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A05033 A briefe description of the notorious life of Iohn Lambe otherwise called Doctor Lambe. Together with his ignominious death. 1628 (1628) STC 15177; ESTC S120018 10,330 24

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A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF THE NOTORIOVS LIFE OF IOHN LAMBE otherwise called Doctor LAMBE Together with his Ignominious DEATH Printed in Amsterdam 1628. A DESCRIPTION OF the Life and Death of Iohn Lambe otherwise called Doctor LAMBE THis Lambe commonly called Doctor Lambe whose Scandalous life hath beene a long subiect of discourse in this Kingdome and whose tragicall and vnexpected death of late happening hath giuen cause of a sadde Example to all such wicked persons To passe by his Childehood and to come to the beginning of his life after he was at mans estate was for the most part spent in the houses of diuers Gentlemen whose Children he taught to write and reade the English tongue The first steppe that euer hee made towards that wicked course which hee was afterwards accused for was the profession of that noble and deepe Science of Physicke a colour which many base Impostours haue vsed to lewde and iuggling practises as the best things are subiect to the greatest abuses Whether this Doctor Lambe for so wee will now call him had any abilitie of learning in him or no I will relate the iudgements of some honest and able men which haue talked with him he seemed to them how euer hee would talke highly to ignorant people to be altogether vnlearned and silly of discourse or else to affect that way of speaking as a colour of his mischeuous pra ctises and rather to be thought by them an Impostour whom the credulous ignorance of the common people had raysed to that Fame then to be truely and guiltily learned in those wicked Mysteryes But whether hee were truely the man which the people conceiued him to bee or not I referre you to the proofes vpon Inditement at Assises against him and those other stories of him iustified by men and women of credit He began within short time after he professed Physick in the Country to fall to other mysteries as telling of Fortunes helping of diuerse to lost goods shewto young people the faces of their Husbans or Wiues that should be in a Christall glasse reuealing to wiues the escapes and faults of their Husbands and to husbands of their wiues By which meanes whether truly or falsely told he wrought so much vpon their credulitie that many mischiefs and diuisions were wrought betweene marryed people But his fame was neuer truely great till he came to bee questioned by the Lawes of the Kingdome at Assises and Sessions For the condemnation of his lewdnesse in those ass●mblies of Iustice did raise an opinion of his abilitie among people no lesse then some vnlearned and foolish Bookes in our time haue gotten credit among the people onely because Authoritie hath censured them bad which in steede of hurting the Authors hath blowne them vp with a vaine pride and honoured them in the iudgement of their ignorant admirers The first tryall in a Court of Iustice against Doctor Lambe of any note was at the Assifes at Worcester In which he was found guilty of two seuerall Inditements one for vnchristian and damnable practises against the person of an Honourble Peere of this Realme and the other for damnable inuocation and worship of euill Spirits as will in the following discourse more at large appeare And because I would not trouble euery vnlearned person to finde out such as are learned to expound Indictements Therefore for the better vnderstanding of all persons I haue herein set downe the true effects of the said Indictments in English An Indictment preferred against Iohn Lambe otherwise called Doctor Lambe at Worcester Worcester ss The Iury for our Soueraigne Lord the King do vpon the holy Euangelists present That Iohn Lambe late of Tardebigge in the County aforesaid Gent. not hauing the feare of God before his eyes but by a Diabolicall instigation being mooued and seduced the 16. day of December in the yeere of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord King Iames of England France and Ireland King defendor of the Faith c. the fifth and of Scotland the one and fortieth At Tardebigg aforesaid in the said County of Worcester certaine euill Diabolicall and execrable arts called Witchcrafts Enchantments Charmers and Sorcerers in and vpon the right Honourable Th Lo. W. Deuelishly Maliciously and Feloniously did vse practise and exercise to the intent by the same euill deuillish and execrable Arts to disable make infirme and consume the body and strength of the said Th Lo. W. And further the Iury aforesaid vpon the sayd holy Sacrament doe say that by the said euill deuillish and execrable Arts and by force and pretext of the same euill diuellish and execrable Arts by him the said Iohn Lambe as aforesaid vsed practised and exercised the foresaid Th. Lo W. the said 16 day of December in the yeares aforesaid at diuerse other dayes and times afterwards at Tardebigg in the said County of Worcester in his body and strength was greatly wasted and consumed conrary to the peace of our said Soueraigne Lord the King his Crowne and dignitie And also against the forme of the Statute in this case made and prouided c. Vpon which Indictment hee was arraigned seuerall times and pleaded not guilty to the same but was found guilty of the same by proofe there made But Iudgement was suspended After which Inditement so found the said Doctor Lambe was againe Indicted vpon another Indictment then preferred against him for inuoking and entertaining of euill Spirits The effect of which Indictment followeth in these words Woreester ss The Iury for our Soueraigne Lord the King doe vpon the holy Sacrament present that Iohn Lambe late of Henlipp in the County of Worcester aforesaid Gentleman not hauing the feare of God before his eyes but by Diabolicall instigation being moued and seduced the thirteenth day of May in the yeere of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord Iames by the grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defendor of the Faith c. the sixth and of Scotland one and fortieth and at diuerse other dayes and times aswell before as after at Henlipp aforesaid in the County of Worcester aforesaid vnlawfully diabolically and feloniously against the profession of the Christian Faith and holy word of God certaine euill and impious Spirits did inuoke and entertaine with the intent that hee the said Iohn Lambe by the same impious and wicked spirits should follow the euill determinations by him the said Iohn Lambe vnlawfully maliciously and diabolically then determined or from thence to be determined to the great Displeasure of the omnipotent God and to the manifest perill of his soules health and to the euill and pernicious example of all other the Subiects of our said Soueraigne Lord the King in such case to be delinquents And contrary to the peace of our said Soueraigne Lord the King his Crowne and Dignitie And also contrarie to the forme of the Statute in this case made and prouided c. Vpon this indictment hee pleaded not guilty but by the Iury he was found