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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

HEAVENS SPEEDIE Hue and Cry sent after Lust and Murther 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 to the Gibbeit with a discovery of those places where such kindof lude people haunt and resort unto and by what signes and tokens you may discover them 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. neere to the place where the facts were committed and he now hangeth in chaines at Ring-Crosse Written by H. G. their daily Uisiter at the time of their Imprisonment and severall dayes of Execution Published by Authority LONDON Printed by N. and I. Okes dwelling in Well-yard in little St. Bartholmews neare unto the Lame Hospitall gate 1635. IF one smite another with an Instrument of Iron that hee Dye hee is a Murderer and the Murderer shall dye the Death Or if hee smite him with an hand-weapon of wood whereby hee may be slayne if hee dye hee is a Murderer and the Murderer shall dye the Death Numb 35. v. 16. Countrey-Tom Canberry Besse The forme of the instrument of wood and iron that he used to hurt with The Preface I Haveresumed my Pen which I resolved in this Nature for ever to be silent But the Common good and preservation of my Countries welfare incites me unto this officious service As one that standeth Centinell in the Night unto whom Fidelity and Trust is reposed and the safety of the whole Army dependeth Even so am I to discover the private and suddaine approaching of the Enemies Like a Watchman to observe all commers in and out into the Gates of the City to unvaile pernicious passengers which dayes and nights uncessantly passe through the Streets and in the secret corners of the same privily lurke and watch an opportunity to cozen rob and murther I presume not to instruct the prudent and wise that were absurde and ridiculous But the Levell of my intention is to make the vulgar Ignorants so wise as to walke warily and circumspectly which plaine path they may knowingly see and discerne by this sequent discovery of such notorious offenders that live upon the spoyles of such Passengers and Travellers resorting up unto London upon their necessary affaires A new kind of invented wickednesse and fearefull mischiefe but I hope by Gods mercy and the late exemplary Justice strangled in the birth is the Narration of Country Tom and Besse of Canberry so termed by those of their base disposition A woman Oh shame unto her modest tender Sexe to become a setter or set on such a brazen face that upon a man unknowne unto her shee seazeth in the open Streets and with her deceitfull smiles and salutes so inchants and incaptivates and leads him unto slaughter Like a decoy Ducke shee is alone going abroad but not alone returning associated with multitudes homeward The bargaine shee strikes up and goeth before to a secret appointed place upon whom unawares to the seduced person attendeth a mercilesse strong Theefe and most barbarous cruell Murtherer that at once strikes and slayes of whose cunning practices secret snares and subtil wiles I labour to give all people a light and true insight God Almighty give it a blessing unto his good pleasure and thy benefit unto whom I am thy true professed friend during the time of my mortality H. G. Certaine pregnant inducements out of the Holy Scripture against murder and Man-slaughter THe first is the direct words of Gods Commandements thou shalt not kill Exod. 20. WHo so sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed For in the image of God hath hee made Man Gen. 9. 6. HE also that killeth any Man he shall surely bee put to Death Leviticus 24. 17. YEE are of your Father the Divell and the lusts of your father you will doe He hath been a Murderer from the beginning c. Ioh. 8. IF any kill with the sword hee must bee killed by the sword Here is the patience and the faith of the Saints And therefore LEt all bitternesse and anger wrath and evill speaking be put away from you with all maliciousnesse THE EXAMINATION AND Confession of Thomas Sher wood and Elizabeth Evans BEFORE I enter into the listes of the ensuing Relation there are of these two most miserable Catifes remarkeable Observations in their severall lives lives did I say to say so I doe grosly mistake for although they were living yet then dead they were in most foule and abhominable sins and clamorous crimes that sent hot pursuit after them at all times and in all places without intermission to sweepe them from off the face of the earth The Observations 1. Note First what a viperous brood of Sinnes were ingendred conceived and brought forth by these Monsters Male and Female what a Chaine of sins is heere linked and twisted one to each other 2. Secondly the Stygmaticall marke that Heaven did set upon them both in their two severall names 1. First Idlenesse the indulgent Mother cannot she is so indigent of her selfe be able to give bread or cloathing to her pampered and poysoned little ones in youth with Sloth but like a curst Step-mother sends them out of doores to seeke bread in desolate places 2. The Originall of all vices Secondly Sloth or Idlenesse scornes to worke especially with the hands for that is not gentilelike yet worke they see they must for necessities sake and a master they have at hand the Devill that safely as they suppose setteth them on worke 3. Thirdly from Sloth springeth forbidden Theft 4. Fourthly frō Theft springeth beastly Lust 5. Fiftly from filthy Lust they lanch out into the deepe to Blood-shed and Murder 6. Finally thus by degrees they finish their destruction and the full Cup of Gods heavy wrath and displeasure forcibly they drinke up 2. Observation On both their Names behold what a Brand is set on them by Heaven high scorne and derifion perishing before they perished forgotten before they were dead For by the Names of Countrey-Tom and CanberryBesse they were knowne unto the World The honest Stocke and Parents from which they descended forgetting and denying Scripture saith The memoriall of the wicked shal perish Let him be wiped out of the Booke of Remembrance and that because his minde was not to doe good Thus with them of God No feare No thought No care No love And therefore for them No memory No losse No place of Buriall No mourning to say Alas my Brother or alas my Sister The narration of the manner of the course of their lives AS they confessed their Names were Thomas Sherwood and Elizabeth Evans the one borne in Stafford-shire there brought up by his Parents a laborious Husbandman The other borne in Shropshire of a very good parentage descended who carefully for her good

education and future preferment sent her up unto London to some friends who setled her in a good service as shee confessed at her Death But unfortunately it happened that shee grew acquainted with a young man in London who tempted her unto folly and by that ungodly act her suddain ruine insued By reason of such her folly her Friends failed and frowned on her Oh unnaturall blemish thus to forsake cast off and forget their owne deare flesh all meanes of livelyhood failing her left thus destitute and out of all credit friends money apparrell and service A base loose course of life shee resolves on and therein as shee freely confessed continued the space of 4. yeares untill at last shee unhappily happened to get into familiarity and acquaintance with this Countrey-Tom otherwise Thomas Sherwood with whom she constantly accompanied day and night for the terme of a yeare or there abouts And having obtained such a mate fit for his owne humour and inclination secretly these two combin'd resolv'd and put in practice their new invented mysterie of Iniquity as followeth Whensoever they went forth out of their Lodgings they severed not themselves but kept within sight one of another alwayes both hunting for one prey and frequenting and watching such places and houses for persons fitted for their occasion and to make use of The places they resorted unto 1 To Play-houses 2 To Tavernes 3 To Innes 4 To Ale-houses 5 To the open Streetes 6 To the Fields If by chance they did meete with one that had beene that day too busie with the Pot such an one was fish for their Net then the brazen-face Strumpet presently claimes acquaintance that she knew him of long time whose face she never saw before and so farther into familiar discourse and complements they proceed that further courtesies are desired and promised in some secret place to passe betweene them This new guest and acquaintance thus taken up in the way by her away she hastens with her prize and carries him unto the Chambers of death As witnesse the Murthering by such her slights these Gentlemen of great Note and good quality Eminent in place and substance Master Rowland Holt a Merchant and Cittizen of London whom they murthered in Clarkenwell fields in Ianuary last past Likewise Master Thomas Claxton Gentleman a Lieutenant in Grayes Inne-fields the first of this instant April 1635. Also to another Gentleman whom they robbed of his Cloake and Hat by name Master Michael Lowe at the pitch of the Hill going downe to Hockley Hole in Clarkenwell Parish at which place they gave him his Deaths wound and had not ayde upon his out-cry hastily come upon them they had without doubt slaine him but within one quarter of a yeare afterwards Master Michael Lowe dyed of the same wound in his Head then by Countrey Tom so forcibly strooke that Master Low did then very narrowly escape bleeding to death The free Confession of Thomas Sherwood after the time of his apprehending TWo Moneths and two Weekes were compleatly expired before it could bee knowne what barbarous hand had acted that acinorous Fact on the body of Master Row and Holt found dead and with blowes very much bruised This Hound of Hell that did this cruell murther flesht thus greedily seeketh for more Mans flesh and thirsteth afresh after more blood He thought that in that little space God and the People had forgotten Mr. Holts blood as himselfe had who securely againe starts out and he with his constant mischievous Companion to their damnable former resolutions in all Impieties putteth on the habit that now to kill a man tush it is not worth the talking of or taking of notice as so it may be conjectured of them who in so short a space to the first murder added the second the places both of them being with in the sight of each other which might deterre them from such their unnaturall and ungodly intention and determination from the shedding of more innocent blood Upon Wednesday at Night in Easter weeke last past 1635. about the houre of Nine these two inhumane Creatures did meete about the Kings Gate which is by Blomesberry a pproper costly apparrelled Gentleman Master Thomas Claxton a Souldier and Lieutenant who that day and time that this Monster of her Sexe interchanged discourse and with familiar complements oh lamentable to speake had drunke to much The form his weapon which lay secretly in his breeches as these two vild wretches confessed Words past betwixt Master Claxton and that Harlot Besse of Canberry together those two goe but who followed them both the poore Gentleman was altogether ignorant and little suspected After them both Countrey Tom hasteneth with a short Trunchin or Bastinado under his cloake and findes companying together his Harlot with Master Claxton whom she had treacherously trayned into Grayes Inne fields a stones cast wide from the High-way where what they did I so charitably am opinionated of the deceased Gentleman that to their slanderous calumniations and traducings concerning him I give not the least credence For those to beleeve whose hands were so foully stained with blood their breath unworthy to blast the good name or brand the good that the world conceived of the reputation of such a Gentleman as Mr. Claxton was Inhumanely with a short Trunchin of Iron which Sherwood carried under his cloake by his bloody polluted hands with this weapon he instantly deprived master Claxton of life and after that done they both fell to rishing the pockets and uncivilly strip all humanity laying a side the body bare and naked and in that manner left it and so fled away When he had recollected his distracted thoughts and throbbing hard heart within two houres after as he sayd hee return'd unto the place to behold that sad spectacle of master Claxtons slaughtered body who as he said was not slaine out-right for he heard him sleepe and snore and that he had turned himselfe on his Belly after he left him and had not the winde taken his wounds he might very well have beene recovered unto health But perceiving life was extinct in him flight is become the chiefest comfort and refuge Shee flyeth to her old acquainted lodging at St. Giles in the fields and he taketh his course another way The Morning ensuing betimes hee dispatcheth a speedy messenger unto his Copartner in mischiefe appointing his matchlesse Mate to meete with him forthwith in Moore-fields which according unto his appointment she did at the place and time by him prefixed And observe how thither hee commeth with his understanding so infatuated by the irefull Judge of Heaven that with the apparrell he commeth on his backe that morning of the Gentlemans whom he slew the Night before and waite was layd for such fashioned apparrell which he wore and profered to sell in Houndsditch so inconsiderately suddainly was apprehended Preparation he was making to travell downe into the Countrey For he bought a new Peticoate for her that dearely earned