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A15677	The vvonders of this windie winter By terrible stormes and tempests, to the losse of liues and goods of many thousands of men, women and children. The like by sea and land, hath not beene seene, nor heard of in this age or the world.		1613 (1613)	STC 25949; ESTC S103315	10,277	22

one horse by the fiercenes of the wind were blowne beside and there drowned both horse and all God be merciful vnto vs and preserue vs from all such like mischances The like mishap befell in Nouember last vnto two York-shire men as it is verified by some Gentlemen of the Innes of Court and Chancery which knew the parties the one of them a Tanner named Francis Browne the other a Clothier called Richard Smith both dwelling in a Towne neere Wakefield side called Therby which two Countrie-men falling out vpon small occasions wilfully purposed to come vp to London and there put their Causes of themselues to the Lawes tryall yet notwithstanding came they vp together where in riding ouer a Bridge about Bedford-shire and conferring of their inward grudges they were blowne both beside into the Riuer where by the fiercenes of the windes they were most lamentably drowned both horse and men and thus by sodaine death ended their malice to the feare and amazement of all such as wel could witnes their enuious procedings these and such like accidents may be feareful examples for the world to behold especially for rich-men shewing to them the certaintie of life and goods subiect to the chaunces of death and fortune according to the saying of a worthy Philosopher Full little thinks the man at morning Sun What hap to him befals ere day be done Therefore let vs pray for good successe in all our businesses guided and accompanied with the blessings of heauen and then no doubt but better chance will betide vs then these two malitious country-men had in their iourney We haue yet more notice gentle Reader of other sorrowfull discourses to relate of which well may beget your sad entertainment and possesse your hearts with remorse for they be strange and fearefull and in the eare of the hearer full of dole Let vs now passe into the middle parts or shires of England and tel what mischances there hapned the three shires of Warwick Lecester and Northhampton I meane where the Inhabitants thereof with stacks and ricks of hey peaze and beanes do vsually in winter times feed and fatten shéep and swine those country-men the more is my griefe to report by these aforesayd tempests haue endured much losse for many of their shéep and swine haue béen smothered vnder the ricks and stackes blowne down by the winds besides barns and stables with many husbandly houses torne and vncouered of thatch by the same Likewise the dwellings of yomen farmers laboring plow-men in those countries haue bin ouerturned with the rage of this tempestuous commander wel may we therfore if we consider al these things arightly call this the blacke fatall winter of mishaps in which time many burthens of sorrow be laid vpon our contry God be our comfort for alas alas the aforesaid raging windes in diuers other shires of England haue beaten down a number of houses dispearcing the substance of the poore owners where many of them perished in preseruing their substance from the fal of their houses Yet let vs make no question but that God is merciful and hath plauged som few with the losse of life and goods if it be possible to call others to amendment of life Therefore aboue all things let vs take héed that long escapes of punishment or the vaine hopes of long life do not delude vs and make vs still run into our sins without hope of returne But to our lamentable narration againe many the like strange euents fell out in other countries and parts of the kingdome as for example 2. or 3. shéep-kéepers in a part of Salisbury Plaine in the west of England can witnes who in a most tempestious day as it is wel knowne in the beginning of December betook themselues to a Cabin or Caue in the ground for shelter as there be many in those places where by the furiousnes of the tempestious winds then blowing in greatest extreamity the earth riued and was torne vp by reason of the hollownes therof vnder the which they were inclosed smothered to death from the like sodaine end good Lord kéepe vs. It is also known for certainty that néere vnto the Towne of Causeby in Oxford-shire a little before Christmas last two young schollars comming from schoole the sonnes of a wealthy Yeoman there dwelling were by these terrible tempests both blown into a saw-pit by reason of this wet winter filled vp with durt and water and there most lamentably drowned and choaked to death oh wofull and pitifull hearing especially for the Parents of children and such as haue the tender féeling of loue and nature that two sweet boies brought vp by cost and care should be thus and in this manner cast away Another sorrowfull relation must I here present vnto your hearing which hapned in the Easterne parts of Northhampton-shire of a wind-mil which as well by the negligence of the Miller as the violent force of the wind causing the mill sayles to exceede their vsuall swiftnes was thereby wanting graine to grind by the Mil-stones set on fire being in the night the flakes and sparkles thereof by the fierce windes were blowne a long mile off as it pleased God quight ouer a Village vnto a ricke of pease where fetting the same on fire it was sodainly consumed with fifty fat Weathers feeding thereat the rage and extreamity of these two great oppressors the Fire and the Winde so preuailed that not one man durst aduenture the sauing therof and I haue heard it reported by diuers in that Countrey that the consumed Rick and shéep belonged to an extorting rent-racker a raiser of cheape markets and a hoarder vp of corne from poore people here was the powerfull hand of God showne Heauen herein was iust which would not let such wicked déeds go vnpunished God grant that hereby all the like doers may take example and turne their hearts that they may bee mercifull to them that stand in neede Turne now but our eyes more nearer London wée may behold the hand of Heauen lifted against vs many waies yea manie waies by these last gusts of windy tempests for our wickednes as by trees torne vp by the roots standing before in all winds weathers safe and found for these two hundred yéers past Also the noble City of London it selfe can witnes much hurt that is come thereby as diuers people sore bruised and maimed by falls of chimnies corners and sides of houses the blowing downe of tyles and such like The very Riuer of Thames is also a president hereof where by the rigorous strength of the windes the water with the tyde flowing ouer-fiercely made a most dangerous breach ouer the banks into the Medowes Marshes by Stratford le bow Ham where many thousand akers of faire grounds are quite ouer-flowne and drowned to the great hurt and hindrance of many the Inhabitants of London as those Townes therabouts the recouery wherof by men of such vnderstanding wil cost much time with

The VVonders of this windie winter By terrible stormes and tempests to the losse of liues and goods of many thousands of men women and children The like by Sea and Land hath not beene seene nor heard of in this age of the World LONDON printed by G. Eld for Iohn Wright and are to bee sold at his Shop near Christ-Church dore 1619. Lamentable reports of this windy Winter contayning the wonderfull and strange mischances happened by tempestious stormes of winde and weather in these three forepassed months of October Nouember and December with part of Ianuary IN this old and last age of the World we yeerly behold the strange alterations of times seasons and therein wee are put in minde of Gods anger purposed against vs by many variable and vnusiall acsidents happening in these our latter daies to mooue sinful mankind to repentance and newnesse of life which if we with the inward eyes of vnderstanding consider of in remorse of consience we shall finde that the heauy hand of heauen is layed violently vpon vs as wel in taking away our great hope and earthly ioy Henry our Royall Prince as these our late lamentable mischances by winde and waters added to our sorrowes giuing vs an outward calamity to our inward griefes Heauen let vs not thinke amisse if we should presumptuously say it is for our sins transgressions and that they be forerunners of Gods restles indignation against vs God of his great pitty be mercifull vnto vs and grant vs speedy repentance We haue within these few yeers as well within this our natiue countrey of England as in forraine nations beene most grieuously stroken with the bitter blasts of powerfull greatnes one while with the darts of death as by plagues pestilence continuing long amongst vs another time by drie summers and parching heates droughts sweating sulphers drying vp the moystures of the earth to cause barrennesse with scarcety then fréezing and cold winters in more then vsuall extremity to anoy vs another time by floods and ouerflowings of waters breaking from the boundes of the Seas in which mercilesse element many hundreds haue perished and haue lost both life and goods as the west parts of England in the yeere of our Lord 1607. can sufficiently witnesse Fierie lesses by the lamentable burning of many Townes strange sicknesses by corruption of ayre deare yeers by scarcety of victuall and such like all which be the consuming plagues of heauen laid vpon the shoulders of the sinfull world a burthen so easelesse that no release can come but by forgiuenesse Likewise deare countrie-men of England let vs now call to present memory another powerfull scourge laide vpon vs a daily calamity these into long continuing windes and tempests which these three forepassed Moneths hath almost euerie day and night affrighted vs with feare as it were shaking the foundations of the ground with rorings in our eares like thunder the terrible blasts whereof hath with such extremity continued that they haue made many fearefull representations of the dreadfull trumpets of Gods wrath loudly blowen from heauen to the earth the surie thereof by his diuine sufferance hath mightily troubled both sea and land the Inhabitants of many countries but especially our natiue Kingdome to the lesse of many thousands which haue lost both life and goods in this mortall miserie therefore let vs say with the Wise-men Happie is hee that is so prouided in life that no kinde of death is sodaine vnto him and let vs with patience take our deserued puishments for the smallest breath of Gods nostrils like a whirle-wind can destroy the tottering globe of the whole earth It is with sorrow remembred and with griefs reported in the Citie of London euen vpon the roiall Exchange the honourable and worthy meeting place of Merchants that within these three forepassed Moneths of October Nouember and December the deuouring gulfes of the sea hath swalloed vp aboue two hundred saile of ships as well of our owne Countrey as of neighbouring Nations with great store of passengers sea-faring men and owners of the same aduenturing their deare liues in the managing of the aforesaid ships with all their goods and marchandizes making for our countrey all lost yea all I say in these three fore-passed moneths hath béen lost and drenched in the déep vaults of this watery world a thing both lamentable and fearefull that in so short a time nay in a small part of the yeare euen in an instant so many heauie mischanches should happen and so many worthy vessels of aduenture miscarrie which had bin sufficient if good speed had preuailed to haue inricht a whole Citie and bettered a kingdome but such is the will of God and such is his most iust indignation against vs. It moues my heart with remorse to think how many people are vndone hereby and how that some few particular men should suffer ship-wrack and by one robustious tempest bee depriued of that which might haue benefitted thousands therfore he that will enter rightly into consideration hereof must needes acknowledge the case lamentable and the sorrow vnspeakable By certification from men of good accompt and calling it is reported and knowne for truth that in the month of October last a fleet of foureteene sayle of ships making from New-Castle towards London laden with sea-coale and other commodities of those parts had their passage by the tyranny of the windes most vntimely stopt and violently cast into the Oceans wombe in which ships there perished to the number of a hundred and fortie sea-faring men besides other passengers both of men and women which at that time made their watery graues in the déepe sea This First strooke feare into the hearts of people which hath been since seconded with many more calamities which lieth heauie vpon the heart of the reporter The narrow seas betwixt Douer and Calice can witnes many like mishaps for by letters sent vnto diuers great personages of the land it is aproued that vpon the coast of France there hath been found floating vpon the waters in one weeke of fowle weather aboue seauen hundred drowned persons of diuers nations as of English Dutch French and Spanish with parts and parcels of many splitted ships with great store of goods by the fury of the windes beat vpon the shoare a sight of sorrow and most lamentable to behold it is not as yet nearely knowne what riches the sea hath swallowed in these three aforesayd monthes nor what losses other Countries haue sustained I feare me the tenth part is not discouered for God in his high displeasure still threatens vs with these long lasting tempests day by day sending vs sorrow vpon sorrow with hourely newes of shipwrackes and losses at sea the scattering of fléets by contrary winds and violent tempests in one place ships cast away laden with cloath in another vessels of salt some with one thing some with another all rich and of too great a price to be thus sodainly wasted to the