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A28412	The Bloody murtherer, or, The unnatural son his just condemnation at the assizes held at Monmouth, March 8, 1671/2 with the suffering of his sister and servant, for the murther of his mother, Mrs. Grace Jones, for which the said son was prest to death, his sister burnt, and his boy hang'd : with a true accompt of their trials, penitent behaviour, prayers, speeches, and circumstances thereunto relating : with letters of several worthy divines.		1672 (1672)	Wing B3259; ESTC R18868	28,377	74

and horrid deed of darkness clear her ●●nocencie to this great multitude by her readiness and che●●fulness to die to go through this fierie trial or by what to 〈◊〉 ●eems best to thine infinite W●sdom and let thine holy Ang●● minister to her in her sorrow and wipe the tears from her eyes and sweat from her bodie and carry her soul into thine everlast●ng Kingdom where if she arrives she shall never sin nor sigh nor be accused or tempted judgd or cond●mn'd where she wi●l have s●und and solid j y perfect Peace and felicity and 〈◊〉 Anthems for ever with Angels and all the Martyrs of ●●sus O Almighty and most gracious Saviour who didst suffer with meekness p●tience those severe stripes of thy Fathers wrath which we did deserve but thou didst feel and hast estab ish'd with mankind a Covenant of Faith and Patience a Law of S●fferings making the way of the Cross to be the way of Heaven Give t● thy handmaid thy grace that according ●o thy excellent example and holy Commandment she may bear the burden of the Lord with an even and willing an obedient and loving spirit O let her never charge thee foolishly nor murmure secretly but with faith and ●●pe submit her body and soul to thy merciful and just disp●nsation that she may not discompose the duties of her repentance by a new sin nor provoke thee to anger by her impatience nor neglect the doing of any thing that can be in her power or in her duty to her body or her soul O God b● merciful to thy handmaid and press her not with an unequal load but remember that she is dust and vani●y and dies in thy displeasure Give her we pray thee a quiet mind and peaceful conscience and deliver her not into the will of her spiritual enemies but let her be justify'd by thy mercy sanctify'd by thy spirit saved by thy infinite and eternal goodness through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour In whose Name and words we further pray Our Father c. Which words being ended The Exe●utioner with a a flaming Torch sets fire to the straw and Faggots and in less then an houre after her body is there consumed to Ashes Thus have we traced our bloody Murtherers into the other world where we Charitably leave them all to the mercies of a most Righteous God who we may observe in this Example doth often punish one sin with another A wild dissolute course of Living Engages this unhapy young Gentleman in Covetousness and unjust greedy desires after his Mothers rightfull Estate to supply his Extravagancies These unlawfull desires Tempt him to Trample on and violate all Laws of Nature and Grace on Earth and Heaven And with barbarous hands to Murther her whom in duty and Affection he was bound to obey honour and with the hazard of his life preserve Thus lessercrimes draw on and prepare us for greater for when we first forsake God no wonder if he abandon us to our selves and our sins and the fruit thereof Calamity Misery Infamy and Perdition Wherefore since we see humane or rather such Inhumane Cruelty is ever met with and punished by divine ●●stice let us fly their Crimes that we may avoid their punishments Reassuming our reasons and recalling our wandering thoughts from Hell to Earth purposely to Elevate them from Earth and fix them on Heaven and consecrate them and our Souls from sin to Righteousness from Satan to God that so we may piously Live and peaceably die in this world and Gloriously Reign in that which is to come FINIS Dr. Bromfield's Pills against the Scurvey and all other diseases are to be Sold by Thomas Hancox Bookseller in Hereford

〈◊〉 BLOODY MURTHERER OR THE UNNATURAL SON HIS Iust Condemnation At the Assizes Held at Monmouth MARCH 8. 1671 2. With the Suffering of his Sister and Servant For the MURTHER of his Mother Mrs. GRACE JONES FOR WHICH The said Son was prest to Death his Sister burnt and his Boy Hang'd WITH A True Accompt of their TRIALS Penitent Behaviour Prayers Speeches and Circumstances thereunto Relating With Letters of several Worthy DIVINES Filius ante Diem Quis ista legendo Temperet à Lachrymis By Allowance LONDON Printed by H. Lloyd for Jonathan Edwin at three Roses in Ludgat-street 1672. A POEM upon the late Execrable Murther committed by Henry Jones and his Confederate Boy George Bridges Octob. 11 1671. upon his Mother Mrs. Grace Jones of Monmouth Widow and their deserved Executions the one March 11. the other March 16. 1671 2. AND did a Pistol-shot distain the Ground With crimson Gore showr'd from the gushing wound Of a fond Mother which aloud did cry And with revengeful language pierce the sky And was this horrid Matchless Murther done To a kind Mother by an unkind son A son how Admiration struck mine eyes And all my apprehensive faculties When I beheld the man transform'd with wonder Sensless I stood as one struck down with Thunder This barb'rous Act in never dying Rimes Shall be transmitted to succeeding times And whilst the glittering Orbs in Order roul Their burning rayes about the fixed Pole Be Annaliz'd in the black Rolls of Fame As a Memorial of the foulest shame Monster of men what made thee to decoy Thy Parent to destruction and thy Boy Ah! was thy heart hew d from a Parian Rock Or to it did curs'd Nature set a Lock To Shut out pity was it walld with brass Or much more Steel'd then Salvage Nero's was Could nothing but thy Mothers Blood supply Th' ambitious thirst of thy insatiate eye Deluded wretch experience le ts thee know That thou art ruin'd by her overthrow And that thy big-womb'd wife might be possess'd Of dear-bought lands thou terribly art press'd Dismall effects of love with massy stones O what sad ends attend Sanguineous ones And thou vile Boy who did'st rescind the throat Of thy head wounded Mystriss thou hast got A shamefull death to thy foul practice due And now the Master of the damned crew Payes thee thy wages if thou didst not make Thy peace with God in the infernal Lake Thou didst do well to clear the Maid from guilt But better if her blood thou hadst not spilt The Wicked Life Horrid Murther and Penitent Death of HENRY JONES ALthough the unhappy Times we live in which may not unfitly be termed the very Rust of the Iron-age are too pregnant with sad instances of prodigious Crimes and unparallel'd Villanies Men striving with a cursed Emulation to out-vie each other in wickedness And that crying Scarlet-sin of Murther so overflows like a torrent almost in every street That it seems to many but a piece of Gallantry to stab at the Majesty of God by killing and destroying Man his Image yet shall we seldom meet with any Impiety swell'd to that height in all Circumstances as this which at present hath engaged our Pen. An Action that at once infringes all Bonds of Gratitude and Obligations of Humanity and violates the Tyes of Nature as well as the Dictates of Grace so strange and lamentable so cruel and execrable that it needs no flourish of words or Epithets to render it odious but is in it self so transcendently abominable as it is uncapable of being aggravated by any Rhetorick for who hears of a Mother wilfully murther'd by her own Son but his senses startle and his heart is instantly brimful of horrour and indignation The perfect Narrative of this deplorable Fact with its concomitant circumstances we undertake not out of prejudice to the deceased Malefactor who having partly satisfied the Law by yielding up his body to death here on earth hath as we hope and have no weak Grounds to believe as shall appear in the sequel obtained a Pardon also of Almighty God for such his grievous sin that his Soul may live for ever in Heaven Nor do we publish it to gratifie their liquorish Fancies who delight in hearing strange stories or to furnish the already too talkative World with more vain Discourses But to the end that the Readers observing herein as in a Chrystal Mirrour the variety and violence of the Devils temptations And the Allurements of sin wherewith these poor Creatures the Authors and Actors of this horrid Butchery suffered themselves to be seduced with the Miraculous detection and severe punishment of the same Nay by the terrours thereof be for the future retained within the lists of Charity towards Men filial respect and duty towards their Parents and Superiors and which includes all religious obedience towards God and his Commandments And I hope the World wicked and insensible as it is hath not yet so totally renounced and abandoned all Vertue Piety and Prudence as not a little by these Examples to reflect and imitate the wise and skilful Pilot who mourns to see the Rocks whereon his fellow-Voyagers have suffered shipwrack and yet again rejoyceth that by the sight thereof he may avoid his own Lastly that we may all admire the Riches of Gods Grace which denies not to receive the vilest and most crimson sinners whenever they with a sincere and hearty Repentance make their Addresses to his Throne for mercy and forgiveness The principal Actor in this barbarous Tragedy was Henry Jones the son of Thomas Jones late of Monmouth in Southwales and Grace his Wife Parents miserably unhappy to bring into the World so ungrateful and unnatural a Wretch that justly came to suffer an ignominious death for bereaving her of life from whom he thus derived his own It were no less injury to truth then affront to the Countrey of his Nativity should we deny him to be by descent a Gentleman his Father being a Person of a competent estate and good repute in those Parts But alas what a sorry and contemptible Glory is it to bear only the empty names and painted Coats of Generous Ancestors whilst we by neglecting the imitation of those vertues that first made them eminent disgrace their Memories and commit Actions more vile then the basest of the plebeian Rabble His Provident Father considering That no quality does more adorn or embellish then Learning took particular care to have his greener years seasoned with the Rudiments of Literature which one would have thought should have served him for the more regular Conduct of his future life and rein'd him in from such matchless enormities But Learning alone without being grafted on a stock of good natural Parts and watered with the dew of Heavenly Grace is commonly not only barren of happy fruit but very dangerous whilst it puffs up its empty-headed Possessors and makes them self-will'd conceited and temerarious in their undertakings He was no sooner arriv'd to

God of Heaven and Earth for thee and my poor child or Childrens welfare when born I do beseech the for Jesus sake to feare God and pray Continually to him to endue thee and thy poor child or more with grace wisedom and understanding and to give thee a contented mind in what estate Soever he is pleased to set thee That thou mayst take all things with a true religious and satisfied eye praising him in every thing and doing no wrong to any man but what good thou canst to all never covering any mans estate or plenty of Riches but satisfied with any small competent maintenance wherewith to supply thee and my poor Child or Childrens bodies in this life and to make you more sensible of a better which is to come I should have bin very glad to have heard thou wert safely delivered of thy burden before I die But since it pleaseth Almighty God that it shall be otherwise I desire thee to be contented and to bear all the Lords dispensations very patiently who I hope will turn all things to the best for thee in short time As for my suffering an ignominious and terrible death I conjure thee not immoderately to afflict thy self about it Oh! consider how flight and trivial the momentary pains I can here go through are in comparison of those inconceiveable endless torments which I must confess my self justly to have deserved bless the Lord with me that he hath dealt so gently as to awaken me to a sense of my horrid sins That I now see the sinfulness of sin of all sin and the need of a Iesus Through whose pity grace and mercy I stedfastly hope though my body suffer for a moment yet my poor soul shall be pardoned freed and absolved from eternal damnation And that he will make thee and all the Worid take example by me not to offend so good and gracious a God And as for my Sister Mary who is to suffer with me or presently after I do hereby assure thee and all the World as I have a soul and hope for salvation she is as clear free innocent and guiltless from having any hand in contriving plotting or knowing any thing of my Mothers death before or after as any of her Prosecutors or of the Officers who took me upon suspicion until they themselves did suspect me And therefore I think it is some just and deserved affliction which God is pleased to lay upon me for the sins of our Parents not but that we have deserv'd this and ten thousand times more for the sins we have commitred our selves However I desire thee hence to consider how angry the Lord is with us sometimes when he is pleased to inflict such punishment upon her for leud living and committing such sins as are termed with all people small and little made of amongst men in our times Consider I say my dear Heart my dear Life my dear Self what odious and hateful a thing the least sin is in the sight of Almighty God since she poor wretch is now to be burnt to death for lewd living wantonness lying living merrily and idlely Oh my dear Wife go sorrowing to thy Grave for the days of thy vanity and that idle merry life thou hast formerly lived in Do not buy such trifles and indeed a nothing but sorrow at so dear a Price as the love of so holy a God and a happy Eternity O my dear heart it cannot choose but make thee tremble to read it as well as me to write it what sins have I committed in killing my Mother and what Punishment have I deserved for such great sins when my poor dear Sister is punish'd for so small offences as people term them but great with God How ought I to pray the Lord to pardon me so great faults and that for so small pains and little punishment Oh praise the Lord all the days of thy life for his goodness and mercy towards us both in this life and that which is to come Keep the day that I am put to death as a solemn Fast from diet but especially from sin with Prayers and Thanksgiving to the end of this thy mortal life Retire and confine thy self to a solitary and solid way of living have as little to do with any in worldly affairs as thou canst let thy house be in some retired place free from frequent Resorters unless it be they who fear God and live soberly and godly in this present wicked world let such be thy Comforters and Companions ●live like the Ostrich and Pellican Comfort thy self in nothing but in the Lord God bring up mine and thy poor childe or children always in the fear of the Lord And whatever thou doest be continually in prayers for them and thy poor self My dear Mall And when thou art most under affliction and distress in this life be then most frequent fervent in prayers before God confessing all thy sins even those thou mayst count small as well as great and presumptuous sins desiring pardon and forgiveness and grace and abstinence for the future be humble m ek and lowly at all times but especially when thou art before Almighty God I would have written more large unto thee but I refer my self to the bearer who will I hope satisfie thee fully and how and when I was put to death I can say no more but my Dearest Dear farewel Farewel on Earth Thy dying Husband hoping to meet in Heaven Monmouth March 11. 1671. Henry Jones After this being brought into the place where Execution was to be done which was in a Cellar belonging to George Sadler the Goaler After several pious and devout Ejaculations he spake to the Spectators to this effect ' That he came very willing to suffer death since the crimes he had committed were so odious both in the sight of God and man That he acknowledged he no longer deserved to tread on the face of the earth or to look up to Heaven That he had been a very wicked Liver from his youth up and that the burthen of his sins would be much more grievous to his soul then the weight that was to press his body to death had he not a firm belief and assured hope That his blessed Saviour would preserve him from sinking under them whose Promise it is Come to me all ye that are heavy laden and I will give rest to your souls He exprest himself deeply affected with the sense of his guilt in drawing in his boy to be a sharer in the horrid Act He exprest himself now in Charity and reconciled to all the world but his wicked self He confest it was covetousness and extravigancy or rather covetousness to maintain extravigancy that first put him upon this wicked Act of murthring his dear and tender Mother he wish'd that all the World might take warning by him not to get a habit and live in a custom of sinning though only in things which we count little things and venial

who was drawn by you to be a partaker of Blood that so his sin and misery as well as your own may incite and draw on to Repentance Pray without ceasing for Mercy Pardon and Peace cry unto God for a broken and contrite heart and say often with a bleeding heart as David Psal 51.14 Deliver me from blood guiltiness O God let prayer be your continual exercise Above all things pray for a saving sight and sense of sin and of your need of Christ And that you may be deeply humbled as well for your other sins as this last was not your breath in unprofitable discourse which may be better spent this way You have a blessed Eternity to provide for and all the time you have to live on Earth is little enough to bewail the sins of your life and to fit your self for an everlasting state Therefore redeem your precious time and account every Minute of great value be very thrifty of it Oh let not drinking gaming or vain talk devour those precious hours which you may and ought to improve for your Eternal Salvation Redeem all you can from sleep company vain discourse c. and spend it in self-examination humuliation prayer confession of sins and supplication for Mercy Remember God upon your Bed and meditate on him in the night watches remember the greatness of your sin and the worth of your Soul and let it be your great business to get the one pardoned and the other saved If Soul-helping friends come to visit you hold them fast and intreat their Prayers and Counsel and let them not leave you till you hove reaped some spiritual benefit from them but if worldly and carnal friends come to see you such as have little favour of God and Grace dismiss them speedily with some good admonition for the time they stay is like to be lost which you should esteem as an unvaluable Treasure Lastly let me intreat you for your Souls sake and by the Prayers that I have made and the Tears I have shed for it that you would not slightly read these lines which I have written nor throw them away after once reading them but that you would ponder on them and endeavour to practice the instructions given you by him that desires your Repentance and Salvation And oh that God would set your sin home to your Conscience and save you from Eternal death and the wrath to come By what I have written you see that I look not upon you as utterly past hope and help your sin though great is not unpardonable if you can truly believe and heartily repent the blood which David and Manassah shed was upon their true Repentance forgiven And the Arm of the Lord is not shortened nor the Fountain of Mercy exhausted The Blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin 1 John 1.7 Though they be as Red as Scarlet or as Crimson Isa 1 18. You are not yet so far from Heaven but you may by true Faith and Repentance get it Nor are you so near Hell but you may yet by the means of God escape it but remember the Work you have to do is great your time short and your strength small therefore whatsoever you find in your heart to do for your Salvation do it with all your might Eccles 9.10 you have lost too much time already loose no more but immediately about this great Work to make up the dreadful breach that is between God and your Soul and to fit it for his glorious presence which that you may diligently and faithfully perform to your everlasting Salvation is and shall be earnestly requested whilst you are on this side the Grave by him who is Your Souls Friend and Remembrancer Tho. Jackman Directed thus For Mr. Henry Jones Prisoner in Monmouth BY the labours of the aforesaid Ministers and the repeated perusal of this Pathetical Soul-searching Heart-melting Letter it pleased the great God in infinite Mercy to give this desperate Malefactor a sense of his most dangerous state the grievousness of his sins and the necessity of a Christ to preserve him from the Jaws of everlasting destruction henceforward he was very little concerned for his body or the pains of death it was to suffer but extreamly sollicitous about the affairs of his Soul He was often bewailing his sinful heart and the Errors of his life how much time he had wretchedly wasted in the Devils service and how little he had now to spend for Gods Glory and his Souls advantage he was very diligent in reading the Holy Bible and good Books and very frequent and fervent in Prayer some forms of which we conceive for the assistance of his Memory were found after his death in writing in the Prison which take as follows O Almighty God Lord of Heaven and Earth Judge of Angels and Men give leave to a vile wretched and dejected Soul to come into thy presence who deserves nothing but Plagues and Torment Fire and Brimstone permit a trembling Malefactor to look towards thy Mercy Seat and for Jesus sake attend unto my cry and hear the voice of my Tears O Eternal goodness if thou forsakest me the huge load of my sins will sink me into desperation and fiery Prison my estate is most sad and pittyable and there is none to deliver me let thy tender Mercies speedily prevent me for I am brought very low I am astonished at the sight of my Iniquities for they are great and numberless O Lord support me with thy blessed Arms or I shall fall into a Sea of misery and never rise again fear and terrours do surround me and the evil spirits watch for my ruine may I not a grievous sinner beg one drop of comfort who am ready to perish may I not pray to thee in the time of my distress when thy fierce Waves are coming over my Soul my pensive fainting and troubled Soul I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up while I suffer thy terrors I am dictracted wilt thou be angry with me for ever wilt thou draw out thine anger into all Generations most Gracious God give me leave to lie at thy sacred feet and sigh and mourn and bewail my self a little before I descend into my Grave where there is no repenting give me leave to confess my Iniquities and beg this favour that I may not go down into the Regions of darkness and dwell with Devils Ezek. 18.31 thou willest not the death of sinners thou takest no pleasure in their Torments O then Well-spring of Life and Salvation who hast promised pardon to the penitent let the sighing of the Prisoner come before thee whose heart is melted in the midst of his Bowels I confess O Lord I have been proud and prophane and despised thy truths I have been greedy of the world and distrusted thy providence I have made hast to be rich and ruined my self This O God was the bitter root from whence all my sorrows do grow my worldly-mindedness This made