Elionara Sister to the King of Portugal at Bruges in Flanders which was solemnized in the deep of Winter whenas by reason of unseasonable Weather he could neither hawk nor hunt and was now tired with Cards Dice c. and such other domestical Sports or to see Ladies dance with some of his Courtiers he would in the Evening walk disguised all about the Town It so fortuned as he was walking late one Night he found a Country-Fellow dead drunk snorting on a Bulk he caused his Followers to bring him to his Palace and there stripped him of his old Cloaths and attired him after the Court Fashion when he waked he and they were ready to attend upon his Excellency persuading him he was some great Duke The poor Fellow admiring how he came thither was served in state all the day long After Supper he saw them dance heard Musick and the rest of those Court-like Pleasures but late at night when he was well tipled and again fast asleep they put on his old Cloaths and so conveyed him to the place where they first found him Now the Fellow had not made them so good sport the day before as he did when he returned to himself all the Jest was to see how he looked upon it In conclusion after some little Admiration the poor man told his Friends he had seen a Vision constantly believed it would not otherwise be persuaded and so the Jest ended Memorials of Thomas Coriat the famous Odcombian Traveller MR. Thomas Coriat was born at Odcombe nigh Evil in Somerset-shire and bred at Oxford where he attained to admirable fluency in the Greek Tongue he was a Man in his Time Notus nimis omnibus very sufficiently known one who seemed to carry Folly in his Face the shape of his Head being like a Sugar-loaf inverted with the little end before but such as conceived him Fool ad duo and something else ad decem were utterly mistaken for he drave on no Design cared for Coin and Counters alike so contented with what was present that he accounted those men guilty of Superfluity who had more Suits and Shirts than Bodies seldom putting off either till they were ready to go away from him Noble Prince Henry King James his Son allowed him a Pension and kept him for his Servant Sweet-meats and Coriat made up the last Course at all Court-Entertainments indeed he was the Courtiers Anvil to try their Wits upon and sometimes this Anvil returned the Hammers as hard Knocks as it received his Bluntness repaying their Abusiveness He being addicted to travel took a Journey into several places of Europe and at his Return made a Book thereof known by the name of Coriat's Crudities printed about the year 1611. being ushered into the World by very many Copies of excellent Verses made by the Wits of those times which made one to say that the Porch was more worth than the Palace the Preface of other mens mock-commending Verses than the Book it self however they did very much advantage and improve if not enforce the Sale thereof doing themselves much more Honour than him whom they undertook to commend in their several Encomiasticks Now because the Book is very scarce and hard to come by I shall give you a Copy of one of their Encomiums there being about sixty in all by which you may give a guess at the rest To the no less learned than wise and discreet Gentleman Mr. Thomas Coriat in some few Months Travels born and brought up to what you see viz. To be the delight of a world of noble Wits to be a shame to all Authors as the Gout and Quartane Fever have been to all Physicians This plain Song sendeth Christopher Brooke his poor Friend to attend the Descant of his famous Book thorough all Hands Tongues Arts Trades Mysteries and Occupations whatsoever THE subtile Greek Ulysses needs must travel Ten years sorsooth over much Sand and Gravel And many Cities see and Manners know Before there could be writ a Book or two Of his Adventures and he travell'd still Else there are Lyars sore against his Will But this rare English-Latin-Grecian Of Orators and Authors the Black Swan A voluntary Journey undertook Of scarce six Months and yet hath writ a Book Bigger than Homer's and tho' writ in Prose As full of Poetry spite of Homer's Nose If he liv'd now that in Darius Casket Plac'd the poor Iliads he had bought a Basket Of richer stuff t' intomb thy Volume large Which thou O noble Tom at thine own charge Art pleas'd to print but thou need'st not repent Of this thy bitter cost for thy brave Precedent Great Caesar is who penned his own Gests And as some write recited them at Feasts And at 's own Charge had printed them they say If printing had been used at that day The Press hath spent the three for one you got At your Return What 's that Poor thing God wot Manure this Land still with such Books my Friend And you shall be paid for it in the end For I methinks see how men strive to carry This jovial Journal into each Library And we e're long shall well perceive your Wit Grave learned Bodley by your placing it Therefore lanch forth great Book like Ship of Fame Th' Hopewel of Odcombe thou shalt have to name Explicit Christopherus Brook Eboracensis Amongst others that writ mock-commendatory Verses of this Book of Crudities was John Taylor the Water-Poet which though of the same nature with the other yet gave great offence to Mr. Coriat complaining of him therefore to King James The Verses were these What matters for the place I first came from I am no Dunce-comb Cox-comb Odcombe Tom Nor am I like a Wool-pack cramb'd with Greek Venus in Venice minded to go seek And at my back-return to write a Volume In memory of my Wits Gargantua Columne The choicest Wits would never so adore me Nor like so many Lacquies run before me But honest Tom I envy not thy state There 's nothing in thee worthy of my hate Yet I confess thou hast an excellent Wit But that an idle Brain doth harbour it Fool thou it at the Court I on the Thames So farewel Odcombe Tom God bless King James Afterwards Taylor wrote a Book called Laugh and be fat wherein he paraphrased upon all those Gentlemen that had written on Mr. Coriat's Book which Book by the Command of King James he procured to be burnt and afterwards adding more Complaints against Taylor to the King his Majesty was pleased to tell him that when the Lords of his Honourable Privy Council had leisure and nothing else to do then they should hear and determine the Differences betwixt Mr. Coriat the Scholar and John Taylor the Sculler Whereupon Taylor wrote these following Verses to the King Most mighty Monarch of this famous Isle Upon the Knees of my submissive mind I beg thou wilt be graciously inclin'd To read these Lines my rustick Pen compile Know Royal Sir
foot or two foot and an half broad in form of a Weaver's Shuttle and so light that a man may carry many of them at once for the weight In these Boats they will row so swiftly that it is almost incredible for no Ship in the World is able to keep way with them although she have never so good a Gale of Wind and yet they use but one Oar who sitting in the middle of their Boat and holding their Oar in the middle being broad at each end like our Oars will at an Instant go backward and forward as they please We could not particularly learn their Rites or Ceremonies but generally they worship the Sun as chief Author of their Felicity At their first Approach unto us they used with their hands to point up to the Sun and to strike upon their Breasts crying Ilyont as who would say I mean no harm which they will do very often and will not come near you until you do the like and then they will come without any fear at all They bury their Dead in the out-Islands near the Sea-side Their manner of Burial is this Upon the tops of the Hills they gather a Company of Stones together and make thereof a hollow Cave or Grave of the length and breadth of the Body which they intend to bury laying the Stones somewhat close like a Wall that neither Foxes nor other such Beasts may devout the Bodies covering them with broad Stones shewing afar off like a Pile of Stones And near to this Grave where the Body lieth is another wherein they bury his Bow and Arrows with his Darts and all his other Provision which he used while he was living He is buried in all his Apparel and the coldness of the Climate doth keep the Body from smelling and stinking although it lye above the Ground They eat all their Food raw and use no Fire to dress their Victuals as far as we could perceive Also we have seen them drink the Salt water at our Ships side but whether it be usual or no I cannot tell Although they dress not their Meat with Fire yet they use Fire for other things as to warm them and the like Divers of our Men were of Opinion that they were Man-eaters and would have devoured us if they could have caught us but I do not think they would for if they had been so minded they might at one time have caught our Cook and two other with him as they were filling of Water at an Island a great way from our Ship These three I say were in the Ships Boat without either Musket or any other Weapon whenas a great Company of the Savages came rowing unto them with their Darts and other Furniture which they never go without and stood looking into the Boat for Nails or any old Iron which they greedily desire while our men were in such a fear that they knew not what to do At length our Cook remembred that he had some old Iron in his Pocket and gave each of them some as far as it would go with his Key of his Chest and presently they all departed without offering any harm at all But this I speak not that I would have men to trust them or to go among them unprovided of Weapons for by so doing they may chance to forfeit their Life for their fool-hardiness Several Varieties of the West-Indies OVideos in his fifteenth Book and first Chapter saith That in the Year 1520. the City of St. Domingo in Hispaniola was almost dishabited by a great Army of Ants as in Spain a City was dispeopled by Conies in Thessaly another City was destroyed by Rats amongst the Atariotaes one by Frogs and the Minutines by Fleas Amitle in Italy by Serpents and another part thereof by Sparrows as were divers places of Africa often by Locusts so can the great God arm the least Creatures to the destruction of proud vain-glorious Man And this Misery so perplexed the Spaniards that they sought as strange a Remedy as was the Disease which was to chuse some Saint for their Patron against the Ants. Alexander Geraldine the Bishop having sung a solemn and Pontificial Mass after the Consecration and Elevation of the Sacrament and devout Prayers made by him and the People opened a Book in which was a Catalogue of the Saints by lot to chuse some he or she Saint whom God should please to appoint their Advocate against that Calamity and the Lot fell upon St. Saturnine whose Feast is on the 29th of November after which the Ant-damage saith Ovideos became more tolerable and by little and little diminished by God's Mercy and Intercession of that Saint The same Author reporteth That going from the Gulf of Ovotigua to Panama two hundred Leagues Eastward near the Mouth of the Gulf he saw a Fish or great Water-monster which at times lifted it self right up above the Water so far that the Head and both the Arms might be seen which seemed higher than their Carvel and all her Masts Thus did she rise and fall divers times beating the Water strongly and not casting any Water out of her Mouth a younger or lesser of the same kind did likewise swim a little distance from the greater To Ovideos Judgment each Arm seemed five and twenty foot long and as big as a Butt or Pipe the Head fourteen or fifteen foot high and much more in breadth and the rest of the Body larger That of her which appeared above Water was above five times the height of a mean man which makes five and twenty Paces She seemed to disport her self at a Tempest which suddenly arose to their purpose and brought them in few days to Panama The Indians of Brasil are of a marvellous quick Sight for at a League off they see any thing and in the same manner hear they guess very right ruling themselves by the Sun they go to all parts they list 200 or 300 Leagues thorough thick Woods and miss not one Jot they travel much and always running a Gallop especially with some Charges no Horse is able to hold out with them they are great Archers and so certain that no Bird can scape them be it never so little or any Vermin of the Woods and there is no more but if they will shoot an Arrow thorough the Eye of a Bird or Man or hit any other thing be it never so small they do it with great Facility and with their own Safety They are great Fishers and Swimmer they fear no Sea nor Waves continue a day and a night swiming and the fame they do rowing and sometimes without Meat They use also for Weapons Swords of Wood and enterlay the ends of them with Palm-tree of sundry Colours and set Plumes on them of divers colours chiefly in their Feasts and Slaughters and these Swords are very cruel for they make no Wound but bruise and break a Man's Head without having any Remedy of Cure Near to the River of the Amazons is
Spectators rather are conceived to have accelerated his Death which hapned November the 15. 1634. and was buried in the Abbey Church at Westminster all present at his Burial doing Homage to this aged Thomas de temporibus There was if not still living in Northumberland a Scottish Minister named Michael Vivan a Person who may give just matter of Admiration both to the present and future Ages as by the perusing of this ensuing Letter may appear written by a Person of Quality to Dr. Fuller and by him inserted into his England's Worthies THere is an Acquaintance of mine and a Friend of yours who certified me of your desire of being satisfied of the truth of that Relation I made concerning the old Minister in the North. It fortuned in my Journey to Scotland I lay at Alnwick in Northumberland one Sunday by the way and understanding from the Host of the House where I lodged that this Minister lived within three miles of that place I took my Horse after Dinner and rid thither to hear him preach for my own satisfaction I found him in the Desk where he read unto us some part of the Common-Prayer some of Holy David's Psalms and two Chapters one out of the Old the other out of the New Testament without the use of Spectacles The Bible out of which he read the Chapters was a very small printed Bible He went afterwards into his Pulpit where he prayed and preached unto us about an hour and half His Text was Seek you the Kingdom of God and all hings shall be added unto you In my poor Judgment he made an excellent good Sermon and went clearly through without the help of any Notes After Sermon I went with him to his House where I proposed these several following Questions to him Whether it was true the Book reported of him concerning his Hair whether or no he had a new set of Teeth come whether or no his Eye-sight ever failed him and whether in any measure he found his strength renewed unto him He answered me distinctly to all these and told me he understood the news-News-book reported his Hair to become a dark brown again but that is false he took his Cap off and shewed me it It is come again like a Child's but rather flaxen than either brown or gray For his Teeth he hath three come within these two years not yet at their Perfection while he bred them he was very ill Forty years since he could not read the biggest print without Spectacles and now he blesseth God there is no print so small but he can read without them For his strength he thinks himself as strong now as he hath been these twenty years Not long since he walked to Alnwick to dinner and back again six North-Countrey miles He is now an hundred and ten years of age and ever since last May a hearty Body very chearful but stoops much He had five Children after he was eighty years of age four of them lusty Lasses now living with him the other died lately his Wife yet hardly fifty years of age He writes himself Machel Vivan he is a Scottish-man born near Aberdeen I forget the Towns name where he is now Pastor he hath been there fifty years Windsor 28 Sept. 1657. Your assured loving Friend THOMAS ATKIN An Example of Divine Vengeance pursuing Sinners IN the Year 1614. ten English-men having received the Sentence of Death for their several Crimes at the Sessions-House at the Old-Bayly in London had their Execution respited by the intreaty of the East-India Merchants upon Condition that they should be all banished to Souldania-Bay to the end if they could find any peaceable abode there they might discover something advantagious to their Trade and this was accordingly done But two of them when they came thither were taken thence and carried on the Voyage one whose Sir-name was Duffield by Sir Thomas Row that Year sent Ambassador to the Great Mogol that Fellow thus redeemed from a most sad Banishment was afterward brought back again into England by that noble Gentleman and here being intrusted by him stole some of his Plate and run away another was carried on the Voyage likewise but what became of him afterward is not known so that there remained eight which were there left with some Ammunition and Victual with a small Boat to carry them to and from a very little uninhabited Island lying in the very mouth of that Bay a place for their retreat and safety from the Natives on the Main The Island called Pen-guin Island probably so named at first by some Welsh-man in whose Language Pen-guin signifies a White-head and there are many great lazy Fowls upon and about this Island with great cole black Bodies and very white Heads called Pen-guins The chief man of the eight there left was sir-named Cross who took upon him the name of Captain Cross He was formerly Yeoman of the Guard to King James but having had his Hand in Blood twice or thrice by men slain by him in several Duels and now being condemned to die with the rest upon very great Sute made for him he was hither banished with them whither the Justice of Almighty God was dispatched after him as it were in a Whirl-wind and followed him close at the very heels and over-took him and left him not till he had paid dear for that Blood he had formerly spilt This Cross was a very stout and a very resolute man who quarrelling with and abusing the Natives and engaging himself far amongst them immediately after himself with the rest were left in that place many of these Savages being got together fell upon him and with their Darts thrown and Arrows shot at him stuck his Body so full of them as if he had been larded with Darts and Arrows making him look like the Figure of the man in the Almanack that seems to be wounded in every part or like that man described by Lucan Totum pro vulnere corpus who was all Wound where Blood touched Blood a just Retaliation of God for his Cruelty shewed unto others The other seven the rest of these miserable Banditi who were there with Cross recovered their Boat and got off the Shore without any great hurt and so rowing to their Island the Waves running high they split their Boat at their landing which engaged them to keep in that place they having now no possible means left to stir thence And which made their Condition whilst they were in it extreamly miserable it was a place wherein grew never a Tree neither for Sustenance or Shelter or Shade nor any thing beside to help sustain Nature a place that had never a drop of fresh Water in it but what the showers left in the holes of the Rocks And besides all this there were a very great number of Snakes in that Island so many of those venemous Worms that a man could not tread safely in the long Grass which grew in it for fear of them And
small Turrets which are made open with Lights every way that a man in them may be easily seen and heard Now their Moolaas or devout Priests do five times every day ascend unto the tops of those high Turrets whence they proclaim as loudly as they can possibly speak their Prophet Mahomet thus in Arabian La alla illa alla Mahomet Resul-alla that is There is no God but one God and Mahomet the Messenger from God Upon a time Tom Coriat when their Moolaa was to cry as aforesaid he got upon an high place directly opposite to one of those Priests and contradicted him thus La alla illa alla Hasaret Eesa Benalla that is No God but one God and the Lord Christ the Son of God and farther added that Mahomet was an Impostor and all this he spake in their own Language as loud as possibly he could in the ears of many Mahometans that heard it But whether Circumstances considered the zeal or discretion of our Pilgrim were more here to be commended I leave to the judgment of the Reader No doubt but had this bold attempt of his been acted in many other places of Asia it would have cost him his Life with as much torture as cruelty could have invented But he was here taken for a Mad-man and so let alone Haply the rather because every one there hath liberty to profess his own Religion freely and if he please may argue against theirs without fear of an Inquisition as this our Pilgrim did at another time with a Moolaa who had called him Giaur that is Infidel or false Believer which Mr. Coriat took in such Dudgeon that he made a Speech to him as followeth Mr. Coriat's Speech to a Mahometan But I pray thee tell me thou Mahometan dost thou in sadness call me Giaur That I do quoth he Then quoth I in very sober sadness I retort that shameful word in thy Throat and tell thee plainly that I am a Musulman and thou art a Giaur for by that Arab word Musulman thou dost understand that which cannot properly be applyed to a Mahometan but only to a Christian so that I do consequently infer that there are two kinds of Musulmen the one an Ortho-musulman that is a true Musulman which is a Christian and the other a Pseudo-musulman that is a false Musulman which is a Mahometan What thy Mahomet was from whom thou dost derive thy Religion assure thy self I know better than any one of the Mahometans amongst many Millions yea all the particular Circumstances of his Life and Death his Nation his Parentage his driving Camels thorough Aegypt Syria and Palestina the marriage of his Mistress by whose Death he raised himself from a very base and contemptible Estate to great Honour and Riches his manner of cozening the sottish People of Arabia partly by a tame Pidgeon that did fly to his Ear for meat and partly by a tame Bull that he fed by hand every day with the rest of his Actions both in Peace and War I know as well as if I had lived in his time or had been one of his Neighbours in Mecha the Truth whereof if thou didst know as well I am persuaded thou would'st spit in the face of thy Alcoran and trample it under thy Feet and bury it under a Jakes a Book of that strange and weak matter that I my self as meanly as thou dost see me attired now have already written two better Books God be thanked and will hereafter this by God's gracious Permission write another better and truer yea I would have thee know thou Mahometan that in that renowned Kingdom of England where I was born Learning doth so flourish that there are many thousand Boys of sixteen years of Age that are able to make a more learned Book than thy Alcoran neither was it as thou and the rest of you Mahometans do generally believe composed wholly by Mahomet for he was of so dull a Wit he was not able to make it without the help of another namely a certain Renegado Monk of Constantinople called Sergis so that his Alcoran was like an Arrow drawn out of the Quiver of another man I perceive thou dost wonder to see me so much inflamed with Anger but I would have thee consider it is not without great cause I am so moved for what greater Indignity can there be offered to a Christian which is an Artho-musulman than to be called Giaur by a Giaur c. By this which hath been said you may perceive our Coriat thus distinguished that himself was the Orthodox Musulman or true Believer The Moolaa the Pseudo-Musulman or false true Believer a distinction which must needs make an Intelligent Reader to smile It also shews what an opinion he had of his former writings and how if he had returned what a bustle he would have made in the World with another Volume but death prevented him for having left it Thomas Rowe the English Ambassador at Mandoa he went to Surat where he was over-kindly used by some of the English who gave him Sack which they had brought from England he calling for it as soon as he first heard of it and crying Sack Sack is there such a thing as Sack I pray you give me some Sack and drinking of it though moderately for he was a very temperate man it increased his Flux which he had then upon him and this caused him within a few days after his very tedious and troublesome Travels for he went most on foot at this place to come to his journeys end for here he overtook Death December 1617. and was buried under a little Monument like one of those usually made in our Church-yards upon whom a joking Wit made this Epitaph Here lies the Wonder of the English Nation Within the bosome of old Tellus maw For fruitless Travel and for strange Relation He past and repast all thy eyes e're saw Odcomb produc'd him many Nations fed him And worlds of Writers through the World have spread him The reason inducing the Mahometans to often Prayer exemplified by a Story IN a great City where Mahomet was zealously professed there lived say they a devout Musulman who for many years together spent his whole day in the Mosquit or Church in the mean time he minding not the World at all became so poor that he had nothing left to buy bread for his Family yet notwithstanding his poor condition he was resolved still to ply his Devotions and in a morning when he perceived that there was nothing at all left for the further subsistence of himself and houshold took a solemn leave of his Wife and Children resolving for his part to go and pray and dye in the Mosquit leaving his Family if no relief came to famish at home But that very day he put on this resolution there came to his house in his absence a very beautiful young Man as he appeared to be who brought and gave unto his Wife a very good quantity of
bear affection to a young Maid upon the breaking thereof to her Friends the fashion is that a day is appointed for their Friends to meet to behold the two young Parties to run a Race together The Maid is allowed in starting the advantage of a third part of the Race so that it is impossible except willing of her self that she should ever be overtaken If the Maid over-run her Suiter the matter is ended he must never have her it being penal for the man again to renew the motion of Marriage But if the Virgin hath an Affection for him tho' at the first running hard to try the Truth of his Love she will without Atalanta's golden Balls to retard her speed pretend some Casualty and make a voluntary hault before she cometh to the Mark or end of the Race Thus none are compelled to marry against their own Wills and this is the cause that in this poor Country the married People are richer in their own Contentment than in other Lands where so many forced Matches make feigned Love and cause real Unhappiness Of Spirits or Devils and that they have had carnal Knowledge of People PHilostratus in his fourth Book de vita Apollonii relateth of one Menippus Lycius a young Man 25 years of Age that going betwixt Cenchreas and Corinth met a Phantasm in the Habit of a fair Gentlewoman which taking him by the Hand carried him home to her House in the Suburbs of Corinth and told him she was a Phoenician by Birth and if he would tarry with her he should hear her sing and play and drink such Wine as never any drank and no man should molest him but she being fair and lovely would live and die with him that was fair and lovely to behold The young man a Philosopher otherwise stay'd and discreet able to moderate his Passions though not this of Love tarried with her a while to his great Content and at last married her to whose Wedding among other Guests came Apollonius who by some probable Conjectures found her out to be a Serpent a Lamia and that all her Furniture was like Tantalus's Gold described by Homer no Substance but mere Illusions When she saw her self descried she wept and desired Apollonius to be silent but he would not be moved and thereupon she Plate House and all that was in it vanished in an instant Multi factum cognovere quod in media Gracia gestum fit Many thousands took notice of this Fast for it was done in the midst of Greece Sabine in his Comment on the tenth of Ovid's Metamorphosis at the Tale of Orphaeus telleth us of a Gentleman of Bavaria that for many Months together bewailed the loss of his dear Wife at length the Devil in her Habit came and comforted him and told him because he was so importunate for her that she would come and live with him again on that condition he would be new married never swear and blaspheme as he used formerly to do for if he did she should be gone He vowed it married and lived with her she brought him Children and governed his House but was still pale and sad and so continued till one day falling out with him he fell a swearing she vanished thereupon and was never after seen This Story saith he I have heard from Persons of good Credit which told him that the Duke of Bavaria did tell it for a certainty to the Duke of Saxony Florilegus an honest Historian of our own Nation telleth us that in Anno 1058. a young Gentleman of Rome the same day that he was married after Dinner with the Bride and his Friends went a walking into the Fields and towards Evening to the Tennis Gourt to recreate themselves whilst he played he put his Ring upon the Finger of the Statue of Venus which was there by made in Brass After he had sufficiently played and now made an end of his Sport he came to fetch his Ring but Venus had bowed her Finger in and he could not get it off whereupon loth to make his Company tarry at present there left it intending to fetch it the next day or at some more convenient time went thence to Supper and so to Bed In the night when he should come to perform those Nuptial Rites Venus steps between him and his Wife unseen or felt of her and told him that she was his Wife that he had betrothed himself unto her by that Ring which he put upon her Finger she troubled him for some following Nights He not knowing how to help himself made his moan to one Palumbus a learned Magician in those days who gave him a Letter and bid him at such a time of the Night in such a cross-way at the Towns-end where old Saturn would pass by with his Associates in Procession as commonly he did deliver that Script with his own hands to Saturn himself the young man of a bold Spirit accordingly did it and when the old Fiend had read it he called Venus to him who rode before him and commanded her to deliver his Ring which forthwith she did and so the Gentleman was freed Hector Boetius the Scottish Historian writes that in the Year 1480. it chanced as a Scottish Ship departed out of the Forth towards Flanders there rose a wonderful great Tempest of Wind and Weather so out-ragious that the Master of the Ship with other the Mariners wondered not a little what the matter meant to see such Weather that time of the Year for it was about the midst of Summer At length when the furious rage of the Winds still increased in such wise that all those within the Ship looked for present Death there was a Woman underneath the Hatches called unto them above and willed them to throw her into the Sea that all the residue by God's Grace might yet be saved and thereupon told them how she had been haunted a long time with a Spirit daily coming unto her in man's Likeness and that even as then he was with her using his filthy Pleasure after the manner of carnal Copulation In the Ship there chanced also to be a Priest who by the Master's appointment going down to this Woman and finding her like a most wretched and desperate Person lamenting her great Misfortune and miserable Estate used such wholsome Admonitions and comfortable Advertisements willing her to repent and hope for Mercy at the hands of Almighty God that at length she seeming right penitent for her grievous Offences committed and fetching sundry Sighs even from the bottom of her Heart being witness as should appear of the same there issued forth of the Pump of the Ship a foul and evil favour'd black Cloud with a mighty terrible Noise Flame Smoak and Stink which presently fell into the Sea and suddenly thereupon the Tempest ceased and the Ship passing in quiet the residue of her Journey arrived in safety at the place whither she was bound Not long before the hap hereof there was in like