The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying and execrable sinne of (willfull and premeditated) murther VVith his miraculous discoveries, and severe punishments thereof. In thirtie severall tragicall histories (digested into sixe bookes) committed in divers countries beyond the seas, never published, or imprinted in any other language. Histories which containe great varietie of mournfull and memorable accidents ... With a table of all the severall letters and challenges, contained in the whole sixe bookes. Written by Iohn Reynolds.

The Grounds and Contents of these Histories.

• History XI. De Salez killeth Vaumarti•…•… in a Duell; La Hay causeth Michaelle to poyson La Frange; De Salez loves La Hay, and because his father Argentier will not consent that he marry her, stifleth him in his bed, and then takes her to his wife; she turnes Strum∣pet, and cuts his throat; as he is dying, hee accuseth her of this bloody fact, and himselfe for murthering his father Argentier: so his dead body is hang'd to the Gallowes, then burnt; La Hay confesseth this murther, and likewise that shee caused Michaelle to poyson La Frange: she hath her right hand cut off, and is then burnt alive; Michaelle is broken on the wheele, and his dead body throwne into the River.
• History XII. Albemare causeth Pedro and Leonardo to murther Baretano, and he after marrieth Clara, whom Baretano first sought to marry: Hee causeth his man Valerio to poyson Pedro in prison, and by a letter which Leonardo sent him, Clara perceives that her hus∣band Albemare had hired and caused Pedro and Leonardo to murther her first love Baretano: which letter she reveales to the Iudge; so he is hanged, and likewise Valerio and Leonardo for these their bloody crimes.
• History XIII. La Vasselay poysoneth her wayting-maid Gratiana, because she is jealous that her husband De Merson is dishonest with her; whereupon he lives from her: In revenge whereof, shee causeth his man La Villete to murther him in a Wood, and then marries him in requitall. The said La Villete a yeere after riding thorow the same Wood, his Horse falles with him, and almost kills him; when hee confesseth the murther of his master De Merson, and accuseth his wife La Vasselay to be the cause thereof: So for these their bloody crimes, he is hanged, and she burnt alive.
• History XIV. Fidelia and Caelestina cause Carpi and Monteleone, with their two Laquayes, Lorenzo and Anselmo, to murther their father Captaine Benevente, which they performe. Mon∣teleone and his Laquay Anselmo are drowned, Fidelia hangs her selfe, Lorenzo is hanged for a robbery, and on the Gallowes confesseth the murthering of Benevente; Car∣pi hath his right hand, then his head cut off; Caelestina is beheaded and her body burnt.
• History XV. Maurice like a bloody villaine, and domnable sonne, throwes his Mother Christina into a Well, and drownes her: the same hand and arme of his wherewith he did it, rots away from his body; and being discrazed of his wits in Prison, hee there confesseth this foule and in∣humane murther, for the which he is hanged.