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21                  supplied him with several sums of money till finding no hopes of reclaiming him, she withheld her hand; he therefore burst one night into her bed chamber, and cut her throat from ear to ear, ra- vished his own sister and the maid, and robbing the house, set it on fire, and burnt them both in it. This unparalleled piece of villainy soon made a noise over all the kingdom, and a proclamation was issued, promising a                  hundred pounds reward to take him dead or alive, which made him fly into France, where he picked Cardinal Richelieu's                  pocket, as he was saying mass at St Din- nis's church in Paris; which the King perceiving, Gilder Roy made motions to                  him not to take any notice, and should see good sport, upon which the king let him alone and after prayers, going to                  the cardinal, he asked him if he had any money about him?--who missing his purse, fell into a great surprise; but the king, knowing which way it went, fell a                  laughing, till being tired with laughter, he was willing the cardinal should know what was become of it, that he might have it again, thinking the thief to be an                  honest man; but upon looking round for