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A12596	1607. A true report of certaine wonderfull ouerflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England destroying many thousands of men, women, and children, ouerthrowing and bearing downe whole townes and villages, and drowning infinite numbers of sheepe and other cattle.; True report of certaine wonderfull overflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England.		1607 (1607)	STC 22915; ESTC S111053	14,065	34

enymies had bin marching to beseidge the Towne to trusse vp whai they could and be gone And beholde how swift is mischiefe when God driues it before him to the punishment of the World All were laboring to beare away some of the goods but before their burdens could bee taken vp they were compeld to leaue them and to look about for their liues The fardels which they had bound vp to saue from drowning some of them were glad to leap vppon to escape drowning themselues The Gentleman with his Wife and Children got vp to the highest building of the house there sat hee and they vppon two rafters comforting one another in this misery when their heartes within them were euen dead to themselues from all comfort they now cared not for their wealth so they might but go away with their liues and yet euen that very desire of life put him in mynde to preserue something by which afterward they might liue and that was a Boxe of Writinges wherein were certaine bonds and all the euidences of his Landes this Boxe he got with the hard aduenture of much daunger he tyed it with cordes fast to 〈◊〉 ●after hoping what wracke soeuer should ouer browe the rest of his substance his mayne estate should bee found safe and come to shore in that hauen But alas in the midst of this sorrofull gladnesse the Sea fell with such violence vpon the house it bore avvay the vvhole building rent it in the middle from top to bottom they that could not get vp to the highest roomes vvere put to a double death drovvning and brayning In this storme the Husband and Wife lost one another the Children and Parents were parted the Gentleman in this whirle-wind of Waues being forced from his hold got to a beame sat vpon that and against his will rode post some thrée or foure Miles till at length encountring with the side of a hill of which lighting place hee was ioyfull there he crept vp and holding notwithstanding his safety still in his hand there sat he inuirond with death miserably powring out teares to increase y e waters which were already too aboundant and to make him disperate in his sorrowes the tirranous streame presented vnto him the Tragedy of his deere Wife and deerest children She they and his Seruants were whorried to their deaths by the torrent before his face drowned doubly in his teares and in the waues Yet because he should not be altogether the onely slaue of misfortune in this Sea-fight nor be more tryumphed-ouer then others that fell in the battaile At length a little to fetch life into him which was vpon departing he spyed his Boxe of writinges bound as they were to the rafter come floating towardes him that he ventured once againe to saue and did so and in the end most myraculously came off likewise with his owne life Of another Gentleman that hauing a voyage to make on horse-backe ended it riding after a strange manner THere was another Gentlemanne in the same Countrey likewise who being newlie married determined one morning to take his Gelding and to ride forth to a Towne not many miles distāt from his owne dwelling there to bee merrie his horsse for that purpose stood readie sadled and brideled he himselfe had drawne on one of his Boats but before he could fit his Legge to the other the winde came about the point of his compasse was changed his voyage by Lande was to bee made by Water or else not at al. For the Sea had so béegyrt the house broken in lifted of the doores from their hynges ran vppe into all the Chambers and with so dreadful a noyse tooke possession of euerie Roome that he y t was al this while but half a horseman trusted more to his owne legges than to the swiftnes of his Gelding Vppe therefore he mounts to the very top of all the house the waters pursued him thither which he perceiuing got astride ouer the Ridge and there resolued to saue his life but Neptune belike purposing to try how wel he could ride cut of the maine building by the middle leauing the vpper part swimming like a Flemmish Hoy in fowle weather The Gentleman beeing driuen to goe what pace that would carry him which hee sate vppon helde fast by the Tiles and such things as he could best lay hold on and in this foule weather came he at length neither on Horse-backe nor on foote nor in a Vessell fit for the Water to the very Towne where in the morning hee meant to take vp his Inne A number of these strange Tragi-comicall Scaenes haue been acted vpon this large Stage of waters It would swell into a Massie Volume to Chronicle them all let these therefore which I haue deliuered vnto you bee sufficient as a cast of Gods Iudgements these are ynough to make you know hee is angry let them likewise be inough to make vs studie how to allay his anger Adde vnto these the ouerflowings in Herefordshire Glocester Shire and in diuers Shires in Wales bordering vppon the Sea where many liues haue beene lost both of Man and Beast of all which when the particulars are truely knowne they shall bee truely published to our Countrey till then make vse of these Norfolke NOr let other Countreys insult ouer this as if their robes of seeming puritie inuented by the Diuell and his Iourney-men were a defence or Armour of proofe against the Iudgements of Heauen they stand all within distance this late and fearefull Inundation of water makes it apparant For iust the same month of the yeare weeke of the month and almost day of the same weeke In the Countrey of Norfolke not farre from Kings Lyn in a place called March-land happened accidents though not altogether so violent and mortall as those in Summersetshire yet accompanied with much damage and no little danger About the xx of this present month of Ianuarie Anno. Dom. 1607. The cheefe violence of winter being as they by many rurall obseruations had quoted almost spent The Marishes Fens by reason of the yeeres temperature somewhat drye and more forward than in other yeares euerie man to his abilitie layd out what money hee could spare vppon Heiffors and such other young ware emptying their purses of Crownes to cram the Fens with Cattell little thinking the water would haue made one and like a new Broome haue sweeped all cleane as shortly it did The Fens thus stored with Cattell Horse and Bullocks for it is not vnknowne what hanocke the rot had made with sheepe in the beginning of Winter which dyed in such aboundaunce that euen Dogges grewe wearie of them The rot hauing begun and in a manner made an end of Sheep in comes the water as a second and more violent inuader and sweepes away what the rot had left behinde It happened vpon a night for when is danger more wakefull than when preuention sleepes and not so much as dreames of his Furie A couple of Hors-coursers or to

great numbers were earyed away with the streame and looked like so many Whales in y e Sea their bellowing made a noise in the water as if it had bin a tempest and that y e Sea had roared The flocks of Sheep that are vtterly destroied by this Land-wracke are innumerable none knowes the losse for the present but the owners of them But the whole land wil I feare feele the smart A number of most strange shapes of daunger did this monstrous byrth of waters bring forth of which for the rarenes I will set downe some and none but those that are true There was a poore Man a Housholder dwelling in one of the Villages aforenamed heaing seauen Children who in this generall perill not knowing howe to bestirre himselfe was desirous to saue so much of his goods as possibly hee could But the violence of the streame multiplying more and more vpon him It came into his minde to prouide rather for his Children his goodes therefore hee left to the mercy of that which hath no mercy and louing one of his Children aboue all the rest hys feare draue him to run about for the safety of that onely At last the danger that had rounde about and within doores set vpon him and his family was so great that hee could neither defend that his deerest Childe nor the rest but hauing much ado to get life for himselfe hee left them and hys whole houshold perishing in the torrent he getting vp to the top of the house and so escaping An infant likewise was found swimming in a Cradle some mile or two frō y e place where it was knowen to be kept and so was preserued for the Cradle was not of wicker as ours are here but of strong thicke bordes closely ioynted together that saued the infants life The ricks of pease in diuers places being vndermined at the bottomes were lifted vp mainely from the ground and swum vp downe in the whole bulke amongst which a cōpany of Hogs and Pigs being feeding vpon one of the ricks and perceiuing it to go away more more frō thē they got vp to y e top and there maintained thē in eating Nay which is more strange conies in great numbers being driuen out of their borroughes by the tyde were seene to sit for safety on the backs of sheepe as they swom vp down and at last were drowned with them A poore shepheard likewise being in the fielde some of his sheepe were strayed from the rest when the waters began to come in vpon the Countrey which he perceiuing ran with all speede to fetche them in hoping to saue al but before he had done hauing much ado to saue himselfe he was fayne to leaue them and with his bag bolte to climb vp into a tree there hee saw the confusion of hys whole flock they swom too and fro bleating for helpe he satte tearing his hayre and beating his brests crying mainly out but could not saue thē when they were all slaine before his eies he wept then more bitterly to thinke vpon his owne tragedy which he saw was now to be acted he feared drowning yet hee feared staruing more then drowning he had some victuals with him in the tree but he knew not how long this siege of waters woulde keepe him in that rotten bulwarke At length when he was almost pincht to Death with cold hee espyed a boat which the Country had sent out to saue others to that he called and in that recouered life Bristow NOw bend your eies vpon the Citty of Bristowe and there beholde as much cause of lamentation as in any place of this realme that hath tasted of the like misery In the selfe same Moneth of Ianuary and much about y e very day did an arm of the North seas break in at a spring tide which ouerflowed not onely the banckes but almost all the whole Country round about All Brent-Marsh is couered ouer betweene Barstable and Bristow the Sea swelled vp as hye as Bridgewater Al the low grounds are not onely hidden w t this strange deluge but in danger by the opinion of men to be vtterly last Whole houses were remoued from the grounde where they stood and sloat vp and downe like shippes halfe sunke Their Corne-mowes and hay-mowes are caryed away with the streame and can neuer be recouered All theyr fat Oxen that could not swim are drowned with such a forcible assault did the Waters set vpon the inhabitants that they who were in theyr houses and thought themselues safest could hardly make way for theyr owns liues by which meanes a number both of men women and children perished theyr deade bodies floate hourely aboue-water and are continuallys taken vppe It cannot yet be knowne howe manye haue fell in this Tempest of Gods fearful iudgement Most of the goodes both of Cittizens heere in London that were sent thither and of the inhabitants dwelling there as also the Rugs such other commodity which came from Irelande to the fayre of Saint Paule which was now to bee kepte there are to an infinite value and to the daunger of many a mans vndoing vtterly spoiled and cast away Goods in dry-fats and whole packes of Wares are daily taken vp but past all recouery euer to bee good againe This deluge hath couered this part of the country by the space of ten miles ouer in length at least vppe towards Bridgewater Many thousands of pounds cannot make good the losse which the Countrey onely hath heereby receiued God graunt there ensue no second misery vpon this worse to our kingdome than this Plague of Waters The miraculous deliuery of a Gentleman from death when it had round beset him in the midst of the waters A Gentleman dwelling within foure miles of the sea betwixt Barstable Bristow walking foorth one morning to view his groundes cast vppe his eyes toward the Sea-coast and on the sudden was struck into a strange amazemēt for he beheld an extraordinary swallowing vppe of all the earth that had wont to lye visible and leuell to his sight he coulde scarce tell certainely whether he stood vpon the ground which he was sure the day before was his owne Hils and valies Woods and Meddowes seemed al to be either remoued or to be buried in the Sea for the Waters a farre off stood to his iudgement many yards aboue the earth he tooke them at first for Mountaines and heapes of clouds but feare being driuen baeke with a courage and desire in him to saue himselfe from this iminent daunger home comes hee with all speede that he coulde to his owne dwelling relates to his wife what hee had seene and the assured perill that was preparing to set vppon them and with all Counsels her and his whole Family to bestirre themselues and to gette with such prouision and Goodes as they coulde easily conuay away higher vppe into the Country to some one of his friendes All hands presently layd about them as if that