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• Supernaturall Sights and Apparitions Seen in London, June 30, 1644, Interpreted; With a Mathematicall Discourse of the Now Imminent Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars, 26 July, 1944, the Effects Which Either Here or in Some Neere Countries From Thence May be Expected (London: Printed for T. V. and to be sold by I. S, 1644), by William Lilly
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• Ioannis Laurentii Lydi Liber de ostentis ex codicibus italicis auctus et calendaria graeca omnia / Accedunt anecdota duo : De cometis et De terrae motibus. (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1863), by Johannes Laurentius Lydus and Curt Wachsmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous reflections, occasion'd by the comet which appear'd in December 1680. Chiefly tending to explode popular superstitions. Written to a doctor of the Sorbon (Printed for J. Morphew, 1708), by Pierre Bayle and Thomas Hollis (page images at HathiTrust)
• De prodigiis (Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1720), by Julius Obsequens, Samuel Luchtmans, Jacobus Perizonius, Konrad Lykosthenes, Frans van Oudendorp, and Johannes Scheffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Plinii Caecilii Secvndi Novocomensis Epistolarvm libri decem (Apud Seb. Gryphium Lugduni,, 1551), by Pliny the Younger, Sebastianus Gryphius, Julius Obsequens, and ca. 69-ca. 122 Suetonius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meteorologia philosophico-politica : in duodecim dissertationes per quaestiones meteorologicas et conclusiones politicas divisa, appositisque symbolis illustrata : olim honori Augusti Romanorum regis Josephi I inscripta, nunc denuo ad multorum desiderium in lucem correctior edita (Impensis Jeremiae Wolfii, chalcographicae artis propolae :, 1709), by Franciscus Reinzer, Andreas Matthäus Wolfgang, Jeremias Wolf, Johann Stridbeck, Jakob Müller, Johanna Sibilla Küsel, Wolfgang Joseph Kadorizi, and Peter Detleffsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• De naturae divinis characterismis (Ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi regij, 1575), by Cornelius Gemma, Gerard Janssen van Kampen, Antoine van Leest, and Christophe Plantin (page images at HathiTrust)
• More warning yet. Being a true relation of a strange and most dreadful apparition which was seen in the air by several persons at Hull, the third day of this present Septemb. 1654. Namely, tvvo great battels fought in the air: one army coming from the east, and another out of the north-west. With the maner of their engagement and victory. Enclosed in a lettet [sic] from a godly-learned minister of the Gospel in the said town of Hull, who having diligently examined the truth thereof, sent it up to be published. (Printed at London : by J. Cottrel; and are to be sold by Richard Moone, at the seven stars in Paul's Church-yard, [1654]), by Godly-learned minister of the Gospel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• [The history of strange wonders.] ([Imprynted at London : By Roulande Hall dvvellynge in Goldynge Lane at the signe of the three arrovves, 1561]), by Joachim Camerarius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Lords loud call to England: being a true relation of some late, various, and wonderful judgments, or handy-works of God, by earthquake, lightening, whirlewind, great multitudes of toads and flyes; and also the striking of divers persons with sudden death, in several places; for what causes let the man of wisdome judge, upon his serious perusal of the book it self. Also of the strange changes, and late alterations made in these three nations. As also of the odious sin of drinking healths, with a brief of Mr. Pryns solid arguments against it, and his epistle to the late King Charls, to redress it. Published by H.J. a servant of Jesus the Christ, and lover of peace and holiness. (London : printed for L. Chapman, in Popes-head Alley, and for Fr. Smith at the Elephant and Castle neer Temple-Bar, 1660), by Henry Jessey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The wonderful blazing star with the dreadful apparition of two armies in the air. The one out of the north, the other out of the south, as in the figure shown above is represented. (London : Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings-Armes in the Poultrey, 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The vvarnings of Germany By wonderfull signes, and strange prodigies seene in divers parts of that countrey of Germany, betweene the yeare 1618. and 1638. Together with a briefe relation of the miserable events which ensued. All faithfully collected out of credible High Dutch chronicles, and other histories by L. Brinckmair Captaine. As also a learned and godly sermon preached before the lords the States at Norrimberg. Anno 1638. (London : Printed by John Norton, for John Rothvvell, and are to be sold at the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard, 1638), by L. Brinckmair (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A letter with a narrative, written to the right Hon:ble Thomas Allen Lord Major of London, &e. [sic] concerning a strange sight that appeared over this city of London, in the yeare 1642. when the King was driven from his Parliament, dated as followeth (London : printed for Nath. Butter, residing in Cursitors Alley, 1659), by Nathaniel Butter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A bright burning beacon forewarning all wise virgins to trim their lampes against the comming of the Bridegroome. Conteining a generall doctrine of sundrie signes and wonders, specially earthquakes both particular and generall: a discourse of the end of this world: a commemoration of our late earthquake, the 6. of April, about 6. of the clocke in the euening 1580. And a praier for the appeasing of Gods wrath and indignation. Newly translated and collected by Abraham Fleming. The summe of the whole booke followeth in fit place orderly diuided into chapters. ([[London] : 1580. Imprinted at London by Henrie Denham, dwelling in Pater noster rowe at the signe of the Starre, [1580]]), by Friedrich Nausea and Abraham Fleming (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• True and faithfull relation of a woman, now dwelling in Kentstreet. (London : Imprinted by William Iones, dwelling in Red-crosse-streete, 1617) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Blasyng starre or burnyng beacon. (Imprinted at London : By Ihon Kyngston, for Henry Kirkham, and are to bee solde, at the signe of the blacke boye, adioynyng to the little northdore [sic] of sainct Paule, 1580), by Francis Shakelton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Wonderful news, from the North: being a true and perfect relation, of severall strange and wonderful apparitions seen in the ayr, between Madely and Whitmore, in the county palatine of Chester. Shewing, how there appeared a dark colud over the sun, and immediatly after two great armies of men were seen in battle array, with drums, trumpets, and canons ready mounted, who seemed to have a terrible and bloudy fight. Also, the coming in of certain birds with wings like angels, after the battle was ended, with a description of their several colours, and what hapned. This relation was taken by the minister of Madely, and the truth thereof verified by Mrs. Holt of Oakers Hill, who with her maid, were eye-witnesses hereof. (London : Printed for George Horton, 1651), by William Radmore (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Five strange and wonderful prodigies: or, A full and true relation of supernatural sights and aparitions lately seen in the air viz. Tvvo great armies drawn up in battalia, and seeming ready to engage each other, beheld for some hours, by several thousands of people: with dreadful noises heard, like the discharge of cannons and musquets, accompanied with hideous crys and howling. As also a fiery-bullet of a most vast magnitude violently rushing through the air, and at last with a most terrible crack breaking into a thousand pieces, to the unspeakable terror of the amazed spectators. As it is certified by several persons of quality. With an astrological judgement thereupon. (London : printed for G.H., in the year, 1673) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Natura prodigiorum or, a discourse touching the nature of prodigies. Together with the kinds, causes and effects, of comets, eclipses, and earthquakes. With an appendix touching the imposturism of the commonly-received doctrine of prophecies, spirits, images, sigils, lamens, the christal, &c. and the propugners of such opinions. / By John Gadbury philomathēmatikos. (London : Printed by J.C. for Fr. Cossinet, at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street; and Tho. Basset in St. Dunstans-Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1660), by John Gadbury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Eniaytos terastios Mirabilis annus, or, The year of prodigies and wonders being a faithful and impartial collection of severall signs that have been seen in the heavens, in the earth, and in the waters; together with many remarkable accidents, and judgements befalling divers persons, according as they have been testified by very credible hands: all which have happened within the space of one year last past, and are now made publick for a seasonable warning to the people of these three kingdoms speedily to repent and turn to the Lord, whose hand is lifted up amongst us. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1661) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mr. Lillies new prophecy, of the white-Easter, and its effects. With an account of the new blazing-star : being a full account of a strange comet lately seen in the heavens, its shape, place in the zodiack, motion, their time of continuance, and probable portents or matters thereby signified to happen in the world. (London : Printed for Phillip Brooksby ..., 1673), by William Lilly (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon. English ([London] : Imprinted by Ralphe Nubery assigned by Henry Bynneman. Cum priuilegio Regal, Anno Domini 1581), by Konrad Lykosthenes and Stephen Batman (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Swans welcome to His Royall Highness the Duke. Or, Some remarks upon that note-worthy passage, mention'd in the True Domestick Intelligence, dated Octob. 14. 1679. concerning a company of swans, more than ordinary gathered together, at his Royall Highnes's landing. ([London : s.n., 1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lilly's strange and wonderful prophecy being a relation of many universal accidents that will come to pass in the year 1681. According to the prognostications of the celestial bodies, as well in this our English nation, as in parts beyond the seas : with a sober caution to all by speedy repentance to avert the judgments that are impendent. As likewise a strange and wonderful discovery at a place called Leek, in Stafford-shire : by men digging in the earth for stones to pave two streets, where they found a pavement of smooth stone, several pots of ashes and mens bones ... as also an account of the great stream of light, by some termed a blazing-star, which was seen in the south-west on Saturday and Sunday the 11th and 12th of this instant December, between six and seven in the evening, with sever judicial opinions and conjectures upon the same. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, in VVest-smithfield, 1680), by William Lilly (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Gods voice to Christendom, or, Alarum to Europe by the remarkable earthquakes, with the several kinds thereof, two hundred years before the birth of Christ. The causes and kinds, antecedents, and consequents, (pestilence, sword, famine) following thereupon, the nature of meteors, effective, and productive of an earthquake. Some part whereof was delineated by the great and vertuous Robert Boyle Esquyer, in the year 1681, relating to the dreadful comet. The impending judgements and causes of Gods wrath against a sinful people, seasonably and particularly applyed to the sons of Levi. / By a minister of Christ. (Edinburgh re-printed : [s.n.], in the year, 1693) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A lamentable list of certaine hidious, frightfull, and prodigious signes, which have bin seene in the aire, earth, and waters, at severall times for these 18. yeares last past, to this present: that is to say, anno. 1618. untill this instant. anno. 1638. in Germany, and other kingdomes and provinces adjacent; which ought to be so many severall warnings to our kingdome, as to the said empire. To the tune of aime not to high. (Printed at London : [by J. Oakes?] for Tho. Lambert, and are to be sold at the sign ... , [1638]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A most rare & true report, of such great tempests, straunge sightes, and wonderfull accidents, which happened by the prouidence of God, in Hereford shire, at a place called the Hay, and there abouts, besides the sightes of strannge [sic] fowles, which there were seene, most fearefull to beholde, with their horrible cryes & strangeness, with the great hurt was done by them.. (London : Imprinted for Thomas Law., 1585.), by Thomas Law (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Teras (in Latin, with Greek quotations; 1909), by Paulus Stein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
• Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
• What They Say in New England: A Book of Signs, Sayings, and Superstitions (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1897), by Clifton Johnson
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• Omens and Superstitions of Southern India (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Edgar Thurston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Portents of protest in the later Han dynasty : the memorials of Hsiang Kai to Emporor Huan in 166 A.D. (Australian National University Press in association with the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1976), by Rafe De Crespigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Omens and superstitions : curious facts and illustrative sketches. (W. P. Nimmo, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensées diverses sur la comète. (E. Cornély et cie, 1911), by Pierre Bayle, A. Prat, and France) Société des textes français modernes (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die religion Babyloniens und Assyriens. (A. Töpelmann, 1905), by Morris Jastrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Omens and superstitions of southern India (T.F. Unwin, 1912), by Edgar Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Signs, omens, and portents in Nebraska folklore (Lincoln, Neb., 1933), by Margaret Cannell and Emma Louise Snapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joannis Laurentii Lydi De ostentis quae supersunt, una cum fragmento libri De mensibus ejusdem Lydi, fragmentoque Manl. Boëthii De diis et praesensionibus (e Typographia regia, 1823), by Johannes Laurentius Lydus, Boethius, and Charles Benoît Hase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ioannis Lavrentii Lydi Liber de ostentis et calendaria graeca omnia. Itervm edidit Cvrtivs Wachsmvth. Accedvnt epimetra dvo. De cometis et De terrae motibvs. (in aedibvs B. G. Tevbneri, 1897), by Johannes Laurentius Lydus and Curt Wachsmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• What they say in New England; a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions (Lee and Shepard, 1897), by Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valerius Maximus De dictis factisque memorabilibus. Et Jul. Obsequens De prodigiis. Cum supplementis Conradi Lycosthenis ; et selectis eruditorum notis quos recensuit novisque accessionibus locupletavit Car. Benedict. Hase. (N.E. Lemaire, 1822), by Valerius Maximus, Charles Benoît Hase, Konrad Lykosthenes, and Julius Obsequens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die geschichtliche Entwicklung des Prodigienwesens bei den Römern Studien zur Geschichte und Überlieferung der Staatsprodigien. (E. Glausch, 1903), by Philipp Ludwig Wülker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Signs, omens and superstitions (G. Sully & company, 1918), by Astra Cielo (page images at HathiTrust)
• What they say in New England; a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions (Lee and Shepard, 1896), by Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Babylonian-Assyrian birth-omens, and their cultural significance (A.Töpelmann, 1914), by Morris Jastrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le livre des augures, contenant 450 présages recueillis dans les traditions de tous les pays. (Chamuel, 1897), by Jeanne Lydie Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Omen texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum : concerning birds and other portents. I. Texts, copied and autographed by Harri Holma. (Asia Pub. Co., 1923), by British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and Harri Holma (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensées diverses (Chez Reinier Leers, 1704), by Pierre Bayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religion of Babylonia and Assyria (Ginn, 1898), by Morris Jastrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens (J. Ricker, 1905), by Morris Jastrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Babylonisch-assyrische geburts-omina, zugleich ein beitrag zur geschichte der medizin (J. C. Hinrichs, 1914), by L. Dennefeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents Assyriens : relatifs aux présages (Librairie E. Bouillon, 1894), by Alfred Boissier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre à M. L. A. D. C., docteur de Sorbonne, où il est prouvé par plusieurs raisons tirées de la philosophie, & de la theologie que les cometes ne sont point le presage d'aucun malheur ... (P. Marteau, 1682), by Pierre Bayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ioannis Lavrentii Lydi Liber de ostentis ex codicibvs italicis avctvs et calendaria graeca omnia (in aedibvs B. G. Tevbneri, 1863), by Johannes Laurentius Lydus and Curt Wachsmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die prodigienglaube und prodigienstil der Römer. Eine historisch-philologische abhandlund in neuer bearbeitung. (P. Eggenweiler, 1904), by Franz Luterbacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• De inventoribus rerum libri VIII (Apud D. Elzevirium, 1671), by Polydore Vergil and Daniel Elzevir (page images at HathiTrust)
• De ostentis. (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1863), by Ioannes Laurentius Lydus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iulii Obseqventis Prodigiorvm liber ab urbe condita usque ad Augustum Cæsarem : cuins tantum extabat fragmentum, nunc demum historiarũ beneficio (I. Oporini, 1552), by Julius Obsequens, Polydore Vergil, Joachim Camerarius, and Konrad Lykosthenes (page images at HathiTrust)
• De omnibus quae ab Augusti temporibus usque ad Diocletiani aetatem Caesaribus facta traduntur. (Typis Neuenhahni, 1888), by Friedrich Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous reflections occasion'd by the comet which appear'd in December 1680. Chiefly tending to explode popular superstitions (Printed for J. Morphew, 1983), by Pierre Bayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Svapna Mālaya saha ; Gauli kavuḍu śāstra (F.E. Cooray, 1913), by Hisvaelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• De naturae divinis characterismis (Ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi regij, 1575), by Cornelius Gemma, Gerard Janssen van Kampen, Antoine van Leest, and Christophe Plantin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Signs & omens (s.n., 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Omens and superstitions of southern India (McBride, Nast & Co., 1912), by Edgar Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Sīghrabodhaḥ]. ([India] :, 1850), by Kāśīnātha Bhaṭṭācārya (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altindisches zauberritual. Probe einer uebersetzung der wichtigsten theile des Kauṣika sūtra (J. Müller, 1900), by Kauṣika and W. Caland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri novem : ad optimas editiones collati accedunt Iulii Obsequentis quae supersunt ex libro de prodigiis (ex Typographia societatis bipontinae, 1806), by Valerius Maximus, Julius Obsequens, and Konrad Lykosthenes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei vedische texte über omina und portenta. (Druckerei der Königl. akademie der wissenschaften, 1859), by Adbhutabrāhmaṇa, Albrecht Weber, and Kauṣika (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous reflections occasion'd by the comet which appear'd in December 1680 : chiefly tending to explode popular superstitions (Printed for J. Morphew, 1976), by Pierre Bayle (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Polska Sybilla czyli zbiór objawień, proroctw i przepowiedni, tycza̦cych sie̦ mianowicie koscioła katolickiego, Polski i słowianszczyzny : z starych ksia̦g, z rożnych pism i z ust ludu (Nakł. Ksie̦g. Ludowej J. Chociszewskiego, 1877), by Józef Chociszewski (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Serat sasmita oenja : mratelakaken kawroeh gaib, ingkang mratandani ngalamat dalah wahananipoen, inggih poenika terkadang talingan asring moengel : nging------ oetawi bek kapijarsa déning tjipta, poenika dados sasmita badé kadatengan soeka oetawi soengkawa (Tanojo, 1924), by Mangoensed Dwisṭa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haus und stadt-omina, der serie: summa alu ina mele sakin (Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1938), by Friedrich Noetscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance, by Morris Jastrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Morris Jastrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• A discourse concerning prodigies wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated / by John Spencer. ([Cambridge?] : Printed by John Field for Will. Graves, 1663), by John Spencer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An astrological and theologigal [sic] discourse upon this great conjunction (the like whereof hath not (likely) been in some ages) ushered in by a great comet and so far upon the heavens, the planets and fixed stars as is a necessary introduction into a distinct and full knowledg of the principal subject herein handled. (London : Printed for Langley Curtis, 1682), by Christopher Ness (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A strange and wonderful trinity, or, A triplicity of stupendious prodigies consisting of a wonderful eclipse, as well as of a wonderful comet, and of a wonderful conjunction, now in its second return, seeing all these three prodigious wonders do joyntly portend wonderful events, all meeting together in a strange harmonious triangle : and all are the three royal heralds, successively sent from the King of Heaven, to sound succeeding alarms, for awakening a slumbering world : beware the third time ... (London : Printed for Langley Curtiss, 1683), by Christopher Ness (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Signes are from the Lord to a people or nation to forewarn them of some eminent judgment near at hand. (London : [s.n.], 1663), by Solomon Eccles (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Londons wonder: being a most true and positive relation of the taking and killing of a great whale neer to Greenwich; the said whale being fifty eight foot in length, twelve foot high, fourteen foot broad, and two foot between the eyes. At whose death was used harping-irons, spits, swords, guns, bills, axes, and hatchets, and all kind of sharp instruments to kill her: and at last two anchors being struck fast into her body, she could not remoove them, but the blood gusht out of her body, as the water does out of a pump. The report of which whale hath caused many hundred of people both by land and water to go and see her; the said whale being slaine hard by Greenwich upon the third day of Iune this present yere 1658. which is largely exprest in this following discourse. (London : Printed for Francis Grove neere the Sarazens head on Snow-hill, 1658) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Most straunge and wounderfull accident happened at Weersburch by Franckford, by a most fearefull earthquake and daknesse [sic], with a mighty tempest of thunder and lightning (London : Printed by William Barley, and are to bee sold at his shop in Gracious streete, 1600), by T. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Strange nevves from the north.: Containing a true and exact relation of a great and terrible earth-quake in Cumberland and Westmerland. With the miraculous apparition of three glorious suns that appeared at once. And other wonderful appearances that happened in Yorkeshire, of divers bodies of armed men marching, and riding through every town for twelve miles compass about Malton, with the strange accidents that befel the cattel therabout through fright thereof, to the admiration of many thousand beholders. Together with, the charge against Charles Howard Esquire High Sheriff of the county of Cumberland. Verefied by severall gentlemen of known and approved credit. (London : Printed by J. Clowes and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange and without Cripplegate, June 11. 1650), by T. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Exact representation of the late comet, or blazing-star which appeared in Hamburgh this year, 1677, at north-east : together with a description of the remarkable comets since Christ's nativity, and the dangerous consequences. ([London] In the Savoy : Printed by T.N. for Jonathan Edwyn ..., 1677) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Extraordinary nevves from Constantinople, November the 27. 1641.: Being a letter sent from thence to the Lord Dominicco, Mugliano, Florantino, dated the second of September. 1641. Conteyning a most certaine and true relation of the late and strange visions, with the aspects of two commetts or blazing starres with forked tayles. Appearing to the great Turke, and perpendicularly hanging over his seraglio in Constantinople, as also his incredible dreames, together with their interpretation by the wisest of his divines, astrologers, and magicians. Written in French, / and faithfully translated by W. C. (London : Printed for Francis Constable, and Iohn Thomas, 1641), by W. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A wonderfull and straunge newes, which happened in the countye of Suffolke and Essex, the first of February, beeing Fryday, where it rayned wheat, the space of vi. or vii. miles compass: a notable example to put vs in remembraunce of the iudgements of God, and a preparatiue, sent to moue vs to speedy repentance. / Written by William Auerell, student in diuinitie.. (Imprinted at London, : for for Edwarde White, dwelling at the little North doore of Pauleschurch [sic], at the signe of the Gunne., 1583.), by William Averell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mirabilis annus secundus, or, The second part of the second years prodigies being a true additional collection of many strange signs and apparitions which have this last year been seen in the heavens, and in the earth, and in the waters : together with many remarkable accidents and signal judgments which have befel divers persons who have apostatized from the truth, and have been persecutors of the Lord's faithful servants : published as a warning to all, speedily to repent, and to meet the Lord in the way of His judgments. ([London? : s.n.], 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mirabilis annus secundus, or, The second year of prodigies being a true and impartial collection of many strange signes and apparitions, which have this last year been seen in the heavens, and in the earth, and in the waters : together with many remarkable accidents and judgements befalling divers persons, according to the most exact information that could be procured from the best hands, and now published as a warning to all men speedily to repent, and to prepare to meet the Lord, who gives us these signs of His coming. ([London? : s.n], 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Rules for the discerning of the present times. Recommended to the people of God, in New-England. In a sermon preached on the lecture in Boston; November 27th. 1692. / By Samuel Willard. ; [Two lines from Ecclesiastes] (Boston : Printed by Benjamin Harris, over-against the Old-Meeting-House., 1693), by Samuel Willard (HTML at Evans TCP)

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