XXXV. In 1509. Sept. 14. There happened a terrible Farthquake at Conftan tinople and in the Country thereabout, Bajazet II. being Emperor, by the violence whereof a great part of that Imperial City with many ftately Buildings both Publick and Private were overthrown; and thirteen thoufand People overwhelmed and flain; The terror thereof was fo great that the People generally forfook their Houses, and lay abroad in the Fields; Yea Bajazet himfelf, though very Aged, and fore troubled with the Gout, for fear thereof went from Conftantinople to Adrianople, but finding himself in no more fafety there than before, he left the City, and lay abroad in the Fields in his Tent. This Earthquake endured by the fpace of eighteen Days, or as the Turks relate, for a month with little intermiffion; which was then accounted ominous, as portending the miferable Calamities which afterward happened in the Ottoman Family. After this Earthquake enfued a great Plague, wherewith Conftantinople was grievoufly Vifited and almoft depopulated; After the Earthquake ceafed, the Emperor imployed eighty thousand Men to repair it, who in four months time re-edified the ruins thereof with much Beauty and Magnificence. It is ftrange to Relate (faith my Author) that in this Year 1510. there feli twelve hundred ftones from Heaven, fome weighing Sixty pound, others more.

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An Earrhquake in Apulia whereby above Sixteen thoufand Perfons were overwhelmed, after which enfued a War betwixt the French and the Duke of Savoy which devoured above a Million of Men. In Holland four hundred and four Parishes are drowned with all their People and Cattle. The Turks take Buda in Hungary. King Hen ry VIII. writes against the Pope; Cardinal Woolfey dies: The English Clergy are fined and pay the King an hundred thoufand pound for divers Mifdemeanors. In 1531. In the City of Lisbon in Portugal about fourteen hundred Houses were overthrown by an Earthquake, and Six hun-i dred more fo forely haken that they were, ready to fall, and many of their Churches were caft to the ground.

XXXVI. In 1538. Mr. George Sandys: gives the following Relation of a moft remarkable Earthquake and Burning which happened near the City Puteoli with the new formed Mountain; For the famous Lake Lucrinus hard by, extended formerly to the deadly Sulphurous Lake Avernus, fuppofed the entrance into Hell, by Igno-: rant Antiquity, where they offered Infernal Sacrifices to Pluto their God of Hell, and to the Manes or Ghosts of their deceafed Friends, who were there faid to have returned anfwers to what they have demanded of them: This place is now only a little C 4 watry

watry plafh choaked up by the horrible and aftonishing eruption of a new Mountain, whereof as often as I think, I am apt to give credit to whatfoever is wonderful; For who is there in this place but knows, or who elsewhere will believe, that a Mountain fhould arife partly out of a Lake, and partly out of the Sea, in one day and a night to fuch an height, as to contend in altitude with the highest Mountains adjoyning, yet fo it was For Sept. 29. 1538. the Country hereabout having for feveral Days before been tormented with perpetual Earthquakes, that not one Houfe was left intire, but all the Men expected an immediate rain ; After the Sea had retired two hundred Paces from the Shoar leaving abundance of Fish and Springs of fresh water rifing in the bottom, this Mountain vifibly afcended about the fecond hour of the Night, with an hideous roaring noise, horribly vomiting Stones, and fuch store of Cinders, as overwhelmed all the buildings thereabout, and the healthful Baths of Tripergula celebrated for fo many Ages, confuming the Vines to Afhes, and killing Birds and Beafts; The fearful Inhabitants of Puteoli flying away in the dark, with their Wives and Children, naked, defiled, crying out and detefting their Calamities. Manifold mifchiefs had they fuffered by the Turks and Barbarians, yet none like that which Nature inflicted. This Mountain is

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to be feen at this day, the top whereof is above a Mile from the Foundation, the ftones upon it are fo light and pory, that they will not fink when thrown into Water; when it was newly raifed, it had a vaft number of Vents or Iffues, fome of them fmoaking and likewife flaming, others difgorging little Rivers of hot water, keeping a dreadful rumbling, and many miferably perished who ventured to go down into the hollownefs above; But that hollow on the top is now an Orchard, and the Mountain throughout is bereft of its Terrors, no more fmoak, fire or flames iffuing therefrom.

XXXVII. In 1571. Feb. 17. A prodigious Earthquake happened in the Eastern .. Parts of Herefordshire near a little Town called Kinafton: About Six in the Evening the Earth began to open, and an Hill called Marcley Hill with a Rock under it, made at firft a mighty bellowing noife which was heard afar off, and then lifted up itself a: great heighth and began to travel; bearing along with it, the Trees that grew upon it, the Sheepfolds and Flocks of Sheep abiding thereon at the fame time; In the place from whence it first moved it left a gaping distance forty Foot wide and eighty Ells long, the whole Field was about twenty Acres. Paffing along it overthrew a Chappel ftanding in the way, removed an EweTree growing in the Church-yard from the C 2.

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Weft to Faft. With the like violence it thruft before it Highways, Houfes and Trees, it made Tilled ground Pafture, and again turned Pafture into Village. Having thus walked from Sunday in the Evening till Monday Noon it then flood ftill, and moved no more; mounting to an Hill twelve fa thoms high. The like prodigy happened about the fame time at Blackmore in that County, where a Field of three Acres with the Trees and Fences moved from their place, and paffed over another Field, travelling in the Highway that goeth to Herne and there stayed. An Earthquake fell out at Conftantinople about this time, a while before a terrible Fire in that City which burnt the Goal, and confumed feven hundred Prifoners. An Earthquake and Bowls of Fire in Carinthia. The Sun feemed to cleave in funder. Corn rained from Hea: ven. An Earthquake and Inundation in Holland. At this time was the Sweating Sicknefs in England. Nine thoufand

French were flain at Dreux in Normandy, among whom the King of Navar. The Turkish Pytates carry Six Thousand Captives out of the Ifle of Gaul, near to Malta. A great Plague in England. Very great Thunder and an Earthquake in Spain. XXXVIII. In 1580 April 6. being Eafter Wednesday about fix a Clock in the Afternoon happened a great Earthquake in England, which fhook all the Houfes Caftles,