A
most
true
report
of
the
myraculous
mouing
and
sinking
of
a
plot
of
ground
,
about
nine
Acres
,
at
Westram
in
Kent
,
which
began
the
18.
of
December
,
and
so
continued
till
the
29.
of
the
same
moneth
.
1596.
The
true
figure
of
the
foresaid
plot
of
ground
,
conteining
nine
Acres
.
From
A.
to
A.
signifieth
the
carrying
way
at
the
North
end
,
which
is
sunke
in
one
place
100.
foote
,
and
in
an
other
place
65.
foote
.
From
D.
to
C.
signifieth
two
pittes
of
Alders
,
which
are
driuen
vp
to
the
toppe
of
a
Hill
4.
perches
a
peece
.
From
B.
to
B.
signifieth
the
olde
foote
path
,
which
is
driuen
from
F.
to
E.
8.
perches
.
E.
signifieth
a
hole
suncke
in
the
plain
ground
thirtie
foote
.
From
H.
to
H.
signifieth
a
standing
Hedge
of
28.
perches
long
,
which
is
remoued
7.
pearches
out
●his
place
.
The
names
of
certaine
of
those
which
were
eye
witnesses
for
the
testimoniall
of
the
truth
hereof
,
vnder
their
handes
.
-
Richard
Bostocke
Esquire
,
Iustice
of
peace
.
-
Iames
Austen
Gentleman
.
-
Iohn
Studley
,
Vicor
of
Westram
.
-
Wil.
Holton
Phisitian
.
-
Iohn
Gainsford
Gent.
-
Erasmus
Gainsford
Gen.
-
Gyles
Gainsford
Gen.
-
Iohn
Dawling
the
elder
,
Gen.
-
Iohn
Dawling
the
yonger
,
Gen.
-
Richard
Reynold
-
William
Reinold
Gen.
-
William
Holmeden
Gen.
-
Iohn
Larmoth
Gen.
-
Thomas
Chapman
Gen.
-
William
Cam
Gen.
-
Robert
Lighe
yeoman
.
-
Iohn
Chapman
of
Cockam
,
yeoman
.
-
Richard
Welles
yeoman
.
-
Thomas
Tollor
yeoman
.
-
Giles
Browne
yeoman
.
-
Thomas
Stacy
yeoman
.
-
Richard
Stidowle
yeoman
.
-
Raphe
Stacy
yeoman
.
-
Thom.
Chapman
of
Holdfast
,
yeoman
.
-
Iohn
Constable
yeoman
.
-
Iohn
Chapman
of
Shots
,
yeoman
.
-
Iohn
Stone
yeoman
.
To
the
right
Honourable
my
singular
good
Lady
and
Mistresse
,
the
Lady
Margaret
,
Barronesse
Dacre
of
the
South
,
Iohn
Chapman
your
poore
seruaunt
,
wisheth
much
increase
of
honor
in
this
world
,
and
eternall
ioy
and
felicitie
in
the
world
to
come
.
RIght
Honorable
,
my
singular
good
Ladie
and
Mistresse
,
whereas
I
find
that
ingratitude
and
forgetfulnesse
of
due
reuerence
to
be
performed
of
seruants
toward
Maisters
&
Mistresses
,
is
among
all
sorts
most
odious
;
as
contrariwise
,
diligence
to
please
,
and
reuerent
dutifulnesse
toward
their
sayd
Maisters
,
&c.
is
in
them
a
thing
most
laudable
:
as
among
many
other
,
we
reade
of
one
Mucronius
,
seruant
afore
time
to
a
poore
Artisan
named
Hargabus
,
who
being
afterward
called
to
be
a
Senator
,
did
still
for
euer
yeeld
such
reuerence
vnto
his
said
old
poore
Maister
,
as
thereby
he
did
not
onely
giue
cause
of
great
ioy
,
to
Hargabus
,
but
it
was
esteemed
in
him
a
great
praise
and
increase
of
honour
,
to
be
so
dutiful
to
him
that
had
brought
him
vp
.
In
regard
whereof
,
I
your
Ladiships
seruant
,
being
desirous
to
make
knowne
to
the
world
the
obedient
dutie
&
seruiceable
minde
that
I
beare
to
your
honor
,
haue
thoght
good
(
for
want
of
better
opportunitie
,
to
present
your
Ladiship
with
the
education
of
the
plotting
and
publishing
of
this
miraculous
worke
of
God
,
touching
the
straunge
mouing
of
certaine
ground
,
at
Westram
in
Kent
,
whereof
,
I
with
diuers
others
,
haue
bin
witnesses
.
Humbly
beseeching
your
good
Ladiship
,
to
accept
this
as
a
poore
new
yeares
gift
,
at
the
handes
of
him
,
who
prayeth
vnto
God
that
your
honourable
Ladiship
may
enioy
many
happy
new
yeares
:
and
is
,
and
alway
will
be
ready
and
diligent
to
please
your
Ladiship
to
the
vttermost
of
his
power
.
Your
Ladiships
faithfull
and
obedient
seruant
.
Iohn
Chapman
.
An
admonition
to
the
Christian
Reader
.
AS
it
is
most
euident
to
them
that
are
of
the
houshold
of
faith
,
that
in
the
beginning
our
most
gracious
God
did
by
his
mightie
power
create
and
fashion
the
whole
frames
of
the
heauens
aboue
,
and
all
things
else
on
earth
beneath
:
so
also
it
is
no
lesse
manifest
,
but
that
by
his
wonderfull
and
vnsearchable
prouidence
hée
doth
from
time
to
time
,
preserue
and
kéepe
,
gouern
&
guide
,
alter
and
change
,
and
euery
way
dispose
thereof
according
to
his
owne
good
will
and
pleasure
,
and
as
it
séemeth
best
to
himselfe
for
the
glory
of
his
blessed
name
,
and
the
good
of
his
chosen
children
:
deare
to
him
in
Christ
Iesus
,
to
whom
therfore
be
praise
&
glory
now
and
euermore
,
Amen
.
These
things
(
I
say
)
are
most
apparant
vnto
men
:
And
yet
notwithstanding
the
bright
eye
of
his
Almightie
maiesty
continually
pearcing
into
our
hearts
,
and
sounding
déeply
the
vnséene
secrets
of
mens
deceitfull
thoughts
,
doth
by
his
diuine
wisedome
sée
and
perceiue
,
that
many
there
bee
who
haue
their
continuall
conuersation
among
his
children
,
and
do
sometimes
sucke
the
fatte
of
the
earth
more
plentifully
then
they
doo
,
who
yet
lyke
vnto
bruite
beastes
,
destitute
of
reasonable
soules
,
can
goe
no
further
in
contemplation
of
spirituall
matters
then
their
bodily
sences
,
common
vnto
beastes
,
which
doe
leade
and
direct
them
:
And
therefore
these
carnall
men
(
as
the
Apostle
tearmeth
them
)
haue
as
he
saith
,
no
taste
nor
sence
,
of
diuine
matters
,
nor
any
perceiuing
of
those
things
that
do
appertaine
vnto
God
:
yea
there
bee
some
of
them
so
farre
from
hauing
any
reuerent
estimation
and
religious
féeling
of
his
gratious
maiestie
,
and
especially
from
acknowledging
of
his
fatherly
goodnes
and
watchful
prouidence
,
sustaining
them
and
theirs
in
their
dayly
necessitie
of
life
and
liuing
,
as
that
vnto
themselues
,
and
in
their
owne
hearts
they
saye
plainlye
(
and
that
the
Lorde
himselfe
doth
knowe
)
that
there
is
no
God
at
all
.
This
damnable
impietie
,
although
it
doo
deserue
,
as
a
most
blasphemous
contempt
of
the
sacred
deitie
,
to
be
no
waies
tollerated
,
but
to
be
most
sharply
censured
,
and
rigorously
punished
,
either
with
the
fearefull
fier
that
fell
vpon
Sodom
,
or
the
suddayne
gaping
of
the
ground
that
swalowed
vp
Corah
,
or
the
swarming
lice
&
vermin
which
did
féede
vpon
the
flesh
of
that
presumptuous
Herod
,
and
deuoured
his
loathsome
carkesse
aliue
,
yet
such
is
the
great
patience
and
long
suffering
of
the
Lorde
,
as
that
hée
doth
vouchsafe
to
forbeare
,
to
execute
his
sharpe
iustice
vpon
the
same
for
a
time
,
and
in
the
meane
while
(
as
one
pittying
this
naturall
blindnesse
)
doth
most
bountifully
(
as
it
were
)
put
foorth
his
glorious
hand
,
and
therein
doth
holde
out
such
lampes
of
light
as
maye
clearely
shine
vnto
vs
,
and
be
(
as
the
starre
to
the
wisemen
was
at
Christ
his
byrth
)
sufficient
guides
to
leade
vs
out
of
this
grosse
darknesse
of
error
and
ignorance
,
and
bring
vs
to
finde
him
where
he
is
,
if
we
applye
our selues
as
they
did
to
followe
the
course
and
footing
of
the
same
going
before
vs
,
euen
here
vppon
the
earth
:
For
séeing
we
be
thus
hardly
tyed
vnto
our
outward
sences
,
and
so
strongly
pressed
down
with
the
heauy
sway
therof
,
as
that
we
cannot
passe
higher
then
the
reache
of
them
:
and
so
resting
thereupon
,
become
altogither
vnapt
to
mount
a
loft
,
and
ascend
by
fayth
to
discerne
him
sitting
aboue
in
the
height
of
the
heauens
,
in
his
inuisible
maiestie
,
he
doth
not
yet
leaue
vs
héere
,
and
forsake
vs
so
:
but
to
the
intent
our
dead
and
benummed
consciences
might
euen
by
these
our
naturall
sences
be
sufficiently
conuinced
in
this
point
,
and
further
our
humaine
dulnesse
(
if
it
may
be
)
stirred
vp
,
to
haue
some
more
liuely
féeling
,
forcible
perceyuerance
,
and
effectuall
consideration
of
that
supreme
essence
,
who
is
God
all
sufficient
,
vnto
all
,
and
in
whom
we
liue
,
moue
,
and
haue
our
béeing
,
he
doth
therfore
vouchsafe
,
to
discend
in
some
sorte
vnto
vs
,
and
offereth
héere
vpon
earth
,
vnto
our
eies
a
sencible
testimony
of
his
most
certaine
béeing
,
and
of
his
mightie
power
discernable
by
his
straunge
workes
,
daily
doone
in
our
sight
,
farre
aboue
the
common
course
of
nature
,
and
beyond
the
pollicie
and
strength
of
man
:
And
to
the
intent
we
maye
vnderstand
so
much
of
them
,
he
doth
in
doing
them
,
cal
vnto
vs
by
his
prophet
,
willing
vs
to
looke
vpon
them
,
and
to
consider
them
reuerently
,
while
he
saith
,
Come
and
behold
the
workes
of
God
,
for
he
is
terrible
in
his
dooings
toward
the
sonnes
of
men
:
For
if
they
were
in
déede
well
wayed
as
they
ought
to
be
,
&
duly
considered
one
with
an
other
:
the
order
and
course
of
them
one
way
,
and
the
varyetie
and
alteration
of
them
an
other
way
,
is
such
,
as
may
easily
induce
and
perswade
vs
to
know
and
beléeue
,
cofesse
and
say
,
veryly
there
is
a
God
that
ruleth
the
earth
:
And
among
sundry
other
his
workes
that
may
be
of
this
force
,
he
commendeth
vnto
vs
in
place
where
some
especially
,
namely
these
(
that
as
the
prophet
saith
,
)
One
while
he
turneth
running
riuers
into
a
wildernesse
,
and
the
springs
of
waters
into
dry
ground
,
and
conuerteth
fruitful
land
into
barrainnesse
,
for
the
sinnes
of
them
that
do
dwell
thereon
.
An
other
while
he
turneth
the
wildernesse
into
pooles
of
water
:
And
a
dry
land
into
water
springs
.
Whereto
we
may
adde
,
that
sometime
hée
hurleth
downe
hilles
,
and
maketh
them
to
become
lowe
vallies
,
and
withall
exalteth
the
lowe
vallies
,
and
maketh
them
to
become
high
hilles
:
Which
extraordinary
effects
when
they
come
to
passe
,
they
are
not
to
be
altogither
neglected
,
nor
attributed
,
as
the
maner
of
some
is
to
doo
,
vnto
blind
chaunce
,
casualtie
,
and
fortune
,
or
else
to
the
only
force
of
naturall
causes
measurable
by
philosophicall
reason
:
but
as
it
appeareth
by
the
holy
prophet
,
they
are
to
be
estéemed
as
matters
of
especiall
marke
,
and
woorthie
to
bee
regarded
as
héedefull
d●cuments
,
which
haue
their
first
originall
and
beginning
of
their
motion
,
proceeding
from
the
great
fountaine
of
Gods
diuine
prouidence
,
not
working
idlely
therein
,
but
tending
vnto
some
especial
end
and
purpose
:
and
chiefely
this
,
that
men
beholding
and
séeing
the
same
,
should
therupon
take
occasion
as
it
appeareth
by
Dauid
,
with
trembling
and
feare
to
thinke
vpon
that
mightie
maiestie
,
who
is
the
first
cause
and
causer
thereof
,
and
then
to
reuerence
his
holinesse
,
who
reigning
triumphantly
in
heauen
aboue
,
doth
yet
by
these
his
workes
on
earth
,
shew
himselfe
terrible
vnto
the
sonnes
of
men
,
and
thereby
causeth
them
to
remember
him
perforce
,
that
so
one
good
thought
in
them
,
may
as
fier
encreasing
fier
,
beget
an
other
,
before
all
be
quite
quenched
.
This
then
(
as
it
séemeth
)
being
the
purpose
and
counsaile
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
by
such
his
workes
to
stirre
vp
in
vs
a
more
strong
and
fruitfull
impression
of
the
great
deitie
▪
we
néede
not
now
trauaile
farre
to
séeke
out
some
presidents
thereof
,
in
straunge
countries
for
the
satisfying
of
our selues
by
the
testimony
of
our
owne
eyes
:
for
loe
,
the
Lord
doth
now
at
this
instant
in
some
sort
present
the
same
vnto
vs
at
home
in
our
own
natiue
country
,
and
that
in
diuerse
places
by
common
report
,
but
especially
in
one
place
more
aboundantly
then
els
where
,
as
may
sufficiently
appeare
by
this
discourse
insuing
,
faithfully
sette
downe
by
them
who
are
very
〈◊〉
persons
,
and
doo
testifie
that
which
they
themselues
〈◊〉
know
to
be
true
.
A
most
straunge
and
true
report
of
certaine
ground
,
containing
nine
acres
and
vpward
,
which
was
suncke
,
remoued
,
and
carried
out
of
his
place
,
eight
perches
,
with
the
trees
standing
therevpon
,
at
Cockam
hill
,
in
the
parish
of
Westram
in
Kent
,
about
fifteen
miles
distant
from
London
.
IN
the
parish
of
Westram
in
Kent
,
about
a
myle
from
the
Towne
Southward
,
not
far
from
the
East
side
of
a
certaine
great
and
common
high
way
,
called
Cockam
Hill
,
leading
from
London
towardes
Buckhurst
,
&
other
partes
of
Sussex
,
about
that
coast
lyeth
a
certaine
Farme
possessed
by
one
maister
Robert
Heath
,
an
honest
Gentleman
,
dwelli●g
at
Sandersted
in
Surry
,
and
presently
tenanted
by
one
Giles
Browne
an
honest
yeoman
.
Among
sundry
parcels
of
ground
belonging
thereto
,
in
the
midst
of
that
Farme
are
two
closes
lying
togither
,
sauing
that
they
bee
separated
with
a
standing
hedge
,
of
Hollies
,
Ashes
,
Hazels
,
Willowes
and
Alders
growing
theron
:
the
scituation
of
which
,
and
namely
of
the
vpper
close
,
till
the
18.
day
of
December
last
past
,
was
after
this
sort
.
The
vpper
face
of
it
lay
somewhat
adant
,
and
vpon
the
shoote
of
an
hill
,
but
not
so
much
,
but
that
a
bowle
being
cast
vp
against
the
hill
might
easily
haue
layen
&
setled
without
tumbling
backe
againe
perforce
:
otherwise
it
was
reasonably
leuell
for
the
most
part
:
for
it
hath
bene
vsually
mowed
,
and
within
these
fiue
yeares
hath
bene
sowed
thrée
times
with
thrée
sundry
kindes
of
graine
:
first
with
wheate
,
secondly
with
Barly
,
and
thirdly
with
Oates
:
A
little
aboue
the
North
ende
thereof
,
lying
somewhat
higher
then
the
rest
,
harde
adioyning
to
the
foote
of
a
very
high
and
stéep
hil
,
there
was
a
certaine
carrying
way
for
Carte
and
Waine
,
to
the
Tennaunts
vse
,
and
beneath
that
,
towarde
the
middest
of
it
,
a
foote
path
did
crosse
to
the
close
:
Betwéene
the
sayd
carrying
way
,
and
the
sayd
foote
path
,
were
two
standing
pittes
,
the
one
being
about
sixe
foote
déepe
of
water
and
more
,
the
other
twelue
foote
at
the
least
,
and
about
foure
perches
ouer
in
bredth
,
hauing
sundry
tuffes
of
Alders
and
some
Asshes
growing
in
the
bottomes
of
them
:
the
ground
on
the
south
side
of
the
sayd
pittes
,
laye
mounted
higher
then
the
vpper
face
of
the
water
,
about
tenne
foote
.
Againe
,
from
the
great
high
hill
lying
at
the
vpper
part
of
the
grounde
whereof
wee
spake
before
,
two
very
little
gozels
passed
downe
along
Southward
through
the
close
,
theyr
water
Courses
being
diuided
asunder
at
the
vpper
end
,
about
the
carrying
way
,
twelue
perches
,
and
about
the
middest
twentie
eight
perches
:
All
which
earth
of
the
said
closes
within
the
sayd
gozelles
,
and
about
an
Acre
more
in
bredth
one
way
,
and
eighty
perches
in
length
another
way
,
beganne
the
sayd
eightéene
day
of
December
to
alter
and
chaunge
forme
and
fashion
,
and
that
very
diuersly
from
day
to
day
,
for
the
space
of
eleuen
dayes
togither
,
after
this
maner
.
First
on
the
sayd
18.
day
,
the
sayd
Tennant
Giles
Browne
going
in
the
morning
toward
that
Cart
way
,
with
purpose
to
passe
along
it
,
to
a
barne
standing
beyond
it
,
when
hee
came
to
that
part
of
it
which
laye
about
the
head
of
the
gozelles
,
he
found
it
for
xij
.
pearches
long
to
be
sunk
there
down
right
sixe
foote
and
a
halfe
déepe
,
by
measure
taken
by
himselfe
and
other
.
The
next
morning
being
the
ninetéenth
day
,
hée
comming
thither
againe
,
found
it
to
be
sunke
sixtéene
foote
more
then
it
was
the
day
before
.
The
third
morning
being
the
twentieth
day
,
hée
came
againe
,
and
then
found
it
to
be
suncke
about
eightie
foote
more
at
the
least
.
And
then
from
that
day
forwarde
,
that
great
trench
of
ground
lying
partly
in
these
two
closes
,
and
partly
in
sundry
other
,
containing
from
the
carying
way
southward
in
length
(
as
is
before
said
)
about
eightie
perches
,
and
in
bredth
in
some
place
twentie
eight
and
where
it
was
narrowest
xii
.
pearches
,
began
with
the
hedges
and
trées
thereon
to
loose
it self
wholy
from
the
rest
of
the
ground
lying
round
about
it
,
and
withal
to
moue
,
slide
,
and
shoote
southward
,
not
with
any
suddaine
shot
,
but
créeping
by
little
,
and
little
,
so
as
the
motion
and
stirring
thereof
was
not
discerned
nor
perceyued
,
by
them
that
were
presently
standing
vpon
it
and
working
about
it
,
but
only
by
the
sundrie
effects
that
followed
,
as
the
cracking
of
the
rootes
of
trées
,
the
brushing
of
boughes
,
the
noise
of
the
hedge-wood
breaking
,
the
gaping
of
the
ground
,
and
the
riuing
of
the
earth
asunder
,
the
falling
of
the
torne
furrowes
and
huge
trenches
after
it
,
some
foure
foote
déepe
,
some
sixe
and
some
seauen
and
more
,
whereby
there
were
made
in
it
at
the
least
not
so
fewe
as
eleuen
thousand
furrows
,
riffes
,
cracks
,
and
clefts
in
diuerse
places
héere
and
there
.
This
mouing
and
carying
of
the
ground
southward
continewing
stil
both
by
day
and
night
for
the
space
of
eleuen
dayes
togither
,
sliding
a slant
,
sometimes
as
it
was
noted
,
fouretéene
handfulls
by
measure
,
in
one
houre
and
a
halfe
did
wonderfully
alter
and
chaunge
the
whole
face
of
that
land
:
for
in
some
places
thereof
,
the
hinder
ground
comming
faster
forwarde
(
as
it
shoulde
appeare
)
then
the
former
grounde
did
giue
waye
vnto
it
,
caused
it
to
swell
vppe
in
rounde
hillocks
like
vnto
graues
,
the
gréene
turfe
remayning
still
whole
and
vnbroken
aboue
:
In
other
places
the
hinder
grounde
came
so
violently
,
as
that
it
did
not
only
teare
the
greene
turfe
aboue
,
but
also
did
rise
and
lift
vp
it selfe
,
and
did
rolle
and
tumble
euer
the
other
as
it
were
waues
or
surges
and
so
stayed
as
standing
buts
,
and
at
the
last
the
whole
plotte
was
so
toused
,
torne
and
rent
,
and
withall
the
gréene
turfe
so
tattered
and
turned
vp
side
downe
,
as
that
there
is
scant
so
much
as
one
pearch
togither
of
al
this
ground
left
whole
with
the
grasse
vpon
it
vncrackt
.
The
ground
of
the
two
water
pits
euen
from
the
very
muddy
bottoms
whole
,
with
a
great
rocke
of
stone
vnder
the
same
are
not
onlye
remoued
out
of
theyr
places
and
carried
forward
toward
the
South
,
at
the
least
foure
perches
a
péece
,
with
their
tuffes
of
Alders
still
standing
vpon
them
,
but
withall
,
they
are
mounted
vp
aloft
,
and
become
hilles
,
standing
yet
to
be
séene
with
their
sedge
,
flags
,
and
blacke
mudde
vpon
the
toppe
of
them
still
,
higher
then
the
vpper
face
of
the
water
is
now
(
which
they
haue
forsaken
)
by
at
the
least
nine
foote
:
and
into
the
place
from
which
they
are
remoued
and
rysen
,
other
ground
which
lay
higher
before
,
is
descended
and
come
downe
,
receiuing
the
water
lying
now
vpon
it
,
as
it
did
before
vpon
the
other
.
Moreouer
,
in
one
place
of
the
plaine
fielde
,
there
is
a
great
Hole
made
by
sinking
of
the
earth
,
to
the
depthe
of
thirtie
foote
at
the
least
,
being
in
breadth
in
some
place
,
two
perches
ouer
,
and
in
length
,
fiue
or
sixe
perches
.
Likewise
there
is
a
hedge
of
30.
perches
long
▪
remoued
and
carryed
Southward
,
with
his
trées
and
all
,
seuen
perches
at
the
least
:
And
of
these
trées
some
do
still
stand
,
and
grow
vpright
,
and
some
are
quite
ouerthrowne
,
couered
and
buried
,
with
the
folding
of
the
earth
running
vpon
them
,
and
almost
both
the
endes
of
the
sayd
hedge
are
sunke
and
couered
wholy
with
the
earth
:
the
East
end
of
it
foure
perches
long
,
the
West
end
fiue
perches
long
.
Many
other
alterations
there
be
of
trées
that
be
sunke
and
remoued
out
of
their
places
,
some
fiue
perches
,
some
sixe
:
as
namely
,
one
Holly
trée
is
driuen
seuen
perches
out
of
his
place
,
and
yet
it
standeth
vpright
still
,
and
a
great
Alder
is
torne
roote
and
all
cut
of
the
grounde
,
and
carryed
from
his
place
foure
perches
,
and
there
it
lyeth
,
the
top
turned
downe
to
the
ground
.
Beside
this
,
there
was
one
péece
of
ground
of
halfe
an
Acre
,
which
in
times
past
did
lye
vp
shooting
in
betwéene
the
two
fieldes
:
this
peece
now
,
with
an
hedge
row
of
trées
standing
vppon
it
,
is
slipped
quite
away
Southward
,
from
betwéene
those
two
closes
:
and
they
two
before
seuered
,
are
now
come
togither
&
ioyned
as
one
,
and
in
their
comming
,
are
tumbled
ouer
a
sommer
hedge
,
&
withall
two
other
hedges
,
and
a
shawe
of
hazell
trées
,
and
bushes
,
which
did
seuer
them
,
are
now
driuen
togither
on
heapes
at
the
Southend
.
Sundry
other
sinkings
there
be
in
diuers
places
,
one
of
sixtie
fiue
foote
,
an
other
of
forty
seuen
foote
,
an
other
of
thirtie
foure
foote
.
By
meanes
of
all
which
cofusion
,
it
is
come
to
passe
,
that
where
the
highest
hilles
were
héeretofore
,
there
the
deepest
Dales
●ée
now
.
And
where
the
lowest
Dales
were
then
,
now
the
ground
lyeth
mounted
hiest
.
The
footepath
spoken
of
before
,
is
now
caryed
out
of
square
eight
pearches
at
the
least
,
the
lower
end
of
this
ground
is
caryed
southward
in
bredth
thrée
pearches
ouer
into
two
medowes
,
whereof
one
is
in
the
possession
of
an
other
man
called
Thomas
Toller
.
Finally
the
whole
measure
and
content
of
this
breaking
grounde
,
was
at
least
nine
acres
seauen
day
workes
and
foure
perches
,
on
the
twentie
ninth
day
of
December
when
this
figure
and
measure
of
it
was
taken
,
as
here
ye
sée
it
set
downe
:
And
since
that
time
it
cracketh
and
cleaueth
daily
more
and
more
on
all
sides
round
about
it
.
Among
other
things
touching
this
matter
,
this
also
is
especially
to
bee
considered
,
that
whereas
by
the
great
aboundaunce
of
water
,
and
continuall
rayne
which
haue
fallen
so
many
monethes
togither
of
late
,
sundrye
great
bowrnes
,
and
violent
streames
haue
broken
out
in
many
places
of
this
land
,
and
at
the
least
seauen
such
within
xii
.
miles
of
this
place
euery
way
,
the
least
whereof
is
able
to
driue
a
corne
Mill
,
where
seldome
or
neuer
any
such
haue
bin
before
,
and
that
this
ground
lyeth
(
as
we
haue
saide
)
vnder
a
high
hill
that
might
occasion
some
such
issue
,
yet
there
hath
no
extraordinary
course
of
water
broken
out
vppon
it
,
nor
neere
vnto
it
by
a
mile
any
way
,
neither
haue
the
small
springs
thereof
,
during
all
this
wet
weather
,
bin
any
thing
increased
to
speake
of
.
In
so
much
as
the
two
little
gozelles
mentioned
before
,
being
they
that
doo
cary
most
water
ouer
this
rouing
ground
,
are
neither
of
them
so
great
,
but
that
their
streames
might
at
any
time
all
this
yeare
(
and
so
many
still
)
easily
passe
through
an
auger
hole
of
an
Inch
and
halfe
broade
.
Which
I
speake
to
this
end
,
that
the
strange
cariage
,
moouing
,
dryuing
,
and
displacing
of
huge
masse
of
earth
,
and
the
heauing
vp
of
the
vallyes
and
lowe
pits
,
with
the
great
rootes
thereof
raysed
and
mounted
vnto
hilles
,
with
the
trées
therevpon
,
cannot
be
imputed
to
the
aboundance
of
water
enforcing
it
as
the
cause
therof
,
as
some
perhaps
otherwise
would
imagin
and
suppose
.
The
whole
maner
of
the
straunge
confusion
of
this
plat
cannot
be
discribed
according
as
it
is
but
there
hath
(
by
report
of
the
Farmers
and
others
)
come
to
see
it
at
sundry
times
,
from
London
and
other
partes
of
the
country
foure
thousand
people
since
it
first
began
:
to
whom
it
hath
séemed
to
be
a
very
straunge
and
fearefull
sight
,
giuing
occasion
vnto
some
of
them
,
to
thinke
vpon
that
great
opening
of
the
earth
that
shal
be
in
the
latter
day
when
she
shall
yeelde
vp
her
dead
,
that
be
in
her
to
come
to
the
resurrection
,
to
other
to
thinke
vpon
that
fearefull
gaping
of
the
ground
wherein
Corah
and
his
company
were
deuoured
.
And
to
the
intent
the
reader
may
not
thinke
himselfe
to
be
abused
in
this
report
by
some
vaine
deuised
fable
,
sundry
of
the
neighbors
and
inhabitants
,
and
they
of
the
best
credit
dwelling
thereabout
,
who
haue
bin
at
it
,
and
are
eye
witnesses
thereof
,
haue
bin
content
here
vnto
to
giue
their
testimony
,
by
subscribing
their
names
at
the
beginning
of
this
booke
.
FINIS
.