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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72187	Heavens speedie hue and cry sent after lust and murder manifested upon the suddaine apprehending of Thomas Shearwood, and Elizabeth Evans, whose manner of lives, death, and free confessions, are heere expressed : also some new additions, concerning the man that was tide [sic] to the gibbeit, with a discovery of those places where such kinds of lude people haunt and resort ... disclosed by this Sherwood a little before his death : who were executed the one upon the 14 and the other on the 17 of this moneth of April 1635 ... / written by H.G. their daily visiter at the time of their imprisonment, and severall dayes of execution ; published by authority.	Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641.	1615 (1615)	STC 12010.5; ESTC S5237	10,476	29

it and he profered unto Sale the Apparrell which hee never bought nor paid for to put himselfe into money like wise to beare both their charges for their intended journey But as Equity and Iustice commanded they both together were apprehended and by the Authority of Magistracy presently sent unto Newgate unto whom thither an industrious judicious and discreet Gentleman Master Long a Commissioner of the Peace in the County of Middlesex frequently resorted and tooke there their severall Examinations so carefully punctually and truely that both the Malefactors out of their owne mouthes against themselves confessed the same totally iust I touch here but briefly upon them for I intended not at all ●…omention much of their confessions for feare my brevity should wrong or intrench upon his prudent discussion and politicke insinuations into them by which forcibly he discovered all their Villanies and made the truth apparant There was a great Rumour spread that this Sherwood had slaine divers persons else besides Mr. Claxton and Mr. Holt as the woman at Lambeth that was slaine in her house the last Winter a Child also for which two were executed all these are but flying Tales To give therefore the World satisfaction I have here set downe his free and voluntary confession of such persons he slew which he confirmed at his Death besides many great Robberies he was guilty of whereof master Long hath his free confession The day of his conviction I heard it in the Sessions yard reported that Sherwood had slaine a Gentleman master Michael Low whose Father was sometimes Lord Maior of London and himselfe of late collated into the place of Secondary in the Counter of Woodstreete I was entreated by master Lowes friends to be instant with Sherwood to discover if he could the person that robbed and wounded him His Answer concerning that unto me was thus that he knew the parties that did it and if I would at Night repaire unto to him he would really make them knowne unto me Hereupon I addressed my selfe unto master Long and acquainted him what I had done and that as I suspected by my discourse with Sherwood that hee could not be guiltlesse of the Robbing of master Low That very Evening although late master Long went to Sherwood to Newgate where there as at his death he sayd hee with Elizabeth Evans Robbed master Lowe of his Hat and Cloake by the Lady Hattons wall about Michaelmas Terme last and further said hee thought that the wounds hee then gave him in his Head with this Instrument or the like was the cause of his death which generally is so voted because he died within a quarter of a yeare with an Impostumation in his Head the wound being cured but inwardly rankl'd and festred For money he said hee tooke none at all from him for that day a little before he had delivered up all his money unto his Servant Freely he confessed the muthering of Master Rowland Holt in Clarkenwell fields The murthering of Master Thomas Claxton in Grayes Inne fields and robbing and wounding of Master Michael Lowe by the Lady Hattons wall Besides guilty of many Notorious Felonies and Robberies committed in Middlesex to a great number Further discovering many base persons of his condition and the dispersed places of secret harbouring such unprofitable obnoxious members unto a State and Common-wealth At the place of his Execution and what he there said the Relation THere was no profite at all in his life time to his Countrie but in his Discoverie and Death I hope some use and good service unto the Countrie may redound His associates I hope shall be banished which he hath branded and with them their Receivers and Harbourers His Death and hanging up now in chaines an example to deterie others not so to offend which I pray God give such a blessing to all the people Amen Being brought unto the place of his Death he there minded nothing else but how to dye desiring of the people that they would not presse him unto further confessions to debarre his Soule of better meditations but to rest satisfied with his confessions which he had made unto Master Long and my selfe and nothing else but truth conteined in them confirmed by a serious asseveration proceeding then out of his mouth This done hee turned himselfe towards the people speaking unto them and praying for them very hartily withall admonishing all that did see him that day to beware of Whores for they were the worst Company in the World wishing all to beware by his fall and not to bee seduced or blind-fold led as hee was by such bewitching Creatures to irrevocable ruine In the Posture of his Body hee expressed true Humility for all the time of Prayer he prayed kneeling In his Prayers unto God he expressed an unexpected fervency by these words and short eiaculations unto Heavens mercy seat sensibly feeling the heavy Burden of his Sinnes most hartily implored at the hands of Almighty God his mercy and forgivenesse for them I will doe him this right to expresse the Ardency of his Soule when the word Mercy was uttered this Eiaculation from his owne mouth proceeded the hearing of the word Mercy was sweet and savory unto his sorrow full Soule for in the great anguish of Soule he prayed and onely relyed saying thus O Lord my sinnes are so haynous great and many if thy Mercy helpe me not what will become hereafter of my poore Soule To that I flye unto and onely trust thy mercy did save the whole World of sinners and Lord I hope my great sins cannot exceed thy great mercies After these speeches hee returnes with Hearty requests unto God to forgive him his harnous sinnes Hee beseeched all the People that were there present all to forgive him whom he had offended and to ioyne with him in harty prayes unto the Almighty in his behalfe to forgive him and to receive his Soule to mercy After these holy exercises accomplished the first part of the 51. Psalme was sung and after that by his request was sung the Lamentation of a sinner That ended I asked him if hee was willing to dye to which hee made answere most welcome death was unto him for all the while he lived his life was as a kinde of Hell unto him and most uncomfortable But his death he ioyfully embraced and mortall life cheerfully did surrender up and sent his soule out of his Body flying calling on the name of the Lord Iesus to receive him And all the people speaking to God for him likewise with their lowd voyces and strong acclamations Lord Jesu take mercy on him sweete Jesu forgive his sinnes and save his Soule Hereendeth the Narration of Thomas Sherwood who now hangeth in Chaines at Battle-bridge neare Pancras Church A briefe observation for all persons both in Citty and Countrey to know lewd tempting persons lurking in the Streets and High-wayes by these tokens following FIrst if they be Cheaters looke if they bee not Gentile-like cloathed

then if they intice you to play at Cards or Dice for a Pot of Beere or Pint of Wine beware of such and if by such tricks you chance to be deluded take notice of that house Secondly if a Woman in the day time complements with you and sends after you a messenger to say that one would speake with you beware of such Thirdly take heed of such as boldly stand at their doores to intice you or say some Friend is in their houses that would speake with you that is a true token of some ensuing mischiefe to picke your pocket and to bring you unto an Harlot Fourthly if any Woman meete you late in the evening to aske of you what time of the Night it is then watch over your purse and person that your pocket be not pick't Fiftly if a Woman come unto you alone with inticing faire promises of Curtezan courtesies to meete you in the Fields or some other private remote places remember the case of Mr. Claxton and Mr. Holt. Sixtly remember the Suburbian places where these abhominable Creatures attend their prey by day and night This hath beene often confessed by those who haue used the same course and dyed for some of these facts An intimation of such places in and about the City of London that Harlots watch their opportunities to surprise men confessed by this Malefactor FIrst at West Smithfield within the Railes and Duck-lane end Second and thirdly by the Tavernes in Smithfield and Cookes shops in Pye-corner and Cloath-faire a great harbor for such Fourthly by Smithfield Pond and sheepe-pens Fiftly by the little conduit in Cheapside in the evening Sixtly St. Antholins Church when the shops are shut up Seventh and lastly remember London-bridge over which you must necessarily travell into the Southerne parts Beware you goe not by Night with a cloak-bag but in your hand nor behind you on horsbacke lest you be iustled against the wall by a cutpurse in the habite of a Gentleman and so lose it Beware likewise of your Hat and Purse in a fray stirred up purposely in the streete to allure people into concursions in plaine to speake Pick-pockets deceite and cosenage In Middl. towards Pancras Church in the fields At Cow-crosse towards the Butchers at Bloomesberry in St. Giles in the fields beware of such like offenders and so much of my advertisment unto all passengers comming in and going out of the Suburbs of the Citty of London Likewise at this Sessions there were executed for coyning of Six-pences and Shillings two French-men and an Englishman who were drawne and hanged for that fact of Treason a iust reward for such wicked persons that usurpe the Kings Royall prerogative Now to the particular Narration of Elizabeth Evans the impious Fellow-mate of Thomas Sherwood COncerning her I have very little matter offered to dilate I found this Sherwood and her so different in their severall confessions unto me that I wonderfully admired that two alwaies unseparable in such prosecutions of euill should be so contradictory one unto each other But I easily reconciled the doubt in the particular observation in their two severall manners of dying A Woman she was that died for whose weake and timerous Sexe sake something must bee allowed tollerable Yet something I found in her worthy of note at the time of her confession a perfect hate and exclamation against all Theeves which caused her destruction And furthermore in signe of such her detestation of such unholy courses proceeded from her mouth a most serious request unto all then present assembled advising all poore simple women to marry an honest man though but a Ragge-gatherer rather then a lewd man or a Theefe rendring the reason of such her earnest admonition because an honestman may make an evil woman turne from her evill waies but it was hard for an euill man to make a wicked woman good with divers other admonitions to the wonder of the slanders by considering what a life shee had lived in Concerning what shee said at the place of Execution ONe thing shee here expressed very remarkable concerning her old Companion in Mischiefe Thomas Shearwood who on Candlemas day last pressed amongst the Jurers at the Christopher Taverne in Turnmill Street alias Turnebull Street to view the dead Corps of Master Rowland Holt by him murthered Sherwoods Nose immediatly gushed out with such issues of blood that he feared there by to be discovered and returning unto her said I have suffered such a thing this day about Master Holt wee must of necessity leave of this course of life I found her with the feares of Death very much perplexed and amazed distractively casting her eyes here and there at last shee espies the high Elmes neere which place Master Claxton was slaine and fetcht a deepe sigh and said would to God I had never seene that place I found both Shearwoods and her Confession to agree both in the Murthering of Master Holt Master Claxton and Master Low onely they differed in the striping of Master Claxton for Shearwood in the receiving of the blessed Body and Blood of Jesus Christ with her then affirmed to her face that she helped him for to take Master Claxtons cloathes off she there confidently denyed the same and confirmed at her Death whereunto as also unto other base aspersions on the dead I give no credence thus of her who died very penitent and after her execution was conveied to Barber Surgions Hal for a Skeleton having her bones reserved in a perfect forme of her body which is to beseene and now remaines in the aforesaid Hall of whom I hope God did take mercy A generall Admonition DEare Countrey men what I have heere done is intended for a generall good Cautionary for all 1. Parents 2. Children 3. Masters 4. Servants 1 Parents cast not off your Children neither leave them to shift in the wilde world in their Youth knowing how subiect Youth is unto temptation and to be seduced in the times of necessitie and extreame want 2 Children obey your earthly Parents unto such as obey God hath promised his two-fold blessing first Life temporall Secondly Life eternall 3 Masters terrestriall be good to your earthly Servants knowing yee have all one Master which is Christ in Heaven that shall one day judge you for the good and evill yee have done 4 Servants obey your earthly Masters and the Masters authority is knowne by obedience to their Commandments Whosoever resisteth receiveth the greater condemnation One thing more I will commend unto you the modesty of a milke-woman in finding him naked covereth him with her approne CONCLUSION Thy God feare to offend To him doe dayly pray He will thee send an happy end And live with him for aye The Habeas corpus or Remove of Countrey Tom into the Countrey GOod Reader to the preceedent give leave to adde these succeeding true Relations Since the execution of the horrid and unheard of paire of Murderers the Coy-duck or divellish allurer to sinne and confusion was dissected and her dryed Carkase or Sceleton of Bones and Gristles is reserv'd in proportion to be seene in Barber Surgeons Hall As for the dismall accomplisher of her damned plots hee was hang'd in Chaines neere Pancras Church being a iust reward for his vile attempts One thing of note I here speake of Two Gentlemen comming early in a Morning that way were astonished at a sad obiect committed by a company of villaines Oh pitty still running on to more mischiefe having such a fearefull spectacle before their eyes as Countrey Tom which should rather have frighted and hindred them from doing this bold and insolent act upon a Butcher comming that way though late who said only thus that it was no matter if all such rogues were serv'd so which words when these lurking villaines heard presently seized on him and tooke his cloathes and bound him naked to the Gibbet with a gagge in his mouth bidding him watch the Coarse but as this poore man said he lost no money because he had a little before bestowed it other wayes and thus he was hamper'd by a cursed crue who lurked there-abouts for their prey But this was not the reason of his remoove for the adjoyning Inhabitants much damnified and annoyed by his hanging there laboured and obtained the same And indeed the chiefest cause was the spoile and depopulating the growing fields there abouts stript of all fences and the grasse trodden downe and made levell by the infinite confluence of all sexes from all parts which caused the Farmer and those that tooke grounds to petition to the King and Councell for redresse who out of pitty and compassion graciously granted the Habeas corpus and remove of the said murdering Monster which to avoid confusion of Spectators they performed in the Night carrying the hated spectacle to the place assigned them to the Ring-crosse beyond Islington where those that are not yet satisfied may see Country Tom got farther into the Countrey Thrice remov'd first to Grayes Inne-fields next neere Pancras last to Ring-crosse to paralell his base inhumane Murders in divers distinct places Nec enim lex iustior ulla Quam necis artifices arte perire suâ Sceletos quasi cadaver assicatum est ossium corporis humani invicem cohoerentium universarum universa compactio FINIS