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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

of Hungary came thither accompanied with divers Noble-men and Gentlemen who notwithstanding found no deceit therein Thus she continued for the space of almost four years Her Torments seemed to increase more and more upon her At last the chief Magistrate of the City sent for her Parents and asked them whether they desired to have their Daughter delivered from so great Torments by the Physicians making incision into her Belly Her Father being a plain man answered that he was willing to leave his Daughter to God's Providence and to lawful Remedies of Physicians But the Mother being guilty of the Deceit said that she would not have them to attempt any thing to the endangering of her daughters life adding moreover that she would pray that God's Vengeance might light upon them if her Daughter miscarried under their hands Yet some were sent to the Maid to mind her that they had many times craved help of Physicians that now there was a proffer made of their help who by God's assistance might either wholly free her from her Distemper or at least asswage the violence of it But she being instructed of her Mother answered That she with a willing mind would patiently suffer what it should please God to inflict upon her that she desired not any Physick but that as for the space of four years she had undergone the extremity of her Pains so she was still willing to bear the Cross which God had laid upon her till it pleased him to remove it hoping that she should still be as able to bear the violence of her Disease as hitherto she had been But the Magistrate of Elsing being better pleased with her Father's Answer sent a Dr. of Physick with two Chirurgions and a Midwife to search the Maidens Belly by Incision These came to her and searching her Belly found it stuffed with Clouts very cunningly and with Pillows and such like Materials with divers Hoops wherewith her Belly was made round she crying out all the while and when all these were removed they saw the Maiden stark naked with as well a compact and as fair a Body as might be When now the Deceit was discovered the Parents with the Daughter and all they which were accessory with whom in the Night whilst others slept she made good cheer were carried to Prison and afterwards put to the Rack The counterfeit Belly was brought to the Town-house and there shewed to the Burgo-masters and the Maids Mother was found to be a Witch who by the Devils help had caused those strange noises which seemed to proceed out of the Maids Belly and upon strict examination she confessed that she had done all these things by the Devils perswasion and help for Gain-sake all these four years for which she was condemned by the Judge had first her Neck broke and afterwards was openly burned The Daughter had her Cheek burned through with an hot iron and was condemned to perpetual Imprisonment The Father who took his Oath that he was deceived by his Wife and Daughter even till that day wherein this wicked Fact vvas discovered vvas acquitted and freely dismissed the other Accessories vvere banished and some of them that vvere most guilty vvere othervvise punished Of People long-lived who have had their Teeth and Excrements of Hair renewed MR. Purchas in his Pilgrimage relateth that whilst the Portugals were busie in building a Fort in the Kingdom of Decan belonging to Asia that there came a certain Bengalan to the Governour which had lived as he affirmed three hundred thirty five years The old men of the Country testified that they had heard their Ancestors speak of his great Age and himself had a Son fourscore and ten years old and not at all Book-learned yet was a speaking Chronicle of those passed Times His Teeth had sometimes fallen out others growing in their places and his Beard after it had been very hoary by degrees returned into his former blackness About an hundred years before that time he had alter'd his Pagan Religion into the Arabian or Moorish For this his Miraculous age the Sultans of Cambaya had allowed him a Stipend to live on the continuance of which he sought and did obtain of the Portugals Fryar Joano dos Santos tells a Story of one who was alive Anno 1605 of whom the Bishop of Cochin had sent men to inquire who by diligent search found that he was then 380 years old and had married eight times the Father of many Generations They said his Teeth had thrice fallen out and were thrice renewed his hair thrice hoary and as oft black again He could tell of nineteen successive Kings which reigned in Horan his native Country in Bengala He was also born a Gentile and after turned Moor and hoped he said to dye a Christian rejoycing to see a Picture of St Francis saying as the Fryar tells us such a man when he was twenty five years old had foretold him that long life Nic-di Conti saith he saw a Bramane three hundred years old But to come nearer to our home Mr. Morison reporteth of the Irish Countess of Desmond that she lived to the age of a hundred and forty Years being able to go on foot four or five miles to the Market-Town and using weekly so to do in her last Years and not many years before she died she had all her Teeth renewed He also tells of one Jemings a Carpenter in Beverly a Town of Holdernes in England whom the men of those Parts reported to have lived a hundred and twenty years and that he married a young Woman some few years before his death by whom being of good Fame he had four Children and that his eldest Son by his first Wife then living was a hundred years old or thereabouts but was so decrepid as he was rather taken for the Father than the Son King James going a Progress into Hereford-shire the ingenious Serjeant Hoskin gave him an Entertainment where he provided ten aged People to dance the Morrice before him all of them making up more than a thousand years so that what was wanting in one was supplied in another A Nest of Nestors saith Mr. Fuller not to be found in another place In the Year 1634. Thomas Earl of Arundel a great Lover of Antiquities in all kinds brought out of the Country unto King Charles the First an old man named Thomas Parre Son of John Parre born at Alberbury in the Parish of Winnington in Shrop-shire who lived to be above a hundred and fifty Years of Age verifying his Anagram Thomas Parre Most rare hap He was born in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth 1483. and towards his latter end slept away most part of his time being thus character'd by an Eye-witness of him From Head to Heel his Body had all over A quick-set thick-set nat'ral hairy Cover Having been at Westminster about two Months change of Air and Diet better in it self but worse for him with the trouble of many Visitants or

knowledge of Prophecy by their Necromantical Science because every thing came to pass as they had spoken For soon after their Arrival at Court the Thane of Cawder being condemned of Treason against the King his Title Lands Livings and Offices were given of the King's Liberality unto Mackbeth The same Night at Supper Banquho jested with him and said Now Mackbeth thou hast obtained those things which the two former Sisters promised there remaineth only for thee to purchase that which the third said should come to pass Encouraged thus by Banquho's Words but more by assurance of his helping hand he resolved not to be wanting to himself to fulfill the Prophecy of the third Weird his Wife also encouraging him much to the Attempt being very ambitious and burning with unquenchable desire to bear the name of a Queen Hereupon to put his disloyal Thoughts into Execution he murthers the King and by reason of his Command among the Souldiers and common People he succeeded in his Throne and was crowned at Scone the usual place for the Coronation of their Kings and being thus invested in the Regal Chair he for a while used great Justice and Liberality amongst his Subjects whereby he gained the Affections both of the Nobles and Common People But as commonly those who make a Ladder of Mischief to climb up to Promotion are ever jealous of those who may prejudice their unjust Titles so he calling to Mind the Prediction given to his Companion Banquho whom hereupon suspecting as his Supplanter he caused to be killed together with his whole Kindred Fleance his Son only with much difficulty escaping into Wales Glad he was now that he was freed from this Fear but yet for his further Security he built a strong Castle on the top of an high Hill called Dunsinane ten miles from Perth on such a proud height that standing there aloft a man might behold well near all the Countries of Angus Fife Stermond and Ernedale as it were lying underneath him making this his ordinary Seat yet could not his guilty Conscience be still secure but upon new Fears consulting with certain Wizards about his future Estate was told by one that he should never be overcome till Bername Wood which was some few miles distant did come to Dunsinane Castle and by another that he should never be slain by any Man born of a Woman Secure then as he thought he omitted no kind of Libidiousness or Cruelty putting to Death many of his Nobles upon slight pretences thereby to get their Estates into his hands Mackduffe Thane of Fise seeing no end of his Cruelty posted into England to Malcomne Cammore a Prince of the Royal Blood persuading him to take upon him the Crown of Scotland and to free his Country from so detestable a Tyrant and so far he prevailed that Malcomne with Syword Earl of Northumberland and ten thousand well appointed Souldiers marched into Scotland to whom joyned some few Patriots which had not yet felt the Tyrants Sword These marching with as much Privacy as so great an Army could be capable of came one Night to Bermane Wood and early in the Morning marched every Man bearing a Bough in his hand the better to keep them from Discovery toward Dunsinane Castle which they presently took by Scalado Mackbeth escaping was pursued over-taken and urged to fight by Mackduffe to whom the Tyrant half in Scorn replyed that in vain he attempted his death for it was his Destiny never to be slain by any man born of a Woman now then is thy fatal Hour come said Mackduffe for I was never born of a Woman but violently cut out of my Mothers Belly she dying before her Delivery which Words so daunted the Tyrant though otherwise a man of good Performance that he was easily slain and Malcolmne Cammore the true Heir of the Crown seated in the Throne In the mean time whilst these things were acting Fleance the Son of Banquho so thrived in Wales that he grew into great favour and estimation with the Prince of that Countrey and into such familiarity with his Daughter that she of courtesie in the end suffered him to get her with Child which being once understood her Father the Prince conceived such hateful displeasure towards Fleance that he finally slew him and held his Daughter in most vile state of servitude for that she had consented to be on this wise deflowred by a Stranger At the last yet she was delivered of a Son named Walter who within few years proved a Man of greater Courage and Valiancy than any other had commonly been found although he had no better bringing up than by his Grand-fathers Appointment amongst the baser sort of People Howbeit he shewed ever even from his Infancy that there reigned in him a certain stoutness of Stomach ready to attempt high Enterprizes It chanced that falling out with one of his Companions after many taunting Words which passed betwixt them the other to his Reproach objected that he was Illegitimate wherewith being sore kindled in his raging Fury he ran upon him and slew him out of hand then was he glad to flee out of Wales and coming into Scotland to seek some Friendship there he happened into the Company of such English men as were come thither with Queen Margaret the Sister of Edgar Atheling who was married to Malcolme and now he behaved himself so soberly in all his Demeanour that within a while he was highly esteemed amongst them Not long after by such means attaining to the degree of high Reputation he was sent with a great Power of Men into the Western Isles into Galloway and other parts of the Realm to deliver the same of the Tyranny and injurious Oppression there exercised by divers misgoverned Persons which Enterprize according to his Commission he atcheived with such prudent Policy and Man-hood that immediately upon his Return to the Court he was made Lord Steward of Scotland from which Office the name of Steward became as the Sir-name of all his Posterity From this Walter descended that Robert Steward who was after in Right of his Wife King of Scotland since which time there was successively nine Sovereigns of that Name in Scotland and three in England King James King Charles the First and King Charles the Second And may the Providence above so nourish That Name in England may for ever flourish Of a Costermonger 's Daughter of London how after many strange Adventures she came at last to be chief Sultaness to the Grand Seignior of Constantinople OF all the Passions which possess the Spirits of Men there is none which yields such variety of Admiration and Wonder as those of Love of which I shall give you herein a most notable Example scarcely to be parallell'd in any of our Romantick Stories did not we know the Power of Beauty how it subdues far beyond the Sword by conquering the Conquerours and making all things subject to it In our Metropolitan City of London there lived a