The General = a ISTORY A uf Earthquakes AWietwge Giobirs BEING hn Accoune of the moft Remarkable and Tre ‘mendous Earthquakes thae have happened in, divers parts of the World, from the Creation’ to this eines As they ate recorded by Sacred, and Common Authors; And perticularly |} show lately ia Paples, — Jamaica and Smprna, Sicily. Pihadetrigiona te fmausbarsing Mei, tae eto kta emia of 8 ect et Cecmracosa ity |] Seen’ tet cred Ags [hate he Newland bei Cnt ican hina Sey aed oe rare mona! Met co |} es dH re twee i | | | |tonpon, Printed for Nath. the Bel# in the Poultrey near ches| ‘To THE | ae READER. ALE feveral dreadful Rarth- | T quakes that have happened in dix | vers ‘parts of the World withina few years paff, and among others that in the tfland of Jamaica, and another in England, wherei# the People, of this Nation is particularly concerned, feem to call aloud for Repentance and Refor- mation of the borrid Enormities that | are boldly committed amongft us ; for the Almighty executes his Fudgments. pon Mankind that the People of the Earth might learn Righteoufnefs, Therefore the collecting and publilbing the-terrible Relations of Earthquakes, needs no Apology, and may I hope be ‘influential upon the minds of men, who ‘| appear affected with the difmal ace counts that bave been lately given of Az thefe a ae- To the Reader. . thefe terrible Vifitations of God. F have been the more incouraged ta proceed in Printing thefe {mall Ma nuals by the acceptance that others of this nature have already mét with, ‘which, I find, bas occaffoned many, (efpecially. young people) to. lay aft thofe vain andidle Songs and Rovtan. ces wherewith they were formerly Con verfant and. to divert their vacant hous with reading the real Tranfatti- ons, Revolutions and Accidents that are recorded by Authors of the greatef Veracity, to have happened in divers Ages and Countreys, And this beingof that kind, I have no caufe to doubt, bit at may meet with as civil Treatment a as thole that have already been made publick by R. B. THE HISTORY Carthquakes. i, Mong the feveral Plagues and A Judgments wherewith the! Al- mighty vifiteth, and.punitheth the Enormitcs aad ifs of Mane kind, that of Earthquakes may’ be account- ed the moft Dreadful and Tremendous, | which in an inftant fwalloweth up thoufands of people of all Qualities aud Ages, topes thet with the moff tuperb anid ftately Edit. ces that Pride and Ambition can raife, in ‘moment, even in the twinkling of an Eyc, to convince men of the Greatnefs and Pow- er of the Supream Creator; and how vain it is to value. themflves Upon any mundane enjoyments 5, Of which we-have lately. bad : A3. very,2 The General Hittoey very aftonifhing Inftances in feveral parts of the World, Il, But before I proceed to give a Relath on ofthem, it may be neccfliry to difcover the Natural Caufes of this dreadful Con. cuffion of the Earth, which the God of Heaven makes ufe of to fignifie his Difplea- fre for the provoking Crimes of Nation and People ; Of which a Learned Divine giives the following account, ID, An Eorthquake is a fhaking of the Earth, occafioned by Wind and Exhalati. ons inclofed within the Caves and Bowels of the Earth, which can find no paflige, or at leaft none long enough to difcharge themfelves, and therefore breaking forth with great force and violence, it fometimes fhaketh the Earth, another while rendeth and eth the fame, fometimes cafting up Earth a great height into the Air, othir: while cavfing the ground to fink downa great depth, wallowing Cities, Town, Palaces, Caflles, ca. prodigious high Mountains, leaving in the place nothing but deep holes, ot long and unfathomable Lakes of Water, 1V. Authors Write differently of the fe veral kinds of Earthquakes, but they ufually comprehend then under four; ‘The ft sin of Earthquakes, 3 kind is when the Earth is thaken laterally orto one fide, the whole force of the inclo- fed Wind and Vapours driving to one place, and there is no contrary motion to hinder i, This Wind, if itbe not great, caufeth the Earth totremble like aman in an Ague Fit, and doth no more harm, but if it be ftrong and violent, it loofech the Foundati- ons of all Buildings though never fo firm, overthrows whole Cities, and fometimes throws down great Hills, “fo that they over- whelm ‘al} the: Valleys under them, The fecond kind is, when the Earth islifted up with great violence fo that the Buildings are like to fall, and inftantly fink down a- gain, and thisis caufed by the force of the Winds which ftrive to get upwardlike Gan- powder, and finding fome deliverance from ? confinement, the Earth falls down to its former place. The third fort is the openin, tending or gaping of the Earth, whic finking down {wallows up Cities, Towns, yea Rocks, Rivers and Flouds, and fo that they never appear agains Nay the Sea in fome places hah been drunk up, fo that | People have gone over on foot, till the re- tuning Tyde hath covered the place with Water again, The laft kind is, when great Mountains arife out of the Earth, or Aq elfe |4 Che General Hifory clié when (ome part of the Land Gnketh down, and inftead thereof arife Rivers, Lakes or Fires, breaking out with Smnoal and Afhcs ; Sometimes the bottom of the Sea is lifted up, whereby many Ilands arg ‘made that were never feen before; Of which Fliftory gives large accounts, V. IF it be asked how (uch mighty Winds come to be. tinder the Earh, the Philofophers anfwer, that the great Caves and Dens of the Earth heing always fall of Air, when (he heat of the San rafolves the moiltute.of the Earth many Exhalations are generated, both within avd without the fame: and the places being full before, say receiveno more, unlef foone part be Jet our fo that in thofe Counrries where the Earth hath but few Porer, or where shey are {top with moifture, ic mutt neceffwily happen, that thefe Exhalations @riving to get oun, muft needs rend the Earth, of lit it up, either to get free paffige, or to make room enough to abide within. Vi, It has been obférved That there arg ufially feveral Signs and Prefages of this terrible Calamity.” As fill the raging of the Sca when there are no Tempeftuays Windsto move it, yeain the greatet Calm, which is occafioned by the Winds le : bouring ‘repelled, foon after fhakes the Earth, Again ‘of Carchavates, . | botiting to get paffage that way, but being i the Warer in the bottomof deep Wells is | troubled and infeSted with a Sulphurous | fall, from the peftilent Exhalations long | Inclofad within. the Earth, which now bes ? | gi 00° fpread abfoad 5 And hercopon, in livers placesan Earthquake has cauted abun- dance of Smoak, Flame qnd Afhes to iflue forth, by reafon that the valt quaniity of Brimftone under ground is by the violent motion fet on Fire and burfteth out, fo that it isa wonder if after an Earthquake fome frievaus Peftilence docs not follow,the whole Mafs of the Poyfonous Minerals within the Bowels of the Earth being by this farious fhock blown abroad into the Air, Another prefage is the calmnefs and coldnefs of the Air, by reafon the Exhalation that fhould be abroad is within the Barth, Anéther is iid tobe, a long thin Arake of Cloud fen when the Sky is clear gfter Sun fer, which, they fay, iscauted by the Vapour or Exha- lation which is the’ matter of Clouds, being Rone into the Earth, Ochers affirma that ic is the Exhalation which iffaeth from fome narrow paflage aut of which the reft of the Wind cannot come, and therefore foon af tee by a fodden-Eruption makes a broader Ss way ‘ j 1 \ =6 The General Hittory way to deliverit (elf out of Prifon, ‘Like? wife the Sun appcareth dim certain days be. fore, beeaufe the Winds that fhould purge and diflipate the grof Air, which caufth this dimnef, is inclofed within the Bowel. of the Earth. Alfo the Birds perceiving’a certain trembling and fhaking at the Roots | of the Trees, forfake them, and fit trem. bling on the ground, Laity, there are heard before, at, and after an Earthquake great noif’s and founds under the Earth, with terrible groanings and thunderings ; Yea fometimes when no Earthquake follows, the Wind without any other Hea finding a way to vent it felf; Someof thefe are the general prognolticks and forewarnings of dreadful Earthquake to follow, VII, And certainly no other Calamity produces greater terror and aftonifhment in Mankind than this, For to have the Earth rock under one with that fingular kind of motion which no humane art nor force can imitate, muft needs be extream frprizr ing 5 For though death may be familiar to fome men in any other form, yet it ‘appears very horrible to be buried alive, and to fink on a fadden into an unknown Grave they know not whether, perhaps they may fall into fome dark Lake of Water, or it may. of Erthquakes. 7 may be drenched ina River of fire, or be dathed ona Rock; for who can tell the di pofitions of the Caverns below, or what fort of the Apartments there are under the Surface of the Earth? We walk on the Bat- tlements of a-marvellous ftruéture, a Globe full of Tremendous fecret. VILL But though we have given fome account of the Natural Caufes of Earth quakes, yet it is very apparent that many have been Supernatural, and caufed by the jmmediate hand of God, of which we find" feveral inftances in holy Scripture, that we might dread and tremble before the Almigh- ty who needs neithi rVapours norExhalations to Execute his Vengeance upon. incorrigible Offenders. 1X. The firft of this kind that we read of was at the Promulgation of the Law at Mount Sinai, Exodus 19,20, ‘And the "Lord faid unto A4ofés, go unto the People ‘and Sanétify them to day and to morrow, ‘and be ready againft the third day, for “then the Lord will come down in the fight “of all the People upon Mount Sinai, and * thou fhale fet bounds to the People round “about, faying, Take heed to your felves ‘that ye go not up into the Mount, or ftouch the border of it, whofaever touch- eth& Che General Pittory "eth the Mount fhall furely be put to death’ ‘There fhall not an hand touch it, but ho “thall furely be Stoned or Shot through, “whether it be Man or Beaft, it fhall nor ‘live, when the Trumpet foundeth long “they fhall come up to-the Mount. And ‘i¢ came to pa on the third day inthe Morning that there were Thunders and “Mount, and the Voice of che Trumpet * excecding loud, (0 that all the People in “the Camp trembled, And Mount Sinai ‘was altogether on a Smoak, becaufe the “Lord de(cended upon’ it in Fire, and the “fmoak theredf a(cended as the fmoak of a ‘Furnace, and the whole Mount quaked ‘greatly, And all the People faw the *'Thundring and the Lightnings, and the “noife of the Trumpet, and the Mountain “feaoaking, and when the People faw it they “removed afar off, And they faid unto Mo * fes tpeak thou with usand we will hear, “but Jet nor God fpeak “with us leat we ‘dye, And AMbfés (iid unto ‘the People ‘Fear not ; for God is come to prove you, . ‘and that pis fear may be before your Faces , fthat_you Sin not. 'Thie happened in the year from the Creation of the World, 2513, ‘Lightnings and a thick Cloud upon the of Carthauakes, 9 X. Another terrible Earthquake we find recorded Number 16. ‘ Now Korab, Da ‘than and Abiram, with certain of the Chil- ‘dren of Ifrael, two hundred and fifty Prin- “cea of the Affembly, famous in the Con- ‘gregation, Men of Renown rofeup, and ‘ gathered themfelves together againft A4ofes ‘and againft darow, and faid unto thet, ‘Ye take too much upon you feeing: all the | ‘Congregation is Holy, every one of them, | “snd the Lord is among them, wherefore ‘then lift you up your (elves above the Con- ‘gregation of the Lord, And when Mo- ‘fo heard it, he fell upon his Face, And “ke fpake unto Kovab and unto all his Com- ‘pany, fying, Even to Morrow the Lord ‘will thew you who are his, and whais ‘holy; and will cau him to come near to ‘him, even him whom he hath chofen wilt ‘he caufe to come near to hit, This do ; ‘Take ye Cenfers, Korab and-all his Com- “pany, And put Fire therein, ‘and put In- ‘cenfé in them before the Lord to Morrow! ‘and. it fhall be that the man whom the ‘Lord doth chufe; he fhall be holy, Ye ‘teke too much upon you, ye Sons of Levis | {Remeth ic a. fall thing unto you thar the ‘God. of Irael hath feparated you from the ‘Congregation of Srael, to bsing you near ‘unto ee re éro The General Piltory J “unto him@lf, to do the fervice of the'Ta- *bernacle of the Lord, and to ftand before “the Congregation to Minifter unto them? © And he hath brought thee near anto him, © andall thy Brethren the Sons of Levi with “thee: and feck ye the Pricft-hood alfo? © For which Caufe both thou and thy Com. “pany are gathered together againft the © Lord: and what is Aaron that ye murmur againft him? And Afofes fent to call Da- “than and Abiram the Sons of Eliab: which faid, we will not come up, Isit a {mall thing that thou haft brought us up | “out of a land that flourifheth with Milk “and Honey to Killus in the Wilderne6, “except thou make thy felf altogether a © Reince over us? Moreover thou haft not © broughe us into a Land that flowcth wich © Milk and Honey, or given us In/eritance “of Fields and Vineyards 5 wiit thaw put our the Eyes of theft men? ‘we will not ‘come up. © and faid unto the Lord, Refpeét not thou ‘their off:ring : I have not taken one Aft “from them, neither have I hurt one of ‘them, And Mofes iaid unto Korah, Be © chou and all thy Company before the Lord, \ © thou, and they, and Aaron to Morrow, © And take every Man his Cenfér, and put : © Incenfe And Mofes was very wrath, 1 of Carthquaties. rr | *Incenfe in them, and bring ye before the ‘Lord every Man his Cenfer, two hundred ‘and fifty Cenfers; thou alfo, and Agron ‘each of you his Cenfér ; and put Firein | ‘in them, and lay Incenfe thercon, jand ‘ftand in the Door of the Tabernacle of the ‘Congregation, and the Glory of the Lard ‘appeared unto ull the Congregation, And | ‘the Lord fpake unto Adofes, and unto ‘ Aaron faying, (eparate your félves from ‘among this Congregation that I may con- ‘furne them in a moment, And they fell upon their faces and faid, © God, the God © of the Spirits of all Flefh, fhall one Man ‘fin, and wilt thou b®wrath with all the ‘Congregation ? And the Lord fpake unto ‘ Mies faying, {peak unto all the Congre- ‘gation faying, Get you up from about the ‘Tabernacle of Korab, Dathan and Abie ‘ram. ‘And Mefesrofe up, and went uin- ‘to Dathan and Abiram; and the Elders of ‘ Wrael followed him, And he fpake unto ‘all the Congregation faying, Depart I pray “you from the Tents of thefe Wicked Men, and touch nothing of theirs leaft you be Sconfamed in: all their Sins, So they gac ‘them up fromthe Tabernacle of Krab, ‘Dathan and -Abiram on every fide : and {Dathan and Abiram came out, and flood finThe General Pitory ‘in the Door of their T'ents,and their Wives, “and their Sons, and their little Children, "And A©ofes {ald Hereby thall ye know © that the Lord hath fené me to do all thee * works : for I have not done them of ny “own mind, . Ifthefe men dye the common © Death of all men, ot if they be vilited af. “ter the. vilitation of all. men; then the “Lord hath not ent me. But if the Lord “make a new thing, and the Earth ‘apen ‘her Mouth, and {wallow them up, with {. fall chat appertain unto them, gnd they go j £down quick into the Pit ; then ye hall * underftand that thefe Men have provaked ‘the Lord, And it came to pafe as he had J Afmade an end of fpeaking.all thete words, * that the ground clave afiinder that was un- “der them: And the Earth opened her ‘Mouth, and (wallowed them up, and their © Houles, and all the Men that eppertained “unto Kerab, and all their Goods. They + ‘and all that appertained to them, went : down alive into the Pit, arid. the Earth “clofed uponthem: and they perifhed from * among the Congregation, And all rad! “that were round about them, ‘fled at tke “cry of them : for they faid, Left'the Earth “fyallow. us up alo, And there came out r2 ‘a Fire from the Lord, agd confumed the | * two of Cartyquates, 13 wo hundsed. and fifty men that offered . 'Incenfe. 7 Fofephus in his Aiftory of the Antiquities af the Jews gives the following account of this dreadful Judgment ; That Adofes make ing a large Prayer, intermixt wich Tears, while he was {peaking, the Earth inftantly trembled, and fhaking began to move tike a Billow af the Sea'railed by the violence of Winds at which all the People were forely angzed, alter which'an borrible and fhate fering Noife was made abcut their Tents, d.inftantly the Eaith opened and fwal- towed up both them and all rhgt belonged to them, infomuch that nothing which was theirs remained to be fen; And the Earth in a moment -¢lofing again the vaft gaping Imoediately was thar, fo thar there was rior the leaft-appearance of what had happeneds Thus perifbed they all, leaving behind them an example of Gods Power and Judg- ment, and this eccident wag the ino i ferable in that there’ were nes their Kinsfolks and Allies that hi fion of them, fo that the whole Peopl geting what was poffed, allowed Gods Jultice with joyful Acclamations; efteem- ing them’ unworthy to be bewailed, but to accounted as the Plague aad Perverters i the , —14 The General Pittory the People. After. this, faith he, there fud- denly appeared fo bright a Fire that the lik was never kindled by vhe hand of ma . nor ever broke forth from: the Bowel of burning Mountains; nor could proceed from any natural caufe, but fut as feemed to be kindled from Heaven, exceeding light and flaming, by the fury and violence of which thofe two hundred and fifty, together with Korah, were fo confumed that there fearce appeared any relicks of their Carcafes; On- ly arom remained untouched, ‘to the end that it might appear this Fire came from Heaven. This was in the year of the World, 251s; : XI. A third tremendous Eai caufed by the immediate Power eed without any apparent or natural Caufe, and whereby the Tiraclites pain’d a great Vitto fy over the Philitines, is in 1 Sarauel 14. ‘ And it came to pafs on a Day that Sona ‘ shan the Son of Saul aid unto the Young Man that bare his Armour, comeand let {us go over to the Philiftines Garrifon thit jis on the other fide, but he told not'his : Father, And between the paflages by ‘ which onathan fought to go over to the : Philiftines there was afharp Rock on the one fide, and a fharp Rock on the other “ fide, of Cartiquaties. 15 ‘fide, And Fonathan faid to the young ‘man that bare his Armour,’ come and let “ys go over unto the Garrifon of thefe un- ‘circumcifed, it may be that the Lord will ‘work for us, for there is no reftraint to the ‘Lord to fave by many or few ; And his © Armour-bearer faid unto him, Do all that sin thine Heart, turn thee, behold 1 am ‘with thee according to thy Heart, ‘Then ‘fid fonathan, behold we will pafs over “unto thefe Men, and we will difcover our (elves unto them, if they fay unto us, Tar- ry until we come to yous then we will © ftand {till in our place, and will not goup unto them, But if they fay thus, Come ‘yp unto us then we will go up, for the *Lord hath delivered them into our hand and this fall be a ign unto us, And both of them difcovered themfelves to the Gar ‘rifon of the Philiftines, and the Philiftines “aid; Behold the Hebrews come forth out of their holes, where they had hid them- “flver, And the men of the Garrifon an- -‘ fucred “finathan and bis Armour bearer, “and faid, Come up to us, and we will ‘thew you athing, And Fenathan {aid un- “to his Armour bearer, Come upafter me, “for the Lord hath delivered them into. the | Shand of Irael, And Fonathan climbed Sup16 «The General Pittory ‘up on his Hands and upon his Feet, and © his‘ Armour bearer after Fem, and they fell “before Fonathan, and his Armour bearer “flew after him, ‘And that fir fliughter “which Yonathan and bis Armour bearer ‘made was about twenty men within as it £ were an half Acre of Land, which a you of Oxen might Plow. Aad there was “trembling ‘inthe Holt, in the Field, and “among sll the Peoples the Garvifon and * the Spoilers they alfo, trembled, and the * Earth quaked fo that it_wasa very great * wembling (a trembling of God.) And the * Watchraen, of Saulin Gikeab of Bexjamia “looked ; and behald the multitude melted ‘away, and they went on, beating dowa “one another. ‘Then faid. Sagl unto the © People that were with him, Number now fand fee who is gone from us, And when ‘they had numbred, behold Jonathan and “his Armour-bearer were notthere, And * San! faid unto Jhiab, Bring hither the * Ark of God; (for the Ark of God wat that time with the Children of I/rael,) ‘ And ‘it came to paf that while Saul talked un * tothe Prieff, that the noife that was in the “Hoft of the Philiftines went on, and in. “creafed ; and Saul {aid unto the Prieft, f withdraw thine hand. And Saul and all . the 3 arthnuates. 17 ‘the People tat were with him affembled ‘ thémfelves, and they came to the Battel : ‘and behold every mans Swords was againft ‘hisfellow, and there ‘was a great difcomfi- ‘ture, Moreover the Hebrews that were ‘with the Philiftines before that time, which ‘went up with them into the Camp from ‘the Countrey rourid about, even they alfo ‘turned’ to be with the Mraelices that were ‘with Saul and Sonathan. Likewife ail ‘the men of [Gael which'had hid themflves ‘in Mount Epbraim when they heard that ‘the Philiftines fled, even they alfo follow- ‘ed hard after them-in the Battel. So the ‘Lord faved Irael that day: and the Bat- ‘tel paffed over unto Reth-haven. This was about the year of the World, 2940, And ‘Fofepbees thus deferibes this Bartel; “The Philiftines had pitched their Tents on an pointed Rock which extended it. (elf in length with three Angler, and:was om each fite begirt with a Bank, like a Wall o ortification againft the incurfionof their Enemies; The place was fortified by Na- ture fo that no man might afcend or attack them without much hazard ; yet only’ ‘fo- natbat and. bis Armour-bearer, climbing upon their Hands and Feet invaded their | Camp, and flew about twenty of. them ' whichay hy i 1h | co 18 = Che General Pittory which filled their whole Army with terror and amazednefs, who throwing away theic arms,fled amain, Others being ignorant who were thei Friends or Foes, invaded one anio- ther as Enemies, for imagining with them- felvesthat only two Hebrews duift never af. cend and enter their Camp, they addret themfelves to their mutual murder and flaugh- ter, fo that Come of them were flain, others fled to efcape the Sword, and fell headlong down the Rocks; The terrible trembling and quaking of the Earth at the fame time, being double very contributary ,to their deftruction, XII. A fourth tefrible Earthquake hap- pened from an immediate Divine Power, in the days of Uzziab King of ,Fudab, of whoni we read in the 2 Chronicles 26. (and this Earthquake is likewife mentioned by the Prophets Ayes and Zachariab) ‘And Ux- * ziab did that which was right in the fight “of the Lord, And he fought God in the § days of Zechariah who had Underftanding ‘in the Vifions of God, and as long as he “fought the Lord, God made him to prof “per, And he went forth and Warred “againft the Philiftines, and God helped ‘him againft them, and againft the Are § bians | of Carthquate. 19 ‘bians, and the Ammorites gave him gifts, ‘and his name fpread abroad cven to the tentring in of Egypt, for he ftrengthned “bimfelf exceedingly, Moreover Uzziab had an Hoft of fighting men, and the whole number of the Fathers of the mighty men of valour, were two thoufand and Gx hun- dred, “And under their hand was an Army, three hundred thoufand, and even thou- fand and five hundred, that made War with mighty power to help the King againft the Enemy. ‘But when he was ftrong his heart ‘was lifted up to his deftrudtion, for he ‘ tran(greffed againft the Lord his God, and ‘and went into the Temple of the Lord to “burn Incenfé upon’ the Altar of Incenfe, fAnd Azariah the Prieft went in after him, ‘ and with him fourfcore Priefts of the Lord “that were valiant men: and they withftood {Usxiab the King, and tid unto bim, It “appertaineth not unto thee Uzziab to burn ‘Incenfé unto the Lord; but to the Prielts ‘the Sons of aren that are confecrated to Sburn Incenfe: Go out of. the San@uary, ‘ for thou haft trefpaffed, neither thall it be ‘for thine bonour from the Lord God,Then (Unaiab was wrath, and hid a Cenfer in this hand to burn Incenfe, and. while he ‘ was| 20 ©The General Bittory ‘was wrath with the Pricfts, the Leprofic even rofe up in his Forehead before the © Priefts in the Houfe‘of the Lord from be. “fide the Incente Altar. And Azariah the * Cheif Prielt, and all the Priefts looked up. ‘on him, and behold he was Leprovs in his ‘Forehead and they thruft him out from ‘thence, yea he himtelf hafted alfo to. go ott * becaufe ‘the Lord had fmitten him, Aind “Usziab the King was a Leper unto the © Day of his Death, Now though here is no mention made of the Barthquake that happened in his Reign, which is recorded by Amos and Zachariab as aforcfaid, particularly by the laf in ; Chapter 14. And ye fhall flee like as ye fled before the Earthquake in the days of Uzeiab, yet Folephus in his HiNory of the Jems makes it very evident that it was at this time, and upon: this occafion , Uxeial, fays he, upon a certain folemn Feaft diy, wherein all the People were affembled toge- ther, atdred him@lf in the High Prielts Veltmente, and entred into the Tertiple'to offer Sxerifice unto God upon.the Golden Altar, notwithftanding the High Prleft Aza riah, accompanied with fourfcore ‘Pricts prohibited the fame, telling bittl, that it wat of Carthquayes. Pea j was not lawful for him-to Sacrifice, fice it t was only allowed to thofe that were of the Pofterity of the High Prieft Aaron,. whilft after this manner 4zariab expoltulated with hint, commanding’ him to go out of the Temple, and not to invade the Ordinances | of Gods ‘The King-waxed wrath, and threatned to take. his life from him, unle he kept himfelf quiet. Whercupon there fell a great Trembling and Earthquake, and the Temple clef in twain, and a great light of the Sun entred thereinto, and reflected on the Kings Face in, fach manner that all hls body' was covered with a.Leprofy.: And before the City, ina place called Eroge, the half of a° Mountain’ that ftood to the Eaft- ward brake and fell, and rolled and remov> ed for the. (pace of four Furlongs, toward the Oriental Mountain where’ itrefted ; So that. the-publick ways were ftopt and choak- td up, and the Kings Gardens of Pleafure were wholly suinated and disfigured, When the Priefts "beheld the Kings Face covered with a Leprofie, they told him what incon- vetience bad happened to him,and enjoyned him to depart out of the.City, according to the cuftom of men that were polluted s Whereupon he wholly confuted at:Co grie» Yous an accident, and. having no farther By courage22 THe General Viltozp a > obEarehquates. + ecurage to reply, obeyed the command: srént that was given him, enduring 4 pitti> ful aed Jamentable puniffiment for- being proud and presumpruous, in committing fiich Impiery againft God, Finally he died through grief aid difcontent, and was Bur ried in his owt Gatden, In the year of the World, 3194. . XUL, The next Earthquake thar we read of, is: that which happened at the death of our blefled Lord and Saviour, and wasa very convincing démonftration of his Deity and that he wasthe Sot of God, At wo find in St. Matthew 27. * Now ‘from thd “fixth “hour theré was Darknefs over all thé “Land until the ninth hour, Jefus wher She had cried again, gave up the Ghoft, * And behdld the Vail of the Temple was “rene in twWaih fromthe top to the béttom, “atid che Earth did quake, and the Rocks “sent, Ard the Gtaves were opened; -abd ‘many Bodies of Skints which flept-arofe. “And cathe out of the Graves after his Re § (urré€tion, and went into the Holy City “and appedced unto many, Now when’ “the Centurion and they that were with him watching Jefius, faw the Earthquake “and thofe thing that Were done, they eh : ee 23 ‘ed preatlyy Caying,"Traly thit was the ‘Got of Gad. ‘And thef® prodigious effects that’ were produced updn out Saviour’s Crucifixidn, wete “Acknowledged-and actefted as well bys Heathenvas Chriftians: At the time of his “Daath 4'very great: darkhels hepperted iin the Day eime, which continued from fix a Clock till nite; did yer there was no Ec- tlipfe of the Sun, for it was at a Full Mootts that it'was Mirdculous, and contrary: ro. the Order-of Nature, std only by the im mediate Power df Gud! 'whd- deprived the Sun of its Light for that'fpace of time; Andi therefore Dyonifius the Arcopagice being that’ Day in Athens, arid feeing the Sun fo dark-' ted; and al" knowing, as ‘a Mari learned, inthé-courfe of the ‘Heivetis, that fuch an Ncclipfe mutt needs be contrary, to the Rule of Natuta, fpake, with a loud voice, fayihg, Either the. Worldisat an end of the God of ‘Nature Buffers, ee Welle wite teall of ktiteher Supertiatitral Hatehiqavkeldr the Beirvedtion “df Chrift SWUM aefhew 98, Taw the'enid of the Sab- bath: asit began to ddwn towed the frit ‘ sy Frhe Weel, chit Afar’ Magialey ihe other Afary'to {ee the Sepulchre. “atidrbehold there Wad Byrehe Edrchigtitke, . Ba. * for24 Che General Pittory oe {for the Angel of the Defcended from Hee of Cavthquates, « Ven, and cameand rolled back the Stone ‘from the Door, and fate upon it, His , countenance was like Lightning, and his : Raiment white as Snow, And for fear of, Shim, the Keepers did, fhake, and became as dead men, This wag in the year of the World 4036, ‘ XIV. Laltly, We: read of two Earth: quakes in: the-A@s of the Apoftles, which can be attributed to no other caufe but that of the Pawer of God, for the confirmation of the Gofpel, and the, Refurreétion of his Son Jefus Chrift our Lord, The firlt is in Acts 4. 31, ©And when they had prayed : the Earth was fhaken where the Apoltles Were affembled together, and they were ‘all filled with the Holy Ghoff, and they . oa the Word of God with boldnefs, The fecond’ is in Acts 17. * And at Mid. f night Paul and Silas Vrayed and Sang *Praif’s to God, and the Prifoners “heard them. . And fuddenly there wasa * great’ Earthquake, fo that {the Foundatis ‘ons of the Prifon were fhaken; and, ‘imme- ‘diately all the Doors were opened, :and covery ones Bands were lofed,. And the Keeper of the Prifon awaking out of his ‘fleepy and fceing the Prifon Doors.open, She | 2S ‘he drew out his Sword'and would have ‘Killed him(elf, fuppoling chat the Prifoners Shad been fled,’ But Paul cried with a “oud -voice frying, Do thy lf no harms for. weare all here, ‘Then'he called for a ‘Bight, and-{pring in and came trembling ‘and fell down betdre Paul and Silas, And ‘brought them outand faid Sirs, what muft ‘[do'to be faved > and they (aid believe on the Lord Jeli, and ‘thou thal: be faved ‘and thy Houfe. And they {pake unto him ‘the word of the Lord, and toall that were “it his Houfe. And be took them the fame "hour in the Nightand wathed their ftripes, ‘and was baptized he and all his ftraight- ‘way, And-when he had brought them ‘into his Houle, he fer meat before them, belioving in God with all his swas in the $5 year after our Saviours Incarnation, XV. Thee are all the Earthquakes that we find- mentioned in Holy Scripture, to have agtually happened, but there are o- thers {poken of, which may be termed Me- taphorical: Karthquakes,, and may ‘fignify great Alterations and Commotions ‘in the feveral States and Kingdoms of the Worlds wherein, by the thiking, moving, remov- ing, breaking down and diffolving the . B3 Earth, oa26 Che General Pittory Earth, we may underftand the Inhabitants 4 afthe Harth, and the punifhatents 1 thi would in. upon them for their oo Si and Provocations ; (uch as thefe we find djaigh vhveatuing the Narion. of the Jew witha! in_the 29ch Chopter of that Pro. phecy, | Theu thale be vitited of the Lard Sof Eloftswich Thunder, and wich Earth. ‘quakes, and great noife, with Som and : Tempeft, ‘and the flume of devouring Fire: t And in Chapter 24. And it fhall come to * pal, thar he who fheth from the noife of tear Hrdl fall into the Pics and he thar ie meth out of the midi of the Pi fhall he taken in the {nare, for the Windows ‘fvom on high areopen, sid the Founda- (fions of the Earth do fhake, The Earth is ‘i acerly broken down, the Earth is clean ' siflvet, the Earth is moved exceedingly, : © Earth’ fall real‘too and -fto like a {Drunkard and fhall be removed ike a one and the tranfgreffion thereof ‘hall be heavy upon it, and fhall fall and nor rife again, XVI, And our bleffed Saviour foretelling ruction of the Temple, and what great Earthquakes fhall be betore tr, and of the Signs of his coming to Judgment. St, Mot, 244 he feayss “And ye thall hear of ° Wars of Garthquates: 27 Wars and Rumours of Wars, For Nation 4 \fall rife.againft Nation, and Kingdom | againft Kingdom 5 nd there fhalt be ines, and Peftilences, and Barthqual divers places, and the Sun fhall be ‘aed, and the Moon hall not give her ‘Light, and the Stars fhall fall from Hea- Syen, and the Powers of the Heavens fhall the thaken, And then fhall appear the ‘sign of the Son of Man, and he fhall (end is Angels with a great found of a ‘Trum- ‘pet, and they fhall gather toguther his {Ble from the four Winds, from one end “of Heaven to the other. . XVII, Such Metaphorical Earthquakes sre thofe thought to be, which are Prophe- fied of in feveral places of the Revelations, a Ghapter.6, ‘And | beheld when the Lamb Shad opened , the fixth Seal, and lo, there ‘was a great Earthquake,’ and the Sun bee “came black as Sack-cloth of Hair, and the Moon became as Blood. And the Stars of “Heaven fell uata the Earth, even as the ‘Rig-tree cafteth her untimely Figs, when ‘fhe ia fhaken of a mighty Wind. And if the Heaven departed as a Scrowl when ic jg rolled together, and every Mountain © and Ifand were moved out of their places. * And the Kings of the Earth, and the great Ba 5 men, aLma 4 { 28 Che General Pittory | of Carthauates, 29 men, and the rich men, and the chief |:watt, and akt.te come; becaufe thou halt , Captains, and the mighty Men, and eve {taken to thee. thy,, great, Power and batt ty Bondman, and every Freeman hid #Reigned, ver..18. And,the, Nations were ‘themfélves in the Dens, and in the Rocly fof the Mountains ; And {aid to the Mou. {fins and Rocks, Fall cn us, and hide ug ‘ from the Face of him that fitteth on the {'Throne,and from the Wrath of the Lambe {For the grent day of his Werath is come? and who’ fhall be able to ftand, oid Chapter 8. © And the Angel took the Cent and filled ic with Fire of the Altary and cat it into the Barth: and there were 1 Voices, and Thundrings, and Lightning, (ind an Earthquake, And again in Chap, fart, And they heard a great Voice from Heaven fiying unto the Witnefles, {Come up hither, and they alcended up to “Heaven in a Cloud, and their Enomits be. held them, » And the feventh Angel found. ed, and there were great Voices in Hen, | f ven fiying, The Kingeloms of this World « fc (ind of bis Chrift, and he fhall Reign fore are become the Kingdoms of our Lord ever and ever, “And the four and twenty Elders which’ fate before God on they Seats, fell upon their Faces and Worthip- : ped God, faying, We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty, which art and { © walk, 5 Hangry, and thy Wrath is come, and the Nike of the Dead. that they {hould be I Judged, and that thou fhouldett give re- yard. to.thy Servants the Prophets, and !to'the: Saints and them that fear thy name fnall and .great,, .and fhouldelt deftrey them which deftroy the Earth. And the Temple of God was opened in Heaven, ! and there was feen in his Temple the Ark ‘ofhis “T'eftament ; and there were Light~ sings, and Voices, and Thundrings, and an “arthquake, and great Hail. Like: wile in Chapter 16. ¢ And the feventh “An- "gel 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, faying, Ie. is ‘done, And there were’ Voices, and ‘Thunders, and: Lightnings, and there ‘wasa great Earthquake, fach as was not “fince men were upon the Earth, fo migh- sty an Earthquake and fo 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 B “the| | | 30 ©The General Vittory “the Wine of the fiercenc® of his“Wrath, “And every ‘Ifynd fled away, and ‘the * Mousitaing ‘were: not found,” And-there ‘fell upon Meh a great Mail out of Heaven, ‘every Stone about the weight ofa Talent: Sand men_Blafphemed God becaufe of the ‘ Plague of the Hail ; for -the plague there. “of was txceeding great, Thee ‘and fuch other Striptures may denote the future: Ca. lamicies chat” will befal the Inhabitants of the Barth about:the end of the World, and do alfo demonftrate the great power aud alfufficiency of Almighty God, who as Yoo faith Chapter 9, * Is vile in Heart, and Tmighty in Strength, who retoveth the * Mountains, and overturneth them in his “anger. Who fhaketh the Earth out of “her place, and the Pillars thereof tremble XVIIL Having givenan account of the Stipernatural and Metephorical Earthquakes secord’d in Holy Writ; I thall now-relate- | thofe that are mentioned by other Hifto- sians of the former and latter Ages, and likewile of fome of the Confequents which have faceveded them as ‘to Wars, Pett fence, Famine and other dreadful Cale. all be obliged to ree ready publithed in a Book peat (ome of end were judged tobe the feds | «0 of arthatates. 31 Book called, furprizing Miracles of Na- “os : me Before-the bisth of Saviour Plate mentions a wonderful Earthquake, where by in a Day and'a Nighe a vatt Mand with. out the Streights of Gibralter called Atlantis, and bigger than Affeand Africa together, was wholly overwhelmed, and afterward. covered by a great Inundation of Waters, jnfomuch that on the Atlantick Ocean for + great while a’ter no Ship could Sail, by sefon that the fame huge Sea by refolution of the Earth of that mighty [lind wasall turned into Mud. He alfa Writes, that by another terrible Earthquske the Continent of Africa was rent funder, fron: Europe and Affa, as it iat this day, bing new only conneéted by alittle Neck of Land at the Red’ Sea, "The famous Ile of Sicily was Hikewife formerly a part of Ztaly, and by an Earthquake divided from it. Aud cur [land of Great Bristain is fappofed to be broken off from the Gontineny of by that means, Herodotws.(aith that Heyes ie ancient time was aGulph of the Sca, and by an Earthquake made a dry | ver Inds in Aja whi ers Rivers into and the neighboring32 Che General Pittory into a Wilderne& by a lamentable arth quake, Before the Peloponefian, or Civil ‘Wars among the Grecians, one of their Mlands called Delphos famous for the Oracle and Temple of Apolo fcituated therein; was wholly ruined by an Earthquake,which was thought to portend thofe remarkable alterations which foon “after happened in Greece. A little before the Wars ‘between the Lacedemonians and the Ista, who were their Slaves and Bondmen in the Countrey of Laconia, there bappened in the City of Sparta.a moft terrible and fearful Earth. quake, for the Earth in many places of the Countrey opened and fell in as into a bot. tomlels Pit. The Mountain Taygetura fhook fo terribly that parts of Rocks fell down {from it, “and Sparta with two other Cities with rhe violence of it were thrown to the ground, five hundred Houfes only except. 1 cepted ; And great flouds of Water follow. ing it, the Countrey was almoft utterly de- frayed thereby, Tyre and Sydon fatfered exceedingly by Earthquakes, and an infis 4 nite ‘number of People were buried under (the ruins, And Strabo mentions.a City (ci- tuate about Sidon chat was wholly fwallow- ed up thereby: Pliny writes of twelve Ci- } tiesruined in one Night, and Sr, Auguftine is —Ss i of Carthquates. ve 3a | is cit ‘ what is more ftrange, atin a ee ee a Thundred ties in Ly- { lig were deftroyed, In the Veliternean f fields the Earth rent afunder infuchhug> | Ind frightful breaches; that Trees and viole Hloulés were (wallqwed upin them, ud it Rained Bloud for two whole days |igether, about which time Hannibal 1 cived that notable overthrow by Seip which was the deftrution of the famous iyand Republick of Carthage, and the . n queft of that Country to the bai re ivins, Hift, Fofephus recor OL ae i Toten the birth of Chritt, thee happened a tremendous Earthquake i the Cauntry of Fudea, whereby divers ere flain, and many People over- auc ore Hloufes, and. petithed, tu the number as fome write of bout thirty thoufind, . OT a proceed, in a Chronological Order, to relate all the Earthquakes that have happened fince our Saviours Birth, as I fad them mentioned by feveral Authors, of which that which happened at his Cru- cfixion is {aid to be the greateft that ever wat, which fhiook not only one part ne |Ewth as in other cafes, but the jiele | Woild uembled at onee, if ee |34 The Genera Pitty | - Authors are to be-credited. din the tenth Year of Chrift was a great Earthquake in Cypres, that overthréw mary Cities, addin his fevententh year thirtcen Cities in Italy were deftroyed, sind the River Tyber overs flowed Rome. The effets whereof wae thought tobe, That Sejenrs the Favourke to Tyberins was executed for his Ambition, his Son ftrangled, his Daughter firll De? flowred by the Bangman, then put to death, Drnfius is Boifoned's Tyberig turn’d Tyrant, In.59, wasa terrible Es clipfe of the Son, (> that the Scars were fen, Neri’s Supper was burned with Light ning, and a great Earthquake happened at Rome, At this time the Brittains fay fe venty thoufiad Romans, and Suetcnixs den ftroys eighty thoufind Brittains as he comes from Anglefey. Rem is fired by Nero who rejoices in hay Villany, hé commits Incelt with hisown Mother, afterwards Murders and Ripsher up toview the place where be lay before he was born, Cartifammda Queen of they Britains rejeGteth her Hut. band, the King-of Scots takes her,. aud bie rice her alive, XXL In the reign of sn tie By ror Log. there happened a mot te Earthquake at Autiveh which deftra of Carthquakes. 35 iy Clties and People, ars extended it @IE vy fars Frightfel Lightsings which mde-the Night as ligne ‘ae Day, preceded withdreadful Thunderbolts that threw down fately buildings, killed many men; Al frong and unufiial Storms of Wind, after thich were heard great and (adden Noifes, the Sea wrought, the Waves'fwelled, che Exth wae thaken, buildings trembled, o- thers were lifted up and fell down, whereby thick a duft and darknefs was raifed that People could not {ee nor hear one another, tor (carcely breath ; Trees were pluckt up ty the Roots, and multitudes buried in the Ruins of their own Houfer, After which came-fuch vidlent heats that People not be- ing able to indure it, ftriptand bid them- faves naked under, ground, where many were famifhed, by reafon the continual fluking ofthe Earth fo diftraéted them that they durft not come forth for. relic. In 107, A very’ great, Earthquake happened in fia, with many Prodigious fights in theAir, as fighting of Men,éc, Another in Galatia and Rome where Lightning from Heaven confumed the ‘Temple of their Gods, with ftrong unwonted Wind’, and horrible Noifts in the Farth, In120, A great Earthquake in Nice; and two terrible onesSERIE Rares evra Savi SEtT arse cares ees ani ae seane tae CatraEcATE eect Carea scarce aE ane ea ESET 36 The General Vitor ones in Paleftina Milk in a Prodigious manner rained in Rome, and A great Fire deftroyed ‘two hundred and forty Houtes, In 162, Avery great Earthquake, in, Bj, thynias The Waves of the Mediterranean Seas in a Calm elevated them(elves to the top of a Mountain far diftant from it, and call the foam a great way upon the main Land; At this time Mogul King of Scots Btowing odious to the Nobility for his Ty. ranvy they Murder him, Smyrna in Afiq 1 quite deftroyed. The Emperor Comm dus geoweth rediculous, and the’ People taking notice thereof, he executed smany of them, heis ftrangled by Martiahis Concn, bine, wi ee fucceeding, after having cigned. only eight ys is fai hie cerned ighty feven days is flain by XXIL In 24g, The Sun wastotally Eo, clipled, and ‘there was fo horrid ca ae quake, the Earth gaped fo extreamly that certain Citier, together with their People, were (wallowed up, and exceeding great darknef happened for many days together, Now the: tenth Perfecution began wherein one hundred ay four thoufind Chriftians Were put to Death in Egypt and (e thoufand banifhed, and ang burned ae Houle in Nicomedia In the year 200, . there of Earthquakes. 37 there were great Earthquakes,by one where. of thirteen Cities in Campania were over- thrown, ‘and another in 4/is, A hand was feen in the Church of Lateran in Rome with- out a Body, which in the fight of many men writ upon the Wall chefé words, *Hodie venenum in Ecclefia infufurus. Yo ‘day is Poifon poured into the Church ; Which was thought to intend the extraor- dinary indulgence of Con/fantine the'Great, and fieft Chriftian Emperor upon the Bifhops, and his heaping Honours and Eftates upon them, whercby they degencrated from their Primitive . fimplicity and humility. Soon after many Cities in the Eaft fell to the ground by an Earthquake, and Neo-Cafie- rea was overturned and all its Inhabitants perithed, except firch as were faved by the Bihhop in the Church,. Dyracchium was demolifhed’ by un Earthquake, and Rome trembled for three Days and Nights fuccet lively, and Antioch was indangered by an Earthquake of a whole years continuance, Rhodes and Sicily were likewife endama- ged thereby, and likewile Cilicia, and in- deed it was’ fo general that all Evropeand Afia were fhaken at once, XXII, In 366. in the reign of Sulian the Emperor, who was firft a Chriftian and | : after-poe 38 «= The General Pitozy afterward revolted to ifm, For which he was named the Apoftate, and b ame @ bitter Enemy to the Chritt ans, o Spight and contempt of our ble {fe Saviour, who had Prephefied thar the Temp'e of Ferufalers fthould be deftroyed and never rebuilt, He inipioefly re(clved. to invals ‘dae the fame, and “d:figned tq build it Magnificently with cxecfive caft and char. mitting the care theres’ to une who did vigoroufly apply hinlelf Works being affifted thercin by the Governour of the Province. But there brake out dreadful Balls of Fire near thé foundation of the Walls, which with their frequent Irruptions, made the Place unap- proachable, feveral Workmen being con famed by. the Fire, and in this manner a full perivd vas put to. their further proceeding therein’; But Niciphores Califtvs pives a more hirge and tull Narrative thereof a followeth,” "Fhe Jews, faith he, having ot together as many ae were skilful inthe Artof Buildieg, and having. provided Me terials for ityand fully cleaned the place, they PreparedSpades made of Silver,their charges being allowed cut of the publick ftock: with fuch. Earncftnefs and Alncrity ‘did they le bour hercin, that the very Women ‘carried away ‘uy,coming tothe pl of Carthquaties. 39 way the Rubbith in their Laps, and what- Never Jewels, or precious Ornaments they fad, they expended on the bufinels, When they heddigged up the remaindcrs of the dd Building from the-loweft Foundations, and had cleared the ground, fo that © th + was, not, a:ftone lett upor ing to our Blcfled Lo Banthquake, infomuch that the ior gt ous of the Foundation, fs that many ofthe Jews were flain, who eit 0 hathe work,,or had the overfight theresf, The Publick-buildings which were ncarclt the Temple, were likewife loofned, and filling down with great vivler.ce, buried thofe who were in them in-their ruines ; fome who attempted to fly away, were found half dead; others loft their Legs, Arms, Hands, andother Members, accords ing as the force of that fudden accident feiz- séupon them, ‘The Earthquake was fesrce over, but thofe who remained fell to worle ogain, But when they attempted itthe fond time, fudden flafhes of Fire violently iffued out of the Foundations, and other Fire fell furiowfly from Heaven, atid deftroyed sore than betore, confuming to Athes the | Hammers, Graving Tools, Saws, Hatchets, Axes,40 The General Bittory Axes, and all other Inftruments which the Workmen had brought for their Service ; the flames continuing a whole day together, When Cyril, who was at that time Bitho of Ferufalem, faw thele things, he confider: ed in his mind the words of the Prophet Dis nicl, to which Chrift alfo had fet his Seat in the Holy Gofpel, and then told them alls § That now was the time, when the ‘ Oracle of our Saviour had its accomplith. ‘menr, which faid, That a Stone fhould: not be left upon a Stone in the Temple which wh:n he had faid, a dreadful Eacth quake affailud the remaining Foundation, and cafting out all the relt of the Stone, difperfed them abroad, and a fearful Storm avofe, which whirled in the Air a ny Thou find Buthels of Lime and Plaifter, and fae. den fimes of Fire flathing from beneath, bumcup,in a moment an innumerable Com pany of People, who wei inthe work, or coming to behold it. Thus did the. wicked Falta FalGid Chritts Pre: digtions cancerning, Ferufaler, by the fume means whereby he defigned to make them void, i XXIV, In 367; in the Reign of Vales and Valentinian Emperors of Roms, there happen’d fuch horrible Earthquakes through- out of Carthquates, 41 at the Weftern, Empire, as neither ‘True itorians have related the like,’ nor Fables jim{elves reprefented tous, A. little after te day dawned there was a great Tempeft {Thunder and Lightuing, which. was fol- wed by fuch a dreadful trembling of the Bath, that the Sea alfo was fhaken therc- mb, and deferted the fhore and its an- (ent bounds for. a great fpace, and the fepths of its Channels were difcovered 5 pultitudes of Fith were feen to ftick in the Mud, and many plowed Ficlds became Na; gable, the inequality of the Seas bottom peared, here Hills, and . there Vallies vhich had never before feen the Sun, fince, a the original of all things,’ they were firft overwhelmed . with the Flouds. Many Ships: were Jeft:on the. dry ground, and fvarme of People flew thither to catch Fith; when fuddenly the Sea, as difdaining to be imprifoned, returned tq its-former ftation with fuch impetuofity, that it-over-ran its fumer bounds, .and...with the-fury thereaf wvérthrew a multitude of Towns and Hou- fy, with many thoufarids of, People,:and seat numbers of Ships werd: overwhelmed, fome pf which, with. the violence thereof, were blown upon the tops of Houtes.. “Soon her a great Rebellion happened, and the ‘ Northern42 Tie General Hittory Northern Nations came’ in like a Floud, and over-ran the Roman Empite, which was thoujsht to be prefaged by this lamen- table accident, XXV, In 430. A great Earthquakera ged in divers places, and overturned many Cities, the Wall of Conftattinople, though butnew built, itthrew to the ground with 57 Turrets 5 Alfo S:ones of great bulk, lately placed there, full down, many Town, were ruined. Yea fome Authors affirm thet ic was {0 terrible as to affet almoft the whole World, the Each paped-and fwallowed up many Villages ; Fountains ‘were dried ‘4p, and Waters brake forttrin places formerly dry, Great Trees were torn up by the Roots; Heaps of Earth werg (o-fhaken to gether that,they were raifed into Mout tains, «The Sea threw up’ dead Fifher, me ny Iflands were funk and. overivhelmed, Ships failing on the Sea were fuddenly left on dry ground, In fhore- many places of Bythiniay the Hellefponty and both the-Pbry! Bin’s were grievoully diftrelt thereby, Thi difatter continued fix months without inte! miffidryj\and the Peuple of Conftiantinoph riot daring to flay in the Ciry for feartl the Tallof, their Houfes, continued togethtt with their. good Emperor, and their Pé triarch, | ofCarthquates, 43 wiarea, inthe Ficlds, inflant in Prayers to ite. Alrighty for the removal of fo dread- fila Judgment, After the danger was aver, the Emperor repaired the Walls of Confantincple which were much endamaged thoreby, This was judged a Sign of the Death of Theedofizs which (von attcr follows , and of feveral changes which happened athe fame time in divers parts of theWorld, XXVI. In 454. A great Earthquake at Rome, another at Vienta, Wolves and o- ther Beafts wander all.the year through the Cty and devour men, An Earthquake in Refit, atid at Confanrinople, with two fonderful Blaz'ng Stars. About this time the Brittains beat the Sexens, and - drive than into’ the Ife: of Thanet. The Jews Rebel.in Egypt and Kill wo hundred thou- fitd Men, “and forced thofe that farvived to eat the dead. \‘They flay two hundred ind forty thoufand in Cypras, and. at lft. at flain themfelves, “A” great Famine in Conftantinople, The Goths walt Thrace, Thefaly and Epirse : Gratin llleth thirey frethoulind Germats; Maninins flayeth Gratien tteacheroully,, and goffeffeth Brite his, Frames, Spaigsihd Africk,-. The Tems WOF-Apowo Daphreus is burnt, ‘T'he'Her- ‘Hen ‘Temples ar¢ fhut up by the Chriftian Empe- peel | i \ t ! ' i i | | |44 The General Ptttory - Emperors, and their Idols deftroyed, In 458. A great Earthquake happened at 4y. tioch.which the Citizens had fad caufe to re. member, Before it began fome of the Inhabi. tants were feized with an extraordinary madnefe, fuch as feemed to exceed the fury of Wild Beafts, and to be the prefage of that Calamity which followed foon atter; For about the Fourth hour of the night in September, almolt all the buildings of the new City were overturned, which was well peopled and nane of it forfaken or empty,be- ing curioufly buile by the Magnificence of divers Emperors, who ftrove to exceed, each other in the adornment of it; The firlt and fecond Fabricks in the Palace were alfo + caft down, the reft ftanding together with. a Bath, which having formerly been neg. leéted now when by the’ Earthquake the | reft’ were ehoaked up ftood the Citizens in very good ftead, : XXVIT, In the firlk Century was ater | rible Earthquake. in Arabia, and another in. Paleftina and a third at Gonftantinople fcr | fix wacks together,. -Itcained Bloud in Pjed- { mont, cond dt York the, Fountains ran Bloud: -a Dragon and many:.:‘Senponts were feen in thé River Tyber. « After this.{6 terrible a Far mine: caged in: Brittain that the Peopteal. aot fembled- 1 ao of Carthquakes. 45 fembled in great numbers to caft themfelves ino the Sea; A Plague ( great in Rome that 800 men fell dead in an ‘hour in the time of Proceffion, Brunchild, a Daughter of France, being found guilty of the death of ten Kings 5 She is tyed by the Hair of | the Head and the Arms to Wild Horles, ‘and torn to pleces, The Jews and Sama- ritanes Perfecute the Chriftians, and burn thelr Churches in Cefaria, XXVIII, In the fixth feventh and eighth Centuries, an Earthquake at Antioch; Ano- ther in PaleZina, another in England and Normandy ; a fiery Dragon was feen in the | Skies, and divers other dreadful Prodigies, About the fame time there was a violent Euthquake at Conftantinople which lated many days, and every hour the City fuffer- ed extraordinary fhocks, Many houfes were thrown cown, but the Pedple’ betook themfelves to Prayer, Fafting and Repen- tance, and the Almighty had compaffion on them; Mi ny Cities in the Eaft were ruined by it, and the City of Alexandria was Core fhaken therewith, which was the more afto- nifhing becaule it feldom happens in rhofe arte, as again thaken (0 violently that not only the: Walls and Churches but all Greece Cc trembled Some years after, Confautinple ©46. The Generat Pittoep trembled therewith, "Fhe Saracens about this Age, Befieged Con/tansingple. for feven, years avd at lafh thirty. thoufend of: them, were lain, TheKing of Scotais flain by, the Pi@s, A Peitilence in Confantinaple, for three years, which devoured fo many, that the living were not fufficient to. bury, theDead, _Alpbonfus King of Portugal kil. leth feventy thoufand. Moors and taketh, Lisbon from them, ‘The Danes Invade Big, Jand, but all of them almoft perifhed, ‘Phe | Brittains Invade Scotland, Confeantine theit, King was killed, ‘The Saracens take 4, moricum and many Captives; Lothair. Wats with bis Brethren, andan hundred thoufand men are flain. In 801, while Charles the Great was in Italy there was an Earthquake with great noifes, which fhook all. France and Germany, but cfpecially Italy 5 it over threw feveral Towers and even Mountainss and the Church of St, Pant at Rome was deftroyed by ir, whereupon Pope Leo Ill appointed folemn Feafls and -Proceftions, Thefe Prodigies were followed with furious Tempefts and Contagious Diteafes which affedted the Cattel throughout Italy 5 fo thet moft of their Beatts died. A gre Faming and Peftileace in France, "The King of England is Nain by the Eaft Angles, ne anes 7 of Carthauates, 47 Danes enter: the Thames-with two hundred and. fifty: Ships, they tale Canterbury and Lmdon, andexpel the King, XXIX, Un the-Niath, Tenth and Ele- venth Conturies, an Earthquake happened jn. Scotland, another in France, a very great. one in.Afia, and feveral terrible ones wth.mighty: Whirlwinds: in Germany 5 ALL fa great Earthquake in England, where fveSuns appear-at-one, and-atterward four Moons at once, Horrible groans and noifes intheground at Rome, Syracufe in Sicily vas-extreamly fhaken with an Earthquake ; A wonderful’ Haif'‘at- Oxford in England, with many other. terrible appearances, as Fire-rifing out of the River Réyne, and mac ny places in Germany the Sun appears for cirtain daysasif it bled, In the Reign of King. William the Gonqueror. 1086, hap- penedun Earthquake with a dreadful noite Intro in the Reign of King Henry I, the Earth moved with fo great violence in Eng: land; that many buildings where fhaken down sand Malmesbury the Hiftorian writes, That the Houfe wherein he fate was lifted up. with a double remove, and at the third time. fetled again inits proper.place, In di= vets places a hideous noife was heard, and the Barth through feveral rifts caft forth C2 Fire48 Che General Dittory Fire for many days together, which neithee by Water, nor any other means could be fappreft, In Lumbardy in Italy about the fame time was an Earthquake which lafted above fix weeks, and removed a Town from the place where it ftood a great diftance, | Matthew Pars mentions another Earth, quake, and a great Darknefs in England | about twenty years after 5 And another iq the Reign of King Henry IL. in the Eafe parts of Exgland, which threw down many | Perfons who were ftanding or walking, and made the Clocks 'to ftrike and Bells to ring in the Steeple, In 1179. on Chriffmas day at Oxenbal near Darlington in the County | of Durham, the Earth was lifted up aloft likea Tower, and fo continued all that dey, as it were immoveable till Evening, and then fell wich fo horrible a noife thatit affrighted the Inhabitants thereabout,: and the Earth: fwallowing it up,, made in the fame place three Pitsof a.wonderful depth, which were afterward. called Hell-Kettls, Ic is reported that Bifhop Tonffal put a Gook into one of theft Pits, having firft given her a mark,.and the fame Guofe was lound in the River Zees, which if true, thefe Kettles have paffages under Ground, XXX, of Carthquakes, 49 XXX, In 1180, an Earthquake ruined agreat part of the City of Naples Great Stones were Rained from: Heaven, and a Hill of an immenfe magnitude is removed out of bis place. The City of Cataniain Sicily is deftroyed with nineteen thoufand People by an Earthquake, A multitude of Sues were feen at Rome, a fiery Dart ran up and down in the Heavens, Women ap- peated in the Heavens of admirable fhapes to the great amazement of the Spectators, About thistime the Hungarians Invade the Empire of Germany, but are reconciled, The Bithop of Salssburg calls an hundred thoufand Hungarians into Bavaria, which are all flain there and the Emperors Eyes pluckt our, A: great Famine in Germany and France, The Pruffians Invade Poland, and fifteen thoufand of them are flain, ‘and twenty thoufand made Prifoners, The Saxons Rebel againft the Emperor, twenty fix thoufand of them are Drowned in a Pit- fall by the Stratagem of two Bithops in Hol- land as they came againft the Earl of Flan- ders, Gonfalmus Kapg of Spain Poifons King Sancho with an Apple, The Danes Land in Scotland and watt divers places, the Scots put them tg flight. They Land in Kent and fpoil the Ile of Thanet, ‘Khe King C3 of50 Che Beneyal Pillow of Denmark is flain by one of his Servants» The Danes being defeated at Onford fipta the Church, andare there burnt, Osho ine peror of. Germany is Poifoned wich a pair-of Gloves. Pedro King of Spain taketh Ofeg, and killeth thirty thoufind Moors, The Englifh Invade Normandy. “Harel Ravl of Caithnes in Scotland cuts out the Bithops ‘Tongue for which the King puts out his Eyes, hangs him, and caufeth his Male Children to be Golt, The K, of Jooniun is fwallowed up by ‘an Earthquake, and in England many Buildings are thrown down by-the fame means, amongit which the Cr thedral Church of Linooln was ront in pieces, XXXL In rape, There were fach Earth. quakes.in Italy and Lorsbardy, that the'Ci | ties and ‘Towns were forfaken, and the Peo pie kept abroad in the Fields in Tents ;.me ny Houfesand Ghurches were thrown down, much people thereby cruthed to Daath, “The Earth trembled twice a day id Lombardy for fourteen days togethers elides two Citics in Cypras, und the City of Brefcis were this year deftroyed by Earth: quakes. In 1176, About the time tht Adrian the Fourth was made Pope, wast dreadful Earthquake at Adillain, and all \ the | of Carthquatkes. gt the Country round abour, A noife like Trumpets in the Air was heard in Italy, where ‘was likewife a great Earthquake, another in- England ; and a third in Gersna- ay. The Confequents were thought to be, ‘the flayitig of two hundred thoufand Moors by the Spaniards about that time, The Pope giveth the Kingdom af England to Philip King of Frxnce, lixcommunicating Kibg Fokn. The French ftrive to tale pof- feftion of it, but the Flemith with the Eng- ‘fh take three -hupdred fail of Ships from them, and burn an hundred more, The King. of Aragon is flain, ‘The King’of Bulgaria picks out the Emperors Eyeb, Thé Tafidels tale fe-nfalers and flay many Prifiners, 9 The Turks win all the lowgr Afid from the Greeks, The Pope is flain by a Fall, The Emperor Kills fourteen thoufand Bohemians. “he King of Exgtand brings the Welth under intire fabjeétion, XXXL Remarkable is what is related by divers Authors, whith happened in v'Town called -Hamiel in the Dutchy of Branfwick in Germany in 1248. “Fune 26, This Town being very grievoufly troubled with Rats nnd Mice, there cane to thern Pled Goak Piper, who agreed with the Burpets Whit for fo much Moncy he would quite 1 C4 clear$2 The General Pittoy Clear them from tho Vermine, 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 follow- | ed him, whom he led to a great Lake hard” by, where theyall went in and were drown. ed, f6 that the"Town was Infeéted no more, | At the end of the year the Pied Piper return ed for his reward, The Burgers put him off with flightings and neglect, offering him fome fmall mateer, which he refufing, and ftaying fome few days in Town ; On Sunday Morning at High MaG when mot People were at Church, he fell to Play on his Pipes, and began another Tune, where. pon there followed him one hundred and thirty Boys out of the Town to a great Hill called Koppen, {cltwate on the Road hard by, when they approached the Mountain, it rent in twainand opening let him and the Chil- dren in, and then clofed again, fo that he nor they were ever feen after, This Hi ftory is writ and ‘religioufly kept by them in their Annals at Hamel to this day, isread in their Books, and painted in their Win dows; and- their Churches ; they datethl Bills, Bonds and other Inftruments in Lavy, From the year of the going out of the Chil. dt; me ‘Story is Ingraven, of Carthquates, 53 den; Befides there is a preat Pillar of - Stone at the Foot of that Hill whercon the It is alfo obferved in the memory thereof, that in the Srreets the Children paffed out of, no Piper is admitted to live ever fince, and if a Bride live in that Sireet, till fhe is come out of it no Dancing is to be fuffered, Howel’s Epiftles, page 2172. TXKUT, In 1300, When the Turkith | 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 Lombar- dy was fhaken, A great Earthquake in Landen, which was efpecially felt on the Banks. of the River Zbames, which fhook and threw down. many buildings, and was the more terrible becaufe the Welftern parts are lef accuftomed ‘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 myth mifchief. about Bath and Briffol, and two more happened in England not long af- ter, “Alf two.in France and one in Saviy. An Earthquake at Rome in the time of Pope Boniface the eight, who fainted away for fear, and afterward publithed a Jubilee. p Cs In4 The General Pittoey In 7348, a terrible Earthquake happened at Conftantinople, which indured fix weeks and reached in the extent of it as faras Hyp: gary and Italy; Twenty fix Cities wore overthrown by it ; Mountains were torn up bythe Roots, and feveral Men, Women and Beafts by that ftrong Exhalation were turn. ed into Statues of Salt. In Perfia five hun dred Houfes were thrown by an Earthquake in the:City of Lair, In England for fix hours together the Sun appeared as Bloud, In Germany was avery great Earthquake, Grathappers cover Switzcrland like Snow, At \Oxford the Image of a-Head {pake thus, Cupht decidetur, Caput Elevabitur, Pedesele. i vabuntur fuper Caput ; The Head fhall becut * offs The Head thal be lift up; The Fet fall be ‘lene boon ene, Which was thought to prefage the Depofing and Denth of King Richard U1. -Atthiscinse fly thonfind Chriftians were fldin by the Turks inthe Plainsof Cafevia Scotland is walled by the Englifh, ‘The Emperor Sigiforonl | ony two of the ‘Noblesiin Hun kary 7 Pope is imprifonedsby 4 Trench King. . er beteean Ring Hemy.the V, and theFrench, whereinthey loft owenty thoufand men, ten thoufandibee ing killed upon the place, .and-as many 5 made | A. great Battel betweon'King — of Cavthquakes, 55 | made Prifoners, The French burn Rye and Hapings in Suffex, and Plunder the Iffe of en In Gaunt five thoufind Houtes were burnt; and feventcen Towns drown- ed in’ Flanders, A. very great Earthquake | fa France, and Grafhoppers deftroy almoft | every green thing there. ‘The World was fhook with terrible Earthquakes, Cities» Caftles, Villages and a multitude of People were fwallowed up in the Cayerns of the arth: Many at Liege deftroyed by ‘Thun- der} while they were paying their Venera- tion to: the Saints for fafety.’ Mountains were cleft, ‘and Rivers were dried up, XXVIV. In 1456. There arofe upon the Sea of Ancona in Italy, together witha thick Gloomy ‘Cloud that extended gbove two Miles, a Tempeft of Wind, Water, Fire, Lightning and Thunder, which peir- cing’ to the moft deep Abyfles of the Sea, forced up the Waves witha moft dreadful fury, and carried all before ‘it upon the Land,’ which canfed {0 horrible an Earth- quake ‘fome time after, that the Kingdom of Naples was almoft ruined, and all Iraly carried the difmal marks of it ; A Million of Houfes and Cefiles were buried. in their own ritins; ‘and above thirty thoufand Pep- ple erufhed to picces, and a huge Moun. - tainJ A | 56 «Che General Hitory tain overturned into the Lake de Soon after was a dreadful Earthquake in Millain another in Hungary, there was feen ( faith my Author ) an Image of Chrift crucified with a Sword to pa along the Air from Wet to South for tw hours, In Germany. Huilftones fell as hig as Goofe Eggs. At this time the Humgarians defeat the Turks, and take thir. ty thoufand Captives from them- The Spa. nith InquiGtion is firft inftituted in Caf againft. the Moors and Fews. The Fews are expelled’ Spain, The Turks expel the Chriftians from Adrianople, King Henry VI. is taken Prifoner at North-bampron: Great Inundations in England, ‘The Sun is darkned without an Ecclipfe, XXXV, In t509, Sept: 14. There happened 2 terrible Earthquake at Con/an- tinople and in the Countrey thereabout, - Be. Jaret Il, being Emperor, by the violence whereof a great part of that Imperial City with many ftately Buildings both Publick and Private were overthrown ; and thirteen thoufand People overwhelmed and flain ; The terror thereof was fo great that the People generally forfook their Houfes, and lay abroad in the Fields 3 Yea Bajaxet him- felf, though very Aged, and fore ne wul laGarde | In Poland | of Earthquakes, ‘$7 ith the Gout, for fear thereof went from Conpansinple to Adrianople , but finding bim@lf in no more fafety there than before, he left the City, and lay, abroad in the ' Fidds in his Tent. This Earthquake en- | dared by the {pace of eightcen days, .or as the Turks relate, for amonth with little in~ termiftion ; which was then accounted omi- nous, as portending the miferable Calamities which afterward happened in the Ortoman Family. After this Earthquake enfued a great Plague, wherewith Conftantinople was grievoufly Vifired and almoft depopula ted; After the Barthquake ceafed, the Ent. peor imployed eighty thoufand Men to re~ pair it, who in four months timere-edified the ruins thereof with much, Beauty and \ Magnificecce, Iris flrange to Relate ((aith | my Author) that in this year 15 10, there fell twelve hundred ftones f4om Heaven, fome weighing Sixty pound, others more, An Earthquake in Apulia whereby above Sixteen thoufand Perfons were overwhelmed, after which enfued a War: betwixt the French andthe Duke of Savoy which dee voured above a Million ot Men, In Hol land four bundred and four Parifhes are drowned: with all their People and Cartel, The Turks take Buda in Hangary, King " . Henry58 The Weneral Wettory | of Cavthquates. 59 Henry Vill, writes againft the Popes Cyr. | dfewhere will believe, that a Mountain dinal Wooley dies: The Englifh Ch fined and’ pay che King ae ase fand | pound for divers ‘Mifdemeanors, {q 1531. In the City of Lisbon in Portugal 4. ‘bour fourtecn hundred Hous were over? thrown by an Earthquake, and Six hun. dred mote fo forcly fhaken that:they were ready to fall and many of their Churches were c:ift tothe ground. “ XXXVE In. 1538, Mr, ‘George Sindy gives the"following ‘Relation of a mol tei mnatlable Barthquake ‘and ‘Burning which happened encar the City Puteoli With the new formed Mountain;! For the famous Lake Luctinns hard by, extended formerly tp i idly, Suilfhurous Lake Avernas,ap. poled the entrAnée tito’ Hell: by ‘ignorant Antiquity, wheré they'offered Unifernal $a! «3 t Pluto thiir God of Hell, and'to the Adanes or Ghoffs “of their . décesited Friends, who Were there faid ro have retuta- ed anfivers co'wh\ar thay’ have! demanded‘of them : ‘This plzce'is now only alfitele’ watry plath choaked up by che‘horrible arid afté- nifhing eryption “of a new Mountain whercof as often as I think, I am apt to give credit to whatfoever is wonderful; For who’ is there in this place but Knows, or who elfewhere fhould arife partly outofa Lake, and part- ly out of the Sea, in oneday and anight to fich an height, as te contend in altitude i with the higheft Mountains adjayning, ‘yet foitwas : For Sept. 29. 1538. the Cour- ney hereabour having for feveral days be- fore ‘been tormented ‘with perpétual Barth- quakes, that no one Hout w asleft intire, but all Men expeéted an immediate ruin 5 ‘After the Sea had retired two huindred Pa- és'from'the Shoar, leaving abundance oF Fih and Springs of frefh water rifing inthe bottom, this Mountain vifibly afcended about ‘the fecond hour of the Night, with an hideous roaring noile, horribly vomiting Stones, and fuch 'ftore of Cinders, as ever~ whelntéd all the’buildings thereabout, and the-healthful Baths of Tripergela celebrated for fo many Ages, confuming the Vines to- Athes, and killing ‘Birds: And Beafts ; The ” fearful Inhabitants of Patedli, flyirig away in the dark, with their Wives and Children, waked, defiled, cryitig’' otit’ and detetting their Calamitier, Maniféld mifchicls bad they fuffered by the Turks and Barbarians, yet none like that which Nature inflicted, This Mountain is to be (en at thisday, the top whereof is above a Mile from the ‘ Foundation,60 Che General Pittory Foundation, the ftones upon it are fo light and Pory, that they will not fink cite thrown nto Water; when it was newly | raifed, it had_a valt number of Vents or ik i faes, fone of them {inoaking and likewig flaming, ‘others difgorging little Rivers of | hot water, ‘keeping’ a dreadful - rumblin and many miferably perifhed who ventured ! to go down into the hallowneS above: But that hollow on the top isnow an Or, chard, and the Mountain throughout is be, reft of its Terrors, no more fmoak, fire o Fame iffaing therefrom,; an ~XXXVIL In 1571, Feb.17. A prodigh Earthquake happened inthe Eaern Poet Herefordfhire near alittle Town called Kina fton: About Six in. the Evening the | Earth began to. open, and an Biill called | Marcley Hill. with a Rock under it, made at firlt a mighty bellowing noite which was heard alar off, and then lifted up it felfa great heighth.and began to travel 5 bearing alongwith it the Trees that grew upon it, the Sheepfolds and Flocks of Sheep abiding thereon at the: fame time; In the plate from whence it ficlt moved it left a gaping diftance forty Poot wide and eighty Ells long, the whole Field was about twenty Acres, Pafling along it overthrew a Chap. pel that before it Highways, ‘of Carthquaties, 61 pe landing in the way, removed an Ewc- Tree growing inthe Charch-yard from the Wet to Ea, With the like violence it + Houfes and Trees, it made Tiled ground Pafture, and again-turned Pafture into Village. Having thus walked from Sunday in the Evening till Monday Noon it then ftood fill, and moved no more;mounting to anHill twelve fathoms bigh.. The like prodigy happened about the fame time atBlackmore in thatCounty, where sField of three Acres with the Trees andFen- cer moved from their place, and paffed over another Field, travelling in the Highway that: goeth to Herne and there flayed, A great Earthquake fell out at Conftantinople about this time, a while before a terrible Fire in chat City which burnt the Gaol, and confumed feven hundred Prifoners.. An Earthquake and Bowls of Fire in Garixtbia, The Sun feemed.tocleavein funder, Corn rained ftom Heaven, An Earthquake and Inundation in Holand, + At this time was the. Sweating Sickne& in England, Nine thoufand French were flain at ~ Dreux in Normandy , among whom the King of Nevar. The Turkith Pyrates carry Six Thoufand Captives out of the Ifle of Gant, near to Malta, A greap Plague in Englandoe de General Pittory Fxgland, Vers 5 f Earehqaake in span onder ahd a _ XXXVI, In 1580, April 6. bet Maller Weibfday wbout Goer Clesk se Afternoon ‘happened agiveat ‘Earthquake ji England, -which: fliook all the Houfes, Cattles and Clutches every where as it ‘Went, and put them in danger of tittek niin: Yee through «thie. Divine ‘Giemency it over threw ‘few or none, fave certain Stones Chirangys, “Walls and. Pinacles of high Buildings. bath ta Londen and divers other “places; and a Boy anda Girl Boing at Sen. ‘hen ‘amiong: a great numberof Peoplent | Ebrift-ahtireh in NewgateSercee the Boj Nes ill ourright with the til of'a Stor fidm the Rodf-dtthe Churchy and theGil | fo fore btuifed bby dnoiher thac the dyed (ooh after, At York it-made the Bolts in the Churches jangle.“ This Earthqunke hat fach’ influence upon the ‘mind ot othe Peo. fhto, Phar ta ‘Prayer avis Publifhed by “Queen Hhzabeth to be vifed of all ‘Hout | 7 halders with their whole Family, eveiy ‘ Evening ‘before thy went to Bed, that * from us, thtelnéd in ‘the laft rériible “ Raveh juake, In 1581. Fofephns Acnfts ‘elites, “Ehut in Peri in” Armerioa thet happened it would qphafe God to turn hit wrath | _ BEEarchaaaties. 163 happened an Earthquake. which “removed ‘the City-of Augnangwin two Leagues ‘from | the place where it ftood without domolith- [ingit, in regard the Scituation of the whole Gouritrey was changed, ‘The fame Author | gives an account of another Earthquake ja the fame Countrey that reached three jundred Leagues along the Sea-fhore, and fventy Leagues in Lands and levelled te Mountains all along as it went, threw: down Gitys, turned: the Rivers gut Cy their Channels, and made an Unie rfal yavock sand confufion, All this he faith’ wis dotie withia:the fpace, of feven or cight Minutes, 1 Some time ‘before thisy ebove Forty thoa- fund: People perithed in an Earthquekerabioite Pal and Naples. " . + | XXXIX, lary 90, The Electisn ik Urban Vil. was fignalized by an tneeh= quake which made uflria, Bobemis-atttl Moravia to tremble, and was followed by | an.extraordinary ‘Dearth ; Gregory XUVE quickly’ fuicceeded and died: in ten months, There was fuch a te and. Plague in Tea. lythat year that above three(core thoufind Porfons died. In 1ggt. In St. Aichacls Ifland in-the Weft Indies, there happched an'Exrthquake which continued about fixé teen days, to the extream tercor of the French