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A66695	Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign containing fifty three several remarks ... with thirty seven more several histories, very pleasant and delightful / collected out of approved authors, by William Winstanley ...	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing W3062; ESTC R11630	186,957	324

which ran by Santo Pietro was observed to be much larger then the rest and its stream more quick and active but meeting with some opposition in the way it made some stop only sending out a Rivolet toward the East about three or four yards wide of its most subtile and active mater which directed its course towards a small Village about a Furlong distance from its main stream another Branch threatned Campo Rotundo but bent its course Westward toward the Farm of Valcorrente where its fiery Body was scattered into several deep and Rocky places without any considerable damage About this time we had hopes that the violence of this Eruption had been over the Mountain not throwing out its flames with that violence as before and its noise and roaring in a great measure ceased Those who at nearest distance took a view of the Mountain informed that the top of it was fallen in and the Mountain supposed to want near a mile of its former height that the largest of the Mouths from whence these fiery streams were vented was about half a mile in compass but the view of this dreadful inundation carried such terrour in it as they were not able to express from all these Mouths were vomited Rivers of a thick and fiery substance of Stone and Metals melted whose depth was various according to the several places it filled in its passage in some places four in others eight twelve or fifteen yards and upwards its breadth in some places six miles in others much more its flame like that of Brimstone and its motion like that of Quicksilver advancing ordinarily very slowly unless where it was provoked by the addition of another Torrent or some considerable descent Wheresoever it passed it left large heaps of its congealed matter with which it covered and burnt the Earth melting the Walls of Castles and Houses throwing down and consuming all before it nothing being found able to resist its force nor any thing able to quench its burning Water being observed rather to add to its fury wheresoever it has passed it hath lest its dreadful marks behind it levelling some Hills and raising others so much changing the scituation that not the least trace of any Place or Town remains nothing being to be seen but confused heaps of ragged stone which yielding a noisom fume strikes terrour and astonishment to all that behold it On Friday the 22th the Mountain again roared with much loudness and threw up from its Mouth a vast quantity of matter which formed two large Hills higher and larger than that of Monpolori with a large Bank of the same matter to the East sending down a violent stream of its liquid matter towards Malpasso much inlarging the former Current and passing thence to Campo Rotundo and Santo Pietro compleated the Ruins of those Towns driving furiously towards Moster Bianco which it wholly ruined from thence passing on to Albanelli in four days space destroyed all the Gardens and Vineyards with 63000 Vines From this time till the twenty fifth the Mountain continued silent but then it burst out again with more force than ever before its noise much louder like Peales of Ordnance and so forcible and lasting as for twenty four hours it caused a shaking and trembling in our buildings the Air so filled with Smoak and Ashes as darkened the face of the Sky The Birds and Fowls about this time either thorough want of Food or the illness of the Air which was corrupted with the noysome smells arising from these burnings were observed to lie dead in all places On the twenty eighth the grand Current was advanced near the City as far as the old Capucius which struck so great a terrour into the People that most of them left the City only some Officers remaining with such Persons as were under their command who secured and sent away the Magazine and all the Artillery from the Castle On Wednesday April the sixteenth with an impetuous fiery Torrent it came towards Sardanello where all the remainder of the Inhabitants of this City were Spectators of it which resembled a River of melted and burning Brass about ten Ells wide running with swiftness to the Arch of Marcus Marcellus a famous piece of Antiquity and passing under it ruin'd about six Ells of it which was the breadth of the Current in that place from thence it ran to Madonno di Monserratto which it wholly destroyed then falling down to Madonna delle Gratie it entred in at one Gate and passed thorough another without any considerable hurt and running through the Gate Della Decima filled all the Plain Di Schiard Vina where it was above six Ells deep Then taking its way towards the Bulwark on the Sea side under the Castle of this City it ran by two Ells deep into the Sea in which it has made its progress a mile in length and as much in breadth and is drawing towards the Gate of the Channel which gives us great apprehensions lest it may that way invade the City it self nor is there less danger on the side Del Tindaro where there runs a great Torrent of the same active matter which draws near and seems to threaten the Walls and is in that place about a mile in breadth having overflowed and destroyed all the Gardens from the Gate Della Decima as far as Madonna delli Amellati In this fiery Inundation eleven Towns were wholly overflowed consumed and lost with all the Lands belonging to them no footsteps of them remaining many Towns ruin'd in part besides several Castles Farms Gardens Vineyards and other places the Town Nicolozi wholly ruin'd by the Earthquake and other Towns ruined in part The reason of these fires is the abundance of Sulphur and Brimstone contained in the bosom of this Hill which is blown by the Wind driving in at the Chops of the Earth as by a pair of Bellows thorough which Chinks also there is continually more Fuel added to the Fire the very Water administring an operative Vertue to the combustible matter as wee see that Water cast on Coals in the Smiths Forge doth make them burn more violently thus described by Lucretius translated by Mr. Sandys Hollow the Mountain is throughout alone Supported well nigh with huge Caves of Stone No Cave but is with Wind and Air repleet For agitated Air doth Wind beget Which heats the imprisoning Rocks when hot it grows The Earth chaft by his Fury and from those Strikes forth Fire and swift Flame it self on high It mounts and out at upright Jaws doth flie And Fire sheds afar off far off dead Coals Transports and Fumes in mystery Darkness roles Ejecting Stones withal of wondrous size All which from strength of strugling Winds arise Besides against the Mountains roots the Main Breaks her swoln Waves and swallows them again From whence unto the summit of the Ascent The undermining Caves have their Extent Through which the Billows breathe and Flames out thrust With forced Stones and darkening Showers of Dust To which we may add that of the Poet Ovid Ista bituminaea rapiunt incendia mires Luteaque exiguis c. A rozen Mould these fiery Flames begin And clayie Brimstone aids the Fire within Yet when the slimy Soyl consumed shall Yield no more Food to feed the Fire withal And Nature shall restrain her Nourishment The Flames shall cease hating all Famishment West of this Aetna lieth the Aeolian Islands one of which called Strombolo burneth almost continually at the top like a Beacon and exceeding clearly so that by Night it is to be discerned a wonderful way These places and such like are commonly affirmed by the Roman Catholicks to be the Jaws of Hell and that within the damned Souls are tormented Mr. Sandys in his Itinenary relates That it was told him at Naples by a Country-man of ours and an old Pentioner of the Pope's who was a Youth in the days of King Henry that it was then generally bruited throughout England that Master Gresham a Merchant setting Sail from Palermo where then dwelt one Antonio called the Rich who at one time had two Kingdoms mortgaged unto him by the King of Spain being crossed by contrary Winds was constrained to anchor under the Lee of this Island Now about mid-day when for certain hours it accustomably forbeareth to flame he ascended the Mountain with eight of the Sailers and approaching as near the Vent as they durst amongst other Noises they heard a Voice cry aloud Dispatch Dispatch the rich Antonio is a coming Terrified herewith they descended and anon the Mountain again evaporated Fire But from so dismal a place they made all the haste that they could when the Winds still thwarting their Course and desiting much to know more of this matter they returned to Palermo And forthwith enquiring of Antonio it was told them that he was dead and computing the time did find it to agree with the very Instant that the Voice was heard by them Gresham reported this at his Return to the King In Gresham himself as this Gentleman said it wrought so deep an Impression that he gave over all Traffick distributing his Goods a part to his Kinsfolk and the rest to good Uses retaining only a Competency for himself and so spent the rest of his Life in a solitary Devotion FINIS

that day proved so cold that they could not stir out of their Tent. The same day there came two Ships of Hull into the Sound who knowing that some men had been left there the Year before being very desirous to know whether they were dead or alive the Master manned forth a Shallop to go as near the Shore as they could and so over the Ice to the Tent when these men came near unto it they haled them with the usual Word at Sea crying Hey to which one of them in the Tent answered again Hoe which sudden Answer almost amazed them all but perceiving them to be the very men left there with joyful Hearts they embraced one another and so coming into the Tent they shewed the Hull-men the curtesie of the House giving them some Venison which was roasted four months before and a Cup of cold Water which for Novelty sake they kindly accepted of After a little Discourse these eight men resolved to leave their Tent and to go with them to their Ship where they were welcomed after the heartiest and kindest English manner and so they staid with them till the London Fleet came which was three days after at which time they went aboard the Admiral in which Captain William Goodler was who made them very welcome and gave order that they should have any thing which was in the Ship that might do them good he gave them Apparel also to the value of twenty pounds so that after fourteen days refreshment they grew all perfectly well but when some of them went to their own Master that had left them there he fell foul upon them calling them Run-a-ways with other harsh Terms far enough from the Civility of an honest man Thus they continued in the Fleet until the 20th of August at which time with joyful Hearts they set Sail thorow the foaming Ocean and though sometimes crossed with contrary Winds yet at last they came safely to an Anchor in the River of Thames and the Muscovy Merchants dealt very well by them The Names of those eight Men thus left in Green-land William Fakely Gunner Edward Pelham Gunner's Mate that wrote this Story John Wise and Robert Goodfellow Seamen Thomas Ayers Whale-cutter Henry Bet Cooper John Daws and Richard Kellet Land-men A notable Story of Edgar King of England how he was by his chief Favourite circumvented of the fair Lady Elfrida and how afterwards the King was revenged of him for the same THis Edgar sirnamed the Peaceable the thirtieth Monarch of the English men was a Prince endowed with a great many Vertues and as many Vices and of all Vices most to Lasciviousness of which the Chronicles relate many Examples we shall only instance in one which for the variety of the matter deserveth to be recorded unto Posterity Fames lavish Report of beauteous Elfrida the Paragon of her Sex and Wonder of Nature the only Daughter of Ordgarus Duke of Devonshire sounded so loud in those Western parts that the Eccho thereof was heard into King Edgar's Court and entered his Ears which ever lay open to give his Eyes the Scope of Desire and his wanton thoughts the Reins of Will to try the Truth whereof he secretly sent his Minion or Favourite Earl Ethelwold of East-Anglia who well could judge of Beauty and knew the Dyet of the King with Commission that if the Pearl proved so orient it should be seized for Edgar's own wearing who meant to make her his Queen and Ordgarus the Father of a King Ethelwood a jolly young Gallant posted into Devonshire and guest-wise visited Duke Ordgarus his Court where seeing the Lady surpassing the Report blam'd Fame's over-sight for sounding her Praise in so base and leaden a Trumpet and wholly surprized with her Love himself began to wooe the Virgin yea and with her Father's good liking so as the King would give his Assent Earl Ethelwold returning related that the Maid indeed was fair but yet her Beauty much augmented by babling Reports and neither her Feature or Parts any wise befitting a King Edgar mistrusting no Rival in his Love nor dreaming false Fellowship in Wooing did with a slight Thought pass over Elfrida and pitch'd his Affections the faster another way Earl Ethelwold following the Game now on Foot desired Edgar's Assistance to bring it to a stand pretending not so much for any liking to the Lady as to raise his own Fortunes by being her Father's Heir to which the King yielded and ignorant of what had passed sollicited Ordgarus in the behalf of his Minion Ethelwold The Duke glad to be shrouded under the favour of such a Favourite willingly consented and his Daughters Destiny 's assured to Earl Ethelwold The Marriage solemnized and the Fruits thereof a short time enjoyed the Fame of her Beauty began to be spread and that with a larger Epithet than formerly it had been whereupon Edgar much doubting of double dealing laid his Angle fair to catch this great Gull and bearing no shew of wrong or suspect invited himself to hunt in his Parks and forthwith repairing into those parts did not a little grace his old Servant to the great Joy of Ordgarus the Duke But Ethelwold mistrusting the cause of his coming thought by one Policy to disappoint another and therefore revealing the truth to his Wife how in his Proceedings he had wronged her Beauty and deceived his Sovereign requested her loving assistance to save now his endangered Life which lay in her power and of the means he thus adviseth Like as said he the richest Diamond rough and uncut yields neither sparkle nor esteem of great Price nor the Gold unburnished gives better Lustre than the base Brass so Beauty and Feature clad in mean Aray is either slightly looked at with an unfixed Eye or is wholly unregarded and held of no Worth for according to the Proverb Cloath is the Man and Man is the Wretch then to prevent the thing that I fear and is likely to prove my present Ruine and thy last Wrack conceal thy great Beauty from King Edgar's Eye and give him Entertainment in thy meanest Attires let them I pray thee for a time be the nightly Curtains drawn about our new nuptial Bed and the daily Clouds to hide thy splendant Sun from his sharp and too too piercing sight whose Vigour and Rayes will soon set his waxen Wings on Fire that ready are to melt at a far softer Heat Pitch thou seest defileth the hand and we are forbid to give occasion of Evil veil then thy Fairness with the Scaffs of Deformity from his over-lavish and unmastered Eye for the fairest Face draws ever the Gaze if not the Attempts and Natures Endowments are as the Bush for the Wine which being immoderately taken doth surfeit the Sense and is again cast up with as loathing a Tast Of these Dregs drunk Amnon after his fill of fair Thamer Herod of Miramy and Aeneas of Dido yea and not to seek Examples far off King Edgar's variation in his unstedfast