A full and true RELATION OF a most Barbarous and Dreadful MURDER; Committed on the Body of Mrs. Kirk, wife of Edmund Kirk Drawer at the Rose-Tavern in PIE-CORNER, On Sunday May the 25th. 1684.  
Whose Body was found in a Pit near Tyburn, supposed to be Murdered by her aforesaid Husband.  
EDmund Kirk was a Drawer at the Rose-Tavern at Pie-corner, where he had lived with the Master of the House about a Fortnight or three Weeks at most; Friday the 23 d. of this Instant, being the day of the Execution of John Gower who Mutthered his Wife, and Francis Robinson, who were then Executed at Tyburn; he asked his Master's leave that he might go and see them suffer, and at his return, brought back the Speeches and Confessions of them, which he particularly related to the Family. Much about the time he came to his aforesaid Master, he was Married to a Woman who was Servant in a Lawyer's house in Dove Court on Fish-street Hill, and on Sunday in the Afternoon went to see his said Wife, and invited her to walk into the Fields, as appears by the other Servants: they took their walk towards Paddington, and about seven a Clock at Night Edmund Kirk returned to his Master's House, where he was observed to be in a great heat, but not any ways Melancholy, or Indisposed in his Temper.  
On Tuesday Morning, about ten of the Clock the Body of a Woman Murdered, was found in a Pit within two Fields of Tyburn, her Arms and other parts of her Body were black and blue, and her Throat c●t from one Ear to another. The Constable of Paddington acquainted with it, came to view the Body, and searching the Pockets of this poor murdered Wretch, found a Letter which she designed to send to some Friends in the Country, and was writ by her Master's Clerk, with Directions in it how to send to her. By the Directions of the Letter, he acquainted her Master, that the Body of a woman was found Murdered at such a place, and such a Letter in her Pocket. The Gentleman having missed his Servant from Sunday, and knowing that her Husband lived with a Vintner at the Rose-Tavern at Pie-corner, went this Morning, being the 28th of May, to his Master's House, where examining him about his Wife, he seemed in a strange horror and confusion of Spirit, upon which he was carried before Sr. William Turner, who Committed him to Nengate. He did own before Sr. William, that he went out with her towards Paddington, and withal said he brought her back again; but the Circumstances appearing very plain against him, he confessed he walked with her from her Master's House towards Paddington, and at three of the Clock in the Afternoon, he went from his Master's House to his Wife, and without his Master's Knowledge took his Cane from behind the door, and at his return at seven a Clock, brought it back with him and set it in the same place. When the Body was found, there was also found a Brass Ferule of a Cane, of which notice being given to Sr. Wm. Turner, the Cane was produced, which was bloody a foot from the end of it, & the Ferule off; which said Ferule by the Description the Constable of Paddington has given of it, does certainly belong to the said Cane. Edmund Kirk, does acknowledge that he took the said Cane out with him but will not plainly and positively confess the Murder, though by all Circumstances, he does appear to be the cruel and barbarous Author of it. He continued at his Master's house at Pie-corner from the time of the commtting of this Murder, and did not in his carriage and behaviour appear to his Master or Fellow Servants under any trouble or disquiet of mind, till this very morning, when he was apprehended; and then was under a strange surprise and consternation, and trembled like an Aspin-Leafe. The poor Woman who was thus inhumanely Butchered, was judged by those who knew her before this fatal mischief, and by others who have seen the body since, to have been with Child, which probably she was before Marriage: and some little Items have been taken notice of in his former Expressions, as if his marriage had been rather upon force, to prevent a greater shame than in the choice of his Affections; what was the true cause, does not yet plainly appear, but he was observed to discourse unwillingly of her & was always displeased with any expressions which related to her.  
Thus by this lamentable instance may we see the strange power the Devil has over the mind and affections of some men, who as this person, though he had seen John Gower Executed on the Friday before for murdering his Wife, yet could take no warning from his sad example, but on Sunday following (a day which more particularly aught to have deterred him from so Bloody a murder) commits the same crime himself, by which he may expect the same miserable and shameful death.   

London Printed by Elizabeth Mallet in Black-Horse Alley near Fleet-Bridge, 1684.