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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13085	A true discourse. Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter, a most wicked sorcerer who in the likenes of a woolfe, committed many murders, continuing this diuelish practise 25. yeeres, killing and deuouring men, woomen, and children. Who for the same fact was taken and executed the 31. of October last past in the towne of Bedbur neer the cittie of Collin in Germany. Trulye translated out of the high Duch, according to the copie printed in Collin, brought ouer into England by George Bores ordinary poste, the xi. daye of this present moneth of Iune 1590. who did both see and heare the same.		1590 (1590)	STC 23375; ESTC S101735	7,428	22

A true Discourse Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter a most wicked Sorcerer who in the likenes of a Woolfe committed many murders continuing this diuelish practise 25. yeeres killing and deuouring Men Woomen and Children Who for the same fact was taken and executed the 31. of October last past in the Towne of Bedbur neer the Cittie of Collin in Germany Trulye translated out of the high Duch according to the Copie printed in Collin brought ouer into England by George Bores ordinary Poste the xj daye of this present Moneth of Iune 1590. who did both see and heare the same AT LONDON Printed for Edward Venge and are to be solde in Fleet-street at the signe of the Vine ¶ A most true Discourse declaring the life and death of one Stubbe Peeter being a most wicked Sorcerer THose whome the Lord dooth leaue to followe the Imagination of their own hartes dispising his proffered grace in the end through the hardnes of hart and contempt of his fatherly mercy they enter the right path to perdicion and destruction of body and soule for euer as in this present historie in perfect sorte may be seene the strangenes whereof together with the cruelties committed and the long time therin continued may driue many in doubt whether the same be truth or no and the ratherfore that sundry falce fabulous matters haue héertofore passed in print which hath wrought much incredulitie in y e harts of all men generally insomuch that now a daies fewe thinges doo escape be it neuer so certain but that it is embased by the tearm of a lye or falce reporte In the reading of this story therfore I doo first request reformation of opinion next patience to peruse it because it is published for examples sake and lastly to censure thereof as reason and wisdome dooth think conueniēt considering the subtilty that Sathan vseth to work the soules destruction and the great matters which the accursed practise of Sorcery dooth effect the fruites whereof is death and destruction for euer and yet in all ages practised by the reprobate and wicked of the earth some in one sort and some in another euen as the Deuill giueth promise to perfourme But of all other that euer liued none was comparable vnto this helhound whose tiranny and cruelty did well declare he was of his Father the deuill who was a murderer from the beginning whose life and death and most bloody practises the discourse following dooth make iust reporte In the townes of Cperadt and Bedbur neer vnto Collin in high Germany there was continually brought vp and nourished one Stubbe Peeter who from his youth was greatly inclined to euill and the practising of wicked Artes euen from twelue yéers of age till twentye and so forwardes till his dying daye insomuch that surfeiting in the Damnable desire of magick negromancye and sorcery acquainting him selfe with many infernall spirites and feendes insomuch that forgetting y e God that made him and that Sauiour that shed his blood for mans redemption In the end careles of saluation gaue both soule and body to the deuil for euer for small carnall pleasure in this life that he might be famous and spoken of on earth though he lost heauen thereby The Deuill who hath a readye eare to listen to the lewde motions of cursed men promised to giue vnto him whatsoeuer his hart desired during his mortall life wherupon this vilde wretch neither desired riches nor promotion nor was his fancy satisfied with any externall or outward pleasure but hauing a tiramous hart and a most cruell bloody minde he only requested that at his plesure he might woork his mallice on men Women and children in the shape of some beast wherby he might liue without dread or danger of life and vnknowen to be the executor of any bloody enterprise which he meant to commit The Deuill who sawe him a fit instruemēt to perfourm mischeefe as a wicked feend pleased with the desire of wrong and destruction gaue vnto him a girdle which being put about him he was straight transfourmed into the likenes of a gréedy deuouring Woolf strong and mighty with eyes great and large which in the night sparkeled like vnto brandes of fire a mouth great and wide with most sharpe and cruell teeth A huge body and mightye pawes And no sooner should he put off the same girdle but presently he should appéere in his former shape according to the proportion of a man as if he had neuer beene changed Stubbe Peeter héerwith was excéedingly well pleased and the shape fitted his fancye and agréeed best with his nature being inclined to blood and crueltye therfore satisfied with this strange and diuelish gifte for that it was not troublesome nor great in cariage but that it might be hidden in a small room he proceeded to the execution of sundry most hainous and vilde murders for if any person displeased him he would incontinent thirst for reuenge and no sooner should they or any of theirs walke abroad in the feeldes or about the Cittie but in the shape of a Woolfe he would presentlye incounter them and neuer rest till he had pluckt out their throates and teare their ioyntes a sunder And after he had gotten a taste heerof he tooke such pleasure and delight in shedding of blood that he would night and day walke the Féelds and work extreame cruelties And sundry times he would goe through the Streetes of Collin Bedbur and Cperadt in comely habit and very ciuilly as one well knowen to all the inhabitants therabout oftentimes was he saluted of those whose fréendes and children he had buchered though nothing suspected for the same In these places I say he would walke vp down and if he could spye either Maide Wife or childe that his eyes liked or his hart lusted after he would waite their issuing out of y e Cittie or town if he could by any meanes get them alone he would in the feeldes rauishe them and after in his Wooluish likenes cruelly murder them yea often it came to passe that as he walked abroad in the feeldes if he chaunste to spye a companye of maydens playing together or else a milking of their Kine in his Wooluishe shape he would incontinent runne among them and while the rest escaped by flight he would be sure to laye holde of one and after his filthy lust fulfilled he would murder her presentlye beside if he had liked or knowne any of them look who he had a minde vnto her he would pursue whether she were before or behinde and take her from the rest for such was his swiftnes of foot while he continued a woolf that he would outrunne the swiftest greyhound in that Countrye and so muche he had practised this wickednes that y e whole Prouince was feared by the cruelty of this bloody and deuouring Woolfe Thus continuing his diuelishe and damnable déedes within the compas of fewe yeeres he had murdered thirteene yong Children

of hope euer to see it again aliue mistrusting straight that the Woolfe had destroyed it And héere is to be noted a most strange thing which setteth foorth the great power and mercifull prouidence of God to y e comfort of eache Christian hart There were not long agoe certain small Children playing in a Medowe together hard by y ● town where also some store of kine were feeding many of them hauing yong calues sucking vpon thē and sodainly among these Children comes this vilde Woolfe running and caught a prittie fine Girle by the choller with intent to pull out her throat but such was y e will of God that he could not pearce the choller of the Childes coate being high and very well stiffened close claspt about her neck and therwith all the sodaine great crye of the rest of the childrē which escaped so amazed the cattell feeding by that being fearfull to be robbed of their young they altogether came running against the Woolfe with such force that he was presently compelled to let goe his holde and to run away to escape y e danger of their hornes by which meanes the Childe was preserued from death and God be thanked remains liuing at this day And that this thing is true Maister Tice Artine a Brewer dwelling at Puddle-wharfe in London beeing a man of that Country borne and one of good reputation and account is able to iustifie who is néere Kinsman to this Childe and hath from thence twice receiued Letters conserning the same and for that the firste Letter did rather driue him into wondering at the act then yeelding credit therunto he had shortlye after at request of his writing another letter sent him wherby he was more fully satisfied and diuers other persons of great credit in London hath in like sorte receiued letters from their freends to the like effect Likewise in the townes of Germany aforesaid continuall praier was vsed vnto god that it would please him to deliuer thē from the danger of this gréedy Woolfe And although they had practised all the meanes that men could deuise to take this rauenous beast yet vntill the Lord had determined his fall they could not in any wise preuaile notwithstanding they daylye continued their purpose and daylye sought to intrap him and for that intent continually maintained great mastyes and Dogges of muche strength to hunt chase the beast whersoeuer they could finde him In the end it pleased God as they were in readines and prouided to méete with him that they should espye him in his wooluishe likenes at what time they beset him round about and moste circumspectlye set their Dogges vpon him in such sort that there was no means to escape at which aduantage they neuer could get him before but as the Lord deliuered Goliah into y e handes of Dauid so was this Woolfe brought in danger of these men who seeing as I saide before no way to escape the imminent danger being hardly pursued at the heeles presently he slipt his girdle from about him wherby the shape of a Woolfe cleane auoided and he appéered presently in his true shape likenes hauing in his hand a staffe as one walking toward the Cittie but the hunters whose eyes was stedfastly bent vpon the beast and seeing him in the same place metamorphosed contrary to their expectation it wrought a wonderfull amazement in their mindes and had it not beene that they knewe the man so soone as they sawe him they had surely taken the same to haue beene some Deuill in a mans likenes but for as much as they knewe him to be an auncient dweller in the Towne they came vnto him and talking with him they brought him by communication home to his owne house and finding him to be the man indeede and no selusion or phantasticall motion they had him incontinent before the Maiestrates to be examined Thus being apprehended he was shortly after put to the racke in the Towne of Bedbur but fearing the torture he volluntarilye confessed his whole life and made knowen the villanies which he had committed for the space of xxv yeeres also he cōfessed how by Sorcery he procured of the Deuill a Girdle which beeing put on he forthwith became a Woolfe which Girdle at his apprehension he confest he cast it off in a certain Uallye and there left it which when the Maiestrates heard they sent to the Uallye for it but at their comming found nothing at al for it may be supposed that it was gone to the deuil from whence it came so that it was not to be found For the Deuil hauing brought the wretch to al the shame he could left him to indure the torments which his deedes deserued After he had some space beene imprisoned the maiestrates found out through due examination of the matter that his daugh ter Stubbe Beell and his Gossip Katherine Trompin were both accessarye to diuers murders committed who for the same as also for their leaud life otherwise committed was arraigned and with Stubbe Peeter condempned and their seuerall Iudgementes pronounced the 28 of October 1589 in this manor that is to saye Stubbe Peeter as principall mallefactor was iudged first to haue his body laide on a wheele and with red hotte burning pincers in ten seueral places to haue the flesh puld off from the bones after that his legges and Armes to be broken with a woodden Are or Hatchet afterward to haue his head strook from his body then to haue his carkasse burnde to Ashes Also his Daughter and his Gossip were iudged to be burned quicke to Ashes the same time and day with the carkasse of the aforesaid Stubbe Peeter And on the 31. of the same moneth they suffered death accordingly in the town of Bedbur in the presence of many péeres princes of Germany Thus Gentle Reader haue I set down the true discourse of this wicked man Stub Peeter which I desire to be a warning to all Sorcerers and Witches which vnlawfully followe their owne diuelish imagination to the vtter ruine and destruction of their soules eternally from which wicked and damnable practice I beséech God kéepe all good men and from the crueltye of their wicked hartes Amen AFter the exeution there was by the aduice of the Maiestrates of the town of Bedbur a high pole set vp and stronglye framed which first went through y e wheele wheron he was broken whereunto also it was fastened after that a little aboue the Wheele the likenes of a Woolfe was framed in wood to shewe vnto all men the shape wherein he executed those cruelties Ouer that on the top of the stake the sorcerers head it selfe was set vp and round about the Wheele there hung as it were sixtéen peeces of wood about a parde in length which represented the sixteene persons that was perfectly knowen to be murdered by him And the same ordained to stand there for a continuall monument to all insuing ages what murders by Stub Peeter was committed with the order of his Iudgement as this picture doth more plainelye expresse Witnesses that this is true Tyse Artyne William Brewar Adolf Staedt George Bores With diuers others that haue seen the same