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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18353	A true relation of two most strange and fearefull accidents, lately happening the one at Chagford in Deuonshire, by the falling of th[e] Stanary Court-house, the 6. day of March last. The other at Branson within a mile of Burton vpon Trent in Staffordshire, this present yeare 1618.	Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641, attributed name.	1618 (1618)	STC 4932; ESTC S117531	7,081	14

A TRVE RELATION of two most strange and fearefull Accidents lately happening The one at Chagford in Deuonshire by the falling of th● Stanary Court-house the 6. day of March last The other at Branson within a mile of Burton vpon Trent in Staffordshire this present yeare 1618. LONDON Printed for H. G. and are to be sold by I. Wright at the signe the Bible without New-gate 1618. GODS ANGER AND fearefull Iudgements shewed in two places of this Land the one at Branson within a mile of Burton vpon Trent in Stafordshire in Lent last the other at Chagford in Deuonshire this present yeare of our LORD GOD 1618. THe anger and terrible countenance of God of late shewed in this Land here amongst vs may awaken vs from the fast sléepes of security and turne vs to the Lord by true repentance Therefore least his heauy Iudgments in like maner come vpon vs at vnawares and we be taken sodainely sléeping let vs with the wise Uirgins in the Gospell kindle our Lampes that we may be found ready when our Bridegroome commeth in great glory to giue euery one as his works shall be For we are to acknowledge and consider that the Lord hath not ceased from time to time at his good will and pleasure to send prodigies and wonders in euery age to forewarne and forearme vs of his Iudgements hanging ouer our heads for sin as appeareth by the late examples declared amongst vs. In the County of Stafford in the parish of Burton vpon Trent dwelled of late a frée houlder of good lands means named Thomas Henworth as well stored with money and other houshold goods as any one of his rancke and calling in that Countrey Amongst which temporall blessings God bestowed vpon him two sonnes but not so happy in the elder as in the younger for the first borne which by succession should haue béene his heyre and possessor of his lands was from his mothers wombe borne both deafe and dumb and withall so silly and simple that he had not that sufficient reason of gouernment as the younger had by which meanes the old man as it were offended at Gods prouidence disinherited the elder and by will gaue his whole meanes to the younger vpon condition binding him to giue yearely a certaine stipend to his dumbe brother This condition stood at the old mans death as a legasie the younger inherited the elder dispossessed the younger commanded the elder obeyed the younger rich the elder poore This was the partiall policie of worldly wisedome but God the giuer and bestower of all good things hereat much displeased gaue but small blessings to the possessor of these riches For this young Heyre in the midst of his ioyes being richly marryed was visited with sicknesse and being struck by the hand of God euen vnto death called then to minde the wrongs done to his poore dumbs brother and therefore fearing a deserued iustice in the world to come he returned backe some part of his brothers right and by will gaue him one halfe of his lands and goods and shortly after dyed Thus the younger brother in the height of his prosperitie taking his last leaue of the inconstant vaine pleasures and profits of this incertaine world left his wife sole Executrix to performe his will testament ordained in behalfe of his wronged brother but she as many Executors and Ouerséers doe regarding neyther right nor equitie neglected to performe the will of her deceased husband and to make her vniust dealings the more strong within short time she married another husband named Richard Crispe a man as it séems contented to take what he found and perceiuing the dumbe fellow to be destitute of friends became his owne caruer and most vniustly kept the dead mans will vnperformed by which meanes the dumbe fellow was kept in his former pouerty and forced to relie still vpon the bare allowance of his brother and sister in law which was almost nothing at all These vniust dealings passed on vntill such time as the eye of heauen looking downe and espying the vnconscionable dealings of this Richard Crispe and vniust wrongs sustained by the dumbe wretch became a gentle Iudge and tooke the matter into his owne hands before whose face goods vnlawfully gotten and detayned together with their owners are consumed as stubble in the fire and scattered abroad as dust in the winde So happened it with this Richard Crispes estate for in Ianuary last hauing his goods and cattle about him in abundance his garners and barnes well stored with corne his ricks and stacks of pease and hay furnishing his yards and little remembring from whence it came nor from whom it was wrongfully detained in the midst of this plenty the righteous Iudge of Heauen and Earth before whose All-séeing Eye not onely the words and workes but the very thoughts and imaginations of all men lie open and naked continually suffering now no longer the wrongs of this dumbe creature to goe vnreuenged sent a most fearefull and strange iudgement for all others who in like manner make no conscience to leaue the wils of the dead vnperformed to take example by In Ianuary last as I said before there beganne a most secret and strange fire in the middle of a Pease Ricke or Houell standing in the yard of this Richard Crispe consuming the stalks and straw but leauing the Pease vnburnt afterward with great violenes it flew to a hay stacke in like manner wasting downe the same with such eager fury as it was most terrible so sée leauing standing vpright in the middle of the hay a long pole vnconsumed also an Ash trée growing close by the same which was not so much as once scorched thererewith after this immediatly the fire flew as it were with burning wings into a corne barne where it kindled very strangely on the top of a beame in the middle bay consuming and burning inwardly the timber and straw of the sheafe likewise leauing the corne vntouched as it excéeded all wonder to behold Therefore I am héere to insert a likelihood that it was not the negligence of man but the angry hand of God that wrought this fiery example for wheresoeuer this Crisp went the fire as it were followed him and séemed to flye from others that sought to quench it nine seuerall times began it againe to renew and would not quite bee extinguished vntill such time as Crisp departed his dwelling and went to remaine with a friend at the other part of the parish in whose absence the pease and corne thus strangely left vnconsumed was sifted and gathered together but good for no vse no not so much as féeding for hogges for they would neither eate nor come néere it yet let vs iudge the best and censure as mortalls may doe and conclude that it was onely the will of God and a casualty procéeding onely from his diuine prouidence But againe to our matter This Richard Crispe within a while after hauing repaired what the fire had wasted