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<P>Strange and Wonderful News from GLASGOW IN SCOTLAND,</P>
<P>Being a full and true Account of A Terrible Earthquake
That happened there on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the 10. of this In&s;tant <HI>July,</HI> attended with Whirlwinds, and great Gu&s;ts of Thunder and Lightning, the which continued for the &s;pace of half an hour, to the Amazement (and not only &s;o) but al&s;o damage of the Inhabitants.</P>
<P>ALSO An Account of &s;ome Prodegies &s;een in the Air at the &s;ame time, the which were mo&s;t Dreadful and Re|markable to the beholders.</P>
<P>With an Impartial Account of the pre&s;ent Affairs in that Kingdom; as it was imparted by a Gentleman of worth living in the place afore&s;aid. With many other circum&s;tances herein Recited.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed 1679.</P>
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<HEAD>Strange and Wonderful News from <HI>Gla&s;gow</HI> in <HI>Scotland,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>STrange and wonderful are the Works of an Omni|potent God, who&s;e boundle&s;s Power commands both Sea and Land, &s;tills the winds, and tames the raging VVaves, at who&s;e Rebuke the Heavens fly, the Earth doth tremble, and the Mountains melt, and with his looks he dries the deep; Ju&s;tice and Judgment are be|fore his Face, and yet his Mercy Triumphs o're his Power. A God &s;o great and good, what Mortal can but with Reverence Adore him: How loath he is to cru&s;h Rebellious man, and like an indulgent Father, &s;hakes his threatning Rod, but yet forbears to &s;trike the weighty blow; for Portants and Prodegies &s;o oft have been &s;een of late in the&s;e Dominions, that they have almo&s;t lo&s;t their Names, and are become but common things; but among&s;t all the numbers that appearance made to &s;ignifie in Characters the Divine will of Hea|ven to tho&s;e Rebellious men, that dare unlawfully re&s;i&s;t Anointed Power, &s;triving contrary to the will of the wi&s;e Creator of their Mundine frame, to inovate in Church and State Affairs, by Rapines, cruel Murders, and the like, wherefore Heaven thought fit in time to curb their Infolencies, and by loo&s;ening the Foundation of the World, to &s;hake them out, and drive them
<PB N="4" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 -->thence, the which may be conjectured by a terrible Earthquake; with &s;everal &s;trange and wonderful Pro|degies, the which appeared on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the <HI>10th</HI> of this in&s;tant <HI>July</HI> 1679. at <HI>Strevin Lansdown</HI> another place in the <HI>We&s;t</HI> of the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> where the Rebels Camp was before their defeat by his Maje|&s;ties Army, under the Command of his Grace the Duke of <HI>Monmouth,</HI> the certainty of which were atte|&s;ted by &s;everal credible per&s;ons Inhabiting the&s;e places, and communicated by a Letter from one Mr. <HI>Williams</HI> a Gentleman in the City of <HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI> to his Friend in <HI>London,</HI> the manner thus, That on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> the date a|fore&s;aid, about five of the Clock in the Afternoon, the Skies began to darken, and thick Clouds over-&s;pread the Face of Heaven, whereupon &s;uch dreadful Volleys of Thunder and &s;treaming fla&s;hes of Lightning di&s;charg|ed from broaken Clouds, attended by fearful Storms of Hail and Rain, that people from all parts were forced to take &s;helter in Barnes, Hou&s;es, and other convenient places they could fir&s;t procure; the which Storm or Tempe&s;t la&s;ted for the &s;pace of two hours without inter|mi&s;&s;ion, tho being &s;ometimes more violent than others; the Hail-&s;tones being of &s;uch magnitude, that they broke and &s;hattered many Gla&s;s-windows to a con&s;iderable damage; as likewi&s;e the Tiles falling off the Hou&s;es in &s;everal places, the Morter that &s;upported them being loo&s;ened by the violence of the Tempe&s;t, at which in|letts the wet poured in at the Roofs of the Hou&s;es; during this violent Storm, to compleat the Scene, and make it appear more dreadful, the Ba&s;is of the Earth
<PB N="5" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 -->began to heave, as if all Nature had been oppre&s;&s;ed with &s;ome ponderous pain, upon which the tottering Fabricks began to Dance, and Di&s;hes both Puter and Earthen, betook them&s;elves to motion as if they had been anima|ted, and leap from off the Shelves, Stools, Chairs, and other Uton&s;ils in the like Po&s;ture, whil&s;t in the Streets, the Tiles that did before but drop one by one, now fall as thick in compari&s;on as Hail, &s;o that people dur&s;t not go out of their Hou&s;es for fear, but &s;ome doubting the &s;ub&s;tantialne&s;s of their Buildings, de&s;perately ventured with their VVives and Children abroad, rather tru&s;t|ing to the Fury of the Storm, than to their Dancing habitation: The dreadful motion continued near the &s;pare of half an hour, in which &s;pace it gave three &s;e|veral on&s;ets very furious and &s;trange; no &s;ooner was it over, but the Storm of Thunder, Lighning, and Hail, began by little and little to abate, the which no &s;ooner done, but a great bright Cloud ari&s;ing from the <HI>North-We&s;t,</HI> and coming forward before the wind amain, and &s;till as it came, &s;eemed to open as with two folding doors, from whence exceeding brightne&s;s i&s;&s;ued forth, and at every &s;uch di&s;clo&s;ing, &s;everal &s;trange &s;hapes ap|peared in it, as at fir&s;t the perfect Figure of a Mans hand, with a Scepter, the &s;hape of an Hor&s;e, the per|fect date of this Year 79, and &s;everal other &s;trange things, and Repre&s;entations; for at every Opening there was a &s;everal Scene, and a darting brightne&s;s; it continued &s;o to do till it de&s;cended our Hori&s;on at <HI>South-Ea&s;t:</HI> before this Tempe&s;t, Earth-quake, and Prodegy happened, &s;everal people that were abroad in the Field about their
<PB N="6" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 12 -->occa&s;ions, do affirm, That they heard a noi&s;e in the Earth like the Bellowing of a Bull, and now and then certain VVhirlwinds whi&s;tled about with unu&s;ual force and violence; and others affirm, they heard &s;wift voices in the Air, but in that they might probably be mi&s;taken by the whi&s;tling of tho&s;e &s;orts of Collateral VVinds, called as before, VVhirlwinds, the which keep no cer|tain Point nor Compa&s;s, but fly in a Body carele&s;ly, and were by the Antients taken to proceede from the bad Influence of &s;ome malignant Star. And thus much Sir concerning what I thought to give you an Impartial Account of, for the confirmation of which, I could in|cert many credible Atte&s;tators, but 'tis a thing &s;o gene|rally known, that I think there is little need of &s;o do|ing. Sir, I re&s;t, yours to &s;erve you,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>J. W.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Gla&s;gow <DATE>July 11. 79.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have thought fit to acquaint you farther, concerning the pre&s;ent Po&s;ture things are in here, after the late overthrow the Rebels received near <HI>Hamelton Parke,</HI> by his Maje&s;ties Forces, under the Command of his Grace the Duke of <HI>Monmouth</HI> (who behaved him&s;elf very Gal|lantly in the Action, gaining the Applau&s;e of all his Maje&s;ties true Subjects in this Kingdom; they &s;cattered and di&s;perced them&s;elves, &s;ome taking &s;helter in the VVoods, from whence they were Ferreted by Lieute|nant
<PB N="7" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 12 -->Collonel <HI>Doglas,</HI> others flying cro&s;s the Country in &s;uch Confu&s;ion, and di&s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rcing them&s;elves, throwing away their Armes for fear of being di&s;covered, that they can never be able to make Head again, e&s;pecially by rea&s;on of the prudent care his Maje&s;ties Coun&s;el and Mini&s;ters of State have put in practi&s;e for their &s;ecurity for the future. We have an Account, that &s;everal of the Grand Rebels are fled the Land to avoid pur&s;uing Ju&s;tice; and all things at pre&s;ent are in a very good Po&s;ture.</P>
<P>And now I have thought fit to adverti&s;e my Reader of certain Philo&s;ophical and A&s;trologick Opinions con|cerning the&s;e and &s;uch kind of Elementary violences as to the natural Cau&s;e, but we being Chri&s;tians, mu&s;t al|ways acknowledg a Supernatural Intendency from the Divine Prerogative. Fir&s;t then, as to the natural cau&s;e Philo&s;ophers aver, that Thunder and Lightning are cau|&s;ed by hot Exhalations attracted into the Superior Regi|ons by the heat of the Sun, but being of two gro&s;s and humid a Body to joyn AEtherial or Cele&s;tial Fire, it is repul&s;ed by the Beams of the Stars, and de&s;cending to its Center (the Earth) with impetuous Violence, often finds oppo&s;ition by rea&s;on of the great Ma&s;s of Waters that are &s;u&s;tained by thick Clouds in the Air, and when it does, it plunging into its oppo&s;ite Element, forces its way, and rends the Clouds to Attoms, and &s;end forth great Glares of Lightning, the which though it appear before the noi&s;e of the Thunder-clap is heard, yet both at the &s;ame in&s;tant i&s;&s;ue, but the &s;ight being more quick of motion and piercing, has the fir&s;t Prerogative, where|as
<PB N="8" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 13 -->the hearing comes oblique and wandring, by rea&s;on of the turnings and Motions of the Sphears, and thus much of Thunder and Lightning. Hail is congealed from the &s;olid Bodies of water hanging in the Air by the continual reflection of the Sun-Beams; for note, the Sun has not &s;o much Power in the Airy Region, as it has on Earth, by rea&s;on of its Repercu&s;&s;ion, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Earthquakes are caus'd by heat and cold (two contrary Elements inclo&s;ed in its Bowels) &s;till &s;triving with each other for th Mai&s;try. Wind and Fire cha&s;ing each other, and not getting yent, force the Earth to Groah, Tremble, and Quake in a fearful manner; &s;o that it many times openeth and &s;walloweth up great Hills and Mountains, Towns and Cities into its va&s;t Abi&s;s, as at this time where &s;everal Famous Cities &s;tood, there appears now nothing but &s;tanding Pools of VVater. And again, &s;e|veral large I&s;lands have been puffed out of the Sea, as the I&s;lands of <HI>Rhoads</HI> and <HI>Selos,</HI> as al&s;o many thou&s;ands have lo&s;t their lives by &s;uch manner of Earthquakes, as <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> that Excellent Hi&s;torian recounteth, That in the Reign of <HI>Tygranes</HI> King of <HI>Armenia,</HI> by an Earth|quake 1200000 <HI>Jewes</HI> peri&s;hed: And that in the Reign of <HI>Tiberius</HI> Emperor of <HI>Rome,</HI> 12 Cities in <HI>A&s;ia</HI> fell in one Night by an Earthquake. As al&s;o in our Modern times there happened an Earthquake in the Realm of <HI>Portugal,</HI> the which continued for the &s;pace of 8 days, in which time in <HI>Lisborn,</HI> the Metropolitan City of that Kingdom, it Ruin'd 1200 Hou&s;es, and de&s;troyed many People, &s;uch are its dreadful Effects, to which we can only &s;ay it is the Lords doings, and therefore marvellous in our Eyes.</P>
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