An account of a most strange and barbarous action how a prisoners wife of Ludgate threw her self from the leads into Black-Fryers on Sunday the 22th of this instant Marth [sic], between twelve and one in the afternoon. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A75139 of text R232356 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A188C). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A75139 Wing A188C ESTC R232356 99900196 99900196 137634 2240870448

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AN ACCOUNT Of a most Strange and Barbarous Action How a Prisoners Wife of Ludgate threw her self from the Leads into Black-Fryers , on Sunday the 22th of this Instant March , between Twelve and One in the Afternoon .

HOW sad and dismal a thing it is to consider , especially when we seriously reflect on the various and most inhumane Cruelties and Barbarities that are so frequently acted and committed among us , but I am sure there can be none more strange , or indeed unaccountable than this I am now about to give you a Relation of , being it was committed against all Laws , even that of Nature , for self preservation is implanted in our very Beings , but how frail and weak we are when left to our selves , and how cunning and subtile an Enemy we have to deal with , that continually encounters us , and maketh the strongest Assaults upon our weakest Guards , insinuating into our most private concerns and conditions , and taking all advantages to work our Ruin , there being none more prejudicial or destructive than bringing us to despair , as this most sad and lamentable Instance here plainly demonstrates .

For , on Sunday the 22d . of this Instant March , between Eleven and Twelve a Clock , one _____ Smith ( the Wife of Michael Smith Sawyer , who lived in Holy-day-yard in Greed-lane ) went as her accostomed use was to Visit her Husband , who has been a Prisoner in Ludgate for the space of Fifteen or Sixteen Weeks , which long and tedious Imprisonment had reduced them to a very poor and low condition , as having been forced to sell even their very Houshold goods for a present maintenance , and that being almost expended , utterly despairing of his inlargement , asked him after they had dined to go upon the Leads of the said Prison , having been there some time discoursing together , he went down to the Celler to fetch some drink , and leaving her there walking alone , she about Twelve a Clock ( by the Instigation of the Devil ) took that opportunity to throw her self over the. Battlement of the Leads into Black-Fryers , which is at least Four Stories high , so that she was bruised to peices , and was carried to a House adjacent till the Crowners Inquest sat● upon her .

Thus you see how the Devil tempts us to Sin , and attaques us when least suspected , therefore may this Circumstance afright us by this sad Example from the Commission of tha● horrid Sin of Self-Murther .

LONDON , Printed by Tho. Moore . MDCLXXXV .