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A39635 Flagellum dei, or, A collection of the several fires, plagues, and pestilential diseases that have hapned in London especially, and other parts of this nation from the Norman Conquest to this present, 1668 1668 (1668) Wing F1127; ESTC R40602 4,228 11

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Flagellum Dei OR A Collection of the several Fires Plagues and Pestilential Diseases that have hapned in London especially and other parts of this Nation from the Norman Conquest to this present 1668. Lam. 4. The Lord hath accomplished his indignation he has poured out his fierce wrath he hath kindled a Fire in Zion which hath devoured the Foundations thereof LONDON Printed for C. VV. 1668. Flagellum Dei c. In VVillam the Conquerors time IN the 20 th Year of his Reign so great a Fire hapned in London that from the West-gate to the East-gate it consumed Houses and Churches all the way and among the rest the Church of St. Paul the most grievous Fire that ever hapned in that City After this ensued a great mortality of Men and Cattel In VVilliam the 2ds time IN the 4 th Year of his Reign on St. Lukes day above six hundred Houses in London were thrown down with Tempest and the roof of St. Mary Bow Church in Cheapside was so raized that in the fall six of the beams being 27 foot long were driven so deep into the ground the streets being not then paved with Stone that not above 4 foot remained in sight and yet stood in such rank and order as the Workmen had placed them upon the Church In Henry the firsts time FIrst Chichester with the principal Monastery was burnt to the ground From Westcheap in London to Aldgate a long tract of buildings was consumed with Fire Worcester also and Rochester even in the Kings presence then Winchester Bath Glocester Lincoln Peterborough and other places did also partake of this calamity that there could be no charging the Fire with any partiality In King Stephens time no casualty of Fire nor any Pestilential Disease are recorded In Henry the seconds time IN the 18 th Year of his Reign the Church of Norwich with the Houses thereto belonging was burnt In the 24 th Year the City of York was burnt Also in the same Year on the 10 th day of April the Church of St. Andrews in Rochester was consumed with fire In the 28 th Year of his Reign Barnwel with the Priory near Cambridge was burnt In the 30 th Year of his Reign the Abbey of Glastenbury was burnt with the Church of St. Julian and on the 20 th of October in the Year 1180. the Cathedral Church of Chichester and all the whole City was burnt The 20 th of Sept. 1188. the Town of Beverley with the Church of St. John there was burnt In Richard the firsts time IN his time the Town of Mawling in Kent with the Nunnery was consumed with fire and then followed so great a Mortality of men that the Living scarce sufficed to bury the Dead In King Johns time no Casualty of Fire In Henry the thirds time THe Church of St. Mildred in Canterbury and a great part of the City was burnt Also the Town of Newcastle upon Tine was burnt Bridge and all And in this Kings Reign 20000 people in London were starved for want of Food In Edward the firsts time IN the 17 th Year of his Reign the City of Carlisle and the Abby with all the Houses belonging to the Friers Minors was consumed with fire In his one and twentieth Year a great part of the Town of Cambridge with the Church of our Lady was also burnt In the 27 th Year of his Reign his Palace at VVestminster and the Monastery adjoyning were consumed with fire The Monastery of Glocester was also burnt to the ground In Edward the seconds time IN the fourth Year of his Reign the Church of Middleton in Dorsetshire with all the Monuments was consumed with Lightning and soon after followed a great Pestilence In Edward the thirds time NO casualty of fire but so contagious a Pestilence that between the first of January and the first of July in the two and twentieth Year of his Raign there dy'd in London 57374 persons and in Yarmouth in one Year 7052. And in the 35 th Year of his Reign another Pestilence whereof divers of the Nobility dy'd In Richard the seconds time NO casualty of fire but in his third Year so great a Mortality afflicted the North parts of England that the Country became almost desolate In Henry the fourths time IN the 7 th year of his Reign the Town of Royston in Hartfordshire was burnt In Henry the fifths time IN the fifth year of his Reign a great part of the City of Norwich was burnt with all the House of the Friers preachers and two Fryers of that Order In Henry the sixths time NO casualty of Fire or Pestilence in his Reign but the Postern Gates of London by East-Smithfield against the Tower sank by Night more than seven foot in the Earth In Edward the fourths time IN his third Year the Minster of York and the Steeple of Christchurch in Norwich were burnt And in his 17 th and 19 Years two great Pestilences reigned in England of which innumerable people dyed In Edward the fifths and Richard the thirds time THere is no Record of any Fire or Pestilence In Henry the sevenths time IN this Kings Reign the Sweating Sickness took away many thousands 22 August 1485. A great fire hapned in Breadstreet in London in which were burnt the Parson of St. Mildreds and another Man 21 Decemb. In his 13 th Year suddenly in the night brake out a fire in the Kings Lodgings being then at his Mannor in Streen by violence whereof a great part of the old Building was burnt with Hangings Beds Apparel Plate and many Jewels to a great value In his 15 th Year the Town of Braham in Norfolk was burnt and the same Year 30000 persons dyed of the Plague in London In his 22 th Year the City of Norwich was well near consumed with fire In Henry the eights time IN his 9 th Year hapned a Sweating Sickness whereof infinite multitudes both of the Nobility and others in many parts of England dyed In his 13 th Year was likewise a great Mortality In his 20 th Year another Sweating Sickness which insected the whole Realm In his 33 th Year was another great Mortality in the Realm by hot Agues and Fluxes In his 36 th Year was a great Plague in Lnodon In Edward the sixths time IN his second Year St. Annes Church within Aldersgate was burnt In his fifth Year a Sweating Sickness infected most parts of the Realm In Queen Maries time IN her fourth Year hot burning Agues and other distempers took away much people among which 7 Aldermen of London In her fifth Year in Harvest time was a great Mortality In Queen Elizabeths time IN her 3 d. Year the Spire of the Cathedral Church of Pauls being 520 foot from the ground and 260 from the square Steeple where it was placed and was made of wooden materials but covered with Lead was with Lightning burnt down together with the Roofs of that large Church and that within
the space of 5 hours In her 6 th Year was a great Pestilence especially in London where in one Year there dyed 21 500 persons In her 8 th Year in the Town of Oswestry in Shropshire 200 houses were consumed with fire in the space of two hours In her 36 th Year was a great Plague in London so as there dyed 17890. besides the Lord Mayor and 3 Aldermen In King James his time IN the first Year of his Reign there dyed of the Plague in London 30578. persons In his 4 th Year 160 houses in St. Edmundsbury were by chance set on fire and burnt In the Year 1613. the Town of Dorchester was totally consumed by fire About the same time the Playhouse called the Globe on the Bankside was consumed by fire and soon after the Fortune Play-house was burnt down In the Year 1614. the Town of Stratford upon Avon was burnt In King Charles the firsts time IN his first Year there dyed of the Plague in London 4463 persons In his 8 th Year a fire brake out on London Bridge by which most of the houses that were built upon it were consumed and burnt down Not to mention several smaller fires at VVilbleton-house in Fleetstreet VVestminster Limestreet Holborn and other parts of London which hapned almost yearly but the growth of them were still happily supprest by the care and industry of the Neighbours and those in Authority These several Fires are mentioned in our Chronicles under the Title of Casualties without any suspition of being occasioned by the Plot or Contrivance of any Malignant or Discontented persons though few Kings Reigns were without both Domestick and Foreign Enemies But none of the above mentioned Mortalities were equal to that which happened in the year 1665. nor any Fire so deplorable and outragious as that in the year 1666. which we are next to relate In King Charles the seconds time IN the 17 th Year of his Majesties Reign the Pestilence raged most violently in the City of London but especially in the Suburbs in so much as there dyed of the Plague that Year within the Bills of Mortality 68596 persons The Insection was so general that a poor Woman Keeping Hens in Hatton-garden the Hens laid Eggs that had large Plague Spots on them which when she saw she cryed out the Lord had Visited her House and soon after her Daughter and then her self dyed And in the 18 th Year of his Majesties Reign there happened a most Dismal and Deplorable Fire in London which began at a Bakers House in Pudding-Lane on Sunday 2 Sept. 1666. at one of the Clock in a dark Morning in a Quarter of the City so close Built with Wooden Pitched and old Ruinous Buildings the Streets narrow abundance of Combustible and Bituminous Matter the foregoing Summer extraordinary hot and dry a violent Eastern Wind and the want of Engines and Water concurring as it were unanimously to the production of this wonderful Conflagration and to do in three dayes what three Armies of Enemies not opposed could scarcely have done in six it spread it self so far before day and with such distraction to the Inhabitants that care was not taken for the timely preventing the further diffusion of it by pulling down Houses as ought to have been So that in three dayes and three nights of about 460 Acres of ground on which the City of London stood it destroy'd 350 which is at the rate of four parts in five it consum'd about 12000 Houses 87 Parish Churches besides 6 or 7 consecrated Chappels and the magnificent Cathedral Church of St. Paul the publick and most excellent Buildings of the Exchange Guild-Hall Custom-house and almost all the Halls belonging to every private Company besides an innumerable quantity of Goods of all sorts c. Divers Strangers Dutch and French were during the Fire apprehended upon suspition that they contributed most mischievously to it who were all Imprisoned and Informations prepared to make a severe inquisition thereupon by my Lord chief Justice Keeling assisted by some of the Lords of the Privy Councel and some principal Members of the City notwithstanding which suspitions the manner of the burning all along in a train and so blown forwards in all its ways by strong winds makes us conclude the whole was an effect of an unhappy chance or to speak better the heavy hand of God upon us for our SINS shewing us the terror of his Judgements in thus raising the Fire and immediately after his miraculous and never enough to be acknowledged Mercy in putting a stop to it when we were in the last despair and that all attempts for the quenching it however industriously pursued seemed insufficient It is observable that the Suburbs where the Plague reigned most was in a great measure spared by the Fire and the City it self where the Fire was most active suffered little by the Pestilence As if it were design'd by Divine Providence that each part should have its punishment and none a double one From Plagues Pestilence and Fires Good Lord deliver us FINIS Bakers Chron. See Rege Sincera's Observations on this Fire * Rebellion Pride Whoring Drunkenness Gluttony Cheating c.