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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Full and Perticular
RELATION
Of that Strange, Horrible, and (in <HI>England</HI>)
Unheard-of Murther,
VVhich was Committed on the Body of the late
Famous Dr. CLENCH,
In an <HI>Hackney</HI>-Coach, near <HI>Leaden-Hall-Market</HI>; on
<DATE><HI>Monday</HI>-Night, the 4<HI>th.</HI> of this In&s;tant <HI>Jan.</HI> 1692.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>LAST Night, being <HI>Monday</HI> the <HI>Fourth</HI> In&s;tant, about a quarter pa&s;t
<HI>Nine,</HI> Dr. <HI>Clench</HI> went from <HI>John</HI>'s Coffee-Hou&s;e in <HI>Fullers-Rents,</HI> to
his late dwelling-Hou&s;e in <HI>Brown-low Street;</HI> where he had not been
long, before a Me&s;&s;enger came to de&s;ire him to come to Two Gen|tlemen,
who were at the <HI>Devil Tavern</HI> near <HI>Temple-Bar,</HI> in order to Vi&s;it a Per|&s;on
of con&s;iderable Account, who was dangerou&s;ly ill; upon which he imme|diately
went with the &s;aid Me&s;&s;enger, not ordering his Coach or Coachman to At|tend
him, but being come to the Gentlemen, at the afore&s;aid Tavern, they per|&s;wade
him to take Coach with them, in order to go to this Patient near <HI>White
Chappel;</HI> upon which they paid their Reckoning, and called a Coach to the
Tavern Door; but in their way, between <HI>Temple-Bar,</HI> and <HI>Leaden-Hall-Street,</HI>
the&s;e two Per&s;ons (after the <HI>Turks</HI> manner) mo&s;t Barbarou&s;ly Murthered the
Doctor, by Strangling him; now coming near <HI>Leaden-Hall-Market,</HI> they called
out to the Coachman to &s;top, and gave him <HI>Three-Shillings, Six pence,</HI> and bid
him &s;tep into the <HI>Market,</HI> and Buy the be&s;t <HI>Capon</HI> he could light on; the Coach|man
innocently takes the Money, and goes into the <HI>Market</HI> according to Di|rection;
but he was no &s;ooner gone, but the <HI>Two Ruffins</HI> made their E&s;cape,
and the &s;aid Coachman returning &s;oon after, with the <HI>Poulterer,</HI> bringing
with them &s;everal Fowls for the Gentlemen to take their choice, but they
were no &s;ooner come to the Coach &s;ide, but they found the door of it open,
the two Gentlemen gone, and (to their great &s;urpri&s;e) the Doctor alone lying
dead in the Coach; upon which &s;oon after, the Doctors body being brought
to his own Hou&s;e, in <HI>Brown-low-&s;treet</HI> in <HI>Holbourn,</HI> Con&s;tables and Watchmen
were &s;ent out into &s;everal Parts, in &s;earch of the Murtherers; but as yet no
Account can be learnt of them; what induc'd the&s;e Barbarous Homecides to
commit this Fact is not yet known; tho' its thought it may be an inveterate
Malice, and Revenge, not unlike That of E&s;quire <HI>Thynn.</HI> The Doctor was a very
Worthy, Hone&s;t, and Charitable Gentleman; and is very much lamented by all
that knew him.</P>
<P>NOW, for the Hainou&s;ne&s;s of this Sin of <HI>Murther,</HI> I &s;uppo&s;e none can be
ignorant, that it is of the deepe&s;t Die, a mo&s;t Loud crying Sin.
This we may &s;ee in the fir&s;t Act of this kind that ever was Com|mitted,
<HI>Abels blood cryeth from the earth, Gen.</HI> 4. 10. Yea, the Guilt
of this Sin is &s;uch, that it leaves even a &s;tain upon the Land where it is com|mitted,
&s;uch as is not to be wa&s;hed out, but by the Blood of the Murtherer,
as appears, <HI>Deut.</HI> 19. 12, 13. The Land cannot be Purged of Blood, but by the
blood of him that &s;hed it; and therefore, though in other ca&s;es, the flying to
the Altar &s;ecured a Man, yet in this of <HI>Willful Murther,</HI> no &s;uch Refuge was
allowed; but &s;uch a one was to be taken thence, and delivered up to Ju&s;tice,
<HI>Exod. 21. 14. Thou &s;halt take him from the Altar, that he may die.</HI> And it is
farther ob&s;ervable, that the only two Receipts which the Scripture mentions,
as given to <HI>Noah</HI> after the Flood, were both in Relation to this &s;in; that of
not eating blood, <HI>Gen.</HI> 9. 4. being a Ceremony to beget in Men a greater
horrour of this &s;in of Murther, and &s;o intended for the preventing of it. The
other was for the puni&s;hment of it. <HI>Gen. 9. 6. He that &s;heddeth man's blood, by
men &s;hall his blood be &s;hed;</HI> and the rea&s;on of this &s;tricktne&s;s is added in the
next words; <HI>For in the image of God made he man:</HI> where you &s;ee this &s;in is
not only an Injury to our Brother, but even the highe&s;t de&s;pite and comtempt
towards God him&s;elf; for it is the defacing of His Image, which He hath &s;tam|ped
upon Man, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Licen&s;ed according to Order.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> Alex. Milbourn <HI>in</HI> Green-Arbour Court <HI>in the</HI> Little Old-Bayly. 1682.</P>
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