cholerick humor with the which shee voyded three Wormes the which were wolley and like in forme colour length and greatnesse to Catter-pillers but that they were blacke the which afterwards laye eight dayes and more with-out any norrishment They were brought by the Barber of Saint Maur to Mounsier MILOT Doctor and reader in the Physick schooles who then had the sayd CHARTIER in cure and shewed them to me to many others AMB. PARE Booke 24. Chap. 16. Let vs adde some Histories of wormes comming forth in diuers partes of mans bodie to shewevs more plainly our miserable vanity Hauing a soldiar in cure in Piedmont who had beene foote-man to Mounsier de Goulaines deceased and had beene hurt with a sword vpon the parietall boane after some weekes dressing him I did see a number of wormes come from vnder this rotten boane by certaine hoales in the rottenes which made me vse the more speede to drawe out and raise the sayd boane the which did shake long before and vpon the Duramater I found where nature had ingendred 3. hollowe places in the flesh to put in ones Thombe full of moouing and crawling wormes euery one of the which was about the bignesse of a points tagge hauing blacke heads â—…MB PARE Booke 9. Chap. 22. Manie learned Physitions of our time and amongest the rest I. HOVLIER in the first booke of inward diseases Chap. 1. L. IOVBERT Cap. 9 in his treatise of wounds in the head MONTVVS and VEGA hold that many times wormes are seene in the braine of diuers men as also in other partes of the bodie BALTHAZAR CONRADIN Chap. 10. Of his booke of the Pestylent feuer in Hungary writes that hee had seene wormes comming out of diuers partes of bodies toucht with the sayd feuer and some of a good length which tooke their issue by the eares the which of necessity bred in the Ventricles of the braine And therefore the Hungarians in diuers places did tearme this feuer the worme of the braine COR. GEMMA in the Apendix of his Cosmocritia makes mention of a woman in the Lowe Countries who being dead of a pestilent Ague they opened her head where there was found a great quantity of stinking matter about the substance of the braine with an incredible number of little wormes and punaises I. HOVLIER writes in his practise that hee had giuen Physicke to an Italian that was tormented with an extreame paine in his head whereof hee died And hauing caused him to be opened there was found in the substance of the braine a beast like vnto a Scorpion the which as HOVLIER thinkes was ingendred for that this Italian had continually carried and smelt of the herbe called Baselisk A young girle about eight yeares of age beeing fallen into a very great trance remained seauen daies without speaking feeling or with any moouing breathing stronglie and taking no norrishment but some broth or decoction of pourpie The Mother seeing her Daughter so violently toucht in the head gaue her a suppositarie which drewe from her by the seege two and fortie wormes wrethed togither like to a bowle whereby the Childe was cured ALEX BENEDICT Booke 1. Chap. 26. of the cure of diseases A little Sonne of mine three yeares olde called IOHN CONRARD beeing fallen into a verie troublesome trance and presently helpt with Treacle and Vinager applyed to his mouth and nostrills being a sleepe and afterwards awake wee found in the sheete wherein hee was wrapt a worme which had a sharpe mussell markt with redde hairie and crawling in the clothes I. SCHENCK in his Obseruation Booke 1. section 242. It happened to a young Childe of three yeares olde which was very well this wonderfull and memorable alteration which followes As she was playing by certaine women there beganne sodenly to appeere in the great corner of the eye within it the head of a worme whose bodie almost couered the eye The woman being amazed drewe neere and one of them did gently drawe out this worme which was aliue and long as an ordynarie point and some-what bigge without any hurt to the string or that the comming of it forth had any way offended the eye AMATVS a Portugall Centur. 5. Cure 63. I haue seene come forth at a young mans eares that was tormented with a violent feuer three wormes like to the kirnells of Pyne-aples and some-what bigger VELASQVE Booke 4. Chap. 30. FERNELIVS Booke 5. Chap. 7. of his Pathologia writes of a soldiar who was so flat nozed as hee could not blowe it so as of the excrement which was retained and putrefied there ingendred two wormes which were wolley and had hornes of the bignesse of halfe a finger the which were the cause of his death after that hee had beene madde for the space of twentie daies AMB. PARE Booke 19. Chap. 3. In the yeare 1561. the fifth of Maie a young woman giuing suck to her boye but sixe monthes olde stooping to tie her shoe shee voided belowe a little beast as bigge as a Caterpiller and hideous to behold It liued three daies beeing fedde with milke Beeing dead it was found full of cholericke matter greene and venimous especially about the head The young woman felt no discommodity after this voyding The Sonne of one named IOHN MICHELLACH dwelling at Metz did voide at his fundement very haire I did see one of thirtie and three yeares of age Sonne to N. ROCKELFINGER who in pissing voyded little wormes which did crawle like vnto those that breede in rotten cheese but they had blacke heads I haue seene others that had wormes comming out at their eares A certaine Gentleman named CAPELLE hauing beene so wretched and wicked as to beate his Father fell sicke and had wormes come out at his eyes A woman of Dusseldorp hauing beene very sicke for a long time in the ende a certaine Impostume growing vpon her bellie aboue her flanke it brake by wormes which were ingendred therein out of the which there came a great number black and reddish R. SOLENANDER in the 5. section of his Physicall Councells in the 15. Councell art 2. 3. 4. 24. In burning feuers especially in those that be contagious and pestilent we see that diseases cast forth wormes by the taile and other beasts of horrible and strange shapes Of late a poore woman a widowe of Reinspourg hauing beene long tormented with a cough a shortnesse of breath and a paine at her heart and head in the ende after diuers remedies shee tooke the quintessence of Turbithe which I gaue her by meanes whereof after that she had beene discharged of certaine vicious excrements she voided by the seege a liue Lizard and then shee was cured I doe not speake of a number of frogges which PAVL FISCHER studying in the Colledge of the Abbaye of Saint Esmeran did voide hauing beene long tormented with strange paine at his stomake But after this discharge hee was very well MARTIN RVLAND a Physition in his opinion touching the golden tooth of the Childin
had not chewed well he swallowed it This morcell sticking to the orifice of the throate did so stop the passage as it was not possible for him to swallow any thing no not cleere water Hee could scarce breath the slimie flesh did stick so fast as the Surgions could not possibly drawe it vp nor thrust it downe After seuen dayes being rotten and dissolued it fell into the stomack so as the patient was freed from suffocation But for all this hee escaped not for his throate being inflamed with paine and the application of yrons besides his weakenesse growing through the want of nourishment by the space of seauen dayes had subdued all the forces and faculties of his life so as the foureteenth day he dyed MARCEL DONAT lib 2. of his Admirable Historics Chap. 8. An other learned Phisition doth iustifie that hee had seene one who being tormented with a pointed bone which stucke in his throate after two moneths it came forth through the skinne A Barber being to Tent a woman in the bottome of her mouth hee vnaduisedly let it slippe so as it went by her throate into her stomacke which caused such an indisposition in the poore woman as being wasted and dryed vp after shee had languished many yeares shee dyed I remember that a young man of Harlem who had swallowed Guernettes aliue they be little Fishes of the Sea which some call Squilles or Primotheres hee felt so great paine in his stomack as in the end he dyed of a consumption An other hauing swallowed three Gogions aliue was choaked with the third and dyed A certaine woman hauing vnaduisedly swallowed a needle could not be cured but in despight of all remedics hauing languished sometime in the end shee dyed all wasted and consumed CHARLES SODERIN was some-times troubled with an ague without any apparent cause whereof in the end he dyed being 35. yeares old Being opened they found a steele Needle sticking in his liuer BAZANCE a Surgion drew it forth all eaten and wasted with age and shewed it me CHARLES being but three yeares old had swallowed it by chance NERVEE a Phisition of Florence in his obseruations Barbarous People made milde and gentle through wisedome ROBERT of Saint Seuerin a very valiant Captaine in his time making a voyage into Syria and going towards Mont Sina to accomplish a certaine vowe made by him according to the deuotion of those times hauing descouered certaine troupes of horse which came towards him he demanded of them which did conduct him from the Sultā what people they were Whē they had answered him trembling that they were Arrabians the most dāgerous theeues in the world with out any shewe of amazement but incorraging his companie hee said vnto them that they must vnlade their carriages to the ende that those which came might finde dinner readie as soone as they were arriued whereof they had great neede considering that they had beene much tormented with heat and dust And whilest his people did what he had commanded he went to meete them and saluted them after a gratious manner being by nature a goodly personage both for his stature and countenance making much of them and seeming to haue no distrust of them but with a smiling countenance he tould them by his truch-man that they were wel-come Which words beeing pleasing to these Arrahian theeues they did willingly accept the offer which he made them so as they dined cheerefully with him and after they had receiued some small presents they went their way hauing forgotten all their barbarous crueltie and giuing him many thankes for his good cheere In this report wee see of the one part an act of great Iudgement hee falling sodenly and vnawares into the hands of men without mercie and on the other side an act of great humanity of men which seemed to haue nothing humaine but the face and in crueltie receyuing the nature of Lions Tigers and other sauage Beastes So as in my iudgement the Poets would not haue giuen much lesse commendations to this Captaine then they gaue to ORPHEVS for that with the sweete sound of his harpe hee had mollefied the hearts of cruell and sauage Beastes Conformitie of ancient wonders with moderne Light Hurts proued mortall A Brother of mine called Captaine Saint Martin being three and twenty yeares old who had made sufficient proofe of his valour playing at Tenis hee receiued a blowe with a ball which did hit him a little aboue the right eare without any shewe of contusion or hurt He did neyther set downe nor tooke any rest for it but fiue or sixe houres after he died of an Apoplexie which this blowe did cause A quarrell beeing betwixt two young men the one gaue the other a boxe vnder the eare wherevpon hee fell into an Apoplexie and died within fewe houres after He that strooke him was presently put in prison and the Physitions were called for to knowe their opinions vpon the cause of this yong mans death Some did attribute it to the blowe it selfe saying that the matter had beene mooued there-with others imputed it to repletion and superfluity of humors caused through excesse of eating and drinking others to the humidity of the place whereas death had before long slept This diuersity of opinions stayed the Iudge from pronouncing of a definitiue sentence We haue also knowne a fuller of cloth called PETER who slue a young man with his fist hitting him on the stomacke ANT. BENIVENIVS in the 110. Chap. of his Physicall examples ARDOVIN du FERRIER a yong youth of 13. yeares age was lightly hurt with a ◅allowe staffe on the head being cast by chance out at a garret windoe There was no fracture nor breach to bee seene at all but the sixt day there grewe an inflamation in the wound the next day a Convulsion and a palsey in the right thigh and left arme with a feuer and a fenzie and the eleuenth day hee died FR. VALLERIOLA in the. 1. obseruation of his 3. booke Wounds cured FRANCIS of Lorraine Earle of Aumale and after-wards Duke of Guise s◅aine before Orleance was sore wounded before Boulleyne with a Lance the which entred vnder the right eye declyning towards the nose past throgh betwixt the nape of the necke the eare with such violēce as the head with a peece of the Lance was broken and stucke in his head so fast as they could by no meanes drawe it out but with a Smithes pincers Notwithstanding all this great violence which was not without some fracture of bones sinewes Veines Artieres other parts yet he was cured and liued many yeares after hee was afterwards slaine at the seege of Orleance in the end of the first ciuill warres in our time in France The Historie of our time HENRY of Lorraine his Sonne in an incounter nere vnto Dormans in the yeare 1575. hauing had the better and pursuing some that fled receiued a shot with a pistoll in the cheeke some sayd it was with a harguebuse
the Mother had also giuen him the like councell to escape but GOD by his power did so staie him as hee had no power to flie Beeing carried to prison and examined at the first hee couered his parricyde accusing his Father that hee had slaine himselfe But his excuses beeing found friuolous hee was condemned to haue his right hand cut off then to bee pinched with hot pincers and in the ende hanged by the feete vpon a gibet and strangled with a stone of sixe score pound which should bee hanged at his necke A wicked counterfet beeing prisoner with him aduised him to appeale vnto Paris But hauing freely confessed the Parricide hee reuoked his appeale and was executed The History of our times Of the Heart of man Diuers Histories thereof in our time HAuing perced an Impostume grown of a long time vpon the seauenth turning ioynt where through the venom of his corruption it had made a great ouerture and gnawne the innermost membrane of the heart those which were present beheld one part of the heart which I did shewe them A. BENIVENIVS in his booke de abditis causis Chap. 42. Two Bretheren gentlemen falling out at tables the one of them gaue the other a wound with his knife iust on the seege of the heart the hurt gentleman bleeding exceedingly was carried and layed on a bed whereas all signes of death appeered Beeing sent for I applied that to the heart which I thought â—…it to strengthen it The patient hauing beene as it were at deathes doore vntil midnight beganne to come to himselfe and hauing vsed all the meanes possible I could deuise for his preseruation at length I sawe him cured whereby I knewe the heart had not beene perished as at the first I doubted but the filme or Capsula thereof called PERICALDION by the Greekes was lightly tainted The same Author Chap. 65. We haue seene ANTHONY ALâ—…IAT hurt and hauing his Pericordian vntoucht True it is that hee did sigh very much and lowd The internall parts beeing hurt bring death foure waies either through necessity of their function and office as the Lunges or by reason of the excellency of their nature as the Hart or through much losse of bloud as the Liuer the great arteries and veines or through the malignity of Symptomes and accidents as the neruie parts the ventricle and bladder Although some parts be incurable yet are they not mortall of absolute necessity otherwise death would ensue vpon the incurable hurts of boanes gristles and lygaments The Pericordion then is not mortall of it selfe but because it is impossible to attaine it without offending many other noble parts CARDAN in his Commentarie on the Aphorismes of Hipocrates booke 6. apb 18. Anatomizing a Scholler of mine dead in the Vniuersitie of Rome I found that this yong man had no Pericardion by meanes whereof in his life-time hee swounded very often and seemed as one dead through which defect at length hee died COLVMBVS booke 15. of his Anatomy A certaine Theefe being taken downe from the gallowes where he had bene hanged and not quite strangled was carefully looked vnto and recouered But like an vngratious wretch as he was returning to his old trade againe hee was apprehended and throughly hanged Wherevpon we would needes Anatomize him and wee found that his heart was all heary Which is likewise reported among the Grecians of Aristomenes of Hermogenes the Rhetorician of Leonydas of Lysander and others namely of a dog that ALEXANDER the great had This haire denotes not onely promptitude of Courage and peruerse obstinacy but many times valour contemning all danger BENIVENIVS in Chap. 83. de Abditis causis Vpon a certaine time making the Anatomy of a man at Ferrara wee found his heart cleane couered ouer with haire and indeede he had beene all his life time a desperate ruffian and a notable theefe AMATVS the Portingale in Centur. 6 Cur. 65. Being at Venice and present at the execution of a very notorious theefe the hangman that quartered his bodie found his heart meruailous hairye M. A. Muret booke 12. of his dyuers readings Chap. 10. I haue seeâ—…e the sepâ—…um that distinguisheth the ventrycles of the heart to be a gristle in some mens Bodies in others the left ventricle wanting or so little as it could hardly bee discerned Columb booke 15. of his Anatomy I found in two mens bodies that I opened a boane in the rootes of the great artery and of the arteryall vaine CORN GEMMA in the 2. booke of his Cyclognomia pag 75. In another I found a little boane betweene the gristly circles of the heart the chiefe artery and arteriall veine like to the boane which is commonly found in the heart of a stagge CORN GEMMA in the 1. booke Chap. 6. of his Cosmocritif Doctor MELANCHTHON in his first booke of the Soule testifies of CASIMIR Marquise of Brandebourg a Prince greatly afflicted in his life time with sundry griefes and consumed with long watchings that beeing opened after his decease the humor enclosed in the fylme of the heart was â—…ound quite dried vp and the heart so scorched that it was like a peare burnt in the fire TH. IORDAN in the 1. booke of signes of the plague Chap. 16. Not long since a Romaine gentleman died after hee had languished along time Being opened no heart appeared neither was there any part of it but the fylme left the vnmeasurable heate of his long sicknesse hauing wholy consumed it BERN. IELASIVS in the 28. Chap. of the 5. booke of the nature of things A young Prince being sickly and very much troubled with a payne at the heart assembled a great many Physitions togither for to consult of his dissease Among others there was a young practitioner who declared how he had read in certaine notes that the vse of garlick euerie morning expells a kinde of worme that feedes vpon the heart But both the remedy and the young man that propounded it were despised Not long after this Prince died and his body was opened by the commandement of his Father for to see the cause of his sicknesse death The dissection made they found a white worme hauing a sharpe bill of horne like a pâ—…llets gnawing the heart The Physitions tooke it aliue and layd it on a table in a circle made of the iuyce of garlick The worme began to writh and wriggle euery way still eschuing the iuyce that compassed it about Finally surmounted by the strength and sauor of the garlick it died within the circle to the astonishment of those that had despised so easie a remedie I. HEBANSTEIF in his treatise of the plague It is not long agoe that in the great Duke of Tuscans Court a certaine Florentine beeing assistant at the merry conceites of a pleasant iester was suddainly seized with vnexpected death whereat the company and his friends being much abashed for their better satisfaction after he was knowne to bee starke dead they had him opened and there was
to these hellish feastes would descouer what hee had seene shakes him violently from her shoulders hoping as it was likely that hee should loose his life as well through the violence of his high fall as that hee should bee buried in the mudde of the Lake But as GOD is infynitly mercifull desiring not the death of a sinner but that hee should conuert and liue hee did limmit the furious desseins of this Sorceresse and would not suffer this young man to bee drowned so as his fall was not mortall for tumbling downe hee met with a thicke tufte of reedes which did abate the violence of his fall yet he was verie sore hurt hauing no meanes to helpe himselfe but with â—…is tongue beeing all the rest of the night in extreame paine in this muddie couch Daie being come in lamenting and crying out it was the will of GOD that some passengers beeing amazed at this extraordinary Clamor after they had sought dilligently found this poore Bodie halfe dead hauing both his knees out of ioynt They inquire whence hee was and how hee came in that case and hearing the whole discourse after they had drawne him out of that miserable place they caused him to bee transported in a Cart to Vtrecht The Bourgemaster called IOHN of Colombourg a vertuous Gentleman rauished with admiration for so strange an accident made a dilligent inquirie of the matter and caused the Sorceresse to bee apprehended and committed to prison where shee confessed all that had past voluntarilie and without torture beseeching him to take some pittie of her But by a generall consent this woman was condemned and publickly burnt The seruant laie long beefore hee was cured of his hurtes especially of his thighes beeing punnished for his detestable curiositie Maister BAVDOVIN de ROVSEY in his medicinall Epistles Epist. 50. ERASMVS in his Epistles vpon the report of HENRY of GLARIS a learned man in our time writes that the 10. of Aprill 1533. in an Inne at Sciltac a Towne in Suisserland distant some eight good Leagues from Fribourg as night approched they heard a certaine hissing which seemed to come out of one of the Chambers The master of the house suspecting there were some theeues did runne to that place Whereas hee found not any man but hee still herd the same voice in the garret and from thence on the toppe of the Chimney Then presuming it should bee some euill spirit hee sent for two Preestes to coniure it who hauing begunne their exorcismes the spirit answered them that hee cared not for theÌ„ for the one was a whore-hunter and both were theeues so as in despight of all they could doe hee would burne the Towne as he had vndertaken Some thought it was for Ielousie which hee had conceiued against the hostes Sonne and the maide of the house of whome hee had had carnall knowledge by the space of foureteene years as she confessed afterwards at her death Hauing therfore raised this creature in an instant to the toppe of the Chimney he deliuered fire into her hand commanding her to fire the Towne the which shee did so as in lesse then an houre all was consumed to ashes neither could water or vineger quench this fire This was a reall thing and the fire also which the Diuell brought was reall and materiall but of an other nature then the common fire or any artificiall that can bee made And yet it came not from aboue as the fire of lightning the which burneth little if it fall not by chance among gonpowlder as in the yeare 1500. it happened at Paris in the Tower of Billy and sence at Macklin in Brabant and at Venise Blaise Viginere in his treaty of Comets I will adde vnto this history what PHILIP CAMERARIVS reports who sayth that the fire fell here and there vpon houses like vnto fiery boullets and when that anie one did runne to helpe to quench his neighbours house being on fire they called him backe presently to saue his owne They had great difficultie to saue a Castell of free stone seated a good waie from the Towne I haue heard the particularities of this terrible visitation from the mouth of the Curate of the place and other Inhabitants of good credit who had beene spectators of all The Curate told mee that this euill and cruell spirit did counterfeit the singing and melodious tunes of diuerse birds and many that were in my company did wonder with mee to see the Curate haue as it were a Crowne about his long haire which hee carried after the ancient manner all of diuers colours saying that it had beene done by this spirit which had cast the hoope of a Hogshead at his head Hee added moreouer that the same spirit did aske him one day with some others if they had neuer heard a Rauen croake That therevpon this enemie made so horrible a noyse as all that were present were so amazed as if it had continued any longer they would haue dyed for feare Moreouer this olde man did affirme but not without blushing that oftentimes this enemie of mans saluation laide open to himselfe and to others that did accompany him the secret sinnes they had committed so exactly as all were foreced to leaue the place and retire themselues to their houses ashamed In his Historicall meditations Cha. 75. Great Fiers I Doe not enter at this present into the consideration of fiers growing through the furie of the Warre hauing reserued the description thereof among the incredible miseries caused by the warres in our 〈◊〉 In this Section we will onely treate of fires proceeding from other meanes The last of Iune about a hundred yeares since towardes night Cracouia the capitall Cittie of Poland was sett on fire the which was in a manner all burnt It was a wonderfull ruine by reason of many thousands of houses that were consumed to Ashes Maister Cromer lib. 30. of the Historie of Poland In the yeare 1514. the 11. of Ianuary at night fire tooke the Realte at Venice and first consumed the riche shoppes which were very many A Northerly winde blowing very vehemently carryed this fire to the next houses in an instant all was on fire so as infinite buildings were ruined Saint IOHNS Temple the Meale Market and al the buildings about it The shoppes of Gold-smiths and changers were consumed This fire continued all night and could not bee quenched but in making place by the ruine of houses and whole streetes Most part of the Cittie was defaced by this accident Since it hath beene so reedefied beautified and inlarged as this losse hath not beene seene these many yeares P. IOVIVS lib. 12. of his Histories The yeare 1518. in Iune after a horrible Ecclipse of the Sunne there followed at the same houre a terrible fire at Vienna in Austria the which burnt a quarter of the Cittie The Emperour MAXIMILIAN the first being with his Court at Inspruch fell sicke hearing of this newes and dyed of a continuall feauer CVSPINIAN in the
had with SIGISMOND of Gonzague the Popes Legat in that place They retired speedely then to Sienna but they must needes depart from thence being expelled by ALPHONSO CASTRACIO Cardinal of Sienna and by the Iustice of Sienna After diuers consultations they resolued to retier to Venise and to that ende to take the way of Romagnia but beeing vpon the territory of Furlie they descouer a farre off a troupe of horses galloping towards them The Duchesse was presently of an opynion that BOLOGNE should saue himselfe with his Sonne who was nowe growne bigge the which they did beeing both well mounted and retired to Milan These Horse-men hauing fayled of part of their preye spake gratiously vnto the Duchesse and conducted her with her other two Children into the Realme of Naples into one of the Castells of the young Duke her Sonne where shee was presently imprisoned with the two Children shee had by BOLOGNE and her Chamber-maide Some fewe daies after three of them which had taken her in the plaine of Furli came into her Chamber and denounce her death vnto her suffring her to recommende her selfe vnto GOD then they tied a corde about her necke and strangled her which done they lay hold on the Chamber maide who cryed out with open throate and strangle her also and in the ende they seize vpon the two young Children and send them after the Mother and the maide The two Brethren contynuing their course caused BOLOGNES goods at Naples to bee confisked and hauing descouered that hee was at Milan they suborne certaine men to feede him with hope that in time they will make his peace making him beleeue that his Wife and Children were yet aliue who although he were aduertised by a gentleman of Milan of the Duchesse death of an ambush that was layed for him yet wold he not beleue any thing nor retier himself out of Milan where there were murtherers suborned to kill him of which number there was a certaine Lombard a Captaine of a companie of foote so as soone after BOLOGNE going out of the Friars where hee had beene to heare Masse hee was compassed aboute by a troupe of Soldiars and their Captaine who slue him presently beeing about two yeares after the Duchesse death As for his Sonne who was not then with him hee was forced to slie out of Milan to change his name and to retier himselfe farre off where he died vnknowne Historie of Italie At what time Pope IVLIO the second made warre in Italie all the Townes in a manner beeing troubled with the factions a young Romaine Gentleman called FABIO fell in Loue with a Gentlwoman named AEMILIA Daughter to one of his Fathers mortall enemies Shee beeing inflamed with the like affection by the meanes of her Gouernesse they did write Letters one vnto an other and then spake togither and in the ende they made a mutuall promise of marriage vpon a vaine hope that it should be a meanes to vnite their houses that were enemies The worst was they did consumate this marriage After some daies FABIOS Father feeling himselfe old commanded his Sonne to take a partie and to tell him what maiden he desired to haue to Wife FABIO hauing delayed to giue him any answere in the ende hee names AEMILIA whereof hee was with great chollour refused by his Father to whose will in the end hee yeelded abandoning AEMILIA after that hee had excused himselfe as well as hee could vnto her This sorrowfull Virgin growne madde to see her-self so abused seemed to disgest this pill quietly intreating her Gouernesse to obtaine so much of FABIO that he would bee pleased to come some-times in the weeke to see and comfort her and so by little and little to burie their passed friendship FABIO yeelding to that passion came to see her She gaue him kinde well-come deuising very familiarly all the euening togither and then to lie with her as hee had done beefore But hauing intreated him in any case not to touch her but to staie vntill the morning pretending her fore-passed greefe as soone as this miserable wretch was fallen a sleepe shee takes his dagger and killes him then hauing called her gouernesse shee stabbes her selfe in her presence with the same poynard and died presently The next day this pittifull accident did much amaze and afflict the two Fathers and their families for that remedie was past History of Italie Detestable Cursings THere was a certaine learned and reuerent man in Spaine had two Sonnes the one beeing thirteene yeares olde or there aboutes did some malitious acte wher-with the Mother was so incensed with choller as she began to curse him and to giue him to the Diuell wishing that he might carry him away This was about ten of the clock at night and when as the Mother continued her cursing the childe being amazed went downe into the Court where he vanished away so as it was impossible to finde him not-with-standing any search they could make All were troubled at this accident seeing there was no doore nor windowe open whereby hee might get out After two houres the Father and the Mother being much discomforted they heard a great noyse in a chamber ouer theirs and the child which groned pittifully They goe vp and opening the chamber dore with the key they finde this child in so poore estate as it was a pitty to behold him for besides that his garments were all torne he had his face hands and almost all his body so brused and scratched as it were with thornes and so disfigured as all the night hee could scarse come to him-selfe The Father and the Mother did all they could deuise to ease him and then the next daye seeing that he was come something to himselfe they inquired of him the reason of his aduenture the night past Hee answered that beeing in the Court certaine men wonderfully great vggly and fearefull approching neere vnto him without speaking any word had lifted him vp into the ayre with an incredible swiftnesse then setting him downe in certaine Mountaines full of thorns had drawne him through them and left him in the same estate they had now found him in That finally they had slaine him if he had not recōmended himselfe vnto GOD these executioners then brought him backe againe and made him to enter by a little window of the Chamber and so vanished away The boy remained deafe and in verye bad case by this Visitation beeing ashamed and greeued if any one did question with him or put him in minde of it A. TORQVEMADOE in the thirdiourney of his Hexameron Melancholike Madd Franticke Furious and enraged persons I Meddle not with the controuersies of learned Physitions touching the differences of these diseases according to the humour most predominant either in the braine or in the Hypocondres or throughout all the body neither will I enter into consideration of the remedies which they bring And without subiecting my selfe to any exact order for this beginning I will endeauour to
This extraordinarie pompe of NINACHETVEN caused all men to open their eyes and eares being ignorant what this preparation meant Then began NINACHETVEN to make a pittifull speech and first of all hee remembred the seruices which he had done to the Portugals before the taking of Malaca what he had done since in fauour of their King and how constant and faithfull hee had shewed him-selfe in his dutie with what resolution hee had hazarded his life in many places for proofe of his loyaltie That for recompence of so many good seruices the Portugals would defame his old age in that sort as it was impossible to finde a man that had his honor in any recommendation that could disgest such a disgrace for they dispoyled him of the cha◅ge which they themselues had giuen him they degraded him of his honors making so small an account of him as to haue him end his dayes ignominiously and to be a fable and scorne to all the world That for his part hee had euer valued his life lesse then his honor and had resolued to dye to preserue his reputation and therefore at that instant he did willingly change his life with death rather then to endure the aff◅ont which they meant to doe him Ending his speech he cast himselfe into the fire where he ended his life Eu◅ry one lamented and wept for this man thus dead considering what hee had done for the Portugals his fidelity in all Accidents and the pittifull ende of his age so as manie were much amazed at this spectacle OSORIVS lib. 9. of his History of Portugal Chap. 27. A rich merchant falling in loue with a certaine maide yeelded so much vnto his passion as hee was transported beyond the bounds of reason so as hee became madde and seized with a strange melancho like humor so as hee was tormented with horrible visions both by daie and night some times crying out and storming some-times laughing with open throate He sware that his best beeloued was continually before his eyes hee flattred and made much of her as if she had beene present then sodenly he would blame her and outrage her in euery sort for that she refused to loue him Hee spake not but of her all the day he did nothing but sigth and complaine the night hee had his eyes still open with sorrowing and had often killed himselfe if his kins-folkes and friendes had not kept him Hauing continued seauen monethes in this estate I was called to helpe him and with great difficulties by the grace of GOD I did Physicke him so happely as hee recouered his former wittes againe FR. VALERIOLA in his Pysicall obseruations booke 2. Obserua 7. A Councellor of the Parliament at Grenoble beeing taken with the loue of a Gentlewoman was so wonderfully passioned as hee left his place and all honestie to followe her where-soeuershee went Being contemned by her hee grewe so carelesse of his owne person as hee was full of Lice which got such an habit in him as hee could neuer be freed of them for they grewe vpon him and came out of all partes of his bodie as wee see wormes come out of rotten Carion Fynally some daies before his death seeing himselfe toucht with the hand of GOD he began to despaier of his mercies and to shorten his daies hee resolued to star◅e himselfe besides the Lice had taken such hould vpon his throate as if they would choake him They that saw this pittifull spectacle were much amazed and for pitty concluded to force him to eate and to make him take some coulisses and for that he resisted thē with all his force they bound his armes and kept his mouth open with a staffe whilest they put in the meate Beeing thus vsed hee died like a madde beast through the aboudance of Lice which entred into his throat This happened in the yeare 1559. The second History of France Pope LEO the 10. beeing aduertised of the taking of Milan which he had extreamely desired fell into such an excesse of ioye as a feuer tooke him and he died MONTAIGNE liher 1. of his Essaies Chap. 2. PAVL IOVIVS in the life of LEO the tenth lib. 4. SINAN generall of the Turkes Galleies hauing recouered his onelie Sonne whom hee held to bee lost died sodenly for ioye of IOVIVS in his Histories Some woman haue died for ioye sorrowe and other violent passions But we will speake thereof in an other Booke At the battaile of D' ANGVIEN offred once or twise to kill himselfe despayring of the daie for that it was not succesfull whereas hee did fight thinking by his rashnesse to depriue him-selfe of the Glorie of so goodly a victory The Isle of Gaza beeing forced by the Turkes some yeares since a Sicilian that had two faire Daughters readie to marrie slue them with his owne hand and their Mother who came running to their death This done hee went into the streete with a Cros-bowe and a Harguebuze and with two shot slue two of the first Turkes that approched neere his doore and taking his sword in his hand hee went furiously among them where hee was sodenly cut in peeces and so hee freede him-selfe from bondage after that hee had deliuered his Children MONTAIGNE Booke 2. of his Essaies Chap. 3. It was told me that a prisoner of qualetie being in the Concergerie at Paris his friends beeing aduertised that hee should bee vndoubtedly condemned to auoyde the infamie of such a death they suborned a Preest to tell him that the Souueraigne meanes for his deliuerie was to recommend himselfe to a certaine Saint with such a vowe and that hee should remaine eight daies without taking of anie norrishment notwithstanding anie weakenesse or faynting that hee should feele Hee beleeued him and by this meanes was the cause of his owne death without thinking of it The same Author Some yeares since two Leagues from my house there was a Country man who liued long since hauing his head long troubled with iealousie of his Wife comming one daie from his worke and shee welcomming him home with her accustomed cryes hee entred into such furie as presently with his hooke which hee held in his hand hee cut off those peeces which put him into this great feuer and threwe them sodenly at her face And it is sayd that a young Gentleman of our owne Nation hauing by his importunitie seduced a Gentlewoman growing desperate that beeing readie to enioye her hee could not performe any thing hee presently cut of his owne priuie partes in his Lodging and sent this cruell and bloudie sacrifice for a purgation of his offence MONTAIGNE liber 2. of his Essaies Chap. 29. ANDREVV CONTAREN a Venetian Gentleman being sickly and by reason of his Indisposition some-what weake of braine made sute to haue some charge of importance Beeing refused in open Councell and comming soone after into the companie of diuers young Gentlemen Who thinking to iest with him said that FRANCIS FOSCARIN Duke of Venise had beene the cause
happen to bee with child shee should presently be found guilty of Adultery Lib. 1. Of the conference of Antient wonders with moderne I haue seene with mine eyes a Gentle-man sitting by a Gentle-woman an honest Widdow whom hee sought to marrye as afterwards hee did Discoursing with her one day at Dinner a Veyne of the Temple neere vnto his Eare opened of it selfe from the which there issued and came very much blood the which he thought to stoppe with his Hand-kercher I was sitting at the table with them in a Castle whether I was called to cure a Gentleman that was sicke MAT. CORNAX lib. 1. Of his consultations of Physicke chap. 3. A yong mayden being kept from marriage grewe so sad as shee wept continually and would admit no comfort whereof followed an extreame paine in her head which bread a falling sicknes whereof soone after she died The same Author A certain Knight an Albanois hauing after great su◅e obtayned an honest Italian Widowe to his wife beeing one of the fairest women of her time after some months he grew iealous of her without any cause with a wonderfull strang passion For he had no opinion of her that shee eyther had or would wrong her honor but only he was trobled what should become of her after his death fearing least any other should enioye so rare a beauty Vpon this passion which did torment him continually he takes a furious resolution One night which was the last hauing shewed all the loue he could deuise vnto his wife who loued him sincerely in the ende he drew a naked Dagger from vnder his beds head and imbracing his wife with the one hand hee stabbed her with the other Which done he strikes himselfe to the heart and dies presently The wife not quite dead reports the whole history to such as came running ◅n at the crie of her chamber-maide and that the Knight had discouered his strange and cruell Iealousie a little before hee strooke her and then she died quietly Hist. of Italy A young Gentleman in the Emperor CHARLES the fift his Court beeing in loue with a Gentle-woman wrought so as partly by loue partly by force he had her maiden-head the which beeing knowne and hauing cōmitted this act in the Emperors Court he was committed to prison and condemned to loose his head and hauing notice giuen him ouer night that the next day should ende his life that night was so terrible vnto him and wrought such an impression as the next day comming out off prison to go before the seate of Iustice heare the sentence of death no man did know him no not the Emperor him-selfe For feare had so chaunged him that whereas the day before hee had a Vermillion hewe of a flaxen hayre and of a pleasing aspect hee was now like vnto a bodye taken out off the Graue hauing the hayre of his head and beard like to one of seuentye yeares olde and hee had the resemblance more of one that had beene hanged then of a lyuing man The Emperor thinking there had bin some fraud vsed and that some other offender had beene foysted into this Gentlemans place who was not yet 28. yeares old hee caused a search to bee made whence this wonderfull and sodaine change should come and then beholding wistly this poore offender thus terrefied the desire of iust vengeance was conuerted and turned into mercye and as it were reuiued out of a deepe amazement hee said vnto him I pardon thy offence commanding that they should let him goe adding withall that hee had beene punished sufficiently for his fault without the losse of his head LEVINVS LEMNIVS lib. 2. chap. 2. Of the complexion of mans body Where-vnto hee dooth adde certaine reasons of this strange alteration The which I heere set downe adding some words for the better explaning thereof Beeing demanded of a great personage the cause of this prodigious change I answered that wee must impute it to the deepe apprehension and attentiue thought of approching death peercing through the heart for the affection and passion of the minde beeing amazed was so violent and so bitter to the young Gentleman as the vitall spirits were almost quencht and suffocated in him all the parts of the bodye loosing their liuely and pleasing colour did wither and fade sodainely so as the rootes of the hayre nourished and watred by the fuming vapour that is betwivt the skinne and the flesh as the herbes in the ground that are toucht with a cold and drie quality they did wither and presently loose their naturall beautye for euen as the leaues of Trees and Vines in the heate of Sommer growe some times y◅alow and pale by any excesse of heate hayle rayne or a cold Northerly wind euen so the vigour of the bodye the colour the outwarde shewe the hayre which is no part but simply a dependance of the bodye takes the colour of gray or white because that which did maintayne them is quencht The which wee doe see happen to most men that haue beene in dangers in the Warres or in hazard at Sea or that haue beene toucht with dangerous diseases for then they thinke but of one thing which is that Death hath taken them by the throat if not perchance through long custome solide instruction and good resolution by the precepts of true Philosophie and by the assistance of more then a humane spirit they bee not accustomed nor vsed to feare so much The which wee see is ordinary and common in manye olde Souldiars and Martiners in regard of their long and continuall practise When as the horrour of Death surpriseth anye one or that the imagination thereof more bitter then death it selfe is framed in the thought they die sometimes before they are dying as it hath happened vnto many or else the Senses are dulled and mortefied so as the offenders feele not the stroakes as we haue seene in many that haue beene be-headed and broken vppon the Wheele resembling men that haue Apoplexies Lethargies falling-Sicknes Sowndings or like to others which open their eyes yet neither see nor knowe any man The dangers incident to Sea and Land whereas the Image of Death appeares before their eyes and doth fixe it selfe more strongely in the thought make them that are in them to tremble and looke pale the blood retires it selfe and flies from all parts towards the fortresse of the heart all the parts of the body in an instant want their norishment not any one doth discharge his due function but the feete stagger the sight growes dymme the force fayles the vnderstanding becomes blunt the spirit dull the cheekes leane and withered the tongue fumbling and the teeth shaking in the head To conclude there is no man how strong and confident so euer that is not amazed when any mortall danger surpriseth him sodainely True it is that a Christian fixing his hope in the grace of GOD recouers his spirits by little and little shakes of feare assures himselfe and becomes
Silesia Sometimes there happens sharpe and dangerous paines in the head which cause a dimnesse of the sight a decay of vnderstanding a suppression of the voyce a vomiting and a want of naturall heate through-out all the body A friend of mine named PHILIP was troubled with all these infirmities so as all men expected his death the seuenth day no Phisicke helping him in the ende by the helpe of Nature which was strong in him hee cast forth a Worme at his right nostrill the length of foure or fiue fingers breadth where-by hee was cured BENIVENIVS Chap. 100. I did see one of the Seigneurs of Venice tormented with a feuer but much more in the night then in the day in the end he cast out at his nostrils a Grayish Worme about foure fingers long the which had feete proportioable to the body and being put into a Glasse full of water it did mooue swiftly It came out at the nose wrapt in the snot with thick and black bloud TRINCAVEL lib. 9. Chap. 11. A young Maiden being sick at the signe of the Lanterne at Saint Iames Port in Paris thrust forth at one of her nostrils a Worme that was bigge and large that was foure fingers long without any Coughe or Vomiting going before This was the 9. of Aprill 1553. Annotations vpon the first Booke of Maister HOVLIER of inward diseases Chap. 54. I haue knowne a certaine man hauing an Vlcer in his nostrils from whence did distill poysoned corruption By my aduice hee dropt in the Iuyce of Tobacco leaues At the second time there came forth of his nostrils a great number of Wormes and afterwards lesse in the end after some dayes the Vlcer was cured MONARDVS in his collection of Simples beyond the Sea MONTVVS in his worke of growing diseases Chap. 4. reports after VELASQVES that there are Wormes which breed vnder the tongue I. SCHENCK in his Obseruations liber 1. Sect. 387. Many other learned Phisitions agree and maintaine with AVICENNE and other Ancients that Wormes breed in the teeth the which they drawe forth with diuers perfumes ALEX. BENEDICTVS lib. 6. Chap. 13. Of the cure of diseases BENIVVENIVS Chap. 100. DO DONEVS in his Scholiast RONDELET in his Historie of Fishes in his Chapter of Creuises TH. de VEGA in his Comentar vpon the â—… Booke Chap. 5. Of affected places of GALLEN HOVLIER in his Annotations vpon the fift Booke of GALLEN Of compounded Medicines I haue made mention else-where of a young Prince after his death being opened there was found a white Worme fastened vnto the heart which had the beake pointed and hard like vnto that of a Chicken Others in their Annotations vppon Mounsieur HOVLIENS worke of inward diseases obserue vpon the 29. Chapter of the 1. Booke that some times it happens that wormes tickling not onely the orifice of the stomack but also the heart it selfe death doth presently ensue I haue also spoken of a Florentine who beeing dead of an Apoplexie was opened where there was a Worme found in the filme of the heart RONDELET speaking of the Riuer Creuisse in his History of Fishes saieth That hee had seene a Worme breeding in one of the brests of an Honorable Gentlewoman BALDVVIN ROVSETVS a Phisition of Holland in the 10. Chapter of his Miscellania reportes the like of another Woman H. MONTVVS a learned Physition doth maintaine that there are wormes breed in the Veines of mans body PLINIE doth also write it lib 26. Chap. 13. I. SCHENCK lib. 3. of his Obseruations Sect. 52. One demanded councell of a Spaniard by Letters and helpe for one that was troubled with grauell who hauing voyded some stones and much sand did also put forth at his yarde two little Wormes hauing pointed beakes two hornes vpon the head as a Snaile the backe and belly was as it were couered with scales black like a Tottoise but vnder the belly which was redde Annotations vpon the 50. Chapter of the 1. Booke of Maister HOVLIER Of inward diseases I haue wondred to see in mine owne Vrine a great great number of Wormes short and little like to small Lice CARDAN in his Coment vpon the 76. Aphorisme of the fourth Booke of HIPPOCRATES GILBERT GRIFEON an excellent Physition and some-times my Schoole-maister hath some-times shewed mee Wormes in Vrines as small as haires the which wee could not see but in looking very neere RONDELET in his History of Fishes in the Chapter of the Riuer Creuish I haue seene in an Vrine Wormes as large as Gourd seedes flatte and aline MONTVVS liber 4. Chap. 19. ARGENTERIVS a most learned Physition doth affirme that hee had seene the forme of a winged Dragon comming forth with the Vrine RONDELET in his Treatise of the Knowledge of Diseases Mounsieur DVRET a Physition hath assured mee that hee did voyde at his yarde after a long and greeuous sicknesse a little Beast aliue very strange and wonderfull to behold which was of a reddish coulour CHARLES Earle of Mansfield beeing very sore sicke of a continuall Feuer cast forth at his yarde a Worme of the very forme of a blacke Pye AMBROSE PARE lib. 19. Chap. 3. I haue seene in the Vrines of diuers that haue beene sicke of the great Poxe Wormes like vnto Antes LEMNIVS lib. 2. Chap. 40. Of the secret miracles of Nature One being troubled with difficultie of making water voyded by his yarde a little liue Scorpion I. SCHENCK lib. 3. of his Obseruations Sect. 312. In the Bladder of some persons Wormes doe breede and little Beasts like to Cockles of the Sea ALEX. BENEDICT lib. 2. Chap. 22. of his Anotomie I attribute much credit in Phisicke and Surgerie to experience applyed to reason An honorable Woman did voyde by the neck of the Matrix a great number of Wormes called Ascarides soone after recouered her health GARSIAS LOPES in his diuers Lessons of Phisick Chap. 13. Visiting one FREDERIC seruant to FRANCIS BOVRSAT a Lawyer beeing full of paine with an Impostume that was growne at the ende of his middle finger the which beeing ripe I caused to bee lansht out of the which there came presently a white Worme wolly hauing a black head as bigge as those Maggots that are found in Cheeses after the which FREDERIC was cured MARCELLVS DONATVS lib. 4. of his Historie Chap. 26. A certaine Man hauing a swelling or Wenne on his necke as bigge as an Egge by chance being in a quarrell hee was wounded very sore in the same place the which was found to bee full of quicke Lice and the patient was cured of his hurt of his Wenne and of his Vermie PETER FOREST in his Obseruations Maister CORNELIVS HEYDIVS a Physition at Delft hath told me that practising in the Franche Countie hee had a Maide in cure which had a crooke back who feeling a great itching on that part hee thought it was some Impostume applying things fit to make it ripe Being opened there came out of it matter as cleere as water with a
of his hope sends the Merchant to prison in expectation of more ample proofe But hauing had conference with other prisoners who are craft masters in such affaires he appeales from his imprisonment s◅es both the Sargiant the Iustice. I leaue you to thinke whether the cause were without apparance of reason Forgery is obiected against the obligatiō there needs no proofe for it is confessed And indeed the Iustice went directly to the Parliament where he discoursed at large how all things had beene carried The Court being well assured of the honesty of the Iustice suspended the course of this sute for a time In the meane space Monsieur BIGOT had incharge to make enquirie all the way betweene Rouan and Paris to see if he could come by any notice of the matter which hee executed with all diligence At length passing by Argentueil the Bayliffe tolde him how not long before they had found a dead carcasse in the Vines halfe eaten with Dogs and Crowes Ther-withall came the blind man a begging to the Inne where BIGOT lay and vnderstanding the perplexitie they were in told them all that hee had heard about the same time on the Mountaine BIGOT asked him whither he could know the voyce againe The other answered him that hee thought he should Whervpon he set him vp on an horse behind another rode away with him to Rouan where being alighted and hauing giuen an accompt of his cōmission the Court determined to heare what the blinde man could say and after to confront him with the prisoner Hee hauing then discoursed at full all that past in his hearing on the Mountaine the answer that was returned him being demanded whether hee could know the voyce againe he replied that he did not thinke but hee could Therwith they shewed him a far of to the prisoner asked him when the blind man was gone whither he could take any exception against him GOD knows what a case he was in then For he said that there had neuer bin such deuises practised to impeach the innocency of an honest man as there had bin against him First the Iustice by vertue of a false obligation to lay him in prison then to make him beleeue how hee had confessed that which neuer did and last of all to bring in a blind man for a witnes against him why it was pastal rules of cōmon sence Notwithstanding that the Court seeing he had nothing els to say against him caused 20. men aboue to speake one after another still as they spake the blind man was asked whither he knew their voices whervnto he replied that it was none of them At last when the prisoner had spoken the blind man said that that was he which answered him on the Mountaine The same confusion of voyces hauing been two or three times reiterated the blind man hit alwaies on the right and neuer missed Take all the accidents of this processe seuerally and you shall find many that make for the prisoner But when you haue thoroughly considered the contrary there are a number of circumstances which make against him a new Cittizē which had set vp a new shop a little after the Lucquois disapearing the honesty of the Lieutenant knowne to all men the deposition by him and the Sergeant made but especially the miraculous encounter of the blind man who was both at the murther as afterward in the Inne where BIGOT lay finally that without any fraud he had discerned the murtherers voyce from many others All these things duely weighed were cause of the wretched mans condemnation who before he was executed confessed all to the discharge of the Iudges consciences E. PASQVIER in 5. booke des Recerches of France Chap. 20. On Christmas eue 1551. a certaine fellow brained a yong woman with an Hammer hard by Saint Oportunes Church in Paris as she was going to mid-night Masse tooke away her rings The Hammer was stolne the same euening from a poore Smith there-by who therefore suspected of the murther was very cruelly handled and put to an extraordinary kinde of torture by reason of the violent presumptions that made against him In such sort that he was quite lamed depriued of the meanes to get his liuing where-by reduced into extreame pouerty hee made a miserable end The murtherer remained almost 20. yeares vnknowne and the memory of the murther seemed to be buried with the poore woman in her graue Now marke how it came out at length though it were long first IOHN FLAMENG Sergeant of the subsidies at Paris that was afterward chiefe Vsher in the Court of Aydes being one day in the Summer at Saint Leups a village by Montmorency whether he was sent to sit vpon a Cōmission chanced among other talke at supper to say before certaine of the place how hee had left his wife at home sick and no body with her but a little boye There was an old mā then present named MOVSTIER a sonne in-law of his who immediately vpon this speach went away that night with each of them a basket of Cherries and a greene Goose and came about ten of the clock the next morning to FLAMENGS house where knocking the woman looked out at the window and asked who it was They answered that her husband had sent her a greene Goose and a basket or two of Cherries wherevpon the dore being opened to them by the boye they clapped it too againe and cut his throat The poore childe strugling with them the woman heard the noyse and stept out into a gallery ioyning to her Chamber to see what it was where perceiuing a streame of bloud in the yarde one of them told her that it was the bloud of the Goose In the meane time the other ranne vp the stayres thinking to surprise her She mistrusting the truth of the matter got back againe into her Chamber bolted the doore within and cryed out of the windoe for helpe saying there were theeues in her house The two wretches seeing they had fayled of there purpose would haue got away but going to vnclocke the gate they brake the key in the locke So that hauing no meanes to scape they went to hide them selues The youngest climbed vp into the funnell of a chimney the old man cōueied himselfe into the bottom of a celler There-with the neighbors came running to the house breaking open the dore found the boy lying dead in the yard where-vpon they sought vp and downe euery corner for the murtherers he in the chimney was taken first and the other after long search was found in the well of the cellar with nothing but his nose aboue water They were straight way caried to prison and shortly after arraigned and condemned to death Being on the scaffold at the place of execution the old man desired to speake with the Smiths widdowe of whom mention was made at the beginning When she came he asked her forgiuenes and told her it was he that
killed the young woman by S. Oportunes Church This confession of his being committed to record they were executed as they deserued E. PASQVIER in the same booke and Chapter Eleven or twelue Danysh gentlemen being in talke togither one euening in a stoue fel to some hot words among themselues which at length grew to such termes that the candles sudenly were put out one of thē was stabbed with a poygnard killed Amongst those gentlemen was a Pursiuant of the Kings Now the murtherer was vnknowne by reason of the nomber although the gentlemen accused the pursiuant for it but the King would not beleeue them saying they had conspyred against his seruant In this perplexitie the King caused them to come altogether into the stoue and standing round about the dead corps he commanded that they shold one after another lay there right hand on the slaine gentlemans naked brest swearing they had not killed him The Gentlemen did soe and no signe apeared to witnes against them The Pursiuant onely remayned who condemned before in his owne conscience went first of all and kissed the dead Mans feete but assone as he layd his hand on his brest the blood gushed forth in great abundance both out of his wound and nosthrills so that vrged by this euident accusation he confessed the murther and by the Kings owne sentence was incontinently beheadded HENRY RANSOVIVS Liuetenant for the King of Denmarke in the duchy of Holsace makes this relation in a letter of his that is now in print farther addeth that the King his maister reported this history to him and to VLRIC his sonne in lawe Duke of MECKELEOVRG with these words Some of the gentlemen accused of this murther are still liuing this first day of Iuly 1591. And how that euer since the execution of the Pursiuant King CHRISTIERNVS 2. Permitted that ouer al his Kingdome vnknowne murthers shold be sought out after that manner I will ad another example saith he in the same letter written to DAVID CHYTREVS which happened at ITZEHOVV in Demnarke in my Fathers time A Traueller was murthered by the high way side and be-cause the Murtherer could not bee found out the magistrates of Itzehow made the body to be taken vp and an hand to be cut of which was caryed into the prison of the towne and hung vp by a string in one of the chambers About ten yeares after the murtherer comming vpon some occasion into the prison the hand which had bene a long time dry began to droppe blood on the table that stood vnderneath it The laylor beholding so extradinary a thing stayed the fellowe and aduerty sed the magistrates of it who examining him in the presence of my Father the murtherer giuing glory to God confessed the murther which hee had commited so many yeares before and submitted himselfe to the rigor of the lawe which was inflicted on him as he well deserued HIEROME MAGIVS a learned Philosopher disputing of such accidents in 3. of his Complaints Chap. 6. after hee hath quoted the ancyent and moderne authors which haue handled this subiect and propounded all that hee thought was requisite for this disputation finally concludes that such discoueryes of murthers are miraculous The Authors he alledgeth are HOMER in the 17. booke of his ILIAD◅S speaking of the dead body of EVPHORBAS in the presence of MENELARS which had killed him The Poet LVCRECIVS in the booke 4. in these verses Nanque homines ploerunque cadunt in vulnus c. THADDVS the Florentine in his explications on IOANNITIVS ISAGOGE HENRY de GAND in his Quodlibets Giles of Rome in the qaest 25 of 5. quodlibet IOHN MVIIOR vpon the. 4. booke of Sentences dist 25. quaest 14. The author of the booke intitu◅ed Peregrinarum quaestionum in the quae 6 of the. 3. decade MARSILIVS FICIN in the. 16. booke of the immortalatie of soules Chap. 5. GALE OF MARTIVS in the. 22. chap. of his booke De doctrina promiscua IOHN LANGIVS Phisition in his 40. Epistle and LEVIN LEMNIVS in the 2. booke of the miracles of Nature chap. 7. GAVDENCE ME◅VLA in the 4. books of Memorable things chap. 18. PARIS DE PVTEO in the treatise of Iudges vpon the word Tortura HIPPOLITO MARSILLO in his practise in the paragraffe Diligenter num 81. MARK ANTHONIE BLANC in the Commentarie on the Law FYNAL num 408. F. de questionibus LVDOVIC CARERA in the beginning of his practise num 140. FRANCIS IASON in the treatise of Iudgements and tortures In the town o◅ Tubingue a certain traueller cōming into an Inne talking at table of the iourney hee had to go asked the Host of the house if he knewe of any that went his way because hee was affrayd hee should not hit it where-vpon another ghest that sate at table with him said how he was going to the place he spake of knew all the wayes of the forrest through which they were to passe Trauailing together in the wood the latter thinking to make some great purchase fell vpon the other killed him But finding little about him hee returned heauy and sighing to the same Inne from whence they parted Presently after the bruit went of a man that was found murthered in the Forrest And because the Murtherer discouered himselfe sufficiently by his sighes hee was apprehended and beeing examined confessed the fact for the which he was put to death PH. LONICER in his ◅heater of Examples A Murtherer that had killed diuers men and certaine women with child going on Easter-Eue to the Towne of Winshein in Almaigne bought three calues heads of a Butcher in the shambles which hee put into a net made like a bagge and laying them on his shoulder went his way home-ward Where-vpon it seemed to all that met him in the streete that they were mens heads which hee carried in the net so that diuers ranne and aduertised the Magistrates of it who straight way sent some of their Sergeants and commanded them to apprehend him and bring him before them Be◅ing come and examined where he had those mens heads hee answered that hee had bought them of a Butcher in the open Shambles The Butcher was sent for who affirmed that those which he sold him were Calues heads no other The Magistrates amazed with this prodegie sent the buyer to prison where going to bee tortured hee confessed his murthers which was no sooner done but presently the three heads taken out of the net returned to their former shape and the murtherer was executed according to his demerits The same A learned Diuine of our time recytes such another History as that of IBICVS For he saith that an Almaign trauelling a iourney fell among Theeues who going to cut his throat the poore man espied a flight of Crowes and said O Crowes I take you for witnesses and reuengers of my death Hee had no sooner said so but he was murthered by the theeues who drinking two or three daies after in an Inne a