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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04146	A true and perfect discourse of three great accidents that chaunced in Italie within twentie and sixe dayes Worthie to be published, the better to know the Lords workes, and to teach vs, that with all humilitie wee should accept of whatsoeuer his will and pleasure is.		1588 (1588)	STC 14285; ESTC S105570	3,265	14

A TRVE AND perfect discourse of three great accidents that chaunced in Italie within twentie and sixe dayes WORTHIE TO BE published the better to know the Lords workes and to teach vs that with all humilitie wee should accept of whatsoeuer his will and pleasure is LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe dwelling in Distaffe Lane neare the signe of the Castle 1588. A TRVE AND PERfect discourse of three great accidents that chaunced in Italy within twentie six dayes worthie to be published the better to know the Lords workes and to teach vs that with all humilitie wee should accept of whatsoeuer his will and pleasure is THere are come letters written to certaine Marchants of credite in this towne being strangers some dated the twentieth of December last other some the second of Ianuarie and other on the sixt of the same moneth wherein are set downe the seuerall accidents hereafter following the which are worthie to be reade and noted of euerie good Christian to the end that with loue one towards an other and godly feare towards the maiestie of God wee seeke in all dutifull manner to serue him who suffereth not such plagues but by his especiall secret iudgement for the punishment of the vngodly and example of his chosen people On the thirtenth of December 1587. and according to our course o● writing on the third of the same moneth being Sunday about two of the clocke in the after noone the aire being verie thicke and darkish with often lightenings and thunder that di● beate vpon one of the tower of th● castle of S. Elmo in the citie of Napels wherein there was thrée thousant barrels of gunne pouder the which being by this meanes set on fire made such a terrible noise that it séemed the whole went topsie turuey and ouerthrew in like sort all the houses that were within the same castell Of the which houses there remained not any stone one vpon another so that if in some part of the castle the walles had not remained and some rampiers there woulde haue beene no remembrance of any Castle or Tower that should haue béene there And there escaped not aboue tenne persons that were within the saide castell and alreadie there are two hundred bodies deade being men women and children it hath also spoiled many other as it is thought houses and churches to the number of one thousand and hath not left so much as the verie stones that were paued in their places there is almost not one house in this poore citie as it now may be termed but hath felt in some sorte part of this punishment and in conclusion he that hath not séene this miserable act will hardly belieue it nor the miserable hurt that was there done But that that is more miraculous and worthie to be noted is that the wife of the Captaine of the saide castell two dayes before this chaunced saide often times to her husband that she woulde not tarrie in the castell her husband asking her wherefore she aunsweared that for thrée seuerall times one after an other she dreamed that she should with the castell be blowen vp into the ayre of the which her spéeches her husbande for twise or thrise made b●t a Iest but in the end his wife was so importunate that eight dayes before he was content to house himselfe with al his whole houshold in the city somewhat far off from the castell by this meanes they auoyded the danger which otherwise might haue fallen vpon them beings as it should séeme by the speciall fauor of God And the common opinion of all men is that if the said tower had stoode towarde the citie as it was towarde the sea it had spoiled the most parte of the citie God the author of all goodnes blesse and defend both them and vs from such like extremities and giue vs grace so to leade our liues that we may be readie whensoeuer it shal please him to call vs. From Genoa the second of Ianuary 1588. the which is according to our order the xxiii of December before they doo write as followeth Here is arriued from Spaine a ship called Piuma the which had taken in in the I le of Maiorica thrée men that had been taken before by the Turkes and made slaues the which men told shem of the losse of thrée Gallies in order as followeth Signior Giannettino Spinola in the I le of Euisa with the Gallies of the prince D'Oria that came out of Spain beeing now aduertised how that there were seuen smal Gallies of Turkish Pirates in the I le of Spalmadore from thence seuen or eight miles off he was desirous to go and fight with them and presently hee furnished eight Gallies with his best and readiest men to fight as well of Soldiers and Marriners as others and thus they set themselues forwarde towards the saide I le of Spalmadore but for that the wind was both great and also contrarie vnto them the one of the saide Gallies could not passe the point of the saide I le and so hee turned backe againe the other seuen with great force went forward and founde the seuen Turkish Pirates and their Gallies who looked for nothing lesse than this notwithstanding they tooke courage vnto them and foure of those Turkish Gallies gaue themselues to fight and the other thrée fled The foure small Gallies of the Turkes hauing ioyned themselues with thrée Gallies of Genoa and fighting on both sides most valiantly there arose such a great tempest that these Gallies beeing intangled togither were driuen vpon a Rocke and so spoiled their Gallies and many of their men were drowned the other who saued themselues being come on land they fell to fighting afresh And the other thrée Gallies that were fled winding about the Iland found faire weather and imagining what chaunced they landed two hundred fourescore and ten men the which they sent to finde the other that were a fighting they adioyning themselues with their other fellowes Turkes fiue the most part of the Spaniardes and got againe many other Turkes that were slaues to the Spaniards and it is thought that the Turkes carried away a great quantitie of money but of this there is no certaintie The one of the thrée Gallies was of Cigala the other of Centurione and the third of Grillo all marchants of Genoa who were fraught by Spaniards the which thing is not to them alone a great hinderance but also to such others as were interessed in the mony He that wrote wrote to the Lords of Genoa in this order It is not long since I wrote vnto your Exellencies how that in this town there haue béene discouered thinges neuer heeretofore heard off That is of a sect or schoole of witches and that many of them being examined of the fact confessed Now I write againe vnto you signifying that after that the Vicars of the Reuerend Signior Albengo and the Inquisition haue taken this matter in hand there remained about eightéene or twentie condemned the greater part of them haue confessed voluntarily without any torment at all besides which there remaineth as yet foure suspected who haue not yet confessed any thing and besides there is in prison a witch who hath confessed very much So that the aforesaide Vicars procéede in their busines maruellous well not respecting rich nor poore and this day as vpon other daies they sit in counsell for the same purpose The common people of this place doo shew themselues in such sort destrous of the cutting off of these witches that they haue taken vp money at interest to helpe the said Vicars Tomorrow the said Vicars depart hence to go to Albenga there to cōsult with the Reuerend Signior of Albenga and so they meane presently to turn againe hither to make an end And truely right honourable Lords the dealings of these euil persons are most straunge in so much that they can cause tempests with thunder and lightnings and such other like euil all the which seeme them as they make shew to bee of account for that they presume to be able to doe farre greater things and that is more they kill their owne children and kinsmen and euen as it were in a trise they will leape vpon the backe of the diuel who shall be in the likenes of a Ram and goe to their congregation for to conclude vppon the doing of much euil euen in the presence of the diuel who sitteth there as chiefe iudge in likenesse of a king before whom they doe openly deny God and bequeath them selues to the diuel These ought to be warnings vnto euerie good Christian to be ready and prepared against the deceiptful entisements of the diuel the continuall enimie of mankind and who as saith S. Iohn in his Gospel was a murderer euen from the beginning and as S. Peter saith in his epistle he goeth about like a roaring Lyon séeking to deuour and therefore we haue great néed earnestly to pray vnto almightie God that he will assist vs with his holy spirite and so to guide vs that we be the better able to resist the vile temptations of Sathan and folowing his holy steps his name may be in vs glorified and we in the end made partakers of his heauenly blessing through Iesus Christ our Lord. FINIS