Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
Prohibited books -- England -- Bibliography
The indictment against her is as follows:--
Juratores pro domino rege super sacramentum suum præsentant quod
Elizabetha Cellier uxor ---- Cellier de parochia Sancti Clementis
Dacorum in comitatu Middlesexiæ generosi, eadem Elizabetha
existente religionis papalis, Deum præ oculis suis non habens
sed instigatione diabolica mota et seducta et falso et malitiose
machinans et intendens serenissimum Dominum nostrum Carolum
Secundum Dei gratia Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regem et
gubernationem suam hujus regni Angliæ necnon veram religionem
protestantem infra hoc regnum Angliæ lege stabilitatam, in
odium, infamiam et contemptum inducere et inferre, et scandalum
et infamiam imponere super quibusdam personis qui producti
fuissent testes et testimonium dedissent ex parte dicti domini
regis contra prædictam Elizabetham Cellier et alias personas de
alta proditione indictatas primo die Augusti anno regni dicti
domini regis tricesimo secundo apud prædictam parochiam Sancti
Clementis Dacorum in Comitatu Middlesexiæ prædicto falso malitiose
et seditiose scripsit et publicavit et scribi imprimi publicari
causavit quendam fictum falsum et scandalosum libellum intitulatum
_Malice defeated: or a brief relation of the accusation and
deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, wherein her proceedings both
before and during her confinement are particularly related, and
the mystery of the Meal-Tub fully discovered. Together with an
abstract of her arraignment and tryal, written by herself, for
the satisfaction of all lovers of undisguized truth._ In quo
quidem libello continentur hæc falsa ficta et scandalosa verba
et figuræ sequentia, scilicet. _I hope it will not seem strange
to any honest and loyal person, of what way or religion soever,
that I being born and bred up under Protestant Parents, should
now openly profess myself of another Church._ (Ecclesiam Romanam
innuendo). _For my education being in those times, when my own
Parents and Relations, for their constant and faithful affection
to the King and Royal Family, were Persecuted, the King himself
Murthered, the Bishops and Church destroy'd, the whole Loyal party
merely for being so, opprest and ruin'd; And all as was pretended
by the Authors of these villanies, for their being Papists and
Idolaters, the constant Character given by them, to the King and
his friend, to make them odious, they assuming to themselves, only
the Name of Protestants, making that the Glorious title by which
they pretended right to all things. These sort of Proceedings, as
I grew in understanding, produc'd in me more and more Horror of
the party that committed them, and put me on Inquiry into that
Religion, to which they pretended the greatest Antipathy, wherein
I thank God, I found my Innate Loyalty, not only Confirm'd, but
Incourag'd, and let Callumny say what it will; I never heard from
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