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A35259	Wonderful prodigies of judgment and mercy discovered in above three hundred memorable histories ... / impartially collected from antient and modern authors of undoubted authority and credit, and imbellished with divers curious pictures of several remarkable passages therein by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, and the Remarks of London &c.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1682 (1682)	Wing C7361; ESTC R34850	173,565	242

Witch making obeysance to Mackbeth saluted him by the name of Thane or Earl of Glammis the second Witch saluted him Thane or Earl of Cauder the third saluted him King of Scotland This is unequal dealing said Banquo to give my Friend Mackbeth all the honours and none to me to which one of the Witches answered That he indeed should not be King but out of his Loins should come a Race of Kings that should over-rule the Scots and having thus said they all vanished upon their arrival at Court Mackbeth was immediately created Earl of Glammis and not long after some new service requiring some new recompence he was honoured with the Title of Earl of Cander seeing then how happily the prediction of the three Wizards fell out in the two former he resolved not to be wanting to himself in fulfilling the third he therefore first killed the King and after by reason of his Command among the Souldiers he succeeded in this Throne Being scarce warm in his Seat he called to mind the prediction given to his Companion Banquo whom hereupon suspecting as his Supplanter he caused to be killed together with his whole posterity only Fleance one of his Sons escaped with much difficulty into Wales Mackbeth thus freed as he thought of all fear of Banquo and his Issue he built Dunsinan Castle and made it his ordinary residence afterwards on some new fears consulting with his Wizards concerning his future State he was told by one of them That he should never be overcome till Bernane Wood which was some miles distant came to Dunsinan Castle and by another That he should never be slain by any Man that was born of a Woman secure then as he thought from all future dangers he gave himself up to all manner of debauchery lasciviousness and cruelty for the space of eighteen years for so long he Tyrannized over Scotland but having then made up the measure of his iniquities Mackduff the Governor of Fife with some other good Patriots of their Country met privately one evening at Bernane Wood and taking every one of them a bough in his hand the better to keep them from discovery they marched early in the morning toward Dunsinan Castle which they took by storm Mackbeth escaping was pursued by Mackduff who having overtaken him urged him to the Combate to whom the Tyrant half in scorn returned answer That he in vain attempted to kill him it being his destiny never to be slain by any Man that was born of a Woman now then said Mackduff is thy fatal end drawing fast upon thee for I was never born of a Woman but violently cut out of my Mothers belly which so daunted the Tyrant though otherwise a valiant Man that he was easily slain In the mean time Fleance so prospered in Wales that he gained the affection of the Princes Daughter of the Country and by her had a Son called Walter who flying out of Wales returned into Scotland where his descent being known he was restored to the Honours and Lands of his House and preferred to be Steward to the House of Edgar the Son of Malcolm the Third firnamed Conmer King of Scotland the name of Stewart growing hence hereditary unto his posterity from this Walter descended that Robert Stewart who succeeded David Bruce in the Kingdom of Scotland the Progenitor of nine Kings of the name of Stewart which have reigned successively in that Kingdom Heylins Cosmography p. 336 IX The D. of Biron a great Peer of France when he was only Baron of Biron being in some trouble by reason of the death of the Lord Gerency and others slain in a quarrel is said to have gone disguised like a Carrier of Letters to one La Brosse a great Mathematician who was held to be skilful in Nativities to whom he shewed his Nativity drawn by some other and pretended it was not his but a Gentlemans whom he served and that he desired to know what end that Man should have La Brosse having rectified this Figure said to him that he was of a good house and no elder than you are said he to the Baron asking him if it were his the Baron answered I will not tell you but pray let me know what his life and means and end shall be The old Man who was then in a little Garret which served him for a Study said unto him My Son I see that he whose Nativity this is shall come to great honour by his Industry and Military Valour and may be a King but thut there is a Caput Argol which hinders it and what is that said the Barron ask me not said La Brosse what it is I must know it replyed he in the end he answered My Son it is this that he will commit such things as will make him lose his head whereupon the Earon beat him cruelly and leaving him half dead went down and carried the Key of the Garret door with him as he brag'd afterward Biron had conference likewise with one Caesar who was a Magician at Paris who old him That only a back-blow of a Burgonian would hin●er him from being King he remembred this prediction being a Prisoner in the Bastile and intreated one that went to visit him to inquire if the Hangman of Paris were a Burgonian and having found it so he said I am a dead Man and soon after he was beheaded for his conspiring against the King De Serres Hist France p. 1051. X. In the year 1279. There lived in Scotland one Thomas Lermouth a Man very much admired he may justly be wondred at for foretelling so many Ages before the Union of England and Scotland in the ninth degree of the Bruces blood with the succession of Bruce himself to the Crown being yet a Child and many other things which the event hath made good the day before the death of King Alexander he told the Earl of March that before the next day at noon such a Tempest should blow as Scotland had not felt many years before the next morning proving a clear day the Earl challenged Thomas as an Imposter he replyed That noon was not yet past about which time a Post came to inform the Earl of the Kings sudden death and then said Thom as This is the Tempest I foretold and so it shall prove to Scotland as indeed it did Spotswoods Hist Scotland XI Two Gentlemen who were intimate acquaintance travelled together to the City of Megara where when they were arrived the one went to lodge with a Friend of his and the other betakes himself to an Inn he that was at his Friends House saw in his sleep his Companion beseeching him to assist him for he was set upon by his Host and that by his speedy coming to him he might deliver him from a very imminent danger being awakened with what he had seen he leaps from his bed and intends to go to the Inn but by an unhappy fate he desists from his compassionate purpose and believing

men harden themselves in Rebellion and Wickedness against Heaven yet we find that many times The Lord is known by the Judgments which he executeth upon Impenitent Unjust and Profligate Wretches as by the foregoing examples doth sufficiently appear CHAP. IV. The Wicked Lives and Woful Deaths of several Popes and likewise of Apostates and Desperate Persecutors AFter the Bishops of Rome had tasted the sweetness of Power Wealth and Prosperity they at once lost their Humility and Purity of Religion and assumed Politick and Tyrannical Principles laying aside the Sword of the Spirit and defiling their hands in the blood of Emperours Kings Princes and all sorts of People and hereby Apostatizing from Christianity the Popes their Successors wallowed in all kinds of wickedness as Usurpation Sodomy Conjuration and all manner of Oppressions and thereby from being poor persecuted Bishops they became Persecutors of others But Divine Justice hath oftentimes inflicted severe Vengeance both upon them and their Instruments since Apostacy is thought to be the sin of the Holy Ghost the Apostle sayes It is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly Gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good Word of God and the Powers of the World to come if they shall fall away to renew them again to Repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame Heb. 6.4 5 6. therefore God hath not left himself without witness against them but hath made them Examples of his Severity in this world as the following Instances plainly demonstrate both as to wicked Popes Apostates and Persecutors I. Pope John the Thirteenth was accused of Witchcraft and Using Magick and was given to all manner of Debauchery Perjury and Villany he dismembred divers of his Cardinals for taking part with Otho against him plucking out the Eyes of some cutting off the Hands and gelding others He made Deacons in his Stables among his Horses and for Money made Boys Bishops he lay with Reynora a Widow his Fathers Concubine and Anna another with her Neice put out the Eyes of his Ghostly Father Benedict brake windows in the night set houses on Fire drank an health to the Devil would say Mass and not communicate for which and other intolerable Rogueries he was deposed by Otho in a Council and Leo the Eighth put into his place but his Whores and other Friends as soon as Otho had turned his back soon got him in again From this Gallant our St. Dunstan with a round sum of Money purchased a Prohibition of Priests Marriages which caused no small disturbance in England at that time At last being taken in the Act of Adultery with a resolute mans Wife he received such a deadly gash from the Husband as in eight daies sent him packing into another world Prideaux Introduct II. Pope Alexander the Sixth was a cruel Tyrant and a scourge of God to all Italy and plagued especially that corrupt Colledge of Cardinals who had chosen him not for his Virtues but for the heaps of Gold which he had distributed among them he was void of Sincerity Faith Truth or Religion unquenchably covetous unreasonably ambitious and more than barbarously cruel and had a burning desire to advance his Bastards whereof he had many He set Benefices and Promotions to sale He poisoned John Michael Cardinal of Venice that he might obtain his Gold and Treasures In Magick he was very learned and therefore very wicked He poisoned his own Father And likewise Zemes Brother to the great Turk being hired thereto for two hundred Duckets after he had sworn to him that he would secure him he procured Aid of the Turk against the French King He caused the Tongue and Hands of Anthony Manrivil a learned and wise Man to be cut off for making an Oration in reproof of his wickedness In Adulteries he was most filthy and abominable and committed Incest with his own Daughter Lucretia the Wife to three Prin●es upon whom these Verses are extant Hic jacet in Tumulo Lucretia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nurus Ergone te semper rapiet Lucretia Sextus Heufatum dici nominis hic Pater est Sextus Tarquinius Sextus Nero Sextus iste Semper sub Sextis Perdita Roma fuit Lucrece by name here lies but Thais in life Pope Alexander's Child Spouse and Sons Wife And must a Sextus Lucrece alwaies ravish Curst name but here 's a Father that 's most knavish Tarquinius Nero this a Sextus too Sextus was ever born Rome to undo This Pope never attempted any thing but he first consulted the Devil to whom he gave himself and who at length fetched him for being accustomed to poison any whom he disliked he had prepared some poisoned Wine to dispatch some of his Cardinals which his Butler through a mistake put into his own hand and he drinking it off with horrible cryes and groans immediately died his Son Caesar Borgia as murdering a Villain as himself drinking of it likewise whereby he fell into a sharp and dangerous disease Symson Hist Church III. Sylvester the Second was a French man born and bred up a Conjuring Fryer in the Abby of Floriack were Necromancy at that time was held an eminent piece of Learning to perfect his skill that way he goes to a Saracens in Sivil and couzens him of his chief Conjuring Book by being inward with the Magicians Daughter then he contracts with the Devil to be wholly his upon condition he would conduct him back to France and fit him with promotions in order to his advancement to the Popedom Upon his return to France he became admirable for his deep Learning and amongst others of great State had several Scholars in the Black Art by the help of whom and his other Arts he became first Bishop of Rheims then Archbishop of Ravenna and thence to be Pope in which Seat he concealed yet alwaies privately practised his Devilish Mystery having in secret a Brazen Head which he consulted instead of a Delphick Oracle consulting with whom on a time when he should die answer was given him he should live until he said Mass in Jerusalem this made him confident of a long continuance but he was couzened by the Devil's Equivocation though he dreamed of immortality and that he should never die For it happened on a time that as he was singing Mass at Rome in a Temple called St. Gross otherwise Jerusalem which was the place assigned him to die in and not Jerusalem in Palestine as he imagined he heard a great noise of Devils who came to fetch him away even in the very time of Mass he being very much terrified and tormented therewith is said to have repented and in token thereof to have requested that his Hands Tongue and secret Members might be cut off wherewith he had offended God and his Body to be cut in four pieces and laid on a Cart and the Beasts to