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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15572	The last terrible tempestious windes and weather Truely relating many lamentable ship-wracks, with drowning of many people, on the coasts of England, Scotland, France and Ireland: with the Iles of Wight, Garsey & Iarsey. Shewing also, many great mis-fortunes, that haue lately hapned on land, by reason of the windes and rayne, in diuers places of this kingdome.		1613 (1613)	STC 25840; ESTC S120109	5,368	22

The last terrible Tempestious windes and weather Truely Relating many Lamentable Ship-wracks with drowning of many people on the Coasts of England Scotland France and Ireland with the Iles of Wight Garsey Iarsey Shewing also many great mis-fortunes that haue lately hapned on Land by reason of the windes and rayne in diuers places of this Kingdome Imprinted at London for Ios Hunt and are to be sold by Iohn Wright 1613. To the Reader REader I do here present vnto thee to thy vnderstanding if thou hast any some part of the lamentable losses vnrecouerable mischances that haue happened by occasion of these late blustring stormes of winde and an innumerable deale of rayne the which a great many thousands haue too true cause to beleeue because they are sharers in the misfortunes that this outragious weather hath caused Now if thou hast sustained no losse thy selfe perhaps thou wilt not beleeue these things to be true that I haue written but if thou wilt or doest beleeue then pray to God that it will please him to giue them patience that are loosers and humilitie that are winners and giue God thankes that he hath so blest thee that thou hast no share in these mishaps But if thou wilt not beleeue goe and looke or else remaine still in thy vnbeleife A BRIEFE RELATION of the great losses both by Sea and Land by reason of the late great Tempests SVch and so great is the innated hereditary peruersenes of miserable mankinds naturall inclination that though we infallibly know that God is infinite and his waies past finding out yea though wee generally confesse him to bee the Mighty Eternall euerlasting inscrutable incomprehēsible Iehouah in whose hands are all things past present and future Though I say we confesse and professe an externall beleefe that God can and will punish obstinate and stiffe-necked sinners in the vprightnesse of his confounding Iustice yet we presuming because it is said his mercie is ouer all his workes so much vpon his mercie that we are altogether forgetfull of his Iustice So that for all notwithstanding our knowledge our confession and profession wee liue in Atheisme Epicurisme and in so many sundry sorts of hydra-headed scisme that if it be rightly vnderstood wee spend our times in this vnconscionable world little better then in bruite Barbarisme for I am verily perswaded that God had neuer fewer trew seruants nor more professors then are in these daies and surely it is to bee feared when God hath least the Diuel hath most And wee are so lulled and rockt asleepe in the secureles cradle of sensual security by the Prince of this World the Diuell and his two neere kinsmen the worlde and the flesh that we as it were in spight of the Eternall God tread and trample his sacred lawes and sanctified Testimonies vnder our prophane vnhallowed rebellious feet and with a high hand and an aspiring hart with millions of varieties of transgressions we seem to batter the glorious frame of Heauen with thundering shot of our abhominable hell hatchd impieties These outragious Enormities daily prouoking our most iust God to powre forth the consuming vials of his incensed heauie Indignation vpon all the misgouerned sonnes of sinfull men For as God is infinite in his mercie so is hee infinite in his Iustice and as our transgressions are numberles so are the seuerall rods and punishments vncountable that God vses to inflict vpon vs sometimes by weake meanes to accomplish great things and confound the mighty and sometimes by elementall causes as fire aire water and earth hee shewes his vniuersall power in his iust confounding offenders and sometimes by vnauoyded infections of plagues and pestilencious feuers and many thousand miserable maladies And I thinke I need not doubt but many ther be that knowes and remembers the last mortality of this land when in one yeere there died one hundred and odde thousands in London And as concerning what hath happened by fire Saint Edmundsbury and Tiberton in Deuonshire and many other places in England to their great griefes too truely can testifie and what greeuous deluges what outragious inundations what vnresistable ouerflowings of mercilesse waters we haue had nor man nor historie recording the like since the generall flood wherein many hundreds of acres of pasture and erable land was in little space as it were turnd into a maine Ocean that the fishes the inhabitants of the sea floating in their new made regiments did feede on the drowned carkases of men women children and beasts What sterility and bainenesse of our fruitfull mother earth wee haue had through the anger of God withholding the raine and shutting the windowes of Heauen that the sencelesse ground hath gaped to Heauen for reliefe when wee our selues haue scarce opened our mouthes to desire Gods fauour it is sufficiently knowne to all estates ages What hurts damages and irrecouerable losses and hinderances men haue sustained by tempestuous winds both on land and sea where on the land steeples houses chimneyes trees and diuers other things that were for the necessarie vse of all sorts of people hath beene vtterlie subuerted and throwne downe to the vtter vndoing of some and to the great impouerishing of manie Besides to leaue the land and to recapitulat what great manifold harmes hath bin vpon the sea the outragious windes making it altogether vnnauigable Of the which to write in euery particular were a world of worke but all these aforesaid grieuous calamities we must all confesse and acknowledge to be the true tokens that our mercifull God is highly offended with vs and almost the third part of the people in this kingdome doe and wil euer remember some one or other of these precedent afflictions some by losse of friends by death and some by losse of goods by fier water or other meanes so that there is not nor hath not beene nor I doubt will not be any day night houre or minute wherein God hath not doth not or wil not powre down his vengeance by one meanes or other in one place or another vpon impenetrable vnrepenting perfidious people But leauing this perambulation or tedious trauell to demonstrate that which hath been before diuulged to the publike view of the world I doe now intend to shew thee good Reader if thou beest so what incomparable harmes and neuer to be regained losse hath happened by occasion of these late tempest ●●●s windes and though I haue not knowledge of al the hurts that are done yet I know too much and I with with 〈◊〉 my heart that this which I meane to write were nothing but fiction but yet assure thy selfe thou hadst better beleeue me then to trauell to disproue me as the prouerbe saies for I my selfe am sure that the most part of what I write is true on mine owne knowledge and the rest I haue gathered by relation from many husbandies widdowes fatherlesse sonnes and soules fathers and mothers masterlesse seruants and masters that haue lost their