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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50807	The midwife unmask'd, or, The popish design of Mrs. Cellier's meal-tub plainly made known being a second answer to her scandalous libel, in short remarques upon the same, for the satisfaction of the people, and the vindication of the justice of the nation, and of several persons of honour by her most vilely abused.		1680 (1680)	Wing M2002; ESTC R15188	5,713	4

believ'd But this is not enough for although this may do her business and save her Bacon yet it will not clear the PLOT therefore she must fall foul also of the other Witnesses Bedlow Oates and the rest never a Barrel better Herring they are all alike and must be recriminated therefore she gives you Bedlows Character p. 2 3. and from Dr. Oates his own hand well if all this or most of it be false is not Mrs Cellier a malicious woman and those who set her a work wicked Instruments but if this were true all was before and whilst imployed in their Service and what better could be expected for Treason and Murther But since we find not any thing objected against them not only as to the evils of Life and Conversation but as to the Truth and agreement of their Depositions Those who are alive may answer in this respect for themselves and Mr. Bedlow's last Exit has very much strengthened and confirm'd the Truth of the PLOT and the wickedness of the Plotters But however all those Witnesses Mrs Cellier rails against are sufficiently back'd by others against whom none of them could have such cause of scandal and reproach so that the foundation of the PLOT stands not upon the only props of Dr. Oates Bedlow and Dangerfield but on many more sound and strong enough in their Reputation The next thing I observe is That she not only endeavours to invalidate the Testimony of the Kings Witnesses by Reproach Scandal and by bringing their Crimes upon the stage whether true or false but she also endeavours as in p. 3. to cause them not to be believed by the people by insinuating that they were horridly abused in prison Wracked and Tortured Boulted and Chained Starved and Beaten of which she tells odd stories making something like a Minister to be either a promoter or evidence of the same it looking like one of the Spanish Inquisition and he the Priest Examiner being translated from the Inquisition-Prison to Newgate But we are apt to believe they are forged and to which Captain Richardson is able to give satisfaction Mr. Prance the man she would make the world believe to be the person Tormented to extort false Evidence having in his Narrative sufficiently cleared that suspition and justified to the contrary whatever Mrs Cellier may invent to cause the contrary to be thought But besides the Witnesses we must have others to carry on a Secret PLOT to hide and cloud the Real one It is no matter who they are but it seems they are no mean ones being Dukes and Earls for such she brings into Newgate p. 4. to beat and abuse the Examinants or those committed thither under pretence of the Plot and in person to offer them Gold and Silver to Confess what they did not know Still Inquisition-method Cunning and Tyranny This Duke and Lord who ever they were would not be accounted any great Politicians to do their business no better but to appear in person but all this is still to make the world imagine strange things and that those Innocents were beaten and tormented and tempted to confess what they never knew of This Duke and Earl are incognito and we cannot get knowledge of them but my Lord of Shaftesbury is more beholding to her for she names him in several places with his Servants and goes about to shew his Arts and Policies to frame a PLOT and would insinuate to the people as if it came or had a birth out of his Brain and with his Intrigues with Bedlow and Stroud would raise up what never was and that therefore he was making Instruments for that purpose by illegal means feeding them privately with Money and getting them Pardons giving them incouragement and assistance And thus the wicked woman though newly escaped the lash of the Law if she cannot Murther or take away the Life of the Earl of Shaftesbury yet stabs his Honour and Reputation But there is a Statute of Scandalum Magnatum upon which she may chance to be Tryed and may prove more unfortunate to her than that of Edward the Third upon which she was last Indicted But this Woman ascends in her bold aspersions and having gone thus far for the Cause assaults the Council and the King himself his Justice and his Laws For p. 44. she makes bold to say with a Forhead brazen enough That though Treasonable Practices have been Sworn against Dangerfield by Justice Foster Justice Harvie Mr. Thomas Hill and her self yet the Gentleman walks abroad undisturbed and dayly consults with his Confederates how to act new Villanies Then by and by Whensoever his Majesty shall please to make it safe and honourable to speak Truth as it hath been gainful and meritorious to do the contrary there will not want Witnesses c. I think the like bold and scandalous Assertion was scarce so bare-fac'dly owned before as if his Majesty and his Privy-Council did encourage Perjury or that it was a dangerous thing to own or speak the Truth before them It is not good dallying thus with Thunder Methinks though other persons could not escape the venom of their lying Tongues yet that Sacred Majesty and the Justice of a Nation should have been above the reach of their empoysoned darts But to what height will not the Zeal or rather blinde Fury and Rage of their Religion carry them Thus also she terms the Examinations of the Committee of Lords before whom she was brought Trepanning Questions page 29. to ensnare her A fit expression for the Peers of the Realm as if they had so little Honour or Honesty as to betray the Life of a poor silly woman But she is full of such scurrillous abuses thorough the whole Book and it were too much labour to trace her throughout She may have leave granted her to abuse persons of a meaner Rank when she has so boldly struck at those of the highest and I think of all the Railing she has used against Sir Will. Waller which might in some sort be pardoned he being so active a man against her and her Fellow-Plotters that which she uses page 23 is very wicked and highly malicious which is that shewing him the Book called The black Tribunal wherein the Tryals of the late King's Judges were set down told him withal That that was the Game he would now be at which says she he denied after such a manner as made it visible even to the meanest capacity that he did not think it a Crime Is not this most horrid Judgment to accuse a man of Treasonable thoughts in her own Breast and then to pronounce Judgment on him as Guilty But Sir William Waller is of Age to answer for himself and no doubt knows how to clear himself from such horrid Aspersions She pretends to reveal the Mystery of the Meal-Tub but she has made so flight and poor a thing of it that it is not so much as the true History of it She thought otherwise of that Discovery when she wrung her hands and cryed She was undone at the first finding of that black List which was under the white Meal that gave sufficient Proof and Light of the most abominable PLOT that ever was Invented But Mrs. Cellier has undergone the Tryal of the Law and is Acquitted for want of clear Proof against her but if she proceeds as she hath begun in this her Book to forge and publish Lies and to abuse and defame persons of Honour and the Justice of the Nation and to invalidate the King's Evidence and endeavour to turn the PLOT into a Romance or Fiction she may chance at last to finde she may not always have the good fortune to escape Justice and it is not to be doubted notwithstanding the endeavours of these Champions for the Cause but that ere long the whole Mystery of this Long-depending PLOT will be laid open and that Justice will at last flow like a stream without opposition in the Land And we shall know the guilty Heads as well as the defiled and wicked Members and Instruments In the mean time that such may not bark in the ears of the people so unchequ'd and uncontrould we have only in few words let you plainly see the repeated Malice of Mrs. Celier's Malice Defeated and what the true end of all the Endeavours of that Party is To make the world believe that there is no Plot or Designe against his Majesties Life and against the established Laws and Religion of the Land but what is now hatching by the Presbyterians and Republicans whilst by this Blinde they still hope to carry on their foul and wicked Designes But the Triumph of the wicked is short and the Joy of the Hypocrite but for a moment Though his head reach the Clouds he shall perish in his own Dung Job 20.5 6 7. Let the Wickedness of the wicked come to an end behold he travelleth with Iniquity and hath conceived Mischief and brought forth falshood He hath made a pit and digg'd it and is fallen into the ditch he hath made His mischief shall return upon his own head For the Sin of their Mouth and the words of their Lips let them be taken in their Pride And for the Cursing and Lying which they speak Psal 7.9 14 15 16. and Psal 59.12 LONDON Printed for T. Davies 1680.