The
lamentable
spoyle
of
Teuerton
.
YT
is
not
vnknowne
to
many
,
and
chiefly
to
English
Marchants
that
the
Towne
of
Teuerton
,
in
Deuon-shire
,
about
Ten
myles
on
this
side
Exceter
,
was
the
chiefe
Market
for
Cloth
,
that
is
in
all
the
West
parts
of
England
:
pleasantlye
situate
vppon
the
cleere
running
Ryuer
of
Exe
:
garnished
with
manye
costlye
and
goodly
buildinges
,
inhabited
with
diuers
rich
and
wealthy
Marchants
:
and
so
well
peopled
,
as
no
other
Towne
(
of
the
same
bignesse
)
in
all
those
quarters
,
could
compare
therewith
:
And
by
reason
of
the
Market
kept
therin
euery
Monday
for
Cloth
,
and
other
commodities
,
it
was
greatly
frequented
of
all
the
countrey
people
neere
adioyning
,
especially
of
Clothiers
and
such
other
persons
as
had
any
dealinges
therein
:
where
they
were
sure
of
sale
,
and
to
haue
present
money
for
their
commodities
were
it
neuer
so
much
,
where
alwayes
before
dinner
,
they
had
their
Coyne
truely
payde
,
which
was
no
small
benefit
to
all
the
poore
men
of
the
West
partes
,
as
Weauers
,
and
Tuckers
and
such
like
.
But
such
is
the
mutabillite
of
fortune
,
and
the
vncertaintie
of
our
mortall
state
:
that
no
man
can
make
assurance
of
that
hee
hath
,
nor
warrant
his
owne
welfare
one
minute
of
an
hower
,
as
by
this
following
example
,
and
many
other
the
like
is
manifest
:
For
we
may
bee
well
assured
,
that
the
Third
daye
of
Aprill
last
,
when
the
rich
Inhabitants
of
Teuerton
rose
in
the
morning
:
Nay
,
when
they
were
in
the
Market
at
Noone
,
they
little
thought
that
before
night
their
wealth
should
haue
been
turned
into
such
want
:
but
now
behold
a
thing
more
wonderfull
:
he
which
at
one
a
clocke
was
worth
fiue
Thousand
Pound
,
&
as
the
Prophet
saith
,
drunke
his
wine
in
bowles
of
fine
Siluer
plate
,
had
not
by
two
a
Clocke
so
much
as
a
woodden
dish
left
to
eate
his
meate
in
,
nor
a
house
to
couer
his
sorrowfull
head
,
neyther
did
thys
happen
to
one
man
alone
,
but
to
many
other
,
being
neyther
in
danger
of
the
crueltie
of
warrs
,
nor
on
the
Seas
,
where
they
might
feare
the
furie
of
waters
.
But
when
they
thought
themselues
secure
,
and
farre
from
any
imynent
perrill
,
in
prime
of
the
bright
day
,
not
when
their
Towne
was
emptie
,
but
when
their
streetes
swarmed
with
store
of
people
,
not
when
they
were
a
sleepe
or
naked
in
their
b●ds
,
when
they
could
not
shift
for
themselues
:
but
when
they
were
awake
,
apparelled
and
fit
for
any
businesse
;
Lo
then
(
I
say
)
sodenly
,
as
it
were
in
a
twinkling
of
an
eye
,
came
that
great
griefe
vppon
them
,
which
turn'd
their
wealth
to
miserable
want
,
&
their
riches
to
vnlookt-for
pouertie
:
and
how
was
that
?
mary
sir
by
Fyer
.
But
no
fier
from
Heauen
,
no
vnquenchable
fier
,
such
as
worthily
fell
on
the
sinfull
Citie
of
Sodome
and
Gomora
:
but
a
sillie
flash
of
fier
,
blazing
forth
of
a
frying
pan
,
the
circumstance
whereof
I
will
briefly
shew
you
.
The
fier
first
began
at
the
West
end
of
the
Towne
,
on
the
fardest
side
of
the
sayde
faire
Riuer
,
about
one
a
clocke
in
the
after
noone
,
in
the
very
prime
,
and
chiefe
of
the
Market
,
when
people
were
most
busiest
in
the
sale
of
their
commodities
.
For
there
was
dwelling
in
a
little
lowe
thatched
house
a
poore
beggerly
woman
,
who
hadde
got
a
companion
fit
for
her
purpose
,
I
meane
an
other
woman
of
the
like
condicion
.
And
they
together
went
to
bake
pan-cakes
with
strawe
:
for
their
abillitie
and
prouision
was
so
good
,
that
there
was
no
wood
in
the
house
to
doe
it
.
And
as
they
were
busie
about
their
cookerie
,
sodenly
the
fier
got
into
the
Pan
,
which
also
caught
present
hould
on
the
strawe
lying
hard
by
,
by
meanes
whereof
the
house
being
very
low
,
was
by
the
high
blaze
of
the
strawe
fiered
in
the
verye
roofe
,
whych
by
the
force
of
an
extreame
high
wind
which
blew
strongly
in
the
West
,
kindled
with
such
vehemencie
,
that
their
was
no
help
for
the
same
,
the
fier
wherof
tooke
hould
of
a
certaine
bay-house
neere
adioyning
,
and
from
thence
it
passe
to
the
Towne
milles
.
The
winde
blowing
still
fiercely
did
driue
the
fier
into
the
Towne
,
&
by
this
meanes
in
lesse
then
halfe
an
hower
the
whole
Towne
was
set
on
fier
,
and
after
burnt
:
except
the
Church
&
Court-house
,
which
sometime
belonged
to
the
Earle
of
Deuon-shire
.
But
marke
what
followed
:
men
would
haue
thought
,
that
vpon
a
Market
day
,
when
euery
street
was
so
well
replenishe
with
people
,
from
all
parts
,
there
had
been
help
enough
quickly
to
haue
quencht
the
flambe
thereof
,
hauing
also
the
commoditie
of
a
ryuer
neere
adioyning
:
But
yt
came
not
so
to
passe
:
for
they
had
neyther
bookes
,
nor
buckets
fit
for
such
seruice
,
which
all
other
wise
and
discreete
Citizens
doe
politiequely
prouide
against
such
casualties
,
which
might
haue
been
a
meanes
of
their
preseruation
.
Notwithstanding
,
it
is
sayd
that
the
chiefe
of
the
towne
had
often
been
in
hand
,
to
make
such
prouision
:
but
neuer
brought
it
to
effect
,
for
howsoeuer
it
was
well
motioned
,
it
was
ill
remembred
,
the
want
whereof
they
now
felt
to
their
great
sorrow
and
cost
:
for
whether
it
were
couetousnesse
,
or
necligence
,
or
both
:
which
in
these
dayes
is
the
cause
of
great
euill
,
it
is
certaine
they
were
destitute
of
such
engines
,
the
misse
whereof
when
they
found
,
then
all
too
late
they
bewailed
their
approned
follie
:
which
was
vndoubtedly
Gods
iust
Iudgement
for
their
iniquities
:
by
the
which
let
all
other
Townes
take
example
.
Whereby
we
may
gather
,
it
is
not
in
mans
power
to
preuent
with
strength
of
hand
,
the
least
plague
which
the
Lord
doth
purpose
to
bring
on
any
place
.
For
you
shall
vnderstand
that
all
that
day
the
wind
being
at
West-South-west
,
&
blowing
extreame
hard
,
the
power
thereof
was
so
great
,
high
,
and
vehement
,
that
it
inforest
the
kindled
flambe
to
rise
most
fiercely
beating
the
same
toward
the
Towne
in
most
outragious
sort
;
so
that
,
by
the
time
the
people
with
all
expedition
hadd
gathered
vnto
that
place
to
quench
the
furie
thereof
,
beholde
ere
they
wist
the
fier
had
taken
hould
in
the
Principall
place
of
the
Towne
,
and
by
that
time
they
came
backe
againe
and
got
thither
,
they
perceaued
other
houses
to
burne
in
like
maner
:
so
that
while
manye
were
busie
in
helping
their
neighbours
,
their
owne
houses
was
in
as
ill
a
case
.
Then
began
the
crie
to
grow
most
grieuous
in
euery
part
of
the
Towne
,
the
mighty
winde
still
increasing
the
furie
of
the
inraged
fier
:
here
stoode
one
man
crying
for
help
,
there
another
,
another
,
and
another
:
wringing
their
hands
and
making
great
lamentation
:
more
and
more
the
number
increased
,
insomuch
that
the
people
were
so
amazed
,
they
knew
not
which
way
to
turne
,
nor
where
the
most
neede
was
.
The
fier
increased
so
fast
,
grew
so
vehement
,
and
spread
so
far
,
that
at
last
there
was
about
400
houses
on
fier
at
once
,
so
that
euery
man
was
glad
to
shift
for
himselfe
,
and
so
nere
as
he
could
to
saue
his
awne
life
,
but
all
in
vaine
,
for
he
which
euen
now
rested
in
hope
,
his
house
shoulde
escape
the
daunger
,
in
the
turning
of
a
hand
,
had
all
on
fier
about
his
cares
,
the
winde
beating
the
flambe
in
their
faces
:
all
which
came
still
so
sodenly
,
that
there
was
no
remedy
to
be
had
for
the
same
.
Most
dreadfull
was
the
noyse
which
was
then
hearde
in
euery
corner
and
street
of
the
Towne
,
women
pitiously
screeking
,
maydens
bitterly
crying
,
and
children
roaring
out
of
measure
,
the
mother
running
to
saue
her
children
,
the
husband
for
the
wife
,
neighbor
,
calling
for
neighbor
,
friend
,
for
friend
,
while
they
were
beaten
out
of
the
towne
with
raging
flames
of
fier
.
For
so
extreame
,
and
outragious
did
the
fier
passe
from
house
to
house
,
there
was
no
loking
to
saue
their
goods
:
no
way
to
preserue
them
from
destruction
,
for
all
the
Cloth
in
the
market
,
wares
in
their
shops
,
goods
and
houshold
stuffe
,
money
,
plate
,
apparell
and
bedding
,
yea
all
was
burnt
and
nothing
sau'd
:
and
which
is
more
to
bee
lamented
,
diuers
townsmen
did
hazard
themselues
so
farr
within
the
daunger
of
the
fier
,
to
saue
some
part
of
their
goodes
,
that
they
neuer
returned
backe
againe
,
but
were
there
most
pitiously
burned
to
death
,
and
consumed
to
ashes
:
Diuers
of
them
being
of
the
best
men
in
the
Towne
:
Many
children
and
other
feeble
persons
was
burnt
in
the
houses
,
yea
horses
and
other
Cattell
in
stables
and
backe
places
,
with
all
their
corne
and
victuall
.
Among
the
rest
there
was
an
old
blinde
man
burnt
,
named
Nicholas
Hartnell
whom
his
friendes
hadd
brought
foorth
of
his
bed
,
&
layde
him
for
his
better
saftie
in
the
Market
house
,
but
while
they
were
making
shift
for
themselues
in
some
other
sort
,
before
they
could
returne
againe
,
the
poore
man
was
by
fier
turned
into
ashes
:
There
was
in
like
manner
one
Lawd
and
his
wife
,
which
were
founde
lying
in
the
streete
arme
in
arme
burnt
to
death
,
but
not
quite
consumed
:
At
what
time
there
was
found
lying
betweene
them
fiue
Pound
in
Gold
,
with
the
which
as
it
seemed
they
sought
to
flie
away
:
But
being
smothered
by
the
smoke
and
and
fiers
flame
,
they
hadde
their
passage
wofullye
stayed
:
there
was
found
the
sculles
and
bones
of
many
more
.
Likewise
one
Beeres
wife
a
woman
of
good
reputation
,
was
burnt
in
the
street
:
And
also
one
widow
Prouse
before
she
could
get
out
of
her
owne
doores
suffred
the
like
tormenting
death
.
Then
well
apayd
was
that
man
,
that
had
the
benefit
to
kepe
himselfe
and
his
familie
from
danger
:
so
that
for
the
hast
they
made
to
get
away
into
the
fieldes
,
they
ouerthrewe
and
tumbled
downe
one
another
in
their
passage
forth
.
The
Tyles
by
the
beate
of
the
fier
,
flew
cracking
from
the
houses
,
like
as
it
had
been
a
company
of
wel-charged
Muskets
ratling
against
some
sconce
:
And
againe
to
heare
the
houses
cracke
,
and
the
burned
tymber
fall
down
with
might
and
maine
,
made
the
verye
hearts
of
the
people
to
shake
for
feare
.
When
in
short
space
after
,
they
sawe
whole
houses
tumbling
to
the
grounde
,
after
they
had
a
while
stood
tottering
too
and
fro
with
the
mighty
blastes
of
the
South-west
winde
.
At
what
time
it
was
hard
to
say
,
whether
their
sorrow
,
or
feare
was
greatest
,
when
they
behelde
their
goodes
burnt
to
ashes
and
hearde
the
thundering
noyse
of
the
falling
houses
,
which
caus'd
the
firme
earth
to
quake
and
tremble
vnder
theyr
feete
.
Truely
whosoeuer
doth
enter
into
consideration
hereof
,
must
needes
acknowledge
,
their
case
to
be
most
lamentable
,
and
their
sorrowe
vnspeakeable
,
during
the
time
of
this
terrible
fier
:
the
rage
whereof
lasted
not
aboue
one
hower
and
a
halfe
,
and
yet
in
that
small
space
,
had
it
burnt
to
ashes
,
(
as
I
sayd
before
)
aboue
the
number
of
Foure
Hundred
houses
:
most
of
them
belonging
to
the
wealthiest
men
in
the
Towne
,
with
all
the
goods
that
were
in
them
,
so
that
al
the
substantiall
townsmen
,
were
constrained
to
lye
in
the
fieldes
with
their
wofull
wiues
&
children
,
and
to
lodge
themselues
on
the
cold
ground
,
that
in
the
morning
had
choyce
of
beds
to
goe
vnto
:
such
was
their
sodaine
wracke
,
and
hard
fortune
.
Therefore
it
is
a
vaine
thing
to
trust
in
the
vncertaintie
of
worldlye
riches
which
being
gotten
with
trauell
,
and
kepte
with
care
,
is
notwithstanding
sone
lost
,
being
in
hazard
of
a
Thousand
dangers
.
And
therfore
most
happy
and
blessed
are
they
,
which
according
to
the
counsaile
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
doe
lay
vp
their
treasure
in
Heauen
,
where
it
can
perish
by
no
perrill
,
that
can
happen
,
but
doth
euer
remayne
safe
in
the
sure
keeping
of
the
Lord
God
of
hoastes
.
Before
the
fier
was
fully
ended
,
and
diligent
search
made
there
was
founde
lacking
as
it
is
verye
credibly
reported
an
Hundred
persons
or
there-about
,
of
the
which
number
(
as
I
haue
alredy
mentioned
)
diuers
were
found
dead
in
the
streets
,
shoppes
and
houses
,
I
meane
in
the
place
where
shopps
,
and
houses
late
before
stoode
.
The
residue
of
the
wofull
people
remaining
yet
aliue
being
ouer
,
burdened
with
extredme
sorrow
,
runs
vp
and
downe
the
fieldes
like
distraught
and
framick
men
,
being
driuen
(
as
before
is
mentioned
)
to
shroud
themselues
vnder
trees
&
hedges
,
lying
on
the
bare
grounde
:
moreouer
they
are
so
greatlye
distrest
for
lacke
of
food
,
that
they
seeme
to
each
manns
sighte
more
liker
Spirits
and
Ghostes
then
liuing
creatures
:
Likewise
it
is
by
wise
men
verilye
thought
that
the
losses
of
thys
Towne
,
wil
not
be
recouered
againe
,
vnder
Three
or
Foure
hundred
Thousand
Poundes
.
But
you
shall
vnderstande
,
that
notwithstanding
all
the
force
of
this
consuming
fier
,
there
is
yet
some
Twenty
houses
preserued
,
the
dwellings
of
poore
and
sillie
men
:
And
certaine
almes
houses
,
which
is
a
most
rare
and
strange
thinge
:
For
as
diuers
Marchants
of
this
Citie
is
creadibly
certified
by
letters
,
that
the
fier
inuiornd
those
sillie
Cottages
on
euery
side
,
burning
other
houses
to
the
ground
which
stood
about
them
,
and
yet
had
they
no
hurt
at
all
.
Surely
if
wee
shoulde
enter
into
consideration
hereof
,
we
could
not
chuse
but
confesse
,
that
this
was
the
onely
worke
of
God
,
to
make
his
power
manifest
to
men
,
as
hee
did
in
delyuering
the
Three
children
out
of
the
fierie
furnace
,
euen
so
did
be
preserue
those
poore
persons
with
their
houses
and
goodes
,
for
some
speciall
cause
best
knowne
to
himselfe
according
to
that
holy
canticle
sung
by
the
blessed
Virgin
Marie
:
he
hath
filled
the
hungry
with
good
thinges
,
but
the
rich
he
sent
emtie
away
.
It
is
said
of
some
that
this
was
a
iust
punishment
of
god
brought
vpon
that
Towne
,
for
their
vnmercifulnesse
,
&
small
regard
of
the
poore
,
which
were
dayly
seene
to
dye
and
perish
in
their
streetes
for
lacke
of
reliefe
:
poore
Lazarus
laye
vnregarded
at
the
rich
mans
gate
,
and
could
not
get
one
little
morsell
of
meate
to
cherish
his
hungry
heart
:
therfore
(
if
it
were
so
)
yt
was
the
iust
iudgement
of
God
,
that
they
which
through
couetousnesse
would
not
part
from
any
thinge
,
should
sodenly
lose
all
:
For
there
was
not
so
much
as
one
peece
of
Timber
left
,
of
all
those
Foure
Hundred
houses
,
but
all
were
consumed
to
ashes
,
except
some
fewe
chimneys
,
and
stone
walles
whych
are
monuments
of
the
Townes
ruine
.
Whereby
it
is
come
to
passe
,
that
those
rich
Marchantes
,
that
earst
scornd
to
grace
a
poore
mans
house
with
his
presence
,
is
nowe
glade
to
request
their
fauour
for
the
worst
corner
in
their
Cottage
,
where
they
may
remaine
in
this
thier
misery
:
which
may
bee
a
good
warning
for
all
other
men
of
the
lyke
abillitie
,
how
they
contemne
and
dispise
the
poore
members
of
Christ
houlding
them
in
disdaine
,
whom
God
hath
opprest
with
pouertie
.
O
famous
London
,
thou
that
flowest
in
wealth
,
and
aboundest
in
Riches
:
Thou
which
art
the
chiefe
Lady-cittie
of
this
Land
,
whose
fame
soundeth
through
al
Christian
Kingdoms
,
cast
thy
cleere
eyes
on
this
ruinous
Towne
:
consider
her
fall
,
and
pitie
her
distresse
,
learne
by
her
calamitie
to
loke
into
thy selfe
,
examine
thy
conscience
and
see
whether
thou
hast
deserued
the
like
plague
or
no
:
giue
thou
example
of
true
contricion
,
and
as
thou
art
chiefe
in
glorie
,
bee
thou
chiefe
in
grace
,
that
god
may
long
and
many
yeares
vphould
thy
prosperous
estate
,
Yea
let
all
the
goodly
Cities
and
Townes
,
which
beautifies
the
Westerne
plat
of
this
florishing
Iland
,
looke
vpon
their
woefull
Sister
Teuerton
,
who
lately
did
braue
it
wyth
the
best
,
and
thought
her selfe
nothing
inferior
to
the
fayrest
:
But
now
she
sittes
clad
in
mournfull
weeds
,
hauing
her
faire
heade
couered
with
pale
ashes
,
her
brauery
conuerted
to
beggerie
,
her
glory
to
disgrace
,
and
all
her
mirth
into
moane
:
so
that
their
is
nothing
seen
but
lamentation
and
complaint
.
Oh
Teuerton
well
may
thy
friendes
crie
ouer
thee
(
as
sometime
greate
Kinges
did
ouer
Babilon
)
saying
,
alas
alas
for
that
proper
Towne
of
Teuerton
,
that
wealthie
and
rich
Towne
,
for
at
one
hower
is
thy
Iudgment
come
:
thy
Marchants
may
now
weepe
and
morne
,
for
no
man
buyeth
ware
in
thee
anye
more
.
Consider
this
thou
faire
Cittie
of
Exceter
,
thou
which
art
next
neighbor
to
this
distressed
Town
,
which
hast
(
as
it
were
)
the
smoke
of
her
fier
,
yet
before
thy
face
,
and
her
lamentations
rynging
lowde
in
thy
cares
;
pitte
her
heauie
happe
,
that
knowest
not
what
miserie
hanges
ouer
thy
owne
head
.
And
let
me
speake
to
thee
,
thou
Towne
of
Plymouth
,
whose
stately
buildinges
ouer-peareth
the
hilles
,
easting
their
prospects
vpon
the
mounting
waues
:
take
warning
by
Teuerton
and
turne
thy
many
vices
into
vertues
,
least
God
turne
from
thee
his
great
and
mighty
blessinges
.
Sinne
is
the
cause
of
many
sorrowes
:
and
vngoblinesse
the
ground-worke
of
all
intollerable
griefe
:
yet
if
wee
shoulde
thinke
,
that
the
people
of
Teuerton
were
the
greatest
transgressors
,
because
they
haue
suffered
the
greatest
punishment
,
of
any
towne
in
the
West
:
we
should
think
much
amisse
:
For
as
our
Sauoiour
Christ
said
vnto
the
Iewes
,
suppose
not
that
those
on
whome
the
Tower
of
Silo
fell
,
were
greater
sinners
then
the
rest
,
but
except
you
repent
,
you
shall
likewise
perish
.
So
say
I
to
you
and
al
other
Cities
and
Towns
in
England
,
thinke
not
that
the
Inhabitants
of
Teuerton
did
surpasse
all
other
in
wickednesse
,
because
they
exceede
all
other
in
woe
:
but
it
hath
pleased
God
to
punish
them
for
your
instruction
,
that
behoulding
their
fall
you
may
feare
to
offende
,
and
learne
by
their
miserie
,
your
owne
speedy
amendment
.
For
what
is
he
which
passeth
by
this
Towne
,
and
●a●st
knew
the
florishing
state
thereof
,
seeing
now
her
lamentable
spoile
:
but
many
bee
prouoked
to
crie
with
Ieremie
,
and
saye
of
Teuerton
,
as
hee
spoke
of
Ierusalem
:
Alas●e
,
how
desolate
sitteth
this
towne
,
that
sometime
was
full
of
people
?
how
is
shee
become
lyke
a
widowe
,
sorow
full
,
heauie
,
and
comfortlesse
,
which
lately
was
had
in
good
regard
,
and
famous
among
all
her
familiers
:
she
weepeth
sore
in
the
night
,
&
her
teares
run
downe
her
cheeks
in
great
abundance
.
But
it
is
easie
for
al
men
to
say
this
:
to
shake
their
heades
,
and
crie
alack
alack
:
But
a
hard
matter
to
make
benefit
therof
,
and
to
be
warned
by
their
neighbors
harmes
:
Notwithstanding
let
all
distressed
people
know
,
that
whosoeuer
faythfully
trusteth
in
God
,
shall
neuer
be
forsaken
:
well
may
they
sustaine
sorrow
,
but
they
shall
not
be
left
in
miserie
.
The
Lord
that
brought
them
low
,
can
rayse
them
againe
aloft
,
as
it
is
manifest
by
Iobes
affliction
.
Therefore
God
graunt
wee
may
take
patiently
those
Fatherly
corrections
which
he
layeth
vpon
vs
:
knowing
that
all
the
miseries
of
this
life
,
is
not
worthy
of
the
least
ioye
,
which
is
prepared
in
Heauen
for
the
souns
of
men
:
Vnto
the
which
place
Christ
Iesus
bring
vs
,
that
by
his
blood
so
deerely
bought
vs
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.