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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05033	A briefe description of the notorious life of Iohn Lambe otherwise called Doctor Lambe. Together with his ignominious death.		1628 (1628)	STC 15177; ESTC S120018	10,330	24

reare and kicke in that sort as the Gentleman was taken vp for dead and there being no Inne neare that place he was conueyed into the Lawyers house where hee continued vntill hee recouered his former health in which time hee fell in loue with the Gentlewoman and shee with him and in the end they were married together Here follow some exploits done by Doctor Lambe during his Imprisonment in the Castle of Worcester THree Gentlemen came vpon a time to see Doctor Lambe in the Castle of Worcester while hee was there Prisoner who desired to bestow some wine on him but the Keeper told them it was not a seasonable time to send for wine it beeing past Eight of the clocke in a Summer euening at which time the Castle gates were of custome to bee locked vp and the Tauerne was halfe a mile distant from the Castle Vpon which the Gentlemen gaue ouer their purpose of sending for wine But Doctor Lambe asked them what wine they would chuse to drinke and when one of them answered Sacke hee called for a Wine-glasse and immediatly a pottle of Sacke stood before them vpon the Table the Gentlemen were fearefull to meddle with it but the Doctor began to them and they vpon his encouragement pledged him They asked him then from whence hee had it hee told them from the Globe Tauerne and the signe of the Globe was vpon the pot The Gentlemen afterwards parting from Doctor Lambe and going to their lodgings in the Towne enquired of the Tauerne-keeper whether any body had lately fetched a pottle of wine from thence or no. The man answered them that a little boy in greene had since eight of the clocke fetched so much for Doctor Lambe Another Doctor Lambe beeing merry at the Castle with diuers of his acquaintance espied a woman not farre from thence walking towards them told the Company hee would make that woman take up her coates aboue her middle And immediatly to the wonder of the company the woman began to take vp her cloathes and by degrees lifted them vp aboue her middle Some women that beheld her called out alowd and asked what she meant by so shameles a behauiour she answered them that shee meant to wade through the water and saue her clothes imaginging it should seeme that there had bin a poole where it was dry land Another A Gentlewoman hearing the fame of Doctor Lambe came to the Castle with other of her Friends expecting some strange sights from him And when shee was come into his roome asked a friend of hers softly in his eare which was the Witch The Doctor came to her and told her hee knew shee had called him witch and because shee should know hee could vnderstand secrets hee told her aloud which was truth that shee had two bastards and named their ages and the places where they were both brought up Vpon which the Gentlewoman wonderfully abashed quitted the place Another There was a man that dwelt besides Tewxbury whose name was Wheeler Hee was warned to be one of the Iury at Worcester upon the Tryall of Doctor Lambe Hee comming before to the Castle to see the Doctor and standing amongst the crowd of people in the chamber Doctor Lambe came to him and falling downe vpon his knees asked him blessing The people wondering at the reason of it Doctor Lambe told them that he should shortly be one of his twelue Godfathers Wheeler being a bold fellow and nothing abashed at it told him it was true but he was now come to see whether he could doe any such strange things as he had heard of Doctor Lambe bid him plucke off his garter and tye it about his middle as fast as euer he could which Wheeler accordingly did and tyed it in twenty knots Then Doctor Lambe bad him plucke it off againe hee told him hee could not vnlesse hee tooke time to vntye the knottes Then Doctor Lambe taking hold of the garter plucked it with ease from him and in such a manner as it seemed to all the company and to Wheeler himselfe that the Garter came out of his very body vpon which Wheeler was much affrighted being not altogether sure whether he were wounded or not After his arraignment at the Assises of Worcester the High Sheriffe the Foreman of the Iury and diuers others of the Iustices Gentlemen there present and of the same Iury to the number of forty dyed all within one fortnight vpon which the Country how euer that sad accident befell affrighted and suspecting the damnable arts of the said Doctor and obseruing many other lewd practises of his during the time of his imprisonment became petitioners for his remoue from thence vpon which hee was remoued to the Kings Bench at London In which place he liued in great plenty of money and much resorted vnto by people of seuerall conditions Where at last hee was arraigned for a rape vpon the person of a girle of eleuen yeares of age as shall more at large appeare in the following discourse Heere followeth the effect of an Inditement preferred against Doctor Lambe at the Kings Bench Barre for a Rape by him committed vpon the body of Ioan Scager of the age of Eleuen yeares THE Iury for our Soueraigne Lord the King vpon the Holy Euangelist doe present That Iohn Lambe late of St. George in the Burrough of Southwarke in the County aforesaid Gentleman not hauing the feare of God before his eyes but by a Diabolicall instigation being moued and seduced the tenth day of lune in the yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord IAMES by the grace of God of England France Ireland King Defender of the Faith c the 21. and of Scotland the 56. with force and armes c. at the Parish of St. George afore-said in the Burrough of South-warke aforesaid in the County afore-said vppon one Ioane Seager a virgine of the age of 11. yeares in the peace of God and our said Soueraigne Lord the King then and there beeing an assault made and her the said Ioane against her will then and there feloniously and violently did rauish deflowre and carnally know against the peace of our said Soueraigne Lord the King his Crowne and Dignity And also against the forme of the Statute in this case made and prouided c. Vpon which Inditement hee was arraigned before the Kings Maiesties Iustices of his Highnesse Court called the Kings Bench and was there found guiltie of the said Rape and had Iudgement to die but by his Maiesties especiall Grace he was pardoned Here followeth the effect of the proofes produced against him concerning this Rape Concerning the rauishment of Ioane Seager of the age of 11. yeares done by Iohn Lamb prisoner in the Kings Bench. The Examination of Mabell Swinnerton wife to William Swinnerton Bricklayer dwelling in St. Martins Parish neere vnto the new Exchange WHo saith that Elizabeth Seager the mother of Iohn Seager came to her house shee then dwelling in South warke on the