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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

passage of Iudas's confessing that he had betrayed Innocent Blood and his being so transported with the horror of it that he went and hanged himself This did first open her eyes about two Years agoe and from that time she was ever since disposed to become a Christian. But it coming some way to her Mothers knowledg as she discharged the Musick-master so she treated her very severely and shut her up as a Prisoner near six months and when gentler Severities were ineffectual she threatned to poison her if she changed her Religion So that once for eight days together she durst eat nothing that they gave her till she saw others taste of it before her She was oft beaten by her Mother and not suffered to come to the Door or look out at those Windows that opened to the Street lest being in a Christian Country she might have discovered her Designs to such as would have assisted her in bringing them to perfection But that which confirmed her in the belief of Christianity was what she read of the Resurrection of our Saviour of which he had given assurance to his Followers before his Sufferings this did so effectually convince her that He was her onely Saviour and Redeemer that she called often on him for his assistance and direction and resolved to dedicate her self to his Service While she was under those Apprehensions and Fears he that is now her Husband Mr. Michael Verboon then served her Eldest Brother Iacob Cohan he is descended of honest Parents though but of a mean condition He had been entertained by one of the Admiralty of Utrecht as his Servant for three Years After that he served the Heer Waerkendam one of the States General who was sent Ambassador into Denmark other three Years and when he left his Service he had a Certificate of his Faithful Service signed by his Lady himself being then from home bearing date the third day of May 1679. From thence he went to serve Iacob Cohan and staid with him nine months and had from him a Certificate of his faithful Service two days after he left him There has been very great enquiry made concerning him in Holland and all People there give a good Character of him He being in the same House with her addressed himself to her as a Suitor for Marriage which she for some months rejected but at last gave him some encouragement though no promise nor assurance and indeed intended then no more but to make use of his kindness to her so far as to be conveyed by his means into some place of safety where she might without danger profess her self a Christian. Upon this he left her Brother's Service and resolved to go for some time into France and went on his way as far as Brussels She was daily in fear of her Life and the rather because her Mother had said to her that Mr. Honslaier a Minister at Delft had been with her to demand her from her because he understood she had an inclination to turn Christian. This we have learnt from Holland was not true but only pretended by her Mother and it is probable was said by her that she might by that Artifice draw from her Daughter the discovery of a correspondence she suspected might be between the Minister and her These things made her desirous to be out of their hands so having contrived the way of her escape she got out of her Mothers House in the end of May and knowing by a Letter that Mr. Verboon wrote to her that he was still at Brussels she went thither But being more concerned to preserve her Life and to save her Soul then careful how to live she did not so much as carry away the Jewels that were in her own possession so far was she from robbing her Mother or giving the rest of the Family any ground to lay those Actions on her by which they hoped to have ruined her though a parcel of very fair Jewels that were her Mothers lay so open to her very Eye that she could easily have carried them away if she had designed it When she saw that the Christians at Brussels worshipped Images and hearing that the Christians in France were generally guilty of the same Idolatry she resolved rather to come into England and be Baptized in a Christian Church that was not defiled with such Abominations and Mr. Verboon having been bred a Protestant and makeing her understand the difference between the two Churches she chose to join her self to a Protestant Church So they went to Newport and from thence came to England in Iuly and took Lodgings in Mr. Peter Lavignes House a French Taylor in Bedford-bury She carried her self there very decently and vertuously the People of the House knew that she went oft to Prayers Mr. Verboon and she lived like Brother and Sister together sometimes they went to the Dutch Church in London The mean while she went to the Countess of Arlington to desire her to help her to a Service but that good Lady knew not how to recommend her till she had a farther account of her from other hands On the 27 th of Iuly Moses Cohan her youngest Brother and Samuel Vandersee her Cousen German to whom as it is said her Mother intended to have married her found her out and took Lodgings in the same House This made Mr. Verboon more pressing to have her marry him fearing they might either by force or persuasion prevail with her to return So on the 29 th of Iuly they went out to Knightsbridg with two Witnesses and were married there according to the form of the Church of England Levi was not ashamed to say before the Lord Mayor that she was within six weeks of her time yet she having been now ten weeks married appears not to have been with Child till after her Marriage of which she has since miscarried by fright as shall be told afterwards And her Husband with a solemn Oath declared to Bishop Lloyd that she kept him at a due distance ever till they were married Her Brother brought her a Letter from her Mother in which she charges her with no dishonest or unhandsome thing but with many fair Offers and Promises persuades her to abandon Verboon and return home again Vandersee did by many impious Blasphemies against the Person of our Blessed Saviour endeavour to divert her from her Resolution of becoming a Christian. But seeng all these ways were ineffectual they resolved to betake themselves to more desperate and mischievous ones And for this end they consulted with Michael Levi the formerly mentioned Sollicitor for the Jews who laid the Train artificially enough to have spirited her away He came often to the House where they were lodged and dealt with Mistris Lavigney to help him to speak with Mistris Verboon he offered her a Present and made her many promises of large Rewards both of Gold and Silver if she would perswade her to go back to her Mother But as