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A33346	A true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances one from the Spanish Invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists, by the fall of the House in Black-Friers, London, upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family, by Sam. Clark ...; England's remembrancer	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. Gun-powder treason.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4559; ESTC R15231	43,495	131

instruments for blowing up the Powder And being no whit daunted he instantly confessed his guiltiness and was so far from Repentance as he vowed that had he been within the house as indeed he was but immediately come forth from his work he would certainly have blown up the House with himself and them all And being brought before the Council he lamented nothing so much as because the deed was not done saying that the Devil and not God was the discoverer of it As desperate were Catesby Percy and the rest who seeing the Treason discover'd posted all into Warwickshire where Grant and his associates had broken open the Stables belonging to Warwick Castle and taken some gaeat horses out of the same to forward their hoped for great day At dun-Dun-Church Sir Everard Digby had made a match for a great hunting that under pretence thereof they might seize upon the Lady Elizabeth then at Comb Abby but when by those which posted from London they were informed that they were discovered and pursued being struck with a great fear not knowing whither to sly they desperately began an open Rebellion pretending that they did it for the cause of Religion all the Catholicks throats being intended to be cut and so trooping together they wandred through Warwickshire being pursued by Sir Richard Verney the then High Sheriff and from thence they went through Worcestershire into Staffordshire their servants and followers being about eighty men who also stole away many of them from them Thus ranging about and finding no resistance they rifled the Lord Windsors house of all the Armour Shot Powder and all other Warlike Provisions but the weather being rainy and the Waters somewhat high the Powder in carriage took wet and so became unserviceable For their last refuge they betook themselves to Holbach House in Staffordshire belonging to Steven Littleton whither they were pursued by the High Sheriff of Worcestershire who not knowing of the Treason and thinking it to be only some fray or riot sent his Trumpeter unto them commanding them to render themselves to him His Majesties Minister But their consciences witnessing what the Sheriff knew not answered that he had need of greater assistance than of those few that were with him before he could be able to command or controul them and so they prepared for resistance and having laid two pounds of the said Powder into a Platter to dry in the chimney one coming to mend the fire threw in a Billet whereby a spark flew into the Powder whose sudden blast was so violent that though so small a quantity it blew up the roof of the house scorching the bodies and faces of Catesby Rookwood and Grant and some others whose consciences now told tdem that God had puished them justly with Powder who with Powder would have destroyed so many Being dispirited with this accident yet like desperate men they resolved to die together set open the Gates and suffered the Sheriffs men to rush in upon them and presently both the Wrights were shot down dead Rookwood and Thomas Winter were very sorely wounded Catesby and Percy desperately fighting back to back were both shot thorow and slain with one Musket bullet the rest being taken were carried prisoners to London being all the way gazed at reviled and detested by the common people for their horrid and horrible Treason and so at last they received the just guerdon of their wickedness Thus you have seen this work of darkness by the watchfulnes of Gods providence detected and defeated and the contrivers of mischief fallen into the pit that they digged for others Now let us see also how cunningly they contrived the transferring the Odium of it upon the Puritans There was one Mr. Pickering of Tichmarsh-Grove in Northamptonshire that was in great esteem with King James This Mr. Pickering had a horse of special note for swiftness on which he used to hunt with the King A little before the blow was given Mr. Keies on of the conspirators and brother in Law to Mr. Pickering borrowed this horse of him and conveyed him to London upon a bloody design which was thus contrived Fawkes upon the day of the fatal blow was appointed to retire himself into St. Georges fields where this horse was to attend him to further his escape as they made him believe so soon as the Parliament House should be blown up It was likewise contrived that Mr. Pickering who was noted for a Puritan should that morning be murthered in his bed and secretly conveyed away As also that Fawkes so soon as he came into St. Georges fields to escape should be there murthered and so mangled that he could not be known whereupon it was to be bruited abroad that the Puritans had blown up the Parliament House and the better to make the World believe it there was Mr. Pickering with his choice Horse ready to make an escape but that stirred up some who seeing the heinousness of the fact and him ready to escape in detestation of so horrible a deed fell upon him and hewed him in pieces and to make it more clear there was his horse known to be of special speed and swiftness ready to carry him away and upon this rumour a Massacre should havy gone through the whole Land upon the Puritans When the contrivance of this Plot was thus discovered by some of the Conspirators and Fawkes who was now a Prisoner in the Tower made acquainted with it whereas before he was made to believe by his companions that he should be bountifully rewarded for that his good service to the Catholick cause now perceiving that on the contrary his death had been contrived by them he thereupon freely confessed all that he knew concerning that horrid conspiracy which before all the tortures of the rack could not force him unto The truth of all this was attested by Mr. William Perkins an eminent Christian and Citizen of London to Dr. Gouge which Mr. Perkins had it from the mouth of Mr. Clement Cotton that made our English Concordance who also had it from the Relation of Mr. Pickering himself FINIS A Narrative of the visible hand of God upon the Papists by the Downfall in Black-Friers London Anno Christi 1623. ON the Lords day October the twenty sixth according to the English account but November the fifth according to the Popish account a common report went far and near that one Drurie a Romish Priest a man of parts and eminent gifts would preach that day in the afternoon in a fair house in Black-Friers London whither all that would might freely come to hear him Upon this report very many Protestants as well as Papists Scholars as well as others assembled thither about three a clock in the afternoon That mansion house was now inhabited by the French Ambassador and the Sermon was to be in a Garret into which there were two passages One out of the Ambassadorus with-drawing Room which was private the other more common without the great Gate

others upon Sabbath the twenty fourth of September came from her Palace of White-Hall in Westminster through the streets of London which were hung with blew Cloth the Companies of the City standing in their Liveries on both sides with their Banners in goodly order being carried in a Chariot drawn with two Horses to St. Pauls Church where dismounting from her Chariot at the West door she humbled her self upon her knees and with great devotion in an audible voice She praised God as her only Defender who had delivered Her self and People from the bloody designes of so cruel an enemy The Sermon then preached tended wholly wholly to give all the glory to God as the Author of this wonderful deliverance and when that was ended Her Majesty Herself with most Princely and Christian speeches exhorted all the people to a due performance of those religious services of thankfulness which the Lord expected and required of them About the same time the Fair being kept in Southwark the Spanish Flags were hung up at London Bridge to the great joy of the beholders and eternal infamy of the Spaniards proud attempts as irreligious as unsuccessful But the solemn day appointed for Thanksgiving throughout the Land was the nineteenth of November being Tuesday which accordingly was observed with great joy and praising of God and well it were if it had so continued still being no less a Deliverance than was that of Purim amongst the Jews which they instituted to be kept holy throughout their Generations The Zelanders also to leave a memorial of their thnakfulness to God and their faithfulness to our Queen caused Medals of Silver to be stamped having engraven on the one side the Armes of their Countrey with this inscription Glory to God alone and on the reverse the pourtracture of great Ships under written the Spanish Fleet and in the circumference It came It went It was Anno 1588. In other medals also were stamped ships floating and sinking and in the reverse Supplicants upon their knees with this Motto man proposeth God disposeth 1588. The Hollanders also stamped some medals with Spanish ships and this Motto Impius fugit nemine sequente the wicked fly when none pursues Our Queen to shew her gratitude as well to the instruments as to the Author of this great Deliverance assigned certain yearly Rents to the Lord Admiral for his gallant service and many times commended him and the other Captains of Her Ships as men born for the Preservation of their Country The rest she graciously saluted by name as oft as she saw them as men of notable deserts wherewith they held themselves well apaid and those which were wounded maimed or poor She rewarded with competent pensions The Lord of Hosts having thus dispelled this storm the Queen dissolved her Camp at Tilbury and not long after the Earl of Leicester ended his dayes having been a Peer of great estate and honour but liable to the common destiny of Great ones whom all men magnifie in their life time but few speak well of after their death THis Admirable Deliverance was congratulated by almost all other Nations especially by all the reformed Churches and many Learned Men celebrated the same in Verse amongst which I shall onely mention two The first was that Poem made by Reverend Mr. Beza Translated into all the chief Languages in Christendom to be perpetuated to all ensuing Posterity It was this STraverat innumeris Hispanus classibus aequor Regnis juncturus Sceptra Britana suis Tanti hujus rogitas quae motus causa superbos Impulit Ambitio vexat avaritia Quam bene te Ambitio mersit vanissima ventus Et tumidae tumidos Vos superastis aquae Quam bene Raptores Orbis totius Iberos Mersit inexhausti justa vorago Maris At tu cui venti cui totum militat Aequor Regina O mundi totius una decus Sic regnare Deo perge Ambitione remota Prodiga sic opibus perge juvare pios Vt te Angli longum longùm Anglis ipsa fruaris Quam dilecta bonis tam metuenda malis SPaines King with Navies great the Seas bestrew'd T' augment with English Crown his Spanish sway Ask ye what caus'd this proud attempt 't was lewd Ambition drove and Avarice led the way It 's well Ambitions windy pufflies drown'd By winds and swelling hearts by swelling waves It 's well those Spaniards who the Worlds vast round Devour'd devouring Sea most justly craves But thou O Queen for whom Winds Seas do war O thou the Glory of this Worlds wide Mass So reign to God still from Ambition far So still with bounteous aids the Good imbrace That Thou maist England long long England Thee enjoy Thou terror of all Bad Thou Good mens joy The other is that made by Mr Samuel Ward of Ipswich OCtogesimus Octavus Mirabilis annus Clade Papistarum Faustus ubique piis IN Eighty eight Spain arm'd with potent might Against our peaceful Land came on to fight The Winds and Waves and Fire in one conspire To help the English frustrate Spains desire FINIS THE Gun-Powder Treason Being A Remembrance to England OF THAT Ancient Deliverance From that Horrid PLOT Hatched by the Bloody PAPISTS 1605. Tending to revive the Memory of the FIFTH OF NOVEMBER to every Family in this NATION That all sorts may be stirred up to real Thankfulness and transmit the same to their Posterities that their Children may know the reason why the Fifth of November is Celebrated that GOD may have Glory and the PAPISTS perpetual Infamy The LORD is known by the judgement that he executeh but the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands HIGGAION SELAH Psal. 9.16 By Sam. Clark Pastor of Bennet Fink London London Printed for J. Hancock and are to be sold at the three Bibles being the first Shop in Popes-Head Alley next to Cornhill 1671. TO THE READER Christian Reader LEast the Remembrance of so signal a Mercy and Deliverance vouchsafed by God both to our Church and State should be buried in Oblivion I have at the request of the Book-seller presented thee here with a true and faithful Narrative of that Grand Work of Darkness forged in Hell and by Satan suggested to some Popish Instruments who envying the peace and prosperity of our Church and progress of the Gospel had designed at one blow to overthrow both And that nothing might be wanting to compleat that horrid wickedness their purpose was to have charged it upon the Puritans thereby hoping to free themselves and their Religion from the imputation of so hainous a crime Now that the memorial of a Mercy of such publick and general concernment should not be forgotten we have the Word of the Eternal God to be our Guide therein when the Lord had by his Angel destroyed the first born of Egypt and spared Israel He instituted the Feast of the Passover to continue the memorial thereof through their Generations Exod. 12.11 12 14 26 27. saith Moses to them when

of the said Mansion House Under this Garret was another large Chamber which one Redyate another Romish Priest had hired for himself Unto whom Papists frequently repaired to hear Mass and make confessions Under this room was the aforesaid withdrawing chamber of the Ambassador supported with strong Arches of stone being immediately over the entrance into the great House And at the South end of the Garret and on the West side thereof there were Bed-chambers and Closets which other Priests had hired for themselves The Bed-chamber at the South end was severed from the Garret only by a partition of Wanscote which was taken down for the Sermon time The length of the Garret from North to South was almost sorry foot the breadth about sixteen foot The two aforesaid passages met on one pair of stairs leading to the Garret which had only that one door leading into it More came to this place then possibly it could hold so that many for want of room returned back again Others went into the aforesaid Redyates Chamber and tarried with him The whole Garret Rooms adjoyning door and top of the stairs were as full as they could hold In the Garret were set chairs and stools for the better sort most of the women sate on the floor but most of the men stood thronged together In all about two hundred were there assembled In the midst was a table and a chair for the Preacher All things thus prepared and the multitude assembled about three of the clock the expected Preacher having on a Surplice girt about his middle with a linnen girdle and a tippet of Scarlet on both his shoulders came in being attended by a man that brought after him his book and hour-glass As soon as he came to the table he kneeled down with shew of private devotion for a little while then rising up and turning himself to the people he crossed himself took the book which was said to be a Rhemish Testament out of his mans hands and the hour-glass being set on the table he opened the book read the Gospel appointed by the Remish Calendar for that day being the twenty first Sunday after Pentecost The Gospel was in Matthew 18 23 c. The Text being read he sate down put on a red cap over a white linnen one turned up about the brims He made no audible Prayer but having read his Text which was the Parable of forgiving debts he spake something of the occasion of it and then propounded these three special points to be handled 1. The debt we owe to God 2. The mercy of God in forgiving it 3. Mans unmercifulness to his Brother Having insisted some while of the misery of man by reason of the debt wherein he stands bound to God he passed on to declare the rich mercy of God and the means which God hath afforded to his Church for partaking thereof Amongst which he reckoned up the Sacaments and especially pressed the Sacrament of Penance as they call it When he had discoursed on these points about half an hour on a sudden the floor whereon the Preacher and the greatest part of his Auditory were fell down with such violence as therewith the floor of the Chamber under it where Redyate and his company were was broken down with it so that both the floors with the beams girders joyces boords and feelings with all the people on them fell down together upon the third floor which was the floor of the French Ambassadors withdrawing Chamber supported with strong arches as aforesad There being a partition on the South side of the middle Chamber which reached up to the floor of the Garret and supported it that part of the Garret which was beyond the partition Southward fell not so as all the people thereon were safe only they had no way to get forth for there was but one entrance into the Garret which was at the North-West corner Hereupon some through amazement would have leaped out at a window almost forty foot from the ground but the people without telling them of the certain danger if they leaped down kept them from that desperate attempt At length by breaking a wall on the West-side they discerned Chambers adjoyning thereto and so by creeping through that hole into the Chambers they were saved So were all they that stood on the stair-head at the door leading into the Garret For the stairs were without the Room and nothing fell but the floors neither walls nor roof Also amongst those that fell many escaped for some of the timber rested with one end on the walls and with the other on the third floor that yielded not and so both such as abode on those pieces and such as were directly under them were thereby preserved Amongst the multidude that fell there was a Minister who through Gods Providence fell so between two pieces of timber as that the timber kept his upper parts from crushing and holped him by his clasping about the timber to pull out his feet from amongst the dead corpses Amongst others the present preservation and future destruction of one Parker was very remarkable This Pa●ker was a factor for the English Seminaries and Nunnes beyond Sea especially at Cambre and he had so dealt with two of his brothers here that he had got from one of them a son and from the other a daughter to send them to religious houses as they call them beyond Sea This Parker at this time took his Nephew a youth of about sixteen years old to the aforementioned fatal conventicle where Drury preached and both Parker and his Nephew fell with the rest The youth there lost his life but Parker himself escaped with a bruised body being a corpulent man yet so far was he from making a good use of his deliverance that with much discontent he wished that he had dyed for his Nephew saying That God saw him not fit to dye amongst such Martyrs Such are Romes Martyrs But the preservation of the wicked is but a reservation to future judgment For about ten days after as this Parker was shooting London-Bridge with his aforesaid Neece whom he was conveying beyond Sea they were both cast away and drowned in the Thames Judge by this O Parents whether God is well pleased with disposing your Children to Popish Education Others there were that were pulled out alive but so bruised or so spent for want of breath that some lived not many hours others dyed not many days after The floor of the Chamber immediately over this where the Corps lay being fallen there was no entrance into it but through the Ambassadours Bed-chamber the door whereof was closed up with the Timber of the floors that fell down and the walls of this room were of stone only there was one window in it with extraordinary strong cross barrs of iron so that though Smiths and other workmen were immediately sent for yet it was more than an hour before succour could be afforded to them that were faln down

Passage at length being made I had access into the room saith Doctor Gouge the relater of this story and viewing the Bodies observed some yet but few to be mortally wounded or crushed by the timber Others to be apparently stifled partly with their thick lying one upon another and partly with the dust that came from the cieling which fell down On the Lords day at night when they fell they were numbered ninety one dead bodies but many of them were secretly conveyed away in the night there being a pair of water-stairs leading from the garden appertaining to the house into the Thames On the morrow the Coroner and his Inquest coming to view the bodies found remaining but sixty three Of those that were carried away some were buried in a Burying place within the Spanish Ambassadours House in Holborn amongst whom the Lady Web was one the Lady Blackstones daughter another and one Mistress Udal a third Master Stoker and Master Bartholomew Bavin were buried in St. Brides Parish Robert Sutton John Loccham and Abigail Holford in St. Andrews Holborn Captain Summers wife in the Vault under Black Friers Church and her woman in the Church-yard For the Corps remaining two great pits were digged one in the fore Court of the said French Ambassadors house eighteen foot long and twelve foot broad the other in the garden behind his house twelve foot long and eight foot broad In the former pit were laid forty four Corps whereof the bodies of the aforesaid Drury and Redyate were two These two wound up in sheets were first laid into the pit with a partition of loose earth to fever them from the rest Then were others brought some in somewhat a decent manner wound up in sheets but the most in a most lamentable plight the shirts onely of the men tyed under the twists and some linnen tyed about the middle of the women the rest of their bodies naked and one poor man or woman taking a Corps by the head another by the feet tumbled them in and so piled them up almost to the top of the pit The rest were put into the other pit in the garden Their manner of burial seemed almost as dismal as the heap of them when they lay upon the floor where they last fell No obsequies of funeral Rites were used at their burial Only the day after a black Cross of wood was set upon each grave but was soon by Authority commanded to be taken down When they were thus interred thorough search was made about the cause of the falling of the timber The timber of each floor was laid together and the measure of the Summers that brake was taken The main Summer which crossed the Garret was ten inches square Two girders were by tenents and mortaises let into the middest of it one just against another the Summer was knotty where the mortaises were made whereupon being over-burdened it knapped suddenly asunder in the middest The main Summer of the other floor that fell was much stronger being thirteen inches square strong and found every where neither did the girders meet so just one against another yet that also failed not in the middest as the uppermost but within five foot of one end and that more shiveringly and with a longer rent in the timber then the other For this Chamber was almost full with such persons as coming too late went into Redyates Chamber Besides it did not only bear the weight which lay on the upper floor but received it with a sudden knock and so the massie timber shivered in two and the people were irrecoverably before they could tear any such thing beaten down into the third floor which was above twenty foot from the first It 's true we must not be rash in censuring yet when we see judgements executed on sinners in the act of their sin when they are impudent and presumptuous therein not to acknowledge such to be judged by the Lord is to wink against clear light Psal. 9. 16. God is known by the judgements which he executeth Shall Nebuchadnezzar while he is vaunting of his great Babylon be berest of his wits Shall Herod whilest he is priding himself in the flattering applanse of the people be eaten of worms Shall Haman whilest he practising to destroy all the people of God be hanged on a Gallows fifty foot high which he had prepared for Mordecai Shall the House where the Philistins met together to sport with Sampson fall upon their heads Shall these and such like judgments overtake men in the very act of their sin and yet be accounted no judgements no evidences of Gods revenging Justice or signes of his indignation Truly then we may deny all Providence and attribute all to chance But add hereto that this fell out upon their fifth of November and it will be as clear as if written with a Sun-beam that the pit which they digged for others they themselves fell into it Doctor Gouge who relates this Story in his Extent of Gods Providence thus writeth I do the more confidently publish this History because I was an eye-witness of many of the things therein related and heard from the mouths of such as were present at the Sermon the rest For upon the first hearing of the destruction of so many persons as by that Dowosal lost their lives our Constables presently caused the Gates of our precinct it being surrounded with walls and Gates to be shut and raised a strong Guard from amongst the inhabitants to keep the house where this accident fell out and to prevent tumult about it Thus through the favour of the Constables and Watch who were all my neighbours I had the more free and quiet access to view the dead bodies and to inform my self of all the material circumstances about that accident which I did the rather because the Bishop of London that then was sent to me to inform my self throughly of all the business and to send him a narration thereof under my hand whereupon I did not only view matters my self but caused Carpenters to search the timber to take the measures both of the timber and the rooms I was also present with the Coroner and his Inquest at their examining of all circumstances about the business And the Arch-Bishop of Camerbury sending to me to come to him and to bring with me the best evidence I could I got the foreman and others of the Jury and four persons that were present at the Sermon and fell down with the rest but by Gods providence escaped death and one that stood without the door within hearing but fell not all these I got to go along with me to Lambeth where I heard the witness which they gave to the Arch-Bishop about this matter One that fell with the rest and escaped death was Master Gee a Preacher in Lancashire two others were a son and servant to a Citizen in Pater noster Row The rest were men of good understanding able to apprehend what they saw and heard and to relate what they conceived FINIS