A01974:1884
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the…Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the…
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friars, London.Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friers, London.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the Corpses remaining two great pits were digged, one in the fore-court of the said French Ambassadors house, 18 foot long, and 12 foot broad, the other in the garden behind his house, 12 foot long, 8. foot broad: In the former pit were laid 44 corpses, whereof the bodies of the forenamed Redyat and Drury were two. These two wound up in sheets were first laid into the pit: and a partition of loose earth to sever them from the rest. Then were others brought: some in somewhat a decent manner, wound up in sheets: but others in a more lamentable plight, the shirts only of the men tied under their twist: and some linen tied about the middle of the women: the other parts of their body naked: one poor man or woman taking a corpse by the head, another by the feet: and so piled them up almost to the top of the pit.
For the Corpses remaining two great pits were digged, one in the fore-court of the said French Ambassadours house, 18 foot long, and 12 foot broad, the other in the garden behind his house, 12 foot long, 8. foot broad: In the former pit were laid 44 corpses, whereof the bodies of the forenamed Redyat and Drury were two. These two wound up in sheets were first laid into the pit: and a partition of loose earth to sever them from the rest. Then were others brought: some in somwhat a decent manner, wound up in sheets: but others in a more lamentable plight, the shirts onely of the men tied under their twist: and some linnentied about the middle of the women: the other parts of their body naked: one poore man or woman taking a corpse by the head, another by the feet: and so piled them up almost to the top of the pit.
The remainder were put into the other pit in the garden.
Their manner of burial seemed almost (if not altogether) as dismal, as the heap of them when they lay on the floor whereupon they last fell.