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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35212	Admirable curiosities, rarities, & wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or, An account of many remarkable persons and places ... and other considerable occurrences and accidents for several hundred years past together with the natural and artificial rarities in every county ... as they are recorded by the most authentick and credible historians of former and latter ages : adorned with ... several memorable things therein contained, ingraven on copper plates / by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, &c., and Remarks of London, &c.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1682 (1682)	Wing C7306; ESTC R21061	172,216	243

to lose his Life for Christ's sake At the stake he kneeled down and read the 51st Psalm then the Sheriff said to him Here is a Letter from the Queen if thou wilt recant thou shalt live otherwise thou shalt be burnt No quoth William I will never recant and so he was fastened to the stake He then said Good People pray for me while you see me alive adding Son of God shine upon me and the Sun immediately shone out of a thick Cloud so full in his face that he was forced to turn his head aside fire being kindled he lift up his Hand to Heaven saying Lord Lord receive my Spirit and so ended his Life in the Flames John Lawrence was burnt at Colchester whose Legs being lame with Irons and his Body weak with cruel usage he was carried to the Stake in a Chair and burnt therein at his burning many young Children being about the fire cried out to him Lord strengthen thy servant and keep thy Promise which was lookt on as a product of Divine Providence who out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings hath ordained strength Thomas Hawks Gentleman was first brought into trouble for refusing to baptise his Child after the Popish fashion This man going to the stake promised his Friends to give them some solemn Token of the clearness and comfort of his Conscience in performance whereof whilst his Body was burning he raised up himself and though having the sense yet having no fear of the Fire joyfully clapped his hands over his head to the Admiration of all the Beholders There was an Idol called the Rood of Dover-Court in this County to which multitudes of People went in Pilgrimage Divers zealous Protestants at Dedham being much troubled to see the Almighty so dishonoured by wicked Idolatry went from thence in a Frosty Moonshine Night 10 Miles to the place where the Idol was where they found the Church Doors open the Popish Clergy boasting the power of this Rood was such that no man could shut the doors of the Church where it stood These Persons taking the Image from the place where it stood carried it a quarter of a Mile off and there burnt it to ashes for which three of them were by the bloody Papists hanged in Chains In 1605. a great Porpus was taken at Westham in a little Creek alive a Mile and half within the Land and within a few days after a Whale came up the Thames whose lenght was seen divers times above Water and judged to exceed the largest Ship in the River but when she tasted the Fresh-Water and scented the Land she returned into the Sea This County contains 20 Hundreds 21 Market Towns and 415 Parish Churches It is in the Diocess of London and elects 8 Parliament men for the County 2. Colchester 2. Harwich 2. Malden 2. and gives the Title of Earl to Arthur L. Capel GLOCESTERSHIRE hath Worcester and Warwickshire on the North Oxford and Wiltshire on the East Somersetshire on the South Herefordshire with the River Wye on the West the River Severn runs through it and Malmsbury the old Historian thus describes it The ground of this Shire throughout saith he yieldeth plenty of Corn and bringeth forth abundance of Fruits the one only through the natural goodness of the ground the other by diligent manuring and tillage insomuch that it would provoke the most lazy Person to take pains Here you may see the High ways and common Lanes full of Apple-trees and Peer-trees not ingrafted by the industry of Mans hand but growing naturally of their own accord the ground itself is so inclined to bear fruit and those both in taste and beauty far exceeding others and will endure till a new supply come There is not any County in England so thick set with Vineyards as this is so plentiful of increase and so pleasant in taste the very Wines made thereof have no ill taste and are little inferiour to the French the Houses are innumerable the Churches very fair and the Towns standing very thick but that which addeth a greater glory to it is the River Severn than which there is not any in the Kingdom exceeds it for breadth of Channel swiftness of stream or for Fish better stored There is in it a daily rage and fury of the Waters which I know not whether to call a Gulf or Whirlpool of Waves raising up Sands from the bottom winding and driving them upon heaps and sometimes overflowing its banks roveth a great way on the bordering grounds and then returneth again into its usual Channel unhappy is the Vessel which it taketh full upon the side but the Watermen being aware of it when they see it coming turn their Vessels and cut through the midst of it and thereby avoid the danger Thus far he This encounter of the salt and fresh water as is supposed here mentioned is called in this Country the Higre and by some the Eagre for the keenness and fierceness thereof which is such that it is equally terrible with the flashings and noise to those that see and hear it much more to them who feel it of which there can be no reason rendered since the Thames where we find the same cause hath no such disturbance Hear how the Poets describe this Higre Vntil they be imbraced In Severns Soveraign Arms with whose tumultuous Waves Shut up in narrower bounds the Higre wildly raves And frights the stragling Flocks the Neighbouring shores o flie Afar as from the Main it comes with hideous cry And on the angry front the curled foam doth bring The Billows ' gainst the Banks when fiercely it doth fling Throws up the slimy Ouze and makes the scaly brood Leap madding to the Land affrighted from the flood O'returns the toyling Barge whose Steersman doth not launch And thrusts the furrowing beak into her dreadful paunch We read that in the 2. of King Richard 3. at that time when the Duke of Buckingham intended to pass with his Army over the Severn there was so great an Inundation of Water that men were drowned in their Beds Houses were overturned Children were carried about the Fields swimming in their Cradles and Beasts drowned even upon the Hills which rage of the Waters continued for the space of 10 days and is called to this day in those parts The Great Water In the 17 of Q. Elizabeth Feb. 24. being a hard frost after a flood which was not great there came down the River of Severn such a swarm of Flies and Beetles that they were judged to be above an 100 Quarters the Mills thereabout were dammed up with them for the space of 4 days and then were cleansed by digging them out with Shovels In 1607. a mighty West-wind which continued 16 hours brought the Sea into the Severn after a great rain and at a spring Tyde with such violence that the River began to overflow its banks from as far as the Mount in Cornwall along on both sides up into Somersetshire and

are all deceased it is in the Diocess of Ely CHESHIRE hath Lancashire on the North Denby Flintshire and the Irish Ocean on the West Darby and Stafford shires on the East and Shropshire on the South it produces the best Cheese also Milstones Fish Fowl and all sorts of Cattel in K. Richar 2. time it was made a Principality the City of Chester is the chief Town and in the daies of King Edgar was in a very flourishing condition he having the homage of 8 other Kings who rowed his Barge from St. Johns to h● Pallace himself holding the helm as their Supream a fair stone Bridge is built over the River Dee upon 8 Arches at either end whereof is a Gate from whence the walls incompass the City high and strongly built with four fair Gates opening to the 4 winds besides 3 Posterns and 7 Watch Towers it is reported by credible and believed by discreet Persons that there is a Pool adjoining to Brereton the seat of the Honourable Family of the Breretons wherein Bodies of Trees are seen to swim for certain days together before the death of any Heir of that house and after the Heir is dead they sink and are never seen more till the next occasion neither must we forget the many Fir-trees found buried under ground on the Southside of Cheshire by the River Wever which the common People imagine to have lain buried there ever since Noah's Flood the Inhabitants cut pieces of such wood very small and use them instead of Candles which give a good light the Author adds That such wooden Candles have long snuffs and yet saith he which indeed is a wonder in falling down they do no harm though they light into Tow Flax or the like yet let not this incourage careless Servants since this Country has been sadly sensible of casualties by Fire Nantwich a fair Market Town therein being twice burnt to the ground in 150 years In 1657. July 8 In the Parish of Bickly in this County about 3 in the afternoon was heard a very great noise like Thunder afar off which was much wondred at because the sky was clear from Clouds soon after says the Author a Neighbour comes and tells me if I would go with him I should see a very strange thing so coming into a Field called Layfield we found a very great bank of Earth which had tall Oaks growing on it now quite sunk under ground Trees and all at first we durst not go near it because the earth for near 20 yards about was much rent and seemed ready to fall in but since that time saith he my self and some others by Ropes have ventured to look down and saw water at the bottom about 30 yards from us under which is sunk all the Earth about it for 16 yards round at least with 3 or 4 tall Oaks and certain other small Trees and not a sprig of them to be seen above water four or five Oaks more were expected to fall every moment and a great quantity of Land beside it never ceasing more or less and when any considerable clod fell it was much like the report of a Canon we could discern the ground hollow above the water a great way but how far or how deep is not to be found out by man the water was salt like that of the Sea from whence some imagine it came through certain large passages under ground but it is probable to be no other than that which issues from those salt Springs about Nantwich and other places in this County may we not also judge that those Trees which are digged up in some places hereabout were buried in the Earth by some such accident as this is July 30. 1662 was a very stormy and Tempestuous day in many parts of Cheshire and Lancashire at Ormskirk there was such a storm of hail as brake the Glass-windows and did much hurt to their Corn Mr. Heywood measured an Hailstone after some of it was wasted and found it four inches about others being thought larger the same day in the afternoon in the Forrest of Maxfeild in Cheshire there arose a great Pillar of smoke in height like a Steeple and judg'd 20 yards broad which making a most hideous noise went along the ground 6 or 7 miles levelling all in the way it threw down Fences and Stonewalls and carried the Stones a great distance from their places but happening upon Moorish ground not inhabited it did the less hurt the terrible noise it made so affrighted the Cattel that they ran away and were thereby preserved it passed over a Cornfield and laid all as even with the ground as if it had been troden down with Feet it went through a Wood and turned up above an hundred Trees by the Roots coming into a Field full of Cocks of Hay ready to be carried in it swept all away so that scarce an handful of it could afterward be found only it left a great Tree behind in the middle of the Field which it had brought from some other place from the Forrest of Maxfield it went up by a Town called Taxal and thence to Waily Bridge where and no where else it overthrew an house or two yet the People that were in them received not much hurt but the Timber was carried away no body knew whither from thence it went up the Hills into Derbyshire and so vanished this account was given by Mr. Hurst Minister of Taxal who had it from an Eye-witness Dr. Walter Needham an eminent and learned Physician in a late discourse of Anatomy gives a Relation of a Child that cryed in its Mothers Womb which is as followeth A long time saith he I could scarce believe that there were such cryings till I was informed of that which I now set down by a Noble Lady in Cheshire as this Honourable Person sate after meat in the Dining Room with her Husband their Domestick Chaplain and divers others she was sensible of an extraordinary stirring in her Belly which so lift up her cloths that it it was easily discernable to those that were present she was then with Child and in her seventh month upon a suddain there was a voice heard but whence it should come they were not able to conjecture not suspecting any thing of the Embrio in her Womb soon after they perceived the Belly and Garments of the Lady to have a second and notable commotion and withal heard a cry as if it proceeded from thence while they were amazed at what had passed and were discoursing together of this Prodigy all that before had happened did a third time so manifestly appear that being now become more attentive they doubted not but that the cry came from her Womb the Girl that was so talkative in the Womb of her Mother doth yet live and is likely enough so to continue I cannot doubt saith he of the Truth of so eminent a story receiving the confirmation of it from so credible Persons There is a Proverb