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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76887	Bloody news from Angel-Alley in Bishopgate-Street, being a true and full account of the cruel murdering of one Dorothy Jewers, who on Fryday last, the 27th of September, was barbarously robbed and kill'd by two of her lodgers. : With an account how she was at first found dead, and also how these murderers after they had committed this bloody fact made their escape.		1678 (1678)	Wing B3261B; ESTC R172792	2,208	9

Bloody News FROM Angel-Alley IN BISHOPSGATE-STREET BEING A full and true Account of the cruel Murdering of one Dorothy Jewers who on Fryday last the 27th of September was barbarously robbed and kill'd by two of her Lodgers WITH An Account how she was at first found dead and also how these Murderers after they had committed this bloody Fact made their escape With Allowance LONDON Printed for D. M. 1678. Bloody News FROM Angel-Alley IN Bishops-Gate-Street The horror of this ensuing Relation is too great to need any amplication or the needless imbelishment of a starch'd Exordium I shall therefore without putting either my self or the Reader to farther trouble give him a candid and true account of a dismal accident which happened in Angel Allie in Bishops Gate Street Towards the upper end of which Allie over against the Rose Alehouse there has liv'd for some time an antient industrious widow Dorothy Jewers who by her good huswifry had obtained so much as made her esteemed very wealthy considering the meanness of her quality her common way of livelyhood being to deal in old Goods which were expos'd to sale and having ready mony many times bought them to great advantage by this and the like means the report of her Estate in Plate and mony became generally talkt of that it is to be fear'd at length the fame of it reacht the Ears of two young persons of different Sexes who on the one and twentieth of this instant September came to enquire for a Lodging at her house which she having ready to dispose of without much scruple set it them at so much per week but the sad event of her so doing will not let me omit giving the Reader a kind warning to take care not to follow her example but to be cautious and circumspect whom either he or she admits under the dangerous shelter of their own Roof for by this means many Masters and Mistresses of Families themselves have lost their Reputation and their Goods nay and their lives to boot which have been brought to a shameful Catastrophe meerly for want of that Care and industry which is absolutely requisite in such Cases This unfortunate VVoman in Angel-All●y little considered what she had done when she let these unknown Persons have a free Egress and Regress out and into her House as well as her self and by so doing ran indeed too great a hazard for that inconsiderable benefit she was to receive of them had they prov'd really honest But alas two or three days experience of their cautious and timerous Conversations offer'd her so much reason to think they were either ingag'd in the VVorld or else had in a base manner abus'd it that she grew in that small time weary of their Companies and therefore warn'd them to provide a new Habitation against that VVeek expir'd for that since they did not give her that Testimony of their honesty which at their entrance they promised she was resolved to be troubled with them no longer Her Lodgers seem'd very little concern'd at the News only desiring of her that during that time they might injoy their Lodging in friendship and content and at the VVeeks-end they would honestly pay her according to their Covenant and leave her VVhereupon she said little to them afterwards but much wondred to see them take such extraordinary care to skulk in and out of Doors at such unseasonable hours as none no not their very next Neighbours could ever set sight of them nor can now give any account of them or tell what manner of Persons they were But since it is easily imagin'd this unusual desire of concealment was not by reason of Debt or any worldly Ingagements but with full and premeditated design that they might the better commit their intended Murder and after more securely make their escape For on Fryday the 27th Instant and the day before the expiration of the fore-mentioned VVeek they were to stay with her about eight of the Clock in the Evening they both came very seemingly kind down to their Land-Lady and telling her they had bought a piece of Pork for Supper desir'd that since it was the last Night they were to be in her House she would do them the favour to go up-stairs into their Room and take share of it and a Glass of Ale and be merry with them before their departure this she declared to several Neighbours before she went up the good VVoman little suspecting they durst be so impudently wicked as to attempt any thing on her Life especially at saith a seasonable hour as all her Neighbours were stirring accepted the invitation and went up with them vvhere in order to the expected Supper she savv the Board fairly laid vvith Napkins Trenchers and all things requisite in those cases The particular of every Action which passed among them is impossible as yet to be related the tvvo chief Actors of them being her two Lodgers who are since fled But this is certain that the good Woman who had left her Door open staid above Stairs so long that some of her Neighbours who had never before seen her negligent in that kind went to her House to advertise her of it but finding her not below Stairs at first knockt but receiving no answer went up stairs and found the poor VVoman stark dead but in a strugling posture with a Cambrick Handkerchief thrust as 't is immagin'd with a Bed-staff which lay by her asfar down her Throat as possibly they could ram it in so much that they had rent her Mouth and a Napkin with which 't is thought they first strangled her ty'd so extremely hard about her Neck that it was impossible for her to take her breath much less make any noise that her Neighbours might have come in to her ●ssistance 'T was about the hour of nine when she was first found in this lamentable condition and it is credibly reported that about a quarter of an hour before the she Lodger came to the Door and perceiving a VVoman who kept the opposite Ale-house to stand at the Door she ran boldly to her and told her she wanted three pints of Drink which whilst the Hostess was fetching she and her pretended Husband made their escape taking along with them many things whereof as yet we have no particular FINIS