A
declararation
of
such
tempestious
,
and
outragious
Fluddes
,
as
hath
béen
in
diuers
places
of
England
.
1570.
To
such
as
haue
been
touched
with
these
Calamities
of
water
,
by
the
greate
Fluddes
in
this
present
yere
1570.
DAVID
the
Prophet
,
in
the
.107
.
Psalme
,
speakynge
of
the
marueylous
workes
&
wounders
that
god
doth
by
his
power
shew
before
the
sonnes
of
men
:
stirreth
vp
the
Godly
to
prayse
and
extoll
his
maiestie
,
and
mooueth
the
wicked
and
stubborn
,
to
the
feare
and
dreade
of
his
ho●rible
vengeance
.
He
turneth
(
saith
he
)
the
Flouds
into
a
wildernesse
,
and
the
springes
of
water
into
drie
grounde
,
Psal.
10
33.
&
a
frutefull
lande
into
barrennesse
,
for
●●e
wickednesse
of
them
that
dwel
therein
.
Which
notable
sentence
,
may
be
well
considred
,
more
aptly
applied
,
but
cheifly
of
vs
well
examined
:
waying
how
fearfully
the
Lorde
hath
bestowed
vpon
vs
his
,
meruelous
iudgements
,
in
that
he
hath
turned
many
of
our
fruitful
Feelds
and
Marshes
,
Pastures
and
Meadowes
into
vnmercifull
Flouds
and
streames
,
vnlooked
for
,
by
changyng
as
he
did
in
the
olde
worlde
,
the
moderate
course
of
the
vpper
Fountaines
;
which
were
ordayned
to
water
the
earth
,
and
so
to
make
it
fruitfull
,
into
immoderate
,
and
vnseasonable
Fluddes
,
which
in
steede
of
makyng
fruitfull
,
hath
made
barren
many
places
of
the
Earthe
in
this
our
countrie
by
destruction
of
the
Creatures
,
as
Pastures
,
Corne
,
Cattell
,
Sheep
,
Neate
,
Horse
,
Beastes
,
Oxen
,
Kine
,
and
such
like
,
with
some
of
the
bodies
of
men
,
though
not
so
generally
,
as
in
the
first
Floud
,
neither
half
so
extremely
,
as
our
sinnes
doo
deserue
,
which
craue
not
so
light
a
scurge
as
moyste
and
coolynge
plashes
of
water
,
but
hot
and
burnynge
flakes
of
Fyre
and
Brimstone
,
whiche
for
lesse
offences
God
poured
vpon
Sodome
&
Gomorrah
.
The
cause
of
which
barrennesse
(
as
Dauid
saith
)
in
this
our
fruitfull
countrie
,
is
our
wickednesse
,
whiche
are
the
inhabitants
of
the
same
,
as
is
to
be
approued
by
markynge
the
fruites
,
and
operation
of
two
kindes
of
people
within
this
land
:
especially
vpon
whom
these
calamities
haue
faullen
,
to
weete
,
the
Riche
and
the
Poore
.
As
concerning
the
one
,
namely
the
Riche
men
,
Esay
.
3.
if
euer
the
Prophet
Esayes
woe
,
against
them
that
ioygne
house
to
house
and
lande
to
lande
(
till
there
be
no
more
place
left
for
the
poore
)
coulde
euer
be
applied
it
may
be
applied
vnto
them
,
whiche
as
Amos
the
Prophet
saieth
,
Amos.
4.
are
the
fat
Kyne
of
Bason
in
the
Mountaynes
of
Samaria
,
which
oppresse
the
poore
and
destroy
the
needy
.
To
whom
Abacuk
saith
,
That
their
couetousnesse
is
an
euil
couetousnesse
to
their
houses
,
whereby
they
seeke
to
set
their
neast
on
hie
,
and
to
escape
from
the
power
of
euill
.
Thou
hast
(
sayth
the
Prophet
)
conseled
shame
to
thine
owne
house
,
and
by
destroying
many
people
,
and
hast
sinned
agaynst
thine
owne
soule
.
For
the
Stone
shall
crie
out
of
the
wall
,
and
the
Beame
out
of
the
Timber
shall
answer
it
,
as
now
the
Seales
of
the
War
&
Parchment
of
the
Leaces
hath
cried
vengeance
and
destruction
to
the
Leasemongers
of
England
:
and
the
conditions
haue
cried
out
of
the
Leases
,
which
haue
béen
enhaunsed
and
raysed
,
answeryng
,
woe
worth
such
couetous
caytifs
,
as
haue
caused
the
care
full
cries
of
so
many
poore
.
Thou
righteous
God
,
plague
these
couetous
Leasemongers
,
these
greedy
grasiers
,
which
haue
conuerted
the
Tillage
,
of
much
erable
ground
,
to
the
grasing
of
Shéep
,
and
Northern
Oxen
,
whereby
they
enriche
them selues
with
the
ruine
and
decay
of
thousands
,
round
about
them
.
Thou
God
that
seest
this
their
vnmerciful
dealing
,
open
the
cloudes
,
water
their
pastures
sowne
with
sheep
,
in
steede
of
men
and
Corne
of
all
graines
,
geue
their
flocke
moysture
,
that
they
may
see
them
by
thousandes
swim
aboue
the
ground
,
and
at
the
fall
of
the
waters
,
to
lie
deade
vppon
their
watred
land
.
Which
crie
God
hath
heard
,
and
this
is
the
cause
of
suche
ruin
and
destruction
.
The
Riche
are
so
welthie
,
that
they
are
without
Iudgement
,
without
mercy
,
and
that
hath
caused
their
Heards
to
be
wasted
,
their
Flockes
to
be
deminished
,
their
Granges
made
pasturelesse
,
with
the
pitifull
fluddes
past
,
wherby
much
of
their
substance
hath
perished
.
For
whose
sakes
also
the
Poore
are
made
partakers
of
these
greate
losses
.
Those
riche
Landelordes
,
yet
addynge
to
their
troubles
,
whom
the
Lorde
hath
smitten
,
by
exactyng
still
their
outragious
Rents
,
aswell
for
the
halfe
yere
past
,
wherein
these
perils
haue
hapned
:
as
before
,
not
considering
that
the
Lorde
did
it
to
plague
them
withall
,
because
of
their
couetousnesse
.
God
geue
them
repentance
,
before
the
Lorde
be
too
to
much
sturred
,
and
prouoked
to
anger
,
by
their
wickednesse
:
Least
that
if
these
fauourable
thretnynges
be
despised
,
the
Iust
and
righteous
God
,
doo
in
steede
of
water
,
raygne
downe
Fier
&
Brimstone
vpon
them
,
and
in
stéede
of
the
ouerflowing
of
their
pastures
,
with
watry
streames
:
ouerflow
the
carelesse
consciences
,
with
cruel
flames
of
Hell
fire
,
&
euerlasting
dampnacion
:
and
in
stéede
of
the
losse
and
wracke
of
sheep
and
cattell
,
Shipwrack
and
Landwracke
,
of
bothe
their
bodies
and
soules
,
which
all
their
rustie
Golde
and
Siluer
shal
neuer
be
able
to
recouer
agayne
.
And
the
Poore
,
God
geue
them
patience
to
beare
this
the
Lordes
visitation
thankfully
:
knowynge
that
the
poore
crieth
,
and
the
Lord
heareth
him
,
and
that
the
Lorde
is
the
refuge
and
strong
hold
of
the
poore
,
in
time
of
necessity
,
who
hath
his
eares
open
,
to
heare
their
complaintes
,
and
is
ready
at
hand
to
help
them
and
receiue
theyr
prayers
.
God
graunt
that
they
murmure
not
at
God
handyworke
,
in
striking
the
litle
they
had
,
but
that
they
may
say
,
with
blessed
Iob
,
the
Lord
gaue
it
,
the
Lorde
hath
taken
his
owne
agayne
,
blessed
be
his
name
for
euer
and
euer
.
So
shall
wee
be
Gods
humble
Children
,
bothe
riche
and
poore
,
embrasing
his
Rods
of
correction
,
as
meanes
to
amende
our
liues
.
The
riche
forsaking
their
former
couetous
vnmercifull
gréedinesse
:
The
poore
learning
to
be
more
thankful
and
faithful
in
staiyng
vpon
Gods
prouidence
that
God
may
restore
vs
from
the
hand
of
straungers
,
Psal.
144.
whose
mouthe
talketh
of
vanitie
,
and
their
right
hande
is
a
right
hande
of
falsehood
:
That
our
Sonnes
may
be
as
the
Plants
growynge
vp
in
their
youth
:
and
our
daughters
as
the
polished
corners
of
the
Temple
:
That
our
countries
may
be
full
and
abundant
with
diuers
sorts
,
and
that
our
sheepe
may
bring
foorth
thousands
,
and
tenne
thousandes
in
our
streetes
:
That
our
Oxen
may
be
strong
to
labour
,
and
that
there
be
no
inuasion
,
nor
goyng
out
,
nor
decaying
in
our
stréetes
,
which
blessings
God
wil
multiply
vpon
vs
,
if
wée
al
wil
once
begin
to
feare
him
,
blessed
are
the
people
that
are
in
such
a
case
,
yea
blessed
are
we
if
the
Lord
be
our
God
,
his
wonders
make
vs
feare
and
obay
him
,
his
mercy
make
vs
al
to
loue
and
serue
him
,
through
his
Son
,
Iesus
Christ
,
our
only
sauiour
.
AMEN
.
Math.
22.
Geue
vnto
Caesar
that
which
belongeth
vnto
Caesar
,
and
vnto
God
,
that
belongeth
vnto
God.
1.
Peter
.
2.
Submit
your self
to
all
maner
ordinance
of
man
for
the
Lordes
sake
:
whether
it
be
vnto
the
Kyng
,
as
to
the
chief
head
,
either
vnto
Rulers
as
vnto
them
that
are
sent
of
him
,
for
the
punishment
of
euill
doers
,
but
for
the
praise
of
them
that
do
well
.
Deutro.
11.
He
that
obeyeth
the
voyce
of
God
,
is
blessed
,
and
he
that
obeyeth
not
is
cast
of
.
A
declaration
or
discourse
of
the
great
wonderfull
ouerflowyngs
of
waters
within
this
Realme
of
Englande
,
wherby
hath
béen
much
losse
of
grounde
Cattell
,
Houses
,
and
goods
,
to
the
vtter
vndooynge
of
a
greate
numbre
of
men
,
beside
the
losse
of
the
liues
of
many
men
Women
and
Children
,
most
lamentable
to
heare
.
Which
was
in
the
yeere
of
our
Lorde
M.D.LXX.
Bedforde
.
THE
fift
of
October
aboute
midnight
,
the
Water
ouerflowed
so
much
,
that
men
were
fayne
to
forsake
theyr
Beddes
,
and
one
woman
drowned
.
Where
also
were
lost
a
greate
number
of
Sheep
,
Oxen
,
Kine
,
Horse
and
other
cattel
.
Amongst
other
there
,
one
maister
Cartwrite
Gentleman
,
hauing
his
House
inclosed
rounde
about
,
the
water
cam
in
so
much
,
that
a
Carte
beyng
loden
with
Thornes
did
swim
aboute
the
grounde
.
He
lost
by
the
same
Floud
,
Sheep
and
other
cattell
,
to
the
value
of
an
C.
poundes
.
The
same
Gentleman
had
a
close
gate
by
the
high
wayes
syde
,
where
the
water
ran
ouer
so
extremely
,
that
at
the
fal
therof
it
made
such
an
hole
,
that
it
was
.xl.
foote
deep
,
so
that
no
man
could
passe
that
way
without
great
daunger
.
To
the
fillyng
vp
of
the
said
Hole
,
or
Pit
,
was
cast
in
by
the
men
of
the
said
Towne
xxv
.
loades
of
Fagots
,
and
.xx.
loade
of
Horse
Doung
,
which
said
Fagots
and
Horse
doung
,
filled
not
the
hole
.
Also
one
maister
Lee
at
the
Freers
in
Bedforde
,
hauinge
a
fayre
yearde
wherein
was
greate
store
of
Elme
trees
,
wherof
.lx.
were
blowen
down
with
the
rootes
pulled
cleane
out
of
the
grounde
.
Also
he
had
a
close
of
Conies
that
were
cleane
destroyed
.
In
the
Countie
of
Norfolke
.
THE
Sea
brake
in
between
Wisbich
,
and
Walsockenne
,
and
at
the
Crosse
keyes
,
drowning
Tilney
,
and
olde
Linne
,
Sainct
Mary
Teding
,
S.
Mary
Tid
,
S.
Iohns
,
Wawple
,
Walton
,
and
Walsocken
,
Einney
,
Iarmans
,
and
Stowe
brinck
all
being
within
the
space
of
.x.
Miles
.
At
the
Crosse
keies
the
goodman
of
the
Inne
had
built
an
house
,
with
a
strong
Foundacion
ioyning
vnto
an
other
House
being
olde
and
not
so
strong
,
wherin
were
certain
Guests
and
when
the
water
came
in
so
violently
the
goodman
of
the
house
being
in
the
stronger
House
,
called
the
men
out
of
the
olde
House
,
and
they
would
haue
gon
downe
the
stayres
,
but
the
water
was
so
high
that
thei
could
not
com
down
,
wherfore
they
went
back
againe
,
and
brake
an
hole
into
the
other
House
,
where
they
went
thorow
,
and
the
last
man
was
no
sooner
in
:
But
the
olde
house
fell
downe
.
The
Walles
of
the
houses
were
broken
downe
,
and
the
Horses
that
were
tied
at
the
Maunger
,
(
which
was
made
fast
in
the
grounde
)
did
swim
in
the
water
,
when
the
Stable
was
clene
caried
away
,
vntill
the
waters
were
aswaged
,
and
were
saued
a
liue
,
and
the
people
were
constrained
to
get
vp
to
the
highest
partes
of
the
house
,
and
to
be
caried
away
in
Boates.
At
Yermouth
a
greate
parte
of
the
Bridge
was
caried
away
.
The
house
vpon
the
Hauen
,
called
the
Hauen
house
,
wherin
was
one
Nicholas
Iosselin
,
the
Hauen
man
,
and
his
sonne
,
with
all
their
tooles
was
caried
into
the
Marshes
.vi.
miles
from
the
Hauen
where
it
stode
vpright
where
they
continued
long
time
without
meate
or
drinke
.
Item
at
Iermans
brig
streete
,
was
very
much
hurt
doone
,
by
extreme
Fluds
that
were
there
.
Item
one
Thomas
Smith
of
Yarmouth
lost
a
Ship
,
and
.vii.
men
and
a
Boy
in
it
.
Item
,
at
Newarke
by
Yarmouth
were
lost
.xii.
Saile
.
Item
,
a
greate
Hulke
loden
with
Oyle
and
Pitche
,
was
lost
at
Worry
Sand
,
and
about
.xx.
men
lost
therin
and
.xxx.
saued
by
the
Hulke
boate
.
In
the
Bishoprike
of
Ely
:
THese
townes
and
villages
were
ouerflowed
,
that
is
to
say
,
Wisbich
,
Guyhorn
,
Parson
,
Droue
,
and
Hobshouse
.
This
Hobshouse
being
an
almes
house
(
and
the
water
breaking
down
the
Walls
of
it
)
the
wind
blew
the
clothes
of
from
the
bed
of
a
poore
man
and
his
wife
,
they
béeing
a
colde
,
a
waked
and
sodenly
stept
out
of
his
Bed
to
reache
vp
his
Clothes
,
and
stepte
vp
to
the
Belly
in
Water
,
and
then
he
thinking
himselfe
to
bee
in
daunger
(
as
he
was
indeede
)
and
he
knowing
the
best
way
to
escape
the
daunger
of
the
Water
,
tooke
his
wife
in
his
neck
and
caried
her
away
and
so
were
bothe
saued
.
Item
in
Wisbich
was
a
Garden
,
a
Tenice
play
and
a
Bowlinge
Alley
walled
about
with
brick
(
which
was
worthe
.
xx.li
.
by
yeare
to
the
owner
)
quite
destroyed
by
the
water
.
Lincolne
Shire
.
MUmby
Chapel
the
whole
town
was
lost
except
three
houses
.
A
Ship
was
driuen
vpon
an
house
the
Saylers
thinking
they
had
been
vpon
a
Rock
committed
themselues
to
God
,
and
three
of
the
Marriners
leapt
out
of
the
ship
and
chaunced
to
to
take
holde
on
the
house
top
and
so
saued
them selues
:
and
the
wife
of
the
same
lying
in
childe
bed
did
clime
vp
into
the
top
of
the
house
,
was
also
saued
by
the
Marriners
,
her
Husband
&
childe
being
both
drowned
.
Item
the
church
was
wholy
ouerthrowne
except
the
steeple
.
Betweene
Boston
and
Newcastle
were
.lx.
Sea
vessailes
,
as
smal
ships
Craires
,
and
such
like
,
lost
vppon
the
Coastes
of
Boston
,
Hummerston
,
Marshchappell
,
Tetney
,
Stepney
,
Nercots
,
Kelby
,
and
Grimsby
,
wher
no
ship
can
com
in
without
a
Pilate
,
which
were
al
lost
with
goods
,
corn
,
and
Cattel
,
with
all
the
Salt
cotes
,
where
the
chief
and
finest
Salt
was
made
,
were
vtterly
destroyed
,
to
the
vtter
vndooing
of
many
a
man
and
great
lamentacion
bothe
of
olde
and
young
.
Wentford
Bridge
being
very
strong
of
.viii.
Arches
in
length
,
had
.iii.
of
the
Arches
broken
,
and
cleane
caried
away
.
Maister
Smith
,
at
the
Swanne
,
there
had
his
house
(
being
.iii.
stories
high
,
)
ouerflowed
vnto
the
thyrde
story
,
and
the
wals
of
the
stable
were
broken
down
,
and
the
horses
tied
to
the
Maunger
,
were
all
drowned
.
Many
men
had
great
losse
,
aswell
of
sheepe
,
Kyne
,
Oxen
,
great
Mares
,
Coltes
,
of
the
breed
of
the
great
horses
,
and
other
cattell
innumerable
,
of
which
,
the
names
of
many
of
them
shall
here
folow
.
Maister
Pellam
lost
.xi.
C.
sheep
at
Mumby
Chapell
.
In
Sommercote
were
lost
.
v.c
.
sheep
that
were
of
the
inhabitaunce
there
.
Item
betweene
Hummerston
,
and
Grimsby
were
lost
.xi.
c.
sheep
,
of
one
maister
Speneers
,
whose
shepheard
about
midday
comming
to
his
wife
,
and
asked
his
Dinner
,
and
she
being
more
bolde
then
mannerly
,
said
hee
should
haue
none
of
her
,
then
hee
chaunced
to
looke
toward
the
Marshes
,
where
the
sheep
were
,
and
saw
the
water
break
in
so
fiersly
that
the
sheepe
would
be
lost
,
if
they
were
not
brought
from
thence
,
saide
that
hee
was
not
a
good
shepheard
,
that
would
not
venture
his
life
for
his
sheep
,
and
so
went
straight
to
driue
them
from
thence
:
both
he
and
his
sheepe
were
drowned
,
and
after
the
water
being
gon
:
he
was
found
dead
,
standyng
vpright
in
a
ditch
.
Maister
Thimbleby
,
lost
.
CC.xx.
sheepe
.
M.
Dimock
,
lost
.
cccc
.
sheepe
.
M.
Marsh
▪
lost
.
ccccc
.
sheepe
.
M.
Madison
,
lost
a
ship
.
M.
William
Askugh
of
Kelsey
,
syr
Hugh
Askugh
.
M.
Merin
.
M.
Fitz
Williams
of
Maplethorp
,
lost
by
estimacion
.xx.
M.
of
cattell
one
&
other
.
Boorn
was
ouerflowed
to
the
mid-way
of
the
height
of
the
church
.
Steeping
,
was
wholy
caried
away
,
where
was
a
waine
lode
of
Willowe
toppes
,
the
body
of
the
Waine
,
with
the
Willowes
,
caried
one
way
,
and
the
Axiltree
and
Wheeles
,
an
other
way
.
Huntington
Shyre
.
IN
the
Town
of
S.
Eeds
,
the
water
flowed
into
the
Town
in
such
aboundaunce
,
that
it
ran
thorow
the
towne
and
the
Church
,
being
in
the
midst
therof
,
hauing
about
the
Churchyearde
a
Bricke
wall
,
of
two
yeards
hie
,
was
so
ouerflowed
,
that
Boates
were
rowed
ouer
it
without
touching
of
the
same
.
Item
,
a
litle
from
Huntington
,
were
three
men
riding
,
vppon
the
Causey
being
then
ouerflowed
(
the
water
on
the
Causey
beeing
not
deep
,
and
thinking
no
daunger
therin
)
chaunced
to
com
into
a
place
wher
the
water
had
gulled
away
the
Earth
,
and
the
Grauell
,
were
caried
away
with
the
water
:
and
Willowes
growing
on
both
sydes
the
way
two
of
them
caught
holde
on
the
Willowes
and
left
their
Horses
,
and
saued
them selues
,
and
the
thyrd
chaunced
to
catch
a
very
litle
twig
of
a
Willowe
,
betweene
his
Fyngers
,
hauing
very
litle
hold
,
and
forsaking
horse
,
which
was
caried
a
great
way
from
him
,
had
much
paine
to
keep
his
hold
on
the
twig
,
and
holde
his
head
aboue
the
water
,
and
his
Horse
returning
with
force
against
the
streame
,
came
againe
vnto
him
,
and
vnder
him
,
by
which
meanes
,
he
set
his
feete
vpon
him
and
gat
better
holde
of
the
Willowe
and
so
saued
himselfe
,
and
the
Horse
was
immediatly
caried
away
that
he
neuer
saw
him
after
.
Item
,
Holland
,
Leuerington
,
Newton
,
Chapell
in
the
Sea
,
long
Sutton
,
and
Holbich
,
were
ouerflowed
.
And
in
this
Country
also
was
great
losse
of
Cattell
.
Stafford
Shire
.
IN
the
lowe
parts
in
Moorland
in
a
litle
towne
called
Cliffeeld
there
was
a
man
,
his
wife
,
and
a
sucking
childe
in
her
armes
,
ouerwhelmed
and
slaine
,
by
the
violence
of
the
waters
,
and
the
boistrous
windes
.
Warwick
Shire
.
THE
Water
,
called
Hauen
,
that
passeth
by
the
Towne
,
called
Stratford
vppon
Hauen
,
did
runne
with
suche
violence
,
that
meeting
with
the
Water
called
the
Siuerne
,
droue
it
backe
.x.
Miles
,
against
the
cource
ouerflowing
much
ground
and
drowning
much
Cattell
.
Northampton
Shire
.
IN
Newport
town
,
were
two
houses
ouerthrown
▪
and
in
one
of
them
an
olde
man
,
and
an
olde
woman
were
ouerwhelmed
and
slain
,
and
in
the
same
Towne
on
the
back
syde
of
the
Sarazins
head
,
the
water
did
spring
out
of
the
hard
grauelly
ground
and
flowed
so
fast
that
certayne
Merchaunts
(
sytting
there
at
diner
)
were
fayne
to
rise
and
departe
from
thence
to
saue
them selues
.
Buckingham
Shyre
.
SIR
Henry
Ley
,
Knight
,
lost
by
the
flouds
of
water
the
number
of
.iii.
M.
sheep
,
besydes
horse
and
other
Cattell
a
great
number
.
Sussex
.
IN
the
Wish
at
Rye
,
(
a
place
so
called
,
)
the
water
came
in
so
suddenly
and
flowed
so
hie
,
that
the
people
were
faine
to
clime
vp
,
to
the
highest
partes
of
theyr
Houses
,
remaining
there
in
great
feare
,
vntill
they
were
holpen
by
other
men
,
which
did
fetch
them
,
with
Boates
from
their
Windowes
,
and
highest
partes
of
theyr
houses
,
who
were
glad
to
escape
with
sauing
theyr
liues
,
and
losyng
their
goods
.
The
cheefe
time
,
and
spring
of
this
Tide
,
was
about
midnight
,
wherby
there
was
great
losse
of
sheepe
,
and
other
cattel
with
out
number
,
to
the
vtter
vndoing
of
many
a
poore
man
,
and
great
losse
of
many
other
,
whose
pitious
case
,
is
to
be
lamented
.
At
Rye
,
the
water
flowed
so
vehemently
,
that
it
brake
into
the
Marshes
,
&
made
such
a
way
that
where
of
late
yeares
,
a
smal
Uessel
could
not
passe
in
at
halfe
floud
,
now
a
great
Uessell
may
come
in
at
lowe
water
,
where
also
,
is
good
Harborough
for
ships
,
not
only
to
the
greate
commodity
of
all
Saylers
,
that
haue
to
do
there
:
but
also
profitable
to
the
most
part
of
the
inhabitants
there
.
Of
those
marshes
,
one
maister
Shepherd
,
was
chiefe
owner
,
who
had
many
Poles
,
standyng
in
the
same
place
,
very
meete
for
the
drying
of
their
fyshing
Nets
,
for
the
which
he
receiued
money
of
them
that
dryed
theyr
Nets
there
,
and
although
hee
was
payde
for
the
same
sufficiently
inough
,
yet
being
not
therwith
contented
,
he
gaue
them
warning
that
they
should
pay
more
money
,
or
els
they
should
no
more
han●
their
nets
there
,
the
which
(
eue●
〈…〉
in
the
same
〈…〉
to
passe
by
Gods
ordinaunce
,
that
they
were
by
the
floud
that
night
,
caried
all
away
,
so
that
his
deniall
,
lost
his
Poles
and
saued
their
nets
,
to
the
great
comfort
of
a
great
number
,
though
it
were
contrary
to
the
sayd
owners
expectacion
and
will
.
Kent
.
AT
Broom
hil
,
in
Romney
marsh
,
iiii
.
Miles
from
Rye
,
the
water
came
in
so
outragiously
,
that
it
brake
down
the
marsh
walles
,
one
maister
Bury
,
being
owner
therof
,
who
lost
by
the
same
a
thousand
one
hundred
threescore
and
two
of
his
Sheepe
,
and
it
is
thought
that
the
marsh
is
neuer
like
to
be
gotten
againe
.
Item
,
at
Erith
breach
,
a
Mariner
riding
by
the
Marshes
,
seeing
two
maides
in
the
marshes
,
&
perceiuing
the
waters
breaking
in
so
fast
,
that
the
Maides
were
not
like
to
escape
:
rode
vnto
them
,
and
one
of
them
gat
vp
behind
him
,
and
the
other
tooke
holde
on
the
Horse
taile
,
and
by
that
were
both
saued
from
drowning
.
In
the
same
marsh
,
were
drowned
a
great
number
of
sheepe
.
Item
,
there
in
a
Marsh
land
that
was
sowen
,
were
two
boyes
keping
Crowes
,
in
the
after
noone
,
saw
the
water
breking
in
so
rashly
,
gat
them
vp
into
a
cart
,
that
was
not
far
from
them
,
where
they
were
faine
to
tary
vntil
the
next
tide
,
which
came
in
so
boistrously
,
that
it
had
like
to
ouerthrow
both
the
Cart
and
the
boies
,
and
the
one
of
them
being
more
stronger
then
the
other
,
kept
the
other
in
his
armes
,
where
he
with
cold
,
wet
,
and
feare
died
,
so
that
he
was
faine
to
let
him
fall
from
him
into
the
mater
,
when
he
perceiued
that
he
was
past
recouery
.
A
little
from
that
place
,
were
also
drowned
.
M.
of
Sheepe
,
and
many
other
Cattell
.
Essex
.
FRom
a
Towne
called
Raynam
,
vnto
the
town
named
Maldon
,
all
along
by
the
Water
syde
,
were
the
Marshes
all
ouerflowen
wherin
were
a
great
number
of
cattell
drowned
,
to
the
great
losse
of
many
a
man
.
Suffolk
.
IN
Clay
,
were
two
Shippes
laden
with
Danske
Ware
,
came
to
shore
with
no
man
in
them
,
nor
any
man
can
tell
of
whence
they
are
.
In
Clay
,
the
dwellers
there
lost
a
verie
great
Percell
of
Salt
,
and
Herrings
,
Barelled
,
beeing
housed
in
an
house
Walled
with
Brick
,
three
foot
thicke
,
&
yet
the
Wall
was
broken
downe
.
Also
,
ther
was
lost
much
Saffron
ground
,
with
many
other
thinges
moe
,
to
the
great
hindraunce
of
many
a
man
.
Item
,
in
Walderswick
,
Dunwich
,
and
Blaybrooke
,
was
great
losse
,
of
Boord
,
Planck
,
Timber
,
and
Salt.
Oxford
.
A
Great
parte
of
the
Bridge
,
by
Magdalen
Colledge
,
was
born
cleane
away
,
and
many
Trees
were
turned
vp
by
the
roote
.
WE
Reade
in
the
Sermons
of
Ieremie
the
Prophet
,
the
.44
.
Chapiter
that
Ieremie
did
laboure
to
bring
them
from
Idolatry
which
were
fled
into
the
Land
of
Egipt
to
Pathors
,
and
declared
what
plagues
and
miseries
God
had
laid
vpon
them
,
and
would
lay
vpon
them
,
til
they
were
destroied
vtterly
,
which
councel
of
the
Prophet
,
they
not
onely
little
set
by
,
but
were
with
malice
and
extreame
impudent
madnesse
so
incensed
,
that
they
gaue
a
plaine
aunswer
to
the
Prophet
.
The
wordes
which
thou
hast
spoken
in
the
name
of
the
Lorde
vnto
vs
wee
will
not
heare
them
:
But
we
wil
do
whatsoeuer
thinge
goeth
out
of
our
owne
mouthe
,
as
to
burne
incence
to
the
Queene
of
Heauen
,
and
to
poure
out
Drinck
offrings
vnto
her
as
we
haue
don
,
both
we
and
our
Fathers
,
our
Kinges
,
and
our
Princes
,
in
the
Cities
of
Iudah
,
and
in
the
streates
of
Ierusalem
:
for
then
had
we
plentie
of
Uitailes
,
and
were
wel
and
felt
no
euill
,
but
synce
wee
left
of
to
burn
Incence
to
the
Queene
of
Heauen
,
and
to
pour
out
the
drinck
offrings
,
before
her
,
we
haue
had
scarcenesse
of
all
thinges
,
&
haue
been
consumed
by
the
sword
,
and
by
famine
,
which
impudent
aunswere
,
may
be
likened
to
the
answer
of
our
Egiptian
Papists
or
Babilonicall
Idolators
(
Which
in
times
past
,
sang
Salue
Regina
,
and
Regina
Coeli
letare
,
to
the
virgin
Mary
,
whom
Idolatrously
they
call
the
Queene
of
Heauen
)
To
the
Preachers
of
the
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
,
we
heare
your
words
that
you
speak
in
the
name
of
the
Lorde
,
but
as
for
vs
,
wee
will
neuer
beleeue
them
,
but
wil
be
as
wee
haue
been
.
Though
wee
cannot
haue
our
Peeuish
Idolatry
,
and
Apish
Religion
openly
,
yet
we
wil
in
harts
(
vnrefourmed
)
sacrifise
to
the
Queen
of
Heauen
,
&
say
,
Maria
Mater
gratia
,
Mater
misericordia
,
tu
nos
ab
hoste
protege
,
in
hora
mortis
suscipe
:
that
is
.
Mary
thou
mother
of
grace
,
and
mother
of
mercy
,
in
like
case
defend
vs
from
our
Foes
,
wee
pray
,
and
take
vs
in
our
dying
day
.
As
al
our
blinde
generacions
haue
done
before
vs
,
as
our
good
holy
Fathers
,
the
Popes
,
haue
taught
vs
from
time
to
time
,
and
as
our
Fathers
,
and
good
Cacolike
Kinsfolks
haue
don
,
in
the
countreies
of
England
,
and
the
Cities
of
Britaine
,
and
in
the
streetes
of
London
,
Caunterbury
,
Yorke
,
Bristowe
,
Sarisbury
,
Westchester
&
Norwiche
and
as
our
good
Bretherne
in
Northumberlande
,
and
Westmerlande
,
Ridsedale
,
and
Tidsedale
,
and
our
friends
of
the
Bishoprik
of
Durham
,
and
our
false
folish
fauourers
of
Fables
in
Suffolke
,
and
Northfolke
,
of
late
haue
done
,
Which
wee
if
their
quarters
,
gracious
Queene
of
Heauen
,
did
not
more
feare
vs
that
hang
on
London
gates
,
&
diuers
Towres
&
Trees
,
in
this
countrey
then
either
our
obedience
to
God
or
Queene
,
doth
mooue
vs
)
would
euen
now
do
also
,
as
our
fathers
haue
done
before
vs
,
for
then
when
the
Masse
was
vp
,
Images
of
blissed
holy
Saints
,
the
holy
Rood
,
and
our
Lady
,
sainct
Thomas
of
Canterbury
,
&
Saincte
Fraunces
,
with
his
bloudy
syde
,
and
all
the
trimsy
trash
,
and
peltinge
paltrie
,
of
that
holy
,
holy
,
Whore
of
Rome
,
our
mother
holy
Church
,
then
had
we
a
mery
world
,
althings
were
plenty
,
wee
had
Uictailes
and
all
things
in
abundance
,
and
felt
no
yll
,
but
synce
this
new fangled
Religion
,
which
they
cal
the
gospel
,
which
our
Fathers
neuer
knewe
,
(
and
yet
were
led
to
the
Deuill
well
inough
)
was
Preached
:
wee
haue
had
scarcitie
of
all
things
,
and
haue
ben
consumed
by
Sword
and
famine
,
with
Fyre
and
water
,
as
now
al
men
may
see
by
these
great
Fluds
,
which
God
hath
sente
to
plague
them
for
their
Heresy
,
&
because
they
haue
despised
our
old
,
auncient
,
&
holy
Churche
,
&
Religion
that
hath
continued
in
worship
this
seuen
or
.viii.
hundreth
yere
(
&
lesse
)
&
haue
brought
in
,
this
new
religion
that
began
but
in
Paradice
and
was
deuised
but
the
last
day
,
(
when
God
before
the
Worlde
was
made
,
in
his
euerlasting
wisdome
,
and
good
purpose
,
of
meere
knowledge
thought
it
good
.
)
Thus
I
say
do
blind
Idolaters
make
arguments
,
esteeming
Religion
,
by
the
belly
,
and
in
steede
of
acknowledging
Gods
workes
,
(
which
sendeth
both
plenty
and
Dearth
,
Raine
,
and
drie
Weather
,
Fluddes
,
and
dry
land
,
Riches
,
and
pouerty
,
sycknes
and
health
,
attributing
all
to
theyr
dome
Idolles
,
which
are
cursed
with
their
makers
,
and
worshippers
,
but
as
Ieremie
sayde
to
the
Egiptian
Israelitish
Idolaters
:
so
I
might
sai
to
our
Romaine
Popisticall
Englishmen
,
the
Lord
saw
your
peuish
Idolatry
and
in
steede
of
plagues
,
gaue
you
much
abundance
of
mercie
,
whiche
might
haue
mooued
you
from
Idolatry
,
to
his
trewe
religion
,
but
when
he
saw
your
Impudencie
,
and
Whores
Forheads
,
that
would
not
repent
,
and
be
ashamed
of
your
brutish
Idolatry
he
plagued
you
,
and
Scour●ed
you
,
and
that
by
many
fearfull
Roddes
,
from
which
your
Queene
of
Heauen
could
not
saue
,
nor
all
your
Idolles
deliuer
you
,
in
the
daies
of
your
sayd
Sacrifice
,
when
euery
Church
had
a
Lady
priest
,
&
euery
Church
a
God
lockt
in
a
Box
,
in
the
middest
of
your
Idolatrie
,
were
there
not
as
great
,
and
greater
showes
of
wrath
felt
as
now
ther
is
laid
vppon
vs
,
that
are
in
the
light
of
the
Gospell
,
I
must
needs
confesse
,
to
punish
,
as
I
haue
sayd
in
my
Epistle
,
the
lewde
liuers
vnder
the
Gospell
?
yes
verely
.
For
in
the
dayes
of
Kyng
Henry
the
,
viii
.
I
will
not
reape
open
what
hath
hapned
before
in
older
monum●nts
,
when
Gylford
Marsh
in
the
countie
of
Sussex
nere
to
Ry
,
was
drowned
with
all
the
Cattell
&
sheep
,
a
mountyng
to
merueilous
number
,
with
much
of
Chaynecourt
Marsh
,
Kyte
Marsh
,
and
the
marshes
of
the
Isle
of
●●●ene
in
Kent
:
when
your
queen
of
Heauen
could
not
saue
them
,
but
that
they
were
faine
to
fetch
Hay-stackes
and
Beanestackes
,
to
stop
vp
Damines
,
for
feare
of
drowning
all
the
Country
about
,
which
time
also
the
country
of
Sealand
was
drowned
,
from
Armew
to
Dort
,
wher
not
only
sheepe
and
Oxen
were
lost
,
but
all
that
euer
inhabited
,
within
.xxx.
mile
compas
,
yea
wherin
our
Ladies
Preestes
,
our
Ladies
Pictures
,
yea
your
Queene
of
Heauens
Temples
,
your
Alters
and
Pixes
,
with
your
reall
Gods
,
which
innumerable
wer
all
drowned
,
not
beyng
able
to
help
themselues
and
their
worshippers
,
but
perished
with
bruit
beasts
,
and
the
whole
country
,
which
shal
neuer
be
recouered
agayn
.
When
also
aboute
.xxxvii.
yeere
agon
,
there
was
such
a
Hayle
,
as
slew
both
men
and
Cattell
and
Corne-beaten
downe
in
the
time
of
Haruest
,
that
not
withstanding
Deruelgethren
the
Welshimēs
Idol
God
,
all
the
Corne
was
destroyd
beyng
(
redy
to
be
reaped
)
in
the
eare
on
the
grounde
,
and
in
many
places
of
England
,
notwithstanding
your
Queen
of
Heauen
,
whom
you
serue
in
all
blindenesse
of
Popery
.
There
came
such
Rayne
,
by
the
space
of
.v.
weekes
,
with
such
fearful
Haile
that
all
the
Wheat
,
Barly
,
Beans
,
Otes
,
&
other
grayne
,
with
Apples
,
peares
and
other
Fruits
,
were
vtterly
lost
,
neuer
reaped
.
Mowne
,
nor
gathred
,
but
rotten
in
the
Earth
,
and
beaten
to
Morter
with
the
showre
.
About
which
time
also
,
all
Plumsted
Marshes
here
by
the
Thames
were
drowned
,
which
lye
almost
al
wast
til
this
day
.
Also
in
Queen
Maries
daies
,
when
the
Queen
of
Heauens
sacrifices
were
agayne
erected
,
why
dyd
she
not
saue
Sandwich
Marshes
,
&
the
Cattell
and
Treasure
therein
.
E●●ly
marshes
,
and
the
marshes
of
the
Isle
of
Hartly
:
the
Marshes
of
Herne
and
Whitslable
.
Besyde
the
miserable
Famin
that
God
sent
ouer
all
this
land
,
when
Wheat
was
at
a
French
crowne
a
Bushell
,
and
many
that
could
get
neither
Wheat
nor
Barly
,
nor
Beans
,
were
glad
to
eate
Acorn
breade
,
and
many
to
sterue
for
lacke
of
Beans
and
Acorns
:
when
Spanish
Mules
and
Iades
were
fed
with
Wheat
:
besyde
the
sword
,
and
Robberies
of
straungers
,
that
the
Queene
of
Heauen
suffred
hir
worshippers
to
be
plagued
with
al
,
that
rightly
they
might
accuse
them selues
of
such
vile
sinne
as
caused
god
to
be
angry
,
which
also
(
and
not
our
Religion
)
is
the
cause
(
as
theirs
was
)
of
our
Fluds
&
other
Rods
of
Gods
correction
to
make
holely
to
liue
in
so
holy
a
Religion
,
bothe
vpon
the
Papistes
and
Christians
,
powred
at
this
time
by
Gods
Almighty
hande
on
the
Papists
for
theyr
blindnesse
,
on
the
lose
liued
professours
of
the
Gospel
for
their
lewd
conuersation
.
God
geue
vs
al
grace
truly
to
repent
and
by
Iesus
Christe
,
so
to
seeke
for
Pardon
,
that
for
him
and
through
him
,
all
our
ignorance
,
blasphemie
&
Idolatrie
,
weaknesse
,
lewdnesse
,
and
Hipocrisy
,
may
be
forgeuen
in
this
world
,
that
in
the
world
to
com
wee
may
haue
life
euerlastyng
.
Amen
FINIS
.
(
qd
)
T.
Knel
.
Iu.
Imprinted
at
London
in
Fleetstreet
,
by
William
▪
How
:
for
Iohn
Allde
,
and
William
Pickeryng
.
1571.