accusation and deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier wherein her proceedings both before and during her confinement are particularly related and the Mystery of the meal-tub fully discovered : together with an abstract of her arraignment and tryal, written by her self, for the satisfaction of all lovers of undisguised truth.	Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1661; ESTC R17590	56,493	52

William Leigh Anne Sutton Tho. Willoughby and knows him to be the person for whom he sought the prisoner is by the Jaylor forthwith sent for who questions his ability and if he finds sufficient to satisfie his Avarice he promises to secure him with Life against Justice by vertue of his Interest in the Recorder but if poor joyns with the Prosecuter to the same intent either to the hazard of the Prisoners life or at least a tedious Confinement The unlegal deteining of another sort of persons which have pleaded His Majesties Pardon of Transportation Judeth Collingson Elizabeth Evans Mary Porter Tho. Willoughby and according to the form thereof have given in Bail to Transport themselves in 8 months which is the time limited in the said Pardon which persons notwithstanding their being bail'd are still deteined and often till the time be expired which makes the Jaylors Market with the Merchant and inslaves the persons Mary White and others or at least creates Vice instead of Reformation and converts the Money to his own Use The debarring Prisoners liberty of Conscience Jane Middleton Mary White Charles Parker T. W. and compelling them to go 3 or 4 pair of Stairs to Chappel as the Jaylor calls it but as it will otherwise appear to be seen by Strangers through Grates like the Lions at the Tower who give money to the Jaylor for the same which persons are so severely tortured that it is not to be thought and that with such Irons as in Jaylors language are called Shears To this part T. W. only which are in weight 40 or 50 l. and a yard in length with one Legg fixed at one end and the other at the other end which barbarous Engine produces such Torture that the persons on smooth ground can move but 3 or 4 inches at a time this is his pretence to secure his Prisoners The putting of persons which are Debtors to the Crown Jane Middleton Magdalen Clench Jos Mallorey T. W. in the place he used to secure Condemned Prisoners and that for not writing this following Superscription on a Letter To the Worshipful William Richardson Esquire there to be laden with Bolts and continued without food or sustenance during the worshipful Jaylors pleasure John Whitehand Mrs. Whitehand Elizab. Golding T. W. The separating a Wife from her Husband and all manner of Friends and Relations as well from sick persons as others which they do to compel such persons as are desirous to see their Friends to give money before they be admitted That all persons whatsoever are carefully searched as they come in lest they should bring in such goods or provisions as are by his Worship prohibited T.W. only to this And that he takes care with his Subbs to be very diligent in such search for the better creating a Vend for his own Goods which are so bad that it oftentimes breeds Distempers and so small a quantity for money that unless Prisoners are more than well stored with money poverty strikes in to their great detriment Mary White Jane Middleton Joseph Mallorey John Whitehand T. W. That about the 8 th of March last a person whose name was Robert Thompson died and is to be apparently made out that it was for want of Food as his Corps also signifies which was an absolute Skeleton and that within the space of 24 hours Contr. for Stat. the Jaylor disposes of him as he thought most fit and that without any Coroner to enquire of his Death and to give an account of the said Subject to our Sovereign Lord the King c. Dorothy Ramsey That the Jaylor ordered his Subbs to Punish or privately Torture with Thumb-scrues the person of Dorothy Ramsey to the intent she should discover the manner of Owen Hursts escape who was her Husband William Leigh Jane Middleton John Zeal T. W. The Jaylors Extortion on the Kings Prisoners after his Majesty has of his Bounty and Goodness extended his gracious free Pardon comes to the Prisoners inserted therein the said Pardon Signed and Sealed and tells if they or as many as can will raise such a certain Sum he will assure them a Pardon others which cannot are by his base jugling left only as Convicts for Transportation and that for want of Money thus are the Laws of the Realm and his Majesties pleasure to his poor Subjects violated and to make the Jaylors Market which is as usual with him as with our most Clement Prince to extend his Mercy The close Confinement of Prisoners without Relief or Sustenance as particularly one Mary White Mary White the Midwife Several Prisoners and others who for the space of seven weeks was close confined from all Conversation as well of Husband as other near Relations and not only burthened with excessive Irons on both Leggs but for two days together kept from any Victuals or other Sustenance and after this was by the Jaylors order removed to a Room called the Condemn'd Room and there for six weeks more kept with the Irons on her Leggs and though big with Child to the Jaylors certain knowledge yet did he cause her to be put in the Bilboes and bolted her hands down to the Ground with Staples of a great bigness by which inhumane and immoderate torments she was so afflicted that her Child died soon after it was born occasioned as Oath will be made by the usage aforesaid and this done meerly to enforce her to accuse her self and others of Crimes they imagined her and them guilty of That about a year since was in custody as a Convict for Transportation one Elizabeth Evans who had given in Bail to the Recorder to Transport her self according to the form of the Pardon but was so indebted to the Gaol as he pretended that she could not raise moneys for the same whereupon Richardson sends for the said Evans and often requested her to refer her self to him to the end he might make good his Market with the Merchant which she did but when he brought a Master of a Vessel to take the said Evans away she refused to go and told the Gaoler he promised to give her the Fees and turn her out but that now she did perceive 't was only to expose her to Sale which she would not consent to upon which refusal the Jaylor forthwith ordered her to the Condemn'd Room there to be double Iron'd and kept without sustenance or any converse till his farther Order which came not in two days then he himself examined her again whether she would consent but she refused and then the Jaylor thought fit to employ some other Engines of his Tyranny amongst which was a certain thing by him called a Cap of Maintenance which was fixed to her head with a thing like the Rowel of a Spur being put into her Mouth cleaves to the Roof with such extream Torture that is not to be exprest this the Woman endured several times till at last

so ill I am not fit to dye yet Cellier Do you think to wipe off your other sins by committing Perjuries and Murthers Dangerfield No but God is merciful and if I live I may repent I was disserted by every Body and if I had not been Hang'd I should have been Starv'd It is a sad thing to depend upon an ungrateful and disunited People If any care had been taken of me to remove me to the Bench they could only have Pillored Me and I would never done this nor any other Villany But since no body took any care of me I had reason to take some of my self which I will do Those I belong to now are very kind to me and send me great Incouragements I shall have a Pardon within two or three days and be set at Liberty but before I go I should be very glad you would consider your own Condition and not ruin your Family your Maid Susan will Swear against you and there are two Persons found that will lay worser things to your Charge than I have done Cellier Villain you know it is all Lyes Did I ever do any of those things Dangerfield Though you did not they will be Sworn against you therefore come in now whilst it is time and joyn with the most powerful you may make your own Conditions then he shewed me Gold and told me what great Advantages were to be made by becoming the Kings Evidence That the King was Bought and Sold and here would be a Republick and the Duke would be destroyed in Scotland And that if I would say His Royal Highness gave me the Original of those Papers that were found in my Meal Tub and bid me cause him to put them into Mansels Chamber and Kill the Earl of Shaftsbury then I should have a Pardon and more Mony than all the Witnesses had had together for the Earl of Shaftsbury and the rest of the Confederate Lords would raise Ten Thousand Pounds among them which I should pass over by Bills of Exchange whither I would as soon as I had Signed and Sworn the Depositions And I should have Twenty Pounds per Week setled on me by Act of Parliament as long as I liv'd And if I would do it some Persons of Honour should come and treat with me for though I were confin'd there was Lords that were Privy to all that would come on pretence to Examine me and settle things to my satisfaction But I laugh'd at all this and receiv'd his proffers as they deserv'd and said Cowardly Wretch you are worse than your Elder Brother Judas for he having betray done Innocent left those that hired him to seek false Witnesses for themselves and repented and brought again the Thirty pieces of Silver and had Courage enough to hang himself But you have betray'd and belyed many Innocents and yet are such a Coward to waite for the Hangman for hang'd you will be He that digs a Pit for another shall fall therein himself Therefore Repent you Rogue and tell the King who set you on for you will certainly be Damn'd if you do not And then by the fit Application of other places of Scripture I shook him so that he Howl'd like a Dog that had the Tooth-Ach And again shewed his Arms where the Irons or Cords had worn off the Skin telling me he had been Rackt and otherwise cruelly used to force him to accuse me Cellier Ah Cowardly wretch would you shed the blood of so many Innocents to save your life I had rather dye ten thousand deaths than belye my self or others And can there be any Rogues besides your self so wicked as to endeavor to suborn Witnesses to belye the best of Men Look there do you see the Devil stand at your Elbow assure your self he 'l tear you to pieces alive Then he howl'd again and wrung his hands pretending Repentance and told me that against to morrow he would write down all the Intrigue with the Names of those Lords and others that set him on and give it me if I would give him any hopes of a Pardon for my self and others he had wrong'd Cellier It is not possible for you nor any other Devil Incarnate to wrong me more than I can forgive if you Repent and leave your Villany but do not dissemble for dissembled Piety is double Iniquity Dangerfield Do you think other Persons I have accused will forgive me Cellier Yes if you truly Repent I doubt not but their Charity and Prudence will oblige them to that Then he told me a long Story how kind the Earl of Shaftsbury and some greater men were to him and what great things they had promised to do for him yet he said he would Repent and tell the Truth and hop'd God would have Mercy on him Then I went from the Window Next Morning he was waiting at his Window by Day-break and throwing little Coals at mine About Nine or Ten a Clock I went to the Window hoping to perswade him to tell the Truth But like the Dog was returned to his Vomit and proposed to me if I would not belye the Duke to say the Earl of Peterborough gave me those Papers and that I had received a Thousand pounds in Gold of Sir Allen Apsley to pay him for the Murthering the Earl of Shaftsbury and to raise Souldiers against the King But I received this Proposition like the former and Answered Cellier No I plainly see you are possest with the Devil he speaks through your Mouth You worst of Rogues how dare you talk thus to me Dangerfield Pray Madam speak low and do not discompose your self whatsoever happens there shall no harm come to you Cellier Wretched Villain Innocence fears nothing I have done no Evil nor I fear none And shut to the Window and would speak no more to him All that day at times he hancred about the Window shedding Crokadils tears holding up his hands and making beseeching signs to me to come to my Window About four in the Afternoon I went saying Blood-thirsty ingrateful Villain what have you to say to me Then he wrung his hands and Lamented saying Now he was fully resolved to tell the Truth and if I would promise he should be Pardoned would show me how to turn the Devices of the Malicious upon their own Heads and had writ it all out for me and would tye a Coal to it and throw it in but he would first try if he could fling in an Apple he had in his hand he try'd but the Apple fell down He said there is something in it and Ran down in great hast to fetch it But I suppose those that set him on had more fears I should Convert him than hopes he should Pervert me and would not let him appear any more at the Window but presently I heard a great Noise in the Goal and it was pretended the Jaylor had discovered our interview and Sir John Nicholas came that Night to search and examine me I told him the

told the Truth as I would have done long before if they asked it and desired Pen Ink and Paper to recollect my Memory and to see my Husband before a Keeper which the King said was but reasonable and bid make an Order for it which was done yet the Keeper would never let me see him in 11 or 12 weeks that I was confined after that but one quarter of an hour Yet to give him his due he was as civil to me as the strictness of my confinement would admit of and his Wife also all the time I was in their own House January 11 th I sent in my Depositions being all I then could remember but they would not let me have Paper to take a Copy of them but Truth can never be forgotten January 15 16 or 17 th I was brought before a Committee of Lords and they asked me many Trepanning Questions to insnare me Then Mr. Gadbury was called in and his Depositions read to which I only answered Cel. Mr. Gadbury I remember nothing of all this but I confess I am the unfortunate cause of your Trouble and if by ruining me you can ease your self I give you free leave Then a Lord told me there was Treason sworn against me but I might yet save my self if I would for they did not Thirst for my Blood Cel. I am glad to hear your Lordship say so for I am so simple I judge by appearances which are quite otherwise Then Dangerfield was called in and asked if I did not set him on to make a Mutiny at the Rainbow Coffee-House Dangerfield My Lord I cannot say she set me on Cel. Was not I angry with you for it and bid you be gone out of my House and caused you to be removed up into the Garret Dangerfield No that was afterwards Cel. But it was for that Cause A Lord. Do you know any thing of a walk that was upon Tower-Wharf tell us the Truth for you are upon your Oath Cel. I have often walked upon it for I lived there by A Lord. We mean a walk with the Lord Chief Justice and offering Ten Thousand Pounds concerning Sir George Wakeman tell us the Truth for the Countess of Powis has told us all Cel. Yes my Lord I read it in a Pamphlet Dangerfield I do believe it was in a Pamphlet Cel. There was two and you brought them both to me A Lord. Do you remember any more concerning Sir Robert Peyton Cel. Nothing that is fit to tell at this time A Lord. She will not tell the Kings Privy Council what she knows Cel. Not at this time at which Answer they were very angry and asked me some snaring Questions concerning my self but I have forgot what it was yet remember that I answered thus Cel. My Lord I am not obliged to Answer that Question your Lordships are none of my Judges I appeal to my equal Judges Twelve Commons of England in a Court of Judicature let them that desire my life assault it there and though I cannot defend it like a man yet I will not part with it in complement to your Lordships and I desire to be tryed as soon as may be A Lord. Your Tryal will come soon enough you will be put to death Cel. Blessed be God then I hope the Play is near an end for Tragedies whether real or fictious seldom end before the Women die A Lord. What do you make a Play of it Cel. If there be no more Truth in the whole Story than there is in what relates to me every Play that is Acted has more Truth in it A Lord. You talk very peremptorily Cel. My Lord I thank God Death is no terror to me and she that fears not to die cannot fear to speak Truth A Lord. Withdraw withdraw Mrs. Cellier Cel. Before I go I will tell you something of Sir Robert Peyton he told me that though the Earl of Shaftsbury was out of the Council yet his power was as great as ever for he had a strong Party there and he knew all Transactions as soon as the Council rose for he had a Nephew there and there was a person always ready at his House to run away with Intelligence of what passed at Council to the Earl of Shaftsbury A Lord said that was very like how else should the Examinations taken there come to the Press so soon some of Mr. Gadburies that were taken but a day or two before lying there in Print upon the Table Then one of the Lords seeming to wonder his Lordships Nephew was not there commanded me to withdraw Both in January and February I sent in the following Petition but could not possibly get it read though I sent 5 or 6 and in the whole time of my Confinement my Husband carried near 20 but they were still supprest To the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Right Honourable the Lords of his Majesties Privy Counsel The Humble Petition of Elizabeth Cellier close Prisoner in Newgate Sheweth THAT Your Petitioner hath been thirteen Weeks close confin'd and she having had the management of her Husband's Estate with that of two Fatherless Children The most considerable Estate of which depends upon Process at Law and is to be try'd this next Term and they are wholly Ignorant of their Affairs Wherefore your Petitioner doth most humbly Pray and Beseech your Majesty and the Honourable the Lords of the Counsel that she may be Inlarged or permitted to speak to her Husband and Children before a Keeper to advise them how to proceed in their Suit and thereby prevent their ruine And your Petitioner shall pray My Husband put in several Petitions to the same effect but could get no Answer insomuch that he was forc'd to release Seven Hundred and odd Pounds for Sixty one A good Part of which Mony lay in Court of Chancery and the Master of the Rolls had made A decretal Order for us but the Defendant petitioning for another hearing my Husband and Children not being permitted to speak with me knew not which way to defend themselves There I lay close confin'd till the first of April though my Husband daily sollicited for my enlargement But about that time being dangerously sick I was allow'd the Liberty of the Press-Yard Sometime in February I was brought again before a Committee of Councel A Lord. Mrs. Cellier do you know one Mr. Pen a Quaker Cel. I never see him but once Lord. Did you not write to him and give him thanks for making so good use of the Paper you sent him Cel. Yes My Lord I did so Lord Do you use to write to Men you know not Cel. If your Lordships please to have Patience I will tell you the occasion of it About the beginning of May last 6 Copies of a Paper call'd the Danby Reflections were left at my House by an unknown Person with a Note desiring me to put them into understanding mens hands I went to Fox Hall and made a strict Inquisition into the