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A18428	A most true report of the myraculous mouing and sinking of a plot of ground, about nine acres, at VVestram in Kent, which began the 18. of December, and so continued till the 29. of the same moneth. 1596 ...	Chapman, John, fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 4997; ESTC S104954	7,799	16

A most true report of the myraculous mouing and sinking of a plot of ground about nine Acres at VVestram in Kent which began the 18. of December and so continued till the 29. of the same moneth 1596. The true figure of the foresaid plot of ground conteining nine Acres From A. to A. signifieth the carrying way at the North end which is sunke in one place 100. foote and in an other place 65. foote From D. to C. signifieth two pittes of Alders which are driuen vp to the toppe of a Hill 4. perches a peece From B. to B. signifieth the olde foote path which is driuen from F. to E. 8. perches E. signifieth a hole suncke in the plain ground thirtie foote From H. to H. signifieth a standing Hedge of 28. perches long which is remoued 7. pearches out ●his place The names of certaine of those which were eye witnesses for the testimoniall of the truth hereof vnder their handes Richard Bostocke Esquire Iustice of peace Iames Austen Gentleman Iohn Studley Vicor of Westram Wil. Holton Phisitian Iohn Gainsford Gent. Erasmus Gainsford Gen. Gyles Gainsford Gen. Iohn Dawling the elder Gen. Iohn Dawling the yonger Gen. Richard Reynold William Reinold Gen. William Holmeden Gen. Iohn Larmoth Gen. Thomas Chapman Gen. William Cam Gen. Robert Lighe yeoman Iohn Chapman of Cockam yeoman Richard Welles yeoman Thomas Tollor yeoman Giles Browne yeoman Thomas Stacy yeoman Richard Stidowle yeoman Raphe Stacy yeoman Thom. Chapman of Holdfast yeoman Iohn Constable yeoman Iohn Chapman of Shots yeoman Iohn Stone yeoman To the right Honourable my singular good Lady and Mistresse the Lady Margaret Barronesse Dacre of the South Iohn Chapman your poore seruaunt wisheth much increase of honor in this world and eternall ioy and felicitie in the world to come RIght Honorable my singular good Ladie and Mistresse whereas I find that ingratitude and forgetfulnesse of due reuerence to be performed of seruants toward Maisters Mistresses is among all sorts most odious as contrariwise diligence to please and reuerent dutifulnesse toward their sayd Maisters c. is in them a thing most laudable as among many other we reade of one Mucronius seruant afore time to a poore Artisan named Hargabus who being afterward called to be a Senator did still for euer yeeld such reuerēce vnto his said old poore Maister as thereby he did not onely giue cause of great ioy to Hargabus but it was esteemed in him a great praise and increase of honour to be so dutiful to him that had brought him vp In regard whereof I your Ladiships seruant being desirous to make knowne to the world the obedient dutie seruiceable minde that I beare to your honor haue thoght good for want of better opportunitie to present your Ladiship with the education of the plotting and publishing of this miraculous worke of God touching the straunge mouing of certaine ground at VVestram in Kent whereof I with diuers others haue bin witnesses Humbly beseeching your good Ladiship to accept this as a poore new yeares gift at the handes of him who prayeth vnto God that your honourable Ladiship may enioy many happy new yeares and is and alway will be ready and diligent to please your Ladiship to the vttermost of his power Your Ladiships faithfull and obedient seruant Iohn Chapman An admonition to the Christian Reader AS it is most euident to them that are of the houshold of faith that in the beginning our most gracious God did by his mightie power create and fashion the whole frames of the heauens aboue and all things else on earth beneath so also it is no lesse manifest but y t by his wonderfull and vnsearchable prouidence hée doth from time to time preserue and kéepe gouern guide alter and change and euery way dispose thereof according to his owne good will and pleasure and as it séemeth best to himselfe for the glory of his blessed name and the good of his chosen children deare to him in Christ Iesus to whom therfore be praise glory now and euermore Amen These things I say are most apparant vnto men And yet notwithstanding the bright eye of his Almightie maiesty continually pearcing into our hearts and sounding déeply the vnséene secrets of mens deceitfull thoughts doth by his diuine wisedome sée and perceiue that many there bee who haue their continuall conuersation among his children and do sometimes sucke the fatte of the earth more plentifully then they doo who yet lyke vnto bruite beastes destitute of reasonable soules can goe no further in contemplation of spirituall matters then their bodily sences common vnto beastes which doe leade and direct them And therefore these carnall men as the Apostle tearmeth them haue as he saith no taste nor sence of diuine matters nor any perceiuing of those things that do appertaine vnto God yea there bee some of them so farre from hauing any reuerent estimation and religious féeling of his gratious maiestie and especially from acknowledging of his fatherly goodnes and watchful prouidence sustaining thē and theirs in their dayly necessitie of life and liuing as that vnto themselues and in their owne hearts they saye plainlye and that the Lorde himselfe doth knowe that there is no God at all This damnable impietie although it doo deserue as a most blasphemous contempt of the sacred deitie to be no waies tollerated but to be most sharply censured and rigorously punished either with the fearefull fier that fell vpon Sodom or the suddayne gaping of the ground that swalowed vp Corah or the swarming lice vermin which did féede vpon the flesh of that presumptuous Herod and deuoured his loathsome carkesse aliue yet such is the great patience and long suffering of the Lorde as that hée doth vouchsafe to forbeare to execute his sharpe iustice vpon the same for a time and in the meane while as one pittying this naturall blindnesse doth most bountifully as it were put foorth his glorious hand and therein doth holde out such lampes of light as maye clearely shine vnto vs and be as the starre to the wisemen was at Christ his byrth sufficient guides to leade vs out of this grosse darknesse of error and ignorance and bring vs to finde him where he is if we applye our selues as they did to followe the course and footing of y e same going before vs euen here vppon the earth For séeing we be thus hardly tyed vnto our outward sences and so strongly pressed down with the heauy sway therof as that we cannot passe higher then the reache of them and so resting thereupon become altogither vnapt to mount a loft and ascend by fayth to discerne him sitting aboue in the height of the heauens in his inuisible maiestie he doth not yet leaue vs héere and forsake vs so but to the intent our dead and benummed consciences might euen by these our naturall sences be sufficiently conuinced in this point and further our humaine dulnesse if it may be stirred vp to haue some more

sixtéene foote more then it was the day before The third morning being the twentieth day hée came againe and then found it to be suncke about eightie foote more at the least And then from that day forwarde that great trench of ground lying partly in these two closes and partly in sūdry other containing frō the carying way southward in length as is before said about eightie perches and in bredth in some place twentie eight and where it was narrowest xii pearches began with the hedges and trées thereon to loose it self wholy from the rest of the ground lying round about it and withal to moue slide and shoote southward not with any suddaine shot but créeping by little and little so as the motion and stirring thereof was not discerned nor perceyued by thē that were presently standing vpon it and working about it but only by the sundrie effects that followed as the cracking of the rootes of trées the brushing of boughes the noise of the hedge-wood breaking the gaping of the ground and the riuing of the earth asunder the falling of the torne furrowes and huge trenches after it some foure foote déepe some sixe and some seauen and more whereby there were made in it at the least not so fewe as eleuen thousand furrows riffes cracks and clefts in diuerse places héere and there This mouing and carying of the ground southward continewing stil both by day and night for the space of eleuen dayes togither sliding a slant sometimes as it was noted fouretéene handfulls by measure in one houre and a halfe did wonderfully alter and chaunge the whole face of that land for in some places thereof the hinder ground comming faster forwarde as it shoulde appeare then the former grounde did giue waye vnto it caused it to swell vppe in rounde hillocks like vnto graues the gréene turfe remayning still whole and vnbroken aboue In other places the hinder grounde came so violently as that it did not only teare the greene turfe aboue but also did rise and lift vp it selfe and did rolle and tumble euer the other as it were waues or surges and so stayed as standing buts and at the last the whole plotte was so toused torne and rent and withall the gréene turfe so tattered and turned vp side downe as that there is scant so much as one pearch togither of al this ground left whole with the grasse vpon it vncrackt The ground of the two water pits euen from the very muddy bottoms whole with a great rocke of stone vnder the same are not onlye remoued out of theyr places and carried forward toward the South at the least foure perches a péece with their tuffes of Alders still standing vpon them but withall they are mounted vp aloft and become hilles standing yet to be séene with their sedge flags and blacke mudde vpon the toppe of them still higher then the vpper face of the water is now which they haue forsaken by at the least nine foote and into y e place from which they are remoued and rysen other ground which lay higher before is descended and come downe receiuing the water lying now vpon it as it did before vpon the other Moreouer in one place of the plaine fielde there is a great Hole made by sinking of the earth to the depthe of thirtie foote at the least being in breadth in some place two perches ouer and in length fiue or sixe perches Likewise there is a hedge of 30. perches long remoued and carryed Southward with his trées and all seuen perches at the least And of these trées some do still stand and grow vpright and some are quite ouerthrowne couered and buried with the folding of the earth running vpon them and almost both the endes of the sayd hedge are sunke and couered wholy with the earth the East end of it foure perches long the West end fiue perches long Many other alterations there be of trées that be sunke and remoued out of their places some fiue perches some sixe as namely one Holly trée is driuen seuen perches out of his place and yet it standeth vpright still and a great Alder is torne roote and all cut of the grounde and carryed from his place foure perches and there it lyeth the top turned downe to the ground Beside this there was one péece of ground of halfe an Acre which in times past did lye vp shooting in betwéene the two fieldes this peece now with an hedge row of trées standing vppon it is slipped quite away Southward from betwéene those two closes and they two before seuered are now come togither ioyned as one and in their comming are tumbled ouer a sommer hedge withall two other hedges and a shawe of hazell trées and bushes which did seuer them are now driuen togither on heapes at the Southend Sundry other sinkings there be in diuers places one of sixtie fiue foote an other of forty seuen foote an other of thirtie foure foote By meanes of all which cofusion it is come to passe that where the highest hilles were héeretofore there the deepest Dales ●ée now And where the lowest Dales were then now the ground lyeth mounted hiest The footepath spoken of before is now caryed out of square eight pearches at the least the lower end of this ground is caryed southward in bredth thrée pearches ouer into two medowes whereof one is in the possession of an other man called Thomas Toller Finally the whole measure and content of this breaking grounde was at least nine acres seauen day workes and foure perches on the twentie ninth day of December whē this figure and measure of it was taken as here ye sée it set downe And since that time it cracketh and cleaueth daily more and more on all sides round about it Among other things touching this matter this also is especially to bee considered that whereas by the great aboundaunce of water and continuall rayne which haue fallen so many monethes togither of late sundrye great bowrnes and violent streames haue broken out in many places of this land and at the least seauen such within xii miles of this place euery way the least whereof is able to driue a corne Mill where seldome or neuer any such haue bin before and that this ground lyeth as we haue saide vnder a high hill that might occasion some such issue yet there hath no extraordinary course of water broken out vppon it nor neere vnto it by a mile any way neither haue the small springs thereof during all this wet weather bin any thing increased to speake of In so much as the two little gozelles mentioned before being they that doo cary most water ouer this rouing ground are neither of them so great but that their streames might at any time all this yeare and so many still easily passe through an auger hole of an Inch and halfe broade Which I speake to this end that the strange cariage moouing dryuing and displacing of huge masse of earth and the heauing vp of the vallyes and lowe pits with the great rootes thereof raysed and mounted vnto hilles with the trées therevpon cannot be imputed to the aboundance of water enforcing it as the cause therof as some perhaps otherwise would imagin and suppose The whole maner of the straunge confusion of this plat cannot be discribed according as it is but there hath by report of the Farmers and others come to see it at sundry times from London and other partes of the country foure thousand people since it first began to whom it hath séemed to be a very straunge and fearefull sight giuing occasion vnto some of them to thinke vpon that great opening of the earth that shalbe in the latter day when she shall yeelde vp her dead that be in her to come to the resurrection to other to thinke vpon that fearefull gaping of the ground wherein Corah and his company were deuoured And to the intent the reader may not thinke himselfe to be abused in this report by some vaine deuised fable sundry of the neighbors and inhabitants and they of the best credit dwelling thereabout who haue bin at it and are eye witnesses thereof haue bin content here vnto to giue their testimony by subscribing their names at the beginning of this booke FINIS