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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63061	Anna Trapnel's report and plea, or, A narrative of her journey into Cornwal the occasion of it, the Lord's encouragements to it, and signal presence with her in it, proclaiming the rage and strivings of the people against the comings forth of the Lord Jesus to reign ... whereto is annexed a defiance against all the reproachful, vile, horrid ... reports raised out of the bottomless pit against her ... / commended for the justification of the truth, and satisfaction of all men, from her own hand.	Trapnel, Anna.	1654 (1654)	Wing T2033; ESTC R32888	61,316	74

thy God and will stand by thee Then I cose up and prepared to go before them at Sessions-house and walking out in the garden before I went I was thinking what I should say before the Justices but I was taken off from my own thoughts quickly through the word Take no heed what thou shalt say being brought before them for the Lord Christ's sake he will give thee words dost thou know what they will ask thee therefore look to the Lord who will give thee answers suitable to what shall be required of thee So I was resolved to cast my self upon the Lord and his teaching and though I had heard now the form of Bills run and of that word Not guilty according to the form of the Bill yet I said I shall not remember to say thus if the Lord do n't bid me say so and if he bids me I will say it And this I thought I would be nothing the Lord should have all the praise it being his due So I went the Officer coming for me and as I went along the street I had followed me a andante of all maner of people men and wemen boyes and girls which crowded after me and some pull'd me by the arms and stated me in the face making wry-faces at me saying How do you now how is it with you now and thus they mocked and derided at me as I went to the Sessions but I was never in such a blessed self-denying lambe like frame of Spirit in my life as then I had such lovely apprehensions of Christ's sufferings and of that Scripture which saith He went as a sheep dumbe before the sheerers he opened not his mouth and when reviled he reviled not again The Lord kept me also so that I went silent to the Sessions-house which was much througed with people some said The Sessions-house was never so filled since it was a Sessions-house so that I was a gazing-stock for all sorts of people but I praise the Lord this did not daunt me nor a great deal more that I suffered that day for the eternal grace of Jehovah surrounded me and kept me from harm so way was made for me to draw neer which stood lower then the Justices and round the Table sate the Lawyers and others that attended them and I with my friends that went with me stood by the Lawyers and the Justices leaned over a rail which railed them in together onely I espied a Clergie-man at their elbow who helped to make up their Indictment so that he could not be absent though his Pulpit wanted him it being a Fast-day set apart by Authority which he broke without any scruple that so he might keep close to the work of accusation but though he and the witch-trying-woman looked stedfastly in my face it did no way dismay me not the grim fierce locks of the Justice did not daunt me for as soon as I beheld them I remembred a dear friend to Christ who smiled in the face of a great man that looked fiercely on him and sate as a Judge to condemn him for the testimony of Jesus but this servant of the Lord looked chearfully all the time of his accusations charged upon him so I thinking upon that posture of his before those that acted against him I begged the same chearfulness and I had the same courage to look my Accusers in the face which was no carnal boldness though they called it so And when I came before them Lobb being the Mourn of the Court as he was fore-man of the Iury he represented the whole Court and he first demanded my name and I told him and he said Anna Trapnel Here is a Bill of Indictment to be read for you to give in your answer concerning then Justice Lobb said Read the Bill so it was read to me and Lobb said Are you guilty or not I had no word to say at the present but the Lord said to me Say Not guilty according to the form of the Bill so I spoke it as from the Lord who knew I was not guilty of such an Indictment then said Lobb Traverse the Bill to the next Assizes so that was done then Lobb said I must enter into bond for my appearance at the next Assizes unto which I agreed then they demanded Sureties so I desired Captain Langdon and Major Bawden to be my Sureties unto which they were willing so there were two Recognizances drawn one for my appearance and the other bound me to the good behaviour and I was entred into both the Recognizances 300 l. and my Sureties as much to both the Recognizances And this being done they whispered a while and I thought they had done with me at that time so they had if they had gone according to true Law which was not to have brought their Interrogatories then but the report was That I would discover my self to be a witch when I came before the Justices by having never a word to answer for my self for it used to be so among the witches they could not speak before the Magistrates and so they said it would be with me but the Lord quickly defeated them herein and caused many to be of another minde Then Lobb said Tender her the book which was written from something said at White-Hall so the book was reached out to me and Justice Lobb said What say you to that book will you own it is it yours A. T. I am not careful to answer you in that matter Then they said She denies her book Then they whispered with those behinde them Then spake Justice Lobb again and said Read a vision of the horns out of the book so that was read then Justice Lobb said What say you to this is this yours A. T. I am not careful to answer you in that matter touching the whole book as I told you before so I say again for what was spoken was at White-Hall at a place of concourse of people and neer a Counsel I suppose wise enough to call me into question if I offended and unto them I appeal but though it was said I appealed unto Caesar and unto Caesar should I go yet I have not been brought before him which is called Caesar so much by the by Again I said I supposed they had not power to question me for that which was spoke in another county they said Yea that they had Then the book was put by and they again whispered Then Justice Lobb asked me about my coming into that Country How it came to pass that I came into that Country I answered I came as others dad that were minded to go into the Country Lobb But why did you come into this Country A. T. Why might not I come here as well as into another Country Lobb But you have no lands nor livings nor acquaintance to come to in this Country A. T. What though I had not I am a single person and why may I not be with my friends anywhere Lobb I

which they understanding said sure he knew some evil by me thus it bred a jealousie among strangers concerning me but some said he would not suffer evil to be spoken of me for he said sure the root of the matter was in me he was much urged by my friends to come but would not see me though in bonds and this use I was taught by the Lord to make of that unkindnesse of a friend who I hearing when I was coming to Plimouth that such an one was come there I leaned upon him as a prop to me in my suffering and I rejoyced much saying to my friends that he would vindicate me who had been known to him so long and one whom I was alwayes ready to vindicate when aspersed but my God learned me to know that all flesh was grasse and a sading flower and like an Egyptian reed and by this unkindnesse from a friend my God drew me the more to rest upon himself alone and what unkindnesse I relate from any received my end hereby is not to reproach or seek revenge on any but the Lord my God knows had there not been so many severall reports passed far and near I would not have set pen to paper in this kind but it is that truth may silence falsity and though I fail in an orderly penning down these things yet not in a true Relation of as much as I remember and what is expedient to be written I could not have related so much from the shallow memory I have naturally but through often relating these things they become as a written book spread open before me and after which I write Now I shall come again to the Relation and tell you that I had much kindnesse at Plimouth from many and great labour of love stewed me untill my departure and some went with me a shipboard and were sory to have me go from their Quarters not that I was any thing but the Lord did their souls good through a worm and when we had been a day and a night tossing on the Sea the wind being against us drove us back into the Harbour again Some at Dartmouth reported that I had bewitched the winds that the ships could not go to sea and they cursed me there but the Lord blessed me the more many reproaches he helpt me to bear and though we were beating on the waves against the wind yet I was not sick for the Lord had there much for me to declare to Sea men of free grace and of the vilenesse of mans nature and the excellent work of Redemption And I spake this unto them and prayed and sang in the Cabbin where I lay and the Sea-men were much affected the Lord made some of them declare how the Lord refreshed them and that they knew if I had stayed longer much good their souls would have reaped they were very respectfull to me though there were few that had any rellish of good the Lord made much to be rellished by them through a poore nothing creature the Scripture the Lord inlarged amongst them in the 73. Psalm verse 1. Truly God is good to Israel and to them that are of a clean heart the new Covenant the Lord made known amongst them very much so that it was a blessed passage though as from man it was bitter to be tossed upon the Sea four dayes and the maid that came with me lying vomiting grievously by me and sick even ready to dy she thought her heart would have broke and I hurt my leg against the ship side that it raged greatly a day and a night and lying in a little Cabbin sweating much the maid and I together which lodge was very little it being in the Masters Cabbin which was a little Lodge But though I met with much difficulty as to flesh and blood yet I murmured not onely I was once a little troubled and said Lord why is man thus cruell to deal thus with me they never considered whether my nature could bear the Sea but I said Father lay not this evil usage to their charge I was brought up among the Pirates that had robbed upon the Sea and were taken prisoners and sent in the ship with me but the Lord preserved me from all hurt and caried me safe to Land and all in the ship both Captain and Master and men gave me civill respect while I was with them So the Lord made good his promise to me that nothing should harm me neither on the Sea nor the Land And the Captain with some of his men came with me ashore and we landed at Portsmouth and the Governour not being in Town I went with the Captain to Major Morefords the deputy Governour who receiving the order from the Captain of the ship after some Discourse with him he departed and the Deputy Governour told me I was committed to his Charge untill such time that he could dispose of me with conveniency so he lovingly entertained me and those two friends that came with me and his daughters shewed me much kindnesse and in the afternoon the Deputy Governour having no lodging in his house for me he procured me lodging at Ensign Bakers in the Town and he went with me thither it being not far off and there he left me desiring the Ensigns wife to be kind to me but she heard I was a frenzy-headed creature and she looked very sowr upon me and all the while I was there she offered me no drink nor any thing else but one day when the Governour sent his servant to see what I had then she sent to me and I had newly eaten a piece of Pye that I had brought with me from Plimmouth so that was all my food I eat from the second day to the fifth day that I came away then she seemed to be very kind and said she heard such a clamour concerning me which made her afraid of me but after she heard me she was of another mind I prayed and sang there a night and a day for the most part and so departed from thence the next morning after and came in a Coach to London and a Lieutenant came with me to convey me to Westminster and he brought a Present of Egges that was sent from Gernsie to the great man at White Hall they were Partridge Egges of the largest kind I was told and if they were not well put up they could not be kept whole for the Coach broke twice by the way and overturned once it was a great mercy that we had no hurt the dealings of man being unjust every thing will make them manifest and discover their breakings where they or their Presents be If such that hold forth King Jesus be near one danger or other they will be lyable to meet withall I was through Divine Power brought safe in the Coatch to Fox Hall where we lighted and the Coach man and Lieutenant told me I must bear all my Charges both by the way and the Coach hire so I