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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76882	The Bloody husband, and cruell neighbour. Or, A true historie of two murthers, lately committed in Laurence Parish, in the Isle of Thanet in Knet, neer Sandwich: one murther by the hands of Adam Sprackling Esquire, who upon the 12th day of December last, being Sabbath day; in the morning, cut, mangled, and murthered his own wife; for which fact he was hanged at Sandwich upon Wednesday the 27th day of April last, 1653. The other the murther of Richard Langly, of the same parish, whose blood also (as is here shewed) cryed against the said Mr. Sprackling, written by one that lives neer the place where the said murthers were committed, and was present at Mr. Sprackling's tryall; and published for the warning, and good of all. May 13. 1653. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.		1653 (1653)	Wing B3254; Thomason E697_10; ESTC R207095	8,657	16

have disclaimed the fact And who would not have believ'd a dying man It was the saying of many godly wise people when they heard of Mr. Sprackling's murther of his Wife that they were perswaded that the cry of Richard Langley's blood did move the bloodavenging God to leave Mr. Sprackling to fall to that Wife-murther that such a blood-thirsty man might not go to the Grave in peace He was hanged in his Cloak And afterwards put into a Coffin cloaths and all at the Gallows and after stripped and layd forth and coffined at the sign of the three Kings in Sandwich and the next day towards night carried from thence six miles on mens shoulders over the Ferry to St. Lawrence Chur●h where in the night he was buried neer his Wife This is the true History of these bloody practises God brings light out of darkness and the glory of his Justice out of the sin shame and destruction of the wicked They are not all sweet flowers from which the Bees gather hony All truth is written for our Instruction Learn 1. Let him that stands take heed lest he fall All men are subject to the same infirmities and temptations Walk circumspectly pray continually lest ye enter into Temptation 2. Forsake not God by forsaking his Sabbaths Ministry of the Word c. lest Gods Spirit forsake thee and thou be given up to Satan to be led captive by him at his will 3. Let all ranting and prodigall ones my young Masters and others learn here the bitter sequels of riot and waste Besides a world of evils it brings want want distraction discontent between the neerest Relations 4. Take heed you marry in the Lord. 'T is not a brave Spark that can mannage his Rapier well c. that you can expect to live well with if there be not grace in the heart 5. Take heed of malice and wrath and bloody mindedness and of bloody attempts and practises Deliver me from blood guiltiness O God 6. Take heed of the company of the wicked especially of bloody men It had like to have cost poor Martin his life 7. Pray that our Higher powers moy take to heart the want of Government in the Port part of the Isle of Thanet in Kent which part is so far from Justice that it is full of prophaness When the shire-part of the Isle where Justice is neer and active is better Reformed I do humbly wish that all the Isle be made Shire or a Corporation set up in the Port-part Drunkenness Swearing Sabbath-breaking c. none to put such to shame a Maiors Deputy hath no power the remedy is worse than the disease to go so many miles to Complain to the Maiors But Gods Justice acts where mans doth not Not a year passeth there but a Drunkard breaks his neck off his horse or over the Cliff Two have hanged themselves within a year last past one on Easter Monday last being actually drunk hangd himself 8. Pray that a setled godly able Ministry may be established in the Parish where this Master Sprackling lived where these bloody and ungodly Practises prevail The dark corners of the Earth are full of the habitations of Cruelty There are many thousand souls yet not ten pounds a year setled for the maintenance of a Minister Richard Langley procured the casting out of the unsavory salt there And be dyed in the time of his zealous actings to procure maintenance for an able Minister 9. Look upon this godly Gentlewoman and Richard Langley lying in their blood mangled and slain and see what may befall the dearest servants of God in this world and prepare for the like tryalls They that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution FINIS