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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10169	The protestants and Iesuites vp in armes in Gulicke-land Also, a true and wonderfull relation of a Dutch maiden (called Eue Fliegen of Meurs in the county of Meurs) who being now (this present yeare) 36 yeares of age, hath fasted for the space of 14 yeares, confirmed by the testimony of persons, both honourable and worshipfull, (as well English, as Dutch. Truely translatedi [sic] according to the Dutch coppy	Wood, T., fl. 1611.	1611 (1611)	STC 20449; ESTC S114340	6,113	14

The Protestants and Iesuites vp in Armes in Gulicke-land Also A true and wonderfull relation of a Dutch maiden called Eue Fliegen of Meurs in the Country of Meurs who being now this present yeare 36 yeares of age hath fasted for the space of 14 yeares confirmed by the testimony of persons both Honourable and worshipfull as well English as Dutch Truely translated according to the Dutch Coppy EVA VLIEGE Imprinted at London for Nicholas Bourne 1611. Laus Deo this 27 of Iuly Anno 1611 stilo magnae Brytanniae The Letter BEloued Brother many hearty commendations c. I haue sent vnto you the picture and liuely description of a Dutch maiden drawn out of Dutch colours put into English The Dutch coppy comes along with it which I haue translated as well to giue you testimony of my brotherly affection towards you as to haue my Countreymen in England acquainted with so miraculous a power of Gods worke on so weake a creature therby the more to magnifie his glory If the newes of this be not as yet come to London I wish you to send it to the Presse It is not to be doubted but that a relation so fresh and vn-common wil be acceptable to our Nation to whom Newes are most welcome I know To confirme the truth hereof my Lord Generall with many other noble Gentlemen are worthy witnesses who both know this maiden haue seene her The report is new and lately published If it had bin possible to haue gotten meanes by a messenger sooner to haue sent it to you it had sooner come to your hands But as it is I pray receiue it with it a second Newes as fresh in the mouthes of all men and fuller of construction by reason of an expected Euent thereof to breake into a warres And that is in Aken within a dozen miles of Gulicke which I pray you likewise to publish to the common view The Dutch Coppy of the relation of Eue Fliegen of Meurs in the County of Meurs a maiden now aged 36 yeares who hath neither eate nor drunke any manner of Sustenance by the space of 14 yeares translated into English as followeth THe Omnipotent Creator of the world hath not in times past onely expressed the glory of his power in his wonderfull composition framing and presenting to the eye of Man all sorts of creatures both in heauen earth and the waters But euen now at this day is the same his miraculous hand working still Amongst infinite numbers of which his excellent peeces able to bold man in astonishment this of a Maiden is well worthy of admiration of whom because the true body and shape cannot in substance bee sent vp and downe the world this picture or counterfeit so neere as words can expresse her shewes her drawne to the life This Maiden by name Eue Fliegen liues at this present within the towne of Meurs she was borne in the yeare of our Lord 1575 within a little of that towne at a place called Fliegen-house wherupon she takes her name of meane and very poore parents So that in her yonger dayes they being not able better to maintaine her she was compelled to keepe swine for the country people enduring by that hard course of life the bitternesse of much hunger as she her selfe confesseth Liuing in this extremity of misery she often so well as she could seeing no other wayes nor hope of comfort made earnest prayers to God that he would take pitty of her wretchednes and relieue her from that daily hunger by which her body was tormented consumed her prayers were heard according to her request And such compassion tooke the Almighty of her miseries that in the yeare 1594 her desire of feeding which in former times she had grew to be faint very small Insomuch that euery 2 3 4 daies she tooke little sustenance or none at all From the 4 day she began voluntarily to fast til the ●0 day so did forbeare or rather had no stomacke to meate the space of fourteene dayes together which abstenēce of hers grew in the end end to such a custome that shee vtterly refused the tast either of meate or drinke and in that manner hath her body by Gods prouidence bene preserued euer since the yeare of our Lord 1597 to this present yeare 1611 being full 14 yeares This strange wonder continuing thus long drew not onely many people to see her but also many tryals to be put vpon her amongst which this was one In the yeare 1599 the Noble Countesse of Meurs with her waiting Gentlewoman hauing brought this Eue Fleigen into a garden with much importunity to haue her eate somewhat so preuailed that shee plucked a cherry and tasted it and had no sooner eaten it downe but that the Lady with her seruants were in feare shee would there presently haue dyed shee fell into so sodaine and violent passion of an extreme sickenesse in the which she continued a long time but in the end with much ado recouered her health Which a yeare after the said Eue falling againe into a greater sickenes it was held fit by the opinion of Docters to haue her drinke a spoonefull or two of the thin whey which comes from Buttermilke being sodden shee made offer to tast it but could by no meanes take it downe At another time of sicknes shee her selfe thought she could sup the broth of a chicken but no more then a spoonefull being offered to her shee fell into a more extreme fit of sickenes then before so that finding her body afflicted by these tryals shee vtterly abandoned the vse of any food or nourishment by the full space now of 14 yeares In all which time through no disposition of the season or time of the yeare hath shee bene seene or knowne either to complaine of thirst or hunger yet vntill her age of 20 or 22 yeares shee tooke her food where by her labour or other honest meanes it could be gotten as other people commonly vse to do This her forbearance to take the due nourishmēt that should maintaine life hath brought her body to a weaknes and her face to an exceeding palenes She saith that euery second day an exceeding cleere light shineth round about her body the common light or brightnes of the day being nothing comparable to it which light when she beholdeth and as she saith feeleth shining vpon her she hath likewise a feeling on her tongue of a strange and extraordinary delicate sweetenes the moisture of which strengthens her to her seeming for her eies can behold no other thing but only that perfect and vnusuall light The Preacher of Meurs by name Conradus Felthnijsen could not along time be perswaded that this was truth which hee heard reported of this maiden to giue therefore not onely content to himselfe but satisfaction in this matter to others his friends who were of his beleefe likewise he tooke the said Eue being come to heare the euening Sermon home with

him to his owne house there kept her in a chamber by the space of 13 daies watched day and night by sundry other persons his friends candles burning euery night and she neuer being suffered to be alone without company the space of one minute in all which time shee neuer tasted foode and at the end of 13 daies and nights being demanded whether she where then either hungry or thirsty she answered no so that the Preacher now hauing by the experience of his owne eyes found out that which he could not before beleeue is now inforced with admiration to acknowledge to be true To whose testimony a thousand persons both honourable and of other condition can witnesse and there is she liuing at this day in the towne of Meurs to be seene and spoken with daily and hourely her manner of liuing being obserued with the narrowest eyes seuerest circumspection so that it is impossible she should be an imposter or deluder and the better to confirme the truth of this a worthy Magistrate of the same towne hath giuen liberall and ample approbation to certaine Citties to seuerall persons of worth with his certificate and the seale of the towne thereunto annexed if all these testimonies of her cannot perswade and win credit to our report the maiden of whom it is made is yet to be seene in the towne of Meurs Nor shall it be amisse the better to strengthen this short discourse to set downe in a few lines more what some histories of our present times do mention of persons who in the like manner haue fasted long beyond the ordinary strength custome of mans body and liued as this maiden does now without eating Franciscus Citesius Doctor in the vniuersity at Poitiers witnesseth in his booke written in Lattine imprinted at Montpellier in Anno 1602 that for certaine yeares one Catherine of Colberghen liued in Spires 7 yeares together without meate or drinke Also within the town of Conflans in France lying vpō the borders of Limosin vpō the riuer Vien A Smith by name Iohn Balam begot of his wife Lucrece Chambelle in the yeare 1588 a daughter named Ione Balam who for the space of two yeares did neither eate or drinke in publication of which wōder that famous and eloquent Doctor Iacobus Viuerius wrote certaine verses which are thus Englished How many wonders great before our eies appeares Whereof no reason firme to you can shewed be Behold 〈◊〉 in health indures at womans yeares Twise a moneths long to fast for sustenance none takes she The Lords and neighbours there to her had good regard That dwelt in Conflans towne on that Vienish fare No meate no● drinke in all that time so long she mard Her throate so narrow was her victuals she did spare Full strange it was to see her belly was so flat The passages were shut no entrance there was found She voyded nothing forth nothing at all she ate Her priuy parts were cleane thence nothing fel to groūd But yet she speakes she sighs she goes she feeles I know Mine eies are witnes sure here of you need not doubt Which wōdrous work doth teach that nature here below By God alone is rul'd who gouernes all about To whom all things that were or euer yet shall be Must stoope their lofty tops their heads also must bend Whose wisdom might power ô man doth teach to thee To praise his name for aye And so I make an end Ouer the picture of the maiden in the Dutch Coppy stood these Lattine verses viz. Meursae haec quam Cernis decies tor sexque peregit Annos bis septem prorsus non vescitur Annis Nec potat sic sola sedet sic pallida vitam Ducit exigni se oblectat floribus Horti Thus Englished This Maid of Meurs hath thirty sixe yeare spent Fourteene of which she tooke no nourishment Thus pale and wan shee sits sad and alone A garden is all she loues to looke vpon The Letter BEloued Brother if you call to remembrance my former letters written vnto you about the beginning of September 1605 you shall find in thē a report of this Maiden of Meurs who at the time had fasted but eight yeares which report I know you very sleightly entertained and as I thinke thought it fabulous and vntrue But before that time and euer since her manner of liuing hath beene so narrowly looked into that I am now my selfe thoroughly perswaded to beleeue it because not onely I but thousands besides haue seene her can testify with mee None of the Princes of Germany nor any Noblemen or Gentlemen of England trauelling neere that way but haue bene eye-witnesses of what I write to you concerning her many at this present in the English Court haue seene her His excellency Graue Maurice who is Earle of Meurs neuer commeth into the Towne but he makes her one of his guests yet she eateth noting at all Thus much of this wonder Now for Gulicke-newes The Protestants and Iesuites vp in Armes in Gulicke-land AT Aken a great Towne where the Crowne of the Empire is kept standing within 12 miles of Gulicke in Gulicke-land did this quarrell begin vpon the occasion following Since the taking of Gulick that the land was gouerned by a Protestant Prince the Protestants presumed as well they might to haue more liberty then they had wont and to go to heare Sermons a mile or two out of the towne yet in most Townes in Cleue-land they vse to preach in Churches The Iesuites taking note of this and the Magistrates being Papists fauourers of their owne religion consulted together how to stop this tide and passage of the Protestants from swelling to a greater streame thereupon suddenly apprehended as many of the Protestants that had bene at the Sermons as they could possible lay hands vpon Great fines being set vpon some and the rest whose number were not few appointed to be banished Which seuerity cruell doome was borne with patience so long that out of Aken were drawne into banishment 300 families at least and that vpon the 13 day of Iune now last past there were to bee sent from thence into the like misery and exile a great number more The sight of which striking into the hearts of the common Burgesses of the towne mouing thē to compassiō they resolued to go altogether to the Town-hall to haue their poore countrymen with their wiues and children staied at their intreaty and humble intercession they did so as they resolued and came to the place where their Magistrates were assembled But no praiers no teares no intreaty could preuaile but all were by the Magistrates sharpely charged and commanded to depart peaceably home to their houses for they knew well enough what belonged to their places to the state of towne and what was to be done But a number of people both Protestants and Papists in a mixed assembly being gathered together before the Towne-hall the Papists expecting the