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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.

then in the day time through the Sunnes presence by whose beames and light aboue the earth euen great lightnings are hidden in the ayre to be séene Here note that many persons are often made blynde or euer after molested with a dimnesse of sight which doe looke but with winking eies on the lightnings much more daungerous thought to looke on it with open eyes The fishes and any maner cattle smitten with the mightier lightning is daungerous to eate in that the fleshe and meate of such are infected with a venimous qualitye as by triall hath bene obserued Of the fearefull and violent lightning THis that the Phisitions properly name lightning is a common name which is referred and applied vnto euery exhalation which burning brasteth forth of the clowds So that the lightning is referred vnto the same exhalation which thickned and gathered rounde in the middle of the clowde smyteth or beateth the clowde by a longer space and through the motion kindled it at the last cleaueth breaketh through the clowde and is sent violently to the earth For the fyre forced of the clowde is cast to the earth euen as the motion caused in the burning of gréene wood For that cause is this rightly named lightning when the fire sent forth of the clowdes is caried euen vnto the earth and eyther doth it burne eyther breake or hurt somewhat on the earth The flashing light and the lightning doe not differ in the substance but rather in the forme and maner for the flashing light is a fyre lightlier kindled which sparsed vnder the clowdes higher shyneth in the aire But the lightning is that exhalation which when the same is sent forth of the clowde falleth to the earth The engendring of the lightning thus appeareth that when the vapour driuen or moued in the clowde is kindled and brasteth out of the moyst clowde then moystened agayne and gathered togyther as it were into a certain Masse which stirred and moued agayne is so hardened euen as clay dryed and hardned by the heate of fyre This Masse on thys wise baked and hardned is named the lightning So that the same is ingendred of a thicke vapour dry and viscouse which is gathered rounde togyther of the colde vapours and breaking forth by great force and noyse and discending euen to the earth cleaueth ouerthroweth windeth about scattereth into manye partes yea destroyeth and consumeth by diuers meanes bodyes there found hard and solyde through the motion light and blast Howe many kindes of lightning there are can hardly be vttered in that the nature of the lightning is so dyuers and marueylous through which a sufficient reason of the same can scarcely be giuen Yet marueylous are the workes of lightnings if a man well consider them and nothing to be doubted at but that a secret and diuine power consisteth in them Also certaine it is that the lightnings not to procéede or come by hap nor onely caused through the motion of the matter in that these sometimes are caused and sent downe by the almightie God gouerning nor such can be applyed vnto natural causes in that they often foreshew some euill and cal men to repentaunce Yet is their studie to be commended which after the possibilitie of mans nature haue diligently sought out the causes of these matters To be briefe Aristotle Plynie Seneca and others doe make thrée differences of lightnings and these according to the diuersitie of the matter and effect vnto which al the other kinds may be referred and reduced For the one kinde is cutting a sunder an other making swartishe and the thirde burning or there is one astonishing or causing stiffe an other blacke burning or fumous and an other cléere or flaming 1. The lightnings cutting are those which doe not burne but doe pierce and part in sunder things resisting through the qualitie of the matter of which consist the great drowte and plentie of windes and spirites which they violently take wyth them For these breake and part into small péeces the obiect matter before that it can be burned of the lightning In that the vapour is swifter then the lightning Otherwise is the same named astonishing not burning but pierceing and parting into small péeces For such is the purenesse and thinnesse of the flame that it maye pierce through most straight places and for the mightie sturdinesse of the matter maye especially part into peeces For the spirite or drie vapour is carted forth of the clowde with a most swift motion and thus entred into bodies full of poores and penetrable it parteth them in péeces So that this kinde of lyghtning is named the astonishing lightning throughe the colde expelled by heat for that it consisteth of the mightiest vertues and is of a marueylous nature and by a most swifte motion also doth the spirite or drie vapour consume all thinges This burneth man inwarde and consumeth the bodie to ashes without harming the garments it slayeth the yongling in the wombe without harme to the mother it consumeth money the purses remayning whole it melteth the sworde the sheath being whole it harmeth the hande the gloue not perished and the vessell broken it so astonisheth the wine that for thrée dayes after the wine sheddeth or runneth not forth For the matter of this lightning is verie subtill and lightly pierceing the thing striken so that it burneth those matters which resist it as stones yron and such like Here note an example of one Martia an honorable woman of Rome who being with child had the yongling striken and kylled of the lightning in hir wombe and she abode without harme and if the hystories be true she escaped after without harme Eutropius reporteth that a marueylous kinde of lightning hapned on the birth day of Cicero which was on this wise a certayne Mayden of Rome iourneying into Apulia was smitten by the way with the stroke of lightning all the garments shifted from hir body without cutting a sunder and both the Tyre and knittings on the breast legges and féete consumed the Bracelets Kings and other ornamentes molten so that shée lay naked on the grounde the body not harmed And the horse with the same slayne lay bare hauing neyther brydle saddle nor no furnyture on hym c. 2. The lightning making swartishe is the same which burneth not but for the paucytie and thinnesse of matter onely maketh swartishe or darke browne the resistaunt matters euen like the smoked partes couloured of fyre that can not burne Otherwise is the same named blackishe to smoke in that all thinges which this smyteth both wythin and without it maketh blackishe euen like soote of a small time made and leaueth behinde a shew note of a fyrie smoke and for the ouermuch subtilnesse and thynnesse it flyeth out and pierceth before that it can burne the resistaunt matter As may euidently appéere by the vines trées corne and herbes blasted with this lightning 3. The lightning burning is the same which hauing much of the earthly

Well of such a nature of which when Théeues o● robbers had dronke they immediatly became blinde 11 In Idumea a region in Siria ioy●ning to Egypt was a Well in tyme past● of such a propertie that would for thrée Moneths togither appeare troubled other thrée Moneths founde bloudie other thrée Moneths séene gréene and other thrée Moneths knowne and tryed cléere 10. There was a Well knowne of such condition that for sixe howres the same was found full of water and running ouer and other sixe howres séene quite empty and dry the cause of which as Seneca wytnesseth is the proportion of the vapour eleuating the waters and the ebbing and flowing also of the Sea neare by 11. In the hill named Anthracius is a Well reported to be which is noted of such a propertie that when the same is found full of water to the brim that then it pronounceth a firtill yere to insue but when the same Well is séene verie lowe and in a maner emptie of water then foloweth a dearth the same yeare 12 In Hungarie is a certaine little riuer or brooke affirmed to be which is noted of such a propertie that who casteth yron into the same it will in short tyme after be chaunged into Copper 13. Seneca affirmeth that such a propertie to be in certaine ryuers which alter flockes of shéepe by drinking thereof within a short time in causing those which before bare a black woole to possesse a whyte and that those which came thither with a whyte woole departed after with a black woole on their backes 14. Theophrastus reporteth that in Macedonia to be a ryuer of such condition vnto which those which be minded to haue their shéepe beare a white woole bring them to that ryuer which by that reason the longer the shéepe drinke thereof none otherwise than as they were infected are they after chaunged 15. Capadocia is a aryuer of such a propertie that what beastes drinke sundrie times of the water the heares of their skirt become wholy whyte 16. In Archadia as Vitruuius reporteth is a water named Nonacris which is founde on the hilles sweating or distilling most colde humours out of the rocke stone this water gathered is named also Stygis hydor which as by experience the same is founde neyther a Siluer nor Copper nor yron vessell can retayne the same but that this leaketh and soketh through it so that for his straunge qualitie it is founde by triall that none other vessell will retaine or kéepe the same water sauing the hoofe of a Mule. 17. In the Countrie of Sclauonie is a Well knowne to be of such a propertie that clothes spreade ouer the Well being as some report most colde are burned 18. In the Iland named Andro and in the temple of Liberi patris is a Well of such a propertie that out of the same in the Nonis of Ianuary runneth water lyke to Wine in taste 19. In the hill named Berosus Taurorum be thrée Welles of such condition which are without remedie and without paine of deadly griefe 20. Isydore affirmeth in his .xiij. Booke that in Italie is the Well of Cycero being of such a propertie that it healeth the clefts and chaps or other hurts of the eyes 21. In the Iland named Chio is there a Well of such condition that the persons drinking of the water of the same become soone after dull of memorie And the Well of Circus is noted to be of such a propertie that such drinking thereof are after bereft of the desire of the veneriall act as certaine wryte 22. In Aethiopia there is a Well red the propertie of which is that who drinketh of the same shall soone after become madde 23. In Archadia there is a Well named Lechnus the propertie of which is knowne to be that what person o● woman with childe shall drinke of the same shall not after be delyuered before hir tyme. 24. In the Countrie of Sicilia are two Welles of which the one by propertie doth make fruitfull the barraine and the other causeth the fruitfull barraine and these by sundry times drinking of eyther 25. In the Iland named Sardinia are hote Welles of that propertie which perfitely helpe the eyes yet doe those trie out Théeues in that their faces be bewrayed through a blindnesse caused by them 26. It is manifest sayth Seneca in his booke of the properties of things that common Welles there be of such propertie which chaunge péeces of woode into a ston● substaunce and of such stones by report● are the best whetstones made 27. In the ryuer of the Countrye of Thrace and in the Lake Velino it is reported that wood throwne into eyther is soone after couered with a stonie barck 28. Plynie wryteth that in the ryuer of Silarus being a ryuer of Lucania not only the braunches of trées but the leaues also throwne into it are chaunged into stones but otherwise is the water wholesome to be drunke 29. In the Iland named Pontus there is a riuer that watereth the fertill groundes in which the shéepe féeding doe yéelde and féede the people there with a black milke 30. In Aethiopia is a Lake in which bodyes rubbed ouer with it shine as they were done with Oyle 31. Of Clitorio being a Lake in Italie is such a propertie knowne that what persons drinke of the water of the Lake abhorre wine after by report 32. In Cappadocia as reporteth Vitruuius there is a Lake into which if part of a réede shall be put and the next day taken forth shall be founde so harde as a stone but the other part remayning without the water of the Lake contynuing in his proper estate and condition 33. Seneca in his seauenth booke wryteth that there be certaine Lakes of such condition which are able to beare vp men not skilfull in swymming 34. In Syria also is there a standing water into which if Tyles be throwne they doe not sinke but rather swim aboue although they be heauier 35. The Rhene Belgas deuideth it selfe from the Germaines and marueylous is the same which is reported to be wrytten of this ryuer for they affirme of the due proofe made that the Infants of the French women named Celtoe dwelling fast by this ryuer throwne into it if so be those yonglings were vnlawfully gotten thys ryuer then would swalowe and let them sincke as a due reuengement for the polluting of the chaste bed but such Infantes in wedlock gotten and by lawfull order thys bare to shore in safetie to the wonder of the beholders This is reported to be written in a certaine Epistle of Politianus vnto Iacobe Cardynall 36. There is a ryuer in Seythia running from a great Maryse which bringeth forth certaine huskes greater than anye common kernell out of which doe byrdes with foure féete issue or he hatched which increasing and waxing strong doe flie about vntill the after noone for after the sunne declyning lowe into the West these byrdes then Waxe leane and féeble and after the Sunne