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A51465 The Most lamentable and deplorable accident which on Friday last, June 22, befell Laurence Cawthorn, a buccher in St. Nicholas Shambles in Newgate Market who being suspected to be dead by the two hasty covetousness and cruelty of his land-lady ... was suddenly and inhumanely buryed : together with the report of his moving of the body as it was carrying by the bearers to his grave, and the treating of his winding sheet with his own hands, and the lamentable shrieks and groans he made on the Saturday and Sunday following : as also the examination and commitment of his land-lord and land-lady by the lord mayor to the prison of Newgate ... 1661 (1661) Wing M2901; ESTC R26205 4,990 17

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THE Most LAMENTABLE AND Deplorable Accident which on Friday last June 2● befell Laurence Cawthorn a butcher in St. Nicholas Shambles in Newgate Market wh● being suspected to be Dead by the two hasty covetousness and cruelty of his Land-lady Mrs. Cook in Pincock-lane was suddenly and inhumanely buryed TOGETHER With the report of his moving of the Body as it was carrying by the Bearers to his Grave and the treating of his Winding sheet with his own hands and the Lamentable Shrieks and Groans he made on the Saturday and Sunday following As also the Examination and Commitment of his Land-Lord and Land-Lady by the Lord Mayor to the Prison of Newgate And opening the Grave the body exposed to publick view on the Munday following And the Virdict and Sentence which the Jury passed upon the sight of the Body the Examination of several witnesses following For the further satisfaction of the people who have bin so extreamly mis-informed in the particulars of this sad Accident that the very name of the person is most falsly represented LONDON Printed for W. Gilbertson 1661. The most lamentable Death of Laurence Cauthorn who being conceived to be dead was put into a Coffin and buried on Friday June 21. and being afterwards heard to have made many hideous Yells and Groans was taken up on Monday June 24. where he was found to have broken open his shroud and to have beaten himself to Death in the Coffin AMongst all the Torments that Mankind is capable of the most dreadfull of them and that which nature most shrinks at is to be buryed alive Death is described to be the most dreadful of all things that are dreadful because it deprives the body of the soul by the commerce whereof the body enjoyes all the Comforts that Life is capable to entertain And although through many discontents and miseries that Life it self is become unpleasant yet we had rather endure all Calamities then be beholding to death to release us from them The Old Man that stoops under the burden of his Age though peradventure he hath all diseases upon him and all extremities of want to make his Life morefull of Affliction yet tell him of death and you shall find by him that he would fain live longer nay rather then death should seize upon him you shall find him to be ready to excuse his infirmities and make you to believe that he is younger and richer and stronger then indeed he is There is in all Creatures a natural desire of Life and Death though unavoydable is the Common Enemy against which they do all labour to defend themselves We have read in Histories that some Men having committed the greatest Crimes have been sentenced to the most grievous punishments as to be buried in the ground up to the Arme-pits and sometimes to the Chin and all manner of sustenance and comfort being denyed them to starve in the open Aire and cry aloud for that Bread which it is Death for any man to give unto them There is nothing in Nature that doth make men more heartily to desire death then Famine For Hunger is so violent that it breaketh thorough Stone-walls Women have been Recorded to feed on their own Children being compelled thereunto by Hunger and Notorious Malefactors hanging alive on Gibbets have been known to feed on their own Arms or any other part of them that their Teeth could reach But in this extremity although there is no question but the dolour is very great there is something to give some little comfort as the sight of the Passengers whose Pity and whose Prayers they have the variety of Objects both of Beasts and Birds and some hope of Life whiles any thing alive is seen But from the Grave there is no redemption hath any one saith the Wise man returned from the Grave to acquaint us with the newes of the Dead and the sad passages in the chambers of the grave There is heard no joyful tread of Friends no Gratulations of acquaintance but all Oblivion Dust and endless darkness We have heard of some who have been buried and yet have been both seen and numbred gain amongst the living as of the Prophet Jonas who lay three days and three nights in the belly of the Whale He had surely died if he had not been buryed we have heard of others who by some sudden dilapidations having been covered with rubbish have as suddenly been rescued from that Ruine and being but dust themselves have ever afterwards acknowledged their thankfulnesse to the Almighty who did thus deliver them from the malice of the Dust But in this strange visitation whereof we come now to speak we find a Man dead struck dead if we will believe the Verdict of the Searchers A young Man in the strength and flourish of his youth his complexion promised health and his youth the accesse of many years and we find this man to be buried and to be buried alive The Searchers who too hastily said he was dead ought to have a new search to be made after them for it is to believed that this young man is not alone in this Example but that many others have suffered in the like nature and who might have been heard to make the complaint had their Graves been digged no deeper then this young Mans was for if we may believe report they made such hast to bury him that the Grave at the most was not half a yard in the depth His Name was Laurence Cawthorn by his trade a Butcher and having not long before lived out the time of his Apprentiship with commendable trust and industry he was now a Journyman to a Butcher in the Shambles Beyond Newgate To be more ready to discharge the trust reposed in him he took a lodging at a Victualers house whose name is William Cook in Pincock-lane and having on Thursday toyled and sweated much in the imployment of his Trade he in the Evening went to another Victualing house hard by with some of his acquaintance to refresh himself He appeared then to be well and lusty but whether he drank too much of Hot Waters as some say he did or whether he was to high in any other drink it is uncertain it seemeth to me that neither the one or the other was the occasion of this lamentable accident for on his coming home I find him very careful of his businesse as it became an honest and a temperate man to be He desired some that were in the house to call him by three of the Clock because Friday being market day he had many Sheep and Lambs to kill which must be ready to be sold in the Shambles about seven or eight of the Cloek a great task he said he was to perform in a few hours The Task indeed was greater then he thought for little thinking that at that time he was to encounter hn the next morning with so sore an enemy as Death Because he would be more early to follow his