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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89264	The apprentices vvarning-piece. Being a confession of Peter Moore, formerly servant to Mr. Bidgood, apothecary in Exeter, executed there the last assises for poysoning his said master. Wherein is observed such lamentable expressions proceeding from him, as may produce a trembling to all who reade or heare thereof, and be a warning to such leud servants who walk the same steps, lest they receive the same punishment.	Moore, Peter, d. 1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2582; Thomason E173_22; ESTC R16293	2,559	8

THE Apprentices VVarning-piece Being A Confession of Peter Moore formerly Servant to Mr. Bidgood Apothecary in Exeter executed there the last Assises for poysoning his said MASTER Wherein is observed such lamentable expressions proceeding from him as may produce a trembling to all who reade or-heare thereof and be a warning to such leud servants who walk the same steps lest they receive the same punishment LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Henry Walker 1641. The Apprentices warning-piece TO heare good counsell is not sufficient but to make use of it is the thing which is required of al men Here is example prescribed for al yongmen that they may learne to rule themselves according to Gods holy Statutes let them marke well the relation of this penitentiall confession and by him which made it bee sure to take warning But first of his parents which are a very sufficient couple their chiefe delight was in him their sonne Peter Moore Whilst he was young they sent him to Schoole where he proved an indifferent good proficient At length he grew to such ripenesse of yeares that they bound him as an Apprentice to Master Humphrey Bidgood an Apothecary in Exeter with whom for a certaine space hee lived very well and was willing to obey their commands in every thing But the devill which doth envy the happinesse of all mankinde was vext to see him tread the paths to goodnesse wherefore he by his alluring bait called pride provoked him to forsake piety and imbrace iniquity as you shall now perceive by his confession writ with his owne hand The confession of Peter Moore at the place of Execution BEing brought to the common place of execution upon a sledge bowing his body to the people round about him so wel as he could he spake after this manner All you good Christian people which are come hither to see me dye let me desire you to give attention to what I shall now declare who hath now scarce one quarter of an houre to live my parents are scarce unknowne to any here present but as for my unhappy master the more wretch I for making him so he was better knowne to you I was an Apprentice to Master Humphry Bidgood Apothecary too good a master for so ungracious a servant notwithstanding for a time my service was not disliked of neither had it still had I not wanted grace Being in the prime of my youth the devill by his allurements and wicked inticing made me partaker of each damned vice so that my heart being puffed up with ambition I began to scoffe at Gods holy Ministers prophaning Sabbaths and taking Gods holy name in vaine But yet still was I provoked further to evil courses so much alas that you could scarce name a sinne wherein I had not beene an actor Pride waxed daily more and more strong in me in so much that I beganne to kicke at service my time seeming too long and tedious to me wherefore in all haste I did run to my parents that they out of hand might buy out my time which they rebuking me denyed saying I made more haste then good speed in so much as I had not skill enough as yet to manage a shop of any consequence Then went I againe to my master seeming to be contented to serve out my Apprenticeship and so had done had not my mistresse beene too cruell toward me never permitting me to remaine quiet for daily she was cause of such strife that I grew desperate and as one weary of life which makes me now to pray that never any young man may have so bad a mistris as she was to me Dayly was my heart more and more filled with discontent still meditating of nothing but mischiefe which at length thus did worke my fatall overthrow for being still greedy to bee freed from my Apprentiship I acted a deed which now doth make each Artery to quake and totall body to tremble for I seeing a messe of pottage about dinner time provided for my Master I most unnaturall servant put powdred white Mercury into it so privately that no man could perceive me which so soone as he good man had tasted presently began to swel and a while after died Thus Iudas like traterously did I betray my master unto death but yet was not found out but yet the Lord whose judgments are alwaies just and true caused many towards me to have a great mistrust and layd the fault to my charge which I most impudently denyed which so soone as my father and mother did heare upon their knees weeping with brinish teares came and desired mee to confesse the truth which I denied notwithstanding my conscience told mee that I lyed in the same minde I went to my fathes house and received the Sacrament still denying the hainous murder committed upon my Master but God at last revealed it and I was sent to prison to answer for the Death of my Master where I thought my selfe to be secure from being found out because I did the act unseene All the while I lay in prison I had the keies thereof in my owne custody with which I might have both freed my selfe and others the divell daily tempted me to runne away but God hee would not have it so for to goe thence I had not the least of power untill such time as the Assizes did begin that I should answer the death of my Master where I was most justly judged to die my conscience still telling mee no man did the deed but I. One there is in this City whom I pray that the Lord may forgive God hee knowes that I speake nothing concerning him at this present for any malice I beare to him but to cleare my owne conscience His name is White a Papist who did oftentimes seduce me to abuse Gods Ministers and to spend my time in that Diabolicall study of reading Magicke in which I tooke too much delight which now doth very much oppresse my soule All young men which are here present and did behold me drawne hither upon a sledge take warning by me and let your study be first to please your heavenly Master and then your Masters upon earth Contemne the divell despise the world and abhore lust Hence hence with pride which is the divels darling away with lust which is the divells chiefe attendant away with magicke spells which lead unto the divell When I am dead let the cause of my dying bee engraved upon a stone that all may know wherefore I did die and thereby take example Pray pray for my soule good christian people that notwithstanding my horrid offence the gate of heaven may not be barred against me Againe againe and againe I earnestly intreat your prayers Now farewell dear father a thousand times farewell O mother also farewel to all my dear friends and kinsfolks Wipe wipe your eyes and each one cease his mourning for I am now exchanging a lump of mortall clay for immortall blisse which that I may receive grant grant most mercifull father O receive me receive me into thy bosome for behold I come I come I come so soone as which words were spoken he was turned off the ladder and so died FINIS