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A18353	A true relation of two most strange and fearefull accidents, lately happening the one at Chagford in Deuonshire, by the falling of th[e] Stanary Court-house, the 6. day of March last. The other at Branson within a mile of Burton vpon Trent in Staffordshire, this present yeare 1618.	Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641, attributed name.	1618 (1618)	STC 4932; ESTC S117531	7,081	14

in whose mouth as it séemd a forged lye was ready and there told such an vnlikely tale that not only the Iury but the whole bench thought it to be most fabulous and therefore with good admonitions desired him to bee carefull and to take good héed vpon what grounds hée tooke his oath yet notwithstanding this audacious fellow destitute of all grace and goodnesse thus tempted the Lords anger saying if I sweare amisse quoth he or if I speake wrongfully let God I beséech him make me a fearfull example to all periur'd wretches and that this house wherein I stand may sodainely fall vpon my head and that the fall thereof may bee seene to bee the iust iudgement of God vpon me Oh wofull wish Oh cursed desire Oh periur'd homicide Oh vild tempter of Gods anger thus to solicite heauen to black vengeance For no sooner were these words spoken but in short time after the timber and walls of the house though séeming strong the weather faire and cleare without either storme or tempest sodainely fell downe where by the fall and ouerthrow of this large timber building this gracelesse varlet with diuers others were sore bruised and beaten to death and the number of sixteene or seauentéene more grieuously hurt and wounded some in their armes some in their legges some on their heads some on their backs and other parts of their bodies to the great danger of their liues and that which is more lamentable to tell certaine Esguires and Gentlemen of good calling by the fall of the said walls and timber were sodainly strooke dead and their limbes almost beaten in peices which sodainnesse of death not onely amazed the whole Towne but strooke a trembling feare throughout all the neighbouring villages The principall of these Gentlemen which thus taffed of this rigorous hard misfortune I will here make knowne As first Master Nicholas Eueleigh Esquire steward of the Court a Gentleman of much vertue and wel beloued in that Country also his two Clerkes Iohn Cleake and Richard Beere for whom is made much moane Likewise one Master Richard Cottle Esquire and Councellour of the middle Temple in London In like manner two Atturneyes of the Law Master Timothy Moule and Master Robert Milford with some certaine others which felt the heauy burden of Gods Iudgements and had their bodies euen bruized to pieces through the inuocation of this wicked wretch thus incensing Heauens anger whom GOD forgiue Onely I must now speake of a wonderfull thing there happening In the midst of this confused heape of timber stone and earth vnder which so many lay slaughtered there was a young Childe miraculously preserued for in the midst of these men of more able strength which lay bruized and beated to death as it were with their braines dashed out was the same Childe found safe and sound whereon appeared not so much as the smallest hurt that might be yet iudge we charitably God onely knowes the meanes of this Childes preseruation and the cause of his heauy punishment shewed vpon the others But now so strike terrour into the harts of the Readers neuer was so great woe made in Chagford for so many good men couered ouer with the ruines of earth and stone neuer were so many Gentlemen of account Counsellours of worth Atturneyes and Clerkes of the Law thus at one time brought to vnhappy destinie Some lay starke dead closed vp in dust and earth some wounded with bruized and broken bones some crying and calling for helpe yea such amazed feare thundred about the whole Towne that it was maruellous to heare The neighbouring people came from all the adioyning villages some crying for one friend some for another fathers for children children for their fathers husbands for wiues wiues for husbands brothers for brothers yea nothing but lamentations rung peales of woe and such a confusion of sorrow possessed the people that it was pittifull to sée Thus haue you heard how God cast downe his irefull hand in this vnhappy towne as once hee did at Oxford Sises whereas in like manner there was one Rowland Ienks that for speaking certaine blasphemous spéeches against God and his sonne our Sauiour procured his indignation by raysing of a sodaine stinking dampe amongst them there present that both the Iudges of the Bell and Barom were immediately stifled and strook dead with many other Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of good rancke and calling not one of the Iury but there dyed immediatly with many others to the number of thrée hundred at the least beside the stench thereof bred such an infection in the Country that in fiue monthes following it was scarce cleared These and such like wonders God can doe and where hee pleaseth to strike with his Iron hand it bootes not vs weake worldlings to resist therefore let vs with humble supplications make our sutes vnto God that he would kéepe vs from sodaine death and that we may haue time of repentance alwaies in readines and that the vntimely confusion of these héere gone before vs may bee a continuall example to put vs in minde of Gods anger threatned against vs so may we be all ready against his most glorious comming What great cause haue we that are heere liuing to giue God thankes for thus warning vs by other mens harmes What louing and gentle admonitions haue we receiued from the Counsell of Christ that we should not take his name in vaine yet neither his counsell the Patriarches the Prophets the Euangelists and Apostles nor the examples of vengeance as haue béene héere shewed vnto vs can worke happy amendment how much more iustly then may the Lord poure out his hot wrath and heauy displeasure vpon vs then on nay other Nation about vs. These forepassed Iudgements are heere recorded onely for our instruction and spéedy amendment shall wée then be carelesse shall wee thou be sencelesse shall wee goe to Law and forsweare our selues for a little worldly pelfe shall wée speake warily for feare of offending man and not keepe our tongues from offending heauen Leaue off I say this vile vice of Swearing it neuer did good to any giue it ouer in time deale iustly in all things sweare not at all and you shall neuer be forsworne which God grant for his glorious Names sake Amen FINIS

A TRVE RELATION of two most strange and fearefull Accidents lately happening The one at Chagford in Deuonshire by the falling of th● Stanary Court-house the 6. day of March last The other at Branson within a mile of Burton vpon Trent in Staffordshire this present yeare 1618. LONDON Printed for H. G. and are to be sold by I. Wright at the signe the Bible without New-gate 1618. GODS ANGER AND fearefull Iudgements shewed in two places of this Land the one at Branson within a mile of Burton vpon Trent in Stafordshire in Lent last the other at Chagford in Deuonshire this present yeare of our LORD GOD 1618. THe anger and terrible countenance of God of late shewed in this Land here amongst vs may awaken vs from the fast sléepes of security and turne vs to the Lord by true repentance Therefore least his heauy Iudgments in like maner come vpon vs at vnawares and we be taken sodainely sléeping let vs with the wise Uirgins in the Gospell kindle our Lampes that we may be found ready when our Bridegroome commeth in great glory to giue euery one as his works shall be For we are to acknowledge and consider that the Lord hath not ceased from time to time at his good will and pleasure to send prodigies and wonders in euery age to forewarne and forearme vs of his Iudgements hanging ouer our heads for sin as appeareth by the late examples declared amongst vs. In the County of Stafford in the parish of Burton vpon Trent dwelled of late a frée houlder of good lands means named Thomas Henworth as well stored with money and other houshold goods as any one of his rancke and calling in that Countrey Amongst which temporall blessings God bestowed vpon him two sonnes but not so happy in the elder as in the younger for the first borne which by succession should haue béene his heyre and possessor of his lands was from his mothers wombe borne both deafe and dumb and withall so silly and simple that he had not that sufficient reason of gouernment as the younger had by which meanes the old man as it were offended at Gods prouidence disinherited the elder and by will gaue his whole meanes to the younger vpon condition binding him to giue yearely a certaine stipend to his dumbe brother This condition stood at the old mans death as a legasie the younger inherited the elder dispossessed the younger commanded the elder obeyed the younger rich the elder poore This was the partiall policie of worldly wisedome but God the giuer and bestower of all good things hereat much displeased gaue but small blessings to the possessor of these riches For this young Heyre in the midst of his ioyes being richly marryed was visited with sicknesse and being struck by the hand of God euen vnto death called then to minde the wrongs done to his poore dumbs brother and therefore fearing a deserued iustice in the world to come he returned backe some part of his brothers right and by will gaue him one halfe of his lands and goods and shortly after dyed Thus the younger brother in the height of his prosperitie taking his last leaue of the inconstant vaine pleasures and profits of this incertaine world left his wife sole Executrix to performe his will testament ordained in behalfe of his wronged brother but she as many Executors and Ouerséers doe regarding neyther right nor equitie neglected to performe the will of her deceased husband and to make her vniust dealings the more strong within short time she married another husband named Richard Crispe a man as it séems contented to take what he found and perceiuing the dumbe fellow to be destitute of friends became his owne caruer and most vniustly kept the dead mans will vnperformed by which meanes the dumbe fellow was kept in his former pouerty and forced to relie still vpon the bare allowance of his brother and sister in law which was almost nothing at all These vniust dealings passed on vntill such time as the eye of heauen looking downe and espying the vnconscionable dealings of this Richard Crispe and vniust wrongs sustained by the dumbe wretch became a gentle Iudge and tooke the matter into his owne hands before whose face goods vnlawfully gotten and detayned together with their owners are consumed as stubble in the fire and scattered abroad as dust in the winde So happened it with this Richard Crispes estate for in Ianuary last hauing his goods and cattle about him in abundance his garners and barnes well stored with corne his ricks and stacks of pease and hay furnishing his yards and little remembring from whence it came nor from whom it was wrongfully detained in the midst of this plenty the righteous Iudge of Heauen and Earth before whose All-séeing Eye not onely the words and workes but the very thoughts and imaginations of all men lie open and naked continually suffering now no longer the wrongs of this dumbe creature to goe vnreuenged sent a most fearefull and strange iudgement for all others who in like manner make no conscience to leaue the wils of the dead vnperformed to take example by In Ianuary last as I said before there beganne a most secret and strange fire in the middle of a Pease Ricke or Houell standing in the yard of this Richard Crispe consuming the stalks and straw but leauing the Pease vnburnt afterward with great violenes it flew to a hay stacke in like manner wasting downe the same with such eager fury as it was most terrible so sée leauing standing vpright in the middle of the hay a long pole vnconsumed also an Ash trée growing close by the same which was not so much as once scorched thererewith after this immediatly the fire flew as it were with burning wings into a corne barne where it kindled very strangely on the top of a beame in the middle bay consuming and burning inwardly the timber and straw of the sheafe likewise leauing the corne vntouched as it excéeded all wonder to behold Therefore I am héere to insert a likelihood that it was not the negligence of man but the angry hand of God that wrought this fiery example for wheresoeuer this Crisp went the fire as it were followed him and séemed to flye from others that sought to quench it nine seuerall times began it againe to renew and would not quite bee extinguished vntill such time as Crisp departed his dwelling and went to remaine with a friend at the other part of the parish in whose absence the pease and corne thus strangely left vnconsumed was sifted and gathered together but good for no vse no not so much as féeding for hogges for they would neither eate nor come néere it yet let vs iudge the best and censure as mortalls may doe and conclude that it was onely the will of God and a casualty procéeding onely from his diuine prouidence But againe to our matter This Richard Crispe within a while after hauing repaired what the fire had wasted