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A02402 Most true and more admirable newes expressing the miraculous preseruation of a young maiden of the towne of Glabbich in the dukedome of Gulische, and the strange yet worthy excecution of Iohn Honaver of Brunholf at Wittenberg, this present yeere 1597. Gurth, Alexander. 1597 (1597) STC 12531.5; ESTC S2702 4,588 19

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they tryed her diuerse times with diuerse things and alwayes found her to loath meate so farre that when any meate was either giuen to their children or stirring in their houses shee would goe away so that they saide vpon their othe that they thought that the smell of meat was loathsome to her These our present letters are sent foorth at the request of one Bartholmew Powels dwelling in the City of London in England who desired our letters for the fuller certifying of the truth of the premisses and we being assured of the trueth hereof both by the witnesses and other epperiences thought it good not to deny his request that the trueth of so straunge a thing might be abroad knowen to the praise and glory of God Written and sealed in our presence the 28. of Iuly 1596. OF this M. Harc I haue said all that I can onely I conclude the Lorde is mightie in all his workes and wonderfull in all his waies hee will haue his glorie knowne neither shall any thing in heauen or earth bee ioyned as an aid with him so full of Almighty maiestie and iealousie is he in his kindled wrath shall vnbeleeuers fall and the scorners shall be as stubble before fire I suspect sir that my tediousnes doth wearie you but haue a little pacience and it may be I will bee briefer and merrier in this that followeth ❧ The strange yet worthy execution of Iohn Honauer of Brunholfe at Wittenberg this present yeare 1597. IT hath ben reported for truth a long time that the Duke and State of Wittenberge had gotten a fellowe for the nones so excellent an Alchimist as the wide world had not his like The knowledge of the Philosophers stone was his as sure as euer it was Salomons Oh hee was a perrillous fellowe by report hee entended to paue Wittenberg with siluer and couer the houses with gold As for the Indies and their excrements gotten with so long trauaile so daungerous fightes such like attempes he held them in scorne the Elixer of life was his and thereon hee would venter his life Therefore the State adding more to their losse prepared a gallowes of a quadrangle forme most artificially wrought being yron worke gilt euer with bowles on the top and other curious forge worke It was plated on a square of stone and from the top in the middle of the quadrangle went vp an vpright barre of yron and another crossing yet in manner of a gibbet this held a broad Vane vpon which was ingrauen these wordes Here hangeth the crafty Alchimist that scaped from Struckgart who pretended to make gold of yron and because hee lied and did deceiue he is hanged on yron gilded The daie of his death was on Aprill the second day 1597 hee was brought to the gallowes with a hundred and fourescore horsemen and a multitude of footemen penitent hee was and did confesse his errour yet a little bragged of his art ANd by the way M Harc I here note all of his kinde haue that kinde of fault how euer they be ouertaken yet they haue a mad desperate hope to attaine that in one houre that thousandes of them could neuer meete with in an age You know some about London that shall bee namelesse who still lacke purging in the maister veyne against this mad frenzy of Alchimist and wil take no warning by the daily issue that runneth and vapoureth from their friendes cofres and their inheritances But leauing them to beweepe their owne losse returne we to Iohn Honauer by himselfe named lord of Brunholfe a captiue captaine in that beggerly beguiling art He was suted in cloth of gold his stockings silke his hat thrumd with gold and silke his band of gold about his necke a chaine of gold and in this habite he was hanged dead on a barre of yron crossing from the Vane like the crosse post of a gibbet being dead he was disrobed the hang man seazing on his gallant sute and in foure gilt yron chaines his bodie was hung vp On a piller by the gallowes was his liuely picture with verses of high Dutch written to this effect Here iustly hangeth Iohn Honauer The consuming Alchimist deceiuer In Methernland this youth was borne Who now is made his countries scorne He tooke vpon him that he would Conuert plaine yron to rich gold Many lords beleeud his knauery And made him rich with costly brauery But as lies did get him fame So his ●alshood brought him shame The Duke of Wittenberg commanded At Struckgart he should be imprisoned But thence he scaped to his great cost For by his flight his life he lost Condemn'd he was hanged to bee Gilt yron was his gallow tree He cost the State two tunne of gold And by his craft his life was sold Three hundred pounds they more bestow To hang him with a golden show So ended he before he wist Because he was an Alchimist These rimes I can no better translate the sence I am sure they hold Hee was brought to execution with a hundred and fourescore horse and an exceeding nūber of other people crying There goes to hang the Algomist which is a by-name they giue Alchimists in this countrey Thus ended this young cousener being but foure and twenty years of age if some of th●se old companions of that kind which bootlesly trouble other States were so serued the occupation of Alchimie I mean in the most shifting professors would proue like the profession of stealing it indeed being a secret kind of theft Thus M. Harc haue I done with these two nouels commending me to you and referring you to the post scriptum for one matter I omitted in this last businesse Your friend to vse Alexander Gurth Post scriptum It is not to be forgotten that when Honauer had broke his day hee was imprisoned at Struckgart where escaping proclamation was made that any one who apprehended him should haue three hundred guildrens and so in short time he was soone caught Once againe farewell Coleyn Sept. xxii 1597. A. G.