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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12713	A Spectacle for vsurers and succors of poore folkes bloud whereby they may see, Gods iust dislike and reuenge, vpon their vncharitable and vnciuill oppression, with a horrible murther committed by a young man, that hanged his owne mother in August last, 1606.		1606 (1606)	STC 23030.3; ESTC S995	5,651	14

A Spectacle for Vsurers and Succers of poore folkes bloud Whereby they may see Gods iust dislike and reuenge vpon their vncharitable and Vnciuill oppression With a horrible murther committed by a young man that hanged his owne Mother in August last 1606. Imprinted at London for Iohn Wright and are to be sold at his shop neere Christs-Church gate 1606. A true treatise declaring how miraculously an Vsurer was deuoured by Rats at Charret neere to the citty of Aix in Prouence within the Kingdome of France on the second day of August 1606. According to the French Copie printed at Lions by Leger Bonhomme AH what a world is this when we must haue amongest vs who are baptised in the name of Christ Jesus and doe carry the names of Christians men so voyde of all charity and so without all humanity towards their neighbours that they are not ashamed by all forts of greedy couetousnesse and extortions as by vnreasonable enhaunsing the price of victualls and all other cruell and vnkind meanes to oppresse and vtterly vndoe their poore Christian brethren and sisters without any remorse or pitty to the fatherlesse children or distressed widowes as I may say that we seeme rather to liue among Jewes than Christians Yea it may be auouched that the Turkes and Saracins I had almost said the very sauage and brutish Americanes would be ashamed to plot and practise such horrible and accursed meanes for the spoyling and pining of poore Christians as is daily practised among vs who make profession to haue beene trayned in Christ his schoole Which might iustly make to blush for shame our Vsurers and vnsatiable greedy minded men who care for nothing but inriching themselues although it be with the ruine and vtter vndoing of infinite poore people whō they suffer yea cause to perish Whose cries vndoubtedly do ascend vnto theeares of the Lord and he being a iust Iudge will be auenged thereon And though he punish not visibly in this life alwayes the vnmercifulnesse of wicked worldlings yet hath he sundry times shewed fearefull tokens of his displeasure against such dealings Among which marke this notable example following Vpon the second day of August last past in the yeare of Grace 1606 at Charret a little towne nere to the Citty of Aix in Prouence within the Kingdome of France there dwelt a rich Vsurer named George Rolet of the age of about fifty yeares Hee had three Graniers full of Corne and two cellars full of wine and much cattell of his owne feeding on both sides of Aix besides great store of money that was owing him And he neuerlent any money or money worth to any without sufficient pawnes or else to men that were wealthy And he so dealt by lending as euery six moneths he would commonly double his principall so vngraciously had he hardened his heart by wicked vsuryes and extortions to inrich himselfe His wife was dead hauing left him no childe neyther had he any body for whom he might thus miserably strape these goods together but one Neece for to inrich whom and to fulfill his owne vnsatiable couetousnesse hee omitted no vile and abhominable practises of vsury vnassaied neuer regarding how wretchedly his soule were left quite abandoned of charity and al piety wherby it became a bondslaue to the Deuill who as a hangman or executioner of Gods iust wrath against the wicked pay those their hire in the ende that are ruled by him Now it so fel out that this wretched Vsurer had not sold any of his corne or wine that yeare staying vntill a time should come when he might sell it deerer but when he saw the yeare so farre past as he could hope for no greater price he thought it best to set open his Graniers and to sell his corne which he did vpon a Market day And forthwith came hasting thether manye people of sundry sexes ages for to buy Corne. Amongst others came a poore woman a Widow from a Village called Montalien beeing a little league distant from thence The womans name was Claudia Balme who meaning to buy corne asked him how hee sold a bushell He answered fiue shillings What sayd she fiue shillings Now that God bestoweth such plenty on vs you might wel affoard it for three shillings I had rather sayd he be eaten vp with Rats then I would let it go for lesse then fiue There withall at the same instant comes another poore woman from another Village not far off called Werre in to whom this Vsurer had lent foure crownes-worth of cor●e vppon condition that she must pay him a third partmore then the price of the Market and besides to pay six pence a moneth vsury for euery crowne for assistance whereof he had receyued of the sayd woman named Margaret Paschall seuen rings in pawne This foresaid day came the said Margaret Paschall and sayd vnto him Mayster George Rolet I haue brought you the money which I owe you and I pray you giue mee my rings againe He answered her yes Gossip you shall Then she telling him out first the principall and then the interest demaundeth agayne ver rings The Vsurer taketh her money and locketh it vp opening a cupbord taketh out a folded paper and deliuereth it vnto her saying Lo Gossip there be your goodes She opening the paper ands one of her rings wanting where at being much grieued she sayd vnto him I haue payd you your full asking and yet I misse here one of my rings I beseech you deale not so hardly with met as to keepe it but let me haue it agayne He denyed that he had any mo of her then the sixe The woman contrariwise auouched that shee had deliuered to him seuen describing vnto him what manner of one it was saying that it was the first that euer her deceassed husband had giuen her He still denyed it The poore woman fell on weeping and still affirmed that he had her sayd ring Hee after many other oathes and protestations did in the ende according to his vsuall manner of swearing or rather of cursing himselfe beseech God for to suffer the Rats to eate and deuour him vp if euer he had or receiued any such ring This poore woman sel on her knees saying I pray and most humbly beseech God Almighty that it may so come to passe and that he shew some wonderfull token vpon you or mee to make manifest whether of vs doo sweare falsly and I verily trust that God who is most iust will declare miraculously which of vs holdeth the trueth and which the contrary She had scarce made an ende of her prayer but immediatly there came a wonderfull thing to teh an innumerable sort of Rats which set vpon this Vsurer some on one part of him some on another And albeit his seruants sought by all meanes to driue them a way they laboured in vaine for the more they hunted them away the mo in multitudes came still more and more assayling him His friends and kinsfolke caused him