Motus Medi-terraneus. Or, A true relation of a fearefull and prodigious earthquake which lately happened in the ancient citie of Couentrie, and some other places of the Kingdome, to the great amazement of the inhabitants. With a touch of some other occurrences, as well forraine as domestique. Holland, Henry, 1583-1650? 1626 Approx. 18 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 11 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A68203 STC 13585.5 ESTC S119151 99854358 99854358 19775 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Earthquakes -- Early works to 1800. 2008-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Scott Lepisto Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Scott Lepisto Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion MOTVS MEDI-TERRANEVS . OR , A TRVE RELATION OF A FEAREFVLL AND PRODIGIOVS EARTHQVAKE , WHICH LATELY HAPPENED IN THE ANCIENT Citie of COVENTRIE , and some other places of the Kingdome , to the great amazement of the Inhabitants . With a touch of some other occurrences , as well Forraine as Domestique . LVKE 21. & 11. Great Earth-quakes shall bee in diuers places , and Famine , and Pestilence , and fearefull things , and great Signes shall there bee from Heauen . Printed for HE : HOLLAND . 1626. To THE WORSHJPFVLL MY worthy Freind , T. S. Esquire , of B. in Hertford-shire . SIR , IT is not many Moneths since you accepted from my hands , at the second hand , my mournefull Meditations compiled in the late memorable Mortalitie of the Plague : And heretofore for this good while , I haue constantly sent , and imparted vnto you , all manner of Forraine Newes and Nouelties of moment ; whereof you haue beene , and are desirous and studious , and the rather because of your sedentarie life at home , and seldome or never stirring abroad , for divers yeeres past ; So now , I pray , giue me leaue to impart vnto you this domestique Newes , and most true Relation of a fearefull Earthquake , which happened lately in the Citie and place of my Nativitie : within a few dayes after I had been there , to visite nay neerest and dearest friends ; who now are witnesses of the same , from whom ( as also from others ) I haue the certaine information of it . I doubt not but you received the severall Pamphlets I lately sent you by your trustie servant R. H. And , it being your condition now to be so farre remote from London , ( in a fresh Aire and sweet soyle , ) where Novelties are the more welcome vnto you ; It hath rather induced mee to Inscribe vnto you , at the first hand , this small Pamphlet of a prodigious Accident : For other matters , I hope I shall not forget still to send you , knowing your earnest desire after them : and I cannot mervaile thereat , considering , Est natura hominis Novitatis avida : I must leaue to enlarge my selfe further vnto you by way of Epistle , because the thing it selfe is , I say , but a Pamphlet : Only , With your pleasant situated Place , I wish and pray for your health and welfare in soule and body : And so I take my leaue . HALLELVIAH . To the Reader . SIR , If you bee courteous , you will giue me the publisher hereof thankes for my paines , and thinke your two pence or three pence , at the most , well bestowed : But if you be censorious , you will haply object at the Introduction , and say , it is larger than the Relation it selfe : If not with the introduction , then haply you will finde fault with the Enlargement , application , and conclusion : To both which , I must before-hand answer you ; It hath beene the laudable custome in all Ages , vpon the publishing of any Prodigie , or extraordinarie worke of God , not to let it passe without Introduction and Application , to the end , that men may bee stirred vp the better , to make good vse of the Almighties handy-workes : which are neuer sent , but for our Instruction , And for the truth of the Relation it selfe , I trow no vnderstanding man can , or will make any question , when he hath read the Contents . And so farewell . A TRVE RELATION of a fearefull and prodigious Earthquake , &c. OF the naturall causes of Earth-quakes many Philosophers , both ancient and moderne haue written largely and learnedly : and of those latter Writers , the Paire of most learned Germanes , viz. Bartholomew Keckerman and Iohn Magirus , in my judgement ( yea , it is the judgement of the learned ) haue written best & most profoundly : and therefore it shall suffice me to write but a word for the better vnderstanding of the common reader , as followeth : In the caues and concauities of the Earth there is some times conceiued and bred , a vaporous Winde , which searching to breake forth , doubtlesse is the first naturall cause of Earthquakes , &c. But our Saviour Christ ( TRVTH it selfe , ) in the Gospell , vvhen he speaketh of the Signes before the last judgement Day , and better informing vs than all the Philosophers in the world haue done , He tells vs , Wee shall heare of Warres and Seditions ; Nation shall rise against Nation , and Kingdome against Kingdome : and with Famine and Pestilence , and other fearefull things and signes from Heauen , he tells vs plainely wee shall haue great EARTH-QVAKES , and those in diuers places , &c. Now , that wee that liue in this latter and sinfull Iron-Age of the World may a little awaken and rouse vp our selues from the Cradle of Securitie , wherein wee haue beene long rocked asleepe : hath not God caused the whole Christian World to ring a lowd Peale of Warres and Rumours of Warres ? witnesse fertile France , spacious Germanie , the Netherlands , Bohemia , Italy , Valtolin , Switzerland , Sauoy , and what Countrie , Kingdome , or State witnessing not the same ? Yea , and though wee in this facrie Iland , through the admirable blessing and long-suffering of God , haue not the sounding of the Trumpet , and beating vp of the Drum in our eares , further than for ex●…cise and preparation : and blessed bee God for his Mercie our Peace , and his Lieutenant , our gracious King and Peace-maker . Yet , we are not I say without those Rumours of Warres abroad , and haue a fellow-feeling of our Neighbouring Countries Calamities therein , and wee are alreadie engaged in their just Quarrells , for our owne better securitie and safetie . Amongst other signes and fore-runners of the latter day , I remember our Sauiour tells vs of false Cprists , false Prophets , and Heresies that shall arise , where , without doubt hee includeth , false Professors of CHRIST : And are wee without such ? how comes it then to passe , that each Head of the Hydra-headed balefull Beast of Heresies , and Schisme striueth , of late , so much for superioritie ; amongst vs here in this Nation , to goe no further than our owne : Certes , the vgly Head of Papisme hath striven for place ; the rotten Head of Arrianisme hath also striven for place , the mis-shapen and ill-lookt Heads of old Pelagianisme & new Arminianisme haue laboured to be reconciled , & Ianus-like , to be joyned together , & so to take place : It is not my purpose to meddle with the small Heads of Schisme , they being easily suppressed : They are those foure Heads before-named , that trouble the Peace of the Church : the two former ; they doe openly disclaime the Doctrine of the Church ; the two latter , a little more cunningly ; they ( forsooth ) would intrude themselues into our Church , that so they might the better afterwards bring in the whole body of the BEAST her selfe : But leauing these Heads of Heresies to be suppressed , cut off and damned , by GOD , and the King , with the helpe of his Reuerend Orthodox Clergie-men : And not to enlarge my selfe further in the Introduction to a small Relation , heare and vnderstand as followeth : About the middest and Centre of this Land , is situated and standeth the ancient Citie of COVENTRIE , a Countie of it selfe , though within the compasse of Warwickshire : And in this Citie , on Munday the twentie seuenth day of March last past , 1626. about one of the clocke after dinner , vnlookt for , and on a sudden , happened this fearefull and prodigious shocke of Earth-quake , to the great amazement , and almost astonishment of the Inhabitants ; which was sensiblie felt and obserued throughout the Citie , shrewdly shaking the Houses , making the glasse windowes about the houses , the Pewter and other materialls in the Houses to clatter : the Beds ( wherein some lay sicke ) to shake vnder them , and all in a most terrible manner ; and to make it more strange , fearefull , and prodigious , it yeelded forth at the instant an hideous noise and roaring , as it were , in the Aire : which noise and roaring was like betwixt the noise of Thunder , and the roaring of the Sea : The Inhabitants and beholders hereof , ( especially the better sort ) betaking themselues to their best meditations and devotions , and humbly submitting themselues vnder Gods hand and handie-workes : Though , blessed be Almightie God , there was no great hurt done thereby throughout the whole Citie : albeit therin are many goodly Houses and buildings , two large and faire Churches about the heart of the Citie , and with those Churches two loftie Pyramidall Spire-steeples of stone-worke , and not farre from them a Crosse of stone also in the Market-place : either of which three Monuments will hardly yeeld inferioritie to any others in the Kingdome . Now , that this Earth-quake or Prodigie , did not containe it selfe in Coventrie alone , but by credible information , it was also sensibly obserued in diuers other places of the Countrie , euen as farre as Bristoll : And what this prodigious Accident may portend , in the Counsell of GOD , I must leaue it : But thus much I dare bee bold to say , and pray , GOD grant vs quietnesse vpon the Land , for doubtlesse the Earth was much shaken within . If any list to bee so censorious , as to make question of the truth of this fearfull Earth-quake , let them repaire vnto the publisher and printer hereof , who hath diuers Letters from sundrie graue , learned , religious , and judicious people , for confirmation thereof : which shall be produced , if need require : And if this late Earth-quake seeme strange or incredible vnto them , I wish them haue recourse vnto that more admirable worke of the Omnipotent , euen in ours and our Fathers remembrance , in Hereford-shire : and recorded by our best Historiographers : when as , In the yeere of Christ Iesus , 1571. Marcley Hill in the East of the shire , rowzed it selfe out of a dead sleepe , and with a roaring noise remoued from the place where it stood , ( for ought wee know , from the Creation , or the Deluge at the least , ) and for three dayes together trauailed from her first Site , to the great amazement and feare of the beholders . It began to journey vpon the seuenth day of Februarie , being Saturday , at sixe of the clocke at night , and by seuen in the next morning had gone fourtie Paces , carrying with it Sheepe in their coates , hedge-rowes and Trees ; whereof some were ouerturned , and some that stood vpon the Plaine , are firmely growing vpon the Hill , those that were East are turned West ; and those in the West , were set in the East : In which remoue , it ouerthrew Kinnaston-Chappell , and turned two High-wayes neere a hundred yardes from their vsuall Paths formerly trod . The ground thus trauelling , was about twentie six Acres , which opening it selfe with Rockes and all , bare the Earth before it , for foure hundred yardes without any stay , leauing that which was Pasturage in the place of Tillage , and the Tillage ouerspread with Pasturage . Lastly , ouerwhelming the lower parts , mounted to an Hill of twelue fathomes high , and there rested her selfe , after three dayes trauell : remaining His Marke that so laid his hand vpon this Rocke , whose Power hath poysed the Hills in His Ballance . But leauing Hereford shire and Marcley Hill , where God hath now placed it , and not to speake of diuers other inferiour Eearth-quakes ; which since and before , wee and our Fathers may remember , and our Chronicles make mention of them : And to come more neere to these present times , ( though somewhat further from home , ) Wee may remember , that about the very time of the Apparition of that most memorable Comet or Blazing-Starre , which appeared in Aarctophylax , Anno 1618. In Italie , a Towne called Pleurs , was by a fearefull and prodigious Earthquake , ( the ground opening it selfe , ) cleane swallowed vp , Houses , Inhabitants and all : not one soule in it left aliue , nor so much as any Monument of it remaining to be seene : And a while after the subuersion of it , diuers neighboures that repaired thither , would needs attempt to digge into the ground , that they might see what they could finde : Among other things that they found , GOD directed them to a Stone , which when they had taken vp , they saw something written vpon it in Hebrew Letters , as if ( like the Tables of Stone that were giuen to MOSES in Mount Sinay ) it had beene grauen with Gods owne singer . Miraculous it was : and the writing this ; ( Read and tremble ; Reade and wonder , ) Thus saith the LORD ; My Word is like fire , and like an hammer breaking the Rockes : Goe out of Babylon , and euery one looke to the sauing of his owne soule . Let none winke at his sinnes , for the vengeance will come , and all shall be rewarded according to their wickednesse . Immediatly after that most memorable Prodigie , followed the Death of Great Princes and Potentates ; to wit , the Emperour MATTHIAS and Empresse his wife ; his two Brethren , both Arch-Dukes of Austria ; then , Queene ANNE of Great Britaine , his Sacred Maiesties Mother , ( of famous Memorie : ) then PHILIP the third , King of Spaine , ( and since that , King IAMES , of blessed Memorie : ) then also began the Broyles and Warres in Bohemia , the Palatinate , and other places , the wofull Consequences whereof wee daily see and heare of ; In so much , as that wee haue I say , ( as our Sauiour Prophesieth ) Warres , Seditions , and almost nothing but Rumours of Warres ; Yea , I may further say the RED HORSE of WARRE , hath and doth trample all ouer Christendome , with a fearefull and most lamentable hauocke , embrewing his feet especially in the blood of Saints , the professours of the Gospell : And to passe from Warre : Hath not God caused the BLACK HORSE of PESTILENCE to play his part more neere vs ? yea , euen here amongst vs in and about this famous Citie of London , where hee hath trampled to death since this time twelue-moneth aboue 55000. soules , besides what haue died in other Cities , Townes , and places in this Kingdome : And now for the LEANE and Pale HORSE of FAMINE , although wee must thankfully confesse , that God hath wonderfully restrained him , yet other Countries haue felt and doe feele his weight , with cleanenesse of Teeth and emptinesse of Belly : yea , and wee our selues haue had a fearefull Glympse of Him : and how soone God may permit him further to appeare amongst vs , for our manyfold sinnes , wee know not , but may doubt , and ought to pray against Famine . To draw to a conclusion ; If Warres and Seditions , Pestilences , Famines , and Earth-qvakes , bee speciall Signes and Fore-runners of the last Iudgement , as our Sauiour CHRIST hath prophesied they are : and certes , Heauen and Earth shall passe , but his words shall not passe : It behoueth vs , except we will be wilfully blinde and stupid , to take the Premisses into consideration , and not slightly to passe by without observation , and good vse making of this Earthquake ; such , being I say ( once againe ) one of our blessed Saviours Signes of his comming to judgement . And however , hee in his wisedome haue concealed that Yeere , day , and houre ; that hee will come , ( though some too to pragmatically and petulantly haue gone about to define the Yeere , to bee nigh at hand : ) yet it much behoueth vs to meditate thereon ; and prepare therefore , that so wee may take all these fore-runners to be so many fore-warners of vs particularly to turne to God by a true Conversion : whereupon will ensue all other Graces needfull for Salvation : And the rather wee ought to take all Gods judgements to bee warnings vnto vs of the last Day ; because , be it whensoever it shall please God , every particular mans death is vnto him as the day of Iudgement ; for as wee die , so shall wee rise : Now , what is more certeine than Death ? and what more vncertaine than the day of Death ? and it being so , what manner of men ought wee to bee ? Good Lord , therefore giue vs grace to turne vnto thee by true Repentance , that so we may say ingenuously , and heartily wish , Thy will be done ; And , Come Lord Iesu , Come quickly . HALLELVIAH DEO VNITRINO GLORIA . Amen . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A68203-e330 Keckerman de Terrae motu . Magiri Phys : Luke 21. Matth. 24.6 . Tit. 3.11 . S. Michaels Trinitie Speed , in his Geography . pag. 49 Iob 28.9 . Isay 40.12 . 1619. Gallobelgieus B. of Londons Sermon at the Crosse . I. Leech his Militarie Sermon . Maximilian . Albertus . Matth. 24.35 .