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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95181	A true relation of some passages which passed at Madrid in the year 1623. by Prince Charles, being then in Spain prosecuting the match with the Lady Infanta. As also, severall observations of eleven ominous presages, some of them hapning in the same hear whil'st the said Prince was in Spain, the rest of them hapned from that time untill his death. With a discovery of some of the wayes which the then Popish Bishops used to bring Poperie into this nation. / By a lover of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the wellfare of this nation.	Lover of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the wellfare of this nation.	1655 (1655)	Wing T2918; Thomason E842_18; ESTC R207227	15,273	24

disgrace with the King for passing this sentence against them and for some other small marter which he crossed the Kings humour in and so this noble Gentleman was poy soned for no other cause but for opposing Summerset in the marriage of Essex his wife But the Lord did shew a great example upon them both but especially upon her for she died a more ●…thsome death then any woman ever died but for civilities sake I will forbear the particulars thereof But let us now leave this and speak no more of this curse but let us look up to heaven upon him that sees all the actions that are done on earth and that is the contriver of all marriages on earth both great and small and you small see how he doth frustrate the designes of all those that have plotted the downfall of the Gospell of Jesus Christ by bringing them to utter confusion in all their enter prises and I pray observe with me how in the very interim of this treaty the Lord did look down from heaven upon them and did send his thunders as messengers of his wrath to give them warning that he would meet with them and confound all their devises And in the first place be pleased to take notice that on Thursday the 30. of June 1623. whil'st the Prince was in Spain it being but two dayes after the Letter was written to the Pope for it was written the 28. day of June I. The Lord was pleased to send one great clap of Thunder which stroke away the flag and flag-staffe from the main-top-mast-head of a Ship then riding at Blackw●ll and bound for Spain with provision of fresh victuals to fetch the Prince home as live Muttons Capons and other fowls fit sot such a voyage Spain being barren of such provisions so that they could not be furnished there It was as fair a day as any hath been seen it also split the main-top-mast as own would have split an Osier twig it threw one part on one side of the Ship and the other part on the other side of the Ship it raised the main-mast down to the deck but did no other hurt to the Ship it killed two men and one woman at Croydon in the Bishop of Canterburies Diocesse in a field where they were making hay But you may object this was but an accident for thunders have done many such things the bodies being soorched and their clothes not so much as once to smell of the fire it is very true such things have hapned many times and in many places but look a little further and you shall see such other prodigious things that you will not say they were accidentall And now I beseech you consider with me whether these follow Presages be accidentall or no. II. And see what happened on the very next Thursday being the 7. of our July the Letter to the Pope being written the 8. of their July at Madrid in Spain it pleased the Lord to send many great claps of Thunder with aboundance of rain and withall so great a pillar of fire from heaven out of the South which is the due course from Spain that it reached from the heavens to the earth not as a flash of lightnings gone in the very sight but a very firme pillar of fire which I believe did amase any that did behold it It was my hap to be in the Parke neer Southwark when it fell right before me and so deterred me that I prayed that the Lord was not angry with this Nation for seeking to match with one whose Religion was not agreeable to the Gospell of Jesus Christ but one of those claps of Thunder did strike away the Crown and Vane from the top of the Gatehouse of St. James whereon the clock stood it melted a piece of the bell which house was then the Princes house at that time and he constantly kept his Court there it also struck down a Gardner and his wife in a Garden neer the Neathouse neer Westminster brak through several house in the bowling-alley neer Westminster aforesaid the man before mentioned was dead but the woman revived and was well again the body of the man was scorched but his clothes had no hurt It split wainscots chaires tables and stools in the houses aforesaid It killed also another man at Croydon the same time Surely these things cannot be accidentall when both these thunders did aime both at the head and Crown as we may see it did for the flag is as the hat on the Kings head for all Ships when they meet with any the King or States ships at Sea they strike their topsails or the flag in obedience or homage to the Admirall there is no man that not is wilfully blind but he may see that these two dayes Thunders were not accidentall but from the hand of God There is one thing more which a Heathen or an Infidell will not say was accidentall and that is this III. Old Thomas Earl of Arundell a great lover of Statues had sent for the Kings Statue in marble out of Italy it being come it was landed at a little garden house in Greenwitch which the Earl then had there his Lordship with others coming to view the Statue did very much commend the workmanship of it but while they were discoursing of it their fell three drops of bloud on the face of it no man knowing how it should come there the Earl seeing the bloud was very much moved at it they used all the means they could use to get away the bloud but could not this questionlesse was not done by accident but as the Egyptian Sorcerers said to Pharaoh in the plague of the lice This is the finger of God Yet one thing more there is remaining which I hope will give you full satisfaction that these Presages were sent by God IV. For in the same year 1623. while the Prince was in Spain for then he was but Prince promising to promote the Roman Catholick Religion both to the Pope and likewise to the King of Spain there was a Buckinghamshire man a Taylor by trade and as he said dwelt in Ailsbury he was neer upon 40. years of age and a very sober man he could not contain himself at his work in his house but must of force in the same year while the Prince was in Spain making those promises to propagate the Romish Religion in England aforesaid he did in all or most part of all the eminent streets in London in that very year curse the Romish Religion pronouncing wee to Rome woe to the Pope woe to all Papists and God confound the Pope and all Papists and all that did adhere to Popery by what name or title so ever they were called whether Dukes Marquesses Earls Lords Viscounts or of what degree soever he did constantly three or four dayes in the week all or most part of the time the Prince was in Spain come to Whitehall-gate King James being then at Whitehall for