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A19288	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.	1620 (1620)	STC 5698; ESTC S108664	44,194	71

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. LONDON Printed by NICHOLAS OKES for Iohn Wright dwelling in Pie-corner 1620. ●O THE RIGHT Honorable Sir Henry Mountague Lord Chiefe Iustice of England and his thrice honoured Lady all encrease of honour and true happinesse SEeing it hath pleased your good Honour to giue life to this poore Infant by that gratious breath of yours whereby you prepared the guitlie deseruedly to their death Pardon I beseech you my boldnes in committing it to bee fostered vnder your Honorable Patronage who already haue a vowed the better part thereof Long haue I bene desirous to approue my selfe vnto your honour in what poore measure I haue bene able not only in respect of many fauors vndeseruedly receiued from your honorable Lady in my former afflictions but especially in regard of your Lordships gratious clemencie in releasing a poore distressed neighbour at my request whose follie by how much the more it prouoked your honours iust displeasure by so much the greater was your benignitie in remitting his offence And therefore obseruing your meekenes extended to so vndeseruing I haue bene the rather emboldned to put my selfe and these poore labours vnder the couert thereof that so the Church of God may more warrantablie entertaine and make better vse of this discouerie being commended vnto them vnder such iustifiable protection and the Countrie may more earnestlie pray for yours honours happie returne amongst them for the full discouery and censure of what yet lies hidden concerning this most hellish and execrable murther Among whom my selfe also vnfaynedly wait Gods holy prouidence herein and shal not cease to cōmend your honour in my best deuotions vnto the God of Iustice to continue your Lordship in all health and happines not only to the finishing of this worke so worthily proceeded in hitherto but also to the perfiting of your saluation in his feare in a full discharge of this great and honorable calling hee hath placed you in And so I commend your honour with your gratious Ladie to the grace of God From my house in White-crosse streete this 24. of August 1620. Resting in the Lord at your Honours and the Churches seruice THO. COOPER TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL SIR HENRY NORTH HIGH SHEriffe of the County of Suffolk together withthe rest of his Maiesties Iustice of peace in that County RIght Worshipfull It fell out by Gods good prouidence that at the last Assize at Berrie I was an eare-witnesse of the Discouery of the most strange and cruell Murther that euer I read of The Detection whereof together with the most fayre and honourable carriage of the businesse did so affect me that I could not think my time better spent then in taking notes of such speciall Passages as fell out therein Which howsoeuer I then onely entended for my priuate vse yet considering that such wonderful works of God are to be declared to posterity and being solicited by some Worthies of the Shire to that end I thought it good to condiscend to their requests with the soonest the rather to preuent such flying and suspitious pamphlets wherewith the world in such cases is too much abused and so informe the world in the right vse of such strange occurrents Wherein if your Worships shall find ought that may reuiue in your memory ●o wonderfull a discouery and shall stirre vp your affections to magnifie the prouidence of God herein As I shall haue herein what I principally desire so shall I not faile to take any other good occasion to testifie my thankefulnesse vnto your Worships as God shall offer the same to whose gracious protection I doe most hartily commend you all Resting in him Your Worships poore remembrancer at the Throne of Grace THO. COOPER The Contents CHAPTER 1. The Introduction to the History where of the Prouidence of God in permitting and ordering such horrible wickednesse 1. For the confusion of the Atheist And secondly awaking of the secure and prophane Christians CHAP. 2. Wherein first an entrance is made by way of Application vnto the Particular sinne of Murther being the proper subiect of this Treatise where 2. The Progeny and heynousnesse of this sinne is discouered and enlarged 3. The causes and occasions thereof in generall are explained 4. The Dangerous Effects and consequences thereof are detected And so 5. Such seuerall vses are propounded as both tend to the preuenting of this sinne as also for the wise suppressing and weeding out thereof CHAPTER 3. Of the particular Murther at Halsworth And first of the occasions and causes thereof 2 Of the Actors and Accessaries therein 3 Of the Parties that were Murthered 4 Of the Manner and Circumstances how they were made away 5 Of the Meanes to conceale the Murther beeing committed 6 And diuerse obseruations considerable on either side CHAP. 4. Where first of the Reason why howsoeuer other sinnes come after Iudgement yet this sinne of Murther is seldome left vndiscouered 2. Of the Many wayes whereby the Lord hath discouered Murther from time to time with diuers instances thereof 3. That it was the Finger of God that detected this blood 4. Of the Manner and Instruments imployed herein 5. And the seuerall Vses to bee made thereof CHAP. 5. Declareth the Conuiction of the Murtherers 1. Where the Euidences against them are published and opened by the Iudge 2 Their Inditements found hereupon by the Iury 3 Their Obstinacy vpon their finding declared and discussed with the Vse of all CHAP. 6. Of the Condemnation and Iudgement giuen vpon the Malefactors where after entrance made hereto 1 The religious and learned Speech of the thrice reuerend Iudge is published tending to iustifie the righteous hand of God herein as also to prepare the delinquents to an holy vse thereof 2 The Sentence it selfe followeth with the great clemency and moderation thereof 3 With diuers passages and profitable vses of the same CHAP. 7. 1 Containing the execution of the Murtherers 2 And such accidents as fell out therein 3 Together with such Vses as may be made thereof CHAP. 8. Containing the conclusion of the whole With promise of further light The Cry and Reuenge of Bloud CHAPTER 1. The Introduction to the History whereof the Prouidence of God in permitting and ordering such horrible wickednesse 1. For the confusion of the Atheist And secondly awakening of the secure and prophane Christians IT may seeme very strange and almost incredible to carnall apprehension that such glorious light of the Gospell especially so long continued among vs and that not without some gracious effect should yet notwithstanding abound with so many strange and monstrous sinnes as doe dayly breake out and are strengthned with so high an hand of obstinacy and deeperate Impenitency For whereas the powerfull preaching of the word hath this gracious promise annexed with it that as at the

remembers againe that her sonne Iohn had two teeth broken out of his vpper iaw by a former accident and the scull being searched approues the same and so both markes concurring vpon the same carcase the length and iaw marke hereby vndoubted conclusion was made that that carcase was her sonne Iohns and thus by the one discouered the other were gessed also to be hers the brother and sister that 2 yeares after were cast into the pond because they lay in one graue together and therefore were like to lie in one belly and so collected that they that murthered the former made also these latter away as vsing one common graue to burie them in Now all the mistery was who should be the murtherer of the first suspition there might be in regard of Norton and his dealings with them formerly as also of such instruments imployed by him to molest and oppresse them Emong whom the speciall was Land the weauer a man obserued not onely to bee imployed in busines to molest them but also to insuiuate himselfe often in to their companies and to draw them to much excesse of riot in gaming and drunkenes These things were now called to minde by many to nourish suspicion but yet this was not sufficient directly to chalendge the partie Behold then the wisedome and power of God in making the Partie to chalenge himselfe and that by that meanes whereby he sought to hide his sin and elude iustice For hearing that such a scull wanted such teeth and so was thereby owned by the mother his guilty conscience drawes him to the pond and yet in a shew of wisedome to bewray him the more he hopes if that marke bee defaced the euidence wil be confounded and therefore he takes away the scull with him and foole as he was that might haue knockt them out himselfe yet first goes to a barbar to plucke out more teeth that hee might bee a witnesse against him and that out of the mouth of two or three witnesses the truth might be confirmed loe the barbars toole shall not do the feat and therefore vengeance sends this murther to the smith and he at length serues his turne to witnesse against him And yet the sort must heape more coales one his head and that in a shew of wisedome to bewray himselfe further he comes to a woman thereby that knew him well enough had obserued his comming going from the Pond and doings there yet I say he comes like a stranger as hearing of such strange newes and desirous to satisfie his curious eye therewith enquires of her where these carcases lay she replies vnto him that hee need make no such enquiry he was better acquainted therewith and charges him with what had formerly passed his deniall hereof confirmes the suspition and conuinceth him of the fact And so hereupon being layd hold one by iustice diuers speeches and accidents formerly passed long before are now reuiued tending to his further chalenge and conuiction Now it is euidenced that 2 dayes after the murther Land meting with one of his consorts asked him when he saw Iohn Leeson marke saith the worthy iudge the murtherer askes the other the other doth not first enquire of him a manifest token of his guilty conscience and apparant euidence accusing himselfe Now it is proued that he and Worlich were in the company of Iohn Leeson at the Mill-hill after which Iohn was neuer seene againe Now many other speeches are remembred that had formerly passed betweene Land and others in their cuppes tending to the particular fact of casting them into the Pond condemning them by their own mouthes One special among the rest I may not omit that in a dry summer they talking of casting of Ponds and ditches bolted out such words that if such a Pond were cast mentioning that where y e murthered lay it would go hard with three or foure of them to passe ouer others materiall hereunto Their examinations are manifest that no lesse then 28 witnesses gaue in euidence concerning the fact chalendging Land by circumstance to bee the Murtherer But in so cleere a light what need their many nay indeed any witnesses when Lands one actions and words are sufficient to conuince him so iust is the Lord to cause the tongues of the wicked to fall vpon them so wise hereby to satisfie the world and gaine himselfe the glory of this discouery by taking the wicked in their owne craftines Well thus we haue found out one of the Murtherers or rather he hath offered himselfe vnto vs vnsought for or rather indeede the Lord hath brought him to the Barre euen by his owne wisedome And so we may also conclued of Worlich faine would he haue béene gone but the Lord arrested him at Yarmouth with a fearefull sicknesse and brought him backe againe and his owne mouth must bewray him to be priuy at least to the murther when he told the Mother that hee was the last man that had Iohn by the hand aliue and dead in the Low-Countries It being prooued that he was neuer there and expounded wisely by the Reuerend Lord Chiefe Justice that he meant by the Low-Countries the bottome of the Pond So now we haue two of the Actors or at least Accessaries time will shortly God willing discouer others that are in hold Meane while blesse we the Lord for this discouery hitherto And iustifie we his prouidence in méeting with sinners in their kinde euen by their owne mouthes And aboue all take we heede of wisedome in sinne because it will prooue greatest foolishnesse in the end Blesse we the Lord for good Magistrates that will sift and bolt out hidden wickednesse and pray we heartily for their liues and welfare by whose meanes we enioy our liues and liuelihoods yea that which is most precious aboue all the hope of life to come in the liberty of the Gospell being wise in our seuerall places to shame and discouer sinne that so wee may bee kept from participation and danger there-from and yet charitable in couering the infirmities of our Brethren least otherwise casting them off by our rigor and indiscretion wee force them to breake out through despaire into desperate wickednesse Thus of the first Scoene of the second part of this Tragedy concerning the discouery of the murther and Murtherers CHAP. 5. Declareth the Conuiction of the Murtherers 1. Where the Euidences against them are published and opened by the Iudge 2 Their Inditements found hereupon by the Iury 3 Their Obstinacy vpon their finding declared and discussed with the Vse of all By that which formerly hath beene related concerning the discouery of the murtherers and such euidences alleadged thereunto howsoeuer it may séeme the matter to bee so cleere as that it neede no further triall yet this being but a preparatiue to ripen the businesse that so it might haue it publicke and iudiciall triall at the Barre It shall be very necessary to adde somewhat concerning y e Equity and solemnity of that