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A56903	Hell open'd, or, The infernal sin of murther punished being a true relation of the poysoning of a whole family in Plymouth, whereof two died in a short time : for which horrid fact, the malefactors were condemned before the Lord Chief Justice North at Exector, the last Lent assizes, the one to be burnt, the other to be hanged : with an account of the several discourses and religious means used by divers godly ministers to bring them to repentance ... / by J.Q., Minister of the Gospel.	Quick, John, 1636-1706.	1676 (1676)	Wing Q207; ESTC R11200	63,192	112

taken they are all bound over to Prosecute our Malefactors at the next Assizes for the County of Devon whose Mittimus is now Signed and Sealed and they sent to the High Goal near the Castle of Exon. Here they spend full Six Months but what In a serious and sad reflection upon their hainous and Crying sin In the exercises of Repentance Contrition and Godliness No in nothing less than in the practice of such indispensible Duties In truth they came thither the Slaves and Vassals of the Devil full of Ignorance and unacquainted with God and the things of God they were got into a Prison the very Suburbs of Hell a place to the Relators knowledge a Seminary of all Villanies Prophaneness and Impieties destitute of good Company good Books and the good means of Grace and of all helps saving their Affliction that might lead them Heaven-ward And it was very improbable that under so great a want of Spiritual advantages they should bethink themselves of Heaven and Eternity Indeed they might and ought to have done it But they were captivated by the Prince of Darkness who had blinded the eyes of their understandings and Seared their hearts as with an hot Iron that they should not see nor know nor consider the things that belonged unto their Peace Besides they were held in stronger Chains than those of Iron their own iniquities had taken hold of them and they were bound with the Cords of their sins Here they fed themselves and are flattered also by their Companions in Ungodliness with the fond and false hopes of escaping the Justice of man and as for that of God they never Dream of it it enters not into their thoughts Let them but escape the Gallows and get out of Goal they imagine Hell may be avoided with less difficulty and Heaven obtained with far more facility Thus Camelion-like they live upon the Air or with Ephraim upon the East wind or as Esay's Idolator they feed upon Ashes a deceived heart hath turned them aside that they cannot deliver their Souls nor say is there not a lie in our right hands But in the depth of their Sencelesness and Security they are surprized with a cold damp The Assizes are come the Judges arrived the Trumpets sound and our wretched Prisoners are Summoned unto Judgment Up they go unto the Bar with heavy hearts though with undejected Countenances They had some Figleave excuses to cover their shame and rather than want a Shift and Plea for themselves they will add sin to sin lyings and impudent denials Alas Poor Souls this is not to lessen but to aggravate your guilt this doth not hide but discover it You Cloath your selves with a Net your Nakedness and filth is the more Apparent Witnesses are examined evidence is produced the Malefactors are heard and permitted to speak for themselves the Bill was found and an Impartial Jury declares them Guilty they are cast Sentence is pronounced and now being dead in Law they Petition for a Transportation Here is the last Refuge of miserable Murderers But Justice dispenseth no favors they may be Transported to another world not to another Land Blood cries for Blood Innocent Blood demandeth Vengeance God hath said it and the Righteous Law of England hath confirmed it that he who sheddeth mans Blood by man shall his Blood be shed a man that offers Violence to the blood of any person shall flie to the Pit let no man stay him Accordingly their Petition is rejected their Request is denied they are bidden to prepare for death all hopes of life here have left and forsaken them The Girl as Guilty of Petty Treason and Murder is Sentenced to be drawn on an Hurdle to the place where she shall be Executed and there Burnt to death An horrible death An Emblem and lively Picture of Hell torments D●awn as if dragged by Devils Burnt alive as if in that Lake of Fire and Brimstone already Lord what Rocks are these that do not rend and break to pieces at the hearing and thinking of it Methinks the very Sentence should have struck her dead There is so much of horror in it that with Nabal her Heart should have died in her Yet she lives under it Lord Let it be in mercy to her Space is given her to escape the wrath of God though she cannot the vengeance of Man The Nurse must Hang till she be dead a too gentle death for such a Prodigy of Ungodliness She Pleads stifly her Innocency disowns all Guilt takes no Shame her Brow is Brass she is Impudent and hath an Whores Forehead If ever there were a Daughter of Hell this was one in her proper colors No evidence shall convince her Confess faith she Then I shall Hang indeed I deny the fact none saw it none knew it but the Girl it may be that vile Person her Husband had a Finger in it but he is gone Some will pitty me though none will believe me none can help me Yet though she must die as sure as she was born the Devil helps her to one Expedient as she conceives that may save her Life My Lord I am Innocent I am with Child do not kill two Innocents If I must die let my Child live The Reverend Judge is too Righteous to punish the Innocent with the Guilty or to destroy the Child for the Mothers fault Hence a Midwife is commanded to attend the Court a Jury of Matrons impannell'd the Murderess is searched and after their strictest Scrutiny and Inquest they find her a Lyar to have troubled the Court needlesly she is not quick as she would bear them in hand if she have at all conceived Upon this they are returned to their Prisons and now in sight of Hell Others pitty them and tremble at their dismal State but poor wretches they have no Bowels for themselves yea without any gracious Sentiments without any feeling apprehensions of their approaching misery Plymouth hath been the first Scene of this Tragedy there had they committed their Murders and upon the humble Petition of Master Weeks Husband and Father to the Murdered Persons and concurrent Request of the Grand Jury His Lordship grants it to be the place of their Execution This was a rare Spectacle such a sight was never seen since the foundations of that Town Oh! that it might be the last In the Interval of their Sentence and Execution several Divines visit them The Right Reverend Diocesan out of his Religious care of their happiness ordered two who frequently attended on them but with no success on the Nurses part Other Ministers moved by Charity and yearning at their misery did concur to use their utmost endeavors to save them from Hell Instructions Exhortations Prayers Tears dreadful denunciations of unsusterable torments with the damned sweet and gratious promises in case of Confession Repentance towards God and Faith in our Lord Jesus are used and urged with the greatest Vehemency and industry upon the Nurse but they beat the Air

them I also visited them again and renued my assaults and batteries against this strong hold of the Devil but she resists stands out against God and all his Counsels she resolves from first to last whatever parleys she hath with Heaven let the Lord humble himself never so much unto so base a Murderer she may treat with him but unless she can obtain her own Terms her own Articles and Conditions she will not surrender Sill she hideth her sin as Adam still concealeth she the secret of Hell as if she had been sworn Privy Counseller unto the Devil She will sooner bite out her Tongue and spit it out of her Mouth or seal up the door of her Lips than let the deposi●um Satan have vent and see the Sun So that I could sigh unto my self as that German Philip The old Satan is too hard for young Melancthon It was high time to leave her upon whom no good impressions could be wrought I then betook my self to the poor Penitent and asking her how she did How it went with her Soul She answers me Never was a poor Creature so cheated out of her life But I forgive the Nurse front my Heart And Sir Though my sins are many yet Gods mercies are more and if Christ bath not merits enough to save me I will be contented to be damned eternally And afterward inquiring of her into the grounds and reasons of this her confidence she told me she saw her sin she was unfeignedly sorry for it and not only that it was committed against her Mistresses and had ruined them and her self here but chiefly this grieved her that she had thereby dishonored God her Heavenly Father who had made her and Jesus Christ who had died for her and God the Holy Ghost who had sanctified her to become his Servant That however she would not despare of mercy For the Thief upon the Cross found mercy from our Saviour at the last hour and I Question not that he my Saviour hath mercy for me Reader I give thee her very words neither adding to them nor substracting from them and if they do do not melt thee in reading I must assure thee they did me in heating them Her Sisters being come to her weeping and crying she was desired to speak to them and urged because her time was short she answered My time is short indeed and I am drawing near unto Eternity but I hope in God to an Eternity of Happiness My great work now was to settle her Spirit and to corroborate her Soul against the horrors of her death and told her after many other discourses Anne thou art happier than many here for I hope before Twenty four hours be past thou wilt be in Heaven Hold fast thy hope and confidence in Gods mercy which shal have a good recompence of Reward No matter for thy punishment since thou hast a pardon Yea Sir saith she I believe and receive this true and faithful saying worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief Having got a little silence and very little indeed it was the noise and tumult of the people ever and anon drowning my voice I prayed with these Malefactors and wished them a good Night But sleep they did not Every hour increaseth their fears The day of their Execution is now come and early in the morning I gave them another visit comforted and confirmed the poor Maid who desired me not to leave her at her sufferings and dealt again with the Nurse though to as little purpose as formerly and then sought God by Prayer in their behalf That duty finished Turning my discourse to the Maid Anne said I Thy time flies away thy end is very near take off thy heart wholly from the world Be dead unto thy Relations tell them the best service and kindness they can do thee is not to see thee but pray for thee and let all thy thoughts and desires be unto God to be at home with him long now to be in Heaven and Glory turn thy Face to the Wall since thou hast no private Room and power out thy Soul before the Lord and wait yea wait earnestly for his Salvation Do not fear the Fire God will carry thee thorough it it can only hurt thy Body it shall not singe thy Soul Though thy Flesh and thy Bones be consumed thou wilt have many Mourners and God I hope will gather thine Ashes and grant thee a Glorious Resurrection I want words to tell thee what the Joys of Heaven are but thou wilt see and feel and tast and injoy them very shortly I hope this day thou wilt be with the Lord and all his blessed Saints and glorious Angels in Paradise She said Amen Notwithstanding my ill success and many repulses hitherto yet I would not leave the Nurse I reasoned still with my self who knoweth but that Grace may be given and Satan may loose his hold fast and the Prey may be taken out of the Paws of the spoiler out of the jaws of the Devourer Satan hath fallen as a flash of lightning before the Ministry of Gods Holy word God hath him in a Chain and though she hath not listened to the voice of former admonitions it may be she shall now unto the last Addressing my self therefore once again unto her I told her Nurse this is the last conference that ever I will have with thee on Earth about thy Soul and nothing but my real sence of its worth and lothness that it should be lost for ever would ever have ingaged me to it That I got nothing but trouble grief and loss of time thus to wait upon her and not to be able to do good I knew indeed my reward was with the Lord and my work with my God but yet I demanded this poor satisfaction of her now at parting that she should not send me away with the sad thoughts of her damnation To which she very civilly replyed Sir I thank you for all your love to my Soul I believe that what you have done and spoken hath been in order to my Eternal good Well then I added shall you and I have a little private discourse together She agreed Desiring therefore the people to withdraw at a distance I askt her in her Ear whether she were Guilty or not Sir saith she I will tell you all I know Then stopt at length the repeats again I will tell you all I know And then stops Whereupon I told her Nurse the Devil is leaving thee God is coming in with mercy do not now at the last hour refuse it tell me what you know of this business and I assure thee upon the word of a Minister that without thy consent I will not disclose it Do not fear shame shame the Devil and give Glory to God Sir I confess I did put the Spider into the Cup and bad the Girl to squat it abroad but it was a Foolish and vain word

I never intended any more hurt to my Mistris than I do to my own Soul I believe she spake the truth for she never intended good to her Soul Just like Doctor Lopez the Jew who being convented before the Privy Councel for attempting to Poyson Queen Elizabeth told their Honors That be loved the Queen better than be loved Christ Yea said a Noble Lord thou tellest the truth for thou art a Jew and lovest both a like And Sir I knew that this wicked Maid had an intent to make away her Mistris and that she did it but I was loth to discover and now I must suffer for her fault I told her no it was for her own and she did not yet confess any thing to the purpose all this I knew before you must tell me as to your own hand and Guilt in this Murder None None at all Sir that is her answer But Nurse did you not tell such a Minister that visited you in Goal that you would consider what he spoke unto you at this she changed countenance paled and redded once and again minced aequivocated and faltered in her expressions but taking her in all her Evasions she could not deny she had promised him and had considered of it yet knew no guilt by her self worthy of death Getting no ground here I askt her concerning the Gold her Brother took her for his Child she told me she never had any from him Why then did you speak to Master W. to look after your Money if you never had any and be such a Poor Woman Sir I will without any dissimulation tell yon all the Truth My Brother acquainted me that there was Ten Pound in a Purse hanging between the Vallance and the Wall of his Bed Chamber in Loo Whereupon my Husband got an Horse in Plymouth Rode thither and brought it to me So that I never had any of my Brother but my Husband had Well Nurse this may be as you say though undoubtedly there was more but how have you disposed of it She replied It is put out for my Child I told her this is a very horrid Theft the healer was as bad in the sight of God as the stealer that without Restitution there was no Remission That unless she took some course for its being restored she could never be saved That God would never bless it unto her Child Yea the very contrary for it would be a snare and a curse unto her and an occasion of destruction unto her otherwise innocent Child And recollecting all my former discourses and arguments to her I pressed with all possible earnestness and importunity not willfully to precipitate her self into Hell That there were now but a few Sands in her Glass a few breaths in her body a few minutes in her time that she should not play the Fool any longer love the Devil and hate God The Devil had already undone her yet the Lord was willing to save her He sent me once again upon that errand but if she were resolved to adhere unto her grand Enemy and utterly forsake the Lord her best Friend I was heartily sorry for her I foresaw she must Burn in Hell Everlastingly That in the day of Judgment I should be a witness against her and it would be a fearful thing that God Almighty should tell her did not I send Minister upon Minister to Convert reconcile and save thee Did not this and that come unto thee Woe and intreat thee with tears in their eyes with fair and gentle with terrible and amazing words to confess and give Glory to me but thou wouldest not Ah! Nurse Nurse What will you say unto the Lord then She wept and I wept for Company But recovering my self Woman said I do not flatter thy self with false hopes of Life For I fear thou keepest the Devils Counsel upon that account Thou must die All the world cannot save thee Ere three hours be spent and gone thou must be led unto the Gallows and thence into Eternity Oh! Hell Hell Hell Woman is a place and state of unspeakable of unsufferable horror and torment Yet Flee Flee Flee from it Or thou art undone for ever I now Love Pitty Intreat and Pray for thee But if thou wilt be a Reprobate a cast away I take God to witness I have done my duty my utmost to save thee Lord said I lifting up my Eyes and Hands to Heaven I am free of the ruin of this Woman Let her Blood and Damnation lie upon her own Head And Nurse It is a very fearful thing to fall into the bands of the living God The God to whom thou art going is a consuming Fire Ah! Who can abide his anger Who can stand before his indignation None will compassionate thee at thy death And in the day of Judgment thou wilt be an abhorrency to all All this wrought nothing upon her besides tears Still she avows her innocency and had I not had unquestionable evidence of her guilt possibly I might have been perswaded she was accused and condemned unjustly After this I sat down and Mr. Collings the Reverend Minister of Charles Church coming in he reasoned with her for a long time as also my worthy Friend Mr. Sh. But a Marble Quarry affords no Water nor her stony Heart one penitential Tear At length all their pains being useless ineffectual and unsuccesful we resolved to try the Lord once more by Prayer and see whether any mercy might be got out of Heaven for her Mr. Collings was our Mouth to God The condemned Persons were upon their knees Duty ended I departed and never spake more with her till she was upon the Ladder ANd now she is waited on to the Gallows The Streets are crowded The Major Magistrates and under Sheriff can hardly pass for the throngs The poor Maid is drawn on the Hurdle The posture she lay in was on her left side her Face in her Bosom her Bible under her Arm seeming like one dead rather than alive At length we are come though slowly to the place of Execution Plimouth was then naked of Inhabitants the Town was easie to be taken and the Houses to be plundered if an Enemy had been at hand to have done it Cat downe the Lambhey Cittadel Turn-Chappel and Cat-Water are prest with multitudes Some computed their number I'wenty thousand But Commanders who at lived in Wars and seen great Armies and therefore the most competent Judges in this case estimated them at one half I write within compass The Maid being nailed to her Stake and the Iron Hoop about her and the Nurse mounted upon the Ladder she desires that this Relator might now Pray with her But it being thought requisite that the established Order of the Church should be observed the Common Prayers were first Commanded Which having been read Audably and with great Devotion from the By-standers The 51. Psalm according to the Girls request was sung Who it was very observable joyned with the People singing also