An Advertisement.
About a fortnight agoe, we printed that Sir Thomas Alcook
made away himself with stabbing; but since it appears, hee
cut his own Throat with a kinde of a Skeyne which used to
lye over his Bed's-head. What the occasion might be, is not
certainly known, but it is collected since by divers circumstances,
that he laboured under a troubled Conscience. Upon
perusall of his Papers by certain persons appointed for that
purpose, there was found among them this following Memoriall
under his own Hand-writing, of the many notable Deliverances
he had received, by the good hand of God, from
his Childhood. And therefore it is the more remarkable, that
he should after all, be so farr for taken by God, as to commit
that act of violence upon himself.
To the Eternall praise and glory of [unr]y good God, I will set
down the many and msot apparent Dangers he hath
preserved me from, for which his great mercy I will
ever praise his holy name.
1. IN the time of my Childhood, I was by a Drunken man
cut with a Sword in the hinder part of the Head, to the
very Skull.
2. And being at School, I was by a Boy stabbed in the
Forehead between the Eye-brows. It was atmost mercifull
deliverance.
3. Being alone sliding on the Ice, I fell with half my Body
into the water, dangerously so hanging, until it pleased God
to send one to my rescue.
4. I fell from the Top of a Bridg over the River of Thames,
there being a Boat not farr from the place; and although I
could not then swim, it pleased God that I got to it and thereby
escaped drowning.
5. Being on the Moat at the Grave in the Low-Countreys
in Frosty weather, I fell in up to the Clian; the place was so
dangerous and brittle, that my Company feared to assist mee,
yet by the hand of a stranger, who did hazard himself to help
me, I was delivered.