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A72929	A treatise of blazing starres in generall As well supernaturall as naturall: to what countries or people soeuer they appeare in the spacious world.; Super huis anni post Christum natum M.D.XXXI. & quolibet alio cometa exploratio. English	Nausea, Friedrich, d. 1552.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1618 (1618)	STC 18413.7; ESTC S123128	25,130	36

of that most Christian Emperour Carolus Magnus A Blazing star appeared before the death of Carolus Magnus The Sarazens assaulted Italy and with violence of sword and warlike Engines ouercame and preuayled not without the ruine of many a beautifull building and shedding of much bloud In the yeare of our Lord 1●84 there appeared a Blazing starre which did portend a manifest shew of much mischiefe and misery Bloudy battels which fellowed after the appearing of a Blazing flame for in the yeare of our Lord 1302. next ensuing that memorable and bloudy battell of Flanders was fought which to the Frenchmen principally ministred occasion of many a lamentable Alas for in that battell the floure of the French Armie I meane the chiefest in place and countenance and the gemme of all their glory went to wracke suffering death no lesse ignominiously then tyrannically And after that Rodulph the Emperour making siege against Verona sustained great losse of his best appointed Souldiers the Switzers whose bloud embrued the blades of their enemies their bodyes lying vpon the ground groueling and senselesse and the Emperour himselfe fighting against Albert D. of Austria was flain only Emperour elected but not crowned Now what manifolde miseries and mischiefes A Blazing star shooting vpwards what afterwards ensued a Blazing starre which shooteth vpward the head hanging downeward doth betoken may soone be perceyued known by the experience of a Blazing starre which appeared in the West and tooke his course towards the North which Starre was séene in the yeare of our Lord 1363. The woes whereof this Starre gaue foreknowledge fell vpon the Frenchmen to their no smallsmart and lamentable vnlukinesse For in a foughten field against the Turkes howbeit out of the compasse of the French dominion they were discomfited and ouerthrowne a hundred thousand of them slaine with the sword among which number was the Duke of Burgundy who with the rest lost his life without recouery Not long after which infortunate conflict namely in the yeare of our Lord 1406. Lodouicke Duke of Clarence and brother to the French King was murthered at Paris most trayterously and frandulently the losse of whose life was death and destruction to a great number And that I may grow to an end who doth not remember what grieuous calamities did follow the appearing of a Blazing starre in the yeare of our Lord a thousand foure hundred threescore and twelue in the Moneth of Ianuary ouer Colen Eastward to the terrour of the Beholders and astonishment of the bearers There followed hereupon in the Summer next and immediately ensuing a maruellous heate engendred euery where in the earth which was of such strength and vehemencie that in some places the first burst out and cast vp with it euen the very sand and grauell Hereupon followed not here and there but euery where battels and murthers mortall maladies loathsome sicknesses most noysome and infectious yea so horrible that I want witte eyther in writing to leaue them witnessed or by vtterance to make them manifest At which time also the right renowmed Charles Duke of Burgundie passed many warrelike aduentures and atchieued many a Martiall exployte to his no small commendation and encrease of deserued prayse notwithstanding the successe of battel is doubtfull and dangerous In the yeare of our Lord 1408. Further mischiefes which haue followed after Blazing starres there appeared a Blazing starre which as in fight it was wonderfull and terrible so it betokened mischiefe no lesse innumerable then either to heare sée or recount is most lamentable For not many dayes after Luycke fell and certayne men to the number of 40. were cruelly flaine About that time also the Prussians entring battell against the King of Poland were foyled a slaughter the like not heard of made of them in the conflict At the same time also was the Councel at Pisa dissolued by a schisme most dānable the 〈◊〉 their conuocation and méeting being for the making and confirming of vnitie Thereabout also began the Church to be yll appayde and so stand in hazard of hauocke whose present assistent Sigismund the King of Hungarie shewed himselfe to be in such sort with valiancie of spirit that he might meritoriously ●halenge to be sirnamed The most Christian King Thus farre touching the euils yea the heapes of euils which blazing starres haue protended obserued by experience and tryall to be true by the euent falling out of many misfortunes The conclusion of this Chapter which both long agoe and also of late haue happened It remaineth that we know whether they bée not foretokens also of some good which although many vtterly deny yet neuerthelesse reade our further iudgement Whether Blazing Starres doe not as well betoken good as ill CHAP. XII HAuing before declared by reasons not a few and proued also by examples of veritie and trueth that blazing starres for most part are prefignificant shewes and tokens of some mischiefe and euill Blazing stars supernaturall signes sent from God me thinkes I heare one asking me this question Whether Blazing starres are not tokens of good as they are signes of euill To whom I make this resolution First so farre foorth as blazing starres be supernaturall there seemeth in this matter to rest no doubt because Almighty God in the vnsearchable profunditie of his wisedome is wont by the appearing of Stars to giue signes to his beloued seruants whom no doubt he hath fore elected to saluation as wel of ioyful newes as also of heauy tidings The Rainbow a perpetuall assurance of Gods faithfull promise For hath he not by the rising of the Rainebow in the clouds of heauen sealed security and want of feare to the world from being drownd as somtimes it was in the dayes of our great Ancients Did he not by the retrocession and backeward going of the Sun contrary to the order of his course signifie vnto Ezechias that his life shold be prolonged and the number of his dayes were augmented Did he not also signifie vnto all nations that the light was come into the World which should shine in darknesse namely Iesus Christ to bee borne for the saluation of all people which thing hée would haue testified by the appearing of a new Orientall Starre visible to the eyes of the Wisemen and gloryously glistering Euen so doubtlesse there is no cause why the fight of a Blazing Starre should not bréede in vs Blazing stars naturall may betoken some good as well hope of some good as feare of some ill according to the place and time where when it appeareth since it is sayde Feare not the signes of heauen which the Gentiles feare because the lawes of the people are vaine Why then should we stand in feare of those things which haue not in them power eyther to do good or harm Again so far forth as Blasing Stars are naturall it is not to be doubted but that the appearing of them may portend and foreshew some good which is

That as Blazing Starres are diuers so are their effect and euils which they signifie not all one but sundry and differing And forsomuch as the variety or diuersitie of them is to bée considered therfore it is necessary that the effects which follow such causes bée accordingly coniectured Some holde opinion that it is to be marked which way Blazing starres shoote their light The obseruation vsed of some at the appearing of Blazing stars because say they that part of the earth seemeth to bee threatned towardes which the Comet casteth his beames thickest and most directly Againe it is to be noted from what starre they receyue theyr force and whence procéedeth their influence what things they resemble and represent in likenes and in what places they appeare Furthermore to touch the effects of Blazing starres experiences manifold and innumerable haue sealed this for a trueth The effects which haue followed Blazing stars proued true by experience that sometimes they signifie barrennesse of the earth sometimes the sicknesse of the plague and pestilence somtimes dearth and scarsitie of victuals sometimes great windes and tempests sometimes extreame heate sometimes Earthquakes sometimes the flowing of waters beyond their bounds and banks to the drowning and losse of the land sometimes seditions insurrections cruell commotions tumults and battels sometimes chaunge of Kings and Kingdoms alterations of common wealthes and such slaughters as seldome are séene with many more calamities infinite and innumerable insomuch that Lucane the Poet thought it no matter of doubt but of assured certainety to call a Blazing starre such a Starre as changed the state of Empires and wrought the alteration of principalities His verses follow in this order Strange Starres were seene in darkesome nights The Heauen was on a flame And flakes of fire like burning brands Sore sights in skies did frame The fearefull Starre which blazeth bright And spreades his beames abroad And changeth Kingdomes in the World In th' ayre aboue abode Sundry examples and testimonies declaring the diuers and manifold mischiefes which haue followed the appearing of Blazing starres CHAP. XI LEast any man should thinke this méere fabulous and a very forgery because I haue sayde thus much and that vyon the opinion and authority of other Writers that diuers Blazing stars presignifie and giue a forewarning of diuers mischiefs and euils like to come it seemeth vnto me an enterprise worth my labour to set downe in a few words and the selfe same agréeing with the true reports of Histories the assertion aboue mentioned not to be imaginacions or faigned Wherein it shall not séeme a matter depending vpon necessity to runne through all particular examples and to make an vniuersall repetition of testimonies from the Worlds Creation which passeth the capacity of my wit to comprehend because they excéede in multitude But it shall rather be sufficient and much more profitable out of many to gather a fewe and such indeede as Authors most worthy of credite haue set downe in their Works and Treatizes And first of all to beginne with the noblest Writers and best approued A short enumeration or rehearsall of mischiefes which followed vpon the appearing of Blazing starres Who is ignorant that after the appearance of a Comet in the time of Iulius Caesar not onely ciuill warres followed in manner most lamentable but also the death and murthering of Iulius Caesar his owne person which was most miserable who being 56. yeares of age was assalted and set vpon in a conspiracie of 60. Princes and more among whome were C. Cassius Marcus and D. Brutus and being gored through and flasht with 23. wounds in the Court of Pompeius despitefully perished whereof P. Virgilius Lucanus Plinie Suetonius Appianus Plutarchus and diuers other Writers of great authority are witnesses What should I linger long in the repetition of those strange tempests of snowes haples inundations of waters and other like calamities that followed the appearing of the same Blazing Starre Which F. Horatius doth not nakedly describe but singularly set downe with a kinde complaynt Who knoweth not what an vnspeakeable desolation and wonderful ouerthrow of Hierusalems City followed after the appearing of a certaine Blazing Star which was séene in the ayre Iosephus and Eusebius faithfully affirming no lesse by the space of a whole yeare burning with flames of lamentable destruction The selfe same miserable massacre and desolation followed shortly after this Blazing Starre which the Lord himselfe the Father of all mercy and Iudge of all reuengement did not onely foretell many yeares ere it came to passe but also wept for very sorrow of heart as he was prophesying to Ierusalem her sharpe Visitation For our Sauiour Christ as the Euangelists testifie beholding the City wept ouer her and sounded as it were in her eares this sorrowfall sentence If thou haddest known saith he in that thy day those things which belonged to thy peace and now are hidden from thine eyes c. Did not the death of that most godly and religious Emperour Constantine follow and issue the appearing of a Blazing Starre A Blazing starre appeared before the Emperour Constantine which was séene Ann. Dom. 304. being of an vnaccustomed bignes of no lesse horror to behold And did not therupon likewise follow an excéeding dangerous insurrection in the Empire wherin among many murthers the Emperor Constantius was spoyled of his life in the Castle of Helena not farre from Spaine In the yeare 444. a Blazing starre was séene which as it gaue prefigurations foretokens of afterclaps so did there ensue most miserable slauters calamityes specially in France and not long after Collen being assalted besieged of the Hunnes was ransackt spoiled and made euen in a maner with the ground and the most Catholicke Emperour Martian was in a conspiracy of his own subiects contrary to the religious oath of alleagiaunce murthered and made away at Constantinople After the appearing of a Starre in the yeare of our Lord 584 there followed such an inundation of waters in euery place of the land that it was auerred and beléeued a second deluge or vniuersall floud to haue béene prepared for the drowning of the whole World After that ensued in Italie so hote a pestilence that within the compasse of a little time many thousands dyed in manner most lamentable Not long after that Rome tasted of the whippe A maruellous inundation of waters with other notable calamities for warned by a Blazing starre for the Lombards laying siege against it made hauocke thereof out of measure Vpon the tayle of which sharpe punishment there followed a worse for the Sarazens rose vp with sterne lookes and bending browes compelling the third part almost of the World which professed Christianity to fall to Apostasie and to take part with them in their damnable sect of diuelish Idolatry and detestable vngodlinesse In the yeare of our Lord eight hundred and thirtéene there was a Blazing star séene most strange and terrible whereupon insued the death