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A08946
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[A cruel Cornish murder] ... to the tune of The ladies daughter / M.P.
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M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656?
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1624
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STC 19224.7; ESTC S5091
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〈…〉 For which fact he his wife and the other woman were executed at Lanceston last Lent Assizes 〈◊〉 in chaines neere vnto the place where the murder was done To the tune of the Ladies daughter A Cruell Cornish Murder I briefely will declare â—â—t your attention further my Story wondrous rare And doe not thinke t is fayned because it séemeth strange What hath not Satan gained when men from God doe range At Crowen in that County an old blind man doth dwell Who by good peoples bounty did liue indifferent well By name he 's ca'ld Ca 〈…〉 wall his house stood all alone Where â—â—pt this déed so cruell the like was scarce ere knowne He had a proper Damsell that liu'd with him his daughter To whom some suiters came still and in true Wedlocke saught her Because the newes was bruited how that the blind man would Though he were poore reputed giue forty pounds in gold Oh thou bewitching money What mischiefe doth thou cause Thou mak'st men dote upon thée contrary to Gods Lawes What Murder is so hainous but thou canst find out those Who willingly for gaine thus will venter life to lose Nay often soule and body as in this Story rare By the sufferance of God I will punctually declare The fame of this mans riches a Uagrant chanc't to heare In haste his fingers itches away the same to beare This bloody murderous Uillaine whose fact all manhood shames Did liue long time by stealing his name was Walter Iames Who with his wife and one more yong woman and a boy Three Innocents in purple gore did cruelly distroy The twenty sixth of Iuly when it was almost night These wanderers vnruly on this lone house did light The old blind man was then abroad and none but his old wife And a little Girle i th' house abode whom they depriu'd of life At first they ask'd for Uittle quoth she with all my heart Although I haue but little of that you shall haue part He swore he must haue money alas here 's none she sed His heart then being stony he straight cut off her head And then he tooke her G 〈…〉 about some seuen yéer 〈…〉 Which he oh monster b 〈…〉 by both the héeles did 〈…〉 And beate her braines o 〈…〉 oh barbarous cruelty 〈…〉 The like of this I neuer 〈…〉 in any history When they those two ha 〈…〉 and tane what they de 〈…〉 Like people fully filled 〈…〉 with ioy they sate by t 〈…〉 And tooke Tobacco mer 〈…〉 without all feare or dr 〈…〉 Knowing no house nor to 〈…〉 and while these two 〈…〉 In came the blind mans d 〈…〉 who had beene workin 〈…〉 And séeing such a slaught 〈…〉 she wondrously was 〈…〉 No maruell when her B 〈…〉 lay headlesse on the floor Her zeale she could not s 〈…〉 but running out o th' doo 〈…〉 His Sword which lay all 〈…〉 with her she tooke an 〈…〉 As fast as she was able she ran to call some folk To come and sée the murd 〈…〉 but after her he stept And ere she went much fur 〈…〉 he did her intercept 〈…〉 oh stony-hearted wretch And into th' house he brought her what sighes alas I fetch To thinke vpon this Tragedy for he with mischiefe stor'd Cut off her head most bloodily with th' piece o th' broken Sword Thus did thrée harmlesse innocents by one vile Caitiffes hand With both the counsell and consents o th' woman of his hand Their heads and bodies laid they all very close together And being gone a little way they did at last consider That if the house were burned the murder might be hid With that they backe returned and as they thought they did Setting the house on fire which burned till next day Full many did admire as they went on the way These murtherers suspected that people would haue thought Those thrée i th house enclosed vnto their deaths were brought By accident of fire but God did then declare His power 〈◊〉 let 's admire his wondrous workes most rare The murdered corps remained as if no fire had beene Their clothes with blood besmeared not burnt as might be séene The leg and arme o th' Maiden were only burnt in sunder Full many people said then i th' middest of their wonder That surely there were murdered by some that robd them had And presently t was ordered that for this déed so bad All Uagrants on suspicion should apprehended be And in this inquisition one happened to sée Some clothes vpon the parties that from this house were tane And soone before a Iustice the little boy told plaine All things before that passed also the boy did say Iames was i th mind to kill him lest he should all betray They taken were at Meriwicke forty fiue miles or more From Crowen where the murther was about a moneth before 〈…〉 Where in the Iayle they lay Untill the Lent Assize did come which tooke their liues away The little Boy was quitted and sent vnto the Parish Where he was borne well fitted with clothes and food to cherish Him as he ought with honesty and leaues his wandering trade The other thrée were 〈…〉 ' d to dye on that which he had said But Walter Iames denyed that ere he did that act Forswearing till he dyed and when he dy'd that fact His wife at her last ending confest the bloody guilt So monstrously offending when so much blood was spilt The other woman after confest more plainely all Iames tooke his death with laughter and nere to God did call Thus as he liu'd a reprobate and did God great re 〈…〉 t His soule w c Christ bought at deare rate in death he did neglect He was hang'd dead at Lancestone among the rest that 〈…〉 Then carried where the déed was done and by the high-way side He hangeth for example in chaines now at this time Thus haue I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 discourse of this foule crime Obiection may be framed where was the old blind man Whom I haue neuer named since when I first beganne He was abroad i th' interim when this mischance befell Or else the like had hapt to him but he is liuing still And goes about the Country to begge as he before Did vse among the Gentry and now his néed is more All you that are kind Christians thinke on this bloody déed And craue the Lords assistance by it to take good héed The names of certaine 〈◊〉 men of the Countrey for confirmation of the verity of this tragicall Story Iohn Albon William Beauchamp William Lanyon William Randall Iohn Câ—s. Ezekiel Trenton Iohn 〈…〉 e. Iohn Tr 〈…〉 Finis M. P. â—ondon Printed for F. Coules