Strange and lamentable news from the county of Essex : being a true relation of a wonderful and sad accident which happned [sic] on Tuesday the tenth of July, to a country farmer near Witham in the said county, who being in a field at plow, flung a stone at one of his horses, and slew his boy, and afterwards went home, and hang'd himself in his own orchard : also the manner how his wife (leaving her young child on a table) followed him into the orchard, and returning again finding the childes neck broke, she took a knife and kill'd herself : the truth of this is averred by Mr. Ponder minister living in the aforesaid town of Witham.