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A15677	The vvonders of this windie winter By terrible stormes and tempests, to the losse of liues and goods of many thousands of men, women and children. The like by sea and land, hath not beene seene, nor heard of in this age or the world.		1613 (1613)	STC 25949; ESTC S103315	10,277	22

inualuable sums of money to the great griefe and care of many hundreds The like hindrance though not in that kinde befell vnto diuers Citizens of London in October last of whom I know some now dwelling in S. Sepulchers parish without New-gate whose names for good cause I omit who being at Sitting-borne faire in Kent where dispatching their businesse and sending their goods and wares vp towards London in a small Bark or Ship were most lamentably sunke and cast away in the reach ouer against Barking in Essex In the same County of Essex at Ilford where a Gentlemans house standeth brauely built with a high turret leaded ouer had the log and leads theron blowne off and by the windes turnd vp into a round role which to all mens reason may seeme strange that the windes should bee of so great a force to remoue so waighty a substance as that mettle is knowne to be of From hence if wee but hearken downe to the Sea side and at most of our coast Townes wee shall heare no other reports but of shipwracks and of drowned people in great numbers taken vp and as it is verefied by some of great credit that at one coast Towne of England there hath beene at one certaine time a whole Cart-loade of drowned men carryed from the Sea side Oh wofull hearing oh heauy and sad spectacle it euen strikes my very soule with feare to tell it in many places where I haue béen I haue heard bitter complaints made some by fathers for their lost children some by children for their lost fathers which the sea hath buried vp in watery granes women for husbands brother for brother and friend for friend sorrow is on euery side and all wrought by these late outragious tempests neuer the like in this our sinfull age of the world But againe to our purpose another accident comes to my mind which is requisite and fit to bee reported for the strangenesse thereof for it begets cause of heauines a certaine ship of London laden with rich commodities of diuers Merchants of this honorable City making for the East countries and setting forth before Michalmas last hath euer since by tempestuous and crosse windes béene tossed vp and downe the narrow seas some time vpon one coast somtime vpon another still driuen from place to place in great danger no way able by reason of contrarie gales to finish their intended voiage but are now at last cast backe vpon our owne shoare where the Owners are forced againe to re-victuall their ship to their great losse and hindrance a charge lying too heauie vpon some mens backs but God is mercifull and sendeth these afflictions to try the patience of his seruants whose losses no doubt but he will restore with a three folde increase of plentifull blessings Thus by degrees do we enter into wo after wo where the reports of one mishap still prooues an induction to another either of dangers by sea or losses vpon land which I am heare bound vpon occasion is intermingle contrary to true method in writing but not to be tedious this must I certifie you of that there is intelligeces vpon the exchange among Marchants of the ouerflowing drowning of townes in the Low-countries where many hūdreds haue perished in their owne houses by the merciles seas driuen in by these late windes oh heart breaking newes especially to that country people there borne and here dwelling in London in this sodaine manner to heare of the sad farwel of their friends and kindred thus to loose their deare liues It is certefied likewise that the famous City of Antwerpe that floure of Brabant for famous buildings hath had great spoiles by this wind and waters and that part of that worthy city is ouerflowed thereby to the impouerishing of diuers Marchants whose factors be here resident in England but because forraine reports doe not much concerne our discourses we wil fil vp this our volume with our home bred casualties The towne of Douer here in Kent can wel declare the powerful strength of these Winter winds where from time to time is vioiently cast out of the seas whole shelues and heapes of sand and stone with many other things to the great wonder of the inhabitants those that durst aduenture to stand vpon the shoare side in the fulnesse of any of these tempests did behold strange battles betwixt the wind and waters where as it séemed waues like mountaines danst in the skies T. and the whole seas appeared like a fiery world al sparkling red such was it and so terrible that it euen frighted the carefull shipmen to looke aboue hatches The county of Kent hath borne a pittiful share of these late wracked spoiles and hath receiued as much losse as any one country beside amongst many other hurts there happened this one here following wil I make knowne as a thing both strange and feareful About some foure miles from Canterbury at a towne called Great Chart vpon Saint Iohns day last being Sunday in the time of Euening prayer the Church being full of people arose a most terrible tempest of lightning wind and thunder raging extreamly to the great affright of man woman and child there remayning in the middest of which feare broake into the Church a most vgly shape out of the ayer like vnto a broad eyd bul T. and dasht the Ministers booke out of his hand with which blow the same arme and hand was stroken lame and black whereupon the whole audience so fearefully pressed one vpon another to get forth that many were hurt and almost bruzed to death amongst which number a Millor was quite slaine by the fright of this mishapen spirit for so was it thought to be which without doing further hurte vanished away taking with it a part of the Church wal leauing the whole assembly lying almost smothered one vpon anothers back It is not for vs mortals to iudge the euent hereof but this is reported of the same towne of Chart the parishioners haue an euil custome among them for continually be it either in seruice or sermon time they wil stand in troupes of foure or fiue in a company in diuers parts of the Church conferring talking of worldly affaiers not regarding at al the words of the Minister but rather behaue themselues as it were in a faier or market to the great griefe of each well disposed Christian preparing himself to the seruice of Almighty God vnder whose shield we ought to make our defence against the temptations of the Prince of darkenesse And now to draw nere vnto a conclusion I thinke it not impertinent nor vnfitting to ad vnto these our feareful discourses in like maner a terrible tempest of wind and thunder that happened néere vnto the towne of Nottingham as it is recorded by I. S. a Citizen of London and knowne for a troth of the inhabitants there now This marueilous tempest in great fury the wind outragiously blowing came thundering thorough two townes and beate downe many houses with part of both the Churches the one of them a vilage nere vnto the foresaid towne of Nottingham called Sueton adioyning to the Riuer of Trent which had their bels cast to the out-side of the Church-yard and some webs of lead foure hundred foote into the field writhen like vnto a paier of gloues the Riuer of Trent running betwéene the two townes had the water with the mud in the bottom carried a quarter of a mile and cast against trees and the trees torne vp by the rootes and cast twelue score off also a child was taken foorth of a mans hand two speares length high carryed a hundred foote from him and then let fall and so died also fiue or sixe men therabout dyed by this tempest God be mercifull and grant vs patience in such like extremities many other strange accidents there hapned as then of the truth wherof let no man doubt for of the same there is sufficient proofe and will be verefied if occasion serue God with his out-stretched arme defend and keepe vs from the like death as many vnhappely haue here in our Country both by sea and land tasted and grant that wee may seriously to our owne goods beare in remembraunce all these forepassed reports that they may put vs in minde to shunne the wayes of the wicked for all these related calamities haue béene laied vpon vs for our sinnes we sée how our good Father is loath to chide vs too fircely and vnwilling to strike vn too terribly therefore let these passed warnings mooue vs to good life which God for his chosen sake grant Amen FINIS

one horse by the fiercenes of the wind were blowne beside and there drowned both horse and all God be merciful vnto vs and preserue vs from all such like mischances The like mishap befell in Nouember last vnto two York-shire men as it is verified by some Gentlemen of the Innes of Court and Chancery which knew the parties the one of them a Tanner named Francis Browne the other a Clothier called Richard Smith both dwelling in a Towne neere Wakefield side called Therby which two Countrie-men falling out vpon small occasions wilfully purposed to come vp to London and there put their Causes of themselues to the Lawes tryall yet notwithstanding came they vp together where in riding ouer a Bridge about Bedford-shire and conferring of their inward grudges they were blowne both beside into the Riuer where by the fiercenes of the windes they were most lamentably drowned both horse and men and thus by sodaine death ended their malice to the feare and amazement of all such as wel could witnes their enuious procedings these and such like accidents may be feareful examples for the world to behold especially for rich-men shewing to them the certaintie of life and goods subiect to the chaunces of death and fortune according to the saying of a worthy Philosopher Full little thinks the man at morning Sun What hap to him befals ere day be done Therefore let vs pray for good successe in all our businesses guided and accompanied with the blessings of heauen and then no doubt but better chance will betide vs then these two malitious country-men had in their iourney We haue yet more notice gentle Reader of other sorrowfull discourses to relate of which well may beget your sad entertainment and possesse your hearts with remorse for they be strange and fearefull and in the eare of the hearer full of dole Let vs now passe into the middle parts or shires of England and tel what mischances there hapned the three shires of Warwick Lecester and Northhampton I meane where the Inhabitants thereof with stacks and ricks of hey peaze and beanes do vsually in winter times feed and fatten shéep and swine those country-men the more is my griefe to report by these aforesayd tempests haue endured much losse for many of their shéep and swine haue béen smothered vnder the ricks and stackes blowne down by the winds besides barns and stables with many husbandly houses torne and vncouered of thatch by the same Likewise the dwellings of yomen farmers laboring plow-men in those countries haue bin ouerturned with the rage of this tempestuous commander wel may we therfore if we consider al these things arightly call this the blacke fatall winter of mishaps in which time many burthens of sorrow be laid vpon our contry God be our comfort for alas alas the aforesaid raging windes in diuers other shires of England haue beaten down a number of houses dispearcing the substance of the poore owners where many of them perished in preseruing their substance from the fal of their houses Yet let vs make no question but that God is merciful and hath plauged som few with the losse of life and goods if it be possible to call others to amendment of life Therefore aboue all things let vs take héed that long escapes of punishment or the vaine hopes of long life do not delude vs and make vs still run into our sins without hope of returne But to our lamentable narration againe many the like strange euents fell out in other countries and parts of the kingdome as for example 2. or 3. shéep-kéepers in a part of Salisbury Plaine in the west of England can witnes who in a most tempestious day as it is wel knowne in the beginning of December betook themselues to a Cabin or Caue in the ground for shelter as there be many in those places where by the furiousnes of the tempestious winds then blowing in greatest extreamity the earth riued and was torne vp by reason of the hollownes therof vnder the which they were inclosed smothered to death from the like sodaine end good Lord kéepe vs. It is also known for certainty that néere vnto the Towne of Causeby in Oxford-shire a little before Christmas last two young schollars comming from schoole the sonnes of a wealthy Yeoman there dwelling were by these terrible tempests both blown into a saw-pit by reason of this wet winter filled vp with durt and water and there most lamentably drowned and choaked to death oh wofull and pitifull hearing especially for the Parents of children and such as haue the tender féeling of loue and nature that two sweet boies brought vp by cost and care should be thus and in this manner cast away Another sorrowfull relation must I here present vnto your hearing which hapned in the Easterne parts of Northhampton-shire of a wind-mil which as well by the negligence of the Miller as the violent force of the wind causing the mill sayles to exceede their vsuall swiftnes was thereby wanting graine to grind by the Mil-stones set on fire being in the night the flakes and sparkles thereof by the fierce windes were blowne a long mile off as it pleased God quight ouer a Village vnto a ricke of pease where fetting the same on fire it was sodainly consumed with fifty fat Weathers feeding thereat the rage and extreamity of these two great oppressors the Fire and the Winde so preuailed that not one man durst aduenture the sauing therof and I haue heard it reported by diuers in that Countrey that the consumed Rick and shéep belonged to an extorting rent-racker a raiser of cheape markets and a hoarder vp of corne from poore people here was the powerfull hand of God showne Heauen herein was iust which would not let such wicked déeds go vnpunished God grant that hereby all the like doers may take example and turne their hearts that they may bee mercifull to them that stand in neede Turne now but our eyes more nearer London wée may behold the hand of Heauen lifted against vs many waies yea manie waies by these last gusts of windy tempests for our wickednes as by trees torne vp by the roots standing before in all winds weathers safe and found for these two hundred yéers past Also the noble City of London it selfe can witnes much hurt that is come thereby as diuers people sore bruised and maimed by falls of chimnies corners and sides of houses the blowing downe of tyles and such like The very Riuer of Thames is also a president hereof where by the rigorous strength of the windes the water with the tyde flowing ouer-fiercely made a most dangerous breach ouer the banks into the Medowes Marshes by Stratford le bow Ham where many thousand akers of faire grounds are quite ouer-flowne and drowned to the great hurt and hindrance of many the Inhabitants of London as those Townes therabouts the recouery wherof by men of such vnderstanding wil cost much time with