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A09523	The countrie ague. Or, London her vvelcome home to her retired children Together, with a true relation of the warlike funerall of Captaine Richard Robyns, one of the twentie captaines of the trayned bands of the citie of London, which was performed the 24. day of September last, 1625. in armes, in the time of this visitation which the rumour in the countrey went currant, that London had not people enough left aliue to bury her dead. By Henry Petovve, Marshall of the Artillerie Garden, London.	Petowe, Henry.	1625 (1625)	STC 19803; ESTC S119194	12,607	34

doe did not my blessed Sauiour lessen his weekly Number Is it so nay then I perceiue the old Prouerb holds Home is Home bee it neuer so homely and the Prodigalls Storie is likewise fulfilled For they poore Soules hauing almost spent all and finding no better entertainment in the Countrie are forced to returne of meere necessitie And are some of you returned my endeered Children and will all the rest of your Brethren follow you do you thinke I am very fearefull I shall want some of my number But howeuer I must be contented and in the interim I speake to you with a louing Mothers tongue Oh welcome thrice welcome in very deed you are louingly welcome my thoughts perswaded me that in regard the Almightie God did visit me with the heauy Rod of his Pestilent affliction you had beene only fearefull of me and not of him but surely it now appeareth and I am very glad of it that you haue made your peace with God my Father in the Country and all of you repented of your Sinnes in that you haue found such fauour at his hands and that hee hath giuen you life this dangerous time of Infection which to say truth if you had staid with me though in the chiefest of my Territories I could not haue warranted No maruell then you fled from mee Nay I am further surely perswaded that you whom God hath blest with longer dayes then many thousands of your deceased brethren are such as left your beneuolence behinde you to and for the maintenance and keeping from staruing those poore Creatures that did suffer and beare the publike miserie of such a Contagious time as this hath beene without president Or else with life you could neuer haue entred my Gates for which I truly thanke you and no doubt but my gratitude shall double that with treble loane But I pray giue mee leaue to question you a little farther Doe you all cast your dayes Iourneys so that you will not enter London streetes nay scarce her Suburbes before the blacke clowdes of the duskie Night eclips the light of Luna from my Mother Earth for feare the small remainder of your poore afflicted Brethren should call you in question for your flight and vpbrayd yee with the tytle of Run-awayes No surely not all for some of you it seemes made your appearance daily at Noone-Exchange without Dread or Feare God be thanked the East-India Ships are come and some from the Straights safely ariued If it please my heauenly Father to continue as he hath begun to cease the Rod of his affliction and to sheathe his Sword the Residue of my poore Children to whom he hath giuen life no doubt but shall see happy dayes to my comfort their profit and benefit and all to the praise and glory of my eternall Father which the Lord of all Eternitie grant for our blessed Sauiours sake I am now at a stand whether I with modestie may further question you or no But I hope you that haue spent so long time in the Countrie may affoord a little time of Conference with your weeping Mother I pray giue my desire satisfaction and tell mee whether any of my great ones or men of note as Iustices of Peace Aldermen or their Deputies Common Counsell men Churchwardens Side-men or any other of my Officers which should haue imployed their paines and care in the time of my Visitation did they or had they any desire of repayring home when they heard that my Poore cryed out for reliefe and they absent which should relieue them a Letter was all could giue them this notice which Tom Long the Carrier brought and neuer deliuered it for he durst not But I dare answer for them that had they doubted of their entertainment in the Countrie they would rather haue continued at their owne Mantions vnder my gouernment then to be so slighted by base ignoble Drones as they were Which I leaue further to treate of But they left their Charitie behinde them which was satisfaction and gaue content to that clamour and ceast the Rumour But now good Children I will yet further examine you did not your illiterated Peasants your Hobnayld Clownes Raphe Benedicke Nick Tom Iack Hodge and such like vnder the Iustices tolleration euen almost at mine owne Gates I am sure it was within the sound of my night Ninth houre warner Did they not keepe you out with Pitchforkes Staues Hookes browne Bills and such like rustick Weapons and you demanded passage answer was giuen No for you are Londoners true we are so wee will not deny it what then You come not here why saith one you suffer Rogues to passe so we may one replyes before any Londoner Can this be true that my poore Children should be thus misused amongst my Neighbours such as haue daily Commerce with me If they bring me Food I giue them Money the Land-lord must be paid But thou foolish simple Countriman hee will not bee paid with Corne Oxen Hay and such like good blessings which my eternall louing and mercifull Father bestowes vpon thee For saith the Land-Lord I haue of goods great store I need them not but as the greedy Vsurer he comes giue me my money I cannot cloath my Wife and Children with Hey c. Well if it be so then that thou must of necessitie haue money or be vndone and thy Lease forfeited and thou thy Wife and Children cast foorth of dores what resteth then to be done Must thou not of force come vnto mee thy charitable Neighbour London and doe not I from time to time nay at all times helpe you in the midst of your extremitie Is not my Exchequer continually open vnto you I haue no Barrocadoes to keepe you forth but my Gates all houres of the night are open for the meanest Hynde or Swaine that comes I nor none of mine examine what Countriman thou art from whence thou camest or whither thou wilt but come and welcome This is and euer hath beene my carriage to my Countrie people And now in the time of my Visitation did my poore fearefull Children come amongst you into the Countrie for a little refuge or recreation presuming vpon the like welcome there as you found here and did you giue them Iack Drumes entertainment Oh vncharitable inhumaine and ingratefull people Indeed it argued no Christianitie in you Put case my dearely beloued Children should as I cannot blame them if they doe take this to hart and should shut my Gates against you and debarre entrance to such inhumaine Creatures where would your Landlords haue their Rent then Michaelmas you know is come the halfe yeares Rent must be paid the last day of payment is at hand Therefore because I will make you blush at your owne folly if my Almighty Father will illuminate your darkened eyes of Ignorance that you may soe the same and that my Children which will be ruld by me may shew loue for hatred See our Charitie is such that all my Gates are

Vnlesse thou haue like Nosegay Dost thou see R Rope Tarr'd I haue it keepes out Pestilence T The Diuell as soone or else thou hast no sence H Hee that doth thinke by that to be Plague-free E Euer shall be accompted like to thee R Respected not call'd foole for 's Foppery O Omnipotent Ioue bids thee repent and mend F For thy great sinne saith he this Plague I send F Feare thou repent and then my Plague shall end Amicus Mariscallus PETOVVE A true Relation of the Funerall of Captaine RICHARD ROBINS performed the 24. of September 1625. in Armes EVEN then when fell meagre Death by the sacred Decree of Heauen began to shorten his Weekly slaughter and then euen then when the vulgar Rabble of the Rustiques in the Countrie mouthed it with a most vnchristianlike and most vncharitable rumour viz. That there was not people enough in London left aliue to bury their Dead Then euen then I say did the great Commander of all power call to his Mercy from amongst vs Captaine Richard Robins one of the Twenty Commanders and Captaines vnder the renowned Colonells of the Sixe thousand trayned Citizens of the euer famous though now distressed City of London who dyed of an Ague at Hackney in Middlesex and was brought from thence to London and Buried in his Parish-Church called St. Magaret vpon Fish street hill Some few dayes after as it is customarie amongst them the Gentlemen of the Artillery Garden that were then in Towne considering the weaknesse of their Number present and yet might doe no lesse then giue the deceased Captaine his right and Merit treated with the then right Honourable Iohn Gore Lord Maior of this said City that he would be pleased to grant a publique Funerall in Armes And for that most of the Gentlemen were at that time in the Countrie and therefore that the rest may strengthen themselues with their Friends that were also Citizens and Souldiers of the Trayned Bands in London to make a compleat Company to make the Countrie wonder whereunto it pleased his Honour to condiscend vpon Saturday being the 24. day of September last 1625. was the Funerall when all the Gentlemen and Fellow Souldiers met at the Artillery Garden about two of the clocke in the afternoone where they were ranckt by the Officers there Souldier-like according to the number three and foure a brest all the Musketieres both of the Prime and Reere deuision of Musketieres three in Ranke and the Pikes Foure a brest in the body Captaine Von was Leader that day Associated with Captaine Humphrey Smith So Marcht they forth the Garden to Leaden Hall where the Herse attended with an Epitaphe thereon diuulging to the world the worth of that worthy Captaine the Worshipfull Company of Ironmungers of whom he was a member The Masters also of St. Thomas Hospitall of whom in his life time he was likewise one attended with many more of his Friends The number of Souldiers that were compleatly Armed both Pikes and Muskettiers were Two hundred fortie foure besides two Captaines the Marsall the Lieutenant the Alferus or Ensigne Foure Serieants foure Drummes two Fifes the Armourer the Gun-maker and their Seruants and Sixe Gentlemen who carried the Trophies of his Armes before the Hearse The beholders then present were at least Ten thousand people who were eye-witnesses that what is here related is true The exact and Souldier-like performance and managing of the businesse I referre to the iudgement of the discreet and wise Spectators then present Only I will intreate you judicious Reader to take notice that after he was Souldier-like Enterred hee had three seuerall Vollies of Shot giuen Which being finished the Drums beate a Troop vntill the Souldiers came forth of the Church-yard where the Vollies were giuen into the street vpon Fishstreet-hill where falling into Rankes as before the Captaine commandeth a March to be beaten and so Marched thorow Gracious-street Cornehill the Poultry and Cheapside that the Market people might report through the Countrie that their rumour was false And so to the Lord Major his house who presented himselfe at the gate and very Honourably and freely caused both Flaggons of Sacke and Claret to bee brought forth for all such as pleased to drinke thereof and there likewise were two Vollies giuen for which his Lordship gaue the Gentlemen many thankes assuring them that they had done great honour to the Citie and greater comfort to the Kingdome Then tooke they a faire Farwell and Trooped through Cheapside and so to the Artillery Garden whereupon lodging of the Cullours they concluded with their last volly and so I leaue them but not you for I entreate you to reade that which you haue not yet read Epitaphium dignissimi Ducis RICHARDI ROBYNS ONe of the Twenty Captaines here doth lye The rest must follow for the rest must die Nineteene behinde and he is gone before To leade the way to the Elizian shore Whilst he did liue like to the God of Warre Hee many Souldiers bred no'ne e're did marre Hee had as many Sonnes as any man Compleat for Souldiers since the World began Lieutenants some others whom Ensignes beare The Rest can doe as much as any dare Against the Foe of Englands Soueraigne Wee that h●● follow will the same maintaine Hee was a Louer both of Arts and Armes Hee taught a present Guard for em'nent harmes That now wee lose him wee his Death deplore Hee 's dead yet liues wee hope for euermore Dead though he be and from vs quite bereauen Though dead to vs yet doth he liue in Heauen Viuit post Funera Vertus LONDON making her full period NOble Souldiers and my valiant Children you haue lodg'd your Colours and finished your last Volly Giue me leaue I pray you to adde one Volly more according to my nature and condition and so I le conclude My shot shall not be Bullets of Amunition but words of Admonition which I will mildely modestly dart amongst you You my deere Children which haue beene so barbarously vsed in the Countrie amongst those inhumane People such of you especially I speake to who are Land-lords and Creditours to your inferiour Brethren Let me beg and intreat you although you haue endured much discontent and sorrow in the Countrie not to reuenge it vpon your poore Brethren in London who haue vndergone with me more griefe more want more sighes more teares more Grones and more Miserie then my Tongue or Pen can expresse Oh be mercifull my good Children one to another as you would haue my Sauior to take mercy vpon you You that are Land-lords be not ouer-hasty with your poore Tenants for your Rents Nor you that are Creditors oh be not harsh nor seuere to your weake and impouerished Debtors But consider the lamentable misery they haue a long time endured and the extraordinary expences they haue beene at and no meanes to get a penny which you in your discretions cannot choose but conceaue and I hope will take so much to ●art that for Charitie you will spare them vntill such time as my disioynted Estate be settled againe and my Citizens haue Commerse one with another as they haue had and Trading as frequent as it hath beene that thereby they may striue and endeuour to get what they of necessitie haue spent and by their honest Industry labour in their Vocations attaine to their former Maturity in their seuerall estates Which they may doe so your patience please to giue them time and libertie which I beseech you grant that all of you may haue full satisfaction and content The Tenant content from the Land-lord by his great patience the Debtor content from the Creditor by his much forbearance And the Land-lords and Creditors from the Tenants and Debtors haue full satisfaction Such a blessed time and those happy dayes doth your poore Mother desire to see which that both she and you and all of vs may see let vs all pray joyntly to his Diuine Maiestie that only can grant our request Grant then good God what we require of thee And wee shall praise thy Name eternally Amen FINIS

THE COVNTRIE AGVE OR LONDON her Welcome home to her retired Children TOGETHER With a true Relation of the Warlike Funerall of Captaine RICHARD ROBYNS one of the Twentie Captaines of the trayned Bands of the Citie of London which was performed the 24. day of September last 1625. in Armes in the time of this Visitation when the Rumour in the Countrey went currant 〈…〉 not people enough left aliue to bury her Dead Planxerunt D●ades resonat plangentibus Eccho By HENRY PETOVVE Marshall of the Artillerie Garden London Printed for Robert Allot and are to be sold at the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 16●● TO THE RIGHT WORTHY FAVORITE OF ARMES AND Arts Colonell HVGH HAMERSLEY one of the Aldermen of the Citie of LONDON and the Noble President to that remarkeable Societie of Citizens exercising Armes in the Artillerie Garden LONDON TO ALL THE GENEROVS Captaines and their Lieutenants of the same Citie and to all the rest of the Gentlemen of the same Garden HENRY PETOVVE Marshall to the same renowned Societie wisheth continuall Health increase of Honor Earths happinesse and Heauens felicitie RIGHT WORTHY and most worthy to bee so stiled Right Worthy COlonell Captaines and Souldiers Your generous dispositions in the most louing and kinde acceptation of these few Lines which some ten Weekes since I Dedicated to your noble Patronage concerning our Foster Mother LONDON entituled London Sicke at Heart or A Caueat for Run-awayes hath much encouraged me to spend some of my best bestowed houres in another kinde and Garbe of writing yet to purpose and according as these dayes and times require And my desires are that I may shrowde these my Labours vnder the Banner of your protection against all opposition Be you therefore pleased my Noble Martiall Patrons to vayle me vnder the covert of your neuer vanquisht Ensigne and then no other Colours shall daunt me I write no Fables nor Imaginary Toyes but lamentable Experience shall justifie my writ London was neuer more Sicke at Hart then she hath beene lately many Moneths together her Lamentations will be remarkable to the end of Posteritie I treat now in part of a Country Ague or of an Ague in the Countrey They which haue gusted of it and escaped may thanke God for their deliuerance But many that fled from their Mother London from the Visitation which the Almightie imposed vpon her haue felt the anger of the highest omnipotent Power were returned Coacht not with Life but struck with the arrow of Death by that Pestilent Ague I dare not say that the same Aguish visitation was or is the Plague or Pestilence The Countrey timorous Gallants will then be frighted leaue their Mother Rus like Rusticals and Winter themselues vnder the Roofe of our euer tender and louing Foster Mother London Which if they should I beseech you noble fellow Souldiers to deigne them Courtesie and kinde entertaynment and let them know that although they contemned and despised the very Name of one of vs and would not vouchsafe so much as to looke vpon a Londoner yet for Charities sake doe you bid them Welcome Wee will not lodge them in Barnes and Hovels at the Townes end though they bring the Ague with them but on the best Beds our chiefest Innes can affoord Pardon me braue Souldiers if I answer for you for I know the nature of a true Souldier is to be pitifull and to shew mercy where imbesilitie and weaknesse resteth Therefore noble Souldiers you that are the trusty Guardians of our famous Citie vnder our Soueraigne his Lieutenant and the rest of her graue Senators be pleased to lay downe your Armes and make no opposition ag●inst any whatsoever he be But let all our Foster Mother London her Gates stand wide open to entertayne all of what degree soeuer Gentile or Hindes Clownes or Peasants any and all whosoeuer they be that they finding as euer heretofore they haue done Londoners their goodnesse loue court●sie and great respect may blush for their ingratitude towards th● m●n the Countrie To which I presume your noble and charitable Spirits will condiscend And so I rest Yours euer to doe you seruice vntill I rest for euer Marshall PETOVVE THE COVNTREY AGVE OR LONDON her Welcome home to her tyer'd retired Children I Haue beene most deere and more intirely beloued Children so much burthen'd pressed down and ouerladen with Lamentations complaints Miseries and Calamities for your long absence in your vnhappie and vnfortunate yet no otherwise to bee lookt for Iourney or wandring Pilgrimage that I am almost dead with languishing But I hope I speake it in the Autumne of my woes and heart-breaking sorrowes I pray to my Sauiour I doe It is the Autumne time of the yeare yea of such a yeare such a lamentable yeare such a wonderfull yeare of Mortalitie by Plague and Pestilence as in my time for the time to my remembrance is without and beyond any President Oh woe is mee therefore But my hopes are and my assiduate and daily prayers still shall be to the Father of vs all who onely can and none else hath power to disburthen me of that heauy dead-striking-mace of Plague and Pestilence that hath euen bruised mee and mine in peeces And therefore for your sakes my endeared retired Children notwithstanding my Almightie Fathers exceeding and great displeasure I will vndertake to plead to him for Mercy in your behalfe But indeed I may rather say in the behalfe of my selfe For had not the Lord beene angry with me for my intollerable sinnes hee would not haue suffered my poore Children to runne away from me and to leaue me as they did For which cause I haue indeed a long time taken it to heart considering with my selfe which was my best and surest course to take to worke my peace with my God that he might take pitie and compassion both vpon me and all mine At length the holy Spirit of that eternall Essence Omnipotent Iehoua possessing my distracted memory with my Sauiours vnfallible promise Come vnto mee all you that are heauy laden and I will ease yee Immediatly with teares of Ioy and Comfort I besought him on my knees and obtained his exceeding Mercy For immediatly after my Dread Soueraigne CHARLES whom the King of Kings euer protect both from his Forreine and Domestick enemies Commanded a solemne Fast and Prayer to be made and kept throughout my whole Citie and the remainder of my Diuines continually Preaching and Praying in my behalfe for the appeasing and mittigating of the great displeasure of my Almightie Father which my said Father doth begin to take and praised be his name doth daily take more and more to hart thinking that it is now time to hold his Angels Rod from further striking Now the God of all mercy grant it may be so and I hope my prayer is to purpose For me thinkes vnlesse I dreame I perceiue my Children begin to retire and to returne home againe to their Foster-mother London which they would not