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A35248	The surprizing miracles of nature and art in two parts : containing I. The miracles of nature, or the strange signs and prodigious aspects and appearances in the heavens, the earth, and the waters for many hundred years past ... II. The miracles of art, describing the most magnificent buildings and other curious inventions in all ages ... : beautified with divers sculptures of many curiosities therein / by R.B., author of the Hist. of the wars of England, Remarks of London, Wonderful prodigies, Admirable curiosities in England, and Extraordinary adventures of several famous men.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7349; ESTC R11001	165,303	248

Countrey desolate and laid wast the houses and temples overthrown the people lamenting at the sight of their houses being blown down and under them their Goods their Cattel and their Parents slain which occasioned wonderful compassion in the beholders and hearers thereof by this means it pleased God rather to threaten than punish Tuscany for if so great a Tempest had fallen upon any City full of Houses as it fell upon these Oaks and Trees and small Houses one far from another without all doubt the destruction would have been greater then the mind of man could have conceived But it pleased God by that small example to revive in mens minds the memory of his power The same year there perished about Pivel and Naples forty thousand People by an Earthquake Mahomet the Great Turk is beaten from the siege of Belgrade by Hunniades who soon after dyes Ladislaus King of P●land and Alphonsus King of Naples both dye Matchiavil Hist Florence Lib. 6. XXVII In 1460. a most terrible Comet appeared to fight This year King Henry VI. of England is made Prisoner at Northampton The Civil Wars in France begin Charles VII King of France and Adolphus Duke of Holsatia both dye Cra●ovia a great City in Poland is destroyed ●●ith Fire and Sword Mahomet II. Emperor of the Tarks after many victories cruelly kills David the Emperor of Trapezund and his two sons the Duke of York is slain at the battle of Wakefield in Yorkshire In 1477 a Blazing Star of the colour of the Star Saturn appeared there ensued a most terrible Plague The Helvetians kill'd seventeen thousand French and Charles Duke of Burgundy The Turks wast Carinthia and the Tarta●● Pod●lia In 1484 happened a wonderful deep Snow in Germany and fiery darts were seen in the Sky the Sun was likewise much Eclipsed In England three Suns appeared about this time and in Poland there was seen saith my Author an Image of Christ Crucified with a Sword in his hand passing along the Air from West to South for two hours together The English invade Scotland but are repulsed The Venetians make war against the Turks The quarrel continueth in Germany about the Archbishoprick of Mentz A Rebellion was raised in France against the Queen for the Princes death In 1470 Hail of wonderful greatness fell at Rome the stones whereof weighed eight ounces in Germany Hail-stones fell as big as Goose eggs Soon after the Turks take Sabotz in Hungary and wast Germany The King of Sicily with the Venetians fight against them and spovl Leshos and Pergamus XXVIII In the Year 1478 the Sun is darkened without an Eclipse swarms of Grashoppers are seen in Italy A Glorious Star is seen to run along the Firmament Armies are observed fighting in the Air in Switzerland After this the Hungarians defeat the Turks and take Thirty Thousand Captives from them The Spanish Inquisition is first instituted in Castile against the Mo●s and Jews The Transilvanians overcome the Turks About this time King Charles VIII of France marched into Italy with an Army for the Conquest of the Kingdom of Naples a little before which were many strange Prodigies whereby divers Persons foresaw and foretold that there would be greater changes and more horrible accidents than in many years before had happened in any part of the world For there were seen in the night at Poville in Italy three Suns in the midst of the Firmament and many Clouds about them which sent forth most dreadful Thunders and Lightnings In the Territory of Aretzo were manifestly seen in the Air infinite numbers of armed men upon mighty Horses with a terrible noise of drums and Trumpets The Images of the Saints saith my Author did plainly sweat in many parts of Italy In several places divers Monsters were brought forth both of women and other Creatures with many other things against the order of nature which happened almost all at one time in divers places And whilst the French Army was in the City of Millain there happened an accident of no less wonder than fear which extreamly astonished the Souldiers as if the Heavens by manifest signs had forewarned them of their future calamities For upon St. Peters day the Sun being set and the Air and Firmament clear there fell down from Heaven a Light and a Fire just before the Gate of the Castle where at that time stood many barrels of Powder which were brought out of the Castle to be sent to other Places This Flash of fire seized upon the Powder with an horrible noise by the violence whereof the fair Tower of Marble which was over the Gate on the top of which stood a stately Clock was thrown down and rased from the very Foundation to the top thereof In which fury the Walls and Chambers of the Castle with other buildings adjoyning to the Tower had the same fate Yea in one instant the whole body of the Castle and the whole City of Milain trembled and shook with the fury of the blow which carryed into the Air from several places many great and huge stones which in their fall hurt and slew divers Persons And as in a common calamity a multitude have a share so it fell out here for many who had escaped the fall of the stones were overwhelmed by the ruines of the Walls under which they were smothered and pressed to death with these ruins the Castle green was so overspread and covered that it was very dreadful to behold such a sudden alteration but it was mighty surprizing even to the most couragious to see stones of such an incredible bigness to be thrown with the fury of the fire above five hundred paces from the place This happened at that very hour wherein people of all sorts were walking for their Recreation upon the Castle Green whereby there were slain above five hundred men who belonged to the Castle Guichardines Hist Italy Pag. 785. XXIX In the year 1492 a great Comet is visible in the Heavens Three Suns are seen in Poland another Comet appeared for two Months In Rome the Sky was seen to be on fire for many nights together These were succeeded by great Inundations and Floods in England The English go against the French the Jews are expelled Spain A Rebellion at Gaunt in Flanders The Hungarians enter Mysia and return back with much booty A rot of great Potentates Pope Innocent VIII dyes Alphonsus King of Portugal dyes by a fall from his Horse Frederick Emperor of Germany and Casimer King of Poland both dye A great part of Cracovia is burnt In 1500 a great fiery Dragon and of a monstrous shape is seen in Savoy A Comet of wonderful Magnitude appears for 18 days in Poland an Inundation in Germany Soon after the King of Sweden and the Queen of Bohemia dye The State of Millain rebel and are suddenly subdued again Next year Prince Arthur Son to Henry VIII dyeth and the Wife of King Henry VII of England The Turks take Modone and many other places

his men that it was dangerous to purge it all at once smiled out his anger for the present permitting what he could not amend yet this abuse he afterward reformed by degrees His Army won the day though they lost their King which occasioned one to compose this brief Elegy Vpon this place the Great Gustavus dyed Whilst victory lay bleeding by his side A little before his death being in discourse with his Chaplain Dr. Fabricius he said That he thought God would ere long take him away because the People did so overvalue and deify him At his first coming into Germany having a design upon Stetin and his Army being now upon the shore and his Boats ready on the River to imbark them but the Wind having been contrary for several days before the King observing it kneeling down in the sight of his Souldiers with his hands lifted up to Heaven thus expressed himself O thou most just God thou certainly knowest that I did not at first undertake this Enterprize out of any rashness or ambition but for the glory of thy most Holy Name and the defence of the Truth of thy Gospel here now therefore I call upon thee O God and most humbly beseech thee that with the Air of thy favour and with a prosperous wind thou wouldst be pleased to breath upon this my undertaking for Christ his sake Amen No sooner were his Prayers ended but through Divine Providence the Wind turned about with so full a Gale that the whole Fleet passing up the River Oder in two hours time sailed up Twenty Miles and unexpectedly came to an Anchor within a Mile of Stetin whereby he wonderfully defeated the Designs of the Imperialists who intended within two dayes after to have laid siege to that City had they not been thus miraculously prevented When this King came first to the Crown he resolved to lay siege to Nottenburg Castle which the Muscovite had given his Father for some Assistance which he had afforded him This Castle stood in an Island in the mouth of the most raging and swift River of Nerva his Commanders despairing of taking it and being unwilling their young King should receive a Repulse in his first attempts they laboured to disswade him from the action yet he continued resolute to pursue it and see how Almighty God wrought for him The Besieged Muscovites were stricken with such Thrushes Warts and Blisters in their Throats and Mouths they could neither chew their Meat nor swallow it down whereupon they parlied and yielded up that impregnable Castle to him wherein he found a whole years provision of Victuals besides abundance of Ammunition Not long after this he had a difference with the Dantzickers and they had prepared twenty or thirty stout men of War intending with the first opening of the Spring to have burnt up the Kings Navy in their Harbour but toward the end of Winter when this narrow Swedish Sea was frozen a yard or two deep this young King caused his Boors to cut open the Ice for ten or twelve Miles together which done he came suddenly one night with his Fleet upon the Dantzickers and burnt sunk and took most of their Fleet Also in his Wars with the King of Poland he conquered so many Towns from him in Prussia and Livonia that he inforced him by the mediation of King Charles of England to make peace with him In these wars with the Polanders his Army was never great having for the most part not above Five Thousand Men and yet with them he fought several Battles beat and wearied out two Imperial Armies took in the great and strong City of Elbing with divers others and finally obtained his end upon his Enemies though they were able at the same time to have come upon him with such a number of Horse as had according to humane Reason been sufficient to have carryed him away and five such Armies as his was He was slain in the Battel at Lutzen Nov. 16. 1632. in the 38 year of his Age. XLVIII At Bushein a Village near Friburg in Germany there happened this strange Prodigy there appeared in the Heavens a Twofold Rainbow one white as Snow and the other exceeding black besides another of a fiery colour The next day from eleven till two after Noon another Aspect of a very white colour appeared And about the time at Franestein hard by a Woman having bought some bread and carrying it home when she came to cut it blood issued out from it This Franestein is a pretty Town upon an Hill some sixteen English miles from Dresden it was taken by the Imperialists in the year 1632 by Scalado and meeting with some opposition they in revenge cruelly put all both Souldiers and Inhabitants to the sword And October 4. they assaulted Friburg a handsome Town upon the River Mulda some 10 English miles to the West of Franestein and taking it by storm they likewise miserably destroyed the Inhabitants near this place Count Holcks men who was then Commander of those Imperial Forces taking displeasure against a Minister of excellent Learning in that Countrey they first hewed him all to pieces with their swords and then flung his mangled Limbs to the Dogs to be eaten But the Dogs as if astonished at such savage cruelty would not so much as touch his flesh or lick a drop of his blood whereupon his Friends gathered up his pieces the next day and buried them and one of their own Authors relates That the Crabats shewed themselves ingenious to invent New Torments for the poor Protestants and that it was frequent with them for want of Dogs meat to feed them with humane flesh which if so we may truly say Thatthough the Dogs were the Man-eaters yet certainly the Crabats were the Cannibals XLIX In the month of August 1632. at Kempten in Swabeland a strange Monster was born of a Citizens Wife the head was altogether fat and without ears the hands were stretcht out and appeared all bloody between the flesh and the skin in the left hand there was a Rope the Belly had two wounds as if prickt by a Sword and the left knee seemed as if it had been twice broken a cord being tyed about it This goodly Town of Kempten was held by the Imperialists and after many furious assaults was taken by the Swedes in 1633. The Imperial Commander went to Reitaw where he was beheaded because he had so soon surrendred the Place Many other bloody skirmishes happened about this Town and what miseries that and the Countrey thereabout endured when it was besieged and re-taken by the Imperialists can hardly be exprest It was brought to such extremity of Famine not much inferiour to those dreadful ones of Samaria and Jerusalem recorded in Holy Scripture or of Saguntum in Spain Perusium in Hetruria or Tuscany in Italy mentioned by other Authors Many brave Citizens out of this and the Neighbour Towns were compelled by necessity to bear Arms for a livelihood Horse-flesh was sold at

such great Miracles In several Ages after it made woful irruptions as from the year 1160 to 1169 all Sicily was shaken with huge Earthquakes and the Mountain Aetna foaming mightily overthrew all the circumjacent places with incredible Desolation with the ruine of the Cathedral Church of Catania about ten miles distant in which Abbot John and his Monks were overwhelmed Many other fearful burnings have happened since that time but none more horrible for its mighty devastations than that in the year 1669 The Right Honourable the Earl of Winchelsea His Majesties late Ambassador at Constantinople in his return from thence visiting Catania was an Eye-witness of this Prodigious Judgment whereof he gave the following Account to His present Majesty King Charles the second as soon as he came to Naples May it please Your Majesty In my Voyage from Malta to this place I touched at the City of Catania in Sicily and was there most kindly Invited by the Bishop to lodge in his Palace which I accepted that so I might be the better able to inform your Majesty of that extraordinary Fire which comes from Mount Gibel 15 miles distant from that City which for its horridness in the aspect for the vast quantity thereof for it is 15 miles in length and 7 in breadth for its monstrous devastation and quick progress may be termed an Inundation of Fire a Flood of Fire Cinders and burning Stones burning with that Rage as to advance into the Sea 600 yards and that to a mile in breadth which I saw and that which did augment my admiration was to see in the Sea this matter like ragged Rocks burning in sour fathom water two fathom higher than the Sea it self some parts liquid and moving and throwing off not without great violence the stones about it which like a crust of a vast bigness and red hot sell into the Sea every moment in some place or other causing a great and horrible noise smoak and hissing in the Sea and thus more and more coming after it making a firm foundation in the Sea it self I stayed there from nine a Clock on Saturday morning to seven next morning and this Mountain of Fire and Stones with Cinders had advanced into the Sea 20 yards at least in several places in the middle of this Fire which burn'd in the Sea it hath formed a passage like to a River with its Banks on each side very steep and craggy and in this Channel moves the greatest quantity of this Fire which is the most liquid with stones of the same composition and Cinders all red hot swimming upon the Fire of a great magnitude From this River of Fire under the great Masse of the Stones which are generally three fathom high all over the Country where it burns and in other places much more there are secret Conduits or Rivulets of this liquid matter which Communicate Fire and heat into all parts more or less and melts the Stones and Cinders by fits in those places where it toucheth them over and over again where it meets with Rocks or Houses of the same matter as many are they melt and go away with the Fire where they find other compositions they turn them to lime or ashes as I am informed The composition of this Fire Stones and Cinders are Sulphur Nitre Quick-silver Sal-Armoniac Lead Iron Brass and all other Mettals It moves not regularly nor constantly down hill in some places it hath made the Valleys Hills and the Hills that were not high are now Valleys When it was night I weat upon two Towers in divers places and could plainly see at 10 miles distance as we judged the Fire to begin to run from the Mountain in a direct line the flame to ascend as high and as big as one of the highest and greatest Steeples in Your Majesties Kingdoms and to throw up great Stones into the Air I could discern the River of Fire to d●scend the Mountain of a terrible ●●ery or red colour and stones of a paler Red to swim thereon and to be some as big as an ordinary Table We could see this fire to move in several other places and all the Country covered with Fire ascending with great Flames in many places smoaking ●●●e to a violent furnace of Iron melted making a noi●e with the great picces that fell especially those which fell i●to the Sea A Cavalier of Malta who lives there and attended me told me that the River was as liquid where it issues out of the Mountain as water and came out like a Torrent with great violence and is five or six fathom deep and as broad and that no stones do sink therein I assure Your Majesty no Pen can express how terrible it is nor can all the Art and Industry of the world quench or divert that which is burning in the Country In 40 days time it hath destroyed the habitations of 27 thousand persons made two Hills of one 1000 paces high a-piece and one is four miles in compass Of 20000 persons which inhabited Catania 3000 did only remain all their Goods are carryed away the Cannons of Brass are removed out of the Castle some great Bells taken down the City-Gates Walled up next the Fire and preparation made all to abandon the City That night which I lay there it rained Ashes all over the City and 〈◊〉 Miles at Sea it troubled my Eyes This Fire in its Progress 〈…〉 ●ith a Lake of Four Miles in compass and i● was not only satis●●●d to fill it up though it was four fath●● deep but hat● made 〈◊〉 it a Mountain I send also to Your Sacred Majesty the following Account in Print which the Bishop save me as it is ●●●ected one of divers Relations from Ca●ama Mount 〈…〉 Gibello a Mountain so Renowned throughout the World for its heightand greatness but more for ●hos● Prodigious Flames Smoak and Ashes which it hath cast out from the top of it whilst the other parts are continually even in the midst of S●mmer cover'd with Snow has been for many Ages observ'd once or sometimes oftner in the space of above fifteen years to throw up more than ordinary ●lames with much Smoak and Stones and great quantities of A●●es which though terrible to the Neighbouring Towns and Villages was yet w●nt in little time to abate of its fury and prove but seldom more in●urious to the Country ●ear it than by communicating largely its ashes which though for the present it did somewhat incommode them they had afterwards a considerable Compensation in the product of their Lands which by this means were rendred more fruitful But on Friday the 18th of March 1669. the Sun was observed before its setting to appear of a pale and dead colour which being contrary to what it ever before appeared to us struck no small terror into the Inhabitants all Objects appearing also of the same colour with a paleness received from that of the Sun The same night happened in this City as well