A
most
straunge
and
wonderfull
accident
,
happened
at
Weersburch
,
by
Franckford
,
by
a
most
fearefull
Earthquake
and
darknesse
,
with
a
mightie
tempest
of
Thunder
and
lightning
.
And
of
a
dreadfull
Embassage
,
vttered
to
the
Gouernour
of
that
Cittie
:
by
three
straunge
Children
,
which
were
found
in
a
wood
,
threatning
destruction
to
that
Countrie
,
and
to
all
Christendome
.
RIght
iust
is
the
Lord
in
all
his
iudgments
,
but
yet
most
merciful
to
such
as
doe
repent
,
and
turne
away
from
their
wickednes
:
and
althogh
oft
times
hee
bee
seuere
in
his
punishments
,
yet
dooth
hee
long
forbeare
before
hee
execute
his
wrath
,
giuing
many
warnings
to
all
finners
to
repent
and
leaue
off
their
wicked
liuing
:
and
dealing
with
vs
euen
as
a
louing
Father
doth
with
his
children
,
first
threatning
vs
for
our
faultes
,
and
in
hope
of
amendment
,
forbearing
and
suffering
vs
,
to
see
if
we
wil
take
warning
and
leaue
off
our
euill
doings
.
But
when
hee
seeth
that
by
no
meanes
we
will
be
wonne
to
dread
his
iudgements
,
then
he
taketh
his
rod
of
affliction
in
hand
,
and
therewith
●●●urgeth
the
obstinate
and
rebellious
:
For
although
the
Psalmist
saith
in
one
place
,
That
he
is
verie
mercifull
,
slow
to
anger
,
and
aboundant
in
goodnes
:
It
in
an
other
places
he
saith
.
The
Lord
is
righteous
and
iust
,
and
rewardeth
all
men
according
to
their
deeds
:
So
that
his
mercie
and
iustice
are
of
equall
quantitie
,
and
as
hee
sheweth
mercy
to
the
humble
and
contrite
,
so
hee
executeth
his
iudgement
vppon
the
froward
and
vngodly
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
,
although
we
see
&
heare
dayly
what
tokens
hee
sendeth
vs
,
as
fauourable
warnings
,
and
what
iudgements
hee
executeth
as
terrible
threatnings
:
yet
wee
still
goe
on
carelessely
in
our
former
wickednesse
,
making
no
more
account
of
all
his
admonitions
,
then
of
a
matter
nothing
appertinent
vnto
vs
.
It
is
not
longe
since
hee
afflicted
vs
heere
in
England
.
First
,
with
pestilence
and
mortalitie
,
and
now
last
by
death
and
famaine
,
and
euen
so
long
as
our
punishment
continued
,
so
long
wee
in
some
sort
sought
vnto
him
,
but
now
it
hath
pleased
him
againe
to
send
vs
our
former
health
and
plentie
,
wee
in
greater
aboundance
,
daily
commit
more
grienous
sinnes
then
before
,
and
by
how
much
more
the
mercie
of
God
is
shewed
vnto
vs
,
so
much
the
more
doe
we
continually
transgresse
,
neglecting
his
seruice
,
and
giuing
our selues
to
all
sinfull
lustes
and
voluptuous
pleasures
,
taking
pleasure
and
delight
in
all
the
most
detestable
and
abhominable
sinnes
that
are
in
the
world
.
Young
men
and
women
,
in
pride
and
whoredome
,
and
old
folkes
,
in
couetousnesse
and
gluttonie
:
But
wherefore
doe
I
impute
part
to
young
and
part
to
old
?
For
surely
although
those
sinnes
bee
most
rife
in
these
estates
,
yet
both
young
and
old
are
partakers
in
them
all
,
and
in
a
great
many
more
,
so
as
I
may
say
that
both
young
and
old
,
great
and
small
,
of
all
ages
,
and
of
all
conditions
:
are
apt
to
all
manner
of
deadly
sinnes
and
pernicious
vices
.
And
although
we
haue
the
glorious
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
,
plentifully
preached
amongst
vs
,
and
many
thousands
of
good
,
faithful
,
and
painefull
Pastours
and
Ministers
,
to
distribute
the
same
amongst
vs
.
Yet
there
is
none
of
any
other
Heathen
nations
,
and
erronious
Religion
that
are
so
slacke
,
in
their
deuotion
as
we
are
,
nor
so
negligent
and
carelesse
in
the
worship
and
honor
of
their
false
Idols
and
fained
Gods
,
as
we
are
in
dutie
and
reuerence
vnto
our
true
God
and
heauenly
father
.
This
is
a
grieuous
case
,
and
of
all
things
most
lamentable
,
that
we
being
by
profession
Christians
,
and
bearing
the
name
of
Souldiers
to
so
worthie
a
Captaine
as
our
Sauiour
is
,
should
make
so
smal
resistance
against
our
enemies
the
world
,
the
fleshe
and
the
diuell
,
as
to
let
them
harbour
and
remaine
amongst
vs
,
executing
their
malice
vpon
our
wretched
soules
as
they
doe
.
Is
it
not
great
shame
for
vs
being
of
so
excellent
a
profession
,
to
take
so
little
regard
and
care
thereof
,
and
to
see
them
of
false
and
famed
,
damned
,
and
superstitious
opinions
,
so
careful
in
maintaining
their
most
wicked
heresies
?
Yes
surely
it
is
great
shame
,
and
greatly
to
bee
feared
,
that
those
ignorant
Heathen
nations
,
shal
in
the
day
of
iudgment
rise
vp
against
vs
,
and
condemne
vs
for
the
small
care
and
regard
that
we
take
of
the
truth
.
And
surely
I
would
wish
euerie
Christian
soule
to
take
heede
:
and
haue
more
regard
of
the
honour
of
God
then
before
times
hee
hath
had
,
least
hee
in
his
iust
iudgements
,
bring
vtter
ruine
and
destruction
vpon
vs
all
,
as
hee
hath
lately
threatned
,
by
these
tokens
which
now
I
purpose
to
declare
,
aduising
thee
whosoeuer
thou
bee
,
that
either
readest
or
hearest
the
same
,
not
to
esteeme
lightly
of
the
matter
,
but
to
alter
thy
mind
and
leaue
off
thy
wickednesse
in
time
,
while
the
Lord
will
bee
found
to
shew
mercie
vnto
thee
.
And
so
briefely
to
the
matter
.
Vpon
the
twentie
day
of
Iuly
last
past
,
1600.
A
most
fearefull
iudgement
of
God
,
happened
in
the
Cittie
of
Weersburch
by
Franckford
,
where
al
at
one
time
the
Lord
sent
a
mightie
Earthquake
,
and
darknesse
,
with
a
great
and
fearefull
tempest
of
Thunder
and
Lightning
,
which
continued
for
the
space
of
fiue
whole
howers
in
most
dreadfull
manner
,
so
that
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
Citie
,
thought
surely
the
last
iudgement
day
then
to
haue
beene
come
,
the
terrible
shaking
of
the
earth
,
caused
the
people
both
small
and
great
to
forsake
their
houses
,
(
and
finding
no
place
for
succor
wherein
they
durst
abide
)
did
runne
vp
and
down
the
streets
,
weeping
and
crying
in
most
dolefull
manner
.
Many
Churches
and
stonewalles
,
with
other
buildings
,
fell
dawne
by
reason
of
extreame
shaking
of
the
earth
,
and
in
their
fall
,
killed
and
maimed
a
great
number
of
Christian
people
,
the
suddainnesse
of
this
fearefull
tempest
,
put
the
poore
inhabitants
in
such
extreame
feare
,
as
no
man
had
any
minde
of
any
thing
in
his
house
,
no
,
the
husband
neuer
remembred
his
wife
,
nor
the
wife
her
husband
,
but
were
so
exceedingly
astonished
,
that
they
ran
vp
&
downe
the
streetes
from
place
to
place
,
like
mad
or
franticke
persons
.
The
Thunder
and
lightning
,
was
likewise
so
terrible
,
as
the
lightning
ceazing
vpon
the
houses
,
burned
an
hundred
and
twentie
of
them
downe
to
the
ground
:
and
by
reason
of
the
peoples
feare
,
there
was
no
man
that
vsed
any
kind
of
meanes
to
hinder
the
force
of
the
fire
.
The
man
that
had
now
beene
ther
,
to
haue
seene
the
demeanour
of
these
poore
fearefull
soules
,
and
could
without
feare
and
astonishment
,
haue
noted
their
behauiour
:
might
there
haue
seene
a
most
liuely
Map
of
miserie
and
misfortune
.
During
the
time
of
this
tempest
,
another
most
straunge
and
dreadfull
accident
happened
in
the
Cittie
.
For
a
man
of
a
most
straunge
complection
,
appeared
to
many
people
:
his
hayre
on
his
head
seemed
to
be
flames
of
burning
fier
,
his
eyes
stood
staring
in
most
fearefull
and
gastly
maner
:
his
beard
all
growne
out
of
order
,
that
by
visage
hee
seemed
like
a
wild
man
,
in
his
right
hand
he
held
a
bloudie
sword
,
and
in
his
left
hand
a
rod
,
from
whose
branches
bloud
dropped
in
aboundance
,
his
looke
was
sterne
and
reuengfull
,
and
his
words
ful
of
terrour
,
which
were
these
.
Thus
saith
the
Lord
,
your
sinnes
haue
mooued
me
to
wrath
,
and
your
transgressions
haue
prouoked
my
displeasure
,
therefore
except
you
speedily
repent
and
leaue
off
your
wickednesse
,
I
wil
vtterly
destroy
you
from
the
face
of
the
earth
,
and
behold
this
bloudie
Sword
,
that
I
hold
in
my
right
hand
,
betokeneth
dreadfull
warre
,
which
the
Lord
will
bring
vppon
you
speedily
,
except
vnfained
repentance
.
The
rod
that
I
haue
in
my
left
hand
,
signifieth
the
punishment
which
the
Lord
wil
inflict
vpon
you
,
because
you
will
not
bee
warned
,
and
forsake
your
pride
,
and
such
other
abhominable
sinnes
,
for
as
hee
hath
longe
forborne
you
,
still
admonishing
and
exhorting
you
by
his
Preachers
,
to
reforme
your selues
and
amend
your
liues
:
So
now
seeing
no
other
meanes
will
serue
,
hee
purposeth
to
take
his
rod
of
affliction
in
hand
,
and
to
correct
your
sinnes
most
seuerely
.
And
seeing
mercie
will
not
preuaile
,
nor
you
make
no
account
thereof
,
hee
will
now
execute
his
iudgementes
vppon
you
.
And
hauing
vttered
these
and
such
like
speeches
,
hee
vanished
away
:
at
whose
departure
there
was
heard
such
a
sorrowfull
howling
and
crying
:
that
the
people
more
affraid
of
this
wounder
then
of
all
the
tempest
before
,
were
now
with
feare
so
mightily
astonished
,
as
they
rather
seemed
dead
men
then
liuing
creatures
.
Not
long
after
,
it
pleased
God
that
the
tempest
ceased
,
and
the
weather
brake
vp
.
which
comforted
the
Citizens
hearts
,
but
yet
this
ioy
was
not
perfect
with
the
most
part
,
for
there
you
might
see
some
wayling
for
the
losse
of
their
goods
and
houses
consumed
with
fire
,
others
making
woefull
lamentations
for
their
husbands
and
children
,
searching
amongst
the
dead
bodies
which
were
burnt
and
slaine
,
with
the
fire
and
fall
of
the
buildings
,
heere
one
crying
and
wayling
of
his
wounds
,
gotten
in
the
time
of
the
tempest
,
there
another
sorrowing
for
the
losse
of
his
friends
,
in
such
pittifull
manner
,
as
would
haue
mooued
the
most
stonie
hard
,
and
abdurate
heart
to
relent
,
and
take
compassion
:
but
al
in
vaine
were
these
lamentations
,
for
that
by
them
no
man
is
able
to
recouer
such
losses
,
wherfore
euerie
one
as
well
as
they
could
,
striuing
to
comfort
themselues
,
made
this
their
chiefest
ioy
,
that
it
pleased
God
to
stay
the
tempest
,
and
in
some
measure
to
appease
his
wrath
.
Some
two
or
three
daies
after
:
to
shew
foorth
the
great
ioye
that
they
receiued
by
the
mercye
of
God
,
in
sparing
them
at
that
time
.
The
Gouernour
of
the
Cittie
with
some
other
of
his
friends
,
tooke
Waggon
,
entending
for
their
recreation
,
to
ride
to
the
next
Cittie
called
Ausburch
,
being
not
farre
distant
from
thence
,
and
as
they
were
in
the
mid
way
in
a
certaine
Wood
called
Rade
,
where
suddainely
they
heard
a
great
noyse
and
crie
of
certaine
children
,
and
looking
about
could
see
nothing
:
vppon
that
the
Gouernour
sent
the
Waggoner
to
see
if
he
could
find
the
persons
,
from
whome
that
clamour
proceeded
,
who
went
and
sought
all
about
,
but
could
find
no
bodie
,
so
when
he
had
sought
a
great
while
in
vaine
,
at
last
he
returned
againe
to
the
Gouernour
,
telling
him
that
hee
had
sought
in
euerie
place
neere
thereabouts
,
but
could
neither
see
nor
heare
any
such
matter
.
This
aunswere
made
them
greatly
to
wonder
,
for
still
they
heard
the
crie
lowder
then
before
:
which
encreased
their
desire
so
much
,
as
the
Gouernour
bad
the
Waggoner
to
driue
forwards
into
the
Wood
,
to
see
if
they
could
by
any
meanes
know
the
reason
of
this
clamour
:
Not
long
had
they
ridden
before
they
came
to
a
crosse
way
,
where
fower
waies
met
,
where
they
spied
three
children
,
two
boyes
and
one
gerle
.
The
Gerle
had
vpon
her
head
a
costly
Call
,
made
of
the
newest
and
stateliest
fashion
,
that
is
at
this
present
worne
,
vpon
her
lower-parts
a
paire
of
Breeches
,
like
a
man
of
the
newest
fashion
likwise
,
both
which
attires
,
signified
pride
,
the
one
in
women
,
the
other
in
men
.
The
Girle
approaching
neere
vnto
the
Waggon
,
spake
to
the
Gouernour
as
followeth
.
The
extreame
pride
that
raigneth
in
these
daies
among
Christians
,
hath
so
much
prouoked
the
Lords
displeasure
,
that
it
hath
caused
him
to
send
vs
downe
from
heauen
,
to
pronounce
his
iudgements
against
you
all
,
and
to
tell
you
that
hee
hath
promised
vtterly
to
roote
you
out
and
destroy
you
,
except
you
speedily
repent
,
and
regard
the
fauourable
and
mercifull
warnings
that
hee
sendeth
you
by
vs
:
So
hauing
vttered
such
like
speeches
,
shee
likewise
vanished
away
in
a
great
flash
of
Lightning
,
and
was
seene
no
more
.
The
next
approached
one
of
the
Boyes
,
who
was
clad
in
Turkes
apparel
,
who
threatned
dreadfull
warre
against
all
Christendome
,
and
that
the
Turke
should
according
to
an
auncient
Prophecie
:
come
and
ouer-runne
that
Land
,
and
bring
his
Armie
into
the
Cittie
of
Culen
vppon
Rhyne
,
which
is
the
place
from
whence
the
Renish
wine
commeth
:
and
with
sword
and
fire
should
destroy
all
those
places
in
which
he
entered
,
and
this
hee
said
should
fall
out
the
next
yeare
without
faile
,
except
speedie
repentance
.
And
that
their
land
should
be
brought
to
such
extremitie
through
the
want
of
men
,
that
there
should
not
be
left
in
all
the
Countrie
a
man
to
follow
the
plough
,
so
as
all
the
countrie
should
bee
desolate
and
vnfruitfull
.
Then
came
the
other
Boye
,
who
holdeth
in
either
of
his
hands
,
a
peece
of
their
Countrie
money
called
a
Reall
,
and
hee
said
that
in
certaine
time
after
,
the
Turke
should
bee
beaten
backe
againe
into
Hungarie
,
and
then
should
bee
such
plentie
,
as
no
man
should
haue
need
to
borrow
of
his
neighbour
,
but
they
should
haue
Gold
and
Siluer
at
will
:
but
there
should
follow
such
pestilence
&
contagion
,
as
the
number
of
the
people
should
be
so
much
deminished
,
that
victuals
shall
bee
so
plentie
,
as
for
three
Stiuers
(
which
is
in
English
money
some
seuen
pence
halfe
penie
)
a
man
should
buy
a
bushell
of
of
Wheate
,
and
for
halfe
so
much
a
bushell
of
Rie
.
But
a
dead
mans
Coffin
should
not
bee
found
,
although
a
man
would
giue
for
the
same
a
Duck
at
of
Gold
,
so
grieuous
the
plague
should
be
.
When
all
these
speeches
were
vttered
,
they
made
the
Gouernour
sweare
,
to
publish
the
effect
of
their
words
in
all
their
Dominions
,
and
to
all
other
nations
neere
adioyning
vnto
them
,
which
they
tooke
their
oathes
to
performe
.
And
so
they
made
letters
of
Credence
,
sealed
with
their
Seales
and
sent
them
from
Cittie
to
Cittie
.
First
to
the
Palsgraue
,
then
from
him
to
the
Duke
of
Bronswicke
,
and
so
ouer
all
the
land
.
This
Coppie
came
into
England
the
twelfth
day
of
this
present
Moneth
of
Nouember
.
1600.
The
names
of
those
Officers
to
whome
this
Embassage
was
vttered
.
Iasper
Vromen
,
Gouernour
of
Weersburch
,
which
in
their
language
they
call
the
Scoute
,
and
Iacobus
Vos
,
Burgomaster
.
FJNIS
.