The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-21
held their goodly flockes of sheep swim

held their goodly flockes of sheep SWIM
ming upon the waters dead.
THE names of some of the towns
and villages which suffered great
harms and losses hereby We're BRISTOL
Aust. all the countries on both sides of
the Severn from GlOuchester to BRISTOL
--Chepstowe, Glodclift, Mtherne, Cali
cot, Moores Redrift. Newport, Car
diife, SWansey, Laugharne, Lansteph-
an.
THE foundation of many churches
and houses were in a manner decayed,
and some carried quite away, and in
Cardiffe, in the county of Glamorgan,
Il great portion of the church next the
waterside was beaten down with (by)
water.
'Divers other churches lay hidden in
the waters, and some of them the tops
are to be seen, and some others moth
ing at all to be seen but the very tops
of the steeples. and Of some Of them
| nothing at all"
The style of the foregoing towards
the close of the narrative indicates
that 1t was penned while the churches
were still under water.
The Rev. William Welby heads his
discourse as follows:
WOFULL NEWS FROM WALES.
1t was printed for W. W. and solde in
Paule's Church-yarde at the signe of the
Grey hound. lGG7.
We are told by w. w. that man was
/ made last of all as "a mappe, a summe, or
an abridgement of the whole worlGe's per-
fections." Then the worthy divine i'm
| plies that the ''mappe" gets occasionally
dirty, and that floods are necessary to
wash away the ..,dirte." 1t does not seem
this sermon is likely to make the reader
any better. and We, therefore, proceed to
our tex. The discourse contains the fol-
lowing narrative of facts touching the
calamity:
"In the mouth of Ianuarie last past.
upon Tuesday. the sea, being very tenn
pestuOusly novel by the windes, OVER
| flowed the ordinary bankes, and drowned
26 parishes adjcyning the coast side in
the presaide county of Monmoutushirc.
particulars whereof dee follow: ali
| spoyled by the greevous and lamentable
| furie of the water" Then the names VI
% of the parishes are given.
Now the narrative goes on to state.
| length and four in breadth, were
drowned
Then it is stated that houses of all kinds
and hay and corn rick ks were washed
| of twaddle, the writer of the sermon re-
| turns to somber facts. He states that so
| fast did the water travel inland from the
sea that no greyhound could have run
| lake twenty-four miles in length and four
miles in breadth. And he states it was
| still Under water at the time he was
writing his sermon. He states that at
| LANDAU four hundred ewes, the property
| of Mrs. Matthews. perished at a spot four
| miles from the sea. He adds: Much corn
| also Is destroyed by the waters in that
| county" Then he goes on to state that
| the exact number of people drowned was
not yet known, but the number did not
exceed two thousand, He gives credit to
| Lord Herbert, of Raglan Castle. and Sir
| Walter Montague for the aid they rem
| dered the poor. people by means of boats
| and food 1t is interesting to know that
the said Lord Herbert was the celebrated
| NarulIess of Worcester who forty years
| later succoured King Charles |. at Rag
| Ian Castle, and who eventually was conf
| PEELED to yield that castle to CROMWELL S
| forces.
This is the same flood which did Car
| diff such damage and which was de-
scribed in the Western Mail almanac
| for 1896, as follows: Early in the sew
| enteenth century a great disaster be-
| fell Cardiff. On Jan. IS. 1907. the
Church of st. Mary, a very ancient cru
ciform edifice. which stood on the east
ern side of the old bed of the river,
| occupying a site few yards north of
| the Western Mail buildings. was
washed away by great flood. the raw!
ages of which extended over an JIM
| mense tract Of land lying on both sides
| of the Bristol channel"
The old church is marked in Speeds
map of the period. and must have been
| a stately edifice. more so even than the
| present church Of St. Johns.
| NOTES.
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