A true NARRATIVE Of the Proceed at the Sessions-house IN THE OLD-BAYLY, At a Sessions there held On April 25, and 26. 1677.  
Where Nine persons (Six men and Three women) were Condemned to die.  
With a particular Relation of the Young man at Enfield, and his Brother and Sister's Trial and Condemnation; who most barbarously abused his Sweetheart by cutting off one of her Lips, putting out one of her Eyes, slashing her Cheeks, stabbing her in several places, and other Inhuman Cruelties.  
To which is added, a true Account of the Bloody Murder in the Hay-market, where a Coachman lately killed his Wife with a Fire-fork.  
As also an Account how many are Burned in the Hand, Transported, and to be Whipped.  

With Permission.  
Ro. L'Estrange.   
LONDON: Printed in the year 1677.   

A true Narrative of the Proceed at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayly.  
THe 25th of this Instant April began the Sessions at Justice-hall in the Old-Bayly. The remarkable Occurrences there, were as follows:  
A fellow of a good Name, but poor Condition, and worse Quality, was Convicted for laying an Embargo on a man whom he met on the Road, by bidding him Stand and Deliver, but to little purpose: for the Traveller had no more Money than a Capuchin, but told him, all the treasure he had was a pound of Tobacco, which he civilly surrendered; and the pitiful Padder to verify the Proverb, and play at small Games rather than be idle, accepted. Being violently taken from his person on the Road, this in strict Law was death; but the Court mixing Mercy with Justice, was pleased to set him by before Condemnation.  
A young fellow abusing the Trust reposed in him by a Person of Quality, whom he had the honour to serve, had most ingratefully and treacherously robbed him of Jewels, Money, etc. to the value of Twelve hundred pounds; and intending, it seems, to spend it abroad for acquiring some French Accomplishments, was taken on board a Ship at Portsmouth. He pleaded guilty, and begging the favour of Clergy, had it very fully bestowed upon him. All or most part of the Prize was refunded, and the ingenious Gentleman had only a signal Mark left him of all his booty.  
A woman, whose age might have promised more Chastity and prudence, being privately delivered of a bastard-child, made shift, by her wickedness, to deprive the poor Infant of that life she had contributed to by her wantonness. She pretended it came by its untimely end, by falling from her body on the floor whilst she unhumanely went from the bed towards the door; but she concealing it above a week under her Pillow, the Law justly Condemned her as a wilful Murtheress.  
An old Offender having lately, with two of his Female Confederates, stolen a piece of Stuff from a Gentleman in Ludgate-street, had the impudence, within two days, to take their progress again by the same shop, and being known, he was apprehended, and now Convicted; and having formerly received the civility of the Warm Iron, was Condemned to die.  
A man for Personating another, and in his Name entering into a Recognizance, was convict of Felony; and truly was so far inexcusable, since another for the like offence but two Sessions ago was Condemned and carried to Execution, though under the Gallows he a gracious Reprieve. However, in this Case the Crime being committed only before a Justice of Peace, it was some doubt, whether within the Statute, which makes it Capital; and so the Court waved Sentencing him to die, discreetly inclining in dubious Cases to favour rather than severity.  
The next was a Case wholly extraordinary; and as it was the first Precedent of Punishment on that most necessary Statute against cutting off Noses, dissiguring and maiming his Majesty's Subjects; so in the Circumstances, for Malice, Cruelty, and Barbarity, it exceeds all the Precedents of former Ages.  
A young man of Enfield, being Fellow-servant with a very pretty young maid, pretended Love to her; but meeting with a Repulse, he consults his Sister, who advised him to get to bed to her, and get her with Child, and then leave her. This She-devil's Counsel, it seems, the Maid's Virtue hindered him from putting in execution; and therefore finding all his hopes like to whither, they take new measures: There was no body in Family but these two and an aged Master and Mistress, who being both in bed, on the 20th of February last, as this innocent Virgin and her treacherous Sweetheart were sitting together, his own Brother and Sister came and knocked and called him by his name, who opened the door and let them in; but no sooner were they entered, but this Sister, more like a Fiend than a Woman, fell upon this harmless Maid, and with a Knife, whilst the other Brother held her, and in a most inhuman manner cut out one of her Eyes, the sight whereof she has lost; cut her Nose towards the upper part so desperately, that two bones, produced in Court, were since taken out of it; her Lips they slashed so, that with much difficulty, and not yet perfectly, she can use them in speech; two of her Teeth they beat out; gave her a lamentable wound in the Neck, and two stabs, besides a great wound in the Arm; all which was testified by the Chirurgeon: and so leaving her thus mangled as dead, went home; after which the pretended Sweetheart runs up stairs, wakes his Master and Mistress, cries out Thiefs; the Neighbours come in, send for a Surgeon: The fellow, to colour his Villainy, pretends to have been knocked down, and complains of a blow on his forehead, but inconsiderable. After some days the Maid comes to herself, and declares the Authors of this Cruelty: One of the Criminals flies, but was afterwards taken. No theft appeared to have been committed; so that it being evident that it was a premeditated act of Malice to render her deformed and unfit for any body's Addresses, because she would not consent to his desires, all three of them were found guilty within the Statute, which makes such barbarous Assaults Felony without Clergy, and so deservedly received Sentence of Death.  
Here was expectation of the Trial of a Midwife for taking up a Child out of its Grave, etc. but for some reasons it was put off. Also a horrid Murder was in Easter-week committed in the Hay market by Charing-cross, where a Hackney-Coachman falling out with his Wife about their Horses going to work, in his devilish fury got up a Fire fork, and therewith stabbed her into the head and several parts of the body, of which wounds, after near a weeks languishing, she died, and by the Coroners Inquest on the 26th instant it was found wilful Murder; but the Husband immediately after the blows given, made his escape, and is not since heard of.  
There were in all Nine persons, Six men and Three women, Condemned; Nine Burned in the Hand; and Six, for petty Larceny, to be Whipped at the Carts Tayl.  
FINIS.