He was one of the three persons
executed
with Mrs.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
413: '_Daup. _ I would say, thou hadst the best philtre in the
world, and couldst do more than Madam Medea, or Doctor Foreman. '
In _Sir Thomas Overbury's Vision_ (Harl. Ms. , vol. 7, quoted in
D'Ewes' _Autobiog. _, p. 89) he is spoken of as 'that fiend in
human shape. '
=1. 2. 3 Francklin. = Francklin was an apothecary, and
procured the poison for Mrs. Turner (see Amos, _Great Oyer_. p.
97).
He was one of the three persons executed with Mrs. Turner.
Arthur Wilson, in his _Life of James I. _ (p. 70), describes him
as 'a swarthy, sallow, crooked-backt fellow, who was to be the
_Fountain_ whence these bitter waters came. ' See also Somer's
_Tracts_ 2. 287. The poem already quoted furnishes a description
of Francklin:
A man he was of stature meanly tall.
His body's lineaments were shaped, and all
His limbs compacted well, and strongly knit.
Nature's kind hand no error made in it.
His beard was ruddy hue, and from his head
A wanton lock itself did down dispread
Upon his back; to which while he did live
Th' ambiguous name of _Elf-lock_ he did give.
--Quoted in Amos. p. 50.
=1. 2.
