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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	see_v	way_n	6,555	5	4.7193	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00015	Gods vvarning to his people of England By the great ouer-flowing of the vvaters or floudes lately hapned in South-wales and many other places. Wherein is described the great losses, and wonderfull damages, that hapned thereby: by the drowning of many townes and villages, to the vtter vndooing of many thousandes of people.	Jones, William, of Usk.	1607 (1607)	STC 10011; ESTC S101184	7,700	16

the one to an other Yet in this daunger of life they not once offred to expresse their naturall enuie But in a gentle sort they freely inioyed the libertie of life which in mine opinion was a most wonderfull worke in Nature But now let vs leaue this matter touching this maide besides the other accidentes before rehearsed and let vs returne againe to these watry miseries The counties of Glamorgan Carmarthen and Cardigan and many other places in South-wales haue likewise borne the heauy burden of Gods wrath herein And many were the liues of them that were lost through this watery destruction Many there were which fled into the toys of high trées and there were inforced to abide some three daies some more and some lesse without any victuals at all there suffring much colde besides many other calamities and some of them in such sort that through euermuch hunger and cold some of them fell down againe out of the Trées and so were like to perish for want of succour Othersame sate in the toys of high Trees as aforesaid beholding their wiues children and seruants swimming remediles of all succour in the Waters Other some sitting in the tops of Trees might behold their houses ouerflowne with the waters some their houses caryed quite away and no signe or token left there of them Many of them might sée as they stood vpon the toys of high Hilles their cattle pe●●●● and could not tell how to succour them and their Barnes with all their store of Corne and Graine quite consumed which was no small griefe vnto them Many people and Cattle in diuers places of these Cuntreys might haue beene saued in time if that the cuntreys had beene any thing like furnished with bootes or other prouision fit for such a sudden Accident as this was which as God himselfe knoweth was little expected of them to haue fallen so suddenly vpon them But seeing the cuntreys were so vnfurnished with Boates much harme was done to the vtter vndooing of many thousandes Some fled into the tops of churches and Stéeples to saue themselues from whence they might beholde themselues depriued aswell of all their substance as also of al their ioys which they had before receiued in their wiues and children beware whole R●kes of Pease Beanes Dates and other graine were seene a far of to float vpon the Water too and fro in the Countreys as if they had bin ships vpon the Seas The Foundations of many Churches and houses were in a manner decayed and some caryed quite away as in Cardisse in the county of Glamorgan there was a great part of the Church next the Water side eaten downe with the Water many houses and Gardens there which were neere the water side were all ouerflowen and much harme bone Diuers other Churches lie hidden in the Waters and some of them the tops are to be seene and other some nothing at all to be séene but the very tops of the Steeples and of some of them nothing at all neyther steeple nor nothing else Also many schooles of young schollers in many places of those cuntreys stood in great perplexitle some of them aduenturing home to their parents were drowned by the way Other some staying behinde in in Churches did climbe vp to the tops of Steeples where they were very neere starued to death for want of foode and fire many by the help of boards and plankes of Wood swam to dryland and so were preserued from vntimely Death Many had Boates brought them some 10 miles some 15. some 20. where there was neuer seene any Boates before Thus God suffred many of them to escape his yrefull wrath in hope of their amendment of life Some men that were riding on the high wayes were ouertaken with these mercilesse Waters and were drowned And againe many haue bin most strangely preserued As for example there was in the Countie of Glamorgan a man both blind and did ride and one which had not bin able to stand vpon his legs in ten yeares before he had his poore cottage broken downe by the force of the Waters and himselfe Bed and all caryed into the open fields where being readie to sinke and at the point to seeke a resting place two fathoms deepe vnder the Waters his hand by chaunce catcht holde of the Raster of an house swimming by the fiercenesse of the Windes then blowing Easternely he was driuen safely to the Land and so escaped Also in an other place there was a man Child of the age of 5. or 6. yeares which was kept swimming for the space of two houres abone the Waters by reason that his long Coates lay spread vpon the tops of the waters and béeing at last at the very poynt to sinke there came by chaunce by floating vpon the tops of the Waters a fat Weather that was dead very full of Wooll The poore distressed Child perceiuing this good meanes of recouerie caught fast hold on the Wethers Wool and likewise with the winde he was driuen to dry land and so saued There wes also in the County of Carmarthen a yaung Woman who had foure small Children and not one of them able to helpe it selfe And the Mother then seeing the su●●es of the Waters to be so violent to ceaze vpon her threatning the Destruction of her selfe and her small Children and as a Womans wil is euer ready in extreamities The tooke along Trough wherein she was wont to make her bread in and therein placed her selfe and her foure Children And so putting themselues to the mercies of the Waters they were all by that meanes driuen to the dry land and by Gods good prouidence there by they were all saued Many more there were that through the handy-workes of God were preserued from this violent death o● Drowning some on the backes of dead Cattles some vppon Woodden plankes some by clyming of Trées some by remaining in the tops of high Stéeples and Churches other some by making of spéed away with swift horses and some by the meanes of Boates sent out by their friendes to succour them but there were not so many so straungely saued but their were as many in number as straungely drownd The lowe Marshes and Fenny groundes néere Barstable in the Countie of Deuon were ouerflowne so farre out and in such outragious sort that the cuntrey all along to Bridge-water was greatly distressed thereby and much hurt there done it is a most pittifull sight to beholde what numbers of fat Oxen were there Drawned what flockes of Shéepe what heades of kine haue their bin lost and Drowned in in these outragious Waters there is little now remaining there to be séene but huge Waters like to the maine Ocean The tops of Churches and Stéeples like to the tops of Rockes in the Sea Great Reekes of Fodder for Cattle are floating like Ships vpon the Waters and dead Beastes swimming thereon Now past feeding on the same through the rigour of this Element of Water The tops of Tréees a man may beholde remaining aboue the Waters Upon whose braunches multitudes of all kinde of Turkies Hens and other such like Poultry were faine to sly vp into the Trées to saue their liues where many of them perished to death for want of reliefe not being able to fly to dry land for succour by reason of their weakenes This mercylesse Water breaking into the Bosome of the firme Land hath proued a fearefull p●nishment as well to all other liuing Creatures as also to all Mankinde Which if it had not binne for the mercyfull promise of God at the last dissolution of the World by Water by the signe of the Rainbowe which is still shewed vs we might haue verily beléeued this time had bin the very houre of Christ his comming From which Element of Water extended towardes vs in this fearefull manner good Lord deliuer vs all Amen FINIS