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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84383	Pseudochristus: or, A true and faithful relation of the grand impostures, horrid blasphemies, abominable practises gross deceits; lately spread abroad and acted in the county of Southampton, by William Frankelin and Mary Gadbury, and their companions. The one most blasphemously professing and asserting himself to be the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God who dyed and was crucified at Jerusalem for the sins of the people of God. The other as wickedly professing and asserting her self to be the Spouse of Christ, called, the Lady Mary, the Queen, and Bride, and Lambs Wife. Together with the visions and revelations, to which they did pretend their ways of deceiving, with the names and actions of sundry persons deceived by them. As also their examinations and confessions before the justices of the peace, their imprisonment, and their tryal before the judg of assize, at the last assize holden at Winchester, March 7. 1649. Published for a publique benefit and warning to every one to take heed to himself, that he be not deceived by the errors and deceits of these present times. / By Humphry Ellis, minister of the word in the city of Winton.	Ellis, Humphrey, d. 1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing E579; Thomason E602_12; ESTC R206414	57,353	63

very sensible of these things and of the Glory of God and good of their Country so highly concerned in them And accordingly with all speed were Warrants granted out by several of them to the Constables of those parts for the apprehending of William Franklin and some others of these so dangerous persons These Warrants were with as much speed as might be put in execution by the Constables by them were William Franklin and with him Mr Woodward Henry Dixon Edward Spradbury apprehended and besides what was done towards these persons upon their apprehension by the Bayliff of Andover where they were either apprehended first or brought thither whose care and faithfulness in this business is much to be commended they were from thence brought hither to Winchester upon Munday Ianuary 27. and there presented before those Justices of the County who live at this City by them to be examined and proceeded withal accordingly With those persons thus apprehended brought by the Warrant came also others of their own accord though not included in that Warrant as M. Gadbury Mrs Woodward Goody Waterman and some others I do not hear that Iohn Noyce was here present particular complaint was made afterward against William Holmes and particular Warrant granted for the apprehending of him but he either departing from his habitation or some way or other hiding himself was not at all yet apprehended that he neither appeared now or at any time before the Justices or at the Assize But those persons who were thus apprehended with the others that came so together with them not so much to see what would be done with them as to assist them and witness the same thing with them in their Tr●al and Examinations and together they came with abundance of confidence and boldness to stick unto those things which they had asserted with which they knew they should be accused The Justices before whom they were brought and by whom they were now to be examined were Mr Thomas Bettesworth and Mr Richard Gobbe Their Appearance and Examination was at Mr Bettosworths house who lives in the Close here at Winchester At the time of their Examination great multitudes of persons resorted to the house to see and hear what would be done with them or said by them It would be tedious to the Reader and that which the brevity I desire and shall endeavour in this Relation will not bear should I now proceed largely to set down the whole of their carriage before the Justices and of the things spoken by them according to that credible information I received of it But some most material passages I shall have respect unto together with the Examinations of some Witnesses taken upon Oath and the Examinations of the persons themselves attested by them by subscribing their names to them These will be the most authentique Testimonies I can present my Reader withall of the blasphemous speeches and practises of these persons and wherein he may see from the Confessions of the persons themselves a Confirmation of the most or most material things that have been before related As concerning their carriage before the Justices it was with abundance of boldness and confidence in general there asserting whatsoever had been before declared by them and towards others whom they had occasion to converse withall with abundance of scorn and contempt Goody Waterman a very talkative woman said to the company That if they were not there the house would fall down upon them and if they should not speak the stones would speak And being very forward in speaking after this manner Mrs Woodward told her That she saw much of the Power of God in carrying her forth to speak so as she did This Goody Waterman to one that bid her stand farther from him saying that her breath did stink answered that she defied what he spake and her breath was the breath of the Lord And concerning another young woman one of their own company who had spoken somewhat wherein she was contradicted she also answered That what that young woman spake was not much to be regard she being but a babe of a week old and indeed it was their manner to reckon their age from the time of their first believing in this Deceiver as if they had been but then born When one speaking of William Franklin called him Fellow Mary Gadbury at the hearing thereof holding up her hand at him said Thou dog how darest thou call thy Saviour Fellow thou art not worthy of a crumb Thus may these and many other such like passages which fell from them serve to discover their height of confidence in their blasphemous Assertions as also the impudent boldness of their carriage But leaving these things we will now proceed to the Confessions and Examinations of these persons themselves and Witnesses concerning them setting down first what was attested by some Witnesses and next what were their own Confessions And first take here the Testimony of Fortunatus Wats of Woodhay who was the first that I can hear of to have given evidence against these persons and his evidence had been given in to the Justices before they granted their Warrants for the apprehending of these persons but may now be here very fitly inserted His Evidence was thus A man aged about thirty or fourty years on Monday the 17. of December 1649. at Mr Woodwards at Crooxeason in Hampshire affirmed himself to be Christ the Son of the living God the Messiah that sits at the right Hand of God the Corner stone the Lamb of God that was slain at Ierusalem and had the wound yet on his body unhealed That his Spirit was abroad gathering in of Souls that he came now in the fulness of time to save the very Elect and is none of those false Christs spoken of in Scripture but the true Christ indeed If any would know my name I am said he the great King of Heaven without any guile in my mouth without beginning of time or end of days He undertook to forgive sins and by name did so to me Fortunatus Wats of Woodhay in Hampshire Witness my hand Decemb. 20. 1649. And this he subscribed his name unto Now you shall have the Examination of some Witnesses delivered upon Oath before the Justices at Andover and at Winchester after their Apprehension The accusation of Peter Blake of Andover in the County of Southampton Merchant given upon Oath before several Justices of the Peace at Andover the 26. of January 1649. HE saith upon Oath That Edward Spradbury of Andover Clothworker affirmed that one lately lying at the Star in Andover aforesaid naming himself Franklin was the Lord of Life and Glory and that he was the Messiah the Lamb slain from the foundation that he had the key of the bottomless pit that shutteth and no man openeth and openeth and no man shutteth That he was the Christ the Saviour of the World The Christ that suffered on the Cross The Lion of the Tribe of Judah

to be The Christ the other as blasphemously proclaiming him so to be and both of them joyning together and effectually prevailing to the seducing of the Souls of divers to follow them in their ways of destruction are the persons whom I shall especially deal withall and whose ways and practises of deceiving with what hath been done by and upon them within these few moneths past in this County of Southampton I shall endevor to lay open and discover But as that which may give some light to the following Relation and the better direct all that may see or read it what use they are to make of it it will be necessary that I first of all make some discovery of these Persons their Conditions Callings and manner of living in Times past the way and means of their acquaintance together and associating themselves in so sinful a manner and for so wicked an end to and with one another with the occasion of their coming together into this County according to that understanding thereof I have received either by their own Confessions or the informations which those to whom they or either of them have been formerly well known have given me concerning them William Franklin a man as may easily be guessed much about fourty years of age was born at Overton a place not far from Andover in this County of Southampton was an Apprentice in London to the Trade of a Rope-maker hath been about these sixteen years a married man and hath at this time a wife and three children living in Stepney parish near London the place of his habitation where he hath both lived and exercised till of late the Trade to which he was Apprentice For his manner of living he hath been well esteemed in Times past as a civil man diligent in his Calling honest in his dealings careful to provide for his Family and hath born Office in the place and parish where he hath lived yea he hath been well esteemed in Times past for Religion having been an eminent Professor of it very zealous in the duties of Religion and very constant in the practise and observance of the Ordinances of the Gospel I have received very good testimony concerning him that he hath been esteemed by the godly as an eminent Saint as a choyce Professor of godliness he hath been of late years much afflicted his Family visited with the pestilence himself also as I have heard sick of it he was also in a condition of desertion doubting of the love of God but had afterwards reviving by the Promises of grace applied to him besides sickness both in body and minde he hath been somewhat distracted in his brain I have seen it testified under the hand of Charls Stamford Chirurgion that in the year 1646. William Franklin was distracted that he had bled him divers times and used other means for that distemper This of his distemper I the rather write concerning him that I may not be censured to conceal any thing that might in the least extenuate his offences especially seeing that several Certificates concerning this his distempered condition were presented in his behalf when he stood at the Bar before the Judg at the Assize and intimating that what was done by him to be while he was in distracted fits Yet this I must also add That I finde not those Certificates which I have seen to certifie any thing directly of his being in such a distemper since the year 1646. While he hath been in prison in this City I have several Times seen him and had concerning his Opinions and Practises much conference with him but could never see or hear ought from him which might argue him in the least to be so distempered but rather in such a cautious wary manner expressing himself that what ever he spake was sufficient to shew him to be a man all this time in a sober minde enjoying the right use of his Intellectuals his understanding faculty according to the strength of those parts he was endued withall very free from any such natural distemper And though I have also spoken with divers that have several times talked and conversed with him since his coming into this Country yet I never heard of any to declare that any thing in all this time hath been seen or heard to proceed from him which might argue him so distempered therefore for these Reasons thus expressed although I cannot but say the man hath been mightily possessed with a spiritual frenzy in what hath been declared and done by him yet I cannot admit any thing of such a natural distemper to be alledged to extenuate these great evils which he hath faln into But to return to that Relation of him whence we have thus digressed In that affliction and distemper of his before mentioned he fell into divers strange temptations and many blasphemous passages and expressions saying That he was God that he was Christ fell from him and were uttered by him but he afterward recovered from that distemper and affliction of body and minde and both discerned and acknowledged that Satan had attempted to bring him under strong delusions he began to follow his Calling again he went to the Congregation or gathered Church to which he did belong and whereof he was a member and there humbly and graciously to the apprehensions of those that heard him acknowledged to the glory of God and his own shame that he had sinned and blasphemed God and was held for a time by Satan and his own heart under that strong delusion he declared how God delivered him he warned all to keep close to the written Word of God to watch and pray that they entered not into temptations and to take heed they were not led away from the Truth by the error of the wicked and so did fall from their own stedfastness After this he walked sometime in fellowship with that Congregation and there was great hope that he was now well recovered from such delusions but however not long after he fell again into and was more deeply then before plunged in such spiritual delusions for now he pretended to have received some Revelations and Visions which he endevored to manage as the manner of such is with fair speeches and seeming Scripture-Gospel-expressions and pretended to prophecy and foretel things to come he got acquaintance amongst some of those that deny Ordinances Scriptures Christ and are faln from all Gospel-principles and as it seems learned their ways He then pretended that he could speak with new Tongues and would babble out words which neither himself or others were able to understand and as it is the property of wicked men and seducers to wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived so hath it been with this man till at length he hath attained to that height of impiety and blasphemy which shall be declared in this Relation By these spiritual deceits he so fell into was he also led into much impiety as to beat and abuse his Wife

birth and that it was not altogether spiritual and did expect that she should satisfie them in it and tell them the Truth She answered that she could best tell in regard she was present and received what the Queen was delivered of and said it was of that man which she called Franklin but in a spiritual manner perswading them that Franklin was transfigured and had no substance left him and that she received him as a Saviour from the woman called the Spouse in the shape of a man and moreover told the Justices that what was in the Scripture of either Old or New Testament was but Types and Shadows which she did not now regard having the Substance Thus far the Examination and Confession of Mrs Woodward of whom it is to be noted that when she was called in by the Justices to be examined by them Mary Gadbury calling her said Come in my Elect Lady And Goody Waterman the woman so often before mentioned said then of her self also that she was the Kings Daughter all glorious within But let us now come to those who were the Principals in all this business and consider what was done with them Concerning them therfore it is to be known that the Justices had much to do with them to get an Answer from them to any the questions they proposed concerning their Names Conditions Callings Habitations they would either answer they had no name no habitation according to the flesh intimating thereby that they were wholly spiritual the flesh wholly destroyed in them and thereby all these things of name relation habitation which were fleshly also But it being intimated to them by one of the Justices that they must then deal with them as with Rogues committing them to Bridewel the house of Correction for so it seems the Law doth judg those to be Rogues that being examined cannot or will not declare their names conditions calling or place of their habitations and accordingly appoints the House of Correction for them William Franklin therefore being soon sensible of this and the danger he was in thereby receded from his before professed Resolution and now became willing to submit to Examination and accordingly being examined made this following Confession The Examination of William Franklin taken the 28. of January 1649. He saith his Living is at Stepney beyond London and that he is by Trade a Rope-maker and that he hath now according to the flesh a wife and three children living He saith farther that about a moneth since he went to the house of Mr William Woodward a Minister at Croexcason and that he had a woman with him which he calleth his Spouse and hath been acquainted with her a long time And doth affirm That it was revealed to him in a Vision that she should be set apart for his use and that he should separate from his own wife which she the said Spouse at the first motion having a great opinion of his integrity believed and consented to go with him whither he pleased And immediately after they had another Vision whereby they were warned to go into the Hill Country into the Land of Ham which they interpreted to be into Hampshire and so being obedient unto that heavenly Vision they came both together in Hunts Wagon to Andover He farther saith That he often preached at Mr Woodwards house in the presence of Mr Woodward and his wife and whole family and sometimes twenty more and sometimes more And saith That he is the Son of God and was crucified without the gates at Jerusalem and that his body hath been wounded broken and often offered up for sin and that it was about three years and an half since that he assumed this fleshly body of his and that he is not to suffer any more in this mortal body It being told him That he could not be the Christ Christ being in Heaven at the right hand of the Father as the Scripture testifieth but he being here bodily must be a Deceiver he answered Those things of the Scripture were gone and were nothing to him but types and shadows And thus you have also the Examination and Confession of W. Franklin But Mary Gadbury not so sensible of the danger she should expose her self unto by refusing to be examined and concealing her name and habitation when required of her refused still to give any direct Answer to those things and therefore all that I can understand at this time to be answered by her was to that of her name that she had no name according to the flesh but a new name to that concerning her husband there being ground enough to judg that she had an husband that she had now no husband according to the flesh but that her maker was her husband the Lord of Hosts was his name and he was within her and being questioned concerning her lying with Franklin every night though he were a married man as it had been witnessed their so lying together which though she could not deny yet she affirmed that it was without pollution or defilement and denyed that there had been any carnal copulation between them Speaking of William Franklin she affirmed that he was crucified at Jerusalem and being demanded whether she had been at Jerusalem and when she answered that she had been there about a week ago of which her Answer she afterward gave this Reason saying that Jerusalem was every where And this is the whole that I can find to have been then taken of her Examination But that one thing of the womans impudence is moreover noted which is That it being supposed by many who were present at her Examination that she was painted her complexion being so very fresh and beautiful that the truth thereof might be discovered one of the Justices took a candle for this their Examination was at night and told her that she looked so fair that he did scarce believe it to be natural whereupon she stept forth presently and very boldly put her face very near to the candle and said That she was glad the glory of God did shine so beight in her face that they were forced to admire it The Examination of these several persons being now thus past the Justices designed and endeavored if possible to obtain from William Franklin the head of this blasphemous company some Recantation of these his many Blasphemies and some acknowledgment of his great evil therein hoping that such an Acknowledgment and Recantation from him the Ring-leader might be a means to startle all the rest of the seduced party that so followed him and hung upon him to this purpose they begin to deal with him They set before him the danger he had now brought himself into by these his wicked practises and endeavor to make him sensible that there is no way for him to obtain favour to save himself from the great danger he was in and to recover liberty unless he be sensible and make acknowledgment of his wickedness in these abominable