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A35259	Wonderful prodigies of judgment and mercy discovered in above three hundred memorable histories ... / impartially collected from antient and modern authors of undoubted authority and credit, and imbellished with divers curious pictures of several remarkable passages therein by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, and the Remarks of London &c.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1682 (1682)	Wing C7361; ESTC R34850	173,565	242

bloudy for so they seemed to them Some that saw them went and informed the Senate who immediately sent Officers to apprehend him when he was brought to the Guild-Hall and asked where he had those mens heads He answered That he bought them in the Shambles The Butcher being sent for said He sold him Calves not Mens heads The Senate being amased at the thing sent him to Prison where being strictly examined he confessed the former Murders whereof he was guilty and suffered for the same When the Heads were taken out of the Net they were then seen to be but Calves heads Clarks Mirrour 2 Part p. 460. LIV. A murderer at Tubing was betrayed by his own sighs which were so deep and incessant for grief not of the Fact but of the small booty and being asked the question readily acknowledged his Crime and was Executed Another Murderer in Spain was discovered by the trembling of his heart for when many were suspected of the Murder and denyed it the Judg caused all their Breasts to be open'd and him in whom he felt most trembling of his heart he was condemned who could not deny the Fact but presently confessed the same and suffered Death accordingly Beards Theatre LV. At Isenacum A Young man being in love with a Maid and not having wherewith to maintain her used this unlawful means to accomplish his desire One night he killed his Landlord and throwing his body into a Celler took away all his money and then made hast away but he had not gone many steps when the Terror of his Concience and the Judgment of God so stupified him that he could not stir a foot further till he was apprehended Martin Luther and Melanchton were eye witnesses of this miraculous Judgment who likewise brought the murder to confession of his sins and repentance for the same Beards Theatre p. 214. By these Examples we see how hard it is for a Murderer to escape the Justice of God though the Justice of man be not sometimes able to find them out neither have lustful nor lascivious Persons gone unpunished as examples in all Ages testifie and therefore we shall conclude this Chapter with a few Instances among many of the dreadful Effects which Lust hath produced upon those who have been overcome thereby LVI Novellus Carrarius Lord of Pavia of great renown for his valour but of great infamy for his wickedness This Man after many cruel murders and bloudy Practices which he exercised in every place where he came fell at last into this crime for lying at Vincentia he fell in love with a Virgin of excellent beauty but more excellent Chastity an honest Citizens Daughter whom he commanded her Parents to send to him that he might have his pleasure of her but they more regarding the credit and modesty of their Daughter than the Tyrants command refused to send her whereupon he took her violently out of their house and forced her to his Lust after which to add cruelty to his Villany he chopped her into small pieces and sent them to her Parents in a Basket for a present wherewith her poor Father astonished carried it to the Senate who sent it to Venice desiring them to consider of the fact and revenge the cruelty The Venetians undertaking their defence made War upon the Tyrant and besieging him in his own City took him at last Prisoner and hanged him with his two Sons Beards Theatre LVII One principal motive of the Danes first arrival here in England who afterward conquered the whole Land and exercised horrible cruelties on the Inhabitants was by occasion of Lust For Osbright a Deputy King under the King of the West Saxons as he was one time travelling went into the House of one of his Nobles who having a Wife of great beauty the King dined with her in the absence of her Husband and after dinner being allured by her beauty took her into a private Chamber where he forcibly ravished her the Lady was extrearly concerned and made woful complaint of this outrage to her Husband at his return The Nobleman forthwith studies revenge and going first to the King and resigned all his Lands and Offices into his hands and then sailed into Denmark where he had been brought up and had great Friends and their making complaint to Codrinus the King who was ready enough to entertain any occasion of quarrel against his Land The King presently raises a mighty Army and sends it under the command of his two Brothers into England who landing first at Holdernes in Yorkshire burnt up the Countrey and slew Men Women and Children without Mercy then marching toward York they met with wicked Osbright himself where he with the most part of his Army were slain and destroyed a just reward for his Villanous Act and also one of the main causes of the Conquest of the whole Land by the Danes Beards Theatre P. 251. LVIII In the year 955. Edwin succeeded his Uncle Eldred King of England this man was so shameless and impudent that on the very day of his Coronation he suddenly withdrew himself from among his Nobility and in the sight of several persons openly ravished his own Kinswoman the Wife of a Noblemani of his Realm for which Fact he became so odious to his Subjects and Nobles that they joyntly rose against him and deprived him of his Crown when he had reigned only four years Lanquets Chorn. LIX A Nobleman of Piedmont married a Wife of mean birth and fortune yet notwithstanding the Honour she received by him she shamelesly abused her Lords Bed by continual Adulteries with a Gentleman his Neighbour which he having notice of and designing to take them in the Act caused a Packet of Letters to be brought him as from his Prince calling him to Court and as if sending him in Embassage to a Forreign Countrey Having imparted these Letters to his Wife and providing all things necessary for his Journey he departed with all his Train but at night he stays at a Castle of his own to the Governour whereof he discovers his misfortune and design and being only followed by him and a Groom of his Chamber in a dark night they came to the Chamber where his Adulterous Wife was in Bed with her Gallant The Governour called at the Gate and told the Porter he had Letters from his Lord which he must presently deliver to his Lady The Porter opens the Gate and they all suddenly enter The Lord forbids the Porter to make any noise but commanding him to light a Torch he presently got to his Ladies Chamber where the governour knocking told an old Woman her Baud That he had Letters from his Lord which his Lady must speedily answer The Lady drunk with Lust commanded the old Woman to open the door and receive the Letters The Lord with the two others suddenly rushed in and presently siezed on the two Adulterers naked together and after some furious words he commanded his Wife with the help of the