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A03363	A contemplation of mysteries contayning the rare effectes and significations of certayne comets, and a briefe rehersall of sundrie hystoricall examples, as well diuine, as prophane, verie fruitfull to be reade in this our age: with matter delectable both for the sayler, and husbandman, yea and all traueylers by sea and lande, in knowing aforehande, howe daungerous a tempest will succeede by the sight of the clowd coming ouer the head, and other matters fruitful to be read as shal appere in the table next after the preface. Gathered and englished, by Thomas Hyll.	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.	1574 (1574)	STC 13484; ESTC S117617	58,354	156

thundreth than lightneth signifieth raine to insue 8. The Sommer thundrings hapning at noone and at Euening is a note of raine to folow 9. If mightily thundring it then rayneth not yet doth it shewe raine comming for the more part and this hapneth according to the condition of the ayre and season of the yeare 10. Plynie affirmeth that if it shal thunder when Hennes doe sit that the Egges to perishe but this generally doe women of experience denie 11. Hermes an obseruer of celestiall matters wryteth that the thunders of Ianuarie to promise mightie windes and the aboundaunce of corne The thundring in February threatneth the death of manye and especially of the riche The thundring in the Moneth of March portendeth mightie windes firtylitie and populare battels The thunders of Aprill promise a good and ioyous yere The thundering in May thretneth famine and scarcitie The thunders of Iune signifie a fruitfull yéelde and the plentie of victuals The thunders of Iuly promise a plentifull increase of victuals but the scarcitie of fruites The thundring in August portendeth a prosperous estate of the common welth but many diseases and sicknesses The thunders of September signifieth firtilitie but the death of the Nobilitie The thundring in October pronounceth mightie windes with the scarcitie of fruites and victuals The thunders of Nouember promise the large increase of corne and ioy to men The thunders of December declare the aboundance of victuals and agréement of the people The learned Beda wryteth that if thunder be first heard comming out of the East quarter the same foresheweth before the yere go about or be ended the great effusion of bloud That if thunder first heard out of the West quarter then mortalitie and a grieuous plague to insue That if thunder be first heard out of the South quarter threatneth the death of many by shipwrack That if thunder be first heard out of the North quarter doth then portend the death of wicked persons and the ouerthrowe of many Other obseruations of the auncient that may be vsed of any that will without superstition as touching the thunder may a man further reade in my booke of the Myrrour of time Of that lightning named Fulgur what the same is and of the others IT is an exhalation kindled through the often agitation like to towe by which the matter séeketh issue which yet to the earth falleth not or the same is when the onely fyre sheweth So that the same is caused when the clowde is thinne and yéeldeth to the breaking forth of the fyre without noyse The lyke is that named Fulgetrum sauing that it sheweth weaker and of lesser light although many name the Fulgetrum to be the often repeatings togither of the fyre which the lyke are vsuall in Haruest That flashing much lyke a glistring light is the same which out of the kindled exhalation aryseth which by the sides of the clowde is forced and driuen forth Or it is the sodaine appearance through time of the subtill vapour and kindled running along by the ayre which is discerned before the thunder be heard and no marueyle in that the light is farre swifter than the noyse and the sight alwayes goeth before the hearing as by a like in the cutting of timber yet after nature is the light the later For the exhalation hote and drie is caried into the middle region of the ayre and before it higher assendeth of the vapour togither eleuated and forced into a thick clowde is the same compassed and included and when it can delate it selfe no more through the waterie and colde clowde it then wandreth about the whole clowde and séeketh issue forth which when it findeth not as disdayning breaketh then the clowde through which violent breaking forth is that noyse caused which we name the thunder and togither with that motion in which it wandred by the clowde and claue the clowde is the same kindled and when this sparseth the flame as it were abroad in the ayre then is it named Fulgur The difference betwéene the thunder and broade lightning is that the thunder is the selfe same noyse in the ayre which the vapour causeth running in the clowde and séeking issue forth But the broade lightning is the selfe same fyerie brightnesse which aryseth of the vapour issued and kindled For when it contended through the resistaunce and brake forth that flying away kindled the fyre The flashing lightning properly is none other than a brightnesse of the exhalation kindled and breaking forth of the clowde which shyneth abroade in the ayre But that named Fulgetrum is a lesser lightning and darcker flame in the aire So that the same is named Fulmen or the perillousser lightning when the whole exhalation kindled is sent downewarde But that weaker lightning named Fulgur is when the brightnesse onely of that exhalation kindled shyneth in the aire Thus Seneca reporteth in the first booke of naturall questions That the clowdes meanely smyting togyther cause the weake lightnings but the clowdes smyting togyther by a greater force cause the violent lightnings The diuersitie of colours in the lightning procéedeth of the diuersitie of matter in that one whiles whyte and cléere an other whyles yealow and darke and other whiles red and fumous or darke it appeareth euen as the dyuers colours that are discerned in the clowdes The whyte and cléere lightning procéedeth of the subtill and thinne vapour or of a thinne exhalation in a clowde ouer waterie whereof it sustaineth not a vehement heate and burning Hereof the bodyes which this toucheth doth it little or nothing burne so that more by beame than by the fyre doth it harme This sometymes is profitable to fruites and a little to the leaues of Trées if it hapneth in an apt place and time The darcke yealow lightning procéedeth of a thinne and somewhat clammye fume in which the flame is shyning and portendeth a vehement heate and perillous fyre if the same especially be sent downewarde The red lightning is caused through a thicke clowde and the exhalation well fermented or mixed togither which brasteth forth with a terrible noyse in the swelling ayre The grosser vapour of this hardly kindled procureth a verie daungerous flame which euen through the middle of the raine forceth and worketh his fearefull properties This lightning many times setteth cities on fire and burneth euen into the earth water not preuayling or able to resist it such is the mightie force of this celestiall fyre that so violently and grieuously destroyeth The fumous and somewhat black lightning procéedeth of a verie earthly and obscure yet a matter mightily burning whose clowde in that it containeth very much of the viscous moysture is woont to fabricate or forme a black or yronnie stone which in the shot sent forth burneth hastilye mightie bodyes of trées and sundrie other most solide matters without shewe or signe left behinde yea these and other matters this cleaueth destroyeth and vtterly wasteth The lightnings in the night are playner and more apparant

clifts nor beating or shaking with the great floods of waters yet the sounder and faster any grounde of the earth is so much the more harmed at the shaking for so much it mightier shutteth in the exhalations and compelleth an inforcement in the cause The Ilands and the valleys are sildome molested with the Earthquake for so much as the partes of the earth in themselfe are pressed togither and are but a little porouse so that these cannot enter in An earthquake is sildome caused in moyst places for so much as the moysture hindreth or letteth the exhalation to come vnto strength of which the Philosopher reporteth that in the floodes of the Sea Pontus a lesse Earthquake to be caused for so much as the huge sea about cooleth the exhalations and on such wise letteth them In the sandie and grauily places as are the places Northerly farre sildomer is an Earthquake caused yea scarcely any Earthquake at all caused in those places for so much as the same grounde is a thinner earth and lesser solyde nor so thicke compact and that the fumes ascend by little and little without force How the ingendring is or of the maner of the ingendring of Earthquakes THe Earthquake is caused when the exhalations and vapours included in the caues and hollowe places or passages of the earth contende togither and by his nature séeke on highe to breake forth but through the earth close stopped not finding way by force shake the same and cause it to tremble and in the ende breake forth so that the earth oftentimes causeth eyther a gaping or déepe caue or goulfe or the same throwne vp on heigth after the maner of a hill or Mountayne of which great Mountayne● happen to be suncke and swallowed vp in a Goulfe as sundrie lyke we reade in the Hystories yea great waters and ryuers drunke vp and the course of waters chaunged and lande floodes caused in the mayne lande Or thus the earth contayneth in it selfe a much exhalation which it heating conceaueth through the fierie efficacie and vertue of the Sunne the Planets and fixed starres This spirite for that the same is subtill is most apt to be inforced So that when by it this drie spirite runneth included within the earth séeking issue is so by his force lifted vp and driuen from one hollownesse into another Of which this when for the solyde nature of the earth and stopped passages of the earth can not issue or passe forth procureth lightly and soone a trembling in it selfe caused through the beating and driuing back so that retayned this strongly moueth and shaketh the earth or séeking his waye and the spirite driuen by a narrow body of the earth laboreth with a most strong contention For into the proper and naturall place this contendeth to flie which through the mightie stopping letted of the compact earth is the same driuen backe into the earth which at the length laboureth to issue causing the same to tremble and casteth vp the earth ▪ in the breaking forth like to a hill vntil it be issued yea this sometimes cleaueth the same and openeth it in the issuing forth at two sides Aristotle vttereth other notes for after the earth beaten vp he reporteth that great windes to breath and flie vp and that fyre and ashes to be cast forth So that water not to be the special cause of the earthquake for the water should otherwise be still if the same were not blowne and driuen Nor such a swiftnesse or hastinesse of the trembling coulde be caused if so much could be procured in the waters swelling and that the earth could very often breake But it often breaketh not in the tremblings shakings of the earth Yet doth this pronounce the great plentie of vapours included in the caues of the earth driuen like windes by their force and agitation sparsed by certain places which when the same is caused it instructeth that those places to tremble thorowe the might of the vapours forced For it is manifest that the earth to be full of vapours the thundring or rumbling which is heard in the shaking of the earth is a note of the flying vapours And for so much as the vapours open the passages of the earth a water sometimes is shed out of the earth of which no such plentie consisteth or is in the great Mountaynes that might like smite them Howe so great a heape of earth of so thinne and light a body as the winde may be cast vp doth the Philosopher Aristotle here vtter by a similitude as in our bodies spirites included are cause of the tremblings or shakings and beating of the pulses euen so hapneth in the same earth when a great force of the vapours gathered mooue and shake it wyth their force What the finall causes are THe finall cause of an Earthquake is the signification verie sad heauie of matters and haps to come as of battels landfloodes mutation of Emperies the dearth of victuals c. For the Earthquakes alwayes pronounce great calamities as Plynie witnesseth where he reporteth that the Citie of Rome neuer trembled but that the same was a foreshewe of some happe to come or insue so that the Romanes curiously obserued the Earthquakes as the same is manifest in their Hystories Of the earthquake Cardanus reporteth that the earth to be cleaued through a vapoure and not to be doubted but that the same to prognosticate great sedicions Yea the great earthquakes denounce eyther a Battayle or the Plague or a Tirannicall oppression these also cause a dearth of corne and famine Yet the earthquakes somtimes threaten no other euils than the ouerthow of proper Cities and Townes and destruction or mortalitie of those persons which dwell in them These hitherto Cardanus The holy Scriptures vtter the same that in these motions the Lorde God exerciseth and sheweth his most seuere ire punishing with these the peoples sinnes by a iust iudgment vnlesse they spéedily repent For it is written in the seconde booke of Kinges and xxij Chapter that the ire of God was mooued and the earth trembled for so much as the Lorde God was angrie with them Euen so before the Turckes tooke Gréece for thrée whole dayes togither the Earthquake shooke the borders néere bounding and many buildings fell downe Before the Peloponesian Battayle the countrie of Laconia was so fearefully shaken with an Earthquake that whole townes fell and much people destroyed and ouerwhelmed in the fall of them Eutropius writeth that in the next yeare after the death of Paule the Apostle Laodicoea and Colossa were suncke with an Earthquake in which example both a punishment of the wicked was séene which contemned Paules doctrine and a signyfication of calamities to come on Asia bordering néere by and of the crueltie which Domitianus exercysed in the same part of the worlde when he compelled S. Iohn the Apostle to liue in exile The like hapned an Earthquake before the death of Theodosius the second which endured for sixe monethes

In the yeare of our Lorde 1555. were séene in the citie of Duringia thrée sunnes the tenth day of February in the same Duringia was a gaping open of the earth out of which came a mightie stinck which verie much molested the lookers on wyth the beating paines of the head yet certaine further examining the place obserued and sawe wythin that great clift straunge formes in the night and many great matters besides heard At Luneberge was séene this straunge sight in the ayre a great company of Souldiars at the right hande of which company stoode by an Aungell holding a fyrie sworde in his hande and a childe was there in presence among the people by a sodaine meanes who did earnestly exhort euery one to harty repentance affirming Gods iudgement at hand and to be the day of yre and the day of calamitie misery and that the same to be a verie great and bitter daye when he had thus exhorted the people he vanished sodainly awaye and out of sight so that no man after could tell where he became In this yeare hapned at Duringia the harde and daungerous birth of a woman who had a sore trauaile in the birth of hir childe for after long trauayles the chyld● brast forth with a great crack and noyse and deade borne after which issued great plentie of fyre which so harmed the yongling in the neather partes that blisters arose on the skinne so bigge swollen as an Egge in sight and hir owne face harmed with the fyre that fyre besides issuing forth of hir body infected the proper place with a Brimstony stinck In the Dukedome of Brunswike was a marueylous and straunge sight marked of many there which was on this wise A certaine husbandman which accustomed daylie to go vnto the wood to fetch wood home and drawing néere to the accustomed place of the wood at a certaine time sawe a farre off a great companie of horsemen which séemed to come ryding in great haste towarde the village This seing the husbandman returned for the great feare hastily backward againe and being come home so amased was demaunded the cause of hys hastie returning who answered that there were certaine companies of horsemen néere the towne approched but from whence they came or whether they would he could not say therfore greatly to be doubted said he that these newe guestes will set vpon vs in the night time Which tale so amazed the elders of the towne that for the great feare they tooke councell togither what was best to doe in the matter after the well debating on the fearefull newes they issued altogither out of the towne to knowe and vnderstande further the intent of these newe guestes what they were from whence they came and whether they purposed to go and being thus come forth togither out of the towne founde and sawe a like company of horsemen as the husbande man had before reported drawing towards them which séemed to their sight to be in number foure hundred horsemen ryding and comming towardes them in due order after which they sawe the fore frunt turned and readie prest to fight and the other company comming ryding a farre off addressed in like order which companies thus preparing forwarde to come togither and standing yet in a readinesse to fight two black men to their sight alighted from their horses which séemed to be Captaines and eche appéered valyauntly to encourage his companye to fight they thus boldened to fight behelde one the other as readie prest and in a readinesse after which the two Capitaynes againe lept on horseback Whiles these two companies yet stoode in a readinesse a marueylous darknesse hastily came in the place that it séemed farre in the night by which these husbandmen perceyued y this sight of the horsemen was none other then a deuillish illusion or méere falsehood of spirites In the bownds of Polonia were séene a marueylous company of Dogs barcking and fighting togither insomuch that manye were torne in that broyle to péeces After which folowed great warres and slaughter betwéene them of Polonia and the Muscouites In Duringia being a bright day there appéered in the ayre a bright and glittering sworde much like to a Fauchine or Turkie blade directing the point toward the South and the edge toward the East And in Cleuelande fell so great aboundance of fyre from heauen into the Rhene that the Riuer began to swell as though it had boyled In the yeare of our Lorde 1557. and in the ninth daye of March there were séene thrée sunnes and a verie faire Rainebow In the .xvij. daye of March there fell fyre from heauen and in an other place a fyrie Globe was séene it rayned also bloud and lumpes of bloud vnto the bignesse of ones hande dropped from heauen vnto the sight of many and in all the drops were séene like to mens faces And on saint Laurence daye the Sunne appeared wholy bloudy after which the French king fought a great battaile with Philip king of Spaine and after that S. Quintins takē by king Philip. In the yeare of our Lorde 1558. appeared a Comete verie fearefull which continued burning manye wéekes after which was séene a straunge sight fearefull to beholde For in the .xxj. day of August the day being cleare and caulme weather and sufficient temperate two houres before noone and a quarter the Sunne very cleare shyning was then séene inclosed about with a great circle which appéered of many colours like to the Rainebow and continued in like condition for foure howers and a halfe vnto the great feare and amazement of all such which regarded the same sight for it is written that such straunge sightes haue in times past béene séene which alwayes were foreshewers of fearefull daungers at hande as appéered by the same which Plutarche writeth that such a fearefull sight foreshewed the death of the mightie Cesar and the great scarcitie and dearth of all fruites of the earth that insued the same yere and euen the like hapned when Octauius abode at Rome that the Sunne was compassed with suche a cyrcle after which often commosions and tumults the lamentable harmes of lyghtnings ensued Such a Rainebow also appéered timely in the morning about the Sunne in the sixt Calendes of February in the yere of our Lorde 1074. after which folowed the great conspiracie of Princes against Henry the fourth of the name Emperor of the Germains In the yeare of our Lorde 1107. a lyke cyrcle about the Sunne was séene after which insued the great dissention among christian Princes In the yere also of our Lord. 1157. on the thirde Calendes of Iune about noone such a straunge shew was séene after which the euersion or destruction of many cities the scarcitie of fruites of the earth through the great distemperance of the ayre insued Many cities also were pittifully burned in Suetia after the appearance of such a sight hapning in the yeare of our Lord. 1322. In the yere of our Sauiour Christ. 1387.

swollen in the face or procured leprous The same hapneth thorowe the fyre receyued by the poores of the countenaunce and eyes which like swelleth the face and dryeth vp the christaline humour that is cause of the blindnesse 14. The places of such which are striken and burnt with the lightnings are caused colder than the other partes of the body eyther for that the greater heate draweth away with it the lesser or else in that by the great violence the vitall heate is so extinguished quite in those places by report 15. Such bodyes striken with the lightning haue or possesse after a Brimstonie sauour in that the matter of the lightning is Brimstonie as the Philosopher Niphus reporteth 16. This Niphus vttreth that the lightning spéedier burneth solyde and harde bodyes than the soft as the same of skill knowne and many tymes obserued 17. The thunderbolt sent forth with the lightning neuer déeper runneth or entreth into the earth than fiue foote after the opinion of sundrie obseruers 18. In the yeare 1553. in the Month of Iuly in a towne of Germany named Smelunicensis whyle the people before dinner were at deuine seruice a mightie light sodaynedly shyned and a lightning in the same killed two persons and about thirtie other persons with his force and vehemencie of the exhalation threwe to the earth which yet through the goodnesse of God contrarie to mans iudgement and estimation were yet preserued aliue of which also certaine had their garmentes burnt yet their bodyes vnharmed by a myracle of God. 19. The Romaynes in times past diuined and iudged of the lightnings which if those came from the left part or side of heauen and returned into the same agayne they pronounced those to be happy and prosperous For on such wise Anchyses after the Romayne maner prognosticated good luck if the lightning hapned on the left side And Cicero in his second booke de Diuinatione reporteth the same to be good luck in al matters traueyled about if the lightning shall happen on the left side But the Gréekes and Barbarians iudged the lightninges prosperous that came on the right side The Baye trée is sildome harmed with the lightning which rather of practise than by reason alowed for so much as it hath thys repulsiue vertue of the lightning through the inner cause or of heauen Of which Tiberius Caesar was woont in the tempest of lightning to weare on his head a Garlād of Bayes supposing hymselfe to be defended thereby 20. In the yeare 1551. at Crutzburge a Citie in Germany a certaine honest man hauing his house stricken with lightning sitting then at table eating perished wyth his Dogge lying flat at his féete but an Infant sitting or being néere to the father nothing at all harmed The mother of Hieronymus Fracastorius going with chylde with him dyed with the stroke of lightning the Infant remayning vnharmed which wonderfully foreshewed by it the singular fame of that childe to come What an Earthquake is AN Earthquake is a passion or affection of the earth a breaking forth or trembling a smyting or agitation when an exhalation is included in the bowels of the same séeking a violent issuing forth in the which this so smyteth shaketh the earth And of the same smiting is the Earthquake named Or it is a certaine working by which the earth is moued caused especially of winde or drie vapours inclosed within the hollownesse of the earth and through the heate of the sunne and other starres heated and enforced by which motion and enforcement this so shaketh that oftentymes houses yea whole Cities and townes are throwne downe and suncke with the same that the sinnes of men may be punished and others called vnto repentaunce How many kindes of Earthquakes there are OF the earthquake whether the same maye happen or no I beleue no man doubteth seing Hystories report so manye examples and experience of late yeares hath made the same knowne sufficiently to vs The kindes to come to the matter are knowne to be fower principally which are vttered of Plynie in his second Booke and 82. Chapiter Some report more and some vtter fewer kindes which through the dyuersitie the plentie or paucytie of the exhalations and force of the qualities aryse and are caused The first kinde is named the falling or shaking downe the seconde the gaping open the thirde the trembling beating or shaking the fourth the casting vp What the ruine is THe ruine falling or shaking downe is when much and great store of drye vapour or winde applying and dryuing by great force into one place forceth it selfe and turneth the same sodainly vpsydowne except the motion spéedily runneth on the other side which fallen no more harme insueth With thys was Smyrna the most noble Citie of the lesser Asia shaken throwne downe as appeareth in the Apocalipse in the first and second Chapiter And the sonne of God commaunded the Church of Smyrna to wryte this notable comfort Retayne fayth and beleeue stedfastlye vnto death and I shall giue to thee a crowne of lyfe Seneca nameth it an inclynation in that the earth leaneth to one side like a ship For as a ship leaning vnto one side is drowned through the mightie waight in it vnlesse the same waight spéedilye be turned vnto the other side through which the ship is so restored recouered as it were Euen so with the great plenty of spirites or winde it applyeth and driueth vnto one side of the earth doth in a maner ouerthrowe the same vnlesse the contrarie part restoreth the part inclyned Reade Liuius lib. 2. tertia Decadis What the Gaping is THe gaping is when the earth rendeth with a large opening and that a déepe hollownesse appeareth and the breath or winde mighty and vehement breaking violently forth doth on such wise sinke downe and swallowe vp Townes and Cities Or thus this gaping is a rending or cleauing of the earth when the earth sinketh downe and swaloweth vp Cities houses townes and Castels yea great hilles and mightie rockes with great ryuers and mightie lakes of water in such maner that these are neuer after séene Where this swalloweth vp any buildings fortresses or townes in the places appéere none other than large and déepe holes or goulfes What the Pulsation is THe Pulsation is when the earth as the same swelling vp aryseth by force of the windes that the buildings in that time leane from one side to the other as a Ship on the Sea and sinketh soone after downe againe which Aristotle nameth a beating or dryuing vp Otherwise is the same named an agitation shaking or trembling Or this otherwise when with great violence the earth is lifted vp in such maner that Castels and buyldings through their shaking appere ready to fall and the same doth immediatly sinke and settle downe agayne Which maner is procured when the whole force of the spirits laboureth and séeketh an issue vpwards euen as the kindled Gunpowder that searcheth way to brast forth which at the