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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	wonderful_a	year_n	young_a	28	3	5.4396	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62926	God's revenge against murther demonstrated in the apprehension, prosecution & execution of Henry Symbal and William Jones, for the inhumane murther of Richard Sandford Baronet, murthered by them the 8th of Septemb., 1675.	Tonge, John, 17th cent.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1882; ESTC R16840	11,346	24

Finchly-Common betwixt Highgate and Barnet And here I shall leave them to be an example to all Spectators of Gods just Judgment and Revenge against Murder and give you an account of what is not unworthy your observation how miraculously the Prosecutor even by a false Information hapned to find them They having left Bel-bar as is said before called at a little house in Hatfield Road at a Lane end where a way lead to St. Albans and asked the way thither and took that way as if they did intend to go to St. Albans when out of the sight of those people whom they inquired of being well acquainted with the ways they took a little By-lane that leads to Hatfield and the Prosecutor believing that they were gone to St. Albans that being the ready way to VVestchester apprehending they were flying for Ireland took that way and often asking at the houses in the Lane-side if the people did see such men describing the persons ride that way every one that he met with by what dilusion I know not affirmed that they see them pass that way upon Monday in the afternoon and so all along until he came to St. Albans Town-end where he lost all manner of account of them as well he might for they never came that way at all so he spending some time to inquire in St. Albans whether they had been there or no and getting no account of them having lost all manner of hopes to meet with them unless at VVestchester he took Post designing for that place but had scarce got out of the Towns-end till hearing a Posthorn wind as he apprehended one riding fast after him he staid and found that it was one that followed him on purpose to give him an account that the Murderers Guide was secured at St. Albans who was returning with the Horses that they had hired at Barnet and this was occasioned through the Prosecutors strict enquiry and search which he made in that Town upon this lucky accident the Prosecutor turning back to St. Albons took their Guide away with him who brought him to the place where they lay on Tuesday night And here you may see how Gods providence did direct him in the quest of these Murderers for had he not been deceived by their pretentions of going to St. Albans when they had called at the little house at the Lanes end in Hatfield Road where the people did inform that they were the same men that called there and went that way that had stayed at the Sign of the Bell at Bel-bar two or three hours upon Monday morning and from thence sent to Gibbon by which he knew them to be the same that he followed he had never gone to St. Albans and so had missed their Guide and in all probability the Murderers had escaped I shall close the whole with a short Character of Symbal that was given the Prosecutor by a near Relation of his when he was in Newgate who was extremely concerned for him and would have been glad to have found the Fact such as might have given hopes of saving his Kinsmans life and to have had him transported for the doing of which he would neither have spared pains nor any thing else if the thing had been feazeable but when he saw the ugliness of the Murder made appear he could not forbear admiring Gods Justice and Providence in following home so wicked a wretch as this his Kinsman was lifting up his eyes and hands towards Heaven he broke out into this grave and serious Meditation Good God saith he thou art wonderful in thy Providence and in the Dispensations of thy Justice towards this wicked young man for I fear he ruin'd his Master I 'm sure he broke the heart of his Mother and sold the Blood of his Father and in thirteen years since his Fathers death I am a Thousand pounds the worse for him and he is now cut off in the four and twentieth year of his age I once more recommend it to the serious consideration of all sober and unbiassed persons whether it is more reasonable to believe the dying words of Sir Richard Sandford a Gentleman of Worth and unstained Reputation or the words of his Murtherer being a person of this Character though upon the Gibbet FINIS