History IV Illustration and Summary

John Reynolds and unknown artist, The Triumphs of God’s Revenge […] (London: Printed for R. Gosling, and Sold by J. Osborn, 1726), 33 (excerpt).

God’s Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther.
A Spanish History.
History IV. [History 4/30]
Beatrice-Joana, to marry  Alsemero,  causeth  De Flores to murther Alfonso  Piracquo,  who was a Suter to her.  Alsemero  marries her, and finding De Flores and her in adultery, kills them both. Thomaso  Piracquo  challengeth  Alsemero  for his Brothers death.  Alsemero  kills him treacherously in the field, and is beheaded for the same, and his body thrown into the Sea. At his Execution, he  confesseth, that, his Wife and De Flores murthered Alfonso  Piracquo: their bodies are taken up out of their graves, then burnt, and their Ashes thrown into the Air.