Page:The Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter.djvu/14

 eene, for he the caitife had mot rauenoulye deuoured, whoe flehe he eteemed both weet and dainty in tate.

Thus this damnable Stubbe Peeter liued the tearme of fiue and twenty yeeres, unupected to be Author of o many cruell and vnnaturall murders, in which time he had detroyed and poyled an vnknowen number of Men, Women, and Children, heepe, Lambes, and Goates: and other CatttellCattell [sic], for when he could not through the warines of people drawe men, Women, or Children in his danger, then like a cruell and tirannous beat he would woorke his cruelty on brut beats in mot auadge ort, and did act more micheefe and cruelty then would be credible, although high Germany hath been forced to tate the trueth thereof.

By which meanes the inhabitantes of Collin, Bedbur and Cperadt, eeing themelues o greeuouly endaungered, plagued, and moleted by this greedy & cruel Woolfe, who wrought continuall harme and micheefe, inomuch that few or none durt trauell to or from thoe places without good prouiion of defence, and all for feare of this