AT the General Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal delivery, held for the County of Middlesex and Citty of London, upon Friday and Saturday, the 19. and 20. of February Instant. Were arraigned several Malefactors for Crimes of sundry Natures, inconsiderable, other the more remarkable were these that follow.

The first was one Harker an Ostler at the Bell-Inn on Fish-street Hill who was arraigned upon two se­veral Indictments, the one for the Felonious stealing of a Horse, the other for the taking away of Monyes to the value of fourscore Pounds and upwards, from one Mr. Sterling, a Gentleman that lay in the same Inn, it seemes upon the evidence, that this Gentleman overnight spoke to the said Hostler to get his Horse ready the next Morning for his journy; which ac­cordingly was done, and that Morning the Gentleman finding his Horse made ready, took his Portmante wherein was fourscore Pounds and upwards, and laid it on himself upon the Horse and fastned it, and then going back again upon some occasion into the House, at his retutn within a very little time, finds his horse and mony gone and the Ostler to boot, who had tak­en this opportunity of his absence to leap into the [Page 5] the Saddle and ride away with the booty; the Gen­tleman being thus left in the Lurch, finds it to little purpose to pursue after him, but rests for a while as patient as the reflections of so great a loss and disap­pointment would suffer him, It happened the same day towards Evening that a friend of this Gentlemans being in Russel-street near Drury-Lane, towards the Evening saw the aforesaid Hostler passing by, He was then diguised with a Periwig so that he was not easy to be known, however the Gentleman apprehended him and it proved the same person, and he Confess­ed before the justice upon his examination that it was he that rode away with the Gentlemans Horse, and mony, and being demanded what he had done with them, he acquainted them that he had hid the mony (all but a little) that he took out for present occasions in Cane-wood near Highgate, and there according to his directions going over to the place they found it the horse he had left at Holloway tying him to a B [...]sh, in the High-way and upon inquiry in the Ne ghbour­hood there they chanced to heare of him, and the Gentleman had him returned again also.

Upon his tryal he confest that he had rod away with the Horse and mony, but desired the savour of the Court in respect that the Gentleman had his Horse and mony returned again, which matter being left to the Jury, they brought him upon the first indictment for stealing the horse not guilty, upon the second they found him as for taking the mony; notwith­standing the Court not being satisfied with their first Verdict, sent them out again to consider of it, but [Page 3] they brought in the same again that he was not Guil­ty of Stealing the Horse, for that as they said they un­derstood the Gentlemans Horse was delivered to him to hold while the Gentleman went in, which made a Lawful possession, and therefore could be no Felonius taking him away, but the Court seemed to be of another opinion.

The fact was not more knavish then the next was Tragical, which was the tryal of that bloudy and in­humane Villaine, the Butcher that kild his Wife at Islington, the fact was apparently proved against him by divers witnesses to whom he confest it, and by exa­mination taken before a Justice upon his apprehention neither indeed did he go about to deny it at his Tryal but rath [...]r seemed to justified it both by his words and cariage, for when the Court asked him if he did not find a remors and trouble in his spirit for what he had done, he replyed that it did not, and that his Wife m [...]ght thank her self for what she suffered for, that she urged him to it, upon the whole circumstance of the Evidence it appeared that this fellow had lived with this aforesaid wife for the space of near too years, leaving her that time in the Country, and keeping himself in London, where he drove the Trade of a Butcher, of which profession he proved to be from first to last, about the Bowling-ally in Turnbal-street; the Tuesday before the fact was done, the woman his wife, having been with him some days in town, and did by his order go back to the Town where she liv­ed to fetch up some things that he wanted, and was to return again the Tuesday following, which she did and [Page 4] as soon as she came to Town, poor Soul, goes directly to her bloody minded Husband, who seeming all this while to be taking care for a settlement for her, was in the mean while rather studying to destroy her, for upon her arrival he acquaints her that he had tak­en a new Lodging at Islington where they were to lye that night, and thither she must go with him, which she did, following him along Hatton-Garding, to Clarkenwel and so to Islington, where taking his oppor­tunity near the Gravel-pits, a place fit for his hellish purpose, he fell upon her, and in a Barbarous manner gave her several deadly wounds in her head and Breast with her own Pattin, of which wounds she was found dead the next Morning being Saturday, and the same day the Murtherer was also by the providence of the Divine justice found out and discoverd, as hath been formerly related to you in another account of this Targedy.

There was also indicted a young man and a maid that had been lately Servants to a Gentleman whose house being not far out of Town, was lately broke o­pen and Robed, whence they lost several pieces of plate, and other things of greater value, and these two persons being suspected to be the acters or at least ac­cessaries to the robery, were now tryed upon it, the fact upon the tryal appeared to be thus, the Gentle­man of the House was that night abroad, his Wife and maid lay in a roome up one pair of stairs with a little Child of the gentlemans, towards Morning ear­ly comes in three men into the roome in Vizards and a light with them, with Weapons, the one having an [Page 5] Hanger, another an Holbert, and the third a Pistol, in this formidable posture they came to her Bedside.