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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95861	The trepan: being a true relation, full of stupendious variety, of the strange practises of Mehetabel the wife of Edward Jones, and Elizabeth wife of Lieutenant John Pigeon, sister to the said Mehetabel. Wherein is discovered the subtil method whereby they cheated Mr. Wessel Goodwin, a dyar in Southwark, and all his children of a fair estate: with sundry copies of letters, perfumed locks of hair, and verses they sent him, and many other notable devices belonging to the art of trepanning.	Vernon, Samuel.	1656 (1656)	Wing V253B; Thomason E884_1; ESTC R207304	28,878	45

where to avoid repetition the substance of all the former Printed Relation was fully proved in so much that Mr. Goodwin seeing how things were likely to go went home and presently took his Bed from whence he never rose more his sicknesse caused some intermission of this Examination and indeed many wayes gave great seeming advantage to the Women as you shall see and if formerly in his health they plyed him with their pestilent flatteries now more than ever so that for six or eight dayes before his death they were scarce an hour absent one or other of them from his Bed-side with great expressions of seeming tendernesse to him yet scarce suffering his Children to look upon him and when at any time any of them came to see him and with bleeding affections minded him of his Spiritual Estate then Pray forbear you trouble your Father he would fain take his rest Dear Sir Do they not trouble you And knowing that of a long time they had so tutored him that he durst not answer but as they dictated to him Mistris Pigeon would say Mr. Goodwin Have I ever wronged you is it we or your Children that have ruined you And then comes Mehetabel Dear Sir Speak as in the sight of God was I ever Naught with you was I ever Contracted to you Thus would they especially before such persons as they thought for their purpose worry this poor dying man making him spend his last breath that should have been spent in making his peace with God in justifying of their wickednesse The last of December 1655. he departed this life so soon as he was dead Mistris Pigeon sends for his Children to know if they would bury him and if not she would They asked Who had his Estate She replied Alas He hath not left one penny all here is mine In short notwithstanding the Children were robb'd of all they agreed and so told her That they would bury him And Mistris Vernon in her haste said If we bury him we will know how he came by his death This word it seems stuck with Mistris Pigeon and therefore contrary to this agreement at Nine of the Clock that night she sends them word That she had forgot her self and now remembred that Mr. Goodwin had charged her upon his death-bed That none of his Children should have any hand in his burial and that if they came to bury him she would oppose then this alarmed the Children who went that night though very late to the Justices of the Borough from whom they obtained an Order requiring these Women to permit them quietly to have accesse to the Body and perform such offices as were requisite This Order Mistris Pigeon peremptorily before good witnesse refused to obey and while Mr. Vernon went to the Justices to acquaint them with this Contempt of their Order and was now returned with the Constable and their Warrant to apprehend and bring them before them he finds Andrew and Thomas Goodwin in the Bayliffs hands Arrested Prisoners for Trespasse of coming upon Mistris Pigeons pretended Ground and coming to the house finds the doors barricadoed up and a peremptory refusal to obey either the Officer or the Warrant and here I cannot but affirm That I believe Mr. Goodwin died not a natural death and omitting what might be charged upon them by altering his Diet from wholesome Kitchin-food to Sage-Ale Marmalade strong Extracts which though in this kind sparingly used may be good yet being turned to a constant Diet must needs destroy Nature and burn up the radical moysture of his body insomuch that his Apothecary a judicious skilful man affirmed to me that those excellent Cordials he gave him in his sicknesse revived him no more than cold water I say omitting all this I judge they were yet more directly instrumental to his death by using some wicked practise upon him to destroy him and there are these signs First That for three or four dayes before his death he constantly complained of a great burning in his bowels Secondly His frequent violent retchings to vomit in one of which retching fits he died both apparent signs of poyson that which seems to confirm this is their refusing to suffer his Children to bury him or to see the Body though back'd with the Magistrates Authority After they once heard their intention to have the Body Dissected 't is true the third day after his death they sent to the Doctor to tell him that he might come and visit the Body outwardly but by no means they would not have it opened and Dissected if you ask why they should so wickedly rid themselves of their old friend who loved them so dearly to his last I answer first the trade was now utterly lost and henceforth he could be but a cl●g and a reproach to them Secondly the trade being gone and he having no maintenance but from the covetous churlish hands of Mrs Pigeon his Children still following him with their prayrs he might come to have his eyes opened But lastly Mrs Pigeons great fear was that now that the whole project was before the Commissioners in Examination who being judicious quick-sighted-Gentlemen and Mr. Goodwin being a shallow weak man and perhaps examined privately might so ill manage h●s Defence as might spoyle all of which she had a shrewd example the first day of Examination where when she was accused by Mr. Pigeon to have brought old Mr. Goodwin six years agone to the M●wse and there caused him to make his Will by which he gave by her direction 600. l. to her Sister Jones which when Mistris Pigeon was Examined upon she with dreadful asseverations and appeals to God utterly denied saying it was lyes in every circumstance yet when Mr. Goodwin who by reason of his deafnesse scarce heard what they said was Examined whether it were so or no he Confessed all thereby putting a deadly affront upon Mistris Pigeon adde to this their being constantly at his Bed-side in his sicknesse not suffering as I said his Children scarce to speak to him and at one time warning Mistris Vernon while she was carefully attending her Father to go off the ground or they would Arrest her Husband for Trespasse whereby they had opportunity to do what they would and they she-Doctors or Quack-salvers whereof they have both for many years made profession prescribing Physick as confidently as if they were Members of the Colledge These are some grounds of my belief which the Reader may judge of and the full discovery thereof I refer to the great Day But to return The door being fast barred up and the old man nailed in his Coffin mistris Pigeon once again falls to new devices The third day at night when the body began now to putrifie she sends messenger after messenger at ten of the Clock at night to the Children requiring them to come and bury the Body or it should for good and all remain unburied But they being now advised by the Magistrate not to

falling into a Feaver if you take pains before you have recovered your strength Your faithful friend M. Jones Who would not part with Estate Credit Children Friends a good Conscience and all to keep such a friend in a corner So truly saith Solomon The lips of a strange Woman drop as a honey Comb and her mouth is more soft than oyl The tongues of these two Sisters being tipt with Dear Sir Honoured Sir Precious Sir and pretending to admire his wisedom while they laugh in their sleeves to see his extreme weaknesse and credulity But by these arts they held him fast and were admired while his Children and friends that deale plainly with him were reviled and scorned Yet again this Cogging Huswife in a Ninth EVer honored Sir Dear Brother I humbly beseech you not to be offended at my going so suddenly away for the truth is I was necessitated to go to the farther end of the Garden ☜ viz. The House of Office and then my Sister Mountague fell instantly sick so sick that she thought she should have died so that I was forced to be with her a little but instantly I came down Sir I beseech you that I may speak with you please not to trouble your self for any thing whatsoever for if you know as much as I you would rejoyce Take heed of your Son Andrew Thus Harlots and Hypocrites discover their rotten hearts while they over do Is not this a strange obsequiousness that Mrs. Jones cannot go to unburthen Nature but she must Apologize for it What a dutiful Concubine is Mr. Goodwin like to have But all this Dissembling is but to prepare him for the close to alienate him from his children Once again in a Tenth Letter SIR I hear that Mr. Tarleton is to be to morrow at Mr. Vernons I beseech you give me leave to put you in remembrance of your former wise discreet Carriage never to be forgotten which was when you have been in the like Surprisal First A Reserved strangenesse Secondly Not to enter the Lifts of Argument Thirdly If they come directly upon you either to intrap you or else to Examine or Charge you with that which you are not willing to disclose or justifie to them the lawfulness of viz. The Adulterous Contract with her then I have observed your Serpentine wisdom to daunt their boldness with a seeming angry displeasure ☜ fenced with Resolution to seek Wisdom from the Wise and wonderful Counsellor in such matters wherein his Glory and your good is so nearly concerned ☞ viz. His Marriage with her Sir this hath been the Armor wherewith the Lord hath destroyed all their Goliahs Counsels Plots and Stratagems I hope a Monitor will be doubly welcome to you which brings no Reproof but an Olive-branch a Remembrance or Memorial of your former Vertues for such a friend I remain Mehetabel Jones Was there ever such a Trepan such glavering in a bold dissembling Woman and such obtuse folly in an old man at one time she tells him there hath not lived a wiser man than he since King Solomon and in this rabble of impudent non-sense of Serpentine wisdom and discreet Carriage never to be forgotten and yet thus laden with deep understanding he must have an inchanted pad-lock hung upon his lips not be trusted to utter one word and being thus clawed with imputation of wisdom as it is strange to see how greedily weak and shallow persons do affect to be accompted wise and this was one of the snares they held him fast with you would wonder how exactly he would follow those directions Urge what you would ask him twenty questions not a word At this very meeting being earnestly pressed about the Contract with this Woman by my self and others Mr. Goodwin Are you married to mistris Jones are you Contracted to her and such questions as he was not willing to disclose to us or justifie the lawfulnesse of them as Mrs. Jones saith With a Reserved strangeness and a seeming angry displeasure fenced with Resolution to be wholly guided by Mrs Jones his wise and wonderful Counsellour it being a ma●ter that so nearly concerned their being preserved from shameful Pun●shment d●d he with silence and frowns answer all our demands So that you would have thought him inchanted The Eleventh is a Copy of a Letter written with Mrs. Jones own hand with direction to Mr. Goodwin to transcribe and send it to her Sister Pigeon as from himself and begins thus Mistris Pigeon THrough the unusual unheard of unnatural dealing of my Children who joyning with my Son Andrew and using his Name and Power which Power was given him for his and my Good to be used for the good of the Trade But he drawn aside by his own evil Heart and the temptations of Satan and seduced and seconded by his wicked Brethren and Sisters whom the Prince of Darkness hath used as his Instruments to bring upon me all these sore Calamities as are visible this day which as I think I may say my Case is without compare that in my old age excepting Davids and Jobs But not to reason with flesh and blood in that although I would say it were far better to have them taken away Obedient Children then to have them live as Absoloms as mine does and their Printed Libels does witness God knowing my innocence to whom I appeal as a Righteous Iudge But I leave all this as a long parenthesis and come to the Business When they were thus suffered to be Scourges Scourges said I nay Vipers Scorpions endeavoring to eat out the Bowels from whence they proceeded then the Lord God used you as the only means to keep me from a visible Ruine as far as the eye of Reason could reach Now therefore my desire is if you have any farther thoughts towards me through your love and tenderness That you would not do any thing for me in any of my Childrens Names how Obedient soever at present ☜ for I had far more Cause of Hopes of those that have endeavored my Ruine then hitherto of James I therefore desire that you would do that which you shall do for me in those Names that you can Trust and Confide ☜ neither shall I now nominate any for sufficient Reasons known to my self viz. to Mrs. Jones and having found your faithfulness all along I leave to you ☞ desiring you to Nominate whom you shall think fit only this I desire That the Power I have formerly had in the House I now dwell in may be continued to me and Notice given me when things are settled and I shall leave it in Writing how my Desire is That that Estate I shall have shall be Disposed of after my Death for which I shall have great Cause to Remain Your thankful Friend This Letter is a Compendium of all the Villany these Women have acted where first you plainly see how they governed this poor weak man at their pleasure making him own all their