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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68099	The dolefull euen-song, or A true, particular and impartiall narration of that fearefull and sudden calamity, which befell the preacher Mr. Drury a Iesuite, and the greater part of his auditory, by the downefall of the floore at an assembly in the Black-Friers on Sunday the 26. of Octob. last, in the after noone Together with the rehearsall of Master Drurie his text, and the diuision thereof, as also an exact catalogue of the names of such as perished by this lamentable accident: and a briefe application thereupon.	Goad, Thomas, 1576-1638.	1623 (1623)	STC 11923; ESTC S103155	14,640	56

wholesomly prouide against such conuenticles yet let euery obedient subiect and childe of our Church beware how he put his foot into such snares resoluing rather with the holy Patriarch and saying in his heart O my soule enter not thou into their secret vnto their assembly mine honour be not thou yoaked In such cases the Prophets haue vsed and enforced from exorbitant examples argument not of imitation but auersation and opposition Though Israel transgresse yet let not Iuda sinne Thirdly for vs all these dead corpses ought to bee a liuely mirror wherein we are to behold what we may expect in that kinde or some other euen farre worse if we doe not preuent and auert Gods iudgements by iudging our selues and vnfeinedly repenting of our sinfull courses Out of such examples our Sauiour readeth vs a double Lecture not onely of charitie in not censuring others but also of repentance in censuring and condemning our selues that we be not condemned of the Lord. Vnlesse yee repent yee shall all likewise perish A vaine plea it will be That wee haue cast out of our Churches Romish superstitions if wee still reteine in our soules and bodies our predominant corruptions that our faith doctrine is most pure if our liues remaine impure that we haue faire leaues blossomes in our outward profession if we bring forth no fruit in our practise and conuersation Reatus impij pium nomen saith the most religious Bishop Saluian An holy Title and profession if the life bee not sutable is not a plea but a guilt not a diminution of offence but an improuement Well said Tertullian of himselfe that whereto euery of vs is to subscribe his owne name Ego omnium notatorū peccator nulli rei nisi poenitentiae natus A sinner I am marked with spots of all kinds born to no other end thē to make my life a taske of repentance We are all by profession bound apprentises to this Christian trade nay borne vnto a kinde of interest and propriety to it Of all intelligent natures onely man is capable of that God cannot repent because he cannot sinne nor erre an Angell though mutable in his owne nature and so liable to sinne yet once falling by sinne can neuer rise by repentance Onely man falling both in the vniuersall ruinous estate of all his kinde and daily in his actuall lapses hath by the hand of Gods grace and mercy in Christ the cords of loue reached forth and let downe into the pit vnto him whereof by repentance and faith he taketh hold thence to be raised to newnesse of life and so forward to eternall life through the merits and passion of our blessed Redeemer who came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance LAMENT 3. 22. It is of the Lords mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions faile not A Catalogue of the Names of such persons as were slaine by the fall of the roome wherein they were in the Blacke-fryers at Master Druries Sermon the 26. of Octob. 1623. Taken by information of the Coroners Iurie MAster Drurie the Priest that preached Mr. Redy are the Priest whose lodging was vnder the Garret that fell the floore of which lodging fell too Lady Webbe in Southwarke Lady Blackstones daughter in Scroops Court Thomas Webbe her man William Robinson Taylor in Fetter lane Robert Smith Master 〈…〉 Anne Dauison Mr. Dauisons daughter of the Middle-row in Holburne Tayler Anthonie Hall his man Anne Hobdin Marie Hobdin lodging in Mr. Dauisons house Iohn Galloway Vintener in Clarkenwell Close Mr. Peirson Iane his wife Thom. Iames his two sonnes in Robbinhood Court in Shooe lane Mistris Vdall Katharine Pindar a Gentle woman in Mrs Vdals house in gunpowder alley Abigal her maide Iohn Netlan a Taylor of Bassingborne in Cambridge shiere Nathaniel Coales lying at one Shortoes in Barbican Tayler Iohn Halifaxe sometimes a Waterbearer Mary Rygbie wife to Iohn Rygbie in Holburne Confectioner Iohn Worralls sonne in Holburne Thomas Brisket his wife and his sonne and maide in Mountague close Mistris Summers wife to Captaine Summers in the Kings Bench. Marie her maide Mistris Walsted in Milkestreet Iohn Raines an Atturney in Westminster Robert Sutton sonne to Mr. Worral a Potter in Holburne Edward Warren lying at one Adams a Butcher in Saint Clement Danes A son of Mr. Flood in Holborne Scriuener Elizabeth White Andrew Whites daughter in Holburne Chandler Mr. Stoker Tayler in Salisburie Court Elizabeth Sommers in Graies-Inne lane Mr. Westwood Iudeth Bellowes wife of Mr. William Bellowes in Fetter lane A man of Sir Lues Pembertons Elizabeth Moore widow Iohn Iames. Morris Beucresse Apothecarie Dauie Vaughan at Iacob Coldriches Tayler in Graies Inne lane Francis Man brother to William Man in Theeuing lane in Westminster Richard Fitzgarrat of Graies Inne Gent. Robert Heifime Mr. Maufeild Mr. Simons Dorothy Simons Thomas Simons a boy In Fesant Court in Cow lane Robert Parker neer Lond stone Merchant Mistris Morton at White-fryers Mistris Norton Marrian her maide at Mr. Babingtons in Bloomesburie Francis Downes sometimes in Southampton house Tayler Edmond Shey seruant to Robert Euan of Graies Inne Gent. Iosilin Percy seruant to Sr. Henry Caruile lying at Mistris Ploidons house in high Holburne Iohn Tullye seruant to Mr. Ashborn lying at Mr. Barbers house in Fleetstreeet Iohn Sturges the Lord Peters man Thomas Elis Sr. Lewis Treshams man Michael Butler in Woodstreet Grocer Iohn Button Coachman to Mistris Garret in Bloomesberry Mistris Ettonet lying at Clearkenwellgreene Edward Reuel seruant to Master Nicholas Stone the Kings Purueyor Edmund Welsh lying with Mr. Sherlock in high Holborne Tailer Bartholomew Bauin in White Lyon Court in Fleetstreet Clarke Dauie an Irish man in Angell Alley in Graies Inne Gent. Thomas Wood at Mr. Woodfalls ouer against Graies Innegate Christopher Hopper Tailer lying there George Cranston in Kings street in Westminster Tailer Iohn Blitten Iane Turner lying at one Gees in the old Baily Frithwith Anne Mistris Elton Mr. Walsteed Marie Berrom Henry Becket lying at Mistris Clearks house in Northumberland Alley in Fetter lane Sarah Watsonne daughter to Master Watsonne a Chirurgian Iohn Beuans at the seuen Stars in Drury lane Master Harris Mistris Tompson at Saint Martins within Aldersgate Habberdasher Richard F●●guift George Ceaustour Master Grimes neere the Hors-shooe tauerne in Drury lane Mr. Knuckle a Painter dwelling in Cambridge Master Fowell a Warwickshire Gent. Master Gascoine Francis Buckland and Robert Hutten both seruants to Master Saule Confectioner in Holburne Iohn Lochey a Scriueners sonne in Holburne One William seruant to Master Eirkum Iohn Brabant a Painter in Little-Brittaine William Knockell A man-seruant of Mr. Buckets a Painter in Aldersgate street One Barbaret Walter Ward Richard Garret enquired after but not found The particulars concerning those that suffered in this lamentable accident hath beene so obscured that no exact account could bee had of them no maruell then that dilligence of enquiry could not preuent some mistake in the catalogue formerly printed with this Relation which catalogue is now renewed and rectified by more certaine intelligence than heretofore hath beene related FINIS The Gospell vpon the 21. Sunday after Pentecost Iob. 38. 17. This party was one of the assembly yet liuing and receiued a marke of remēbrance there by a peece of wood who thus a little before took care for sauing wood Gen. 49. 6 Luke 13. 4.

very sorie and they came and told their Lord all that was done Then his Lord called him and hee said vnto him Thou vngracious seruant I forgaue thee all the debt because thou besoughtest me oughtest not thou therefore also to haue mercy vpon thy fellow-seruant euen as I had mercy vpon thee And his Lord being angry deliuered him to the tormenters vntill he repayed all the debt So also shall my heauenly Father doe to you if you forgiue not euery one his brother from your hearts Which when he had read hee sat downe in the chaire and put vpon his head a red quilt cap hauing a linnen white one vnder it turned vp about the brimmes and so vndertooke his Text first shewing in plaine and familiar stile the occasion of our Sauiours deliuering this parable then distributing the whole into parts as they depended one on the other out of which he chose three principall points of doctrine which he propounded to insist vpon in that Sermon viz. 1 The debt which man oweth to God and the accompt which he is to make vnto him of that debt 2 Gods mercy in remitting this great debt 3 Mans hardnesse of heart and frowardnesse both towards God and towards his brethren together with the remedies which man may vse for the procuring of Gods mercy and curing himselfe from this contagious disease of ingratitude Mans debt he amplified in regard of our creation and redemption the spirituall and temporall benefits which we enioy in this world and in Gods Church c. Vpon the following parts hee discoursed with much vehemency insisting especially vpon those words I forgaue thee all thy debt shouldest not thou also haue had compassion on thy fellow euen as I had pitie on thee And thence extolling the infinite mercy and goodnesse of God whereby he doth not only giue vs all that we haue but forgiues vs all our trespasses and offences be they net uer so deepely stained with the scarle dye and tincture of our guiltinesse Which mercifull bounty of our heauenly Father is here parabolized vnto vs by a certaine man that was a king c. Two or three of that auditory auow with ioynt testimony that in the processe of the latter part which he handled he earnestly laid open the terrors and burthen of the heauy debt of punishment which we are to pay at the last iudgement if the debt of sinne be not acquitted before Declaring withall the mercy of God in prouiding meanes to cancell this debt by the Sacraments ordained in the Catholique Church in speciall by the Sacrament of Penance and therein by Contrition Confession and Satisfaction And thence inferring in what miserable case Heretiques are who want all such meanes to come out of this debt because they are not members of the Catholique Church But whatsoeuer the matter or manner of his last speech was I doe not curiously enquire as making interpretation of Gods iudgement in stopping the currant of his speech at that instant Lest in ouer forward censuring the same we should be deemed as vncharitable as our Aduersaries especially the Iesuits are against those Churches and persons that admit not the Papacy Most certaine it is and ouer manifest by lamentable euidence that when the said Iesuite had proceeded about halfe an houre in this his Sermon there befell that Preacher and Auditorie the most vnexpected and suddaine calamitie that this age hath heard of to come from the hand not of Man but God in the middest of a sacred exercise of what kinde or religion soeuer The floare whereon that assembly stood or sate not sinking by degrees but at one instant failing and falling by the breaking asunder of a maine Sommier or Dormer of that floare which beame together with the Ioyces and Plancher thereto adioyned with the people thereon rushed downe with such violence that the weight and fall thereof brake in sunder another farre stronger and thicker Sommier of the Chamber situated directly vnderneath and so both the ruined floares with the people ouerlapped and crushed vnder or betweene them fell without any time of stay vpon a lower third floare being the floare of the said Lord Ambassadors withdrawing Chamber which was supported vnderneath with Arch-work of stone yet visible in the Gate-house there and so became the bundarie or terme of that confused and dolefull heape of ruines which otherwise had sunke yet deeper by the owne weight and height of the downfall the distance from the highest floare whence the people fell to the lowest where they lay being about two and twentie foot in depth Of the Gallery floare only so much fell as was directly ouer a Chamber of 20. foot square called Father Redyates Chamber and being the vsual Massing roome for the English resorting thither The rest of the Gallery floare being not so full thronged stood firme and so was a refuge and safeguard to those of the Auditorie that had planted themselues at that end From whence they beheld that most Tragicall Scene of their brethrens ruine themselues also being not onely surprized with the stupifying passions of affright and apprehension of that danger which as yet they could not think themselues to haue escaped but also for the time imprisoned in the place it selfe from whence there was no passage by doore or otherwise vnlesse they should aduenture to leape downe into the gulfe of their fellowes wofull estate In this perplexity dismay it selfe not bereauing them of counsaile but rather administring strength to their trembling hands they with their Kniues opened the Loame-wall next vnto them and so making their passage thence into another Chamber escaped that danger As for the rest being the farre greater part of this Assembly who in a moment all sunke downe to the lowest floare their case as it can scarce be paralleled with a like example of calamitie so hardly be described with the due and true circumstances Who can to the life expresse the face of Death presenting it selfe in so ruefull and different shapes Quis talia fando Temperet à lachrymis What eare without tingling can heare the dolefull and confused cries of such a troope men women children all falling suddenly in the same pit and apprehending with one horror the same ruine What eie can behold without inundation of teares such a spectacle of men ouerwhelmed with breaches of weighty timber buried in rubbish and smothered in the dust What heart without euaporating into sighes can ponder the burthen of deepest sorrowes and lamentations of parents children husbands wiues kinsmen friends for their dearest pledges and chiefest comforts in this world all bereft and swept away with one blast of the same dismall tempest Such was the noise of this dreadfull and vnexpected downefall that the whole city of London presently rang of it and forthwith the Officers of the city to whom the care of good order chiefly appertaineth and in speciall Sergeant Finch the Recorder repaired thither the same euening carefully prouiding for the safety of the