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A61750 A strange and true relation of the prodigious multitude of mice that have destroyed the plants, herbs, and grasse between Rotterdam and Schedam likewise infesting their houses and chambers insomuch that the inhabitants thereof are in despair of their security : wherein you will find a philosophical and historical relation concerning the generation of those vermine and some prognosticks raised there-from : as also an account how Dengy hundred in Essex hath been formerly infested with an incredible number of mice, and how it was freed after a miraculous manner / as it was communicated to a person of qualitie by a letter from a merchant living in Rotterdam. Anonymus, Eugenius. 1670 (1670) Wing S5841; ESTC R26947 4,018 8

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Secrets of the Nation They intend therefore to see the Event and then they will explain their Prognostications and tell you They did Predict all those things that have happened as Lilly Predicted the Kings Restauration by these words in his Merlin's Prophesies A Grand Catastrophe shall happen in England between the Years 1655 and 1665 in 10 Years over or under Though in the same Book and Place he saith positively the contrary Thus having tired your Patience with Mens Opinions I will come now to the Matter and give you an account how great a trouble these inconsiderable Animals whose number being considerable makes them formidable They destroy all our Provision knawing holes through VVood Cloath c. so that nothing can preserve our Bread or other Provision from them but Iron And therefore many of our Inhabitants are fain to provide Cupboards made of Iron Plate They do so increase that we begin to fear they will devour us as well as our Food they being already so bold as to come upon our Beds and sometimes bite us by the Toes or Fingers Great Care is taken for their Destruction but all in vain by Traps Cats Dogs all signifie nothing There came a V●rtuoso from Paris the other day that undertakes to free the Town by a Talisman which startled the Burgo Masters of Rotterdam supposing it to be the name of some Infernal Spirit till such time as he explained himself and told them that it was only the Effigies of a Mouse Engraven upon Iron being demanded why upon Iron rather than any other Mettal He answered Because the Sun entred Scorpio which is Mars's winter House when the Mice entred the Land it must be Engraved in the hour of Mars afterwards it must be heated nine times upon a Tuesday in the hour of Mars and quenched with the juice of Martial Plants impregnated with Sal Martis then there must be a stone gathered under the Dominion of Venus when Venus is well fortifyed in her own Dignities Be sure she be not in Conjunction with Mars for then she will part with no Influencies to the Stone Upon this must be Engraved a She-Mouse in the hour and day of Venus and this Stone must be made red hot nine times and quenched as often in the juice of Venerial Plants impregnated with Ens Veneris These being prepared this Virtuoso intends to hang this Talismanical stone about the neck of this Talismanical Mouse and throw them both into the Maes which will by an occult quality and sympathetical virtue draw all the other Mice to the bottom of the River to them The Burgo-Masters at length approve of the Art and desired him to hasten the experiment But since this there hath been another Project thought on for freeing the Town A German who it seems was born in the Town where the Pide Piper whistled the Rats and Mice out of the Town and drew them into the River doth affirm That not long since the Pipers Tomb was discovered by digging for some Mine and in it was found the very Pipe which hath been proved since by the same Experiment making all the Rats and Mice in the Town to follow him that played upon it This German untertakes to procure this Pipe for a sum of Money and so to free us from these Vermine The Papists are very importunate with their Priests to Excommunicate them and it is discoursed amongst them that they have sent to the Pope for a Bull to scarr them all away We have no other News or Discourse here but concerning the Mice I remember a Story that I have read in England of the like Prodigy in Essex which put us in some comfort of being freed after some such miraculous manner The Story was thus About November in the year 1581 in the Marshes of Dengie Hundred in a place called Southminster in the County of Essex there suddenly appeared an Infinite and Prodigious number of Mice which almost covered the whole Superficies of the said Marshes treading and knawing the Grass by the Roots spoiling and tainting the same with their venimous teeth in such sort that the Cattle that graized thereon were struck with a Murrain and many dyed thereof which Vermin by all the Policie of Man could not be destroyed till at last it came to pass that there flocked together all about the same Marshes a great number of Owls whereby they were shortly after de livered from the vexation of the Mice The like of this was about that time in Kent as Chronicles relate What further News shall happen you may expect an account In the mean time I rest Yours Eugenius Anonymus FINIS