THE ARRAIGNMENT, Trial, Conviction, and Confession of Francis Deane a Salter, and of john Faulkner a Strong-water man, (both Annabaptists, and lately received into that Sect) for the Murder of one Mr. Daniel a Solicitor, who was cruelly murdered one night in Elbow-lane, they being apprehended were brought to Newgate on the 24th. day of January last, and for which Fact were Executed at Tyburn on Monday last, being the 17. of April. 1643.  
Also whereunto is added an Anabaptists Sermon, which was preached at the Rebaptising of a Brother at the new or holy jordan, as they call it near Bow▪ or Hackny River; Together with the manner how they use to perform their anabaptistical Ceremonies.  
April 19 Printed at London for Richard Harper. 1643.   

The Confession of Francis Deane, etc.  
Great and wonderfulll are the works of Almighty God, who ●nly searcheth the hearts and Reins of all men; & therefore ●●●spicuously knoweth the very thoughts and strength of ●●n: for let man's vain apprehensions be never so cunning ●o contrive, his policy to conceal, or his boldness to outface ●ny secret act committed, yet God's unsounded and incomprehensible wisdom, which can be no way circumscribed, is able ●t ●ll ●imes, ●nd upon all occasions, as well to publish, as to punish it in the open eye of the world, of which, aswell those times past, as these present, have and do afford us remarkable examples. I will begin with the sin before I come to the fact. Now for the execrableness of the sin of murder: we find in Gen. 4.11. God speaking to Cain after the slaughter of his brother Abel, in this manner▪ Now therefore thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blond from thine hand. As also Deut. 27.24. Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say Amen. If this monstrous sin be so heinous in the sight of God, betwixt neighbour and neighbour, or if committed by one stranger upon another, how much mo●e horrid appeareth it in God's eyes, you may read, Gen: 9.5 At the hand of man, even at the hand of a man's brother, will I require the life of man: for who so sheddeth man's blond, by man shall his blond be shed; for in the image of God made he man, &c Likewise Numb. 35.31 Moreover, you shall take no recompense for the life of the murderer which is worthy to die, for he shall be worthy to die. But to leave all histories in this k●nd, I will come to the matter or subject of this sad and lamentable murder committed by Francis Deane and his confederates. The 13. of April, the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer being holden fo● the City of London and Middlesex, at the usual place in the Old Bailie, after many inditements being read, amongst which was the indictment read of this Francis Deane a Salter, and I●hn Faulkner a Strong-water-man; which indictment being publicly read before them in the presence of the L. Major, the King's Sergeant, and other Justices of the Peace, which being read, they both of them pleaded not guilty; upon which they put themselves to be cleared or convicted upon God & and their Country: Then the Jury being present, and the witnesses called, i● was plainly proved that first the said Mr. Daniel and Mr. Dear had been all or most part of the day together a drinking; and that the said Mr. Daniel and this Dean had many fall out about this Deans Wives sister, who who was a rich widow, whom this said Daniel bare affection unto, and being her Solicitor in divers businesses for her, harsh wo●ds passed between them, than this Deans upon his confession, did give the said Daniel a fierce blow on the head with a Pole-axe, that he instantly died in the place. Upon which be the said Deane and Falkner was found guilty; Dean of wilful murder, Falkner as accessary to three murder in concealing it so long, and hiding and obscuting and advising the said Dean to fly to Oxford, or some other place, for a certain time, for bloody fact they were condemned to be hanged at Tyburn: now follows Deans confession a● the place of execution: Mr. Deane being come the place of execution and having the rope tied about his neck, and the Hangman being to fasten it to the tree, Deane standing up in the Cart said. Gentlemen, here I come to lose my life, and now let me g●v● you some satisfaction to quiet and satisfy my one mind, it being the last time that ever I shall speak in this world: I am here come by law to die for a fact, the murdering of one Mr. D●niel, so it is, I met with h●m at the Exchange t●at day this accident befell, I had been drinking at several places before, and we went together to drink towards my abode aft●r in two several places, and continued at the last t●ll about 8 or 9 a clock, and there was many hasty words, some past betwixt us, in so much, that at the last he drew his discourse to those, that he would not leave me nor my sister, worth a groat before, he had done, (if she would not marry him) my sister being otherways disposed on, for she was to marry a Gentleman at Watford, his estate being worth 2000 pound, and thereupon he had a blow from me, and none but, myself guilty of it, and whereas one Shears who is imprisoned in Newgate about this business he was altogether innocent of any f●st or act herein, and I do take it wholly to be my fact, and that ●r. Falconer by law b●ing condemned and to suffer with me, he is also free from the fact and act; only that he knowing me the actor, he did not reveal it. I went after the committing this fact to Oxford, where there being some which had formerly known me, accused me to authority that I was an Anabaptist, for which I was forced to forsake that place, for fear of being discovered for my murder, or for being questioned for my Religion. I confess I was baptised (a new) a month before this fact was acted, and after and for which I was grieved in mind and much troubled about it: I do hearty pray that all here present may take warning by my death, and that they suffer no small sins to enter, for they will beget bigger, as this in me hath done, and this I know, that I was born in sin, and without the great providence of God assisting man, he is subject daily to fall into great sins: and in this am I now taken: Many tumultuous st●rring about the horses, h●s voice was lessened, but after this 51. Psalms was ●ung and read by him, having a book in his hand, to the other prisoners he pr●yed very ardently and strongly, and so died very penitently, there was with him executed a popish P●i●st, who was hanged, drawn, and quartered, and one Captain Thomas Eton a Scotchman for kill Captain Car near Westminster, the law found guilty in his act, Falconer who was this Deans friend. All of t●em died very penitent sinners, desiring God to forgive them, and all good people j yn with them in prayer, which they did, and so they died, and the Law and their enemies I hope were satisfied.   

The anabaptistical Sermon.  
The Text, Wash and be clean.  
BEloved, I am fil●ed with much zealous joy to behold so great an Assembly gathered together in this Chamber to hear me discover unto you new Doctrine upon the receiving of a n●w Member or Brother into our assembly; who before had only the bare rags of Adam, and baptised by the ceremony of Antichrist, whose idolatrous customs which have been used, hath drawn Gods heavy judgements upon us, for want of knowledge, being blinded with natural corruptions: but I will cease my disc●ourse at this time concerning that point, and will handle it in its proper places, & come to the text. The words which I will present unto your observation shall be few in number, but weighty in substance, namely these, Wash and be clean.  
The first of my Text, that is water, for the word wash doth naturally imply water, since we cannot wash without water, but we may have water and yet be so slovenly that we seldom wash at all. But this word wash in my text doth signify our rebaptising of our children, wherein the action is to wash, that is not to sprinkle them with a little idolatrous water out of a Font or Basin; but to pour water on their heads, nay to dip them in water over head and ears, for such dipping will fetch the saltness of sin out of their natures; and then follows the consequent of this action, Wash and be clean? But first I will describe unto you the several sorts of washers, then speak particularly of washing, and after washing I may very well conclude with, and be clean.  
There are as many sorts of washers as there are contaminated people; careless people, and foolish people.  
Contaminated people are ●ll the wicked and reprobate, whose estates & lands are ours by propriety and right, being God's children, and that it properly belongs to us; who because they are not so pure as we are, so holy as we be; they wash themselves to no purpose, and are like the sign of the Labour in vain, for it is uupossi●le to wash them white or clean; But we that are brethren of the elect; we may wash ourselves in a R●ver from the spots of our Carnality in every River, as Bow River, Hackny River, and other Rivers are to us a clear Jordan, wherein we may baptise one another as we mean to do this day our late lost brother; Now you careless sort of washers, are such as care not for this washing, they think it enough to be ●e washed or rather watered with a little superfluous water at their Chrisnings as they call it, and by the Priest in the presence of three Gossips to be Tom-named, Iohn-named, Dick-named, or rather Nicknamed, for we hold it utterly unlawful to baptise any until they come to full years of understanding, that they may answer for themselves, and conform themselves to live according to that name and baptism which they have received; for little John as long as he is in his infancy is not worthy to be named any thing but jack, and so Richard may be called Dick, as a Blackbird that is kept in a Cage, and so all children that are christened before they come to ripe years of understanding may be all called Nick, for their names are no names, but very Nicknames and By-names, till the baptised can answer the Baptizer, and speak his own name, as the spirit doth approve of his name, for how many in their younger days were baptised, and now grown men, and ashamed of their Antichristian name s, and run after their names like new begotten and regenerated Christians. We may read of whole households that were baptised, and indeed it was a great policy in those times not to baptised by any name until they come to full years.  
And therefore though in former times Christen and Gossip did cost a great deal of money to make a William or a Robert, which afterward proved a wicked Will, and a plundering Robert, like Prince Robers, let us increase and multiply as fast as we c●n, but christian or baptise none of our children until they are ready to be married themselves, then let us call our daughters Hanua, Dorca; Marry, Lydia, Ruth, and Priscilla, and our sons Nathaniel, Moses, Benoms, Annanias, Manasses, Obadiah, and other such like Scripture names: let us be wiser than our forefathers, and walk out unto Rivers round about London, all which shall become spiritual Jordans unto the faithful: I myself will lead you the way and show you the manner of it, your need not fear drowning, for if you should tread amiss, and fall into a Whitlepit, (for there are many whitle-pits in Hackney and Bow Rivers, yet I can recover you again; and I will bring you out, the Righteous you know many times, but suppose you should fall over head and cares, yet you should come out again a good Christian, in the regenerating water of either of these Rivers.  
Now for the last part of my division, which was concerning foolish people and w●shers, I account that all women are foolish washers, two pennyworth of Soap is a great charge to them, and doth much trouble their consciencs because they wash nothing but linen  and foul rags, but let us not stick for any charge that may conduce to the cleansing of our souls, but as we are sanctified creatures, so let us be pure and holy in our conversation, and wash our hands clean of all sin. There are other foolish washers, or sluttish washers, so that the best Linen put into their hands shall scape a scouring or a washing, and the old dirt shall be apparent in them; but we though remain as sinful as ever, we must under the veil of Religion have a few failings, and yet conditioned for holiness, and surely we have it, at least in the opinion of the world, we must be close in our actions, and study only the mysterious arts of seeing, for opinion in matters of Religion cannot err; we are held to be religious men, and therefore such we are indeed, but yet we must not join hands, heads, or hearts with the wicked, for they are reprobate people ordained only to destruction, and Tophet is prepared for such, and such are those Cavaliers whose inhuman cruelties the like were never heard of; but we are a holy and religious people, and the severest eye of Justice cannot discern a wrinkle, much less a spot in our actions. So me lose people, ignorant and wicked rep●obates scoff at us as if we were not half so holy as we would be believed to be, they have with narrow eyes observed our actions, and finding them counterfeit they call us Roundheads; we are round indeed and sound. Those sacred garments religion, which shown nothing but decency (I mean● Surplices) are not to be esteemed so much as my Wife's apron, and woe be unto the women's hand● (for 〈◊〉 they would rot f●om her wrists) that should wash a superstiticus Surplice. The Drunkard may be placed in the list of foolish washers, swallowing all the gains of h●s Trade by washing his throat with good liquor, ●ut let our draughts though few be costly, and of the best liquor we can get; and as in other matters let us at our holy feast make conjunction amongst ourselves, and in the unity of the spirit join our money for the relief of our poor brethren, and for some wine which is best for the season, so we may wash our throats at a far cheaper rate than the reprobates do, and besides such washing of our throats after a good dinner or great feast, will make us strong in the spirit, for the wine will fill our brains with divers good motions, and quicken us in the daily exercises of Religion, so that when our stomaches are well warmed therewith we shall find ourselves exceedingly comforted to proceed in the ways of godliness, but walk not out of your chambers lest the wind take you, and you stumble into errors as the wicked do.  
My Masters, some of you (I believe,) when you sit down at the Table come with unwashed hands, for Tradesmen eat our meat often with dirty fingers and foul hands, our hands must be clean washed to show the purity of our profession; let therefore the Cook when he comes into an holy assembly wash or lick his fingers: I washed my hands this morning because I would handle the Text the better, cleanness doth become the Gospel, and clean fingers turning over the Gospel do not pollute the cleanness or leaves of it. Besides, when a feast is made what do all the best sort of guests? they are very careful to wash their hands before their coming thither, and after the feast is done be it dinner or supper what doth custom place next upon the Table? verily a fair Basin and Ewer, and what to do? why the reason is, to make all the guests wash their hands; and the words of my Text are, wash and be clean. This word clean is taken in divers senses, for first if a man own me money upon a Bill or Bond, and afterward absent himself and run away, it may be very well said he is gone clean out of sight, and clean away. If a man cannot relish his meat, he is clean out of taste. Some say our religion is clean contrary to the protestant profession, but such are clean out of the way, but if we should be persecuted again by Bishops as formerly we have been, we would run clean out of England unto Amsterdam; but we are all clean people, full of the purity of the spirit, our sins are but motes in God's eyes, but our brother's sins are beams that have so put out the sight of his divine Justice, that he cannot or will not see our small iniquities. But some will say, how know we that we are clean? the spirit doth inwardly testify unto us our goodness, our Prayers are so full of divine charms that they can at God's hands command audience; we are better than others whom we despise, and will not mingle ourselves with the reprobate, but keep clean out of their company. I must confess unto you I am glad to see the fruits of our Preaching in the general reformation which it hath wrought, our servants go clean and handsome in their apparel, and their Round heads (as the wicked call them) were their round clean b●nds: I am glad to see your servants being of dirty moiling trades so neat and clean in their apparel, it doth m●ke them most certainly appear very pure in this Congregation, and therefore it seems that they have washed, and washed to purpose, and so I have made the Text good, Wash and be clean. N●y, our bands are clean and neat, making us look with religious faces, whereby we are accounted clear godly men. I will no more look back ●nto what I have delivered, for the spirit doth give us plenty of matters, and cursed is he that putteth his hand to the Plough and looks back, therefore I will not look back any more upon my Text, sufficient hath our handling thereof been: and I see plainly that all or most of of you have washed yourselves, and therefore are clean: And so I have done with my 〈◊〉, and fall to the action and occasion of this our Assembly, even the re-baptiz●ng of a brother, whose eyes have been blinded, and whose mind and will hath been darkened; and being come to this holy pl●ce, I desire all of you here present to take notice, that this our brother is received to the R●ver Io●●an call●d the old Ford near Bow, and how the new ●●rdan or place of happiness, for unless all be thus rebaptized stark naked, & diped as well head as tail as you are, none can be saved; and so I pray you good Brethren excite as many as you can, now thou art baptised to come out of their Popish opinion, thinking to be saved by their former baptising, and so God bless you, go thrive and grow rich in the world.   
FINIS.