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master_n	esquire_n	john_n	richard_n	5,509	5	9.9144	5	false

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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

in whose mouth as it séemd a forged lye was ready and there told such an vnlikely tale that not only the Iury but the whole bench thought it to be most fabulous and therefore with good admonitions desired him to bee carefull and to take good héed vpon what grounds hée tooke his oath yet notwithstanding this audacious fellow destitute of all grace and goodnesse thus tempted the Lords anger saying if I sweare amisse quoth he or if I speake wrongfully let God I beséech him make me a fearfull example to all periur'd wretches and that this house wherein I stand may sodainely fall vpon my head and that the fall thereof may bee seene to bee the iust iudgement of God vpon me Oh wofull wish Oh cursed desire Oh periur'd homicide Oh vild tempter of Gods anger thus to solicite heauen to black vengeance For no sooner were these words spoken but in short time after the timber and walls of the house though séeming strong the weather faire and cleare without either storme or tempest sodainely fell downe where by the fall and ouerthrow of this large timber building this gracelesse varlet with diuers others were sore bruised and beaten to death and the number of sixteene or seauentéene more grieuously hurt and wounded some in their armes some in their legges some on their heads some on their backs and other parts of their bodies to the great danger of their liues and that which is more lamentable to tell certaine Esguires and Gentlemen of good calling by the fall of the said walls and timber were sodainly strooke dead and their limbes almost beaten in peices which sodainnesse of death not onely amazed the whole Towne but strooke a trembling feare throughout all the neighbouring villages The principall of these Gentlemen which thus taffed of this rigorous hard misfortune I will here make knowne As first Master Nicholas Eueleigh Esquire steward of the Court a Gentleman of much vertue and wel beloued in that Country also his two Clerkes Iohn Cleake and Richard Beere for whom is made much moane Likewise one Master Richard Cottle Esquire and Councellour of the middle Temple in London In like manner two Atturneyes of the Law Master Timothy Moule and Master Robert Milford with some certaine others which felt the heauy burden of Gods Iudgements and had their bodies euen bruized to pieces through the inuocation of this wicked wretch thus incensing Heauens anger whom GOD forgiue Onely I must now speake of a wonderfull thing there happening In the midst of this confused heape of timber stone and earth vnder which so many lay slaughtered there was a young Childe miraculously preserued for in the midst of these men of more able strength which lay bruized and beated to death as it were with their braines dashed out was the same Childe found safe and sound whereon appeared not so much as the smallest hurt that might be yet iudge we charitably God onely knowes the meanes of this Childes preseruation and the cause of his heauy punishment shewed vpon the others But now so strike terrour into the harts of the Readers neuer was so great woe made in Chagford for so many good men couered ouer with the ruines of earth and stone neuer were so many Gentlemen of account Counsellours of worth Atturneyes and Clerkes of the Law thus at one time brought to vnhappy destinie Some lay starke dead closed vp in dust and earth some wounded with bruized and broken bones some crying and calling for helpe yea such amazed feare thundred about the whole Towne that it was maruellous to heare The neighbouring people came from all the adioyning villages some crying for one friend some for another fathers for children children for their fathers husbands for wiues wiues for husbands brothers for brothers yea nothing but lamentations rung peales of woe and such a confusion of sorrow possessed the people that it was pittifull to sée Thus haue you heard how God cast downe his irefull hand in this vnhappy towne as once hee did at Oxford Sises whereas in like manner there was one Rowland Ienks that for speaking certaine blasphemous spéeches against God and his sonne our Sauiour procured his indignation by raysing of a sodaine stinking dampe amongst them there present that both the Iudges of the Bell and Barom were immediately stifled and strook dead with many other Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of good rancke and calling not one of the Iury but there dyed immediatly with many others to the number of thrée hundred at the least beside the stench thereof bred such an infection in the Country that in fiue monthes following it was scarce cleared These and such like wonders God can doe and where hee pleaseth to strike with his Iron hand it bootes not vs weake worldlings to resist therefore let vs with humble supplications make our sutes vnto God that he would kéepe vs from sodaine death and that we may haue time of repentance alwaies in readines and that the vntimely confusion of these héere gone before vs may bee a continuall example to put vs in minde of Gods anger threatned against vs so may we be all ready against his most glorious comming What great cause haue we that are heere liuing to giue God thankes for thus warning vs by other mens harmes What louing and gentle admonitions haue we receiued from the Counsell of Christ that we should not take his name in vaine yet neither his counsell the Patriarches the Prophets the Euangelists and Apostles nor the examples of vengeance as haue béene héere shewed vnto vs can worke happy amendment how much more iustly then may the Lord poure out his hot wrath and heauy displeasure vpon vs then on nay other Nation about vs. These forepassed Iudgements are heere recorded onely for our instruction and spéedy amendment shall wée then be carelesse shall wee thou be sencelesse shall wee goe to Law and forsweare our selues for a little worldly pelfe shall wée speake warily for feare of offending man and not keepe our tongues from offending heauen Leaue off I say this vile vice of Swearing it neuer did good to any giue it ouer in time deale iustly in all things sweare not at all and you shall neuer be forsworne which God grant for his glorious Names sake Amen FINIS