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             A true narrative of the proceedings at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayly at a sessions there held on Wednesday the 17th of January 1676/7. Giving a full account of the true tryal and sentence of Lodowick Muggleton for blasphemous words and books. As also the tryals and condemnation of a vvoman for killing her bastard-child; and of a man for personating another person in giving bayl before a judge. With an account how many are condenmed, burn'd in the hand, to be whipt, and transported. With allowance. Roger L'Estrange.
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           A
           true
           NARRATIVE
           Of
           the
           Proceedings
           at
           the
           Sessions-house
           IN
           THE
           OLD-BAYLY
           ,
           At
           a
           Sessions
           there
           held
           On
           
             Wednesday
          
           the
           17
           
             th
          
           of
           
             January
          
           1676
           /
           7.
           
           Giving
           a
           full
           Account
           of
           the
           true
           Tryal
           and
           Sentence
           of
           LODOWICK
           MUGGLETON
           For
           Blasphemous
           Words
           and
           Books
           .
           As
           also
           the
           Tryals
           and
           Condemnation
           of
           a
           VVoman
           for
           Killing
           her
           Bastard-Child
           ;
           and
           of
           a
           Man
           for
           personating
           another
           person
           in
           giving
           Bayl
           before
           a
           Judge
           .
           With
           an
           Account
           how
           many
           are
           Condemned
           ,
           Burn'd
           in
           the
           Hand
           ,
           to
           be
           Whipt
           ,
           and
           Transported
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   With
                   Allowance
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Roger
                     L'Estrange
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           
             LONDON
             :
          
           Printed
           for
           
             D.
             M.
          
           1676
           /
           7.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           The
           Proceedings
           at
           the
           Sessions
           in
           the
           
             Old
             bayly
             ,
          
           on
           
             Wednesday
          
           the
           17th
           of
           this
           Instant
           
             January
          
           1676
           /
           7.
           
        
         
           NOt
           to
           trouble
           the
           Reader
           with
           a
           tedious
           Relation
           of
           things
           trivial
           or
           impertinent
           ,
           the
           most
           considederable
           or
           remarkable
           Transactions
           of
           this
           Sessions
           were
           as
           follows
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           the
           tryal
           of
           that
           grand
           and
           notorious
           Impostor
           
             Lodowick
             Muggleton
             ,
          
           of
           whom
           to
           give
           the
           world
           a
           brief
           Account
           ,
           we
           must
           acquaint
           you
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           originally
           a
           Journyman-Taylor
           ,
           and
           (
           some
           say
           )
           afterwards
           kept
           a
           Botchers
           stall
           ;
           but
           having
           a
           strange
           enthusiastick
           head
           ,
           began
           about
           the
           year
           1651
           ,
           to
           enter
           into
           Confederacy
           with
           one
           
             Reeves
          
           (
           another
           Brother
           of
           the
           Sheers
           )
           who
           resolve
           to
           cut
           out
           a
           new
           Scheme
           or
           Fashion
           of
           Religion
           ;
           and
           to
           that
           purpose
           declare
           
           themselves
           ,
           The
           two
           last
           VVitnesses
           of
           God
           that
           ever
           should
           be
           upon
           the
           Earth
           ;
           and
           that
           they
           had
           absolute
           and
           irrevocable
           power
           to
           save
           and
           damn
           whom
           they
           pleas'd
           ;
           to
           which
           end
           one
           call'd
           himself
           the
           
             Blessing
             ,
          
           the
           other
           the
           
             Cursing
          
           Prophet
           .
           And
           the
           said
           
             Reeves
          
           dying
           some
           years
           since
           ,
           
             Muggleton
          
           pretends
           his
           Spirit
           was
           left
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           power
           of
           
             Witnessing
             ,
             Blessing
             ,
          
           and
           
             Cursing
             ,
          
           devolved
           into
           his
           hands
           ,
           which
           he
           as
           impiously
           practised
           upon
           the
           least
           affront
           or
           opposition
           ;
           pronouncing
           persons
           damn'd
           by
           their
           particular
           Names
           ,
           blasphemously
           adding
           ,
           
             That
             God
             ,
             Angels
             ,
             or
             Men
             could
             not
             afterwards
             save
             them
             .
          
           And
           as
           all
           Hereticks
           covet
           to
           be
           Authors
           and
           Ring-leaders
           to
           a
           Sect
           ,
           so
           by
           divers
           printed
           Books
           and
           Corner
           conferences
           ,
           he
           easily
           seduced
           divers
           weak
           and
           instable
           people
           (
           especially
           of
           the
           Female-Sex
           )
           to
           become
           his
           Proselytes
           ,
           who
           from
           him
           call
           themselves
           
             Muggletonians
             :
          
           So
           impossible
           it
           is
           for
           the
           wildest
           and
           most
           senseless
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           most
           impious
           Notions
           ,
           when
           broached
           with
           impudence
           among
           the
           Rabble
           ,
           not
           to
           meet
           with
           some
           heads
           so
           irregular
           as
           to
           embrace
           them
           for
           serious
           Truths
           ,
           or
           divine
           Revelations
           .
        
         
         
           This
           
           Muggleton's
           house
           being
           searched
           about
           
             August
          
           last
           ,
           a
           great
           quantity
           of
           his
           books
           were
           seized
           ,
           some
           of
           which
           ,
           it
           was
           now
           proved
           ,
           he
           owned
           the
           writing
           of
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           had
           caus'd
           them
           to
           be
           printed
           ;
           for
           which
           he
           was
           now
           indicted
           ,
           many
           wicked
           Passages
           out
           of
           them
           being
           recited
           in
           the
           Indictment
           ,
           but
           so
           horrid
           and
           blasphemous
           ,
           that
           we
           think
           fit
           to
           spare
           the
           Christian
           modesty
           of
           each
           pious
           ear
           ,
           by
           not
           repeating
           the
           same
           here
           ,
           where
           there
           is
           no
           necessity
           for
           it
           .
           The
           Prisoner
           pleaded
           not
           guilty
           ,
           but
           frustrated
           the
           general
           expectation
           ,
           by
           saying
           nothing
           further
           either
           to
           excuse
           or
           justice
           himself
           ,
           but
           had
           a
           Counsel
           appear'd
           for
           him
           ,
           who
           ingenuously
           declar'd
           himself
           asham'd
           to
           speak
           a
           word
           in
           favour
           of
           such
           a
           Cause
           ;
           onely
           desired
           the
           Court
           to
           take
           notice
           ,
           that
           the
           Books
           were
           dated
           before
           the
           last
           Act
           of
           Grace
           ;
           but
           it
           being
           usual
           to
           Antedate
           or
           Post-date
           Titles
           of
           books
           ,
           as
           best
           suits
           with
           the
           Publisher's
           interest
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           had
           since
           that
           Act
           owned
           and
           published
           the
           same
           ,
           that
           Plea
           was
           over-rul'd
           ;
           and
           the
           said
           
             Muggleton
          
           being
           found
           guilty
           by
           the
           Jury
           ,
           was
           afterwards
           sentenced
           by
           the
           Court
           to
           stand
           three
           days
           in
           the
           Pillory
           
           at
           three
           the
           most
           eminent
           places
           of
           the
           City
           ,
           with
           Papers
           shewing
           his
           Crime
           ;
           and
           his
           Books
           so
           seized
           ,
           divided
           into
           three
           parts
           ,
           to
           be
           burnt
           over
           his
           head
           upon
           the
           Pillory
           :
           And
           besides
           ,
           to
           be
           fined
           Five
           hundred
           pound
           ,
           and
           to
           continue
           in
           Goal
           till
           the
           same
           be
           paid
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           for
           his
           life
           ,
           unless
           he
           procured
           good
           Bail
           ,
           such
           as
           the
           Court
           should
           accept
           of
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           his
           own
           Gang
           ,
           Faction
           ,
           or
           Sect
           ,
           for
           his
           being
           of
           the
           good
           Behaviour
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           was
           a
           woman
           of
           about
           Forty
           years
           of
           age
           ,
           and
           one
           that
           had
           six
           Children
           by
           a
           Husband
           since
           dead
           ,
           but
           was
           ,
           it
           seems
           ,
           still
           of
           too
           Youthful
           a
           temper
           ;
           for
           being
           lately
           deliver'd
           ,
           by
           her self
           ,
           of
           a
           Bastard-child
           on
           a
           
           Wednesday-morning
           ,
           she
           most
           barbarously
           murthered
           it
           by
           crushing
           the
           head
           ,
           and
           wounding
           it
           both
           in
           the
           scull
           and
           eyes
           (
           as
           is
           supposed
           )
           with
           a
           pair
           of
           Sizzars
           ,
           and
           then
           fairly
           puts
           it
           into
           a
           Platter
           and
           sets
           it
           upon
           a
           shelf
           ,
           where
           it
           continued
           till
           
           Saturday-morning
           ,
           when
           a
           woman
           lodging
           above
           her
           in
           the
           same
           house
           ,
           coming
           down
           to
           visit
           her
           ,
           and
           examining
           her
           more
           strictly
           ,
           by
           reason
           
           of
           some
           symptoms
           the
           observed
           ,
           she
           now
           Prisoner
           confess'd
           she
           had
           miscarried
           ,
           and
           looking
           for
           the
           
             Embryo
          
           they
           found
           a
           perfect
           Child
           murthered
           ,
           as
           you
           have
           heard
           .
           She
           pretended
           her self
           distracted
           when
           the
           fact
           was
           done
           ;
           but
           it
           appearing
           that
           she
           had
           sense
           enough
           to
           endeavour
           to
           conceal
           it
           ,
           she
           was
           Convicted
           and
           Condemned
        
         
           A
           man
           was
           likewise
           Condemned
           to
           die
           for
           a
           kind
           of
           unusual
           Crime
           ,
           but
           such
           as
           the
           Law
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           its
           bad
           example
           and
           mischievous
           tendency
           ,
           has
           thought
           fit
           to
           restrain
           with
           capital
           Punishment
           ;
           which
           was
           ,
           that
           there
           being
           a
           Suit
           at
           Law
           depending
           between
           two
           persons
           ,
           the
           Prisoner
           comes
           and
           personating
           another
           man
           ,
           is
           Bayl
           for
           one
           of
           the
           parties
           before
           a
           Judge
           ;
           upon
           which
           afterwards
           the
           man
           whose
           name
           he
           had
           assumed
           knowing
           nothing
           of
           the
           business
           ,
           was
           taken
           up
           ,
           to
           his
           great
           damage
           ,
           &c.
           
           He
           begg'd
           heartily
           for
           Transportation
           ,
           but
           it
           could
           not
           be
           granted
           .
        
         
         
           Four
           Bayliffs
           and
           Followers
           were
           arraigned
           by
           one
           they
           went
           to
           arrest
           ,
           who
           pretended
           to
           have
           lost
           some
           odde
           Trifles
           ;
           but
           they
           were
           not
           found
           guilty
           .
        
         
           Two
           persons
           were
           Condemned
           to
           die
           ,
           two
           Burn'd
           in
           the
           hand
           ,
           and
           two
           sentenced
           to
           be
           Whip'd
           :
           And
           so
           the
           Sessions
           ended
           with
           the
           day
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
  

