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A00943	A straunge and terrible wunder wrought very late in the the parish church of Bongay, a tovvn of no great distance from the citie of Norwich, namely the fourth of this August, in ye yeere of our Lord 1577 in a great tempest of violent raine, lightning, and thunder, the like wherof hath been seldome seene. With the appeerance of an horrible shaped thing, sensibly perceiued of the the people then and there assembled. Drawen into a plain method according to the written copye. by Abraham Fleming.	Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1577 (1577)	STC 11050; ESTC S119672	3,765	22

A straunge and terrible Wunder wrought very late in the parish Church of Bongay a Tovvn of no great distance from the citie of Norwich namely the fourth of this August in the yeere of our Lord 1577. in a great tempest of violent raine lightning and thunder the like wherof hath béen seldome seene With the appeerance of an horrible shaped thing sensibly perceiued of the people then and there assembled Drawen into a plain method according to the written copye by Abraham Fleming The Preface to the Reader AMong men it is growen in custome to haue forwarnīgs of afterclaps as beacons built vpon hilles which then are set on fier when daunger is imminent and at hand Alarum belles seruing to the same purpose and other inuentions of men proceedīg prouided of policie to preuent or else to prepare agaynst that which is perilous Euery man canne arme himself when hazard is at hand to saue him and his as hee is able for the preseruing of temporall thinges Iesus how painefull and venterous wee bee and no sooner shall a premonishment bee giuen but wee are furnished I warrant you to the proofe God warneth vs by signes frō heauen by fierie apparaunces in the aire moste terrible by wonders wrought on earthe straūge vnusiall by exinundations of waters beyond their appointed limits by the remouīg of senselesse trees from the naturall place where they were planted by the great power which the Prince of darknesse through Gods permission and sufferaunce bath recouered by many late moste misserable murthers not to be named much lesse to be committed among Christians by insurrections full of daunger and detestable treason on this side the seas by tumults and vprores between Princes of forreigne nations and what should I say more by the trump of his sweet and heauenly Gospell sounded vnto vs out of the mouth of his messengers But wee will not be warned wee will tumble still vpon the bedde of wantonnesse and drincke our selues drunck with the wine of sensualitie that whiles wee lye wallowing in the sinck of our Sodomiticall sīne wee may bee consumed with a Sodomiticall or a Babylonicall destruction God open the eyes of our hartes that wee may see in what VVildernesses among what wilde Beastes and deuouring Serpents wee doo wander and giue vs mindes mollified and made soft that at his woorkes we may feare and bee astonished The occasion that I haue wrote this warning which I would to God I had the grace to followe was a wonder lately wrought in Norfolke and so lately wrought that the terrour of the same is at this instant freshe in memorie A Spectacle no doubt of Gods iudgement which as the fire of our iniquities hath kindled so by none other meanes then by the teares of repentance it may bee quenched The order of the thing as I receiued the sāe I haue committed to paper for the present viewe and perusing of those that are disposed It is grounded vppon trueth and therfore not only worthie the writing and publishing but also the hearing and considering ¶ The reporte of a straunge and wonderful Spectacle SUnday béeing the fourth of this August in the yéer of our Lord 1577. to the amasing and singular astonishment of the present beholders and absent hearers at a certein towne called Bongay not past tenne miles distant from the Citie of Norwiche there fell from heauen an excéeding great and terrible tempest sodein and violent betwéen nine of the clock in the morning and tenne of the day aforsaid This tempest took beginning with a rain which fel with a wonderful force and with no lesse violence then abundance which made the storme so much the more extream and terrible This tempest was not simply of rain but also of lightning and thunder the flashing of the one wherof was so rare and vehement and the roaring noise of the other so forceable and violent that it made not onely people perplexed in minde and at their wits end but ministred such straunge and vnaccustomed cause of feare to be cōceiued that dumb creatures with the horrour of that which fortuned were exceedingly disquieted and senselesse things void of all life and féeling shook and trembled There were assembled at the same season to hear diuine seruice and common prayer according to order in the parish church of the said towne of Bongay the people therabouts inhabiting who were witnesses of the straungenes the rarenesse and sodenesse of the storm consisting of raine violently falling fearful flashes of lightning and terrible cracks of thūder which came with such vnwonted force and power that to the perceiuing of the people at the time and in the place aboue named assembled the Church did as it were quake and staggar which struck into the harts of those that were present such a sore and sodain feare that they were in a manner robbed of their right wits Immediatly héerupō there appéered in a moste horrible similitude and likenesse to the congregation then there present a dog as they might discerne it of a black colour at the sight wherof togither with the fearful flashes of fire which then were séene moued such admiration in the mindes of the assemblie that they thought doomes day was already come This black dog or the diuel in such a likenesse God hée knoweth al who worketh all runing all along down the body of the Church with great swiftnesse and incredible haste among the people in a visible fourm and shape passed betwéen two persons as they were knéeling vppon their knées and occupied in prayer as it séemed wrung the necks of them bothe at one instant clene backward in somuch that euen at a momēt where they kneeled they strāgely dyed This is a wōderful example of Godꝭ wrath no dout to terifie vs that we might feare him for his iustice or puling back our footsteps from the pathes of sinne to loue him for his mercy To our matter again There was at the same time another wonder wrought for the same black dog stil continuing and remaining in one and the self same shape passing by an other man of the congregation in the Church gaue him such a gripe on the back that therwithall he was presently drawen togither and shrunk vp as it were a péece of lether scorched in a hot fire or as the mouth of a purse or bag drawen togither with a string The man albeit hée was in so straunge a taking dyed not but as it is thought is yet aliue whiche thing is meruelous in the eyes of men and offereth muche matter of amasing the minde Moreouer and beside this the Clark of the said Church béeing occupied in cleansing of the gutter of the Church with a violent clap of thunder was smitten downe and beside his fall had no further harme vnto whom béeing all amased this straunge shape wherof we haue before spoken appeared howbeit he escaped without daunger which might paraduenture séem to sound against trueth and to be a thing incredible but let

vs leaue thus or thus to iudge and cry out with the Prophet O Domine c. O Lord how wonderful art thou in thy woorks At the time that these things in this order happened the Rector or Curate of the Church béeing partaker of the peoples perplexitie séeing what was séen and done comforted the people and exhorted them to prayer whose counsell in such extreme distresse they folowed and prayed to God as they were assemled togither Now for the verifying of this report which to sōe wil seem absurd although the sensiblenesse of the thing it self confirmeth it to be a trueth as testimonies and witnesses of the force which rested in this strange shaped thing there are remaining in the stones of the Church and likewise in the Church dore which are meruelously rēten torne the marks as it were of his clawes or talans Beside that all the wires the whéeles and other things belonging to the Clock were wrung in sunder and broken in peces And which I should haue tolde you in the begining of this report if I had regarded the obseruing of order at the time that this tempest lasted and while these stormes endured the whole Church was so darkned yea with such a palpable darknesse that one persone could not perceiue another neither yet might discern any light at all though it were leser thē the least but onely when the great flashing of fire and lightning appéered These things are not lightly with silence to be ouer passed but precisely and throughly to be considered On the self same day in like maner into the parish church of another town called Blibery not aboue seuē miles distant from Bongay aboue said the like thing entred in the same shape and similitude where placing him self vppon a maine balke or beam wheron sometime the Rood did stand sodainly he gaue a swinge downe through the Church and there also as before slew two men and a lad and burned the hand of another person that was there among the rest of the company of whom diuers were blasted This mischief thus wrought he flew with wonderful force to no litle feare of the assembly out of the Church in a hideous and hellish likenes These things are reported to be true yea by the mouthes of them that were eye witnesses of the same and therfore dare with so much the more boldenesse verifie what soeuer is reported Let vs pray vnto GOD as it is the dutie of Christians to woork all things to the best to turne our flintie harts into fleshie hartes that we may féele the fire of Gods mercy and flée from the scourge of his iustice A necessary Prayer O GOD which hast promised to be a shield to such as flee to thee for succoure in their necessities with thy wings to ouer shadow thē that they feele not the scorching heat of afflictions miseries we beseech thee that although we through the infinite and vnmeasurable sinnes whiche we commit prouoke thee to smite vs with the Iron rod of thy wrath and iudgement yet that it would please thee to remember that we are but fraile flesh subiect to sinne and to too prone to offend that it would please thee to cast thy gratious countenance vppon vs and to stretch out thy siluered scepter of peace vnto vs that beeing restored into thy fauoure from which our offēces haue separated vs we may shrowd our selues vnder the shield of thy safegarde agaist all māner of anoyances whatsoeuer through Christ Jesus our onely sauior redeemer in whose name as hee hath taught vs we say and pray Ab omni malo libera nos Domine Deliuer vs from all euil good lord Amen Tibi laus honor gloria in aeuum Amen Imprinted at London by Frauncis Godly dwelling at the west end of Paules