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Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired…
Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into: with an historical account of all the comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, M.DC.LXXXIII. : Expressing the place in the heavens, where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration; and the remarkable events which have followed in the world, so far as they have been by learned men observed. : As also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. / By Mr. Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]Kometographia. Or A discourse concerning comets; wherein the nature of blazing stars is enquired into: with an historical account of all the comets which have appeared from the beginning of the world unto this present year, M.DC.LXXXIII. : Expressing the place in the heavens, where they were seen, their motion, forms, duration; and the remarkable events which have followed in the world, so far as thay have been by learned men observed. : As also two sermons occasioned by the late blazing stars. / By Mr. Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Three lines of Scripture texts]
printed by S.G. for S.S. i.e, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A.D. 1347. In the Month of August, a Comet appeared in Taurus, continuing sixty days. yMany things worthy of remark happened this year. For the Scots invading England with an Army, fifteen thousand of them were slain by the English, and their King taken Prisoner. There was a general rising of the People in Aragon. The Emperor as he was hunting a Bear fell off his Horse and quickly died. The King of Sicily was strangled by his Queen in his sleep. A sweeping Plague lasting for the space of six years, wen• through the World. It came out of Asia into Europe this year, There died in the City of L• beck ninety thousand, in Avignon an innumerable multitude; In England nine parts of ten died throughout the Land. Above fifty seven thousand in the City of Norwich. So fearful was this Besom of Destruction, as that a third part of Mankind was not left alive upon the face of the Earth. Alstedius *(a grave and learned Author) Writes, that this Plague swept away no less then a Million, two hundred and forty four thousand four hundred & forty four Monks, which (though strange) yet considering that the World did then swarm with Monks is not impossible to be true.
A.D. 1347. In the Moneth of August, a Comet appeared in Taurus, continuing sixty dayes. yMany things worthy of remark hapned this year. For the Scots invading England with an Army, fifteen thousand of them were slain by the English, and their King taken Prisoner. There was a general rising of the People in Aragon. The Emperour as he was hunting a Bear fell off his Horse and quickly died. The King of Sicily was strangled by his Queen in his sleep. A sweeping Plague lasting for the space of six years, wen• through the World. It came out of Asia into Europe this year, There died in the City of L• beck ninety thousand, in Avinion an innumerable multitude; In England nine parts of ten died throughout the Land. Above fifty seven thousand in the City of Norwich. So fearful was this Besome of Destruction, as that a third part of Mankind was not left alive upon the face of the Earth. Alstedius