to have Christian Burial but a Learned Divine a Jacobine by Religion made so excellent an Oration to the Pope against the unkind Parents of the deceased Lovers that Obsequies were granted and Burial given them and an aged Woman a Servant to Lucretia who had been the means of their private Marriage was by Authority of Justice burned alive because she had not advertised the Parents thereof A third Story as dismal as the two former here followeth Damoiselle Geneviefue Daughter unto Monsieur Megrelim a Gentleman in ordinary in the Court of Francis the second King of France espoused her self by Word only and without Knowledge of any in her Fathers House to one that was School-master unto her Brethren named Medard a Picar by Nation born in Laon a young man of passable Handsomness and of indifferent Knowledge for his time being about twenty three years old After some space being thus contracted she found her self to be with Child and fearing the Displeasure of her Parents especially of her Mother who was a very severe Woman she forsook her Father's House and the goodly City of Paris accompanied with none but her Troth-plighted Husband the School-master Travelling thorough the Country they made their stay in a great Burrough Town of Champaign where likewise he became School-master taking great Pains to supply their Necessities Within some few Months after their residing there Medard died and she five days after the death of her Husband one Evening after Supper in a publick place declared to all such as gave Favour to her the whole History of their fore-passed Love her Marriage by promise her Extraction want of Government and the Injury done by her to her Servants desiring very heartily Pardon both of God and them so feigning as if she intended to go to Bed with her young Infant which was about six Weeks old she went and hanged her self that Night on a Beam-end of a poor Cottage which they had taken upon hire Certain Observations upon Kings of several Nations A Menophis one of the Kings of Egypt being blind was assured by some of his Wizards that if he washed his Eyes with the Urine of a Woman which had never known any but her own Husband he should be restored to his Sight After a long Search and many vain Tryals he met with one whose Water cured him whom he took to Wife and causing all the rest whom he had made Tryal of to be brought together to a Town called Gleba Rubra he set the said Town on Fire and burnt both it and all the Women therein assembled Sesostris another King of Egypt was a Prince of so great Wealth and Substance that he brought in Subjection all his neighbouring Kings whom he compelled in turns to draw his Chariot It hapned that one of these unfortunate Princes cast his Eye many times on the Coach-wheels and being by Sesostris demanded the cause of his so doing he replyed that the falling of that Spoke lowest which but just before was in the height of the Wheel put him in mind of the Instability of Fortune which the King considering of would never afterward be so drawn in his Chariot And indeed he found the same quickly after to be true by woeful Experience for leading his Army against the Scythians whom in conceit he had already conquered he found himself deceived in his Expectation These Scythians marvelled that a King of so great Revenues would wage War against a Nation so poor with whom the Fight would be doubtful the Victory unprofitable but to be vanquished a perpetual Infamy and Disgrace so joyning Battels Sesostris was discomfited and pursued even to his own home by the Enemy learning him by that to moderate his Prosperity and to beware of Fortunes Instability Charles the second King of Navarr was a Prince much given to Voluptuousness and sensual Pleasure which so wasted his Spirits that in his old Age he fell into a kind of Lethargy to comfort his benummed Joynts he was bound and sowed up naked in a Sheet steeped in boiling Aquavitae The Chyrurgion having made an end of sowing him and wanting a Knife to cut off the Thred took a Wax Candle that stood lighted by him but the Flame running down by the Thred caught hold on the Sheet which according to the nature of Aquavitae burned with that Vehemency that the miserable King ended his days in the Fire Ewen the third also King of Scotland was a Prince much addicted or rather wholly given over to Lasciviousness insomuch that he made a Law that himself and his Successors should have the Maiden-head or first Nights lodging with every Woman whose Husband held Land immediately from the Crown and the Lords and Gentlemen of all those whose Husbands were their Tenants or Homagers This was it seems the Knights Service which men held their Estates by and continued in force till the days of Malcolm Conmor who marrying Margaret Sister to our King Edgar Atheling at her Request abolished the same and ordained that the Tenants by way of Commutation should pay unto their Lords a Mark in Money which Tribute the Historians of that Nation say is still in force Roderick the last King of the Goths in Spain had for the Governour of one of his Provinces an honourable Person named Count Julian whom he sent upon an Embassy to the Moors of Africa and in the mean time defloured his Daughter Cana which the Father took in such indignation that he procured the Moors amongst whom he had gotten much credit to come over into Spain This request they performed under the Conduct of Musa and Tariffe and having made a full Conquest subjected it to the Great Caliphs or Mahometan Emperours It is recorded that at the first coming of Tariffe into Spain a poor Woman of the Country being willingly taken Prisoner fell down at his feet kissed them and told him that she had heard her Father who was letter'd say that Spain should be conquered by a People whose General should have a Mole on his right shoulder and in whom one of his hands should be longer than the other He to animate his Souldiers against the next encounter uncloathed himself and shewed the mark which so encouraged them that they now doubted not the Victory Roderick had in his Army 130000 Foot and 25000 Horse Tariffe had 30000 Horse and 180000 Foot The Battel continued seven dayes together from morning to night at last the Moors were victorious What became of King Roderick was never known his Souldiers took one arrayed in the Kings Apparel whom upon examination they found to be a Shepherd with whom the King after the Discomfiture had changed clothes It is recorded also in Rodericus Toletanus that before the coming of those Saracens King Roderick upon hope of some Treasure did open a part of the Palace of long time forbidden to be touched but found nothing but Pictures which resembled the Moors with a Prophecy that whensoever the Palace was there opened the
Of the great Friendship betwixt Damon and Pithias two Pythagorean Philosophers 271. Another of Christian Friendship 272. The admirable love and affection betwixt Titus and Gisippus two Noble Young men the one of Rome the other of Athens 273. Of Mount Aetna and the fiery irruption there in the year 1669. 287. HISTORIES AND OBSERVATIONS Domestick and Foreign The miraculous and strange Adventures and Deliverances of one Andrew Battel of Leigh in Essex IN the Year of our Lord 1589 one Andrew Battel of Leigh in Essex accompanied with Abraham Cock of Lime-house and accommodated with two Pinnaces of 50 Tuns apiece intending a Voyage to the River of Plate upon the Coast of Brasil were much necessitated for Victuals so that returning Northwards upon the Isle of S. Sebastian going on Land he with four others were taken Prisoners by certain Negro's belonging to the Portugals who sent him to Angola in Africa where he continued in their Service several years when desirous of freedom he attempted an Escape in a Holland Ship but being discovered he was clapt in Prison for two months and then banished to the Fort of Massangano where he lived a miserable life for the space of six years But this nothing daunting his Resolution he with ten other banished men practised an Escape having gotten a Canoo for that purpose and furnished with Musquets Powder and Shot wandering in great misery several days through the extremity of Heat and want of Victuals and Water being forced divers times to make their way through their Opposers with Musquet shot yet e're they could get into a place of security the Captain of the City from whence they came overtook them to whom they were forced to yield and being carried back again for their welcom home were clapt up in Prison with Collars of Iron and great Bolts upon their Legs After three months hard Imprisonment he with four hundred more banished Portugals were by Proclamation for ever destined to the Wars and accordingly he served in many bloudy Fights where whosoever gained all that fell to his share was onely Penury Hardship Wounds and Scars Having thus had his share in Land Service he with sixty more Souldiers were sent in a Frigat with Commodities to Bahia de Tare twelve degrees Southward to trade with the Savages and having made a prosperous Voyage were sent out the second time to the Morro or Cliff of Benguala where they lighted into the hands of the Gaga's a most warlike People and the greatest Canibals or Man-eaters in the world yet by reason of their Commodities and for that they helped the Gaga's against their Enemies they in five moneths space made three gainful Voyages from thence to the City of San Paulo but coming the fourth time the Gaga's were gone up far higher into the Country Being loth to return without Trade they determined that fifty of their Company should follow them and the rest stay with their Ship in the Bay of Benguala Amongst those fifty was Andrew Battel one who marching up the Country were by a great Negro Lord detained whilest such time as the Gaga's were gone clear away into another Land Then did he force them to march with him against his Enemies untill he had clean destroyed them Nor would he then suffer them to depart but upon promise to come again and leave one of their company in pawn with him untill their return Hereupon it was determined to draw Lots who should stay but upon further thoughts they agreed amongst themselves to leave the Englishman and to shift for themselves fearing to be all detained Captives So Battel was fain to stay per force having with him a Musquet Powder and Shot they promising the Negro Lord to come again in two moneths for his redemption But that time expired and none of them returning the Chief of the Town would have put Battel to death and in order thereto stripped him naked and were ready to cut off his Head when one of the chief amongst them interposing his Execution was deferred upon hopes of the Portugals coming and he set loose to walk at liberty But finding no security of his life amongst them he resolved to run away to the Camp of the Gaga's and having travelled a whole night the next day he came to a great Town called Cushil which stood in a mighty overgrown Thicket the People whereof great and small came round about him to wonder at him having never seen a White Man before Here he sound some of the great Gaga's Men with whom he went to their Camp at a place called Calicausamba The Captain of the Gaga's welcomed him kindly continuing in that place for four moneths together with great abundance and plenty of Cattel Corn Wine and Oyl and great triumphing drinking dancing and banquetting with Mans flesh for as I told you before these Gaga's are the greatest Canibals or Man-eaters in the world Their Captain warreth all by Inchantment and taketh the Devils counsel in all his Exploits Such of his Souldiers as are faint-hearted and turn their backs to the Enemy are presently condemned and killed for Cowards and their Bodies eaten They neither sow nor plant nor bring up any Cattel more than they take by Wars When they take any Town they keep the Boys and Girls of thirteen or fourteen years of age as their own Children but the Men and Women they kill and eat These little Boys they train up in the Wars and hang a Collar about their Necks for a disgrace which is never taken off till he proveth himself a Man and brings his Enemy's Head to the General and then it is taken off and he is a Freeman and is called Gonzo or Souldier This maketh them desperate and forward to be free and counted Men. When their chief Captain undertaketh any great Enterprize against the Inhabitants of any Country he maketh a solemn Sacrifice to the Devil in the morning before the Sun riseth He sitteth upon a Stool having on each side of him a Man Witch then he hath forty or fifty Women which stand round about him holding in each hand a wild Horses Tail wherewith they do flourish and sing Behind them are great store of Drums and other Instruments which always play In the midst of them is a great Fire upon the Fire an Earthen Pot with white Powders wherewith the Men-witches do paint him on the Forehead Temples and thwart the Breast and Belly with long Ceremonies and Inchanting Terms Thus he continueth till Sun is down then the Witches bring him his Weapon which is fashioned like a Hatchet and put it into his Hand bidding him be strong against his Enemies for his Mokiso which is the Devil is with him Presently there is a Man-child brought which forthwith he killeth then are four Men also brought before him two whereof as it happeneth he presently striketh and killeth the other two he commandeth to be killed without the Fort. When they bury the dead they make a Vault in the ground and
all which they threw amongst us attempting still to break up the Hatches and Boards of the Steering not desisting from their former Execrations and horrible Blasphemies and Revilings When John Rawlins perceived them so violent and understood how the Slaves had cleared the Decks of all the Turks and Moors beneath he set a Guard upon the Powder and charged their own Musquets against them killing them from divers scout holes both before and behind and so lessened their number to the joy of all our hearts whereupon they cried out and called for the Pilot and so Rawlins with some to guard him went to them and understood them by their kneeling that they cried for mercy and to have their Lives saved and they would come down which he bade them do and so they were taken one by one and bound yea killed with their own Curtle-axes which when the rest perceived they called us English Dogs and reviled us with many opprobrious terms some leaping over-board crying it was the chance of War some were manacled and so thrown over-board and some were slain and mangled with the Curtle-axes till the Ship was well cleared and our selves assured of the Victory At the first report of our Piece and hurly-burly in the Decks the Captain was writing in his Cabbin and hearing the noise thought it some strange accident and so came out with his Curtle-Axe in his hand presuming by his Authority to pacifie the mischief But when he cast his eyes upon us and saw that we were like to surprize the Ship he threw down his Curtle-Axe and begged us to save his Life intimating unto Rawlins how he had redeemed him from Villa-Rise and ever since admitted him to a place of Command in the Ship besides honest usage in the whole course of the Voyage All which Rawlins confessed and at last condescended to Mercy and brought the Captain and five more into England The Captain was called Ramtham-Rise but his Christian name was Henry Chandler and as they say a Chandlers Son in Southwark John Good-ale was also an English Turk Richard Clark in Turkish Jafar George Cook Ramdam John Brown Mamme William Winter Mustapha besides all the Slaves and Hollanders with other Renegadoes who were willing to be reconciled to their true Saviour as being formerly seduced with the hopes of Riches Honour Preferment and such like devilish Baits to catch the Souls of mortal Men and entangle Frailty in the Tarriers of horrible Abuses and imposturing Deceit When all was done and the Ship cleared of the dead Bodies John Rawlins assembled his men together and with one Consent gave the Praise unto God using the accustomed Service on Ship-board and for want of Books lifted up their Voices to God as he put into their Hearts or renewed their Memories then did they sing a Psalm and last of all embraced one another for playing the Men in such a Deliverance whereby our Fear was turned into Joy and trembling Hearts exhilerated that we had escaped such inevitable Dangers and especially the Slavery and terror of Bondage worse than Death it self The same Night we washed our Ship put every thing in as good Order as we could repairing the broken Quarter set up the Biticle and bore up the Helm for England where by God's Grace and good guiding we arrived at Plimouth the thirteenth of February and were welcomed like the recovery of the lost Sheep or as you read of a loving Mother that runneth with Embraces to entertain her Son from a long Voyage and escape of many Dangers As for the Bark that came from Tor-Bay the next day after they left us as you have heard the three Renegadoes acquainted the Master's Mate and the two English in her with Rawlins's Determination and that they themselves would be true to them and assist them in any Enterprize then if the worst came there were but seven to six but as it fell out they had a more easie Passage than Turmoyl or Manslaughter for they made the Turks believe the Wind was come fair and that they were sailing to Argier till they came within sight of England which one of them amongst the rest discovered saying plainly that that Land was not Cape Vincent Yes saith he that was at the Helm and you will be contented and go down into the Hold and trim the Salt over to Wind-ward whereby the Ship may bear full Sail you shall know and see more to morrow whereupon five of them went down very orderly the Renegadoes feigning themselves asleep who presently start up and with the help of the two English nailed down the Hatches whereat the principal amongst them much repined and began to grow into Choller and Rage had it not quickly been over-passed for one of them step'd to him and dash'd out his Brains the rest were brought to Excester and there put in Goal where they continued until Justice was executed upon them A remarkable Story of eight Men left in Greenland Anno Christi 1630. with a Relation of their strange Preservation until the Ship 's Return IN the Year of our Lord 1630. May the first the Muscovy Merchants of London sent a Ship called the Salutation of London for green-Green-land which arrived there in Safety the eleventh of June following together with two other Ships all which were commanded by Captain William Goodler The Ship wherein the Captain was stayed at Bell-sound this of the Salutation at the Fore-land and the Captain meeting with store of Whales quickly made a great Voyage and so sent for the Salutation to take in part of his Train-Oyl By the way as they went to him meeting with cross Winds the Master set eight of his Men on shore to kill some Venison in a place where there used to be good store These Men taking with them a Brace of Dogs a Snap-hance two Lances and a Tinder-box went on shore and that day they laid fourteen good Deer upon the Ground and then being weary and the Night coming on they betook themselves to rest intending the next day to make an end of their Hunting and to return to their Ship but the next day proved foggy and there was much Ice between the Shore and the Ship and the Wind coming Southerly the Ship was fain to stand so far off into the Sea to be clear of the Ice that they lost the sight of her and the Weather growing thicker and thicker they thought fit to hunt along the Shore to Green-Harbour and there to stay aboard the Ship till their own Ship should come into the Port. In this passage they killed eight Deer more and so having laden their Shallop with Venison they kept on their course to Green-Harbour But when they came thither they found to their great astonishment that the Ship was departed Being thus frustrated of their expectation and having but three dayes to the uttermost expiration of their limited time for their departure out of that Countrey they thought it their best course to make all speed
others had a Flitch for proof whereof I have found out the Record of the House and the Names of the several Persons that at several times had it There was one Stephen Samuel of Little Easton in the County of Essex Husband-man that came to the Priory of Dunmow on our Lady-day in the seventh year of King Edward the Fourth and required a Gammon of Bacon and was sworn before Roger Rulcot then Prior and the Covent of that place as also before the multitude of other Neighbours and there was a Gammon of Bacon delivered unto him Also one Richard Wright of Badesnorth near the City of Norwich in the County of Norfolk came and required of the Bacon of Dunmow on the 17 day of April in the twenty third year of the Reign of Henry the sixth and according to the form of the Charter was sworn before John Canon Prior of the place the Covent and many other Neighbours and there was delivered unto him a Flitch of Bacon Hereby appeareth it was given according to Charter or Donation by some conceited Benefactor to the House and it was not to be doubted but at such a time the bordering Towns and Villages would resort and be Partakers of their Sport and laugh to scorn the poor Mens pains Also it is to be remembred that in the Year of our Lord 1510. upon Munday being the eighth day of September in the second year of King Henry the Eighth that Thomas Lee of Coxal in Essex was sworn before John Taylor the Prior of the House and the Covent as also before a Multitude of other Neighbours and there was delivered unto him a Gammon of Bacon Of what we find in credible Authors concerning the famous Guy Earl of Warwick THIS Guy was Son unto one Siward Baron of Wallingford who married unto Felicia sole Daughter and Heiress of Rohand the first we read of the Saxon Race that was Earl of Warwick and in her Right became Earl of that Earldom who for his Valour hath ever since been and yet is so famous that the Vulgar are of Opinion he was a Man of more than an ordinary Stature and the Welch taking notice of his brave Exploits will needs have him to be descended from Brittish Parentage Soon after his Marriage with Felicia aforesaid being now pretty well stricken in Years he went on Pilgrimage to the Holy-Land where he abode for some space during which time viz. Anno 926. in the third Year of King Athelstane the Danes having invaded England cruelly wasted the Countries where they march'd so that there was scarce a Town or Castle that they had not burnt or destroyed almost as far as Winchester and hearing that the King with his Nobles then was in that City consulting about some timely means to prevent the utter loss of all they sent Messengers to him proposing that either he would forthwith resign his Crown to the Danish Generals viz. Aulafe and Govelaph or submit to hold this Realm of them doing Homage and Fealty and paying Tribute according to their Appointment or lastly that the whole Dispute for the Kingdom should be determined in a single Combate by two Champions for both sides this being added by Aulafe that if in that Duel King Athelstane's Champion had the Victory he would presently depart the Land with his Army but otherwise without any more ado it should wholly belong to the Danes Of which Proposals King Athelstane accepted the last and calling together his Nobles offer'd that Province viz. Hantshire for a reward to him that should conquer the Danish Champion called Colbrand and to the end that God would direct him in the choice of one to undertake this Combate he enjoyned a Fast for three days in which with earnest Prayers and abundant Tears he besought his Favour but in this choice the English were exceedingly astonish'd forasmuch as one Herand a most valiant and hardy Knight of this Nation was then beyond Sea seeking after Reynburn the Son of his Lord and Master Earl Guy that had been stollen away by Merchants of a Foreign Country in his Infancy as also that Earl Rohand Guy's Father-in-law the most valiant of a thousand was dead and also Guy himself as we said before was gone in Pilgrimage to the Holy Land But it so fell out that God being moved with the sorrowful Tears and Intercessions of the English sent a good Angel to comfort the King as he lay upon his Bed the very Night of the Nativity of St. John Baptist directing that he should rise early on the Morrow taking two Bishops with him and get up to the top of the North-gate of that City staying there till the hour of Prime and then should he see divers poor People and Pilgrims enter thereat amongst which there would be a personable Man in a Pilgrim's Habit bare-footed with his Head uncovered and upon it a Chaplet of white Roses and that he should entreat him for the love of Jesus Christ the devotion of his Pilgrimage and the preservation of all England to undertake the Combate for he should conquer the mighty Colebrand and deliver his Realm from the Danish Servitude Whereupon King Athelstane with fervent Zeal hasted betimes in the Morning to Mass and sent for the Arch-bishop of Canterbury with the Bishop of Chichester to whom he related his Vision taking them along to the Gate assigned About this time it happened that our famous Guy returning from his Pilgrimage landed at Portsmouth and being there advertised of Sir Herand's Absence as also of Earl Rohand's Death together with the great distress that the King and his Nobles were then in hasted towards Winchester immediately and coming at night to an Hospital but little distant from the North-gate of that City in which place afterwards the Hospital in honour of the Holy Cross was founded where he rested himself and on the next morning went with other poor people to the City Gate to which place the King being come for the purpose before specified and espying one neatly clad in a white short sleeved Gown reaching to the mid-leg with a Garland of Roses upon his Head and a large Staff in his Hand but looking wan and much macerated by reason of his travelling bare-foot and his Beard grown to a very great length he concluded that the same was the Man described to him by that Angel and being full of Joy told those that were there with him as much The Palmer for so was he at that time called taking notice of the King and Bishops put off his Chaplet and reverently saluting them entered the Gate whereupon the King hasted down and laying hold of his Coat tendered him Entertainment with desire to hear some News but the Palmer returning humble Thanks answered that the Hour to take up his Lodging was not yet come for that he intended first to visit the Churches of that City and there offer up his Prayers unto God but afterwards seek some Food for to refresh himself withal which being
Gold bound up in a white Napkin telling her that God had now remembred her Husband and sent him his pay for his constant pains taken in his Devotion withall charging her not to send for her Husband for though he had taken such a solemn leave of her that morning yet he would come home again to her that Night and so he departed from her The Woman presently bought in some necessaries for her house for they had eaten up all before and further made some good provision for her Husband against his coming home in the evening for so he did and finding all his Family very chearful and merry his Wife presently told him that there had been such a one there as before described and left so much Gold behind him with that fore-mentioned message delivered with it Her Husband presently replyed that it was the Angel Gabriel sent from God for the Mahometans speak much of that Angel and he further added that himself had nothing to bring home unto her but a little Grett or Sand which he took up in his way homeward and bound it in his Girdle which he presently opening to shew her it was all turn'd into precious Stones which amounted unto a very great value in Money the seventh part of which as of his Gold likewise he presently gave to the poor for say they Musulmen are very charitable and infer that if we do not neglect God God will not forget us but when we stand most in need of help will supply us Unto which conclusion we may all subscribe leaving the Premises which are laid down in this Story unto those that dare believe them Of a strange Murther related by Sanderson in his History of King James IN the Year of our Lord 1618. there lived a man at Perin in Cornwal who had been blessed with an ample Possession and fruitful Issue unhappy only in a younger Son who taking Liberty from his Father's Bounty joyned with a Crew like himself who weary of the Land went roving to Sea and in a small Vessel South-ward made Prize of all whom they could master and so increased in Wealth Number and Strength that in the Streights they adventured upon a Turk's Man of War where they got a great Booty but their Powder by mischance taking Fire our Gallant trusting to his skilful swimming got to shore upon the Isle of Rhodes with the best of his Jewels about him where after a while offering some of them to sale to a Jew he knew them to be the Governour 's of Algier whereupon he was apprehended and for a Pirate condemned to the Gallies amongst other Christians whose miserable Slavery made them use their Wits to recover their former Liberty and accordingly watching their opportunity they slew some of their Officers and valiantly released themselves After which this young man got aboard an English Ship and came safe to London where his former Misery and some skill that he had gotten that way preferred him to be Servant to a Chirurgion who after a while sent him to the East-Indies there by his Diligence and Industry he got Money with which he returned home and longing to see his Native Country Cornwal in a small Ship from London he sailed Westward but e're he attained his Port he was cast away upon that Coast where once more his excellent skill in swimming brought him safe to shore but then having been fifteen years absent he understood that his Father was much decayed in his Estate and had retired himself to live privately in a place not far off being indeed in Debt and Danger His Sister he finds married to a Mercer a meaner Match than her Birth promised to her he at first appeared as a poor Stranger but after a while privately reveals himself to her shewing her what Jewels and Gold he had concealed in a Bow-case about him and concluded that the next day he intended to appear to his Parents yet to keep his Disguise till she and her Husband should come thither to make their common Joy compleat Being come to his Parents his humble Behaviour sutable to his poor Sute of Cloaths melted the old Couple into so much Compassion as to give him shelter from the cold Season under their outward Roof and by degrees his Stories of his Travellings and Sufferings told with much Passion to the aged People made him their Guest so long by the Kitchin Fire that the Husband bad them Good Night and went to Bed and soon after his true Stories working Compassion in the weaker Vessel she wept and so did he but withal he taking pity of her Tears comforted her with a piece of Gold which gave her Assurance that he deserved a Lodging which she afforded him and to which she brought him and being in Bed he shewed her his Wealth which was girded about him a very indiscreet Act for by revealing his Wealth and concealing who he was he wrought his own utter Destruction For the old Woman being tempted with the golden Bait that she had received and greedily thirsting after the enjoyment of the rest she went to her Husband and awaking him presented him with this News and her Contrivance what farther to do and though with horrid Apprehensions he oft refused yet her pewling Eloquence Eve's Enchantments moved him at last to consent and to rise to be Master of all that Wealth by murthering the Owner thereof which accordingly they did and withal covered the Corps with Cloaths till opportunity served for their carrying it away The early Morning hastens the Sister to her Fathers House where with signs of great Joy she enquires for a Sailer that should lodge there the last Night The old Folk at first denyed that they had seen any such till she told them that he was her Brother and lost Brother which she knew assuredly by a Scar upon his Arm cut with a Sword in his Youth and that they were resolved to meet there the next Morning and be merry The Father hearing this hastily run up into the Room and finding the mark as his Daughter had told him with horrid regret of this monstrous Murther of his own Son with the same Knife wherewith he had killed him he cut his own Throat The Mother anon after going up to consult with her Husband what to do in a strange manner beholding them both weltring in Blood wild and agast finding the Instrument at hand readily rips up her own Belly till the Guts tumbled out The Daughter wondering at their delay in returning seeks about for them whom she found out too soon and with the sad sight of this bloody Scene being overcome with sudden Horror and Amazement for this deluge of Destruction she sunk down and died The Names of these Parties were concealed in favour of some Neighbours of Repute and Kin to the Family The Custom of Lapland for the marrying of their Daughters IT is Death in Lapland to marry a Maid without her Parents or Friends Consent wherefore if one