History XIII 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), 171 (excerpt).

The Triumph of God’s Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther.
A French History.
History XIII. [History 13/30]
La  Vasselay  poisoneth  her Waitingsmaid, Gratiana, because she is jealous that her Husband De Merson is dishonest with her; whereupon he lives from her: in revenge whereof she  causeth  her man La  Villete  to murther him in a Wood, and then marries him in requital. The said La  Villete, a year after,  riding thorow the same Wood, his horse falls with him, and almost kills him; when he  confesseth  the murther of his Master, De Merson, and  accuseth  his Wife, La  Vasselay, to be the cause thereof:  so  for these their bloody crimes, he is hanged, and she burnt alive.