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A86055	Natura prodigiorum or, a discourse touching the nature of prodigies. Together with the kinds, causes and effects, of comets, eclipses, and earthquakes. With an appendix touching the imposturism of the commonly-received doctrine of prophecies, spirits, images, sigils, lamens, the christal, &c. and the propugners of such opinions. / By John Gadbury philomathēmatikos.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing G91; Thomason E2131_3; ESTC R202414	80,331	276

Pope is slain by a fall Empeperour kills 14000 Bohemians The King of England forceth Wales to a Peace 1285. A great Earthquake in Italy A Comet of notable greatness seen this year A great swarm of divers coloured flyes and an inundation in England The Norwegians invade Denmark for the Queens Dowry Hungaria wasted by the Cumans Helvetians war against the Emperour they are subdued The King of Sicily dyeth 1300. Launces and Darts of fire seen in the Heavens A great snow A Comet of wonderful magnitude In Germany armed men and horses were seen in the air The English beat the Scots The Turks invade the Empire and do great mischief there The Pope writes himself universal Lord in Spirituals and Temporals Flanders is invaded and many Nobles taken prisoners 1310. An Earthquake in England The Elements seem to burn many days together A boy born with four arms and two bodies Polonians subdue Pomerania Rhodes is taken from the Turks Robert Bruce wasteth Scotland and expels the English Earl of Cornwel banished The Emperour burneth Brixia 1322. In England for six houres together the sun appeared as blood In Germany a great Earthquake Two Crosses appeared in the Heavens And there appeared a fiery Circle about the sun The Scots oppose the King of England and put him to flight The King of Bohemia taketh Silesia and divers places in Lusatia The Emperour is taken in battel and is imprisoned three years 1337. This year there were two Comets together one of which continued four moneths the other but three Blood rained in Rome Wonderful flocks of Crows and Daws seen in Germany The Lituanians burn themselves their wives children and goods to avoid the taking The French burn South-hampton in England The Scythians wast Thrace and take many Captives King of Sicily dieth 1348. Divers mock-suns appeared this year The Heavens seemed to burn There were divers small beasts rained from the Heavens in the Eastern parts of the world A great Plague in England The English beat the Scots and recover much from them Polanders conquer Russia fully A great Plague in Venice which consumeth many people The English do much spoile at Lowthian in Scotland 1365. In England there were armed men seen in the Heavens and fiery Launces in Italy Grashoppers cover Switzerland like snow The Russians which rebelled in Poland are subdued King of France expell'd his Kingdom The King of Swevia taken in battel The Turks expel the Christians from Adrianople 1376. A Comet with a beard seen in the Heavens many nights together Grashoppers spoyl France Inundations in Germany A very great Earthquake there In Gand 5000 houses burnt 17 Towns in Flanders drowned The Christians kill 2000 Turks in Bosna by a stratagem The French burn Rye and Hastings and take the Isle of Wight The Scots burn Roxburg 1388. A blazing fire in the Heavens which burned for two Months together At Oxford the Image of a head spake thus viz. Caput decidetur Caput elevabitur Pedes elevabuntur super caput The head shall be cut off The head shall be lift up The feet shal be elevated above the head A great Sedition in Oxford among the Scholars many of them dislike the Government An Army of 40000 raised by the Duke of Glocester Earles of Warwick Darby and Notingham with 50000 Christians slain in the plains of Casovia Very great Factions in France 1399. A running River in Bedfordshire in England divides it self A blazing Star this year that shot wonderful beams of fire from it Scotland wasted by the English The Frisons rebel in Holland Sigismond executed 32 of the Nobles in Hungary The Pope imprisoned by the King of France The Duke of Hereford being Banished returns into England 1415. Strange Prodigies this year in Britain A Dragon encountring a Lyon in the Air. Armies of fire seen fighting and overcoming in the Heavens An Eclipse of the sun The English and the French fight the French loose 20000 men 10000 kill'd upon the place and other 10000 taken Pope Gregory dies English invade Normandy King of Spain sells the Canaries to the King of Sevil. The Valentians made tributary to the Turks 1428. Great snows in Germany A mighty Earthquake in Italy A Winter wonderful for cold to all parts of the Northern Countries Danes spoil 30 ships of great valve that belonged to the Vandals and Hamburgers The Turks take Thessalonica from the Venetians The English lose much in France 1439. A Comet of mighty magnitude in Poland Swarms of Bees in England go a progress An Earthquake in Hungaria Emperour goeth against the Turks and dieth Polanders waste Silesia France twice beaten by the English in Normandy The Marshal of France burnt for sorcerie King of Bohemia dieth 1484. An Earthquake in Naples A wonderful snow in Germany and fiery darts seen in the skie The sun is this year Eclipsed The Tartars invade Podolia and are expelled English invade Scotland but are repelled Huniades defeateth the Turks in Russia The Vatican Library erected 1460. In England three suns appeared A mighty Tempest at Venice In Poland there was seen saith my author an Image of Christ crucified with a sword to pass along the air from West to South for two hours King of England is taken at Northampton Venetians war with the Turk The Civil war of France begins The war continueth in Germany about the Archbishoprick of Mentz A rebellion in France against the Queen for the Princes death 1470. Hail of wonderful greatness fell at Rome the stones whereof weighed 8 ounces In Germany Hail-stones fell as big as Goose eggs The Turks take Sabotz in Hungary They waste Germany King of Sicily with the Venetians war against the Turks The Venetians spoyl Lesbos and Pergamus 1478. The Sun darkned without an Eclipse Flocks of Grashoppers in Italy A glorious star seen to run along the Firmament Armies in Switzerland Fighting in the Air this year also The Turks waste Carinthia And the Tartars waste Podolia The Hungarians defeat the Turks and take 30000 Captives from them The Inquisition instituted in Castile against the Moors and Jews The Transylvanians overcome the Turks 1492. Great ●nundations in England An Eclipse of the sun A great Comet three suns in Pol●nd Another Comet lasting two months In Rome the kie was seen to be on fire many nights together The English go against the French The ●●ws exp●lled Spain The King of Poland dy●th The Ganthoys rebel in Flanders The Hungarians enter Mysia and return thence with much booty 1500. A great fiery Dragon and of monstious shape seen at Lucren A Comet for 18 days together in Poland An inundation in Germany Turks take Modon● and many other places from the Venetians A Rebellion in France The French and Spania●ds ex●el Frederick from Naples The Turks dest●oy many of the French Spaniards and Venetians 1510. 'T is strange to relate for in this year saith my Author there fell twelve hundred stones from Heaven some weighing sixty pound others more viz. 120 l. which if true serves

as a good Argument to prove the other Planets habitable The Lubeckers waste Denmark King of England goeth into France and besiegeth Turwyn Bajazet the Turk is poysoned The Spaniards take Tripolis They war in Navarr The Lubeckers worst the Danes at sea The Switzers invade France and do much mischief there 1521. Three suns with a Rainbow seen at Vienna A great burning Torch suddenly after A Circle and Cross appears with the Moon A burning Beam in Germany Venetians aid the Hungarians against the Turks The French loose Milan English and French quarrel Emperour invades Picardy King Henry the Eighth writes against the Pope 1530. A very great Comet that passed through Cancer Leo and Virgo was visible to all Europe A very great inundation in Holland In Holland 404 Parishes drown'd with all their people and cattel The Turks take Buda in Hungaria Cardinal Woolsey dies The Clergy fined and paid to the King 100000 l. for divers misdemeanors 1539. A bloody star and Cross were seen flying in the air Armed men swords and funerals were seen to walk in the air in Germany A blazing star this year A great fire in Constantinople which burnt the Goal and consumed 700 Prisoners therein The Irish Invade the English and are beaten The Ganthois mutiny and behead their Magistrates 1550. Corn rained from Heaven in Carinthia Three suns seen in England An earthquake and bowls of fire seen in the Elements Armies of men seen in the air in Saxony The sun seemed to cleave in sunder Great troubles at Antwerp The sweating sickness in England the French War with the Emperour The Duke of Somerset in England executed for Felony The Queen of Swevia dyeth Th● Pyrats carry 6000 Captives out of the Isle of Gaul neer to Malta 1562. An Earthquake in Constantinople Clashing of weapons in the Elements and armed men seen there Much thunder in England Five suns seen in Holland English take many Towns in France A great plague in England Muscovites invade Livonia 9000 slain at Dreux in Normandy among which the King of Navarr Danes and Lubeckers invade Swevia Polanders beat the Livonians 1568. Many Locusts in France The Heavens seem all on fire in Hungary In England when the true moon was under the earth appears a moon and a cross with a refulgent star at the top thereof Third Civil War in France King of Swedland deposed and imprison'd Prince of Conde taken and shot to death with a Pistol Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland rebel Selymus invadeth Cyprus The Polanders and Danes fight at Sea 1579. A fiery Dragon and great troops of Ravens flew through the air in Germany A great tempest in Bohemia An Earthquak● in Holland Armies in the heavens seen at Antwerp Two armed men in Gelderland seen in the air Polanders take Livonia and Polotia from the Muscovite Popish Clergie expelled Antwerp by the people The Emperour prohibit●th the protestant Religion at Aken Uraniburg Castle built by the most noble and ever to be honoured Tycho Brahe 1602. An Earthquake in Eng●and A Comet of very great magnitude appeared Armies of men seen in the air in France Swarms of Grashoppers in Germany Spaniards invade Ireland but beaten thence Swedes att●mpt Livonia in vain Basta d ●e teth the Transylvan●●n and killeth the Vayv●d of Valachia The Turks loose Alla regalis and 60000 men Qu. of Engl. dyeth 1610. Fiery Darts and Launces seen in th● heavens Four Crosses seen at once in the air in Spain Very great thunder and an Ea●thquake there also Danes War with the Sweds Persians invade Babylon and kill 20000 m●n Kin● of France is slain Polonians overcome the Muscovites 900000 Morisques ex●el'd Spain 1616. Divers mock-suns in the West of England An inundation in Holland The shape of an Elephant in the air s●en in Germ●ny A Lyon was heard as my author saith to roar in the air Archbishop of Spalato into England Venetians war with Ferdinand of Austria Hollanders beat the Spaniards in the South Sea The Tartars invade Podolia they burn four Cities and 400 Villages and carry with them thence much booty 1622. Three suns appeared at Heidelburg An Earthquake in Italy Many prodigious lightnings rains in France Circles seen about the sun an● moon in England The Jesuites and Papists expel'd the Netherlands Duke of Brunswick lost his Arm in battel A great dearth in Moravia and Silesia Bergen in Norway almost consumed by fire 1627. Two Armie were seen to figh● in the air in Pom●rania A great fiery beam in France seen in the air An Earthquake in England Polanders recover many places from the Tartars Persians beat the Turks English take the Isle of Ree and loose it again The Hollander beats the Spaniard in the Indies 1635. An inundation at Rome Five moons seen in No●mandy at once Italy this year brought forth many monsters A Sickness at Rome Division in Scotland about Religion Hollander and Spaniard fight at Sea A great Plague at Venice The Spaniards beat the French 1638. Six suns seen in Cornwall at once several apparitions of men in the heavens preparing to fight with each other also Navies of ships in 1639. An Eclipse of ☉ Scots begin to rebel against England The King goes in person to appease them They rout the Bishops and turn high Presbyters The Hollanders beat the Spaniards Fleet. The Irish massacre the English 1645. Many apparitions this year seen in the North of England Divers Parelia's or mock-suns An Eclipse of the sun in ♌ All England together by the Eares The Civil war prevaileth The Scots return home again in 1646. The English go into Ireland and subdue it 1652. A great Eclipse of the sun Two of the m●on A two-handed sword seen in the air in Cheshire Armies of men encountring each other in the air seen in the North A Comet in ♉ and ♊ The English subdue Scotland And beat the Dutch at Sea They beat the French at Sea this year also The Lord General Cromwel in 1653. made Lord Protector of all Britain and Ireland 1654. An eclipse of the sun An Earthquake in the West of England Apparitions in the air in the North of England A very great rain in Bohemia The King of the Romans and the Pope of Rome dies English take Jamaica and war with Spain English and Sweds unite Cardinal Ghisi made Pope in 1655. The Polanders routed by the Swede 1656. An Earthquake in Cheshire doing much harm viz. sinking the ground and rending up many Trees by the roots to the great damage of the Country In Nov. 1656. A fiery Dragon seen in the air in Scotland In 1658. August A great Whale came up to Greenwich neer London a thing seldom known before The English land in Flanders and take Mardike from the Spaniards they grow angry thereat and wars between them grow high King of Denmark twice invaded by the King of Sweden In 1658. Dunkirk taken by the English Oliver Cromwel dies Rich. Cromwell confidently succeeds him in Government as if it had been his

rumors of Wars motions of armies continual expeditions seditions and controversies great intemperancie of the air and a most excessive drought In sequenti verò decano regis carcerem c. But if an Eclipse happen in the second face of ♈ it denotes the captivity or imprisonment of a King or great Person sometimes death but always great sorrow to him or them it bodes the destruction of fruit-trees and a rottenness and putrefaction of such things as grow on the earth by the means of which both men and beasts are afflicted In the last decanate of ♈ it 's the forerunner of lamentation and wo to most men and of the death of some woman of great note also the destruction of beasts and cattle of the smaller sort In ♉ In ♉ verò denario primo negotiatores affligit c. but if there happen an Eclipse in the first decade of ♉ it denotes misery and affliction to all Negotiators Agents and Sollicitors or such as are imployed in Publick affairs many will busie themselves in unnecessary employments and bring trouble to themselves thereby it also presages destruction to corn In the decade of ♉ an Eclipse fore-tels many difficulties and discommodities to Travellers many abortions to women it presages the production of Monsters or unnatural births In the third face of ♉ an Eclipse signifies both Plague and Famine a mortality among all sorts of great Beasts as Horses Cows Oxen. In ♊ In ♊ primis 10. Gradibus Sacerdotibus in quovis ordine sacris initiatis dissentionem c. An Eclipse falling in the first 10. degrees of ♊ prenotes dissentions strifes seditions and contentions among Clergie-men of all sorts and also among Merchants and Mechaniques great hatred and contempt of the Laws neglect of godly and praise-worthy exercises breach of Contracts and Covenants In the second decade of ♊ it denotes many murthers much robbing at land manay Piracies at Sea fruitless Treaties turbulent and scurrile Petitions the common people grate the ears of their Governors withal In the third face of ♊ it portends the death of some Emperour King or eminent person various losses and crosses to the republique great trouble in the management of civil affairs much infortunacy to all sorts of people both superiour and inferiour In ♋ In ♋ decem primis gradibus aerem perturbat c. An Eclipse in the first 10. degrees of ♋ denotes much trouble in the Air men will be inclineable to wars and controversies and apt to violate Leagues and Covenants and many religious deceipts will be put in practice In the second face of ♋ fountaines and rivers are dryed up there will be much incontinency knavery and circumvention practised among men and women In the third face of ♋ many seditions and diseases are threatned unto the inhabitants of those Countreys subject to ♋ small Pox Dropsie Morbus Gallicus pains in the stomach Consumption In ♌ In ♌ denario primo summi alicujus Principis mortem c. The ☉ eclipsed in the first 10. degrees of ♌ denotes the death of some famous Prince or great person Great scarcity of grain and of all things that grow on the Earth The ☉ eclipsed in the second decade imports great tribulation and sorrow Anxiety and trouble unto Kings and Noble personages In the third face of ♌ many Captivities besiegings of Towns and Castles robbings and plunderings a profanation of holy places and a destruction of Horses by murrain In ♍ In ♍ decano primo calamitosum regis alicujus exitum c. An Eclipse of ☉ in the first face of ♍ shews much misery and sorrow if not death to some King or Prince A slaughter of men and a dearth of corn In the second face it denotes famine Plague thin crops of corn great droughts and many seditions among men In the third decanate of ♍ it threatens misery to Mercurial men as Painters Poets Printers Stationers c. they will be driven to extream want It procuceth many murthers banishments c. stirs up harsh fancies in Satyrical Poets by writing which they will reap reproach In ♎ In 10. primis grad ♎ aerem corrumpit c. An Eclipse in the first 10. degrees of ♎ corrupts the Air whence a plague ensues it incites youth to much wantonness and vain delight provision will be dear But if the ☉ shall be obscured in the second face of ♎ it denotes the death of some eminent King or Noble-man s●irs up seditions trouble about Customes and Priviledges 't is also the fore-runner of famine If in the third decade of ♎ it stirs up high and wonderful controversies amongst the Nobility and much damage and detriment will befal them in their Estates by prodigality it portends the rooting out of an Ancient Family In ♏ In ♏ denario primo tumultus bellicos movet c. In the first decanate of ♏ an Eclipse of ☉ stirs up wars and tumults captivities treasons murthers dissentions and many mischievous under-hand basenesses In the second face of ♏ it presageth the destruction of some King or great person and declares him averse to Wars or Armies In the last decade of ♏ it denotes the coming in of some stranger-tyrant and the odiousness of the present Governor by reason of his sloth and negligence In ♐ In 10. primis ♐ Gradibus seditiones inter Mortales manifestas ostendit c. prenotes dangerous seditions among men and that they shall be averse to all manner of accommodations or Treaties the Prince as well as the Peasant deeming and dreading deceits in those that they hap to deal with In the second face of ♐ death and destruction of those Cattle that bray as the Hart Stag Buck Ass and of the bigger sorts of beasts that are useful for the support and nourishment of man In the third decade of ♐ Horses shall be prejudiced and afflicted and Armies then on foot thereby the Nobility and Gentry much crossed and they most simply and foolishly undo themselves In ♑ In ♑ decano primo infoelices habet magnorum virorum casus An Eclipse in the first decanate of ♑ portends unhappy Chances and strange casualties to attend great persons and that some King or Person of eminencie shall flit and shift his place or habitation by reason of the revolting of Nobles and vulgar people also from him In the second ten degrees Souldiers will contend with or rebel against their Commanders Emperor or King but they shall not prosper It threatens a scarcity of grain and that many people shall die for want of bread In the third decade of ♑ an Eclipse prenotes famine great penury and want to the Husbandman bad Harvests Also the tumultuous motion of a King or great Person In ♒ In ♒ primis 10. grad An Eclipse of Sol in the first ten degrees of ♒ prenotes publick sorrow and mourning to Gentlemen or men of the highest rank In the second decanate of ♒ famine and an Earthquake Monopolies Robberies Rapines and which is worse such

great Monarchy pretty enthusiastical delusions the greatest and last that ever will be Vide Blag Ephem 1659. p. 1. Again if there were any verity or reason in this high-towring doctrine they pretend unto may we nor with much reason conclude both these Angel-mongers mistaken for according to the Principles of their Patron Trithemius neither Gabriel nor Hanael but Samael the Angel or Spirit of Mars to cope with them in their own canting dialect should have ruled this present Age of the world For he acquaints us that under Mars's rule or dominion wars were all over the world what peace have we in this age had I pray you infinite thousands of men perished Is our age behind hand with any age for that also Sundry Battels fought Doth not this age of ours by experience woful enough prove the same Kingdoms lost their former bounds How conspicuous is this truth to us also Now if Mercury had governed at this time the world had then been busi●d about novel fancies and opinions secret plottings and privy clandestine conspiracies and not apted or fitted for any such publick or notorious actions And had Venus by her Angel raigned as was urged we should then have been blessed with concord pleasure tranquillity peace and quietude Ergo it roundly follows that were we willing to suppose a truth in the doctrine neither Venus or Mercury or their Angels for them could at this time govern the world But when rash Assertors want arguments of reason to make good the things they so ignorantly obtrude upon mens understandings it is no wonder that they are found guilty of such gross absurdities I appeal to the whole world whether our scarlet Times have not more resembled Mars and his fury then either the changeable fancies or witty conceits of Mercury or the serenity and smiles of Venus Blood death and tragique stories Mars doth yeild A Golgotha of graves whose purple field Dy'd Crimson with his fatal Massacres Ant. Philos Sat. 5. Craves bloody Inke and scarlet Characters A pen that like a bullets force would reel A marble conscience By this short Annotation you may judge of what worth and excellency the whole is although so prodigiously boasted of For you see plainly Trithemius owns not the doctrine and it is plainly to be seen also that his disciples understand it not nor indeed do they know how to make use thereof except only to gild over their ignorance in honest and demonstrable Arts they pretend to the knowledg of It seemeth as cleer to me as the Sun in his Meridian glory that Trithemius his design and aim was to get himself fame and honor and to fix the Image of his ambition in the beliefs and understandings of the ignorant and credulous sort of people in the world so to perpetuate his name and memory for ever by such an undertaking For you must know that the world is not half so barren of persons ignorant as ingenious and really I account it a providence that God and Nature have given to wit and ingenuity wings that the Heavenly part of the ingeniously learned may bear them up above the dunstable resolutions of the rustick or unlearned otherwise they would be most sure to be voted out of their knowledge as reason it self too often is at a Grand-Jury It is not to be doubted but Trithemius knew the vanity and fictitiousness of this pretended Angel-skill But had not Trithemius done something above the ordinary level how should he have now been talked of among us he alas hath passed away and would have been remembred no more or at least but a little while among the sons of men but for such an undertaking Now the better to obtrude this his fancy upon the spirit of the world he dedicates the story to Caesar submitting to his judgment and the censure of the Church therein And hence it is come to pass that the learning of Trithemius and the authority and greatness of Caesar his Patron hath born down as well the reason and judgment of some persons very learned as the yeilding brains of the ignorant And thus much for Trithemius 2. Of Agrippa Henry Cornelius Agrippa is the second person in my triumvirate who beyond all thoughts of doubt was a most eminently learned man or else surely he had never been admitted Councellor to Charls the fifth Emperor of Germany nor yet judge of his Prerogative Court both which honors Cornelius was possessed of This learned person being strangely possessed with the vanity of what we have now under examination wrote three books De occulta Philosophia of occult Philosophy and therein to the skie as we use to speak magnified the Doctrine of Angels Spirits Characters Seals and Images c. and thereby set the fancies of divers persons at work expecting to be acquainted with their genius or at least so far with the vertue of a Sigil that thereby they might work wonders who have indeed after much pains and expence of money and time returned as wife from the search thereof as they came first to it Some it is true that I know will talk largely of their skill and cunning abilities and report with much confidence what they are able to do but alas they only act the part of Vangoose in the Play viz. pretend much when they can do nothing but talke Van Vill yow see somting Ick sall bring in de Turkschen met all Zin Bashawes Zin dirty towsand Yanitsaryes met all Zin whooren Eunuken all met an auder de Sofie van Persia de Tartar Cham met de groat king of Mogul and make deir men and deir horse deir Elephanten bee seen fight in de ayre and bee all killen and aliven noe such ting And all dis met d● Ars van de Catropricks by de refleshie van de glassen Such indeed is the skill that many pretenders have arrived at by their being credulous of things impossible to be performed and while they have twatled of raising spirits and of shewing faces in a Glass and other such like counterfeit cozening stories they have layd their reputations and honesty low enough in the esteem of all I remember to have heard a story of what hapned between that excellent Philosopher and great naturalist Sir K. Digbie and that Arch-pretender Dr. Lamb. This Dr. Lamb would needs be thought a person able to converse with Spirits command Devils and what not which the learned Sir K. hearing of and desirous to be confirmed of either the truth or falshood of the relation repaired to the Dr. who presently meeting the Knights request supposing him ignorant in his craft begins to shew him some shapes by the reflection of some Optical Glasses upon a wall which the Knight readily perceiving found him a cheat in his pretences for that there was nothing more in that knack of his of rarity then what an ordinary capacity might honestly arrive unto by the Optiques and took him by the collar of his doublet demanding of