London Chapbook

London Chapbook from 1590; George Bores

A true Discourse.
Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter, a most
wicked Sorcerer, who in the likeness of a Wolf commited many murders,
continuing this devilish practice 25 years, killing and devouring Men,
Women, and Children.
Who for the same fact was taken and executed the 31st of October
last past in the town of Bedbur (Bedburg) near the City of Collin
(Cologne, Köln) in Germany.

Truly translated out of the high Dutch, according to the copy printed in Collin, brought over into England by George Bores ordinary post, the 11th day of this present month of June 1590, who did both see and hear the same.

AT LONDON

Printed for Edward Venge, and are to be
sold in Fleet Street at the sign of the Vine.
A most true discourse,
declaring the life and death of one
Stubbe Peeter, being a most
wicker sorcerer.

Those whom the Lord doth leave to follow the imagination of their own hearts, despising his proffered grace, in the end through the hardness of heart and contempt of his fatherly mercy, they enter the right path to perdition and destruction of body and soul for ever: as in this present history in perfect sort may be seen, the strangeness whereof, together with the cruelties committed, and the long time therein continued, may drive many in doubt whether the same be truth or no, and the rather fore that sundry false and fabulous matters have heretofore passed in print, which hath wrought much incredulity in the hearts of all men generally, insomuch that now of days few things do escape be it never so certain, but that it is embased by the term of a lie or false report.