Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	heart_n	soul_n	4,780	5	4.6461	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01868	The adultresses funerall day in flaming, scorching, and consuming fire, or, The burning downe to ashes of Alice Clarke, late of Vxbridge in the county of Middlesex, in West-smith-field on Wensday the 20 of May, 1635 for the unnaturall poisoning of Fortune Clarke her husband a breviary of whose confession taken from her owne mouth is here unto annexed, as also what she sayd at the place of her execution / by her daily visiter H.G. in life and death ; and now published by authority and commaund.	Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641.	1635 (1635)	STC 12009; ESTC S2691	8,459	18

such hopes he altogether was disappointed and deluded Whether this be not a lame excuse or strange delusion I referre it unto the censure of the Judicious and no further discovery of the fact could I get from her at that time Shee further said that on Ascension-day her husband violently attempted to drowne himselfe which shee prevented by her language upon him but in short space afterwards dyed that Night of the Mercury taken by himselfe out of her pocket as afore-said Fourthly shee seemed to be very much afflicted in conscience that shee was a yeare since gotten with Child by her Master with whom shee last dwelt withall who perceiving the same with a small summe of money matched her unto Fortune Clarke her Husband about Alhallontide last whom she could not love or have any matter of maintenance but relied upon her Masters former promises for the same and hee fayling of giving her meanes fell into folly and wickednesse A great clog unto such a mans conscience if it be true to seduce a woman unto his will and so leave her A SHORT TRACT VPON THE hainousnesse of Poysoning THough there be sundry sorts of Murther with their severall degrees as open or secret acted upon a friend a stranger or ones selfe yet in my opinion I know not any of them which containes so much villany neither including so many deepe circumstances in them as that of poysoning That I thinke is the reason that there are so few examples of it in Holy writ this way either being then not knowne followed or practised therefore to descrbe the quality of it and to aggravate it I must wish you to consider these foure things First the Duplicem modum secondly the Duplicem effectum Modus prior the first Manner Deliberando Meditando Is an Act done by Deliberation or Meditation no waies carried and hurried by the violence either of will or of passion but done upon a cold blood and not seldome upon fixed resolutions Modus posterior Celando obtegendo by a secret intent to hide it and conceale it from God if it were possible so it is to the Patient under the shadow of some Physicke or other medicine coloured with an outward shew of an honest intent and as far as they can from the Publick Magistrate or else to make a distance of time either to excuse themselves or flye away from the hands of Justice though Secondly Effectus prior sensus 〈◊〉 by changing stupifying or absolutely taking away the senses and depraving the operative Organs of the soule and sometimes infecting all the principles of life as the head the heart and the liver howsoever altering and overthrowing the frame and constitution of mans body in generall and making him unfit for a prepararation of himselfe for death though it be upon him so that without the speciall Mercy of God the party thus abused dyes without either knowledge of his sinnes or repentance for them Secondly Effectus posterior creaturarum abusus the abusing of the Creatures contrary to the end of their Creation They being brought forth for the use and health of Mans Body by this meanes they are made deadly nay this manner of killing any makes not onely the prime Agent guilty but infects and makes guilty others too or at least causes them to be examined strictly by the Magistrate so that howsoever their good name for the present is blotted and blemished and what more is they have but two wayes to comfort themselves the first is the witnesse of their owne Consciences Integrity the second is the Judges knowledge of their Innocence and Ignorance by a prudent examination of the fact perpetrated by all circumstances and suspicious Arguments And in this kinde the Apothecary for selling the Messengers for buying the Composers of it and the deliverers of it to the party stand in an hazard either of their lives or fortunes or both Laying aside all these together I hope it will easily appeare what a haynous sinne it is when it is thus committed first with Deliberation Secondly with Secresie Thirdly with disabling the party to fit himselfe for mercy and with the abusing the blessings of God and their owne knowledge and lastly for bringing others into danger as well as themselves yet what is more all this done under the Gospell and often as at this present against one whose life credit goods and good name the offender ought to cherish and maintaine to the uttermost So I may take up that saying of Iacob to his two Sonnes My soule come not into their secrets neither bee ioyned with their assemblies nor have to doe with their practises whose conclusions are so deepely dyed with the blood of Innocents The second Confession of Alice Clarke this 10. day of May 1635. at the place of Execution concerning the poysoning of her husband Fortune Clarke PHysitians of the Soule ought to immitate those learned Physitians of the body frequent visitations of those sicke patients whose diseases are desperate and inveterate and sometimes it chanceth that they must desire necessity so requireth the advice and sound opinions of others their Colleagues Even thus it happened betweene this obdurate Malefactor and my selfe who in Adultery was so Rooted and insensible of the heavy burthen and most intollerable plagues insuing for it That at the first and second times of my visiting of her little or no Repentance I found in her or her heart to be touched for her most horrid clamorous crimes This is apparant if you compare her first confession unto this how different in truth how improbable the one are unto the other nay what she confessed on Munday shee was so far off to proceede in a further revealing of her selfe that what touched her home concerning her husbands death she would have denied though formerly confessed by her most confidently true I was thereuppon inforced to hold her unto it and to extract the truth and trye her spirit called two of the Keepers of the Goale to her unknowne whom I appoynted to obserue and remember the speeches that passed betweene us to verifie them unto her face which attestation both of my selfe and of them shee would out-face but could not Vppon Wensday morning on which shee was executed there assembled unto Newgate multitudes of people to see her and some conferred with her but little good they did on her for shee was of a stout angry disposition suddainly inraged if you began to touch her to the quicke of her husband poysoning Being that morning of her death accompanied and also assisted by divers of my worthy grave and learned brethren in the Ministery before and at the time of her Execution for which I doe most heartily thanke them but that God whose worke it was their reward for it with him is layd up in store Like my selfe they stood as men amazed to perceive that none of theirs or any other serious perswasions could for a great while prevayle with her ioyned in opinion with me that she was

no fitting guest for the Table of the Lord Iesus thereupon I made as though I would have excluded her thence in denying the benefit of the holy Communion of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ inferring the benefit of the unspeakeable blesse by the worthy receiving of it by Repentance and Faith and the most woefull malediction to all impenitent and unworthy receivers Whereupon it pleased God so to mollifie her heart that teares from her eyes and truth from her tongue proceeded as may appeare by this her ensuing Confession at the very Stake where she was executed unto Mr. Cordall She riffe of London relating the same with as loud and audible a voice as possible she could that many others besides there present were also witnesses of such her ensuing Confession First she confessed that Henry White who was arraigned as a party with her consenting unto her Husbands death did give unto her one Ascension day in the after noon foure brasse tokens advising her therewith to goe and buy one penyworth of Mercury and give it unto her Husband saying if that her husband were dead she should live more quietly and contentedly with him after such his death that he the said White would marry with her whereupon she went unto Vxbridge and that afternoone bought the Mercury Secondly shee confessed that her Master got her with childe a yeare since which was her overthrow and mediated for the Marriage betweene her and her Husband whom shee could not love nor no way affect By her Masters perswasion who sent her up to London to be Married and payed the costs thereof and further promised her maintenance during her life if she did condescend unto his desiers which were most unlawfull dishonest and unchaste before and after her Marriage with Fortune Clarke her Husband Thirdly shee confessed that one of Hillinden inticed her to run away from her Husband with him beyond the Seas and that she did lodge in that mans house and lay with him a whole fortnight and speaking unto him of her Husband that shee would not forsake him hee thereupon advised her to pop him up with white bread and milke and to put some thing else into it to choak or stuffe up his throat Fourthly she confessed for the Mercury which she bought shee intended it unto her Husband but having no conuenient opportunity to dispose of it she put it into her sleeve which her Husband as she said tooke it out of her hand and then being over charged with drink he immediatly swallowed it down which she perceiving was thereat so perplexed that she uttred these words unto her Husband that he had undone both him selfe and her And heere give me leave to note unto the World what a deale of comfort she found after shee had disburdned her loaded conscience by confession beeing demaunded at the same instant of her death yea or nay that after such her confession shee was by it the better prepared unto death with comfort and willingnesse to suffer the same Shee thus replyed with harty thankefulnesse unto God that shee had better resolutions unto death then formerly she had and by her countenance which was very ruddy confirmed her inward new begotten chearfulnesse and that with harty prayer and sweet tone of voice surrenderd her soule into the hands of the Lord Iesu who will have mercy on whom he will have mercy unto whom wee all stand and fall Heere is nothing contained in her confession but that which true and what she uttered with her owne mouth which I was a witnesse off H. Goodcole FINIS