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Excerpta Et Collectanea.
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA .
— I 1 . EC Sl ' . iRSA C 0 EC 1 . DISCOVERT OF CONCEALED MURDER . HPHE following singular anecdote was found among the papers of a Ji - relation lately deceased , by a correspondent , vviio has favoured us with it for insertion .
' In the year 1668 , a young gentleman of the West-country cameto London , and soon after , as ill luck would have it , he wedded a wife of ^ Zapping , the youngest daughter of Mrs . Aliceald . In the space of fifteen months , the providence of God sent the husband a daughter , which was left under the care of the grandmother , the husband and his wife retiring to their house in the country . By the time the
daughter came to the age of six years ,- the grandmother died , and the daughter wastaken home . After a stay of about three years , Mrs . Myltystre , a widow , Mrs . Aliceald ' s eldest daughter , having greatly increased her means , forsook the canaille and low inhabitants of Wapping , came into a polite p :: rt of the town , took a house amongst people of quality , and set up for a woman of fashion . Thitherin the 16
, year 79 , did she invite her sister , her daughter , and the husband , to come and pass the winter . This Mrs . Myltystre had a husband ' s brother , who , under the cloak of a Captain , covered a most notorious gamester ; she had also a relation that was an apothecary . It happened that these ali dined together at Mrs . My itystre ' s , on . a certain day , She birth-day of the daughter ; and after dinner , retiring into the parlour , and passing the time in common cliit-chaf , the little daughter took up a sword that was in the room , and pointing it directly to the husband , cried , 'Stick him , stick him , stick " him !"
nhat , says the husband ,. ' would you stick your father ? ' The child replied , ' You are not my father!—Captain Myltystre is my > father !'—Upon which the husb . md gave her a good box on the -ear . Upon that , the Capuim drew the sword , and thrust it through his body . —Down he'dropped , and the wife , sister , and apothecary , m order to m ., ke sure work , all of them trampled upon him till he dead
was quite . They huddled up this horrid affair , and buried him privtUeiy ; and it wa-. given out that he was gone into the country . Some time after , a leiation of the murdered came-to see him , aiid was t . dd , that he was gone int . . the country . He then asked for the wiic : Mrs . Myltystre told him , she was very much out of sorts > what with the grief for her husband ' s absence , and the melancholy accident
of the house being lately burnt ; but , says she , I do what I etui to comfc . it her—I intend to give my brother 2000 or 3000 I . to enublc him to rebuild his house . " The relation applauded her kindness , and so departed . Some time passed ; : w ;; y ; no appearance , no tidings of Mi-. S . obbhie , for that was his name . Messengers were sent to enquir ,: . iter him—Not the least intelligence cnuld be- procured
concerning him—He had never come into the West . The vot . VJI . 3 E
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Excerpta Et Collectanea.
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA .
— I 1 . EC Sl ' . iRSA C 0 EC 1 . DISCOVERT OF CONCEALED MURDER . HPHE following singular anecdote was found among the papers of a Ji - relation lately deceased , by a correspondent , vviio has favoured us with it for insertion .
' In the year 1668 , a young gentleman of the West-country cameto London , and soon after , as ill luck would have it , he wedded a wife of ^ Zapping , the youngest daughter of Mrs . Aliceald . In the space of fifteen months , the providence of God sent the husband a daughter , which was left under the care of the grandmother , the husband and his wife retiring to their house in the country . By the time the
daughter came to the age of six years ,- the grandmother died , and the daughter wastaken home . After a stay of about three years , Mrs . Myltystre , a widow , Mrs . Aliceald ' s eldest daughter , having greatly increased her means , forsook the canaille and low inhabitants of Wapping , came into a polite p :: rt of the town , took a house amongst people of quality , and set up for a woman of fashion . Thitherin the 16
, year 79 , did she invite her sister , her daughter , and the husband , to come and pass the winter . This Mrs . Myltystre had a husband ' s brother , who , under the cloak of a Captain , covered a most notorious gamester ; she had also a relation that was an apothecary . It happened that these ali dined together at Mrs . My itystre ' s , on . a certain day , She birth-day of the daughter ; and after dinner , retiring into the parlour , and passing the time in common cliit-chaf , the little daughter took up a sword that was in the room , and pointing it directly to the husband , cried , 'Stick him , stick him , stick " him !"
nhat , says the husband ,. ' would you stick your father ? ' The child replied , ' You are not my father!—Captain Myltystre is my > father !'—Upon which the husb . md gave her a good box on the -ear . Upon that , the Capuim drew the sword , and thrust it through his body . —Down he'dropped , and the wife , sister , and apothecary , m order to m ., ke sure work , all of them trampled upon him till he dead
was quite . They huddled up this horrid affair , and buried him privtUeiy ; and it wa-. given out that he was gone into the country . Some time after , a leiation of the murdered came-to see him , aiid was t . dd , that he was gone int . . the country . He then asked for the wiic : Mrs . Myltystre told him , she was very much out of sorts > what with the grief for her husband ' s absence , and the melancholy accident
of the house being lately burnt ; but , says she , I do what I etui to comfc . it her—I intend to give my brother 2000 or 3000 I . to enublc him to rebuild his house . " The relation applauded her kindness , and so departed . Some time passed ; : w ;; y ; no appearance , no tidings of Mi-. S . obbhie , for that was his name . Messengers were sent to enquir ,: . iter him—Not the least intelligence cnuld be- procured
concerning him—He had never come into the West . The vot . VJI . 3 E