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A84383	Pseudochristus: or, A true and faithful relation of the grand impostures, horrid blasphemies, abominable practises gross deceits; lately spread abroad and acted in the county of Southampton, by William Frankelin and Mary Gadbury, and their companions. The one most blasphemously professing and asserting himself to be the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God who dyed and was crucified at Jerusalem for the sins of the people of God. The other as wickedly professing and asserting her self to be the Spouse of Christ, called, the Lady Mary, the Queen, and Bride, and Lambs Wife. Together with the visions and revelations, to which they did pretend their ways of deceiving, with the names and actions of sundry persons deceived by them. As also their examinations and confessions before the justices of the peace, their imprisonment, and their tryal before the judg of assize, at the last assize holden at Winchester, March 7. 1649. Published for a publique benefit and warning to every one to take heed to himself, that he be not deceived by the errors and deceits of these present times. / By Humphry Ellis, minister of the word in the city of Winton.	Ellis, Humphrey, d. 1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing E579; Thomason E602_12; ESTC R206414	57,353	63

to deny her to be his Wife to keep company with other women for all which evils he was at length and that very deservedly excluded by the Congregation to which he belonged I will now leave William Frankelin a little till having said somewhat also of his Companion and Partner in wickedness Mary Gadbury I may declare how they came acquainted and what were the ways of deceit here practised by them This Mary Gadbury is a married woman about thirty years of age her husbands name is James Gadbury who as her self saith about seven years ago forsook her and with a servant he had went away from her into Holland whither as her self also saith she went to him about five years since but stayed very little time with him since that she hath neither seen him or heard from him but with a daughter she hath lived ever since asunder from him in London The place of her living as she hath declared hath chiefly been in Watling street in London though as I have heard she hath of late much shifted her habitation from place to place her employment hath been to sell small Wares as Laces Pins Bandstrings and other trifles for Gentlewomen For the manner of her living I have but little on certain grounds to declare She pretends for her self that she hath been long time affected to Religion and to have been a frequent hearer of the Word of Mr Sedgwick and Mr Case in times past but of late chiefly of Mr J. Goodwin and Mr Jesse I have seen a Petition directed to the Judg of Assize in her behalf subscribed with the hands of divers men and women who as I suppose live in or near Watling street the place of her living declaring her to have been of honest conversation to have lived in good repute and religiously among them But I have heard others reporting otherwise concerning her as if she had been noted in times past to have been of a vicious lewd light behaviour She hath acknowledged concerning her self that by one of her neighbors she was accused before the last Lord Major to keep a naughty house but of these things concerning her living I have nothing upon certain information to write but leave it to others by farther enquiry at the place of her habitation to satisfie themselves if they desire it concerning her And now let me declare how these persons came acquainted and engaged together in their sinful employment and undertaking here in this Country for this let me acquaint the Reader That Mary Gadbury having been first committed to Bridewell was some few days after sent for thence by the Justices to be committed to the Common-Goal at which time being examined she was more free then formerly to declare her self and besides what was taken by the Justices as her Examination and might serve them for their proceedings in Law with her she was willing also to make farther discovery of the Visions Revelations and Voyces which she pretended unto and therein of the way of their acquaintance together the occasion of their coming together into this County and the things here done by them which she did in a Discourse of at least two hours long and which I who was then and there present took from her in writing as nigh as might be word for word This voluntary and free Confession of hers I shall now make use of as that which will furnish me with matter to carry on this Relation faithfully herein reporting the things I then received and wrote from her the whole of it in the order she delivered it I shall not transcribe for it would be teadious to the Reader so to do and many things therein are very impertinent to such a Relation as this is but I shall select out of it such things as are material disposing them also into such a method as I have proposed to follow in this Discovery Concerning her first acquaintance with William Frankelin she declared in that her Confession That it was by means of a woman who lived in the house with her that this woman told her concerning William Frankelin that she having been at his house she saw him there embracing a man whom she called a Devil but he reproving her for it said it was not so but he was one beloved of God and farther declared to her concerning him that she had seen such a man who had been in such a condition of misery as she had never known any to have bin in the like but one who had destroyed his body by shooting himself and that from this man viz. William Franklin she had heard very sweet things Upon this she desired of that woman to bring the man she so spake of unto her by whom also he was brought unto her At his first coming unto her he spake some words which were then dark unto her but some what of God she apprehended so sweet in them that an Eccho sounded in her to what he said At his departing she said to him My love is with me and he answered to her My Peace be with you And after that he was departed and she gone to bed and waking after her first sleep she was full of joy and singing so was also the woman who lay there with her who had brought this William Franklin unto her This their singing was heard by a neighbor who coming to them said they were Witches Hitherto the occasion concerning her first acquaintance with William Franklin out of her own Confession What so deeply engaged these persons to one another after this their first and so sudden acquaintance is next to be discovered Concerning which we will again have recourse to Mary Gadburies Confession and the Relation she made therein of several Visions Revelations Voyces which she pretended to had and received In that her Confession she declared that she hath had certain Fits which she cannot call Convulsion Fits nor knows how to express them which would set her whole body in a trembling and shake the bed wherein she lay and continue upon her some times from two a clock at night to seven in the morning Her first taking with such a fit was upon a Sabbath day about twelve a clock at night which came so violently as it set her whole body on trembling working to her fingers ends and that so strongly as if she should have been strangled by it at which time a voyce spake forth from her and said It is the Lord it is the Lord but she could not say it was her own voyce At which time clapping her hands together she had brought to her remembrance a Scripture which she never heard before as she can remember The trees shall clap their hands for joy Then the voyce that spake within her before spake again Babylon is fallen is fallen And then it said further There shall be no King but the King of Kings and Lord of Lords And further again Rejoyce O daughters of Sion break forth into singing It said

Town and Countrey were some shaken some wholly seduced by these her deceits It would be tedious to the Reader and that which would cause this Relation wherein I desire and shall indeavour all possible brevity quickly to swell into a considerable volume should I proceed to relate what was declared by this blasphemous woman while she was thus by her selfe at Andover venting her blasphemies in the severall conferences between her and sundry particular persons who came to see her and to have and had discourse with her It shall therefore content me and I hope it will my Reader also to declare what passed between this seducing woman and those that being seduced by her did hearken to her and follow her in these her waies of deceit and blasphemie and the way and course taken by her which by the permission of God and through the efficacy of Satan was effectuall to the seducing of them That large confession of Mary Gadburies so oftentimes before mentioned I shall now again have recourse unto and make use of it as that which will sufficiently furnish me with matter to carry on this part of my relation In that her confession she declared that while she was at the Star in Andover while as yet William Franklin was with her and not gone upon his journey towards London as is before related she was one night so taken as a woman in travail and with such paines so coming and going as throes of a woman in that condition but that the paines she now indured were more painfull then those of women in that condition which she could well tell having had the experience of both At which time of her paine the same voice mentioned before to have spoken to her in the former visions spake this now again Shall I bring to the birth and not give strength to bring forth All that night wherein these pains and this voice came thus unto her she was very ill with them and all the day following also which was the Sabbath day wherein divers came to hear VVilliam Franklin speak somwhat unto them the day after being Munday VV.F. went to London after whose departure she began to declare that she had seen the Lord Christ in the person of a man and this amongst others she declared in particular to Mr. Woodward which Mr. Woodward was then Minister of Crooxeaston a village some few miles distant from that town of Andover and to Edward Spradbury which Edward Spradbury is by his profession a Clothworker living in Andover and to him she also declared concerning the pains before mentioned then continuing upon her how great they were and that she should never have rest till she were delivered of what she travailed withall Thus farre already her confession But before I go further in it it will be necessary I give some information to my Reader which may serve to clear his understanding somwhat concerning what here already is and what further is to be related to him The Reader is therefore here to understand that these pains and travails which this deceitfull woman doth thus pretend unto if any such paines there were and that these were not things altogethe feigned by her she pretends also to be of God and to be for some spirituall and not for any naturall birth and she seems to take ground for this from the speech of the forementioned voice unto her concerning it but how wickedly and blasphemously that saying of the Lord by his Prophet concerning Sion his Church and concerning the birth of Christ the man-child and of all his people raised and borne together vertually with and in him in his Resurrection Esa 66.7 8 9. according to that of the Apostle Ephes 2. he hath quickned us and raised us together with Christ is here I say sinfully wickedly blasphemously applied and assumed by this blasphemous creature to her selfe making her selfe thereby to be the Sion there mentioned But strange it cannot be thought that having set up this W. F. to be the Christ and applying to him what is proper to Christ and her selfe to be the Bride the Lambs wife the Spouse of Christ she should now thus apply and assume to her self what concerning Sion and the true mysticall Spouse and Church of Christ is delivered in the Scripture Here also is further to be knowne that this foolish woman was usually wont as wickedly to apply to her selse in these her falsly pretended travails that speech of the Apostle Gal. 4.19 saying in generall that she did travail in birth till Christ were formed in them to those with whom she conferred and in particular when she perceived any one like to be wrought upon and seduced by her then would she pretend her travail to be for such a one who being at length wholly wrought upon and seduced by her it must be ascribed to her travails as an effect of them that must be the person for whom she was in travail and such a person the spirituall birth now brought forth by her according to this is that which she hath thus declared of her paines and travells to be understood by us But one thing I may not omit here fit to be inserted evidenced by a Constable when the businesse concerning the pretended travails of this woman and her spirituall birth was examined and heard before the Judge of Assize viz. that he heard from Edward Spradbury that this woman had been in travail and was delivered and asking of what she had been delivered it was answered of a Dragon and what she was so delivered of her Lord and Christ had slain it on the bed Hence I suppose it was that so strong a report was somtime raised and carried about the Countrey as if this woman had been in some reall travail and had been indeed delivered of a Serpent or some such monstrous birth But let us now return to the course of our Relation and for the carrying of it on have recourse againe to the large confession of that woman declaring therein her dealing with sundry particular persons and the seducing of them Edward Spradbury is the first that by any circumstance I can find was seduced by her and gave credit to her blasphemies and though I cannot learne by what meanes he was wrought upon by her yet I perceive he stuck not long at the businesse but was quickly perswaded to follow her in her deceits to believe according to what she had asserted VVilliam Franklin to be the Christ and with many blasphemous expressions to declare him so to be unto others also and to serve this woman as a very active instrument for seducing of other persons for thus it followes in the Confession That Edward Spradbury riding that way went to M. VVodwards at Crooxeason and there told Mr. VVoodward's wife what he had heard this woman to say viz. of her having seen Christ in the person of a man but that Mrs. VVoodward not induring to hear of it said I do think it is

reckoned it unnaturall and unkind to them insomuch that W. Fr. returning the Saturday on the Munday and Tuesday following both he and his companion having this of their sinfull practise by Mr. Rutlie related to them who endeavoured also to declare to them from the word of God which they little regarded how sinfull it was they were warned by him to depart and with all speed that might be to be gone out of his house at which time of their being thus warned to depart divers strange and blasphemous expressions came from W. Frankelin saying That he knew his Maker and his Maker knew him and he was one with his Maker and now they charged Mr. Rutlie as if he were another Pilate thus persecuting of them thus receiving the scandall of the world against them There being now no longer abode for them at Andover and M. Gadbury having told this W. Frankelin upon his returne of Mrs. Woodwards invitation it is now very acceptable to them and they bethink themselves of accepting of it and going thither accordingly on Tuesday December 11. departing from Andover they arrive at Crooxeason where they are very welcome to Mr. VVoodward and his wife have their entertainment there in his house for about the space of six weeks til by the Justices Warrants they were sought after and apprehended as you will afterwards understand Mrs. VVoodward as M.G. hath confessed had been told concerning the wife and children of VV. F. but she did not then regard it looking now upon the principle of God in the creature what had been revealed to her Thus with these persons it is nothing to lay aside naturall relation and affection to desert yea to run away from wife and children yea in an adulterous way to keep company together and to lie with one another if something of a Vision or Revelation may be pretended though herein be enough to discover such visions and revelations to be of the Devil and not of God when occasion shall be given by them and encouragement also to persons to walk in such sinfull practises so manifestly contrary to the Word and Will of God Being now setled in their fresh quarters at Crooxeason where they are sure to have free quarter having made so good an exchange by removing from an Inne to a private and that a Ministers house being I say here setled VV. Frankelin declares that it is revealed to him that this place where they now were is the wildernesse appointed for the nourishing of the woman a time times and half a time here he staied a moneth and after that went again upon another journie to London And now what was done at this place and what visions revelations voices this M. Gad. pretends at this place to have received also I shall make some discovery of from her own confession She declared in her confession that one night of her being at Crooxeason awaking after her first sleep she felt a weight upon her breast as if it had been a stone of a load weight and she said The former travail brought forth Mrs. Woodward and this seemes to be another travail for another birth O Lord when shall I be released of this misery at last the Voice spake unto her and what it spake was chiefly concerning two men living near Andover the name of the one being Rutlie the other Bunnie and also of a woman whose name is VVaterman these persons had much exclaimed against Frankelin and her for that he having a wife and three children should keep company with another woman and for saying that he was the Christ The Voice naming these persons said of them They have a godly zeal in them they love what thou lovest they speak not against my glory but against the old nature which is gone they see no farther then that the Voice also hid her by M Woodward to send for Rutlie and Bunnie it said of them they shal be pure they shal see me then the Voice spake forth aloud This she said was spoken with such violence in her that she feared she should have been strangled with the force of it as the voice of a man roaring out in speaking I am the Lord of Hosts JEHOVAH is my name the high and holy one I am of a pure eye a God that cannot behold iniquity I will unveil my selfe now and they shall see me face to face eye to eye It is no more the morning-star but the great day of the Lord is come Then the Voice spake directly to and of her self saying Thou shalt be clothed in a white robe which I will give thee and they shall all see thy whitenesse for I have made thee pure O grosse pride deceit and hypocrisie as it is all pure within so shall it be without thou shalt be clothed all in white a resemblance of the inward purity and I will make thee to be as a Phenix Then the Voice commanded her to speak for a thing that was in the house which was some white linnen cloth and to make her a white robe therewith which should serve onely for the present for she should afterward be covered all over with white She told Mrs. VVoodward what the Voice had said concerning the white cloth but Mrs. W. told her that she would speak to her husband to buy some Holland of seven groats an ell to serve for that use whereby it seems Mrs. VVoodward was not willing to be so easily cheated of her white cloth With this answer this M. Gadbury was much troubled yet she thought to speak no more for it but Mrs. W. being gone forth the Voice said again to her Doth she think that wil suffice the best things belong to thee but M. Gad. declaring her self loth to trouble her the Voice said If she be offended I will pacifie the offence then she called Mrs. Woodward again and asked her if she thought any thing too good for the Lord who answered no and so at length both her self and her husband gave their consent to part with the linnen cloth to her for the use she desired Thus by a fine trick of cleanly conveyance is Mrs. W. cheated out of her white cloth and M. G. by this Artificiall way of deceitfull cheating and jugling hath got her a good piece of cloth and accordingly makes her an outer-garment with it that it might shew forth her inward purity she now seeth that if she hath a mind to any thing which any of her proselites hath it is but to pretend a Voice or Vision for it and it must presently be given to her But to return to her confession wherein she farther declared that one night being broad awake she saw a white foot which the Voice commanded to rest upon her Which I suppose to be the same night wherein she had the former vision and to her sight the foot was set upon her shoulders and she saw no more of it at which time all within the

very sensible of these things and of the Glory of God and good of their Country so highly concerned in them And accordingly with all speed were Warrants granted out by several of them to the Constables of those parts for the apprehending of William Franklin and some others of these so dangerous persons These Warrants were with as much speed as might be put in execution by the Constables by them were William Franklin and with him Mr Woodward Henry Dixon Edward Spradbury apprehended and besides what was done towards these persons upon their apprehension by the Bayliff of Andover where they were either apprehended first or brought thither whose care and faithfulness in this business is much to be commended they were from thence brought hither to Winchester upon Munday Ianuary 27. and there presented before those Justices of the County who live at this City by them to be examined and proceeded withal accordingly With those persons thus apprehended brought by the Warrant came also others of their own accord though not included in that Warrant as M. Gadbury Mrs Woodward Goody Waterman and some others I do not hear that Iohn Noyce was here present particular complaint was made afterward against William Holmes and particular Warrant granted for the apprehending of him but he either departing from his habitation or some way or other hiding himself was not at all yet apprehended that he neither appeared now or at any time before the Justices or at the Assize But those persons who were thus apprehended with the others that came so together with them not so much to see what would be done with them as to assist them and witness the same thing with them in their Tr●al and Examinations and together they came with abundance of confidence and boldness to stick unto those things which they had asserted with which they knew they should be accused The Justices before whom they were brought and by whom they were now to be examined were Mr Thomas Bettesworth and Mr Richard Gobbe Their Appearance and Examination was at Mr Bettosworths house who lives in the Close here at Winchester At the time of their Examination great multitudes of persons resorted to the house to see and hear what would be done with them or said by them It would be tedious to the Reader and that which the brevity I desire and shall endeavour in this Relation will not bear should I now proceed largely to set down the whole of their carriage before the Justices and of the things spoken by them according to that credible information I received of it But some most material passages I shall have respect unto together with the Examinations of some Witnesses taken upon Oath and the Examinations of the persons themselves attested by them by subscribing their names to them These will be the most authentique Testimonies I can present my Reader withall of the blasphemous speeches and practises of these persons and wherein he may see from the Confessions of the persons themselves a Confirmation of the most or most material things that have been before related As concerning their carriage before the Justices it was with abundance of boldness and confidence in general there asserting whatsoever had been before declared by them and towards others whom they had occasion to converse withall with abundance of scorn and contempt Goody Waterman a very talkative woman said to the company That if they were not there the house would fall down upon them and if they should not speak the stones would speak And being very forward in speaking after this manner Mrs Woodward told her That she saw much of the Power of God in carrying her forth to speak so as she did This Goody Waterman to one that bid her stand farther from him saying that her breath did stink answered that she defied what he spake and her breath was the breath of the Lord And concerning another young woman one of their own company who had spoken somewhat wherein she was contradicted she also answered That what that young woman spake was not much to be regard she being but a babe of a week old and indeed it was their manner to reckon their age from the time of their first believing in this Deceiver as if they had been but then born When one speaking of William Franklin called him Fellow Mary Gadbury at the hearing thereof holding up her hand at him said Thou dog how darest thou call thy Saviour Fellow thou art not worthy of a crumb Thus may these and many other such like passages which fell from them serve to discover their height of confidence in their blasphemous Assertions as also the impudent boldness of their carriage But leaving these things we will now proceed to the Confessions and Examinations of these persons themselves and Witnesses concerning them setting down first what was attested by some Witnesses and next what were their own Confessions And first take here the Testimony of Fortunatus Wats of Woodhay who was the first that I can hear of to have given evidence against these persons and his evidence had been given in to the Justices before they granted their Warrants for the apprehending of these persons but may now be here very fitly inserted His Evidence was thus A man aged about thirty or fourty years on Monday the 17. of December 1649. at Mr Woodwards at Crooxeason in Hampshire affirmed himself to be Christ the Son of the living God the Messiah that sits at the right Hand of God the Corner stone the Lamb of God that was slain at Ierusalem and had the wound yet on his body unhealed That his Spirit was abroad gathering in of Souls that he came now in the fulness of time to save the very Elect and is none of those false Christs spoken of in Scripture but the true Christ indeed If any would know my name I am said he the great King of Heaven without any guile in my mouth without beginning of time or end of days He undertook to forgive sins and by name did so to me Fortunatus Wats of Woodhay in Hampshire Witness my hand Decemb. 20. 1649. And this he subscribed his name unto Now you shall have the Examination of some Witnesses delivered upon Oath before the Justices at Andover and at Winchester after their Apprehension The accusation of Peter Blake of Andover in the County of Southampton Merchant given upon Oath before several Justices of the Peace at Andover the 26. of January 1649. HE saith upon Oath That Edward Spradbury of Andover Clothworker affirmed that one lately lying at the Star in Andover aforesaid naming himself Franklin was the Lord of Life and Glory and that he was the Messiah the Lamb slain from the foundation that he had the key of the bottomless pit that shutteth and no man openeth and openeth and no man shutteth That he was the Christ the Saviour of the World The Christ that suffered on the Cross The Lion of the Tribe of Judah