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.

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.

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.

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The Bloody Butcher, And the two wicked and cruel Bawds:

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The ſecond part,

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The Bloody Butcher, And the two wicked and cruel Bawds:

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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.

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VVHat horrid execrable Crimes.

Poſſeſs us in theſe latter Times;

Not Peſtilence, nor Sword, nor Fire,

Will make us from our Sins retyre.

Two ſad Relations that befel

Vs in this Month, I ſhall you tell,

As diſmal dreadful Déeds they be,

As ever you did hear or ſée.

One was the Murther of a Wife,

By wrathful Hand, and bloody Knife;

T'other declares thoſe that defil'd,

The Virgin body of a Child.

A Butcher, as we underſtand,

Liv'd near the May-pole in the Strand;

Nathaniel Smith, who loſt his life,

For the ſad ſlaughter of his Wife.

After ſo many years their hands,

Had béen conjoyn'd in wedlock hands,

Whereby came many Children ſmall,

One wretched hour confounds them all.

This Butchers Wife did kéep a Seat

I' th Market-place to ſell her Meat;

And was by all report that's made,

A careful houſe-wife in the Trade.

One fatal Evening being come,

From Market, to her lateſt home,

She and her Husband both went then,

To a Victualling-houſe and ſtaid till ten.

The ſecond part,

to the ſame tune.

THen went together home, where when

A little ſeaſon they had béen;

He in a bold imperious way,

Demands the Coin ſhe took that day.

She being with Child, and fretful too,

What he commands ſhe would not do;

Which, with his drink, begat a rage,

Nothing but Murther could aſſwage.

Words made his paſſion mount up higher

She was the bellows, he the fire:

Words are but wind, but yet they do,

Pierce through the Soul and Body too.

The Devil had ſubdued him there,

And whiſper'd Murther in his ear;

Which he impatient of delay,

Doth perpetrate the readieſt way.

With a ſtrong long ſharp-poynted knife,

Into the back he ſtabs his wife:

Fleſh of his fleſh, bone of his bone

With one dead-doing blow is gone.

She faltred, fainted, fell down dead,

Vpon the ground her bloud was ſhed;

The little Infant in the womb

Received there both Life and Toomb.

Then was he Apprehended, by

Some Neighbours that did hear her cry

Out Murther, murther, and for this,

He judg [...]d and Executed is.

Let this a warning be to thoſe,

Whoſe Paſſions are their greateſt Foes:

And let all Women have a care,

To ſtir thoſe that impatient are.

Ten angry words with wrath and Knife,

Has kil'd a Husband and a Wife;

An Infant too, which makes up Thrée,

And ruin'd a whole Family.

But miſchiefs ſeldome come alone,

My Muſe hath yet another Groan;

A ſigh, a tear, and much of moan,

To tell a Déed but lately done.

There was one Mary, a grand Bawd,

That liv'd by Lechery and Fraud;

Aſſiſted by her Daughter Beſs,

Did kéep a houſe of wickedneſs.

They liv'd at Weſtminſter, where they,

Many a Virgin did betray:

Whoſe wicked actions made them rue,

This Fact they did, which I'le tell you.

It ſéems a Fellow thither came,

To pacifie his luſtful flame;

Having a fire of Drink before,

Came to be quenched by a Whore.

They being deſtitute, did méet,

A Neighbours Daughter in the ſtréet;

A pretty Child, and as 'tis told,

By many, but of Ten years old.

Yet ſhe is tempted in by them,

To ſerve their turn in that extream,

And then deliver'd up to One,

Was more a Devil than a Man.

Vnto this weak unwary Child,

That was unfit to be defil'd;

In order to their baſe Deſign,

They give it Brandy, Ale, and Wine.

Their hot Gueſt for a Wench doth call,

They brought him One, but very ſmall;

It ſerv'd his turn, and he did fly,

At his ſmall Game, they ſtanding by,

The Child reſiſted and cryed out,

The old Bawd choak'd her with a Clout

Stop'd in the mouth; the Fellow ſpoil'd,

With furious luſt the fainting Child.

The Fellow having Raviſhed,

This tender Child, away he fled:

But what he was, or who, is known

Not as I hear, to any one.

The two that held, and ſtopt her breath,

Moſt juſtly now have ſuffer'd Death;

Much pitty 'tis that he is frée'd,

By flight, that did the filthy Déed.

Thus have I told you Two ſad Crimes,

Committed in theſe worſt of Times;

Let all that hear me now, by this,

Take warning not to do amiſs.

Return to God, reform your Lives,

Men be not bitter to your wives:

Wives love your Husbands, for bad words

Have drawn a hundred thouſand ſwords.

Let Love and Patience both agrée,

To kéep us all in Amity;

Then all our bloody Broyls will ceaſe,

God ſave the King, and ſend us Peace.

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With Allowance. London, Printed by E. Crowch, for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright.

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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.

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— 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.,

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Printed by E. Crowch, for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright.,. London, :: [1667]. (Includes two engraved illustrations.) (In verse.) (Reproduction of original in the Glasgow University Library.)

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