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...The same thirteenth daie of Ianuarie, being sundaie, about foure of the clocke in the afternoone, the old and vnderpropped scaffolds round about the beare garden, commonlie called Paris garden, on the southside the Thames, ouer against the citie of London, ouercharged with people fell suddenlie downe, whereby to the number of eight persons men and women were slaine, and manie other sore hurt and brused. A freendlie warning to al such as more delight themselues in the crueltie of beasts, to see them rent one an other; than in the works of mercie, which are the fruits of a true professed faith, and ought to be the sabboth daies exercise: and not onlie a warning to works of mercie, but a watchword to put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie, the Lords owne daie, which he sanctified himselfe, that we by his example might sanctifie the same, and not prophane it with soch gentilisme as we doo, as though God would not call vs to a reckoning for abusing his holie ordinances, and falsifieng the glorious title of christians in our odious actions: for the which God will seuerelie expostulat with vs, and with indignation demand of vs why we take his lawes in our mouths, & renounce them in our minds; why we let them swim in our lips, and slip from our liues, as the vaine Iewes did, vnto whome God said in displeasure as followeth:
Quid de lege mea declamas ore
profano?
Non hoc officij debuit esse tui:
Cum tamen & mores & leges oderis aequas,
Et verbi officium neglegis omne mei.
Eight persons
killed by the fall of a scaffold at the beare garden, a warning to prophaners of
the sabboth daie.
Eobanus Hessus
in Psalmo 50.[Footnote: Eobanus … 50: in italic type]
Eobanus Hessus on psalm 50.
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(English)
Why
do you declaim regarding my law with a profane mouth?
This observance was not required of you,
Since you hate both morals and laws equally
And you neglect every observance of my word.
Several decades later, Edmund Howes' continuation of Stowe's Annales (1615; STC: 23340) included notice of the collapse of the scaffolding at the Bear Garden on 13 January 1582/3: see Stowe, Annales, sig Rrr2v, and also the related EMLOT event.
For Eobanus Hessus (1488-1540), the Neo-Latin poet and German humanist, see Hans J. Hillebrand (ed), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Oxford, 1996).
For an abstract of this record and details of its transcription in other printed sources, see the related EMLoT event.
Record title: Holinshed, Third Volume of Chronicles
Publication: STC
Publication number: 13569
Raphael
Holinshed (c 1525-80) first
published his famous Chronicle of England, Scotland, and
Ireland in 1577, in two volumes, dedicated to William Cecil
(1520/1-98), first Baron Burghley. The work 'formed part of a
deliberate movement to elevate the status of England, English
letters, and English language through writing and publishing maps,
histories, national epics, and theoretical works on English poetry';
see Cyndia Susan Clegg, 'Holinshed [Hollingshead], Raphael (c.
1525-1580?), historian,' ODNB, accessed 18 December
2022.
The second edition was published posthumously in 1587,
in three volumes in large-folio format. Volume 3, focussed on the
history of England, was continued to 1586 by the historian John Stow and
Abraham Fleming, who acted as general editor and reviser for the
1587 version. For further details, see Clegg, 'Holinshed,' and The
Holinshed Project.
The tragic incident at the Bear Garden in 1583 must have
occurred at the site of the Bell and Cock where 'Payne's Standings'
was located, by then sub-leased to Edward Bowes, with William Glover
as his agent.
For another account of the incident, see John Field, A godly exhortation.
THE | Third volume of Chronicles, be- | ginning at duke William the Norman, | commonlie called the Conqueror; and | descending by degrees of yeeres to all the | kings and queenes of England in their | orderlie successions | First compiled by Raphaell Holinshed, | and by him extended to the | yeare 1577. | Now newlie recognised, augmented, and | continued (with occurrences and | accidents of fresh memorie) | to the yeare 1586. | wherein also are conteined manie matters | of singular discourse and rare obser- | uation, fruitfull to such as be | studious in antiquities, or | take pleasure in the | grounds of anci- | ent histories. | With a third table (peculiarlie seruing | this third volume) both of | names and matters | memorable. | Historiae placeant nostrates de peregrinae. | STC: 13569.