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A43885	An historical narrative of the German princess containing all material passages, from her first arrivall at Graves-end, the 30th of March last past, untill she was discharged from her imprisonment, June the sixth instant. Wherein also is mentioned, sundry private matters, between Mr. John Carlton, and others, and the said princess; not yet published. Together with a brief and notable story, of Billing the Brick-layer, one of her pretended husbands, coming to New-Gate, and demanding of the keeper her deliverance, on Monday the eighth instant. Written by her self, for the satisfaction of the world, at the request of divers persons of honour.	Carleton, Mary, 1642?-1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing H2106; ESTC R213459	17,499	24

which I did Thursday the 2d of April Mr. John Carlton came in his Coach with two Foot-men attending of him calling him my Lord and Mistriss King did also call him my Lord. With that I askt Mrs. King if it was not the same person that din'd with us yesterday she said True it was so but he was in a Disguize then and withall that in a humour he would often do so But saith she I do assure you he is a Lord. Upon that I replyed Then his Father must be an Earl if living She affirmed that he was a person of great Honour The same time my Lord presented me with a rich Box of Sweet-meats I could do no less then thankfully accept thereof My Lord came every day afterwards to Mr. Kings and by his importunity would carry me abroad in a Coach to Holyway and Islington Mrs. King would often ask me what my Lord did say to me I told her Nothing that I observed but his Lordship abounded in civility-mixt with Complements How said she Madam He loves you Loves me for what Mistriss King I replyed She said For your great Parts and Endowments I asked her How my Lord could tell that I had either She said My Lord could see within me I answered That my Lord must have very good eyes if he could see within me or else I must be very transparant After which I did order the matter so that his Access to me was not so easie Mistriss King importuneth me to admit my Lord to visit me I told her plainly That I did not understand his Lordships meaning He provided me a great Banquet at which his Lordships Mother was very fine drest who questioned what I was I told my Lord That I had received Civilities from him and he had the like from me and that I had no necessity to give any account to any person what I was for any thing that I intended and that if any Design or Affair of his required any such thing out of conveniencie or otherwise he might forbear it His Lordship excused his Mothers Inquisitions by saying She was his Mother and that Parents did think themselves concerned in looking after the good of their Children But said he Madam Wave all this however I will marry you to morrow What said I my Lord without my consent My Lord I desire your Lordship not to come near me any more I will not lye under such questioning and scrutinie Your Lordship will be safe in following my advice in not coming at me at any more Upon this his Lordship wept bitterly I with-drew my self from his presence He writ a Letter of high Complements to me the which Letter perished in the storming and taking of my Out-works by the Forces of Mr. George Carleton my Husbands Father at the same time I had a Gown making upon my own account by Mistriss Kings Taylor in the Strand I took a Coach and went thither all this while the young Lord not knowing where I was remained impatient untill my return where I found him standing at the Bar not the Bar his Lordship was afterwards pleased to be one of the Instruments to make me stand at at the Exchange-Tavern and suddainly claspt about my middle and violently carryed me to my Chamber I asked his meaning He answered That I had forbid him my presence that it had almost made him mad that he desired nothing more of me then but to let him look upon me Upon that he did with a very strange Jesture fix his eyes upon me In compassion to him I askt him what his Lordship meant and intended he replied in a kind of discomposed manner I would have you to be my Wife I answered him My Lord I rather think you have Courted me for a Mistris then for a Wife I assure you that I will never be a Mistris to the greatest of Princes I will rather chuse to be a Wife to the meanest of men Upon which he uttered divers asseverations in confirmation of the reality of his intentions and earnest desire of the Honour in making me his Wife without any respect to what I had The next day being Saturday Easter Eve the Taylor brought me my Gown to my Lodging I being drest and adorned with my Jewels he again renewed his Sute to me with all importunity imaginable and a little before that time having intercepted my Letters and understanding how my Estate did lie he and all his friends renewed their Sute to me to give my consent to marry the young Lord His courteous Mother is now most forward pressing me to consent by telling me that she should lose h●r Son and he his wits he being already impatient with denyals and delayes adding withall that he was a person hopeful and might deserve my condiscention I withstood all their sollicitation although they continued it untill 12. of the Clock that night The young Lord at his taking his leave of me told me he would attend me betimes the next morning and carry me to St. Pauls Church to hear the Organs saying that there would be very excellent Anthemes performed by rare voyces during which time young Captain Sakvell who they had made privy to their undertaking out of some discontent threatned to discover the whole business but he was promised 200l to be silent and plied closely with Sack that he was dead drunk that night the morrow being Saturday the 19th of April last in the morning betimes the young Lord cometh to my Chamber-door desiring admittance which I refused in regard I was not ready yet so soon as my head was dressed I let him have Access he hastned me and told me his Coach was at the door he carrieth me to his Mothers in the Gray-fryers London where I was assaulted by the young Lords teares and others to give my consent to marry him telling me that they had a Parson and a License ready So I being amazedly importuned thereunto did then and not before give an amazed Consent to the Church of Great St. Bartholomews we are carried married by one Mr. Smith from thence we travelled to Barnet that it might not be known at Court that he had married a forraign Princess He lyeth with me Sunday and Monday right we return to St. Bartholomews again and were there married again the second time with a License they having before falsly pretended a License that there might be no defect or flaw in the Marriage On Friday following being the 24. of April Lodgings are taken for my Lord and my Self in Durham Yard and much State and Grandeur is used for the Credit of his Lordship The next Friday following being May Day his Lordship with great State carrieth Me into Hide-Park where I was accommodated by the Courteous Respect of divers Persons of Quality with great Rarities My Husband by this time publickly owned the Title of Lord by the which Title privately he carried on his design upon me he being one day in company with some of his

replyed Madam Your seeming virtues your amiable person and noble department renders you so excellent That were I in the least interested in you I cannot doubt of happiness and so with many words to the like purpose courted me I told him and indeed could not but much wonder that at so small a glance he could be so presumptuous with a Stranger to hint this to me but all I could say would not beat him off Therefore my Lord. I do humbly acquaint your Lordship that old Mr. Carlton did rather Design upon me then I upon him to say nothing of what passed before I was married to his Son of which there was enough to demonstrate that evidently so soon as I was married to his Son he desired me to make over my Estate to his Son to satisfie the World that was somewhat amused and in doubt of what is seems they had spread abroad for their own Reputation I answered him Sir I shall not dis-invest my self of my Estate untill I did Mr. Carlton intercepted my Letters by that understood how my Estate did lie that he had that expectation of what I had is farther evident for his Son came to me pretending to be a person of Honour and great quality and the better to accomodate himself in his application to me he borrowed his Brother Georges Cloak it is the same he hath on his back in Court before your Lordship and if any be deceived I am My Lord If that they could but have been insured that I had been the person as to Estate that they imagined me to be your Lordship should not have been troubled at this time in these matters if I understand them aright they would have been contented to have practised concealment in case I had had more then one Husband Instead of this defamation that I am loaded with my Lord my crime is that I have not an Estate or at least such a one as they imagined it to be therefore my Lord I say I am brought at this time to this place And therefore my Lord were my Jewels seized to defray the Charge of their expensive courting of me To colour what they have done they fix the Offences of some Woman of Canterbury a person that may be dead or gone out of the Land for ought I know upon me the place I know not a place that I am a stranger unto if that had not bin so they have had time enough since my first Commitment to have produced more Evidence then any that hath as yet been urged before Your Lordship My Lord They brand me for marrying of a Shoo-make and another sad piece of Mortality a Brick-layer My Lord My Soul abhorreth such a thought and never was accommodated with such Condiscention to move in so low an O●b My Lord by all that I can observe of the Persons that appear against me they may be divided into two sorts the one of them come against me for want of Wit the other for want of Mony That Mony hath been proffered to subborn some against me I have Witness to prove My Lord These People have been up and down the Country and finding none there that could justifie any thing of this matter they get here an unknown Fellow unless in a Prison and from thence borrowed you cannot but all judg to swear against me My Lord were there any such Marriage as this fellow pretends methinks there might be a Certificate from the Minister or place Certainly if married it must be registred but there is no Registry of it and so can be no Certificate no Minister nor Clerk to be found And if I should own a Marriage then you see that great Witness cannot tell you whether I was lawfully married or how But it is enough for him if such a paultry fellow may be believed to say I was married I was never yet married to any but John Carlton the late pretended Lord But these persons have sought alwayes to take away my life bringing persons to swear against me My Lord When old Mr. Carlton saw that he could not obtain his End of me he threatned me with a Justice and a Prison and the Justice bound him over to prosecute me he must make the best of it and therefore it is no wonder that he repaireth to such Means and Instruments to effect my Ruine My Lord I desire that my Witnesses may be called Elizabeth Collier said That she coming to the Gate-House to see her husband being a Prisoner there for Debt one pretended that he came to see his Wife there named Mary Maullers Upon that she took upon her to personate the said Person he asked for He said I 't is true thou art that unhappy Woman that I married The which person she never saw before in her life Mr. Ed. Bayly Deputy-Keeper of the Gate-House saith That he hath heard 40 People at the least of Canterbury ancient Livers and Inhabitants there say That they never knew nor did ever see me before they came to see Me in the Gate-House upon the Fame that was spread abroad of my being born at Canterbury and having acted such a part at Canterbury The Lord Chief Justice was pleased to ask Me Where I was Born I answered In Germany He ask'd me Where I said At Colen Mr. Clark was askt by the Court Whether he could prove or swear That I was the Mary Mauders that was Tryed at Dover He answered That he could not neither prove it nor swear it himself for he was a stranger to the whole Business I perceiving the sleight Evidence and that I needed not either to say more or offer more evidence in my behalf submitted my Cause to the Bench and Jury Upon my being askt by the Bench If I had more to say I Replyed No. The Court gave Instructions to the Jury as followeth First The Indictment was Briefly recited And as to the Evidence the Court observed That there was but one Witness to prove the Indictment and that he could not remember the manner of Marriage nor the words used there And if that I had been Married and had two Children and that the Jury should believe that Single Evidence and that he had sworn aright I was to dye The Judge told the Jury That they had heard of a Tryall against me for having had Two Husbands before one Stedman and Day at one time and that from a Jury-Man that was upon the Jury at the same Tryall yet he could not swear That I was the Woman The Jury went forth and continued absent a quarter of an hour Upon their Return and Silence being made the Jury being called over they were askt as the Custom is Who should say for them They answered The Fore-Man The Court askt Whether they found the Prisoner Guilty or not Guilty The Fore-Man answered Not Guilty Upon which there was a Great Shout of the People After Silence being made I moved the Court That they would Order the Restoration of my Jewels

be a Man of Conscience and Judgment could not swear nor say That I was the Mary Mauders alias Stedman But I wave all and make it my Request to all Ladies and Gentlewomen seriously to consider the whole ensuing Discourse The which if done I may rest Confident that there is none but will set a Hand to the Erecting my Reputation to a higher Pitch then from whence my Detracting Enemies endeavoured to depress it From my Lodging June 12 1663. Ladies and Gentlewomen Yours in all Submissive Observance Mary Carlton EPimenides the Philosopher being asked by the Rhodians What that Virtue called Truth was answered Truth is that thing whereof more then all others the Gods do make profession and the Virtue that illuminateth the Heaven and the Earth maintaineth Justice governeth preserveth and protecteth a State or Kingdom and cannot indure any wicked thing near it also it maketh all doubtful and ambiguous matters clear and apparent The Corinthians also demanded of Chilo the Philosopher what Truth was said It was a sure Gage and Standard to measure all things by it who neither diminisheth at one time nor increaseth at another it s a Buckler a Shield that can never be pierced it s an Army never danted a Flower that never faileth a Haven that none shall perish in or suffer peril The Lacedemonians inquisitive after this rare Virtue importuned Anaxachus to delineate Truth to them he drew its Portraicture in these fair Lines viz. Truth is a perpetual Health and Welfare a Life without ending an Unguent that healeth all misfortunes a Sun always shining that never suffereth by Eclipse a Gate never shut a Journey in which none can wax weary It s a Virtue without which all Strength is feebleness and infirmness it self Wisdom Folly and Madness Without it Patience is but a Counterfeit and Liberty but a Prison Augustus Caesar in the Triumphs that he made for Mark Anthony and Cleopatra brought with him to Rome a Priest of Egypt aged 60 years that was famous for not telling a Lye in his whole Life the Senate ordered his Statue to be erected and himself to be High-Priest In the time of the Emperour Claudius there dyed at Rome one Pamphilus that was upon good ground suspected never to have told Truth all the days of his life He by the Emperour's Order was denyed Buriall his House to be razed his Goods confiscate in detestation of so venomous a Beast who was so suspected that when by accident he did speak Truth the Hearers suspected their own Knowledge I am not to insist upon this Theam but Truth is an amiable and delightful thing it hath been no less my Deliverer then it was my Sanctuary its Precepts will I observe in this ensuing Discourse that as to matter of Fact I will have due regard that Time nor Envy shall have no Advantage against me to detect me in any particular or material Circumstance my Ambition never tempted me to write a History of my Life but my Necessity hath constrained me to give you a History of part of my Life that is to say from the first time of my l●st coming into England for that the World yet never had an exact Account of what passed between Me and Mr. John Carleton now my Husband by the Law of England unto which we are both Subjects I having been at Colen the place of my Nativity from thence for dispatch of some Affairs of mine I went to Vtrick from thence to the Brill where I took shipping in a small Vessel bound for England and landed at Graves-end the 30th of March last past in the Evening and came in the Tilt-Boat from thence to London betimes the next morning In the Company that were Passengers there was one a Parson for so his habit did be speak him who offered me the Civility of a Glass of Wine but it being so early we passed several Taverns and could not procure admittance from Billings-gate until we came to the Exchange-Tavern against the Stocks kept by one Mr. King the Door being open and Mr. King in the Bar counting of Brass Farthings the Parson askt him if we might have a pint of Wine Mr. King replyed That we might A pint of Rhenish Wine and a pint of Sack was c●lled for and during the drinking of it the Parson offering to kiss me I refused Mr. King perceiving that I did not much like the Parsons company came in and entertained me in Discourse askt me if I was a Stranger I told him Yes I came from Colen in Germany and Mr. King said Since it was so early that I could not go with conveniency to seek a Lodging if I pleased to repose my self for a time his house was free that although it was a publike house yet he had not overmuch to do in it I might be assured it was a civil house and that he had a kindness and a pity for Strangers and moreover added to his courteous Discourse his care of me saying That if I had a Charge I should have a care for the Town was full of wickedness and that I might have some trick put upon me I thankt him and told him that I had a charge that I was so much a Stranger that I had no where to go unto that I knew of at present but where e're I went I had wherewith to defray my charges Mr. King said His house should be at my service I answered him That I lookt upon him as a civill person I took my leave of the Parson and upon Mr. Kings Invitation went to my Chamber parcel of his house that he had alotted me for my appartment Returning Mr. King many thanks for his civility I took my leave of him also He told me that his Wife should wait upon me when I rose Let the World judge if it be probable that I could design any thing to insnare Mr. Carleton when at my accidental coming into that house nothing could be more remote from my Thoughts or Apprehension then he was or then that which hapned afterwards By what I shall further say I doubt not but to undeceive the World and demonstrate that they designed against me And whether I have that Estate they dreamt of it is not material I am not much to be blamed if I have it and conceal it since they have pursued me in that envious sort of which the World is Witness Well when I rose about 11 of the Clock Mistris King the Mistriss of the house attended me I was furnished with all respect with what I askt for or what was necessary After which I applyed my self to writing of my Letters sent them away by the Post beyond the Seas wherein I gave Instructions for the managing of those Affairs that concerned me Wednesday the first of April Mrs. King made a great Feast where were divers persons of quality as she said amongst the rest her Brother Mr. John Carleton At this Entertainment Mrs. King did advise me to call her Cozen the

old Acquaintance hearing him boast of the fortune he had matched they told him that they might possibly commit an errour in calling him Mr. Carlton and that they should readily give him his due by what Title soever was proper to him and that they knew not better how to be instructed then from himself who they thought would be least guilty of flattery in that case Why truly said he my Princess calleth me Lord upon that he took upon him the acceptation of the Title publickly as well as privately The first time he came to me he pretended to be a Lord the which Title he could not well-maintain as the case stood unless he made me a Princess Now let but the World judge how divilishly I had been cheated if I had been a Princess I had no reason to undeceive them in their wilful mistakes when I saw by their practises how much I was deceived and disappointed for now by this time M●s. King calleth me Sister and I come to understand that his Lordship was a young Clark his Father finding that his Lordships concealed Honour had taken Aire addresseth himself to me least I might take dislike thereat in finding my self so palpably deceived and by all meanes I must make over my Estate unto my Husband saying unto me Daughter you will do well to settle your Estate upon my Son itwill satisfie the World and redownd to your Honour I told him I saw my self deceived and that although I could not keep my affections from him I would keep my Estate untill that I did die I cannot but make a stop here when I remember how violently they lately did prosecute me without all peradventure this saying of mine animated them to seek my life so vigorously This was the cause of my first breach with them and the cause of my troubles that did immediately insue In one or two dayes the Scene alters and a Letter from Dover is contrived to be a discovery of me For an accouut of which I refer you to my Speech in my Tryall for Vindication of my Self in that Particular My Husband 's Father cometh to my Lodging in Durham Yard with Mris. Clark and my Husband and others called me Cheat and Harlot violently stript me of all my Apparell and Jewells pulled off my Silk Stockings from my Leggs cut the Lace of my Bodies and scarce left me any thing to cover my Nakedness with hurried me before a Justice where the Father and the Son are bound to Prosecute me for having of two husbands they prefs me to confess the Truth I did insist upon no other Justification then my Innocency The which at last was my Security and Refuge against their Malitious and unnatural Dealing with me But I can do no less then say That my Husband did nothing but with Reluctancy and was prest thereunto by his Friends Notwithstanding all which I was committed Prisoner to the Gate-House Westminster without one penny of Money or any manner of Relief But my Husband came thither to Visit me and Charged the Keeper I should want nothing so far as 40 l. went he would see paid and afterward on the 11th of May sent me this Letter the Copy of which I here insert Verbatim the which I have now by me and shall keep it as a Relict My Dearest Heart ALthough the manner of your usage may very well call the sincerity of my Affection and Expressions to you in Question Yet when I consider That you are not ignorant of the Compulsion of my Father and the Animosity of my whole Relations both against You and my Self for your sake I am very Confident your Goodness will pardon and passe by those things which at present I am no way able to help And be you Confident That notwithstanding my Friends aversion there shall be nothing within the Reach of my Power shall be wanting that may Conduce both to Your Liberty Maintenance and Vindication I shall very speedily be in a Condition to furnish You with Money to supply You according to your desire I hope Mr. Bayly will be very Civill to you and let him be assured he shall in a most exact measure be satisfied and have a Requital for his Obligation My dearest alwayes praying for our happy meeting I rest Your most affectionate Husband John Carlton May the 11th 1663. At the same time his Brother George came and Drank a health to my Confusion fell down dead Drunk and afterwards said That ● had poysoned him Other of my Husband's Friends came to Visit me in the Gate-House of the many hundreds of others I shall say nothing one of them said Madam I am one of your Husbands Friends and Acquaintance I had a desire to see you because I have heard of your breeding Alas said I I have left that in the City amongst my Kindred because they w●nt it Another in his discourse delivered as an Aphorism That Marriage and Hanging went by Destiny I told him I had received from the Destinies Marriage and he in probability might Hanging To wave many others of the like nature On the 3d of June 1663. I am by Order brought to the Sessions in the Old Bayly The Court being sate a Bill of Indictment was drawn up against Me by the Name of Mary Moders alias Stedman for having two Husbands now alive viz. Thomas Stedman and John Carlton The Grand Jury found the Bill and was to the effect following viz. That she the said Mary Moders late of London Spinster otherwise Mary Stedman the Wife of Tho. Stedman late of the City of Canterbury in the County of Kent Shooemaker 12 May in the sixth Reign of his now Majesty at the Parish of St. Mildreds in the City of Canterbury in the County aforesaid did take to Husband the aforesaid Thomas Stedman and him the said Thomas Stedman then and there had to husband And that she the said Mary Moders alias Stedman 21 April in the 15th year of his said Majesties Reign at London in the Parish of Great St. Bartholomews in the Ward of Farringdon without Feloniously did take to Husband one John Carlton and to him was married the said Thomas Stedman her former Husband then being alive and in full life against the form of the Stautute in that case provided and against the Peace of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity c. Afterwards I was called to the Barr and appearing was commanded to hold up my hand Which accordingly I did and my Indictment was read to me as followeth Clerk of the Peace Mary Moders alias Stedman Thou standest Indicted in London by the Name of Mary Moders late of London Spinster otherwise Mary Stedman the Wife of c. And here the Indictment was read as above How sayst thou Art thou guilty of the Felony whereof thou standest Indicted or Not guilty Nor guilty my Lord. Clerk of the Peace How wilt thou be tryed I said By God and the Country Clerk of the Peace God send

thee a good deliverance Aud afterwards I being set to the Barr in order to my Tryal I prayed time till the morrow for my Tryal Which was granted and all persons concerned were ordered to attend at Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon I was sent to New-Gate and in the Evening my Husband came to the Place I was lodged at and desired admittance After I was acquainted with it I desired he should be admitted to my Presence Upon his entring the Room he said How do you do Madam I thank you my Lord as well as ever I was in my life never better I pity you Madam I scom your Pity my Lord I have too large a Soul But said he I come to take my leave of you for ever You have not long to stay here I am sorry for you Why said I my Lord have you numbred my dayes My propitious Stars a better sort of Influence then you imagine them to have Well said he I shall pray for you Madam I said My Lord why are you Righteous The Prayers of the Wicked are not effectuall Upon that he stept backward to be gone I stept forwards to him and said Nay my Lord 't is not amiss Before we part to take a kiss Why said he will you kiss me I told him Yes and did so A Person of Honour desired him to stay and take a Glass of Sack He said No. I Replyed I am sorry your Lordships Breeding is so poor it will not give you leave to be Civill On Thursday the 4th of June at 9. of the Clock in the Morning I was brought by my Keeper to the Barr and Silence being made the Jury was Sworn and the Witnesses were called viz. James Knott Sarah Williams Mr. George Carlton the Elder The Court with great Patience staid the p●osecution above an hour and a half in regard Mr. George Carlton alledged he was not ready with his Witnesses After which the Court proceeded and acquainted Mr. Carlton That they were not bound to stay so long as they had already but he was bound to be provided to prosecute The Indictment was Read which was to this Effect That I had at several times married several persons that were now living That I had married in St. Meldreds Parish in Canterbury some years last past one Thomas Stedman a Shoe-maker now living And that in April last past I had Feloniously married one John Carlton against the Statute in that Case made and provided James Knott was sworn and said That I was married in the place aforesaid unto one Thomas Stedman who is now alive and would have come up if he had had Money to have born his Charges and that he gave Me in Marriage That I was born at Canterbury and that my Father in Law his Name was Richard Foord He being asked If he knew my own Father and Mother He said No. And further said That it was about a Week or a Fortnight before the Act for Marriages by Justices of the Peace was put in Execution The Lord Chief Justice ask't Knott What were the words used in the Marriage He answered That he was so young that he could not remember that William Clark Sworn said That there was an Indictment against Me at Dover for marrying of one Day after Stedman and that I was prosecuted by Stedman of which I was cleared Mr. George Carlton the Elder being sworn gave in Evidence That he saw my Husband at Dover Being asked Whether he knew him to be her Husband He answered That he could not swear it James Knott gave further Evidence That I had two Children by Stedman Mr. George Carlton the Elder being askt If he had any thing further to say acquainted the Court That he had searcht the Register-Book of the Parish Church of St. Meldreds Canterbury but could not find any such Marriage Registred And further said That the present Parson of the Parish did tell him That the Clerk of the said Place was often guilty of neglect in that kind Mr. George Carlton the younger being Sworn said That I was married unto his Brother John Carlton in April last in Great St. Bartholomews Mr. Smith the Parson that married me there gave in Evidence That he married Mr. John Carlton and my self in April last by the Book of Common-Prayer and had a Licence produced to him for his Warrant I craving leave to speak said I acknowledged that I was married to Mr. Carlton at the time and in the manner as is before expressed therefore they might save themselves the Labour and the Honourable Bench the trouble of further Proof in that Case Mr. George Carlton the elder being askt If he had any other Evidence to offer answered That he had more Witnesses to prove my being marryed to other persons The Bench Replyed That there could be nothing given in Evidence that was not contained in the Indictment The Court askt Knot Who were with him besides at the Wedding he mentioned in his Evidence he said That there was Mr. Man the Parson that marryed Us the Sexton my Sister and himself that gave me Some of the Jury desired the Court to ask Knot How old he was now he answered That he was one or two and thirty years of Age. Mr. Carlton being askt If he had any more Witnesses answered No. I standing all this while at the Bar not once interrupting or disturbing the Evidence of the other side the Court calling upon me to make my defence I without any disturbed thought or unquiet mind did in a deliberate composed manner address my self to the Bench in this sort My Lord In the first place I do with all due respect and submission humbly beseech your Lordship and this Honourable Bench not to impute any thing that I shall say to confidence but rather to the necessity that lyeth upon me to make my Defence for my life A thing that will sufficiently oblige any to make the best Defence they can but that doth not weight so much with me as that which is every whit as dear to me as my life My Lord It is my Reputation and my innocency that incourageth me to speak before your Lordship at this time and it is that which produceth confidence in me that as I am innocent of the thing urged upon me by them the Justice and Reason of you before whom I stand by the which I hope to be acquitted and rendred to the World what I am not what my prosecutors would have the World to believe me to be My Lord I shall not trouble you with any thing impertinent nor with any things that related to these affaires more then needs I must When his Son my Husband came and addressed himself to me pretending himself a person of Honour and upon first sight pressed me to Marriage I told him Sir said I I am a stranger have no acquaintance here and desire you to desist your Suit I could not speak my mind but he having borrowed some thredbare Complements