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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12596	1607. A true report of certaine wonderfull ouerflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England destroying many thousands of men, women, and children, ouerthrowing and bearing downe whole townes and villages, and drowning infinite numbers of sheepe and other cattle.; True report of certaine wonderfull overflowings of waters, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England.		1607 (1607)	STC 22915; ESTC S111053	14,065	34

attyre them in a courser litter Horse-stealers knowing the night a gowne to cloake their villanie came sneaking into the marrish with an intent to make a Market of what was none of their owne And draue so many of the Cattell as they thoght sit vp into the higher grounds but in the meane time they were hotly pursued with a fearefull Hu and cry not of Constables but swifter followers Viz the water which hauing broken out at an old breach in a quarter of an houre or a very little portion of time ouerflowed the Marsh and that with such vnresisted violence y t they were enforced to leaue their praye which such fellowes seldome vse to doe fal to prayer and to take them to their heels and of all the Cattell in that Marrish being very many in number fewe or none were preserued but those which they had fetched vp with an intent to steale for being ouertaken or rather ouerrunne by the swiftnesse of the Water they were dryuen some into Creekes some into Bushes and some vpon little Hillocks and so eitheir lost dryuen away with the Water or in conclusion drowned Theiwoo good fellowes against their willes made good Seeing what present daunger the water brought in with it poasted to the Towne whether the Water had they not made the more hast had brought the men before them Raysed the Sexton got the Keyes of the Church doore and as the custome in such daungers Iangled the Belles and with a fearefull outcry raysed the secure Inhabitantes who imagining some House to be on fire rose vppe distractedly in their Shirtes crying out Water Water of which Element they were no sooner vp but they perceiued they had too much Yet were they still various in their opinions all fearing yet none knowing truely what to feare some got vp to the steeple many thinking their had been theeus got into the vpper roomes of their Houses shutting their safeties out by locking themselues in Some thinking it had bin but a slight ouerflowing of a spring tyde laught at the rest The truth once knowne it was no need to byd them make hast to expresse how amazedly Men ran vp and downe betwixt sleepe and wake asking what newes and receiuing no other answer but what newes was strange In a word in this danger euery man layed first hands of what he loued best some made away with his Wife some his Children some careles both of Wife and Children hurried away his goods Hee that had seen this troublesome nights worke would haue thought vpon the miserable night of Troy Here waded one vp to the middle loaded with wealth when noting how the water increased and calling to mind his helplesse Children with a sigh as loath to part from what hee so deerely had loued hee throwes it downe runs to Bedde wakens his Wife and from her sides snatches the sleeping infants Here comes a Husband with his wife on his backe and vnder either arme an Infant The Sonne carries the Father the Brother the Sister the Daughter the Mother whilest the vnmercifull conqueror breakes downe the Walles of the Houses taking pittie neither of aged nor Sexe findes some at playe some a sleepe in Chayers many in their beddes that neuer dreamed of misfortune till the Water waked them Not to stand long the Water gaue them but uery short warning yet like a mercifull Conquerour hauing taken the towne it gaue them their liues at least all such as were willing to leaue their goods Some couetous to haue all lost all for striuing to saue their goodes they lost their liues In this night-massacre some few were drownd but their true names and certaine number is not yet directly knowne Vp to a hill some halfe myle from the Towne they hasted where that night or rather peece of a morning they reposed themselues The next day they might behold their houses wading vp to the middles in Water some calling for Boates out at Windowes and from the steeples toppe some swimming vppon plankes some vppon Fetherheds whom as they possibly could they releeued Horses that were tyed to the Mangers at the Mangers were all drowned such as were loose swimming vp and downe some recouered the land some drowned in striuing to recouer it whole Barnes of Corne which the couetous owners horded vp in hope of a dearth the Water discouered and brought foorth Houshold-stuffe which the night before they packt out of the Houses in hope to haue saued swamme vp and downe with drowned people so confusedly mingled as men could scarse distinguish their goods nor know their friends Nor did the Water thus confine his tyrranie but ioyning with land Waters that fell from the high groundes It inuaded two Villages more but they hauing warning of the Aproch though not power to withstand it had time to preuent it by conuaying all or most part of their goods and Cattell to the vpland Villages leauing onelye the emptie houses to the mercy of that which is sayd to haue no mercy the water Three Townes thus ouerflowed with water could not but bring much losse to the poore inhabitants yet to increase it their corne fields and not onely these but all alongst the coast and lowe Marshes of that country to the number of many thousand Acars in seuerall places and fields are toombd and buried in the huge graue of waters that like a deuouring gulfe is neuer satisfied To this there is for the space of ten or twelue miles compasse Marishes and fens cleane vnder water The Cattell fed in those Marshes so sodainely taken that had they not fled to an Hill some halfe mile in compasse called Thruehill few or none of them could haue scaped with life yet being there their safety is very daungerous for this hill being very high and narrowe in the top is like a Rocke in the Sea girdled about with Water so deepe that on foote neither Man nor Beast canne passe it and yet not deepe enough to beare a Boat by reason of muddy and old shrubs y t grow in it by reason whereof the poore beasts haue fedde the Hill so bare as it affordes neither grasse nor wood and so do their hunger encrease and sustenance decrease as they do eate the tops of Molehils and the very earth it selfe and with lamentable bellowing complaine and as it were make moane to their owners who beeing willing canne by no meanes releeue them Hee that should see this pittifull famine of Beasts coulde not except hee were too leasiall himselfe but pitty it At last they made shift by cutting away through the Shrubs Bushes to bring abroad a Ferry Boat to the hill to which the cattell would swim so thick y t they had much a do to keepe it from sinking others seeing their fellowes in the Boate would throw themselues into the water and like people at a shipwracke swarme so thicke about them and offer such mournefull noyses that pittied y e fellowes to heare the Boat being full other striuing to swim after