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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

times they have brought forth a great tall Ship floating up and down which opened and split asunder of it self from whence issued out four or five hundred wild Beasts to he baited and then closing again it vanished away without any visible help sometimes they caused water to spout gently from the bottom of the Theatre which bubbling up to the very top sprinkled and refreshed that vast multitude And to preserve themselves from the violence of the weather they caused that huge compass to be overspread sometimes with purple Sails all curiously wrought with the Needle sometimes of Silk and other colours all which was done in the twinkling of an Eye either to spread or draw it back again The Nets likewise which they used to put before the people to save them from the danger of the wild baited Beasts were all woven of Gold Thred Montaigns Essays lib. 3. XIV The Bridge of Caligula was a new and unheard of Spectacle it reached from Puteoli to Bauli three miles and a quarter he built it upon Ships in a few days Over this he marched with the Senate and Souldiery in a Triumphant manner and in the view of the People Upon this he feasted and passed the night in dalliance and Gaming A Marvellous and great work indeed but such as the vanity thereof deprived it of Commendation for to what end was it raised but to be demolished Thus sported he saith Seneca with the Power of the Empire and all in imitation of Xerxes a Foreign Frantick unfortunate and proud King Hakewels Apology XV. Wales anciently extended it self Eastward to the River Severn till by the valour of Offa the great King of the Mercians the Welch or Brittains were driven out of the plain Countrey beyond that River and forced to betake themselves to the Mountains where he caused them to be shut up and divided from England with an huge Ditch called Offa's Dike which began where the River Wie comes into the Severn not far from Chepstow and extended fourscore and four miles in length even as far as Chester where the River Dee is mingled with the Sea which was a very stupendious work Concerning this Ditch there was a Law made by K. Harold That if any Welshman was found with a Weapon on this side of it he should have his right hand cut off by the Kings Officers Heylins Cosmography XVI China is bounden on the North with Altay and the Eastern Tartars from which it is separated by a continued Chain of Hills and where that Chain is broken off with a great Wall of four hundred Leagues or Twelve hundred English miles in length It was built as they say by Zaintzon the 117 King thereof it was six fathom high and 12 yards thick and was twenty seven years in building by the continued labour of seven Millions and Fifty Thousand men Herberts Travels XVII Ptolomeus Philopater built a Ship saith Pancirollus that the like was never seen before nor since It was two hundred and eighty Cubits in length fifty two Cubits in height from the bottom to the upper Decks It had four hundred Banks or Seats for Rowers four hundred Marriners and four thousand Rovers And on the Decks it could contain Three Thousand Souldiers There were also Gardens and Orchards on the top of it as Plutarch relates in the life of Demetrius XVIII The Escurial or Monastery of St. Lawrence in New Castile in Spain was built by K. Philip 2. A place of such Magnificence that no building in times past or the present is comparable to it The Front toward the VVest is adorned with three stately Gates the middlemost whereof leadeth into a most magnificent Temple or Monastery wherein were one hundred Monks of the Order of St. Jerom and a Colledge the Gate on the right hand openeth into divers Offices belonging to the Monastery that on the left hand to the Schools and outhouses belonging to the Colledge At the four Corners are four Turrets of excellent Workmanship and for height Majestical Towards the North is the Kings Pallace on the South part are divers beautiful and Sumptuous Gallerys and on the East side several Gardens and Walks very pleasant and delectable It containeth in all eleven several Quadrangles every one incloistered and is indeed so brave a Structure that a Voyage to Spain were well imployed were it only to see it and return Heylins Cosmography FINIS Advertisements There are lately published by R. Burton five very useful pleasant and necessary books which are all sold by N. Crouch I. EXtraordinary Adventures of several Famous Men with the strange Events and many signal Mutations and Changes in the Fortunes of many Illustrious Places and Persons in all Ages Being an account of a Multitude of Stupendious Revolutions Accidents and Observable matters in many Kingdoms States and Provinces throughout the whole World Namely The Adventures of Christoph Columbus and the manner of his Discovery of America or the New World How Bajazet Emp. of the Turks was carried about in an Iron Cage by the Emp. Tamerlane The Cruelties used by the Turks upon the Christians at Argiers their manner of selling Slaves c. The Travels of an Engglish Man into Barbary and Morocco with the Rarities thereof and of the Villany of the English Renegadoes The dreadful Mutiny in the City of Naples about their Priviledges in 1647 and how Massanello a Fisher-boy ruled there for 10 days with greater Power than any King or Emperour An Account of several Nations destroyed or driven from their Habitations by Gnats Moles Pismires Sparrows Locusts Hares Conies Fleas Frogs Mice G●asshoppers Serpents Worms and other inconsiderable Creatures The Tragical Deaths of John and Cornelius de Wit at the Hague in Holland The strange Revolution in Portugal in 1640. The woful Deaths of the Emp. of China his Wife and Daughter in 1640 Remarks on the Life and Death of Sir W. Rawleigh with his last Speech and Behaviour on the Scaffold with abundance of other Remarkable Instances of various kinds some of them being lively described in Picture for their better Illustration Price One Shilling II. ADmirable Curiosities Rarities and Wonders in England Scotland and Ireland or an account of many remarkable persons and places and likewise of the battels sieges prodigious Earthquakes tempests inundations thunders lightnings fires murders and other considerable occurrences and accidents for many hundred years past and among others The Preaching of K. Hen. 3. to the Monks at Winchester The manner of the horrid murther of King Edward 2. The battle of Bosworth and the miserable death of Crook-backt Richard The beheading of the L. Cromwel and the E. of Essex with their last Speeches The Rebellion of the Papists in Cornwal c. against the Common Prayer in King Edw. 6. time and the K. letter to them The Rebellion under Kett the Tanner and his Laws Ordinances in the Oak of Reformation near Norwich The Association in Q. Eliz. time The proceedings against Mary Q. of Scots Mother

such a destruction as is impossible to bed●scribed and at present 't is not throughly known what damage it hath done upon the eighth of this Moneth it pleased God not by any extraordinary rains from Heaven to our thinking to open the Mountains like Fountains and to cause the Seaso to swell that in less than four hours it overflowed the Town throughout sixteen foot high which prevented us not only from saving our Goods but also with great hazard of our lives have we escaped yet many lost their Lives with great destruction both of the Houses and Walls For my own part I feared my life for my house trembled under me extreamly so that not only my self but my whole Family had been destroyed had it continued but a small time longer though the Water ebbed not for Twenty four hours Many Iron Mills were destroyed many Thousand Loads of Charcoal were carryed away many bags of Wool spoiled All their Shops with their Goods were much damaged God knows the trouble we underwent and still I am every day in the mud half my height looking after my Goods and am fain to keep many men digging to find them and am looking out for bread to maintain my Family a little Chicken costs us two shillings in Spanish Plate In brief neither Horse Mule Hog nor any other Living Creature that goes upon the ground hath escaped drowning but only such as fled to the tops of the Mountains The destruction and losses of ●his Town are unspeakable the very pavement and ground being carryed away at least Ten Foot deep and the River hath altered its Chanel The first work that we now set upon by command of Authority is to throw away the Fish which the water brought with it which being tainted smells so abominably that we fear it will bring the Plague amongst us but we hope by to morrow night to throw it all into the River and thereby be rid of this stink and our next work must be to cleanse the River LXXII In 1652 There was a great Eclipse of the Sun and Two Eclipses of the Moon A Two handed Sword was seen in the Air in Cheshire and Armies of men encountring each other appeared in the North a Comet was visible in the Signs Gemini and Taurus from December 11 to the 30. This year the English subdued Scotland and beat the Dutch at Sea They beat the French at Sea this year also The English Parliament firnamed the Long are turned out of Doors by their own Army In 1653 Oliver Cromwell a private Gentleman by Birth but then General of the Army assumes the Government of Great Britain by the Title of Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland The King of the Romans and the Pope in two years after dye strange and unheard of Alterations in Law and Government here in England new Courts of Justice Council of State Major Generals In 1654 was another Eclipse of the Sun and an Earthquake in the West of England Apparitions are visible in the Air in the North of England A very great Rain falls in Bohemia At this time the English take Jamaica and make War with Spain The English and Swedes unite In 1655. Castles Cities and Towns appear in the Air in England and seem to be besieged the different Actions and Gestures of Men both Commanders and Souldiers being plainly visible This year Cardinal Guisi is made Pope by the Title of Innocent the 10. The Polanders are routed by the Swedes In 1656 An Earthquake happened in Cheshire doing much harm sinking the Ground and rending up many Trees by the Roots to the great damage of the Countrey In November a fiery Dragon was seen in the Air in Scotland This year the English land in Flanders and take Mardike from the Spaniards they become angry thereat and Wars between them grow high The King of Denmark was twice invaded by the King of Sweden There fell such abundance of Rain at Vienna in Germany that the River Danubius swelling above its banks the violence of the Waters broke down all the Bridges and most of their Mills Yea the Water came into their Suburbs called The Jews Suburbs drowning many Persons and carrying away a very great number of Cattel and did so great mischief to the Countrey that the loss was thought inestimable there being sixteen Towns and Villages swept away by the Flood Gadbury de Comet LXXIII In 1658 A great Whale came up to Greenwich near London a thing seldom known before This year Dunkirk was taken by the English Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Heuit being condemned by an High Court of Justice as they called it were beheaded at Towerhill and Sept. 3. following which used to be a great day of Triumph in Olivers Court for two great Victories at Dunbar and Worcester was turned into a day of Mourning by the Death of their Protector who dyed about 4 or 5 a Clock that day and Richard Cromwel confidently succeeds him in the Government as if it had been his just due Nay some People in England send such sugred Addresses to him that he believed himself to be what they flatteringly stiled him The King of Sweden loses much this year and dyes In 1659 there was a very great Inundation in Holland which overflowed Thirty Six Thousand Acres of Ground Also a great Eclipse of the Sun in Scorpio November 4. Lofty and strange unwonted Winds In May 1659 the Long Parliament returned and turned out Richard Cromwell but were soon after turned out themselves by Lambert and the Army A Committee of safety is set up The L. General Monk being troubled to behold the Confusions of the English Proceedings marched out of Scotland and after the Committee of Safety was fallen brings in the secluded Members of the Long Parliament who soon after dissolve themselves and call another Parliament who restore His Royal Majesty King Charles 2. to His just Rights and Priviledges whom God preserve with a Long and Happy Reign over us Gadbury of Prodigies LXXIV In 16●0 Feb. 20. At Dantzick in Poland when the Sun was going down there were seen seven Suns together very distinctly in the Heavens three of them coloured and three white besides the True Sun it self about which was a Circle much like a Rainbow In 1661. Jan. 28. There is a Relation that near Worsup in Nottinghamshire there was an appearance of a gallant Troop of Horse marching which a Justice of Peace having notice of related to a Person of Honour thinking them to be real Men and Horses but upon a strict inquiry it was concluded to be only an Apparition The same Relation says about that time there happened a strange and dreadful storm of Hail at Northampton and fire mingled with the hail in some places and that it did run upon the ground in great sheets of Fire for a considerable way together It fell upon some part of Wellinborough Town in Northamptonshire Upon February 18. this year very early in the morning began a