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A13794	The True lamentable discourse of the burning of Teuerton in Deuon-shire the third day of Aprill last past, about the hower of one of the clocke in the after-noone being Market day, 1598. At what time there was consumed to ashes about the number of 400 houses with all the money and goods that was therein: and fyftie persons burnt aliue through the vehemencie of the same fyer.		1598 (1598)	STC 24093; ESTC S103033	6,643	14

more the number increased insomuch that the people were so amazed they knew not which way to turne nor where the most neede was The fier increased so fast grew so vehement and spread so far that at last there was about 400 houses on fier at once so that euery man was glad to shift for himselfe and so nere as he could to saue his awne life but all in vaine for he which euen now rested in hope his house shoulde escape the daunger in the turning of a hand had all on fier about his cares the winde beating the flambe in their faces all which came still so sodenly that there was no remedy to be had for the same Most dreadfull was the noyse which was then hearde in euery corner and street of the Towne women pitiously screeking maydens bitterly crying and children roaring out of measure the mother running to saue her children the husband for the wife neighbor calling for neighbor friend for friend while they were beaten out of the towne with raging flames of fier For so extreame and outragious did the fier passe from house to house there was no loking to saue their goods no way to preserue them from destruction for all the Cloth in the market wares in their shops goods and houshold stuffe money plate apparell and bedding yea all was burnt and nothing sau'd and which is more to bee lamented diuers townsmen did hazard themselues so farr within the daunger of the fier to saue some part of their goodes that they neuer returned backe againe but were there most pitiously burned to death and consumed to ashes Diuers of them being of the best men in the Towne Many children and other feeble persons was burnt in the houses yea horses and other Cattell in stables and backe places with all their corne and victuall Among the rest there was an old blinde man burnt named Nicholas Hartnell whom his friendes hadd brought foorth of his bed layde him for his better saftie in the Market house but while they were making shift for themselues in some other sort before they could returne againe the poore man was by fier turned into ashes There was in like manner one Lawd and his wife which were founde lying in the streete arme in arme burnt to death but not quite consumed At what time there was found lying betweene them fiue Pound in Gold with the which as it seemed they sought to flie away But being smothered by the smoke and and fiers flame they hadde their passage wofullye stayed there was found the sculles and bones of many more Likewise one Beeres wife a woman of good reputatiō was burnt in the street And also one widow Prouse before she could get out of her owne doores suffred the like tormenting death Then well apayd was that man that had the benefit to kepe himselfe and his familie from danger so that for the hast they made to get away into the fieldes they ouerthrewe and tumbled downe one another in their passage forth The Tyles by the beate of the fier flew cracking from the houses like as it had been a company of wel-charged Muskets ratling against some sconce And againe to heare the houses cracke and the burned tymber fall down with might and maine made the verye hearts of the people to shake for feare When in short space after they sawe whole houses tumbling to the grounde after they had a while stood tottering too and fro with the mighty blastes of the South-west winde At what time it was hard to say whether their sorrow or feare was greatest when they behelde their goodes burnt to ashes and hearde the thundering noyse of the falling houses which caus'd the firme earth to quake and tremble vnder theyr feete Truely whosoeuer doth enter into consideration hereof must needes acknowledge their case to be most lamentable and their sorrowe vnspeakeable during the time of this terrible fier the rage whereof lasted not aboue one hower and a halfe and yet in that small space had it burnt to ashes as I sayd before aboue the number of Foure Hundred houses most of them belonging to the wealthiest men in the Towne with all the goods that were in them so that al the substantiall townsmen were constrained to lye in the fieldes with their wofull wiues children and to lodge themselues on the cold ground that in the morning had choyce of beds to goe vnto such was their sodaine wracke and hard fortune Therefore it is a vaine thing to trust in the vncertaintie of worldlye riches which being gotten with trauell and kepte with care is notwithstanding sone lost being in hazard of a Thousand dangers And therfore most happy and blessed are they which according to the counsaile of the holy Ghost doe lay vp their treasure in Heauen where it can perish by no perrill that can happen but doth euer remayne safe in the sure keeping of the Lord God of hoastes Before the fier was fully ended and diligent search made there was founde lacking as it is verye credibly reported an Hundred persons or there-about of the which number as I haue alredy mentioned diuers were found dead in the streets shoppes and houses I meane in the place where shopps and houses late before stoode The residue of the wofull people remaining yet aliue being ouer burdened with extredme sorrow runs vp and downe the fieldes like distraught and framick men being driuen as before is mentioned to shroud themselues vnder trees hedges lying on the bare grounde moreouer they are so greatlye distrest for lacke of food that they seeme to each manns sighte more liker Spirits and Ghostes then liuing creatures Likewise it is by wise men verilye thought that the losses of thys Towne wil not be recouered againe vnder Three or Foure hundred Thousand Poundes But you shall vnderstande that notwithstanding all the force of this consuming fier there is yet some Twenty houses preserued the dwellings of poore and sillie men And certaine almes houses which is a most rare and strange thinge For as diuers Marchants of this Citie is creadibly certified by letters that the fier inuiornd those sillie Cottages on euery side burning other houses to the ground which stood about them and yet had they no hurt at all Surely if wee shoulde enter into consideration hereof we could not chuse but confesse that this was the onely worke of God to make his power manifest to men as hee did in delyuering the Three children out of the fierie furnace euen so did be preserue those poore persons with their houses and goodes for some speciall cause best knowne to himselfe according to that holy canticle sung by the blessed Virgin Marie he hath filled the hungry with good thinges but the rich he sent emtie away It is said of some that this was a iust punishmēt of god brought vpon that Towne for their vnmercifulnesse small regard of the poore which were dayly seene to dye and perish in their streetes for lacke

The True lamentable discourse of the burning of Teuerton in Deuon-shire the third day of Aprill last past about the hower of one of the Clocke in the after-noone being Market day 1598. At what time there was consumed to Ashes about the number of 400 houses with all the money and goods that was therein and Fyftie persons burnt aliue through the vehemencie of the same Fyer AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot for Thomas Millington and are to be sould at his shop in Corn-hill vnder St. Peters Church The lamentable spoyle of Teuerton YT is not vnknowne to many and chiefly to English Marchants that the Towne of Teuerton in Deuon-shire about Ten myles on this side Exceter was the chiefe Market for Cloth that is in all the West parts of England pleasantlye situate vppon the cleere running Ryuer of Exe garnished with manye costlye and goodly buildinges inhabited with diuers rich and wealthy Marchants and so well peopled as no other Towne of the same bignesse in all those quarters could compare therewith And by reasō of the Market kept therin euery Monday for Cloth and other commodities it was greatly frequented of all the countrey people neere adioyning especially of Clothiers and such other persons as had any dealinges therein where they were sure of sale and to haue present money for their commodities were it neuer so much where alwayes before dinner they had their Coyne truely payde which was no small benefit to all the poore men of the West partes as Weauers and Tuckers and such like But such is the mutabillite of fortune and the vncertaintie of our mortall state that no man can make assurance of that hee hath nor warrant his owne welfare one minute of an hower as by this following example and many other the like is manifest For we may bee well assured that the Third daye of Aprill last when the rich Inhabitants of Teuerton rose in the morning Nay when they were in the Market at Noone they little thought that before night their wealth should haue been turned into such want but now behold a thing more wonderfull he which at one a clocke was worth fiue Thousand Pound as the Prophet saith drunke his wine in bowles of fine Siluer plate had not by two a Clocke so much as a woodden dish left to eate his meate in nor a house to couer his sorrowfull head neyther did thys happen to one man alone but to many other being neyther in danger of the crueltie of warrs nor on the Seas where they might feare the furie of waters But when they thought themselues secure and farre from any imynent perrill in prime of the bright day not whē their Towne was emptie but when their streetes swarmed with store of people not when they were a sleepe or naked in their b●ds when they could not shift for themselues but when they were awake apparelled and fit for any businesse Lo then I say sodenly as it were in a twinkling of an eye came that great griefe vppon them which turn'd their wealth to miserable want their riches to vnlookt-for pouertie and how was that mary sir by Fyer But no fier from Heauen no vnquenchable fier such as worthily fell on the sinfull Citie of Sodome and Gomora but a sillie flash of fier blazing forth of a frying pan the circumstance whereof I will briefly shew you The fier first began at the West end of the Towne on the fardest side of the sayde faire Riuer about one a clocke in the after noone in the very prime and chiefe of the Market whē people were most busiest in the sale of their commodities For there was dwelling in a little lowe thatched house a poore beggerly woman who hadde got a companion fit for her purpose I meane an other woman of the like condicion And they together went to bake pan-cakes with strawe for their abillitie and prouision was so good that there was no wood in the house to doe it And as they were busie about their cookerie sodenly the fier got into the Pan which also caught present hould on the strawe lying hard by by meanes whereof the house being very low was by the high blaze of the strawe fiered in the verye roofe whych by the force of an extreame high wind which blew strongly in the West kindled with such vehemencie that their was no help for the same the fier wherof tooke hould of a certaine bay-house neere adioyning and from thence it passe to the Towne milles The winde blowing still fiercely did driue the fier into the Towne by this meanes in lesse then halfe an hower the whole Towne was set on fier and after burnt except the Church Court-house which sometime belonged to the Earle of Deuon-shire But marke what followed men would haue thought that vpon a Market day when euery street was so well replenishe with people frō all parts there had been help enough quickly to haue quencht the flambe thereof hauing also the commoditie of a ryuer neere adioyning But yt came not so to passe for they had neyther bookes nor buckets fit for such seruice which all other wise and discreete Citizens doe politiequely prouide against such casualties which might haue been a meanes of their preseruation Notwithstanding it is sayd that the chiefe of the towne had often been in hand to make such prouision but neuer brought it to effect for howsoeuer it was well motioned it was ill remembred the want whereof they now felt to their great sorrow and cost for whether it were couetousnesse or necligence or both which in these dayes is the cause of great euill it is certaine they were destitute of such engines the misse whereof when they found then all too late they bewailed their approned follie which was vndoubtedly Gods iust Iudgement for their iniquities by the which let all other Townes take example Whereby we may gather it is not in mans power to preuent with strength of hād the least plague which the Lord doth purpose to bring on any place For you shall vnderstand that all that day the wind being at West-South-west blowing extreame hard the power thereof was so great high and vehement that it inforest the kindled flambe to rise most fiercely beating the same toward the Towne in most outragious sort so that by the time the people with all expedition hadd gathered vnto that place to quench the furie thereof beholde ere they wist the fier had taken hould in the Principall place of the Towne and by that time they came backe againe and got thither they perceaued other houses to burne in like maner so that while manye were busie in helping their neighbours their owne houses was in as ill a case Then began the crie to grow most grieuous in euery part of the Towne the mighty winde still increasing the furie of the inraged fier here stoode one man crying for help there another another and another wringing their hands and making great lamentation more and