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A03963	A vvorld of vvonders. A masse of murthers. A couie of cosonages Containing many of the moste notablest wonders, horrible murthers and detestable cosonages that haue beene within this land. Not imagined falso to delight vaine heads ociose, not practised trans mare to breed trueth cum ambiguitate, but commited euen at home re vera, and may be prooued cum honestate. A matter moste fit to be knowen, well wayed and considered of all men.	T. I., fl. 1595.; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 14068.5; ESTC S109081	33,922	48

Archigallo was twise king of this land and Elidurus his brother twise disposed so that he was thrise ruler heerof Catillus who ruled this land ten yeares caused all Extortioners and oppressors of the poore to be hanged to giue examples to other I would to God they were so vsed now a dayes I suppose there would be a great number of vsurers brokers sergiaunts About thréescore yeares after the birth of Christ it is supposed that Christianitie came into this land but diuers write diuersly for some as Necephorus and Dowthemus say that Simon Zelotes first preached Christ heere Some say Phillip the Apostle Some say Ioseph of Armathia that buryed our Lord. King Arthur conquered thirtie kingtomes such as were in those dayes wherin he liued In the raigne of Careticus and Ethelfridus was such ciuil and deadly warres that the most part of this land was buryed destroyed and the people that were left faine to flye into Wales the faithfull of Christ was then almost extinguished the Brittaines indispaire and in subuersion to the Saxons But what is the cause or this prouoking of Gods anger euen couetousnes whordome and extortion Looke vp England looke vp and repent those sinnes were then but euen in the budde now behol●e and repent for now are they in the fulnes of their flower and stay but for the frute Woe are wée whose doyes are so dangerous But Lord awake in mercie and take pittie on vs. Then couerend Beda wrote 78. bookes and in his time renoumed throughout the whole worlde When Bytiricus ruled this land it rained blood yea that fel on peoples clothes appeared like crosses When this land was stored with Wooules the Princes of VVales payed 300. Wooules euerie yeare to the King of England for at that time might scarce two be found vntill the yeare 994. neither feuer nor flix nor murren of Cattle were knowen in this land In the time of king VVilliam the Conquerour was scarcitie and dearth that men did eat horsses cats dogges yea and mans flesh Anno 1093 was such a famine that therof sprang such and so great a mortalitie that the quick were scant able the dead Also in the yeare 1099. we read that blood sprang out of y e earth at Finchamstead in Barkshire Much about this time the water of the riuer of Trent at Nottingham was dryed vp from one of the clock till thrée The like defection of water did the Theames at Londen bridg suffer about foure yeares after The 24. of February at Tewxbury being then their Faire such number of flyes and kyttles dammed Seuern that for the length of a Buts shot were in mens iudgement estéemed abooue a hundred quarters A wunder of wunders befel in England throughout 1133. for there was great darknes throughout all the land and the Sunne appeared no otherwise then as the Moone when she is in her last quarter Giraldus Cambrencis in his booke of the discription of Wales telleth that in the Cuntrey Kemanies yea in his time a young man named Se●●illus borne in those parts was so tormented w t toades as though all the toades in the Cuntrey had beene gathered together to vex him and when as innumerable numbers of them were killed by those that kept him by others of his friends and kinsmen yet came they still increasing in greater numbers then before insomuch that when his acquaintance perceiued no help after many assayes they loped all the boughes and leaues of a very high trée and closed him in a coffin made for the purpose so hoisted vp into the said high trée but notwithstanding poore S●isillies was still molested with them for they créeping vp wunderfull heapes left him not til they had eaten him vy to bare bones and so dyed About Orford in Suffolk certaine fishers tooke in their nettes a fish in all pointes shaped like a man which fish was half a yeare kept in Orford Castle for a wunder Hée would eat all manner meat but most gréedily raw fish he was shewed in no kinde of worship Aftermen had wundred at him hée was little estéemed of and so not béeing looked vnto stole away and was neuer heard of 1188. In the yeare 1230. a suddain darknesse chaunced in Poules-Church euen at seruice time so oue could scantly sée an other Also bout thrée or foure yeare afterward fiue sunnes to be séene in the ayre as also two great dragons flyingand fighting together during a whole day the one day chased the other to the déepe sea After all these followed great warres and troubles in England Wales c. Beholde all Cornehourders a wunderfull example not fained but by sufficient testimonies to be approued done euen at home In the yeare 1234 was a dearth in England as true histories recorde euen as now also there is so that many dyed for want of victualls The richmen as now a dayes were dwelled with couetousnes so that they would not releiue them that were in necessite Amongst whome a thing worthy noting was one Walter Gray Arch-bishop of Yorke whose corne béeing fiue yeares olde doubted that the vermine would destroy it and therfore cōmaunded to deliuer it to husband men that dwelt in his manours vppon condicion as much new corne after the next haruest and would distribute none of it to the poore for Gods sake Now it fortuned that when the men came to a great stacke of corne that stoode néere to the towne of Rippon belonging to the said Archbishop and had opened the corne there appeared in the sheaues the heds of wormes and of toades and horrible serpents yea and a voice was heard out of the mowe saying lay no handes one that corne for the Archbishop and all that he hath is the diuels This being heard the left it and the bayliffes of the Towne were faine to build an high wall round about the corne and then to set it one fire least the venemous venime should haue gonne out to haue poysned the corne in other places Beholde this true example and repent thou couetous richman and doe good while time is offered thée and God will blesse thée the better A sea-bull was taken passinge the thames as far as Mortlake to the 25. yeare of the reigne of King Richard the 3. It is most aproued that in the sayd Kings raigne ther dwelled in the Dioces of Lincolne a woman of noble birth both well fauored and beautifull who being married to a rich man in that curtry beare to her husband many children and yet not with stāding wonderfull to tell the sayd woman got another gētle with child and begate of her thrée sonnes one after an other or euer the ma●er came to light the woman were named Hauissia and Lucia In King Edward the 2 raigne flesh of beasts was so corrupted that men durst not eate therof such murraine of beasts and cattell was then that men and women stole Cattes and did eate their owne children some fatte dogges horses such like Prisoners plucked in peeces

him with his knife cut his throte and after would haue trussed him in a ●ans● chest but the same was to short Wheruppon he turned him downe a payre of stares thinking to bury him in the sellor but he being stiffe and the sell●● stares narrow and winding he could not drawe him down wherfore tooke an hatchet and cut off his legs and trussed him vp with strawe in a dryfat saying it was his apparell and bookes and caused it to be carryed to the water side and caryed to Rye The yeare 1573 was one hanged in chaines in Saint Georges ●eild néere London for murthering the Iaylour of Horsham ●n the sayd seild The 25 of March 1573 George Saunders a merchaunt was murthered most shameefully by George Browne by the instigation of his owne wife and other her complices A youngman was hanged in chaines at Miles end néer London the seuenteene of February for murdering a man in a Garden In White Chaple parish néer London in the yeare 1584 dwelled one Cornelius an enteandishman a shoomaker who had his wife lying sick some certaine time this woman had a Daughter maryed to one Arnold a Cobler who retayned into his seruice a Dutch mayde béeing his néer kinswoman and Arnolds wife had a sonne also being a youth of reasonable yeares who whilste the mayde was in the house would often be familier with her yet nothing suspected for any lewd dealings betwixt them till Cornelius his wife dyed and the mayde went to dwell with Cornelius wherupon his youth get the maide with childe and was partly séene dooing the déede by a little boy the Cunstabies sonne of that precinct which tolde it to his fellow seruants who nothing regarding his wordes sayd not any thing therof so that the mayde béeing tall and of a reasonable proportion went so long w t childe till the time of her labour vnsuspected which time of trauell hapned euen the self same day that her mistresse should be buryed at what time the housholde busied in winding the dead corps this mayde departing from the women went to aback chamber in the further parte of the house and after seme small time was deliuered none beeing néer the place but the forenamed boy who wrought in the roume vnderneath When she was deliuered she endeuored to strangle it by laying her hand vppon the mouth of it but the Childe beeing strong cryed so that the boy in the neither ro●●●e heardit wherupon shée tooke a knife and laying the childe vpon the fiares cut the throate of it so déep that a man might haue laid seure fingers in y e woūd and hauing thus ended her most vnnaturall fact cast it into the priuie and went about her busines without any signe or suspicion of any such filthines But the boy partely perceiuing that it was the maides childe went priuely to one of the chei● seruaunts and tolde him what he had heard and that partie tolde it afterwards to one of the neighbours whereuppon the cry of the Childe came in question she to examination aud search where shée confessed the matter and thereuppon the childe was taken vp and bad the law and she committed to prison had iudgement according to her defert and was executed at Tibourne But this one thing is to be noted that being demaunded of the wiues who gaue her that vunaturall minde mischeiuous help so to kill the Childe aunswered that the diuell was with her aud helped her to dispatch it in that manner Thus much haue I thought good to note at large forasmuch as it is more vsuall then any other and is the more odious inasmuch as it is engendred of two most horrible actions First of whoredome or adulterie which is wursse secondly of murther Let this then be a looking glasse to all maydes wherin to vei● the rewarde of silthines least they in●●rre the like daunger and penaltie I Flosse of welth affray thy minde If sicknes dyre oppresse thy hart If losse of freinds alyed by kinde If all or more tormet with smart Yet help in time only succour these Before colde death dooth clame his fees But if that mae den head be wrackt Then may dens name and fame are cracke And cannot be restorde againe But dooth her stock with blemish staine No he●th no welth no foe ne freind Can breach of may denhed amend Beware then may des I you exhort Ioue liue and dye in honest sorte A most notorious mnrther committed by an Inkeepers wife in Lincolneshyre vppon a trauailer a matter woorthie to be knowen of all Trauallers AN honest man trauailing vpon busines into Lincolneshyre not beeing able to reach so farre as hée purposed the day waxing toward an end hee himself wearyed and hauing some charge of money ryding through Carthrope not far distant from Newort vpon Trent vnderstanding of lodging in the Towne at the house of one Tompson a man of honest reputation went ●●ether requesting the good wife of the house that he might haue lodging and in secret sort opened to her what store of money he had and requested a chamber where his charge might be safe the wife very willing g●aunted and seemed so carefull that shée would that night lodge none that might be suspected persons Supper prepared and ended this trau●ler going to bedde laid his money vnder his beds head hauing locked the dore and the key sticking in the inside The hostesse and the rest of her Famely gone to bed for y e goodman of the house was rydden from home about certaine busines and knew nothing of this the hostesse incensed by the diuell could not rest for casting in her minde how to get the trauallers money wherfore when shée thought euerie one was in their dead sleape she went to the Chamber dore where the traualler lodged and hauing a sleight to open the lock by a little hole in the doore shée went in and found the mans knife see héer the subtletie of sathan to direct her to his knife as the instrument which shée tooke out of the sheathe and laying her hand vpon his mouth that hee might not cry out cut his throate with his ●wne knife and beeing thus mortally wounded he began to struggle with her but all in vai●● for shée soone b●reaued him of his best ioy in this world and tooke away the money Now to couer this her abhominable act shée fastned the mans hand to the knife which she left sticking in his throate and so de parted Her smock bloodded in the action other clothes she had not vppon her when she committed the fact she put off and put on a cleane one hyding the other least by that meanes shee might come in suspition by her seruants for none of them were made priuie what money the traualler had The morning comming she with her houshold arose and nothing was sayde till the day drawing well on shee sayde to her maydes that she maruelled that the trauailer lay so long hauing a iourney to goe and therupon bad