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A14305	The arraignment of slander periury blasphemy, and other malicious sinnes shewing sundry examples of Gods iudgements against the ofenders. As well by the testimony of the Scriptures, and of the fathers of the primatiue church as likewise out of the reportes of Sir Edward Dier, Sir Edward Cooke, and other famous lawiers of this kingdome. Published by Sir William Vaughan knight.; Spirit of detraction, conjured and convicted in seven circles	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 24623; ESTC S113946	237,503	398

no disease iudging himselfe strong and able to labour as he was stacking vp a Goffe of corne sodainly his bowels fell out of his bodie and immediatly he died most miserably In the time and reigne of King Edward the sixt there was in Cornwall a lusty young Gentleman who did ride together with other moe Gentlement and their seruants in number about twentie horsemen amongst whom this lusty yonker entring into talke began to sweare most horribly vnto whom one of the company not able to abide such blasphemous abhomination in gentle words said to him that he should giue account for euery idle word The Gentleman taking snuffe thereat why quoth hee takest thou thought for mee Take thought for thy winding sheete Well quoth the other amend for death giueth no warning As soone commeth a Lambs skin to the market as an old sheepe Gods bloud said hee care not for mee raging still after this swearing manner worse and worse in words till at length passing on their iourney they came riding ouer a great bridge which standeth ouer a peece of an arme of the Sea vpon which bridge this Gentleman swearer spurred his horse in such sort as he sprang cleane ouer the bridge with the man on his backe who as he was goingcried aloud Horse man and all to the diuell A woman commonly named the widow Barnes to defeate an Orphane of some inheritance forsware her selfe and being therefore rebuked by some well disposed persons vtterly refused their good admonitions But within foure daies after she threw her selfe out at a window in Cornehill and brake her necke This was done at London in the yeare 1574. In the yeare 1575. one Anne Aueries widow which at that time dwelt in Ducklane in London without Aldersgate ranne to the shop of one Williamson in Woodstreete and there hauing bought sixe pound of course towe forsware her selfe that she had paid for it whereas she had paid none And being very gently reprehended for her said vngodly deed she stil continued terribly swering and auouching the payment But behold a miraculous thing that mouth of hers with which she blasphemed the hallowed name of her glorious Maker was put to a most vile office she was forced presently to void at her mouth the selfe same filthinesse which nature should haue expelled downewards and so most miserably died One Father Lea a man aged about foure score yeares was hired for a small summe of money to forsweare himselfe but such was the priuie paine and grieuous griping of his groaning conscience that like a festred wound it did so disquiet him that he must needs discouer it and so at Foster Lane in London this Lea meeting the partie against whom he forsware himselfe very earnestly and humbly craued forgiuenesse of this said offence but tenne weekes after his said confession so greatly did the power of the diuell preuaile ouer him that with an olde rustie knife he ripped his owne belly and embracing his guts with his owne hands he let them fall from him into an earthen vessell But by the interruption of company that came in vpon him he was preuented from killing himselfe vtterly at that time yet the next day after his said desperate fact shewing some token of repentance he ended his life To these periuries I adde one more a Countryman of mine I would to God I could name none else of that impious consort who hauing cōmitted periury in a cause depending in suite at the Counsell of the Marches was presently and sodainly grieued in his great toe so that the said griefe becomming festred and worse and worse he euer after halted and limped as long as he liued I could likewise produce others who notwithstanding that they were Gentlemen of sort substance in their Countrey did commonly suborne false witnesses But such was the iust iudgement of God who from his heauenly seate knoweth the secrets of all hearts and whatsoeuer is done in the darkest place such I say was his iust reuenge that themselues during their liues were neuer free from some casuall crosse or other They alwaies liued pestred and perplexed with some vnexpected accidents and their posterity after thē are brought to that misery that they stand at mens deuotion for all that their said impious Fathers had left them some store of possessions according to which agrees that ancient verse De male quaesitis non gaudet tertius haeres Ill gotten goods their heires do seldome ioy LINEAMENT XI The Spirit of Detraction and Periurie conuicted by sentence of our owne lawes executed on corrupted Jurours DIuers of the county of Middlesex tooke money to be fauorable vnto Lodowicke Greuell then prisoner in the Tower vpon suspicion of being accessary to murther if it fortuned that they should be returned in the Iury against him and for this vpon sufficient proofes they were conuicted and fined in the Starre Chamber Likewise three of them did weare papers from the Fleete vnto Westminster hall and there also backe againe to the Fleete 31. Eliza. Crompton Another tooke fiue Markes to be of the Iury for the deliuery of a theefe that was indited of felony and was fined to the King Vide sines pur contempt Fitzherbert 33. 43. Lib. Assis. 43. A Iury of London who acquitted Sir Nicholas Throgmorton Knight about the first yeare of Queene Marie for high treason were called into the Starre Chamber Anno. 15 44. because that the matter was held to be sufficiently proued against him whereof eight of them were fined to fiue hundred pounds a peece and also awarded backe againe to prison there to continue vntill further order would be taken for their punishment Hollinshed fol. 1759. Eleuen of the Iury which acquited on Hodis of felony before Sir Roger Manwood chiefe Baron in his circuite of the Countie of Somerset against apparant euidence were fined in the Starre Chamber and did weare papers in Westminster hall circa 22. Eliz. Report Crompton One G. wrote his letter to a Iurer to appeare betwixt Lane and one G. D. and to doe his conscience according to his euidence and was fined in the Sarre Chamber to twentie pound because he had nothing to doe with the matter Circa 27. Eliz. Note this that none ought to meddle in any matter depending in suit wherewith he hath nothing to doe One G. of the countie of Lancaster for the false and malicious procuring of one to be endited for the death of another was fined in the Starre Chamber to a great summe Circa 31. Eliz. If periury be committed by a Iury in a Court Baron he shall be punished in the Starre chamber vpon a bill there exhibited for no attaint lieth in the base Court But if any error be committed in that Court the party shall haue a writ of false iudgement And it seemes that he may sue in the Starre Chamber for a false verdict A man takes money to giue his verdict he shall be punished though he keepes not the said promise Dier 95. Fitzherb

crosses NOtwithstanding the premisses the spirit of Detraction is readie to read a cruell lecture to pratling Momes and tatling Niobes that doubtlesse the punished partie vvas eyther very vicious himselfe or else his vvife or parents had offended God in the highest degree O my Friends be not so curious in your censures In that yee iudge others yee condemne your selues for yee that iudge doe the same things Iudge not least yee be iudged And as for the scornefull doth not the Lord laugh them to s●●rne Why then doe yee scorne and scoffe at your neighbours harmes whereof God is the Author who is hee that blesseth that curseth that rewardeth that punisheth Is it not he the Lord vvhy then detract yee from his vnsearchable secrets Why endeauour yee to vsurpe his peculiar prerogatiue We are persecuted but not forsaken we are cast downe but we perish not Our mortall bodies for a time returne to dust but our soules rest in Abrahams bosome It pleased the Lord to smite his righteous seruant with infirmitie to forsake him and to be angrie with him for a little season but at last he pardoned him as the Prophet forespake of Christ. For all this my defence the spitefull spirit of Detraction relents not at all By reason of anothers extraordinarie iudgement he chargeth me strictly with impietie Is not quoth hee thy wickednesse great and thine iniquities innumerable Therefore snares are round about thee feare sodainely troubles thee Doth not God reuenge the Fathers sinnes vpon the children to the third and fourth discent O menstruous or rather monstrous absurditie Though my talke be this day in bitternesse and my plagues greater then my groaning yet will I vndertake to controule thine errour and confute thine heresie All soules are mine saith the Lord both the soule of the Father and the soule of the Sonne The same soule that sinneth shall dye The Sonne shall not beare the iniquities of the Father neither shall the Father beare the iniquitie of the Sonne For mine owne part I confesse my selfe to be chiefe among sinners but yet much wronged to become subiect vnto your detracting iudgements Yee are none of my Iudges I appeale to Caesars iudgement seate I appeale to the King of Kings the King of Mercie who will reuerse by a vvrit of errour your false vsurped iudgements If thou Lord wilt be extreame to marke what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it Woe be vnto vs woe W●e be to the most laudable life that we leade if thou O Lord setting thy mercie aside shouldst examine it Who can say I haue made my heart cleane I am pure from manie sinnes Doth the blinde accuse the blinde Doth an olde senex fornicatour accuse another fornicatour Num Luscus accusat Luscum Clod●us M●●chum And doth the spirit of Detraction the most sinfull spirit of all spirits detect me for sinning Well my confession is not auricular but openly reiterated If I wash my selfe in snow water and purge my hands most cleane yet shalt thou plaegue me in the pit and mine owne cloathes will make mee silihie Mine owne fleshly vveedes being tainted vvith longing thoughts must sing a sorrowfull peccaui to the tune of stoope gallant And vnfainedly to vse Saint Pauls words I allow not that which I doe for what I would that I doe not but what I hate that doe I. Albeit that oftentimes I haue a will to doe well yet the nature of my flesh not any wise able to be expelled with the forke of mine owne naked reason confounds this readie will of mine and causeth me to commit moe sinnes in number then the sands of the sea All which with a contrite minde I submit to the mercy of God crauing most humbly on the knees of my heart in the lowest degree of reuerence my Redeemers merits as the vaile of grace to stand betwixt his diuine Iustice and their gore-bloud guiltinesse But certainly in my poore iudgement God took away mine innocent vvife after the aboue-said manner for though I say it all her acquaintance wil say as much as I that she liued as godly as honestly as any whatsoeuer in all her Countrie not so much for my sins though the same might be grieuous as for that all others might prepare themselues against their nuptials with Christ Iesus remembring that prophesie concerning Babilon who said in her heart I shall be a Lady for euer I am and none else I shall not sit as a widdow neither shall I know the losse of Children But thus said the Lord These two things shall come vnto thee sodainely in one day the losse of children and widdowhood O Lord of infinite iudgement widdowhood is sodainely come vnto mee thou hast iustly visited me and bercaued me of my chiefest comfort Thou knewest shee vvas too good for mee Thy vvill be done O mightie Lord. Let the infusion of thy grace into mine vntoward soule recompence my griefe and losse Thy grace is sufficient for mee thy power is made perfect through weakenesse When wee are most perplexed with worldly crosses then is thy spirit strongest in vs. And euen as the soules vertue is strengthened with infirmitie so certainely it is necessarie for our licentious natures now and then to be curbed vvith infirmities It is necessarie for vs that sinne the messenger of Sathan doe other whiles buffet vs and bruise our earthly heeles It is necessarie that malice bridle or rather prick as vvith sharpe pointed Needles our detracting wanton thoughts whereby we might remember our owne weake condition and turne to God who alone is without infirmitie Let me doe what good I can let me endeauour as much as is possible for flesh and bloud to endeauour yet I shall proue but an vnprofitable seruant I am blacke like an Aethiopian nay I am more blacke my very teeth are blacke My soule is all spotted all guiltie of vncleanenesse Onely my beliefe is that thy Grace is more aboundant then tongue can speake or heart can thinke or pen can paint LINEAMENT XV. The Authours gratulatorie Prayer vnto the Lord for the aboue-said wonderous effects O Louely Light O Lord of Maiestie how ouer-late doe I beginne to know thee My welbeloued put in his hand by the hole of my doore offring to breath faith into my soule But such was my dulnes such my drowsinesse that I could not once sigh sobbe nor say Abba Father O my Father I haue sinned against heauen and against thee Yea thou wert in the superiour part of my heart and I neglected thee Thou didst call mee both within and without and I reiected thee I reiected the Well-spring of liuing vvater and resorted to noysome cisternes of puddle worte full of wormewood comforts full of tickling hopes vvhich were speedily spent for all vvordly comforts and vaine hopes doe vanish away like winde And yet it pleased thy lightsome Spirit O Lord of life after many a scorching