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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05284	Strange newes of a prodigious monster borne in the towneship of Allington in the parish of Standish in the Countie of Lancaster, the 17. day of Aprill last, 1613. Testified by the reuerend diuine Mr. W. Leigh, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word at Standish aforesaid.		1613 (1613)	STC 15428; ESTC S107360	5,408	16

STRANGE NEWES of a prodigious Monster borne in the Towneship of Adlington in the Parish of Standish in the Countie of Lancaster the 17. day of Aprill last 1613. Testified by the Reuerend Diuine Mr. W. LEIGH Bachelor of Diuinitie and Preacher of Gods word at Standish aforesaid Printed by I.P. for S.M. and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Ball. 1613. STRANGE NEWES of a prodigious Monster borne in the Towneship of Adlington in the Parish of Standish in the Countie of LANCASTER MAN at the first losing of his Innocencie lost also his place and contracted a heauy curse both to himselfe and to his posteritie The Earth it selfe innocent of his crime was accurst for his sake for whome it was created and brought forth thornes bryers and stinking weedes where before it was full of pleasure and delight and so had continued if man had continued in his first creation Now the Earth brought forth Monsters and ougly shapes strange and full of terror The heauens them selues changed the frame of their beautie putting forth fiery meteors blazing comets and other prodigious sights breeding wonder and amazement Nature suffering violence by sinne peruerted her order producing strange birthes in preposterous shapes and all grew out of frame and sinne being the cause of all brought forth the effects of all which seruing as punishments betwixt the Iustice of God and the vnrighteousnesse of Man hath neuerthelesse but corrected not rectified Man that continuing in sinne findes the continuance of punishment and yet with obdurate heart growes from bad to worse getting by ●ustome an incorrigible habit of sinning All Creatures but Man haue continued in the kinde and nature of the first Creation The Sunne the Moone the Starres and euery Planet in his seuerall orbe or Sphere haue continued their order to the glory of their Creator euer since the day of their first Creation The fowles beasts and fishes in the Ayre Earth and Sea and euery other vnsensible Creature haue continued in their kinde to the glory of their great Maker Only Man miserable Man wretched Man whom God hath made according to his owne Image and hath indued with reason and vnderstanding onely he degenerates committing sinnes haynous and detestable in the sight of his Creator which doth many times so incense the wrath of the most high God against vs that Ayre Earth and Sea doe many times produce Monsters of ougly and most horrid shapes to signifie vnto vs the ouglinesse of sinne in the eyes of that pure essence Neuer was the world so wicked as it is now for it thriues in ill as it decayes in Age. It is the worst world saith an old Man that euer was and the best that euer will be No maruell if Nature grow out of kinde in the procreation of children when men vnnaturally goe out of kynde in the Actes of sinning Forbidden sinnes are most of all practised and sinnes committed that are not to be named So deepe hath Mans iniquity descended that it hath brought mishapen formes and deuises out of hell and it hath againe soared so high that it hath brought downe vengeance from heauen This causeth the Earth to bring forth prodigious Monsters so farre from the faire frame of Nature that they make Nature her selfe afraid to looke vpon them in whom shee findes her lawes and order to haue beene violated Neuer Countrey hath brought forth more then this of England and that of late yeeres which haue beene so prodigious that they haue brought horror to the looker on and haue also proued certaine predictions foregoing many notable euents The Sea cast forth and horrid Monster of a strange shape and bignesse vpon the Coast of Cornewall in the beginning of that fatall yeere Eighty Eight when the Spanish fleete soone after frighted England with a dangerous Inuasion euen to the vtter extirpation of the English name out of this Land had not Almighty God with his high hand of grace and glory made preuention returning the Spanish purposes vpon them selues The Island of Lecale in Ireland within the County of Downe produced an hidious Monster bearing the shape both of a Man and a beast whose eyes sparkling like fyer and his voyce sounding harsh and shrill farre from the common strayne gaue certaine foresignifications of those troubles that the yeere following beganne to vexe both the kingdomes of England and Ireland in that fearefull yet memorable warre of Tyrone that in few yeeres after prooued so fatall to both Nations that it brought wretchednesse not onely to the people then liuing but hath also prepared misery for the Child yet vnborne as is too well knowne by the miserable death and slaughter not onely of the common sort of people but also by the lamentable ouerthrowes and slaughters of many great and honorable Personages famous in blood and quality that by that vnlucky warre and other fatall accidents depending thereupon found vtter ruyne and destruction not onely to the incessant griefe of their owne particular families and dependancies but also to the generall losse sorrow of all the English Nation which warre monstrous warre for so I may call it when the body against the head the subiect against the Prince shall rebelliously conspire God neuer gaue vnto the world a more memorable example either in what vnsurety stands the state of any Name or Nation or what vnhappy successe followes such vnnaturall attempts or finally what end followes such bloody and despiteous cruelly as both the head and principall members of that Irish faction that bloody and horrid warre doe at this day endure as appeareth in the present state and condition of the Originall of that monstrous warre bloody Tyrone himselfe and other his Associates who hauing made by their Attaynders forfeitures and confiscations both of lands and goods doe now wander vp and downe Spayne Italy and other Countryes poore forsaken wretched miserable and hated of all the world There was another Monster produced in Antwerpe with foure hands and Armes two heads and two bodies ioynd in one backe not much vnlike to this Monster wee are now to write of and this happened in the yeare foregoing the beginning of those troubles of the low Countryes which the matchlesse cruelty of Rome and Spayne hath plagued with vnspeakeable miseries But aboue all that hideous monster bred in Russia not aboue fiue yeeres since with three paire of hands foresignifying that miserable warre that since hath happened betwixt the three kingdomes Russia otherwise called Muscouia Poland and Swethland vnder the Raignes of Demetrius Emperor of Russia Sigismond King of Poland and Charles King of Swethland the fame whereof will neuer dye so long as the memory of those kingdomes states endure It is credibly reported that neere Lirpoole in Lancashire about a Tweluemoneth since a childe was borne both monstrous in shape and strange in accident It is fresh in memory though it liued not aboue three dayes But I stay too long in matters though