Examples of Miraculous provision in times of Fa∣mine.
Neere unto Aldborough in Suffolk, at what time (viz. [ 14] in the yeere 1555.) by reason of unseasonable wea∣ther, the corne throughout all England was choak∣ed, and blasted in the eare, there grew up Pease mi∣raculously amongst the rocks without any earth at all about them, about the end of September, which much brought down the price of corne. Camb. Brit. p. 466.
In the yeere 1331. when there was a great famine [ 15] in Ireland, the mercy of God so disposed, that upon the twenty seventh of June there came to land a mighty multitude of sea-fishes called Thurlheds, such as in many ages before had not been seen there: They came into the Haven of Dublin: Anthony Lord Lucy being Justice of Ireland, and by the Citizens of Dublin were many of them killed. Camb. Brit. Irel. p. 184.
Leyden in the Low Countries being straitly [ 16] besieged by the Spaniard, Anno 1574. and block∣ed up with thirty six forts, the famine grew so great that there died above seven thousand in the City; whereupon the Prince of Orange by breaking of ditches, and drawing up of sluces, did what he could to drown the countrey; but yet the water was too shallow to carry boats, till God sent a strong South∣west winde which drave the sea into the rivers, and land, that great boats passed and victualled the ••own; whereupon the Spaniards raised their siege: but be∣hold the remarkable work of God! who two dayes after sent as strong a North-west winde that beat back