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A34311
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The ultimum vale of John Carleton of the Midde Temple, London, Gent. being a true description of that grand imposter, late a pretended Germane-lady.
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Carleton, John, b. 1645?
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1663
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Wing C586; ESTC R25966
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Marriage also that it was a rare thing to state a Wedding at the Church As to a Witness he advised us to send down some that could write and read There did for better security two persons of good repute go on purpose who did speak with the said Thomas Steadman and one of the aforesaid Gentlemen with James Knot whom they carried from Canterbury to Dover to testifie that Steadman was living did also see accompanied Mr. Day the other husband They both acknowledged their Marriages the said Steadman confessed he had two children by her both dead and that James Knot who was then present gave her in Marriage He would willingly came against her and when we sent a Letter for him afterwards he returned an answer he could not without leave from the Governour who was then in London or the Ensign of the Castle who came with her to Gravesend and lodged with her as many in Canterbury said To which Governor I am informed by a Gentleman that knows the proceedings she sent a Letter from the Gate-house desiring mans apparrel for her escape and that if they let Steadman come up when she was dead she would haunt them And thereupon Steadman was not permitted to go out of the Castle but was secured by strict order from the Governor that rod Post down or sent on purpose who protested to secure him in chains before he should come up at this instant we understand from Canterbury he remained so kept up As to a witness that knew her Sarah Williams was sworne who attested that this woman was bound for Barbadoes to go along with her Husband and she desired to Lodge at her house for a time and did so And when the Ship was ready to go she went into Kent to receive her means and said she would meet the Ship in the Downs and missing the Ship took Boat and went to it After some days there came her husband Thomas Steadman with an Order and fetcht her a shore she sending him a Letter that she was well stored with Monys and other things and therefore desired him to fetch her away per force and carried her to Dover Castle But I will be short in this relation for her favourable Tryal is well known and her preamble and altogether imaterial Plea she made at the Bar and the Witness she was allowed and the Councel that she had privatly ordered and provided to prompt her As to Mr. Days Marriage we had 5 or 6 Witnesses ready but I know not how nor why the Indictment was not took notice of As to her Marriage with Mr. Billing the Bricklayer he was in the Court and did declare it to many scores there the Parson that married him and the Clark that gave her to him were there also and this Indictment was thrown away unregarded His daughter also who had lodged with this Mary Monster alias Moders did testifie she was her Fathers Wife but she utterly hated her Notwithstanding this Indictment was not minded what the reason was I leave to every Christian to Judg of her my green years do not afford me Wisdom enough to see into it In proving her Marriage to Steadman the Copy of the Indictment and the Records were offered to the Court but were termed Pamphlets and not looked on or read It would he to tedious to recite the full Copy of her examination and Tryal she had at Dover But in short thus it was she owned and confessed her self to be Mary Moders daughter of William Moders late of Canterbury deceased but called her self and was Indicted by the name of Love Maria Moders She acknowledged and confessed she was married to The. Steadman of the City-of Canterbury Cordweiner Owned her Marriage to Mr. Day which was proved but she pleaded Not guilty because she said Thomas Steadman her husband was gone a Souldier â—o Duâ—kirk and she was told by a Souldier that came thence that he dyed there The aforesaid James Knot proved her Marriage to Stedman on this Tryal at Dover The Jury after directions given them by the Judge found her not Guilty upon which it was thus ordered Dover ss At a general Sessions of the Peace and Goale-delivery holden there on Thursday the 26 day of April 1660 before hoâ— Brown Esq Mayor of Dover Tho. Sidenham Tho. Day Luke Brailsford John Bryan Jurats The Court doth Orâ—er Love Maria Moders otherwise called Mary Steadman to fina Sureties to be of good behaviour and to appear here at the next General Sessions and in the mean time she is to forbear to accompany with Tho. Day Chirurgion as his wife unless in the mean time she brings a sufficient Certificate that Tho. Steadman is dead And Tho. Day is to keep her till next Sessions unless she brings a Certificate Steadman is dead A true Copy examined by John Pepper Town-Clark of Dover Here was Justice Gentlemen and I am informed that she did not appear at the next Sessions for it was thought she needed not by reason that Steadman who at her Tryal absconded as on the laâ—e Tryal on my behalf He was strictly secured against his will or desire for as he said God did never prosper him since he denyed to come against so wicked a Creature did afterwards return being at that time by her means and Fees hid in the County of Kent till after her Tryal and it being so apparent as in my Case it is likewise the Beâ—ch was troubled no further with the matter But by the Law of God Nature and Reason Mr. Day gave Steaâ—man his wife But before Steadmans appearance Mr. Day was Arresâ—ed as it is her treacherous design to serve me so if possible by which very design the world may know what she is he came to Tryal and justly cast the Plaintiff with cost and damages allowed bringing sufficient proof by other Witnesses as I also can produce upon occasion That she had a husband living when she was married to Mr. Day in London which marriage was both strange and suddain for Mr. Day a person well struck in years meeting her at Gravesend both coming to London She by her hypocritical deluding carriage and soothing speeches did pâ—ocure that affection of him and so charmed his very soul to her that he forthwith married her she then pretending to be a rich Widdow of the County of Kent for she is Omnium Scenarum Mulier a woman for all parts within two or three dayes after this accidental acquaintance but because Steadman could not be produced upon her Tryal at Dover she saved a stretching till another time And after this Tryal wherein Mr. Day cast the Plaintiâ—â— he was troubled no further with her but did presently after and still so remains married to a Gentle woman he formerly Courted and was promised to Neither will I Courtious and judicious Reader admit of any further trouble with her though I can hardly break ost here and let so many to true and material Passages Relations and
in point of Honour Suppose the thing a while but to be real that after she had broach'd her mind to me how much she loved me which did daily seem to encrease also and notwithstanding I objected my inequality of Birth Fortune the last whereof I attested was not as yet a younger Brothers Portion though a younger Brother denyed that it was fit to carry single which was the most a Circumstance I thought material to try her fancy yet still she vowed to like me the better and that she did neither desire nor look for any thing of me not with me but only my love and I thought she did really deserve that but if I pleased I might dispose of all I had for God said she hath bestowed a sufficient and a plentiful Estate on me which with my self I freely offer and give to you Sir Such Nobility had she but acted with reality which then was thought so and not without just grounds could not but force and attract a love and likeing from a stone if possible and indeed I made some scruple of danger by reason of her birth and pretended great yet near Relation And also I asked her why she would condiscend to incline her affection to so then seeming unequal marriage she did reply that whatsoever my Fortune was was not material in a noble breast neither did it compleat a Gentleman but said she Nature hath dealt very liberally and bountifully by you both in your person and parts on which I set my affections I can supply Fortune And said she I am not the first as we daily see when affection hath induced to make choice of a Consort far underneath and below the sphere where you move nay those that move in a higher Orbe then my self and then would she bring in an example and I did sensibly imagine had her pretences been real that I should create no new Custome or commit any error to embrace the smiles of Fortune but did and should rather impute it to a great hand of Providence whose hand is as great and good still as ever and truly she said such things as I knew not how it was possible that untruth should have the ability to faine things resembling so much in shew truth it self and I am confident her seeming excellent parts variety of tongues sweet disposition and indifferent comely feature noble presence and modest carriage accompanyed with so many protestations and arguments of unfained and real high affection and then seeming great trouble at her spirits and amorous words were able to conquer and enthral any other heart though as free and careful as mine And indeed she fained excuses so plauseable that I being over-powered either by my nature will or affection admitted them for being reasonable many queryes my Jealousie would summon up and object to her And in answering one she would traverse over so much and such a seeming real story that she would satisfie me in very many points that my private suspitions thought to propose to her by which freeness of hers to declare her self she not only procured of me a greater beleife to what she said but also gave me a further insight to her good language and parts and likewise to her passionate love she then seemed to have for and towards me all which discourses she would commonly conclude with my self by saying All this I freely offer to thee my Dear and all these sufferings are nothing considering God hath provided such a blessing for me as thy self and such like conclusions whose Amen was commonly an Embrace or a Lime Twigge Kiss with a Hymn of Thanks-giving to Providence Her freeness in relateing did much please me for this reason because it did stop all strict inquisition which in point of Honour I could not make to her that seemed so free notwithstanding I told her my Fortune was altogether unequal and unfit to caâ—y double and also only secundum voluntatem Domini as I may so say but yet my fearful mind would make a multitude of private questions some open ones which when I had opportunity I would fetch over at a distance by a Similitude or a Romance of some former adventure or some such story and I doe not deny but declare that her freeness in acting so nobly pleased me because she so freely offered that then seeming noble offering her self whom indeed I thought then a rate present and should think so still were she but honest which greives me she is not and also the free offer of her seeming Fortune which I Vow to all the world I esteemed of as nothing had it been real compared with her if honest for as to fortune my desires are limitted and if they do exceed it is rather to contemplate the beauty of Heaven then the pleasures of Earth steps whereby the soul Travels towards its first dwelling For as I told her I desired her to Licence my Fortunes to roul in their own Sphere and it was thought I was of years sufficient though under age to make an election of my state it self and I protest I never did look at what she spake as to that any further then a blessing and comfortable help to ease the trouble defray the growing charges of a Matryed Life and to maintain Love which like a fire without fuel would grow cold in some as is too commonly seen though I dare speak it and I make no doubt my love without it should had n'ere gone out for I here solemnly attest I could rather drive a Plow or dig and delve for one that I Love as I did her though nothing but her parts took my fancy then to live a Princes life and be forced to enjoy one that I cannot fancy For I am too effeminate a tear From one I love goes deeper then a speare Nay when I thought her mine if she were ill Love sympathiz'd so much I was not well My love was so much that I dare not think of some things past then but my heart doth sink But that I know shee 's false I else should swear There were no faith no honesty if not here Let her be witness that betray'd me hath But who 'l beleive a witness without Faith Me thinks I could love still and still beleive But Syren like i 'me sure she 'l still deceive Providence whispers me and faith i 'me gone If I give room unto affection Lord marke these Serpentt that the world may know Whom they may trust and whom they may forgoe Proclaimed foes we easier may evade Then those base traps that are in friendship laid But Reader let not these rimes thee offend Griefe brought them in not a designed end Reader When I had even thus far proceeded there came to my hand by a friend of mine a cursed Volumne of hers of 3 Sheets in Quarto termed An Historical Narrative of the Germane Princess alias Pickpurse each of the words have but two Syllables and I am sure the last Character is