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Tunes and Noise, and so return back again to that Side from wliich as it 

 seemed, they were sent. 



And farther it was observed, that, during the Time they assembled, 

 the Stares of the East sought their Meat Eastward, as the Stares of 

 the West did the like Westward; no one flying in the circuits of the 

 other. 



These Courses and Customs continued with them until the 12th of 

 October, which Day being Saturday, about Nine of the Clock in the 

 Morning, being a very fair and a Sun-shine Day, upon a strange Sound 

 and Noise, made as well on the one Side as the other, they forthwith, 

 at one Instant, took Wing, and so mounting up into the Skies, 

 encountered one another with such a terrible Shock, as the Sound amazed 

 the whole City and the Beholders. Upon this sudden and fierce En- 

 counter, there fell down in the City, and into the Rivers, Multitudes of 

 Starlings or Stares, some with Wings broken, some with Legs and Necks 

 broken, some with Eyes picked out, some their Bills thrust into the 

 Breast and Sides of their Adversaries, on so strage a Manner, tht it were 

 incredible, except it were confirmed by Letters of Credit, and by Eye- 

 witnesses with that Assurance which is without all Exception. 



Upon the first Encounter thej'' withdrew themselves backward. East 

 and West, and with like Eagerness and Furj^ encountered several Times; 

 upon which all these Stares fell down, in like strange and admirable 

 Manner, as upon the first Encounter. They continued this admirable 

 and most violent Battel till a little before Night, at which time they 

 seemed to vanish, so that all Sunday, the 13th of October, none appeared 

 about the City. 



Upon this Sunday divers passengers came out of Suffolk, who sailing 

 betwixt Gravesend and Wool'tvich, they heard a loud and strange noise 

 and Sound in the Air, whereupon casting their Eyes upward, they saw 

 infinite Multitudes of Stares fighting in all violent Manner together, 

 with a Crow or Pi,aven flying betwixt them, for the Flight being so high, 

 they could not perfectly discern whether it was Crow or Raven. These 

 Birds had also several Encounters, making strange Sound and Noise; 

 and ever as they divided and retired themselves, the Crow or Raven 

 was seen in the Midst: But what Slaughter was made they could not 

 observe, because the Evening was somewhat dark, and the Battel was 

 fought over Woods more remote off; but for more assured Proof of this 

 Fight the Sunday before-named, there are, at this Time, in London, 

 diverse Persons of Worth and very honest Reputation, whom the Printer 

 of this Pamphlet can produce, to justify what they saw, at Cause shall 

 require, upon their Oaths. 



Now to return to the last Battel fought, at Cork, by these Stares 



Upon Monday, the 14th of October, they made their Return again, 

 and, at the same time, the Day being as lair a Sun-shine Day as it was 

 the Saturday before, they mounted into the Air, and encountered each 

 other with like violent Assaults, as formerly they had done, and fell 



