Modest observations on the present extraordinary frost : containing I. A brief description thereof ... II. An account of the most eminent frosts that have happen'd for many hundred years past ... III. Philosophical presages of what may be feared now to ensue, viz. Scarcity of corn and victuals, general sicknesses, and pestilences ... IV. The cries of the poor; and an easy way proposed how there may be twenty thousand pounds a week, at least, raised for their relief, about London ... / By T.T.

  • Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Date:
1684
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Credit: Modest observations on the present extraordinary frost : containing I. A brief description thereof ... II. An account of the most eminent frosts that have happen'd for many hundred years past ... III. Philosophical presages of what may be feared now to ensue, viz. Scarcity of corn and victuals, general sicknesses, and pestilences ... IV. The cries of the poor; and an easy way proposed how there may be twenty thousand pounds a week, at least, raised for their relief, about London ... / By T.T. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (5 As for Celeftial Caufes of this unufyal Col] ly,they were not wanting (For God general peréors) yet I find not that any of our Commo many times very regular in their Lives; The God of Purity, who Commufilcates his. Secrets to thofethat fear him > Uluminates ‘hot De- bauchees y Sordid Flatterers, and 7 smitferverss ( whofe whole end-is to makea Noife, and Cheat People of their money,) with the knowledge of Supernal Myfteries; Nor can it be expe cted, That thofe who neither Know things paft , by ffistory ; nor take Notice of thin gs Prefcnt 5 by any {beady Judicions Obfervatien 5 fhould yet forefee things to come, Whether from any of the Late Tripple Conjunctions of the two Sype- Tor Planets, Saturn and Jupiter, or from fome of the late unufually fre- quent Comets, particulary the laft in Anguft 1683: which in 20 days with a Rapid motion, making its appearances in 4005 hurried through all the Signs Virgo, and Libra, and difappear’d in Scorpio, A Sagacioils Artift might not have given tome /tems of this Strange Weather. 1 will not De- termine: But if Comets he only (according to Ariffotles: Notion, which I queftion) bot and dry Exhdlations drawn up from the Earth, it would not be difficult to Judge that Severe Colds fhonld entue here below: For: Extreams in Nature, if they are not Caufes, are at leatt Fore. Runners of eneir Contrariess N or have there wanted Grand Configurations ot the Su- rior Bodies; During the time of this violent Frofr; As a Trine of ths Suz and Jupiter, an Oppofition of Saturn and Mars, But leaving the Difz jnifitionof thefe to the Cériots, having not Room fo Inlarge here, upon them 3; I haftento fatisfy the Common Reade with an Aliftovical Review of former Occurrences of this.kind ; which may check that Vulgar Cry Of Ignorance, That Never, O Never wz known the Like, _ v?vy in his fifth Book tells us of a Winter fo hard, That’ the River Tyberwas frozeh Over, ‘a matter very frange in fuch a Climate as Jal in the year 1234. the Adriatick Sea was {e aye oO frozen, that the Venetians Went Over the Jee thereof with Carts; Z ~onaras alfures us, that in the Reign of that Emperour Conflartine (who for a Nafty Reafon in his Chriftning,was call’d Coprowymus) about the year 750. the Pontick Sea, was fo Congealed, That people for many miles travelled it on foot: And Morles and Carts loadén, pafled over the Fretum, orNartow part of it; Bue withal he adds, that the Susamer following was fo exceffive hot and dry.that “reat Rivers and moft Fountains were wholly. dryed ‘upy and People and Catte] ~~