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THis Prodigy of Impudence not content to have efcap# on
her former Tryal for High Treafo^ but being thereupon growii
extravagantly vain and infolent, was by fbme of the Hellifo
Crew of jejuits and Fry an put upon owning and publifoing
the above mentioned Likely of their contrivance, pretending to giveah ac¬
count of her cafe, but being indeed moft fcandalous re^e^oife^n thfe Pub-
lick Juftice of the Nation, his Majefty, the Lords of his raofrhonourable
Privy Council, the Judges of the Land,the Kings Evidence,the gentlemen
of her. Jury,and in a word the whole Kingdom ^excepPher ownlTrayterous
Popifo Faction; and as the matter of it was moft Falfooods, fo
did foe very fmtably Midwife it into the World with Cheats and 2$, fen-
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ding for (everal Bookfellers to buy the worfoipful Copy, (the precifepfice of
which was an Hundred Guinnies) and to every one of them protefting
on the Faith of a Catholick Woman, and Honour of her calling, that he
had the Maiden-head on't,and was the firft Man Ihe ever offer'd it to*, and af¬
terwards buzz'd abroad, that fuch a Man offered her Forty Guinnies, and
fuch an one Fifty, whereas in truth they were fo far from offering her a
Penny,that foe could not for an Hundred Pounds have Brib'd them to med¬
dle with one fheet of foch Villany; and therefore at laft herfelf put it to
Printing, engaging tvith many Affeveratibns to bear him harrtllefs that
did it, and pay all his Charges if any trouble happened 5 yet when he was
queftioned, very civilly denied that promife,and would not pay a Farthing
of his Fees; and to give him his due, he was right enough ferved.
Thefe petty Circumftances we mention, to give the World atafteof
the Honefiy and Veracity of this Catholick whole Pamphlet being feiz'd
at the Prefs, llle was carried before the Council, and bound over to anfwef
it the firft day of the, next Term, and to beof goodBehaviour; but with
an Impudence peculiar to herfelf and the Caufe, (be notwitbftanding fuch
reftraint proceeded to compleat the Libel and publifhed it.This fo juftly ex-
afperated Authority, to fee it felf thus Braved and Affronted by the Bag*,
gage, that an immediate Prosecution was ordered, and an Indiftment of
Mt[demeanour being exhibited againft her to the Grand Jury for Mi die [ex
at Hicks Hall,, and by them found, on Friday the Tenth Inftant, (he was
forthwith apprehended, and brought to the SeJJions"hoa[c at the Old Baily,
where fhe behaved her felf very Malapert ly, and would fain have put off the
Tryal till another Seflions; but being therein over-ruled by the Court, and
ready to be taken into the Bail-dock by the Keepers, fhe «s loud
asher lying impudence would make the World believe Mr. Frame did on
the imaginary Rack,and feemed to have a great Antipathy againft the fmeil
<5f Newgate, and therefore offered two [hahby fellows for Bail, one of whom
was faid to be the Brother of Nevil,alias Pain, that Hackney Drudge, whom
they keep (as Birds are Caged to make them Sing) in Jait,on purpofe that
he iriay be at leafure to Scribble Lies for the party. But thisBroomftaff
Security being refufed by the Court, fhe prayed leave to go forth with a
Keeper to get better) vapouring in open Court, that within an hour foe
would return with Bail worth Thou[ands. But it feems the Vermin were
for quitting the Houfcthat they faw ready to tumble, for thofe that before
encouraged her, were now loth to appear, and fo the dijlrejfed Damofel was
forced to take up her Lodging for that Night in the o{New¬
gate. It is obfervable that foe then praying longer time,and infiftiog on the
abfence of her ivitneffes,the Court tol d her they could not apprehend what
Witneffes foe could have occafion for,unlefs foe wouldprove who wrote the
Book,and let heron work to own it$ whereupon foe loudly aofwered,—My
Lord, / wrote it every Line my [elf. So Ambitious foe was of being GoJJip
to the Spurious Libel, though 'tis well known to be The whole Troops child;
for though the Dominican Rafcal, for whom the Gallows has groand ever
fince January laft, might be chief Agent, yetC. and£» and fevcral others,
'tis probable Clubb'd ther Politick Noddles towatds it.
On Saturday Septemh. 11. in the afternoon foe was brought to tryal,
where the learned and unbiaffed Baron (being the onely Judge pre*
fent) heard the Caufe, difcharging his duty to the great facisfa&ion of all
the numerous Auditory* The Indictment was for caufiog to be printed
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and publifbed ifalfe, fcandalous, and feditious Libel * and leVerai of thg
groffeft palfages, as that of Racking Mr» Prance, &c. were recited; Th®
Kings Council opened the matter excellently, fhe wed the defperate de-
fign of the Libel, to turn off the Popifh Plot upon the Proteftants, to vi-
lifiethe Kings Evidence, to ftifle the truth of SirEdmundbury Godfreys
Murder,and make the Nation and the Proteftant Religion odious in Foreiil
Parts, by thefe lying ftories of Racks and Tortures ufed upon poor Catho-
licks. ThePrHoner, though die publickly boafted her felf to be the Au-
thorefs but yefterday, had the grace now as ftoutly to deny it; and be¬
ing urg'd with her fo late Acknowledgment to the Court, replied, she
hop''d it did toot become that Honourable Bench to give Evidence. Not needed
it, the thing being othervvile fufficiently proved. For,
1. A man teftified that he bought one of the Books of heir, and paid
her-for it 5 to whom fhe declar'd that they were her Books, and that fhe
could have put much more into them, and did give him another finali
Libel into the bargain;
2. Mr. Downing, that printed fome Sheets of it, proved that fhe bar'
gained with him to do it, promifed to bear him harmlefs, ordered her
Name to be printed in thfe Title-page, and that fhe fent for Sheets to havd
therd corrected.
3. Mr .ptevinsthe Meffebger, whofe Induftry firft difcover'd and fei-
zed it, prov'd that llieown'd it to him, pretending at firft that the Copy
washer own hand-writing, but afterwards he faw her write, and found
hers a fcrambling ugly band, far different from the Manufcript; and thep
fhe told him, fhe kept two men in her houle to write it as fhe di&ated to -
them, of whom the notorious sing, formerly a Coffeeman and Intelligent
cer, was one.
4. Mr. Prance declar'd upon his Oath the utter falfhood of that Ma¬
licious ftory of his being Rack'd or iri any kind "tortured but that on the
contrary he was very civilly Treated at all times by Capt. Richardfon, and
alfoby his Lady in the time of his ficknefs, and that he made bisdifcovery
freely and Voluntarily, and was only led thereunto by the Power of Truth,
and to disburthen his Confcience of fo horrid a Crime. And Mr. Boyc'e
and feveral others were prefent to have teftified and confirmed the fame,
but it was not thought heceflary, that Lie of hers Stabbing it feif by its own
itnprobabilIity,and being fo notorioufly Contrary to the Laws and Practice
of this Nation. 'Tis Popery that needs an Inquifition to fupport it * and
delights in Cruelties and Tortures, and Extorts Confeflions by Racks
and Strapado's $ the Proteftant Religion,and the generous Englifh temper,
disdain fuch Barbarities.
5. Mr .Fowler the Vintner upon his Oath inform'd the Court, with
the grounds of his fufpe&ing Corral the Coach-man mentioned in the Libel
pag. 3. viz.From his own words, but denied utterly that he ever bid
him lay it upon any, or told him of any Money that was to be got by it, of
any thing of that kind, giving fo punctual an account of the whole matter*
that the Court was fatisfied. Mr. Fowler did nothing but what became
and was the duty of every honeft Man in that affair.
As to the Prifoners defence, it was very idconfiderable,hcr Roniaritick
Spirit was much abated, and fhe talk'd abundantly niore like a ,
than filch a rditician and Statefveom.w as fhe would be accounted; only fhe
called two Women and a Man as W itneffes, but two of them could fay
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nothing material, the third was the beforemehtioned Coach-man's Wife,
who faid her Husband was at the time mentioned in Newgate, and had
Irons on, but acknowledged (he had accefsto him and never was beaten,
or any thing of that kind, as in the Libel is pretended.
'Tis mlfo obfervable, that the faid Coachmian had upon Oath difown'd
all that Tragical ftory that Cellier reports of him, but did not appear now
in Court.
. Then the Barron in a grave and folid difcourfe fumm'd up the Evidence,
and the Court being fo full that the Jury could not conveniently come
together to Confult, did for that reafon withdraw, but prefently return'd,
and brought her in Guilty. At which the People gave a general fhout, yet
(he had the Confidence, even after Conviction, to mov'd to be Bailed - but
that not being Grantable by Law, Ihe was ordered back to Newgate, where
(be now remains, with much better accomodations from the Captains
Civility, than (he defervcs or could expeCt from a Perfon (he had fo bafely
and cauflefly abufed, were not his Generofity as imcompatable as her
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