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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13477	Newes and strange newes from St. Christophers of a tempestuous spirit, which is called by the Indians a hurry-cano or whirlewind Which hapneth in many of those ilands of America or the West-Indies, as it did in August last, about the 5. day. 1638. Blowing downe houses, tearing up trees by the rootes, and it did puffe men up from the earth, as they had beene feathers, killing divers men. Whereunto is added the true and last relation of the dreadfull accident which hapned at Withicombe in Devonshire the 21. of October last past.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1638 (1638)	STC 23778.5; ESTC S110796	6,831	24

strong stuffe made of twisted threads spun out of the rindes of trees some who have not these Cabins do for feare bind themselves with cords singlely or severally to divers trees and so they do remaine bound untill the fury of the Hurry-Cano is past And this is the true relation of the nature and quality of it and also partly of the harmes which it did in the moneth of August last past The Indians do fore-know it by certain circles which appear about the Moone and those Indians that are servants under our English did give some notice or else far more hurt had insued and is when the Moon hath divers circles like mists and fogs about it and of a flaming colour and by some other signes the people doe sometimes save themselves and their goods in making caves or cellers in the ground or else they loose all But for a late remarkable proofe of Gods mercy and power in drawing good out of Evill I desire the Reader to note that in the year 1609. eight ships were bound from London unto Virginia Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Sommers Knights were General and Admirall of the Fleete and Captaine Newport was Vice-Admirall The Admirall Ship wherin Sir George Sommers was was by a Hurry-Cano disperst and sundred from the rest of the Fleete and with the greatnesse of the storme driven between two rocks at the Iland of Bermudas where his ship stucke fast and was there lost and split But hee landed all his men safe with some of his chiefest goods where hee found good reliefe of Swine Fish and Fowle But Sir Thomas Gates and the other Ships did give Sir George with his men to be utterly lost cast away but he made such shift that with Timber that hee found and fell'd in the Island he caused two Ships to be built with the which he sayled from the Bermudaes to Virginia after hee had beene tenne Moneths supposed dead where he was most joyfully welcomed and thus out of this great danger which in mans imagination was evill God was graciously pleased to make it the happy finding and discovery of that good and fruitfull Island the Plantation whereof is now so profitable and beneficiall to the English Adventures and the Bermudaes with some other Islands are at this time called the Sommer Islands in memory of Sir George Sommers who was the first discoverer of them and thus much shall suffice for the true Report and Description of the Hurri Cano. Innumerable of other the like of such things as these I have formerly related and many of them are Recorded in our owne Histories to have happened in our owne Country which who so doe desire to read more may see them amply and truely recorded in the workes of the learned Cambden painefull Speed Stowe and Howes Histories and Chronicles wherein they may bee certainely inform'd that former Times have afforded as strange and fearefull Signes and warnings as this prodigious Tempest and lamentable Accident at Worthycombe neare Dartmoores in Devonshiere as you may read in these ensuing Verses the whole truth as followeth A true Relation in Verse of the strange accident which hapned at Wit by combe in Devon-shiere TH' Almighty was is shall bee still the same Who with his word did all of nothing frame Whose glory lightens all whose Voyce is Thunder Whose mercy's ore his works each work a wonder Whose Powerfull Arme 's not shortned but his Wil Unlimited is as his pleasure still The sacred Text unto our Faith presents How God plagu'd sinners with the Elements Of Water Earth Ayre and consuming Fire All Creatures are his Souldiers in his Ire With means with small means with no means at al He ayds his flocke and gives his foes the fall With Water he did first the World confound Eight Persons only sav'd the rest were drown'd When Sodoms crying sins to Heaven assum'd By fire from Heaven they were consum'd Inburn'd Samaria's Captaines with their fifties slaine By fire when they Elias would have tane When Corah did rebell with heart unhallow'd Th' earth gap'd him wth his cōpanions swallow'd By putred Ayre for Ishaies offence Dy'd seventy thousand of the Pestilence Hee 's Lord of Hosts and when man runs amisse The meanest thing Gods mighty Souldier is Plagues Botches Blaines all mortall Malladies Grashoppers Darknes Murrain Frogs Lice Flies With Gedeons Pitchers and with Shamgars Goade His Enemies he under foot hath troad With Foxes and the Iaw-bone of an Affe He mighty Myracles hath brought to passe Thus with Contemptible despised things He tameth Tyrans and He Conquers Kings Thus Heaven Earth Hel Seas and th'ut most Coasts Declare him still to be the Lord of Hoasts His Power by Iudeth a weake womans hand Slew Holophornes foyl'd the Assyrian Band By Iacls hammer'd Naile and Davids Sling God doth his foes to fell confusion bring Hee 's still the same he was and changeth never But yesterday to day the same for ever And now good Reader with attentive minde Reade these ensuing lines and thou shalt finde Strange Prodiges full of amazing feare I' the Church of Withy-combe in Devonshiere T is worthy thy best considerations weight One Thousand Sixteene hundred thirty eight These signes and sights of terrour chanc'd upon A Sunday last Octobers twenty one A short space after Service did begin And our best prai'rs are mix'd with too much sin An extreame Darknesse did begin to fill The Church which more and more encreased still In such Cymerian manner it did spread That none assembled there could see to reade The people all astonish'd straite way heares Most dreadfull Thundring ratling in their eares With horride sounds in such a fearefull sort As Cannons or great Ordnance in Report Attended with such direfull Lightning flashes As if the world should straight be turn'd to ashes The darknesse still increas'd that mist and smother Was wax'd so thicke one could not see each other The smell like Brimstone and the fire smoake Th' affrighted Congregation seem'd to choake With darknes smoak stench lightning thunder Their soules and bodies almost seem'd to sunder Most lamentable were the cases then The cryes of children women and of men Dispersed in their seates in divers places Some all astonisht groveling on their faces Some on their Knees did humbly God intrete To grant them Mercy from his Mercy Seate Some one upon another tumbling lay Expecting that should be their latest day Some burnt some with scaldings over-spread And every one gave up themselves for dead The Pastor of the Parish Master Lyde With Christian courage Reading did abide And heard and saw all that was seene and heard And was not hurt or bruised nor sing'd or fear'd But praying for himselfe and for the rest The duty of a good Divine exprest He after saw a lamentable sight His poore Wife in a sad perplexed plight In many parts lightning her body burn'd Her Ruffe and garments were into ashes turn'd To thinke upon the torments that she felt