Strange and true news from Westmoreland. Being a true relation of one Gabriel Harding who coming home drunk, struck his wife a blow on the brest, and killed her out-right, and then denyed the same: likewise how a stranger did come to the house cloathed in green, the people that were eye-witnesses said it was an angel, and how the stranger (or angel) did give sentence on the man for killing of his wife: also how Satan did break the mans neck that did forswear himself, and the stranger or angel did command Satan to hurt none else, and to vanish; which being done, ther was apleasant harmony of musick heard to sound; then did the stranger cloathed in green take his leave of the people; whereof the chiefest of the parish desired it might be put into print, and have hereunto set their hands. Tune is, In summer time,

People / Organizations

• Thomas Passinger Sr. ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed for J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger, [1685

Publication year

1685

ESTC No.

R234345

Grub Street ID

105702

Description

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) ; 1°.

Note

Verse - "Attend good Christian people all,"

Place and date of publication from Wing

Wing reports date of publication as: [1684-86]

Catalogued from Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Ballads, facsimile volume 2, p. 155

Cf. R184676 for a variant of this title.

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