Among whose Bookes remayned, althoughe the moste parte according to the tyme, yet some worthy the viewe and safe kéeping, gathered wythin foure yeares, of Diuinitie, Astronomie, Historie, Phisicke, and others of sundrye Artes and Sciences (as I can truely auouche, hauing his Graces commission wherevnto his hande is yet to be séene) sixe thousand seauen hundred Bookes, by my onelye trauaile, whereof choyse being taken, he most gratiouslye bestowed many on Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge. I was not the onlye man in this businesse, but others also did theyr good willes. Thys alone was a rare worke, besyde manye other his good déedes, God fortify those that are liuing, to be no lesse careful for the preser∣uation of learning.
[ 1575] A wonderfull appearaunce in the ayre of armed men, ouer the Cittie of Posen in Polonia, the firste daye of Ianuarie, aboute one of the clocke at nighte beganne an Earthquake, whiche greatelye amazed the people, but firste appeared a greate cloude like vnto an high Towre, the whyche cloude did deuide asunder in the middest, in the whiche appea∣red an Angel in a white vesture, hauing in one hande a sworde, in the o∣ther a rodde, and cryed with a loude voyce, two times, Wo, wo, and therewyth vanished awaye. After thys appeared an armye, wyth a white Eagle ouer them, and ouer againste another armye, ouer whom houered a blacke Eagle, these two armyes hasting togither made a greate shouting, pushing, hewing and striking, euen as if it had bene indéede vpon the Earth. The armye wyth the blacke Eagle gotte the victorye and ouerthrewe hym vnder féete, in so muche that the very drops of bloude séemed to fall vppon the Earth in the sayde conflicte. The people that behelde the same, were terrifyed in such sort, that manye wo∣men with childe fell in trauayle, and sundrye fainte harted men dyed pre∣sently.
The fiftéenth of Nouember great fierie impressions appeared in ye Ele∣men as wel ouer England as Flaunders.
A number of Flyes in Seuerne by Tewkesburie, and byttels came swar∣ming downe the riuer, that for foure dayes the Mil dams were stopped by the wonderful heapes of those flyes: this happened in Februarie.