THis Bearer promising me to see you before he left Dublin , gave me the occasion of troubling you with this Letter , requesting that you will be mindful of my small business , amidst the many more of greater concern ; for my sole dependence is upon your care in the management of it , &c. But before I leave you , I must acquaint you with a most Horrid and Barbarous Murder committed by one William Sherloge ( and a certain Woman that was a Neighbour of his , who was both his Wench , and his Accomplice ) on the Body of his own Wife and Child , on Sunday night last the 8th of this Month : And thus it was ; This Villain Sherloge ( as was found upon examination ) had kept company with this Woman , who lived near his own House ; and because they could not have the freedom of each others unlawful Embraces , they both consulted to Dispatch his Wife , and accordingly he went out after night fell , and return'd with his Jezabel in the dead time of the night , and entred the House , where they found his Wife and Child a-sleep , and arming himself with a Hatchet and Sword , he went to the Bed-side , and took his Wife by the Hair , and knockt her Brains out , and afterwards stabb'd her in several places : the Child seeing her Mother so strangely Butcher'd , lamentably wept , and begged her Father not not to kill her Mother , and she wou'd kiss him ; yet nothing prevail'd with him . In the mean time this Jilt was not Idle , but imploy'd her self in murdering the Servant-Maid , which she supposed she had done , by knocking her on the Head with a Mallet , and then dragg'd her out of the House , but ( by providence ) the Maid reviv'd , and made shift to creep to a Neighbour's House , which was about a Musquet-shot from the place . But in the mean while , ( which is the most dreadful part of this Narrative ) the cursed Whore told him that the Child must be kill'd , or else she would Hang them both ; he told her that he could not kill his own Child , but bid her do it ; which she immediately did in a most cruel manner , and laid the innocent Babe ( which was about six years of age ) by her murdered Mother ; and having got some dry Wood , they plac'd it about the mangled bodies , and then sert the House on fire . The day approaching , the Woman-murderer went out , and not finding the Maid , she went home , and Sherloge appear'd early in the morning , almost naked , crying out , that Rogues had murder'd his Family , and sett his House on fire , and that he had escaped out at a Window ; but the Maid's discovery caus'd both him and his Whore to be apprehended , and carried before Capt. Evans , who committed them to Cork Goal . Great care is taken to recover the Maid , and it is supposed she will do well . My curiosity led me to the place , where I saw the remains of those murdered bodies ; the Child's heart , and some part of her body remain untouch'd , and that part of the Mother's body and head that received the strokes . If I should descend to every particular , it would exceed the bounds of a Letter ; and therefore I have only sent you what I heard deliver'd by the Girl afore mentioned , and am ,