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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41906	A Great miracle at sea, or, A perfect relation of a mighty whale which was pursued in the sea ... : as it was certified by divers mariners of Weymouth sayling from France in a shipp called the Bonanaventure, did shoot the whale, which ... was found dead upon the shore within three miles of Weymouth, where the countrey people ... having opened it's belly, found a Romish priest, with a black box of pardons from the pope for many papists in England and Ireland, whose names are here printed : also the names of the sea-men who were present ...		1645 (1645)	Wing G1712; ESTC R43214	3,871	9

of them together in one company to see the Whale and the rather because they did truly conjecture it to be the same Whale which on Sunday before they saw pursued by such monstrous multitudes of fishes corceiving also that by reason of the many wounds which she received by the shots from the Muskets that she made haste to the next shore to dye on for the Whale although when she is living will be covered with the Sea yet when she feeleth death coming on she doth renounce that watery Element and will admit no coverture but the wide Vault of Heaven These mariners being come they found the Countrey-people very active in cutting up the Whale some busie on one part of the body some on another the better sort standing by and wondring at the mighty compasse and proportion of it and encouraging the Countrey-people to proceed in their unaccustomed work The honest people partaked in the labour the better sort in the profit and all in the grievousnesse of the smell which to speake the truth was so excessive that if it be true Philosophy that a violent subject or sensible doth destroy the Sensory or the sense it may be a question whether these Noses can ever have the capacity of senting any thing that is sweet again Had you been there you might haue seen Greenland near Weymouth such a noise and a quarter they make when they do hew the Whales in peeces in that Northern Climate where there is but one night and one day in a whole year Their strength being lost with labour and their spirits with the odious importunity of the increasing favour which proceeded from the corruption of that mighty Carkasse they relieve themselves according to the accustomed practice with the strength of Hot-Waters and now being armed against all ingredients of ill savours they distribute the fish in prepared Cauldrons which by the benefit of the fire must be improved into Oyle While the labourers are boyling the Fish the Merchants are compounding for the Spelme or seed thereof and this commonly is called Parmacity some part therof they design to Falmouth some part to Exeter some part to Weymouth and very like some part to Bristoll and London The belly of this Whale being opened and the vast Ribs being taken asunder there was discovered in the Bowels of it a man who it seemes had not long lain buried his head was shaven he was surely some Priest and the hair on his Crown since his death was not much grown They found also with this man a black Box made of Lether wherein were divers Pardons for severall Papists now in England and in Ireland as for Iohn Flower and Humphrey Vaux in England it is thought that this Vaux is of kin to Guido Vaux who indeavoured to have blown up the Parliament House in the yeare 1605. Also many Pardons for Papists in Ireland who have laboured to the uttermost of their endeavours to blow it up again as to one Preston the same who is now expected to come over into England with Forces also an exhortation to him to proceed in the Wars he had undertaken with assurance of the benediction of his Holinesse A Pardon for one Muskerry a Pardon for one Oneal for Mac Magennis and one for divers others which was read by a Scholler who was then present as those Sea-men have affirmed but being themselves but unexperienced men in Letters they are sorry they cannot deliver the particulars so fully as they desire It may evidently appear that the reason why these multitudes of Fishes before related did so prosecute this Whale was by reason of the person in its Belly who it seemes was cast into the sea by some shipwrack and then swallowed by this great Whale The Pardons were for these men viz. Englishmen Iohn Flower Humphrey Vaux Irishmen Iohn Muskerry William Preston Patrick Oneal Iames Macgennis The Names of the Seamen who affirme this and were eye witnesses are William Lelo Master of the ship Tho Chibnall Boteswain Francis Sero Tho Taylor FINIS