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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49650	The last speech, and confession of the whore of Babylon, at her place of execution, on the fifth of November last whereunto is added, the famous story of the Bell, used by the Irish papists, taken out of the Bishop of Down and Conner's epistle to his perswasive against popery.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Dissuasive from popery.	1673 (1673)	Wing L505; ESTC R15996	2,381	9

THE Last SPEECH AND Confession OF THE WHORE of BABYLON At her place of Execution on the Fifth of November last Whereunto is added The Famous Story of the BELL used by the Irish Papists taken out of the Bishop of Down and Conner's Epistle to his Perswasive against POPERY Nola to them did give a Bow La Fleche a Dart did bring But who upon them will-bestow What they deserve A String LONDON Printed for K. B. in Little Britain MDCLXXIII THE WHORE OF BABYLONS Last SPEECH and CONFESSION MAy it please your Young Wits to hearken to me one word or two before you make me a Sacrifice to your popular Fury and seeing you must be my Judges let it not be said you were more forward to sit upon my Skirts than upon my Cause and so hang me before you try me Alas Good Boys I am afraid you have suckt in your Enmity against Me with your Mothers Milk and your Tutors who should have learnt you to rise up before the Aged and reverence my Antiquity hath learnt you to call me who pretend to be your Mother WHORE Nor is that all but I must be a Witch too and be burnt for one Had it not been enough for you to duck me or pump me but you must burn me too well I know what all this is for 't is your Guides have taught you this calling me a Deceiver of the Nations and one that hath made the world drunk with the Cup of Fornication Well well Gentlemen when you burnt me in the City last 5. Nov. I dare appeal to to all the Company if I did appear such a Beauty as to bewitch you or any body else with my Face I know nothing that was so takeing in it but my Roman Nose When you bid your Fellow-Wags first take me hang me upon an approved Gibbet and be sure snickle me fast lest I slipt the knot by some Equivocation then let me hang in a perpendicular Line without motion then turn me gingerly towards the Fire as if you had a design to warm me but I know your Intent However pray consider what you do before you proceed farther Remember the strange mighty Feats that have been done by me have you heard of none of my Miracles Did you never read the Story of St. Francis who hath done more Miracles than all the Apostles if you will believe me and if you won't the Devil take you I say my St. Francis was once at Mass and as he was going to drink he saw a Spider in the Chalice Now you must know he was loth to lose a Drop of Blood for a sorry Spider and therefore off it goes Presently his Hipp began to itch and he falls to scratching and out comes the poor Spider sound wind and limb as ever she went in Do not think Sirrahs the Spider afterwards spun this Cobweb-story to catch such young fools as you No I can tell you another One of my Daughters at Venice a certain Nun there ah poor thing it would break her heart to see me in this pickle But to my story This Nun used to fast sometimes a week sometimes a fortnight together or more feeding her self upon nothing else but pious Meditations and devout Prayers all the while I know not why this may not go for a Miracle although it afterwards was found she had an Alabaster Box made in the fashion of a Bible filled with Marchpanes Sweet-meats and Spirits by the help of which she could fast very handsomly Bellarmine tells us of a Mare kept three days without Meat and when Provender was offered her in the presence of our Breaden-God she would not touch it the misery is she was Chap-fall'n nay she fell down upon her Knees and worship'd the Host because she could stand no longer Just when she was brought to live without Meat the poor Mare died St. Dunstan once upon a time as all Tales begin was going to consecrate a Church and finding it did not point full East and West he set his shoulder to it and with one small hitch cured it of its Uncanonicalness Valder saith if you will believe him That Ignatius did more Miracles with his Name written in a piece of Paper than Moses and all the Apostles put together A Nobleman of Venice was troubled with Vomiting that he could not receive the Sacrament whereupon the Priest laid it to his heart side which opened before them all the Host went in his side closed up again and all was right One Damascene had his right Hand chopt off but as he was praying before the Image of the Virgin his Hand was perfectly set on again If these will not prevail upon you I have no truer stories to give you you can but send me to Purgatory and I have a Bell will soon Ring me out again And so I bid the world good night A brief Relation of the BELL used by the Irish Papists taken out of the Bishop of Down and Connor's Epistle to his Perswasive against POPERY I Was lately within a few Months very much troubled with Petitions and earnest Requests for the restoring of a Bell which a Person of Quality had in the time of and ever since the late Rebellion I could not guess at the reasons of their so great and violent importunity but told the Petitioners if they could prove that Bell to be theirs the Gentleman was willing to pay the full value of it though he had no obligation to do so that I know of but Charity but this was so far from satisfying them that the importunity increased which made me diligently to enquire into the secret of it The first cause I found was that a dying Person in the Parish desired to have it rung before him to Church and pretended he could not die in peace if it were denied him and that the keeping of that Bell did anciently belong to that Family from Father to Son But because this seem'd nothing but a fond and unreasonable Superstition I enquired farther and at last found that they believed this Bell came from Heaven that it used to be carried from place to place to end Controversies by Oath which the worst men durst not violate if they swore upon that Bell and the best men amongst them durst not but believe him that if this Bell was rung before the Corps to the Grave it would help him out of Purgatory and that therefore when any one died the Friends of the Deceased did whilst the Bell was in their possession hire it for the behoof of their dead and that by this means that Family was in part maintain'd FINIS