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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    Si Ty EaNy T, A, 4g his enemies, and them, fhortly difcomfited : for which, caufe, men imagined that he gave. Sun in his full brightnefs for his cognifance or Badge: Halle; Fi 183, b. 4. Our Chronicles tells us, that. Anno Secunda Regine Maria, 1 sth of February, two funs ap- peared, and a rainbow reverfed : fee the bow. turned downwards, and the two ends ftanding upwards, before the coming in of King Philip. | The phenomenon, fig. 1, was feen at Broad- Chalk.in, Wiltfhire, on the firft, day of May, 1647. It continued from about eleven.o’clock (or before). till twelve. It was. a very clear. day ; but few did take notice of it, becaufe it was fo near the fun-beams. My mother hap- _ pened to efpy it, going to fee what o’clock it was by an horizontal dial; and then all the fervants faw it. Upon the like occafion, Mr. J. Sloper,, B. D. vicar there, faw it, and all his family ; and the fervants of Sir George Vaughan, (then of Falfton) who were hunting on the downs, faw it. The circles were of rainbow colour; the two filots, which crofs the iii circle, (1 prefume they were feg- i ments
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