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A67489	The wonders of the little world, or, A general history of man in six books : wherein by many thousands of examples is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world to these times, in respect of his body, senses, passions, affections, his virtues and perfections, his vices and defects, his quality, vocation and profession, and many other particulars not reducible to any of the former heads : collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, physicians, philologists and others / by Nath. Wanley ...	Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing W709; ESTC R8227	1,275,688	591

that City and all its Inhabitants and was more exactly obeyed in all his orders and commands than ever Monarch had the glory to be in his own Kingdom This most astonishing revolution in the City of Naples began upon Sunday the seventh of Iuly An. 1647. and ended with the death of Masaniello which was upon Iuly the 16. 1647 the tenth day from its beginning 3. The Lord Cromwel was born at Putney a Village in Surrey near the Thames-side Son to a Smith after whose decease his Mother was married to a Sheer-man This young Cromwel for the pregnancy of his wit was first entertained by Cardinal Wolsey and by him employed in many great Affairs The Cardinal falling the King that was Henry the Eighth took him to his service and finding his great abilities advanced him by degrees to these Dignities Master of the Kings Jewel-house and of the Kings Privy Council Secretary to the King and Master of the Rolls Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal made Lord Cromwel and Vicar General under the King over all the Spirituality created Earl of Essex and at last Lord High Chancellor of England 4. In the Reign of King Henry the Second one Nicholas Breakspear born at St. Albans or as others write at Langley in Hartfordshire being a Bond-man of that Abbey and therefore not allowed to be a Monk there went beyond Sea where he so profited in Learning that the Pope made him first Bishop of Alba and afterwards Cardinal and sent him as his Legate to the Norways where he reduced that Nation from Paganism to Christianity and returning back to Rome was chosen Pope by the name of Adrian the Fourth 5. The War betwixt the Chineses and Tartars began in the year 1206. which lasting 77 years at last the Tartars in the year 1288. having totally subdued all that mighty Empire extinguished the Imperial Family of the Sunga's and erected a new Royal Family which they called Iuena of which Tartarian Race nine Emperours by descent ruled the Kingdom of China for the space of 70 years in peace and quietness In this tract of time the Tartars declining from their ancient vigor and having their warlike Spirits softned by the pleasures and delights of the Country there was a contemptible person called Chu he was Servant to one of those that were deputed to offer Sacrifice to their Idols a Native of China and this man presumed to rebel against them At the first he acted the part of a Thief or High way man and being of a generous nature bold quick of hand and wit he gathered such a multitude in a short time that they made up the body of a great Army then deposing the person of a Thief he became a General set upon the Tartars and fought many Battels with them with such fortune and success that in the year 1368. he drove them quite out of the Empire of China receiving for so illustrious an action the whole Empire of China as a worthy reward of his Heroical Exploits It was he that first erected the Imperial Family of the Taminges and was the first Emperour of that Race stiling himself by the name of Hunguu● which is the famous Warriour He placed his Court at Nanking near the great River of Kiang and having speedily ordered and established that Empire he made an irruption into Tartary it self and so followed the course of his Victories that he defeated them several times wasted their Territories and finally brought the Oriental Tartars to such streights as he forced them to lay down their Arms to pay Tribute and to beg an inglorious Peace 6. Sinan that great Bassa in the Court of Selymus the First was born of base Parentage as he being a child was sleeping in the shade he had his Genitals bitten off by a Sow The Turkish Officers which usually provided young Boys for the service of the Grand Signior being in Epirus for that was Sinans Country and hearing of this so extraordinary an Eunuch took him amongst others with them to the Court where under Mahomet the Great Bajazet the Second and his Son Selymus he so exceedingly thrived that he was made the chief Bassa of the Court and so well deserved it that he was accounted Selymus his right hand and was indeed the man to whose Valour especially the Turks owe their Kingdom of Egypt in which Kingdom then not fully setled he was also slain 7. Eumenes being a poor Carriers Son attained to such an ability in the Art of War that after the death of Alexander the Great under whom he served he seised on the Provinces of Cappado●ia and Paphlagonia and siding though a Stranger to Macedon with Olympias and the Blood Royal against the Greek Captains he vanquished and slew Craterus and divers times drove Antigonus afterwards Lord of Asia out of the field but being by his own Souldiers betrayed he was by them delivered to Antigonus and by him slain 8. When Alexander the Great had taken the City of Tyre he permitted Ephestion his chief Favourite to chuse whom he would to be King there Ephestion proffered it to him with whom he had lodged a rich and honourable person but he refused it as not touching the blood of their Kings in any degree Then being asked by Ephestion if he knew any of the Royal Lineage yet living he told him there was a wise and honest man remaining but that he was in extremity of poverty Ephestion went to him forthwith with the Royal Robes and sound him in a Garden lading water out of a pit for a little money and in ragged apparel Ephestion tells him the intent of his coming cloaths him in all the Royal Ornaments and brings him into the Forum where the people were convented and delivers him the Soveraignty over them The people chearfully accepted of a person that was so accidentally and wonderfully found out to rule over them His name was Abdolonymus or as others Ballonymus 9. Licungzus at first a common Thief then a Captain of a Troop of Robbers by degrees arrived to that force and power in China that he took all the Province of Honan subjected the Province of Xensi and gave Sigan the Metropolis of it as a prey to his Souldiers These and many other his fortunate Exploits caused him to take the name of King with the addition of Xungvan which sounds as much as Licungzus the prosperous and at last thinking himself secure of the Empire he took the name of Emperour upon him and stiled the Family wherein he thought to establish this Dignity Thienxunam as much as to say obedient to Heaven By which he endeavoured to perswade the Souldiers and people that it was by the disposition of the Heavens that he should reign He besieged Peking the Metropolis of all China and with his victorious Army he entred and took it An. 1644. and coming into the Palace sate him down in the Imperial Throne though it was observed in this first act

Whereas Anno Dom. 1535. The Roman Tyranny of Anti-Christ was ejected his Superstitions abolished the Holy Religion of Christ restored here in its proper purity the Church by the singular goodness of God put into better order the Enemy overcome and put to slight and the City it self by a remarkable miracle did then obtain its former liberty and freedom The Senate and People of Geneva have caused this Monument in perpetual Memory thereof to be made and erected in this place as also to leave a Testimony of their thankfulness to God and Posterity 10. In the time of the second Punick War when Fulvius besieg'd Capua there were two Women of Campania that were resolute in their good wishes to the Romans These were Vestia Opidia a Matron and Mistress of a Family and Cluvia Facula a common prostitute The one of these did daily sacrifice for the good fortune of their Army and the other ceased not to carry Provisions to such of ours as were made Prisoners amongst them When therefore Capua was taken these two had their liberty and goods restor'd by special order of the Senate of Rome and not only so but sent them a promise to grant what reward they should desire It is much that in so great and publick a Joy the Fathers had leisure to thank two poor Women of mean condition but it was more ●or them to make it a special part of their business and that by their own motion 11. Q. Fabius Maximus was the Person that sav'd the Roman State from being over-whelmed with the Torrent of Hannibal and had fortunately serv'd the Common-Wealth in five several Consul-ships When therefore he was dead the Roman people not unmindful of his good service did strive who should contribute most Money to render the pomp of his Funeral more glorious and that he might be interred with the greater magnificence 12. There was in Florence a Merchant whose name was Francis Frescobald of a noble Family and liberal mind who through a prosperous success in his affairs was grown up to an abundance of Wealth While he was at Flor●nce a young Man presented himself to him asking his Alms for God's sake Frescobald beheld the ragged stripling and in despight of his Tatters reading in his countenance some significations of virtue was moved with pity demanded his Countrey and Name I am said he of England my Name is Thomas Cromwell my Father meaning his Father-in-law is a poor Man a Cloth-shearer I am stray'd from my Countrey and am now come into Italy with the Camp of French-men that were overthrown at Ga●ylion where I was Page to a Foot-man carrying after him his Pike and Burganet Frescobald partly in pity of his State and partly in love to the English Nation amongst whom he had receiv'd some civilities took him into his house made him his guest and at his departure gave him a Horse new Apparel and sixteen Duckets of Gold in his Purse Cromwell rendring him hearty thanks return'd into his Countrey where in Process of time he became in such favour with King Henry the Eight that he rais'd him to the Dignity of being Lord High Chancellour of England In the mean time Frescobald by great and successive losses was become poor but remembring that some English Merchants owed him fifteen thousand Ducats he came to ●●ndon to seek after it not thinking of what had passed betwixt Cromwel and him But travelling earnestly about his business he accidentally met with the Lord Chancellour as he was riding to the Court. As soon as the Lord Chancellour saw him he thought he should be the Merchant of Florence of whose liberality he had tasted in times past immediately he alights embraces him and with a broken voice scarce refraining tears he demanded if he were not Francis Frescobald the Florentine Yes Sir said he and your humble Servant My Servant said Cromwel no as you have not been my Servant in times past so will I not now account you other than my great and especial friend assuring you that I have just reason to be sorry that you knowing what I am or at least what I should be would not let me understand of your Arrival in this Land Had I known it I should certainly have paid part of that debt which I confess I ow you but thanks be to God that I have yet time W●ll Sir in conclusion you are heartily welcome but having now weighty affairs in my Princes cause you must hold me excused that I can no longer tarry with you Therefore at this time I take my leave desiring you with the faithful mind of a friend that you forget not to dine with me this day at my house Frescobald wonders who this Lord should be at last after some pause he remembers him for the same he had relieved at Florence he therefore repairs to his house not a little joyed and walking in the base Court attended his return He came soon after and was no sooner dismounted but he again embraced him with so friendly a countenance as the Lord Admiral and other Nobles then in his company much marvelled at He turning back and holding Frescobald by the hand Do you not wonder my Lords said he that I seem so glad of this man This is he by whose means I have atchieved this my present degree and therewith recounted to them all that had passed between them Then holding him still by the hand he led him to the Chamber where he dined and seated him next himself The Lords departed he would know what occasion had brought him to London Frescobald in few words truly opened his cause to him To which Cromwel returned Things already past Mr. Frescobald can by no power or policy of man be recalled yet is not your sorrow so peculiar to your self but that by the bond of mutual love I am to bear a part therein and that in this your distress you may receive some consolation It is fit I should repay some portion of that debt wherein I stand bound to you as it is the part of a thankful man to do and I further promise you in the word of a true friend that during this life and state of mine I will not fail to to do for you wherein my authority may prevail Then taking him by the hand he led him into a Chamber and commanded all to depart he locked the door then opening a Coffer he ●irst took out sixteen Ducats and delivering them to Frescobald My friend said he here is your money you lent me at my departure from Florence here are other ten you bestowed in mine Apparel with Ten more you disbursed for the Horse I rode upon But considering you are a Merchant it seemeth to me not honest to return your money without some consideration for the long detaining of it Take you therefore these four Bags in every of which is four hundred Ducats to receive and enjoy from the hand of your assured friend which the modesty of

to say to those that were in his company Which of you dares to take a piece of flesh out of this Lyon's throat when he is angry None daring to take it in hand You shall see added the Polonian the proof of my Speech All that day following the Lyon had not any meat given him the next day they threw him the fore Quarters of a Sheep the Lyon begins to grunt to couch down at his Prey and to eat greedily Herewith the Polonian enters and lo●king the Lyon betwixt his legs gives him a blow with his fist upon the Jaw crying hah you Dog give me the flesh The Lyon amazed at such a bold voice let go his hold shewing no other Countenance but casting his eye after the Polonian that carried the flesh away 5. The City of Rome being taken by the Gauls and those that fled to the Capitol besieged in this distress some of the Romans that were fled to Veientum brought that same Camillus whom before they had ungratefully forced into Exile to take upon him the Supreme Command He answered that while those in the Capitol were safe he took them for his Country and should obey their Commands with all readiness but should not obtrude himself upon them against their will But all the difficulty was to send to them that were inclosed in the Capitol by the way of the City it was impossible as being full of Enemies But amongst the young men of Ardaea where Camillus then was there was one Pontius Cominius of a mean Birth but desirous of Glory and Honour who offered himself to this piece of service He took no Letters to them lest being taken the design should be betrayed to the Enemy But in meat habit and pieces of Cork under it he performed part of his journey by day-light as soon as it grew dark being near the City because the Bridge was kept by the Enemy he could not that way pass the River with his light Garment therefore bound about his head and bearing up himself upon his Cork he swam over the River and perceiving by the fire and noise that the Guards were awake he shunn'd them and came to the Carmental Gate there all was silent and the Capitoline Hill was most steep and hard to ascend By this way he climbs up and at last came to the Sentinels that watched upon the Walls he salutes them and tells them who he was He was taken up led to the Magistrates acquaints them with all his business They presently create Camillus Dictator and by the same way dismiss Pontius who with the same wonderful difficulty escaped the Enemy as before and came safe to Camillus and Camillus to the safety of his Countrey 6. In the Reign of Tham King of China there was a Colao an Officer not unlike that of our Duke who having been Tutor to the King was very powerful with him and to preserve himself in his Grace and Favour studied more to speak what would please the King then to tell him the truth for the good of his Estate The Chineses forbare not to speak of it amongst themselves and to tax the flattery of this Coloa once some Captains of the Guard were discoursing this Point at the Palace when one of them being a little warmed with the Discourse secretly withdrew himself went into the Hall where the King was and kneeling down upon his knees before him the King asked what he would have Leave said he to cut off the head of a flattering Subject And who is that said the King Such a one who stands there replied the other The King in a rage What said he against my Master darest thou to propound this and in my Presence too Take him away and strike off his head When they began to lay hands upon him he caught hold of a wooden balanster and as there were many pulling of him and he holding with a great deal of strength it brake by this time the King's heat was over he commands they should let him go and gave order that the balanster should be mended and that they should not make a new one that it might remain a witness of the Fact and a memorial of a Subject that was not afraid to advise his King what he ought to do 7. Phocion the Athenian was a man that stood with unmoveable constancy against the Multitude the Nobles Fortune and Death it self There was once an Oracle recited at Athens viz. that there was amongst them one single man that ever dissented from the agreeing opinions of all the rest All the people were enraged and enquired after that man Now pray said Phocion surcease your enquiry I am the man you seek for for not one thing of all that you do did ever please me 8. In a Parliament at Salisbury in the twenty fifth year of King Edward the First the King requires certain of his Lords to go to the Wars in Gascoigne which needed a present Supply by reason of the death of his Brother Edmund but all the Lords made excuses each for themselves Whereupon the King in great rage threatned they should either go or he would give their Lands to others that would Upon this Humphry Bohune Earl of Hereford High Constable and Robert Bigod Earl of Norfolk Marshal of England made their Declaration that if the King went in Person they would attend him otherwise not which Answer offended the King more and being urged again the Earl Marshal protested he would willingly go thither with the King and march before him in the Van-guard as by right of Inheritance he ought to do But the King told him plainly he should go with any other though he went not himself in person I am not so bound said the Earl neither will I take that Iourney without you The King swore By God Sir Earl you shall go or hang. And I swear by the same Oath said the Earl that I will neither go nor hang and so departed without leave 9. Avidius being General of the Army when a part of the Auxiliaries without his privity had slain three thousand of the Sarmatians upon the Banks of the Danubius and returned with a mighty Spoil the Centurions expecting mighty Rewards for that with so small Forces they had overthrown so great a number but he commanded them to be seized and crucifyed For said he it might have fallen out that by a sudden eruption of the Enemy from some Ambush the whole Army might have been hazarded But upon this Order of his a Sedition arose in the Army when he straight goes forth into the midst of the Mutineers unarmed and without any Life-Guard where unappalled he spake in this manner Kill me if you dare and give a glorious instance of your corrupted Discipline When they saw his undaunted boldness they all grew quiet and willingly subm●tted themselves to Discipline which thing not only preserved the Romans themselves in obedience but struck such an awe into

of Royalty he sate so totteringly as if even the Royal Chair it self would foretel the short durance of his felicity 10. Agilmond the Second King of the Lombards one morning went a hunting and as he was riding by a Fish-pond he espied seven children sprawling for life which one saith Paulus Diaconus it may be many Harlots had been delivered of and most barbarously thrown into the water The King amazed at this spectacle put the end of his Boar-spear or Hunting-pole amongst them one of the childrens hands fastned upon the Spear and the King softly drawing back his hand wafted the child to the shore This Boy he named Lamissus from Lama which in their language signifies a Fish-pond he was in the Kings Court carefully brought up where there appeared in him such tokens of vertue and courage that after the death of Agilmund he was by the Lombards chosen to succeed him in the Kingdom 11. Roger Wa●den was at the first a poor Scholar of Oxford and the first step of his rising was to be a Chaplain in their Colledge of St. Maries from thence by degrees he got to be Dean of York and after this a higher step to be Treasurer of England and yet a higher after that upon the banishment of Thomas Arundel to be Archbishop of Canterbury he dyed in the ninth year of King Henry the Fourth 12. Francisco Pizarro who subdued the most potent and flourishing Kingdom of Peru and made it a member of the Spanish Empire was born at Trusiglio a Village in Navarre and by the poor Whore his Mother laid in the Church porch and so left to Gods Providence by whose direction there being none found that would give him the breast he was nourished for certain days by sucking a Sow At last one Gonsalles a Souldier acknowledged him for his Son put him to nurse and when he was somewhat grown set him to keep his Swine some of which being strayed the Boy durst not for fear return home but betook himself to his heels ran unto Sevil and there shipped himself for America where he attended Alphonso de Oreda in the discovery of the Countries beyond the Gulph of Vraba Balboa in his Voyage to the South Sea a●d Pedro de Avila in the Conquest of Panama Grown rich by these adventures he associated himself with Diego de Almagro and Fernando Luquez a rich Priest who betwixt them raised 220 Souldiers and in the year 1525. went to seek their fortunes on those Southern Seas which Balboa had before discovered After divers repulses at his landing and some hardships which he had endured Pizarro at the length took some of the Inhabitants of Peru of whom he learned the wealth of the Country and returning thereupon to Spain obtained the Kings Commission for the conquest of it excluding his Companions out of the Patent but taking in Almagro of his own accord Thus furnished he landed in Peru again at such time as the Wars grew hot betwixt the two Brethren for the Kingdom and taking part with the Faction of Guascar marched against Atabaliba whom he met with in the Plains of Caxamalca but rather prepared for a Parley than to sight a Battel Pizarro taking the advantage picked a quarrel with him and suddenly charged upon him with his Horse and Ordnance slaying his Guard without resistance and coming near the Kings person who was then carried on mens shoulders pulled him down by the cloaths and took him Prisoner with him he took as much gold as amounted to 80000 Castellans and as much silver as amounted to 7000 Marks every Mark weighing eight ounces of his Houshold Plate and in the spoil of Caxamalca almost infinite riches This with the Kings Ransom came to so great a sum that besides the fifth part which Pizarro sent to the King of Spain and that which he and his Brethren kept to themselves every Foot-man had 7200 Duckats and every Horse man twice as much for their part of the spoil besides what they had got in Plunder Pizarro in regard of so great service was made the first Viceroy of Peru and created Marquess of Anatilla 13. There was one Chinchilungus a Chinese born in the Province of Fokien he first served the Portugals in Macao then he served the Hollander in the Island Formosa where he was known to all strangers by the name of Iquon After this he became a Pirate and being of a quick and nimble wit he grew from this small and slender Fortune to such a height and power as he was held if not superiour yet equal to the Emperour of China For he had the Trade of India in his hand and he dealt with the Portugals in Macao with the Spaniards in the Philippines with the Hollanders in the Island Formosa and New Holland with the Iaponians and with all the Kings and Princes of the Eastern parts in all manner of rich Commodities He permitted none to transport the Wares of China but himself or his to whom he brought back the Riches and the Silver of Europe and the I●dies For after he once rather extorted than obtained a pardon of the King of China for his Piracies he became so formidable and potent that he had no less than three thousand Ships o● all which he was Lord and Master Not content with this Fortune he aspired privately to the Empire but knowing he should never be accepted with the Prefects and people so long as any of the Imperial Family of the Taminges were alive he hoped by the Tartars means to extinguish them wholly that done he resolved to display his Banners and Ensigns to the driving out of the Tartars which he knew would cause him to be well followed of the people The Tartars made him King Pingnan that is Pacifier of the South and many other Dignities and Offices of Trust they heaped upon him but all to illude him for they suspecting his power soon found means to make him a Prisoner in Peking though his Fleet was seised upon by his Brothers and Kindred 14. Agathocles was the Son of a Potter his childhood he spent in the filth of the clay his youth in intemperance and unchastity infamous in every respect and through the hatred of the Citizens and his own poverty he was forced to become a Robber upon the High-way soon after a Souldier and then a General but that too with infamy as one that married the Widow of Damascon the former General with whom before he had lived in Whoredom But having gained great riches by this Match twice he endeavoured to seise upon the Soveraignty of Syracuse and twice was repelled and at last forced into Exile He then joined with the Sicilians the Enemies of Syracuse and with them besieged it but through the Succours sent in by the Carthaginians it was stoutly defended against him at last he agreed with Hamilcar that he should depart and leave Syracuse to him It was done accordingly he entred Syracuse slew many of

wherein we have any understanding it can never be su●ficiently wondred at that it should be so very little that we are able to comprehend with any certainty concerning the Soul it self The most learned amongst men are at a loss as often as they would speak distinctly touching its nature manner of working the way of its conjunction with the body and principal place of its residence and so are they also for the manner of its retreat and the place of its retirement in such cases as are propounded in this Chapter 1. William Withers born at Walsham in Sussex being a child of eleven years of age did An. 1581. lye in a trance ten days without any sustenance and at last coming to himself uttered to the standers by many strange speeches against pride and covetousness coldness of charity and other outragious sins 2. Hermotimus the Clazomenian seemed frequently to have his body deserted of the soul and as if it had wandred about in the World at the return of it he would relate such things at a distance performed that none could tell of but such as were present by which means he was long the admiration of such as he dwelt amongst At last being in one of these trances his enemies seised upon his body and burnt it by which means the returning soul was disappointed of its usual place of residence and retreat Plin. lib. 7. cap. 52. pag. 184. 3. Iohannes Scotus the same who hath treated with such subtilty concerning divine matters is also said to have been in frequent raptures in such manner that he hath been observed to sit sometimes for the space of a whole day and more immoveable with his mind and senses bound up or at least wandring far off from the body In which condition at length he was taken up by some such as were unacquainted with him and so buried alive 4. Restitutus a Presbyter could at his pleasure deprive himself of all sense and would do it as oft as he was asked which many did as desirous to be the eye-witnesses of so admirable a thing At the imitation of some notes and the tone of lamenting persons he would lie as one that was dead altogether sensless of his being pulled or pricked nay once being burnt with fire he had no apprehension or feeling at all of it for the present only the wound was painful to him at his return to himself In these his trances he did not breathe at all only he would say that the voices of men only if they spake louder than ordinary were heard by him as if they were at some great distance from him 5. Thomas Aquinas by his daily and constant contemplations had so accustomed himself that frequently falling into an Ecstasie of the mind he seemed to all that were present to be dead yet in the mean time he gained the knowledge of the abstruser Mysteries in Divinity and being returned to himself he imparted to others the fruits of this his philosophick death both in his Writings and Converse 6. Hieronymus Cardanus of Millain writes of himself that he could pass as oft as he would into such an Ecstasie as only to have a soft hearing of the words of such as discoursed by him but not any understanding of them at all he felt not any pullings or pinches of him nor was at such times in the least manner sensible of the pains of the Gout or any other thing but only such things as were without him The beginnings of this were first in the head especially from the brain diffusing it self thence all along to the back bone At first he could perceive a kind of separation from the heart as if the soul were departing and this was communicated to the whole body as if a door did open He adds that he saw all that he desired with his eyes not by any force of the mind and that those images of things did perpetually move as Woods Mountains living Creatures and what else he pleased He imputes all this to the vigour of his fancy and the subtilty of his sight 7. The Father of Prestantius saith St. Augustine was often in such an Ecstasie that upon the return of his spirit he would affirm that he had been transformed into a Horse and that he with other Horses had carried relief and forrage into the Camp whereas his body lay then at his own house in the manner of a dead Corps 8. The English Histories relate that Elizabeth Burton a Maid of Canterbury had contracted a custom of entrancing her self and taking away her senses which first came upon her by reason of a disease which she had upon her CHAP. XIX Of extraordinary things in the Bodies Fortunes Death c. of divers persons TRavellers that have determined to pass through divers Countries lightly touch those common occurrences that present themselves to every mans eye but if they meet with any thing extraordinary these they set a special and particular remark upon as matter wherewith mens knowledge may be improved and their curiosity gratified If I have staid the longer upon this Chapter it is possibly for some such reason as this that the Reader may have something if not so profitable as he could wish yet not altogether unpleasant in the perusal 1. Antonius Cianfius a Book-seller at Pisa some few years since putting off a shirt which was made straiter to his body than usual flames were seen to issue from his back and arms and that also with a crackling noise to the affrightment of the whole family The truth of this is attested as well as the History related by Fortunius Licetus that great Philosopher of this Age in the second Book and 28. Chapter of his Commentary of the Causes of Monsters 2. That is strange which is recorded of M. Furius Camillus that though he had gained many important Victories was often General in the head of an Army was Censor was five times created Dictator and at four several times had triumphed and was also called the second Founder of Rome yet was he never chosen Consul 3. Nicholas Wotton was termed a Center of Remarkables so many met in his person he was Dean of the two Metropolitan Churches of Canterbury and York he was the first Dean of those Cathedrals he was Privy Counsellor to four successive Soveraigns King Henry the Eighth King Edward the Sixth Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth he was employed thirteen several times in Embassies to foreign Princes and which is not the least remarkable in the first of Queen Elizabeth he was offered the Archbishoprick of Canterbury and refused it he died 1566. 4. Iohn Story Doctor of Law a cruel Persecutor in the days of Queen Mary fled afterwards into Brabant being trained into the Ship of Mr. Parker an English man the Master hoised Sail and over was this Tyrant and Traitor brought into England where refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy and professing

himself a Subject to the King of Spain he was executed at Tyburn where being cut down half dead after his privy members were cut off he rushed on the Executioner and gave him a blow on the ear to the wonder of the by-standers 5. It is said of Crassus Grandfather to that Crassus who was slain in the Parthian War that he was never known to laugh all his life time and thereupon was called Agelastus or the man that never laught 6. Antonia the Wife of Drusus as it is well known never spit and Pomponius the Poet one that had sometimes been Consul never belched 7. It is memorable which is recorded of a King named Wazmund and was the Founder of Warwick Town that he had a Son named Offa tall of stature and of a good constitution of body but blind till he was seven years old and then saw and dumb till he was thirty years old and then spake 8. In the first year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth died Sir Thomas Cheney Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports of whom it is reported for a certain that his pulse did beat more than three quarters of an hour after he was dead as strongly as if he had been still alive 9. George Nevil fourth Son of Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury was consecrated Bishop of Exeter when he was not as yet twenty years of age at twenty five he was made Lord Chancellor of England and discharged it to his great commendation his ability supplying the luck of age in him 10. When I was in Italy that Paradise of the World the outward skin of a Lady of Verona though lightly touched did manifestly sparkle with fire This spectacle so worthy of the research of the inquisitive and curious is faithfully exposed to the World by the publick Script of Petrus à Castro the learned Physician of Verona in his Book de Igne lambente whom I shall follow in the relation of this story The illustrious Lady Catherina Buri the Wife of the noble Io. Franciscus Rambaldus a Patritian of Verona of a middle age indifferent habit of body her universal temper hot and moist her liver hot and dry and so abounding with bilious and black blood with its innate fervour and an age fit for adustion increased by vehement grief This noble Lady the Creator endued with so stupendous a Dignity and Prerogative of Nature that as oft as her body was but lightly touched with linen sparks flew out plentifully from her limbs apparent to her domestick Servants as if they had been struck out of a flint accompanied also with a noise that was to be heard by all Oftentimes when she rubbed her hands upon the sleeve of her smock that contained the sparkles within it she observed a flame with a tailed ray running about as fired exhalations are wont to do insomuch that her Maids were oftentimes deluded supposing they had left fire in the bed after warming of it in Winter in which time also fire is most discernible This fire was not to be seen but in the dark or in the night nor did it burn without it self though combustible matter was applied to it nor lastly as other fire did it cease within a certain time but with the same manner of appearance of light it shewed it self after my departure out of Italy 11. I have read saith Ross● of one who had a horn grew upon his heel a foot long which being cut off grew again and would doubtless have still renewed if the tough and viscous matter had not been diverted and evacuated by Issues Purges and Phlebotomy 12. Fernelius saith he saw a Girl that lived in near neighbourhood to him the ligaments of whose joynts were so very loose that you might bend and turn any of them this or that way at your pleasure and that it was so with her from the time of her birth 13. Sir Iohn Mason born at Abington bred at All souls in Oxford died 1566. and lies buried in the Quire of St. Pauls I remember this Distick of his long Epitaph Tempore quinque suo regnantes ordine vidit Horum à Consiliis quatuor ille fuit He saw five Princes which the Scepter bore Of them was Privy Counsellor to four That is to Henry the Eighth Edward the Sixth Q. Mary and Q. Elizabeth 14. Thomas Bourchier successively Bishop of Worcester Ely and Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal by the Title of St. Cyriacus in the Baths being consecrated Bishop of Worcester An. 1435. the fourteenth of Henry the Sixth he died Archbishop of Canterbury 1486. the second of King Henry the Seventh whereby it appears that he wore a Miter full fifty one years a term not to be parallel'd in any other person he saw the Civil Wars of York begun and ended having the honour to marry King Henry the Seventh to the Daughter of King Edward the Fourth Nor is it the least of wonders that he lost not himself in the La●yrinth of such intricate times 15. Sir Thomas Frowick was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the eighteenth year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh four years he sate in his place accounted the Oracle of the Law in his Age though one of the youngest men that ever enjoyed that Office He 〈◊〉 reported to have died floridâ juventute before full forty years old so that he was Chief Justice at thirty five he died 1506. Octob. 17. 16. That was great and excellent in Socrates that whatever fell out of joy or otherwise he returned with the same countenance he went forth with and was never seen to be more merry or melancholy than at other times in any alteration of times or affairs 17. In the Reign of King Iames in the year 1613. on the 26. of Iune in the Parish of Christ-Church in Hampshire one Iohn Hitchel a Carpenter lying in bed with a young child by him was himself and the child burnt to death with a sudden Lightning no fire appearing outwardly upon him and yet lay burning for the space of almost three days till he was quite consumed to ashes 18. Lucius Fulvius being Consul of the Tusculani who at that time rebelled he deserted them and was thereupon made Consul at Rome and so it fell out that in one and the same year in which he was an Enemy to Rome he triumphed at Rome and a Consul over those to whom he had been Consul 19. It is said of Charles Earl of Valois that he was the Son of a King Brother to a King Uncle to a King and Father to a King and yet no King himself 20. There was amongst the Magnesians one Protophanes who in one and the same day won the Prize in the Olympick Games both at Wrastling and other Games when he was dead certain Thieves opened his Sepulchre and went into it hoping to have found something to prey upon after which