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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    • [40] . . Servants of the Houfe, attending the time of the drinking, was within the fpace of two hoars irrecoverably dead: WitnelTed at the time of the Printing hereof by the fame Servant that flood by him in the A6t, and helpt to remove him. Tn Dengy Hundred, near Mauldon, 'about the beginning of his Majefties Reign, there fell out an extraordinary Judgment upon five or fix that plotted a folemn drinking at one of their Houfes, laid in Beer for the once, drunk healths in a ftrange manner, and died thereof within a few.weeks, fome fooncr, and fome later: witndfed to me by one that was with one of them on his death¬ bed, to demand a Debt, and often fpoken of by Mailer Heydon, late Preacher of Mauldon, in the hearing of many : The particular cir- cumflances were exceeding remarkable, but having not fufficicnt proof for the particulars, I will not report them. One of Aylcjham in Norfolk, a notorious Drunkard, drowned in a fhallow Brook of water, with his Horfe by him. Whilefl this was at the Preffe, a man Eighty five years old, or thereabout,in Suffolk,overtaken with Wine, (though never in all his life before, as he himfelf (aid a little before his fall, feeming to bewail his prefent condition, and others that knew him fo fay of himj yet going ^own a pair of flairs (againft the perfwafion of a wemm fitting by him in his Chamber) fell, and was fo dange- rouily hurt, as he died foon after, not being able to [peak from the time of his fall to his death. The Names of the Parties thuspunifhed, I forbear for the Kin¬ dreds fake vet living. if confcionable Minifters of all places of the Land would give notice of fuch Judgments, as come within the compafs of their cer¬ tain knowledge, it might be a great means to fupprefs this Sin, which reigns every where to the fcandal of our Nation, and high difpleafure of Almighty God. Thefe may fuffice for a taft of God’s Judgments : Eafie were it to abound in fundry particular Cafualties, and fearful Examples of this nature. Drunkard, that which hath befaln any one of thefe, may befal thee, if thou wilt dally with this Cockatrice i what ever leagues thou makeft with Death, and difpeniations thou giveft thy fell from the like. Some of thefe were young, fome were rich, fome thought themfelvesas wife thou i none of them ever looked for fuch ignominious ends, more then thou, who ever thou art: it thou hated fuch ends, God'give thee Grace to decline fuch courfes. If