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sense_n	ghost_n	holy_a	spirit_n	4,868	5	5.5141	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51322	A true relation of the murders committed in the parish of Clunne in the county of Salop by Enoch ap Evan upon the bodies of his mother and brother, with the causes moving him thereunto. Wherein is examined and refuted a certaine booke written upon the same subject, by P. Studley, entituled the Looking glasse of schisme. Also an appendix in further defence of this relation, wherein are examined the most material passages added in the second edition of the said Looking-glasse, wherby the author, vainely sheweth his desire to maintaine and excuse his erroneous reports in the former edition of his booke. By Richar [sic] More Esquire. Printed by order of a committee of the Honourable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament.	More, Richard, d. 1643.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2685; ESTC R214234	36,623	178

Enoch is brought to the Iudges Chamber and there privately they both examine him touching the cause moving him to commit the murder but as I heard from one of the Iudges he w … 〈◊〉 no other cause o … 〈…〉 ●hen what he had done publickely Afterwards being brought to the barre without a jury to finde him guilty he received his judgement from Sir William Iones the Iudge that for that time sate upon Life and Death Sect. 18. The Sheriffe being commanded to see execution done was directed that he should be hanged in chains in some convenient and eminent place not very far from the place where the murder was committed and therupon he is brought to Bishops Castle where Master Gervase Needham is Vicar the learned Gentleman and minister of that parish mentioned by Master Studley pag. 161. He repaireth to Enoch as he was informed by the appointment of the Iudges and conferreth with him to the end the better to prepare him for death then shortly to ensue for it was the day of his execution and this was in the presence of divers of the Cleargy and laity which conference and the passages therin before and at his death the said Master Needham presently after committed to writing and hereafter it followeth as it was by him delivered to me without change or alteration It being asked whether he was truly and unfainedly sorry for the fact whereof he stood condemned He answered that hee was so that he thought in his heart no man living had such a weight of sinne upon him or had ever done the like hainous murder that he was Iustly condemned and willing to dye for it that he was truly sensible of the sinne committed and heartily sorry that he could not be more sorry for it yet that he did confidently believe God would have mercy upon his soule desiring all to pray for him Whether he did not receive some disparagement or disgrace or injury from his brother and mother and whether he did not conceive them to be prophane and wicked people unworthy to live And whether he did not conceive his father or himselfe to be of a more undefiled unspotted conversation He answered that hee thought them all to be religious and godly and with a great sigh that his brother was ever loving and deare to him no man had a better brother then he had of him and that there was no malice nor difference betwixt them at the time he slew them onely some two dayes before they had discoursed of standing and kneeling at the Sacrament himselfe approving of standing or bowing rather but there was no high words or anger or discontentment betweene them upon that conference What might bee the grounds of his opinion for standing and bowing at the Sacrament Hee answered that hee conceived it to be our Saviours gesture at the first institution and further that it is written Behold I stand at the dore and knocke Whether hee did not thinke it Idolatry to kneele at the Sacrament And whether he did not ground his action upon that in Deu. 1● 6 7 8 9 and 10. where it i● written if thy brother the sonne of thy mother entice thee saying Let us go serve other Gods c. thou shalt not consent unto him c. but thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him c. He heard such things and many untruths had beene reported of him but for his part he thought it no Idolatry to kneele at the Sacrament neither did he ground that action upon any such text of holy Scripture and therein hee had manifest wrong Whether he did not frequent any private meetings and conventicles in the Neighbourhood or elsewhere Or whether he did not ground that fact upon some doctrine or words he had heard at Sermons o● Lectures at Bishops Castle or elsewhere Or some private discourse with any of the ministry or other of his acquaintance He answered that he was never at any such meeting or conventicle neither did he in any private discourse or from any preacher heare or receive any doctrine o● counsell that might encourage or move him to such a fact What then might be the cause if none of these Or what end he proposed to himselfe in the action He answered that it was the temptation of sinne But being desired to explaine himselfe in those tearmes he said it was the corruption of the flesh and Sathans suggestion It being urged that our subtile adversary the easie to worke upon us is wont to propose in every temptation some matter either of profit or pleasure and sometimes even the glory of God as the end thereby the rather to deceive us and leade us into sinne He answered that hee could give no reason or ground at all why he did the act neither did he think what might be the end or issue of it being done and that he never thought of such a fact towards man woman or child till within one houre or lesse before the murder was done and that his thoughts did so rise upon him that he could not have any rest or quiet till he had done the deed Whether he intended to have murthered them both when he first laid hands on his brother He answered no surely but his mother came in to rescue his brother not yet fully dead and so wounded her also mortally and a length cut off both their heads not deliberating with himselfe upon it Whether the Devill did not then appeare to him and as some reported give the Axe into his hand violently enforcing him unto the fact He answered no there was no such matter the Devill did not then or at any other time appeare unto him Whether hee did not sometimes see a vision of the holy Ghost appearing to him in the likenesse of a Dove as was reported He answered that indeed he did conceive a thing in the likenesse of a Dove full of brightnesse to come into the Chamber in his fathers house where he then lay upon his bed in the night broad awake and that he thought it to be the holy Ghost It being urged that the spirit of God would not surely have appeared but to some speciall end in such an extraordinary manner and question being made whether hee felt himselfe thereby illuminated further in the mysteries of salvation Or in the sence of his owne sinnes more humbled Or whether it imposed any particular charge or command upon him Or revealed any secret of note unto him at the present He answered that he was not sensible of any such operations as these or the like in so much that after further discourse in this particular he said that he knew not what to thinke of it it might be the distempered worke of his braine for ought he knew to the contrary Whether he did not desire a kinsman to convey him secretly to Bishops Castle to the minister or Vicar there for he had an intent to sacrifice one head which he had privately hidden