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A30333	The conversion & persecutions of Eve Cohan, now called Elizabeth Verboon a person of quality of the Jewish religion, who was baptized the 10th of October, 1680, at St. Martins in the Fields, by the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing B5772; ESTC R7379	14,133	33

upon this Evidence they cast Mistris Verboon so that after all other Rigours Costs of the Suit were to come on her according to our Law which the Judg of the Court set at 40 s. From all this it is apparent that the whole Business was a Conspiracy of the Jews of which Levi vvas the chief Contriver and Hammond the main Instrument though the Lord Chief Justice was so favourable to him as to say He was abused in that matter and drawn into it Both of these expressed their Joy not vvithout some transport vvhen the Jury gave their Verdict Levi said He would give 500 l. on condition she had not been bailed Hammond said to those vvho had depended much on the Bishop of St. Asaph's Assistance Where is your Lord now Mr. Verboon vvas advised to Arrest Vandersee for the false Imprisonment of his Wife and on the 4 th of September he Arrested him in an Action of 200 l. vvhich vvas not out of reason but very modest for one that had suffered so many Arrests for such great Sums and all for nothing but Levi soon bailed him and so prevalent vvere the Arts and Presents of the Jews that it vvas entred in the Books but 20 l. So that vvhether they are Plantiffs or Complainants they are resolved to shew their skill and perhaps have a secret Pleasure to let the World see how much their Practices can vvork on those vvho are called Christians even in a Matter vvherein the honour of Jesus Christ is so much concerned But the Malice of the Iews stopt not her for perceiving that Mistris Verboon vvas by her Marriage covered from all their Suits they resolved on another vvay vvhich looks like a Design to destroy her Levi had said before my Lord Mayor that she vvas vvithin two months of her time and therefore he could not but believe she vvas vvith Child and very capable of being frighted into Miscarriage But it vvas a sure effect of their Revenge on her Husband against vvhom Vandersee had expressed so much malice that he hath often said he vvas resolved to kill him though he should be hanged for it So on the second of October Mr. Verboon vvas Arrested in an Action of 200 l. and it appears that the Bailiffs vvere again instructed to behave themselves vvith more than ordinary rudeness one of them vvas Benedict Helm there vvere others vvhose Names are not known They came at Dinner-time vvhen they might expect to find them at Dinner together they seized upon him at Table and dragged him forth vvith their utmost violence vvhich vvhen Mistris Lavigne saw and vvithal took notice of a Coach at the Door she immediately reflected on the Trick that they had put on them before and therefore ran to him and clasped her Arms about his Waste to keep him from being thrust into the Coach The Bailiffs to be revenged on her beat and bruised her Head Brest and Body vvith the greatest fury of vvhich the marks appear yet on her Her Head vvas broke in three places and she vvas thereby as the Chyrurgeon has certified under his hand in great hazard of her Life yet she clogged them so that they could not get their Prisoner into the Coach and the People beginning to come about them they were fain to thrust him into an Alehouse near at hand from whence she presently sent an Advertisement to the Bishop of St. Asaph Upon his coming and offering the Bailiffs Bail they saw it in vain to attempt any thing farther and so accepted the Bail But though Mrs. Lavigne was forced to keep her Bed some time by the Wounds and Bruises she received yet this had a more fatal effect on poor Mistris Verboon who when she saw the Bailiffs draging her Husband fell presently in a swoon and being then young with Child was so disordered by the fright that she has not yet recovered it but on the 9 th day after she miscarried The Midwife and others that were with her are ready to declare upon Oath that the Conception had been some days dead and wasted within her and that it was not above eight or nine weeks old though she had been eleven weeks married So false was that Imputation which Levi cast on her before the Lord Mayor that she was within two months of her time How far the Law will charge this on the Bailiffs or on the Jews that set them on to it I do not know but sure I am they are in a high degree guilty of Murder before God When all these Effects of the Malice and Industry of the Jews had appeared so evidently the Bishop of St. Asaph who had before acquainted the Lord Mayor with the Business having received the Answer formerly mentioned from Holland did then with more assurance desire his assistance in this Affair in which the Honour of the Christian Religion and of the English Nation was so much concerned The Lord Mayor did thereupon send for Levi to hear what he could say for the defence of himself and of his Countrymen who made some pretended excuses for himself as if he had not medled in the Matter at all but he did not deny that he believed the Design of the Jews was to force Mrs. Verboon to go back to her Mother who he acknowledged was a severe and cruel Woman By his own Story the Lord Mayor perceived clearly what a malicious Contrivance this whole prosecution of Mrs. Verboon and her Husband had been and told Levi very roundly that they should soon see what a thing they had done who finding shelter in a Christian Country and being so obnoxious to the Law as they all were durst offer such an Affront to the Religion and to the Nation as thus to endeavour to Spirit away one to whose charge they could lay nothing but her turning Christian. This he assured him should be carried so far as to reach their whole Congregation There was no way to redeem them from trouble but for them to bring over her Portion from her Mother and to satisfy her to the full for the Costs and Trouble to which they had put her And if they did not do that he assured him he would carry the Matter as far as the Law would allow him against their whole Sect and though his time was near an end yet he knew his Successour would pursue it with the same vigour with which he was resolved to begin He gave also order to some to bring him an Extract of the Laws in force against the Jews And for Hammond no doubt he will be made an Example for his impious Conspiracy with the Enemies of Christ against one for turning to him which was the only root of all the malice they bore her This Matter being thus put in a fair way the Bishop resolved to receive her into the Christian Church by Baptism He gave the Right Honourable Sir Lionel Ienkins one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State an account of all the steps of this