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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08171	[The history of strange wonders.]	Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574.	1561 (1561)	STC 18507; ESTC S110146	18,042	54

by cōmixion be white firy Likwise such as be called gapings or pi●res c. And there be also which thinke that there be suche colours in dede And it mai be thought that somtyme bloodye cloudes be in dede and sometyme do apeare so For we haue red often that ther hath rained blood and sometime that it only appeareth so by the reflexion of the light Truly it is not to be douted but that both ther be and also appeareth or semeth a bloody colour of burnyng in y e night and of flames chiefely seyng the flame or the inflamed matter and substaunce so thicke And perchaunce more in the winter when vapours to be inflamed or in dede in flames breake out of the earth go vp by an ayre that is colde and moyste and grosse euen as of a grene peace of woode the flames appeare to be more red Per●duenture some beyng persuaded by these philosophicall reasons wyll thynk this our wondrous or strange token or bloodye colour or fyre they wyll name it rather a flame or celesti all burnyng vttterly to be a naturall thyng and such as the causes thereof maye be sufficientlye gathered out of the very bosome of nature and to betoken nothyng els but peraduenture some naturall effect as some mutation of the ayre and of the constitution and course of the yere or some pestilence at hand or immediatlye folowing amonge the signes of the whych nature thei learned are wonte to put fyry speculations as gapynges burnynges comets shuttyng starres other thynges that by nyght maye be perceyned in the ayre For although in this tyme of the wynter vapours hoate and drie and to be inflamed ar not wont to breake out of the earth notwithstanding he sayth it is to be thought that they beyng the longer shut in the earth with great frost being the more abundantly gathered together breake out at the length with more violence when the wayes be opened and being raised vpon high in the hyghest ayre the heate beyng restrained by a repulsion and let or els that that colour was made by the beames of the sonne then beyng neare to the risyng being either kindled or els only appearyng by reflixion and turning backe againe and those whyte furrowes were beames of the Sunne brought in that part onely whereon the substance of the vapours being gathered together was thinne For the beames of the Sunne appeare muche more in the high mountaines then in the lower places Also as it is written in histories thys hathe also happened in other places And greate burnings haue appeared for many vapours were gathered being long shut within the earth by the strength of colde and chiefely in places of mountains whose bellies and waies be for the most part full of such vapours These and suche lyke thinges perchaunce mē that are curious in philosophie or also vtterly godlesse as Epicure and suche other couetous persons will put furth and so persuade vs by this meane to feare nothynge The authour Cicero of diuination sayeth this only reason by the opinion and testimonie of the expositors of monstruous thynges auaileth against all shewes monsters and wonders If that whiche coulde neuer be done be done if it maye not be to be meruailed at And so it to be no monstrous thing or wonder that may be done But it was som great strēgth whych opened the shuttynge of the earth by it it may appeare Because that in some places about midnight an earthquake went before as certain watchmen did obserue it at Surick and certain other hard the shakyng of yron instruments and plats of glasse other saw gapyng in maner of pittes and the dai before the earth opened neare vnto Tubinga So thei do iudge that are indued with mans wisdome But we out of the holye scriptures and out of the treasure of the eternall and diuine wisdom and out of the trew mouth of our lord say that such wonders be sent from god god doyng it other aboue nature or contrary to nature or els vsyng naturall thynges to the signifiyng of hys wyl we saye and do beleue it also histories do witnes that alwayes great calamities haue folowed after suche wonders Out of the booke of Iulius of prodegies or wonders made 505. yere after the makyng of the cytye T. Gracco M. Inuentio Coss amōg other wonders that he rehearseth sayth that the forme of two Sunnes were sene in the day the ayre burned there was often lightnynge storme and tempest P. Scipio Nasica Cn. Martio Coss it is red that the ayre in the nyght burned and much lightning fell P. Affrican and Lelio Coss ryuers of blood flowed out of the earth and in the night y e aire was sene to burne A star dyd burne by the space of two and thyrtye dayes C. Cecilio Cn. Papyrio Coss in the night the mount of Albane was sene to burne houses burnte with lightning and tokens out of heauen The lande of Lucensis gaped abroade In Fraunce the aire was sene to burne The Danes and the Dutchmen passed the Alpes brake the league and made murder of the romaynes and theyr felowes C. Lelio L. Domitius Coss among otherr prodigies or wonders whiche he rehearseth saieth In Italy a burnyng torch appeared in the ayre and all the aire was sene to burne L. Martio S. Iulio Coss in y e lande of Anaria the earth opened a flame arose vp dyd shene in the element About the land of Rhegium parte of the Citie that is towardes the Sea was ouerthrowne wyth an yearthquake Seneca in hys fyrst booke of naturall questions and. xv chapter describeth a wonder or strange thyng like vnto ours AMonge the lightnings sayeth he whiche the Grekes call Sela maye put that fyre that was in the ayre we haue red it often times in histories the which burnyng was so high that sometimes it was sene amonge the starres and sometymes so lowe that it semed some fire a far of A company of men of war vnder Tiberius the emperour beyng amased when the aire for the most part of the night did burne ranne to Colone for succour the fyre not beynge cleare but grosse and smokye Of these lightenyngs no man douteth but they haue a flame which they shewe it is a certaine substaunce of them But in the former lightnings was a bow and a crowne of some certaine substaunce but it pleased vs not c. Out of the booke of Polidor Virgill of wonders and strange thynges IN the yere of our saluacion C. xii a burnyng lyght in maner of a towre wyth great bryghtnes was sene to fall out of the ayre when Ierusalem was taken of the Turkes Wonders or strange thynges taken out of the rehersal of M. Frytschy of Laubany IN the yere of oure Lorde M. C. xl the aire was sene to bourne oftentymes and many starres were sene to fall from out of the skye into the earht Burning lightes fyry dartes and flyinge fires were often tymes sene in the aire Newe starres were sene

mouth seldom doth it in dede The only Christians in whō the light of the worde of god shyneth knowledge their synnes and by the helpe of god studieth to reforme their lyfe to a better state whome in these present calamities this one thing can comfort them that they vnderstande god by his syngular grace to tourne theyr deserued paynes into martyrdome through whiche is caused that they also comfort themselues in whō is this gyfte of God that not onelye they beleue in Christ but also suffer for hys name sake For although our synnes be greate yet nothwythstandyng we shall not feele the furye of the chiefe enemyes of Christ but for the sincere confession of the faythe whych we maye declyne from yf we wyll go from the doctrine of the gospell The almightye and greate God for his diuine grace and singuler aids of the holy gost vouchsafe to kepe vs Amen The authour answereth againe to thys fyrste epistle and approueth it notwythstandyng sayth he the stars whiche fell out of that fyrye wonder I had rather interpretate to signifie the aduersarye of Christe with hys which as hitherto haue bene counted as starres and shal fall headlong out of heauen as Lucifer dyd c. That is they shall fall from that vsurped authoritie which they now haue which the authour of all wonders and effectes grant So be it Certayn Eglogs taken out of diuers epistles of credible men and certayne prynted bookes prynted at Norynberghe and Vinaria briefly set furth vpon the same wonder so that it doth agre wyth those epistles or letters set oute afore whych were almost omitted THat mōsterous fyre was not sene at August Vindelictorū nor near about it but it was sene not far from August as about Neurzā Landspergen Norinberg and in the dukedom of Wirtenberge in Belgicke and also towarde Hungarye within three dayes after Christenmas but not in all these places on one daye So that many of the neyghbors thought that it dyd burne and ranne to quench it and the fyre fallynge from heauen in another place made them sore afraid This did a certayne noble man write in his epistle or letter We read in a printed leafe that this fyre was sene towarde Eccelshemy Frochhemy Bamberge likewyse at Campodune and in many other places And a credeble man wrote vnto vs that it was sene in the region of Vlme and in Athesina Lykewyse at Lindauia and in the monarchie of Bauaria neare vnto August notw tstandynge it was not sene in the citie of August also towarde Vienna and about Anwarpe In the booke printed at Vinaria we read that thys strange wonder was sene the ayre beyng cleare no cloudes at all so that it occupied y e fourth parte of the heauen wyth such brightnes that one might easely see and perceyue anye thynge For the fire was great brode and longe in maner as if some great citie had ben wholly al of fyre disseuered w t thre white strakes or furrowes of the which the one part appeared of the colour of bloode tempered with some other thing and the other part was somewhat thicker the last part at the goyng away of it it was compassed about with a darke and thicke cloude Other sayde that the white strakes were sene at the beginninge wyth the fire not beyng verye red aboute the middest but a certaine clearnes mixte with rednesse through which also the starres appeared In some places warning was geuen by ringyng of y e belles to quench the fire The foresayde fyre as farre as men coulde iudge remoued from the East vnto the West other write that it began from the North in ●●aner of a cloud and it semed as it wer castyng flames of fyre from it like vnto starres At the first it was sene thre dayes and a halfe at the lest an houre and a halfe afore daye it lasted about an houre and an halfe and vanished away almost an houre afore dai Out of letters written from Constance to vs. The nexte day after Childermas day in the ayre were sene certaine great and longe speares two crosses the one of them was whyte what the other was it is not shewed and a rodde was sene in the ayre in maner of red bloode so that some were readye to crie fyre Certaine fishermen that were on the riuer aboute two of the clocke after midnight dyd see this great and bryght monstrous thynge whiche continued vntil syxe a clocke but towarde Turgauia and Heluitia was sene a starre wyth fyue seuerall beames whiche were about three yards longe in other places it semed in maner of a Hunters staffe The report goeth that aboute Roteuilla a certayne heate was hearde in the ayre euen as it had bene liquor boylynge in a potte the which by and by wente downe into the nexte hyll and there wythin a whyle after it made the same noyse in the earth that it dyd before in the ayre And as the letters doe testifie whiche were sent from Memminga On Childermas daye betwene fiue and syxe of the clocke in the mornynge moore then the space of an whole houre was sene in the ayre a great and an vnaccustomed rednes towarde the north in maner lyke vn to the fashion of an hemicycle and then it remoued somewhat towarde the Southe and bare before it the lykenes of burnyng fyre by reason whereof in certayn villages the bels were ronge to gyue warning to help to quenche it In another part of this rednes appeared whyte forrowes the whyche by and by went out of syght lyke vnto red firye flames so that they were sene shynyng by reason of the brightnes of the flame Another parte of it was discolored and al red in maner of bloode and terrible of syght The aire at first was not perceyued and through this rednes the starres were sene to cast out their beames A mā that watched in a towre at Suricke saide that about midnight he felt an earthquake And a certain crafts man which was a glasier marueyled at the sodden sha kings of the glasse in y e night where of I maruaile that it was noted of none other nor sene any where elles that we can heare Oute of another epistle written by a certaine learned man This wonder of the fyre in the ayre was not sene at Berne but in y e fielde there were many that sawe it I heare of nothynge that was sene beyonde Berne towarde Fraunce nor at Friburge nor at Lausanne They do shewe of a certaine monsterous thing sene in the fielde of Berne there appeared a fyry globe in the whiche a beare and a lyon semed to fighte together In the dominion of Gruenensis they write that a globe of fire did flye so nere a vyllage that a husbande man was a frayed of the burnyng of his house because the fire was sene so neare vnto the top of the house These thynges I wryte by report to satisfie your request vntyll I knowe them more certainely Thus sayde he Another writeth