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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31465	Malice defeated, or, A brief relation of the accusation and deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier wherein her proceedings both before and during her confinement are particularly related and the Mystery of the meal-tub fully discovered : together with an abstract of her arraignment and tryal, written by her self, for the satisfaction of all lovers of undisguised truth.	Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1661; ESTC R17590	56,493	52

Jury-man but I 'll venture that and bring my self to the Bar the first day of the next Term. Sir Will. You must not be tryed there you must be tryed at the Old Bayly Cel. If his Majesty bring me upon my Tryal He may try me where He pleases but if I bring my self to it it must be at the Kings-Bench Bar. Sir Will. You are deceived you cannot Cel. But I can and will to Sir Will. I 'll tell his Majesty what you say Cel. Pray do for I desire it Sir Will. Well I see you are an obstinate woman and do not understand your own good I 'll come no more to you Cel. I care not for your Company therefore pray stay away and tell Truth Once in your life As he was upon the Stairs going down I call'd to the Maid to bring me some Beer and he was willing to believe I called him and ran up in great haste asking through the Door if I had bethought my self of any thing he could do to serve me Cel. No Sir Will. I am not such a Distressed Damosel to use your Service For as the Devil can do harm but not good so though you have put me in yet it is not in your power to fetch me out of this inchanted Castle but I shall come out e'er long to a Glorious Death or an Honourable Life both which are indifferent to me blessed be God After this I was no more troubled with him That night the Duke of Monmouth came to Town from Holland I was fetched before the Council in great haste having now learn'd to turn up my Hoods without bidding L. Chan. Come Mrs. Cellier we hear of your zeal Cel. It is a Virtue to be zealous My Lord. L. Chan. The Truth comes out by little and little we shall know all Cel. My Lord I wish all the truth were known and then I should go home to my own House L. Chan. When were you in Flanders Cel. Never L. Chan. You were Cel. I never was out of England L. Chan. Do you know one Mr. Adams Cel. What Mr. Adams does your Lordship mean L. Chan. Mr. Adams a Commissioner of the Statute of Bankrupt Cel. Yes I know him well he sent John-a-Nokes to Prison and thereupon was put out of Commission L. Chan. Has he done you any personal injury Cel. Only helpt to cheat me of five Hundred Pounds L. Chan. Nothing else Cel. No my Lord but I 'll assure you he did that L. Chan. You were at the Devil-Tavern with him and Dangerfield the 24 th of September and said there was no Plot but a Presbyterian Plot and that it would appear so in a Month you tim'd it well for just then your Intrigue was found out Cel. My Lord I was at the Devil-Tavern but not within three weeks of the time you mention L. Chan. You were there at that time and said you were just come from Flanders and drank the Duke of York's Health in a Beer-glass of Claret and would not let Mr. Adams drink unless he nam'd the Health Cel. Indeed my Lord that was ill done for there was not a drop of Claret L. C. But you drank the Duke 's Health Cel. Pray my Lord what crime is it L. C. It is none Cel. Then I hope there 's no Punishment L. C. Here is nothing to be done with her call Mr. Adams He was called in and his Wise Depositions read Cel. My Lord of all this fine Story there is nothing true but that I was at the Tavern but it was three weeks before the time he mentioned and I did Pledge the D 's Health and say I believed there was a Plot among the Presbyterians to play their old Game over again but I hoped God would bless the King and his Royal Brother and that their Affairs would go well and God would destroy their Enemies and send quiet Times Adams She did say she had been beyond Sea and Mr. Petly will swear she said she had been in Flanders Cel. If I did say so I lyed L. Presid If you Lyed then how shall we know you tell Truth now Cel. My Lord there is a great deal of difference between what I say at a Tavern to a Man of his Understanding and what I say here where every Word ought to be equal to an Oath Adams Your bawdy Story I left out of the Depositions I was asham'd to speak it King What can she speak Bawdy too Adams Yes indeed she did L. C. I she 's fit for any thing Cel. My Lord I never spoke an immodest word in my Life Mr. Adams though you strive to take away my Life do not take away my Honour What did I say King What did she say come tell us the Story Adams She said She said that She said That if she did not lose her Hands she could get Mony as long as King As long as what out with it Adams made as if he were asham'd and could not speak such a word Cel. I said if I did not lose my Hands I should get Mony as long as Men kissed their Wives Adams By the Oath I have taken she said their Mistresses too Cel. Did I so pray what else do they keep them for L. Chan. That was but witty King 'T was but natural to her Practice Cel. Mr. Adams I am sorry for your Ignorance I beseech your Majesty let me be inlarged L. Chan. You are an obstinate Woman and will tell us nothing we ask you Cel. My Lord I tell Truth to all you ask L. C. Here 's no body believes you you will trifle away your Life Cel. My Lord I will not belye my self nor others to save it but I will assure your Lordships never man that came before you feared Death nor valued Life less than I do L. C. I she 's fit for them Withdraw Withdraw After that I was fetcht up once or twice again but do not remember for what Then they let me alone till the 9 th of January and then Captain Richardson went up with me and by the way told me That if now I would make an ingenious Confession I might be inlarged and the Truth found out I answered I knew nothing of all they asked me nor ever answered any thing but the Truth they do not look for Treason in the right place but when they do they may find enough Capt. Richardson But if you know any thing you are bound to tell it Cel. I am only obliged to answer Truth to such questions as I am asked and the Lord Chancellor told me he would not believe a word I said and I do not believe a word of the whole Plot further than that the Presbyterians are playing over their old Game again Capt. Richardson Well I see it is impossible to perswade you to Reason Cel. I never yet could see a Reason for lying When I came before the Council they spoke not a word of the old matter but questioned me concerning Sir Robert Peyton then present I

told the Truth as I would have done long before if they asked it and desired Pen Ink and Paper to recollect my Memory and to see my Husband before a Keeper which the King said was but reasonable and bid make an Order for it which was done yet the Keeper would never let me see him in 11 or 12 weeks that I was confined after that but one quarter of an hour Yet to give him his due he was as civil to me as the strictness of my confinement would admit of and his Wife also all the time I was in their own House January 11 th I sent in my Depositions being all I then could remember but they would not let me have Paper to take a Copy of them but Truth can never be forgotten January 15 16 or 17 th I was brought before a Committee of Lords and they asked me many Trepanning Questions to insnare me Then Mr. Gadbury was called in and his Depositions read to which I only answered Cel. Mr. Gadbury I remember nothing of all this but I confess I am the unfortunate cause of your Trouble and if by ruining me you can ease your self I give you free leave Then a Lord told me there was Treason sworn against me but I might yet save my self if I would for they did not Thirst for my Blood Cel. I am glad to hear your Lordship say so for I am so simple I judge by appearances which are quite otherwise Then Dangerfield was called in and asked if I did not set him on to make a Mutiny at the Rainbow Coffee-House Dangerfield My Lord I cannot say she set me on Cel. Was not I angry with you for it and bid you be gone out of my House and caused you to be removed up into the Garret Dangerfield No that was afterwards Cel. But it was for that Cause A Lord. Do you know any thing of a walk that was upon Tower-Wharf tell us the Truth for you are upon your Oath Cel. I have often walked upon it for I lived there by A Lord. We mean a walk with the Lord Chief Justice and offering Ten Thousand Pounds concerning Sir George Wakeman tell us the Truth for the Countess of Powis has told us all Cel. Yes my Lord I read it in a Pamphlet Dangerfield I do believe it was in a Pamphlet Cel. There was two and you brought them both to me A Lord. Do you remember any more concerning Sir Robert Peyton Cel. Nothing that is fit to tell at this time A Lord. She will not tell the Kings Privy Council what she knows Cel. Not at this time at which Answer they were very angry and asked me some snaring Questions concerning my self but I have forgot what it was yet remember that I answered thus Cel. My Lord I am not obliged to Answer that Question your Lordships are none of my Judges I appeal to my equal Judges Twelve Commons of England in a Court of Judicature let them that desire my life assault it there and though I cannot defend it like a man yet I will not part with it in complement to your Lordships and I desire to be tryed as soon as may be A Lord. Your Tryal will come soon enough you will be put to death Cel. Blessed be God then I hope the Play is near an end for Tragedies whether real or fictious seldom end before the Women die A Lord. What do you make a Play of it Cel. If there be no more Truth in the whole Story than there is in what relates to me every Play that is Acted has more Truth in it A Lord. You talk very peremptorily Cel. My Lord I thank God Death is no terror to me and she that fears not to die cannot fear to speak Truth A Lord. Withdraw withdraw Mrs. Cellier Cel. Before I go I will tell you something of Sir Robert Peyton he told me that though the Earl of Shaftsbury was out of the Council yet his power was as great as ever for he had a strong Party there and he knew all Transactions as soon as the Council rose for he had a Nephew there and there was a person always ready at his House to run away with Intelligence of what passed at Council to the Earl of Shaftsbury A Lord said that was very like how else should the Examinations taken there come to the Press so soon some of Mr. Gadburies that were taken but a day or two before lying there in Print upon the Table Then one of the Lords seeming to wonder his Lordships Nephew was not there commanded me to withdraw Both in January and February I sent in the following Petition but could not possibly get it read though I sent 5 or 6 and in the whole time of my Confinement my Husband carried near 20 but they were still supprest To the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Right Honourable the Lords of his Majesties Privy Counsel The Humble Petition of Elizabeth Cellier close Prisoner in Newgate Sheweth THAT Your Petitioner hath been thirteen Weeks close confin'd and she having had the management of her Husband's Estate with that of two Fatherless Children The most considerable Estate of which depends upon Process at Law and is to be try'd this next Term and they are wholly Ignorant of their Affairs Wherefore your Petitioner doth most humbly Pray and Beseech your Majesty and the Honourable the Lords of the Counsel that she may be Inlarged or permitted to speak to her Husband and Children before a Keeper to advise them how to proceed in their Suit and thereby prevent their ruine And your Petitioner shall pray My Husband put in several Petitions to the same effect but could get no Answer insomuch that he was forc'd to release Seven Hundred and odd Pounds for Sixty one A good Part of which Mony lay in Court of Chancery and the Master of the Rolls had made A decretal Order for us but the Defendant petitioning for another hearing my Husband and Children not being permitted to speak with me knew not which way to defend themselves There I lay close confin'd till the first of April though my Husband daily sollicited for my enlargement But about that time being dangerously sick I was allow'd the Liberty of the Press-Yard Sometime in February I was brought again before a Committee of Councel A Lord. Mrs. Cellier do you know one Mr. Pen a Quaker Cel. I never see him but once Lord. Did you not write to him and give him thanks for making so good use of the Paper you sent him Cel. Yes My Lord I did so Lord Do you use to write to Men you know not Cel. If your Lordships please to have Patience I will tell you the occasion of it About the beginning of May last 6 Copies of a Paper call'd the Danby Reflections were left at my House by an unknown Person with a Note desiring me to put them into understanding mens hands I went to Fox Hall and made a strict Inquisition into the