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A30333	The conversion & persecutions of Eve Cohan, now called Elizabeth Verboon a person of quality of the Jewish religion, who was baptized the 10th of October, 1680, at St. Martins in the Fields, by the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing B5772; ESTC R7379	14,133	33

upon this Evidence they cast Mistris Verboon so that after all other Rigours Costs of the Suit were to come on her according to our Law which the Judg of the Court set at 40 s. From all this it is apparent that the whole Business was a Conspiracy of the Jews of which Levi vvas the chief Contriver and Hammond the main Instrument though the Lord Chief Justice was so favourable to him as to say He was abused in that matter and drawn into it Both of these expressed their Joy not vvithout some transport vvhen the Jury gave their Verdict Levi said He would give 500 l. on condition she had not been bailed Hammond said to those vvho had depended much on the Bishop of St. Asaph's Assistance Where is your Lord now Mr. Verboon vvas advised to Arrest Vandersee for the false Imprisonment of his Wife and on the 4 th of September he Arrested him in an Action of 200 l. vvhich vvas not out of reason but very modest for one that had suffered so many Arrests for such great Sums and all for nothing but Levi soon bailed him and so prevalent vvere the Arts and Presents of the Jews that it vvas entred in the Books but 20 l. So that vvhether they are Plantiffs or Complainants they are resolved to shew their skill and perhaps have a secret Pleasure to let the World see how much their Practices can vvork on those vvho are called Christians even in a Matter vvherein the honour of Jesus Christ is so much concerned But the Malice of the Iews stopt not her for perceiving that Mistris Verboon vvas by her Marriage covered from all their Suits they resolved on another vvay vvhich looks like a Design to destroy her Levi had said before my Lord Mayor that she vvas vvithin two months of her time and therefore he could not but believe she vvas vvith Child and very capable of being frighted into Miscarriage But it vvas a sure effect of their Revenge on her Husband against vvhom Vandersee had expressed so much malice that he hath often said he vvas resolved to kill him though he should be hanged for it So on the second of October Mr. Verboon vvas Arrested in an Action of 200 l. and it appears that the Bailiffs vvere again instructed to behave themselves vvith more than ordinary rudeness one of them vvas Benedict Helm there vvere others vvhose Names are not known They came at Dinner-time vvhen they might expect to find them at Dinner together they seized upon him at Table and dragged him forth vvith their utmost violence vvhich vvhen Mistris Lavigne saw and vvithal took notice of a Coach at the Door she immediately reflected on the Trick that they had put on them before and therefore ran to him and clasped her Arms about his Waste to keep him from being thrust into the Coach The Bailiffs to be revenged on her beat and bruised her Head Brest and Body vvith the greatest fury of vvhich the marks appear yet on her Her Head vvas broke in three places and she vvas thereby as the Chyrurgeon has certified under his hand in great hazard of her Life yet she clogged them so that they could not get their Prisoner into the Coach and the People beginning to come about them they were fain to thrust him into an Alehouse near at hand from whence she presently sent an Advertisement to the Bishop of St. Asaph Upon his coming and offering the Bailiffs Bail they saw it in vain to attempt any thing farther and so accepted the Bail But though Mrs. Lavigne was forced to keep her Bed some time by the Wounds and Bruises she received yet this had a more fatal effect on poor Mistris Verboon who when she saw the Bailiffs draging her Husband fell presently in a swoon and being then young with Child was so disordered by the fright that she has not yet recovered it but on the 9 th day after she miscarried The Midwife and others that were with her are ready to declare upon Oath that the Conception had been some days dead and wasted within her and that it was not above eight or nine weeks old though she had been eleven weeks married So false was that Imputation which Levi cast on her before the Lord Mayor that she was within two months of her time How far the Law will charge this on the Bailiffs or on the Jews that set them on to it I do not know but sure I am they are in a high degree guilty of Murder before God When all these Effects of the Malice and Industry of the Jews had appeared so evidently the Bishop of St. Asaph who had before acquainted the Lord Mayor with the Business having received the Answer formerly mentioned from Holland did then with more assurance desire his assistance in this Affair in which the Honour of the Christian Religion and of the English Nation was so much concerned The Lord Mayor did thereupon send for Levi to hear what he could say for the defence of himself and of his Countrymen who made some pretended excuses for himself as if he had not medled in the Matter at all but he did not deny that he believed the Design of the Jews was to force Mrs. Verboon to go back to her Mother who he acknowledged was a severe and cruel Woman By his own Story the Lord Mayor perceived clearly what a malicious Contrivance this whole prosecution of Mrs. Verboon and her Husband had been and told Levi very roundly that they should soon see what a thing they had done who finding shelter in a Christian Country and being so obnoxious to the Law as they all were durst offer such an Affront to the Religion and to the Nation as thus to endeavour to Spirit away one to whose charge they could lay nothing but her turning Christian. This he assured him should be carried so far as to reach their whole Congregation There was no way to redeem them from trouble but for them to bring over her Portion from her Mother and to satisfy her to the full for the Costs and Trouble to which they had put her And if they did not do that he assured him he would carry the Matter as far as the Law would allow him against their whole Sect and though his time was near an end yet he knew his Successour would pursue it with the same vigour with which he was resolved to begin He gave also order to some to bring him an Extract of the Laws in force against the Jews And for Hammond no doubt he will be made an Example for his impious Conspiracy with the Enemies of Christ against one for turning to him which was the only root of all the malice they bore her This Matter being thus put in a fair way the Bishop resolved to receive her into the Christian Church by Baptism He gave the Right Honourable Sir Lionel Ienkins one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State an account of all the steps of this

now seemed in a forlorn state was not forsaken of him to whose Service she was resolved to dedicate her self Mistris Lavigne had brought Dr. du Veil to her while she lay at her House as the fittest Person to instruct her having been himself of that Religion He waited on her every day during her Imprisonment and comforted her much in her Afflictions for these were the Pledges of her being to Reign with Christ since she now suffered for him He took care also of providing such Supplies as her Necessities called for And above all the rest of the good Offices he did her he acquainted the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph with the Matter in whose Parish this Prisoner was lodged when she was so violently and fraudulently carried out of it He had been out of Town when she was taken but coming to it the next day he set about it with all that diligence and zeal which the occasion required But now the Jews finding their Prisoner was under such a Protection betook themselves to more Artificial Methods and knowing that there was no ground neither for the Action of 40 nor of 2000 l. let these fall the next Court day and brought two new Actions one of 500 l. at the Suit of Vandersee and the other of 200 l. for Trover and Provision at her Mothers Suit and they entertained my Lord Chief Justice Scroggs his Son to be their Counsel A Reverend Divine had informed my Lord Chief Justice of the Affair who ordered a hearing of the Business before himself at his House on the 10 th of September where because Bishop Lloyd could not then attend he sent Mr. Tissar to appear for Mistris Verboon When they came thither Levi and Vandersee with Hammond being on the one side were called up Stairs for what end is not known but after a little stay they came down and soon after my Lord Chief Justice came out and said he was in haste and must go to White-Hall and so could not hear it but he very mildly said He saw the thing was a Trick and that Hammond had been abused but he bad him go from him to the Judg of the Sheriffs Court and tell him he perceived it was a Cheat. This was all could be obtained for him So the poor Christian Complainants went away as much cast down as the Jews were lifted up with this great Success On the 7 th of September the Trial for Vandersee's pretended Debt was brought into the Sheriffs Court where Mistris Verboon's Attorney Mr. Cross of Woodstreet though he knew of her Marriage yet pleaded non Assumpsit So the Witnesses were ordered to be summoned to the next Court Day which was the 9 th and then the Trial was put off till Saturday Then the Jews had obtained a Levetur for removing it to the Lord Mayor's Court for a further delay but the Lord Mayor being informed rightly of the Matter by that worthy Gentleman Mr. Crisp the Common Serjeant presently signed a Remandetur by which the Business was turned back to the Sheriffs Court for the Jews had such a good acceptance with the Lord Chief Justice that they hoped now to have wearied the poor Prisoner out with Vexatious Suits and Delays The Common Serjeant did also most worthily Bail her on the 11 th of September So being at liberty she resolved to delay her Profession of the Christian Religion no longer having been now as it were initiated into it by the Cross which she had born so long Yet the Bishop of St. Asaph resolved to delay it till he got a return to a Letter he wrote to the Minister of the English Congregation at the Hague desiring him and Mr. Swanswick a Learned Advocate there with whom he had made an Acquaintance when he waited on her Highness the Princess of Orange into Holland to inform themselves of as many Particulars as they could learn concerning Mistris Verboon and her Husband and having received a long and full Answer from the Minister to whom he wrot he perceived it had been known in Delft by the means of the Musick-master that this Convert was enclined to be a Christian that she had been sometimes at Church to hear Sermons that she used often to read the New Testament and that her Mother had treated her barbarously but the Ministers had not demanded her as her Mother had said to her So that was a piece of the Mothers Craft to fish out of her Daughter what Correspondence there might have been between them and her and for Mr. Verboon they had a good Character given of him by all that knew him only the angry Mother accused him of some ill things but the discharge of his Service two days after he left the House shews these were all Calumnies And in a word the Bishop found that every thing that Mistris Verboon had told him proved to be true So having used this Caution which the many Cheats of pretended Converts had made more necessary he resolved to Baptise her into the Christian Religion and left the particular care of instructing her on Dr. du Veil who had of his own accord travelled much in it and had followed all her Concerns with a very tender Care and assiduous Zeal But though she was bailed out of Prison yet she was not delivered from the Persecutions of her Family They knew well she had stollen nothing from her Mother and that she owed her nothing On the contrary her Mother ows her her Portion which by Levy's own account will rise to above 2500 l. And he also said That her Mother had offered her to him with 3000 l. Portion in present and more after her ovvn Death Vandersee when he was before my Lord Chief Justice pretended that all he did was on the Mothers Account and that Mistris Verboon was indebted so much to her in Mony But novv in the Sheriffs Court Vandersee sued for a Debt pretended to be due to himself Her Marriage was proved in Court by the Oath of the Minister the Clark and two Witnesses but all that went for nothing the Attorney having made another Plea But then for the pretended Debt no Evidence was brought but her Brother Moses and he could speak no English but as Smith his Interpreter swore he said upon his Oath that he saw Vandersee lend her four Duccatoons at Mr. Lavigne's House which comes to about two and twenty Shillings English Mony So now all the Actions of 40 2000 500 and 200 l. upon which they had so long vexed and imprisoned her dwindled into this small Debt which the Jews knew if it had been due they could have had it any time for the asking But so impartially did the Jury proceed in this Verdict that upon this single Evidence and he manifestly a Party in the Conspiracy and swearing on an English Bible which they count a prophane Book and on the back side of it too which Dr. du Veil told them was no Oath by the Jews Doctrine yet

Mistris Verboon could not see him so Mistris Lavigney worthily rejected all his Offers though he came four times to her hoping by such Importunities and Bribes to overcome her at last They intended first to have arrested Mr. Verboon hoping if he were once put out of the way they might deal with his Wife more effectually but when the Bailiffs were brought about the House he was by his Landladies care conveyed out at the Window It is plain they have no just ground of any Action against him for two days after he left her Brother's House he had a discharge of his Service under his Hand and Seal bearing date the 17 th of May 1680. When those two Jews had been five weeks in the same House with her and perceived all the ways of Persuasion and Bribery were insuccessful they then betook themselves to other Courses in which they hoped they should succeed Michael Levi found out two fit Tools for their purpose one Holland a Middlesex Bailiff and one Hammond a Serjeant belonging to the Poultry-Counter the former of these came sometimes into the House where they lodged as a Porter carrying Jewish Meat to Cohan and Vandersee by these means he was not suspected and so found an opportunity to execute a Warrant upon Master Verboon under the name of Eve Cohan on the first of September for forty pound at the Suit of her Mother There was Bail presently offered by the procurement of the Landlord and his Wife The Bailiff seemed willing to accept it but Hammond had learned his Lesson better and pretended he must needs carry her to the Under-Sheriffs Office in Hatton-Garden and so hurried her into a Coach into which Hammond went with him but Mistris Lavigne thrust her self also in with them to see what should be done with Mistris Verboon and those who offered to bail her followed them to the Sheriffs Office All the while that this was doing Levi the principal Contriver was standing at some distance to see the issue of the Plot he had so skilfully laid and carried himself as if he had known nothing of it but asked one for what was that disturbance the Woman he spake to perceiving he was a Jew treated him with the Indignation that such a Provocation seemed almost to justify and he fearing some violent effects of it ran away But Holland the Bailiff instead of carrying his Prisoner to the Sheriffs Office where those that went to be Bail staied some hours in vain expecting them ordered the Coachman to drive within the Liberties of London and then discharged her of the Arrest he had her under and immediately Hammond took out his Mace and arrested her for 2000 l. at her Mothers Suit and so carried her into London It was in vain to tell them that she being married and under Covert-barr was liable to no Arrest for Debts for though the Certificate of the Marriage was shewed them they who had other Instructions from Levi resolved to finish the Project he had laid which as Hammond then declared was for carrying her away into Holland And Levi confessed afterward before the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs that he had employed Hammond to Arrest her When the Coachman had driven to the Rose Tavern near the Poultry Counter Hammond had a mind to make Mistris Verboon to go up two pair of Stairs but she was in such a fright and trembled so that she sat down in the first Floor and there Mistris Lavigne began to open the Business to some Company that was in the Rome but Hammond in a great rage called the Drawer and made him drag her out of the Room and then going up one pair of Stairs higher he went about to persuade her to be contented and go home in quiet for said he Mistris Verboon should not go to Prison but lodg in his House where she should be well used and told her that Levi had emploied him in this Business who never undertook any Affair in which he did not succeed But finding she still persisted in her resolution of assisting of Mistris Verboon and of bringing some to Bail her he threatned her that she should never be paid what was owing her and that she and her Husband both should come into great trouble and danger by medling further in it but if she would make no more noise she should not only be paid but well rewarded All these had no effect on her so a Person she had sent for coming to them he forced Hammond to carry her to the Counter for they knew well the design of carrying her to the Serjeants-House was only that she might be conveyed away more secretly She being lodged in the Prison Master Lavigne fearing that the Jews might have taken her out of Prison set some to keep constant watch before the Counter Gate and after two days entred an Action of 500 l. against her that so she might not come out without his knowledg and lest the Jews should have brought some to have bailed her out that so they might get her into their Power he continued his Watch there employing some on whom he knew their Bribes would have no influence several Nights before the Counter Gate There was need of all this Caution when the Jews were so cruelly set on the poor Womans destruction and had found out such fit Instruments for their ends She knew what she was to expect if she fell in their hands for Vandersee had told her That if she proved with Child in their hands she should see it when delivered of it but never more but she had reason to look for further Effects of their enraged Cruelty if they had her once in their Power And that those whose Ancestors in Unbelief had with so bloody a Malice crucified our Blessed Saviour would have spared no invention of Mischief to execute their Revenge on one that was now resolved to believe in Him But so zealous was Hammond to serve the Jews in this Plot that seeing Mistris Lavigne was like to raise a great stir about it and that neither Promises nor Threatnings nor Violence could work on her for he found the calling of her Witch Bawd and such other base Names and the beating her and pulling her by the Hair of the Head could not deliver him from her Importunities he thereupon contrived another way to frighten her or to have her torn in pieces by the People It is probable that Levi contrived this also for both he and the other Jews came oft and drank with Hammond at the Rose Tavern but whosoever contrived it this way Hammond took The next time he saw her he cried out A Papist Bitch a harbourer of Iesuits though it is notoriously known that both she and her Husband have been always good Protestants with this Out-cry he brought many together who if her Sister had not been there and brought some Friends to rescue her out of their Hands had very probably done her much mischief But the poor Prisoner who