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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70441	A letter to a person of quality, occasioned by a printed libel, entituled, The cause of the difference between Tobias Cage esquire, and Mary his wife stated by the said Mary in a letter to a gentleman, for her own vindication: the design, malice, and falshood whereof is hereby detected with proofs by persons of value, on oath, and otherwise.	Cage, Tobias.	1678 (1678)	Wing L1692B; ESTC R222690	54,273	46

done it without her Mothers consent But I well know Ingratitude is her Mothers nature and that I am rewarded for my kindness to her and hers as her former Husbands for theirs one of them with treachery if not both with death Mr. Blackwels Sister told her so before me And her abusing Collonel Okey in his absence she knows how and in the Tower her unquietness with him she knows the circumstances denote the kindness she had for him and I solemnly protest she hath said that her Husband Blackwel was an old Knave and deceived her for that his agreement with the Marquess of Dorchester was to make her a Jointure of ancient Title and he made it of Fee-Farm-rent which was lost by the King's return and 〈◊〉 she importun'd me to insert in a Bill in Chancery against Mr. John Blackwel● 〈…〉 Houses in Oldstreet which he had setled to secure her Jointure before the Settlement That he kept a Whore in his House at Brogborough before he married her but she her self routed her Sir I find I shall be too troublesom to you to make the tedious recitals of the particular Paragraphs of the rest of the Libel I will only touch the particular things she charges me withal and give you some Arguments against them where necessary and sufficient Proofs by Depositions and living Testimonies that the Causes of Difference are not relating to her Estate or any desire I ever had to possess that but her conversing with this pretended Friend her cruelty to her Children her Unkindness Treachery and Perfideousness to me her Husband are the Causes and the only Causes of my Grief and Trouble And first Sir as to her Falshood in pretending that I desired to separate my self or break my Marriage-Vows or that I ever confessed to her that I had committed Adultery these are the greatest Wrongs that ever were offered to a Man by a Wife of his bosom For had this been true that I had acquainted her with such a Folly as a Secret can you believe any Wife of Generosity could have discovered it it had been certainly a sin against the most common Ingenuity But I do solemnly deny it or that ever I carnally knew any Woman that was vicious to my knowledge but for that she her self best knows For my other Wife I dare answer for her who I am sure was as vertuous and modest as ever was any person now a Saint in Heaven It hath been her practice to asperse all of her sex that have been any way concerned with me either as Clients Witnesses or Friends as lewd and vicious not sparing my Relations Persons of Quality nor her own Neices her Brother's Daughter whom I believe was as vertuous if not more vertuous than her own Daughter I am sure more just grateful and modest Sir I lived forty years before I married this Woman I was never taxed suspected or gave the least cause to suspect I had any converse with any vicious person before I married her Give me leave to inform you of one Hellish practice of this Womans to take off the Testimony of one Mrs. A. Price a Ministers Daughter that waited on her a Gentlewoman well known to be vertuous to Mrs. Pledger the Minister's Widow her Relation is as follows Mr. Barrington in the time of his Mediation before mentioned desired to discourse some Servants who had lived with us this Mrs. Price being my Wifes Woman among others was called and speaking her Conscience touching my Wifes Behaviour towards my self and her Children Mr. Barrington condemned my Wife and acquainted her that Mrs. Price was a sober Woman and being now married had no dependence on us and that Credit was to be given to her Testimony and she had told him my Wife was very unquiet with me that I was forced sometimes to leave my Dinner and Supper other times to rise out of my Bed and walk all Night Mr. Barrington's Endeavours taking no effect the Suits at Law proceeded and this Friend in the Libel named reparired with my Wife to Sir Francis Winnington Sollicitor General to retain him He took their Fee but with this Condition That they should refer the Matters in difference to him to which I also submitted Sir Francis appointed several days to hear the Matters we accordingly attended It being demanded of me what my Grievances were I told him her keeping this Friend company against my injunction the 〈…〉 made not many Demands and applied himself to her to shew him her Grievaances Upon which she replied with great art Ah Sir with a Sigh fetcht from the Abyss of Hell my Grievances are such as never Womans were Mr. Cage but I am loth to shame him and makes a Stop Pray go on Madam said Sir Francis Winnington I am loth to disparage Mr. Cage says she To which I replied Wife we come to deal plainly with Sir Francis Winnington he hath been pleased to undertake the Cure he cannot heal unless he knows the Wound and the Bottom of it therefore pray speak fully the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth Whereupon she went on Ah Sir sighing again Mr. Cage used to rise from my Bed and go to bed to my Maid How says Sir Francis Winnington I was about to reply but he stopt me and bid her go on Sir said she nothing else could have made Mr. Cage and I at a difference and Sir after he had long used this he marries her off and after he invites her to see us at Highgate and when she came told her his House was at her service come as often and stay as long as she pleased She must sit at my Table and if I did not cut her the first and best piece Mr. Cage was ready to stab me I being not able to hold longer told Sir Francis Winington that I could not have believed there could be such a Devilish Design hatch'd on this side Hell Upon which Sir Francis told her I doubt Madam you are jealous She replies Sir it 's past that Madam said Sir Francis do not conceit such a thing No Sir continued she I 'le give you Proofs and with a brow of Brass begins thus When Price was there Mr. Cage forced me to visit the Lady Marquess of Dorchester and sent the Servants and Children and this Queans Husband to the Garden to Stool-ball and took his Wife up into my Chamber I returned home before they expected and knock'd at the door a good while Sir I beseech you observe the Cunning and Subtilty of this Woman by and by I heard four feet coming down stairs two heavier and two lighter which I thought had been the Mastiff-Dogg Note the Stairs were two Rooms from the Door by and by Mr. Cage opens the Door and holds it a-jar put it to and fro as if he had been jesting with me I observed disorder in his Face as if he had been doing something and with that I thrust the Door from me and I saw the shadow of this Baggage

running into the Garden To which Sir Francis replied Madam Mr. Cage and she might be in the House and not naught together I doubt you are jealous Nay says she be gave the Quean twenty shillings a time when she lived with me I le make it plain to you yet I protest I was never so amazed in my life I was wondering what would come next when she thus began again I went up into my Chamber and there my Chamber was disordered and my Bed tumbled I called my Maid Mary and chid her for not setting my Chamber in order She told me that Mr. Cage and Mrs. Price had been there all the afternoon and she durst not come into the Chamber Upon which Sir Francis took notice I pray Madam let me speak with that Maid Mary She alledged she was gone from her and could not produce her Thereupon Sir Francis advised me to find her out and that she might make Oath touching that matter The said Mary who was a Gentleman's Daughter and waited on my Wife deposed That all this Allegation was untrue as by her Oath among the Depositions hereunto annexed may appear which when you have read judge I beseech you if ever such a Woman lived before her And to shew her further Deceit and Subtilty observe the like about the pretend● 〈…〉 for a Separation she pretended great care of me procured her Sister to provide a Servant for me to wait on me in my Chamber at Grays-Inn for I had none before she came about Bartholomew Tide my Wife before Christmass absents March following 1674 Mr. Cremor of Grays-Inn had been informed that this Wench haunted suspected houses acquainted me with it advised me to turn her away I gave her Warning and in June turn'd her away In August following comes a Letter by the Post directed to Mr. A. S. of Grayes-Inn then my Clerk and is as follows The Superscription To Mr. A. S. at Mr. Cage's Chamber in Grays-Inn After the first fold opened was wrote thus To Mr. A. S. at some of the Bawdy-Houses or with the Crew in Grays-Inn Within thus THis is to imform you of the truth There is one intends to lay the third Child on your back which I do not really think is yours but your Masters he is better able to keep it for you have more than you can keep already for now you begin to want Chink having no Suppliers but Spenders you may lick your Breech like a Dog if you have any left for in sometime you will not have Money to buy you Plaisters and I believe the Squire is in as much need as your self but he is a Gentleman therefore I pity him and if his Wife were dead I would do what I could to help him to such another but in some things she should not be like this for she should be as ugly as all the Devils could make her no more wit than himself like an Ostrich and as much Heathen as he is Turk Take this advice young Man though old in sin Ponder well thy paths and enter no more into the house of an Harlot lest thou sleep the sleep of death and so be taken in an evil hour Thus desiring to hear you are in another World I conclude for ever Amen Anno Domini 1677. Sir Of whose contrivance can you think this Letter was what could be the design of it I am satisfied Sir my Wife contriv'd it it is certain she sent it to her Daughter Blackwel to be there transcribed and sent it up by the Post directed as above I suppose you will take it as a magical Prediction of what was intended viz. the laying a Bastard to my charge for a farther pretence of separation for Sir she knew the Wench was of ill fame and had layn at a suspected House before she procured her Sister to hire her for me my Wife had a correspondency with the Wench whilst she lived with me met her several times And Sir is it not strange that my Wife who for eighteen Months before was not to be heard of should within four days after this Wench was brought to Bed if there was any such matter find out the Wench examine her with so much cunning and patience and so unconcernedly endure to be told that her Husband was so familiar with her nine Months without leaving some marks upon her Note The Wench lived not above ten Months in all with me of which my Cousin Mr. William Cage was my constant Bedfellow for four Months before she went away and never lodged from me I had warn'd her away in March she went away in June and had the Bastard if any in January following 't is not probable that after the Wench had taken warning to be gone she should be willing nor yet that I should venture after Mr. Cramer gave me notice of her haunting Bawdyhouses And 〈◊〉 my Wif● 〈…〉 several Persons as witnesses for a pretence with her And because when I heard of this damnable design against me I resolved to punish the Wench and for that end gave to Mr. Winford in Fullers Rents whose Cook Maid she then was ten Shillings to get a Warrant and to set a watch upon her that she should not get away before the matter was examined before a Magistrate But my Wife gave her another visit pretending to search the Bastard for a Mole I had on my Body which no Person knew but my Wife and this mark she acquainted the Woman of the House with that the Wench might the better pretend to a familiar acquaintance with me Sir This Wench on the sudden to prevent my bringing the matter to a full examination was conveyed away without either my will or knowledge and whither I know not or whether there ever was any Bastard of that Wenches as pretended I know not nor did I ever hear that the Wench was with Child until this Bastard Plot was discovered And Sir although my Wife hath several times declared in several places and to me afterwards that she had searched to the bottom of the business and was satisfied I was wronged in that matter yet I have ever since laid out to have this Wench taken I have offered five Pounds to effect it and will now give the same Sum to have her taken that the matter may come into Judgment publickly nay Sir I have sued and do now sue in the Spiritual Court a Consort of my Wifes for it that the truth may appear nor certainly would any man think me so silly as not to have prevented the disgrace by providing otherwise for the Whore and in a more remote place than Fullers Rents was which joyns to Grays-Inn where the Libel saith the Whore was lodged for neighboured Sir I would not have insisted so much upon this mean matter but that my Wife used it as her Achilean argument to justifie her treacherous departing from me notwithstanding she was gone from me eighteen Months before As to those falsities of turning my

Equity to order one of the six Clerks or some Relation of the Wife to sue in the Trustees name whether he will or no or if the Trustee be weary of his trust he himself may sue to be discharged But that a Person no way concern'd but as a Contriver Promoter and 〈…〉 braided with it one telling me she was seen late at Night sitting between her pretended Friend and his Secretary like Susanna between the two Elders but she did not look so innocently Sir she hath Daughters which I hope may prove better Wives therefore I spare her yet I cannot wholly excuse her from Blemishes And I can with a good Conscience reply that for my Companions she calls lewd I never had a worse than her self That she liv'd with two former Husbands is true with the one eight Months with the other not four yet with neither of them without Contention although but Hony-Moon And for five years she did me that Right to say that I loved her which you will find by the Proofs For that Slander touching my Mother I was dutiful and shall carry the Proof of it to my Grave having parted with at her Command 3500 l. of my own Estate as Mr. Serg. Connieres well knows and that purely out of Love and Duty to her and I do not know that ever I shewed any Irreverence to her in word or deed And besides this every one of my Sisters hath had a better Portion of me than my Wife and all her Sisters had together It is true I have one Sister who through her own Weakness and Inconsiderateness was reduced to Straits her I took into my House and she lived quietly and with respect to my former Wife sixteen years and was beloved by her but after I married this Wife I had no quiet till I turned her out of doors since which I have and do supply her according to her Capacity and that Ability my Wife hath left me and do not know she hath need of the Charity of any Person But my Wife forgets her own savage handling of her own Mothers Ears And as to my first Wife and her Death this is a Hellish Insinuation of her own Contrivance false and malicious but indeed she endeavoured to subborn Mrs. Mary Husbands to Perjury to diffame me in that Read the Deposition of Mrs. Mary Husbands And as to that which she pretends of Courtship with so considerable an Estate certainly a Man of my years and no Children and a competent Employment need not use such Arguments for such a Woman with two Children and of such Circumstances and that I who never have lived above ten Miles from London could so deceive her that had married two Husbands before and had lived most of her time in London too and had known me and my former Wife in my Troubles as appears by Mr. Okeys Deposition is the most incredible thing imaginable Sir she knew me in all the Changes of my Fortune and all my Wives Relations fourteen years before she knew I was in considerable Business and as likely as some other Men to be something in the World and without doubt I had so been had I missed the Unhappiness of marrying her and thereby those Interruptions and Distractions in my Business But that I endeavoured to tempt her with any Arguments touching Estate she knows there is nothing more false But I never pretended to any such Estate after I knew her never promised to settle any thing upon her I did out of Conscience and Honesty without any Request of her or any for her settle her 1500 l. and secure it as fully as the Art of Man could contrive for a Provision for her and her Children and this I declared to Mr. Thomas Dun was my Resolution to do before I married her As touching my former Wife no Woman ever gave greater Testimony of 〈…〉 and for her Satisfaction and Content with me no Woman ever declared more Of which this Wife found a Letter sent to me not two Months before she died with as great Expressions of Love and Unity as ever any Woman expressed This Letter my now Wife observing me to read before I married her and that the Kindness of the Expressions greatly moved me she got it away and will never since produce it But Sir for that I refer you to her own Sisters Mrs. Hannah and Mrs. Rebecca Fowks who live at Mr. Buchanans in Chancery-Lane And for her Death and indeed how we lived together I also refer you to Dr. William Staynes who was her Neighbour and Physician many years who with Doctor Clerk his Kinsman opened and embowel'd her after her Death Sir There are some few things more will be expected I should say something unto viz. That I permitted a Gentleman in Grays-Inn to abuse her before my Face Another is That Mr. Okey being a Citizen of a mild and soft Spirit was hectored by her Husband to neglect his Trust Answer What is alledged concerning the Gentleman in Grays-Inne is utterly false I have known him now above twenty years and never heard any Person but my Wife say any thing ill of him He is near eighty years old she fell upon him and beat him because he condemned her I never saw or heard him carry himself uncivilly towards her by word or deed This also is a Device to take off his Testimony For Mr. Okey if he hath done any wrong in his Trust it hath been to me He hath permitted her both to use and abuse his Name as she and her Counsel pleased against me yet she hath abused his Wife and Children every one of them Certainly a Woman of greater Falshood and Ingratitude never lived her Usage of that Person and Family who were as a Father and Mother to her in her Troubles is enough alone to convince any Person of what Spirit she is I never moved the Trustee to do any thing unfair nor to omit his Duty I never yet made use of any Protection nor did I ever in the greatest of my Troubles obtain any but now when my Wife maliciously endeavoured to have me arrested on the Bond of 5000 l. she entred into before her Marriage to her first Husband nor did I ever nor would I offer to insist on any such Shift against any other Suit She knows I voluntarily waved it As to Bethel her Confidence of whom she will one day be ashamed Jer. 48.13 when that Calf cannot save her Sir You cannot but observe the malicious and venemous Composition of this Libel What is left unsaid that might render me odious Yet Sir you see there is no Proof nor Reference to any Person to justify any thing in it It is only the Wind of my Wives Spleen who like the wild Asse in Jer. is said to snuff up the Wind at her pleasure and in her Occasion who can turn her away You know how Occasion is rendred in this Place if such When she hath filled up the Measure of her