To the Reader.

Eader I haue to the late
accidents (whereby some
parts of this our kingdom
haue bin punnifhed) ad-
ded some other, that hap-
ned in the yeare 1570. to
the intent that by compa-
ring the one with the o-
ther, Gods Iustice and
mercy, may both be feene: If thofe Waters of his
wrathe (powred downe then,) weare more cruell
then theſe. It is a ſigne (and a comfort let it bee
vnto vs) that he doth but ſtil threaten & ſhakethe
rod, for no doubt but our faults at this time are as
great as in the ſe dates: If this afflietion laid oppon
our Countrey now, bee ſharper than that before,
make vſe of it: tremble, before-warned, A mend,
leaſt a more feareful puniſhment, and
alonger whip of correction
draw blood of vs.
Farewell.

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So haue we that should bee subiects to the Al mighty King, and (by our oath of Chriitianity) ought and are bound to paye fealty & allegiance to our Lord and Master, gone beyond the bankes and limits of all obedience, to þ taking away of his loue, without which we cannot liue, and to the unrecoverable vn-doing of our owne selues.

Sinne overflowes our Soules: the Seas of all strange impieties haue rulst in vppon us: we are couered with the waues of abhor- mination and uncleannes: we are drowned in the black puddles of hellish iniquity: wee swim vp to the throates, nap euen aboue the chins in Couetsoufnes, in extortion, in senatu- rality, in enuy one against þ other, in contempt of our Maiestrates, in neglect of our lawes, and in violation of those divine Statutes, the breach of which is a condemnation to death and that Death, and everlasting liuing in Hels fire.

Many a time haue we bin summoned to an account for these riotous abuses & mis spending the talents put into our hands, we haue shifted it off with counterfeit forsooth for what we haue done, and with promises to become faithfull SERUANTS, and new men; yet grow we worse at noone, than we were at þ funs rising, and at his going downe he blush- eth to behold us in our nautines. To a strict & strange audite therfore doth God not only call some of our countrymeu now on þ soden) but: also to a right vs the more to make us

looke

in England.

look about, doth he strike our Cattle with di-
leales: he takes away the lives of our beafts
fit forz laboz: he destroies the Lozne-fields,
& thzeatens vs with famine: he undermines
our houses with tempests, to make vs keare
a desolation. Read therefore, and read with
trembling these his late dzeadfnl iudgmëts,
mocke not our selues with vaine hopes, but
know that if earthly fathers may be drawne
away to forz get their owne children, our hea-
uenly father may by the vilenes of ourSouls
be drawne to shake off his own people. Listen
then how he menaceth, and so and amazed at
the wonders of his wzath.

In January last (towards the end of the
moneth,) the sea at a flowing wate rmeeting
with Land-floudes, strove so violently toge-
her, that bearing downe all thingses þ vwere
builded to vwithstand and hinder the force of
them, the bankes were eaten through and a
rupture made into Somerset, faire. No sooner
was this furious imuader entred, but he got
up hie into the Land, and encountring with
the riuer Seuern, they both boild in such pride
that many Miles, (to the quantity of xx. in
length, and 4. or 5. at least in dzedth) were in a
short time Swalowd up in this tozrent. This
Inundation began in the morning, & within
few houres after, couered the face of þ earth
thereabouts (that lay within the distance be-
fore named) to the deapth of xi. or xii. foot in
some places, in others more. The daunger þ
this terrible tempest vzought with it, wrought
much

in England.

In this ciuill Warres betweene the Land and the Sea, many Men, Women, and Children, lost their lives : to saue whom, some climbed vppe to the tops of the houses, but the rage of the merciles tide grew so strong, y in many, yea most of the Villages afozenamed, the Foundations of the buildings being washed away, the whole frame fell down, and they dyed in the waters : Others got vp into trees, but the trees had their rootes unfastened by the selfe-fame destroyer, that disioynted barnes and houses, and their last refuge was patiently to die.

A lamentable spectacle was it, to beholde whole heards of Cattle, struggling for life with the clouds, Oxen in great numbers were earyed away with the streame, and looked like so many Whales in y Sea: their bellowing made a noise in the water as if it had bin a tempest, and that y Sea had roared. The flocks of Sheep that are utterly destroyed by this Land-wracke are innumerable, none knowes the loss for the present but the owners of them: But the whole land will keare keele the smart.

A number of most strange shapes of Daunger did this monstrous byrth of waters bring forth: of which (for the rarenes) I will set downe some, and none but those that are true. There was a pooze Man (a Householder) dwelling in one of the Villages afozenamed, having seauen Children: who (in this generall perill) not knowing howe to bestirre himself, was desirous to saue so much of his goods as possibly hee could: But the violence of the streame multiplying more and more

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Upon him: It came into his minde to provide rathier for his Children: his goods, therefore hee left to the mercy of that which hath no mercy, and louing one of his Children above all the rest, his keare dRAue him to run about for the safety of that one. At last the danger that had rounde about (and with n doores) let upon him and his family, was so great, that hee could neither defend that his decrest Childe, nor the rest, but having much ado to get life for himselfe, hee left them and his whole household perilhing in the tozrent, he getting vp to the top of the house, and so escaping. An infant likewise was found swimming in a Cradle, some mile or two from a place where it was known to be kept, and so was preserved, for the Cradle was not of wicker as ours are here, but of strong thicke bozdes, closely iopnted together, and that safed the infants life. The ricks of pease in divers places being undermined at the bottomes, were lifted vp mainely from the ground, and swum vp and downe in the whole bulke, amongst which a company of Hogs, and Pigs, being feeding upon one of the ricks, and perceiuing it to go away more and more from the top, and there maintained the in eating. As to which is more strange, conies in great numbers being drawn out of their bozroughes by the tyde, were seene to sit for safety on the backs of sheepe, as they swom vp and down and at last were drowned with them.

A pooze shepheard likewise being in the field, some of his sheepe were strayed from the rest, when the waters began to come upon the Countrey, which he perceiuing, ran with all speed to fetch them,

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Barstable and Bristow the Sea Swelled vp as hye
as Bridgewater. All the low grounds are not onely
hidden w this strange deluge, but in danger (by
the opinion of men)to be utterly lost. Whole hou-
les were remoued from the grounde where they
flood, and float vp and downe like shippes (halke
funk.)

Their Lozne-mowes and hay-mowes are ca-
ryed away with the streame and can neuer be re-
couered. All theyz fat Oxen that could not swim
are drowned: with such a fozible assault did the
Waters set upon the inhabitants, that they who
were in theyz houses, and thought themselves sa-
fest, could hardly make way for theyz owne lines:
by which means a number both of men, women,
and children perished: theyz deade bodies floate
hourly above-water, and are continually taken vppe:
It cannot yet be knowne, howe manye
have fell in this Tempest of Gods fearful iudge-
ment.

Most of the goodes both of Citizens heere in
London that were sent thither, and of the inha-
bitants dwelling there, as also the Rugs a such
other commodity which came from Irelande, to
the fayre of Saint Paule, which was now to bee
kepte there, are (to an infinite value, and to the
Daunger of many a man's undoing) utterly spo-
led and cast away. Goods in dry-fats, and whole
packes of Wares are daily taken vp, but past all
recovery ever to bee good againe. This deluge
hath covered this part of the country by the space
of ten miles our in length, at least bypp towards
Bridgewater. Many thousands of pounds cannot
make

in England.

make good the loss which the Country one by that hereby received. God grant there ensue no condemnery upon this, worse to our King-Dome, than this Plague of Waters.

The miraculous delivery of a Gentleman from death when it had round before him in the midst of the waters.

A Gentleman dwelling within four miles of the Sea (but twixt Barstable and Bristow) walking fourth one morning to view his groundes, cast vppe his eyes toward the Sea-coast, and on the suoden was struck into a strange amazement, for he beheld an extraordinary swallowing vppe of all the earth, that had wont to lye visible and well to his sight: he could scarce tell certainly whether he stood upon the ground which he was sure the day before was his owne: Hils, and valis, Moods, and Meddowes seemed al to be either removed, or to be buried in the Sea: for the waters a farre off stood to his judgement many yards aboue the earth: he tooke them at first for Mountains and heapes of clouds, but keare being driven baeke (with a courage and velife in him to kee himselfe from this imminent danger) home comes hee with all speede that he could to his owne dwelling: relates to his wife what hee had seene, and the assured perill that was preparing to let vppon them, and (with all) Counsels here and his whole family to bestirre them: lies, and to gette (with such provision and Goodes as they could be easily conuay away) highet vppe in-

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to the Country, to some one of his friendes. All
hands presently layd about them, (as if that eny-
mies had bin marching to befeidge the Towne)
to trusse vp whai they could and be gone.

And beholde, how swift is milchiese when
God drines it before him to the punishment of the
world. All were laboring to beare away some
of the goods, but before their burdens could bee
taken up, they were compelld to leaue them, and
to look about for their lives. The fardels which
they had bound up to laue from drowning, some
of them were glad to leap uppon to escape draw-
ning themselves.

The Gentleman with his Wife and Children
got up to the highest building of the house: there
sat hee and they uppon two raffers, comforting
one another in this millery, when their heartes
within them were even dead to themselves from
all comfort: they now cared not for their wealth,
so they might but go away with their lives: and
yet even that very desire of life, put him in mynde
to preserne something, by which afterward they
might live, and that was a Bore of porritinges,
wherein were certaine bonds, and all the eviden-
ces of his Landes: this Bore he got, with the
hard aduenture of much daunger: he tyed it with
cordes fast to a rafter, hoping what wracke soe-
uer should ouerthrowe the rest of his substance,
his mayne estate should bee found safe, and come
to shore in that hauen.

But alas in the midst of this sozofull gladnesse,
the Sea fell with such violence upon the house,
that

in England.

it bore away the whole building, rent it in the
middle from top to bottom, they that could not
get up to the highest roomes, were put to a dou-
ble death, dzovvning and brayning. In this
storme the Husband and Wife lost one another:
the Children and Parents were parted: the Gen-
tleman in this whirle-wind of waues, being for-
ted from his hold, got to a beame, sat upon that,
and again it his will rode post some three or four
Miles, till at length encountring with the side of
a hill, (of which lighting place he was topfull)
there he crept up, and holding notwithstanding
his safety still in his hand : there sat he inuirond
with death, miserably powzing out teares to in-
crease his waters, which were already too aboun-
dant: and to make him disperate in his sozrowes,
the tirranous streame presented unto him the
Tragedy of his deere wife, and deere st children,
She, they, and his Servants were whozried to
their deaths by the torrent before his face, & drou-
ned doubly in his teares, and in the waues. Yet
because he should not be altogether the onely slaue
of misfortune in this Sea-fight, nor be more try-
umphed ouer then others that fell in the battaile.
At length (a little to fetch life into him which was
upon departing) he spied his Bore of wztinges
(bound as they were to the rafter) come floating
towardes him : that he ventured once againe to
saue, and did so, and in the end most myrau-
lously came off likewife with his owne life.

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that

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Of another Gentleman, that hauing a
voyage to make on horse-backe, en-
ded it riding after a strange
manner.

There was another Gentlemanne in the same
Countrey likewise, who being newlie married,
determined one mornning to take his Selding,
and to ride forth to a Towne not many miles distant
from his owne dwelling, there to bee murrie : his
horse for that purpose tood readie sailed and dze-
deled, he himselfe had drawne on one of his Boots,
but before he could fit his Legge to the other, the
winde came about, the point of his compasse was
changid, his voyage by Lande was to bee made by
Water, or else not at al. For the Sea had so bee-
gyzt the house, broken in, lifted of the doores from
their bynges, ran vppe into all the Chambers, and
with so dreadful a noyse tooke possession of euerie
Roome, that he was al this while but half a horfe-
man, trusted more to his owne legges than to the
swiftnes of his Selding.

Uppe therefore he mounts to the very top of all
the house, the waters pursued him thither, which he
perceuing, got astride over the Ridge and there re-
folued to saue his life, but Neptune belike purpoing
to try how wel he could ride, cut of the same buil-
ding by the middle, leauing the upper part swim-
ming like a flemmig Hop in fowle weather.

The Gentleman beeing dzeuen to goe what pace
would carry him which bee late vpon, helde
fult

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For just the same month of the yeare, weeke of the month, and almost day of the same weeke, In the Countrep of Nozkeolke, not farre from Kings Lynn, in a place called March-land, happened accidents, though not altogether so violent and moztall as thole in Summerlethire, yet accompanied with much damage, and no little danger. About the xx. of this present month of Januarie Anno. Dom. 1607. The churche violence of winter, being (as they by many rurall obseruations had quoted) almost spent: The Marilhes, & fens, by reason of the peeres temperature, somewhat drie, and moze forward than in other yeares, euerie man to his abilitie, layd out what money hee could spare vpon Heilkors, and such other young ware, emptying their purses of Crownes to cram the fens with Cattell, little thinking the water would haue made one, and like a new Broome haue sweeped all cleane, as soothly it did.

The fens thus stozed with Cattell, Horse, and Bullocks, for it is not unknowne what haucke the rot had made with theeepe in the beginning of Winter, which dyed in such abundance, that euen Dogges grewe wearie of them.

The rot having begun, and in a manner made an end of Sheep, in comes the water as a second and moze violent inuader, and sweepes away what the rot had left behinde.

It happened upon a night, for when is danger moze wakefull than when pzeuention sleepes, and not

in England.

not so much as dzeames of his furie, A couple
of Horz-courters, oz to attyze them in a courie r
litter, Horze-stealers, knowing the night, a
gowne to cloake their villanie, came sneaking in-
to the marrish with an intent to make a Market
of what was none of their owne. And dzaue so
many of the Lattell as they thoght fit vp into the
higher grounds: but in the meane time they were
hotly pursued with a fearefull Hu and cry, not of
Constables, but swikter followers (Uiz:) the
water, which having broken out at an old bzieach,
in a quarter of an houre, oz a very little poztion of
time, overflowed the Marsh, and that with such
unrelifted violence, þ they were enfozd to leane
their pzae (which such fellowes seldom vse to
doe) fal to prayer, and to take them to their heels,
and of all the Lattell in that Marrish, (being be-
ry many in number) fewe oz none were pzeferued,
but thole which they had fetched vp with an in-
tent to steale: oz being ouertaken, oz rather ouer-
runne by the swiktnesse of the water, they were
dryuen some into Creekes, some into Bushes,
and some upon little Hillocks, and so eitheir lost,
dryuen away with the water, oz in conclusion
drowned.

The iwoo good fellowes (against their willes
made good) Seeing what pzeulent daunger, the
water brought in with it, poafted to the Towne
whether the water (had they not made the more
hast) had brought the men before them: Rapled
the Sexton, got the Keyes of the Church dooze,

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and (as the custome in such Daungers) Jangled the Billes, and with a kearefull outcry, raped the Secure Inhabitantes: who imagining some House to be on fire, rose vppe distractedly in their Shirtses, crying out Water, Water: of which Element (they were no Sooner vp,) bu: they perceived they had too much: Yet were they still various in their opinions, all fearing, yet none knowing truely what to fear: Some got vp to the steeple, many thinking their had been theeues got into the upper roomes of their Houses, shutting their gates out, by locking themselves in. Some thinking it had bin but a slight overflowing of a springing tyde, laught at the rest.

The truth once knowne, it was no need to byd them make hast: to expresse how amazingly Men ran vp and downe, before sleepe and wake, alking what newes and receiuing no other answere but what newes, was strange. In a word, in this danger, euery man layed first hands of what he loed best, some made away with his wife, some his Children, some carcles both of wife and Childre, hurried away his goods. gee that had seen this troublesome night's work, would have thought upon the miserable night of Troy. Here waded one vp to the middle loaded with wealth, when noting how the water increased, and calling to mind his helplesse Children, with a sigh as loath to part from what hee so deerely had loued, hee thzowes it downe, runs to Bedde, wakens his wife, and from her sides snatches the sleeping in-sants:

in England.

kants. Here comes a Husband with his wife on
his backe, and under either arme an Infant. The
Sonne carries the Father, the Brother the Sif-
ter, the Daughter the Mother, whilest the vn-
mercifull conqueroz breaks downe the Mallez
of the Houles, taking pittie neither of aged noz
Sepe, kindes some at playe, some a sleepe in
Chayers, many in their beddes, that neuer
dreamed of misfortune till the Water waked
them.

Not to stand long, the water gaue them but
very short warning, yet like a mercifull Conque-
rouer, having taken the towne, it gaue them their
lines, at least all such as were willing to leave
their goods. Some toutetous to have all, lost
all, for striving to save their goods, they lost their
lines.

In this night-massacre some few were drowned
but their true names and certaine number, is not
yet directly knowne. Up to a hill some halfe mple
from the towne they haled, where that night,
or rather peece of a morniug, they reposed them-
selues.

The next day they might behold their houles
wading up to the middles in water, some calling
for Boates out at windowes, and from the stee-
ples toppe, some swimming uppon plankes, some
uppon fetherbeds, whom as they possibly could,
they relieved. Holes that were tyed to the
Mangers, at the Mangers were all drowned,
such as were loose swimming up and downe, some

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recovered the land, some drowned in striking to
recover it, whole Barnes of Corne, which the
couetous owners hozed up in hope of a dearth,
the water discovered and sought koozth. Hou-
hold-stuffe which the night before they packt out
of the Houses in hope to have saved,SWANNE
up and downe, with drowned people so confu-
sedly mingled, as men could scarce distinguish
their goods, noz know their friends.

Noz did the water thus confine his tyzranie,
but ioynting with land waters that fell from the
high groundes, It inuaded two Villages more,
but they having warning of the Apzoch, though
not power to withstand it, had time to pzeuent it,
by conuaying all oz most part of their goods and
Lattell, to the vpland Villages, leaving onelye
the empty houses to the mercy of (that which is
sayd to have no mercy) the water.

Three Townes thus overflowed with water,
could not but bring much lolle to the pooze inha-
bitants, yet to increase it, their corner fields (and
not onely these) but all alongside the coast and lowe
Marhes of that country, to the number of many
thousand Acars in several places and fields are
toombd and buried in the huge graue of waters,
that like a devouring gulfe is never satisfied.

To this there is for the space of ten or twelve
miles compasse Marhes and Fens cleane vn-
der water. The Lattell fed in those Marhes so
sodainely taken, that had they not fled to an Hill,
some halfe mile in compasse called Thruehill, few

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in England.

oz none of them could haue Scaped with like : yet
being there, their safety is very daangerous : for
this hill being very high and narrowe in the top,
is like a Rocke in the Sea, girdled about with
Water, so deepe, that on foote neither Man nor
Beast canne palle it, and yet not deepe enough to
beare a Boat, by reason of muddy and old shrubs
p grow in it : by reason whereof the pooze beaſs
haue fedde the Hill so bare, as it affoodes neither
grasse nor wood, and so do their hunger encreafe,
and sustenance decreafe, as they do eate the tops
of Molehils, and the very earth it selfe, and with
lamentable bellowing complaine, and as it were
make moane to their owners, who beeing wil-
ling canne by no meanes releeve them. Hee that
should see this pittifull famine of Beasts, coulde
not (except hee were too leaſall himselfe) but pit-
ty it.

At last they made ſbikt by cutting away through
the Shrubes & Bushes, to bring abzoad a ferry
Boat to the hill, to which the cattell would swim
so thick, they had much a do to keepe it from sin-
king, others seeing their fellowes in the Boate,
would throw themselves into the water, and like
people at a shipwrecke, Swarme so thickke about
them, and offer such mournefull noyſes, that pitti-
ed p fellowes to heare, the Boat being full, other
striuing to SWom after them being weak, for want
of sustenance, were drowned at the Boats side.

In pitty whereof, they concluded to fetch noe
moze of, but in those Boats conuay Bay, and such
like fodder, to the Hill, and there feed them : such

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are not too farre spent and gone, by this meanes
they hope to recouer, (notwithstanding the best
helpe they can apply) they die in great numbers :
the fight is to be pittied, the losse greeued at, and
the Judgement to be trembled at. For with it,
byings this fearefull expect of a hard and sharpe
dearly. For Cozne and Cattell, the two cheese
hopes of bounty taken away, what else can we ex-
pect, but a fearefull Ruine, and an ineutable deso-
lation, which God for his mercies sake auert.

Y
Du haue all this while been Spectators of
others lad and tragicall euents which now
(euen by our friends, kinckolkes, and Coun-
treymen) haue ben presented on the Theater of the
world : It shall not be amisse to turne your faces,
and to looke bakc e vpon the head of time that is
gone from vs : weigh therefore those miseries
that were measured out in the last Queens raigne
in the peare 1570, with these in 1607. and you shall
see our punishment grcater, because
our treason against God
is moze hozible,

in England.

Bedford

He fift of October about mid-
night, the Water overflowed
so much, that men were faime
to forziare their beds, and one
woman drowned. Where al-
so were lost a great number of
Sheepe, Oxen, Kine, Hozle,
and other Cattell. Amongst other there, one
maister Cartwzite Gentleman, hauing his
House inclosed round about, the water came in
so much, that a Cart being lodè with Thorns,
D.D swim about the ground. He lost by the same
Floud, Sheepe and other cattell, to the value
of an hundred pound. The same Gentleman
had a close gate by the high wayes side, where
the water ran over so extreamely, that at the
fall, thereof it made such an hole, that it was for-
tie foot deepe, so that no man could palle that
way without great danger. To theilling vp
of the Layd Hole, oz Pit, was cast in by the men
of the Layd Towne 25, loads of fagots, and 20
load of Hozle-dung, which Layd faggots and
Hozle-dung filled not vp the hole.

Also one master Lee, at the frees in Bedfozd
hauing a fayze yarde, wherein was great stowe of
Elme-trees, whereof threescoze were blowne
downe, with the rootes pulled cleane out of the
ground. Also he had a close of Combs that were
cleane destroyed.

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In the Countie of Norfolke.

The Sea brake in betweene Wilsbich and
Mallockenne, at the Trollekeies. Dzow-
ning Tilny, and old Linne, Saint Mary
Teding, Saint Mary Tid, S. Johns. Waw-
ple, Walton, and Mallocken, Emney, Jarmans,
and Stowe brinke, all being within the space
of tenne Myles. At the Trolle-keyes the good
man of the Inne had built an house, with a
strong foundation iopning vnto another House
being old and not so strong, wherein were cer-
taine Guests, and when the water came in so
violently, the good man of the house beeing in
the stronger House, called the men out of the
olde House, and they would haue gone Downe
the Staples, but the water was so high, that
they could not get Downe, wherefore they went
backe againe, and brake an hole into the other
House, where they went thozow, and the last
man was no sooner in, but the olde House fell
Downe. The Walles of the houses were bzo-
ken Downe, and the Hozles that were tyed at
the Maunger, (which was made fast in the
ground) did swim in the water, when the Sta-
ble was cleane carried away, untill the waters
were affuaged, and were faued alive, and the
people were constrained to get vp to the highest
parts of the house, and to bee carried away in
Boates.

At

in England.

At Vermoth a great part of the Bridge was
carried away.

The house upon the Hauen, called the Hau-
uen-house, wherein was one Nicholas Jolfe-
lin, the Hauen man, and his Son, with all their
tooles was carried into the Marshes, vi. miles
from the Hauen, where it stood upright, where
they continued long time without meat or drinke.

Item at Jermans brig street, was very much
hurt done by extreme clouds that were there.

Item one Thomas Smith of Vermoth lost
a ship, and vii men and a Boy in it.

Item at Newport by Plymouth were lost
vii. Saple.

Item a great Hulke loden with Dyle and
Bitch, was lost at Morry Sand, and about xx.
men lost therein and xxx. saved by the Hulk boat,

In the Bishoprike of Ely.

These Townes a villages were overflow-
ed, that is to say, Wisbich, Gupborn, Par-
son, Droue, and Mobhouse. This Mob-
house being an almes house (a the water bea-
king down the Walles of i.) the wind blew the
cloathes off from the bed of a pooze man and his
Wife, they being acold awaked, and sodainly
stept out of his Bed to reach vp his Cloths, and
stept vp to the belly in water, and then he think-
ing himselfe to be in danger (as he was indeed)
and he knowing the best way to escape the Dan-
ger of the Water, tooke his wife on his necke
and carried her away, and so were both saved.

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Of Flouds.

Item in Wisbich was a Garden, a Tenice
play, and a Bowling Ally, walled about with
brick (which was worth twentie li, by yeere to
the owner) quite destroyed by the water.

Lincolne Shire.

Mumby Chappell the whole towne was
loft except thzee houſes.

A ship was dzien upon an house the
Sailers thinking they had bin upon a Rocke,
committed themſues to God, and thzce of the
Harriners leapt out of the ship, and chanced to
take holde on the house top, and so ſaued them-
ſues: and the wife of the ſame lying in childe-
bed, did clime vp into the top of the house, was
also ſaued by the Harriners, her Husband and
Childe being both drowned.

Item the Church was wholy ouerthone ex-
cept the steeple.

Betweene Boston and Newcastle were 1l.
Sea Ullsailles, as small Ships. Craiers, and
such like, loft upon the Coasts of Boston. Hum-
merston, Harbchappell, Tetnep, Stepnep,
Mercots, Kelby, A Gzimſby, where no ſlip can
come in without a Pilate, which were all loft
with goods, Lozne, A cattle, with all the Salt
coats, where the chief and finest salt was made,
were utterly destroyed, to the utter vndoing of
many a man, and great Lamentation both of
old and young.

in England.

Wentkord Bridge being very strong of viii.
Arches in length, had iii. of the Arches broken,
and cleane carried away.

Master Smith, at the Swan, there had
his house (being iii. stories high,) overflowed
unto the third story, and the walls of the stable
were broken downe, and the hogses tyed to the
Manger, were all drowned.

Many men had great losses, as well of Sheep,
Mine, Oxen, great Mares, Cigues of the best
of the great hogses, and other cattell innumera-
ble, of which, the names of many of them shall
here follow.

Master Dellà lost xi C sheep at Humb chapel.

In Summertide were lost v. L. theepe that
were of the inhabitance there.

Item between Hummerston, and Eximby
were lost xile. Sheep, of one master Spencers,
who lost his heard about mid day comming to
his wife, and asked his dinner, and thee being
moze bold then mannerly, layd he should have
none of her, then he chanced to looke toward the
Marhes, where the sheep were, & saw the wa-
ter broke in so directly that the theepe would be
lost if they were not brought from thence, said he
he was not a good thepheard, he would not ven-
ture his life for his theepe, & so went straight to
Dziue them from thence: both he & his sheep were
drowned and after the water being gone: thee
was found dead, standing upright in a ditch.

Master Thimbleby, lost L. L. of sheep.

M. Dimock, lost ccc. sheep.

M. Marth, lost ccc. sheep.

M. Madison, lost a ship.

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Of Flouds

M. William Askough of Kelsey, lit hugh Askough
M. Merin M. Fitt, Williams of Maplethorp
lost by estimation ex M of cattell one and other.

Boozn was overflowed to the midway of the
height of the Church.

Steeping, was wholy carried away, where
was a waine lode of Willow tops, the body of
the wain with þ willowes, carried one away, &
the Apiltree and Whceles, an other way.

Huntington Shire.

In the Town of S. Eeds, the water flowed
into the Town in such abondance, that it ran
throug the Town and the Church, being in þ
midst thereof, having about the Church parde a
Brieke wal, of 2. paires hie, was so overflowed
that boats were rowed ouer it without touch-
ing the same. Item a little from Huntington, were
iii. men riding vp the Causey being then over-
flowed (the water on the Causey being not deep
and thinking no danger therein) chanced to come
into a place where þ water had gulled away the
Earth, and theGRAVE, were carried away with
the water: and willows growing on both sides
the way, two of the caught hold on the willows
and lift their Hozes, and laid themselves, and
the third chanced to catch a very little twig of a
willow between his fingers, having very little
hold, for taking his horse, which was carried a
great way from him, had much paine to keep his
hold on the twig, and hold his head about the
water, & his Horse returning with force against
the streame, came againe unto him, and under
him,

in England.

him, by which means he set his feet upon him,
and got better hold of the willow, and so saved
himselfe, and the horse was immediately carried
away, that he neuer saw him after.

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Item, at Erith breach, a Mariner riding by
the Marhes, seeing two maids in the marhes
perceiving the Waters breaking in so fast, that
the Maides were not like to escape, rode bur
them, a one of them gat vp behind him, a
other tooke hold on the Bozte-tane, and by
were both saued from Drowning.

In the same Marsh were Drowned a great
number of Sheepe.

Item, there in a Marshy land y was fowne,
were two Bopes keeping Crows, in the after-
noone, saw the water breaking in so rasbly, gat
them vp into a cart, that was not far fro them,
where they were fain to tarry untill y next tide,
which came in so boystroulsy, that it had like to
ouerthow both the Cart and the Bopes, and
the one of them being moze stronger then the o-
ther, kept the other in his arms, where he with
cold, wet, and keate, dyed, so that he was faine to
let him fall from him into the water, when hee
perceived that he was past recovery.