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A83979	England's new vvonders or Four strange and amazing relations that have lately come to pass in England I. A strange and wonderfull account of one Mary Blackstone, near Hull in York-shire, who after ten years barrenness, was with child of a [mo]nstrous birth, and delivered after wo [sic] years going of it in having 3 heads, each an eye in the forehead, serpents twisting about each neck, 4 arms, and 4 legs, each 10 fingers and toes on the hands and feet; the privities of male and female. With the examination of the mother by the miller, what answer she [ga]ve, her prayer and advice to all women. Not to wish for things God sees not convenient to give lest fearfull punishments overtake them, with the [...] for her funeral sermon, before she dyed, and the substance of the sermon. By D. Boase. [I]I. An account of a mighty serpent, and the appearing of a terrible fiery serpent, at [...] Bedfordshire. ... [I]V. An account of two enemies fighting in the [...] in Bri[t]any in France. All very terrible and wonderful. Licensed according to print.		1697 (1697)	Wing E3003A; ESTC R231212	5,783	18

ENGLAND'S New VVonders OR Four Strange and Amazing Relations That have lately come to pass in England I. A strange and Wonder●ull Account of one Mary Blackstone near Hull in York-shire who after ten Years Barrenness was with Child of a M●nstrous Birth and de●ivered after ●wo Years going of it it h●ving 3 Heads each ●n Eye in the F●rehead Serpents twi●ing about each Neck 4 Arms and 4 Legs each 10 Fingers and To●s on the H●nds and Feet the Privities of Male and Female With the Examination of the Mother by the Mi●ister what answer she ●●ve her prayer and Advice to all Women Not to wish for ●hing● God sees not Conveni●n● to g●ve least fearfull punishment ●vertake them With the T●x● sh● chos● for her Funeral Sermon befor● she dyed ●nd th● substance of the Sermon By D. Bo●se ●I An Acc●●nt of a mighty Tempest and the ●ppearing of a ●errible Fiery Serpent at Laightown Buz●●d 〈◊〉 Bed●ordshire ●II An ●ccount of a mighty Storm of Hail ●ear Sta●ford in Northampton shire which destroy'd many Cattle ●●d Fowl wou●d●d diver●…●●op●e cause● great ●nundation that ●●●●●oyed several Mils much Corn and other matters some of th● … n●s being 9 or 10 inches in Compass ●V An Account of two ●rmies fighting in the 〈◊〉 in Bri●any in France All very terrible and wonderful Licensed according to Order ●ONDON Printed for J. Blare at the Loking Glass on Lond●n-Bridg● and Reprinted at ABERDEEN by IOHN FORBES Anno DOM. 1697. CHAP. I. A Strange and Wonderfull Account of a Monsterous Child with 3 Heads 4 Arms 4 Leggs and Eyes in its Forehead ten Fingers and as many Toes on each Hand and Foot born near Hull in York-shire Of the Mothers Confession Prayer and Funerall Sermon c. STrange and wonderfull are many things we frequently see and hear of to the astonishment and amazing of Mankind Yet if we rightly consider why GOD sends or suffers such things in the world they may turn to our advantag● to warn us from going on in sinfull ways and flee from the wrath that is to come Where str●nge Prodigies or Portants are manifested they are taken usually for Fore-runners of strange Events and stranger then what I am about to relate that have wery lately happened are attested for a credible truth by persons of known integrity I may presume have been hardly heard of in any of the Modern ages of the world but to come near to my purpose and in order the First that I shall present you with is a strange and amazing Account of a Prodigeous Monsterous Birth which is well attested and communicated to us in the following manner One Mary Blackstour being married to a Person at a place near Hull in Yorkshire not being past Child-bearing but in youthfull brisk years was passionately desirous to have a Child but God with-held from her the fruit of the Womb which made her angry and often use unbecoming expressions envying those that had Children and so she continued about ten Years though her husband was an active man and likely enough for the bussiness of Generation At the end of which time having taken some provocatives and other supposed helps her belly began to rise but sometimes again would sink all on a sudden Yet nevertheless she had a strong conceit she was with Child and would not be perswaded from the belief by judicious grave Matrons who took it for a windy spu●gy or watry mole which sometimes happens and is called a false Conception Yet the usual time of Womens going being expired and no sign or Labour of Delivery appearing she began to grow somewhat ashamed of her ●oastings and imprudently uttered rash wishes or Vows as she afterward confessed to the giving God a just off●nce to inflict some judgement on her Yet her belly continued to grow big and she felt strange pains unusual sweats and faintings and so it continued near two Years so that she fa●cied she had got a Tinpany or was so believed by others when indeed it was no otherwise for at the end of two Years from the beginning of her first disorder and fancying she was with child she fell into heavy pains as a Women in travel but greater and more unusual this continued some time without any app●rent hopes of delivery till the 4th o● May last 1696. On this day several Women being with her she was with extraordinary pains and labour delivered of a monsterous Child to the affrightment of all that were present having three Heads wonderously mishappen each having one Eye standing in the fore-head and a small twisting thing in the form of a Serpent about each neck It had four distinct Arms and Hands and on the hands each ten Fingers though not quite so open or distinct some being less in proportion then usual to others It had also four Legs and four Feet and tho but one body yet there appeared seams in it as if two or more wer joined or were incorporated into one the Feet had a proportion of Toes to the Fingers upon the Hands It had likeways the privy Members of Male and Female and was exposed to the view of many Eminent persons who came divers Miles to see it It was heard to cry from all the Heads at one and the same time and many other Observations were taken of it The M●ther by the hard pains of her Travel and this Affrightment Sorrow and some other concurrents fell into a weak Condition so that her uprising being dispaired of she desired a Minister might be sent for which accordingly was done to pray with her and to give her Spiritual Consolation which was done And divers Questions was asked her as whether she was any ways sensible how she might offend GOD that might cause him thus for to afflict her with so Monsterous an Issue She replyed unto this with a faint languishing Voice that she believed she had provoked the Divine-Goodness because that she had been too passionatly desirous of Children and now like Rachel had brought forth a Benoani the child of her sorrow For she had often desired that she might have a Child though she were made an Example or suffered never so much upon that account Which she believed now had fallen justly upon her And thereupon she fell instantly into this PRAYER O Lord God of infinit Mercies forgive the sins of my rashness and vain desires blot out my iniquities and lay not my sins unto my charge but give me patience in all my sufferings And grant me O Lord if it shall be thy good pleasure for to restore me to my former Health that I may live Vprightly Soberlie and in a sincere Godlie Life more then heretofore I have done But O Lord however it shall please thee to deal with me either in Life or Death I do freely and chearfullie resign up my Soul and Body to thy most Mercifull Disposall and through the Mercies and Mediation of thy onely Son Iesus Christ my ever blessed Lord and Saviour Amen

Then she Exhorted all that came to visite her especially Women to be contented with what GOD was pleased to send or bestow on them Not to be too vehement in their desires after any thing this world can afford but keep all their wishes and desires within bounds that they may be pleasing to Almighty God who knows best what to give and what to restrain from us And not like Rachell to cry our when God restrains the fruit of the Womb give me Children or I die which in some measure was now her c●se And she be●ieved proceeded from her rash wishes and vehement desire after some Children desiring for what had happened after death for that ●er almost only failing and what else had happened calling God to witness she had lived chastly and honestly all her life-lifetime as well si●gl● as in ●he Marriage And then finding death approaching she desired a Sermon might be preached at her Funeral for to exhort all to be carefull how they spend their days in Pride Luxury and Wantonness least they too sadly repent it in the end Appointing it from the Words of our Saviour Luke 15.18.19 I will arise and go to my Father and will say unto him Father I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy Son make me as one of thy hired Servants From these words it was inferred that it is a great sin to fly from God as the Prodigal Son did from his Father on presumption and hopes to live ryotously always But when this is done and we see we are straightned and brought to misery under Heavens afflicting Hand and that our strength and beautie fades then it is not too late For the Prodigal Son after this was received and that not without Rejoicing That we ought not to be however too confident in any thing as thinking there is any worth in us that GOD should have so much regard to us as to t●ke us into his Favour in our greatest need and necessity When we have squandred away the Prime o● our days and in serving our own Lusts But that we should seek him early that he may be found of us and foresake all things for the Love of Christ that when we come to dye we may live with him Eternally He exhorted the good Women present not so much to desire Children as to consider when they have them to bring them up in the fear of the Lord Rachel was passionat when she found ●hé bare no Children to Iacob and so for that she said Give me Children or I dye And indeed she had her last Son Benjamin to her sorrow for in her Child bed she dyed And thus it might be the case of this woman now departed And so conclud all with good and sober Advice to leave off our sins and follies and turn to God with all speed that he may receive us into the Everlasting Arms of Love Amen CHAP. II. An Account of a Terrible Tempest near Laighton-Buzard in B●dfordshire May 13 And a strange Fire in the shap of a Serpent that drew up the Water out of Shipton brook AT sundry timer strange firie Meteors have happened in the Air and very near the Earth But I think not in this manner as I have heard of in any story and therefore take of it the following Relation On the 12th of May a great Tempest happened accompanied with prodigious Rain Thunder and Lightning more terrible then has been known for many years before which occasioned the next day violent floods of Water by coming down the Hills and overflowing the Brooks and Rivers But that which is most remarkable is that after a prodigeous clap of Thunder about Noon there broke out as from a cloud a long stream of Fire which appeared greater as it came nearer to the Earth forming it self into the shape of a prodigeous Firie Serpent that appeared the Tail dragging on the ground making a noise like a Whirl-wind sindging the Grass in its way but that which formed the Head and upper part was elevated as high as the highest Trees or Laightown Steeple and in the body of the firie Serpent something oculd be seen and plainly discerned working as if so be it had been cased up in a glass whilst a very terrible smoak ascended and still it moved on to the great ter●our and amazement of the people till it came unto Shipton Brook where the Tail dragging on the Water caused a terrible hissing and spouted up the Water a great height dividing as it were the Brook in its passage over and the evaporated water fell down in small Rain a great compass and immediatly it Thundered and a terrible Storm ensued in which this body of fire dissipated and vanished This is arrested by divers who say they were Eye-witnesses of i● and much terrified at so dreadfull a sight which had it appeared in the night time it would have been far more dreadfull and amazing CHAP. III. An account of a terrible Storm of Hail the Stones as big as Goose Eggs near Stanford in Northamptoun-shire killing divers Cattle and wounding many People With a mighty Flood making very great dammage ON the 16th of May prodigeous black Clouds began to gather which over the greater part of this and other Countries adjacent caused a darkness that had it not been seen at that time a day so that people were apprehensive of a violent Storm approaching and happy it was for many that they had such Notice for immediatly the Thunder began to bellow and the lightning to rend the Clouds and with prodigeous flashes enlighten the Air and run along the Ground when immediatly some great drops of Rain fell which was followed by prodigeous Hail-stones which wounded divers that were hasting for shelter killed a great many Fowls and many small Cattle Some of these stones being nine or ten inches in compass of divers forms some ragged some four squair some oval long or round and some again in the shapes of divers instruments falling so violently that they beat divers young Trees in pieces greatly damnadging the Corn Pease c. and cut off branches of long standing Trees thicker than ones finger lying in such prodigeous Quantities in the ways for a great many hours afterward unmelted so that the Horse-Carts Coaches and Waggons especially in the narrow ways could not pass without great defficultie The Storm continued about an hou● and damnified a great many Buildings by beating off the Tiles and Thatch some scores of Pigeons Rooks Daws c. have been found dead in the fields killed by the fall of the Stones and many Horses Cows and Oxen were so bruised and wounded that many of them are expected not to live as also several people who were too far from substantial shelter or took no timely Warning to get to it And no sooner were these prodigeous Stones melted for the Sun shined out hot a little after but the Water came pouring down from the Hills into the Valleys and Plains so prodigeously that many Sheep Swine and other Cattle were swept away and driven violently by the Torrent into Meadows Rivers and other D●pths and there perished Several Mills were t●rown down that stood on Rivulets and some people is said to be drowned in them and for a time there was a fearfull Inundation which has done much harm to the Grass and Corn the like for suddenness and Violence not hav●ing happened in these parts for many Ages CHAP. IV. A dreadfull Account of two Armies seen fighting in the Air near Nantz in Britany or France STrange and amazing things in this nature have been seen in Countries near some Change and Catastrophy to warn them to a timely Repentance of their sins when the Judgements are hanging over their heads before the destruction of Jerusalem Armies with great blasts of thunder and lightning were seen coming towards it and men on horseback as we find in the Macchabees runing on each other with firie spears launces many other histories are full of such prodigies such a thing happened in Enland before the unnatural Civil wars broke out in 1641 and in Germanie it has often happened and fore-run some great calamity But now it seems it is come into France near to the place afoeesaid As Letters from the Marquess D' Laverden and others sent to the French Court testifie viz. That two Armies were seen fighting over the Heath of Pontive whilst a great Body of reserved men stood still That the Ingagement lasted two hours to the great Terror and astonishment of the Spectators and then vanished away and it was observed the Colours of the one appeared all white the other of a bloody colour that former had the Sun in its colours which vanished first and the Truth of the Story being very well attested it furnishes abundance of matter of Speculation to all and there b●ing an account of it printed in France upon the peopl●s Conjectures that the vanishing of the Colours with the Sun In it signified the defeat of Lewis his great Undertakings for the Inv●sion of England and further concluding that the end of the War would be fatal to their Nation the thing was surpressed and the Printer imprisoned but that stopt not the murmour and fears of the Vulgar who being weary of oppression by Taxes Long for a Peace FINIS