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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>Mo&s;t certaine report of a mon&s;ter borne at Oteringham in Holderne&s;&s;e, the 9. of Aprill la&s;t pa&s;t. 1595.</P>
<P>Al&s;o of a mo&s;t &s;trange and huge fi&s;h, which was driuen on the &s;and at Outhorn in Holderne&s;&s;e in February not pa&s;&s;ing two months before this mon|&s;ter was brought into the world, and within 4 miles di&s;tance.</P>
<P>Both to be auerred by the credible te&s;timonie of di|uers gentlemen of wor&s;hip, and others, now being within this Citie.</P>
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<FIGDESC>monster</FIGDESC>
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<P>Printed by P.S. and are to be &s;old by T. Millington.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; A letter &s;ent from Ro&s;&s;e by a <HI>Gentleman of wor&s;hip to his frend at</HI> Oteringham to be certified of the <HI>truth of the &s;hape of the Childe</HI> borne there.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_SIR</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>vnder&s;tanding that there is a mon&s;trus child Borne in your pari&s;he of Oteringham to the great admiration of the people that haue &s;een it, being a thing as I take it &s;ent of God to fore|warne vs of our wickednes. And hearing diuers reportes thereof, I de&s;ire you to do me that fauour as to &s;end me in writing the true forme of the mon&s;ter, the day of the birth thereof, and the names of the parents. I make bould with you, but if it like you to doe mee this fauour, you &s;hall command mee any thing that lieth in my po|wer to performe.</P>
<P>Thus commending my &s;elfe vnt<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ou, I commit you to God:</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From Ro&s;&s;e <DATE>this <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;ent. Tue&s;day being the 6. of May. 1595.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your frend to v&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> M.S.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To my very good frend M.S. <HI>at Ro&s;&s;e</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_SIR</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>hauing receaued your let|ter, I thought it no le&s;&s;e then my duety too performe and grau~t your rea&s;onable reque&s;t wherefore it may plea&s;e you to vnder&s;tand that the ninthe of April la&s;t pa&s;t this admired Mon&s;ter was brought into the world, to the great ama&s;ement of all tho&s;e that beheld it, but to ob&s;erue decorum it is requi&s;it before I &s;peake or write thereof, that I &s;hould &s;hewe &s;ome circum&s;tances whiche went before the birthe thereof thereby to make the matter more plaine vnto you and your frendes.</P>
<P>There is in our pari&s;h of <HI>Oteringham</HI> a ma~ of hone&s;t &amp; good di&s;po&s;ition named <HI>Iohn Raw|ling,</HI> who hath to wife one <HI>Elizabeth Rawling,</HI> A woman of hone&s;t life and conuer&s;ation, who being conceaued with childe accompli&s;hed her daies with much griefe: At length the time of her trauell being come, &s;he was the &s;euenth of Aprill la&s;t, &s;afly deliuered of a iolly
<PB REF="4">woman child, of right &s;hape and comely pro|portion, which child is now aliue, wherat the parents and neyghbors reioyced, thinking al thinges had ben well and their bu&s;ines ended but &s;o it fell not out. For you &s;hall vnder&s;tand that after the former perill was pa&s;t, newe panges began to ari&s;e vpon the &s;orrowful wo+man in &s;uch &s;ort that it cau&s;ed a lamentation among all the wiues. Thus with painfull throwes &s;he endured two daies more, and at the la&s;t was relea&s;ed of her painfull burden, the ninth day of the &s;ame moneth &s;he brought forth this mon&s;terous child, a terror to all the behoulders. The head wherof was like a Con+ny: The handes was like a mole: The bodie, legges, &amp; feete like a woman, hauing al&s;o the preueties like a woman, it had no heare on the head or other partes, and the &s;kinne was very blacke and feareful to the eyes of the be|holders, as M. <HI>Latham</HI> M. <HI>Browne</HI> our mini|&s;ter with diuers others which haue &s;eene the &s;ame can certifie you.</P>
<P>Many times hath the Lord &s;hewed vs his wonders, and maruelous workes, to be a fore warning of the puni&s;hments whiche he hath prepared for &s;in: What a number of &s;traunge tokens, mon&s;terus birthes, blazing &s;tarres, earthquakes, dreadful &s;ignes in the ayer, and fearefull &s;tormes and tempe&s;ts to moue vs to repentance and amendment of our wicked
<PB REF="4">liues hath he &s;hewen in our land, and yet few or none regardes it. Let no man thinke that &s;uch things do come by chance or fortune, but that they are appointed to be me&s;&s;engers of en&s;uing plagues which are like to fall vpon vs, except with repenting harts we turne vn to our Godand for&s;ake our wicked waies.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours to v&s;e <HI>V. Duncalfe.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Here followeth the de&s;cription of a mon&s;trous fi&s;he which was driuen on the &s;hore at Outhorn in Holdernes the 12. of February 1595. Not pa&s;&s;ing 2. mo|nethes before this mon&s;ter was brought into the world.</HEAD>
<P>_SUch is the mercifullne&s;&s;e of our God that he wil ne+uer puni&s;h any people or nation without warning fir&s;t &s;ent vnto them. And therefore, the Prophetes in old time cried vnto the people before any de&s;tru|ction fell vpon them. Many other meanes hath the Lord wrought to forewarne the children of men of en&s;uing euilles. Before the de&s;truction of <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> a Comet like a &s;worde hounge ouerthe cittie the &s;pace of our whole yeare.</P>
<P>In the night time a light was &s;eene in the temple the &s;pace of halfe an hower.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a cowe being carried into the temple for &s;acrifice, calued a Lambe in &s;ight of al the people.</P>
<P>A great and mightie gate of bra&s;&s;e, which twentie men could &s;cantly &s;hut opned it &s;elfe alone.</P>
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An army of &s;oldiers was &s;eene in the cloudes. And a voice was harde in the Temple that &s;aid, <HI>Let vs go hence.</HI> Thus was <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> warned, that by repentance it might e&s;cape the intended de&s;truction.</P>
<P>The Lord be mercifull to this our Countrey of England, vnto whom our mo&s;t louing God hathe giuen many warninges, yea as many as euer <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> had, and yet we continue in our former &s;innes.</P>
<P>The Ayer hath beene corrupted becau&s;e of &s;in, the Skie hath &s;hotte foorth fiery thunder|boltes and l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ings becau&s;e of &s;in, &s;traung commes hath <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">eatned de&s;truction for our &s;inne, the earth hath quaked becau&s;e of the wrath of God for &s;inne, and mountaines haue remoued out of their places to giue vs&punc; war|ning to remoue from our &s;inne.</P>
<P>The Lord hath &s;ent vs &s;traunge and mon|&s;terous birthes, becau&s;e of our mon&s;terous &s;inne. The ennemie hath threatned warre a|gain&s;t vs, the plague of pe&s;tilence hath affli|cted and con&s;umed vs, dearth and famine hath a&s;&s;ailed vs, and all to driue vs from our &s;ins: yet who hath regarded Gods threates, or beene amended by his puni&s;hmentes.</P>
<P>One token more the Lord hath yet &s;ent vs fro~ out the raging &s;ea, to preach repentance vnto vs: &s;eeing that neither by the heauens
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<PB REF="7">nor earth, wee will take admonition, let vs therefore con&s;ider it with heedfulnes &amp; turne <UNCLEAR>to the</UNCLEAR> Lord with &s;pedines.</P>
<P>At <HI>Outthorne</HI> in Holderne&s;&s;e the <HI>12.</HI> of Fe|bruarie la&s;t pa&s;t, by the meanes of wind and weather a wonderfull huge fi&s;h was driuen on the &s;andes, of &s;uch hugene&s;&s;e as hath not been &s;eene, being a fi&s;h of an vnknowne name. This fi&s;h was in length <HI>19.</HI> yeardes and three quarters, and in thickne&s;&s;e at the middle <HI>10.</HI> yeardes good mea&s;ure. His taile in bredthe from the one web vnto the other was <HI>16</HI> foot: his head was in fa&s;hion like a great wool|&s;acke: hauing very little eyes in re&s;pect of his great head: his neather Iawe being little did fall as it &s;eemed in a trough much &s;hort of the ende of his vpper Iawe, and very little in re|&s;pecte of the vpper, &amp; yet of &s;uch bignes that the very bone of the lower Iawe, was <HI>36.</HI> in|ches about, and the lea&s;t tooth he had was <HI>10.</HI> inches long and <HI>6.</HI> about.</P>
<P>The people of the countrey came in great a|boundance to behold this &s;traunge fi&s;h, mar+ueling thereat, not knowing what to &s;aye or iudge therof, but onely re&s;olueth them &s;elues that it was &s;ent of God to &s;ome great pur|po&s;e.</P>
<P>Thus within foure miles &s;pace hapened the&s;e two &s;traunge thinges, within two mo|nethes
<PB REF="7">the one of the other. The Lord grau<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> we may take warning thereby, to turne <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> to our God that he may turne his greeuou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> plagues from vs, which our wickednes hath <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> iu&s;tly procured.</P>
<P>This Fi&s;h was mea&s;ured by M. <HI>Richard|&s;on.</HI> deane of Holderne&s;&s;e in the p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ence of
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<ITEM>M. Houlden par&s;on of Ro&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M. H. par&s;on of Patrington.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M. A&s;hton Par&s;on of Tun&s;ton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>M. Fraunces Leedes Gentleman.</ITEM>
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