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<P>TWO LETTERS: THE Fir&s;t, being a Relation of a Sad Acci|dent that Fell Out at Erpingham NEER NORWICH, <HI>July</HI> 2. Shewing how a Fire-Ball fell from the Heavens into the Pari&s;h Church there, Broke down part of the Steeple and &s;everal places in the Church-wall, kill'd one man and wounded diver&s;e, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>THE Second, Being a Relation of a &s;trange Sight in the Heavens, &s;een by Three Ju&s;tices of the Peace their Sons. Dated, <HI>Hungerford</HI> in <HI>Wilt|&s;hire,</HI> June 19. 1665.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for L. <HI>Chapman</HI> in <HI>Exchange-Alley,</HI> in <HI>Corn hill,</HI> 1665.</P>
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<HEAD>The Fir&s;t being a Relation of a Sad Accident, That fell out at <HI>Erpingham</HI> neer <HI>Norwich, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Norwich</HI> <DATE>4. <HI>July</HI> 1665.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>THe la&s;t Lords Day, as Ma&s;ter <HI>Hobbs</HI> was Preaching in his Pari&s;h Church of <HI>Erpingham</HI> in the After-noon, there did a|ri&s;e a great Storm, and there de&s;cended a great Grey Ball, which they within did conclude did beat down the South-we&s;t cor|ner of the Steeple towards the top of it, (for that was beaten down) then it fell and turned in at the South-Porch, and as &s;oon as the &s;aid Ball was come into the Church, it turned upon the South-&s;ide, on which &s;ide were the mens Seats, and Ma&s;ter <HI>Hobbs</HI> being in the Pulpit did &s;ee the men fall &s;ome back|wards, &s;ome forwards from their Seats, that
<PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 64 -->he thought that they had been all &s;truck dead, it went towards the Chancel and broke. Upon which, the Church was as if it had been all of a Fire, and left a great &s;moak and &s;tinke behinde it, and upon the breaking there was a great and hedious out|cry in the Church: And in the Conclu&s;ion, there was but one man found &s;tark Dead, but many others lamed, and &s;o do yet con|tinue; and one Woman who &s;at in the Porch is &s;o weak, as it is thought &s;he will not live; It did Ra&s;e and Tare the Church-wall in two places within: Ma&s;ter <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> is one that is Lame, who &s;ate above towards the Chancel, and about the top of his Thigh in the Croine of his Body, is a round red place, and down from that about the breadth of a Finger a red place to his Foot, which is very painfull, and his &s;tocking within &s;ide is feared and not without.</P>
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<HEAD>The Second, being a Relation of a &s;trange Sight in the Hea|vens, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Loving Son and Daughter,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>O&V;r Kinde Loves to you, and we are glad to heare of your good health, as we are at pre&s;ent: We have great cau&s;e to ble&s;&s;e God for his great loving kindene&s;&s;es to us, &s;ee|ing he hath given us &s;o large a time to Repent in: God grant we may &s;o doe, that we may be a people prepared for our Lord.</P>
<P>Children, I have received two Letters from you, which doth let us under&s;tand, that you are not minded to &s;tay long in <HI>London;</HI> Daughter, if your Heart faile you, pray come to us with &s;peed, for I am afraid Gods Hand is heavy upon <HI>London,</HI> for our Sins and Iniqui|ties
<PB REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 66 -->are very great, and there are Three &s;orts of Judgements pointing at us; Famine of Soul and Body, Sword and Pestilence. Good Children make ha&s;t (and let every faithful Soul, I &s;ay to you, Remember <HI>Lot,</HI> how he was thru&s;t out of <HI>Sodome</HI>) and come to us; And I &s;ay, as <HI>Ruth</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Naomi,</HI> Come let us Dye toge|ther, for &s;urely the Lord hath &s;ome great thing to do; for el&s;e he would not have appeared &s;o to many as he hath done.</P>
<P>Children, I let you under&s;tand of a true and strange thing: God hath appeared to Three Sons of Three Ju&s;tices of Peace, that li|ved hard by us, and &s;ome you know: The&s;e three went to School at <HI>Ward;</HI> and as they were together the <HI>11th</HI> day of <HI>June</HI> last, a|bout Sun&s;et, or a little after, a Light &s;hone on one of them, and he looked up to Heaven, and fell to the Earth on his back, holding out his Hands to Heaven, and was not able to move him&s;elf nor &s;peake: The Second &s;aid, <HI>Let us go and call him,</HI> but he moved not; &s;o the &s;econd looked up, and he fell on his back, holding out his hands toward Heaven; and the
<PB REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 67 -->third did &s;o likewi&s;e: and looking up to Hea|ven, they &s;aw the Skye open and Heaven, and a great round Circle like a great Well's mouth, and a Coffin pa&s;&s;e in it, and a long Head, and very long Haire, and it pa&s;&s;ed by; and then they &s;aw Three Coffins more, and three Bodies lift|ing their Hands from their knees toward their Mouths up and down, as though they were &s;trong in Prayer, and Wrastling with God, and then pa&s;&s;ed by; And then Three glorious men did Appear, as glorious as Angels, and they fell from Heaven to Earth, not far from them; and they were &s;ore amazed, and not quite well yet. And one of the Ju&s;tices went and Commanded the&s;e Three apart, and they &s;pake as one Mouth, the&s;e Three Sonnes: One was Eight years old the other Two about Thirteen or Fourteen years old.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Tho. Goddard, Hungerford</HI>
<DATE><HI>Iune 19. 1665.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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