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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15344	[A short, yet a true and faithfull narration of the fearefull fire that fell in the towne of Wooburne, in the countie of Bedford, on Saturday the 13. of September last, Anno. 1595 Together with a Christian admonition as to the particular people of that place]	T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1595 (1595)	STC 25629; ESTC S113059	30,731	79

The ciuill Magistrate saith either he hath no law to punish it or correcteth it at the most with a simple whipping and as for those that haue the ecclesiasticall censures in their hands they surely haue no will to do it but vse their authoritie rather to picke mens purses than to instruct their consciences and to conuert men vnto God Yea I wish with al my heart that euen the very ministers themselues to whom for ought I see there is no other thing left to represse euil by than crying out against iniquity were not in this as in other matters of as great consequence tongue-tied and mute or else as the prophet saith in another place that they were light and wicked persons and had polluted the sanctuarie and wrested the lawe To rehearse all transgressions in the seuerall sortes and particularities of them would be too lōg and tedious take one therefore and the same as the most common so the most grieuous that by it we may iudge also of the rest the prophanation of the Sabbath is the sin that I meane Where is the man woman or child that hath care and conscience publikely to sanctifie it either by reuerent and religious preparing of themselues to come to publike assemblies as they should or to repayre thither duetifullie as they ought or to carrie themselues there as beseemeth such heauenly exercises of prayer preaching c. What househoulder man or woman what childe what seruant hath any regard priuately to spend it well in meditation and conference of things publikely taught them in singing of psalmes in prayer in thinking seriously vpon the creatures in visiting the sicke in dooing the workes of charitie and christian loue Or rather who prophaneth it not in publike and in priuate by themselues and in company and in euery place almost some by thinking it to be a day of bodily rest only and therefore giue themselues and theirs ouer to sleepe more and longer then than on other dayes besides other some making no more account of the holy assemblies of the church and religious exercises therein than of prophane and common meetings nor so much many times and receiuing the word with no more reuerence attention than a prophane tayle other some sitting idle at their doores gaping and gazing suffering yea some times commaunding their seruants and children to abuse it by dicing daunsing carding stoole-ball playing and other vnlawfull and wicked recreations others also poasting ouer their worldly affayres as matters of accountes repayring to Iustices for execution of law visiting and intertaining their friendes and such other worldly things to that daye with a thousand such like abominations fearefully committed and performed vpon that daye that of all others should bee best spent For these may not wee saye as the Prophet speaketh in cases of meaner importance Shall not the land tremble for this and euery one mourne that dwelleth therein Or as another Prophet speaketh against the people that descended frō Iaakob for their pride contempt of Gods word and other iniquities Aram before and the Philistines behinde and they shall deuoure Israel with open mouth and yet for all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still and good reason for the people turneth not vnto him that striketh them iustly for their sinnes neither doe they seeke the Lord of hostes therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and tayle branch and bodie in one day The auncient and the honorable man hee is the head and the Prophet that teacheth lies he is the tayle with many such other things as follow in that ninth chapter of Isatah which I would desire the godly reader with care to looke vpon and in conscience to make vse of For who knoweth whether this bee yet the day of Gods grace offered and the acceptable time if it be receiued Or who can tell whether this bee not a foretelling and a fore-running signe also that the land may and that or euer it be long for ought we know bee consumed with fire from the West by the Turke Pope Spaniard other instruments of Gods wrath to punish a sinfull and rebellious nation All which would bee glad not only for the inlarging of their territories and kingdomes but euen of hatred more than cruell and bloodie against vs to whet their teeth vpon our bodies and bones and to bath their swords in our blood or else who can or dare say that this may not be an assured testimonie that the Lord Iesus shall shortly come in the cloudes in a melting and consuming fire going before him and destroying all things with great power and glory to iudge the quick and the dead Sin not at the height it is at doth in full prouoke the one with earnestnes calleth for our aduersaries to come out against vs in troopes and armies and on the other side all signes if I be not deceiued that should goe before that great and terrible daye of the Lorde bee accomplished already Sith things then are so vncertaine that wee knowe not when nor where nor how the Lord will come vpon vs and yet wee cannot but feare that hee is nigh euen at the doore why should wee deferre with the wicked euen therein or thereby causing the Lordes wrath to breake forth against vs to our vtter confusion or rather considering that all these things must bee dissolued why doe wee not make this vse of it to learne what manner of people wee should bee in holy conuersation and godly life looking for hastning vnto the comming of that day of the Lord by the which the very heauens being on fire shall be dissolued and the elements shall melt with heate But who I wil not say practiseth these things for the number of such persons is almost as rare in the world as a blacke swanne amongst foules thinketh vpon these things seriously Surely surely the most part busie their mindes and their mouthes also farre otherwise for some giue themselues ouer to filthie and foolish speech which not onely bringeth no grace or godly edification to the hearer but rather corrupteth good maners Other some though they fall not so fouly yet are ouertaken in their discourses of pleasure of profit hauking hunting merchandise purchasing landes c. which though in themselues they be not euill yet because they continually put better matter out of place they are become the sin of their soules And if it so fall out that now and then they or some of them stumble vpon good things be it either in word or deede by the motion of their owne minde or occasion from others it is certainely but as a flashe lightening no man knoweth whence it commeth nor whither it goeth and euen vanisheth away as if it were in the first appearing of it And therefore surely thorow their sins of ignorance negligence carelesnes contēpt prophanenes it is likely that vengeance shall breake forth from the Lord in a grieuous both

thorow any other weakenes or want in mee or of mee I shall misse of my purpose or else thorow the carelesnesse contempt or any other corruption besides of those into whose hands this treatise shall come these poore labors shal not sort these desired effects I shall for mine own and their transgressions which are lettes and hinderances to so worthie a worke mourne in my soule in secret to see or heare the hand of God come forth so heauilie against vs for our sinnes and yet I shall againe comfort my selfe as well as I can not onely in this of heathen men that in great and hard matters to haue a will is sufficient but especially in that heauenly speech of the holy apostle that God if there be first a willing cheerefull mind accepteth vs according to that wee haue and not according to that we haue not this being alwaies prouided also that that good whether it bee of affection or of action that wee haue we haue from him who worketh in vs both the will and the deede according to his own good pleasure and therefore will accept it in vs as his own good worke notwithstanding our imperfections and defects cleauing thereto What a fearefull fire fell in the towne of Wooburne in the Countie of Bedford on Saturday as they call it the thirteenth of September last past sundrie of the people there felt to their extreame losses yea vtter vndooing diuers did behold to their great griefe and many haue heard of euen to the sorrow of their hearts This was so much the more lamentable not onely because it burnt vp sundrie houses baies of building to the number as I take it of some hundred and thirtie one with another such as they were of dwelling howses and out houses as barnes stables houels and such like but also because it consumed whatsoeuer store was laide vp in the same as corne hey wood ferne and such other like prouision for man and for beast for the backe and the bellie to bake and to brew with and for such other both necessarie vse and profitable maintenance yea which may adde to increase the pitifulnes of the spectacle and the very matter of the narration it selfe not only many things within the house being almost vtterly spoyled broken to peeces and consumed as tables stooles bedsteds wainscot presses glasse in the windowes pewter brasse copper leather and such like but euen of that which was caried into the streetes to saue it if it might be frō the force of the fire as linnen bedding platters dishes kettles much stolen away and sundrie sortes of ware of the traders of the towne as frise durance sheewes and such like purloyned imbeseled By meanes whereof it commeth to passe that the most of them are greatlie weakened as in respect of that poore estate worldly which before they enioyed yea that diuers of them hauing their store and prouision consumed and as it were eaten vp with the flame of the fire hardly haue for thēselues their wiues children and seruants breade to slake hunger drinke to coole thirst wood to warme them with all or houses to hide their heads in I will not say conuenient for that were a great mercie in this iudgement but not such as ouer head are able to keepe out the raine snow and other moysture that falleth frō heauen or on the sides to beate backe the boysterous windes and cold ayre this indeede being rather wrought by the indiscretion or rage of some that came in to succor and helpe their distresse by bursting in peeces the tiles of the house and breaking downe walles windowes glasse and all and yet no doubt of it ment to doe their best indeuours for ayde and reliefe than by the violence or vehemencie of the fire Many I doubt not are greatly egar and greedie as it were to heare of and to vnderstand the meane whereby this miserable fire and fearefull flame was inkindled which desire of theirs as I cannot mislike if it bee free from new fanglednes and curiositie and haue this adioyned there withall that they labour what they can to make a good and profitable vse of the same so will I to my vttermost abilitie though not in all and euery particular yet in truth and plainenes assay to satisfie and certifie them thereof A simple old woman as simple and seelie as euer I knew almost slow in speech deafe in hearing and which is worst of all very dull of vnderstanding and sense named for her age olde Ioane dwelling in a poore cottage at the further ende of the towne towards Brickhill hauing shifted her bed strawe and put new thereinto laide the olde in the chimney of her saide house supposing in deede as she affirmeth that there had bin no fire in the same Afterwards going abroad about some businesses that she had to doe though verilie they were but meane and small as such poore folkes haue no great affayres the cinders and sparkes that were in the same chimney tooke hold of that straw so carelesly cast thereinto and inflamed and by meanes thereof set on fire that thatched house and in very short time tooke holde of others adioyning vnto it that were thatched also and so proceeded in fearefull both measure and manner from one to another till it had made that lamentable desolation that is yet to bee seene And as this was the beginning of this wofull worke so was it without al doubt very much furthered by the absence of sundry the inhabitants of that towne who being at that time far from home and abroad in the fieldes about their worldly affayres could neither so prouidently preuent the rage of that fire nor so powerfullie put it out as by all probabilitie they might haue done had they been at the very beginning thereof Besides this is most certaine that the Lord raised vp euen almost at that very instant a great and mightie wind to carrie it as it were from one house or place to another the fire also it selfe naturally gathering winde vnto it as to mee was tolde was euen made thereby the more forcible and furious whilst all things that either they had for defence or had gotten in for prouision were so far off from lessening the furie of the fire that they did rather increase the same For besides that the thatch of their barnes and out houses was greatly dried with much and long parching heate and drouth going before so they were the more meete matter for the flame to set vpon besides this I say their corne their hay their wood their ferne and other prouision laide thereinto and being very drily inned as they vse to saye was fit foode for the fire to feede vpon not onely for the increase of the extreame heate and violent rage of the fire it selfe but euen to the turning and burning of the matter it selfe into dust and powder And not onely the sodaine but the great puffes and blastes of the saide winde also