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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03963	A vvorld of vvonders. A masse of murthers. A couie of cosonages Containing many of the moste notablest wonders, horrible murthers and detestable cosonages that haue beene within this land. Not imagined falso to delight vaine heads ociose, not practised trans mare to breed trueth cum ambiguitate, but commited euen at home re vera, and may be prooued cum honestate. A matter moste fit to be knowen, well wayed and considered of all men.	T. I., fl. 1595.; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 14068.5; ESTC S109081	33,922	48

Archigallo was twise king of this land and Elidurus his brother twise disposed so that he was thrise ruler heerof Catillus who ruled this land ten yeares caused all Extortioners and oppressors of the poore to be hanged to giue examples to other I would to God they were so vsed now a dayes I suppose there would be a great number of vsurers brokers sergiaunts About thréescore yeares after the birth of Christ it is supposed that Christianitie came into this land but diuers write diuersly for some as Necephorus and Dowthemus say that Simon Zelotes first preached Christ heere Some say Phillip the Apostle Some say Ioseph of Armathia that buryed our Lord. King Arthur conquered thirtie kingtomes such as were in those dayes wherin he liued In the raigne of Careticus and Ethelfridus was such ciuil and deadly warres that the most part of this land was buryed destroyed and the people that were left faine to flye into Wales the faithfull of Christ was then almost extinguished the Brittaines indispaire and in subuersion to the Saxons But what is the cause or this prouoking of Gods anger euen couetousnes whordome and extortion Looke vp England looke vp and repent those sinnes were then but euen in the budde now behol●e and repent for now are they in the fulnes of their flower and stay but for the frute Woe are wée whose doyes are so dangerous But Lord awake in mercie and take pittie on vs. Then couerend Beda wrote 78. bookes and in his time renoumed throughout the whole worlde When Bytiricus ruled this land it rained blood yea that fel on peoples clothes appeared like crosses When this land was stored with Wooules the Princes of VVales payed 300. Wooules euerie yeare to the King of England for at that time might scarce two be found vntill the yeare 994. neither feuer nor flix nor murren of Cattle were knowen in this land In the time of king VVilliam the Conquerour was scarcitie and dearth that men did eat horsses cats dogges yea and mans flesh Anno 1093 was such a famine that therof sprang such and so great a mortalitie that the quick were scant able the dead Also in the yeare 1099. we read that blood sprang out of y e earth at Finchamstead in Barkshire Much about this time the water of the riuer of Trent at Nottingham was dryed vp from one of the clock till thrée The like defection of water did the Theames at Londen bridg suffer about foure yeares after The 24. of February at Tewxbury being then their Faire such number of flyes and kyttles dammed Seuern that for the length of a Buts shot were in mens iudgement estéemed abooue a hundred quarters A wunder of wunders befel in England throughout 1133. for there was great darknes throughout all the land and the Sunne appeared no otherwise then as the Moone when she is in her last quarter Giraldus Cambrencis in his booke of the discription of Wales telleth that in the Cuntrey Kemanies yea in his time a young man named Se●●illus borne in those parts was so tormented w t toades as though all the toades in the Cuntrey had beene gathered together to vex him and when as innumerable numbers of them were killed by those that kept him by others of his friends and kinsmen yet came they still increasing in greater numbers then before insomuch that when his acquaintance perceiued no help after many assayes they loped all the boughes and leaues of a very high trée and closed him in a coffin made for the purpose so hoisted vp into the said high trée but notwithstanding poore S●isillies was still molested with them for they créeping vp wunderfull heapes left him not til they had eaten him vy to bare bones and so dyed About Orford in Suffolk certaine fishers tooke in their nettes a fish in all pointes shaped like a man which fish was half a yeare kept in Orford Castle for a wunder Hée would eat all manner meat but most gréedily raw fish he was shewed in no kinde of worship Aftermen had wundred at him hée was little estéemed of and so not béeing looked vnto stole away and was neuer heard of 1188. In the yeare 1230. a suddain darknesse chaunced in Poules-Church euen at seruice time so oue could scantly sée an other Also bout thrée or foure yeare afterward fiue sunnes to be séene in the ayre as also two great dragons flyingand fighting together during a whole day the one day chased the other to the déepe sea After all these followed great warres and troubles in England Wales c. Beholde all Cornehourders a wunderfull example not fained but by sufficient testimonies to be approued done euen at home In the yeare 1234 was a dearth in England as true histories recorde euen as now also there is so that many dyed for want of victualls The richmen as now a dayes were dwelled with couetousnes so that they would not releiue them that were in necessite Amongst whome a thing worthy noting was one Walter Gray Arch-bishop of Yorke whose corne béeing fiue yeares olde doubted that the vermine would destroy it and therfore cōmaunded to deliuer it to husband men that dwelt in his manours vppon condicion as much new corne after the next haruest and would distribute none of it to the poore for Gods sake Now it fortuned that when the men came to a great stacke of corne that stoode néere to the towne of Rippon belonging to the said Archbishop and had opened the corne there appeared in the sheaues the heds of wormes and of toades and horrible serpents yea and a voice was heard out of the mowe saying lay no handes one that corne for the Archbishop and all that he hath is the diuels This being heard the left it and the bayliffes of the Towne were faine to build an high wall round about the corne and then to set it one fire least the venemous venime should haue gonne out to haue poysned the corne in other places Beholde this true example and repent thou couetous richman and doe good while time is offered thée and God will blesse thée the better A sea-bull was taken passinge the thames as far as Mortlake to the 25. yeare of the reigne of King Richard the 3. It is most aproued that in the sayd Kings raigne ther dwelled in the Dioces of Lincolne a woman of noble birth both well fauored and beautifull who being married to a rich man in that curtry beare to her husband many children and yet not with stāding wonderfull to tell the sayd woman got another gētle with child and begate of her thrée sonnes one after an other or euer the ma●er came to light the woman were named Hauissia and Lucia In King Edward the 2 raigne flesh of beasts was so corrupted that men durst not eate therof such murraine of beasts and cattell was then that men and women stole Cattes and did eate their owne children some fatte dogges horses such like Prisoners plucked in peeces