that Adrian the Fourth was made Pope, was a dreadful Earthquake at Millain, and all the Country round about. A noife like Trumpets in the Air was heard in Italy, where was likewife a great Earthquake, another in England; and a third in Germany. The Confequents were thought to be the flaying of two hundred thoufand Moors by the Spaniards about that time. The Pope giveth the Kingdom of England to Philip King of France, Excommunicating - King John. The French ftrive to take pof feffion of it, but the Flemish with the Englih take three hundred fail of Ships from them, and burn and hundred more. King of Arragon is flain. The King of Bulgaria plucks out the Emperor's Eyes. The Infidels take Ferufalem and flay many Prifoners. The Turks win all the lower Afia from the Greeks. The Pope is flain by a Fall. The Emperor Kills fourteen thoufand Bohemians. The King of England brings the Welsh under intire fubjection.

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XXXII. Remarkable is what is related by divers Authors, which happened in a Town called Hamel in the Dutchy of Brunf wick in Germany in 1248. June 26. This Town being very grievoufly troubled with Rats and Mice, there came to them a Pied Coat Piper, who agreed with the Burgers that for fo much Money he would quite clear them from thofe Vermine, nor would he demand it till a Year and a Day after. C The

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, fo that the Town was Infected no more. At the end of the Year the Pied Piper returned for his reward. The Burgers put him off with flightings and neglect, offer ing him fome fmall matter, which he refufing, and ftaying fome few days in Town; On Sunday Morning at High Mafs when moft People were at Church, he fell to Play on his Pipes, and began another Tuné, whereupon there followed him one hundred and thirty Boys out of the Town to a great Hill called Koppen, fcituate on the Road hard by, when they approached the Mountain, it rent in twain and opening let him and the Children in, and then clofed again, fo that he nor they were ever feen after. This Hiftory is writ and religioufly 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 Inftruments in Law, From the Year of the going out of the Children; Befides there is a great Pillar of Stone at the Foot of that Hill whereon the Story is Ingraven. It is also obferved in the memory thereof, that in the Streets the Children paffed out of, no Piper is admitted to live e

ver fince, and if a Bride live in that Street, till fhe is come out of it no Dancing is to be fuffered. Howel's Epiftles, page 272.

XXXIII. In 1300. When the Turkish Empire began to be confiderable, there was fuch an Earthquake at Rome as never was before, and forty eight Earthquakes, happened in one Year, whereby all Lombardy was fhaken. A great Earthquake in London, which was especially felt on the Banks of the River Tames, which fhook and threw down many buildings, and was the more terrible because the Western parts are lefs accustomed to Earthquakes, and there was little ebbing or flowing of the Sea obfervable 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. Alfo two in France and one in Savoy, An Earthquake at Rome in the time of Pope Boniface the eighth, who fainted away for fear, and afterward publifhed a Jubilee. In 1348. a terrible Earthquake happened at Conftantinople, which indured fix weeks, and reached in the extent of it as far as Hungary and Italy; Twenty fix Cities were overthrown by it; Mountains were torn up by the Roots, and feveral Men, Women and Beafts by that ftrong Exhalation were turned into Statues of Salt. In Perfia five hundred Houfes were thrown by an Earthquake. in the City of Lair. In England for fix C 2

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hours together the Sun appeared as Bloud. In Germany was a great Earthquake. Grafhoppers cover Switzerland like Snow. At Oxford the Image of Hand fpake thus, Caput decidetur, Caput Elevabitur, Pedes elevabuntur fuper Caput; The Head hall be cut off; The Head fhall be lift up; The Feet fhall be elevated above the Head. Which was thought to prefage the Depofing and Death of King Richard II. At this time fifty thousand Chriftians were flain by the Turks in the Plains of Cafovia. Scotland is wafted by the English. The Emperor Sigifmond executed thirty two of the Nobles in Hungary. The Pope is imprifoned by the French King. A great Battle between King Henry the V. and the French wherein they loft twenty thoufand Men, ten thoufand being killed upon the place, and as many made Prifoners. The French burn Rye and Haftings in Suffex, and Plunder the Ifle of Wight. In Gaunt five thousand Houses were burnt; and feventeen Towns drowned in Flanders. A very great Earthquake in France, and Grafhoppers destroy'd almost every green thing there. The World was fhook with terrible Earthquakes, Cities, Caftles Villages and a multitude of People were fwallow up in the Caverns of the Earth Many at Liege deftroy'd by Thunder, while they were paying their Veneration to the Saints for fafety. Mountains were cleft, and Rivers were dried up.

XXXIV. In 1456. There arofe upon the Sea of Ancona in Italy, together with a thick Gloomy Cloud that extended above two Miles, a Tempeft of Wind, Water, Fire, Lightning and Thunder, which piercing to the moft deep Abyffes of the Sea, forced up the Waves with a moft dreadful fury, and carried all before it upon the Land, which caufed fo horrible an Earthquake fome time after, that the Kingdom of Naples was almoft ruined, and all Italy carried the difmal marks of it; A Million of Houfes and Caftles 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 Millain another in Hungary. In Poland there was feen (faith my Author) an Image of Chrift crucified with a Sword to pafs along the Air from Weft to South for two hours. In Germany Hailftones fell as big as Goofe Eggs. At this time the Hungarians defeat the Turks, and take thirty thoufand Captives from them. The Spanish Inquifition is firft inftituted in Caftile against the Moors and Jews. The Fes are expelled Spain. The Turks expel the Chriftians from Adrianople. King Henry VI. is taken Prifoner at Northhampton. Great Inundations in England. The Sun is darkened without an Eclipfe.