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The most strange and wonderfull apperitions of blood, in a Poole at Garraton in Lei∣cester-shire, which continued for the space of foure dayes, the rednesse of the colour for the space of those foure dayes every day increasing higher and higher, to the infinet amazement of many hundred beholders of all degrees.
WHosoever shall consider these sad times, wher∣in not onely the sonne riseth against the fa∣ther the brother against the brother, and the spirit of dissention and warie is spread over the whole face of the earth but such prodigious and wonderfull things have ap∣heared as no age before have ever seene or heard of he must confesse that he liveth now in the evening of time, and in the last age of the world, wherein all things do be∣gin to suffer a change.
I will not trouble you with any thing which in this nature hath heretofore beene delivered to you: The Sword at Plaist•• flourishing without hands, and the great Stone clambring up the staires and whatsoever there is strange or wonderfull are but sluggish miaclous compared to this, which doth the raither pre∣fer it self to your observation, because in the buisnesse of Plaiste there are as to be seene for the most part but some knavish lights and as it were the Hocus Pocus of a spirit but in this which now shall be represented unto you the immediate anger of God in great Charactes of blood is most appearently to be read.
At Garraton a Towne in Leicester-shire, not far from Lough∣borough is a great pond of water, which for many generations