The last terrible Tempestuous winds and weather.  
Truly Relating many Lamentable Shipwrecks, with drowning of many people, on the Coasts of England, Scotland, France and Ireland: with the Isles of Wight, Garsey & jarsey.  
Showing also, many great misfortunes, that have lately happened on Land, by reason of the winds and rain, in divers places of this Kingdom.  
Imprinted at London for Ios: Hunt and are to be sold by john Wright, 1613.   

To the Reader.  
REader, I do here present unto thee, & to thy understanding (if thou hast any) some part of the lamentable losses, & unrecoverable mischances that have happened by occasion of these late blustering storms of wind, and an innumerable deal of rain, the which a great many thousands have too true cause to believe, because they are sharers in the misfortunes that this outrageous weather hath caused. Now if thou hast sustained no loss thyself, perhaps thou wilt not believe these things to be true that I have written: but if thou wilt or dost believe, then pray to God that it will please him to give them patience that are losers, and humility that are winners, and give God thanks that he hath so blest thee that thou hast no share in these mishaps. But if thou wilt not believe, go and look, or else remain still in thy unbelief.   

A BRIEF RELATION of the great losses both by Sea and Land, by reason of the late great Tempests.  
Such and so great is the innated hereditary perverseness of miserable mankind's natural inclination, that though we infallibly know that God is infinite, and his ways past finding out: yea though we generally confess him to be the Mighty, Eternal, everlasting, inscrutable, incomprehensible jehovah, in whose hands are all things past, present and future. Though (I say) we confess and profess an external belief that God can and will punish obstinate and stiffnecked sinners in the uprightness of his confounding justice; yet we presuming (because it is said his mercy is over all his works) so much upon his mercy, that we are altogether forgetful of his justice; So that for all notwithstanding our knowledge, our confession and profession, we live in Atheism, Epicurism, and in so many sundry sorts of hydraheaded schism, that if it be rightly understood, we spend our times in this unconscionable world little better than in bruit Barbarism: for I am verily persuaded that God had never fewer true servants, nor more professors than are in these days, and surely it is to be feared when God hath least, the Devil hath most. And we are so lulled and rocked asleep in the secureles cradle of sensual security, by the (Prince of this World) the Devil and his two near kinsmen the world and the flesh, that we (as it were) in spite of the Eternal God, tread and trample his sacred laws and sanctified Testimonies under our profane, unhallowed, & rebellious feet, and with a high hand, and an aspiring heart, with millions of varieties of transgressions, we seem to batter the glorious frame of Heaven, with thundering shot of our abominable hell hatched impieties. These outrageous Enormities daily provoking our most just God to power forth the consuming vials of his incensed heavy Indignation, upon all the misgoverned sons of sinful men. For as God is infinite in his mercy, so is he infinite in his justice; and as our transgressions are numberless, so are the several rods and punishments uncountable that God uses to inflict upon us, sometimes by weak means to accomplish great things, and confound the mighty; and sometimes by elemental causes, as fire, air, water, and earth, he shows his universal power in his just confounding offenders; and sometimes by unavoided infections of plagues and pestilencious fevers, and many thousand miserable maladies. And I think I need not doubt but many there be that knows and remembers the last mortality of this land, when in one year there died, one hundred and odd thousands in London. And as concerning what hath happened by fire, Saint Edmundsbury, and Tiberton in Devonshire, and many other places in England, to their great griefs too truly can testify, and what grievous deluges. what outrageous inundations, what unresistible overflowings of merciless waters we have had, nor man, nor history recording the like (since the general flood,) wherein many hundreds of acres of pasture and arable land, was (in little space as it were) turned into a main Ocean, that the fishes (the inhabitants of the sea) floating in their new made regiments, did feed on the drowned carcases of men, women, children, and beasts. What sterility and bainenesse of our fruitful mother earth we have had, through the anger of God, withholding the rain, and shutting the windows of Heaven, (that the senseless ground hath gaped to Heaven for relief, when we ourselves have scarce opened our mouths to desire God's favour) it is sufficiently known to all estates & ages. What hurts, damages, and irrecoverable losses and hindrances men have sustained by tempestuous winds, both on land and sea, where on the land, steeples, houses, chimneys, trees, and divers other things that were for the necessary use of all sorts of people, hath been utterly subverted and thrown down, to the utter undoing of some, and to the great impoverishing of many. Besides to leave the land, and to recapitulat what great & manifold harms hath been upon the sea, the outrageous winds making it altogether unnavigable. Of the which to write in every particular were a world of work: but all these aforesaid grievous calamities, we must all confess and acknowledge, to be the true tokens that our merciful God is highly offended with us; and almost the third part of the people in this kingdom, do and will ever remember some one or other of these precedent afflictions, some by loss of friends by death, and some by loss of goods, by fire, water, or other means; so that there is not, nor hath not been, (nor I doubt will not be) any day, night, hour, or minute, wherein God hath not, doth not, or will not power down his vengeance by one means or other, in one place or another upon impenetrable vnrepenting perfidious people.  
But leaving this perambulation or tedious travel to demonstrate that which hath been before divulged to the public view of the world, I do now intend to show thee, good Reader (if thou be'st so) what incomparable harms, and never to be regained loss hath happened by occasion of these late tempest ●●●s winds: and though I have not knowledge of all the hurts that are done, yet I know too much, and I with with 〈◊〉 my heart, that this which I mean to write were nothing but fiction, but yet assure thyself thou hadst better believe me then to travel to disprove me (as the proverb says) for I myself am sure that the most part of what I writ is true on mine own knowledge, and the rest I have gathered by relation from many husbandies widows, fatherless sons, and souls fathers and mothers, masterless servants, and masters that have lost their servants from many good and substantial Merchants, whose lamentable losses have too too much impoverished their former estates, the unconscionable al-devowring Sea, being needlessly made rich, with their sometimes hopeful adventures. But to the purpose.  
Some certain days before Christmas (by the outrageous blustering tempestuous wind and weather) a very fair and tall ship, called the Mary of Albrogh, coming from Bordeaux with one hundred and twenty tons of French wine, 〈◊〉 master Edmund's being master of her, was by force of weather driven upon the coast of France, near a place called Saint john's, not far from the famous and ancient City of Bullen, most miserably cast away, where was a great loss of ship & goods: but God be praised all the men were saved except one.  
About the same time there came a ship of Dartmouth from Marseles, laden with oils, and cotton wools, which was upon the same coast, and near the same place cast away, where the ship was torn in pieces, & the goods sunk in the seas: but God in his mercy saved all the men, to do their country more fortunate service hereafter (I hope.)  
Another (〈…〉) being called the Patience, who had been here once this ●●●ter from Burde●x, and was bound thither again, was cast away 〈◊〉 sunk in the river of Thames a little below Gravesend, at 〈◊〉 a place called Shooberie Nasse, the master's name of her was john love.  
Another great ship of London called the Hermit, of the burden of sevenscore tuns or thereabouts, being bound from London into Cornwall for ti●, the owner of her being in her, whose name was master Goodlad, a man sufficiently known for his credit and sufficiency in Navigation, and one Master Wolf being with him as master of the said ship, having certain passengers aboard with them; they were all most miserably drowned in the brinish waves of the merciless sea, and the ship beaten in pieces against the hard remorseless rocks, where the wind & seas did drive the lifeless corpses upon the sands where as it is 〈…〉, was a woman, who with a young child of hers was drowned in the company, who was taken up on the shore with her child in her arms: for being the natural living mother of it, the showed being dead (in spite of death) a good pattern of affectionate and motherly love.  
A ship belonging to a town in Cornwall called L●o, of the burden of threescore run, laden with salt fish, was cast away and shake in the West part of England at a place called Scylla, or near thereabouts, on the 2●. of December last, 1612.  
A little Bark of Fawmouth of some five and thirty tun, was beaten on the I'll of Wight and cast away, the same day aforesaid.  
And it is reported for certainty, that upon all the shores and sea sands along the coast of Pickardy in France near Calais, and so along towards the aforesaid (place of Saint john's) do float and he 〈◊〉 ●he s●●●● innumerable multitudes of drown carcases, some say more, and some less, but it is credibly in form that eleven 〈◊〉 twelve hundred 〈◊〉 the least.  
Moreover the tide b●ate belonging to Green Heath in Kent, was by force of weather sunk, and three passengers drowned, and much goods lost on the 30. of December last.  
To speak of the harms in particular that is done amongst poor water men's boats and 〈…〉 (between Grave send and Windsor) were a tedious piece of work, but this I know, that many of them are much hindered by the loss and splitting of their boats and all of them generally have had a worse time of it then the great frost.  
I omit to speak in particular of divers people; that are reported to lie scattered & drowned on the coasts of this kingdom in divers and sundry places, & all alongst the coasts of France 〈◊〉 th● L●● Countries, with Ireland, Scotland, and the Isles adjacent: all which as soon as I can get true information of, I will cause to be published. Besides I speak not of innumerable damages, by the sinking of certain coal-ships, being bound from Newcastle to London, all which I will hereafter divulge. And now leaving the sea, let us treat a little of the land harms that are done now of late by these great winds.  
At the old swan in Thames street near London Bridge on Christmas even was the house of one Master Pits a silk dier, violently blown down, and in the fall did break the roof and tiles of another house that was over against it, and in the same parish in Katherine wheel alley was a chimney blown down of one Master Baits, which broke down the cop of one Henry Gossons house a Stationer, and it fell with such a violence in the night, that it beat through the roof and a garret, and into a middle chamber: but God be praised it hurt no body.  
In Byshopsgate street over against the King's head, near the gate, was the top of a bakers house blown down, his wife and he being in bed, and the main beam of the house broke, and fell down on the testor of their bed, and it did no more hurt, but scar them: besides churches, houses, windmills, and divers other buildings, some blown down, some much defaced, which will not be repaired without excessive charges.  
And by reason of the great store of rain, which hath fallen the highways are so overflown, that in many places both horse and men have been forced to swim in the very road way, by which means the City of London cannot be served with such provision of victuals as divers people were wont to bring in out of the country.  
Then let us consider with ourselves, in what dangerous estates we are in when the Almighty is offended with us, and let us turn to the Lord through hearty repentance, and earnest desire of amendment, and then (no doubt but God in his mercy will turn his favourable countenance towards us. For it is never too late to amend, and therefore in the fear of the Lord, let every one mend one: and that the fame may be accomplished, I heartily desire of God for Christ's sake to give all true Christians upright and new hearts, for Newyear's gifts.  
FINIS.   

THese things hereafter following were related to me by Certain Sailors and Country people, since the first were printed: and as for the truth of them I believe them myself, but I have no authority to enforce other men's faiths, and therefore I leave them to censure as they please.  
AS two men were Riding out in the North Country together (being both brothers, which I know and can produce if need require) by a violent blast of wind they were overthrown, and after they were risen again, (for the space of an hour) one of them was stricken blind, but afterward his sight came to him again.  
At a place called Layton in Kent (two or three miles from Greenwich) by a furious tempestuous storm of wind and weather, a fair house of one Master Winters was blown down, and in the fall, a youth of the age of 15. years was crippled.  
These and many other fearful and terrible judgements God hath powered down upon us, as Rods and scourges for our obstinate, wilful, and rebellious living: for we (like Oxen or brute beasts, fat ourselves in sin against the day of slaughter:) & (like foolish schoolboys) never fear the Rod before we feel it: let us then consider our own miserable estates how we are altogether wicked, and therefore justly punished by that God who is altogether good, how though our faults be as countles as the sands of the sea, or the Stars of Heaven, yet God hath as many several sorts of plagues as man hath Crimes to deserve them: but the Lord in the midst of his judgements remembers mercy, or else we should all be confounded in his heavy displeasure: and therefore let us thankfully praise God for his mercy, that we are not cast headlong to the pit of perpetual Perdition, according to our deserts and merits. From the which, the Lord God of his exceeding and superabounding mercy, for his dearly beloved Son jesus Christ's sake to deliver us. To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost, three distinct persons, and one Eternal, invisible, infinite, and Immortal God, be duly rendered (of men and Angels) all Honour, Glory, praise, power, majesty, might, and dominion, now and for evermore Amen.  
FINIS.