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<P>THE NEW YEARES WONDER.</P>
<P>BEING A mo&s;t cernaine and true Relation of the di&s;turbed inhabitants of <HI>Kenton&punc;</HI></P>
<P>And other neighbouring villages neere unto <HI>Edge-Hil,</HI> where the great battaile betwixt the kings army, and the Parliaments forces was fought.</P>
<P>In which place is heard &amp; &s;eene fearfull and &s;trange apparitions of &s;pirits as &s;ounds of drums, trumpets, with the di&s;charging of Canons Mu&s;kies, Car|bines pettronels, to the terrour and amaze|ment, of all the fearfull hearers and behoulders.</P>
<P>Certified under the hands of <HI>William Wood,</HI> E&s;quier, and Iu&s;tice for the <HI>Peace</HI> in the &s;aid Countie, <HI>Samuel Mar&s;hall,</HI> Preacher of Gods Wotd in <HI>Keynton,</HI> and other per&s;ons of qualitie.</P>
<P>Printed for Robert Ellit, lodger neere the old Ro&s;e in Thames-&s;treet, who was an eye witne&s;&s;e unto this.</P>
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<HEAD>THE NEW YEARES WONDER. BEING A mo&s;t certain and true Relation, of the di&s;turbed inhabitance of <HI>Kenton,</HI> and other neighboring villages neere <HI>Edg-Hill.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_NOT altogether di&s;a|lowing of old folkes &s;imilys and &s;aying that winters nights, thunder pre&s;ageth en|ents of &s;umars &s;trange wonders, which is greatly to be feard &amp; doubted if it begin be|fore &s;umar and v&s;hers in the new yeare a|moung&s;t us with &s;uch care terour and &s;trange eye
<PB N="4" REF="3"> optick apearance, as is by divers affirmed and related.</P>
<P>To which auoydance therefo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">, wee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> every hopefull and beleeing chri&s;tian to put on new obedi|ence vnto Heaven, and begin with the new yeare, a newne&s;&s;e of life &amp; conuer&s;ation, with the endeur of continuance till the nihgt of our death comes.</P>
<P>With love feare &amp; obedience contineu in prayers to Almighty God, that he would be plea&s;ed to call back his de&s;troying Angell from among&s;t us, and with the hand of his mercy &s;heath up the &s;word of his venganr, which his wrath by our multiplying &s;inns cau&s;'d him draw again&s;t us, unto our feares and terours.</P>
<P>Still apearing a prodigious meteor or the fearfull head of this di&s;tracted Kingdome, and that this little Ile that was but late the admiration of lergar Chri&s;tendme, for &s;elfe accomodation and comerce for plenty and for every thing be&s;ides, with &s;uch a largnes of abundancy, that it almo&s;t needeth noe affinity with any neighb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">oring nation but its owne.</P>
<P>And now to &s;ee the change times heere hath made, and with it made us a laghter to the world to &s;ee our &s;elues divided again&s;t our &s;elves, doing our&s;elues that ill, which forain nations would but could not doe.</P>
<P>Which Heaven of his mercy grant a period that both the offended &s;ides no more may &s;heath their wraths in one another, but be freinds, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">ndi&s;h palmes in&s;ted of polaxes and that the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">tion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> am entring in Relation of, beget no farther Sumer
<PB N="5" REF="3"> feare amoung&s;t us.</P>
<P>As famine from eua&s;ion and vtter reuine that may enter in that gap we open our &s;elves, and that no more &s;uch fields as <HI>Kenton,</HI> may be fought nor <HI>Edge-Hill</HI> &s;harpened to cut us more.</P>
<P>Who&s;e troubles peete of earth pla&s;tred with En|gli&s;h goare and turned vnto a golgotha of bones is row become the plot of feare and horrour, who&s;e earth now groning with the weight of lives who&s;e la&s;t beds there were maid to &s;leepe upon, re&s;ts in</P>
<P>Who&s;e dying grones a &s;econd time reviues breking the cauerns of the couring earth, and &s;ends both feare and horour round about to terifie the living with dead &s;oules, which fir&s;t ama&s;ing wonder began his &s;hadowing apparitons on the fir&s;t of <HI>Ianuary,</HI> as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eere as the relatours ge&s;t in the afternone betwixt three and foure of the clocke which was beheld by three Countrymen rideing a long the way in the likene&s;&s;e of a Troope of hor&s;e po&s;ting vp to them with full &s;peede, which cau&s;'d the Countrymen to make a &s;top as fearfull of their euents&punc;</P>
<P>But coming neer unto them they of a &s;udaine &s;unke into the earth which turned to their more greater feare and amaizement then at there fir&s;t aduancing.</P>
<P>But &s;eeing &s;ome certain heards-men atending on cattell in the fields they rode up to them who rela|ted the &s;ame &s;tory which thay were eye witni&s;&s;es
<PB N="6" REF="4"> unto them the hor&s;emen at the heatds-mens confer|mation of what them&s;elves had &s;ence ware &s;o affri|ghted that they re&s;ouled to goe no farther then <HI>Ken|ton</HI> that night, where the on being glad of eithers human &s;o&s;iety a companyes each other.</P>
<P>Where having taking vp there nightly habitation they began to relate it unto the Towne&s;men, the on confirming the words of the other both &s;trangers and there townes dweling heard&s;men, which &s;oone was &s;pred abroud but few or none that had belife un|to't.</P>
<P>On the morning the &s;trangers departed &amp; thouhgt al the towne heard the relation of it, yet they made &s;light of it, this pa&s;&s;ed on till the forth of <HI>Ianuary</HI> nothing more heard or &s;eene, which made the poore heard&s;men the more derided for it</P>
<P>But the forth of <HI>Ianuary</HI> being come many of the towne went to the heard&s;men gra&s;ed there cattell, ieering the poore men, when &s;hould they heard more wowders from them</P>
<P>But the day being &s;pent, and all the Towne at re&s;t within there beds, about the midle &s;ea&s;on of the night, that which apeard to them rediculus, gave them a Te&s;timony of their owne belife.</P>
<P>For why the dolfull and the hydious groanes of dying men were heard crying revenge and &s;ome a|gaine to ea&s;e them of their paine by friendly killing them, this waked many in the towne, and &s;ent they trembling agues in there beds,</P>
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<P>But their to amplifie the noy&s;e of Drumes and Trumpets &s;ounded a &s;udaine alarum as if an enimye had entred in their towne to put them to a &s;udaine exicution and plunder all their e&s;tates.</P>
<P>Some hid them&s;elves in corners, &s;ome over-head and eares lay &s;wearing and halfe &s;mothered in their beds, and &s;ome of better courage looke through the winddowes where they to there apearing vi&s;ibly &s;aw armed hor&s;eman riding one againe the other and &s;o vani&s;ht all.</P>
<P>Many women feare made them mi&s;cary, and the &s;toute&s;t hearted man amoung&s;t them all could not denye but that then he feared death.</P>
<P>Next night they &s;et &s;trong watch every where and from there niehbouring townes gathered more a&s;&s;i|&s;tance the cro&s;&s;e heyway and every place be&s;ides was &s;trongly warded neither would women or children that were able keepe either hou&s;e or beds.</P>
<P>But they expected hover of twelue being come, Drumes and Trumpets gave againe to &s;ound alarum to fight and all the &s;pirit hor&s;e and foot appeared and &s;tood in battleray, the foot againe the foot and hor&s;e again&s;t the hor&s;e di&s;cherging of M. peetternell and Carbines the one againe the other, falling to the ground on either &s;ide apace, and Ordinance playing on again&s;t the other as plainely vi&s;able to the be|houlers view as if the reall action had bin there.</P>
<P>All night it la&s;ted in this hidiour maner, but at the break of day all as they formarly in the twinkling
<PB N="8" REF="5"> of an eye did vani&s;h.</P>
<P>But &s;ince hath no more bin &s;eene which cau&s;'d the Inhabitants of <HI>Kenton</HI> to for&s;ake their Towne and get new haitations for them&s;elves.</P>
<P>But &s;ome learned men have &s;ince delivered their opininons, that there may be yet vnburied kacka&s;&s;es found, &s;o dilligent &s;earch hath bin made, and found it &s;o.</P>
<P>Which God of his mercy cea&s;e the&s;e warrs and ble&s;&s;e our Land with peace.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hall</HI> the Mini&s;ter of <HI>Kenton,</HI> went to <HI>Ox|on</HI> to the King, and did informe him of the ap|paritions of all the afore&s;aid proceedings of the &s;pirits.</P>
<P>THE King pre&s;ently &s;ent to <HI>Edge-Hill</HI> Co|lonell <HI>Lewis Kirke,</HI> Captaine <HI>Dudly,</HI> Captaine <HI>Winman,</HI> and three other Gentelmen of worth who heard of this &s;ad fearful and hidious &s;ight wihch Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hall,</HI> related to his Maie&s;ty and then departed wonderous fearfull amaized and affrighted, &amp; &s;aw divers to their apperance that were there &s;laine as Sir <HI>Edmund Varney,</HI> with divers others: Thus have you heard the &s;ad relation of the apperance of the&s;e vgly fiends Vpon which was made oath to his Maie&s;ty, which the Lord in His mercy in|lighten his Maie&s;tys heart, that tho&s;e eveill coun|celares wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ich are about him may be put ever far from him and that wee may have peace. Amen.</P>
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