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A Remarkable ACCOUNT OF THE Penitent Carriage and Behaviour OF THE Whip-makers Wife, Both before and since her Confinement in Newgate. To which is Added, The Relation how strangely her House was troubled and disturbed that Night her Maid Mary Cox died. Attested by a Person then present. As also Added Several Remarkable Passages relating to her Murthering the said Maid: With an Account of her Decent Burial.
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IF we should go about to innumerate or lay down the Misfortunes and Calamities that attend on Humane Life in their Particulars, it would not only prove tedious, but a Theam exceeding large, if not impossi∣ble, to delineate them in their many and various Circumstances: And it is held as a true Maxim, That no Person can account himself happy till his Latter End; and that we may always be careful not to depend too much upon long Life, the Wise Men of all Ages have compared Life to very short and momentary things, as a Span, a Bubble, a Shadow, a Flower that fadeth, &c. How then ought we to set a Watch over our Actions! and especially over Ʋnruly Passions, to prevent our being accessory to our own Miseries, and hastning our Ends, which of themselves are wound off too fast by Time, and the many Casualties that happen, as daily Experi∣ence teaches; so that we are rarely acquainted with the time of our Change, till it comes upon us like a Thief in the Night; and when we think our selves in the midst of Life we are in Death; and of this kind we might instance many Modern Examples: But seeing that of the Barbarous Murder of Mary Cox has lately made a considerable Noise, not only in and about this great City, but in remoter Parts, it may not, we hope, be censured as a thing amiss, if we give a further Account of what since has happened relating to that Murder.
To return then to our Promise. Mrs. Deacon (after murdering her Maid-Servant) was kept a Prisoner in her own House under a Guard, and the Jury, after a full Enquiry into the Premises, and some hours Debate