The
great
and
wonderfull
losse
sustained
by
Fire
and
Water
in
the
Countrey
of
Germany
,
in
the
Months
of
May
and
Iune
,
in
diuers
places
of
the
said
Countrey
;
as
first
in
the
Towne
of
Erfford
and
Weinmar
.
IN
the
Towne
of
Erfort
,
and
other
places
in
Germany
,
vpon
the
eighth
day
of
the
month
of
Iune
last
past
,
the
weather
was
so
vn-seasonable
and
stormy
,
that
by
meanes
of
certaine
showers
of
raine
,
and
extremity
of
haile
that
fell
in
great
aboundance
in
that
country
,
the
water
grew
so
high
that
many
places
thereabout
were
drowned
,
to
the
great
and
vnspeakeable
hurt
of
the
people
of
the
same
;
for
that
the
haile-stones
which
fell
from
the
sky
,
were
in
many
places
seene
and
found
to
bee
as
big
as
pigeons
and
hens
egges
.
And
specially
in
the
towne
of
Weinmar
,
it
was
most
extreame
and
terrible
,
whereby
two
milles
,
at
least
a
hundred
men
,
and
many
cattle
,
were
drowned
,
and
the
water
in
Reinmar
at
that
time
,
waxt
and
rose
vp
at
least
three
elles
higher
then
euer
it
was
before
:
and
the
water
called
the
Ilme
,
which
tunneth
by
the
gate
,
through
Naumburg
,
and
so
to
Saal
,
rose
so
high
that
foure
miles
round
in
circuit
,
it
ouer-whelmed
and
drowned
all
the
villages
&
hamblets
thereabouts
,
together
with
an
innumerable
company
of
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
and
great
multitudes
of
cattle
.
And
about
halfe
a
mile
from
Weinmar
,
in
a
small
village
,
the
water
ran
with
so
mighty
a
force
,
and
such
a
streame
,
that
it
bare
the
bodies
of
the
dead
before
it
out
of
their
graues
in
the
Church-yard
,
and
at
Mulhausen
and
Solts
drowned
all
their
sellers
,
and
spoiled
whatsoeuer
was
therein
:
whereby
at
least
fifty
Tuns
of
Wine
and
Beere
were
vtterly
staued
&
lost
.
In
Eiffeldt
by
Mulhausen
at
the
same
time
,
there
was
an
hundred
men
,
women
,
and
children
drowned
,
the
houses
by
the
water
so
vndermined
,
that
they
fell
down
,
and
were
borne
cleane
away
:
and
as
it
was
found
by
searchching
and
true
certificates
,
there
was
at
least
a
thousand
men
,
women
,
and
children
cast
away
and
drowned
within
the
liberties
and
territories
of
Weinmar
.
And
for
that
the
water
continued
with
so
great
extremity
to
rise
&
rage
in
that
manner
for
the
space
of
twelue
houres
together
,
the
people
were
forced
to
get
into
boats
and
in
them
to
sit
and
passe
along
to
saue
themselues
,
singing
vnto
the
Lord
,
and
saying
:
In
peace
and
ioy
I
passe
along
,
and
God
our
Lord
and
Father
dwell
by
vs
,
&c.
At
Magdenburg
about
the
same
time
,
there
was
at
the
least
foure
hundred
houses
by
extremity
of
water
cleane
cast
downe
and
ouerwhelmed
,
and
the
storme
smiting
into
S.
Iames
Church
,
the
Organs
were
broken
,
the
fonestones
forcibly
throwne
downe
,
and
the
steeple
thereof
suddenly
burnt
.
And
at
Gorlitz
there
was
so
many
hailestones
cast
into
the
Towne
,
that
they
lay
at
the
least
three
quarters
of
an
ell
high
heaped
one
vpon
another
in
the
same
,
which
did
great
hurt
and
harme
vnto
the
fruit
in
the
Country
.
What
such
and
the
like
prodigious
things
signifie
and
fore-shew
,
God
knoweth
.
In
Leiptsig
,
vpon
the
12
day
of
the
moneth
of
Iune
,
the
water
rose
so
high
,
and
increased
in
such
aboundance
,
that
it
carried
away
aboue
an
hundred
clap-bordes
,
the
powder-mill
,
a
stone
bridge
,
the
garden
and
house
of
pleasure
,
the
tinne
bath-stoues
,
couered
ouer
with
Copper
,
the
butchery
,
the
fish
toll-house
,
the
rentmaisters
house
,
the
timber-house
,
the
house
wherein
the
prouision
was
kept
,
the
Indian
hen-house
,
the
grauing-mill
where
the
Iasper
stone
lay
(
wherein
they
had
grauen
D.
Iohns
Epitaph
)
the
wodden
bridge
couered
with
tiles
,
the
wall
round
about
the
Castle-garden
,
the
water-worke
,
the
pipe
,
and
the
wall
about
it
,
in
the
castle
a
round
tower
with
a
vault
therein
,
and
much
timber
,
and
the
water
ran
in
at
the
lop
,
or
shot
holes
,
(
within
the
Castlewalkes
a
mans
height
at
the
least
)
into
the
towne
by
the
Kegell
tower
,
and
the
Reich-mil
,
the
water
was
16
elles
high
,
in
the
corn-house
it
carried
away
all
the
corne
out
of
the
nether
loft
,
whereby
it
swom
in
the
towne
ditches
,
in
the
castle
,
and
in
the
castle-vault
,
the
vessels
with
wine
and
beere
were
ouer-throwne
,
so
that
they
could
by
no
meanes
be
holpen
,
or
saued
in
the
suddennesse
of
the
time
.
In
the
wardrope
of
the
castle
,
the
Dukes
apparrell
and
Tapestry
hangings
were
spoiled
,
the
Princes
Orchard
ouerwhelmed
:
in
the
fore
roomes
or
part
of
the
house
,
fiue
and
twenty
horses
,
two
and
forty
Cowes
,
two
and
forty
Calues
,
forty
swine
,
sixe
fat
Oxen
,
and
many
Fowles
,
with
their
stables
and
cages
,
belonging
to
the
yong
Duke
,
were
all
broken
and
drowned
.
And
in
the
towne
,
in
the
neither
mill
,
besides
thirteene
men
,
there
was
certaine
quarters
,
or
measures
of
corne
,
much
houshold-stuffe
,
and
at
least
a
thousand
gilderns
in
money
,
drowned
and
lost
,
and
the
millers
wife
,
and
her
man
lost
their
liues
,
the
Reich-mill
was
torne
in
peeces
,
and
therewith
foure
and
forty
houses
and
barnes
,
with
all
their
houshold
stuffe
and
prouision
ouer-throwne
&
spoiled
,
and
threescore
and
fiue
men
women
and
children
drowned
.
In
the
villages
thereunto
adioining
,
a
Gentleman
called
Monsieur
Schutz
,
had
his
house
,
with
his
houshold
stuffe
and
cattle
,
and
many
other
houses
more
cleane
ouer-whelmed
and
the
stone-bridge
broken
downe
,
the
Gentleman
and
his
wife
,
by
great
fortune
and
with
great
paine
,
and
much
trouble
were
saued
.
In
Erisdorp
there
was
ten
houses
ouerwhelmed
,
and
fifteene
men
drowned
.
In
Ouerweinmar
the
mill
with
ten
houses
was
cast
downe
,
and
many
men
drowned
.
In
Deifurt
nine
houses
,
and
nine
men
were
ouerthrowne
and
drowned
,
and
all
the
village
Kromsdorf
spoiled
except
the
Parsons
house
,
and
the
Gentlemans
house
of
that
towne
.
In
Vilerhelben
four
teene
houses
&
sheepestailes
were
throwne
to
the
ground
,
and
fiue
men
drowned
.
In
Roslebn
the
corne
house
,
the
mill
,
the
stoue
,
the
worke-house
,
and
the
sheep-stalles
,
with
at
least
a
thousand
sheepe
,
were
all
spoiled
ouer-whelmed
,
and
drowned
.
In
Soltelsee
eight
and
twenty
houses
,
and
three
men
sunke
and
drowned
.
In
Wortstet
fiue
and
twenty
men
,
women
,
and
children
drowned
,
and
ten
houses
onerthrowne
,
with
the
mill
and
the
brew-house
.
In
Vberstadt
44
houses
,
and
23
men
consumed
and
drowned
.
In
Drebem
twenty
men
,
and
so
many
houses
,
and
all
Monsieur
Shenkes
cattle
drowned
.
In
ouer
Drebern
the
mill
and
the
Brewhouse
borne
away
.
In
Soltza
20.
men
,
and
39.
houses
drowned
.
In
the
village
of
Soltza
,
the
Brew-house
was
ouerthrowne
.
In
great
Grumbach
besides
29
houses
,
and
many
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
with
great
store
of
Cattle
cleane
borne
away
,
there
was
aboue
a
thousand
persons
more
drowned
,
for
the
which
their
was
great
lamentation
and
sorow
made
.
The
stormy
weather
,
and
the
rising
of
the
waters
was
so
great
,
that
for
the
space
of
fifteene
Dutch
miles
long
,
and
about
Erfford
and
Mulhausen
,
all
the
friute
in
the
Country
was
spoyled
and
destroyed
.
In
Weinmar
there
was
nineteene
Maister
Weisgerbies
whereof
there
are
now
but
three
liuing
.
And
daily
there
was
graues
made
and
digged
in
diuers
places
in
the
Country
,
wherein
were
buried
at
least
10
or
12
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
together
.
So
that
the
great
hurt
and
misery
done
,
and
endured
in
these
Countries
of
Germany
is
not
to
be
told
for
the
extremety
thereof
.
In
the
land
of
Wurtenberg
,
in
Nagolt
there
was
ten
men
drowned
,
two
houses
ouerwhelmed
,
&
the
corne
vpon
the
ground
spoiled
.
In
Hernberg
,
Rotenberg
,
Tubingen
,
and
Islengen
,
the
fruites
,
vines
,
and
corne
,
were
all
spoiled
.
About
Elwang
,
and
Dunkelspiel
,
there
was
haile-stones
found
that
wayed
two
,
three
,
and
foure
pound
weight
.
In
Orterum
the
lightning
strake
into
the
Castle
,
whereby
the
greatest
part
thereof
was
burnt
,
and
at
least
three
hundred
men
drowned
in
the
Riuer
.
In
Prage
in
Bohemia
the
stormes
and
tempests
were
so
great
that
they
did
much
hurt
in
many
places
throughout
the
country
,
whereby
the
fruits
were
not
onely
destroied
,
but
also
the
water-sluces
,
ditches
,
and
weares
brake
into
the
countrey
,
and
thereby
made
the
waters
grow
so
high
,
that
aboue
a
hundred
loads
of
Timber
,
and
many
fats
full
of
Corne
swam
vpon
the
water
,
and
fishes
were
found
and
taken
vpon
the
land
.
In
many
places
the
water
carried
away
the
Sheepheards
out
of
the
field
,
and
many
hundreds
of
cattle
drowned
,
and
great
store
of
horses
and
sheepe
.
So
that
the
great
losse
about
this
time
endured
by
the
people
in
these
Countries
,
by
meanes
thereof
,
amounteth
vnto
many
hundred
thousand
Dollers
.
God
Almighty
if
it
bee
his
will
and
pleasure
,
defend
,
keepe
and
deliuer
vs
from
the
like
troubles
and
aduersities
,
and
turne
his
angry
wrath
and
indignation
from
vs
,
which
we
(
by
reason
of
our
great
and
innumerable
sinnes
)
haue
well
deserued
;
and
for
the
merits
and
passion
of
our
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
his
sonne
,
be
mercifull
vnto
vs
,
and
giue
vs
grace
to
liue
in
such
a
sort
,
that
we
may
be
alwayes
ready
for
the
Lord
,
whensoeuer
hee
calleth
vs
out
of
this
world
.
Amen
.
BY
letters
sent
from
Constantinople
bearing
date
the
14
of
Iune
,
it
is
certified
to
truth
,
that
in
the
said
Citty
,
thereare
,
by
casualty
of
fire
that
hapned
therein
,
at
least
fiue
thousand
houses
burnt
,
and
that
the
great
losse
thereby
sustained
,
amounteth
vnto
more
then
a
Million
of
Gold
:
and
that
the
said
fire
was
the
cause
of
a
great
tumult
and
vprore
made
therein
at
the
same
time
;
for
that
the
Ianizaries
vnder
pretence
of
quenching
the
fire
robbed
and
ransacked
the
Iewes
,
Greekes
,
and
Armenians
houses
,
who
thereupon
making
resistance
against
the
Turkes
,
in
the
contention
betweene
them
they
slew
one
of
the
Iannisaries
,
for
the
which
the
next
day
after
,
they
wer
fined
to
pay
ten
thousand
Cechinies
,
there-with
to
content
and
please
the
principall
Visiere
Nazut
;
which
notwithstanding
knowing
a
certaine
Iew
in
Constantinople
to
be
exceeding
rich
,
hee
caused
him
to
be
accused
by
false
witnesses
,
that
he
was
the
man
that
slew
the
Iannisarie
,
and
for
the
same
,
condemned
him
to
die
,
and
all
his
goods
to
be
confiscated
,
which
put
the
rest
of
the
Iewes
and
Merchants
in
Constantinople
in
great
feare
and
much
perplexity
.