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A03363	A contemplation of mysteries contayning the rare effectes and significations of certayne comets, and a briefe rehersall of sundrie hystoricall examples, as well diuine, as prophane, verie fruitfull to be reade in this our age: with matter delectable both for the sayler, and husbandman, yea and all traueylers by sea and lande, in knowing aforehande, howe daungerous a tempest will succeede by the sight of the clowd coming ouer the head, and other matters fruitful to be read as shal appere in the table next after the preface. Gathered and englished, by Thomas Hyll.	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.	1574 (1574)	STC 13484; ESTC S117617	58,354	156

In the yeare of our Lorde 1555. were séene in the citie of Duringia thrée sunnes the tenth day of February in the same Duringia was a gaping open of the earth out of which came a mightie stinck which verie much molested the lookers on wyth the beating paines of the head yet certaine further examining the place obserued and sawe wythin that great clift straunge formes in the night and many great matters besides heard At Luneberge was séene this straunge sight in the ayre a great company of Souldiars at the right hande of which company stoode by an Aungell holding a fyrie sworde in his hande and a childe was there in presence among the people by a sodaine meanes who did earnestly exhort euery one to harty repentance affirming Gods iudgement at hand and to be the day of yre and the day of calamitie misery and that the same to be a verie great and bitter daye when he had thus exhorted the people he vanished sodainly awaye and out of sight so that no man after could tell where he became In this yeare hapned at Duringia the harde and daungerous birth of a woman who had a sore trauaile in the birth of hir childe for after long trauayles the chyld● brast forth with a great crack and noyse and deade borne after which issued great plentie of fyre which so harmed the yongling in the neather partes that blisters arose on the skinne so bigge swollen as an Egge in sight and hir owne face harmed with the fyre that fyre besides issuing forth of hir body infected the proper place with a Brimstony stinck In the Dukedome of Brunswike was a marueylous and straunge sight marked of many there which was on this wise A certaine husbandman which accustomed daylie to go vnto the wood to fetch wood home and drawing néere to the accustomed place of the wood at a certaine time sawe a farre off a great companie of horsemen which séemed to come ryding in great haste towarde the village This seing the husbandman returned for the great feare hastily backward againe and being come home so amased was demaunded the cause of hys hastie returning who answered that there were certaine companies of horsemen néere the towne approched but from whence they came or whether they would he could not say therfore greatly to be doubted said he that these newe guestes will set vpon vs in the night time Which tale so amazed the elders of the towne that for the great feare they tooke councell togither what was best to doe in the matter after the well debating on the fearefull newes they issued altogither out of the towne to knowe and vnderstande further the intent of these newe guestes what they were from whence they came and whether they purposed to go and being thus come forth togither out of the towne founde and sawe a like company of horsemen as the husbande man had before reported drawing towards them which séemed to their sight to be in number foure hundred horsemen ryding and comming towardes them in due order after which they sawe the fore frunt turned and readie prest to fight and the other company comming ryding a farre off addressed in like order which companies thus preparing forwarde to come togither and standing yet in a readinesse to fight two black men to their sight alighted from their horses which séemed to be Captaines and eche appéered valyauntly to encourage his companye to fight they thus boldened to fight behelde one the other as readie prest and in a readinesse after which the two Capitaynes againe lept on horseback Whiles these two companies yet stoode in a readinesse a marueylous darknesse hastily came in the place that it séemed farre in the night by which these husbandmen perceyued y this sight of the horsemen was none other then a deuillish illusion or méere falsehood of spirites In the bownds of Polonia were séene a marueylous company of Dogs barcking and fighting togither insomuch that manye were torne in that broyle to péeces After which folowed great warres and slaughter betwéene them of Polonia and the Muscouites In Duringia being a bright day there appéered in the ayre a bright and glittering sworde much like to a Fauchine or Turkie blade directing the point toward the South and the edge toward the East And in Cleuelande fell so great aboundance of fyre from heauen into the Rhene that the Riuer began to swell as though it had boyled In the yeare of our Lorde 1557. and in the ninth daye of March there were séene thrée sunnes and a verie faire Rainebow In the .xvij. daye of March there fell fyre from heauen and in an other place a fyrie Globe was séene it rayned also bloud and lumpes of bloud vnto the bignesse of ones hande dropped from heauen vnto the sight of many and in all the drops were séene like to mens faces And on saint Laurence daye the Sunne appeared wholy bloudy after which the French king fought a great battaile with Philip king of Spaine and after that S. Quintins takē by king Philip. In the yeare of our Lorde 1558. appeared a Comete verie fearefull which continued burning manye wéekes after which was séene a straunge sight fearefull to beholde For in the .xxj. day of August the day being cleare and caulme weather and sufficient temperate two houres before noone and a quarter the Sunne very cleare shyning was then séene inclosed about with a great circle which appéered of many colours like to the Rainebow and continued in like condition for foure howers and a halfe vnto the great feare and amazement of all such which regarded the same sight for it is written that such straunge sightes haue in times past béene séene which alwayes were foreshewers of fearefull daungers at hande as appéered by the same which Plutarche writeth that such a fearefull sight foreshewed the death of the mightie Cesar and the great scarcitie and dearth of all fruites of the earth that insued the same yere and euen the like hapned when Octauius abode at Rome that the Sunne was compassed with suche a cyrcle after which often commosions and tumults the lamentable harmes of lyghtnings ensued Such a Rainebow also appéered timely in the morning about the Sunne in the sixt Calendes of February in the yere of our Lorde 1074. after which folowed the great conspiracie of Princes against Henry the fourth of the name Emperor of the Germains In the yeare of our Lorde 1107. a lyke cyrcle about the Sunne was séene after which insued the great dissention among christian Princes In the yere also of our Lord. 1157. on the thirde Calendes of Iune about noone such a straunge shew was séene after which the euersion or destruction of many cities the scarcitie of fruites of the earth through the great distemperance of the ayre insued Many cities also were pittifully burned in Suetia after the appearance of such a sight hapning in the yeare of our Lord. 1322. In the yere of our Sauiour Christ. 1387.

Iune at Tigurie manye sunnes were séene and about them thrée circles in the next yere folowing a cruel battle fought within the Countrie of Heluetia In the yere 1532. and in the eleuenth day of Aprill in the seconde houre of the daye thrée perfite sunnes and bright with two Rainebowes were séene to many In the yere of our Lorde 1551. about the Calends of Aprill in the famous Vniuersitie of Witebergensis thrée Sunnes wyth sundrie celestiall circles were séene And in the same yeare in the. 28. day of February thrée sunnes with diuers circles were séen● at Antwarpe In the yeare of our Lorde 1553. on the Saterday before Palme Sunday in the morning betweene seauen and eyght thrée sunnes appeared of which the middle shyned the brighter and the other two of eyther side red and bloudie These being set and in the night tyme thrée Moones were séene In the yeare 1554. in Bauaria and in the borders of the same Countrie in the Moneth of March sundrie maner Sunnes were séene with certaine celestiall circles At Ingolstadie in Germany in the sixt day of March two Sunnes with a Rainebow betwéene eyght and nine in the forenoone At Norenberge in the 23. day of March about one at after noone both Sunnes and Arckes appeared togither included wyth christalline circles for thrée houres togither with a beame into a iust length extensed In the yere 1555. the tenth day of Februarie thrée Sunnes were séene in the yeare 1556. in the thirde Caldends of August nere Basill the firmament being cléere thrée Sunnes were séene togither In the same yeare in the sixt daye of December the singuler learned of the Vniuersitie of Witebergensis obserued thrée sunnes in the Firmament In the yere 1567. on saint Steuens day in the tenth houre before noone at Francoforde were thrée sunnes verie bright séene for an houre and a halfe of which the one towarde the East the other towarde the West placed and a celestiall Bowe in the top of heauen that turned againe the backe to the thrée sunnes And in the same yeare were séene againe thrée sunnes in the fourth daye of Maye about the seauenth houre at euening Of thunder what the ●ame is THunder is a fearefull noyse in a thicke clowde which is forced by an exhalation hote and drie included wythin a clowde which with a rumbling séeking issue forth brasteth out b● great violence and on eche side beateth and shaketh the clowde Plynie reporteth that it is a noyse caused through the quarter of the compact fyre breaking out of the clowde Or it may thus be defined that the thunder is a noyse caused in the clowdes through the dryuing and smyting of the exhalation vnto the sides of the clowde Albertus wryteth that it is the crack and noyse of a drie vapour issuing forth of a moyst clowde Seneca in his second booke of naturall questions thus defineth thunder it is a spirite or breath sayth he running in the clowdes that causeth the thunder and after it hath contended wyth the resistant matter brasteth out which in that running awaye kindleth the fyre And the variety of the noyses or rumbling of the thunder is caused of the same that the clowdes be vnequall and that they haue as it were certayne hollow places and are no where whole togither The kindes of thunder THe thunder is after two maner or wayes For the thunder is eyther vehement or great or else weake or small The thunder weake or small is when an exhalation runneth forth in the clowde● and is driuen from side to side without rupture and breaking of the clowde And this is after thrée wayes as crashing whistling and blowing 1. The same crashing or making a noyse like to the rubbing of a coarde is caused through the smyting of clowds which euen then are chaunged into water and it is like to the noyse which is heard in the quenching of a hote burning yron in colde water 2. The same whistling is when the exhalation is not yet kindled nor forted forth and that the clowdes in thicknesse are not a like equall so that in diuers partes of them especially in the thinner doth the exhalation brast forth Of which this whisteling thunder is the like noyse as is of the winds blowing stronglye through narrow holes where the vapour not yet forced forwarde by dyuers partes of the clowde breaketh in the ende through the thinner 3. The blowing thunder is when the clowde is so weake that it can not keepe the exhalation kindled So that before the vapour is kindled the same issueth forth without anye vehement noyse euen lyke the noyse that the Smithes Bellowes cause or make The vehement or great thunder is when the exhalation strongly and vehemently cutteth or breaketh the clowde through which a fearefull noyse is caused euen like to the tearing of a broade cloth And this is fower maner of wayes as eyther it is rumbling eyther breaking or tearing a sunder eyther violent or cracking 1. The same rumbling or making a hydeous noyse is when the vapour or exhalation shaketh the clowde with a certain rumbling but medleth not togither The thunder also is a sounding which maketh a noise ▪ lyke to the humming of many men talking in a Cloyster or such like vaulted place as when the vapour doth so much smite the sides of the clowde but not cleaueth and that flame then appeareth as it were thorow a clothe torne a sunder 2. The thunder cutting is the same which first smiteth it but after cutteth out the clowde which noyse immediatly sheweth the thwart lightning brasting forth The violent thunder is the same which by one inforcement cleaueth the clowde 3. The thunder cracking or shaking is when the exhalation kindled deuydeth the clowde of which certayne partes issue This kinde of thunder maketh the lyke noyse as the cracking of wet woode burning in the fyre For it is a vapour kindled and dry which in the issuing breaketh a sunder the clowde euen like as air Egge layed on coales that brasteth The efficient cause of the thunder is the sunne working with the other hote starres as the Astrologians report For when the Sunne Iupiter Mars and Mercurie are placed in hote signes and fete places especially when Iupiter is ioyned to Mars by any condition of beames are woont to cause thunder and to prepare the matter of them The matter of the thunder is a compounde vapour or an exhalation very hote and drie conioyned with a moyst vapour This matter is drawne up by the heate of the sunne vnto the middle region of the ayre where it chaungeth into a moyste clowde or is togyther eleuated wyth a moyst vapour as affirmeth Aristotle by which compa●ed and thrust togither in the ende brasteth forth A question might here be moued how it hapneth that thunder is sometimes heard in the ayre and no clowds appearing The aunswere is that the same hap●eth when the exhalation is beaten back●● by the middle region of the ayre and kind●●d for so much it