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A25921	An Account of the seducing of Ann, the daughter of Edward Ketelbey, of Ludlow, Gent., to the popish religion with some very extraordinary passages relating thereto, particularly of the gross prevarications, and insolent boldness of the two popish bishops, Leyborn and Gifford, in the management of it ...		1700 (1700)	Wing A382; ESTC R7165	9,323	8

although the Pope or any other Person or Persons or Power whatsoever should Dispence with or Annul the same or Declare that it was null and void from the beginning And I do hereby further also profess in the presence of Almighty God who knows the Secret of all Hearts and whom I call to Witness against me if I declare not the Truth That I make this Solemn Declaration voluntarily and freely without any Compulsion Constraint or Fear or in hopes of any worldly Interest Benefit or Advantage or otherwise then for the Satisfaction of my Parents and other Relations and good Friends to whom I have given just Occasion of Fears and Jealousies touching the Truth and Sincerity of my Religion which I do hereby seriously profess to be in all things agreeable to what I understand are the Doctrines of the Church of England as now by Law Established and which I do fully purpose for the future continually to Adhere to and no other and not to give my Friends any further Occasion of Suspicion by Consorting my self or Corresponding with Papists or such whom I suspect to be Popishly Affected further then to give them the Common Civility and Respect due to their Persons upon a transient view or by an occasional or accidental Meeting and not to make their Company and Conversation my choice or equal to others of the Protestant Perswasion nor read any part of a Popish Book or Letter from Papists And whereas I do intend upon the next Lord's Day to receive the Blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper at the Parish Church of St. Clements Danes in the County of Middlesex I do hereby further Declare That as I hope it will tend to the Eternal Good and Comfort of my Soul so I shall take it as a publick Testimony of the Truth and Reality of this my Solemn Declaration made the 4th day of March in the year of our Lord 1698. By me Anne Ketelbey In the presence of Greg. Hascard Edward Ketelbey Abel Ketelbey This she refused to Swear to but Transcribed it with her own Hand and after a distinct reading it over her self aloud in the presence of the said Dean her Father and Brother declared she believed it to be true and at the same time signed it readily and agreed to receive the Blessed Sacrament as a further Testimony of the Truth thereof and of her Sincerity in what she had therein declared And the worthy Dean and her Parents giving Credit to what she had so Solemnly declared the Father Mother and Daughter did accordingly receive the Blessed Sacrament the Sunday following March 5. 1698. at St. Clement's Church The managing of this Affair thus far took up at least Three Months time In the mean while the Papists at Ludlow got an Information where the Daughter was and of her Circumstances and by Bribes as 't is supposed given to the Servants of the House and to one Mrs. Relfe who had long been a Lodger in the same House who was afterwards discovered to be a great Jacobite often declaring that she would never go to Church till King James returned And notwithstanding all the Care and Circumspection used by the Parents they or some of their Friends as 't is supposed furnishing her with Money and other Assistances the said Mrs. Relf Conveyed her thorough a private Yard out of her Fathers Lodgings at four of the Clock in the morning on Monday the 13th of March. and carried her down to her own House in Surrey Note That before she came away from Ludlow she had frequent Letters sent her and privately put into her Hands as she went along the Str●et with her Mother by Persons unknown and without any Name signifying that they understood she was Inclinable to the Popish Religion which they Encouraged her to proceed in saying that if she lost some few Friends by it she should gain many who would take care of and provide for her and much to that purpose and particularly one of these Letters she shewed her Mother At her going away she left two Letters the one for her Mother in these words March the 12th Ever Honoured Mother NOw I have done all I can to satisfie my Father and you that I am no way inclined to Popery I think it my Duty to remove that troublesome Object which hath been the Cause of all this uneasiness since I know if I dont it will be renewed again with much greater force than ever You know the height of my Father's Passions and the danger I have been in of my life I am sure my Sight has been imperfect ever since the blow I received at Ludlow Therefore I hope you will pardon me and believe that nothing but Self-Preservation could make me without your leave resolve never to see Ludlow more till my Father is cured of his Jealousie tho' I think I could resign my Breath to Serve either my Father or Your Self And tho' fear will not let me tell you where I am going yet 't is my Duty to assure you that it is to a good Protestant Family where I will make it my business to Inquire after your Health and my Fathers and if ever I can be serviceable to either you shall find me ready at Command with all Duty and Obedience In the mean time by the help of Almighty God I will Endeavour to get my own living and ask no more of you nor my Father then these Books which I have taken and your Blessings and Prayers which I hope you will never deny to your unfortunate but really Dutiful Child till Death Anne Ketelbey I will find a time to write to my Brother And the other for the Dean of Windsor in the words following March the 12th I Humbly presume most Reverend Doctor to beg the Favour that you will not believe any false Reports of me till you receive my Reasons for leaving my Father and Mother which I shall trouble you with in a short time And lest your admitting me to the Blessed Sacrament should give you any uneasiness I hold my self obliged both by Duty and Gratitude to assure you that I came with all the sincerity in the World and that what I promised I will perform till the Death of her that is engaged ever to be SIR Your most Humble and Obedient Servant Anne Ketelbey And as a colour for her pretences to the Protestant Religion she took with her a Common-Prayer Book and a Book upon the Sacrament Her Parents immediately after her Deserting them put it in Print with offers of a Reward to those who would discover her and bring her back to them declaring also they would receive her kindly After this they were in search and pursuit of her all manner of ways both in London and the Country and way-laying the Stage-Coaches and watching the Roads and Sea-Ports all this while not in the least mistrusting Mrs. Relfe who had left the Lodging some days before upon pretence of going into the Country but had only

AN ACCOUNT OF THE Seducing of Ann the Daughter of Edward Ketelbey of Ludlow Gent. TO THE Popish Religion With some very Extraordinary Passages relating thereto PARTICULARLY Of the gross Prevarications and insolent Boldness of the two Popish Bishops Leyborn and Gifford in the Management of it Humbly Presented to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons now Assembled in Parliament MR. KETELBEY being often from home particularly in the years 1696. and 1697. with his Wife and part of his Family leaving only his Daughter of the Age of Nineteen and Servants at home a Popish Family coming Strangers into the Town and Living near him obtained Leave of the Daughter to walk in the Garden being pleasant for Air and by this means two young Ladies of that Family insinuating themselves into the Daughter's Acquaintance with the assistance of one Windsor a reputed Popish Priest living with them who pretends to Practice Physick now but in King James his Reign shewed himself more open Seduced her to the Popish Religion but Instructed her of what dangerous Consequence it might be if discovered both the Seducer and Seduced being punishable with Death which made her for a long time disown and forswear her Conversion to Popery The Mother coming first into the Country found her Daughter's Temper and Humour Changed disowning her Mother's Power and Authority over her and denying to do several Things she Commanded without the Advice of her Friends meaning the Papists that had Seduced her And they having also Corrupted some of the Servants after the Mother came home they gave Intelligence whereby those Papists often Conversed with the Daughter in private as 't is believed and Conveying Books into her Hands settled her in that Religion But the Mother for some time after she came down knew nothing of her Daughters new Friends till coming one Morning early into her Chamber the found her Reading in a Book in Bed at which the Daughter being surprized let it fall into the Bed and denied that she was Reading or had any Book but upon search it was found to be a Book wrote by Parsons the Jesuit which so startled the Mother that upon Searching the Daughter's Closet afterwards she found other Popish Books Pictures Papers and other Things relating to Popery with very Familiar and Indulgent Letters from one Mrs. Berrington and a Daughter of the Lord Gerrard's of Bromley who had been at Ludlow for some time before but altogether Strangers to Mr. Ketelbey and his Family By these Letters and other Things the Mother found the Daughter had Changed her Religion as well as Manners Yet did not think fit to publish the Matter but Imparted it to some particular Friends and sent her out of Town Nor did she at first acquaint her Husband with it who was then in London only sent him General Complaints of his long Absence whereby his Family suffered and desired his speedy coming down Whereupon he sent down his Son who soon discovered his Sister's Change and Imparted it to the Father He soon after coming down himself found it too true and his Daughter full of Equivocations and Lying Stories and even denying that which seemed to be the most apparent Truth as to the Circumstances of her Change the Method of her Seduction and the Persons who Seduced her affirming that she was a very good Protestant and gave out that there was nothing in it but her Mothers Unkindness who never Loved her from a Child and Fondness to her Brother which brought that Scandal and Reproach upon her of her being a Papist on purpose to deprive her of her Father's Favour and she was ready to give him all the Satisfaction he should desire of her Sincerity in the Protestant Religion To make this better believed she came constantly to Church to Prayers and the Sacrament and upon her Examination by the Doctor of the Parish and other Protestant Divines they thought her Stedfast therein She framed her Story so well being Seconded by the Popish Gang who seemed to disown her that it became a Reflection upon her Parents for their Jealousie and supposed Severity towards their Daughter in charging her designedly with what they knew to be false The Doctor himself often saying to the Papists and others that he believed her as good a Protestant as himself So soon had she learnt the Art of Popish Dissimulation But she would never confess how she came by the Popish Books only saying that some of them she found in Ludlow Castle and the Servants being of her Party owned some of the Books to be theirs which the Daughter pretended she had only a Curiosity to Read that she might be able to maintain an Argument and to Ridicule the Papists The Father being afflicted at this great Misfortune in his Family and full of Fears and Jealousies in November 1698. brought his Family to London to get the Assistance of able Divines and particularly had her under the Care of the Reverend Dean of Windsor who Examined her several times and believed her to be a good Protestant Yet her Father would not be satisfied unless she would Consent to Abjure the Popish Religion before a Judge or some Magistrate according to a Form which was drawn up in these Words I Ann Ketelbey the only Daughter of Edward Ketelbey of Ludlow in the County of Salop Gent. in the presence of God do in and by this Writing under my own ●and solemnly and sincerely profess testifie and declare that I do believe That in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any Transubstantiation of the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at or after the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever and that the Invocation or Adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other Saint and the Sacrifice of the Mass as they are now used and practised in the Church of Rome are Superstitious and Idolatrous And also That the Doctrines of Purgatory Praying for the Dead Justification by Works Denying the Cup in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to the Layety having Divine Service performed in an unknown Tongue as taught and practiced in the Church of Rome are dangerous Errours and no way warranted by the Scriptures which are the true rule of Faith and Manners and ought to be my Guide in Divine Matters containing all things necessary to Salvation And I do hereby in the presence of God further also solemnly prosess and testifie that I do make this Declaration and every part thereof and intend the same in the plain and ordinary Sense of the Words herein contained as they are wrote down with my own Hand and as they are commonly understood by Protestants without any Evasion Equivocation or Mental Reservation whatsoever and without any Dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the Pope or any other Authority or Person whatsoever and without believeing that I am or can be acquitted before God or Man or Absolved of this Declaration or any part thereof