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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63166	The tryal and sentence of Elizabeth Cellier for writing, printing and publishing a scandalous libel called, Malice defeated &c., at the sesions in the Old-Bailey, held Saturday the 11th and Monday the 13th of Sept., 1680 whereunto is added several depositions made before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor.	Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)	1680 (1680)	Wing T2171; ESTC R24639	29,208	36

September 13th 1680. I Do appoint Thomas Collins Stationer to Print the Tryal of Mrs. Cellier at the Sessions and that no other do presume to Print the same ROBERT CLAYTON Mayor THE TRYAL AND SENTENCE OF Elizabeth Cellier FOR WRITING PRINTING and PUBLISHING A SCANDALOUS LIBEL CALLED Malice Defeated c. At the Sessions in the OLD-BAILEY held Saturday the 11 th and Monday the 13 th of Sept. 1680. WHEREUNTO Is Added Several DEPOSITIONS made before the Right Honorable the LORD MAYOR LONDON Printed for Thomas Collins at the Middle-Temple-Gate 1680. THE TRYAL OF Elizabeth Cellier c. Cl. of Cr. MRS. Cellier look to your Challenges for the Jury that is to be Sworn is to pass upon you Cellier Am I for my Life Cl. of Cr. No but look to your Challenges Ld. Mayor But if you Challenge you must give a reason for it Mrs. Cellier Cl. of Cr. Swear John Ainger Which was done Swear Richard Boys Cellier I Challenge him Ld. Mayor Mrs. Cellier you must shew a Cause for your Challenge Cellier I did not know that my Lord. Mr. Baron Weston You can Challenge none in this Case without a Cause Cellier My Lord I did not know that then I agree he shall be Sworn Which was done Then the rest of the Jury without any more Challenges were Sworn And they were all as follows JURY John Ainger Richard Boys John Stephens Thomas Phelps Gilbert Vrwin Edward Allanson Richard Liveing John Coggs Henry Hodgsden John Barnard Edward Low James Southern Then Proclamation was made in Common Form for Information and the Clerk Charged the Jury thus Cl of Cr. You Gentlemen that are Sworn Elizabeth Cellier stands Indicted by the Name of Elizabeth Cellier Wife of Peter Cellier of the Parish of St. Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex Gent. For that she being of the Popish Religion not having the fear of God before her Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil falsly and maliciously endeavouring and intending our Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the Second that now is and the Government of this Kingdom of England as also the true Protestant Religion within this Kingdom of England by Law Established to bring to hatred and contempt And also to bring Scandal and Infamy upon divers Persons produced as Witnesses that gave Evidence on the part and behalf of our Soveraign Lord the King against her the said Elizabeth Cellier and other Persons Indicted of High Treason the 1st of September in the 32th year of our Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the Second that now is at the Parish of St. Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Falsly Maliciously and Seditiously did Write and Publish and did cause to be Writ imprinted and published a Scandalous Libel Intituled Malice Defeated or a Brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier wherein her proceedings both before and during her Confinement are particularly related and the Mystery of the Meal-Tubb fully discovered together with an Abstract of her Arraignment and Tryal written by her self for the satisfaction of all Lovers of undisguised Truth In which said Libel are contained these False Feigned Scandalous Words and Figures following to wit I hope it will not seem strange to any honest and Loyal Person of what way or Religion soever That I being born and bred up under Protestant Parents should now openly profess my self of another Church meaning the Church of Rome For my Education being in those times when my own Parents and Relations for their Constant and Faithful Affection to the King and Royal Family were persecuted the King himself murdered the Bishops and Church destroyed the whole Loyal Party meerly for being so oppressed and ruined and all as was pretended by the Authors of these Villanies for their being Papists and Idolaters the constant Character given by them to the King and his Friends to make them odious they assuming to themselves only the Name of Protestants making that the Glorious Title by which they pretended right to all things These sort of proceedings as I grew in understanding produced in me more and more horror of the Party that committed them and put me on inquiry into that Religion to which they pretended the greatest Antipathy wherein I thank God my innate Loyalty not only confirmed but incouraged me And let Calumny say what it will I never heard from any Papists as they call them Priest nor Lay-man but that they and I and all true Catholicks owe our Lives to the Defence of our Lawful King which our present Soveraign CHARLES the Second is whom God long and happily preserve so These sorts of Doctrines agreeing to my publick Morals and no way as ever I was taught contradicting my private Ones commending at the same time to me Charity and Devotion I without any Scruple have hitherto followed glorying to my self to be in Communion with those who were the humble Instruments of his Majesties happy Preservation from the fatal Battle at Worcester and who the poor no temptation could invite to betray him to those who by a pretended Protestant Principle sought his innocent Blood These Truths I hope may satisfie any indifferent Person in my first Change nor can they wonder at my continuance therein notwithstanding the horrid Crimes of Treason and Murder laid to the Charge of some Persons considerable for their Quality and Fortunes in that Party for when I reflected who were the Witnesses and what unlikely things they deposed and observed that many of the chiefest Sticklers for the Plot were those or the Sons of those that acted the Principal parts in the last Tragedy which History told me too had the Prologue of a pretended Popish Plot I say these things made me doubtful of the whole and the more I searched for truth the more I doubted that the Old Enemys of the Crown were again at work for its destruction I being fully confirmed in this thought it my duty through all sorts of hazards to relieve the poor imprisoned Catholicks who in great Numbers were lockt up in Goals starving for want of Bread and this I did some Months before I ever saw the Countess of Powis or any of those honourable Persons that were accused or receiving of one penny of their money directly or indirectly till about the latter end of January 78. And in another part of the said Libel are contained these false feigned and Scandalous Words and Figures following to wit About this time I went daily to the Prisons to perform those Offices of Charity I was obliged to and on Thursday January the 9th 78 I dined in Newgate in the Room called the Castle on the Masters side Debtors and about four in the Afternoon I came down into the Lodge with five women of which three were Protestants and we all heard terrible Grones and Squeeks which came out of the Dungeon called the Condemned Hole I asked Harris the Turn-Key what doleful Crie it was He said it was a Woman