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head_n	arm_n	foot_n	neck_n	4,690	5	11.2560	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89372	The most strange and wounderfull apperation of blood in a poole at Garraton in Leicester-shire, which continued for the space of foure dayes, the rednesse of the colour for the space of those foure dayes every day increasing higher and higher, to the infinet amazement of many hundreds of beholders of all degrees and conditions, who have dipped their handketchers in this bloody poole, ... As also the true relation of a miraculous and prodigious birth in Shoo-lane, where one Mistris Browne a cuttlers wife was delivered of a monster without a head or feet, and in stead of a head had a hollow out of which a child did proceed, which was little but lovely, perfect in all but very spare and leane. As also the Kings sending to his Parliament for hostage for the security of his person to come unto London and to sit with his parliament for the composing the diffirences in the kingdome.		1645 (1645)	Wing M2921; Thomason E303_22; ESTC R200300	5,363	8

rubrick in our dayes did this prodigious sight appeare and afterward the crimsin colour of the pond did begin to change and every day to looke paler and paler untill at lenght it by degree turned unto its first complection of water the bloody substance sinking downe and by its owne weight settling it selfe in the bottome of the pond In the meane time the rumor of this flying up and downe the Country there being above one thousand witnesses to justifie the truth of it one Master Neale a Gentleman of good account living at great Leake in Nottingham-shire being travailing on his occasion unto London and hearing the report of it to be commonly spoken as he did ride upon the way thought it was foure miles out o● the rod he resolued to see it and making haste he easily overcome the lenght of the way out of a desire to in enjoy the nouelty of the sight being avived he sat a long time on horseback at the entrance into the Pond musing and looking on it for it was just at that time when the water did begin to returne to its first complection and perceving the red substance in the nature of a filmy body to descend towards the bottome he did put spurres unto his horse who did fling back and snorted and was unwilling to goe into the Pond but after he had forced him to enter a little way into it and stirred towards the bottome of the water with his Cane he perceied clots as it were of congealed blood in great abundance to rise up and having stayed upon the top of the water for a little space to descend afterwards by degrees againe Not able to satisfie himselfe with any reason from whence this wonder should arise he departed but the Country people resoluing to examine and dive into the cause thereof they had a meeting amongst themselves for that intent and concluded at it to have the pond dreyned It being beleeved that the enemy had throwne some Carcasses into the pond to stayne the water and to bring thereby some suddaine distruction upon the Cattle This beleeve being entertained the sluce is opened and now the water comes trumbling forth as if it were glad of its liberty and was afraid to stay any longer in the portentous place where before it was in a swift to rent it made good its passage as if one part were emulation to overtake the other and the latter strove with the former for the honour of proceeding And to perfect the worke wherein some deeper places of the pond the water stood still and could not disadvantage it selfe into the chennell the Countrym●n some with scoopes and some with pailes did carry forth the water with many hands they overcame the task which seemed at first almost impossible And the pond being drayned and found nothing but fish of which in divers kinds there were great store those fish seemed still to be very good and nothing the worse for that miraculous accident which had made red the water We may learne by this what God can doe who in a most wonderfull way can expresse his power without the least dammage to the Creatures Howsoever the pond being drayned dry which may increase the wonder the blood in many places was discovered in extended degrees to be like so many scarlet Carpots on the bottome of the poole to the unspeakeable amazement of the beholders and indeed they may well put wonder on for though in out owne Chronicles in other Histories we have read sometimes of Clouds that have rayned dropes of blood which though it is very wonderfull yet because Phelosophers have undertake to give a naturall reason for it it substracteth some thing from the greatnesse of the wonder but this as no cause can be assigned for it so no story that I remember can example it but being as farre beyond nature as example it sheweth it selfe to proceed from the immediate power and the hand of God I will not presume to give you the interpretation of it not say it is suitable to the present condition of these bleeding times neither will I be so hardy as to affirme that the foure dayes wherein the water every day seemed to increase in the rednesse of its colour doth signifie the foure years of the war which now are already or neere expired and that as the water every day for the foure dayes exceeded one another in the desines of its sanguine dye it looking every day redder then before so the watre for these foure yeares hath every yeare beene one yeare more bloody then the other surely it will prove good newes could I from hence assure you that as after the foure dayes being ended the water did begin to returne in its first genuine colour so the fourth yeare of this war being expired the Kingdome shall againe returne to its ancient blessing and habit of peace and that as the water bringing its first cleanes the blood did sinke downe and vanish away so now the crying sins of blood shall be washed away from this Kingdome by the cleanes of a new life and by the teares of true repentance There were many of the towne of Carraton both men and women and of the inhabitants of the Country thereabouts who dipped their handkechers in this pond when it was of a bloodly colour and the linnen retayning the complection of blood it will be a testimoniall to succeeding times of this most strange and wonderfull accident and of the truth of what we write But to give you a good pond to all these wonderfull events we have received intelligence and it is confidently reported that the King having of late received to many overthrowes and losse upon losse and despairing of and successe by Armes hath now sent unto the Parliament at Westminster to desire hostages for the security of his person that he may come and sit among them to compose the differences of the Kingdome It it the desire of many thousands that His Majesty may continue in this happy resolution and that after so many deffiulties and dangers past and so much blood spilt he might at lenght by the mercy of God returne and be reconciled to his Parliament and to this there is no good Subject unlesse he be a desperate Malignant or some arch Papist but will say Amen In these sad dayes when the voyce of Gods wrath are poured forth on the face of the whole Earth wonders were never more frequent Every day almost bringeth forth some new Miracle In Shoolane London on Tuesday September sixteene there was a monstrou and prodigious Birth of which the good-woman was delivered with infinet paine and danger It seemed to be as it were two children the one arising from upper monstrous part of the other the first child out of which the other lid proceed had neither head not feet but was onely content with thighes and two-stumps for leggs neither had it any armes but two imperfect branches came from the shoulders of it which had no hands at all The nailes both for the hands foot in a sormidable length and shapenesse did grow out of the hipps on each side to the great amazement of the beholders It had no head but in Head thereof there did arise from the neck a great and hollow lumpe of flesh and from thence did proceed another birth in the shape of a man child and perfect in every limb it was but little but very lovely to behold spare and leane and its feet were fastoned in the hollow trunke which grew about the neck of the other monster out of which it doth appeare the whole body doth proceed it is crediable that it received its originall and the beginning of its growth from the imperfect ruines of the other which as I have said having neither head nor feet receive perfect shapes in all other parts the armes onely excepted and it was very plumpe and fat and as it seemed designed by nature a female These birth do carry with them remarkable observations sad and monsterous times must labour still with sad and monstrous births and this as it was still-borne was exposed unto puplick veiw to the infinet amazement of the beholders and to the great griefe of the Parents FINIS