depiction of coastal town struck by earthquake: damaged and destroyed buildings, sinking ships, people drowning in water and being swallowed up by earth, circle of people praying; undamaged buildings in background; mountains in distance 
The Dreadful Earthquake in Jamaica. june 7. 1692    

The General HISTORY OF Earthquakes BEING  
An Account of the most Remarkable and Tremendous Earthquakes that have happened in divers parts of the World, from the Creation to this time; As they are recorded by Sacred and Common Authors; And particularly those lately in 

Naples,  
Smyrna,  
Jamaica and  
Sicily.    
With a description of the famous burning Mount, Aetna, in that Island; And a Relation of the several dreadful Conflagrations and Fiery Eruptions thereof for many Ages.  
Likewise the Natural and Material Causes of Earthquakes, with the usual Signs and Prognostics of their approach; And the Consequents and Effects that have followed several of them.  
By R. B.  
LONDON, Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside. 1694.   

TO THE READER.  
THE several dreadful Earthquakes that have happened in divers parts of the World within a few years past, and among others that in the Island of Jamaica, and another in England, wherein the People of this Nation is particularly concerned, seem to call aloud for Repentance and Reformation of the horrid Enormities that are boldly committed amongst us; for the Almighty executes his Judgements upon Mankind that the People of the Earth might learn Righteousness. Therefore the collecting and publishing the terrible Relations of Earthquakes, needs no Apology, and may I hope be influential upon the minds of men, who appear affected with the dismal accounts that have been lately given of these terrible Visitations of God.  
I have been the more encouraged to proceed in Printing these small Manuals by the acceptance that others of this nature have already met with, which, I find, has occasioned many, (especially young people) to lay aside those vain and idle Songs and Romances wherewith they were formerly Conversant and to divert their vacant hours with reading the real Transactions, Revolutions and Accidents that are recorded by Authors of the greatest Veracity, to have happened in divers Ages and Countries. And this being of that kind, I have no cause to doubt, but it may meet with as civil Treatment as as those that have already been made public by  
R. B.   

The General HISTORY OF Earthquakes.  
I. AMong the several Plagues and Judgements wherewith the Almighty visiteth, and punisheth the Enormities and Sins of Mankind, that of Earthquakes may be accounted the most Dreadful and Tremendous, which in an instant swalloweth up thousands of people of all Qualities and Ages, together with the most superb and stately Edifices that Pride and Ambition can raise, in a moment, even in the twinkling of an Eye, to convince men of the Greatness and Power of the Supreme Creator, and how vain it is to value themselves upon any mundane enjoyments; Of which we have lately had very astonishing Instances in several parts of the World.  
II. But before I proceed to give a Relation of them, it may be necessary to discover the Natural Causes of this dreadful Concussion of the Earth, which the God of Heaven makes use of to signify his Displeasure for the provoking Crimes of Nation and People; Of which a Learned Divine gives the following account.  
III. An Earthquake is a shaking of the Earth, occasioned by Wind and Exhalations enclosed within the Caves and Bowels of the Earth, which can find no passage, or at lest none long enough to discharge themselves, and therefore breaking forth with great force and violence, it sometimes shaketh the Earth, another while rendeth and openeth the same, sometimes casting up Earth a great height into the Air, otherwhile causing the ground to sink down a great depth, swallowing Cities, Towns, Palaces, Castles, yea prodigious high Mountains, leaving in the place nothing but deep holes, or long and unfathomable Lakes of Water.  
IV. Authors Writ differently of the several kinds of Earthquakes, but they usually comprehend them under four; The first kind is when the Earth is shaken laterally or to one side, the whole force of the enclosed Wind and Vapours driving to one place, and there is no contrary motion to hinder it. This Wind, if it be not great, causeth the Earth to tremble like a man in an Ague Fit, and doth no more harm, but if it be strong and violent, it looseth the Foundations of all Buildings though never so firm, overthrows whole Cities, and sometimes throws down great Hills, so that they overwhelm all the Valleys under them. The second kind is, when the Earth is lifted up with great violence so that the Buildings are like to fall, and instantly sink down again, and this is caused by the force of the Winds which strive to get upward like Gunpowder, and finding some deliverance from confinement, the Earth falls down to its former place. The third sort is the opening rending or gaping of the Earth, which sinking down swallows up Cities, Towns, yea Rocks, Rivers and Floods, and so that they never appear again; Nay the Sea in some places hath been drunk up, so that People have gone over on foot, till the returning Tide hath covered the place with Water again. The last kind is, when great Mountains arise out of the Earth, or else when some part of the Land sinketh down, and instead thereof arise Rivers, Lakes or Fires, breaking out with Smoke and Ashes; Sometimes the bottom of the Sea is lifted up, whereby many Islands are made that were never seen before; Of which History gives large accounts.  
V If it be asked how such mighty Winds come to be under the Earth, the Philosopher's answer, that the great Caves and Dens of the Earth being always full of Air, when the heat of the Sun resolves the moisture of the Earth many Exhalations are generated, both within and without the same: and the places being full before, can receive no more, unless some part be let our, so that in those Countries where the Earth hath but few Pores, or where they are stopped with moisture, it must necessarily happen, that these Exhalations striving to get out, must needs rend the Earth, or lift it up, either to get free passage, or to make room enough to abide within.  
VI It has been observed That there are usually several Signs and Presages of this terrible Calamity. As first the raging of the Sea when there are no Tempestuous Winds to move it, yea in the greatest Calm, which is occasioned by the Winds labouring to get passage that way, but being repelled, soon after shakes the Earth. Again the Water in the bottom of deep Wells is troubled and infected with a Sulphurous smell, from the pestilent Exhalations long enclosed within the Earth, which now begin to spread abroad; And hereupon, in divers places an Earthquake has caused abundance of Smoke, Flame and Ashes to issue forth, by reason that the vast quantity of Brimstone under ground is by the violent motion set on Fire and bursteth out, so that it is a wonder if after an Earthquake some grievous Pestilence does not follow, the whole Mass of the Poisonous Minerals within the Bowels of the Earth being by this furious shock blown abroad into the Air. Another presage is the calmness and coldness of the Air, by reason the Exhalation that should be abroad is within the Earth. Another is said to be, a long thin strake of Cloud seen when the Sky is clear after Sun set, which, they say, is caused by the Vapour or Exhalation which is the matter of Clouds, being gone into the Earth. Others affirm that it is the Exhalation which issueth from some narrow passage out of which the rest of the Wind cannot come, and therefore soon after by a sudden Eruption makes a broader way to deliver itself out of Prison. Likewise the Sun appeareth dim certain days before, because the Winds that should purge and dissipate the gross Air, which causeth this dimness, is enclosed within the Bowels of the Earth. Also the Birds perceiving a certain trembling and shaking at the Roots of the Trees, forsake them, and fit trembling on the ground. Lastly, there are heard before, at, and after an Earthquake great noises and sounds under the Earth, with terrible groan and thunderings; Yea sometimes when no Earthquake follows, the Wind without any other effect finding a way to vent itself; Some of these are the general prognostics and forewarnings of a dreadful Earthquake to follow.  
VII. And certainly no other Calamity produces greater terror and astonishment in Mankind than this. For to have the Earth rock under one with that singular kind of motion which no humane art nor force can imitate, must needs be extreme surprising; For though death may be familiar to some men in any other form, yet it appears very horrible to be buried alive, and to sink on a sudden into an unknown Grave they know not whether, perhaps they may fall into some dark Lake of Water, or it may be drenched in a River of fire, or be dashed on a Rock; for who can tell the dispositions of the Caverns below, or what sort of the Apartments there are under the Surface of the Earth? We walk on the Battlements of a marvellous structure, a Globe full of Tremendous secrets.  
VIII. But though we have given some account of the Natural Causes of Earthquakes, yet it is very apparent that many have been supernatural, and caused by the immediate hand of God, of which we find several instances in holy Scripture, that we might dread and tremble before the Almighty who needs neither Vapours nor Exhalations to Execute his Vengeance upon incorrigible Offenders.  
IX. The first of this kind that we read of was at the Promulgation of the Law at Mount Sinai, Exodus 19, 20. And the Lord said unto Moses, go unto the People and Sanctify them to day and to morrow, and be ready against the third day, for then the Lord will come down in the sight of all the People upon Mount Sinai, and thou shalt set bounds to the People round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves that ye go not up into the Mount, or touch the border of it, whosoever toucheth the Mount shall surely be put to death; There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be Stoned or Shot through, whether it be Man or Beast, it shall not live, when the Trumpet soundeth long they shall come up to the Mount. And it came to pass on the third day in the Morning that there were Thunders and Lightnings and a thick Cloud upon the Mount, and the Voice of the Trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the People in the Camp trembled. And Mount Sinai was altogether on a Smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in Fire, and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a Furnace, and the whole Mount quaked greatly. And all the People saw the Thundering and the Lightnings, and the noise of the Trumpet, and the Mountain smoking, and when the People saw it they removed afar off. And they said unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear, but let not God speak with us lest we die. And Moses said unto the People Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your Faces that you Sin not. Thy happened in the year from the Creation of the World, 25 13.  
X. Another terrible Earthquake we find recorded Number 16. Now Korah, Dathan and Abiram, with certain of the Children of Israel, two hundred and fifty Princes of the Assembly, famous in the Congregation, Men of Renown risen up, and gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation is Holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them, wherefore then lift you up yourselves above the Congregation of the Lord. And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his Face. And he spoke unto Korah and unto all his Company, saying, Even to Morrow the Lord will show you who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near to him, even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near to him. This do; Take ye Censers, Korah and all his Company. And put Fire therein, and put Incense in them before the Lord to Morrow! and it shall be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy, Ye take too much upon you, ye Sons of Levi; seemeth it a small thing unto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the Congregation of Israel, to bring you near unto himself, to do the service of the Tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the Congregation to Minister unto them? And he hath brought thee near unto him, and all thy Brethren the Sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the Priesthood also? For which Cause both thou and thy Company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron that ye murmur against him? And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the Sons of Eliab: which said, we will not come up. Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that flourisheth with Milk and Honey to Kill us in the Wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a Prince over us? Moreover thou hast not brought us into a Land that floweth with Milk and Honey, or given us Inheritance of Fields and Vineyards; wilt thou put out the Eyes of these men? we will not come up. And Moses was very wrath, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one Ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy Company before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron to Morrow. And take every Man his Censer, and put Incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every Man his Censer, two hundred and fifty Censers; thou also, and Aaron each of you his Censer; and put Fire in in them, and lay Incense thereon, and stand in the Door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Glory of the Lord appeared unto all the Congregation. And the Lord spoke unto Moses, and unto Aaron saying, separate yourselves from among this Congregation that I may consume them in a moment, And they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the God of the Spirits of all Flesh, shall one Man sin, and wilt thou be wrath with all the Congregation? And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying, speak unto all the Congregation saying, Get you up from about the Tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. And Moses risen up, and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the Elders of Israel followed him. And the spoke unto all the Congregation saying, Depart I pray you from the Tents of these Wicked Men, and touch nothing of theirs lest you be consumed in all their Sins. So they got them up from the Tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the Door of their Tents, and their Wives, and their Sons, and their little Children. And Moses said, Hereby shall ye know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works: for I have not done them of my own mind. If these men die the common Death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the Earth open her Mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the Pit; than ye shall understand that these Men have provoked the Lord. And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clavae asunder that was under them: And the Earth opened her Mouth, and swallowed them up, and their Houses, and all the Men that appertained unto Kerah, and all their Goods. They and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the Pit, and the Earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the Congregation. And all Israel that were round about them, fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the Earth swallow us up also. And there came out a Fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered Incense.  
Josephus in his History of the Antiquities of the Jews gives the following account of this dreadful Judgement; That Moses making a large Prayer, intermixed with Tears, while he was speaking, the Earth instantly trembled, and shaking began to move like a Billow of the Sea raised by the violence of Wind; at which all the People were sorely amazed, after which an horrible and shattering Noise was made about their Tents, and instantly the Earth opened and swallowed up both them and all that belonged to them, insomuch that nothing which was theirs remained to be seen; And the Earth in a moment closing again the vast gaping immediately was shut, so that there was not the least appearance of what had happened; Thus perished they all, leaving behind them an example of God's Power and Judgement, and this accident was the more miserable in that there were none, even of their Kinsfolks and Allies that had compassion of them, so that the whole People forgetting what was passed, allowed God's Justice with joyful Acclamations; esteeming them unworthy to be bewailed, but to accounted as the Plague and Perverters of the People. After this, saith he, there suddenly appeared so bright a Fire that the like was never kindled by the hand of man, nor ever broke forth from the Bowels of burning Mountains, nor could proceed from any natural cause, but such as seemed to be kindled from Heaven, exceeding light and flaming, by the fury and violence of which those two hundred and fifty, together with Korah, were so consumed that there scarce appeared any relics of their Carcases; Only Aaron remained untouched, to the end that it might appear this Fire came from Heaven. This was in the year of the World, 2515.  
XI. A third tremendous Earthquake caused by the immediate Power of God without any apparent or natural Cause, and whereby the Israelites gained a great Victory over the Philistines, is in 1 Samuel 14. And it came to pass on a Day that Jonathan the Son of Saul said unto the Young Man that bore his Armour, come and let us go over to the Philistines Garrison that is on the other side, but he told not his Father. And between the passages by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines there was a sharp Rock on the one side, and a sharp Rock on the other side. And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his Armour, come and let us go over unto the Garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be that the Lord will work for us, for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or few; And his Armour-bearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine Heart, turn thee, behold I am with thee according to thy Heart; Then said Jonathan, behold we will pass over unto these Men, and we will discover ourselves unto them, if they say unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them. But if they say thus, Come up unto us than we will go up, for the Lord hath delivered them into our hand and this shall be a sign unto us. And both of them discovered themselves to the Garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said; Behold the Hebrews come forth out of their holes, where they had hid themselves, And the men of the Garrison answered Jonathan and his Armour bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his Armour bearer, Come up after me, for the Lord hath delivered them into the hand of Israel. And Jonathan climbed up on his Hands and upon his Feet, and his Armour bearer after him, and they fell before Jonathan, and his Armour bearer slew after him. And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his Armour bearer made was about twenty men within as it were an half Acre of Land, which a yoke of Oxen might Blow. And there was trembling in the Host, in the Field, and among all the People: the Garrison and the Spoilers they also trembled, and the Earth quaked so that it was a very great trembling (a trembling of God.) And the Watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold the multitude melted away, and they went on, beating down one another. Then said Saul unto the People that were with him, Number now and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold Jonathan and his Armour-bearer were not there. And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the Ark of God; (for the Ark of God was at that time with the Children of Israel.) And it came to pass that while Saul talked unto the Priest, that the noise that was in the Host of the Philistines went on, and increased; and Saul said unto the Priest, withdraw thine hand. And Saul and all the People that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the Battle: and behold every man's Swords was against his fellow, and there was a great discomfiture. Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the Camp from the Country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan. Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in Mount Ephraim when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the Battle. So the Lord saved Israel that day: and the Battle passed over unto Beth-haven. This was about the year of the World, 2940. And Josephus thus describes this Battle; The Philistines had pitched their Tents on an pointed Rock which extended itself in length with three Angles, and was on each side begirt with a Bank, like a Wall or Fortification against the incursion of their Enemies; The place was fortified by Nature so that no man might ascend or attack them without much hazard; yet only Jonathan and his Armour-bearer, climbing upon their Hands and Feet invaded their Camp, and slew about twenty of them which filled their whole Army with terror and amazedness, who throwing away their arms, fled amain. Others being ignorant who were their Friends or Foes, invaded one another as Enemies, for imagining with themselves that only two Hebrews durst never ascend and enter their Camp, they addressed themselves to their mutual murder and slaughter, so that some of them were slain, others fled to escape the Sword, and fell headlong down the Rocks; The terrible trembling and quaking of the Earth at the same time, being doubtless very contributory to their destruction.  
XII. A fourth terrible Earthquake happened from an immediate Divine Power, in the days of Uzziah King of Judah, of whom we read in the 2 Chronicles 26. (and this Earthquake is likewise mentioned by the Prophets Amos and Zachariah) And Uzziah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah who had Understanding in the Visions of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. And he went forth and Warred against the Philistines, and God helped him against them, and against the Arabians, and the Ammorites gave him gifts, and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt, for he strengthened himself exceedingly. Moreover Uzziah had an Host of fight men, and the whole number of the Fathers of the mighty men of valour, were two thousand and six hundred. And under their hand was an Army, three hundred thousand, and seven thousand and five hundred, that made War with mighty power to help the King against the Enemy. But when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and and went into the Temple of the Lord to burn Incense upon the Altar of Incense. And Azariah the Priest went in after him, and with him fourscore Priests of the Lord that were valiant men: and they withstood Uzziah the King, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee Vzziah to burn Incense unto the Lord; but to the Priests the Sons of Aaron that are consecrated to burn Incense: Go out of the Sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, neither shall it be for thine honour from the Lord God. Then Uzziah was wrath, and had a Censer in his hand to burn Incense, and while he was wrath with the Priests, the Leprosy even risen up in his Forehead before the Priests in the House of the Lord from beside the Incense Altar. And Azariah the Chief Priest, and all the Priests looked upon him, and behold he was Leprous in his Forehead and they thrust him out from thence, yea he himself hasted also to go out because the Lord had smitten him. And Uzziah the King was a Leper unto the Day of his Death.  
Now though here is no mention made of the Earthquake that happened in his Reign, which is recorded by Amos and Zachariah as aforesaid, particularly by the last in Chapter 14. And ye shall flee like as ye fled before the Earthquake in the days of Uzziah; yet Josephus in his History of the Jews makes it very evident that it was at this time, and upon this occasion; Uzziah, says he, upon a certain solemn Feast day, wherein all the People were assembled together, attired himself in the High Priests Vestment, and entered into the Temple to offer Sacrifice unto God upon the Golden Altar, notwithstanding the High Priest Azariah, accompanied with fourscore Priests prohibited the same, telling him, that it was not lawful for him to Sacrifice, since it was only allowed to those that were of the Posterity of the High Priest Aaron, whilst after this manner Azariah expostulated with him, commanding him to go out of the Temple, and not to invade the Ordinances of God; The King waxed wrath, and threatened to take his life from him, unless he kept himself quiet. Whereupon there fell a great Trembling and Earthquake, and the Temple cleft in twain, and a great light of the Sun entered thereinto, and reflected on the King's Face in such manner that all his body was covered with a Leprosy: And before the City, in a place called Eroge, the half of a Mountain that stood to the Eastward broke and fell, and rolled and removed for the space of four Furlongs, toward the Oriental Mountain where it rested; So that the public ways were stopped and choked up, and the King's Gardens of Pleasure were wholly ruinated and disfigured. When the Priests beheld the King's Face covered with a Leprosy, they told him what inconvenience had happened to him, and enjoined him to departed out of the City, according to the custom of men that were polluted; Whereupon he wholly confused at so grievous an accident, and having no farther courage to reply, obeyed the commandment that was given him, enduring a pitiful and lamentable punishment for being proud and presumptuous, in committing such Impiety against God. Finally he died through grief and discontent, and was Buried in his own Garden. In the year of the World, 3194.  
XIII. The next Earthquake that we read of, is that which happened at the death of our blessed Lord and Saviour, and was a very convincing demonstration of his Deity and that he was the Son of God. As we find in St. Matthew 27. Now from the sixth hour there was Darkness over all the Land until the ninth hour. Jesus when he had cried again, gave up the Ghost. And behold the Veil of the Temple was rend in twain from the top to the bottom, and the Earth did quake, and the Rocks rend. And the Graves were opened, and many Bodies of Saints which slept arose. And came out of the Graves after his Resurrection, and went into the Holy City and appeared unto many. Now when the Centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, saw the Earthquake and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.  
And these prodigious effects that were produced upon our Saviour's Crucifixion, were acknowledged and attested as well by Heathens as Christians. At the time of his Death a very great darkness happened in the Day time, which continued from six a Clock till nine, and yet there was no Eclipse of the Sun, for it was at a Full Mood; so that it was Miraculous, and contrary to the Order of Nature, and only by the immediate Power of God, who deprived the Sun of its Light for that space of time. And therefore Dyonisius the Arcopagite being that Day in Athens, and seeing the Sun so darkened; and also knowing, as a Man learned in the course of the Heavens, that such an Eclipse must needs be contrary to the Rule of Nature, spoke with a loud voice, saying, Either the World is at an end or the God of Nature Suffers.  
We like wise read of another Supernatural Earthquake at the Resurrection of Christ St. Matthew 28. In the end of the Sabbath as it began to dawn toward the first day of the Week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Marry to see the Sepulchre. And behold there was a great Earthquake; for the Angel of the Descended from Heaven, and came and rolled back the Stone from the Door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like Lightning, and his Raiment white as Snow. And for fear of him, the Keepers did shake, and became as dead men. This was in the year of the World 4036.  
XIV. Lastly, We read of two Earthquakes in the Acts of the Apostles, which can be attributed to no other cause but that of the Power of God, for the confirmation of the Gospel, and the Resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. The first is in Acts 4.31. And when they had prayed the Earth was shaken where the Apostles were assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spoke the Word of God with boldness. The second is in Acts 17. And at Midnight Paul and Silas Prayed and Sang Praises to God, and the Prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great Earthquake, so that the Foundations of the Prison were shaken; and immediately all the Doors were opened, and every one's Bands were loosed. And the Keeper of the Prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the Prison Doors open, he drew out his Sword and would have Killed himself, supposing that the Prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice saying, Do thyself no harm; for we are all here. Then he called for a Light, and sprang in and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas. And brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? and they said believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved and thy House. And they spoke unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his House. And he took them the same hour in the Night, and washed their stripes, and was baptised he and all his straightway. And when he had brought them into his House, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his House. This was in the 55 year after our Saviour's Incarnation.  
XV. These are all the Earthquakes that we find mentioned in Holy Scripture, to have actually happened, but there are others spoken of, which may be termed Metaphorical Earthquakes, and may signify great Alterations and Commotions in the several States and Kingdoms of the World; wherein, by the shaking, moving, removing, breaking down and dissolving the Earth, we may understand the Inhabitants of the Earth, and the punishments that God would inflict upon them for their repeated Sins and Provocations; such as these we find Isaiah threatening the Narion of the Jews withal, in the 29th Chapter of that Prophecy. Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of Hosts with Thunder, and with Earthquakes, and great noise, with Storm and Tempest, and the flame of devouring Fire. And in Chapter 24. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the Pit: and he that cometh out of the midst of the Pit shall be taken in the snare, for the Windows from on high are open, and the Foundations of the Earth do shake. The Earth is is utterly broken down, the Earth is clean dissolved, the Earth is moved exceedingly. The Earth shall real too and fro like a Drunkard, and shall be removed like a Cottage, and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and shall fall and not rise again.  
XVI. And our blessed Saviour foretelling the destruction of the Temple, and what great Earthquakes shall be before it, and of the Signs of his coming to Judgement. St. Mat. 24. he says; And ye shall hear of Wars and Rumours of Wars, For Nation shall rise against Nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom; and there shall be Famines, and Pestilences, and Earthquakes, in divers places, and the Sun shall be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her Light, and the Stars shall fall from Heaven, and the Powers of the Heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the Sign of the Son of Man, and he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds, from one end of Heaven to the other.  
XVII. Such Metaphorical Earthquakes are those thought to be, which are Prophesied of in several places of the Revelations, as Chapter 6. And I beheld when the Lamb had opened the sixth Seal, and lo, there was a great Earthquake, and the Sun became black as Sackcloth of Hair, and the Moon became as Blood. And the Stars of Heaven fell unto the Earth, even as the Figtree casteth her untimely Figs, when she is shaken of a mighty Wind. And the Heaven departed as a Scroll when it is rolled together, and every Mountain and Island were moved out of their places. And the Kings of the Earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief Captains, and the mighty Men, and every Bondman, and every Freeman hid themselves in the Dens, and in the Rocks of the Mountains; And said to the Mountains and Rocks, Fall on us, and hid us from the Face of him that sitteth on the Throne, and from the Wrath of the Lamb; For the great day of his Wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand. So in Chapter 8. And the Angel took the Censer and filled it with Fire of the Altar, and cast it into the Earth: and there were Voices, and Thundering, and Lightnings, and an Earthquake. And again in Chapter 11. And they heard a great Voice from Heaven saying unto the Witnesses, Come up hither, and they ascended up to Heaven in a Cloud, and their Enemies beheld them. And the seventh Angel sounded, and there were great Voices in Heaven saying, The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall Reign forever and ever. And the four and twenty Elders which sat before God on their Seats, fell upon their Faces and Worshipped God, saying, We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty, which art and waste, and art to come; because thou hast taken; to thee thy great Power and haste Reigned, ver. 18. And the Nations were angry, and thy Wrath is come, and the time of the Dead that they should be Judged, and that thou shouldest give reward to thy Servants the Prophets, and to the Saints and them that fear thy name small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the Earth. And the Temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in his Temple the Ark of his Testament; and there were Lightnings, and Voices, and Thundering, and an Earthquake, and great Hail. Likewise in Chapter 16. And the seventh Angel poured his Vial into the Air, and there was a great Earthquake, and there came a great Voice out of the Temple of Heaven from the Throne, saying, It is done. And there were Voices, and Thunders, and Lightnings, and there was a great Earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the Earth, so mighty an Earthquake and so great. And the great City was divided into three parts, and the Cities of the Nation fell, and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the Cup of the Wine of the fierceness of his Wrath, And every Island fled away, and the Mountains were not found. And there fell upon Men a great Hail out of Heaven, every Stone about the weight of a Talon: and men Blasphemed God because of the Plague of the Hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. These and such other Scriptures may denote the future Calamities that will befall the Inhabitants of the Earth about the end of the World, and do also demonstrate the great power and alsufficiency of Almighty God, who as Job saith Chapter 9 Is wise in Heart, and mighty in Strength, who removeth the Mountains, and overturneth them in his anger. Who shaketh the Earth out of her place, and the Pillars thereof tremble  
XVIII. Having given an account of the Supernatural and Metaphorical Earthquakes recorded in Holy Writ; I shall now relate those that are mentioned by other Historians of the former and latter Ages, and likewise of some of the Consequents which have succeeded them as to Wars, Pestilence, Famines and other dreadful Calamities, and were judged to be the effects of them; wherein I shall be obliged to repeat some of those already published in a Book called, surprising Miracles of Nature, etc.  
XIX. Before the birth of Saviour Plato mentions a wonderful Earthquake, whereby in a Day and a Night a vast Island without the straits of Gibraltar called Atlantis, and bigger than Asia and Africa together, was wholly overwhelmed, and afterward covered by a great Inundation of Waters, insomuch that on the Atlantic Ocean for a great while after no Ship could Sail, by reason that the same huge Sea by resolution of the Earth of that mighty Island was all turned into Mud. He also Writes, that by another terrible Earthquake the Continent of Africa was rend asunder, from Europe and Asia, as it is at this day, being now only connected by a little Neck of Land at the Red Sea. The famous Isle of Sicily was likewise formerly a part of Italy, and by an Earthquake divided from it. And our Island of Great Britain is supposed to be broken off from the Continent of France by that means. Herodotus saith that Egypt in ancient time was a Gulf of the Sca, and by an Earthquake made a dry Land. The River Indus in Asia which receives fifteen others Rivers into it, altered its Channel and the neighbouring Country was turned into a Wilderness by a lamentable Earthquake. Before the Peloponesian, or Civil Wars among the Grecians, one of their Islands called Delphos famous for the Oracle and Temple of Apollo situated therein, was wholly ruined by an Earthquake, which was thought to portend those remarkable alterations which soon after happened in Greece. A little before the Wars between the Lacedæmonians and the Ilotae, who were their Slaves and Bondmen in the Country of Laconia, there happened in the City of Sparta a most terrible and fearful Earthquake, for the Earth in many places of the Country opened and fell in as into a bottomless Pit. The Mountain Taygetum shook so terribly that parts of Rocks fell down from it, and Sparta with two other Cities with the violence of it were thrown to the ground, five hundred Houses only exceptcepted; And great floods of Water following it, the Country was almost utterly destroyed thereby. Tyre and Sydon suffered exceedingly by Earthquakes, and an infinite number of People were buried under the ruins. And Strabo mentions a City situate about Sidon that was wholly swallowed up thereby. Pliny writes of twelve Cities ruined in one Night, and St. Augustine is cited for what is more strange, That in a famous Earthquake a hundred Cities in Lybia were destroyed. In the Veliternean Fields the Earth rend asunder in such huge and frightful breaches, that Trees and whole Houses were swallowed up in them, and it Reigned Blood for two whole days together, about which time Hannibal received that notable overthrow by Scipio, which was the destruction of the famous City and Republic of Carthage, and the Conquest of that Country to the Romans. Tit. Livius. Hist. Josephus records that about twenty nine years before the birth of Christ, there happened a tremendous Earthquake in the Country of Judea, whereby divers Beasts were slain, and many People overwhelmed in the ruins of their Houses, and perished, to the number as some writ of about thirty thousand.  
XX. I now proceed, in a Chronological Order, to relate all the Earthquakes that have happened since our Saviour's Birth, as I find them mentioned by several Authors, of which that which happened at his Crucifixion is said to be the greatest that ever was, which shook not only one part of the Earth as in other cases, but the whole Would trembled at once, if some famous Authors are to be credited. In the tenth year of Christ was a great Earthquake in Cyprus, that overthrew many Cities, and in his sevententh year thirteen Cities in Italy were destroyed, and the River Tiber overflowed Rome. The effects whereof were thought to be, That Sejanus the Favourite to Tiberius was executed for his Ambition, his Son strangled, his Daughter first Deflowered by the Hangman, then put to death. Drusius is Poisoned; Tiberius turned Tyrant. In 59 was a terrible Eclipse of the Sun, so that the Stars were seen, Nero's Supper was burned with Lightning, and a great Earthquake happened at Rome. At this time the Britain's slay seventy thousand Romans, and Suetonius destroys eighty thousand Britain's as he comes from Anglesey. Rome is fired by Nero who rejoices in that Villainy, he commits Incest with his own Mother, afterwards Murders and Rips her up to view the place where he lay before he was born. Cartismunda Queen of the Britain's rejecteth her Husband, the King of Scots takes her, and baries her alive.  
XXI. In the reign of Trojan the Emperor 105. there happened a most terrible Earthquake at Antioch which destroyed many Cities and People, and extended itself very far; Frightful Lightnings which made the Night as light as Day, preceded with dreadful Thunderbolts that threw down stately buildings, killed many men; Also strong and unusual Storms of Wind, after which were heard great and sudden Noises, the Sea wrought, the Waves swelled, the Earth was shaken, buildings trembled, others were lifted up and fell down, whereby so thick a dust and darkness was raised that People could not see nor hear one another, nor scarcely breathe: Trees were plucked up by the Roots, and multitudes buried in the Ruins of their own Houses. After which came such violent heats that People not being able to endure it, stripped and hid themselves naked under ground, where many were famished, by reason the continual shaking of the Earth so distracted them that they durst not come forth for relief. In 107. A very great Earthquake happened in Asia, with many Prodigious sights in the Air, as sighting of Men, etc. Another in Galatia and Rome where Lightning from Heaven consumed the Temple of their Gods, with strong unwonted Winds, and horrible Noises in the Earth. In 120. A great Earthquake in Nice; and two terrible ones in Palestina. Milk in a Prodigious manner reigned in Rome, and a great Fire destroyed two hundred and forty Houses. In 162. A very great Earthquake in Bythinia; The Waves of the Mediterranean Seas in a Calm elevated themselves to the top of a Mountain far distant from it, and cast the foam a great way upon the main Land. At this time Mogul King of Scots growing odious to the Nobility for his Tyranny they Murder him. Smyrna in Asia is quite destroyed. The Emperor Commodus groweth ridiculous, and the People taking notice thereof, he executed many of them, he is strangled by Martia his Concubine, and Pertinax succeeding, after having Reigned only eighty seven days is slain by the Soldiers.  
XXII. In 244. The Sun was totally Eclipsed, and there was so horrid an Earthquake, the Earth gaped so extremely that certain Cities, together with their People, were swallowed up, and exceeding great darkness happened for many days together. Now the tenth Persecution began wherein one hundred forty four thousand Christians were put to Death in Egypt and seventy thousand banished, and many burned in an House in Nicomedia. In the year 300. there were great Earthquakes, by one whereof thirteen Cities in Campania were overthrown, and another in Asia. A hand was seen in the Church of Lateran in Rome without a Body, which in the sight of many men writ upon the Wall these words, Hodie venenum in Ecclesia infusurus. To day is Poison poured into the Church; Which was thought to intent the extraordinary indulgence of Constantine the Great, and first Christian Emperor upon the Bishops, and his heaping Honours and Estates upon them, whereby they degenerated from their Primitive simplicity and humility. Soon after many Cities in the East fell to the ground by an Earthquake, and Neo-Caesarea was overturned and all its Inhabitants perished, except such as were saved by the Bishop in the Church. Dyracchium was demolished by an Earthquake, and Rome trembled for three Days and Nights successively, and Antioch was endangered by an Earthquake of a whole years' continuance. Rhodes and Sicily were likewise endamaged thereby, and likewise Cilicia, and indeed it was so general that all Europe and Asia were shaken at once.  
XXIII. In 366. in the reign of Julian the Emperor, who was first a Christian and afterward revolted to Paganism, for which he was named the Apostate, and became a bitter Enemy to the Christians, and in despite and contempt of our blessed Saviour, who had Prophesied that the Temple of Jerusalem should be destroyed and never rebuilt, He impiously resolved to invalidate the same, and designed to build it Magnificently with excessive cost and charges, committing the care thereof to one Alypius, who did vigorously apply himself to the Work, being assisted therein by the Governor of the Province. But there broke out dreadful Balls of Fire near the Foundation of the Walls, which with their frequent Eruptions, made the Place unapproachable, several Workmen being consumed by the Fire, and in this manner a full period was put to their further proceeding therein; But Niciphorus Calistus gives a more large and full Narrative thereof as followeth. The Jews, saith he, having got together as many as were skilful in the Art of Building, and having provided Materials for it, and fully cleansed the place, they prepared Spades made of Silver, their charges being allowed out of the public stock: with such Earnestness and Alacrity did they labour herein, that the very Women carried away the Rubbish in their Laps, and whatsoever Jewels, or precious Ornaments they had, they expended on the business. When they had digged up the remainders of the old Building from the lowest Foundations, and had cleared the ground, so that there was not a stone left upon a stone, according to our Blessed Lords Prediction, The next day coming to the place, there was a great Earthquake, insomuch that the stones were cast our of the Foundation, so that many of the Jews were slain, who either came to see the work, or had the oversight thereof. The Public buildings which were nearest the Temple, were likewise loosened, and falling down with great violence, buried those who were in them in their ruins; some who attempted to fly away, were found half dead; others lost their Legs, Arms, Hands, and other Members, according as the force of that sudden accident seized upon them. The Earthquake was scarce over, but those who remained fell to work again. But when they attempted it the second time, sudden flashes of Fire violently issued out of the Foundations, and other Fire fell furiously from Heaven, and destroyed more than before, consuming to Ashes the Hammers, Graving Tools, Saws, Hatchets, Axes, and all other Instruments which the Workmen had brought for their Service; the flames continuing a whole day together. When Cyril, who was at that time Bishop of Jerusalem, saw these things, he considered in his mind the words of the Prophet Daniel, to which Christ also had set his Seal in the Holy Gospel, and then told them all; That now was the time, when the Oracle of our Saviour had its accomplishment, which said, That a Stone should not be left upon a Stone in the Temple; which when he had said, a dreadful Earthquake assailed the remaining Foundations, and casting out all the rest of the Stones, dispersed them abroad, and a fearful Storm arose, which whirled in the Air many Thousand Bushels of Lime and Plaster, and sudden flames of Fire flashing from beneath, burnt up in a moment an innumerable Company of People, who were either labouring in the work, or coming to behold it. Thus did the wicked Julian fulfil Christ's Predictions concerning Jerusalem, by the same means whereby he designed to make them void.  
XXIV. In 367. in the Reign of Valens and Valentinian Emperors of Rome, there happened such horrible Earthquakes throughout the Western Empire, as neither True Historians have related the like, nor Fables themselves represented to us. A little after the day dawned there was a great Tempest of Thunder and Lightning, which was followed by such a dreadful trembling of the Earth, that the Sea also was shaken therewith, and deserted the shore and its ancient bounds for a great space, and the depths of its Channels were discovered; multitudes of Fish were seen to stick in the Mud, and many ploughed Fields became Navigable, the inequality of the Seas bottom appeared, here Hills, and there Valleys which had never before seen the Sun, since, at the original of all things, they were first overwhelmed with the Floods. Many Ships were left on the dry ground, and swarm of People flew thither to catch Fish; when suddenly the Sea, as disdaining to be imprisoned, returned to its former station with such impetuosity, that it over-ran its former bounds, and with the fury thereof overthrew a multitude of Towns and Houses, with many thousands of People, and great numbers of Ships were overwhelmed, some of which, with the violence thereof, were blown upon the tops of Houses. Soon after a great Rebellion happened, and the Northern Nations came in like a Flood, and over-ran the Roman Empire, which was thought to be presaged by this lamentable accident.  
XXV. In 430. A great Earthquake raged in divers places, and overturned many Cities, the Wall of Constantinople, though but new built, it threw to the ground with 57 Turrets; Also Stones of great bulk, lately placed there, fell down, many Town, were ruined. Yea some Authors affirm that it was so terrible as to affect almost the whole World, the Earth gaped and swallowed up many Villages; Fountains were dried up, and Waters broke forth in places formerly dry. Great Trees were torn up by the Roots; Heaps of Earth were so shaken together that they were raised into Mountains. The Sea threw up dead Fishes, many Islands were sunk and overwhelmed, Ships sailing on the Sea were suddenly left on dry ground. In short many places of Bythinia, the Hellespont, and both the Phrygin's were grievously distressed thereby. This disaster continued six months without intermission, and the People of Constantinople not daring to stay in the City for fear of the fall of their Houses, continued together with their good Emperor, and their Patriarch, in the Fields, instant in Prayers to the Almighty for the removal of so dreadful a Judgement. After the danger was over, the Emperor repaired the Walls of Constantinople which were much endamaged thereby. This was judged a Sign of the Death of Theodosius which soon after followed, and of several changes which happened at the same time in divers parts of the World.  
XXVI. In 454. A great Earthquake at Rome, another at Vienna, Wolves and other Beasts wander all the year through the City and devour men. An Earthquake in Russia, and at Constantinople, with two wonderful Blazing Stars. About this time the Britain's beat the Saxons, and drive them into the Isle of Thanet. The Jews Rebel in Egypt and Kill two hundred thousand Men, and forced those that survived to eat the dead. They slay two hundred and forty thousand in Cyprus, and at last are slain themselves. A great Famine in Constantinople. The Goths waist Thrace, Thessaly and Epirus: Gratian killeth thirty five thousand Germans; Maxinius slayeth Gratian treacherously, and possesseth Britain, France, Spain and afric. The Temple of Apollo Daphneus is burnt. The Heathen Temples are shut up by the Christian Emperors, and their Idols destroyed. In 458. A great Earthquake happened at Antioch which the Citizens had sad cause to remember. Before it began some of the Inhabitants were seized with an extraordinary madness, such as seemed to exceed the fury of Wild Beasts, and to be the presage of that Calamity which followed soon after; For about the Fourth hour of the night in September, almost all the buildings of the new City were overturned, which was well peopled and none of it forsaken or empty, being curiously built by the Magnificence of divers Emperors, who strove to exceed each other in the adornment of it. The first and second Fabrics in the Palace were also cast down, the rest standing together with a Bath, which having formerly been neglected now when by the Earthquake the rest were choked up stood the Citizens in very good stead.  
XXVII. In the first Century was a terrible Earthquake in Arabia, and another in Palestina and a third at Constantinople for six weeks together. It reigned Blood in Piedmont, and at York the Fountains ran Blood: a Dragon and many Serpents were seen in the River Tiber. After this so terrible a Famine raged in Britain that the People assembled in great numbers to cast themselves into the Sea; A Plague so great in Rome that 800 men fell dead in an hour in the time of Procession. Brunchild, a Daughter of France, being found guilty of the death of ten Kings; She is tied by the Hair of the Head and the Arms to Wild Horses, and torn to pieces. The Jews and Samaritans Persecute the Christians, and burn their Churches in Caesaria.  
XXVIII. In the sixth seventh and eighth Centuries, an Earthquake at Antioch; Another in Palestina, another in England and Normandy; a fiery Dragon was seen in the Skies, and divers other dreadful Prodigies. About the same time there was a violent Earthquake at Constantinople which lasted many days, and every hour the City suffered extraordinary shocks. Many houses were thrown down, but the People betook themselves to Prayer, Fasting and Repentance, and the Almighty had compassion on them; Many Cities in the East were ruined by it, and the City of Alexandria was sore shaken therewith, which was the more astonishing because it seldom happens in those parts. Some years after, Constantinople was again shaken so violently that not only the Walls and Churches but all Greece trembled therewith. The Saracens about this Age, Besieged Constantinople for seven years and at last thirty thousand of them were slain. The King of Scots is slain by the Picts. A Pestilence in Constantinople, for three years, which devoured so many that the living were not sufficient to bury the Dead. Alphonsus' King of Portugal killeth seventy thousand Moors and taketh, Lisbon from them. The Danes Invade England, but all of them almost perished. The Britain's Invade Scotland, Constantine their King was killed. The Saracens take Armoricum and many Captives; Lothair Wars with his Brethren, and an hundred thousand men are slain. In 801. while Charles the Great was in Italy there was an Earthquake with great noises, which shook all France and Germany, but especially Italy; it overthrew several Towers and even Mountains; and the Church of St. Paul at Rome was destroyed by it, whereupon Pope Leo III. appointed solemn Feasts and Processions. These Prodigies were followed with furious Tempests and Contagious Diseases which affected the  throughout Italy; so that most of their Beasts died. A great Famine and Pestilence in France. The King of England is slain by the East Angles. The Danes enter the Thames with two hundred and fifty Ships, they take Canterbury and London, and expel the King.  
XXIX. In the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, an Earthquake happened in Scotland, another in France, a very great one in Asia, and several terrible ones with mighty Whirlwinds in Germany; Also a great Earthquake in England, where five Suns appear at one; and afterward four Moons at once. Horrible groans and noises in the ground at Rome. Syracuse in Sicily was extremely shaken with an Earthquake; A wonderful Hail at Oxford in England, with many other terrible appearances, as Fire rising out of the River Rhyne, and many places in Germany the Sun appears for certain days as if it bled. In the Reign of King William the Conqueror. 1086. happened an Earthquake with a dreadful noise. In 1100 in the Reign of King Henry I. the Earth moved with so great violence in England, that many buildings where shaken down; and Malmesbury the Historian writes, That the House wherein he sat was lifted up with a double remove, and at the third time settled again in its proper place. In divers places a hideous noise was heard, and the Earth through several rifts cast forth Fire for many days together, which neither by Water, nor any other means could be suppressed. In Lombary in Italy about the same time was an Earthquake which lasted above six weeks, and removed a Town from the place where it stood a great distance. Matthew Paris mentions another Earth, quake, and a great Darkness in England about twenty years after; And another in the Reign of King Henry II. in the Eastern parts of England, which threw down many Persons who were standing or walking, and made the Clocks to strike and Bells to ring in the Steeples. In 1179. on Christmas day at Oxenhall near Darlington in the County of Durham, the Earth was lifted up aloft like a Tower, and so continued all that day, as it were  till Evening, and then fell with so horrible a noise that it affrighted the Inhabitants thereabout, and the Earth swallowing it up, made in the same place three Pits of a wonderful depth, which were afterward called Hell-Kettles. It is reported that Bishop Tonstal put a Goose into one of these Pits, having first given her a mark, and the same Goose was found in the River Tees, which if true, these Kettles have passages under Ground.  
XXX. In 1180. an Earthquake ruined a great part of the City of Naples. Great Stones were Reigned from Heaven, and a Hill of an immense magnitude is removed out of his place. The City of Catania in Sicily is destroyed with nineteen thousand People by an Earthquake. A multitude of Snakes were seen at Rome, a fiery Dart ran up and down in the Heavens, Women appeared in the Heavens of admirable shapes to the great amazement of the Spectators. About this time the Hungarians Invade the Empire of Germany, but are reconciled. The Bishop of Saltsburg calls an hundred thousand Hungarians into Bavaria, which are all slain there and the Emperor's Eyes plucked out. A great Famine in Germany and France. The Prussians Invade Poland, and fifteen thousand of them are slain, and twenty thousand made Prisoners. The Saxons Rebel against the Emperor, twenty six thousand of them are Drowned in a Pitfall by the Stratagem of two Bishops in Holland as they came against the Earl of Flanders. Gonsalmus King of Spain Poisons King Sancho with an Apple. The Danes Land in Scotland and wast divers places, the Scots put them to flight. They Land in Kent and spoil the Isle of Thanet. The King of Denmark is slain by one of his Servants; The Danes being defeated at Oxford fly to the Church, and are there burnt. Otho Emperor of Germany is Poisoned with a pair of Gloves. Pedro King of Spain taketh Oscu, and killeth thirty thousand Moors. The English Invade Normandy. Harold Earl of Caithnes in Scotland cuts out the Bishop's Tongue for which the King puts out his Eyes, hangs him, and causeth his Male Children to be Gelt. The K. of joenium is swallowed up by an Earthquake, and in England many Buildings are thrown down by the same means, amongst which the Cathedral Church of Lincoln was rend in pieces.  
XXXI. In 1222. There were such Earthquakes in Italy and Lombardy, that the Cities and Towns were forsaken, and the People kept abroad in the Fields in Tents; many Houses and Churches were thrown down, much people thereby crushed to Death. The Earth trembled twice a day in Lombardy for fourteen days together; besides two Cities in Cyprus, and the City of Brescia were this year destroyed by Earthquakes. In 1176. About the time that Adrian the Fourth was made Pope, was a dreadful Earthquake at Milan, and all the Country round about. A noise like Trumpets in the Air was heard in Italy, where was likewise a great Earthquake, another in England; and a third in Germany. The Consequents were thought to be, the slaying of two hundred thousand Moors by the Spaniards about that time. The Pope giveth the Kingdom of England to Philip King of France, Excommunicating King John. The French strive to take possession of it, but the Flemish with the English take three hundred sail of Ships from them, and burn an hundred more. The King of Arragon is slain. The King of Bulgaria plucks out the Emperor's Eyes. The Infidels take Jerusalem and slay many Prisoners. The Turks win all the lower Asia from the Greeks. The Pope is slain by a Fall. The Emperor Kills fourteen thousand Bohemians. The King of England brings the Welsh under entire subjection.  
XXXII. Remarkable is what is related by divers Authors, which happened in a Town called Hamel in the Duchy of Brunswick in Germany in 1248. June 26. This Town being very grievously troubled with Rats and Mice, there came to them a Pied Coat Piper, who agreed with the Burghers that for so much Money he would quite clear them from those Vermin, nor would he demand it till a year and a day after. The agreement being made, he began to play on his Pipes, going from one Street to another, and all the Rats and Mice followed him, whom he led to a great Lake hard by, where they all went in and were drowned, so that the Town was Infected no more. At the end of the year the Pied Piper returned for his reward. The Burghers put him off with slight and neglect, offering him some small matter, which he refusing, and staying some few days in Town; On Sunday Morning at High Mass when most People were at Church, he fell to Play on his Pipes, and began another Tune, whereupon there followed him one hundred and thirty Boys out of the Town to a great Hill called Koppen, situate on the Road hard by, when they approached the Mountain, it rend in twain and opening let him and the Children in, and then closed again, so that he nor they were ever seen after. This History is writ and religiously kept by them in their Annals at Hamel to this day, is read in their Books, and painted in their Windows, and their Churches; they date their Bills, Bonds and other Instruments in Law, From the year of the going out of the Children; Besides there is a great Pillar of Stone at the Foot of that Hill whereon the Story is Engraven. It is also observed in the memory thereof, that in the Streets the Children passed out of, no Piper is admitted to live ever since, and if a Bride live in that Street, till she is come out of it no Dancing is to be suffered. Howel's Epistles, page 272.  
XXXIII. In 1300. When the Turkish Empire began to be considerable, there was such an Earthquake at Rome as never was before, and forty eight Earthquakes happened in one year, whereby all Lombardy was shaken. A great Earthquake in London, which was especially felt on the Banks of the River Thames, which shook and threw down many buildings, and was the more terrible because the Western parts are less accustomed to Earthquakes, and there was little ebbing or flowing of the Sea observable as at other times, for about three months after. Another Earthquake did much mischief about Bath and Bristol, and two more happened in England not long after. Also two in France and one in Savoy. An Earthquake at Rome in the time of Pope Boniface the eight, who fainted away for fear, and afterward published a Jubilee. In 1348. a terrible Earthquake happened at Constantinople, which endured six weeks, and reached in the extent of it as far as Hungary and Italy; Twenty six Cities were overthrown by it; Mountains were torn up by the Roots, and several Men, Women and Beasts by that strong Exhalation were turned into Statues of Salt. In Persia five hundred Houses were thrown by an Earthquake in the City of Lair. In England for six hours together the Sun appeared as Blood. In Germany was a very great Earthquake. Grasshoppers cover Switzerland like Snow. At Oxford the Image of a Head spoke thus, Caput decidetur, Caput Elevabitur, Pedes elevabuntur super Caput; The Head shall be cut off; The Head shall be lift up; The Feet shall be elevated above the Head. Which was thought to presage the Deposing and Death of King Richard II. At this time fifty thousand Christians were slain by the Turks in the Plains of Casovia. Scotland is wasted by the English. The Emperor Sigismond executed thirty two of the Nobles in Hungary. The Pope is imprisoned by the French King. A great Battle between King Henry the V and the French, wherein they lost twenty thousand men, ten thousand being killed upon the place, and as many made Prisoners. The French bourn Rye and Hastings in Sussex, and Plunder the Isle of Wight. In Gaunt five thousand Houses were burnt; and seventeen Towns drowned in Flanders. A very great Earthquake in France, and Grasshoppers destroy almost every green thing there. The World was shaken with terrible Earthquakes, Cities, Castles, Villages and a multitude of People were swallowed up in the Caverns of the Earth: Many at Liege destroyed by Thunder, while they were paying their Veneration to the Saints for safety. Mountains were cleft, and Rivers were dried up.  
XXVIV. In 1456. There arose upon the Sea of Ancona in Italy, together with a thick Gloomy Cloud that extended above two Miles, a Tempest of Wind, Water, Fire, Lightning and Thunder, which piercing to the most deep Abysses of the Sea, forced up the Waves with a most dreadful fury, and carried all before it upon the Land, which caused so horrible an Earthquake some time after, that the Kingdom of Naples was almost ruined, and all Italy carried the dismal marks of it; A Million of Houses and Castles were buried in their own ruins, and above thirty thousand People crushed to pieces, and a huge Mountain overturned into the Lake de la Garde. Soon after was a dreadful Earthquake in Milan another in Hungary. In Poland there was seen (saith my Author) an Image of Christ crucified with a Sword to pass along the Air from West to South for two hours. In Germany Hailstones fell as big as Goose Eggs. At this time the Hungarians defeat the Turks, and take thirty thousand Captives from them. The Spanish Inquisition is first instituted in Castille against the Moors and Jews. The Jews are expelled Spain. The Turks expel the Christians from Adrianople. King Henry VI is taken Prisoner at North-hampton: Great Inundations in England. The Sun is darkened without an Eclipse.  
XXXV. In 1509. Sept. 14. There happened a terrible Earthquake at Constantinople and in the Country thereabout, Bajazet II. being Emperor, by the violence whereof a great part of that Imperial City with many stately Buildings both Public and Private were overthrown; and thirteen thousand People overwhelmed and slain; The terror thereof was so great that the People generally forsook their Houses, and lay abroad in the Fields; Yea Bajazet himself, though very Aged, and sore troubled with the Gout, for fear thereof went from Constantinople to Adrianople, but finding himself in no more safety there than before, he left the City, and lay abroad in the Fields in his Tent. This Earthquake endured by the space of eighteen days, or as the Turks relate, for a month with little intermission; which was then accounted ominous, as portending the miserable Calamities which afterward happened in the Ottoman Family. After this Earthquake ensued a great Plague, wherewith Constantinople was grievously Visited and almost depopulated; After the Earthquake ceased, the Emperor employed eighty thousand Men to repair it, who in four months' time re-edified the ruins thereof with much Beauty and Magnificence. It is strange to Relate (saith my Author) that in this year 1510, there fell twelve hundred stones from Heaven, some weighing Sixty pound, others more. An Earthquake in Apulia whereby above Sixteen thousand Persons were overwhelmed, after which ensued a War betwixt the French and the Duke of Savoy which devoured above a Million of Men. In Holland four hundred and four Parishes are drowned with all their People and . The Turks take Buda in Hungary. King Henry VIII. writes against the Pope; Cardinal Woolsey dies: The English Clergy are fined and pay the King an hundred thousand pound for divers Misdemeanours. In 1531. In the City of Lisbon in Portugal about fourteen hundred Houses were overthrown by an Earthquake, and Six hundred more so sorely shaken that they were ready to fall and many of their Churches were cast to the ground.  
XXXVI. In 1538. Mr. George Sandys gives the following Relation of a most remarkable Earthquake and Burning which happened near the City Puteoli with the new form Mountain; For the famous Lake Lucrinus hard by, extended formerly to the deadly Sulphurous Lake Avernus, supposed the entrance into Hell by ignorant Antiquity, where they offered Infernal Sacrifices to Pluto their God of Hell, and to the Manes or Ghosts of their deceased Friends, who were there said to have returned answers to what they have demanded of them: This place is now only a little watery plash choked up by the horrible and astonishing eruption of a new Mountain, whereof as often as I think, I am apt to give credit to whatsoever is wonderful; For who is there in this place but knows, or who elsewhere will believe, that a Mountain should arise partly out of a Lake, and partly out of the Sea, in one day and anight to such an height, as to contend in altitude with the highest Mountains adjoining, yet so it was: For Sept. 29. 1538. the Courtrey hereabout having for several days before been tormented with perpetual Earthquakes, that no one House was left entire, but all Men expected an immediate ruin; After the Sea had retired two hundred Paces from the Shoar, leaving abundance of Fish and Springs of fresh water rising in the bottom, this Mountain visibly ascended about the second hour of the Night, with an hideous roaring noise, horribly vomiting Stones, and such store of Cinders, as overwhelmed all the buildings thereabout, and the healthful Baths of Tripergula celebrated for so many Ages, consuming the Vines to Ashes, and kill Birds and Beasts; The fearful Inhabitants of Puteoli flying away in the dark, with their Wives and Children, naked, defiled, crying out and detesting their Calamities, Manifold mischiefs had they suffered by the Turks and Barbarians, yet none like that which Nature inflicted. This Mountain is to be seen at this day, the top whereof is above a Mile from the Foundation, the stones upon it are so light and pory, that they will not sink when thrown into Water; when it was newly raised, it had a vast number of Vents or Issues, some of them smoking and likewise flaming, others disgorging little Rivers of hot water, keeping a dreadful rumbling, and many miserably perished who ventured to go down into the hallowness above; But that hollow on the top is now an Orchard, and the Mountain throughout is bereft of its Terrors, no more smoke, fire or flames issuing therefrom.  
XXXVII. In 1571. Feb. 17. A prodigious Earthquake happened in the Eastern Parts of Herefordshire near a little Town called Kinaston: About Six in the Evening the Earth began to open, and an Hill called Marcley Hill with a Rock under it, made at first a mighty bellowing noise which was heard afar off, and then lifted up itself a great height and began to travel; bearing along with it the Trees that grew upon it, the Sheepfolds and Flocks of Sheep abiding thereon at the same time; In the place from whence it first moved it left a gaping distance forty Foot wide and eighty els long, the whole Field was about twenty Acres. Passing along it overthrew a Chapel standing in the way, removed an Yew-tree growing in the Church yard from the West to East. With the like violence it thrust before it Highways, Houses and Trees, it made Tilled ground Pasture, and again turned Pasture into Village. Having thus walked from Sunday in the Evening till Monday Noon it then stood still, and moved no more; mounting to an Hill twelve fathoms high. The like prodigy happened about the same time at Blackmore in that County, where a Field of three Acres with the Trees and Fences moved from their place, and passed over another Field, travelling in the Highway that goeth to Herne and there stayed. A great Earthquake fell out at Constantinople about this time, a while before a terrible Fire in that City which burned the Gaol, and consumed seven hundred Prisoners. An Earthquake and Bowls of Fire in Carinthia. The Sun seemed to cleave in sunder. Corn reigned from Heaven. An Earthquake and Inundation in Holland. At this time was the Swearing Sickness in England. Nine thousand French were slain at Dreux in Normandy, among whom the King of Navar. The Turkish Pirates carry Six Thousand Captives out of the Isle of Gaul, near to Malta. A great Plague in England. Very great Thunder and an Earthquake in Spain.  
XXXVIII. In 1580. April 6. being Easter Wednesday about six a Clock in the Afternoon happened a great Earthquake in England, which shook all the Houses, Castles and Churches every where as it went, and put them in danger of utter ruin; yet through the Divine Clemency it overthrew few or none, save certain Stones, Chimneys, Walls and Pinnacles of high Buildings both in London and divers other places; and a Boy and a Girl being at Sermon among a great number of People at Christ-Church in Newgate-Street the Boy was killed outright with the fall of a Stone from the Roof of the Church; and the Girl so fore bruised by another that she died soon after. At York it made the Bells in the Church's jangle. This Earthquake had such influence upon the mind of the People. That a Prayer was Published by Queen Elizabeth to be used of all Householders with their whole Family, every Evening before thy went to Bed, that it would please God to turn his wrath from us, threatened in the last terrible Earthquake. In 1581. Josephus Acosta relates, That in Peru in America there happened an Earthquake which removed the City of Augnangum two Leagues from the place where it stood without demolishing it, in regard the Situation of the whole Country was changed. The same Author gives an account of another Earthquake in the same Country that reached three hundred Leagues along the Seashore, and seventy Leagues in Land; and leveled the Mountains all along as it went, threw down Cities, turned the Rivers out o● their Channels, and made an Universal havoc and confusion. All this he saith was done within the space, of seven or eight Minutes. Some time before this, above forty thousand People perished in an Earthquake about Puel and Naples.  
XXXIX. In 1590. The Election of Pope Urban VII. was signalised by an Earthquake which made Austria, Bohemia and Moravia to tremble, and was followed by an extraordinary Dearth; Gregory XIV. quickly succeeded and died in ten months. There was such a Famine and Plague in Italy that year that above threescore thousand Persons died. In 1591. In St. Michael's Island in the West Indies, there happened an Earthquake which continued about sixteen days, to the extreme terror of the French who inhabit there, especially when by the force thereof they perceived the Earth to remove from place to place, and Villa Franca their principal Town overthrown, the Ships that then road at Anchor in the Bay, trembled and quaked; insomuch that the People thought the Day of Judgement was come. In 1593. Another terrible Earthquake happened in Persia, which overturned three thousand Houses in the City of Lair crushing to Death above three thousand Persons in their ruins; yea the Castle though built upon a solid Rock groaned under the like affrighting downfall. In 1614 there was a great Earthquake in Vercer, one of the largest of the Islands called Azores, belonging to the King of Portugal, overturning in the City of Agra, eleven Churches, nine Chapels, besides many private Houses: and in the City of Praga hardly an house was left standing. Not long after so horrible an Earthquake happened in another of the Islands of Azores called St. Michael aforementioned, that not far from thence the Sea opened, and thrust forth an Island above a League and half in length at a place where there was above a hundred and fifty Fathom Water.  
XL. In 1618. The Town of Pleurs in Switzerland was overwhelmed by an Earthquake of which we have the following account in the late Travels of a Reverend Divine in that Country. This place consisted in about two thousand two hundred Inhabitants and magnificently built, for besides the great Palace of the Francken that cost some Millions, there were many other Palaces, erected by several Rich Factors both of Milan, and other Parts of Italy, who liked the Situation and Air as well as the freedom of the Government of this place; so they used to come hither during the Heats, and here they gave themselves all the Indulgences that a vast wealth could furnish; By one of the Palaces that was a little distant from the Town, which was not overwhelmed, one may judge of the rest; It was an Outhouse of the Family of the Francken, and yet it may compare with many Palaces in Italy, and certainly House and Gardens could not cost so little as one hundred thousand Crowns. The Voluptuousness of this Place became very crying, and Madam de Salis told me, saith my Author, that she often heard her Mother relate some Passages of a Protestant Ministers Sermons, who Preached in a little Church which those of the Religion had there, and warned them frequently of the terrible Judgements of God, that were hanging over their heads, and that he believed would suddenly break in upon them. On the 25 of August 1618. an Inhabitant came and persuaded them to be gone, for he saw the Mountains cleaving, but he was laughed at for his pains; He had a Daughter whom he prevailed with to leave all and go with him, but when she was gone out of the Town with him, she called to mind that she had not locked the Door of a Room in which she had some things of value, and so she went back to do that, and was buried with the rest; for at the hour of Supper the Hill fell down, and buried the Town and all the Inhabitants, so that none escaped. The fall of the Mountains did so fill the Channels of the River that the first news those of the Chavennes had of it, was by the failing of the River, for three or four hours there came not a drop of Water, but the River wrought for itself a new course and returned to them. I could hear no particular Character of the Man who escaped, so I must leave the secret reason of so singular a preservation to the great discovery at the last day, of those steps of Divine Providence that are now so unaccountable. Some of the Family of the Francken, got some Miners to work underground to find out the Wealth that was buried in their Palace; for besides their Plate and Futniture, there was a great Cash and many Jewels in the House: the Miners pretended they could find nothing: But they went to their Country of Tirol and built fine Houses, and a great Wealth appeared, of which no other visible account could be given but this, that they had found some of that Treasure.  
XLI. In 1622. Was a great Earthquake in Italy; The shape of an Elephant was seen in the Air, and three Suns. Armies fight, Monstrous births, Waters turned into blood, unusual and impetuous Tempests which overthrew several Towers. At this time began the third Civil War in France, the Prince of Conde is taken and shot to Death with a Pistol. The Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland rebel. The Popish Clergy are expelled Antwerp by the People. The Emperor Prohibiteth the Protestant Religion at Atken. The Spaniards Invade Ireland but are beaten thence. The Turks lose Alba Regalis and threescore thousand men. The Persians Invade Babylon and kill twenty thousand men. The King of France is slain. Nine hundred thousand Moor are expelled Spain. The Hollanders beat the Spaniards in the South Sea. The Tartars Invade Podolia, they burn four Cities and four hundred Villages, and carry from thence a vast booty. The Jesuits and Papists are expelled the Netherlands. In 1627. An Earthquake happened in England and a great fiery Beam was seen in the Air in France. Six Suns in Cornwall at once, and five Moons in Normandy. In 1627. July 31. happened an Earthquake in Apulia in Italy, whereby in the City of Severine alone ten thousand Souls were taken out of the World, and in the horror of such infinite ruins, and sepulchre of so many Mortals, a great Bell thrown out of the Steeple by the Earthquake fell so fitly over a Child that it enclosed him, and doing him no harm made a Bulwark for him against any other danger. Strange and wonderful were the Prodigies that were seen in Germany both in the Heavens, Earth and Waters, before the beginning of that Bloody War in those countries', and which plainly presaged the ensuing miseries and desolations which happened there, and began about 1631. In which year, not long before the troubles of Naples, there happened a terrible Earthquake in and about that City; and the Mountain of Soma after many terrible bellow, vomited out burning streams of Fire which tumbled into the Adriatic Sea; and cast out an huge deal of Ashes. The like happened the year following with great damage and loss to the Neighbouring places both in Houses, People and . And in Apulia seventeen thousand Persons were destroyed by the same.  
XLII. In the year 1638. Six Suns were seen at once in Cornwall, and several Apparitions of men in the Heavens preparing to fight with each other; Also Navys of Ships were visible in the Sky. The Scots at this time make an Insurrection, the King goes in Person to appease them, they renounce the Bishops and Prelacy, and set up Presbytery in Scotland. In this year 1638. happened a Terrible Earthquake in the Island of St. Michael one of the Azores, or Terceras belonging to the Spaniards in the Atlantic Ocean Westward. Upon June 26. this Island began unversally to quake and tremble, which continued eight days, so that the People leaving the Cities, Towns and Castles, were forced to live in the open Fields: After which this Prodigy succeeded; Six miles distant from the Hill or Pick of Camerine, at a place called Ferriera; where Fishermen with their Boats use to fish in Summer, they at this time caught such a multitude, that no Boat returned with less than Ten Thousand Fish. At this very place in July this very year, Fire broke forth with such unexpressible violence, notwithstanding the depth of the Ocean, which had been fathomed one hundred and twenty foot deep, that the very Sea itself was not sufficient to extinguish such mighty flames; The space of this boiling Fire was about two Acres, and the Fire arose with such mighty force, that it reached even to the Clouds, carrying with it Water, Sand, Earth, Stones and much other matter, which like Featherbeds flew into the Air to the terror of the Beholders afar off, and falling down again into the water, resembled a kind of Pultis or frumenty; and had not the Wind by Divine Providence blown off from the Isle into the Sea, and thereby driven back this outrageous Fire, without doubt the whole Country had been utterly burnt up and destroyed by this formidable Combustion; soon after it cast forth stones of so vast a bigness, to the height of above three lances, that they seemed rather like entire Mountains than Stones, which in their fall meeting and dashing against others they broke into a Thousand pieces, with a terrible noise and rattling, which afterward being taken up mouldered into a black Sand. Moreover out of this vast quantity of matter thrown out, a new Island arose, even in the midst of the deep Ocean. In the beginning it was not above five Acres, but increasing continually in four days after, it took up the length of five mile; so vast a multitude of Fish perished by this burning, that eight Ships of India could hardly contain them, and being dispersed about all parts of the Island were gathered together, and buried in deep Ditches by the Inhabitants for eighteen miles round about to prevent any Contagion which might arise from them, but the Sulphur or Brimstone was smelled Twenty four Miles. This year the Hollanders beat the Spanish Fleet upon the Coast of England.  
XLIII. The same year 1638, the Learned Rircherus made a search and discovery into the burning Mountain of Vesuvius in the Kingdom of Naples, so famous for fiery eruptions for many Ages, which being one of the most tremendous Miracles of Nature I shall relate in his own words; After so great dangers sustained by Sea and Land in diligently searching out the incredible power of Nature working in Burroughs and Passages under ground, I had a great desire to inform myself concerning Vesuvius. I went therefore to Porticus (the Porch or Entrance) a Town situate at the Foot of of the Mountain, where hiring an honest Countryman for a true and skilful Companion, and Guide in the way, not without a considerable reward, I ascended the Mountain at midnight through difficult, rough, uneven, and steep Passages; when I came to the top or mouth I saw what is horrible to be expressed; I saw it all over of a light Fire with a dreadful combustion, and stench of Sulphur and burning Bitumen; whereat being astonished, methoughts I beheld the habitation of Hell, wherein nothing seemed to be wanting but the Apparitions of Ghosts, Devils and Damned Spirits; I than observed horrible bellow and roar in the Mountain, and unexpressible stink, smokes mixed with darkish Globes of Fire, which both the bottom and sides of the Mountain continually belched forth from eleven several places, and made me belch and ready to vomit; O the depth of the riches of the Wisdom and knowledge of God How incomprehensible are thy ways! If thou showest thy power against the the wickedness of mankind in such formidable and potentous Prodigies and Omens of Nature: What shall it be in that last day wherein the Earth shall be destroyed by thy wrath, and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat? In the morning as soon as it was light, that I might with the more diligence search into the Bowels of the Mowtain, I chose a place to set my feet secure upon, which was an huge Rock, plain on the top, where taking forth my Pantometer (or Universal Measure) I took the dimensions of the Mountain, and found by Geometrical Computation, the compass of the Mouth to be almost three hundred paces; The Mountain was every where up & down cragged, and broken, yet no gradual declining, for any passage to the inward parts, but descended in its compass of an equal bigness like a Well, and although the bottom seemed narrower, yet I judged it only to proceed from the exceeding great depth and distance from our sight. In the very middle of the bottom Nature seemed to have made a Shop or Workhouse of Fire with everlasting gushing forth and streamings of Smoke and Flames, which seem to be employed for boiling of Sulphur, Bitumen and other Minerals in preparation for deadly ruins and slaughters afterward to be committed, since the Vapours contained therein not having room, endeavoured to free themselves with such great force and violence, accompanied with horrible cracklings and noise, that the Mountain seems to be tossed with an Earthquake or trembling, upon which the higher and softer parts of the Mountain that are clung together of Ashes, Cinders, Rains and other refuses of Minerals being shaken in pieces, and loosened by this quaking, and so falling like Hills into the bottom of this Hellish Gulf, cause such terrible noises as are often heard, which are so great and fearful as may daunt the most stout and courageous Spirit. The matter which was continually belched forth from the centre or bottom of the Mountain made as it were a new Mountain, which had wonderful variety of Furrows or hollow Channels, with various kinds of melted Minerals, form as it were by the ingenious Pencil of Nature, sometimes of a greenish colour from Brass; then yellow from Sulphur, Arsenic, and Sandarack; presently after Red from Cinabar, Read Lead and Vermilion; afterward Black from Vitriol mixed with Water, or of an Ashy colour from the very Cinders. Thus far the laborious Kircher.  
XLIV. Hear now what our ingenious Countryman Mr. G. Sandys relates of this fiery Mountain Vesuvius, it is situate in Campania Faelix, about eight miles from Naples, which City hath received great injuries and prejudices by its Cinders, and violent throwing out of Stones even to its Walls and Houses; This Mountain has vast Fountains of Fire, and was heretofore high on every side before the inward parts were consumed; it usually utters smoke by day, but by night, Flames; its manner is to send forth a loud sounding or roaring noise and bellowing first, and then to belch forth a huge quantity of Cinders to the great danger of those who pass by, but if a vehement wind blow upon it, the Ashes or Cinders are raised so high and driven so far in length, that 'tis certain they have sometimes been carried as far as Constantinople, though many hundred mile's distance, and so affrighted them that they have all ran to their Prayers to implore the averting of Divine Wrath. The Mountain hath a double top, that toward the North ends in a Plain, the other toward the South aspires higher, which when covered with Clouds, prognosticates rain to the Neopolitans, in the top there is a large deep hollow in form of an Amphitheatre, in the midst is a Pit which leads into the Entrails of the Earth, the matter thrown up is ruddy, light and soft, the uttermost brow of the Hill flourishes with Trees, and excellent Pasturage, the midst is shaded with Chesnut Trees and others, bearing divers fruits; The lower parts are admirably clothed with Vines which afford the best Greek Wines in the World; It hath at divers times made dreadful Eruptions and Devastations which (as well as Mount Aetna of which hereafter) have been accounted ominous, and to portend some woeful Calamities to ensue.  
But never any thing appeared so horrible (saith my Author) as what happened in the Reign of the Emperor Titus eighty years after Christ, For than it disgorged such boiling Waves and Floods of Fire as consumed the Neighbouring Cities; And than it was that Pliny the Second, that great searcher into Nature, and the famous Author of the Natural History, and then Admiral of the Roman Navy, being desirous to discover the reason thereof, was choked and suffocated in approaching too near to discover so great a mystery of Nature, yet not wilfully I suppose, though some Authors assert that he threw himself into it, because he could not understand the natural cause of this mighty Conflagration; At that time there issued forth so great a smoke that the very Sun seemed to be in an Eclipse, and likewise huge Stones, and such plenty of Ashes, that Rome, afric, and Syria were even covered with them, and besides, Beasts, Fish, and Fowl which were destroyed, it overwhelmed Herculanum and Pompeios' two adjoining Cities with Pumice Stones, together with all the People sitting in the Theatre; There were also heard dismal noises all about the Province, and Giants of incredible bigness were seen to stalk up and down the top and edges of the Mountains (if the People's fancies were not imposed upon by their astonishment) which extraordinary Accident was judged either a cause, or presage of a terrible Pestilence which reigned in Rome and Italy long after; Marcellinus the Roman Historian relates, That the Ashes of Vesuvius transported in the Air, obscured and darkened all Europe, and that the Inhabitants of Constantinople were wonderfully affrighted therewith, insomuch that their Emperor Leo forsook the City, and that in memorial of the same they celebrated yearly the 12 of November. It likewise burnt in the six year of Constantine the Fourth, and groaned, but ejected no Cinders; Platina, writes, that it flamed in 685. prognosticating the Death of Pope Benedict II. with the ensuing Slaughters, Rapines, and Deaths of Princes; During the Papacy of Benedict VIII, and IX. it is said to have done the like, and though it hath made dreadful devastations, yet the fruitful Ashes thrown about did seem to repair the foregoing losses with a quick and marvellous fruitfulness; At the foot of the Hill there are divers holes and vents, out of which exceeding cold wind, do continually issue, and which at Milan they let into their Rooms at pleasure, to qualify the heat of Summer; In the year 1610. in February, Vesuvius began to flame, to the great affrightment of the Neapolitans, and solemn Prayers and Supplications being ordered, they went in Procession with the Head of Januarius their Patron, and the defender of their City carried before them; whereby the deluded people were persuaded that the destruction which hung over their heads was prevented. In 1631. was a new Eruption, and again in 1635. was an Earthquake in Messina.  
XLV. In the year 1638. likewise the industrious Kircher made a discovery of the Phlegraean, or Fiery Plains in the Fields of Puteoli near Naples, which being another wonderful Prodigy of Nature, may be worth relating; Passing by Naples (saith he) I could not let slip the opportunity of enquiring and looking into those Sulphurous Plains so much celebrated in all Ages; Having therefore gone through a Passage under ground, called the Groote, arched and made hollow, to the Mountain Pausilippus; not far from Puteoli, between the Jaws of the Mountains, a large Plain presents itself to view, altogether dreadful and full of horror, in length about twelve hundred Foot, in breadth a thousand; The whole Plain is surrounded with Hills of high and steep Rocks, which were formerly very lofty, but are since devoured by perpetual Fires; In the bottom little hills are seen to burn and flame, with a strong smell of Brimstone which is carried by the Winds through all the Neighbouring Regions, even as far as Naples; some parts of the Plain have an infinite number of holes, and are yellow with a Sulphurish matter; the ground wheh it is touched by those who walk thereon, sounds and rattles like a Drum by reason of the hollowness thereof: and you may feel as it were, not without astonishment, boiling Waters under your feet, and thick fiery fumes to hiss and flow from one place to another with a great crackling noise through the Pipes and Passages under ground which are made by these fiery Exhalations; the force of this is very great as you may experience by stopping any of these holes with an heavy stone, or the like; for than you shall observe the violence of the smoke presently to throw it up, and belch it forth again; But an huge Laky Ditch in the same plain did wonderfully affect me; It is full of boiling Waters, very frightful for their blackness, that one would imagine it were a Kettle, or Cauldron boiling with Pitch and Rosin; It is likewise admirable that the swallowing Gulf casts forth these boiling Waters eight or ten foot above a Man's height, in the fashion of a spire Steeple, or Pyramid; In the Mountains and Rocks wherewith this Vulcanian Plain is encompassed, there are Passages like Chimneys, some whereof breath out a continual Wind, with a terrible sound and rattling, and also with such strength, that if you cast a stone thereinto, it is struck back again to your hand with great fury; some of their breathing holes dart forth smoak mixed with flames; you would here think yourself almost in the midst of Hell, where all things appear horrid, sad and lamentable, and you are even struck breathless with the stench of Sulphur, Bitumen, Napthe, and other Earth's, Clays, Marls and Minerals, In 1640. all the Low countries' and a great part of Germany were shaken by a sudden Earthquake.  
XLVI. In 1650 about five a Clock in the Afternoon in the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland was a general Earthquake wherewith the People were so affrighted, that many of them forsook their Houses, and some Houses were so shaken that the Chimneys fell down. The same year, 1650. the Island of Santorin, at the bottom of the straits in the Mediterranean Sea, not far from Candia, had formidable Fires and Earthquakes. This Island was formerly called Thera, but now Santorin, and started up out of the Sea, for Baronius out of Pliny thus writes; In the year 726. a Vapour was seen to bubble forth out of a Chimney of Fire, between the Islands of Theresia, or Santorin from the very bottom of the Sea, which continued some days and the Fire and Smoak growing thicker by degrees, spread itself abroad with mighty flames, and with the vastness of its strength, it cast out huge Rocky Pumice Stones, and great heaps of other matter, which it carried through all Asia, Lesbos, and Abydus, and the Seacoasts of Macedonia, so that the whole Surface of the Sea was covered with these Pumices; But in the middle of so great a Fire, there was an Island made from the heaping up of that matter, and and joined to the Island, called The Sacred, which never was in being before; There was likewise another Island next to this formed in 1670. not without great terror to those of Santorin; since the burning lasted for a year, as some ancient People who saw it with their Eyes did lately testify; But in the middle of this smaller new Island which is now called little Camena, there is to be seen at this very day an huge deep Ditch, which being narrow toward the bottom, grows bigger by degrees like a Funnel, out of which as out of a Chimney those mighty Stones and Rocks did burst forth, which being mixed with Cinders and Ashes composed the rest of that Isle.  
XLVII. But if ever these Fires penned up in the Bowels of the Earth exercised their force, it was most remarkable upon September 24. 1650. which shook the Island till the ninth of October, with such mighty and frequent Earthquakes that the People of Santorin fearing that their immediate ruin was approaching, were on their Knees night and day before their Altars; It cannot be expressed what an horror invaded all men; especially when those victorious Flames breaking through all Obstacles, strove to make themselves a way through the midst of the Waters of the Ocean about four miles Eastward from Santorin; For the Sea all on a sudden swollen Thirty Cubits upward, and extending itself wide through the Neighbouring Lands, overturned all in its way; Insomuch that it broke in pieces several Ships and Galleys in the very Haven of Candia, with its extraordinary violence, though fourscore miles distant from thence; The Air being darkened with those sulphurous stinking Vapours, put on innumerable Forms and Appearances, as of Fiery Lances, and Swords brandished and shaken, bright and glittering Arrows darting forth; Here terrible Serpents and Dragons seemed to be flying, There hideous Thunderclaps, Lightnings and Thunderbolts; And yet they could scarce see, for the People's Eyes were so hurt with those sharp, pricking sulphurous smokes, and vapours that almost all became blind for three days, with such grievous pains in their Eyes, that they wept continually, and bewailed their most miserable Fate; But when their Eyesight returned, they saw all their Silver and Gold, both Vessels and Garments, and Pictures, spread over with a yellow colour; and such a vast multitude of Pumice stones, did this fiery Gulf vomit forth, that it covered the Sea, so that they could scarce pass in a Vessel; It is most certain that they were carried many hundred Miles, even to Smyrna and Constantinople, and all the Shores and Coasts were filled therewith. The fury of this Burning was greatest for the first two months, which caused the Neighbouring Sea to bubble like a boiling Pot, and night and day huge Globes and Flakes of Fire, and exceeding thick Smoke mounted up to the Heavens; which if at any time it was carried by contrary winds to any places near at hand, besides a most grievous stink, it brought certain destruction upon Birds and Beasts, yea, upon men themselves. As it happened in October and November this year, that fifty Husbandmen miserably perished thereby, besides an innumerable multitude of Birds, Sheep, Oxen and Asses; The like happened to nine Mariners, who passing that way in their Ship by night, after three days were all found half burnt, and were buried in the Island Nio threescore Miles from Santorin; But the other four months (for it flamed six in all) though that Hellish Hearth or Furnace abated much of its vigour and fierce heat, and could scarce lift itself above the waves, yet it still seemed to cast out Pumice stones, and to be labouring to form a new Island, which though it does not yet appear above Water, yet in a calm Sea it is observed to be very shallow thereabout, the Water being in that place not above eight Cubits deep.  
XLVIII. In 1657. The Spaniards felt a terrible blow in Peru, which if it were not a Mark of the Wrath of Heaven, (saith my Author,) was at least a Sign that the Earth is weary of them, especially in those parts where they have stained it with so much innocent blood. The City of Lima was swallowed up by an Earthquake, and Calao another City not far from it, was consumed by a shower of Fire out of the Clouds, eleven thousand Spaniards lost their lives in this calamity, and the Earth devoured an hundred Millions of refined Silver, which the lucre of the Spaniards had forced out of its Bowels. All the Mountains of Potosi from whence they dug their choicest metal were leveled with the Plain, and no more hopes of Gold was left to their insatiable avarice.  
XLIX. In 1660 an Earthquake happened at Paris in France, and at the same time they had news that part of the Pyrenean Mountains had been overthrown some days before; They are certain Mountains that divide France and Spain; it did great mischief there, overwhelming some Medicinal Baths, many Houses, and destroying hundreds of People, only one Church which sunk into the Caverns below was thrown up again, and stands very firm, but in another place. This was looked upon as a great Miracle, especially by the French, who have disputed with the Spaniard about this Church as standing on the Frontier Line, but now is removed near half a League within the acknowledged limits of France.  
L. In 1665. There was a great Tempest accompanied with Thunder, Lightning and an Earthquake in divers places in England, at which time the stately Spire of Trinity-Church in Coventry fell down and demolished a great part of the Church. The next year Sir Rob. Holms destroyed above one hundred and fifty sail of Dutch Ships at the Vly in Holland, and burned the Town of Bandaris in the Island of Schelling, containing at least a thousand Houses. Sept. 2. about One a Clock in the Morning a sudden and lamentable Fire broke out in the City of London, beginning in a place called Pudding-lane, near New-Fish-Street which in four days time burnt down thirteen thousand two hundred Houses.  
LI. In 1668 in Autumn, a great part of Asia, and some parts of Europe were infested with extraordinary Earthquakes; The Cities of Constantinople and Adrianople felt its sad Effects, but not with that violence and continuance as in other Places. In some parts of Persia it continued for above fourscore days; Torqueto and Bolio two considerable Cities, were by its great violence laid even to the ground, and all or most of the Inhabitants buried in the Ruins, above six thousand Persons perished in the first of them, and above eighteen hundred in the latter; And in all the adjacent Cities it raged with extraordinary fury, destroying and ruining the Buildings, killing many of the People, and the rest were forced to quit the Towns, and take up their Lodgings in the Fields. About the beginning of August 1669. there came two Whales and a Grampas up the River of Thames, whereof one of the Whales, and the Grampas were killed, and the other Whale which was the bigger, returned back into the Sea.  
LII. In 1669. there happened a most dreadful Earthquake and Irruption of Mount Aetna in Sicily, of which before I give a particular Account, it may not be unproper to describe the Mountain itself, as it has been related by divers famous Historians; Aetna or Mount Gibello, called by Pindar the Celestial Column or Pillar, is the highest Mountain in Sicily, from whence all the Island may be seen at once, and in a clear day the Eye may even reach Africa; it rears up its Top or Spire thirty miles into the Sky, and may be seen forty or fifty miles at Sea, but its compass is sixty, others say an hundred mile's space, it appears Eastward with two shoulders, having an eminent head in the middle, The lower parts are luxuriously fruitful, and the abundance of fat oily matter which is cast out of it, makes the Soil thereof as well as of the whole Island Incredibly fruitful in the best Wine, Oil, Honey, Saffron, Minerals also of Gold, Silver, Silks and Allom, with variety of excellent and delicious Fruits, and abundance of all sorts of Grain, so that it was called in old time, The Granary of the Roman Empire; The middle of the Mountain is woody and shady, the upper part rocky, steep, and almost covered with Snow; yet smoking in the midst like many conjoined Chimneys, and vomiting intermitted flames, usually discernible only of a night, as if heat and cold had left their Contentions, and embraced one another, for though it continually burns, with most fervent smoke and fire, yet round about the top are seen perpetual and most deep snows, the uppermost top is broken and cragged with unstable Cinders and Pumice stones, and cleaves open with a most vast Crater or mouth twelve miles in compass, which in a steep descent streightens itself narrower even to the bottom of Hell as it were; A most horrible precipice it is, exceeding formidable with flames and fumes from the very bottom and sides of the Mountain, with an horrendous roaring and bellowing not unlike the bursting forth of Thunders, so that the very imagination and thoughts of the Fire and Ruins so nigh at hand, cannot but at first sight amaze, and affright any humane Creature, and make him start from it, as from the Infernal Gulf of Hell; On one side within are most dark and dreadful Dens, one whereof is so vast, as to be capable to contain thirty thousand Men; In many places you may see the tracts and paths of huge Torrents of melted matter; in the very top, Snow and Ashes, or Cinders, as if they had concluded an Eternal Wedlock, are seen to overwhelm all things with a sad and doleful countenance, which are very dangerous to unwary Visitors, because under them there lie concealed deep holes, and devouring Gulfs, without bottom or end, which have swallowed up very many, coming unadvisedly too near without a Guide, and by their ruin have left warnings to others not rashly to venture upon these hidden deceits which have cheated mortals of their Lives; in the utmost bottom of this Hellish Gulf the Fire is at no time extinguished, but always sends forth either boiling heat, smoke or flame, yet outwardly it gins to grow fierce and terrible only at certain intervals of time more or less according to the combustible matter heaped together; and by how much longer it hath ceased, by so much it bursts forth with greater violence, and together with the Flame sends forth huge heaps of Sands, and Prodigious Stones of wondrous weight.  
LIII. These Fires have broke forth in several Ages of the World, to the great terror and destruction of the Inhabitants, and all the adjacent Countries; As in the year of the World 2600. when the Posterity of Janus went to seek new Colonies, they first entered Sicily, where at that time there was so great a burning of the Mountain, that the new Planters leaving the Island for fear of Desplation, went to seek new habitations in Italy; after them followed the Sicaneans, who were likewise driven away from these Eastern Parts, to the Western by these dreadful Aetnean burn. In the year 3180. and for above four hundred years after, this Mountain was all on fire with three huge burn. A little after the Mountains raging anew, it is said to have drawn Pythagoras himself into the highest admiration; Also in the Reign of Hiero, at which time Histories deliver that Empedocles an Observer of the Mountain was destroyed. In the time of Julius Caesar, about fifty years before Christ, Diodorus relates, That Aetna, raged most violently, which they said portended the Death of Caesar; It is reported to have been so great, that the Sea, with its fervour and boiling heat burnt the very Ships, even as far as the Vulcanello's Alderman the Fish being destroyed and boiled to death; yea within twenty years, the Mountain burned four times. In the Reign of Caius Caligula forty nine years after Christ, the Mountain raged so, that the Emperor at that time in Sicily was so affrighted, that he betook himself to safer stations; yet they relate, that the Emperor Adrian out of the greatness of his mind did ascend the Mountain very far, to consider more nearly such great Miracles; In several Ages after, it made woeful eruptions, as from the year 1160. to 1169. all Sicily was shaken with huge Earthquakes, and the Mountain Aetna foaming mightily, overthrew all the circumjacent places with incredible Desolation, with the ruin of the Cathedral Church of Catania about ten miles distant, in which Abbot John and his Monks were overwhelmed; Many other fearful burn have happened since time, but none more horrible for its mighty devastations than that in the year 1669. The Earl of Winchelsea late Ambassador at Constantinople, in his return from thence, visiting Catania, was an Eye-witness of this Prodigious Judgement, whereof he gave the following Account to King Charles the second, as soon as he came to Naples.  
May it please Your Majesty,  
In my Voyage from Malta to this place, I touched at the City of Catania in Sicily, and was there most kindly invited by the Bishop to lodge in his Palace, which I accepted, that so I might be the better able to inform your Majesty of that extraordinary Fire which comes from Mount Gibel, fifteen miles distant from that City; which for its horridness in the aspect, for the vast quantity thereof, (for it is fifteen miles in length, and seven in breadth) for its monstrous devastation and quick progress, may be termed an Inundation of Fire, a Flood of Fire, Cinders and burning Stones, burning with that Rage as to advance into the Sea six hundred yards, and that to a mile in breadth, which I saw; and that which did augment my admiration was, to see in the Sea this matter like ragged Rocks, burning in four fathom Water, two fathom higher than the Sea itself; some parts liquid and moving, and throwing off, not without great violence, the stones about it, which like a crust of a vast bigness, and red hot, fell into the Sea every moment, in some place or other, causing a great and horrible noise, smoke, and hissing in the Sea; and thus more and more coming after it, making a firm foundation in the Sea itself. I stayed there from nine a Clock on Saturday morning, to seven next morning, and this Mountain of Fire and Stones, with Cinders, had advanced into the Sea twenty yards at least, in several places; in the middle of this Fire, which burned in the Sea, it hath form a passage like to a River, with its Banks on each side very steep and craggy, and in this Channel moves the greatest quantity of this Fire, which is the most liquid, with stones of the same composition, and Cinders all red hot, swimming upon the Fire of a great magnitude;  
From this River of Fire (under the great Mass of the Stones which are generally three fathom high all over the Country, where it burns and in other places much more,) there are secret Conduits or Rivulets of this liquid matter, which Communicate Fire and Heat into all parts more or less, and melts the Stones and Cinders by fits in those places where it toucheth them, over and over again; where it meets with Rocks or Houses of the same matter (as many are) they melt and go away with the Fire; where they find other compositions they turn them to lime or ashes, as I am informed. The composition of this Fire, Stones and Cinders, are Sulphur, Nitre, Quicksilver, Sal-Armoniac, Led, Iron, Brass, and all other Metals. It moves not regularly, nor constantly down hill; in some places it hath made the Valleys Hills, and the Hills that were not high are now Valleys. When it was night I went upon two Towers in divers places, and could plainly see at ten mile's distance, as we judged, the Fire to begin to run from the Mountain in a direct line, the flame to ascend as high and as big as one of the highest and greatest Steeples in Your Majesty's Kingdoms, and to throw up great Stones into the Air; I could discern the River of Fire to descend the Mountain of a terrible fiery or red colour, and stones of a paler Red, to swim thereon, and to be some as big as an ordinary Table. We could see this fire to move in several other places, and all the Country covered with Fire, ascending with great Flames; in many places, smoking like to a violent furnace of Iron melted, making a noise with the great pieces that fell, especially those which fell into the Sea. A Cavalier of Malta, who lives there, and attended me, told me, that the river was as liquid where it issues out of the Mountain, as water, and came out like a Torrent with great violence, and is five or six fathom deep, and as broad, and that no stones do sink therein. I assure Your Majesty, no Pen can express how terrible it is, nor can all the Art and Industry of the World quench, or divert that which is burning in the Country. In forty days time it hath destroyed the habitation of twenty seven thousand persons, made two Hills of one, a thousand paces high apiece, and one is four Miles in compass. Of twenty thousand persons which inhabited Catania, three thousand did remain; all their Goods are carried away, the Cannons of Brass are removed out of the Castle, some great Bells taken down, the City-Gates Walled up next the Fire, and preparation made all to abandon the City.  
That night which I lay there, it reigned Ashes all over the City, and ten Miles at Sea it troubled my Eyes. This Fire in its progress met with a Lake of Four Miles in compass, and it was not only satisfied to fill it up, though it was four fathom deep, but hath made of it a Mountain. I send also to Your Sacred Majesty the following Account in Print which the Bishop gave me, as it is collected out of divers Relations from Catania.  
LIV. Mount Aetna, or Monte Gibello, a Mountain so Renowned throughout the World for its height and greatness, but more for those Prodigious Flames, Smoak, and Ashes which it hath cast out from the top of it, whilst the other parts are continually (even in the midst of Summer) covered with Snow, has been for many Ages observed once, or sometimes oftener, in the space of about fifteen years to throw up more than ordinary Flames with much Smoke and Stones, and great quantities of Ashes; which (though terrible to the Neighbouring Towns and Villages) was yet wont, in little time to abate of its fury, and prove but seldom more injurious to the Country near it, than by communicating largely its ashes, which though for the present it did somewhat incommode them, they had afterwards a considerable compensation in the product of their Lands, which by this means was rendered more fruitful. But on Friday the 18th of March 1669. the Sun was observed before its set-setting to appear of a pale and dead colour, which (being contrary to what it ever before appeared to us) struck no small terror into the Inhabitants, all Objects appearing also of the same colour, with a paleness received from that of the Sun: The same night happened in this City as well as the whole Country hereabouts, a terrible and unusual Earthquake, whose strong and unequal motions joined with horrible Roar from Monte Gibello exceedingly frighted the the Inhabitants, but was so extraordinary violent in the Country adjacent, that the People were forced to abandon their Houses, and to fly into the Fields to avoid the danger threatened them from the falling of their Houses. The Village of Nicolosi was of all others the most dreafully handled by this furious Earthquake, the Houses and other Buildings being shaken all in pieces, and buried in their own Ruins; the poor People (who had preserved their Lives by a timely flight, with such little of their goods as their hasty fears would permit them to carry out with them) continued a Night or two in the Fields, beholding with grief and astonishment the ruin of their habitations: but observing that by these violent concussions, the Earth began to open in several places, and to threaten them with inevitable ruin, they fled, though with much trouble and amazement to this City. These shake of the Earth being so frequent and violent, that the the People went reeling and staggering, with much difficulty supporting one another from falling, insomuch as what with their want of sleep, the pains they were forced to take in travelling, and the great terrors imprinted on them by what they had seen and suffered, they appeared at their arrival in this City as so many distracted People wholly insensible of what they did.  
This dreadful convulsion of the Earth was immediately followed on Monday March 11. about Ten at Night by Three Terrible Eruptions, much about the same time, and a little distance one from the other.  
These said Eruptions were observed to be on the side of Monte Gibello, about two Miles beyond the Mountain called Montpileri, from whence with a terrible noise it threw up its flames with much fury and violence about a hundred yards in height; its noise not roaring only inwards from the belly of the Mountain as before, but violently cracking like peals of Ordinance or Thunder, from the side of it, throwing out vast stones, some of them 300, pound weight, which being (as it were) shot through the Air, fell several miles distant from the place, whilst the whole Air was filled with Smoak, burning Cinders, and Ashes, which fell like a fiery rain upon the Country. In the mean time issued from the side of this Prodigious Mountain a vast Torrent of Melted and Burning Matter, which like an Innundation, Drowned, as in a Flood of Fire, the Country on this side of it. This Burning River ran down upon the Mountain Mentpileri. which, opposing its direct course, it divided itself into two streams, which encompassed the said Mountain; one of them taking its way by La Guardia, the Convent of St. Ann and Malpasso: the other by the Towns of Montpileri, and Falicchi which in few hours were wholly destroyed and lost, not so much as any sign of them remaining, with several lesser Villages and Farms, and with them the famous Image of the bessed Lady of the Annunciata; which, though highly Reverenced throughout the whole Island, esteemed the wonder of Sicily and the whole World; and to which the People with much Devotion resorted in Pilgrimage from the remotest parts, was also swallowed up and consumed by this dreadful Torrent.  
This Fiery and Burning Deluge immediately spread itself to above six Mile in breath, seeming to be somewhat of the colour of melted and burning Glass; but, as it cools, becomes hard and Rocky, and every where in its passage leaves Hills and Pyramids of that matter behind it.  
At the same time Monte Gibello from its top raged with dreadful Flames, which with its noise and Concussions of the Earth which still continued, added not a little to the Terror of the People, who ran with Cries and Lamentations about the City and Country, expecting nothing but to be swallowed up or consumed by Fire, having no other apprehensions but of Death, and a General Conflagration. The two Torrents of Fire came forward, destroying all things in their way, and by Wednesday, March 13th. had on the West side branched itself into several Streams, and over-ran Campo Rotundo, St. Pietro, and Mostorbianco, with La Potielli, and Sr. Antonino; and on the East-part reigned the lower part of Mascalucia, and Le Placchi, taking its way towards this City.  
On Thursday the 14th, the Wind came Eastwards, on which fell abundance of Rain, which abated not the Progress of the Fire; which on the East-side had from Mascalucia made its way to St. Giovanni di Galermo, the lower part whereof it destroyed; and passing on, seemed to threaten this City on one side, as did that on the Westside the other. As the Fire approached, the Religious every where appeared with much Devotion, carrying in Procession their Relics, especially those of St. Agatha, the famous Martyr of Catania, in which they reposed no small confidence, followed by great multitudes of People, some of them mortifying themselves with Whips, and other signs of Penance, with great Complaints and Cries, expressing their dreadful expectation of the Events of those Prodigious fiery Inundations.  
Whilst the People were thus busied in their Devotions, and astonished by their Fears, News was brought to the Magistrates of the City, that a considerable number of thieves and Robbers had taken the opportunity of this general distraction, to make a Prey of the already distressed People, and that they had murdered several of them for their Goods; and that it was to be feared, that the City of Catania itself, might run some danger from the great numbers of them which were about the Country, and from thence took their opportunities to get into the Town. Whereupon, Consultation being had for the prevention of farther mischief from them, the Commander of the Castle was ordered with a considerable number of Horse, and a Party of Spaniards, to secure the Country and City against these Robbers; who immediately sent out several Parties with his Provost-Marshal, with Order to seize upon all suspected Persons, and such as were not able to give a good account of themselves: And for such as were taken in the Fact Robbing, to Execute them by Martial-Law, without any farther Trial; and accordingly caused three pair of Gallows to be set up for their speedy Execution; one before the Gate Di Aci, a second in the Marketplace, and a third before the Gate Della Decima, setting strong Guards upon the Gates of the City, and causing all suspected Houses to be searched, an Account to be given in of all Lodgers, and such Persons to be secured as could any ways fall under a Suspicion. The poor People out of the Country being by this Prodigious Calamity stripped out of all their Estates, and reduced to great extremity, fled most of them for refuge and relief to this City, with great Lamentations, moving the Charity of the Magistrates, who were readily inclined to give them the best assistance they were able; and the Citizens moved by their Complaints and Sufferings, freely opened their Doors, filling their Houses with as many of those distressed People as they could possibly receive; the Bishop and all Persons of Quality and Estate, contributing largely for their support, till better Order could be taken for the disposing of them.  
The City of Messina also, and several other Cities (informed of this extraordinary Calamity) sent hither large Supplies of Provisions offering their best assistance to this place, in case of extremity. All the Elements seemed at this time to make War upon us, and to conspire together for the punishment of the Inhabitants; The Air was continually darkened with Clouds and Smoke, agitated by great and violent Winds, and oftentimes showered down great Rains, insomuch as the Sun from the beginning of these Eruptions, very seldom appeared to us, and when it did, (with extraordinary paleness,) for a little time only and (as it were abhorring so dreadful a Spectacle) soon hide its face again under a thick Cloud.  
The Sea ran much higher than it was wont to do, and by its extraordinary Roaring, and in some places overflowing its Banks, added not a little to our Consternation. The Land every where infested with Thiefs, insomuch, that till by the extraordinary care taken by the Magistrates and Officers, severe execution was done upon such as were apprehended in the Fact, no person was able to stir abroad without danger of his Life; whilst the Fire by this prodigious overflowing of the Mountain, threatened to take possession of all.  
On Friday the 15th. the stream of fiery Matter which destroyed the lower part of St. Giovanni di Galermo divided itself into two parts, one of its branches taking its way toward Mosterbianco, the other threatening the City of Catania, but this last was observed to move with more slowness than before, having in 24 hours' time scarcely gained 20 paces.  
On the 18th. being Monday, the Torrents being still seen to draw nearer and nearer to this City, the Senate with Monsegnior Cambuchi the Bishop of this place, followed by all the Clergy Secular and Regular, and an infinite number of People went in a solemn Procession out of this City to Monte de St. Sofia, carrying out with greatest Devotion their choicest Relics, and upon an Altar erected in view of the Mountain, exposed them, where they celebrated Mass and used the Exorcisms accustomed upon such extraordinary occasions, all which time, the Mountain ceased not as before with excessive roaring to throw up its Smoke and Flames with extraordinary violence, and and abundance of great stones; which were carried through the Air, some of them falling within their view, though at ten mile's distance from the Eruption; the Ashes which proceeded from thence were scattered in great abundance, as well on this City as on the Country adjacent, every where in the Fields with Cinders, and the heat of the said Ashes destroying the Grass, which obliged the People to drive away their  to a farther distance, which would otherwise have perished for want of food.  
These streams of ruin daily crept nearer and nearer to this City, but by uneven and irregular motions, according as it was more or less supplied from its fountain; but on We dnesday the twentieth we perceived that that branch of it which seemed most to threaten this City from St. Giovanni di Galermo was wholly extinguished, and the other which bent its course toward Mosterbianco ran but slowly, and gave us some hopes that its fury was also near spent, but the other Torrent which had before overflown Mosterbianco, continued its motion with as much violence as ever, being in breath above a Musket shot over; but in probability could not easily overflow to the Westward which was defended by its Rocky situation; another branch which ran by Santo Pietro was observed to be much larger than the rest, and its stream more quick and active, but meeting with some opposition in its way, it made some stop, only sending out a Rivulet toward the Eastwards about three or four yards wide, of its most subtle or active matter, which directed its course towards a small Village about a Furlong distant from its main stream; another Branch threatened Campo Rotundo, but bent its course Westwards towards the Farm of Valcorrente, where its Fiery body was scattered into several deep and rocky places, without any considerable damage.  
About this time we had hopes that the violence of this Eruption had been over, the Mountain not throwing out its flames with that violence as before, and its noise and roaring in a great measure ceased.  
Those who at nearest distance took a view of the Mountain, informed that the top of it, was fallen in, and the Mountain supposed to want near a Mile of its former height; that the largest of the Mouths from whence these fiery streams were vented, was about half a mile in compass; but the view of this dreadful Inundation carried so much terror in it as they were not able to express; from all these Mouths were vomited Rivers of a thick and fiery substance of stone and metals melted, whose depth was various according to the several places it filled in its passage, in some places four, in others eight, twelve or fifteen yards and upwards; its breadth in some places six miles, in others much more; its flame like that of Brimstone, and its motion like that of Quicksilver; advancing ordinarily very slowly, unless where it was provoked by the addition of a fresh Torrent or some considerable descent. Wheresoever it passed, it left large heaps of its congealed matter, with which it covered and burnt the Earth, melting the Walls of Cistles and Houses, throwing down and consuming all before it, nothing being yet found able to resist its force, nor any thing able to quench its burning, water being observed rather to add to its fury; wheresoever it has passed, it has left its dreadful marks behind it, levelling some hills and raising others, so much changing the situation, that not the least trace of any Place or Town remains, nothing being to be seen but confused heaps of ragged stone, which yielding a noisome fume, strikes terror and astonishment into all that behold it.  
On Friday the 22. the Mountain again roared with much loudness, and threw up from its Mouth a vast quantity of matter, which form two large hills higher and larger than that of Menpileri, with a large bank of the same matter to the Eastward, sending down a violent stream of its liquid matter towards Malpasso, much enlarging the former Current, and passing thence to Campo Rotundo and Santo Pietro completed the ruins of those Towns, driving furiously towards Mosterbianco; the other stream by Santo Giovanni de Galermo being wholly diverted and extinguished. From this time till the 25th, the Mountain continued silent, but than it burst out again with more force than ever before, its noise much louder, like Peals of Ordnance, and so forcible and lasting, as for twenty four hours it caused a shaking and trembling in our Buildings, the Air so filled with Smoke and Ashes, as darkened the Face of the Sky. The Birds and Fowl about this time, either through want of Food, or illness of Air, which was corrupted with the noisome smells arising from these Burn, were observed to lie dead in all places.  
On the 28th. the Grand Current was advanced near the City as far as the old Capuchins, which struck so great a Terror into the People, that most of them left the City, only some Officers remaining with such persons as were under their command, who have secured and sent away the Magazine, and all the Artillery from the Castle.  
LV. A Latter Relation from Catania, of April 27. gives this further Account, The dreadful Inundation from Monte Gibello having destroyed many Castles and Towns, with an infinite loss, and utter ruin to the Inhabitants, arrived lately with a renewed Force at Mostorbianco, which it has wholly ruined, from thence passing on to Albanelli, in four days space destroyed all the Gardens and Vineyards with sixty three thousand Vines. On Wednesday April 16. With an Impetuous Fiery Torrent it came towards Sardanello, where all the remainder of the Inhabitants of this City were Spectators of it, which resembled a River of melted and burning Brass, about ten els wide, running with swiftness to the Arch of Marcus Marcellus, a famous Piece of Antiquity, and passing under it, ruined about six els of it, which was the breadth of the Current in that place: from thence it ran to Madonni di Monserrato, which it wholly destroyed: then falling down to Madonna delle Gratie, it entered in at one Gate, and passed through another, without any considerable hurt, and running through the Gate Della Decima, filled all the Plain Di Schiara Viva, where it was above six els deep. Then taking its way towards the Bulwark, on the Seaside, under the Castle of this City, it ran by, two els deep into the Sea; in which, (to the great wonder of all that saw it) it has made its Progress a mile in length, and as much in breadth, and is drawing towards the Gate of the Channel, which gives us great Apprehensions, lest it may that way Invade the City itself: Nor is there less danger on the side Del Tindaro, where there runs a great Torrent of the same Active matter, which draws near, and seems to threaten the Walls, and is in that place about a mild in breadth, having overflowed and destroyed all the Gardens, from the Gate Della Decima, as far as Madonni delli Amellati.  
The names of the most considerable Towns and places ruined and destroyed by the dreadful Earthquakes and Eruptions were, The Town of Nicolosi, wholly ruined; Badara and Tre Castagne the greatest part destroyed; The Towns of La Guardia, Malpasso, Campo Rotundo, Potielli, St. Antonino. St. Pietro, Masterbianco, Montpileri, La Anunciata, Falicchi, Placchi, all wholly overflowed consumed, and lost in this fiery Inundation with all the Lands belonging to them, no footsteps of them remaining; The Towns of Masculucia, and St. Giovanni de Galermo ruined in part; The large Gardens and Vineyards of Albanelli overflown and destroyed: The famous piece of Antiquity of Marcus Marcellus, much ruined; Madonna de Monferrato destroyed, besides many Castles, Farms, and other Places, which have run the same Fortune, whose names we for brevity pass over.  
LVI. West of the Isle of Sicily in the Tuscan Sea, within sight of Messina, and one hundred and fifty miles distant from Mount Aetna are the Aeolian Islands, so called from Aeolus' King thereof, who first taught the use of the Sail, and by observing the Fire and Smoak which ascended from these Islands, (for heretofore they all flamed) was from thence fabled to be the God of the Winds; These were anciently seven, but are now eleven Islands, of which Liparis is the greatest, being ten miles in circuit, the Fire went out here about an Age ago, So that at this day Strombolo only burns, (though another called Vulcaeno smokes continually) It was formerly called Strongile, but by corruption Strombolo from the roundness thereof, for it seems like an high round Mountain in the Sea, out of the top whereof issueth continually a flame like a burning Beacon, and exceeding clear, so that by night especially it is to be discerned a wonderful way, A place so full of horror to the neighbouring Islanders, that the more ignorant Papists are made to believe it is the very Jaws of Hell itself; The aforenamed Kircher made Observation of this Mountain likewise, which he thus relates; That on a certain day viewing Strombolo very curiously, about threescore miles distant, he observed it to be more than ordinarily furious, for it appeared wholly overwhelmed with Fire in so great plenty, that it seemed to belch out flaming Mountains, a most horrendous Spectacle; And then, saith he, I heard a strange kind of dull murmur from the Mountain so far off, which seemed to come towards us under the Earth, till it reached the subterrancous place where we stood, and there uttered such horrible Thundrings within the Earth, with such formidable Earthquakes, that none of them were able to stand on their Feet; After the violence was over, getting up again with unspeakable Consternation, they beheld the destruction and lamentable subversion of the famous Town of St Euphemia three miles off, which happened at that instant, the City being wholly swallowed up, for seeking for the Town, they found instead thereof, what is wonderful to be related, nothing but a dark stinking Lake sprung up in its place, they could find no men nor Inhabitants; Thence passing on their Journey, they found nothing else for Two Hundred miles, but the Carcases of Cities, horrid ruins of Castles, Men straggling up and down in the open Fields, and through horror and famine pining and withering away.  
LVII. In April 1669. The Mountain Vesuvius aforementioned cast up more Smoke and Ashes than formerly, and for several Nights the neighbouring places were much affrighted with the great Flames which issued from it, accompanied with unusual noises; At the same time they writ, That the Viceroy of Sicily having compassion upon the miserable condition of above thirty thousand poor People, who by their Flight had saved themselves from the Fire of Mount Aetna aforementioned, which had destroyed seventeen or eighteen Towns or Villages, and by the daily approaches to the City of Catania, seemed to threaten it with inevitable ruin, so that the Inhabitans were leaving the place; And that he thereupon sent one of his Officers to take order for the maintenance of those distressed Creatures, and disposing of them into places of safety. June 20. this year at Jnspurg in Germany, a little after Noon, there was a very violent Tempest with extraordinary Hail, Rain, Thunder and Lightning, accompanied with an Earthquake, which had such terrible Effects at Schnatz a Town about three miles distant from Jnspurg, where the Emperor of Germany had some Silver Mines, that the River which runs through it overflowing, drowned all the adjacent Fields, driving down, and destroying above thirty Houses, endamaging many more, and drowning above two hundred People.  
LVIII. In 1682. Aug. 25. The Mountain Vesuvius did cast out Fire accompanied with a most terrible and hideous noise, which from an hour after Sunset on Saturday, till three a Clock next morning was so great, that it caused a kind of Earthquake, the houses in that City being plainly observed to shake; The Mountain likewise cast out Ashes in great abundance, which were dispersed many miles by the Wind, and the Sunday, all the Streets of Naples were covered with them, as if it had been a deep Snow. These Prodigies very much terrified the People, and Public Prayers were made for appeasing the Wrath of Heaven; It is added, That many great Coals of Fire fell also, the dread whereof wrought so much upon the Inhabitants, that they removed to other Cities; That the terrible Earthquakes have thrown down near three thousand Buildings all about the foot of the Mountain, and it roared so loud as to be heard forty mile's distance in a still night. The same year an Earthquake happened in France and Switzerland, which affected all the Cities and places for many hundred miles about.  
LIX. In 1685. a very wonderful Prodigy happened in France, which though it may not seem so properly inserted among these Relations of Earthquakes, yet the strangeness and reality thereof, may excuse the account I shall give of it; and not being generally known may be the more acceptable. It is notorious to all Christendom that the French King, after a multitude of Infractions of his most solemn Edicts, Oaths and Protestations for securing to the Protestants of his Kingdom the free exercise of their Religion, began about the year 1684. openly and without the least provocation, to use all manner of Cruelties toward them, to oblige them if possible to renounce their Faith and Profession, declaring, That he would no longer suffer any Protestants in his Kingdom, but that they must resolve either to change their Religion or else to suffer the utmost Torments that could be inflicted upon them. In prosecution of this inhuman resolution, Dragoons were employed, first to seize the Goods of those that continued constant in their Religion, after which they proceeded to further cruelties, hanging some Men and Women up by the Hair of the Head or the Feet within their own Chimneys, smoking them with Wisps of Wet Straw; Others they threw into the Fire, and plucked them thence half roasted; They tied them on the Rack, and poured Wine down their Throats till the same had deprived them of their reason, and then made them say, They would be Catholics. They stripped them stark naked and Larded them all over with Pins from Head to Foot. They kept them from sleeping seven or eight days and nights together. They tied Parents to Bedposts and ravished their Daughters before their Eyes. They plucked off the Nails from the Hands and Toes of others, with most intolerable pains, and after these and a thousand other indignities, if they still refused to abjure the Truth, they threw them into close, dark, and stinking Dungeons, exercising upon them all manner of Barbarities. Their Ministers were banished, their Churches demolished, their Houses plucked down their Wives and Children seized and put into Monasteries, and several suffered most cruel Deaths.  
Among the banished Ministers was the famous Monsieur Jurieu, who retiring into Holland, writ several Pastoral Letters to the Poor Persecuted Protestants in France for the strengthening and confirming them in the True Faith of Christ, and for reducing those who through fear of trouble and danger had seemingly reconciled themselves to the Romish Church, and were afterward termed New Converts. In one of these Letters Monsieur Jurieu gives a very surprising Relation of Songs and Voices which were heard in the Air, the year 1685. of which I shall give an account in his own words.  
The Historians of all Ages have been of opinion that the great Revolutions which have happened in the Societies of men have been preceded by the extraordinary Events, such as Earthquakes, Signs in Heaven, and Prodigies on Earth, of which I could give an infinite number of matters of Fact, very well attested, which have been Presages of Events little less considerable than those at present in the World; and though it seems to me that Earthquakes have their Natural Causes, and so have Famines Pestilences and Wars; nevertheless Jesus Christ puts these among those things which are to presage his coming; Not that I believe all Eclipses and all Earthqukes are Presages, but there are such circumstances of time and place and concomitant signs in some, that no man I think without rashness can deny but the providence of God doth dispense them to strike the minds of Men with astonishment, and make them attentive to his Judgements; and among other times this year 1685 has been as abundant in Prodigies as any for a long while; wherein we have heard of nothing but extraordinary Storms, Fires falling from Heaven, others coming out of the Earth, of Signs in the Air, and Infects of unknown shaps which have been believed to have fallen from Heaven; And particularly the Singing of Psalms and Voices in the Air.  
It is near a year since we first heard any Speech concerning it, and they told us that these Sing had been heard in Bearns, the first Province whether the Dragoons were sent. Behold our Witnesses, every one will judge of what worth they are Monsieure Magendy Pastor of the Church of Orthez having been questioned concerning this Affair has interrogated divers Persons, according as it appears by his Cirtificate.  
I do declare that Mosieure Bazin a younger Brother, and an Inhabitant of Orthez in Bearne hath told me, that walking with some of his Friends after midday near the City of Orthez, he heard voices which Sung Psalms; and as he imagined that it might be some Women that washed Linen, he ran to demand of them whither it was they that Sung; they told him no, and that they themselves had for a long time heard the same Singing of Psalms. This happened some Months before the Interdiction of our Church. The said Monsieur Bazin is a very honest man, very judicious, and of integrity; I add that Mademoisselle de Casenave of Orthez said to Persons worthy of credit, That being not able to believe that which was said concerning this Singing of Psalms, a Woman said to her, That if She had the curiosity to hear them Sing, She would call on her at her own House at a time convenient, which she did; for this Woman being at a eleven at night in the uttermost part of the City, with multitudes of other Persons, to hear these voices which Sung in the Air the Praises of God; having heard this singing of Psalms, She ran to Mademoiselle Casenave, who immediately gets out of her Bed, causes one of her Neighbours to rise; and they ran to that quarter of the City which was far removed from her House, where they found multitudes of Persons who were ravished with that pleasant melody which they heard in the Air; they themselves returned to their Houses with this great consolation to have heard those Psalms Sung in the Air which they could no more Sing in their Church, which had been interdicted for some months past: They added, That they seemed to hear them Sing after the same manner which they used to Sing in their Church, and after the Singing ceased, there was a Voice which spoke but after a manner inarticulate and confused, so that they could not distinguish what was said. This Gentlewoman is very well worthy of credit. Moreover I attest that an infinite number of Persons of Orthez do say, that they heard the Singing of Psalms, which they call the Singing of Angels; and that they exhorted each other in the day to be present in the night in certain places of the City to satisfy this Holy Curiosity, which was the reason that the Magistrates of Orthez published an Ordinance, whereby they forbade all Persons from going out of their Houses, or assembling themselves by night to hear these Voices; which filled this poor afflicted People with joy, and extraordinary consolation. This is that which has been told me concerning this Singing of Psalms, to which I find no difficulty to give a full consent because the Persons that have reported it are of great sincerity.  
Given at Amsterdam November 23. 1686. Signed Magendie, heretofore Minister of Orthez in Bearne.  
Monsieure Garsin another Minister of the said Church of Orthez, declares what follows.  
I whose Name is hereunder written, heretofore Pastor of the Reformed Church of Orthez in in Bearne, Do certify to all those whom it may concern, that my Brother-in-Law De Roux a Lawyer told me that between the hours of Eleven and Twelve at night, being on the backside of his House in the City of Orthez; he heard the Singing of Psalms above him, and then a little after he heard the same Singing come from a place at a greater distance; After which he was fully convinced of the truth of this Singing of Psalms so much discoursed of all the World over: Moreover he thought sometimes during the whole night when his Gout hindered him from sleeping, that he he heard the same Singing after a manner less distinct and unintelligible. I am informed by Monsieur Clarier a Lawyer of the same City of Orthez, that the Curate of the place and a certain Priest called Dusan, and Monsieur Lichigarai another Lawyer, as also a Brother of the Curate called Monsieure De la Roque sent to search out a certain Popish Damosel to know of her if it were true that she had said, that she had heard this Singing of Psalms, and that she told them, Yea. And having demanded of her how she knew it was the Singing of Psalms, she replied, That she had heard the same Singing in the Church of those of the Reformed Religion; And being asked how she came to hear Singing there, answered, She had been once there at Baptism: But that going to a certain Fountain she had often heard this Singing as she passed by the Church at the hours of Preaching and Prayer. After this Monsieur Clarier told me, that the Curate and others strictly forbade her to say any more that she had heard the said Singing of Psalms.  
Given at Amsterdam, Septemb. 23. 1689. Signed Garsin Minister.  
One Peter Mauperg of the said City of Orthez Signed the following Certificate.  
I whose Name is underwritten certify to all whom it may concern that in the year 1685. about the Months of August or September, I heard in the Air the Singing of Psalms, with different Voices and very melodious; and this at two several times; The first time before the House of Poye, where I was lying upon a Bank half asleep, I was awakened by this Singing of Psalms, which continued almost half an hour. Afterward I went into the House of Monsieur de Poye a Merchant-Draper, with whom I wrought in that Employment; Having told this to Mademoiselle du Poye and her Daughters, they were much offended at me, that I had not given them notice of it at the time I heard the same Singing: The second time I and many others about an hour after midnight, having gone on purpose to a place most high and raised in the City named the Posterle, I heard many Voices in the Air, sometimes on one side and sometimes on the other: Withdrawing myself a little I found Mademoiselle des Pagnon an eminent Merchant's Wife accompanied with many other Women of the Neighbourhood; I asked them from whence they came; They told me from the bank of the River Le Gaur, which passes by this City near the New Mill. I asked if they had heard the Singing of Psalms, they replied yea, and that it seemed to come from the place called Posterle. I told them I came from thence, and had heard those Voices in the Air which seemed to me to go from one side of the New Mill, and we all agreed that they were in the Air, and that they never had heard voices so pleasant and charming. My Father who had changed his Religion about two years before, accompanied with a Papist called Marshal Maresque, inquired of those Women the truth of it, they replied yes, and I heard it too said my Father, the Marshal added, That he had never heard better singing, Let men say what they will, for my part, said he, I am persuaded that it is a true singing of Psalms. They heard it in another place called De Part, near to Orthez. I also add that I heard a Prohibition published to all sorts of Persons, at the sound of a Trumpet by the Crier of the City called Mouleres, forbidding any to go out at night to hear the finging of Psalms, under the penalty of Imprisonment, In witness whereof I have Signed the present Certificate, as it was desired of me.  
Given Nou. 22. 1686. Signed Peter Mauperg of Orthez in Bearne aged 23 years.  
One Monsieur Bergerit hath declared under his Signet this which follows.  
About the Month of September last 1685. being in my Mother's House, she told me that the Evening before they had heard singing of Psalms in the Air. I believed nothing thereof, but went away to Bed because I was weary, this was about eight at night; about half an hour after, some of the Neighbours came to inquire whether I was so great a Fool to sing Psalms, considering the strict Prohibition against it, and at the same instant my Mother came to tell me that Psalms were sung in the Air. I awaking heard this singing, and thought it had been in the Garden belong to the House, I arose and went into the street Moncade at Orthez, where all the Neighbourhood were come together, and we heard the singing of Psalms repeated two or three several times.  
Signed Bergerit. 1686.  
John de la Bordette hath declared under his Signet that which follows.  
About September last 1685. being in my own house at Orthez, and having heard that Psalms were sung, I went into the street about eight in the Evening, and heard in the Air Voices which form a Vocal Music perfectly like the singing of Psalms, but was not able to distinguish what Psalm it was, and many Persons of the Neighbourhood were Witnesses of the same; Another time about ten as Night, I, with several other Persons heard the same singing among the Vines.  
Signed John de la Bordette.  
Madamoiselle Deformalagues hath declared under Signet in these words.  
I underwritten do declare in the presence of God, that being at Orthez in Bearn the place of my Habitation. I heard clearly at three several times in October 1685. this which follows. On a Friday in that month, about eight or nine at night, being in my Chamber, some Neighbours called me with earnestness saying that I must hasten to hear the Angels singing Psalms. I hastily went out of the house, and going to the street St. Gill I there found a great number of People who had run from all parts to hear this Heavenly Music; And at that instant my Ears were entertained with a melody so ravishing that I never heard any thing like it. I could very well discern it to be in the Air and Tune of our Psalms, which were sung admirably well, I heard many Persons say they could plainly and distinctly hear the first verse of the 42 Psalms,  

Like as the Hart doth breath and bray  
The Well Springs to obtain,  
So doth my Soul desire always  
With thee Lord to remain, etc.   
There were others that confirmed the same, and assured us moreover, that they had heard the whole Psalm sung.  

Less grief it is to be exiled  
From mine own House than thine.  
Oh! how I wish t'approach the place  
Where all thy Glories shine.  
This makes my sorrow to increase,  
And Tears become my Food,  
To hear my Foes reproach my Faith  
And say, Where's now thy God?  
Past joys renew my grief, to think  
How to thine House we came  
In Troops to Feast and Praises sing  
In Consort to thy name, etc.   
I confess I only heard a charming Music which represented a great number of Voices that agreed exceeding well, but I could not distinguish the words. There was one that raised his Voice above the rest, and made himself observed when the rest had done. After I had a long while heard this Melody with ravishment, I perceived that these Voices drew off, and abated by little and little till they were insensibly lost in the Air. The same Evening returning to my own House, and discoursing at the Gate with many of my Neighbours of the marvellous things we had heard, on a sudden the same Voices again saluted our Ears, and filled us with new delight for a quarter of an hour, and then withdrew as before. The Tuesday following in the Evening being with one of my Relations at the Door of my own House, we both heard a great number of Voices in the Air, which resou●●… 〈…〉, and made themselves heard with the greatest clearness; Upon which I ran hastily to a Popish Physician who lodged in my House, and was that year one of the Magistrates of Orthez, to invite him to hear this Divine Melody, who following me, pretended to hear nothing, though the night being calm and serene the singing sounded clearly. A while after the Voices reinforced themselves, whereupon I pressed him to tell me whether he heard them, It is true, said he aloud, I hear very lovely singing, I think I hear the voice of such and such a one, naming several Persons in Orthez that sung very well; I replied, Monsieur if men hold their peace the very Stones will speak; But he as if troubled at the confession he had made, complains, Alas I observe here a crafty Wile of the Devil, he causes these Voices to be heard in the Air to keep the World in Error, and hinder this poor People from Converting and Embracing the Catholic Faith. I asked him, whether he had ever heard the Devil sung the Praises of God; he smiled, and retired hastily to his lodgings; Nevertheless we bless God for his great goodness towards us in admonishing us of our duty by these heavenly voices, who melodiously sung those Holy Hymns that we were wont to sound forth in our Church, which was then laid waist and destroyed. I protest before God that these things are so as I have reported them, and I am very glad to make known these truths for the edification of all those that fear the Lord,  
In Testimony whereof I subscribe myself at Amsterdam, Sept. 4. 1686. V Deformalagnes.  
I shall next insert the Memorial of Monsieur de Brassalay, a Gentleman of Honour, and acknowledged such by all that know him. Some days before the Interdiction of the Churches of Bearn, there were many Persons that heard the singing of Psalms in the City of Orthez. The first that heard it was Lichagaray Brunier a Lawyer, revolted some years since, the most malignant of the Persecutors, and who continually stirred up troubles to those of the reformed Religion. He rose from his Bed to tell the Curate that there was an Assembly of People who sung Psalms without the City. He also went to a Sergeant named Gowlan to conduct him to the place where he thought to surprise them, but this Popish Sergeant having laid his Ear to the Window, said there was nothing to be done, for he plainly perceived the singing was in the Air. Afterward it was often heard for above a month by divers Persons, both by night and day, Among others M. Canneille an Elder of the Church of Orthez protested to me that sitting reading on the River's Bank about a mile from the City, he heard a great singing of Psalms on that side the Church stands, which is in the midst of the City, and not at all doubting but it was an ordinary Assembly met together to Evening Prayers, which was then very numerous because of the hazardous conjuncture, and consisted at the least of two or three thousand Souls, he hastened thither, and heard a great singing of Psalms all along till he was entered into the City, but finding the Doors shut, the Neighbours told him that it was not yet the hour of Prayer. It is to no purpose to allege that they sung in some Cavern or Cave, for there is nothing but Houses, Vineyards, Meadow and Fields thereabout, and the strict prohibition against the Protestants singing of Psalms, under very severe penalties, makes it highly improbable. Moreover this Elder told me that he never heard more lofty singing in the Church. This Monsieur Brassalay declared as a most certain truth in the presence of many honest men.  
After the Church of Orthez was razed to the Ground this singing ceased till about October following, and then was again heard by most of that City, and by many that came out of the Country to Market and stayed till night on purpose. It ordinarily happened about the same hour, between eight and nine at night, some heard the words others the Tune of the Psalm, and there is scarce a House in Orthez of which some of the Family hath not heard it. Monsieur Brunier aforementioned went one night with two or three others to the usually place without the City, and they all three heard the singing for a long time over their heads the Tune of the 138 Psalms, whereof they could hear distinctly these words.  

Toward thy Holy Temple I  
Will look and worship thee,  
And praised with my thankful voice  
Thy Holy name shall be.  
Even for thy loving kindness sake,  
And for thy Truth withal,  
For thou thy Name haste by thy Word  
Advanced over all.   
Dr. Faur a Physician and Magistrate of the City another Papist, heard it divers times, but their malice made them say they were Sorcerers and Devils. A young Damsel of Moncade heard this singing being in her Bed; She arose and caused above 50 persons to go out, who having heard it, fell on their Knees, and wept through the joy they conceived to hear such incomparable melody in the Air, which continued above half an hour. The place of this singing was raised above the City, even as a very high Mountain, and the People heard this singing over their heads, as if it had been in the Clouds. I have heard an honest man make this Relation, who poured out tears when he spoke of it. The same thing I heard from other places. To conclude it is impossible to doubt of a truth which the far greatest part of the Inhabitants of Orthez are able to certify. And to which the Parliament of Bearn have also given their Testimony by a Decree which forbids men to go hear these Psalms, or to say they have heard it on the forfeiture of 500 Crowns, and the Consuls of Orthez published these Ordinances in their City.  
The same thing hath happened in Cevennes. As this Country is full of Mountains where there are Echoes which multiply and return the voice, and as Night Assemblies have continually been made there, where they sing Psalms with aloud voice, therefore the relations of sing may seem the more doubtful. But the Affair of Orthez which is a Country close and without Mountains being well proved, I see no reason (saith Monsieur Juvieu) to question that of Cevennes, and shall therefore without scruple produce the Certificates which come from that Country.  
The first runs thus.  
I Certify that one of my Sisters wrote to me on Feb. 8. last, from a place called Collet in Cevennes where she than was, in these words. My dear Brother, you would be informed touching the singing of Psalms, which men have told you they hear in this Country, there is nothing more true. Monsieur the late Baron of Cedorve heard it two or three hours in the Night with his whole Family. I myself, and almost all the World in this Country have heard this Voice, but we have not been able to discern whether they were Psalms or no, It seems to us that it is a complaint, and even now at the hour I writ to you I hear and am sensible of it.  
La Roquette Minister of Manoblet in Cevennes. Given at Lausanna March 30. 1686.  
The second Ceatificate.  
I attest that Monsieur of the Dark Valley, a Gentleman of Cevennes, living near Sir John de Gardonengue writ to me Sept. 17. 1685. this which follows. We see strange things in all the places of the Cevennes, we hear singing of Psalms in the Night as if it were in the Church. Wednesday last I was lying alone in my Chamber, and about midnight I heard upon the Roof a voice very shrill which awoke me, and afterwards five or six other voices that assisted it, and they sung five or six verses of the fifth Psalm.  
O Lord unto my words give ear,  
My Meditation weigh,  
My King, my God, my crying hear  
For unto thee I pray.  
Thou wilt destroy them that are proud  
To utter Tales and Lies,  
God will abhor the Bloody one  
And such as fraud devise.  
But to thy House I will draw near  
In thine abundant Grace,  
And Worship in thy holy fear  
Toward thy holy place.  
Lord lead me in thy Righteousness▪  
Because of all my Foes,  
And thy straight paths, lest I transgress  
Before my face disclose.  
For in their mouth no truth appears,  
Their Heart with mischief throngs,  
Their Throats are open Sepulchers,  
They flatter with their Tongues.  
Destroy them Lord, destroy them all,  
Let them be overthrown  
And into just destruction fall  
By Counsels of their own.  
And let them be cast out and quelled  
For their excessive sin,  
For they have wickedly rebelled  
Against the Lord therein.  
But let O Lord all those rejoice  
That put their Trust in thee,  
Let them with shouts lift up their voice  
And ever joyful be.  
Let them likewise that love thy name,  
Which is their confidence,  
Be ever joyful in the same  
Since thou art their defence.  
For to the Righteous man no doubt  
Thou wilt thy blessing yield,  
And ever compass him about  
With favour as a shield.  
All those of the House heard it many times. The said Monsieur of the Dark Valley confirmed me in this belief by a second Letter Jan. 27. 1686. that this singing doth continue constantly. The said Monsieur adds, Now the beating of a Drum is heard, as if Soldiers were marching, and this is heard at midday in many places.  
Signed Barjune Minister of St. Marselle in Cevennes, now fled to Lausanna in Switzerland.  
The third Certificate.  
Toward the end of September last being with Monsieur d'Esperies a Gentleman of merit, who is of Vigan in Cevennes, and we flying to the Castle of a Gentleman of our friends, named M. the Montualian, we heard in the Air a considerable number of Drums. Five or six days after being with the same Gentleman at Ablataz in Cevennes, whither my Family was Fled for refuge; we heard in the Air a Holy Harmony, Singing the Holy ' Praises of God. This I certify to be true, forasmuch as I heard it.  
Signed Saligne de Marnis in Cevennes.  
The fourth Certificate is the Extracts of two Letters written to Lansunna to Mademoiselle Lovise des Vignoles, by her Cousin M. Jane des Vignoles. Dated Jan. 3. 1686. How happy are you my dear Cousin that you can Pray and Sing the Praises of God in Public, when in the mean time so many good Souls have their Souls stopped, and dare not discover what passes in their mind; But as to the Business of Singing the Praises of God, it is necessary that I speak to you of the Miracle which makes so much noise in this Country, which is that since the entire loss of our Churches and our Pastors, there has been heard in the Air Voices and Sounds of Instruments very melodious, and that which is most extraordinary is, that many Persons distinguish the Tunes of the Psalms; and I can assure you of the truth thereof, since I myself have distinguished more than thirty; It has been told me that my Brother (M. de Mont Vaillant) distinguishes them all perfectly well. Can you imagine that we hear these Voices Night and Day, and that we can so much as doubt that they are Troops of Angels which God sends to us for our consolation, to assure us that he hath not utterly forsaken us, and that our deliverance is at hand; God grant that we may make profit by these things. I had forgotten to tell you that the noise of a Drum is here heard so clearly that no Body can doubt thereof, no more then about the Singing of Psalms; for there are so many Persons of good understandings convinced thereof, that we ought to give up ourselves to the power of Truth. I do avow that the thing passes all imagination, but be assured that all care imaginable has been taken to prevent delusion.  
To conclude, saith my Author, how ought we distressed Protestants to give thanks to God that he approves our Worship by a sign so considerable? Let not our Enemies tell us that all this is nothing but delusion, for all Illusions come from the Father of Lies, and who hath the Praises of God in in horror and detestation; In short, behold this Event as a happy Presageope, God will not suffer our Voices nor our. Songs to die: The Angels have taken them up, and will shortly restore them that we ourselves made sound them forth in the Air: The time of our deliverance is at hand, and the Spirit of Life will return, when the Spirit of Repentance and Piety is reentered into our Souls.  
LX. In 1687. Octob. 20. The London Gazett gives a sad Relation of another Earthquake in the Kingdom of Peru in America, whereby the City of Lima was totally overthrown, and not one House left standing, burying many of the Inhabitants units ruins; At the same time Callao, Fanette, Pisco, Chancay, Los Florillos, etc. Most of them Seaport Towns were destroyed by an Inundation of the Sea, which carried several Ships above nine Miles into the Country; and great numbers of People and  were drowned, there being found when the water fell, at one place near the Seaside above five thousand People, dead, and every dry more were found; so that no account could be given of their number.  
LXI. In 1688. A dreadful Earthquake happened at Naples in Italy, which was attended with the rage and roar of Mount Vesuvius; of which the London Gazett gives likewise the followinwing Account in a Letter from that City; Dated June 8, On Saturday June, 5. about the twenty second hour happened here a terrible Earthquake, though it lasted not long, which frightening the Inhabitants out of their Houses with the terror of an inevitable destruction, they betook themselves to the Plazza's and open public places of the City. The old College of the Jesuits was ruined by it, also the great Chapel of their New College, together with three other Chapels adjoining, Three of the Fathers were killed there, besides manness hers whose numbers are not yet known: The Front of another great Church of the Jesuits opened in many cracks, and the great Tower or Steeple seemed ready to fall. In the Theatins Convent of the Holy Apostles, a whole Dormitory fell down, besides other considerable damage they received: And the magnificent Arch erected before the Church of St. Paul, belonging to the said Fathers fell, together with those great and ancient Columns that formerly made part of the Temple Castor and Pollux; there there remaining only four of them standing, and those in a tottering condition; Out of these ruins there have been already dug 19 Persons that were dead, and there was reason to fear that the mischief might have been much greater, it being so near to a public Market where there were great throngs of People. The Walls of the great Church of St. Dominick opened in many places; and great part of the Refectory fell down, as also part of adjoining Palace, where many were killed; several other Churches of Augustins, etc. were ruined; and in short there is scarce a Palace or House that has not received some considerable damage. This occasioned very devout Processions of Persons of all Ranks. The next day was another great Shock which threw down many of the Houses that were before the most weakened; and Yesterday there was another perceived, but without much damage; but this day we have felt nothing of it; However the Processions continue in great numbers, and the Persons of Quality are all retired from hence. In the Neighbourhood of Vdico, a City sixteen Miles distant from hence, a mountain opened, and a Courier from Benevento a City belonging to the Pope, brings an Account that it was all ruined, and that of Six thousand Inhabitants there were but few left alive; The Archbishops Palace there was thrown down, and the Archbishop himself drawn out of the ruins, being hurt in his Head and Arm. And there are Accounts of the like damages in several other places.  
In a Letter from Rome June 12. 1688. There was this further Account; We have had nothing considerable to entertain us here this Week but the sad Relations of the terrible Earthquakes at Naples, and several places about it. It happened at Naples on Sunday last about 21. hours and a half (which at the same instant was perceived by a great many here) On Sunday too it returned. Several Churches, Palaces, and Houses are ruined, among the rest the famous Church of the Jesuits, reckoned the finest in Italy, is all tumbled down, except the Walls and the High Altar. The particular number of those killed and buried in the ruins is not known. The last Letters say, many of the Inhabitants sie abroad under Tents, in Couches, etc. and continually Prayers, Processions, public Penances, etc. are performed; and every one runs about crying Miserecordia, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; Three Ships were Sunk in the Harbour, and the Water in the Wells risen many handfuls. Benevento is almost totally ruined and of ten thousand Inhabitants, they say there remains scarce six hundred alive. Cardinal Ursini their Archbishop was taken out of the Ruins alive, but hurt. Several other Places and Seats are quite ruined and most of the Inhabitants swallowed up. This City and the Country hereabout just felt the Shock but received no harm. The damage is said to be above fifty Millions.  
LXII. In the same year and Month, 1688. The London Gazett gave an Account of a dreadful Earthquake and Fire at Smyrna; In a Letter from an English Gentleman at Constantinople, Dated July 8. 1688. As followeth. On June thirty between 11. and 12. at Noon there happened at Smyrna a violent Earthquake, which in a Minute threw down many, and shattered all the Houses in that City; It reached all the adjacent Parts, and Motelone and Scio, where it did some small harm: and at the same time that day it was felt here, though the force of it being spent by the distance, it was not generally taken notice of. About four hours after the Earthquake, a Fire broke out in the Frank-Street from an House called the Genovese-House, which by the strength of the Wind, and in that Consternation, having no opposition soon consumed the Frank-Street and all the Town, except the Skirts and the Houses on the side of the Hill, which stand scattering and not contiguous. The most moderate computation of People destroyed is 5000. Some make it double the number, of which 400. Jews, and one of the most famous Chaccham Rabbis of the East, Aaron Aben Haim, who as he was much reverenced by them in his life, so particular lamentations are made here for his Death. The Metropolite of Smyrna with some Papa's, went to the Church to Prayers, and were killed by its falling on them. The Patriarch also of Alexandria had the same Fate. And many poor People were buried in the ruins before they could get help. Of the French Nation, only the Consul was killed. Of the Dutch one Merchant: And of the English three, and several others were bruised and hurt, but not dangerously. The Consul and half of the Nation, it being Saturday, were abroad, but perceiving the Earthquake came immediately to the City, and all went aboard their Ships in Port. In the interim betwixt the shock of the Earthquake, and the breaking out of the Fire, great quantities of Goods were saved. So that the English as to their loss in Merchandise have escaped much better than the Dutch, who had no Ships in Port. All the lower Warehouses in Viserchan are saved, but those above Stairs, either by Windows left open, or by the Fire getting in at the Clefts of the Walls suffered much and are most fallen. The Castle at St. Giacomo-Point is quite sunk under ground. A Capigee Bassa is sent from hence to Smyrna to look after the Grand Signors Interest in taking the Estates of those dead without Heirs, which will add affliction to affliction, but the public necessities here are great. And the Lord Ambassador of England has sent down an Officer, with command from the Grand Visier to be assisting perticulary to our. Nation in looking after their concerns.  
LXIII. In December following several Earthquakes happened about Naples and Beneventum, but without such unfortunate Accidents as attended them some months before. Nevertheless that accident being fresh in memory, it is not to be imagined in what a consternation the People were, and how they fell to their Prayers in several Churches. The Monks in those quarters made use of the opportunity to preach, That the end of the World was at hand, and for that reason endeavoured to a waken the People to give Alms. But in regard (saith my Author) that the People are not now to be imposed upon as formerly, when they used such ways to rear those costly Foundations that are scattered over all Europe, they resolved to keep what they had; not finding the Monks made better use of their Money than they themselves could do.  
I suppose it will not be deemed presumption to assert, that these dreadful shake of the Earth, did seem plainly to presage those Convulsions that happened soon after, and may presignify good as well as bad Events; Not only the happy Revolutions in these three Kingdoms, but also the horrid ruins, devastations, and miseries which the ambition and barbarity of the French King has occasioned lately in Christendom, and which do still continue.  
LXIV. Dismal was the Calamity and Judgement which befell the Inhabitants of the Island of Jamaica in the West-Indies upon Tuesday June 7. 1692. by a dreadful Earthquake. For about eleven a Clock in the morning the Earth suffered a great Trepidation, which in a minute's time was increased to that degree that several Houses began to rumble down, and in six or seven minutes or a quarter of an hour at the most, made terrible havoc and devastation. It threw down almost all the Houses, Churches, Sugar-works, Mills and Bridges through the whole Country. It tore the Rocks and Mountains, and threw them into the Sea, but Port Royal had much the greatest share in this astonishing Judgement of God. The Minister of that place relates, That the same Morning he had been at Prayers in the Church, which he never neglected, to keep up some show of Religion amongst a most ungodly, debauched People, and was gone to a place hard by the Church where the Merchants use to meet, and where the Precedent of the Council was, designing to dine with one Captain Ruden, but his House upon the first concussion sunk first into the Earth and then into the Sea, with his Wife and Family and some others that were come to dine with him, but the Minister staying some time with the Precedent, escaped the danger, yet soon after they found the ground rolling and moving under their feet; Lord Sir, says the Minister, What's this? He replied very composedly, being a sober grave man, It is an Earthquake, be not afraid it will soon be over, but it increased, and they heard the Church and Tower fall, upon which they ran to save themselves. The Minister quickly lost the Precedent and made toward Morgan's Fort, which being a wide open place he thought to be securest from falling Houses, but as he came near, he saw the Earth open and swallow up a multitude of People, and the Sea mounting in over the Fortifications; He then laid aside all thoughts of escaping, and resolved to make towards his own Lodgings, and there to meet death in as good a posture as he could, and in his way was forced to run through two or three very narrow streets, where the Houses and Walls fell on each side of him, and some Bricks came rolling over his Shoes, but none hurt him. When he came to his Lodgings he found all things safe, not a Picture, of which there were several fair ones in his Chamber, displaced. He went to the Balconey to view the street in which his House stood, and saw never an House down there, nor the Ground so much as cracked. The People seeing him there, cried out for him to come down and pray with them. When he came into the street every one laid hold on his  and embraced him, so that with their fear and kindness he was almost stifled. He persuaded them at last to kneel down and make a large ring, which they did, he prayed with them near an hour, when being almost spent with the heat and the exercise, they brought him a Chair, the Earth working all the while with new motions and tremble like the rolling of the Sea, insomuch that when he was at Prayer he could hardly keep himself upon his Knees. By that time he had been about half an hour with them, aggravating their sins and provocations, and feriously exhorting them to repentance, there came some Merchants of the place who desired him to go aboard some Ship in the Harbour & refresh himself having got a Boat to carry him off, so when he came to the Sea, he saw it had swallowed up the Wharf, with all those goodly brick Houses upon it, most of them as fine as those in Cheapside, and two entire Streets beyond that. He walked upon the tops of some houses that lay level with the surface of the Water, from whence he gotfirst into a Canoe, and then into a Longboat, which put him a Board a Ship called the Siam Merchant, where he found the Precedent safe, who was overjoyed to see him, they could not sleep that night for the returns of the Earthquake, almost every hour, which made all the Guns in the Ship jar and rattle. The next day he went from Ship to Ship to visit those that were bruised and dying, and to pray with them, and likewise to do the last Office at the sinking of several Corpse that came floating from the Point. The shake of the Earth still continued with Thunder and Lightning and foul Wether, and the People continued still as desperately wicked as before, for that very day this terrible Earthquake happened, as soon as night came on, a Company of lend Rogues called Privateers fell to breaking open Warehouses and Houses deserted. To rob and rifle their Neighbours whilst the Earth trembled under them, and some of the Houses fell on them in the Act, and those audacious Whores that remained upon the place were as impudent as ever. He went again ashore to pray with the bruised and dying people, and to Christian Children, where he met too many Drunk and Swearing, he did not spare them, nor the Magistrates neither, who had suffered wickedness to grow to such a height. In the last Sermon he preached in the Church, he plainly represented to them the danger of their impenitence and wickedness, with so much zeal and earnestness that many now confessed, It was more like a Prophecy than a Sermon. He says he had many times before, an impulse upon his Spirit to Preach those things which he never premeditated at home, and could not, he thought, do otherwise. The morning of this dreadful day was very fair and clear, affording no suspicion of the least evil, but in the space of three minutes about half an hour after eleven in the morning, Port-Royal the fairest Town of all the English Plantations the best Emporium and Mart of that part of the World, exceeding in its riches, plentiful of all good things, was shaken and shattered to pieces, and sunk into and covered for the greatest part by the Sea. Few of the Houses that stood were left whole. So that by their falling, the opening of the Earth, and the Inundation of the Waters, it is reckoned there were lost fifteen hundred Persons. The Sunday after, the Minister Preached to them in a Tent, not daring to venture among the shattered Houses, the People were overjoyed to see him among them, and wept bitterly when he Preached to them. It was a sad sight to see all that Harbour, one of the fairest and goodliest in America, covered with the dead bodies of People of all conditions, floating up and down without burial; for the great and famous Burial-place called the Pallisadoes, was destroyed by the Earthquake, and the Sea washed the Carcases of those that were buried out of their Graves, their Tombs being dashed to pieces by the Earthquake, of which there were hundreds in that place. Multitudes of Rich men were utterly ruined, whilst many that were poor, by watching opportunities and searching the wracked and sunk Houses, even almost while the Earthquake lasted, and terror and amazement was upon all the considerable People, have gotten great riches. From St. Ann's there was news that above a thousand Acres of Wood-land were turned into the Sea, and carried with it whole Plantations, but no place suffered like Port-Royal, where whole streets were swallowed up by the opening of the Earth, and the Houses and Inhabitants went down together. Some of them were driven up again by the Sea which arose in those breaches and wonderfully escaped. Some were swallowed up to the neck, and then the Earth shut upon them and squeezed them to death, and in that manner several were left buried, with their heads above ground, only some Heads the Dogs had eaten. Others were covered with dust and Earth by the remaining People to avoid the stench Great bellowing and noises were heard sometime after in the Mountains, which made them apprehensive of an Eruption of Fire; but thanks be to God, no ill Event hath yet succeeded.  
By a second Letter from another worthy Divine and a Minister of the parish of Vere in that Island, some Leagues from Port-Royal; we have this further Relation of that tremendous Judgement, Dated June 30. 1692. On Tuesday June 7. about 11. in the morning it pleased the Just God to visit us with a terrible Earthquake, which continued with much violence and terror for about a quarter of an hour, as most say, but in my opinion not above 6. or 7. minutes, in which time it overthrew all the Brick and Stone Buildings in the Country, whereof several in my own Parish, which now are either leveled with the ground, or standing Monuments of the wrath of God, so shattered and torn that they are irreparable; while these were tumbling, the Earth opened in my Parish in multitudes of places, and though their dire Chasms spewed out Water to a considerable height above ground, in such quantities in some places that it made our Gullies run on a sudden, though before exceeding dry, insomuch that some were afraid of being overwhelmed at once by the River and Sea joining together to swallow up the Country; these gaping mouths being no less than 12, 20. or more foot deep under the Earth, and above two miles up in the Country, especially nigh the River in the purest mould, which had not Clay nor other consolidating Matter beneath to oppose the force of the Fountains of the Deep breaking up: for where that was, we do not find any cracks of the Earth at all: And yet it pleased God that we in this Parish have escaped the danger much better than our Neighbour Parishes; for happening to content ourselves with mean and low-built Houses, generally of Timber and Boarded, or with Cratches set deep in the ground and plastered, such Houses are generally standing. So that we have means to assist one another, whilst in other parts hundreds of Souls are cast out of their dwellings, and have not a place to hid their Heads in, except in Booths and Tents which they have since built to shade themselves from the Sun. Our noted Town of St. John de la Vega: Or, The Spanish Town is utterly down to the ground, and its Church devoured in the same Ruins; Our Magazine and only Store-House of Port-Royal is three parts swallowed up in the Sea, Ships and Shallops now riding at Anchor where great numbers of fine Fabrics stood not long since. Many eminent Merchant's worth thousands, have scarce any thing left but the blue Linen on their backs; several are dead, either overwhelmed with their Houses, or drowned in the Sea, which flowed in suddenly upon them. For while they fled from the Sea, the Earth devoured them in her gaping Jaws, or they were killed with the falling Houses; and while they fled from the gaping Chasms of the Earth, or the tottering buildings, the Sea met and swept them away. A whole Street called the Wharf, (where most of the noted Merchants lived, and where much of the Planters goods were landed, for convenience of Sale and Shipping; particularly Sugar and Cotten) sunk at once from one end to the other with a general crack at the very beginning of the Ear thquake, together with two Forts Guns, etc. thereon; and all that were upon or nigh it perished in an instant without warning: and soon after while the People were in the greatest horror and consternation imaginable, not knowing whither to fly for safety, two or three more Streets in their whole length rottered and fell, and were immediately funk, ground and all together deep into the Sea, as far as the Jews Street; All the Upper part of the Town, with the Church, and all above the Pallisadoes is under Water, even the very Pallisadoes itself where their burying place was, is now no longer Earth but Sea; and the dead Corpse floated from thence to all parts of the Harbour. The Houses that yet remain are many of them so rend and torn, and others so deeply sunk into the Water, even up to their Balconies, that they are unserviceable. The Wall at the Pallisadoes is utterly ruined, with the Port thereto belonging; and though Morgan's Line, and Walkers Fort yet stand, they are sorely shaken and rend, and so sunk they are not tenable, the whole place that is yet above Water sinking daily by those Earthquakes we have ever since had; sometimes 4, 5, 6. times, more or less in 24. hours. I myself while I am now writing, expecting when the Earth will tremble under me, though in other parts of the Country through God's mercies we do not hear of any further damage since the first. The reputed number of the Dead, (for perhaps there will never be an exact Account) is reckoned about 1500 persons, besides Negroes, who are thought to be 6. or 700 more, a multitude of whose Black Corpse floated many days from one side of the Harbour to the other, which caused such an intolerable stench that the dead were like to destroy the Living; till at last some were sunk, and others dispersed by the Sea-breeze.  
immediately upon the Cessation of the Earthquake, your heart would abhor to hear of the robberies and Violences committed in an instant upon the place, by the vilest and basest of the People. No man could call any thing his own, for they that were strongest and most wicked seized what and whose they pleased without regard to the Owners, Gold and Silver, Jewels, Plate or Goods was all their own if they could lay hands on them. Nothing but breaking open Houses, rushing into Shops, and taking from the owners what they pleased even before their faces; Yea Robbing them of Money and goods in the open Street, as they were carrying them to other places for security: whilst others in Canoes, Wherries, Shipboats, etc. were plundering Chests, Boxes, Scriptores, etc. of what they could find in them upon the Water: Even the very Slaves thinking it their time of Liberty, committed many barbarous Insolences and robberies, till they were suppressed by the Death of some and punishment of others. And indeed our first fears were concerning our Blacks, those irreconciliable and yet intestine Enemies of ours, who are no otherwise our Subjects than as the whip makes them, who seeing our strongest Houses demolished, our Army broken, and hearing of the destruction of our greatest dependency the Town of Port-Royal, might in hopes of Liberty be stirred up to rise in Rebellion against us; which is a War always the more terrible, by how much there is no quarter given in it, but they kill and slay all the Whites, Men, Women and Children that they can Conquer; But God be praised those fears are now blown over. Many days did these Depredations last, especially upon the Water, where the dead were Robbed of what they had about them, some stripped, others searched, their Pockets picked, their Fingers cut off for their Rings, their Gold Buttons taken out of their shirts, and then they were turned adrift again. From thence was taken all manner of stores that would swim, every one taking that for his own which he could lay his hands on, as Pork, Beef, Mackril, Saltfish, Coaca, Candle, Soap, Wine, Beer, Brandy, and a vast deal of other things, not to be thought of, or reckoned up. So that the richest became poorest, and the meanest of the people were enriched by the losses of others, to estimate which seems as difficult as to reckon the number of the People lost, and destroyed.  
Port-Royal in its flourishing condition was a famous Empory and Mart Town for the West Indle's and the Archinto being settled there, a very large share of the riches of Mexico and Peru were brought thither, and vast sums of Coin and Bullion yearly transported for England, to the great enriching of the Jamaican Merchants and Factors, so that it was hard to compare what was lost, but many think, at least, the value of four hundred Thousand Pound at port-royal only; Yet in the midst of this woeful Calamity, some People were miracolously preserved from Death, being swallowed down into the Bowels of the Earth alive, yet spewed up again and saved by the violent Eruption of Water through those Gaps, Others, as themselves affirm, (if they were then capable of knowing what was done to them,) were swallowed up in one place, and by the rushing of the Waters to and fro, by reason of the Agitartion of the Earth at that time; were cast up again by another Chasm at places far distant. But the general means of Preservation was by People's flying as fast as they could toward the back Sea side, or speedily getting aboard the Ships in the Harbour, which were croudded with Men, Women and Children: Among others a Man of War, the Swallow then in Harbour was so damaged by the fall of the Houses that she became utterly unserviceable, and Twelve Shallops were sunk by the same means.  
Likewise Ligania, the first and principal Town for Planting, and imitating if not exceeding, the stately Buildings of Port-Royal, is now brought to most terrible Desolation, and its fine New Built and yet Unfinished Church buried in the same ruin with the Houses. Above which place the Costly Blue Mountains lift up their heads, but are now so rend and torn, that they are fearful to behold and stand like lasting marks of Divine Wrath; which hath also happened in other parts of the Country which is very Hilly in the middle, so that by the fall of a Mountain into the Channel of the River which supplies both this Town and Port-Royal, with Water, the River became dry for sixteen hours together, to the terror of the Inhabitants, fearing the Desertion as well as Desolation of the place, till it afterwards Run again as formerly, and they were informed of the cause of the Stoppage of the Water for so long a time.  
This, among other reasons, was the Cause why the People that were saved at Port-Poyal were almost perished for Thirst in their deep Extremity; their own Water-casks being either ruined or swum away into the Sea, and no Boats to fetch any in that Dismal Consternation, or otherwise employed to save People's Lives, or to get Plunder. Or if any did go, there was no Water to be had; so that it was hard to be gotten and very dear, many paying great rates only to quench their Thirst. And yet for all these Woeful Disasters, great Numbers of People are not all Reformed of their Wickedness which brought them upon us, but there is the same Whoring and Drinking, the same Cursing and Swearing, if not worse, than formerly; So that we have cause to fear the Judgement of Sodom may be our next punishment.  
In the midst of our Distress it pleased God to give us a Signal Victory over our Enemies the French, who happened at that time to make the Sharpest Attack upon us since the War, having Landed, as we hear, Two Hundred men on the North side of the Island, which is but weakly furnished with men, where they entrenched themselves, but were shamefully beaten out by a Vigorous Attack in the Night by a Party of about Thirty Men, who Slew Seven or Eight outright, and the rest flying to their Boats, Thirty of them were drowned; While in the mean time our Fleet, which was set out on purpose, pursuing theirs, we took one Shallop, and made them desperately blow up their great Ship; such as were saved remaining our Prisoners, and others fled home to give an Account of their overthrow.  
To conclude, God in his Displeasure remembered Mercy, for though such Numbers perished at Port-Royal, where they were thronged together in an Isthmus of Land; yet I cannot hear of fifty Persons both Whites and Blacks that were lost beside throughout all the Island.  
Other Letters add these particulars; That this terrible Earthquake came from the North, and attacked Port-Royal on the Harbour side, on which was the Wharf the whole length of the place, where stood the King's House, a Bastion of 207. Guns, Carlisle Battery of 119. Guns, and the Houses of the greatest Merchants; All those Sunk down in a moment from three to five fathom of Water. Some were sunk in their Houses, others buried in the Rubbish, some who were got into clear Water and could Swim were carried away with drifts of Timber and tops of Houses, driven by a steering career and there perished. Nothing else was seen but the Dead and Dying, nothing heard but Shrieks and Cries, the Living were covered with Wounds, Bruises and Blood; The Thunder Roared over their Heads, the Earth Trembled under their Feet, the Rocks and Mountains were rend in sunder, and Fireballs fell by day and night from Heaven, so that the most hardened Atheists might have considered that there was a God who Governed the World. In short (says my Author) it is impossible for Tongue to speak or Pen to write the Sorrows and Terrors of that day, of which I myself, who escaped to a Miracle, was an Eye-witness.  
Because some may be desirous to know the Names of those that perished in this terrible Calamity, I thought fit to give an Account of them who were of most note (though doubtless great numbers were lost of which no public notice has been given.) Attorney General Musgrove, Provost Marshal Reeves, Captain Ruden who with his Wife and Family, with several others in it sunk first into the Earth, Captain Agar, Dr. Boy, Capt. Wail, Capt. Warder and his Family; Mr. Nushall and his Family, Mr. Crosts Family, Mr. Alcoks Family, Capt Wilison and his Son, Dr. Trapham a Physician by hanging by hands upon the Rack of a Chimney, and one of his Children hanging about his Neck, were both miraculously saved in a Boat, but his Wife with the rest of his Children and Family were all lost; so was Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Gifford, Mrs. Enllers Mr. Firm, Mr. Brown, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Reeves and his wife, Mr. Pryer, Mr. Lambspert. Mr. Atwell, Mrs. Radburn and her Family, Mr. Rivers and his Family, Mrs. Eeylin and her Child, Mrs. Elizabeth Beckford, Sir James Cos●ybyes Daughter, Mrs. Dowingtons' Child, Capt. Cunnings Capt. Tokely, Capt. Martin, Capt. Woody, Mr. Nash, Mr. Meres, Mr. George Philip's, Mr. Norbery's Wife, Mr. Jonanathan Wood, Mrs. Corbet, Colonel Read, Colonel Reeves' Lady, Mr. Magirah, Mr. Joys Child, Mr. Diggins. Cap. Watson, Mr. Stockton and Family, Mr. Ralph Knights Widow and Niece, Mrs. Sweeting, Mrs. Susanna Cdrson, Mr. Keene, Mr. Hellinwood and Family, Mr. John Lake and Wife, Mr. John Perks Wife and Child, Mr. Hayward and Family, Mr. Dean, Mr. William Turner, Mr. Watts and Mr. Beckfords' two Daughters.  
LXV. In the same year 1692. Sept. 8. an Earthquake was felt in London, and in several parts of Essex, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, etc. as Sheerness, Sandwick, Deal, Maidstone, Porismouth, etc. the People leaving their houses in many places lest they should fall on their heads, but it lasted only a minute. It shook Leeds Castle in Yorkshire so violently that all in the Castle, even the Lady herself went out of it, and expected its falling. A Person being in the Field hard by, the ground shook so under him that he could not stand, and being forced to lie down on the Ground was so tossed up and down, that he received several bruises. At Maidstone in Kent the people generally got out of their houses fearing they would fall. It happened at London about four minutes past two, and was felt in most part of the Durch and Spanish Netherlands, as also in Germany, France, etc. The account from Holland runs thus. On Sept. 8. between two or three a Clock in the Afternoon all Holland was sensible of a trembling of the Earth which lasted about three minutes. The shog, or joiting, which it caused three times one after another, was not violent, for it did no damage, but it was plainly perceptible and very much alarmed the People: At Middleburg in Zealand it continued for some time, and caused the Earth to move so much, that the people was forced to hold by what was next in the Street, and it was feared that the Steeple of the great Church by its motions, would have fallen, it causing the Bells both there and at the Hague to jahgle, and the Ships at Sea were sensible of it.  
The Gazaet relates, that our Gracious Sovereign King Willium being encamped at Grammen in Flanders at the same time there happened an Earthquake which lasted near a minute, and was very sensible to the whole Camp. The King was then at Dinner in an old decayed House, which shaking very much, and every one apprehending it was ready to fall, His Majesty was prevailed with to rise from Table to go out of the House but the surprise was soon over.  
An ingenious Gentleman has made observation that this Earthquake affected places most on the Seacosts, and near great Rivers, which seems to favour the opinion of another learned Person, That Water and not Wind is the cause of Earthquakes, which the Ancient Philosophers did also assert. And therefore saith he, the excessive Rains which fell that Summer, in far greater quantity than what the Earth could possibly receive, being shut up in the hollow Caverns and Bowels of the Earth, and striving to get out again, may have caused these Universal shivering Fits in our European parts: and there is this Argument to corroborate this Conjecture, for that very great Earthquakes indeed, are many times attended with violent Inundations, the Rivers being swelled with the Water which the Earth has let out. Another odd accident that followed this Earthquake was the effect it had upon the Spa Waters in Germany, which are so famous and so wholesome, and are now become much more improved since that happened. Spa is a Burrow in the Country of Liege, where there are several Mineral Fountains, to which a great number of people resort at all seasons of the Year. Among all the Springs belonging to that noted Burrough, that in the middle out of which the Bottles are filled that are sent over all Europe every year, is changed after a very extraordinary manner. The source of it is as big again as it was, and the Water which before was seldom clear is become extremely Limpid, and is of that strength that the Bottles if they be stopped immediately after they are hiled, break all in pieces, which never happened till since this late Earthquake. The rest of the Springs are also become much clearer and better. This will be a subject for those to exercise their Pens, who make it their business to dive into the secrets of Nature.  
This Earthquake went not beyond 52 Degrees and 40 Minutes of Northern Latitude. How far it reached South and East is not yet certainly known. It has been traced beyond, Paris to the 48 degree of North Latitude, and beyond the Rhyne on the East to Franckfort, so that 260 Miles square were shaken by it. The time of its happening here, and beyond the Seat seem to vary some minutes, but that may easily be accounted for, by the difference of Meridian's. So that the inflamed Damp; saith Mr. Ray, which caused this Earthquake was lodged sleep in the Earth, the Caverns that contained it passing under the bottom of the Sea.  
The same year, 1692. Oct. 15. about three a Clock in the Morning they felt an Earthquake at Bale and Schaffouse in Switzerland, which was very violent as to the motion, but did no harm at all.  
LXVI. I have already given an Account of divers Earthquakes and Eruptions of the dreadful Burning Mount Aetna in Sicily for many years past, but that which lately happened in this unfortunate Island is of so astonishing a Nature that it may be more easily imagined than expressed, and which can hardly be paralleled in any former Age; Both for the suddenness of it, and the mighry defolations it did produce? This tremendous Eauthquake (a greater than which we read not of either in Ancient or modern History) Was upon Jan. 7. 1692, At which time about ten at night, Mount Aetna began to roar in a most horrible manner, which usually presages some dismal Calamity to ensue. It's loud bellow continued for two days. and then began to cease and fall lower; and about an hour after the People of Catania. which was nearest to the Mountain felt a trembling under them for near three Minutes, during which no noise was heard from Mount Aetna, so that it only affrighted the Inhabitants: but within a Minute after the Roaring of the Mountain was redoubled with infinite terror, and the top thereof appeared all in Flames, and the West Wind carried away a great quantity of  Ashes; This trembling of the 9th. was felt in the Cities of Mineo, Palaonia, Ragosa, Licodia and most of the South parts of Sicily at the same instant with that of Catania. But the most tremendous shake of all happened on Jan. 11. which affected the whole Island in a more or less degree, even from Messina North, to Cape Coio the farthest Southern point of Sicily; and though it continued but Six Minutes, yet made horrible Ravage throughout the whole Country. Under which dimal Calamity the Ancient City of Catania, pleasantly Seated, and full of Inhabitants of Quality, with an University, and about 24000. People, in a Minute was sunk out of sight, with a noise as loud as if thousands of Cannons had been discharged at once; and some Moment's after, to the East where the City stood, a little Mountain, advanced itself several times a considerable height above the surface of the adjacent ground, but soon after became likewise iuvisible. The dismal bellowing of Mount Aetna was louder both before and after, and appeared more than ever in Flames; Yet a few Minutes after Catania was swallowed up, there was neither Flames visible, nor for five or six hours any Roar to be heard. After which it began to rage and throw out more Black and Smoky Flashes than at any time before. These particulars were observed by some Fishermen who happened at that time to be in their Boats in the Bay to the South, and within three Miles of the City, who expected every moment to have been swallowed up by the wonderful Agitation of the Waves; But upon the sinking of the imaginary Mountain aforementioned the Sea became instantly Calm; It is computed that not above 2000 of the Inhabitants of this City escaped, and those of the Gentry, who by the shake of the 9th. instant, and the hideous roaring of Mount Aetna the 11th. in the morning, which is the usual presage of some dismal Tragedy were frighted away; all the rest of the People perishing in this lamentable ruin. In the place where Catania stood some heaps of rubbish and a great Lake of Water appear at a distance.  
Some Letters add, That just as the Earthquake in Catania began to be perceived, the Sea retired about two Miles from the Shoar; which put the People into such a terrible fright, that every one betook himself to what he thought might best secure him from this dreadful Scourge of Heaven; Away they flew to the Cathedral where one of the Cannous carried about the Relics of St Agatha the Patroness of that City, but neither the Relics nor the Prayers of the Patroness could prevent the impending stroke, for the whole City was destroyed in a moment after, and all the People therein.  
Under the same dismal Calamity fell the Ancient City of Syracuse, so famous in History that it was formerly reckoned one of the greatest in the World; having for many Centuries been the Metropolis of a Renowned Republic, and still retained some marks of its prestine Grandeur, seated in a Rich and pleasant Soil, with a strong Castle, and about 16000 Inhabitants. By the Earthquake of the 9th. many principal Houses and most part of the Castle were torn in divers places, and the next night it was again shaken with so terrible a storm of Wind, that the great Bell in one of the Churches made a noise by the violent Motion of the Steeple. Many were killed by the Tempest, and the rest fled out of the City for safety in the Night, and so escaped the horrible devastation of the 11th, wherein two thirds of the buildings were thrown down, and above 7000. People buried in the Rubbish; a great number were digged out of the Ruins, but so bruised that there was little hope of their Recovery. The Chief Magistrates and People of Condition fled for security into the great Church, but there met with Death by the fall of the Stone-Roof and Steeple at once.  
Neither did Noto though built upon a very high Bock, almost inaccessible on all sides but one narrow way, and a City which formerly contended with Syracuse for dignity, partake of a less dismal fate. It has one of the largest and best Harbours in Sicily, and is the Key of the Country on that side; and though the hardness of the Rock whereon it stood seemed to secure it, yet the trembling of the 9th did very much affect it, and on the 11th laid it in heaps in a minute, all the Inhabitants, except some few who fled from thence on the 9th were buried under the ruins of their own Houses, being reckoned about 7000. a part of a Church, and very little more, remaining standing in the whole Town Augusta, a City in a Peni-insula, on the East of Sicily, with a large prospect to the Sea, safe Harbours and considerable Trade, was much damaged on the 9th instant and about 600 People killed by the downfall of the Houses. The next day the shake was renewed, which caused most of the Gentry to fly to the Castle for security, but there being terrible Lightning, a Magazine of Powder took Fire and about 1100 Persons who sought for safety were slain there in the destruction of the Castle which was blown up in the Air, and the following day the rest of the Town and the remaining Inhabitants by another dreadful shake, were utterly destroyed and buried in rubbish, so that of 6000 People none were left alive. Lentini the ancient Lecotium, a Town of about 3000 Families was burnt to the ground on the 11th and nothing to be seen but several great heaps of Earth in the beautiful Lake upon which it stood, the Water whereof is now become brackish, and of a bituminous taste, which was before very clear. And great quantity of Fish are found dead on the shore. Calatgirmie a Town well built of Freestone, by the shake on the 11th had a fifth part of the buildings and two Monasteries demolished, but of 7000 People 5000 made their escape. Mineo was stricken both the 9th and 11th, of the former the Heavens were sealene without the least Cloud, but on the latter there was a terrible storm of Lightning and Thounder for six hours together. At both times several houses and a large Church were overthrown, and it was judged about 4000 People perished. The shake of the 11th did likewise greatly shatter the Cathedral Church of Monreal, one of the most famous structures in the World. The Dome above the high Altar falling, ●●●…ied in pieces four curious Brass Pillars, and many Images of Saints of rare workmanship. Part of the Archbishop's Palace was burnt with Lightning, and some few of the Inhabitants were killed by the fall of Houses. Parermo, where the Viceroy of Sicily keeps his Court, received some damage in its Cathedral, and another Church was ruined, which obliged the Viceroy, his Family, and the Archbishop to go aboard the Galleys in the Harbour, where they expected death every moment from the violent motion of the Waves, some part of the great Mole being shattered, yet not above 100 People were killed in this famous City, who lived in a Suburb built of Wood The Town of Pasceni of about 200 Inhabitants was so entirely ruined, that not one house or person was saved. The spacious Valley adjoining, which was formerly full of excellent Vines being turned into a new Lake, whose Water is brackish and like Brimstone. In Patuzolo a place of about 1000 people all were swallowed up. Furla another Town of about the same number of Souls, had the like fate, and the Rocks adjacent which formerly were white as Marble, are now black and as if burn with Fire and Gunpowder, and the Fountains of fair Water are become muddy and taste of Brimstone. Sciorti a bigger Town than the three last, was totally demolished and the Inhabitants which were reckoned about 2000 so utterly destroyed that none were left to tell the news. No more than there were at Militello, where of 6000 People no one is left to give tidings how or when its calamity happened The Country People who dwell in the Mountains about it affirm that for three days before they could not discern the Town by reason of a thick Fog which surrounded it, but that on the 11th in the morning it was no more to be seen. A great part of the Mountain on the North side is torn asunder, and the one half overwhelmed the Town, leaving a deep Gulf betwixt that and the other part of the Mountain.  
Luechela had better fortune for of 2000 near half escaped, having happily had warning by some former shakes, and by the Earth's swallowing up an old Castle which stood on a rising ground two miles from thence, in a minute's time, no sign of its station remaining, but instead thereof a vast quantity of Waters issued out, which in a little time made a large Lake. Upon sight whereof half the Inhabitants of this Town fled from thence, and the rest with all the buildings were utterly destroyed. Palonia another small Town received much damage by the fall of a Church one of the beautifullest in Sicily, which was shattered to pieces on the 11th, and the Dome falling crushed to Death 300 Persons and the Priest that was saying Mass, most of the remaining Inhabitants got into the Fields, and many other Houses did not fall, so that the loss was not so great as in other places. Buchino another large Village also, escaped without much slaughter of People, though most of the Houses fell, at Seodia a Village about the same bigness 150 people were killed by the fall of the Church, and the buildings much shaken. Likewise a Lake about a mile thence, which was two miles about, and very deep was on the 11th wholly swallowed up by the opening of the Earth in the middle of it, and the Channel left dry Land, which still continues. Chirramonte another Village, was utterly overthrown and 3 or 400 hundred of the Inhabitants buried in the ruins. Monterusso was shaken, but 200 people flying to the Castle for security were with that buried in the ground, and a Pool of faltish Water arose in the place. Vizzini a fine Town built on the side of a Hill of the hardest stones like marble which seemed to ensure it from such accidents, yet felt some shakes on the 9th, which affrighted the Chief Inhabitants, so that they lived in Tents in the Fields, but hearing no more the next day, they returned home on the 11th in the morning and in a few hours the Town and themselves consisting of about 3500 Souls, were swallowed up in the Earth. Modica a large Village was the only place that was utterly ruined by the shake of the 9th, and that so very suddenly that of about 1400 People not one was left alive. A River about two miles from thence was overwhelmed by the fall of a Mountain, but afterwards found a new passage underneath it, as hath likewise happened to divers other Rivers in Sicily, the Earth being thrown over them like a Bridge or Vault. Bisenti another Village lost 200 Persons and some few houses were snaken down. A little Town called Francofome built most of Timber, though not much damaged by the Earthquakes, yet a dreadful storm of Thunder and Lightning for three days together burnt down the spire of the Church Steeple, which was of Wood covered with Lead. The Nunnery of the Carmelites was almost ruined, so suddenly that five Nuns were smothered in Bed. But not above 12 or 14 Houses more burnt.  
The Town of Carlontoni was shaken on the 9th, and some Houses and People were destroyed, which so alarmed the Bishop and Magistrates that they persuaded the Inhabitants to go into the Fields; About four a Clock next day most of them with the best things they could carry away deserted the Town, and the Morning after the whole Town was overturned in a momens, and of 4000 People not above 800. were killed, by reason of their happy removal. Ragusa a renowned City for Situation, Buildings and all other Humane Delights, had a great share in this common Calamity. On Jan. 8. it had several shakes with a terrible storm of Thunder and Lightning, but on the 11th. the Town House, a stately Building with, two Churches and divers Houses were destroyed; One of the best Streets in the Town, inhabited by Rich Merchants and Tradesmen, sunk into the Earth in a moment leaving a mighty Chasma or Gaping in the place; One of the Churches sunk also, but the other fell down, the modestest Calculations reckon eight thousand People slain, most of them of principal Quality. Within this Gap the tops of some Houses are visible, from whence proceeds a Noxious Sulphury smell. In Scodia only the Bishop's Palace, newly built was overturned and 24. Persons were buried in the Rubbish, the Bishop himself being absent, the rest of the Town escaping. Specasurno another considerable Town was shaken the 9th, whereby the Convent of the Capuchint was destroyed. All the next day so horrible a storm of Thunder and Lightning happened as is not to be expressed or imagined, whereby the Town-House a very fine structure, and some other Buildings were ruined; which frighted a few of the Inhabitants into the Flields, but the next morning in one Minute the whole Town was laid in vast heaps of Rubbish, and the Freshwater Lake a Mile off was made almost dry Land, the remaining Water being Black and Brackish, the Fish wherewith it abounded lying all dead on the Shoar; The Inhabitants that perished were accounted at least 3500. and about 300 saved themselves by going away the day before. The Town of Scichilo suffered 20. shakes successively on the 8th, each greater than the other; and on the 11th. in less than two Minutes was wholly brought to desolation, and vanished out of sight, a stinking Pool of Water succeeding, wherein the Cathedral of St. Stephen and part of St. Salvator Steeple appears above Water. It was judged to contain about six or seven Thousand People of which, it is thought not one made their escape; An old strong Castle at the East-side of the Town likewise fell, and thirty People perished therein. At Cafamero a Village of 200. Houses the People were so affrighted at the shake three days before successively, that on the 11th, most of them fled to the Church to beg the assistance of St. Katherine of Sienna in a Chapel held venerable among them, but there they met with death altogether, the Roof of Lead falling and crushing 200, of them in the Church, and about 20. more were killed in the Village. In Cafamero only the Timber Houses suffered and about an hundred Inhabitants were destroyed, the rest flying into the Fields. In the little Town of Giamontano about 400. Persons perished in that Quarter of the Town next the River, the other part escaped. In the Tower of Livodia, all the Timber Houses and three hundred of the Inhabitants were destroyed, the Cathedral was burnt down by Lightning, and likewise the famous Pine-Trees on an Hill near ajoyning. The large Town of Ja●● was so shaken that by the fall of Houses and two Churches in the time of Mass above 2000 People perished. The Village of La Motta famous for the Summer Houses of the Citizens of Palermo, was wholly overthrown, a pond of water now filling up the the place and about 200 People were thought to be lost. Lastly M●ssina a great and famous City for Buildings Trade and Riches, was so sensibly shaken on the 9th. that above half the Inhabitants abandoned it, and retired into the Fields; The rest employed themselves in Prayers and Vows, and the Churches were filled with multitudes of all Ages; Forty Eight hours Prayers were Ordered, and many Relics were carried in Procession through the Streets. On the 11th. Twenty Six Palaces, and many Timber Houses were overturned, and the whole City so fearfully shaken that every one expected present Death, and the Archbishop and the other Priests having given the People Absolution they all endeavoured to avoid the present peril by flying into the Fields where yet they suffered much by the horrible Thunder, Lightning and Rain which continued three days together, so that they were obliged to set up Tents for security; So that few were killed, but most of the Churches much damaged.  
Neither was there security from this terrible Visitation of God, even upon the Water, several small Ships and vessels being cast away all along the Coast by the fury of the Waves; the Tides being three foot higher in most parts than was ever known before. The damage and loss in this terrible sudden and surprising Desolation in Money, Goods, Houses and Lands is unaccountable; The least that has been computed amounts to the value of six Millions of Ducats, and an 100 years will scarce repair the damage: But the greatest loss was of People, of whom there perished by this dreadful Judgement at least an Hundred and Twenty Thousand Souls, besides a multitude maimed and wounded by the fall of buildings which died afterward, and may be reckoned Twenty Thousand more.  
In short amore Astonishing, a more Universal and more Swift Destruction was never known; And Sicily that was one of the most Beautiful, Rich and Fruitful Islands in the World, is now an heap of Rubbish, and a continued Desolation.  
LXVII. I have before menrioned some of the Natural Causes of Earthquakes, and the Philosophers of Italy are apt to assign the Causes of this astonishing Calamity to proceed from the unseasonable Summer preceding, and that the many great Rains and Heats which often succeeded each other in Sicily the last year might occasion great store of vapours to enter into the Bowels of the Earth, which afterward dilating themselves for want of room forced their way into the Air with the destruction of all that opposed them. But these are only the guesses of  Men, for the hand of Heaven seemed visible in this terrible Devastation; And as I have before related some of the Presages that usually preceded such sweeping Judgements; so the Prognostics which ushered in this horrible desolation, and of which there were a Multitude of Witnesses; may be judged intimations, and Effects of the Divine Vengeance these following being very remarkable; That in June the Summer before Mount Aetna's Roar and Noise was extraordinary dreadful, which is always reckoned the forerunner of some Irruption, either of the Mount itself or some part thereabout; And May 15. preceeeding, two hours before Sunset the Sky being Clear, the Heavens suddenly appeared all in Flames, without either Lightning or Thunder, which continued about a quarter of an hour; And at the same time two Rainbows were seen in the Air directly above the City pointing as usually toward the Earth, and a third with the points upward toward Heaven, being all three extreme bright; and that which occasioned astonishment in the Spectators, and made it really Supernatural, was, that during the whole time of the appearance of the Rainbows, not the least Cloud was visible in any part of the Horizon; In July following in one of the Churches of Carania, Father Baletti a Person much Reverenced by the Common People, lay buried. whose Tomb was much adored, and daily Prayers and Offerings made at his Shrine; It happened that one merning when the Doors of the Church were opened, the Image of this Saint which was erected on his Tomb, was fallen flat on the ground. It was thought at first to be a common accident, but being again set up in its place for seven or eight nights together it was found constantly fallen on the ground, and at last was sorted to be said flat upon the Tomb; where it contained till the ruin of the Church and City together; The People were taught to believe. that about an hundred twenty years since, a Flood of Brimstone and Fire breaking out of Mount Aetna, and approaching with great fury and the destruction of all in its passage toward the Gates of Catania, the Citizens expecting nothing but immediate Ruin from it, this Holy Man by his Prayers and Exorcisms put a stop thereto in the presence of all the People, and thereby prevented the approaching desolation. Again in February before, about Sunset the Counntrey People about Alari a small village within three Miles of Catania verily thought they saw that Village all in Flames which shown at first but little, yet in a quarter of an hour all the Houses seemed on a light Fire; which appearance continued about six minutes, and then seemed to decay for want of Fuel. The People that saw it ran with all speed thither to help to quench it, and all along the Road they imagined it increased, but being come thither they found all but an Apparition, or rather Prognostic of the Calamity that some Months after befell the place.  
LXVIII. This terrible Earthquake communicated itself to the Island of Malta on the one side and to Calabria on the other. All the account we have of the Desolations in the former, is in a Letter dated from thence Jan. 16. 1692. published by Authority. They began to perceive it on the ninth, and next day they felt five or six shakes, and on the 11th about 3 afternoon it was so violent and lasted so long that the Inhabitants believed the whole City would have been instantly destroyed, the Bells of the Metropolis of the Island rung, the Roof of the Church of our Lady the Pelay was thrown down, with part of that of St. Laurence. The Church and College of the Jesuits also suffered very much, but the Cathedral and the Church of la Gusmane received the greatest damage, and are so ruined that they can hardly be repaired, The rest of the Churches and most of the Houses are extremely shattered and deferted by the Inhabitants. The Great Master of the Order was then abroad a hunting, with a great number of other Persons, who were all in danger to have been buried in the Gulf that was made in the midst of a Rock almost under their feet. It is reckoned that the losses occasioned by this Earthquake in the Isle of Malta amount to two hundred thousand Crowns. The Grand Master having understood what had happened in Sicily, and that their principal Cities from whence they had their sustenance were ruined, he instantly dispatched away several Galleys laden with Corn to relieve those wretched People but arriving at the Port of Syracuse there were such mighty Thunders and Lightnings that they could not enter in. They went back to Sea and stayed for better weather, and then made a second attempt, but there arose so violent a Wind that they were forced to return for fear of being caft away.  
LXIX. The Monthly Mercury gives an account that toward the end of September 1693. Another great Earthquake happened at Catania, and the Parts adjoining, but, the damage that ensued was very small, Nevertheless it was observed that during the most violent shakes the top of Mount Aetna was considerably sunk. The Duke of Canastra Vicar General who was then about Catanea, sent certain Persons to view the Mount, who perceived that the top was fallen in above 600 foot within the compass of about 2000 feet, and that all the Earth was tumbled down into the gaping Chasm which was about six miles in circumference. At the same time all the Fountains of Taurmina and parts adjacent dried up, and the Earth opened at the foot of an Hill which is about a mile distant, and out of it issued forth five or six Torrents of Sulphurous Waters of different colours. These new Accidents have put the trembling Inhabitants of Sicily into fresh Consternations of some impending mischief ready again to overwhelm them.  
LXX. I shall conclude these Relations with some natural Reflections of an ingenious Author. These two or three years passed (saith he) have been general for Earthquakes they have been felt all over Europe, as well as in America. Some have been of opinion that the Earth was a great Animal, and that the shivering of some Ague Fit was the Cause of his trembling. The greatest part of the Heathen Philosophers accused the Stars of these disorders. But to speak one word of the Causes of them, I say there are two which are Natural, the subteraneal Fires and Winds are the first cause. The Bowels of the Earth are full of Mines of Coal, Sulphur and Salt Petre, and when it happens that one Stone falling upon another strikes Fire by Collision, those combustible matters being kindled, and the Winds blowing up the flame, they cause most terrible overturnings of the Earth, unless they find Outlets as in Aetna, Vesuvius, and other Mountains of the same Nature. The second natural cause proceeds from the Water that is under the Earth, which undermining the Foundations that support the subterraneal Vaults which extend themselves for several Leagues together in divers parts, these Vaults deprived of their usual support overpressed by their own weight, sink down, and all of a sudden impetuously pushing forward the Air and the Water enclosed in the Earth, give the upper part such violent and hoistrous jolts as quickly overturn the weaker structures of human Art, which must of necessity give way to those more than Gygantick Impetuosities, that rend and shatter the more solid frame of Nature itself. And of this there is no question to be made, considering what so many Authors have written of the vast Regions that are under the Earth, they say, that there is in the Island of Malta a Hill within the Concavities whereof inhabits a famous Plantation of People that have no other day but what they see through the Clefts of the Rocks, this place is called Gaar Kebir, or the Great Cavern. In the Territory of Viterbo in Tuscany there is a large subterraneal Burrough called Meonia, over which there are Meadows, through which you shall see the smoke of that Borough arise. But all this is nothing in comparison of what Martin Martinius relates in his Chemical Atlas. He reports that there is a Mountain in China which is full of great Concavities in several places, which are as it were bored through, and serve as Roads from one Province to another. That there are within this Mountain Lakes, Rivers, Fish, Meadows and Animals of several sorts, and that it would require half a years time to survey and describe all these Caverns.  
LXXI. To close all with some Moral and Divine Reflections. Who doth not start at the thought of such tremble of the Earth, as we have already given large accounts of? In what condition can a man be safe (saith Seneca, speaking of Earthquakes) when the World itself is shaken, and the only thing that passes for fixed and  in the Universe, trembles and deceives us? Whither shall we fly for security if wheresoever we are the danger be still under our feet? Upon the cracking of an House every man takes himself to flight, and leaves all to save his life, but what retreat is there where that which should support fails us, when the soundations not only of Cities but even of the World itself opens and wavers, what help or what comfort where fear itself can never carry us off? An Enemy may be kept at a distance with a Wall, a Castle may put a stop to an Army, a Port may protect us from the fury of a Tempest. Fire itself doth not follow him that runs away from it, a Vault may defend us against Thunder, and we may quit the place in a Pestilence, there is some Remedy in all these evils. Or however, no man ever knew a whole Nation destroyed by Lightning. A Plague may unpeople a Town, but it will not carry it away, there is no Evil of such an extent, so inevitable, so greedy so publicly Calamitous as an Earthquake. For it does not only devour Houses and single Towns but ruins whole Countries and Nations either overturning or swallowing them up, without so much as leaving any Footstep or Mark of what they were. Some People have a greater horror for this Death than any other. To be taken away alive out of the number of the living. As if all Mortals by what means soever were not to come to the same end, death, and it is not to be regarded whether I am crushed to death by one Stone or by a whole Mountain. Whether I perish by the fall of an House or fall under the burden of the whole Earth, whether I be swallowed up alone or with a thousand more for Company. We should therefore arm ourselves against that blow, which can neither be avoided nor foreseen. It is not the abandoning those places that we find infested with Earthquakes which will secure us, for there is no Place can be warrant against them. What if the Earth be not moved? It is movable, for the whole body of it lies under the same Law and exposed to danger, only some at one time and some at another. As it is in great Cities where all the Houses are subject to ruintho ' they do not all fall together. So in the body of the Earth, now this part fails and then that. Tyre was formerly subject to Earthquakes. In Asia 12 Cities were swallowed up in one night. Achaia and Maccdonia have had their turns, and now Compagnia. The Fate goes round and strikes at last where it hath a great while passed by. It falls out: oftener, 'tis true, in some places than in others, but no place is totally free and exempt. And it is not only men, but Cities, Coasts, nay the shores and the very Sea itself that suffers under the dominion of Fate. And yet we are so vain as to promise ourselves some kind of assurance in the goods of Fortune never considering that the very ground we stand upon is unstable, and it is not the frailty of this or that Place, but the quality of every spot of it, for not one inch of it is so compacted as not to admit many causes of its Resolution. And though the Earth remain entire, the parts of it may yet be broken.  
Thus the three Heathen Philosophers strove to sortifie themselves against these calamities which they judged inevitable, not considering them as punishments of their sins and enormities inflicted upon them by Divine Justice. Hear now what Christians who are instructed in a better School say of them.  
How astonishing (saith a worthy Person of our Nation) are the fearful Effects which Earthquakes have had produced in all Ages? as we may find them in Histories and Philosophical Discourses, where you may read of Rocks torn in pieces, Mountains not cast down only, but removed; Hills raised not out of Valleys only, but out of Seas; Fires breaking out of Waters; Stones and Cinders belched up; Rivers Changed; Seas Dislodged; Earth opening, Towns Swallowed up, and many other such hideous Events. Of which kind our own Memories can furnish us with many at home, although these colder Climates are more rarely infested with such frightful Accidents.  
And of all the Animadversions that Divine Justice gives men, there is none more horrid or less Evitable than this of Earthquakes; For what assurance can we hope for here below, if the Earth quake under our feet? where can we think to escape danger, if the most solid thing of all the World do shake? If that which sustains all other things above us, threaten us with sinking under our feet? What Sanctuary shall we find to defend us from an Evil that doth encompass us round? And whither can we withdraw, if the Gulfs which open themselves shut up our passages on all sides? With what horror are Men struck when they hear the Earth groan? When her trembling succeeds her complaints, when Houses are loosened from their Foundations, when the Roofs fall upon their heads Heads, and their Pavement sinks under their Feet? What hope is there to be had in so general a disorder when fear cannot be fenced by flight? In other Cases there is some outlet whereby to escape an Evil. An Enemy is beaten from the Bulwark he had possessed himself; of Earth-works are opposed to the Thundering Cannon; Winds which raise Tempest. deliver us from them, and after having a long time tossed us to and fro, they cast us on the Shore; Houses serve us for Sanctuaries against the injuries of the Air and ; If a Man will resign his goods to the Fi●● he may save his Person; Thunder hurts not those who hid themselves in Caverns; When the Pestilence infects whole Cities, we may shun the Contagion by going into the Country; And if it dispeople Towns it doth not throw down Houses. But an Earthquake encloses what it overthrows, and wages War not with some few Houses only, but whole Provinces, and sometimes leaves nothing behind it to inform postery of its Outrages; More Insolent than Fire which spar●●… Rocks; More Gree●y than the Sea which vomits up Shipwracks; Mnre Cruel than the Conqueror who spares Walls; it swallows and devours whaesoever it oVerturns. The Sea is Subject to its Empire, and Mariners confess that those Storms are most dangerous which are occasioned by Earthquakes.  
This misfortune is common to all Kingdoms; Since Man became Criminal, all parts of the Earth are become movable, and steadfastness must be no longer looked for in the World, since Innocency is banished thence by Injustice. This disorder is the punishment of our Sin; and Reason a well as Faith doth sufficiently assure us, that the Universe would never have been agitated with these furious Accidents during the state of Original Righteousness; Wherhfore should Gods Anger have Armed the Elements against his Faithful and Obedient Subjects? Wherhfore should he have overthrown all this works to destroy Innocent Men? Why should it have overwhelmed the Inhabitants of the Earth with the ruins thereof, if they had not been sinful? Why should it have buried those in the Bowels of the Earth who were not to die? Let us then conclude that Earthquakes are the Effects of Sin.   

Appendix.  
HAving given an Account of the most remarkable and tremendous Earthquakes in the World from the Creation to this time, I think it may not be improper to add two or three unusual Occurrences and strange Passages that have happened of another kind, but altogether as surprising as the former.  
I. The first shall be the Copy of a Letter sent from an Abbot in France giving a Relation of an Hermit living in that Country who seems to revive the ancient simplicity and innocency of that solitary Life to which some pious men in former ages confined themselves thereby to be freed from the noise and hurries of the World, and to devote their minds wholly to the Service of God. Which being so very unlike the lazy Luxurious Lives of the generality of the present Romish Monks and Friars, may be somewhat diverting, after the reading the former melancholy Relations; And I shall give it you in the Abbots own words as I sinned them in the Memoirs of the Present State of Europe for the Month of May 1692.  
Sir, It is now eleven years and an half that the famous Father Hermit has been received into the Wood of my Abbey, but I can assure you that at this hour I know him no more than the first day I saw him. This venerable Old Man has been so careful to conceal his Name, Family, Country, Age, and all that could make him known, that neither I, nor any of his Brethren, nor, as I fancy, any other Person has ever known any thing of him touching his Bitth. Having told him one day that the example of a man of his Quality had mighty Efficacy. He cried out immediately, telling me that he was nothing, and that if the rumour went he was something, he would departed the Province the next day, insomuch that I never mentioned it to him but once since. It is now about a month that the occasion lay fair for so doing. He told me with some heat that all that was said of his Birth was Lie and Fiction.  
About seven years ago he was grievously sick and forsaken by his Physicians. The most ancient of his Brethren, and whom he most cherished conjured him to make himself known at least to them, promising never to discover it till after his death. He refused him with a rebuke, telling him that it was above 40 years that he had laboured to conceal himself, and that he would make him lose a work of a so many years in one quarter of an hour. The truth is, that in the Province of Burgundy where he remained a long while, the report ran that he was the Natural Son of King Henry IU. and as soon as he came hither the same report was scattered here. What gave occasion to it so far as I can judge, is his great presence and his Majestic Air, which causes him to be beloved and respected generally by all People, his noble and easy carriage and behaviour, his countenance wherein are observed many seatures of that of Henry le Grand, his quick wit, and gay hamour, but more especially that profound silence he observes, to prevent his being known, for the more he would be concealed, the more People strive to know who he is, and the less he speaks of himself the more he is discoursed of. As concerning his Age, it is difficult to know it exactly. When he came hither which was in June 1676 he told me he was 70 years old. Since he has said he was about the Age of the Bishop of Angiers who is above ninety. He formerly told me he had seen the Moors go out of Spain when they were driven thence, and that he was then tall. In fine his Brethren by other circumstances affirm him to be ninety four years old.  
Now follows what I know of his Life, and which I have learned from himself. That until the Age of 20 years he had been well educated, which was the Cause of his great Vigour. That he had born Arms without being wounded. That thinking to retire from the World, he had examined all the different manners of living in the Religious Orders, and that nothing had pleased him so much as the Hermitick Life, after the manner it subsisted in the time of the first Hermits of the East. That this was that he embraced. That for this purpose he had gone into Italy, and had retired into a Forest that belonged to the Republic of Venice whence he had been driven by the frequent visits of the people of that Country. That thence he went into Germany, and that to see a brave Hermit he willingly went 3 or 400 Leagues. That being since retired into the Kingdom of France, he had remained in Lorraine, Champagne, in Lionnois, in Burgundy, and lastly in Anjou. And that where ever he had been he had built Hermitages, and had assembled Companions. I fancy you will not be sorry that I give you such a particular account of his establishment in this Province, since I am a Witness of it. This good old man having left the Diocese of Langres, by reason (as his Brethren told me) of the report that was spread there, of his being the Son of Henry iv of France. He took the Resolution of going to settle with one of his Companions in Normandy upon the Sea side. Having fallen down as far as Saumur upon the River Loire, he understood there was a Forest in that Neighbourhood where he might erect a fine Hermitage, This Forest is called the Wood of Brossuy belonging to M. de la Meilleraye. The next day he went with his Companion to view that Forest, but having found no Water in it, he lost hopes of being able to retire thither. At his coming out of the Wood this good old Man being wearied, and perceiving our Abbey he came to it to refresh himself. I received him and falling presently to discourse of solitude and retreat, he reasoned so well and sensibly of it, that I looked upon him as a solitary, filled with the Maxims and Sentiments of one of the Primitive Hermits. In the sequel of our Conversation he told me the occasion that had brought him into our Country, and that he only sought a little Water and Wood to make him a Retreat, I offered him a small space of ground planted with Coppice, near a fine Spring and about a mile from our Abbey, he accepted it, but I thought sit to tell him, by way of precaution, that besides the place I offered him, he could not expect any great assistance from me, because our Abbey was small and ruinous, and my Companions would complain if they saw me engage to build and furnish an Hermitage with Requisits; Further I was in a Country where were many poor who would murmur if I rendered myself uncapable of relieving them. However we would supply Wood and other Materials for building of Cells, and if they could not subsist with the labour of their hands, we, in their necessity would share our bread with them. To this he answered what merits to be known. That he only sought a little Wood to hid himself, and a little Water to build some Cell with Earth, That as to his Nourishment and , they were the least of his Concerns, and the smallest of his Cares, That his Brethren and he, knew how to bring up Bees, which would furnish them with , and the labour of their hands would give them bread sufficient. That they knew how to make Panniers, of which the dearest sold were such as they gave for nothing, That they were Carpenters, Bricklayers, and that they had nor need of any Workman, no not so much as to make their . That they would not be a burden to any body. That they would not beg, nor demand any thing of any whoever.  
All this proved exactly true, They have a great number of Bees, They make a great number of Panniers, Baskets and other Osier works which they give away, without having ever sold any for a Penny. They want neither , nor any of the things necessary for Life; They are a charge to none, nor ever ask any thing, nay are loath to receive what is offered them. They have built nine or ten Cells and a very pretty Chapel. They have themselves grubbed up a part of their Wood to make a Garden and Orchards, and to plant Osiers. This Hermitage is fine and the admiration of all People. And since you would know after what manner they Live therein, I must tell you, That they rise very early; That they begin the day with Meditation and Prayer, That then they go to Prayers in the Chapel, for they have a Priest among them; After they go to work till ten a Clock, than they assemble to hear the reading of some good Book, and then they dine. After Dinner they go to work till five a Clock, Then they go into their Chapel, perform half an hours Meditation, and say some Prayers and from thence they go to the Refectory to take their repast, after which they go again to work upon their Osiers till ten at night; During which one of them in their turns reads some good Book, or the good Father gives them instruction; Their drink is water; wherein they put Juniper-Berries; this they call Geneurette; Their usual meat are Pulse, Legumes and Fruits, and what providence sends them, for they never buy either Flesh or Fish; Their Cells are small and very low, their moveables consist in a Straw Bed, a little Table, and the Representation of Christ on the Cross, some Paper Picture, and some devout Books. They are Clothed in White, wear no Linen, have no Shoes but Wooden Sandals and go bare Leg'd; They Live under che obedience of the Bishop of Angiers, who loves them tenderly; They make no Vows but they practise them exactly; They never Beg; They keep no Box; They give a great deal of Alms, and the poor are never seen to go from their Hermitage empty handed; The Father has a very tender Heart, especially toward poor Gentlemen, whom he gladly assists; They seldom stir abroad unless it be to the Parish-Church on Sundays and great Festivals, and never eat in the Neighbourhood; The Father is neither a Priest nor Clerk, but a Person of great reading, especially in History. This is what I know concerning this Old Man, but his Birth is altogether unknown to me; I know People pretend to find additional marks and Conjectures sufficiently strong to establish the report that goes about it; but as these are only Hearsays. and not built upon any thing he himself has said, little credit is to be afforded to them.  
II. The second strange Occurrence or Accident I shall mention is the Abstract of another Letter inserted in the Memoirs of the Present State of Europe, for the Month of November, 1693. written from Breslaw a City in Silesia one of the Provinces of the Germane Empire, and Dated Sep. 7. 1693.  
Sir just as I was closing this Letter, there came to me a Person and told me that the Locusts which are like Grasshoppers, appeared in the Air, I went out of the City with a vast crowd of People the better to see this great Prodigy; 'Tis an incredible thing, and if I had not been an Eye witness of it myself I should hardly have believed it. They flew in the Air about a man's height distant from the ground, and reached up above the highest Steeple, making a noise like a violent wind; and were as thick together as the Snow commonly falls; They passed the Oder, and then Directed their course toward Poland and Brandenburg, and they continue this March to the very Instant I am writing, which is about five Clock in the Evening. It is a frightful sight; These Locusts or Grasshoppers are the length of ones Finger' and of Green, Brown and Yellow Colours. Letters from Austria and Bomia spoke of them a fortnight ago, but no Body gave credit to them; At night they rest and extend themselves at least 16. English Miles in circumference; They eat up everything, Herbs, Grass, Leaves and whatever is Green, and even the Barks of Trees; They march every day about 12. or 16. Miles; Yesternight they took up their Quarters some two Leagues from hence, and this night perhaps may lodge in the adjacent Parts, or in the Meadow grounds there about. The Country People run in great Companies to the places where they think they will light, and with the noise of Drums and Shooting off Guns, fright them a little farther. They writ from all parts that these Creatures are not only venomous but they even leave an Infection upon the Grass and every thing they touch; In a Village not far from this Town 'tis said, that 200. Swine were poisoned with them. The thing is amazing but yet true; One can hardly believe that it were possible there should be so many of these Infects in the World; for they are three hours in passing by, and extend themselves three or four Leagues in Length. Some will tell you that they observed upon their Wings the number of the year, 1693. and certain Hebrew Characters; but I must confess that I could discover no such things, otherwise I should have preserved some of these Wings.  
In a second Letter from Breslaw, Dated Sept. 14. 1693. We have this further account.  
The Grasshoppers I mentioned in my last, remain yet within four Leagues or sixteen English Miles of this place, and the wether having been a little cold, all the ground round about is covered over with them a foot thick; some contagious Disease may proably be the consequence. The next day which was the Eight Instant the March of these Creatures yet continued near this City till two a Clock, and in the Morning at Sunrising abundance more were observed to pass by; some whereof being weary dropped down in our Streets.  
These two Letters were written by a Person of Note. whose Name there is no occasion to tell, but being a Man of Integrity, and writing nothing but what he saw, it would be some what strange not to give credit to his Testimony.  
III. The Third and Last remarkable Instance I shall give is, An Account of Three Wonderful and Miraculous Cures lately wrought by the Power of God, and the Divine Efficacy of a sincere Faith in his Blessed Son Jesus Christ.  
The first is the remarkable cure of Mary Maillard, a French Girl, of Thirteen Years of Age, living at St. James' Westminster (of which a Relation of undoubted Truth and Veracity, with a multitude of undeniable Attestations is lately published.) This Young Maid was very Lame from her Birth, and as she grew in Years appeared still more deformed in her going, occasioned by a diflocation in her left Thigh, so that in walking, by throwing her Body first on one side, and then on the other; she became ridiculous to the Children in the Streets, who often abused her with ill Names, and threw Dirt at her, to show how hateful she was in their sight. This ill Treatment much afflicted her, particularly upon Sunday Novemb. 26. 1693. when coming from Church she met with her former Young Persecutors, who slockt about her, and bespattered her  with Dirt; upon her coming home she grieved and wept extremely, complaining to her Mistress of the Abuses offered her, who exhorted her to be patiented, and put her Trust in God. In the Evening she took the Bible, and in reading the second Chapter of St. Mark, wherein is related the Miraculous Cure of one sick of the Palsy; she seemed very much affected therewith, and told her Mistress that she could not but wonder at the Unbelief of the Jews, adding, That if such a thing should happen now, she would soon run and be Cured too; she had no sooner spoke but her great Pains which she formerly felt began to return with more violence, and suddenly stretching out her Leg, the Bone snapped into its place, and her Foot and Knee were instantly restored to their natural posture; Upon which her Pains immediately went off, and she supposed a Voice said to her, Thou art healed; and she was fully Cured of her Lameness walking up and down the Chamber, and so she still continues, telling all that come to see, of which there are great numbers daily, that she was Lame, but thanks be to God she is not now so, and that she was recovered by Reading a Chapter in the Gospel without any Humane Help.  
This Remarkable Instance of Almighty Power and Goodness has been since followed with Two other of the like Nature, of which I shall now give such a brief and true Relation, with the Names of the Places and Parties concerned therein, as will leave no room for the severest Critic to question the Certainty thereof.  
One is the Admirable Cure of Mrs. Savage, the Wife of Mr. Savage, a Minister, and Schoolmaster living in Horse shoe-Alley in morefield's. This Gentlewoman had a very troublesome Lameness in her Hand from a Child, her Fingers being so contracted, that her Hand seemed almost wholly saut, insomuch that it was of little use to he.  
In December last 1693. she had likewise some Weakness and Illness of Body, and about the latter end of the same Month, some Means being administered unto her for the same, her Husband thought it necessary to implore the Blessing of God thereupon, by Fasting and Prayer, and accordingly went to Prayer with her; before he had done, she found a real Amendment of her Distemper as she declared afterward, and that she was much better than she had been a long time before: After the Duty was ended, as they were sitting by the Fire, the Story of the French Girl aforementioned came into his mind, of which he had heard by two Persons, yet could not give full Credit to the Truth thereof, but used some some expressions of Blessing God if it were true: At length a strong Impression came upon his Spirit, that his Wife's Hand might be Cured by the same Means that the Girl's was (if it were true;) And thereupon he took the Bible to look out the same Chapter, by the Reading whereof (it was said) she was Healed; but not being exactly informed which it was, they fell upon the 8th Chapter of St. Matthew, and Reading there of the Faith of the Leper, who said, Lord, if theu wilt thou canst make make me clean. He with an Extraordinary Emotion of Spirit took hold of his Wife's Hand, and asked her if she had Faith to believe that her hand could be Cured; adding, that his Faith was as much as the Lepers; for though he did absolutely believe the Power of Christ, yet he put an If to the Will of Christ, or words to that effect: To which she replied, That she had Faith in the Power of Christ, that he was as able now he is in Heaven, to Cure her, as he was when upon Earth, but whether it was his pleasure, or whither he saw it good for her, she could not tell; but if he thought fit, she doubted not but he would Heal her, or to that pupose: Her Husband proceeded in Reading till he came to the Faith of the Centurion about his Servant, when on a sudden she felt a pain in her Knuckles and Fingers, and pulling off her Glove, her Hand instantly stretched out strait, and became like the other, and she was immediately Cured of what was judged by all to be incurable. Her Hand likewise received strength as well as straightness; and whereas it used to be extremely cold it is now as warm as the other: The Gentlewoman has also received such strength of Body, that whereas formerly she was scarce able to walk half a Mile, she can now go three or four Mile: She still continues in Health, both herself and Husband blessing and Praising God for his wonderful and miraculous Mercy and Goodness towards them. The Truth hereof will be confirmed by themselves, to any who inquire at their House aforementioned as well as by divers others.  
The last Relation is as certain as the two former, of which I shall likewise give the Names of the Persons, and their Places of abode, as it came in a Letter from Hitchin in Hartferdshire, as followeth.  
Hitchin, Jan. 6. 1693. Dear Sir, Yours I received the last Night; As to the Person you inquire after, and the Lord's work upon him, take it in short as followeth: His Name is David Wright, about 27 or 28 Years of Age; he lived two or three Miles from hence for some Years, in the capacity of a Shepherd, his Distemper of Body by the Evil rendering him uncapable of any hard Work: At Michaelmas 1693. he desired a Religious Woman to take him into her Service, which she was unwilling to do, because he was a profane Wretch, and much given to Swearing and other Vices, but upon his promising a Reformation, and that he would go to Hear the Word Preached, she Hired him; yet he afterward went on in his Evil Courses, and would not go to Hear: But Nou. 29. last past, having notice that there was a Sermon to be Preached at Hitchin, by one Mr. Edward Coles, a worthy Minister, his Mind was so much sixth to go and Hear him, that notwithstanding the same day he had a Brother came for him with a Horse to go some Miles another way about urgent Business of his own, yet he could by no means be prevailed with to go with him, of which Resolution he says he can give no reason in himself: He came to Hear, and the Word made such deep Impression upon his Mind, that his Soul was Converted, and his Body Healed at the same time: He declares that while the Minister was Preaching his hard Heart was softened, and the Eyes of his Mind enlightened, whereby he had Faith in his Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and that at the same time he found his Body Cured of the Evil under which he had long Languished, and is fully persuaded he shall never have it again: But however God may please to do as to that, this is certain, that he hath been very well from the 29th of November to this very day: But the Change upon his Soul is more remarkable than the Cure of his Body; To see such a poor grossly ignorant Wretch so suddenly Changed, and to hear him blessing and praising of God, and admiring his Grace and Love to him, That he who knew nothing one hour before, should now speak so sensibly of Jesus Christ and heavenly things; This is to the astonishment and admiration of all that knew him: As to his bodily Distemper, he has had the King's Evil for about steen or sistxteen Years past, and was formerly Touched by King Charles the Second: At first he was forced to keep his Bed for several Weeks together, great Pains and divers running Sores upon him; but for about twelve Years past he has been in Service for the most part, yet never in Health all the while, but had Running Sores which were sometimes skinned over and swelled, and then he was at the worst, and felt most Pain till they broke and run again: He has had these Sores in many parts of his Body, of which the Scars are visible, and two continued in the same place in the small of his Back a long while, and at the time when he came to Hear the Sermon aforementioned they were skinned over, and swelled, so that he was in very great Pain, and could not keep pace with his Company; but while he was Hearing, the swelling of his Sores sunk insensibly, and he was well on a sudden, and all his Pain was gone; so that as they returned home, he went before them leaping, rejoicing, and praising God for his great Mercy and Loving kindness to him all the way he went. After he came home he continued to admire the exceeding Grace of God to so vile and ignorant a Sinner as he was, and spent most part of the Night in this heavenly Exercise, and still remains in this admirable frame of Heart. Much more might be mentioned, but this may suffice at present from Yours, etc.  
We whose Names are hereunto subscribed, do hereby attest and declare. That living in the same Family with David Wright, we were Eye and Ear-witnesses of the Truth of the foregoing particulars concerning him, and in confirmation of the Verity thereof, we have hereto put our Hands. Slape Drever, Tho. Drever. Both Sons to the Mistress of the House with whom David Wright dwelled. Thomas Child, Joseph Morgan.  
In short, as Atheism and Profaneness, it may be, never more abounded than in the present Age; so the Almighty hath not lest himself without witness of his Power and Providence in the World, by several Examples both of Judgement and Mercy; And a Race of Impious Wretches being risen up, who deny the Divinity of our Blessed Lord and Saviour; The Almighty by these repeated Instances of Supernatural Power seems at this time loudly to assert and proclaim the Godhead of our Glorious Redeemer, since such Miracles are new wrought by Faith in Jesus Christ, as very much resemble those done by himself when he was in the State of Humanity.  
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A Catalogue of Books Printed for Nath. Crouch, at the Bell in the Poultry; near Cheapside.  

History.  
1. Englands' Monarches: Or, A Compendious Relation of the most remarkable Transactions from Julius Caesar to this present; adorned with Poems, and the Picture of every Monarch, from K. Will. the Conqueror to K. Will. and Q. M. With a List of the Nobility, and the number of the Lords and Commons in both Houses of Parliament. Pr. one shilling.  
2. THE History of the House of Orange: Or, a Brief Relation of the Glorious and Magnanimous Achievements of His Majesty's Renowned Predecessors, and likewise of His own Heroic Actions, till the Late Wonderful Revolution. Together with the History of William and Mary, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, etc. Being an Impartial Account of the most Remarkable Passages and Transactions in these Kingdoms from Their Majesty's Happy Accession to the Throne to this time. By R. B. Price One Shilling.  
3. THE History of the two late Kings, Charles the II. and James the II. being an Impartial account of the most remarkable Transactions, and observable passages, during their Reigns, and the secret French and Popish Intrigues managed in those Times. Together with a Relation of the happy Revolution, and the Accession of Their present Majeles, K. William and Q. Mary to the Throne, Feb. 13. 1689. Pr. 1 s.  
4. THE History of Oliver Cromwell, being an Impartial Account of all the Battles, Sieges, and other Military Achievements, wherein he was engaged in England, Scotland and Ireland; and likewise of his Civil Administrations, while he had the Supreme Government, till his Death. Relating only matters of Fact, without Reflection or Observation. By R. B. pr. 1 s.  
5. THE Wars in England, Scotland and Ireland. containing a particular and impartial Account of all the Battles, Sieges, and other remarkable Transactions, Revolutions and Accidents, which happened from the beginning of the Reign of K. Charles I. With his Trial at large, and last speech; and the most considerable matters till 1660. With Pictures of several Accidents. Price one shilling.  
6. HIstorical Remarks and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster, showing the Foundations, Walls, Gates, Towers, Bridges, Churches, Rivers, Wards, Halls, Companies, Government, Courts, Hospitals, Schools, Inns of Courts, Charters, Franchises, and Privileges thereof; with the most remarkable Accidents, as to Wars, Fires, Plagues, and other ocourrences, for above 903 years past, Pr. 1 s.  
7. ADmirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland; or an account of many remarkable persons and places; and likewise of the Battles, Sieges, prodigious Earthquakes, Tempests, Inundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders and other Occurences and Accidents for many hundred years past: Together with the Natural and Artificial Rarities in every County in England With several curious Sculptures. Price one shilling  
8. THE History of the Kingdom of Ireland, being an Account of the Ancient Inhabitants, and of all the Battles, Sieges, and other considerable Transactions both Civil and Military in that Country, from the first Conquest thereof, under King Henry II. till its entire Reduction, by His Majesty's Arms. Together with the most remarkable Passages, that have since happened there to this time. Also a List of the present Nobility of that Kingdom. By R. B. Pr. 1s.  
9 THE History of the Kingdom of Scotland, Containing an Account of the most remarkable Transactions and Revolutions of State in that Kingdom during the Reigns of 72. Kings and Queens to this time. Intermixed with variety of strange Accidents, Prodigious Appearances, and other considerable Events. And a List of the present Nobility of that Kingdom. By R. B. Pr. 1s.  
10. THE English Empire in America, or a prospect of His Majesty's Dominions in the West-Indies, namely, Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, New-Jersey, Pensylvania, Mary-land, Virginia, Carolina, Bermudas, Barbuda, Anguila, Monserrat, Dominica, St. Vincent, Antego, Mevis or Nevis, St. Christopher's, Barbadoss and Jamaica: With an account of their Discovery, Situation and Product: The Religion and Manners of the Indians, and other excellencies of these Countries: Illustrated with Maps, and Pictures of the strange Fruits, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Infects, Serpents and Monsters found in those parts of the World. Price one shilling.  
11. A View of the English Acquisitions in Guinea and the East-Indies: With an Account of the Religion, Government, Wars, strange Customs, Beasts, Serpents, Monsters, and other Observables in those Countries. And among others, the Life and Death of Mahomet the Grand Impostor, with the Principal Doctrines of the Turkish Religion as they are displayed in the Alcoran. Two Letters, one written by the Great Mogul, and the other by the King of Sumatra in the East-Indies, to our K. James I. of an extravagant stile. The cruel Executions in those parts, with the manner of the women's burning themselves with their dead Husbands. Pr. 1 s.  
12. THE English Hero: Or, Sir Francis Drake Revived. Being a full Account of the dangerous Voyages, admirable Adventures, notable Discoveries, and Magnanimous Achievements of that Valiant and Renowned Commander. As, I. His Voyage in 1572. to Nombre de Dios in the West-Indies, where they saw a Pile of Bars of Silver near 70 foot long, 12. foot broad, and 10. foot high II. His encompassing the whole World in 1577. which he performed in two years and ten months, gaining a vast quantity of Gold and Silver. III. His Voyage into America in 1585. and taking the Towns of St. Jago, St. Domingo, Carthagena, and St. Augustine. iv His last Voyage into those Countries in 1595. with the manner of his Death and Burial. Revised, Corrected, and very much enlarged, reduced into Chapters with Contents, and beautified with Pictures By R. B. Prince One Shilling.  
13. TWo Journeys to Jerusalem, Containing first, An account of the Travels of two English Pilgrims some years since, and what Admirable Accidents befell them in their Journey to Jerusalem, Grand Cairo, Alexandria, etc. 2. The Travels of 14 English-Merchants in 1669. from Scanderoon to Tripoli, Joppa, Ramah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, the River of Jordan, the Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah, and back again to Aleppo. To which is added, a Relation of the great Council of the Jews, assembled in the plains of Ajayday in Hungary, 1650. to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ. By S. B. an English man there present: With the notorious delusion of the Jews, by a counterfeit Messiah, or false Christ at Smyrna, in 1666 and the event thereof. Lastly, The Extirpation of the Jews throughout Persia in 1666. Epistle of Agbarus to our Saviour, with our Saviour's Answer: Beautified with Pictures. Pr. 1s.  
14. EXtraordinary Adventures of several Famous Men: With the strange Events, and signal mutations and changes in the Fortunes of divers Illustrious places and persons in all Ages; being an acount of a multitude of stupendious Revolutions, accidents, and observable matters in divers States and Provinces throughout the World; With Pictures. Pr. 1 s.  
15. THE History of the Nine Worthies of the World: Three whereof were Gentiles: 1. Hector Son of Priamus King of Troy. 2. Alexander the great King of Macedon, and Conqueror of the World. 3. Julius Caesar first Emperor of Rome; Three Jews. 4. Joshua Captain General and Leader of Israel into Canaan. 5. David King of Israel. 6. Judas Maccabeus a valiant Jewish commander, against the Tyranny of Antiochus. Three Christians. 7. Arthur King of Britain, who courageously defended his Country from the Saxons. 8. Charles the Great K. of France, and Emperor of Germany. 9 Godfrey of Bullen King of Jerusalem. Being an account of their glorious lives, worthy actions, renowned Victories and Deaths. Illustrated with Poems and the Picture of each Worthy. By R. B. Price One shilling.  
16. FEmale Excellency, or the Lady's Glory, Illustrated in the Worthy Lives and Memorable Actions of nine Famous Women, who have been renowned either for Virtue or Valour, in several Ages of the World: As 1. Deborah the Prophetess. 2. The valiant Judith. 3. Queen Esther. 4. The virtuous Susannah. 5. The  Lucretia. 6. Voadicia Q. of Britain, in the Reign of Nero Emperor of Rome, containing an account of the Original Inhabitants of Britain. The History of Danus and of his fifty Daughters, who murdered their Hosbands in one Night Of the valour of Voadacia, under whose conduct the Britain's slew 70 thousand Romans, with many other remarkable particulars. 7. Mariam Wife of K. Herod 8. Clotilda Queen of France. 9 Andegona Princess: of Spain. The whole adorned with poems and pictures to each History. By R. B. Price One Shilling.  
17.  Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy, discovered in above 300. memorable Histories; containing, 1. Dreadful Judgements upon Atheists, Blasphemers, and Perjured Villains. 2. The miserable ends of many Magicians, etc. 3. Remarkable predictions and presages of approaching Death, and how the event has been answerable. 4. Fearful Judgements upon bloody Tyrants, Murderers, etc. 5. Admirable Deliverances from imminent dangers & deplorable distresses at Sea and Land. Lastly, Divine goodness to penitents, with the dying thoughts of several famous Men, concerning a future state. Pr. 1 s.  
18. Unparallelled Varieties, or the Matchless Actions and Passions of Mankind; displayed in near 400 notable Instances and Examples, discovering the transcendent Effects; 1. Of Love, Friendship and Gratitude. 2. Of Magnanimity, Courage and Fidelity. 3. Of Chastity, Temperance and Humility: And on the contrary, the Tremendous consequences; 4. Of Hatred, Revenge and Ingratitude. 5. Of Cowardice, Barbarity and Treachery. 6. Of Unchastity, Intemperance and Ambition. Embellished with Proper Figures. Price 1 s.  
19 THE Kingdom of darkness: Or the History of Demons, Spectres, Witches, Apparitious, Possessions, Disturbances, and other wonderful and supernatural Delusions, Mischievous Fears and Malicious Impostures of the Devil. Coptaining near 80 memorable Relations, Foreign and Domestic, both ancient and modern. Collected from Authentic Records, Real Attestations, Credible Evidences, and asserted by Authors of undoubted Verity. Together with a Preface obviating the common Objections and Allegations of the Sadduces and Atheists of the Age, who deny the Being of Spirits, Witches, etc. With Pictures of several memorable Accidents, Price 1 s.  
20. SUprizing Miracles of Nature and Art, in two parts; containing, 1. The Miracles of Nature, or the wonderful Signs, and prodigious Aspects and Appearances in the Heavens, Earth and Sea; with an account of the most famous Comets, and other Prodiges, from the Birth of Christ to this time. 2. The Miracles of Art, describing the most Magnificent Buildings, and other curious Inventions in all Ages, as, the seven Wonders of the World, and many other excellent Structures and Rarities throughout the Earth. Beautified with Pictures. Price 1 s.  
21. MEmorable Accidents and Uunheard of Transactions, containing an account of several strange Events: As the Deposing of Tyrants, Lamentable Shipwrecks, Dismal Misfortunes, Stratagems of War, Perilous Adventures, Happy Deliverances, with other remarkable Occurrences, and select Historical passages, which have happened in several Countries in this last Age. Printed at Brussels in 1691. and Dedicated to His present Majesty, William King of England, etc. Published in English by R. B. Pr. 1 s.  
22. Martyr's in Flames, or Popery in its true Colours being a Brief Relation of the horrid Cruelties and Persecutions of the Pope, and Church of Rome, for many hundreds of years past, to this present time, in Piedmont, Bohemia, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Erance, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Ireland, and England; with an abstract of the cruel Persecutions lately exercised upon the Protestants in France and Savoy, in the year 1686, and 1687. Together with a short account of God's Judgements upon Popish Persecutors. Price 1 s.   

Miscellanies.  
23. Delights for the Ingenious, in above Fifty Select and Choice Emblems. Divine and Moral, Ancient and Modern, curiously Engraven upon Copper Plates, with 50 delightful Poems and Lots, for the more lively Illustration of each Emblem, whereby instruction and good counsel may be promoted and furthered, by an honest and pleasant Recreation; to which is prefixed, A Poem, entitled, Majesty in Misery, or an Imploration of the King of Kings, written by R. Charles I. with his own hand, during his Captivity in Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight, 1648. with a curious Emblem. Collected by R B. Price 2 s. 6 d.  
24. Excellent Contemplations Divine and Moral, written by the Magnanimous A.L. Capel Baron of Hadham; together with some account of his Life, and his affectionate Letters to his Lady the day before his Death; with his Heroic Behaviour and last Speech at his Suffering. Also the Speeches and Carriages of of D. Ham, and the Earl of Holl. who suffered with him: With his Pious Advice to his Son. Price 1. s.  
25. Winter Evenings Entertaintment, in two parts, Containing, 1. Ten Pleasant Relations of many Rare and Notable Accidents and Occurrences: 2. Fifty Ingenious Riddles, with their Explanations, and useful Observations and Morals upon each. Enlivened with above 60 Pictures, for illustrating every Story and Riddle. Excellently accommodated to the Fancies of Old or Young, and useful to cheerful Society and Conversation. Price 1 s.  
26. DElightful Fables in Prose and Verse, none of them to be found in Aesop, but collected from divers Ancient and Modern Authors, with Pictures and proper Morals to every Fable. Several of them very applicable to the Present times. by R. B. Price bound one shilling.   

Divinity.  
27 THE Divine Banquet, or Sacramental Devotions, consisting of Morning and Evening Prayers, Contemplations and Hymns for every day in the Week, in order to a more Solemn Preparation for the worthy Receiving of the Holy Communion, representing the several steps and degrees of the Sorrows and Sufferings of our blessed Saviour, till he gave up the Ghost: As, 1. His Agony in the Garden. 2. His being betrayed by Judas. 3. His being falsely accused, smitten, buffeted, and spit upon before Caiphas the High Priest. 4. His condemnation, scourging, crowning with Thorns, and being delivered to be crucified by Pontius Pilate. 5. His bearing his Cross. 6. His crucifixion. 7. Our Saviour's Institution of the Blessed Sacrament. Together with brief Resolutions to all those scruples and objections usually alleged for the omission of this important duty. With eight curious Sculptures proper to the several parts, with Graces. Imprimatur Z. Isham, R. P. D. Hen. Episc. Lond. a Sacris. Price 1 s.  
28. A Guide to Eternal Glory: Or, brief Directions to all Christians how to attain Everlasting Salvation: To which are added several other small Tracts: As, 1. Saving Faith discovered in three heavenly conferences between our Blessed Saviour, and, 1. A Publican. 2. A Pharisee. 3. A doubting Christian. 2. The threefold state of a Christian: 1. By Nature: 2. By Grace: 3 In Glory. 3. The Scriptures concord, compiled out of the words of Scripture, by way of question and answer, wherein there is the sum of the way to Salvation, and spiritual things compared with spiritual. 4. The Character of a true Christian. 5. A brief Directory for the great, necessary, and advantageous duty of Self-examination, whereby a serious Christian may every day examine himself. 6. A short Dialogue between a Learned Divine and a Beggar. 7. Beams of the Spirit, or Cordial Meditations, enlivening, enlightening, and gladding the Soul. 8. The Seraphic Souls Triumph in the Love of God; with short remembrances and pious thoughts. 9 History improved, or Christian Applications and Improvements of divers remarkable Passages in History. 10. Holy Breathe in several Divine Poems, upon divers Subjects and Scriptures. Price one Shilling.  
29. Youth's Divine Pastime; Containing Forty Remarkable Scripture Histories, turned into common English Verse. With Forty Pictures proper to each Story; very delightful for the virtuous, employing the vacant hours of Young Persons, and preventing vain and vicious Divertisements. Together with several Scripture Hymns upon divers occasions. Pr. 8 d  
30. THE Young Man's Calling, or the whole Duty of Youth, in a serious and compassionate Address to all young persons to remember their Creator in the days of their Youth. Together with Remarks upon the Lives of several excellent young Persons of both Sexes, as well Ancient as Modern, who have been famous for Virtue and Piety in their Generations. With twelve curious Pictures, Illustrating the several histories. Price 1 s. 6 d.  
31. THE Vanity of the Life of Man represented in the Seven several Stages thereof; With Pictures and Poems exposing the Follies of every Age. Price Eight pence.  
32. MOunt Zion, or a draught of that Church that shall stand for ever. Together with a view of that World which shall be broken in pieces and consumed. By William Dyer, Author of Christ's Famous Titles, and a Believers Golden Chain. Price One Shilling.  
33. DIstressed Zion Relieved, or, the Garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heaviness. A Poem. Wherein are discovered the grand Causes of the Church's trouble and misery under the late dismal Dispensation. With a complete History of, and Lamentation for those Renowned Worthies that fell in England, by Popish rage and cruelty, from the Year 1680. Humbly Dedicated to Their Present Majesties. By Benjamin Keach, Author of a Book called, Zion in Distress, or the Groans of the true Protestant Church. Price one shilling.  
34. ANtichrist Stormed, or the Church of Rome proved to be Mystery Babylon the Great Whore, Rev. 17. by many and undeniable Arguments, Answering all the Objections of the Papists, and all others. Together with the Judgement of many Ancient and Modern Divines, and most Eminent Writers concerning the rise and final ruin of the Beast and Babylon, proving it will be in this present Age. With an Account of many strange Predictions relating to these present Times. By Benjamin Keach. Price One Shilling.  
35. THE Devout Souls Daily Exercise in Prayers, Contemplations and Praises, containing Devotions for Morning, Noon, and Night, for every day in the week; with Prayers before and after the Holy Communion: And likewise for Persons of all conditions, and upon all occasions: With Graces and Thanksgivings before and after Meat. By R. P. D. D. Price bound Six Pence.  
36. SAcramental Meditations upon divers select places, of Scripture, wherein Believers are assisted in preparing their hearts, and exciting their affections and graces when they draw nigh to God in that most awful and solemn Ordinance of the Lords Supper. By Jo. Flavel Minister of Christ in Devon. Price one Shilling.  
37. JACOB Wrestling with GOD, and prevailing: Or, a Treatise concerning the Necessity and Efficacy of Faith in Prayer: Wherein divers weighty Questions and Cases of Conscience about praying in Faith, are stated and resolved: For the comforting and satisfying of weak and, scrupulous Conscienc●●▪ The Conviction of formal Hypocrites, awakening of all Saints, both weak and strong, great and small, to this great Duty of Prayer. Pr. 1 s.  
38. THE True Light Shining in Darkness, in the matter of Justification in III. parts. Showing, 1. That by the deeds of the Law no Flesh can be Justified in the Sight of God. 2. That the Righteousness of God is the only Matter of our Justification. 3. The time and Season wherein God doth Justify his Elect. Price one Shilling Two Pence. Both by Tho. Taylor, formerly at Edmund's Bury, now Pastor to a Congregation in Cambridge.  
39 SEveral Sermons, or Declarations of Mr. Stephen Crisp, late of Colchester in Essex; exactly taken in Characters or Shorthand, as they were delivered by him at the Public Meeting houses of the People called Quakers, in Grace-Church-street, in Devonshire House, London. And now faithfully Transcribed and Published. Together with his Prayer at the end of every Sermon. Price bound one Shilling.  
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