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Heuy newes of an horryble earth quake whiche was in the cytie of Scharbaria in this present yeare of. xlii. The xiii. day of June. Also how that a cytie in Turky is sonke.; Hevy newes of an horryble earth quake whiche was in the cytie of Scharbaria.
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Heuy newes ¶ Of an horryble earth quake whiche was in the cytie of Scharbaria in this present yeare of xlij The xiij day of Iune ¶ Also how that a cytie in Turky is sonkeâ ¶ The heuy newes contayned in a letter sent out of Italy RIghte douty and welbeloued Lorde I lette you wytte the pytieful new tydyng and horrible earthquake which I meselfe haue sene where I with my two company ãâ¦ã was at ynne by a towne which ãâã about .xvi. myle from Florence aâââs called Scharbaria where we werââââged ouer nyghte On the .xiii. daâ ãâã Iune of this present yeare one hoâââ before the breake of the daye hath almyghty God of his greate mercy anâ fatherly loue preserued vs ãâ¦ã from all euell and ãâ¦ã whiche we neuer ãâ¦ã prayse hym ãâ¦ã that throuââ ãâ¦ã he wyll alwaye preserue vs. For we may surely marke well ynough by the wonderfull tokens that he hath prophecyed to come and partly do nowe dayly chaunce before our eyen that the daye of dome is at hande In the mornynge one houre before the breake of the daye dyd ryse greate and horryble earth quakes for there happened seuen in the space of an hâure I with me two fellowes were alâ thre in slepe in the bedde in an ynne of the suburbes neare to the gates whiche was a great fortune foââs that we were not closed in ¶ The fyrste earthquake The fyrst earthquake was so fearââ ãâã âade so great a noyse that I ãâ¦ã âoughte at the fyrste ãâ¦ã âyshynge that I ãâ¦ã âut at the same ãâ¦ã house begyn to cleue in sunder and the chymeney with the thacke to fall so that we dyd flye contynently howe we eskaped can not I tell yet throughe the helpe of God dyd we eskape withoute hurte or harme of oure bodyes But within the cytie are nearehande sonke and broken all the houses and some folke peryshed The churches greate howses are all fallen to the grounde The people that was lefte in lyfe dyd crye Misericorde with greate chatterynge of tethe by reason of the feare and ranne out of the citie into a moras grounde where we were fledde also with oure ooste and his housholde Helas for pitie there was so pytiefull an outcrye and howlynge of men and women as I neuer dyd heare all the dayes of my lyfe Muche people dyd lye besyde the stones and timber which coulde not be holpe for feare whether some dyd ronne to them that can not I tell For I can not fully wryte vnto you of the horrible punishment and aduertisement of God Farthermore dyd there ryse at the same houre yet .vj. earthquakes more the one after the other whiche were so horryble at the fyrst that the earth dyd so shake as though it wolde haue opened it selfe and swalowed vs all It was so calme wether that one leafe of the trees dyd not moue The skye was so darck and black that I for my part dyd wayte for the clerynge therof euery twynckelynge of an eye Summa euery thynge was muche more and more horrible than I can euer describe vnto you Neuerthelesse God gaue grace that the darckenesse voyded and the daye came agayne the wynde began also to blowe agayne wherfore we were glad and lauded and thanked God which had so gracyously shewed his mercy to vs. After that dyd we ryde to Florence our Lorde be mercyfull vnto vs for I beleue surelye that I haue in dede sene an example of the domes daye The town hath yet left foure hundreth and twenty heerthes or places for fyre Good Lord what a pitieful cryenge and callynge vppon God was herde there To burne a towne is not to be compared by this dolorous chaunce God our Lorde graunte vnto vs all his mercy that we maye by this earthquake amende and conuerte vs to his glory and oure soules health Amen Lyke earthquakes haue ben at Florence and in all those countryes but they haue not done so great hurtes saue onely that they haue ouerthrowen many chymenies This haue I written vnto you in hayste bycause the Post coulde not tarye ¶ An other new tydynge that is happened in Turky IN Turky as I vnderstande is a cytie sonke into the grounde out of the whiche is not one man escaped She lyeth in a playne contry from the whiche the Turkysh safferon commeth about a dayes iourney from Solonichio whiche is a renowmed citye in Turky Thus fare ye well In my nex writynge vnto you shall ye haue farther certification of all thynges ⸫ ¶ Imprinted in Aldersgate strete by Nicolas Bourman