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A28412	The Bloody murtherer, or, The unnatural son his just condemnation at the assizes held at Monmouth, March 8, 1671/2 with the suffering of his sister and servant, for the murther of his mother, Mrs. Grace Jones, for which the said son was prest to death, his sister burnt, and his boy hang'd : with a true accompt of their trials, penitent behaviour, prayers, speeches, and circumstances thereunto relating : with letters of several worthy divines.		1672 (1672)	Wing B3259; ESTC R18868	28,377	74

blood of Iesus and that he was going to take possession of Ioys unspeakable and endless ravish'd with the apprehension thereof he could not only go through but welcom the greatest pains that in this World could be inflicted George Bridges his unhappy servant stood his trial was found guilty of the Murther and condemned to be hang'd which was accordingly ex●cuted on Saturday March 16. last past He seemed very sorrowful and penitent and confessed he did cut his Mystriss's Throat after she was shot The Prayer used at his death was as follows A Prayer at the Execution of George Bridges O Eternal God and Father of mercies in much pity and compassion behold this weak and rrembling Malefactor who in all Humility begs the remission of his sins and follies who with shame and sorrow casts himself down at thy feet and confesses his manifold and insufferable wickednesses his ignorance of thy Law and contempt of holy duties his falshoods and lies dissimulations and hypocrisies cruelties and blood-guiltiness He confesses O God that he has deserved the heaviest of thy wrath to beseparated from the comforts of thy Presence and the Glories of thy Kingdom But blessed be thy Name that thou invitest sinners to thy ●elf and offerest them Pardon upon repentance that thou hast sent thy only Son into the World to die for such and ●ast promised salvation upon their true Confession and deep Humiliat on O holy God who art full of long-suffering ●nd patience have mercy upon this fearful miserable sinner ●nd pardon him his ignorance and anger and all the errors of his life and hear his earnest groans now in the time of his affliction and trouble O what shall we say to thee thou Preserver of men thou takest no pleasure in seeing the blood of thy children thou wouldst not have any to die in his transgressions O God of mercies pity and pardon this timorous dying person and clense his guilty soul in the blood of the immaculate Lamb which speaketh better things then that of Ahel Return O Lord deliver his soul O save him for thy mercies sake For in death there is no remembrance of thee in the Grave who shall give thee thanks Blessed God thou hast said thou wilt hear the prayer of two or three Will thou not attend unto the cries an● tears of a Multitude who are at thy Throne of grace in behalf of this poor wretch who by the Seductions of the devi● and his own hearts lusts was drawn to commit a black an● horrid wickedness to plot and contrive the de●th of hi● Mistriss and to lie in wait for her fall For thy Name-sak● O Lord pardon his iniquity for it is great The trouble of his heart are enlarged O bring thou him out of his d●stresses O most Gracious Father let not this sad and timerou● Sinner sink under the burden of his transgressions and cal●mities To thee alone he makes his complaint and Prayer And he trembles at thy judgements let not the evil Spiri● and his feares prevaile in the time of his trouble and sorrow and dissolution O God we beseech thee give thy afflicted servant a pe●fect and sound repentance and assurance of thy favour tell him that thou hast seal'd his Pardon to him with t●● blood of Jesus that thou hast accepted his Confession a●● hast heard his g●oans and that he shall quickly be tak●● from a miserable and sinful world to a Celestial Mansion 〈◊〉 dearest Lord take from thy poor and sinful servant all ino●dinate fear of death and give him earnest desires after C●lestial pleasures and when his soul shall take a farewel● this world let thy holy Angels carry it into the Regions eternal joy peace and felicities for Christ Jesus sake o● dearest Lord. In whose Name and words we further pra● Our Father c. As for Mary Jones though she from first to last protested her innocency yet it being proved Not only that she stay'd up for her brother that fatal Night the Murther was committed but that very Night washed his bloody Clothes beat the Chil●ren for enquiring after their Mother and since ●ndeavoring to flie for it all which was testified with several other circumstances by two credible Witnesses she also was hereupon found guilty as consenting to the Fact and condemned to be burnt Which Sentence was executed the same day that the Boy suffered viz. Mar. 16. she being drawn along with him on a Sledd and burned at a Stake nigh the Gallows She to the last insisted on her Innocence and gave Certificates thereof to several Persons under her own hand with most solemn Protestations and begged of the Lord on the day she was to die That he would please to shew some sign or token to clear her to the world which some will have to be Answered by the stubborn Horses refusal to go on with the Sledd when she came against the Church going to the place of suffering the falling down of part of the Church-wall then a strange Meteor and Storm with I know not how many other Prodigies but wiser men judge all these to be but raised stories or at best forced observations of some melancholy and credulous Heads 'T is certain her sex youth and vehement denial of being privy to the Fact were very powerful Advocates to plead for pity in the spectators breasts whose tears at her death seem'd almost enough to quench the flames she was exposed to she said not much at the stake but what ten●ed to declare her innocency in the particular fa● charged though having bin a grand sinner she a●knowledged she had otherwise duely deserved t● worst she could suffer And concluding her discour●● with a Protestation that she freely and heartily di● forgive all the world The Prayers following were put up for her as she sto●● at the Place of Execution a numerous throng acco●panying each word with sighs and tears A Prayer at the Execution of Mary Jones O Eternal and most merciful God who hast made the way 〈◊〉 troubles and afflictions the way to Jerusalem and everlasti●● pleasures Look in abundant mercy upon a sorrowful sin 〈◊〉 soul upon a wretched and vile sinner who hath none to he●● and deliver her O pardon and forgive her all her secret sin lusts and passions her averseness to religion and vertue and h●● want of love to Prayer and holy Offices to the Word of G●● and pious Christians her easie yieldings to the assaults of S●tan and violent resistings of the motions of thy Spirit H●● slavish fears and distrust of thy Providence her greediness of t●● world and neglect of the things above the omissions and lu●● warmness of her Prayers and whatsoever has provok'd the● lay this great punishment upon her O God we beseech thee 〈◊〉 ●●e be guiltie of the charged crime of taking away the lif● 〈◊〉 her Mother let a River of tears run down her cheeks and w●●● her clean in the blood of the Holy Jesus If she was not c●●scious to that fearful

man die shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my Change come Psal 88.2 3 9 10 12. Let my Prayer com● before thee incline thine ear unto my cry For my Soul is full of troubles and my life draweth nigh unto the Grave Mine Eye mournet● by reason of affliction Lord I have called dail● upon thee I have stretched out mine hands unt● thee Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead shall the Dead arise and praise thee shall thy wonders be known in the dark and thy Righteousness in the Land of forgetfulness Psal 6.1 4 5. O Lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure Return O Lord deliver my Soul O save me for thy Mercy sake For in death there is no remembrance of thee in the Grave there is no giving thanks unto thee Psal 15.5 Behold I was born in sin and in Iniquity did my Mother conceive me Psal 25.11 Against thee O Lord have I sinned against thee even thee O Lord have I sinned and done wickedly and Lord pardon mine Iniquity for it is exceeding great John 6.37 And he that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out 2 Sam. 12.9 13. David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord and Nathan said to David the Lord also hath put away thy sin Isa 45.18 19. I said not to the seed of Jacob seek ye me in vain Isa 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will abundantly pardon Ezek. 18.23 30 32. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die saith the Lord and not that he should turn from his ways and live Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so Iniquity shall not be your ruine for I have no pleasure in him that dyeth wherefore turn your selves and live Mica 7.18 Who is a God like unto thee that pardonest Iniquity and passeth by transgression that retainest not thy anger for ever and delightest in Mercy Mat. 18.11 the Son of man is come to save that which was lost 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners whereof I am chief Isa 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous his Imaginations and return to the Lord and he will have Mercy upon him and to our God for he is ready to forgive Isa 57.10 I have seen his ways and will hear him I will lead him and restore comfort unto him and to those that lament Psal 103.13 As a Father hath compassion on his Children so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him Psal 144.3 Lord what is man that thou takest Knowledge of him or the Son of man that thou makest account of him Job 16.21 22. O that one might plead for a man with God as a man pleaded for his Neighbour When a few days are come then I shall go the way whence I shall not return In this manner this penitent Malefactor passed the time in a very sorrowfull and Religious frame of Spirit for about half a year in Prison untill the last assizes for Monmouth the seventh of March last past at which time being brought to his Tryal out of consideration as 't is believed to save his Estate for his VVife and Child whereof she was there ready to be delivered he would not plead to the Indictment but stood mute and thereupon had Judgment to be pressed to death a Sentence that carryes with it so much of terrour that we think it not improper to set it down with the Reason thereof as one published by that grand Piller of your Law the learned Lord Cook in the second Book of his Institutes in his Comment on Prim. Westm Cvp. 12. The Judgement or Sentence in case of standing mute called Pain Fort Dure THat the Prisoner shall be remanded to the Prison and laid there in some low and dark house where he shall lie naked on the bare Earth without any Litter Rush or other Cloathing and without any Garment about him but something to cover his Privities and that he shall lye upon his back his head uncovered and his feet and one Arm shall be drawn to one quarter of the house and the other Arm to another quarter and in the same manner shall be done with his Legs and there shall be laid upon his Body Iron and Stone as much as he can bear and more and the next day following he shall have three Morsels of Barley without any Drink and the second day he shall drink thrice of the water that is next to the house of the Prison except running water without any Bread and this shall be his diet untill he be dead Thus we see they are to die three manner of ways viz. Onere Fame Frigore by weight famine and cold and therefore if executed according to the severity of the Law 't is a punishment of all others the most grievous and fearful the reason of this terrible Judgment is there rendred because he refused to stand to the common Law of the Land that is Lawful and due Tryal according to Law and thereupon his punishment for this contumacy is more severe lasting and grievous then it should have been for the crime it self if he had been Convicted of it which he cannot be without Answer THis Action of Mr. Jones standing mute administred occasion to some to dispute its lawfulness and theteupon a very Judicious Casuist drew up the ensuing Case of Conscience CASE OF CONSCIENCE Whether a guilty Malefactor ought to Answer to the lawful Demands of his Judge Affirmatur Because 1. He cannot deny a Truth whereof he is himself Convicted without Lying nor can he deny or any way detract from his Duty of Answering being demanded by a superiour and lawful Power without being likewise guilty of Contumacy and sad Inobedience 2. A Malefactor who is condemned already in foro Conscientiae cannot without remorse deny nor indeed wave or conceal his Confession when he is Juridice demanded without giving offence to the glory of God as it was in the Case of Achan Josh 7.19 3 The publick Good which is intended by the lawful demands of the Judge ought not to be frustrated Give me leave to speak conscienciously by the private evasions of the Criminal 4. The Person guilty not pleading may be supposed to die for his Crime of Contumacy not the Fact which requires satisfaction in this life 5. All humane Policy when repugnant to the manifestation of Justice legal Procedure and the Convictions of a tender though doubtful Conscience is altogether unallowable But to proceed in our Narrative The same way that was appointed for putting the before-recited terrible Sentence in Execution March 11 last he writ to his Wife as followeth Henry Jones his last Letter to his wife Dearest Deare AFter my hearty prayers to the

〈◊〉 BLOODY MURTHERER OR THE UNNATURAL SON HIS Iust Condemnation At the Assizes Held at Monmouth MARCH 8. 1671 2. With the Suffering of his Sister and Servant For the MURTHER of his Mother Mrs. GRACE JONES FOR WHICH The said Son was prest to Death his Sister burnt and his Boy Hang'd WITH A True Accompt of their TRIALS Penitent Behaviour Prayers Speeches and Circumstances thereunto Relating With Letters of several Worthy DIVINES Filius ante Diem Quis ista legendo Temperet à Lachrymis By Allowance LONDON Printed by H. Lloyd for Jonathan Edwin at three Roses in Ludgat-street 1672. A POEM upon the late Execrable Murther committed by Henry Jones and his Confederate Boy George Bridges Octob. 11 1671. upon his Mother Mrs. Grace Jones of Monmouth Widow and their deserved Executions the one March 11. the other March 16. 1671 2. AND did a Pistol-shot distain the Ground With crimson Gore showr'd from the gushing wound Of a fond Mother which aloud did cry And with revengeful language pierce the sky And was this horrid Matchless Murther done To a kind Mother by an unkind son A son how Admiration struck mine eyes And all my apprehensive faculties When I beheld the man transform'd with wonder Sensless I stood as one struck down with Thunder This barb'rous Act in never dying Rimes Shall be transmitted to succeeding times And whilst the glittering Orbs in Order roul Their burning rayes about the fixed Pole Be Annaliz'd in the black Rolls of Fame As a Memorial of the foulest shame Monster of men what made thee to decoy Thy Parent to destruction and thy Boy Ah! was thy heart hew d from a Parian Rock Or to it did curs'd Nature set a Lock To Shut out pity was it walld with brass Or much more Steel'd then Salvage Nero's was Could nothing but thy Mothers Blood supply Th' ambitious thirst of thy insatiate eye Deluded wretch experience le ts thee know That thou art ruin'd by her overthrow And that thy big-womb'd wife might be possess'd Of dear-bought lands thou terribly art press'd Dismall effects of love with massy stones O what sad ends attend Sanguineous ones And thou vile Boy who did'st rescind the throat Of thy head wounded Mystriss thou hast got A shamefull death to thy foul practice due And now the Master of the damned crew Payes thee thy wages if thou didst not make Thy peace with God in the infernal Lake Thou didst do well to clear the Maid from guilt But better if her blood thou hadst not spilt The Wicked Life Horrid Murther and Penitent Death of HENRY JONES ALthough the unhappy Times we live in which may not unfitly be termed the very Rust of the Iron-age are too pregnant with sad instances of prodigious Crimes and unparallel'd Villanies Men striving with a cursed Emulation to out-vie each other in wickedness And that crying Scarlet-sin of Murther so overflows like a torrent almost in every street That it seems to many but a piece of Gallantry to stab at the Majesty of God by killing and destroying Man his Image yet shall we seldom meet with any Impiety swell'd to that height in all Circumstances as this which at present hath engaged our Pen. An Action that at once infringes all Bonds of Gratitude and Obligations of Humanity and violates the Tyes of Nature as well as the Dictates of Grace so strange and lamentable so cruel and execrable that it needs no flourish of words or Epithets to render it odious but is in it self so transcendently abominable as it is uncapable of being aggravated by any Rhetorick for who hears of a Mother wilfully murther'd by her own Son but his senses startle and his heart is instantly brimful of horrour and indignation The perfect Narrative of this deplorable Fact with its concomitant circumstances we undertake not out of prejudice to the deceased Malefactor who having partly satisfied the Law by yielding up his body to death here on earth hath as we hope and have no weak Grounds to believe as shall appear in the sequel obtained a Pardon also of Almighty God for such his grievous sin that his Soul may live for ever in Heaven Nor do we publish it to gratifie their liquorish Fancies who delight in hearing strange stories or to furnish the already too talkative World with more vain Discourses But to the end that the Readers observing herein as in a Chrystal Mirrour the variety and violence of the Devils temptations And the Allurements of sin wherewith these poor Creatures the Authors and Actors of this horrid Butchery suffered themselves to be seduced with the Miraculous detection and severe punishment of the same Nay by the terrours thereof be for the future retained within the lists of Charity towards Men filial respect and duty towards their Parents and Superiors and which includes all religious obedience towards God and his Commandments And I hope the World wicked and insensible as it is hath not yet so totally renounced and abandoned all Vertue Piety and Prudence as not a little by these Examples to reflect and imitate the wise and skilful Pilot who mourns to see the Rocks whereon his fellow-Voyagers have suffered shipwrack and yet again rejoyceth that by the sight thereof he may avoid his own Lastly that we may all admire the Riches of Gods Grace which denies not to receive the vilest and most crimson sinners whenever they with a sincere and hearty Repentance make their Addresses to his Throne for mercy and forgiveness The principal Actor in this barbarous Tragedy was Henry Jones the son of Thomas Jones late of Monmouth in Southwales and Grace his Wife Parents miserably unhappy to bring into the World so ungrateful and unnatural a Wretch that justly came to suffer an ignominious death for bereaving her of life from whom he thus derived his own It were no less injury to truth then affront to the Countrey of his Nativity should we deny him to be by descent a Gentleman his Father being a Person of a competent estate and good repute in those Parts But alas what a sorry and contemptible Glory is it to bear only the empty names and painted Coats of Generous Ancestors whilst we by neglecting the imitation of those vertues that first made them eminent disgrace their Memories and commit Actions more vile then the basest of the plebeian Rabble His Provident Father considering That no quality does more adorn or embellish then Learning took particular care to have his greener years seasoned with the Rudiments of Literature which one would have thought should have served him for the more regular Conduct of his future life and rein'd him in from such matchless enormities But Learning alone without being grafted on a stock of good natural Parts and watered with the dew of Heavenly Grace is commonly not only barren of happy fruit but very dangerous whilst it puffs up its empty-headed Possessors and makes them self-will'd conceited and temerarious in their undertakings He was no sooner arriv'd to