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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17298	A divine tragedie lately acted, or A collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers, and other like libertines, in their unlawfull sports, happening within the realme of England, in the compass only of two yeares last past, since the booke was published worthy to be knowne and considered of all men, especially such, who are guilty of the sinne or arch-patrons thereof.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1636 (1636)	STC 4140.7; ESTC S115279	33,687	58

bringe thee unto judgement EXAMPLE 29. In the yeare of our Lord 1633. Octob. 26. after the booke for sports was known to be published in print David Price a Welshman servant to one Thomas Hill a knowne Grasier of that Country coming to Banbury with his drove on Satturday night declared his purpose of driving them the next day early in the morning being the Sabbath or Lords day his Host where he lodged disswaded him because it was the Sabbath day and told him that he would certainly be stopped and made to pay for it according to the Statute Hee answered that he would drive them and let me see saith hee who will hinder me So in the morning two other accompaning him he went to fetch the Cattell out of the ground one that knew him mett him at the Townes end not yet oUt of the Towne and admonished him saying What David today today he made no answere but went onward and though for any thing that appeared to any other or that himselfe complained of he was then in good health as ever he was yet within little more then a stones cast of the Towne he fell downe dead suddainly and was burried in Banbury Church-yard the next day after None could discerne any sensible or evident cause of so suddaine a surprizall and himselfe gave no signe of any paine weakenesse or illnesse till the instant time that he gave up the ghost EXAMPLE 5. On Ian. 25. 1634. being the Lords day in the time of the last great Frost 14. younge men presuming to play at football upon the yce on the river Trent neere to Ganisborrow comming alltogether in a scuffle the yce suddainly brake and they were all drowned EXAMPLE 30. At Wicks a Towne betwixt Colchester and Harwich in Essex upon Whitsunday last in the afternoone two fellowes meeting at the football the one killed the other EXAMPLE 31. At Oxford this last Sommer on the Sabbathday one Bally Hawkes a Butcher would needs goe into his feild with an hatchet and showell to mend his ditch his Wife disswaded him what shee could being the Sabbathday but he said he would goe and make an end of his worke which he did for suddainly he was struck dead in his ditch and so made an end of his worke and his life together EXAMPLE 32. Also at Oxford a carpenter undertaking to mend a Stage in S. Iohns Colleidge on the Satturday night for the finishing wherof he must of necessity spent some part of the Lords day morning that the Stage might be ready against the Munday following he that night fell backward from the Stage being not farre from the ground and brake his neck and so ended his life in a fearefull Tragedy EXAMPLE 33. At Iuye Hinckley a mile from Oxford about the time when May-poles are sett up on the Lords day after evening Prayer when most of the Towne were at the May-pole one Iohn Cooper servant to master Tinmore of the said Towne going along the street a Mayd out of a windowe in Iohn Nicols his house not farre from the May-pole called him to come in thither where also was another Mayd and a young man named Christopher younge servant to Master Willis of the sayd Towne Iohn Cooper at first refused to come to them but the mayd earnestly intreating him he yeilded to her and being come in sate downe by the other two where having sate a while the foresaid Christopher younge spied a Gun over the chimney which he supposing not to be charged fondly tooke downe and fell a tampearing with it and first levelled at the mayds and after held it up against Iohn Cooper as he sate and unwittingly lifting up the Cocke it strucke fire and the peece discharged and shot the said Iohn Cooper through the shoulder so that he dyed presently being heard only to say O Lord. EXAMPLE 6. At Dover the very same Lords day that the booke was read one in S. Iames Parish that played on a kitt went and played and thereby calld together a sort of wenches and young men But he was thereupon that very day struck by divine hand so as within two dayes he dyed EXAMPLE 34. A young man neere Bow going to swimme in the river on Essex side on the Lords day in the afternoone was drowned EXAMPLE 35. Two boyes of S. Albons going to Verolanes Ponds a mile off to swimme on the Lords day Iuly 19. one of them was drowned and the other hardly escaped EXAMPLE 36. At Ramsey in Suffolke a tall man on the Lords day going with others to swimme and being advertized and warned of a hole in the water he sware that there was no place there could drowne him but by and by on a suddaine he was missing being now under water and so drowned EXAMPLE 37. On September 13. 1635. being the Lords day two young men of the Parish of S. Dunstans in the West London going to swimme were both drowned EXAMPLE 7. At Thurlow in Suffolke one making a Feast to his freinds on the Sabbath day for joy of the publishing of the Booke for sports was the next day pressed to death by the suddaine fall of a faggot stack EXAMPLE 38. At Twiford in Buckinghamshire a fellow playing at cudgels on the Lords day or as some say upon a revell day receaved a hurt in the face whereof he dyed the next weeke EXAMPLE 39. At Lemster one Master Powel Ian. 1634. on the Lords day serving a writt of sub poena and that of purpose on that day as is credibly reported upon one Master Shuit a Gentleman this he did in the Church-yard so soone as they were come out of the Church Master Shuit thereupon told him I thought you had beene an honester man then so to doe this upon this day he replyed I hope I am never a whit the more dishonest or lesse holy for that having spoken this he suddainly fell downe dead and spoke not a word more his wife seeing this was suddainly struck with sicknesse EXAMPLE 40. A fellow in Sommersetshire being to make a tente upon the Lords day for a faire that was to be kept upon the Munday following sayd to one on the Satturday that they would reare it to morrow so the next day which was the Lords day being drunk he dyed the same day roaring EXAMPLE 43. At Glassenbury in Sommersetshire at the setting up of a May-pole it miscarrying fell upon a child slew it and it is reported that it was the Churchwardens child who was the cheefe stickler in the businesse Also when the May-pole in the same Towne was againe the second time a setting up a fire tooke in the Towne so as all the people about the May-pole were forced to leave it and to runne to the quenching of the fire EXAMPLE 44. A May-Lord of misrule not farre from thence became madd upon it EXAMPLE 45. Also at Battersey neere London the last yeare a notable example of Gods judgement befell a fidler the youth of the town of both