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A93964 A strange and lamentable account of a bloody barbarous murther, committed by William Close,. 1693 (1693) Wing S5819A; ESTC R184670 1,416 1

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A Strange and Lamentable ACCOUNT OF A Bloody Barbarous Murther COMMITTED By William Close Upon the Body of a Young VVoman at Lambeth in the County of Surry with whom as his Sweetheart he had kept Company for the space of Four Years with the Particulars and Circumstances attending so Monstrous a VVickedness all very Remarkable and Amazing with the manner of the Discovery his being Apprehended and Committed to the Marshalsea Prison where he remains in Horror of mind in order to his Tryal c. STRANGE and Amazing are the Prodigious Wickednesses of this Age and altho' the frequent Examples of Justice might give a sufficient check to mens minds yet we find the Punishment of many offenders not forcible enough to deter others from the most Enormous of Crimes viz. Shedding of Blood and Destroying the Creatures of their own likeness on whom God hath stamped his own Image but among all the Cruel Scenes of Humane Rage and Barbarous Murthers that have lately happened we present the Reader with one in this Paper very Terrible and Dreadful considering the Circumstances that attended it viz. One William Close sometime a Servant to an eminent Citizen and Trader in London having about four Years since contracted a Familiarity with a Young Woman that lived by the Royal Exchange in Cornhil and at sundry times they had meetings together and went abroad to Treats and merry Meetings so that they were not only supposed by the Kindness and Familiarity that appeared to be extraordinary Lovers but some concluded them to be Man and VVife though since this Fatal Accident no such thing as far as we can Learn is evident This Familiarity continuing there at last seemed to appear some signs of Melancholy and Discontent in either of them especialy in the Countenance of Close however though not only his Countenance and Actions made it apparent yet he disembled it as well as he could and they at certain times met as formerly though the last meeting proved the most fatal they had as we are informed several little Quarrels before but Reconcilements of Friends and their own humours made up the breach between them when on Saturday the 2d of September it was agreed between them to go to Lambeth only by themselves where first they went to an Alehouse on the back side of the Town there some words passing between them the young Woman apprehending some danger from ●…owring Looks and rising passion threw away the Knife that was brought in with some Bread and Chees and bid the Girle that came in with it take it away so that missing of his opportunity to mischief her there he flattered her into a belief of his well meaning and good Intention towards her and with many perswasions drew her to a Tavern near the Church where calling for a Pint of Wine and some eatables he as it is supposed took his opportunity all at unawars to her to strike her over the forhead with the Pot which not only wounded her but bruized and dinted the Pot very much at which she gave a Lamentable Cry but whither the people of the House did not presently hear it or mind it is uncertain but however before they came up her throat was cut with a Knife that had been brought up before her windpipe being cut in sunder and she in the Convulsions of Death Strugling and Panting though in vain for Life with great Effusion of blood some of which was sprinkled on him Upon this dismal sight there being none but them two in the Room he was apprehended as the Murtherer and being carryed before a Justice of Peace upon his Examination he made such Slender and Frivelous Allegations for himself that they made more against him than for Excusing him wherupon he was Committed to the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark where he now remains in order to his Tryal for wilful Murther It is said during these familiarities he had a Child by this young Woman though not Marryed to her which might probably be one main matter of breeding the discontent between them Printed for J. Butcher 1693.