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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30662	The case of Exeter-Colledge in the University of Oxford related and vindicated	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.; Washington, Joseph, d. 1694.	1691 (1691)	Wing B6190; ESTC R25321	65,452	81

Clase that Mr. Colmer desired the said Anne Aris to let him catch her by the Belly whilst she was rubbing his Room but she refused it in Witness whereof we have set our hands John Freek John Clase 2d 1690 The Information of Mary the wife of Thomas Lawrence taken upon Oath by Sir William Walker Knight one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of Oxford this second day of July 1690. THis Deponent testifieth that about six years since being servant to Ferdinand Smith whose wife was Bed maker at Exeter-Colledge she the said Deponent coming into the Chamber of Mr. Colmer to make his Bed he the said Mr. Colmer took her violently by both her hands and threw her upon his Bed and endeavoured to lie with her biding her lie still which she refused and did not yield to him but went out of the Room and left one of the Beds unmade and then she went to the Trencher Room and told her Dames Mother what Mr. Colmer had endeavoured to do as is aforesaid and declared she would never go again to Mr. Colmer's Room unless some body went with her The Mark of Mary Lawrence Concordat cum originali facta debita collatione per me Ben. Cooper Notarum Publicum The Contents of this Deposition are what the Rector's Wife declar'd when Mr. Colmer's Cause was heard She having received it from the Woman her self who gives this confirmation though the Author of the Account tells the world it was then disown'd by the party who spoke it and sets it off thus pleasantly It was said that the Rector 's Wife said that a certain Maid said to her that she had formerly said to another Woman that Mr. Colmer had been uncivil to her This may be thought wit by some but by none fair dealing The Oath of Alice Gigger c. ALice Gigger at present of London Spinster maketh Oath that she this Deponent living at one Mr. Halls a Coffee-house in the City of Oxon was several times tempted by Mr. James Colmer Fellow of Exeter-Colledge in Oxford to have been naught with him and at sundry times offering her this Deponent money to become his Whore and particularly at one time about two years and an half since he took out a handful of Money out of his Pocket and shewed it her telling her this Deponent that if she would comply with him she should have what she would of it or to that effect And another time he would have had this Deponent gone out Town with him who asked him where He told her to the Rose and Crown in Hincksey about two Miles out of Town She asked how He told her on Horseback behind him and withal said she had a good Excuse to ask leave of her Master and Mistress being a Holliday Saint Luke's day and he then told her that they would take Horse at Mr. Crowders in Holywell Parish where his Horse then stood which this Deponent totally declined He intimating his intention of making her a Whore Another time he would have had this Deponent have left her Service and gone into the Country and he would have maintained her as a Gentlewoman if she would yield to him which this Deponent refusing he said again to her A Plague damn your fools-head And at another time he said before a Stranger in this Deponents presence That he would several times have had to do with this Deponent but she would not consent And this Deponent further saith That about a Month since this Deponent received a Letter from her Brother who writ to this Deponent at the Instigation of Mr. Colmer's Lawyer of New Colledge as her Brother writes to her that if any of Exeter Colledge came to her she should not discover any thing for if she did she should take care of her self for Colmer would do her a mischief besides the Colledge would have her down upon her own charge into the Country and put her to great trouble or to that effect Jurat 27. die Junii Annoque Dom. 1690. coram me Rog Meredith The Examination of Anne Sparrow taken upon Oath before John Ward Esquire one of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said Country and Liberty THis Deponent being Examin'd upon Oath did declare that James Colmer Fellow of Exeter Colledge in the University of Oxford was the only man in the world that ever had carnal knowledge of her Body and that the said James Colmer and no body else is the only and true Father of the Bastard child that she was delivered of about Michaelmas last past at the House of Ferdinando Smith in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen in the City of Oxford This Deponent further faith That some time after she was delivered Mr. Maundrel and Mr. Cleaveland did advise her to say that a Gentleman of Christ-Church was the Father of her Child which by their perswasion she did to Alderman Fyfield who was brought to her by Mr. Maundrel only to take her Examination That the Reason they urged to perswade this Deponent to lay her Child to one of Christ-Church was she should not do Mr. Colmer an injury who would be expell'd if she laid the Child to him And she further deposeth that no person living ever perswaded her to lay her Child to Mr. Colmer And further saith not The Mark of An. Sparrow Jurat Coram me Jan. 21. 1689. John Ward The Constable's and Beadle's Certificates THese may Certifie whom it may concern That it was a long time before Mrs. Pearse who Lodged Anne Sparrow in London and had carried her about three Miles off could be perswaded to own where she was but at last went along with me and brought Anne Sparrow to London before Justice Ward which said Anne Sparrow drank not any thing that I know of in the House from whence she came and walk'd to London a foot none of us drinking any thing by the way neither did Mr. Kingston of Exeter Colledge in Oxon see the said Anne Sparrow all that day till he saw her in the Room before Justice Ward all which I am ready to testifie upon Oath as also that the said Anne Sparrow had a fair and just Examination before John Ward Esq at which I was present all that time with the Beadle and others Witness my Hand and Seal this 22d of March 1689 90. And that the said Anne Sparrow freely and of her own accord said most of those things to me which she after confest upon Oath Edward Warburton Constable I Am also ready to testifie upon Oath That the said Anne Sparrow was no way in drink when she was brought to Justice Ward before whom she had a just and fair Examination there being several persons present and I my self being present all the time and that Mr. Kingston had not seen the said Anne Sparrow until such time as I did fetch Mr. Kingston to the Justice where Anne Sparrow was as also that Mr. Warburton being sick in bed did desire

that the above written should be drawn for him and doth own his Hand and Seal Witness my Hand and Seal this Twenty second of this Instant March 1689. William Gunter Beadle The Examination of Anne Sparrow taken upon Oath before Sir William Walker Knight one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of Oxon May 5th 1690. THis Informant saith That Mr. Colmer Fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford hath had carnal knowledge of her Body once in his Study and several other times afterwards and that Alice Wats Servant to Ferdinando Smith told her that Mr. Colmer had lain with her also several times She also saith That Mr. Cleaveland and Mr. Maundrel Fellows of Exeter Colledge on the next day after the birth of her Child desir'd her to lay her Child to a Gentleman of Christ-Church Colledge and that they perswaded her to remove to a place provided for her where she should want nothing Whereupon she went with John Wakeland and his Wife to their House where she tarried about three Weeks in which time Mr. Cleaveland and Mr. Maundrel came thither and paid the aforesaid John Wakeland for her Keeping and that John Wakeland carried her from her Master's House on a Horse to Dorchester to the House of Francis Green where she tarried about two Months and from thence to Farrington where she tarried about a Month and from thence she went in a Waggon to London where she was plac'd by John Wakeland and she also saith That no other person had carnal knowledge of her Body besides the aforesaid Mr. Colmer And before her delivery she told her Dame That Mr. Colmer was the Father of her Child This is a true Coppy of the Examination of Anne Sparrow taken before Sir William Walker Knight William Walker Note Mr. Cleaveland was present when this Examination was taken The Examination of Vrsula Green taken upon Oath before Sir William Walker Knight one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of Oxferd May the 6 th 1690. THis Informant saith that Anne Sparrow was brought to her house at the Black boy in Dorchester by John Wakeland Bargeman of this City which Wakeland came to her House the day before he brought the said Anne Sparrow and told this Informant and her Husband Francis Green that he would have them take the said Anne for that a Gentleman had got her with Child and was willing to have her out of the way that he might not be disgrac'd and that they might put the said Anne in an outward room so as she might not appear much least she should be found out That they should take care of her and should be well and truly paid and then made a bargain with them for one month and paid the money which was sixteen shillings as soon as he brought the said Anne Sparrow who came with him on Horse back before Eight of the Clock in the morning This Informant saith that asking the said Anne who was the Father of her Child she said a Gentleman and being asked who she said she must not tell for fear she should be undone but being farther prest earnestly she said one Mr. Colmer Fellow of Exeter-Colledge was the real Father and the only man in the world that ever had any thing to do with her and that Ferdinand Smith and others had perswaded and incouraged her always to say that a Gentleman of Christ-Church was the Father of it and that John Wakeland took the said Anne Sparrow from her House on foot and carried her away whither he would not tell And this Informant further saith that the said Anne Sparrow came to her house and stayed some time after the said Sparrow had been at London and then told her that Wakeland carried her to Farrington and càme back with her after she had stayed somtime there she riding in a Waggon and that they lay one night at Dorchester at the Crown and that Anne desired then to call on the said Green but Wakeland told her No They must not know whither she went for fear they should make Proclamations and that the said Anne told her that John Wakeland said he had thirty shillings to carry the said Anne to London and this Informant saith that John Wakeland came to her house since the said Anne came from London and saw the said Anne there and desired this Informant to go out of the Room for he had somthing to say to Anne Sparrow in private which this Informant accordingly did who further saith that when Wakeland paid her the last money for the keeping the said Anne Sparrow she asked him who 't was that paid him the money and where he had it he answered of a Gentleman who always brought it to him but he whold not say he knew him and this Informant does declare that the said Anne told her she seeing Mr. Kingston Fellow of Exeter Colledge pass by a place in London as she was looking out at a Window held out her hand and called to the said Mr. Kingston and this Informant saith further that the said Mr. Kingston saw Anne Sparrow ' twice at her House on May the 3d. and 5th but was never alone or in private with the said Anne Sparrow but did several times exhort her to speak nothing but the truth and to do the least wrong to no one whatsoever might be asked her This is a true Copy of the Examination of Ursula Green taken before Sir William Walker Knight William Walker The Examination of Francis Green taken upon Oath before Sir William Walker Knight one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of Oxon May the 10 th 1690. THis Informant saith that one John Wakeland of Oxon Bargeman came to his House at the Black boy at Dorchester and desired him to keep a Wench who had a By-blow by a Gentleman who was able to maintain her and had money enough and that if four shillings a Week would not do he should have five and bargained at last for sixteen shillings the Month which he paid before hand as soon as she was brought to his House and that John Wakeland did desire to have her kept private that she might not be seen that the said John Wakeland after Anne Sparrow which was the said Woman came from London and it was known at Oxon that she was at the said Greens House came over to him and earnestly desired the said Green not to bring the said Sparrow over to Oxford for that he should be ruin'd and undone if he did and that if he gave the Wench any dyet he wou'd pay for it This Informant further saith that the abovenamed Anne Sparrow while at his House the first time said frequently that one Mr. Colmer was the Father of her Child and the only man that had to do with her and that the said Sparrow also said that Mr. Maundrel and Mr. Cleaveland overperswaded her to lay it to a Gentleman of Christ-Church telling her that