Admirable curiosities, rarities, & wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or, An account of many remarkable persons and places ... and other considerable occurrences and accidents for several hundred years past together with the natural and artificial rarities in every county ... as they are recorded by the most authentick and credible historians of former and latter ages : adorned with ... several memorable things therein contained, ingraven on copper plates / by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, &c., and Remarks of London, &c.

There are lately published Three very useful, plea∣sant and necessary Books, which are sold by Nath. Crouch, at the Bell next door to the Widow Kemp's Coffee-House in Exchange-Alley, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill.

I. VVOnderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy, discovered in above Three

Hundred Memorable Histories, containing 1. Dreadful Judgments upon Atheists, Blasphemers, Perjured Vil∣lains, &c. As of several forsworn Wretches carried away by the Devil, and how an horrid Blasphemer was turned into a black Dog, &c. 2. The Miserable ends of many Magicians, Witches, Conjurers, &c. with divers strange Apparitions, and Illusions of the Devil; and several real discourses between 4 or 5 famous Divines, and Satan; With the strange feats of the Devil of Mas∣con. 3. Remarkable Predictions, and Presages of approa∣ching Death, and how the event has been answerable, particularly as to A. B. Laud, the late D. of Bucking∣ham, and others; With an account of some Appeals to Heaven against Unjust Judges, and what vengeance hath fallen upon them. 4. The Wicked Lives, and woful deaths of several Popes, Apostates, and Persecu∣tors; with the manner how K. Henry the 2. was whipt by the Popes Order by the Monks of Canterbury; and how the Queen of Bohemia, a desperate Persecutor of the Christians, was swallowed up in the Earth alive, with all her followers, &c. 5. Fearful Judgments upon bloody Tyrants, Murderers, &c. with the terrible Cruelties used by those Monsters of Men; Nero, Helio∣gubalus, Domitian, and others upon the Christians, and of the constancy of several famous Martyrs under all their Tortures; also how Popiel, K. of Poland, (a Cruel Tyrant,) his Queen and Children were devoured by Rats; and how a Town near Tripoly in Barbary, with the Men, Women, Children, Beasts, Trees, Walls, Rooms, Cats, Dogs, Mice, and all that belonged to the place, were turn'd into perfect Stone, (to be seen at this day,) for the horrid crimes of the Inhabitants; also the won∣derful discovery of several Murders, &c. 6. Admira∣ble Deliverances from imminent Dangers, and Deplo∣rable Distresses at Sea and Land. Lastly, Divine Good∣ness to Penitents, with the Dying Thoughts of several famous Men, concerning a future state after this life, as St. Austin, The Emp. Charles 5. Philip 3. K. of Spain. Prince Henry. The E. of Northampton. Galleacius. H. Gro∣tius

Salmasius. Sir F. Walsingham. Sir P. Sydney. Sir H. Wotton. A. B. Ʋsher. E. of Rochester. L. Ch. Justice Hales, and others, Faithfully Collected from Ancient and Mo∣dern Authors of undoubted Authority and Credit, and imbellished with divers Pictures of several remarkable passages therein.

Price One Shilling.

II. HIstorical Remarques and Observations of the Antient and Present State of London and Westminster, shewing the Foundation, Walls, Gates Towers, Bridges, Churches, Rivers, Wards, Halls, Com∣panies, Government, Courts, Hospitals, Schools, Inns of Court, Charters, Franchises, and Priviledges thereof; with an Account of the most Remarkable Accidents, as to Wars, Fires, Plagues, and other occurrences, for a∣bove 900 years past, in and about these Cities; and a∣mong other particulars, the Poisoning of K. John by a Monk; The Resolution of K. Henry 3. utterly to destroy and consume the City of London with Fire, for joyning with the Barons against him, and his seizing their Char∣ters, Liberties and Customs into his hands; The Rebel∣lion of Wat Tyler, who was slain by the Lord Mayor in Smithfield, and the Speech of Jack Straw at his Execu∣tion; the deposing of K. Rich. 2. and his mournful Speech at his resigning the Crown, with the manner of his being Murdered: The D. of York's coming into the Parliament, and claiming the Crown in K. Henry 6. time. The Murder of K. Henry 6. and likewise of Edw. 5 and his Brother, by Rich. 3. call Crook-back; The Execution of Empson and Dudley; the Insurrection in London in K. Henry 8. time, and how 411 Men and Wo∣men went through the City in their Shifts, and Ropes a∣bout their necks to Westm. Hall, where they were pardo∣ned by the King: The Speeches of Q. Ann Bullen, the Lord Protector, and Q. Jane Gray at their several Deaths upon Tower hill.

With several other Remarques in all the Kings and Queens Reigns to this Year 1681. And a description of

the manner of the Tryal of the late L. Stafford in West. Hall; Illustrated with Pictures of the most considerable matters, curiously Ingraven on Copper Plates, with the Arms of the 65 Companies of London, and the time of their Incorporating, by Rich. Burton, Author of the Histo∣ry of the Wars of England, &c. Price One Shilling.

III. The Wars in England Scotland and Ireland; Or

AN Impartial Account of all the Battels, Sieges, and other remarkable Transactions, Revolutions and Accidents which have happened from the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First, in 1625. to His Ma∣jesties happy Restauration 1660. And among other par∣ticulars, The Debates, and Proceedings in the Four First Parliaments of King Charles the First, with their Disso∣lutions. The Siege of Rochel. The Petition of Right. The Murther of the D. of Buckingham by Felton. The Tu∣mults at Edinbrough in Scotland, upon Reading the Com∣mon-Prayer. The Et caetera Oath. The Cursed Plots and Designs of the Jesuits, and other Papists, for imbroiling these Three Kingdoms. The Insurrection of the Ap∣prentices and Seamen, and their Assaulting of Arch∣bishop Lauds House at Lambeth: Remarks on the Try∣al of the E. of Stafford, and his last Speech. The hor∣rid and Bloody Rebellion of the Papists in Ireland, and their Murthering above Two Hundred Thousand Pro∣testants in 1641. The Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom, with the King's Answer thereunto. The Pro∣ceedings about the Five Impeached Members. An Ac∣count of the Parliament at Oxford, January 22. 1643. with their proceedings and Dissolution, An Abstract of the Fights between the King and Parliament. The Death of A. B. Laud, Mr. Chaloner and Tomkins, Sir John He∣tham, Sir Alexander Carew, Duke Hamilton. Earl of Hol∣land, Lord Capel, and others. The Illegal Tryal of King Charles the First, at large, with his last Speech at his Suf∣fering, Jan. 30. 1648. Together with the most conside∣rable matters which happened till the Year 1660 Illust∣rated with Pictures of several Remarkable Accidents curiously engraven on Coper Plates, Price One Shilling 〈◊〉〈◊〉

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