A01974:756
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.
In King Henry the thirds reign was a great dearth and pestilence: so that many poor folks died for want of victuals: 1and the rich men were stricken with covetousness, that they would not relieve them. Amongst these is to be noted Walter Grey, Arch-Bishop of York, whose corn being five years old, doubting the same to be destroyed by vermin, he commanded to deliver it to the husbandmen that dwelt in his manors, upon condition to pay as much new corn after harvest; and would give none to the poor for Gods sake. But when men came to a great stack of corn nigh to the town of Ripon belonging to the said Arch-bishop, there appeared in the sheaves all over the heads of worms, serpents, and toads. And the Bailiffs were forced to build an high wall round about the corn, and then to set it on fire, least the venomous worms should have gone out and poisoned the corn in other places.
In King Henry the thirds raigne was a great dearth and pestilence: so that many poore folks died for want of victuals: 1and the rich men were striken with covetousnesse, that they would not relieve them. Amongst these is to be noted Walter Grey, Arch-Bishop of Yorke, whose corne being five yeares old, doubting the same to be destroyed by vermine, he commanded to deliver it to the husbandmen that dwelt in his mannours, upon condition to pay as much new corne after harvest; and would give none to the poore for Gods sake. But when men came to a great stack of corne nigh to the towne of Ripon belonging to the said Arch-bishop, there appeared in the sheaves all over the heads of wormes, serpents, and toads. And the Bailiffes were forced to build an high wall round about the corne, and then to set it on fire, least the venomous wormes should have gone out and poysoned the corne in other places.
- 1Ibid. H. 3. 18. 1234. Vermin in corn horded up in time of dearth.Ibid. H. 3. 18. 1234. Vermine in corne hoorded up in time of dearth.