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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

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