Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	part_n	5,356	5	4.4664	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73560	The bloudy mother, or The most inhumane murthers, committed by Iane Hattersley vpon diuers infants, the issue of her owne bodie & the priuate burying of them in an orchard with her araignment and execution. As also, the most loathsome and lamentable end of Adam Adamson her Master, the vnlawfull begetter of those vnfortunate babes being eaten and consumed aliue with wormes and lice. At east Grinsted in Sussex neere London, in Iuly last. 1609.	T. B. (Thomas Brewer)	1610 (1610)	STC 3717.3; ESTC S124650	11,587	24

Many times did Adamson with his owne tongue giue cause of a suspition for three or foure times as Edward Duffell wrought in his Orhcard which as I haue before said was Adamsons he was earnestly requested and sometime straightly charged not to digg neere the Box tree he not mistrusting such a thought as raisd that prohibition maruailed yet not knowing what to make of it let it passe without any further thinking vppon it But see the goodnesse of the ●eare of euery secret within a small time after this vppon what occasion I know not Adamson Iane were at high words and very bitter reuilings past from one to another In which windie battails Iane cald her maister murderer in the hearing of many neighbours and that not once or twice but itterated and reitterated it very freely bouldly and to this added that there was that yet hidden that would hang him And that there was a tree in Duffels orchard which if it could speake would send him to the gallows These words in the vehemencie of anger she vttered for thus it pleased him that made Balaams Asse to speake that beast to make the beast speake to open the way to their destruction for hereupon Edward Duffel tooke diuers of his neighbours and remembring that many times he had bin warned not to digg neere the Box tree went then and diggd about it to see if there were any such thing as they suspected should be by her speeches Small digging seru'd to bewray their wickednesse for he had not digd a full foot deepe eare he found many small bones which bones not long after before Iustices and men of account were prooud to barr al opposite obiections by the skill of a cunning and very expert Anothomist to be the bones of a child Vppon this in a word Adamson and his seruant Iane were apprehended sent to Horshan gaole some ten or twelue miles from Greensteed but Adamson vpon bands and good security to answers all that might be obiected against him at the Assizes was in a litle time from thence released and had his libertie to walke about his businesse Iane lay not long there neither she was vppon bonds from thence released ●oo but her bonds were the bonds she was bound in her release but a remoue from thence to the Kings bench in southwarcke where while she staid she wanted nothing for he that had bin kind and liberall to her in the time of her libertie did not forget her in the time of her captiuitie But that he did at the first was in loue the last in pollicie for all he spent then vpon her was onely to win her confidently to denie the words she had spoken to cleare him in her speeches and as for herselfe he had her presume vpon it without fears or doubting he would get her pardon But to preuent that and all hope of it she was remoued from thence to Kingston from thence to omit teadious recitall to Greensteed againe And there againe Adamson as before For contrary to orders in that case instituted whether by purse or pollicie I know not he had accesse vnto her in the gaole labord hard with her to vnsay all her dangerous words against him and to say that she was to say at the Bench to the demands of the Iudges for his clearing acquiting withall tould her that in so speaking well in his behalfe she should helpe her selfe in that danger And more ouer for like waues our vpon the ●…ck of another came words of inducement from him if the worst should come that might he would saue her with the Kings pardon And to make her beleefe and resolution the stranger he tould her if she did not doe as he counseld her there was no lesse to be expected by her then death and backt it with this reason that the least sillable vtterd in way of confession would frustrate the pardon he should purchas●e and make it to be of no force or vertue Thus a●s since her execcution hath bin ●ound did he very cunningly as closely worke vpon her simplicitie and effected his wishes in her most wicked and impious credulity for she beleeuing all he spake and making no doubt of the performance with a face set to the highest key of impudencie was at the Bench very readie in the lesson he had taught her so that he was by the Iurie acquitted but she condemned and adiug'd to the gallowes which sentence presuming vpon her maisters promise she heard with an vndaunted heart To be short she was according to her iudgement vppon or about the sixt of Iuly 1609. carried to the place of execution where stil expecting the pardon Adamson tould her should come to the gallowes and saue her she was as stout and fearelesse as if she had bin but like a stage player to act the part in least But when she had staid so long she might staie no longer from the halter her hart began to fall and feare to rise yet remembring that he had said a word in confession should frustrate her pardon which notwithstanding in the last minute of her breath she expected and fearing so to preuent it she would say nothing but in that feare and hope of life euen in the rope she gaue the hangman six pence to cut her downe quickly for she simple wench thought verily though she were turnd off before she could be halfe dead the pardon would come saue her in that heauie gasping but her beleefe was vaine and her vaine hopes were deceiued for as she deserued she there died BVt now you haue with the eyes of your vnderstanding seene the most iust and deserued end of her turne them againe to Adamson who presently after her execution fell into a most miserable greeueous and lamentable consumption Wormes meate we are al in death but he in life was by the iust iudgement of God which God make vs all haue an eye to a prey to these despicable and deuouring creatures which had intrenched themselues in many parts of his bodie to the bone and minutely and so mercilesly with eager appetites fed vpon his afflicted flesh as though he had bin laid onely but but for one meale to be deuoured Lice in great multitudes tormented him no shift in ●innen nor other costly shift in trimming picking annointing could decrease the innumerable number of them and so loathsome a sauour came from his body that those that went to see him could not stand to giue their eyes satisfaction for the greeuous and odious strength of it but turning as disdainfully in the offence or greeuance of that sence as from the infecting stench of carrion they would leaue him ere they could well looke on him Thus for the space of halfe a yeare lay he most greeuously tormented in which time he spent much mony for a happie restauration or recouery but all his cost was lost for alas Cum Deo pugnare graue est there is no striuing