Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <¢ obftupuerunt, propterea quod nunquam ante tales << meminerant. Poft hec fatta eft Pax inter Co- “¢ mitem Robertum de Normannid, ‘8 Roberium de “¢ Belefme 1. e. In the year 1104, on the firft day of Pente- coft, the fixth of June, and on the day follow- ing being Tuefday, four circles of a white colour, were feen to roll in conjun&ion round, the fun, each under the other regularly placed, as if they had been drawn by the hand of a painter. All who beheld it were ftruck with aftonifhment, becaufe they could not learn that any fuch fpectacles had ever happened in the memory of man. After thefe things it is re- markable, that a peace was immediately fet on foot¥ and concluded between Robert, Earl of Normandy, and Robert de Belafme. The Duke of York (afterwards Edward IV.) met with his enemies near to Mortimer’s Crofs, on Candlemas day in the morning, at which time the Sun (as fome write) appeared to him like three Suns, and fuddenly joined alto- gether in one, and that upon the fight thereof, he took fuch courage, that he fiercely fet on his —
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