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england_n	crown_n	king_n	royal_a	3,039	5	7.6773	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20051	The blacke rod, and the vvhite rod (justice and mercie,) striking, and sparing, [brace] London.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1630 (1630)	STC 6492.5; ESTC S326	10,452	22

Starres Earthquakes Stormes of Hayle which kill'd Cattell and beat downe Corne with the Apparition of Spirits in the Ayre in the likenesse of strange vgly Fowle flying with fire in theyr Beakes and doing much mischiefe to Houses But presently after in the Raigne of Hen 3. the Kingdome in generall was torne in pieces by two Dragons Dearth or want of victuals and an exceeding great sweeping Plague So Edward the second saw the fall of his people and the famishing of his Countrey by the two fore-named Tyrants So Edw. 3. in his long Raigne of fiftie yeeres lamented the losse of his then warlike Nation so struck downe by a Pestilent Contagion that many who had he●l●h in the morning lay in their Graues at night Forty Bodies at one time crowding in those cold Beds together for want of more and better roome Thirteene yeares after Death spread his Cullors againe and then in that dismall Battell Henry Duke of Lancaster his Dutchesse and the Earle of Warwicke fell vnder the cruell Conquerours hands Besides in one yeare in a plot of ground being at that time in Compasse thirteene Acres then called Spittle-Croft or the Charter-house founded by Gualter Manny Knight of the Garter who there lyes Intoomb'd were buried 50000. Persons besides those who tooke vp their euerlasting lodgings in other places In this yeare the Blacke Rod smarted deeply The Sword of Diuine Iustice had a sharpe terrible edge and where it hit it strucke home Few of the then following Kings but had their Subjects snatched from them by these hot and speeding calamities We will now omitting all the rest looke onely at these two great Plagues indeed fresh too fresh in our memories the first beginning when Q. Elizabeth left vs and that K. Iames tooke vs to be his people The second when K. Iames tooke his way to Heauen and left both all his Kingdomes and their mighty Nations to his Royall Sonne our most gracious Soueraigne King Charles whose yeares the great Arithmetician of Heauen multiply and blesse the numbers till they bee all golden ones But let vs now draw our Arrowes to the Marke we ayme at Those two last Visitations this Hydra-Sicknesse with so many Heads The Plague Why carryes it the Name of Plague Plaga signifies a stripe and this Sicknesse comes with a blow or stripe giuen by the hand of Gods Angell when as he did to Dauid he sends him to strike a people for their sins Our sinnes therefore were and are the Whirlewinds breaking open Iehouahs Armory and forcing him the better to keepe vs from further Rebellion to shoot his fiery and consuming indignation against vs. He hath seuerall sorts of weapons seuerall Punishments for seuerall Offences When Q. Elizabeth departed and went on her Progresse to Heauen what a Traine followed her How many thousands of Coffins wayted on her Herse 'T is fit at the Deaths of great Princes that there should be a great number of Mourners And so at the comming in of new Kings there is a kind of State to be obserued that multitudes of the old Subiects who haue done seruice to their Country before should giue way to others to step into their places At the Arriuall therefore of King Iames vpon this his Crowne-Land God beate a Path narrow at first though it stretched wider to lead vs by the hand as it were to this Funerall Ceremony of dying Subiects We were at the Coronation of our new King King Iames not a new Nation but the selfe-same stiffe-necked people we were before As mighty in our sinnes as in our Multitudes Roome therefore must be made for our sins were so Ru●●ianly and such roaring Boyes they did nothing but iustle one another for the wall to try which sinne should haue the vpper hand The Thunderer looking downe vpon this was loath to shoot his Arrowes feathered with Lightning and headed with Vengeance vtterly to confound the Mis-dooer No Pitty stood in his eyes and Compassion lean'd vpon his Bosome So that spying two Rods lying before him A White one and a Blacke the Blacke he threw by till he should haue time by compulsion to vse it And then taking vp the white Rod he lay'd it gently vpon the head onely of one who forthwith dyed of the Plague And this was on the thirteenth of Ianuary in the yeare 1602. Now almost twenty eight yeares agoe There dyed then but one of the Plague O sparing Mercy From such a huge Tree as London is so laden with all sorts of Fruit but one Apple to drop to the ground No more to be shaken downe But one windfall A Mountainous Quarry of stony hearts to haue but one poore pibble digg'd away In the next weeke that yeere soft Mercy forgot the white Rod too and strucke None None at all Not One In the Weeke after foure felt the smart Then 1. againe Then none againe then 3. then none then 3. then 2. then 3. then 2. then 6. then 4. then 4. and then 8. So that in 15. Weekes which by this time reached to the end of Aprill there dyed of the Plague but 39. This was the Rod of Mercy the white Rod the Fatherly Correction It goes on a little quicker for then the Number swelling vp and increasing by Tens amounted in Iune 23. day to 72. the highest So there dyed in these other 9. weekes the full number of 297. It increased then to hundreds weekely so that in Iuly there dyed 917. in one weeke here The white Rod no amendment in our liues being seene was for a time layd by and the blacke officer of Death comming abroad thousands were stricken downe euery weeke So that from Iuly 28. to October 13. being 12. weekes were buried twenty fiue thousand sixe hundred and sixe Here the Diuine Iustice sate in her full Throne roab'd in Scarlet with a face threatning Terrors But Mercy then step'd in and held hands with Iustice so that a Retreat was sounded The terrible Execution was not so hotly pursued The Pestilentiall Enemy retyr'd a little and fell backe yet so that from October the 20. to Decemb. the 1. being seauen weekes there dyed 600. and odde 500. and odde 400.200.100 and odde still euery weeke And then abated againe to tens as at first it did rise by tens the greatest number of the Dead in December 22. being onely 74. So that in all these maine Battels Seidges Sallyes Batteries and skyrmishes Continuing for a whole yeare together in and about London then the most desolate of Cities there dyed of all Diseases 38244. Out of which number the Plague challenged 30578. for her share yet the yeare immediately following Giue thankes ô noble Troynouant giue thankes thou then didst freely walke vp and downe in health when all thy Neighbours and Friends when all the Shires in England were mortally beleaguer'd by the same furious Enemy Now as when Q. Elizabeth resigned her Crowne and Scepter to King Iames and that he fate in the Throne all these changes were visibly

seene So when the Royall Father went to rest and that his most Princely Sonne CHARLES our Royall succeeding King and now gracious Soueraigne was the Top-branch of the Tree Nay the Caedar it selfe A second Angell was sent downe to turne ouer the Audit-Bookes of our Transgressions And finding London for her part to be run out in deepe Arrerages she was not too suddainly nor too Rigorously call'd vpon but the Steward of Gods Court Mercy pointing with her white wand onely at One set a fine of Death vpon his head and that party was taken from thence on the sixth of Ianuary Anno 1624. And this was the first Weekes worke of the Plague for that yeare It began at One. Death then had little to doe within the Walles or without for his Infections by the space of 12. weekes following In which time there dyed no more but 26. of the Sicknesse And then for 11. weekes following the former it amounted to 480. The other foure weeks succeeding them wherein they fell by hundreds could shew in their Bils of all Diseases 3314 out of which the Plague tooke 1387. And all these three Reckonings grew to this last heighth from the sixth of Ianuary Anno 1624. to the 7. of Iuly Anno 1625. being fully seauen and twenty weekes But then on the 14. of Iuly being the same Moneth the dead Marches began to come in by thousands in a company Obserue therefore in what dreadfull Equipage the two Armies of both our Kings I meane King IAMES and King CHARLES went along to those fearefull Encounters King IAMES 1603. 28. Iuly 1728 1496 4. August 2256 1922 11. August 2077 1745 18. Aug. 3054 2713 25. Aug. 2853 2539 1. Septemb. 3385 3035 8. Septemb. 3078 2724 15. Sept. 3129 2818 22. Sept. 2456 2195 29. Sept. 1961 1732 6. October 1831 1641 13. October 1312 1146   In all Plague   29120 25606 King CHRLES 1625. 14. Iuly 1741 1004 21. Iuly 2850 1819 28. Iuly 3583 2471 4. August 4517 3659 11. Aug. 4855 4115 18. Aug. 3205 4463 25. Aug. 4841 4218 1. Septemb. 3897 3344 8. Septemb. 3157 2550 14. Sept. 2148 1672 22. Sept. 1994 1561   In all Plague   38788 30876 So by this Accompt there fell in that great ouerthrow giuen to King Iames his Subjects for 12. Weeks together when they drop'd downe by thousands the full number of twenty nine thousand one hundred and twenty The terror and cruelty of the Plague sweeping from that number twenty fiue thousand sixe hundred and sixe But in that lamentable defeature of Bodies which fell vpon vs in the raigne of K. Charles Anno 1624. to the end of that yeere in 1625. There dyed in all within the Compasse of eleuen Weeks thirty eight thousand seauen hundred fourescore and eight of which the blacke Rod of Pestilence smote thirty thousand eight hundred seauenty and sixe The difference of the numbers in those twelue Weekes in King Iames his Raigne and those eleuen in that yeere of King Charles being 14. thousand nine hundred thirty and eight The latter exceeding the former in a few weekes by so much The number of all the dead for those two yeares of the two Kings Amounting to one hundred fifty eight thousand fiue hundred and foure Now if within so small a Compasse as a Citty and the adiacent places so many went out of the world how many millions did the whole Kingdome loose But note the exceeding Incomprehensible loue of a Father to vs his Children The mildnesse and Mercy of our Iudge On the 22. of December which ended that yeere of 1604. going on to 1605. there was strucke but one It began with one and ended with one O iust and euen Ballance of the Heauenly Compassion How much are we in Thankes indebted for more we are not able to pay for this wonderfull sparing vs Now in this third Visitation In that former yeares Iuly about this time there dyed 2471. of the Sicknesse Now praised be Heauen the greatest number is but sixty seauen Here was a Fall There is a Fauour In the end this fall from such a great number to one came to nothing A Cypher And so continued a long time Heauen held out a Flagge of Truce and all was quiet The Bils proclaimed no such mortall wars The Sexton opened some few Graues for common Diseases to lye in and for fiue yeares together the burning Pestilence had not kindled her fires amongst vs Yet in that interim of yeares other calamities afflicted vs Warres eate vp many of our Gallants the Sea swallowed others Quarrels tooke away some by the fatall stabbe or desperate fighting in the Feild We haue but one doore at which we come into the World but a thousand Gates set wide open to send vs out of it For such ill bargaines doe we make with life that the Body and the Soule being deere Partners and setting vp together doe euery day by many deuises plots and conspiracies vndoe one another What one sinne Vice or ill custome since the Departure of the last great Sicknesse is gone out of the Kingdome or hath forsaken the City Fasting and Prayer whilst Gods Artillery shot off and battered downe the Wals of our flesh making breaches into the liues and estates of thousands Ran euery weeke to the holy Temples Much Condoling there was much crying for Mercy and mercy came downe But where is fasting now vnlesse with those that are almost staru'd with hunger At how few mens dores sits Charity Yet are there great numbers of Religious Godly and Faithfull Relieuers of the Poore But take all this City in a lumpe together and how little true Charity true Loue true Christianity true Friendship is there one to another What cruelty dwels in our hearts if we catch a man by Law at aduantage How doe we grinde his Bones and gnaw his heart in peeces How doe Tradesmen enuy one another How doe Gentlemen vndoe themselues and their Posterities by Ryots How doe an infinite number of Schollers complaine of want How doe Souldiers gape after spoyle What Couetous Farmer but is glad of a deere yeare A dearth of Corne makes such Cormorants Fat Is not Pride which fiue yeares agoe shew'd not her face in the Citty being afraid of the Plague now to bee seene jetting vp and downe in euery street Does not the Drunkard that was then haunt still the same Tauernes The Body is both the Caroach in which the Soule being the Queene of life rides and the Coachman too that driues her from one place to another from one wickednesse to a worse And the Horses that draw vs are our wilde passions or our intemperate desires Our sinnes with a Dyals motion leade vs to destruction in a soft pace but insensible Our Ruines steale vpon vs with woolly feet all the time it comes after vs but being ouertaken It smites home for sinne is such a Boone companion it goes to Bed with vs and all night sits waking on those very Pillowes on which we