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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95860	A brief relation of the strange and unnatural practices of Wessel Goodwin, Mehetabell Jones the wife of Edward Jones, and Elizabeth Pigeon the wife of John Pigeon.	Vernon, Samuel.	1654 (1654)	Wing V253A; Thomason E818_19; ESTC R18598	26,213	37

doth not my husband looke a little like my brother Jones yes indeed doth he quoth she he prayes them to forbeare and in the meane time up comes old Mr. Goodwin with a fine white capon under his arme as he enters the roome Mrs. Jones flies to him throwing her selfe into his armes saying Mr. Goodwin Mr. Jones and I am now parted for ever and you must keep me The poore deluded old man being overjoyed takes her in his armes tells her it was the best newes to him that ever came to towne and that he would provide for her with more to that purpose Mr. Pigeon stands in admiration at these doings at the last breaks out into these words Now quoth he I see the cause my brother Jones was put into the Counter when Mrs. Pigeon enraged at her husbands plaine dealing tells him he is as bad as his brother Jones and therefore takes his part saying you are you are many times over Mrs. Jones in imitation of her sister and Mr. Goodwin in imitation of his sweet-heart Mrs. Jones joyne with her in the same expressions with their fists bent against his face Mr. Pigeon overcome with their uncivill revilings after severall admonitions to no purpose was faine with some blowes to correct their folly and thrust them all down staires headlong Mr. Goodwin coming home to his house where he had now been a long time missing and being by his neighbors demanded where he got his black face tells them it was onely a violent fit of the tooth ach when as for some years before he had not one tooth in his head at least visible And as mischiefs seldome come alone shortly after this combate as Mr. Goodwin is coming from Mrs. Jones house to his owne in the dead of the night he is againe assaulted in Bartholmew lane and grievously beaten some say it was Mr. Jones some say Mr. Pigeon but by whom is not perfectly knowne assoone as he got quit of his enemy in stead of going home to his owne family he returnes back to Mrs. Jones well knowing in whose quarrell he had received those sore buffetings it was fit she should see what a martyr he was for her sake There he lay about ten dayes in a sad condition but the joy of Mrs. Jones company made him forget his paine and speeded the cure which else might have been dangerous Amongst them to salve his reputation they give out that a horse had thrown him downe and trampled upon him Mr. Jones being now released prison it is first agreed between him and his late wife that she shall depart the house and leave him with the children and goods she departs for a fortnight into the country at her returne knowing his houres of absence when he was abroad teaching his scholers she comes privily in with her maid a bold wench for her turn and secretly carries away all the best linnen and goods of value leaving the poore man with all his children in an empty house and all this still she did to bring him to her owne conditions which were that he should depart the City and so leave her free to the embraces of old Mr. Goodwin She long before with her sister Pigeon often solicited him to goe beyond seas alledging to him how bravely he might live there and what money he might get by his faculty of playing on the Lute which he would not hearken to then but is now compeld to depart the City stript of wife children estate carrying away nothing but the bare clothes on his back and all to give place to an old mans lust and a naughtie womans covetousnesse Before his departure he in private expostulates the matter with Mr. Goodwin askes him what wrong he had ever done him that he should deale so perfidiously by him to draw his wife out of his bosome and with what conscience and by what law he could contract himselfe to his wife he being yet alive at the first the seduced old man denies it but having proved to him how he had sundry times found him kissing her and at one time with his hand under her apron and that he had also by Will given her all or the greatest part of his estate which he could prove by the party that drew the Will the old man at last convinced confesses the Will and the contract adding he might lawfully doe so Mr. Jones having as he affirmed forfeited his right as a husband to her Here I must make a short digression to informe the Reader what ground Mrs. Jones alledges for her separation from her husband which I received from Mr. Jones his mouth Coming home one day and finding his wife very fine ready to goe abroad he askes her whither she was going she tells him to see such a friend He replies wife you know I would not have you converse with that woman She tells him violently she would goe he tells her if she goe he will never come in bed with her more and this with some rash asseveration Away she goes the poore man in much trouble goes abroad againe amongst his scholers and coming home at night findes his wife very strange when bed time came on thinking to goe to bed with his wife she bids him remember his vow which she would take order he should never break and so to this day would never more admit him as a husband Since she gives out that he hath committed folly which she pretends she can prove for my part I beleeve it a scandall devised the better to accomplish her wicked project with Mr. Goodwin But to returne away goes Mr. Jones to Norwich where he hath ever since remained in very honest repute lamented of all that heare his sad story I told you before that at his departure he left her all his estate amongst other he had a Lease of some houses in St. Johns street worth about 25l per annum he tells her that in respect she keeps the children he is content she should receive this rent towards their maintenance and accordingly being now at Norwich sends the acquittances quarterly to one Mr. Fletcher a discreet freind of his to deliver them to Mrs. Jones but she refuses them goes to the tenants with old Mr. Goodwin and in her owne name demands the rent offering her acquittance for their discharge which they refuse as insufficient yet at last yeeld to pay her she mentioning in their acquittance For the use of my husband Edward Jones but she rather then by such acquittances she should acknowledge Mr. Jones her husband from whom she now accounts her selfe divorced refuseth and so the rent for this foure yeares hath layen dead in the tenants hands Indeed she hath often threatned them but when that would not prevaile she let it rest well knowing Mr. Goodwin hath enough whose purse is free to her use Immediately before that Mr. Jones went away that she might have a sure intelligencer at Mr. Goodwins house she puts her son of about 14. yeares

him yet never could obtaine any succour but what came from their hands which what it was I leave to God and their owne consciences In the best construction that can be made they did very wickedly to trifle away a mans life being ignorant of his disease and in that consideration if no other are guilty of his bloud which God will one day make inquisition for and avenge That night they sate up in the hall with a good fire and ale to see what would become of him and about three of the clock he departed when whether terrified with the guilt of what they had done or what other consideration but presently they tooke coach and departed though in the dead of the night Some moneth after young Mrs. Goodwin dyed a vertuous young woman whose sicknesse occasioned more visits from these good Ladies and might have done more physick but they were now out of credit and her parents watc'ht diligently that she should take nothing that came from them It is generally believed that she dyed of griefe having her heart broke by the occasion of the practises of these women In my hearing she hath often made bitter complaints saying these women had disgraced the family and would be the ruine both of her husband and father in law Now the project thrives apace two of their great opposers are by death removed out of the way there remaines onely the young man to be dispossess'd and then all is their own in order to which they first order the old man to tell his son that his family wants a guide and that he is resolved to bring Mrs. Jones to take charge of his family The young man in a great deal of distraction acquaints his friends with this newes and according to their advice endeavours to perswade his father by faire meanes not to disgrace the family by bringing in a woman that was reported to be his whore and seeing his father persist that he would bring her in tells him plainly that he hath an interest both in the stock and trade aswell as his father and that seeing her coming in tends to the ruine of both he is resolved to oppose it and if she comes to thrust her out by head and shoulders This the old man reports back againe and they are for the present at a losse You may wonder that active Mrs. Pigeon hath been so little mentioned all this while but she is not idle but hath her irons in the fire she sees how successefully her sister Jones with a little of her help hath rid her selfe of her husband and therefore now she plots how to shake off also her shackles of matrimony You may remember that Mr. Pigeon to satisfie her violent importunity had made over to her all his estate which was very great well thinking by such an unparalleld act of love to binde her to him in duty and affection for ever but what can oblige such savage natures she returnes to her old disobedience as before you have in part heard It was a common practise with her if at any time he refused to act her wicked projects to run away from him sometime for a week sometime for a moneth amongst other of her devices it being immediately after the late Kings death she makes shew of much discontent against the actings of the present Governors she projects to her husband to draw up a declaration against them and their proceedings which he must subscribe and avow and then he should be her dear husband and she vowes to stand by him to the last in it Let others thinke their pleasure for my part I beleeve this was a plot laid to have destroyed Mr. Pigeon but he wisely refused to act in it reproving her pragmatical spirit for which she vowes to be revenged of him then Mr. Knowles is sent for who according to her instructions had framed a bill of divorce which he then perswaded Mr. Pigeon to subscribe alledging he might lawfully in the sight of God doe it and at last did prevaile with him to subscribe Not long after Mr. Pigeon is againe reconciled to his wife and Mrs. Pigeon did then also subscribe two writings with her hand and seale which Mr. Pigeon hath still by him wherein she covenants to forget all former discord and to be to him a loving and dutifull wife yet after this she ran away severall times and began now to fall into intimate acquaintance with a merchant living at Clapham from whose company to this day Mr. Pigeon could never reclaime her Sometime she would come and stay a week and then to this Merchant againe and though Mr. Pigeon did before good witnesse upon the Exchange admonish the said Merchant to abandon her company and gave him reasons which did induce him to thinke that she was the said Merchants whore yet they still persist in their familiarity now Mr. Pigeon being commanded into the Isle of Jarsey at his returne his wife being lately delivered they were againe with much adoe reconciled yet was her old project still on foot for Mr. Pigeon having one night got cold by his carefull tending of the childe he said to her Sweet-heart I fear I shall have the Gout for I have a paine in my wrist that shoots into my finger she presently with violence affirmes that it was the Pox he perswades her and she opposes and at last resolves to send for Mr. Knowles to be advised by him Mr. Pigeon the next day meeting casually Mr. Knowles acquaints him with their difference tells him if he will come and endeavour to perswade his wife to reason he would take it kindely Mr. Knowles replies it was Mrs. Pigeons custome first to resolve upon things and then to aske counsell and further said to Mr. Pigeon that he need not thinke Mrs. Pigeon spent his money upon him for he had never received but five pounds for himselfe and five shillings for the poore of their Congregation he said if Mr. Pigeon would be at home that evening he would come and endeavour to perswade her which accordingly he did Mrs. Pigeon conducts him into an upper chamber from her husband where they were together about halfe an houre and then came downe together into the roome where he remained and she then began to make grievous complaints insisting chiefly on two heads viz. that he had the Poxe and that she was in feare of her life He then asked her what ground she had for it and if he had threatned her since he came home she replied he had not but that he had a paine in his arme which she knew was the Poxe Mr. Knowles said that he had a paine in his arme and she might aswell say so by him and added that she was his wife or else she was a whore She still insists she was afraid and could not be satisfied Mr. Pigeon mildely said thus to Mr. Knowles Sir you hold my wife too hard she pretends I have the Poxe if you thinke fit we