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A39634	The five strange wonders, in the north and west of England as they were communicated to divers honourable members of Parliament, from several countrey gentlemen and ministers, concerning the strange and prodigious flying in the air of a black coffin betwixt Leicester and Nottingham, on Sabbath day last was a fortnight, with a flaming arrow, and a bloody sword, casting forth firearms of fire ... : with a conjecturation thereupon, what these dreadful signs from heaven, may denote and signifie to the people on earth this present summer : likewise, the great and wonderful warlike prodigies, which appeared over Marston-Moor, near the city of York, between two fierry or flaming pillars, and the three monstrous creatures found in three eggs, laid by one hen bought in Execter Market ... : together with the opening of the skie in a fearful manner over Standish town five miles from Gloucester, and the appearing of a terrible fiery shaking sword form the heavens ... : attested by an eye-witness, and entred upon record, in the original Mirrour, or Looking Glass ...		1659 (1659)	Wing F1124; ESTC R7489	5,498	9

The Five strange WONDERS In the North and West of ENGLAND AS They were communicated to divers Honourable Members of Parliament from several Countrey Gentlemen and Ministers concerning the strange and prodigious flying in the Air of a Black Coffin betwixt Liecester and Nottingham on Sabbath day last was a fortnight with a flaming Arrow and a Bloody Sword casting forth streams of Fire to the great wonder and astonishment of many Hundreds of People that beheld the sparkling and glittering Rays as far as Newark Beaver Loughborough Melton and divers other places With a Conjecturation thereupon what these dreadful Signs from Heaven may denote and signifie to the People on Earth this present Summer Likewise the great and wonderfull Warlike Prodigies which appeared over Marston-Moor near the City of York between two fiery or flaming Pillars And the three Monstrous Creatures found in three Eggs laid by one Hen bought in Exceter Market one Night wherein was found a Serpent a Cockatrice and a Toad Together with the opening of the Skie in a fearful manner over Standish town five miles from Gloucester and the appearing of a terrible fiery shaking Sword from the Heavens with its Point downward towards the Earth as also the colour thereof and what proceeded from it running along the ground ATtested by an Eye-Witness and entred upon Record in the Original Mirrour or Looking Glass And for more general satisfaction presented to the view of the three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland London Printed for W. THOMAS 1659. The Worlds New Wonders OR The Fiery and Flaming Prodigies in the North and West of England MAny of the People of God who live in such backsliding Times wherein publike dangers are approaching being conscious to their own infirmities and weakness are many times much perplexed with the fears and apprehensions of ensuing perils especially upon the appearing of such strange Prodigies in the Skies even in these latter dayes and through weakness of Faith much question Whether they be able to undergo such Conflicts and endure such Temptations as many despised Creatures of this Earthly Fabrick formerly have done Or whether the power of God doth so eminently appear in these latter Times for his Church and and Children as in precedent Ages and in the first primitive times of the Gospel it did But certainly the Name of God is wonderful still His glorious Arm is not shortned that it cannot save nor his Ear heavy that it cannot hear So that we may assure our selves that he will preserve us from or support us under or deliver us from the rage and subtilty of the grandest Serpents notwithstanding the various Changes and unparallel'd Revolutions either in State or Common-wealth For observable it is both of the ancient and modern Times that the greatest Prince who ever reigned in Tyranny had at the last a final subversion in defamation and misery and those that think to palliate their black and wicked Designs under the specious pretences of Religion and Liberty must know that the time is near of their disguising and the Stalking-horse discovered under the Name of Gospel and Reformation For as the Comets appeared before the death of Manasses King of Judah for his cruel Tyranny against the good Prophet Esay so doth the prodigious Exhalations in the Air in this our Age denote the great Fall of those who shall usurp the Peoples Liberties and as three Suns and a fie●y Dart were seen in the Heavens before the death of Dio●lesian the Tyrant so likewise appeared very strange Prodigies upon the change of a great and high Potentate who by the good hand of Providence was timely removed and taken from us Amongst the rest that which is most observable is the Dismal sight in the Air on Sabbath day last was a fortnight prodigously reprepresenting it self from one of the clock in the forenoon till about a quarter and a half after three in the perfect Figure and Form of a black Coffin with a fiery Dart and a flaming Sword flying to and again backwards and forwards towards the head of the said Coffin which was with great wonder and admiration beheld by many hundreds of People between Liecester and Nottinghamshire the lustre whereof at its breaking was of so large an Extent that the streams thereof were seen glittering and sparkling as far as Newark Beaver Nottingham Loughborough Melton and divers other Countrey Towns and parts adjacent to the great astonishment of the Inhabitants And very observable it is that the fiery Dart or Arrow during the time that the Coffin lay havering and flying up and down in the Air seemed as it were to charge each other and with such clashing and streaks of fire as the like is not to be parallel'd in any Age but upon the dissolution of the Coffin abundance of streams of fire proceeded from it which appeared so conspicuous That the Heavens seemed to receive its Light and Serenes from its illustrious influences But no sooner were these serene and bright Rays clouded and eclipsed by the black and louring Clouds but the great splendor of the fiery streams proceeding from the Sword and Arrow immediatly took their center within their own Region and Horizon and were seen no more from that day c. The truth hereof is attested from the hands of several Gentlemen of quality and Reverend Divines to divers honourable Members of Parliament persons of great worth and integrity and several conjectures possibly may be made thereupon But that the Coffin denotes Mortality too sad and woful Experience we have in these our days both in city countrey and probably the other two Signals from Heaven may represent a War or Famine But the Lord of his infinite mercy divert these sad and just-deserved Judgments from falling upon these Nations notwithstanding the great confederacie of her potent Enemies and grant that there may be redintegrate imbracings and renewings of love between the People and their Representative as being far better for all the Plants of this Common-wealth to be watered by the sweetest Dewes and showers of Heaven than by the most liberal hand of any person whatsoever which is always consummating The next thing that presents it self to publike view is the great fleak or sheet of fire which appeared in the Skie over the Town of Oukam In Rutland on Sunday was fortnight the manner thus About four of the clock in the afternoon as people were coming from the Church great sparklings and illustrious Rays were seen to descend from the Firmament and immediatly after a great sheet or fleak of Fire appeared which at the last flew quite down the Town to the sign of the Crown where it center'd burnt and extinguished A sad Omen for those that shall assume the Royal Dignity without Authority In a word the next Prodigie that we shall here insist upon is another Exhaliaton in the Air as full of wonder as admiration as evidently appears by the testimony given by the York shire Carriers who affirm