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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70441	A letter to a person of quality, occasioned by a printed libel, entituled, The cause of the difference between Tobias Cage esquire, and Mary his wife stated by the said Mary in a letter to a gentleman, for her own vindication: the design, malice, and falshood whereof is hereby detected with proofs by persons of value, on oath, and otherwise.	Cage, Tobias.	1678 (1678)	Wing L1692B; ESTC R222690	54,273	46

running into the Garden To which Sir Francis replied Madam Mr. Cage and she might be in the House and not naught together I doubt you are jealous Nay says she be gave the Quean twenty shillings a time when she lived with me I le make it plain to you yet I protest I was never so amazed in my life I was wondering what would come next when she thus began again I went up into my Chamber and there my Chamber was disordered and my Bed tumbled I called my Maid Mary and chid her for not setting my Chamber in order She told me that Mr. Cage and Mrs. Price had been there all the afternoon and she durst not come into the Chamber Upon which Sir Francis took notice I pray Madam let me speak with that Maid Mary She alledged she was gone from her and could not produce her Thereupon Sir Francis advised me to find her out and that she might make Oath touching that matter The said Mary who was a Gentleman's Daughter and waited on my Wife deposed That all this Allegation was untrue as by her Oath among the Depositions hereunto annexed may appear which when you have read judge I beseech you if ever such a Woman lived before her And to shew her further Deceit and Subtilty observe the like about the pretend● 〈…〉 for a Separation she pretended great care of me procured her Sister to provide a Servant for me to wait on me in my Chamber at Grays-Inn for I had none before she came about Bartholomew Tide my Wife before Christmass absents March following 1674 Mr. Cremor of Grays-Inn had been informed that this Wench haunted suspected houses acquainted me with it advised me to turn her away I gave her Warning and in June turn'd her away In August following comes a Letter by the Post directed to Mr. A. S. of Grayes-Inn then my Clerk and is as follows The Superscription To Mr. A. S. at Mr. Cage's Chamber in Grays-Inn After the first fold opened was wrote thus To Mr. A. S. at some of the Bawdy-Houses or with the Crew in Grays-Inn Within thus THis is to imform you of the truth There is one intends to lay the third Child on your back which I do not really think is yours but your Masters he is better able to keep it for you have more than you can keep already for now you begin to want Chink having no Suppliers but Spenders you may lick your Breech like a Dog if you have any left for in sometime you will not have Money to buy you Plaisters and I believe the Squire is in as much need as your self but he is a Gentleman therefore I pity him and if his Wife were dead I would do what I could to help him to such another but in some things she should not be like this for she should be as ugly as all the Devils could make her no more wit than himself like an Ostrich and as much Heathen as he is Turk Take this advice young Man though old in sin Ponder well thy paths and enter no more into the house of an Harlot lest thou sleep the sleep of death and so be taken in an evil hour Thus desiring to hear you are in another World I conclude for ever Amen Anno Domini 1677. Sir Of whose contrivance can you think this Letter was what could be the design of it I am satisfied Sir my Wife contriv'd it it is certain she sent it to her Daughter Blackwel to be there transcribed and sent it up by the Post directed as above I suppose you will take it as a magical Prediction of what was intended viz. the laying a Bastard to my charge for a farther pretence of separation for Sir she knew the Wench was of ill fame and had layn at a suspected House before she procured her Sister to hire her for me my Wife had a correspondency with the Wench whilst she lived with me met her several times And Sir is it not strange that my Wife who for eighteen Months before was not to be heard of should within four days after this Wench was brought to Bed if there was any such matter find out the Wench examine her with so much cunning and patience and so unconcernedly endure to be told that her Husband was so familiar with her nine Months without leaving some marks upon her Note The Wench lived not above ten Months in all with me of which my Cousin Mr. William Cage was my constant Bedfellow for four Months before she went away and never lodged from me I had warn'd her away in March she went away in June and had the Bastard if any in January following 't is not probable that after the Wench had taken warning to be gone she should be willing nor yet that I should venture after Mr. Cramer gave me notice of her haunting Bawdyhouses And 〈◊〉 my Wif● 〈…〉 several Persons as witnesses for a pretence with her And because when I heard of this damnable design against me I resolved to punish the Wench and for that end gave to Mr. Winford in Fullers Rents whose Cook Maid she then was ten Shillings to get a Warrant and to set a watch upon her that she should not get away before the matter was examined before a Magistrate But my Wife gave her another visit pretending to search the Bastard for a Mole I had on my Body which no Person knew but my Wife and this mark she acquainted the Woman of the House with that the Wench might the better pretend to a familiar acquaintance with me Sir This Wench on the sudden to prevent my bringing the matter to a full examination was conveyed away without either my will or knowledge and whither I know not or whether there ever was any Bastard of that Wenches as pretended I know not nor did I ever hear that the Wench was with Child until this Bastard Plot was discovered And Sir although my Wife hath several times declared in several places and to me afterwards that she had searched to the bottom of the business and was satisfied I was wronged in that matter yet I have ever since laid out to have this Wench taken I have offered five Pounds to effect it and will now give the same Sum to have her taken that the matter may come into Judgment publickly nay Sir I have sued and do now sue in the Spiritual Court a Consort of my Wifes for it that the truth may appear nor certainly would any man think me so silly as not to have prevented the disgrace by providing otherwise for the Whore and in a more remote place than Fullers Rents was which joyns to Grays-Inn where the Libel saith the Whore was lodged for neighboured Sir I would not have insisted so much upon this mean matter but that my Wife used it as her Achilean argument to justifie her treacherous departing from me notwithstanding she was gone from me eighteen Months before As to those falsities of turning my

marry this Cage for I have 800 l. per annum and if you had stayed I had married you Of this Sir in discontent she one day told me I then suspecting this friend had some design of making a breach then begg'd of her to forbear his company and yet notwithstanding my request I had notice that he 〈◊〉 thither in my absence some considerable time after I having 〈…〉 and being informed that she had so cruely beaten Miss Okey for with that appellation I always treated her Children I took notice thereof to her with some little earnestness Shortly after I had complaints of her beating her Daughter Blackwel naked in her Bed with a Hazel Stick until she brake it of which her said Daughter keeps a piece to this day I also reproved her for it After that finding that she had so cruelly abused Miss Okey treading her under her Feet which did so exasperate the Child that she got a great piece of Bread and Cheese in her Coats and ran away and resolved to beg rather than return to her Mother her Mother sent about to find her brought her home and for her entertainment beat her until she was all in a gore of Blood the Child again hid her self sometimes in the Hay-Loft sometimes under Hedges nor ever came into the House to eat a bit of Victuals until I returned home which was three days when I came home missing the Child I enquired for her who at last appeared and her Mother complained of her I enquiring into the matter endeavour'd to reconcile them and when I went to Bed I seriously discoursed my Wife and advised her and shewed her there was no such cause of cruelty and for my pains I was forced to rise out of Bed at midnight and walk in the Garden all night This being Saturday and on Monday morning before I came to Town I reconciled her and her Daughter as I thought I was no sooner gone but she took her Daughter up into the Purple Closet beat her until her Nose bled then lock'd her into the Closet until my Wifes Woman taking pity of the Child look'd in at the Key-hole spied her upon the ground lying in her Blood forced open the door and relieved her who as the Genlewoman told me believed she had perished had not she relieved her Another time my Wifes Brother Captain Rose being at Highgate my Wife took a Broom and with both her hands struck at the head of the Child which her Brother defended using these words to me Brother If you do not interpose my Sister will spoil that Child Next she fell upon her Daughter Blackwel and beat her most cruelly when I came in I found the Daughter in the Chamber lamenting her Mothers cruelty I enquired and she told me the cause which was trivial I must confess I was wounded at my very Soul to see the daily affliction the poor Children were in under the tyrannical spirit of their Mother sometimes one sometimes the other hiding themselves for two or three days until I come home and conceiving that by the marriage of their Mother I was somewhat concerned in them and that it was my duty to interpose I resolved to do it effectually and did thorowly discourse with Arguments from Nature and Scripture and I think covinced her but the effect was lamentable She fell upon me saying What have you to do with my Children You you making hideous grimaces and pronounced it with so il an Accent that I then thought it was my duty to deal more plainly with her which I did with all the moderation I could In short all the return I had from her was You are a Rogue a base Fellow and several other opprobrious words This unexpected language from a Wife I confess made me amazed but without offering the least violence to her Person I departed to my Chamber at Grays-Inn leaving this resolution with her that I would not return again to her until I were justified or condemned by some of her own Friends or Relations And this I ker● too and thereupon Collonel Birch Dr. Paget and Mr. Okey the Trustee 〈…〉 she was any way faulty otherwise than through discontents as she pretended that her Estate was wasted which she had never pretended unto before that instant They refused to intermeddle unless I would submit they should enquire into that and settle the matters of Estate between us which I did so that I might be secured of quietness for the future At the last meeting of these Persons Collonel Birch dictated the heads of an Award touching the Estate which though but just was more for my advantage than I expected The next day Collonel Birch informed her of this Award at which she railed at him at Mr. Okeys House in such a manner that from that time he would no more meddle but at the same time a Person telling her that I desired she would return home to me Dr. Paget as I am credibly informed said no Let him bite of the Bridle either he or some other present said if he will not submit we will choak him with the Judgement meaning the security I had entred into to secure her 1500 l. Estate after my death in case it should fall short by my means From this time she absented her self and had I not then reason to suspect the Doctor who not only encouraged her in this separation but went with her to counsel I confess her stubborn absence greatly afflicted me nevertheless I made all the applications that any Gentleman nay Man reasonably could by Friends of her own Ministers nay by her own Trustee who found her implacable This being about August 1674 I resolved as the best way to bring her to her self to serve her Trustee Okey with a Sub-Poena to answer a Bill in Michaelmas Term following My intent was and so was the Bill to complain of her absence and to have the Marriage-Deed or the Award of Collonel Birch Dr. Paget and Okey decreed Upon this she complains to Mr. Abraham Barrington of London pretending she was willing to do whatsoever he advised her who applied himself to me and offered his friendly Mediation which I thankfully accepted The further account whereof and my Grievances then declared also an account of the several References and Proceedings thereon and in what manner this pretended Friend hath carried himself you will meet with all by and by As to my desiring Betty Blackwel to go with me into France true it is I being in this affliction and she desperately in love with one Mr. Browning a Merchant who failed and her Mother managing that business with great indescretion and cruelty to her Daughter and I my self being resolved to step over into France for divertisement not being able to mind my Imployment I was willing for Betty Blackwels diversion also to carry her over with me but I do not remember or believe that ever I spake or sent to her of any such thing nor would I have