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<HEAD><HI>Barbarous and Bloody News</HI> FROM THE Pari&s;h of St. <HI>GILES'S:</HI> BEING A TRUE ACCOUNT OF Two Horrid Murders, Committed on the Bodies of a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">Vidow Gentlewoman, and her Neice, On <HI>Saturday</HI> the 13<HI>th.</HI> In&s;tant.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> mo&s;t Cruelly cutting their Thoats, and afterwards Robbing them, in a Coffee-Hou&s;e in <HI>Short's Gardens,</HI> between the Hours of Five and Six in the Morning; who&s;e Bodies are &s;till to be &s;een, as a Di&s;mal Spectacle of Humane Mi&s;ery.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PLATO,</HI> a Heathen, thought Virtue &s;o aimable in it &s;elf, that could it appear clad in Humane &s;hape, the excellency of its Fea|tures would attract the love and admiration of all its Spectators: and &s;hall we, who are Chri&s;tians, be le&s;s in love with the Beauty <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> Holine&s;s? Shall we, who live under the Meridian Illu&s;trations of Divine <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">i&s;dom, not &s;ee tho&s;e Glorious Truths which the glimmering light of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ture He &s;o much revers'd? O &s;hame on that <HI>Egyptian</HI> Darkne&s;s which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ouds our Rea&s;on! He liv'd a Divine Heathen, while we live and dye <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ofe&s;&s;ed Chri&s;tians, but in Practice more wretched and inexcu&s;able than <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">gans, witne&s;s the Avarice and Rapine of &s;ome, the Malice and Ambition <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> others; in a word, the frequent Murders, and the more clo&s;e Adulteries; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> bloody Revenge of the enraged B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">avo, and the wanton Embraces of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">tful Paramour, the two la&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> Murder and Adultery, are the crying <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">s of this Age: Murder, 'tis true, got the &s;tart of Adultery, and was the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;t born of its wretched Parent <HI>Cain.</HI> Murder has been always look'd up|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> as a mo&s;t dete&s;table Sin in the &s;ight of God and Man, and puni&s;hed as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> capital Offence; yet had the Precepts of God or the Laws of Man been <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">le to re&s;tain the Extravagence of our debauch'd Natures within the limits <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> our Duty, we &s;hou'd have had not only no Occa&s;ion, but no Examples <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;uch wicked Wretches, who&s;e Lu&s;t, Ambition, or Revenge, has made <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">em the unhappy Arguments of humane Mi&s;ery. Their vicious Cour&s;es <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">ve plung'd them into Crimes which could not be expiated here, but by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;evere&s;t Puni&s;hments. The following Relation is very Tragical, and
<PB N="2" REF="3">the parts of the Actors writ in Characters of Blood; the publi&s;hing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> which is not &s;o much de&s;igned to divert the Reader with the variety <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;urprizing Circum&s;tances, as to affright him, by the &s;ad Example from th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Commi&s;&s;ion of that horrid Sin of Murther, of which fincerely to repen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> is highly difficult, but to make &s;atisfaction far impo&s;&s;ible. When once th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Golden Bowl</HI> is broke (which the Wi&s;e man &s;peaks of, <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tes</HI> the 12th.&punc; by the Impious hand of &s;ome bold A&s;&s;a&s;&s;in, he fills full the Cup of God<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Indignation again&s;t him, which will be a draught more bitter than a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the glorying plea&s;ures Life or Fortune can &s;weeten with their greate<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> advantages. Humane Laws have provided Shackles and Dungeons, Rack<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and Gibbets, not only to puni&s;h, but deter &s;uch Sanguinary Bravoes, wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> if they chance (which but rarely happens) to e&s;cape the late&s;t han<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of Ju&s;tice, yet are they con&s;tantly haunted with the horror of the Crime&punc; and antedate the Torments of a future, by the pre&s;ent Hell of an Evi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Con&s;cience: But I proceed to the Relation, which is thus.</P>
<P>In <HI>Short's-Garden</HI> by <HI>Piccadilly,</HI> near the <HI>Hay-Market,</HI> there lately live<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> one Mrs. <HI>Sarah Wilkins,</HI> an Antient Widow-woman, with one <HI>Jane Gi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> her Neice, keeping a <HI>Coffee-hou&s;e</HI> of good Repute and Trade, and wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;uppo&s;ed to be indifferent well to pa&s;s in the world. On <HI>Saturday</HI> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">th. of this In&s;tant <HI>December, Jane Gill</HI> the Neice, coming down Stairs &punc; as her u&s;ual cu&s;tom was, about Five in the Morning, to clean&s;e the Coffe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Room, order the Cinders and prepare the Fire, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;ome Per&s;ons got o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> were let into the Hou&s;e, and immediately &s;eized the Maid and cut he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Throat: then going up two pair of Stairs, where Mrs. <HI>Wilkins</HI> lay, they &s;erved her in the like Barbarous manner, taking off four Rings that &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> generally wore on her Fingers, which when they had done, they rifle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Hou&s;e of all that was valuable and portable, which was to a pretty con&s;iderable value, particularly (as a Relation of the Decea&s;ed does Re+late) there was in a Dre&s;&s;ing-Box a Medal of Ma&s;&s;y Gold, and &s;evera<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Guinnies, and other things of worth. The Murtherers at pre&s;ent, are &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> far from being di&s;covered, that it's now known how many they were, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o much as whether they were Men or VVomen, that were the Author<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> this Horrid Fact, onely &s;ome Per&s;ons that were up in the Adjacen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Hou&s;es, heard a knocking at the Coffee-hou&s;e Door about the hour of fiv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> that Morning.</P>
<P>The&s;e poor Unhappy People have lived in the Pari&s;h for &s;everal years in very good Credit and Repute, demeaning them&s;elves very Civilly and Hone&s;tly to all Per&s;ons, upon which account the Neighbours in general, are very &s;orry for &s;o Cruel and Barbarous a Murther.</P>
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<P>Printed for <HI>W. Hethcock,</HI> 1690.</P>
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