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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03402	Histoire des larrons, or The history of theeves. Written in French, and translated out of the originall, by Paul Godwin; Histoire generale des larrons. English	Calvi, François de.; Godwin, Paul, fl. 1638.	1638 (1638)	STC 13523; ESTC S104108	74,053	330

Maillard cheated a Goldsmith of a rich piece of Plate c. NEcessity is the mother of inventions said a Philosopher not without good reason for when we are once falne into this labyrinth our owne mishaps doe quicken our wits and furnish us with some pollicy whereby to save our selves if it be possible from the lowest degree of misery An example whereof we will shew in the notable exploits of Maillard whose ill education increased his natural propēsion to wickednesse and whose present wants enforced him to work his wits for a Remedie The first action he did after his arrival at Paris was to enroll himselfe among the crew of cutpurses and with them to frequent the new Bridg their Rendevous he chiefly associated himselfe with two of the most subtill of the troupe from thence hee came to the Cordeliers where hee insinuated himselfe into the acquaintance of one of the Friers of the house that hee might cause him to act a part in a Comedie Good Father said he I have a brother that within these few dayes hath conceived such griefe and melancholly for the death of his wife whom he loved as his owne soule that it hath almost distracted him sometime hee telleth us that hee seeth her Ghost and that it talketh unto him wherefore I am come purposely to intreat you to use your indeavour to draw him back into the good way and to settle his distracted senses otherwise I feare that the Devill who still presents unto him a thousand fancies and Chimera's will set him wholly and irrecoverably beside himselfe tomorrow I will bring him unto you that you may give him admonitions and withdraw those thicke clouds of sorrow which darken his understanding Amidst his ravings and idle talke hee cryes out that hee is robbed and demands his Money Plate and other things to bee restored unto him wee have given him some Physick to purge these melanchollie humours from him but to small purpose how ever I hope that your advice and holy admonitions will more effectually worke upon his understanding You may bring him hither said the Frier I will use my best endeavours to settle his minde this proceeds out of a drynesse of the braine caused by his vehement and extreame griefe Upon these words Maillard returnes being very glad that hee had laid his nets so handsomely to catch the first Partridge hee therefore returns unto his Comerades and certifies them of his plot and purpose the next morning very early he takes one of his companions with him being clothed in the habit of a Priest goes unto the Exchange bridge and there cheapeneth a silver Chalice which was worth eight pounds The Goldsmith doubted nothing of the deceit supposing that his companion being like a Priest should have payed him for it they having agreed upon the price Maillard desires him to send it by his man along with them to the Covent of Cordeliers and that there he should receive his money they thence went strait to the Cordeliers about nine of the clocke in the morning and by the way entertained the Goldsmiths man with so good discourse that hee never dreamed ought of the ensuing deceit Being come to the gate Maillard seeming to be well acquainted with the house rang the Bell and demanded to speake with such a Father the Porter answered that hee was at Church with a Gentleman Sir then said he to the Goldsmith you may leave the Plate with the Porter whilst we goe heare Masse and as soone as it is done you shall receive your money to the which he being willing delivered it to Maillards companion who gave it to the Porter so they went into the Vestry where the Frier was putting on his Cope to say Masse Maillard taking his opportunity steps unto him and tells him that that was his brother of whom hee had spoken the day before The Frier dreaming nothing of the deceit turnes to the Goldsmith my friend saith hee have a little patience till Masse be ended and I will satisfie you The Goldsmith imagining that he should certainly receive money after Masse was content to stay and take his place in the Chancell whither Maillard and his Comerade bare him company till the time of offering But not being willing to let goe the present occasion hee whispered the Goldsmith in the eare that they would goe before to the next Taverne which they named to drinke a quart of wine and there they would expect his company content quoth the Goldsmith and so they parted The Goldsmith yet doubted not of any deceit or fraud in their discourse or carriage but thought it sufficient that hee had the Friers words for his satisfaction and that hee had seene the Plate delivered into the hands of the Porter of the Covent Maillard meane while comes with his Comerade unto the Porter and askes for the Chalice which hee had left with him faining that he would goe say Masse in a Chappel neer adjoyning at the request of some devout ones as the manner is in Paris The Porter beleeving that according to the usuall custome hee would goe say Masse delivered him the Chalice who immediately departed and being out at the gate you may conceive they lost little time in going for they were not troubled with the Gout The Frier the mean while who knew nothing of the deceit having said Masse came into the Vestrie whither the Goldsmith followed him pricking his ears like an Hare and preparing his Bag and Gold-weights to receive money for his Chalice to whom the good Frier drawing him aside began this discourse My friend saith he is it long since your wife died and that you have been troubled with this malady for I must know the cause and beginning thereof that I may the better apply a Remedy What wife said the Goldsmith I am not married this is not the matter that brought me hither I know well said the Frier that you are not married for then you would soone have forgot your former wife and it is not likely being you bare her so great affection that you would so soon seeke a new one but it is good to know the time since she died that I may the better ease you of your griefe But Sir said the Goldsmith I suppose you take me for some other I have no Wife neither yet intend to have one I come onely for to receive money that is due unto me My friend said the Frier I knew very well you would demand money neverthelesse I doubt not but to restore you to your perfect minde Have you beene at Confession since you perceived your selfe troubled with this disease Have you purged your conscience from the evill deeds you have done by Confession and Repentance for sometimes God doth afflict us for our sinnes and offences excuse me if I search so narrowly into your affairs it is not but for your good Sir replyed the Goldsmith excuse me if I must needs say one of us wants his sences and is not

have caused dissention in regard that the Goldsmith would have forced the Basin on him Little Iames having thus acted his part returned unto his Companions and shewed them the Purse whereat they rejoyced but this their joy was short for Little Iames hating them deadly for their disobedience led them to a by-place called Mount Pernassus where hee commanded the one to stay for him and having drawne the other about a Flight-shot from thence told him in great fury that he could hardly forbeare to kill him whereupon his Comrade desired to know the cause of his anger and the reason why hee spoke such words but Little Iames perceiving that he saucily reasoned with him suddenly drew forth his Sword and ranne him thorow thence he came back to the other whom he had commanded to stay for him on the Mount but lest his companion should suspect any harme or ill intent from him he drew neere unto him with a smiling countenance when the other asking him where his Comrade was he snatcht forth a Poniard and stabbing him therewith he said behold there he is go thou to him He once killed a begging Frier and having taken on him his habit and Letters of Order came unto the Friers at S. Vincents where he was by them for the space of fifteene dayes kindly entertained and being resolved to furnish himselfe before his departure he brought with him from Paris divers sorts of Pick-lock instruments with which hee while the rest of the Convent were about midnight as their custome is at Mattens excusing himselfe for his absence as being constrained thereto by in-disposition of body pickt open a doore where their money lay which hee having taken away cunningly shut the doore and went to bed the next day he arose early and taking his leave of the Superiour returned to Paris where by his begging from doore to doore hee greatly distressed those that were of that Order for when any of them went forth to beg provision they were answered that they were served already and that they had given it to one of their fellowes whereat the Fryers were mightily amazed and could not conceive by any meanes who it was that so grosly abused them by this meanes did Little Iames commit sundry great thefts within the Citizens houses he having free entrance by reason of his habit but it came to passe at length that the Fryers of Saint Vincents having found out his arch knavery desired some Officers within the City to search for him but their labour was in vaine untill it hapned that one of those Fryers not long after entring into a certaine house for an almes met this Iames comming forth of the same House whereupon hee intreated the Servants to lay hands on him which they did and having lustily beaten him were about to have led him to a Justice but by the comming of some of his Associates who guarded him hee was rescued Little Iames taking an especiall notice of them came the the next morning having changed his habit neere unto the place where those Servants dwelt and craftily enquires their names and the names of their Parents which having fully understood he appointed 2. or 3. of his companions to meet him at a house not far from thence at which time he wrote this Letter unto one of the Lackeys which had beaten him whose name was Francis Maire the Contents of the Letter was as followeth Sonne I Am come purposely into this City to acquaint you with some affaires which have lately happened in our parts you have lived long here with little profit I have found a Match fit for you in our Countrey which you must not neglect It is not alwayes time to sow we must sometimes reape I would willingly have come unto your lodging but that perhaps in so doing your Master would have suspected that I came purposely to entise you away wherefore I should bee glad to see you at my lodging whither this bearer will conduct you I will in the meane time cause a Breakfast to be provided for you against you come and if you bring a friend with you he shall be welcome and his entertainement shall be the best we can provide Farewell Having sealed this Letter he directs one of his young Cut-purses unto the house where this Maire dwelt who having received it failed not to come with his Companion where being arrived he was informed that his father was gone into the City and had left command for them to goe to Breakfast and not to stay for him They therefore being earnestly intreated to sit down did but they had not sate long before little Iames entred and saluted them but they at first knew him not untill he withdrawing himselfe into an innerroome presently came forth in his Fryers habit then were the Lackyes in extreme perplexity and would have forsaken the Table but Little Iames and his company suddenly seazed on them and stripping them naked he first lashed them with Stirrop-leathers then with a more then barbarous cruelty caused their skins to bee gashed and after they being all bloudy hee put them into a great Tub of feathers where they had little ease nothing could their cryes availe them by reason that the House stood in a by-place farre from any common resort and after having done them many other injuries hee at mid-night sent them away feathered like so many Fowle and immediately he and his company forsooke the house Having discoursed of the manner of his Life let us come now unto his Death and see whether it bee as tragick as the actions of his life did prognosticate The fame of this notorious Theef augmented daily in Paris and twenty Leagues round there about so that the Provost thought it a part of his duty to make diligent search after him hee gives strict order therefore to his Troopes deligently to give attendance with whom hee made a Rode towards the Forrest of Fountaine-bleau it being the common place where he lurked but the subtilty of little Iames deceived him for he having intelligence of it disguising himselfe like a country Ploughman passed through the middest of them and came to Paris without being knowne but in vaine escapes he who drawes his punishment after him For he being one day in a Tennis Court was earnestly noated by some of the Provosts men who were going to play which exceedingly daunted him yet without seeming to feare or suspect any thing he passed by them but the Officers presently following him saw him enter into a house where a yong Wench dwelt whom he had debaucht and and at that time maintained whereupon they besetting the house and one of them knocking at the doore hee himselfe came to the Window and demanded their businesse although hee too well knew their intent the Officers without using many words began to break open the doore when little Iames on the other side arming himselfe with a fierce resolution foreseeing that he could not escape death resolved to sell his