ABSTRACT
Mary Carleton, commonly known as the German Princess, was a scandalous celebrity in Restoration London. Her notoriety arose from her 1663 trial and acquittal for bigamy, which became the occasion of the publication of The Case of Madam Mary Carleton. Here she narrates her version of her life as a 'German Princess', the daughter of the Earl of Cologne, though by most accounts she was born Mary Moders, the daughter of a Canterbury fiddler who married first a Canterbury shoemaker, Thomas Steadman, and then a surgeon, Thomas Day. Within her own time, Carleton was the subject of more than twenty-six pamphlets published in 1663 and 1673; this volume reprints Carleton's own The Case of Madam Mary Carleton along with representative selections of pamphlets written about her. Her trial produced its own 'pamphlet war' between Mary and her husband John and her story inspired a play and a mock epic, which significantly responded to Carleton's own emphasis on performance and epic romance in fashioning her aristocratic identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1le epiQle of your Rc·
Jlical Glories Iation to this Cro-wn, have moft compafti- to the: difheffed and low of the a[fiifled. For when 1 confidered
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The Epijlle U>edicatory.
red refs to be vouchfafed to Your Higbneffes moft andmofl (i)e S er1Mnt , MAE cARLETON,.
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The Cafe of difcovered any incontifrent meannefs therewith it was
it) enjoy, and am happy in
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To his good Priend
Upon his Princeft. N Storie.r ttlld Stories oltl, bave been told: fings the F of Cleopatra, Caffandra, or atra
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hiJi
thy Ri111iu, To fatisftetbe lmgillg '&oltfbttllli.e- l'ifdup witb.,.W.tlcJ)POmj·; · · · · Andf ~ ofPrin&e[:r, Htll'p fing, · Plaid hy Ap-Ri.fe GIIt flriRg, Britijh Ba'l:lr; 111.Jfolf-hliDg·ohe · That ft1afl uf t'rilicefs And now I tbanltth.J pai•fnl Peu . For bringing Princif.r illw Kt11. Butwhen to ih e Author. · Of pf . . . _ . ·
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T.o my .worihyFrkn4 the Abthor upon his
QNce·4 great W orli.:mMI hy bis cuntiiiJg Art -Did (bape an Image'libj t' his hNrt, Had not Dame · In wa/Qng it a woman to bis rvi1l. . '
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·y C GE.T 0IX
oa,· · The PfinceJ$ reduQ:d to an Engliih Habit.· . · every one bath verdiarpeot· the Gate•boHfopent; And Scriveners; Boy ·( prctcn.diiig Tei1ipla_r) A Boo/t ·writ very. .· . . - Which he doth ftilc And Folly to · · · ·
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And in refp ea CJ•fhigh·bom Linage, · And fortunes fatir befides within age, Adjure1te did tbe Youth with fear To forbear handling Ladies Gear : But being refolv' d in Pate fo addle
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J/e.rcingetorixA...J.
to tConfirm the truth Of my believe, conceive: me, Youth, admit With her to pl.lty at Game* Tfeytrip, Trli her great Riches do cmue over,
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YnmiKelDri%L.
*Or a did fwear, That heart fioat body he would tear Of bim that durfi crack Nnt; Or dare with to go ro Rut :
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f!Criingetorixtt...J. For by my flaming Sword of Steel,
This Brave fiull Doughty Metde feel: Lackey-Boy go call a Coach, Knuve on Spit do broach. The Coac·h being come, & Boot put down. And Lackey P1i·ncl.fs Gown,
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That marry' d they fhoold be in Chnrch, And Jie no more like DogS' at_LHrch. As Loyal-fufrring Cava leers Were logg'd about like Pigs by th, ears, By people then,_ and yet call'd Saints,
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· · · He put on ·- Yet · ·l'u.,bi• Or like aJ-JortC· that:'& 11ewly · ·c•• He had got Steerage her;ll-uther ·; · And now.: that maugre· aH her flicnds,, Of P w-eUdtefront· . To City-:Rout; 1;.: .
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(32) and the-n run aWdJ front
the fame Woman 1 mea1z, foe Lang1tages fluent- ly, and httth. very .higb Brettft..r, lt mlsfortufie of this
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(39) ·READER,
Shall not give my felf the . trouble to rec<.ll.letl: and de- clare the feveral Motives ·and Inducements that deceitful, but wife enough, wotnan ufcd to deceive me with, &c. 1-Ier
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(40) companies , fearing the
tneanor was fuch, tl1a t lhe left only in my opinion, hut alfo in o both :and wifee true the Contents here-
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(41) and fends her a Letter to kifs of them at it you fafely f\vear that
her hands by proxie, becaufe he would not come thither to· do in perfon. And this, it feems, was all the Atnorous paper that preferve , the refi be-
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(43) ttnd Vindication. I foaU. 'llery in a condition fur-
JPeedily be according to your defire. I hope him be afJured hefoall in your affe- of her Hufbands
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·:(;·6) Jil. It brtalths nothing hut "ter.'
and all that is-Man horrid apprebenfion. of' Yet metbought the Profcription ·dref'dfltl to me that thif /litter potion was tbe con deration example ofma.ny perjons wbo [ante matc'!J/tfs patier-zce
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(S7) rity. An·d i.r not t·his far hetter away one's daye.r, t.!Je·:witty,thougb .wealt Roman
de Trifiibus ? C.ertainly 'tis act a1zd greater commendatio1z. to the but ftrangely , and defpi{ed ·ler. Yet tbi1 clid not fo nzuciJ dejeci but that/ fled to my ol4 . AfyJum,
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(sa) Afylutn_, ihe· nettJe, failing· Ke-fuge of Tongue and
Wit , and fo had both Lodging better' d and my Com- mdnr·amtnded·. For then I fu.r.nifbed with • [patious and commodiom Cabbin fit for tbe.
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(S9) it eccho'din·-
remoteft part.(_ drew a confluence ple to ·tny Habitafion.: lwM aflonifoed at.firfl when I quaintance , I did there ; hut [oott over when I con- fidered the caufe, and found my [elf alfo them. l hejlow a little ad'lliCe upon you all in general, from the higbeft loweft,that ever had
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(66) names or title.t foever they are iliftiiz.guijbed hy the Canting Crew : for;· I am refolved to tell a piece of my mind, which I
will lay up in yost1·/Jeart and ta/(e into your more ferit?us confide ration, .whe1z the weighty •fford you a Retirenrent.
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(61) off to p·revezzt tbe abfolute dejlrHa
ofthe wbole fo feverely dealt witiJ tbougbt1 : \ Some of;ou ntay be contpared to It/cera- ted parts, or wen.r,and
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·.ft/.i.ve all,4ay•
how to My _lihtriy My .qffeG/i· .,f4n .-is as. diwert- ;:and rmy·f.are changeable
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(t5,); ))f 1 can tri-
fle away more in my you it pre• · fent my dutie·to.nij·Lora, and. fornt·bim a frincefs i.r more a.forreign, ·than her o.wn\ Cou1ztrie, atzd I live notP ·than l··r!td
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(64) , ·t h·e of all our .·former
roguijb Cre'(l' litie, or Sex[Dever. I WtJuld de- I fear will be li"' wafoing the Black..· bead, 4ndf o tolz{e']ltent-
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VeportJ»f!l' and .Carriage
Mary Ca.rleton, alias the Ger- man frinceft, immediately be• at her her /aft Speech aJ Tyburn, he ing the 22. ofJ anuary,
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· ton will 1ne-a Prefident
Heightb and Mifery in abu11dance, and all people beware pany. Tbe World hath condemned , and I have 1nucb to anfwer• .
