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A03963	A vvorld of vvonders. A masse of murthers. A couie of cosonages Containing many of the moste notablest wonders, horrible murthers and detestable cosonages that haue beene within this land. Not imagined falso to delight vaine heads ociose, not practised trans mare to breed trueth cum ambiguitate, but commited euen at home re vera, and may be prooued cum honestate. A matter moste fit to be knowen, well wayed and considered of all men.	T. I., fl. 1595.; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 14068.5; ESTC S109081	33,922	48

for the same Now if conetousnes had not ouermastered her shee had neuer béene taken but vnderstanding what plate that M. Mascall had shée hanged thereafter and therfore caused the forenamed Capon and turkey to be cut and mangled the hed féet and hart c. to be cut off and euery corner of the table one to be laide a candle burning to be set also vpon the table and all the plate set ther vppon as a present for the king of Feryes then should they goe to the Tauerne with some of the cunning womans companions and m Mascall with them and the cosoner should get some sure token from m. Mascall to come home for some thing and the Messeger by that t●ken should bring away the plate but this effecting not and suspition of cosoning arysing this cunning woman was apprehended and laid in Newgate and beeing examined before the bench at Sessions house confessed these wordes or the like in effect How she cosoned an other woman confessed by her self at the Sessions house the fourteene of February 1595. AFter shée had made an end of her former discourse as she termed it one of the Iudges asked her if she knew a woman that stood therby shée made answere yes my Lord and an other woman to whersoeuer shee be whereuppon it was asked how shée knew her and shée made answere that about a twelue moneths past she came to the place where this woman dwelled and enquired of some of her neighbours what Cunterywoman shée was as also what manner of man her husband was how many children how many boyes how many Wenches and many such like fitting her determined purpose which knowen immediatly shée went to the honest womans house desiring as it should séem some refreshing for her and her Children The woman inquisitiue of her state inquired what countrey woman she was who knowing y e other to be of the same shire sayd she was a Lancashire woman and how that for coniuring she was cast in prison and had remained long there The other woman asked what shée consured for who answered for money hide and how for those matters shée was very expert and there telling her how many children shée had had how many boyes and how many wenches how many of them aliue and how many dead and many such like before learned questions they grewe to a composition that this cunning woman should helpe her to a pot of money no lesse then thrée hundred pounds which shée promised with speed to persourme and thereupon the poore woman not hauing so much mony as she desired went to one of her neighbours and borrowed more so that this coning woman coniured fiue and fiftie shillings out of the poore womans 〈◊〉 So much shée her self confessed at the Sessions house but the partie dece●affirmeth that it was thrée pounds or more The foresaid partie deceiued also a rich gréedy Churle in such sorte that she sadled him and road vpon him as vpon an horse and deceiued many others but because it is a thing extant in print I purposely omit them ending with an odde iest done of late at Islington An other A Young man and a maide there was dwelling at Islington neare London who in some continuance of time loued mutually euen almost to the perfection of mariage so that nought remained to stay their intent but the good will of Parents without whose consent the maid scrupuously would not be obtained Many sutes and intreaties being made but to small effect the young man absented him self from his loue some space of time and after the wooing manner courted an other mayde in the towne in such sorte that the common brute went he should marry with the latter Wheruppon méeting his former looue in Islington church yarde after some gréeting betwéene them the mayde had God giue him ioy for shée heard say that hée should be asked in the Church the next Sunday True it is said hée and I feare nothing but that you will forbid the banes with that he tooke an othe forthwith rashly you may be bolde to say as commonly in such causes women are to prooue that of her faith and troth shée would not forbid the banes They departed each from other the man straight waies to the Clark of the Church to giue him notice of his owne name and and this mayde his former looue her name also and caused them two to be asked banes togither the mayde and her father mother that Sunday béeing at the Church not knowing of it till other neighbours their seruaunts tolde that sure it was she that was asked The matter examined hee tolde the father of the maide what promise his daughter had made that if he were asked in the Church shée would not forbid the banes therfore hée thought good to be asked to her whome so long he had wooed and looued Now the Parents seing the matter had gon so far gaue their consents and so at this present liue honestly together I might héer note downe many other cosonages shiftes more then the aforesaid but for breuities sake I will will heer succease with this caueat that people beware of many youths others who hauing got copper rings and other such like when they méet such whome they think they may beguile they will goe is them and say they haue found a golde or siluer ring and offer to sell it for a small price The buyer thinking it to be golde giues him for it thrise the worth and thinkes that he hath a great peny worth till trueth try the contrarie Therefore let euerie one beware let not faire wordes make fooles faine had I wist comes euer to late shrede surnes to soone and repentance by leasure Ignauiam necssitas acuit et sepe desperatio spei causa est A VVORLD OF VVonders IT is recorded in auntient monuments that what time Rinaldo ruled this land it raiyned blood thrée dayes and after that followed a tempest of venemous beastes which slew many people All this was a forewarning of great punishment to light vpon the Inhabitants in this land that liued not penitently as ensued the next yeare when so great a mortalitie hapned that this land was almost in desolation Whatsoeuer therefore gentle Reader thou findest in this booke assure thy self that it is written as a memoriall or day-booke for all and euerie of vs dayly and hourely to looke into for the better and speedier amendment of our sinfull liues Bladud sometime gouerned this land who cunning in Nigromancie and trusting therto decked himself with feathers and presuming to flye ouer the towne of Bathe broke his neck by falling vpon the Temple which he there had built A fit rewarde for all such as as vse Nigromancie or any such vnlawfull acts At what time Norindus ruled this land a wonderfull monster came out off the irish seas deuoured much people against which the King him self Neides fought and was of the same monster cleane deuoured Beware of fooles hardnes

Archigallo was twise king of this land and Elidurus his brother twise disposed so that he was thrise ruler heerof Catillus who ruled this land ten yeares caused all Extortioners and oppressors of the poore to be hanged to giue examples to other I would to God they were so vsed now a dayes I suppose there would be a great number of vsurers brokers sergiaunts About thréescore yeares after the birth of Christ it is supposed that Christianitie came into this land but diuers write diuersly for some as Necephorus and Dowthemus say that Simon Zelotes first preached Christ heere Some say Phillip the Apostle Some say Ioseph of Armathia that buryed our Lord. King Arthur conquered thirtie kingtomes such as were in those dayes wherin he liued In the raigne of Careticus and Ethelfridus was such ciuil and deadly warres that the most part of this land was buryed destroyed and the people that were left faine to flye into Wales the faithfull of Christ was then almost extinguished the Brittaines indispaire and in subuersion to the Saxons But what is the cause or this prouoking of Gods anger euen couetousnes whordome and extortion Looke vp England looke vp and repent those sinnes were then but euen in the budde now behol●e and repent for now are they in the fulnes of their flower and stay but for the frute Woe are wée whose doyes are so dangerous But Lord awake in mercie and take pittie on vs. Then couerend Beda wrote 78. bookes and in his time renoumed throughout the whole worlde When Bytiricus ruled this land it rained blood yea that fel on peoples clothes appeared like crosses When this land was stored with Wooules the Princes of VVales payed 300. Wooules euerie yeare to the King of England for at that time might scarce two be found vntill the yeare 994. neither feuer nor flix nor murren of Cattle were knowen in this land In the time of king VVilliam the Conquerour was scarcitie and dearth that men did eat horsses cats dogges yea and mans flesh Anno 1093 was such a famine that therof sprang such and so great a mortalitie that the quick were scant able the dead Also in the yeare 1099. we read that blood sprang out of y e earth at Finchamstead in Barkshire Much about this time the water of the riuer of Trent at Nottingham was dryed vp from one of the clock till thrée The like defection of water did the Theames at Londen bridg suffer about foure yeares after The 24. of February at Tewxbury being then their Faire such number of flyes and kyttles dammed Seuern that for the length of a Buts shot were in mens iudgement estéemed abooue a hundred quarters A wunder of wunders befel in England throughout 1133. for there was great darknes throughout all the land and the Sunne appeared no otherwise then as the Moone when she is in her last quarter Giraldus Cambrencis in his booke of the discription of Wales telleth that in the Cuntrey Kemanies yea in his time a young man named Se●●illus borne in those parts was so tormented w t toades as though all the toades in the Cuntrey had beene gathered together to vex him and when as innumerable numbers of them were killed by those that kept him by others of his friends and kinsmen yet came they still increasing in greater numbers then before insomuch that when his acquaintance perceiued no help after many assayes they loped all the boughes and leaues of a very high trée and closed him in a coffin made for the purpose so hoisted vp into the said high trée but notwithstanding poore S●isillies was still molested with them for they créeping vp wunderfull heapes left him not til they had eaten him vy to bare bones and so dyed About Orford in Suffolk certaine fishers tooke in their nettes a fish in all pointes shaped like a man which fish was half a yeare kept in Orford Castle for a wunder Hée would eat all manner meat but most gréedily raw fish he was shewed in no kinde of worship Aftermen had wundred at him hée was little estéemed of and so not béeing looked vnto stole away and was neuer heard of 1188. In the yeare 1230. a suddain darknesse chaunced in Poules-Church euen at seruice time so oue could scantly sée an other Also bout thrée or foure yeare afterward fiue sunnes to be séene in the ayre as also two great dragons flyingand fighting together during a whole day the one day chased the other to the déepe sea After all these followed great warres and troubles in England Wales c. Beholde all Cornehourders a wunderfull example not fained but by sufficient testimonies to be approued done euen at home In the yeare 1234 was a dearth in England as true histories recorde euen as now also there is so that many dyed for want of victualls The richmen as now a dayes were dwelled with couetousnes so that they would not releiue them that were in necessite Amongst whome a thing worthy noting was one Walter Gray Arch-bishop of Yorke whose corne béeing fiue yeares olde doubted that the vermine would destroy it and therfore cōmaunded to deliuer it to husband men that dwelt in his manours vppon condicion as much new corne after the next haruest and would distribute none of it to the poore for Gods sake Now it fortuned that when the men came to a great stacke of corne that stoode néere to the towne of Rippon belonging to the said Archbishop and had opened the corne there appeared in the sheaues the heds of wormes and of toades and horrible serpents yea and a voice was heard out of the mowe saying lay no handes one that corne for the Archbishop and all that he hath is the diuels This being heard the left it and the bayliffes of the Towne were faine to build an high wall round about the corne and then to set it one fire least the venemous venime should haue gonne out to haue poysned the corne in other places Beholde this true example and repent thou couetous richman and doe good while time is offered thée and God will blesse thée the better A sea-bull was taken passinge the thames as far as Mortlake to the 25. yeare of the reigne of King Richard the 3. It is most aproued that in the sayd Kings raigne ther dwelled in the Dioces of Lincolne a woman of noble birth both well fauored and beautifull who being married to a rich man in that curtry beare to her husband many children and yet not with stāding wonderfull to tell the sayd woman got another gētle with child and begate of her thrée sonnes one after an other or euer the ma●er came to light the woman were named Hauissia and Lucia In King Edward the 2 raigne flesh of beasts was so corrupted that men durst not eate therof such murraine of beasts and cattell was then that men and women stole Cattes and did eate their owne children some fatte dogges horses such like Prisoners plucked in peeces