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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18428	A most true report of the myraculous mouing and sinking of a plot of ground, about nine acres, at VVestram in Kent, which began the 18. of December, and so continued till the 29. of the same moneth. 1596 ...	Chapman, John, fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 4997; ESTC S104954	7,799	16

sixtéene foote more then it was the day before The third morning being the twentieth day hée came againe and then found it to be suncke about eightie foote more at the least And then from that day forwarde that great trench of ground lying partly in these two closes and partly in sūdry other containing frō the carying way southward in length as is before said about eightie perches and in bredth in some place twentie eight and where it was narrowest xii pearches began with the hedges and trées thereon to loose it self wholy from the rest of the ground lying round about it and withal to moue slide and shoote southward not with any suddaine shot but créeping by little and little so as the motion and stirring thereof was not discerned nor perceyued by thē that were presently standing vpon it and working about it but only by the sundrie effects that followed as the cracking of the rootes of trées the brushing of boughes the noise of the hedge-wood breaking the gaping of the ground and the riuing of the earth asunder the falling of the torne furrowes and huge trenches after it some foure foote déepe some sixe and some seauen and more whereby there were made in it at the least not so fewe as eleuen thousand furrows riffes cracks and clefts in diuerse places héere and there This mouing and carying of the ground southward continewing stil both by day and night for the space of eleuen dayes togither sliding a slant sometimes as it was noted fouretéene handfulls by measure in one houre and a halfe did wonderfully alter and chaunge the whole face of that land for in some places thereof the hinder ground comming faster forwarde as it shoulde appeare then the former grounde did giue waye vnto it caused it to swell vppe in rounde hillocks like vnto graues the gréene turfe remayning still whole and vnbroken aboue In other places the hinder grounde came so violently as that it did not only teare the greene turfe aboue but also did rise and lift vp it selfe and did rolle and tumble euer the other as it were waues or surges and so stayed as standing buts and at the last the whole plotte was so toused torne and rent and withall the gréene turfe so tattered and turned vp side downe as that there is scant so much as one pearch togither of al this ground left whole with the grasse vpon it vncrackt The ground of the two water pits euen from the very muddy bottoms whole with a great rocke of stone vnder the same are not onlye remoued out of theyr places and carried forward toward the South at the least foure perches a péece with their tuffes of Alders still standing vpon them but withall they are mounted vp aloft and become hilles standing yet to be séene with their sedge flags and blacke mudde vpon the toppe of them still higher then the vpper face of the water is now which they haue forsaken by at the least nine foote and into y e place from which they are remoued and rysen other ground which lay higher before is descended and come downe receiuing the water lying now vpon it as it did before vpon the other Moreouer in one place of the plaine fielde there is a great Hole made by sinking of the earth to the depthe of thirtie foote at the least being in breadth in some place two perches ouer and in length fiue or sixe perches Likewise there is a hedge of 30. perches long remoued and carryed Southward with his trées and all seuen perches at the least And of these trées some do still stand and grow vpright and some are quite ouerthrowne couered and buried with the folding of the earth running vpon them and almost both the endes of the sayd hedge are sunke and couered wholy with the earth the East end of it foure perches long the West end fiue perches long Many other alterations there be of trées that be sunke and remoued out of their places some fiue perches some sixe as namely one Holly trée is driuen seuen perches out of his place and yet it standeth vpright still and a great Alder is torne roote and all cut of the grounde and carryed from his place foure perches and there it lyeth the top turned downe to the ground Beside this there was one péece of ground of halfe an Acre which in times past did lye vp shooting in betwéene the two fieldes this peece now with an hedge row of trées standing vppon it is slipped quite away Southward from betwéene those two closes and they two before seuered are now come togither ioyned as one and in their comming are tumbled ouer a sommer hedge withall two other hedges and a shawe of hazell trées and bushes which did seuer them are now driuen togither on heapes at the Southend Sundry other sinkings there be in diuers places one of sixtie fiue foote an other of forty seuen foote an other of thirtie foure foote By meanes of all which cofusion it is come to passe that where the highest hilles were héeretofore there the deepest Dales ●ée now And where the lowest Dales were then now the ground lyeth mounted hiest The footepath spoken of before is now caryed out of square eight pearches at the least the lower end of this ground is caryed southward in bredth thrée pearches ouer into two medowes whereof one is in the possession of an other man called Thomas Toller Finally the whole measure and content of this breaking grounde was at least nine acres seauen day workes and foure perches on the twentie ninth day of December whē this figure and measure of it was taken as here ye sée it set downe And since that time it cracketh and cleaueth daily more and more on all sides round about it Among other things touching this matter this also is especially to bee considered that whereas by the great aboundaunce of water and continuall rayne which haue fallen so many monethes togither of late sundrye great bowrnes and violent streames haue broken out in many places of this land and at the least seauen such within xii miles of this place euery way the least whereof is able to driue a corne Mill where seldome or neuer any such haue bin before and that this ground lyeth as we haue saide vnder a high hill that might occasion some such issue yet there hath no extraordinary course of water broken out vppon it nor neere vnto it by a mile any way neither haue the small springs thereof during all this wet weather bin any thing increased to speake of In so much as the two little gozelles mentioned before being they that doo cary most water ouer this rouing ground are neither of them so great but that their streames might at any time all this yeare and so many still easily passe through an auger hole of an Inch and halfe broade Which I speake to this end that the strange cariage moouing dryuing and displacing of huge masse of earth and the heauing vp of the vallyes and lowe pits with the great rootes thereof raysed and mounted vnto hilles with the trées therevpon cannot be imputed to the aboundance of water enforcing it as the cause therof as some perhaps otherwise would imagin and suppose The whole maner of the straunge confusion of this plat cannot be discribed according as it is but there hath by report of the Farmers and others come to see it at sundry times from London and other partes of the country foure thousand people since it first began to whom it hath séemed to be a very straunge and fearefull sight giuing occasion vnto some of them to thinke vpon that great opening of the earth that shalbe in the latter day when she shall yeelde vp her dead that be in her to come to the resurrection to other to thinke vpon that fearefull gaping of the ground wherein Corah and his company were deuoured And to the intent the reader may not thinke himselfe to be abused in this report by some vaine deuised fable sundry of the neighbors and inhabitants and they of the best credit dwelling thereabout who haue bin at it and are eye witnesses thereof haue bin content here vnto to giue their testimony by subscribing their names at the beginning of this booke FINIS

liuely féeling forcible perceyuerance and effectuall consideration of that supreme essence who is God all sufficient vnto all and in whom we liue moue and haue our béeing he doth therfore vouchsafe to discend in some sorte vnto vs and offereth héere vpon earth vnto our eies a sencible testimony of his most certaine béeing and of his mightie power discernable by his straunge workes daily doone in our sight farre aboue the common course of nature and beyond the pollicie and strength of man And to the intent we maye vnderstand so much of them he doth in doing them cal vnto vs by his prophet willing vs to looke vpon them and to cōsider them reuerently while he saith Come and behold the workes of God for he is terrible in his dooings toward the sonnes of men For if they were in déede well wayed as they ought to be duly considered one with an other the order and course of them one way and the varyetie and alteration of them an other way is such as may easily induce and perswade vs to know and beléeue cofesse and say veryly there is a God that ruleth the earth And among sundry other his workes that may be of this force he commendeth vnto vs in place where some especially namely these that as the prophet saith One while he turneth running riuers into a wildernesse and the springs of waters into dry groūd and conuerteth fruitful land into barrainnesse for the sinnes of them that do dwell thereon An other while he turneth the wildernesse into pooles of water And a dry land into water springs Whereto we may adde that sometime hée hurleth downe hilles and maketh them to become lowe vallies and withall exalteth the lowe vallies and maketh them to become high hilles Which extraordinary effects when they come to passe they are not to be altogither neglected nor attributed as the maner of some is to doo vnto blind chaūce casualtie and fortune or else to the only force of naturall causes measurable by philosophicall reason but as it appeareth by the holy prophet they are to be estéemed as matters of especiall marke and woorthie to bee regarded as héedefull d●cuments which haue their first originall and beginning of their motion proceeding from the great fountaine of Gods diuine prouidence not working idlely therein but tending vnto some especial end and purpose and chiefely this that men beholding and séeing the same should therupon take occasion as it appeareth by Dauid with trembling and feare to thinke vpon that mightie maiestie who is the first cause and causer thereof and then to reuerence his holinesse who reigning triumphantly in heauen aboue doth yet by these his workes on earth shew himselfe terrible vnto the sonnes of men and thereby causeth them to remēber him perforce that so one good thought in them may as fier encreasing fier beget an other before all be quite quenched This then as it séemeth being the purpose and counsaile of the holy Ghost by such his workes to stirre vp in vs a more strong and fruitfull impression of the great deitie we néede not now trauaile farre to séeke out some presidents thereof in straunge countries for the satisfying of our selues by the testimony of our owne eyes for loe the Lord doth now at this instant in some sort present the same vnto vs at home in our own natiue country and that in diuerse places by common report but especially in one place more aboundantly then els where as may sufficiently appeare by this discourse insuing faithfully sette downe by them who are very 〈◊〉 persons and doo testifie that which they themselues 〈◊〉 know to be true A most straunge and true report of certaine ground containing nine acres and vpward which was suncke remoued and carried out of his place eight perches vvith the trees standing therevpon at Cockam hill in the parish of Westram in Kent about fifteen miles distant from London IN the parish of Westram in Kent about a myle from the Towne Southward not far from the East side of a certaine great and common high way called Cockam Hill leading from London towardes Buckhurst other partes of Sussex about that coast lyeth a certaine Farme possessed by one maister Robert Heath an honest Gentleman dwelli●g at Sandersted in Surry and presently tenanted by one Giles Browne an honest yeoman Among sundry parcels of ground belonging thereto in the midst of that Farme are two closes lying togither sauing that they bee separated with a standing hedge of Hollies Ashes Hazels Willowes and Alders growing theron the scituation of which and namely of the vpper close till the 18. day of December last past was after this sort The vpper face of it lay somewhat adant and vpon the shoote of an hill but not so much but that a bowle being cast vp against the hill might easily haue layen setled without tumbling backe againe perforce otherwise it was reasonably leuell for the most part for it hath bene vsually mowed and within these fiue yeares hath bene sowed thrée times with thrée sundry kindes of graine first with wheate secondly with Barly and thirdly with Oates A little aboue the North ende thereof lying somewhat higher then the rest harde adioyning to the foote of a very high and stéep hil there was a certaine carrying way for Carte and Waine to the Tennaunts vse and beneath that towarde the middest of it a foote path did crosse to the close Betwéene the sayd carrying way and the sayd foote path were two standing pittes the one being about sixe foote déepe of water and more the other twelue foote at the least and about foure perches ouer in bredth hauing sundry tuffes of Alders and some Asshes growing in the bottomes of them the ground on the south side of the sayd pittes laye mounted higher then the vpper face of the water about tenne foote Againe from the great high hill lying at the vpper part of the grounde whereof wee spake before two very little gozels passed downe along Southward through the close theyr water Courses being diuided asunder at the vpper end about the carrying way twelue perches and about the middest twentie eight perches All which earth of the said closes within the sayd gozelles and about an Acre more in bredth one way and eighty perches in length another way beganne the sayd eightéene day of December to alter and chaunge forme and fashion and that very diuersly from day to day for the space of eleuen dayes togither after this maner First on the sayd 18. day the sayd Tennant Giles Browne going in the morning toward that Cart way with purpose to passe along it to a barne standing beyond it when hee came to that part of it which laye about the head of the gozelles he foūd it for xij pearches lōg to be sunk there down right sixe foote and a halfe déepe by measure taken by himselfe and other The next morning being the ninetéenth day hée comming thither againe found it to be sunke