shall be prepared for the estate of everlasting glory wherein shall be no tempter no temptation no sinne no sorrow but righteousnesse peace and fulnesse of joy in the presence of God and preasures for evermore Vnto which estate the Lord in mercy bring us and â—n the meane time keepe us from such horrible sinne The true Copy of the subscripâ—â—on formerly mentioned we whose names are under-written doe acknowledge that those things in this treatise which have relation to us and our knowledge are truely set down and receaved from us which we testifie by the subscription of our names HUMPHRY WALCOT THOMAS CLUNNP E. POVVEL vicar of Clunne GERVAS NEEDHAM WILLIAM BEDFORD ROBERT BARRET THOMAS HOVVELLS WILLIAM TANNER IOHN HOVVELLS WILLIAM GRIFFITHS IOHN LEVVIS FINIS An Appendix in further defence of the precedent Relation wherein is examined Master Studleys pretended refutation of such objections as were made against his Looking-glasse of Schisme Gentle Reader WHen I did first set my selfe to compose the precedent Relation I did not purpose to have it printed as in the beginning of my relation I have intimated in regard whereof I had no respect in the framing of my discourse to the swelling style which Master Studley pleaseth himselfe with in his Narration proposing to my selfe onely a briefe discovery of the naked truth of the businesse in hand therefore marvell not that I have forborne to follow him in â—ll his deviations and impertinent digressions yet now my relation cometh to the presse unexpectedly I am urged to adde something in regard of â—aster Studleys additions to â—he second edition of his looking glasse wherein he reciteth ten Criminations which I conceive to be all of his owne contriving yet for the present admitting them by way of reply to Master Studleys answeres I shall cleare such passages as from them seeme to reflect on what I have delivered for truth The first Crimination is to this effect That Master Studley hath published the most lying boooke that ever came forth in print The Hyperbolicall part of this Crimination I maintaine not Reply yet that his booke doth containe many falsehoods I suppose it sufficiently evidenced in those instances given in the fiftenth and twenty sections and the twenty five Section declareth eight falsehoods in Master Studleys unnecessary digression to that of Teuxbury The second Crimination Master Powell the reverend Minister of Clunne under whom Enoch lived from his birth knowes many of your relations to be false c. MAster Powel had the view and perusall of my precedent Relation Reply and finding it agreeable to the truth of his knowledge he testifies the integrity of this my Relation by the Subscription of his name to that originall Copie which now I have in my custody yea he was so earnest in attestation of the falsehoods in this looking-glasse that after he had subscribed this relation in manner and forme as in the end thereof is set downe he desired to be the meanes of conveying it to the Bishop of Hereford and did deliver it to his Chancelor Master Docter Skinner by whom it was delivered to the Bishop Now let the unpartiall reader judge whether Master Powell would deale so unworthily with himselfe as to subscribe his owne approbation of my Relation and convey it to his Diocesan if h ehad in deed so approved Master Studleys report as is pretended It is true that Master Powell is now dead and lest in that regard doubtfull thoughts may be entertained with some men I have heare inserted a Certificate from divers persons of such worth and credit as Master Studley himselfe will not except against them the Certificate I set downe in the same words as it was sent unto mee onely I adde the specification of their quality and Condition for the readers better satisfaction Wee whose names are subscribed have heard Master Erasmus Powell late vicar of Clun in his life time complaine of divers grosse untruths and falsities in Master Studleys Relation of Enoch ap Evan in his book intituled the looking gl of Schisme Humphrey Walcot esqu Samuel Hildersam Recâ—or of the Church of west felton county Salop. Tho Clun of Clun Gent. Hugh Edwards Gent. Esay Thomas Alderman of Bishops Castle William Tanner a free â—urges of Bishops Castle George Lawson Rector of the Church at the Moore Gervase Needham vicar of the Church at Bishops Castle If opportunity had served or the cause required futher proof might be produced in like kind For the present I further call to mind Sir Robert Harley Knight of the Bath Walter Barker of Hamond Esquire and Master Standley Gower Rector of the Church of Brompton Brian who have informed me that they heard Master Powell declare his dislike of Master Studleys booke in regard of the falsehoods therein conteyned And which is yet more the aforenamed Master Barker and Master Hildersam were present when Master Powell did to Master Studleys face tax him for his untruthes in his booke The Third Crimination concerneth the taking downe of the body from the Gibbet heere Master Studley sweates to perswade the reader that he had stronger arguments to Master his understanding then to believe that such simple women as Enochs sisters could be the chiefe abettors of such a fact five silly reasons he reciteth moving him to publish his conjecture that crafty heads contrived that devise of conveying his corps from the Gibbet and breathed the same by instruction and counsell into his sisters Enabling thereby ignorant women of rustick quality and small understanding to take upon them the mannaging of a devise so subtile and bold who then were the authors of this designe Master Studley telleth us in his looking-glasse Pag. 164. edit 1 some brethren of his own disposition and faction restles in willfulnesse that he might not say wickednesse contrived a devise by rearing up a ladder in the night to saw off that part of the gibbet where his body hanged c. As I will not affirme but that some others might first suggest to Enochs sister the taking downe of his body which they upon examâ—nation have denyed so I hope no indifferent man wil suppose it to be without the compasse of womens understanding to be guilty of hireing others to remove such an object so neere the place of their habitation and birth I am to thank Master Studley that he doth declare his beliefe that the rest of the Commissioners with my selfe traveiled prudently and faithfully yet he saith he neither doth nor can nor will believe that the totall truth was by us delivered for so hee saith in his refutation of Crimination pag. 15. for satisfaction of the Reader herein I desire him seriously to consider the proceedings against the offendors as they are faithfully exhibited in the twenty two and twenty three and twenty foure Sections of my relation to which I here adde verbatim that letter mentioned Sect. 23. From the Iudges Sir William Iones and Sir Thomas Trevor To the Right worshipfull
set down page the eighth of his answer mentioned aforesaid And in like manner of all the rest upon whom any materiall point of contradiction resteth So that what is in difference betweene us will bee apparent by records acknowledgment manifest contradiction in the Looking-glasse it selfe or witnesses such as wee both agree upon All which will bee evident to him that shall diligently compare them and which I leave to the judgement of the considerate Reader the maine scope of mine intention herein being peace with truth which is ever Prayed for by The true lover Thereof Richard More LINTEY 29. Iune 1635. A True relation of the Murders committed by Enoch ap Evan upon the bodies of his Mother and Brother SECTION I. TRuth is Gods and He hath bound man to Manifest the same if concealed and to vindicate her if wronged and whosoever shall either Conceale or wrong her or hinder the manifestation or vindication thereof shall offend The serious consideration wherof hath moved me to undertake this briefe ensuing treatise for the more full discovery of the truth in part as yet not generally knowne and to rectifie the conceits of many who have beene abused as the best may be by false reports The matter it selfe though both the party by whom and the place where it was done were obscure is very notorious and remarkeable and such as many not onely of the Vulgar sort but eminent persons have taken notice of and so much more by reason of a Booke published intituled the Looking Glasse of Schisme wherein as the Author pretendeth by a briefe narration of the execrable Murders done by Enoch ap Evan a downe-right Separatist on the bodies of his Mother and Brother with the cause moving him thereunto the disobedience of that Sect against Royall Majestie and the Laws of our Church is plainely set forth be Peter Studley Master of Artes and Minister of Gods Word in Shrewsbury That this Murder was committed is true and no waieâ— doubted of The question is what should be the cause moving him thereto And what kinde of people inhabited the Neighbourhood where those Murders were committed It is confidently affirmed that hee was a Puritan that Puritanisme was the cause moving him to this Murder for which he had judgement to dye and his Body was hanged upon a Gibbet in Chaines and moreover that they were Puritans who tooke him downe from the Gibbet and that he had beene by politicke seducements drawne into those opinions Looking-Glasse page one hundred thirty seven so desperate and raging in their furious cruelty Whereupon I laboured to enforme my selfe and was required by Authority amongst others to search out the truth and to discover the Parties who had taken downe the body of Enoch from the Gibbet Which being discovered I committed the severall passages to writing wherewith I acquainted a Minister in the Neighbourhood He reduced my Papers into a methodicall confutation of those errours and untruths which are most palpable and indeed intollerable It being finished was intended for the Presse yet not permitted When I perceaved untruth so much still to prevaile many abused my neighbourhood about Bishops Castle injured and such ill use made of such a fearefull example I conceaved my selfe deepely obliged to enforme others in the truth vindicate my neighbours and to perswade others to make better use of this lamentable accident And to that purpose having revised mine owne papers have digested them into this Historicall narration wherein I doe acknowledge more want of ability to set truth forth to the View of the Learned then of an honest and upright heart to discover her though naked and without ornaments And herein I shall differ from the common receaved opinion of those that are more remote from this part of the County concerning the Puritanisme wherewith this wretch was charged and perhaps for the same I shall be suspected to be Puritanicall or at least to Patronize Puritanisme both which being taken in the sence of Schisme or non-conformity I solemnely disavowe and seriously protest that I have alwayes disliked Non-conformity and both in judgement and practice have conformed my selfe unto the Orders and Discipline of this Church of England and especially in that particular of kneeling so farre as that if our Church had left the gesture to be used in the blessed Sacrament indetermined I would have made choice of that gesture of Kneeling before all others as the most reverend and fittest to be used in that holy Action wherein wee come so neere unto our God Sect. 2. Herein my speciall aime according to the truth of my knowledge being to free the neighbourhood of Bishops Castle wherein I live and have bestowed my time from the false and infamous aspersâ—â—ns of Puritanisme and Non-conformity I set my selfe on worke to make this true relation ensuing touching the estate of the said Enoch ap Evan the Sonne of Edward ap Evan of Shadwall in the Parish of Clunne in the County of Salop where he lived all the time from his Birth and to shew how he was thought of by the neighbours about Bishops Castle no Puritans though so tearmed by the Author of the Looking-Glasse page 102. Sect. 3. It is certaine hee was a young man of no great abilities for learning he could onely read English he was thrifty and given to no vice whereof any publicke notice was taken hee did diligently frequent his Parish Church of Clunne upon Sundaies and Holy daies to heare Divine Service and was seldome absent from the beginning of Prayers he very seldome went to any other Parish Church upon any weeke dayes hee was not knowne to reason of any matters of controversie in religion as being above his capacity which was very meane as the Author of the Looking-Glasse often confesseth calling him ignorant Dolte of meane Understanding able onely to read English c. He was so farre from travelling abroad to heare Sermons or to acquaint himselfe with any Preacher that I cannot find out that he was knowne of any Minister that dwelt but three Miles from him He rather gave himselfe to solitarines especially in his later time and as is confessed in the foresaid book p. 21. being of a swarthy complexion under the Predominance of the humour of Melancholy so hee carried himselfe sullenly and Cynically in so much that his friends feared that he began to be distracted a yere and more before he committed that horrible murder of his Mother and Brother and thereupon was let blood by the Barbour Chirurgion of Bishops Castle by name William Griffiths which blood letting for that yeare it seemes stayed the breaking forth of that humour into any notorious observation but not halfe a yeare before the Murder committed in a very cold season of Frost and Show he was seene to stand barefooted and bare legged in the middest of a running brooke which with the force of the streame his face being up the same did wet him to the middle his hat he held before his
that he was no Puritan and it is this pag. 16. For in the site and gesture of kneeling the leggs are cast behind the rest of the body and receive not that influence of nourishment spirituall at least in proportion and measure of attraction as the rest of the body doth and therefore the gestures that this vaine light and seduced man concepted to himselfe as most convenient in that Sacred act of Gods worship were either standing and bowing or sitting and bowing of the body As this gesture of bowing is singular in Enâ—ch so is the reason different from any Puritan or Non-conformist that ever I heard or read of They like not the gesture of kneeling counting it superstitius in regard it is a gesture of adoration and therein nourisheth those that are popishly affected in their opinion of transubstantiation Now Master Studley by a distinction of his maketh bowing onely to be a gesture of adoration for these are his words pag. 18. For the postures of standing of sitting of kneeling being all naturall and bodily actions without the addition of bowing which is a mentall and spirituall action and hath relation to some other nature either in the Creator or in the Creatures to whom it is directed are in themselves as they are actions bodily and naturall neither good nor evill at all and doe onely partake of goodnesse or illnesse as the motion of bowing with intention of adoration is added unto them So that by this distinction Enoch framed a gesture of adoration by his bowing which Puritans and Nonconformists distaste and so he differed from them But he that well examineth Enochs reason and Master Studleys distinction wil find apparantly they come out of one forge and indeed they are alike senselesse And I should have thought Master Studley had derided Enochs reason and had spoken ironically where he calleth it a conceipt so sublimate fine and subtill had he not compared that vaine and franticke reason to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 devices and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the depths of Sathan therein grosly abusing those places of Scripture 2 Cor. 2.11 and Rev. 2.24 for those devises and depths of Sathan there spoken of are not such as may bee discerned avoyded and derided by the shallowest judgement but such as from which good Lord deliver us Sect. 13. Other points of Puritanisme are laid to the charge of Enoch by Master Studle pag. 25. as that he disliked the Superiority of Bishops the signe of the Crosse iâ— Baptisme and such like but none of these are insisted upon onely the dislike of the gesture of kneeling in the Sacred Communion is it that makes him a Puritan yea a Separatist page 72. and for this cause he slew his Brother And though Enoch vary in his confession of the cause though he deny that to be any cause though some times he say it is not the onely cause and though he assigne another cause aâ— hath beene shewed yet Master Studly by two arguments will prove that onely for kneeling at the Sacred Communion Enoch killed his Mother and Brother The first argument is taken out of 1 Iohn 3.12 Looking-glasse pag. 124 where the text is not as Caine whâ— was of that wicked one and slew his Brother and wherefore slew he him because his own workes were evill and his Brothers righteous Here saith Master Studley the conjunction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is causall as the Learned know and referre us to the sole and total cause and not in part assignes the cause why Caine slew his Brother Therefore c. I confesse I want Logicke and therefore desired this work might have beene performed by one more able yet I want not so much reason as to see the weaknesse of this argument the cause of Caines murder is plaine so is not Enochs for that we have the word of God expresly assigning the cause which was this because his owne workes were evill and his Brothers righteous for this we have onely the confession of a sinfull wretched man which confession is uncertaine variable and contradictory so that to make this argument hold Master Studley must imply that Enochs confession apparantly variable is as true as Scripture I say no more I leave it to the Learned to Iudge Sect. 14. The second argument is pag. 127. Enoch ap Evaâ— slaies his Brother either for this cause onely that Iohn would kneele at the Communion or for some other cause But for other cause or causes he never pleaded any for himselfe but totally excluded all other causes Therefore c. I answer Enoch pleaded other causes many times to many persons yea even to Master Studley himselfe as is before expressed and did utterly deny this to bee any cause at al and therefore this Syllogisme so much bragged of by the Author that the thing affirmed remaines pregnant dilucidate and invincible is not binding but directly false Sect. 15. I should not have insisted so much upon the clearing of this wretched Enoch from being a Puritan or non-conformist for I know he was worse he was a cruell murderer of his mother and Brother nor upon the cause moving him to commit that hainous crime for I thinke and beleeve that a non-conformist may be a Subject upon which the Devill might worke since even the woâ—thy servants of God have grievously fallen as Noah David Lot Peter and others recorded in holy Scripture had not the Author of the Looking-glasse uncharitably charged his seducement and inveighing into the opinions of non-conformitie upon some Ministers or lay persons and this he is so confident of that he knoweth it to be so as surely as he knoweth it to be true that his owne soule is living within him as is expressed pag. 137 138 139 moreat large For ful satisfaction in this point I desire the reader to observe first that the said Author layeth his former grounds upon Enochs confession in his conference with him in the Goale this upon his owne conjecture discrediting Enochs flat denyall of it for so Master Studley himselfe informeth us pag. 138. 〈◊〉 he ans wered him as he had done often before and continued in that obstinacy to his death that not from man but from God he had receaved those conceipts and being particularly demanded how he came first to dislike the gestures of his betters for wisedome c. pag 75 76. as is largely set down whether by conference with any Ministers disaffected to peace and unity or by private perswasion of some of his acquaintance Or by example of any Or by reading of Schismaticall bookes Enoch answered by none of all these meanes but by reading of Gods word Doth this defamation of his brethren in the Ministers and others agree with the rules of charity or doth it proceed from a gracious inclination to solid Piety and a publicke declaration of an honest heart disposed to peace and unity pag. 96 this Master Studley bragges of but practiseth not Secondly though he
Enoch is brought to the Iudges Chamber and there privately they both examine him touching the cause moving him to commit the murder but as I heard from one of the Iudges he w … 〈◊〉 no other cause o … 〈…〉 â—hen what he had done publickely Afterwards being brought to the barre without a jury to finde him guilty he received his judgement from Sir William Iones the Iudge that for that time sate upon Life and Death Sect. 18. The Sheriffe being commanded to see execution done was directed that he should be hanged in chains in some convenient and eminent place not very far from the place where the murder was committed and therupon he is brought to Bishops Castle where Master Gervase Needham is Vicar the learned Gentleman and minister of that parish mentioned by Master Studley pag. 161. He repaireth to Enoch as he was informed by the appointment of the Iudges and conferreth with him to the end the better to prepare him for death then shortly to ensue for it was the day of his execution and this was in the presence of divers of the Cleargy and laity which conference and the passages therin before and at his death the said Master Needham presently after committed to writing and hereafter it followeth as it was by him delivered to me without change or alteration It being asked whether he was truly and unfainedly sorry for the fact whereof he stood condemned He answered that hee was so that he thought in his heart no man living had such a weight of sinne upon him or had ever done the like hainous murder that he was Iustly condemned and willing to dye for it that he was truly sensible of the sinne committed and heartily sorry that he could not be more sorry for it yet that he did confidently believe God would have mercy upon his soule desiring all to pray for him Whether he did not receive some disparagement or disgrace or injury from his brother and mother and whether he did not conceive them to be prophane and wicked people unworthy to live And whether he did not conceive his father or himselfe to be of a more undefiled unspotted conversation He answered that hee thought them all to be religious and godly and with a great sigh that his brother was ever loving and deare to him no man had a better brother then he had of him and that there was no malice nor difference betwixt them at the time he slew them onely some two dayes before they had discoursed of standing and kneeling at the Sacrament himselfe approving of standing or bowing rather but there was no high words or anger or discontentment betweene them upon that conference What might bee the grounds of his opinion for standing and bowing at the Sacrament Hee answered that hee conceived it to be our Saviours gesture at the first institution and further that it is written Behold I stand at the dore and knocke Whether hee did not thinke it Idolatry to kneele at the Sacrament And whether he did not ground his action upon that in Deu. 1â— 6 7 8 9 and 10. where it iâ— written if thy brother the sonne of thy mother entice thee saying Let us go serve other Gods c. thou shalt not consent unto him c. but thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him c. He heard such things and many untruths had beene reported of him but for his part he thought it no Idolatry to kneele at the Sacrament neither did he ground that action upon any such text of holy Scripture and therein hee had manifest wrong Whether he did not frequent any private meetings and conventicles in the Neighbourhood or elsewhere Or whether he did not ground that fact upon some doctrine or words he had heard at Sermons oâ— Lectures at Bishops Castle or elsewhere Or some private discourse with any of the ministry or other of his acquaintance He answered that he was never at any such meeting or conventicle neither did he in any private discourse or from any preacher heare or receive any doctrine oâ— counsell that might encourage or move him to such a fact What then might be the cause if none of these Or what end he proposed to himselfe in the action He answered that it was the temptation of sinne But being desired to explaine himselfe in those tearmes he said it was the corruption of the flesh and Sathans suggestion It being urged that our subtile adversary the easie to worke upon us is wont to propose in every temptation some matter either of profit or pleasure and sometimes even the glory of God as the end thereby the rather to deceive us and leade us into sinne He answered that hee could give no reason or ground at all why he did the act neither did he think what might be the end or issue of it being done and that he never thought of such a fact towards man woman or child till within one houre or lesse before the murder was done and that his thoughts did so rise upon him that he could not have any rest or quiet till he had done the deed Whether he intended to have murthered them both when he first laid hands on his brother He answered no surely but his mother came in to rescue his brother not yet fully dead and so wounded her also mortally and a length cut off both their heads not deliberating with himselfe upon it Whether the Devill did not then appeare to him and as some reported give the Axe into his hand violently enforcing him unto the fact He answered no there was no such matter the Devill did not then or at any other time appeare unto him Whether hee did not sometimes see a vision of the holy Ghost appearing to him in the likenesse of a Dove as was reported He answered that indeed he did conceive a thing in the likenesse of a Dove full of brightnesse to come into the Chamber in his fathers house where he then lay upon his bed in the night broad awake and that he thought it to be the holy Ghost It being urged that the spirit of God would not surely have appeared but to some speciall end in such an extraordinary manner and question being made whether hee felt himselfe thereby illuminated further in the mysteries of salvation Or in the sence of his owne sinnes more humbled Or whether it imposed any particular charge or command upon him Or revealed any secret of note unto him at the present He answered that he was not sensible of any such operations as these or the like in so much that after further discourse in this particular he said that he knew not what to thinke of it it might be the distempered worke of his braine for ought he knew to the contrary Whether he did not desire a kinsman to convey him secretly to Bishops Castle to the minister or Vicar there for he had an intent to sacrifice one head which he had privately hidden
fellow-souldier named Iohn Ieames and another poore mason to joyne with him effected in the night time and carried the said body being then putryfied three miles upon a horse backe and buried it in a sawpit together with the cloaths and Irons To this effect they al confessed upon their examinations which are yet upon record remaining with the clearke of the Assises to which for more assurance I referre the reader That nothing might be wanting for the discovery of these offenders the Kings Majesties counsell in the Marches of Wales also directed a commission to certaine Commissioners aswell in Shropshire as Mountgomery Shire for the finding out of these Delinquents but before there could be any effectuall proceeding therein they were discovered bound to appeare at the assises and the foresaid Iudges certified of our proceedings who eft-soones acquainted my Lord Keeper therewith as by their letters bearing date the 26. of November 1633 expressing their approbation of our doings more largely appeareth These persons who procured the taking downe of Enochs body or were actors therein are all free from Puritanisme and so were conceived by the judges of assise who as they were carefull to have the offendors discovered as is manifest by their letters so when they appeared before them they as diligently examined them but finding in them fond affections joyned with ignorance and not any apparant wilfulnesse or factious contempt in commiseration of that distressed and afflicted family they spared severity and discharged them without further punishment which they would not have done if the offence had appeared to have beene committed by any Schismatical factionists as they publikely delivered Sect. 24. Surely Master Studley wanted some imployment in this discovery for his instruction to have made a more true relation but he that presumeth to lay this imputation to the judges for it must needs taxe their Lenity and overmuch indulgence to such brethren of Enochs faction and disposition as he setteth them forth to be what will not he dare to say Peradventure he thought the justices of peace deluded the judges in the examination of the parties and so made them appeare others then in truth they were I that am one of them doe challenge Master Studley to bring my actions and theirs that joyned with me to publike examination and if we be therein faulty let us not be spared But if upon true tryall it appeare that the Author of the Looking-glasse in his Epistle to the reader as aforesaid assuring us in the word of a Minister that we have a relation of such substantial truth as he will maintaine against any person living upon the face of the earth in this matter of substance which hath beene examined in the face of the County at the assises doth deliver such a manifest falsehood who can believe him in any other thing Especially since hereby he casteth the foule aspersion of Puritanisme or non-conformity not onely upon particular persons that tooke downe Enochs body from the Gibbet but also upon the honorable judges and the justices of peace as favourers of Puritans and Schismaticks It may be he may apologize for himself that the manifestation of this and the examinations now upon record were not to be seene when he wrote his booke for his Epistle is dated the fourth of September 1633. I say it beseemed his discretion to have well informed himselfe of the truth before he cast such aspersions upon any but however his Epistle be dated as before yet his booke came not to sight in print in this Country untill September 1634. before which time there had two assises passed after the execution of Enoch which might have directed him by the proceedings therin to have made a more true relation or corrected his coppy Sect. 25. As Master Studley deales with those before spoken of so with others as with the melancholy minister pag. 40. who did deprive himselfe of his virilitie and who if I mistake not his meaning is yet alive and therefore in compassion of his infirmity fit to be omitted I could wish he were as free from that humour as hee is from non-conformity And so also with the layman of Tewxbury pag. 143. c. falsely accusing him and censoriously judging the very thoughts of his heart in the particulars following amongst more that might be observed as first that he was twice Churchwarden yet never was once Second that he tooke down a crosse built in the Church-yard He medled not with the taking of it downe but another workeman did it Thirdly that he placed the loose Stones under the Church wall He did not Fourthly that the second time he was Churchwarden he tooke the stones away He begged a stone to make him a trough for a Grindestone and a stone of the Crosse being already hollow and so fittest for his purpose was given him by the then Churchwardens Fifthly that he cementing them together made a Swines trough of them This is false as before is said the stone being one and hollow his wife put Whey therein and the pigges did drinke of it before it was converted to that intended purpose Sixthly that the first meat his swine did eate therein did drive them instantly into a raging madnesse The pigges were not mad but wounded to death Seventhly that the 2 next children that his wife after he had taken downe the Crosse brought into the world proved deafe lame and deformed by monstrositie of body and this for his violation and defacing of the ancient monuments of other mens devotion If this befell him in his children as it did not yet it were a hard and heavy censure We see this known Antipuritan knoweth the secret cause of Gods judgements Eighthly that discovering by the terrible testimonies of Gods wrath the naughtines of his heart in abusing things dedicated to conserve the memoriall of our Lord and being overcome with tormenting terrours of a wounded soule he leapt into a draw well and was taken up brused and drowned He was visited with a purple feavor then epidemicall in the Towne of Teuxbury and Doctor Bave being consulted did foretel that through the violence of his disease he would be distracted giving warning to looke unto him this advice of looking unto him being not followed he arose and went forth into a neighbours backeside adjoyning being the usual wayto his garden and hee was found drowned in a well in the same backsid whether by chance or choise he came unto this end to this day is uncertaine I have selected these eight materiall falsehoods in this relation and have set downe the truth after every particular which I have taken out of a more large relation thereof testified to bee true under the hands of the Bayliffes the Iustices the Coroner and the Churchwardens of the same towne and parish dated the 28. of October 1634. to which for more full certainty I referre the reader But upon these fictions Master Studley takes occasion to vent his hearts griefe for many yeares