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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33285	Warning for servants, and a caution to Protestants, or, The case of Margret Clark, lately executed for firing her masters house in Southwark faithfully relating the manner (as she affirmed to the last moment of her life) how she was drawn in to that wicked act, set forth under her own hand after condemnation, her penitent behaviour in prison, her Christian advice to visiters, discourses with several ministers, and last words at execution / impartially published, with the attestations of persons of worth, and many substantial eye and ear witnesses, whose names are inserted in this narrative.	Clark, Margaret, d. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing C4483; ESTC R13610	21,290	42

Providence places them in and not covet after great things as I have done and so err from the Rule and have a care of Pride and a worldly mind for this I say Pride and Sabbath-breaking hath been my downfall and I earnestly beg of you for the Lords sake and for your Souls sake to let these Lines and my bad Example be a warning to you Alas I did once enjoy the means of Grace and have lived in good Families yea he against whom I committed this great offence is a very Worthy good Man Oh! I did once frequent the Worship of God and took delight in it and thought I understood something of the Excellency of Christ and the worth of my own Soul but a little before I fell into this Sin I neglected the Worship of God and those precious hours upon the Lords day which formerly I had spent well And thus I have fallen foully and have offended God and Man and my horrible Sin hath made me a publick spectacle to the world I pray all whom I have offended in it for Gods sake to forgive me and I forgive all men that have offended me especially I desire to forgive this John Satterthwait that hath brought me to this untimely and shameful Death which I hope is brought upon me for my good for surely I have obtained Mercy and am joyful to think of my going hence I long to be dissolv'd and to be with Christ even so come Lord Jesus and receive me an unworthy Soul On the Evening of the Sabbath before she was Executed Justice Freeman who was of those that took her first Examination as aforesaid came with many other worthy persons and did again strictly examine her concerning the truth of what she had charged upon Mr. Satterthwait To whom she answered Sir It is all true that I said concerning him when I was before your Worship upon my first Examination and what I have said all along and which I cannot but testifie to the last The Morning before Execution a Minister very seriously discoursed with her about the same business urging and charging her ingeniously and fully to disburthen her Conscience and if she had been guilty of wronging him by a false Accusation to confess it and beg pardon of God and not mock the All-seeing Majesty before whose dreadful presence she must so suddenly appear To which she replyed Alas what will it avail me to accuse any one falsly for as I am condemned so I certainly expect to suffer the Law and what Revenge can I take upon him or hurt do him for he is acquitted by Law I do freely forgive him for whatsoever he hath done against me and desire of the Lord to forgive him and that the Lord would turn his heart For if God doth not turn it I am afraid he will be an Instrument of further Mischief Minist I hope you are not of the same Opinion that the Papists are It is said of them that when they have Confessed to a Priest and taken the Sacrament they can call the great God to witness that they are as clear as the Child unborn and this even when they are most truely and notoriously Guilty Then she answered O Sir I tremble to think that people can call the God of Truth to witness to a Lie as that Person has done God forgive him speaking in reference to Mr. S's printed Vindication wherein he solemnly protests his being Innocent of what she accused him and that he never saw her in his life till after he was apprehended Min. It is reported that you are of a pilfering humour and 't is supposed that your design to Burn your Masters House was that you might have the fairer opportunity of Robbing him and that you thereby might be the less suspected Margaret I cannot help what malicious people throw upon me For this is nothing but the malice of them against me I never was guilty of such a thing neither will my Master De la Noy say it Sir I do assure you that what I speak is true for I am e're long to go into Eternity and must appear before the great God who will judge me for my words and Actions therefore I dare not tell a Lie And Sir if I had had a design to have Robb'd my Master I had many Opportunities of doing it and as likely a way to escape as this For my Master trusted me with his Plate and my Mistresses Jewels all which I might have come at and made away with them had I been so disposed when they were out of Town Note That Mr. De la Noy being since spoken unto about this matter did declare that he believed what she said was true And as to some Tape-lace and a small Silver Spoon that was found in her Boxe the same were of no considerable value and that it was his opinion she had taken them rather by Accident or for present use than with any design to steal or make advantage by selling them since she might have taken as easily things of far greater worth which she had not moved nor meddled with Though all the time of her Imprisonment she was very penitently and frequently bewailing her sins yet did not enjoy as far as could be perceived any comfort in her soul or fense of Pardon and Reconciliation with God through Christ till after she was Condemn'd and then she seem'd full of consolation and neither to be desirous of longer Life nor fearfull of Death spending her time in Prayer and Praises or godly Discourses and Admonitions to such as Visited her Margaret Clarkes Behaviour and Words at her Execution FIrst As she was going into the Cart she said This is the Blessedest day to me God hath turned my great evil to my good Oh! this is my Wedding-day I shall surely be married to my Saviour Oh Lord that ever I should offend so good and gracious a God as Thou art Oh the Joyes I long to be at the The Place As soon as the Cart stood still under the Gallows she looked up and said I am going now to the glory to the glory which God hath prepared for me for I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ I cast my Soul in his Arms Lord I come unto Thee A Gentleman interrupted her and said Margaret What did induce you to This speak the Truth now and have a great care of speaking a Lye She answered and said John Satterthwait he 's the Man he 's the Man And it it is all true what I said of him all along All that I said of John Satterthwait is all True No Man but John Satterthwait kindled Those Fires the Lord Forgive him he 's the man that brought me to This I do forgive him from my heart A Gentleman said How long were you acquainted with him She said He came to me every day from Monday to Sabbath day and promised me two Thousand pounds to let him in to do that wicked Act in my Masters House Whereupon one

the most diligently to be watcht and enquired into and the most severely to be punished May the God of our Salvation who hath hither to defended us with an outstreched Arm discover all such Treacherous Sons of Belial and ever preserve the Protestant Religion and its sincere professors from the Cruel Machinations of Jesuitical Traytors and all their Instruments and Abettors Amen THE PENITENT INCENDIARY OR An Impartial and Exact NARRATIVE of the Crime Confession and Behaviour of Margaret Clark c. MARGARET CLARK the unhappy subject of this Narrative was born as we are credibly inform'd at Croydon in the County of Surrey of honest though but mean Parentage Somewhat above a Quarter of a year before this mischievous Contrivance she had become a Servant to Mr. Delanoy a worthy substantial Person in Southwark by Profession a Dyer where she behaved her self so fairly that they had no suspicion of her but very much intrusted her in their House whereupon she might have had sufficient opportunities to have done them considerable Dammage in that kind without taking the desperate course of Firing their House which must in all probability have occasion'd a general ruine to most of the Neighbourhood She seem'd to be a Wench of a competent understanding rather above than below what could be expected from her Education and Circumstances of a free familiar humour which possibly might give some occasion to that Temptation which as she stedfastly alledged was put upon her But because we would render this Narrative as plain and perspicuous as may be and yet affirm nothing but what is certainly and notoriously true as to matter of Fact and for that the Relation of the Intrigue and means used to draw her into this Business depends chiefly on the account given by her self which can challenge no further Credit than what it may derive from Probabilities violent Presumptions and her constant and dying Asseverations we shall first state the matter as it happen'd The before mentioned Mr. Delanoy having a Country-house at Lee in Kent was wont frequently to retire thither with the greatest part of his Family and particularly was gone thither whereof most probably the original Contrivers might have obtain'd some notice before they attempted the Maid when this horrid attempt was made which was on Sunday the first day of February there being none left then at home in Southwark belonging to him but this Maid and one young Man Now so it was That on the said Lords-day at Night about Eleven of the Clock some of the Neighbours perceiving an extraordinary smell of fire and being there at much affrighted mischiefs of that kind having for divers years past been so over-frequent and particularly the best part of that eminent Burrough having not long since been reduced to Ashes and that by treacherous Contrivance of the Jesuits and Papists as hath been satisfactorily proved They thereupon began to look out to observe whence this terrible smell proceeded and finding it to come from Mr. Delanoy's House and knowing the Master and Mistress c. to be out of Town one John Parret knockt at the Door and Margaret Clark let him in the House was found to be on fire in three distinct and several places That is to say first just by the Pump which 't is rationally supposed was purposely done by the subtle Contrivers to hinder getting of water to quench it next in two several places in the Buttery near which was some hundreds of Faggots which was much furnish'd with wooden Conveniences and things easily combustible and also in the Garret where there was great a quantity of wood and old Lumber laid together and set on fire all which confirming them in an Opinion that it must be done purposely and by design and observing this Margaret Clark come and let them in having set her own Box in the Parlour which at first she told them was her Masters pretending she was endeavouring to preserve it but providentially a Smith being present who but the day before had mended it for her knew it to be her own and so had greater reason to believe she had some hand in the Treachery they thereupon entertained a strong suspicion of her but good store of help coming in and the several fires not yet being grown to a masterless head they with little pains and the blessing of God on their Endeavours made shift to subdue and extinguish them all without any great difficulty or dammage The danger being pretty well over upon consideration of the Circumstances before-recited as also the strange confused behaviour of the Maid they thought fit to take her into Custody and examination At first she endeavoured resolutely to deny any privity or knowledge how or by what means this disaster happened yet her very Looks amazed Countenance faltering Speech and strange Behaviour seem'd to give the Lye to her words and shew that her Tongue did but in vain strive to falsifie the dictates of her heart At last after some Conflict between Confidence and Conscience the latter prevailed so that before two or three a Clock on the Munday morning she ingenuously confessed her self to be Accestory in promoting this wicked Design and that she had been seduced and hired to consent unto it for a great sum of money promised to be paid her for this hellish service Being Examined who it was that had put her upon it she declared she could not tell his name but only that it was a Gentleman of whose Person Stature Complexion Habit c. she gave a very particular description withall declaring the manner of his addressing himself to her and the several importunities and inducements he used to prevail with her just in the same Method and Order as herein after is set forth for we will not clog this brief Narrative with needless repetition And most observable it is That from this her first Confession she did not afterwards either in Prison before her Trial nor after her Condemnation to the minute of her death in the least make any variation But as she first set it forth upon Oath before Justice Reading and Justice Freeman so she persisted with her last breath to attest the Truth thereof This Declaration as she delivered with the greatest seriousness and assurance that could be so after she had made it though directly tending to her own destruction as to this World by acknowledging her self Guilty of a Crime for which by the Law she must certainly suffer Death her Spirit seem'd more composed and less troubled as having disburthen'd her Conscience whose secret Torments appear'd more terrible and insupportable to her than Death it self This frank ingenuous Confession did not a little prevail with most that heard her to believe that there was much of Truth in what she delivered the rather for that it could not easily be imagined what other motive besides that of the Temptation of a Bribe or reward from some ill disposed Persons should induce her to the Act for if