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A42936	Gods justice against murther, or The bloudy apprentice executed Being an exact and true relation of a bloudy murther committed by one Thomas Savage an apprentice to a vinter at the ship tavern in Ratliffe upon the maid of the house his fellow servant, being deluded thereunto by the instigations of a whore. How and in what sort he performed the same, how he robbed his master, and was persued and taken by hue and cry at Coome farm betwixt Greenwich and VVoolwich. Sent to Newgate, afterwards arrained and cast at Justice Hall in the Old Bayly, condemned to be hanged over against the place where he committed the fact, and being once hanged and cut down afterwards reviving again, was the second time hanged till he was dead, on Wednesday October 28 1668.		1668 (1668)	Wing G959A; ESTC R216469	5,647	16

GODS Justice against Murther OR The Bloudy Apprentice Executed Being an Exact and true Relation of a Bloudy Murther committed by one Thomas Savage an Apprentice to a Vintner at the ship Tavern in Ratliffe upon the Maid of the House his fellow Servant being deluded thereunto by the instigations of a Whore How and in what sort he performed the same how he Robbed his Master and was persued and taken by Hue and Cry at Coome Farm betwixt Greenwich and VVoolwick Sent to Newgate afterwards Arrained and Cast at Justice Hall in the Old Bayly condemned to be hanged over against the place where be committed the fact and b●ing once hanged and cut down afterwards reviving again was the second tim● hanged till he was dead on Wednesday October 28. 1668. Exod. 21. v. 12. He that smiteth a man so that he dye shall surely be put to death London Printed for John Clarke at the Harp and Bible in West Smith-Field Gods Justice against Murther OF all crimes committed by Mortals here on earth there is none which crys to heaven for louder vengeance then that sin of wilful Murther when men play the Beasts and in humanly gore each other to death making the world a shambles for humane slaughters by desacing Gods Image in others murdering their own souls the Vshers to which sin is commonly covetousness and whoredom Covetousness faith St. Paul is the root of all evil and a Whore saith Solomen will hunt for the pretious life of a man for those who prostitute their be●tes to all comers will not fear to prostitute their souls to all vices thus covetousness provokes whoredom whoredom causes Murther to be committed one sin deawing another as it were with Cart-Ropes when the final conclusion is the destruction both of body purse and rep●tation and if God be not the more merciful the eternal punishment of body and soul in hell-fire Youthful extravagancies have commonly had consequences and more perish by too much indulgence then too much severity men abusing their liberty so that where discipline is neglected all vices flow in wich a monstrous impetuosity That which we shall now relate is a sad example for the evidencing of these tenths in the person of one Thomas Savage a Vintners man at the sign of the Ship at Rateliff-Cross in the Parish of Stepacy near London who by the instigation of a Whore blinded with lust was wrought upon to Murther his fellow-servant who indeavou●●d to hinder him in the Robbing of his Ma●●er the story whereof followeth This Thomas Savage was born of honest Parentage his Father dying when he was young his Mother ma●ried again to one who proved a loving step-father to the Son as a careful Husband to the Mother and both of them by their care and cost endeavouring to have their son well educated which they expressed in bringing him up to Schooling whereby he might be fit and the more capable of a Trade which afterwards comming to more maturer years they bestowed upon him placing him with one Mr Collins a Vintner at the sign of the Ship at Ratcliff Cross where he continued with much love and good will of his Master and follow-servants for some space of time though that was likewise attended with some ●outh●●l extravagancies for which his Master would much blame him Thus you sée here was an indeavor to have had th● … ds of vertue and good living implanted in his heart but where grace wanteth all outward means will fail Paul may plant and Apollos water but it is God alone that 〈◊〉 give the increase young persons like t … s are flexible and as war fi … ●●ceive any impression that is put upon th●m 〈…〉 more easily inducible to that which i● had then good by reason of the depra●e●ness of our nature He hapned to light into some Whore-houses the nurseries of wickedness and séed plots of all filthiness pro●hanene●s and debauchery whatsoever Sin is chargable and many persons ruine their estates out of the love they bear to filthy v●ces the●… is forced to maintain lust and so the whore hath it she cares not by what means or from whom by such means w●s this young man brought to ruine for a wh●re seldom leaves a man till she hath brought him either to the Hospital or the Gallows It so hapned that one Sunday morning going with his Master to the Church he gave him the slip and instead of the house of God rambles to the sink of sin the Bawdy-house ●here he takes his pleasure his whore is plyant to him they drink and dally without controul but this full of pleasure causes an ebb of Money he complains ●o her of the emptyness of his pockets this was to go to the Devil for counsel and who a better spokes-woman for him then a whore she tells him he was a fool to have so little and his Master so much why should locks and bolts hinder him a picklock or a Hammer would remedy that he replys that he was never left at home alone the Maid was with him and therefore the b … ness was not sensible she returns answer knock her on the Head a sure way to find employment for the Hangman as be afterwards too sadly felt to his cost Thus we plainly sée that a whore is the high-way to the Devil he that looks on her is entring on the Road he that talks to her mends his pace and he that injoys her is at his Iourneys end O how many baits and alurements have they to sin using pa●●…ing to set forth their Corpses of diseases which having been long in the Chyrurgions hands is ready to drop in piece● through rottenness the love that they pretend to bear to men is worse then the deadliest hatred of men for where they kiss they kill their breath is more venomous then a Dragons their sight more deadly then a Basilisks and their embraces more dangerous then those of a Serpents But to return where we left time posting away calls to the Prentice to hasten home which he does but findes his Master at dinner already who questions him where he had been so long the Devill is a ready prompter of lies he returns him answer that he was at Church his Master misdoubting the truth of his report tells him that for his so late staying in the forenoon he should keep at houre in the afternoon this was as he would have it the Maid and he are appointed to stay the rest are gone to Church Now he begins to put the Whores instructions in execution Money he will have though he venture his neck for 't And now his chief endeavou● is to fall out with the Maid to effect this he goes to make clean his Masters dirty shooes on the ●ew washed Dresser this angers her much and some cross words passes betwixt ●h●m a Hammer lying by he catches it up strikes at her with it and knocks her down the bloud gashing out of the wound aboundantly she crying out

be redoubles his blows so long untill he had killed her and then laid a dish clout upon her wound which gushed forth in streams of purple gore Then with the same Hammer he brak open his Masters Cupboard from whence he takes sixty two pounds and with it returns to his Whore again where having spent ten pence he informs her of what he had done She knowing the danger he had brought himself into like a right Whore indéed forsakes him in his greatest extremity and re … es to give him entertainment Now knows he not what to d● what course to take like the first Murtherer Cain he must become a Runnagate upon the earth fearful that any one which should finde him would apprehend him he having the brand of a guilty Conscience sticking within him London was to hot for him he therefore crosses the water and goes towards Greenwich accompanted onely with fear horror and guilt of Conscience In the mean time Sermon being ended his Master returns home and finding the doo●s shut knocks and calls but receives no answer after much fruitless knocking the door in forced open where ent●ing he findes his Maid murthered and himself Robbed this strikes him into much grief and astonishment but perceiving some Life in the Maid they strive to recover her but in vain who onely living so long as to detect the the Murtherer God enabling her so much that such wickedness might be the better found out ●he then yielded to Fate and surrendred 〈◊〉 her innocent soul to death H●reupon immediately Hue and Cryes are sent out after the Murtherer who commin●●o Greenwich went t● one Charltons a Watermans house to drink laying the Mony down by him where having no● long béen but hearing some whispe●ings of a murther do●e at Stepney and a Hue and Cry after the murtherer guilt of Conscience and fear so po●ess●s him that leaving the Mony behind him he quits the Chamber where he was and b●takes himself to his heels Weary ●nd dismaid with the guilt he carried about him a● Coom Farm betwixt Greenwich and Woolwich he again betakes him●elf to an Ale-house where sitting down ●nd calling ●or a pot of Béer he presently falls fast a sleep where the Hue and Cry overtook him from whence he was guarded towards London and had in examination before Major Manley one of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex where he fréely confessed the ●act in manner as is related before unto ●ou detecting the Whore that enticed him ●n to his destruction who with her Spiders Web of wickedness had intangled him in her Nets whereupon he was Committed to Newgate and a Warrant being also issued out for her she was taken examined before a Iustice and committed also unto Newgate Thus you see sin goes before and shame follows after the danger of keeping had Company especially Whores those instruments of the Devill the bane of youth and Lyme-twigs o● w●ckedness the center of all mischiefes and the Gulphs that devours the lives estates and reputations of all that use them At the Sessions house in the Old-Bayly October 24. 1668. he had his Tryall where confessing his fact sentence of deat● was passed upon him to be executed again 〈◊〉 the place where he committed the fact Hannah Blay also who had perswaded him t● this execrable act by bidding him to knock the Maid on the head was also condemned to be executed at Tyburn but pleading tha● she was with child she was for the present reprieved But Thomas Savage the principal in the murther according to the sentence aforesaid was Wednesday October the 28 conveyed to a Cart from Newgate to the place of Execution appointed for him being over against his Masters house at the sign of the Ship in Ratcliff-cross where was assembled a great concourse of people to be spectators of his sad Catastrophe he séemed to be very peninent desiring all people especially young persons to take warning by him what company they addicted themselves unto which was either the bane or making of youth he gave them an Item as near as they could to get into such services where the word of God was constantly read and practised to beware of whores and whore-houses those seed plots of wickedness being such labyrinths of ungodliness that nothing but the Clue of Gods grace can bring them forth again when they are once entred into them With many other words to the like purpose after which he was turned off the Ladder where having hung some space of time he was cut down and carried to the sign of the Rose by Ratcliff where his body was laid upon a Table divers Seamen being in the Room ●ut long he had not lain when they might ●erceive some signs of life in him where●pon having a fire kindled warming their hands they bathed his body with spirits and an Apothecary being in the room desired to have him in a warm bed when presently he began to move his arms and legs with several other symptoms of a living creature In the mean space some Officers belonging to Newgate going to view the dead corps but finding it in such a living posture one of them posts to the Sheriff to acquaint him with it whom he found at Dinner who suddenly hasted thither the Officer by the way méeting also accidentally with the Executtion●r took him along with him whereby ●he way we may note ●ew every thing ●onsentred together for the spéedier execu●ion of Gods Iustice upon this sin of wilful Murther for séeing all things were thought to be done before it was accidental for the Officer to méet with either of them bo●h just so on a sudden When the Sheriffe came to the sign of the Rose aforesaid he found Savage sitting in the bed perfectly living but wanting the use of speech though 〈◊〉 was ju●ged ●ot of sence or reason wher●n exec●●●●● o● his sentence of Condemna●●●n he comma●●●d him to be put in a Blank●t and 〈◊〉 in a Cart it being the spac● 〈◊〉 four ho●●● 〈◊〉 the time of his first ha●●●●g to his second going to Execution ●e did strive ●nd str●gle s●me what both at his 〈◊〉 … ay ●nd to the Cart giving a kick to t●● executioner and one of the Baylive● a 〈◊〉 on the mouth but soon he was had to the Gibbet aforesaid and there hanged till he was quite dead And this was the end of Thomas Savage one who by the course of Nature might have lived many years had he not by his wicked courses caused the hand of Iustice to shorten his days He was said to be very penitent in Prison free in the confession of the horridness of his crime earnestly imploring Gods mercy for the pardon of the same and no doubt but God who is the God of mercy had compassion on him his end may be a warning to others for committing the like least trying the same sins they taste of the same punishments that he did His Corps was afterward conveyed to Islington the place where his sorrowful Mother dwelt and that night there buried notwithstanding the idle reports of some who forsooth would have him to be alive still such idle rumours when they are once got into the nodles of the more idler multi●ude gain still by report and like snowbals encrease with being roled from one to another Hannah Blay who had given him that wicked Counsell of knocking the Maid on ●he head remains still a condemned pri●oner in Newgate She pleading that she was with child which hath gained her a re●rieve for a time And thus we may sée the ill effects that ●●n produces for as the Apostle saith the ●eward of sin is death which though it ma●y times scapes the death of the body yet ever falls to kill the soul the●… more nobler art in comparison of which the body is but a méer dunghil yet if we look also upon th● punishments that it brings on the body w● shall find enough there to work in us a detestation of it how doth it impair our healt● consume our riches destroy our credits making us a scorn to our foes and a detestation to our friends even wicked me● hating those in whom they see their ow● vices predominant But for this bloody sin of Murther it is crime of a crimson dye which nothing bu● the tears of true repentance can wash of t●● guilt of it from off the soul yet man ha●● no greater enemy to himself then manki●● bi●ds beasts and fowls go lovingly tog●gether in Troops and Herds not hurtin● each other oh let us then learn at least much civility from those which we cou●● beasts least by our bloody actions at the d●● of Iudgement we be found to be great●● beasts our selves FINIS