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A17298	A divine tragedie lately acted, or A collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers, and other like libertines, in their unlawfull sports, happening within the realme of England, in the compass only of two yeares last past, since the booke was published worthy to be knowne and considered of all men, especially such, who are guilty of the sinne or arch-patrons thereof.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1636 (1636)	STC 4140.7; ESTC S115279	33,687	58

sexes being assembled solemnly to set up a garland upon their may-pole and having gott a Taber and Pipe for the purpose he with the pipe in his mouth fell down dead and never spake word EXAMPLE 41. At Corsham in Wiltshire in the Whitsunweeke at a whitson-ale one Marke Hulbert a lusty young man undertaking to act the fooles part was so extreamly drunke and hurt with falls taken in the time of his drunkenesse that shortly he tooke his bed where he lay very loathsomly in most grieuous paine until the sixth day of Iune being the Lordsday on which he dyed at 4. of the clocke in the afternoone the usuall time for youth to take their liberty and was burried the same day before 9. of the clocke yet he burst before he was layd into his grave See Iob. 31. 3. EXAMPLE 46. On May 31. 1635. being the Lords day one Richard Clerke an apprentise unto Timothy Denorell shoomaker of Sherston in the Country of Wiltshire within 3. miles of Tedbury being drunke at the Church-house in the same Parish told Henry Larrum of the same Parish that was then in the same place drunke likewise with the Church-house ale that he the said Richard would either hange himselfe or drowne himselfe demanding of the sayd Henry which of the two was best unto whom he replyed that he hoped he would do neither on the day following being munday in the morning the said Richard Clerke was seene to goe through the streat without a bande as if he had beene going about his masters businesse and putting on his band without the Towne he gott up into the middle of a tree and there did hang himselfe A miserable effect of carnall liberty and profane meetings on the Lords day EXAMPLE 47. The 31. May 1635. the booke of recreation was read in the Parish Church of Alvelye in Comit. Salop in the afternoone after all divine exercises publicke ended there fell out a bloody fight betwixt 3. of Alvelye above said and one of Envield of the Country of Stafford neere Adjacent in so much that the man of Envield was sore wounded and had his jaw-bone broken so that he could not eate his meat for the sustaining of nature In his extremity he layd his death to the charge of the other 3. The Churchwardens of the Parish of Alvelye above said presented these 4. for profaning of the Sabbath to my Lord his grace of Canterbury to use the words of the relation being the time of his metropoliticall visitation since which time two of the parties fledd the third was committed to prison in Shewsbury and was the next assises to come to his answere EXAMPLE 48. In March betwixt 1634. and 1635. at Billericay in Essex one Theophilus Pease the Ministers sonne of that towne went to ring the bells on the Sabbath day whom the Churchwardens for that time hindered But against the next Sabbath he gathered a company together saying he would ringe in dispite of the Churchwardens While he was a ringing he was taken with a giddinesse like one drunke and so sickned and about three dayes after dyed EXAMPLE 49. Anno 1635. Ianuarie or there about in Chichester Diocesse one Thomas Perkin a willfull and usuall profaner of Gods Sabbath in Hailing South being ringing on a Sabbath day the rope tooke him up and flinging him about 8. foot high he fell downe on his head and was taken up dead and so remained long but life at last was gotten into him yet the bruise in his head is so great and dangerous as death is expected and little hope of life remaineth EXAMPLE 50. At Craies two miles from Billerikey a servant of Master Holdsworth Minister there ringing on the Sabbath his Master sent to forbid him but he would ring still and before he had done ringing he was strucke sicke and a while after dyed This was a little after the booke for sports was publikely read in the Church EXAMPLE 51. In Iune 1635. on the Lords day the Tapster and Chamberlaine of the Queenes head in Southwarke ridd into Kent to be merry and having drunke liberally riding homewards the one of them fell from his horse and broke his necke EXAMPLE 52. Also in Iune 1635. and as some report the very same Lords day in Southwarke at the red lion neere S. Georges Church in the afternoone a man with another sate drinking so longe that the other about sixe of the clocke departing fell a sleepe so that he never awaked againe EXAMPLE 8. At Hellingsby 5. or 6. miles from Ason in Sussex the booke being read on the Lords day in the Church by the Minister on the next day being Munday an honest man one Tomkins being on his way a neighbour overtakes him and scoffingly askes him if he would goe daunce with him the next Sunday to whom the man aswered take heed that thou be not dauncing in hell before that day come or before it be longe By the next weeke Gods hand fell on this Scoffer that himselfe and two more of his family dyed EXAMPLE 53. In the moneth of Iuly 1634. one Master Quince the Chirurgiō of the Tower of London having an horse to sell meeting with a chapman went to Coleman-street where the horse was kept to see and contract for him on the Lords day in the afternoone the horse being sadled M. Quince gets upon his back to shew his chapman how well he would pace which done as he was a lighting of his backe his foote which lighted on the ground slipped the other foote hung in the stirrup so as he fell to the ground and with the fall brake his thighbone short off so that he was carried from the place to an house neere adjoyning where he lay in great paine and agonye for 8 weekes space or more allmost despairing of his life and never stirring out of his bedde at last it pleased God by degrees to recover and restore him to the use of his legge againe he having little use of it that with great paine for halfe a yeares space and more His sonne had disswaded him from riding because it was the Lords day and himself hath since acknowledged it a just judgement of God upon him for profaning that sacred time which hath made him more carefully to frequent the Church and to avoyd the profanation of the Lords day ever since This the party himselfe and most of the Tower can testify EXAMPLE 9. On February 9. 1634. being the Lords day an Apothecaries man in Limestreat London rid to Barnet with another companion to make merry who returning home drunke neere highe gate met a Tinker and offring him some abuse the Tinker strikes one of their horses whereat the one bid the other run him through who drawing his rapier ran the Tinker through the breast that he fell downe dead therupon being by and by apprehended and confessing the fact they were both sent to Newgate EXAMPLE 10. At Thorneton neere Westchester the people there upon the first publishing

bringe thee unto judgement EXAMPLE 29. In the yeare of our Lord 1633. Octob. 26. after the booke for sports was known to be published in print David Price a Welshman servant to one Thomas Hill a knowne Grasier of that Country coming to Banbury with his drove on Satturday night declared his purpose of driving them the next day early in the morning being the Sabbath or Lords day his Host where he lodged disswaded him because it was the Sabbath day and told him that he would certainly be stopped and made to pay for it according to the Statute Hee answered that he would drive them and let me see saith hee who will hinder me So in the morning two other accompaning him he went to fetch the Cattell out of the ground one that knew him mett him at the Townes end not yet oUt of the Towne and admonished him saying What David today today he made no answere but went onward and though for any thing that appeared to any other or that himselfe complained of he was then in good health as ever he was yet within little more then a stones cast of the Towne he fell downe dead suddainly and was burried in Banbury Church-yard the next day after None could discerne any sensible or evident cause of so suddaine a surprizall and himselfe gave no signe of any paine weakenesse or illnesse till the instant time that he gave up the ghost EXAMPLE 5. On Ian. 25. 1634. being the Lords day in the time of the last great Frost 14. younge men presuming to play at football upon the yce on the river Trent neere to Ganisborrow comming alltogether in a scuffle the yce suddainly brake and they were all drowned EXAMPLE 30. At Wicks a Towne betwixt Colchester and Harwich in Essex upon Whitsunday last in the afternoone two fellowes meeting at the football the one killed the other EXAMPLE 31. At Oxford this last Sommer on the Sabbathday one Bally Hawkes a Butcher would needs goe into his feild with an hatchet and showell to mend his ditch his Wife disswaded him what shee could being the Sabbathday but he said he would goe and make an end of his worke which he did for suddainly he was struck dead in his ditch and so made an end of his worke and his life together EXAMPLE 32. Also at Oxford a carpenter undertaking to mend a Stage in S. Iohns Colleidge on the Satturday night for the finishing wherof he must of necessity spent some part of the Lords day morning that the Stage might be ready against the Munday following he that night fell backward from the Stage being not farre from the ground and brake his neck and so ended his life in a fearefull Tragedy EXAMPLE 33. At Iuye Hinckley a mile from Oxford about the time when May-poles are sett up on the Lords day after evening Prayer when most of the Towne were at the May-pole one Iohn Cooper servant to master Tinmore of the said Towne going along the street a Mayd out of a windowe in Iohn Nicols his house not farre from the May-pole called him to come in thither where also was another Mayd and a young man named Christopher younge servant to Master Willis of the sayd Towne Iohn Cooper at first refused to come to them but the mayd earnestly intreating him he yeilded to her and being come in sate downe by the other two where having sate a while the foresaid Christopher younge spied a Gun over the chimney which he supposing not to be charged fondly tooke downe and fell a tampearing with it and first levelled at the mayds and after held it up against Iohn Cooper as he sate and unwittingly lifting up the Cocke it strucke fire and the peece discharged and shot the said Iohn Cooper through the shoulder so that he dyed presently being heard only to say O Lord. EXAMPLE 6. At Dover the very same Lords day that the booke was read one in S. Iames Parish that played on a kitt went and played and thereby calld together a sort of wenches and young men But he was thereupon that very day struck by divine hand so as within two dayes he dyed EXAMPLE 34. A young man neere Bow going to swimme in the river on Essex side on the Lords day in the afternoone was drowned EXAMPLE 35. Two boyes of S. Albons going to Verolanes Ponds a mile off to swimme on the Lords day Iuly 19. one of them was drowned and the other hardly escaped EXAMPLE 36. At Ramsey in Suffolke a tall man on the Lords day going with others to swimme and being advertized and warned of a hole in the water he sware that there was no place there could drowne him but by and by on a suddaine he was missing being now under water and so drowned EXAMPLE 37. On September 13. 1635. being the Lords day two young men of the Parish of S. Dunstans in the West London going to swimme were both drowned EXAMPLE 7. At Thurlow in Suffolke one making a Feast to his freinds on the Sabbath day for joy of the publishing of the Booke for sports was the next day pressed to death by the suddaine fall of a faggot stack EXAMPLE 38. At Twiford in Buckinghamshire a fellow playing at cudgels on the Lords day or as some say upon a revell day receaved a hurt in the face whereof he dyed the next weeke EXAMPLE 39. At Lemster one Master Powel Ian. 1634. on the Lords day serving a writt of sub poena and that of purpose on that day as is credibly reported upon one Master Shuit a Gentleman this he did in the Church-yard so soone as they were come out of the Church Master Shuit thereupon told him I thought you had beene an honester man then so to doe this upon this day he replyed I hope I am never a whit the more dishonest or lesse holy for that having spoken this he suddainly fell downe dead and spoke not a word more his wife seeing this was suddainly struck with sicknesse EXAMPLE 40. A fellow in Sommersetshire being to make a tente upon the Lords day for a faire that was to be kept upon the Munday following sayd to one on the Satturday that they would reare it to morrow so the next day which was the Lords day being drunk he dyed the same day roaring EXAMPLE 43. At Glassenbury in Sommersetshire at the setting up of a May-pole it miscarrying fell upon a child slew it and it is reported that it was the Churchwardens child who was the cheefe stickler in the businesse Also when the May-pole in the same Towne was againe the second time a setting up a fire tooke in the Towne so as all the people about the May-pole were forced to leave it and to runne to the quenching of the fire EXAMPLE 44. A May-Lord of misrule not farre from thence became madd upon it EXAMPLE 45. Also at Battersey neere London the last yeare a notable example of Gods judgement befell a fidler the youth of the town of both

of the booke prepared for a solemne summer ale The bringing in of their Lady flora should have been guarded with a Marshall troope the lustiest wench and stoutest young man in the towne were chosen to be the purveyors for cakes and for ribbons for favours the solemnity was to be on the munday but the preparation on the Lords day this lusty tall mayd on the satturday before went to the mill to fetch home the meale for cakes on her head shee being stronge and able for the purpose but in the way passing by a hedge shee was suddainly struck by a divine stroke and fell into the ditch where shee was found dead shee was suffered to lye abroad in that pickle all the Lords day til munday morning when the Coroner being send for shee was thence carried to her grave immediately where all her solemnity was burried with her all her vaine thoughts in that very day wherein the great solemnity should have been And see what a good effect this wrought in the whole towne First all their mirth was turned into mourning no summer ale kept and besides that they being moved by the dreadfull stroke of God tooke their may-pole downe which they had before sett up and never after would presume to set it up againe or to have any more summer-ales or may-games God grant they continue in their sober mindes and that all other would learne to be wise by their example EXAMPLE 11. In Yorkshire at a Wake in the Parish of Otley at Baildon on the Lords day two of them sitting at drinke late in the night fell out and being parted the one a little after finding his fellow sitting by the fire with his backe towards him comes behinde him and with a hatchet chines him downe the backe so as his bowells fell out the murtherer flying immediately and being hotly pursued lept into a river and so drowned himselfe O fearefull fruits of carnall liberty EXAMPLE 18. One in Glocestershire being very forward to advance a solemne sommer-meeting wherein his sonne was to be a cheefe stickler went himselfe in great jollity to see it and there beholding it he fell downe suddainly and so dyed EXAMPLE 12. One at Ham neere Kingston being a scoffer of all goodnesse and a common profaner of the Sabbath going abroad to see his grounds on the Lords day and finding some neighbours cattell to have broken in he runnes to drive them out and that with such eagernesse that he fell downe dead instantly upon the place EXAMPLE 13. One Wright at Kingston being a scoffer of Religion and rejoycing much at the suspending of his Minister and others for not reading the booke of sports in their Churches saying hee hoped to see them allso served shortly was within a day or two after struck with a dead Palsy all over the one side and with blindnesse and dumnesse that he could neither goe see nor speake and so lay in a miserable manner for a fortnight and then dyed EXAMPLE 14. In Moorefields neere London sundry youths playing at Catt on the Lords day two of them fell out and the one hitting the other under the eare with his catt he therewith fell downe for dead in the place the other was sent to prison but the dead for the time by Gods mercy recovering the prisoner was released which may be a warning both to them and all other youth to take heed how they so profane the Lords day EXAMPLE 1. A woman about Northampton the same day that shee heard the booke for sports read went immediately and having 3. pence in her purse hired a fellow to goe to the next Towne to fetch a Minstrell who comming shee with others fell a dauncing which continued within night at which time shee was got with child which at the birth shee murthering was detected and apprehended and being convented before the justice shee confessed it and with all told the occasion of it saying it was her falling to sport on the Sabbath upon the reading of the booke so as for this treble sinful act her presumtuous profaning of the Sabbath which brought her adulte●y that murther Shee was according to the Law both of God and man put to death much sinne and misery followeth upon sabbath-breaking EXAMPLE 2. Also at Northampton in the last Easter assises there was a youngman who formerly by seeing the example of good people in the due sanctification of the Lords day or Sabbath had begun to reforme his former loose kind of life and to frame his conversation according to Gods word and that in the well keeping of the Sabbath abstaining therein from sports and pastimes and spending the whole day in the publike and private duties of it but when once he heard of the publishing of the booke for sports and pastimes he fell backe againe to his former wallowing and being taken as he was picking a pocket when the Iudges weare in the Church upon examination confessed what he had formerly beene and how he had been reformed and that upon the publishing of the sayd booke he was incouraged to run riot a fresh by which meanes he fell into this impiety and iniquity for the which he suffered death EXAMPLE 15. Aprill 1● 1635. being Satturday one travelling with three others from London to Maydenhead he the rest spending the Sabbath there would travell on his way the next day being the Lords day contrary both to Gods commandement and also of the Lady whom he served who had given him strict charge to observe the Sabbath and not to travell on it He rode in the morning to Henley and there heard the Sermon after that he fell to travail in the afternoone but as he went in the way leading his horse in his hand gently downe a plaine descent and even way his horse suddainly fell and broke both his fore leggs the man sore agast at this not more suddaine then strange disaster which he could not but attribute to the immediate hand of God and being past all hope of recovery was forced himselfe to knocke his horse in the head and so to leave him and being the next day overtaken at Abington by his company whom he had left the day before and they asking him how it fell out he was no further on his way he smote his breast and told them how it had befallen him in the way saying that he had heard many a good Sermon yet none of them or any thing else did so worke upon his conscience as this thing did and that this example should be a warning unto him for ever travailing on the Sabbathday againe This is testified under the hands of those 3. which had travailed with him and over tooke him EXAMPLE 16. At Dartmouth 1634. upon the comming forth and publishing of the booke for sports a company of younkers on May-day morning before day went into the Country to fetch home a May-pole with Drum and Trumpett whereat the neighbouring inhabitants were affrighted supposing