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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    Q°-M ENS | 63% -Upon Saint Mark’s!day,: afters.the «coros: nation of King James II. were prepared ftately. fire works on the Thames: it hapened, that they’ took: fire all together, and:it: was. fo : dreadful. that: feveral {pectators leaped: into: the river, choofing rather’'to be drowned than burned. Ina yard by the Thames, was my. Lord Powys’s coach and horfes; the horfes were foi frightened by the:fire works, thatthe coach _ tanwas not able to -ftop them, but ran away over'one,. who with great difficulty recovered. ~ When King James IT. was atSalifbury, anno , 1688, the Iron Crown upon the turret of the céuricil houfe,. was blown off.—This has been often confidently afferted by perfons who were then living.: In FeBruary, March, and April, two: ra- ' véns built their nefts on the weather cock of the high fteeple at Bakewell in Derbythire. -F did fee Mr. dennisines Love beheaded on Tower Hill, in a delicate clear day; about half an hour after his head was ftruck off, the clouds eathered: blacker and blacker ; and fuch terrible
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