God's Revenge Against Murder

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Excerpt from God's Revenge Against Murder: Or, the Tragical Histories and Horrid Cruelties of Elizabeth Brownrigg, Midwife, to Mary Mitchell, Mary Jones The following pages contain a faithful and succinct narrative of every material transaction of this unfortunate culprit, from her birth to her final exit, compiled from a manuscript account left in the Clerk of the Arraigns' office, never published, and Mr. Wingrave's pamphlet, who was one of the constables of the ward of Faringdon Without, and the officer that apprehended her. In the year 1745, James Brownrigg, a house-painter, married Elizabeth his Wife, then a servent in the family of Mr. R -, in Prescot-street, Goodman's-fields, Brownrigg, at the same time, served his apprenticeship with a plaisterer and painter in that neighbourhood. Their first Settlement, after marriage, was at Greenwich, where he carried on his business for five years. Then they came to London, where they lived a considerable time, and at last took a house in Fleur-de-luce-court, where they continued to live. Mrs. Brownrigg, it seems, was very fertile, and brought her husband sixteen children, three of whom only survived. After she had done bearing children, she undertook the business of a midwife, and was so well versed in the practice of her office, that she executed it to the general approbation of the patients that came under her hands, and at length became so well known for her skill and tenderness, that the officers of the parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, were induced to appoint her midwife to their workhouse, wherein she acquitted herself with judgement and humanity, and her business here lying amongst the poorest sort of objects, destitute of every necessary, but what such a miserable place afforded, she was even said to have relieved them by her charitable benevolence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.