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A08171 [The history of strange wonders.] Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574. 1561 (1561) STC 18507; ESTC S110146 18,042 54

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lorde a thousand fyue hundred and thre score the fyfth day of September in the towne of Marchia and Custerine at nyne a clocke at after noone Innumerable flames of fyre dyd shyne on euery side in the aire w t great brightnes And in the myddes of the element there appeared two fyry beames To cōclude as I read moreouer in an vnknowen author a voyce was heard which said woe woe vnto the churche Thus sayeth Iames Fincelius writyng of the wonders done in hys tyme Of certaine vvonDERFVLL STRAVNGE visions and merueylous tokens ¶ Out of the Prolongue of Ioachim Camerary of Pabe in the Chronicle of Nicephorus translated by him into Latine and expounded which boke was printed at Basill by Iohn Oporinus AFter that I chaunsed to liue in that tyme in the whiche the common wealth hangeth either in miserable ruine either in pernicious alteracion or els in very vehement and troublesome affayres Trulye good reader I can not heartely reioyce nor inwardly be merye wyth any ryches or honour that is coueted or desired in the publik weale For I pray you what is done or attempted almoste in any place that pertaineth not vnto y e decay of y e comon wealth What obstinacie is in men What malyce and hatred What couetousnes and gredy gatheryng What desire of reuengement What ambitious lust to rule Not withstanding these things be couered and do cloke them selues vnder moste honoste names as constancie magnanimitie or baliaunt corage seueritie and dignitie or honour And by the law of God and man many are compelled to obei theyr malice Amonges these thyngs nothyng almost is done by deliberat counsell and neither is any paynes taken in prouidyng and lokyng diligently to things of importance neyther any chaungyng of sentence or any correction for vice All thinges be lawfull to them that be in authoritie and are mightye Holye thynges are made vnholye publycke thynges are made priuate peace is tourned into stryfe so that there is no order set in thinges Euery state and degre and condicion is geuen ouer to mocking and disdeyning Deadly hatred is exercised in euery place to the fulfilling of the which hatred helpe is sone called from euery syde They do practise crueltie and tyranny lyke vnto the brutishe Barbarians The which being of them selues moste silthye and vile doe all thynges contrarye to the lawes and ordinaunces of the elders the common wealth which the good men left vnto their posteritie among these muste of necessitie peryshe and vtterly decaye But although the situation of the starres and manye straunge and monsterous things doe foreshe we and warne vs of this not wythstandyng the moste euident tokens of the mutations of the former causes by the whyche may lawfully be taken moste certayne coniectures of that which is to com Which to declare in a few wordes shall not be as I thynke disagreable to the matter And the foretellings of astrologic of the mouing of starres of the eclipsis and coniunction of the Sun moone and of the flames of the comets be almost knowen vnto euery man other wonders also for their oftenes do the lesse moue mens mindes But what visions haue bene sene aswell by the that waked as them that slept enter pretated by sothsaiers it wer to long to declare or rather infinite One thynge I doe remember well if a mā may lawfully speake on this fashion I did se in my dreame one holy and heauenly likenes or picture A certayne good and godly man dyd see with in these fewe yeres in a vision as it semed vnto hym a great armye of men dyd skermishe and fyghte together and were ready with theyr weapons in their handes to fyre villags townes cities and to waste destroye the fieldes manye men fell down yet not wythstandyng it could not be perceyued who had the victory Also this battel was so intermeddled that it coulde not clearely be sene of whome it was done nor agaynste whome In one place also he behelde and sawe fyue wrytynges or scriptures of fyue distincte and chaungeable coloures in y e whiche was shewed diuers names diuers sentēces which were sene in y e aire after this maner Blacke for the Iewes and Moses lawe Whyte for the Christians and onely fayth of Christe Yelowe of the pardons of the byshop of Rome Red for the Turkes Saracenes Mahometh the messanger of onely God Yelowishe for the workes and liberties of the Anabaptists What these thynges do signifie can not be hyd to any man that wyll studye to knowe what shal happen wythin these fewe yeres and what is nowe done Aboute the same tyme the maner of a longe historye was sene in the cloudes whiche afterwarde was set furth in a picture drawen out and published at Belgicke in thys maner hereafter folowyng There appeared an armed man on horsebacke wyth a speare charged in his hande and readye for to runne a course And besydes thys was sene the lykenesse of the Emperour Charles the fyfth with a crowne vpon his heade and neare vnto it a hogges snoute somwhat hygher there was sene two Lyons rampynge and leaping agaynst thre other Lions and a lytle beneth them two great Dragons spuyng out flames of fyre And after thys was sene great armies of men of warre aswell by sea as by lande and euerye where was cruell burning of townes and castels and villages And ther was also sene in the ayre a Pecocke wythout feete hauyng no wynges and neare vnto hym there was a Dragon Also in the same place was an Egle hauyng the greatest parte of hym hyd behynde a banke and aboute the banke was a lytle Egle. Lykewise was sene a Lion crowned lying on hys backe whō a Cocke dyd strycke on the throte After this there were gathered together many and diuers beastes wyth horrible formes and shapes and all monsterous beasts except the wylde Vnicorne which the Grekes doe call Monoceros and a verye fayre and great huge Elephant By and by another armye of men appeared agayne burnyng and destroying and a Cocke defendyng hym selfe agaynst a Lyon whose head was semed to be cut of And laste of all there was sene a great lake in the whych were drowned as they doe declare townes and great Churches theyr steples beyng sene to appeare aboue the water and a Camell was sene alone vpon the bancke with his head in y t lake drynkynge Wonderfull many flamyng Dragons were sene breathynge out flames of fyre and much venym euery where Vnto me truly these thynges seme not vnpossible to chaunce specially and chiefly to those people whyche doe trouble and molest the worlde in this oure age with great vexations and sore afflictions Furthermore it is declared vnto vs that thys yere there are very manye monsterous byrthes bothe of mankynde and also of many and diuers other kyndes of beastes Amonge the which was the notable great Monkecalfe that is a calle like a Monke and before hym an Asse a man and a fishe of mixed formes and diuers shapes And after that there came furth another monster whiche was a fyshe lyke a Monke For in the bowels of the man was founde iron as we haue often tymes proued it trew what doth that signifie but inwarde commocion or ciuill hatred or stryffe Therefore these thynges shewyng them selues so often tymes and so wonderfull verelye we ought to vnderstande and to thynke that the mouing and workyng of nature is wrasted out of frame and the state and condicion of men to be tourned out of course that the effectes of nature being weake sicke may no longer continue nor endure for euen as monsterous byrthes doe not lyue longe so likewyse the degenerate and monsterous state of thys corrupt world shall not laste longe As I doe remembre and as I sayd before to certayne men whiche tolde me that a mayde at Rhenie lyued wythout meate and drynke I dyd tel thē how that she could not lyue long nor continue without foode as if one shoulde saye it were a wonderfull and a merueylous thyng to be done yf that common wealthe shoulde not decaye and peryshe where the rulers which ought onely to norishe and to vpholde the same eyther be not able to gouerne it or elles be farre absent and a great way from it But we see most manifest signes and euident tokens of forewarnyng For as by the rysyng and the goyng downe of the Sunne we knowe the commyng of the day the nyght So in lyke maner I doe suppose that after the breakyng vp and dissoluynge of the lawe and discipline of the christian common wealth some great fall and destruction muste of necessitie folow and after lyke sort we maye coniecture other ieoperdyes and daungers for to come ¶ To God be all honor and glory for these and all other his wonderful workes declared and shewed vnto vs. So be it PSALME 19. The heauens declare the glory of God and the fyrmament sheweth the worke of hys hand Imprynted at London by Roulande Hall dvvellynge in Goldynge Lane at the signe of the three arrovves 1561.
by cōmixion be white firy Likwise such as be called gapings or pi●res c. And there be also which thinke that there be suche colours in dede And it mai be thought that somtyme bloodye cloudes be in dede and sometyme do apeare so For we haue red often that ther hath rained blood and sometime that it only appeareth so by the reflexion of the light Truly it is not to be douted but that both ther be and also appeareth or semeth a bloody colour of burnyng in y e night and of flames chiefely seyng the flame or the inflamed matter and substaunce so thicke And perchaunce more in the winter when vapours to be inflamed or in dede in flames breake out of the earth go vp by an ayre that is colde and moyste and grosse euen as of a grene peace of woode the flames appeare to be more red Per●duenture some beyng persuaded by these philosophicall reasons wyll thynk this our wondrous or strange token or bloodye colour or fyre they wyll name it rather a flame or celesti all burnyng vttterly to be a naturall thyng and such as the causes thereof maye be sufficientlye gathered out of the very bosome of nature and to betoken nothyng els but peraduenture some naturall effect as some mutation of the ayre and of the constitution and course of the yere or some pestilence at hand or immediatlye folowing amonge the signes of the whych nature thei learned are wonte to put fyry speculations as gapynges burnynges comets shuttyng starres other thynges that by nyght maye be perceyned in the ayre For although in this tyme of the wynter vapours hoate and drie and to be inflamed ar not wont to breake out of the earth notwithstanding he sayth it is to be thought that they beyng the longer shut in the earth with great frost being the more abundantly gathered together breake out at the length with more violence when the wayes be opened and being raised vpon high in the hyghest ayre the heate beyng restrained by a repulsion and let or els that that colour was made by the beames of the sonne then beyng neare to the risyng being either kindled or els only appearyng by reflixion and turning backe againe and those whyte furrowes were beames of the Sunne brought in that part onely whereon the substance of the vapours being gathered together was thinne For the beames of the Sunne appeare muche more in the high mountaines then in the lower places Also as it is written in histories thys hathe also happened in other places And greate burnings haue appeared for many vapours were gathered being long shut within the earth by the strength of colde and chiefely in places of mountains whose bellies and waies be for the most part full of such vapours These and suche lyke thinges perchaunce mē that are curious in philosophie or also vtterly godlesse as Epicure and suche other couetous persons will put furth and so persuade vs by this meane to feare nothynge The authour Cicero of diuination sayeth this only reason by the opinion and testimonie of the expositors of monstruous thynges auaileth against all shewes monsters and wonders If that whiche coulde neuer be done be done if it maye not be to be meruailed at And so it to be no monstrous thing or wonder that may be done But it was som great strēgth whych opened the shuttynge of the earth by it it may appeare Because that in some places about midnight an earthquake went before as certain watchmen did obserue it at Surick and certain other hard the shakyng of yron instruments and plats of glasse other saw gapyng in maner of pittes and the dai before the earth opened neare vnto Tubinga So thei do iudge that are indued with mans wisdome But we out of the holye scriptures and out of the treasure of the eternall and diuine wisdom and out of the trew mouth of our lord say that such wonders be sent from god god doyng it other aboue nature or contrary to nature or els vsyng naturall thynges to the signifiyng of hys wyl we saye and do beleue it also histories do witnes that alwayes great calamities haue folowed after suche wonders Out of the booke of Iulius of prodegies or wonders made 505. yere after the makyng of the cytye T. Gracco M. Inuentio Coss amōg other wonders that he rehearseth sayth that the forme of two Sunnes were sene in the day the ayre burned there was often lightnynge storme and tempest P. Scipio Nasica Cn. Martio Coss it is red that the ayre in the nyght burned and much lightning fell P. Affrican and Lelio Coss ryuers of blood flowed out of the earth and in the night y e aire was sene to burne A star dyd burne by the space of two and thyrtye dayes C. Cecilio Cn. Papyrio Coss in the night the mount of Albane was sene to burne houses burnte with lightning and tokens out of heauen The lande of Lucensis gaped abroade In Fraunce the aire was sene to burne The Danes and the Dutchmen passed the Alpes brake the league and made murder of the romaynes and theyr felowes C. Lelio L. Domitius Coss among otherr prodigies or wonders whiche he rehearseth saieth In Italy a burnyng torch appeared in the ayre and all the aire was sene to burne L. Martio S. Iulio Coss in y e lande of Anaria the earth opened a flame arose vp dyd shene in the element About the land of Rhegium parte of the Citie that is towardes the Sea was ouerthrowne wyth an yearthquake Seneca in hys fyrst booke of naturall questions and. xv chapter describeth a wonder or strange thyng like vnto ours AMonge the lightnings sayeth he whiche the Grekes call Sela maye put that fyre that was in the ayre we haue red it often times in histories the which burnyng was so high that sometimes it was sene amonge the starres and sometymes so lowe that it semed some fire a far of A company of men of war vnder Tiberius the emperour beyng amased when the aire for the most part of the night did burne ranne to Colone for succour the fyre not beynge cleare but grosse and smokye Of these lightenyngs no man douteth but they haue a flame which they shewe it is a certaine substaunce of them But in the former lightnings was a bow and a crowne of some certaine substaunce but it pleased vs not c. Out of the booke of Polidor Virgill of wonders and strange thynges IN the yere of our saluacion C. xii a burnyng lyght in maner of a towre wyth great bryghtnes was sene to fall out of the ayre when Ierusalem was taken of the Turkes Wonders or strange thynges taken out of the rehersal of M. Frytschy of Laubany IN the yere of oure Lorde M. C. xl the aire was sene to bourne oftentymes and many starres were sene to fall from out of the skye into the earht Burning lightes fyry dartes and flyinge fires were often tymes sene in the aire Newe starres were sene