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death_n	good_a	life_n	lord_n	11,237	5	3.7797	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07380	True newes from [Mecare:] and also out of Worcestershire	Drucateen, James.	1598 (1598)	STC 17764; ESTC S114539	5,910	9

suffer the poore oppressed to depart but this Pharao of Spaine notwithstanding Gods many fearefull examples shewed will not suffer our poore oppressed Belgians to liue in peace but still laies more taskes and paiable duties to the maintaining of his vniust wars then Pharao did on the children of Israel for both their goods wiues maids and liues are at the Spaniards command or at leastwise control god yet in mercy mooue the heart of some man to be a Moses to my countrey men and either by miracles or by the sworde release them their wiues and children from the handes of those wicked and bloudy minded Spaniardes for their shoulders are almost broken with bearing the yoke of his oppression God for his mercy sake when it pleaseth him release them Meane space being as I thanke God I am free from his tyranny I will as I am bound daily pray for the rest of my countreymen that God may giue them patience and true faith in Iesus Christ til it please him to release them Thus much I thought good to aduertise you according to my last promise when we parted at Quient and in any thing you haue occasion to vse me in these partes I pray command me in part requitall of your many fauours for absence cannot make me forget my friends and so farewell in God From Abuile in Picardy this 26. of Ianuary 1597. Iames Drucateen True newes out of Worcestershire AMongst the many of Gods fearefull myracles shewed on vs here in England as sliding of grounds remoouing of highwaies mightie floudes by great abundance of raine fearefull lightnings and thunders great fire from heauen sodaine earthquakes strange and deformed children borne great dearth of corne mighty plagues and pestilence death of many good and godly benefactors as the late lord Maior for instance much strife in the church by sectes and schismes with fearefull threatnings of the foe of Spaine in his attempts of inuasion amongest I say all these fearefull warnings sent vs by God to draw vs to amendment of life and to cease from our former wickednesse wherein how wissully we transgresse let euery one examine their conscience and then no doubt but God will send the remorce of those consciences to draw vs to a newnesse of life lest like Ierusalem Sodome and Gomorrha and many other countries yet fresh in memorie we feele Gods iudgement when we would repent and amend if we might sind time amongst al these tokens of Gods kindled anger beholde one token more which might mooue vs vpon the knees of our hearts to aske God forgiuenesse for our sinnes though he had neuer sent vs other token to affright vs or mooue vs to remember our swearing drunkennesse whoredome couetousnes and rapes and murders and such like For now behold the Lord hath sent vs no example of nine dayes woonder as the wicked account all tokens whatsoeuer but he hath sent vs a heauy example an example of affliction a grieuous and almost incredible disease of sodaine lamenesse beginning not at the hart nor head but at the verie toe of the foote and can by no meanes be cured for from the toe it goes into the foote from thence into the leg and so vpwards still and still as it ascends higher the place it leaueth dieth and if it once get to the thigh then no way but death for the party infected for there is no meanes to cure it but cutting off the legs and armes Wheresoeuer it beginneth it begins like a tingling or paine like the gowt and in foure and twentie houres it wil grow red and in sixe houres after it will be as blacke as a shooe and be stone dead and dies alwaies vpwards either in the legs or armes insomuch that some haue lost both their legs others both their armes being cut off and yet are liuing a heauy consideration which the vngodly regard not For proofe of what I say because many are incredulous ther is a man in Westminster named Hugh Alee whose sonne Edward Alee was taken with the same disease whose legge being cut off at the knee was found so dead that th●re came not aboue two drops of bloud from it and the disease is so stinking that the surgeons are faine to fold mufflers three double about their noses and mouthes when they come to dresse them And al this disease onely raignes within tenne miles of Worcester round about euery way and in Worcester it selfe so that there are at this day aboue a hundred infected and almost halfe as many are dead already of it and some that looke to it in time escape it spareth neither men nor women insomuch that manie do leaue to ride that way fearing the disease whereby the poore countrey is like to be vndone except that by the praiers of the faithful and godly the Lord be moued to stay his hands But yet it seemeth that he doth not only shew vs wonders but hath likewise assigned manie men to be hard harted and incredulous of Gods wonders the proofe was seene in a man of Worcester who heareing of this strange disease said he did not beleue that there could be such a sodaine disease which one hearing rebuked him but notwithstanding he continued in his obstinat misdoubt til a surgeon carried him from house to house of the infected and shewed him in some places legs cut off and in other places armes and in many places men dead by this disease which he seeing as dispairing in that he had beene so doubtfull went home vnto his house and in very angui●● died rauing crying for Gods mercy which many men may take for example that doe distrust in the omnipotent power of God thinking their weake iudgement can comprehend Gods many threatning examples But why do we wonder at his misbeleefe when almost in euery place men are misbeleuing dispairing are giuen to violent slaughters For proofe of which a man about S. Katherines was found so wilful in his own wicked opinion that he drowned himself hanging a great weight of lead about his necke thinking by that meanes neuer to haue bin found but yet for al his wilful act god cast him aland only to shew vs that he wil not that man shal relying on his own policy hide any thing from God for he searcheth the reines hart knows the very thoughts of al men how iust or vniust soeuer But for al this we are carelesse of his heauy plagues and feareful examples til either in dispaire or wilfulnes we feele his punishments for now in this age men are only studying howe to liue and carrie credite in this worlde thorough worldly riches which howsoeuer it be gotten they regarde not be it by murther oppression periury slander vsury the proofe whereof appeared in a man dwelling in Kent who went about to build a faire house telling a friend of his hee meant to let it w●ll when it was finished said likewise that he would let it to the poore not to the rich making euery chamber a tenement and then he knew the poore wil take it at such a rate that of x. pound a yere if it were all in one he would make forty almost being thus in tenemēts diuided in this determination went forward with his building til it was halfe finished But see how God shewed his iudgement vpon him bicause he meant to extort vpon y e poore for when he had builded halfe the house his mony grew so short that he could proceed no further whereat many in the country made a great mocking which at last came to his care in so much that going thorow the streets of the towne many would vnderlook him say Is this he that wil build houses to begger the poore but he lacks mony Mary sayes one and Ile lend him a peny wherfore answers another mary to buy a rope to hang him in for his good mind Thus many times he was mockt til at last mooued with bitter anguish and deepely vext in mind he went greeuing that any should see his face any more and in that house which he was building went hanged himselfe And this may serue for a warning to many Landlords in these daies that do not build houses as minding thereby to let them the better cheap but rather to raise the rents to the vtter vndoing of a common wealth only impouerishing to the poore of England for many nowadaies take in as much ground as to make a hog fly and when their hog is dead then they boord the stie and that a poore man and his wife must pay viii d. or xii d. a week hauing neither chimny nor chamber such a one as when 2 or 3 are set togither by a fire made vpon the ground for want of a harth thē I say the house is so ful that the dog must stand at the doore as hauing no rowme in the house which is a lamentable case if it were lookt into and no doubt makes a great many beggers in a yere is besides a couer of much mischiefe for whatsoeuer they be or howsoeuer they liue if they pay them their mony wel they regard not And in these places adulterets theeues consoliers and such like are daily harboured which I pray God wise magistrates may looke into that it proue not a iust plague to this country of England and bring not remedilesse hurts to this blessed commonwealth which God in his great mercy defend vs from and open our eyes to see his displeasure kindled against vs and euery man to repent him of his former wicked life that wee may all with Abraham and the blessed ones liue in ioy with Christ euerlastingly Amen FINIS