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A10686 The dismall day at the Black-Fryers, or, A deplorable elegie on the death of almost an hundred persons, who were lamentably slaine by the fall of a house in the Blacke-Fryers being all assembled there (after the manner of their deuotions) to heare a sermon on Sunday night, the 26 of October last past, An. 1623. Rhodes, Math. 1623 (1623) STC 20961.5; ESTC S3170 2,007 1

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THE Dismall Day at the Black-Fryers Or A deplorable Elegie on the death of almost an Hundred Persons who were lamentably slaine by the fall of a House in the Blacke-Fryers being all assembled there after the manner of their Deuotions to heare a Sermon on Sunday-Night the 26. of October last past An. 1623. FRom the vast Chaos of distempre'd Mindes My Muse doth flutter forth her moystned wings Vpheld with Gusts and Gales of sighing windes In this sad * Swan-like Elegie she sings For inbred griefes her heart so neerly stings That from thee gentle Reader we must borrow Some Teares of pitty in such Threanes of sorrow Oh graue Melpomine assist my Pen Whilst I in dolefull manner doe recite The heauy death of neere an hundred men Whose Tragicke ends my Soule doth much affright With fearfull horror of that dismall Night Ah Fatall Vesper whose like hath not beene Since the Sicilian Vespers euer seene Though Gods great Mercies which so boundlesse are And infinite his other workes transcend Where he might strike he oftentimes doth spare In expectation when we should amend Yea though we daily hourely doe offend Yet are his iudgements likewise iust and true To giue to Sinners their deserued due Such is the might of our All-powerfull God That those which dare his Greatnesse to resist Shall feele his furious scourge and Iron Rod His wrath can ouertake them when he list At whose Commands the Winds and Seas are whist Let Christians all that his dread voyce shall heare Serue him in faithfull heart and trembling feare View here a Spectacle of mournfull ruth Which for our crimes the Lord hath lately sent London can witnesse well it was a Truth A strange vntimely fearfull Accident Which well may make a stony heart relent In the Black-Fryers blacke disasterous fate A heauy wofull Story to relate That Sunday Night led by their deepe Deuotions Three hundred Persons were assembled there Of diuers Sects sundry Degrees and Nations Some English Scottish Welch and Irish were Prepar'd it seemes a Sermon for to heare Which there a Iesuite was to solemnize One Drury fitted to that Exercise And hauing Crost himselfe in publike view He enters straight the Chayre and Preaching-place The people yeeld him reuerence as was due And to his Sermon numbers flock'd apace He being with them a Man of chiefest grace Who there his Text did open and vnfold Shewing such doctrines as their Church did hold Thus while he Preacht deliuering forth at large Such Points of strange Beliefe as they are taught The Peoples waight the Chamber did surcharge Which breaking downe their sad Confusion wrought When of this Accident they neuer thought The Chamber full three Stories from the ground Which brast in sunder with a hideous sound And when the vpper Floore that first did breake Fals on the second where they hop't to stay Yet on the sudden ere a man could speake They on the ground all bruiz'd and smothered lay Some stifled vp with Lome Stones Dust and Clay And some for helpe and succour loudly calling All broken bruizd and mangled in their falling The Husband cries out Oh my louing wife The Wife cries out Oh saue my Husband deare The Father cries Would I had lost my life His Childrens woes doe touch his heart so neare All things so rufull dreadfull doe appeare Thus Tyrant death with his all-peircing dart Acts many a fatall Scoene and bloudy part The Brother bids the Sister quite adue The Sister cries Farewell my louing Brother The Infants losse doth make the mother rue The Child cries out Oh where 's my carefull Mother All these alas stones lyme and timber smother Yea many there which on their friends had gazed Yet knew them not they were so much amazed The Seruant cries Oh I haue lost my Master The Master for his Seruant doth complaine The faithfull Friend laments his Friends disaster Wishing that for his sake himselfe were slaine Thus teares gush out on euery side amaine Some swound with feare vnable for to speake Which might a Christians heart with sorrow break Thus some were buried vp aliue in dust Some mangled bruized wounded with the fall Some brain'd with Timber some in pieces crusht Of those that scap'd the number was but small A fearfull Doome and Summons to vs All Calling vs to repentance many wayes Considering well the shortnesse of our dayes O Lord defend thy Church and Common-weale Maintaine thy Gospell free in this our Land And since to vs thy Truth thou dost reueale In zeale vnto it let vs euer stand Protect our King still from his Enemies hand And when we must resigne our vitall breath Saue vs O Lord from strange and sudden Death Math. Rhodes FINIS A Catalogue OF THE Names of such persons as were slain at BLACK-FRIERS MAister Drurie the Priest Maister Rediate Priest Lady Webbe Lady Blackstones daughter Tho Web her Man William Robinson Tailor Robert Smith an Apothecaries Man Mr. Dauisons Daughter Anthony Hall his man Anne Hobdin Mary Hobdin Ioh Galoway Mr. Peirson his Wife two Sonnes Mistris Vdal Abigall her Maide and two more in her House Iohn Netlan Nathaniell Coales Iohn Halifax Mris Rugbic Iohn Worrals Sonne Mr. Becket Thomas Mersit his Wife Sonne and Maide Mris Summel Mary her Maide Andr Whites Daughter Mr. Stakers Elizabeth Sumpner M. Westwood Iudith Bellowes S. Lewis Pewbertons Man Elizabeth Moore Iohn Iames. Morris Beucresse Dauy Vaughhan Anne Field Mr. Ployden Robert Heisime One Medalf M. Maufield M. Simons Dorothy Simons Thomas Simons Robert Pauuerkes Mistris Morton and her Maid Francis Downes Edmund Shey Iosuna Perry Iob Tullye Robert Drury Thomas Draper Iohn Staiggs Thomas 〈◊〉 Michael Butler Edmund Riuals Edm Welsh Bartholomew Bauin Dauy. Rich Price Tho Wood. Christo Hobs Iohn Butler Ioh Brabant And M. Buckets man c. Imprinted at London by G. ELD 1623.