thenceforth ceafe. And though I am not to prefume that the body of the company will, in viola tion of the ftricteft and highest duties, caufe or permit any of its individuals to write any thing contrary to the refpect and fubmiffion due to my refolution, under title or pretext of apologies, or juftifications, tending to difturb the peace of my kingdoms; or contribute to that purpofe through their private emiffaries; nevertheless, in that unexpected cafe, the penfion to all fhall cease. VII. Every fix months, one half the annual penfion allotted to the Jefuits fhall be paid them out of the bank del Giro, through the channel of my minifter in Rome, who shall take particular care to inform himself of fuch as die, or forfeit their penfion through their own fault, that the amount may be deducted. VIII. Concerning the adminiftration and equivalent application of the company's effects to pious uses, such as the endowment of poor parishes, of incorporated feminaries, houfes of charity, and other compaffionate inftitutes, after firft confulting the opinion of the ecclefiaftical ordinaries, in what may be neceffary and meet; I referve feparately to myfelf the taking fuch meafures, as that true piety may not be any wife defrauded, nor any injury done to the public good, or to private property. IX. I prohibit and enact, as a general law and regulation, that no individual of the company in particular, or any in a body of community, be ever henceforth ca pable of being readmitted into all or any of my kingdoms, under any pretext or colour whatfoever; nor fhall my council, or any other tribunal, admit of any application for that purpofe; on the contrary, the magiftrates, by way of prevention, fhall exert the most rigorous measures againft all refractory abettors and co-operators of the like intent, punishing them as difturbers of the public peace. X. No one of the actual profeffed Jefuits, though he fhould quit the order with the pope's formal licence, and become a fecular priest, or clerk, or pafs into any other order, fhall ever be qualified to return again into thefe kingdoms, without obtaining my fpecial permiffion. XI. In cafe of his obtaining it, which will be granted on proper informations had, he fhall be obliged to take an oath of allegiance in the hands of the prefident of my council; faithfully promifing never to communicate, in public or private, with the members or general of the company, nor to ufe any means, teps, or infinuations, directly or indirectly, in the company's favour, on pain of being dealt with as a ftate criminal; criminal; and the privileged proofs fhall be in full force against him. XII. Nor fhall he be qualified to teach, preach, or confefs, in thefe kingdoms, though, as has been faid, he may have quitted * Concurrent circumftances; or one living witness. the the order, and thrown off obedience to its general: he may, however, enjoy ecclefiaftical livings, to which no fuch offices are an nexed. XIII. No one of my subjects, though a fecular or regular clergyman, fhall afk any letter of foda. lity of the general of the company, or of any one elfe in his name, on pain of being dealt with as a state criminal; and the privileged proofs fhall equally be in force against him. XIV. All fuch as actually have them shall be obliged to furrender them to the prefident of my council, or to the justices and magif. trates of the kingdom, to be tranf. mitted and placed among the records; and no farther ufe be made of them for the future, without their paft poffeffion thereof being hurtful to them, provided they punctually make the faid furrender; and the magiftrates fhall fecrete the names of those who deliver them up, that thus they may occafion them no infamy. XV. Whoever fhall hold correfpondence with Jefuits, it being generally and abfolutely forbidden, thall be punished in proportion to his guilt. XVI. I exprefsly forbid that any body do write, declaim, or make any ftir, on pretext of these meafures, either for or against them: on the contrary, I enjoin filence in this matter to all my fubjects: and I ordain, that the violaters thereof be punished as guilty of high treafon. XVII. To prevent all difputes and mifunderstandings between private perfons, to whom it belongs not to judge, or to interpret the fovereign's commands, I exprefsly ordain, that nobody do write, print, or employ papers, or works, touching the expulfion of the Jefuits out of my dominions, with out having the government's efpecial leave and I forbid the judge of the prefs, his fubdelegates, and all the magiftrates of my kingdoms, to grant fuch leave: all which are to be wholly under the control of the prefident and minifters of my council, with the knowledge of my attorneygeneral. XVIII. I moft ftrictly charge the right reverend diocefap prelates and fuperiors of regular orders, that they do not fuffer their fubjects fubjects to write, print, or declaim upon this fubject, inafmuch as they would be made refponfible for the unfufpected breach on the part of any of them; which I declare to be comprised in the law of the King Don John I. and in the royal fchedula circularly put forth by my council on the 18th of September of last year, in order to the more punctual execution thereof, to which all are bound to contribute: for that it concerns the good order of the public, and the credit of its feveral individuals, to avoid drawing upon themselves the effects of my royal difpleasure. XIX. I order my council, in conformity with what is here before expreffed, to difpatch and publish the most ftrict and proper royal pragmatic, that it may reach to the knowledge of all my fubjects; and that for the punctual, fpeedy, and invariable accomplishment thereof, the juftices and territorial tribunals, do inviolably obferve, publifh, and execute the punishments above declared against al thofe thofe who thall commit any breach of thefe difpofitions; and that they do for this purpofe give all ne. ceflary orders, with preference to every other business whatever, in. almuch as it concerns my royal fervice: for the ampler knowledge of which, I have ordered copies of my royal decree to be tranfmitted to the councils of the Inquifition, of the Indies, of the orders and of the revenue for their refpective intelligence and accomplishment thereof. And for the full and invariable obfervance of it, the royal decree of the 27th of March, containing the foregoing refolution, which was ordered to be kept and fulfilled according to its exprefs tenor, having been publifhed this day in full council, it was agreed to difpatch the prefent in force of law and pragmatic fanction, as if it were made and promulgated in affemblies of the ftates; therefore it is my will that this be and pafs for fuch, without oppofition of any kind whatfoever to which end, fo far as may be neceffary, I abrogate and annul all things which are. or may be contrary to the fame. Wherefore I charge the right reverend the archbishops, bishops, fuperiors of regular orders, mendicant and monacal vifitors, vicars and other prelates and ecclefiaftical judges of thefe my kingdoms, that they obferve the above expreffed law and pragmatic fanction according to its tenor, without permitting any infraction thereof under any pretence, or in any manner whatfoever. And I command thofe of my council, the prefident and auditors, officers of my houfhold and court, of my other audiences and chanceries, affiftant governors, ferjeants major and or. dinary, and other judges and juf tices of all my dominions, that they do keep, fulfil, and execute the aforefaid law and pragmatic fanction, and cause it to be kept and obferved in all and every particular, taking for that purpose all the meafures requifite, without need of any farther declaration than the prefent, which is to have its punctual execution, from the day of its publication in Madrid, and in the other cities, towns, and villages of thefe my kingdoms, in the ufual manner: it fo behoving for my royal fervice, and the tranquillity, good, and benefit of the pulic weal of my fubjects: for fuch is my pleafure; and that the printed copy of this my letter, figned by Don Ignatius Stephen de Higareda, fenior clerk of my chamber, and of the management of my council, fhall bear the fame credit as the original. Given at Pardo, the fecond of Don Francisco de Salazar y Ag nero: Don Jofeph Manuel Domingues, Registrada, Don Nicolas Berdugo, lieutenant of the High Chancellor. D. Nicolas Berdugo. PUBLICATION. IN the town of Madrid on the fe. cond day of the month of April, of of one thoufand feven hundred and fixty and feven years, before the gates of the royal palace, facing the principal balcony of our Jord the king, and at the gate of Guadalajara, where the public bufinefs of merchants and tradefmen is carried on; in the prefence of Don John Stephen de Salaverri, D. John Antony de Pennaredonda, D. Benedict Antony de Barreda, D. Peter Ximenez de Mefa, mayors of the houshold and court of his majefty, the foregoing royal pragmatic fanction was published with found of trumpets and kettledrums, by the voice of the public crier, attended by feveral of the officers of the faid houfhold and court, and many other perfons ftanding by which J. D. Francis Lopez Novamuel, one of the fenior clerks of the chamber to our lord the king, and of thofe who affift in his council, do certify. Don Francifco Lopez Navamuel. I certify that this is a true copy of the original royal pragmatic fanction, and its publication. D. Ignatius Stephen de Higareda. An authentic narrative of the many horrid cruelties inflicted by Elizabeth Brownrigg, upon her poor apprentice girls; for which he received fentence of death, on Sa turday the 12th of S ptember, and was executed on Monday the 14th at Tyburn. Elizabeth Brownrigg, about zo years ago, being then about 27 years of age, lived as a fervant in the family of Mr. R, in Prefcot-ftreet, Goodman's-fields: and about this time James Brown rigg, who had ferved his time to a plaifterer and painter in the fame neighbourhood, married her. Soon afterwards they fettled at Greenwich in Kent, where he car. ried on the business of a painter, and after about five years they removed to London. Their family increafed very faft, for they have had 16 children, of whom three fons only are now liv-, ing. Mrs. Brownrigg, therefore, learnt midwifery under Dr. Kand about two years ago, was, by the overfeers of the parish of St. Dunftan in the Weft, appointed to act as midwife to the poor women in the workhoufe, in which capacity fhe is faid to have acted with great skill and humanity. She was alfo a faithful wife, and a tender and affectionate parent. It appears to be about four years fince Brownrigg took the house in Fetter-lane, where the cruelties were committed; at this time he kept a horfe, and had a lodging at Mr. Norton's, over-against Cannonbury-lane, Ilington. In the month of February, 1765, Mary Mitchell, a poor girl of the precinct of White Friars, was bound an apprentice to Brownrigg, by the overfeers, and was then about 14 years of age. About three months afterwards, on the 15th of May, Mary Jones was alfo bound apprentice to Brownrigg, by the governors of the Foundling Hofpital, being alfo about the age of fourteen. It appears that these poor girls were at this time treated with great cruelty: what in particular were Mitchell's fufferings does not appear, but the fufferings of Jones were very great: Mrs. Brownrigg used to lay down two chairs on the the kitchen floor, in fuch a manner, that the feat of one might fupport the back of the other; and then fastening the girl down, fometimes naked, and fometimes with her coats pulled over her head, the used to whip her till her trength was exhaufted: at other times, when the girl has been washing the rooms or ftairs, her miftrefs has found fault with her work, and taking her up in her arms, has repeatedly plunged her head in the pail of water that ftood by. By fuch treatment the girl received many hurts in different parts of her body, particularly in the head and fhoulders, from the edges and bale of the pail; and was befides kept in continual terror by threats of drowning, her miftrefs often calling on Mary Mitchell to fill her a tub of water for that purpose. Where Mitchell flept at this time we are not told, but Jones flept in a hole under a dreffer, in the fame room with Brownrigg and his wife, and facing the feet of their bed: this room was even with the fhop, the door of which opened into the street; and one Sunday morning, as the lay filent ly deploring her miferable condition, and ready to die by the confequences of her paft fufferings, and apprehenfions of future, the caft her eye upon the key of the shop door, which hung againft a poft, and perceiving that her mafter and miftrefs were both faft afleep, fhe had refolution to make one effort for liberty and life, and rifing very foftly, he was fortunate enough to fteal into the street without difcovery. This happened after he had been bound about two months, in July, when the days were long, and it was probably very early in the, morning. When the got into the street, he was at a lofs where to go: fhe had no home but the Foundling Hofpital, and thither fhe did not know her way: however, the afked of every one she met, and at laft, of a man who was fo kind as to conduct her to the gate. She was inftantly admitted, and having told her ftory, and fhewed her wounds and bruifes, one of which was upon her eye, and had fo injured it, that for fome days it was feared fhe would have loft it, the following order was made by the governors. "That Mr. Plumptree, the hofpital folicitor, do write to James Brownrigg, a painter, in Fetterlane, who had a child, Mary Jones, apprenticed to him by this corporation, and acquaint him, that if he does not forthwith make fatiffaction for the abufe to the faid child, this corporation will profecute him with the utmoft feve. rity." What particular fteps were taken by the parties in confequence of this order does not appear; but foon after Brownrigg was fummoned to attend the Chamberlain of London, before whom the matter was fettled, and the girl difcharged from her apprenticeship. Mitchell was now left alone, and continued patiently to drudge and to fuffer till about the middle of February following, when the had ferved about one year of her time; and then fhe alfo found means to run away: fhe was how |
