A wonderful and most Lamentable Declaration of the great hurt done, and mighty loss sustained by Fire that happened; and mighty storms of wind, Thunder, Lightning, hail, and rain, with Inundations of Water, that fell in the town of Erfford and Weinmar; and in Country of Wurtenburgh, as namely in the towns of Vagolt, Hernburg, Rotenburch, Tubingen, Issingen, Elwang, and Duncken-spiel, as also in many other places of Germany, to the great destruction of thousand of Men, Women, and Children; Houses, Cattle, corn, Money, householdstuff, and many other things: In the Month of May, but much more in the Month of june last past, Anno, 1613.  
With a brief Relation of a great fire, which vpon the fourteenth of june, happened in the city of Constantinople, and burnt five thousand houses.  
Written to move all good Christians to pitty and compassion, and to stir up their hearts to pray unto God to convert his Ire from vs.  
Printed at colen in High Ducth, and Translated into English.  
London Printed for Thomas Archer, and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head Palace, 1613.   

To the Reader.  
THat the great and fearful day of the Lords terrible and last Iudgement to be given vpon this wicked world, is at hand, and ready to come vpon us( good Reader) now more then sufficiently is seen and manifestly perceived; for that daily experience, together with the foreshowing and Prophesyings of our Lord and saviour Iesus Christ himself, and his holy Prophets do assure us thereof which plainly tells us, that signs and tokens shall be seen in the firmament, and that men here on earth should thereby and there-with be strike into great fear, grief, sorrow and anguish of heart, to behold the same; that the wicked and ungodly would become so obdurate and obstinate that they should utterly reject all warning, counsel, admonition, or instruction whatsoever, given unto them for amendment of life, and humbling and bending of their stubborn hearts by prayer unto the Lord, that pride, and hatred, malice, and contention, with other wickedness and abominations should so much therein abound, that the Lord cannot choose but speedily come to judge and punish the great vn-righteousnesse of man, for proof whereof it is needless to say much, when it is so manifes●ly& evidently seen daily, hourly, and continually from time to time. For was there ever more or greater wickedness known and practised in the world, then is now at this day committed by all sorts of men, who daily and nightly consume their time, and the great and good gifts of God, in superfluous and gluttonous eating, drinking, lust, pleasures, murders, thefts, and many other abominable and wicked sins and offences committed against the majesty of God, without all remorse of conscience, or any fear of his iudgments daily shewed vpon vs. So that we cannot, but must needs confess, that God in his righteous and just iudgement is truly moved and incited to with-draw his merciful and most bountiful hand from us, and in respect of our great unthankfulness towards him, and the extreme cruelties, and unmercifulness by us used and continually shewed unto our Christian brethren, to strike us with the arrows of his fierce wrath and indignation, by his ministers of plague, pestilence, famine, war, fire, storms of wind, thunder, lightning, hail, rain, and inundations of water, with many other such like punishments, by us well and meritoriously deserved at his hands. As for example. Did not God this year most bountifully show forth his great goodness; grace& mercy throughout the whole spacious Country of Germany, by sending them so goodly and prosperous a spring, and so seasonable a Summer, that the fruits of the earth were seen to bee so forward, faire, and in so great abundance, as that in many hundred yeares heretofore the like was never seen, nor known? But o most merciful God, how soon by thy mighty power hast thou overwhelmed the same? how soon haue they lost all their great hope? how quickly haue they been bereaved of those goodly fruits thy great blessings? and how soon( as it were in a moment) haue they been cast down from the mount of felicity into the deep valley of sorrow, woe, and extreme heaviness? by the great storms of wind, thunder, lightning, hail and rain, with inundations of water, and extreme fires, which many places there in Germany haue of late felt, and found, to their most great, vn-speakeable, and intolerable loss and lamentable destruction, the particulars whereof hereafter ensue.   

The great and wonderful loss sustained by Fire and Water in the country of Germany, in the Months of May and june, in diuers places of the said country; as first in the town of Erfford and Weinmar.  
IN the town of Erfort, and other places in Germany, vpon the eighth day of the month of june last past, the weather was so vn-seasonable and stormy, that by means of certain showers of rain, and extremity of hail that fell in great abundance in that country, the water grew so high that many places thereabout were drowned, to the great and unspeakable hurt of the people of the same; for that the hailstones which fell from the sky, were in many places seen and found to bee as big as pigeons and hens eggs.  
And specially in the town of Weinmar, it was most extreme and terrible, whereby two milles, at least a hundred men, and many cattle, were drowned, and the water in Reinmar at that time, waxed and rose up at least three elles higher then ever it was before: and the water called the Ilme, which tunneth by the gate, through Naumburg, and so to Saal, rose so high that four miles round in circuit, it overwhelmed and drowned all the villages& hamblets thereabouts, together with an innumerable company of men, women, and children, and great multitudes of cattle.  
And about half a mile from Weinmar, in a small village, the water ran with so mighty a force, and such a stream, that it bare the bodies of the dead before it out of their graues in the Church-yard, and at Mulhausen and Solts drowned all their sellers, and spoiled whatsoever was therein: whereby at least fifty tons of Wine and beer were utterly staued& lost.  
In Eiffeldt by Mulhausen at the same time, there was an hundred men, women, and children drowned, the houses by the water so undermined, that they fell down, and were born clean away: and as it was found by searchching and true certificates, there was at least a thousand men, women, and children cast away and drowned within the liberties and territories of Weinmar. And for that the water continued with so great extremity to rise& rage in that manner for the space of twelve houres together, the people were forced to get into boats and in them to sit and pass along to save themselves, singing unto the Lord, and saying: In peace and ioy I pass along, and God our Lord and Father dwell by us, &c.  
At Magdenburg about the same time, there was at the least four hundred houses by extremity of water clean cast down and overwhelmed, and the storm smiting into S. james Church, the Organs were broken, the fonestones forcibly thrown down, and the steeple thereof suddenly burnt.  
And at Gorlitz there was so many hailstones cast into the town, that they lay at the least three quarters of an ell high heaped one vpon another in the same, which did great hurt and harm unto the fruit in the Country. What such and the like prodigious things signify and foreshew, God knoweth.  
In Leiptsig, vpon the 12 day of the month of june, the water rose so high, and increased in such abundance, that it carried away above an hundred clap-bordes, the powder-mill, a ston bridge, the garden and house of pleasure, the tin bath-stoues, covered over with Copper, the butchery, the fish toll-house, the rentmaisters house, the timber-house, the house wherein the provision was kept, the Indian hen-house, the grauing-mill where the jasper ston lay( wherein they had graven D. Iohns Epitaph) the wooden bridge covered with tiles, the wall round about the Castle-garden, the water-worke, the pipe, and the wall about it, in the castle a round tower with a vault therein, and much timber, and the water ran in at the lop, or shot holes,( within the Castlewalkes a mans height at the least) into the town by the Kegell tower, and the Reich-mil, the water was 16 elles high, in the corn-house it carried away all the corn out of the nether loft, whereby it swom in the town ditches, in the castle, and in the castle-vault, the vessels with wine and beer were overthrown, so that they could by no means be holpen, or saved in the suddenness of the time. In the wardrobe of the castle, the Dukes apparel and Tapestry hangings were spoiled, the Princes Orchard overwhelmed: in the fore rooms or part of the house, five and twenty horses, two and forty Cowes, two and forty calves, forty swine, six fat Oxen, and many Fowles, with their stables and cages, belonging to the young Duke, were all broken and drowned. And in the town, in the neither mill, besides thirteen men, there was certain quarters, or measures of corn, much householdstuff, and at least a thousand gilderns in money, drowned and lost, and the millers wife, and her man lost their lives, the Reich-mill was torn in pieces, and therewith four and forty houses and barns, with all their household stuff and provision overthrown& spoiled, and threescore and five men women and children drowned.  
In the villages thereunto adjoining, a Gentleman called Monsieur Schutz, had his house, with his household stuff and cattle, and many other houses more clean overwhelmed and the stone-bridge broken down, the Gentleman and his wife, by great fortune and with great pain, and much trouble were saved.  
In Erisdorp there was ten houses overwhelmed, and fifteen men drowned.  
In Ouerweinmar the mill with ten houses was cast down, and many men drowned.  
In Deifurt nine houses, and nine men were overthrown and drowned, and all the village Kromsdorf spoiled except the Parsons house, and the Gentlemans house of that town.  
In Vilerhelben four thirteen houses& sheepestailes were thrown to the ground, and five men drowned.  
In Roslebn the corn house, the mill, the stove, the worke-house, and the sheep-stalles, with at least a thousand sheep, were all spoiled overwhelmed, and drowned.  
In Soltelsee eight and twenty houses, and three men sunk and drowned.  
In Wortstet five and twenty men, women, and children drowned, and ten houses onerthrowne, with the mill and the brew-house.  
In Vberstadt 44 houses, and 23 men consumed and drowned.  
In Drebem twenty men, and so many houses, and all Monsieur Shenkes cattle drowned.  
In over Drebern the mill and the Brewhouse born away.  
In Soltza 20. men, and 39. houses drowned.  
In the village of Soltza, the Brew-house was overthrown.  
In great Grumbach besides 29 houses, and many men, women, and children, with great store of Cattle clean born away, there was above a thousand persons more drowned, for the which their was great lamentation and sorrow made.  
The stormy weather, and the rising of the waters was so great, that for the space of fifteen Dutch miles long, and about Erfford and Mulhausen, all the friute in the Country was spoyled and destroyed.  
In Weinmar there was nineteen master Weisgerbies whereof there are now but three living.  
And daily there was graues made and digged in diuers places in the Country, wherein were butted at least 10 or 12 men, women, and children, together.  
So that the great hurt and misery done, and endured in these Countries of Germany is not to be  told for the extremety thereof.  
In the land of Wurtenberg, in Nagolt there was ten men drowned, two houses overwhelmed,& the corn vpon the ground spoiled.  
In Hernberg, Rotenberg, Tubingen, and Islengen, the fruits, vines, and corn, were all spoiled.  
About Elwang, and Dunkelspiel, there was hailstones found that weighed two, three, and four pound weight.  
In Orterum the lightning struck into the Castle, whereby the greatest part thereof was burnt, and at least three hundred men drowned in the river.  
In prague in Bohemia the storms and tempests were so great that they did much hurt in many places throughout the country, whereby the fruits were not onely destroyed, but also the water-sluces, ditches, and wears broke into the country, and thereby made the waters grow so high, that above a hundred loads of Timber, and many fats full of corn swam vpon the water, and fishes were found and taken vpon the land.  
In many places the water carried away the shepherds out of the field, and many hundreds of cattle drowned, and great store of horses and sheep. So that the great loss about this time endured by the people in these Countries, by means thereof, amounteth unto many hundred thousand collars.  
God Almighty if it bee his will and pleasure, defend, keep and deliver us from the like troubles and adversities, and turn his angry wrath and indignation from us, which we( by reason of our great and innumerable sins) haue well deserved; and for the merits and passion of our Lord and saviour Iesus Christ his son, be merciful unto us, and give us grace to live in such a sort, that we may be always ready for the Lord, whensoever he calleth us out of this world. Amen.  
BY letters sent from Constantinople bearing date the 14 of june, it is certified to truth, that in the said city, thereare, by casualty of fire that happened therein, at least five thousand houses burnt, and that the great loss thereby sustained, amounteth unto more then a Million of Gold: and that the said fire was the cause of a great tumult and uproar made therein at the same time; for that the janissaries under pretence of quenching the fire robbed and ransacked the Iewes, Greekes, and Armenians houses, who thereupon making resistance against the Turkes, in the contention between them they slay one of the Iannisaries, for the which the next day after, they were fined to pay ten thousand Cechinies, there-with to content and please the principal Visiere Nazut; which notwithstanding knowing a certain jew in Constantinople to be exceeding rich, he caused him to be accused by false witnesses, that he was the man that slay the Iannisarie, and for the same, condemned him to die, and all his goods to be confiscated, which put the rest of the Iewes and Merchants in Constantinople in great fear and much perplexity.   
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