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A36268	Tho. Dangerfield's answer to a certain scandalous lying pamphlet entituled, Malice defeated, or, The deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier together with some particular remarks made from her own words, an acknowledgment of matter of fact, and a short compendium of the principal transactions of her life and conversation / all which are wrote by the hand of Tho. Dangerfield ...	Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.	1680 (1680)	Wing D183; ESTC R8411	21,668	21

was the impudence of this Woman rather to Droll with than answer the Demands of the Councel which made them look upon her only as a bold and incorrigible Bigott Pag. 23. If any thing in the World could give a probable light where the true Plot is managed mine and my accusers Cases would do it Indeed I am much of the same opinion for your very Defence accuses you and there is no Question to be made but tho management of your deliverance was as convincing an Argument to all Persons of understanding how the true Plot was managed as might appear by your soft and gentle and your Accusers harsh and undeserved usage which are the true Cases of you and your Accuser Ibid. That singly and alone without the advice or assistance of any one Catholick Man or Woman I was left to study manage and support my self to my own expence which above a thousand Pounds never receiving one Peny towards it but ten Pounds given me by a condemn'd Priest five days before my Tryal nor have I since received any thing or the least civility from them Madam this Rodomontado will not pass as being a meer bundle of Lies and Equivocations which they of your acquaintance that know better cannot but blush to hear you tell as if you were pratling over your Sack and Sugar and others that believe may as well believe the Story of Bell and the Dragon You would fain be Sainted for your Merits which has produc'd this extravagant Huff of yours and so perhaps you may as that Strumpet the Egyptian St. Mary so Famous in your Callender for exposing her Body to relieve the necessities of the Holy Monks and Hermites of her time As for the expence she mentions I take it for granted and the only Truth she ever told in her whole Life but that those expences came out of her needy Pocket I utterly deny for surely her Midwives Fees can never be imagin'd to have been able to bear the expences that amounted to much above a Thousand Pounds which argues the falsehood of her Assertion in this Particular for indeed things of that Nature are not to be managed at the expence of a Midwives Purse nor does it look with the Face of Innocent or ordinary conduct as she pretends for here are matters of divers kinds such as wanted the support of good Friends or the Devil himself who is said to be the God of Riches Mammon himself was only able to feed those greedy Mercenaries that suck'd the Canvas Teats of her Charity who by that means were made fit Instruments for her and her Confederates and then the Devil came in to act his part which was to stock them with fit Creatures so that by the loss of one three might be produc'd by way of fresh supply Therefore I give the more credit to the expence she mentions and am apt to think it not much short of one of the like nature which was Sir George Wakemans Case which how fitly this Woman or her Husband were quallified in state to manage I refer to all that know them Therefore in all probability there was a General Contribution to make good that breach for it was a close attack which if lost would have shook tho whole work without making the Kingdom rue it As to my own Sex I hope they will Pardon the Errors of my Story as well as those bold attempts of mine that occasion'd it since what I medled with though it may be thought too Masculine yet was it the effects of my more than Religious Zeal to gain Proselytes c. And no one can truly say but that I preserved the Modesty though not the timorousness common to my Sex Religious Zeal and Modesty Jesu Maria what a president of an Apology is here we shall have shortly by the example of this Midwife the whole Town fill'd with Vindications by all the Trulls in Whetstones-Park and all the Lewd Corners in the Suburbs we shall have such upholding of Fame and good Name and Honor among the Common Harlots that Women that are truly honest will be asham'd to own it Well This Mrs. Elizabeth Cellier has a stupendious Memory I had thought seeing it was so long ago that she had forgot the Practice of Religious Zeal and Modesty that she had forgot the very words but I see she has not However Gentlemen since she has been so nimble with my Life and Conversation I will give you a Compendium of hers And then you shall be Judges of her Religious Zeal and Modesty yourselves The way then she hath taken for many years to preserve her Modesty as she calls it hath been the greatest Forfeiture of it and occasioned the worst Reflections upon her Morals that ever any of the Sex has had made upon them For about Twenty years since she then being the Wife of a certain Merchant of this City did as she sayes by accident receive into her House a Comely Italian by the Name of Seignior Pedro de Viacho who had to attend him a Negro as Charming in her Eye as his Master at one and the same time she fell in Love with them both to that degree that it expos'd her to publick report which the Seignior being inform'd of made immediate Application to the Lady and soon confirm'd the report for Truth some time after the sight of the Black one day at Dinner as he waited on his Master so suddenly made a deep impression in her Heart that she was taken most violently ill of a Love Passion which she for the space of Ten days underwent with great impatience but having in this time watch'd all opportunities one Evening by Twilight when the Seignior and her Husband were at a Tavern she took the Black into her Chamber where having allow'd him more Freedom than his Heart could wish for she gratified her own Lascivious desire And such opportunities she often made use of insomuch that both the Husband and the Seignior were Jealous of the Moore for the Rogue was extreamly fond and could not forbear to express great Demonstrations thereof at several times when he was in her Company so that a little time produc'd the Effects of her Intimacy for this passionate Lady fell in Travail and in some short time and with no great difficulty was out of her Religious Zeal deliver'd of a brave Tawny Face'd Boy to the great amazement of all the beholders This made a terrible noise among the Neighborhood So that the Seignior being a man of some repute and not enduring to hear such Reproaches as he often met with pack'd up his Tackling and departed for Rome the Husband being overborn with grief soon after departed for Legorne where he became a Factor and ended his days How she spent her time for Three or Four years after I know not but about Twelve years since she lived near Holbourn and was then become very exquisite at the Cracking Trade from thence she removed to a certain Lodging in