A briefe discourse of two most cruell and bloudie murthers, committed bothe in Worcestershire, and bothe happening vnhappily in the yeare 1583 The first declaring, how one unnaturally murdered his neighbour, and afterward buried him in his seller. The other sheweth, how a woman unlawfully following the deuillish lusts of the flesh with her seruant, caused him very cruelly to kill her owne husband.

The cry and reuenge of blood Expressing the nature and haynousnesse of wilfull murther. Exemplified in a most lamentable history thereof, committed at Halsworth in High Suffolk, and lately conuicted at Bury assize, 1620.

Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.

January 1620

[8], 63, [1] p. : ill.Dedications signed: Tho. Cooper.Concerning the murder by one Norton of three m...

The Lamentable and Trve Tragedie of M. Arden of Feversham in Kent. . / Who was most wickedlye murdered, by the meanes of his disloyall and wanton wyfe, who for the loue she bare to one Mosbie, hyred two desperat ruffins Blackwill and Shakbag, to kill him. Wherin is shewed the great malice and discimulation of a wicked woman, the vnsatiable desire of filthie lust and the shamefull end of all murderers.

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[The] complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of [Fev]ersham in Kent who for the loue of one Mosbie, hired certaine ruffians and villaines most cruelly to murder her husband; with the fatall end of her and her associats. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Verse - "Ay me, vile wretch, that euer I was borne,".Missing title text and p...

The lamentation of Edward Bruton, and James Riley, who for the bloody murder committed on the bodies of Henry Howell, and his wife, vpon Queenes Downe, were executed and hanged in chaines, neere the same place on the 18. day of March. 1633. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.

Bruton, Edward, d. 1633.
Riley, James, d. 1633.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Publication date suggested by STC.Verse: "Kind countreymen and our acquaintan...

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.

January 1653

[2], 14 p.Annotation on Thomason copy: "May. 19.".Reproduction of the original in the British Librar...

Bloody news from Devonshire being a true though lamentable relation of four barbarous and horrid murders, committed by an inhuman father upon the bodies of his son and three daughters, at a village near Combe in the county of Devon, on the 30th of March, 1694 ... : also, the deplorable condition his wife is in, whom he pursued with an intent to murder : together with his confession before a justice of peace, and commitment to Exon jayl / as it was communicated by a letter from an eminent dealer in Combe, to a worthy citizen in London.

January 1694

[1], 4 p.Caption title.Imprint from colophon.Advertisement: p. [1].Reproduction of original in Bodle...

A discourse of the great crueltie of a widowe towardes a yong gentleman, and by what meanes he requited the same. Set forth in English verse by Iohn God

God, John.

[80] p.In verse.Publication date from STC.Signatures: A-E.Running title reads: The crueltie of a wid...

The horrible murther of a young boy of three yeres of age, whose sister had her tongue cut out and how it pleased God to reueale the offendors, by giuing speech to the tongueles childe. Which offendors were executed at Hartford the 4. of August. 1606.

January 1606

[2], 10 p.Caption title reads: A true relation of the cruell murthering of a young boy, not fully th...

Tvvo lamentable tragedies The one, of the murther of Maister Beech a chaundler in Thames-streete, and his boye, done by Thomas Merry. The other of a young childe murthered in a wood by two ruffins, with the consent of his vnckle. By Rob. Yarington.

Yarington, Robert, fl. 1601.

January 1601

[78] p.In verse.Printer's name from STC.Signatures: A-K⁴ (-K4).Running title reads: Two tragedies in...

A true relation of a most barbarous and bloody murder lately committed on the body of Mr. Tho. Clarke, minister and school-master in the parish of St. Margarets Westminster:

4 p.Caption title.Imprint from colophon.Dated at end: Licensed, Novemb. 1st. 1688.Reproduction of or...

Great crueltie done by the duke of Guyse at Vassy.

[16] p.Destruction du saccagement, exerce cruellement par le Duc de Guise en la ville de Vassy. Engl...

Title continues:V. An account of the discovery of the murther and robbery committed on the body of one Mrs. Grand, the old miserable rich French woman, of Spittle-Fields, on the 9th. of June: for which John Jewster, and one butler were since hang'd. VI. A wonderful discovery of a murther committed on 2 women in Shrot's-Gardens in St. Giles's in the Fields, wh[i]ch being acted about 3 years since, was discovered the 20th. of June, 1694. by one Dee or day, a bailiffs follower, on his dying sick bed, owning himself to be the murtherer, & that he could not dye without revealing it. Licensed according to order.

16 p.Place and date of publication from Wing.Reproduction of the original in the British Library

An Exact relation of the barbarous murder committed on Lawrence Corddel a butcher who was buryed alive at Christ Church on Fryday last ... with lamentable screeks, groans, and horrid cryes made by him in his grave on Sunday night, and the sad, wounded, and mortify'd condition he was taken up in on Munday, June 24 : as also the examination and confession of his land-lord and land-lady ... before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of London by whom they were both committed to New-gate.

January 1661

5 p.Caption title: A true relation of a butcher in Pilcock-lane.Reproduction of original in the Harv...

Bloody news from Clarken-well being a true relation of a horrid murther committed by John Mason upon Gregory Reeves at Mr. Hues, a bakers ... upon Munday night last, being the ninth of July ... : also how he was apprehended, and his examination and confession before Justice Powel on Tuesday last ... : together with a true and exact narrative of a bloody murther committed by a souldiers wife on her husband ... on Wednesday last, with her examination and confession : this is an exact relation as it was brought from Mr. Hues the Bakers in Clarkenwell.

January 1661

8 p.Caption title (p. 3): An exact relation of a bloody murther committed at Clarken-well on Munday ...

Murder of Maria Marten, by William Corder ; Villikins and his Dinah.

Hodges, E. (Elizabeth Mary Ann), fl. 1855-1861, printer.
Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R

William Corder murdered Maria Marten on 18th May 1827 at Polstead in Suffolk in what became known as...

The cry and reuenge of blood Expressing the nature and haynousnesse of wilfull murther. Exemplified in a most lamentable history thereof, committed at Halsworth in High Suffolk, and lately conuicted at Bury assize, 1620.

Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.

January 1620

[8], 63, [1] p. : ill.Dedications signed: Tho. Cooper.Concerning the murder by one Norton of three m...

The Lamentable and Trve Tragedie of M. Arden of Feversham in Kent. . / Who was most wickedlye murdered, by the meanes of his disloyall and wanton wyfe, who for the loue she bare to one Mosbie, hyred two desperat ruffins Blackwill and Shakbag, to kill him. Wherin is shewed the great malice and discimulation of a wicked woman, the vnsatiable desire of filthie lust and the shamefull end of all murderers.

Available for non-commercial, internal use by students, staff, and faculty at the University of Mich...

[The] complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of [Fev]ersham in Kent who for the loue of one Mosbie, hired certaine ruffians and villaines most cruelly to murder her husband; with the fatall end of her and her associats. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Verse - "Ay me, vile wretch, that euer I was borne,".Missing title text and p...

The lamentation of Edward Bruton, and James Riley, who for the bloody murder committed on the bodies of Henry Howell, and his wife, vpon Queenes Downe, were executed and hanged in chaines, neere the same place on the 18. day of March. 1633. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.

Bruton, Edward, d. 1633.
Riley, James, d. 1633.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Publication date suggested by STC.Verse: "Kind countreymen and our acquaintan...

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.

January 1653

[2], 14 p.Annotation on Thomason copy: "May. 19.".Reproduction of the original in the British Librar...

Bloody news from Devonshire being a true though lamentable relation of four barbarous and horrid murders, committed by an inhuman father upon the bodies of his son and three daughters, at a village near Combe in the county of Devon, on the 30th of March, 1694 ... : also, the deplorable condition his wife is in, whom he pursued with an intent to murder : together with his confession before a justice of peace, and commitment to Exon jayl / as it was communicated by a letter from an eminent dealer in Combe, to a worthy citizen in London.

January 1694

[1], 4 p.Caption title.Imprint from colophon.Advertisement: p. [1].Reproduction of original in Bodle...

A discourse of the great crueltie of a widowe towardes a yong gentleman, and by what meanes he requited the same. Set forth in English verse by Iohn God

God, John.

[80] p.In verse.Publication date from STC.Signatures: A-E.Running title reads: The crueltie of a wid...

The horrible murther of a young boy of three yeres of age, whose sister had her tongue cut out and how it pleased God to reueale the offendors, by giuing speech to the tongueles childe. Which offendors were executed at Hartford the 4. of August. 1606.

January 1606

[2], 10 p.Caption title reads: A true relation of the cruell murthering of a young boy, not fully th...

Tvvo lamentable tragedies The one, of the murther of Maister Beech a chaundler in Thames-streete, and his boye, done by Thomas Merry. The other of a young childe murthered in a wood by two ruffins, with the consent of his vnckle. By Rob. Yarington.

Yarington, Robert, fl. 1601.

January 1601

[78] p.In verse.Printer's name from STC.Signatures: A-K⁴ (-K4).Running title reads: Two tragedies in...

A true relation of a most barbarous and bloody murder lately committed on the body of Mr. Tho. Clarke, minister and school-master in the parish of St. Margarets Westminster:

4 p.Caption title.Imprint from colophon.Dated at end: Licensed, Novemb. 1st. 1688.Reproduction of or...

Great crueltie done by the duke of Guyse at Vassy.

[16] p.Destruction du saccagement, exerce cruellement par le Duc de Guise en la ville de Vassy. Engl...

Title continues:V. An account of the discovery of the murther and robbery committed on the body of one Mrs. Grand, the old miserable rich French woman, of Spittle-Fields, on the 9th. of June: for which John Jewster, and one butler were since hang'd. VI. A wonderful discovery of a murther committed on 2 women in Shrot's-Gardens in St. Giles's in the Fields, wh[i]ch being acted about 3 years since, was discovered the 20th. of June, 1694. by one Dee or day, a bailiffs follower, on his dying sick bed, owning himself to be the murtherer, & that he could not dye without revealing it. Licensed according to order.

16 p.Place and date of publication from Wing.Reproduction of the original in the British Library

An Exact relation of the barbarous murder committed on Lawrence Corddel a butcher who was buryed alive at Christ Church on Fryday last ... with lamentable screeks, groans, and horrid cryes made by him in his grave on Sunday night, and the sad, wounded, and mortify'd condition he was taken up in on Munday, June 24 : as also the examination and confession of his land-lord and land-lady ... before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of London by whom they were both committed to New-gate.

January 1661

5 p.Caption title: A true relation of a butcher in Pilcock-lane.Reproduction of original in the Harv...

Bloody news from Clarken-well being a true relation of a horrid murther committed by John Mason upon Gregory Reeves at Mr. Hues, a bakers ... upon Munday night last, being the ninth of July ... : also how he was apprehended, and his examination and confession before Justice Powel on Tuesday last ... : together with a true and exact narrative of a bloody murther committed by a souldiers wife on her husband ... on Wednesday last, with her examination and confession : this is an exact relation as it was brought from Mr. Hues the Bakers in Clarkenwell.

January 1661

8 p.Caption title (p. 3): An exact relation of a bloody murther committed at Clarken-well on Munday ...

Murder of Maria Marten, by William Corder ; Villikins and his Dinah.

Hodges, E. (Elizabeth Mary Ann), fl. 1855-1861, printer.
Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R

William Corder murdered Maria Marten on 18th May 1827 at Polstead in Suffolk in what became known as...

The cry and reuenge of blood Expressing the nature and haynousnesse of wilfull murther. Exemplified in a most lamentable history thereof, committed at Halsworth in High Suffolk, and lately conuicted at Bury assize, 1620.

Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.

January 1620

[8], 63, [1] p. : ill.Dedications signed: Tho. Cooper.Concerning the murder by one Norton of three m...

The Lamentable and Trve Tragedie of M. Arden of Feversham in Kent. . / Who was most wickedlye murdered, by the meanes of his disloyall and wanton wyfe, who for the loue she bare to one Mosbie, hyred two desperat ruffins Blackwill and Shakbag, to kill him. Wherin is shewed the great malice and discimulation of a wicked woman, the vnsatiable desire of filthie lust and the shamefull end of all murderers.

Available for non-commercial, internal use by students, staff, and faculty at the University of Mich...

[The] complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of [Fev]ersham in Kent who for the loue of one Mosbie, hired certaine ruffians and villaines most cruelly to murder her husband; with the fatall end of her and her associats. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Verse - "Ay me, vile wretch, that euer I was borne,".Missing title text and p...

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