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A01872	Natures cruell step-dames: or, Matchlesse monsters of the female sex; Elizabeth Barnes, and Anne Willis Who were executed the 26. day of April, 1637. at Tyburne, for the unnaturall murthering of their owne children. Also, herein is contained their severall confessions, and the courts just proceedings against other notorious malefactors, with their severall offences this sessions. Further, a relation of the wicked life and impenitent death of Iohn Flood, who raped his owne childe.	Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641.	1637 (1637)	STC 12012; ESTC S118637	8,352	24

effectuall prayers of Gods holy Ministers and Congregations of his Saints here on earth to deliver her out of the snare and bondage of Satan whom she voluntarily obeyed If a limbe had beene broken shee would not rest satisfied till a Chyrurgion had beene present for to cure her If shee had falne suddainly desperate sicke for feare of death hastily they post and runne to seeke for a Physitian but her soule is sicke and drawes nigh downward into Hell whatcare or cure of that where was God or his Ministers thought of all this while blessed Saint Paul so soone as the Viper seized on his hand shooke it off immediately into the fire a whole moneth this venemous Viper Murder lodgeth in her heart God prayer unto him and hearing of his Word all this while was layd aside Cunning deluding Satan sitteth likewise on her tongue as he tooke seizure on her heart that he tyeth fast not able to pray which might have prevailed against him Devoute Prayer is his scourge and faithlesse faint-hearted people onely give place unto him and sinke downe at his feet The Devill is but a weake faint-hearted Coward Resist him saith the blessed Apostle and hee will flye from you This kinde of evill spirit saith our Saviour Christ cannot be cast out but by fasting and prayer Our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ in the disconsolate time of his most bitter passion on the Crosse for our sakes to encounter Satan to comfort himselfe in that great Agony he was in and to get the Conquest of that grand captaine of all mischiefe prayer unto his heavenly Father in the Garden inculcates frequently this duty unto his distressed followers Watch and pray and joynes the necessity of it least yee fall into Temptation Is a weake childe able to stand in the way of a Lyon stirred up unto fury and rage no whit possible much lesse is a sinnefull weake man able to grapple with the powerfull strength of sinne and Satan and therefore pray that power may be given unto you from above to resist the least of whose temptations ye are no wayes able to resist of your selves 1 Pet. 5. 8. Bee sober and watch for your adversary the Devill as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devoure Diabolus non dormit the Divell is not idle neither sleepes nor slumbers but watcheth to take his advantage seeketh which way unawares to rush in suddenly upon poore soules By lamentable late experience Satan hath foyled many witnesse those weekely bills of casualties for London and Middlesex The Devill although hee is impudent and potent the holy Apostle in the ninth verse shewes a meanes there to abate his pride who resist in the faith a faithfull Christian makes him to fly feare and quake In the first of Samuel 17. chap. 40. vers There is mention made that David chose him five smooth stones out of a brooke with one of them hee flew Goliah Medici utuntur diversis medicamentis ad diuersos morbos at Christianis contra omnia mala unicum remedium est praecationis medicina Granatensis Learned Physitians apply various medicines unto the nature of the disease but unto Christians onely one Soveraigne medicine as an Antidote is prescribed against all manner of malignous diseases the onely remedy is medicine of Prayer the healthy man prayer preserveth alive the sicke man Prayer restoreth health In time of warre prayer is the victorious Conquerour In the time of peace prayer is the infallible Defender of King and people in health and prosperity Saint Iames 5 chapter 15. verse Sinnes are promised to be forgiven and the prayer of a righeeteous man availeth much if it bee seruent Praecibus non passibus itur ad Deum ergo ascendat oratio ut descendat gratia as the foot by paces carry the body so the soule is carried up unto Heaven by Prayer therefore let thy prayer ascend up unto thy God daily that hee may send downe the dew of his holy Spirit into thy soule Deijcitur Satan cum tu ascenderis ascendis duobus modis meditatione et oratione meditatio quod decet docet oratio quod deest obtinet Gregory Satan is cast under thy foot when thou raisest up thy soule toward Heaven by Prayer Two manner of wayes there are that man may climbe up unto the toppe of Heavens holy hill namely meditation and prayer meditation is prayers hand-mayd Meditation instructeth what becommeth the soule to doe prayer supplies what is wanting unto the soule Good King Dauid in the 5. Psalm ver 3. made a promise unto Almighty God and what was it My voyce shalt thou heare betimes Oh Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will looke up A domino hoc iubemur orare ut ab eo qui secretorum cognitor est recipiamus orationis occultae mercedem Chrysoftom in Math. Homil. 8. We are of the Lord Jesus commanded this chiefely to pray that of him unto whom the secrets of all hearts are manifest wee may receive openly a heavenly Reward of our Prayers offered in secreets to conclude this as the Psalmist advised Powre out your prayers before him without which no minuite of the day can be happy unto us I will commend unto your daily meditations and practise that repleate zealous Collect prescribed to be read in the second Sunday in Lent and the Lord give a daily blessing to those that doe imbrace the instruction The last Caution is the neglect of Gods Minister in not repairing unto him SInne is like a spot in a garment at the first it may be easily expunged but by continuance it gathereth more and more soile unto it making it so difficult that it freteth the garment into peeces before it can be cleane Ignorant people behold their sins through the spectactles of their owne fantasies they extend or extenuate their sinnes as they please thereby deceiving themselves some make sinnes lesser and and others greater than they are and it cannot otherwise possible be because they are not able to judge of the difference being ignorant and unlettered than a blinde man can distinguish colours A stumbling blocke into this womens way the Divell casts not to goe unto her Minister unto whom the Almighty GOD had given the pastorall Cure of her soule to reveale her minde unto him for feare of revealing it againe what doth GOD intrust us with your deare soules and will not you trust us with your filthy sinnes to discover them to disburden your heavy laded consciences will you not make nice to shew a noysome foule ulcerated body and shew the place where it paineth you most to the chyrurgion to have thereby ease and bee too too curious in the matters of your soule your abominable sinnes let them alone untouched or not confessed at all which by confession may bee lessened and people made wary to walke more circumspectly and the hainousnesse of sinne being set before mens eyes may deterre them from committing of them againe

Beloved a weake slight and subtilty in the Devill that with-holds the poore pensive sinner from his ghostly comforter Confession what then oh no by no menaes I will not doe it hee will reveile mee will you not blush for shame nor hold it no blemish to harbour wicked thoughts in your hearts which GOD knoweth and seeth and in the open day of the world exorbitantly commit them and is this a greater offence to confesse them and to turne from them judge yee Our ayme of the Church of England is not such as that of Rome to creepe into mens secrets hearts to hold them in awe but discover their sinnes to save that way their soules and as for disclosing of such kinde of persons let mee advise them not in the least manner to doubt our secrecy we have learned better and desire our Auditors to be otherwise perswaded of us Whether is God or men wiser the holy Spirit adviseth unto this duty of Confession by that meanes yee lessen sinne in you and cast out the Devill Christ cured none but those that shewed their disease and beleeved his power by confession of sinne the way for the Lord Iesus is prepared and by the prayer of the faithfull Minister unto God for the poore penitent sinner his sinnes are forgiven him Satan cast out and his soule better armed against his future strong temptations King Dauid resolved saying Palme 38. verse 18. I will confesse my wickednesse and bee sorry for my sinne Magnus accessus ad Deum cognitio est infirmitatis suae the step that we set forwards Hsaven after we have falne into sinne is the unfaigned confessing of our downfall by sinne S. Luke 15. chap. with the prodigall I will goe to my father and say unto him Father I haue sinned against Heauen and thee Psal. 15. Against thee onely have I sinned and done euill in thy sight at last he prayeth O cleanse thou me from my secret faults there is none whole in my body or soule by reason of sin 32. Psalm 5 6 vers I will knowledge my sinne unto thee and mine unrighteousnesse have I not hid I said I will confesse my sinnes unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the wickednesse of my sinne These were the ensuing comforts and favours of God to the sinner remission of sins for cōfessing of them Read the 5 th Chap. of Iames ver 6. Acknowledge your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed Our blessed Saviour whē he sent his Disciples into the world as he gave them a Commission for to preach so likewise power over uncleane spirits to cast them out In a word he gave them power of sinnes in the totall lumpe Whosoevers sinnes ye retaine saith he they are retained and whosoevers sins ye remit they are remitted What greater comfort could Christ pronounce then say Son thy sinnes be forgiven and how did the Iewes disdaine at those words saying Who can forgive sins but God only Christ readily replieth and giveth-them a token of the truth thereof by the peraliptick man to rise up and walke before them That ye may know the Son of man hath power to forgive sins here on earth I say unto thee Arise take up thy bed and walk Primus ad indulgentiam gradus est agnoscere delictum The chiefest way to obtaine mercy at Gods hands for sinns past is to acknowledge the offences done Dum agnoscit reus ignoscit Deus and the sinner is not readier to confesse his wickednesse but God is as ready againe for to forgive them Novit Deus omnia vocem tamen tuam expectet si taces Secretarius es Diaboli saith S. Ambr. God knoweth all things yet the voyce and confession of penitent sinners he regardeth and expecteth If a sinner be at any time silent he is but the Devils Secretary The Confession of Elizabeth Barnes the 26. of Aprill 1637 at the place of Execution DVring the time shee was in prison shee concealed her Adultery that she was begot with Child by him on whom she had wasted her estate and deluded with hopes of Marriage His name as shee said was Richard Evans a Taylor dwelling in Battersey in the Countie of Surrey upon whose conscience lieth very heavie his false dealing with the poore woman I wish that hee may heartily aske God and the world forgivenes for his impieties in publicke Through whose deceits and flatteries this poore creatures ruine was occasioned And so much for Elizabeth Barnes A Relation of Anne Willis the manner of of the murdering of her owne Child confessed by her at the place of Execution VPon an Inquisition of one of the Coroners Inquest for the County of Middlesex upon the view of the body of her Basterd-child taken out of a vault in Rosemary Lane by Tower Hill by her therein throwne being by the Iury made returne unto the Coroner of Murder Warrants were immediately sent out unto all parts for the apprehending of the said Ann Willis who upon the seventh day of March 1637 was taken and brought before Sir Thomas Iaye unto whom she confessed the fact That the Child was borne alive there was two upon oath justified it that shee said it was alive Oh cruell Monsters of that tender Sex Can a woman forget the child of her wombe Isa. 9. Heavens infinite compassion is compared unto the Mother and Infant the neere tye between them and the intire care of mothers over their children When I lift up mine eyes towards the Heavens againe cast them downe to the earth Birds and Beasts me thinks do rise up in judgement against these unnaturall cruell Beastes in womens shapes The Swallow flieth high and in the towring Trees Churches and Houses build their Nestes to preserve their yong ones 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Sparrow watcheth alone on the House top as carefull what it had hatched and brought foorth Beasts such as Lyons Woolves Tigers and Foxes have secret caves and woods where they hide there young to preserve foster them alive But these bloody dogs degenerate from them O let therefore the memoriall of them perish A Relation of Iohn Flood late of S. Giles in the Field for the committing of a Rape on the body of his owne naturall child being under the age of ten yeares THis man was most notorious and generally reported to be of a most dissolute conversation The fact which was layd unto his charge fully prooved by the Testimony of divers grave and sober Matrons which searched the Body of the Child and said shee had been abused by a man without all question The Honourable Judges before whom this haynous fact was tryed inquired to finde out the Actor of so horrid a deed The Child on whom it was done produced nor accused any other person but Flood her owne Father and related very confidently the manner of their carnall knowledge of each other to the full satisfaction of all that heard her that none but he could be the man Being demanded the reason why shee did not immediately reveale that her Father had to doe with her shee answered That she durst not speake of it againe unto any body because her father said If shee should at any time tell what hee did unto her the Devill would presently teare her in pieces This the child averred unto the Court before his face at the time of his Triall What Flood sayd at the place of Execution As hee impudently denied the Fact at the time of his Triall hee persevered to the instant of his death of the deniall of the fact with many fearefull imprecations of judgements and renunciation of Gods mercies if he were any wayes guilty In great passionate hot termes hee brake forth against his wife on this wise saying That three yeeres she was conspiring to worke his downfall w ch now by her was effected And thus this barren Tree at the Tree of execution stood and fell The Confession of Ioane Burs taken before Sir Iames Cambell Knight the 8. day of Aprill 1637. SHee said that the Saturday before Christmas last her Master having given her sharpe correction for the stealing away of a Runlet of Wine and expending it out in the company of Lewd creatures lazing about the City in revenge unto her Master and Mistris she went and bought Mercury and put it into a Posser and gave it unto them both for to drink which did indanger their lives but blessed be God are both yet alive And for that exorbitant Fact was by the Court fined and remaines in the Goale to this present Being demanded why shee did so unto her Master and Mistris Shee stood mute but it was justified unto her face at her Triall that these words should proceed out of her owne mouth That if her Mistris were dead she might afterwards have better Cloathes And to her Master she did it because he did beat her so cruelly But observe in this silly Girle a passage worth note Who perceiving the Mercury to worke violently on her Mistris brought some thereof in a Paper and shewed it unto her Mistris saying that doubtless her Master had put something into the Posset that made her so sicke craftily intending by this to cast off all suspicion from her self but that fastned it upon her as just cause there was And so much for that The Confession of Anne Holden before Sir Iames Cambell the 16. day of March 1637. THe said Anne Holden confessed as it was in the Court read That last Night was seven weekes she being lodged in the house of Iohn Atkins at Colebrooke was delivered of a Child no body being with her which said Child shee threw into a Ditch on the Back-side of the said House because it should not be known nor seene But she was spared her Triall because she is to be removed unto Buckingham there to be tryed upon another Murther Lastly there is one Notorious Bawd Rebecca Smith who dwelt at the Seven-stars in White-cross-street convicted for a Bawd who according unto her deserts is to be Carted about the City and thence ought to be banisht FINIS