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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08014	A most rare & true report, of such great tempests, straunge sightes, and wonderfull accidents, which happened by the prouidence of God, in Hereford shire, at a place called the Hay, and there abouts, besides the sightes of strannge [sic] fowles, which there were seene, most fearefull to beholde, with their horrible cryes & strangeness, with the great hurt was done by them..	Law, Thomas, fl. 1585-1589?, pub.	1585 (1585)	STC 20889.5; ESTC S94870	2,465	8

A most rare true report of such great tempests straunge sightes and wonderfull accidents which happened by the prouidence of God in Herefordshire at a place called the Hay and there abouts besides the sightes of straunge Fowles which there were seene most fearefull to beholde with their horrible cryes strangenes with the great hurt was done by them LONDON Imprinted for Thomas Law 1585. Math. 3. Amend your liues for the kingdome of God is at hand IF beloued the sundrie and manifold examples of Gods indignation powred vpon vs which we through our intollerable heapes of iniquities haue deserued be extinct and that through his owne intyre mercy and vnspeakeable clemencie withdrawing his heauie displeasure from our heads we become forgetful of his goodnes sleeping in sinne drencht in the depth of our desires and wallowing in iniquities Let this rare and wonderfull spectacle of our vtter decaie and ruinous subuersion be an admonition a caueat yea and an alarum to awake vs from our sinful and sluggish sléeping least the condigne wrath of our Lord and sauiour come vpon vs before we bée aware but vnwares we cannot account it in somuch as he sendeth giueth and sheweth innumerable signes of his heauie displeasure euen in a moment to fall vpon vs aswell in other signes as in this sight the very report wherof but little read and lightly regarded may be sufficient to reclaime the most sinnefull and hard harted creature On Saterday being the 25. of September last past at the Hay in Herefordshier was sene so rare a sight as neither our forefathers haue knowne nor we our selues heard of For there arose sodenlye a most wonderfull and cruell tempest with such aboundant high waters that the whole countrie was not onely greatly amazed therwith but also in danger of drowning besides the losse of great and plenteous store of Corne and Cattell wherewith they were indued at which instant there appeared also a most wonderfull and dreadfull sight of two great cloudes the one being blacke which arising issued from the North the other being white came from the South part which meeting together seemed to rend the Skie with their ratling in such vnusuall sort that it brought a most rare and terrible terrour to the beholders In the middest of which cloudes opposite with the earth did visibly appeare there situated a faire greene Field as it had beene of feirne in which field dispersed was seene flying an innumerable companie of blacke Crowes and other Foules which continuing a certaine time sent foorth moste dreadfull straunge and wonderful cryes no lesse rare to be recited then lamentable to regard being in altitude to the iudgement of the beholders not aboue 30. fadomes from the earth with a verye obscure and darke continuance and not long before the vanishing of these cloudes was heard so rare and horrible roaring as if it had beene the cryes of beares and lyons yea and that so terrible that it was rather iudged to haue beene the skritching of some maleuolent hellish and furious fiends these presupposed Crowes were of diuers credible persons visiblye seene to rent and teare whole houses barnes and stables yea and to pull out whole and huge trees by the rootes in a most rare and wonderfull manner ransacked and dispersed into diuerse places yea and after a moste dreadfull sight some of the rafters and peeces therof were carried vp into the aire and after that neuer sithens seene with great store of corne which at that time was carried away Likewise such hauoke made of trees that had stood a long time as woulde almost exceede a truth to be spoken of some were pulled vp by the rootes and cast a bow shot from the place other some cut as it had beene with an axe or saw and other some so straungely writhen as the like hath not beene seene of our forefathers nor hard of our selues Moreouer and besides al this was sene a most rare and terrible stratagem and perfect paterne of our impietie for the which vnlesse spéedie and suppliant prayers be lifted vp vnto our Lord that it may please him of his infinite goodnes and mercie to bee fauourable vnto vs we are and shall be in daunger of his heauie displeasure from the which God for his infinite goodnes and mercies sake deliuer vs At that instant I say beloued there was seene of diuerse credible persons a most huge great and vgly black dogg who running along in the presence of manye beholders rent toare and pulled vp whole trees by the rootes most wonderfull to looke vpon which did so amaze and terrifie the inhabitants there about that they expected nothing els but that dolefull and dismall day of Doome I meane the comming of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ which no doubt nether is nor can be far off Many other rare and great tempests about that time were seene in Deuonshier and diuers other places the verie rumour whereof may of it selfe without further witnes bee sufficient to withdraw vs from our most obstinate sinfull and wicked lustes and determinations wherby we heape vpon our heads the heauie wrath and indignation of our Sauiour Christ who I say beloued except wee spéedily repent and cal for grace the multitude of our sinnes dayly increasing more and more will suffer his wrath to fall vpon vs. Looke how farre the East is from the West so far hath he set our sinnes from vs to th end we might repent and sinne no more yea euen as a father pittieth his owne children so hath he compassion on vs and fauourably admonisheth vs by diuerse examples of his indignation to abolish these our manifold sinnes In somuch as with Ierusalem by diuerse and sundry tokens he hath manifested his fatherly clemencie vnto vs yea euen as a hen gathereth her Chickins vnder her winges so woulde he haue called vs and we would not Verily beloued the men of Niniuie repented at the preaching of Ionas with ashes and sackcloth and turned vnto the Lord who had pittie and compassion on them The Queene of the South shall arise against vs in iudgement for she came to heare the wisedome of Salomon and we haue greater then Salomon or Ionas when the Lord himselfe admonisheth vs by earth quakes comets and signes in the ayre the verye Turkes Panims and Infidels will arise in iudgement against vs who no doubt had they known the Lord God or the multitude of examples that we haue sene would haue bin conuerted Let vs I say repent be watchfull and vigilant that our Lord and sauiour comming like good stewards we may make account of our liues and be readie for the comming of our father when he shall discend in his glorious maiestie to iudge both the quicke and the dead and when hee shall say come ye blessed of my father inherite the kingdome which is prepared for you from the beginning of the world that then I say we may appeare al righteous before him to ascend with him into his glorious maiestie there to liue and remaine with him the father in glorie world without end FINIS