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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03006	A true relation of the French kinge his good successe, in winning from the Duke of Parma, his fortes and trenches, and slaieng 500. of his men, with the great famine that is now in the sayd dukes campe With other intelligences giuen by other letters since the second of May. 1592. A most wonderfull and rare example, the like wherof, neuer happended since the beginning of the world, of a certaine mountaine in the Ile of Palme, which burned continually, for fiue or six weeks together, with other both fearful & stra[n]ge sightes, seene in the ayre, ouer the same place.		1592 (1592)	STC 13147; ESTC S116656	5,813	24

nowe presentlie houldeth for the king The Muscouites haue giuen a great ouerthrow to the Tartarians There is in Germanie some rumor of ciuill wars amongest themselues Cicilia and Italie doo feare an other great dearth this next yeare FINIS Newes out of the Low Countries THe Countie Mauritz hauing assembled a great power is nowe before Steinwiche in Frizeland with fiftye good peeces of ordinance and dooth besiege it fiercelie with purpose to recouer the same if by anie possible meanes it may be perfourmed The Lord grant such successe as may stand with his glorie and the good of his church Amen FINIS A MOST VVONDERfull and rare example the like whereof neuer happened since the beginning of the world OF A CERTAINE MOVNtaine in the I le of Palme which burned continually for fiue or sixe weeks together With other both fearefull and strange sights seene in the ayre ouer the same place Imprinted at London by Iohn Wolfe TO THE COVRTEous Reader Grace and peace GEntle Reader thou hast heere before thine eyes a most rare example and no lesse strange instance of the vvonderfull vvorks of God the trueth vvherof is such as is auouched by diuers both honorable and vvorshipfull and others of good credite VVherfore read it vvith iudgement make thy profite of it and giue God the glorie vvho be blessed and praised for euer A most vvonderful and rare example the like whereof neuer happened since the beginning of the world of a certain mountaine in the I le of Palme which burned continually for fiue or sixe weekes together with other both fearefull and straunge sightes seen in the ayre ouer the same place IN the Gospel of S. Mathew the 24. Chapter our sauiour Christ telleth vs of many signes and tokens which shal be sent vnto vs and appeare before the day of iudgment as that the sonne shal be darkened the Moone shall loose hir light the Starres shall fall from heauen the earth shall tremble and shake vnder vs the hilles shal be supplanted and remoued out of their places the Seas shall roare and make a hideous noyse there shall be wars and rumours of warres in all countries and such like All which signes and tokens we see to be come to passe alreadie For if wee take the sonne in that place for the sonne of God Christ Iesus as all sound expositions and interpretors haue done howe often haue wee seene him darkened and obscured with the filthy mistes and stincking vapors of mens traditions The Moone that is the Churche of God how was shee darkened yea almost depriued of her light vnder the tyrannie of Antechrist the pope of Rome and his shauelings The Starres that is the pastors and ministers of the Church how were they driuen away amongst the Papistes from the firmament of sounde doctrine and pure conuersation But if we take these signes literally howe manie times haue we seene the sunne and moone to be eclipsed and almost manie times to lose their whole light What woonderfull and strange coniunctions of Starres of signes and plannets threatning euen an vniuersall consummation of all things haue we seene of late yeares The like was neuer seen of many yeares before What firie meteers blasing Starres Comets and other fearefull impressions haue we seene in the ayre of late yeers What inundations and ouerflowings of the seas and waters What fearefull earthquakes What remouing of hilles out of their places What Abortiues fearefull and monstrous birthes What warres and rumours of warres in all countries doe we heare of in these daies All which are infallible tokens and apparant arguments that the day of iudgement is at hand and as it were before the dores But although the Lord our God hath and doth dayly as well by these signes and tokens aboue named and the like as also by others of infinite varietie summon vs to the doome and warneth vs to be alwaies readie and prepared yet hath hee not in anie age nor to anie people sent a more fearefull strange or woonderfull example as it were a warning or caueat to all the world then this that followeth the trueth whereof was thus There is a certaine Iland called Palme nere to the Ingenio of Tertia court three leagues from the Citie and a league and a halfe from the sea side wherein grewe a certaine mountain or hil of three hundred faddam in height and a league and a halfe in compasse This mountaine or hill the 19. of May beganne to burne and so continued still burning till the 19. of Iulie next after in most strange and fearfull maner Vpon the top of which hill there seemed to be a great caue or gulfe whereat issued out great flames of fire burning in suche forcible and vehement maner as they raised vp withall and cast foorth huge and mightie stones into the ayre stinging them vp with great violence which stones at the length descending downe againe foorth of the ayre fell downe at the foote of the same hill And yet notwithstanding that it continually burned in this sort and cast forth infinite great and monstrous stones yet the said hill remained still in all mens iudgments as bigge as it was before The heate of which fire was such and so great that the inhabitants thereabouts were sore annoyed thereby hauing their vineyards and their corn scorched and burnt vp thorow the rage and vyolence of the flames of fire that issued thereout And in this sorte it continued vntill the 20. of Iulie about midnight at which time the sayd mount or hill brake in sunder and shiuered in peeces caused such great cracks and roringes as though it had thundered or a hundred cannons had beene shot off to the great terror of the hearers It beeing thus disseuered and broken continued burning And burning contrarye to the nature thereof before consumed and wasted till it came to be as it were a great coale of fire from which cole there seemed to ascende and to rise vppe into the aire as it were great mountaines of smoke and sparkles of fire as bigge in appearance as little barrels and so at the laste the whole mountaine consumed and burned away There gushed also foorth of the sayd mountaine before it was consumed great streames of water burning like oile in the fire and casting vp woonderfull flames into the aire which entred into the Sea fourty faddame makinge all the water thereabout so extreame hot as it melted the pitch and rosine wherewith the Fishers botes were pitched The heat of this burning water was such as it scalded and killed all the fishe neere thereabouts so that aboundance of fishe of all sortes was found dead many dayes after From this mountaine also there tumbled downe to the Sea-side beeing distante from thence a league and a halfe three mighty great stones one of them being 25. faddom in compasse and with a woonderfull violence threw themselues into the Sea fiftie faddame at the least The hill being in this sort quite consumed the second of August next following there rained downe foorth of the aire as it had beene whole shewers of blacke ashes like gunpowder in bignesse which spoiled and consumed all the Corne grasse and vines in the whole countrey about After this namelie the fourth of August it rained againe great store of white ashes in the Cittie the streets being so thicke couered therwith as the people coulde not trauaile about their necessarie businesse Immediatlie after this to wit the fourth of September folowing there appeared ouer the same Iland in the aire other strange and wonderfull sights as namely armed men to the number as a man would haue thought of 40000 one fighting againste another in most cruell bloudie maner with such fearefull thundering and terrible lightening as the like was neuer heard nor seen before The people seeing these strange sightes and feareful wonders called to God for mercie repented of their sinnes and instantlye besought the Lord that he would not enter into iudgement with them nor punish them according to their desertes whiche done the Lord in mercy withdrew his plagues and punishmentes messengers of his wrath from them and receiued them to mercie Thus hast thou heard courteous Reader the true narration of the wonderfull iudgementes of God against this people The Lord giue both them and vs all grace to make profite of them and to amend our liues that we may altogether in the great day of the Lord receiue the crown of euerlasting glorie promised vnto vs thorough Iesus Christ our Lord Amen TO THE READER COurteous Reader this note comming to my hands before the impression hereof vvas ended I thought it good to impart it vnto thee rather out of place then not at all as a thing vvhich vvill giue thee great light to the great vnderstanding of the vvhole book This I le of Palme spoken of before is one of the seuen Ilandes of the Canaris vvell knovvne to diuerse merchantes here in London Ingenio is scituate vvithin the same Iland Manie of the inhabitantes vvhereof I meane of the I le of Palme vvere forced to go out and to depart from thence forsaking their landes goodes and all and to dvvell some of them at Gomorra some of them in the I le of Tenerife and othersome to the graund Canaris supposing verily that the same Iland vvoulde haue sunke And for the great aboundance of ashes vvhich rained dovvne they coulde not sovv their corne in October follovving The lieuetenant of the Iland sent the narration heereof to the court of Spaine being at Madrill penned by a notarie publick vvith three other notaries hands to it desiring certaine Lordes of the same Court to send their opinion vvhat these fearefull tokens might prognosticate