Inhumane, & cruel bloody news from Leeds in York-shire Being a true relation of a young man which intic't an other man's wife from London, down into the country; which after some time he most barbarously murthered in a most frightful manner, in a desart place, neer Leeds, cutting her tongue and her eyes out of her head, her throat being cutt from ear to ear; and after all this, being not satisfied, rips her open, and takes a child out of her womb, laying it down by her side: this being done, he took horse and was coming for London; but the murder being found he was pursued and taken, and sent to York Castle, where he must lye till the next Lent assizes, and then receive his due punishment. This being written in the mean time for a warning piece to all young-women, to be careful how they be trappan'd by false and deceitful young men. With allowance, Jan. 4. Ro. L'Estrange. The tune is, The bleeding heart, &c.

The bloody Quaker or the Glocester-shire murder discovered: Being an exact and true relation of a bloody murder, committed by one farmer restal a Quaker of Stoke near Tueksbury in Glocester-shire who with his son murdered the wife of one robert Hamond to whom he was indebted the summe of thirty pound, as also another young woman which had been married but four dayes before, and how the murder was discovered by the meanes of a boy which over run them, likewise their arraignment at Glocester assizes, their condemnation, with the execution of the son, the 7th of this present July and how the father is at present repreived. With allowance.

January 1668

[2], 6 p.Printer's name from Wing (CD-ROM edition).Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespear...

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 Barnard-Castle tragedy, [electronic resource] : shewing how one John Atkinson of Murton near Appleby, servant to Thomas Howson, Miller, at Barnard-Castle Bridge End, courted the said Howson's sister; and after he had gain'd her entire affection by his wheedling solicitations, left her disconsolate, and made courtship to another, whom he married by the treacherous advice of one Thomas Skelton, who to save the priest's fees, &c. perform'd the ceremony himself; and upon her hearing the news, broke her heart, and bled to death on the spot, this being both true and tragical, 'tis hop'd 'twill be a warning to all lovers. Tune of Constant Anthony.

Place of publication suggested by the British Library.Verse: "Young men and maidens all, I pray you ...

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...

The wicked midwife, the cruell mother, and the harmelesse daughter. Or, A cruell murther committed upon a new-borne childe by the midwife, whom the grandmother of the childe hyred to kill, but unknowne to the mother of the childe: now the mother of this infant being falsely accused by her owne mother, was executed at Lancaster assize, at midsummer last. To the tune of, The bleeding heart.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts).Imprint from STC.Verse: "Kind country-men pray listen now ..."In ...

A warning for all murderers. A most rare, strange, and wonderfull accident, which by Gods just judgement was brought to passe, not farre from Rithin in Wales, and showne upon three most wicked persons, who had secretly and cunningly murdered a young gentleman named David Williams, that by no meanes it could be knowne, and how in the end it was revenged by a childe of five yeeres old, which was in his mothers wombe, and unborne when the deed was done. To the tune of, Wigmores Galliard.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Publication date suggested by STC.Verse: "Give eare unto my story true ..."In...

The Bloody butcher, and the two wicked and cruel bawds: exprest in a woful narrative of one Nathaniel Smith a butcher, who lived in Maypole-Alley near the Strand; his wife having been all day in the market selling of meat, in the evening went with her husband to an alehouse, where they stay'd till ten of the clock. And then went home together, and being in their lodging, demanded of her the money she had taken that day, but she (being great with child and peevish) refused to give it him, he taking his butchers-knife in his hand stabb'd her in the back, whereof she instantly dyed, for which he was apprehended, condemned, and executed at Tyburn, April the 24th. 1667. : As also another relation of a ravisher, who in a bawdy-house (assisted by two women) ravished a girle. : The tune, The bleeding heart.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Includes two engraved illustrations.In verse.Reproduction of original in the ...

Strange, dreadful, and amazing news from York. Giving a sad and terrible account of God's fearful judgment on one Winam Tendin, near Rippon in the county of York. Who, upon his father's death, perswading his aged tender mother to deliver up her estate and goods to him, upon a slight pretence of quarrel, soon after turned her out of doors a begging, threatning those that should relieve her, so that coming almost starved to his house, when he was making a great feast, he caused the victuals to be set away, and drove her out of his gate: with the words she thereupon uttered. And how his food was turned into fierce poisonous serpents, that stung him to death. And many other circumstances attending so dreadful relaation [sic]. A dreadful relation of a prodigious motion of the earth, near Charleville, in the county of Limerick, in Ireland, on the 7th day of June, 1697. ... sinking hills and raising valleys; and by what means it began and ceased its motion.

January 1697

8 p.Imperfect; stained and tightly bound affecting legibility.Reproduction of the original in the Br...

The Bloody vintner: or, Cruelty rewarded with justice. Being a true account of one Edward (alias) Edmund Kirk, vintner, who being privately married to a servant maid, did, on the 25th. of May, delude her from her masters house, under the pretence of visiting some relation; but having of her all alone in a private road near Paddington, he most barbarously and cruelly murdered her; for which fact he was indicted and found guilty, and also received due sentence of death, which was accordingly executed, on Friday the 11th. of this instant July, 1684. : To the tune of, Aim not too high:.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Place of publication suggested by Wing.Includes 3 engraved illustrations.Impe...

Four great and horrible murders, or, Bloody nevvs from Islington being a full and true relation how a womans brains were knockt out with her own pattin, rob'd, and her throat cut, on Fryday the 5th of February instant, a man beaten to death the 8th of the same month, and a woman drowned her self in a pond at Islington : likewise a maid barbarously murdred at Chester by two villains ... for which they were condemned ... the 23 of January last, and hanged ...

January 1674

[2], 6 p.Imperfect: slightly faded, with some loss of print.Reproduction of original in the Huntingt...

An exact and true relation of a most cruell and horrid murther committed by one of the cavaliers, on a woman in Leicester, billetted in her house: who was shot into the back, being within five weeks of the time of her delivery. Read in the house of Commons, and ordered to be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.

England and Wales. Parliament.

September 1642

7, [1] p.Signed at end by attending coroners: Francis Coltman, Thomas Todd.Reproduction of the origi...

Murder upon murder committed by Thomas Sherwood, alias, Countrey Tom: and Elizabeth Evans, alias, Canbrye Besse: the first upon M. Loe, the 2. of M. George Holt of Windzor, whom inhumanely they kild neare Islington on the 22. day of Ianuary 1635. The last upon M. Thomas Claxton of London, whom mercilesly they murdered upon the second day of Aprill last past, neare unto Lambs Conduit on the backside of Holborne, with many other robberies and mischiefes by them committed from time to time since Midsomer last past, now revealed and confest by them, and now according to judgement he is hangd neare to Lambs Conduit this 14 of April, 1635. to the terror of all such offenders. To the tune of Bragandary downe, & c.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : illPublication date from STC.A ballad.In two parts.With woodcut illustrations at ...

Bloody nevvs from Clerkenwel, or, A full and true relation of a most horrid and barbarous cruelty, comited by a journey-man-cooper, vvho lived in Tumble-Down-Dick's-Court, over-against Wood's-Close· After he had been out 3 or 4 days on a ramble, coming home, on Munday the 18th. of this instant May, most inhumanely and without any provocation, kill'd his wife in a most cruel manner: she being then great with child. Together with his examination before a justice, and wishing that he had kill'd more: and his comitment the same evening to Newgate. With allowance.

8 p.Place of publication and conjectured publication date from Wing.Reproduction of original in the ...

A True relation of the most horrid and barbarous murders committed by Abigall Hill of St. Olaves Southwark, on the persons of foure infants;: parish children, whom she undertooke to nurse, and her most deceitfull borrowing of other children of her poore acquaintance, whom on every quarter day she would bring to the over-seers of the parish, and receive her quarters pay for them, as if they had bin the same children which had bin committed to her charge to nurse. For which most cruell murders, being convicted and condemned at the sessions held at the Old-Baily. Wednesday Decemb. 15. Shee [sic] was accordingly executed on Wednesday, Decemb. 22. in Cheapside neare unto Woodstreet. Together with a true account of the strange and stubborn end she made, and her jeering of her executioner at the houre of her death. And a caveat to all other women that are suspected for the like unnaturall and most unmercifull practises.

January 1658

[2], 14 p.Annotation on Thomason copy: "xber [i.e December] 24".Reproduction of the original in the ...

The lamentation of Mary Butcher, now confined in Worcester-City-Goal, on suspicion of murdering her male bastard child, in April last.

Butcher, Mary, confined in Worcester-City-gaol.

1 sheet ([1] p.).Caption title.Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (CD-ROM, 1996).Text i...

The bloody Quaker or the Glocester-shire murder discovered: Being an exact and true relation of a bloody murder, committed by one farmer restal a Quaker of Stoke near Tueksbury in Glocester-shire who with his son murdered the wife of one robert Hamond to whom he was indebted the summe of thirty pound, as also another young woman which had been married but four dayes before, and how the murder was discovered by the meanes of a boy which over run them, likewise their arraignment at Glocester assizes, their condemnation, with the execution of the son, the 7th of this present July and how the father is at present repreived. With allowance.

January 1668

[2], 6 p.Printer's name from Wing (CD-ROM edition).Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespear...

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 Barnard-Castle tragedy, [electronic resource] : shewing how one John Atkinson of Murton near Appleby, servant to Thomas Howson, Miller, at Barnard-Castle Bridge End, courted the said Howson's sister; and after he had gain'd her entire affection by his wheedling solicitations, left her disconsolate, and made courtship to another, whom he married by the treacherous advice of one Thomas Skelton, who to save the priest's fees, &c. perform'd the ceremony himself; and upon her hearing the news, broke her heart, and bled to death on the spot, this being both true and tragical, 'tis hop'd 'twill be a warning to all lovers. Tune of Constant Anthony.

Place of publication suggested by the British Library.Verse: "Young men and maidens all, I pray you ...

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...

The wicked midwife, the cruell mother, and the harmelesse daughter. Or, A cruell murther committed upon a new-borne childe by the midwife, whom the grandmother of the childe hyred to kill, but unknowne to the mother of the childe: now the mother of this infant being falsely accused by her owne mother, was executed at Lancaster assize, at midsummer last. To the tune of, The bleeding heart.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts).Imprint from STC.Verse: "Kind country-men pray listen now ..."In ...

A warning for all murderers. A most rare, strange, and wonderfull accident, which by Gods just judgement was brought to passe, not farre from Rithin in Wales, and showne upon three most wicked persons, who had secretly and cunningly murdered a young gentleman named David Williams, that by no meanes it could be knowne, and how in the end it was revenged by a childe of five yeeres old, which was in his mothers wombe, and unborne when the deed was done. To the tune of, Wigmores Galliard.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Publication date suggested by STC.Verse: "Give eare unto my story true ..."In...

The Bloody butcher, and the two wicked and cruel bawds: exprest in a woful narrative of one Nathaniel Smith a butcher, who lived in Maypole-Alley near the Strand; his wife having been all day in the market selling of meat, in the evening went with her husband to an alehouse, where they stay'd till ten of the clock. And then went home together, and being in their lodging, demanded of her the money she had taken that day, but she (being great with child and peevish) refused to give it him, he taking his butchers-knife in his hand stabb'd her in the back, whereof she instantly dyed, for which he was apprehended, condemned, and executed at Tyburn, April the 24th. 1667. : As also another relation of a ravisher, who in a bawdy-house (assisted by two women) ravished a girle. : The tune, The bleeding heart.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Includes two engraved illustrations.In verse.Reproduction of original in the ...

Strange, dreadful, and amazing news from York. Giving a sad and terrible account of God's fearful judgment on one Winam Tendin, near Rippon in the county of York. Who, upon his father's death, perswading his aged tender mother to deliver up her estate and goods to him, upon a slight pretence of quarrel, soon after turned her out of doors a begging, threatning those that should relieve her, so that coming almost starved to his house, when he was making a great feast, he caused the victuals to be set away, and drove her out of his gate: with the words she thereupon uttered. And how his food was turned into fierce poisonous serpents, that stung him to death. And many other circumstances attending so dreadful relaation [sic]. A dreadful relation of a prodigious motion of the earth, near Charleville, in the county of Limerick, in Ireland, on the 7th day of June, 1697. ... sinking hills and raising valleys; and by what means it began and ceased its motion.

January 1697

8 p.Imperfect; stained and tightly bound affecting legibility.Reproduction of the original in the Br...

The Bloody vintner: or, Cruelty rewarded with justice. Being a true account of one Edward (alias) Edmund Kirk, vintner, who being privately married to a servant maid, did, on the 25th. of May, delude her from her masters house, under the pretence of visiting some relation; but having of her all alone in a private road near Paddington, he most barbarously and cruelly murdered her; for which fact he was indicted and found guilty, and also received due sentence of death, which was accordingly executed, on Friday the 11th. of this instant July, 1684. : To the tune of, Aim not too high:.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Place of publication suggested by Wing.Includes 3 engraved illustrations.Impe...

Four great and horrible murders, or, Bloody nevvs from Islington being a full and true relation how a womans brains were knockt out with her own pattin, rob'd, and her throat cut, on Fryday the 5th of February instant, a man beaten to death the 8th of the same month, and a woman drowned her self in a pond at Islington : likewise a maid barbarously murdred at Chester by two villains ... for which they were condemned ... the 23 of January last, and hanged ...

January 1674

[2], 6 p.Imperfect: slightly faded, with some loss of print.Reproduction of original in the Huntingt...

An exact and true relation of a most cruell and horrid murther committed by one of the cavaliers, on a woman in Leicester, billetted in her house: who was shot into the back, being within five weeks of the time of her delivery. Read in the house of Commons, and ordered to be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.

England and Wales. Parliament.

September 1642

7, [1] p.Signed at end by attending coroners: Francis Coltman, Thomas Todd.Reproduction of the origi...

Murder upon murder committed by Thomas Sherwood, alias, Countrey Tom: and Elizabeth Evans, alias, Canbrye Besse: the first upon M. Loe, the 2. of M. George Holt of Windzor, whom inhumanely they kild neare Islington on the 22. day of Ianuary 1635. The last upon M. Thomas Claxton of London, whom mercilesly they murdered upon the second day of Aprill last past, neare unto Lambs Conduit on the backside of Holborne, with many other robberies and mischiefes by them committed from time to time since Midsomer last past, now revealed and confest by them, and now according to judgement he is hangd neare to Lambs Conduit this 14 of April, 1635. to the terror of all such offenders. To the tune of Bragandary downe, & c.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : illPublication date from STC.A ballad.In two parts.With woodcut illustrations at ...

Bloody nevvs from Clerkenwel, or, A full and true relation of a most horrid and barbarous cruelty, comited by a journey-man-cooper, vvho lived in Tumble-Down-Dick's-Court, over-against Wood's-Close· After he had been out 3 or 4 days on a ramble, coming home, on Munday the 18th. of this instant May, most inhumanely and without any provocation, kill'd his wife in a most cruel manner: she being then great with child. Together with his examination before a justice, and wishing that he had kill'd more: and his comitment the same evening to Newgate. With allowance.

8 p.Place of publication and conjectured publication date from Wing.Reproduction of original in the ...

A True relation of the most horrid and barbarous murders committed by Abigall Hill of St. Olaves Southwark, on the persons of foure infants;: parish children, whom she undertooke to nurse, and her most deceitfull borrowing of other children of her poore acquaintance, whom on every quarter day she would bring to the over-seers of the parish, and receive her quarters pay for them, as if they had bin the same children which had bin committed to her charge to nurse. For which most cruell murders, being convicted and condemned at the sessions held at the Old-Baily. Wednesday Decemb. 15. Shee [sic] was accordingly executed on Wednesday, Decemb. 22. in Cheapside neare unto Woodstreet. Together with a true account of the strange and stubborn end she made, and her jeering of her executioner at the houre of her death. And a caveat to all other women that are suspected for the like unnaturall and most unmercifull practises.

January 1658

[2], 14 p.Annotation on Thomason copy: "xber [i.e December] 24".Reproduction of the original in the ...

The lamentation of Mary Butcher, now confined in Worcester-City-Goal, on suspicion of murdering her male bastard child, in April last.

Butcher, Mary, confined in Worcester-City-gaol.

1 sheet ([1] p.).Caption title.Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (CD-ROM, 1996).Text i...

The bloody Quaker or the Glocester-shire murder discovered: Being an exact and true relation of a bloody murder, committed by one farmer restal a Quaker of Stoke near Tueksbury in Glocester-shire who with his son murdered the wife of one robert Hamond to whom he was indebted the summe of thirty pound, as also another young woman which had been married but four dayes before, and how the murder was discovered by the meanes of a boy which over run them, likewise their arraignment at Glocester assizes, their condemnation, with the execution of the son, the 7th of this present July and how the father is at present repreived. With allowance.

January 1668

[2], 6 p.Printer's name from Wing (CD-ROM edition).Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespear...

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 Barnard-Castle tragedy, [electronic resource] : shewing how one John Atkinson of Murton near Appleby, servant to Thomas Howson, Miller, at Barnard-Castle Bridge End, courted the said Howson's sister; and after he had gain'd her entire affection by his wheedling solicitations, left her disconsolate, and made courtship to another, whom he married by the treacherous advice of one Thomas Skelton, who to save the priest's fees, &c. perform'd the ceremony himself; and upon her hearing the news, broke her heart, and bled to death on the spot, this being both true and tragical, 'tis hop'd 'twill be a warning to all lovers. Tune of Constant Anthony.

Place of publication suggested by the British Library.Verse: "Young men and maidens all, I pray you ...

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