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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13497	Stripping, vvhipping, and pumping. Or, The five mad shavers of Drury-Lane strangely acted, and truely related. Done in the period, latter end, tayle, or rumpe of the dogged dogge-dayes, last past, August. 1638. Together with the names of the severall parties which were actors in this foule businesse.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1638 (1638)	STC 23795.3; ESTC S122283	6,220	22

and in bodily feare of some worse abuse did strive against them in which scuming shee received a cut or wound in her backe neare the shoulder with the Razor This extreamity being past these Women if I may so call them had 〈◊〉 much modesty as to make fast 〈◊〉 Apron or halfe a Kir●●e before her over the fore-part of her body and as she was being cut whipped and all bloody over they haled and thrust her downe the staires and pump'd her at a Pumpe which was in Evans his backe ●ide after that they thrust her into the streete i● being betweene ten and eleven of the Clocke at night and from the streete or Dr●ry Lane they puld and ●ug●●her with her haire about her eares into a Court called Reine-Deere Court where at a Pumpe they held her under the spout and pump'd Water upon her and us'd her more shamefully than is fit to write of still stopping her mouth with a clout● also in the Yard at the last Pumpe there were two men that did abuse her one Smith was one but shee striving with them had her Kirtle or Apron torne off from her so ●●at shee had nothing to cover her ●●rkasse but the darknesse of the Night At last this bu●ling was overheard by an honest Coach-man whose name is Thomas Finch who marvailing what it might bee that made such a stirre at that time of night hee and his Wife comming to the Pumpe finding a Woman in such a pittifull plight so handled by such rough and pittilesse Creatures he in humanity rescued her from them and suddenly pluck'd off his Horse-mans Coate and coverd her nakednesse whereupon her Adversaries or lawlesse executioners all forsooke her and dispers't themselves it is no great matter whither The Coach-man demanded of the poore abused creature what she was and wherefore they had used her so cruelly and she answer'd that shee was a poore yong Woman that did get her living by Nursing and keeping of Childe-bed Women and also that sometimes shee did attend and kee●● sicke folkes and that she at that ti●● was a Keeper or Waiter on a si●ke Gentleman a Captaine at the signe of the Helmet in the Strand he asked her further where her cloathes were and wherefore those women had us'd her so and she answer'd him that they had torne and rent her cloathes in pie●es and also that shee had five shillings of money in one of her Pockets wherupon the Coach-man did pitty her hard estate and usage and withall did bring her presently home to the aforesaid Signe of the Helmet where shee dwelt and doth remaine yet to this twelfth of October 1638. being much bruised and hurt and spets blood Now Reader I imagine you have not heard of such a mad crew of Shavers Whippers and politicke Pumpers nor doe I thinke that any Penne or relation of tongue or History doth mention the like After shee had recoverd a little ●●rength she procured Warrants from 〈◊〉 Justice of the Peace which when the matter was heard and understood they were bound all of them to answer for this outrage to the Woman the spoiling of her and her Apparrell and the losse of her money but they did put in good Baile for their appearance at the Sessions and on the eight and twentieth of September they went to Westminster to save their Baile and Recognisence Quarter Sessions being then holden there from which tryall they have by a Writ of Sursarara remov'd their cause up to the right honourable Court of Kings Bench but as they were returning homeward some women belike that had heard of their desperate and unmannerly exployts as soone as they saw them passe did raile on them and revile them most scoldingly eloquent and withall so embroydered them with dirt which they cast at them that they seemed more like Ladies of the soyle than women of any meane degree And thus have these five foolish women run●● themselves into sixe pecks of trouble How it will bee answered and ended time will shew if the Reader hath the patience to stay so long These are the fruits of mad-braind Hare-braind shallow-braind jealousie for as the Pedegree of cure or remedy may bee thus delineated Itch begat Scratch ● Scratch was the Father of Scabbe Scabbe begat Sore to whom Smart succeeded then Smart was the Father of Paine Paine begat Griefe who was the Sire of Care and Care begat Cure So Idle thoughts are the fathers of Whisperings Whisperings begat Pratling Babling Talking Lying Slandering these Mongrels are for the most part begotten at Gossippings and are the incurable Issues or Fistulaes of wicked mindes from them Fame sends out Rumour Report and Heare-say and they set Malice Backebiting and Slander on worke who are so double diligent in their damnable Devices that they doe never cease working till such time as they have h●led Jealousie by the eares out of the Dungeon of Hell and sure there is no Tiger or Beare when they are robbed or bereaved of their Whelpes so divelish mad as a jealous man or woman It hath beene indeed too often knowne that Beauty hath beene the ruine of Chastity if grace guide and guard it not and as the flattery of men may overcome the weaknesse of women so the wiles and snares of subtile Strumpets have intangled and ruin'd too many men for ●ole Deianeira and Omphale were too hard for Hercules and one of them made him lay by his Club and fall to spinning with a Dista●fe The Queene of Love subdu'd the god of Warre and the same Venus naked did foile Pallas who was arm'd on Mount Ida and whosoever hee be that sowes kisses on such lips as are lasciviously manur'd with the dung of temptation shall be sure to reape 〈◊〉 Harvest either of contempt diseases beggery and defamation for the world is full of examples and presiden●s of many thousand that have reap'd such a crop as they have sowne That man that is yoak'd with a scold that will be jealous without cause o●●ly because she will be so and for that surmise and slander shee like a Devill doth make her house her Husbands continuall Hell Surely such a man is partly happy if withall hee hath the vertue of Patience as wife Socrates had with his Xantippe for hee that is match'd with such a Fiend hath no need to care where he goes nor what society he keeps nor hath he reason to be affraid of any harme that any wicked company can doe him for the Devill himselfe will not hurt him that is match'd with one of his Sister But if any shuttle-witted fellow that is wedded to a chaste and modest woman and is so farre troubled with a wild buzzing ●●d-flye in his braines that he nothing but dreames of supposed invisible Hornes such a kind of Cacadudgeon C●xcombe doth justly deserve to have beene match'd to a wench whose heeles had beene lighter than his head and then hee might meritoriously have made a Combe of a Fire-forke and worne an Oxe-feather in his Hat without wrong or injury in a word there is nothing can grieve or torment the heart either of a good man or woman than to finde their truth constancy loyalty and honest integrity suspected or question'd for let it be truely weighed and considered what hurt or occasion of suspicion can be for a man to give a woman a part of one Pint of wine in an open low roome in a publick Taverne it is not to bee doubted but such accidents doe happen dayly at the least a thousand and yet for all that there is not one Whoore or Cuckold the more but when as rashnesse addes waxen wings like those of Icarus of indiscretion and inconsideration and that either the man or the woman are mounted or soar'd aloft to the height of Love-killing hell-borne jealousie then doth the furious heate and flame of rage melt those deceitfull and suspicious wings wings whereby the jealous party drops and tumbles downe headlong into the bottomelesse Ocean of irreperable disgrace and infamy The envy and inveterate hate of wicked women is almost past thought Envy is the mistresse of injustice it stirreth and inciteth both the thought and the hand to all ill and wicked actions and that envy which is secret and hidden is more to bee feared than that which is open and manifest such was the secret malice of this Barbers wife whose jealousie did burne a great while within her and at length her envy did burst out into a flame and so hath brought ruine and disgrace to her and her Husband which is so farre distant And if any woman be so full of wrath and revengefull as this woman is and her associates and especially if they know that they have power of command or authority they will soone bring all to destruction for they will plot either to poyson stob or else some ther way make their will and passions their Law and therefore I advise all to learne this saying rather to be affraid of that renowne and credit which is dishonest and shamefull for they plotted this businesse because they would he talk'd on hereafter Suppose this I●●●e had beene guilty of a fault must these Women be their owne revengers their owne witnesses their owne Judges must they have the Law in ●●eir owne hands thus to usurpe● 〈◊〉 wholsome Lawes and make havo●● of a woman in this un●ill mann●●● Women shall I call them● nay rather monsters or else some evill spirit in their shapes to commit such inhumane and unnaturall acts as these such actions they be that are past example nay never the like heard of to commit such uncivill actions and upon their owne Sexe whose civill carriage should be example to the younger sort their actions were such as I said before that I blush to relate them and ought not to be divulg'd no lowder than a whisper The Heathens that knew not God would not have done the like nay the wilde beasts of the wildernesse would have pursu'd to de●th such beasts as rapin'd and live upon the spoyle of other beasts they themselves punish and shall these creatures hate these acts which a Christian commits and we commit them but their punishment no doubt will be inflicted upon them according to their deserts and my second part which I will shortly publish shall shew their confessions and their punishments And so I end this Relation wishing their sufferings may be an example to others that none dare attempt such uncivill and immodest actions 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