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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13515	The vnnaturall father, or, The cruell murther committed by [one] Iohn Rowse of the towne of Ewell, ten m[iles] from London, in the county of Surry, vpon two of his owne children with his prayer and repentance in prison, his arrai[gn]ment and iudgement at the Sessions, and his execution for the said fact at Croydon, on Munday the second of Iuly, 1621.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1621 (1621)	STC 23808A; ESTC S1148	10,295	21

perplexity of mind the poore woman was when shee perceiued how and which way they lost their liues any Christian that hath an heart of flesh may imagine Presently the Constable was sent for who tooke him into his custody who amongst other talke demanded of him why and how hee could commit so vnnaturall a fact as to murder his Children To whom he answered that he did it because he was not able to keepe them and that hee was loth they should goe about the Towne a begging and moreouer that they were his owne and being so that hee might doe what hee would with them and that they had their liues from him and therefore he had taken their liues from them and was contented to lose his life for them for he was sure that their miseries were past and for his part he had an assured hope to goe to them though they could not come to him So being had before a Iustice his Examination was very briefe for he confest all the whole circumstances of the matter freely so that he was sent to the common Prison of Surry cal'd the White Lyon where hee remained fourteene or fifteene weekes a wonderfull penitent Prisoner neuer or very seldome being without a Bible or some other good booke meditating vpon and whon any one did but mention his Children he would fetch a deep sigh and weepe desiring euery one to pray for him and vpon his owne earnest request he was praide for at Pauls Crosse and at most of the Churches in London and at many in the Country and at the Sessions holden at Croydon the latter end of Iune last he made such free confession at the Barre declaring the manner of his life his odious Drinking his abominable Whoring his cruell Murther and the false dealing of his deceitfull friend which was the cause of his finall wracke with which Relations of his pronounced with such vehemency and protestations he moued all that heard him to commiseration and pitie So according to Law and Iustice he was there condemned and iudged for the murthering of his two Children to be hang'd which Iudgement was executed on him at the common Gallowes at Croydon on Munday the second day of Iune 1621. where he dyed with great penitency and remorce of Conscience This was the lamentable end of Iohn Rowse a man of the age of fifty yeeres and one that might haue liu'd and dyed in better fashion if he had laid hold on the grace of heauen and craued Gods protection and fatherly assistance but of all that herein is declared this one thing which I now declare is most lamentable remarkable which is that Ewell being a Market Towne not much aboue ten miles from London in a Christian Kingdome and such a Kingdome where the all-sauing Word of the euer-liuing God is most diligently sincerely and plentifully preached yet amidst this diligence as it were in the Circle or Center of this sincerity and in the floud of this plenty the Towne of Ewell hath neither Preacher nor Pastor for although the Parsonage be able to maintaine a sufficient Preacher yet the liuing beeing in a Lay-mans hand is rented out to another for a great sum yet no Preacher maintained there Now the chief Landlord out of his portion doth allow but seuen pounds yeerely for a Reader and the other that doth hyre the Parsonage at a great Rent doth giue the said Reader foure pound the yeere more out of his meanes and courtesie and by this meanes the Towne is serued with a poore old man that is halfe blinde and by reason of his age can scarcely read for all the world knowes that so small a stipend cannot finde a good Preacher Bookes and very hardly bread to liue on so that the poore soules dwelling there are in danger of famishing for want of a good Preacher to breake the Bread of Life vnto them for a Sermon amongst them is as rare as warm weather in December or Ice in Iuly both which I haue seene in England though but seldome And as the Wolfe is most bold with the Sheepe when there is either no Shepheard or an impotent insufficient one so the Diuell perhaps tooke his aduantage of this wretched man seeing he was so badly guarded so weakely guided to withstand his force and malice for where God is least known and called vpon there Satan hath most power and domination But howsoeuer I wish with all my heart that that Towne and many more were better prouided then they are and then such numbers of soules would not be in hazzard to perish nor so many sufficient schollers that can preach and teach well liue in penury through want of maintenance I could runne further vpon this point but that I doe shortly purpose to touch it more to the quick in another Booke By this mans fall we may see an example of Gods Iustice against Drunkennes Whoredome and Murder the Diuel being the first Author who was a Murtherer from the beginning who fil'd Cain with Enuy that hee murdered his brother Abel who tempted Dauid first to Adultery and afterwards to Murther who prouoked Herod to cause the blessed Seruant of God Iohn Baptist to lose his head because hee told him it was not lawfull for him to marry his brother Philips Wife and who was the prouoker of the aforesaid Herod to murther all the innocent male children in his Kingdome And let vs but marke and consider the plagues and punishments that God hath inflicted vpon Murderers Adulterers and Incestuous persons First Cain although by his birth hee was the first man that euer was borne a Prince by his birth and heire apparant to all the world yet for the Murther by him committed on his brother he was the first Vagabond and Runnagate on the face of the earth almost fearefull of his owne shaddow and after he had liued along time terrifide in Conscience was himselfe slaine as is supposed by Lamech Simeon and Leu● the sonnes of Iacob were accurst of their Father for the slaughter of the Sichemites Ioab the Captaine of Dauids Host was slaine for the murthering of Abner Dauid himselfe for the death of Vrias and the Adultery committed with Bethsheba was continually plagued and vexed with the Sword of Warre with the Rebellion of his owne sonnes and with the vntimely deaths of Amnon and Abs●lon Baanah and R●chab for the slaying of Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul they were both by Dauids commandement put to death who had both their hands and feete cut off were afterward hanged ouer the Poole in Hebron Samuel 2. 4. The examples are infinite out of diuine and humane Histories that God did neuer suffer Murder to goe vnrewarded and this miserable man of whom I haue heere related is a most manifest spectacle of Gods reuenging vengeance for that crying and hainous sinne As concerning Lust and Incontinency it is a short pleasure bought with long paine a hunnied poyson a Gul●●● of Shame a Pickpurse a breeder of Diseases