Two broad-sides against tobacco / the first given by King James ... his Counterblast to tobacco. The second transcribed out of ... Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his treatise of the scurvy. To which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking: taken out of ... the same author ... With a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's Treatise of bloud; against smoking tobacco. Also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards ... by Mr. Samuel Ward. Concluding with two poems against tobacco [by J. Sylvester] and coffee [by G. Wither?]. Collected and published ... by J[ohn] H[ancock] Philanthrōpos.

  • James I, King of England, 1566-1625
Date:
1672
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Credit: Two broad-sides against tobacco / the first given by King James ... his Counterblast to tobacco. The second transcribed out of ... Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his treatise of the scurvy. To which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking: taken out of ... the same author ... With a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's Treatise of bloud; against smoking tobacco. Also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards ... by Mr. Samuel Ward. Concluding with two poems against tobacco [by J. Sylvester] and coffee [by G. Wither?]. Collected and published ... by J[ohn] H[ancock] Philanthrōpos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [37] of it about his Neck. But thefe are extraordinary and rare cafes; God fometimes pra&ifing Marfhal-Law, and doing prefent execu¬ tion, left Fools (hall fay in their Hearts, There were no God, or Judgment: but conniving and deferring the moft, that men might expe&ajudge coming, and a folemn day of Judgment to come. But this tin of Drunkennefs is fo odious to him, that he makes it felf Juftice, Judge and Executioner, flaying the ungodly with mil- fortune, bringing them to untimely fhameful ends, in brutifti and beaftial manner, often in their own vomit and ordures fending them fottifh , fleeping, and fenfelefs to Hell, not leaving them either time, or reafon , or grace to repent, and cry fo much as Lord have mercy upon us• W ere there fas in fome Cities of Italy J an Office kept, or a Record and Regifter by every Coroner in Shires and Counties, of fuch difmal events which God hath avenged this fin withall, what a Volume would it have made with¬ in thefe few years in this our Nation ? How terrible a Threater of God’s Judgments againft Drunkards, fuch as might make their Hearts to bleed and relent, if not their Ears to tingle, to hear of a tafte of fome few fuch noted and remarkable Examples of God’s Juftice, as have come within the compafs of mine own notice, and certain knowledges I think I fhould offend to conceal them from the World, whom they may happily keep from being the like to others, themfelves. An Ale-wife in Kcfgrave, near to Iffwicb^who would needs force three Serving-men (that had been drinking in her Houfe, and were taking their leaves) to flay and drink the three Outs firft, that is. Wit out of the Head, Money out of the Purfe, Ale out of the Pot s as fhe was coming towards them with the Pot in her hand, was fuddenly taken fpeechlefs and fick, her Tongue fwoln in her mouth, never recovered fpeech, the third day after died. This Sir Anthony Felton, the next Gentleman and Juftice, with divers others Eye- witneftes of her in Sicknefs related to me s whereupon I went to the Houfe with two or three Witneffes, and inquired the truth ofit. Two Servants of a Brewer in Iffoich, drinking for a rumpe of 3 Turkie, ftrugling in their drink for it, fell into a fcading Caldron backwards: whereof the one died prefently, the other lingringly and painfully fince my coming to Ipfmcb. Anno 1619. A Miller inBromefmll, coming home drunk from JVoodhridge (as he oft did) would needs go and fwirtvin the Mil- pond ;