A
BRIEFE
RELATION
of
the
great
losses
both
by
Sea
and
Land
,
by
reason
of
the
late
great
Tempests
.
SVch
and
so
great
is
the
innated
hereditary
peruersenes
of
miserable
mankinds
naturall
inclination
,
that
though
we
infallibly
know
that
God
is
infinite
,
and
his
waies
past
finding
out
:
yea
though
wee
generally
confesse
him
to
bee
the
Mighty
,
Eternall
,
euerlasting
,
inscrutable
,
incomprehensible
Iehouah
,
in
whose
hands
are
all
things
past
,
present
and
future
.
Though
(
I
say
)
we
confesse
and
professe
an
externall
beleefe
that
God
can
and
will
punish
obstinate
and
stiffe-necked
sinners
in
the
vprightnesse
of
his
confounding
Iustice
;
yet
we
presuming
(
because
it
is
said
his
mercie
is
ouer
all
his
workes
)
so
much
vpon
his
mercie
,
that
we
are
altogether
forgetfull
of
his
Iustice
;
So
that
for
all
notwithstanding
our
knowledge
,
our
confession
and
profession
,
wee
liue
in
Atheisme
,
Epicurisme
,
and
in
so
many
sundry
sorts
of
hydra-headed
scisme
,
that
if
it
be
rightly
vnderstood
,
wee
spend
our
times
in
this
vnconscionable
world
little
better
then
in
bruite
Barbarisme
:
for
I
am
verily
perswaded
that
God
had
neuer
fewer
trew
seruants
,
nor
more
professors
then
are
in
these
daies
,
and
surely
it
is
to
bee
feared
when
God
hath
least
,
the
Diuel
hath
most
.
And
wee
are
so
lulled
and
rockt
asleepe
in
the
secureles
cradle
of
sensual
security
,
by
the
(
Prince
of
this
World
)
the
Diuell
and
his
two
neere
kinsmen
the
worlde
and
the
flesh
,
that
we
(
as
it
were
)
in
spight
of
the
Eternall
God
,
tread
and
trample
his
sacred
lawes
and
sanctified
Testimonies
vnder
our
prophane
,
vnhallowed
,
&
rebellious
feet
,
and
with
a
high
hand
,
and
an
aspiring
hart
,
with
millions
of
varieties
of
transgressions
,
we
seem
to
batter
the
glorious
frame
of
Heauen
,
with
thundering
shot
of
our
abhominable
hell
hatchd
impieties
.
These
outragious
Enormities
daily
prouoking
our
most
iust
God
to
powre
forth
the
consuming
vials
of
his
incensed
heauie
Indignation
,
vpon
all
the
misgouerned
sonnes
of
sinfull
men
.
For
as
God
is
infinite
in
his
mercie
,
so
is
hee
infinite
in
his
Iustice
;
and
as
our
transgressions
are
numberles
,
so
are
the
seuerall
rods
and
punishments
vncountable
that
God
vses
to
inflict
vpon
vs
,
sometimes
by
weake
meanes
to
accomplish
great
things
,
and
confound
the
mighty
;
and
sometimes
by
elementall
causes
,
as
fire
,
aire
,
water
,
and
earth
,
hee
shewes
his
vniuersall
power
in
his
iust
confounding
offenders
;
and
sometimes
by
vnauoyded
infections
of
plagues
and
pestilencious
feuers
,
and
many
thousand
miserable
maladies
.
And
I
thinke
I
need
not
doubt
but
many
ther
be
that
knowes
and
remembers
the
last
mortality
of
this
land
,
when
in
one
yeere
there
died
,
one
hundred
and
odde
thousands
in
London
.
And
as
concerning
what
hath
happened
by
fire
,
Saint
Edmundsbury
,
and
Tiberton
in
Deuonshire
,
and
many
other
places
in
England
,
to
their
great
griefes
too
truely
can
testifie
,
and
what
greeuous
deluges
.
what
outragious
inundations
,
what
vnresistable
ouerflowings
of
mercilesse
waters
we
haue
had
,
nor
man
,
nor
historie
recording
the
like
(
since
the
generall
flood
,
)
wherein
many
hundreds
of
acres
of
pasture
and
erable
land
,
was
(
in
little
space
as
it
were
)
turnd
into
a
maine
Ocean
,
that
the
fishes
(
the
inhabitants
of
the
sea
)
floating
in
their
new
made
regiments
,
did
feede
on
the
drowned
carkases
of
men
,
women
,
children
,
and
beasts
.
What
sterility
and
bainenesse
of
our
fruitfull
mother
earth
wee
haue
had
,
through
the
anger
of
God
,
withholding
the
raine
,
and
shutting
the
windowes
of
Heauen
,
(
that
the
sencelesse
ground
hath
gaped
to
Heauen
for
reliefe
,
when
wee
our selues
haue
scarce
opened
our
mouthes
to
desire
Gods
fauour
)
it
is
sufficiently
knowne
to
all
estates
&
ages
.
What
hurts
,
damages
,
and
irrecouerable
losses
and
hinderances
men
haue
sustained
by
tempestuous
winds
,
both
on
land
and
sea
,
where
on
the
land
,
steeples
,
houses
,
chimneyes
,
trees
,
and
diuers
other
things
that
were
for
the
necessarie
vse
of
all
sorts
of
people
,
hath
beene
vtterlie
subuerted
and
throwne
downe
,
to
the
vtter
vndoing
of
some
,
and
to
the
great
impouerishing
of
manie
.
Besides
to
leaue
the
land
,
and
to
recapitulat
what
great
&
manifold
harmes
hath
bin
vpon
the
sea
,
the
outragious
windes
making
it
altogether
vnnauigable
.
Of
the
which
to
write
in
euery
particular
were
a
world
of
worke
:
but
all
these
aforesaid
grieuous
calamities
,
we
must
all
confesse
and
acknowledge
,
to
be
the
true
tokens
that
our
mercifull
God
is
highly
offended
with
vs
;
and
almost
the
third
part
of
the
people
in
this
kingdome
,
doe
and
wil
euer
remember
some
one
or
other
of
these
precedent
afflictions
,
some
by
losse
of
friends
by
death
,
and
some
by
losse
of
goods
,
by
fier
,
water
,
or
other
meanes
;
so
that
there
is
not
,
nor
hath
not
beene
,
(
nor
I
doubt
will
not
be
)
any
day
,
night
,
houre
,
or
minute
,
wherein
God
hath
not
,
doth
not
,
or
wil
not
powre
down
his
vengeance
by
one
meanes
or
other
,
in
one
place
or
another
vpon
impenetrable
vnrepenting
perfidious
people
.
But
leauing
this
perambulation
or
tedious
trauell
to
demonstrate
that
which
hath
been
before
diuulged
to
the
publike
view
of
the
world
,
I
doe
now
intend
to
shew
thee
,
good
Reader
(
if
thou
beest
so
)
what
incomparable
harmes
,
and
neuer
to
be
regained
losse
hath
happened
by
occasion
of
these
late
tempest
●●●s
windes
:
and
though
I
haue
not
knowledge
of
al
the
hurts
that
are
done
,
yet
I
know
too
much
,
and
I
with
with
〈◊〉
my
heart
,
that
this
which
I
meane
to
write
were
nothing
but
fiction
,
but
yet
assure
thy selfe
thou
hadst
better
beleeue
me
then
to
trauell
to
disproue
me
(
as
the
prouerbe
saies
)
for
I
my selfe
am
sure
that
the
most
part
of
what
I
write
is
true
on
mine
owne
knowledge
,
and
the
rest
I
haue
gathered
by
relation
from
many
husbandies
widdowes
,
fatherlesse
sonnes
,
and
soules
fathers
and
mothers
,
masterlesse
seruants
,
and
masters
that
haue
lost
their
seruants
from
many
good
and
substantiall
Merchants
,
whose
lamentable
losses
haue
too
too
much
impouerisht
their
former
estates
,
the
vnconscionable
al-deuowring
Sea
,
being
needlesly
made
rich
,
with
their
sometimes
hopeful
aduentures
.
But
to
the
purpose
.
Some
certain
daies
before
Christmas
(
by
the
outragious
blustering
tempestuous
wind
and
weather
)
a
very
faire
and
tall
ship
,
called
the
Mary
of
Albrogh
,
comming
from
Burdeux
with
one
hundred
and
twenty
tunnes
of
French
wine
,
〈◊〉
master
Edmunds
being
master
of
her
,
was
by
force
of
weather
driuen
vpon
the
coast
of
France
,
neere
a
place
called
Saint
Iohns
,
not
farre
from
the
famous
and
ancient
City
of
Bullen
,
most
miserably
cast
away
,
where
was
a
great
losse
of
ship
&
goods
:
but
God
bee
praised
all
the
men
were
saued
except
one
.
About
the
same
time
there
came
a
ship
of
Dartmouth
from
Marseles
,
laden
with
oyles
,
and
cotten
wools
,
which
was
vpon
the
same
coast
,
and
neere
the
same
place
cast
away
,
where
the
ship
was
torn
in
peeces
,
&
the
goods
sunke
in
the
seas
:
but
God
in
his
mercy
saued
all
the
men
,
to
doe
their
countrey
more
fortunate
seruice
hereafter
(
I
hope
.
)
Another
(
〈…〉
)
being
called
the
Patience
,
who
had
been
heere
once
this
●●●ter
from
Burde●x
,
and
was
bound
thither
againe
,
was
cast
away
〈◊〉
sunk
in
the
riuer
of
Thames
a
little
below
Grauesend
,
at
〈◊〉
a
place
called
Shooberie
Nasse
,
the
masters
name
of
hir
was
Iohn
Loue
.
Another
great
ship
of
London
called
the
Hermit
,
of
the
burden
of
seuenscore
tuns
or
thereabouts
,
being
bownd
from
London
into
Cornwall
for
ti●
,
the
owner
of
her
being
in
her
,
whose
name
was
master
Goodlad
,
a
man
sufficiently
knowne
for
his
credit
and
sufficiencie
in
Nauigation
,
and
one
Master
Wolfe
being
with
him
as
master
of
the
said
ship
,
hauing
certain
passengers
abord
with
them
;
they
were
all
most
miserably
drowned
in
the
brinish
waues
of
the
merciles
sea
,
and
the
ship
beaten
in
peeces
against
the
hard
remorceles
rockes
,
where
the
wind
&
seas
did
driue
the
liueles
corses
vpon
the
sands
where
as
it
is
〈…〉
,
was
a
woman
,
who
with
a
young
childe
of
hers
was
drowned
in
the
company
,
who
was
taken
vp
on
the
shore
with
her
childe
in
her
armes
:
for
being
the
naturall
liuing
mother
of
it
,
the
shewed
being
dead
(
in
spight
of
death
)
a
good
pattern
of
affectionate
and
motherly
loue
.
A
shippe
belonging
to
a
towne
in
Cornwall
called
L●o
,
of
the
burden
of
threescore
run
,
laden
with
salt
fish
,
was
cast
away
and
shake
in
the
West
part
of
England
at
a
place
called
Scilla
,
or
neere
thereabouts
,
on
the
2●
.
of
December
last
,
1612.
A
little
Barke
of
Fawmouth
of
some
fiue
and
thirty
tun
,
was
beaten
on
the
I
le
of
Wight
and
cast
away
,
the
same
day
aforesaide
.
And
it
is
reported
for
certainty
,
that
vpon
all
the
shores
and
sea
sands
along
the
coast
of
Pickardy
in
France
neere
Callice
,
and
so
along
towardes
the
aforesaide
(
place
of
Saint
Iohns
)
doe
floate
and
he
〈◊〉
●he
s●●●●
innumerable
multitudes
of
drowne
carkases
,
some
say
more
,
and
some
lesse
,
but
it
is
crediblie
in
formed
that
eleuen
〈◊〉
twelue
hundred
〈◊〉
the
least
.
Moreouer
the
tide
b●ate
belonging
to
Greene
Hith
in
Kent
,
was
by
force
of
weather
sunk
,
and
three
passengers
drownd
,
and
much
goodes
lost
on
the
30.
of
December
last
.
To
speake
of
the
harmes
in
particular
that
is
done
amongst
poore
water
mens
boates
and
〈…〉
(
betweene
Graue
send
and
Windsor
)
were
a
tedious
peece
of
work
,
but
this
I
know
,
that
many
of
them
are
much
hindered
by
the
losse
and
splitting
of
their
boates
and
all
of
them
generally
haue
had
a
worser
time
of
it
then
the
great
frost
.
I
omit
to
speak
in
particular
of
diuers
persons
;
that
are
reported
to
lie
scattered
&
drawned
on
the
coasts
of
this
kingdome
in
diuers
and
sundry
places
,
&
all
alongst
the
coasts
of
France
〈◊〉
th●
L●●
Countreyes
,
with
Ireland
,
Scotland
,
and
the
Iles
adiacent
:
all
which
as
soone
as
I
can
get
true
information
of
,
I
will
cause
to
bee
published
.
Besides
I
speake
not
of
innumerable
damages
,
by
the
sinking
of
certaine
cole-ships
,
being
bound
from
Newcastle
to
London
,
al
which
I
wil
hereafter
diuulge
.
And
now
leauing
the
sea
,
let
vs
treat
a
little
of
the
land
harmes
that
are
done
now
of
late
by
these
great
windes
.
At
the
old
swan
in
Thames
streete
neere
London
Bridge
on
Christmas
euen
was
the
house
of
one
Master
Pyts
a
silke
dier
,
violently
blowne
downe
,
and
in
the
fall
did
breake
the
roofe
and
tiles
of
another
house
that
was
ouer
against
it
,
and
in
the
same
parish
in
Katherine
wheele
alley
was
a
chimney
blowne
downe
of
one
Master
Baits
,
which
brake
down
the
cop
of
one
Henry
Gossons
house
a
Stationer
,
and
it
fell
with
such
a
violence
in
the
night
,
that
it
beat
through
the
roofe
and
a
garret
,
and
into
a
middle
chamber
:
but
God
be
praised
it
hurt
no
body
.
In
Byshopsgate
streete
ouer
against
the
Kings
head
,
neere
the
gate
,
was
the
top
of
a
bakers
house
blowne
downe
,
his
wife
and
he
being
in
bed
,
and
the
maine
beame
of
the
house
brake
,
and
fell
downe
on
the
testor
of
their
bed
,
and
it
did
no
more
hurt
,
but
scar
them
:
besides
churches
,
houses
,
windmils
,
and
diuers
other
buildings
,
some
blowne
downe
,
some
much
defaced
,
which
wil
not
be
repaired
without
excessiue
charges
.
And
by
reason
of
the
great
store
of
raine
,
which
hath
falne
the
high-waies
are
so
ouerflowne
,
that
in
many
places
both
horse
and
men
haue
beene
forced
to
swimme
in
the
very
rode
way
,
by
which
meanes
the
City
of
London
cannot
be
serued
with
such
prouision
of
victuals
as
diuers
people
were
wont
to
bring
in
out
of
the
countrey
.
Then
let
vs
consider
with
our selues
,
in
what
dangerous
estates
wee
are
in
when
the
Almighty
is
offended
with
vs
,
and
let
vs
turn
to
the
Lord
through
harty
repentance
,
and
earnest
desire
of
amendment
,
and
then
(
no
doubt
but
God
in
his
mercy
will
turne
his
fauourable
countenance
towards
vs
.
For
it
is
neuer
too
late
to
amend
,
and
therefore
in
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
let
euerie
one
mend
one
:
and
that
the
fame
may
be
accomplished
,
I
hartely
desire
of
God
for
Christs
sake
to
giue
all
true
Christians
vpright
and
new
hearts
,
for
Newyeeres
gifts
.
FINIS
.