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A20917	A true discourse of the practises of Elizabeth Caldwell, Ma: Ieffrey Bownd, Isabell Hall widdow, and George Fernely, on the parson of Ma: Thomas Caldwell, in the county of Chester, to haue murdered and poysoned him, with diuers others Together with her manner of godly life during her imprisonment, her arrainement and execution, with Isabell Hall widdow; as also a briefe relation of Ma: Ieffrey Bownd, who was the assise before prest to death. Lastly, a most excellent exhortorie letter, written by her own selfe out of the prison to her husband, to cause him to fall into consideration of his sinnes, &c. Seruing like wise for the vse of euery good Christian. Beeing executed the 18. of Iune. 1603. VVritten by one then present as witnes, their owne country-man, Gilbert Dugdale.	Dugdale, Gilbert.; Armin, Robert, fl. 1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 7293; ESTC S110927	16,795	32

shut your eares against the worde of Exhortation you cannot haue any hope of saluation for the booke of God is full of iudgements against wilfull sinners and mercie is to them that repent turne Therefore I beseech you vse no delay deferre no time but presently bee acquainted with the Scriptures for they will leade you to eternall life make hast euen before your hands part with this paper to search therein that so you may truly vnderstand the wretched estate condition of those who following the lusts of there eyes wallow in all sensualitie and so heape vp vengance against the day of wrath euen heauie Iudgments no lesse then condemnation both of soule and body As Salomon saith Reioyce O young man in thy youth let thy hart cheare thee in the daies of thy youth and walke in the waies of thy hart and in the sight of thine eyes but knowe that for all things God will bring thee to Iudgement Remember he spared not the Angells when they sinned but cast them downe into hell nor of the old world but eight onely escaped the rest were drowned in their sinnes because they would not be warned Baltasar sayth Daniell expounding the fearefull vision of the hands writing when hee was banqueting with his Concubines thou art wayed in the Ballance and are found light These and many more are written for our admonition vppon whom the ends of the world are come search for them and I pray God you may be warned by them and that you may seeke the Lord now while hee may bee found and call vppon him while he is neere Behold now the day of saluation euen now when he in mercy offereth himselfe vnto vs by preaching of his word receiue not these graces in vaine but redeeme your time and runne vnto the house of God and there in the great congregation power foorth your plaint with obedience heare the word of God and indeuour to practise what you heare in your conuersation for the doores onely shall bee iustified at the last day the word must iudge vs in this life it worketh effect for which it was sent it either conuerts or hardens it is the sauour of life vnto life or of death vnto death it is offered to all to those that imbrace it it brings life to those that will not be reformed by it it brings death to those that loue and desire it it is the quicking spirit to those that refuse it it is the killing Letter it is no speciall argument of God his fauour vnto any vnlesse they feele the power thereof working reformation in them then it is the power of his spirit the pledge of his blessing Ignoraunce must not excuse you for the Prophet saith my people languish for want of knowledge and knowledge without practise leaues al men without excuse for hee that knoweth his maisters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many strips therefore make more conscience of the word of God then you haue done and loue his Messengers the Preachers that brings that glad tidings for to loue them is to loue Christ and to hate them is to hate Christ as our Sauiour saith he that dispiseth you dispiseth me and it is hard to kick against the prick And loue the children of God that professe Christ Iesus for hereby shall men knowne that you are my Disciples if you loue one another saith our Sauiour And for the Saboth day bee yee assured that the Lord of heauen hath not in vaine chosen it to himselfe commaunding vs to Sanctifie it vnto his holy name no no if euer we desire to be pe●takers of the spirituall Saboth in heauen whereof ours on earth is but a tipe and a figure then must we striue to keepe the same Saboth on earth as much as in vs lyes which the Saints keepe in heauen they are at rest from those labours that mortality is subiect vnto and vncessantly sing prayses vnto the Lamb so should we rest that day from the labours of our calling and spend the whole day in hearing of the word preached praysing the Lord publickly in the great congregation priuatly at home with our families preferring such other holy exercises as may tend to the glory of God the comfort of our soules the good of others which we are bound to performe so straightly as that we may not that day be alowed to speake such words as concerne of vocations And how soeuer it please the world to thinke of the great God of heauen and of the sanctifying of the Saboths yet be you assured he is a iealious God and will visite sinners and one seede of his word shall not be lost but he will be glorified by it either in the saluation of those who in a good conscience willingly indeuour to sanctifie them or in the condemnation of those who wilfully oppose themselues against his blessed ordinaunce to prophane them which is one of the crying sinnes of this land wherewith the whole Kingdome is infected and if there were not some fewe to stand in the gap for whose sake the Lord doth speare the rest it had not beene possible we should so long haue escaped his heauy iudgements O deere husband the Lord hath long since taken his sword in his hand to execute his vengance against all disobedient wretched who turne the Saboth of the Lord into a day of wantonnes liberty and licentiousnes and although in his great mercy he doth yet forbeare to proceede to iudgement as it were in great mercy waiting our repentance yet there wil suddainely come a day of reckoning all together and the wicked make the patience of our God an occasion to commit sinne and prophanes yet let them knowe the Lord will take vengance of his aduersaries and reserue wrath for his enemies and though hee be slowe to anger yet is he great in power and will not surely cleare the wicked though he deferre the Sessions yet they will come and though he haue Leaden feete yet hath he Iron hands though the fier light not vppon Sodome all the euening yet it came Doe not therefore prouoke the Lord any longer by your prophanes for he is strong readie to punnish and hath promised that the person that dispiseth his word shall be cut of Did hee not commaunde a man to be stoned to death for gathering a fewe sticks on the Saboth day and is hee not still the same God yes certaine his arme is not shortned if we wilfully persist in our disobedience Sixe market dayes hee hath giuen vs to prouide vs necessaries for our bodies and but one hath hee chosen for himselfe to be a day of holines which is the market day for the soule wherein wee should prouide vs of comforts for the whole weeke The excellencie and woorth of this day is vnspeakable to those that sanctifie it It is the badge and liuerie whereby they are knowne to bee the seruaunts of God to those that prophane it in spending the day in

A True Discourse Of the practises of Elizabeth Caldwell Ma Ieffrey Bownd Isabell Hall widdow and George Fernely on the parson of Ma Thomas Caldwell in the County of Chester to haue murdered and poysoned him with diuers others Together with her manner of godly life during her imprisonment her arrainement and execution with Isabell Hall widdow As also a briefe relation of Ma. Ieffrey Bownd who was the Assise before prest to death Lastly a most excellent exhortorie Letter written by her own selfe out of the prison to her husband to cause him to fall into consideration of his sinnes c. Seruing likewise for the vse of euery good Christian. Beeing executed the 18. of Iune 1603. VVritten by one then present as witnes their owne Country-man Gilbert Dugdale AT LONDON Printed by Iames Roberts for Iohn Busbie and are to be sold at his shop vnder Saint Peters Church in Cornewell 1604. To the right vertuous the Ladie Marie Cholmsly the right worshipfull these Knights Sir Tho Houlcroft Sir Iohn Sauadge of Egerton Sir Iohn Egerton Sir Peter VVarborton Sir Rowland Stanly Sir Vrian Leigh Sir Tho Aston Sir Thomas Smith Sir Tho Sauadge Sir George Leister Sir VVilliam Damport Sir Tho Stanly Sir George Booth Sir Henry Bunberry Sir Hukin Beeston Sir Richard Wilbrome Sir Richard Brooke Sir Richard Egerton Ma. Peter Warborton Esquire Ma. Thomas Wilbrom Esquire Ma. Thomas Brooke Esquire Master Richard Granesnor Esquire Ma. Hugh Calmelie Esquire Ma. Robert Cholmsly Esquire Ma. Ralfe Egerton of Ridly Esquire Ma Thomas Marburie Esquire Ma. Richard Brerton of Wetten-hall Esquire and all the rest as well Knights as Gentlemen then at the Assises present the true witnesses of this following historie your kind poore Countryman Gilbert Dugdale engaged to you all in debt and dutie committeth this dicourse with true and due commends with continuall prayers for your good healths and succesfull fortunes MOst indered and right vertuous Ladie and you the rest of the right VVorshipfull these kinde Cheshiere Knights After my long beeing at Chester in the time of this reported trouble I in my mellancholie walkes be thought me of the strange inuasion of Sathan lately on the persons of Elizabeth Caldwell and her bloody louer Iefferie Bownd together with that vntimely actor Isabell Hall widdow howe that vglie fiende euer mans fatall opposite had made practise but I hope not purchase of theyr corruptible liues brought them to the last steppe of mortall miserie And then revoluing with my selfe the great goodnes of God in calling sinners to repentance and withall admiring his gifts in the penitent I could no lesse then write my harts trouble as well to pertake the world with my meditation as to make them vvonder at this Cheshiere chaunce and thereby to plant or to engraft a kinde of feare by this way of example howe murder should heereafter beare any braine in sensible creatures considering how the very stones shal bewray the inward thoughts of massaker All these considered when I had coted this wonder thinking how incredulous our Nation is in things true and how vncertaine they are to beleeue fopperies fayned I could no lesse for the certaintie heereof but call you to witnesse of the proofe because sith such an example was preferd vnto vs that others not eye witnes therevnto might the rather assure themselues of the same First I knowing your generall griefes for the fall of so good a Gentlewoman and when no remedy could be to comfort such a godly soule aswell in her time of imprisonment as at the houre of her death my owne occasions also for that time considered and beeing your true and naturall Country-man I could doe no lesse but ostend my dutious loue to you all in this kinde desiring you to accept my poore mite onely considering this the poore mans plenty is prayer to regrate your worthy loues as truly as I liue that shall be no niggard for that night wherein I lie me downe and pray not for you all let my rest be broad-waking slumbers and my quiet waking dreames and that will be punishment more then I would enioy for so regardlesse a good as I so late and so happily receaued True it is that diuers reports passed vp and downe the streets of Loudon as touching this act of murder but how scandelously as fiue murdred three murdred by the meanes of six persons which your VVorships know is false only three murdered one marry the intent was to him that now liues Therefore being an eare-witnes to this false alarum it made me more diligent in the setting foorth the truth whereby GOD in his power might be knowne sathan in his meaning no doubt ouerthrowne and the worlds idle fabling by a contrary meaning knowne For as it was it was and no otherwise and thus it was as your presences both at the examination arraignement and execution can iustifie and how odious it is to heare any truth rackt by slaundering tongues iudge or imagine onely this pardon my boldnes witnes the right accept my good will in the publishing and so I commit you to Gods protection Your poore Countryman euer yours Gilbert Dugdale The practise of Elizabeth Caldwell against the life of her owne husband I purpose God willing to discribe in briefe the life and death of Elizabeth Caldwell late wife of Thomas Caldwell in the countie of Chester and daughter to one Maister Duncalffe of the sayd countie A gentleman of very good sort who fatherly and carefully trained vp his daughter from her infancie she being framed and adorned withall the gifts that nature could challenge and wanting no good education did in her tender infant yeares bestowe her in marriage to the said Thomas Caldwell giuing her a good dower to her better preferring in the sayd marriage with a yearely newety of ten pounds to extend to her said husband and his heires for euer and as the like matches doe not often proue well so this Caldwell being young and not experienced in the world gaue his minde to trauell and sée forraine countries which tended rather to his losse then profit as also to the great discontentment of his wife and other his friends leauing her often times verie bare without prouision of such meanes as was fitting for her y t by these courses hee did withdrawe her affection from him so y t in the continuance of his absence a young man named Iefferey Bownd a neighbour vnto the said Elizabeth Caldwell and she as I sayd before inioying all the excellent gifts of nature set his affections abroch and being a man of good wealth spared nether cost nor industrie both by himselfe others to withdrawe her to his vnlawfull desire and omittnig no opportunitie in this sute though she along time withstood their allurements insomuch that hee feede an old woman named Isabell Hall late wife of Iohn Hall and preferred as an instrument to worke her to an vnlawfull reformation so that in processe of time with many earnest perswasions

abhominable saying that if there were fortie and two children deuoured for mocking the Prophet Eliza what then shall befall of them that doe blaspheme the name of the great God of heauen prophane his holy Saboth speake euill of his word and abuse his faithfull Ministers Therefore she desired all to turne from their sinnes and to turne to the Lord by true and vnfained repentance praysing very earnestly for her husbands conuersion and that her two children might haue the feare of God before their eyes and that the glory of God might appeare in the conuersion of prisoners though it were with the losse of her owne life so infinite was her zeale Then shee prayed the Lord that hee would pardon all her grieuous and heynous sinnes in the bloodshed of Christ Iesus beséeching him to clense her from her secret sinnes praying that she might be a Doore-keeper in the house of God and receiue the meanest place of glory Then said shee that if the great and tall Ceaders of the Church of God haue fallen as Dauid Salomon and Manasses how then coulde shee stand béeing but a bramble and weake wretched woman Therefore shee exhorted euery one to depend onely vpon the Lord and not to stand vpon theyr owne strength as shee had doone And greatly then desiring all the people to pray vnto GOD for her shee called for her Prayer booke reading and praying zealouslie and deuotly to Almighty GOD with her eyes lift vp towards heauen which doone shee requested that they would sing a Psalme reading it her selfe singing with a good spirit that afterwards she vttered that shee felt the mercies of GOD and her soule was much comforted and hoped that in the blood of Christ Iesus her sinnes were pardoned and saide shee coulde not amend that which was past but was most hartily sorrowfull for her former sinnes saying that if shee shoulde liue yet many yeeres her desire would be in seruing the Lord therefore she desired him vpon the knees of her hart that hee would respect the will for the déede and accept her poore desires saying O suffer me yet once to recouer my strength before I goe hence and be séene no more Praying likewise for all those that ministred comforts vnto her in her misery and distresses that the Lord would blesse them and continue them faithfull vnto the end Then forgiuing and asking forgiuenes of all making her selfe ready saying her bodily death did not dismay her concluding with these her last words Lord Iesus receiue my spirit and so she left this miserable world and dyed the true seruaunt of Iesus Christ the xviij day of Iune 1603. ¶ Nowe yet againe remember our old beldame aforenamed that vncharitable creature Isabell Hall widdow béeing the onely instrument of this timelesse action who standing on the Ladder and ready to suffer for her fact did notwithstanding very stoutly denie euery thing that had beene doone in theyr late procéedings nay and abiurd it had not Elizabeth Caldwell with affirmation of all inserted her confession in that behalfe Who with an easie repentance to the worlds eye ended her life Whereby may be séene how strong the deuill in some actions is that shée by whose instigation all was doone both in the adulterie and murder would so impudently deny euery particuler notwithstanding the triall of the cause both manifested by Iudge and Iurie But thus we sée the boldnes of sinne and the coldnesse of the truth till God in mercie makes plaine the truth of the one and the wonder of the other All which tending to the example of others may moue vs to liuely repentance which not doone saluation cannot come but truly effected bréedes both the comfort of the soule and body To which comfort God in mercy bring vs for his sonne Iesus Christ his sake FINIS To the right honourable and his singuler good Lady the Lady Mary Chandois R. A. wisheth health and euerlasting happinesse MY honourable and very good Lady considering my dutie to your kind Ladiship remembring the vertues of your prepared minde I could doe no lesse but dedicate this strange worke to your view being both matter of moment and truth And to the whole world it may seeme strange that a Gentlewoman so vvell brought vp in Gods feare so well married so vertuous euer so suddainly wrought to this act of murder that when your Ladiship doth read aswell the Letter as the Booke of her owne indighting you will the more wonder that her vertues coulde so aptly tast the follies of vice and villanie But so it was and for the better proofe that it was so I haue placed my kinsmans name to it who was present at all her troubles at her comming to prison her beeing in prison and her going out of prison to execution That those Gentlemen to whom he dedicates his worke witnessed may also be pertakers in that kind for the proofe thereof that your Ladiship the world so satisfied may admire the deede and hold it as strange as it is true We haue many giddie pated Poets that coulde haue published this Report with more eloquence but truth in plaine attire is the easier knowne let fixion maske in Kendall greene It is my qualitie to adde to the truth truth and not leasings to lyes Your good Honor knowes Pincks poore hart who in all my seruices to your Late deceased kind Lord neuer sauoured of flatterie or fixion and therefore am now the bolder to present to your vertues the view of this late truth desiring you to so thinke of it that you may be an honourable mourner at these obsequies and you shall no more doe then manie more haue doone So with my tendered dutie my true ensuing storie and my euer wishing well I do humbly commit your Ladiship to the prison of heauen wherein is perfect freedome Your Ladiships euer in duty and seruice Robert Armin.