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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15706	A briefe discourse of two most cruell and bloudie murthers, committed bothe in Worcestershire, and bothe happening vnhappily in the yeare 1583 The first declaring, how one unnaturally murdered his neighbour, and afterward buried him in his seller. The other sheweth, how a woman unlawfully following the deuillish lusts of the flesh with her seruant, caused him very cruelly to kill her owne husband.		1583 (1583)	STC 25980; ESTC S103645	7,848	26

¶ A BRIEFE DISCOVRSE OF TWO most cruell and bloudie murthers committed bothe in Worcestershire and bothe happening vnhappily in the yeare 1583. The first declaring how one vnnaturally murdered his neighbour and afterward buried him in his Seller The other sheweth how a woman vnlawfully following the deuillish lusts of the flesh with her seruant caused him very cruelly to kill her owne Husband ¶ Imprinted at London by Roger Warde dwelling neere Holburne Conduit at the signe of the Talbot 1583. To the reader THat the dayes of daunger and iniquitie are as now not onelie our own fraile nature maye sufficiently certefie vs but also the irksome examples and vnwonted prodigious spectacles euery day and houre almost apparant in our eies may driue frō vs anye doubt to the contrarie For if we enter into examination with our selues aswell of our negligence of duetie to our God as also our lacke of looue to our neighbour wee shall finde that we are not neither doo as the holie Euangelist wisheth vs when he saith 1. Iohn 4.7 Beloued let vs looue one an other for loue commeth of God and euerie one that looueth is borne of God and knoweth God But he that loueth not knoweth not God for God is Loue. And I find in Ecclesiasticus these words Three thinges reioyce me and by them am I beautified before God and men Eccle. 25.1 the vnitie of Brethren the looue of neighboures a man and wife that agree together Howe then can we otherwise iudge but that we are in that yron and crooked age wherein iniquitie should vaunt shew her selfe beeing made acquainted euery day with the lack of that heauenly ornamēt Loue the memory thereof almost defaced and puld vp by the roote in so greeuous and vehement manner that it may be hardly sayde to haue anie abiding amonge vs at all And that I may not wade into abundaunce of matter without due proofe to affirme anye thinge alleadged I praye you looke into these Tragicall accidents following whiche albeit they carrye terrour sufficient to forwarne the vnnaturall children of this worlde yet daylie doo fresh enormities spring vp able had nature so agreed to vrge the verie bowelles of the earth to yeelde foorth fearefull acclamations agaynst vs. Shall I with-hold to say that the father hath not procured the death of his owne naturall childe and the childe risen in like occasion agaynst his Father Shall I not saye the Husband hath abrydged the lyfe of his espoused Wife and mate she likewise committed the like vnnaturall acte on her Husband Hath not one Brother murdered the other one neighbour killed the other one frend been false to the other yea very nature turned agaynst it self These vnlooked for examples are daily before vs so that wee cannot shun the sight hearing of thē yet shal we passe them ouer with a slender or lighte regarde Oh my freends doo we not see the heauens frowne And why Because the sinnes of the earth hath fumed vp into the nosethrils of the Almightie with a sauour so yrksome vnsufferable that he cannot in Iustice but strike stiff-necked Pharao with the rodde of his furie yea and bereaue the earth of those beneuolent blessinges which he hath suffered it so quietly to enioye and so great abuse rendered vnto him for them Can wee reprooue the Father for disinheriting his Sonne when hee seeeth his dealynges such as deserueth nothing can we blame that maister who thrusteth his seruaunt foorth of his doores when he beholdeth his behauiour vnworthy of house-room Euen so can wee otherwise say that our heauenly father dooth vnworthily cast vs out of his fauour when in steade of looue we render him hatred for dutie negligence and for all his good gifts vngratious thanks Oh no let vs not enter into suche questioning with our selues for if we looke into our iniquitie thē into his mercie our daily falling from one sinne into an other and his so long fatherly forbearance we wil then quicklie returne frō the flesh pots of Aegypt and from our owne filthie and odious vomit and euerie one of vs say hartelie with the Psalmist Psal 51.3 I do knowe mine owne wickednes and my sinne is euer against me And likewise confesse with Danyel the Prophet Daniel 9.9.10 To thee O Lord God belongeth mercie and forgiuenes for wee haue gone away from thee and haue not harkened to thy voyce wherby we might walke in thy lawes which thou hast appointed for vs. It is high time that we should thus consider with our selues if wee but looke into the present occasions offered vnto vs and mark how busie the deuil is to woork mās vtter ouerthrow the rather by 2. greeuous horrible mischances which hath lately happened wherin may be seene how needefull it is for vs to call for the grace of our heauenly father to strengthen vs with such assured confidence that we fall not likewise into such euil but may shew such hartie repentance of our former offences as the verie wicked by our good example maye bee drawne to glorify the eternall GOD. ❧ A most cruel and bloody Murder cōmitted on New-yeares euen last past beeing the last day of December 1582. in the town of Esam in Worcester shire by one Thomas Smith a town dweller vpon his neighbor Robert Greenoll who when he had cruelly murdered him made a graue in his Seller there buried him IN Esam a hansome market Town in Worcester shire well known dwelled two youngmen who by their vsual trade were Mercers as in that country they call thē so that sell all kind of wares the one of them they called Robert Grenoll a bacheler of such an honest conuersatiō as he was not onely wel belooued in the Towne where he dwelt but also of those who had euerie market day accesse thither for their néedfull necessaries so that he was as wel customed as any occupier in the towne The other was called Thomas Smith of indifferēt welth likewise son to one of the most substātial mē in the towne ioyned in mariage with a gentlewomā of very good parentage so that he likewise was well thought on of most least This Thomas Smith séeing Greenoll haue so good vtteraunce for his wares and so well estéemed in ech companierif not vppon this cause alone though chiefly it bee accounted so he began to enuy the prosperous estate of him béeing his neighbour and frend and the Deuill so farre ruled the course of his enuious intent as nothing wold suffise the desire thereof but onely making away of Greenoll by death which though hee had no reason for yet suche was the perswasion of the euill spirite with him Manie platformes were laid a thousād deuises canuazed ouer by this lewde man which way he might woork the death of his frendly neighbor at last as the Deuill wanteth no occasions to helpe man forward to his own destruction so he presented Smith with a fit oportunity