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An Exact representation of the late comet, or blazing-star which appeared in Hamburgh this year, 1677, at north-east : together with a description of the remarkable comets since Christ's nativity, and the dangerous consequences.
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An Exact Representation of the LATE COMET OR BLAZING-STAR Which appeared in Hamburgh this YEAR 1677. at NORTH-EAST Together with a Description of the Most Remarkable COMETS since CHRIST's Nativity and the dangerous Consequences Translated out of High-Dutch THE COMET AoÌ„ 1677. North Perseus Cassiopea Algol or Caput Medusae Pes CinguluÌ„ Triangulum Apis East HORIZON As it was seen on the 19th of Aprill Northward Eastward Horizon Northward Easrward Horizon IT hath been ever the Opinion of Rational and Understanding Men that COMETS are the unfortunate Tokens which God sets up in the Firmament at once to warn and 〈◊〉 Men when nothing else will do it Who knows not thâ—â— when such unusual Lights appear in Heaven there have eveâ— followeâ— in a verry short time after great and bloody Wars Plagues Dearths and other Publick Calamities which have swept away infinite numbers of Men or where their Lives have been given them for a Prey have involved them in the danger of being Rob'd Plunder'd and having their Houses and Goods consumed by Fire c. So true is that of the Poet No COMET in the Heavens does appear But doth foretell great Plagues and Mischiefs near We will give you an Account of some COMETS and some unhappy Consequences out of Ancient and Modern Histories and then come to discourse of that before us In the year XXIX before Christ's Nativity appeared a COMET the Effects of which were soon seen not only in a very bloody War wherein Augustus the Emperor overcame Anthony King of Egypt and all Egypt became subject to his power but in a very dreadful Earthquake which shakeâ— all Judaea and kill'd many thousands In the First year of our Saviours Nativity together with a very great Eclipse of the Moon was seen a very dreadful Comet which burnt like a Torch for three dayes and shortly after follow'd King Herod's barbarous Murther of the Infants of Bethlehem nor did the bloody King spare his own Son whom together with other Jews he caused inhumanely to be Butcher'd In the year 71. after Christ there appeared a Comet in the shape of a Fiery Sword which stood over Jerusalem and was seen for a whole year together and proved the fatal presage of the overthrow and destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish Commonwealth In the year 78. appeared another Comet of a very terrible Aspect for it look'd like a sharp Arrow and its Effect was a very great Pestilence which invaded Rome and raging two years together consumed vast multitudes of Men Women and Children In the year 323. a Comet foretold the Inundation of the Arrian Heresie In the year 454. was seen a Comet which burnt like Fire for 21 dayes and was possibly a presage either of the savage Câ—uelty or Death of Attila who burnt and destroyed all Countries he came into and call'd himself The Scourge of God AC 539. or as others 538. appeared a Comet for 15 dayes together upon which there happen'd these following accidents The King of the Goths was Conquered and taken Prisoner by Belarius the Roman General and his eyes put out by Justinian the Emperor Cosroes with a vast Army invades Italy and his Army is ruin'd by the Plague At the same time there happen'd a very great Earthquake at Constantinople which lasted ten dayes and kill'd vast numbers of Men. A. C. 729. in January two Comets appear'd one before the Suns rising the other after hiâ— going down whereupon Leo the Emperor met with very great Troubles in his Government and the Lombards made great havock in Italy and besieged Rome A. C. 745. A Comet seemed to be the Forerunner of a dreadful Pestilence which in the City of Constantinople alone swept away above 300000 Men. A. C. 828. Men took notice of a Comet the Effects of which were very dreadful viz. tempestuous unusual Winds which destroy'd abundance of Men and Houses and Towns and Villages both in France and Germany A. C. 831. A Comet was seen which was attended with a great Famine and Dearth insomuch that in many places Parents murther'd their own Children and did eat them A C. 838. A Comet appeared and lasted 25 days and was the Forerunner of another great Famine and of the great difference among the Sons of Ludovicus Pius which ended in a very dreadful War wherein above 100000 Men were kill'd A. C. 841. A Comet presaged the fatal War which happen'd shortly after between Lotharius and his Brethren A. C. 869. Appeared one and immediately after all Germany felt very great Earthquakes as also a great Famine and a very bloody War which was thought would have proved the utter Extirpation of the Inhabitants A. C. 876. the 20th of June appeared a very dreadful one in Saxony whereupon in July following happen'd such incredible Floods of Water as did infinite mischief both in Saxony and Thuringia and particularly the Town of Aschenbrun by a sudden and violent Rise of Waters was carried away with Houses Men Beasts Trees and Church and all this in one Night insomuch that next day no Man could tell that ever there had been a Town there A. C. 905. in March appear'd another and immediately upon 't the Hungarians fell into Germany plunder'd it destroy'd and wasted it everywhere In Italy also there happen'd very great Calamities and Ludovicus King of the Lombards chased Berengarius pretending to the Empire but was on a sudden overcome again by Berengarius and at Ditrichs-Bern had his eyes put out A. C. 1005. Appeared another Comet very terrible which presaged the violent Plague and Famine following very shortly after in which more Men were kill'd than remained alive and which overspread almost the whole habitable World and within a little while after happen'd the Holy War which lasted 88 years and consumed an infinite number of Men not to mention the mighty Troubles which arose in the Church about this time about the Election of Popes A. C. 1165. Appeared another and presently after there happen'd the great Earthquakes in Syria and Sicily which destroy'd a great number of Cities and Towns A very bloody War also ensued between the Poles and Prussians and betwixt Duke Henry the Lion and Marquess Albert surnamed the Bear about the Countrey of Saxony wherein Henry was put to flight and which occasion'd a great quarrel betwixt Welphus Duke of Bavaria and Paltsgrave Hugo who had the Counts of Zollern for his Auxiliaries They destroy'd many Towns and Countries till at last Duke Wolf besieged Tubingen which Siege the Paltsgrave came to raise and therefore occasion'd a bloody Fight in which the Duke was forced to flie who yet within a very short time after having got the Bohemians to be on his side destroyed Bavaria and Suabia and all Germany to the very Lake of Geneva About this time the Emperor found trouble enough in Italy from his Adversary and was forced to go to Rome which City very much opposed him but was in a short time Conquer'd by the Emperor who kill'd above 12000
men and made himself Master of the City A. C. 121â— The 18 of May another Comet appeared which was a Forerunner of the bloody Invasion of Europe by the Tartars A. C. 1264. in August appeared another which lasted three Months and foretold the sad Fate of the Famous and Noble City of Acon which by a terrible Earthquake perish'd and was totally destroy'd A. C. 1312 1314 and 1362. Divers Comets were then seen which had this Effect that a great Mortality of Men and Cattle and Famine and other sad Disasters follow'd upon 't and especially A.C. 1314. the Comet which was seen appear'd with a very long Tail towards North-west and for a whole year together it rain'd which occasion'd a very great Pestilence and a very cruel Famine insomuch that Men could not contain themselves from feeding on dead Carcasses and Parents from eating their own Children A.C. 1403. April the first in the Evening at North-east appear'd a Comet whose Tail cast it self towards the North and immediately thereupon happen'd a great War between Sweden and Denmark and about December following such Floods of Water rose that many Towns Villages Men and Cattle were drown'd A.C. 1472. A Comet was seen with a very long train stretching it self towards the East and continuing above Eighty days and causing besides other miseries and disasters a very dreadful Pestilence and a very dry Summer and such vast numbers of flying Locusts in Hungary Poland Silesia Mahren c. that the people could not see the Sun they flew so thick together A.C. 1475. appear'd another which look'd pale and sometimes of a blewish dark colour whereupon there follow'd the great dearth of Corn and a very bloudy War among three Kings Casimir King of Poland Vladislaus King of Bohemia and Matthias King of Hungary who wasted and destroyed Silesia Mahren Bohemia and the neigbouring Countreys And the effects of this Comet were also felt by Victoriosus Duke of Burgundy and Lorrain who that very year besides the loss of 17000 Burgundians in a Fight lost his own life also A. C. 1527. appeared a very unusual Comet and which cannot be parallel'd by any other seen all Europe over full of fire and of a very great length in whose Circle was seen a bended Arm with a Sword in a threatning posture and about the point of the Sword appeared three Stars with Tails as if they were three Comets and round about those Stars Spears and bloody Swords and Faces of several Men with long Beards lasting an hour and a quarter a sight so astonishing that many that saw it fell sick upon 't and died The Effects were seen shortly after for the Turks fell into Hungary besieged Vienna and a great deal of blood was shed This very year the City of Rome was taken by the Duke of Burboâ— and great Insolencies were committed by the Soldiers A.C. 1531. appeared another Comet seen in Germany Italy France and in the neighbouring Countreys a fore-runner of that bloody Helvetian War in which the Towns of Zurick Zug Vri Vnderwalden and Lucern were engaged And much more mischief did that Comet portend which was seen in Hungary in the year 1541. which at last changed it self into the shape of a Dragon before whose mouth was seen the Figure of a Mans Head and at his Tail a bloody Flame and the Dragon turning his mouth towards Austria That very year the Germans and Hungarians were totally routed and beaten And presently after this disaster hapned a great Plague which swept away many thousands A. C. 1572. and 1577. the two Comets then appearing portended the ensuing War between Spain and England and Holland not to mention the broils and miseries which Germany then groaned under And what need we speak of Comets which appeared in Ages past when the great Comet that was seen in the year 1618. is yet fresh in many Mens memories A Comet which lasted thirty days and presaged a War of thirty years which accordingly hapned and proved a scourge whereof the marks are to be seen yet at this day This War was seconded by a very cruel Plague which consumed those whom the Enemy had left alive and it 's hard to say whether more died by the Sword or by the Pestilence One would have thought when the German Peace was made in the year 1648. that God had then done with the tokens of his anger but alas in the year 1653. appeared another Glass of Gods indignation in Heaven a Comet which presaged troubles and destruction to Poland Sweden Denmark Muscovy c. in which Wars abundance of Christian blood was shed And in the year 1661 in the Eagle in the Firmament there appeared another Comet which sufficiently hinted to us that the Roman Eagle was to grapple again with the Enemy of Christendom a passage so universally known that I need not enlarge upon it What the two Comets in the year 1664 and 1665 foretold the Wars which ensued thereupon can sufficiently witness Ask Holland Brabant Westphalia Collen Lubeck the Palatinate Alsatia Brandenburg Pomerania Macklenburg Bremen Schonen England and other Countreys and they 'l soon tell you what the consequences of these Comets were They 'l relate to you with tears and sighs what miseries they have felt Go to the North and East Sea they 'll show you thousands of Carkasses which owe their fall to the poisonous influences of these marks of Heavens anger They 'll let you see the Places of their Battels the Bones of their kill'd men and the Monuments of those persons who have been swept away with these inundations and on their Tomb-stones you may find these words engraven In this place Death in one Fight hath torn away so many thousands out of tâ—â— Laâ—d of the living whose bones are herâ— interr'd Consider the Element of the Fire and let it be râ—membred what hurt what mischief it hath done within these few years How many Cities and Towns of late have been buried in ashes by this merciless Element Nor hath the Water ceas'd to offer violence to Men of late years for we have had news from several places and with amazement we have heard what Flouds have hapned up and down to the ruine and destruction of Men and Countreys And the Winds have been for some years so violent that one would have thought they threatned ruine to all the Vessels that plough'd the Sea and to all the Towers and Steeples which adorn'd the nobler Buildings Witness the Hurricanes in the year 1674. whereof Holland hath felt the smart What the two great double-tail'd Comets which were seen the 10 of November 1675. in Alsatia and Swisserland portended let the Inhabitants of those Countreys speaâ— where you might see nothing but murther and fire and ruine caused by the French Army Let a Man ask the famous Towns Haguenaw Cronweisenburg Deuxponts Cassel Newenburg St. Wendel and many hundred Villages in that Neighbourhood and they 'll acquaint you with the sad disasters that within these few months have befaln them The Cities and Towns which a little while ago were full of people are now nothing but heaps of stone and Wildernesses and the Inhabitants Beggars and Alms-folk that must beg a piece of bread from door to door Insomuch that it may now be truly said What new Experiment of Death and Plagues Will Heaven invent Alsatia after this God hath tri'd all How is thy pristine state Alter'd and chang'd and turned upside down The Market once of pretious things thou wast Things which can make a place renown'd and great Thou went'st beyond the Countreys we admire Things seen elsewhere are epitomiz'd in thee Thy Praise is gone thy Ornaments are lost Thy Coffers rifl'd and thy Gold cashier'd Thy Cities ruin'd and thy Towns laid waste And thus thy Garden is a Desart grown From what we have said it sufficiently appears that Comets are no useless things God grant that the Comet which hath lately been seen may bring us better news It appear'd and was seen on the 16th day of April at Hamburg and as those that took an exact view of it tell us it was very fiery and cast its beams towards the East Afterwards when the Heavens were clear and without Clouds it appeared perpendicular and standing bolt upright It rose at North-East in the morning about two of the Clock and had its scituation betwixt the left foot of Andromeda and the Triangle in the Firmament It s Tail hath been observed to be of an unequal length having appeared sometimes longer sometimes shorter but its ordinary length was about three quarters of a yard What the Learned will judge of it will be seen ere long by their Writings To spâ— spiritually of it let every man that hath either seen or heard of it or read of it lay his hand upon his breast and think with himself That God hath sent this Comet for his sins and threatens destruction to him Let him search and examine his Conscience and confess his sins and repent by mending his life and without doubt this will be the best interpretation of the Comet In the SAVOY Printed by T. N. for Jonathan Edwyn at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street 1677. Licensed May 14. 1677. Roger L'Estrange