THE fift of October aboute midnight, the Water ouerflowed so much, that men were fayne to forsake theyr Beddes, and one woman drowned. Where also were lost a greate num­ber of Sheep, Oxen, Kine, Horse and other cattel. Amongst other there, one maister Cartwrite Gentleman, hauing his House inclosed rounde a­bout, the water cam in so much, that [Page] a Carte beyng loden with Thornes did swim aboute the grounde. He lost by the same Floud, Sheep and other cattell, to the value of an C. poundes. The same Gentleman had a close gate by the high wayes syde, where y^• water ran ouer so extreme­ly, that at the fal therof it made such an hole, that it was .xl. foote deep, so that no man could passe that way without great daunger. To the fil­lyng vp of the said Hole, or Pit, was cast in by the men of the said Towne xxv. loades of Fagots, and .xx. loade of Horse Doung, which said Fagots and Horse doung, filled not the hole.

Also one maister Lee at the Freers in Bedforde, hauinge a fayre yearde wherein was greate store of Elme trees, wherof .lx. were blowen down with the rootes pulled cleane out of the grounde. Also he had a close of Conies that were cleane destroyed.

THE Sea brake in between Wis­bich, and Walsockenne, and at the Crosse keyes, drowning Tilney, and olde Linne, Sainct Mary Teding, S. Mary Tid, S. Iohns, Wawple, Walton, and Walsocken, Einney, Iarmans, and Stowe brinck all be­ing within the space of .x. Miles. At the Crosse keies the goodman of the Inne had built an house, with a strong Foundacion ioyning vnto an other House being olde and not so strong, wherin were certain Guests and when the water came in so vio­lently the goodman of the house be­ing in the stronger House, called the men out of the olde House, and they would haue gon downe the stayres, but the water was so high that thei could not com down, wherfore they [Page] went back againe, and brake an hole into the other House, where they went thorow, and the last man was no sooner in: But the olde house fell downe. The Walles of the houses were broken downe, and the Horses that were tied at the Maunger, (which was made fast in y^e grounde) did swim in the water, when the Stable was clene caried away, vn­till the waters were aswaged, and were saued a liue, and y^• people were constrained to get vp to the highest partes of the house, and to be caried away in Boates.

At Yermouth a greate parte of the Bridge was caried away.

The house vpon the Hauen, called the Hauen house, wherin was one Nicholas Iosselin, the Hauen man, and his sonne, with all their tooles was caried into the Marshes .vi. miles from the Hauen where it stode vpright where they continued long [Page] time without meate or drinke.

Item at Iermans brig streete, was very much hurt doone, by extreme Fluds that were there.

Item one Thomas Smith of Yar­mouth lost a Ship, and .vii. men and a Boy in it.

Item, at Newarke by Yarmouth were lost .xii. Saile.

Item, a greate Hulke loden with Oyle and Pitche, was lost at Worry Sand, and about .xx. men lost therin and .xxx. saued by the Hulke boate.

THese townes and villages were ouerflowed, that is to say, Wis­bich, Guyhorn, Parson, Droue, and Hobshouse. This Hobshouse being an almes house (and the water brea­king down the Walls of it) the wind blew the clothes of from the bed of a [Page] poore man and his wife, they béeing a colde, a waked and sodenly stept out of his Bed to reache vp his Clothes, and stepte vp to the Belly in Water, and then he thinking himselfe to bee in daunger (as he was indeede) and he knowing the best way to escape the daunger of the Water, tooke his wife in his neck and caried her away and so were bothe saued.

Item in Wisbich was a Garden, a Tenice play and a Bowlinge Alley walled about with brick (which was worthe .xx.li. by yeare to the owner) quite destroyed by the water.

MUmby Chapel the whole town was lost except three houses. A Ship was driuen vpon an house the Saylers thinking they had been vpon a Rock committed themselues to God, and three of the Marriners [Page] leapt out of the ship and chaunced to to take holde on the house top and so saued them selues: and the wife of the same lying in childe bed did clime vp into the top of the house, was al­so saued by the Marriners, her Hus­band & childe being both drowned.

Item the church was wholy ouer­throwne except the steeple.

Betweene Boston and Newcastle were .lx. Sea vessailes, as smal ships Craires, and such like, lost vppon the Coastes of Boston, Hummerston, Marshchappell, Tetney, Stepney, Nercots, Kelby, and Grimsby, wher no ship can com in without a Pilate, which were al lost with goods, corn, and Cattel, with all the Salt cotes, where the chief and finest Salt was made, were vtterly destroyed, to the vtter vndooing of many a man and great lamentacion bothe of olde and young.

Wentford Bridge being very strong [Page] of .viii. Arches in length, had .iii. of the Arches broken, and cleane caried away.

Maister Smith, at the Swanne, there had his house (being .iii. stories high,) ouerflowed vnto the thyrde story, and the wals of the stable were broken down, and the horses tied to the Maunger, were all drowned.

Many men had great losse, aswell of sheepe, Kyne, Oxen, great Mares, Coltes, of the breed of the great hor­ses, and other cattell innumerable, of which, the names of many of them shall here folow.

Maister Pellam lost .xi.C. sheep at Mumby Chapell.

In Sommercote were lost .v.c. sheep that were of the inhabitaunce there.

Item betweene Hummerston, and Grimsby were lost .xi. c. sheep, of one maister Speneers, whose shepheard about midday comming to his wife, and asked his Dinner, and she being [Page] more bolde then mannerly, said hee should haue none of her, then hee chaunced to looke toward the Mar­shes, where the sheep were, and saw the water break in so fiersly that the sheepe would be lost, if they were not brought from thence, saide that hee was not a good shepheard, y^• would not venture his life for his sheep, and so went straight to driue them from thence: both he and his sheepe were drowned, and after the water being gon: he was found dead, standyng vpright in a ditch.

Maister Thimbleby, lost .CC.xx. sheepe.

M. Dimock, lost .cccc. sheepe.

M. Marsh▪ lost .ccccc. sheepe.

M. Madison, lost a ship.

M. William Askugh of Kelsey, syr Hugh Askugh. M. Merin. M. Fitz Williams of Maplethorp, lost by esti­macion .xx.M. of cattell one & other.

Boorn was ouerflowed to y^• mid­way [Page] of the height of the church.

Steeping, was wholy caried away, where was a waine lode of Willowe toppes, the body of the Waine, with the Willowes, caried one way, and the Axiltree and Wheeles, an other way.

IN the Town of S. Eeds, y^e water flowed into the Town in such aboundaunce, that it ran thorow the towne and the Church, being in the midst therof, hauing about the Churchyearde a Bricke wall, of two yeards hie, was so ouerflowed, that Boates were rowed ouer it without touching of the same.

Item, a litle from Huntington, were three men riding, vppon the Causey being then ouerflowed (the water on the Causey beeing not deep, and thinking no daunger therin) chaun­ced [Page] to com into a place wher the wa­ter had gulled away the Earth, and the Grauell, were caried away with the water: and Willowes growing on both sydes the way two of them caught holde on the Willowes and left their Horses, and saued them selues, and the thyrd chaunced to catch a very litle twig of a Willowe, betweene his Fyngers, hauing very litle hold, and forsaking horse, which was caried a great way from him, had much paine to keep his hold on the twig, and holde his head aboue the water, and his Horse returning with force against the streame, came againe vnto him, and vnder him, by which meanes, he set his feete vpon him and gat better holde of the Wil­lowe and so saued himselfe, and the Horse was immediatly caried away that he neuer saw him after.

Item, Holland, Leuerington, New­ton, Chapell in the Sea, long Sut­ton, [Page] and Holbich, were ouerflowed. And in this Country also was great losse of Cattell.

IN the lowe parts in Moorland in a litle towne called Cliffeeld there was a man, his wife, and a suc­king childe in her armes, ouerwhel­med and slaine, by the violence of the waters, and the boistrous windes.

THE Water, called Hauen, that passeth by the Towne, called Stratford vppon Hauen, did runne with suche violence, that meeting with the Water called the Siuerne, droue it backe .x. Miles, against the cource ouerflowing much ground and drowning much Cattell.

IN Newport town, were two hou­ses ouerthrown▪ and in one of thē an olde man, and an olde woman were ouerwhelmed and slain, and in the same Towne on the back syde of the Sarazins head, the water did spring out of y^e hard grauelly ground and flowed so fast that certayne Merchaunts (sytting there at diner) were fayne to rise and departe from thence to saue them selues.

SIR Henry Ley, Knight, lost by the flouds of water the number of .iii .M. sheep, besydes horse and other Cattell a great number.

IN the Wish at Rye, (a place so cal­led,) the water came in so suddenly and flowed so hie, that the people were faine to clime vp, to the highest partes of theyr Houses, remaining there in great feare, vntill they were holpē by other men, which did fetch them, with Boates from their Win­dowes, and highest partes of theyr houses, who were glad to escape with sauing theyr liues, and losyng their goods.

The cheefe time, and spring of this Tide, was about midnight, wherby there was great losse of sheepe, and other cattel with out number, to the vtter vndoing of many a poore man, and great losse of many other, whose pitious case, is to be lamented.

At Rye, the water flowed so vehe­mently, [Page] that it brake into the Mar­shes, & made such a way that where of late yeares, a smal Uessel could not passe in at halfe floud, now a great Uessell may come in at lowe water, where also, is good Harborough for ships, not only to the greate commo­dity of all Saylers, that haue to do there: but also profitable to the most part of the inhabitants there.

Of those marshes, one maister She­pherd, was chiefe owner, who had many Poles, standyng in the same place, very meete for the drying of their fyshing Nets, for the which he receiued money of them that dryed theyr Nets there, and although hee was payde for the same sufficiently inough, yet being not therwith con­tented, he gaue them warning that they should pay more money, or els they should no more han [...] their nets there, y^e which (eue [...] [...] in the same [...] [Page] to passe by Gods ordinaunce, that they were by the floud that night, caried all away, so that his deniall, lost his Poles and saued their nets, to the great comfort of a great num­ber, though it were contrary to the sayd owners expectacion and will.

AT Broom hil, in Romney marsh, iiii. Miles from Rye, the water came in so outragiously, that it brake down the marsh walles, one maister Bury, being owner therof, who lost by the same a thousand one hundred threescore and two of his Sheepe, and it is thought that the marsh is neuer like to be gotten againe.

Item, at Erith breach, a Mariner riding by the Marshes, seeing two maides in the marshes, & perceiuing [Page] the waters breaking in so fast, that the Maides were not like to escape: rode vnto them, and one of them gat vp behind him, and the other tooke holde on the Horse taile, and by that were both saued from drowning.

In the same marsh, were drowned a great number of sheepe.

Item, there in a Marsh land that was sowen, were two boyes keping Crowes, in the after noone, saw the water breking in so rashly, gat them vp into a cart, that was not far from them, where they were faine to tary vntil the next tide, which came in so boistrously, that it had like to ouer­throw both the Cart and the boies, and the one of thē being more stron­ger then the other, kept the other in his armes, where he with cold, wet, and feare died, so that he was faine to let him fall from him into the ma­ter, when he perceiued that he was past recouery.

[Page] A little from that place, were also drowned .M. of Sheepe, and many other Cattell.

FRom a Towne called Raynam, vnto the town named Maldon, all along by the Water syde, were the Marshes all ouerflowen wherin were a great number of cattell drow­ned, to the great losse of many a man.

IN Clay, were two Shippes laden with Danske Ware, came to shore with no man in them, nor any man can tell of whence they are.

In Clay, the dwellers there lost a ve­rie great Percell of Salt, and Her­rings, [Page] Barelled, beeing housed in an house Walled with Brick, three foot thicke, & yet the Wall was broken downe.

Also, ther was lost much Saffron ground, with many other thinges moe, to the great hindraūce of many a man.

Item, in Walderswick, Dunwich, and Blaybrooke, was great losse, of Boord, Planck, Timber, and Salt.

A Great parte of the Bridge, by Magdalen Colledge, was born cleane away, and many Trees were turned vp by the roote.

[Page] WE Reade in the Ser­mons of Ieremie the Pro­phet, the .44. Chapiter that Ieremie did laboure to bring them from Ido­latry which were fled into the Land of Egipt to Pathors, and declared what plagues and miseries God had laid vpon them, and would lay vpon them, til they were destroied vtterly, which councel of the Prophet, they not onely little set by, but were with malice and extreame impudent mad­nesse so incensed, that they gaue a plaine aunswer to the Prophet. The wordes which thou hast spoken in the name of the Lorde vnto vs wee will not heare them: But we wil do whatsoeuer thinge goeth out of our owne mouthe, as to burne incence to the Queene of Heauen, and to poure out Drinck offrings vnto her as we haue don, both we and our Fathers, [Page] our Kinges, and our Princes, in the Cities of Iudah, and in the streates of Ierusalem: for then had we plen­tie of Uitailes, and were wel and felt no euill, but synce wee left of to burn Incence to the Queene of Heauen, and to pour out the drinck offrings, before her, we haue had scarcenesse of all thinges, & haue been consumed by the sword, and by famine, which im­pudent aunswere, may be likened to the answer of our Egiptian Papists or Babilonicall Idolators (Which in times past, sang Salue Regina, and Regina Coeli letare, to the virgin Mary, whom Idolatrously they call the Queene of Heauen) To the Prea­chers of the Gospell of Iesus Christ, we heare your words that you speak in the name of the Lorde, but as for vs, wee will neuer beleeue them, but wil be as wee haue been. Though wee cannot haue our Peeuish Ido­latry, and Apish Religion openly, yet [Page] we wil in harts (vnrefourmed) sacri­fise to y^e Queen of Heauen, & say, Ma­ria Mater gratia, Mater misericordia, tu nos ab hoste protege, in hora mortis suscipe: y^• is. Mary thou mother of grace, and mother of mercy, in like case defend vs from our Foes, wee pray, and take vs in our dying day. As al our blinde generacions haue done before vs, as our good holy Fathers, the Popes, haue taught vs from time to time, and as our Fathers, and good Caco­like Kinsfolks haue don, in the coun­treies of England, and the Cities of Britaine, and in the streetes of Lon­don, Caunterbury, Yorke, Bristowe, Sarisbury, Westchester & Norwiche and as our good Bretherne in Nor­thumberlande, and Westmerlande, Ridsedale, and Tidsedale, and our friends of the Bishoprik of Durham, and our false folish fauourers of Fa­bles in Suffolke, and Northfolke, of late haue done, Which wee if their [Page] quarters, gracious Queene of Hea­uen, did not more feare vs that hang on London gates, & diuers Towres & Trees, in this countrey then either our obedience to God or Queene, doth mooue vs) would euen now do also, as our fathers haue done before vs, for then when the Masse was vp, Images of blissed holy Saints, the holy Rood, and our Lady, sainct Thomas of Canterbury, & Saincte Fraunces, with his bloudy syde, and all the trimsy trash, and peltinge paltrie, of that holy, holy, Whore of Rome, our mother holy Church, then had we a mery world, althings were plenty, wee had Uictailes and all things in abundance, and felt no yll, but synce this new fangled Reli­giō, which they cal the gospel, which our Fathers neuer knewe, (and yet were led to the Deuill well inough) was Preached: wee haue had scar­citie of all things, and haue ben con­sumed [Page] by Sword and famine, with Fyre and water, as now al men may see by these great Fluds, which God hath sente to plague them for their Heresy, & because they haue despised our old, auncient, & holy Churche, & Religion y^t hath continued in wor­ship this seuen or .viii. hundreth yere (& lesse) & haue brought in, this new religion that began but in Paradice and was deuised but the last day, (when God before the Worlde was made, in his euerlasting wisdome, and good purpose, of meere know­ledge thought it good.) Thus I say do blind Idolaters make argumēts, esteeming Religion, by the belly, and in steede of acknowledging Gods workes, (which sendeth both plenty and Dearth, Raine, and drie Wea­ther, Fluddes, and dry land, Riches, and pouerty, sycknes and health, at­tributing all to theyr dome Idolles, which are cursed with their makers, [Page] and worshippers, but as Ieremie sayde to the Egiptian Israelitish Idolaters: so I might sai to our Ro­maine Popisticall Englishmen, the Lord saw your peuish Idolatry and in steede of plagues, gaue you much abundance of mercie, whiche might haue mooued you from Idolatry, to his trewe religion, but when he saw your Impudencie, and Whores For­heads, that would not repent, and be ashamed of your brutish Idolatry he plagued you, and Scour [...]ed you, and that by many fearfull Roddes, from which your Queene of Heauen could not saue, nor all your Idolles deliuer you, in the daies of your sayd Sacrifice, when euery Church had a Lady priest, & euery Church a God lockt in a Box, in the middest of your Idolatrie, were there not as great, and greater showes of wrath felt as now ther is laid vppon vs, that are in the light of the Gospell, I must [Page] needs confesse, to punish, as I haue sayd in my Epistle, the lewde liuers vnder the Gospell? yes verely. For in the dayes of Kyng Henry the, viii. I will not reape open what hath hapned before in older monum [...]nts, when Gylford Marsh in the countie of Sussex nere to Ry, was drowned with all the Cattell & sheep, a moun­tyng to merueilous number, with much of Chaynecourt Marsh, Kyte Marsh, and the marshes of the Isle of [...]ene in Kent: when your queen of Heauen could not saue them, but that they were faine to fetch Hay­stackes and Beanestackes, to stop vp Damines, for feare of drowning all the Country about, which time also the country of Sealand was drow­ned, from Armew to Dort, wher not only sheepe and Oxen were lost, but all that euer inhabited, within .xxx. mile compas, yea wherin our Ladies Preestes, our Ladies Pictures, yea [Page] your Queene of Heauens Temples, your Alters and Pixes, with your reall Gods, which innumerable wer all drowned, not beyng able to help themselues and their worshippers, but perished with bruit beasts, and the whole country, which shal neuer be recouered agayn. When also a­boute .xxxvii. yeere agon, there was such a Hayle, as slew both men and Cattell and Corne-beaten downe in the time of Haruest, that not with­standing Deruelgethren the Welshimēs Idol God, all y^• Corne was destroyd beyng (redy to be reaped) in the eare on the grounde, and in many places of England, notwithstanding your Queen of Heauen, whom you serue in all blindenesse of Popery. There came such Rayne, by the space of .v. weekes, with such fearful Haile that all the Wheat, Barly, Beans, Otes, & other grayne, with Apples, peares and other Fruits, were vtterly lost, [Page] neuer reaped. Mowne, nor gathred, but rotten in the Earth, and beaten to Morter with the showre. About which time also, all Plumsted Mar­shes here by y^• Thames were drow­ned, which lye almost al wast til this day. Also in Queen Maries daies, when the Queen of Heauens sacri­fices were agayne erected, why dyd she not saue Sandwich Marshes, & the Cattell and Treasure therein.

E [...]ly marshes, and the marshes of the Isle of Hartly: the Marshes of Herne and Whitslable. Besyde the miserable Famin that God sent ouer all this land, when Wheat was at a French crowne a Bushell, and many that could get neither Wheat nor Barly, nor Beans, were glad to eate Acorn breade, and many to sterue for lacke of Beans and Acorns: when Spanish Mules and Iades were fed with Wheat: besyde the sword, and Robberies of straungers, that [Page] the Queene of Heauen suffred hir worshippers to be plagued with al, that rightly they might accuse them selues of such vile sinne as caused god to be angry, which also (and not our Religion) is y^e cause (as theirs was) of our Fluds & other Rods of Gods correction to make holely to liue in so holy a Religion, bothe vpon the Papistes and Christians, powred at this time by Gods Almighty hande on the Papists for theyr blindnesse, on the lose liued professours of the Gospel for their lewd conuersation. God geue vs al grace truly to repent and by Iesus Christe, so to seeke for Pardon, that for him and through him, all our ignorance, blasphemie & Idolatrie, weaknesse, lewdnesse, and Hipocrisy, may be forgeuen in this world, that in the world to com wee may haue life euerlastyng. Amen