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water_n	dram_n	ounce_n	powder_n	12,197	5	10.0553	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52649	A narrative of the process against Madam Brinvilliers, and her condemnation and execution for having poisoned her father and two brothers : translated out of French ...; Memoire du procez extraordinaire contre Madame de Brinvilliers. English	Brinvilliers, Marie-Madeleine Gobelin, marquise de, 1630-1676.	1676 (1676)	Wing N220; ESTC R9071	14,518	24

an ounce of Vitriol Romain In the third Pacquet Vitriol prepared In the Cabinet was found a square Viol of a pint full of clear Water which having been examined by Monsieur Moreau Physician he said He could not tell the quality of it till he bad made an Experiment Item Another Viol of a quarter of a pint of clear Water with a whitish Settlement at the bottom of which Moreau says the same as of the former A little Earthen Pot in which was three quarters of an ounce of Opium Item A Paper folded up in which were two drams of Sublimè in powder A little Box in which was a kind of Stone called the Infernal Stone Another Paper in which was an ounce of Opium Apiece of Anthimoine weighing three ounces A paper with Powder under a cover on which was written To stop the loss of bloud in Women Moreau said That it was made of the Flowers of Quince and of the Core of dried Quince Item Was found a Pacquet sealed with six Seals on which was written Papers to be burnt in case of death c. as above in which were found thirty four Letters which it s said were written by Madam Brinvilliers Item Another Pacquet sealed with six Seals which had the same Superscription as above in which was found twenty seven several pieces of paper on each whereof was written several curious Secrets Item Another Pacquet with six Seals on which was the same Superscription as above in which was found 75 Livers directed to divers particular persons Thus you have seen the Inventory of this dreadful Cabinet Will it not be said that St. Croix was very Religious and that he was very well with Heaven seeing under the reverence of all that was Sacred he pretended to rob the World of the knowledge of the Legacy he left to Madam de Brinvilliers A● execrable Man must he escape Humane Justice and could not Paris have the pleasure to see this publick Enemy of the lives of men so much the more dangerous as the more secret suffer by the hand of the Hangman a thousand torments to revenge as many deaths of which perhaps he was guilty Who does not see the great Interest which Madam de Brinvilliers had to get his Cabinet into her own hands she omitted nothing to effect it and when she saw her endeavors were vain she resolved to withdraw her self She departed in the night from her Lodging and appeared no more But as a person who endeavoured by her flight to avoid the just punishment of the Crimes of which she was guilty Finally by the counsel of her own Relations she retired out of the Kingdom to seek among Strangers the security which she could not have in her own Countrey She flies then while Lamane Procureur qu Chastelet appears in the Verbal Process concerning the taking of the Seal The Act follows Hath appeared Alexander de Lamane Procureur of the Dame de Brinvilliers who says That if in the said Cabinet as is alledged by the Widow of St. Croix there hath been found a promise signed by her of the sum of 30000 Livers it is a thing that was gotten of her by surprize which even in case her hand be proved she supposes she is able to show why it should be declared Null This Promise or Obligation was found in the Cabinet of St. Croix the Date is remarkable for it was at the same time that the Messieurs d' Aubray were poisoned In the mean time la Chaussee affrighted with what he was told of the strange things that were found in St. Croix's Closet shewed so much of confusion in his actions and discourse that he encreased the suspicion men had before of his crimes He was Arrested Convicted Condemned and Executed Madam de Brinvilliers was involved in that prosecution and from that time was judged criminal And on those Proofs that then appeared against her and those that were produced afterwards she was Arrested at Liege where after having wandred through several Countreys she lived under a false name The better to understand her case it is necessary to examine what hath been said by the Witnesses and what she has done said or written her self Which we shall briefly do The two first Witnesses against her are the two Confidents of her Crimes St. Croix and la Chaussee For what regards St. Croix we need onely read the Paper found in his Cabinet It is unnecessary to add any reflections which may render it the stronger against Madam Brinvilliers every one may see with what execrations he assures that the whole Cabinet belonged to her c. Then consider the great eagerness of Madam de Brinvilliers to get this Cabinet into her hands as among other Witnesses the Clerk of the Commissary Picard declares who depones That Dame Brinvilliers came to his Master about ten at night asked to speak with him To which he answering His Master was in bed she bid him go up and tell him That she came to demand à Cabinet that belonged to her and would have it without opening The Commissary having sent down word that he slept she said she would send her Servant for it the next Morning Now see what la Chaussee declared after having been put upon the Wrack touched without doubt with remorse which ordinarily closes the last minutes of a wretched life La Chaussee being released from the Wrack Monsieur the Rapporteur being withdrawn about half an hour after la Chaussee prayed him to return He told the Rapporteur That he was guilty that St. Croix had told him that the Dame Brinvilliers had given him the poison to poison her Brothers that he had poisoned them in Water and Broths that he had put a Reddish-water into the Glass of the Lieutenant Civil at Paris and a clear Water into the Pye at Villequoy that St. Croix had promised him 100 Pistols and always to keep him that he had given St. Croix an account of the effect of the poison That St. Croix had given him often of those Waters that St. Croix had told him that the Dame Brinvilliers knew nothing of his poisonings but he believes she knew of them because she always discoursed to him of his poisons that she would have obliged him to fly and gave him two Crowns to be gone that she asked him Where was the Cabinet and what was in it that if St. Croix could have put any body near Madam d' Aubray Wife to the Lieutenant Civil he would perhaps have done it to poison her that he had a great mind to poison the said Lady This Declaration of a Dying Man needs no Commentary The difficulty which seems in those places which appear to contradict each other concerning the Dame Brinvilliers in that St. Croix said he had received the poisons he gave to her Brothers from her and yet that she knew nothing of his poisonings is very easie to be explained It may be that of all the poisonings of St. Croix she did only precisely