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A02500	A horrible creuel and bloudy murther committed at Putney in Surrey on the 21. of Aprill last, 1614, being thursday, vpon the body of Edward Hall a miller of the same parish, done by the hands of Iohn Selling, Peeter Pet and Edward Streater, his seruants to the said Hall, each of them giuing him a deadly blow (as he lay sleeping) with a pickax. Published by authority.	I. T., fl. 1614, attributed name.	1614 (1614)	STC 12630; ESTC S117608	4,161	14

horse loose returned home to their Maisters house where they searched sought and ransacked for mony and at last they found the summe of betweene thirtie and fortie poundes which was the accursed wages and pillage which these Murderers got for their inhumaine and hortible execution of the death of their Maister which by the iust iudgement of God they enioyed not long for notwithstanding that they had time to prouide for their safety from the Thursday night wherein they did this murther yet they remained there till Thursday following till it pleased the Lord that this bloudie fact was reuealed which fell out in this sort following Hall was missed amongst his neighbours and it was giuen out and reported by his seruants aforesaid that hee was gone a farre iourney into the Countrie but Edward Streater beeing further examined vpon his examination confessed vnto the Officers and chiefe men of the Parish of Putney abouesaid the whole order and manner of their deuising complotting attempting proceeding and executing of this their wilfull cruell and bloudy Murther which God in his iustice will nener suffer to bee hid or escape vnpunished then Iohn Selling vpon this went into the contry to his Mistres and told her that he had found his Maisters horse in the wood néere Wimbleton afore-said but the other two Pet and Streater were brought before Sir Thomas Gardner Knight and one of his Maiesties iustice of peace and quorum in the County of Surry by whome they were examined and there confessed that they had done this cruell fact to their Maister because as they said he did not loue his wife so well as he ought to doe and because he did not allow them meat enough but that which I thinke most is to be beleeued from them is when they did affirme they did it by the inspiration and instigation of the Diuell Then were these mallefactors commited to the common iayle of the white Lyon in Sowthwark where till the sessions they are to abide then to haue the recompence of their demerrits Thus haue I truely and faithfully set downe the true discourse of al this horible murder with the manner of the takings and attaching of the murderers wherein the blind world may perceiue to what a miserable estate it is brought when as a man for the vallue of so small a sum shal be thus massacred and murdered by his owne seruants whome hee best should trust It is reported that Pompey being a Heathen whose valiant deeds had purchased him the name of great Iulius Caesar Marke Anthony and hee contending for the Empire and domination of the whole world Where many bloudy battels was sought betwéene them yet at last there was a truce agreed vpon for a certaine time in the which truce these thrée mighty commanders did feast and were merry together diuers times and being once inuited to sup aboord of Pompeies Galley as they were sate one of Pompeies seruants whispered him in the eare and asked him it hee would bee Maister of the whole world Pompey fould him yes if he knew how then said his seruant againe let vs cut Caesar and Anthonies throates and then all the world is thine Pompey made answere thou shouldst quoth he haue done it without my knowledge but now it shal not be don for in me it is villany but in thee it had bin good seruice Thus this Heathen man may bee a patterne to all Christians that by his example they should abhor and detest murther for Pompey would not basely take away the liues of his two mighty mortall and onely enemies although he knew the doing of it wold haue gaind him the Monarky of the whole world What brutish beasts are these then that for triffles and a little cursed coyne will murder their friends God himselfs saies that bloud shall haue bloud and whosoeuer sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed yet notwithstanding how many horrible and execrable cruelties are committed daily by man on man that one diuell will not deale so diuelishly with another as men will doe with men What numbers haue béene desperately stabd for taking the wall of these Roaring boyes of the damned crue as they are fittly tearmed how many haue bin kild for refusing to drinke their friends mistris or some-times their whores healths The numbers are numberies and therefore I will let them alone vnnumbered The God of mercy and peace iudue the harts of men with feare of thy great and glorious name with loue and brotherly affection one toward another that they may all with one minde in vnity worship thée that art their good and merciful creator preseruer defender Throgh Iesus Christ thy sonne our alone and onely Sauiour and Redéemer to whom with thée and the holy and blessed spirit be ascribed and rendred all honor glory might maiesty dominton and thanksgiuing of men and Angells both now and for euer more Amen FINIS

A Horrible Creuel and bloudy Murther Committed at Putney in Surrey on the 21. of Aprill last 1614 being thursday vpon the body of Edward Hall a Miller of the same parish Done by the hands of Iohn Selling Peeter Pet and Edward Streater his seruants to the said Hall each of them giuing him a deably blow as he lay sleeping with a Pickax Published by Authority Imprinted at London for Iohn Wright and are to be sold without Newgate at the sigue of the Bible 1614. To the Reader REader I do heere present vnto thy view one of the most horrible inhumane and bloody murthers that hath euer beene committed which as it was damnably deuised so it was deuilishly and butcherly accomplished and executed whereby thou and all the world may perceiue in what a miserable estate the times are wherein we liue when the thirst and luker of a little cankered coyne with the inticements of the Deuil shall haue such predominance ouer the faculties of the minds of wretched men that they will not stick to runne into most desperate and dangerous actions to the hazarding of soule and body and to the finall temporall detriment of those their parents or marsters whome they are in duty bound to loue honour and reuerence then let this discourse bee vnto thee as an Epitomy or breife abstract to thee of the miseries of man and the illusions of Sathan in reading of which if thou hast a remorce or feeling of the want of grace in men then pray to him that is the giuer of grace that hee may be graciously pleased to make the vngratious world more gracious Farwel I. T. A HORRIBLE CRVELL AND bloudy Murther committed at Putney in Surrey on the one and twentieh of Aprill last 1614. THIS old impotent decrepit age wherein wee liue the doating World limping on hir last legges whereas impieties blasphemies iniquities villanies and thousandes more of hell-hatched enormities haue gotten the vpper per hand where the sweet seeming baytes of Sathan leades men like beares by the noses to commit all horrid and damnable trespasses and transgressions against the Deuine Maiestie of the omnipotent and eternall God By which abhominations the wrath of the most high is oftentimes iustly kindled against miserable misgouernd mankinde So that God in his iustice giues many ouer to a reprobate sence that they haue no remorce or feeling of the breach or violating of the sacred lawes of their immortall Creator and so woe worth the while As they liue dissolutely they dye desperatly and after all that which is worst they liue a dying life eternally or dye a liuing death euerlastingly What numbers of execrable and inhumane murthers are dayly committed by barbarous and brutish minded men on the bodies of their brethren that Caine who was the first of that bloudy fraternitie if hee were on the earth would blush to heare and see how farre he is out passed in butcheries Amongst the number of numberlesse bloud-thirsty pa●irides and homicides let this which is heere following treated of bee accounted and Recorded for none of the least which was effected accomplished and reuealed in this sort In the Parish of Putney vpon Thames in the Countie of Surrey fiue or sixe miles distant from the Cittie of London there dwelt this Murdered Man named Edward Hall by his vocation a Miller a man of good r●putation hauing substance of money and moueables sufficient now this aforesaid Hall notwithstand●ng his sufficiency of all things needefull yet his naturall inclination was to bee sparing and in a manner miserable in his howse-keeping which procured him the hatred of his seruants and familie and in conclusion was a great mot●u● to his ●●●e destruction for it is Reported that his wi●e ●●●ing bigge with Child and that his p●r●●●ed the time of her deliuerance to draw neere hi● to ●●●e charges of hir lying in did send his th●●● s●●●e miles into the Countrie to hi● Mothers in ●●e meane space in hir absence hee was thus treacherously and inhumainly massacred and Murdered for vpon Thursday night the one and twentieth of Aprill last 1614. about tenne of the clock after supper the said Hall sleeping in a Chaire by the fire in his Kitchin his seruants beeing three of them namely Iohn Selling Peter Pett and Edward Streater hauing as they confessed conspired their Master his death long before now they perceiued him sleeping thought it not fitte to let such an opportunitie slip to put their damnable practise in execution Iohn Selling hauing prouided a pickaxe to giue the fatall blow told the aforesaid Pett that now it was a fitte time to doe it and bade Pett strike the first stroake and hee would second him with another whereupon Pett tooke the pickaxe and standing behinde his sleeping Maister lifting it vp with all his force beeing strengthened by the inspiration of the Deuill who was a Murtherer from the beginning gaue his Master a violent blow on the back betwixt his shoulders wherewith Hall beeing astonnied fell downe and gaue a great groane where Selling presently catcht the pickaxe out of Pette handes stroake the second blow at Hall and hitting him on the head in most cruell and ●●●●●ly manner beate out his braines the other their third companion in this mischiefe named Streater being all this while grinding corne in his Maisters Mill a little distant from the house not knowing as then that the deuilish designe was acomplished till at last Pett went to him and told him what was done and bade him come and beholde their handy-worke presently vpon this Streater left the Mill and comming into the house where hee saw his said Maister lye imbrued in his owne gore with his braines most brutishly dasht out Hee vpon the instant and imporunate request or command of Pett Selling the said Streater tooke the pickaxe and stroke the said Hall a blow on the breast which split and shiuered his breast boane Hall beeing thus dead thése three Murtherers consulted amongst themselues what were best to bee done with the dead body protesting and vowing that whosoeuer should reucale this their damnable deede should haue his braines beaten out Then they all tooke vp the dead carkas and caried it into a Stable where they digged a hole and buried it And afterwards deuising what were the best course for them to take to keepe this murther concealed and to kepe themselues cleare from suspition thereof at last they bethought themselues of a gelding which was their Maisters at that time standing in the stable which gelding they all three tooke and sadled and bridled and led him forth the same night into Wimbleton wood where they turned the Horse astray loosly to wander vp and downe that it might be thought that Theeues and robbers had assanited their aforesaid Maister in the wood or that some mischance had there befalne him of the which as they imagined the straying Horse would bee a manifest infalliable token but as I said before these villaines hauing thus turned the