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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140115.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<FIGDESC>a man on horseback and two deer</FIGDESC>
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<P><HI>&para; A mo&s;t &s;traunge, rare, and horrible murther committed by a French|man</HI> of the age of too or three and twen+tie <HI>yeares, who hath &s;laine and mo&s;t cruelly mur|thered</HI> three &s;euerall per&s;ons, to wit, the Inkee|per or Tauerner of <HI>Hectot</HI> vppon the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ans<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ere vnto <HI>Roane in Nomandy, with the wife and childe</HI> of the &s;ame Tauerner, and al&s;o at his de|parture did &s;et fire on the hou&s;e.</P>
<P>Wherein al&s;o is declared and &s;hewed the terrible and worthy puni&s;hment done and executed vppon him for the &s;ame, in <HI>Roane</HI> afore&s;aide. Done out of Frenche into Engli&s;h by <HI>Aeue&s;ham. 1586.</HI></P>
<P>Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote, and are to bee &s;olde at his &s;hoppe without Newgate, ouer agavn&s;te Saincte Se|pulchers Churche.</P>
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<HEAD>To his louing Co&s;&s;en, M. Richard Ru&s;&s;ell Marchant, <HI>E.</HI> wi&s;heth much health, and a pro&s;perous e&s;tate to the plea&s;ure of God. &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much good to&s;&s;en, as the rare exam|ple of &s;o terrible a fact, &s;ent vnto you, and written in the french tongue, hath happe|ned vnto my handes by youre meanes, I coulde not but tran&s;late the &s;ame into our eng|li&s;h languedge, a&s;well to giue you knowledge of that which was &s;ent vnto you, as al&s;o to make plaine and open to all men, the mo&s;te &s;traunge, rare, and horrible facte, latelye committed by a yong man of the age of two or three and twenty yeares, as hereafter &s;hall appeare, the executi|on and puni&s;hment, of whom, I wi&s;h may be an example to all &s;uch as are &s;o vnmindfull of God and godline&s;&s;e or that are any waye tempted to offend in the like, praying God to ble&s;&s;e &amp; keepe vs in health, and graunt all men to haue this worthy &s;aying in memory, what&s;oeuer thou ta|ke&s;t in hand, remember the end, and thou &s;halt neuer doe ami&s;&s;e, written this eight of March. 1586.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your louing kin&s;man and faithfull frende. Aeue&s;haem.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A mo&s;t &s;trange, rare, and horrible murther commytted by a Frenchman, who killed three &s;enerall <HI><HI>per&s;ons, burned the hou&s;e, and for his wicked facte was puni&s;hed</HI> with a rare and &s;trange kind of tor|ment at hereafter &s;hall appeare.</HI> Engli&s;hed by Ae. 1586.</HEAD>
<P>_Strange and rare is the newes whiche of late I had know|ledge of, being written in the French toonge and &s;ent to a Marchant of London from <HI>Roane</HI> in <HI>Normandye</HI> within the dominions of the french Kinge, the which good rea|ders, I coulde not (hauing lea&s;urable time) but tran&s;tate out of french<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> into engli&s;h &amp; is not muche vnlike the late horrible murther committed by a yong woman, as by bookes therof lately &s;et out it doth appeare: And plainely to de+clare the fore&s;aid murther, it happened of late at a place called <HI>Hector</HI> neere vn+to <HI>Roane</HI> in <HI>Normandy,</HI> which is in the dominions of the french Kinge, that a
<PB REF="3">yong man of the age of too or three and twenty yeres, being maried &amp; keeping hou&s;e, &amp; bearing malice in his mind &amp; in+dignation in his hart, again&s;t a neigh|boure of his, who kept as it were a vit|ling hou&s;e or Tauerne, where in he had wine to &s;el, according to the maner of y^e countrey, betwene whom there ought to haue remained neighborly loue and frend&s;hip, but this yoong man forget|ting that, and the commaundements of God al&s;o, where it is &s;aid, <HI>Loue thy neighbour as thy &s;elfe,</HI> &amp; do vnto al men as thou would&s;t be done vnto, yea and al&s;o vtterly forgetting a further &s;aying which is, he that &s;triketh with y^e &s;word &s;hall peri&s;h by the &s;ame, &amp; al&s;o forget|ting a further commandement whiche is, <HI>Thou &s;halt not kill.</HI> For S. Paule &s;aithe no murtherer &s;hall inherite the kingdom of heuen, by which ouer&s;ight and forgetfulnes of this yong man, he being tempted &amp; earne&s;tly bent to iniu|ry his neighbour, &amp; to reuenge &s;ome &s;e|cret hatred, which hee bare towardes him and his, &amp; pondering manye times
<PB REF="3">with him&s;elfe, how to bring this his e|uill purpo&s;e to an end, he being wholly minded to accompli&s;he the &s;ame, went vpon twelfe day la&s;t pa&s;t, earlye in the morning, leauing his wife in bed, and &s;o put in practi&s;e his euill intent, and re+&s;orting to his neighbours hou&s;e, and knocking at the dore, his hone&s;t neigh|bor then thinking no hurt receiued him into his hou&s;e, where he &s;aide, neighbor draw me a pint of wine, who at his re|que&s;t called pre&s;ently to his wife, wil|ling her to go draw a pint of wine, and bring it to this our neighbor, this wo|man obeying her hu&s;bands commaun|dement, toke the pot, &amp; went into the &s;el+ler or caue, &amp; this euill man remaining in the meane timealone, in y^e company of her hu&s;ba~d, hauing a hatchet vnder his arme, &s;odenly toke y^e &s;ame hatchet &amp; therewithall cleaued this Tauerners head as it were in twaine,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">the Ta|uerner<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> killed.</NOTE> in &s;uch ma|ner &amp; &s;ort, y^t he neuer &s;pake nor &s;tyrred again&s;t him: And that done &s;odenly en+tred into the &s;eller,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">his wif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> killed.</NOTE> running mo&s;t furi|u&s;ly to the woman who was drawing
<PB REF="4">the wine, &amp; there did the like murther vpon her, and from thence, departing vp againe,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> childe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">led.</NOTE> finding their little childe in his way, toke the &s;ame and killed it al|&s;o. And thus hauing accompli&s;hed his wicked de&s;ire, he could not ther withal be content but yet for a further reue~ge|ment, to a&s;&s;wage the mallice of his &s;to|macke, he toke fire and kindled y^e &s;ame, in &s;uch &s;ort that he burned the hou&s;e of that his de&s;troied neighbor, &amp; &s;o leauing it in flame and burning, returned back to his own hou&s;e, bearing a &s;ober coun|tena~ce &amp; making &s;e~blance of an hone&s;t man, returned again in bed to his wife, who knew nothing therof, but almigh+ty God who is the reuenger of all iniu|ries, &amp; that will not &s;uffer &s;uch vnwon|ted murthers to e&s;cape vnpuni&s;hed the &s;elfe &s;ame daye that this wicked deede was done, he being &s;u&s;pected by the of|ficers therabouts, was by authority of Iu&s;tice pre&s;ently apprehended, &amp; there in the pre&s;ence of them all confe&s;&s;ed the fact, and from thence was conueied to <HI>Roane,</HI> there to receaue &s;uch condinge
<PB REF="4" MS="y">puni&s;hment, as he de&s;erued for y^e &s;ame. And there remaining in pri&s;on till now of late at an a&s;&s;embly of Iudges &amp; Iu|&s;tices was found guilty,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">his pu|ni&s;hme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"></NOTE> &amp; by law was condempned to do penance with torch in hand to be more remarked &amp; known &amp; after that to bee trayned or drawne on the earth to the place of execution, whiche was appointed in an ordinarye place called the old market in <HI>Roane,</HI> &amp; there to be executed to the example of all others, &amp; to be a right terror &amp; feare to all the beholders, &amp; &s;o in pre&s;ence of them all being bound vnto the place of execution, he with nippers and pincers whot &amp; &s;harp,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">a fearef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> &amp; terrib<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> death.</NOTE> was there pinched &amp; nip+ped by little &amp; little &amp; &s;o one part of the fle&s;h torne from the other, with the fore &s;aide pincers &amp; nippers red &amp; glowing whot, a&s;wel on y^e buttocks &amp; bre&s;ts, as armes &amp; other places.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">his ioin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> broken.</NOTE> And after that tormentingly was handled and laide on the wheele, and there head his ioints &s;euerally broken, &amp; &s;o ended his lyfe for a final puni&s;hment of &s;o heinus a deed. By which mo&s;t cruell murther, &amp; rare
<PB REF="5">puni&s;hment (although worthy,) let all Engli&s;h people haue before their eyes, with the example late done, be&s;eeching God to conuert and turne the wicked harts of all &s;uch euill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, as &s;hall any way haue the lyke practi&s;e in minde, and not to be forgetfull of the commaundements before rehear&s;ed, &amp; that withall wee maye haue in minde, that good &s;aying, what &s;o euer thou take&s;t in hand remember the end, and thou &s;halte neuer doe a|mi&s;&s;e, And &s;o fare you well in Chri&s;t. <HI>1586.</HI></P>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Aeue&s;ham.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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