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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48599	Itur Mediteranium a true accompt given of the proceedings of the Right Honourable, Lord Glin, The Lord Chief Justice of England, and the Honourable Barron Hill, one of the Barrons for the Exchequer, in their Summer circuit in the counties of Berks, Oxford, Gloucester, Monmouth, Hereford, Worcester, Salope and Stafford.	Lineall, John.	1658 (1658)	Wing L2331; ESTC R22285	7,339	20

false Rumour did arise VVhich was the cause then of great wo Th e'nsuing lines the truth shall show STAFFORD Fear where no fear waa Being a true Relation of a strange passage that happened in the Shire Hall of Stafford in the County of Stafford the seventeenth day of August 1658. the Lord Glin Lord cheife Justice of England sitting there for Gaole delivirie and the right Honorable Baron Hill for Nisi Prisses Listen a while I will relate VVhat at Staffod befell of late At that Counties Summer Assize By a false rumour did arise Out of ones mouth on him I frown Who said a Beam was tumbling down Even that same time from roofe oft'hall VVhich did amaze both great and small The Barron from the bench did go The Lawyers followed him also Through all the croud that Judge did pass Till down the staires he gotten was The people pressed on the raile By force it broke which made them quaile Then they fell one upon another And some they did there almost smother One Lawyer lost part of his Gown Another had a broken crown Some there were bruised in the back and others legs they went to wrack Some lost their hats some lost their bands others were crusht in arms and hands Yea some through fear durst not arise Being more opprest then by Excise Some stood by them quaking through fear More then Quakers it did appear there many panted for more breath Expecting then untimely death Many were there pluckt from that place God knows whether they cal'd for grace or thought of heaven or else of Hell Upon the stairs they did them quell they trod upon them pressing down Gentlemen Yeoman and the Clown Even as a storm it came in hast But God be prais'd that storm is past And though Reports most fals are spread there is but one of them yet dead His Name was William Pickard That fatall fall did him discard From living mens society To be in dead mens company Yet many there were bruised sore our Neighbors harms we must deplore the Sheriff heard one cry treason And he without a just Reason the Judge that time he did forsake And to his flight did him betake For hast he left his Cloak behind His Page him following did it find And to his Master gave again Reward he had then for his pain one womans smock it did appear Her petticotes Rent from her clear VVhether she lost them yea or no That for a truth I cannot show Another she her head cloaths lost Amongst the crowd as she was tost Her hair it fell about her eares She like a Fury then appears The Lord Chief Justice I commend Who there was constant to the end For from that Hall he would not start Like Nehemiah he plaid his part No base Sanballat could him fear Or make him flye it did appear He kept his place being grave and wise Though fals Reports did then arise He bad the Gaoler look to 's Jayl Lest in his trust he then should fail Yet for all that one ran away For all his hast one did him stay And brought him to the bar again Who then a Pris'ner did Remain Till he was sentenced to dye For stealing horse flesh certainly And yet that Williams is alive The Judge in love did him Reprieve But gave the Sheriff a command To banish him out of the Land I wish all theeves were served so Then Juries should have lesse to do And true men then enjoy their own Which by fals theeves is dayly stoln One woman she condemned was That kil'd her child alas alas that she should be so void of grace In whose lewd heart God had no place Her fact she did deny till death Yea till the Rope did stop her breath Four theeves were burned in the hand I wish no theeves were in England Then God should more be glorifi'd Whose truth by theeves is still deny'd I have you told the sum of all What then was done in Stafford Hall If you will walk now in that street A second News it shall you greet Some said that hall Roof was faln down Others cry'd fire was in the Town Some said this and others speak that And some they cry'd they knew not what Some ran like to Orlando mad To quench the fire which made some sad But God be prais'd no fire there was Though it for currant then did passe That shire Hall it is firm and sure In good Repair long to indure If any ask me the truth I le tell How that disaster first befell Which was the cause then of great wo As by experience some did know Some idle boyes were on the Hall There walking made the dust to fall Amongst the Lawyers at the bar And that was it first bred the scar then unadvised words one spake VVhich made many the Hall forsake If some had not then fled away their harms they had escap'd that day The Application MAns daies as swift doe passe as doth the tide Or as a Swallow which throug'th Aire doth glide Or as an Arrow from a strong mans Bowe And as a thought which God alone doth know As they are swift their number is unknown To us frail men one day we cannot own The number of our dayes God doth conceal To Adams Race he will not them Reveal Because that they should still prepare to die that we with him might live Eternally O that all men would learn for to be wise For in one hour great dangers may arise To the impairing of life goods and all To Gods choyce ones afflictions dayly fall Those men in Stafford Hall did not once dream That a fals Rumour of a falling Beam Should to their lives and limbs bring such decay The like was never heard off till that day Let those that scap'd then praise the Lord of might Who saw his judgements on their neighbors light Yet in great mercy did their lives then spare Who by desert should have had with them share At Stafford Town the Circuit there did end Then both the Judges homeward did intend The Lord Chief Justice Augusts eighteenth day Towards Harding in Flintshjre he rode away And Baron Hill from Stafford that day went To Taunton Deane he was then fully bent God blesse them both with uprightnesse of heart To clear the guiltless guilty make to smart Then where they sit that coast shall still be clear Not many theeves before them dare appear Penned by John Lineall FINIS