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A35248	The surprizing miracles of nature and art in two parts : containing I. The miracles of nature, or the strange signs and prodigious aspects and appearances in the heavens, the earth, and the waters for many hundred years past ... II. The miracles of art, describing the most magnificent buildings and other curious inventions in all ages ... : beautified with divers sculptures of many curiosities therein / by R.B., author of the Hist. of the wars of England, Remarks of London, Wonderful prodigies, Admirable curiosities in England, and Extraordinary adventures of several famous men.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7349; ESTC R11001	165,303	248

such a destruction as is impossible to bed●scribed and at present 't is not throughly known what damage it hath done upon the eighth of this Moneth it pleased God not by any extraordinary rains from Heaven to our thinking to open the Mountains like Fountains and to cause the Seaso to swell that in less than four hours it overflowed the Town throughout sixteen foot high which prevented us not only from saving our Goods but also with great hazard of our lives have we escaped yet many lost their Lives with great destruction both of the Houses and Walls For my own part I feared my life for my house trembled under me extreamly so that not only my self but my whole Family had been destroyed had it continued but a small time longer though the Water ebbed not for Twenty four hours Many Iron Mills were destroyed many Thousand Loads of Charcoal were carryed away many bags of Wool spoiled All their Shops with their Goods were much damaged God knows the trouble we underwent and still I am every day in the mud half my height looking after my Goods and am fain to keep many men digging to find them and am looking out for bread to maintain my Family a little Chicken costs us two shillings in Spanish Plate In brief neither Horse Mule Hog nor any other Living Creature that goes upon the ground hath escaped drowning but only such as fled to the tops of the Mountains The destruction and losses of ●his Town are unspeakable the very pavement and ground being carryed away at least Ten Foot deep and the River hath altered its Chanel The first work that we now set upon by command of Authority is to throw away the Fish which the water brought with it which being tainted smells so abominably that we fear it will bring the Plague amongst us but we hope by to morrow night to throw it all into the River and thereby be rid of this stink and our next work must be to cleanse the River LXXII In 1652 There was a great Eclipse of the Sun and Two Eclipses of the Moon A Two handed Sword was seen in the Air in Cheshire and Armies of men encountring each other appeared in the North a Comet was visible in the Signs Gemini and Taurus from December 11 to the 30. This year the English subdued Scotland and beat the Dutch at Sea They beat the French at Sea this year also The English Parliament firnamed the Long are turned out of Doors by their own Army In 1653 Oliver Cromwell a private Gentleman by Birth but then General of the Army assumes the Government of Great Britain by the Title of Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland The King of the Romans and the Pope in two years after dye strange and unheard of Alterations in Law and Government here in England new Courts of Justice Council of State Major Generals In 1654 was another Eclipse of the Sun and an Earthquake in the West of England Apparitions are visible in the Air in the North of England A very great Rain falls in Bohemia At this time the English take Jamaica and make War with Spain The English and Swedes unite In 1655. Castles Cities and Towns appear in the Air in England and seem to be besieged the different Actions and Gestures of Men both Commanders and Souldiers being plainly visible This year Cardinal Guisi is made Pope by the Title of Innocent the 10. The Polanders are routed by the Swedes In 1656 An Earthquake happened in Cheshire doing much harm sinking the Ground and rending up many Trees by the Roots to the great damage of the Countrey In November a fiery Dragon was seen in the Air in Scotland This year the English land in Flanders and take Mardike from the Spaniards they become angry thereat and Wars between them grow high The King of Denmark was twice invaded by the King of Sweden There fell such abundance of Rain at Vienna in Germany that the River Danubius swelling above its banks the violence of the Waters broke down all the Bridges and most of their Mills Yea the Water came into their Suburbs called The Jews Suburbs drowning many Persons and carrying away a very great number of Cattel and did so great mischief to the Countrey that the loss was thought inestimable there being sixteen Towns and Villages swept away by the Flood Gadbury de Comet LXXIII In 1658 A great Whale came up to Greenwich near London a thing seldom known before This year Dunkirk was taken by the English Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Heuit being condemned by an High Court of Justice as they called it were beheaded at Towerhill and Sept. 3. following which used to be a great day of Triumph in Olivers Court for two great Victories at Dunbar and Worcester was turned into a day of Mourning by the Death of their Protector who dyed about 4 or 5 a Clock that day and Richard Cromwel confidently succeeds him in the Government as if it had been his just due Nay some People in England send such sugred Addresses to him that he believed himself to be what they flatteringly stiled him The King of Sweden loses much this year and dyes In 1659 there was a very great Inundation in Holland which overflowed Thirty Six Thousand Acres of Ground Also a great Eclipse of the Sun in Scorpio November 4. Lofty and strange unwonted Winds In May 1659 the Long Parliament returned and turned out Richard Cromwell but were soon after turned out themselves by Lambert and the Army A Committee of safety is set up The L. General Monk being troubled to behold the Confusions of the English Proceedings marched out of Scotland and after the Committee of Safety was fallen brings in the secluded Members of the Long Parliament who soon after dissolve themselves and call another Parliament who restore His Royal Majesty King Charles 2. to His just Rights and Priviledges whom God preserve with a Long and Happy Reign over us Gadbury of Prodigies LXXIV In 16●0 Feb. 20. At Dantzick in Poland when the Sun was going down there were seen seven Suns together very distinctly in the Heavens three of them coloured and three white besides the True Sun it self about which was a Circle much like a Rainbow In 1661. Jan. 28. There is a Relation that near Worsup in Nottinghamshire there was an appearance of a gallant Troop of Horse marching which a Justice of Peace having notice of related to a Person of Honour thinking them to be real Men and Horses but upon a strict inquiry it was concluded to be only an Apparition The same Relation says about that time there happened a strange and dreadful storm of Hail at Northampton and fire mingled with the hail in some places and that it did run upon the ground in great sheets of Fire for a considerable way together It fell upon some part of Wellinborough Town in Northamptonshire Upon February 18. this year very early in the morning began a

and eat each other so that none could pass safely on the way or in the streets without a guard or very well armed and though some have been taken and severely punished by Justice yet others continued lurking to seize upon Passingers Three Maidens at Odenheim near Worms agreed to live together and take their chance but as the Proverb saith Necessity hath no Law and hunger is a sharp Thorn for in a while they were all so extreamly pinched with Famine that they sought to take away one anothers lives to save their own Two of them conspired to kill the third by strangling her in bed or some other way and after to dress and eat her up All which they did accordingly Then the second resolved to strangle her Companion and cut off her head which when she had done and devoured her flesh her heart was so hardened that she went to a Village called Ridisheim to a Woman of her Acquaintance called Margaret whose Husband was absent for fear of the Souldiers the woman entertained her kindly rejoycing that she came to see her But in the night lying by the woman she barbarously cut off her head and binding the dead body upon a board brought it to her house at Piedessen but being pricked with the sharpness of hunger she had not patience to cut the body in pieces but only cut off the head and both the hands which she washed and dressed The Husband coming home missed his wife and inquiring of the Neighbours they told him such a maid was seen with her upon which he went immediately to her house and knocking at the door asked her if she had not seen his Wife she answered him no But such deeds of cruelty are hard to be concealed Murder will out as they say The man goes into her house and casting his eyes round looks into every corner at length he spies an hand to stick out of the Pot which hung over the Fire Hereupon being overcome with grief he rageth against the Murderess and threatens her so severely that she presently confesseth the whole truth to him thereupon he complains to a Justice the woman is seized and brought before the Lords of Justice sitting in the Judgment Seat They deliberate a great while about her punishment some were of opinion that what she had acted was not as a Rational Creature but as a Brute since the desire of Food is common to us with Beasts But others alledged such horrid wickedness ought severely to be punished for a Terror to others Upon which she was led to the common place of Justice her head was cut off and her body being bound to a wheel was left as a spectacle to all Passengers of the horror of the Fact That which follows saith my Author I cannot write without Tears no man ever hated his own flesh saith the Scripture and such are the Children of our Bodies so that it is even against nature to destroy such fruit Yet the dreadful sharpness of hunger hath brought this to pass Oh what is that miserable necessity which makes us even break stone Walls which causeth us to forget our nearest and dearest Relations that vanquishes our most natural and most powerful Passions and tempts us to destroy that which we before so dearly loved and so carefully cherished At Oterburg in the Palatinate a Widow woman living near the Church-yard her name well known had a Daughter of about nine or ten years old This child was grown so faint with hunger that one time with sorrowful eyes looking upon her Mother she said Sweet Mother I would willingly dye so I were rid of my The Terrible Prodigies during the Wars and Desolations in Germany Page 125 pain Oh that you would make an end of me then should I go from whence I came or if I should kill you then you would be rid of your pain The Mother looking earnestly upon her again with a woful sigh replyed And what wouldest thou do with me Child The Girl very mournfully replyed I would then eat you for they say that mans flesh is very sweet The Mother at these words fell a weeping and being wonderfully distracted in her own thoughts like a Ship tossed between the two Rocks of Desperate Neceffity and Motherly Affection at length the first of them prevailed and suddenly catching the Child by the head and untying her hairlace twisteth it about the neck of this innocent Lamb and so presently strangled her being dead and she having no knife to cut the Body in pieces she took a Spade and therewith hewed it into Gobbets and so dressing the head and part of the Body eat it up Some part thereof she sold to her Neighbours for about six pence a pound Her Child being long missed her acquaintance asked her where it was and how she came by that Flesh she replyed It was Hogs flesh which she had got of the Souldiers who passed that way But perceiving the truth would be discovered she freely confessed all whereupon she was taken and Imprisoned being allowed half a pound of bread and a Kann of Water a day till her sentence Being after examined before the Lords she told them That she was happy since she came to Prison and would be glad to lye there all her life for now she had wherewith to abate her hunger and thirst her dreadful pain was thereby much abated This so moved the Judges to compassion that they freed her from Prison and let her go as Innocent as being compelled thereto by woful Necessity I cannot but record another story of the like nature A Woman of Hornbach having been newly brought to bed and wanting milk to nourish her Babe she kissed and imbraced it a thousand times drowning it almost with her Tears and after a long Conflict with her own disturbed Soul she killed it with a knife and afterward dressed and eat it When it began to be known she was examined before the Judges who asked her Why she killed her Child she answered That mighty and intolerable hunger had forced her to do it and that it was the fruit of her own body which she thought she might better make use of than of any other However she was condemned to dye and accordingly executed for a terror to others I am even weary saith he of these lamentable Relations yet more miserable Accidents if more miserable can be followed these They traced and followed the dead bodies to their place of Burial and then digging them out of their Graves dressed and eat them so that in divers places at Worms especially they were forced to set watch at the Church-yards and over the Graves to keep the dead from being stolen and eaten Yea to that extremity were they brought that some constrained by hunger took Poyson to dispatch themselves nay the very Wild Beasts in Woods were starved for want of Prey The Earl of Arundel travelling to Frankford in his way toward England a Boor or Peasant of the Countrey being their Guide