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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58994	Sad and deplorable news from Oxford-sheir & Bark-sheir Being a lamentable and true relation of the drowning of about sixty persons, men, women and children, in the lock, near Goring in Oxford sheir; as they were passing by water, from Goring Feast, to Stately in Barksheir. Readers, this story is both strange and true, and for your good (presented unto you:) be careful of your life, all sins to fly, lest you by death be taken suddenly. When he is sent, on you arrest to make, no fees nor bail, can purchase your escape.		1674 (1674)	Wing S230; ESTC R219824	2,690	11

Sad and Deplorable NEWS From OXFORD-SHEIR BARK-SHEIR Being a Lamentable and True RELATION Of the Drowning of about sixty Persons Men Women and Children in the Lock near Goring in Oxford sheir as they were passing by water from Goring Feast to Stately in Barksheir Readers this story is both strange and true And for your good presented unto you Be careful of your life all sins to fly Lest you by death be taken suddenly When he is sent on you Arrest to make No Fees nor Bail can purchase your escape LONDON Printed for R. Vaughan in the Little-old-Baily 1674. Sad News from Oxford shier and Berk-shier c. TIME was when the Curious World had her eyes alway turned towards the Banks of Nile and the torrid sands of sunburnt Africa in continual expectation of some new and uncouth shapes to be still produced by that Monster-teeming Mother But now as if that vast Continent of Prodigies were contracted into the later small Teutonick engine It is strange to see how greedie Mortals eye the labouring Press and with gaping mouths attend its delivery as ready to swallow and devour what ever it brings forth and what is more preposterous the more Elephantine or Garagantuane the brats dimensions seem whatere it be above the truth so much the easilier it goes down and is digest●d by that Monster devouring Monster the ma … 〈…〉 To satisfy which insatiable Appetite of our News mongers and their Athenians Heaven and the Elements seem peculiarly to have consented This being an Age and this year especially a year of wonders and if not every where prodigious yet in no part not remarkable in some eminent example of Providence or other not to speak now of Wars and Battels or Christians unnaturally weltring in Christian goar now in most part of Europe what prodigious Inundations Snow and Cold have molested our Climate what losses by Sea what mischiefs by Land have in several parts afflicted us but above all what strange Excess of Fury Madness has of late exercis'd its rage on our peoples minds what unparalleld and desperate Roberies Cruelties and Cheats have happened what Diabolical transports of despair and Self-Murther has of late in all parts in more than Prodigious frequency seized poor Mortals In a word have we not been daily alarmed with an infinite variety of unwonted Accidents that God seems resolv'd to chastise our delight in false and Romantick news to glut us with the more serious strangeness of equally sad and wonderful truths Yes surely Providence hath given us true subject enough for our discourse without either careening the Ocean or ransacking old wives monum●nt for amusing figments When we our selves being become so many Prodigies of Sin and Profaness when our days are such that Vice that formerly shunned the light now walks unmasked and with open face dares plead for the palm where it was wont to deprecate punishment We cannot wonder if Nature and its Author combine against us expose our Enormities by monstrous and irregular accidents in the Mac●ocosme as a●e the lively H●eroglyphicks of them nay we can expect no less than the Meteors and Elements should be armed to chastize our violences done to nature and even the instruments of our Life Ple●sure and Recreation b●b●d and forestalled by unseen and unexpected surprizes to revenge our Hypocrisy This is certainly what as in general we deserve so in reallity we all might look for and therefore however we may see these things as we think pass by us and light on others as perhaps some may be apt to collect from the deplorable example lately arrived yet are not so partially to apply them as to think those persons were e●e the worse for being the examples of Gods judgments or that those things happened to th●m on●y meerly for their sin th●t we should therefore conceit our selves the more righteous or spared for our g●odness but l●t u● rather consid●r that o●r sins were equ●lly or perhap● more industriously leve●led at in such ex●mples than those of the suffering and therefore giving you first in charge and caution that Evangelical rule that you should never think persons falling under any disasters to be the greater sinners but that when all are Sinners some are made examples to their own health and admonishment to the living which admonishment if we take not we shall all likewise perish upon this Christian stipulation I say that what shall be related to the living may be to their benefit made use of without any uncharitable reflections on the dead who perhaps may be more Innocent than the surviving hearers of the sad catastrophe I shall give you a punctual account of a most true and unparalleld Disaster which happened at Goring Lock going to Stately on Monday the 6th of this instant July 1674 about 7 a clock at night where about 50 or 60 persons of Men Women and Children with one Mare crossing the water together in a boat from Oxfordshire to Bark-shire by the watermens imprudently rowing too neer the shore of the Lock they were by the force of the water drawn down the Lock where their boat being presently overwhelmed they were all turned into the Pool except fourteen or fifteen who had been all then at the feast at Goring were all unfortunately drowned to shew how vain all humane aid is when Destiny interposes this happened in the view of hundreds of people then met at the same Feast near this fatal Lock who found the excercise of their pastime disturbed and their Jollity dashed by this mournful Disaster of which they were helpless but I hope not fruitless Spectators The persons drowned and since taken up are not yet all known who they were nor whence they came the Boatman John Waklin and his brother Escaped by Swimming William Bushnel of Hagburn whose the Mare was was taken up alive he having n●er 8 hours time by Providence of the Almighty allowed him longer to prepare for death then approaching deceased his Mare drowned that carried him and E. Dew by holding on the Mane to the place where they were taken up The same Edward Dew yet alive relates that he hapened to look to the Bottom of the Lock Pool with his eys open saw many that were drowning sprawling at the bottom like Frogs Goodman Morecock of Stately and his wife were Drowned but their Son in Law Francis Higgs escaped with the loss of his wife the said Thomas Morecocks daughter a Woman with Child and a Child in her Armes both then drown●d Widdow Bell carrying a rich pack of Wares was drowned Goodman Wheeler of Mayseldom was Drowned his wife miraculously I scaped by catching hold of a mans Leg that g●t on the bottom of the overwhelmed boat Thomas Smith of Compton and 3 mo●e of the same Town with Adam Belinger of Chilton and one King a Butcher of Standford and his wife were all likewise drowned And on Thursday the 9th was 12 more taken up whose names are not yet known and it is supposed there are yet more at the botton of the Pool not yet discovered Readers You have here though a strange and very sad relation yet very true I dare assure you but because there are dayly such sad stories as since the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah the like was never heard of it will I know be very difficult to perswade many that what is related is tru● especially such as live in remo●e places who see not the sad relations which London affords or other great citys or towns where much people inhabite What may we beleieve but that the great day is neer and if we diligently search the Scriptures we shall find these the lat●er times of which our Saviour gave us the signs FINIS