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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.
When Henry 6. reigned, scarcity and dearness of corn 1forced men to eat beans, pease, and barley, more then in an hundred years before. Bread-corn was so scarce in England, that poor people made them bread of Fern-roots,
When Henry 6. raigned, scarcity and dearenesse of corne 1forced men to eate beanes, pease, and barley, more then in an hundred yeares before. Bread-corne was so scarce in England, that poore people made them bread of Fern-roots,
- 1Ibid. H. 6. 18. 1440.
In the time of King Henry the eight there fell such rain in November and December, as thereof ensued great floods, 1which destroyed corn-fields, pastures, and beasts. Then was it dry till the 12 of April: and from that time it rained every day and night till the third of June, whereby corn failed sore in the year following.
In the time of King Henry the eight there fell such raine in November and December, as thereof ensued great flouds, 1which destroyed corn-fields, pastures, and beasts. Then was it dry till the 12 of Aprill: and from that time it rained every day and night till the third of Iune, whereby corne failed sore in the yeare following.
- 1Ibid. H. 8. 18. 1527. Famine caused by much rain.Ibid. H. 8. 18. 1527. Famine caused by much raine.