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A42473	A true and faithful narrative of the much to be lamented death of Mr. William Tyrrell and the more to be magnified preservation of Sr. John Rous of Henham, Baronet, and divers other gentlemen ... published for the vindication of Gods truth and those persons honour and credit, from some foul and scandalous aspersions cast upon them in alying libell entituled, Sad and lamentable news from Suffolk / by Lionel Gatford ...	Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing G339; ESTC R14661	12,334	18

all address my self humbly beseeching earnestly intreating both you my most honoured Patron and the rest of those Gentlemen that were so mercifully miraculously preserved to spend your preserved lives the more piously and religiously in Gods service because they were so precious in his sight as to work so wonderfully and graciously in the preservation of them when they were so near unto destruction It is the Lord that giveth life unto all Act. 17.25 And it is the same Lord that hath redeemed your lives from destruction and crowned you with loving kindnesse and tender mercies Psal 103.4 And therefore what can each of you say lesse then that which that Psalmist there saith in contemplation of those mercies ver 1.2 Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me blesse his holy Name Blesse the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits And what can ye doe lesse to shew that you forget them not then that the remaining course of your preserved lives be answerable in some good measure to the mercies and miracles of their preservation And to mind you the more of Gods mercies and your duties let me beg of you what I hope you are already resolved on before I mention it to you That you would not fail to observe the last day of July as a solemn day of Thanksgiving unto the Lord all your lives through it being a day wherein God as Lot said when he was delivered from the Brimstone Fire of Sodome Gen. 19. did magnifie his mercie which he shewed you in saving your lives and that too from the unspeakable violence and irresistible force of the most dreadful instruments of his wrath and fury his right-aiming Thunderbolts that from the clouds as from a well-drawn bow flie to the mark as they are elegantly described Wisdome 5.21 as also from those mixt sulphurious fuliginous conglutinous fiery vapours that they were and constantly are wrapt up in and which are Gods Arrows as well as the Thunderbolts Psal 77. v. 17. Here both Philosophie and History would furnish me with a very large discourse of the nature and effects of Thunder But Job's Question takes me off from medling much with the nature of Thunder by saying The Thunder of hi● power who can understand Job 26.14 Let it therefore 〈◊〉 you that it is the Thunder of his power and remember as oft●● you hear it or ought spoken of it that on the last of July 1661. God himself by his own power and of his own free mercy delive●ed you from that otherwise mercilesse power of his Thunder that passeth all mans understanding and that will help you the better to understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord in your deliverance and provoke you to be the more thankfull to him for it And for the effects of Thunder you have seen and felt so much that I presume you need not to be informed of any more for the inciting you to that duty which I am now minding you of I shall therefore as to this particular referre you onely to what holy David hath left recorded concerning the effects of Thunder Psal 18. and 29. where Thunder is called the voyce of the Lord and that voyce is said to be powerfull or as others read the places mighty in operation And some of those mighty effects are there named and the lesson recommended to all men from the consideration thereof is the same that I am now recommending to you Namely Therefore to give unto the Lord glory and strength yea to give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name and to worship him in the beauty of holinesse or as it is in the margin in his glorious Sanctuary In the next and last place When you are praising God for his delivering you from the power of his terrible Thunder forget not to give him thanks also for his delivering you in his due time from the power of a malicious and slanderous hypocritical tongue which as it does in many respects resemble Thunder viz. in its irresistible smiting indiscernable piercing and visible besooting of those persons it lights on according as they are tempered or disposed as also in the nimble flying and sudden and unwarned hitting wounding and killing and the like So it doth in divers respects transcend it For Thunder falls most upon Beasts and Trees and Buildings seldome upon Men as Pliny Scaliger have observed our own experience witnesseth But an evil tongue falls wholly upon Men and often upon the best of Men. Again Thunder when it does light upon Men it spares often times their lives and when it does kill it kills onely their bodies but the lying malicious hypocriticall tongue spares nothing that it can hurt and strikes both bodies and souls and endeavours often times to take away mens goods also and what is more precious their good Names as well as their lives Besides as the same Scaliger and Casaubon have from others that are far more ancient tell us when Thunder have slain any man All men did generally carry some sacred though superstitious kind of Reverence to such a body and would neither bury nor burn it nor take it from the place where it was smitten but there intomb it and thought the very place sacred and accounted the body so smitten to be void of corruption But the lying malicious slanderous tongue so smites and kills as that it rests not there but labours to render those whom it so deals with most odious and contemptible to all men and then it pursues them to their graves and will not suffer them to remain quiet there but spits its poyson into their very ashes And therefore if when any such tongue hath smitten any of you whom God himself hath spared or shall further persecute those whom God hath smitten and talk to the grief of those whom he hath wounded which is a true mark of a mercilesse wicked man Psal 69. v. 26. God shall then please by any unworthy Servant of his to vindicate your Honours and Credit Let the Son of Syrach's Eucharisticall expressions upon a very suitable occasion Ecclesiasticus 51. ver 1 2 3 4 5. be each of yours and say with him I will thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour I do give praise unto thy Name For thou art my defender and helper and hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snare of a slanderous tongue and from the lips that forge lies and hast been mine helper against mine adversaries And hast delivered me according to the multitude of thy mercies and greatnesse of thy Name from the teeth of them that were ready to devour me and out of the hands of such that sought after my life and from the manifold afflictions which I had and from the choaking of fire on every side and from the depth of the belly of hell and from an unclean tongue and from lying words And this will be amongst many other comforts to yourselves an ample reward to him that hath adventured the censure of malicious evil tongues to vindicate you from the malice and evil of the tongue FINIS

A true and faithfull NARRATIVE Of the much to be lamented death of Mr. WILLIAM TYRRELL And the more to be magnified preservation of Sr. JOHN ROUS Of Henham Baronet And divers other Gentlemen of worth and persons well reputed in their Country PUBLISHED For the vindication of Gods Truth and those Persons honour and credit from some foul and scandalous aspersions cast upon them in a lying Libell Entituled Sad and Lamentable Newes from Suffolk c. By LIONELL G●TFORD D. D. and Rector of Dinnington in Suffolk LONDON Printed for I●nes Lawson and sold at 〈◊〉 ●n Covent-Garden 1661. A true and faithfull NARRATIVE OF The much to be lamented death of Mr. VVilliam Tyrrell and the more to be magnified preservation of Sir John Rous of Henham Baronet and divers other Gentlemen of worth c. You have heard not long since both by Books and Ballads whether from the same or severall hands is somewhat doubtfull though the Title and Relations be the same so far as the Confederates in iniquity thought fit to lay their lies and slanders together Sad and Lamentable Newes from Suffolk being as they falsly term it A true and perfect Relation of the great Thunderclaps and Lightning that fell upon the House of Mr. Absalon at Wangford where Mr. Torrill Mr. Brome for so they call them Mr. Blowgate Mr. Lemon and divers other Gentlemen were drinking Healths And the manner how the said Thunderclaps c. as follows in their swelling Titles And all this say they attested by the fore-man of the Jury Mr. John Gibson who was summoned upon the Crowners Quest Now that God may be glorified in his wonderfull works both of mercy and judgement his Truth magnified the Honours and 〈…〉 Names both of the mercifully preserved and miraculously s●in 〈…〉 hurt Gentlemen vindicated and loud Lies slanders and reproaches of the Saint-seeming Devil-imitating and Hell-breathing Phanaticks that have divulged and published those pernicious and pestiferous reports to the world be thrown back into their own impudent faces I shall first give you a true Narrative of that whole businesse as I received it from the Pen of a Person of Honour and Integrity who I verily believe abhorres to tell an untruth or speak deceitfully for God himself as Job's expression is cap. 13. ver 7. much more for the salving of any mans credit and that done I shall give you some few animadversions thereon and so leave the Libellers to repent of their lies and slanders or to suffer for them as God and the Executioners of his wrath shall think fit Upon Wednesday the last of July after Dinner Sir John Rous of Henham in the County of Suffolk a Gentleman of known honour and honesty and highly beloved and esteemed in his Country and a member of this present Parliament took out with him Mr. William Tyrrell that was if I mistake not a Kinsman of his and well respected of him to walk with him into some Grounds of his not far from his house where they met with Mr. Thomas Absalon of Wangford that hired some Grounds of Sir John and he entreated Sir John to goe to his house and the rather for that Captain Lemon and his Nephew Mr. John Lemon were there and the latter of them had a desire to speak with him being to goe the next day towards London Sir John Rous promised to call there ere he returned home and as he was going he found Mr. Breame and his Brother Mr. James Breame selling of Cattell to a Butcher and called to them and they together with Mr. Blowgate Sir John's Steward and Robert Brown another of his Servants who had been abroad with his Gun as he used frequently to doe went along with him And when all or the most part of these Persons had been in the Parlour of Mr. Absalons house some small time viz. about half an hour or not so much and had onely received the civility of a Cup or two of Beer there being nothing no not so much as the Beer provided on purpose for them nor the least design of any such meeting pre-determined many minutes before on a sudden there happened a very great shower of Rain and after the violence of that was a little over there followed a clap of thunder which breaking just over the said house seemed much greater to them and the neighbours adjoyning then it did to those that were some small distance from thence it being not taken notice of at all by those that were within lesse then a mile of that house And some people that were in the Yards belonging to that house and to the houses near it saw as they affirm a Ball of Fire fall upon the house which raised and brake some of the Tyles shivered a Sparre in the Garret into fourty shivers rent some of the Studds of the house brake thorow or otherwise found its passage into the Chamber over the Parlour and there tore the Bed-posts and back of the Bed into many pieces and fell into a hole of the boards and brake thorow the Seeling into the Parlour where the Gentlemen were Sir John Rous sitting at the end of the Table and Mr. Tyrrell by him at the side thereof with the Window just behind him and Mr. Breame and his Brother by Mr. Tyrrell Captain Lemon at the other end of the Table and Mr. Blowgate at some distance from them And the sulphurious Vapour like tearing Granado or rather as much transcending it as Nature does Art or the more immediate work of the God of Nature does the work of Man dispersed it self in the Parlour without any fire or flash of Lightning seen by any of the company and in an instant struck Mr. Tyrrell dead as he sate beat down one of the Breames upon the floor and threw the other upon the Table lifted Mr. Blowgate out of his Chayre and cast him upon the side of the Table but did not carry him out of the Parlour to the top of the Room and then cast him upon a Table as the non-sensicall Pamphleteer asserts in the Title of his Libell and him Captain Lemon help't into his Chayre again though he was not at that time sensible of that kindnesse Mr. John Lemon was struck down flat upon his back as he was coming into the house taken up dead but being presently carried into the open aire he soon revived and was so well as that according to his intention he began his Journey toward London the next day but Mr. William Tyrrell never recovered The Woman of the house being in the next Room with her Children saw as she saith a flash of fire glide thorow the Room and shoot out at the Door which she thought would have done much mischief in that Room also had not the Door been open And it is said by others that were abroad that they saw another flash of five flye out at that Window against which Mr. Tyrrell sate in the Chamber there was found a corner of a Window