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<P>Strange Newes FROM WARWICKE, Which hapned on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> la&s;t being the 17. day of <HI>November,</HI> 1642.</P>
<P>Manife&s;ting how one <HI>Jeremiah Stone,</HI> a Corporall of a company of Dragooners under his Excellence, being wounded at the Battell at <HI>Keyn|ton,</HI> came to the <HI>Anchor</HI> at <HI>Warwick</HI> a little Inne, and gave the Ho&s;te&s;&s;e of the Hou&s;e a bagge of Mo|ney to keepe for him untill &s;uch time as hee had recovered his Health.</P>
<P>Al&s;o how the &s;aid Ho&s;te&s;&s;e con&s;pired with her Husband to couzen the &s;aid Souldier of his Money, cau&s;ing him to be Impri&s;oned for of|fering to demand it.</P>
<P>With the manner how they for&s;wore them&s;elves before the Bench, and how Gods ju&s;t judge|ment immediatly fell upon them, to the terrour and amazement of all that great A&s;&s;embly.</P>
<P>Whereunto is annexed another fearefull example which happened at <HI>Coventrey.</HI></P>
<P>[<HI>Novem.</HI> 23.] Printed by <HI>T F for R. C.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>The la&s;t true intelligence from the City of VVARVVICKE</HEAD>
<P>_AFter this Newes of Battails, death and de&s;olation, between the Par|liaments Forces, and the Cavaleers being to our &s;orrow on both &s;ides, fought at <HI>Keynton,</HI> many be|ing &s;laine, which formerly you have heard, but rot the totall true|ly, let me write nought but the truth of one that e&s;caped, and &s;uch a truth, that fal&s;e|hood cannot blemi&s;h, this Souldier having gotten after the Battaile in pillaging the dead bodies a Bag of money and comming to <HI>Warwicke</HI> wounded, he went, to the Hou&s;e of ROBERT STONE a &s;mall Inne at the &s;igne of the <HI>Anchor,</HI> where he was forced to re&s;t untill by the helpe of the Chirurgian hee might recover his &s;trength, and having been there before, he thought none more &s;ufficient then his Ho&s;tis in credit and &s;ecrecy, and therefore he delivered into her cu&s;tody this Bag of mo|ney; within a Fortnight after recevering his health and &s;trength, he required to receive his Bag againe, it grieved his, unhone&s;t Ho&s;te&s;&s;e to part from &s;o great a Prize, ther|fore &s;he entered into a &s;erious and earne&s;t re&s;olution with her Hu&s;band what &s;hift they might find to detaine
<PB N="4" REF="3">the &s;aid bagg of money, her unhapy husband being be|yond all con&s;cience of that Iudgment that too many be of now a dayes, that what&s;oever by open proofe of Law cannot bee won is their owne gotten goods, hee giveth his Wife coun&s;ell to deny the receit of the &s;aid bagge or money, his Ho&s;te&s;&s;e denyed it, how could the Soul|dier proove it? Marke the boldne&s;&s;e of a wicked Wo|man? &s;he &s;eemed to wonder at the Souldier, that hee could be &s;o impudent for to aske at her hands that which &s;he avouched &s;he never received, in this ea&s;e &s;he raileth at him, and revileth him as farre as the uttermo&s;t of her vaine Rethoricke could &s;tretch; the Souldier, as com|monly they are allowed to be &s;omewhat more bold, then other men, objecteth again&s;t her there upon fal&s;e|hood, for that contrary to her faith, &s;hee for&s;wore the trueth again&s;t her con&s;cience, her Husband a principall in this perjury, as if it were to defend his wifes hone&s;ty with violence thru&s;teth the Souldier out of doores, the Souldier bold in Warre ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oad, at home thought in a good quarrell he might be more bolder, and rather cho&s;e to lo&s;e his life then money; the whole recompence of his lives adventure, he &s;toutly drew his &s;word, vowing he would either lo&s;e his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ife, or have his money; and breakes with too much ha&s;t his Ho&s;ti&s;&s;es hou&s;e to re|enter, alledging that where his goods are there he may &s;afely be: The Ho&s;t pleadeth an action of Burglary, and maketh an open cry for help unto his Neighbours, with violence forced an number of Officers to carry him as an open Malefactor unto the Goale. The Common Coun&s;ell according to the intimation of the Fact are a|greed deliberately what Iudgement to give; when pub|lique Iudgment &s;hall be craved; Agreed it was by mo&s;t voyces, that the Souldier &s;hould be condemned.</P>
<P>The Devill, who now is very bu&s;ie; who knowes &s;ome things by permi&s;&s;ion; in &s;ome forme on fa&s;hion commeth to the Pri&s;on unto the Pri&s;oner: and to wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">e the more credit he telleth him what judgement the Bench would pronounce, unle&s;&s;e he tooke good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> and dealt wi&s;e|ly,
<PB N="5" REF="3">and as he fain would have &s;ome Te&s;timony again&s;t man: he per&s;wadeth the &s;ouldier to worke him a free deliverance from all his trouble, if he would give him his &s;oule to hire, nay &s;ayth the &s;ouldier being undanted and having a ju&s;t cau&s;e, I had rather yet loo&s;e my life then my &s;oule, well &s;aid the Devill, though I get nothing of thee as a reward, yet will I deliver thee, &s;o that thou be ruled by me, follow therefore &s;aid he the&s;e in&s;tructions, when thou &s;halt be brought before the Bench, plead for thy &s;elfe Ignorance, de&s;ire to have an Attourney, chu&s;e mee to debate thy cau&s;e, by the&s;e noates thou &s;halt know me, by a Red Cap and a Feather? the Souldier ea&s;ily granted to u&s;e his coun&s;ell.</P>
<P>The Se&s;&s;ions is holden, the Souldier is brought forth as a Malefactor, the Ho&s;t pleadeth the death of the Souldier, the Souldier u&s;eth the Coun&s;ell of his un|happy advocate.</P>
<P>Licence he craveth that the Gentleman in the red Cap and feather might plead for him: Leave is granted forth comes the Devill, and like a skilfull Lawyer, he maketh this Caution.</P>
<P><HI>The Souldier not guilty, is not to be condem|ned, for from the Souldier grew no cau&s;e of &s;trife, the Ho&s;t by violence thru&s;t the Souldier out of the Doores, an open and manife&s;t Crime.</HI></P>
<P>Give me leave and Authority to &s;earch the Hou&s;e, I dare promi&s;e and will undertake without any further &s;trife, to finde the Bagg of money: So &s;hall the Ho&s;t be Guilty, and the Souldier &s;hall be of this a&s;pertich plainly cleered.</P>
<P>The Ho&s;t hearing the&s;e words, and being a&s;toni|&s;hed at the &s;ame, for he remembring of his quiet dwel|ling by his good Neighbours, and now bearing in his mind, how that he is &s;tanding now upon his credit, or di&s;credit for ever; and as the Devill would have him, added many bla&s;phemous Oathes that he by no meanes knew of any &s;uch money.</P>
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<P>And for confirmation of his Faith made by Oath, hee requireth, as the cu&s;tom of &s;wearers is, vengance at Gods hands, yet he &s;wore fal&s;ely <HI>I would quoth he, the Devill would fetch me away now pre&s;ently Body and &s;oule before you all, if I &s;weare un&s;u&s;tly;</HI> which terrible words, when this Ho&s;t had twice repeated, this deviili&s;h Lawyer, or this lawfull Devill, left the cau&s;e, and &s;nactht his Body according to the vengance he de&s;ired of Gods hand of this perjured Ho&s;t, and carried him forth vi&s;ibly over the Market place, &s;o that his Body was never &s;ince &s;eene againe: Nothing being left behind, but a terrible &s;tinke as a witne&s;&s;e what an uncleane &s;pirit, had carried away &s;uch an uncleane Per&s;on: The Bench being all amazed ri&s;&s;e; the Ho&s;te&s;&s;e hearing of this unhappy di&s;a&s;ter, confe&s;t the Fact, and re&s;tored the money to the Soul|dier.</P>
<P>That this is truth, the time is &s;et downe, the place, the Authors name, the Souldier now remayning and living in <HI>Warwicke.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>IOHN FINCH,</HI> (a <HI>Shoomaker</HI>) in Saint <HI>Martins,</HI> being an Eye Witne&s;se, doth Te&s;tifie the &s;ame.</P>
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<HEAD>Strange and miraculous newes from COVENTRY.</HEAD>
<P>_IN <HI>Coventry,</HI> within twelve Miles of <HI>War|wicke,</HI> one <HI>Richard Boad</HI> being in league with a maid, a Mercers daughter dwelling by the Cro&s;&s;e, her name <HI>Anne Kirke,</HI> a con|tract pa&s;t between them, he being in this trouble&s;ome times bent to the Warres, came to her to take his leave, and to remember her former vowes and promi&s;es, &s;he vowed and prote&s;ted &s;he would never marry any man but him, if he &s;urvived this Battaile, he de&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ed to have witne&s;&s;e to tho&s;e words, though hee had none to the contract, &s;hee an&s;wered him, that &s;he would not have her name divulged, nor brought in que&s;tion, but this &s;he on her knees d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;weare in private to him <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word">, and de&s;ired him to take that for a reall &s;atisfacti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n and called God to witne&s;&s;e. That if &s;he ever made a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">romi&s;e to any other in his ab&s;ence, or thought of Mar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">age, unle&s;&s;e with him? That the &s;ame day &s;he was Married, that the Devill might fetch her, and have no pitty nor compa&s;&s;ion but take her away, when &s;he pro|ved fal&s;e in thought, or deed; they thus parted with ma|ny Prote&s;tations and weeping teares: He to fight for the King and Parliament; She to remaine at <HI>Coventry,</HI> his tru&s;ty and tru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> joy, and all his delight. The Battle at <HI>Keynton</HI> being done, and he not hurt, he got leave of his Captaine on a Sunday morning, being then at <HI>War|wicke</HI> to ride to <HI>Coventry</HI> to &s;ee this fal&s;e prejured Mayd, when he thither came being noone, inquiring at the end of the City of this Maid, his onely joy, and mo&s;t delight? An&s;wer was made, &s;he was this day Marned: which &s;trucke &s;uch a terrour to this young mans Heart,
<PB N="8" REF="6">that for a time he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> amazed, becau&s;e he was con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">|ted to her, but that was not all, but he remembred the imprecation and the wi&s;h &s;hee made at his departure, that the &s;ame day that &s;he was married, unle&s;&s;e to him, if he were living, that the Devill might fetch her away, and have no pitty nor compa&s;&s;ion on her, the young Sol|dier being grieved lay downe on a Bed, and &s;ent one as the order is to know when they were at their dancing there, for to take a view of this falce periured Bride, the the time being come, thither he went &s;ecure unknowne to any, the Chamber being full with Mu&s;icke and Vir|gin danceing to the joy of the Nuptials, the Bride pa&s;|&s;ing by, he tooke her by the hand, and &s;aid, oh thou falce faire one ha&s;t thou broke thy Vowe, &s;he then replyed, a ra&s;h Vowe is either broke or kept, where is your wit|ne&s;&s;e; ju&s;t at that in&s;tant two Gentlemen being alight|ed at the doore all in blacke came up into the room and de&s;ired being there was a Wedding, mirth, and dancing, that one of them might have a dance with the Bride, &s;he gladly entertained it, in the dance, the other &s;tand|ing by fell in at la&s;t, they tooke her up and away th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">y carried her, they in the roome ran after; but no newes could they heare of the falcd perjured Bride, they ran<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e into the fields there being &s;till an noy&s;e in the ayre, at la&s;t the two Gentlemen in blacke came to them, with the Brides garments and &s;aid take the&s;e againe, we have power over her, but no power over her Cloathes, then her Sweet-heart the &s;ouldier related to them the whole pa&s;&s;age of her perjury.</P>
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