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A41979	Memento's to the vvorld, or, An historical collection of divers wonderful comets and prodigious signs in heaven, that have been seen, some long before the birth of Christ, and many since that time in divers countries, with their wonderful and dreadful effects together, with ample discourses, and profitable observations, upon that admirable star which appeared at the birth of Christ, to the eastern magi : as also upon that comet which appeared in the constellation of Cassiopea, after the horrid massacre of the French-Protestants, Anno 1572, and several other comets, with their effects to this present time / by W.G., minister of the gospel ; likewise, Stella nova, or, The new star, or, An account of the natural signification of the comet, or blazing-star, that hath so long been visible in England, and other countreys, and is yet hanging over our heads, by William Knight ...	Greene, William.; Knight, William, fl. 1680-1699. Stella nova.	1681 (1681)	Wing G1813; ESTC R13426	22,692	36

to be made to the end therewith to have deceived his Enemy In the dayes of Sigebert Chitperic and Gunthran Kings of France certain Comets and prodigious signs were seen in the Heavens A fire falling from Heaven consumed the City of Orleans whereof and the Territory about it Gunthran was King and the City of Bourdeaux together with the fruits of the Earth There followed atmost throughout all France a malignant Cough and bloody Flux which destroyed multitudes of men and Women by which means that evil Woman Austigildis Wife of King Gunthran perished The said King Gunthran died within a year following After the death of Theodoricus who had made himself Lord of all Italy there appeared many signs in Heaven In the North the Heaven seemed fiery and certain shining Spears were seen and the Moon was much obscured And a Comet appeared at Tholouse Terrible signs were seen by Night in Italy in the year of our Lord 570. For fiery swords appeared in the Heavens and blood distilled from the Clouds which signified the effusion of much blood which hapned afterwards and many great storms continuing many dayes The River Tiber was increased with so great a force of waters that many people that lived in low places were drowned Two Animals appeared in the form of a Man and Woman from the Morning till Nine of the Clock with long hair hanging down to the Loynes The Water covered their other parts And they write That a Mountain in France with a great Noise was cleft asunder In the time of the Emperour Justinian the first as Procopius writeth for the greatest part of one whole year the Sun gave so little Light that it was but equal to or little more then the Light of the Moon the Sky being clear and without Clouds or any other thing to shadow the same And so without any apparent occasion it was obscured all that time which as it was afterward conjectured was the Prognostick of the Famine and want of grain which generally ensued throughout all the World and of the Wars and effusion of Blood which followed in Italy and of the taking burning and destruction of Rome by Totila In the time of the Emperour Heraclius who took upon him the Government of the Empire in the year of our Lord 611. at Constantinople Fire fell from Heaven and there appeared a great Bow in the Heavens so that Men thought that the end of the World was at hand by reason of the great Thundrings and Lightnings There followed a most grievous Pestilence which consumed many in the Summer Months And many Prodigies and dreadful things appeared at this time in Greece which seemed to portend the future Calamities under Mahomet And in one and the same year a very bright Comet was seen at Constantinople and a Child was born with four Feet And in the Isle Delon two very great Monsters were seen having altogether humane shape And many other things here and there like unto this did appear In the Reign of the Emperour Constantine IV. an hairy Comet appeared three Months which was the forerunner of great Slaughters And there happened so many and so great Tempests and alterations in the air as it seemed that the four Elements had conspired against Mankind for the Winds were so furious and violent as that they overthrew many buildings and rent up many Trees by the roots and the rain likewise was so great and tempestuous as it destroyed all their Tillage as well for Bread-Corn as all other kinds of Herbs and Seeds And therewith fell an infinite number of Thunderbolts and Fires from Heave which slew a great number of Men and Cattel especially on this side of the Alps. And after a great Eclipse of the Sun and Moon the City of Papia was almost utterly destroyed by a raging Pestilence so that the People which survived fled to the Mountains and grass grew in the City About the time of King Luitprand King of the Lombards two Comets appeared in the Month of January and the Sun was darkned and lost his light for fifteen dayes whereof one went before the Sun the other followed it in the Evening About the Death of Pope Leo tho third who crowned and declared Charles the Great King of France to be Emperour a Comet appeared and the Sun lost his light for Fifteen dayes This Pope died Anno 816. In the second year of Lotharius Son of the Emperour Ludovicus Pius and Grandson to Charles the great there appeared a Comet Hail of great bigness fell in France which slew many men and much Cattel There was also seen in those Hail-stones Corn of a wonderful Length and of an hard substance An Earthquake also shook Italy and in certain places divers Mountains were overwhelmed and divers Cities perished Lotharius warred against his brethren Lewes and Charles and a great Battel being fought the Flower of the French Nobility was slain and in number more men died than in any other Battel had hapned in France ever since the Battel which was fought between Ecius and Attila King of the Hunnes in the Fields of Catalonia About this time an innumerable Company of Locusts having six Wings and two Teeth harder than stones covered the Earth in France like Snow At length being cast into the Sea and upon Land by the Shore there followed great putrefaction which infecting the Air caused a general destruction of men In the beginning of the Reign of the Emperour Lewes the Second for three dayes it rained Blood at the City of Brescia in Lombardy so fresh and so perfect as if it had been of a Bull or of some other Beast lately killed In the time of Edward the Son of Edgar King of England appeared a Comet after which followed a great Dearth and Mortality to men and murrain upon Beasts and there arose a great contention between the Priests and Monks In the days of Pope Leo VII the Sun seemed to reign blood as Masseus writeth and after it followed a great Pestilence among men In the first year of Pope Martin III. a great Blazing Star appeared in Italy after which followed an extream Famine And again the Sun appeared very dreadful Martin died Anno 947. A little before the death of the Emperour Otho the Second many Prodigies appeared in Italy for a Stone of wonderful bigness fell from Heaven in the midst of a great storm and tempest And the sign of the Cross appeared on the Garments of many and some of them were of a bloody colour which many did interpret to portend great Slaughters and the Calamity of the Church In Italy a Comet of wonderful bigness appeared presaging the Famine which followed In the time of Pope John XVI appeared a Comet after which followed both Famine and Pestilence with terrible Earthquakes which shook both Benevent and Capua John died Anno 985. In the third year of the Emperour Henry the Second a Comet appeared dreadful to behold dispersing his Flames hither and thither And in the seventh

England nay in London that by Occular Experience can Subscribe to the truth of it that there needs no further Narrative When God intends to punish a Nation Country or City he is first pleased to give them notice thereof by Apparitions or Prodigies and there hath never been any notable Apparition or Prodigy seen in the Heavens but it hath been attended in the Sequel with some more then ordinary Troubles or Change here on Earth according to this Illustration of Dubartas Viz. Here in the Night appears a Flaming Spire There a Fierce Dragon folded all in Fire Here a Bright Cornet there a Fiery Stream Here Flying Launces there a Burning Beam Here seems a Horned Goat Environ'd round With Fiery Flakes about the Air to bound There with Long Bloody Hair a Blazing-Star Threatning the World with Famine Plague and War To Princes Death to Kingdoms many Crosses To all Estates Inevitable Losses To Herds-men Rot to Plow-men Hopless Seasons To Saylors Storms to Cities Civil Treasons Thus much of Prodigies in general now to know the Signification of each particular Comet for they have not all one and the same portences we must according to the Documents of Astrologers observe their Colours place and motion in the Heavens c. And that I may be well understood by those for whose sakes I undertook this Task viz. the Vulgar or Common people of this Kingdom I shall not strive to use any Cramp words or Quaint Language but in a homely and plain Stile deliver unto them the Signification of this Blazing-Star according to the Rules of Art as followeth By the account we had of this Comet first from Falmous in the West of England it was then of a Bright and clear Colour but its Tail was of a pale colour towards the end So then we may conclude the Star was then of a Jovial nature but its Tail of a Saturnian Hue and by the said account it was then in the Caelestial Sign Scorpio but is now in the Sign Aries and the Star really Saturnian so well as its Tail it is true when it had but newly past the Conjunction of the Sun and first became Occidental its Tail was very Red and at least Sixty Degrees long but there was then a Tincture or mixture of the aforesaid Colours in it It s Tail is not Forty Degrees long now and will be shorter as the Star gets further from the Sun Now it being since its first appearance of the Colour of the Planets before Nominated and likewise of the Colour of Mars and Mercury for Mars claims the Redness of its Tail and Mercury will put in for a share by reason of its various Colours therefore we may expect that according to the nature of those four Planets will the effects of this new Star be which is as followeth A Comet of the nature of Saturn signifies many Frights and Fears among people Trouble Vexation Murmuring and Repining Exile or Banishment to many scarcity of Food Penury grievous Sicknesses Plague Consumptions Agues and other Lingring Distempers Tempestuous Winds Shipwracks Inundations great Frosts and Snows a destruction of Fruits by Worms or Catterpillars A Comet of the Nature of Jupiter as this was at its first appearance denotes much strugling among Men for matters of Religion Laws and Priviledges strivings Wrastling and encountering each other it signifies a plentiful and Fertile time pleasant Salubrious Air Seasonable Winds and Showers and truly it is well we have some Significations of good to buoy us up under the many mischiefs portended Now its Tail being sometimes Red viz. of the Nature of Mars signifies Wars Quarrels Sea-Fights Slaughters Bloodshed Tumults Massacres in some places change of Governours and Governments pestiferous Winds terrible Thunder and Lightnings Tempests Shipwacks Thieves and Robbers will abound on the Land and Pyrates at Sea excessive Hot Weather at sometimes drying up Rivers and Fountains scarcity of the Fruits of the Earth Firing or Burning of Houses and violent Feavers among Men. It being of Various Colours for sometime as I told you before Mercury will have a share in its Effects and then it denotes much Wit and Policy among Men and as much business to imploy it about Astrologers say that it signifies the Death of Great Men Wars Sicknesses and scarcity of Food many men will imploy their Wits about Vild and Treacherous things and when they have done if questioned for the same pretend to be as Innocent as Lambs and truly so they may as Romish Lambs which are always of a more Infernal quality than Heretick-Lyons as they call them In the next place I shall give you the signification of this Star in relation to the Signs of Heaven it has already past through which is Scorpio Sagitarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces and is now in Aries but how much farther it will go time must be the Informer A Comet or Blazing-Star in Scorpio signifies Wars Contentions Controversies alterations and Changes in the world and chiefly among men of Martial Discipline Trouble and Animosities among Princes a scarcity of Waters and fruits of the Earth Damage to Merchants by pyrates and much grief to Teeming Women In Sagitary it denotes Evil to Great Men Controversies about Religion and Laws Feavers and other dangerous Infirmities In Capricorn a Comet doth signifie many Wicked Actions among Men Murders Thefts Robberies Wars Plague and Famine in many places Troubles and Calamities to most sort of People the Death of Great men by Poyson or other violent means Persecution of many for Religion and Contempt of Religion it self great Frosts Snows Hails c. In Aquary it denotes long lasting Wars terrible slaughters many kinds of Crosses and Cruelties and in some places a sweeping Plague or Pestilence dark obscure Air great Winds Thunder and Lightnings When a Comet appears in Pisces it signifies Eminent strife and Contentions about Religion Devisions Seperations and Alienations of Relations and former Friends Strange and Prodigious Apparitions in the Air scarcity of Fish losses and crosses in Sea-Voyages much troubles amongst great and Potent Persons Lastly This Comet being in Aries is the fore-runner of much mischief troubles War-like preparations the Death of some Eminent Person which will cause or occasion great Consternation in the Country where it shall happen sharp Diseases in the Head and Eyes of people and a Rot or Murrain among small Cattel Stella Barbata or Caudata A Star with a Beard or long Tayl as this Comet hath denotes the Death of Great and Noble Men and Wars in those Countries unto which it points its Tayl and we may conclude that in regard from its first appearance it took its progress towards the Sun its Effects will be manifested in a great measure on Eminent persons and Ineminent Actions and I need not go about to tell where or in what Countries the significations of this Star will appear but in short acquaint you That it hath already taken up a large part of Europe so well as other parts for its Theatre Thus far have I adventured to speak of this Blazing-Star unto the World and in so doing I well hope I have Offended none that I ought not to have Offended I would have none to be constartned or affrightned at those Presages though they be according to the true and experienced Rules of Art but observe the Prudent and Wise saying of Charles the Great when he was beholding the New Star that presaged and preceeded his Death he was very Inquisitous and desirous to know what it signified One who stood by answers him in the Words of the Prophet Jeremiah Chap. 10. ver 2. Fear not the Signs of Heaven though the Heathen be afraid of them Vnto which the Emperour replyed That he did not indeed fear any Signs of that Nature but the Maker or cause of those Signs A Wise Saying and deserves to be Written in Letters of Gold I know some Critical Persons will be ready to say that I have given no Mathematical or Astronomical accout of this Star to which I answer neither can it reasonably be expected that I should any more than I have considering the streightness of my Limits I leave that therefore to those that shall Write a more Large Discourse hereof to certisfie the Learned To conclude this Discourse my Prayer shall be That Venus and Jupiter i' th Heavens may agree FINIS Senec. natur quest l. 7. ca. 15. Justin lib. 37. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vellieus lib. 2. ca. 59. Senec. natur quaest lib. 2. ca. 28. Dio. lib. 45 Senec. natur quaest lib. 7. ca. 17. S●●ton in Julio ca. 88. Aemed 8. Dio. lib. 51. pag. 445. Justin lib. 1. Fulgent 2. oper imperfect in Math. ● 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fullers Pisgah sight lib. 2 cap. 14. Eusib Eccles hist. lib. 3. ca. 8. Joseph de bello Judaic lib. 7. ca. 12. Just Lips lib. 2. de Constant cap. 21. Pedocot Mexio histor Roman Imperat. Holinsheds Chronicle in Will. Conqueror Fabian Chronicle Spalat de Ecclesiast Repub. li 5. P. 166. Comen Histor German Prophet

appeared in the Heavens in the Year 1263 rising from the East above three Months with great brightness and did send forth his rays to the midst of Heaven setting towards the West When he first appeared Pope Vrban IV began to be Sick but in the same Night that Vrban Dyed he began to disappear Soon after the Corronation of Edward I. King of England there hapned such an Earth-quake with Lightning and Thunder and therewithal the appearing of a Burning-Drake and a Blazing-Star or Comet that the people were filled with great fear and astonishment In the time of Wenceslaus the Third King of Bohemia there Appeared in the Heaven a large Comet which did presage the great Destruction which followed in which Year upon Saint Andrew's Day there hapned a great Earth-quake which lasting divers Days by Intervals overthrew many Buildings In the Year 1314 Three Moons Appeared together in the Heaven and a Comet was seen in the North which lasted Three Months It vanishing in the same Year in the Month of November Phillip King of France dyed a Boar breaking the Legs of his Horse as he was Hunting he fell from his Horse of which fall he dyed shortly after In the Ninth Year of King Edward the Second before Christmas a blazing-Star or Comet Appeared in the North part of the Firmament for the space of a Month together After it followed a woful Famine for Victuals was so scant and dear and other Grain raised to so high a price that the poor people were constrained through Famine to eat the Flesh of Horses Dogs and other wild Beasts and many starved having nothing to feed upon throughout the Land After this Dearth and scarcity of Victuals ensued a great Mortality of people so that what with the War with the Scots and with the Famine and Pestilence the people of England were wonderfully wasted and consumed In the Year 1337 in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Edward III. a Comet or Blazing-Star Appeared with long and terrible Streams passing from it which continued thirty Days Soon after the French burnt South-hampton which they almost wholly consumed to Ashes and did many other mischiefs with their Ships on the Coasts of England In the Year 1351 in the North there Appeared a Comet in the Month of December which being extinct violent Winds followed and a Coelestial Beam was seen to glide along the Heavens the former part of it burning And they write that before the Death of Pope Innocent VI. there was so great a refection of the Sun as the like had not been before seen In the Month of March in the Year of our Lord 1402 and third Year of Henry IV. King of England there Appeared a Blazing-Star first between the Eastern part of the Firmament and the North flashing forth Fire and flames round about and lastly shooting forth Fiery streams towards the North foreshewing as was thought the great effusion of Blood which followed about the parts of Wales and Northumberland In the Year 1438 there was a great Eclipse of the Sun and divers Wars and Dissentions followed A Comet also Appeared and there followed a slaughter of Men in Liege In the Three and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of Henry VI. King of England during the Civil Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York a Comet Appeared in the Month of June the Beams whereof extended it self into the South of which King Henry and his Son felt the sad effects In the Year 1456 a Comet was seen in the East in the month of June in the Fifteenth degree of Cancer a very great Earthquake followed on the 5th Day of December at Eleven a Clock at Night And another on the Thirtieth Day of the same Month such as in the memory of Man there had not any where been seen the like for vehemency especially in Apulia Naples Beneventum and many other Cities and Towns round about many Temples and Pallaces and other Houses were overwhelmed with the Destruction of many Men and Cattel The like hapned at Cajeta Capua Aversa and the rest of the Cities of old Campania In the Year 1457. another followed which they called a black Comet in the Month of June in the 20 degree of Pisces which was seen for the space of a month and did variously affect the minds of Men. A great Comet Appeared throughout the month of January in the beginning of the Year 1472 in a Fiery colour with long and black hairs bending towards the West whose body was about the entrance of Libra afterwards it bended it self onely in the North that it might be judged that it went out without the Zodiack and it continued Fourscore days But this Comet being scarce dissolved another Appeared of a fiery hair which seemed to be seated in the Sign of Aries and its Tayl stretched out it self towards the East A grievous Drought followed and a Pestilence and most cruel and bloody Wars in many places There were Two Comets seen before the Battel of Crescy in France where though the English got a great Victory over the French by the Sword so it seemeth as our Chronicles do relate that the Sword of the Destroying Angel slew a multitude of the English at home Phillip the first King of Spain and Father to the Emperour Charles V. being at Tudele of Duero there Appeared a strange Comet in the Firmament foreshewing as they said afterward the Approaching Death of King Phillip which happened soon after in the City of Burgos to the general grief of all his Subjects the Comet still Appearing whereunto he did Attribute his Death saying often in his pains and agonies Ha Cometa ha Cometa He dyed in the Year of our Lord 1506 haveing Reigned one Year and Ten Months His Body was laid many Years after by his Son Charles in the Royal Chappel of Granado having remained in divers places In Queen Maries Reign in the Year of our Lord 1556 a Blazing-Star was seen at all times of the Night on the Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth and Tenth of March a little before the Burning of Thomas Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterbury The Horrid Massacre of the Protestants in France being Acted August 24 c. 1572 a Grave Writer relates That about a quarter of a Year after Viz. November 17. there Appeared a Star in the Constellation of Cassiopea Mirae magnitudinis perspicua luce praefulgida of Wonderful bigness and very resplendent with a perspicuous light He saith That many Men passed their Judgments upon it Eruditorumque hac dere jactati versus Beza hath divers Verses upon it I take it the last was this Tuvero Herodes Sangui notente cave And thou bloody Herod beware Pointing I suppose to the French King Charles the IX and others Authors of and Actors in that Barbarous and Bloody Tragedy He addeth Illa totos novem menses in coeto Emicait That Star shined clearly for the space of nine whole Months in the Heaven The King himself Dyed May 30. 1574. about one