Sad and deplorable news from Oxford-sheir & Bark-sheir. Being a lamentable and true relation of the drowning of about sixty persons, men, women and children, in the lock, near Goring in Oxford sheir; as they were passing by water, from Goring Feast, to Stately in Barksheir. Readers, this story is both strange and true, and for your good (presented unto you:) be careful of your life, all sins to fly, lest you by death be taken suddenly. When he is sent, on you arrest to make, no fees nor bail, can purchase your escape.

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Sad and deplorable news from Oxford-sheir & Bark-sheir. Being a lamentable and true relation of the drowning of about sixty persons, men, women and children, in the lock, near Goring in Oxford sheir; as they were passing by water, from Goring Feast, to Stately in Barksheir. Readers, this story is both strange and true, and for your good (presented unto you:) be careful of your life, all sins to fly, lest you by death be taken suddenly. When he is sent, on you arrest to make, no fees nor bail, can purchase your escape.
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London :: printed for R. Vaughan, in the Little-old-Baily,
1674.
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Drowning -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Drowning victims -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"Sad and deplorable news from Oxford-sheir & Bark-sheir. Being a lamentable and true relation of the drowning of about sixty persons, men, women and children, in the lock, near Goring in Oxford sheir; as they were passing by water, from Goring Feast, to Stately in Barksheir. Readers, this story is both strange and true, and for your good (presented unto you:) be careful of your life, all sins to fly, lest you by death be taken suddenly. When he is sent, on you arrest to make, no fees nor bail, can purchase your escape." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58994.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.

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