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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03924	The discovery of a London monster, called, the blacke dogg of New-gate profitable for all readers to take heed by.; Blacke dogge of Newgate	Hutton, Luke, d. 1596.; Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?	1638 (1638)	STC 14031; ESTC S104334	26,913	46

The Discovery of a London Monster called The Blacke Dogg of New-gate Profitable for all Readers to take heed by Vide Lege Cave Time bringeth all things to light Printed at London by M. P. for Robert Wilson at his Shop at Grayes-Inne Gate in Holborne 1638. To the Reader MArvell not gentle Reader though in a mad humour I haue thus published the Blacke Dogge of Newgate and here shewne his trickes to the wide world to wonder at he is but a Curre indeed not worth three halfe pence to be sold but if you will accept of my Pen and Paper it may countervaile the charge of sixe pence it is no better then an ill favoured blacke Dogge yet I desire you not to thinke your time ill bestowed in the reading nor the price too great which you pay for it When you have perusde it and like it not reward not my good will with a scoffe But say the Dogge came from Newgate hang him up and rend the Booke in peeces and then I will be your debter in a Work of more worth but let me tell you by the way This Dog with many Doggs of his kinde have I knowne a great while and have received by them great wrong otherwise had I not bestowed so much time in deciphering a Cur nay more let me give you to understand that this Dog thus shadowed under the name of a servant at New-gate was in my sight by head and shoulders thrust out of Newgate and now men chosen instead of Dogs of far more pitie and honestie than that hell-hound ever had Therefore let me thus conclude that never Cur in shape of man in that place shall commit the like abuses No more for the Dog of Newgate But for this Dog of mine wish me well and I will never doe you ill Rest content and I am well pleased Fare you Well The Discovery of a London Monster called The Blacke Dogge of New-gate AWonder a wonder Gentlemen Hels brooke loose and the Blacke Dogge of Newgate is got out of Prison and leapt into a Signe What the Devils here quoth a mad fellow going by seeing the Black Curre ring'd about the nose with a golden Hoope his two sawcer-like eyes and an Iron chains about his necke this cannot choose said he but be a well customed house where such a Porter keeps the doore and cals in company Roome for a customer quoth I so in I went where I found English Scottish Welsh Irish Dutch and French in severall Roomes some drinking the neat wine of Drleance some the Gascony some the Burdeaux there wanted neither Sherry sack nor Charnico Maligo nor Peeter Seeme Ambercolour'd Candy nor Liquorish Ipocras brown beloved Basterd fat Aligant or any quicke spirited Liquor that might draw their witts into a Circle to see the Devill by in●nagination I seeing this Gallimaufry of Company set me downe and called for my whole pinte alone which I had not halfe drunk vp but there sits downe by me a poore Thin-gut fellow with a face as red as the gilded knobs of an Aldermans Horse-bridle one as it seemed newly come out of Limbo with commendation to his rugged Devilship Mounsieur Shagg the Blacke Dogge of Newgate who being a fellow as I thought not worth sixe pence in money yet would he spend eight pence to keepe me company I to equall his expences called for as much and thereupon having both our wits set vpon the racke of invention beganne to argue of the Blacke Doggs beginning and how he came first to be called the blacke Dog of Newgate now touching the same I maintained that I had read an old Chronicle that it was a walking spirit in the likenesse of a blacke Dog gliding vp and downe the streets a little before the time of Execution and in the night whilst the Sessions continued and his beginning thus In the raigne of King Henry the third there hapned such a famine through England but especially in London that many starved for want of food by which meanes the Prisoners in Newgate eat vp one another altue but commonly those that came newly in and such as could make but small resistance Amongst many others cast into this Denne of misery there was a certaine Scholler brought thither vpon suspition of Conjuring and that he by Charmes and devilish Whithcrafts had done much hurt to the Kings Subjects which Scholler mauger his Devils Furies Sprits and Goblins was by the famished Prisoners eaten vp and deemed passing good meate This being done such an idle conceit possessed the mindes of the poore Prisoners that they supposed nightly to see the Scholler in the shape of a black Dog walking vp and downe the Prison ready with his rabening Iawes to teare out their bowels for his late humane flesh they had so hungerly eaten withall they hourely heard as they thought strange groanes and cries as if it had beene some creature in great paine and torments whereupon such a nightly feare grew amongst them that i● turned to a Frenzie and from a Frenzie to Desperation in which desperation they killed the Keeper and so many of them escaped forth but yet whither soever they came or went they imagined the blacke Dog to follow and by this means as I doe thinke the name of him began Not so quoth Signior Thin-gut I thinke it rather an idle fiction then a probable truth but this I must tell you Sir said he I know it for a truth that there is no other blacke Dog that I ever saw or heard of but a great blacke stone standing in the dungeon called Limbo the place where the condemned Prisoners be put after their Iudgement vpon which they set a burning candle in the night against which I haue heard that a desperate condemned Prisoner d●shed out his braines and that is all the Blacke Dogs that I know or heard of But if you be so pleased as to publish it I will satisfie the wondring world with a discourse of the Blacke Dog in the best manner I can and the very same that the wisest judgements thinkes it to be In so doing quoth I you please God benefit your Country and satisfie your ●riends so with a stayed looke and in sober manner he began as followeth Sir quoth he the Blacke Dog is a black Conscience haun●ing none but blacke conditioned people such as Newgate may ch●llenge to be guests yet this rugged Curre hath his sev●rall abidings as in the bosoms of Traytors Murtherers Theeues Cut-purses Cunny-catchers and such like who being the Devils blacke Parator summons them one after another to appeare personaily at his Hempton-hall of his three-l●g'd-Tiborne but in the meane time they commit many notable fellonies and cozonings to the great hurt of plaine minded people as for example I will first begin with a Woman Theefe which in my minde is a limb of the Devill for at any not able Robbery where still a woman is an Actor there likely is committed some murther or other for as they be