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.

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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.
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Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.
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London :: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes and John Haviland] for VVilliam Lee; and are to bee sold at his shop in Fleetstreet, at the signe of the Turkes Head, over against Fetter Lane,
1635.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10668.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2025.

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The Grounds and Contents of these Histories.

  • History XVI. Idiaques causeth his sonne Don Ivan to marrie Marsillia, and then commits Adultery and Incest with her; She makes her Father in Law Idiaques to poyson his old wife Honoria, and likewise makes her owne brother De Perez to kill her Chamber-maid Mathurina; Don Ivan afterwards kils De Perez in a Duell; Marsillia hath her brai•…•… dasht out by a horse, and her body is afterwards condemned to be burnt; Idiaques is beheaded; his body consumed to ashes, and throwne into the ayre.
  • History XVII. Harcourt steales away his brother Vimoryes wife Masserina, and keepes her in Adulterie; She hireth Tivoly (an Italian Mountebanke) to poyson La Precoverte, who was Har∣courts wife; Harcourt kils his brother Vimory, and then marries his widdow Masse∣rina; Tivoly is hanged for a robbery, and at his execution accuseth Masserina for hiring him to poyson La Precoverte, for the which shee is likewise hanged; Noel (who was Harcourts man) on his death-bed suspecteth and accuseth his said Master for killing of his brother Vimory, whereof Harcourt being found guilty, he is broken alive on a wheele for the same.
  • History XVIII. Romeo (the Laquay of Borlary) kils Radegonda, the Chamber-m•…•…id of the Lady Fel∣lisanna in the street, and is hanged for the same; Borlary afterwards hireth Castru∣chio (an Apothecary) to poyson her husband Seignior Planeze, for the which Castru∣chio is hanged, and his body throwne into the River, and Borlari is beheaded, and then burnt.
  • History XIX. Beaumarays, and his brother Montaigne kill Champigny, and Marin (his second) in a Duell; Blancheville (the widdow of Champigni) in revenge thereof hireth Le Valley (who was servant to Beaumarays) to murther his said Master with a pistoll, the which he doth, for the which Le Valley is broken on a wheele, and Blancheville hanged for the same.
  • History XX. Lorenzo murthereth his wife Fermia; He some twenty yeares after (as altogether un∣knowne) robbeth his (and her) sonne Thomaso, who likewise (not knowing Lorenzo to be his father) 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 him for that robbery, for the which he is hanged.
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