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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	john_n	sir_n	william_n	62,511	5	10.2876	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28414	The Bloody murtherer discovered, or, A true relation of the examination and confession of John Rendor, late butler to Esq. Bluck before that most worth person Sir William Turner (one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace) about 12 of the clock on Fryday night, who committed that great robbery and murther in the house of his master Esquire Bluck in Holbourn, on the fifth of this instant August last past ...		1674 (1674)	Wing B3261; ESTC R7384	4,528	9

THE Bloody Murtherer DISCOVERED OR A True Relation of the EXAMINATION and CONFESSION of JOHN RENDOR late Butler to Esq Bluck Before that most worthy Person Sir William Turner one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace about 12. of the Clock on Fryday Night who Committed that great Robbery and Murther in the House of his Master Esquire Bluck in Holbourn on the Fifth of this Instant August last past with the manner of his Deportment before that worthy Person aforesaid having been three hours upon Examination before he would make any Confession Whereupon the Justice seeing he would not Confess sent to search the House where he Lodged where upon the seach thereof was found one Trunk of Plate and other Rich Commodities which no sooner was brought in before the Justice but he confest both the Robbery and that Blood-Murther whereupon he was Committed to Newgate Printed for Henry Johnson in the Year 1674. BEing brought upon Suspicion of this great Robbery and Murder before the Justice and being charged with the Fact utterly denyed it The question being asked where he had bestowed his time since he left his Masters Service to which he replied that he had been in Holland and that he came last from Dover and arrived here on Munday last and had taken a Lodging in White-cross-Street But b ing further urged concerning the matter of Fact still denied it whereupon a Person there present that lived near to the House of his Master Esquire Bluck which was the instrumental person of his being apprehended testified that he brought two or three Razors to his Shop to be Ground and seeing this Mrs. Burt n desired her being an old acquaintance to drink with him which she did and after some time departed and on Wednesday towards the Evening he came again to this Razor-grinders Shop and this Mrs. Burton sitting at her Masters Dore he asked her to drink a pot of Ale which she accepted of desiring him to come in and sit down in the Passage which was between the Parlour and the Kitchen after they had done he said he was in great hast to be gon but the poor woman not imagining he had such Cruelty lodged within his Brest desired him to stay longer for it was time enough to go home whereupon some words did arise between them as he said and desiring him to go into the Kitchen going along he strook her a blow on the head with which she fell down Then he seeing the Body strugling on the ground he took a Green Carpet that lay on the Table and threw over her and so left her and went and broke open all the Trucks and Boxes-in the House out of which he took the Plate being Tankards Cups Plates Fruit Dishes and other Plate to the Value of between two and three hundred pounds a Silver Hilted Sword and a Camlit Cloak out of which he carried away nineteen Spoons and Forks a Fruit-dish a Tankard the Cloak and the Sword and left the remaining part in one of the Chimnies and so he Departed all which he denied before that Sir William Turner sent to search his Lodging where they found the Trunck and when that was brought into his sight he declared all the foregoing Story and seemed to be very much troubled and very Penitent and said he would have brought the Plate again but was afraid of being Apprehended on Thursday he said he was walking in the Fields and on Friday night came again to the Razor Grinders Shop who having heard of this Bloody Murther and knowing of no other person to have been there but only him sent immediately for the Constable and brought him before Sir William Turner and there making this his Confession was committed to Newgate where we leave him to the Mercy of God and the Judicious Court of Justice to answer for this his Bloody Crime HE that hereafter shall undertake truly to blazon forth this bruitish Age to the eyes of Posterity can express it no way better than by froathy streams of scarlet gore thwarting a field of black of deeper die if it may be than the long Egyptian night Melpomene must give place and as too much agast at the more than tragical events of our times remit her trembling Poets to the Infernal furies whose flaming whips would be the best pens to describe such Stygian exploits which now the hardned Sun like ordinary things beholds whereas far less crimes have formerly made him veil his more bashful face If the World may rightly be said to have run through four Ages which according their several tempers are distinguished by the significant epithets of Gold Silver Brass and Iron when we see then the wickedness of ours so monstrously transcend that of the former what can we collect from thence but that we are entred into a fefth yielding so prodigious an increase of vices that it deserves not as other to be denominated by any mineral in that first ventricle of the Earth where Pluto hides his precious dirt but rather from its most infernal Region and that very dismal Center where Grim Pluto's horrid Chair is set from whence as if some of that Tyrant's more officious Pioneers had lately wrought through an open passage legions of evils assail us and those Owl-vices which before revered now trusting in their numbers out-dare the light For certainly if it goes on with so numerous a superfaetation of Monsters as it has begun there will not only want room in our Annals to place them but there will want Writers too to insert them no humane creature but such Devils as act them being able to express the hellish actions now perpetrated on the stage of the World You Galiants may now save your mony and you Players turn Spectators you need not now Gentlemen Poets wrack your brains to invent new or revive old Tragedies since now ones are so rife you need not amuse your selves with painted or imaginary cruelties when Hell having as it seems removed purposely into our upper Regions to divert you daily presents you real ones and still further to humour the lunacy of your fancies every moment alters its scenes dresses and subjects So many strange Robberies unheard-of Curelties savage Murders and Bloudy Exploits continually alarming our senses that our eyes are scarcely well fitted with amazement at one strange event but they are recalled the more prodigious horror of a new accident from whose multiplying numbers we may well conclude that now if ever the great Deceiver is let loose with all his praestigious devices to make us the sad actors of our own ruine For the earth has hardly covered the last blood with which in this kind you heard its unnatural children besmeared her face the ink is hardly dry that moistned its doleful narrative when behold new villanies of no less scarlet hue display themselves which though I can never express with all the horrid circumstances attending it are best known to the hellish actors and their subtil Cur from whose