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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07627	1607 Lamentable newes out of Monmouthshire in VVales Contayning, the wonderfull and most fearefull accidents of the great ouerflowing of waters in the saide countye, drowning infinite numbers of cattell of all kinds, as sheepe, oxen, kine and horses, with others: together with the losse of many men, women and children, and the subuersion of xxvi parishes in Ianuary last 1607.		1607 (1607)	STC 18021; ESTC S110019	8,041	28

him accuse god of vnkindnes frō hearing to suspition of his loue from suspition vnto direct rebellion against his law shee took of y● meat prohibited eat therof yea not so cōtented she did intice allure by perswasions her husband vnto the same capitall crime office against the diuine maiestie the worlds creator The fact being thus notoriouslie committed the Lord came gaue his sentence vpon the malefactors namely that they should among other punishments specified in the text returne vnto earth from whence they were taken Thus of immortall they were made mortal children of death and corruption but happy it had been if this calamity had extended no further then themselues ●las Adam was a publick person receiued graces for al his posteritie and therefore if hee had stood we had likewise done so but hee falling wee fall together with him into the same calamityes which sin brought him into euen into all miseries leading vnto death and death it selfe vnto temporall and eternall vnlesse wee bee redeemed by our blessed mediator and redeemer Jesus Christ our Sauiour So that howsoeuer manye of the olde worldes Patriarkes liued seauen eight and nine hundred yeares by meanes not onelye of their owne temperance but also of a singular blessing of God bestowed on them to the end they might the better finde out artes and Sciences which required long experience fill also the world the sooner with people haue their obodience vnto the Lord the more fully tride and the more purelye conuay true religion vnto their posteritie as not passing through the handes of many persons yet you see stil at the last they dyed the power of originall sin the wages wherof is death alwaies at y● lēgth taking hold vpon them and because they vsed the benefit of their long life not in such holy maner as the Lord required but grew shamelesse in all euill courses wee see that Almightie God being mooued vnto wrath by their enormous vices sent a floud vpon them and swept them away from the sace of the earth like dung and excrements onely preseruing faithfull Noah and his housholde together with some reliques of the creatures in an Arke which he had caused him to frame for that seruice and as for their posteritie in Noahs linage who repeopled the world againe we see that the Lord did abridge their yeares by many hundreds from those which their forefathers did inioy that so they and wee to the worldes end might bee perpetuallye mindefull of their our departure out of this vale of miserie wherein wee haue no certaine habitation or inheritāce but are continually subiect vnto the arrest of death hels prison vnlesse in time we get all the debts of our offences cācelled by being made heires of the riches of Gods lone in his Sonne Christ Jesus for death striketh with more dartes then one he hath euen almost infinite wayes to seize vppon vs when from the Lord he hath his licence Thus wee see sometimes men consume away languish sometimes the Pestilence doth destroy them sometime the sword and sometimes famine euerie one some thing or another according to the speech of the Poet Happie is he that is so prouided as y● in deed no kinde of death is suddaine to him seeing examples vse to mooue vs let vs seriously thinke vpon the late inundation of waters which hath euen a● vnawares surprised many who little expected such an accident that so by the due noting of it wee may bee incited to prepare our selues for some tempest in one kinde or another as terrible vnto vs as that hath been to thē knowing that these prodigious ouerflowinges of the waters howsoeuer natural causes as Gods instruments doe claim their partes in thē yet they proceed from the Lords own direction who by his punishing of others with thē doth threaten grieuous calamities euē against our vice vnles I say speedy repentance amendment doe auert his feareful wrath iudgemen frō vs apparātly kindled in many kindes within these few yeares last past against vs. It hath alreadie by the pen of another beene related what great harme hath beene doone by the deluge of waters inuading Somersetsh couering neere the Severne 20 mile in cōpas to the ruine of al creatures places which lay within y● circuite further it hath beene shewed that al Erent marsh is couered y● sea got vp between Barstable and Bristowe as high as Bridge-water what is done in Herefordsh Glocestersh diuers other bordering places vpon y● seas it cannot yet in special be recorded vpon ground of certaintye but touching Monmothsh in Wales the report of one in place of authoritie that not vpon a bare heare-say is this IN the month of Ianuarie last past vpon a Tuesday the Sea being very tempestuously moued by the windes ouer-flowed his ordinary Bankes and did drowne 26. Parishes adioyning on the Coast side in the foresaide Countrey of Monmouth-shire the particulars whereof doe follow all spoyled by the greeuous and lamentable furie of the waters Matharne Portescuet Caldicot Vndye Roggiet Lanihangiell Ifton Magor Redwicke Gouldenlifte Nashe Saint Peire Lanckstone wiston Lanwerne Christchurch Milton Bashallecke Saint Brides Peterston Lambeth Saint Mellins Romney Marshfield Wilfricke Now all kinde of Cattle being for twentie foure miles in length and foure in breadth were drowned R●kes and mowes of corne torne out of their places and carried away Againe the Sea hath beaten down at the foresaid times a great multitude of houses scattering and dispersing the poore substance of innumerable persons So that the damage done in the foresaid places both in cattel and other goodes is supposed to amount vnto the value of aboue an hundreth thousand pounds But alas a man wil giue all that hee hath so that his life may bee preserued this is it which wee estéeme of aboue all worldly treasures howsoeuer as one said well of olde it being nothing but a bridle and miserable fetter which chaineth the pure and euerlasting soule vnto the vile sinfull and corruptible bodie But surely there is none eyther so greate an Oratour or else so mightie an Enchaunter as life is for it doeth perswade vs vnto the contrarie of that which wee both sée féele for although we know our owne frailty and that we must needes die yet what wrongs what hatreds what labours what vnspeakeable wretchednesse will men endure rather then leaue these their clay houses wherein they are but Tenants at Will subiect to be dispossessed at Gods pleasure Wel saide the Roman wise man That séeing the flowers of life be but lusts and pleasures false shewes shadowes and vanities the fruites thereof but labour care sicknesse and tediousnes yea the trée it selfe but corruption and frailety Oh what reason haue men to doate vpon it why should death be so fearefull vnto them especially when hauing their portion in Christ Jesus they are well assured that their felicity is not in this life to be expected but in the

world to come Into the which Death is our Ferriman and consequently our aduantage as the Scripture tearmeth him Neuerthelesse séeing life is precious as Natures blessing left with vs by the Lord in trust and to be redemanded by him and obediently yéelded vp by vs at his pleasure for his glory how happy woulde those that endured the foresaide losses haue thought themselues if so bee that they had but escaped away with their liues But poore wretches the most of them were drowned by the foresaid invndation not as though I did iudge them all miserable who did die therein For as Koper saith touching the flood which did surprise the olde worlde in the first iudgement wherein the transgressing Angels were to be censured and in the last day of Assizes generall onely the reprobate haue beene and shal be condemned the elect saued But in iudgements that fal out betwéene neyther the elect alone are preserued nor the reprobate onely are destroyed And yet no doubt many of them yea the most were prophane as the residue of all our Countrey is in respect of the multitude for pride gluttony drunkennesse the very Metropolitane City of all the Prouince of vices fornication and all sortes of vncleanenesse the which the Lord threatneth to punish where he findeth them in a feareful manner doe euen walke vp and downe like Rulers in all places And what shall I say concerning the contempt of the Ministerie of the word and the manifold wrongs continually offered euen vnto the most reuerend and faithful Ministers of the same Is the couetousnesse of our yron hard hearted age vnknowne to any man doeth it not destroy and corrupt daily more and more both Church and Common weale among vs hath it not stollen almost into euery corner and crept wei neare into euery heart maring all where it commeth But hee is blinde who noteth not the seuerall kindes of oppression euery where practised and the lying and dissimulation euery where vsed In a word iolenesse one of those sinnes which caused Sodome to bee destroyed is most palpably to bee noted in all states and conditions of men among vs both in Church and common-weale while the Cleargie doth nothing but looke for liuings and leaue the labours of their function and the Gentry estéeme more of their Hawkes Howndes and other their vainer pleasures then the godly discharging of their offices wherein the Lord hath set them And shal wee then imagine that they were onely good that are gone in this calamity of waters Certainely as I make no question but God hath had his faithful seruants among them so I doubt not but that the greatest part of them were euen as the rest of our Nation is at this daye lewde and prophane wretches whom the Lord hath thus plagued for to recall vs if it be possible from our filthy practises lest at once hee be prouoked to poure downe the ful vialls of his wrath vpon vs. And therefore if wee be wise let other mens harmes make vs warie lest custom in vice make it grow euen another nature to vs. Wherefore aboue all things let vs take héed that long escape of punishment or the vaine hope of long life do not delude vs make vs run on stil into our sins like the hard horse into the battel for our life is but like the Gourd of Ionas or the pilgrimage of Iacob the daies whereof 〈◊〉 as few as euil yea it is like unto the viston of Esdras goodly too looke vpon but vanished in a moment And therefore there is nothing more perillons to be entertained by vs then the Mot of Epicures o thanatos vden pos death belongs not to vs séeing we are therby brought to be carelesse of our actions But to return vnto our foresaid narration The foresaid waters hauing gotten ouer their wonted limittes are affirmed to haue runne at their first entrance with aswiftnesse so incredible as that no Gray-hounde coulde haue escaped by running before them And they yet couer twenty foure miles in length and foure and more in breadth which it the water were quite gone againe be not to be recouered within the space of fiue or sixe yeares to bee so seruiceable ground as formerly they haue béene yea and there is no probabilitie that that part of the Countrey wil euer be so inhabited againe in our age as it was before this floud howsoeuer it hath heretofore bene reputed the richest and the fruitfullest place in all that Countrey Moreouer the land ouerflowed with the Seuerne sea is valued at aboue fortie thousand pounds by the yeare only in the said Country of Monmouth which is yet vnder the waters and to hee recouered againe from them at the Lords good pleasure Further among other matters these things are related as certaine truths As that a certaine man and a woman heuing taken a trée for their succour and espying nothing but death before their eyes at last among other things which were carried along in the streame perceyued a certaine Tubbe of great largenesse to come néerer and néerer vnto them vntill it rested vppon that Tree wherein they were Juto which as sent vnto them by GODS prouidence committing themselues they were carryed safe vntill they were cast vppe vppon the drie shoare Againe of a maide ceilde not passing the age of foure yeares it is reported that the mother thereof perceiuing the waters to breake so fast into her house and not being able to escape with it and hauing no clothes on it set it vpon a beame in the house to saue it from being drowned And the maters rushing in a pace a little Chicken as it séemeth flew vp vnto it it being found in the bosome of it when ●s helpe came to take it downe and by the heate thereof as it is thought preserued the childes life in the middest of so colde a tempest An other little childe is affirmed to haue bene cast vpon land in a Cradls in which was nothing but a Catte the which was discerned as it came floating to the shore to leape still from one side of the Cradle vnto the other euen as if she had bene appointed steresman to preserue the small barke from the waues furie Moreouer one Mistresse Van a gentlewoman of good sorte whose liuing was an hundred pound and better by the yeare is auouched before she could get vppe into the higher roomes of her house hauing marked the approach of the waters to haue bene surprised by them and destroyed howsoeuer her house being distant aboue foure miles in breadth from the sea Besides these thinges in Monmouth-shiere alreadie specified One Mistresse Mattheus of Landaffe in Glamorgin Shiere dwelling some foure miles in breadth frō the Sea is said to haue lost foure hundreth English Ewes Much corn is likewise there destroyed in that Countrey many houses ruinated and many other kindes of Cattell perished The number of men that are drowned are as yet not knowne to exeéede abaoue twentie hundred A multitude more then did had perished for want of foode and extremitie of colde had not the right Honourable the Lord Herbert sonne and heire to the Carle of Worcester and sir Waltar Mountague Knight brother vnto the Recorder of London who dwell neare vnto the foresaid places sent out boates fetched tenne miles compasse vpon Waines to reléeue the distressed The Lord Herbert himselfe as the relation is going himselfe vnto such houses as he could that were in extremitie to minister vnto them prouision of meate and other necessaries And these are the things touching these foresaid places which haue béen deliuered as truthes vnto vs of vndoubted veritie And there we leaue them As for our selues séeing we are all of vs subiect vnto the like sinnes that others are and that these when wée dayly fall into them doe like the bloud of Abell sollicite the wrath and vengeance of the Lord to be powred downe vpon vs. Let vs thinke vpon the iudgementes which God hath inflicted vpon others for their vices that so wée may be the more auerted from the like offences Thus did Dauid doe And the Prophet Hab doth witnesse that the grieuous plagues which euen in a vision hée did sée should came vpon the Chaldeans did make him to quake and tremble what would he haue done it so be that hée had seene the very actuall execution of them would not hée haue applied them vnto his owne person remembring that his miserie by nature was as great as any others But no man-careth to knowe himselfe and his owne deseruings euerie one dalighteth to marke his brethren and their infirmities being therein like vnto those Lamiae or Faicies concerning which Plutarch speaketh who when they went abroad filled their heads with eyes but when they came home againe plucked them out and put them vp in boxes As for his owne breath each one thinketh it to be swéet enough as the Prouerbe speaketh The Lorde of his mercie graunt that we may learne in time to be wise vnto our owne health and saluation least that these water-flouds in particular prooue but forerunners vnto some scarefull calamities more generall FINIS