Antiquities of the city of Exeter collected by Richard Izacke ...

Regna Regum 24. Charles the 1. An. D. 1648.

Mayors and Bayliffs

• James Gould
  • Ralph Herman
  • Francis Lipping∣cot
  • George Macy
  • Thomas Tacke

Several young Elms were planted in the Bonbay.

January, 30. the King was barbarously murthered by his own sworn Subjects in the heighth of their Rebellion, pretending (as the Jews did to our Saviour) they had a Law, by which he must dye, a sadder Ca∣tastrophe did the Sun never behold, since the murthering of the Lord of Life, and in it self a sin so horrid, as that Justice knew not well how to punish, nor mercy to forgive.

One thing not to be forgotten is, that there happened an accident in the Inn com∣monly called the White-Hart in South-gate∣street, an old Well long neglected, which the owner (Roger Cheek of this City Brewer) had a purpose to cleanse, and in order there∣unto, caused one Paul Penrose to go down for the scouring thereof, who therein sud∣denly fell dead, whereupon a second person named William Johnson (both of them by profession Carpenters) was imployed to de∣scend after him, who presently in the said Pit likewise died, a third person adventu∣ring himself to preserve his friend, had therein also perished, if with all celerity he had not been drawn up again, who almost dead, was by rouling, and pouring Oyl and Aqua-vitae into him (through much diffi∣culty) preserved, who when he came to himself did affirm, that there came such a strange stench out of the Caverus of the Earth, as that deprived him of breath, hereof diverse men censured diversly, some that there was a Cockatrice in the Pit, some one thing, some another, but the general received opinion that it was occasioned by a Damp.