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A03963	A vvorld of vvonders. A masse of murthers. A couie of cosonages Containing many of the moste notablest wonders, horrible murthers and detestable cosonages that haue beene within this land. Not imagined falso to delight vaine heads ociose, not practised trans mare to breed trueth cum ambiguitate, but commited euen at home re vera, and may be prooued cum honestate. A matter moste fit to be knowen, well wayed and considered of all men.	T. I., fl. 1595.; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 14068.5; ESTC S109081	33,922	48

Archigallo was twise king of this land and Elidurus his brother twise disposed so that he was thrise ruler heerof Catillus who ruled this land ten yeares caused all Extortioners and oppressors of the poore to be hanged to giue examples to other I would to God they were so vsed now a dayes I suppose there would be a great number of vsurers brokers sergiaunts About thréescore yeares after the birth of Christ it is supposed that Christianitie came into this land but diuers write diuersly for some as Necephorus and Dowthemus say that Simon Zelotes first preached Christ heere Some say Phillip the Apostle Some say Ioseph of Armathia that buryed our Lord. King Arthur conquered thirtie kingtomes such as were in those dayes wherin he liued In the raigne of Careticus and Ethelfridus was such ciuil and deadly warres that the most part of this land was buryed destroyed and the people that were left faine to flye into Wales the faithfull of Christ was then almost extinguished the Brittaines indispaire and in subuersion to the Saxons But what is the cause or this prouoking of Gods anger euen couetousnes whordome and extortion Looke vp England looke vp and repent those sinnes were then but euen in the budde now behol●e and repent for now are they in the fulnes of their flower and stay but for the frute Woe are wée whose doyes are so dangerous But Lord awake in mercie and take pittie on vs. Then couerend Beda wrote 78. bookes and in his time renoumed throughout the whole worlde When Bytiricus ruled this land it rained blood yea that fel on peoples clothes appeared like crosses When this land was stored with Wooules the Princes of VVales payed 300. Wooules euerie yeare to the King of England for at that time might scarce two be found vntill the yeare 994. neither feuer nor flix nor murren of Cattle were knowen in this land In the time of king VVilliam the Conquerour was scarcitie and dearth that men did eat horsses cats dogges yea and mans flesh Anno 1093 was such a famine that therof sprang such and so great a mortalitie that the quick were scant able the dead Also in the yeare 1099. we read that blood sprang out of y e earth at Finchamstead in Barkshire Much about this time the water of the riuer of Trent at Nottingham was dryed vp from one of the clock till thrée The like defection of water did the Theames at Londen bridg suffer about foure yeares after The 24. of February at Tewxbury being then their Faire such number of flyes and kyttles dammed Seuern that for the length of a Buts shot were in mens iudgement estéemed abooue a hundred quarters A wunder of wunders befel in England throughout 1133. for there was great darknes throughout all the land and the Sunne appeared no otherwise then as the Moone when she is in her last quarter Giraldus Cambrencis in his booke of the discription of Wales telleth that in the Cuntrey Kemanies yea in his time a young man named Se●●illus borne in those parts was so tormented w t toades as though all the toades in the Cuntrey had beene gathered together to vex him and when as innumerable numbers of them were killed by those that kept him by others of his friends and kinsmen yet came they still increasing in greater numbers then before insomuch that when his acquaintance perceiued no help after many assayes they loped all the boughes and leaues of a very high trée and closed him in a coffin made for the purpose so hoisted vp into the said high trée but notwithstanding poore S●isillies was still molested with them for they créeping vp wunderfull heapes left him not til they had eaten him vy to bare bones and so dyed About Orford in Suffolk certaine fishers tooke in their nettes a fish in all pointes shaped like a man which fish was half a yeare kept in Orford Castle for a wunder Hée would eat all manner meat but most gréedily raw fish he was shewed in no kinde of worship Aftermen had wundred at him hée was little estéemed of and so not béeing looked vnto stole away and was neuer heard of 1188. In the yeare 1230. a suddain darknesse chaunced in Poules-Church euen at seruice time so oue could scantly sée an other Also bout thrée or foure yeare afterward fiue sunnes to be séene in the ayre as also two great dragons flyingand fighting together during a whole day the one day chased the other to the déepe sea After all these followed great warres and troubles in England Wales c. Beholde all Cornehourders a wunderfull example not fained but by sufficient testimonies to be approued done euen at home In the yeare 1234 was a dearth in England as true histories recorde euen as now also there is so that many dyed for want of victualls The richmen as now a dayes were dwelled with couetousnes so that they would not releiue them that were in necessite Amongst whome a thing worthy noting was one Walter Gray Arch-bishop of Yorke whose corne béeing fiue yeares olde doubted that the vermine would destroy it and therfore cōmaunded to deliuer it to husband men that dwelt in his manours vppon condicion as much new corne after the next haruest and would distribute none of it to the poore for Gods sake Now it fortuned that when the men came to a great stacke of corne that stoode néere to the towne of Rippon belonging to the said Archbishop and had opened the corne there appeared in the sheaues the heds of wormes and of toades and horrible serpents yea and a voice was heard out of the mowe saying lay no handes one that corne for the Archbishop and all that he hath is the diuels This being heard the left it and the bayliffes of the Towne were faine to build an high wall round about the corne and then to set it one fire least the venemous venime should haue gonne out to haue poysned the corne in other places Beholde this true example and repent thou couetous richman and doe good while time is offered thée and God will blesse thée the better A sea-bull was taken passinge the thames as far as Mortlake to the 25. yeare of the reigne of King Richard the 3. It is most aproued that in the sayd Kings raigne ther dwelled in the Dioces of Lincolne a woman of noble birth both well fauored and beautifull who being married to a rich man in that curtry beare to her husband many children and yet not with stāding wonderfull to tell the sayd woman got another gētle with child and begate of her thrée sonnes one after an other or euer the ma●er came to light the woman were named Hauissia and Lucia In King Edward the 2 raigne flesh of beasts was so corrupted that men durst not eate therof such murraine of beasts and cattell was then that men and women stole Cattes and did eate their owne children some fatte dogges horses such like Prisoners plucked in peeces

such as came newly to them as prisoners eate them haule a liue so greeuous a mortalitie of people folloged that vneth the quicke were able to bury the deade Lord deliuer vs from the like About Chippyngnorton in Oxfordshire in the yeare 1344 was found a monsterous serpent hauing two heads and two faces like women one face attired of the new fashion of attyres then sprung vp and the other face atired after the olde ci●ll fashion and like a bat or ●●●n●er mouse And shall wee not say those were tokens of Gods wrath sent to mooue vs to repentance and leauing of our new deuised pride of apparrell But what then may be sayd of the straunge birds or fowles taken by Richard Waller and Richard Preston within the Parish of Crowell in Lincolne shire euen euen the other day in ●●r memories in the yeare 1586 which birds w●●ed enter●●●t ●●llors hauing fethers vpon then heads or fronts growing standing out very like the frisled and curled haire of most men and women in these dayes yea hauing also great feathers about their neckes growing and standing very high very euen and in the very forme of our greatest set of ruffes being diuersly coullored held vp with 〈◊〉 quilles resembling the wyers commonly called supporters which woord in my iudgment right fitteth the matter for that in very trueth they are the supporters of sinne and of many iniquities If wee further consider how these foules beeing taken would walke thrée and thrée togeither in most stately forme and afterwards turning bill to bill stood as it were consulting it might be imagined they did but resemble the most ●proude stately and scornefull footesteps of women in these our dayes as also their gossops talks and inuentions of new●●nd tayles and behauiour But gentlewomen consider what you are and whereto you must turne A apainted wall is but a deceite to the buyer and a paynted body is but a deceiuing of the soule Consider that a simple soule surpasseth thousands of the moste gorgious attired bodies of this world Leaue off the pride of the Pecock and take the humility of the Doeue for when age draweth vpon you you your selues will repent your former pride and acknowledge it méere vanitie Vppon Christmas day in the the 25. yeare of the raigne of L. Richard the second a Dolphin came out of the sea euento London bridge showing himselfe playing but after there followed great tempests The posterne gate of London néere the Towre in King Henry the sixt dayes sunck more then seuen foote into the earth at the same season Wonderfull and straunge it is to tell how in the 1594 the bodie of one Alce Hackney which had béene buried in the Church of Saint Mary-hill in London by the space of one hundred thrée score and fiftéene yeares was taken out of the ground by a graue maker bothe whole of skinne and also her ioynts plyable not deminished This body being also so taken vp is reported that after so long time lying in the earth to lye foure dayes abooue ground to the vein of all commers not smelling nor anoying of any and then buryed againe This as it séemeth to mée veryfieth the saying of reueend Bede our Cuntreyman who affirmeth that there be thrée dayes in a yeare wherein whosoeuer is borne the bodies shall not consume vntill the day of Iudgement In the yeare 1552 at Middleton eleuen myles from Oxford a woman brought foorth a Childe with two bodies from the nauill in such sorte that when they lay at length the one body hed lay as it were east-ward and the other hed and body lay west west-ward the legs for y e bodies grew out at the midst wheras the bodies ioyned and they had but one issue for both the bodies These were women children and liued eightéene dayes About that time when the Gray-f●yers was made an hospitall ten great Dolphins were taken and brought to London the least wherof was bigger then a horse Straunge it is to consider how God sundry times in most miraculous sorte prouideth for the poore as may be read in the dayes of Quéene Mary The twentie six of Nouember 1575. a Poulters wise in Christ Church parish within Newgate was deliuered and brought to bed of foure daugghters all aliue A place by the seaside all of hardstone and pebles commonly called a shelf lying betwéene Oxford and Alborough in Suffolk wheras neuer was knowen to be either grasse or earth but alwaies bare and barren suddainly by Gods appointment sprang out of the fame without labour or till age such great abundaunce of peason that the poore Inhabitaunts there gathered as it was then iudged aboue one hundred quarters and yet notwithstanding there still remained pease some rype some gréene and some in the blossome euen in as a great a quantitie as they were before they were gathered About the same time also a great fish was taken threescore féet in length very swéet and pleasant to be eaten In the yeare 1557. before haruest was such a dearth that wheat was solde for foure marks the quarter mault for fortie foure shillings pease at fortie six shillings the quarter but it pleased God to send such a haruest to ensue presently vpon that dearth that wheat was solde for fiue shillings a quarter mault for an noble Rye for ten grotes and all this so solde at London in the cuntry it was better cheape Let vs repent vs of our wickednes and begine to loue one an other as we ought and doubt we not but God will euen now doe the like for vs in this our dearth although in mans iudgement it presumptio●s may be made to the contrary More monsterous births befell in the yeare 1562 then in many yeares before A Mare brought foorth a foale with one body and two heads and a thing like a tayle growing sut betweene the heads Also a Sow farrowed a pigge with foure legs like to thearmes of a man childe with hands and figers Also there was an other Sow which farrowed a pigge with two bodyes eight féete and but one head Diuers children and beastes were brought into the world in monsterous formes but most to be noted is how many had resemblances of ruffs growing about their necks and this without fable The xvij of February 1570. at a place called Kinnaston néer Marclech hill in Herefordshire a straunge thing was séene that was the ground to open and the ground with certaine rocks to remooue and went forward for the space of foure or thrée dayes to wit satterday sunday and munday and in fiue and twentée houre it remooued fortie paces euerie pace fiue foote carrying both trees and shéepecoates yea shéepe and all in them some trees falling into the chinkes others remaning firme as before others that to fore stood east stand now west et sic econtra Kinaston Chapell was ouerthrowne with it and two high wayes laned with hedges and trées are remooued trées and all an hundred yards from their acc●ustomed places

boy about thirteen or foureteene yeares of age was sent with three or foure shirtebands caffes and handkerchers therto according valued at foure pounds or there about vnto a Gentleman lying about olde Fish-streat who passing through some part of Waeling-streat vppon a suddain met him a woman demaunding his name his mothers name his dwelling and place wherto he was going the boy folde her truely all these things and so she departed goin vnto another companion not far seated from her and tolde her mate all what so euer the boy had before declared which done this other cosoninge queane crossing ouer the streat came and met the boy calling him by his name asking him whether he went and so foorth the boy wondred how she knew him and said that he knew not her no said she I a well heard by thy mother at Bishopf-gate and I haue beene heerby of an err and and as I came along this streat at I spied a good shoulder of mutton in a Cookes shop but I cannot haue it vnder xiiii .d. because he and I fell out I pray thée take this xii pence and goe and asue for one Harison a Cooke heer in Watling streat and se if thou canst buy it and thou and I will be mery togither with it then goe home togither The boy simply tooke the mony left his bands other things with the huswife in the meane while she went away with the clothes An other SEeing I haue spoke of Watling-streat I meane to put you in minde of an odde iest if so I may tearme it cōmitted in Fryday-strēat néere the said place and thus it was Salters there as other traders vse to set out there wares vppon she stalles and such like places that men may see what they haue to sell Amongst the rest one W. C. now liuing set out halfe a firkin of sope vnder his stale vppon a barrel of pitch as the reporte goes and so it long continued One day aboue the rest there passed by a man seruingman like who seeing the said half firkin without saying by your leaue tooke the half firkinne vnder his at me and away he went The owner knew nothing thereof till one of the neighbours servants séeing the fact tolde him of it and he intentinent sent his seruant after him who brought him to his master and being asked why he stole it defied them saying hée came not into his house for any ware but he found that half firkin in the Quéenes high way and therfore hée tooke it vp An other AMong petie cosonage this may also be numbred A Cuntrey man came into Fry day-streat before named and demaunded which was his way into Fryday-streat a naughtie minded fellow bad him turue at the next corner and he should be out of it by and by The fillie suspecting no deceit did as he bad him so was led amisss And this petie cosonage is to common now a dayes more is the pittie An other AS notorious a cosonage as euer was heard dooth follow In Lecester towne dwelled sometimes a weauer who beeing a perfect workeman wanted not customers to set him on worke and among others one in the towne brought him some thirtie or fortie poundes of flaxen yarne to weaue his woorke ended hée brought home the cloth as the vsage is and the goodwise partlie knowing how much might be be made of so much yarne and suspecting that he had stolne same of heer yarne asked if he had brought home all her yarne yea dame quoth he that I haue but 〈◊〉 ●●king as though she did not beléeue him hee s●ore as G●● sh●●●●● iudge him he had brought home euerie ha●●● to 〈…〉 and so he did in very déed he brought home all and yet 〈◊〉 standing he beguyled her of two or thrée pounds in his 〈◊〉 ●réeches but going away hee caryed it a way with him backe againe A wounder it is to sée what sleightes the diuell vseth to drawe men vnto him aswelmay be noted in this for hée thought by this meanes to saue his oath though he neuer imagined that it was asault to deceiue such as put most confidence in him An other IN Melton Mobray dwelled a Caryer named K. who when first he vsed carrying as he trauailed in the hiyh way heard a woman ouer the hedge crying and making great mone for helpe the man supposing if a good déed to help a woman distressed would haue left his companion and haue gone to the reseue of the woman but his fellow traualler would not suffer him shewing him what trecherie might he insuch dissembling cryes so he stayed a space but yet hearing the importunate moane he saide that hée would ayde her what he might and therupon leapt ouer y e hedge where presently one caught him by the throat and had not rescue béene hée had both beene robbed and murthered An other IN Colm instreat in London oueragainst a Persumers stall met thrée men or as may be suspected came thether of a set purpose and stoode in the open streat within two or thrée yardes or there abouts of the stall and talked secretlie betwéene themselues the Perfunter his wife and seruaut busie in the shoppe euen at noone dayes yet one of the thrée hauing a small long wand in his hand as it should seeme hauing a crooked pinne in the end filched away thrée or foure payre of glooues and went there way vntaken yea not suspected of such filthy actions This was doone within these twelue menethes An other ABout the same time also a boy aged sixteene or there about in structed by some miscreant for such young yeares coulde not produce so mischeiuous a faction of themselues got a stick fashioned much like vnto those stickes which the boyes calles bandyes and hauing the samel esmeered with lyme came by a Goldsmiths sop in Foster-lane and vnder a pretence of knocking the sticke vpon stalles as be passed along at the last strooke his stick vpon a Gold-smiths bourde where a gilt spoone and other money they knew not how much he got vpon his lymed stick The spoone being waightie fell into the currant and they had it againe but what money was lost it is not knowen An other NOw for because our Countrey-men are slaundered not to be so vpright in conuersation nor so true dealers as straungers and therfore we run thick and thrée folde to buy what soeuer commodities we want of them leauing our owne natiue Cuntreymen as an oprobris to the world aswell for cunning in actes and trades as also in vpright dealing which sure is lamentable that wee should deecleane contrarie tonature and reason euen all one to begger our selues and inrich others I will by your patience showe you a most cunning peece of knauerie this one to serue insted of many examples Neither is it inuented as false but euen now by sufficient proofe to be verified at this present thus it was A Gentlewoman of y e cuntrey occasioned to buy her a gowne