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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66695	Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign containing fifty three several remarks ... with thirty seven more several histories, very pleasant and delightful / collected out of approved authors, by William Winstanley ...	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing W3062; ESTC R11630	186,957	324

made an Out-cry in the House wringing her hands pulling her Hair and weeping extreamly with pretence that missing him for some time out of Bed she went to see what the matter was and found him accidentally on the Close-stool in that Posture which subtile and feigned Shews of Sorrow she acted so to the Life as prevented all suspicion of his violent Death And not long after went to London setting so high a value upon her Beauty that Robinson her former Darling perhaps for not keeping touch with her as before is related became estranged But within two Years following it so hapned that this woeful deed of Darkness was brought to light and that by the means of the Groom one of the Actors thereof above specified who being entertained a Servant with Mr. Richard Smith Son and Heir to the murthered Knight and attending him to Coventry with divers other Servants his guilty Conscience which had oftentimes before flew in his Face made him become so sensible of his Villany and being in his Cups a bad cause of a good effect that out of good Nature he took his Master aside and upon his Knees humbly desiring Forgiveness of him for the Murther of his Father made him acquainted with all the Circumstances belonging thereunto which tho' it struck in Mr. Smith a great Amazement and Abhorrency of the Fact yet discreetly he gave him good Words but privately commanded some other of his Servants to have an especial Eye on him that he might not escape when he had slept and better considered what might be the Issue thereof but notwithstanding this strict Charge those careless Servants either not knowing the horridness of his Fact or out of love to his Person suffer'd him to escape and that on one of his Master's best Horses who being thus mounted hasted presently into Wales attempting to go beyond Sea but being hindred by contrary Winds after three Essays to launch out was so happily pursued by Mr. Smith who spared for no cost in sending to several Ports that he was apprehended and brought Prisoner to Warwick as was also about the same time the Lady and her Gentlewoman who notwithstanding the Circumstances before recited did all of them with great Boldness deny the Fact the Groom to his other Wickedness most impudently charging Mr. Smith endeavour of corrupting him to accuse the Lady his Mother-in-law falsely to the end he might possess her Joynture but afterwards upon his Arraignment he was so smitten at apprehension of that load of guilt which lay upon him that he publickly acknowledged it and stoutly justified what he had so said to be true to the Face of the Lady and her Maid who at first with a great deal of Confidence pleaded their Innocency but at last seeing each particular Circumstance so clearly discovered and avowed they both confessed the Fact for which having Judgment to dye the Lady was burnt at a Stake near the Hermitage on Wolvey Heath towards the side of Shirford Lordship where the Country People to this day shew the place and the Groom with the Maid suffer'd Death at Warwick This was on May 15. in the third Year of Queen Mary's Reign A remarkable Story of the occasion which made the Danes first to invade England and of their murthering St. Edmund AT such time as the West-Saxons had gotten the Sway of the whole Heptarchy there reigned under them in the Kingdom of Northumberland as Vice-roy one Osbright who as he followed his disport in Hunting came to the House of a Nobleman named Beorn Bocador whose Lady of passing Feature in his Absence gave him honourable Entertainment and intreated both himself and Train to repose themselves there a while after their wearisom Delights The Vice-roy already ensnared with her Beauty accepted her courteous offer not so much to tast her Meats as to surfeit his Eyes with her rare Beauty and lasciviously to dote in his own Affections The Dinner ended and all ready to depart as though some weighty matters were to be handled he commanded an Avoidance from the Presence and taking the Lady into a withdrawing Chamber under pretence of secret Conference greatly tending to the Advancement of her Lord and self most unnobly being not able to prevail by smooth Persuasions did by force violate her constant Chastity which Dishonour thus received and her Mind distracted like to Thamar's at her Husbands Return all ashamed to behold his Face whose Bed had so been wronged with floods of Tears she thus set open the Sluces of her Passions Had thy Fortunes accorded to thy own Desert or thy Choice proceeded as by Vow was obliged then had no stain of Blemish touched thine Honour nor cause of Suspicion once approached thy Thought nor had my self been my self these blushing Cheeks had not invited thy sharp peircing Eye to look into my guilty and defiled Breast which ow thou may'st see disfurnished of Honour and the Closet of pure Chastity broken up only the Heart and Soul is clean yet fears the Tincture of this polluted Cask and would have passage by thy revenging hand from this loathsome Prison and filthy Trunk I must confess our Sex is weak and accompanied with many Faults yet none excusable how small soever much less the greatest which Shame doth follow and inward Guilt continually attend Yours is created more inviolable and firm by whose Constancy as our flexible Weakness is guarded so our true Honours by your just Arms should be protected O Beorn Beorn for Husband I dare not call thee revenge therefore my Wrongs that am now made thy Shame and Scandal of my Sex upon that hideous Monster nay incarnate Devil Osbright O that very name like Poyson corrupts my Breath and I want Words to deplore my Grief who hath no Law but his Lust nor measure of his Actions but his Power nor priviledge for his loathsome Life but his Greatness whilst we with a self Fear and servile Flattery mask our Baseness with crowching Obedience and bear the Wrongs of his most vile Adulteries Thou yet art free from such dejected and degenerate Thoughts nor hast thou smoothed him in his wicked and ever-working Devices be still thy self then and truly noble as thou art It may be for his place thou owest him respect but what therewith the loss of Honour Thine Affection but not thy Bed thy Love but not thy beloved yet hast thou lost at once all these and he thy only Bereaver thou wast my Stay whilst I stayed by thee and now being down revenge my Fall The Instinct of Nature doth pity our Weakness the Law of Nations doth maintain our Honour and the Sword of Knight-hood is sworn by to be unsheathed for our just Defence much more the link of Wedlock claims it which hath lock'd two Hearts in one But alas that Ward is broken and I am thy Shame who might have been thy Honour Revenge thy self therefore on him and me else shall this hand let out the Ghost that shall still attend thee