Somewhat
:
Written
by
occasion
of
the
report
of
three
Sunnes
seene
at
Tregnie
in
Cornewall
,
the
22.
of
December
last
.
WHen
I
consider
the
present
state
of
things
,
with
how
strong
and
powerfull
delusions
the
great
enemie
of
mankinde
goeth
about
to
ouerspread
the
whole
Church
,
labouring
by
all
meanes
,
that
the
flouds
of
vntruths
,
belched
from
his
wide
throat
,
might
carrie
away
that
Glorius
woman
cloathed
with
the
Sunne
,
crowned
with
Starres
,
and
treading
vpon
the
Moone
;
I
haue
iust
reason
,
with
all
humilitie
and
becomming
reuerence
,
to
take
into
consideration
that
gracious
instruction
,
which
his
Maiestie
,
in
his
Meditations
vpon
the
20.
chapter
of
the
Reuelation
,
raiseth
and
enforceth
by
occasion
of
the
Deuils
loosing
,
by
the
rising
of
Antechrist
,
namely
,
that
Whereas
the
iustice
of
God
,
in
respect
of
mans
falling
wilfully
from
the
truth
(
as
Paul
saith
)
iustly
did
send
to
the
world
the
great
Abuser
with
efficacie
of
lies
;
as
well
to
tyrrannize
spiritually
ouer
the
conscience
by
heresie
,
as
corporally
ouer
their
bodies
,
by
the
ciuill
sword
.
Therefore
we
must
feare
to
fall
from
the
truth
reuealed
,
and
professed
by
vs
,
that
we
may
be
free
from
the
like
punishment
.
For
assuredly
,
though
I
dare
not
say
,
that
euerie
falling
away
from
the
truth
,
with
what
circumstances
soeuer
it
may
be
qualified
,
is
a
sinne
against
the
Holy
Ghost
;
yet
I
thinke
I
shall
not
stray
from
the
iudgement
of
the
most
and
best
Diuines
,
if
I
affirme
that
the
sinne
against
the
Holy
Ghost
is
neuer
committed
,
but
there
must
necessarily
concurre
a
wilfull
and
obstinate
deniall
of
a
knowen
and
inwardly
confessed
truth
,
or
A
withholding
and
keeping
of
it
backe
in
vnrighteousnesse
.
Which
sinne
of
sinnes
,
because
lamentable
experience
teacheth
euery
man
whose
eies
are
open
,
that
it
is
stealing
vpon
vs
:
The
Lord
in
mercy
hath
not
only
frequently
protested
against
it
in
his
word
,
denouncing
iudgement
without
mercie
,
to
all
them
who
shall
dip
hands
or
hearts
in
the
guilt
thereof
:
But
also
by
signes
and
wonders
,
by
strange
and
vncouth
prodigies
,
hee
giues
warning
that
he
folds
not
his
hands
together
like
a
sluggard
,
loth
to
pull
them
out
of
his
bosome
,
or
like
such
a
God
as
the
wicked
faine
(
because
they
would
faine
haue
it
so
;
)
seeth
not
,
neither
vnderstandeth
any
thing
.
But
that
his
eyes
behold
all
the
wickednsse
that
is
done
vpon
all
the
earth
;
as
if
hee
had
no
more
than
one
particular
person
to
attend
vnto
:
and
that
hee
is
whetting
his
sword
,
and
making
ready
his
quiuer
full
of
arrowes
against
impenitent
sinners
,
and
such
as
will
not
feare
his
name
.
His
aboundant
mercies
indeed
will
not
suffer
his
iustice
to
take
vengeance
of
sinners
,
before
hee
haue
(
according
to
his
owne
Law
,
in
case
of
Israels
making
warre
against
other
cities
and
nations
)
offered
peace
and
reconciliation
vnto
vs
:
But
for
all
that
,
when
he
seeth
his
loue
despised
,
his
long-suffering
contemned
,
and
all
his
couenants
trodden
vnder
foot
;
Hee
is
at
length
accustomed
to
shew
himselfe
the
Lord
of
his
promise
;
and
that
all
his
former
patience
proceeded
not
(
as
it
fals
out
many
times
with
men
)
from
feare
of
opposition
,
or
the
greatnes
of
the
delinquents
;
but
only
and
meerely
from
his
immeasurable
loue
,
which
hateth
nothing
that
he
hath
made
,
and
is
so
loth
to
punish
,
that
if
all
had
continued
in
their
primitiue
order
and
created
puritie
,
the
verie
Word
had
neuer
beene
named
,
nor
had
the
thing
it selfe
euer
beene
created
.
I
should
not
haue
spoken
so
much
,
nor
with
so
much
confidence
vpon
this
occasion
,
had
I
not
knowen
that
the
same
God
who
alwayes
hath
written
the
texts
of
these
predictions
with
his
owne
hand
,
hath
likewise
ordinarily
giuen
this
Interpretation
of
them
;
and
withall
that
admonitions
,
whether
in
season
,
or
out
of
season
,
cannot
hurt
;
It
being
a
happy
occasion
,
whatsoeuer
by
any
meanes
draweth
vs
to
amendment
of
life
.
Let
not
Philosophie
wrangle
with
me
for
neglecting
her
,
when
I
am
employed
in
the
seruice
of
our
common
Mistresse
,
Diuinitie
;
I
willingly
giue
vnto
her
the
knowledge
of
immediate
and
second
causes
;
but
shee
her selfe
hath
taught
me
,
to
giue
vnto
God
the
ordering
and
disposing
of
Nature
,
and
a
constant
influence
into
the
least
effects
,
which
she
produceth
.
It
were
an
hard
matter
for
me
to
say
,
that
Parelij
(
so
the
Gracians
call
an
appearance
of
many
Sunnes
together
;
)
and
Paraselenai
(
which
are
when
it
seemes
that
many
Moons
appeare
at
the
same
time
)
are
caused
by
the
reflexion
of
the
beames
of
those
Planets
,
from
an
equally
condensed
cloud
interposed
betweene
them
and
vs
;
as
Rainebowes
are
(
by
the
refraction
of
their
beames
)
from
an
hollow
,
waterish
,
or
dewie
cloud
,
vnequally
condensed
or
thickned
(
which
is
the
cause
of
the
varietie
of
colours
)
as
is
plaine
by
a
three
square
glasse
,
which
representeth
more
colours
,
or
at
least
more
liuely
than
are
in
the
Rainebow
.
Of
which
who
so
are
desirous
to
see
more
,
may
read
Seneca
largely
discoursing
thereof
,
in
the
first
booke
of
his
Naturall
questions
,
the
11
,
12
,
13
chapters
,
and
diuers
others
.
And
was
there
none
among
the
many
thousands
of
Israel
,
that
could
satisfie
the
amazed
multitude
,
concerning
the
causes
of
thunder
and
raine
;
but
that
they
must
fall
to
such
a
deiection
vpon
the
sight
and
hearing
of
them
,
as
is
expressed
,
2
Sam.
12.
18
,
19.
Certainly
,
the
vnsafe
curiositie
of
mankinde
,
when
it
hath
gained
credit
in
some
things
,
scornes
to
acknowledge
his
ignorance
in
any
thing
,
as
we
see
by
them
,
who
being
beleeued
,
or
thought
to
speake
probably
in
the
disclosing
of
the
causes
of
Snowes
,
Dewes
,
and
Raines
,
haue
from
thence
assumed
vnto
themselues
to
bee
able
to
giue
naturall
reasons
of
the
Deluge
,
of
raining
of
Bloud
,
Milke
,
Wheat
,
Stones
,
Woll
,
Iron
,
and
such
like
,
whereof
many
histories
written
by
credible
Authors
doe
make
mention
.
How
much
better
and
safer
is
it
for
vs
,
though
these
things
bee
granted
possible
by
Nature
;
yet
since
it
cannot
bee
denied
that
they
are
not
ordinary
in
Nature
,
to
take
the
aduantage
of
them
for
the
preuenting
of
that
wrath
,
which
,
whether
it
be
prognosticated
by
these
ostents
,
or
no
,
will
surely
be
reuealed
from
Heauen
vpon
vs
,
when
the
measure
of
our
iniquitie
shall
be
filled
.
Were
wee
at
that
point
with
God
,
where
we
should
be
;
we
needed
not
to
be
affraid
at
the
signes
of
Heauen
;
simply
and
positiuely
wee
need
not
feare
them
;
as
though
they
could
hurt
vs
,
without
the
impulsion
of
his
hand
which
made
Heauen
and
earth
;
or
as
if
,
though
hee
had
commanded
his
Army
Royall
of
all
creatures
to
march
against
vs
,
and
the
Heauens
themselues
to
fight
against
vs
,
as
against
Sisera
,
yet
it
were
not
in
his
power
,
vpon
our
repentance
to
sound
the
retreat
,
and
make
them
all
retire
,
and
againe
to
renew
the
league
betweene
the
stones
in
the
street
and
vs
.
But
when
wee
see
the
signes
the
same
,
and
know
our
sinnes
the
same
,
God
will
,
without
doubt
,
rather
accept
of
an
humble
feare
,
that
trembles
at
the
hand
,
that
shakes
the
rod
,
than
of
a
presumptuous
and
vnreasonable
confidence
,
that
he
who
punished
the
periury
of
Troy
,
should
loue
the
lies
of
Rome
,
(
to
vse
S.
Augustines
words
)
or
to
vse
the
phrase
of
Scripture
,
that
hee
who
punished
Iudah
for
three
transgressions
should
winke
at
Israel
for
the
multitude
of
her
rebellions
.
When
there
were
three
Sunnes
seene
at
Rome
,
which
by
little
and
little
did
all
grow
into
one
bodie
,
It
was
answered
by
the
Colledge
of
Southsayers
,
that
it
portended
the
vniting
of
the
three
parts
of
the
world
,
(
which
then
were
only
knowen
)
Asia
,
Africke
,
and
Europe
into
one
Empire
;
Grande
spectaculum
(
saith
mine
Author
)
&
quod
grandia
significauit
;
This
was
in
the
yeare
after
the
worlds
Creation
3923.
and
after
the
building
of
Rome
,
711.
about
41.
yeeres
before
the
incarnation
of
our
blessed
Sauiour
,
M.
Aemilius
Lepidus
,
and
L.
Munat
.
Plancus
being
Consuls
.
The
successe
proued
it
true
;
for
shortly
after
,
so
much
of
the
world
,
as
was
either
knowen
,
or
worth
conquering
,
acknowledged
the
Soueraigntie
of
the
Romane
Empire
:
Had
these
lately
seene
three
Sunnes
,
(
whereof
I
am
to
speake
)
appeared
but
twentie
yeares
sooner
,
wee
might
peraduenture
haue
hoped
they
had
but
foretold
,
what
wee
haue
since
found
true
,
The
happie
vnion
of
these
three
mightie
Kingdomes
,
in
our
blessed
Peace-maker
:
But
seeing
they
come
too
late
to
foretell
it
;
let
vs
hope
they
come
not
too
late
to
confirme
it
vnto
him
and
his
posteritie
,
as
long
as
the
Sunne
and
Moone
endure
.
Notwithstanding
,
euen
at
that
time
,
there
were
some
that
on
the
other
side
did
stiffely
maintaine
,
that
these
three
Sunnes
could
not
presage
any
good
vnto
the
Romane
Empire
;
but
rather
a
diuision
and
distraction
of
that
Imperiall
power
,
as
indeed
it
proued
true
;
for
the
yeare
following
began
the
Triumvirate
of
Lepidus
,
Caesar
,
and
Antonie
,
which
made
way
vnto
Caesars
Monarchy
,
the
period
of
the
Romanes
libertie
,
and
the
beginning
of
the
decay
of
their
greatnesse
.
And
certainly
,
it
hath
not
been
often
seene
or
obserued
,
that
such
Prodigies
haue
beene
fore-runners
of
any
good
vnto
the
place
where
they
were
seene
:
howsoeuer
,
vpon
a
turning
of
the
hearts
of
the
people
vnto
God
,
without
question
,
God
can
turne
the
threatned
plagues
vpon
the
heads
of
the
Heathen
,
and
such
as
haue
not
knowen
his
name
.
The
like
apparition
of
three
Sunnes
and
so
many
Moones
which
happened
in
Italy
in
the
yeare
of
Grace
1164.
was
thought
to
presage
the
great
dissension
of
the
Princes
Electors
in
chusing
the
Emperor
,
and
the
schisme
which
lately
followed
in
the
See
of
Rome
.
And
what
the
three
Sunnes
which
three
yeeres
after
were
seene
in
Poland
might
seeme
to
fore-shew
,
the
Chronicles
of
that
Countrey
doe
sufficiently
demonstrate
.
And
to
passe
by
many
other
;
those
three
Sunnes
which
were
seene
at
Magdeburge
vpon
the
21.
of
March
1551.
about
seuen
of
the
clocke
in
the
morning
,
accompanied
with
seuen
Rainebowes
:
and
the
three
Moones
appearing
the
night
of
the
same
day
:
the
three
Sunnes
appearing
againe
in
the
same
place
,
the
21.
of
Aprill
following
,
accompanied
only
with
three
Rainebowes
,
might
probably
bee
thought
to
fore-shew
the
straight
siege
,
which
(
by
the
command
of
Charles
the
fifth
)
Maurice
the
Duke
of
Saxony
▪
and
Albert
Marquisse
of
Brandenburge
laid
against
that
Citie
by
the
space
of
fifteene
moneths
;
whereby
the
Citizens
were
driuen
to
great
extremities
,
though
afterward
they
made
their
peace
vpon
good
conditions
.
What
should
I
speake
of
the
three
Sunnes
appearing
ouer
Vinarium
a
little
Citie
in
Doringia
the
tenth
of
Februarie
1555.
Or
of
the
like
in
France
before
the
battell
of
S.
Quintins
?
Because
according
to
the
Spanish
prouerbe
,
Da
lueng
as
vias
,
lueng
as
mentiras
;
From
farre
countreyes
,
foule
lies
:
I
will
come
close
to
our
owne
times
,
and
our
owne
home
;
nay
,
as
our
Sauiour
sayd
,
Regnum
Dei
est
intra
vos
,
The
Kingdome
of
God
is
within
you
:
So
will
I
say
,
It
is
not
beyond
the
seas
,
that
thou
shouldest
say
,
who
shall
goe
ouer
the
sea
for
vs
,
and
bring
it
to
vs
,
and
cause
vs
to
heare
it
,
that
we
may
doe
it
?
But
the
thing
is
very
neere
vnto
thee
,
yea
euen
before
thine
eyes
to
see
it
:
And
therefore
the
more
inexcusable
are
they
,
that
either
will
not
beleeue
it
,
or
reflect
no
more
vpon
it
,
than
if
they
beleeued
it
not
:
Howsoeuer
,
thus
it
was
.
Vpon
Saturday
the
22.
of
December
last
,
at
Tregnie
,
a
market-towne
in
Cornewall
,
well
knowen
to
Cornish
men
,
in
respect
of
his
neerenesse
to
Falmouth
,
about
eleuen
of
the
clocke
before
noone
,
the
Sunne
being
vnder
a
cloud
,
it
was
obserued
that
from
the
bodie
of
the
Sunne
there
proceeded
a
more
scattered
and
dispersed
light
than
was
wont
,
as
if
the
bodie
of
the
Planet
had
beene
greater
than
it
had
formerly
beene
:
But
this
being
attributed
only
to
the
brightnesse
of
some
cloud
betweene
him
and
vs
,
little
notice
was
taken
thereof
,
till
about
a
quarter
of
an
houre
after
,
this
diffused
light
seemed
to
concenter
,
as
it
were
,
and
gather
to
three
heads
,
which
in
short
space
appeared
to
the
view
of
the
beholders
to
be
three
Sunnes
,
of
equall
lustre
and
brightnesse
,
and
placed
as
neere
as
could
bee
ghessed
in
a
Triangle
;
all
shining
cleere
,
and
scattering
their
beames
with
so
great
light
,
as
that
the
eye
of
man
could
not
fasten
vpon
any
one
of
them
more
than
another
.
And
yet
which
is
remarkable
,
the
light
of
the
day
was
not
increased
,
otherwise
than
in
a
cleare
Suune-shine
day
,
at
such
time
of
the
yeere
it
is
accustomed
to
be
;
so
that
they
who
were
in
their
houses
could
not
,
by
reason
of
any
such
symptome
,
take
notice
thereof
.
This
strange
and
extraordinarie
sight
made
the
people
(
who
were
assembled
there
in
great
number
that
day
,
as
being
market-day
)
to
forsake
the
streets
and
other
places
,
where
any
thing
might
interpose
it selfe
betweene
it
and
them
,
and
to
betake
themselues
into
open
places
,
whence
they
might
the
better
discerne
it
;
where
they
,
with
feare
and
amazement
,
did
a
great
while
gaze
vpon
it
,
not
being
able
to
discerne
which
was
the
naturall
Sunne
,
and
which
his
aduentitious
and
Mimicke
reflections
.
They
that
were
of
better
iudgement
,
ghessed
them
to
be
distant
one
from
the
other
about
two
degrees
,
or
two
and
one
third
.
Nor
were
they
only
that
were
at
Tregnie
partakers
of
this
fearefull
and
preternaturall
oftent
;
but
as
many
as
dwelt
within
foure
or
fiue
miles
round
about
were
,
or
might
haue
beene
eye-witnesses
vnto
it
;
peraduenture
,
not
in
so
plaine
and
conspicuous
a
manner
,
because
the
cloud
was
not
either
of
height
or
largenesse
:
but
it
is
auouched
by
some
Gentle-men
of
good
worth
and
qualitie
,
that
being
that
day
foure
miles
from
Tregnie
into
the
landwards
,
about
twelue
of
the
clocke
,
they
did
plainly
see
and
discerne
it
.
At
the
same
time
,
and
so
long
as
these
three
Sunnes
appeared
,
there
were
seene
in
the
aire
,
iust
opposite
vnto
them
,
and
almost
due
North
three
Rainebowes
,
two
of
which
were
the
one
within
the
other
,
but
the
third
,
against
the
course
of
nature
,
had
his
center
in
the
Zenith
of
that
place
,
and
was
almost
contiguous
vnto
the
other
two
,
hauing
his
backe
almost
ioyned
to
theirs
.
That
Rainebowes
should
appeare
,
we
know
it
to
be
no
wonder
,
and
that
so
many
Rainebowes
as
Sunnes
,
wee
beleeue
it
possible
;
but
that
any
Rainebow
should
bee
greater
than
a
semi-circle
,
or
haue
his
center
aboue
our
Horizon
,
is
a
thing
which
elder
times
haue
not
beene
so
well
acquainted
withall
.
These
Sunnes
and
these
Rainebowes
continued
in
the
manner
abouesayd
,
from
a
quarter
of
an
houre
after
eleuen
,
vntill
halfe
an
houre
after
twelue
;
at
what
time
the
light
of
the
Sunnes
,
beginning
by
little
and
little
to
grow
weake
,
the
thicke
cloud
got
the
victory
ouer
them
,
and
tooke
them
away
from
the
eyes
of
the
beholders
;
and
at
the
same
time
also
the
Rainebowes
their
attendants
vanished
,
and
left
the
day
a
little
troubled
,
(
but
much
more
the
mindes
of
the
people
;
)
yet
about
one
of
the
clocke
,
or
soone
after
,
the
Sunne
brake
out
againe
in
his
wonted
and
accustomed
manner
,
and
the
rest
of
the
day
was
cleere
and
free
from
clouds
.
Since
this
strange
apparition
,
namely
vpon
the
tenth
of
Ianuary
last
,
there
happened
in
Deuonshire
,
yet
not
farre
from
the
other
place
,
being
on
the
edge
of
Cornewall
,
another
wonder
,
which
did
as
much
affright
the
eares
of
men
,
as
this
did
their
eyes
:
For
in
the
afternoone
of
that
day
,
being
the
Thursday
after
Twelfth
day
,
there
were
heard
in
the
aire
,
vnusuall
cracks
or
claps
of
thunder
,
resembling
in
all
points
,
the
sound
of
many
Drums
together
,
sometimes
beating
Charges
,
sometimes
Retreats
,
sometimes
Marches
,
and
all
other
points
of
warre
:
which
after
it
had
continued
a
good
time
,
it
seemed
that
the
same
thunder
did
most
liuely
expresse
many
volleyes
of
Small-shot
,
and
afterward
the
like
volleyes
of
Ordnance
,
with
so
great
,
and
yet
so
distinct
noyse
,
that
many
of
them
who
dwelt
neere
the
sea
,
went
toward
the
shore
to
see
what
it
might
meane
,
as
verily
supposing
there
had
beene
some
great
sea-fight
neere
vpon
that
Coast.
These
seuerall
fearefull
noyses
were
againe
and
againe
renewed
in
the
same
order
,
till
at
length
,
with
an
horrible
and
extraordinary
cracke
of
thunder
,
there
fell
in
a
ground
of
one
Robert
Pierce
,
where
there
were
diuers
worke-men
planting
apple-trees
,
(
which
ground
lay
neere
the
house
of
one
Master
George
Chidley
)
a
thunder-bolt
,
if
I
may
so
call
it
,
being
a
stone
of
three
foot
and
an
halfe
in
length
,
of
two
foot
and
an
halfe
in
bredth
,
and
one
foot
and
an
halfe
in
thicknesse
,
the
substance
whereof
was
in
hardnesse
and
colour
not
much
vnlike
a
flint
,
as
appeares
by
many
peeces
thereof
,
which
are
shewed
vp
and
downe
by
many
credible
and
honest
Gentle-men
,
who
with
their
own
hands
brake
them
off
from
the
maine
stone
.
After
the
fall
of
this
stone
,
which
with
the
weight
thereof
was
cleane
buried
in
the
ground
aboue
a
yard
deepe
,
the
thunder
ceased
,
and
people
began
as
much
to
wonder
at
that
which
they
now
saw
,
as
they
had
lately
done
at
that
,
which
with
so
much
feare
&
amazement
they
had
heard
.
You
haue
now
heard
a
simple
,
plaine
,
and
short
narration
,
of
some
great
and
fearefull
wonders
,
what
the
causes
of
them
were
,
we
all
may
peraduenture
coniecture
,
though
none
of
vs
can
demonstratiuely
shew
:
What
the
effects
of
them
shall
be
,
I
scarse
thinke
any
man
can
coniecture
;
sure
I
am
,
no
man
can
certainly
tell
;
It
is
neither
safe
nor
good
for
vs
to
be
Polimanticks
,
but
in
all
patience
and
prepared
resolution
,
to
submit
our selues
to
the
will
of
God
,
we
may
well
determine
it
the
dutie
of
euerie
Christian.
I
had
here
put
an
end
of
this
short
and
vnpollisht
discourse
;
but
that
being
in
hand
with
it
,
there
was
brought
vnto
me
a
briefe
(
but
excellent
)
and
simple
narration
of
the
massacres
committed
by
Papists
,
vpon
the
persons
of
more
than
400.
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
of
the
Reformed
Religion
,
in
the
Valletelline
(
a
place
in
the
Grisons
Countrey
among
the
Rhaetian
Alps
,
of
good
importance
for
many
respects
)
both
in
Tirano
,
Teglio
,
Sundrio
,
and
Malenco
,
and
diuers
other
places
of
the
Countrey
neere
adioyning
:
the
ninth
,
tenth
,
and
eleuenth
of
Iuly
1620.
wherein
,
though
I
confesse
there
be
such
examples
of
crueltie
and
inhumanitie
,
as
a
Turke
,
Infidell
,
Iew
,
or
any
other
sauing
a
Papist
,
would
blush
and
tremble
at
;
yet
not
conciding
so
aptly
with
this
purpose
,
I
will
for
the
present
omit
them
,
and
(
which
agreeth
better
with
this
argument
)
only
touch
vpon
such
Prodigies
,
as
the
Author
of
that
Treatise
,
who
as
an
eye-witnesse
reporteth
what
he
saw
and
felt
,
Et
quorum
pars
magna
fuit
.
affirmeth
,
to
haue
beene
seene
and
heard
in
those
places
,
both
before
the
Massacre
and
after
;
and
thus
they
are
word
for
word
with
the
Italian
coppie
.
Signes
and
Prodigies
which
happened
before
the
massacre
in
Valletelline
,
the
ninth
of
Iuly
1620.
after
the
old
account
.
THere
being
thorow
out
all
the
Valletelline
,
Guards
or
Sentinels
set
in
euerie
Steeple
or
Bell-fray
;
together
with
certaine
others
appointed
to
seuerall
places
,
to
giue
warning
by
fire
,
to
the
intent
that
all
the
Valley
,
as
well
by
the
fires
,
as
by
the
correspondence
of
the
sounds
of
the
bels
,
might
be
in
an
instant
aduertized
to
take
armes
for
their
owne
defence
,
against
such
enemies
as
pretended
to
assault
the
sayd
Valley
:
About
the
Calends
of
May
,
1620.
In
Sondrio
,
the
Sentinels
that
were
(
as
aforesaid
)
appointed
to
watch
in
the
steeple
made
relation
,
that
in
the
night
they
heard
in
the
Church
of
S.
Geruais
,
a
great
murmuring
and
noyse
,
as
if
it
had
beene
of
many
people
,
earnestly
reasoning
and
disputing
about
some
great
and
serious
matter
:
and
that
from
the
bodie
of
the
Church
,
there
shone
vp
into
the
steeple
a
great
light
;
whereupon
the
Sentinels
,
lighting
their
candles
,
went
to
goe
downe
into
the
Church
,
to
see
what
the
matter
was
:
But
as
they
were
going
downe
,
their
light
was
blowne
out
,
and
they
going
backe
to
light
it
againe
,
it
was
againe
blowne
out
,
with
greater
noyse
and
violence
than
before
.
And
suddenly
,
the
light
which
was
in
the
Church
ceased
,
and
the
waits
●f
the
clocke
fell
downe
,
and
the
bell
was
tolled
ten
times
,
as
it
is
accustomed
to
be
done
,
in
case
of
giuing
an
Allarme
,
which
thing
was
heard
of
many
.
In
Tirano
likewise
there
were
some
such
blowes
giuen
to
the
greater
bell
;
In
so
much
,
that
the
Magistrate
sent
suddenly
to
see
what
it
meant
:
but
hee
found
that
it
was
not
done
by
any
man
:
And
as
the
messengers
returned
home
from
the
steeple
,
the
bell
of
the
Palace
it selfe
was
heard
to
ring
;
and
they
of
the
place
wondring
and
looking
diligently
what
it
might
bee
,
they
saw
descending
by
the
rope
of
the
said
bell
,
somewhat
in
the
likenesse
and
proportion
of
a
Cat.
Signes
and
prodigies
heard
and
seene
in
Valletelline
,
after
the
horrible
massacre
:
As
it
is
affirmed
by
diuers
credible
persons
,
that
haue
since
come
from
thence
,
and
were
there
,
at
,
and
aft●r
the
massacre
.
IN
the
Churches
which
were
formerly
vsed
by
them
of
the
Reformed
Religion
,
and
principally
in
Teglio
and
Tirano
,
there
hath
many
times
been
heard
a
voice
to
cry
,
Woe
,
woè
vnto
you
,
vengeance
from
God
for
the
bloud
of
Innocents
.
There
hath
also
beene
often
heard
the
bell
of
the
Church
of
them
of
the
Reformed
Religion
in
Tirano
,
to
toll
without
any
mans
hands
,
at
the
time
that
the
Sermon
was
wont
to
be
;
and
in
the
same
Church
there
hath
beene
often
heard
a
voyce
,
as
if
it
had
beene
of
the
reuerend
Antonio
Basso
,
late
Minister
of
that
place
,
and
there
massacred
,
when
hee
was
wont
to
preach
.
Of
this
Antonio
Basso
it
is
likewise
reported
,
that
being
slaine
be
the
rebellious
and
seditious
Papists
;
they
not
satisfied
with
this
,
cut
off
his
head
,
and
carried
it
into
the
Church
,
and
set
it
vpon
the
Pulpit
,
where
hee
had
beene
accustomed
formerly
to
preach
,
and
then
mocking
,
cryed
vnto
him
,
Cala
a
basso
,
Basso
,
cala
a
basso
,
c'hai
predicato
assai
,
&c.
that
is
,
Come
downe
,
Basso
,
come
downe
,
thou
hast
preached
long
enough
.
In
Sondrio
there
was
seene
comming
downe
from
the
Mountaines
,
as
it
had
been
,
an
host
of
armed
men
;
whereupon
many
going
out
of
Sondrio
,
were
about
to
runne
away
to
saue
themselues
by
flight
;
but
in
the
end
this
apparition
vanished
like
a
cloud
;
yet
it
hath
beene
so
great
a
cause
of
feare
among
the
people
,
that
many
haue
forsaken
their
dwellings
in
the
Valley
,
for
feare
of
the
diuine
punishment
.
To
make
an
end
now
where
I
began
,
at
home
and
amongst
our selues
;
though
this
briefe
narration
was
not
by
me
intended
,
as
a
pious
fraud
,
to
make
men
afraid
where
there
is
no
cause
of
feare
;
yet
howsoeuer
the
truth
of
it
bee
,
(
for
I
will
not
engage
my
faith
vnto
you
for
the
certaintie
of
it
,
though
in
my selfe
I
bee
well
enough
satisfied
thereof
,
in
respect
of
the
credit
of
such
as
reported
it
,
as
hauing
beene
eye-witnesses
:
)
Let
others
please
themselues
in
the
perswasion
,
that
,
Nihil
est
in
istis
terribile
nisi
ipse
timor
,
(
as
Seneca
speakes
)
There
is
nothing
fearefull
in
these
things
,
but
the
feare
it selfe
:
yet
the
wise
will
bee
admonished
by
euery
occasion
,
Et
quod
aequum
est
sperare
,
&
ad
id
quod
iniquissimum
est
se
compararet
;
both
(
as
wee
say
in
honest
English
)
to
hope
the
best
,
and
to
prouide
for
the
worst
;
which
how
to
doe
,
as
becommeth
Christians
,
no
man
hath
better
taught
vs
,
nor
in
fewer
words
,
than
our
Soueraigne
himselfe
in
the
end
of
his
Meditation
vpon
1
Chron.
15.
vers.
25
,
26
,
27
,
28
,
29.
First
,
by
constant
remaining
in
the
puritie
of
the
truth
,
which
is
our
most
certaine
couenant
of
saluation
,
in
the
only
merit
of
our
Sauiou●
:
And
next
,
by
reforming
our
defiled
liues
,
a●
becomes
regenerate
Christians
,
to
the
great
glory
of
our
God
,
the
vtter
defacing
of
our
aduersaries
,
the
wicked
,
and
our
vnspeakable
comfort
,
both
here
and
also
her●after
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.