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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63175	The tryal of Elizabeth Cellier, the popish midwife, at the Old Baily, Septemb. 11, 1680, for printing and publishing the late notorious libel, intituled, Malice defeated, &c. where she was found guilty : together with her sentence.	Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680, defendant.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2187A; ESTC R22378	3,500	4

THE TRYAL OF Elizabeth Cellier THE Popish Midwife At the Old Baily Septemb. 11. 1680. For Printing and Publishing the late Notorious Libel Intituled Malice Defeated c. Where she was found GVILTY Together with her SENTENCE THis Prodigy of Impudence not content to have Luckily escap'd on her former Tryal for High Treason but being thereupon grown extravagantly vain and insolent was by some of the Hellish Crew of Jesuits and Fryars put upon owning and publishing the above mentioned Libel of their contrivance pretending to give an account of her case but being indeed most scandalous reflections on the Publick Justice of the Nation his Majesty the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council the Judges of the Land the Kings Evidence the Gentlemen of her Jury and in a word the whole Kingdom except her own Trayterous Popish Faction and as the matter of it was most Audacious Falshoods so did she very suitably Midwife it into the World with Cheats and Lies sending for several Booksellers to buy the worshipful Copy the precise price of which was an Hundred Guinnics and to every one of them protesting on the Faith of a Catholick Wound and Honour of her calling that he had the Maiden-head on 't and was the first Man she ever offer'd it to and afterwards buzz'd abroad that such a Man offered her Forty Guinnies and such ● one Fift● whereas in truth they were so fa● from offer●●g her a Penn● that she c●uld not for an Hundred Pounds hav● Brib'd them to meddle w●●h one sh●●● of such Villan● and therefore at ●ast herself ●ut it to Prin●●●g eng●●●ng with many Asseverations to be●● him har●●●ss that did it and pay all his Charges if any trouble happened yet when he was questioned very civilly denied that promise and would not pay a Farthing of his Fees and to give him his due● he was right enough served These petty Circumstances we mention to give the World a taste of the Honesty and Veracity of this Catholick Saint whose Pamphlet being seiz'd at the Press she w●s carrie● before the Council and bound over ●o answer it the firs●●a●●f the n●xt T●rm and to be of good Behaviour but with an Impudence peculiar to herself and the Cause she notwithstanding such restraint proceeded to compleat the Libel and published it This so justly exasperated Authority to see it self thus Braved and Affronted by the Baggage that an immediate Prosecution was ordered and an Indictment of Misdemeanour being exhibited against her to the Grand Jury for Midlesex at Hicks Hall and by them found on Friday the Ten●h instant she was forthwith appre●●●ded and brought to the Sessions at the Old Baily where she behaved her self very Malapertly and would fain have put off the Tryal till another Sessions but being therein over-ruled by the Court and ready to be taken into the Bail●-dock by the Keepers she S●reamed as loud as her lying impudence would make the World believe Mr. Prance did on the imaginary Rack and seemed to have a great Antipathy against the smell of Newgate and therefore offered two shabby fellows for ●a● one of whom was said to be the Brother of Nevil alias Pain that Hackney Drudge whom they keep as Birds are Caged to make them Sing in Jail on purpose that he may be at leasure to ●oribble Lies for the party But this Broomstaff Security being refused by the Court she prayed leave to go forth with a Keeper to got better vapouring in open Court that within an hour she would return with Bail worth Thousands But it seems the Vermin were for quitting the House that they saw ready to tumble for those that before encouraged her were now loth to appear and so the distressed Damosel was forced to take up her Lodging for that Night in the Inchanted Castle of Newgate It is observable that she then praying longer time and insisting on the absence of her witnesses the Court told her they could not apprehend what Witnesses she could have occasion for unless she would prove who Wrote the Book and set heron work to own it whereupon she loudly answered My Lord I wrote it every Line my self So Ambitious she was of being Gossip to the Spurious Libel though 't is well known to be The whole Troops Child for though the Dominican Rascal for whom the Gallows has groan'd ever since January last might be chief Agent yet C. and G. and several others 't is probable Clubb'd ther Politick Noddles towards it On Saturday Septemb 11 in the afternoon she was brought to tryal where the learned and unbiassed Baron weston being the onely Judge present heard the Cause discharging his duty to the great satisfaction of all the numerous Auditory The Indictment was for causing to be printed and published a false scandalous and seditious Libel and several of the grossest passages as that or Racking Mr. Prance c. were recited The Kings Council opened the matter excellently shewed the desperate design of the Libel to turn off the Popish Plot upon the Protestants to vilifie the Kings Evidence to stifle the ●●th of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Murder and make the Nation and the Protestant Religion odious in Forein Parts by these lying stories of Racks and Tortures used upon poor Catholicks The Prisoner though she publickly boasted her self to be the Authorers but yesterday had the grace now as stoutly to deny it and being urg'd with her so late Acknowledgment to the Court replied She hop'd it did not become that Honourable Bench to give Evidence Nor needed it the thing being otherwise sufficiently proved For 1. A man testified that he bought one of the Books of her and paid her for it to whom she declar'd that they were her Books and that she could have put much more into them and did give him another small Libel into the bargain 2. Mr. Downing that printed some Sheets of it proved that she bargained with him to do it promised to bear him harmless ordered her Name to be printed in the Title-page and that she sent for Sheets to have them corrected 3. Mr. Stevins the Messenger whose Industry first discover'd and seized it prov'd that she own'd it to him pretending at first that the Copy was her own hand-writing but afterwards he saw her write and found hers a scrambling ugly hand far different from the Manuscript and then she told him she kept two men in her house to write it as she dictated to them of whom the notorious Sing formerly a Coffeeman and Intelligencer was one 4. Mr. Prance declar'd upon his Oath the utter falshood of that Malicious story of his being Rack'd or in any kind Tortured but that on the contrary he was very civilly Treated at all times by Capt. Richardson and also by his Lady in the time of his sickness and that he made his discovery freely and voluntarily and was only led thereunto by the Power of Truth and to disburthen his Conscience of so horrid a Crime And Mr. Boyce and several others were present to have testified and confirmed the same but it was not thought necessary that Lie of hers Stabbing it self by its own improbabillity and being so notoriously Contrary to the Laws and Practice of this Nation 'T is Popery that needs an Inquisition to support it and delights in Cruelties and Tortures and Extorts Confessions by Racks and Strapado's the Protestant Religion and the generous English temper disdain such Barbarities 5. Mr. Fowler the Vintner upon his Oath inform'd the Court with the grounds of his suspecting Corral the Coach-man mentioned in the Libel pag. 3. viz. From his own words but denied utterly that he ever bid him lay it upon any or told him of any Money that was to be got by it or any thing of that kind giving so punctual an account of the whole matter that the Court was satisfied Mr. Fowler did nothing but what became and was the duty of every honest Man in that affair As to the Prisoners defence it was very inconsiderable her Romantick Spirit was much abated and she talk'd abundantly more like a Midwife than such a Politician and Stateswoman as she would be accounted only she called two Women and a Man as Witnesses but two of them could say nothing material the third was the before mentioned Coach-man 's Wife who said her Husband was at the time mentioned in Newgate and had Irons on but acknowledged she had access to him and never was beaten or any thing of that kind as in the Libel is pretended 'T is also observable that the said Coach-man had upon Oath disown'd all that Tragical story that Cellier reports of him but did not appear now in Court Then the BARON in a grave and solid discourse summ'd up the Evidence and the Court being so full that the Jury could not conveniently come together to Consult did for that reason withdraw but presently return'd and brought her in Guilty At which the People gave a general shout yet she had the Confidence even after Conviction to mov'd to be Bailed but that not being Grantable by Law she was ordered back to Newgate where she now remains with much better accomodations from the Captains Civility than she deserves or could expect from a Person she had so basely and causlesly abused were not his Generosity as imcomparable as her Malice On Monday the 13 of Sept. she received the judgment of the Court which was to stand Three times in the Pillory First at the May-pole in the Strand Secondly in Covent Garden and Thirdly at Charing-cross and some of her Books to be Burnt at each place before her face by the Common Hangman and also was fined 1000 l. and one Years imprisonment and after that time expired and the Fine paid to give security for the good behaviour during Life There were at this Sessions Eleven Persons Condemned to die Six Women and Five Men one burnt in the hand and Three to be Whipped FINIS Printed by A. Godbid for L. C. 1680.