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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>A wonderfull And Strange Miracle OR GODS Ju&s;t Vengeance again&s;t the Cavaliers Declaring how Mr. <HI>Andrew Ston&s;|by,</HI> a Cavalier under the Command of the Lord <HI>Mohone</HI> at <HI>Li&s;telleth</HI> in <HI>Cornwall,</HI> at the Signe of the <HI>Dolphin,</HI> dranke a health to the Devill.</P>
<P>Daring him to come and pledge him, with many bla&s;phemmous imprecations.</P>
<P>Al&s;o how the Devill appeared to him at that in&s;tant, &s;o that he was di&s;tracted, and died raving and bla&s;pheming, to the terrour and amaze|ment of all the behoulders.</P>
<P>Atte&s;ted by 
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<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Adam Nichol&s;on,</HI> Cler. P. &amp; Co.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Dudley Silve&s;ter,</HI> Clericus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Holsonford,</HI> ma&s;ter of the Jnne,</ITEM>
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And many other &s;ufficient and wel-affected Gentlemen.</P>
<P>From <HI>Li&s;telleth,</HI> Octobar the 30th. 1642.</P>
<P>LONDON <HI>Printed for HENRY HVTTON</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A Wonderfull And &s;trange Miracle OR <HI>GODS Vengeance again&s;t the Cavaliers.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IN returne of your la&s;t Newes, J &s;hall make bold to informe you of &s;ome unu&s;uall pa&s;|&s;ages that lately hap|pened in our Towne of <HI>Li&s;telleth,</HI> it was our fortune, ill fortune J may call it, to have &s;ome two hundred of the Cavaliers billi|ted in our Towne, tho&s;e &s;onnes of <HI>Beliall,</HI> who&s;e wickedne&s;&s;e is &s;o great that wordes
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cannot ex pre&s;&s;e it, the&s;e inhuman Catter|pillers for better epithite thy de&s;erve not being billited in our towne, the cheife unbrideled Rorers, to the number of thirty five were billited in the cheife Jnne of the towne, in a very hone&s;t religious mans hou&s;e, for &s;uch is our mi&s;ery we dare deny them nothing, ney and glad they will be plea&s;ed to take it, that &s;o we may &s;ave our hou&s;es from being fired and our bodies unma&s;lacred, it being indeed their whole delight to exerci&s;e cruelty upon tho&s;e that are wel-affected to the King and Parlia|ment, to be briefe, in this mans Hou&s;e the roy&s;ters were calling (as is their cu&s;to|mary u&s;e) for what even the Hou&s;e could afford, &s;o they had indeed was not &s;it onely to &s;atisfie, but al&s;o to &s;uperfluity, having &s;ild their ungodly paunches, upon the goods of this hone&s;t man, they began withall tho&s;e horrid imprecations they are u&s;ed to utter, to call him Rogue and Ra&s;call,, and Roundhead, telling him that he went about to &s;tarve them becau&s;e
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they were Cavaliers, the man of a good hone&s;t patient &s;pirit, intreated them to be quiet, and told them nothing &s;hould be wanting that he could procure for their content, then flew out oaths as thicke as Haile-&s;tones like an impetuous &s;torme from the mouth of the mo&s;t deboy&s;t Ca|valier that he would have a Sea of drinke, a Wilderne&s;se of Tobacko, and ten Legi|ons of Whores, what Company if this wretch might have had his wi&s;h, had he provided for his owne de&s;truction, a Sea of Drinke, that Leviathan-like he might &s;will him&s;elfe to death in his owne Elle|ment, J cannot chu&s;e but comment on his dete&s;table Phra&s;es, A Wildernes of Tobac|ko, that he might loo&s;e his &s;oule in tho&s;e mi&s;ty vapours of that Jndian Devill, ten Legions of Whores, that luld in the lap of Sen&s;uallity, he might dally him&s;elfe into damnation, oh mo&s;t intemperate wretch, <HI>Sollomon</HI> the wi&s;e&s;t and riche&s;t King that ever was, had but a thou&s;and yet they made him become an Jdollater.</P>
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And J beleeve, might I appeale to the con&s;cience of the mo&s;t luxurious man now living, he would ingeniou&s;ly confe&s;&s;e the truth of this a&s;&s;ertion, that one Strumpet by her wiles and fal&s;e allurements, has unmanned him of his be&s;t part, his rea&s;on and left him to the mercy of her devou|ring appetite; J doubt J have exceeded the cu&s;tomary bounds of a Letter, but J hope not the limits of your patience, for though the &s;ubject be bad, yet in &s;ome part to defect tho&s;e vices is not ami&s;se, that that advice may &s;erve as a <HI>Bouy,</HI> to give warning to the approaching Marriner, that &s;o he may avoid the danger, J have exten|ded this di&s;cour&s;e, and now mu&s;t fall u|pon that which is mo&s;t fearefull to the apprehen&s;ion of you or any other Chri&s;ti|an. Some volleys of unaccustomed oaths being &s;hot up to heaven, that they might the &s;ooner pull downe vengeance on his owne head, he begunne to advance his horrid voice among them, craving atten|tion and &s;ilence, that he might be heard
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my ma&s;ters quoth he. J beginne a health to the Devill, and I would fain &s;ee who dare pledge mee, but the re&s;t of his com|pany though they were &s;teeped in Wine, began to &s;hrinke backe, and looke one u|pon another, as fearing the even, when he redoubling his damnable re&s;olution, cryed out, if none dare pledge me, let the De|vill come and doe it him&s;elfe, the word was no &s;ooner &s;poken, but a damp faint Aire begunne to move in the roome, and an unacquainted per&s;on &s;tood in the mid|de&s;t of them,, who &s;aid with a terrible and hideous voice, <HI>Andrew Stonesby</HI> J am here, immediately all his Company fled from him and the mi&s;&s;erable man was left alone, where after &s;ome quarter of an houre of an houre of terrible noy&s;e, the man of the Hou&s;e, Ma&s;ter <HI>Silve&s;ter</HI> our Mini&s;ter, and the other per&s;ons here mentioned, adven|tured into the roome, where they found the mi&s;erable wretch layd groveling on the ground, raving and bla&s;pheming, and &s;o he continued for the &s;pace of a day and
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a night, and afterward died raging and bla&s;pheming again&s;t God, and cur&s;ing the <HI>Roundheads.</HI> Let this &s;erve as a warning to the re&s;t of that Crew, that they mend their manners, for feare Gods Vengeance fall in like manner upon them, &s;o having troubled you to long I take leave to re&s;t,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your loving Friend <HI>John Hadfred</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Li&s;telleth, <DATE><HI>October, the</HI> 30th. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<P>We who&s;e names are here &s;ub&s;crbed were eye witne&s;&s;es of this fearefull &s;pec|tacle.</P>
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<ITEM>Adam Nichol&s;on. Cler. P.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dudley Silve&s;ter, Clericus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Holtonford, Ma&s;ter of the &s;aid Hou&s;e</ITEM>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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