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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95860	A brief relation of the strange and unnatural practices of Wessel Goodwin, Mehetabell Jones the wife of Edward Jones, and Elizabeth Pigeon the wife of John Pigeon.	Vernon, Samuel.	1654 (1654)	Wing V253A; Thomason E818_19; ESTC R18598	26,213	37

departure overhearing the musick which was daily in the next roome she desired one of her sons to call in their father to whom with a broken sad voice she said Husband you well know what a burthen this Excesse of musick hath been to me all my life must that which hath been so much affliction to me in my life be brought to my death bed may I not dye out of the noise of it pray forbeare I have not many houres to live and then you may have your fill of musick To which he replied not one word but went out in discontent and so fel to his musick againe The third day after shee departed this life a little before her death shee called to her her son in Law and daughter Vernon desiring them amongst other requests to see to the Education of her two younget sons the Eldest being a little before married to a vertuous maid of an honest and Religious Neighbour familie for which shee much rejoyced hoping that her eldest son now taken into partnership with his Father and matcht with a stay'd discreet wife the Old man would the more delight himselfe in his children and condition and take himself off from his extravagant musick To which purpose shee then also desired her children to labour by all fair wayes to take him off from that company especially from the frequentation of Mr. Edward Jones and that not so much out of dislike to him as to his wife whom shee saw to be a subtil undermining woman that would be ready to make her own advantage of old Mr. Goodwins weaknesse I told you before that the eldest son Andrew Goodwin was upon his marriage taken into partnership with his father into a Stock of Eighteen hundred pounds of which two thirds are the fathers and one third the sons as by Indenture appears which partnership is to continue eighteen years a little before Mr. Goodwin had cast up his estate and found his neat stock to be two and twenty hundred pounds a fine competency though nothing to what he might have honestly raised out of his Trade which for the quantity I verily believe to be one of the best Dyers trades in England In this partnership it was agreed that Andrew Goodwin being the better accomptant should keep the books and cash and looke after the street businesse and old Mr. Goodwin to follow the trade within doors and so they began very comfortably together About three months after Mrs. Goodwins death Mr. Goodwin going to see his son in Law and daughter Vernon after some abrupt passages he began to tel them that his house wanted aguide and he had found a Godly woman that would be a fit wife for him this he pretends to desire with much passion when as it now appeares he was sent by Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Pigeon her sister to act this cheat to delude the world which is plaine by what Mr. Pigeon hath affirmed under his hand and seal Which attestation of Mr. Pigeons lyes deposited in the hands of Mr. Cooper Minister and the Elders of the Parish of Olaves Southwarke by which writing he affirms that long before even in the life time of Mrs. Goodwin deceased Mr. Goowdin had engaged to marry Mistris Jones But this pretended passion lasts not long for within ten dayes after Mr. Goodwin returnes againe to the house of his said son in Law tels them that he saw now that God had not appoynted this match for him but that God had provided for him a wife so eminent in Piety and wisdome that his former wife deserved not to be named the same day And when he was entreated by his said children to discover who this rare woman was he utterly refused to reveale it yet his daily converse and familiarity with Mrs Jones put them in strange thoughts but still the businesse was to them but tanquam Nubibus very dark till time the Mother of truth hath made it more apparent and notorious as by this ensuing discourse appeares Let the Reader note that Mr. Goodwin is a member of Mr. Coopers Congregation Mrs. Jones a member of Mr. Kiffins Church and Mrs Pigeon of Mr. Hansard Knowles Now because Mrs. Pigeon is the chief agent and contriver in these sinful projects I shall give this brief discription of her She is one that can transforme her self into an Angell of light and having her tongue tipt with Scripture can with teares sighes gesture at command set off what she would have beleeved as Gospell though very false thereby to ensure such as hearken to her Charmes no sport to her like catching credulous persons with her faire Saint-like expressions making sure prey of all that she can thus draw into her toyles and so implacabe that when she hath once got an advantage nothing shall satisfie her but the utmost rigour which she will rise at midnight to prosecute This finely qualified Gentlewoman was wife to Mr. Starkey an Apothecarie but she soone as is beleeved woried him out of the world with her wicked imperious usage She had by him as is thought one childe and a faire estate After a while she marries with second husband one Mr. Pigeon a Lieutenant in the then Lieutenant Generall Cromwells regiment Shortly after her marriage with Mr. Pigeon she returnes to her old imperious carriage as will appeare by this story She askes Mr. Pigeon what he would doe with his estate if he should die he sayes he hopes to have children by her she replies she hopes he loves her so well that he will trust her with his children and presses him to promise that if he dye he will give her all he endeavours in a loving way to divert her but she insists peremptorily in her resolution to make him sweare to give her all which he still refusing she absolutely refuses to admit him as a husband and yet to worke him to her purpose did behave her selfe very amorously towards him and besides her personall allurements did many times urge him to drinke aqua coelestis vinum viperatum compounded with provocative drugs and many other provocative meats and drinks for many dayes together promising him that if he would sweare as aforesaid she would be to him according to his owne heart yet did he for good reasons still refuse to consent and she still pursues him till one morning practising the very height of amorous behaviour towards him and yet peremptorily refusing him unlesse he would swear he fell into such a passion and was so transported that he became altogether senselesse feeble and irrationall so that she feared he would never returne to his reason againe in which condition she then besought him for Christs sake to speak to her as formerly but all in vaine for he was no wayes sensible of what he said or did She now much affrighted at this strange accident applies her selfe to one Doctor Burges a Physician who coming to him in that condition gave him two vomits in one day which through excessive